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ETC 12493 Home Brewed Being in the forefront of fuel re search, Ethyl is continually at work investigating new and dif ferent gasoline blends which might benefit the motoring pub lic. These `'special blends," as they're called, are composed of different gasoline base stocks se lected for their special character istics in each case. The blends are used both in our own re search studies and in cooperative research programs with refiners. But making up the gasoline base stocks, with the particular characteristics desired for a given research project, is not always easy. Only a small batch may be needed at a time--but this would entail a major adjustment in re fining processes if it were to come from a regular refinery. Now, however. Ethyl has in stalled two new batch distillation stills at the Detroit labs, which will help us to make gasoline fractions of any desired boiling range for our research programs. The stills (shown here), built at a cost of $65,000, are part of the expansion of our fuel research facilities that's now going on, and will be of great usefulness in con nection with our cooperative fuel research programs with refiners. ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceiine Marquis, Editor Contributing Editors Baton Houge; Douglas Price, John C. Rentroe, /. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago; Huth Galloway; Dallas: Ann Seilridge: Detroit; George BetJcer, Margaret Duilinger. Fred Green (photographer), Claude Hoffman, Nan Horning, Bob Mescher, Claire OJsen. Alyce Peterson (photographer). Art 2eitz; Houston: Kathleen Finen: Kansas City: Blanche Ash. Edward /. Otto, Jr.; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Jim Donohue, Don Forsdick, Wilma Hansa. Alice. Lahn, flufh Moore, Helen Sinclair. Esther Stanley, Emily Whitfield; San Bernardino: Carol Simcock, lames Terrell; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson. Gladys Honey; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central Ottice, GBsoline Testing: Chris Bruhl. Published by the Ethyl Corporation. 405 Lexington Avenue. New York. New York; Edward L. Shea. President; Stanley T. Crossland. Vice President and Treasurer; Richard M. Page. Secretary. 12494 etc The Outlook For 1950 By Joseph A. Costello, Vice President From its early beginning, Ethyl's his tory has been one of continuous growth, and most of us have come to expect that each new year will see further progress in the Corporation's business. It is gratifying to be able to report that, in keeping with the gen erally high level which American business is continuing to enjoy, Ethyl's outlook for 1950 is a reason ably bright one. If we are to trust the usual indicators that portend our economic future, it is safe to say that, unless we suffer a general economic set-back throughout the country in the months to come, our business should be better than it has been in the past several years. Car and Fuel Demand Up There is much that is happening in the field of transportation that is favorable to the antiknock business. The demand. for new automobiles since the end of the war has been unprecedented, and during 1949 there were more new cars delivered to the American public than in any year in its history. The new car schedules which have been announced for the first half of 1950 are, in most cases, even higher, and there are many who are forecasting that this high level of production can be maintained through out 1950. A great deal of this demand for new automobiles has, of course, been the result of the general prosperity in the country, which has resulted in many people being able to afford automo biles who did not have them before the war. Also during the war years when cars were not being manufac tured, many people who gave up their automobiles for other methods of transporation are now new car buyers; but far and away, the greatest reason for this tremendous increase in the total car registrations which has oc curred in the past few years can be traced to what the economists call "new consumer spending units." In the lexicon of the economist, a "new consumer spending unit" comes into being when a young man takes a wife. While this probably involves a general increase in spending, it seems to have a most pronounced effect in connec tion with the purchase of automobiles. Oddly too, "consumer spending units" seem to drive more miles per year than bachelors do. Added to this is the fact that as new cars replace the old worn-out models, there is a natural desire for their owners to spend more time traveling about. The combination of more cars on the highways, plus the great increase in motor car traveling, means more gasoline consumed, and more antiknock compound utilized. In every year since the end of the war, the gasoline consumption has increased over that of the year before, and it is expected that during 1950 American motor cars and trucks will burn up almost 40 billion gallons of gasoline. Higher Octane Gasoline Just as the automobile has replaced the horse and buggy and the Diesel locomotive is rapidly making the steam engine obsolete, progress more often than not spells doom for the old way of doing things. Ethyl is fortunate to have a product which has become more and more useful as progress is made in the design of the automobile engines.. We have all come to learn that new and improved auto mobile engines almost always require higher octane gasoline, and one of the most economical ways to get higher octane gasoline is to increase the amount of "Ethyl" antiknock com pound in each gallon of gasoline. This has been the almost contin- 3 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY i ETC 12495 uous trend ever since our product was introduced to the petroleum industry, and 1950 should follow the same pat tern. Although the year is hardly more than a month old, increases in octane quality of gasoline are already being made in preparation for the Spring sales campaign. From what we know of the changes in design of the 1950 car models, we would expect that both the automotive industry and the petroleum industry are planning for higher quality gasoline. New Business All of this points to greater use of tetraethyl lead in gasoline, but be cause we are not the only suppliers in the industry, the question might well be asked: Will Ethyl get a share of this new business? During the years 1948 and 1949, Ethyl was hard put to produce enough product to meet the con stantly growing demand. While it was well appreciated as long as three years ago that our manufacturing plants would have to be increased in size, a great deal of time was required to plan and engineer the work, and al most two years were necessary to complete the construction. All of you know that the Corporation has spent approximately $40,000,000 at Baton Rouge expanding the manufacturing facilities there in order to be prepared for what the future might bring. More TEL To Sell This construction work was finally finished in the latter part of December when the last unit (the new sodium shop) went "on stream." Ethyl can. now manufacture at a rate almost 30% higher than it could at the start of 1949, and in the beginning of this year was in position to take on any amount of business for 1950 that it might reasonably expect to get. It is gratifying to know that all of this construction work- was not done in vain, because we have every reason to feel that we will enjoy some part of the new business that will be available to the antiknock industry. 4 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Good Will Aside from the excellent work which has been done by our Sales people in soliciting new business, there seems to be evidence that the manufacturers of gasoline are reasonably happy to' do business with our Company. Ethyl has long believed that it can't do business successfully without acquir ing and holding the good will of our customers. Over the years we have engaged in innumerable activities to make our product more useful to the petroleum industry, to reduce its cost, and to facilitate its handling. The services rendered by our engineering and research laboratories, for exam ple, have been unique to any industry. In effect, we have done everything possible to prove to the customer that we appreciate his business, and want to continue to enjoy it. The 1950 outlook for our antiknock business reflects the soundness of the concept. By-Products In recent years Ethyl has recognized opportunities to develop business for products other than antiknock com pound. We have long been a manufac turer of "Ethyl" Brand of chlorine and "Ethyl" Brand of salt cake. These are by-products of our TEL operations. More recently we have become engaged in the sale of sodium metal, and our sales volume for 1950 for this product will be appreciable. Ethyl's insecticide business has also been growing. George Kreiger who handles sales for this product says that, due to the mild winter, we are apt to have more bugs in 1950. While we certainly have no desire to wish bugs on the crops of any hard-working farmer, still we do have a very effec tive insecticide in the form of benzene hexachloride which we manufacture at Baton Rouge. During the past winter, the size of this plant has been increased almost 50%, and we hope to expand this business appreciably during the coming year. While the amount of business which the Corporation expects to do in 1950 other than antiknock compound, is ETC 12496 .mall compared with its total busi ness' a substantial start has been rnade toward product diversification. \s new products are developed and a market is found for them, it may be expected that this part of our business will increase. The work of our New products department, in collaboration with our Research and Development groups, is most' important to our success in this field. Prospects Good Taking everything into account, I believe it is fair to say that the pros pects for 1950 are good. Whether or not all our hopes are realized will depend upon the individual efforts of all of us. Certainly, there is no doubt that the necessary factors that go to make up a successful business year are present. Technical Talk One of the first important meetings of our new Canadian subsidiary was the recent technical conference held jointly with the Imperial Oil Com pany at Sarnia, where they have the largest refinery in Canada. At the invitation of Imperial's Technical Service department, a group of engineers from our Detroit Re search laboratories presented to them the latest information on engine dura bility and design, and field data on the behavior of leaded gasolines. This is one of the many Ethyl services that our 26 years of experience in the anti knock business enables us to give to our customer companies. This panel of Ethyl experts on the value and utilization of TEL met recently with a group of Imperial Oil Company men at their Sarnia (Canada) refinery. They are from left: Heinie Mueller, Ed Paige, Charlie Kass, Mac MacEwen (standing). Bill Turnley, Dan Guy and Dick Scales. All except Bill and Mac are members of our Research laboratories' Technical Service Depart ment, which Dick heads as director. Bill has charge of Ethyl's Canadian operation and Mac serves customer companies as an Ethyl Antiknock, Ltd. representative in and around Toronto. 5 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Cliff Pope, manager of the Gasoline Testing division, cuts the cake as the Yonkers lab cele brates the tenth anniversary of its new building. Seated around the table are the other mem bers of the present staff who helped with the moving back in 1940. Left to right are: Harold Mehler, Walter Bauer, John Hallay, Ev Garnsey, Irene Buckley, Larry Hunt, George Gier, Harold Ritchie and Hudson Kellogg. Standing are those who have joined the Yonkers Gasoline Testing lab and Central Office since the move to the present building (from left): Marko Faluch, A1 Morschauser, Jack Travis, John Melody, Virginia Mitchell, Gil de Malvilain, Catherine Foster. Wally Lane, Marie Pettit, Merritt Collins, Emma Reiss, Elmer Mahlke, Fred Robinson, Louise Hill, George Carpenter, Lauretta Towers, John Jones and Chris Bruhl. Fred Ramin was not present for the picture. "New" Ethyl Lab Ten Years Old 6 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Out Testing lab headquarters in Yonkers reports with a birthday party that they are ten years old. The Yonkers staff, which now numbers 29, have developed standardization of techniques, improved instruments, and gasoline knock testing forums, which have furthered Ethyl's prestige as a leader in developing equipment and maintaining high accuracy in testing procedures. Ten years old on February 1, the Ethyl lab in Yonkers, N.Y. houses the Central Office of the Gasoline Testing division plus the Yonkers laboratory. Veteran Ethyl Man Elected Vice President New Sales Plans for 1950 Mapped Sanford M. Wagner, who was elected vice president in charge of sales on January 10, is one of the oldest mem bers of the Sales department in point of service. In his new role he assumes the responsibilities formerly held by Harry W. Kaley in charge of all our sales and customer service activities. Harry will continue as a vice president and member of the Board executive committee. San joined the sales staff only three years after "Ethyl" gasoline first went on sale, and less than two years after the Corporation was organized. His contributions to the development of the Company's business in the Rocky Mountain region and on the West Coast have been both numerous and outstanding. (See pages 8 and 9 for more about San). As our new head of sales, San tack les the biggest sales quota in Company history. As we start 1950, sales con tracts have been signed for increases both in the number of oil companies buying all requirements from us and in the percentage of requirements ex pected from oil companies that give part of their business to us and part to competition. Estimates by Wagner and Sales Manager Frey call for better than 10% increase over 1949 in total volume. Plans for meeting this quota and for expanding and improving custom er services were mapped at a three day meeting of regional managers and headquarters sales staff in New York December 14-16. Meetings of all sales and service men will be held in the four regions during February and March to put the new plans into ac tion. In the words of Wagner, "The new plan will place greater premium on the individual initiative of each representative. All of us in Sales work ing together intend to convince cus tomers that our trade-mark, our serv ices, our technical assistance, and our research are tangible plus values which they get with their purchases of `Ethyl' antiknock compound. Fur thermore," he said, "I wish you'd say that everybody who works for Ethyl 7 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 12499 staff, Dick Murphy, eastern manager, Jim Boudreau, central manager, Mac McCulloch, sales promotion manager, Mac Murdock, assistant sales manager, Julian Frey, sales manager, Dick Page, counsel, Harold Berg, southern manager. Bill Turnley, Canadian manager, Russ Weston, advertising manager, San Wagner, vice president in charge oi sales; standing is Ollie Jones, manager oi customer services, and seated at right are Oscar Lewis, assistant sales manager, and Merritt Collins, assistant manager oi the Gasoline Testing division. is a potential salesman and we want the help of every man and woman in the whole Company in doing our job. I hope everyone will consider that it's part of their Ethyl job to build good standing for this Company with every one they know and meet." More obout San Upon coming to Ethyl in April of 1926, San's first assignments were in the East. He supervised in quick suc cession the installation of two "Ethyl" blending- plants--his first was also Atlantic Refining Company's first, which he installed at their Philadel- 8 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY phia refinery. The other was for the Imperial Oil Company at their Sarnia refinery in Canada. After a few months he headed for Denver with the job of establishing sales contacts in the Rocky Mountain region. In October he was sent to the West Coast where he organized the Los Angeles division and developed business among California oil refiners. He served as manager of the Los Angeles division until 1945 when, under the regional plan of reorganiza tion set up at that time for the Sales department, he was appointed West ern regional manager in charge of the Company's sales and services in the far West. ETC 12500 President Shea, Vice President Costello, Curt Holton, Bayard Browne, and Ralph Champlin were among those not in the ad joining picture who participated in the meeting of the regional sales managers and the head quarters sales staff in December. San Wagner and his staff originated Ethyl's Motor Clinics back in 1936 as a means of developing sales of pre mium gasoline on the West Coast. The Clinics, which dramatically demon strated the increase in power, econ omy and efficiency resulting from proper tune-up and high octane gaso line, proved so successful that a na tionwide program was inaugurated with 11 portable clinics. They toured the country for four years gaining widespread public recognition of the advantages of scientific motor tune-up and "Ethyl." More than 5,000 meet ings were held. San was born in Williamsport, Pa., and was graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the class of 1912. Active in civic work, San was a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary club. He was also a director of the Jon athan club, an organization of West Coast business men. Greeting friends from Standard of California, San gives a glad hand to Howard Cuyler. Glen Foster and George Randall are looking on. New temporary quarters of the Western region office in Los Angeles are on the 11th floor of the Continental Building, above. Plans are under way for the construction of a new, improved Ethyl Building, but meanwhile business is being carried on here. Everything Happens in L. A. While they are waiting for the con struction of their new office building and auditorium, the Los Angeles sales staff is occupying temporary quarters in the Continental building. As many of you know, our nice, new building which was erected just 12 years ago, was condemned and is to be torn down because of a new highway. The 22mile harbor freeway would cut the present building in two, both length wise and crosswise. Ray Wyrick, Western operations manager, makes the point that when the office moved to their temporary quarters, the moving was all done on Saturday, January 7, and on Monday furniture and files were in place and everybody was back at work without an hour's loss of time. "Our building," Ray observes further, "was doomed to the progress of the automobile, the very vehicle which made its original construction possible, as well as its replacement necessary." 9 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 12501 Subscription Renewed A lot of questions shot at you last month brought us a lot of answers. You came through like troopers with piles of questionnaires covered with checkmarks, suggestions, comments and criticisms, mostly constructive and all very much appreciated. The Score We're still tallying up and analyzing the results of the survey, but to give you a rough idea of how your opinions went, here is the current score: 73% of you who received the questionnaire answered it. Of those who answered, 91% read the Bulletin Board regu larly: and of the rest, 52 read it occa sionally and only three never. A large majority of you--90%--said you read all or most of the magazine, while only 58 of you read a little of it. One of the best indications of the success of any publication is the way it is read. In the case of the Bulletin Board, we think this is a fair index of the magazine's appeal among the em ployees. In addition most of you indi cated that your wives, husbands, parents, children and friends also read it, so actually its contents are well known beyond the limits of our own employee groups. Interest Speaking of interest in the Bulletin Board, we asked you how you felt about the kind of material we have been publishing. Ninety-seven per cent find our stories, pictures, announce ments and feature articles either "very interesting" or "fairly interesting." The number voting each way was almost equally divided, with a slight majority who said-the contents are "very interesting." A few employees-- 15 to be exact--consider the magazine uninteresting as a whole. It cheers the Bulletin Board's editors and correspondents to realize 10 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY that we have been publishing a maga zine which has been read so regularly, so thoroughly, and with such a high degree of interest. From the stand point of the Company, which pays the freight for the cost of this service to employees, it is perhaps even more worthwhile to know that 85% of us have learned a good deal about Ethyl and its activities by reading the Bulletin Board. We think that any company appreciates the value of well-informed personnel. Even if we received more bouquets than brickbats from the question naire, the editors are still concerned about those of you who expressed criticisms of one kind or another. Al though we must satisfy the majority of our readers, we hope that the changes and improvements you have asked for may help strengthen the magazine in the opinions of more people. You Said . . . It isn't easy to please everybody, of course. Some employees, for ex ample, want feature stories about fashions, cooking, hobbies or other general subjects. On the other hand, just about the same number expressed exactly the opposite point of view. While some readers want articles about economics, business conditions, the free enterprise system and similar weighty topics, there were more of you who prefer to look to newspapers, books and other magazines for this kind of material. We were especially glad to receive a number of helpful suggestions. One of them, expressed by a good many employees, was to publish more pic tures, particularly of people at work, so that all of us can get a better idea of what the other fellow's job is like. Other readers asked for feature stories explaining the work of various offices, departments and sections of the Company. A sizable proportion f comments on the questionnaire asked for more information about general Company policies, activities and plans which affect employee in terests. Here are some of the comments: Locals It is my opinion that manufacturing and laboratory activities are perhaps stressed more strongly than sales activities. ... I would also like to see pictures of the girls in the Company, stressing their importance to the Company." We see little about Baton Rouge personnel in comparison to New York and Detroit." "Would like to see as much about the New York office as is printed about Baton Rouge." "Arrange it so you don't have to wade through the news about other locations in order to read about Detroit." Operations "Should have more picture-stories of our activities." "Pictures of normal operations around labs and offices. . . ." "Would like to see a series of articles on departmental operations and organization." "I would like to see picture features like in LIFE, about employees both on and off the job, including executives whom some of us would like to feel we know better." "Write more about the little people of Ethyl instead of department heads and executives." "I always like to see the Company slant held to a minimum, and the `by and for em ployees' boosted. I think the BB has done well in the past on this." People "Let's have some really good-length profiles of employees . . . starting perhaps with the employee having the greatest length of service . . . female as well as male." "More personnel news about off the job activities of people. . . ." "More news about people in the Company and their activities. . . ." "Most important function, in my opinion, of the BB should be to keep employees in formed of what other employees in the Com pany are doing." "More articles about who is where and what they are.doing." "I like a house organ of this sort to keep the held men of the Company as a group of friends working together. . . . Pictures and stories of the other fellows you know but see too rarely." "Limit personals. They have meaning or interest to only a few." "More items of personal interest should be included." Company "More about Company plans and policies, and how business conditions and government regulations affect our business and the interests of employees. . . ." "Tell the employee all you can about his Company and its policies, and his place as a link in the chain." "I'd like to see more stories on progress in product development." Contests "I would like to see you sponsor more con tests, such as the photographic contests." "Occasional contests for employees as photo, puzzle, essay prize awards. . . ." "I think an opinion column on current Company policies or programs might be interesting. . . ." Outs "Kindly omit the pearly gems about the benefits, other than financial, to be gained in our jobs. They probably exist, but--" "Cut out amateur snapshots--they spoil an otherwise well-presented publication." Bouquets "Never heard anything but good comments on the BB. Several oil men ask regularly to see it to get ideas for their own publications. . . . Oil men and public relations people out side the industry who have seen the BB are always outspoken in their praises. . . ." "Maintain ail of the friendly attitude you have already helped create and add to it." "An improvement will have to come from us in the field--by sending in more material and pictures." "Would like to see twice as much in the BB. Present monthly issue is too short for real enjoyment." "The present Bulletin Board suits me fine. I have bound volumes from 1942 to 1948. I enjoy looking through the older volumes and reminiscing." "Keep it coming. I depend on it." Write Us Thank you for your help in answer ing the questionnaire, giving us the benefit of your opinions and sugges tions, and a lot of food for thought. This issue, with its new face and re vised contents, is the result. We'll try to incorporate more of your suggestions during the months to come. Meanwhile please let us know what you think of this issue. We can become a better publication only with your help. How about writing us a postcard today? 11 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Test Lab Managers Meet In December all managers of our gaso line testing laboratories met together in a five-day conference, first in Wash ington then in New York. They ex plored all their technical problems, cost controls and the relation of their functions to other departments and overall Company progress. Cliff Pope, manager of the gasoline testing division, turned the meeting over to Merritt Collins, assistant man ager of the division, who acted as chairman. On hand and participating in the discussions were: Ollie Jones, manager of customer services, Hudson' Kellogg, assistant manager of the gasoline testing division, Elmer Mahlke, of the Central office, and the fol lowing lab managers--Bob Adams, San Bernardino, Tucker Dawson, Baton Rouge, Bill Ludt, North Kan sas City, Charlie Rankin, Tulsa, and Fred Robinson, Yonkers. Activities of the American Society for Testing Materials and other groups on knock testing equipment and methods were reviewed so that all the laboratory managers would be thor- Picture of the result of a photographer trying to get five gasoline test managers to pose for a picture--with five different reactions. Fred Robinson, manager of the Yonkers Test lab, points (like the man said) to a figure in a book he can't see; Tucker Dawson says, "This is silly;'' Bob Adams, San Bernardino, standing next to Fred, puts concentration into his instructions to look at Charlie Rankin (seated center) of Tulsa, and Bill Ludt, of North Kansas City, who agrees with Tucker. Tucker, we failed to mention, runs the Baton Rouge Test lab. BULLETIN BOARD -- FEBRUARY A ETC 12504 oughly familiar with recent develop mentThe problems of knock testing at high altitudes were discussed by Hud son Kellogg, who as secretary of the ASTM Division on Combustion Char acteristics, is in close touch with all research activities in this field. The men later visited the automotive department of the Bureau of Stand ards where extensive research on high altitude knock testing was carried on last summer. The results are now being evaluated. After three days in Washington, the meeting moved up to New York, where the lab managers heard about the Company's plans for 1950 from top executives. Those who attended the meeting were Ralph Champlin, public relations director, Joe Costello, vice president, Julian Frey, sales man ager, Curt Holton, industrial relations director, President Edward L. Shea, and By Turner, general manager of manufacturing. They joined the lab managers for discussions about vari ous Company policies and the outlook for Ethyl Corporation for 1950. Mr. Shea called for questions on "anything the managers had on their minds'' and answered them fully and frankly. Others who participated in the meetings were: Bayard Browne, order and shipping manager, Walter Cos grove, who handles employee benefits and services, Oscar Lewis and Mac Murdock, assistant sales managers and Tom Ronan, who handles sales per sonnel. Sales Manager Julian Frey (seated right), and other top executives joined the lab managers on the first day of their meeting in New York for discussions of Company policies and the outlook for 1950. Here Julian is talking informally with (from left) Merritt Collins, Cliff Pope, Hudson Kellogg and Ollie Jones. Cliff runs the gasoline testing division with the help of his two right hands, Merritt and Hudson. Ollie (caught blinking), is in charge of customer services and spoke to the men about our top management organization, and safety. 13 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY ETC 12505 Pipefitter Helper Extraordinary A deer hunting trip by R. R. "Moon" Mullins, pipefitter, and Charlie Lock hart, pipefitter helper, at our Baton Rouge plant, ended with Charlie hunt ing for Moon on the bottom of the Grand River. The two men started up the river in a boat on the night of December 14 so that they could get an early start hunting the next morning. Suddenly a patch on the boat broke. Moon threw his headlight on the leaking spot, but the water poured in within a period of seconds and the craft went to the bottom, head first. Both men started swimming for shore, not knowing how far they would have to struggle through the water with their heavy clothes. Finally Moon didn't have the strength to "swing another arm," so he yelled to Charlie to keep on swimming and let him go under. Moon was sinking when his friend swam a few strokes more and felt the wonderful touch of bottom. Kicking off the one boot that re mained on his feet, Charlie swam back and located Moon by the electric headlight, which was still burning al though several feet under water. He pulled the drowning man to the bank and gave him quick first-aid. The two men then made their way to a house in the woods where they got dry clothes. They lost their guns, two dogs and all their bed clothes, which went down with the boat. "It was close," says Moon, "as close to the Pearly Gates as I care to get right now." Charlie Lockhart, at left, of our Baton Rouge plant, rescued his friend and hunting companion, "Moon" Mullins (right) from drowning when their boat sprung a leak and went to the bottom of the Grand River. 14 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ft. V ETC 12506 Thom's first job was on his home town newspaper in Newburgh, N. Y., where he worked as a reporter and newscaster over Station WGNY. In 1940 he joined the publicity staff at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. and for three years had charge of sports publicity. For the next three years he served as a mem ber of the Army News Service in New York, then went overseas as co-editor of the Stars and Stripes in Paris. Ray Bevan Visits United States Thom Yates Named Ethyl News Editor Thom Yates, public relations repre sentative at the Detroit labs for the past two years, has been appointed editor of the Ethyl News. Thom stepped into his new job January 1, succeeding Chris Vogel, who is now senior writer for Ethyl's Publicity and Publications staff under Ralph Clark. Thom joined the Company in the spring of 1946 after being discharged from the Army. He was a member of the New York writing staff, then an associate editor of the Ethyl News until he went to Detroit in September of 1947. The new job is his fourth promotion in four years. Representing the Company in civic affairs, Thom while in Detroit be came a member of the Femdale Ro tary club, Femdale Board of Com merce, Detroit Board of Commerce, Public Relations Society of America and Adcraft club of Detroit. Last year he served as chairman of the Oil Industry Information Committee for the Metropolitan Detroit area. Ray Bevan, managing director of Associated Ethyl Co., Ltd., arrived January 26 with Mrs. Bevan on the Queen Mary. Now head of the English company, Ray is remembered by many as vice president of the former Ethyl Export Corporation, our wholly-owned subsidiary for foreign sales before the war. His present com pany has a tetraethyl lead plant in England and plans to expand its capacity. Meanwhile, one of the sub jects for discussion here will be his purchases of "Ethyl" antiknock com pound for shipment abroad during the coming year. Ray's little sister, Nan, by the way, is Mrs. Oscar B. Lewis--which fact dates back to Oscar's first trip to England in 1927. They wear the pins proudly With the election of San Wagner, the Company has acquired two new vice presidents in two months, Joe Costello having been elected to a similar post on December 12. Both elections went to men who have been with the Com pany more than 20 years. 15 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 12507 Carl Abell Carl Abell, formerly of the Ethyl sales staff, was the author of a recent article en titled "You've Gotta Give 'Em White." The article appeared in the December issue of Outdoor Life. Bartholomew & Hawkins Kathleen Bartholomew, wife of Carl Bar tholomew, Southern region field engineer, has taken over the poet's column of the Will Rogers Advertiser, the weekly newspaper published for the east side, of Tulsa. Known as "Kay's Korner," the feature will include some of Kay's own poetry plus prize-winning poems submitted by readers. Jennie Lou Hawkins, wife of Howard Hawkins of the Tulsa office, has had some poetry accepted by Curtis publications and is planning to submit some to "Kay's Korner." Ralph Clark Ralph Clark, manager of publicity and publications, has been elected treasurer of the New York chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, Inc. He is also chairman of the Education Committee of the Indus trial Publicity Association. Chuck Colvin Chuck Colvin, manager of purchases at Baton Rouge, was author of the lead article in the December 1 issue of Sales Management, a magazine which goes directly to manufac turing executives and their advertising agencies. The article was entitled "What Do Purchasing Agents Want from Salesmen?" and discussed training salesmen to sell the purchasing agent. Ray Faller Ray Faller, manager of training, gave a talk before the Philadelphia section of the Society of Automotive Engineers on January 11. His subject was "After Graduation -- What?" Al Gassman A1 Gassman, of Detroit Chem Research, has been elected to serve another term as treasurer of the Detroit section of the Amer ican Chemical Society. Al held the same post last year. Malcolm Hardy & Dan McDonald M. H. Hardy, of Production Planning, was elected vice president of the Baton Rouge Sportsman's League on December 6, and Dan 16 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Kathleen Bartholomew McDonald, of Ethyl Chloride, was elected to the board of directors. In cooperation with the Louisiana Conservation department, the 1400 members of the League work for the preservation of wildlife and game fowl and the proper enforcement of hunting laws and regulations.. Carroll Hebert Carroll Hebert, supervisor of safety at Baton Rouge, has been appointed to the executive board of the newly-organized Louisiana Safety Association. Holding its first statewide board meeting on December 3 at Baton Rouge, the group stated that its aim is to make the public more safety conscious and to promote safety in all forms. Steve Henry Steve Henry, manager of plant and em ployee services at Baton Rouge, was guest speaker at the annual Louisiana State Univer sity Law Review banquet held December 5 at the University's Faculty club. Speaking on "Human Relations as a Tool of Manage ment," Steve suggested that management must tell its story of the free enterprise system more effectively. Don Jennings Don Jennings, head of the Detroit Account ing section, was elected first vice president of the Femdale Exchange club on December 22. Jerrie Linder Geraldine Linder, art director, added her smile to the American Type Founders adver tisement which appeared recently in nine different trade magazines, including Printers' Ink and Advertising.Age. The ad featured Jerrie's picture and several of the page layouts she has designed for the Ethyl News. Punch Pfundstein Punch Pfundstein, of Detroit Tech Service, Agricultural section, addressed 700 members of the Ohio Farm Equipment Association at their 34th annual convention in Columbus, Ohio on December 15. His subject was "Lu bricating the March of Progress." Mike Porch F. M. Porch, a safety engineer at the Baton Rouge plant, was elected first vice president of the Baton Rouge Symphony Society on January 15. The Society plans to present six adult concerts and four children's concerts during the 1950-51 season. Lou Slack Lou Slack, Central region safety engineer, took his camera along on a trip aboard the towboat Paul Blazer and broke into print when three of his photographs appeared in the December 7 issue of the National Petroleum News. Lou's photos were used to illus trate the article "A Trip on an Oil Barge." by NPN Associate Editor V. B. Guthrie. By Turner Bynum Turner, general manager of manu facturing, addressed the Baton Rouge Cham ber of Commerce at their regular meeting on January 9 at Pallud's. One of a series of "Know Your Industry" talks, his was on the Ethyl Corporation. Time on Their Hands It was turn about for perfect timing when Corinne Hill and Graham Edgar, of New York, ex changed watches and quips at the annual Christmas party. The Company humorist, Vice Presi dent Edgar sees no reason why he shouldn't enjoy his own jokes--and does, along with the rest of the crowd. He and Corinne, who, as you probably know, is secretary to our president, are among the 16 Ethyl veterans who received Hamilton watches under the revised Service Award Plan for 25-year people. Another was Pat Harding, of Detroit, shown at right, receiving his watch from Earl Bartholomew, manager of the Research labs. 17 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 12509 Competing in the Industrial Handicap League at San Berdu, Art Stahlheber (top) and Whitie Gruwell share top honors on the Ethyl team. r------------------------------------------- 1 I 1 '49 Downand i'50 To Go I 1 | ii Ii Mid-season champions oi the Foursome Handi cap League at San Berdu are (from left) Ethyl's Ernie Goodman, A1 Bailey, Shorty Guinn and Larry Stinson, captain. 18 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY As mid-season rolled around, several Ethyl bowlers had broken their last year's records and some new names appeared on the high score boards. Topping last year's Baton Rouge individual records by a sizable margin are Stan Price, with a 618 high scratch series and A. C. Adams with a high handicap series of 668. Doug Price holds both high scratch game, 220, and high handicap game, 246. In Detroit, the Jets--Larry Sibson, Len Smith, Dale Thompson, Ralph Wahrenbrock and Joe Weaver--are leading the men's league with 40 wins and 20 losses. The Swifties--Dale Chrysler, Bill Fangert, A1 Pauls, Wally Sherman and Laurel Wilkin son--have rolled high team game, 912, and high team series, 2569 pins. Individual honors for high game and series went to Fritz Schroeter in Class A with 241 and 662, and Clint Leacock in Class B with 242 and 582. Last year's champion, Merrill Ander son, gained five points on his record to reach a 179 high average. Three Detroit women's teams are in a close race for first place in their league. On December 22, the Moscow Mules--Irene DeVore, Helen Krueger and Adele Rozek--were ahead by the slim margin of 36 wins and 20 losses. fc- / ETC 12510 j-v,e Pink Ladies--Bernie Burdick, Florence Held and Joyce Myron -- have won 35 and lost 21, while the Mickey Finns--Verne Grum, Jeannie McLeod and Pat Tackels--are not far behind with 33 won and 23 lost. For the third successive season, Florence Held leads with an individual high series--515', which is eight points higher than her last spring's record-- and high game of 208, seven points higher. Emilie Brooks is keen com petition with a 204 game. New York has four mixed teams. Sarge Minori knocked down a 207 for high game for the men on the Beach Bowlers teams. Bill Kanavy holds high average of 157 and high series of 533. Feminine honors are shared by Margie Smith with a 166 high game and 124 high average, and Edith Mahoney with a 445 high series. Wayne Newman nosed out Charlie Wasserman on the N. Y. Mello Roll ers to take high average, 153 and high series, 528; but Charlie won high game with 203. Mello Rollers distaff titles go to Loretta McEntegart for high game, 170, high average, 127 and high series, 432. San Bernardino has two bowling teams this season. At the half-way point, one of them was in first place in the Foursome Handicap League, heading for the trophy with a twopoint lead. Membersof this team are: A1 Bailey, Ernie Goodman, Shorty Guinn and Larry Stinson. Larry, who is the president of the League, as well as team captain, held high game honors with a 220. Shorty chalked up both high series, 570, and high average 174. In the Industrial Handicap League at San Berdu, another Ethyl team is in second place, one point behind the leaders. Team members are Whitie Gruwell; Dick Rice (captain), Marv Russell, Ray Seymour and Art Stahlheber. Whitie and- Art are tied for individual honors--Art came up with a high game of 225, Whitie has a 607 high series and both have an average of 178. Ray Seymour is president of the League. They're Married Helen O'Leary, of the New York Statistical Research staff, became the bride of Francis Dowd at a nuptial mass in the Church of the Annunciation in New York City. Father Finbar Dowd, first cousin of the groom, officiated at the ceremony. The couple, pictured above, are now living in Howard Beach, Long Island. They're Engaged New York Martha Cassin, of Finance, to Ed ward Hennessy. Martha and Ed plan a 1950 wedding. Beverly Grant, secretary to Office Manager Randolph Charlton, to Ed ward H. Zimmerman, Jr., a writer in the publications department of the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc. A spring wedding is planned. Helen Reed, of General Accounting, to Larry Flanagan. No date has been set for the wedding. Mary Staunton, of the Corporate Secretary's office, to Michael Mackin. Mike is attending State Teachers College at Brockport, N. Y. Yonkers Harold Mehler, whose talents and skill provide much of the special equipment for Sales department shows, has finally decided to desert the bach elor ranks. Catherine Albrecht of Lindenhurst, Long Island, is the girl who's responsible. 19 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 12511 Jake Baker J. O. Balzer, who rounds out 20 years with Ethyl this month, runs our Houston office and handles many of our most important ac-' counts tn that area. Jake started with us as a field representative in the Lone Star state, later became one of our first safety engineers, and is now an account representa tive. Bom in Ohio, He left the Buckeye state following his graduation from high school and headed for the great Southwest. He attended the University of New Mexico, was on the foot ball and rifle teams, and is a life member of his Alumni Association and his fraternity, Sigma Chi. Jake's first job was in the City Engineer's office at Albuquerque. Loag resi dence in our nation's largest state has made a real Texan out of Jake, who is very proud of his home town, the thriving city of Houston. Jake and his wife, Polly, have two children-- Elizabeth Ann and James Howard. Dad is an enthusiastic hunter, fisherman and gin rummy player, with exceptional skill in all three. Harold McCauley Harold McCauley celebrated his 20th anni versary with the Company in January. Origi nally hired to do some steamiitting at the Yonkers laboratory, Harold did such a good job that he was put on the regular payroll to help take care of the ever-increasing flow of work there. After two years as a machin ist helper, he was promoted to a job as lab technician and engine operator. Since 1940 he has been helping maintain "Ethyl" quality in premium gasolines by running knock tests on thousands of samples of gasoline. Harold, with the help of a CFR engine, determines the octane rating of gasoline samples that come in to the Tulsa lab from customer com panies--he was transferred to Tulsa in 1940. Bom in Yonkers, N. Y., Harold attended local schools, then worked as a plumber and union steamfitter before joining Ethyl. His skill with tools still helps in his favorite hobby --woodworking. He is married, has one son. Sidney T. Pruitt joined the Company as a field representative in the Atlanta division 20 years ago in February. Ever since, Jack has been, talking about "Ethyl" and has given al- most'4100 demonstrations and/or talks before oil and automotive people, civic clubs, army groups, schools and county fairs. From 1938 to 1941 he managed the traveling Motor Clinic for the Atlanta division, then was promoted to the job of assistant division manager of the Dayton division. In 1942 he joined the Air Force and returned four years later with four battle stars and a Distinguished Unit Citation for his squadron. Early in 1947 Jack stepped up to become the Central region's senior account representative. He's a member Jack Pruitt & etc 12512 George Rosser Elmer Miller Fred Schroeter of API, the Reserve Officers Assn, and the Pen* dennis club. A loyal alumnus, he's also in the process of organizing the Georgia Tech club of Louisville. Jack writes that he's be* coming a good amateur rose grower and has "acquired quite a group to support--wife, four children, two dogs, one cook and innumerable bugs on the flowers and ticks on the dogs." George Rosser came with Ethyl 20 years ago in February as a field representative in Georgia and Florida. Three years later he was promoted to assistant manager of the Atlanta division and continued in that job till he joined the Army as a captain in 1942. Alter serving about three years as a lieutenant colonel with the Army Service Forces in Washington, D. C., he was made assistant man* ager of the Kansas City division. In 1947 when the division offices were discontinued under the new regional sales set-up, he was brought to Pittsburgh to take over responsibility for two important accounts in the Eastern region. George and his wife, Margaret, are both natives of Atlanta, where George won his B.S. in C.E. from Georgia Tech. A member of the varsity basketball, track and swimming teams, George is still a sports enthusiast*--enjoys horseback riding, fishing & hunting. He's a mem ber of Military Order of World Wars & SAE. Elmer Miller joined Ethyl's 15-year club in January. A native of Delaware, "Shorty" was born in Newport and attended Wilmington High School. He then worked for the Pennsyl vania Railroad and the Krebbs Color Corpora tion before joining EthyT in 1934 as a blender operator at the Deepwater manufacturing plant. After two years, he was transferred to the shipping department where he helped get drums of TEL ready for shipment to customers in the U.S. and abroad. When Ethyl discontin ued manufacturing operations at Deepwater two years ago, Shorty was switched to the newly-built terminal at Edge Moor, Del. Fred Schroeter, automotive research engi neer at Detroit, celebrates his 15th Ethyl anni versary this month. A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., Fritz joined the Detroit Gasoline Test ing laboratory in 1935. Six years later he was promoted to the job of assistant manager at the Yonkers Gas Test lab. He returned to Detroit in 1942 and worked as a research engineer until August 1944, when he was made assistant manager of the Gas Testing lab. After Chem Research took over the Gaso line Testing facilities in 1946, Fritz was trans ferred to Engineering Research, where he now has charge of chassis dynamometer operations. Tive and Ten In January, Karl Kuhn, staff archi tect at the Detroit labs, received his 10-year award and four Ethylettes joined the five-year club. They are Estelle Caldwell, of N. Y. Manufac turing, and Lola Carpenter, Mary Ann Jones and Elizabeth LeAnnais, all of Detroit Research. During February a 10-year award was presented to Gladys Jensen, of N. Y. Advertising. Margaret Dullinger, Detroit Research, and Earl Ellis, San Bernardino Research, rounded out five years of Ethyl service. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY People, desks and equipment are being shuf fled in Detroit these days, as the labs admin istration wing is altered to accommodate the re location of offices. Like so many other people at the labs, Stella Shafer (right) has to stuff her ears to block out the din. Harold McMenemy, standing at back, isn't disturbed by a little thing like noise. As superintendent of the labs building and grounds he's used to it. In the foreground at left is Electrician Bill Trewhella and that's Jake Boss bending over to pick up some insulating and sound deadening material. 8 Labs Folk Go To Bat For Jeannie's Father Eight Detroit laboratories folk went to bat for Jeannie MacLeod's father recently. He had been seriously ill for some time, had returned to the hos pital and was in need of blood transfusions--eight or nine pints. A word to the following people brought an immediate and unanimous response: Margaret Dullinger, Lucy Glaser, Fred Hughes, Henry Maliezewski, Jim Mason, Bud Stanger, Ralph Walters and Peggy Welp. Jeannie, incidentally, works in the Mailroom at the Detroit labs. "This is just my dish," says Tom Matthews, smiling happily as he removes some old putty from the panel of the door. The Detroit Research labora tories carpenter, Tom is especially busy now during the relocation of offices on the second floor of the labs. Baton Rouge Highway Crash Kills Four Four Ethyl men were killed and four others seriously injured in an auto mobile accident near Lobdell, La. on January 15. The men were on their way to work when a trailer truck, which was trying to avoid collision with a third vehicle, swerved out of the line of traffic and smashed into 22 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY the station wagon in which the eight were riding. The victims were Emery Andre, Joseph Henry, Bennie Picard and Robert Torres. The injured were rushed to Our Lady of the Lake hospital. They are Bill Balis, Willie Freneau, Norman LeBlanc and Robert Soulier. ETC 12514 New Benefit Provision Added To Accident and Sickness Benefit Plan Under a new provision of the Ethyl Accident and Sickness Benefit Plan, employees with 15 or more years of service may receive additional bene fits for life where permanent and total disability prevents continued employment by the Company. You'll find more detailed information on the revised Accident and Sickness Benefit Plan in a new booklet that will be prepared soon to give you all the facts and figures on it. RECENT ARRIVALS Central Region Jack and Dorothy Clark--a daugh ter, Dianne Mary, bom January 3. Jack is a Central region account representative. Detroit Jake and Mary Boss--a daughter, Linda Kay, born January 16. Two sisters, Wanda Fay, 5 and Sylvia Jean, 2. Jake is the landscape man at the Detroit labs. Don and Elizabeth Pulleyblank-- a son, Bruce Donald, born December 17, 1949. A brother, Ronald, 6 and a sister, Martha, 8. Don is a research engineer at the Detroit labs. Herb and Jewel Sumner -- first daughter, Judith Ann, born Decem ber 14, 1949. Herb is in Detroit Tech Service. North Kansas City Bill and Helen Ludt--a son, Rich ard F., born November 7, 1949. A brother, Bill, Jr., 2 and a sister, Peggy, 4. Pop is manager of the North Kansas City Gas Test lab. Our Cover Over 39,000 samples of gasoline have been tested at Yonkers during the past ten years. Two old-timers, Larry Hunt (left) and George Gier discuss the barometric compensator, for those of us who don't know much about such things, they explain that this instrument was developed at Yonkers to increase the efficiency of the CFR engine used to test the knock in gasoline. Servicewise, Larry is the "oldest" engine operator at the lab--he's in his 22nd year,, and George, the "oldest" technician there, is in his 21st year. Smiling Patricia Ann Parchen is the grand daughter of Clem Parchen, secretary to Curt Holton, director of industrial relations. Ethylites on the Chrysler building's 35th floor are priding themselves that when Patri cia was born June 22, Clem became the first grandmother in the Company. Are they right? 23 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Remi Amelunxan ... No. Kansas City Gas Testing lab chemist . . . won his B.S. at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, his home town .. . member of the K.C. Music Guild . . . Remi likes to play the piano and work on automobile engines. Lenore Cosmala. . . Detroit sten* ographer in Chem Research . . . born in the Motor City ... studied at George Washington U. in Washington, D.C. . . . worked for the Navy's wartime PT boat pro gram . . . collects records. Mary Ann Gartland... New York Finance, statistical typist. . . born in New Jersey, attended Pace Institute, worked for Scovell. Wellington St Co. . . . member of Catholic Women's College club... likes to skate, swim, read, knit. ;i iIi i Oscar Gilbert... Detroit chemical Edith Hearle .... Detroit cook engineer... born in Rocky Mount, ... Wisconsin-born and educated N.C. . . . won a fellowship at Van . . . ez-W.A.C. mess sergeant. . . i derbilt U., where he received his B.E. & M.S. in Chem Engineer former cook aboard the Steamship K. V.^Schwartz out of Cleveland * ing . . . two years in the Navy . . . . . . preparing food is also her i a sports enthusiast . . . married. hobby, plus interior decorating. 24 BULLETIN BOARD -- FEBRUARY Glenn Irish... Detroit chemist... received his A.B. from the U. of Southern California and his PhD. from WisconsinU... member ACS, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Sigma Xi ... Glenn hails from Chicago & his wife Margaret from Norton, Mass. ETC 12516 f Charles Jehnzen . . . Detroit ma chine shop handy man . . . native Detroiter . . . attended Mecosta (Mich.) High and Ferris Insti tute at Big Rapids, Mich. . . . lives in Royal Oak with his wiie. Versa, 4 girls--Beth, Kay & Margaret. Betty Kenny . . . Toronto office secretary for Ethyl Antiknock Ltd... . attended Sault Collegiate in her home town of Sault Sainte Marie, Ont., then studied at Branksome Hall in Toronto... likes painting, sailing and swimming. Gerald Redoutey... Detroit tech nician in Chem Research . . . na tive Detroiter, attended Catholic Central High, U. of Detroit & Col lege of Applied Science ...served 21 months in Pacific . . . enjoys horseback riding, coin collecting. $ Stanley Sobaszek . . . Detroit labs cafeteria bus boy . . . Kayo is a native Detroiter . . . spent four years in Okinawa as an Army corporal . . . member of V.F.W. hobby: building model planes ... daughter Sheryl is one year old. Lauretta Towers . . . Yonkers Central office stenographer-clerk . . . took evening courses at Co lumbia U. . . . wartime nurses aide . . . YWCA member, espec ially interested in swimming . . . lives in Yonkers, New York. Ronald Tweedie . . Detroit chemical operator joins Ethyl's regular staff after a year with the labs . . . native Detroiter . . . four years U.S.N. . . . attended the University of Michigan . . . enjoys hiking, boxing and skiing. 25 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 12517 Detroit girls get together for a coffee-time buffet in honor of Marge Brown. The smiling guest of honor shows off one of the hostess tables, collapsible variety, that the girls gave her along with their best wishes. Marge has left her career at Ethyl's Research labs as secretary to Ken Swartwood, for a full-time career of homemaking. Shown here, from left, are Ann Caplan, Rita Blaisus, Jerry Maisel, Marge, Polly Metz, Peggy Welp (peek-a-boo), Irene Larson, Evelyn Harworth and Lor raine Tackels. Young William Tell, at left, is Craig Dollahan posing with his first rabbit and the .ar tillery used to down it. At 11 he has accomplished a feat that his father, "Dolly" Dol lahan, of the Central region, could never quite pull off. Now it's right hand 'round with Ross and Pauline Rife, at right, swinging. Popular event of the Detroit Ethyl Society, which Ross heads as steering committee chairman,. is their annual square dance. During the Michigan deer and bear hunting season from November 15 to 30, Detroit labs hunters Arnold Larges and Emerson Ide each brought back proof of their skill. After waiting in line seven hours for the ferry across the straits to the Upper Peninsula, Arnold shot this eightpoint, 178-pound buck at Germfask on opening day. Tied to the car is the bear Emerson shot while hunting in the Lower Peninsula. Both Arnold and Emerson are in Chemical Engineering. etc 12518 Ten Commandments of M Organization Aware that today, perhaps more than ever before, good organization in a company is a management "must," the American Management Association recently set itself the task of compiling a list of the basic essentials required to achieve all-around efficiency in a company. If you are a manager, no matter how great or small your responsibility, it is your job, in the final analysis, both to create and develop voluntary co-operation among the people whom you supervise. For, no matter how powerful a combination of money, machines and materials a company may have, this is a dead and sterile thing without a team of willing, thinking and articulate people to guide it. Here, then, are AMA's 10 Commandments of good organization: 1. Definite and clean-cut responsibilities should be assigned to each executive. 2. Responsibility should aways be coupled with corresponding authority. 3. No change should be made in the scope or responsibilities of a position without a definite understanding to that effect on the part of all persons concerned. 4. No executive or employee, occupying a single position in the organiza tion, should be subject to definite orders from more than one source. 5. Orders should never be given to subordinates over the head of a respon sible executive. Rather than do this the officer in question should be supplanted. 6. Criticisms of subordinates should, whenever possible, be made privately and in no case should a subordinate be criticized in the presence of exec utives or employees of equal or lower rank. 7. No dispute or difference between executives or employees as to authority or responsibilities should be considered too trivial for prompt and careful adjudication. 8. Promotions, wage changes and disciplinary action should always be approved by the executive immediately superior to the one directly responsible. 9. No executive or employee should ever be required, or expected to be at the same time an assistant to, and critic of, another. 10. Any executive whose work is subject to regular inspection should, when ever practicable, be given the assistance and facilities necessary to enable him to maintain an independent check of the quality of his work. Printed In U.S.A. say more than 200 U. S. petroleum refiners Refiners everywhere in the United States use "Ethyl" antiknock compound to step up the quality of their gasoline -- fuel that runs our country's vast transportation system. America on wheels burned 35 billion gallons of gaso line last year, and making the antiknock compounds to improve gasoline quality has become a large and important industry. The few drops of "Ethyl" compound that are added to a gallon of gasoline are neces sary to help gasoline meet the requirements of modern high compression engines -- bet ter antiknock quality enables the millions of cars, trucks, buses, airplanes and farm trac tors to run better, carry more goods and do more work on every gallon of gas they use. So all 4,412 of us at Ethyl can take pride in our product and its contribution. to auto motive transportation. ETHYL-A PROGRESSIVE INDUSTRY! ETC 12520 Easter Preview (See Page is) BULLETIN BOARD ri Contributing Editors Baton Rouge: DougJae Pries. John C. Ren/roe, J. T. Stephenson !photographer): Chicago: Ruth Callaway; Dallas: Ann SeUridqe; Detroit: Geotqe Betker. Margaret DuJJinger. Fred Green (photoqrapher). Claude Hotiman. Nan Horning. Sob Mescher. Claire Olsen. Alyce Peterson /photographer), Art Zeits: Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash. Edward J Otto, Jr.; Los Anqeles: Robert R. Mead: Mexico-Central America: Lvnn Phillips: New York: Jim Donohue, Don ForsdicJc, Wilma Hansa. Alice Lahn. Ruth Moore, Helen Sinclaif.'Esthe: Stanley. EmiJv Whitfield: San Bernardino: Carol Simcock. James TerreiJ; Tuisa* Glenis Dickerson. Gladys Roney; YonJeerj: Catherine Foster; Central Office. Gasoline Testing: Chris Bruhl. Published by the Ethyl Corporation, 40S Lexington Avenue. New York. New York: Edward L. Shea. President; Stanley T. Crossland. Vice President and Treasurer: Richard M. Page, Secretary. ETC 12522 -k cars on the siding at our Edge Moor, Delaware ,a.