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ETHYL i i Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation In This Issue Page Goaing Up Our Ranks................. 2 What They Do in San Berdu.... 4 Education At Ethyl......................... 6 Britheis oi the Broom..................... 8 A Bedtime Story............................. 10 Saturday in Detroit....................... 12 Holiday Mood................................. 16 Headlines '55 ................................. 18 Milestones ........................................ 20 Ethyl Welcomes............................. 21 For Your Entertainment............... 22 Personal Section ........................... 24 People and Places......................... 26 Leonhard Dowry ................................. Editor Jean Nicol......................... Editorial Assistant Contributing Editors--Baton Rouge: Guy Keller, Test Lab; Tom Stephenson, Pious; Chicago; Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Margaret Casler, Andy Polity, Adele Rozek, Nora Wirick; photog I rapher: Eric Owen; Houston: H. E. Harris, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City; Glenn Babcock; Los Angeles: Ken Freberg, Bill Van Wyck; Mexico: Lynn Phil lips; Netc York; Gerry Harms, Jim Donohue, Wilma Hama, Etna Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Edna Vorwerk; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; photographer: Fred Green; San Francisco: Wil Hancock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamalter; Yonkers: Cath erine Henderson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvilain. Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Macdonald. ON OUR COVER: Oscar Lewis, vice presi dent of Etbyl Corporation of Canada, sweeps a stone during a recent curling match held in Sarnia. The story of the tbree-day bonspiel, in which three other Ethyl men partici pated, can be found on page 8. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. I When a military organization holds a dress parade, one of the most visually satisfying maneuvers i that in which the marching men execute close ordc drill. Upon the green parade ground, they present. seemingly solid block of rhythmic movement Arms and legs swing back and forth in unison as they march shoulder to shoulder with brass gleaming and leather shining. The result is a spectacular lesson in show manship, a lesson that took a great deal of time, pa tience and hard work to perfect As in all satisfying endeavors, it was well worth it in the ultimate accom plishment and the pleasure of pleasing. We on Bulletin Board feel a little like the parad ers, especially now that we're closing our rank too, and becoming a monthly publication. We ak want to present a solid front and, in a slightly Ie ETC 10749 A ; v.;'" . -' r$P&fe y-Mr* ^ , f: 5pc /v--, ...v,t- y*v -?" s -~ "-' . -x v-.-ij".< -**.v . -, v;:v . :<gjiriiBg.>SggawE^g^BK^sgriF8"***?^:- SfeV >'svi-jfv-.:.T-.v:-' -.v vr*.' r -y > -. " ! ;" - -1! s-e__n_se,Ato._p__a__ra_Jde. in unisimi: lie __Li__1. Vi tAhikL^AJ*;^:-- *- -u!-s ik-n---o---w--*Lthmro..uUg.h your Lkv>^c.a1l PR^n,r..r;--j-m.j Bqahd corre- the magazine wiH apjpiw!jtwiw M ^ftea bodi ! our or directly. If you have specific ideas for v ^:'stories or features, they may prove fun for you and : to tell you as much as poeraU^m)^ y^:cdta?^^^^^e|al^tening to other of our readers less familiar with y' activities' and sometimes instruct subjeel ': wabnre^j' ' `j%*' Perhaps you have ideas for informative quizzes, for ides. Then, toc^ 'mQEe foegmerit isma ;adll enahle|||' ,^|*? stories about interesting personalities within the Ccrm- to use more pict&^smd o^inaQdbi^ ihout you,'jny,' for articles about some specific job you do that mirror better and rfoote,. fallyliyour interests and it^ > not many people know about--ideas about almost any- mplishhmmennwtfse'' HWreri^rjia'arme 'onindlyii^rftlhifet.pratnrarndrlenrTs;.' yovSS'''.r`t.''X.f''f- 't^hItilnvisg*. CSaosmmoe ro%f( ftkhae csftnovninees aann<d4 aarrtttircsllenes ttKhaoft yuonuit rraeOadll the generals befme^wboin'we paM .in review^|.^v;*; in the popular magazines and newspapers may serve BoARD-weH tgy^a^^^ywmagaxba^^^r^fiu a spring board to start you thinking about appro- never been, nor was it ever meant tote, any- t^i; - priate stories for Bulletin Boabd. j ag else. But you, collectively; are complex mech- .. , Closing up our ranks is going to mean a tot more with a wide variety of tastes, and we can only'work for our staff, but if afl goes well, we hope it wil aw what those tastes are if you teH us.: You can Id vv WHAT THEY DO IN SAN BERDU . r*-wt)rS?\.~' -_ `Vi - .---. - - At San Bernardino, as at other Company installations, Ethyl employees spend a lot of their free time at hobbies -- pastimes that are distinctly related to the social and cultural climate of California Stan Kukawka, an engineer who came from Detroit to Sen Bernardino finds relaxation in making furniture for himself end friends. Hers he measures e folding table he's making out of California redwood T ike most Californians, the men and women who work at Ethyl's laboratory in San Bernardino are quicker than the flash of a six-shooter to tell you that The Golden State is just about the most perfect place in the whole wide world, including Texas. And the West Coasters mean it as positively as the San Ber nardino mountains rise to snow-capped peaks. Determining whet reeks contain is halt the fun of co(feetin9 them. Above, Fred Green, an engineer, observes Carol Simeoek's collection, which includes petrified wood, fool's gold and lave bearing rock. A chemist at the laboratory, Waftar Rantanen anjoys cf ing with people all ovar fha world. Ha writes them about H tha climeta of California and in turn learns what lifa is like Etc Carol Simcock, a technician at the fab, makes interesting decorations by spraying dried desert primrose bushes with gold paint. Carol, who "could be e desert rat without mueh coaxing," spent hours finding them. California itself is Oean Painter's hobby. The deputy manager of the testing lab collects books and papers on early Wst Coast his* tory. The ledger he*s reading above dates back to the year 1879. "Where else," they'll ask you, "can you spend the morning exploring under the warm desert sun and the afternoon building a snowman on a mountain top a few hours away by car?" California isn't, as far as many of them are con cerned, merely a place to live--it's a way of life, versa tile country to be utilized and enjoyed in itself. Relatively few of the people at the lab are native Californians. Lured there by the climate, an active Chamber of Commerce and others whose plaudits glowed like their own, they found living in the second largest state pleasantly relaxed. Whatever their pas times had been, they readily converted their hobbies to make the utmost of all California had to offer. Pottery, though no longer unique to the West Coest, got e big revive! out by tho Pecific e few years ego. Adeline Furst, left, end Judy Seheub, right, use up free timo making end painting useful pottery. Charlie Hilton, a tost driver, alto tnjoy* tho desort. Ho used spend his timo tromping around tho send, now he's turned to hun uranium. Tho burro shown with him, incidentolly, is Totrao' etc 10752 A lthough it's not so old and time-honored as Har-* vard or Yale, and though it lacks an ivy-walled campus, "Ethyl University" is an accredited institu tion of higher learning within the Company. Its un dergraduates are the employees taking one of the 17 courses given in employee development. Its gradu ates are the hundreds of Company men and women who have a better understanding of and aptitude for their jobs as a result of the instruction. These courses are given by the Training section of Industrial Relations department. "Professors" are Ray Faller, manager of Training, and Charlie Clark. Ray and Charlie seldom teach classes themselves. They go to Company installations where courses are scheduled and instruct personnel there in the methods of putting the course across to employees. Each course was developed to meet a specific need and to teach a skill in human relations or supervision. The basic courses don't change, but they are modified to fit local circumstances. One of the primary func tions of the Training section is to determine, with the aid of the line management, where training will cor rect and improve a situation and, also with line man agement's help, work out a training course. The first course, "Fundamentals of Supervision", was originated in 1948. Since then courses have been added to the curriculum as the need for them arose. At present two other courses are being prepared, in the field of office supervision and another in the field of communication. Usually classes are conducted for groups of not more than 20 persons, in order to permit individual discussion and analysis of individual problems and conditions. Courses are repeated as required. Enroll ment is voluntary, and to show how highly the courses are valued, attendance at current courses is averaging 95 percent of enrollment. The 17 courses now on the training curriculum in clude: "An Analysis of the Supervisor's Job", which defines the varied tasks and main functions of a super visor; "Fundamentals of Supervision", in which em phasis is placed upon the human relations problems a supervisor meets in his day-to-day work; "Organiza tion and Management", giving supervisors an under standing of fundamentals of organization; "Trainin; Workers", outlining methods of instructing others i performing a job; "Effective Communication", outlir ing channels of communication in a large organizatic and emphasizing face-to-face discussion skills; "Pr ventive Discipline", reviewing the necessity for dis< pline as a fundamental of sound management and t organizing of operations so that occasions for discipli 6 ETC lO-153 % are held to a minimum; "Employee Development", in which analysis of employee performance and formula tion of individual plans for employee improvement are taught. Other courses include; "Salary and Wage Adminis tration", reviewing Ethyl's policies and procedures in t determining and administering salaries and wages; "Benefit Plans", a supervisory training course that ex plains the advantages of Ethyl's Retirement Income plan, and the Group Insurance and Accident and In Baton Rouge, where the training department offers 4 divinity of courses, 4 group sits in session for 4 clou on management procedure Sickness benefit plans; "Economics", a discussion pro gram that develops an understanding of some of the important principles underlying our American Free Enterprise economic system; "Conference Leadership", teaching the individual to lead a successful meeting or conference; "Public Speaking", class practice in learn ing to speak more effectively before groups of people; "Tension Control", lessons in the reduction of tensions that interfere with job achievement and personal effi ciency; "Applied Creative Thinking", designed to in crease the ability of participants to think up a greater d number of original ideas to solve their problems; "Effective Secretarial Practices", teaching secretarial techniques and development of a professional attitude; `Telephone Courtesy", a film and discussion empha Training it on* reason for our outstanding safety record. Suck cfauot as the ono bov4, court# for 4k# fir# cr#w, pay off in l#u accidents. sizing proper ways to use a telephone; "Salesmanship", covering the basics of selling as applied to our par ticular business. In addition, the Training section arranges bimonthly luncheons for New York City employees at the Sales e and Service Auditorium on 39th Street. At these lunches, where attendance is voluntary, varied perti nent and informative topics are discussed, subjects that pertain directly to Ethyl or to the oil and automo tive industries in general. For example, the luncheon held in October dealt with "Oil Progress Week," which was then being celebrated. Both Ray and Charlie are also actively engaged in i training operations outside the Company. Frequently Cheriie Clark of 4k# Industrial Relation* department in New York holds they are called upon to assist other organizations in eUsi in creativ# thinking, which stimulates th# flow of bettor ideas. training matters. This fall Ray appeared before the Department of Public Works of New York City, which is initiating a supervisor training course, and spoke \ on "The Supervisor as a Leader." Charlie and Ray both belong to the Society of Training Directors, of which Charlie is secretary for the New York Chapter and Ray a past president. Ray is Company represen tative for the Committee on Training of the Division of Refining, American Petroleum Institute. They also address meetings sponsored by the American Manage ment Association. Don Janningi of Business Services at the Detroit Laboratories u flannel boerd to present his subject on our policies and pro* ETC TK* Imptriti Bonipitl wt formally op#n*d by Fipar Norman Melted, wbe lad eurlars in a march to church*!. BRITHERS OF THE BROOM Good fellowship prevails and everybody's brothers when the players take to the ice with their brooms in the ancient game of curling Curling is an "auld" game -- colorful, skillful and dramatic as its players slide across the refrigerated curl is achieved by turning the handle of the st toward or away from the body during the thi rink with bright scarves flying. Played in teams of which is similar to that in bowling. Then two pla four, curling is believed to have been brought to with brooms may go into action, sweeping enei Britain by the Flemings in the fourteenth century, cally before the slowly moving stone in an effc and later the Scots brought it with them to Canada, get added distance or to change its course. where it is now among the most popular winter sports. It is the skip who is the decisive factor in ci A few weeks ago, on an appropriately icy day, some He is usually the best player on the team a of the game's most ardent enthusiasts on the continent directs all aspects of the game. The skip sta met in Sarnia, Canada -- the future home of our new the scoring area, called the "house", and w plant -- for the 27th annual Imperial bonspiel. Among position of his broom informs the curler wher them, composing a team, were four Ethyl men: Oscar to place the stone. The skip also directs the s Lewis, vice president of Ethyl Corporation of Canada; and plays the last, the most crucial, stone Russ Weston, manager of the Advertising department; team in each "end" or inning. and Ben Penrose and Hap Philp, of the Toronto office. The stone nearest the center of the house Hap was "skip" or captain of the group, which won end is completed is scored as one point an one game by the overwhelming score of 21-1 and lost any of the opponents' stones in the house, others by only a point or two. any other stones of the winning team that Curling, as the pictures on these pages illustrate, the house are scored as one point each, is played with somewhat unusual equipment--brooms match in a bonspiel -- competition betwe and heavy stones -- and it's anything but easy. Con clubs -- consists of 10 ends and takes about siderable skill is required to "curl" a 40-pound stone half hours to play. down a long sheet of ice toward a scoring area of Drama mounts as the match progresses concentric circles, and in the process either purposely becomes slower, more deliberate, for eac hit or avoid the opponents7 stones already there. The well mean the difference between winni 8 ETC 10' Displaying good curling form, Bun Penrose slides a 40-pound granite itcne from tho center of on# scoring art* toward another on# 120 foot away. Ban hold* hi* broom to help maintain hi* balanca during throw. Ratling broom* aloft is tha traditional signal for tha curling of a good itona. Hart, Uft to right, ''akip** Hap Philp, Rgu Wa*ton, Ban Panroia and 0*car lewis look with eonsidarabla plaasurt at thair winning itonai. Anothtr rite occur* at tha finish of a match whan tha opposing skip* shake hands in tha tama friendly spirit that pervades tho tntiru gama. Playars wear dub and bonspial buttons on tam-o'-shanters, Glengarry caps. Tha Sarnia Curling Club boasts sis shaats of rofrigaratad lea, which wa aspociatly praparad for tha bonspial. Tha ica is "pebbled" in ordar h provide friction for tho sliding stone* and is dyad with bonspial color Behind Russ Waston. as ha tellies his team's score in tha tenth "and*', is tha crest of the Sarnia Curling Club. Tha club, which was founded in 1147, reflect* tha persistant interest in tha gama through tha yean. Those trophies, including tha big Imperial Bonspial trophy in t main award in tha three-day competition, ware tha spur of far 144 curlers who represented IB clubs from tha United States en ETC * 10 ETC 107 You don't even have to pay taxes on sleep -- why not invest eight hours in it every night? nPhough the best laid plans of mice and the bravest -* New Year's resolutions of men oft go astray, the resolutions at least have a distinct medical interest. As the bells rang in 1956, we may have resolved to stop smoking, eat and drink less, or worry less. Or--aware suddenly it was 1 A.M. of January 1--we may have resolved to stop burning the candle at both ends and get more sleep. The intent to "get my rest" is commonly voiced throughout the year as well as on New Year's Eve. We all seem to know that we ought to get sufficient rest, and yet many of us do not regularly observe this sim plest of health rules. We can always think of good excuses to offer ourselves if we stay up too late. Per haps we feel we can "get by" as we have done before. Let this fundamental health rule, therefore, be re emphasized. True, we can get by with inadequate sleep not only for a night but for weeks and months and even years. We cannot, however, perform our work in the most efficient manner nor enjoy the full est measure of good health and good spirits if we con sistently deny ourselves the benefits of regular, ample rest and sleep. Our body is a chemical laboratory and substances accumulate during our active hours that must be eliminated during a period of sleep. Most adults should devote at least eight hours out of every twenty-four to this restorative process. It has been demonstrated time and again that we may go to bed having all the symptoms of an oncom ing cold only to awake in the morning without a cold. In such an instance, the period of rest has allowed the body to gain the upper hand and tip the scales against the cold bug. It is more difficult to visualize a cause and effect relationship over a period of years between consistent lack of rest and grave permanent abnor malities in the body structure, but evidence points to a direct connection between the two. We should form good sleeping habits in order to achieve best sleeping results. Four prime rules for sleeping include: (1) minimize outside stimuli like sound and light, (2) sleep eight hours or whatever amount is individually required, (3) go to sleep at approximately the same hour every night, (4) do not eat just before sleeping. What position we sleep in, what type of bed we sleep in and whether we have fresh air or not are mainly matters of personal requirements. There is no apparent advantage of being a deep or light sleeper. Probably a combination of the two is best. The first three hours of sleep are usually the deepest, but most physiologists agree that it is the length of sleep, not the heaviness or lightness of it, that is the decisive factor in restoring the body's energy. Nor should we grow worried over our tossing and turning during sleep. The truth is most people toss and turn about while sleeping whether it is realized or not. The body requires this frequent change of position in order to relax more completely. However, muscular tension caused by nightmares can be as enervating as walking up a long flight of stairs. Another old wives' tale that physiologists ridicule is the theory that we should be full of pep when we first wake up in the morning. Research has indicated that the average person reaches his peak of efficiency somewhere in the late afternoon and four to six hours later begins to get sleepy. At this peak, his body tem perature is highest, reaction time is shortest and steadiness is greatest. It is well to remember that even if sleep eludes us, just resting comfortably in bed is also refreshing. Poor sleepers and insomniacs should feel reassured to know that some authorities believe that resting, with the eyes closed and the muscles relaxed, has up to 80 per cent of the value of sleep itself. ETC i 0758 11 THU old mid makes the best apple cider in the area, as Dave Bartleson of Automotive Products and HU family can testify. THa rustic grounds and mallow charm of tHa mill balia its surround* 109*. THa Bartlesons, who live naar, drop by oc casionally to watch tHa water wHeel in the back of the mill and to buy jugs of cider. SATURDAY IN DETROIT | ike most of us in this bustling, busy country of ours, employees at the Detroit Laboratories squeeze in a lot of living on a Saturday and waste little of the precious 720 minutes or so that tick off between breakfast and dinner. For Saturday is a day of anticipation, a chunk of time to be utilized as the user chooses -- constructively, idly, recklessly, lazily or busily. It's a day of reward for a five-day span of work. It belongs as solely to the individual as the sun belongs in the sky. It's an exciting experience to wake up to a bright morning and suddenly realize that you've got the whole day to do with as you please. It holds the same kind of promise to people of all ages, the promise of a holiday from the usual. It's a pleasant change of pace, an opportunity to develop new interests in life and to pursue old, comfortable ones that are as familiar and welcome as friends. Maybe it's the day you'll finish reading that book you started at the fireside a week ago and never found time to get back to. Maybe you are even looking forward to shoveling the snow on the walk, accomplishing a duty in the cold, crisp air of winter. Ot perhaps your Saturday Cute Sandy Carson, ll-yaar-old daughter of Ed Carson of th Fuel Blending section, U as accomplished a skater as she appeal to be above. Although Sandy has been roller-skating for only yaar-and-a-Half. she placed fifth in a state free-style competitio ETC 10760 is for chopping wood to cheer a dark, windy evening; for taking the children to the excitement of the zoo; for shopping the stores for the millions of things that contribute toward good living; for cleaning your rifle or waxing your skis or working in your tool room. Saturday is for anything and everything. What woman's heart doesn't beat a little faster as she finds a "steal' in a dress shop or on the grocer's shelf? What man doesn't feel a glow of pride in teaching a boy how to throw a baseball or a girl how to skate? Whose heart doesn't quicken with the smallest personal accomplishment? As for the young, Saturday is as bright as that first-earned dollar, a day bought and paid for by effort and to be enjoyed as a result. It's leisure is ours because we live in a land that produces not only machines and paychecks, but good will and consideration in equal abundance. The only job Dele Chrysler of Maintenance contracted oat on the house he is building for himself wes the faying of outside brick. At the time of this picture he was in process of insulating and putting in the dry well. Since the Boy Scout motto is "Be Prepared," these scouts came prepared to face bad weather on their Saturday hike. Soon, however, the rain stop; and the scouts, under the leadership of Oick Sneed of Automotive Products, had a lot of fun exploring the Michigan woods and hilts. The many i in the Detroit area alsck> provide scouting pleasures, including camping, swimming, fishing, boating and the assorted adventures a boy is heir A tour of the Ootroit Historic*! Museum was on the Satur day sgsnds for the Glenn Irish family. Glenn, who is with Automotive Products, sold his two young daughters found plenty to interest end entertein them t the museum. How ever, he doubted if they appreciated the hiitoricel signifieenc* of such dispieys s this dioreme of en early Detroit horsedrtwn streetcar. The girls were especially taken with an Indian statue whose hand was raised in peace. This Farmers' Market located in the Detroit outskirts is a favorite shopping place of people at the tabs. Produce like corn, potatoes, cabbages, apples and pumpkins, as wall as eggs and fowl, work clothes and household articles, ere dis played in the long, bamiike building. Shown above are John Koxikowski of Automotive Products and his wife, Adelt, as they decide which bouquet to buy from a hothouse man. A model of tho proposed Detroit Civic Center is explained by Mich. J. Macalla, maneger of the Veterans Memorial Building, to Mar! Gogates of Automotive Products and Elizabeth Robinson of Can Piles. Several of the buildings, including the Veterans Memorial, I already been constructed. The Center is located in downtown Da on the banks of the Saint Clair River, overlooking Canada. ETC 107 ot many weeks ago the people whose pictures s pear on these pages and some 200 other Etl employees in New York got together to celebr; Christmas. Some were strangers to one another a some were just familiar faces. All of them, though, 1 one thing in common--they were in a holiday mo It isn't everywhere that people can gather to h fun. In a great many places--far too many plar fun is as rare as a blue orange and a smile is r wanted than a chest of gold. In America laughter is no further away than a genial companion, no more expensive than the of a television dial, no more suppressed than t around us. ETC 1C But there are countries where to laugh at the wrong time can mean never to laugh again. In those same places--those same too many places-- two strangers can only meet with suspicion of each other and two friends can never be sure there are just the two of them. America believes in the people who have made it what it is, people who know that a world without laughter would be as dark as a world without sunlight. It wants a world of bright smiles and holiday mood. That kind of world is the kind that people make for themselves because they are a lot smarter than some self appointed supermen think they are. It's the kind of world Americans live in. HEADLINES OF '55 When 1955 came to a close, it ended another chapter in the history of the Company, a chapter As always, people played an important part in tire year's headlines, heavily contributing to the advance that, like the others before it, was significant of progment of the Company, devoting time and energy to ress. In many ways the year was one of advanced civic causes and working together in general harmony ideas, improved methods, new services, and general and concord. Again and over and over, Ethyl proved betterment. In all respects it was a proud year. itself a good industrial citizen. FRANCES LAMB CITED BY COLLEGE; r" ftOOfly W NW '(0RK ...... -- _D&tNS[ rs^sssset^a^Si fi^WARNE TAKES OVER AS GENERAL C0UNSEI S/rr/g V* ,? -V * .i'iU _ '* - frt-fik.'iSrt nameil tiirecraivVfeeT*resident and~Triea<uirar : - v.. ..................................................................... , - 'ffittgiSsSfts. ROME,.-^r ^* 'wm --***y*^ -- ^l^^HELOiMUlJPORT V-T^gjf?^triin%rv GASOLINE TESTING LAB OPENS IN HOUSTON .OT=^--.-. ,^rw>,-. .V; `-v. JORDON AWARDED API CITAHON _ .a^--. -c*. ;.- 'fv/' ' '' ^rniVt: LEWIS tjt^ ethyl of - . v .'****c..-f'* - % '-.*w*p<fcr?7T7%?r^r 'r57^* e--4 "T`<rv. ,'c:--^ tSJ^o.ri i. nrTJir>' i !J iwrnMiliTT VAN FLECK A| WASHINGTON KREMONY ..-} *k-H '-* -v- *. B^H^^XOTIVF VICE, PRESIDENT Imii >< i itfnii MILESTONES I V StS years Thomas E. Ronan Sales, New York Everbtt N. Garnse Gasoline Testing, Yonl Hhrbjrt F. Green Research, Detroit C. Fred Naylor Sales, New York Walter H. Sales, Nev ETC 15 years J Merlyn J. Beane Research, Detroit Marshall C. McDorman Sales, Eastern Region William H, Wanderer Research, Detroit These new employees will contribute their share to the steady growth and continued prosperity of our Company IO years Catherine . Henderson Gasoline Testing, Yonkers Nelson L. Hough Sales, Los Angeles Genevieve C. LeRoy Sales, New York George A. Sexton Finance, New York Mary Ann Pope, a typist at the Detroit Laboratories, was born in the Michigan city. Like many of her co-workers, she enjoys both skiing and modem jazz. William Sabin, who is Bill to friends, is a refinery technolo gist in Detroit. From Colo rado, where he attended the School of Mines, he likes photography. Charles M. Barlow of Fi nance department. New York, comes from Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., and took his Master's degree from Univer sity of Michigan. 5 years William E. Andreae Sales, Southern Region Marilyn C. Barth Sales, New York William H. Chambers Research, Detroit James B. Hodges Sales, Western Region Ada Mae Nadeau Research, Detroit James B. Retzlofe Research, Detroit Mario Bellizzi, a new safety engineer in Eastern Region, is single and lives in New York. He's a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti tute in Troy, N. Y. Rema Fowler, New York Fi nance, was bom in Oklahoma and is one of eleven children. She now lives in Manhattan and spends leisure at knitting, reading and tennis. Betty B. Wade is with Gen eral Service, New York. She was bom in Santa Monica, Calif., and now lives with her husband, John, in Mount Vernon, N. Y. Doris Foster, typist in the Sales-Gasoline Testing lab in North Kansas City, was bom in Missouri. She collects classical records and dances ballet. Roland Hargis, Jr. joined Sales in Tulsa. He lives in nearby Arizona with his wife, Edwina, and son, Roland III. His favorite hobbies are golf and hunting. Norma J. Sutter is a se tary in the Tulsa office. I in Guthrie, Okla., she member of the Bus Women's Guild and C tian Women's Fellowshi ETC 107* BOOKS , .................. ............................................................................ YOUR fc 8K'- W''* ENTERTAINMENT '!-4it* * **.*,* ........... . V If vou're either a woman or a mother you'll probably be in spired by Dutton's Kathy by Katherine Homer Fryer. A true story of courage and despair, it's the chronicle of a mother's fight to help her daughter overcome a mysterious illness. The Veteran Motor Car, which David Scott-Monscrieff has produced from England for Scribner's, is a pictorial and verbal roundup of early automobile history prior to 1905, and whether or not you are greatly interested in engine and chassis, you'll have a pleasant trip reading about and looking at the antique models that ancestored the big, efficient cars we ride in today. George Simenon, who has written more books than anybody, has turned out, with his usual effectiveness, a suspenseful and dramatic new novel in Doubleday's The Fugitive. In a rather simple narrative he tells the clinical story of a neurotic personality driven to a brutal murder by his own nature and still manages to do it all with a velvet glove. There's no denying that business has always been a major factor in our particular way of life in America, and as such it is the subject of two new and valuable books. Harper's Pioneering in Big Business, written by Ralph w, Hidv and Muriel E. Hidy, is a history of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) during the years 1882-1911 and it reveals the essence of our strong industrial structure, as does Herrvmoon Maurer's Great Enterprise from Macmillan. The latter, which largely came from the research files of Fortune, is a look at 50 major corporations. Last year Evan Hunter bolted a great many readers with The Blackboard Jungle, a shocking picture of juvenile delinquency. This year, in Second Ending (Simon and Schuster), he tells an equally astonishing story of dope addiction against a back ground of jazz. By no means a pretty picture, it's a strong and vigorous indictment of a serious social menace. Oil, frequently the subject of books, again spouts black gold in Oil FOR the World (Harper). It's a revised edition, amply illustrated, and it tells the whole story of the overwhelming odds, the people involved and the fuel and power produced. Absent from the literary scene for quite some years, Kenneth Roberts is back as the author of Boon Island for Doubledav. Mr. Roberts is an old hand at historical fiction and his touch is still as sure as it ever was. Never tawdry, never dull, neve> sentimentally romantic, his new novel is a swift- adventure ir Atlantic waters and in an authentic atmosphere of the 18tl century. Henriette Kish has assembled Questions Older People As. for Dutton and answers the 90 queries with intelligence ar horse sense. Her subjects range from hobbies to retiremer from income to health, and all of them should be stimulate and interesting to men and women beyond the half-centu mark. ETC 10  Dutton's Stop Dieting! Start Losing! by Ruth West pre sents a method of losing weight the easy way and it all sounds highly possible as she advocates that by adhering to a num ber of reallv tempting menus you can lose two or three pounds a week. It's all done with pork chops, sweet potatoes, apple pie and even milk. Morey Bernstein s The Search for Bridie Murphy (Double day) is a fascinating study of an experiment in hypnosis, both strange and true. It will sometimes give you goose pimples and it will certainly make you wonder and marvel as a woman recreates a whole new life under the spell. Doubleday's Prize Stories 1956 {The O. Henry Awards) is an anthology of the year's best short stories by both new and familiar writers. Of the sixteen exceptional pieces, all of them of high literary merit, you'll be most impressed by John Cheever's The Country Husband (first prize winner) and John Steinbeck's The Affair at 7 Rue de M--. Picnic, which Columbia Pictures releases this month, is sure to be one of the year's outstanding pictures. A CinemaScope and Technicolor version of the successful Broadwav drama, it stars William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Betty Field and Susan Strasberg in a romantic story in which all is not moonlight and roses. The substance is stout stuff, the place is Kansas, and the people are as real and human as vour next door neighbors. Two big new children's books are fun not only for the young but for all the young in heart. Sell and Weybright's Buffalo Bill and the Wild West (Oxford) is full of pictures of familiar heroes of the frontier and historically accurate and The Rainbow Book of American History (World) is a compilation of colorfully illustrated vignettes on just about everybody and everything in America. Edmund Wilsons The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, which ran serially in The New Yorker some months back, is far more scholarly in book form but still a fascinating account and inter pretation of the religious documents recently found in a remote cave. The summation and its bearing on the roots of Chris tianity may not quite satisfy you but it certainly will intrigue you no end. Originally presented as a television drama entitled Fearful Decision, M-G-M's Ransom! is loaded with suspense. The film, which stars Glenn Ford and Donna Reed, is about a man whose only son is kidnaped and the decision that rests on his shoulders. It's the kind of thing that you might well read and shudder at in tomorrow's newspapers. Tom Ewell, who last convulsed audiences as Marilyn Monroe's downstairs neighbor in The Seven Year Itch, stars with new comer Sheree North in The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, which 20th Century-Fox is currently putting on the boards. It's an improbable farce that picks up a lot of its fun from Mr. Ewell's elastic face. Though it goes a bit far (to Hawaii, for example), there are enough laughs to keep you amused. A Book-of-the-Month Club selecton for January, David How ard's We Die Alone (Macmillan) is a true account of the courageous and harrowing escape of a lone man from 50 Nazi hunters, Jan Baalsrud's story is a terrifying experience in cold, fear and survival. Crown's A Wife Is Many Women by Doris Fleischman Bemays is distinctly a woman's book that will be thoroughly enjoyed and talked about by any of the feminine sex who take pride in that particular role of wife and parent. It is a thoughtful and rewarding group of observations and inter- s pretations of the woman's role in her private domain. Drinking, its scope, cause and treatment, is intelligently and frankly discussed in Alcoholism, a new Random House book by Ruth Fox, M.D., and Peter Lyon. It's a clinical study of a once taboo subject now recognized as a serious ill in con temporary society. If for no other reason than curiosity and understanding, it should prove enlightening. Murder once again--this time in Harry Carmichael's The Screaming Rabbit, an Inner Sanctum Mystery from Simon and Schuster. The characters are a novelist, a film star, a publicity agent and that sort of crowd, and they're all up to their ears in the whole bloody business. It's an insurance man, though, who finds out who did it and why. Helen Riley's new thriller, Compartment K, which Random House has just issued, is a good old-fashioned mystery that takes place, largely, aboard a train streaking its way across Canada. The plot thickens nicely with murder, suspects, clues and Detective Todhunter. The farce Blithe Spirit, starring Noel Coward and Claudett Colbert, will hilariously haunt viewers over Ford Star Jubilj on Januay 14. Also that day, Ralph Kramden gets sentimeni over a canine in A Dog's Life on The Jackie Gleason Sho On the following day, the charming opera Magic Flute, Mozart, is scheduled for showing. Fight fans can look forward to a fast-paced bout when feat weight champ Sandy Saddler takes on challenger Flashy E! in a fifteen-rounder from San Francisco on January 18. M> comedy is the order of the evening on January 21, when Sherwood and Dan Dailey star in The Cat and the Fiddl Wide, Wide World takes a long, shivering look at on both January 22 and 29, with that inimitable emce Garroway declaiming upon the frosty subject/ Stardt rub off on viewers when Art Linkletter takes his TV a through the homes of the Hollywood great in Beve Story on January 29. The next day, well-known classic; and musicians will display their talents to make Fes' Music a memorable event. ETC 10770 Suggestion awards were made to the following employees in Detroit, New York, San Bernardino, the Sales depart ment and Regional offices: Detroit: Hubert M. Atto, $75.00 (Revision of fuel selector valves to avoid leakage and resultant dynamometer shut down, thus increasing total test hours); James C. Boag, $10.00 (Improve labora tory notebooks to facilitate removal of duplicate pages); William D. Brown, $20.00 (Motivated method for protecting fuel racks from damage by traffic in court between C and D buildings); D. Jean Davis, $10.00 (Narrow shelf attachment to bulletin boards to help in posting by providing place to set down cards and other material); Henry W. De Vries, $10.00 (Mount paint shaker on insulated pedestal to reduce noise); Russel A. Fargo and Manuel Brandt, $20.00 (Open east gate instead of south gate to parking lot at noon for greater conven ience. Duplicate suggestions received same day, award split); JOHN M. FUN DERBURG, $20.00 (Improvement in en gine log book); William E. Gilpin, $15.00 (Motivated method for prompt detection of trouble in flywheel strobo scope); Charles Hilton, $10.00 (Pro vide hooded lights for timing thirty-sec ond idling periods); Geraldine G. Majsel, $10.00 (Revise method of dis tribution to make hours worked reports and monthly time sheet forms more readily available); Clara Mara, $20.00 (Use Detroit purchase order forms in San Bernardino to permit uniform han dling in Detroit accounts payable and reduce paper work in preparation of re ceivers); Gilbert Matthews, $10.00 (Anti-slip mats in shower stalls to reduce accident hazard); Robert J. O'Meara, $15.00 (New type of fastener for vis itors' badges to eliminate objections to wearing pin type and cut down loss); Anne D. Pearson, $15.00 (Reduce requisitioners paper work by having pur chasing handle job orders, shippers, etc. in connection with orders for repairs and processing); Charles E. Poulson, $15.00 (Tank for cleaning and rinsing pump screens in H building to provide safer and easier changing of solvents); Leonard G. Smith, $20.00 (Drop cur tains to protect material on receiving dock); Wilson B. Souter, $25.00 (Curb and roadway at west end of re ceiving dock to improve pedestrian access to receiving room, facilitate unloadings beyond dock canopy and keep water from running onto dock from lawn area); Wallace W. Spring, $20.00 (Solid glass brick wall to eliminate windows opposite a transformer station). New York: William G. Ball, Jr., Certificate, (Make available for general use "Sav-A-Letter" pads); Richard F. Cook, $10.00 (Form letter to notify companies of changes in Ethyl personnel, address, etc.); Mary A. Gartland, $15.00 (Add telephone extension and number in Room 1927); Wilma E. Hansa, $20.00 (Leave more space for message on teletype forms); Alice M. Heck, $10.00 (Signs for doors of confer ence rooms showing meeting in progress); Bruce Pemberton, $20.00 (Postage meter machine at warehouse). Sales Department and Regional Offices; William E. Andreas, $15.00 (Promotion material list for the "Drive More" program be kept in such a way as to make changes and additions more apparent to field personnel); A. J. Bald win, Certificate (Brochure of TEL en gineering safety services for engineering contracting firms and engineering de partments of our customer companies); H. K. Ball, Certificate (Use radiographic method for checking fluid weigh tanks for thickness at weld, sludge level and fluid level); J. T. Bbckwith, $25.00 (Each company owned vehicle be equipped with vari-fiare); Geraldine Bordieri, $10.00 (Colors black on yellow be used on mixing installation number tags when present supply is exhausted); James R. Craigmile, $55.00 (Use of corrugated shipping containers for gaso line samples); Ray W. Daugherty, $10.00 (Small supply of printed trade marks in varying sizes be made available in sheet form to field organization); A. J. De Laune, $15.00 (Black carbon be used on all snapout forms so all copies will be legible); J. Wallace Emery, $20.00 (Gasoline mixing chart for drum installations be revised so that gasoline volumes are measured in barrels) and $25.00 (Travel-limit guide for ball check valves in mixing plants); E. R. Erskine, $10.00 (Send out limited quantities of statistical issue of "Implement & Trac tor"); Gelston Howell, $55.00 (Bro chure describing our safety films and the scope of the education program prepared by our safety department); Alice Lahn, $10.00 (Change stationery requisition form) and $10.00 (Change inter-office photostat order form); William Long ing, $15.00 (Orangeburg, Wilmington and, if possible, Houston issue miscella neous shipment summary every working day, marking "No shipments" on those days that shipment do not go forward); George F. O'Connell, $15.00 (Cor rect amount of glass wool needed to repack scrubber in lead-in-air kit be packaged and held in the home office for shipment to field men" upon request), $10.00 (Motivated the printing of mail ing directions on suggestion svstem (Sales) blanks) and $10.00 (In addition to present information requested on tank cleaning reports, space also be provided to include the name of the contractor); G. Frances Ofpenheimer, $10.00 (Mailing labels be printed in a smaller size); Walter H. Resler, $30.00 ("History of Ethyl Corporation" be in cluded in API's history of the American oil industry); Ann Selfridge, $10.00 (Future copies of mixing installations book be printed so as to leave space between company names for corrections and additions); Joan S. Simonsen $20.00 (Proofread mixing tables by re calculating); Marshall Srrnc, $10.0( (Motivated issuing a general office mem orandum listing individuals who d scheduling for all conference rooms) Nancy T. Visk, $10.00 (Copies of e. pense account form be arranged so tb. the regional office copy will be the thi. of the snapout for easier distribution). San Bernardino: Albert L. B. LEY, $15.00 (Bug screens on test vehic at San Bernardino to reduce necessity cleaning radiators); S. J. Kukaw (Ineligible for cash award) and E. Higgs (Eligible), Certificate and $4? (Revise spark plug misfire pickup; San Bernardino.. Provides improver, to reduce maintenance and repair these units. Delays in test observa. are practically eliminated); Elli Ringwald, $10.00 (Pouch for trans ing outgoing mail at San Bemardis 24 ETC 10771 insure against loss of small articles) and $10.00 (Corresponding numbers on ga rage doors and switches at San Bernar dino to prevent actuating wrong door). Detroit Shirley and John Crayk--a daughter, Carolynn Sue, born on November 30. John is a lab technician in the Fuel In spection group. Analytical Section. Mary and Al Gassmann--a daughter, Rita Therese, bom on October 27. A1 is a Research Supervisor, in Analytical Services. Eastern Region Betty and Frank Stablbin--a grand son, Michael Francis, bom on November 26, to Mary and their son. Bill Stablein. Frank is a Tractor Engineer in Eastern Region. New York Mabel and Joe ScHWANZER-a grand son, Daniel Joseph, bom on November 16, to their daughter Carol and Robert Reilly. Joe is in the Marketing Analy sis and Planning Section of the Sales department. Dick Husta, field representative. Cen tral Region, recently presented a talk on "Petroleum Tank Ventilation and Clean ing" before the Petroleum Division of the Greater Detroit Safety Council. A ques tion and answer period and a Demo Engine demonstration followed the talk. Tank ventilation equipment was used and the new Lead-in-Soil kit was displayed. Charles Penningbb, Detroit Laborato ries, authored and presented a paper en titled, "Characteristics of Modem Motor Gasolines" early in December before the Society of Automotive Engineers in Kan sas City. At a recent meeting of the Southern California Section of the SAE, Ed Ellerbe, Los Angeles, led the discussion concerning fuel additives and combustion deposits relative to their effects on valve performance. Some of the ways in which Ethyl of Canada intends to be a "good industrial neighbor" were outlined by Robert T. Edgar, the company's plant manager, in a talk to the Men's Club of St. Paul's United Church in Sarnia on December 12, "Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Sodium," a paper written by George Thomson and Ed Garelis of the De troit Laboratories, was presented on No vember 29 before the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in Detroit. This paper was based on a chapter from Marshall Sittig's ACS Monograph on Sodium. Early in January Joel Warren, Detroit Labs, presented "New Instrumentation for Engine Combustion Studies" before a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit. The paper was jointly authored by Joel and Jim Hinkamp. Al Gassmann and Ross Stevenson, Detroit Laboratories, recently served as counselors at the twenty-first annual En gineering and Science Vocational Guid ance Meeting held in Detroit. Al supplied information and advice relating to the chemist, while Ross covered chemical engineering. Promotions in Gasoline Testing Division Malcolm P. Murdock, vice president in charge of Sales, recently announced two promotions in the gasoline testing division. William C Ludt, who has been man ager of the gasoline testing laboratory at North Kansas City, Mo., for the past seven years, has been appointed assist ant manager of the gasoline testing divi sion with headquarters in Yonkers, N. Y. Edward J. Otto has been promoted from deputy manager of the North Kansas laboratory to manager. Mr. Shea Re-elected to N1CB Edward L. Shea was recently re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Na tional Industrial Conference Board. The Conference Board, founded in 1916, is an independent and nonprofit institution for business and industrial fact-finding through scientific research. Jones' Son Appointed E. O. Jonbs, III, son of Ollie Jones, as sociate director of Purchasing and Traf fic, Baton Rouge plant, has recently been made vice consul in the American Con sulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Bob Downey io Baton Rouge Robert Downey recently assumed duties at the Baton Rouge plant as as sistant supervisor. Cost and Budget Sec tion, Finance after transfer from the Audit division in New York. EXTRACURRICULAR $ James Williams, Central Shops, Baton Rouge plant, was guest instructor at five Istrouma High School biology classes recently. His subject was "Orchid Raising in Relation to Other Plant Life." "Boomer," who has studied OTchids as a hobby for six years, now has four hun dred plants. C. W. Bond, general manager, and Carroll Hebert, Safety, Baton Rouge, were recently elected to offices in the Louisi ana Safety Association. Clint was elected vice president and Carroll will serve as a member of the Board of Di rectors. Recently the election of officers for the Detroit Section of the American Chem ical Society was held. Representatives from Ethyl voted in for the year 1956 are Al Gassmann, Chairman; Tom Coffield, Secretary, and Frances Lamb, Counselor. All are from the De troit Labs. Copies of Ethyl News and the Bulletin Board are available to all employees of the Company and orders for bound vol umes of the 1955 issues are now being taken. Bulletin Board is $3.20 for a blue cloth binding and name imprint in gold. Ethyl News with a red binding and the name printed on the oover in gold is $2.85. Send your check or money order to the Public Relations Department in New York--100 Park Avenue. Deadline for the orders is February 7. ETC 10772 23 A delicious buffet was a princi pal attraction at the annual dinner dance held recently by employees at the Detroit Labs. Just beginning to fill their plates (left, above) are Phyllis and Laurel Wilkinson and Janet Burt. The food line pro ceeds to more solid fare, where Len Niebylski (right, at top) receives a juicy slab of beef. Janie Palmer (left, above) ac companied the band for danc ers like Fay and Fritz Schroeter. In the next two pictures above. Norman Mosev, Phoebe Guth rie, Evelyn Lilley and Edit! Livingston all pick and choose ETC 10773 ME y and-- MOTHER'S LITTLE HELPER A patent for a `laundry trolley" has been issued to Mrs. Lillian James, wife of Ray James of Main tenance at the Houston plant. The device, which slides along a clothesline while clothes are being hung up or taken down, holds about two normal wash loads. Mrs. James came up with the idea and Ray devised means of manufacturing it. The large num ber of diapers Mrs. James had to wash for their son, Charlie Ray, helped give her the idea six years ago. She made a crude laundry trolley of coat hangers and plastic. Now the improved item is sold locally. LEADING LADY Ever since the beginning of operetta, beautiful young heroines have sung out their hearts to win handsome princes fresh from sword play on table-tops in Vienna taverns. When pretty Sally Hopps, person nel clerk at the Detroit Laboratories, recently ap peared in the feminine lead of The Champagne Prince -- an original musical comedy presented at the Art Institute in Detroit -- she won the audience as well. Sally, who has wanted to sing since she "was knee high to a duck," has studied dramatics also and par ticipates in local theatres whenever she gets the time. ETC 10774 BABY CLOTHES DRIVE omen employees and wives of employees at the Detroit Labs turned out in force to assist the Salvation Army last December. At least 50 Ethyl women participated in a baby clothes drive, buying or making the pink and blue apparel for the offspring of needy mothers in the Salvation Army Hospital. The good deed wasn't accomplished overnight, but took six weeks of industrious knitting and sewing before the sweaters, shirts, shoes and other infant wear were piled up ready for shipment to the hospital. It is this kind of charitable activity that women have performed through the ages, often combining social pleasures with the duty they have imposed upon themselves. Chatting together about womanly interests is, of course, the usual companion to stitching and hemming, as evidenced by Barbara Madden (left) and Mary Pilon in the picture to the right above. Arranging and recording the variety of infant wear was the gratifying job of Mary Lou Comer (left, above), chairman of the drive. It was gratifying for Mary Lou because so many women had worked so long and hard to make the drive a big success. more people, more places DESK & DERRICK PLAYS SANTA Many a heart, young and old, sick and lonely, was gladdened on Christmas day by gifts from the Watson, Jessie Halton, Ema Harris and Mary Dumville. The women, who spend an evening a month with New York Chapter of Desk & Derrick Club. Fourteen the children in the ward, gave each child three women in our New York office, members of the chap presents plus a Christmas stocking. Other yule presents ter, contributed their share to the joy and happiness from the chapter included: two television sets for of less fortunate people in hospitals and settlements Goldwater Memorial Hospital; a loom and attachments throughout the city. Shown below are five of Ethyl's t for occupational therapy at The Lighthouse; and a contributors wrapping presents for children in the three-speed portable phonograph and records, guitar, orthopedic ward of Bellevue Hospital. These good flute and clarinet for Union Settlement. In following Samaritans--Santa Clauses without beards--are, left to the adage that it is more blessed to give than to re right, Peggy Smith (back turned to camera), Dot ceive, the Desk fir Derrickers gladdened hearts. ETC 10775 WEIGH TANK CONFERENCE OFFICIAL DEFINES OIL PROGRESS A group of Sales department representatives gath ered at the Baton Rouge plant this fall for a 44 What Has Caused the Progress in the Oil Industry" was the subject of a speech delivered conference on weigh tanks. The tanks are used by bv Felix E. Wormser, U. S. Assistant Secretary of the refineries for storage of "Ethyl" fluid. In this picture, Interior, before a large group of oilmen and their N. L. Navarre is explaining corrosion problems to Sales guests in San Francisco last fall. Seated to Mr. department men (left to right) "Mac" McCooley of Wormser's right at the speakers' table is John F. Eastern Region, Ken Jost of Southern Region, Ben Koehnle, an Ethyl field representative in the Western Penrose of Canada, Kemey Hurst of Southern Region, Region and chairman of the San Francisco Oil Indus H. K. Ball of Southern Region, G. A. Loftquist of try Information Committee, and to his left, Thomas J. Western Region, Ed Smith of Central Region and Mellon, president of the San Francisco Chamber of Hume Chenault of Western Region. Commerce. CHUCK WAGON DINNER CHILD'S PLAY Some 55 employees at the San Bernardino Labs and their families attended a "chuck wagon" dinner sponsored by the Ethyl Society at a restaurant in Beaumont, Calif., recently. The happy faces in the picture below testify to the deliciousness of the prime ribs of beef and turkey and dressing which were the choices on the menu. In December, over 100 em ployees and their families enjoyed the annual Christ mas party held at a local club. Children were given Christmas stockings and adults worked off the drowsy effects of turkey by square dancing. A gala Christmas pageant was staged by children of employees at the Baton Rouge plant at the Ethyl Recreation Association's annual Christmas party in mid-December. A cast of over 30 youngsters per formed as clowns, baton twirlers, Oriental dancers, singers and acrobats--all the while keeping an eye peeled for the arrival of Santa Claus, for whom the play was given. The play, "Merry Christmas Circus", was written, designed and directed by Mrs. Morgan Many. Below, Mrs. Many briefs some of the small sized actors before the first of two performances. FOREVER RAVEN Frank McCahill, Jr. of the Finance department, New York, and his secretary, Grace Gregna, display a the Forever Raven is: "This Road Bird hates all other motorists and will crow jarringly at them at the least copy of an advertisement featuring his Forever Raven, provocation. He is quickly identified by a palpitating which won one of the five $50 prizes in the Road- beak, a reverberating tonsil and a flapping tongue." Bird-Watchers Society contest for employees last Frank says the name "raven" came to him because it June. Frank's winning entry is the first to appear in sounds so much like "raving", but of the "forever" national advertisements in such magazines as Life, part of it he's not so sure. Maybe it's the opposite of Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post. Flapping Poe's raven's "nevermore." Other entires Frank sub its wings and squawking, it made its debut in a No mitted to the contest included: Full Throttle Thrush vember issue of Life and will appear in full raven and Headlight Flicker. The Advertising department colors in a February issue of the Post. A definition of will have the ad framed for Frank. more people, more placet JUNIOR EXECUTIVES Young "businessmen" produced and marketed the pot holders and candles these four Ethyl men are right, Chuck Wolf, Red Welsch, Lou Olsen and Bill Moon, chairman. Although the youths in the group examining at a display set up in the lobby of the De are showing a profit on their ventures, the advisors troit Research Laboratories last December. Teen say that success has not always come easily. Procur agers who belong to what are known as Junior Achieve ing materials at costs that will permit profits on the ment companies actually make money from their ac finished article has frequently been a problem and tivities, which are patterned after full-scale business distribution and marketing has been quite a head procedures and supervised by the Chamber of Com ache sometimes, too. Nevertheless, the advisors are merce. The men in the picture are the advisors for certain their young charges are learning the ways the Ethvl JAC, one of 1,100 companies in Detroit, the and means of free enterprise and will grow up to be biggest JAC city in the country. They are, left to able and successful businessmen. ETC 10777 etc 10778 Of I.AMKXT FHliM I'llK CA'I.IUII EH A Barnabas Riley was born too soon-- Born without a silver spoon, Born, in fact, without a dime In days before overtime. He worked, alas, around the clock. To keep himself out of hock, He toiled and slaved for fifty years In fifty dingy atmospheres. And when he reached sixty five-- Still more work to keep alive. Pension plans? No such luck! Barney worked for every buck. At eighty two and on his heels. He wished he'd had your Ethyl deals. ETHYL ei Published monthly for the people of Echyl Corporation In This Issue Page Built by Business........................... 2 News By Nickerson......................... 4 Treasure Hunt ............................... S You Are a Camera......................... 10 Rate (Or Berate) Yourseli........ 12 Detroit On Skis............................... 14 For Your Entertainment............... 18 Milestones ........................................ 20 Ethyl Welcomes............................. 21 Personal Section......................... 22 People and Places ....................... 24 Newsbriefs........................................ 26 Leonhard Dowty ..................................Editor Jean Nicol......................... Editorial Assistant Contributing Editors--Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Margaret Casler, Andy Pallay, Adele Rozek, Nora Wirick; photographer: Eric Owen; Houston: H. E. Harris, Guy Keller, J, B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phillips; Neu> York: Gerry Harms, Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Ema Harris, Moliie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Edna Vorwerk; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; photographer: Fred Green; San Francisco: Wil Hancock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Hen derson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Corporation of Castada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Macdonald. ON OUR COVER: George Maher, Jr. of the Baton Rouge plant uses his unusual ground radio on a treasure bunt, a pastime that has yielded tare finds from hiding places in the earth. The story of George's expeditions is on page 6. Published by Etbyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. ETC 10781 Did you ever stop to think where New York came from? Aside from the historical purchase of the there would be cities as impressive as ours all over the world. Not true in Bali, for example, or in Pago island from the Indians, did you ever stop to ponder Pago or in Trinidad. But then they don't have sub how the famous skyline got there? Or, for that matter, ways in Bali, or air conditioning in Pago Pago, or tele the skyline of San Francisco, Detroit or Chicago? Of vision in Trinidad. Houston, Baton Rouge or Seattle? Of anywhere in The difference is business, and it lies at the very America, whether it's a block long or a mile high? roots of our culture. Jack's beanstalk had nothing on Men put up the buildings, of course, but business us. We grew as fast, and we grew even stronger. put up the money. Small towns all over our country have taken on a new Just as sure as cities are built on earth and rock, and sturdier look as industry erected the buildings it they are built on business. Certainly all of us have looked out upon a big city needed and sent out the call for workers, more work ers. It's a healthy look, a secure look, built for now and thought how ingenious it was of the builders and and the future. It says, in effect, America means busi architects to put it there, how remarkable its height ness. And business is people. and stability, how progressive compared to former In the same way that you can look at a man and civilizations and cultures. But seldom, if ever, have tell something of his economic status, you can look at any of us thought about business footing the bill and a city, any city in America, and tell a great deal about what the whole spectacular sight means. A city is its well being. Its brick is baked to last and its steel there and that's all there is to it--steel, concrete, lights. is fired for strength. Its growing pains are over, and t But, actually, there's much more to it than that or it stands solidly on its own feet. s NEWS BY Everv Monday evening Stan Nickerson, staff writer in our Public Relations department, trades his typewriter at 100 Park Avenue for a microphone at Goldwater Memorial Hospital. At the city institution on Welfare Island, he becomes Stan Nickerson, news caster, quizmaster and disc jockey to some 1,800 pa tients, whose bedsides and wheelchairs he visits after he has flicked off the mike. Stan has been doing the volunteer work for over a year, more than 50 pleasurable Mondays for both him and his invalid audience. He not only finds fun in presenting the broadcasts but, more importantly, de rives a bigger reward from knowing that he has done something to help brighten a long day of confinement for the appreciative patients. Two years ago, Stan himself recovered from a seri ous illness that pretty well kept him out of the swim of things, and he knows, as a result, that tedium can slow down a clock practically to a dead stop. Boredom, he remembers, is one of the worst phases of illness and a symptom the doctors can't do much about. He hasn't forgotten how much companionship meant to him in those days. When he was back in circulation, grateful and wiser and aware of a lot of little things that hadn't meant too much to him before, he wanted to do something to help other people. He enrolled in a six-weeks train- Stan Nickerson's microphone carries hit voica to every ward in the hospital as ha gives hit weekly' roundup of interesting and entertaining bits of naws, cullad from <ha happanings throughout tha world, in this country and locally. Stan trial to kaap tha naws "happy." Aftar tha nawseast and quis, Stan makas tha rounds of tha s to chat with tha patients. Sinea donatad gifts ara awarded < winners, interest in tha questions is keen. Hare Stan and 8a. Kaufman discuss a pussier from tha previous week's cant ETC 10T83 NICKERSON Only cheerful events are reported in these unique newscasts -for invalids ins; course sponsored by the United Hospital Fund for recreation work and was assigned to Goldwater when he completed the course in December of 1954. "I felt like a shabby Christmas present in the beginning," Stan said, "but after I saw what my being there meant to some of the patients I began to feel better--a third class amateur who wanted to make the program as good as I possibly could." At first his digest of the week's news was broadcast onlv to a polio ward, but last spring, upon his sug gestion, it was carried to all of the wards in the hos pital. As a newscaster--even though he has improved and the show runs smoothly--he doesn't try to compete with the radio and television professionals. Instead he tries to make the program personal and informal. His public address system show consists of unusual bits of news and human interest stories which he has carefully selected from the week's happenings. He quickly gives the general nature of current events, then spends the rest of 45 minutes to an hour on world, national and local news, popular records and a quiz. Stan keeps the news on the bright side. "I try to avoid anything scandalous, depressing or controver sial," he pointed out, adding wryly that it frequently took a bit of doing. Whatever is decent and comical and encouraging in the latest affairs of mankind is what Stan aims for, since he fully appreciates the fact that the people who listen to his broadcast are all too familiar with the darker aspects of life. Then there is the quiz. Stan originated it because he recalled that puzzles and brainteasers had once helped him to keep time moving. He formulates the questions on two principles--general knowledge and native intelligence. Some of the questions he digs up from reference books, encyclopedias and other big and informative volumes are real tough ones, but he doesn't take it easy on his quiz fans, who enjoy and do remarkably well at the mental gymnastics. Each week there are prizes of toilet articles, cigarettes, candy and perfume for the winners, whom Stan an nounces with the preface that "Einstein honors of the week go to. . . ." Stan's always on the lookout for new quiz material and welcomes suggestions and questions. Perhaps the most gratifying part of all comes after the program when Stan visits the patients in the wards, not as the man whose voice they had just listened to but as a friend who is interested in each of them personally. They swap stories of their families and friends, discuss the merits of recent television shows and books, and tell jokes on one another. When Stan first started the program he was depressed by the ill ness that surrounded him but the courage and cheer fulness of the patients helped him to see it in a new light, a light he hopes he makes a bit brighter. Although Stan givea the quia over the public addreaa ayatem, pa- can secure copier ot the queationa in the recreation lounges. Vuisat are bawd on general kntwladga end native intelligence. Above, two patianti in a physical therapy room unlimber their mind*. A few momenta of good fellowthip with the recreation pareonnel m. the end of a aetiafying evening. To Sten'a right in the picture John J. Gehen, recreation director. Like two women in wheel che many petienta enjoy perticipeting in the hoapital'a activit ETC 10784 The thought of finding buried treasure isn't as wild a dream as it may seem, especially to George Maher, Jr., of the Baton Rouge plant, who has unearthed old coins and relics of silver and gold with his unique Ground-Radio Most of the 4,000 employees of the Baton Rouge plant know George Maher, Jr., as a lean, dark- been finding hidden wealth for nearly four decades. George Maher, Jr., has improved the device his father complexioned young man who doesn't spend a lot of invented, but the results have always been the same: time talking. In the laboratory, he's much the same over the span of 37 years, the Mahers have located as he appears outside: quiet and modest, working $200,000 in coins, silverware, museum pieces and with the competence of long experience. Only five or Civil War relics. six of his fellow-workers know the truth about the It all began one summer afternoon in 1918. George other George Maher, the one who goes home and Maher, Sr., was tinkering with a radio set in the back usually makes straight for the workshop attached to yard of his home. Suddenly, there was a humming the rear of the house. noise in the radio earphones. He moved around the There, surrounded by tools and workbenches, tran yard and discovered that the sounds were coming sistors and radio parts, lab technician George Maher from the ground; in one comer of the yard, the noise becomes manufacturer George Osmond Maher, Jr., was loudest. Digging into the earth, Maher found an maker of devices to locate buried treasure. old copper kettle--a discovery that led him and his If the little workroom sounds like some dreamy family into the long-dead world of pirates and plan never-never land, it should be added quickly that the tation owners and the fascinating universe of those Maher machine, known as "Ground-Radio," actually who seek their treasure caches. works. The Mahers haven't tooted the Ground-Radio Excited by the location of the copper kettle, Maher horn loud enough to bring much publicity for some began to work on his radio in an effort to improve its time, but it's nonetheless true that the radio device has metal-locating properties. The device he finally came Although moit buried treeture it where you find it, George it lometimei committiofled to March for it. People whole aneettort may have buried veiuabU* on thair property or peopta Vho suspect that treasure mey have boon hidden on their tend wilt hire George to 90 over 0 specified ore* with hit Sround-Redio. The silver pot above contained $1,200 in gold pieces and the small box at the upper right holds chips of bones of Catholic saints. ETC 1078 up with (it was patented in 1924) he described shortly after inventing it: "It has coils, headset, gen erator and batteries. You carry the machine with its two horizontal detector coils and listen through the headphones. The assistant carries the generator and 'I the spade. Approaching masses of buried metals, you hear a buzzing in the headphones; otherwise abso lutely silent. The nearer the metal, the louder the sound. You step back and forth over the spot, raise one and then the other of the exploring coils and listen for the spot whence comes the loudest sound waves. There lies the cache. The machine is sensitive. It will find a silver dollar standing upright and on edge, six inches under the soil. . . . Gold gives a very soft, delicate sound wave; silver a harder sound wave; cop Noodtoss to scy, tho ontiro Mahor family takas a kaan