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ETHYL iULLETlK BOARi) PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT ETCO-144 ETc 13962 ETC 13963 ETC 13964 ETHYL n board Published monthly by Ethyl l Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Double Exposure ...................... .. . 2 From Perplexing hypholoma to Verpa bohemica.................... .. . 4 Meeting in Progress............... .. s Highlights of '59..................... , . 14 Life of the Party ........................ . . 16 For Your Entertainment......... . . 18 Milestones ........................ .. 20 Ethyl Welcomes........................ .. 20 Personals ..................................... . . 21 People and Places .................. .. 24 Leonhard Dowry ................................... Editor William Warren ..................Associate Editor Stella Sideris ....................Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robichaux: Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Baylerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Alyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Lillian Walker: Houston: Dave Agnew, Elizabeth Dodson, C. S. Harkins; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Jane Hudlemeyer; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Mike Espinosa; Sew Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace; Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pitts burgh: Meredene Portzer; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst; photog rapher: Fred Green, Judy Schaub; San Francisco: Jeff Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers: Catherine Henderson, Al Morschauser; Gasoline Testing: Gil de Malvilain; Cen tral Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Saruia: C. G. .Manure; Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON OCR COVER: Doug Jeppe (left). New Orleans district manager, and John Rollins, chief product service engineer, Southern Re gion. look over demonstration engine at this year's big Sales Conference. Conference story begins on page 6. Published by Ethyl Corporation, lot) Park Avenue,. New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. B. Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. <1 LTISUOlO tjcryTi ^- Dl&U Janus, tile twin-faced "god of doorwavs," seems to us a particularly apt symbol for the start of a new os am for tl year. The first month gets its name from this ancient havei deity, for one thing, and for another, Janus was re- W< garded hv tire Romans as a god gifted with the skill iu sto of looking backward and forward at tile same time-- impre surelv a useful talent in this month when past and fu- Janus ture are both so much on our minds. (At a later point ity to in history, Janus was represented as having four faces, abilit; hut that seems to us too much to ask, even of a god; as irn a double exposure is quite enough for our purposes.) natioi With only a little effort, most of us can share Janus's datioi rear-view gift. A meditative moment or two, a few Patric bars of "Auld Lang Syne," and there we are, hack to ventii January of 1959, with the whole remembered year one k stretched out before us like the pages of a hook we lamp just finished reading. It's the view ahead that stumps futuri :< ------ ; -**- - ETC 13965 1 I JOlOUBLB TXiXPOSURE vs," seems to us start of a new om this ancient . Janus was re1 with the skill lie same time-- en past and fuAt a later point ving four faces, even of a god; our purposes.) m share Janus's or two, a few ve are, hack to lemhered rear of a book we ad that stumps us and makes us envv the old god s miraculous power; for this is the book we haven't set read, the door we haven't yet opened, the hill we haven't yet climbed. We mortals can only guess at what the future holds in store for us. But the accuracy of our guess can be improved if we keep in mind that the two faces of Janus are closelv linked--in other words, that the abil ity to look ahead isn't altogether separate from the abilitv to look backward. This is true not only of us as individuals but also of us as a company and as a nation. In each case our past experience is the foun dation on which our future achievement will be based. Patrick Henry, in a 1775 speech at the Virginia Con vention, summed it up in these words: "I have but one lamp bv which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no wav of judging the future but by the past.'' An excellent example of how the past serves the fu ture can be seen in our Companv's research laborato ries. Contrary to popular belief, scientific research seldom involves sudden, dramatic discoveries. Mostly it is patient evaluation and the tireless testing of many possible routes. But no test, however disappointing, is ever a total failure. It goes to form the growing foundation of experience that perhaps next rear, or the year after that, will support a discovery. We think the same thing is true of people, and that is why the month of Janus holds special significance for us. It is a time of beginnings and a time of evaluations, a time when we look ox er the ledger of last year's ex perience and open the pages of a fresh new one. Un like Janus, we can't see in both directions with equal claritv, but like Patrick Henry we can use the lamp of the past to illuminate the future. Jl ETC 13966 Bill Moon (left), Andy Pallciy and Joe Odenweller, oil of Chemical Research, Detroit, use a book to identify a mushroom patch. from Perplexing hypholomi Call it by its name or leave it alone --that's the advice of a dedicated Detroit group who look on mushrooms as an instructive hobby as well as a gastronomic delight Most of the employees of the Detroit labs will be surprised (and possibly mystified) to learn that The Detroit mushroom fanciers number about a dozen, and the majority owe their interest in the sub the surrounding woods are rife with Perplexing ject to Bill Moon of Chemical Research. Bill took up htjpholoma toward the end of November. And next mushrooms about five vear ago, partly because he felt April, if they look very carefully, they may spot a the field offered an