`tJr,--Qa r:eeaaud>y t1oU fmilli emergency Uo1rdUeC1rs3 fiirUom.il icU3ter^01 .'^g East- Normally orders are filled from the Baton on:ersl1* ^ *3Ut bulk storage plants on the East and West RoutJe ? a^g uS to give extra special hurry-up service when fcoas`eria ppeds a shipment "right away quick." Top Service from Terminals It's a long trainride from Baton Rouge t0 the refineries of some of our cus tomers. And because they sometimes need "Ethyl" antiknock compound in a hurry, the Company maintains bulk storage terminals on the East and West coasts so deliveries can be made quickly whenever an emergency arises. In effect the terminals are a second source of supply of our products. Both terminals are equipped with facilities for loading and unloading tank cars and tank trucks and for storing mil lions of pounds of "Ethyl" antiknock compound in bulk and in drums. Us ing the East Coast terminal as an ex ample, here, briefly, is what goes on at these field depots. "Ethyl" fluid is shipped in our EBAX tank cars either by rail or Seatrain from the plant at Baton Rouge to the terminal at Edge Moor, Dela ware. The Seatrain movement is a combination land and sea trip. The cars go overland to New Orleans, by boat to Edgewater, New Jersey, and overland again to Edge Moor. Getting ready to unload the cor, Shorty Miller pulls the swing lines over while Ed Herbert opens the dome cover and checks the car valves. The un loading line is then con nected to one of the stand pipe fittings, the valve is opened and the "Ethyl" antiknock compound be gins to flow. It is drawn into an 8,500 gallon tank as a result of applying vacuum to the tank with a vacuum pump. ETC 12523 The 15,000 gallon tank, which is on scales, is weighed before and after each loading and unloading. The tank cars and tank trucks are also weighed at the beginning and end of each operation, providing a double double check to assure weight accuracy. Here Herb Herbert (right) watches the weight of the tank go down during the loading of a truck and Shorty Miller double checks as he keeps an eye on the increasing weight of the fluid in the truck. Thus they are assured of a smooth flow from tank to truck with no hitches, leaks, waste or shortages. These hooded tanks (left) holding 1.7 million pounds of "Ethyl" antiknock compound are full for the first time since they were built two years ago. Four similar tanks are located at our Wilmington, Calif, terminal. Hoods are designed to protect them from the sun's rays and minimize changes in temperature and evaporation losses. Below Shorty Miller lines up 55 gallon drums of Quid in storage racks at the warehouse. ETC 12524 -3r They are stored in the warehouse ~o take care of emergency calls from our customers. When the loaded tank cars arrive from the plant, via the Pennsylvania Railroad which delivers them to the terminal, they are either spotted at car unloading stations or held in reserve on the siding ready for any fast orders. Electric capstans enable the terminal operators to move cars around the ter minal as necessary. Cars are unloaded through one of the two weigh tanks (15,000 gallon and 8,500 gallon) which are housed in small brick buildings. The larger one serves as a storage tank for the loading of tank trucks and the smaller as an intermediate tank for pumping to the two outside bulk storage tanks. Vacu um is used to unload the cars into these tanks. Two operators working as a team carry out the fluid unloading opera tion. They connect vent and unloading lines to the car dome valve and the fluid is educted from the car through standpipes into the building weigh tank. Cars are weighed gross and "light" on the terminal track scales to check the net weight received in the operating tank. It is from the 15,000 gallon tank that the trucks are filled. Upon arriving at the terminal empty, the tank trailers are sucked out to remove residue and then weighed on a platform scale where they are spotted for loading. Next they're hooked up for loading and vacuum is applied to the trailers to draw in the "Ethyl" fluid from the 15,000 gallon tank. Both the tank trailer and the storage tank are on scales, providing an accurate check on "T-12 is spotted and T-6 is on the side." That means Trailer -12 is on the loading platform and Trailer -6 is on the siding. In the office at the Edge Moor terminal you hear this hind of talk day in and day out. Dick Boyer, phone balanced on ear, glances out the window to size up the tank trailer situation. He reports to the truck dispatcher and they work out assignment of equipment for deliv ery of an order that has just come in. Buttoning up this 1,000 gallon tank trailer after loading, Herb Herbert and Shorty Miller close the valves, shut the dome cover and put the seal on. It's now ready to go as soon as the tractor arrives. This loading platform (on scales) is just outside the 15,000 weigh tank building where all tank trucks are loaded. Tank cars are usually filled from the 8,500 weigh tank building. Terminal supervisor Charlie Remsburg has to coordi nate loading operations to meet our customers' shipping requirements. That calls lor first-class concentration, as you can see from this photograph taken at his desk. the flow of fluid from tank to trailer. An automatic shut-off serves as a safe ty precaution against overloading the truck. Tank cars are loaded at the terminal from the bulk storage tanks through the 8,500 gallon weigh tank. This op eration is carried out with pumps that are specially designed for the purpose. The amount of fluid loaded into the To keep a 24-hour a day watch on the terminal, 7 days a week, 4 watchmen alternate 8-hour shifts. Night duty, when the wind howls and the owls hoot, is least popular shift. Here are two watchmen i at change of shifts. At left, looking out, is John Sei bert. Below Jack Dennison clocks in at one of the stations on his round. i From the office windows (left) you can look across the Delaware River to New Jersey. A new bridge now going up will replace the ferry, current link between the two states. At right is drum ware* house for storing 10 and 55 gallon drums of "Ethyl" antiknock compound. etc 12526 View oi the four bulk storage tanks at Ethyl's Wilmington, Calif, terminal. Now that adequate supplies of "Ethyl" antiknock compound are available, they are being filled to capacity. The tanks were specially designed and built for us by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, who supplied this picture. cars from the 8,500 gallon tank is checked by weighing the car on the terminal track scales. Customers' orders for tank trucks come into the Edge Moor office by teletype from the Order and Shipping department in New York, and a copy is sent to Baton Rouge. Tank car or ders are sent to the terminal from Baton Rouge. As soon as a truck order is received at Edge Moor, Dick Boyer checks the shipping schedule, then as signs truck equipment to make de livery on the date requested and calls the operating carrier. After arrange ments are completed for delivery, Dick - advises the customers that shipment will be made, giving arrival date and hour, and makes out a bill of lading. He also prepares a fluid requisition to go to John Smith, head of New York Accounting. He passes it along to Bea Turrie to use as the basis for billing customers. Superintendent of the terminal op eration, in charge of both Edge Moor and Wilmington, is Rudy Williams. His headquarters are in Baton Rouge. Thus people at the terminal in Edge Moor, the plant in Baton Rouge and Order and Shipping, and Accounting in New York, though hundreds of miles apart work closely together to schedule, deliver and bill customers. It's because of this kind of team work that we can give them that special Ethyl service--service that helps to build and maintain our business. Nick Carter Goes to Tokyo In peace as in war, Ethyl "know-how" and experience are serving our nation. An extract from the February 4 report of General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the -Allied Powers, Economic and Scientific Section, tells about a special assignment for Nick Carter, of the Central region. "Visiting Expert. Mr. C. D. Car ter, safety engineer for the Ethyl Corporation, arrived in Japan 25 Jan uary. Mr. Carter has been appointed as expert to the Secretary of the Army and is on loan to SCAP and Japanese technicians in constructing tetraethyl lead blending equipment and on mod em methods of blending TEL in the Pacific Coast petroleum refineries." 7 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH Principals in Freedoms Foundation program: Steve Henry takes a good look at the honor medal as By Turner shakes hands with Kenneth D. Wells, who presented it. Clint Bond smiles approval. Freedoms Foundation Honor Medal Presented to Ethyl at Baton Rouge "We are now at a second Valley Forge," said Kenneth D. Wells, execu tive vice president of the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pa. "The American people must make up their minds that they are not going to ac cept increasing government control and are going to remain free men." Mr. Wells was speaking at cere monies held at our Baton Rouge plant on February 2 when he presented Freedoms Foundation's honor medal to Ethyl Corporation. Members of plant supervision and union represen tatives attended the program. Ethyl Corporation won the Founda tion's honor medal for two training courses on "The American Economic System," . which were given at the plant last year. Prepared and directed by Ethyl's training supervisor, John Furr, the courses were attended by all members of supervision, and union of ficials, stewards and representatives. Resident Manager Clint Bond opened the presentation program and expressed his appreciation to the groups who participated in the courses and those employees who conducted the conferences. He then turned the ros trum over to Steve Henry, manager of plant and employee services. Steve pointed out that the Ethyl training courses "were designed to stimulate constructive thinking on current eco nomic problems. It was up to each one to draw his own conclusions." Following Wells' presentation, By Turner, general manager in charge of manufacturing, accepted the medal on behalf of the Company and employees. The Freedoms Foundation is a non profit organization which is dedicated to preserving and extending our demo cratic system of life. The Foundation sponsors an annual nationwide contest for those who "speak up for freedom." Ethyl was one of two companies to receive an honor award for 1949 in the field of economics. 8 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH Bigger Benefits for You Recent changes in the Company's Group Insurance Plan bring more benefits to all employees with no addi tional cost to them. The revisions pro vide an additional S2 per day in hospitalization benefits, and an in crease from S50 to S70 in maximum benefits for special hospital services. The revisions were announced in the following letter from President E. L. Shea to Ethyl employees: "The Company is pleased to an nounce two changes in our Group Life Insurance and Hospitalization Plan that increase benefits without increas ing the cost to employees. Arrange ments have now been completed with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com pany which make these changes effec tive from February 23, 195U. 1. The benefit for each day of hos pitalization has been, increased un der the Plan from S5 to $7. The maximum payment for special hos pital services has been increased from $50 to $70. The larger amounts will apply to all hospital confine ments beginning on or after Feb. 23. 2. The three months'service period formerly required before employees became eligible for Group Insurance has now been dropped. New em ployees may take out Life Insurance alone, or Hospital and Surgical In surance along with Life Insurance, as of the day they begin work as regular employees." John M. Weeks Killed in Long Island Train Wreck John M. Weeks, 29, only son of J. P. Weeks, of N. Y. Finance, was among the 32 passengers killed in a wreck on the Long Island Rail Road on Febru ary 17. The worst collision in New York State history, the accident oc curred near Rockville Centre, L. I. at 10:45 p. m. when an eastbound train crashed into a train bound for New York with such impact that the first car was almost split in two. John was a contributing editor of Time magazine, specializing in foreign news. During the war he served with the U. S. Navy and was skipper of a P-T boat which helped in the rescue of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. Starting as an ensign in 1940, John was sep arated from the Navy five years later as lieutenant commander. In addition to his father, he is survived by his wife Gertrude and two small sons. The entire population of the United States could go riding in automobiles at one time. The Automobile Manu facturers Association-explains there is one passenger car available for each 4.4 persons. One passenger car is in operation in the country for each 1.4 families. Because it is the big companies that attract the most attention, we tend to forget that America is still a land of "small" businesses. Of the 3,500,000 businesses operating today, only 500,000 are big enough to be incor porated, and the vast majority of them are quite small. 9 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH Clockwise around the table are Ray Faller (back to camera) and Detroit supervisors Art Jen nings, Don Jennings, Jim Hinkamp, A1 Gassman, John Murphy, Art Huifman (face hidden), Rollie Ostrander, Reg Broquet, Casey Jones, Barney Jones and Jack Taylor (topside view). For Better Human Relations Progressive industries have recog nized for many years that the job each employee does and the way he feels about it is an important factor in a company's success. Regardless of the work he does, each employee has his own problems in adjusting to his job. As part of a Company-wide training program to promote good human rela tions within Ethyl Corporation, 37 supervisors at our Detroit laboratories met for a series of conferences during the week of February 13. Led by Ray Faller, manager of training, three groups got together to talk over the fundamentals of supervision and how they could best be applied at the labs. Charts and cartoons were used to illus trate the various factors necessary to establish and maintain a friendly, smooth-functioning work group. At the final sessions, the supervisors discussed their own experiences in solving job problems. By following the basic principles of human relations, supervisors try to place each employee in a job which fits his abilities and which he can enjoy doing. ** Hack Is Back William T. Hack is back with us in Product Development after filling an important post in the Executive Office of the President in Washington, D. C. for the past year and a half. Bill was director of the Chemical and Rubber division of the National Security Re sources Board. 10 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 12530 New Design for Demo Engine Through the years the Ethyl demonstrating ^ n has been one of the best sales tools the ^"^Corporation has ever had. To keep 1 ' .^th improved gasolines which are now 5iej[abie the demo engine is being modified ava(1il) demonstrate higher octane fuels and compare two fuels whose octane number li.fference is relatively small. To accomplish T,*jS changes in the combustion chamber, in- system, cooling and instrumentation are being made. Here Harold Mehler and Don Viliams are discussing design changes which will vastly improve the air cooling of the engine. In effect, the changes on this single cylinder demo engine are comparable to those being made by automotive engineers 0a today's cars so motorists may enjoy the benefits of modern fuels. New York Welcome To welcome the San Wagners and the John Schaefers to New York, Ethyl President E. L. Shea honored them with a buffet supper at the Cloud club early in March. The Wagners came to New York from California following his recent election to vice president, and the Schaefers have returned to the East after a two-and-a-hali year sojourn in Baton Rouge where John was vice president in charge of all Company operations. Here Mr. Shea gives Mrs. Wagner a piece of cake, while San looks on and the photographer gets the Schaefers to "look right at me, please." At far right is Mrs. Earle W. Webb, and at the next table are Mrs. Harry Kuhe, Dick Page and Bill Hubner. ETC 12531 Shorthand Notes The perfect secretary--she animates typewriter, telephone, refer ence library, calendar, shorthand pad and the boss' memory. Editor's note: The Ethyl secretary who sent in this article asked for suggestions for market ing it, as a number of office managers (not Ethyl) had reviewed the story and said it con tained information they would like their girls to read. She didn't suggest running it in the Bulletin Board because "all the Ethyl girls live by these standards anyway--they are an unusually fine bunch here." She went on to say that she thought the advice was needed par ticularly by novices at the art of getting along in the business world. Whether you are a nov ice or a smooth and seasoned secretary, we thought you would be~interested in reading what she has to say on the subject of secre taries. She preferred to remain anonymous but if any of you know of a publication that might be interested in this article, we'll be glad to forward the information to her. 12 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH One of the most charming aspects of the decades since World War I is a relaxing of formality in all human re lationships. In many ways the new in formality has made more bearable the increased pressures of the past 25 years. But this very relaxation of the old "hard and fast" rules of conduct for ladies and gentlemen has lead to a lot of confusion in some places, which forces the conclusion that some of the old checks on personal freedom were more valuable than frustrating. This is particularly true in business offices. Thirty years ago, for instance, wom- ETC 12532 0 firing a food Secretary en had ceased wearing hats in offices, but they were still behaving very much as though they were in church. They spoke when they were spoken to; kept very, very busy: never, never dirted with the boss' son (though they somehow married them once in a while, even then) and generally were models of propriety. But then, that was back when people also believed in doing a day's work for a day's pay, and that it was downright immoral to pursue any personal matter on the em ployer's time. Working conditions for most "of fice girls" have changed enormously, of course, in those thirty years. Hours are shorter, equipment better and more efficient, salaries higher, and personal freedom greatly enhanced. Employers, in general, have done what they could to make the lot of the "woikin' goil" easier, and the least they should be able to expect in return is that she may be considered "gainfully employed" for about eight hours a day. Avoiding Tense Situations Speed and accuracy, loyalty, proper observance of office rules regarding hours, reliefs, lunch hours, and a co operative attitude toward the work to be done will go a long way toward earning an employer's satisfaction. However, there are a lot of "little things" -- none of them important enough in themselves to merit more than his fleeting frown--which can pile up to create a tense situation. It's much safer, for instance, to file that broken fingernail in private, than to risk a sudden visitor and be caught in the act. Barging into' offices unan nounced is another good thing not to do. Save the witty rejoinder for a better time. Be sure the boss hasn't had burned toast for breakfast before wielding the verbal foil. With regard to spare time activity, it might be said that a secretary is the measure of her employer's importance to an organiza tion. When she isn't busy, she's dis pensable. And when she is dispensed with, his status is immediately af fected. So from more than a selfish point of view, it behooves a girl to look busy at all times. Realizing that a "boss" is a human being is very important. He is, by vir tue of being a member of the species, entitled to opinions about his secre tary, personal likes and dislikes which she will have to ascertain; and in a reasonably short time, with a little effort on both sides, chances are they will adjust to each other's peculiar whims and establish a satisfactory re lationship. No effort should be spared to avoid creating strains on that rela tionship. Injecting Personality into Your Job The foregoing qualities are impor tant and basic, but they do not quite cover the subject of how to be most valuable in a secretarial capacity. There are exceptions, of course, but most men will quickly hire a girl who has a sparkling personality and plenty of eye-appeal, and are usually im pressed with even a smattering of college education--but oddly enough, unless these qualities are kept in the background, they soon become sources of irritation in a working situation. They can be used to increase efficiency, impress the public, and lighten a heavy atmosphere in slack moments; but the minute it becomes apparent that a secretary is unable to submerge her own personality to the requirements of her job, she becomes more irritating than helpful. Of course, at the other 13 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 12533 end of the scale is the gal who couldn't emit a sparkle if you lit a fire under her. Between the two extremes are a fortunate group who are neither too much one way nor the other. This latter group has no problem. As a matter of fact, the most fre quent cause of "trouble" in offices is this matter of injecting one's person ality into business matters or business relationships. Because it is a variable factor and requires judgment to dis cern when to and when not to, it can spoil the pleasantest relationships at the most unpredictable moments, set ting up a stream of unpleasant criti cism, tension and irritation. This applies not only to the secretary-em ployer relationship, but also to any relationship in the business world. The most successful business women are those who manage not to talk about their own or other people's affairs dur ing business hours. Most of these wonder-workers are also gossip-stiflers. shaming the whisperers by a pleasant turn of the conversation away from personalities to ideas, or just safe, im personal topics. In their work, such women are efficient, retiring but not blah, and pleasant. A good secretary is animator of the typewriter, the telephone, the refer ence library, the desk calendar, the shorthand pad and the boss' memory. Like any other piece of furniture in his office, he wants her to be up to date, comfortable to have around, neat and useful, and in all ways to represent him favorably to the world at large. TEAGUE HONORS BILL BOYD Friends and neighbors, prominent oil men and distinguished citizens turned out 1,000 strong in the little town oi Teague, Texas to honor Bill Boyd at an all day celebration. He had come home after a long and illustrious career in public life, serving tor the last eight years as presi* dent of the American Petroleum Institute. It was a big day for Teague and a big day for Bill Boyd, a Texas boy back home. Ethyl's George Krieger attended the celebration and was seated at the speaker's table for the banquet. A feature of the afternoon program was the Ethyl movie, This Is Our Land. Harry Cottrell, Southern region account representative, presented the movie. John Rollins and Russ Schell, of the Southern region, were also on hand for the occasion. Here Bill Boyd is shown surrounded by friends waiting for their chance to greet him. In the group are Hines H. Baker, Sen. Tom Connally, D. E. Hulcy, W. Alton Jones, Bowlen Bond, Hon. Jerry Steward, Frank S. Carruthers and W. A. Parker. ETC 12534 ~"1 Still Sparking for Safety Still full of spark, the Fire Power show came up for its eighteen month birthday with a record of 778 per formances before a total audience of 71,058. Ethyl representatives have presented the program for our cus tomers. the Armed Forces and safety groups in 39 states, Washington, D. C. and British Columbia. Another of Ethyl's extra services, the Fire Power show demonstrates that gasoline is perfectly safe when handled with care. The current pro duction is an adaptation of our original safety show and is aimed primarily at the marketing and distribution em ployees of our customer companies. Those who presented it include: Eastern region, Bill Rusher; Central region, Lou Wilson and Bob Smith; Southern region, Joe Hopkins, Doug Jeppe, Dale Miller and R. G. (Scotty) Scott; and Western region, John Koehnle and Bill Van Wyck. Happy Birthday Geri Gray celebrated Her sixth birthday on January 21 with a lively "western'' party. It was a special milestone for young Geri be cause her ambition for the past two years has been to become six years old. Geri is the daughter of Irene Gray, of the Tulsa office. Our Cover In the Spring a young girl's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of hats. Ail ready for the Easter parade, Emelie Jean Brooks of our Detroit labs, models a creation of white lacy imported Swiss straw with silk smoked camellias (Beatrice Custom Hats). All this and cars too, Detroit has! IS BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 12535 Averil! and Henry The emphasis was on Ethyl at the meeting of the Port Allen La. Lions club on February 6. Chuck Averill, of the Baton Rouge pur chasing section, is president of the club and the speaker of the evening was Steve Henry, manager of plant and employee services. Steve spoke on "Tools of Supervision," and outlined methods of getting things done through people. The following week, Steve was among 170 goodwill ambassadors who traveled via special train from Baton Rouge to Houston to visit the Fat Stock Show & Livestock Exposition. Clint Bond A member of the Board of Trustees of the newly-erected Baton Rouge General Hospital, Clint Bond, plant resident manager, served as committee chairman for an Open House held January 28-29. During the time the building was open to public inspection, more than 25,000 persons visited and inspected its facilities. Built at a cost of $2.885,000, the hos pital is one of the most modern in the country. Ralph Champlin Ralph Champlin, public relations direc tor, has been named by Editor 8* Publisher as one of the judges of its 15th annual news paper promotion contest. He is one of three judges who will choose the winners in the com munity service classification from entries sub mitted bynewspapers throughout the country. John Furr John Furr, training supervisor in Baton Rouge, has been elected vice president of the Louisiana chapter of the American Society of Training Directors. Organized in 1944, this chapter is the only unit of the national society in the Pelican State and aims continuously to raise methods and standards of the profession. Charlie Kiss Charlie Kass, one of Ethyl's technical rep resentatives, has been elected president of the board of directors of the Birmingham (Mich.) Community House. He was also re-elected for a three-year term as a board member. Charlie has been Roll Call chairman for two years. John Furr Robert A. Kehoe Medical Director Robert A. Kehoe has been appointed by Secretary of the Interior Chap man to serve on a panel which will direct the first government-sponsored conference on air pollution. The conference will be held in Washington, D. C. May 3 to 5 with more than 200 scientists and experts attending. George Kirby George Kirby, of Baton Rouge, has been elected a member of the American Petroleum Institute's Committee on Disposal of Refinery Wastes. George is technical coordinator at the plant and a member of its Occupational Hygi ene Committee. Lamb and Gambrill Frances Lamb, a project chemist at the Detroit labs, held the spotlight as the only woman on the program at the American Soci ety for Testing Materials symposium of Com mittee D-2 held in Washington, D. C. on Feb ruary 21. She presented a paper entitled "De termination of TEL in Gasoline by X-Ray Absorptiometry." (See second cover of March Ethyl News.) Held under the sponsorship of Research Division III, the symposium was on "Recent Developments in Instrumental Methods for the Determination of Tetraethyl Lead in Gasoline.'' Charlie Gambrill, head of the analytical section of chem research, is chairman of Research Division III. Frances is also in charge of planning the Women's Program for the ACS convention to be held in Detroit April 16-20. 16 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 12536 Elmer Miller Elmer Miller, of the Edge Moor terminal, has been elected committee chairman of the Young Men's Republican club, seventh dis trict of Christina Hundred, Delaware. Shorty, who is also publicity manager of the Brandy wine Archers club, is author of an article in the current issue of the Bowman's Review. Mat Murdock Speaking at the January 19 session of the Mid-South Farm Equipment Association in Memphis, Mac Murdock said that "the pe troleum industry and farm machinery dealers are working together to make the farmers' lot happier, easier and more lucrative." Mac, who is assistant general sales manager, cited as an example of the petroleum industry's progress the fact that tractor fuels today are superior to the gasoline which Lindbergh used in the Spirit of St. Louis when he flew the Atlantic. Arnold Nelson Arnold Nelson, of N. Y. Finance, was pictured in the news columns of the Staten Island Advance recently when he retired as president of the Atlantic Circuit of the Luther League. The ceremonies* in which Arnold turned over his duties to the new president climaxed a three-day convention ofthe Luther League held at Port Richmond, Staten Island. Bill Newman Bill Newman, Southern region safety engineer, has been appointed to the Houston Chamber of Commerce Fire Prevention Com mittee. Committee members include directors ot safety and chief engineers of oil companies. Tiie Romettis Mike and Lillian Rometti gave an exhibi tion of their hooked rugs and hand-wrought jewelry at the Ferndale 'Mich.; Woman's club on January 17. Originally the date was set for later in the spring, but Lillian wished to give some of the rugs to daughter Jean Marie, who was married December 28. Mike heads the Detroit Machine shop. Roe and Bass Frank Roe and John Bass, both of the Baton Rouge instrument department, have been elected to key posts in the local chapter of the Instrument Society of America. At a meeting held January 10 at Louisiana State University, Frank was voted in as 1950 presi dent and John was elected secretary. Larry Stinson Larry Stinson, of San Bernardino, attend ed the CFR Ordnance Test meeting which was held February 27 through March 1 in San Francisco. Larry is an engineer at our San Berdu research laboratory. Bynum Turner Bynum Turner, general manager of man ufacturing, was elected to the board of direc tors of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation in Baton Rouge. The election was held at their annual banquet meeting on January 26. Hubert Wax Hubert Wax, of Industrial Engineering, was one of three Baton Rouge men who at tended a recent two-week course on selective service operations held at the United States Naval Station in Algiers, La. Major Wax is a member of the unit assigned to Louisiana state selective service headquarters. Gil Way Gil Way spoke to the engineering students of Loyola University in Los Angeles on Feb ruary 15. One of our technical representatives, Gil makes his headquarters at San Berdu. Jules Zeph Jules Zaph, N. Y. Mailroom, took his first U. S. Naval Reserve cruise January 8 to 21. Jules sailed as a seaman recruit aboard the U. S. Worcester, CL-144, for San Juan, P. R., Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and maneuvers off Calibre Island. 17 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 12537 Edwin N. Downs Emil N. Gillig Ed Downs, of New York Sales Administration, has had various assignments in the Sales and Advertising departments during the 20 years of his Ethyl career, all in New York. Ed lays claim to the distinction of being our most dis tant commuter. His daily train ride starts at 6 a. m. from Laurel, Long Island. His home, where he again hangs up his hat at 7:40 p. m., is 15 miles from the station. Ed doesn't mind the traveling because he enjoys weekends in the country and pleasant vacations at home. His son "Tex" operated the Downs farm before and after classes during high school days. Tex is now in agricultural college studying ranch ing and plans to raise pedigreed Aberdeen- Angus beef cattle. Ed and his wife Elizabeth and Tex, who is almost 19, are all natives of Long Island. Ed won his B.C.S. in business administration from New York University. Emil Gillig, of the Detroit labs, joins the 20year club. Starting as a dynamometer opera tor, Emil took time out to complete his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering at the U. of Michi gan, then returned to the labs as a dynamo meter and road test engineer. In 1941 he was promoted to designing engineer, three years later stepped up to senior research engineer and in 1947 took over as supervisor of the instrument section. After serving as president of the Detroit chapter of the Instrument Society of America last year, he's now an affiliate council representative from the Engineering Society of Detroit to the I.S.A. Off duty, Emil bowls with the Ethyl league, flies a Piper cub, likes to fish and hunt pheasant. His wife Mabel is the family's big game hunter--two deer in four years. He was bom in Peoria, 111., now lives in Detroit; has one daughter, Carol Ann, age 15. | I I I f k | i l l f 7 ETC 12538 Richard Beaubier joined Ethyl 15 years ago .n Detroit, but didn't tarry long in the Motor City- One of the test drivers who made the long trek to San Bernardino in 1935, Dick spent the next seven years taking our test ve hicles out in all kinds of weather, piling up thousands of miles oyer mountain and desert. In 1942, he and his wife and daughter, Kath ryn Alice, then only six weeks old, drove back to Detroit, where Dick became a dynamo meter operator. Now a project engineer in Automotive Research, this last promotion came in 1947. Dick lives in Royal Oak, just a few hours' drive from Grand Ledge, Mich., where he was born. John Pauli Miner Gamble celebrates 15 years of Com pany service this month as another of the pio neers who helped establish the Ethyl Engi neering Research lab in Southern California back in March 1935. Driving a new Mack truck, Miner and his wife Pauline traveled across the country with the caravan of trucks and cars which carried test equipment, engi neers, test drivers and mechanics from the Detroit laboratories to San Bernardino. One of our mechanics, he tears engines down and builds them up so that the Ethyl fleet can purr smoothly along the test roads. Miner is a na tive of Norwalk, Conn. He and Pauline have one daughter, Jeannie, age 13. Shift Key John Pauli, former fleet engineer with headquarters at Harrisburg, Pa., has moved to San Bernardino to take over Marv Russell's duties as a tech nical engineer in the Gasoline Testing lab. John and Loma and their three children--Loma Ann, 13, Ruth Anita, 10, and Johnny, 4--are enthusiastic about the West and have bought a home there. Rollin Gish, another San Bernardino "Old Timer," started with Ethyl 15 years ago as a research engineer and was first assigned to a two-year tractor test program on Muroc Dry Lake. When the new lab was built in 1938, he helped with the job of equipping it and getting test programs under way. Elected general chairman of the San B. Ethyl Society for 1950, Rollin is also on the board of control and pub licity chairman of the local Exchange club. An ex-fencing champion, he now prefers square dancing. Oklahoma-born, he won his B.S. in M.E. at University of Southern Cal. He belongs to Tau Beta Pi and SAE. He's mar ried; has two daughters, Nancy 11, Barbara 8. Marvin Russell has been transferred from the lab to the Western region sales office in Los Angeles as a field engineer. (See page 25.) Moving Up Gertrude Anthony has been pro moted from N. Y. Stenographic to Product Development. Friends in Stenographic honored her with a luncheon at the White Turkey on February 17. > 2 fives Dorothy Taylor, formerly of Product Development, has been promoted to Five-year service pins were presented to two Ethyl men during March. Receiving their awards were Kenneth Hubbard, of Detroit Research, and Albert Warrington, N. Y. the job of secretary to Vice President John Schaefer, who has moved his headquarters to New York from Baton Rouge. 19 BULLETIN BOARD -- MARCH ETC 12539 With the death of William G. Mundinger in Baton Rouge on February 28, the Ethyl Sales department lost one of its best-loved men. A prominent citizen of his city and his state, Bill was especially well-known in the auto motive and petroleum industries. To Ethyl old-timers Bill was "Mr. Baton Rouge." During the 19 years that he was with Ethyl he lived in Louisiana's capital city, serving first as field engineer and later as account representative. In addition to his important contribution to the Sales department's program in promoting "Ethyl" antiknock compound, Bill as sisted the Manufacturing department in many ways when they moved as newcomers to Baton Rouge in 1936. William G. Mundinger Dies of Heart Attack A native of New Orleans, Bill lived as a boy on a plantation ten miles from Baton Rouge. He went to grade and high school in Baton Rouge and took a special course in sugar engineering at Louisiana State University. The first 16 years of his business career were spent in Cuba with various sugar com panies working in jobs ranging from chemist to plant manager. Soon after joining Ethyl as a field engineer in 1930, he was assigned to Louisiana, and continued to serve there, becoming an account represen tative in 1947. Whenever he traveled, Bill always carried a coffee pot and Louisiana coffee with him to brew his own Java. So-called "Coffee Shops," he said, did not deserve the name. He was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, the Masonic Lodge, Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, Baton Rouge Country Club, Interna tional House in New Orleans, Mid- Continent Oil and Gas Association and Ethyl Management Club. For two years he was president of the Louisiana Automobile Association. Funeral services were held from St. James Episcopal church on March 1. S. G. Henry, of Ethyl's Baton Rouge plant, and Harold Berg, Southern re gional manager, were pallbearers. Among the honorary pallbearers were the following Ethyl men: H. K. Ball, W. R. Barnes, C. W. Bond, J. A. Costello, J. E. Hendrick, H. B. Holl ingsworth, T. E. Ronan, J. H. Schae fer, Russell Schell, A. P. Stover, A. C. Tully and B. B. Turner. Surviving are his wife, Helen Louise; two sons, Daniel and John, both of whom served in the U. S. Navy in the last war and are now on the staff at the Ethyl plant; two sisters, Mrs. M. C. Aldrich and Mrs. Ruth M. Kean, and three brothers, John J. and Adam G. and Robert, all of Baton Rouge. 20 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH Josephine Giordano . .. New York statistical typist . . . born in New York City; attended Drake Business School; worked for R. H. Macy's and Isaac Benwitt ... Jo, a bride of Last June, lives in the Bronx . . . likes sewing, crocheting. Karl Schroeder . . . New York . . . chemical sales engineer . . . former technical director ' of Industrial Compounding Corp., Milltown, N. J. . . . studied chemistry and mathematics at Poly-Tech*Koln, Koln, Germany . . . mar ried; two children. Margaret Moss... Detroit labs . . . secretary to Dick Scales, director of technical service . . . native Detroiter; attended Wayne U. . . . came to us from Krueger*Barnes Corp. . . . member of Beta Sigma Phi International Sorority. Charles Temple . . . N. Y. Finance . . . inter* nal auditor . . . formerly with Lybrand Ross Brothers & Montgomery . . . born and edu* cated in New York . . . B.S. from NYU; M.B.A. from Harvard Business School . . . Navy veteran . . . one son, Tom, 2. Charles Thomas... N. Y. chemical sales ... born in Detroit . . . B.S. from Washington U. in St. Louis . . . member American Society for Metals, Theta Xi and Montclair Glee club . . . hobbies: woodworking and gardening . . . one son, 21. ETC 12541 In this group who attended the Ethyl-Cities Service technical conference you can spot the fol lowing Ethyl men: front row, sharing an ash tray, Charlie Kass and Howard Hesselberg; Redg Bushell at far right and next to him, facie Macauley. Behind Jack is Max Roensch and behind him are John Wintringham, Bob Hogan and Harold Gibson. In the next to the last row Cap Hall and Russ McGuiney are holding down the left end and Oscar Lewis and Tom Risk, the right. Present for the meeting but not shown in the picture were: Dan Guy, Dick Scales and Ed Paige. All the Ethyl men are from the Detroit Research laboratories except Redg Bushell, Bob Hogan and Russ McGuiney, of the Eastern region, and Oscar Lewis, N. Y. Sales. I An Old American Custom Brought Up to Date Swapping is going on all the time be tween Ethyl and our customer com panies -- but instead of swapping things we swap ideas. The recent technical conference held jointly by Cities Service and Ethyl is an example. A group of our research engineers met in mid-January with some of the top technical people from the various Cities Service companies who came to New York from Louisi ana, Oklahoma and New Jersey to attend the conference. They exchanged technical informa tion on research and development pro jects of mutual interest. It was the first meeting of this type--to be held with Cities Service personnel and created considerable interest among them in the scope and diversity of the chemical and automotive research activities at our Detroit and San Bernardino labs. Five Ethyl men presented talks which were followed by discussion. The men and the general subjects they discussed were: Harold Gibson: Correlation of Road and Laboratory Engine Knock Ratings, Passenger Cars and Octane Number Requirement of Commercial Vehicles: Cap Hall: En gine Cleanliness as Related to Fuel Characteristics; Howard Hesselberg: Basic Research; Tom Risk: Refinery Technology; Max Roensch: Exhaust Valve Life as Affected by Motor Oil Characteristics and John Wintring ham: Antiknock Compounds. Technical meetings such as this are another example of how Ethyl Cor poration cooperates with its customer companies in order to effect the best utilization of leaded fuels. 22 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 12542 The Husband's Best Friend If you spot a familiar face in one of vour new magazines, it may be Jim Lonergan, N. Y. accountant, who posed for the "husband's best friend'' in the Minute Tapioca ad currently appearing in the March issue of Parents Magazine and the April Good Housekeeping. Jim has been modeling part-time on weekends and evenings ever since his student days at Manhattan College when he went along to keep a friend company on an assignment and liked the idea himself. Currently listed by the Bruce Brad ford agency, Jim has posed for many kinds of ads, both in black and white and in color. Among national maga zines in which his picture has been pub lished are Esquire, Life and Look. Shaking hands with his hostess is Jim Loner gan of N. Y. Finance, who posed for the "hus band's best friend" in a current ad. (Photo graph courtesy of Minute Tapioca.) Number, Please! No use worrying, Bill--it's all in the way the numbers fall. After the end of the tenth game, Bill Wood (left) looks on while Mrs. Doug Ewen spins the cage. She drew a higher number to break a tie with him and won a set of plastic playing cards. John Murphy, social chairman, who selected the prizes, and caller Barney Jones, watch the drawing. Where, oh where, is that winning number? 254 Ethylites traveled through snow and ice for the Detroit Ethyl Society's annual bingo party on February 17. Filling the Road Test garage, which was reconverted for an even ing of fun, lab folk and their families concen trated on Barney Jones' every call until the last of the 15 prizes was claimed. Lab mathe maticians are still trying to figure out just what happened to the law of averages--George Clizby's daughters took home two prizes and Arthur Heiser's family won three trophies. As a wind-up to a highly successful evening, refreshments were served in the cafeteria. ETC 12543 CANDIDS Black cats and Friday the 13th are no cause for alarm in the Reis family, as this picture which appeared in the Tulsa Tribune on Fri day, January 13 shows. Donald, Wahneta and Bobby smile calmly as a big, black cat crosses their path. In fact Donald thinks they should celebrate--he was born on January 13 and it was his 14th birthday. The 13th of March is Bobby's big day--this year he had 11 candles on his cake. Missing from the pic ture is their pop, Larry Reis, who is an account representative in Tulsa. Brandy follows his nose in selecting the best route to travel while Joan Westerfield gives him Just a little bit of help. His master, Jerry Westerfield, N. Y. Publicity, snapped this gag shot while collecting photographs to illustrate the Ethyl News story "Driving in Good Taste," which appeared in the March issue. Finish of the Fifth: Margaret Dullinger happily accepts from Dave Davidson her Certificate of Award as she joins Ethyl's 5-year club. Margaret is Detroit's chief correspondent for the BB and the only girl in the dynamometer section, and Dave is manager of automotive research operations. Art Huffman, Harold Lindholm, Marion Pheister, Ralph Wahrenbrock and Alice Griesmer add their smiles of approval. / ETC 12544 Sending Marv Russell off in style, Ethylites at San Berdu gave a round of parties for him and presented him with a leather brief case when he left the lab on February 15 for a new job as field engineer with the Western region. That's Bob Adams handing the gift to Marv. Looking on are Rollin Gish, Bill Schulze, Marv's wife Helen, Judy Schaub, Yvonne Smith and Dean Painter. The Russells were also honor guests at dinner at the Cocky Cac tus and an evening at the home of Judy and Tom Schaub. So she'll be "in the pink" when she moves to her new home, Detroit Ethylettes presented Lucille DeView with a pink blouse and a cor* sage of camelias at a farewell luncheon on February 2. Looking on as Lucille holds up the blouse are (standing) Rita Blaisus and Stephanie Ciul and (seated, from left) Nan Horning, Ruth Ellison and Marge Kammann. Prelude to orange blossoms: Beverly Grant, secretary to Randolph Charlton, N. Y. office man* ager, is the center of attraction at a cocktail party held at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York on \ March 7. She's holding one of the six place settings of Spode china which Ethyl friends gave i her in honor of her wedding to Edward H. Zimmerman, Jr. on March 11. Seated are: Madelyn ` Drum, Mary O'Hern, Lillian Campbell, Marguerite McDonald, Beverly, Bernadette Curtn, Marie Burch Anderson, Marian Clarke and Mary Kane. Standing are: Laura Day, Clare Lewis, Therese Hemmer, Martha Scott Fernandes, Dot Locke, Gertrude Anthony, Dot Watson, Erma Harris, Hazel Anderson, Jessie Halton, Carolyn Johanson Sikora, Adeline Edwards and \ Elsie Rex. * rf ETC 12545 Your Reading Tastes The report to you in last month's Bulletin Board on the results of our survey questionnaires just contained preliminary figures. Now we give you the final results as accurately compiled by Walt Resler's Statistical Research department. Final count showed that 628 ques tionnaires were filled out and returned. That's 70.5% of the total 895 mailed. Incidentally, you may take a bow on this because it indicates you are an exceptionally loyal and cooperative group. Most of the answers--432 came from men, which of course isn't surprising since they outnumber the women more than two to one. Next came organization changes, then Company growth and expansion, as your second and third choices. Or ganization changes drew votes from 79.1% of you, while Company growth and expansion polled votes from 76%. You also want to delve into the eco nomic facts of life--at least more than half of you do. In answer to the ques tion, "Do you want to see articles in the Bulletin Board occasionally about general economic conditions, the American way of life, the free en terprise system and other subjects of this kind,'' 55.7% of you said, "Yes." Female Influence Meaty Matter Your reading tastes, as reflected by your votes, are for meaty matter. Most popular subject of the 19 listed on the questionnaire was Company policies and programs, which four out of five of you, or 80.4%, checked. There was no wide variance in the reading tastes of the men and the women except in a few of the obvious subjects such as weddings and engage ments, recipes and patterns and chil dren's pictures, which drew more votes, percentagewise, from the distaff side. But that's not all they're inter- BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ested in. More than 53% of them indi cated an interest in economics. A surprising difference showed up in the sports and athletic activities. This was checked by 58% of the women who voted, while only 47% of the men who voted checked it. A greater per centage of women than men were also interested in employee hobbies and off-duty activities, and health. Male Influence The male influence was weighted in the direction of selling activities, arti cles on the oil industry, and messages from the President. A smaller percen tage of the women were interested in this kind of material. Seasoning of the Years In general, the old-timers among the men showed more interest in more subjects than the relative newcomers. They especially showed a stronger in terest in Company matters. As an ex ample, on the three leading subjects-- Company policies and programs, or ganization changes, and Company growth and expansion--the vote was much greater from the men with more than ten years' service than from those having less. The same was true of de partmental operations, messages from the President, selling activities, de partment heads and executives. Here are the subjects listed in the order you voted for them along with the percentage who voted for each: 1. Company policies and programs 80.4% 2. Organization changes 79.1% 3. Company growth and expansion 76.0% 4. Social activities (picnics," parties) 60.5% 5. The other fellow's job 60.2% 6. People who receive ser vice awards 60.0% 7. Employees' hobbies and off-duty activities 58.6% 8. Departmental operations 53.3% 9. Sports and athletic activ ities 50.6% 10. Messages from the Pres ident 46.8% 11. Department heads and executives 45,4% 12. The oil industry 42.5% 13. Weddings, engagements 42.4% 14. Selling activities (Sales shows, customer com pany meetings) 39.3% 15. Children's pictures 39.3% 16. Births 38.9% 17. Safety and accident pre vention 34.4% 18. Health 26.8% 19. Recipes and patterns 16.6% Balanced Menu We plan to build future issues of the Bulletin Board to give you the infor mation you want and have asked for. You've chosen a well-balanced menu of good, solid fare and we are going to try to present it to you in an interest ing, readable fashion. Sonia Barbara Test Run Janet Adams' appendix gave her father, Bob, a good opportunity to try out the speed and efficiency of his new Oldsmobile. When Janet's appendix screamed for an emergency exit, Bob, who runs our San Bernardino Gas Test lab, made a quick, run to Santa Barbara, where she is attending col lege and where she was separated from her appendix. Both Janet and the car came through with colors flying. Research Labs on Parade Army, scientific and high school groups toured the Detroit laboratories during February. Acting as guides to explain the many phases of Ethyl chemical and engineering research were: Merrill Anderson, Frank Bald win, Dick Beaubier, Ted Carron, Ernie Clinton, Idan Flaa, Howard Hesselberg, Frances Lamb, Jack McCullough, Roy Sugimoto and Ralph Wahrenbrock. 27 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH When New York claimed the first grand* mother in the February Bulletin Board, Doug Price, our Baton Rouge correspondent, got a lot of phone calls from grandmothers at the plant. Here are a few of their grandchil* dren. Kristan, 3 months,, and Albert Meyerer, 16 months (r.) grandsons of Maude Renfroe. Swinging together outside their home in Rolling Fork, Miss, are Billy, age 31/2, and Murree Greer, 18 months, who are the grandchildren of Pearl Mann, of Plant and Employee Services. Those dimpled cheeks belong to Scott Fried* lander, 2 years 3 months, who is the grandson of Mrs. S. M. Bums, Produc tion Planning section. Grandsons seem to run in the'family of Lillian Smith, of Production Planning. Sitting on the steps, center, is Lionel, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Smith of Baton Rouge. Kenneth, left, age 2, and Sidney, right, age 41/2/ are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney F. Smith, of Maplewood, La. ETC 12548 w Recent Arrivals Detroit Jim and Muriel Sewell -- third daughter, Constance Anne, born Feb ruary 2. Jim is a technician in the fuel handling section at the labs., Bob and Anne Stevenson -- first child, Linda Sue, born February 4. Bob is a research engineer in the fuel research section at the Detroit labs. "Hurry up and snap it, pop." It's Mary Lynn Adams appealing for quick action from her father, Bill. A first-time father, our Detroit pub lic relations representative, took this picture when his daughter was 7 weeks old. They're Engaged Detroit ; Nora Altman, chemical mathema- tician, to Balfour Peisner of Detroit. . The groom-to-be graduated from the j University of Detroit Law School in I January. The wedding date is set for June 4. Joanne Hoffman, secretary in fuel research, to Ted Carron, of chem research. They plan to be married April 22. Both claim the University of Detroit as alma mater and Ted also attended the University of Michigan. Wallace Lesnick, research chemist, to Betty Gast. Betty is from Highland Park, Mich. Smiling over congratulatory telegrams are Dan O'Dougherty, of N. Y. Finance, and his bride, the former Winifred Ahlstrom. They were married at a nuptial mass in St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Following a reception, they left for a wedding trip through the South. I The Fire's Out, But... All the neighbors rushed over to help carry out furniture and rugs when Bill Lankenau's new home in Florham Park, N. J. caught fire about 10 a. m. on February 17. Bill, assistant pur chasing agent in New York, collects records and, since most of the rescue group were women, he's still looking for the Amazon who moved his record cabinet out onto the front lawn. Even though Florham Park volun teer fire fighters arrived in record time, most of the second floor was destroyed before the fire was put out. The two youngsters didn't even have a pair of pajamas left. Bill and his family have been mov ing ever since, living with relatives in and around New York. The roof was left intact and the first floor damaged very little, but it will be May 1 before they can move back. 29 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH Ii etc 12549 Salute The World's Greatest Salesman ... A Baby Here is the world's greatest salesman. HE announces his arrival in the world with a lusty cry but soon changes it to a friendly smile. HE knows instinctively the art of securing your "attention"--the first step in successful selling. HE practices continuously the art of "selling himself"--the second step in successful selling. HE has absolute "confidence" that you will give him what he wants. HE wins your confidence and gives you HIS because he really likes people-- and shows it--at every opportunity. HE holds your "interest" and educates you as to HIS needs and wishes with a charm that makes his every "desire" the First Order of the Day. HE makes each "demonstration" so enthusiastically that you are more than willing to grant HIS merest wish whether it be within your means or not. HE is a great "Closer" because HE knows what he wants, HE asks for what he wants, HE is not satisfied until HE GETS WHAT HE WANTS. HE learns something new every day. HE learns to crawl before he walks, to walk before he climbs, but always he moves forward--one step at a time. Neither disappointment nor failure stops him. HE is the world's greatest salesman. 30 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH then he grows to manhood. HE enters business. HE becomes a salesman in the outside workaday world. But what has become of all the knowledge he had in babyhood? Somewhere along the road from childhood HE has lost his magic charm and does not use the selling principles HE once followed instinctively. WHY? HE has forgotten how to smile--a genuine smile. He has lost his Confidence. HE has lost the art of "selling himself," because HE now likes himself a little better than i HE likes other people. | HE DOES NOT prepare for what he wants, HE DOES NOT work for what he wants, HE DOES NOT ask for what he wants, HE DOES NOT get what he wants--ORDERS. THEN THERE ARRIVES in his home, } "The World's Greatest Salesman--A BABY," from whom he soon learns that Confidence is one of the greatest things in the world. When it is lost, all is lost. Little children grow up with Confidence in their hearts. Grown people profit by keeping it. When it flourishes in the hearts of men, great things can be accomplished. SALUTE AND LEARN FROM "THE WORLD'S GREATEST SALES MAN--A BABY." Copyright C. F. Hatmakat She knows what your giving means Helping turn on the light of hope in some disaster-stricken face . . . That's what your giving means. Helping to save a life so dear to someone, somewhere . . . That's what your, giving means. Your help is always there--through your Red Cross. Know in your heart you sent your share. Give now and give generously. All may help through RED CROSS GIVE NOW! ETC 12552 IN THIS ISSUE P Safety in Marketing Clock Watching Pays Off Lower ''Ethyl" Fluid Prices Service Birthdays Wedding of the Month And Then There Were None As You Were Public Relations Is You 4 6 7 8 9 10 12 17 Moving Doy in N. Y. (See page 5) BULLETIN BOARD ETC 12553 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by cmd for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis. Editor Contributing Editors * Baton flouge: Douglas Price, John C Reniroe. J. T. Stephenson (photoqrapher); Chicago: Ruth Callaway; Dallas: Ann Seliridgo; Detroit: George Betker, Bermrdine Burdick, Marqaret Dullinqer. Fred Green (photoqrspher), Claude Hoffman, Lauren Knowles, Bob Mescher. Claire Olsen, Alyce Peterson (photographer), Philip Savage, A1 Sechfist, Margaret Welp, Art Zeits; Houston: Kathleen Finen: Kansas City: Blanche Ash, Edward J. Otto. Jr.; Los Anqeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips: New York: Jim Donohue, Don ForsdicJr, Wilma Hansa, Erma Harris, Alice Lahn. Ruth Moore. Helen Sinclair, Emily Whitfield; San Bernardino: Carol Simcock, James Terrell: Tulsa: Clenis Dickerson, Gladys floney; fonhers: Catherine Foster; Central Office, Gasoline Testing: Chris BruhL Published by the Ethyl Corporation. 