intarast in Gaorgo's traasuro hunting axpaditions. Hart Gaorga, hit wifa, two sons and daughter ponder over maps that may prove a key to a fabulous treasure trove, (n connection with his profitable hobby, he is elso interested in Louitiene't Civil War history. per a more mellow sound than gold; lead a dull, coarse sound; aluminum the highest pitched sound wave of any metal." People laughed even when George Maher, Sr., found buried treasure. In 1920, he located an old jug filled with $350 in gold and silver and an old letter dated 1862. Four years later, he found $20,050 in one place. He returned from another expedition carrying a chest of gold, silver and jewelry worth $10,000, and three years later found a small cache near Pascagoula, Mississippi. The stack of newspaper clippings on Maher's finds grew higher and the coins, swords, sil verware and other relics were proof, but it was hard for people to believe that the odd-looking contraption Maher called "Ground-Radio" had anything to do with his success. It was not until 1931, when young George, Jr., was getting to be old enough to learn what the radio was all about, that his father was able to demonstrate pub licly that his radio device was all he claimed. It's doubtful that any other treasure hunter ever did his work so publicly; for Ground-Radio and the Mahers went to work for the State of Louisiana. Louisiana, then governed by the fabulous Huey Long, was preparing a site for one of the nation's most impressive State Capitols. Steamshovels were exca vating the ground--and breaking into ancient burial caskets that marked the site of an old Spanish fort and graveyard. Maher and Ground-Radio were called in. Their success was recounted by Long in the state ar chives; `The Maher ground locater found 23 caskets of the dead under the ground of the old Spanish Cemetery in Baton Rouge. The bodies were remark ably well preserved and the faces of the dead were dearly recognizable through the heavy plate glass on the coffins, which were from four to six feet deep. . . . The caskets are of Spanish, French, English and later of American origin. On one coffin, containing the lx)dy of a young Spaniard with a fearful gash on hi neck--perhaps he bad been killed in a duel or wr murdered--was the crown and royal arms of Spain. "The pickaxes and spades, guided by the Maher 1 cater, broke into a cement vault and unearthed cache under this old Spanish cemetery. Here tl found a pot of money and in other places old fl Ground-fUdio wort* on princtpU of vribk induction of m*gn*tic tiotd. Thom is boUncod coil circuit botwoon ch of +h hoops. Who* on* of tho hoops is ovor troosuro, tho bolonco botwoon tho hoop* is upMt, producing sounds in the oorphonos. lock guns, pistols, some antique jewelry, human bo pewter and silverware. The coins--French, Spa and English--included a French colonial silver [ of 1721, a coin of Louis XVI and American money. They were of gold, silver and bronze. "These finds were made by the Maher locate in a casket, but in a copper box filled with gol silver half dollars, newly minted and dated There were 575 of these coins, found among C crate sword hilts and belt buckles about fr underground." Discoveries with Ground-Rad before and since the 1931 finds on state lar yielded more valuable coins and relics, but th ETC IQ?; k. on state land provided the dramatic evidence the Mahers needed (George, Jr., still has photostats of the check for $151 paid for the work.) Ground-Radio was a huge success, and the Mahers began devoting more time to building and selling them than to hunting. After the death of his father, George, Jr., not only continued to make the devices, he has worked out sev eral improvements. Basically, Ground-Radio operates now as it did when the inventor had it patented, but George has added a rubber-mounted vibrator power supply which minimizes the vibrator noise. "Also, I can replace the vibrator with a four-tube radio cir cuit when it's requested," George said. "But the aver age person who doesn't understand radio would find the vibrator supply more dependable. The vibrator supply is more rugged and not subject to failure as the conventional radio circuit is." But it seems that whatever the model of the Maher device, it works. George has recently had reports from one Ground-Radio buyer who said he found Tales of treasure are so widespread in Louisiana-- which was, after all, home base for Jean Lafitte and other pirates and headquarters for some of the richest of the pre-Civil War plantation barons--that it's no wonder there are treasure-hunting expeditions some where in the state every day of the year. Many of the gold-seekers have Ground-Radio (which has been used all over the world), but others have divining rods, magnetic needles and "scope" locaters. George Maher is not usually strongly outspoken, but he's quick to say: "For me, there is just none other than Ground-Radio; its record speaks for itself." With his job in the Baton Rouge plant (which he began in 1941), three children and the manufacturing business to keep him hopping, George hasn't had many opportunities in recent years to go on long treasure-hunting trips. But he's now planning a re turn trip to a town in Alabama and has his eyes on "many towns in Mississippi and Louisiana where much of the Civil War treasures are still buried. Tramping through can* is hard! work but somatimas worth it. Gaorga says traasura-huntart ara clannish and will sal* dom divulga wham thay ara snatching, what thay may hava found or avan what kind of hunting davica thay ara using. Evan whan ha doesn't stumble onto buried treasure, George often discovers intriguing aspects of a bygone culture. At far right, the tombstone of a man who died at the young age of 2S is exactly e century old. $800 in coins, while another who bought one of the double-hoop instruments made one of the most fabu lous finds in recent times in Texas: 125 gold bars, each of which was worth $25. An earlier Ground-Radio model proved to be just as effective. Clyde Vinton Pickett of Baton Rouge went to the scene of the fa mous Battle of Vicksburg to hunt for silverware cached bv his grandfather during the Civil War. After hours of searching, Pickett stopped to lunch under an old oak tree, leaning the Maher locater against the trunk. The Ground-Radio registered metal immediately. Pickett searched the bark and found faint traces that it had been bored and plugged. Slashing into the tree, he found $1,133 in $5 and $20 coins dating from 1813 to 1861. Also, there are many places in Texas and Florida that I'd like to investigate." But despite all the possibilities for hidden wealth, George is more interested right now in taking on a prospect with Ground-Radio that might not yield wealth, but would satisfy a desire to unearth history. For some time, he has been negotiating with the State of Louisiana in an attempt to search the land that will be the site of a new building to be constructed by the State Department of Highways. The new highway building will go up just across the lake from the State Capitol in Baton Rouge--in sight of the land where, as a boy 24 years ago, he watched his father demonstrate the value of his invention by locating the Spanish cemetery and treasure trove. ETC 10788 9 by Dr. Emil Beyer, New York Medical Department T f you had a fine camera--a Leica, for instance--you wouldn't think of mistreating it. You would handle it with care because you would know how valuable and delicate a mechanism you owned. Two other cameras you have possessed since the day you were bom, cameras infinitely more valuable and delicate than Leicas, don't always receive the same full meas ure of consideration. Although you wouldn't commit the folly of clicking the shutter of a manufactured camera steadily for long periods, you may be num bered among the millions who chronically strain and misuse their eyes. The human eye has been described as an "extraordi nary camera that focuses automatically and adjusts swiftly and unconsciously to wide ranges of light and dark." Our eyes, which are credited with bringing us about 83 percent of our knowledge, dominate and direct the other "lesser" senses. A kind of visual appe tite heightens our sense of taste and sight gives form and substance and perspective to objects we touch, smell and hear. Oculists say that, with proper care, our eyes are good for a lifetime. By "proper care" they in part mean regular check-ups. Even those of us who be lieve nothing is wrong with our eyesight should sub mit to periodic examinations just to remain on the safe side. Any of the following conditions indicate that an oculist is needed: frequent headaches, especially aftei eyestrain; frowning and looking with effort; recurrence of red or sore eyes; inability to see properly as indi cated by an acuity test; recurring styes; scales at root of lashes; complaint of seeing double; any noticeabl crossing of either eye; holding reading matter unusi ally close or far away; watery eyes; dizziness; and th appearance of being lazy, dull or inattentive durin discussions and the like. Daylight is still considered the best illumination 10 ETC 10789 which to use the eyes because it enables them to work longer without fatigue than does any artificial light. When doing close work, a person should employ light that diffuses, rather than light that emphasizes shad ows. Reading while lying down fatigues the eyes, for the eyes are turned downward from their usual read ing position, which makes the work of external ocular muscles more difficult. A note to commuters: these muscles also are overtaxed when a person reads on a train or other moving conveyance. Many eyes, especially those which are farsighted and those with astigmatism, suffer from eyestrain and yet see quite as well as the normal eye. Glasses are needed in these cases. Proper glasses are never injuri ous to vision, rumors notwithstanding. Too many peo ple still believe, as did the Italians of the 13th century who inscribed on the tombstone of their fellow countn-man: "Here lies Salvina Armato, inventor of spec tacles. May God pardon him his sins." Glasses must be properly worn as well as properly fitted. The center of each lens should be kept di rectly in front of and slightly lower than the center of the pupil. Oculists warn against purchasing cheap lens from department stores or mail order houses, as they are frequently imperfect. The best means of avoiding eyestrain and other eye injuries is to avoid overtaxing the eyes. Even when it is necessary to read or perform some close work for a considerable amount of time, a person should take an occasional break, rest his eyes by blinking and looking away from the interest at hand. Daylight diffusing over the left shoulder is advised when the eyes are being used for close work. The glare of direct sun shine or of strong, unshielded artificial lighf is almost as harmful as too little light on the subject. Always avoid shadows, for they force the eyes to try to see objects which are largely obscured. In short, good eyesight is often dependent upon good sense. ETC 10790 11 rate Cor berate) yourself Mark Twain, who turned many a neat phrase and made many a profound observation, humorously defined play as something you don't have to do and work as something you do have to do. Okay, we'll go along with that, bowing to the noted American humorist's wit, but we think the definition doesn't go far enough. In our humble opinion there is--or if there isn't there ought to be--a lot more to work than merely doing it. Sure, the paycheck is im portant, but it isn't half as valuable to the man who doesn't really earn it as it is to the good worker. The big difference in value is satisfaction. A good worker, by our standards, is a man who enjoys his work. He'll have those days he wishes he had stood in bed, but by and large he's pleased with the combination of job 1. Do you resent working overtime when necessary? Yes.... No___ Yes and No.... 2. Do you watch the clock? Yes.... No.... Yes and No----- 3. Do you fret and stew over your job after hours? Yes___ No.... Yes and No------- 4. Do you try to be well groomed and neat? Yes.... No.... Yes and No----- 5. Can you take constructive criticism without feel ing hurt? Yes___ No.... Yes and No------- 6. Do you read material related to your work or your industry? Yes___ No-------Yes and No------- 7. Do you keep up with current events through newspapers, magazines, radio or television? Yes.... No___ Yes and No.... 8. Will you disagree with your superiors when you feel you have adequate reasons for disagreement? Yes.... No___ Yes and No.... 9. Are you considerate of your subordinates desires and feelings? Yes.... No.... Yes and No.... 10. Do you think of the little things such as turning off the lights when you leave the office or inform ing the proper people where you can be reached? Yes.... No.... Yes and No.... 11. Do you feel your job provides satisfaction as well as good pay? Yes.... No.... Yes and No- 12. Are you courteous and polite? Yes.... No.... Yes and No. . 7. 13. Are you able to control your emotions? Yes___ No____ Yes and No.... 12 ETC 10791 and self. To him, like virtue, even minor daily accom plishments are their own reward. Similar to other habits, little accomplishments are often overlooked and taken for granted, but they are there for most of us. They are in the most simple of movements or thoughts, in the merest of routines. There's definite pleasure in a job well done and any man worth his salt is sure to puff up a bit if he's at the receiving end of a well-deserved compliment. A man who respects his work respects himself, and vice versa. When he's good at his job and sure of his ability, he's a man who has something to be proud of. A good job, as far as we're concerned, is composed of two things--a good employer and a good employee. The Company tries hard to fulfill its part of the com bination. Employee benefits, working conditions, sal ary analysis and many, many other considerations are constantly studied and evaluated. To get the perfect mixture, though, it takes plenty of YOU. Suppose you were your own boss--how would you rate your self? In the privacy of your conscience, here's your chance. The following questions were taken from actual questionnaires on work evaluation used by several companies and institutions. If you answer them hon estly, you'll get a better look at yourself, and you'll know the areas in which you can stand improvement. Answer the questions, then score and classify yourself by the method explained on page 26. 14. Do you avoid taking excessive time off for per sonal affairs? Yes___ No____ Yes and No.... 15. Are you prompt and reliable? Yes___ No____ Yes and No.... 16. Do you budget your time so that you get enough recreation? Yes.... No___ Yes and No____ 17. Do you greet fellow workers cheerfully in the morning? Yes___ No____ Yes and No____ 18. Do you answer the phone by giving your name? Yes.... No.... Yes and No.... 19. Do you feel you have organized your work to the best of your ability? Yes___ No____ Yes and No------- 20. Do you think about your work creatively? Yes___ No____ Yes and No.... 21. Do you work with others in a team effort? Yes___ No-------Yes and No.... 22. Can you find the equipment you work with readily? Yes.... No----- Yes and No------- 23. Do you feel you are liked? Yes___ No-------Yes and No------- 24. Do you contribute voluntarily at meetings? Yes.... No.... Yes and No----- 25. Would you hire yourself? Yes___ No.... Yes and No------- Before you turn to page 26 for scoring and classi fication, look over your answers and evaluate them again. It's important that you neither sell yourself short nor give yourself too much credit. A little ponderance on an answer may change your mind. ETC 10792 13 DETROIT ON SKIS ETC 10793 J' These human woolly bears predict a cold winter every winter in hopes that lots of snow will cover their favorite skiing hills in upper Michigan There was a time not long ago when Americans took a dim view of winter, pulled their mufflers snugger try it, the adventures and fun begin. Nothing, accord ing to the enthusiastic Detroit ski fans, is quite as ex when the icy blasts arrived and stayed beside a warm hilarating. The winter scene itself is wonderful to fire as much as possible. Not so today--winter brings behold, the air is clean and fresh and cold, and the out millions to cavort on ice and snow. thrill of speed is as exciting as a child's first circus. Snowtime is playtime for employees at our Detroit Skiing is also famous for building man-sized appe Labs, too--an eager group of sportsmen who take their tites. Undoubtedly, one of the greatest joys in a skiing weather any way nature dishes it out. Almost every weekend is experienced after a strenuous day on the weekend during the cold season, groups of Ethyl slopes when the rosy-cheeked skiers return to the people and their familes leave their comfortable city lodge, a birch fire, a hefty supper and lazy talk of the ways behind and drive upstate to undergo the rigors day's success. Before bed, there's usually a walk in the of skiing and tobogganing on the sparkling slopes, or snow under a sky close enough to touch. Later, after skating, ice-fishing and ice-boating on the frozen lakes. singing by the fire and a warm, relaxing bath, a night Skiing, though, has become the frosty king of winter of sound sleep is practically guaranteed. sports, and Detroiters over the years have raced down In the morning, the skiers are up and at it early and many a hill, taken a few cartwheel spills, picked them all verify the fact that you've never really eaten break selves up looking like snowmen and tried it again. fast until you taste it on a skiing weekend in the As these pictures testify, some of them have grown middle of tons of snow. Then hurriedly, with skis and proficient in the fine art of staying upright while equipment ready, they're off again to glide down the careening downhill at speeds up to 60 miles an hour. soft slopes. Appearances notwithstanding, ski champions and in And one of the things that makes it all that much structors claim that if a person can walk, he can ski. more fun is the companionship of others. The Detroit Age--this side of senility--is no excuse for shying ers, who work together through the week, relax and away, either. Once a person screws up his nerve to enjoy each other's company on the weekend. Harold Chalk of Automotive Products-Development give* torn* Explorer Scout* e skiing lesson, including this meneuver for turning about. *. Executing a Chtistienie turn, Dr. Harold Soroos of ike Lab's Medical department speeds down e whitened hillside in n exciting flurry of snow flafes. ETC 10794 Detroit on Skis -- continued 16 ETC 10795 Shirley Trapp ((aft) and Oal Roxak, both of Chemical Research, ascend tha chair lift to tha top of Boyna Mountain. Skiing facilitias Ilka this tiff help to tura thousands of now skiars to tha slopas every wintar, Marge Catlar of Automotive firoducts-Development and her husband Jack still look frash and full of energy aftar a day's skiing. Thay both wear standard skiing dothas---warm, wind-proof and unencumbering. Dal Rozek pauses at tha top of a slope to catch her breath and' survey tha view. It looks like a long way down, but she'll be there shortly. Tha Otsego Ski Club, modeled aftar a Swiss chalet, draws tired skiers back from tha slopas at sundown. Skiars thaw out bafora tha fireplace. ETC 10796 17 'V ** BOOKS Hungarian ballet dancers Nora Kovach and Istvan Rabovsky tell bv way of writer George Mikes the exciting story of their escape from behind the Iron Curtain in Dutton's Leap Through the Curtain. A true adventure, it depicts the colorful world of the dance and the drab world of Communism. Harvey Breit, assistant editor of The New York Times Book Review, has put together an enjoyable collection of his popular interviews with well known writers under the title of The Writer Observed (World). There is quite a lot to be ob served, too, in the short, revealing pieces on such talents as William Faulkner, Emest Hemingway, Frank Yerbv, John O'Hara, Noel Coward, Norman Mailer and some 50 others. If science is one of those things that has continually mystified you, a few of the seven veils will be lifted by Simon and Schuster's What Is Science?, edited by James F. Newman for the common man. In fairly clear discussions, 12 important scientific leaders shed light on their respective fields, including biology, astronomy, physics, mathematics, psychology and an thropology. Doubleday's Over the River Charlie by Lew X. Lansworth is a different and enjoyable work of fiction. Set in Paris in the late nineteen century, it tells a delightful tale of a youth bent on a culinary career in the great tradition of France. It is peopled with exotic characters and its humor is droll and Sea-Wye by J. M. Scott, published under the Dutton banner, is sheer entertainment and as such it's as diverting as anvthing you're likely to read. It takes place, for the most part, on a tropical island, where murder rears its ugly head under the palms. There's a good bit of suspense and its hokum, though based in part on fact, is readable stuff for a winter evening. Love Or Perish by Smiley Blanton, M.D. comes from Simon and Schuster and is another look at the values and importance of love--to the death, in fact. Its psychology is sound, for the doctor has the facts and he's willing to use them. You can't help but leam something of yourself and something of the people around you, and you certainly won't deny anvthing Dr. Blanton has to say. Alec Waugh's Island in the Sun (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy) is a wonderful place. A big novel, it's storytelling at its adult and entertaining best. There's the sunny Caribbean (a delight ful place to be in winter) and an assortment of characters with an even wider assortment of diverting problems. And, then, just to make things even livelier--there's murder. You'll hold it tight because Mr. Waugh tells a tight and engrossing story. The sea at war is with us again in Doubleday's big novel H.M.S. ULYSSES by Alistair MacLean. There's plenty of action in the North Atlantic this time around and you'll enjoy it if you bring your Dramamine along for the rough weather All the men you've ever met in war fiction are still doing thi same heroic and exciting things. ETC 10797 ..-a -it. Orville Prescott, whose daily book reviews in The New York Times are among the most valid, has done his autobiography for Random House and titled it The Five-Dollar Gold Piece. And a nice shinv piece it is. Mr. Prescott writes pleas antly and he has met and associated with some very amiable people that voull enjoy meeting, too. It's all light-hearted and anecdotal. Frank G. Slaughter, whose fiction has been exceedingly popu lar with the ladies, has done a new novel about the woman of Jericho, Rahab, and Joshua, leader of the Israel tribes, for Doubledav. The Scarlet Cord is primarily a love story, one of those romantic historicals with a background as lush as tapestry and the kind of thing that will have Hollywood put ting out a call for all available extras. It has all of the stand ard ingredients of a rich pudding. The Three Legions by Gregory Solon, issued by Random House, is another historical. This one has masculine appeal and a lot of unpronouncable names. Set in the days of Augustus Caesar, it concerns itself with the Roman legions. There's lots of action and plenty of interest and a style that's extremely readable. Richard Llewellvn, who made quite a name for himself with How Green Was My Valley some years back, has turned to the recent Burgess-MacLean case as inspiriation for his new Doubleday novel, Mr. Hamish Gleave, in which he tells the story of a respected official of the British Foreign Office who is duped and driven to betray his country. As a result of it all, Hamish succeeds only in destroying himself. Two new Inner Sanctum Mystery books from Simon and Schuster will please the goose pimple set. -The Loner by Fan Nichols is a psychological about a gentle boy who does a B-girl in and hides out in a New York apartment while the hunt is on. Pat Root's The Devil of the Stairs is about the murder of a famous diva with quite a troup of enemies, any of whom could have done it without batting an eye. Mignon G. Eberhart, who doesn't take a back seat to anybody when it comes to writing a baffling murder mystery, is right up front in the driver's seat again with Random House's Postmark Murder. A Chicago estate worth millions is the root of the evil that keeps sleuth Lieutenant Peabody and the reader guessing all the bloody way. MOVIES Twentieth Century-Fox has packaged a realistic and exciting melodrama in The Man Who Never Was. Filmed as though every inch of it were absolutely true, it tells of a British plot to deceive the Nazis by planting a corpse with false documents pertaining to the proposed invasion of the Continent. Spies and Her Majesty's officials have a rousing time of it with in trigue, and things are kept pretty suspenseful. Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame are up to their necks in it. Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel comes from Twentieth Century-Fox hot on the heels of the same team's successful film version of Oklahoma! The fantasy about a carnival barker in New England comes close to being a perfect movie musical with some of the best songs and dances yet and a story that's more than the usual fluff. Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones star together again. James Cagney stars for M-G-M in Tribute to a Bad Man, a tough Western that has to its advantage some believable characters. It also has something to say about the making of a man and the softening of another who had beoome as hardboiled as a 20 minute egg. The psychology doesn't intrude too much on the gunplay and thundering hooves. The Man in the Grey Flannel Surr, starring Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones and Frederic March, is Twentieth Cen tury-Fox's version of the recent novel, and as such it's fairly faithful. It typifies quite a bit about New York and nearby Connecticut but when it leaves the commuter's life and flashes to a wartime romance in Italy it jumps the track, Helen of Troy, whose face supposedly launched a thousand ships, has now given employment to thousands of extras in Warner Brothers' spectacular version of the Trojan War. In CinemaScope and WamerColor, it's just about the mightiest movie mayhem you've ever seen and as dazzling to the eye as the Hope diamond. The plot--well, there's Helen and Paris and some angry Greeks who build this gigantic horse . . . TELEVISION Cesare Siepi's thunderous bass voice will be featured in solo performances over the Voice of Firestone on February 20, and on February 27 the long-time favorite, baritone Thomas L. Thomas, will be the guest star. For racing fans, the Flam ingo Race will be televised from Hialeah, Fla., on the after noon of February 25. Goodyear presents a religious drama. His Way, His Word, on February 26. Also that day is an hour-and-a half spectacu lar, a satire on the TV industry which stars comedienne Imogene Cocoa and Tony Randall. Opera-lovers can expect to see La Grande Bretesche by Stanley Hollingsworth on the same date. Bob Hope, that past master at laugh-getting, will step onto your screen on February 28. Professional basketball takes the spotlight on March 3, when the Minneapolis Lakers con tend for court honors against the Rochester Royals. The talent show. Chance of a Lifetime, switches over to Satur days from Sundays beginning March 3, and is still under the suave guidance of emcee Dennis James. The biting wit of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleo patra will enter your living room over Prooucers'Showcase on March 5; and on March 11 Shakespeare's great drama, Richard III, will be shown, featuring the famous English knights Sir Lawrence Olivier, Sir John Cielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, with Claire Bloom and Pamela Brown. ETC 10798 19 MILESTONES 20 years Robert W. Hogan Sales, New York 15 years Esther S. Lyman Administration, New York Roland J. Ostrander Research, Detroit IO years William R. D'Arcy Research, Detroit Frances W. Lamb Research, Detroit Jack D. McCullough Research, Detroit Arthur W. Myers Research, Detroit B. Bynum Turner Administration, New York < 5 years Robert L. Aiken Research, Detroit Theresa A. Buyan Research, Detroit Roy F. Delaney, Jr. Research, Detroit Stephen E. Ellerbe Sales, Western Region Norman F. Swanson Sales, Central Region David W. Zutaut Research, Detroit 20 ETC 10T99 ETHYL Maxine Blue, secretary at the New Orleans district office, hails from Laurel, Miss. She was formerly employed as a secretary and stenographer in New Orleans. Vida CimBER, secretary in the Kansas City district office, was bom in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Grove City College, Pa. Married, she lives in Kansas Citv. mi WELCOMES r Emarie Ewald is a secretary at the Houston lab. Bom in Minneapolis, Minn., she is a member of Eastern Star and is interested in music. She was with a Houston insurance firm. Catherine H. Fay, a secre tary in the Advertising depart ment, New York, was bom in Boston. Her hobbies include swimming, fencing, sailing, knitting and skiing. Celia A. Gillis has become a secretary at the Toronto office. Bom in London, England, she has worked in England, Scot land, Canada and this country. She's interestedin photography. Theresa M. Hungle, known as Terry, is a secretary at the Sarnia plant. She's married and has a seven-vear-old daughter. She served in the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Patricia A. James, a recep tionist at the Tulsa district office, is a native Tulsan. She graduated from Central High School there and lives with her husband in the city. nician at Kansas City lab, lives with his wife and two daugh ters at Prairie Village, Kan. A Navy veteran, he spends spare time at woodwork and hunting. Edmund C. Weatherford is a lab technician in Kansas City. He's married and has two sons and two daughters. He graduated from St. Bene dict's College, Atchison, Kan. Charles E. Wenstrand is a lab technician at the Kansas City lab. He played football at University of Kansas and served with the rank of sergeant in the U. S. Army Air Corps. 21 ETC 10800 Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit, New York, San Bernardino, the Sales department and Regional offices: Detroit: William Gilpin, $20.00 (Design improvement of Sun Overspeed Safety Cutout to cut down maintenance time for these units); Kathryn Hendren, $10.00 (Use "Thermo-Stir" hot plate to agitate samples); Lillian A. McDonnell, $20,00 (Transmittal slips for attachment to laboratory publications to save writing of cover letters); Rob ert Mescher, $45.00 (To stop stack draft from pulling air through shut-down dynamometer engines, open stack door instead of disconnecting exhaust pipe connections); James O'Neill, $10.00 (Oil slinger for Fisher Isotemp baths); Martin Perkins, $15.00 (Eye wash fountain and arrangement to prevent overflow of ammonia bottles in Print Shop); Lillian Rusestine, $10.00 (Fire extinguisher in dish room in cafe teria); SlEGERT SEPPPANEN, $10.00 (Room numbers on access panels in C Wing Mezzanine to identify panels with relation to rooms below); Wallace W. Spring, $35.00 (Isolate and simplify electrical supply hook-up); Ronald Tweedie, $15.00 (Labels for shipping laboratory samples of lead compounds. Will include precautionary instructions and eliminate haphazard and nonuniform labeling). Sales Department and Regional Offices: J. T. Beckworth, $20.00 (Improvements for 39th Street Audi torium); Agnes M. Bowe, $10.00 (Re vision of commercial invoice now issued for export shipments); W. J. Distler, Certificate (Ethyl Corporation sponsor 80th birthday party for C. F. Kettering); Edwin N. Downs, $215.00 (Work sim plification program with live demonstra tion for use internally in various depart ments and as a presentation to customers, particularly, at refining departments); Louise T. Hill, $10.00 (Stamp Per sonal or Confidential on back flap as well as front of envelopes); H. B. Hollings worth, $40.00 (Roller rack to expedite handling of large drums of Ethyl anti knock compound when emptying and washing); F. G. Huyler, $10.00 (Method to improve Monthly Report of Gasoline Sales in Canada); Edwin C. McDonald, Jr., $20.00 (Revision of table of contents of "Catalog of Ethyl Published Material"); Edward C. Mul ligan, $15.00 (Each of four quarterly periods for new field sample Gasoline Antiknock Quality Survey start one month later so that sampling period will begin the month after normal seasonal refinery changeover); Eleanor M. Schreyer, Marilyn W. Barth and Lee Lorenz, $35.00 (Magnetic wrench to be used to unscrew and remove both bungs from drums in which Ethyl fluid is shipped). New York: William G. Ball, Jr., Certificate (Bulletin Board story on handling of a suggestion); Lillian Campbell, $10.00 Supplemental Award (Unattended TWX station service for all regional offices in other time zones, as well as New York office); Thom Yates $75.00 (Method for reducing the num ber and frequency of long distance calls). Ed BetchaveR, Traffic, New York has recently been appointed chairman of the Auditing Committee of the Metropoli tan Traffic Association for the 1956 year. Lew Barnum, Community Relations, Baton Rouge plant, has been appointed to head up the Committee on Relation ships with Funds in Surrounding Par ishes for the United Givers Fund. Lew, who was one of the first executives loaned by industry to assist United Givers during the campaign, has a long line of civic work behind him. He is past YMCA president, president of the Boy Scouts, board member of the Cham ber of Commerce, Community Services Council and South Area Council YMCA. Marvin Russell, Los Angeles district automotive engineer and past chairman of the Southern California S.A.E. section recently attended the S.A.E. Annual Nominating Committee meeting in De troit as the Southern California delegate. Idan E. Flaa, field representative, Tulsa, will head the petroleum information committee of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce for 1956. Idan has been chairman of the com mittee's agriculture division for the past two years. The division staged the suc cessful junior tractor operators contest at the Tulsa State Fair in October, and also showed oil and agriculture movies. Glenn Hayes has been appointed to the Texas Chemical Council's Science Education Committee for this year. Glenn is manager of the Houston plant. t i ) | '* San Bernardino: . M. Higgs and Ray H. Seymour, $10.00 (Mount pre focus spotlights for engine work in chas sis dynamometer room in San Bernar dino laboratory). Lillian Campball Sl*nn Hayai 22 ETC 10801 New officers of the Management Club, Houston, who will serve during 1936, were installed at a recent meeting, Lee Funderberg will serve as president; Jack Elliott, as vice president; J. H. McCrary, treasurer; J. B. LeRay, secre tary; and C. W. Gill, F. A. Box, L. G. Johnson, and C. L. Gremiliion as Board of Control members. The installation ceremonies were con ducted by Al Carvjlle, Baton Rouge plant supervisor, who is serving as Re gional vice president of the National As sociation of Foremen. Raymond H. Metternich, Industrial Relations Training, Baton Rouge plant, has been elected president of the Louisi ana Chapter of the American Society of Training Directors. Ray was installed at a recent meeting of the society. Floyd Carbo, TEL Maint., Baton Rouge, was elected president of the Ethyl Recreation Association at a recent meeting of the Board of Directors. Other officers for the coming year are L. E. Rabalais, TEL Oper., vice president; Dora Pepe, Finance, secretary; and Joe Polito, Prod. Plan., treasurer. Leo J. Martin of the Baton Rouge plant recently attended a state-wide meeting of the American Petroleum In stitute Oil Industry Information Confer ence in Alexandria. Leo has been ap pointed General Chairman of the 1956 observance of Oil Progress Week in Baton Rouge. C. A. Hebert, Safety, Baton Rouge plant, received the Luther Halsey Gulick award, which is the highest award given by the National Camp Fire Girls Organi zation. C. A. H.b.r* Harry Toulmin authored and pre sented a paper entitled "Automotive En gine Fuel Requirement Trends" before the Mid-Continent Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Bartlesville, Okla. recently. At the annual meeting of the Louisiana Engineering Society held in Baton Rouge during January, Steve Henry, Director, Community Relations, Baton Rouge plant, spoke on "Industry." Steve also recently gave a speech be fore the National Science Foundation's Low Temperature Conference at L.S.U. His topic was the industries of Baton Rouge. Harry Wheeler and Henry Wall, Baton Rouge, recently spoke before a group of Research and Engineering per sonnel at the plant. Harry discussed Coaching as a tool in Personnel Devel opment and Henry covered the history of TEL Plant Design. Ed Ellerbb, chief automotive engineer. Western Region, was the featured speaker at the Seattle, Washington S.A.E. meeting during January. Ed's topic was "A 1956 Look at Fuels and Engines." Ed Ell.rU BIRTHS Jerome and Allene Brown--a daugh ter, Jean Ellen, born on January 20. Jerry is an assistant research supervisor in the Chemical Research Division. Al and Mary Lee FttBEY-a daughter, Wendy, bom on January 11. Al is in the Process Development Section. Eastern Region George and Grace O'CoNNELL-a son, Dennis Gerard, bom on December 27. George is a safety representative in Eastern Region. Tulsa Benny and Joyce Frazier--a daughter, Becky Jane, bom on January 17. Benny is a technician at the Tulsa gasoline test ing laboratory. JPEOPLE IN THE NEWS Seven men formerly of the Detroit Labo ratory, have transferred to the Baton Rouge plant as a result of the realign ment of the Company's research and de velopment work. The men are J. R. Geaman, Patent Division, and A. S. Hawkes, William Eller, Kenneth L. Lindsay, T. P. Whaley, R. H. Marshall, and David DePree, of the Chemical and Research Division. Under the organizational plan which brought about their transfer, all re search programs in the automotive products field will be conducted at the Detroit Laboratories while research and engineering on chemical products and on manufacturing processes will be concen trated at the manufacturing plant in Baton Rouge. ETC 10802 23 1 PEOPLE PLAQUE HONORS NAYLOR A gleaming metal plaque catches the eyes of visitors to Fred Naylor's office these days. Fred, who is manager of personnel development and headquarte in New York, was awarded the plaque for the winning management development entry submitted to the Na tional Society of Training Executives. Ethyl's repre sentative to the Society, he won the award in the So ciety's annual judging of written contributions by members with his booklet, "A Management Develop ment Program." The booklet was a report on Ethyl's development program, one of four out of 125 honored by the Society. READ PROMOTES SCOUTING Weekly Boy Scout and Cub Scout television pro grams are conducted by Dan Read, safety engi neer at the Baton Rouge plant, with a view tow interesting boys in scouting and educating parents on the training their boys will receive in these organiza tions. Shown below at program time are a group o Cub Scouts and (left to right) E. H. Coxe, Power Dan's assistant in the shows; a den mother; Dan, wear ing around his neck the Silver Beaver, highest awar given Scout workers by a local council; and Mrs. G. i Roberts, den mother and wife of the director of ge eral engineering at the plant. 24 ETC 10803 When the National Association of Suggestion Sys tems recently met in Cincinnati, Ethyl presented Poverty and distress witnessed on a flying tour of the Far East last year brought home to Hardy a program entitled "Higher Octane Ideas for Better Meredith, TEL operator at the Baton Rouge plant, Suggestion Performance." As part of the presentation, the daily blessings of his own country. Hardy and Ed Downs (pictured during his performance at the two other members of a Baptist Church have re meeting) did his demonstration on how to save time counted their experiences in Japan, Korea, Formosa, and break down the barriers of waste. Ray Faller, Hong Kong and the Philippines to a number of director of training, handled the off-stage comments, groups in order to stimulate interest in the missionary directions and monologue. Lou Shank, manager of the programs in those lands. Hardy, who is the man wear Suggestion System at Ethyl, reported to the association ing a hat in the above picture taken near the Imperial on some of the experiences learned from our first year Palace in Tokyo, said the missionary work abroad has of suggestion awards. promoted much good-feeling toward America. HOME IN THE GOLDEN WEST CHRISTMAS ON A CAMEL Since the easy-going West has drawn people from all over this country and half the world, it un A balmy Mediterranean cruise is far removed from the holly and mistletoe we associate with our doubtedly won't be startled by a few Southern "you- northern Christmases, but the ungreen deserts of alls" from the Scotty DuBose family, some of its latest Egypt are about as far removed as is imaginable. residents. If the DuBoses themselves are startled, it is However, to Viola Wells--with Ethyl-Dow in our New only with the scenic beauty and delightful climate of York office--Christmas day on a camel outside of Cairo the state of California. Scotty, who was manager of was a thrilling experience, and she could not help but our district office in New Orleans, has recently as feel that the famous Cheops pyramid and the even sumed the same position in the district office at Los more famous Sphinx were a kind of Christmas present Angeles. Happy Californians shown here are (left to to her, at least for that day of sight-seeing. Below, she right) Karen, Scotty, Stephen, Ginny his wife and is pictured on the center camel, which she claims was Scott, Jr. a surprisingly smooth-riding animal. * ETC 10804 mmm New York Office Collect! Eyeglaeaos Unused eveglass frames are now being collected to be sent to NEW EYES FOR THE NEEDY, Short Hills, N. J. This organization distributes the glasses either directly to a needy person or via recog nized institutions. With the usual willingness and spirit displayed by Ethyl girls, Peggy Smith, Virginia McGuire, Edith Mahoney and Alice Lahn are collecting on their respective floors, 17, 18, 19 and 20. If you have any extra frames (with or without lenses), bring them in and drop them off with the girl in charge on your floor. Deverill Announces Rockefeller Aid Art Deverill, president of the Tarrytown Board of Education, recently an nounced that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., pledged $350,000 to aid in a new pro gram to provide adequate and modem schooling for the children in that area. Art is in the Finance department. New York office. Human Relations Institute Sponsored by Ethyl Recently a two-dav Human Relations In stitute sponsored bv the Ethyl Manage ment Club and the National Association of Foremen was held at Louisiana State University. Thomas G. Terry, employment su pervisor, Baton Rouge plant, served as general chairman of the institute. Steve Henry, Director, Community Relations at the plant, who spoke on automation, predicted a four-day, sixhour work week for industrial workers by 1976, and said that automation is not a thing to be feared, but a thing that must be prepared for. Harry Wheeler, assistant director. Industrial Relations, Baton Rouge plant, participated as a panel member in a dis cussion covering "Communications--Key to Effective Management." Guided tours to Ethyl's manufacturing facilities in Baton Rouge were arranged. Barksdale Gets Scholarship John M. Barksdale, industrial engineer at the Baton Rouge plant, is the re cipient of the newly established United States Steel scholarship at the Univer sity of Alabama. John, a registered engineer, received his B.S. degree in industrial engineering from North Carolina State College. He will begin study for his master's degree in the fall. . At present his work is chiefly in the field of cost reduction. Answers to quiz Outstanding workers will have an swered all questions in the affirmative except the first three. On that basis, score yourself 10 for all correct answers, 5 for all "ves and no" answers, and 0 for all incorrect answers. Total your score and classify yourself as follows: 250--Subtract 20 points for dishonesty. 240-200--You are a diligent worker decidedly in the superior category. 190-140--You are a good worker but, obviously, there is room for improve ment. Take it to heart and increase your worth in the areas where you are weak. 140-90--Don't let it trouble you but get busy and pull yourself together. It's too easy to slide down hill. 90-40--You are an inferior worker coasting along without taking advantage of what you have to give to a Job. You can do considerably better if you make a real effort to do so. 40-0--Impossible! IN MEMORIAM William Ross, consultant at our Baton Rouge Plant and Estelle D. CaldwelL formerly of Manufacturing, die William Rau William Ross, one of the world's fore most authorities on development and manufacture of sodium and an Ethyl consultant, died on January 17 at the Baton Rouge General Hospital after a short illness. Mr. Ross led in the design of the Sodium Plant and was its manager from 1939 until his retirement in 1945. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1880, Mr. Ross was graduated from Trinity Col lege, Dublin University, in 1901 as a bachelor of arts and bachelor of engi neering. He is survived by his wife, Ethel, his son, William B. Ross, who is a super visor in Maintenance and Construction, and three grandchildren. Mrs. Estelle D. Caldwell, Immediate Past Most Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star of New York State, died January 23 at Mount Vernon. Before her election to the head office of the Eastern Star in 1954, Mrs. Cald well was in the manufacturing depart ment, New York office, for 10 years. Mrs. Caldwell had been a member of the Eastern Star for 30 years and served in many capacities in state offices. She was also an organizing member and past matron of the Vemon Stewart Chapter 794 in Mount Vemon, which she helped to found in 1926. " She is survived by her husband, Archi bald; her son, Robert; and,, two grand children. 26 ETC 10805 Research to further the progress of the oil industry hat always been on* of Ethyl's principal operations. Shown above is another of our "firsts," a new metho^ for testing the color of aviation gasoline, developed by Ethyl in conjunction with Hellige, Inc. John Jones, formerly of the Yonkers Lab and now deputy manager of the Kansas City Lab, esamines a gat sample for color intensity. ETC 10806 ETC 10807 ETC 10808 i*WHMWHW' ETHYL Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited ii In This Issue Page i Continuous Performance ............. 2 Chicago Conclave ......................... 4 Eggheads.......................................... 14 Racing Blood .................................. 16 Milestones ........................................ 18 Ethyl Welcomes............................. 19 For Your Entertainment............... 20 Personals .......................................... 22 People and Places......................... 24 r Leonhard Dowry ..................................Editor Jean Nicol......................... Editorial Assistant Contributing Editors--Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Margaret Caster, Andy Pallay, Adele Rozek, Nora Wirick; photographer: Eric Owen; Houston: H. E. Harris, Guy Keller, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phillips; New York: Gerry Harms, Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Edna Vorwerk; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; photographer: Fred Green; San Francisco: Wil Hancock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Hen derson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited: Toronto: Nancy Macdonald. ON OUR COVER: Gene Sattler, sales rep resentative in Eastern Region, was one of some 200 men from the Sales department who attended the annual Sales meeting, held this year in Chicago's Hotel Sherman. His smile reflects the hopeful picture ahead. The story of the conference, which was photo graphed for Bulletin Board by Arthur Lavine, whose pictures have appeared in such national magazines as Life and Collier's, be gins on page 4. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE Just as the lights in a theater or on a sound stage are set to illuminate the actors, lights of a sort are customer. One good performance alone simply won't do it. It takes continuous performance. constantly on our Sales department. Those lights are When a play is a smash hit on Broadway and earns the observant eyes of our customers, and they are a long run, the actors can't afford to rest on their as bright and carefully focused as any spotlight that opening-night reviews. They must regularly employ ever beamed upon Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe. all of their techniques and skills in order to give the Customers, like audiences, are always watching-- same caliber performance that won them the critics' and often looking for one false step. Duly critical, both raves. It's that continuous performance, that consist want the best performance they can get. They just ent quality, that sells the tickets--and also sells our won't settle for less. You do the same in this land of products. To be that good, it takes a lot of rehearsal. choices. Get, for example, a poor performance on In a sense, the recent sales conference in Chicago was television and you'll switch to another channel as a rehearsal for better performance throughout the quick as a Groucho Marx retort. year. As Mr. Shea pointed out to the group, "Regard That's the way it is when there's competition. For less of how well you play the game one Saturday, you instance, Durante's nose is the peer of noses and our still have to prepare for the next Saturday." - product is peer in its field, but it still takes some No matter what the analogy, the fact is the same- doing to win, hold and hold faster an audience or a continuous performance takes practice. ETC 10810 Sales department and guests meet at -- CHICAGO CONCLAV 4 ETC 10811 Speakers presented verbal pictures of what their departments were doing to back up Sales department. As January met February with a flurry of snow and the mercury stayed down in its winter quarters, better in the future. Conversations and expressions revealed that the total effort was well worth the mass some 200 Ethyl men, most of whom were from the journey to the Windy City. Sales department, met at Chicago's Hotel Sherman No stone was left unturned, and any department for the annual Sales meeting, consisting of two two- that had anything at all to contribute to the Sales' dav sessions, one for field men from the Eastern and picture pledged support and backing to the men who Western Regions and the other for field men from meet our customers face to face. the Central and Southern Regions. In between the Running the big show for the Sales department, dual conclaves, special meetings were held. Jack Pruitt, domestic sales manager, stated the year's Like those signs that read business going on as objectives and summed up the whole of it in a word-- usual, the Sales force and guest speakers went at it impact! He explained how necessary it was, despite with gusto, tackling problems and setting up the Sales the physical distance, to keep planned phases of the program for the year ahead. With all those heads to program working simultaneously everywhere. In clos gether, ideas and questions came fast and furious, and ing, he stressed what our Company has always be solutions to problems met their reckoning on the spot. lieved in--the importance of service. Anybody who had anything on his chest got his chance Following Jack's opening address, Mac Murdock, to get it off, and the whole business of selling our vice president in charge of Sales, spoke on "Current product was analyzed, discussed and run around a Conditions and Outlook." thorough course to get out any kinks. What resulted In a lineup of pledges, Russ Weston and members is bound to be a tightly organized push to do even of his staff from Advertising and Sales Promotion Everybody had something to gain from the diversified talks that held the attention of the audience. Speakers were many and varied Jack Pruitt, domestic sales manager, points the way ahead as he delivers the keynote address. His forward-looking gesture certainly symbolized the general attitude at the Sales conference. gave the group a glimpse of that department's backing and plans for the remainder of 1956. Part of that plan is the continuation of the popular Road Bird series in national magazines. Already one of our most successful advertising campaigns, it's sure to hold the public eye and to perform both a customer and a public service. Numerous other departmental representatives spoke about their tie-in plans and allegiances. Matt Taylor, manager of Sales Operations, led off the series and was followed by Van Fleck representing Safety; Gerald Forsdick, Order and Shipping; Merritt Collins and Chris Bruhl, Marketing Analysis; Bill Ludt, Gaso line Testing; Julian Frey, Bayard Browne and Ed Mc Donald, Export Sales; Dan Guy, Technical Services; Wayne Warren, Refinery Technology; and Fred Nay lor, Personnel Development. . On the second day, the list of speakers included Bynum Turner, executive vice president; Joe Costello, vice president. Planning and Coordination; John Schaefer, vice president, Manufacturing; Wally Arm strong, assistant general manager of Manufacturing; Jim Boudreau, director of Public Relations; George Kirby, vice president, Research and Engineering; Dick Scales, general manager, Research and Engineering, Detroit and San Bernardino; Frank Sergeys, manager, Research and Engineering, Baton Rouge; Curt Holton, director of Industrial Relations; Fred Wame, gen eral counsel; and Bill Perdue, vice president and treasurer. Mr. Shea personally brought the meeting to a close. In addition to the talks given by various depart ment heads, a number of exhibits showing the work of each department were displayed. 6 ETC 10813 The broad outline of the depart ment's many activities was given bv Wallv Armstrong, assistant general manager, Manufacturing. John Schaefer, vice president in charge of Manufacturing, intro duced Wally Armstrong and spoke briefly on departmental affairs. General Counsel Fred Warne ad dressed the large gathering and spoke particularly on the subject of sales contracts and their forms. Sales achievements in 1955 and plans and prospects for 1956 high lighted the talk of Mac Murdock, ' ice president in charge of Sales. Mr. Shea bestowed warm praise upon the Sales force in his speech and told the conference that the future had never looked brighter. : e I I ! Metallic lead, and how Ethyl ob tains it, was a major subject in the address of Joe Costello, vice presi dent, Planning and Coordination. Curt Holton, director of Industrial Relations, described his depart ment's activities and pointed ouj how they integrate with others. Developments on the automotive front was the talk by Dick Scales, general manager. Research Lab oratories, Detroit and San Berdu. The highly relevant matter of fi nancing our Company's operations was briefly discussed by Bill Per due, vice president and treasurer. ETC 10814 People came from everywhere The continual attendance of By Turner, executive vice president, stressed the great interest with which the managerial staff regarded this conference filled with reviews of the past year and plans for the new one. Sessions were not only well attended, but as these receptive expressions testify, virtually every word of the speeches was absorbed. Here are Eastern Regioners Bill Deuber, left, Bob Thurston, Hal Landis. The display in the Public Relations suite forms the background for this picture of Ed Michael, left, Bob Hogan and Don Forsdick, all of Eastern Re gion. Departmental displays were well inspected. ETC 10815 Progress on the new plant being constructed in Samia, Canada, is related by Alan Tully, right, presi dent of Ethyl Corporation of Canada, Ltd. Listen ing is Lou Shank, manager of the Suggestion System. An old friendship is renewed by Don Chapman, left, of Eastern Region and Harry Manning of Western Region. Don works out of the New York district office, but was formerly in the Western Region. The fast pace of the conference necessitated a little relaxation occasionally. Here Dougal Jeppe, Jr., left, of Central Region and Bud Harris and Bob Landis, both of Southern Region, enjoy a social hour. Taking notes in the audience is Redg Bushel!, left, manager of the New York district office, with Jim Connor of Eastern Region. For new men like Jim, the conference was a warehouse of information. Busily discussing arrangements for the conference are Wally Distler, left, assistant to the manager of Sales Operations, New York office, and Ham Greenup, operations manager in Central Region. ETC 10816 ( Three Central Region men get together and exchange notes during the week-long conference. Deane Birkes, left, and Nick Carter, center, both work out of the Dayton district office. Stuart Forbes, right, is manager of Central Region. Jim Boudreau, director of Pub lic Relations, reviewed his de partment's activities and proj ects and pointed out how they help support the Sales' efforts. A smile brightens San Wagner's face as he meets old friends in the Sales force. San, former vice president in charge of Sales, has retired to California. Marshall Sittig, technical writer in the Advertising department, digested a number of pieces of information that should prove helpful in advertising affairs. Jc w as hi foi ETC 10817 w v m m m v '" U tothw >m * nvmv The Kansas City district office is where Charlie Welch hails from. Being in the heart of the Central Region, he does a lot of work in the agricultural field. R&E operations were briefly dis cussed by George Kirby, vicepresident, Research and Engi neering. R&E department was well-represented at conference. Western Region's John Pauli had a long trip to and from Chi cago, but the stimulating talk and presentations warranted it. John's work is in Washington. John Fischer of Central Region was no doubt looking as happy as he is here when Mr. Shea so highly complimented the Sales force. Toledo, Ohio is home* One of the speakers, Ed Mc Donald of Foreign Sales, New York office, explained foreign sales operations and presented comic cartoon slides on TEL. Ollie Jones, associate director, Purchasing and Traffic, Baton Rouge plant, attended meet ing of regional operations man agers on tank car operations. ETC 10818 Special features kept things lively Large presentation board was used by Mac McCulloch in his talk for Advertising and Sales Promotion. At one of the sessions, Mr. Shea presented 10-year award to Bynum Turner, executive vice president. ETC 10819 ETC 10820 eggh Eastertime is the time for eggs, and, though you may have plenty of recipes for preparing the nourishing ovals, here's one we'll venture is new. A twist on decorating eggs, these eggheads were made for the children in Bellevue Hospital, where women of the New York chapter of Desk and Derrick fre quently appear bearing gifts for the youngsters.. Mollie Houghton, receptionist in the New York office started the project and when we took a few of them over to be photographed our eager artists couldn't resist making a few eggheads, too. More and more people who saw the comic faces had ideas for others. A member of Bulletin Board's staff even furnished party guests with hardboiled eggs, colored pencils and lengths of yarn, and their efforts were added to the collection to be delivered to Bellevue. Cathy Fay, a nawcomar to Eth^l and secretary to Mae McCulloch of the Advertising Department, poses with egghoed of a circus clown. ETC 10821 On the threshold of Easter, the children of Bellevue Hospital will receive these and other unusual and humorous eggheads from the New York chapter of Desk and Derrick Jessie Halton, chairman of the social committee of the New York chapter, and Ema Harris, receptionist at 100 Park, are among the 12 women who will visit the children's ward to distribute the eggheads. In addition, they'll make gifts of balloons and rubber balls and serve refreshments. Eggheads are made primarily of imagination, and that's sparked largely by the shape of the egg. You begin by staring at it long and hard, and suddenly you see it clearly as the face you want to make, though it doesn't always turn out that way. Mistakes, how ever, are edible. Colored paper proves a helpful aid in making hats such as the one worn by the witch, the Chinese coolie, the haughty king, the glamor girl, the clown, the Indian, and the man in the top hat. For hair, there's cotton, steel wool and yarn. Bits of cloth make kerchiefs and bandanas, and sequins, tinfoil and small shells can be cut to make eyes, ears, nose and mouth. You'll have ideas of your own, of course, and you'll discover all sorts of bits and pieces to employ. Rubber cement is perhaps the easiest and cleanest adhesive to use since the surplus can be rubbed off the egg without leaving marks. Stands for eggheads are merely slips of white paper folded in a circle and stapled together. They, too, may be decorated with ties and collars. Judging from the adult response, there's no doubt in our minds that eggheads will please and delight the young on Easter morning, and we recommend a few faceless eggs for them to draw upon. Incidentally, that's Carmen with a rose in her mouth second from the left in the bottom row. J t ETC 10822 When Frank Elliott, chief automotive engineer in Los Angeles, recently retired, colleague Harry Manning with the aid of Marv Russell prepared a sendoff that rivaled television. Using the format of a highly-rated video show, they presented "The Life and Times of Frank Elliott," complete with slides, music and sound. In their presentation, they revealed, primarily, Frank's racing blood in a number of old photographs from his scrapbook. Because of Frank's popularity on the West Coast, parties were held in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. They were industry-wide and many of our customers attended to say farewell to a man they all admired. In addition, there were a number of automotive editors, race car drivers, engine builders and fleet operators--all of whom knew Frank during his long and colorful career. Frank was bom in the Ozarks--and there were pictures to prove it, accompanied by hill billy music. The racing bug bit him shortly after he left home and settled on the West Coast. He had been reading about Barney Oldfield and began collecting parts to At farewell party, David Day (right), vica president in charge at manu facturing, Richfield Oil Corporation, presents Frank with a pistol that onea belonged to famous auto raeer Frank Lockhart. Note Miller racing angina. build a racing car with a friend. In 1914, he entered red letter day. Subsequently, Frank finished in the his first race at Stockton, Calif., where he finished pay four times out of six at the Indianapolis Speed in the money. Unsatisfied by the original car, Frank way and won the Culver City Speed Classic in 1925, picked up a four cylinder Mercer formerly owned by setting a new world's record and copping the $10,000 the great Ralph de Palma, and in it he became well Grand Prize. known to racing fans. In 1916, his skill in handling Frank joined Ethyl in 1926, when it was Ethyl fast cars won him a place as relief driver in Indian Gasoline Corporation, and gave up racing the follow apolis and the big time. ing year, after another paying finish at Indianapolis. After serving in World War 1, Frank returned to With Ethyl, Frank's racing knowledge stood him in racing and broke two 50-mile world's records in one good stead over 30 mutually good years. Frank, who has many hobbies to anjoy at his leisure, is shown at home in Seattle, Wash. At left, he is seen studying waterways of the northwest and in his base ment workshop, where he spends many pleasant hours. His dog and hts television sat also help to make his days all happy days . . . the sincere wish of his nu merous West Coast associates. Frank Elliott, who recently retired from Ethyl, was a former driver of racing cars, a hobby that helped him greatly on his job with the Company. In top picture on the opposite page, Frank is shown on the track cl Altoona, Fa. in his Millar Special in 1926. At left on same page, he is shown (in white eoverells) standing beside the famous Barney Oldfield (seated). In the remaining picture, Frank overhauls at Indianapolis. ETC 10824 MILESTONES 20 years William Trelease Sales, Eastern Region IO years Theodore J. Carron Research, Detroit Ruth E. Hall Finance, New York Mitchell Kapron Research, Detroit Ernest J. Lange Finance, New York Frank J. McNally Finance, New York Stella G. Shaeer Research, Detroit Thom Yates Public Relations, New York 5 years Calvin H. Cook Research, Detroit Richard J. Teeley, Jr. Research, Detroit A. Joel Warren Research, Detroit Edward P. Watson Sales, Western Region Robert L. Young Research, Detroit ETc io825 Roy W. August is a dynamo meter operator at the Detroit Labs. A native of Detroit, he is married and has a son and daughter. He played football and boxed at college. Dorothy J. O'Brien, known as "Dotty" to her friends, is a steno-clerk at the Detroit Labs. She attended Fenn College in Cleveland, Ohio, and her hobby is horticulture. Jerjne E. Peterson is a mi crofilm clerk at the Detroit Labs. Nicknamed "Jeri", she is a native Detroiter. After attending high school, she was employed as a secretary. Melvin M. Reeves is in the Research department at the Detroit Labs. He's married and has two children. Bom in Stratton, Miss., he's a Navy veteran and enjoys hunting. Patrick F. Traynor has become a dynamometer operator at the Detroit Labs. A resident of Michigan most of his life, he has seen service with both the Navy and the Army. George H. Unzelman, en gineer at the Detroit Labs, is married and has three children. He served in the Merchant Marine, is a graduate of Uni versity of Washington. James H. Connor has joined Eastern Region as a field rep resentative. Married, he lives in Wallingford, Conn., grad uated from Georgetown Uni versity and was a Marine. Catherine M. Weaver, a former Government worker, is a secretary in the Tulsa dis trict office. Bom in Whitehall, N. Y., she attended Strayer Business College. Herbert R. Witty, field rep resentative, Southern Region, is a native Louisianian and a graduate of Louisiana State. He's married, is a Navy vet eran and likes outdoor sports. etc 10826 19 It is obvious that Robert Carse, whose Great Circle has just been issued by Scribners, knows the sea and the men who can't resist it. Though no Moby Dick, his novel about a whaling expedition in 1840 is commanding stuff for armchair seafarers, and it travels full sail from Salem around the Horn to an idyllic island in the South Pacific. Of course, there's a girl back home, and she eventually has her say. The story of the automotive industry is told bv Merrill Denison in The Power To Go (Doubledav), and it's right up our alley. Anyone who ever owned or drove a car should enjoy all this horsepower, complete with pictures of then and now. There's barely a fact missing and certainly quite a few you may not have known. Statistics are amply on hand, too. That devastating force, Sherman's army, is at it again in Doubleday's Jubilee by John Brick, a novel that neatly combines the best spices of historical fiction. There's war at its maddest and love without lust and what seemed to us a particularly accurate account of it all. Mr. Brick writes simply and persuasively and we went right along to Atlanta with his man, war-wracked Jeff Bames. Random House, in time to get the tourist trade, has revised David Dodge's The Poor Man's Guide to Europe, which is as full of useful information on traveling abroad as the Louvre is of art. It's a real monev-stretcher as well as a program of customs and habits to help you en route. If you're going to Europe, by all means take the course. Ilka Chase, who deals a marked deck when it comes to sophisti cation, is up to her old tricks in Doubleday's The Island Play ers, and she's just as sparkling and witty as ever. This time she lands a movie couple and their offspring on a quiet Caribbean island, where ex-husbands seem to abound all over the place. It's as mixed up as a salad, but it's twice as much fun. Man's always been inventive, and Jerome S. Meyer is out to prove it in an informative and simple collection of articles labeled World Book of Great Inventions (World). He sold us for sure, and we enjoyed learning in the bargain. From primitive man up, we've done a lot for ourselves and Mr. Meyer has overlooked little of it in his readable compilation. Bennett Cerf, whose humor is always on the line, has collected over 700 jokes and anecdotes in Random House's inexpensive Vest Pocket Book of Jokes, a three by five and a half inch volume that fits both the pocket and the pocketbook for which it was intended. Its jokes also fit every occasion and are neatly catalogued by subject. We found it enormously diverting and considered toting it to parties to liven up the proceedings. Vacation, alas, has its drawbacks--at least, so it seems in two new mystery books. In Random House's Square in the Middle by William Campbell Cault the trouble all starts when businessman Jim Gulliver sends his wife and children on a vacation and finds himself up to his neck in murder. To clear himself of the rap and win back his spouse he has to do some ETC 10827 first-class sleuthing and a bit of fancy ducking. As an amateur Dick Tracv he does quite well for himself and quite well by the reader, too. When New York County's Assistant District Attomev Jeremiah X. Gibson (he's Gibbv to his friends) and his fishing com panion, Mac, steal away to land a few big ones in Hampton Stone's The Strangler Who Couldn't Let Go (Simon and Schuster) they find themselves on the wrong end of the hook, with the local law on the other. Three murders and a fourth attempt keep things moving like Nashua. Withered Murder bv A. and P. Shaffer comes from Macmil lan and it's good old chiller-diller whodunit, complete with raging storm and bloody murder in Gothic surroundings. While the wind howls and the lights go out, Mr. Fathom--a character both physically and mentally immense--puffs his Cuban cigars, behaves somewhat eccentrically and gets to the bottom of all. If vou've any interest at all in medicine, you'll be both inspired and enlightened by World's Magic, Myth and Medicine by D. T. Atkinson, M.D., etc. It all goes back to the start of things and there are some fascinating bits about early medical doings in Greece and Rome. Our particular favorite of 34 chapters had to do with the beginning of psychiatry in the 16th