100 Park Avenue. New York, New York: Edward L. Shea, President; Stanley 7. Crossland, Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Assistant Secretary. ETC 12554 msmu) The winning plane in the International Round the World air races in the year 2000 comes in for a landing. Ever wish ona star . . . dream of fly ing over the rainbow ... or dream of a land where a man has never a worry and never a care? If you have, you'll enjoy Ethyl's new film, "The Future Is What You Make It!" A series of animated color cartoons whisk you away into the land of Buck Rogers, project you from this present, work-a-day world into the next century. In this far away land, you meet Mr. Vesselle, a remarkable and lively character, whose activities at 80 will startle and amaze you. Bounding from one activity to another, he wins the International Round the World Air Races, helps pick Miss America of 2000, is interviewed in his home by a reporter. Then he reveals his secret--the secret of feeling so young at 80. You'll get to see Mr. Vesselle and hear his priceless secret, for all Ethyl em ployees will have a chance to see "The Future Is What You Make It!" Some--the Baton Rouge employees and the sales representatives--have already seen it. But they're keeping the secret. You'll be let in on it soon when the film is shown at your location. Pilot of the plane, radiant and vigorous at 80, tells a reporter the secret of his vitality. "You wouldn't believe how young you can feel." ETC 12555 Oil men attending the Greater New York Safety Council's convention on March 30 pooled ideas for promoting safety in two important phases of marketing: bulk transport and service station operation. Presiding at the meeting was Ethyl's Ellis Locher, assistant safety manager, who introduced the two principal speakers--John W. Scott, Jr., chief motor inspector for The Texas Company at Indianapolis, and F. R. McLean, manager of safety and claims for the White Star Division of Socony-Vacuum at Detroit. Here Ellis talks with friends from The Texas Company before the meeting. They are, from left, I. F. Holley, G. W. Schwert, F. M. Hunt and J. F. Sauer. FOCUS ON SAFETY John Scott, Jr., chief motor inspector of The Texas Company, at Indianapolis, Ind. (right) shows Ethyl safety men how to operate his device for training drivers of heavy automotive equipment. Mr. Scott displayed his invention in New York for the first time in connection with his talk on "Driver Education on Care and Operation of Air Brakes." During his discussion, Scott told how an understanding of the various parts of the airbrake system helps both drivers and maintenance men reduce accidents and potential accidents. By illustrating proper brake application techniques and explaining safety devices, the Scott equipment shows drivers how to cut down maintenance costs and increase safety of operation. Talking with Mr. Scott are (left to right) Jim Baldwin, Bill Trelease and Mac McCooley, all of our Eastern Sales region. ETC 12556 4 0 th. New Address for New York Cover girl is Genevieve Corcoran Murphy checking out of her office in the Chrysler building. She's heading, along with the rest of the New York folk, for new quarters at 100 Park, one block over and one down. Genevieve is one of three Ethyl girls who had a hand in the last move ot the executive offices. That was 20 years ago when they moved uptown from 25 Broadway. "There's nothing to it at all," the moving companies tell you. But most of the Ethyl people in New York had a different idea at the end of the day Friday, April 21. They had been clean ing out drawers, going through files, packing magazines and books. Wound up weary but rid of much excess bag gage, which they left happily behind. ^MADISON AVENU ETC 12557 40 tm.STREET Ethyl Men Star in Time Study Skit A skit and -discussion panel on time study as related to clerical work were presented by Baton Rouge industrial engineers before a meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Man agement held at Louisiana State Uni versity on March 30. Entitled "Indus trial Engineers Look at Clerical Work," the skit demonstrated how time study methods are used in a typical business office to analyze a job thoroughly. Ben Harrison, manager of our in dustrial engineering section, who was in charge of the presentation, explained that need for a time study in a clerical office "in no way reflected on the ability of the supervisor or employee. He can seldom take the time from cur rent duties to carefully analyze in dividual time requirements." Assisting in the skit were engineers Elmo Deidrich, George Lane, Harold Madden, Dick Schneider and H. O. White and stenographers Marjorie Hunt and Alta Mae Varnado. During the discussion period, the engineers doubled as a "panel of experts" to answer questions from the floor. Steve Henry, manager of plant and employee services and secretary of the Baton Rouge S.A.M., also spoke at the meeting. Steve described some of the organization's basic purposes and pointed out that the group is interested both in promoting and in improving management functions. R BB We Prescribe ... Here at Ethyl we're proud of the ex tra power that "Ethyl" antiknock compound gives to gasoline and en gines, but we weren't prepared for a recent request for a tonic or tablets to build up muscles. Attaching a yellowed newspaper clipping to his letter, a gentleman reader of one of our "What's In a Name?" advertisements asked us to send him a booklet on how to gain weight. The ad, which was published many years ago, showed an illustration of a strong rnan with a Mr. America physique. The caption read "Charles means `great strength.' " A coupon offering a free copy of the booklet "What's In a Name?" was included in the ad. But the meaning of names was not what this reader wanted. We had to tell him, with regret, that we really couldn't send him a booklet on how to become a strong man. We couldn't even send him a copy of "What's In a Name?" because our supply ran out in November. Since then we've received over 1800 addi tional letters from as far off as Nigeria, Iraq and South America in response to an advertising campaign which ended seven years ago. We do appreciate this reader's con fidence in us, but the only tonic we can prescribe is strictly for his automo bile: For extra power and performance --a tankful of "Ethyl" gasoline. 6 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL Cost Cuts Passed Along to Customers Continuing our policy of passing on economies in manufacturing opera tions and raw material costs whenever possible. Ethyl Corporation reduced the price of ``Ethyl" antiknock comoound on March 10. The new prices for all shipments of "Ethyl" antiknock compound are 55.4c per pound of tetraethyl lead con tent (approximately 0.2015c per cubic centimeter of tetraethyl lead) for Motor Mix, and 60.9c per pound (ap proximately 0.2215c per cubic centi meter of TEL) for Aviation Mix. The old prices, which had been in effect since October 25/ 1949, were 56.7c per pound of TEL content for Motor Mix (approximately 0.2063c per cubic centimeter) and 62.2c per pound of tetraethyl lead content for Aviation Mix (approximately 0.2263c per cubic centimeter). Dinner can wait . . . and did . . . while these Ethyl men smilingly obliged the cameraman. We call this the height of cooperation, as those Mississippi shrimp look mighty tempting. The picture was made at a banquet on the last evening of the Southern regional meeting held March 7-9 at Edgewater Park, Miss. Front and center is Harry Cottrell and clockwise are: Charlie Rankin, Howard Gerber, Scotty Scott, Clint Bond, Julian Frey, Doug Jeppe, Ed Muller, Russ Schell, Rollin Barnes, Bill Newman, Harry Hollingsworth, John Watt, Jimmy Zars, Pres Berry, Larry Reis, Ed Hendrick, Mac McCulloch, Cliff Lenington, Frank Jobes, Lou Shank, San Wagner, Harold Berg, Hank Ball, Frank DeVore, Ollie Jones, Dick Sneed, John Rollins, Bruce Crane, Carl Bartholomew, Osborne Fremd, Jack Laubach, Dale Miller, Mac Murdock, Jake Balzer (face hidden), Joe Hopkins, Bob Jordan and Wallace Emery. Jack Warner, who also attended the meeting, is the only Southern region man not present when this photo was taken. ETC 12559 Dr. Lester Sanders became the 17th Ethyhte to receive a gold watch from the Company when he rounded out 25 years of service this month. He first joined the experimental group in clinical laboratory work in 1925. Then on receipt of his medical degree in 1928, he be came one of the traveling physicians of our Medical department and continues in that ca pacity. He has charge of all medical work at our Detroit labs. Dr. Sanders has for many years been a member of the staff of the Kettering Laboratory in the College of Medicine of the U. of Cincinnati. Born in Dayton, Dr. Sanders left college to serve with the Army in World War I. He won his A.B. from the University of Michi gan and his M.D. from Cincinnati University. He belongs to the American Medical Associa tion, American Association of Industrial Phy sicians and Surgeons, Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, Beta Theta Pi and Alpha Kappa Kappa. He's married, has two sons. Dr. Lester Sanders Harold Ritchie, of the Yonkers Gasoline Testing laboratory, celebrates his 20th anni versary. Harold joined Ethyl as a knock test engineer back in the days when the test en gines were set up in the basement of the con verted garage which housed the Yonkers lab. He was one of the ten staff members who moved in 1940 to the new lab, where he has continued in the essential job of testing gaso line quality. In November 1948, a picture of Harold recording the performance of a gaso line sample in a CFR engine was featured on the cover of the Ethyl News. A native of Waterbury, Conn., he attended high school in Chelsea, Mass., then enlisted in the Navy in World War I and served for three years. He is an active sports fan and a past-chairman of sports at the Coveleigh Beach club. During the past few months, Harold and his wife Katherine have been busy getting settled in their new home in White Plains, New York. Harold Ritchie Wesley Price Wesley Price, of Detroit, joins the 15-year club. After chalking up seven years of expe rience at the General Motors Proving Ground in his home town of Milford, Mich., Wes went west to San Bernardino in 1935 and started with Ethyl as a test driver. In 1941 he was transferred to Detroit. After three years as a mechanic, he was promoted in 1944 to his present job as a technician in Automotive Research. A fishing and hunting enthusiast, Wes belongs to the Multi-Lakes Conservation club and the Milford club. He also sings a mellow tenor in the Barber Shop Quartet club. He's married and has one son, Jim, 6. Rounding out five years of Ethyl service in April are: Berleigh C. Green and Clyde Shep pard, both of Detroit Research, and Robert L. Smith, of the Central region. Ten-year awards went to John Capinjola, of t Detroit Research and Glenis Dickerson, Tulsa. ETC 12560 Richard Cook . . . N. Y. Public ly , , . from Glen Ridge, N. J. . . . former editor Nickel Plate Road Magazine, ex-managing editor C <5t O Railway magazine . . . vice president U. of New Hamp shire Alumni club of North N. J. .. . married, one son, 2. Donald Hornbeck . . . Central region sales representative . . . Wisconsin-born . . . B.S. in Ch.E. from U. or Illinois . . . ex-track man . . . Army veteran . . . mem ber of American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Re search Society of America. Muriel Youngblood . . . De troit labs . . . stenographer for Jim Foote of Automotive Research . . . has switched from casual to regular payroll . . . born in Ten nessee, graduated from Hazel Park (Mich.) High School . . . bride of six months. They're Married New York President E. L. Shea married Mrs. Manly Johnston on March 24 in New York City. A reception for the im mediate families was held at the home ofMr. and Mrs. William Keyser Manly. The bride is the former Miss Mary Mathilde Manly, of Baltimore, daugh ter of Mrs. Mathilde Keyser Manly and the late William Maurice Manly. Recent Arrivals Detroit Russ and Gwen Carlsen -a daugh ter, Wendy Lorrae, born March 7. Russ is in Detroit Chem Research. Canada Jim and DOROTHY Main--a son, David James, born January 26. Two brothers, Donald, 8, and Douglas, 7. Jim is with Ethyl Anti-knock, Ltd. They're Engaged New York Therese Hemmer, teletype operator, to S. M. Clarke on March 25. A Sep tember wedding is planned. Cupid was Lillian Campbell, also of Teletype, who introduced Syl to Terry. Shift Key Bob Douglass, Central region account representative, has moved his head quarters from Denver to Kansas City. Paul Harris, Western region safety engineer, has moved from Great Falls, Montana to Seattle, Washington. 9 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL THE TEN LITTLE THESE ARE THE WORKERS I REDDY DOCTOR RAILROADER MINER STEELWORKER FARMER LAWYER GROCER SALESCLERK REPORTER Ten little free workers in this country fine end (air. But il you cherish your freedom--worker have a caret Ten little free workers--Reddy was doing fine Until the socialists got him--then there were nine. Nine little free workers laughed at Reddy's late Along came federal medicine--then there were eight. Eight little free workers thought this country heaven But the government took over the railroads, then there were seven. Seven little free workers--'fiii the miners got in a fix. Unde said coal's essential and took over leaving six. Reddy Kitovrat. your Electric Servant, a copyrighted $ymbot of business managed electric companies. 10 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 12562 fORYOF ^ REE WORKERS . Six little free workers 'till the day did arrive The steel mills too were federalized--then there were five. Five little free workers--but the farmers are free no more The farms have been collectivized--that leaves only four. Four Jitiie free workers till the government did decree All must have tree legal advice--then there were three. Three little free workers--the number is getting lew, But with government groceries selling food--then there were (wo. Two little free workers--our story's almost done. With clerks at work in federal stores--that leaves only one. One little free worker--the reporter son-of-a-gun Mustn't criticize government--so now there are none. & Ten little workers--but they are no longer free They work when and where ordered, and at a fixed rate you see. And it all couJd have been prevented if they'd only seen lit to agree And work together instead of saying "it never can happen to met" 11 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 12563  FAMILY 1. This beribboned miss joined Ethyl when our N. Y. offices were downtown. ... is now secretary to a key executive. 4. Perhaps this solemn lad was already pondering the problems of control and cost. 2. He sometimes wears a bow tie, but a sure clue on this N. Y. department head is his moustache. 3. Mew York accountant, his name is the same as that Mew Englander who was advised to speak for himself. 5. She's well known for her smiles as she welcomes many visitors to our N. Y. offices. 6. This Southern belle was born in Mew Orleans, came to Mew York just a few years ago. That's her boss at the left. 12 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 12564 Take a look into the family album at these gems (rom yesteryear. The young lads and lassies m these photos are all working for Ethyl today . . . even though you may not recognize them at first glance. Test your ingenuity at recognition, then turn to page 13. 7. On his first birth day, one of our New York safety special ists looked like this. 9. Those inquiring eyes belong to an ex-BB reporter who works in the Corpor ate secretary's office. 9. He joined Ethyl 16 years ago in Little Rock, now keeps tabs on activities in the Central region. 10. What the junior fashion plate wore a few decades ago is modeled by our New York expert on printing. 11. At three she was a demure little miss in high-button shoes. Now she's a busy secretary in New York Safety. 13 BULLETIN EOArJD -- APRIL ETC 12565 14. When this picture appeared in a Flatbush paper, this member of our Sales staff was 5, and the youngest crick et player in the country. \ 12. Banged and beribboned, this little miss started with Ethyl eight years ago in New York Finance, now works in the President's office. 18. Motorists hadn't heard of octane numbers when this Ethylette posed beside the steering wheel. Today she is secretary to the man who devised the octane scale. 15. A Brooklyn-born colleen, she's traveled through much of the United States, lived for several years in East Cleve land, Ohio. She helps turn out work in N. Y. Publicity. 13. Looks as if this robust youngster has a word to say to the camera* man. Today he's mighty handy with words, helps tell the Ethyl story. 16. Visitors touring the Detroit laboratories are often guided by this research coordinator. I 17. A secretary in Ad vertising (right), she reports news of New Yorkers for the BB. ETC 12566 20. New Yorkers are fa miliar with her bowling scores. An ex-receptionist she's now in Statistical. 21. Balking beauty in a tub at age 2 . . . more recently seen in BB in a sailboat . . . she's a secretary, N. Y. Safety. 25. A skiing enthusiast and fisher man, this Empire Stater has been an Ethyl accountant for 16 years. He's also a prize-winning photographer. 22. Sending over a fast ball is this youthful pitcher from New York Industrial Relations. 19. She's now in Automotive Research at Detroit and a bride of six months' standing. 26. A smiling four-year-old when this picture was taken, she started at Yonkers in 1943, now does statis tical work in the N. Y. Safety office. 23. This wide-eyed young lady has pro gressed from her small table and chair to a reception desk in H. Y. 24. No spoons for him; he won this silver cup for being first boy born to a Yale `99 grad. He's a N. Y. Sales executive. Detroit EthyUtes gave Biil Hancock a stag gomg-away party on March 3 before he left for San Bernardino, where he is now in charge of Fuel Blending and Handling. At left, part of the group which gathered at Megalo Manor, home of lack Bailie, Cap Hall and Harry Toulmin, watch the entertainment. The program be gan with films on outdoor life, then Ed Kurt gave a color slide lecture on his trip down to South America. FOR MEN ONLY Hit of the evening was a skit on Bill's past life enacted by Mike Remonaino, Fritz Schroeter, Bill Wanderer and Wilkie Wilkinson and written by Fred Green. Front and center, Bill Hancock almost laughs himself off his chair. Sitting behind him are Howard Hesselberg (wiping away the tears) and John Wintringham. Standing are Dale Thompson and Ken Swartwood (with pipe). That's Charlie Kass blowing a smoke screen (far right). Among the gifts presented to Bill were an umbrella (for that California dew), an electric clockradio and a set of recordings of the skit and the now famous last words of his farewell speech. Fritz Schroeter tempts a well-behaved dog, Baron, with a tray of cheese and crackers while Harold Chalk (left), Ed Kurt and Jack Taylor watch. Max Roensch is sitting in the background. At right: Cap Hali offers a pickle to Mike Remondino while Dale Thompson proposes a toast. ETC 12568 Extra-Curricular Lew Barnum Lew Barnum has been reelected to a threeyear term on the Board of Directors of the Southern Area Council of the Y.M.C.A. Lew, who is assistant to the manager of plant and employee services in Baton Rouge, is also on the Council's Industrial Program services committee. This council is composed of local Y.M.C.A.'s throughout the Southern states. Bill Bauer On Easter Sunday. Bill Bauer, of New York, rounded out 15 years as a member of the choir at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge. Bill is an accountant in the cost section of Finance. Ralph Clark Ralph Clark, of New York, is one of 33 experts in the publicity and public relations fields who contributed to the recently pub lished Public Relations Handbook edited by Philip Lesly. Ralph, who is manager of publicity and publications, wrote a chapter on "Industry Relations," which tells how to build good will and develop new markets. Bob Cowiishaw Bob Cowiishaw, assistant treasurer, was the speaker of the evening at a dinner meeting of the Baton Rouge Association of Accoun tants held on February 22. Bob spoke on "Life Inventory." Tom Davis Tom Davis, assistant traffic manager at the plant, has been appointed to the Baton Rouge Port Authority. Tom was awarded his com mission by the city council on March 29. Felt and Heron Art Felt, Detroit research engineer, and S. D. Heron, former head of the Aero lab, now consulting engineer for Ethyl, are co authors of a paper entitled "Cylinder Per formance--Compression Ratio, and Mechan ical Octane Number Effects." Mr. Heron pre sented the paper at the Society of Automotive Engineers National Passenger Car, Body and Production meeting held in Detroit March 1416. Reg Broquet and Al Sechrist assisted in the engine design and construction. George Vaughn assisted Art Felt in operating the engine and obtaining test data. Bob Cowiishaw Steve Henry Steve Henry, manager of plant and em ployee services at Baton Rouge, took part in five panel and forum discussions at the first annual Management-Student Conference held at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston, La. on March 15. Steve opened the meeting with a discussion of "Functional Organiza tion" and also served as moderator for a forum held at the evening banquet on "How to Train Young Executives." On April 13, Steve was one of five generals, all alumni of Louisiana State University, who took part in the "LSU at Mid-Century" celebration. Hesselberg and Jones Howard Hesselberg and Casey Jones, both of the Detroit labs, recently told student groups of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers about "High Compression Engines and Their Fuels." Casey, who heads the Pas senger Car and Accessory section, spoke at the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in Houghton, Mich., on March 7; and Howard, who's in Combustion Research, traveled to Rolla, Mo. to speak at the Missouri School of Mines on April 12. Lovell and Polleyblank W-heeler Lovell, associate director of re search at the Detroit labs, is on the speakers list for the meeting of the Division of Refining of the American Petroleum Institute, which will be held in Cleveland May 1-4. He will present a paper entitled "Road Effectiveness of Tetraethyl Lead as Influenced by Added Sulphur." Donald Pulley blank, one of our Detroit research engineers, is the co-author. 17 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 12569 Sitting on the straw after a lively session of "dosey do" and promenading, San Bernardino Ethylites enjoy their coffee and pie. About 80 members of the lab staff, their families and friends joined in a square dance sponsored by the Steering Committee of the San B. Ethyl Society on March 11 at the Muscay Women's club house. At left are Bob Sortman, Art (Pappy) Sortman, >who retired last year after 23 years with the Company, Adell and Virgil Allred. Seated in the front row at right are guests John and Peggy Powell, Florence and Rollin Gish (note those boots!), Bess Way, and guests Linda and Gordon Fields, who's on the receiving end of a forkful of pie. Standing on stage in the background are Caller A1 Lockabey and the two musicians. Students Observe Research in Progress Ethyl's Detroit laboratories as the leader in research on the improvement of fuels, fuel additives and engines are visited each year by hundreds of stu dents. During March, 90 men from the Chrysler Institute of Engineering and 50 mechanical engineering students from Ohio State University toured the laboratories. On hand to explain and demonstrate the special equipment and methods used in Ethyl's research and develop ment projects were: Merrill Anderson, Dave Davidson, Earl DeWitt, Art Felt, Harold Gibson, Ferd Gillig, Jim Hinkamp, Dan Hirschler, Wheeler Lovell, Jim Mason, Warren Perilstein, Fritz Schroeter, Dick Sneed, Harold Soroos, Harry Toulmin, Ralph Wahrenbrock and John Wintringham. 18 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL Here's Who {Aiuwen to Photoqnix) 1. Connne Hill, secretary to President . L. Shea; 2. Bayard Browne, mana ger of order and shipping; 3. John Smith, chief accountant; 4. Art Deverill, head of control and cost section in N. Y. Finance; 5. Edith Wilson, receptionist; 6. Trudie Horstmann, secretary to John Smith; 7. Ellis Locher, assistant safety manager; 8. Esther Stapley Lyman; 9. Len Huxtable, Cen tral regional operations manager; 10. Ed Enoch, N. Y. Advertising; 11. Eileen Charman; 12. Anne Daul; 13. Stan Nickerson, N. Y. Publicity; 14. Oscar Lewis, assistant sales manager; 15. Peggy Smith, N. Y. Publicity; 16. Jim Hinkamp; 17. Helen Sinclair, secretary to Ed Enoch; 18. Lillian Johnson, secre tary to Vice-President Graham Edgar; 19. Marion Mecoli Pheister; 20. Betty Beach; 21. Eleanor Schreyer; 22. How ard Gulick; 23. Erma Harris; 24. Ollie Jones, manager of customer services; 25. J. P. Weeks, accountant in N. Y. Finance; 26. Grace Ferguson. ETC 12570 (MO ITS STANDARD OF LIVING) CAN BE MEASURED PRETTY WELL BY ITS CONSUMPTION OF PETROLEUM * <o@0(L HAS HELPED ALMOST EVERY GREAT SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PAST 90 YEARS. EVEN THE CYCLOTRON/ ONE OF THE KEYS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY, USES THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF SPECIALLY-PREPARED OIL, for ,, -JW., POWER FARMING DOUBLED JH YIELDS OP AMERICAN FARMS, THE NUMBER OF HORSES DECREASED. THANHS TO OIL-POWERED MACHINERY FARM HORSEPOWER HAS INCREASED BY h BILUON IN THE LAST 40 YEARS... WHILE THE NUMBER OF HORSES ON FARMS HAS DECLINED BY TWO THIRDS. ETROLEUM PRODUCES PROGRESS. SPURRED ON BY COMPETITION, AMERICA'S OIL COMPANIES HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR MORE THAN 60 PER CENTOFTHE WORLD PRODUCTION OF CRUDE OIL. ETC 12571 ETC 12572 Skullwork in the West Ethyl Ambassadors Service Spotlight Hail and Farewell 10 14 16 18 BULLETIN BOARD 7 ETC 12573 W-.'-t ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis. Editor Contributing Editors fSZt G^?i!fuSf,[.pho'2,rap'L*.rJ; c,o.- Pub/ished by the Ethyl Corporation. 100 Park Avenue. New York. New York- l,- fheo- Pre/iden,; Stanley T. Crossland. Vice President and Treasurer- Herbert A. Savage, Assistant Secretary. measurer. ETC 12574 Homeward bound at the end o{ their first day m new quarters at 100 Park .Avenue, these New Yorkers are taking off for points in Westchester, Long island, New lersey.and Brooklyn. The new budding, close to subways, busses and trams is conveniently located--only one block from Grand Central station. Esther Stanley holds the distance record m this group. Her home is in Stratford, Conn., 65 miles from Manhattan, and she spends almost three and a half hours a day on the train. From left are: Bob 3urns, 3-11 Lankenau. Virginia Atamian. Mary Staunton. Esther, Urn Southwick, Carolyn Jo'nanson, Emmy Kcster, Lucde Tdlar and Van Fleck. To provide better working conditions for employees at the Baton Rouge plant, an improvement program gets under way this month. The architect's drawing, above, shows the Shops and Stores building, a steel frame structure with concrete block and transite walls and a precast concrete roof deck. A smaller building with change house and office facilities will go up nearby. Modern Facilities Will Replace Outgrown Shops and Stores Our plant expansion program at Baton Rouge isn't over yet, by any means. This month work begins on a large modernization and improve ment project which will provide better working conditions for employees in Maintenance and Stores. According to J. H. Schaefer, vice president in charge of manufacturing, the project will total approximately $3,500,000 and will include centralized shops and stores, new maintenance offices and change-house facilities, and will provide for new mobile equipment and greatly improved roadways. The new shops and stores facilities are to be among the most modem and efficient available. They are scheduled for completion by December of this year. All plant roadways are to be hardsurfaced or paved by August. The shops and stores will provide 139,000 square feet of work and stor age space--the change house and office, 18,000 square feet. The new buildings will provide im proved working quarters for about 300 employees. "With the new facilities,'' said Bynum Turner, general manager of manufacturing, "we will be able to consolidate our shops and stores, now located in all areas of the plant. This project will greatly improve the effi ciency of handling and servicing our equipment throughout the plant." 3 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 12575 Helpful new feature that Randolph Charlton, office manager, would like to install is an extra pair of arms! After Detroit Staff Architect Karl Kuhn, who designed the floor plan layout, returned to the labs, Randolph became a one-man complaint bureau. In this gag shot Dave Donovan is giving him some help in answering the phones, which buzz with dozens of requests: Where's my wastepaper basket, shelving, chairs, ashtrays? When are the pictures going to be hung? I'm too hot! I'm too cold! What's the matter with the air conditioning? I want something out of my hies now (which, of course, are still packed). Could Jules (Dammann) fix this right away? A MOVING STORY Where's the stockroom? Which way to 1755? Where are the stairs? How do I get out of here? A lot of Ethyl emigrants, upon arriving at 100 Park Avenue to set up shop, were bothered and bewildered. The floors were big, the halls long and the tum-offs baffling. - Of course, all employees had been given floor plans but they were neatly tucked away in their desks. And de 4 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY spite the fact that the first hour of the first day was devoted to a tour of the new offices with coffee and donuts thrown in, nobody knew where any body was. There was too much to grasp all at once, and the tour proved more social than informative. For the first few days there was talk of lost and strayed items. One secretary found a very large pair of men's rubbers in her office; posted ETC 12576 notices offering to exchange them for one red, white and black umbrella. But now they're practically settled. No more lost and wandering souls in the halls. All is quiet once again and it's back to business as usual. Already Ethyl people are hurrying through the downstairs lobby. Its spaciousness, its elegant marble walls and recessed cove lighting no longer give them pause. But they're still fascinated by the elevator buttons with the photo elec tric eyes that light up without any pressure. And they'll be enjoying for a long time to come their well-lighted offices, thanks to large double-hung aluminum windows and grill-type fluorescent fixtures. They're also enjoying the conve nience of having all the offices concen trated on three floors and connected by private stairways. They are finding that this compactness not only saves time in going from one department to another but enables them to get ac quainted with more Ethyl people. And they are looking forward to summer with no dread of the heat. The building is 100% air conditioned. Headquarters of the Eastern region are on the 17th floor in one compact unit. Secre taries work together, just outside their bosses' doors. Gerry Harms checks a letter while Yvonne Guertin (left) and Gen LeRoy type. Madge Lofthouse listens attentively to Account Representative Redg Bushell. New type telephone equipment provides 24hour fully automatic service for inside and outgoing local calls. Marie Anderson, chief operator, and Herb Bugle, N. Y. Telephone Co. installer, stand by the 20 line .finders, which pick your line when you lift the receiver. With 49 cabinets already in place and more on the way, the General File room is a busy place. Camille Russo (at file), Dot Hayes (typing) and Betty Mergner maintain thou sands of alphabetical and subjects files, set up files for any department, as needed. ETC 12577 Busy with typewriters, telegrams and notebooks, tbe Stenographic girls keep on the hop. From left: Adeline Edwards prepares to send a telegram. Anne O'Neill types copy and Annette Sullivan traces forms on the light box for multilithing. Jessie Halton, head of Steno, talks with Elsie Rex; Sylvia Varis and June Fay check copy as Bernadette Curtin (who is now secre tary to Frank Howard) types. At left: As one of our customer services, the Statistical Research department turns out charts and graphs analyzing gas oline sales and consumption, market ing and sales. Their Monthly Report on Gasoline Gallonage, compiled as a service to the petroleum industry, presents combined figures available from no other source. Two chartists, Hope Morano (left) and Lena Moskal (not in picture) prepare the visual presentation of the statistics organ ized by Joan Simonsen, Mary Engsberg, Helen Dowd, Joan Plant, Betty Beach and Margaret Einarsen (right). Below: In the Safety department offices, Eileen Charman, secretary to Gerry Forsdick, is at far left. Alice Lahn gets a letter from the file for her boss, Ollie Jones, manager of customer services. Statistician Grace Ferguson talks with Norma Frazier, secretary to Ellis Locher. Front: Eleanor Schreyer, secretary to Van Above: Lillian Campbell (left) and Terry Hemmer keep the teletype ma chine humming. They're right next to Order and Shipping, have a spe cial window for receiving orders to speed to the plant or the terminals. ETC 12578 Into Order and Shipping come all orders for all products shipped by Ethyl. Orders are processed through a master card system, then teletyped to Baton Rouge Production Planning. After ship ment has been made, O&S makes sure the customer is notified of its scheduled time of arrival. Following through on orders are Marie Metzger, Agnes Bowe, John Wallis, Bayard Browne, de partment head, John Schwanzer, Joyce Ringquist, Bobbie Landers. In the Mechanical Bookkeeping department, George Sexton, de partment head, Mabel Gerster (left), Anne Coyne and Gertrude Schrader keep the final book keeping records after everything has been cleared by various de partments. In the trays are some of the account cards which are kept up to date on the four electric bookkeeping machines. Mail service continued with out delay in the new office. The mail room staff sorted out mail, delivered it to the proper spot and often, served as unofficial guides for many Ethylites who couldn't find their offices or the private stairs connecting our three floors. Here lules Zeph wraps a package while Sarge Minori puts letters into the postage meter. That's Dave Donovan sorting mail and Gene Lenahan, who is head of the mail room, at the desk. The Traffic department, home of transportation and rate problems, is located on the 18th floor. Ed Gresslin (stand ing), traffic manager, and his staff make reservations for traveling Ethyl folk, ar range for tank and box cars to ship our products. Clock wise: Lillian McCarthy, Bill Croissant, Alice Wygand, Ed Betchaver and Mike Gaydos. ETC 12579 General Accounting occup one of the largest single off layouts on the 19th flo Sitting on the left are Me elyn Drum, Helen Stritt Alex McBean and' An Schmitt. At right are Geor Roberts, Ed Rehwoldt, D> O'Dougherty talking w: Barney Weyhrauch, Ge: Gamier and John Sulliva Standing in back are Elean Helmrich and Mike Marold Accounts Payable shares tl tip of the southwest wing wit General Accounting. Het are (left) Arnold Nelson an Helen Reed. On the righ John P. Weeks and Eleanc Dunlop, Edith Mahoney, E> Nieser and Helen Eure; Back center: Earl Currier assistant chief accountant confers with A1 Merz, super visor of accounts payable That wonderful place where your pay checks come from is on the 19th floor, too. Above right: Mary O'Brien speeds those checks through on this electric payroll machine, then Dot Rogan checks and rechecks each one. The figures Mary puts into her machine are compiled in the main office- (above). Nearest the camera are Ruth Hall, Angy Pascucci (white shirt) and John Einek. In the next row: Wayne Newman and John Robertson. Last row: Ronnie Wiegman, Gertrude Melloh and Albert Warrington. At right: Express from 17! Mary O'Hem, Elsa Weber and Bob Cleve land step into one of the six express elevators to 17. They travel about 800 feet a minute. f ETC 12580 Twenty years ago on May 23, the Gasoline Testing laboratory in North Kansas City, Mo. opened for the important business of keeping a record of gasoline quality and observing devel oping trends. Merritt Collins, Herb Gerland and Jim Terrell moved down to Kansas City to set up shop in the new building when the Omaha lab was closed. Merritt was manager, and to complete the testing staff Walter Rantanen was hired as a chemist. Today with a staff of eight, the lab handles gasoline samples from a 1,750,000 square mile area in the United States and Canada. Current manager is Bill Ludt and Ed Otto is his deputy. All of the men in the orig inal Kansas City lab group have moved on to other assignments. Merritt now helps run the Gasoline Testing division from headquarters in Yonkers, lim and Walter are at the San Betnardino lab--Jim is a technician and Walter, a chemist. Herb, who transferred to Chem Research, has died. His wife Isabelle now works in Production Planning at Baton Rouge. In addition to its testing facilities, the lab houses the K. C. sales sub-office of the Central region. 20 Years of Testing On the cover: Nathan Fay, one of Ethyl's most experienced techni cians, has developed a sharp ear for sounds--especially the sound of knocking fuels. Nathan, who joined the K.C. lab two years after it opened, has run thousands of knock tests on his CFR engine during that 18 years. Here he mixes reference fuels for use in determining octane ratings. At right is Lab Manager Bill Ludt. Below left: Ed Otto, deputy manager, tests a fuel sample for gum content. Frances Hunter, center, is the lab's office force--functions as telephone operator, receptionist, stenographer and file clerk. Below right: Bill Howard operates a CFR knock-testing engine. The three newest recruits, who help keep samples moving at the Kansas City laboratory, are Chemists Remi Arnelunxen and Ed Mulligan, and George Grayson, maintenance and handy man (see February and August-September issues of BB). | i ETC 12581 Kick-off came at 8:00 a.m. with Pay Wynck, Western operations manager, making the opening remarks. Listening at left: San Wag ner, Hume Chenault, Ted Littlefield and Bo ir| Weill. On the right: Jeff Bessire, Harry Man! I rung, Fred Naylor and Bill Van Wyck (stand11 mg, program in hand). Meeting was held at j the Apple Valley Inn, nestling at right against ' the mountain backdrop. After they left here the members of the safety staff met in Los Angeles to discuss blending plant prob lems, safety training and tank cleaning. TO BUILD OUR BUSINESS Men of the Western region met with north and east of San Bernardino. top sales executives late in March For three days its halls were hum i to discuss the 1950 sales program-- ming with talk of our trademark sur activities and services planned, their vey, our advertising program, sales progress and their problems. promotion aids, technical services, Scene of the meeting was the Apple sales shows and research activities. Valley Inn, located about 45 miles Purpose: to build our business. Bob Adams, who's manager oi the San Ber nardino Gasoline Testing lab, discusses some weighty matters with Sales Manager Julian Frey, who presented the 1950 Sales Plan. ETC 12582 Above: Hume Chenault and Earl Bartholomew enjoy a laugh. Upper right: Bob Adams and Frank Elliott have some promising looking canastas on the table. Bill Sievert discards. Fourth man is Herb Peters. Right: Mac McCulloch, Bill Van Wyck (back view) and Jell Bessire keep an eye on Bo Weill's play. Below left: Harry Manning, with camera in hand, tries to persuade Paul Harris that he "oughta be in pictures," while Herb Peters looks doubtful about the whole scheme. Right: Ray Wyrick talks with Oscar Lewis at dinner. ETC 12583 \ Just before Michigan Flying Farmers took off on April 20 after a two-day stay in Detroit, Ethyl Corporation en tertained them at a luncheon at the Dearborn Inn. Speaker Bob Kerley, Ethyl's associate director of research on aviation products, told the group about "Fuels for Personal Aircraft." The program for the M.F.F., during which the pilots visited representative industrial plants, was co-sponsored by Ford Motor Co., Dearborn Motors Corp., Strand Steel division of Great Lakes Steel and Ethyl Corporation. Cartoon--Program cover of Michigan Flying Farmers' meeting. 12 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY ETC 12584 t Higher Quality for " Ethyl" Gasoline in Canada Higher standards of quality in motor search test method. This standard is gasoline sold under the "Ethyl" trade effective in all of Canada except cer mark in Canada became effective on tain high altitude areas in Western May 1, as a result of new minimum Canada where there is an exemption limits of octane rating announced by of three octane numbers, making the Bill Turnley, vice president of Ethyl minimum 83. t Antiknock, Ltd. Now "Ethyl" gasoline sold in Can The new standard increases the re ada has the same minimum antiknock quired minimum antiknock rating for requirements as the gasoline sold gasoline sold under the "Ethyl" trade under the "Ethyl" trade-mark in the mark to 86 octane number by the re United States. Detroit Movie Night Lights, camera, action ... at Detroit's movie night on March 28, these Ethylites and their families and friends turned around to smile for the camera man. In the row nearest the camera are Bill Flan igan's family: (left tc right) son Bob, daughter Jeanne, Bill and his wife Althea. Second row, Glenn Irish and wife Margaret. About 200 Detroiters came to see the film program. After watching "Combat America," filmed by Ma jor Clark Gable, and "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," academy award picture starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, they refueled in the labs cafeteria. Com ing through the refresh ments line are Connie Jones, son Allen and* startled husband Barney Jones, Rex and Kitty Closson, Joe and Polly Metz and Irene and Joe Larson. : ii ETC 12585 Extra-Curricular Lefand Bartholomew Leland Bartholomew, son of Earl Bar tholomew. manager of the Detroit labs, took off for Copenhagen on April 9 with the Uni versity of Michigan's Scandinavian Orchestra. A senior at the University's School of Music. Leland plays theFrench horn.The 75 members of the orchestra will be abroad for six weeks, playing numerous concerts. Larry Oliver and Henry Seitzler Larry Oliver and Henry Seitzler, both of the Baton Rouge plant, participated in a panel discussion of the welfare state, subsidies and pressure groups which was featured at the April 17 meeting of the Edgewater Kiwams club. Discussing the welfare clause of the American Constitution, several speakers brought out the fact that the average wellmeaning American does not take the necessary interest in governmental problems and, as a result, pressure groups are the only groups that let their voices be heard. Idan Ffaa Idan Flaa, of Detroit, told members of the Hi-Twelve club of Birmingham (Mich.) about "Modem High Compression Engines and Their Fuels" at their meeting on April 24. Idan is on the staff of Technical Service. Frink Fricker Frank Fricker, business manager at the Detroit labs, was elected president of the board of the Southern Oakland County Coun cil of Social Agencies at the annual meeting held in Royal Oak (Mich.) in April. Frank, who's also a member of the Detroit Board of Commerce, has served for four years on the board of directors of the Council, a Red Feather service of the Community Chest. Ollie Jones Ollie dones presided at a meeting of the tank cleaning committee of the American Petroleum Institute, held the middle of May in Atlantic City. Ollie, who is chairman of the committee on tank cleaning, is also a member of the central committee on accident preven tion, which met May 1S-18. concurrently with the annual meeting of the National Fire Pro tection Association. Ollie is manager of cus tomer services, including safety. Idan Flaa Claire Olsen Claire Olsen, of Detroit Chemical Re search, is the author of an article on cancer research which appears in the April issue of The Detroit Chemist. Entitled "A Dream That Came True". Claire's article tells the story of the establishment of the Detroit In stitute of Cancer Research. Mu Roensch Max Roensch, of the Detroit Research labs, presented a paper on "High Efficiency with High Compression" at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers, Colorado section, in Denver on April 18. Max is co ordinator in the engine development section of automotive research. John Schaefer John Schaefer, vice president in charge of manufacturing operations, was at the helm during the annual three-day meeting of the Industrial Research Institute April 26-28 at the Westchester Country club, in Rye. N.Y. He is president of the Institute, whose purpose is "to promote improved management of in dustrial research, to develop an understanding of research as a force in the life of the nation, and to promote high standards in the held of industrial research." Frank and Katherine Sergeys Frank and Katharine Sergeys, of Baton Rouge, were in the cast of the Civic Theater's production of "The Warrior's Husband," a three-act play presented May 1-6. Frank is a process engineer at the plant. 14 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY r if ETC 12586 Charles Smith Charles Smith Charles Smith, ofN. Y. Product Develop ment, was recently appointed chairman of the Benzene Hexachloride Technical committee of the National Agricultural Chemicals Asso ciation. During the April NACA meeting in Atlantic City, he gave a talk on legislation. Al Tandrup A1 Tandrup, of Detroit Tech Service, pre sented a talk at the meeting of the Auto Transport Service Superintendents Association in Toronto, Canada on May 11. The topic of Al's speech was "Instrumentation in Fleet Engine Maintenance." Marry Wheeler and Robert Kehoe Harry Wheeler, of Baton Rouge, attended the first Government-sponsored conference on air pollution held in Washington May 3-5. The conference, called by President Truman, was attended by scientists from Government and industry to discuss ways of helping municipal ities and industries understand and overcome air pollution problems. Dr. Robert A. Kehoe, Ethyl's medical director, was a member of the panel which directed the meeting. 'March BB* k * The oil business is noted for its steadyemployment. During 1948, for ex ample, the separation rate in all manu facturing concerns was 45 per thousand compared with nine per thousand for petroleum refining. When seed potatoes are treated with ethylene gas, a petroleum product, farmers have increased their yields from 20 to 100 per cent. Black Friday in L. A. i Not an atom bomb explosion --just the razing of our Los Angeles office, which was condemned to make way for the Harbor Freeway. Demo lition operations began on April 21, "Black Friday" to Ethylites. Razing proved such a problem that local news papers and television pro grams carried progress re ports. The concrete structure contained so much steel re inforcing that it was resist ing a 3000-pound steel ball being used to batter it down. Temporarily the Los Angeles office is located in the Con tinental building, but plans are under way for speedy construction of a new and im proved Ethyl office building. ETC 12587 George Krieger X-- Edwin C. Paige George Krieger, who celebrates bis 20th Ethyl anniversary, is sales manager ior agri cultural chemicals. Originator of Ethyl's farm program, George pioneered in the devel opment of the high compression tractor. He went out to Illinois in 1934, converted a tractor to H.C. and drove it across the fields pulling three plows lickety split. His demon stration revolutionized the farm machinery industry. He's still pioneering, still working with farmers, most recently in the development of a market for benzene hexachloride and our other agricultural chemicals. In 1942, George was appointed director of the Farm Machinery and Equipment division of the War Production Board, returned to Ethyl two years later as manager of rural marketing. Virginia-born, George won his agricultural engineering de gree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. In 1945, in recognition of his wartime success in obtaining steel for farm equipment, the Ameri can Agricultural Editors Association made him their first honorary life member. He's a board member of the Flying Farmers Foundation, past chairman of the Agricultural Development Committee of API, ex-VP of SAE and ASAE. He and his wife Millie, who used to work in N. Y. Publicity, live in New York City. Edwin C. Paige, Ethyl's top fleet man, started with us 20 years, ago as a field engi neer in his home town, Baltimore, Md. After two years he was assigned to fleet work and has been specializing in fleets and commercial engines ever since. In 1935 he was transferred to New York, and handled fleet work in the old N.Y. division for the next five years. He then transferred to the Technical Service division, and continued to make his headquarters in New York while contacting oil and automotive ETC 12588 companies throughout the East. When the United States entered the war, Ed was called to Detroit to assume greater responsibilities, and in 1947 became head of the Commercial Engine and Fleet section. Ed is a graduate of the University of Maryland, a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Amer ican Transit Association. He and his wife, Virginia, live in Franklin, Mich., one of De troit's suburban communities. Latest addition to the Paige household is a Dalmatian puppy. Herbert N. Peters, Western region fuel tech nologist, celebrates his 20th anniversary. Starting as a chemist at the Tulsa lab, Herb transferred to the Sales department in 1932 and helped pioneer for Ethyl in the Rocky Mountain states. He covered assignments in Colorado, New Mexico, Louisiana and Texas, first as a field engineer and later (1939) as a safety engineer. In 1940 he went out to the Los Angeles division and worked in south ern California for four years, then moved to San Francisco. During 1947-48 when the Sales department initiated its program to offer specialized advisory service in fuel technol ogy to customer refineries, Herb was trained to take over this work for the Western region. A native Texan, he received his B.S. from Trinity University, and his M.S. from Okla homa U. Herb and his wife Ethel live in Bev erly Hills. He's interested in coin collecting. Louis W. Shanlc came to Ethyl 20 years ago as a field engineer promoting the sale of "Ethyl" antiknock fluid in the state of Vir ginia. Within a few months, he was called into Baltimore as an automotive contact rep resentative. In lanuary 1935 he was promoted to assistant manager of the old Baltimore Sales division and in luly, moved up to man age the division. Lou was transferred to Oklahoma in 1939 and took over as manager of the Tulsa division. When the Sales depart ment was reorganized, he stepped into his present job as Southern regional operations manager. Lou was born, educated and mar ried in Baltimore. He recieved his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and for several years following graduation taught at Balti more City College. He married Lillian Swift, of Iowa City, Iowa. They have two sons and one daughter, all native Oklahomans. Lou belongs to the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, SAE, API, Sales Executives, Downtown Quar terbacks, the Tulsa and lohns Hopkins clubs. Arthur H. Stahlheber began his Ethyl career as a test driver at San Bernardino 15 years ago this month. Moving up to shift foreman, he was out on the desert during the exodus of the Okies and has some tall tales to tell about that migration. Art is now maintenance superintendent of buildings, grounds and equipment at the San B. lab. Born in Kansas, Arthur H. Stahlheber Art has been in California most of his life. He's married, has one son Jack, a student at San lose State College. One of San B's out standing bowlers--with a high game of 225 at mid-season--Art is also a good fisherman. Five more Detroiters received service awards during May. William Flanigan, a mechanic in the road test section, rounded out ten years. New members of the five-year club are Rose M. Ferrara, secretary to Max Roensch, Harold Chalk and Grover Wilson; JamesS. Jackson, technician in the fuel research section; Flor ence L. Held, secretary to Dan Guy, Charlie Kass and Dick Sneed; and Jeanne MacLeod, who works in the Mailroom. VCheck Your Car "Check Your Car -- Check Acci dents!" Throughout May, motorists are urged, by the National Safety Coun cil, to check brakes, lights, steering, tires, wheel alignments, glass, horn, windshield wipers, rear-view mirrors and exhaust system. Because many more older cars are on the road today than prewar, unsafe operating condition is a growing factor in automobile accidents, the National Safety Council points out. 17 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY L ETC 12589 I l Bernice Gordon . . . stenogra pher in Los Angeles Sales ... for* mer legal secretary . . . attended L.A. City College, then majored in psychology at U.C.L.A. . . . likes dancing, golf, bowling, skiing ... hobbies: leatherwork & stamps. Rosemary Murphy ... nurse in N.Y. Medical__ Brooklyn-born... trained for her R.N. at St. Vin cent's hospital in Hew York . . . served 4 years with U.S. Navy ... member of N.Y. State Industrial Nurses club... enjoys swimming. Betty Sherburne . . . stenogra pher for Ethyl Antiknock, Ltd. at Toronto . . . came to Ethyl from Thomas Gibson & Co. Ltd. . . . born in Toronto, attended Notre Dame High School and Malvern Collegiate.. .her hobby: knitting. Recent Arrivals North Kansas City Art and Sue Johnson--a daughter, Linda Terese, bom April 8. Weight: 5 lb. 2 oz. Sister, Ginny Sue, 8. Art is a Central region fleet engineer; Sue for merly worked in the K.C. office. Detroit Harold and Leah Orloff--a daugh ter, Sherrill, bom April 4. Weight: 7 lbs. 10 oz. Sister, Debby Marlene, 3. Harold is in Chemical Research. Best of Luck Detroit Nan Homing, of Tech Service, former BB correspondent, was given a fare well party early in April by Ruby Fer- 18 ' BULLETIN BOARD --MAY tal, Stephanie Ciul and Madelyn Hardy. Ethyl friends presented her with a gift certificate. Other guests were Lucille DeView, Florence Held, Ruth Ellison, Rose Ferrara, Marge Kammann, Marion Pheister, Marge Moss, Rita Blaisus, Muriel Young blood and Jane Kroll. New York Doris Larson, of Finance, was hon ored at a luncheon on April 27 at the President Restaurant. Ed Rehwoldt, also of Finance, who makes a hobby of his cartooning talent, designed place cards with an emblem symbolic of each girl's name--a lock on Dot Locke's, a coin on Anne Coyne's, a hansom cab on Wilma Hansa's. Over 30 Ethyl friends attended the luncheon and gave Doris a purse and other gifts. r / etc 12590 Music, music, music . . . Singing around the piano while Dot Locke plays are some of the guests at a bridal shower for Martha Cassm, of N. Y. Finance. About 30 New Yorkers gave a cocktail party and dinner for Martha on April 20 at the Hotel Russell on Park Avenue. Sitting beside Dot are Helene Larson Barclay and Ethel Dieckman. Standing (left to right) are Mary Gart* land, Grace Gregna, Mur* iel Homer, Frances Ward Norr, Martha, Anne Coyne and Genevieve Morgan. Spring Bridal Shower Under the wedding bells which decorated the room are the gilts ol china and glassware which Ethyl iriends presented to Martha. She was married to Edward Hexwessy on April 29 at St. Jerome's Church in the Bronx. Seated at the table are Martha's sister, Mis. Agnes Flynn, Martha, Mary Gartland, Louise Jensen, Mabel Gerster, Loretta Hogan McEntegart, Ronnie Wiegman, Trudie Horstmann and Anne Coyne. Standing (first row) are Genevieve Morgan, Marjorie Fras* cello, Bea Turrie, Helen Furey, Madelyn Drum, Doris Larson, Grace Gregna, Dot Callahan, Helene Larson Barclay, Wilma Hansa, Dot Rogan, Mary O'Brien and Peggy Quinn. In the top row are Frances Ward Non, Helen Stritter, Ethel Dieckman, Mildred Cooney and Muriel Homer. im ETC 12591 Leisure-Time Shotsfrom Michigan to Mississippi With summer just around the corner, the outof-doors has more and more appeal. These sports pictures from Bulletin Board files re call the pleasures of sunny days away from office, plant and lab. Mabel Giilig landed this 13-pound Mackinaw trout last season while fishing off the boat "Whirlaway" out of Munising in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Husband Emil, who heads Detroit's Instru ment section, came home empty-handed. Isn't there an instrument called the "fish finder?" Dressed in a hoop-skirted style of the 1860's, Caroline Sessions--wife of Ferd Sessions, test ing engineer at the Baton Rouge Gas Test lab --was one of the hostesses at the Natchez (Miss.) Pilgrimage held during March. Spon sored by the garden clubs of Natchez, the an nual pilgrimage offers an opportunity to visit thirty houses which still treasure furnishings of the romantic days of the Old South. Caroline welcomed the visitors to her an cestral home, Mount Repose. It is a perfect example of an early plantation house. There's good golfing in the Eastern region. Mat Taylor (above left) doesn't remember where or when this picture was taken. But he does remember it was an Ethyl outing, the weather was fine and so, of course, was the company. At right: Bob Hogan (far left) and Don Flynn (second from the right) are the Ethyl half of this foursome at last sum mer's outing of the General Motors club of New York held at the Knollwood Country club. Don shoots in the low 70's . . . Bob was silent on this point. ETC 12592 Swinging in the park near his home in Brooklyn is the favorite sport of Bobby, 4 year old son of Bill Bauer, of N. Y. Finance Levin Dawson, 3, likes to spend his weekends fishing with his dad, Tucker, man ager of the BR Gas Test lab. Ensign George Stritter, who attends Leonard Hall Naval Academy in Maryland, is the son of Helen Stritter, N. Y. YOUNGER SET Meredith Maynard is the 2M yr. old daughter of Gloria andjack, who is chief safety engineer in the Central region. I Yonkers brother and sister: Robert, 3 and Annette, now 6 months, are the children of Gil de Malvilain, of the Central machine shop. A happy threesome are the family of S. F. Five mos. old and proud Johnson, of BR Gas Test. Left to right: of it--David, son of So. Karen, age 3, Lynward, 7 and Carolyn, 10. region's Charlie Welch. Above top: Young Mike, fifth child of the Guy Kellers, of Baton Rouge Gas Testing, was born last October IS. Mike has two sisters and two brothers. Below: Almost the same age is Linda Van Wyck, born October 18. Her pop, Bill, is one of our West ern region safety engineers. >S ETC 1 First Safety Meeting When Oscar Lewis, assistant sales manager, was packing for the Hew York office move, he found in his desk this picture of Ethyl's first safety meeting back in May 1937. Realizing the need for a Company-wide safety program, Ethyl men met for a week at Deepwater to dis cuss the best ways to overcome the general hazards of handling our product. Since then, some of these safety pioneers have taken over other assignments; some continue to apply and improve the basic safety methods devel oped at this meeting. As you look over the group you'll find that nearly all of them are still pitching on the Ethyl team--from Cali fornia to Hew York, from Houston to Chicago. Shown standing: Ollie Jones, Dick Murphy, Clarence Kautz, Norman Siebenthaler, Oscar On their way to overseas assignments, these Lewis, Mat Taylor, Lou Shank, Ben Crane, two Standard of California men took a short George Rick and John Stump. Kneeling are short course in automotive maintenance from Chuck Colvin, Russ ScheU, Bert Olver, Hank Ethyl veteran Frank Elliott, at left. The Ball, Lew Barnum, Hume Chenault, Paul Standard men are Robert Wilkinson and Alex Johnson, Len Huxtable, Jake Balzer, Jack i Lusky. They spent two days with Frank as a Cole, Charlie Wasserman,' Mac McCooley. I part of their training before heading for 1 South America--Wilkinson for Peru and Lusky for Guatemala. Frank, a fleet engineer for the Western region, took them to the Ethyl Engineering Research lab at San Bernar dino to observe latest testing and maintenance techniques developed by Ethyl engineers. Helping young farmors to understand how best to use ana take care of farm equipment is one of the purposes of the 4-H club. Glen Grant, Western region fleet engineer, has been working with representatives of the Utah Oil Refining Company and the Univer sity of Idaho on an extensive program for 4-H Tractor Schools. Here at a school in Boise, Glen (center) discusses tractor construction with a student. Looking on are John Witteman, of Nampa, and Dale Childers, of Filer. r ETC 12594 litAT OIL WPS ONCE USED MAINLY IN MEROS/NE LAMPS. yks'..KEROSIN5 FOn 'LAMPS WAS oil's firstlarge scale use... /moians once taught Colonial SOLDIERS TO EASE ACHING FEET VJ/TH OIL FROM SEEPAGE POOLS'LL.. Potential oil reserves were so , s - ^ UNREAUZED THATa PATENT MEDICINE ' /MANUFACTURER FEARED HIS OIL SUPPl Y WOULD SOON RUN OUT... fpE PROGRESSIVE SPIRITOF OIL NAS KEPT PACE HHTH TNE ADVENT OF THE AUTO, . TDIESEL ENGINE, PLANE, NOME BURNER/ SHIP, TRAIN... fp 'HUS y~M ^ fyODERN EXPLORATION METHODS HAVE RAISED THE KNOWN VOLUME OF OIL UNDERGROUND TODAY TO THE HIGHEST JNHtSTORY/ MORE THAN A T/tULfOM GALLONS, DESPITE UNPRECEDENTED DEMANDS FOR OIL PRODUCTS. GEOLOGISTS ESTIMATE ANOTHER 2 TRILLION GALLONS REMAIN TO BE DISCOVERED IN THE UNITED STATES. THE LIBERTY BELL RINGS AGAIN Its inscription reads--'`Proclaim Liberty throughout the land, and to all the inhabitants thereof". In 1775 it was rung for the first reading of the Declaration of Independence. In 1776 it celebrated the signing of the Declaration. In 1835 it cracked as it tolled for the death of John Marshall. In 1846 it was enshrined in the State House in Philadelphia (Independence Hall). In 1876 it sounded to commemorate 100 years of American independence. In 1915 its voice was carried to San Fran cisco, on the occasion of the first linking of the Atlantic Coast with the Pacific by long distance telephone. In 1926 its note was broadcast for the first time at the opening of the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia. In 1944 it announced the landing of the Allied armies on the beaches of Normandy-- June 6--"D-Day." In 1950 the Liberty Bell rings again, this time to open the Treasury Department's INDE PENDENCE DRIVE. ETC 12596 Ethyl BULLETIN BOARD etc *259 7 On stage at the Services Show, the car of the future and the car of the past perform to show the great improvement in engine efficiency and fuel economy. At the wheels are Don Williams and Don Forsdick, while Bill Rusher pro vides running commentary. At right, Dick Murphy, Eastern regional manager, greets the audience. ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Editor Contributing Editors Safoa Rouge; Doug/as Price, John C. tfenfroe, J. T. Stephenson (photographer/; Chicago; Ruth Callaway; Dallas: Ann Se/iridge; Detroit; George Betker, Bernardine Burdick, Margaret Duiiinger, Claude Hodman. Bob Meseher, Claire Olsen. Philip Savage, Al Sechrist, Margaret We/p, Art Zeits. Fred Green. Loren Knowles. Alyce Peterson, photographers; Houston; Kathleen finen; Kansas City; Blanche KauHman. Edward J. Otto. Jr.: Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillios: New York: Jim Donohue, Don Forsdick. Wilma Hansa, Erma Harris. Alice Lahn. Ruth Moore, Helen 'Sinclair. Emily Whitfield: San Bernardino; Carol Simcoclr, James Terrell: Tulsa: Ed Hendrick. Gladys Roney; Yonkers; Catherine Henderson; Central Office, Gasoline Testinq: Chris Bruhl. Published by the Ethyl Corporation. 