century. We liked, too, the business about witchery and magic and such. Clarence Budington Kelland, long a popular favorite, is busy with cloak and dagger in his new novel. Death Keeps a Secret (Harper). This time murder strikes as a result of a top-secret rocket, with assorted agents of assorted nations involved in the bloody piav. Espionage is always good for a merry chase, and Mr. Kelland's hand is still skillful at it. If you're inclined toward historical fiction, certainly you remem ber Garland Roark's Wake of the Red Witch and Fair Wind to Java. Well, Mr. Roark's on the high seas again for Doubleday in The Outlawed Banner, "a novel of ships lost and women won," which just about describes it. This one, too, takes place during the Civil War, which seems to be enjoying a great revival in recent fiction. Two friends, young naval lieutenants, side North and South and become the hunter and the hunted. Dorothy Salisbury Davis writes of the Irish in New York City a century ago in Scribner's Men of No Property, a big novel covering 15 years in the lives of its five major characters, who get together one way or another on their journey from the Emerald Isle. The wheel of fortune spins and spins; life's good; life's bad. The Civil War, however, comes along as a catalyst and the immigrants take root. North Dakota is the setting of Holger Cahill's big novel. The Shadow of My Hand (Harcourt, Brace), and the feeling of the wideness of the prairie is wonderfully vivid. There's plenty of romantic conflict and some first-rate character de lineation. Good Americana. If you're one of those people who frequently gets tied up in knots, you will profit from Simon and Schuster's For People Under Pressure by David H. Fink, M.D. Dr. Fink's ap proach is psychiatric and includes a number of interesting case histories. For those who have high literary standards. World has col lected The Best Short Stories of Theodore Drbiser, brief fiction at its provocative and perceptive best. The late author's stories are still among our finest. Speedv thoroughbreds will gallop around your screen when the afternoon races are telecast from Gulf Stream Park, Fla., on March 17. Also from Florida, on March 18, are the antics of SUPER Circus, which raises its tent in the Orange Bowl stadium. A more somber note is struck on the same day with Out of Darkness, a documentary on mental patients, narrated by Orson Welles. That perennial chuckle-getter. Taming of the Shrew, appears over Maurice Evans Presents on the 18th, starring Mr. Evans and Lilli Palmer. With Helen Hayes as narrator, the musical review Springtime, U.S.A., on the Voice of Firestone March 19, should warm our winter hearts. Thrilling viewers and moviedom alike, those highly coveted little gold figures called Oscars will be pre sented on the night of March 21. Heaven Will Protect the Working Cirl is the evening's gratifying fare on Max Liebman Presents on the 25th, and features the acting talents of Bert Lahr, Nancy Walker and Janet Blair. Clipped mustaches will be seen and clipped accents heard when a new series of British movies begins on March 20. Spring fashions will interest the video cameras and you during New York City's Easter Parade on April 1; and on the same day Dave Garroway's Wide, Wide World will devote itself to the Easter scene. One of Broadway's favorites, Katherine Cornell, stars in The Barretts of Wimpole Street over Pro ducers' Showcase on April 2. The world premiere perform ance of Norman Dello Joio's opera. The Trial at Rouen, is a stellar attraction on the afternoon of April 8. With the addition of three new songs to Cole Porter's original score (I Get a Kick Out Of You, You're the Top, AM Through the Night, It's De-Lovely, Anything Goes, and Blow, Gabriel, Blow), Paramount's new version of Anything Goes is as lively and timeful a musical as any you're ever likely to see. On hand to see that things don't slow down are Bing Crosby, Jeanmaire, Donald O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor, a foursome quite at home with rhythm. With all that talent around, the plot really couldn't matter less. There's a big (it's in CinemaScope) and lush musical on its way from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, too--Meet Me in Las Vegas, starring Dan Dailey and Cyd Charisse with guest stars Lena Home, Frankie Laine, Jerry Colonna and others. All that money and Miss Charisse look dazzling in color, and every body concerned is as active as Las Vegas itself. ETC 10828 21 ANNOUNCEMENT "Our benefit plans, as you may know, rank among the very best in American industry. As good as thev are, we are constantly study ing them in an effort to make them better." Thus began a letter from Mr. Shea, in which he announced sev eral improvements in our benefit plans offered to all regular em ployees, effective March 1, 1956. The changes were in both the Re tirement Income Plan and the Hospitalization and Surgical Bene fit Program. In his letter, Mr. Shea explained in detail the nature of the improvements. Basically, the change in the Re tirement Income Plan is a new feature that "will provide a sup plementary retirement allowance for qualified male employees who retire as early as age 60 instead of the required 65. Though the Com pany's contribution formula to the Hospitalization and Surgical Bene fit Program remains the same, under the change offered as of March 1, the Company's maximum monthly contribution will be in creased from $3.50 to $4.00 a month. Detroit Walter and Martha Bradley--a son, Stephen Keith, bom on February 9. Walter is an engineer in Administration and Services. Wayne and Marie WARREN-a daugh ter, Margaret, born on January 11. Wayne is director of refinery technology. Charles and Rosalie WoLF-a son, Thomas Patrick, bom on February 11. Chuck is a project engineer in refinery technology. A number of Ethvl people have appeared recently in other publications. A picture of Claude J. Arceneaux and R. M. Boudreaux, both of Chemical Develop ment, Baton Rouge plant, appeared on the cover of the Feburary 6 issue of Chemical & Engineering News. The magazine featured an article entitled, "Movies Present Technical Papers," which describes Claude's presentation at the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Boudreaux assisted Arceneaux in preparing the films for presentation. Dan Read, Safety, Baton Rouge, was on the cover of T. V. Times. "Uncle" Dan, who has been active in Boy Scout work since 1925, also participated in the Observance of Boy Scout Week. In an article entitled "Sugar on Snow," in the Buick Magazine featuring Univer sity of Vermont students, a picture of Joe Costello's son, Joey, appeared. Joe is vice president in charge of Planning and Coordination. In a booklet entitled "Oil Serves Amer ica," a presentation by Sun Oil, pictures of Ed Michael and his sons are shown. Ed is an account representative in East ern Region. Pictures were taken for and appeared in Bulletin Board. Curt Holton, director of Industrial Re lations, recently announced that the turnover in personnel during 1955 for the entire Company was only 3.9 per cent, lowest since Ethyl has been keep ing a record. Especially outstanding was the record of the Manufacturing depart ment wage-roll group, with a total turn over of only 2.0 per cent. Dr. Charles F. Kettering, Director of Ethyl, was the surprise guest and speaker at the annual Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce banquet, held recently. Four Baton Rouge employees recently attended the Winter Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engin eers, which was held in New York. They were: J. N. Fogg, Power; E. H. COXE, Power; Ralph Holloway, Technical Services and Ernest V. Nahr, Gen eral Engineering. Norm Fogg serves as chairman of the Chemical Processes Sub-Committee. The Sixth Annual Conference of the Louisiana Chapter of the American So ciety of Training Directors was held on March 2 and 3 at the Heidelberg Hotel. Ray Metternich, Training, Baton Rouge, is president of the local chapter, which sponsored the conference. Sixty employees at the Baton Rouge plant recently received certificates of appreciation in recognition of outstand ing service to the March of Dimes. The certificates were presented on February 16 by Jules Roux, East Baton Rouge Parish March of Dimes chairman. r~: . : SUCCESSFUL | SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit, New York, San Bernardino, the Sales department and Regional offices: Detroit: Edward J. Carson, $10.00 (Eaves trough on "J" building to direct roof runoff); Henry De Vries and W. H. Connolly, $15.00 (Device to prevent extension planks from creeping off the supporting ladders); Russel A. Fargo, $15.00 (Eliminate projecting hose clamps at eve wash fountain tips); William McCracken, $10.00 (Pro vide Leco mercury sweepers for picking up spilled mercury); John Marinelli, $15.00 (Reduce possibility of finding that distilled water for analytical pur poses has been contaminated by marking jugs "For Distilled Water Only''); Gil bert Matthews, $10.00 (Improve safety of steps at west entrance to "C" wing boiler room tunnel): Harold D. Orlofe, $10.00 (Store large bottles con taining strong acids in racks in DAN glassware washroom. Conveniently lo- 22 ETC 10829 eating bulk supplies will reduce need for large bottles in individual labora tories promote use of small quantities). New York: Lillian Campbell, $65.00 (Unattended TWX station for all re gional offices in other time zones, as well as New York Office); Margaret Furman, $25.00 (Subscribe to "Today's Secretary" for secretarial personnel); Clementine Parchen, $10.00 (Move telephone in 17th Floor conference room to Room 1709). Sales Department and Regional Offices: L. R. Fleck. Certificate (Blind ammonia flange on new tank car dome design be sealed in tightly closed posi tion); D. Williams and W. H. Strange, $10.00 (Card to point up services rendered by 39th Street audi torium in regard to tune-up of customer company cars). San Bernardino: Jack H. Webster, $20.00 (Improved tie-down for front wheels of vehicles in all weather rooms at San Bernardino). New York Ann Patricia Quinn was married to Harry McGraugh in the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral on March 3. The couple will reside in Manhattan. Len Dowty, editor of the Bulletin Board, ushered at the wedding. Harry is in the Public Relations department. Virginia Atamian was married to Harold Betnay at the First Presby terian Church, Englewood, N. J. on February 18. The couple will reside in Saddlebrook, N. J. At a party given by her co-workers, Virginia was pre sented with a clock-radio and a gift certificate. She is in Purchasing. Detroit Elaine E. Meeks was married to John R. Tindall at Precious Blood Church, Detroit, on January 14. Two girls from the Labs were attendants at the wedding --Joanne Janusch was maid of honor and Gladys Stef fan, bride's maid. The couple honeymooned at Boyne Mountain, Michigan and now are living in Royal Oaks. Elaine is a research chemist. John B. Furr, Industrial Relations, Baton Rouge plant, was one of the fea tured speakers at the twelfth annual Louisiana Personnel Management Con ference on February 24 at Louisiana State University. John spoke on "Train ing and Automation." Wayne Warren will present "Octane Improvement Economics" before the Western Petroleum Refiners Association in San Antonio on March 19. The paper was jointly authored by Wayne and R. G Kersten, both of the Detroit Labs. A paper entitled "Electrical Conductivity of Fused Sodium Chloride-Calcium Chloride Mixtures," written by Joseph B. Story and John T. Clarke, both of the Baton Rouge plant, was presented at a meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metalluigical Engineers, held in New York City during February. Maxwell A. Lea, Power, Baton Rouge, was one of the speakers at the Fifth Annual Water Symposium recently held at L.S.U. He presented a paper entitled "Ethyl Corporation's Baton Rouge Plant Water System." Also attending from the plant were Homer Tanner, Tech. Ser vices, and Don Everson, TEL Oper. At a recent meeting of the Atlanta Chap ter of the Desk and Derrick Club, S. J. Warner, Atlanta District Manager, as "Man Of The Month," gave a brief resume of the development of Ethyl and described the research of Charles Ket tering of CM in finding an antiknock compound for gasolines. Tom Hanlon assisted by Hal Landis, both field rep resentatives in the Eastern Region, pre sented the Product Sales Clinic demon strating with a working model the four cycles of a modem automobile engineintake, compression, power, and exhaust. They showed the effects of regular and premium gasolines on engine perform ance, particularly knocking, temperature change, and power. Two Baton Rouge chemists have recently been elected to offices in the Baton Rouge Section of the American Chemical Soci ety. Frank Conrad is secretary and F. C. Holmes, councilor. A two-week training course in "Linear Programming" was recently given to members of the Electronic Applications Croup at the Baton Rouge plant. Ber nard Sobsl, R&E Adm., was the in structor for the course. I. R. Schneider, Mfg, Adm., Baton Rouge plant, was elected president of the Baton Rouge Civic Symphony Asso ciation at the recent annual meeting. S. M. Blitzer, R&E Lab., and R. E. Bukrough, Finance, were elected to th Board of Directors. Anne Mansfield was recently elected corresponding secretary to the Detroit Chapter of Desk & Derrick. Bernardine Burdick was appointed editor of the club's local publication, "Spindletop." Both Anne and Bemie are secretaries at the Detroit Laboratories. ETC 10830 23 Chemists from the Detroit Labs attended the 48th annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which was held in Detroit earlier this winter. Ted Carron (center, above) served as chairman of the Technical Program committee. Left, above, is Ed Garelis and in the far right foreground is George Thomson. Leon Chrzan was chairman of the Public Relations committee and O. G. Gilbert was a member of the Finance committee. Leon's wife, Irene, (left in the above picture) was secretary of the Ladies committee. At center is Ted Carron's wife, Joanne, who served in the capacity of chairman of the Ladies Hospitality committee. ETC 10831 API HONORS WARNER The American Petroleum Institute recently be stowed its Silver Award on Jack Warner, manager of the Atlanta District office, Eastern Region. Jack was cited for his work as Press-Radio-TV chairman of the Southeastern District of the Oil Industry Inform ation Committee. Taking part in the presentation ceremony are D. M. Hills (left), division manager of Sinclair Refining Company, and J. S. Morrison (right), division manager, American Oil Company. Jack is shown holding the certificate he was awarded for his active participation in helping the OIIC bring the public its informative messages. CREATIVE THINKING FOR ARMY Charlie Clark of our Industrial Relations depart ment has presented his Creative Thinking course throughout the country, and now has added the mili tary to the ranks of those interested in such a program. Earlier this winter Charlie (shown below) lectured at the Adjutant General's School, Fort Benjamin Harri son, Indianapolis, Ind. Besides the American officers and civilians in his audience, there were officers from Luxemburg, Formosa, Indonesia, Turkey, the Philip pines and Japan, all students at the school. Col. E. W. Bosgieter, commandant, has indicated that a course in Creative Thinking is soon to be added. S ETC 10832 The school program of the Oil Industry Information Committee, New York-New Jersey district, was discussed by Dick Murphy, manager of Eastern Region, at the OIIC Clinic held in New York City this winter. Dick, the middle man in the above picture, is chairman of the OIIC's school program and was recently appointed to the district's operating commit tee. The honored guest at the two-day Clinic, H. S. M. Burns, president of Shell Oil Company, is shown congratulating Dick's assistant in the school program, Bob Cokinda (right) of Shell Oil. Dick coordinates the work of supplying schools with material on oil. ETHYL MAN ON TV An estimated 200,000 people watched a television presentation on the natural gas issue in January and saw Don Hombeck (at flannel board) of Central Region serving as master of ceremonies. Don gave a speech with the help of an Ethyl-prepared flannel board and directed a panel discussion in which views favoring the dropping of federal controls of natural gas were aired. The 30-minute program was presented by the Natural Gas and Oil Resources Committee over a Minneapolis television station. Panelists included a housewife, a businessman, an educator, an oil man and a TV announcer. Phone calls attested success. PARTY FOR BRIERLEY Reminiscing and well-wishing were the order of the day at a farewell party given last January by members of the Tax Division, Finance department, for fellow employee Jim Brierley. Jim, transferred to the Baton Rouge plant, is shown in the picture below about to slice the cake provided for the occasion. Gathered around him, left to right, are Jim Donohue, Frank McNally, Bob Bums, Bruce Douglass and Paul Cahill. The two youngsters with faces lit up in expectation of cake and ice cream are Frank McNally's children, Paula and Jud. Setting for the farewell fes tivities was the Frank McNally home. SCOUTS TOUR LABS ETC 10833 The faces of these Boy Scouts record their curiosity and amazement when confronted with a big dy namometer panel during a recent tour of the Detroit Research Laboratories. Explaining an aspect of the intricate apparatus is Tony Krempa of Maintenance. Tony is one of a number of employees at the Labs who give some of their time to the interests of scout ing, and who in return receive the satisfaction of help ing youngsters grow into able, responsible citizens. During their tour of the Labs, these boys developed a better understanding of the vital role played by research operations in the nation's business concerns. ETC 10836 ETHYL Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited In This Issue Page Spring Has Wheels..................... 2 Up to Date..................................... 4 A Company Pays Its Taxes........ 6 Lost Meal....................................... 10 You Are A Public Relations Man 12 Ethyl Makes A Movie.................. 14 Milestones ..................................... 16 Ethyl Welcomes........................... 17 For Your Entertainment.............. 18 Personals ....................................... 20 People and Places........................ 22 Leonhard Dowty .................................... Editor Jean Nicol........................... Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors--Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas; Ann Selfridge; Denver: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Margaret Graham, Ann Mansfield, Les Motson, Andy Pallay, Kathleen Raley, Ross Rife, Adele Rozek, Karl Schmid; photographer: Eric Owen; Houston: H. E. Harris, Guy Keller, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phillips; New York: Gerry Harms, Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Etna Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Mellob, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Locke; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; photographer: Fred Green; Sast Francisco: Wil Hancock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Hen derson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Macdonald. ON OUR COVER: Miriam di Marco, one of the three busy secretaries in the Tax Di vision, squeezes through a doorway with an awkward stack of records during one of the frequent tax peaks. Unlike filing returns of individuals, paying company taxes is a perpetual job that keeps a number of people on their toes. The story of what goes on in the Tax Division appears on page 6. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in- U.S.A. wj<jtea*A jif Mi?0 tz- y/. sX', * y; ''t'':if ! s \\ :,zi' *5^ iJ '%- V, w 4 JS V' ^ !r'g':ig3&r&' ....... -y .y ;;%;v: />/-f >>."\.' SPRING H AS .WH EELS *f. -r*y?5^*vi: ' - Once upon a time -the goddess of spring--folegend^ has it--spent her salad days frolicking barefoot - around^in the strictest sense of the splendid sport for lire hearty and by no in the woodlands, as cool asacucumber in her garb means do we advocate sitting spring oot To the con- of gauze and as fast at the mile as Roger Bannister, t. trary, webelieve the seasons, made for motion--but (St Only rarely, we are fold, did die pause in her pursuiE r^ ours. We believe the goddess slipped up when she to cup her hands and sipftomasylvan spring. Most parked her chariot and took to the woods on foot of the time, however, she raced about taking foe . ; . She had wheels,, all right, but foe left them idle-- hurdles high and running foe rfoy soLp'^^i^i^^land that's expensive." :'-y Our admiration for foe maid's agility tf 'ripthmg^B; Nowadays, spring rolls over foe highways. She takes short of tremendous, but her choice of pastimes per^||^'; # easy end foe sees more of everything around her. plezes us. Even for someone with such excellent coii-^^SJ'ipm foe windows ofcomfortable ears, foe view is un- nections continual footwork {barefoot, mmd yodl|^||fi ^furpassed as we ride along smack in the middle of the seems to us somewhat strenuoiiis. Of course, since most'a<hangihg season. 3ihd oneofthe nicest things about of our friends have feet of clay, we're looking at ft>1} it is that foe more we drive the cheaper it gets by from the mortal point of view, a bit dim perhaps but essentially very practical i;s.f VA^Ti -A ;>: .j.rSJff'---ijW .v-v the mile,; When you're in your car there's no question about it--spring has wheels. - c1 --v ..; ' r ' ": : ' > . .* , -' ;V 'V v- ETC 10838 .i.iA -~C. . : .. . \?V7 'Mr-- Putting hit back into it, Merlyn Beane, fual technician, fastens a fitting on a pipa that leads to an underground blending and storage tank. Helping out is Was Price, supervisor in charge of fuel blending handling. This plant for fleet fuel blending went into operation last November. Safety precautions are always an important part of the job at the Oetroit Labs. Fuel technicians working with TEL drums in the fuel blending plant wear oxygen masks as protection against lead fumes. TEL is mixed with the fuel in six underground tanks, eaeh with a capacity of 10.000 gallons. Dave Bartleson, left, supervisor in the lubricant evaluation laboratory, and Jim O'Neill, chemical technician, keep track of an apparatus that measures thermal and oxidative stability of synthetic oils used in jet planes. The "jet age" finds research at the Labs very much up to date. George Kosty, glass blower at the Labs, crouches atop the new three-ton glass annealing furnace and prepares it for operation. With the aid of this metal giant, and other advanced facilities. George will be able to make just about every type of glassware needed in laboratory activities. 10839 etc Everything that is new is not necessarily an improve ment on everything that is old, as the elder gener ation often goes out of its way to tell us. A new tie mav or may not improve a man's tie collection and a new dress may be in vogue but not in good taste. It's sometimes difficult to judge the value of a new article or product or method, for the simple reason that there hasn't been time enough to compare it with whatever preceded it. Here at Ethyl, though, we go out of our way--like the elder generation--to prove that our new enterprises are sound and productive and efficient. We're pretty cautious about it; we lend a certain quality of age to anything that's new by testing and developing it thoroughly before it is actually put into operation or put on the market. At Ethyl we make certain, so to speak, that our ties go well with our personality. Expansion is our business, as it is every healthy corporation's. Expanding present facilities and estab lishing new ones is an integral part of operations. Pictured here are some of the new facilities at the Labs which will benefit all of us by making Ethyl a stronger, sounder and more productive company. For instance, the research and product development potential of the chemical lab in the new wing of the Detroit Labs is obvious. It will mean better service to our customers and a continued enthusiasm in the perfecting of our products. The big glass annealing furnace pictured on these pages will help supply the Labs with the glassware required in everyday oper ations, and the new fuel blending plant, also shown, is doing needed work and turning out needed products in connection with fleet fuel blending. Every bit as vital to our progress as the new facil ities themselves are the chemists, technicians and other employees who operate them. Without their new ideas, redoubled efforts and the general pioneer ing attitudes they embody, our company wouldn't be able to keep up to date in product development and expansion. Basic combustion research ii tho work being performed in this lab in tha new wing. Haro Adaia Koiikowtki, left, a chemist, inserts a sample into an X-ray diffraction instrument as Frances Lamb, research associate, looks on. This costly new instrument reflects the progressive spirit at Labs* No, this isn't kiln for making ceramics. It is a mufflar furnaca on# of tha hundreds of work horsas at tha Labs--and it haat treats samples of combustion chambar depositf. Wearing heavy gloves as protection against haat, Adaia Koxikowski arranges a sampla with a pair of tongs. Kathryn Handran, lab technician, examines the graph of a compound being X-rayed. Tha graph records the characteristic patterns of various com pounds being tested. Expanded facilities and more and better equipment is the Detroit Labs' ready answer to the constant challenge of tomorrow. You can't sea tha flame on tha Bunsen burner, but it was there when tha picture was taken and whan Gladys Steffen, chemist, formed a capillary tube with melted glass. This, the physical measurements lab, is another beehive of research activities cantered in tha new wing of Laboratories. ETC 10840 '' iV.ytf On the 19th floor at 100 Park Avenue, it's always April-- or so it seems to the men and women who work in Ethyl's Tax Division I ? April, in addition to being the month of Easter, April Fool and springtime showers, is also the month in which the government taps us on the shoul der and reminds us to pay up for the privilege of liv ing and working in America--a small enough price for all the good things that are uniquely ours in this very special country. Nonetheless, the usual sweat and strain of filling out and filing tax returns has beaten down many a good man with pen in hand and hand in pocket. Aspirin sales tend to take an upward curve, and blood pressures are inclined to push the mercury consider ably higher on the doctor's gauge. In our Tax Division, however, a group of usually calm, cool and collected professionals do the immense job of paying the Company's taxes with sure skill and accustomed ease. Headed by Frank McNally, tax counsel, the division includes tax accountants Bruce Douglass, Jim Donohue and Mike Gilbert; tax lawyers Bob Burns and Paul Cahill; and secretaries Miriam di Marco, Ann Zallio and Muriel Homer. Paying a company's taxes is, as you might well im agine, a big job, and it takes considerable effort. Add ing and computing keeps both office machines and office brains busy, and books three to five inches thick are crammed with references. The forms are numer ous, long and detailed, and they come in far heftier stacks than those the average taxpayer is familiar with. These taxes can't be counted on fingers, and keeping records pertaining to them occupies a long and high wall of files where no dust ever gathers. Right now the individual taxpayer is breathing a sigh of relief with his tax returns completed and in the hands of the authorities, but it's a different story ] | 6 ETC 10841 in the Tax Division of Ethyl. Up on the 19th floor at 100 Park Avenue, paying taxes is an everyday job, June and January, April and December, and when April rolls around it isn't much different from any other month in the year. It is, however, considerably different from paying individual returns. For one thing, the Company op erates in many parts of the country and has to deal with a great variety' of taxes and levies rather than "the one big bite." A big part of the Tax Division's job is the study of trends and revisions of tax legislation. To do this the Division uses various tax information services and publications, and some of the men attend university forums and other sorts of professional discussions. Everyday a raft of tax service sheets with new infor mation comes into the office and is circulated to all of its members, who also review all court cases on corporate tax questions in order to keep abreast of what's going on in the tax courts. ETC 7 Constant changes in tax laws require equally con stant study. Both research and study of this nature are two of the factors that make the paying of com pany taxes an all year job. In making out returns the Tax Division gets the necessary facts and figures from other departments and from other sections of Finance--in fact, many financial records and procedures are maintained in order to have the information required to make tax determinations. Our tax people then apply their legal and technical knowledge. Planning ahead--that is, well ahead--is another im portant aspect of tax work. The Company must plan ahead to have the money to pay its taxes when they are due. Furthermore, the impact of taxes is an im portant factor in planning for the future and being able to count on the resources to carry out those plans. This sort of planning and looking ahead is, of course, not just what Ethyl as a company requires but what you as an individual require and what the entire national economy requires. It is necessary for the tens of thousands of business which give the economy its driving force. Taxes are part of our lives--corporate and individual --and they will always be with us. ETC 10843 Jim Donohue, tax accountant, has a lot of tax books for usa as rtforancos and a lot of quastions and problams ha must answer and solve with tham. Tha oftan lengthy and usually highly involved mattar of doing rasaarch on tax quastions falls to tha Division's tax fawyart Paul Cahill, left, and Bob Burns. Much of tha groundwork on such rasaarch is tha raviaw of court casas. Aftar thasa easas hava baan studiad, lawyars gat togathar for discussion. vifc;i Ona of tha thraa sacratarias kept parpatufity busy in tha Division, Ann Zallio types up soma of tha varyday mass of tax corraspondanca. Miriam di Marco looks up from har saeratarial work to graat ona of tha numarous visitors who coma with businass matters or tax problams. Working on a spaady alactromatic type writer, Muriel Homer takas a momentary break from tha job of typing up tax returns. ETC 10844 Like Indians, bison and five-cent cigars, breakfast has all but vanished from the American scene. We owe it to our national health and welfare to put this worthy, old-fashioned meal back where it belongs on the menu The breakfasts on the menu held by the waiter in the illustration are the real McCoy, faithfully this meal. The rest either ate no breakfast at all or else didn't eat enough or the proper kind. In this sur copped from the morning fare of a famous restaurant vey, men led the women in the regular eating of sub back in the era of bustles. If they don't whet your stantial breakfasts. appetite, we'll tempt you with further bait from the You women (and men) who forego breakfast be good old days. How, for example, would you like to cause you think it will increase your weight can breakfast on ham omelet, boiled halibut with butter breathe easily again and get out the faithful old frying sauce, calves liver with bacon, sweet potato souffle, pan. According to some top nutritionists, a good com fritters, juice, milk and coffee? Or eat an eye- breakfast of fruit juice, cereal with milk, an egg and opener consisting of eggs a la tripe, porterhouse bacon, toast and coffee will add fewer pounds in the steak with watercress, cold boiled ham, hashed pota long run than a breakfast of only coffee and sweet rolls toes au gratin, brioche fluttes, juice, milk and coffee? or toast. The logic of this is that you'll have a mid- These heaping breakfasts were fairly typical back morning snack and a big lunch and big dinner with then, yet today we often find ourselves settling for the skimpy breakfast, while with the full-sized one a hurried cup of coffee and a gobbled roll... and that you'll probably bypass the snack and eat moderately frequently on the run. at lunch and dinner. Somewhere, sometime and somehow since the golden Finding time for preparing and eating the juice, era of porterhouse steak with watercress a ghastly rev cereal, eggs and bacon and the rest is easy. All you olution has taken place. Modem custom has led proud have to do is set your alarm a few minutes early and breakfast to the guillotine and sliced off its boiled make sure you get up promptly when it goes off. If halibut with butter sauce, et cetera. What remains are you haven't any appetite at such a bright and early those pitifully anemic specimens, coffee and a sweet hour, a few exercises should awaken both you and the roll. appetite. And you don't have to go to bed any earlier Don't get us wrong. Our criticism isn't prompted in order to accomplish this minor feat. A hearty break solely by our love of good and ample food. As a mat fast recharges you like a battery; its food energy will ter of fact, the eggs a la tripe sound like just a little more than replace the slight loss of sleep energy. too much for us to begin the day with. The point is, A pleasant vista of good eating, good health and however, that food experts agree that modem man contented citizens may lie before us. It's within our really needs a sturdier breakfast so that he can get power.to create a new generation of breakfast-eaters, through the day without crawling or using crutches. and we can begin to realize this better way of life The notions of nutritionists make sense. They claim right now, by setting examples for our children. Merely that many of us overeat at lunch and dinner--not to telling our children to eat more for breakfast doesn't mention daytime snacks--because we haven't had always lead to success and is perhaps comparable to enough to eat for breakfast What we eat at this break the dilemma of parents who tell their children to go to ing of the night's fast is at least as important to our church every Sunday but don't go themselves and health as how much. That mid-afternoon slump many then wonder why the youngsters don't develop a of us experience at our desk or dynamometer may proper religious spirit. Custom is strong. Although very well result from loss of energy due to an improp people in parts of New England and the West still eat erly balanced breakfast. well in the morning, most of us throughout the nation Apprehension over the breakfast situation seems will have to apply ourselves to this very pleasant task. to be well-founded. A recent survey by a large insur Let us not forget our American traditions. Remem ance company, for instance, revealed that less than ber the Alamo, remember the Maine and Pearl Harbor half of the working people queried ate properly at --and remember to eat an ample, nutritious breakfast. ETC 10846 11 r Portrait of an Ethyl Public Relations Man `""""`i ' M, * CHICAGO M-FEI. 3, 1956 Look into your mirror and you'll see a public relations man like the men our camera caught in these pictures taken during the recent Sales Conference in Chicago 1--------- Among the men who received the new pamphlet were, reading clockwise, Bud Harris of the Southern Region, who operates out of Houston; Joe Hopkins, whose base is in Central Region's windy city, Chicago; Ellis Locher, assistant regional manager in Central Region; Chris Bruhl of the Marketing Analysis and Planning section of the Sales department in New York; Knox Delambre of Southern Region; and Bill Trelease of Export Sales, New York office. Like you, they are all public relations men. 12 ETC 1084T ETC 10848 j Use of on on*the-spot documentary technique was in improvement in this film over the former "Fire Power" movie. Shown on location are, left to right, cam* eramen, Bill Spierer of Sales Promotion, director Warren Murray, truck driver, a safety engineer from Socony and Jim Beckwith, assistant manager of Safety. ETHYL MAKES A A number of highly visual demonstrations by Harold Mehler of Advertising are featured in the film. The effect is to impress on an audience the constant danger of carelessness end unsafe practices which applies throughout every phase of gasoline's production and movement*--from the refinery to the ultimate user. !i j MOVIE ETC 10850 Camera records the power of fire and how to keep gasoline safely away from it Amotion picture Ethyl made a few years ago was so well received that the Company decided to film another one on the same subject. Though this new film, to be released this spring, has no Marilyn Monroe heading the cast, it's sure to be a big success as it stars the long-time villain--"Fire Power." The havoc that fire can wreak when it gets a start on gasoline is vividly shown in this 25-minute, fullcolor presentation. "Safety" is the hero in the film, which demonstrates safety measures to be taken in the handling of gasoline from the refinery to the service station. Five minutes longer than its predecessor and im proved by use of a documentary, on-the-spot tech nique, the "Fire Power" movie will be distributed to our customer companies, universities and colleges, fire departments and the Armed Forces. After the Advertising department decided to re make the film, four months went into its production. Some 7,000 feet of film shot on location and a large amount of library footage were edited into 1,200 feet for the completed film. You don't have to go to Holly wood to find out how much labor and exasperation go into producing a movie. Just ask Bill Spierer our manager of Sales Promotion, who served as producer. An entire service station and a tank truck had to be repainted in order to remove brand names. A good deal of time was spent poring over footage in the film libraries of customer companies. Certain dramatic fire shots were wanted and it took a lot of photographic flame and smoke before Bill and the others found just those that suited them. Harold Mehler of Advertising co-stars with Fire Power in the film. His role is that of the demonstra tor who shows how, why, where and when fire is dan gerous in relation to gasoline and who graphically demonstrates the proper safety measures to use in regard to the three fundamentals of combustion and how they apply specifically to gasoline combustion. Filmed on location in New Jersey and New York and in a motion picture studio in New York City, "Fire Power" was created by a number of people. Besides our Company personnel, a script writer, a director, two cameramen and half a dozen prop men were active in the undertaking. The result is vivid and dramatic, yet factual and realistic. Since the film will be shown to Ethyl employees before its general distribution, all of us will soon have the pleasure of seeing a "sneak preview". 15 < MILESTONES 30 years j Alfred Beck Research & Engineering, Detroit IO years Preston E. Berry Sales, Eastern Region Agnes M. Bowe Sales, New York Ernest Clinton Research & Engineering, Detroit Dorothy E. Laberge Research & Engineering, Detroit Willis Lankenau Advertising, New York Buford A. Millard Research & Engineering, San Bernardino 5 years Helen V. Carrico Research, Detroit Russel A. Fargo Research, Detroit Harriette E. McKillop Research, Detroit Emerick W. Owen Research, Detroit Harold T. Sullivan General Services, New York Mary H. Zutaut Research, Detroit Christopher E. Bruhl Charles B. Kass Lillian F. Kraker Sales, New York Research & Engineering, Detroit Advertising, New York 16 ETC 10851 Mary Elizabeth Berkery js sec retary to Redge Bushell in the Eastern Region. She enjoys ten nis, water skiing, ice skating, swimming and sewing. Bette Jane Colyak is in the Transportation Section at the Detroit Laboratories. Bom in Tullahoma, Tenn., she graduated from Southeastern High, Detroit. the New York Finance depart ment. Married, he lives in New York City and graduated from Iona College,New Rochelle, N.Y. cian at the Detroit Laboratories, is married and resides in Detroit. Nicknamed "Mike," he likes pho tography and fishing. Robert Montgomery is a chem technician at the Detroit Labs. Bob served with the U. S. Army foTtwoyeaTS and graduated from Bowling Green State University. John Richards, who attended Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is a chem technician at the Detroit Labs. His hobbies in clude archery and hunting. Julian J. Schamus joined Ethyl as a patent chemist at the. Detroit Labs. A graduate of the University of California, he is married and has a son. ETC 10852 17 BOOKS The Korean War is the background of Random House's Your Osjn Beloved Sons by newcomer Thomas Anderson, a young writer who has captured the spirit of conflict in a harsh, bright light. His work is frequently perceptive and always exciting and he carries off a terrifying patrol in the grim hills with intense realism. Borden Deal's Walk Through The Valley comes from Scribners. A look at the rural South, it has, as you might ex pect, a good deal of love and hate and violence, and there's a feud that isn't far bested by the Hatfields and the McCovs. The land, of course, is largely the cause of all the trouble, and Mr. Deal makes it seem worth it for his farm folks. In the television age it seems harder and harder to get things done around the house, but the enterprising spouse can now have her cake and eat it, too, if she picks up a few pointers from Marguerita Kohl and Frederica Young's Pick-Up Needlework, a practical do-it-yourself handbook just issued by McKay. While television invades the living room, the new woman can still keep her needles clicking without missing a single commercial. Sir Winston Churchill, who is as familiar bv now with pen and brush as he is with Parliamentary procedure, has come onto the literary scene again with a new edition of his only novel, Savorola, from Random House. It was written before the turn of the century, when Winnie was only twenty three, but the makings of a statesman are clearly visible in his study of revolt in a mythical country. As a novel it leaves a good deal to be desired; as a social commentary it's fat better; as the work of the famous octogenarian it's important. Macmillan's Miracle of World War II by Francis Walton is a glowing and highly deserved tribute to American industry for its part in conquering the Axis and to the hundreds of thousands of men and women who fought to keep the fighting men supplied with the necessary tools for victory. It was not an easy task and it took its own particular kind of courage, per severance and stamina. Businesses large and small met the challenge and showed the stuff they were made of. Georges Simenon, who writes novels like crazy and who has, like Liberace, dropped his first name to become merely Simenon, has put together two novels in one Doubledav pack age. Both The Witnesses and The Watchmaker are characteristically of the same author, psychological studies of people whose lives have crossed the path of violence. As usual, Simenon is not nearly so concerned with painting a picture as he is with scraping off the paint to see what's underneath. Leonard C. Hawkins with Milton Lomask has told the story of Frederick B. Snite, Jr., The Man In The Iron Lung for Doubleday, and it's an exceptionally inspiring and courageous piece of truth that will make many a reader ashamed of hi trivial complaints. The authors have done their job wit: ETC 10853 exceedingly good taste--never maudlin, never morose, always factual. Through it all the indomitable spirit of the subject gives the work distinction and edification. If you hanker for your boots and saddle, you'll be as happy as a cowpoke on a palomino with Dutton's Bar 5 Roundup of Best Western Stories, edited by Scott Meredith. The II tales of the wild west are as lively a bit of horseplay as you're likely to come across, particularly Oliver La Farge's account of an Indian raid and Noel Loomis' bloody story of scalping. Valley of The Shadow by Ward M. Millar, a major in the United States Air Force, is a recent issue from McKay. A true story of escape from the Reds in Korea, it's as harrowing as any fiction. In the fight for survival, the author discovers a great many things about himself and accepts spiritual values that had formerly escaped him. Evan Harrington's The Prisoner, recently on the shelves from Harper, isn't a great book but it's one you won't put down easily. Not only a fast and interesting narrative, it is also an absorbing glimpse into a prison and into the people who work and serve sentence behind the high grey walls. There are plenty of twists and turns and the author takes them in good stride. In Edmund Wilson's new book. Red, Black, Blond And Olive, published by the Oxford University Press, the author of the current bestseller. The Scrolls from the Dead Sea, re ports with his usual scholarly brilliance on aspects of life and culture in New Mexico, Haiti, Russia and Israel and he sees it all with the eye of a hawk. No mere reporter, he interprets profoundly and little seems to escape his scrutiny. If you're a shudder bug, you'll find a rewarding evening in Dutton's new Guilt-Edge Mystery The Lenient Beast by Fredric Brown, a man who obviously knows his way around the precincts and can handle himself in the lethal company of murder. His detective, Frank Ramos, doesn't have nearly such an easy time of it and his footing is a lot less sure. The heroine of Random House's Lucy Crown by Irwin Shaw, a writer whose prose is sure, is a middle-aged woman who finds herself entangled romantically with a far younger man. Things, as you might expect, get rather messy for everybody as Mr. Shaw explores and probes about the awkward situation. He does it, however, with conviction and understanding, and he has honest feeling about all of the people involved in the catastrophe. Paris when her lights were dimmed and her heart was any thing but young and gay is the scene of Bernard Frizell's Ten Days In August, just released by Simon and Schuster. In those 10 summer days of. 1944, when the Allies were using France as a highway, Parisians struggled for the breath of Paris and their own lives became the mere mechanics of resistance. Love went on, however, and Paris found her way. Ah, memory! What a trickster and demon it can be! It cer tainly is both in Scribner's The Film of Memory by Maurice Druon. In what may be called a continental novel--it was translated from the French--a woman whose charms once opened the doors of palaces relives her glorious days as she sits out her old age in poverty. It all has quite an effect on a young floor maid, and it ought to effect you as well if you like traipsing on red velvet carpet by candlelight. MOVIES Television comedian George Gobel makes his movie debut in the new Paramount film. The Birds and the Bees, co-star ring Mita Gaynor and David Niven, and he proves an equally funny fellow on celluloid. Love and international card sharks are responsible for all of the complications that beset him. For good measure, two pleasant new songs are thrown in. Robots and space cruisers and all that futuristic kind of go ings-on take up the footage of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's For bidden Planet, which has to do with the shape of things in the year 2200. In addition to all the mechanism, there's Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis and Walter Pidgeon--all of them up in the clouds. Young spacemen will have a jolly time of it. Warner Brothers have turned out an unusual and exciting documentary film in The Animal World, a Technicolor look at animal life from its beginning. Though there are no actors to speak of, the strange creatures that inhabited the earth two billion years ago and since are highly capable of holding your attention. Both adults and children will find the story of evolution fascinating. TELEVISION Since spring just wouldn't be spring in America without base ball, a spectacular. Salute To Baseball, will be presented in honor of our national sport on the evening of April 15, with many of your favorite major league players appearing on the video diamond. On the afternoon of the 21st, the season starts in earnest when the Boston Red Sox clash with the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. You Are There, which brings great moments of the past to life in the form of historical dramas, will get an added boost of realism by being broadcast "live" from Television City, Hollywood, starting April 15. On the following evening, Mildred Miller, mezzo soprano at the Met, will have the principal voice over the Voice Of Firestone, and on April 23, Thomas L. Thomas, concert baritone, will delight your eardrums. If the supercharged satirical novels of Sinclair Lewis have appealed to you, television adaptation of his novel Dodsworth should hit the spot too. With a cast headed by Claire Trevor and Frederic March as Dodsworth himself, it is scheduled for Producers' Showcase on April 30. Hallmark Hall Of Fame presents Cradle Song, a teledrama set in a Spanish convent, on May 6, starring those theatrical greats, Helen Hayes and Judith Anderson, ably supported by young Susan Strasberg. ETC 10854 19 Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit, New York, the Sales department and Regional offi ces: Detroit: Morton Antler, $10.00 (Larger opening in B-l stockroom win dow); Alfred Beck, $15.00 (Glasswool packed guard behind grinding wheel. Will absorb rather than reflect sparks and particles and is fireproof); R. Russell Brown, Jr., $10.00 (Wire screen protection for stairwell outside C-12. Will remove the isolated possi bility that fuel cans stacked near this railing might fall through); H. W. Db Vries, $10.00 (Chain fall in front of paint spray booth. Assist handling of heavy articles being painted); Frank Forrest, $15.00 (Larger kick-plates on corridor doors. Will provide greater pro tection for those doors where hand trucks pass through); Charles . Graham, $15.00 (Screen behind buffing wheel. Will prevent loss of small parts and dam age to blower); DuRELLE L. GUTHRIE, $20.00 (Widen approaches to the Pinecrest entrances to the parking lot); Lil lian A. McDonnell, $10.00 (Use form ECD-939 for all photocopy work. Elim inates need for ather handling when material on hand is to be photocopied); Robert Mescher, $10.00 (Wall hooks for receivers of hall phones. Will pro vide a place to put receiver when nec essary to leave phone before call is com pleted); Clement R. Morrill, $10.00 (Protective doors on tank schedule board in room H-2. Will permit locking and prevent loss or removal of information from board); Norman W. Mosey, $10.00 (Guard over blower shaft in "B" mezzanine. Will remove a small hazard in this area); Leonard M. Niebylski, $10.00 (Signs over recessed fire extin guishers and fire hose. Cal] attention to location of recessed equipment); MERL V. Watschke, $10.00 (Use vaeum bot tle for dispensing coffee in U building area). New York: Richard M. Callahan, $10.00 (Clear non-urgent orders to Orangeburg via Baton Rouge); David Fitch, $25.00 (Publicity presentation for establishing Ethyl in Canada). Sales Department and Regional Offices: W. E. Andreae, $15.00 (Memorandums from Gasoline Testing on "Percentage of U.S. Gasoline Pro duction With Relation to TEL Content" be improved to show curve from cor responding period of previous year. Don ald J. Chapman, $15.00 (Changing release mechanism of Ethyl service pins from screw type to quick release type for easier transfer from' coat to coat); Ann Selfridge, $15.00 (Change code designating Ethyl laboratory from num bers to first letter of the city in which the laboratory is located on refinery sample report. EXTRACURRICULAR M w..v J. Howard Rambin, Jr., assistant to the vice president in charge of the Producing department of The Texas Company re cently spoke on marine drilling at a meeting of the Desk and Derrick Club of the City of New York. About 200 members were present to hear Mr. Rambin discuss drilling for oil in costal waters of Louisiana and Texas. D it D members from Ethyl who at tended were: Mary Dumville, Alice Heck and Peggy Smith, Public Rela tions; Jessie Halton and Ekna Harris, General Services; and Madge Lofthouse and Eleanor Schkeyer, Sales. Working as part of the stage production crew for the Baton Rouge Little Theater play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial," which ran March 15 through 24, were Jasper Westbrook, Process Develop ment; Charles Bruton, P&ES; Ed Coxe, Power, and J. B. Story, R&E Lab. Mary Gaines Read, Stores, handled publicity for the dramatic group. I. R. Schneider, industrial engineer. Baton Rouge plant, is serving as program chairman of the Boy Scout Circus for the third year. At the recent meeting of the American Chemical Society held in Dallas, Tex., a number of people from the Detroit Labs presented papers. Hal Gibson authored and presented "Tetraethyllead and the Automobile." "Motor Fuel Qual ity as Related to Refining Processing and Antiknock Compounds," written by Frank Conrad and Bill Sabin, was given by Frank before the ACS Divi sion of Chemical Education. Margaret Graham spoke on "Indexing and Correlation of Fuel and Lubricant Additives by Machine-Sorted Punch Cards," which was jointly authored by Ben Weil, Barbara Hildenbrand and Margaret. A literature survey, "Effect of Additives on Combustion," prepared bv B. A. Jones, Ben Weil and Margaret Gra ham was presented by Barney. Wayne Warren of the Detroit Labora tories will discuss "What Does An Oc tane Cost?" before the Rocky Mountain Oil & Gas Association in Salt Lake City on April 27. W. W. Merritt, safety engineer, Baton Rouge plant, was guest speaker at the Cal-Metal Pipe Corporation's recent safety meeting for foremen and super visors. MERRITT, who is president of the Pelican Safety Council, spoke on "Safety is a Personal Thing." At a meeting of the L.S.U. Student Chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Luke Governale, R&E Process Design, Baton Rouge plant, was guest speaker. Luke discussed the jobs young engineers can expect to face. At the annual conference of the Amer ican Society of Training Directors, Charlie Clark of Industrial Relations, New York, spoke on "Creative Think ing." The program held in Baton Rouge early in March highlighted crea tive thinking, the psychological factors of learning, and the working problems of employee training. 20 ETC 10855 Detroit Marjorie Kammann was married to Peter Badalamenti on April 7 at St. Francis De Salle Church, Detroit. After a honeymoon trip through New York State, they will reside in Detroit. Marj orie is a secretary in Refinery Technolo gy at the Labs. Phyllis Powell was married to Ron ald Hipkiss at the Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church, Femdale on March 24. The couple honeymooned in North ern Michigan and will make their home in Dearborn. Phyllis is in the Business Services Section at the Detroit Labs. New York Barbara Jean Allen was married to Maurice E. Gilbert at the Reformed Church, Bronxville on March 3. After their honeymoon in the Virgin Islands, the couple made their home in Tuckahoe. Mike is a tax accountant in the New York Tax Division. .? " ' ....' ! NEWS BRIEFS Ethyl played an important role in the Eleventh Annual Firemen's Training School sponsored by the Salt Lake City Fire Department in cooperation with the Utah State Board for Vocational Education. Cal Dunbar, working with Jack Cole and John Morton, all of Western Re gion, put on a special Fire Power demon stration for approximately 4S0 state and local fire officials anti guest speakers at the convention. Cal did such an outstanding job that the fire commission included the entire Fire Power presentation and pictures of the show in their annual report. At the Annual Town Meeting of Nan tucket Island, Mass., photographs taken by Ethyl were displayed illustrating the many and varied uses of oil on an island. While Stan Nickerson of Public Rela tions was vacationing last summer, he and Albert E. Whitehill, manager of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Com merce, informally discussed the uses of oil on an island and out of that came the possibility of an article for Ethyl News. Returning in September, Stan and a photographer spent a week searching out and photographing the uses of oil on Nantucket. The Nantucket Island High School was presented with a com plete set of the pictures. Ethyl News will run an illustrated article in late spring or summer this year. As part of their efforts to become better emplovees, oil industry women of the Desk and Derrick Club of New York will offer a course in "How Business Operates" to members of their organiza tion and other women in the oil industry. The course, co-ordinated by the New York Community College, will have as lecturers some of the leading executives of the oil industry, as well as professors from the college. Covering such diversified topics as human relations, production, marketing research and development, record-keep ing and financial matters, the course as a whole is designed to give Desk and Derrick members attending a better un derstanding of these and other aspects of the American business system. Ethyl girls who will attend the course are: Barbara Dennis, Mary Dumville, Grace Ferguson, Jessie Halton, Eleanor Helmkich, Loretta Hogan, Edith Mahoney, Virginia McGuire, Mary Reilly, Helen Stutter, Madge Lofthouse and Betty White. The Desk and Derrick Club is a na tional organization comprised of women in the oil industry. The chief purpose of the Club is to aid oil women to be come better employees through D&Dsponsored educational programs. In a series of employee discussion meet ings held recently, personnel of 100 Park viewed the presentation made by the Advertising department at the an nual meeting of the Sales department held in Chicago last month. Jack Pruitt, domestic sales manager, briefly discussed the Sales department and its objectives. Following, Russ Weston and Mac McCulloch of Advertising, talked about Sales Promotion and Ad vertising, using a large presentation board to demonstrate plans and ap proaches in the current year. The National Safety Council recently announced that the Baton Rouge plant will receive the "Award of Honor" for its improvement in the 1955 plant safetv record. The "Award of Honor," which is the highest award given by the Na tional Safety Council, has been pre sented to the Baton Rouge plant on two previous occasions. "Employees at Work at the Ethyl Plant" was the title of two exhibits recently on display at the Glen Oaks School. These display boards were made up of large photographs of the Baton Rouge plant employees at work. The exhibit was part of the school's educational program to acquaint students with the vocations available to them in the Baton Rouge area. Detroit Al and Jean Caputo--a daughter, Lynne, bom on March 12. Al is a project engineer in the Refinery Tech nology Section at the Labs. Richard and Nancy GETOOR-a son, Michael Richard, bom on February 29. And note the date. When Mike celebrates his 21st birthday he is going to be 84 years old. Pop is a lab techni cian in Detroit. Eastern Region Bob and Phyllis THURSTON-a son, Jeffrey Miller, bom on March 12. Bob is a field engineer in the Pittsburgh area. North Kansas City Ed and Rita Weatherford-e son, Mark Kevin, bom on February 12. Ed is a technician in the gasoline testing lab. ETC 10856 21 When the annual Lighthouse exhibit came to our New York offices for two days in March, employees bought about $60 worth of the personal and household articles which the blind had made. Articles on sale included woven baskets, aprons, shawls, blankets, wallets and brooms. Virginia Bellany, a secretary, is shown with a toy dog. MARDI GRAS BALL Variety and splendor of costumes at the ERA Mardi Gras Ball at the Baton Rouge plant made it dif ficult for the judges to choose the prettiest ones. Finalists shown above are, left to right, Dolly Boeneke, J. D. Adams, Lorraine Martin and George Tucker. George's costume, with the dash and swagger of its brocade and epaulets, got the judges' nod. PERFECT ATTENDANCE Weather, illness, accidents, oversleeping--nothing has kept U. A. Callais, TEL operator at the Baton Rouge plant, away from his job during the last 18 years. He has not missed a single day of work, and he explains that "reporting to work every day on time is a responsibility I accepted when I got this job." He hopes to maintain his record for many more years. l0s'38 Upon the request of the U. S. Navy, the original art work of Ethyl's Road Bird advertisement, the room. Above, Frank Howard of the Advertising de partment approves the framed illustration after the "Bent-Wing Thrasher", has been given to the crew of notations left from its use in the production of adver the coastal minesweeper U.S.S. Thrasher. The artwork, tisement printing plates had been removed. A metal which was requested by the sailors through the tab on the frame identifies the Road Bird. Perched on Saturday Evening Post, in which the ad appeared, was the bulkhead of the ship's wardroom, the "Bent-Wing framed so that it could be hung in the ship's ward Thrasher" now rides the high seas. more people, more place* wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmm etC io859 AWAY WE GO! Our "Drive More" advertising campaign won an endorsement from one of the country's top en at getting motorists to use their cars more often rather than their feet. The advertising campaign proved so tertainers when Jackie Gleason gave a "Drive More" successful in 1955 that it is being continued nationally poster his attention recently. Like Gleason's famous this year as well, with Gleason soon to help it along "And away we go!", the "Drive More" campaign is with spot announcements on radio and television. concerned with travel, but unlike Gleason's humorous The picture below features--besides the poster--one shuffling across the studio stage, "Drive More" aims of the comic's inimitable expressions. FUELS AND ENGINES PROGRAM PRESENTED Ray Daugherty, left, San Francisco District auto motive engineer, and Harry Manning, sales trict personnel at refresher courses Standard Oil will hold during the year. The presentation was charac promotion manager of Western Region, teamed up teristic of the numerous Ethyl activities which are recently to present a program on fuels and engines designed to provide services to customer companies. to Standard Oil of California trainees. The customer Since fuels and engines are at the source of our busi company was so impressed with the presentation that ness, our Company has always strived to keep up to similar programs will be given by San Francisco Dis date in these related fields. OIL DATA FOR SCHOOLS ETC 10860 Ethyl, always active in API affairs, was well repre sented at the OIIC's district clinic held in New School Committee under the chairmanship of Dick Murphy, manager of Eastern Region. The important York City last winter. In the picture below, Redg School Program is designed to bring oil's story to the Bushell, manager of the New York district, points to nation's youth and to develop their interest in this the month of emphasis in the API's School Program. vital industry. Aside from the business at hand during At the far left in the picture is Paul Fitzpatrick of the the two-day sessions, local clinics were planned for New York district. Both Redg and Paul serve on the later in the year. A two-way presentation ceremony was held at the Detroit Labs when the Company presented the ohn Koehnle, left, of the San Francisco office, J chairman of San Francisco Oil Industry Informa Ethyl Junior Achievement Club with a charter and tion Committees during 1955 is shown receiving the Club gave the Company a citation. The Ethyl- Award Certificate from E. M. Mead, chairman of sponsored group toured the Labs after being wel Northern California OIIC. Looking on is T. C. comed by Dick Scales, general manager. Shown above Moroney, former Northern California State chairman are Franklyn Flicker, staff assistant, and Richard and a member of the Western Oil & Gas Public Rela Kerr, president of the club. tions Subcommittee. more people, more places Thirteen-year-old Kathy Soroos, daughter of Harold Soroos of Administration and Services at the Bob Boudreaux, left, data clerk, and Claude Arceneaux, chemical microscopist in Chemical Re Detroit Labs, won skiis down in meets against girls search and Development, Baton Rouge plant, were her own age this winter and even took some prizes in pictured on the cover of a recent issue of Chemical women's meets. Here she is shown with trophies she and Engineering News. The cover photograph was won for three first places and a second place in the Junior Inter-Club Meet held at Cadillac, Mich. ETC 10861 1 r i i Tha biggest Suggestion System Award t^date at the Houston plant was responsible for this equally big grin on the faca of Jim Koch, sheet matal worker. In a caramony !n tha plant managar'i ofRea on March 22, Jim was prasantad with a chack for $1,300 for his adopted suggestion on sodium operations. etc 10862 WORTH TELlNG -.5*3". w.r.-.'. ...- Qold, it's known, is where you find it, and panning it from a stream is but one way of looking for if. The Forty Niner's method, in some instances, proved pretty successful --- nonetheless there are still some people who hope to find it at the end of the rainbow, a quest that has only proved fruitful in fairy tales. In our times, there is a far better and far safer way--join Ethyl's benefit plans, aH of Ethyl's benefit plans. They were set up for your future. Stake a claim in them now, and you'll avoid the uncertainty of panning for gold later.' ETHYL bu elm mid Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited In This Issue Page Company Manners ..................... Feeling Strongly ......................... Paydayl ........................................ 2 4 6 The Constant Heart..................... 12 A Meeting of Minds..................... 14 Milestones ..................................... 16 Ethyl Welcomes ........................... 17 For Your Entertainment.............. 18 Personals ....................................... 20 People and Places....................... 22 Leonhard Dowty .................................... Editor Jean Nicol...........................Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denser, Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Mar garet Graham, Ann Mansfield, Les Motson, Andy Pallay, Kathleen Raley, Ross Rife, Adele Rozek, Karl Schmid; photographer: Etic Owen; Houston: Ken Jost, Guy Keller, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico; Lynn Phillips; New Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Gerry Harms, Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Ema Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Locke; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Leona Rasmussen; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; photographer; Fred Green; San Francisco: Wil Hancock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Cath erine Henderson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvilain. Central Office; Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Macdonald. ON OUR COVER: Payday is a red letter day but the last one took Peggy Smith of Public Relations by surprise. Elated, Peggy bolds her head anxiously while Ruth Hall of Finance thumbs through paychecks for the one with Peggy's name on it. The story on payday begins on page 6. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. /n certain books of etiquette The social rules are firmly set Regarding things that one should do As well as those proclaimed taboo. For example, slacks don't go At banquets where they serve shad roe And unshod feet create a breech Anywhere but at the beach. Qtwimming suits are in bad taste When firing squads are being faced. For they distract the gunners aim And absolutely spoil the game. Soup, of course, should not be heard. Dunking doughnuts is absurd. Snakes and such should not be charmed. Nor should aces e'er be palmed. /Childhood friends should not be shot. Cantaloupe not served hot. Nor should gum be thrown in streets. Stuck on ears or under seats. Forging checks is very rude Lest you have the aptitude For writing out the names of folks Who understand your little jokes. /mportant things good manners are From Albany to Zanzibar. For each occasion it's insisted Proper conduct be enlisted-- Pinky out when sipping tea; Hair in place when up a tree; Coat and tie when at the Ritz; Smile on face when winner quits-. Digger smile for hole in one; U Lavish praise for jobs well done; Pluck and grit when in the thick; Apologies for trumping trick; Good firm clasp when shaking hands; Modesty at Baby Grands; Sympathy for friends who ail; Saw and files for friends in jail. A ll these things let it be said Inform your friends that you're well bred. And tell them too that you're not green To Emily Post's social sheen. You've got luster; you've got class. Seldom rude, never crass. You reflect the uppermost. Whether guest, whether host. A re your manners just as good Where you earn your livelihood? At the office, on your job Are you thoughtful of the mob? Other folks have feelings, too. And what they feel depends on you. Consider now the day you spend-- Are there people you offend? T'vo you step on any toes? A-J Do you greet with warm helloes? Do you push, do you shove? Are you like a turtledove? Do you rant, do you rave? How, in fact, do you behave? Think a bit and check your score. Use good manners more and more. ETC 1086G FEELING STRONGLY Detroiters crawled -- or were drawn out of their shells in weekly classes that turned them info self-assured public speakers While learning to use the "tools of leadership and skill in interpersonal relations", some 90 men at to get along with one another as a group and how to develop confidence in themselves as speakers. As a Detroit Labs were put through their paces last winterresult of their zeal, soon even the wallflowers were and early this spring. They had to stand perfectly blooming in the center of the class. still with their arms at their sides, they had to The 10-week courses, called Group Personal Rela gesticulate and show emotion whenever ordered to do tions, were given by Professor Henry Schneidewind, so, they had to write their names in huge letters on a chairman of the Speech Department, University of blackboard. And they had to do it in front of an audi Detroit. Professor Schneidewind has very definite ence of fellow workers. notions about what it takes to become a competent However, there was nothing antic about it. For public speaker, and the standing still, feeling strongly most of the men it was an unique experience and for and writing names on a blackboard are some of his all of them it was a serious affair. These men, who rep techniques for developing self-assurance and skill. resented all organizational levels at Detroit, including "Boy, if I had only had this 15 or 20 years ago!" the top management, were learning or reviewing how was the kind of comment made by older men at the The men pictured below giro you some Idee bow active ond heated a "fooling strongly" session bocomos under the professor's promptings. Labs. Ted Carton, director of Employee Training and Development, agreed with them and has now incor porated the course as a part of the training program there. Considered a good confidence-builder, it is be ing offered to all new employees who will have use for these skills in their jobs. An unsuspecting person who happened to enter one of the professor's classes might wonder what on earth was going on. If he happened into the "feeling strongly" class, he would see a group of men standing in a large circle and taking turns ranting. He would soon notice that the more vehement a man became the more the professor would beam approvingly. The reason for this professional approval would be that the student was getting "outside himself, ceasing to be an inhibitory personality" and thus was on the way toward becoming an able public speaker. Professor Schneidewind figuratively led the men by their vocal cords from the point where they merely stood in front of the group and gave their names to the point where they were skilled in presenting ideas clearly and interestingly in conference. As a matter of fact, the men actually came to enjoy the course, and thus learned to enjoy public speaking. It was somewhat like taking your first airplane flight or being taught how to swim: once the initial fear of the unknown and untried is gone, you realize flying can be fun and swimming is an ability you won't easily lose. An entire new range of experience is opened for you--the thrilling experience of holding an audience's attention, of presenting ideas clearly and convincingly, of channeling discussion and stimulating thought. In a "feeling strongly" session, things might get off to a rather feeble start. One man, for instance, sadly came to this conclusion: "I feel very strongly about-- I don't feel very strongly about anything." But as the round robin built up steam, the speech students stamped their feet, shook their fists, turned red in the face and cried passionately that they felt strongly about: "parsley in salad", "balloon-head drivers", "the weather we have in this state in the spring", "kids who walk on my lawn in roller skates", "people who poison children", "ruining my vocal cords", "feeling strong" and "everything" !!! fitiow, from (oft to right, or* Profonor Schnoidowind ond iftfUmod ttudonfs Milo ftomondino, DoJo Buorstotto ond Joo Cipolio. AYDAY! If there were a way of measuring smiles and good cheer, you can bet that payday would rank right along with Christmas rp/iere are few things more welcomed by employees than a paycheck, that gratifying rectangle of paper that brightens two days out of every calendar month at Ethyl and is as dependable, in its way, as the uninhibited laughter of happy children at play. In a number of obvious ways, that negotiable slip in the pay envelope contributes greatly to the happiness of those children at play, to the happiness of the parents who provide for them and to the happiness of every member of every family that has a breadwinner in its midst. Few things, indeed, can prompt a smile more quickly, strengthen our sense of security more readily, deepen more surely our knowledge that we live in a land of plenty where paychecks are large and stable. No wonder, then, that payday is a happy day, for it's a wonderful feeling to know these things and to be able to count on them. Whenever payday rolls around, a kind of holiday mood prevails, a mood frequent to us but denied to many. That, too, is a very valuable thing, and a paycheck is one of its major symbols. The check we hold in our hands is a check on tyranny and a ticket to freedom. RutK Hell it ona of four woman from tha Payroll division who happily distributes Ethyl paychacks to avan happiar ampioyaai. A racaptionist racaivat har ehack: Mollia Houghton, a ont*woman waieoming committaa on tha 17th floor at 100 Pari Avtnua, always finds sha is first in lina, a position that makas har a santry for othar anxious amployaas. ETC 10870 Payday (continued) J^paycheck is many other things as well -- large and small, foolish and important. For some, it is a new hat that waits in a millinery shop down the street, a set of golf clubs designed for holes-in-one, a steak cooked to perfection, a Saturday night in town. For others, it's an electric train that soon will journey across the basement floor, a government bond standing ready for a rainy day, two tickets to a movie around the corner, the price of a babysitter and the start of a new room to the house. Clam Parehan of Industrial Relations looks up with quiet plaasura as sha aecapts har check. Frank Howard of Advertising looks duly intarastad --and receptive -as ha axaminai his payroll check. Payroll's Ruth Hall is eartainly a bringar of good things--as attsstad to by tha joyous expression of Eleanor Frawlay of Industrial Rotations. As a racipiant, Ruth is naturally happy about payday too. Mae MeCulloch, assistant manager of Adver* tiling and Salas Promotion, beams approval ETC 10871 An anvalopa to match the color of her uni* form ws given to Miriam Wallace of Medical. Payday has a festive air about it. Here is Elsa Weber of Industrial Relations department. It t one interruption that's welcome to busy, ' girfj like Marilyn Sei of Industrie! Relations. Payday is smile day for Bill Meyer of Indus trial Relations and everyone else at 100 Pert. Vic Ailing of General Services gladly holds the trusty key to the good life in his hand. ETC 10872 3 Payday (continued) ^ hatever a paycheck may mean to you, it means work for the people whose business it is to see that you're paid. In a sense, every day is payday for them as they compute and tally, deduct taxes and contributions to benefit plans, make salary changes and calculate overtime, prepare the checks you receive and deliver them to you twice a month. It is rare that calculators and bookkeeping machines are idle, for Payroll pays employees across the country, including some at our Houston and Baton Rouge plants. Wording in Payroll makes people like Dorothy Rogan, above, feel like bi-weekly Santa Clauses. VM John Palmer, assistant head of Payroll, may have his computing problems, but he can always manage a carefree smile on payday. A lot of time-consuming paperwork precedes the periodic delivery of our checks. Here John Robertson, payroll analyst, pores over big figures. rp/ie inevitable windup of payday is no surprise for anyone. Usually the use of a check has already been decided. Spending money is an easy thing to do, particularly in a country where all sorts of commodities are available. Oddly enough, though, our banks do as big a business as our stores and the majority of paychecks pass across the counter to a teller for safekeeping. Payday, with its spending and its saving, is a strong factor in our national economy, an economy that affords us the best wages and the highest standard of living in the world today. Bob Marks of Advertising and Grace Ferguson of Sales happily await cold cash in trade for their cheeks. ETC 10873 The Payroll girl* heve come to tho conclusion thet payroll cheek is just about the easiest thing in the world to pats off on someone. To date no one has refused to accept his little white envelope. Lett to right are check carriers, Ruth Hall, Gertrude Melloh, Veronica Wiegman and Mery O'Brien. The Payroll division needs--end ha*--plenty of group spirit in order to per Term its big job quickly and harmoniously. Shown here, maintaining law and order among the digits and other payroll matters, are left to right, Ruth Moore, Veronica Wiegman, John Palmer, John Robertson, Gertrude Melloh. m One of the crowning glories of payday at 100 Park is the noontime shopping tour of Manhattan's many stores. Here, returning to the office laden with packages from fashionable Fifth Avenue, are satisfied shoppers Agnes Morgan of Advertising, left, and Ruth Moan of Industrial Relations. ETC 10874 THE CONSTANT HEART etc 10875 :: I I, Oomewhere along the road of time the heart was ^ stolen by poets as the symbol of love, a concep tion as fraudulent as the notion that the moon is made of green cheese. Though love is certainly a noble and rewarding emotion, the heart is actually more impor tant than even that blessed state. It is the very time piece and source of life itself, active even while we sleep, pumping furiously when we overexert ourselves, continually supplying our ever-hungry bodies with necessary nutrition and oxygen. But for all its accomplishments this miraculous organ sometimes falters; sometimes is injured. Coronary thrombosis (heart attack) takes the lives of 350,000 Americans every year, half again as many as cancer and more than the total United States deaths in World War II. The ailment which temporarily struck down President Eisenhower last September, it prefers to strike women and, especially, men who are in full maturity, enjoying the most productive years of their lives. Today doctors know the mechanisms of how coro nary thrombosis occurs, but not why. When the ar teries supplying the heart muscles become clogged with fatty deposits a reduction in the blood flow to the heart results and produces an attack. Our fast pace of life or our rich diet may be contributory. At any rate, the incidence of heart attack is much higher in this country than in most. The other three basic types of heart ailment--hyper tension, rheumatic fever and congenital defects--can sometimes be detected in X-rays. Thrombosis, on the other hand, was not diagnosed until 1912 and is never revealed in X-rays. It must be traced by electrocardio graphs. The medical battle against this dread ailment is being waged at full force, with modem research equipped with over $16 million annually in its efforts to find some direct treatment for atherosclerosis, the underlying disease which causes the clogging of the arteries to the heart. Although thrombosis causes some permanent dam age to the heart, a patient is more often than not able to perform useful activities with what remains of his heart muscles. Doctors say that most people have more heart muscle than they basically require, thus some reserve to call upon in case of need. Of course, after a thrombosis a patient is very seldom advised to engage in completely unrestricted activities, but is rather told to feel his way slowly, testing his heart, finding out how much activity it can tolerate. One of the most popular misconceptions about the heart is the belief that it is delicate. It isn't; it's far from being the fainting type. Every day it pushes from five to ten tons of blood through our arteries, veins and capillaries. At the end of the allotted Biblical span of three score and ten, an average heart will have exerted enough force to lift the battleship Missouri 14 feet out of the water. As for prevention of most heart ailments, an indi vidual's way of life may have more to do with it than anything else. Low-fat diet and moderate exercise may be strong preventive agents. The heart's condition can be determined by taking blood pressure, the electrocardiograph, X-rays and by stethoscopic examination by physicians. These exami nations are necessary periodically because many heart ailments can be arrested or cured if detected early. The heart is as big as life, as tough as life, but it must be protected. I I s i iy i ETC 10876 Members of the New York chapter of Desk and Derrick participate in brainstorming session f there is any truth whatever in the old saying that I two heads are better than one, then it would cer tainly stand to reason that more heads in a huddle would produce even better results--a fact that Charlie Clark of Industrial Relations has proved time and again in the effective brainstorming sessions that fol low his presentation on Creative Thinking. Brainstorming, as you may gather, is a meeting of minds in which everyone unbridles his thoughts and rapidly lets fly his ideas on a given subject . . . and the ideas came fast and furious when Charlie recently appeared as guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the New York chapter of the Desk and Derrick Club. Charlie's presentation, popular with many of our customer companies, drew the largest crowd ever to attend a regular session of the Club in New York. Desk and Derrickers not only learned something about the value of creative thinking but had a good time in several humorous brainstorming sessions as well as a couple of serious efforts. In one, they "brain stormed" captions for amusing photographs of animals and they came up with some very funny labels indeed. In another, they selected names for their individual brainstorming groups, and one of them appropriately came up with "The Oily Birds." . Charlie's presentation has been so well received that he has trained other Ethyl people to give the talk for the Company in their respective areas and now there is a squad of brainstormers consisting of Paul Fitz patrick of Eastern Region; Joe Hopkins of Central Region; Herb Witte of Southern Region; Ed Erskine of Western Region; Art Wintringham of the Baton Rouge plant; and James Main, Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited. All assisted Charlie in the Desk and Derrick presentation. At the completion of the program Charlie was made a member of the Desk and Derrick Key Club and was presented with a key chain by the Club's presi dent, Margaret Sweeney of Sinclair Oil Corporation. Among Ethyl employees who attended were Marie Anderson, Jessie Halton, Ema Harris and Loretta McEntegart of General Services; Mary Dumville, Peggy Smith and Alice Heck of Public Relations; Ruth Moen and Betty White of Industrial Relations; Anna Murphy and Esther Lyman of Administration; Vir ginia McGuire of Manufacturing; Yvonne Guertin, Madge Lofthouse and Gerry Harms of Eastern Re gion; Edith Mahoney and Helen Stritter of Finance; and Eleanor Schreyer of Safety. Charlia dramatically points out that tomoono made a fortuna from idoo to packaga motor oil in cans. ETC 10871 Helen Stritter, who works in Finance, wot ono of early arrivals for mooting at which Ethyl's Charlia Clark was guest tpaakar. Above, while picking out her name tag, she chats with Desk and Derrick committeewoman. During brainstorming, Ethyl women above composed an active group. Clockwise, they are Peggy Smith, Eme Harris. Betty White, Marietta Jacobson (formerly of Ethyl), Anna Murphy, a bit of Alice Hack and Ruth Moan. Lively presentation, which brought out record attendance, literally had audience in the aisles. Above, left to right, Madge Lofthouse, Maria Anderson, Yvonne Guertin and Jessie Helton listen and think simultaneously. ETC 108T8 MILESTONES years Robert C. Burns Finance, New York 16 | IO years - Edward J. Betchaver Planning and Coordination, New York Joseph A. Hopkins, Jr. Sales, Central Region James H. Kirby Finance, New York Irma C. Macary Finance, New York John P. Napoutano Research, Detroit Sophie T. Perzanowski Research, Detroit Alyce J. Peterson Research, Detroit Helen M. Stritter Finance, New York Lyndon K. Welch Research, Detroit Kenneth M. Christenson Research, Detroit John T. Collins Research, Detroit Don D. Cunningham, Jr. Research, Detroit Eleanor M. Frawley Industrial Relations, New York Alfred J. Grenier Research, Detroit Ralph J. Loehr Research, Detroit Charles E. Poulson Research, Detroit ETC 10879 V Dorothea S. Clark, clerk-typist in Finance, New York, is a grad uate of Randolph-Macon Wom an's College and a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. .tj.:'-:* > .: C..1 ETHYL --"' .-A > A ELCOMES Wii -- vr. * Robert M. Gray, known as Bob, is an auditor in the Finance de partment, New York. A graduate of Manhattan College, he and his family live in Yonkers. David L. Meine is a technician in Gasoline Testing, Houston. Mar ried, he is a member of the Texas National Guard and is interested in reading and stamp collecting. Evelyn A. Post came to Ethyl from Johns-Manville Corp. She is a stenographer in the New York office. Evelyn belongs to the New York Zoological Society. *gr _ Helen A. Rayl, stenographer at the Detroit Labs, is married and has three daughters. A native of Michigan, she was bom in Cass City and lives in Royal Oak. Thomas L. Williams, chemical technician at Detroit Labs, lives with his wife and daughter in Detroit. He was a wrestling champ in college. Frankie D. Zycha, technician at Gasoline Testing, Houston, is single, a native Texan, a veteran and a member of the Knights of Columbus. IT ETC 10880 FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT 'Mr "g'-Tt One of the unfortunate aspects of television is that an outstand ing play is rarelv repeated and viewers who happened to spend that particular evening at another pastime have no opportunity to catch the show a second time around. If you were one of those who missed the plavs that Simon and Schuster has col lected in Six Television Plavs by Reginald Rose, you'll enjoy reading them now, and you'll find that they are every bit as satisfying in their current form. Patrick Campbell, England's resounding answer to our own S. J. Perlman and a past master of the nonsensical, has con cocted some hilarious pieces of absurdity on almost everything possible or plausible in Simon and Schuster's A Short Trot With a Cultured Mind. With some very funny drawings by Hilary Knight, it's a fast track all the way. The cultured mind of the title is as whacky as thev come but it certainly knows its way around mayhem. It's quality not quantity that makes Dutton's Johnny Purple by John Wvllie a far better than average novel about the late world conflict. Most war books, it seems to us, are enormous volumes, but out of the many big ones there are few that compare with this slim novel set in Sumatra and peopled, for the most part, by British subjects. Their personal conflicts run a close second to the larger clash and they are all interesting personalities, manipulated both artfully and actively by a highly capable writer. Simone de Beauvoir, one of France's best contemporary writers and a great favorite on the Continent, has journeyed across the Atlantic once again in World's publication of her Prix Goncourt novel. The Mandarins, a vehicle as solid as the Queen Mary and almost as large. In 600 pages, Madame de Beauvoir re creates Paris shortly after the liberation in 1944 and she does it with a pair of the sharpest eyes imaginable. Her people and her Paris are tangible; her ideas are not mere thoughts; her artistry is superb; her hand never trembles. If you're a Jack London fan, you may find something of the master in Random House's new novel The North Star by Will Henry, a writer who seems to know his way around on the ice. In this action tale of the Yukon, complete with Huskies, wolves, Eskimos, gold mines, flying fists and murderous in stincts, he presents a chase across the frozen North that makes sissies out of Liza and the bloodhounds behind her. World's The Rainbow Book of Art by Thomas Craven is a comprehensive excursion into the world of painting from the caveman to the modems, amply illustrated with the work of masters. The text is simple and understandable and seemed to us a good one with which to introduce strangers to the color of the canvas. If you like illustrated bits of nonsense, you'll get a good per centage of chuckles from Dutton's A Saw Screams at Mid night by G. A. Mills, a pictorial satire of the male who's not too handy around the house. Some of the satire may strike a little too close to home unless you're a man who reallv knows his way about with a hammer and nails. Simon and Schuster's The Wicked Village by Gabriel Chevallier is as French as the can-can and perhaps a bit more abandoned. In the village of Clochemerle, a lusty group of folks revel in ribaldry and kick up their heels at the slightest provocation. The wine is heady, the sun is strong and the belles are toothsome. Decidedly not a book for children, it ought to tickle the funnvbones of less squeamish adults. Paul Hvde Bonner's With Both Eyes Open (Scribners) is a perplexing little novel that's quite a guessing game about a lady who may or may not have done in a couple of former husbands. The problem, which occurs for the most part in Scotland, is whether a widower should marry her in spite of the rumors. He does, but that's hardly the end of things. The recent success of Bonjovr, Tristese no doubt prompted Douglas Fairbaim to write A Man's World for Simon and Schuster, which in spite of its pleasant moments does not quite come up to the standard of its predecessor. The story of a 17-year-old boy who encounters first love (?) in a Riviera port, it is short and concise, sometimes touching, frequently trenchant but never very dramatic. The Cautious Overshoes bv Margaret Scherf, a Crime Club Selection, is quick and exciting reading with all the plot twists and tangles essential to a good mystery. Set in Montana, it involved a missing person, a murder and an unusual sleuth in Reverend Martin Buell. The overshoes of the title are pure gimmick to keep you guessing, and our guess is that you'll be properly baffled. Doubleday's The USA In Color, edited by the editors of Holiday, is a handsome portfolio of color photographs that appeared in the popular magazine, all beautifully reproduced and terribly tempting. This armchair vacation makes an extensive trip to the magnificent mansions of the Old South, the wide plains of the West, the white mountains of the North west and the concrete heights of the East. The entire tour is impressive. 18 ETC 10881 Two short novels by Paxton Davis are paired up and fairly well matched in Simon and Schuster's Two Soldiers, another look at men at war in the Far East. In this case, their private demons are as much a threat as the enemy. Both men, how ever, eventually prove their moral fibre to their own and the reader's satisfaction. The author writes with simple clarity and judicious selection throughout. William E. Barrett, whose The Left Hand of God hit the public fancv a while back, has turned out The Sudden Strangers for Doubleday, and it's a complicated affair about a complicated familv, the son of which at least sets himself straight on life's winding road. He is, however, a little dizzied from it all. In Doubleday's Crime Club Selection A Man of Two Tribes, detective Napoleon Bonaparte (no relation to the Little Corporal) searches for a missing woman in Austrialia, and it's one of the most fascinating hunts vou're ever likely to read through. Not only will you guess like crazy, but the details of life in the-land-down-under, especially the desert episodes, will intrigue you for sure. Quite a bit of fighting went on from shipboard when the Union met the Confederacy, and the accounts of it as told by Fletcher Pratt in Henry Holt's CrviL War On Western Waters are interesting historical fact from strategy to actual combat. Mortar boats, flagships and assorted vessels of the time go at it hot and heavy. Newspapermen seem to have a bent for trouble and Bradley Davis is no exception in Edwin Lanham's mystifying Death In the Wind, from Harcourt, Brace and Company. Brad's trouble is plenty of trouble--murder. He's accused of doing in his ex-wife and practically no one believes in his innocence, which is ultimately proved when the real culprit is brought to task. A hurricane in Connecticut also blows up some exciting effects of its own. Politics, which seems to be increasingly popular in electionyear fiction, is the subject of Macmillan's The Big Fella, authored by Henry W. Clune. This time it's New York 50 %ears ago and an ambitious politico by the name of Dan Heme, who not only tosses his hat into the ring but his wife and son as well. He makes a lot of costly mistakes and he pays for them through the nose. If space is a problem around your house or apartment, you "ill definitely find a remedy in Harper's Family Handy man's Book of Built-ins, which includes a large number of practical ideas and plans for storage cabinets and hideaways for every room. Over 200- illustrations help guide your tools. With summer nipping at the heels of spring, McKay has come up with a real monev-saver in 150 Budget Vacations bv Horace Coon. The collection includes a wide variety of trips from an equally wide variety of areas, and there is plenty of useful information to help stretch your pocketbook. Though our country is relatively young, it has created a char acter more unique and more comprehensive than that of many older nations, for it combines a number of old world traditions with many more new customs and celebrations. In Washburn's Festivals USA by Robert Meyer, Jr. you will discover more than 1200 events that take place annually and you will be tempted to include at least one of them on your vacation. MOVIES ......................................." Robert E. Sherwood's Waterloo Bridge, previously filmed with Vivien Leigh and Robert Tavlor as the wartime lovers, is the basis of Metro-Goldwvn-Maver's Gaby, which stars Leslie Caron and John Kerr this time around. The new version has moved up one war closer but the background is still London and the story is still appealing. Hilda Crane, which 20th Century-Fox has filmed from Samuel Raphaelson's recent Broadway plav, is adult drama that explores the questionable behavior of a woman whose life is by no means exemplary. Jean Simmons, looking like a mil lion bucks, plays the crazv-mixed-up-kid who doesn't know which end is up, and she overcomes her trials and tribulations very nicely. In Columbia Pictures The Harder They Fall, the screen ver sion of Budd Schulberg's best seller, Humphrey Bogart is right in his element as a sports writer turned press agent for a prize fighter. This particular pug is duped by cronies as crooked as a mountain road and Mr. Bogart, no sissv himself, finds he can't stomach the dirty doings. TELEVISION The Dark Continent is very much in the news these days, and Edward R. Murrow will give you a long look at its mysteries when his See It Now show presents part two of Report From Africa on Mav 17. And "they're off!" on May 19 when the Preakness Stakes will be run and televised from Pimlico Race Track. Just as spirited as a thoroughbred is Maurice Chevalier --that Frenchman who never grows old. He appears in color with his straw hat and cane over Max Liebman Presents on the evening of May 20. The Child Behind the Wall, a study of emotionally disturbed children, is scheduled for March Of Medicine on May 20. Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, a husband-and-wife team that never fails to please, will star in The Confidence Man over the Alcoa Hour on May 27. On the following evening, Producers' Showcase presents Bloomer Girl, an hour-and-ahalf color musical featuring Barbara Cook. A television adaptation of John Hersev's wartime novel, A Bell For Adano, is slated for color and black-and-white viewing over Ford Star Jubilee on June 2. Ex-president's daughter and one of the season's favorite brides, Margaret Truman will have star billing when she appears in the teledrama Autumn Crocus over Matinee Theater on June 6. 19 SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS . Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing Ethvl employees in Detroit, New York, the Sales department and Regional offices. Detroit: Morton Antler, $20.00 (Correct conditions causing rusting of containers in "I" building); James F. Bell, $15.00 (vent spouts of fuel dis pensing burettes in room C-21. Will promote complete draining of spout when drawing off reference fuel); William J. Brown, $20.00 (Control power to electronic spark protractor. Will permit selection of voltage to suit vehicle and improve the accuracy of the instrument); Henry W. De Vries, $15.00 (Chair rail on walls to protect paint and maintain appearance); Emelie J. Thomas, $20.00 (Redecorate cafe teria, will be repainted in a more pleas ant color, drapes hung, etc); H. J. Sewell, $25.00 (Include national aver age motor octane number in "Gasoline Antiknock Quality Survey"); D. V. Yates, $15.00 (Provide and protect walkway at South lamp post in parking lot. Will improve access to employees' cars); ARTHUR H. ZErrz, Jr. $10.00 (Improve labeling in cafeteria). New York: William G. Ball, Jr., Certificate (Octane slide rule for sales promotion); Charles H. Clark, $10.00 (Company arrange for amusement tickets for employees at reduced prices); Richard F. Cook, $20.00 (Use 8 X 11 or larger envelopes with first class window attached.) Sales Department and Regional Offices: John S. Cole, $15.00 (Have a map on the reverse side of the "Area Weighted Averages Gasoline Antiknock Quality" report); Adeline C. Edwards, $25.00 (Remove the doors on the private staircases as a safety precaution); J. W. Emery, $20.00 (Send a bulletin to the field recommending an improvement in the packing cases used for shipment of the projectors used in the pan screen presentation to prevent damage); Paul Fitzpatrick, $10.00 (Slide showing Drive More shield and slogan be-made up and incorporated in visual presenta tions put on bv the Company); Donald S. Flynn and D. Forsdick, $200.00 (Program to expand the Drive More campaign in order to provide for active participation bv service station attend ants); Barbara Johnson, $10.00 (Title be stenciled on flat side and edge of cases for new films as they are issued); Hudson W. Kellogg, Certificate (Eliminate entirely sending copies of field sample report to regional offices and send to account representatives only re ports on class 1 samples which are below normal quality and class 2 and 3--com plaint of special--samples, since all of this is available in the monthly survey); Edward C. Mulligan, $20.00, Sup plementary award, (Each of the four quarterly periods for new field sample gasoline antiknock quality survey start one month later so that the sampling period will begin the month after the normal seasonal refinery change over); Walter H. Resler, $10.00 (A bulletin to explain the differences between our monthly and yearly "Re port of Gasoline Sales" and API's report of gasoline consumption by states); Eleanor M. SCHREYER, $10.00 (Recommend use, whenever possible, of a space for routing and date stamp on all new or revised; company forms); Marshall Sittig, $40.00 (Liquid lead pencil giveaway). Eastern Region Bob and Margreth Richardson -- a granddaughter, Karen Elizabeth, bom on March 25, to their son. Bob, Jr., and his wife. Bob is district manager in the Philadelphia office. John and Raquel KELLY-a son. John Thomas, bom on April 16 at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N. J. John, who is in the Finance department, is temporarily in Payroll. EXTRACURRICULAR Grant Scott, field representative in the Southern Region, was recently appointed chairman of the machinery equipment committee of the state and national Junior Tractor Operators Contests at the Tulsa State Fair this fall. Hap Philp, assistant manager of the Canadian office, has recently been elected chairman of the Boy Scouts Association for North Area of Toronto Metropolitan Region. Don Robertson, Community Relations, Baton Rouge, is a member of the Louisiana Military District team which walked off with top honors in the recent rifle matches. Don is a captain in the Army Reserve. Hewitt Gomez, recreation director. Baton Rouge, served as chairman of the industrial sessions when the Southwest District of the National Recreation Asso ciation held its conference in Baton Rouge early in April. He also served on the Host Committee. The conference was held for all recrea tion directors, commission and board members in the southwestern part of the United States. Sessions covered rural, municipal, industrial, church, hospital and military recreation. L. H. Stephens, Plans and Standards, Baton Rouge, will serve as chairman of the 1957 Industry-Faculty Conference. The conference is held each year at Louisiana State University. James C. Williams, EtCl Maint., Baton Rouge, has been recently named to the post of honorary vice-president of the American Orchid Society and is the cur rent president of the Greater Baton Rouge Orchid Society. W. S. RILEY, Industrial Engineering, Baton Rouge, served as chairman of the first annual Explorer Scout Regatta held at False River recently. Other Ethyl people assisting him were W. D. Boyd, Laundry P&ES; Jerry Giraitis, R&E Laboratory, and Henry Wall, Process Development. 20 ETC 10883 Bob Richardson, Philadelphia district manager, was recently appointed OIIC Middle Atlantic District School Activity Chairman. Ed Michael, account representative working out of the Philadelphia office, is also participating in OIIC activities and holds the position of Philadelphia Country School Program Chairman. Mary Levering has recently been appointed Registration Chairman for the Region I Conference of the Association of Desk & Derrick Clubs of North America. The conference will be held in Philadelphia May 11 through 13. Mary, who is secretary to Bob Richard son, Philadelphia, is a member of the William Penn Desk & Derrick Club. Jim Boudreau, Director of Public Rela tions, New York, was recently appointed a member of the newly-created Educa tional Advisory Council to work with the OIIC and its nation-wide school pro gram. Specific objective of the Council's formation is to broaden the scope and depth of the school program, and to pro vide OIIC with specialized counsel and guidance. The Council consists of 14 members from the staffs of oil compa nies throughout the country. Eastern Region Greta Richardson, daughter of Bob Richardson, Philadelphia, was married to Edward A. Ettinger on March 27. The ceremony was performed in the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church, Swarthmore, Pa. New York Gertrude Melloh was married to Raymond Schifferdecker on April 28, at St. Girard's Catholic Church in Hollis, Long Island. A party was given in honor of Gert rude, who is in the Payroll Division, on April 19 by thirty of her co-workers. She was presented with a serving trav, a chafing dish and silver-rimmed ash trays. Harry Wheelbr, Industrial Relations, Baton Rouge, recently was guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Louisiana Chapter of the American Society of Training Directors. Harry discussed Human Relations in Training. Ray Metternich, who presided at the meet ing is president of the Louisiana Chap ter. He is also in Industrial Relations. Dr. Margarbt E. Griffing, Detroit, presented a paper entitled "Determina tion of Trace Amounts of Lead in Gas oline and Naphtha" at the group session on analytical research during the 20th Mid-vear Meeting of the Division of Refining of API. The meeting was held in Montreal, Canada on May 14. Her co-authors include Adels Rozek of the Detroit Labs and L. J.. Snyder and S. R. Henderson, both of the Baton Rouge plant. W. J. Splaine, Production Planning, Baton Rouge, participated in a panel discussion in connection with the recent conference of the National Recreation Association which was held in Baton Rouge. Splaine discussed financial prob lems confronting recreation personnel. Ted Carron, director of employee train ing and development at the Detroit Labs and chairman of the Ethyl Fellowship and Scholarship Committee, was the main speaker at a luncheon held on the first Business-Education Day in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The lunch eon was held on April 25. Art Deverill of the Financial Control Section in New York recently addressed the Baton Rouge Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants. He dis cussed "Financial Reports for Top Man agement." "Industrialization of the South" was the subject of a recent talk given by Steve Henry, Director of Community Rela tions, Baton Rouge, at the annual meet ing of the presidents of Southern Colleges and Universities held in Gulf port, Miss. Over 50 Southern Colleges and Universities were represented at this meeting. R. H. Cowlishaw, assistant treasurer, headquartered at Baton Rouge, was the recent guest speaker at a meeting of the Sabine Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants in Orange, Texas. Bob who is a charter member and past president of the Baton Rouge Chapter of N.A.C.A., spoke on "An Approach to Data Processing." Ethyl's suggestion system booklet en titled "Break It Down," was recently re printed in the Awards Review, a publica tion issued by the Army Incentive Awards Board and the Elliott Bulletin put out by the Elliott Service Company, a publishing firm in New York. The "Break It Down" booklet is the result of a suggestion submitted by Ed Downs of the New York Sales department. Preliminary work in preparation for con struction of an addition at the Medical and Personnel building at Baton Rouge started during February when workers began breaking concrete to make way for the foundation forms. The three-floor addition will provide 23,000 square feet of space. Baton Rouge personnel took an active part in Chemical Progress Week which was observed April 23 through 28. Serving on the local committee were R. S. Asbury, R&E Adm., L. J. Snyder, David Campbell and Frank Conrad, all of whom are in Chemical Research and Development. Chemical Progress Week is designed to highlight the importance of chemistry in the lives of American people. The theme of the observance was "How Chemistry Benefits You" and "A Better Today--A Brighter Tomorrow Through Chemistry." 21 ETC 10884 ANNUAL MEETING IN TEXAS Ethyl personnel were active at the 44th annual meet ing of the Western Petroleum Association held Baker Corporation, and, right, Wayne Warren, direc tor of Refinery Technology, Detroit Labs. Wayne recently in San Antonio, Texas. Shown in the above presented a technical paper co-authored by himself picture at the left are Bob Phillips, manager of Howe- and R. C. Kerston of the Labs. In the top picture to the right, Len Huxtable, assistant regional manager, Southern Region, chats with cigar-smoking Keith Tieman of Wilcox Oil Co. Above, Harry Cottrell, account representative in the Dallas district, talks as V. B. Chance, president of Atlas Process Co., listens. Former Ethyl man, Tom Risk, poses with Ted Little field, right, manager of Western Region. Pictures were taken by Petroleum Processing. ETC 10885 JUNIOR OILMEN Steve Shank, right, son of Lou Shank, manager of the Suggestion System, and a fellow seventh grader display the derrick rig and well driver which they constructed at their school in Yonkers, N. Y. The boys, who also prepared an "earth section" to show how oil is drilled and made maps of oil locations, had an exhibit in a county science fair in April. STUDIO VISITORS Two of the greatest admirers during the recent production of the "Fire Power" movie were the producer's daughters. Bill Spierer, manager of Sales Promotion, gave his daughters Mary Jeanne, right, and Rosemary a tour of the set in the New York City studio in which part of the movie was filmed. A few days later the girls related the adventure to their school classmates. ETC 10886 ON-PLANT TRAINING The Company likes to keep its employees as in formed as possible on its numerous business opera tions. One of the best means of achieving this goal is they could do their jobs better and be of greater service to our customer companies. In picture to the left, Eben Stubblefield, at left, supervisor of Customer I on-plant training. Shown here are four account rep Orders, Production Planning, explains customer orders i resentatives from various regions who spent a week just received over the teletype machines to N. J. I at the Baton Rouge plant recently, touring each area Linstromberg, account representative from Louisville, and learning plant procedures and operations so that Ky. Next, a tank car in the repair shop for recondition- more people, more placet RACERS VISIT LABS A group of racing boat owners and drivers visited the Detroit Labs in April and discussed fuel prob lems with Bob Kerley, director of Products Applica tion. Their boats will race in Detroit on September 1. Left to right are Bob; James Thompson, represen ting Canadian boat; Bill Stroh, owner of "Miss De troit"; and Danny Foster, well-known driver. ETC 10887 BINGO PARTY About 350 employees at the Detroit Labs and their families attended the annual bingo party spon sored by the Ethyl Society this spring. The games were played in the garage at the Labs. Below, look ing intent as they listen to the caller's numbers and then add corn kernels to their bingo cards, are John Lane of Information and his son John. ing is inspected by P. E. Berry, right, of Eastern Region. His guide is Roy Monahan of Product Plan ning. A. T. Basye of Central Region is shown in the picture above, flanked by William Croissant, rate su pervisor, left, and Michael Gaydos, assistant traffic manager, who are explaining the various rate and traffic procedures used in shipping "Ethyl" antiknock compound. Another on-plant trainee during the orientation program was Jack Laubach, account rep resentative from Southern Region. H. B. Bradford of Production Planning, left above, is showing Jack a label display. When representatives returned to home, they had a greater understanding of what is entailed in producing and shipping "Ethyl". ETC 10888 GLO-BLOK WINS AWARD DESK & DERRICK COURSE G Alo-Blok, the Ethyl-sponsored Junior Achievement ( Company at Houston plant, won an honorable course entitled "How Business Operates" is being given by the Desk & Derrick Club in New York mention award for its display at the Junior Achieve City. Concerned with basic principles of business ment Trade Fair & Exposition held at the Shamrock- management in the oil industry, eight sessions are ! Hilton Hotel, Houston, recently. Below Ethyl's J. H. being offered this spring and eight others next fall. McCrary, left, and W. A. Dunham, advisors to the Below, arriving for a recent class, is Eleanor Helm- I Company, chat with young Jimmy Rash. rich of Ethyl's Finance department. It i BALLERINA STRIKES A POSE i When an art group on Long Island, N. Y., wanted world, it just happened that a prima ballerina of the 4 a "representative" ballerina as a model for their "Met" and a former ballet star of the Philadelphia painting, they selected Diane Gulick, 17-year-oldOpera Company were neighbors of the Gulicks in daughter of Howard Gulick of Industrial Relations. Baldwin, L. I., and encouraged Diane as a youngster Diane, who posed for the painters in March and April, to learn ballet. She has studied long and hard ever has appeared in 19 operas at the Metropolitan Opera since and expects to make a career of interpretive House. As is the case in this sometimes wonderful dancing after she graduates from high school in June. more people, more placet ETC 10889 SILVER AWARD FOR FLAA I dan Flaa, far right, field representative in the Tulsa office, Southern Region, was one of three eastern Oklahoma men who received Silver Award certificates March 27. Others in the picture are, left to right, L. C. Clarke of Continental Oil Company; R. R. Shook of Sinclair Refining Company, OIIC state co-chairman for their meritorious service in behalf of the Oil In for eastern Oklahoma and presenter of the awards; dustry Information Committee during 1955. The pres and Ellis Orr of Service Pipe Line Company. The i entation ceremony was held in conjunction with the Meeting was attended by some 40 oilmen from Oklahoma State OIIC meeting in Oklahoma City on throughout the state. i i nr Harry Manning, field representative in the Lot Angeles office, roars info a customer company sarvica sfafion with Ethyl's old Brush aufomobila. Tha occasion was a Company talas promotion activity, and tha vintage car, with a "Drivo Mora" shield hung on tha back, had other motorists goggla-ayad. 27 ETC 10890 M ETC 10892 -- ETHYL Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited Contents Page A Midsummer Night's Dream.... 2 Wanderer'8 Workshop................. 4 People from EthyL Cars from Everywhere ............................... 6 Sunny Side Upl ........................... 10 It Can Happen To You................ 12 A Family Affair............................. 14 We've Got You Covered.............. 16 For Your Entertainment ............. 18 Milestones ..................................... 20 Personals ..................................... 22 Ethyl Welcomes........................... 24 Newsbriefs ..................................... 25 People and Places....................... 26 Leonhard Dowty .................................... Editor Jean Nicol...........................Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver.- Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Mar garet Graham, Anne Mansfield, Les Motson, Andy Pallay, Kathleen Raley, Ross Rife, Adele Rozek, Karl Schmid; photographer; Eric Owen; Houston; Ken Jost, Guy Keller, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock; Lot Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phillips; New Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Etna Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Locke; Philadelphia: Mary Lever ing; Pittsburgh: Leona Rasmussen; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; photographer: Fred Green; San Francisco: Wii Hancock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Macdonald. ON OUR COVER: After inspecting the latest cars for several hours, Joan Doran, Betty Barnes, Dave Donovan and Vic Ailing of the New York office enjoy a cup of coffee at the recent International Automobile Show held in the New York Coliseum. The story is on page 6. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. midsummer night, is fragile fare indeed and Fool's f Gold at best. That twirling trout stream where you castyour line and come up time and time again with wriggling proof of your prize is pine mirage. That cod, blue water into which you dive deep and swim ' about as supple as a porpoise is less than vapor. That warm, bright sun that tans your skin an even, perfect bronze is really cold illusion. Everything, in fact, is phantom in the spectral world . of sleep. Reality's eyes are myopic when the head is on the pillow and the mind is circling somewhere about Cloud 9. In Shakespeare's comic fantasy, from which we've borrowed our title and our illustrations, fantastic creatures cavort through a lush forest and humorous havoc has everybody confused and scrambling. Our. dreams are different. We know where we're going. Though what goes on in them may look like modern art come to life, what we see in the clear, cool light v' ^: ~ei dawn is tangible -- two weeks with pay. We've a fact to dream on and no matter what strange imagery bobs up when we're asleep the practical knowledge that we've 16 days of summer aQ to ourselves keeps us sleeping soundly. In our mind, we've packed our bags a hundred times, bought at least a dozen new bathing suits, tested a score or more of tennis rackets and sailed around a number of breezy bays. It hasn't rained a solitary day, and the telephone hasn't jingled a single intrusion. We've skipped the razor two days running, and we haven't worn a tie for more than an hour. Everything's been as rosy as a Maine lobster,, and we've frequently thanked our times for letting us be bom in a day and age that's appreciative of the need for an annual rest from routine. We've even got softhearted and pitied our ancestors, who worked and toiled without rest through longer days and unbroken years . . . and for wages that couldn't take them very far even if they had the time and the means to travel. We'll take today any day. ETC 10894 WANDERER'S WORKSHOP i With hit workshop to keep him occupied, Bill Wanderor doesn't do much wandering. Here he pre* pares a fuel pump to be submerged in a gas tank. When a hobby gives pleasure it justifies its exist ence. But when it also makes a contribution to built expressly for open-throttle driving over a period of miles. Bill's engines go into what are known as progress, then it is a source of deep satisfaction as well."drag cars." These also race, but they strive for fast That's the way it is with Bill Wanderer, design acceleration from a standing position and only run a engineer at the Detroit Labs. Bill's hobby since his quarter-mile straight track. high school days has been the rebuilding of auto One engine that Bill recently improved has 300 mobile engines--what he calls "spirited thorough horsepower and goes from a standstill to 80 miles per breds." In some cases, improvements made on manu hour in 10.2 seconds. Comparison with the hottest facturers' engines by Bill and others like him have been manufacturers' engines proves what an engineering adopted bv the manufacturers themselves and at this feat this was. The four top manufacturers' engines moment are being enjoyed by car drivers everywhere. today require from 19 to 24 seconds to get from a Bill feels pretty proud about these accomplishments, standstill to 80 M.P.H. and with good reason. He has personally had a hand Almost needless to say, this engine of Bill's has in some of the engine changes that have led to the never lost a race in which it has competed. high-compression, high-horsepower engines that are However, the basis of Bill's satisfaction doesn't in use today. come from just fast acceleration in an engine. His He doesn't want anyone to confuse these rebuilt ability to maintain and improve upon smoothness of engines with "hot-rod" engines or with racing car en ride, maneuverability and other characteristics of a gines. Hot-rods usually sacrifice smoothness of ride fine passenger car--plus the increased horsepower- and other qualities with power, and racing cars are warrant his pride in his work. Until a few years a?o ETC 10895 Fabrication of throttle linkage to open hybrid carburetors is only ona of numerous operations for the creation ot these high performance engines. Here Bill insulates specially machined large val ret. Although rerioui changes are required, the main factor is to increase stroke and bore site. A supercharger is fitted onto the angina. Bill has inrested about $7,500 In equipment and, last fall, built a workshop to the rear of his house. Everything has to bt checked ahd double chocked, s large-displacement engines ere, of course, in tricate mechanisms. Bill inspects a cam shaft. Bill and Bob Balint of Bell Telephone, another engine enthusiast, are installing new main bear ings on one of the high performance engines. Bill fits special engine mountings on a car frame upon which an engine of a different manufacturer is being installed following engine improvements. Bill says, cars with relatively low horsepower had a hard time of it pulling their weights up hills, at high speeds and in other trying circumstances. Now that car engines provide more power than is basically needed, they can do the job easier and with less wear and tear. And, of course, the quick power is there when the driver really needs it. Some 20 years of keen interest in high performance engines and about $7,500 in equipment have led to the success of Bill's hobby. Even his wife Olive, who teaches at a local elementary school, is enthusiastic about mechanics and often helps out in the new work shop Bill has built behind their home. Bill claims she is one of the very few school teachers who can repair cars. The Wanderers flew to California last summer on their vacation and spent a week watching various drag races and absorbing new engineering ideas. These drag races, which have become increasingly popular during the last five years, serve as proving grounds for engine changes that may someday be adopted by the engine manufacturers. Factory representatives often attend the races, inspect the cars and discuss engine modifications with the automotive engineers who made them. As a result of this cooperative, progressive spirit on the part of both independent engineers and engine manufacturers, passenger car engines are constantly being improved and their finer qualities made available for the satisfaction and en joyment of the general driving public. Bill has an excellent background for achieving success with his engines. Before he joined Ethyl 15 years ago, he was in charge of the Experimental Engine department of Pontiac Motor Division, Gener al Motors. In both this position and in his present instrumentation work at the Labs, the know-how he has gained has been a great assistance to his hobby. Indeed, his work has helped with his hobby and his hobby with his work. Thus everyone benefits--Bill himself, Ethyl, the engine manufacturers and the millions of us who drive and ride in better cars with better engines. 8 _ ,,,,,,~ ETC 10896 A now crankshaft is fitted to an angino. On* of Bid's rebuilt anginas has 300 horsepower and hat never lost a race in which it competed. This angina is almost ready for tasting and than for the drag races. Bill makes final adjustments on the special carburetors and the new manifolds. Bill and Joe Oobbs of Sun Electric Company, an ignition expert, relax in the workshop for a few moments and discuss the merits of a new cam shaft. People from Ethyl, Cars I New cars, like new babies and old coins, have tre mendous appeal for both young and old, and to ogle, test and wish upon the latest models and fu ture possibilities. Among the admirers of wheel and when a comprehensive and spectacular array of them chassis were Ethyl employees Joan Doran and Bettv is assembled for exhibition it's a sure bet that a crowd Barnes of the Finance department, and Dave Dono of eager inspectors will pack the halls. At the recent van and Vic Ailing of General Services, who found International Automobile Show in New York's big, themselves car-hopping from one slick model to an plush and new Coliseum, a record crowd turned out other even more sensational. * This modol should Hav* boon namad tha Wingod Victory--but these aren't wings on the car Vic Ailing and Joan Doran ara examining: they're called "butterfly" qoors. from Everywhere With more gleam than a toothpaste ad, many of the new cars revolved on their platforms like showgirls in a spectacular review--some like bloated beetles; others like flying saucers; some as big as yachts; others as wild as Alice's imagination; all of them symbolic of motor progress. With magnetic appeal, they held an approving audience. r People from Ethyl, Car* from Evarywhora (Cont.) ;! Sports cars were probably the biggest attraction, squatting low and pocket-size in the midst of large luxury cars that looked as though they ought to be manned by a crew of footmen in powdered wigs and gold braid. Models ranged from such stolid oldtimers as the Rolls Royce, as unchanged as the Rock of Gi braltar, to vehicles that Henry Ford never would have recognized as having any relationship whatever to his once revolutionary Model-T. As interesting as the shiny steel and chrome exte riors, a number of powerful engines were displayed along with other interior mechanisms that make to day's automobiles infinitely more commodious than their predecessors. Descending the escalators from the Show, hundreds of thousands of auto enthusiasts saw the big Ethyl "Drive More" banner hanging above them and undoubtedly felt that, with the 1956 mod els they had just inspected, driving more would not only be cheaper by the mile but a lot more comfort able and far more relaxing. ETC 10899 1 f. , . fi : y V \ * l \ * / *' .. v. .* ,e-V ' ...... . vk: kt: SUNNY .# v., . ------*- * y *. * .*"V*'**. * V. y * i ; .\j vv 4 i ! A *. \ ^t . *' '% \mm: SIDE UP! Summer is the season in the sun, the time to be tanned and toasted not broiled and roasted Now that the "red skin" days are arriving, it is high time to burst the bubbles of a few popular mis conceptions on how to keep cool and healthy. Three principal fiends lurk in the heart of the torrid weather ahead: sunburn, sunstroke and heat exhaus tion. Any one of these can deal you a fatal bloweven sunburn, which is, after all, a bum, and danger ous as well as painful and unsightly. However, by keeping a cool head in the dog days we can avoid these afflictions and get through^ the summer with a minimum of discomfort. Now, about those misconceptions--do you, by chance, hold to the common belief that you should eat lightly during the summertime? If so, you're wrong --you won't feel the heat less because you eat less. Nu trition studies show that many people become sluggish in summer because they eat too little. Doctors and dietitians agree that your need for nourishment is determined not by the weather but by the amount of energy you require; if your work and activities are pretty much the same summer and winter, your food requirements are similar too. Should you eat cool foods? It may have the psy chological benefit of increasing your heat-jaded appe tite, but it doesn't always keep you cooler than hot dishes. The amount of heat released by any food depends less on its temperature than on the calories it contains. Thus, although you absorb a small amount of heat from hot food while you're eating it, in the long run a platter of cold chicken will warm you more than a steaming cup of chicken soup, because it has more calories. How about ice water? The answer, again, is no. It has been found that ice water isn't an effective cooler as it interferes with the body's normal tem perature-regulating mechanism. In the same fashion, a lukewarm bath or shower is more refreshing than a cold one. It can be generally stated that any sudden, excessive temperature changes are at the least ineffec tual and at the most harmful for the body. Don't leap into the surf after baking yourself on the beach; go in timidly, a toe at a time. And don't turn a cold >c2. garden hose on your overheated children--it could lead to a chill or worse. . /\ ETC 10901 IU t It may hurt the masculine vanity to know that women can take hot weather better than men. Women, who are usually better insulated than men, have a wider degree of "comfort range." Children and sick, elderly or overweight people are even more suscep tible than men and may fare badly during a hot spell unless precautions are taken. Nor is laziness a good excuse in the summer months. Investigations by the U. S. Army Medical Service in dicate that, if you are a normally healthy person, the more inactive you are the more you may be affected by the heat. Moving about circulates the air which, in tum, helps keep you cooler. Some people have the notion that air-conditioning can prove dangerous to the health. However, scien tific tests with volunteers going back and forth be tween a cool room and a hot one disclosed no ill effects. Victims of heart or circulatory ailments have also been tested and they too have made easy, safe adjustments. Those of us at Ethyl who work in airconditioned installations will be happy to learn that doctors advise people to go into air-conditioned build ings periodically during an oppressive hot spell. As for your summer wardrobe, take a tip from the Arabs. That is, wear loose, porous clothing which allows air to circulate over the skin and wear materials which are white so that the sun's rays will be some what deflected. He-men who like to strip down to the waist while playing or working in the sun will do much better by wearing a light shirt. It not only pre vents sunburn, but it also is cooler. Disobey the season's fundamental rules and you'll wind up a victim to sunstroke or heat exhaustion. Remember to call a doctor at once should either sun stroke or heat exhaustion fell someone around you. Both svmntnmc TMa *Jrst-aid treatments vary widely for these two afflictions. A victim of sunstroke will be flushed and feverish while the victim of heat exhaustion will be chilled. A good rule for the layman is the following: if the patient is hot, cool him; if he's cold, warm him. More prevalent than mosquitos, sunburn can get you almost anytime and it's so sly you often don't know you've been victimized. Fair-skinned people should be especially careful how they flirt with the summer sun. They tend to sunburn easily and badly because their skin lacks enough pigment to develop a protective tan. But even dark-skinned people have to go gently at first. For everyone, as a rule, it is highly advisable to spend only a few minutes in the sun the first day at the beach. Gradually increase the time of exposure for a couple of weeks and you should have a tan that will keep you from being boiled alive. It is also well to remember that the "skyshine" of over cast days can sometimes give you just as bad a bum as the direct sun. One more note: don't sneer at suntan lotions and creams. They're not just for the ladies, and the best ones, the medically endorsed ones, serve as a screen between your vulnerable skin and the onslaught of the sun's ultraviolet rays. If, having disregarded the above rules, you come down with a painful sunburn, Ethyl's Medical departments have ointment that will relieve your discomfort. Despite the cheerfulness of our title, Sunny Side Up, the only time to expose yourself to ol' Sol is after you've built up a sturdy tan, and even then you shouldn't make it an all-day stay at the beach. Indeed, there is one item of common knowledge on the sub ject of summer health and well-being that holds true. It's that the shade is a nice, balmy place in which to work, play or relax. IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU In all probability you don't know any of the people in these pictures, but you certainly know a great many folks like them -- people who figuratively hitch their wagons to a star and visit some of the country's outstanding tourist attractions when vacationtime brings out the wanderlust in all of us. Any of them could be you or members of your fam ily. It isn't at all difficult in these days of commodious travel to imagine yourself taking pictures of the Grand Canyon, sitting in on a session of the UN, eating gumbo in old New Orleans, or watching the Chicago Cubs at home in Wrigley Field. An outstanding example of modem architecture, the United Nations he* severe! guided tours e day for out-of-town visitors to Manhattan. Hiis histone windmill is only one of the many picturesque scenes on Cape Cod, where great stretches of beach and surf call vacationers. With casties and sailing ships among the many exhibits, California's Disneyland has become a vacation favorite for families with children. ETC 10903 When summer weather reaches itr peak and the heat is on most piacas, tha Maine coast often vacationers e cooler climate in which to relax and anjoy their leisure days, end there's fishing end sailing for the outdoor man. Mammoth Cave, where hordes of tourists descend into the crystal world of stalagmites end stalegtites, is one of Kentucky's most popular attractions. The flue Grass country, where thoroughbreds frisk, runs it a elosa second. It's all there for the taking. Where once it required a thorough knowledge of abracadabra and then some, it now takes only your comfortable car and some of today's high-powered gasoline -- a combination that has put flying carpets back in moth balls to stay and bottled up Aladdin's generous genie for good. By no means the end of magic, though, a car has powers that Merlin and Houdini would have traded all their sor cery for. It has the magic of reality. People have always said that the world was getting smaller, but back in grandma's day it was barely per ceptible. In our times the shrinkage is as clear as good reception on a television screen and as near as the steering wheel. Beaches are practically in our back yard and parks are as close as the accelerator. In a car, the world is your oyster. When you drive more, you see more and you have reserved seats in the front row center of everywhere. I I 1: I 1 l Early Spanish culture is revealed in the many old missions that still stand along tha Wait Coast. Most of them ara opart to tha public. Tha old Dock Straat Theatre. possibly tha first in tha country, still presents plays and reflects bygone days in Charlestown, South Carolina. Cort Tower, overlooking tha bay, is one of San Francisco's famous landmarks, but there's also Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf to inspect. k r Like many states in our vast country, New`*Mexico has numerous remnants of tha past and contrasting cultures. This picture was taken at Puye Indian ruins whare tourists can still purchase an assortment of Indian handicraft. Ir Li i Above the city of Chattanooga on top of Tennessae's Lookout Mountain, The Battle Above the Clouds is commemorated in a park dotted with old cannons and statues. Nearby, cool waterfalls and streams flow scenically. Rollta Ostrandar of Tachnieal Sarviea shows his son Tommia his talavision image. Such complex apparatus awed and delighted tha youngsters. Tha Jim Boil family finds a variaty of savory dishes to ehoosa from. Jim's wifa and thraa chiU dran now hava a battor understanding of, and approbation for, tha job ha and his fallow worten parform in Products Application division, Families also laamad a lot about tha Company generally. A FAMILY AFFAIR Since a person's family and his job are the two most important aspects of his life, employees proudly acted as guides for their families on an Open House tour of the Detroit Research Laboratories ETC 10905 Whet U thi*--Ethyl Country Club? It would teem to, with the impressive buildings end well-kept grounds thet meke the Lob* on* of tbo pridot of the industrial Detroit eree. Its roportod pewer*-by heve thought it wot o collogo comput. Dick Scales, generel meneger of Hie Labs, wot on bond to wel* com# guests end g*t ecqueinted. Shown ebove with him *r* hit ton Douglos ond hit wifo Molitso, both of whom enjoyed tho ovont. T)oth the Midwest and Ethyl Corporation have a -^tradition of friendliness, and so it came about most naturally that the employees at the Detroit Research Labs should want to get together socially, meet each other's family and show off their big, expensive, mod em installation to wives, husbands and children. This they did in May, throwing wide the usually well-guarded gates and staging an Open House that was a great success for all present, from the oldest, most knowing employees to the youngest, most wideeyed children. A tempting buffet lunch and refreshments were served, and everyone had fun getting acquainted with fellow workers' families, but the main point of interest was the tour of the Labs. Before the Open House, many families must have wondered--perhaps rather indifferently--just what the bread-winner did with his time during the week. However, actually seeing Dad's dynamometer or the wife's filing cabinets, brought home the true significance of the work. It made everyone, young and old alike, feel he really belonged to that larger unit--the Ethyl family. Before long everybody was just one big happy family as they met or renewed acquaintances white inspecting various wings of the Labs or while perteking of the delicious buffet and refreshments that were served. Major point of agreomont was that tho Datroit Laboratories was a fin* piece to work. (' i. j j- What you see before you, for all of its similarity to an ordinary umbrella, is a gamp, defined by mendous advantages it sincerely hopes that all eligible employees will join. Without question, the new plan our dictionary as an extra large umbrella of sturdyis a valuable supplement to any and all forms of in construction, such as the one used by Mrs. Gamp in surance you may carry. Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit and by doormen Prior to July 1, group sessions will be held wherever at hotels, apartment houses and restaurants. possible to explain the plan in detail. In some locations Though Ethyl is not in the umbrella business, it sessions are already underway. The Company strongly too has a gamp, one that offers the most extensive urges you to attend and feels that once you fully un coverage yet for a rainy day. It's the new Major Medi derstand the purposes you will realize that the Major cal Expense Plan, recently announced in a letter Medical Expense Plan is something you cannot pos from Bynum Turner, executive vice president,- and sibly afford to be without. available on July 1 to all regular employees enrolled The purpose of the Major Medical Expense Plan is in the basic Hospital and Surgical Benefit Program.- to help pay the enormous medical expenses usually The welfare of employees is a primary concern of incurred in any serious illness or accident, even if you business today, and Ethyl has always sought to make are not hospitalized and if surgery is not required. It its benefit plans among the very best in the industry. works similar to certain types of automobile insurance, With the new plan the Company feels that it is offer that is, on the deductible principle. As soon as your ing its employees one of the finest opportunities for expenses for any illness add up to the "deductible" protection against extensive medical expenses possi amount within a three month period, the plan takes ble and is both proud and happy to be able to do so. hold and will pay 75% of additional charges for that This type of insurance is relatively new to industry, illness, up to a maximum of $10,000. The "deductible" and Ethyl is among the first to include it in its benefit amount is scaled to earnings: $100 if you earn less program. Because the Company believes in its tre than $7,500 a year; $200 if you earn between $7,500 When sickness and accidents strike they bring the additional burden of medical bills . . 