100 Park Avenue, Hew York, New York: Edward L. Shea. President; Sfanley T. Crossland. Vice President and Treasurer: Herbert A. Savage, Assistant Secretary. 4 ETC 12598 Take the Stage Ethyl services, designed for the bene fit and profit of our customer com panies, play the leading roles in the current show which is completing a long and successful run in three of our regions. Originating on the West Coast last year, it moved to the Southern region, then the Eastern. It has been shown to customer company executives through out these three regions with gratifying results. Last month while in the East, the show was presented for Ethyl em ployees. Instead of the customary welcome by the regional manager, Curt Holton,, industrial relations di rector, took the rostrum to welcome the employees. "Mr. Shea has said he hopes all employees will consider themselves salesmen for the Ethyl Corporation," he said. "We thought you would be interested in seeing this show which gives us all an opportunity to learn more about the Company and the broad services that we have to offer our customers." Then the employees became the executives of the John Doe Oil Com pany as Bill Rusher, Eastern region, took the stage and began: Coordinator I. A. Coitello explains with chart, that the price oi "Ethyl" antiknock compound has been kept at about the same level as 1941, despite higher raw material and labor costs. ETC 12599 Chariie Xass. c; the Resecrch lacs, explains the opetcticn of the valve rotator which lengthens the life of-the valve. Ethyl was largely responsible for getting manufacturers to either put it on their original equipment or or make it available as a field fix. Interested listeners are Bill Bauer, Finance, Hazel Anderson, secretary to Chariie Wasserman and Howard Gulick, of Industrial Relations. "The John Doe Oil Company and Ethyl Corporation have been associ ated in business now for many years. As we have grown up together this association has developed many aspects. Because of this, it is not sur prising that you may sometimes lose sight--as we do ourselves--of the one thing upon which our association is based -knock! "In itself fuel knock is a simple thing. It is merely the uncontrolled explosion of the gasoline and air vapor in the cylinder of an engine. Innocent as it sounds, it could have been the ultimate barrier beyond which pro gress in engine development could not pass. But the problem was solved by the addition of a small amount of tetraethyl lead to your gasoline. The elimination of knock is the basis of our association, and it has made pos sible advancements in engines that have given the world better transpor tation at lower costs, and with a reduc tion of the ultimate drain on our natural resources. This, of course, has not been due solely to TEL. New refinery techniques not only extract more gasoline from each barrel of crude, but also produce fuels of higher base octane number. But these de velopments followed the introduction of TEL as an antiknock agent." After tying together Ethyl's mutual interest with the customer's, Bill points out that we have taken a cue from the oil industry. We believe, as they do, in backing up a good product with good service and have built a broad program of related services which, we think, makes our product more valuable. Highlighting the various Ethyl services, Bill then tells how our safety . . . fuel technology . . . gasoline test ing . . . farm and tractor . . . fleet . . . and advertising programs . . . our tech nical and promotional literature and films ... our research and field staff... all serve toward the end that our customers may benefit and profit. Vice President J. A. Costello dis cussed our record of progress in manu facturing techniques and facilities, production and prices. He told of the great increase in production resulting from our $40 million plant expansion program and improved and more efficient operations. He told of the plant's strategic location, with all raw materials except lead right at our doorstep. He used specific instances of various kinds to indicate the size of our operations, such as the fact that our sodium plant uses enough elec tricity to supply a city of 150,000. One of the panels that is exhibited as part of the show attracts the attention of Grace Gregna, Trudie Horstmann and Paul Cahill, members of the New York Finance department. ETC 12600 Girls of the Eastern region saw the show that had kept them busy turning out letters of invi tation to customer company executives. For a taste of how mother and father took to the road they climbed into the old Cadillac. At the wheel is Gen LeRoy and next to her is Madge Lofthouse. Holding down the back seat are Eve Weissleder and Yvonne Guertin. Gerry Harms, another Eastern region stenographer, was not on hand when the picture was taken. Showing a price trend chart, he pointed out that in spite of increased costs of raw materials and labor, the price of "Ethyl" antiknock compound has been kept at about the same level as in 1941. Charlie Kass, of our Research laboratories, told about Ethyl's ex tensive research program, unique facil ities and highly trained staff at Detroit and San Bernardino. He showed, with charts, what the new engines will mean to the refiner and the public. As an example of the striking improvement in fuel economy the engines of the future will give, he turned the meeting back to the Sales department for a dramatic climax of the program. For this closing feature, the curtains were pulled back to reveal a green 1921 Cadillac touring car facing, on the With the help of a single cylinder demonstration engine, Bill Rusher shows how that magic fluid--we mean, of course, "Ethyl" antiknock compound-- eliminates knock. Merely the vapors from this can of "Ethyl" fluid turn the engine's staccato ping info a smooth purr. opposite side of the stage, the car of the future. As a means of evaluating our progress and showing the value and economy of improved gasolines, the cars were put to test. Performing together, engines running at 30 m.p.h., with similar loads, their fuel lines were hooked up to glass tubes containing one-tenth of a gallon each. The audience, watching the dimin ishing fuel supply in each container, saw the old Cadillac quickly eat up all its gasoline while the car of the future used only half its supply. Large display cards on either side of the stage gave comparative figures on the two models: while the car of tomorrow, at an estimated price of $3,000, has a compression ratio of 11 to 1, maximum horsepower of 135, and averages 22 miles a gallon, the old Cadillac cost $5,500, has a 4.5 to 1 compression ratio, maximum horse power of 65 and averages 11 miles a gallon. The audience was left with this graphic picture of progress im printed on their minds to carry away with them as the show ended. Climax of the show came when the cars made their test run. At the finish, fuel tubes told a story of progress--one was empty, the other half full. The 1921 Cadillac, using 65% of its potential power, had drained its supply com pletely dry. Tomorrow's car, running at the same speed with similar load, used only 35% of its power and one half the fuel. Drivers Don Williams (left) and Don Forsdick, of the Eastern region, are shown here standing at the test panel, after switching the feed lines back to the cars' own gas tanks. I ETC 12601 iyttn* jl.i aiffwence'`f00' i , ana * 'a *e*Y>>sol,oe b*""saso',ne A*WW * rfy\ d.+ferenca. too` b*n*<!(' gd> -- '-".rjt: jwSu? di^ere-noe- 1^ Most of us who have been following the popular Ethyl "Trade-marks of Nature" advertising since 1948 may have received somewhat of a jolt lately in seeing the campaign ended and another taking its place. Why is a good question in view of the tremendous success, both in public attention and sales that the old cam paign rang up for Ethyl. The answer is that the old campaign was designed primarily to increase the public recognition and acceptance of the "Ethyl" trade-mark as an identi fication of quality gasoline stepped up Now our main objective is to forcefully call the public's attention to the fact that "There's a powerful differ ence between gasoline and `Ethyl' gasoline"--a difference that will sell the car owner on stopping at the "Ethyl" pump. To achieve this objective the new campaign is geared to the times. It has a faster pace and a stronger selling message. With oil products in plentiful supply, current oil company adver tising techniques are hard-hitting and direct in their bid for business in today's competitive market. Our new advertisements get across their message at a glance so that even the read-and-run reader can't miss it. Animals, which proved so popular in the "Trade-marks of Nature" ads, will still be the dominant feature of the new campaign. They are portrayed with a new twist to dramatize the point that there's a difference. The copy carries along this theme in pointed, fast-reading paragraphs that tell how "Ethyl" gasoline makes a difference because it is high octane gasoline . . . because it is better gaso line . . . because it gives quick power, top performance. Russ Weston, advertising manager, and Frank Howard, assistant, worked with our advertising agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, in the development of this campaign, which was the result of months of planning, study and research. From among the - and there is a powerful difference, too, . between gasoline and Ethyl gasoline ! various original campaigns conceived to accomplish our objectives, this "powerful difference" theme was fin ally selected and further developed. One of the final steps which deter mined its acceptance was a test survey made in Boston with two sets of Look magazines. One set had the regular turtle "Trade-marks of Nature" ad while the other had the proposed bearand-pear ad bound in in place of the turtle ad. Results of the survey showed that more people remembered the bear-pear ad than the turtle ad, and more important, a much larger per centage remembered its selling mess age--there's a powerful difference. Appearing in such national maga zines as Life, Collier's, Look, Satur day Evening Post and Time, the ads will reach more than half of the auto mobile owners and drivers in every marketing region throughout the country every month. To cover the important rural markets the campaign will appear in Country Gentleman, Grit, Pathfinder and Progressive Farmer. Going, via the various magazines, to over 50 million people every month, our ads designed to increase demand for "Ethyl" gasoline will help our cus tomers sell more of their best gasoline. Results of test survey made with this ad were a deciding factor in favor of the new campaign, which was started with same ad in May 15 issue of- Life. Ads on opposite page followed-- lion-dandelion in color in Seteve Post of June 10 & Collier's of lune 24; lark-shark, Life of June 12 & Look, July 4. 7 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 12603 To discuss in detail all phases of the safety program, the Central region men who handle safety work got together for a nuts and bolts session on April 25. On hand to answer any questions--technical or policy--were, at head of table from left, Van Fleck, N. Y. Safety staff, Dr. Les Sanders, Medical department, and Ollie Jones, manager of customer services including safety. "Ethyl" Fluid Sales Up As The Central regional meeting held in Kansas City late in April was the last of the four meetings scheduled to out line the 1950 sales plan for all sales and service men. With the Company's de liveries of "Ethyl" antiknock com pound to customers during the first quarter of 1950 much higher than they were for the same period last year, Sales Manager Julian Frey pre sented a bright sales picture as he dis- Above: A1 Basye and John Fischer, front table, look over the program. Behind them Jack Fuller and Don Hornbeck lend an ear to Dolly Dollahan. At the next table San Wagner talks to Julian Frey (blocked out by Jack). Below: Charlie Welch uses all five fingers to make a point with Wally Distler, who's still sceptical. Bob Douglass finds an interested audience of three for what seems to be some kind of a key ring trick. At left is George Rose, then Bob, Jack Fuller and Jim Boudreau, smiling broadly. 8 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE r ETC 12604 Earl Bartholomew, general manager of the research laboratories, told the men about Detroit projects of interest to the Sales department. He brought along some charts for a graphic presentation of some of the work being done in current research projects aimed toward the extension of the tetraethyl lead market. His presentation was made on the second day of the meeting. Regional Meetings End cussed ' plans for giving still better service to further increase the plus values that go with our product. Jim Boudreau, regional manager, opened the meeting, held at the Presi dent Hotel. The tangible plus values of the "Ethyl" trade-mark, our adver tising, research and services were pre sented by :MacMurdock, Russ Weston, Mac McCulloch, Ollie Jones, Earl Bartholomew, Dan Guy, 8s Dick Sneed. all day sessions. Herb Nixon does some plain and iancy doodling as be listens to the talks. Lett: In this corner, lack Maynard blinked when the flash went oif, Lou Slack was interested in watching another cameraman work for a change St A1 Ryan gave us a profile. Center: Art Johnson, whose second baby daughter arrived April 8, models the apron Lou Wilson gave him. A1 Bingham enjoys a laugh. Right: Mel Olsen and lulian Frey take a breather between sessions. 9 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 12605 When a refiner signs a purchase agreement with Ethyl, he knows he is buying far more than the best in anti knock compounds. Included in the price of the "Ethyl" fluid are lots of services, many exclusive with us, that give plus value to our product. A number of these invaluable extras are provided by the Technical Service division of the Research laboratories. It is the special function of Technical Service to relay the results of Ethyl research--and the experience ofEthyl's engineers in the field--to the oil and automotive industries, to help maintain parallel progress in the development of engines' and petroleum products. A comparatively recent phase of Technical Service operations -- one which is of particular interest to the automotive specialists in both of the above industries--is the publication of Ethyl Technical Notes, begun in January, 1948. Information which makes up a Technical Note usually doesn't represent any single phase of research work by the laboratories, but is a pooling of total professional ex perience of people in the Tech Service group and others on the labs staff. Much of the effectiveness of Tech nical Notes is due to timeliness of subject matter, as it ties in with Sales department projects. A current ex ample is the issue now being distrib uted on "Valve Servicing Techniques, ' ' designed to support the Sales depart ment's work directed toward boosting the level of maintenance on farm equipment. The information in this issue is also being published in a book let titled A Good Valve Job Pays to go along with a wall chart on valve maintenance. We have already dis- 10 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 12606 cributed 40.000 copies of the chart to farm equipment retailers through their manufacturers. The booklet will serve as a guide for tractor mechanics in performing better valve service work. Subjects for Technical Notes are assigned by John Howard, the editor. The original draft is prepared by whichever member of the Tech Service staff is best qualified to handle the particular subject. Then the author collaborates with John, or Jack Bailie, assistant editor of the Notes, for any rewriting or revisions that seem desir able. The result of their cooperative effort is reviewed by appropriate Re search laboratories staff personnel for technical accuracy. John edits the final copy and arranges for the neces sary art work. The completed manu script is sent to the Advertising de partment in New York where Mac McCulloch and Ed Enoch prepare layouts and handle production. Readers include hundreds of tech nologists for oil and automotive firms. Other subscribers are members of Ethyl's Sales and Research staffs. At first only 1,500 copies were run, but interest in them has been so great that the demand has necessitated a steady increase in the number issued so that currently 15.000 copies of each issue are printed. In addition, reprints have been made of every issue in answer to re quests for large quantities of them from outside companies. For instance, one major oil company asked for 2,000 copies of the Technical Note on "Vapor Lock" as a more detailed reference to accompany its own ma terial on the subject. Two large spark plug manufacturers distributed the Note on "Automotive Spark Plugs" in volume to their sales departments for use in their educational programs. Several weeks after the first Notes were mailed in 1948, a survey was made by the Sales department to de termine what length articles and what degree of technical difficulty would best suit the readers. The findings of the survey have guided the editors in preparing manuscripts which are of maximum value. The result has been enthusiastic acceptance of TechNo tes. Fundamentally designed as a serv ice to aid our customers, Technical Notes are truly Ethyl--for they rep resent a combination of the broad professional experience of Ethyl staff members and of 27 years of research. John Howard, editor of Tech nical Notes, at right, discusses an article with lack Bailfe, assistant editor. All articles are checked for technical accu racy by appropriate Research laboratories staff personnel. 11 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 12607 Kail Beaver Karl Beaver, of the Detroit Research labora tories, celebrates his 20th Ethyl anniversary this month. Karl joined our labs as a research engineer when the labs were still located in downtown Detroit. He was first assigned to Engineering, later transferred to Aeronauti cal. In 1941 he helped set up research opera tions in the new labs at 1600 West Eight Mile Road. During the war, the U.S. Navy called upon Karl's aero know-how. He served three years as a lieutenant in the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D. C. After his separation from service, he returned to the Detroit Aero labs, and his research work for Ethyl. Karl was graduated from Yale Univer sity in 1930 with a bachelor of science degree. He's a bachelor, lives in Detroit. _r James E. Boudreau, Central region head, this month joins our other regional managers in Ethyl's 20-year club. He came up, as they did, from field engineer to division manager to regional manager. A West Pointer, class of '25, Jim resigned his commission after a year of service to join the Munson Steamship Com pany, four years later came with Ethyl. Start ing as a field engineer in eastern New York, his territory now extends from Colorado to Kentucky and from Kansas to the Canadian border. He's covered a lot of it recently with . the Product Sales Clinic, designed and pro duced by the men of his region for customer companies. Jim, who served as a lieutenant colonel, General Staff Corps in the last war, is chairman of the API-Army Reserve program in the Fifth Army Area. Also a leader in oil industry activities, he is on the steering com mittee and chairman of the Interior Finishings Committee for the Oil Industry Service Center at the Chicago Fair opening June 24. Jim is married and lives in North&eld (HI.) with his wife-'and two children, Jeb, 514 and Ann, 4. 12 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE James E. Boudreau Earl C. Currier and Carl E. Cyriax, both of N. Y. Finance, step up for ten-year service awards this month. Receiving five-year awards are: Bruce H. Douglass, of N. Y. Finance, and Vern K. Francis, Lloyd W. Grieve, May H. McVicker, Pauline A. Metz, Fred Meyer and Joyce M. Myron, of Detroit Research labs. ETC 12608 Harold J. Gibson Harold J. Gibson joined our Detroit labs 20 years ago with a brand-new M.S. in Engineer ing from the U. of Michigan. He started as a research engineer, helped put the final touches on the Series 30 knock test engine, then worked on the first supercharged passenger car engine set up in the labs. In 1944 he was appointed coordinator of Ethyl research on motor fuels and lubricants. A recognized authority on the relationship of gasoline quali ties to engine design and performance, he has conducted many studies of industry-wide sig nificance. During 1949, he presented three such papers before the Society of Automotive Engineers: "Factors Affecting Octane Num ber Requirement," "Antiknock Requirements of Commercial Vehicles," which he co authored, is based on a joint survey by Shell Oil, Socony-Vacuum and Ethyl; and "Engine Varnish and Sludge," a CFR committee re port. Hal, or Gibby as his friends call him, is a member of SAE, Sigma Xi and Iota Alpha. He collects stamps, also likes woodworking^ gar dening and photography. He's married, has three children--lames, Arlene and Louise. Doin7 What Comes Nat'rally When Safety Engineer Dale Miller appeared on Don McNeill's Breakfast club in Chicago April 27, he just nat urally talked safety. Way down near Colorado City, Tex., another one of our Southern region safety engineers, Wallace Emery, heard the familiar voice and wrote to Lou Shank, opera tions manager, about the broadcast. According to Wallace, the inter view with Dale was "appreciably bet ter and more interesting than most of Don McNeill's programs." After a discussion of Dale's visiting Chicago with Ethyl--instead of his wife, June --the interview ended with hints on handling gasoline. Dale, who's been presenting Ethyl's Fire Power Show to Southern region audiences for almost two years, was well rehearsed to tell the radio audi ence how to handle gasoline safely. All of the world's rubber needs could be supplied from less than 1% of this country's annual crude oil production, if it were made into synthetic rubber. WE SALUTE THE BOY SCOUTS ON THE OCCASION OF THEIR NATIONAL JAMBOREE Reginald F. Broquet, of Detroit, who has chalked up 15 Ethyl years, started with us as an aeronautical design engineer. Later he be came head of the equipment design and con struction section of aviation research, and in 1948, took over as manager of laboratory services. Reg was with Chrysler Corporation before joining our labs. Bom on Guernsey Isle, England, Reg came to Detroit as a boy, attended Lawrence Institute and the Uni versity of Detroit. He belongs to the Society of Automotive Engineers. Hobbies: "My home and photography." He and his wife Elsie have two sons, Bob and Doug, and one daughter,Jan. VALLEY FORGE, PA. JUNE 30m - JULY 6m 1950 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 13 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE I ETC 12609 Helping Lou Shank celebrate his 20th Ethyl anniversary were these Southern regionaires. They got together May 9 to applaud the presentation of his service award and pin. Clockwise from left front: Hank Ball, Helen Berg, Charlie Rankin, Kathleen Bartholomew, Maybelle Rankin, Carl Bartholomew, Harold Berg, Mrs. Kelly (Mrs. Shank's sister), Lou and Lillian Shank, Mr. Kelly, Anne and Frank DeVore, Helen Lenington, Larry Reis, Betty Jean lost, Cliff Lenington, Wahneta Reis, Ken Jost (beyond camera's view, right) and Harry Cottrell, front. HOUSEWARMING IN ROYAL OAK Following the time-honored custom, Detroit labs folk arrived bearing gifts when they gave a housewarming re cently for Warren and Mildred Perilstein at their new home in Royal Oak, Mich. Here Warren tries a package for size while Mildred shuts her eyes and tries to guess what it is. At left are Earl (the tie) DeWitt and Jimmy Boag. Seated are Bob and Mrs. Kerr. The Perilstein's home is at 1815 Barsett Road. Warren is a chemist at our labs. 14 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE / ETC 12610 SEASON'S WINNERS HONORED AT DETROIT SPORTS BANQUET for high game and Fritz Schroeter for high series. Clint Leacock won Class B honors for both high game and series. 'For scores see next page.) Star paddler Angie Colosimo took home the ladies singles ping pong trophy, and George Betker received the men's singles award. Ringing in prizes for the horseshoe tournament were Bill Burt, Class A singles, and Ernie Clinton, Class B singles winner. Judging from the measurements, that's not a fish story Bill Griffiths is telling. Listening are Mrs. Ed Goller (1.), Mrs. L. K. (Red) Welch, guests Mr. and Mrs. Andrews <& Mrs. Bill Burt. Other champions on the roll call were title holders for the ping pong doubles--Anne Harmon and Adele Rozek, and George Betker and Ed With good food, good music and good Goller. Also a top-notcher at horse news, the annual bowling and sports shoes, Ed, along with Bill Burt, took a banquet of the Detroit Ethyl Society bow as horseshoes doubles champ. was held at the Fort Shelby hotel in Receiving a round of applause for Detroit on April 29. Feature attrac their work during the year were Rex tion was the roll call of the season's Closson, sports chairman, who ar I sports champions with presentation of ranged for the sports tournaments, trophies by Bill Adams, of public re and John Murphy, social chairman, lations, who was master of ceremonies. who staged the year's social programs. Stepping into the spotlight to re Incoming bowling officers, who will ceive bowling awards were Marty take over next fall, are Merrill Ander Alspaugh, Hal Bean, George Clixby son, president; Merlyn Beane, who (captain), Hal Faucher and Late was re-elected secretary; and Fritz Willans, members of the winning men's Schroeter, treasurer. Retiring officers team, the Clixbees. In Class A, indivi are Late Willans, who served as dual awards went to Merrill Anderson president: Russ Carlson, treasurer. Winning smiles belong to Angie Colosimo, who won the ladies singles ping pong trophy and Bill Burl, Class A horseshoes champion. Emcee Bill Adams calls for applause far the winners. In a switch, Jack Taylor announced season's lowest scoring bowler--Bill Adams! ETC 12611 Champions of the ERA Bowling League at Baton Rouge, the Engineers defeated the New Products team in the play*off. Team members are: (front row) Eric Breidenbach, Don Garrett, Harry Triche. Back row: John Thibaut, Art Ramirez, captain, Ralph Holloway, Julius LeBlanc and Sam Roberts. Bowling Champs Score New High Bowling scores at the end of the season added up to some new faces in the winners' ranks and some all-time high scores among Ethyl keglers. From Michigan to Louisiana, they have had a good season. Baton Rouge In the Baton Rouge play-offs, the Engineers rolled, into first place on April 27 by defeating the New Prod ucts team. The Engineers--Eric Breidenbach, Don Garrett, Ralph Hollo way, Julius LeBlanc, Art Ramirez (captain), Sam Roberts, John Thibaut and Harry Triche--took the lead in the second half of the season. They won 39 games, lost 13.' During the season's first half, the New Products team had chalked up 39 wins and 17 losses. Individual honors were divided among the seven BR teams. High series, handicap, went to A. C. Adams, who had a 668. Doug Price maintained his mid-season high handicap game of 246. Double-threat man Stan Price came up with a 174.9 to take the high 16 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE average title from Percy Trotter, who had been top man for three years. Stan also rolled a 618 high series, scratch. Percy stayed in the winners' circle with a high scratch game of 226. Florence Held, of Detroit, has won bowling honors for the past three years --ended this season with high series and highest average. Detroit In Detroit, the Clixbees won the team trophy of the year by defeating the Electrons. Championship team in cludes Marty Alspaugh, Hal Bean, George Clixby (captain), Hal Faucher and Late Willans. The same team, Jf etc 12612 with the exception of Marty, had rolled into first place in 1949. Individual honors in Class A went to Merrill Anderson and Fritz Schroeter. Merrill has held high average honors for four straight years. Starting with a 169.98 in 1947, this year Merrill came game, Merrill was runner-up for high three-game series. Clint Leacock won the Class B trophy for high game, 242 and high series, 582. Sid Barker chalked up a 236 game and 565 series to take second place. High-scoring Detroit bowling aces look over Fritz Schroeter's trophy for Class A high series. At left is Merrill Anderson, Class A high average and game winner. Beside him is Clint Leacock, Class B high game and series winner. Hex Closson (right) is the sports chairman of the Detroit Ethyl Society. up with 177. His high game of 257 was also tops in Detroit, while Fritz Schroeter rolled a 662 for high series. Fritz and Merrill provided each other competition for game and series titles --Fritz took the No. 2 spot for high New York New York's four mixed teams ended their season on May 10. Honors for the men were evenly split between the Beach Bowlers and the Mello-Rollers. Defending high game and series cham pion, Bill Kanavy, of the Beach Bowl ers, bowed out in those fields but tied Mello-Roller Wayne Newman for high average -- 154. Charlie Wasserman, who used to help winning Deepwater teams roll up those unbeatable scores, bowled a 592 to take high series for the Mello-Rollers. Sarge Minori, of the Beach Bowlers, chalked up high game, with his score of 207. After the game was over: Emil Gillig (at left), of Detroit's Electron team, congratulates George Clixby, of the winning Clixbee team. 17 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE On the distaff side. Ruth Hall knocked down a 220 to take high game and was her own closest compe tition with a 203 for second highest game. She received a pin from the Radio City Bowling Alley for bowling over 200. Ruth, who's on the MelloRollers team, also came up with high series, 493. Another Mello-Roller, Loretta Hogan McEntegart, ended the season in a 130 tie with Beach Bowler Margie Smith for the wom en's 1949-1950 high average title. San Bernardino Out in San Bernardino, the Ethyl team placed 15th out of 100 teams competing in the Citrus Belt Tourna ment. Rolling up a score of 2819 were In this corner, the winners! Detroit's No. 1 team treat their trophies lightly. Late Willans (r.) is about to toss a ringer. Hal Faucher provides the target. Looking on are Hal Bean, George Clixby and Marty Alspaugh. team members Shorty Guinn, Dick Rice, Ray Seymour, Larry Stinson and Art Stahlheber. In the doubles, Dick and Art placed sixth in a field of 300 with a score of 1210. A new royal family of champions was crowned in the ping pong tournament held recently at the Detroit labs. Angie Colosimo, runner-up for the past two years, took the ladies singles t itle by defeating Adele Rozek. Teamed with Anne Harmon _in the doubles, Adele proved her game was hard to beat. Anne and Adele served defeat to defending champions Dorrie Rodenhouse and Ruth Simons. 18 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE In the men's division, George Betker regained the crown he lost a year ago to Merrill Anderson. Then George and Ed Goller got together in the doubles and downed defending champs Bill D'Arcy and A1 Sechrist. An annual event, the tournament is one of the many activities sponsored by the Detroit Ethyl Society. Sports Chairman Rex Closson made all ar rangements for the 1950 tournament. ETC 12614 Detroit Ethylettes celebrated the end of the bowling season with a banquet--strictly tor the girls--May 11 at Huck's Redford Inn. Trophies were awarded to the winning team and to individual winners. Thirty-two girls from the labs attended. Here are (left) Stephanie Ciul, Claire Olsen, Joanne Hoffman Caxron, Bea Salisbury and Nancy Beau champ. Irene Miller is at the head of the table, Lorraine Tackels is arranging flowers. At right: Margaret Griffing (Annie Verimama), Del Rozek, Shirley Trapp end Lucy Glaser. DISTAFF DINNER Presentation of trophies to individual winners (above right): At left, Florence Held receives congratulations and a trophy from Margaret Dullinger, secretary-treasurer of the Girls' Bowling League. Florence came up with high series, 519, and high average, 146. Peggy Welp, league president, shakes hands with Vem Grum (right), high game, 213. A repeat performance for Florence (she's held her titles for three years), it was Vera's first time as an Ethyl bowling champion. She also received a gold medal from the Women's International Congress for high game in her league. Team competition was keen. Two of the winners were caught here with their eyes shut, but had them wide-open in the play-off which broke the tie for first place. Winners, with trophies in hand, are Dot Rhoades, Irene Miller and Del Rosek. Losing team members received daffodils in consola tion. Here are Vera Grum and Lorraine Tackels. Third member of the team is Jeannie MacLeod. 19 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE ETC 12615 Extra-Canicular Art Deverill, head of the control and cost section of N. Y. finance, was recently re elected by a large majority to the Board of Education of Tarrytown. N. Y. The Board is working on plans for building a new JuniorSenior High School and will soon present a bond issue of several millions for vote by people of the district. Frank Fricker Frank Fricker has been named to the board of directors of the Detroit United Foundation (Torch Fund). Frank is business manager at the Detroit labs. Fred and Geraldine Green Fred and Geraldine Green, of Detroit, were recently elected vice presidents of the Femdale (Mich.) Wilson School District Parent Teachers Association. Fred is on the Automotive Research staff. Margaret Gritting and Frances Lamb Margaret Griffing, chemist at the Detroit Research labs, presided at the women's luncheon of the American Chemical Society held in Detroit in April. Frances Lamb, project chemist at the labs, headed the com mittee which planned the Women's Program. Ben Harrison Ben Harrison, manager of our industrial engineering section, was a member of a panel discussion on "Why Men Work?" held May 18 by the Baton Rouge Society for the Ad vancement of Management. Ben's topic was "Production as It Affects Job Interest." Jack Laubach "Was Ethyl Bom with a Silver Spoon in Her Mouth?" This was the title of Jack Laubach's talk before the Marketing club at Mississippi State College May 16. Jack, Southern region fleet engineer, mentioned obstacles which pre vent the marketing of "Ethyl" antiknock compound from being a simple, automatic proposition. He discussed some of our sales promotion methods, our customer services and the advertising program we have used to establish and expand our market. Gu$ ligett and Andy Reimdd Gus Ligett discussed job opportunities in the held of industrial chemistry at Pontiac High School on May 12. He and Andy 20 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE Occasion: women's luncheon at recent Ameri can Chemical Society meeting in Detroit. Ethyl chemists Frances Lamb, seated at left, and Margaret Griffing, at right, [lank speaker Dean Marie Dye of Michigan State College. Reimold, of the Detroit labs, participated in activities at the school during career week. Bill McCarthy Bill McCarthy, fire marshal of our Baton Rouge plant, was one of the speakers at Louisiana's 19th annual short course in firemanship late in April. Attended by firemen and fire safety supervisors from 44 cities, the school provided an opportunity for discussion of fire fighting and prevention methods. Jack Pruitt (lack Pruitt, Central region account representative, has been elected president of the Louisville (Ky.) Georgia Tech club. For the past several months. Jack has been busy con tacting Georgia Tech alumni to organize a club and get activities under way. Dick Sneed Dick Snead, of Detroit Tech Service, spoke before the Wayne University student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engi neer, May 3. The title of his talk was "Trends in Modem Fuels and Modem Engines." Gil Way and Don Chapman Speaking before the San Bernardino Up town Exchange club May 25, Gil Way, tech nical representative, told members about fuel and engine development and the activities of our San B. lab. Don Chapman, Western region field engineer, put a demonstration engine through its paces so the audience could see how quickly and effectively "Ethyl" anti knock compound eliminates the engine knock. I ETC 12616 the Hirschler twins--Janet, left, and Joan--have double fun in their gay clown costumes. Daughters of Dan and Evelyn Hirschler, the young twins just celebrated their third birthday May 31. Photography seems to run in the Knowles family. Carol Ann, daughter of Loren, Chem Research, practices on [ brother Mike, who is quite sceptical. Children of Research Engineer Jim and Barbara Hughes, Harold is 2'/i. Patricia blew out her first birthday candle May 11. - -jV At left: At 6 months, Douglas Wilkinson has a . happy smile for the photog rapher. His pop is Wilkie, chief boiler operator at the labs. Below: Newest member of A1 and Mary Gassxnan's family, Little Anne Marie, is now one. Kathy-Jo, 4, does a little baby siiting with sister Laury, now 9 months old. They're daughters of "Red" it Barbara Welch. Red is a boiler operator The demure mis3 at left is Kathryn Joy, 61/2-months-old daughter of David DePree, who works in Chem Research. ETC 12617 Delbert Freeland ... of the De troit Research laboratories . . . recently joined the Company as a bus boy in the cafeteria . . . Delbert was born and edu cated in Detroit . . . was gradu ated from Lincoln High School. Nora Wirick . . . Detroit . . . sec retary in Tech Service. . . Louisi ana-born . . . received her A.B. from LSU . . . worked for Stand ard Oil of Louisiana in Baton Rouge . . . married . . . hobbies: crocheting, sewing and flowers. They're Married New York Bob Marks, of the Multilith depart ment, married Madelyn Peterson on April 9 at St. Anastasia's Church in Douglaston, Long Island. Following a reception at the American Legion Hall, they left for a honeymoon trip to Washington, D. C. They're Engaged New York Frank Howard, Jr., of Advertising, and Joan Reynolds, daughter of Mrs. Quentin Reynolds and the late Ed ward J. Lehmann, Jr. They're plan ning a June 23 wedding, followed by a reception at the River club. The Shift Key Virginia McGuire is now secretary to E. A. Yaeger, assistant to Vice President John Schaefer. Bud has re cently returned to New York after almost three years in Baton Rouge. Virginia was formerly secretary to John Famham in the legal department. Ruth Moore has been transferred from N. Y. Payroll to the Tax de partment. She's now working for Frank McNally, Ethyl's tax counsel. Nora Altman, of the Detroit labs, was honored May 15. at a bridal shower at Bea Salisbury's home. Twenty-four girls from the Chem lab were on hand to present Nora with an electric coffee maker and best wishes. 22 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE Alan Tully, former Central region account representative, was trans ferred to the Southern region May 16. He'll make his headquarters in Baton Rouge and have charge ofthe accounts formerly handled by Bill Mundinger. t----------------------------------------------------- ---------------- ETC 12618 Running Amy from Security nmaiv ,~S~~ ! * Irom ono of lh >Ltrctriw cun mauufujtured ",uU,*m n,uk>. * uacJ on liamlliilli oifurin, ruwardj foe THE RUNAWAY. The picture above shows a man run ning away from security. He received all his meals for himself and family for nothing. He received free medical attention for himself and family. He paid no rent. He and his family received free clothing. His house was furnished for him. He got his working tools for nothing. If anything happened to him, his family received the same benefits that they received when he was alive. If it was necessary for him or his family to travel, transportation was furnished. He didn't have to pay any taxes. In fact, he didn't have to pay for anything. He didn't even need to have any money. Despite these, he is running away. You know the answer. The picture, taken from an old newspaper, shows a slave running away from all the blessings mentioned above. That slave, and a lot of others, preferred freedom and insecurity to slavery and security. Why do we bring this up? Because we, as individuals, are sac rificing our freedom to become slaves. For every benefit we gain, we have to pay a price. That price is part of our freedom. Compare our lot with that of our ancestors, the pioneers. With little more than their two hands, they won a living from the wilderness. But they had freedom, and what they earned was their own. They supported them selves, but not their masters. A slave has to support himself and his master. --From Safety Commentator. 23 BULLETIN BOARD--JUNE Business competition ... produces ideas... that get results. in oil research ... have come 1200 oil products... for your comfort and convenience. YOL'rc always at YOL'R BEST when you're com* peling withsomeone. Yes.rivalry spurs u* all oo to greater and greater effort!. Competition work* the *ame way in the oil bus!nest. From modern rocket fuela to rual preventive!, every one of the 1200 product! developed by the oil industry was bora out of rivalry and brought up on competition. Today, you're getting the world'* fine*! fuel*, lubrirants and gasolines -- at the world'* lowest prices --becaue many thousand* of individual oil firm* of all siaea are competing with rival* to earn your approval, win your buaioesa. Competition spurs each firm on: to discover more oil; deliver it faster, cheaper; develop more and better oil prod* ucta; improve service--right from the oil wells to your neighborhood service station. For an individual or an industry, freedom to com pete means freedom to progress. Constant competition in oil is your guarantee of progress in this important American industry -- progress for you. Thousands of oil companies mean competition... competition means progress... .... m t! progress means better living for everyone sr il To tell the story of oil to thd- people, the Oil Industry Information Committee is using this new "talking pictures" technique in ads appearing in Life, Saturday Evening Poet, Look and Collier's magazines. Our Company is supporting the efforts of the OIIC to tell about petroleum's progress, competition and the resulting benefits to the public. To force fully put across this message to everybody who sees the ads, the basic slogan, high lighted here against a black background, will be featured throughout the entire campaign. r ETC 12620 17 IN PHOTO CONTEST YOUR BEST SNAPSHOT 7ft<Zty TOw $25 You may win a cash prize and gain classifications; three $5 prizes for the fame with your best snapshot, by second best picture in the three entering the photography contest classes and ten $1 prizes for the next sponsored by the' Bulletin Board. ten best pictures. It opens with this announcement and The photo chosen by the judges as will close September 30, 1950. grand prize winner will be published This contest is strictly for amateurs. on the cover of the November Bulle It is open to all employees of the tin Board. Other winning photo Ethyl Corporation, except those in the graphs will be published in the Public Relations department. Bulletin Board as space permits. There will be 17 cash prizes, topped Winners will be selected by a panel by the grand prize--a $25 Savings of three judges. On it will be two Bond. There will be three $10 prizes prominent professional photographers for the best picture in each of three and a Bulletin Board representative. CLASSIFICATIONS A. People--portraits or action shots where people are the principal interest. B. Scenes and Still Life--landscapes, seascapes, snow scenes, flowers, etc. C. Animals--pets, wild life, etc. RULES 1. Black-and-white prints only are eligible. No color prints, or hand colored prints. No retouching an negatives, no montages or double printing. 2. Pictures must have been taken since January 1, 1950. 3. Prints should not be smaller than four inches or larger than 10 inches on any side. 4. On the back of each print, give (a) your name (b) location and department (c)dass entered (d) place and date taken (e) description and title of pic ture and (f) names of any recognizable people in picture. Write with ink or a soft pencil so the impression will not show through. 5. Prints must be in the mail by midnight, September 30, 1950. You may enter as many prints as you wish, but no entrant will be awarded more than one prize. Be sure to protect pictures with stiff card board and wrap securely. All prints will be returned at close of contest. ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Editor Contributing Editors Baton Rouge; Doug/as Price, John C. Ren/roe, J. T. Stephenson (photographer,!; Chicago: Ruth Callaway; Dallas: Ann Sei/ridge; Detroit; George BetJeer, Bernaame BurdicJf. Marqaret Duiiinger, Ciaude hodman. Bob Mescher, Claire Olsen. Philip Savage, Al Sechrist. Margaret Welp, Art 2e/ts, Fred Green. Loren Knowles, Alyce Peterson, photographers; Houston; Kathleen finen; Kansas City; Blanche Kauffman. Edward J. Otto, Jr.; Los Anqeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America; Lynn Phillips; New York; Jim Donohue, Don Forsdicfc,. Wilma Hansa, Erma Harris, Alice Lahn. Ruth Moore. Helen Sinclair. Emily Whitfield; San Bernardino; Carol SimcocJc, James Terrell; Tulsa: Ed Hendrick. Gladys Roney; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson; Central Office, Gasoline Testinq: Chris BruhL Published by the Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York; Edward L. Shea. President; Stanley T. Crossland, Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage. Assistant Secretary. ---------- fcrz: ETC 12622 Named Western Regional Manager Appointment of Meredith (Ted) Little field as western regional manager was announced by Vice President San Wagner on July 6. The new regional manager, with more than 20 years of Ethyl experience behind him, moves into the top job on the West Coast from the position of sales coordinator. Ted will move his headquarters from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where the Western regional office is located. He has been in San Francisco for the past ten years, having gone there from the East in April of 1940 as a field representative, later became an ac count representative, and then sales coordinator. He got his initiation, training and first ten years of Ethyl experience in the old New York division as a field representative and clinic manager. In addition, he covered a special assign ment abroad which took him to Mex ico and South America in 1935. As Manager of one of Ethyl's now famous Motor Clinics he carried the Ethyl story to all the major cities in the East, including Brooklyn, Boston, Pittsburgh and New York City. Bom in Wells, Maine, Ted was reared in Massachusetts, attended Cambridge High School, Berkeley Preparatory and Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology. His first job was with the New York, New Haven 8s. Hartford Railroad in Boston. He then worked for the John Hancock Insur ance Company as a group sales engi neer for a year before joining Ethyl in 1929. Active in a number of civic and social clubs, Ted is a member of the Commonwealth, Olympic Athletic, Tractor and Implement and Fratern ity clubs of San Francisco. He and his wife live in San Mateo with their three daughters. They also have a married daughter and a grandson. 3 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12623 Organization Changes in Detroit A new organization plan for the De troit Research laboratories went r.to effect on June 19. Highlighting the re cent staff shifts were a number of new appointments and a realignment of the Research on Manufacturing and Chemical Products division. Several of the staff changes were part of a broad program which Gen eral Manager Earl Bartholomew de scribed as "designed to facilitate the development of personnel who will be *'*** search supervisors are Hy Shapiro (antiknock manufacture!, Gene Hill (metals and specialty products), and Gus Ligett (agricultural and industrial chemicals). A1 Kolka has been named assistant research supervisor to work with Gus Ligett. Research on combustion, also under Hal Beatty, remains the responsibility of Associate Director Wheeler Lovell assisted by Research Supervisor How ard Hesselberg. lack Taylor qualified for promotion to fill ad vanced positions in the future." Responsibility for assisting Jack Macauley in the planning and analysis of research activities is now shared by two assistant directors--Jack Taylor, newly appointed to head up research on automotive and aviation products, and Hal Beatty, responsible for gen eral direction of research on manufac turing and chemical products and basic research on combustion. With Jack Taylor's direction, auto motive and aviation products research will be carried on as before under the supervision of associate directors, John Wintringham and Bob Kerley. Research on manufacturing and chemical products will be supervised, under Hal Beatty's direction, by three research supervisors, an assistant su pervisor, and by the manager of chem ical research operations. The three re- 4 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Hal Beatty Ed Kurt has been appointed staff assistant to Director Jack Macauley to handle special assignments in con nection with the planning, direction and analysis of research. Jim Hinkamp has been appointed staff assistant to Hal Beatty, and Chuck Shepherd is staff assistant to Harold Soroos, man ager of chemical research operations. Other staff members will probably be rotated to these latter two assign ments in the future. On the administrative side, Frank Flicker, who has been appointed staff assistant to Chuck Hawley, manager ofadministration and financial control, will be responsible for budget control and special administrative assign ments. Karl Kuhn, appointed super visor of business services, will be responsible for general office, build ings and grounds, plant construction, receiving and shipping and cafeteria. The Development section laboratory, recently completed at Baton Rouge, is another step forward in Ethyl's ex tensive research program. The new, specially designed labs and equipment will help Ethyl chemists and engineers in their continuing efforts to improve existing processes, develop new prod ucts and expand fundamental research. George Beste, section manager, now has the major portion of Develop ment's activities consolidated under one roof. There are 118 employees-- technical and non-technical--housed in the modem two-stcry building, con taining approximately 30,000 square feet of floor space. A part of the Manufacturing de partment, the Development section works in close cooperation with the Detroit Chemical Research labora tories. The staff also gives some tech nical service to the Sales and Medical departments. The Development section was es tablished in 1940 to make studies of all major plant processes. Purpose: to in sure use of the most economic and efficient processes in the manufacture of Ethyl products. Improvements or new processes developed in the labo ratory are frequently tested with pilot plant studies on a larger scale. A new $300,000 pilot plant building is now going up just east of the De velopment section laboratory. Con struction is expected to be completed by August. The plant will be used for Development operations and will al low consolidation of all the section's Burke Grandjean, chemical engineer, makes a periodic temperature check on an experi ment involving glass distillation equipment. ETC 12625 pilot plant operations of the non-TEL variety. The building is 140 feet long, 50 feet wide and about 30 feet high. Essentially just a large open structure, it will be divided into two areas by fire walls and one side will be used for work where flames are not permitted. The development of new, improved dyes for both "Ethyl" Motor Mix and "Ethyl" AviationMix isoneof the most recent accomplishments of George Beste's group. The new dyes are much George Beste, manage; of the devel opment section, works on plans for laboratory research equipment. Typical of the laboratories' modern equipment is this high speed balance, which Chemist Wanda Garrott is using to weigh a porcelain crucible. Louis Menville, Development section chemist, examines the structure of some crystals under the microscope. stronger than those formerly used so that only one-half the quantity is re quired to achieve the same intensity, stability and concentration of color. A great deal of emphasis during the past few years has been put on the development of a program for the manufacture of new products. In the field of agricultural chemicals, Ethyl started marketing a relatively new in secticide, benzene hexachloride, two years ago and our scientists in Baton Rouge and Detroit are now working on other aids to the farmer. Produc tion of benzene hexachloride, which is BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12626 of great importance to cotton growers, has been increased steadily to meet the growing demand. Among other activities now under way in rooms designed for the purpose, is the work on special medical sample analyses. Because of the minute quan tities of materials involved, air enter ing these two labs, must be especially purified. Another lab is devoted to spectrographic instrumentation. A number of instruments are available for investi gations in this field including a mass spectrometer for research studies. Work on microscopy has also been expanded. New equipment includes a photomicrographic camera, a petro graphic microscope for accurate crys tallographic studies and a micro hot stage. Crystallographic studies have been made on benzene hexachloride and salt cake and are contemplated on sodium-lead alloy. Modern design of the Baton Rouge Develop ment laboratory harmonizes with the plant's other new buildings. The exterior is of red faced brick and hollow tile. Located in the southeast corner of the plant, the lab has a handy parking lot right at its own front door. There are 18 laboratories, as well as several offices, a library, chemical stockrooms, a machine shop, glassblowing shop and service rooms in the new Development building. Each lab has its own adjacent office and in some cases movable steel partitions for greater flexibility. All the offices which are not con nected with the labs, as well as the technical library and the conference room, are air-conditioned. Because of the enormous quantities of air required for ventilation only two of the labs are air-conditioned--the medical analysis and the instrumentation. The other labs have specially tailored air exhaust systems. Activities in the new laboratory will follow both a familiar and a for ward pattern. As always, the Develop ment staff is ready to investigate operating problems whenever called upon. In addition, with more space and specialized equipment, our scien tists contemplate research on im proved processes and new products which will contribute to the progress of two important industries -- the chemical and petroleum. 7 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12627 Robert W. Adams Gilbert (Tom) Matthews Joseph W. Weaver Robert W. Adams, manager of our Gasoline Testing laboratory at San Bernardino, joined Ethyl at the Yonkers lab 20 years ago this' month. After a few weeks- of training in our testing techniques, he was transferred to Detroit as a test chemist. Eight years later, when the Gasoline Testing lab was built on the outskirts of San Bernardino, Bob was one of the experienced crew who went out to help get operations off to a smooth start in the new quarters. He continued his work as a chemist and also acted as assistant lab manager. In 1948, he was promoted to his present job as manager of the San Berdu lab. A charter member of the San B, Ethyl Society, Bob served on the steering committee from the time it was organized in 1946 until January 1948. He was also publicity officer -- was right in practice to report on Gas Testing activities for the BB during 1948. Bob was born in Elyria, Ohio; received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio Northern U.; came to work for Ethyl the next month. His wife is a Detroiter and they have one daughter, Janet. His main hobby is golf, with travel, fishing and cards running as close seconds. Gilbert (Tom) Matthews, carpenter at the Detroit Research laboratories, celebrates his 20th anniversary with Ethyl Corporation this month. Tom's first assignment was with the Chemical labs during the days when our Research onerations were still located in downtown Detroit. When the laboratories moved out to West Eight Mile Road, he was transferred to the carpenter shop, where he keeps busy with hammer, saw and lathe doing various useful jobs. Most recently he's been working on the changes in the second floor offices. A native of Musgrave, Newfoundland, Tom came down to the United States when he was a young man. He has a son, Melvin, who served in the Pacific during the war, and two daughters, Gloria & Gwynnyth. Joseph W. Weaver, of the Detroit Research laboratories, adds a 20-year pin to bis col lection of Ethyl service awards. Starting in the General Service.department, Joe was soon promoted to assist Durward Rossman in En gineering Research. In 1941, when the labs moved out to their new building, Joe took over the joh of purchasing engine parts and pre paring material for engine endurance tests. He's now an engineering technician in the dynamometer labs and assisted by Edith Bryant, inspects all valves, bearings, piston rings and spark plugs used ou endurance tests. A former officer of the Ethyl Bowling League, Joe bowled last season with the Jets team. He's also one of Detroit's lunchtime pinochle experts. The Weavers celebrated tbeir 25th wedding anniversary in December; have one married daughter, Betty Jean. f etc 12628 Good Public Relations John S. Wintringham. associate director oi research on automotive products, began his Ethyl career 20 years ago as a research en gineer ct our Detroit labs. In 1935, he went to San Bernardino to help establish the lab out there and after three years became assistant manager. During the war, lohn was recalled to Detroit to take charge of a project relating to the development of a special air craft engine for the Army and Navy, in 1944 he was appointed coordinator of the de velopment of antiknock fluids, and in 1947 stepped up to his present job. John, who was born in Millerton, N. Y., received his B.S. de gree from Harvard University in 1930. He's a member of Delta Upsilon, Tau Beta Pi, Society of Automotive Engineers and the Lions club. His favorite sport is tennis. His hobbies: build ing model railroads and airplanes. From New York to California, Ethyl men and women are chalking up ten years of service during July. They are Richard M. Page and Yolanda J. Poggioli, of N. Y. Administra tion; Joseph A. Cipolla, Arthur E. Felt, Howard Hesselberg, Daniel Hirschler, Keith L. Pfundstein, Thomas H. Risk, Lawrence E. Stinson and Herbert C. Sum ner, all of Detroit Research; William C. Ludt, of Kansas City Gas Testing; and Wil liam H. Thompson, Wilmington, Calif, terminal. New members of the five-year club in Detroit are: Lowell Dale Chrysler, Oscar Oren Cloven and Margaret E. Gritting; in New York; Ruth Norma Frazier, secretary to Ellis Locher; Dorothy Mary Hayes, oi General Files; Bruce D. Pemberton, in charge of the stationery stock room; Carolyn Marie Sikora, secretary to Bill Ball; and Helen V. Sinclair, secretary to Ed Enoch. John S. Wintringham Ethyl Corporation was cited as one of the outstanding examples of en lightened public relations reporting in an editorial which appeared in the North Baton Rouge Journal, June 6. The editorial praised the hard work of the public relations office in provid ing the press with accurate informa tion, reporting bad news as well as good. Because of this, the editorial stated, the press is able to provide complete coverage of Company news. Two Hit Hole in One Ethyl golfing champions got into the swing early this season. On May 20, Rollie Ostrander, supervisor of Detroit road test, hit the season's first hole-inone at the Bald Mountain Golf club. It was also Rollie's first hole-in-one (172 yards) and put him one over par on the round. Now he's wondering why it doesn't happen more often. It was so simple-- all he did was tee the ball and connect with a No. 2 iron. Jack Bailie, who's in the agricul tural section of tech service, watched the maestro swing, called the hole-inone while the ball was still in flight. Final score: Rollie, 76; Jack, 87. In the Eastern region, Account Representative Don Flynn went to the head of his class with a hole-in-one June 3 at the Plymouth (Mass.) Country club. The occasion was the 20th reunion of the Brown University class of '30. Don made his fancy shot on the eighth hole with a No. 8 iron. Despite a tricky cross wind, he sent the ball flying 134 yards right into the cup on a par three hole. "Just luck," says Don modestly. Anyway he made class history. Tulsa Test Lab Starts Its 21s In this trim brick building, the Tulsa Gasoline Testing laboratory officially opened for busi ness on July 7th, 20 years ago. Facilities are available for chemical analysis and knock testing of fuel samples. Our Tulsa Gasoline Testing labora tory, strategically located in the Oil Capital of the World, celebrated 20 years of service to the petroleum in dustry July 7. The Tulsa lab is one of the five links in Ethyl's nation-wide chain of testing laboratories main tained by the Sales department as a customer service. Serving one of the most highly de veloped oil areas in the country, the Tulsa lab draws samples from Okla homa, New Mexico and Northern Texas. Our skilled technicians have tested almost 60,000 gasoline samples since the lab opened in 1930. They test sample fuels 1) from oil refineries to Charlie Rankin, laboratory manager, reads up on latest testing techniques described in the American Society for Testing Materials Manual. At his right, ready to go out are sample data reports for customer companies. 