16 ETC 10907 ;i rt : I and $15,000; or $300 if you earn $15,000 or more. Thus, you pay only a small initial amount and 25* of additional costs while the plan pays 75* of those ad ditional costs for any serious disease, illness or injury. Occupational illnesses or accidents are not covered by Ethyl's new Major Medical Expense Plan. Medical expenses that are paid under the basic Hospital and Surgical Benefit Program are also excluded from the new plan's coverage. As you no doubt know, the basic Hospital and Sur gical Benefit Program pays limited hospitalization and surgical benefits as well as certain other medical ex penses. The new plan extends this coverage to include far superior hospitalization benefits, private nurses' services, physician's fees, drugs and other medical ex penses prescribed by your doctor. The plan, similar to the Hospital and Surgical Pro gram, is also available for members of your immediate family. Ethyl's Major Medical Expense Plan includes unmarried children under 19 years (23 for students) provided they are included in the basic plan. Rates for the new plan will depend upon enroll ment and experience. Tentatively, on the basis of expected enrollment the cost has been set at 89# per month for an employee only and $2.47 per month for an employee and his dependents. If our actual en rollment is greater than expected these costs may be somewhat lower. Application cards are being made available and should be filled out as soon as possible. Those who do not enroll within 31 days after the opening date, must satisfy the Equitable Life Assurance Company that they are in good health and may be asked to sub mit to an examination at their own expense. Some similar plans are set up to pay a $10,000 maximum in all, for life, but Ethyl's plan wifi pay up to $10,000 for each unrelated illness or injury. Nobody knows what the future holds, but with enrollment in the new Major Medical Expense Plan you can be assured of a minimum of worry over fi nancial matters in the event that you are stricken by an unexpected illness or accident. When you. have attended the meetings you will see more clearly all aspects of the plan and you will see more clearly, too, what wonderful medical cover age is yours for so little cost. now a new plan, soon available to regular employees, will pay most of those big costs ETC 10908 17 1 f i1t I* a 0. u Kl' [uI t- t l There is a new, absorbing and apparently accurate approach to the Civil War in Oxford's Yankee Reporters 1861-65 by Emmett Crozier, a journalist of quite some renown in his own right. His look at the rift that divided us and at the reporters who put it into words is an outstanding job of its kind in which both history and character emerge as excitingly as in any popular novel. Marquerite Steen, who has written her share of hovels and then some, including the successful The Sun Is My Undoing, has turned out a spellbinding Gothic tale, The Unquiet Spirit, for Doubleday. It's an eerie piece of fiction, to say the least, and even if you're a staunch disbeliever in ghosts our hunch is you'll find yourself wondering when you've read this supernatural puzzler. Holly Roth's The Crimson in the Purple, an Inner Sanctum Mystery, assembles a group of theatrical entrepreneurs in an old New York mansion for the express purpose of eliminating a few of them, and the premises prove extremely lively once the first blood is drawn. Meaning to help, a friendly playwright comes to dinner and later wishes he'd stayed at his typewriter. Sports fans, who seem to enjoy post mortems as much as bridge players, can recapture the past year's outstanding events on turf, gridiron, diamond and green in Dutton's Best Sports Stories op 1956, edited by Irving T. Marsh and Edward Ehre. The articles come from the country's leading newspapers and magazines, which also supplied a group of exceptional sports photographs. In G. B. Stem's For All We Know, a Macmillan novel, you'll meet the Aylesfords, a family that's hardly typical but which is far, far, far from dull. For the most part they are a celebrated group composed of a writer, an actor, a political hostess and other shining lights who inhabit a world that frequently glitters and sometimes cracks. The effects they have on one another keep them all in a perpetual state of motion and emotion. In Random House's new novel. Rogues' March by Ivan Obo lensky, some 60 years preceding 1945 take up some 400 pages in a tightly packed capsule that chronicles the lives of some folks whose paths cross in a Hudson River town called Red Brook. They're quite a busy bunch of rogues, for the most part, and their assorted escapades, eccentricities and evolutions keep them fairly well troubled much of the time. One thing's for sure, there's something happening every minute of the way. A Scribners' product. Creatures of the Deep Sea, authored by University of Berlin zoologists Klaus Guenther and Kurt Deckert, is a verbal trip in a diving suit right down to the very bottom of Davey Jones' locker, and it's quite an enlightening journey indeed. Beyond the depths of skin-diving, you'll dis cover a whole new world of creatures as nightmarish as any thing Hollywood has yet to dream up, many of them illustrated. Their behavior, to say the least, is frequently amazing. ' j j I * i ! ^ ; j r ETC 10909 Carl T. Rowan's The Pitiful and the Proud, a Random House publication, is a first-hand and first-rate report on the state of things in the Middle and Far East. Mr. Rowan, who started his trip at the request of the State Department, looks in on Pakistan, Burma, India, Hong Kong, Malaya and other exotic and troubled places where he probed into the reasons for why and wherefor. The Funny Men, from Simon and Schuster, is a funny and candid book in which television's Steve Allen has writtten some fresh, delightful and casual pieces about some of the best comedians of our times, among them the late Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Bob Hope and Groucho Marx. Mr. Allen is certainly qualified to talk about humor with authority, and he also reports some quips and remarks that are as laughprovoking as any on the channels. Ever since Sherlock Holmes first puffed his pipe in mystery fiction, London's been a favorite locale for deadly mischief, and it again plays host to some foul deeds in the Crime Club Selection A Store of Wrath by Seldon Truss. This time the excitement takes place in a department store among some exotic and shady characters who find themselves no match for good old Scotland Yard. Elizabeth Denham, a young Englishwoman who went into the service of the London War Office during World War II when she was only 21, has written the story of her harrowing exploits in occupied France for Doubledav. Under the title I Looked Right, her account is as suspenseful as any made-up mavhem in any first-rate spy thriller. She was quite a girl, and her missions put her in touch with intriguing people. Though Don't Go Near the Water is the forbidding title of Random House's forthcoming bit of humor, we heartily rec ommend that you plunge headlong into William Brinkley's very funny group of tales about a naval task force doomed to spend the war as landlubbers on a Pacific island. A midsummer selec tion of the Book-of-the-Month Club, it's just the proper kind of madness to make the dog days ahead bearable. John Houston, who hardly ever directs a poor movie, has come up with a new version of Moby Dick that's as superb a piece of cinema magic as has ever flashed and flickered on the silver screen. This time around Gregory Peck takes over for the late John Barrymore, and he does a thoroughly fine job of Melville's hard-bitten seaman. Richard Basehart, Leo Genn and Orson Welles also tussle with the great white whale in the Warner release, and they all contribute enormously. War and love occupy the footage of 20th Century-Fox's D-Day, The Sixth of June, a superior Hollywood product adapted from the recent bestseller and starring Robert Taylor, Richard Todd and Dana Wynter as a triangle all confused among themselves as they try to beat both the Axis and their private demons. John Wayne, who's equally at home in the saddle, the cock pit, or the galley, is riding the range again in John Ford's beautifully photographed and brilliantly directed Western, The Searchers, which holds up quite well with such open country notables as Shane, High Noon and Mr. Ford's own Stagecoach. It's about a five-year quest to find two girls swiped by hostile Comanches. The unlikely possibility of a minister doubling as a prize fighter is the situation at hand in Paramount's The Leather Saint, starring Paul Douglas as a fight manager and John Derek as the young cleric who's handy with his fists. The minister, of course, slugs it out for noble reasons and not for the sheer love of pugilism. TELEVISION MOVIES That Certain Feeling, which comes from the Paramount studios, teams the unlikely combination of Bob Hope and Eva Marie Saint in the celluloid transformation of the hit Broadway play, The King of Hearts, a wonderfully funny comedy about cartoonists and love. The dialogue is as bright as an August day, and Miss Saint's just about the prettiest, freshest, sweetest girl we've met on film in quite some time. With Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine heading an excellent cast of players, M-G-M has turned out the second Paddy Chayevsky television play to come to the screen--The Catered Affair--and though the comedy-drama about the domestic doings of an Irish family in the Bronx is not quite up to the Award-winning Marty, it is still an arresting film. Whether flying saucers are real or not, they make for good fic tion and drama, as should be proved bn June 20 when Flying Object At Three O'clock High will zoom into video view over Kraft Theater. Another weekly movie series premieres on June 21, with the English film Fools Rush In appearing over The Hour Glass. That long-time favorite, Kate Smith, and the new-time favorite, Teresa Brewer, will entertain with a song or two on The Ed Sullivan Show, celebrating its eighth anniversary on June 24. A situation comedy, Joe and Mabel, premieres on June 26, with Larry Blyden as Joe, Nita Talbot as Mabel. Happy Birth day, by Anita Loos, is the dramatic number slated for color viewing over Producers' Showcase on June 25, starring Betty Field; and on July 25, Rosalinda, adapted from Max Reinhart's version of Straus' Die Fledermaus, will appear over the same program, top billing going to the very English Cyril Ritchards. The one-and-onlv Jimmy Durante plays host to guest stars Peter Lawford and Anna Marie Alberghetti on Texaco Star Theatre June 23. Hal March, said to be happily married in real life, will employ his diverse acting talents to portray The Bachelor, in color, on July 15. ETC 10910 19 MILESTONES Clarence H. Johnson Manufacturing, Wilmington Dr. Karl V. Kjtzmiller Medical, Cincinnati 20 years 20 ETC 10911 m- James F. Bessire Sales, Western Region Emma R. Fortlage Medical, Cincinnati Bernard A. Jones R. & E., Detroit Norm Linstromberg Sales, North Kansas City J IO years George J. Brum, Jr. General Services, New York Albert G. Gassmann Research & Engineering, Detroit Walter V. Hallam Finance, New York Chester A. Kelley Research, Detroit Alice Lahn Sales, New York Jack H. Laubach Sales, Tulsa Robert Marks Advertising, New York Alfred V. Morschauser Gasoline Testing, Yonkers Edward John Otto, Jr. Casoline Testing, North Kansas City Fred P. Robinson, Jr. Sales, Central Region William A. Trewhella Research, Detroit Elsa H. Weber Industrial Relations, New York ETC 10912 =: Ray W. Daugherty Sales, Western Region Eugene J. Gallagher Sales, Southern Region Barbara A. Hildenbrand Research, Detroit Kerney J. Hurst Sales, Southern Region Edward A. Michael Sales, Eastern Region Joseph D. Odenweller Research, Detroit Edward M. Smith Sales, Central Region Elaine E. Tindall Research, Detroit Robert M. Thurston Sales, Eastern Region Thomas J. Wilkinson Research & Engineering, Detroit Anthony G. Woska, Jr. Sales, Southern Region !. ` r. E . ir* lV' Lk' l 21 i- SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS v- -,-a Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing Ethvl employees in Detroit, New York, the Sales department and Regional offices, and San Bernardino: Detroit: Angeline C. Colosimo, $15.00 (Re-number old test data in cen tral files to eliminate need for conversion chart and to speed up locating material); William D'Arcy, $15.00 (Clothes hooks inside lock doors to improve clothes changing facilities); Conrad Franken stein, $15.00 (Hinge the wire screens covering suction parts to make-up air fans); Frances W. Lamb, $25.00 (Reading clinic for employees to promote faster reading); Evariste Latulippe, $10.00 (Mark parking spaces on bumper rail at west fence); Carl F. Michael, $15.00 (Improve exit from tunnel at north end of "C" wing which will pro vide stairway to uncovered grating at this point and will permit easier escape); Wallace W. Spring, $15.00 (Public address speakers for area north of E building); Juliet B. Staub, $10.00 (Claim form for missing periodicals to simplify notifying publisher of missing issue); Lydon K. Welch, $40.00 (Use night boiler operator to clean air filters); Arthur H. ZeiTZ, Jr., $25.00 (Provide more information to suggesters who sub mit duplicates of suggestions previously received). New York : Helene Anderson, $20.00 (Issue general office memorandum on procedures for proper handling of per sonal checks, money and petty cash vouchers); W. G. Ball, Jr., Certificate (Motion picture and/or printed matter and visual aids to tell a new progress story of oil and automotive industry); Genevieve Carlson, $25.00 (On tele types, show sender's name at beginning and end of messages, subject at begin ning and date on upper right-hand cor ner); Joan Doran, $10.00 (Printing "Not Used" on cards sent in at end of month to show which journal vouchers were unused) and $10.00 (Wheel index listing employees and others to whom CIF and expense checks are mailed); Mar garet Furman, $20.00 (List of New York personnel who can serve as inter preters in emergency)/Eleanor Helmrich, $10.00 (Elimination of pink tissue copies of correspondence in General Ac counting division). Sales Department and Regional Offices: W. S. Alexander, $10.00 (The field be supplied with collapsible stands for supporting film projectors and slide projectors); Jack H. Laubach, $50.00 (Recommend to customers the use, where applicable, of a liquid level con trol in the small circulating tanks of Ethyl blending plants which have, or will have, circulating tank systems); Frank J. Stablein, $10.00 (A frame be hung in the entrance of the 39th Street Sales Au ditorium for current posters). San Bernardino: Nell B. Schaub, $20.00 (Annual physicals of the San Ber nardino employees be handled locally). Ed and Alice Smith --a son, Bradley Allen, bom on February 3. Ed is an ac count representative in Central Region. Detroit Marvin and Dolores Smith-a son, Glenn Marvin, bom on April 18. Marv is a project engineer in the Product Appli cation Division at the Labs. Cal and Cecilia Worrel -- a son, James Lawrence, bom on April 30. Dad is a chemist at the Detroit Laboratories. Houston Ken and Betty Jost -- a son, Carl Ed ward, bom on May 1. Ken is an account representative in the Houston district. Canada Nancy Macdonald was married to Peter T. Hewitt on April 7 in the Fairlawn United Church, Toronto. Nancv and Pete honeymooned in the Laurentians. Nancy is secretary to Oscar Lewis, vice president of Ethyl of Canada. Andrena Rene Parkin and Chester Gayda were married in St. Stan's Roman Catholic Church on April 28. After their wedding trip to Florida, the couple will reside in Toronto. Andrena is secretary to Hap Philp and Ben Penrose. Detroit Marilyn Gogates was married to Wal ter J. Dohany on June 9 in St. Greg ory's Church, Detroit. The couple will make their home in Dearborn after their honeymoon in Florida and the Bahamas. Marilyn is a stenographer in the Products Application Division. Jean Louise Springer and James F. Guddobba were married on May 5 in the Royal Oak United Presbyterian Church. Jim is the son of Meeilyn Beane, fuel technician at the Labs. Eastern Region Mary Ann Leap and Paul Fitzpat rick were married at the Most Precious Blood Church in Long Island City on June 2. The couple will live in Mineola, Long Island. Paul is an account repre sentative in the Eastern Region. New York Nancy PeTTINGILL was married to Alan H. Welch in The Little Church Around the Comer in Manhattan on June 2. Nancy and Alan will honeymoon in Maine and will reside in Manhattan. Nancy is secretary to Marshall Sittig, Advertising. ) < 22 ETC 10913 Jean Nicol was married to John J. Caputo on June 2 in the North Avenue Presbvterian Church, New Rochelle. After their wedding trip through New Eng land, the couple will reside in Larchmont. Jean is on staff of Bulletin Board. Elsa Weber and Michael Donnelly were married on May 5 in Jersey City. The couple will live in Leonia, N. J. Elsa is secretary to Charlie Wasserman, Wage and Salary Coordinator, Industrial Relations. The Detroit Desk and Derrick Club held a luncheon and fashion show at the Detroit Yacht Club on May 19. Anne Mansfield, Chemical Research Division, wrote the script and served as commentator for the show, which was titled "Boss's Lady. Betty Wilkie, Detroit Sales, was hostess to Mrs. Nick Carter, her boss's lady. She also modeled. Other Ethvlites from the Labs who attended were Bernie Burdick, Angie Colosimo, Kay Kirk, Sally McCoy and Anne Pearson. Eric Owen, Supervisor of the Detroit Photographic Section, has been elected Secretary of the Industrial Photographic Association of Michigan. Ross Rife, Detroit Laboratories, was recently elected a Director of the Detroit Chapter of the National Association of Suggestion Systems. John Fleniken, Electronic Applica tion, was recently voted president of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants at their annual election of officers. Dick Ferchaud. Finance, was elected to the board of directors. The Houston Chronicle Rotogravure Magazine section recently featured "A Water District Wonder," the exclusive story of Water Control and Improvement District No. 39 in Northeast Houston bylined by J. B. LeRay of our Hous ton plant. Frank Fricker of the Detroit Labs has been elected a Director of the Southern Oakland United Community Services. This group plans the application of social agencies efforts in that part of the De troit metropolitan area in which our laboratories are located. During Chemical Progress Week the Detroit Laboratories entertained over 200 high school students. Tours of the Labs were scheduled daily. Art Jennings, Personnel Supervisor, handled arrange ments with the local Chemical Progress Week Committee. Ross Rife was in charge of the tour arrangements and the groups were welcomed by Wheeler Lovell, Gus Ligett and Barney Jones. Guiding the tours were Jim Boag, Ernie Clinton, Dick Lundquist and Harry Dittmar. Ben Weil, Manager of Detroit Informa tion Services, has been elected president of the Huntington Woods Residents As sociation. Earl J. Knight and Richard S. Fluker, both of EtCl Oper., Baton Rouge plant, are the owners of Knight's Cricket Farm which was recently described in a feature article in the Sunday Morning Advocate. The article tells how Earl and Dick began the unusual business of hatching crickets for fish bait. "Practical Design of Better Fuels," a paper co-authored by Dale Burstetta and Bill Healy of the Detroit Labs, and Eric Sorensen and W. J. McGuire of British American Oil Com pany, Ltd., was recently presented at the API meeting in Montreal by Mr. Sorensen. The paper discussed how the proper planning of road-test programs can reduce the cost of evaluating the road antiknock quality of gasoline blends. Barney Jonbs, Detroit Laboratories, spoke on trends in passenger car design at a recent meeting of the Desk and Der rick Club in Detroit. Mary Gaines Read, Stores, Baton Rouge plant, recently was guest speaker at a meeting of the Istrouma High School Chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America. She discussed "Techniques of Job Hunting." At the recent national meeting of the American Chemistry Society in Dallas, Ben Weil, manager of Detroit's In formation Services, was given a Scroll of Appreciation for his outstanding contribu tions to chemical literature through con ception of, editing and managing the division's publication, "Chemical Litera ture." George Kirby, vice president, R&E, was presented with a citation as the outstanding alumnus of the year of Louisiana College, Pineville, La., at the recent annual alumni dinner. In recognition of distinguished accom plishments during 1955 to the advance ment of the public relations program of the oil industry, Dick Murphy, man ager of Eastern Region, was presented a Silver Award by the New York-New Jersey District of the Oil Industry In formation Committee. Ed McDonald, Export Sales, with the assistance of Box Ball, Public Rela tions, authored a booklet entitled "30 Years of Fuel and Engine Progress." The booklet is a brief story of the progress which can be made wherever the most modem engines can be used with the assurance that good gasoline will be available for them. Over 30 speeches on the subject have been given by Ed to Central and South American customers. Bill also wrote a recent article for The Journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers. Entitled "100,000 Gallons a Minute," the article discussed gasoline as related to fire and explosion hazards and fire fighting. Paul Fitzpatrick, field representative in the Eastern region, has been awarded the Silver Award for meritorious service by the New York District of the OIIC. Paul is chairman of the Education Com mittee. EtC 10914 23 Ethyl Welcomes Eleanor H. Bender, a secretary in Safety and Precaution, East ern Region, hails from Queens Village, N. Y., and likes to read, swim and dance. Christine C. Bongero, known as Chris to her friends, is a clerk-tvpist at the Detroit Labs. A native Detroiter, her interests include sewing, tennis. James J. Cusack has joined the Industrial Relations department as assistant in the Benefit Plans section. He is married and lives in New York City. Richard L. Hill, test driver at San Berdu labs, was bom in Arkansas. He served with the Coast Guard and he likes to hunt and tinker with engines. Stella LaScala is with General Services, New York. Bom in Brooklyn, she graduated from high school in Pittsburgh, now lives on Long Island. Regina C. Maguire, familiarly known as Reggie, is with Gen eral Services, New York. She is married, has a daughter and lives in New York City. Peggy J. Morrow, has taken a position as steno-clerk at De troit Labs. She attended col lege in Oklahoma, is married and enjoys sewing and reading. Nadine O. Michaelson, a steno in Refinery Technology, De troit Labs, was bom in Detroit and attended University of De troit. She's married. Margaret T. Siebert, called Peggy, is with General Serv ices, New York. She belongs -to a women's club and likes to swim and read. Marilyn A. Thinv of General Services, New York offices, was formerly employed by the Sat urday Evening Post. Hobbies include oil painting, sewing. Billv G. Woodring, a test dri ver at the San Bernardino labs, is married, was a Marine and was a track star at high school in Redlands, Calif. 24 ETC 10915 Ethyl to Produce New Product Plans for the production of vinvl chlor ide monomer were recently announced by Ethyl. The product, made from ethylene, will be sold to the plastics industry for the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride. Polvvinvl in turn is one of the major plastics in use todav, and finds widespread use in upholstery materials, electric wire and cable, floor coverings and a host of other products. The new plant for the production of vinyl chloride monomer, which will cost several million dollars, will be con structed at the Company's manufacturing center at Baton Rouge with completion scheduled for the latter part of 1957. Vacation Policy Changed On June 4, Mr. Shea announced to all regular employees a felicitous change in the Corporation's Vacation Policy. Effec tive June 1, employees with 10 or more vears of service will be entitled to three weeks' vacation each year. Accordingly, all employees with 10, but less than 25, v ears of service with the Company will be eligible for three weeks' vacation this vear. Advertising Awards Ethyl recently was voted the National Safety Council's Public Interest Award for 1955. The noncompetitive award is made annually to public information media for exceptional service to safety. Ethyl was among 34 advertisers to be honored. Advertising received another award dur ing May as a runner-up in The Saturday Review's Fourth Annual Award for Dis tinguished Advertising in the Public Interest. The Saturday Review screened over 400 campaigns before the final judging. Announcement of the winners is one of the most significant events in the adver tising field. Ethyl May Build New Plant Edward L. Shea recently announced that options have been taken on land near Joliet, Illinois as a possible site for a new "Ethyl" antiknock compound manufacturing plant. Detroit JAC Honored This is the time of year when Junior Achievement companies all over the country are being liquidated. Ethyl JAC in Detroit paid 50% dividend on invest ments, received the "A" award for over all effort and efficiency, placed third in the National Industry Contest for its di vision and three of the officers received Junior Executive Awards. Advisors for the company were Lou Olsen, Lyndon Welch and Bill Moon of the Labs. . Ethyl Expands Educational Aid An expanded program of aid to edu cation, including for the first time the award of graduate fellowships to science teachers and scholarships to under graduate students, was recently an nounced bv the Company. Commenting on the new phases, George Kirby, vice president in charge of research and engineering, said, "The present national shortage of scientists and engineers is acute and will remain criti cal for years to come. We feel that it is imperative that as many students as possible be encouraged to take up careers in this general field. It is to help provide this encouragement, both to students directly and through the guid ance and leadership of capable high school science teachers, that Ethyl is enlarging its program of aid at this time." The $50,000 program is effective with the 1956-1957 academic year. It pro vides 18 graduate research fellowships in chemistry, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering; three graduate fellowships for college and high school science teachers; and five undergraduate scholarships in chemical and mechanical engineering. The awards will be made at 24 institutions. Levan R. Fleck of White Plains, N. Y. passed away on May 12 while attending a meeting of Ethyl safety engineers in Wallingford, Vermont. It is with deep regret that this Com pany and his associates note his passing. Those who worked with and knew him knew Van to be a man of the highest ethics, strongest moral character and ex emplary ability. His contributions in the field of industrial safety were numerous, and they were recognized not only by the Company but by industry as a whole and by the federal government. During nearly 20 years with Ethyl Corporation, Van succeeded in making the Safety department one that other companies looked to as an example, a de partment that has been frequently com mended because of his guidance. If it is true that men's deeds live after them, the work that Van has done for Ethyl will alone commemorate him as a man sorely missed. His passing will be sincerely felt in all quarters of this Company. IN MEMORIAM Uvm R. Flick Van, a native of Altoona, Pa., was bom on March 23, 1910. He attended Altoona public schools and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932 with a bachelor's degree in me chanical science. He joined the Company in -1937 as a field representative in the Baltimore division. The next year he received his first safety assignment, also in the Baltimore area, and tbe following vear was assigned to full-time safety work in Dallas, Texas. In 1940, he was transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma as chief safety engineer. During World War II he served in the U. S. Army for five years, attaining the rank of major. Soon after his return from army service in 1946, he was transferred to the safety department of Ethyl's New York office. He was named assistant safety manager in 1950, and manager of safety in 1952. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Fleck. Miriam Howell Martin died sud denly on May 3. Mrs. Martin was the wife of the late John Cates Martin, who was manager of the Eastern Region. She is survived by her son, John G. Martin, Jr., and brother, Gelston Howell of Eastern Region. ETC 10916 25 r i! ?I :t II k- K i: t Now that Ethyl's Charlie Clark has even taught the U.S. Navy how to think creatively, it fol lows that the employees shown here, trained to give the Creative Thinking course and lead the brain storming sessions, will do well when they make the presentation to customer companies. Charlie, in his capacity of assistant manager of Training, recently tutored these men in the Company's Sales auditorium in New York City. They were apt pupils, learning the brainstorming ropes in a few idea-packed lessons, and by now they are no doubt stimulating ideas throughout the country with all the zeal of travel- down the page, are Herb Witty of Southern Region, Jimmie Main of Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited, Paul Fitzpatrick of Eastern Region, Joe Hopkins of Central Region, Ed Erskine of Western Region and Art Wintringham of R & E at the Baton Rouge plant. ETC 10917 Administration and Services, pins a service button on John's lapel at a get-together in his honor in the Labs' cafeteria. John boasts one of the longest service records in the Company. THE CHAMPS The proud team below had to overcome stiff competition to win the 1955-56 men's bowling cham pionship at the Detroit Labs. From left to right, top row, are Siegert Seppanen of Maintenance; Les Motson of Maintenance, team captain; John Napolitano of Chemical Research; bottom row, Dale Chrysler and Bob Isanhart, both of Maintenance. t ^ f 10918 ETC WOMEN CHAMPIONS The 1955-56 women's bowling champions at the Detroit Labs included, left to right, Bert Rye, Herb Neal of Chemical Research, Detroit Labs, has been hammering like this for a year, and he has wife of Tony Rye of Design; Adele Rozek of Chem another year or so to go before this addition to his ical Research; Juanita Howland of Business Services; house will be finished. Herb puts in time on week Ann Geiger, wife of Bob Geiger of Chemical Re ends and vacations, adding a basement-garage and search; and Betty Wilkie of Sales. Team captain family room with the occasional professional help of Dorothy Rhoades of Technical Staff was absent. a mason or carpenter. more people, more placet ETC 10919 "DRIVE MORE" GETS BOOST GUEST AT SALES MEETING Three field representatives from Eastern Region have made sure that our "Drive More" program Jack Warner, manager of the Atlanta district office, was a guest at the recent Sinclair Spring Sales will be well-publicized in Brooklyn as well as the rest Meeting held in Atlanta. Pictured at the meeting are, of the country. Jim Connor, left, Paul Fitzpatrick left to right, D. M. Hills, Southeast district manager and Walter Strange arranged with a Gulf dealer in of Sinclair Refining Co.; D. E. Dyer, president of the Brooklyn to have the program featured in a window Company; L. W. Leath, vice president; P. C. Spencer, display during the month of June. president of Sinclair Oil Corporation, and Jack. ARTIST'S CONCEPTION AWARD OF HONOR This painting by John Ensor, Canadian industrial artist, shows how the Ethyl Corporation of Can T'he Award of Honor, highest industrial award for safety given by the National Safety Council, ada Limited plant in Sarnia will look upon comple was presented to the Baton Rouge plant recently. tion. On 100 acres facing the St. Clair River, the Shown left to right, are R. S. Asbury of R & E; C. A. two-story structure in the center foreground is the Hebert, safety supervisor; Plant Manager Roy Cloth administrative building and towering behind is the ier; James D. Hill of the NSC; and L. G. Cliver, process building. chairman of the Plant Central Safety Committee. ETC 10920 TV ACTOR James Borland, second from left, gets some friendly ribbing from fellow workers in Chemical Research, Detroit Labs, after having appeared as a paid actor on a Detroit television program called Traffic Court. Congratulating James on his TV performance are, left to right, co-workers Norman Wright, Mike Var tanian and John Marinelli. WESTERN PRESENTATION Harry Manning, left, field representative with the Los Angeles district office, and Jack Cole, man ager of the Salt Lake City district office, recently teamed up on a joint Drive More-Smart Birds pres entation at Utah Oil Company's Sales Management Conference in Salt Lake City. They report that the program was received enthusiastically. address. He also introduced other speakers who dis Lou Shank, manager of the Suggestion System, 1 served as general chairman and program chair man at the 12th annual New York-Philadelphia Re gional Conference of the National Association of Suggestion Systems. The conference was held in May at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. In the above picture, Lou is delivering the opening cussed such pertinent topics as employee eligibility to participate in the Suggestion System, Labor's view of the Suggestion Plan, the supervisor's viewpoint, suggestions for military defense and the importance of the Suggestion System in corporation communi cations. The conference theme was "Your Sugges tion System--An Important Key To Cooperation." more people, more placet PIPELINE ON WHEELS After Ethyl technicians at the Detroit Labs filled xx this Matlack tank truck with a special fuel, the truck made what is believed to be the three longest fuel hauls on record. The special blend of 12,000 gallons was needed to continue research at the San Berdu labs, and a permit for the trips had to be se cured from the Interstate Commerce Commission. ETC 10921 SCROLL OF APPRECIATION Ben Weil, left, manager of Information Services, Detroit Labs, was recently presented with a Scroll of Appreciation by the Division of Chemical Literature of the American Chemical Society. The award, made at the Society's national meeting in Dallas, Texas, was for Ben's contributions in estab lishing the Division's publication Chemical Literature. At the recent International Automobile Shew at the vast New York Coliseum, Ethyl's "Drive More" tenner dominated one Side erf the Mein Exhibi* tion Hell es surely es the new Coliseum's colorful dancing weters dominated the other. Tens of thousands of visitors must have found a pleasing eorollery between Ethyl's message and the exciting 195$ models on display cars just beg9ing to be driven, and to be driven more and more. A mong the natural wonders of the North American Continent, Niagara Falls, with its thun derous cascades, drifting spray and boiling waters, has thrilled and awed tourists and honeymooners for scores of years. Yet the mighty Falls is more than a tourist attraction -- it symbolizes the peaceful spirit and harmony that have always prevailed between the United States and Cana da. As the Falls unite the two peoples as well as divide them, so Ethyl, serving both countries, acts as a binding force and an agent of mutual respect and good will. Our new plant at Sarnia, Canada, will help strengthen U. S.-Canadian re lations as surely as the waters will continue to plunge over Niagara Falls. ETHYL ETC 10924 ETHYL Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited Table oi Contents Anybody's Ball Game .. Executive Promotions .. Aid ior Agriculture Class oi '56 ................... Laugh More................... Mister Magic................. When the Livin' is Easy Company Dinner.......... For Your Entertainment Milestones ................... Ethyl Welcomes........... Personals ............. People and Places Page 2 4 5 6 10 12 14 16 18 20 21 22 24 Leonhard Dowty ...................... "Editot Jean Caputo------ Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Mar* garet Graham, Anne Mansfield, Les Motson, Andy Pallay, Kathleen Raley, Ross Rife, Adele Rozek, Karl Schmid; photographer: Eric Owen; Dayton: Lou Slack; Houston: Ken Jost, Guy Keller, j. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Vida Cimber; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phillips; Sew Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hama, Erna Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Locke; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Leona Rasmussen; Salt Lake City: John Morron; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; pho tographer: Fred Green; San Francisco: Wil Han cock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvjlain, Central Office; Ethyl Corpora tion of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Mac donald. ON OUR COVER: Carl Wolf, chemist at the Detroit Labs, fascinates his year-old son, Carl Junior, with his magic tricks. Carl, an amateur magician for 10 years, has enter tained numerous children and adults in the Detroit area, including many employees at the Labs and their children. The story of how magic happens (if not why) appears on page 12. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York, Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. Bynum Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. ** > .' - ~y *;. *' ** \ it'Sr-sv.- >.%: / -- *" _ . .* >5,. -X . ~v. * 'f - - y. ;*%. * '2<WXt* 'V-c BALL. V~ ' * -r*v ... _ .^ v.<rX- /rfr- > * / r-"`* - *v ` GAME Every spring when the baseball season comes around and the first pitch steams across the plate, a manlike as rules in a ball game, business has hundreds of major challenges to meet, both within its own or heated and lively contest that catches the interest of ganization and in the public eye. millions gets under way. From then on, it's anybody's Just as the batter must try to figure out the ball and ball game, and no one but a graduate soothsayer can the pitcher must try to size up the man at the plate, accurately predict which teams will battle it out for business must feel its way. It must also have its scouts the coveted pennant. Many an underdog has come up to look about and study the field, to seek new men to from the cellar to win, and many a promising team be ready to assume the important positions of tomor has hit the skids in the crucial hour. It's as uncertain row. It must be as alert as a man on third and as fore- as the flip of a coin or tomorrow's weather, and, though sighted as a short-stop. Every man in an enterprise wild guesses may occasionally prove right, more often must be ready to pinch-hit in emergencies. Each has than not, they'll only amount to wild hopes in the end. his place and must be ready for the ball That's how it is in competition. Competition is, of course, nothing new to us. It's a And that's how it is in modem business, where the part of the structure of our country, one of the strong competition is heavier and stronger than ever before. est links in our economic well-being. It assures us all, No special season marks the match. It's open season as consumers, of better products, and it keeps indus every day of the year, and every company in the coun trial scientists and engineers constantly seeking better try competes with at least one rival in the serious living for the future. . _ ~ game of winning public approval for its products and Business in America must be on its toes, but it can services. Guided by business ethics that are as sports- stand as tall and strong as it wants. s v ETC 10926 i Edward L. Shea B. Bynum Turner EXECUTIVE PROMOTIONS The Company has announced the election of Ed ward L. Shea to the new position of chairman of Besides serving as chairman and a director of Ethyl, Mr. Shea is also a director of several other companies the board and of B. Bynum Turner as president of and of the American Petroleum Institute. the Company. The elections were made at a meeting From 1946 until 1951, Mr. Turner served in the of the Company's board of directors on July 3. Manufacturing department, becoming assistant resi Mr. Shea, who has been president of Ethyl Corpo dent manager of the Baton Rouge plant in 1947 and ration since 1947, will continue to be the chief execu general manager of Manufacturing two years later. tive officer of the Company. Mr. Turner was formerly In 1951, he was elected vice president of Research executive vice president of Ethyl. and Engineering. He has been executive vice presi Following his graduation from Princeton University dent since 1955. in 1916, Mr. Shea became associated with the Tide Mr. Turner began his business career with the Water Oil Co. He was elected a vice president of the Humble Oil and Refining Co. at Baytown, Texas, in Company in 1925, executive vice president in 1931, 1933, and was associated with its research activities and its president in 1933. Three years later, when the until 1942. For the next three years, he was in charge Tide Water Oil Co. and the Associated Oil Co. were of the technical staff for a butadiene plant operated merged into one operating company, Mr. Shea was for the U. S. Government, and in 1945 and 1946 he elected executive vice president. He held this posi served with the Rubber Reserve Co. in Washington, tion until 1939, when he went to the North American D. C., as the head of its butadiene-from-petroleum Co., serving as its president until 1947, when he be section. came president of Ethyl Corporation. Mr. Turner, whose headquarters have been in New Mr. Shea was bom in Nashua, New Hampshire on York for the past year, was bom in Angleton, Texas, November 4, 1892, attended Phillips Exeter Academy, on November 21, 1910. He attended Rice Institute, and received his civil engineering degree from Prince from which he received his BS degree in chemical en ton. He was a naval aviator in World War I. gineering in 1933. 4 ETC 10927 At the Detroit Leboretoriei, the erew thet mode the recent treetor tests on Urge Southern forms demonstrates how they checked engine performance in their actual field tests. From left to right, they are C. A. Stenger, Arthur Zeitz, "Punch" Pfundstein, Tom Wilkinson and George Porth. Aid for Agriculture During the past two years, the Detroit Research Laboratories have been unusually active in the agricultural field. In addition to the development of the XO-121 tractor engine, two major fleet tests were conducted on large commercial farms using farm tractors as comparative units evaluating experimental antiknock compounds. These test locations were Gar rett and Sons (a large cotton plantation), Clarksdale, Mississippi, and Sunny Slope Farms (a large peach orchard), Cowpens, South Carolina. An essentia] tool in these tests was a unique, specially built portable dynamometer for power absorption and measuring purposes. This unit was built around a torque absorption unit which required only a source of tap water to operate. The dynamometer was con nected to the tractor power-take-off shaft so all oper ations were made with the tractor stationary. Obser vations of octane number requirement and power output were made before and after deposit removal. The dynamometer was designed by George Porth and H. T. Mueller of Technical Service. The tests were organized and conducted by T. J. Wilkinson, K. L. Pfundstein, G. J. Porth, A. H. Zeitz, Jr., H. T. Mueller and C. A. Stanger of the Detroit Laboratories. A very large assist was given bv I. E. Flaa, H. N. Godbev, and K. J. Hurst of the Southern Region. i Attending tfi 1956 Sales Training Court* are, laft to right, Welter Stranga, Robert Morris, John Morton, Wair Good* win, Jim Connor, Carl Bartholomaw, Jr., John Hanlon, Roland Hargis, Kno* Dalambra, John Kallar, Mario Ballini, Garold Siagar, William Morrison, John lureott and Louis Rumph. Harbart Witty, not dapietad, rounded out the group. etc 10929 w I Annual Sales Training Course keeps an enthusiastic group of new men listening and learning Though some of the new members of the Sales de partment just graduated from college in June, they found that they had one more important sub ject to study before their educations were complete. That subject, as taught in a three-week training course this summer, was Ethyl Corporation, with emphasis on Sales operations and objectives and general Com pany functions and policies. This basic indoctrination course is given every sum mer, and this year's group of 13 Sales trainees and three Finance trainees put in a busy, informative and stimulating three weeks learning the whvs and where fores of the Company for which they work. The best instruction possible was afforded them by Company personnel whose experience and know-how qualified them to lecture or demonstrate on a variety of topics ranging from company history to engine fundamentals. In addition, the trainees were given a week of public speaking instruction, a week of in struction on how to work most effectively with our customers in handling our products, and were taken on tours of a local refinery and the Yonkers gasoline testing laboratories. They even served as "guinea pigs" for a battery of aptitude tests which may be used in the future to assist in selection and placement of employees. A luncheon attended by members of management from the New York office concluded the course, after which the trainees returned to their respective regions for a three months' on-the-job training period. Later, sometime after a year's service, they will take a twoweek course at the Detroit Research Labs, where they will receive instruction of a more technical nature on subjects such as refinery technology, additives and fuel and engine relationships. ETC 10930 7 This summer's course, held largely at the Sales auditorium in New York City, was divided into three one-week periods. The first week was primarily con cerned with the Sales department and general aspects of the Company. Under the leadership of Fred Nay lor, manager of Personnel Development, the group during this time learned of departmental functions and objectives through lectures, films and demonstra tions. Ray Faller, manager of Training, was unit leader in the second week, when public speaking was explained, discussed and practiced. A unique part of this week's training was "role playing", or "selling for Ethyl", in which the trainees pretended to go through the actual, on-the-job methods of salemanship. As future Ethyl emissaries to customer companies, the trainees received expert instruction from Ethyl personnel who know the ropes and can help these younger men anticipate what to expect in their cus tomer contacts. Ethyl's many services to customer I companies were one of the matters stressed during the course, for, as pointed out by several speakers, a friendly, helpful attitude can often achieve better results in the long run than the old-fashioned sales pitch. Fred Neylor, manager of Training, was the unit leader during first week of instruction at Sales Auditorium in New York. In addition to discussing Sales objectives and how they bene fit our customers, he spoke about the organisation of our Sales department and the basic fundamentals of our business. Product handling and safety indoctrination was the theme of the third and final week of training. Under the guidance of Henry Ball, manager of Products Serv ice and Safetv, students learned of the history of the Ethyl Safety Program, Safety Policy and Safety Or ganization. The importance of safe handling of fuels and antiknock fluid, in connection with customer serv ices, was stressed. Among others who addressed the group on special During one of the sessions devoted to the study of fuels and engines, Carl Bartholomew, Jr., a recent graduate of the Uni versity of Oklahoma and the son of Ethyl's regional operations manager in the Southern Region, concentrates on part of a fuel pump while Roland Hargis listens attentively to the lecture. topics were: Mac Murdock, vice president in charge of Sales; Thom Yates, Public Relations; Julian Frey, vice president, Export Sales; John Schaefer, vice pres ident, Manufacturing; Matt Taylor, manager, Sales Operations; Frank Hayes, Regional Operations man ager, Eastern Region; Bill Perdue, vice president and treasurer; Bill Spierer, Sales Promotion manager; and Alon Cole, chief regional fuel technologist, Eastern Region. Other Sales training courses in the past have proved that this summer's program will pay generous divi dends in the form of better field representatives better informed about their own company and its relations with customer organizations. The intensive training course left little to trial and error and much to salesmanship based upon well-conceived, well- established precedents. 8 TC io931 Although he hod previously shaved'that day, Ed Downs, assistant to tha managar of Salas Administration, Ntw York, want through tha motions again in demonstrating techniques in brooking down a task. Louis Rumph, who holds a dagraa in In dustrial Managamant from tha Georgia Institute of Technology, has been em ployed in Eastern Ragion for 10 months. H era, ha tries reassembling of a fuel pump. It was tha fob of Don Williams, asitomtiva anginaar in Eastern Region, to asplain tha fundamantals of anginas. Don also talkad about fuals, valves and spark plugs, damonstrating with actual parts. During a coffee break, John Keller, right, and Gerald Sieger, left, continue interest in tha subject just discussed. Both have recently joined Finance and are taking course to gat batter Ethyl background. Bill Spiarar of Salas Promotion addrassad tha group of trainaas for his dapartmant, showad tham soma of tha Company's currant promotional matarial and discussad our approach to Salas Promotion. ETC 10932 i Knox Dalambra ponders tha same assem bly of fuel pump, which made tha rounds from man to men during lecture on fuals and anginas. Knoi, who has bean working in tha Southern Region, studied at LSU. dkk<. LAUGH MORE The automobile is as All-American as Jack Arm strong or college football stars, and it has proved As shown here, the automobile has been greatly improved over the years but we human beings with itself beyond doubt or argument as a major factor in our very human foibles carry on just about the same as our own high standard of living and our high style of always. These cartoons come from magazines in which riding. It takes us to work and to play--it does almost Ethyl advertises regularly. In addition to appearing everything except curl up in front of the fire like Bow in other publications, "Road Birds" appear in all three, ser and take a nap. and "Drive More" in the Post and Collier's. So entangled with our everyday lives have our cars Now, as we drive more, we'll have time to laugh become that they are a source of mirth as well as a more--joined not by the snicker of Old Dobbin but by source of comfort and convenience. the pleasant chuckle of a humming engine. ETC 10933 ET C 1 09 34 v * This handpuppat rabbit wiggled and acted realistically for chUdt 12 ETC 10935 Children and ftduth IIk responded nthusisiiclly to fh performance. Eager young hendi were retted when Ceri asked for tome volunteers. If you were to poll the children of employees at the Detroit Laboratories you would find that the most popular man thereabouts is not, as you might expect, either Santa Claus, Superman or Hopalong Cassidy. Nor would the Tigers' own Harvey Kuenn win on the ballot. Though they all rate high with the local younger set, chemist Carl Wolf, an amateur magician who periodically entertains the small fry with his bag of accomplished tricks, is unquestionably the man most likely to succeed. Carl, who feels that magic goes along with circuses, Christmas and western movies in a child's life, finds entertaining the young as exciting for him as it is for them. "They really and truly believe," he reflects, smiling as he recalls their spellbound faces, "and that's the better half of magic. But," he warns with a laugh, "don't ever slip up on a trick." According to Carl, in the eyes of youthful beholders a magician is capable of practically everything from chasing Martian invaders off the earth to turning the Rockies into peanut butter, and he's had some pretty staggering requests. "They'll ask for the moon," he says, "but they'll also settle for green cheese." Their favor ite is the one in which he pulls a rabbit from a top hat. They watch it as eagerly as the chemists themselves watch their experiments, and each wave of the wand is a personal invitation to leave school and routine to follow Carl into the delightful and mystifying world of vanishing objects. "It makes me feel a little like the Pied Piper," Carl ventured, and added, "There's a kind of magic just in entertaining children that makes ma gicians believe in their own sleight of hand." When ever he performs for a young audience, he feels that his shows gain something extra and even the usual routine tricks seem more incredible. At a recent lab performance, after Carl had sprin kled some "whiffle dust" on an empty top hat and a moment later pulled a plump, wriggling rabbit from it, one freckle-faced lad jumped up enthusiastically and exclaimed, "I can do better than that--I can make a bunny fly to the sky!" And so it is with magic--the sky's the limit when children watch. Carl, whose enthusiasm for magic started when he himself was a boy, spends a great many hours perfect ing his tricks, but the faces of happy youngsters make it well worth the time. One of his as well as his audi ences' favorite tricks is the famous deception of the Princess Kamak, in which a woman apparently floats in thin air. Whenever he performs it, he is assisted by his wife, Judy, who both enjoys watching and partici pating in Carl's hobby. The Wolfs' own children, Lynne, aged two, and Carl Junior, nearly a year, haven't as yet reached that advanced stage of childhood where magic can be the most real thing in the world. However, for the time being they have the white rabbit as a house pet and in a couple of years a herd of wild horses or even one of those Michigan tornadoes won't be able to keep them from Carl's show. As a matter of fact, many of Carl's adult friends at the labs and in the Detroit suburbs feel much the same way and join in the fun, almost as abandoned as the children, for magic is catching and everybody needs a little whiffle dust now and then. 13 ETC 10936 .. .when the True, as the song says, living is easy in the summer time. We've put away our overcoats and galoshes, Cruising along at a moderate pace, we can enjoy the sights and the summer around us, but opening up the taken down our storm windows, and loading the car throttle only creates a green-gold blur of sunlit leaves, with beach chairs and umbrellas, we answer the call and around the next turn in the road may be the blur to the open road. of oncoming cars or the shadow of a pedestrian cross Yet the ideal driving conditions of summertime ing over. No matter how good the vision, the road sometimes make the foot a little too itchy on the ac conditions and the car's brakes and horn, demon speed celerator. Clear vision and roads and highways free can reveal itself in one tragic instant as a terrible of ice and snow, coupled with alluring vistas and de companion and playmate. lightful pursuits, have a way of transforming many of Summer driving has its innate disadvantages and us into the young-at-heart and the fleet-of-wheel. hazards even as winter driving has its frosted wind By and large, summer isn't fraught with dangers for shields and slippery roads. For one thing, you'll very us, as we've been trained to steer clear of the common often have your whole family--and maybe a few neigh hazards--sunburn, bee stings and poison ivy. And when bors--in your car while en route to the beach or picnic we drive during the other three seasons we're on our area. Backseat drivers, people lighting cigarettes and guard against traffic mishaps: we proceed with caution the youngsters' arms and legs flailing about are not in autumn's fogs, winter's blizzards and spring's rains. aids to safe, serene driving, and all that beach or pic However, according to traffic experts, speed is truly nic paraphernalia getting in the way as you try to the demon--speed lurks in the background of most shift, steer and brake doesn't help much either. automotive accidents. Another traffic hazard of the season is the nice long If we stop to think about it for a moment, we will boat that many drivers attach to a trailer on the back readily realize that pleasure driving over summer of their cars. These fellows may be real John Paul weekends, holidays and vacations can be a lot more Joneses on the waterways, but they're probably not pleasurable at leisurely speeds than at breakneck ones. used to driving with a trailer and boat attached and j t nvm is easv their seamanship doesn't extend to congested high Even as we should leave the supersonic speeding ways and crowded intersections. to jet planes and guided missiles, we should also keep Now the chances are that the short drive down to in mind the good old-fashioned virtues of highway j the local beach, tennis courts or ball park won't tempt courtesy. The heavy traffic of summertime requires you to excessive speed. It's those jaunts into the coun extra attention on our part, as pedestrians as well as tryside on weekends or the overnight safaris at vaca motorists, and whether we're walking across a busy tion time that contain the seeds of highway disaster. street or driving down a congested parkway, we It is tiring to drive by the hour in the heat and glare should obey all traffic laws and use our own common c and in the heavy traffic caused by all those who, like sense to remain sound of limb and happy of mind. yourself, are enjoying the great outdoors. Ethyl has an interest in us while we're on vacation Don't forget yourself; you can't enjoy your vacation or off on a long weekend even as it does while we're if you try to put 500 miles behind you when perhaps on the job. The Company no more wants to lose the 300 is the safe and comfortable distance to cover in a services of a good worker due to a traffic accident than day's travel. Night driving is of course more hazardous the employee himself wants to end up in the hospital. than daytime motoring, and the shapeless, bodiless Not only that--all of us as representatives of Ethyl dark can turn into the altogether too solid tree trunk owe it to ourselves and the Company alike to maintain 4 or the very real trap of a roadside ditch with surpris the very best traffic safety record possible. After all, ing rapidity. If you become sleepy at the wheel, either with our close ties to both the oil and automotive in stop and rest or have a relief driver take over. dustries, we should certainly set a good example on Perhaps you like a little beer or a highball or two any roads that we use. while on your vacation--only remember that alcohol There's no hurry. By obeying the posted speed laws has a fatal attraction to speed and speed has an attrac and using good driving sense, we'll be around hale and tion to fatality itself. Apply the same rule to drinking hearty, to enjoy other easy-living summers that will as to sleepiness: when drinking, don't drive. arrive just as surely as the sun arises every morning. COMPANY DINNER Good times at Ethyl are the main requirement for membership in the growing 25-Year Club Bartholomew, loft, of Toehnicol Sorvtcoi. Detroit Lebi, receive! hit cer* ftficete with e werm hendciesp from Dick Scelet, qenerel meneger of Lebi. The recent 25-year dinners staged at Company loca tions throughout the country proved to be more satisfying and more fun than class reunions or meeting the old gang who helped depose the Kaiser and cele brate the victory on the boulevards of Paris. The din ners were such a big success because the men and wo men who were feted and honored had never ceased having mutual experiences and had worked together through the years as a team. They didn't have to leap over blank years and try to dig up buried memories of homecoming football games or frontline trenches in France. They had 25 years to reflect upon, to discuss, to nod and shake their heads over, to laugh and feel emotional about. A quarter century of working for the betterment of Ethyl was their common bond. At dinner parties across the nation a happy, friendly and nostalgic mood prevailed as gold watches, pins and 25-year certificates were awarded employees. Whether the event was held at the Commodore Hotel in New York City, the Park Shelton in Detroit, the Bellemont in Baton Rouge, the Statler-Hilton in Dallas, the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles or the Neth erlands Plaza in Cincinnati, the goodwill and fellow ship were as evident as the menus were appetizing. Twenty-five years ago Ethyl was an "infant" corpo ration and these employees being honored at the sec ond annual 25-year dinners were young and inexperi enced too. These men and women had the rare dis tinction of growing up with the Company for which they work, of expanding their personal horizons as the Company's were expanded by their joint efforts, of becoming more mature, adaptable and successful as the Company itself developed these attributes. As awards were presented, and hands warmly shaken, it was pleasant to look back on good times, and for ward to a future as compatible. 16 17 ETC 10940 BOOKS If mystery fiction is your choice in reading, there's a big and satisfying serving of murder, larceny and other big-scaie viola tions of the law in the eleventh annual edition of The Best Detective Stories of the Year, culled from the magazines bv David C. Cooke for Dutton. The stories include just about every approach to crime writing from the tough private eye to the psychological character study, and they're aU far better than average cops-and-robbers fare. Shirley Watkins has recreated a fine and flourishing atmosphere of the Biblical lands in the new Doubleday novel. The Prophet and the King, a plausible fictional account of what may have gone on behind the scenes when the Israelites took arms to drive out the barbarous Philistines. Samuel is the prophet of the title and Saul is the king, and they head up a distinguished cast of ancients in the lively panorama. Harvest on the Shore, written by Grace Carstens and re cently published by Macmillan, is basically a love story, one of those two people affairs in which the twain have quite a difficult time getting together, though neither of them can quite put his finger on precisely what keeps them at arm's length. This time it all happens on Cape Cod amid a lot of sand, sky and water, and it comes off reasonably well. Norah Lofts, an English novelist whose fame in this country rests largely on her bestselling Bless This House, has put to gether an eighteenth-century circus with all three rings en gaged in her novel for the feminine trade, Afternoon of an Autocrat, published here by Doubledav. There's a maha rajah, a manor house, demon rites, romantic intrigue and a girl named Damask, which ought to give you an idea of things. Death in Retirement, a Cock Robin Mystery from Mac millan, comes from the accomplished and bloods' pen of Jose phine Bell and concerns some foul deeds in an English cot tage in which a neurotic female doctor has come to spend her last davs after 40 years of prescribing in India. The poor old girl didn't know when she was well off, but her misfortune makes for a lot of shuddering in this tempestuous pot of tea. The third edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature, is an important book for all avid readers, almost a library in itself. A comprehensive volume of information on American writing, it includes biographies of authors, sum maries of novels, keys to style, listings of magazines and nu merous facts and details on the literary horizon. At a mere glance, one can select a baker's dozen of novels he has always meant to read, and something about it makes him, at least, plan to get around to them soon. Gentle is the word for Dutton's Beyond the Gates, a pleas ant little novel of family life in Yorkshire by Dorothy Evelvn Smith. Three generations pass in quiet review, all good folk and healthy children who start life in the old homestead, for ever hold it dear and haven't a shady deed or a mental quirk among them. Pivotal through it all is the kind of superb, last ing housekeeper that suburban housewives dream of. ETC 10941 Herbert R. Maves, the editor of Good Housekeeping, has put up a prize package of the best short stories from that maga zine for Random House's Editor's Choice, an anthology that is surprisingly diverse. So-called feminine fiction is practically excluded and most of the stories are powerful stuff, including a ghastly tale by Daphne Du Maurier and superior pieces by Budd Schulberg, William March, John P. Marquand and Somerset Maugham. Thomas B. Dewey's The Brave Bad Girls, an Inner Sanctum Mvsterv from Simon and Schuster, is a tough whodunit with a tough private eye and a bevy of equally tenacious females who manage to entangle him in several pecks of trouble, including homicide. With Chicago as a background, it moves about with all the mobility of Graziano and with just as much punch. John O'Hara, who recently won the National Book Award for fiction and whose books are usually pleasing plump, has writ ten an appealing new novelette for Randon House--A Family Affair. Actuallv, it's a long speech delivered at a testimonial dinner in a small Pennsylvania town--within it, though, is the storv of a man and his era. It isn't an oil painting by any means, but it's quite a pleasant little watercolor. Allan Seager, whose short stories are among the country's best brief fiction, has produced a fine, probing novel for Simon and Schuster. In Hilda Manning he depicts with vitality and in sight the adventures and misadventures of a handsome Mid western farm woman married to an older man, a woman whose good looks have a way of causing trouble, despite her reserve. Over the Bridge, which Dutton has just published in this country, is the autobiography of Richard Church and it was awarded the prize for an outstanding work of literature by The Sunday Times of London. It was not cited by accident, for it is a rich, interesting and informative book about the growing up of a boy in Edwardian England. Everything is there in detail; each sensation and each thought is a real experience, and truth is forever astonishing. Within the past year, the French have contributed greatly to our reading pleasure, and the imports are sure to continue successfully with Henri Trovat's Amelie In Love, from Simon and Schuster. Concerned primarily with the growing up of a small-town girl, it's a kind of rural Kitty Foyle, what with the lass having to choose between a boy her own age and a more sophisticated senior from Paris. MOVIES HF ..................... Quite a few vears ago, movie audiences laughed merrily at The Philadelphia Story, which Metro-Goldwyn-Maver has now set to an original Cole Porter score and lavishly decked out with Bing Crosbv, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm and Louis Armstrong at the helm. This version of the fable about a poor little rich girl who couldn't make up her mind about men is called High Society, and it's high fun. Every body involved is in top form, and Miss Kelly sings admirably. Though Hollywood has frequently misused enormous adjec tives to describe its product, it has" just cause to apply them to the Paramount production of War and Peace, a motion picture of such magnitude that it makes most films look like third-rate programs in the early days of television. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Mel Ferrar star in the Tolstoy classic, which was filmed in Italy in Vistavision and Techni color and which is sure to take its place among the monu mental films of all time. Seldom have the cameras produced a more spectacular entertainment. Rudolf Friml's popular operetta. The Vagabond King, has been pulled out of cold storage by Paramount, and it has thawed into a handsome spectacle, all done up in Technicolor and as big as the law of Vistavision allows. Paris in the 15th century never looked more colorful, and five new songs have been added to make it more melodious. Most of them are pleasantly rendered by Kathryn Grayson and a European im port, Oreste, who plays the dashing poet Francois Villon. Based upon the successful stage play which Maxwell Anderson adapted from the successful novel of the late William March, Warner Bros. The Bad Seed has Nancy Kelly and young Patty McCormack repeating their Broadway roles in the chill ing shocker about a child murderess. Though you may not go along entirely with its premise, you'll still find it one of the best melodramas of the year, and you won't guess at its end ing unless you've been tipped off in advance. Joan Crawford, whose films are always liberally supplied with trouble, has her problems again in Columbia's Autumn Leaves, a woman's picture that has the popular actress falling in love with a man quite a few years her junior. The young man is newcomer Cliff Robertson, and he has quite a few com plications of his own. They see it through arm in aim while Nat "King" Cole sings the title song all around them. TELEVISION Warning to Wantons is the J. Arthur Rank film slated for viewing over The Hour Glass on August 2, and it's a romantic drama with a stiff-upper-lip English cast. Holly wood Summer Theatre replaces I Remember Mama for the season beginning August 3, with Joanne Dru starring in Waiting Game. On August 4, The Game Of The Week takes us to Cleveland, where the Cleveland Indians will trv to out-pitch and out-slug the Boston Red Sox. You Asked For It, on August 12, will feature everything from escape artistry to square dancing on roller skates; every thing, that is, except the political fireworks of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, which will be televised beginning August 13, and the Republican Convention in San Francisco, beginning August 20. A 90-minute spectacular for the children, The Red Goose, will originate on August 25 from the St. Louis Zoo, where there are dancing elephants and acrobatic monkevs. 19 ETC 10942 MILESTONES 30 years ^ 15 years 3*.V- Earl Bartholomew Research & Engineering, Detroit years Raymond R. Faller Industrial Relations, New York J. George Rick Sales, New York 20 years i Louis M. Slack, Jr. Sales, Central Region 20 (_ IO years Willlam A. Fangert Research & Engineering, Detroit Stanton P. Nickerson Public Relations, New York Karl R. Schmid Engineering, Detroit Herbert J. Sewell Research fit Engineering, Detroit Cecelia F. Thompson Research & Engineering, Detroit ( 5 years Bertha C. Snyder Research & Engineering, Detroit Catherine Stevens Research & Engineering, Detroit Edward L. Vaile Research & Engineering, Detroit ETC 10943 Ethyl Gwendolyn B. Evland is a sec retary in Export-Sales, New York office. She's married, has a son and a daughter and lives in New York City. I-Ming Feng, an engineer at the Detroit Labs, was bom in Shanghai, China. He took his B.S. degree in China and his Ph.D. in Michigan. Normand C. Hebert, a chemist at Detroit Labs, is a graduate of St. Anselm College, N. H. He's a veteran, is married and has a daughter. Welcomes Oskar E. Klopfer, a chemist at the Detroit Labs, is a native of Germany, where he re ceived his Ph.D. He is married and has seven children. Dannv L. LaPoint, a mail clerk at the Detroit Labs, was bom in Canton, N. Y., and enjoys basketball, baseball, football and swimming. Kav Ann Munson is a new stenographer at the Detroit Labs. She attended Michigan State University and her hob bies include sailing, tennis. Louis D. Marker, Jr., a lab technician in Sales-Casoline Testing, Kansas City, was bom in St. Louis, Mo., and likes to fly and build boats. .h____ '_____ _______________ Ann M. McNemev is with General Services, New York office, and lives in New York City. She was an honor stu dent at college and likes music. William E. Morrison has joined Finance in New Y'ork as an auditor. Bill graduated from Lehigh University' and was an Army sergeant. Louise P. Peterson, a secre tary at the Detroit Labs, went to Michigan State University where she won medals for swimming. She's married. Marcella M. Sizen, is with Chemical Research, Detroit Labs. A native of Detroit, Marcella is a graduate of Uni versity of Detroit. 21 ETC 10944 SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS L..: Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit, the Gaso line Testing Laboratories, New York and the Sales department and Regional offices: Detroit: Frank Forest, $15.00 (Bin for collecting waste paper under shred der. Will provide better and safer in stallation of paper shredding machine); Charles E. Graham, $10.00 (Reverse the opening of the door at B-l to the B mezzanine. Will facilitate movement of long stock on this stairway) and $10.00 (Stock aggertaler drill extractors in B-l stockroom. New, improved tool will increase efficiency); Clara E. Mara, $10.00 (Mail cards to suppliers requesting cash terms. Will assure this advantage and reduce paper work); Wesley J. McLean, $15.00 (Eliminate 1' step at top of ramp at entrance to "I" building to provide easier movement of hand trucks at this point); Louis J. Olsen, $30.00 (Use metal inventory tags instead of present decals); Clyde Sheppard and Harold F. Hiltz, $10.00 (Protect pit under C-wing exhaust stack. A light switch outside the door will im prove safety in this area); William A. Trewhella and Durelle L. Guthrie, $20.00 (Emergency lighting system. Battery powered lights will be actuated upon failure of regular current. To be applied to tunnels only); A. J. TuOHY, $15.00 (Exhaust fan in F building men's room) and $10.00 (Mark room numbers on air inlets in DAN wing plenum cham bers. Will simplify identity of room serv ices); Merl V. Watschke, $15.00 (Im prove floodlighting of front of building. Present floodlights will be replaced with modem clusters that are more effective and more easily serviced). Gasolin e Testing Laboratories : Joh n T. Jones, Kansas City, $15.00 (Gas testing CFR engine reports be hand printed in duplicate by technician per forming overhaul with carbon copy to be forwarded to Yonkers Central and orig inal to be retained for laboratory record purposes); E. N. Garnsey, Yonkers, $30.00 (Device for reducing the occa sional bubbling in the fuel line of the knock testing engines); A. V. Morschauser,. Yonkers, $10.00 (Title of Monthly Report of Gasoline Sales include words in U.S.); Dean A. Painter, San Bernardino, $10.00 (Drawing of a CFR carburetor bench support be ineluded in the CFR Engine Knock' Test ing looseleaf book). New York: R. G Burns, $25.00 (Re vise recording of tax return filing and payments); Lillian Campbell, $25.00 (Carbonless paper for sales order forms); Andrew G. Schmitt, $25.00 (Chemi cally treated paper for company forms to eliminate carbons). Sales Department and Regional Offices: Francine H. Fountain, $15.00 (Revision of Adoption Notification Form, which includes Adoption Notifica tion Follow-up Form); H. B. Greenup, $10.00 (Improve communications be tween the Bulletin Board and its cor respondents); W. Y. Hancock, $10.00 (Motivated a covering letter explaining .Ethyl's place in the TEL market for a brochure which will be sent to refinery construction companies); George F. O'Connell, $10.00 (Examples used be fore Fire Power Show showing results of fire or explosion in a terminal, bulk plant or refinery); John M. Rollins, $10.00 (Motivate advising the Regional Opera tions Managers that our men use their name badges even for small gatherings in addition to large conventions); R. G. Scott, $40.00 (Two-minute focusing strip on our new films); R. L. Smith, $20.00 (Special label to be attached to pictures presented to customer executives stating, "Compliments of Ethyl Corpora tion") . | BIRTHS :. Centred Region Dick and Nancy Husta--a son, Peter Andrew, bom on March 12. Dick is an account representative in the Central region. Detroit Jim and Margaret BuRNS-a son, Wil liam Gerard, bom on May 18. Pop is a chemist at the Labs. Roy and Nancy DELANEY-a son, John Patrick, bom on Mav 30. His brother Michael is almost two. Rov is a tech nician in the Analytical section. Paul and Elizabeth Elsey, a daugh ter, Rebecca Jean, bom on June 21. Paul is-a chemist in Research and Engineering. John and Peggy LANE-a daughter, Anne Elizabeth, bom on April 15. John is staff assistant in the Information Serv ices group at the Labs. Arthur and Mari Lynn Zeitz-a son, Arthur H., III., bom on June 12. Dad is in Technical Services and Mom formerly worked for the late C. D. Hawlev. Southern Region Hank and Patsy GoDBEY-a daughter, Sharon Elizabeth, bom on Mav 21. Hank is a fleet engineer headquartered in New Orleans. Western Region Cal and Jan Dunbar--a daughter, Elizabeth Dustin, bom on June 16. The proud parents have nicknamed her "Dusty." Cal is a field rep in the West ern Region. New York Bill and Cleo Alexander - a son, Bryan William, bom on July 1. Pop is a safety engineer headquartered in New York. ifr,1'. ~ r -& - " f PEOPLE IN THE NEWSJ Henry K. Ball has been appointed manager of Products Service and Safety for the Company with headquarters in New York. He succeeds the late Levan R. Fleck, who died in Mav. John M. Rollins has been named to Mr. Ball's former position as chief safety engineer of the Southern region, whose headquarters are in Tulsa. The appointment of John L. McCart ney as Purchasing and Traffic Agent for Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited was recently announced by Alan C. Tully, president. John will headquarter at the Com pany's manufacturing plant which is now under construction near Sarnia. He was previously associated with the Samia Bridge Company Limited in the capacity of General Purchasing Agent. He holds the office of president of the Sarnia Dis trict Purchasing Agents Association and is a director of the Canadian Association of Purchasing Agents. 22 ETC 10945 Norman J. Linstromberg has been named district manager of the Dayton office. He succeeds Robert R. Mead, who is on special assignment at the Com pany's Central Region headquarters in Chicago. WALDEMAR J. DlSTLER was recently ap pointed manager of Sales Administration for Ethyl. Wallv has been associated with the Company for 21 years and has held vari ous sales positions. WEDDINGS ^3 . - V.-'- * Detroit Joanne Janusch and William Paul Nelson were married on June 9 in St. Mary's of Redford, Femdale. Joanne is a secretary in Product Development at the Labs. Elizabeth Robinson and Richard P. Renjus were married on June 2 in the Mayflower Congregational Church, De troit. After their wedding trip through Northern Michigan, the couple will re side in Femdale. Elizabeth is a clerk in the Central Files section at the Labs. New York Elizabeth Barnes was married on June 16 to Michael Sanicola in St. Rose of Lima Church, New York Citv. A surprise luncheon was given in Betty's honor by 25 of her co-workers. She was presented with an electric fryer, stemware and an electric serve-it. Betty is in the New York Finance department. NEWS BRIEFS > A re-grouping of several of the oper ating functions of the Company was recently announced. Under the realignment, the Purchasing and Traffic division has been made a part of a new Purchasing and Traffic department, which now operates under the direction of Joseph A. Costello, vice president. All manufacturing operations at both the Baton Rouge and Houston plants will continue to be directed by John H. Schaefer, vice president in charge of Manufacturing. Since 1948 Ethyl's man ufacturing facilities have been continually expanded, and the Manufacturing de partment has grown to a force of nearly 5,000 people. The new organizational alignment will give the Manufacturing department greater flexibility in meeting the steadily increasing requirements for "Ethyl'' antiknock compounds. Eagle Barracks, Veterans of World War I, have adopted the Ethyl Road Bird, the Balding Eagle, as their club mascot. The Balding Eagle is to be used on the club's stationery, newsletter and other material. The artwork which was presented by the Advertising department to Eagle Barracks, located in Jefferson City, Missouri, has been framed and hung in the club's headquarters. EXTRACURRICULAR M Adeline Furst, San Bernardino, is now recording secretary of the Secretarian Chapter of the National Secretaries Asso ciation. Genny Johnson, daughter of Art Johnson field representative in Kansas City, took third place in the diving com petition held recently at the Homewood Country Club in Kansas City. Jack Morton at Salt Lake Citv has been very active with Utah Oil Company in presenting Motor Maintenance Clinics to 4-H Club groups. Fred Schroeter, safety engineer, De troit, is the new president of the Fem dale Exchange Club. Ross Stevenson, project engineer at the Detroit Labs, was recently named secre tary of the American Institute of Chemi. cal Engineers, Detroit section. Steve Henry, director of Community Relations, Baton Rouge, has been named a member of the National Defense Com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Mary Levering, secretary in the Philadephia District office, has been appointed Hospitality Chairman of the William Penn Desk and Derrick Club. ON THE ROSTRUM } "A Case Study of the Shortage of Scien tists and Engineers in the Chemical Industry," was the paper presented re cently by George Beste at the Second Meeting of the National Committee for the Development of Scientists and Engin eers. George is in Chemical Research and Development at the Baton Rouge plant. George Ecke recently participated in a seminar on alkylation reactions held at the University of Notre Dame. George is assistant research supervisor in Chemi cal Research at the Detroit Laboratories. Marvin Russell, field representative headquartered in. Los Angeles, recently made ah excellent presentation on flame propagation to the student body of North rop Aeronautical Institute. Ethyl Demo equipment backed up by our films was used to convey our specialized knowledge in this field. Marv also prepared and presented a Fuels and Engine Program to the auto motive students from one of Los Angeles' largest trade schools. At the annual convention of the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers, Ted Carron, Director of Employee Training and Development, Detroit, gave a talk on "How the Engineer in Industry Can Foster His Own Professional Develop ment." Ed Ellerbe, chief automotive engineer in the Los Angeles office, was a key speaker at the University of California Motor Vehicle Maintenance sessions held in Los Angeles. At the Society of Automotive Engineers meeting held recently in Atlantic City, Howard Hesselberg discussed three papers on Laboratory and Road Anti knock Quality Ratings by Texas, Esso and Standard Oil of Indiana. Howard is headquartered at the Detroit Labs. E. C. Paige also of the Labs gave another paper at the SAE meeting titled "Inter national Harvester's Approach to the V-8 Engine Program." 23 ETC 10946 I Touring the filming of the movie Picnic in Hutchinson, Kansas, 11-year-old Patti Kay Welch made friends with I| lovely Kim Novae, star of the film. Patti, daughter of Charles Welch of the Kansas Citv District Office, also now corresponding with both of the Hollywood stars. I went horseback riding with actor Cliff Robertson and is ip ETC 10947 0 JUNIOR QUEEN Pretty Sandy Carson, 12-year-old daughter of Ed Carson, Fuel Technology, Detroit Laboratories, was selected as 1956 Junior Roller Skating Queen re cently. Sandy, who has been practicing her figure-8's for years, will now complete for the state champion ship. Expert instruction, native ability and persever ance are credited with the youngster's skating success. ETHYL SPONSORS FELLOWSHIPS Theodore Griffin, left, and Leo Fuqua are two high school science teachers receiving Ethyl-sponsored fellowships this summer. The fellowships have been provided for these selected teachers to attend a spe cial course at Louisiana State University. It is ex pected that the program will lead to increased inter est in the sciences by high school students. ETC 10948 ETHYL ASSISTS ECONOMY RUN JOINT MEETING Marvin Russel of the Los Angeles District Office and Frank Elliott, former Chief Automotive En Ethyl's Joe Hopkins attended a recent joint meeting of the O.I.I.C.-Joliet Oil Men's Club. Joe is vice gineer for the Western Region and now retired, served chairman of Press-Radio-TV for the Oil Industry In on the technical committee for the annual Mobilgas formation Committee. Shown left to right are Howard Economy Rim. The technical committee rules on Hoelter, O.I.I.C. representative; Walter Mertz, Joliet- mechanical conditions and determines penalties. Mar Kankakee O.I.I.C. area chairman; Joe; and R. N. vin and Frank rode with Frank Verbeck racer. Mullin, chairman of the Illinois 0TIC. more people, more placet JONES ADDRESSES CLUB DESK AND DERRICKERS VISIT PLANT B WR. "Casey" Jones of the Detroit Labs spoke on "Current and Future Trends in the Automo earing helmets for "protection", members of the Texas City Desk and Derrick Club recently tive Industry" at one of the largest assemblies to date toured the Houston plant and, according to a letter of the Houston Plant Management Club. Shown here, written by the club president, were impressed with left to right, are J. C. Klock, acting assistant plant the various facilities at the Ethyl installation. Acting manager; Casey; J. F. Elliott, Club vice president; and as guides for the group were D. F. Agnew, left below, I Jack Koonce, program chairman. Ken Jost and Ray Hodgkinson, right. I ETC 10949 ETC 10950 i i 91 f l 3i1 r ETHYL elm board 'Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited In This Issue Page Curtain Call................................. 2 Bubbles, Bottles and Beakers... 4 New Era lor ERA ....................... 6 Europe '56 ................................... 8 Author, Author........................... 10 The Old Camp Ground.............. 12 Is Captain Kidd Hiding in Your Bathroom?..................... 14 Milestones ................................... 16 Ethyl Welcomes ......................... 17 For Your Entertainment............ 18 Personals ....................................... 20 Peoples and Places...................... 22 Leonhard Dowry...................................... Editor Jean Caputo.........................Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Anne Mansfield, Les Motson, Andy Pallay, Kathleen Raley, Ross Rife, Adele Rozek, Karl Schmid; pho tographer: Eric Owen; Dayton: Lou Slack; Hous ton.' Ken Jost, Guy Keller, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Vida Cimber; Los Angeles: Harr)* Manning: Mexico: Lynn Phillips; New Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Bud Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Locke; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Leona Rasmussen; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; pho tographer: Fred Green; 5ji Francisco: Wil Han cock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson, Gasoline Testing; Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Corpora tion of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Mac donald. ON OUR COVER: With the summer heat way up on the thermometer in Baton Rouge, Ethyl employees and their families cool off in the new ERA pool. In the foreground, J. E. Kelly gives his young daughter a swim ming lesson. The story of the new ERA center is on page 6. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. Bynum Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. ! ETC 10953 TDehind this curtain waits a precious right--the right to vote, to select of yoiur own free will the men and women you wish to represent you in our government. Like most worthwhile things in life, it didn't come easy. It took a lot of fight, long before our time. But because a new nation of men desired above all else to be free and to govern themselves, it has been handed down to us on a silver platter. We accept it as a mere part of things, something that is simply there, like the sun in the morning and the familiar streets we walk. We seldom think how rare it is because it is such an integral part of our govern ment that we cannot imagine ourselves without it. What we have is ours, and it is only natural that we should not want to think of it endangered. When it has been threatened, we have seen it for its true worth and mustered up all the power at our command to defend it. In those times, we shined up the platter and held it high for the world to see. We should do the same without the threat. Though most of us have been taught never to look a gift horse in the mouth, there are people who shun the vote on pretenses as flimsy as a house of straw. They don't like the color of a candidate's hair or they have put stock in a libelous rumor. They are looking for perfection, and there is no such thing. There is only the best--and we've got it. The important thing is to learn which is the best, to vote informed and not because a movie star on television tells you to or because your friends see things differently. Only in that way do the people speak and can democracy continue to be the outstand ing form of government. Each of us in our own vote is as important to the outcome of the elections as a beam in a large building. Without it, the building may continue to stand but the structure is definitely weakened. In this year's presidential election, we want to sur pass the all-time voting record of 1952, when 62 mil lion voters, or 63 percent of the adult population, went to the polls. That still leaves 37 percent who have shied away from a voice in government. Though we strongly feel that we are one of the mainstays of the free world, other free countries around the globe have surpassed us in exercising the franchise to vote. Recent elections in Sweden, Italy, England and Bel gium indicate votes ranging from 80 to 95 percent. Our curtain is made of cloth, spun and woven by the people. There is no metal in it, no barrier of iron. It hides no skeletons behind its folds. Instead, it houses freedom. 3 ETC 10954 I ' '1 s * George Kosty comes from * glass-blowing family--bis father, his fiv# brothers and himself worked at the craft in Corning, N. Y. r I ''here's one employee at the Detroit Labs who can sing "I'm forever blowing bubbles" without having his boss tell him to stop daydreaming and get back to work. That's George Kosty, the Labs' glass blower, who blows larger bubbles than any child can manage to stretch from a wad of bubble gum. For most of us, glass must seem a strange, confus ing, almost magical substance with which to work. Sometimes you can scarcely see it, yet of course it is very much there. It is extremely brittle when formed and yet most volatile and flexible when melted. Com posed of such common ingredients as sand, potash and lime, it is nevertheless as clear and sparkling as a sun lit mountain stream. To George Kosty, though, glass is no mystery. After working with it for 25 years, he regards it in the same light that a bricklayer regards his bricks or a mason the cement he pours into a foundation he is laying. It is simply a dumb material of great potential, one which he has thoroughly come to know and has mas tered to the extent that he can make it perform and accomplish anything that it is essentially capable of. And this is just what George does at the Labs. Tak ing due pride in his artisan's skill and ability, he cre ates only the glassware that cannot be procured for lab use from standard products. What would seem a giant challenge to a beginner is only a day's interest ing absorption for George. ETC 10955 Joa Perueh, left, and Bill McCracken, chemical operators, put to use apparatus fashioned by George in his modern glass workshop. George had an eshibit of his glastwara at the well-known Greenfield Village museum and sometimes makes ornate objects for friends. and Supplying Labs with glassware is an art as well as a craft Here's what happens: A chemist brings to the work' shop a blueprint of glassware that he needs for his lab f experiments and George and he go over it together, | making sure that what the chemist has asked for is i practicable and is really what he wants and needs. Next George will assemble whatever standard pieces can be used for the apparatus and then begin shaping new pieces and joining and sealing the parts together. A full day's work with the Coming torch, the glass? blowing lath and the glass-cutting machine usually j suffices for even the most complex apparatus. i A child will blow his bubble gum until it bursts. | He hasn't the faintest notion how big the bubble will become or when it will burst. The difference between f the child blowing his gum and George blowing his j glass is the difference between a playful amateur and 1 a responsible professional. George always knows both the scope and the limits of his craft. He has been at it so long now that he is not only a thorough master i of his materials, but he also has gone a long way to ward overcoming the waste of time and duplicated effort. Errors of miscalculation are rare. If the blue print calls for a column or flask of such-and-such a size, that specific size is created exactly, flawlessly and swiftly. Safety? In a quarter century of working with fire and glass, George has suffered only minor cuts ... probably less than the average housewife or amateur carpenter. It is the kind of professional competence that we admire and respect wherever we see it. It's akin to Ben Hogan's genius on the golf links or Helen Hayes' on the stage. The glass blowing looks easy only be cause many years of patient training, practice and ex perimenting have perfected the techniques. Craftsmanship is the key to understanding George's special ability. In spirit he perhaps is derived from the fine artisans of the Middle Ages whose guilds were great schools of learning and perfecting craf.s. In reality he comes from an environment where glass blowing is not just an occupation but actually a way of life. Bom in Coming, N. Y., George, his father, his five brothers and nearly every other able-bodied man in town worked in the local glass works. There his apprenticeship was hard but rewarding--learning on the job. George is happy with Ethyl. When he left the East and came to Detroit with his wife Geraldine and their two sons, Tom, seventeen, and Mark, six, he at first did some outside work for Ethyl and then joined the Labs as its glass blower. Four years there haven't dampened his enthusiasm for creating special glass ware on order rather than turning out standard items by the hour, and he is gratified to know that his work is one of the significant contributions to the success of the many research ventures as he blows bubbles for bottles and beakers and complex tubing. Some interesting glass designs result * George bends and teals tubas gather while following specifications from a blueprint. It looks as if Donna Fillmore, left, of Personnel, and Mary Ann Pope of Chemiea! Research are crystal gazing as they admire glass. f l ETC 10956 * TW T n a sense this summer really began in Baton Rouge I back in February of 1955, when a new era began for the Ethyl Recreation Association. At that time ERA members agreed to increase their monthly dues from 50 to 75 cents (an amount matched equally by the Company) to pay for a new recreation center that would be one of the best of its kind in the country. Barely had the era begun when the association pur chased a 73-acre tract of land for $80,000 and plans were drawn up for a center that would include a 100foot swimming pool, a picnic area with tables and bar becue pits, a golf range and putting green, tennis courts, casting pond, softball diamond and a large recreation building. Though the new center is not yet complete, its big pool was finished in time for ERA members to enjoy it this summer, and Ethyl employees and their families have flocked to the cool water enthusiastically. Others have sought the shade of the nearby oak grove, where many of the picnic tables and barbecue pits have been completed. In the panel of photograph* at right, a number of steps involved in the building of the new ERA center are depleted. In the top picture, Harry Triehe sketches the shelter home, which he designed for the group. In the second photograph, ERA members meet with property owner end realtor to sign the bill of sale. The third picture shows members of the permanent facilities committee inspecting the grounds and planning cen* ter after signing of the bill of sale. Fourth picture is of shelter house during construction period. ETC 10957 Good businessmen, ERA financed its pool with a loan from a local bank and plans to pay off in monthly installments over a period of approximately three years. The rest was largely up to members, who mus tered up a lot of muscle and skill to clear the land, design the areas, construct the buildings and whip into shape the pleasure ground. Volunteers hove to--engi neers, pipefitters, plumbers, laggers and cement fin ishers, riggers, iron-workers, welders, carpenters, elec tricians and practically anyone who could help fell a tree or dig a sizeable hole. On many a Saturday and Sunday, mowing machines and tractors beat away at the tangled brush and bulldozers butted their tough heads against some pretty stubborn oaks. Trucks whirred into gear and saws hummed steadily. Man and machine, working together, saved ERA thousands of dollars. Hardly an Ethyl family would not agree that the effort has paid off handsomely. What's more, it prom ises even more for future summers when ERA's nearly 3100 members will have the use of increased facilities for fun in the sun. Pleasure was the goal, but team work is what did it. In the panel of photograph* at right, ERA member* are shown at work and play. In the first photograph, a volunteer helps to clear the area where swimming pool now beckons. Just below, two more volunteers make mincemeat ol a big oak. In the third picture, swimmer* check in at the bathhouse, while in the fourth, a mother and her young son espress their approval at new ERA facilities. Ever since the new swimming pool opened, ERA members have spent a great many hours of their free time in the water. ETC 10958 j A c*m*r is almost as assantial to tha tourist in Europa as hit toothbrush, and tha snapshots ha proudly shews to his friandt ara sura to lura many of them to make tha iourney soon. Tha throe pictures below, from left to right, came from European vacationers Bill Perdue, Anna Daul and Mary Gartiand, all of New York. The first is of famous Saint Michel; tha second shows Anna in Geneva; the third finds Mary in Venice. Dv now Europe is probably pretty much accustomed to the annual spring and summer invasion of v isiting Americans, but we Americans still aren't in different to Europe. We keep on descending upon that continent in great numbers and keep on gazing up at Gothic cathedrals, walking down crooked Pa risian streets and trying out our high school Spanish on the natives of Madrid. However, unlike Americans of the past, most of us today don't voyage or fly to Europe to commune with the scenes of our own origins. We're more purely sight-seers now and less seekers after the English ham let from where great-great grandfather came, or the Swiss chalet where a fourth cousin lives. Our past lias become deeply rooted in American soil and we no longer really expect to find one of our ancestors haunting a Norman castle. As usual, a number of Ethyl people made the At lantic crossing, some of them wide-eyed and excited on their first trip and others looking forward to ex tending their itineraries beyond the range of previous visits. Today, actually, the Atlantic crossing has the same tourist attraction from either continent. While Anne Daul, secretary to Bill Perdue, vice president and treasurer, gazed in awe at St. Peter's in Rome, Italian vacationers were gazing with equal wonder at the United Nations building in New York City. While Ernie Lange of Finance was appraising the gigantic web of old London, a Londoner was likely shaking his head over the sudden growth of Los Angeles. Emit Lang* of Ntw York Ftnanc* took th* pSctur# from which our background wai mad* whlla in London. If Mary Gartiand of Finance was impressed with the watery beauty of Venice, then a Venetian would be as much impressed with the watery beauty of Miami Beach. And if Bill Perdue enjoyed the lakes of the Scottish Highlands, the Highlanders in turn would find enjoyment in viewing similar lakes in any of our northern states. Ethyl travelers noted the strong sense of tradition in Europe--social, educational, architectural and other traditions. They felt it was in marked contrast to their own country, where precedent is always set aside when a more effective means of accomplishing some thing is found. Ernie Lange, for instance, was sur prised how little Paris had changed since he was there during the war. He said the Parisians were living and eating better, and there was more traffic on the boule vards, but the city's appearance hadn't changed at all. Ethyl people traveling in Europe said they had a wonderful time and would like to return soon and stay longer. Anne Daul, seeing Paris for the first time, was enchanted despite four days of steady rain. The Grand Tour has been, is, and will doubtless remain an enchantment for us. But it's a thrill for vacationers alone. It seems safe to say that 99 and 44/100 per cent of Amercians would choose the good life we have created for ourselves in the New World over the ancestral life in the Old World. And above all, the tourist is sometimes grimly reminded by sections of Europe that prosperity and plenty are at their peak in our land. 9 ETC 109 I AUTHOR, AUTHORI Tommy Thompson, male nurse at the Baton Rouge plant, is also a successful author, a prolific writer who has sold 23 of his novels to publishers and who manages to produce 10 manuscripts a year Tommy, who hot boon writing fiction tine* he wet nine years old, spends a greet dee! of leisure time working at the typewriter. ETC 10961 i riling fiction, either for a pastime or for a living, is something many people aspire to do but which few ever manage to get around to. Even when they think they have the plot for a bestseller nestled in their minds and have tested it verbally on encouraging friends, they rarely sit down to write a single word of their proposed epic. What happens to budding authors? Well, among other things, they soon discover that what's in the head is not so easy to put on paper as it may seem and that applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair requires far more discipline than most people are able to demand of themselves. Tommy Thompson, male nurse in Baton Rouge Medical, has been through it all, from growing pains to achievement, and, despite the fact that he often felt like throwing in the towel, he has stuck with it because, as he explains, "It was just something I had to do." Though he has not as yet come up with a bestselling novel, the possibility is not at all remote, for Tommy has written a lot of novels and many of them have been published. It all started, according to Tommy, when he was a child of nine or so, a youngster with a vivid imagination. From that time on, writing was both a hobby and a goal. In 1945, he began to take it seriously, hoping that he would some day sell what he wrote but resigned to the hazards of writing as a profession. By 1950, he had sold his first novel, but only after he had written a hundred or more short stories and seven other novels. Since then, though he still doesn't think writing is the way to make a living, he has sold 22 other novels. A rapid writer and a stem disciplinarian about his time at the typewriter, Tommy has turned out 10 novels a year for the past six years--an average that most professional writers would envy him. His latest published novel, which appeared as a "Giant paperback" in bookstores and bookstands, is a Western called Gunmans Spawn, an action story that took plenty of action on Tommy's part and kept him busy at the keys during his leisure hours. Since its appearance last year, he has written four more Westerns and one historical, all of which are awaiting their fate in the offices of New York publishers. Tommy's novels have been greatly varied, ranging from tales about Africa, the Far East and the South Seas to others about the American West and the ancient Mayan civilization. Reared on a Louisiana plantation, he's now thinking out the story-line for a novel about Mis sissippi River pirates who pounced upon fur traders from the Ohio Basin. Like Alfred Hitchcock, who always manages to appear briefly in the films he directs, Tommy usually tries to get something about the medical profession in his books. Though writing takes up mueh of his time, Tommy is a man of numerous interests. From top to bottom in the penei of pictures et the right, he occupies himself with his work in the plant Medical department, cleaning his rifle for hunting and selecting a favorite recording from large collection. etc 10962 THE OLD CAMP GROUND f there's one thing more thrilling for children than Ijust plain old wonderful summer itself, then it's probably attending a summer camp. It's like school turned inside out--from organized winter lessons to organized summer fun. Thus over 260 sons and daughters of employees at the Houston plant had the time of their young lives this summer attending the first full-time Summer Camp sponsored by ERAH (Ethyl Recreation Asso ciation, Houston). A frolicsome holiday spirit prevailed as the boys swarmed over the ERAH Park for three days in late July, followed by the girls during a like period early in August. And there was plenty of space in which to swarm and plenty of exciting activities in progress Pitching horseshoes wet but e tingle Activity for the smell fry at the camps. Others included soccer, rope climbing, racing, swimming. The wading pool at the ERAH Park was the focal point of many pleasant hours for the girl*. This 30-foot diameter pool was constructad last yaar by volunteer ERAH mambars, and tt has paid many dividends since. Asida from tha fun it affords, it is of course sofa water for youngsters. throughout the 50-acre park. None of the youngsters could complain of insomnia. When the long active day was over, the last campfire extinguished and the gooseflesh induced by ghost stories had reverted to normal skin, the children slept like the proverbial log. Just having the feeling they were sort of on their own during the three days and nights of the camps gave the youngsters a big thrill. For many of them, of course, it was the first time away from the safety of their own homes and the guidance of their parents. Actually, the camps marked one of their first, and major, ventures in independence. Under careful supervision, the youngsters responded eagerly to the old-fashioned, time-honored pastimes of youth that still can very much rival the modern Making naw friends and continuing old friendship* wore as much a part of the camps as competitive sports like this fast game of badminton. wonders of a Disneyland. Diving into the new swim ming pool, splashing around in the new wading pool, horseshoe-pitching, see-sawing, foot races and bad minton were a few of the unceasing activities. Per haps the most popular moment arrived when the hol ler, "Chow time!", resounded across the park and all the children dashed to the barbecue pit, remodeled to accommodate cafeteria-type meals, and there put away gobs of food and gallons of milk. As a result of the happy shouts and contented slumber that proclaimed the success of this first Sum mer Camp, E. L. "Doc" Crunk, president of ERAH, and Bill Wilkinson, plant recreation director, are more than confident that other outings in future summers will prove themselves equally wonderful. ETC 10964 Moss-covered trees made e lovely setting in which to see-saw. Other playtime facilities included swings, chinning bars and many gamas. r\ S' U Though our title kids of Captain Kidd, the subject of this article is no laughing matter n this day and age of confidential magazines, private I detectives, government investigations and cloakand-dagger espionage, not many stones are left un turned or many dark alleys left unilluminated and un explored, and yet there is a small area in most homes where the lurid life goes on unabated--where the Jolly Roger flies and pirates search the horizons for victims. This usually disregarded area is the medicine chest, and it very likely contains some strange and desperate characters--poisons (with the pirates' skull and crossbones on the labels), deteriorated drugs, old cos metics, rusted razor blades and last year's tooth brushes. Too many of us hoard these objects, not realizing that some of them are as deadly in their way as were the marauding pirates of the past. The modem medicine chest--unlike the bulging caskets of gold and silver secreted by Jean LaFitte and Captain Kidd--should be uncrowded and well-ordered with well-defined contents. Your children may get their hands and then their lips on poisons or old drugs and you yourself may make a grave mistake shuffling through all the clutter of bottles in the middle of the night. In the dark and in your sleepy state, you may claim strychnine rather than bromide. So our advice is simple: clear out your medicine chest. Throw out everything that is old, useless or harmful and put your toilet articles in a separate cabi net. After performing this worthy though probably long-delayed feat, you may find you have almost nothing left. If this is the case, go to your druggist and buy the medicinal and first-aid supplies you'll actually have need for. These supplies should include: thermometer, eye cup and dropper, cotton swabs, mineral oil, iodine, liniment, boric acid ointment, hot water bag, roll of absorbent cotton, bandages, adhesive plaster, epsom salts, aromatic spirits of ammonia, antiseptic, ointment for bums, ice bag, baking soda, castor oil, vaseline and rubbing alcohol. Like the general assault of spring housecleaning, the medicine cabinet should receive a thorough going over at least once a year. Things accumulate, old pre scriptions pile up, bottles lose their corks and caps and many remedies lose their value with age. It may seem wasteful to throw out an almost full bottle of some expensive concoction, but holding onto medicine like heirlooms is a dangerous business. The layman hasn't sufficient knowledge of drug action and should never experiment with it. Doctors tell us to beware of hav ing prescriptions renewed on our own initiative. Don't argue that the cough medicine which the doctor pre scribed when your wife or husband had bronchitis last ' year will be just as good for junior's croup now. Throw out all old medicine where no one--adult, child or animal--can possibly get hold of it. Certain drugs deteriorate with time; iodine, for instance, be comes stronger as it ages and may cause a bum. Label all poisons, seal their caps safely with adhesive tape and remove them to a separate location well above the reach of inquisitive young fingers. Beware of cure-alls. There are plenty of pretty jars and bottles being sold, allegedly full of wonder drugs and other miraculous cures. Undoubtedly the recom mended way to keep the home medicine chest stocked with safe and sound remedies is to consult your doc tor. He won't hesitate to suggest the best indigestion remedy or the best pill for relief of pain, for doctors have no desire to be called in at any hour of the day or night for a headache or a touch of sore throat that will pass away easily with rest and some relieving drug. But anything that persists or becomes worse after the first home remedy should have the doctor's attention. A first-aid kit and first-aid book should be kept on hand and you should have some first-aid training to go along with them. It's not that you'll be playing at doctoring when there's trouble--it's just that you'll have to do the best you can until a doctor arrives. You'll find that these simple efforts and precautions will double in brass. Not only will they help insure your continued well-being and safety, but they will also give you peace of mind because you'll know you are as prepared as possible for accidents and illnesses of any nature. 15 ETC 10966 MILESTONES 20 years '^ Melvin L. Olson Sales, Central Region Charles Polk Research & Engineering, Detroit IO years James F. Bell Research 4t Engineering, Detroit George H. Carpenter Gasoline Testing, Yonkers Donald J. Chapman Sales, Eastern Region Eileen P. Charman Sales, New York Eleanor P. Eskola Research & Engineering, Detroit Claude R. Guinn Research & Engineering, San Bernardino Shirley L. Trapp Research & Engineering, Detroit Arthur H. Zeitz, Jr. Research & Engineering, Detroit B yaara Charlotte M. Allen Research & Engineering, Detroit Robert S. Carleton Sales, Western Region Lewis F. Gilbert Research ic Engineering, Detroit Maurice E. Gilbert Finance, New York Charles E. Graham Research & Engineering, Detroit Howard R. Hamaker Sales, Gasoline Testing, Tulsa James G. Jolly Research & Engineering, Detroit Lois M. Marentette Research & Engineering, Detroit Kathleen D. Pageau Research & Engineering, Detroit Martin Perkins Research 6t Engineering, Detroit William F. Purcell Sales, Central Region Patricia A. Wilson Research & Engineering, Detroit ETC 10967 Carl R. Bartholomew, Jr., is a sales trainee in Central Region. A recent U. of Okla homa grad, he enjoys jazz and semi-classical music. Dolores Bratta, nicknamed Dee, is a steno-clerk at De troit Labs. She lives in Farm ington with husband Ted and daughter Kathleen Ann. Cade C. Clover, Jr., is a technician at the Tulsa Lab. A navy vet and graduate of the University of Arkansas, he is interested in hunting. Beverly Jo Grotewohl, steno-clerk in the Detroit Pat ent division, is a graduate of Southfield High. She likes water skiing and skating. John V. Hanlon is a field engineer in Eastern Region. He and wife, Cecile, reside in Manhattan. He is inter ested in music, art and sports. Duane C. Hargis is a chem ical technician at Detroit Labs. He attended Wayne University and enjoys skiing, fishing and mountaineering. Sandra Hyatt, a stenog rapher in Detroit, was bom in Evansville, Ind., attended Western Michigan College and likes to read and swim. Constance Knowles is a steno-clerk in Detroit. She attended U. of Detroit. A recent bride, Connie, now re sides in Detroit with husband. John R. Lurcott, known as jack, is a field engineer in Eastern Region. A U. of Rochester graduate, his hob bies include golf and tennis. Joan M. Murdoch is a sec retary at Detroit Labs. She was bom in Detroit, attended schools and worked for Glenfield & Kennedy in Scotland. Mary Frances Ray, Detroit chemist, attended Marvmount College and U. of Oklahoma. Girl Scout work takes up her spare time. Barbara Rowland is a steno-clerk in Detroit. Her pastimes include teaching piano and attending Detroit Business Institute. Albert M. Sandlin, Tulsa Lab technician, is married and has two children. Dean and Debra. Hobbies are hunting and fishing. Robert Walker, called Bob by his friends, is a mail clerk at Detroit Labs. A na tive of Michigan, he gradu ated from Hazel Park High. Dorothy A. Young is a steno-clerk at the Yonkers Gasoline Testing Lab. A high school honor student, she likes golf and bowling. ETC 10968 srSag sr-l-i-T BOOKS 7 7 c i < In World's Not Fa* From The Jungle, Abner Dean, whose pen has produced some of our funniest drawings, has come up with a new collection of satirical sketches that are as humorous and perceptive as any he has yet done. Accompanied by terse verse, his drawings laugh at man's emotions and commotions and ought to provide him with a hearty chuckle at himself. John P. Stevenson's The Captain General (Doubledav) is a fairly apt historical novel that has to do with the Spanish in the Netherlands and, though it's a colorful enough journey back, it never manages to create much of a stir. Everybody conspires and the Dutch are as valiant as the little boy who put his finger in the dike, but the important characters don't seem to have much blood of their own, Dutch or Spanish. A Restless Breed, indeed, are the people who inhabit the Ohio town of New Hartford in J. William Terry's novel just out from World, but they go through the growing pains on the Ohio Land Reserve in the mid-nineteenth century with a good bit of reader interest and, between them, they manage to produce several entwined episodes that are meritorious. The author has made a fairly comprehensive collection of types to be found in growing America and he has given them a busy lot to do. Modem Mallorca is the exotic setting of William Converse Haygood's The Ides Of August, a World publication, and an exemplary novel of life on the Mediterranean. Chiefly con cerned with expatriates, it presents a number of interesting characters against an equally interesting background where the rest of the world seems to be shut out and life is like too many lazy days at a country club. Mr. Haygood's people do what they must and he observes them without malice or scorn, but not entirely without humor or pity. Though prediction has it that the twain shall never meet, Chang Hsin-hai has written a skillful novel about Orientals in the occidental world at the turn of the century, and he has managed to be both informative and entertaining on home ground as well as foreign field. In Simon and Schuster's The Fabulous Concubine (in China, be it noted, it merely means a second spouse), he depicts the intriguing diplomatic society in Germany, where the subject travels with her ambassador husband. Golden Orchid, as our girl is called, gets herself into situations worthy of our best American heroines. An extension of a series of pieces that originally appeared in The New Yorker, Robert Rice's The Business Of Crime (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy) is quite a fascinating bit of reading composed of five case histories involving illegal ways of making money on a big scale. Though no guns flash and no bodies sink into the East River, these true stories have a special eeriness of their own and reflect better than any crime fiction the strange mechanism of the criminal mind. From the basketball fix to the narcotics racket, the group is uni formly informative and absorbing. `A ETC 10969 l > The pace is fast and there are plenty of crescendos in Death To Slow Music, a new Dutton Guilt Edged Mystery by the crime school's popular Beverly Nichols. At an English sea side amusement park, a foul fiend does his dirtiest and minder is again a messy, complicated business for Scotland Yard. Mr. Nichols' well known amateur detective, Horatio Green, helps the Yard men and comes through with the key to the puzzle. MOVIES Far be it from'us to strike a sour note, but tax time isn't too far ahead. If you haven't yet started to think about it, you may save yourself a headache or two by reading J. K. Lasser's Handbook Of Successful Tax Procedures, just off the press of Simon and Schuster. Just about anything you can think of pertaining to the subject is included in the volume and you'll unquestionably be a wiser, more informed man when you've read it. Based upon a tree story that sold a lot of British newspapers a few years back, Michael Alexander's The Reluctant Legionnaire, a Dutton book, is a very amusing account of the rescue of a young Briton from the French Foreign Legion, a task that for a time seems as impossible as escape from Devil's Island. The author personally leads the way through red tape and desert sands until he finds his friend and helps him escape from a life not nearly as glamorous as he had imagined. Twenty-six eminent authorities on the contemporary scene have contributed to Simon and Schuster's comprehensive new volume The New Outline Of Modern Knowledge, edited by Alan Prvce-Jones, editor of The London Times Liter ary Supplement. In concise and fairly uncomplicated selec tions, the twenty-six authors have managed to make clear a considerable amount of information on a number of current sciences and arts, and they have collectively produced an ex cellent reference book for the home library, a sort of pocket book college course. 20th Century Fox not only nabbed the Broadway bonanza Bus Stop for itself but insured its boxoffice receipts by starring Marilyn Monroe as the shabby nightclub singer who falls in love with a lonesome cowboy, played amiably by Don Murray. Directed by Joshua Logan, the film has a lot of vitality, plenty of MM and a goodly share of the original wit that kept play goers laughing. Columbia Pictures has turned out a dramatic and thoughtprovoking film in Storm Center, which stars Bette Davis at the head of a cast of fine actors, including Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly and Brian Keith. It all has to do with a librarian's re fusal to remove a certain book from her shelves, even at the cost of her job. In trying to preserve what she considers a basic freedom, she loses the backbone of her life, until a book . burning helps her win back her cherished desk. Metro-Goldwyn-Maver has gone all out for The Opposite Sex, a splashy musical based on Clare Booth Luce's successful Broadway play and film. The Women. This new Technicolor -version stars practically everybody in Hollywood--June Allvson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Joan Blondell, Leslie Nielsen, Charlotte Greenwood, Agnes Morehead and Sam Levene. On the whole, it's a pretty gay affair with plenty of songs, silk and satire. The author of To Catch a Thief, David Dodge, has turned out a new and equally exciting piece of escapist fiction in the current Random House novel, Angel's Ransom, a lively bit of hokum that also takes place along the Mediterranean route. In it Monte Carlo, a luxurious yacht, a $100,000 ransom, murder and several magnums of champagne figure prominently, and, though the people involved in the mayhem are one dimen sional, they are a glamorous, sinister and glittering lot. Bernard Botein, at present an Associate Justice of the Appel late Division of the State Supreme Court of New York, has written a powerful and disconcerting new novel for Simon and Schuster. The Prosecutor of Justice Botein's title is an unscrupulous young district attomev who sacrifices defendants to the wolves in order to make a name for himself. In the public eye Edgar Bailey is a respected man, but his misdirected brilliance finally backfires within his own legal world. Five A. M. is a strange and yet compelling novel translated from the French of Jean Dutourd for Simon and Schuster, and it's so full of thought that it often trips over itself and lands flat in the middle of nowhere. Nonetheless, its ideas are some thing to think about, even though they are sometimes gro tesque. It's about a man who doesn't reallv like what he is and creates another character of himself during the restless night, a change you may not be sure is for the better. TELEVISION The' traveling circus mav be dying, but as grand old American entertainment it will long be lovingly remembered in such mu sicals as "The Lord Don't Play No Favorites", Producers' Showcase gem for September 17, starring Robert Stack, Kay Starr, Dick Havmes, Buster Keaton and the King of Jazz himself, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. Autumn's football time, and the University of Kentucky will trv to harvest more touch downs than the rambling wrecks from Georgia Tech when the teams clash on September 22. Jackie Gleason and his comic cohorts will resume their spirited one-hour "live" shows beginning September 29. A new dra matic series, Wire Service, depicting the struggles and ad ventures of newspapermen, goes on the screens October 4; also new. The Chevy Show, starring songstress Dinah Shore, makes its debut on October 5. A review of Cole Porter's splendid, sophisticated tunes is on the agenda of Ford Star Jubilee on October 6. 19 ETC 10970 $65.00 (Three dimensional moving dis plays for the Drive More campaign); Alice Lahn, $20.00 (Changes for the lower portion of the Expense Account form); Madge Lofthouse, $30.00 (Form and/or procedure to indicate to the regions and districts the number, de scription, and suggested distribution of routine material sent out by the Adver tising department). Southern Region Jack and Kathryn LAUBACH-a daugh ter, Kristin Jane, bom on August 20. Jack is an account representative in the Southern Region. Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit, New York, Sales department and Regional offices and Yonkers: Detroit: Richard Abowd, Jr., $20.00, (Portable "Around-the-neck" speaker and amplifier to permit demonstrations in noisy areas such as engine rooms); Jake Boss, $15.00 (Construct work platform for forks of lift trucks to permit safe use of lift trucks for elevated work); L. Dale Chrysler, $10.00, (Install arms to sup port magazine shelves in library to make storage space behind shelves more acces sible); Claude Hoffman, $10.00 (Pub lic address speaker between G & U build ings will cover area not presently reached); JAMES S. JACKSON, $405.00 (Method of permitting one man to oper ate 2 CFR engines will result in consid erable increase in production in this one operation); Robert W. Johnson, $10.00 (Better method of keeping track of tools used with drill press); Gilbert D. Matthews, $15.00 (Additional elec trical outlets in B wing mezzanine. Will provide for electric power or auxiliary light in this area); Robert R. Mont gomery, $15.00 (Improved method for disodium biphenyl halogen analysis will save time); Etta L. Saporta, $10.00 (Separate multilith plates for long and short circulation lists to permit running onlv the one needed); Ronald Tweedie, $10.00 (Revised method of identifying laboratory note-books); Nora W. Wirick, $10.00 (Stock detachable label holders for binders to permit neater labeling which can be removed). Sales Department and Regional Offices: J, S. Cole, $10.00 (Page en titled "Altitude Effects on Octane Re quirements of Cars" from the 1955 An nual Review of Gasoline Quality be re produced separately for specific use); J. H. Conner and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Yonkers: Catherine F. Henderson, $10.00 (Motivated a bulletin which will be sent to all locations having teletype machines advising them of the avail ability of soundproof booths for their machines if they wish to purchase them); L. A. Hunt, $15.00 (Method for re moving deposits from the shroud of the intake valve); Elmer F. Mahlke, $20.00 (Wording of "Termination of Em ployment" form coincide with that in the Industrial Relations Policy Manual)-, F. W. Ramin, Certificate, (Addition of specific wording on the "Shipper" form used by Gasoline Testing). New York: Lillian Campbell, $20.00 (Eliminate three sales order forms from set); MOLLIE S. HOUGHTON, $10.00 (Paint "Pull" signs on reception area glass doors). BIRTHS \ Central Region Charles and Barbara Gordon--a son, Jeffrey Paul, bom on July 29. Chuck is a field representative in the Central Region. New Director Elected Marion W. Boyer has been elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Bover has been associated with the Standard Oil Company (N.J.) and with Esso Standard Oil Companv since 1927. Joining the Esso Laboratories in Baton Rouge, Mr. Boyer became head of the Labs in 1930 and the following year was made head of the Technical Ser vices Division of the Baton Rouge Re finery. Two years later he was appointed general superintendent of the Refinery and in 1936 he was elected vice presi dent of Esso Standard. In 1945, Mr. Boyer became head of all of Esso's Baton Rouge operations. Transferred to New York in 1949, he assumed responsibility for all manufac turing operations. He was executive vice president of Esso Standard prior to his election as a director of the Jersey Company in 1955. Mr. Bover also served as general man ager for the United States Atomic En ergy Commission from 1950 through 1953. Man u facturing An nou nces Several Changes in Positions Promotions and new assignments in Ethyl Corporation's Manufacturing de partment effective September 15, have recently been announced by J. H. Schaefer, vice president in charge of manufacturing. 20 ETC 10971 I t Cunton W. Bond of Baton Rouge, general manager of Manufacturing, will transfer his headquarters to New York. Mr. Schaefer stated, "Mr. Bond is joinJ mg me in New York with increased re! sponsibilities brought about by a con. siderably broader program in the man! agement of the Manufacturing depart! ment, pointing, toward plans now under i wav for considerably expanded produc` tion and related operations." i Thomas M. Smyue of Baton Rouge : has been appointed manager of Manu facturing Department Coordination, a j newly created post, and will be trans ferred to New York in this new posi tion. Benjamin D. Harrison of Baton Rouge has been named director of Con trols and Standards reporting to Mr. Smvlie, and also is being transferred to New York. "The creation of the manu facturing department coordination func tion under Mr. Smvlie," Mr. Schaefer savs, "will continue him in a position of being part of the general manage ment team in the coordination of activ ities of the department. Much of this work has been located in Baton Rouge, but with the increased scope of Ethyl's manufacturing activities and with the transfer to New York of the general management of all these activities, the coordination function becomes more im portant. The new assignments carry increased responsibilities for Messrs. Smvlie and Harrison. Their broad back ground in the planning of our various activities qualifies them for the increased responsibilities they will have in the new assignments in New York." James M. Gill will be on special as signment reporting to the general man agement of Manufacturing. Wallace F. Armstrong has been named resident manager in charge of all of Ethyl's manufacturing department functions in Baton Rouge. James J. Bergin has been named assistant resi dent manager. Other Baton Rouge appointments in clude R. N. Clothier as manager of Operations, Tetraethyl Lead and Related Products; F. L. PaDGITT as manager of Operations, Vinyl Chloride; and J. C. Klock as manager of Maintenance and On-Plant Construction. <* G. O. Hayes, formerly of Baton Rouge, has been named Resident Manager in charge of the Manufacturing depart ment activities in Houston. M. C. Hudgins, assistant Plant Manager in Baton Rouge, will become Assistant Resi dent Manager at Houston. North Kansas City Carolyn Kay Hilton and Louis D. Marker, Jr., were married on July 2 in the Gladstone Community Church, Kan sas City. After honeymooning at the beautiful Lake of the Ozarks, the couple have established residence in Kansas City. Louis is a technician in the Gaso line Testing Lab. "The ortho-Alkylation of Phenols" and "The ortho-Alkylation of Aromatic Amines" both jointly authored by Al fred Kolka, John Napolitano, George Ecke and Allen Filbey will also be published in the "Journal of Or ganic Chemistry." Keith Pfundstein of the Detroit Lab oratories presented a prepared discussion on "Future Fuels for Agriculture" by Hobart Young, Sinclair Research Labs, at a meeting of the Society of Automo tive Engineers. The meeting was held on September 13 in Milwaukee. "Development of A Two-Stage BHC Photo-chemical Reactor," a paper writ ten by L. J. Governale, Process Design, and J. T. Clarke, Chemical Research, both in Baton Rouge,' appeared in the July issue of Chemical Engineering Progress. The paper was also pre sented at a meeting of the American In stitute of Chemical Engineers in New Orleans. "Fueling Future Engines" will be one of the oil industry problems which will be discussed by Casey Jones of Detroit Laboratories at the seventh annual con vention of the New Mexico Industries in Albuquerque during September. Lew Barnum, Community Relations, Baton Rouge, was guest speaker at a meeting of Ascension Parish Parochial School teachers. He also spoke with St. Tammany Parish teachers. At both meetings, Lew discussed "What Industry Wants From the High School Graduate." In the August issue of Petroleum Proc essing, an article entitled "The Problem of Sulfur in Gasoline--An Economic Ap praisal" written by Marshall Sittig, Advertising, New York and George Unzelman of the Tulsa Regional Office appeared. Ben Weil's article, "Synthetic Rubber Today" will be published in the September issue. Ben is manager of Detroit's Information Services. At the American Chemical Society meet ing being held during September in At lantic City, a number of papers by De troit personnel will be presented. "Par ticulate Lead Compounds in Automobile Exhaust Gas" written by Dan Hirschler, Lewis Gilbert, Frances Lamb and Leonard Niebylski will be given. Lowell Dollahan, Kansas City Dis trict Manager, has been appointed to the executive committee of the Oil In dustry Information Committee of the American Petroleum Institute for the Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska district. Deane Birkes is serving on a commit tee in his neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is studying plans for a new school. Deane is a field rep in the Central Region. Jim Southwick, New York Finance, has been elected treasurer for the New York Chapter of the American Society of Insurance Management. J. B. LeRay, The Echo editor, Houston, has been elected a director of the board of the Society of Associated Industrial Editors, Gulf Coast Chapter. Cuff Lenington safety engineer. Southern Region, is chairman of the Oil Progress Week program which will be held in Amarillo, Texas. This pro gram is part of the nation-wide observ ance to familarize the public with con tributions made by the petroleum in dustry. Leo J. Martin, Industrial Relations, is general chairman of the OPW commit tee in Baton Rouge. Oil Progress week will run October 14 through 20. 21 ETC 10972 Sixteen-year-old Helen Hendrick, daughter of J. E. Hendrick, account representative, stole the show at the an nual convention of Humble Oil's service station managers in Houston, Texas, this summer. Helen received a big hand for her speech, "Your Customers of Tomorrow", concerning the future buving power of teen-agers. -< ETC 10973 | ( i i i ETC 10914 BIGGEST DETROIT AWARD ho wouldn't flash a big, happy smile if he had Wjust received $405 for a suggestion accepted by the Suggestion System? Jim Jackson of Chemical Re search, Detroit Research Laboratories, is the pleased recipient pictured here. His suggestion of a method which increases the output of sample ratings won him the $405--highest award to date at Detroit. NEW PRESIDENT T^red Green, left, of Automotive Products, San Bernardino Labs, was recently installed as president of the Uptown Exchange Club, San Bernardino. Con gratulating Fred in the picture below is Paul Marsch, district governor of the Exchange Club. Like Fred, numerous Ethyl employees participate actively in vari ous civic, charitable and fraternal groups. IMPROVED RECORDING SYSTEM Simply by picking up a telephone and "talking" to a tape recorder, employees at the Baton Rouge plant have discovered that they can maintain their equip ment records in the easiest and also the best way pos sible. This method--a telephone recorder system--has proved successful in keeping the equipment records up-to-date and allowing supervision to keep in close touch with equipment performances. In the past, the Maintenance group did not have equipment records that could be readily maintained and used. As a re sult of information supplied through the telephone re corder system, a mechanic, in the picture to the left, makes final packing adjustments on a piece of me chanical equipment. In the next picture, a mainte- more people, more places "OPERATIONS ALERT' AT HOUSTON Should disaster ever strike along the Ship Channel in Houston., Texas, our Houston plant and other below of Boy Scout "victims" of the mock bombing attack being treated. In the second picture from the nearby plants will be ready to meet the crisis with left, an Ethyl car stands ready for assignment to the trained men and equipment. A number of the plant's disaster area and in the third picture from the left, 1 employees participated in Civil Defense's nation-wide four employees, Ruth Warren, Bennie Lange, R. C. "Operations Alert for 1956" on July 20. Realism was Johnson and M. Player, Jr., man vehicles that are to stressed in the operation, as is shown in picture be dispatched to the scene of the "bombing." Mem- i i nance field foreman uses telephone to call into elec tronic tape recorder each job done on the pump under study. He relays a short, concise description of the work done to the recorder. Next, a stenographer in the Central Maintenance office transcribes from tape recorder the information called in by field fore man. She types all reports which have been phoned in from all areas of the plant. This information is transcribed on individual equipment record Kardex file cards which are kept in the area supervisor's office. The area supervisor, shown in the righthand picture, studies record card showing complete maintenance history of equipment to ascertain if any changes in operation or maintenance should be made. bers of the recently organized Channel Industries Dis aster Aid group are shown in the picture to the far right. H. R. Cunningham, at left, safety supervisor at the Houston plant, is assistant committee chairman of the group. The channel Industries Disaster Aid group provides mutual aid in the event that a serious situ ation might develop at any one of the various plants along the Ship Channel. In such a case, other plants would send emergency equipment as requested to help the stricken plant. The group also cooperates to the fullest extent with the Civil Defense authorities. Part of Ethyl's contribution to the group's efforts was the recent installation of a two-way radio at the plant's main gate. [I ETC 10976 Anew Ethyl motion picture on safety practices, YY/" ith young Larry Kitchen pitching a no-hitter, the itI "Unloading Ethyl Tank Cars", is now being Ethylite baseball team at San Bernardino had filmed in New York City. Jim Beckwith, far left, oflittle trouble leading their league this summer. The Safety, is technical adviser and Bill Spierer, seated, boys, aged fifteen and sixteen, were managed by manager of Sales Promotion, is producer of the film. Claude "Shorty" Guinn of Products Application, shown Others in the picture are, left to right, a prop tech here with his star pitcher. Coaches for the team were nician, actor, director and cameraman. Ethyl men John Robertson and Rob Rickhnff. more people, more places ETC 10977 SUMMER EMPLOYEES FETED A dinner for 30 college students, summer employees at the Detroit Research Labs, was held at the at the dinner, from left to right, are Coleman Davidson of Products Application, Gene Moulton of the Univer Park Shelton Hotel, Detroit. The students are attend sity of Michigan, Bernard Jones of Chemical Research, ing colleges and universities throughout the country John Hawley of Swarthmore College, Harold Soroos and are majoring in a variety of fields. As a result of of Administration and Services, Art Jennings of Per their summer experience, a number of them are ex sonnel, Dan Guy of Technical Services and Raymond pected to join the Company after graduation. Shown Wetzsteon of Cornell University. > * *sn. Children end adults alike played hard and happily at tha annual pienie sponsored by tha Detroit tabs' Ethyl Society, Shown on merry-go-round ara nonchalant John Seppanen and his sistar Jana, children of Siagert Sappanan of Plant Oparations and Maintenance. Girl at rear is a friend. TC 10978 a * t DI l D i I T Tnlike Indian tom-toms, which no doubt got a signed 12-gauge steel be loaded and unloaded in sin sound beating every time the braves were on the gle rope slings, with no more than two drums per warpath, the drums pictured above receive almost as hoist. The full drums, weighing about 860 pounds gentle, loving treatment as a newborn babe. These gross, are then stowed on the vessels so that there can are the drums that contain "Ethyl" antiknock fluid be no possibility of their shifting or colliding with for shipment overseas, and though they have an ad each other. Specific instructions, both oral and writ venturous existence, traveling to the four comers of ten, are given the ship's captain and first mate on the globe, they very seldom are the worse for wear safety procedures to be followed in the event of leak when they reach their destinations. This remarkable age during the voyage and at the unloading at the safety record in handling thousands of drums is due port. Whether they are destined for a two-day trip only to careful planning and strict adherence to safety to Cuba or a 45-day voyage to Formosa, the drums regulations. To begin with, they're hoisted into the during loading operations are looked after by an ex ships differently from other cargo. The Company in perienced Ethyl marine supervisor who knows the sists that its 55-gallon drums made of specially de ropes in handling the shipment. I. ETC 10979 ETHYL Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited In This Issue Page One Vote ..................................... 10 Minutes to Midtown.............. Cause for Alarm......................... Some of Those Things............... Sana Send-off............................. A Case in Point........................... For Your Entertainment............ Milestones ................................... Ethyl Welcomes......................... Personals ..................................... People and Places..................... 2 4 8 10 12 14 16 18 19 20 22 Leonhard Dowry...................................... Editor Jean Caputo.........................Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Anne Mansfield, Lillian McDonnell, Les Motson, Andy Paiiay, Kathleen Raley, Ross Rife, Adeie Rozelt, Karl Schmid; photographer: Eric Owen; Dayton: Lou Slack; Houston: Ken Jost, Guy Keller, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Vida Cimber; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phil* lips; New Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Bud Harris, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Joan Ryan, Dorothy Locke; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pitts burgh: Leona Rasmussen; Salt Lake City: John Mor ton ; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; photographer: Fred Green; San Francisco: Will Hancock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson, Gasoline Test ing: Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Macdonald. ON OUR COVER: Barbara Johnson of East ern Region, who went with rwo other Ethyl employees to see the recent outdoor art show io Greenwich Village, tries to make up her mind about a pair of handmade earrings. The story of the exhibit begins on page 4. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. Bynum Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Primed in U.S.A. ONE VOTE made Texas a state of the Union ONE VOTE once gave GOP Senate control ONE VOTE saw California into United States ONE VOTE was the indirect cause of World War II ONE VOTE prevented James Monroe from unanimous electorate vote ONE VOTE put Oregon over as a state ONE VOTE made Rutherford Hayes the President ONE VOTE in the electoral college decided Jefferson's term ONE VOTE was responsible for Idaho's statehood ONE VOTE added Washington to the States ONE VOTE in the House put John Quincy Adams in office ONE VOTE is your vote... a vital vote! 3 1C*. A colorful outdoor exhibit of paintings gives New York employees a chance to stroll in autumn sun while brushing up on art Ten minutes away and less than a dollar by taxi from EthyVs New York offices in midtown Manhattan lies famous Washington Square in equally-famous Greenwich Village, picturesque home of more artists than you can shake a Rembrandt at. Twice a year, in the early spring and again in the ascending fall, beard and beret desert the palette and-brush to display their handiwork in the Washington Square Outdoor Art Show, one of the biggest doses of art in all outdoors. For a dozen or more city blocks, thousands of canvases present a colorful spectacle of flora and fauna, sea and sky, daydream and nightmare. Fences and walls that usually drip ivy suddenly drip art, and the public eye--an orb as sharp as a quick retort and as critical as an old-fashioned schoolmaster--observes the display with a mixture of appreciation, confusion and utter astonishment. There are paintings for every taste: some gentle as April rain, others as wild as a September storm, a few that cry havoc and confound the senses. Some of it is art with a capital A; much of it less, t r: I f i j I I j ; [I R 1 Agnes, an amateur painter herself, presents peanuts to pigeons. - 5 ETC 10984 Jayne Carlton, a secretary in the office of the vice president in charge of Manu facturing, is greatly amused by a pair of exotic earringi. She didn't buy them. On week ends there are more people than paintings, and the milling mob doesn't get quite such a good look at art as it does at life. During the week, however, a leisurely stroll permits the wanderer to pause and ponder. For some Ethyl employees it offers a pleasant change from routine lunch hours in crowded restaurants, a chance to be out in the open for an entertaining and enlightening hour. One of the biggest attractions for women is the row of tables displaying handmade jewelry, where obliging craftsmen have thoughtfully put mirrors within easy reach of their customers. Woodcarvings, metalware, ceramics and other forms of art that combine both obvious and indeterminate materials are all in sunny view. Along the route any number of sidewalk artists stand ready to draw portraits or caricatures for as litttle as a dollar and in a matter of minutes. One rising painter, a young lady of seven years, specializes in drawing the dogs of strollers--ten cents for small ones and a quarter for anything from a standard poodle to a Great Dane. Art at the outdoor exhibit may not be what it is at the Metropolitan but it's worth its paint in pleasure. Jayne and Agnes pause in the tour to browse through the portfolio of an artist specializing in watercolors. No stroll in park or square is ever com plete without roasted peanuts. Barbara, who works in Eastern Region, makes the purchase from one of the many vendors. Along the route, many artists and craftsmen continue to work while trying to sell art. Above, Jayne and Agnes watch a metal sculptor. The ceramic and metal jewelry glitters like artificial fishing flies and lures Agnes as the simile might well tempt trout. ETC 10985 Homeward bound, Barbara, Agnes and Jayne stroll toward a taxi stand under a canopy of leafy trees in Washington Square. A number of the artists set up shop on the street and paint or draw portraits. Jayne has her profile done in charcoal. Enterprising children also capitalize on art show. Two youngsters with an eye for business sold Jayne and Agnes rides on scooters. Later, tired and fairly saturated with art, the trio drinks pink lemonade in one of Village's nearby sidewalk cafes. The Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of fhe natural elements, fire is man's most faithful servant one moment, but the next moment is his ancient enemy and destroyer OR ALARM Far too many people, it would seem, have assumed toward fire the attitude of resignation so commonly accorded another natural element, the weather. When they hear the sirens scream and see the red trucks roar past, they shrug as if they believed nothing whatso ever could be done about the situation. They give the impression that fire will come when it comes, like rain or snow, and that you can't very well stop it from coming or do much about it when it does come. They're dead wrong--in fact, it's this kind of nega tive attitude toward fire prevention and fire-fighting that sometimes leaves this kind of person as dead as he is wrong. It's to this kind of person, indeed, that the strong message of Fire Prevention Week--October 7 through IS--was directed. Generally speaking, there have been big advances in fire prevention since the diastrous Chicago fire of 1871. Fire-fighting techniques have been greatly im proved and people and their belongings less prone to day to sudden attacks by sly old fire. The banner that is carried on our crusade against the flames is a tried and proven one--"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Perhaps in this case the saying should be altered to read "two pounds of cure", for even first and second degree bums can be so painful that the preventing of them is worth an awful lot. It may be hard for us to look at the gracious whiteframe facade of our house or our apartment's attractive furnishings and imagine them as being so much smol dering ashes. We may tend to become lax about com plying with safety regulations on the job or we may unthinkingly throw a lighted cigarette out the car's window. If this is the case, then Fire Prevention Week's message is for us. It tells us in no uncertain terms to fire-proof our house or apartment, obey those safety regulations that have been established for our own protection on the job and crush out our cigarette in the car's ashtray. We individual employees would do well to take a few tips from the Company. The Company is acutely conscious of fire--of its prevention and its treatment. Fire prevention methods and devices are in general use at the Detroit Labs and the plants as well as at other Company installations. Fire-fighting equipment is plentiful on a company-wide basis, as are employees trained as fire-fighters. In short, the Company has its guard up and is ready to meet any fire emergency. But are we? Is each of us as relatively prepared in his own home as the Company is at its various installa tions? Do we have our own safety regulations about smoking in bed and letting children play with matches? Do we have fire extinguishers on hand and do we know how to use them? Do we dear out debris from the attic and cellar, guard outside fires, check fuses, stoves and heaters, and have defective wiring repaired? Remember, Ethyl doesn't spend so much time, effort and money on fire preparedness just for business rea sons--just to save property from going up in smoke. It is of course vitally concerned with our welfare and safety as employees. Should we be less concerned about our own welfare and safety? Our final bit of advice on the subject of fire comes from our Company doctors and deals with the treat ment of bums. They say that even first-degree burns should receive treatment and that second and third degree bums should not only receive emergency treat ment but also a physician's attentions as soon as pos sible. Use sterile vaseline on minor bums and vase line impregnated in gauze, wrapped in gauze, for serious bums. Keep your butter for your toast--its salt content is irritating to bums. If you haven't got vaseline or some other soothing ointment on hand, use a plain shorten ing from the kitchen, and remember next time not to start a fire with kerosene, or strike a match without first closing the matchbook's cover, or let the bonfire of autumn leaves get out of control. 9 ETC 10988 SOME OF i! THOSE THINGS Ethyl works continually and zealously to supply customer companies with the best services possible. Pictured here are some of the many services now being shown as a slide presentation to oil companies by Eastern Region Shown horo or* a fow of tho 60 (lidos on Ethyl services to t tomor companies now being exhibited by Eastern Region. Other regions have dmilar slide presentations or booklets on Ethyl services that are given to customer companies. Above, Jin Connor, Bold representative, explains Product Sales Clinic, which deals with fuels and lubricants as used in a car's engine. Below are the title pages of some of the publications supplied to customer companies. A steady volume of printed materia! it made available to oil companies so that their persennti can readily keep abreast of the numerous trends in fuel end angina performance. These studies are prepared by Ethyl technical personnel who devote their time to such ventures. <5 8> e j i t i nj S 10 ETC. 1 09 89 George O'Connell, product service-engineer in Safety, demontrates tho machine that performs the lead-in-air test in gasoline tanks. A safety measure in our customer services, the test determines the degree of lead in the air after the lank has been cleaned. Use of the device is another of the many precautions against contamination in handling of lead. d Safety equipment used in tank cleaning operations is exhib il ited by George O'Connell. He is holding a fresh-air hose .1 k mask, such as is used by operators cleaning out a tank. Ap d I proved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, the mask supplies fresh A ' air from a hand-operated blower. The mask, boots, change ! of dothes and shower are necessary precautions in this work. Jim Connor conducts a chassis dynamometer test at the 39th Street auditorium in New York City. This test has proved it self one of the basic points in our customer service program. It is used for tune-ups, road-rating to obtain octane requirements of vehicles and for settling of complaints on fuel problems, like dynamometer tests are given customers in other regions. Harold Mehler of the Yonkers gasoline testing lab demon strates the new four-cylinder demonstration engine now be ing used in all four regions. An improvement over the single cylinder engine formerly used, this one more closely approxi mates the operations of an engine in a car. The new engine was developed by Harold and others at the Yonkers lab. IiI 11 ETC 10990 'J he newest plant in the fabulous "Chemical Valley" of Sarnia, Ontario, got a production send-off late last month when Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited made its initial shipment of the first gasoline antiknock compound made in the country of our northern neighbors. Now "on stream", the new manufacturing center, the most modern plant of its kind, joins the expanding family of Canadian industries. Situated on a 100-acre site on the St. Clair River, it currently consists of two buildings, but with an eye to the future the Corporation has allowed ample room to grow, a prospect that the dynamic growth of the nation would seem to indicate. g. r CASE >. 'h IN 9;. . \ rC; C- -.. *E- c-v; | ie W,'%: 5b: i'-. r-1`% fe I iS ft, \ 2' %.'? Ik I PmwT fc,-. - #v`: . .- S% St* fifei J.-C- *-' j&5? ii'- r. c: li t U *i*t In? A U of us look forward to summer, not just because it means vacations and weekends at the beach, terrible summer of 1953. From the vantage of 1956, he could see it clearlv, and while it still wasn't a but also because we instinctively feel safer in those pretty picture, at least there was comfort in knowing warm, pleasant months. We don't have to worry that such an experience would never find him as about breaking our bones from a fall on icy pavement, helpless, disorganized and unprepared again. and we feel less subject to catching the common cold. Today Stan has every reason to believe his good However, our instincts aren't too accurate in this health is assured for a long time ahead, but he's not matter. There are plenty of illnesses and accidents going to take a gamble on it, anyway. In the letter lying in wait in the good old summertime -- health that follows -- written last summer to Jim Boudreau, hazards don't play favorites with the seasons. director of Public Relations -- Stan tells why he has This sad truth was brought home forcefully to Stan peace-of-mind on the subject of serious illness. Nickerson of Public Relations three summers ago. It Here's the letter: was brought home so forcefully, indeed, that he missed "Recently I attended one of the employee meetings most of that summer. He was unconscious as a result where the new Major Medical Insurance Plan was ex of three cerebral clots that hit him without warning. plained. After having undergone such a trying illness They put him out of commission for a painfully long three years ago, including its financial burdens, it goes time, they cost a small fortune and left him heav without saying that the plan struck a most responsive ily in debt, and they created havoc with just about chord in the heart and mind of Yours Truly. Once every aspect of his previously well-planned life. more I find myself moved with respect and admiration This past summer marked a kind of anniversary for for a company so much concerned with the welfare Stan--the third year of his recovery. It was also a and security of its personnel. financial milestone, as he had by then paid off the "If you can bear with personal reminiscence, here majority of the indebtedness incurred by the sudden is one guy who really knows how tough financial prob illness. Of equal importance, however, was the per lems can be in a time of duress. Needless to add, I spective last summer was able to give him on his signed for the new medical plan immediately. 14 ETC 10993 "It is understandable, I hope, when I say there is now deep comfort in realizing that as long as I am at Ethyl, never again shall I be obliged to see savings not only vanish, but find myself burdened with un avoidable indebtedness as well. Others who have had comparable experiences must share my own feelings, but I wonder how others who have been more fortu nate so far can be made to appreciate fully the secure bulwark which the Company is making available. "There is the axiomatic daydream-wish, of course, that such protection had been available when I was under the weather: more resources would be on hand today instead of receipts. But in a very real sense I feel that an individually tailored plan was provided to cover my circumstances in the best possible way at the time. I don't know how I could have managed the tab end of things without the considerate and protec tive interest of Ethyl management, especially by Mr. Shea, yourself and others whose concern and efforts were offered with such practical understanding. "This brings me_to a gratifying personal matter. As of now, I have paid off all indebtedness to Ethyl apropos the Company loan extended to me at a time when it was critically needed. As you are aware, repayments have been made regularly by monthly payroll deductions, under a schedule ar ranged and approved by the treasurer's office. By autumn, my last medical bank loan will have been liquidated, too. It's good to see the end of it. "This summer I am passing my tenth milestone as an Ethyl employee. With my doctor having assured me a year ago that my illness of 1953 is safely behind and that there is no chance of recurrence nor risk in continuing with anticipated responsibilities, I am looking forward toward contributing in whatever ways I can to the work of Ethyl Corporation in the years ahead. "Meanwhile I want to express once more my grati tude and appreciation for all the Company and its management have done to help me over the hurdles. These feelings will endure with more depth and mean ing than I am able to convey. "One last thought: I understand that approximately 95 percent of eligible employees had enrolled in the new major medical plan by the end of August. If the remaining 5 percent of this group only realized the gamble they are making on their health and fut ure, the hazards and even the tragedy they are need lessly exposing themselves and their families to. I'm certain that subscription would be 100 percent." 15 FOR BOOKS Anyone who has an interest in the Far West and practically everyone who enjoys tales from history will have a rousing good time in the new Doubleday volume, Men To Match My Mountains by Irving Stone. The author, who has made a solid reputation for himself with such books as Lust for Life, The President's Lady and Love is Eternal, has done himself proud. Here is the west as it surely must have been, the west of the Cold Rush and the Mormons and the honkv tonks and the cattle barons and the silver kings--here is the wild and woolly west, all wool and a yard wide. Helen Howe has written a first-rate story of a particular type of American woman in Simon and Schuster's The Success. Above all things Margot Fraser has to be successful; no mat ter where, what or how, Maggie had to call the plays and they had to be the right plays. She dressed impeccably; she charmed and captivated; she rushed about from coast to coast to pull together all the loose ends of her life, marriage and career. She was big time, but her success was all a shin ing sham. Whether you like her, hate her or merely feel sorrow for her, Maggie is terribly real. Fast on the heels of Bonfour Tristesse, young French author ess Francoise Sagan has written another small but skillful novel about the joys and pains of early love. This new varia tion on a theme (Dutton's A Certain Smile) is perhaps not quite up to her previous exploration but her story of a young woman in love with an older, married man has weight and substance, and she handles it with simple effectiveness. Marguerite Steen, who has to her literary credit any number of successful novels, plays and biographies, has written an un usual little volume about one of her favorite cats. Little White King, which is published by World, is a gentle and sensitive piece of prose that will both touch and delight lovers of pets. Miss Steen knows, loves and understands the domesticated felines and her observations are among the best written on the subject. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Simon and Schuster's The King Of Paris by Guy Endore is outstanding historical fiction. Based upon the life of Alexandre Dumas it contains all the brilliance of the famous author's works, all the dash and the adventure. You might liken it to the bit of red velvet that appears on the book jacket, for it's a bright and plush piece of work. For downright entertainment you'll find it hard to beat this season and perhaps a few more. Primarily a woman's book. Doubleday's The Sleeping Part ner by Winston Graham is an adult novel of a domestic rift, and it manages to create a consistently good impression. When Lvnn Granville leaves her husband with a "thank you" note and disappears in London, the tongues begin to wag and the story they tell is considerably suspenseful. Who's to blame and why is cleverly unfolded. ETC 10995 Simon and Schuster's Should It Gurgle?, a new book of car toons by mirthful Alan Dunn, is a truly funny book, the kind of cartoon collection that has you going back for a second helping of laughter. In it, Mr. Dunn kids mostly about some of the national and international goings-on between 1946 and 1956. Among them, as you might well expect, are television, the Russians, picture windows, men from Mars and psychia trists. If you don't laugh, by all means see the latter as quickly as possible. -- One of the most fascinating women our country has yet to produce is The Amazing Nellie Bly, the subject of Mignon Rittenhouse's new biography just issued by Dutton. Nellie, in deed, was a corker, and this account of her colorful life and times is as exciting and interesting as any novel about any fictional newspaperwoman. When she opened the doors of the newspaper world to her sex, she did it in a big way. As a reporter exposing social wrongs, she's hardly been bested; as a fabulous character she'll long hold her own. Nadine Gordimer, a young woman who lives in and writes about South Africa, is an international writer who has made a distinguished mark in a previous collection of short stories and a novel. In Six Feet Of The Country, a Simon and Schuster release, she presents a perceptive group of new stories that explore and probe into the hearts of her charac ters. She is not a writer to be taken lightly. She is wise and compassionate, and she writes with a knowing skill. Fairlawn Acres is a housing development in which the houses are all much alike and in which the gag of entering the wrong abode turns out to be very unfunny in Lionel White's new Guilt-Edged Mystery from Dutton, The House Next Door. Not onlv does Len Neilsen wake up in an unfamiliar house but he awakens to find a dead man beside him. After that a babysitter is found murdered and the Law points its ac cusing finger at Len. Proving his innocence is no easy job but it makes a highly suspenseful mystery. An almost sure bet for movie musicals, the riotous twenties once again come to the screen in 20th Century-Fox's The Best Things In Life Are Free, a tuneful film biography of the famous songwriting team of De Sylva, Brown and Hen derson, who wrote such nostalgic favorites as Button Up Your Overcoat, You're the Cream in My Coffee, Sonny Boy, the title song and more others than you can shake a stick at. Cor don MacRae, Ernest Borgnine and Dan Dailey plav the trio and Sheree North is the girl who sings most of what they write. Spencer Tracv, a favorite of almost everybody and an actor who knows his profession from way back, stars in the new Paramount production, The Mountain, a solid hunk of cinematography about an Alpine mountain climber and his worthless young brother. The story is tight; the performances are good; the photography is excellent; and the mountain climbing is harrowing. Robert Wagner plays the youngster with the bad blood. Some years back. It Happened One Night, made movie his tory. Now, Columbia Pictures has taken a good thing, added some sprightly new tunes, changed the title to You Can't sRun Away From It, and come up with an appealing version that, though short of the real McCoy, is full of spirit. June Allyson plays the heiress originated by Claudette Colbert, and Jack Lemmon pinch-hits for Gable as the reporter. They are both amiable. TELEVISION MOVIES Columbia's The Silent World is an outstanding documen tary of life in the deep, photographed in color in the Meditterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. Winner of the Grand Prize at the 1956 Cannes International Film Festival, it covers the exciting marine explorations of the Calypso Oceanographic Expeditions. Metro-Goldwyn-Maver has turned out a daring and powerful drama in their version of the hit Broadway play. Tea And Sympathy. Deborah Kerr and John Kerr (no relation) re peat their stage roles in the story of a student in a boy's school befriended by the wife of a professor when he is threatened from all sides, and they are both superb in this strong con tender for the Academy Award. The Letter, by that old master web-weaver, W. Somerset Maugham has been adapted for Producers' Showcase on October 15, and will star the celebrated Irish actress Siobhan McKenna, recently acclaimed for portrayal of Shaw's St. loan. A musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk, with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard, is scheduled for viewing over the same program on November 12. A song-and-dance series, Washington Square, premieres on October 21, when lightfooted Ray Bolger and blonde Elaine Stritch share stardom against the background of New York City's well-publicized Greenwich Village. Beauty contests will desert Atlantic City, Hollywood and else where and come to television beginning October 22, when The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, emceed by Hal March, will give the viewing public a chance to judge on beauty, intelligence and talent. Another musical tribute to the big town, Manhattan Tower, will appear on October 27, featuring Ethel Waters, Pete Marshall, Helen O'Connell, Phil Harris and Caesar Romero. Air Power, the story of flight and its impact on modem man, bows in on November 11, as narrated bv newsman Walter Cronkite. Almost everyone, we're sure, will want to curl up with his T.V. set for the election night coverage on November 6. 17 ETC 10996 C2 years Bayard D. Browne Export Sales, New York Harold D. Faucher Research, Detroit Hymin Shapiro Research, Detroit 18 Joseph F. Sessions Gasoline Testing, Houston Harry B. Hollingsworth, Jr. Sales, Southern Region IO years Durelle L. Guthrie Research, Detroit Robert W. Johnson Research, Detroit John B. Zawadski Research, Detroit 5 years ) Victor B. Ailing Gasoline Testing, Yonkers Arthur A. Schiller Research, Detroit ETC 10997 J William Burns, lab technician in Detroit, was born in Renfrew shire, Scotland. Bill enjoys ice skating and ice hockey. Gene Cowper, drafting techni cian in Detroit, is a member of the Air Force Active Reserve. He likes to fly and paint. Weir Goodwin is a field engineer in Southern Region. He resides in Bellair, Texas, with his wife, and their son. Patsy J. Henson, steno-clerk in Detroit, attends Detroit Business Institute. She likes to sew, ski and bowl in spare time. Dorothy A. Martin is a stenog rapher in Detroit. A native De troiter, she holds a B.A. from Wayne University. Leo Normile is a trade helper in Detroit. A Navy vet, he fives in Roval Oak with his 'wife and children. Norm and Nadine. Gerald F. Sieger is an auditor in New York Finance. A graduate of Fordham University, he served in the army in Japan. Dorothy Stumm is in General Services, New York. Her pas times include youth work, ama teur dramatics and sailing. 19 ETC 10998 Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit, the Gaso line Testing Laboratories, New York and the Sales department and Regional Offices: Detroit: Margaret Carrington, $10.00 (Ash tray in telephone room in DAS wing to protect desk surface); Harry Edgar, $20.00 (Revision to cyl inder storage arrangement to prevent mixing of full and empty gas cylinders); Elizabeth Renius, $10.00 (Revised signing out procedure for slides in central files). Gasoline Testing Laboratories: S. F. Johnson, Houston, $10.00 Com bine the sample log form and the daily work form--to be used by Houston Gaso line Testing Laboratory only); E. N. Garnsey and L. A. Hunt, Yonkers, $10.00 (CFR carburetor bowl cooler-- to be used by Yonkers Testing Labora tory only); L. A. Hunt, Yonkers, $40.00 (Motivated the use of silicone treated neoprene bellows type tubing on the new Demo engines) and $35.00 (Cover projecting terminals on the CFR engine panel with neoprene spark plug jackets). Sales Department and Regional Of fices : A. H. Chenault and W. O. Van Wyck, Certificate and $20.00 (Moti vated the preparation of aluminum Mo tor Plus signs which are affixed to the weight-o-graph); Adeline EbwaRDS, $30.00 (Destroy the green copy of the Sales Order form after the shipment has been made); J. D. Fuller, $35.00 (Provide a sample of a Gasoline Testing Services booklet which will be used as reference material by those people who are actively working on this project); F. M. Jobes, $35.00 (Promote to Sin clair Refining Company certain Sales department gimmicks which would tie in with their current advertising pro grams particularly in relationship to the introduction of their new gasoline. Sin clair's Sales Promotion department was very favorably impressed and possibly will use some of these ideas in future campaigns); J. S. Morton, $50.00 (Presentation be developed from the "Story of Gasoline" for OI1C use); W. J. Rusher, $40.00 (As a customer serv ice, distribute an enlarged World-wide Quality map which will be kept up to date yearly by overlays). New York: Margaret Furman, $25.00 (Send company publications car rying notices of death of employees to their families to show the respect which their relative had earned and how fellow workers have felt the loss). ON THE ROSTRUM -TAWars- r '* n.'T ? * '*t'" Doug Cooper of the Detroit Labora tories will present his paper "A Carbon14 Tracing Distribution of Fuel Com ponents in Automotive Engines," before a symposium sponsored by Tracerlab, Inc. "The Application of Gamma Spec trometry to Simultaneous Chromium and Iron Piston Ring Wear Studies," a paper authored by Dick Abowd and Carl Alsterberg, Detroit Labs, will also be given. The meeting will be held in Bos ton, Mass., late in October. John Fleniken, Finance, Baton Rouge, was recently one of a panel of three speakers at a meeting of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants. Bernard Sobel, R&E Adm., Baton Rouge, spoke at a recent meeting of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. His topic was "Linear Programming and Its Applications." E. M. Jones, Tech. Serv., and A. O. Wikman, Proc. Dev., Baton Rouge re cently spoke to students in six chemistry classes at Baton Rouge High School. They discussed "Opportunities in Science as Seen by a Young Engineer." Marshall SrmG, technical writer in Advertising and Sales Promotion, is the author of a book entitled "Sodium, Its Manufacture, Properties and Uses." A chapter in the hook on physical and thermodynamic properties of sodium was co-authored by George Thomson of the General Managers Office, Detroit Labs, and Edward Garelis, formerly with Ethyl. The book was published by Reinhold Publishing Corporation this summer. EXTRACURRICULAR The Baton Rouge plant has received the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association Certificate of Honor for completing 1,845,679 manhours without a time losing injury during the period October 6 through December 31, 1955. The Holmes Safety Association is sponsored by the Bureau of Mines of the Interior Department in honor of Joseph A. Holmes, who was a pioneer in industrial safety. Because of the wide interest on the part of employees and their many requests, Ethyl will again sponsor broadcasts of the Louisiana State University football 20 ETC 10999 games this fall. The Company will join Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corpor ation as a co-sponsor of the broadcasts on a state-wide basis in Louisiana. "The Story of Gasoline," authored by Bill Ball, New York Public Relations, as a reference book on the manufacture, characteristics and uses of gasoline, has been in wide demand by oil companies all over the country. To date, distribu tion has run well over 36,000 copies. W. W. Merritt, P&ES-Safety, Baton Rouge, was named chairman of the 1956 Fire Prevention Week program for Baton Rouge recently. Fire Prevention Week was observed October 7-13. The Southern California Oil Information Committee Workshop was recently held in Ethvl's Los Angeles auditorium. Over 100 West Coast oil executives attended. Ted Littlefield, regional manager, Los Angeles, handled the arrangements. 4. We have secured the support for the overall program from the automotive and allied industries. 5. By pointing out, in our break down of car operating expense, that the cost of gasoline and oil is a relatively small item, we are performing a real public relations service for the oil in dustry. Tank Cars Ordered The Company has ordered 95 new tank cars for conveyance of antiknock fluid to customer installations. Thirty of the new tank cars will have capacities of 9,000 gallons and 65 will have capac ities of 6,000 gallons. Delivery of the tank cars is expected next spring. New York Aymon and Miriam di MARCO-a son, Robert Aymon, bom on August 25. Miriam was formerly secretary to Frank McNally in the Tax division of Finance. Southern Region Art and Roseann DeLaune--a son, Thomas Wayne. Art is a field engi neer in the Southern Region. I; . NEWS BRIEFS "Drive More--it gets cheaper by the mile," the unique market-expansion pro gram for the oil, automotive and allied industries shifted into high gear this year, a cumulative study of the response to the promotion shows. During the 1956 season to date, some 60 oil, automotive and allied companies have participated in this successful pro motion, spearheaded by Ethvl Corpora tion, to demonstrate to America's motor ists that their automobile is the greatest "magic carpet" man has ever known, and that paradoxically, the more a car is driven, the cheaper its operation be comes bv the mile. Commenting on the program, adver tising manager Russ Weston listed five accomplishments of "Drive More". 1. It has given the oil industry a common theme to use, particularly those companies whose advertising-promotion budgets are somewhat limited. 2. It has helped, we believe, to stimu late the thinking of others toward de veloping programs of their own of a similar nature. 3. Through our direct efforts in ad vertising and promotion,, we have carried the story of "Drive More" to many mil lions of motorists. George and Susan Hayes--twins, Murray and John, bom on August 8. George is a sales representative head quartered in Edmondton, Alberta. Detroit Richard and Sara ABOWD-a daughter, Elizabeth Marie, bom on August 30. Dick is a project engineer in Chemical Research. Denis and Suzanne Lenane--a daugh ter, Karen Patricia, bom on Septem ber 2. Denis is an engineer in the Engine Performance and Duribility section. Ralph and Martha Lou LoEHR-a daughter, Kathleen Nancy, bom on August 29. Pop is an engineering tech nician in Chemical Research. Al and Joanne PALMBY-a son, Wil liam Garnet, bom on August 23. Al is a chemist at the Labs. Eugene and Virginia TAYiOR-a son, Michael Sherwood, bom on August 30. Dad is a lab technician in Chemical Research. David and Dolores Yates--a daughter, Jeanne, bom on August 7. Dave is in Chemical Research. Central Region Shirley Louise Stoeklin was married to Robert Dale Bingham, son of Al Bingham, account representative in the Central Region, on September 8. The couple will make their home in Cincin nati, where Bob is taking post graduate work in Forestry. Blood Donors Needed Blood donors are needed to help a two-vear-old girl suffering from leu kemia. The child, Frances Elli son is the niece of Eleanor Frawlev of Industrial Relations, New York. She will need periodic transfusions for a considerable amount of time. Donors from the New York office are requested to donate blood at either Memorial Hospital or the Red Cross blood bank located at Park Avenue and 38th Street. When doing so they are to mention the child's name so that her account can be credited. ETC 11000 21 Over 1,300 women from this country and Canada attended the annual convention of the Desk & Derrick Club, held early in September in New- Orleans. Shown here, about to board a plane at LaGuardia Field, are some of the New York City members, including Ethyl women Erna Harris (right, bottom) and Jessie Halton (right, top). ETC 11001 PEOPLE and-- PLACES ETHYL BEAUTY Pretty Silvia Phillips, right, who has been adorning our New York offices as a receptionist, has now won official recognition of her attractiveness. Silvia was a runnerup in the Miss Westchester beauty con test recently held at a Yonkers theater. The pretty brunette is the daughter of Lynn Phillips, who man ages the Ethyl office in Mexico City. ROCK-A-BY BABY A "Baby-Saver" car seat has been invented by Larry Banta of Maintenance at the Houston plant. The seat, made of plywood base and uphols tered, is designed for children aged three months to four years, and can be used in the home as well as in the car. Larry has applied for a patent on his in vention, in which local parents have shown interest. j- etc 1102 n OPEN HOUSE IN CANADA SI: ome 160 employees and their wives or husbands "This is Ethyl," was shown by Maurice Sivems. The attended an Open House at the new plant of Ethyl group was then taken on a tour of the plant, after Corporation of Canada Limited last month. Upon which a buffet lunch was served. Shown at left are arrival at the plant outside of Samia, the women were G. R. Mills, D. C. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Clemens, presented with corsages and souvenir notebooks. Boh (in background) J. A. Jones and Mrs. D. J. Vantroost. Edgar, plant manager, welcomed the group, C. L. At right are Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Houston, W. J. Fowler, Weeks explained the operating process, and the film, C. E. Finlay and Mr. and Mrs. G. Goguen. more people, more places ETC 11003 FIRST ANNUAL PICNIC The first annual picnic for employees of Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited was held late last ners. The picnic committee consisted of Ralph Dailey, chairman; Claude Clemens, Bruce Carruthers, Ray summer near Samia, Canada. Employees and their Turner, Bill Fowler, Dave Manning, Bill Scharf, Jim families--like the ones shown below--enjoyed enter Lambert, Tom Labutte, Al Sharp, Chuck Finlay and tainment, games and plenty of good food at the out Bob McClean. Mike Dodds was in charge of the ball ing. There were games and contests for both young game between two shifts at the plant. Employees were welcomed by Bob Edgar, plant manager. [ NEW DEMONSTRATION ENGINE ONE THAT DIDN'T GET AWAY New four-cylinder demonstration engines designed to more closely approximate the performance of Ross Rife, Administration and Services, Detroit Re search Labs, takes a ribbing from Emil Gillig an engine in a car are now being shown to customer and Ed Zelda of the Instrument section on his prize, companies in all four regions. The new engine super a five-pound black bass caught while on vacation last sedes the single-cylinder engine formerly used. Shown summer. Ross had the big fish mounted--perhaps as are Harold Flood, Gil de Malvalain, Walter Bauer and a reminder of the good fishing in the waters around Harold Mehler, assembling engine at Yonkers. an island he owns in a Canadian lake. ETC 11004 COLE HONORED BY RMOGA GRAND CHAMPIONS The refining committee of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association recently presented the plaque Shari Hubner, daughter of Bill Hubner of Planning and Coordination, New York office, won seven shown below to Jack Cole, district manager at Salt blue ribbons and one red ribbon with sheep that she Lake City. Jack received the plaque for his "untiring showed at a county fair in Rhinebeck, N. Y. Here is effort, warm friendship, and outstanding ability in her fat and fleecy Dorset ewe, which won the 4-H organizing, counciling and fostering the growth" of and open-class grand championship. For some time, the committee while serving as its chairman. Shari has helped raise the sheep on her father's farm. I The Ethyl Society of the Detroit Research Labora tories recently elected a new steering committee. erson, Harry Dittmar, Adele Rozek, Joe Weaver, Carl Kline; (back row) Ed Myron, Jim Burns, Sue Gender- New committee members include: (front row, left to nalik, assistant social chairman; Ed Zelda and Russ right) Al Palmby, sports chairman; Lois Marentette, Unangst. Absent when the picture was taken were publicity chairman; Gordon Saxon, general chairman; Denis Lenane, Joe Odenweller and Claude Hoffman. Jean Davis, secretary-treasurer; Chuck Penninger, so The Ethyl Society, a sports and social organization, cial chairman; (second row) Tom Murray, Jerine Pet- serves to form friendships on and off the job. more people, more places ETC 11005 ETHYL SUPPLIES CITY MAPS Anew map of the Baton Rouge area, published by Ethyl as a public service, has been distributed the plant, shows M. H. Hardy, personnel scheduling clerk, giving maps to R. H. Whittington, T. M. Howze through the offices of the Baton Rouge Chamber of and J. A. Carr, all EtCl operators. In the other pic Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce distributed ture, Opie L. Shelton, left, executive vice-president approximately 50,000 of the two previous editions of of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, accepts the map sponsored by Ethyl in 1950 and 1953. The Ethyl's new city map from Wallace Armstrong, assist picture at the left, taken in the EtCl office building at ant general manager of Manufacturing. This Burps* hybrid cantaloups--a first gsnsration hybrid--won a blu* ribbon for its growor, Harb Noal of Chsmical Research, Dstroit laboratories, at a fajr tponsarod recently by a local garden club. Herb grow th* winnar in his half-acrs horns garden. ETHYL ei ii Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited In This Issue Page Whan Knighthood Was in Flowar Legal Brief: ................................. Business Banter ......................... Destination Earth....................... To Serve the West..................... Now Hear Thisl ......................... Let's Talk Turkey....................... For Your Entertainment............ Milestones ................................... Ethyl Welcomes ......................... Personals ..................................... People and Places..................... 2 4 8 10 12 14 16 20 22 23 24 26 Leonhard Dowty...................................... Editor Jean Caputo.........................Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Denver.- Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Anne Mansfield, Lillian McDonnell, Les Motson, Andy Pallay, Kathleen Raley, Rosa Rife, Adele Rozek, Karl Schmid; photographer: Eric Owen; Dayton: Lou Slack; Houston: Ken Jost, Guy Keller, ]. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Vida Cimber; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phil lips; New Orleans: Mtucine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Bud Harris, Moitie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Leona Rasmussen; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; pho tographer: Fred Green; San Francisco: Will Han cock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson, Gasoline Test ing: Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Hewitt. ON OUR COVER: It's time for turkey-- and time for the man of the house to do the customary job of carving the bird. Jim Lonergan of Advertising gets ready to attack from one direction while an anxious on looker studies the other front. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. Bynum Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. LEGAL BRIEF legal matters involve a let of paperwork which, in turn, involves a good secretary like Margaret Fur man. Margaret and Mary O'Hem are the two legal secretaries in the law department at 100 Park. Here at Ethyl a vigilant Law department helps main tain order and fair-dealing both within our organ ization and in our outside relations. It separates the law from the illogical and keeps a sensitive finger on the pulse of every Company operation. It serves as trail-blazer and guardian angel, sage and dispenser of good will. The Law department is as near as your own department, with which it works closely, and as far away as the most distant shipment of our anti knock compound. Surrounded by their imposing leather-bound volumes, Fred Wame, General Counsel, and Ed Lee, Assistant Counsel, daily get legally involved in our New York office over Company affairs both large and small, external and internal. Their law books contain statutes and judicial decisions on everything from the latest federal regulations on interstate commerce to restrictions on fishing for white perch (which have not been called for as yet). Meanwhile, at the Baton Rouge plant two other Company lawyers, Steve Rodi and Charlie Kyle, are also busy paging through books, drafting documents, rendering opinions and holding conferences on legal matters. Since Steve and Charlie have responsibility for legal affairs at the Baton Rouge and Houston plants, they are concerned primarily with points of Louisiana and Texas law and with the Manufacturing and Research and Engineering departments. Ethyl's interests are further represented by legal counsel employed by the Company whenever the occasion arises to seek outside advice and assistance. Some of the best law firms in the country are retained Our Law department seeks to maintain order and fair-dealing and benefit the Company, our customers and the individual employee as zealously as philosophers pursue the eternal truths In conference are, dockwica, John Schaefer, vice president of Manufacturing; Charlie Wasserman, Wage and Salary coordinator; Curt Holton, director of Industrial Relations; Walt Cosgrove, Manager, Employee Benefits and Services; and lawyers Ed lee and Fred Wame. on a regular basis and firms in Toronto and Sarnia, Canada, are currently being retained. Our lawyers who cannot be everywhere at once, do not practice their profession in court, and thus litigation is also "fanned out" to law firms. "Preventative law--meaning the prevention of ad verse legal consequences--is what we practice," according to Ed Lee. "We try to anticipate what legal problems may arise and prepare for them so as to pre vent their arising, if possible, and to be properly prepared to meet them if they should arise." No mere word-magicians and scroll-signers, Ethyl's attorneys strive for the general betterment of the Company's business and business relations. Preparing contracts for the purchase of raw materials and equip ment; helping to formulate the Company's patent structure; preparing sales' agreements for sale of our products; labor relations activities; cooperating with the Tax section on its affairs; helping the Finance de partment with payroll, auditing, accounting and in surance problems; product liability work; copyrights and trademarks; reviewing advertising and public relations programs--all these are the Law department's responsibility and everyday concern. It also reviews all Company publications, including Bulletin Board. In fact, as a matter of routine as well as personal interest, the department checked this article about itself (and recommended a few changes which were duly adopted). No Company affair is too small to engage our attorneys! attention and none is too big to discourage their attention. They are as much concerned with the individual employee himself as with his section or his department or the business generally. A good example of how the department works for the benefit of employees was the obtaining of a smok ing permit at the Yonkers gasoline testing lab last year. Employees there weren't allowed to smoke because the New York Department of Labor ruled that smok ing was prohibited in areas in which gasoline was stored and used. For the non-smokers working at the lab this of course meant no sacrifice, but for the heavy smokers and even those who like to enjoy a cigarette or cigar occasionally, it was an actual hardship. How ever, Fred and Ed got to work on this thorny though small problem and managed to secure the smoking permit after the Department of Labor had been cod vinced that gasoline was not hazardous when handlei by experts under the lab's controlled conditions. To illustrate the department's participation ii Company activities on the grand scale, let's go bad to 1952, when the now active Export section wa: established. After the Company received an inquin from Japan regarding the sale of tetraethyl lead there it was agreed that the time had come to go intc foreign sales in a big way. When Nick Carter of the Sales department had returned from Japan with con tracts for 300,000 pounds of "Ethyl" fluid, the faithful standby, the Law department, was called in to draw up export contracts, help make arrangements with shipping lines, study Japanese laws on imports and advise on foreign exchange regulations and on United States export licensing regulations. The result, as we well know today, was the establishment of the busy, successful Export section of the Sales department. What manner of men are our lawyers? How does a lawyer come into being? What is he like as a person? The four lawyers who work for Ethyl have several significant attributes in common. First, all of them since their youth wanted very definitely to practice law. At an age when most boys aspire to being fire men, policemen or jet pilots, Fred, Ed, Steve and Charlie became fascinated--and remain fascinated to this day--with the theory and practice of law in this country. Naturally, it was some time before their goals were realized: four years of college and three years of law school before the coveted Bachelor of Law degrees were bestowed upon them. Then they each went into practice, developing the skill and ability and gaining the experience that stand them in such good stead in their present activities in behalf of the Company. Later each of them tem porarily forsook the pursuit of their careers in order to serve in the Armed Forces during the last war. Fred, who attended Dartmouth and Harvard, came to Ethyl from our general outside counsel, the law firm of Cahill, Gordon, Reindel and Ohl. After com pleting his studies at Princeton and Yale, Ed in time practiced law with the firm of General William Don ovan, under whom he served in the O.S.S. during the war. Charlie, who was Captain of the Tulane football team that played Temple in the 1934 Sugar Bowl, is a specialist in labor law, and prior to joining Ethyl was During a legal discussion Fred, left, and Ed teem to itare off into the future, and it may well be, at one of their chief aims it to prepare in advance for legal problems. ETC 11013 an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board. Loyola University of the South is Steve's alma mater. He is co-author of a survey on revenue and taxation in Louisiana, published as a special commentary in the Louisiana revised statutes. Fortunately, the Law department has competent secretaries--Margaret Furman, Mary O'Hem and Martha Monroe--who keep the mass of law books, files and legal documents in order and help to regulate the constant flow of activities. Conferences, jangling tele phones and a steady parade of visitors seeking advice and services also keep the small department hopping. When a big project like Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited is added to the normal burden, all the com petence, training and knowledge that the Law depart ment possesses are mustered to the fore. A breakdown of its participation in the establishing of the new plant in Canada provides ample evidence of the complexity and functional importance of corpo ration law today. All four of our lawyers worked witn the Manufacturing department on acquisition of prop erty, which involved zoning matters, rights of ways, easement and rights of access to the St. Clair River. For the R&E department they prepared construction contracts, and with the Finance department and out side counsel they incorporated Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited and dissolved its predecessor, Ethyl Antiknock Limited. They helped Sales prepare new sales' agreements, continued to work with Manufac turing and Finance on immigration matters affecting transfer of personnel from this country to Canada and ironed out some knotty problems under Canadian Tariff Law so as to secure minimum customs' duties. Small wonder, then, that our lawyers haven't had time or occasion to concern themselves with the fish ing restrictions on white perch. Taking legal care of Ethyl's ever-expanding business interests doesn't leave them much time for fishing itself. Steve Rodi, at desk, and Charlia KyU ar legal watchdog* for the plants. They deal with aspects of Louisiana and Texas law and with affairs of the Manufacturing and ME departments. Ed Lee and Ed Grastlin, consultant on Traffic, talk over a knotty problem together. Discussions, correspondence, telephone conversations and conferences are numerous and varied. Jud Biehle, general coordinator in the Manufacturing depart ment, seeks Fred Wame's advice. Through association with all departments, Company lawyers know Ethyl inside and out. Mary O'Hem, Ed Lee's secretary, types legal correspondence. Behind her are volumes of Corpus Juris--with such titles as Meybea to Mosey Lasd and Homicide to Hesbasd osd Wife. ETC 11014 3^ SALES PITCH TAKING A LETTER BUSINESS BANTER 8 PUNCHING THE CLOCK ETC 11015 G Our language is an active one, constantly changing. For example, the man in the armed service dur ing World War II added a lot of colorful speech to our native tongue, phrases that have stuck with us and become part of our everyday usage. Business, too, has contributed to our verbal color, and any number of expressions that originated with offices and plants now roll trippingly from the tongue. Some of them are very graphic; all of them are precise and definitive. The graphic ones have often connoted very literal scenes to us, and we thought it would be fun to have our artist depict a few. BALANCING THI BOOKS SECRETARIAL HELP TOUOH COMPETITION llluitratad by frank Rldaway 9 ETC 11016 Destination Earth, a color cartoon produced by the American Petroleum Inctitute, was chown to employees of the Now York office during Oil Progress Week. The new film, a fantasy loaded with truth, begins on Mars, where a dictator named Ogg is in what a wonderful leader they havo but that the great Ogg has a problem--the royal limousine belches fire and bucks like a wild broncho. For that reason he had been recently sent on an expedition to And a remedy for this mechanical insult to the day cars of everybody. Impressed, he begins to research his project and finds out that the reason for the outstanding per formance is our superior gasoline. He learns, too, that the oil industry takes a lot of chances in the search for oil and that power. Ogg bids the oppressed people to attend a rally at the mammoth stadium, where he demands applause and praise. To further his aim, he presents his chief explorer, Colonel Cosmic, to the people. With Ogg at his back, the colonel tells them competition in a democracy hds a lot to do with giving the pub lic a superior product, one that heats homes and has hundreds of uses. The United States has the right ideas, he imparts to Martians, who rebel against their yoke and unseat Ogg. ETC 11018 Continuing its program of nationwide expansion, the Company recently announced plans for a new antiknock compound manufacturing plant in Pittsburg, California. The new p plant will be located in the San Francisco Bay area, and will be large enough to r serve the growing needs of the West Coast oil industry for "Ethyl" antiknock com pound. Commenting on the action, Mr. Shea said, "We are carrying forward our long-range program of establishing new antiknock facilities for two reasons. One is to locate antiknock compound plants in major refining areas throughout the country as required, in order to be of increasing service to our customers. The second is to achieve a further dispersal of antiknock compound manufacturing plants and supplies in the interest of national defense." ETC 11020 a NOW HEAR THISI V-- (op ETC 11021 Since most deafness can be corrected, don't lock yourself in silence and wait until the shouting starts to have your hearing checked nl I \ \ s j / \ \3s Does that leaky faucet in the kitchen get on your nerves? Do the happy shouts of the boys down Some hearing ills are prenatal in origin. For exam ple, if a woman contracts German measles during the the block playing catch remind you of your own care first three months of pregnancy, chances are even that free youth? Did your friend on the telephone say he her child will be bom deaf. would meet you at eight-thirty? Medical men divide deafness into two types: con Are you sure? Many of us, according to ear special duction deafness (failure of the outer ear, middle ists, are a little deaf without knowing it--we're border ear or both to conduct sound vibrations); nerve deaf line cases which may turn into serious cases of deaf ness (failure of inner ear nerves to cany sound to ness unless we seek professional treatment. the brain). Although it is estimated that one out of every 10 Nerve deafness can't be helped by medical treat people in the United States has some hearing trouble, ment, but conduction deafness generally can be. In most of those affected never seek medical help. To fection of the middle ear--biggest culprit in conduc otologists--ear specialists--this failure to seek treat tion deafness--is often readily controlled by anti ment is the most frustrating aspect of the nation's biotics and drugs. hearing problem. For, they say, almost everyone with For those with moderate hearing loss, lip-reading a hearing loss can be helped. alone will usually bridge the sound gap. Lip-reading We no longer have to use a hearing trumpet like ability can be acquired in as few as 25 or 30 lessons. the one being wielded by the old lady in our illustra Very few people are really stone deaf. A popular tion. Nor, for that matter, need we bother with bulky misconception, for instance, holds that the hard of tubes and batteries any more. The modem hearing hearing can "feel" music through vibrations in the aid is equipped with a transistor, a device no larger floor. Actually, loud bass tones are almost always than a kernel of com. Amplifying electrical impulses audible--no matter how faintly--to the deaf. That ex 100,000 times, it is not only a major improvement over plains why many of them are surprisingly good the vacuum tube models, but it even costs less and is dancers. They can hear the bass fiddle and the drums much more economical to maintain. as they beat out the rhythm. Unfortunately, hearing can fade so gradually and While deafness is serious in an adult, in a child it over so long a period that people with hearing defi is tragic. Most parents, failing to recognize symptoms ciencies are often unaware of their condition. Also, of hearing impairment, ascribe their child's short hearing tends to fade with advancing age. Everyone comings to stupidity or other causes. Some typical over 50 suffers some loss, although it is usually minor, danger signs in children are general inattentiveness, affecting only the very high and very low extremes extreme lateness in beginning to speak, repeated use of audibility. of garbled words and sentences or a painful slowness \ A simple test devised by the American Hearing in learning. Society can help you check your hearing. Do you When a child exhibits any of these characteristics, actually hear that leaky faucet in your kitchen? Do his hearing should be tested without delay. Treated you frequently ask that words or phrases be repeated? early, most deafness in children can be cured or Do you strain to hear the speaker? checked. If your answers indicate that something is wrong, None of us, of course, want to miss the sounds of see an ear specialist. Home remedies are rarely help life around us. We want to hear most things and we ful, and often dangerous. have to hear others--like the alarm clock in the morn Deafness has many causes. It may be inherited. ing. If you suspect you have ear trouble, see your It may be brought on by diseases such as scarlet fever, personal physician or your Ethyl physician. He can chicken pox, diphtheria and influenza. Overgrowths readily advise you whether or not you should consult of adenoidal tissue can produce deafness. an ear specialist. 15 ETC 11022 LET'S TALK TURKEY rphanksgiving is one of our proudest traditions. No holiday observed in our relatively young land is more uniquely and totally ours. Bom practically at the birth of our nation, the national day of feasting is commemorated in millions of homes from shore to shore, throughout our land of plenty, families gather to give thanks for all that is ours and sit together at a bountiful table to eat their fill of traditional turkey. In the prosperous present, the humble past is vividlv brought to mind as the plump, aromatic fowl fills the platter of a luckier generation. Like most good things, Like most of u$, Elaino O'Connell of Chemical Research, Detroit Labs, prefers to encounter the turkey frozen at a supermarket. That delicious turkey aroma greets Marie Anderson of General Services, New York, at the opens the oven to baste the bird. ETC 11023 turkey is . far easier to come by today than when it flapped its wild wings over the frozen coast of New England. Domesticated, even frozen for immediate use, turkey is as accessible as the comer supermarket. Though no blunderbuss is required to acquire the gobbler, it still takes a bit of doing to put together the Thanksgiving meal. For the housewife, the day is a busy one. Even with her abundant shopping done, there is still a kitchenful of work to do and all avail able female hands are called upon to chop, mix, sea son, mash and peel. For the children, the day is made of anticipation and old reliables such as bubble gum lose prestige as the smell of roasting turkey permeates the house. For the breadwinner himself, the day has a very special meaning. It is a symbol of accomplish ment, a day on which he sees fulfilled his success as the family provider. In sharpening his knife for carv ing, he also sharpens his sense of security, and those about him are keenly aware that the man of the house, like his Pilgrim ancestor, has worked to give them the best in life. And when it comes to feasting, you just can't beat the taste of turkey. Stuffing in the making: Elizabeth Mergner of Gonorai Sorvicoz, Now York offico, put* in a pinch of thit and a pinch of that. The big tmiU on tha fact of Wilma Hansa, Finance, New Yprk, reflect* thait of her family who art tagtr to devour turkey. ETC 11024 rphough it has long been a favorite delicacy of the A season, turkey still takes some knowing and a lack of knowledge in buying and preparing it has sent more than one culinary novice fleeing from the table in a burst of tears. No really good cook ever trusts to luck when she's buying the main course of her big Thanks giving dinner. She shops as carefully for her turkey as she does for a new fall hat. Here, for the less experienced housewife, are a few rules recommended for purchasing turkey: 1. Make sure that the bird is plump. White meat is the favorite and turkey breeders have concentrated on providing you with more of it. 2. Whether fresh or quick frozen, turkey should have a clean, waxy skin. Make a point of seeing that it does. 3. Buy a turkey with as few pinfeathers as possible, or you'll be faced with the tedious job of singeing or plucking them out. 4. Be absolutely sure that the turkey you choose has no discoloration. 5. In buying your turkey allow three-quarters of a pound of dressed (fresh) turkey and a half pound of ready-to-cook (quick frozen) turkey for each of your dinner guests. 6. Ask the meatman to tell you the drawn weight in order that you can compute cooking time. 7. If buying frozen turkey, be sure to have delivery made in time to allow at least six hours for defrosting the fowl. (This can be done by simply placing it in the refrigerator overnight or by putting it in a pan under cold running water for several hours.) 8. Whether buying dressed or frozen turkey make sure that giblets have been thoroughly cleaned, ten dons pulled and all unedible parts removed. Cooking turkey, of course, depends on individual taste, and every family has its preference for roasting the bird. One of the newer methods is to wrap the TIm thro* daughters of Eric Owen, who heads the Photographic Section at Detroit laboratories, mix turkey and television. turkey in aluminum foil to seal in the juices. Another method is to cook the turkey uncovered, in the bottom of the roasting pan only, while still another is to cover the bird and baste frequently. In any case, rub the skin generously with butter or shortening, and place the bird, breast side up, in a shallow roasting pan. Some cooks advocate covering the fowl with cheese cloth dipped in melted shortening. All suggest a pre heated oven. As a general rule the following time table should help you to gauge cooking time for readvto-cook turkey in an oven heated to 325 degrees: 8 to 12pounds............... 4 to 4M hours 12 to 16pounds............... 4)4 to 5 hours 16 to 20pounds............... 5)4 to 7 hours 20 to 24pounds............... 7 to 8)4 hours Dressing or stuffing is also a question of taste. In the South, oyster and combread dressing is a big favorite, while in the East chestnut stuffing is favored. Some cooks stuff their turkey with a mixture of pecans and rice; others use fruit stuffings. The most popular dressing, however, is the one made with bread. Here is the one used by Betty Mergner, New York office: Chop finely one cup of celery and one cup of onions and saute in ample melted butter. Add to the mixture either chunks or small cubes of toasted or stale bread, two whole eggs, two apples sliced thinly, thin slices of green pepper. Salt and pepper the mixture and mix thoroughly. In the meantime, boil neck, liver and gizzard of turkey. Use a portion of this to moisten the dressing and the rest for gravy. Stuff turkey tightly with the bread dressing and proceed to roast. Turkey is by no means through after Thanksgiving. Turkey hash is a further treat made with leftovers. Evelyn Lilley of Administration and Services at the Detroit Laboratories offers this old family recipe. Put 3 raw potatoes, 1 medium sized onion and 1 green pepper through food chopper. Brown in 3 table spoons of melted butter. Add 1 cup of turkey gravy, salt and pepper, and cook for 20 minutes. Add 2 cups of chopped turkey and cook for 20 minutes more. The elasticity of turkey is further proved by this recipe for turkey soup. It's the one used in the cafe teria at the Baton Rouge plant, but it's been cut to family-size dimensions. Bring to a boil a quart and a half of turkey stock. Add to it about 2 ounces of finely chopped onions and 2 ounces of finely chopped celery, salt, pepper and 2 ounces of diced turkey. Bring to a boil, then add 2 ounces of noodles or rice. Simmer for 10 minutes. And there you have it--turkey from Thanksgiving to soup. 18 ETC 11025 V He rimovti the leg and thigh to a service plate and cuts through joint to separate thorn. To cut, ho slices parallel to tho bone. Next, tho experienced carvor dissocts tho wing in much tho sams manner, pulling It firmly away as ho cuts through second joint. He then makes a sharp cut into the body just above tho wing and From then on it's easy if ha has followed the above instructions proceeds to slice downward about halfway up front of the breast. from Ticonderoga Publishers' booklet on how to carve a turkey- 19 ETC 11026 --ja. FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS The second World War has furnished us with a lot of good reading, and it continues to be a lively source of supply in Duell, Sloan and Pearce's Never a Shot in Anger, the often hilarious and always interesting wartime chronicles of public relations officer Colonel Barney Oldfield. Peopled with some of the biggest, brightest names of the day, it is obviously written by a man who likes what he's doing and can stand far enough back to laugh at it. Marjorie Rawlings is one of our most distinguished writers, and it stands to reason that the new volume of her work-- The Marjorie Rawlings Reader, a Scribner product--is a distinguished achievement. Edited by Julia Scribner Bigham, it contains all sorts of Rawlings. The Florida that the author knows, the human heart that she understands, the simplicity and honesty with which she writes make this a rare reading experience. The editors of Fortune, a group of men who have done a thor ough reconnaissance of the business terrain, have assembled a unique and fascinating book in The Art of Success, a recent release from Lippincott. Twenty-one profiles of important American businessmen comprise the volume, among them Har low Curtice, Clinton Murchinson, William Prince and the Rockefellers. Each is a vivid study which reflects strongly on the American scene. Truman Capote, a young man who's an old hand at fiction, has produced a first-rate account of his trip to Moscow with the Porgy and Best troupe that recently entertained the KremL'n. A Random House book. The Muses Arb Heard is splendid reportage, full of all the eye can see, the ears can hear and the mind can absorb. Mr. Capote has the touch. He has produced a narrative as good as his novels. World traveler Lowell Thomas has written a big and wonderful verbal travelogue, Seven Wonders of the World, for Han over House. In this armchair tour of practically every place accessible to man, Mr. Thomas reflects on such intriguing places as a school for elephants in the Belgian Congo, Mount Olympus, the Bahrein oil fields, the Holy Land and a host of other unusual and phenomenal sites. It's a whale of a wonder ful book for young and old. The Resurgent Years, a new Harper release, is of special interest to the oil industry and its associates. A history of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) from 1911 to 1927, it is the story of the decree that dismembered the company and the adjustments that were necessarily made to comply with the de cision. The job the company did in coping with the explosive charge is an important economic story, well told by George Sweet Gibb and Evelyn H. Knowlton, and a special part of our industrial history. Herbert Kubly, who won the National Book Award for non fiction last year, has done another outstanding job in Simon and Schuster's Easter in Sicily, a verbal trip around the Italian island that fairly makes you believe you are there during the spring celebration. Not only does he make the island enchant ing but he peoples it with Sicilians who have to be real and whom he loves and understands. Mr. Kubly knows how to write in Technicolor. The Burned Man, a new Dutton Guilt Edged Mvstery, by Christopher Monig is as neat a job of suspense and excitement as you are likely to encounter this season. Brian Brett, an in surance investigator, is the man who sleuths this one and the trail leads him to complications from New York to Tangier to Paris. Murder and millions are involved in the puzzlement. Fall is for parties, particularly when there's a teen-ager around the house. In Seventeen Party Book edited by Enid A. Haupt and published by Lippincott, there are ideas for all sorts of party fun and food. The suggestions are all designed to make preparations easier on everybody. What makes a newspaperman? Louis B. Seltzer, the renowned editor of The Cleveland Press, speaks for himself in World's The Years Were Good, an autobiography that explains a man's dedication to his job and the purpose of his life. The author was bom to his trade; he had no choice but to follow the profession that intrigued him. In his honest and humble book, hell intrigue you as well. The desperate world of a European sanitorium is the back ground of a beautifully written novel by Eva Boros. The Mermaids, a Farrar, Straus and Cudahy release, is Miss Boros first book, and it is worthy of authors with far, far more ex perience. Delicate, sensitive, sometimes sad, often gay, it cap tures a haunting truth in a kind of misty light. Love can't win here but it makes a touching try. If you have the kind of mind that can cope with mathematics and logic, you'll find infinite hours of entertainment in J. A. H. Hunter's Fun With Figures, a maddening collection of puz zles from Oxford. You may also have a few-sleepless nights with a few of the more perplexing torturers . . . unless, like us, you feel no twinges of conscience in peeking at the answers. 