10 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Year of Service to Oil Industry make sure "Ethyl'' antiknock fluid content and antiknock values con form to established standards and 2) from service stations brought in by our field representatives to check against contamination after the gaso line leaves the refinery. Three members of Ethyl's 20-year club helped get activities under way at Tulsa. Carl Bartholomew went down from Detroit as an engine operator and later became manager. Harold Mehler was transferred from Omaha to run chemical tests and Herb Peters was hired as a chemist. Today there are seven members of the Tulsa laboratory staff. Manager Cerise Cowley is the only chemist in Tulsa who wears skirts. Here she's titrating lead salt solution as the final step in the analysis of gasoline for tetraethyl lead content. Gladys Roney, the lab's one-girl office staff, doubles in brass as Bulletin Board reporter. During the war Gladys, an Ethylite of more than 15 years' standing, donned a lab coat and took over a man's job testing gasoline samples. A1 Ramsey prepares a blend of reference fuels for use in octane number 'rating of gasoline samples in CFR knock testing engines. A1 is one of our gasoline technicians. 11 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12631 Charlie Rankin started in 1932 as a chemist, then went out to San Ber nardino in 1941 to manage our Gas Testing lab there. Two years ago he returned to take charge of the Tulsa lab. Deane Birkes moved from North Kansas City last year to become the deputy manager. Of the Tulsa pioneers, Carl, the only one still in the area, is a field engineer with headquarters in the Southern regional office. Harold, who headquarters in Yonkers, specializes in developing equipment for Sales de partment customer services shows. Herb is now Western region fuel tech nologist and works out of the Los Angeles regional office. Harold McCauley, another oi our experienced 20-year men, transferred to Tulsa ten years ago. He's a gasoline technician, keeps this CFR knack testing engine busy checking on the performance of fuels. 12 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Newt McClanahan, janitor and handyman, keeps the lab shipshape. Here he's applying brush and elbow grease to some bottles and test tubes. Deane Birkes, deputy manager, sets up equip ment to use in quantitative analysis of tetra ethyl lead in gasoline. ETC 12632 George Calingaert Resigns to Turn Prof George Calingaert resigned as asso ciate director of research to accept a position as professor of chemistry at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N. Y. He assumed his new duties on July 1. George, who has contributed much toward the Company's research pro gram during his long and faithful years of Ethyl service, will continue with us as a consultant. He left his full-time job with Ethyl in order to carry out his own long-range plans to teach. Widely known for his work on anti knock compounds, he had been with Ethyl since 1926, and was for many years in charge of our chemical re search activities. Ethyl friends and associates honored George with a farewell dinner at the Stockholm restaurant on May 23 and presented him with a traveling bag. Fred Dykstra presents George with a trav eling bag from his Ethyl friends. At left are Clint Leacock and Ann Caplan. Fred and Clint both worked with George in the early days at Yonkers before the research activi ties were moved to Detroit. Ann, the first woman hired by Chem Research at Detroit, has been George's secretary ever since. Ethyl friends honored George Calingaert with a dinner on May 23. At the head table are Harold Soroos, Clint Leacock, Ann Caplan, George Calingaert, Fred Dykstra and Mrs. Calingaert. Table nearest the camera: Irene Miller, Leon Chrzan, Ellis Neunherz and Bill O'Neill. Second table (left): Fred Meyer, Harry Dittmar, Dave DePree, George Ecke and George Thomson. Table at right: Sig Rue, Frances Lamb, John Capinjola, Margaret Griffing, A1 Gassman and Charlie Gambrili. 13 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12633 Extra-Curricular -____F Earl Bartholomew Earl Bartholomew, general manager of our Research laboratories, will serve as Society of Automotive Engineers representative on the National Committee for the United States for the Third World Petroleum Congress. The Congress will be held at The Hague, Nether lands, from May 28 to June 6, 1951. Wallace Armstrong Wallace Armstrong Wallace Armstrong, of Baton Rouge, has been elected superintendent of the University Presbyterian Church school at Louisiana State University. Wallace, who is a division operat ing superintendent at our plant, is the son of missionaries to China and is a charter member of the University Presbyterian Church. Dr. Roy C. A. Bock 14 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Baton Rouge Symphony Drive Mike Porch, BR Safety department, is first vice president and Mrs. Porch is auxiliary president of the drive to raise $22,000 for the Baton Rouge Symphony. Other Ethyl men on the committee are Steve Henry, manager of plant and employee services, and Dick Schneider, of Industrial Engineering. Also representing the distaff side are Ethyl wives Mrs. Alan Barton, Mrs. Kendall May and Mrs. Gus Montes. Alan is in Plant and Employee Services; Kendall in Ethyl Chloride Operations; and Gus in the Development section. Dr. Roy C. A. Bosk Dr. Roy C. A. Bock, chief plant physician, recently told members of the Baton Rouge Rotary club that, in his opinion, the average industrial worker is less subject to accident while on the job than off. He stressed the important part that medicine plays in over coming the unique hazards from new chem icals and new materials used in modem industry. BR Men Cited for Work in Government Twelve Ethyl men received praise in a recent report of the Baton Rouge City-Parish Council for their efforts in making the city a better place in which to live. The report told of the city's progress during its first year under a new government. Listed as "specially quali fied citizens who gave of their valuable experi ence and time" were: E. H. Armistead and H. B. Hunt, Finance; Dale Daniel, Kelly Harris and J. E. Vernon, Jr., Ethyl Chloride Operations; J. M. Gilbert, Jr., TEL Oper ations; H. B. Harelaon, Jr., Ethyl Chloride Maintenance; Carroll Hebert, F. M. Porch and Dan Raad, Plant and Employee Serv ices; Roy Rutland, Maintenance; and Joe Stewart, TEL Maintenance. \ i i* f i i ETC 12634 Our Cover Girl The bathing beauty on our cover is Gertrude Anthony, secretary to Bill Hubner and Charles Smith in Product Development. Gertrude started with us three years ago in Stenographic. She's a ( native of Jamaica, Long Island. In addi* tion to sunbathing on the sands at Jones Beach, she likes to play tennis and go horseback riding. Chuck Colvin Chuck Colvin, manager of purchases at Baton Rouge, spoke before the Edgewater Kiwanis club July 3. Chuck told how Ethyl makes its purchases and described the organ* ization of his department. Chuck Colvin Dan Read Dan Read, Baton Rouge safety engineer, told Carl Cyriax members of the Lakeshore Lions club June 26 about a practical way to avoid accidents. His ( Carl Cyriax, Audit division, N. Y. Finance, has been elected commander of the Sgt. subject was "Look at an Accident Before It Happens as You Would After It Happens." Walter Scott Brown Post of the American Legion at River Edge, N.J. He will be installed in his new office on September 17. Barker Killgore Barker Killgore, of Baton Rouge, was re cently elected to the board of directors of the city's Junior Chamber of Commerce. Barker is in the Process Engineering section at the plant. I BR Men Win Sheriff's Certificates Nine Ethyl men recently completed the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Training School. At the end of the course, conducted by FBI Special Agent Julian A. Martin, Sheriff Bryan Clemons invited the class to dinner at the jail and presented them with certificates. Joe Marrs, plant patrol foreman, was on hand to congratulate the group, many of whom traded shifts to attend classes on their own time. Those who completed the course are: W. D. Boyd, who works with the Sheriff's office in spare time, R. C. Cabanass, Albart Dixon, L. C. Dixon, J. M. Feldar, Carl Forten berry, R. H. Hannaman, J. E. LeFeaux and D. J. Morgan. l 15 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12635 Mom THE HOUSE THAT JAKE lake and Mary Boss relax on the front steps of their new home at 15975 West 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, Mich. Inset--Their three daughters pose for the cameraman: Wanda Faye, 5'/2< Linda Kay, 7 months & Sylvia lean, 3. Many Detroiters have moved to new homes during the past few years, but Jake Boss, grounds keeper at the labs, followed a unique procedure -- he moved his house first! The story of Jake's house began when the State of Michigan and the City of Detroit laid plans to build an express highway system through the city business and residential areas. To make way for the Edsel Ford Express way, the State brought condemnation proceedings against a modem, twostory, six-room brick house on Lonyo Boulevard. Quick to spot a bargain, Jake bought this house from the State and planned to move it to another location. The actual purchase was simple, but the complications grew and grew. Jake's lot was in Southfield Township, 13 miles away from the site of the house, and the State of Michigan was in a hurry. Jake contracted with a house mover to undertake the difficult trip across the western side of Detroit, then discovered the brick house was too heavy for that long move and too high to clear overhead obstructions. There was also the problem of prepar ing the lot. Before the house could be moved, the proper size cellar hole had to be dug, ten feet had to be cut off the roof and the brick siding removed. The actual move, from the time the movers hoisted up the house on Lonyo Boule vard till they set it in its present loca tion, took 12 hours and cost $1300-- $100 per mile. Even then, Jake's housing problem was still not solved. The real work was just beginning. For almost five months Jake and his father-in-law worked every evening and Saturdays to com plete the reassembly. They rebuilt the roof in its original form, relaid all the brick, built a basement up to meet the house, reconnected the furnace and all utilities and landscaped the lot. Jake admits it was a lot of hard work. However, to show for it he has an attractive, six-room home in Royal Oak (Mich.), a popular residential area only seven miles from the Detroit labs. With ingenuity and industry, he kept the total cost of the entire project to only $3,180. 16 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY T : ` / etc 12636 Times Safer The average employee in the petro leum industry is three times safer at work than he is in his own home. This information was brought to light by the American Petroleum Institute in a study of injuries in 263 oil companies during 1949. The petroleum industry established an all-time safety record last year, according to the API annual sum mary. A leader in safety measures to protect its manpower, the oil industry was among the first to recognize the need for safety education and training. Oil company executives drew up codes of safe operating practices, and trained foremen and workers alike in accident prevention and fire protection. The success of this program is proved by the 1949 safety record. Ethyl has participated through the years in the oil industry's safety pro gram. Currently two members of our New York Safety department are serv ing on API committees to promote safe methods of handling petroleum prod ucts. Ollie Jones, manager of customer services, is on the central committee on accident prevention and chairman of the committee on tank cleaning. Ellis Locher is also on the tank clean ing committee. MATHEMATICS PROVES FOLLY OF FAST DRIVING lJnTIuin73 Cilaatil aaaafll RSI -a. 35 34 $12.95 45 45 42, $14.51 61 Mm 55 48 $16.65 85 65 53 $19.43 160 (AIL SPEEDS OVER 60) `oRIVERS INVOLVEO IN FATAL ACCIOENTS PER 1,000 DRIVERS INVOLVED IN= INJURY ACCIDENTS. NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL Cruising speed is never your average speed, especially ii you drive last, as shown by this chart from the National Safety Council based on actual road tests on rural Iowa highways. It proves how average speed lags behind as you step on the gas. Cost (only gas and oil were included) shoots up--and so does the risk of death. Here is a lesson in speed mathematics: At the 42 m.p.h. average you can go 20 miles in 29 minutes at little risk. Speed up 10 m.p.h. to the 48 average and the 20 miles takes 25 minutes, a gain of four minutes. But when you hit the very risky top speed of 65 for a 53 m.p.h. average you cover 20 miles in 23 minutes--a gain of only two min utes at almost twice the death risk! 17 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12637 Recent Arrivals Detroit Harry and Mildred Dittmar--a son, Thomas Alan, born June 13. Weight: 6 lbs. 9 oz. Sisters: Joy, 6 and Sue Ann. 4. Harry is a chemist in chem research. Al and Carol Kolka--a son, Brian John, born June 6. Brother, Bruce, 2 lA. Al is an assistant research super visor in chem research. Jack and Ethel McCullough--a daughter, Sandra, bom May 31. Weight: 7 lbs. Sister, Marilynn, 2lA. Jack works in the Instrument section. Bill and Clara Moon--a son, Ralph Edward, bom May 23. Weight: 8 lbs. Brothers, Ferd, 10 and Pete, 81 sister, Sally 3. Bill is an operator in chemical research. New York Paul and Florence Cahill--a daughter, Ellen Martha, bom June 3. Weight: 7 lbs. 2lA oz. Paul is in the Tax division. John and Estelle McGuinness--a daughter, Patricia Josephs, born March 18. Brother, John, 7; sister, Mary Ann, 4, John, Sr. is in Finance. Shift Key New York Marian Clarke has been promoted to a secretarial job in Public Relations. She was promoted from Stenographic. Arnold Nelson is now working with George Roberts in N. Y. Property Records. Arnold was formerly in Accounts Payable. Farewell Party Eve Pavelchek Weissleder, former Eastern region secretary, was honored at a farewell party May 31 at the Hotel Barclay in New York. On hand to wish Eve good luck in her home making career were Genevieve LeRoy, Bernadette Curtin, Madge Lofthouse, Gerry Harms, Mary O'Hem, Erma Harris and Hazel Anderson. Ethyl friends presented Eve with a matched set of maroon and white luggage. Cotton picking has been made easier in some sections of the country through the use of planes which dust fields with petroleum products called defoliants. These cause the leaves of the plants to fall off, leaving only the cotton bolls for mechanical pickers to pick up. A Business Man's Glossary Or Helpful Hints to the High Powered. A program--Any assignment that can't be completed by one telephone call. To expedite--To confound confusion with commotion. Channels--The trail left by inter office memo. A meeting--A mass mulling by master-minds. A conference--A place where con versation is substituted for the dreariness of labor and the loneli ness of thought. Consultant (or expert)--An ordinary guy 50 miles or more from home. Under consideration--Never heard of it. Under active consideration--We're looking in the files for it. See me, or let's discuss--Come down to my office--I'm lonesome. Let's get together on this--I'm as suming you're as confused as I am'. Give us the benefit of your present thinking--We'll listen to what you have to say as long as it doesn't interfere with what we've already decided to do. Will advise you in due course--If we figure it out, we'll let you know. 18 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY k Margaret Graham . . . Detroit . . . literature chemist . . . former Rose Goldsmith . . . N.Y. Sta technical librarian at Sharpies tistical Research . . . statistical Chemicals, Inc., . . native Texan typist. . . born in Estonia, educa . . . won her B.S. from U. of Vir ted in New York and Beaufort, ginia . . . member of ACS, Alpha S.C., married a Texan . . . came Psi Omega . . . likes camping. to Ethyl from Consolidation Coal Co___enjoys crocheting, knitting. r^fivV 1 f Joan McCabe . . . New York Stenographic . . . bora in Dobbs Joan Plant . . . New York . . . Ferry, N.Y. . .. attended Packard clerk in Statistical Research . . . Junior College, then worked for bora in Brooklyn . .. graduate of American Can Co. . . . played James Madison H.S.. .. attended tennis & hockey in high school, City College of New York . . . ac now likes swimming & dancing. tuarial clerk for four years with the New York Life Insurance Co. i k> Claire Stacker... New York ... steno-clerk in Order and Ship ping . . . studied at Packard Jun ior College . . . ex-secretary at M.W. Kellogg Co... . she's a re cent bride--lives in her native New Jersey . . . hobby: reading. Alice Saunig . . . New York . . . helps keep Finance department files straight. . . also handy with a typewriter . . . graduate of Washington Irving H.S. in N.Y.C, . .. formerly with Burlington Mills Corp.... favorite sport: swimming. ETC 12639 When Technical Representative Gil Way spoke recently before the Exchange club cf Uptown San Bernardino, the photographer took this picture of Orin Kepford, club presi dent, Gil. Rollin Gish and Don Chapman flanking a knock test engine. Don, Western region engineer, gave a demonstration of the engine with Gil's talk on "Factors Affecting Octane Number Requirement." Rol, a re search engineer at our lab, is on the Exchange club board of control. ETHYL FOLK IN FOCUS Lynn Phillips, Jr. will be a sophomore next year at New Mexico Military Academy at Roswell. His pop is Ethyl's Mexico-Central America representative. 20 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Before trying for the wily trout, George Rob inson, Punch Pfundstein and Howard Hesselberg, of the Detroit labs, rig up their rods. Fritz Schroeter and Fred Green also went along on this annual fishing trip to Scott's Lodge on the North branch of the Au Sable River at Grayling, Mich. BB Reporter Fred writes: "No fish picture just because. . . Ethyl's General Stephen G. Henry was snapped by the news photographers at the Kentucky Colonels cup presentation at Churchill Downs early in May. A thoughtful Ethylite obtained the picture and sent it along to the BB without note or name. So we hereby thank whoever sent it. Our general is at the right next to General Jacob L. Devers. ETC 12640 Headliners in the San Bernardino paper are these officials of the eight-team American. Junior Baseball League for boys 15 to 19. Ethyl's Ed Lindsay (second from right) is League treasurer and also manages a Junior High League team sponsored by the Lions club for boys 12-15. Eddie, Jr. is first string shortstop or catcher on the Lions team, also plays second string shortstop with the Amer ican Juniors. From left are: Bill Joseph, Andy Haggerty, Walter Blount (standing), President Jim McCririe (whose wife-Bonnie McDonald used to work in our Detroit Research labora tories), Ed Lindsay and Chuck Howard. Standing by an exhibit of our Fire Power Show equipment, John Koehnle, Western re gion held engineer, gets a chance for a breather while visitors gather around another part of the Ethyl exhibit at the Union Oil Com pany Open House at their Oleum, Calif, re finery April 29. Some 3,500 Union Oil em ployees and guests at the Open House viewed our Fire Power Show and special exhibits. Ballerina Karen Ride, daughter of George Rick, N. Y. Safety, is the author-producerdirector of "Fiesta in Mexico/' a spring pres entation at P.S. 136 in Queens. Karen, who's 11, is an advanced student of piano and toedancing. She also sang and danced in the "Fiesta" production, which was given with the school's slide program on Latin America. At the microphone, Phil Savage gives ou with a song at the opening "Mixer" of the American Chemical Society Spring Conven tion in Detroit. Phil, who's one of Ethyl's ACS members, is a chemist at our Research labs. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 12641 They're Married Detroit Joanne Hoffman and Ted Carron, both of the Detroit labs, were married at Presentation Church.in Detroit on April 22. After a reception at Dear born Inn, they left for a wedding trip to Acapulco, Mexiro. Mr. & Mrs. Ted Carron New York Camille Russo, of the General Files, was married to Mickey Morello at our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in White Plains, N. Y. June 17. Follow ing a small reception at home for their families and friends, they left for a wedding trip to Vermont. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Mehler Ethyl friends in the wedding party were Bill Ball and Ellis Locher, who flank the groom. Yonkers Kay Foster, of Gasoline Testing, be came the bride of Army Corporal George P. Henderson on June 1 at Wrightstown, N. J. After a honey moon in New Jersey and New York, George left for an overseas assign ment. Kay continues her work with Ethyl, but plans to join George later in Vienna. Harold Mehler, project engineer of the gasoline testing division, married Catherine Albrecht at St. John's Lutheran Church in Lindenhurst, N.Y. on May 28. The couple went to Virginia Beach on their wedding trip and are now living in Bronxville, N.Y. 22 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Alice Jean Simona, daughter oi Paul Harris, Western region safety engineer at Seattle, was married to Marr Dixon Simons, at Salt Lake City lune 6. After a wedding trip through southern Utah national parks and Arizona, the couple will live at Ames, Iowa where the bridegroom will work on his doctorate in agronomy at the University of Iowa. ETC 12642 * Cards on the Table ^ It's a different formula at lunch time for these members of the Chemical sec tion at the Detroit Research laborato ries. Bridge is a verry, verry serious business and it takes a great deal cf concentration. The back belongs to Ken Swartwood and clockwise are Gene Hill, Charlie Sheppard and Fred Dykstra. Kibitzing is another fan, Ted Carron. At left: Pinochle is popular, too. Around a table in the basement recreation room are Sid Barker, of Shipping and Receiving, who's just about to play (right) and (clockwise) Fred Hughes, Frits Schroeter and Dick Bothwell of Automotive Research. Above right: On the second floor, bridge is a favorite. Nearest the camera is Burleigh Green, who often spends lunch hours and coffee time telling fortunes with cards. Burleigh, who runs the stationery stock room, gets busy whenever a girl has a new heart interest. Counterclockwise are Marge Kammann, Muriel Youngblood and Rita Blaisus. Standing is May McVicker, who works in the file room. Marge is secretary to Tom Risk, Muriel works for Jim Foote, Rita for John Murphy. Pinochle again. Mak ing every card count calls for close atten tion to the game . . . one misplay and tbey hear about it for a long time! From far left are Gus Trapp, Equipment section; Dale Thomp son (with the Ethyl shirt) and Joe Laethem, of Road Test; Bill Ran* sier, Joe Weaver and Cliff Wilson, aU of Automotive Research ETC 12643 aS i JR Billy Baldwin, 3, takes His tricycling seriously. He's the son of Dorry and Frank Baldwin. Frank is a Detroit Chem Researcher. Ann Elizabeth Burt, one year old May 10, hangs on tight to the side ot her crib. Her pop, Bill, is a Detroit labs chemist. Bright-eyed Tommy, is the year-old son of Margaret and Geo. Clixby. George is a dynamometer opera tor at the Detroit labs. Young booklover, Dougie Ewen, 2'A, pauses for a picture. His parents are Allaine & Doug. Pop is in Detroit Chem Research. This young New Yorker is the son of Genevieve Mrgan, of N. Y. Finance. Robert, who's 7, will en ter third grade this Fall. Three young Neals: Susan, 8, holding David, 1 'A, and Marcella, 5. Detroit lab oratories research chem ist, Herb, is the father. Jean Marie, daughter of Peg and Gordon Wilcox, celebrated her first birth day June 21. Gordon's a Detroit analyticalchemist. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ____c ETC 12644 Scouts Guests of Ethyl at Big League Game A group of 90 Boy Scouts from Baton Rouge and nearby parishes were the guests of Ethyl Corporation recently at a big league baseball game at the Yankee Stadium in New York City. The Boy Scouts, who were in New York City following the recent Na tional Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa., were taken in four chartered buses up to the Yankee Stadium, where they saw the New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox, 5-2, in a night game played before a crowd of more than 58,000 people. Ethyl presented each of the boys with a baseball cap bearing the in signia of the New York Yankees. The caps were suitably inscribed with a gold stamped leather tab sewn into the hatband which read, "Guest of Ethyl Corporation, Yankee-Red Sox Game, Yankee Stadium, New York, July 7, 1950." While at the game, the boys saw three home runs batted in--one each by Gene Woodling and Cliff Mapes, of the Yankees, and Ted Williams, of the Red Sox. After the game, the chartered buses returned them to their quarters at the 244th Coast Guard Artillery Armory in New York for the night. Ralph C. Champlin, director of public relations for Ethyl, and Chris topher C. Vogel, of Ethyl's public relations staff, acted as hosts for the Corporation. Gladys Jensen is all set lor a powerful difference in her golf game with the new set of clubs Ethyl friends gave her when she checked out of N. Y. Advertising the end of lune. Gladys, who received her ten-year pin in February, was secretary to Advertising Man ager Russ Weston. She plans to keep house and spend weekends playing golf with her husband. On their way to a farewell cocktail party at the Hotel Commodore June 28 are: Edna Blakley, Lillian Kraker, Alice Lahn, Dot Grainger, Carolyn Johanson Sikora, Mar garet Einarsea, Dot Watson, Edith Mahoney, Lillian Johnson, Grace Gregna, Erma Harris, Margie Smith, Betty Hench Metzger and Bernadette Curtin. Gladys holds the golf clubs. ETC 12645 For a painless tan, mix small doses of sun (10 minutes the-first day) with liberal applications of sunburn lotion or oil. Wear sunglasses and stay out of the red-hot noonday sun. To sidestep heat exhaustion, eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, use extra salt and just take it easy. To keep worry from riding with you, make a last check around the house. Lights out? Gas and water turned off? How about the car? Had a complete service job done? Brakes, tires, steer ing, lights, windshield wipers OK? Are the first-aid kit, flashlight, sun glasses all ready to go? You know the fundamentals of safe driving of course. Special vacation pointers are: 1) Allow plenty of time so you don't have to hurry. 2) If you become sleepy, get off the highway and take a nap or let someone else drive. 3) On curves or mountainous roads and at intersections, don't pass the car ahead. 4) Watch out for pe destrians and animals on the highway. Cruising down the river in a canoe, rowboat or small power boat is fine-- if you know how to handle it and how to swim. Should the boat capsize, stay with it and wait for help. Any small boat that's overloaded or out of balance can easily tip over, especially a canoe. Always step in the center and, once seated, stay put. Changing seats or standing up in any small craft is asking for trouble. If you use a motor, be careful not to spill gasoline or oil when you fill 'er up. A stray spark might mean fire. When you're getting away from it all, check your directions and landmarks . . . it's nice to know your way home. Pick a high, well drained site near water. If you're not sure of the drink ing water, boil it for half an hour. Check on snakes and poisonous plants; watch out for the glossy-green, three-part leaves of poison ivy. For further tips see back cover. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Swimming is fun . . . and safe if you follow the rules and don't take chances. Relax on the beach for an hour after you've eaten. If you're tired or over heated, don't go swimming. Don't be the lone star of the swim ming pool... always have at least one companion so you can get or give help if necessary. Always stop swimming before you're exhausted. Know where you're diving . . . there may be rocks beneath the cool water. Important: Learn to apply artifi cial respiration--you may save a life. ETC 12646 HELP--WE> Hlp Men Halp Mn ACCOUNTANT noooftuBiCT for top-frxq# young mtn, undtf 34. to Join accounting K*3 of leading industrial corporation la K. V. Applicant must h*vs completed Ql*nnf completion tf * sound t question sad btvs *tToni dev* ooMibihtlM. 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With the use of better machines--more power--we turn out more and better goods each hour we work than any other country in history. During the last 40 years alone we increased our use of machine power 4*/2 times--doubled our production--and our wages were almost doubled, yet we cut about 18 hours from our work week. Nobody, of course, denies that the system has its faults today. Prices fluctuate. Depression is not an impossibility. There is some unemployment. Management-labor rela tions are not without friction. But the over-all truth is that the average American makes more, has more, and enjoys more than any other citizen under any other system anywhere else in the world. And--above all this--he has freedom of choice throughout his life, that is granted only under the Ameri can system. Doesn't it make sense, then, to correct the faults rather than talk about changing the system? And we can correct them. If we share the same funda mental faith in America, we can make our system work more productively, more smoothly, more fairly than it has ever worked before. All it takes is common determination . . . and com mon effort. The better we produce... the better we live This Wonderful Vacation Spot Seduced to Ashes by One Careless Move The shady sanctuary of this fragrant forest on the edge of a mountain lake teaming with trout and bass offered pleasant hours of relaxation to weary workers. Now it's all ashes and deso late, terrible waste . . . because one person built a fire with too much wood and a spark went off with the wind to land in some dry grass 100 feet away. That's all it took. To make sure that you won't be the one to cause such destruction of America's great natural resources take these precautions when you are in the woods. 1. Crush oul your smokes! When out-ofdoors, stop to smoke in safe places only. With the side of your shoe, clear a space in the surface litter down to the mineral soil. Drop your cigar, ciga rette butt, or pipe ash on this cleared spot. With the heel of your shoe, grind it into the ground until you're sure it's out. When driving, use your ash tray. NEVER throw burning material from any vehicle. 2. Break your match in two) This safety test will insura that the flame is out. Always feel the burnt end before throwing your match away. Always make sure your match is DEAD OUT-- a good habit, for home or woods. 3. Before you build a fire, clear all leaves and grass away for a space six feet in diameter. Wet the ground and build a stone fire place, or dig a hole in the middle and build your fire there. Have plenty of water handy. 4. Build only a small fire, for better cook ing as well as for safety. 5. Always pour water on a fire or coals before leaving your campfire, even for a minute. A sudden gust of wind may fan up a big fire while you're gone. Turn the sticks over and soak both sides, as well as the earth around the fire. 6. Don't break bottles in the woods. Broken glass may cause fire. This country's vast forests and beautiful streams are part of your great American heritage. Keep them as you find them. The protection of America's woods and wildlife depends to a large extent upon how YOU act. Only YOU can prevent forest fires! ETC 12648 ETC 12649 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Editor Contributing Editors Baton flouge: Douglas Price, John C. Rentroe. J. T. Stephenson rphotograpfter.1; Chicago; fluth Callaway; Dallas: Ann Sei/ridge; Detroit; George Better. Bernadine Burdick. Margaret Dullinger, Claude Hoffman. Sob Meseher, Claire Oisen, Philip Savage, A1 Sechrist, Margaret Weip, Art Zeits, Fred Green. Loren Knowles, Alyce Peterson, photographers; Houston; Kathleen finen; Kansas City: Blanche Kauffman, Edward J. Otto, Jr.; Los Angeles; flobert B. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Jim Donohue, Don Forsdick, Wilma Hansa. Erma Harris, Alice Lahn. Ruth Moore, Helen Sinclair. Emily Whitfield; San Bernardino: Carol Slmcock, James Terrell; Tulsa: Ed Hendrick. Gladys Money; Yonkers: Catherine Hendetson; Central Office, Gasoline Testing: Chris Bruhl. Published by ihe Ethyl Corporation, 10Q Park Avenue. New York, New York; Edward l. Shea, President; Stanley T. Crossland. Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Assistant Secretary. je ;-------------------------------------- - i ETC 12650 I New , Expansion Program Under Way Houston Construction Starts on Houston Plant i Construction of the new Houston integrated to manufacture sodium, plants, announced by President E. L. chlorine, ethyl chloride and tetraethyl Shea in August, will soon be under lead, all used in the processes for pro way. Designed to substantially in ducing "Ethyl" antiknock compounds. crease our production of "Ethyl" Houston was selected over many antiknock compounds, the new plants sites inspected because of the advan are expected to go on stream by the tages it offers in 1) the availability of end of 1951. raw materials, water and electrical Plans for expansion to meet pre power and, 2) the many large cus dicted demands for "Ethyl" antiknock tomer companies which are located compounds, under consideration at nearby. the time of the South Korean invasion Three of the principal raw materials were speeded up in the interest of required to produce "Ethyl" anti national security. Partly for reasons of knock fluid are metallic lead, common national security and partly to assure salt and petroleum gases. Lead metal a second source of supply for our cus will be shipped to Houston in pigs tomers in peacetime as well as for the from smelters located in the western military in case of a world conflict, it section of the country and Mexico. was decided to build a plant entirely Salt brine to make sodium and chlo separate from Baton Rouge. The Texas rine will be piped from local wells and plants will be completelyjndependent petroleum hydrocarbons will be pur of the Louisiana operations. chased from nearby oil refineries. The new Houston plants will pro Ample electrical power is available. duce over a hundred million pounds of Complete sodium, chlorine, ethyl chemicals annually. The plants will be chloride, and tetraethyl lead units will 3 i BULLETIN BOARD --AUO.-SEPT. ETC 12651 be built, with"room allowed for further expansion. Auxiliary units will include a blender where tetraethyl lead is mixed with ethylene dibromide and ethylene dichloride to produce "Ethyl" antiknock compounds; laboratories; storage tanks for tetraethyl lead, chlo rine, ethyl chloride and ethylene di bromide; offices, employee changehouses and showers. The installation will also include trackage for a fleet of tank cars for the delivery of antiknock compounds to oil company customers. There will be close management ties between Baton Rouge and Houston, with Bynum Turner's responsibilities as general manager of manufacturing extending to both plants. "Corre sponding responsibilities will be shared from time to time,'' said John Schae fer, vice president of manufacturing, "by other members of the Baton Rouge supervisory group whose knowl edge and experience will be valuable in helping to get things started at the new location." No transfer of Bator. Rouge employees is planned, except for supervisory personnel who may be' detailed there on . a temporary basis or, in some cases offered permanent assignments. Plans for employing operators for the Houston plant will not be an nounced until next year, according to Bynum Turner. At that time it is planned to recruit about 750 skilled workers from the Houston area. The Company's plans for further growth, following closely on the heels of the $40 million expansion program recently completed, point to everbroadening horizons for Ethyl and Ethyl people. Mr. Shea pointed this out by saying, "Our increasingly sig nificant role in the nation's military security and the country's economy provides a challenge and an oppor tunity for all of us." Higher Standard for "Ethyl" Gasoline To keep abreast of the improvements in fuels and engines produced by the oil and automotive industries and to maintain the value of the "Ethyl" trade-mark, the minimum antiknock standard for gasoline sold under the "Ethyl" trade-mark "after September 1 will be increased to 88 octane num ber by the Research test method. In certain high altitude areas in the Rocky Mountain plateau, there will be an exception of three octane numbers. The standard in- those designated states and counties will be raised to 85 octane number to allow for the effect of high altitudes on octane requirements. According to a ninety-day notice of the change mailed to our customers, the antiknock value of gasoline sold under the "Ethyl" trade-mark must be determined by the A.S.T.M. Re search method. The change from rat ings according to the Motor test meth od to ratings by the Research test method was effected at the time of our last increase in standards on Septem ber 19, 1949. The minimum antiknock quality for "Ethyl" gasoline was then set at 86 octane number (Research) with 83 octane number in high altitude areas. The Research method of testing is generally accepted by the industry as superior for predicting the anti knock performance of cars on the road. 4 BULLETIN BOARD--AUG.-SEPT. The oil industry's traditional policy of free service to the public is exempli fied by the Oil Industry Service Center at the Chicago Fair now in full swing on the lakeshore. Here weary visitors may rest, relax and refresh themselves for more sightseeing. Under joint sponsorship of 18 com panies and oil industry associations-- including Ethyl Corporation -- the Service Center represents the indus try's best traditions of moving fast and decisively to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The first meeting to discuss the possibilities of an industry exhibit was held April 20. Sixty-five days later--on June 24--the Service Center, one of the few fair projects fully finished on schedule, wel comed Opening Day visitors. Among those who helped push this project through in record speed was Ethyl's Jim Boudreau, Central regional mana ger who served on the Service Center steering committee and was chairman of the Interior Furnishing committee. Strategically located on the main plaza opposite the theatre where the fair pageant "Frontiers of Freedom" is presented, the Oil Industry Service Center expects to welcome over two million men, women and children be fore the fair closes on September 4. The Center sells no oil products. In stead it offers to foot-weary fair visi tors comforts and conveniences they won't find anywhere else on the grounds--with the same spirit that has made the nation's service stations havens along the highway. Kay Broderick, secretary to Ethyl's Lea Hurtable. Central operations manager, calls a friend to join her at fair. Kay asks one of the girls at the Information Booth wheth er any special attractions are scheduled for that evening. ETC 12653 14 sound films, some in coU or, tell about development of oil industry over 91 years. Waiting for her friend, Kay listens while guide explains a mural on refining. Over 1,200 square feet of photographic murals tell the story of oil. Murals on transportation oi petroleum and its products also interest Kay. Ethyl contributed several oi Center's dramatic murals. Left: Kay writes friends to be sure to come to the fair. Young reader is absorbed in OIIC booklet on oil. A staff of 27 keeps the Center run ning smoothly. College co-eds answer questions about Chicago and the fair, sell stamps, make change for the tele phone, furnish post cards and give travel information. In addition, the Center does a brisk business in free eyeglass cleaners, lighter fluid, ice bags and cleansing tissues. Among the hit attractions are foot and hip vibrat ing machines to help visitors relax. No tipping is permitted. Clean rest rooms, picnic grounds where families may bring their lunch, free movies about the oil industry, lounges and checking facilities are all part of the industry's goodwill project. Covering the walls of the Center, 30 dramatic murals depict the story of how more than 2,000 petroleum prod ucts serve the American public. Those who see the pageant, "Frontiers of Freedom" at the outdoor theatre across from the Center, will learn more Kay hlls her lighter. Road maps, eyeglass cleaners and cleansing tissues are also free. 6 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUG.-SEPT. F ETC 12654 about the part played by the petro leum industry in the nation's indus trial development. One of the most dramatic scenes shows the "blowing in" of Spindletop in 1901. A 45-foot oil derrick gushing simulated crude, moves across the stage while the com mentator explains that the period of the greatest industrial development America has ever known began with the discovery of oil in large quantities. Young admirer turns the switch as Kay tries the foot and hip vibrators, de signed to help visitors relax. Smiling courtesy of service station attendant in mural is typical of the Center. Clean rest rooms and a comfortable lounge are among features expected to attract 750,000 people, according to Paul King, manager of the Center. Kay chats with an out - of - town visitor. As an Ethyl employee, Kay enjoys free transportation. The station wagon is used as a courtesy car for personnel of companies contributing to the con struction and maintenance of Center. At last Kay's friend arrives, after a long trip across Chicago. One of the shaded picnic tables, where families may bring their lunch, makes an ideal spot to plan the evening's activities. In the words of the sponsoring com mittee, "the whole idea of the Center is to make it an unforgettable example of the concern f6r the comfort and convenience of the other fellow that oil companies customarily show their patrons, as well as another testament to the magnificent achievements of American industry, commerce, agri culture and science." L BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. ETC 12655 Personality is Poison! Fied Ramin, who conducted the demonstra tions, discusses the bouncing pin adjustment during the meeting held at the Yonkers Gasoline Testing laboratory late in June. Interested listeners are M. D. MacPhail and E. Purchase, of Esso Standard, and W. I. Kazamek, of Atlantic Refining. Personality in people is fine, but in knock-test engines it's poison. For years engineers and technicians have been trying to depersonalize test en gines so they'll all act exactly alike. And it isn't easy. Ethyl has contributed much toward standardizing the behavior of these sensitive machines, on which pioneer development work was done at our Research laboratories. A knock-test ing engine was developed at the De troit labs and manufactured there for use throughout the oil and automotive industries from 1930 to 1932. By then a standard laboratory engine--the Coordinating Fuel Research engine-- had been developed and put on the market. After the introduction of the CFR engine, which incorporated many of the features of Ethyl's Series 30 unit, we no longer made knock-test engines for sale, but continued to cooperate closely and actively on re- search in the methods and instrumen tation of knock-rating equipment. In 1941 Ethyl conducted knock-test forums throughout the country for customer oil company personnel. The forums brought together for the first time for discussion of their problems, the technicians who operate the en gines and bear the responsibility of maintaining the industry's standards of quality by accurate octane ratings. The meetings proved a valuable aid to the men as they learned much about the operation and maintenance of CFR engines through their exchange of information and the informal dis cussions led by Ethyl's Hudson Kel logg. The idea has been followed up, therefore, with other similar programs developed by our Gasoline Testing division, such as the top overhaul demonstrations, at which fine points in the care and maintenance of CFR engines were discussed by Ethyl men. 8 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUG.-SEPT. T etc 12656 George Gier, of our Yonkers Test lab, (second from left) clarifies a point on CFR engine maintenance. Watching are C. Donovan, Shell Oil, H. R. Stacey, Standard Oil Development, and B. Watkins, Esso Standard Oil. Center of this trio is Ethyl's Harold Ritchie, who answers a question posed by H. Callaghan, of Sun Oil, right. The book on CFR Engine Knock Testing was presented to all guests at the demonstrations and contains informa tion on the points covered at the meet ings, along with charts, tables, basic rules and practical hints on operating procedures. Left: R J.O'Connor, Sinclair. Currently we have the CFR Engine maintenance. He described and dem Trouble Shooting and Bouncing Pin onstrated the Ethyl method for ad demonstrations. During the past year, justing the bouncing pin to obtain 26 of these meetings have been held at consistent and accurate knock-testing Ethyl Gasoline Testing labs in Tulsa, results. Kansas City, Baton Rouge, San A highlight of these demonstrations Bernardino and Yonkers, and the has been the use of a bouncing pin Detroit Research labs. Over 200 brought to our laboratory by a cus representatives from customer com- tomer on the day of the meeting. i panies have attended them, Usually these bouncing pins were i Fred Ramin, deputy manager of the brought in because they could not be Yonkers Gasoline Testing lab, con made to operate satisfactorily. After ducted most of these demonstrations being used as the guinea pig in the and discussed proper bouncing pin demonstration, the pin always func- Fred Ramin (standing) explains use of the bouncing pin adjust ment curve. The men refer to their books to follow his discussion. They are, from left: E. Purchase, Esso Standard; W. V. Kazamek and H. F. Simmons, Atlantic Refining; H. Callaghan, Sun Oil; B. Watkins, Esso Standard Oil; M. D. MacPhail, Esso Standard; H. R. Stacey, Standard Oil Development; A. Monticalvo, Shell. ETC 12657 cioned perfectly-for the visitors and then for the customer when he took it home and used it in his own engine. Proof positive of the effectiveness of the Ethyl method. The bouncing pin, installed in single-cylinder engines for knock rating fuels, is used to measure the degree of knock in laboratory engines. A spring steel diaphragm exposed to the combustion chamber flexes with fuel detonation, causing an electric impulse to be transmitted by the bouncing pin to a knockmeter which registers the intensity of the knock. Originally the bouncing pin was used merely to detect the presence of knock in laboratory engines. In the late 20's Tom Midgley, discoverer of tetraethyl lead, and T. A. Boyd, of General Motors, perfected the bouncing pin indicator for measuring the degree of knock in laboratory engines. An im provement on this was made in 1942 by two Ethyl men, Clifford Pope, head of our Gasoline Testing division, and Everett Garnsey, project engineer at the Central office at Yonkers, when they added a shoulder suspension to the bouncing pin. This made the pin more stable, more sensitive to knock,and easier to maintain. Many other additions to the art of gasoline testing have originated in Ethyl's laboratories. Such contribu tions coupled with our pioneer de velopment work have made Ethyl a recognized leader in the field of knock testing and have added greatly to the prestige of the Company. The CFR Engine Trouble Shooting and Bouncing Pin demonstrations, sponsored by the Sales department and conducted by representatives of the Gasoline Testing division, are another example not only of Ethyl services to customers, but of team work within the Company. Again Ethyl experience enables us to better serve our customers by passing along to them the benefit of our 27 years of antiknock experience. This group of Michigan refinery representatives and Ethyl Corporation personnel participated in a CFR Engine trouble shooting demonstration at our Detroit Research laboratories. Front row (from left): Herbert*Green, Ethyl Research labs; L. A. Dollahan, Ethyl Central region ac count representative; W. L. Mitchell, Socony-Vacuum; B. A. Paulson and Robert Burke, MidWest Refineries. Second row: H. A. Sundberg, Naph-Sol Refining; Fred Ramin, Ethyl Gasoline Testing lab, Yonkers; L. T. Fallon, Roosevelt Oil and Refining; Walker Hatfield, Old Dutch Refining; and John Fischer, Ethyl Central region field engineer. Top row: R. F. Smith, SoconyVacuum, and ). C. Renwick, Aurora Gasoline Co. 10 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. (----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oil Industry Is Prepared to Supply Military Needs The start of the Korean war and the United Nations all-out drive for peace found the oil industry better prepared than at any time in history to tackle the tremendous task of powering the attack. Behind this preparedness lies careful planning by various committees work ing with the Defense and Interior de partments. In 1946, the National Pet roleum Council was created, and the next year the then Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug established the Military Petroleum Advisory Board to complete the tie-up of the military with the Oil and Gas division of the Interior department. The MPAB, a confidential advisory board composed of approximately 20 experienced members of the petroleum industry, has appointed some 250 other industry members who offer vol untary, unpaid service to help gather needed information. With their help, MPAB carries out a four-fold program in appraising petroleum national se curity: 1) forecasting of crude availa bility 2) refining capacity availability 3) transportation availability and 4) wartime requirements. In addition to these volunteers, sev eral hundred others are active in the military's Affiliated Reserve Program for oil, designed to make 66 trained technical service units available for immediate call when needed. Supporting this important program to buttress our nation's security, Members of the 353rd Photo-Interpreter Team listen attentively as Commanding Officer Ernie Clinton, of Ethyl's Detroit Research laboratories, explains the construction and use of the U. S. Army carbine. Clockwise from left: Ernie, Gilbert Treuter, Peter Zahariadis, Arthur Bedian and Robert Craig. 11 BULLETIN BOARD--AUG.-SEPT. ETC 12659 Ethyl Corporation is sponsoring the 353rd Photo-Interpreter Team. Mili tary Intelligence, an affiliated unit of the Organized Reserve Corps of the Fifth Army area. The 353rd, which meets twice a month at our Research laboratories, is the only such unit in the Detroit area which is participating in the affiliation program endorsed by the American Petroleum Institute. Originally activated' in 1948, the Ethyl team reached its full comple ment this year largely due to the ef forts of John Howard, of Tech Service, Ernie Clinton, of Chem Research, and Jim Boudreau, Central regional mana ger. Jim is chairman of the API-Army Reserve program in the Fifth Army area. Organization of the unit was a function of the API Defense Services committee. The 353rd Photo-Interpreter Team consists of two officers and five en listed men. Emie Clinton, who com mands the group, picked up plenty of experience as C.O. while serving as a captain in the 232nd Field Artillery, Rainbow division, in World War II. In the training program, prescribed by the Army Ground Forces, he is assist ed by an officer from the local Army headquarters at Ft. Wayne, Mich. At present this training is in basic military subjects designed 1) for men who have little, if any, military back ground, and 2) to refresh the memo ries of those whose training and expe rience have perhaps been dimmed by the passage of a few years. After mastering military fundamen tals, the group will begin advanced training which will make specialists of the members of this unit so that they can form and train other teams. Such specially trained groups will assure ready technical assistance wherever and whenever the military needs it. Several of these units of Petroleum "Minute Men" have already been called into active service to help sup port our troops now fighting in the South Korean conflict. First to the Colors In the face of continued Communist aggression in Korea, Ethyl products and Ethyl men are being called upon to support the United Nations forces. At Baton Rouge, the first four men to report for active duty are: William D. Boyd, of Sodium, a Navy radio op erator; Lyle C. Crotwell, of TEL Op erations, a Navy pharmacist mate; Mark A. Jacobs, of TEL Maintenance, an Air Force crew chief; and Roy L. Riche, a train crewman, who is a Navy ship's cook. The first New Yorker to receive a "bid" is Gene Lenahan, who was in charge of the Mail Room. He reported for active duty in the Navy on August 10. Gene is a quartermaster 3/c and is stationed at Little Creek, Va. Gene Lenahan, loimer head o{ N. Y. Mail Hoorn, says good-bye to his collie, Corky. Gene reported to the Navy, Brooklyn Receiving Sta tion August 10, is now in Little Creek, Va. 12 BULLETIN BOARD--AUG.-SEPT. I ETC 12660  i i ` 1i ` * * mu T , mu ' IMS*. "i j : i a I i mu ' i isiaz > SHOWSiiilUHE liii > im gm JIM ll'i . Hill I Mill I Mill I Hill i . mH i -p. i--. r-TTTJWJW WAY The State Capitol, occupied in 1932, rises majestically over the city's 37 square miles. As a community service for Ethyl's "home town," the Company has just published a new map of Baton Rouge. Those who receive the map are told on the cover that it is "for our friends and neighbors who have made Baton Rouge a grand city to live in and for motoring visitors whose goodwill and loyalty to `Ethyl' gasoline have helped us grow to be the world's largest man ufacturer of antiknock compounds." Greeted with enthusiasm by all who have received it, the map won high praise in an editorial in the Baton Rouge State TimesoiJuly4.Thenew maps are particularly timely and pro- By Turner, general manager of the Baton Rouge plant, presents new city maps to Conrad Manley, chairman oi the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Publica tions Committee. fusely welcome, the editorial points out, because of the sudden expansion in Baton Rouge during the last decade with the addition of many new and little known streets. No matter where you're going, the editorial concludes, 13 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. The spin! of She Did South lives in the community's ante helium homes, such as "The Cottage," located south of the city. "you can't help getting there with one of these new maps." Lots of people have taken the trouble to write to various Ethyl men at the plant to compliment them on the maps and thank Ethyl Corpora tion for this contribution to the com munity. Letters have come from a broad cross-section of citizens includ ing doctors, lawyers, ministers, pro fessors and government officials. Ethyl employees at: the plant were the first to receive the new maps, which were sent to them at their homes. Maps were then made available to the employees to give to friends, and with in a week they had distributed hap pily and with pride 9,600 copies. The maps were later made available to the public when By Turner, general manager of the plant, presented them to the Baton Rouge Chamber of Com merce. Anyone interested may now ob tain one at the Chamber of Commerce office or from an Ethyl plant employee. Bird's eye view of Baton Rouge, located on the first bluff north of the Golf of Mexico. Early French explorers named the city for the red cypress tree which divided the hunting grounds of the Houma and Bayou Goula Indians . . ."le baton rouge". . . the Red Stick. 14 BULLETIN BOARD--AUG.-SEPT. ETC 12662 A little information about our Com pany, which is of interest to Baton Rouge people, is given on the back of the map. Readers may learn that our plant in Baton Rouge supplies "Ethyl" antiknock compound to oil companies throughout the country . . . that start ing in one service station in Dayton, Ohio, in February 1923, the fame of "Ethyl" has spread to every town and hamlet in America . . . that most of the raw materials used in the manu facture of "Ethyl" fluid come from Louisiana . . . that Ethyl locally employs more than 3,600 skilled work ers with a plant payroll exceeding a million dollars a month; Printed in three colors, the map shows the layout of all greater Baton Rouge streets and contains the latest street guide. Among helpful features is a list of the city's showplaces keyed to location. On the back are 32 photo graphs and descriptive captions cover ing many greater Baton Rouge attrac tions including Louisiana State Uni versity, the State Capitol, homes and churches, industries and the port. Also listed for ready reference are facts about population, climate, highways, hotels, trains, buses and airlines. The port of Baton Rouge, at the head of deep water navigation on the Mississippi River, is served by ships carrying raw materials & products to & from all parts of the world. 3PZ I .1 JSl 1111* This impressive $11 million combination rail and vehicular bridge spanning the Mississippi River is an important Unit in the North-South transportation system. The Mississippi provides part of the 7,457 miles of navigable waterways found in the State. 15 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUG.-SEPT. ETC 12663 jeaSlr_- Five Engineers Start Training in Detroit ! Julian Frey, sales manager, gives an official welcome to the five new engineers-in-training. Ed Kurt, assistant to the director of research, and Ray Faller, manager of training, greeted the trainees on the first day of the introductory program. Bill Quigley (left) shakes hands with Ed as Dick Husta, Neal Hepner, Bill Dixon, Pete Smith and Ray look on. Five new engineers-in-training, slated for assignments in the Sales depart ment, began their Ethyl indoctrina tion at the Detroit Research labora tories early in July with an introduc tory program led by Ray Faller, manager of training. The trainees, all World War II veterans and mechan ical engineering graduates, are: Wil liam S. Dixon III, of Pampa, Texas; Neal Hepner, of Detroit; Richard P. Husta, of Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y.; William L. Quigley, of Bloom field, N. J.; and George P. Smith, of Chicago. On their first day, the group cleared employment forms, were briefed on fundamental "Ethyl" terms, and given a helping hand in finding a place to live while in Detroit. Sales Manager Julian Frey opened the second day's meeting with the Company's official welcome and Earl Bartholomew, gen eral manager, welcomed the group to the labs. After a tour of the laborato ries, the trainees heard more about Ethyl, engineering calculations and weekly reports. At the end of the introductory pro gram, the men reported to their as- Bill Dixon . . . Ohio-born . went to school in Texas . . . received his B.S.M.E. from the Uni versity of Texas in June. A sports fan, he played college intramural basketball, touch football and baseball . . . member of Sigma Phi Epilson, Pi Tau Sigma and ASME. ETC 12664 Neal Hepr.er... native of Winnipeg, Canada ... worked several months tor Ethyl while study ing for his B.M.E. degree at the University of Detroit. Fortner vice president of Tau Beta Pi and treasurer of Tuyere fraternity, he also be longs to Blue Key, Pi Tau Sigma, ASME and the Army Reserve. signments on research projects now j under study. Each trainee will have a | chance during his three and a half months at Detroit to get background information for his sales career by working in the Dynamometer, Road Test, Single Cylinder and Technical Service sections. Supplementing the lab work will be a series of 19 lectures. Experienced technical people and de partment heads will discuss all phases of our activities, our history and our sales programs. On-the-job training will continue in the field with a week at one of the Gas oline Testing laboratories. Trainees will then work with field engineers, safety engineers, agricultural engineers, fleet engineers and account representa tives before stepping into a permanent assignment. Selected from dozens of men inter viewed at colleges throughout the country, the new engineers-in-training are leaders in scholastic attainment and extra-curricular activities. The two Army veterans, Neal Hepner and Bill Quigley, both served in the Air Force. Bill Dixon, Dick Husta and George "Pete" Smith are vet erans of the United States Navy. Bill Quigley . . . hails from New Jersey ... at tended Cooper Union and Stevens Institute of Technology, where he won his mechanical engineering degree .. . member of ASME, SES and the Reserve Officers Association. A golf and bridge enthusiast, he also likes auto re pair work. George "Pete" Smith . . . originally from New ton, Mass. . . . won a B.M.E. from Cornell University ... past two summers worked as an engineer far Nelson L. Davis & Co. in Chicago, which he now calls his home town . . . exprexy of Delta Tau Delta . . . also belongs to the Cornell Society of Engineers . .. captain of his golf team in the 1950 intramurals. Dick Husta . . . bom in Flushing, N.Y. . . at tended Lehigh University, where he was grad uated with a B.S. in M.E... . member of ASME and the U.S. Naval Reserve. Another intra mural sportsman, Dick was on the baseball, football and tennis teams. ETC 12665 Detroit Picnic Draws Record Crowd Florence McMahon and Claire Olsen were busy registering Ethylites, handing out hats and free ride tickets for. youngsters. At the counter are (from left) John Capinjola, George Betker, George Clixby and Ai Breuleuz. With full lunch baskets and light hearts, almost 300 Detroit Ethylites and their families got together for an all-day picnic June 17 at Walled Lake Amusement Park. Races and contests for all ages highlighted the day's ac tivities with eating coming in a close second. The consumption of ice cream bars reached a high 672 and 420 bot tles of pop were distributed to thirsty Ethylites. Some 140 children received free ride tickets on the park's various amusements. With Wilkie Wilkinson as emcee, the races got off to a flying start with the slipper kick won by Mrs. Chester Kelley. Other winners were: foot race, Bob Hall; sack race for girls, Beverlee Rife and Elaine Willans; egg throw, Mrs. Doug Ewen and Mrs. Ellis Rifkin; three-legged race. Jack and Bob Burian; balloon, Carol Pauls; Walter Raleigh race, George and Margaret Clixby; Siamese twins, Dick Rusestine and Jean Faucher; bag-bust, Bob Dullinger; lollypop, Sue Chrysler; banana eating, Jim and Lois Foote; and fat man's race, Frank Baldwin. At the fish pond, the youngsters caught cars, trucks, baseballs and pinwheels. Among those helping to untangle the lines are Andy Reimold, Vera Gram, Bob O'Meara & John Capinjola. At mike, Wilkie Wilkinson gives instructions for the start of another race. Wilkie was emcee and supervisor of kids' racing events. ETC 12666 ~1 Flying high are Beverlee Rife (right) and a friend. Beverlee is the daughter of Ross Rife, chairman of Ethyl Society. Picnic arrangements were under the general direction of John Murphy, social chairman of the Detroit Ethyl Society. Assisting on special commit tees were: events and judges, Rex Closson, Eleanor Eskola and Art Jen nings; prizes, Evelyn Harworth; regis tration, Florence McMahon; refresh ments, Phil Savage; publicity, George Betker; and photographs, Fred Green. Lucky number holders Evelyn Ryan and Max ine Acre took home Motorola portable radios. Tulsa Picnicks Too xeioirt ( (it Ballmtin Stt/cf By Ed Hendrick Ethyl folk in Tulsa enjoyed their annual picnic outing June 17 in Mo hawk Park, a stone's throw from most any spot. They ate, quenched their thirst, sat, stood, played a few assorted games and visited among themselves, dis cussing matters which are usually discussed at picnics held on June 17. A major activity at the Tulsa picnic: Search ing for a couple of cans of tangy malt bever age are (left to right) Deane Birkes, deputy manager of the Gas Testing lab, and Lou Shank, Southern regional operations manager. ETC 12667 Fritz Schroeter, right, newly-appointed safety engineer at the Detroit labs, and Ted Canon, left, pick up some pointers about fire extinguishers from Inspector Michael Hacala of the Ferndale Fire department. During a practice demonstration, John Napolitano concentrates on putting out the fire as Inspector Michael Hacala gives instructions. Looking on: Fntz Schroeter, Heg Broquet, Tony Burian, John Capin]ola & Maurice Granger. Fritz Schroeter Gets New Post Fritz Schroeter has been appointed to the newly-created post of safety engineer at the Detroit Research lab oratories. He will be responsible for reviewing the labs' practices and pro cedures from a safety standpoint to insure maximum protection for em ployees and property. He will also investigate hazards and make recom mendations to eliminate them, and supervise training of employees to encourage safe practices on the job and at home. A native of Ann Arbor, Fritz at tended the University of Michigan. He joined Ethyl in 1935 and during the following 11 years served as an assistant manager of the Company's Gasoline Testing laboratories at Yon kers and Detroit. In 1946, he took charge of the Detroit chassis dyna mometer operations, the position he held until his present_appointment. Fritz is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He and his wife Fay have one daughter, Judy, who celebratedher tenth birthday in March. 20 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. Detroiters Learn Fire Fighting Facts To familiarize employees with the operation of all types of hand fire ex tinguishers, the Detroit Research lab oratories, with the cooperation and assistance of Femdale's Fire depart ment, are holding a series of instruc tion sessions in fire fighting technique. Inspector Michael Hacala of the Fire department is conducting the program of discussion periods and demonstrations of fire fighting equip ment in actual use. At the demonstra- tions, each employee has a chance to operate either a carbon dioxide or dry chemical fire extinguisher and to ob serve the other types in action. Depending upon the nature of the fire, various kinds of extinguishers are used. These demonstrations stress the use of proper equipment, with special emphasis on fires involving ordinary combustible materials and those in Dr. Robert A. Kehoe Attends Copenhagen Congress Dr.Robert A. Kehoe, Ethyl Medical director, left New York for London on August 2 on his way to the Physio logical Congress in Copenhagen. After the Congress, which will be held from August 15-19, he plans to visit Asso ciated Ethyl and other manufacturing plants in England and France. Then he's going to visit Ireland "for fun." Averill Named Year's Outstanding Lion Chuck Averill, of Baton Rouge Pur chasing, was recently voted by the Port Allen Lions club as the year's out standing Lion. Praised for his civic mindedness and his work in commu nity services, Chuck, who served as club president during the past year, received a plaque in recognition of his service. He also won one of the two 100% attendance awards. volving flammable liquids, such as gasoline. The first type of fire requires the cooling and quenching effect of quantities of water or solutions con taining a large percentage of water. The second type requires a blanketing effect to cut off the supply of oxygen. According to Earl Bartholomew, general manager of the laboratories, close to 200 Detroit employees will have participated in the program when it is concluded. "Although the primary purpose of this instruction is to help safeguard our*people while they're on the job," Manager Barthol omew says, "we believe they will carry home what they have learned, and that it will be of equal value in pro tecting persons and property in the community." Milde Goes to New York Roy L. Milde, a project leader in the Development section at Baton Rouge, has moved temporarily to New York City. He went East early in July on a six months' loan to the Product Devel opment department. Roy, who has been doing exploratory work on new products, will work with Bill Hack, product development manager, on - some chemical aspects of various com pounds which might be produced and sold under the "Ethyl" brand name. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--AUG.-SEPT. Thomas J. Roberts James S. Krick, Eastern region safety en gineer, rounds out 20 years with the Company in September. Jim out his Ethyl teeth in the Rocky Mountains as a field engineer covering Montana and Wyoming. Returning to the East, he continued his held work in Brooklyn and Harrisburg, Pa., with time out in 19331934 to help tell the antiknock story to visitors to the Chicago World's Fair. In 1936, Jim be came a safety engineer in Pittsburgh, later branched out to cover the Western Pennsyl vania territory, where he now handles our safety work from headquarters at his home in Olean, N. Y., near the state border. Bora in Pittsburgh, Jim spent his growing years on Long Island and in Philadelphia, was gradu ated from Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) in 1926 with a degree in Civil Engineering. He's a member of Chi Phi fraternity, the University club of Pittsburgh, and 'the Bartlett Country club. His hobbies are golf and gardening. He & wife Arlouine have a daughter, Martha, 8, and a brand-new son, Daniel, born August 16. Thomas J. Roberts, one of our experienced toolmakers at the Detroit labs, came to Ethyl 20 years ago in September from the experi mental machine shop at General Motors Re search. Tommy started with our Engineering Research laboratories downtown on East Mil waukee Avenue and, when the labs moved to their present quarters, helped set up the equipment needed to carry on and expand our research. Through the years he's been busy in the Machine Shop turning out many of the specialized pieces of equipment re quired for our research projects. One of a family of five children. Tommy was born in Silver Brook, Pa. and attended high school in Pittsburgh. From 1917 to 1920 he played half back and guard on the Dayton Oakwoods pro fessional football team. StUl a football fan, he also likes fishing and traveling. He's one of the laboratories' bowling champions--has been on four winning Ethyl League teams. 22 BULLETIN BOARS--AUO.-SEPT. Mitieitmtei William H. Sievert. Jr., who has charge of all safety and operational activities at our San Francisco office, celebrates his 20th Ethyl anniversary in August. He joined Ethyl as a field engineer in Los Angeles and mi grated up the coast after the San Francisco office was opened. Bill served in the U. S. Coast Guard in World War II, trained at the radar and loran schools at Harvard and M.I.T., later became commanding officer of the Marshall Islands loran chain. After three years he came out as a lieutenant commander and returned to Ethyl safety work at San Francisco in 1946. Minnesota-born, Bill attended school in California. He follows most sports events on the Coast, with special inter est in activities of the U. of California, his alma mater (B.S. 1930). He belongs to the Masonic Lodge, Theta Nu Epsilon, SAE, Fraternity club of San Francisco and Professional Engineering Society of Calif. Bill's ingenuity with hammer ana hoe have made his house and garden the envy of his neighbors in Concord, Calif. He and his wife Dorothy have two daughters, Bettye, 17 and Dorothy, 13. Waldemar J. Diatler, Central region senior sales-service engineer, chalks up 15 Ethyl ears in September, Before coming with us e had his own business operating garages and service stations, and before that was a sales trainer with Gulf. He joined Ethyl in Dayton as a field engineer, later became a tractor engineer and in 1947 was promoted to his present job, correlating fleet, car and tractor activities for the Central region. Ohio-born, Wally attended Ohio State and the U. of Cincinnati. Ex-prexy of the Columbus (Ohio) Petroleum club, he's served on various committees of the Columbus Tractor & Imple- j j 1 { i t I------------- -------------------- ----------------- -- ._ ETC 12670 pk aldemar J. Distler Martin I. McCooley Hg-10-g 1 ment club, belongs to SAE, Glenview (111.) Civic Assn. & Columbus GMC. He & wile Dor othy have two children Dottie, 17; Tommy, S. Edward D. Lindsay, who celebrates his 15th Ethyl anniversary in September, is a mechanic at the San Bernardino Research laboratory. Ed tells some mighty interesting tales oi his first Ethyl job as a test driver when he drove our trucks and trailers over thou sands of miles of California countryside in all kinds of weather. The theme song around the Lindsay home is "Take Me Out to the Bali Game." Ed's hobby is helping young boys--especially bail players. He's treas urer of the San B American Junior Baseball League for boys 15 to 19 and manages a Lions club team for the 12 to 15 group. Eddie, Jr., 12, plays on two teams managed by bis pop. Sister Betty Jean, 10, is a loyal fan. Martin I. McCooley, another of our Eastern safety engineers, joins the 15-year club. Mac stepped into safety work after a year's indoctrination as a field engineer. He was on hand for Ethyl's first safety meeting at Deepwater in May 1937 and since then has worked with customers f rom Baton Rouge to Elizabeth, H. J. to help them overcome any hazards in handling our product. Philadel phia-born, Mac won his B.S. in Mining from Pennsylvania State College; then went to work for the Pennsylvania R.R. He belongs to Phi Kappa, American Society of Safety Engi neers and the Penn State club. Tops among his hobbies are woodworking and gardening. Mac and his wife Evelyn have six daughters. Raymond H. Seymour, who receives his 15year service award in August, is a specialist in special jobs at the San Bernardino Re search laboratory. One of the few native sons oi California at the lab, Ray started as a driver shortly after our road research activities got under way out in the West. He later became a shift foreman and now handles special test driving, dynamometer work, takes care of the instruments, and, in his spare time, helps take care of the cars. Ray is active in the Masons and, as a member of the first San B Ethyl Society Steering committee, helped set up the or ganization. Last season he was president oi the city-wide Industrial Handicap Bowling League. His son, Ron, was married in June. Five and Ten In August, ten-year awards were presented to Elwood Sechrist, of Detroit Research; James Southwick, N. Y. Finance; and Erwin Yaeger, H. Y. Manufacturing. Rounding out five years in Detroit were: Richard Bothwell, James Johnson, Henry Maliszewski, Wesley McLean and Gerald Stanke; in Hew York: Anne Coyne and Wilbur Meyer, of Finance, and Margaret Orzio, switchboard operator. In September, ten-year pins go to Ellis Neunherz, Detroit Research, and George Roberts, H. Y. Finance. Hew five-year clubbers at Detroit are Helen Krueger, Jack Macauley, Charles Mueller, Laurence Sibson, Jr. and Harold Steven son; in Hew York: Helen Dowd and Joan Simonsen, of Statistical Research; Alice Heck, Public Relations; Ruth Moore, Fi nance; Eleanor Schreyer, secretary to Van Fleck; Dorothy Taylor, secretary to John Schaefer; and Veronica Wiegman, Payroll; in Tulsa: Howard Gerber, Southern region safety engineer. 23 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. I , ETC 12671 Erma Harris calls one of the men on the 18th floor, where she is on duty, to announce a visitor. Anybody who thinks a receptionist spends enchanted hours in gay banter from morning to night should think again. A short tour of duty at one of our receptionist's desks at 100 Park Avenue in New York would indicate that the job requires the combined skills of an actress, a public relations expert, a bloodhound, a traffic cop, a quiz kid and a mind reader. For, of course, a receptionist is supposed to know where everybody is --who's in and who's out, where they are and when they'll be back. She's supposed to remember everybody who comes in, who they want to see and know whether the person they want to see, wants to see them. If the answer 24 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUG.-SEPT. is no, she must somehow manage to send the visitor away happy An en cyclopedic memory would be helpful but a more practical aid is the chart which each receptionist keeps showing who's away from the office, out to lunch, or out of town. Sharp ears to catch mumbled names and the directional ability of a traffic cop are highly desirable assets for a receptionist. Also a calm, unruffled, pleasant manner. For inquisitive visitors who ask about our products and our employees, she must have an answer and she must use discretion. If one question in 100 promised a quiz show jackpot, our receptionists would be surrounded by Edith Wilson adds a new car toon to one of the tailor-made volumes of clipped humor she has compiled during rare mo ments when she isn't busy. The books have proved very popular with visitors to the 17th floor where Edith, is the receptionist. Vice President Stan Crossland pauses on the way to his office to talk with Dorothy Locke, who is the receptionist on the 19th floor. refrigerators, watches and television sets. Of course, any technical inquiries are always referred to the department concerned. Whenever there is a lull in the com ings and goings and the receptionists have some free time they assist in overflow work which can be handled neatly at the desk. They address envelopes, check customer lists and surveys, proofread with secretaries and answer requests for Ethyl book lets, such as "Professional Driving," and "What's in a Name?" In between times, they run a lost and found de partment for everything from rings to pen wipers. They also supply matches, aspirin, and other miscel laneous items upon request. Yes, our receptionists are busy, and their work is as varied as the people they greet each day. Among our visitors are vice presidents and delivery boys, scientists and school children. The gracious, efficient man ner of our receptionists in greeting these callers and expediting their re quests reflects the friendly spirit that characterizes Ethyl Corporation. 25 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. ETC 12673 Management Totes Trays at Club Dinner Service with a smile is Steve Henry's motto. Steve is head of plant & employee services. Behind those whiskers lurks Ernie Carr, of plant and employee services, who took over the mike as "Commissar" of the revolution. Captured in a mock revolution, top management at the Baton Rouge plant donned caps and aprons to serve dinner at the July meeting of the Ethyl Management club. The revolu tion was all part of a well-organized plot to stage a Civic Night Program at Harding Field for City-Parish offi cials, headed by Mayor Powers Hig ginbotham, Police Chief Fred Parker and Fire Chief Robert Bogan. The meeting began in an orderly fashion. As Club President Hubert Wax introduced the official guests, each told briefly how his department operated under the new type of city government. At the end of these talks, Wax turned the meeting over to Pro gram Chairman John Furr according to schedule. Then came the revolution. Firing pistols into the air, "Com missar" Ernie Carr and "Comrade" Lee Johnson seized the microphone and took over. With the help of "Com rades" John Graziano and Earl Levy, plant "big shots" were taken into cus tody and sentenced to serve food to the crowd. Put to work were Wallace Armstrong, Bob Asbury, Phil Bertin, Full speed ahead: Apron dying, Mel Hudgins, maintenance superintendent, steps lively. Bill Ross, sodium consultant, and Acy Adams, supervisor in the maintenance department, watch from the sidelines (right background). I ETC 12674 Fancy tray-toting is demonstrated by Bob Cowlishaw, assistant treasurer, who balances bis tray bigb--peers around the napkins. Recreation Director Ben Burge leans against the wall & Acy Adams looks toward the camera. i j Clint Bond, Roy Clothier, Chuck Col vin, Bob Cowlishaw, Ben Harrison, Glen Hayes, Steve Henry, Mel Hud gins, Harry O'Connell, Bill Ross and By Turner. "Self-styled big shots" pressed into service were Eric Breidenbach, Roger Duffard, Leslie Holmes, M. H. Maris, Tom McKay and Dan Walsh. By Turner, general manager at Baton Rouge keeps his eyes on his work. "Comrade" Lee Johnson, right, helped lead the revolution Home was never like this--even ii the apron does show who's boss. Ben Harrison, manager of industrial engineering, seems worried. 27 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. i ETC 12675 Magna cum laude graduate of Redford (Mich.) H. S., Marjorie MacMillan will attend Albion College this Fall, plans to become a teacher. A member of the National Honor Society, her hobbies include music and swimming. She's the daughter of Neil& Carrie MacMillan, who's in charge of the Detroit labs main file room. Don Hubbard is one June graduate who drives a new car . . . and gets paid for it! Don, who finished Madison H. S. in Royal Oak, Mich. June 14, works for Plymouth Motor Car Co. driving new cars from the assembly line. He's the son of Ethel <& Ken Hubbard, Detroit labs. June was a busy month for the Flanigan fam ily. First, daughter Jeannie was graduated from Rochester High School, where she took a college preparatory course. Then on June 30 she became the bride of William Fitzthomas, who works for the Avon Tube Company in Roch ester. Jeannie is the daughter of Althea and Bill Flanigan, who is a mechanic in the Road Test section at the Detroit laboratories. Three's a family . . . Gertrude, Clarence and Norma Kautz. A June graduate of Arlington Heights (HI.) Township High School, Norma, who's 17, is enrolled at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Clarence chalked up 21 years of service with Ethyl in July, is Central region safety engineer for the Chicago area. The Bartholomews of Tulsa ... Carl,1^ Sr., Carl, Jr., and Kathleen. Carl,. ^tie Jr., was graduated from Will Rogers wc High School in May and plans to Sc enter the University of Oklahoma Sb in Norman to major in Business Administration at the School of Com- * merce. He's also a member of the U. S. Naval Reserve. Carl, Sr., is :TU a Southern region field engineer. re< ETC 12676 fofO'UVtVlcl pale Allen Green, just graduated {join Lincoln H. S., Ferndale, Mich., 'plans to enter Michigan State Col* lege at East Lansing to major in forestry. He was a member of the jjncoln swimming team. His parents ;a*e Orian and Berleigh Green, of ?the Detroit stationery stock room. Off to an early start after her graduation last January at 17, Evelyn Veronica Southwick now works for the Royal Indemnity Insur* ance Company in N. Y. C. The daughter of Evelyn and Jim Southwick, of N. Y. Insur* ance, Evelyn received her diploma from St. Joseph's Commercial High School, Brooklyn. The whole Deverill family turned out for Bar* bara Jean's graduation from Cazenovia (N.Y.) Junior College. From left: Barbara Jean; Art, Jr., a cadet at West Point; Helen and Art, Sr., head of the control & cost section, N. Y. Finance. Barbara Jean will transfer to Oswego State Teachers College this Fall.1 Herbert R. Neal, Jr., son of Ida and Herb Sr., has won a four year Regents*Alumni Scholarship at the University of Michigan. He is one of four graduates of Lincoln High School in Ferndale to receive this scholarship and will enter the University this Fall. Herbert, eldest of the five Heal children, plans to study medicine. His father is one of the research chemists at Ethyl's Detroit labs. 1 dressed up for senior festivi* is Dottie Distler, 17, who a graduated from New Trier High bool in Evanston, HI. in June. ie hasn't made definite plans for liege but is considering Lake nest (111.) College or the Uni- ~ rsity of Wisconsin at Madison, r dad, Wally Distler, is Central gion senior sales*service engineer. ETC 126T'7 Hard-working Carolyn Baldwin will soon re ceive her 3.A- degree from Ohio Wesleyan University after only three school years plus a few weeks this summer at the University of Arizona. In the fall, Carolyn, daughter of Clyda and Jim Baldwin, Eastern region safety engineer, will begin a training course at a Cincinnati store to become a buyer. <r^*> University of Michigan graduate Patricia Rossman completed her course in dental hy giene in June and is now working in Grand Rapids. Pat was vice president of Jordan Hall dormitory, a member of the Board of Representatives for U. M. co-eds, and was active in the Sailing and Wolverine clubs. She's the daughter of Frances (right) and Durward Rossman, manager of the engine re search equipment section at the Detroit labs. Kneel Ball, IB, graduate of Central High School at Tulsa, Okla., took top sports honors as the only three-letter man in his class--wrestling, tennis and football. He's spending the summer on a ranch in Oregon, has signed up for Naval R.O.T.C. This fall he'll study mechanical engineering at Rice Institute in Houston, Tex. Kneel is the son of Elsa and Hank Ball, Southern region safety engineer. Hank, who used to manage the tennis team back in his school days, says Kneel can beat him in any game . . . left-handed. Ed Enoch looks over that new diploma daugh ter Beverly is proudly displaying. Beverly was graduated June 23 from the Paine-Hall School, New York City, as a medical labora tory technician. Ed is in N. Y. Advertising. 30 BULLETIN BOARD--AUO.-SEPT. r ETC 12678 Kay Joins BR Staff E. Lynn Kay, former superintendent and corporation secretary of the Paci fic States Oil Company in Wilmington, Calif., is now special assistant to Clint Bond, resident manager at our Baton Rouge plant. Born in Cameron, Mo., Lynn at tended Missouri Wesleyan College at Cameron, Long Beach City College in California, and Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kans. After receiving his B.S. in Industrial Chemistry in 1934, he taught mathematics, then worked as a chemist for the National Refining Co. of Coffeyville, Kans. For the past 13 years he has been associ ated with Pacific States Oil Company, which is a subsidiary of W. R. Grace and Company of New York City. Spiritual Leader The ministry has beckoned to one of j the members of New York Finance. I Arnold G. Nelson is leaving in Septem ber to enter the Luther Theological Seminary at St. Paul, Minn, for three years of preparatory study. As we went to press, Arnold's Ethyl friends were busy planning a farewell party. LLD by Lamplight John Melody, a technician at our Yonkers Gasoline Testing laboratory, achieved a long-time goal when he was graduated from Brooklyn Law School in June. He's now waiting to hear the results of his bar exam. Entering law school in June 1947, John polished off a four-year course in three. During the first year he had classes four nights a week and for the last two years, he attended five nights, including summers ... all this after a full day at Ethyl. John did his undergraduate work at Manhattan College, served in World War II as a staff sergeant with a Medcal Detachment. He has two children. A Winner This picture taken by Jean Vincent, super visor of Detroit Photographic, won second award at the American Society for Testing Materials National Photographic Exhibit, which was held recently in Atlantic City. Titled "Concentricity Check," the picture appeared in the July ASTM Bulletin. Hand in it belongs to Ethyl's Joe Weaver, of the labs. Roensch Speaks in L. A. Max Roensch, research supervisor on engine development, at our Detroit Research laboratories, presented a pa per before the West Coast SAE at a meeting in Los Angeles on August 14. The title is "Evaluation of Motor Fuels for High Compression Engines." Lincoln H. Cole Lincoln H. Cole, 63, tool crib at tendant at the Detroit laboratories since February of 1944, died of a heart ailment July 26. In his job, "Line" came in contact with many people every day, and his cheerful, coopera tive spirit and easy-going manner were an inspiration to them. Surviving are his widow, Nellie; a daughter, Mrs. Donald. Sillman of San Francisco; a step-son Maurice Culver of Detroit; two brothers, Frank of Detroit and Guy, of Watertown, N. Y.; a sister, Mrs. Mary Cecil of San Bernardino, and a granddaughter. The funeral was in Femdale. 31 BULLETIN BOARD --AUO.-SEPT. Appetizing, nourishing ... a breakfast for stu dents of all ages . . . working men and women, too. Banana split with- wheat flakes, milk, toast and butter make a balanced breakfast. Hearty eaters and hard workers should add eggs, bacon, sausage or other breakfast meats. School days are almost here again. Wherever the student enrolls, in the first grade or in college, he needs a good breakfast to do his best work. Teachers report that students who come to school lacking a good break fast don't pay as much attention to their studies nor have the well-being of the child who breakfasts well before beginning the day. With a nourishing breakfast as part of his daily routine, the student will be more mentally alert, have greater zest for school ac tivities, and get along better with his schoolmates. Since dieticians and doctors agree that each member of the family needs a balanced breakfast in order not to shortchange his body on the calories and nutrients it needs, the back to school menu should follow the same basic pattern as all good breakfasts. The five essentials--fruit, cereal, milk, bread and butter--supply a fourth to a third of the day's needed food values. Add a little ingenuity and each day breakfast can be different and appetiz ing. Combine fruits with prepared or quick-cooking cereals for speedier eat ing on mornings when time is short. Serve different kinds of breads and rolls to tempt the hard-to-please. A good breakfast each morning is a good start for school days or working days. The student at the top of his class is the child who is well-fortified with a balanced breakfast to keep his body strong and his mind alert. Recent Arrivals Chicago George and Vivian Rose--a daugh ter, Susan Kay, bom June 29. Two sisters, Jean, 12; Marilyn, 8. George is a Central account representative. Detroit Wesley and Frances McLean--a daughter, Merilyn Elizabeth, bom June 26. Two brothers, Jimmy 8s Bob. Mac works in Automotive Research. Connie Ellen, 4 and Karen Jill, lY% Ed is a technician in the Aero lab. Shreveport, La. Russell and Elizabeth Schell--a son, Russell Winfield, bom July 26. Weight lY> lbs. Russ, Sr. is a Southern region account representative. Rolly and Sybil Ostrander--a son, Thomas William, bom July 20. Rolly is Road Test section head. Ed and Nellie Roehler--a son, Paul Lee, bom June 9. Two sisters, Young miss in rhumba ruffles: Gail Birkes celebrated her second birthday on July 22. She's the daughter of Berta Lee and Deane Birkes, deputy manager of Tulsa's Test lab. ETC 12680 Sylvia Varis . . . N. Y. Stenographic . .. joins our regular payroll.. . farmer secretary at the Bonk of the Manhattan Co. . . . native New Yorker . . . won a B.S. degree from N. Y. U., is working on her M.A. . . . she's married . . , likes art, music. Nancy Macdonald . . . stenographer for Ethyl Antiknock, Ltd. in Toronto . . . born in Windsor, Ont. . . . attended Shaw's Business College in Toronto . . . worked ior Bell Tele phone Co. . . . her favorite sports are tennis, swimming, badminton. Tom Whaley... Detroit research chemist... B.S. degree from St. Benedict's College in his home town--Atchison, Kans. . . . served as captain in the Army Air Force . . . won his PhD. from U. of Kans. in June... sports fan. etc 12681 Good-Bye and GoodLuck _____ With the maps in the background to suggest possible routes for the travel ing she plans to do with her husband, Ann Caplan figures out how to unwrap the luggage Detroit Ethylites present ed her. The first woman hired after the Chem Research labs moved to De troit, Ann was secretary to George Calingaert, who recently resigned to become a professor at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Ann decided to leave, too, and devote full time to homemaking. Onlookers are Stella Shafer and Harold Soroos. 34 BULLETIN BOARD--AUO.-SEPT. All set to go: Corinne Hill, former sec retary to President E. L. Shea, stands beside the matched blue luggage Ethyl friends gave her as a farewell present. Corinne, who was the first Ethyl woman to receive a 25-year service award, left to join Julius Berbecker 8s Sons, Inc., who sell surgical and uphol stery needles. This picture was taken at a cocktail party and dinner given in her honor at the Hotel Duane July 21. The previous week President Shea had given a luncheon for Corinne at the Princeton club and presented her with a Kodak Tourist model camera. Clockwise from far left are: Lillian Johnson, Marguerite McDonald, Gen evieve Corcoran, Corinne Hill (hold ing the camera), Mabel Gerster, Ellen Svendsen, Marie Anderson and Jessie Halton. Helene Larson Barclay, of Finance, was honored at a farewell luncheon at the President Restaurant July 20. Helene plans to make a full-time ca reer of keeping house for her husband, who has a new job in Ogdensburg, N. Y. Ethyl friends in the New York office gave her a silver sugar and creamer set and ;mayonnaise dish. etc 12682 A Business Man's Glossary Or Helpiul Hints to the High Powered To activate--To make carbons and add more names to the memo. To implement a program--To hire more people and open more field offices. To give someone the picture--A long, confused and inaccurate state ment to a newcomer. With reference to--This letter has to begin somewhere. Research work--Hunting for the guy who moved the files. Point up the issue--To expand one page to 15 pages. A clarification--To fill in the back ground so detailed that the fore ground goes underground. To break down by categories--To put in separate piles. A survey is being made of this--We need time to think of an answer. Note and initial--Let's spread the responsibility for this. Carbon paper--A thin flexible sub stance, the invention of which has multiplied the scope of the execu tive and bureaucratic world. Mimeograph--A mechanical device, the invention of which has even outdone the proliferating effects of carbon paper. To negotiate--To seek a meeting of minds without a knocking together of heads. Re-orientation--Getting used to working again. Reliable source--The guy you met just before going to press. Informed source--The guy who told the guy you met. Unimpeachable source--The guy who wrote the rumor down originally. 35 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. Ethyl-Dow Wins Dow Softball Championship Slugging their way into the Ho. 1 spot of the Dow League, the Ethyl-Dow softball team drove out a total of 147 runs, including 19 home runs and 29 other extra base wallops. The team batting average was .340 with leading hitter Diehl chalking up a .538, South .472, Bob White .439 and Keeton .380. Ed "Iron Man" Wittneben pitched all the games, including two one-hitters and four two-hitters. The team broke even in the first six games then pulled ahead to win the championship by capturing 15 of the 18 scheduled plant league games. Team members are (front row): Ed Wittneben, Joe Keeton, Wayne Robinson and Morris Wood. Back row: Wayne Ersldne, Bob White, Woodrow Diehl, Tommie South and Jack Chappell. Other players not in the picture are H. G. White, E. G. Hundl, George McCarToll and Charles Moffett. I stepped upon the scale one day To check up on my weight I looked, then said I to the scale, "You must exaggerate." "No," said the scale, "I do not lie, My figures all are true. Your figure, on the other hand, Should really bother you." 36 BULLETIN BOARD -- AUG.-SEPT. "Oh well," I said, with small concern, "I'll just go on a diet. I'll give up starches, fats and sweets, Or anyway I'll try it." But somehow when the meal time comes My. will power seems to leave me.. I can't resist the fattening foods, Although I try, believe me. And so it goes, day after day, I weigh myself with sorrow, And then I murmur to the scale, "My diet starts tomorrow." Anonymous Herb Green (left) icoka cn as Miles McGraw points to the repaired blind which Hervey, an allegedly giant i squirrel, damaged. George Polk (right) i helped capture Hervey before he grew up. Nobody can prove that Hervey is ( still around the Detroit labs, but there are many reports that he roams the i grounds late at night. Some people who viewed this picture right after it was printed imagined they -saw Hervey in it . . . they said it looked as if he had come back for more "Growing Potion." 7tut& Special Feature by Claude Hofiman A sizeable squirrel, named Hervey, re cently created quite a stir and caused a lot of damage in the Analytical labo ratory at Detroit. Hervey apparently made his unwelcome entrance at night. Fortunately, he confined most of his frolicking to a single room, but he did a good job on that one. Appar ently tired of swinging on the Venetian blind controls, Hervey chewed through them. The blinds dropped, smashed a number of bottles and flasks, and scat tered sundry chemicals. The results of Hervey's efforts were found the fol lowing morning by several (always prompt) Analytical employees. Shortly after clean-up operations started, a long bushy tail was discov ered hanging down from the ventilat ing duct along the ceiling. Mounting a step-ladder, George Polk and Miles McGraw lowered a very -sick Hervey into a large potato sack which had been specially ordered. Hervey's night-long exposure to his self-made chemical mess and the heat near the top of the room had combined to leave him quite dizzy. However, after a few minutes in the open air, he twitched his tail defiantly and headed for the nearest tall oak tree, never to be seen in daylight again. Now, as we said before, Hervey was a big squirrel before he ever got into Analytical. The amazing thing is, after breaking into the room, he ap parently selected a burette of special "Growing Potion1' and siphoned him self off a healthy snort. Analytical people, are practically certain of this as the Potion Level was down 110 cc. and there were squirrel teethmarks on the burette. Confirming Analytical's analysis are statements of several people who have been working late on Status of Re search reports. These people believe they have seen,, after dark, an ex tremely large squirrel--as big as an airedale they said--bounding about the grounds in search of coconuts. (Ordinary acorns wouldn't nourish such a squirrel as Hervey must now be.) This story would have appeared in Bulletin Board long before this, but Detroit correspondents have been trying to get a picture of Hervey to go with it. They finally gave up and de cided to settle for a picture of Herb Green (one of the first to discover the damage), and Miles McGraw and George Polk who sacked Hervey-- that's the photo you see above. L______ -- 37 BULLETIN BOARD --AUG.-SEPT. ETC 12685 At girl's camp checkers was a favorite game. Youngsters Go to Day Camp Fun for all was the theme of the Baton Rouge Ethyl Recreation Asso ciation day camp which got under way June 19 with 68 enthusiastic boys on hand for the opening of their twoweeks camp at Harding Field. The girls began their camp July 10 and by the end of the season over 150 Ethyl youngsters had enjoyed a carefully supervised program of sports, crafts and swimming. Ethyl's day camp is a unique fea ture in industrial relations in the South. Only one other American in dustry, the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, conducts a similar program. Each morning the children ride to the plant with the parent, are taken to the day camp in chartered busses and re turned to the plant in the afternoon in time to ride home with dad. Baseball was popular, too . . . with two strikes against him, this batter hopes lor a homer! At the ERA camp, there were activ ities to fit every youngster's idea of a good time. A typical camp day in cluded sports of all kinds, a learn-toswim period, lunch, movies, hikes, arts and crafts, and picnics. Ethyl's recreation directors, Ben Burge and Hewitt Gomez gave instruction in ath letics and crafts, and additional life guards were on hand at the pool to in sure the safety of both beginners and more advanced swimmers. The first morning of each camp ses sion was devoted to physical exams given by the plant Medical depart ment. Each day there were compul sory rest periods between more stren uous activities and at lunchtime the ERA furnished cold milk to go with the box lunches the children brought with them. Each boy attending the camp received a "T" shirt with the "Ethyl" emblem and the girls were given crew caps. Highlight of boys camp was a visit to the National Guard unit's anti-aircraft guns. ETC 12686 s4tt You may get a prize-winning shot with that camera of yours if you dust it off and go into action in time to enter the Bulletin Board photogra phy contest. With 17 prizes in three classes and no limit to the number of prints you can enter, the field is wide open for our amateur photographers. All Ethyl employees (except those in the Public Relations department), spouses and sons and daughters of em ployees are eligible to enter, if they qualify as amateurs. Winning photo graphs will be chosen by three judges --two professional photographers and a Bulletin Board representative. Heading the list of prizes is a $25 Savings Bond for the grand prize win ner. Cash prizes will be awarded for winners in each class--$10 for first, $5 for second and $1 for each of the next ten best pictures. CLASSIFICATIONS A. People--portraits or action shots where people are the principal interest. B. Scenes and Still Life--landscapes, seascapes, snow scenes, flowers, etc. C. Animals--pets, wild life, etc. RULES 1. Black-and-white prints only are eligible. No color prints, or hand colored prints. No retouching on negatives, no montages or double printing. 2. Pictures must have been taken since January 1, 1950. 3. Prints should not be smaller than four inches or larger than 10 inches on any side. 4. On the back of each print, give (a) your name (b) location and department (c) class entered (d) place and date taken (e) description and title of picture and (f) names of any recognizable people in picture. Write with ink or a soft pencil so the impression will not show through. 5. Prints must be in the mail by midnight, September 30, 1950. So wrap up your pictures securely, protect them with stiff cardboard and send them along to: Editor of the Photography Contest, Ethyl Bulletin Board, Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York. `THoy&e tyou 'it Se <z TiSitutenf I | * j i ETC 12687 Did you know that... Vl'iih thousands of competing companies looking for 'il. Unotrn petro leum reserves in the United States are 300% greater than 25 yeart ago ... Hundreds of companies ire m the business of transporting oil to yn. It com fen to thip a gallon of gasoline from Texas to Mete York rhftn to mail a penny postcard... R-*-areh by competing od companies his desdoped hundreds of better oil products to add to your comfort and convenience and help build the nation's strength. With thousands of companies competing in oil marketing, gatoline la mao of the fete things you can buy today that costs no mart than t5 years ago. THE America* oil industry is better prepared today than ever before to meet any naiionaJ emer gency. Our domestic capacity to produce and refine petroleum has increased around 25 per cent since the peak demands of World War II. At no lime did our Armed Forces ever lack for oil. and ail etsenliaJ civilian needs were met. In peace or war. the initiative of oil men working in privately-managed, competing oil companies pro vides America with the largest possible supplies of petroleum products -- products of the highest quality at (he lowest prices in the world. Thousands of oil companies mean competition. competition means progress... oil progress means more and better products. aw ' M >.M E--* * ETC 12688 IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Ethyl and National Defense Rail Fleet Grows Pay During Military Leave Just Off the Press Focus on Sales Two Hit 20 First Annual Tee-Off 9 10 11 13 14 16 20 Ethyl BULLETIN BOARD ETC 12689 They're off--it's an acceleration test between two Cadillacs: an old 1921 model and a streamlined 1950 job. From the very start, the new car outdistances the old. The antique number is running on 1925-quality gasoline. The late model is fueled with present-day pre mium gasoline. Both cars cross the starting line at 10 mph, then accelerate for 20 seconds and . . . Stony, GOOD NEWS This is the story of the news behind the news at Ethyl. It's the parable of the seed that fell on fertile ground and grew and bore fruit. It's the story of people, who, thinking creatively and working enthusiastically, have done a good job for our Company and our industry. ] ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Editor Contributing Editors Scfon Rouge: Douglas Price. Joba C. Reniroe. J. T. Stephenson (photographer): Chicago: Ruth GaUaway; Dallas: Ann Seliridge; Detroit; George Betker. Bernadine Burdick, Margaret Dullinger, Claude Hoffman. Bob Mescher, C/erire Oisen, Pbiiip Savage, Al Sechzist. Margaret Welp, Art Zeitz, Fred Green, Loren fCnowies, Alyce Peterson, photographers: Houston: Katbleeri Finen: Kansas City: Blanche KauHmah. Edward J. Otto, Jr.: Los Angeles: Hobert R. Mead; Mexico-Centrai America: Lynn Phillips: New York: Jim Donohue, Don Forsdick, Wiima Hansa, Erma Harris, Alice Lahn, Ruth Moore, Helen Sinclair, Emily WhitSeld: San Bernardino: Carol Simcock. James Terrell: Tulsa: Ed Hendrick. Gladys Honey; Yonkers; Catherine Henderson: Central Office, Gasoiine Testing: Chris BruhJ. Published by the Ethyl Corporation, 10Q Park Avenue, New York, New York: Edward L, Shea. | President; Stanley T. Crossland, Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage. A.ssistant Secretary, 2 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER _L ::: . ETC 12690 t&e Stony: ABOUT GASOLINE VALUE Above two new Oldsmobiles, one with 8 to 1 compression ratio engine, the other 4.5 to 1 compete in economy run. High compression engine got 24 miles a gal.; low got 15. It begins on the West Coast with San Wagner and the Customer Serv ices Show that he and his men with assists from Earl Bartholomew and Joe Costello and John Schaefer put on for oil company executives last year. Star of the show was an old 1921 Cadillac which was used in comparison with a modern car to demonstrate the great improvement in engine effici ency and fuel economy now possible with today's gasoline. Press Presentation This presentation was so successful that it was taken on tour around the country and presented to key oil com pany executives. While it was in The car trailing behind in this test is the same model as the one out front, but is handicapped with 1925 gas. The leader, using 1950 pre mium gas, made 1146 feet against the 875 attained by the other which knocked severely. Philadelphia, where presentations were held for executives of Sun Oil and Ralph Champlin, public relations Atlantic Refining, a meeting was held for the press--particularly representa tives of oil and automotive trade director, opened the meeting for the press and covered this point in his introductory remarks by saying: journals. President E. L. Shea was "In view of the headlines on gaso host at a luncheon for the press follow line prices in Detroit last week and the ing the meeting. This was on June 14, resolution of a Senate committee yes just at the time when newspaper head- terday to investigate high gasoline ; lines had pounced upon gasoline prices prices, it is interesting to talk about and Senator Ferguson had recom- gasoline prices by the pound. Gasoline mended a Senate investigation. costs less than 2c a pound at the re- BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER EtC Ralph Chcmpim, below, public relations director. Dick Scales, director oi technical service, and Eari Bartholomew, genera! man ager oi the research labs, who shared responsibility for plan ning the demonstration program, stand ready to welcome guests. Other Ethyl men on hand m the lobby of the Detroit labs to greet the guests can be spotted in this group shot: Hal Beatty, Len Huxtable, Mac Murdock, Jim Boudreau, Casey Jones, lack Fuller and Howard Hesselberg. Seated at the tables to register the guests are Helen Krueger and Ruth Simons. Madelyn Hardy, on registration duty also, is blocked from view. finery and sells at retail, including taxes, for around 4c a pound. One third of all the money the service sta tion dealer collects goes to pay taxes, direct and indirect. So 3c a pound goes to the oil industry to find, refine, distribute and sell gasoline. What do you know that is cheaper? If the serv ice station dealer down the street got deliveries of battery water and gaso line this morning, he paid more for the distilled water than he did for the distilled gasoline. "Later today we are going to talk about the kind of premium gasoline you may be buying in about five years. If our guesses about the future are right, 1955 gasoline will cost more to produce. An estimate of 10% more in refinery costs would probably land somewhere in the ball park--or some thing between one and one-and-onehalf cents per gallon more at the refin ery--maybe two-tenths of a cent more per pound. We naturally cannot make any predictions, and all I'm doing is passing on to you the range of specu lations that appear in technical papers from the Refining Division meetings. "We do believe we will convince you today that better gasoline will be worth' more than it will cost. With to morrow's automobile and tomorrow's gasoline motorists will be ahead, as they have been so often in the past, from oil and automotive progress." Key to the Story Here was the seed which took root, grew and was cultivated by the many Ethyl people who helped bring it to lulian Frey, sales manager, operations, in the center, talks with William Boyd and R. M. Welker, of Gulf Oil Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa. BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 12692 fruition. First was Mr. Shea, who saw possibilities of rendering a worthwhile service to the industry by developing the idea, and said to Ralph: 'I think you should go further with this. I believe it is the key to an excellent story for the industry." Letter from a Customer Upon returning to New York, Ralph found on his desk a letter dated June 10 from Mr. J. V. Throop. of the Throop Petroleum Company in Ypsilanti, Mich., enclosing a photostat of an invoice for some gasoline he pur chased from a Neodesha, Wis., refin ery in 1925. That invoice showed that prices then were about the same as now. Mr. Throop asked us to tell him the "difference in intrinsic value in cents per gallon between the Neodesha gasoline and the gasoline which is cur rently distributed in the State of Michigan." It was an interesting coincidence that this letter arrived when it did. For it helped to point up the very idea under consideration and the word "in trinsic" helped to crystallize it. Ralph made a fast trip to Detroit, talked with Earl Bartholomew; he thought a look at the records would give him the answer to Mr. Throop's question. But the question, simple and.-forthwith as it was. proved difficult to answer. Infrinsie Value of Gasoline Opinions varied- some of our engi neers estimated that the intrinsic value of today's gasoline is only 25% greater. One estimated it to be 50% higher. Earl Bartholomew, Jack Macauley and John Wintringham went to work to find out. Ralph wrote to Mr. Throop, told him we were working on his question. The days grew into weeks and the weeks into months. Practically everyone at the Research labs took part in the "Value of Gasoline" proj ect, some working as much as 16 hours a day running tests and comparing results. Although we had a great deal of data in our files covering 25 years of testing and research, the record was not continuous, and we had never be- Jack Taylor (right), assistant director of re search, and Arnold Daum of the American Petroleum Institute, get together on the side lines to discuss results of the demonstrations. Engineering Technician Wes Price takes his iob of piloting this 1921 Cadillac seriously. Passengers are David Wilkie, Associated Press; Siler Freeman, Detroit Times: and Ethyl's lim Rissman, in the back left corner. 5 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 12693 lim Boudreau, sales manager, marketing, Dan Barnard, Standard of Indiana, Ethyl President E. L. Shea, and Ed Kurt, Research labs, look over Mr. Barnard's demonstration scorecard. fore reevaluated gasoline of earlier days by our present accepted method of knock-testing. The deeper our people got into the study of intrinsic gasoline value, the more engrossing the story became. Idan Flaa, of Technical Service, Russell F. Sanders, Chevrolet, and Dolly Dollahan, of the Central region, watch the flag go up in the center of the field. Len Huxtable, resident manager, Tulsa, is standing behind them. Record of Gasoline Prices Meanwhile Chris Vogel of our pub lic relations staff in New York was as signed the job of making a study of prices. He compiled from published material a record of gasoline prices in 50 cities over the past 25 years. No one had ever collected this informa tion before and it was felt that by compiling the material, Ethyl would be able to give Mr. Throop a more complete answer to his question and at the same time furnish the answer to other interested people in the oil industry. Cur two Ralphs, Clark and Champlin, went to work on a sum mary story. That's how it all started and the end result was all that was predicted by Mr. Shea on June 14. Thousands of man hours and thousands of dollars later we turned up the dramatic and incontestable fact that two gallons of today's gasoline are worth three of the 1925 fuel. The cost of gasoline today is about the same, without tax, as it was 25 years ago. 6 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER Checking results of one of the tests: Harold Gerace, Flint Journal; Ethyl's John Wintringham; Ralph Watts, Detroit News; and Christy Borth, of the Automobile Manufac turers Association. A red leather book titled, Good News About Gasoline Value, which we published tells the dramatic story. In it are a brief summary and two booklets: 1) Twenty-five Years of In crease in the Value of the Gasoline Dollar: and 2) How to Investigate Gasoline Prices. Mr. Shea mailed this presentation to the president of every oil company in the country. Our Sales department delivered- them to other oil men. All are enthusiastic in their praise of the book. People on every hand are saying that Ethyl has done a great job for the industry. Gasoline Quality Demonstration Public attention was first focused on the project when Ethyl staged a demonstration of the intrinsic value of gasoline in Detroit on September 19. A group of newsmen and representa tives of oil and automotive companies were invited to see a series of road tests. As they watched actual cars and gasolines performing, they saw how today's gasolines and engines provide greatly improved acceleration ability. They saw that today's gasoline is giv ing American motorists a big bonus in fuel economy. And when the demon strations were over they could testify to the fact that two gallons of 1950 gasoline are worth as much as three gallons of 1925 gasoline. Kudos to Detroiters The demonstrations went off smoothly, on schedule and without a hitch--thanks to the efforts of the Detroiters who made the arrange ments and looked after all the details. John Howard acted as general mana ger. Of course Rollie Ostrander and his Road Test boys played leading roles with Wes Price, Jerry Stanke and Dale Buerstetta driving the test cars. Barney .Jones supplied an excellent running commentary on the events in his best radio-announcer voice. Bill Dixon, Jack Feiten, Neal Hepner and Bill Quigley served as markers, and Dick Husta, Jim Rissman and Pete Smith as observers. Alyce Peterson, who kept her camera clicking taking pictures of people and events, is re sponsible for most of the photos shown on these pages. Jean Vincent made movies. Watching the cars periorm are E. C. Kepler, Sun Oil and Mike Remondmo, Detroit Tech Service, in front. Standing on chairs are Howard Hesselberg, research supervisor on combustion (right) and Sterling Spleet, Detroit chief engineer, Indiana Standard. Jim Sewell was starter; Harold Chalk, timer: Jim Stratton, mechanic. Don MacDonald posted results on the scoreboard. Fritz Schroeter looked after the safety aspects of the events. Wally Sherman was in charge of park ing and Bill Wanderer and Lacy Guthrie handled the instrumentation. Madelyn Hardy, Helen Krueger and Ruth Simons registered the guests. Howard Hesselberg, Mike Remondino and A1 Tandrup were hosts for the bus trip. Bill Adams handled the invita tions and guest arrangements. Important behind-the-scenes per formances were put in by the Machine Shop, the Instrument section. Refin ery Technology, Fuel House, Mainte nance and Technical Data. Guests toured our Research labora tories before the demonstrations with Ted Carron and Harry Toulmin serv ing as guides. After the road tests, they were entertained at luncheon at the Dearborn Inn and heard an in- 7 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 12695 formal talk by President E. L. Shea. Repeat Performance At the invitation of the District of Columbia Oil Industry Information Committee, we repeated this gasoline quality demonstration in Washington, D.C. cn October 17. Guests included 125 journalists and people in Govern ment agencies having to do with petro leum. The demonstration, which was followed by luncheon at the Carlton hotel, was given as part of the nation wide celebration of Oil Progress Week. Arrangements tor the meeting were made by Ralph Clark, Publicity Man ager, and Marshall McDorman, of Eastern Sales. Ralph Champlin made the introductory remarks and Earl Bartholomew described the tests un dertaken at the Detroit labs. Vice President Joe Costello spoke at the luncheon along the same theme Pres ident Shea followed in Detroit. Traveling by motor caravan the following Detroiters went down to Washington to participate in the pro gram: Bill Adams, Dale Buerstetta, Idan Flaa, John Howard, Casey Jones, Don MacDonald, Dick Scales, Bud Stanger, Jerry Stanke, A1 Tandrup and Bill Wanderer. Peering down the pike, guests watch the com peting cars near the finish line. On this side, Barney lones provides running commentary over the P.A. system. Standing on Barney's right are John Howard and Harold Chalk. Although this brings us up to date, it is not the end of the story. One of Jim Boudreau's first jobs as sales manager promotion: will be to make plans to develop the show for presen tation in cities throughout the coun try. Director Bob Haslam at luncheon before the October board meeting sug gested that the story would have real interest and value to college faculties in the departments of engineering and economics. The idea was endorsed and Ralph Champlin and Chris Vogel are now working at the job of transform ing the material into book form. They have set a goal of eight weeks to finish the manuscript. (This editor's opinion is they won't make it.i But Mr. Throop now has the an swer to his question and the oil indus try has another dramatic story to tell: two gallons of gasoline today have the intrinsic value of three gallons of gas oline in 1925. Dick Scales brought along one of those new-fangled cam eras that not only takes but develops photographs. His picture-taking ad<i f ed an interesting ( sidelight to the pro ceedings. ETC 12696 Tetraethyl Lead and a National Emergency There will be enough tetraethyl lead to meet any possible needs for mili tary use, according to Vice President Graham Edgar. Speaking at the annual meeting of the National Petroleum Association in Atlantic City, N. J. on September 14, he said there will also be ample sup plies of antiknock compounds for use in gasoline for civilian automobiles under most probable conditions. "In any case," he declared, "the gasoline available at the corner service stations will be very much better than in World War II, and probably quite adequate for the great majority of cars." His predictions are based upon greater production capacity of tetra ethyl lead which has continued to in crease steadily ever since the end of the last war. Manufacturing capacity, he reported, has increased this year by nearly 20^7. over what it was in 1945. and by 1952 it will be more than 50^7 greater than at the end of World War II. These increases in production capac ity mean, he pointed out, that "any military needs will be easily taken care of, and that the capacity available for use in civilian gasoline will be several times that which was available during World War II." In case of total war, producers of tetraethyl lead expect no shortage of raw materials with the possible excep tion of pig lead, he said. However, he added, the pig lead supply situation is favorable since the U. S. Government, which had no stockpile of metallic lead during the last war, now has a stockpile of 200,000 to 300,000 tons. "Further more," he said, "the largest producing countries--the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia--belong fortu nately to the group of democracies. Tetraethyl lead production was never curtailed during World War II by failure of lead supplies, and there would seem to be no reason to expect any different picture in a new war." Accident Rate Down Motor vehicles operated by the petro leum industry in 1949 traveled the equivalent of 75,188 miles each with out an accident, figures compiled by the American Petroleum Institute in dicate. The Institute's 18th annual survey of motor vehicle accidents in the in dustry shows the lowest frequency rate in four years and the lowest num ber of accidents per vehicle operated in three years. 9 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER Like a huge metallic caterpillar, Ethyl's new EBAX cars stretch into the distance at Baton Rouge. 42 New EBAX Cais Join the Ethyl Fleet Forty-two shiny grey tank cars have been added to the EBAX fleet which constantly clicks over America's net work of railroads delivering "Ethyl" antiknock compounds from coast to coast. Twenty-four of the specially con structed steel cars were delivered in August: the remaining 18 were deliv ered during October. Each of the new cars will carry 6,000 gallons of "Ethyl" fluid. Like the rest of the fleet, the new cars are constructed with special safety features throughout--features designed and tested to facilitate speedy and safe delivery of "Ethyl" fluid to refineries and blending plants located throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Durability is another im portant aspect of their construction since the fleet covers nearly 10 million miles each year. The new rolling stock brings the total number of fluid cars now in ser vice to 365. The EBAX fleet has been constantly growing since 1930 when tank cars were first put into service to keep up with increasing customer de mands for "Ethyl'' compound. In the early days of the Company, "Ethyl" fluid was shipped in quart-sized con- 10 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER Shiny new cars weigh in at Baton Rouge, ready to "hit the rails" (or Ethyl. tainers made of iron. These methyliters were attached to gasoline pumps and used to dispense the "Ethyl" fluid along with the gasoline upon request. Later, 10 and 55-gallon drums were used to transport the product. The fleet of fluid cars is supple mented by metallic sodium, ethyl chloride, chlorine and acid cars--alto gether over 400 cars in constant ser vice. They are all identified as Ethyl Corporation cars by the EBAX mark ings which stand for "Ethyl" Brand Antiknock. The "X" is used by the railroads to designate privately-owned equipment. The addition of new cars was neces sary, according to Traffic Manager Ed Gresslin, because of the record volume of sales of "Ethyl" antiknock com pounds during recent months. "The new cars," Ed reported, "will relieve the strain on existing equip ment and result in better service to our customers." J ETC 12698 MILITARY LEAVE POLICY REVISED A dependency payment plan under which the Ethyl Corporation will allot to bona fide dependents of service men allowances supplementing military pay has been included in the recently re vised Active Military Service Leave of Absence Plan. The new program is ef fective as of July IS, 1950. Aside from this new coverage, and a revised lump sum payment upon entry into active service, the Company's Military Leave Policy is essentially the same as the one in effect during World War II. It does not affect the Military Leave Reserve Training Pol icy which provides up to two weeks with pay for short periods of training in reserve units. Under the provisions of the new plan a monthly allowance will be paid to dependents of regular employees of a year's standing who enter active military service. The allowance will be (1) equal to the amount contributed by the employee to his dependents at the time of his entry into military ser vice, or (2) 50% of the employee's Company pay, or (3) the amount by which the employee's Company pay exceeds his Government pay, which ever is the least. The payment plan covers wives, children and parents of service men. The allowance will begin two months after entry into active military ser vice. The allowance is_subject to ad justment on the basis of a rise in Gov ernment pay or a change in the status of the employee's dependents. A military leave of absence will be granted to any regular employee who enters active military service in any branch of the armed forces. The leave of absence is available to those who enlist or are drafted or are called to active duty from a reserve unit. Upon entering active military ser vice, all regular employees with at least one year of service with the Com pany will receive a lump sum payment equivalent to two months' normal pay. All regular employees who have between six months and a year's ser vice with the Company will receive one month's pay. If the employee has not taken his earned vacation at the time he enters military service, he will get his vacation pay in addition. An employee may arrange to con tinue his group life insurance for four months after his military leave begins. He will be required to pay only three months' premium; the Company will absorb the additional cost. Retirement Income Plan funds, which have been contributed jointly by the Company and the employee will be held in status quo during the leave period. The hos pital and surgical coverage provided under the Group Insurance Plan, and the Accident and Sickness Benefits will cease while the employee is on military leave. Military leave of absence will be concluded three months following dis charge from active service or when the employee is reemployed by the Com pany. The Company will award ser vice credits to employees fcr the lull period of the military leave of absence. 11 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER Bill Perdue Named Counsel William R. Perdue, Jr., has been appointed Counsel for the Ethyl Cor poration. He succeeds Richard M. Page, who has resigned. Bill comes to Ethyl from the New York law firm of Cahill, Gordon, Zachry and Reindel. As his Southern drawl would indi cate, the new Counsel was bom and brought up in Macon, Georgia, where his family still lives. For his under graduate study, he attended Emory University in Atlanta, earning his A.B. degree in 1934. An active campus figure and scholar, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and Omicron Delta Kappa, honorary leadership frater nity. Three years later he was awarded an LL.B. degree from Duke Univer sity Law school in Durham, N. C., and also, membership in the Order of the Coif, honorary scholarship fraternity. Following his graduation he joined Cahill, Gordon, Zachry and Reindel. In June 1941, Bill went into the Army as a private in the Coast Ar tillery corps. Later he was transferred to the Signal corps, then the Military Intelligence where he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was assigned to the War Department General Staff. During his five-year hitch he served in the American, European and Asia tic theatres and received the Legion of Merit and the Order of the British Empire. Bill lives in New York with his wife, Loraine, and his year-old son, Peter, who is his principal hobby. Price of "Ethyl" Antiknock Compounds Increased Due to higher costs, the Company has had to increase the price of "Ethyl" antiknock compounds by approxi mately four-and-a-hajf per cent, ef fective November 1. The announce ment was made on September 1 when the Company also revealed the neces sity of limiting shipments during the two-month period preceding the price change, because of increasingly heavy demands for our products. The new price for all shipments of "Ethyl" antiknock compounds will be 58 cents per pound of tetraethyl lead content for Motor Mix and 63.5 cents per pound of tetraethyl lead content for Aviation Mix. Limitation of shipments during Sep tember and October is necessary as shipments of our products during the past several months have been approx imately 45 per cent over last year's rate. As an equitable method of dis tribution until October 31, the Com pany announced that customers would be limited to 85 per cent of their aver age shipment rate during the fourmonth period, April through July 1950. There are no limitations on Motor Mix for military use or Aviation Mix. 12 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER Three new, attractive and useful book lets rolled off the press recently, valu able additions to the numerous service publications which constantly bring to the oil and automotive industries the results of Ethyl research and the ex perience of Ethyl engineers. The new publications, representing the cooperative work of several de partments, are Practical Pointers on Engine Maintenance, A Good Valve Job Pays and the summer edi tion of Survey of Gasoline Quality at Service Stations. The engine maintenance booklet has been rewritten and revised in keeping with the latest developments in engine design, improved gasoline and lubri cants. Designed for distribution pri marily to mechanics and service men, it is written so any service station operator can leam more about today's improved maintenances techniques, and the characteristics of fuels and engines now in use. Thebookletismadeavailablethrough Ethyl account men to customers who distribute it in turn to truck manufac turers, truck and bus operators, serv ice station dealers andothers who are in terested in tips on engine maintenance. First published in November 1938, the booklet was in such demand that it was re-issued in May 1942 and March 1943. In conjunction with the Sales de partment's work in boosting the level, of maintenance on farm equipment, A Good Valve Job Pays, with an accompanying wall chart on valve maintenance has been made available to farm equipment retailers through their manufacturers. This booklet summarizes the established techniques (Continued on page 26) 13 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER At New York's Union League club on August 30, Ethyl men met for luncheon, after which San Wagner, vice president in charge of sales, announced new appointments. it Here at the first table are Mat Taylor (bi sected) and Bill Ball; second table, nearest camera, Redg Bushel], Bill Turnley, Jim Bou dreau, Bo Weill and Gel Howell; far side, President E. L. Shea.. Russ Schell, Ray Wyrick, Ollie Jones, Van Fleck, Tom Ronan, Dick Murphy and Ellis Locher; last table, nearest camera, Harry Kuhe, George Rosser, Jack Wallis, Oscar Lewis, Charlie Thomas and Roy Gcltz; far side, Curt Holton, Ted Little* field, Merritt Collins, Jake Baker, Dick Scales, Don Flynn and Fred Naylor. Sales Meetim Ted Littlefield has a conclave with his men. from left are Bo Weill, Scotty DuBose, Fred Naylor, Ray Wyrick and Ted. _-#t 'S' \ Looking happy over the new deal are Ollie Jones, Mac Murdock and Julian Frey. Strictly southern--Len Huxtable, Jake Baker, Bob Douglass, Russ Schell, Harold Berg and Dale Miller hold impromptu regional meeting. Bill Turnley, vice president of Ethyl Antiknock, Ltd. and Oscar Lewis, newly-appointed general manager oithe Cana dian Company get together. Caught in an informal caucus: Ted Littlefield, Harry Mack, Jim Boudreau and Jack Pruitt. ETC 127 02 Men who have been pitching on the Ethyl team for 20 years or more posed for their picture. Front row, left to right, they are: Lou Shank, Andy Anderson, Oscar Lewis, Jake Balzer, Mat Taylor, Merritt Collins, Ed Downs, Jack Pruitt and George Rosser; back row, Russ Schell, John Schaefer, Harry Mack, Harry Kaley, Harold Berg, Ray Wyrick, San Wagner, Dick Scales, Julian Frey, Russ Weston, Jim Boudreau, Dick Murphy, Tom Ronan, Harry Kuhe and Ted Littlefield. [in Manhattan At the table next to the wall are Ray Fuller, Dale Miller, San Wagner, Lou Shank (stand ing), George Rose, Scotty DuBose, Harry Kaley, Jack Pruitt and Stan Crossland; at the table nearest camera are Bob Cleveland, Roy Goltz and Charlie Thomas; second table, this side, Ellis Locher, Dick Murphy and Tom Ronan; far side. Bob Douglass and Gel Howell. And in this corner the Easterners line up for a picture. Smiling at the camera are San Wagner, Gel Howell, Dick Murphy, Stuart Forbes, Mat Taylor, George Rosser, Roy Goltz, Don Flynn and Redg Bushell. Somebody must have cracked a good joke as the Central region men were being photo graphed. Anyway, they seemed to enjoy it. From left are Jack Pruitt, Harry Mack, Mac' Murdock, Ed Hendrick (who was slated to trans fer to Chicago but will remain in Tulsa), George Rose and Bob Mead. Registering the pride of the proverbial proud father--Russ Schell. His first-born son, Russell Winfield, was a month and four days old when the meeting was held and the father took $50 back with him, joint gift from all present, with which to buy a present for the Schell heir. i ETC 12703 i Irene Buckley, laboratory technician at Yonkers joined the Ethyl family 20 years ago this month. Irene started her career with Ethyl as a secretary right after graduating from high school. She continued her secretar ial work until World War II. When the men went off to war, Irene moved into the labora tory, put on a white coat and started running gasoline tests. The chemical tests are her specialty--distillation, gum, sulphur and vapor pressure. Irene was born and brought up in Yonkers with her four brothers and sis ters. Her interests run to outdoor activities-- ice skating, horseback riding and swimming. Fond of traveling, she took three months off in 1936 and toured Ireland, England and France. Since then all her trips have been in the good old U. S. A. Austin B. Wyrick Austin B. Wyrick, Western regional office manager, is celebrating his 20th Ethyl an niversary. Ray came with us after several years with Studebaker-Pierce Arrow Export Corp. as assistant manager of their Far East operations. He started learning about Ethyl at the Yonkers and Detroit labs, then went to Chicago (his hometown) as a field engineer, later became a fleet and automotive special ist. In 1935 he was promoted to assistant man ager of the Chicago division and in 1944 took over that job in Los Angeles. Four years ago he stepped up to become Western regional operations manager. Ray was graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. de gree in mechanical engineering. He belongs to the Big Ten Club, SAe, the University club of Los Angeles, the GM and IUini clubs. His hobby is woodworking and creating new gad gets for his home in Pasadena. Ray and Mar ion have one daughter, now attending Pasa dena City College. Five and Ten Chalking up ten years ol service with the Company during October are Michael Rometti, dr., of Detroit Research, and J. Wal lace Emery of the Southern region. At the five-year mark this month are Ruth Gallaway of the Chicago Sales office; Rob- 16 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ert W. Drake, Robert V. Kerley, Orlando S. Reimoid, II, and Wallace W. Spring of Detroit Research; Robert A. Douglass, of the Southern region; Virginia Atamian and Harold J. Woods of New York PurchasingStanley T. Crossland, Grace Gregna and Angelo A. Pascucci of New York Finance. I 1 J ETC 12704 i The Littlest Mermaid Mermaid, junior size, Susan Meyer demonstrates her diving technique in the Bayview Colony pool. But this is nothing. You should see her take off from the I O-foot board When it comes to swimming, even the fish have to look to their laurels when tiny Susan Meyer takes to the water. The daughter of Bill Meyer, N. Y. Payroll, the two year old tot learned to swim when most of her friends were still toddling about in their playpens. Now she thinks nothing of cavorting around in eight feet of water. In fact, a life guard at Jones Beach has never been quite the same since the day he saw her calmly take a running dive off the ten foot board! The little mermaid, who is only three feet tall and tips the scales at 30 pounds, learned to swim from her parents, both excellent swimmers. She started off supported by a belt and blocks, but they were discarded sev eral months ago. Now "the day isn't complete for Susan unless she can run through a few high dives and fancy crawl strokes at the community pool at Bayview Colony, Port Washington, where the Meyer family lives. Susan has been swimming and div ing since she was a year old, and can't decide which of the two she enjoys most. She can streak across the pool for SO feet or so without even wetting her light brown hair. Susan doesn't swim alone, though. She wouldn't think of taking her daily dip without lugging her favorite rubber doll to the pool with her. Although they don't stand short in aquatic ability themselves, Bill and Betty Meyer are a little amazed at their tiny daughter's progress. "We 'certainly didn't have any trouble teaching her," says Bill. "She loved it from the first and took to the water like a duck.'' Susan's mother finds that the regu lar plunges are good for her hazel eyed youngster. Strong and healthy, she has never been sick in her life, and has a wonderful appetite. 17 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 12705 t(ujiifea Wenl (AND THEY DID A . . . THEY GAZED AT THE SCEN ERY. LILLIAN CAMPBELL, N. Y. TELETYPE. TRAVELED UPSTATE TO SEE THE NATURAL GRANDEUR OF WATKINS GLEN, N. Y. . . . THEY SAW THE SIGHTS. MARY HARTLAND, N. Y. FINANCE. STOPPED IN GLOUCESTER, MASS., TO SNAP THE FAMOUS MONUMENT HONOR ING THE HARDY NEW ENGLAND FISHERMEN. . . . THEY HIT THE [OAI CHIEF SAFETY ENGINEER, I TOOK THIS PICTURE OF AND DAUGHTER JUDY WHI TO LOOK AT THE REFlEC POND NEAR ST. JOE . . . THEY FISHED IN THE SEA. BILL BALL, JR.. N. Y. SALES, TOOK A FISHING TRIP FROM NANTUCKET HARBOR, MASS. APPARENTLY THE TRIP-WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL AND THE FISH COOPERATIVE. AT LEAST, BILL SAYS HE CAUGHT A BLUEFISH PER MINUTE! 18 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER . . . THEY CCVERE WATERFRONT. GENI MORGAN, N.'. FIN STANDS ON SP< DECK ATTHI DO' SOOTHSAY H; RBOI ETC 12706 it tAuHCfcuwutq f LOT OF THINGS) ih A IE toAD. JIM BALDWIN, INEU. EASTERN REGION, IE Of HIS WIFE, ClYDA, IDY WHEN THEY STOPPED R ERECTIONS IN STILES T jOHNSBURY, VT. . . . THEY WENT TO THE SHORE. MAR JORIE FRASCELLA, N. Y. FINANCE, AND HER YOUNG SON MICHAEL ENJOY THE SUN, SURF AND SAND ON THE BEACH AT SPRING LAKE, N. J. . . . THEY HEADEO FOR THE WOOOS. GENEVIEVE LEROY, N. Y. SALES, AND HUSBAND ARTHUR, GOLFED, SWAM AND SQUARE DANCED IN PINESCENTED SURROUNDINGS NEAR CANTON, MAINE. I ( CC7ERED THE 3NT. SENEVIEVE N. ' FINANCE, 3N SPOTLESS THIOOCK IN Y H.I50R, ME. . . . THEY TOOK TO THE HILLS. DETROIT CHEMIST HERB NEAL AND SON JAMES HIKED THROUGH THE GREAT SMOKIES OVER THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL. ABOVE. HERB APPROACHES SILER'S BALO, A MOUNTAIN WHERE WILD TURKEYS STILL THRIVE. 19 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 12707 Detroiters Hold First Annual Golf Tournament Late Willans and Pete Smith pause to tally up their scores at the fourth hole. Judging from the smiles, the news must be good. Punch Pfundstein, right, tees ofi on the back nine. The other Linksmen anxiously waiting their turns are, left to right, Bill Wanderer, George Vaughn and Art Hawkes. Six Ethyl linksmen took prize tro phies and golf balls in the first annual golf tournament which was arranged by the Golf League of the Detroit Research laboratories. Pete Smith, engineer-in-training, captured the low-gross honors, coming through with a total of 76, while Merrill Anderson, of Automotive Re search, won the low net trophy with a score of 65. In the women's competi tion, Helen Krueger, Technical Data, won the trophy with a low total of 51 for nine holes. Medal play winners in addition to Pete Smith were Rollie Ostrander, head of Road Test, with a score of 77, and Marty Alspaugh, refinery tech nician, who totaled 81. Handicap play winners besides Mer rill Anderson were Rollie Ostrander, scoring 68, Marty Alspaugh and ( < 20 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 12708 Hoiiie {Hole :r. One) Qstrar.der tees, off for a neat 36, two over per on the front nine. His average for the season on the front and back course was about 73. George Betker, Automotive Research, who both came through with 71. Eighteen of Ethyl's ball and club bers participated in the men's tourna ment held at the Bonnie Brook coun try club August 17 and 24. The women's tournament was held on September 6 with ten golfers vying for the prizes. Arrangements for the tournament were made by Franklin Baldwin, Chemical Research, secretary - treas urer of the Ethyl Golf League. Al though this was the first tournament of its kind staged by the Golf League, plans are already under way to make it an annual affair. Marty Alspaugh, left, and Rocky Stevenson, right, look rather tense as they putt out a close one. Three ardent ball and clubbers, Andy Reimold, Art Huffman and Bob Jackson, left to right, warm up for tournament action on the putting green. I *: ETC 12709 Chris Bruhl When the Eastchester. Red Feather drive opened on October 13, Chris Bruhl, of the Yonkers Gasoline Testing laboratory, had his hands full. As area chairman, he was respon sible for five divisions and 25 districts covered by 200 volunteer solicitors. Joe Cipoila Joe Cipoila, research supervisor on anti knock development in Detroit, has been appointed assistant vice-chairman of student activities, Detroit section of S.A.E. Clarence Harvey, Jr. Clarence Harvey, Jr., Development section. Baton Rouge, addressed the South Central Regional meeting of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers held in Houston Octo ber 9 and 10. His report was entitled "Econo mics of Corrosion in a Chemical Plant." Over 300 corrosion engineers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico attended the meeting. Dan Read Dan Read, a safety engineer at the Baton Rouge plant, was chairman of the local Fire Prevention Week committee. They developed all plans for a city-wide observance of the week, October 8-14. Dan's election was in rec ognition of his long interest and activity in fire prevention work. He has worked continuously with the Baton Rouge fire department since he became a plant safety engineer 14 years ago. Bob Kerley Bob Kerley, associate director of research, Detroit laboratories, spoke at the regional technical meeting of Western Petroleum Re finers' Association at Alma. Mich, on August 28. He described the experimental work being done at the labs on the effect of combustion chamber design in increasing mechanical oc tane numbers. The work involves measuring changes in fuel requirements resulting from changes in a simple combustion chamber shape. Barker Killgore Barker Killgore, Baton Rouge plant, is chairman of the 1950-51 Baton Rouge Civic Theatre membership drive. Under his leader ship the workers will campaign for 1000 new members for the community project. Frances Lamb While representing the Detroit laboratories at the instrumentation sessions.of the AAAS Gordon Research Conferences, Frances Lamb, research chemist, presented a paper entitled "Determination of Total Chlorine in Chlorinated Benzenes by X-Ray Absorp tiometry." The conferences were held in New Hampshire in the early summer. 22 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER Dan Read, Baton Rouge safety engineer, goes over Fire Prevention week plans with First Assistant Chief Frank O'Ca/Iaghan bright) and Captain T. D. Murray of Baton Rouge. John Rollins John Rollins, Southern region account representative, conducted the services at Christ Church in Tyler, Texas on Sunday, August 20, in the absence of the regular minister. Al Tandrup A1 Tandrup, Commercial Engine and Fleet section, Detroit, is the author of "Instru mentation in Fleet Maintenance!' which appeared in the July issue of Bus and Truck Transport magazine. Charles Temple, Jr. Charles Temple, Jr., of the New York Audit division, is now a Certified Public Accountant. He received word last month that he had passed the New York State examination. ' j ; i Baton Rouge Employees Achieve New Safety Record Smashing a record of two years' standing, employees of the Baton Rouge plant have set a new high in injury-free working hours. According to Clinton Bond, resident manager, Ethyl's plant employeeshave worked 51 days or 1,020,900 man hours without a time-losing injury. Ethyl's previous record, the best since all the plant operations were combined under the Ethyl manage ment was 1,016,983. It was established during the period September 10, 1948, through November 7, 1948. Clint attributed the new record to the unrelenting efforts of all the em ployees in following the safety prac tices outlined by the Company. "With the quality of these efforts continuing," he stated, "we look for ward to further improvement over these previous records." Over 400 Ethyl office workers be came eligible to receive safety prizes in September. Under the new award plan which went into effect January 1, 1949, prizes are awarded for 612 days without a time-losing injury. Actually, the group has gone over 1,400 days without injury. John Dale Thompson Dies John Dale Thompson, of Detroit, for the last 19 years an engineer with Ethyl Corporation, died on August 19 after a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 42 years old. Dale joined the Ethyl Corporation in 1930 shortly after his graduation from West Virginia University. He at tended the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Training School and then joined the Yonkers laboratory as a CFR engint operator. After a few months, he went to the Gasoline Test ing lab in New Orleans as a knock test engineer and moved with the staff to Baton Rouge when the new laboratory was built. In June 1942 he was trans ferred to the Detroit laboratories to assist with war work on aviation gaso line. After the war he joined the Auto motive Products division, and until his death worked as a research engineer assigned to road knoclocating projects. An active member of S.A.E., he be longed to Scabbard and Blade, honor ary military fraternity for engineers. Surviving are his wife, Edna, two John Dale Thomson daughters, Nancy and Terry, of De troit, and two brothers, Forest R. and Dr. C. Truman Thompson of Morgan town, W. Va. U. S. Produces 63% of World's Oil The U. S. oil industry has produced 63 per cent of all the world's petro leum. Global output from 1859 through 1949 totaled 61.6 billion barrels. Of this, the domestic industry has pro duced 38.9 billion barrels. 23 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER ETC 12711 Here's One You Missed, Mr. Blandings Building a new home creates many problems, but what to do with the old bones you dig up isn't usually one of them. Even Mr. Blandings didn't run into that one! But old bones are just what faced Walter Hallam of the New York Fi nance department when he began con struction on his new homesite on Old Hook Road, Closter, N. J. Clearing up around the cellar ex cavation. Walter and his wife, Donaldine, stumbled on an old grave con taining a skull, leg and arm bones, hip sockets and some handmade square nails. Wondering what type of person had inhabited the property years ago, they carefully put the bones in a box and took them to the Anthropology department of Columbia University where they were examined by Profes sor Julian H. Steward. According to Professor Steward, the bones are between 200 and 300 years old and identifiable as Indian because of the way the teeth meet. He stated that the bones were probably those of a young adult, and possibly a woman. The handmade nails limit the age to within the period when there were white settlers, since the Indians did not have metal until the advent of the white man. The bones still reside in the box in the Hallam basement, but rather than build them in a closet in the new house, Walter has decided that eventually he will turn them over to a museum. Refiners Discuss Engines of the Future 24 BULLETIN BOARD -- OCTOBER Bob Kerley Explains Engine Design While in Detroit attending a Western Petroleum Refiners' Association conference, a group of visiting oilmen in spected the Ethyl Research laboratories and conferred with Ethyl engineers on en gine design effects on fuel re quirements. Bob Kerley (cen ter), Ethyl's associate director of research on aviation prod ucts, explains the combustion chamber design of a 27cubic-inch experimental en gine. In the group are, left to right, Eugene Ayres, Gulf Oil, Howard Belew, Skelly Oil, Bob, D. R. Frey, Deep Rock, and T. W. Legatsld, of the Phillips Petroleum Company. The nose and glasses (left) belong to Ethyl's Dick Sneed. S 7 ii I 1 ETC 12712 llllllli Introducing Lucy Johnson Lucy is not a newcomer to Ethyl. Far from it. She's been with us now for al most three years. But, somehow when she signed up and went to work out in the San Francisco office she was not properly publicized. With a great light this terrible oversight dawned on Harry Manning the other day and he set out to make amends. The result is a picture taken by Harry and some s facts penned by Ted Littlefield. Ted, western regional manager, who had been Lucy's boss in the San Fran cisco office until his new appointment, writes: "We are happy to learn that you are going to print a picture and little article about Mrs. Johnson of San Francisco. We thought you might like a few of the facts and figures regarding her." Yes, indeed, Ted Littlefield, we are city ever since. She and her husband live on famous Nob Hill and are very delighted, even at this late date, to proud of the apartment which they have you tell us about Mrs. J. With really struggled to find. -i a Company as large as ours that has offices scattered all over the country, Aside from her work with Ethyl representatives in San Francisco, Lucy most of us have no opportunity to get joins her husband in active participa acquainted with Ethyl people outside tion in American Legion activities. our own bailiwick except through the Last year she was secretary for a local pages of the Bulletin Board. So, since we can't drop in in person to meet Legion Auxiliary unit, and this year was elected historian, publicity chair Lucy, thanks for doing the honors, man and to membership on the ritual long distance style via picture and the written word. istic team. For her moments of relaxation Lucy Fact number one in Ted's life and enjoys diving into the swimming pool, times of Lucy is that she thinks San twirling around the dance floor or Francisco is a wonderful city (along listening to the strains of good music. with New York, of course). Although Her jaunt to the West Coast eight Nob Hill is a long way from Long years ago didn't dim her enthusiasm Island, the New York-bom Ethylite doesn't mind at all. for travel; she and her husband take trips together whenever they can. Lucy graduated from Freeport high Last year, in fact, Lucy brought her school in Long Island and studied at husband to New York to meet her Columbia University. In 1942 she de relatives. Because Lucy wanted to see cided to head west, and ended up in how the Company was "headed up," California. Three years ago she joined the Johnsons visited the New York the staff of the Ethyl San Francisco office where they were entertained by office and has lived in the Golden Gate Dick Murphy and his staff. 25 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 12713 On A Picnic We Will Go! Fun-loving Members o/ Detroit Chem ical Research Stage Annual Outing to Ipperwasb Beach, Canada. After a day of swimming, sunning and boating, the boys are ready to eat. Standing, left to right, are Hy Shapiro, Bemie Merritt and. George Ecke. Kneeling are Cal Worrell and Walt Osip. ...Time to feed 19 hungry picnickers! The gals put the frying pans on and get things going. Pictured above, left to right, are Cal Worrell, Walt Osip, Cecelia Worrell, and Peggy Welp. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER Just Off the Press Continued from page 13' for doing a good valve job. Over 40,000 copies of the wall chart have already been distributed. Although the seasonal survey of gasoline quality at service stations has been distributed to customers since 1947, the new edition differs greatly from its predecessors. Redesigned into an attractive functional booklet, it combines eye appeal with emphasis on improved readability and usefulness. Mailed to key people in the sales, manufacturing and research departmentsof customer companies and to ap propriate Ethyl personnel, the Survey of Gasoline Quality at Service Sta tions shows the quality of service sta tion gasoline from season to season and gasoline quality trends over the years. The survey represents a cooperative effort on the part of many people starting with the field men who pick up service station samples which are sent to the test laboratories at San Bernardino, Tulsa, North Kansas City and Yonkers. Our technicians test the samples and forward the data to the Gasoline Testing Division Central Of fice at Yonkers. There the data are weighted and a survey compiled with comments on current developments in the field of gasoline quality. (The cur rent survey includes data representing 1,137 samples of 122 brands of gaso line.) Walt Resler's Statistical Re search group prepares charts to show graphically the 12 survey areas and overall U.S. averages. Then the Ad vertising department assembles all the information, data and charts, and Ed Enoch, production manager, turns out the publication in its finished form. These surveys, originally started tor the use of Ethyl personnel and later issued as a customer service, have be come a valuable source of information for the oil industry. JE ETC 12714 St. Peter is always looking for harp players. He's getting a lot of new re cruits these days from the ranks of people who are careless or ignorant about fire and fire prevention. Every year many Americans die needlessly in fires which burn up the equivalent of $700,000,000. This quiz may give you an idea about how you stand on St. Peter's list. If you get 8 to 10 answers right, you're practically fire proof and way down at the bottom of the list. If you hit 5 to 8, you're about in the middle. If you have less than five right, you better find out more about fire safety, or start practicing on your harp. QUESTIONS: 1. Is it safe to use water to put out an elec trical fire? 2. What ingredient, found on most kitchen shelves, is highly effective in smother ing flames? 3. What is the leading cause of fires in the United States? 4. What is the best way ta put out a gaso line fire? 5. How many Americans die each year in fires? 500? 1,000? 11,000? 45,000? 6. Did spontaneous combustion or elec trical fires cause more property damage in the U. S. last year? 7. There were 570,000 building fires in the U. S. last year. The largest number oc curred in what type of building? 8. Take away one of the three components of a fire and the fire goes out. What are the three components? 9. If trapped in a smoke-filled building, what's the best way to move out? 10. What is the first thing to do if fire breaks out in your home: Call Are department? Fight the Are? Run for help? 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With 16 strapping sons and three daughters, the Vicknair family of Lutcher, La., could have their own football team with plenty of subs and cheerleaders besidesl Harry Vicknair, a TEL Operator at Ethyl's Baton Rouge plant, is shown here with his family. Sitting, left to right, are Noe Vicknair, Jr., Milton, Noe, Sr., Baby Brenda, Mrs Vicknair, Wayne, Geraldine, and Jerry. Standing, in the same order, are: Jessie, Claiert, Lee Roy, Harold, Roland, Norris, Wilton, Larry, Harry, Noella, Hubert, Herman, and Lester (inset). The Case ol the Wailing Laundry Bag "Good gracious!" thought the diaper service employee. "They've sent the baby by mistake." The startled attendant was about to open the laundry bag belonging to Jean Pruitt, one-year-old daughter of Jack Pruitt, newly-appointed assistant manager of the Central region. A plaintive, muffled wail was coming from the depths of the diapers. A hasty examination disclosed, how ever, that the unhappy occupant of the laundry bag was-"Tiger," favorite pet of the four.Pruitt children. How the kitten got in the bag is still a mys tery. It's also a mystery how the little creature survived the tossings about 28 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER in the ride at the bottom of the laun dry truck piled with bags without los ing at least one of its nine lives. It was all a mistake, though. The Pruitts didn't really want "Tiger" put through the washer. As for "Tiger," he quickly recovered from his wild adventure and was welcomed home by Dick, David, Louise, and Jean Pruitt, and the two dogs. Every year oil companies test a thou sand or more chemical products made from petroleum bases to determine their possible use in agriculture, in dustry and the home. Four Queens and a King To some people twins spell Double Trouble, but Bill Croissant of the Traffic department is used to twins by now and finds his latest set no problem. The newest double feature in the Croissant household had its premiere performance on September 2. New stars in the show are Doris, who checked in at five pounds even, and William, who had a ten ounce edge on his sister. The children were named after their parents. The first Croissant duo appeared ten years ago. Joan and Ann, identical twins, are now active fifth graders. They were the first twins to appear in the family for five generations--Mrs. Croissant's great-grandfather was a twin. The Croissants also have a fiveyear-old daughter Susan. Bill Croissant was mighty busy the first week in September lugging down all the twin equipment which had been gathering dust in the attic of their Long Island home. He had to scour the neighborhood for baby goods which had been loaned to friends and relatives. Another item on his agenda was the laying-in of large supplies of candy and cigars -- altogether he passed out three boxes of candy and 50 cigars the week after Doris and William were born! Incidentally, since the birth of one set of twins in a family is approxi mately a hundred-to-one shot, Bill could have gotten pretty high odds against a repeat performance. Recent Arrivals Denver Arthur and Ruth Roberts--a son, Richard Mason, born July 26. Broth ers: Bobby, 12, and Steve, 7. Art is a safety engineer in Denver. Detroit George and Nancy Burcal--a son, Robert George, bom July 23. Weight 8 pounds, 10 ounces. Two brothers, Dennis Bruce, 3K>, and Gary Brian, 2. George is a chemist in F building. William and Onah Rasmussen--a son, Raymond C., bom August 9. Weight 8 pounds, 11 ounces. New York' Harold and Esther Woods -- a daughter, Judith Marie, born August 22. Weight 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Two brothers, Dennis, 9, and Paul, 5. Harold is N. Y. Purchasing Agent. 29 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 12717 New York Bernadette Curtin, secretary. Ad vertising department, became the bride of Don McNeill on September 9. The ceremony took place at St. Mary's church. Mount Vernon, N. Y. The McNeills honeymooned at Lake George, N. Y., and are now living on Bronx River road. Therese Hemmer, Teletype, was married to Syl Michael Clarke at 3 p.m., Saturday, September 16 in St. Brigid's church, Ridgewood, Queens. Following a reception in the Havana room of the Triangle Ballroom, the couple flew to Virginia Beach for a two-week stay. They are now living in North Bergen. Yolanda Poggioli will be married to Jean S. Feuerstein cn October 29 in Our Lady of Angels church in Bay Ridge, N. Y. Landa, who was a secre tary in the law department for ten years, was honored by Ethyl friends at a farewell party (see pic.) before she left the Company the end of August. The couple will live in West Long Branch, N. J., where they are building a home. t! 30 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER Ethylites gathered in the Commodore cocktail lounge on August 30 to bid farewell to Yo landa Poggioli who was leaving the Company the following day to prepare for a career as housewife. Left tg right are: Eileen Charman, Grace Ferguson, Erma Hams, Margaret Einarson, loan Simonson, Dorothea Held, Yolanda, Helen Sinclair, Marceline Marquis, Grace Gregna, Marjory Smith, Virginia McGuire and Helen Dowd. Yolanda was pre sented with a Swedish crystal vase and relish dish (see insert). ETC 12718 'WI Detroit Florence Held, secretary in Tech nical Service, was married to Walter W. Kirsth on August 25 in Christ Lutheran church, Detroit. Rose Fer rara, Research lab secretary, was They're Engaged maid of honor. j Detroit Wallace Lesnick, analytical chemist, Margaret Welp, chemist, Detroit Re- married Betty Gast of Detroit in the 1 search, to Walter Osip, on August 18. Trinity Methodist church, Highland They will be married November 25. Park, on August 19. Their honeymoon New York Marian Clarke, secretary, N. Y. trip took them to New York, Wash ington, and Norris Lake, Tenn. Public Relations, to Peter John Suhr Gerry Redoutey, laboratory techni of New York. Suhr is associated with cian, and Janet Thompson were mar Evan Signal Laboratories in Belmar, ried on September 9 at St. Monica N. J., as an electronic scientist. No church, Detroit. The couple took a date has been set for the wedding. trip to the Smoky Mountains. On behalf of her Ethyl friends, Lillian Camp bell presents bride-to-be Terry Hemmer with service for eight in goblets, champagne and cocktail glasses. Those baby brown orchids clustered on Terry's shoulder were also a gift. Gathered around the table, left to right, are: Beverly Zimmerman, Estelle Caldwell, Veron ica Wiegman, Ann O'Neil, Dorothea Held, Gertrude Melloh, Lillian Campbell, Wanda Kahn, Alice Lahn, Terry, Lois White, Ger trude Anthony and Erma Harris. Bernadette Curtin is toasted by June Fay and Gertrude Anthony at a surprise party in the Commodore cocktail lounge on September 7. Sixteen Ethylites attended and presented altar-bound Bernadette, with a cobbler's bench for her new apartment. 31 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER _F etc 12719 Reny Barki . . . field engi neer for Ethyl Antiknock, Ltd. . . . born in Italy, educated in France, Canada & Egypt . . . B.A. in mechanical science from U. of Toronto . . . skilled titter with RAF for seven years . . . likes sports . . . married. Harold Flood . . . machinist at Yonkers Gasoline Testing Central Office . . . Yonkersborn, attended New York U. . . . wartime It. comdr. in U. $. Maritime Service . . . former engineer with Philips Laboratories . . . married, two children. Kathleen Brown . . . Ac counting department messen ger, N. Y. . . . born in Brook lyn, lives with parents in Bronx . . . attended Cathedral High, Thorpps Secretarial school. . . worked as clerk for Hearst Publications . . . en joys dancing, swimming. Margaret Gee . . . N. Y. mailroom messenger . . . born in Texas, now living with par ents and sisters in Plainfield, N. J. ... B.A. from Sweet Briar College, Va. . . . first job . . . enjoys sketching in spare time. Frederick Buerstetta . . . research engineer, Detroit . . . Nebraska-born, attended Albion College, U. of Michi gan, U. of Mexico . . . former engineer with Phillips Petro leum . . . war-time officer with Navy . . . married, one son . . . golf, tennis fan. Lola Chinn . . . secretary ... North Kanscs City Gas Test . . . native Oklahcman ... at tended Emporia (Kans.) Col lege, Lawrence Business School ... former secretary Qt. Kroger Co. ... member of Bit & Spur club . . . collects records . . . married. Paul Elsey . . . research chemist, Detroit . . . Detroit native, earned B.S. in chemis try from U. of Detroit in June . . . served two years in Navy Armed Guard .. . married, one son . . . member of AMVETS; American Chemical Society . . . rod, gun enthusiast. i ETC 12720 Joann Lau . . . technical clerk, Detroit . . . native of Detroit, earned Ph.B. at U. cf Detroit . . . formerly employed by University library, Federal Department store . . . single, interested in sewing and cnorai club work. Joan Hallegan . . . Mailroom messenger, N. Y. ... New York born and bred . . . une honor graduate from Aquinas . . . active in school sports, officer of St. Helena's Guild . . . enjoys swimming and dancing in spare time. James Rissman . . . junior engineer, Detroit . . . born, schooled in Detroit ... re ceived B.S.E. in June, U. of Detroit . . . formerly a lab as sistant for Wyandotte Chem icals Corp. . . . three years service with U.S.M.C.R. , . . married . . . fisherman. Kenneth Jost . . . Southern region safety engineer . . . born in Kansas . . . ran his own cabinet-making business while completing his B.S. in M. E. at the U. of Kansas . .. four years in U. S. Navy . . . ex-basketball star, now preiers golf . . . married. Coraline Simon . . . Patent department stenographer, Detroit . . . Detroit-born, at tended St. Clement high school; Detroit Business Insti tute . . . worked two years for Reichhold Chemicals . . . one daughter, Leslie Ann . . . en joys swimming, dancing. Hal Wohanka . . . Public Relations, N. Y., .n charge of art and production . . . joins ethyl staff after 21 years of free-lancing, frequently on Ethyl projects, including original Bulletin Board design. Married, .2ae daughter.. . . enjoys bowling. Evan Wylie . . . Public Rela tions, N. Y., born in New Jer sey, educated at U. of Vir ginia . . . formerly ass't ed itor of Newsweek, staff cor respondent for Yank, free lanced for Holiday. Post Collier's, Cosmopolitan. ETC 12721 Detroit Ethyl Society Elects Officers Nine men and one woman were elected to the steering committee of the Detroit Ethyl Society in August elections. They will represent their groups in planning the club activities during the coming year. Elected for one year terms are Gerald W. Stanke and Harry A. Toulmin of Automotive Research. Serving two year terms are: Laurel Wilkinson, Administration; Herb Sumner, Tech nical Service; Ralph Wahrenbrock, Art Zeitz, Automotive Research; Frank Baldwin, Art Hawkes and Robert Jackson, Chemical Research. Steph anie Ciul was elected for a two year term as Women's Representative. Other members of the committee serving their second year in office are: Art Jennings, John Murphy, Stella Shafer, Administration; A1 Sechrist, Aviation Research; Phil Savage, Chem ical Research; and Jack McCullough, Laboratory Services. V Detroit Ethyl Society steering committee, newly-elected, gathers around the conference table to discuss club activities. Left to right, around the table, are: Stella Shafer, Art Hawkes, Harry Toulmin, Jack McCullough, Phil Savage, Frank Baldwin, Bob Jackson, John Murphy, Herb Sumner, Jerry Stanke, Art Zeitz, Laurel Wilkinson, Ralph Wahrenbrock and A1 Sechrist. In the background Florence McMahon welcomes her successor Stephanie Ciul while Art Jennings receives congratulations from Ross Rife, outgoing chairman of the steering committee. Jim Baldwin Returns from Venezuela Jim Baldwin, chief safety engineer for the Eastern region, returned to New York on October 15 after spend ing a month at Sinclair's new El Chaure refinery near Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. Jim made the trip to help start operations at their blending plant. Upon arrival, he checked over the construction and equipment of the blending plant in preparation for the. first shipment of "Ethyl" fluid. He was on hand when the. first shipment of TEL drums arrived, to keep a care ful eye on their unloading and transfer to the refinery. He also observed the first filling of the weigh tanks, and first gasoline mix. Anotherproject was train ing operators to handle equipment. 34 BULLETIN BOARD --OCTOBER ETC 12722 rW little voters went to the polls! but... tRE little voters stayed home! That's what happened in the last off-year Congressional election. Only two out of every five eligible voters got to the polls. And in the last presidential election less than 52% of America's voters took advantage of their priceless privilege of voting. Next month Americans will again be called to the polls to select the men who will control the destiny of our country in the crucial times ahead. They will put into office 36 senators, 435 rep resentatives, 11 governors, 108 mayors and hundreds of state and municipal officials. The privilege of freely electing these leaders of our government is the foundation of American independence. Today when individual liberty struggles for existence all over the world, it is the duty of every loyal American to cast an intelligent vote--make it his business to investigate candidates and election issues before going to the polls. The first step leading to minority government, such as they have in Russia and Czecho slovakia, is indifference toward your responsibilities as a citizen. Voting is YOUR Responsibility to freedom! M1 M iS'ot so long ago we were driving surreys... crossing mud roads ...or tied to the veranda. /O Then came progress in petroleum.. ___ l L . . J-I.J A and the benefits... we have all enjoyed. IT is NOT BY accident that our greatest yean of progress have been the 91 years since the first oil well was drilled. America's ample supply of low cost liquid fuels and tough lubricants --which made our machine age possible--are not the products of nature alone but of the resourcefulness of free men. spurred on by the rewards the American System offers. That's why the energy of petroleum runs our cars, trucks and vessels ... heals our homes, schools and factories ... powers our ships and planes, our mod* ern trains and farm machinery ... and is the back* bone of America's defense. Your oil industry is better prepared today than ever before to meet any national emergency. Our domestic capacity to produce and refine petroleum has increased around 25 per cent since the peak de* mands of World War 11-- during which our Armed Forces never lacked for oil and all essential civilian needs were met In peace or war, the initiative of oil men working in privately*managed, competing oil companies pro* vides America with the largest possible supplies of petroleum products -- of the highest quality at the lowest prices in the world. ALL during Oil Progress Week. October 15ih-2tsc thousands of America'a oil companies throughout the natioo inrite you to meet local oilmen and hear at first hand about the pragma that has been made to build up the nation'i atrengtb and to provide you end your neighbors with more ond better oil products. Oil Progress Week --October 15th-21st OU Industry Informttion Commute* SO V*u Street, ff. Y.. iV. Y. ETC 12724 ETC 12725 Shining in the California sun, these steel tanks are pro* tected from its rays by the hoods, which minimize tempera* ture changes and evaporation losses. We have four of these tanks at our Wilmington, California terminal. ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employees Marceline Marquis, Editor Contributing Editors Baton Rouge: Douglas Price, John C. Reniroe, J. T. Stephenson (photographer}; Chicago: Path Galloway: Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: George fietlcer. Betnadme flurdicic, Margaret Dullinger. Claude Hoffman. Bob Mescher, Claire Olsen, Philip Savage, A1 Sechrist. Margaret Welo, Art Zeits. Fred Green, Loren Knowles. Alyce Peterson, photographers; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Kauffman, Edward J. Otto, Jr.; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; MexicoCentral America: Lynn Phillios: New York: Jim Donohue, Don Forsdicfer* Wilma Hansa, rma Harris, Alice Lahn, Ruth Moore. Helen 'Sinclair, Emily Whitfield; San Bernardino: Carol SimcocJc, James Terrell; Tulsa: Ed Hendrick. Gladys Roney; yonleers; Catherine Henderson; Central Office, Gasoline Testing: Chris Bruhl. Published by the Ethyl Corporation. 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York; Edward L. Shea. ETC 12726 New Information Division at Detroit A division to integrate technical in formation activities at the Research laboratories has been organized. Ear! Bartholomew, general manager of the laboratories, announced the establish ment of the new division the middle of October. paring technical information for other departments of the Company and for advertising and publicity purposes. Bill Adams, public relations repre sentative in Detroit, will continue to function as a staff member of the New York Public Relations department. The new division head, Ben Weil, has written several books and many technical articles, chiefly in the field of petroleum refining. He originated a feature series in Petroleum Process ing, which he wrote for six years, called "Tomorrow in Petroleum Tech nology." First editor of Chemical Literature, new publication of the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Literature, he also edited The Filter Press, publication of the Georgia Section of the ACS, while in Atlanta. Before going to Atlanta he was chief of the Information section of Gulf Research and Development Ben Weil, supervisor of the new techni cal information division at the Detroit labs. B. H. Weil came to Ethyl to head the division from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been head of the Technical Information division of the State Engineering Experiment sta tion for the past five years. Barney Jones, who was head of the labs' Technical Data section, is operations manager. Charlie Kass, of the Tech nical Service division, and Don Mac Donald, of Automotive Research, have joined the staff as engineerwriters. Responsibilities of the division will include collecting, cataloging and re porting technical material, and pre Operations manager of the new division is Bar ney tones, former head of Technical Data. 3 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER / ETC 12727 Charlie Kass, one of Ethyl's "Rover Boys," is now engineer-writer on the information staff. Company's Chemistry division in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born in St. Joseph, Mo., Ben is a 1939 chemical engineering graduate of the University of Missouri. He re ceived his master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1940. The Weils have two children and live in Huntington Woods, Michigan. When research engineer Barney Jones came to our Detroit labs in 1945, he had a colorful career behind him. At 15 years of age he left his native city of Manchester, England, and three years later he was in British Columbia seeking a job as assay chemist in the gold mines. Following that he tried a number of jobs--work ing in a saw mill, in a coffee roasting plant and as radio operator on a whal ing tender. Radio interested him, and he went to the University of Pitts burgh to study electrical engineering. He obtained his E. E. degree in 1930, and worked for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron before joining the Ethyl research staff. Orig inally a spark plug researcher. Barney was later appointed head of the Tech nical Data section. Charlie Kass, one of Ethyl's original "Rover Boys," joined the Company in 1941 as head of the endurance and per formance road tests in Detroit Engi neering Research. He was appointed technical representative for the East ern region in 1947. A mechanical engi neering graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Charlie began his career with Standard Oil of New Jersey. He came to Ethyl after 15 years in Stand ard's research laboratories. After graduation from the Univer sity of Southern California where he earned a BE degree in aeronautical engineering in 1949, Don MacDonald went to work as an engineer-in-train ing at the Detroit laboratories. A native of New York City, Don served with the Eighth Air Force during World War II and was discharged with the rank of captain. Engineer-writer Don MacDonald came to Ethyl a year ago as engineer-in-training. 4 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER Members of the general file room staff are shown above. Left to right are: Angie Colosimo, May McVicker and Carrie MacMillan. Discussing one of their first projects are, seated, Peggy Cooper, drafting, technician, and standing, Ruth Simons, who handles the typing of the special reports and booklets. Already busy with their activities in the in formation division are, left to right, Clair Olsen, chemical files; Marie Kilmer, patent abstract typist, and Cele Thompson, librarian. BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 12729 A unique and highly successful ex periment demonstrating the American free enterprise system in operation was held in Baton Rouge last month when Ethyl was host for a day to 52 school teachers. Ethyl Corporation was one of 36 local firms to participate in Baton Rouge's first Business, Industry and Education Day, a singular undertak ing sponsored by the city's Chamber of Commerce. Over 650 teachers re ceived an inside view of the organiza tion, products, services and problems of local retail stores, banks and industries. The teachers represented 28 public schools and eight parochial schools, all of which closed for the day to per mit their teachers to participate in BIE Day activities. The day began with an extensive bus tour of the plant operating areas. Highlight of the morning was a Sales department demonstration of high octane gasoline qualities using the Company's newest type demonstra tion engine. Following lunch and ad ditional inspection tours of plant facilities, top executives and other management men mefwith the teach ers to answer questions and discuss the problems involved in business, industry and education. 6 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER Participating in the discussion period were: Ed Acker, resident comptroller; George Beste, manager of the develop ment section; Chuck Colvin, purchas ing manager; Bill Edwards, employ ment supervisor; Bynum Turner, gen eral manager of manufacturing; Dan Kennedy, of labor relations; Bob Cowlishaw, assistant treasurer; and Steve Henry, plant and employee services manager. BIE Day was climaxed with a dinner at the Esso Standard Central Mechanical building, which was at tended by over 700 teachers and rep resentatives of business and industry. Dr. Kenneth MacFarland, of Topeka, Kan., was guest speaker. The program was labelled a great success by the BIE Day steering com mittee of the Chamber of Commerce. They reported that such keen interest was shown by both teachers and in dustry that plans are already under way for a similar program next year. Commented the Baton Rouge Journal: "This kind of program is a first-rate boost to democracy by in forming one section of the community of the operations of another. It gives teachers a slant at the successes, prob lems and operation of free enterprise-- a vital part of the American way of life. Big Storage for Better Service When America and California were young, a Spanish king granted an ad venturer named Dominguez a vast tract of land near the present site of Los Angeles. Today, on 12 acres of that original grant (later known as Rancho San Pedro) Ethyl's Wilming ton terminal stands. Where the fields and forests of the conquistador once stood, loom four large storage tanks holding a total of four million pounds of TEL. Shiny tank cars and trucks ply the routes where Spanish stallions may have passed. Nearby are the office building, the garage, a warehouse, weigh tank buildings and a water storage tank. As a fitting backdrop for this busy scene, a majestic maze of oil derricks dots the horizon. The Wilmington terminal was begun in September 1947 on land acquired from heirs of the Dominguez family. Truck loading facilities were put in operation the following Spring. By Fall the remaining facilities were in readiness to expedite car deliveries to customers in the Los Angeles area. Without this terminal and similar facilities on the East Coast, all cus tomers who now receive their ship ments by tank truck would have to take them in drums, and all tank car shipments would originate in Baton Rouge. Designed primarily as tank truck delivery points, the terminals also serve as a second source of supply of our products. Looking north from the trim white Span ish office building. Behind are the bulk storage tanks and weigh tank building. Spotting a tank car at the tank truck loading building, Bill Thompson signals to Ev Clough at the car puller while Merritt Martin operates a car break. The car puller is an electric capstan used to move cars around the terminal. Introducing . .. Ethyl's Wilmington staff. Standing in the back, left to right, are Bud Johnson, terminal supervisor, John Dunwoodie, watchman, Bill Enders, clerk, and Joe Ewen, watchman. In the foreground, left to right, are Ev Clough, special operator, Merritt Martin, operator, Bill Thompson, oper ator and Micky Slater, watchman. Watchman Dave Davis was vacationing in the High Sierras the day this picture was taken. 