20 ETC 11027 The mysteries of that old devil sea, its frantic personality and its strange fascination has always interested both writer and reader, and it again proves exciting in Scribner's Posted Missing by Alan Villiers. The new book relates a series of true incidents about ships that put out from port and were never heard from again. Most of them are eerie episodes and all of them are compelling. If you care about cars as much as most Americans, you'll enjoy Hanover House's Famous Auto Races and Rallies by Erwin Lessner, a comprehensive journey back to the beginning of it all, including all of the memorable events on the famous courses of the world. Among the people are Barney Oldfield, Juan Manuel Fangio and Tazio Nuvolari, all of whose racing blood is legend. Warmth, humor, colorful characters and a good old fashioned plot are the substance of Doubleday's The Adventure of "Horse" Barnsby bv Phil Stong, a man who has produced almost as many books as CM has produced cars. His new novel, like most of its predecessors, is about simple people with simple pleasures. Its chief character is a thirteen year old lad who's handy with a gun and who meets up with some good folks and some varmints in the California of the Cold Rush. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Teahouse of the August Moon is sure to be one of the best and most popular motion pictures of the year. Adapted from the stageplav, the new comedy about American army officers and the Okinawans is so funny that it barely gives you time to finish one laugh be fore provoking another. Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford are starred respectively as Okinawan and American with Japan's first lady of the screen, Machiko Kyo. Based upon the long-run Broadway play, the movie version of The Solid Gold Cadillac is a very funny film which profits enormously from the comedy performances of Judy Holliday and Paul Douglas. Miss Holliday portrays a small stockholder whose ignorance of business all but upsets our entire eco nomic structure. Mr. Douglas is one of the executives who tries to explain things to the scatterbrain, and he finds that the easy way out is to fall in love with her. Teenage Rebel, a Twentieth Century-Fox production, also comes by way of the stage to the screen. A celluloid version of the Broadway play, A Roomful of Roses, the drama stars Ginger Rogers as a divorcee trying to win the affection of the daughter she lost in the settlement. It's a rather contrived piece but the performers all make the most of it and manage to convince you that it matters to them. Cecil B. DeMille, who has made more films than anybody, has produced and directed Thb Ten Commandments for Paramount. Had he done but one commandment it would still have been as big as all outdoors, but working with 10 he has managed to make even his own spectacular films look like picture postcards. The story of Moses is the basis of his biggest project, and to increase its dimensions he has studded it with more stars than there are in a constellation. Among the shining lights are Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Yvonne DeCarlo, Yul Brynner, Edward G. Robinson, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson and Martha Scott. , Heritage of Anger, whose title suggests its dramatic violence, is scheduled for viewing over Playhouse 90 on November 15, starring Ralph Bellamy, Nina Foch and Lloyd Bridges. On the following evening. The Unlighted Road, featuring the bobby-soxer's matinee idol, the late James Dean, will be re broadcast for the third time by Schutz Playhouse. The 18th offers a rich variety of video entertainment, including La Boheme on the Opera Theatre and the Steve Allen Show, with guests Olson and Johnson, Duke Ellington and his band, dancer Gene Nelson, comedienne Betty Walker and the cast of Father Knows Best. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has produced a nail-biting melodrama in its new production, Julie, which stars Doris Day, Louis Jordan and Barry Sullivan. It's about a wife whose husband is trying to do her in and he goes to great lengths to succeed. Even though the culprit is revealed early, the action keeps you edging forward. The Search For Bridsy Murphy, which Paramount has made from the recent bestseller about reincarnation, is a fasci nating film that is certain to create strong teams for both the pro and con. The much-publicized excursion into hypnosis stars Louis Hayward and Teresa Wright. Children and adults alike will want to turn on the set when U. S. Steel Hour presents a musical version of Tom Sawyer on November 21. As traditional as turkey, Macy's Thanks giving Day Paradb will march down Broadway in New York City on the 22nd. Viewers inclined to relax after that day's feast should enjoy watching the gridiron efforts of collegiates, Penn versus Cornell, or professionals. Green Bay Packers versus Detroit Lions. Filmed in darkest Africa, Medical Missionary is the story over March of Medicine on the 27th. Fight fans will be looking toward Chicago on November 30, when aging Archie Moore struggles with young Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight crown of the world. 21 ETC 11028 ,'sSs __, x. 20 years ^ 15 years N. V. . Alfred T. Basye Sales, Central Region George J. Burcal Research, Detroit Laurel C. Wilkinson Research, Detroit IO years Jessie W. Halton General Services, New York 5 years Marguerite S. Baylerian Research, Detroit Eleanor E. Clum Purchasing & Traffic, New York Miguel K. Espinosa Export Sales, Mexico Edmund W. Lee Administration, New York Sally A. McCoy Research, Detroit Merl V. Watschke Research, Detroit Alvin J. Baldwin Sales, Eastern Region Willard R. Barnes Sales, Southern Region Dorothea Held Godwin Export Sales, New York Arthur F. Johnson Sales, Central Region 22 Ellis K. Locher Sales, Central Region John S. Maynard Sales, Central Region Fritz Y. Mercer Sales, Eastern Region 11029 Ethyl Robert O. Dierks, Iowa State grad, is a field representative in Kansas City. Bob's hobby is building and flying gasolinepowered model airplanes. Margaret Ann Evans, nicknamed Maggie, is a steno-clerk in De troit. Her hobbies include in terior decorating, reading and ice skating. Welcomes Marjorie W. Fleck, familiarly known as Marj, is a receptionist with New York General Services. Marj is interested in painting, ceramics and music. Lowell R. Goodwin is a fuel tech nician at the Detroit Laborato ries. He attended the Chrysler Institute, is married and has a daughter, Linda. Gloria M. Herzfeld has taken a position as a stenographer in De troit. She attended Detroit Busi ness University, is married and has two daughters. Henrietta LeDuc is a chemist in the Detroit Labs. A graduate of Wayne University, she expects to receive her Ph.D. from Mich igan State in the near future. JoLiPuma recently joined Ethyl's Los Angeles office. She gradu ated from high school in Cleve land and likes to spend her time bow and arrow hunting. Evelyn McLeod, secretary to Hume Chenault in the Los An geles office, resides in San Fer nando Valley with husband and two sons, Don and Steve. 23 ETC 11030 viding conduit in desired lengths); Lyndon K. Welch, $10.00 (Extend water service by-pass to Dan wing. Will permit providing water service when booster system is out of service). Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit and the Sales department and Regional Offices: Detroit: R. Russell Brown, Jr., $30.00 (Provide electronic protractor and tachometer on instrument panel in chassis dynamometer room. Will im prove conditions for fuel rating in the cold room); Theresa Buyan, $10.00 (Add index and page numbers to bound monthly progress reports, eliminating di vider sheets); Edward J. Carson, $20.00 (Install lights in cylinder storage building. Will improve safety condi tions); Douglas E. Cooper, $10.00 (Mark Central Files material for re turn when not in use. Will identify ma terial that has been withdrawn from file); Lillian A. McDonnell, $15.00 (Routine procedure for notifying per sonnel or new and obsolete forms. Will promote the use of up-to-date forms); James O'Neill, $20.00 (Build service walk east of D wing to facilitate mov ing gas cylinders located outside adja cent laboratories); W. E. Rasmussen, Jr., $365.00 (Two channel oscillograph for rating spark plugs. Reduce man hours required for this job and considerably improve quality of data. Also is of con siderable interest to laboratory visitors) and $25.00 (Device to record throttle opening and closing points on oscillo graph used in spark plug rating. Im proves data); Etta L. Saforta, $20.00 (Identify translated technical articles. Stamping or otherwise marking foreign technical articles will prevent duplicat ing this effort); Philip Thomas, $10.00 (Secure a tenoning jug for use in the carpenter's shop. Will promote safety and improve quality of work); W. A. Trewhella, $10.00 (Conduit vise in electrical stockroom. Will facilitate pro Sales Department and Regional Offices-: H. E. Harris, $10.00 (Com bine the Mixing Installation Parts list and the Bill of Materials for use by New York Product Service and Safety Section and the chief product service engineers); R. P. Husta, $25.00 (Metal disc indicating valve port posi tion be installed on all volumetric mix ing burettes); Kenneth C. Jost, $85.00 (Mixing Plant Performance booklet for distribution to customers and Ethyl product service engineers) and $60.00 (Data and Work Sheet forms for use in solving jet mixing problems); W. F. Purcell, $25.00 (Stamp the date on chemical reagents used in the Lead-inAir Kits at the time of packaging). Chicago Dorothy. Hydzik and Arthur J. Gerlich were married on August 18 in St. Turibius Church. The couple honey mooned in Denver, Colorado. Dorothy is a receptionist in the Chicago office. New York Joan McCabe was married on October 20 to Robert H. Grab in the Immacu late Conception Church, Irvington-onHudson, New York. After their honey moon trip to Sea Island, Georgia, the couple will reside in New Rochelle. Joan is secretary to Dr. Charles Smith, Administration. Western Region Nita Burnett and Burl S. Watson were married in the Temple Methodist Church, San Francisco, on October 4. The couple will live in Seattle, where Burl is a field representative. Malcolm P. Murdock, vice president in charge of sales, recently spoke to the Cleveland Petroleum Club concerning new developments in refining processes being used to make gasoline. The chang ing fuel composition, he said, together with the steadily increasing antiknock quality, will result in fuel that will ac tually perform better on the road than octane numbers indicate. Detroit personnel assisted in the prepara tion of two technical papers presented at the SAE Fuel and Lubricants meet ing held in Tulsa. Harry Toulmin, Products Application, aided G. T. Moore and R. D. Young of Standard of Indiana with "Starting and Warm-up Character istics of New Automobiles," and Gilbert Way, Technical Service, assisted Stand ard of Ohio authors with "Vapor Lock Characteristics of Selected 1955 Cars." At the same meeting Ellis Rifkin presented "A Basis for Understanding Antiknock Action." This paper was writ ten by Ellis and Cleveland Walcutt, both of the Detroit Laboratories. At the New York meeting of the Asso ciation of Technical Writers and Editors, Ben Weil, Detroit Labs, discussed "The Role of the Information Group in In ternal Company Communications." John B. Furr, Industrial Relations, Baton Rouge, was speaker at the monthly meeting of the New Orleans Training Council. He spoke on training methods and organization and conduct of a re gional training conference. George P. Smith, Technical Service, Detroit, in observance of Oil Progress Week, addressed three civic groups in Baton Rouge. Arthur B. Wintringham, Adm., RficE, was guest speaker at a recent Baton Rouge Desk and Derrick Club meeting. Art conducted a session and demonstrated creative thinking technique. 24 ETC 11031 J. H. Schaefer, vice president of manu facturing, announced recently that Peter W. Sherwood and Judson T. Biehle, formerly assistant to the vice president, have been appointed general coordinators on the Manufacturing department gen eral staff. In these new assignments, Mr. Sher wood's and Mr. Biehle's duties will be expanded to include formulation and co ordination of general plans and programs of overall department scope. They will report directly to T. M. Smylib, man ager, Manufacturing department coordi nation, at New York. Charles H. Zeanah has been ap pointed assistant director of public rela tions for the Company. He replaces Ralph S. Clark, who has been on a medical leave of absence from the Com pany since last February. Christopher C. Vogel has been named associate director of public relations in charge of publicity and related func tions, and William G. Ball, Jr. has been named associate director of public relations in charge of administration. A. C. Hopper has been named to suc ceed Mr. Zeanah as acting superintend ent of Industrial and Community Rela tions at the Houston plant. Anne Mansfield, secretary in chemical research at the Detroit Labs, recently gave "The Magic Suitcase" for the Ecorse Women's Club, Ecorse, Michigan. Her presentation was part of Desk and Der rick activities in support of the OIIC. The Echo, Houston's plant paper, took third place in its class in a six-state publications competition that saw 500 publications entered. Editor J. B. LeRay received the certificate of award at a convention held in Dallas by the So ciety of Associated Industrial Editors. Robert D. Bloodwell, son of R. C Bloodwell, Finance, Baton Rouge, was one of 16 medical students in the United States chosen to attend the Clinical Con gress of the American College of Sur geons in San Francisco. Robert is pres ently a senior at the Baylor University College of Medicine. Carroll A. Hebert, Safety, has been named vice president of the Baton Rouge Society of Safety Engineers. Detroit Richard and Mary Jones--a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, bom on October 2. Dick is a research chemist in Detroit. Joe and Jean PARUCH-a daughter, Susan bom on September 8. Joe is in the chemical engineering section at the Labs. Eastern Region Gelston and Katherine HowELi-a daughter, Mary, bom on September 30. Gel is an account representative head quartered in New York. Walter and Jane STRANGE-a daugh ter, Mary, bom on October 5. Walter is a field rep in the Eastern Region. New York Emma and Charles BROWN-a grand daughter, Bonita Christine, bom on October 2, to their son Theodore and his wife Rose. Emmy is secretary to Jack Pruitt of the New York Sales department. Bonita is Emmy's tenth grandchild. Matthew and Gertrude TAYLOR-a granddaughter, Kathy, bom on Septem ber 25, to their daughter Carol and her husband Jules Zeph. Mat is manager of Sales Operations. Son-in-law, Jules, for merly worked in New York General Services. Frank J. Stablein IN MEMORIAM Frank J. Stablein, a tractor engineer with the Company, died' suddenly in Rochester, N. Y. on October 16 while on a business trip. He was 63 years old. It is with deep regret that the Com pany, his associates at Ethyl and this magazine note his passing. He was an exemplary man, dilligent in his work, thoughtful of his colleagues and mindful of the humorous side of things. Those of us who knew him will remember and miss the sound of his laugh. Associated with Ethyl for 24 years, Frank was widely known through the farm equipment field and assisted in the development of the gasoline-burning tractor. At his death, he was Eastern Regional tractor engineer for the Com pany. A native of Edina, Mo., where he was bom on March 11, 1893, he received his B.S. degree in engineering from the Uni versity of Missouri. Before joining Ethyl Corporation, he was associated with Holway Engineering Company of Tulsa and with the Shell Oil Company. He was a member of the American Association of Agricultural Engineers, the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion. He is survived by his wife; the former Elizabeth Hader, and two children, William H. Stablein and Nancy, Ann Stablein. 25 ETC 11032 Captain ValentineJJrown (Don Chapman of Eastern Region) waits in anguish as the love of his life, Phoebe, reads a tender poem he has written for her. The scene is from James Barnes "Quality Street," which an amateur group in Don s hometown of New Canaan, Conn., staged recently. It marked Don's acting debut. ETC 11033 -- - .scopes* AID TO BLIND The Lighthouse, which sponsors an annual charity drive in behalf of the blind of metropolitan New York, always gets a helping hand from Ethyl women. A record sum of about $900 was collected in October. Pictured are Gen LeRoy of Eastern Region and Ann McNerney of General Services collecting from Harry McGraugh and Jack Boyd of Public Relations. SECOND HIGHEST AWARD Ralph Wahrenbrock, left, research supervisor in charge of Engine Operations, Detroit Research Laboratories, presents a $365 suggestion award to Bill Rasmussen, Jr. The award, second highest to date in Detroit, was for an improvement to the instrumenta tion of spark plug tests which not only saved time but provided more accurate data. ETC 11^34 SHANK ADDRESSES DETROIT CHAPTER Deane Birkes, field engineer in the Central Region, is lending education a hand by serving on both Lou Shank, manager of the Suggestion System, I spoke before the Detroit Chapter of the National a college and a school committee. Above, Deane, sec Association of Suggestion Systems on the subject "Le ond from lift, confers with officials of Western Michi gal Aspects of Suggestion Systems." Pictured at the gan College in his capacity as chairman of the col October 10 luncheon are, left to right, Horace Cooke, lege's job placement committee. Deane also serves on president of the Detroit Chapter; Lou, and Ethyl's building committee of a local school. Ross Rife, director and program chairman. more people, more placet ETC 11035 WORKSHOP AT ETHYL OIL PROGRESS WEEK Members of the Southern California division of the West Coast Oil Information Committee recently The annual observance of Oil Progress Week was, as usual, promoted on a company-wide basis last met for a workshop session at the Ethyl auditorium in month. Pictured below is Paul Fitzpatrick, field en Los Angeles. The group discussed their plans to tell gineer in Eastern Region, addressing a gathering of oil's story and gain more friends for the industry. In educators at the Commodore Hotel in New York City. the photograph below, S. F. Bowlby, vice president of Paul, chairman of the metropolitan New York educa Shell Oil Company, addresses the group. tional committee of the Oil Industry Information Com- CLINTONS BEAT THE CLOCK By successfully performing various antics on the television show "Beat the Clock", Ernie Clinton of Steve Henry, director of community relations at the Baton Rouge plant, participated in a parody of a Chemical Research, Detroit Labs, and his wife won a give-away program during the first session of the sev refrigerator. Time ran out on the Clintons on the first enth district American Federation of Advertising con show and they came back to New York City a week vention held recently in Baton Rouge. Shown in the later. Friends Al Filbey, left, and Bud Goddard spoof isolation booth, Steve answered questions pertaining Ernie's T.V. fame in above picture. to the economic outlook of the South. ETC 11036 mittee, informed the educators of the availability of fairs of Oil Progress Week. Shown below, seated left t OIIC information and material for schools and other to right, are W. W. Merritt, chairman of the em interested groups. In the picture below, Governor ployees' committee; Leo Martin, OPW general chair f Herter of Massachusetts signs the proclamation for man; W. Q. Hall, chairman of the speakers' commit Oil Progress Week in his state. Don Forsdick, field tee. Standing, left to right, are Don Robertson, pub representative, Eastern Region, stands at right. Ethyl licity manager and chairman of farm committee, and employees at Baton Rouge were also active on the af- Syl Lange, chairman of special events committee. , Ttajftrrry BUSINESS-EDUCATION DAY Fifteen teachers from primary and secondary schools in Sarnia, Canada, were guests of Ethyl Corpora establishments and plants in the area. Bob Edgar, plant manager, welcomed the group and explained as tion of Canada Limited last month. Called Business- pects of the operation. A plant tour, round-table dis Education Day, the affair was arranged by the Sarnia cussion and a luncheon in Sarnia followed. Ethyl of Chamber of Commerce so that teachers could learn Canada men shown in the above picture with the something of the problems, techniques, conditions and teachers are C. G. Manore, far left, second row, and outlooks of business and industry by visiting business Bob Edgar and J. L. McCartney, far right, second row. more people, more placet ETC 11037 DETROITERS LEARN FIRE PREVENTION Over 300 employees at the Detroit Labs recently learned or brushed up on how to perform a very given again, just to make sure as many employees as possible will know what to do should a fire break out important function--fire-fighting. Men who usually in any area of the Labs. As further training in safety operate a dynamometer and women who usually oper measures, most of the research personnel saw Ethyl's ate a typewriter learned to use fire extinguishers on new color film, "Fire Power." Shown below are cafe fires set on the Labs' grounds. This fire extinguisher teria, janitorial, maintenance and research personnel course has been given before and will doubtless be practicing with the extinguishers. STHYL !f ii i i i '! ' ji Published monthly for the people of Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE To Everybody Everywhere........ 2 How High Hi-Fi?........................... 4 Come Christmas ......................... 6 Highlights oi 1956......................... 10 Product oi the Times................... 12 The Inside Story........................... 14 Handbills for Freedom................ 16 For Your Entertainment.............. 20 Milestones ..................................... 22 Ethyl Welcomes............................. 23 Personals ....................................... 24 People and Places....................... 26 Leonhard Dowty...................................... Editor Jean Caputo.........................Editorial Assistant Layout and artwork by S.P.M. Studios Contributing Editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Demur: Ed Smith; Detroit: Helen Carrico, Anne Mansfield, Lillian McDonnell, Les Motion, Andy Pallay, Kathleen Raley, Ross Rife, Adele Rozek, Karl Schmid; photographer: Eric Owen; Dayton: Lou Slack; Houston: Ken Jost, Guy Keller, J. B. LeRay; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Vida Cimber; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Lynn Phil lips; New Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Etna Harris, Bud Hurts, Mollie Houghton, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Leona Rasmussen; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst, Judy Schaub; pho tographer: Fred Green; San Frastcisco: Will Han cock; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson, Gasoline Test ing: Gil de Malvilain, Central Office; Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited; Toronto: Nancy Hewitt. ON OUR COVER: Ladened with bags and boxes containing Christmas purchases, early shopper Dorothy Stumm of New York Stenographic awaits a bus in front of the Ethyl offices at 100 Park Avenue. The story of holiday hullabaloo begins on page 6. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. Bynum Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. ETC 11041 Well, here we are with pen in hand. Taking up our Yuletide stand. To send good wishes far and wide. Wherever Ethyl folks reside. Shouting loud and shouting strong. We're here to beat the verbal gong. To put in rhyme (things could be worse!) Our customary Christmas verse. Now, we're not poets, heaven knows. But for the moment let's suppose That we, like Shakespeare, had the touch To make our words mean twice as much. Double that and we've made dear How much we wish you Christmas cheer. How much we hope the day will be A joyous, jumping jamboree. Wishes first to that abode That houses those on Eight Mile Road, Those who in research's cause Are always playing Santa Claus. To those who live in southern dime. May Yuletide be a happy time. May moss give way to mistletoe And Christmas have a special glow. Next we wish to those out west Fulfillment of the Yuletide quest. Stockings bulging to the brim With gifts galore for every whim. To those above Manhattan's din, To all their kith and all their kin-- A perfect day, a gala week Higher than the all-time peak. To hims and hers out Yonkers way -- A happy, happy holiday With flaming pudding, nog and glee All around the festive tree. To those who hang their Ethyl hats Over Sarnia's welcome mats We also wish the season's best. Unabridged and manifest As well we wish abundant yield To all who work the Ethyl fidd, To all who play a daily part In helping pull the Ethyl cart To everyone from coast to coast We raise our glass in merry toast And hope the year that lies ahead Will be as bright as holly Ted. HOW HIGH HI-FI? Even though the fee gets higher with the fl, Detroiters go in for high fidelity in a big way Tf clothes make the gentleman, then the listener makes the music. That is, according to some elec tronic experts at the Detroit Labs, you should let your ear decide how much money to invest in a hi-fidelity phonograph system. For some of these engineers in the Labs' Instrument section this means quite an outlay. Their ears have expensive tastes, and what might start out as a $300 system winds up as a $2,000 one. However, before you're frightened away from this article let us hasten to add that most ears--hence most listeners and music lovers--can be satisfied with a lot less than a $2,000 system. Indeed, there are ears and ears, as there are clothes and clothes, and some of us don't even feel rebuffed if we listen to a $75 system. It is perhaps well to remember that the personnel in the Instrument section are professionals, thus per fectionists. Ed Zelda, for instance, claims that you can't even have hi-fi under $300, and for that price you get a kit that has to be assembled. Ed and his fellow technicians contend that the "layman" can spend upward to a thousand dollars for a finished manufacturer's system and still not have true hifidelity. However, Russ Brown of the Vehicle Test section at the Labs believes that "good" fidelity can be ob tained for $150. Russ started his system with that sum, then, like many others, his ears became educated and discriminating and he now has a system worth $550 and has plans to pour another thousand into it. A figure of $150 for a "better than average" system is cited by Harold Stevenson of the Instrument sec tion, but this entails building your own speaker enclo sure and assembling a kit. Non-technical people may have some trouble trying to follow the directions on these kits. The directions look like a cross between a Chinese puzzle and the design of a Medieval laby rinth. But don't let this bother you, the tone that comes out is completely modem. General agreement in the Instrument section has been reached on one point. The engineers favor tapes to records; the tapes, they say, last indefinitely, in con trast to the 50 to 100 playing hours that constitute a well-cherished record's life expectancy. Binaural? Again the dispute rages. One of the en gineers has literally built a new ceiling in his living room, installing some 20 speakers in it plus two others in the basement, while another engineer feels that a binaural system is like having a train passing through the house. Of course, about all a lot of us can do is let our pocketbook decide on a system, and then hope that our ears agree. After all, music appreciation can still be engendered by "low" fidelity or even the radio. Rust Brown of Vehicle Totting playt tho topes he prefers to records. Tapot cost more, but don't break, last indefinitely. For Nancy io Kimble of Business Services, one of the biggest pleasures of high fidelity is selecting records in a shop. 4 ETC 11043 . .r li'4 * >? W ;^5 ^(LtkaiouetfL- 'THMiic * 5KtC0 *ff1fc.10 K**r*uu*rv - b!f>fM`*(##.*4a<*#-**M****v**/*r***' 0fr*" sre /*.* ** t*'"" JllrfcWWU ~ 5| j* AitcH *`,,/C- ftC.(,fwS ** Cllt.CCTCt'S '''**'* ETC \fk hie umji.ois Come Christmas and the holiday mood, young and old alike find themselves they have been doing for a number of years, Ethyl women dress dolls for the Goodfellows, caught up in the hurly burly of the season and in Baton Rouge the members of the and it's a busy time for all. As the days race Ethyl Management Club each bring a gift forward, those decreasing shopping days, the package for a needy child. New Yorkers, too, packages pile up in secret places and the bring toys for tots to their annual Christmas pulse quickens while the purse stretches. party and deliver them to worthy children's Some enterprising Ethyl people do it them homes throughout the city. Happy with good selves for Christmas, and they produce a jobs in our land of plenty, Ethyl people have variety of interesting and attractive gifts for shared the spirit of Christmas with those less family and friends. Others, in the charitable fortunate themselves and tried particularly spirit of the season, contribute their time to to brighten the holiday of some deserving institutions for poor children. In Detroit, as child. With charitable hearts, they have tried ETC 11045 Glenn Smith, ion of Marvin Smith of Products Application, Detroit Labs, looks a little bewil dered by doll shown him by Jeanne MacLeod, receptionist. Some needy girl, however, will treasure it and others made by Detroit women. Dorothy Locke, receptionist at 100 Park, tries her hand at all sorts of handmade Christmas gifts. Her imaginative designs and detailed work always delight the receivers of these personal presents. Her work is at the left. ETC 11046 An annual pre-Christmas cuttom at tho Dotroit Labs it tho dressing of dolls by Ethyl woman for distribution to noedy children. Bolow, four of the doll-dressers are shown with 100 of the dolls lator sent to join a display of thousands at the Ford Rotunda. to make it a happy holiday for all. Across the coun try, women of the Desk and Derrick Club have also been doing their bit to brighten Christmas. Playing Santa Claus, they have bought specific toys that children in orphanages and hospitals have written to the North Pole for. Jessie Halton of New York Stenographic and social chairman of the New York Desk and Derrick chapter is in charge of the program in Manhattan and Ema Harris, receptionist at 100 Park, is a member of the committee. Already offices and reception areas at Ethyl have begun to take on a festive air. Imaginative employees have contributed ideas for decorating, and plain doors and windows have suddenly become as gay as a Christmas package. Despite the visual aspects, Christmas is mostly something you feel, something that seems to permeate the air and bring quick smiles to meeting faces. More than all else, it is the wish for peace on earth and good will toward men, for a world in which all people are free and as lucky as we. Eileen King and Helen Day of General Service* are naf play ing grab-bag, but are unpacking deceraHem far file ream. Tree Tips Half the fun of Christmas is the Christmas tree, shining with bright color and glittering with tinsel, bringing the seasonal scent of pine and fir into the home and gladdening the heart of every bov and girl who awaits the merriest morning of the year with uncontrollable eagerness. Choosing a tree, however, takes some knowing and should be done with the same care used in buying that special holiday gift. For one thing, trees are de ceptive and look considerably larger outdoors than inside your house or apartment. Keeping that in mind, you'll find it a practical idea to take a rough measure ment of the area in which you plan to use the tree, That look of delight on tho fact of Kathy Fay of Advertising and Sales Promotion relates to the Christmas gifts she'll buy with hor paycheck. and thereby avoiding a tree that looks cramped and crowded and is a hazard. In the same vein, buy a tree appropriate to the size and shape of your room--high and narrow rooms look best with tall, slender trees, and vice versa. Be sure, too, that your tree is sym metrical and that it has springy, pliable branches without brown areas at the tips. Don't worry about flattened branches; they'll shake down when the tree is decorated. When you get your tree home, shake it before bringing it into the house. This will save you a lot of sweeping. It is also a good idea to make a fresh cut at the bottom of the tree, then stand it in water to prevent further falling of needles. Above all, do not put the tree near an open fire or flame and make sure that all electrical connections are in good condition. For safety's sake, also use a sturdy ladder when decor ating and dispose of the tree within two weeks. For the easiest decorating, start at the treetop and work your way down to a Merry Christmas. Here is a tried and proven sequence to follow: (1) Put the lights on first. Then check for balance and defective bulbs. Place the bulbs inside the tree for maximum effect and have one white bulb near the top, to shine on the top piece. (2) Put your strands of tinsel on, looping it from branch to branch around the tree. (3) Hang the ornaments from the tips of the branches. (4) Sprinkle plastic snow from the top down through the tree. (5) Place cotton-batten "snow" around the base of the tree. (6) Arrange the packages around the bottom of the tree so as to take advantage of their color and to hide blank spaces in the lower branches. Then stand back, admire your artistry--and wait for the big day. *1 A little down at tha mouth, Bill Alexandor of Product Sorvico and Safety 3* I writes chocks to pay for tfta many k- good things ho has bought his family. Unique ornaments are hung on this tree in the Stenographic office. Anne O'Neill cut out all the pictures in "The Face Is Familiar" for it. There are three boys who'll become All-Americans overnight if they get this football Bill Cleary of indus trial Relations is considering buying. ETC 11048 HIGHLIGHTS OF 1956 As 1956 draws to a close, it ends another chapter in the history of the Company, a chapter that, As always, people played an important part in the year's headlines, heavily contributing to the advance like the others before it, is significant of progress. In ment of the Company, devoting time and energy to many ways the year was one of advanced ideas, im civic causes and working together in general harmony proved methods, new services, and general better and concord. Again and over and over, Ethyl proved ment. In all respects, it was another proud year. itself a good industrial citizen. `i*. .UF*<*-?- PRODUCT i OF THE TIMES as Our times are superior times, times in which superior prod ucts, enlightening ideas and pro vocative thought have come to the fore and established themselves as a basic part of our everyday lives. We live in a day that has narrowed the gap of space and that has re duced the world's dimensions many sizes. In our times, we are defi nitely in touch and in tune. Like the times, our product is superior. It is liquid economy, power and performance. It is progress and pleasure, dependability and com fort, ability and mobility. Bom of ingenuity, it has not only improved itself but has brought improvement to an age of incredible advance ment and become an essential part of an era of perpetual motion. Over these accelerated years, unceasing manufacturing advancements have brought economies to all concerned -- to our consumers, the refiners, and to their consumers, the motor- 12 ETC 11051 Although never seen by the public, our anti knock compound does a big job night and day, year in and year out, the world over, helping to run modern engines ing public. Today, refiners buy "Ethyl" antiknock compound at only a fraction of the original price. And the public gets better gasoline --10 and more octane numbers better, thanks to our product -- than would otherwise be the case. Our product helps today's high compression engines to operate smoothly, quietly and efficiently -- in fact, it has helped make them possible. Less than half the cars on the road could operate satis factorily without gasoline contain ing antiknock compound, and very few would run at all without suffer ing from knock and its attendant evils of engine overheating and power loss. The gasoline consum ing public saves over $4 billion a year -- every year! -- on its gaso line bill, because of the cheaper and better transportation brought about by tetraethyl lead. Gasolinepowered farm tractors have come into being--and- grown to nearly 5 million -- in large part because Ethyl engineers convinced people in the agricultural field that the distillate burning tractors of 25 years ago were inferior vehicles. Although our product is never seen by the public, its use in gasoline (over 99 percent of all gasoline consumed in the U. S. is improved with TEL) has brought us higher into the air, deeper into the coun try, and further along the road to progress and plenty. And besides doing a big job today, our product is geared to the even larger job that lies ahead. Oil and automotive technologists know the way to still more efficient and economical transportation: through higher compression ratio engines. Those engines will need higher octane gasolines than are generally avail able today. Our product will help make those better gasolines -- and engines -- possible, to the great benefit of the American public. 13 ETC 11052 THE INSIDE STORY Whether or not suggestions are adopted, each and every one receives careful study and consideration. Shown here are the birth, processing, irv vestigation, judging, awarding and usefulness of one suggestion Ullian Campbell of General Servicei, New York office, jet* down an idea that *he think* worthwhile to (ubmit. Thinking it up took tome time. Jotting it down took her leu than five minute*. the content* of all (uggoition* and bring* them to Howard Gulick, *upervi*or of the New York committee, who toe* if the *ugge*Hon i complete, code* it and determine* the area for inve*tigatlon. If the *ugge*tion i* complicated or unu*ual, he review* it with Lou Shank, manager of the Suggetion Sy*tem. They may find it conflict* with a previou* *ugge*tion or that lubmitted. New York committee con*it* of, left to right, Ralph Hutchinton, Wally Distier, Howard Gulick, Bill Ball (chairman), Andy Andorion and Jud Biehle. (Jim Kirby i* the leventh member.) Mabel Genter of the Finance department type* up Ullian'* award check after approval of the committee'* recommendation by a member of management. Ullian received an award of $75. 14 ETC 11053 It took ovon Uu time for Lillian to walk to the suggestion box on bar floor and deposit the possible winner. She reasoned that the chance of receiving an award was well worth the time. On the same day that Lillian submitted her suggestion, Marilyn Sax of the Suggestion System office collected it, as she does every day. After collections, she dates, numbers and records the wording can be improved. From them, a suggestion passes to Sonja Huestis of the Suggestion System office, who typos up acknowledgement, file copies and correspondence necessary. All suggestions are referred to one or more investigators -- ' in Lillian's case, Gerry Forsdick of Sales. Next, the local Suggestion System committee confers on the merits of the idea The check, a letter of congratulations from her department head and a certificate of award constitute the presentation made to Lillian by her supervisor, Randy Chariton of General Services In New York. Soon after receiving award Lillian has the satisfac tion of seeing her idea put into use and of utilizing it herself in the teletype room, where she works as a teletype operator. 15 ETC 11054 HANDBILLS FOR FREEDOM In an effort to get out the vote, Ethyl enlists the aid of Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts to remind employees of the rare privilege ETC 11055 All Scout* who participated in the program at Now York wore children of Ethyl employee*. Below, Ann Boudreau and Randy Charlton, Jr., hand a "bo turn to vote" manage to Willi* Lanlconau, of Advert!ting. Above, a doteup of young Randy, armed with literature. While the recent presidential campaign was being waged full force. Ethyl Corporation was also at all locations were reminded by letter of registra tion dates, and later the date of November 6th was waging a campaign of its own as an industrial citizenindelibly imprinted on the minds of all. A few days --a thorough campaign to get out the vote on election before the election, all Ethyl employees received at day. At most of its locations, the Company made a their homes a letter signed by both Mr. Shea and concentrated effort to remind its employees and, Mr. Turner, reminding them to "vote . . . but don't wherever possible, the general public of the impor vote in the dark." Dining the campaign a special tance of a single vote to the cause of freedom. Hall booklet--How to Get the Best for Your Ballot--was ways were decked with posters emphasizing the put on all reading racks, and it proved to be one of privilege of the vote, and bulletin boards stressed and the most popular issues to date. Following the notion accented the theme. Company publications carried that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, articles and editorials on the vital subject, and to those table tents were put out in cafeterias to keep the sub who had come of age since the last presidential con ject before employees, and bumper banners were test in 1952, reminder cards were sent by department placed on Company vehicles and private automobiles. heads to increase their awareness of their individual All Ethyl mail carried the message as well as Ethyl responsibility in our government by the people. Fav tank cars and broadcasts. Perhaps the biggest single oring no candidate, the Company urged its employees effort was made by Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, to acquaint themselves with the issues of the race, to whom the Company arranged to post at entrances of weigh and decide with the strong conscience of a free its installations. The youngsters distributed paste people. One article--Which Voter Are You?--which board Liberty Bells to employees and general public appeared in Ethyl News was subsequently run as an alike and presented "Get Out the Vote" matches to ad in The Oil Daily, in which an offer was made to Ethyl offices. Eager young citizens, the scouts worked supply copies free of charge. Over 30 different com avidly for the cause they already understand as future panies requested more than 70,000 copies. A Bul voting citizens. Coordinating the project, Thom Yates letin Board editorial was enlarged greatly and used of Public Relations handled arrangements in New as a lobby display by a large California insurance York and helped set up programs in other areas. The company. On every front, the Company vigorously results of Ethyl's "Get Out the Vote" campaign paid promoted its message to the voting public. Employees off in a big Ethyl vote. Explorer Warren Shank and Mariner Nancy Ball were among the Scouts whe distributed Liberty Bells to employees of all companies at the 100 Park Avenue Building. The Scouts' full day began at 8 o'clock on the morning of November 5, the day befere Election Day. Smiling for the camera from an overhead balcony after luncheon at the Oversea* Press Club are Louise Pruitt, Nancy Ball, Steve Shank, Warren Shank, Susie Shank, Peter Cosgrove, Ann Boudreau, Tom Distler, Job Boudreau, Randy Charlton and Betsy Cosgrove. Scout Peter Cosgrove pays a personal visit to Bill Meyer, of Industrial Relations, to urge Mm to bo sure to cast hit ballot the following day. Table tents were alto put on all reception desks at the Ba ton Rouge plant. Above, sign on desk of Gladys Gilmore reminds a visitor to vote. Houston's Buck Wright and Joan Gore smile over "Vot er's Pledge" cards tent to all employees who were 21 since previous election. Scouts Warren Shank and Tom Distler peer out of a but win dow at on* of New York's famous skyscrapers *n route to United Nations Building. ETC 1105^ 18 Tom vln- >rk's )ute ing. Detroit Laboratories enlisted the aid of a Femdale Scout troop to remind employees to vote. Scouts distributed pamphlets at main gates. With a big smile, Betsy Cos grove delivers "please be sure to vote tomorrow" message while Bill Ball and daughter Nancy look on approvingly. At the Baton Rouge plant, Mrs. M. G. Stuart, assist ant cafeteria supervisor, places cardboard remind ers on all cafeteria tables. Charles F. Kettering made a surprise appearance at the Scouts luncheon and praised the boys and girls for the pa triotic job they were doing. Bumper stickers reading "See You at the Polls" were placed on vehicles at the Houston plant. Above, Bill Verrett tags one on Ms automobile. Emma Koster, of Sales, listens attentively as one of the Scouts cites the need for all Americans to exercise their free voting privilege. Mary Stanley and Terr Hughes of Baton Rouge plar read special voting bool Over 3,800 of them wer taken from the reading rad A tour of the United Nation ended the Scouts' bus; and fruitful, day. Here is pa: of the group outside th world organization's buildinc ETC 11058 19 FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS Year Incorporated has released through Simon and Schuster a giant and impressive volume that is beautiful, extravagant and praiseworthy-Year's Pictorial History of the World. A welcome edition to any library, it contains over 2,000 illustra tions, many of them in full color, on the progress of man from primitive times. A college course within itself, it is fascinating both verbally and pictoriaUy, and it struck us as just the kind of thing we'd like to find under our Christmas tree. Tom Tullet, chief of the Sunday Pictorial (London) crime staff, has reported one of those incredible stories that again proves truth stranger than fiction in Rinehart's Portrait of a Bad Man. The criminal life he traces belongs to Ronald Chesney, as complete a blackguard as you can possibly imagine, so black in fact that even the films wouldn't dare to attribute so much evil to a single character. Chesney stops at nothing, and if you like reading about crime you won't either. Ruth McKenney, whose My Sister Eileen has been making people laugh in all media for more than a decade, has quite successfully switched to historical fiction in Farrar, Straus and Cudahy's practically-Cinemascopic novel. Mirage. The place is mostly Egypt; the time is the early 19th century; in support of the large French and Egvptian cast are such capable per formers as Napoleon, Josephine, Lord Nelson and Talleyrand. Everybody loves, fights and dies with accomplishment. Simon and Schuster's Legends of the Bible by Biblical au thority Louis Ginzberg is a shorter, simplified version of the original seven volume work, and it is a rare and distinguished book to be read, enjoyed and savored. As exciting as any fiction--and sometimes more so-it is peopled with some of the most fascinating personalities ever known, and its frequently told stories are more powerful, more intriguing, more complex than any produced since. With all of the beat and excitement of jazz, Marshall W. Steams has written a comprehensive history in Oxford's The Story of Jazz, a book that abounds in colorful characters in such colorful places as the West Indies, New Orleans, Chi cago and St. Louis. Mr. Steams, who is a founder and Execu tive Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies in New York, knows his subject from Bongo to Banjo and he reports on it with enthusiasm and skillv Crown, in association with Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, has pro duced a fine volume of Americana in the amply-illustrated Cavalcade of America, which Carl Carmer has edited. Practically everybody who had a finger in the making of our nation is represented in an individual narrative. Through the people responsible for our greatness, our history unfolds in a number of striking portraits. Dutton's The Sound of Silence is a first novel by Mary Rickwood, a young Englishwoman who has made a name for herself on the Isles in the field of the short story and who is certain to gain domestic approval with her initial entry into the longer form of fiction. Her novel, a tale of marital com plexity, is probing and arresting, and her characters are exact and mobile. What they do and what they don't do is both right for them and the reader. The Story of American Golf, Herbert Warren Wind's big compendium of the popular sport, has been brought out in a new edition at popular prices by Simon and Schuster, and it's a handsome volume indeed. Anyone who ever struggled to break par will enjoy the book Bobby Jones called "truly monu mental." Some 100 photographs of the golfing greats illustrate the text. From Garden City Books comes an outstanding children's book for the youngsters of our mobile age--Edward Stoddard's The Story of Power, a Life-size edition that traces the harnessing of nature in clear, simple text illustrated with equally under standable illustrations by Lee Ames. A lot of the questions that plague parents are answered for the child who's bursting with scientific curiosity. Cotton, like petroleum, has had a major effect on life in America and is a part of our national history. In The Life and Times of King Cotton, an Oxford book by David L. Cohn, the men and women who picked, ginned and sold cotton are brought to life in a proud saga of the South. Along with them, the eco nomic, social and political story of "the white king" unravels in an entertaining history. Under the simple title of Stories, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy serve up--like breast of pheasant under glass--some of the finest short stories of our times by four of the finest writers of our times: Jean Stafford, John Cheever, Daniel Fuchs and William Maxwell. Not one among them has a flaw. Technique abounds in all, and human understanding and compassion dominate each. Our favorite of the group by half a hair--John Cheever's The Country Husband. A good laugh has a special value of its own, and there is plenty of both laughter and value in Crown's A Treasury of American Folk Humor, edited by James" N. Tidwell. In a sense, it's a history of laughter and humor in our country, from way on back up to the present, and our national charac ter is revealed in all of its good-naturedness. An invaluable aid for anyone who may address any kind of audience, it s an excellent reference book and a gay vaudeville. 20 ETC 11059 The world of the circus has always fascinated both young and old, and its recent demise was a loss to all who thrilled be neath the big top when aerialists somersaulted in space and human cannonballs gushed from inside the barrel. In Center Ring, a Doubleday release composed of a group of interesting articles Robert Lewis Taylor wrote for The New Yorker, the circus gives a glittering and tinseled performance, before the public eve and behind the scenes. There is plenty of fun in Rinehart's The Greatest Lover in the World by Alex Austin, an inventive young man who ap parently had quite a good time conjuring up this comic novel about a kind of a dud of a dentist who discovers he is loaded with sex appeal. For good measure, there's a prototype of Valentino, an incendiary star with all the earmarks and trade marks of Lollobrigida and a spectre of the late Lord Byron who's very free with advice on his favorite subject . . . amour. Our Flight to Adventure, Doubleday's latest entry in the "We did it ourselves" field of narrative, is the account of Tay and Lowell Thomas, Jr. of their recent aerial trip to some re mote and exciting places. No mere sightseers, the younger Thomases go all out to learn about the people and customs of the lands they visit, and they occasionally find themselves a little too close to the end of a limb. There are, for the record, pygmies, nomads, jungles, deserts, caravans and blue waters. Bob Hope and Katherine Hepburn, a somewhat unlikelv com bination, are teamed in Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer's The Iron Pbtticoat, a spoof about an American air force pilot and a Russian aviatrix he has shot from the skies. Reminiscent of the very funny Ninotchka but never quite up to its uproarious comedy, the new film still supplies a goodly quantity of humor. Robert Helpmann of the celebrated Sadler Welb Ballet is also on hand to aid in the antics. The same Miss Hepbum is also on hand in the Hal Wallis production of the Broadway hit. The Rainmaker, and she fairs considerably better in the new Paramount film, so well in fact that she's already being predicted to be a nominee for the Academy Award for her portrayal of a shy spinster who falls for likeable con man Burt Lancaster. It all takes place on a farm in the southwest, and it makes for a very humorous and highly romantic movie. The stage success Anastasia has been made into an outstand ing film by Twentieth Century-Fox. Based partly on fact, it stars Ingrid Bergman in the title role of the daughter of the late Czar of Russia, Helen Haves as the Dowager Empress and Yul Brynner as the leader of a group of White Russians living in Paris after the First World War. All done in the grand man ner, it is enhanced by superior performances by all concerned in determining whether or not Anastasia is really the Grand Duchess or an impostor. MOVIES TELEVISION Michael Todd, whose productions are always lavish if nothing else, has outdone even himself in the celluloid version of Jules Veme's classic. Around the World in Eighty Days, as lavish a potpourri of splendor, color and talent as you are ever likely to feast your eyes upon. Filmed in the new Todd-AO process that's bigger than Rhode Island, with a screen curved to take you right along on the journey, it stars practically all Hollywood, some of Broadway and a goodly group of inter national talent, among them David Niven, Marlene Dietrich, Mexico's comic Cantinflas, Ronald Colman, Charles Boyer and Shirley MacLaine. To gild the lily just a bit more, Mr. Todd has also crammed in Noel Coward, Femandel, Sir John Giel gud, Jose Greco, Sir Cedric Harwicke, Buster Keaton, Beatrice Lillie, Peter Lorre, Ed Murrow, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, etc., etc., etc. Funnyman Tom Ewell, who made a hit as MM's downstairs neighbor in The Seven Year Itch, is teamed with voluptuous Jayne Mansfield in Twentieth-Century-Fox's production. The Gnu. Can't Help It, a hardboiled comedy-melodrama about theatrical agents, thugs and assorted cads and gab. Edmund O'Brien plays the heavy who wants to put his girl over as a singer and doesn't mind using his money or his gun. Popular family fare. Mama returns to the air waves on De cember 18, once again starring Peggy Wood as the benevolent matron. On the 23rd, Alcoa Hour will stretch its program to an hour and a half in order to present The Stingiest Man In Town, a musical version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It features singers Vic Damone, Johnnie Desmond and Patrice Munsel. Christinas Eve will bring Menotti's opera Amahl and the Night Visitors over Robert Montgomery Presents, followed by Midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral. A holiday show for G.I.s, the Bob Hope Chevy Show will be filmed in Alaska for the 28th, with Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper and baseball's Mickey Mantle putting in well-wrappedup appearances. Football has a fling on the 29th, when the Blue-Gray Game between top collegians from the North and South is played, followed by the Shrine Game between the East and West collegians. Then, on January 1, football has its last fling, including the famous Rose Bowl Game in Pasa dena, Cal., between Iowa and Oregon State. The equally famous Tournament of Roses Parade precedes the gridiron contest. Prokofiev's opera War And Peace--not to be confused with the novel and movie of the same title--premieres over TV Opera Theatre on January 13. ETC 11060 21 r- , - ' ' - r* .r S' *% > ,-? if /- a 20 years IS years Yvonne L. Guertin Sales, New York IO years ^ - Wayne A. Newman Finance, New York Wellington R. O'Neill Research, Detroit Algkd A. Pauls Research, Detroit 5 years Virgle Harris Research, Detroit Edwin D. Reid Research, Detroit Bruno V. Walczak Research, Detroit Martha E. Wiseman Research, Detroit i 22 Jack D. Fuller Sales, Western Region Ross E. Rise Research, Detroit John C. Watt Sales, Eastern Region ETC 11061 ..WWW" ETHYL WELCOMES John C. Close, known as Jack, is a sales engineer in Southern Region. A graduate of Northwestern Techno logical Institute, he was in the Army. Catherine H. Corbett is a secretary in Product Service and Safety at 100 Park. Sports, painting and the piano occupy much of Cathy's leisure time. Christian V. Holland, Virginia Mili tary Institute graduate, is a product service engineer in Eastern Region. He's married and has two daughters. Edward J. Kettel, new assistant insur ance manager in New York, holds his M.A. from Columbia University. Ed and his wife, Janet, live in Wantagh. j \ Eleanor Moss has taken a position as Nancy C. Teale is a secretary in the a steno-clerk in New York Finance. Tulsa office. Nancy attended Tulsa U., Ellie, who enjoys cooking and sports, where she was a member of Phi Alpha attended the Wood Secretarial School. Theta, an honorary historical group. ETC 11062 23 dynamometer room); E. H. Ide, $15.00 ( Relocate open switches in U-10 to elim inate fire hazard); Nadine MichaelSON, $15.00 (Stockroom to cany com bination ditto carbon and master sets). New York : Lillian Campbell, $25.00 Two articles which appeared in The (On teletypes for visiting personnel, list Antiknock, Baton Rouge plant paper, "Return to . . ."); Grace Gregna and have been reprinted and distributed on a Marjory Smith, $15.00 (Submit inter nationwide basis by the United Com office correspondence in duplicate, typ munity Funds and Councils of America. ing reply on bottom of both copies and The articles published in the July and returning duplicate to its origin); Vir September issues explained how United ginia McGuire, $30.00 (Show sender's Givers Fund contributions help youth initials and room number on envelope and health programs in the community. of mail marked "Personal"); Eunice G Ethyl Corporation has been chosen by the National Association of Suggestion Sauls, $35.00 (Change defense vaults password periodically). Systems as one of the companies whose Detroit suggestion performance was outstanding last year. Ethyl placed third in national Garland and Karolina Smith -- a competition having received 1,615 sug daughter, Susan, bom on October 27. gestions per 1,000 employees in 1955. Garland is a chemist in the Analytical Section. Delieu and Faith Steinke--a daugh ter, Karen Ruth, bom on October 26. Dad is a chemist at the Labs. Robert and Mildred Young-- a daugh ter, Marcia Ann, bom on October 26. A citation for outstanding support of the Army Reserve Program was presented to the Company in October by Colonel J. B. Reynolds, Chief of the Louisiana Mil itary District. Wally Armstrong, Resi dent Manager, Baton Rouge, accepted in behalf of the Company. Sales Department and Regional Offices: William S. Alexander, $10.00 (Cut edge of calendar pads to facilitate removal of page headers); W. Bob is assistant purchasing agent in De E. Andreae, $25.00 (Revise strapping troit. charts for storage tanks) and $20.00 Eastern Region (New procedure for sampling weigh I Bob and Margrbth Richardson-a SUCCESSFULgranddaughter, Deborah Anne, bom on tanks or storage tanks, when necessary); Eileen H. Guernsey, $10.00 (Trial September 26, to their daughter Julie and her husband 'C. W. Phillips. Bob SUGGESTERS subscription to the bulletin Better Busi ness by Telephone). is district manager in Philadelphia. San Bernardino: Albert L. Bailey, New York Jim and Anastasia Cusack-s son, James George, bom on September 16. $25.00 (Safe driving award program. Will be applied for test drivers at San Bernardino). Jim is assistant on benefit plans in the New York Industrial Relations depart ment. Jim and Cecilia Donohue --a son, John Francis, bom on October 12. Jim is an accountant in the New York Tax Division. r EXTRACURRICULAR Frank and Eleanor McNally--a son, Alvaro Prado, safety engineer repre Thomas Joseph, bom on October 3. senting the National Petroleum Industry Frank is tax counsel and head of the Suggestion awards were made to the fol of Concon, Chile, visited the Baton Tax Division. lowing employees in Detroit, New York, Rouge plant to study safety and security iI Sarnia John and Sheila Shirriff -- a son, the Sales department and Regional Offi ces and San Bernardino: methods. Roselyn Rankin, daughter of Charles Michael, bom on October 31. John is Detroit: D. W. Carr, Jr., $10.00 (In Rankin, manager of the Tulsa Lab, was chemical engineer in Sarnia, Canada. stall emergency stop buttons outside one of ten delegates to attend the recent This is your page . . . it s about your activities . . . 24 ETC 11063 00 International Convention of Allied Youth sj m- in Buckhill Falls, Pa. Allied Youth is a Notice ON THE ROSTRUM;L- non-sectarian organization whose pri Copies of Ethyl News and the Bul mary objective is character building. The letin Board are available to all em <) convention trip included visits and guided ployees of the Company and orders for tours to Washington, D. C., Philadelphia 00 and New York City. list bound volumes of the 1956 issues are now being taken. nd Sharon Green, daughter of Fred Bulletin Board is $3.20 for a blue er- Green, engineer in San Bernardino, was cloth binding and name imprint in gold. P" recently presented in a solo piano recital Ethyl News with a red binding and nd bv Louise Stiles Ware. Sharon, who is the name printed on the cover in gold IR- 16, has been accompanist for church and is $2.85. Copies for 1955 are still avail t's school programs, appeared as soloist for able and can be ordered at the prices pe the Valley Women's Club and in recitals listed. C and radio events for the Music Teachers Fred Green of the San Bernardino Lab Send your check or money order to ilts Association of California. recently spoke before the San Bernar the Public Relations Department in New dino Valley College Engineer's Club. He York--100 Park Avenue. Deadline for gave a brief background of the company the orders is January 13. history and then discussed the operation WEDDINGS J, of the all-weather chassis dynamometer. The club was later taken on a tour of the Laboratory. Carroll A. Hebert, Safety, Baton Rouge, recently lead a discussion on PEOPLE IN THE NEWS i. "Acids and Heavy Chemicals" at the Na tional Safety Congress and Exposition AL held in Chicago. ER, to At a recent meeting of the National As W. sociation of Cost Accountants, Steve ing Henry, Director of Community Rela 00 tions, Baton Rouge plant, headed a panel igh discussion on "Baton Rouge's Business '); Outlook for 1957." rial isi- Detroit Claudette Sznaider and Danforth Charles Clark, Public Relations, New York, recently addressed the Public Re LaPoint were married on November 17 lations Society of America in New York. EY, at St. James Church in Femdale. Dan In conjunction with his creative think im. is in Business Services at the Labs. ing presentation, Charlie demonstrated Wally Armstrong, Baton Rouge Resi ID group "brainstorming." dent Manager, is one of nine new mem Marcie Sizen was married to Edwin Klove, Jr., at the Church of the Divine Child, Dearborn, on November 3. Fol lowing their wedding trip to Quebec, the J. B. LbRay, Houston, spoke to the American Society of Industrial Editors. J. B., who is editor of The Echo and bers of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He was elected to a two-year term. couple have made their home in Detroit. The Daily Bulletin, discussed the method Harold Lee, technician at the Tulsa of publishing a daily newsletter. Lab, has been elected treasurer of the New York Barbara Burke and Frank Carlucci were married in St Theresa's Church, "The Synthesis of 2-Phenylethanol Utiliz ing Benzyl Sodium," technical paper by D. R. Cariey and W. E. Foster, Baton Laymen's League of the Evangelical United Brethren, Oklahoma-Texas Con ference. ire- on November 24. The couple honey Rouge, was given at the Southwide Martha Monroe, R&E Adm., Baton try mooned in the Pocono Mountains and Chemical Conference. Rouge, was elected a member of the ton are now residing in the Bronx. Barbara Board of Directors of the Desk & Der rity is in the Public Relations Department. Ben Burge, Industrial Relations, Baton rick Club's Baton Rouge Chapter. Rouge, recently spoke at a meeting of Ruth Moen was married to John the YMCA membership drive workers. Jessie Halton, General Services, New LES Recker in the Village Church in Bronx- Ben was formerly connected with the York, has been elected a director of the vas ville on December 9. Ruth is in the physical education program and is now New York Chapter of Desk and Derrick. ent I Industrial Relations Department. a director. She will serve a two-year term. Please tell your local correspondent what's new with you. ETC 11064 25 Employees in the New York office have a lot of fun at the annual Christmas party, but they also make it possible for a lot of children to enjoy the season. A gift of a toy instead of a ticket is the admission price. Above, Betty Beach of Sales helps "Santa" gather toys to be distributed to children by Salvation Army. ETC 11065 PEOPLE and-- PLACES PHILLIPS RECEIVES MASONIC HONORS Lynn Phillips, Ethyl's representative in Mexico, has attained the highest order in the Masonic Fraternity --the 33rd degree. Lynn can be proud of this accom plishment because it was achieved in only ten years. He is a past master, past eminent commander, past worthy patron and founder of a Masonic order in Mexico. ETHYL WOMAN "GRADUATES" Madge Lofthouse of Eastern Region recently com pleted a 16-week course on "How Business Operates". The course was sponsored by the Desk and Derrick Club, of which Madge is a member. Many other Ethyl women have participated in similar events per taining to the oil industry and business in general. Below, Madge receives certificate for the course. l i l i i i 'i CITIZENSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM As it has for several years, Ethyl last summer spon-ti-sored the attendance of a number of boys and girls at citizenship training programs in Louisiana. Four boys attended Bayou Boys State at Southern University in June and five boys and five girls at tended Pelican State at Louisiana State University in August. At these outings, boys and girls alike learned more about how government functions in a democ racy. Indeed, they not only learned about govern ment -- they actually ran it. The youngsters held elections, ran for office, received appointments and operated their own "government." Shown at left are Ethyl-sponsored boys who attended Pelican Boys State. They are: John Barksdale, Bill Burgoyne, Bob more people, more place* ETHYL AT API MEETING Some 6,400 oilmen from oil companies throughout the country attended the 36th annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute held November 12 through 15 in Chicago. Gathered together for this major yearly event, they reviewed oil's past, discussed its present and prepared for its big future. Since oil was the subject, Ethyl, as usual, was on hand. Ethyl ETC 11067 men addressed various groups, served on committees and contributed generally and substantially to the success of the meeting. Nor were the efforts of Ethyl employees in behalf of the oil industry during the past year overlooked. In the picture to the left, Bob Doug lass, manager of Southern Region, is shown receiving an API certificate of appreciation from H. S. M. Bums, lOC- Cangelosi, Ed White and Bob Hall. Girls sponsored Henry Carter, Jr., son of Henry Carter of TEL Labor m- at Pelican Girls State were, left to right, Priscilla at the Baton Rouge plant; John Coates, Jr., Randolph ield Shows, daughter of Auber Shows of Ethyl Chloride Shaffer and Earnest Wallace. In the picture at far and Maintenance at the Baton Rouge plant; Sue Frank, right, a class at Pelican Girls State listens attentively are Paula Burnett, Barbara Allen and Molly McVea. Boys to a lecturer on a governmental subject. Ethyl received ;oys attending the eighth session of Bayou Boys State enthusiastic cards and letters from the youngsters. Bob under the sponsorship of Ethyl were, left to right, They wrote they felt they had become better citizens. ETC 11068 tees president of Shell Oil. Bob was honored for his out ticipation in an API research project. Shown in the the standing work in the Oil Industry Information Com third picture is Hank Ball, manager of Product Serv thyl mittee. Next, left to right, M. E. Spaght, vice ice and Safety. As chairman of the committee on tank past president of Shell Oil, presents certificates of appre cleaning. Hank goes over some papers with M. J. >ug- ciation to Wheeler Lovell of Chemical Research, Meterer of Sinclair. At right is Marshall McDorman .ing Detroit Labs, and G. M. Knebel of Standard of Jersey. of Eastern Region, left, chatting with Car] Luz of i ms. Wheeler's certificate was awarded for his active par Esso Standard and Bob Shepard of Standard of Jersey. LITTLE LEAGUE CHAMPS THEN AND NOW J CD. Bartleson, bottom right, was a star player in the game that gave his team the championship, al Dunbar of the San Francisco district office is shown at right inspecting one of the antique cars and his dad, Dave Bartleson of Chemical Research, that took part in San Francisco's Columbus Day Detroit Labs, upper left, was one of the team's Parade. Cal is secretary of the San Francisco Oil In coaches. The "Yankees" downed the second-place formation Committee, whose theme during Oil Prog "Red Sox" 24-5, with young Bartleson hitting a bases- ress Week was the contrast between old-fashioned loaded home run and batting in a total of five runs. vehicles, new cars and gasoline delivery tankers. more people, more placet i ETC 11069 MANAGEMENT CLUB MEETS t a recent meeting of the Ethyl Management Club ALin Baton Rouge a group of Company executives were guests, among them Mr. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. Bynum Turner, President; John Schaefer, vice president in charge of Manufacturing; and Mac Murdock, vice president in charge of Sales. Below left, Mr. Turner chats with Wallace Armstrong, resi dent manager of the plant while, below right, Mr. Shea discusses boating with an old acquaintance, re tiree H. B. Hunt. R. L. Day, supervisor of the Sug gestion System at the plant, is the current president of the group, to be succeeded in the new year by L. E. Trosclair of General Engineering. The Club is com posed of more than 700 members. ETC 11071