7 BULLETIN BOARD -- NOVEMBER ETC 12731 Completing the loading of a 1,000-gallon tank truck, Bill Thompson, right, replaces the swing lines while Merritt Martin prepares to close the valves, shut the dome cover and seal. The terminals are especially useful during the summer months when in creased gaso'ine consumption puts a great strain on the Company's tank car fleet in fulfilling rush orders. Sev eral days are saved by shipping cars for East and West Coast customers from the bulk storage tanks in Cali fornia and Delaware. The West Coast terminal is strate gically located 20 miles from the heart of the Los Angeles business district, five miles from the harbor, and within SO miles of most tank truck customers. "Ethyl" antiknock compounds are shipped to Wilmington from the Baton Rouge plant in our EBAX tank cars. In addition, 10- and 55-gallon drums of fluid are shipped in box cars. These drums are stored in the warehouse to meet emergency needs of customers. Upon arrival, the tank cars are either spotted at car unloading stations Bill Thompson checks the weight of fluid in this tank car on the terminal track scales. or retained on a siding for fast emer gency service. Electric capstans are used by terminal operators to shift the cars around the terminal yard. The 15,000- and 8,500-gallon weigh tanks at the terminal are used to load and unload the tank cars and trucks. The fluid is drawn by vacuum through standpipes into the.weigh tank. ` ` Light" and gross weights are taken to deter mine net weight received. Tank trucks are filled by vacuum from the 15,000-gallon tank. Both the tank trailer and the storage tank are on scales, providing an accurate check of the flow of fluid from tank to trailer. An automatic shut-off serves as a safe ty precaution against overloading. Bill Esders acknowledges a tank car order from Baton Rouge over the teletype. Supervisor Bud Johnson, left, and Merritt Martin discuss a tank truck weight in the scale tank operating building. They are reviewing a special loading calling for exactly 11,000 pounds to meet customer specifications. ETC 12732 Bud Johnson, left, and Ev Clough delineate tank truck delivery points. The arc shows the area of truck delivery destinations. Nearly all are within a 50-mile radius of the terminal. Watchman John Dunwoodie punches a time clock at an outside station during his rounds. Because a 24-hour a day watch at the termi nal is necessary, four watchmen alternate eight hour shifts to give seven day coverage. The tank cars are loaded from the bulk storage tanks through the 8,500gallon weigh tank equipped with spe cially designed pumps. The amount of fluid loaded into the cars is checked by weighing the car on the terminal track scales. Exemplifying the coordination be tween the widely-scattered Ethyl of fices, the routing of customer orders is a combined operation of people in Wilmington, Baton Rouge and New York. Tank truck orders are teletyped from New York Order and Shipping to Baton Rouge and then relayed to Wil mington. Tank car orders are sched uled by Baton Rouge for shipment from the terminal. Delivery details are, of course, arranged in Wilmington, while customer billing is handled by New York Accounting. Operations at the Wilmington ter minal are under the supervision of Bud Johnson. Working with him are three operators, Ev Clough, Merritt Martin, and Bill Thompson; Bill Enders, clerk; and four watchmen, John Dunwoodie, Joe Ewen, Micky Slater, and Dave Davis. From his office in Baton Rouge, Rudy Williams supervises the opera tions of both the East and West Coast terminals. Under his direction, these two terminals, in two Wilmingtons a continent apart, provide increasingly efficient delivery service to customers and added protection against unfore seeable emergencies. Watchman Joe Ewen questions a visitor at the main gate. All cars are halted for inspection on entering and leaving the terminal. Climbing into his car at the end of the day, watchman Micky Slater smiles goodbye to his cohorts at the terminal as he heads for home. ETC 12733 Men of Progress MEN OF PROGRESS.............. CHRISTIAN SCHUSSELE Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. Less than 200 years ago, America was a small struggling country where a group of determined, courageous col onists pitted themselves against the Indian-infested wilderness and the tyranny of a far-off king. Today it stands, a tribute to the power of free dom and democracy, as the most pow erful industrial nation in the world with a standard of living unparalleled in history. This tremendous development was possible in part because of the stock piles of natural resources which lay buried under the great forests, fertile plains and growing cities of the new country. However, these great re sources might still remain undeveloped except for the most rewarding natural resource of all--the rich_vein of inven tive genius which ran through the American people. Every American is familiar with the work of Cyrus McCormick, Samuel F. 10 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER B. Morse, Thomas A. Edison, Alex ander Graham Bell, and Wilbur Wright, to mention but a few names from our inventor's hall of fame. These men wrote a challenging and unfor gettable chapter in history and pro vided inspiration for the thousands of dedicated young men of science and industry who followed them. In this great saga of progress which has brought increasing employment and additional comforts to the Ameri can people, brilliant chapters have been written by two men whose names are familiar to every Ethyl employee. They are, of course, Charles F. Ketter ing and Thomas Midgley, Jr., upon whose great genius this Company was founded. Kettering, a young engineer, rich in ideas, faith and energy, started a busi ness in a hayloft. It eventually grew into General Motors vast research laboratories. He invented the first ETC 12734 IP A Galaxy o American Inventors These were America's ISth century men of progress whose inventive genius helped change America in less than two centuries from a small rural nation to the world's greatest industrial power. If such a picture were painted today, you would undoubtedly find in it two of the founders of Ethyl Corporation--Charles E. Kettering and Thomas Midgley, Jr. This Company owes its existence to their creative genius, and people all over the world are indebted to them for count less conveniences and comforts of every-day living. Standing at the left are, left to right: Dr. William T. G. Morton, discoverer of ether; James Bogardus who produced the Ring Flyer lor cotton spinning; Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver; Cyrus Hall McCormick, maker of grain harvesting machinery; and Joseph Saxton who devised the first deep-sea thermometer. Seated around the table, left to right, are: Peter Cooper, designer of America's first steam locomotive; Jordon L. Mott, coal combustion researcher; Eliphalet Nott, inventor of the anthra cite-burning stove; Frederick Sickels who perfected the steam engine cut-off; Henry Burden, who devised a horseshoe manufacturing machine; Isaiah Jennings, inventor of instantaneous matches; Thomas Blanchard, designer of a tack-making machine; Elias Howe, sewing machine inventor; Richard March Hoe, rotary press developer; and Samuel F. B. Morse who made the first telegraph. Bending over the table at left is Charles Goodyear who discovered the rubber vulcanization process. Standing behind the table are Joseph Henry, inventor of the electro-magnetic motor; John Ericsson, inventor of locomotive and marine engines; and Erastus B. Bigelow, who pro duced the first power loom for weaving carpets of an ingrain type. self-starter, the first lighting and igni tion systems for automobiles. With his associates, he developed hundreds of other "firsts" in the automotive, elec trical and transportation fields, includ ing Delco lighting plants, which revo lutionized life on the farm and the modem Diesel locomotive, which rev olutionized the railroad industry. It was in 1916 that "Boss Ket"" added to his staff Tom Midgley, a young mechanical engineer whose achievements as a creative chemist were to become an important legacy to the world. At Kettering's sugges tion he started down the long, dis couraging road which finally led to a solution to engine knock, the noisy and destructive bugbear to greater power and efficiency in a gasoline engine. Meals were forgotten, sleep was lost, years went by, but perseverance paid off. In 1923 "Ethyl" gasoline, contain ing the precious, long-sought tetra ethyl lead to stop motor knock, went on sale to the public. Midgley also conceived an idea for extracting bromine, a necessary com plement to lead in gasoline, from the ocean; he made an altogether new series of refrigeration gases which are nontoxic and noninflammable, and he conducted intensive research on rub ber, extending the knowledge of the chemistry of vulcanization and of the composition of natural and synthetic rubbers. Such inventive talent grew and flourished in the fruitful soil of free dom and opportunity provided by the 11 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 12735 free enterprise system and protected by American patent laws. Because of this incentive, Americans, to a greater degree than any other people in the world, have been responsible for epochmaking inventions of the past century. Since Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod in 1752, American men of genius have constantly added to the comfort and effectiveness of man. From small, crude home work shops, as well as modem research lab oratories have come a constant flow of ideas which have resulted in revolu tionary changes in the industrial, and economic status of this nation, and of the world. As a result of the questing minds of Kettering and Midgley, an industry of worldwide scope was formed. Because of that industry, automobile engine power has almost doubled in the past 20 years, while at the same time, sav ing the car owner a third of the cost of his fuel. Because of that industry the potential horsepower of over 50 Hoov er Dams is added to the nation's auto motive vehicles each year. The search for improvements in transportation moves continually for ward with oil and automotive progress going hand in hand. Every hour of the day, every day of the year, the oil in dustry invests about $11,400 in re search to develop new and better products, and more efficient processes. The annual total is about $100,000,000. Only 30 years ago, fewer than 200 technicians were engaged in research work in the oil industry. Today, America's oil companies employ more than 15,000 men and women in con stant research to improve old and de velop new and better petroleum prod ucts and processes. At Ethyl's research laboratories in Detroit and San Bernardino, in testing laboratories in Tulsa, Baton Rouge, Kansas City, San Bernardino and Yonkers, and in the Development sec tion of the Baton Rouge plant, highly trained men and women work with the related problems of the oil and auto motive companies, contributing to the sum total of knowledge against which progress is made in both industries. They are today's pioneers, pushing on toward new frontiers of scientific achievement for the world oftomorrow. What Does the Trick? It is simply not true that planning and nationalization have maintained full employment in Britain in the last five years. Full employment here--as in France or Scandinavia or the Com monwealth -- has been maintained partly by Marshall Aid, partly by the level of postwar demand and partly by the phenomenal prosperity of the United States. What has done the trick has not been the successful ap plication of socialist principles in Britain but the successful working of capitalism in America. The Economist, London 12 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 12736 Indoctrinating the oil industry in Japan in six months' time with the procedures that Ethyl's Safety, Med ical and Sales departments took 25 years to develop is an impossible sounding job that would seem to call for four hands, two heads and the as sistance of a first class genie. That was the job handed to Nick Carter, safety engineer, Central re gion, last January. He was appointed consultant to the Under-secretary of the Army, and loaned as a visiting ex pert to advise SCAP, the Japanese government and the petroleum indus try in the proper methods of handling and utilizing tetraethyl lead in Japan. Nick flew to Japan in a MATS plane arriving on January 25, presumably for a 30-day stay. However, it wasn't until the USNS O'Hara sailed on July 21 that he was finally able to write "mission accomplished" on his papers and head for home. Investigating the snarled tetraethyl lead manufacturing business in Japan was a complex job. It meant working with the public health and welfare sec tion to set up safety rules and medical recommendations, with the Japanese government and SCAP on leaded gas oline specifications, with the Japanese ministry of Internationalized Trade and Industry on the use of TEL and blending plant construction, and with the civil transportation section on TEL shipment. Nick found that the end-of-the-war inventory of 4,600 drums of TEL had been scattered over some 56 points throughout the country, ranging from This MATS C-54 carried Nick Carter over the Pacific for "Operati6ii TEL" in Japan. I Amidst a jumbled pile of drums, in Sendai, Nick takes samples of TEL to test for quality. ETC 12737 With officials of the Nippon Oil Co., and a representative of the petroleum administra tive section of the Japanese government, Nick inspects equipment at the Niigata refinery. Mitsubishi refinery's PDM blending plant The ruined interior of a bombed drum storage warehouse in a section of Yokkaichi. the northernmost island of Hokkaido to Kyushu in the South. Since many of the drums had lost their markings, the compound had been mistaken for everything from ethyl alcohol to paint. With the help of the police and the radio stations, Nick located the stor age points, instructed the personnel in proper methods of cleaning up the contaminated areas, and supervised the safe shipment of the compound to refineries. He made extensive use of Ethyl's lead and air analyzer in clean ing up areas where danger existed from leaky drums and lead spills. Since there was some question about the quality of the TEL which had been lying around for from five to ten years, Ethyl's visiting engineer sampled and had samples tested from 20 locations. Analysis proved that the fluid still conformed to specifications. The problem of manufacturing plants was next on the agenda. Of the five plants which had been making TEL in Japan, three had been bombed and the other two had been converted, Feeling indeed like a VIP, Nick peers out of bis private railroad car, the Saginaw. On a busy street in Sasebo, Nick is snapped with J. Kelsey, petroleum consultant from Socony Vacuum, and T. J. McCarvill, of SCAP's economic and scientific section. 14 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 12738 Nick catches up on hisreports as the Saginaw whisks him across the Japanese islands. (The car was ferried from island to island). without proper decontamination, to the manufacture of such articles as sweetening agents for soft drinks and sleeping tablets. After inspecting the five plants he supplied information for handling and decontaminating the idle equipment. Tackling all the problems from the drawing board stage to the first blend, Nick furnished plans and specifica tions for blending plants at 10 re fineries, supervised complete construc tion of seven plants and began the gasoline blending at six refineries. Because the wide distribution of tetraethyl lead drums created a public health problem, safety measures were an immediate necessity. To meet this problem, Nick worked with the Japan ese ministry in drawing up a control law for the manufacture, shipment, mixing and handling of TEL. When Nick arrived in Japan he found only a few gasoline cars of an cient vintage running on about 60 octane gasoline. Many of the cars, as The visiting oilmen relax in a game of cards as the Saginaw carries them across Japan. Nick and Dolly Carter go sightseeing in the rain on the bridge above Nikko. Dolly Carter enjoys an excursion among the fascinating little shops which line the streets. Mountains rise to the clouds, dwarfing the tiny Japanese village huddled on the shore. Quite different from the scenery around Nick's hometown of Detroit, Michigan. 15 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER etc 12739 in Europe, raR^on charcoal. Increas ingly. however, new cars have been imported for taxi service and civilian use. Working with SCAP's G-4 sec tion, and the Japanese government, Nick arranged for sampling and analy sis of TEL to meet specifications for motor car use. A newsboy hawks his wares on a Tokyo street, announcing his ap proach with many jangling bells. Breakfast is served by geisha waitresses in the Matsu-no-ryo Hotel at Atami to: Mr. Miyajima, of the Japanese ministry, Mr. Okugawa, of Toa Nenryo Oil Company, and Nick. With a GS-15 rating, the highest given to civilians, Nick found himself a VIP in the land of kimonos and cherry blossoms. He covered the coun try several times in vehicles ranging from rickshas to a private railroad car equipped with three car boys and a cook. Incidentally, he earned the great admiration of the cook by being able to service his stove which was the same M-37 Army Field Range which Nick worked on at Ethyl's Detroit labs during the war. Adapting himself easily to Japanese customs, Nick found he rather en joyed lounging around barefoot, ki mono-clad, and sipping tea from twofeet high lacquered tables. Apparently the Japanese enjoyed him, too, for during his first 90 days he was enter tained at 48 parties where the charm ing, talented Japanese geisha girls acted as hostesses, played the samisen, a three-stringed banjo-like instrument, 16 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER One of Japan's most impressive shrines is this 678 year-old Diabutsu Buddha at Kamakura. Famous snow-capped Mount Fujiyama rises majestically above the Japanese countryside. ETC 12740 Wearing a typical Japanese dress kimono, Nick sits by the window at Shirahama Spa. and danced. Nick has only praise for the Japanese people whom he found to be warmhearted, generous and friendly with a sincere appreciation for the ef forts of the American people to set their war-wrecked economy and in dustry back on its feet. Japanese food was a long throw from the fried-chicken, apple pie circuit. Nick reports, somewhat ruefully, that a typical breakfast consists of raw fish, rice, rutabagas, beer, green tea, and seaweed, pressed flat and cut in squares. As for the latter delicacy, "it looked like paper, and tasted like it looked." Nick had lots of fun with his "ohashi" (honorable chopsticks) and can pick up his rice like a veteran. As for speaking the language, Nick modestly mentions that he "did quite well." However, there is the story of his trip to Ofuna. Deciding he didn't need an interpreter, he inquired at the railroad station for direction to the nearby naval fuel research depot. A beaming Japanese guide immediately offered to take him, and Nick felt very proud of his linguistic prowess. Con sequently, he was somewhat surprised when, after a long, up-hill hike, the guide proudly brought him to the foot of a huge stone Buddha which over looks the town. After that he took an interpreter with him on field trips! Nick answered so many questions while in Japan, that he was considered a virtual "Information Please." He laughingly recalls the day that an officer called him on the phone and confidently asked him, "Some planes have just flown in from Okinawa, and they have grey powder in the oil. What is it?" The officer had no doubt that Nick would be able to give the answer over the phone without examining or testing the strange grey substance! Mission completed at last, Nick rests on tlie deck of USNS O'Hara as it cuts through the calm Pacific from Yokohama toward Seattle. Mama-san and baby-san at the waterfront in Sasebo, a typical Japanese street scene. 17 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 12741 Mid-Century Report to the People During Oil Progress Week, October 15 to 21, Ethyl people across the coun try gave a mid-century report to their neighbors on the many ways in which oil men and the oil industry have con tributed to the growth of American industry and the betterment of the American standard of living. In New York, over 1400 representa tives of petroleum and allied industries gathered in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria for the second annual Oil Progress Week luncheon. Spon sored by the Oil Trades association of New York, the luncheon represented the largest gathering of oil company people ever held in New York City. and W. Alton Jones, president of Cities Service. Petroleum industry ex hibits were presented by George D. McDaniel, chairman, New York-New Jersey OIIC, to representatives of the New York City Board of Education. Dick Murphy, Eastern regional manager, worked with representatives of local oil companies. Oil Industry Information Committee, and New York Oil Trades association, in plan ning the affair. Also in New York, Don Flynn of the Eastern region and Hugh Holley of Cities Service Oil Company partici pated in a 15-minute interview over station WFAS, White Plains, on Oc- Toastmaster for the luncheon was H. E. Brandli, vice president and general manager of Cities Service Oil Company who was introduced by John W. Baker, president, N. Y. Oil Trades association. Addresses were given by Thomas A. Brown, president, Empire State Petroleum association, 18 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER Mayor Hayden Burns of Jacksonville, Florida, center, prepares to sign the proclamation de claring Oil Progress Week in the Jacksonville area as the local OIIC Committee looks on. Seated beside the Mayor is A. N. Wilkerson, district manager of Orange State Oil, and dis trict chairman of OIIC. Standing, left to right, are G. C. Hatcher, Gulf Oil Corporation; G. H. Beardsley, Sun Oil Company; Bob Jor don, Ethyl; Hayden Smith, Sinclair Refining Company--all four are vice-chairmen of OIIC. ETC 12742 tober 11. They discussed the objec tives and plans for Oil Progress Week in Westchester county, N. Y. Over 125 people, including repre sentatives of the Army and Navy, de fense agencies and other Government departments concerned with petro leum supply and gasoline quality, oil and automotive industry personnel, and members of the press attended a series of tests and demonstrations on the intrinsic value of gasoline held in Washington D. C., on October 17. The demonstration, which was conducted by Ethyl engineers near Alexandria, Va., was presented under the auspices of the District of Columbia OIIC. The tests demonstrated that improvement in gasoline antiknock quality actually has made two gallons of today's fuel worth three gallons of 1925 gasoline. At the briefing meeting preceding the tests, Ralph Champlin, public re lations director and Earl Bartholo mew, general manager of Ethyl's Re search laboratories explained the why and how of the tests. The demonstra tion was followed by a luncheon at the Carlton Hotel. The meeting concluded with a brief talk by Vice-President Joe Costello. Continuing into the deep South, View of the stage as Dr. Robert E. Wilson de livered his address "Progress in Petroleum" before 4400 people who packed Detroit's Masonic Temple on October 10. Fourth from the right is Ethyl's Earl Bartholomew. Ralph Champlin addressed the Kiwanis club at Jacksonville on October 18 and the Rotary club in Miami on October 19. In both talks he discussed the increase in the intrinsic value of gasoline in the last 25 years. Under the co-vice-chairmanship of Bill Adams, Detroit public relations representative, and Dolly Dollahan of the Central region, a rally was held on October 10 for 4400 Detroit oilmen and their wives in the Masonic Temple. Vice President Joe Costello discusses test results with friends from Sinclair and Shell, loe made a brief talk at the luncheon following the road tests, in which he pointed out what the gains in power and fuel economy dem onstrated during the tests, mean to the public. ____i ETC 12743 Dr. Robert E. Wilson, chairman of the board, Standard OiTCompany of Indi ana spoke on "Progress in Petroleum." During Oil Progress Week a lunch eon was held at the Detroit Leland Hotel under the sponsorship of the De troit Oil Men's club. Approximately 225 men were present to hear J. How ard Marshall of Ashland Oil & Refin ing Company who spoke on "Oil Pre paredness for War." Also, a press luncheon was held at the Book Cadil lac, and Oil Industry Progress dis plays were placed in the public libra ries of Ferndale and Royal Oak, Mich. In Florida, Bob Jordan stepped up to the speaker's platform to give talks before the Lions club in St. Augustine and the Kiwanis clubs in Lake City and Live Oak. He also addressed over 300 gasoline dealers and employees in the Jacksonville area during the week of October I to stir up enthusiasm for Oil Progress Week. Elsewhere in the Southern region, Larry Reis spoke at a luncheon meet ing of the Optimist club in Tulsa and John Rollins addressed the Rotary club in Terrell, Texas on October 19. His topic was "Petroleum -- Your Partner in Peace or War." Down in Baton Rouge, Steve Henry, manager of plant and employee ser vices, arranged for speakers and movies for eight luncheon clubs for professional business men and women during Oil Progress Week. On October 16, Twenty-Four Hours of Progress a chronological film on the history of oil in America was shown before mem bers of the Edgewater Kiwanis club. The film, which pictures the growth of the oil industry from the time of "Drake's Folly" in Titusville, Pa., to the complicated, and technical proc esses used by the industry today, was introduced by Doug Price, Baton Rouge publications supervisor. Throughout Oil Progress Week, Ethylites cooperated with representa tives of the country's 34,000 freely competing oil companies to carry to the public their story of 91 years of advancement and their predictions for even greater achievements by the oil industry in the future. With an Oil Progress Week display in the background, Miss Catherine Patterson oi the Hoyal Oak Public Library shows three Ethyl Research lab employees some new books on petroleum. At right are Florence McMahon, and Dan Hirschler, Automotive Research, and Nancy Beauchamp, Chemical Research. Canadian Customer Conferences One of the first things Oscar Lewis did as newly-appointed manager of Ethyl Antiknock, Ltd. was to attend and as sist with a series of joint technical meetings for customer companies in Western Canada. Four meetings were held during September in Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary and Vancouver. To attend the two-day session, a crosssection of marketing and refinery people--automotive engineers, refi nery superintendents and chief chem ists--came from as far away as 300 miles. They welcomed the opportunity to exchange information, discuss mutual problems and hear the latest informa tion about developments in the oil and automotive fields. They heard Charlie Kass and Ed Paige, of the Technical Service division, (Charlie is now in the newly-formed Information division, see page 1) discuss these develop ments, tell of work being done at our Research laboratories in Detroit and San Bernardino, and make some pre dictions of further progress to come. They saw over 200 colored slides show ing how fuel and automotive people have worked together to solve their mutual problems and demonstrating At the joint technical meeting held for customer companies in Vancouver, the men paused for a photograph. Standing at the head table are, from left, Oscar Lewis, Charlie Kass, Trank Huyler, Ed Paige and Mac MacEwen the value of high quality gasoline and improved engines. Frank Huyler and Jimmy Main, Ethyl representatives in Western Can ada, made arrangements for the meet ings in their respective territories with the help of Mac MacEwen, technical representative, who works out of the Toronto office. They report that the meetings were a great success and that many customers have requested more of the same. Moving Up Jack Wallis, formerly supervisor of N. Y. Order and Shipping, has been promoted to Safety Engineer in the field. Jack, who will be assigned in the Central region, will be responsible for all safety problems relating to the handling of our product by customer companies in his area. His position has been taken over by Gerry Fosdick formerly of the N. Y. Safety department. 21 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER I ETC 12745 Frederick Hughes Frederick Hughes, engineering technician, Detroit Research laboratories, rounds out twenty years of service with Ethyl this month. A real veteran, Fred has worked m nearly every section of Automotive Research. He be gan as an apprentice in the Machine Shop, then moved to the Road Test garage. After a short stay in Maintenance, he was transferred to Order and Shipping where he remained for five years. In February, 1939, Fred entered Engineering night school at Lawrence Insti tute of Technology (Detroit). While attending Lawrence Tech, Fred was vice-president of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Upsilon. After complet ing 4'/i years of study, he was assigned to his present position of engineering technician. Fred and his wife Florence are both native Detroiters. The Hughes' interests are centered about their three children--Patricia, 10, Fred die, 7, and George, 4. They live in Detroit. Henry T. Mueller, head of the Engine Devel opment section, Technical Service, Detroit, joins the ranks of twenty-year people this month. Heinie began his Ethyl career as a cooperative student engineer while attending the University of Detroit. After several years at the Detroit laboratories, a special tractor research project took him to Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., in 1915. Upon his return to Detroit, Heinie was assigned to commercial engine re search. He was named head of the Engine Development section of Tech service when it was organized in 1944 to facilitate coopera tive development work with commercial and farm-tractor engine manufacturers. Heinie has been extremely active in promoting and encouraging the use of valve rotation as a means of increasing engine life. Heinie is a native of St. Louis, Mo., has a son, Harvey, 17 and a daughter, Margaret Mary, 12. He is a member of SAE. His hobby is farming. Edward cJ. Nieser, assistant supervisor of Accounts Payable, Hew York, joined Ethyl as a Finance department stenographer twenty years ago this month. He attended night classes at Drake Business School, and later studied with Frank Broaker, America's first CPA. This paid off with a better job for Ed and he became assistant head of the Payroll sec tion, later switched to Accounts Payable. Born and raised on Long Island, Ed graduated with top scholastic honors from Richmond Hill High School. Ed is an enthusiastic booster of Malveme Park, L.I., where he lives with his wife, Margaret, a 15-year-old daughter, Irene, and a son, 13-year-old Edward, Jr. An active mem ber and former officer of the Malveme Park Civic Association, Ed also serves in the town's Auxiliary Police force. Ed's hobbies revolve around his home and family. He is particu larly proud of the flower garden which he and Margaret carefully plan and raise every year. Edward J. Nieser L I ETC 12746 Edward J. Gresslin Back in Uniform Dave Donovan, formerly of the New York Mailroom, is back in uniform as a second lieutenant in the Atlantic division of the Military Air Transport Service. He is a navigator with the 1253rd squadron at Westover Air Force base in Springfield, Mass. Dave has been taking refresher courses in navigation since he arrived at Westover Field on August 24. He is now ready for service on the Con stellations which his squadron flies. A member of the Army Air Force Reserve, Dave served as second lieu tenant during World War II. Ethyl friends had a glimpse of Dave recently when he stopped in at the 100 Park Avenue offices. He was on leave, visiting his mother, who lives in White Plains. Edward J. Gresslin, traffic manager, joins the fifteen-year club this month. Ed organised the Traffic department when he came to Ethyl in 1935 and has supervised its operation ever since, first from Deepwater, and since 1946 from New York. Before that he spent 20 years as assistant traffic manager for Standard Oil of New Jersey. His first job was with the Trunk Line Association in New York. A native New Yorker, Ed was born and educated in the City. He and his wife, Martha, are well-known resi dents of Bayside, L.l. A member of the Inter state Commerce Commission and Practition ers' Association, he is also active in the N.Y. Traffic club and the National Industrial Traf fic League. He enjoys golfing and belongs to the National Freight Golf Association. Five and Ten This month ten-year service pins go to Clif ford E. Lenington, Southern region sales, Dean A. Painter, San Beroadino laboratory, and Albert W. Ramsay, Tulsa laboratory. Chalking up five years of service in Detroit Research are William E. Burt, Rex D. Closson, Marion F. Joyce, Anthony J. Krempa, William E. Schmeichel and Harry A. Toulmin, Jr. Dave Donovan leans against the door of his new convertible during a recent leave in New York. Dave is navigating bigger ma chines these days--giant Constellations for the Military Air Transport Service. ETC 12747 Prize-Winning Photographs e "Hiya!" by Russell Carlsen was taken this summer in Franklin Hills, Michigan of pretty little Linda Kay Andreasson. "Narrow River" by Lou Slack, Jr., was shot in August along the banks of the busy, steamerclogged Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. "Fledgling" by J. P. Weeks shows a pert baby robin who boldly took possession of the Weeks' car in Sharon Springs, N. Y. 24 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER "The Newlyweds," dramatic wed ding picture shown on the cover, won the grand prize in the Bulletin Board photography contest. Neal Hepner, who took the picture, was, at the time, an engineer-in-training at our Detroit Research laboratories. The photograph, showing a ricebesieged couple leaving St. Gabriel's church in Detroit, was chosen by the judges on the basis of excellent com position, good action, reproduction quality, and human interest. Ten dollar first prizes were awarded to winners of three classifications--A) People; B) Scenes and Still Life; C) Animals. First prize in class A went to Russell Carlsen, Detroit Chemical Re search, for the excellent candid shot of little blond-haired Linda Kay Andre asson. For the excellent composition and quality of his "Narrow River," a scenic view of the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland, Lou Slack, Jr., Central re gion safety engineer took the first prize in class B. J. P. Weeks, N. Y. Finance, earned the class C first prize for "Fledgling," his unusual and in teresting snapshot of a baby robin standing on the running board of his car. Five dollar second prizes in each classification went to Jim Donohue, N. Y. Finance, class A; Virginia Mc Guire, N. Y. Manufacturing, class B; and Ed Rehwoldt, N. Y. Finance, class C. Honorable mention awards of one dollar each were earned by entries from Pauline Metz, Detroit Chemical Research; John Palmer, N. Y. Pay roll; Mary Gartland, N. Y. Finance; Eleanore Schreyer, N. Y. Safety; I i ETC 12748 Harry Wheeler, Manufacturing, Baton Rouge; Gil Way, San Bernardino Re search: Eleanor Eskola, Detroit Road Test; Chris Bruhl, Yonkers Gasoline Testing division; Jules Zeph, N. Y. Mailroom; and Jim Baldwin, Eastern region. Judges for the contest were two dis tinguished men in the publication and photography fields--Abril Lamarque and R. I. Nesmith. A pioneer in the application of design in publication layout, Mr. Lamarque restyled The New York Times Magazine and Book Review sections to their current format. He is now an art director, and design consultant to publishers, adver tisers, and industry. R. I. Nesmith, noted New York industrial photog rapher, has been handling art work in the house publication field for the past 17 years. Entries for the photographic contest came from all sections of the country and included a wide variety of sub jects. Beautiful scenic shots of placid New England countrysides, the rugged grandeur of the Southwestern national parks, impressive waterfalls, and vast stretches of desert were all included. Smallest number of entries were in the C classification (animals). Strangely enough, although pictures of parrots, raccoons, baby robins, lions and other miscellaneous beasts were included, only one picture of the faithful family pet, the dog, appeared. If the contest entries are any cri teria, Ethyl folks travel widely, are proud of their growing families, and have a penchant for strange animals. "A Happy Couple" by Ed Rehwoldt shows a sophisticated twosome who speed their lives in the New York zoo. "Manuevering Before the Gun" by Virginia McGuire.The sailboat, "Padashan," belongs to Tom Ronan of N. Y. Sales Administration. > "What! Morning Already?" by Jim Dono hue. That's Jim's two-month-old son, Jim, peeping from under his blankets. 25 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 12749 Seventy-seven Ethyl employees gather before the St. Clair Inn, St. Clair, Mich., where the Company's second technical meeting was held October 10-13. Representatives from New York, Baton Rouge and Detroit attended the session which centered around new products. Focus on New Products By Phil Savage Seventy-seven Ethyl employees from New York, Baton Rouge and Detroit gathered at the St. Clair Inn, St. Clair, Mich, for the Company's second tech nical meeting, October 10-13. Discus sions at the four-day session were centered around New Products. Preceding the St. Clair Inn meeting, those attending viewed a number of exhibits prepared by the Detroit labo ratories. Most of the displays were connected with research work being directed toward improvements in the application and use of TEL. Several new pieces of equipment proved to be of particular interest. One of these was a glass intake manifold, a Pyrex repro duction of a cast metal production 26 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER manifold. Used in conjunction with fluorescent "tracer" dyes, the glass in take manifold may become a research tool in fuel and TEL distribution studies. Jack Taylor and Wheeler Lovell presented discussions at St. Clair which were tied in with the laboratories exhibits. Enthusiasm at the St. Clair Inn ses sions ran high, and Graham Edgar's presentation, "New Products Policy and Long Range Plans," was among the papers which created considerable comment and interest. As introductory material, Gus Ligett and Clarence Neher reviewed past experience on new products with interesting market and manufacturing potentialities. ETC 12750 Other discussions, fell into three fields: 1. Sodium and related products. Papers were read by Harry Kuhe, Gene Hill, Dave DePree, Frank Padgitt, W. H. (Tilly) Thomas, Charley Thomas, Karl Schroeder and Art Hawkes..Tom Tennent dis cussed "Suggested Improvements in Salt Cake Quality." 2. Agricultural Chemicals (includ ing BHC and lindane). Papers were read by Charley Smith, A1 Kolka, Steve Hall, Luke Governale; Jim Hetrick, Jim Dunn, Paul McKim, Roy Milde, George Krieger and Gus Ligett. 3. Fuel Additives (Gasoline anti oxidants and cetane number im provers for diesel fuel). Papers were read by Bill Hubner, Franklin Baldwin, Grover Wilson and Jim Hinkamp. To conclude the meeting, Bill Strader delivered a paper, "Survey of Raw Materials and Facilities," Bill Burt discussed "Production and Use of Chloroaromatics" and A. P. ` Jerryi Giraitis covered "Aliphatic Chlo rides." Bill Hack and .Harry Kuhe summarized the views of Product Development and Chemical Sales. The meetings, which were initiated at Gulfport, Miss. last year, have a two-fold purpose. First, they are in intended to familiarize employees in various departments of the Company with past and current research and de velopment activities and to aid in formulation of plans for future work. Second, the meetings promote mutual understanding of the related activities of the various departments. And, as the people attending the meetings be come better acquainted personally, the free exchange of ideas is stimulated. Arrangements for the meetings were made by Ed Kurt in Detroit and Harry O'Connell in Baton Rouge. Taking a break between sessions, conference delegates line up on the wharf of the St. Clair river, one of the world's busiest waterways. Left to right are: Hal Beatty, Detroit; George Beste, Baton Rouge; Harry O'Connell, Baton Rouge; Graham Edgar, New York; Bill Hack, New York; Ed Kurt, Detroit; lack Macauley, Detroit; and Joe Costello, New York. 27 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER etc 121&1 Lois Berry . . . clerk-typist, N. Y. Publicity . . . born in Iowa, raised and educated in Bayside, N. Y. . . . graduated in June from Bayside high school . . . active in school sports . . . spare time activities include tennis, bowling and amateur photography. Richard W. Boettcher . . . dynamometer operator, Detroit labs . . . Chicago-born . . . attended Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Detroit. . . US Navy veteran . . . sports enthusiast . . . enjoys reading and fussing with gadgets during leisure hours. Mary Louise Cramblet . . . secretary, Chicago office .. . Chicago-born, educated at Sweetbriar College, Va., University of Zurich, Switzerland, Katherine Gibbs, Chicago . . . married in May . . . hobbies: flying (has priv ate pilots license), swimming and skiing. Henry W. Hoftiezer . . . Detroit Research... hails from Wisconsin . . . A.B. degree from Hope College (Michigan), M.A. degree from Kansas University . . . served 3 year hitch with US Navy . . . American Chemical Society member . . . married in June 1949. Gerda Oppenheimer . . . Los Angeles stenographer . . . born in Cape Town, So. Airica; educated in Europe . . . employed by US Army during war . . . came to America two years ago . . . speaks French, German, Spanish... hobbies: music, books, gardening. Shirley Stickles . . . Detroit Accounting . . . comes .to Ethyl alter two years as secretary for Ex-Cell-O Corp.. . . bora and educated in Detroit, she graduated from Pershing High ... married in 1946 . . . has one daughter Janet, age four, who occupies her spare time. Philip Thomas, Jr. . . . Detroit Maintenance . . . returns to Ethyl after two years with Harry Ferguson, Inc. . . . Detroit native; attended schools there, married Detroit girl 11 years ago . . . one son, John, age nine . . . army veteran . . . photography enthusiast. ______ F ETC 12752 In the peaceful, wooded, gently rolling countryside of Dutchess County,N.Y. nestles the little town of Fishkill, whose history is a colorful pageant of early Dutch settlers, the Revolution ary war, and the great men who for mulated American independence. A few miles away, off the main road, is the tree-studded farm of Jay Goux, pioneer Ethyl employee who retired four years ago to become one of Ethyl's first annuitants. In his homey brick Cape Cod cot tage, with its surrounding 25 acres of land, Jay is now enjoying the fruits of his 22 years of work for the Ethyl Corporation. With his charming wife, Allie, and Peter, his vivacious cocker spaniel, Jay lives a busy and interest ing life among the scenes and people he loves. His ruddy complexion, erect car- The day begins early at the Goux household even though Jay no longer lias to catch the early commuters' train to New York. Here the Gouxs enjoy a leisurely breakfast as they dis cuss the day's activities. Jay has plenty of time for that second cup of coffee now! riage and excellent health belying his years, Jay is now a gentleman farmer of sorts. He keeps his property in trim, tends his garden, is active in the local Grange and Fishkill Dutch Reformed church, and goes hunting in the nearby woods whenever he gets a chance. Gone are the days when he had to arise at dawn to make the commuters' train at Beacon for the two-hour ride to New York. The years have slipped by quickly since the day in 1907 when young Jay left his Lime Rock, Conn, home to take the job of telegraph operator and sta tion agent for the Central New Eng- ETC 12753 Through the spring and summer months, lay finds plenty to keep him busy in his backyard vegetable garden. Weeds aren't easily dis couraged, he finds, as he removes a few per sistent intruders from his strawberry patch. land railroad in Brinckerhoff, New York. (The station is gone now, al though the weed-grown tracks still stretch through the countryside.) Jay liked the job and the countryside, and he also liked the girl who lived across the river in the old Hustis homestead. In the cool summer evenings he would paddle across the quiet waters and take Allie Hustis canoeing. Atlantic City Honeymoon Allie and Jay were married in 1913, and after an Atlantic City honeymoon, they went to live in Washington where Jay worked for the U.S. Patent office. The young couple moved to Peekskill in 1919 when Jay was transferred to the sales division of the U.S. Shipping Board in New York. The following year he joined the staff of the Elder Steel Steamship Company and re mained with the organization until it was dissolved five years later. Shortly afterward he joined the young and struggling Ethyl organization, which had just opened small New York offi ces at 25 Broadway. Jay's job was to keep the cash book, journal and general ledger--a tremen dous tome, so large that Jay declares he had to put roller skates on it to move it about. In those days the book was usually in the red. Whenever Jay's figures moved to the black side of the ledger, the small Ethyl staff had a celebration. The Gouzs do most of their marketing in near by town of Fishkill, whose shady streets and old homes are rich in early New York history. Above, Jay discusses new farm equipment pointers with salesman Dave Chrystal. Jay talks over church activities with Rev. Rob ert Runge in front of Fishkill's famous old Dutch Reformed Church. In this venerable building the committee of safety tried Enoch Crosby, American spy who appears as Harvey Birch in the works of lames Fenimore Cooper. 30 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER Celebrations became more frequent and the Company expanded quickly. Jay recalls the move to the Chrysler building, the continual expansion from office to office and floor to floor as production increased and sales shot up. Jay's job expanded correspondingly and he became manager of the Order and Shipping department, assistant secretary of Ethyl and of Ethyl-Dow, and agent for Associated Ethyl of London. Expedited TEL Shipments The job of expediting TEL ship ments to all comers of the globe was a hectic one which kept cablegrams and phone calls pouring in from the capi tals of the world. Now when Jay's phone rings it is usually a neighbor calling to discuss the activities of the Wiccopee Grange, of which Jay is treasurer. Jay and his wife enjoy gathering with their neighbors in the neat brown and white grange hall for the frequent turkey dinners and clam- Jay pauses to rest against the barnyard gate of his brother-in-law's nearby farm. He fre quently helps out with the farm work on the old Hustis family homestead where he came to court Allie Hustis many years ago. bakes. Jay is in great demand for these affairs because of his reputation as one of the best carvers in Dutchess County. When the bells ring in the steeple of the historic First Reformed Dutch church of Fishkill, the Gouxs are al ways on hand for the service. Jay serves as elder and treasurer of the old church, which was organized in 1716, bears the arms of William of Orange, served as a prison during the revolu tion, and was Capitol of New York State when the Provincial Congress held sessions there in 1776. Even with his tractor to help him, Jay puts in a long working day on his 25 acres. He raises a garden every sum- With Peter's assistance, lay gathers the fruifh of his summer labor. Squash and cucumbers will be on the table tonight! On stay-at-home evenings when there are no church or grange activities to attend, the Gouxs frequently join their neighbors for a game or two of bridge. 31 BULLETIN BOARD -- NOVEMBER ETC 1275 mer with plenty-of corn, tomatoes, squash and beans, plants a new straw berry patch every season, keeps his 15 peach trees in trim, and maintains several acres of luxurious, closecropped lawn. When haytime and har vest roll around, he goes down the road to his brother-in-law's farm to help out. In the quiet country evenings. Jay and his wife drive in to Fishkill or Poughkeepsie to the movies, play bridge with friends who drop in fre quently, or read in the pleasant panelled den. When the leaves on the hillside be gin to turn, and the frosty air heralds the hunting season, Jay starts inspect ing the ten guns in his collection, while Peter barks- with excitement. The land around the Goux house abounds with deer, partridge, and pheasant--Jay has shot five deer prac tically in his back yard. Every possi ble day during hunting season, Jay and Peter head for the woods, and usually return well laden. As far as Jay is concerned, there is nothing like a venison dinner. Built Home in 1938 Jay and Allie built their Brinckerhoff home in 1938 after living in White Plains 14 years. From their kitchen window they can see the wooded slopes of Mt. Honnis, and from their screened-in porch they can look at 1800-foot Mt. Beacon rising in the West. They have a 20-mile view on a clear day. "Best part of the Hudson Valley," Jay says enthusiastically.. While leading this idyllic life as an Ethyl pensioner, Jay often thinks of his many Ethyl friends. He keeps upto-date on Ethyl people and Company activities by reading the Bulletin Board, and enjoys reminiscing about his own days with Ethyl. "Those 22 years were good years," he confides. "Ethyl is a fine company to work for. I've never regretted my choice." Preparing for hunting season, lay examines the rifle which his many Ethyl friends gave him when he retired in December 1946. This is one of ten guns in his growing collection. The wooded hills around lay's 25-aere Brinckerhoff farm provide excellent hunting. An en thusiastic Nimrod, Jay dons his hunting jacket and red plaid cap as soon as the season opens. He and Peter rarely come back empty-handed. 32 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 12756 Third Analytical Conference Held in Detroit Claude Arceneaux, Baton Rouge Development section, explains an outline to other delegates at the Analytical Canierence held in Detroit on September 11 and 12. Looking on are, left to right, Charlie Gambrill, head of the Analytical section, Detroit, Lou Snyder, Sam Henderson, Dave Detwiler, and Sheryl Cook, all from Baton Rouge, and A1 Gassmann of Detroit labs. The third in a series of four analytical conferences was held at the Detroit Research laboratories on September 11 and 12 with members of the Detroit research staff and the Baton Rouge Development section participating. The conference was held to discuss the analytical methods and problems of the two laboratories with the idea of promoting better understanding be tween the two groups and developing a greater correlation of efforts toward the solution of mutual problems. The series of meetings was initiated in Detroit in September 1949 with a second meeting in Baton Rouge last January. A fourth conference is sched uled for Baton Rouge next Fall. The conference program was co ordinated by Charlie Gambrill, head of the Detroit Analytical section, who presided at the opening session. Three papers on analytical projects were presented. They were: "The Iso lation and Identification of New Compounds from BHC Thermal Cracking Product" by Claude Arceneaux, "The Determination of Or ganic and Inorganic Lead Compounds in Process Ditch Water" by Sam Henderson, and a discussion of the use of the Research laboratories' new Recordomatic Titrometer for the de termination of halogens by John Sieberth. Instances of how the Ana lytical section has improved customer relations were cited in a talk by Dick Scales, director of technical service. 33 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER Christy and Jon Vogel Jo and Jan Hirschler Bulletin Board went on a twin hunt this month. We sent communiques to our correspondents from coast to coast asking them to find out how Ethyl families stack up in the double feature department. And we found Ethyl twins from New York to California. The New York office heads the list with seven sets of twins including Andy Anderson's duo who aren't pic tured below. New York can boast, too. Christy and Jon Vogel make quite a wheel barrow full! The boys, who are seven-andone-half, are the sons of Chris Vogel, of N. Y. Public Relations. Active third graders, they are ardent little fishermen during the summer months, and interested in handicraft all year round. The picture was taken on the lawn of their suburban home in Hawthorne, N. Y. These pert little ladies are Jo and Ian Hirsch ler, three-and-one-half-year-old daughters of Dan Hirschler, Detroit research engineer. According to Dan they make the best mud pies you ever saw. They are also interested in anything pertaining to horses, real or other wise, like to help their mother with the house work (outdoors as well as in, apparently) and sing and dance to music like little troupers. Two of the busiest sixth graders in St. Paul are Kathy, left, and Sharon Olson, 11 year-old daughters of Mel Olson, Central region safety engineer. Sharon belongs to the school coun cil and both girls were elected to the school patrol. Swimming and figure skating (at which they are quite accomplished) are their favor ite hobbies. They are in Christian Endeavor. These bright-eyed little girls with their birth day hats on are Beverly, left, and Nancy Smith, right, of Tenafly, N. J. They are the daughters of John Smith of N. Y. Finance. They are shown here with their favorite dollies who helped them celebrate at a festive second birthday party on October 4. l * Beverly and Nancy Smith L ETC 12758 features about Bill Croissant who recently an nounced his second set of twins. We also discovered twins in Chicago, Detroit, and Wilmington, California. So far we haven't heard of any twins in the Southern region. But that isn't surprising. According to the books, twins vary with the latitude and are more numerous in colder climates. If Ethyl had an office in Alaska, chances are we'd have to do another article. Basking in the October sunshine are Doris and William Croissant, three-month-old twins ol Bill Croissant, N. Y. Traffic department. These twins caused a lot of excitement around the New York office where many Ethylites re call the appearance ol the Erst Croissant duo 10 years ago. loan and Ann, identical twins, are now active fifth graders. Bill Croissant's busy household is located in Bellaire, L. I. Meredee and Dick Murphy Sturdy 12-year-olds are Meredee and Dick Murphy, children ol Eastern Regional Mana ger Dick Murphy. Young Dick is in the fourth form at the Harvey school, Hawthorne, N. Y., while Meredee is a seventh grader at Bedford Village school. Dick has a typical boy's inter est in sports, but Meredee's hobbies are horse back riding and raising chickens. The Mur phys live in Bedford Village, N. Y. Busily raking the leaves around their Welles ley Hills, Mass, home are Teddy and Joy Moseley, children of Herb Moseley of the East ern region. These 10-year-olds are in the fifth grade. Teddy's interests lean toward sports, soap box autos, cars and cowboys, while loy is interested in school, clothes and cooking. Teddy and Joy Moseley The 12 year-old Martin twins of Long Beach, Calif, belong to Merritt Martin of the Wil mington terminal. Ginny and Barb are in the seventh grade of Stephen's Junior high school. They spend most of their spare tune in the California sunshine, swimming, playing kickball and tennis, but they also like to curl up with their favorite books on occasion. Ginny and Barb Martin ETC 12759 Farewell Party Bobbie Landers, formerly of New York Order and Shipping, was honored at a farewell luncheon on September 7. On hand for the au revoirs were Betty Hench, Joyce Rinquist, Agnes Bowe, Pat Barnett and Clair Stecker. Ethyl friends presented Bobbie with a copper lazy susan and a quilted house coat. Bobbie is now making a full-time job of housewife in her Levittown home. Russell Whipple and his wife Alice cut theii wedding cake following an August wedding at Royal Oak Methodist church, Detroit. Russell is the son oi Eleanor Whipple, Detroit labs. They're Engaged Kansas City Ed Mulligan, technician at the Kan sas City Gas Testing laboratory, to Beverly Sechrest. Ed and Beverly plan to be- married early in 1951. They're Married Detroit Evelyn Harworth was married to Harry Lilley on September 22. The newlyweds took a wedding trip to East Tawas. Fifty Ethyl friends attended a shower for Evelyn on August 28 at the home of Ruth Simons. Dinner music was provided by Angie Colosimo while Dorry Rodenhouse entertained on her accordion. Recent Arrivals Detroit George and Betty Betker--a daugh ter, Carol Lee, bom October 8 at St. Joseph hospital, Pontiac, Mich. Weight: eight pounds, seven ounces. George is a research engineer. Manual and Cecelia Brandt--a son, David Adam, bom September 22. Weight: seven pounds, four ounces. Manual is in Chemical Research. Glenn and Margaret Irish--a daughter, Joan Evelyn, bom Septem ber 9. Weight: four pounds, eleven ounces. Joan is the first addition to the Irish family. Glenn is a chemist in Chemical Research. Thomas and Gloria Smith--a son, Thomas Frederick, Jr., bom on Sep tember 3. Weight: seven pounds, fifteen-and-one-half ounces. Thomas, Sr. is an engine operator in Aero nautical Research. New York Edward and Irene Betchaver--a son, James Edward, bom October 2. Weight: seven pounds, one ounce. One brother, Mark Andrew, age 13 months. Ed is in New York Traffic. Frank and Eleanor Gerard--a son, John, bom October 7 in Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, N. Y. Weight: seven pounds, eight ounces. Frank, who. is in the N. Y. Finance depart ment, has four other children. 36 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER r i L ETC 12760 Three Birds With One Stone Ethylites from the Detroit Research labs met at the Royal Oaks home of Chester Kelley re cently for a triple purpose party. The celebra tion was in order to bid farewell to Fred Mar shall who has left to study at the University of Missouri, to congratulate Jerry Redoutey on his marriage and to celebrate Charlie Gambrill's birthday. Pictured above, first row, left to right, are: Bill and Dorry Rodenhouse, Chester and Mar ion Kelley, Vera Drake, Janet and Jerry Re doutey, Gordon Wilcox and Nancy Beau champ. Standing in the back, left to right, are: Clint Leacock, Anne Harmon, Elizabeth Gambrill, Gwen Carlsen, Bernie and Betty LeAnnais, Bob Drake, Steve Droege, Mrs. Leacock, Russ Carlsen, Paul and Katherine Kemp, Bill O'Neill, George and Cleo Hall and Peg Wilcox. Steve Henry Steve Henry, manager of plant and em ployee services at Baton Rouge, was guest speaker at the downtown Lions Club on Sep tember 26. His talk on "What Does the Em ployee Want?" was rated in the club paper as "the best and most interesting talk we have had for some time.'* Bob Asbury and Steve Henry Bob Asbury and Steve Henry were mem bers of an alumni committee which planned the Baton Rouge area MIT alumni dinner dance on Friday, October 13. Ben Harrison Ben Harrison, of the Baton Rouge plant, was a member of the committee arranging details for the first local Kiwanis Kids' Day picnic. Nearly 2500 children from 6 to 16 stuffed themselves with hotdogs and shrimpburgers and participated in numerous games at the September 22 outing. Casey Jones Casey Jones, of Detroit Technical Service, acted as referee in the 100 Mile American Automobile Association National Champion ship Auto Race held September 22 at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit. Nathan Fay Nathan Fay, knock testing engineer, Kan sas City, was elected president of the Missouri Audubon Society on October 14 in Camdentown, Mo. Shift Key Mike Remondino, formerly a re search engineer in the fleet section of Technical Service, Detroit, has taken over Charley Kass's spot in the ranks of the "Rover Boys". (Charley has shifted to the new technical informa tion division, see page 1.) Mike's job has been taken over by Harry Toulmin, who was formerly in Automo tive Research. Ethyl's Jim Boudreau joins other oil industry men at a September 6 luncheon in honor of Ray Shaw, chairman of the Oil Industry Service Center at the 1950 Chicago Fair. During the fair's 10-week run, an estimated 800,000 visitors stopped in to enjoy the comfortable lounges, picnic grounds, restrooms, industry movies and other free facilities offered by the oil industry. Left to right above are: George Schmid, Texaco; Herman M. Allen, Sinclair; Jim; Brown Meece, Globe; M. E. Vorhees, Phillips; and Harry Underwood, Shell. i i "Don't Believe A Word of It" Two-year-old Gary Lankenau seems to be offering a bit of advice to his three-and-onehall-year-old sister Linda whose favorite occupation is looking at magazines. Gary can't understand his sister's interest--he thinks it is much more fun to figure out ways to get into Daddy's car. The children belong to Bill Lankenau, assistant purchasing agent, who commutes to Mew York from his home in Florham Park, N.J. where the picture was taken. Austin Jones, right, son of Casey Jones, Detroit labs, is shown during rehearsal for a dance- drama which he planned and directed. Per forming with him is another dancer from the cast. Entitled "Millenium Sunday", the per formance was presented in Bloomfield Spring, Mich. It featured modern choreography with choral and orchestral accompaniment. t Snapped at the recent Product Sales Clinic presented in Denver for Standard of Indiana are, left. Art Roberts, Central region, and right, Joe Flanagan, Standard's merchandise manager for motor oils and lubricants. etc 12762 f Did you kiwivihat.. I f Driller* haie now gone down more lhan (nor mile* in ihe search for oU -- jus! about * deep u Ml McKinlev ia high. Pcugrm* m (A# tciener / driiUi| u nddlug Wiio** / borrcia to ear off rnrrtri. Every da*. America! oil transportation system moves 24O.0UU.UUO gallon* of oil where end when it is wanted--docs it so efficiently ihet gallon / gasofine netaally coses yea less (Am m gatfon / dialfiled muter. In 1850. with bag-hours of backbreaking labor, the average Ctroier raised oaly enough lu feed a family of five. Today, with oaf psorrtd /arm maekfarry one farmer nm feed kimrrif sad /sartsra other gssplr. With thousands of eompanMo competing ia oil marketing. gaaaffsM is one of the /esc Ikings yoa caa frtry today that costa skoal the aaaac flaaea eacfadsdj as ft did 2S years ago. he AMERICAN OIL industry is better prepared today than ever before to meet any national emer Tgency. Our domestic capacity to produce and refine petroleum has increased around 2S per cent since the peak demands of World War II. In peace or war. the initiative of oil men working in privately-managed, competing oil companies pro vides America with the largest possible supplies of petroleum products--products of the highest quality at the lowest prices in the world. . Thousands of oil companies mean competition ...competition means progress ^ oil progress means more and better products. <Mf Tmh 20, ft. i ( E'tC ETC 12764