educational challenge and partly group of Verpa bohemica clustered clandestinely in a because he enjoys spending his weekends walking glade. about in the woods. Once lie had the territory pretty It anight be easier just to say that the woods are much to himself, but now be finds he has to get out thick with toadstools eight months out of the vear, but early to harvest a patch of Agarictts rodmani, his per to a dedicated group of lab workers that would be a sonal favorite for eating, if he is to beat his enthusi gross simplification. In their vocabulary there is no astic co-workers to the forest. such word as toadstool, and all mushrooms -- the Besides Bill, other amateur Detroit mycologists are proper general term -- have clear scientific identities. Andy Pallav, Jimmv Boag, Joe Odemveller, Bud God If you see a Perplexing htjpholoma, they sav, call it dard, Alvce Peterson, Paul Thompson, George Thom by name; and if you plan to flavor an omelette with it. son, Joe Paruch, Al Lehikoinen and Norm Wright. AH make certain it's not an Amanita phalloides, which of them take their hobby seriously, and all of them happens to be deadly poisonous. agree on one bit of advice for anyone else interested 4 ETC 13967 Some familiar mushrooms, both edible and not.. .. Collybio velntipe (edibl) Copriuns comatus (edible) Polyporus sulphurus (edible) Volvorio volvaeeae (questionable) Amanita muscoria (poisonous) Amanita verna (poisonous) ma to Verpa bohemica Miscellaneous fungi flight out a e sab ot up le felt partis' .liking pretty et out >s pertlnisi- sts are 1 Godrhomht. All them rested in taking it up: know the mushroom before you eat it. Get a book, the Detroit hunters say (a good one for newcomers is Mushrooms for Beginners, bv Clyde Christensen), and look up vour discoveries. Among the things to examine are the type of cap, the type of gill structure, and the color, size and shape of the spoors. The spoors, being minute, must be examined through a microscope for positive labelling. Actually there'are onlv a few rcallv deadly mush rooms, mostly belonging to the Amanita family, but the problem is that thev max' closely resemble edible varieties. For example, two notorious offenders -- Amanita phalloides and Amanita verna -- are beauti ful, white-gilled, white-spoored specimens that look very much like several of the tastier types. None of the Ethyl enthusiasts have met with misfortune in pursuit of their hobbv, and thev attribute this to the fact that thev wouldn't think of dropping a mushroom in a saucepan without being absolutely sure of its kind. Eating, however, isn't the only reason for their interest. Like Bill, most of them enjoy the exercise of the hunt; and they take a scientific pride in how many varieties thev can accurately label on sight. They also keep in regular contact with Dr. Alexander Smith, a noted mvcologist at the University of Michigan, for assistance on unfamiliar finds. And Bill's interest has lead him to read many books on the role of the mush room in such occult subjects as magic and witchcraft. A hunger for knowledge as well as a taste for mushrooms is what keeps the Detroit group in the forests during the April-November season, and as far as they are concerned the first Verpa bohemica is every bit as heartening as the first spring flower. 5 ETC 13968 Meeting in Progress A comprehensive picture of the Company's past and present programs, plus a forceful program for the year ahead --those were the topics of discussion at the 1960 Sales Conference 6 ETC 13969 -pj l5t press1'1 and future all were topics of discussion L when members of the Sales department met last oath for their annual meeting, held this r ear in San Antonio Texas, and the result was a stimulating session ,tu,u.,ut owe Ethvl men a wide varietv of urp-to-date facts on the Company's goals and progress. During the conclave, the men primarily responsible for selling the Company's products throughout this countrv and abroad heard expert talks on the latest TEL sales plans, on market plans for such new prod ucts as Motor 33 Mix, on promising future products still in laboratory test-tubes, and on the exciting new i960 advertising program, to mention only a feu- of the topics discussed from the rostrum. In addition, a seminar dav was set aside in the middle of the meeting to nive small "roups of men with related interests an opportunity to discuss common problems, pool knowl edge and lav plans for a hard-hitting sales program in the r ear ahead. Fred Navlor, manager of Sales personnel develop ment and training, served as general chairman of the meeting and guided it through its smoothiv-organized course. The roster of speakers was headed by Presi dent Turner. To judge from the enthusiastic response, the gatherin" gave members not onlv an increased knowledge about Company plans but also a vigorous new com petitive confidence with which to face the coming vear. In the conference room, members go over notes just before the 1960 Soles Conference opens. / ErC 13970 Meeting in Progress (continued) The roster of speakers at the I960 Sales conference In San Antonio was headed by President Turner (above, left). Among the others who addressed the enthusiastic gathering were Mac Murdock, vice president in charge of Sales; Fred Naylor, administrative assistant to the vice president for Sales and general chairman of the meeting; and Chris Bruhl, assistant manager, marketing analysis end planning section. Among the speakers were Bill Perdue, vice president and treasurer (left), and Glenn Hayes, general manager of Manufacturing. Russ Weston, director, advertising and sales promotion, led the above panel in o discussion of the 1960 advertising program. Members, left to right, are Ed Collier and Georg# Sewell, both of the Young and Rubicam advertising agency, and Jim Lonergan, advertising manager. ETC 13971 Top-level speakers and panel discussions gave conference members up-to-the-minute information on Company programs and plans for the future t others who t to the vice ning section. Old and new products were the subject of o panel discussion led by Jack Pruitt (left), general sales manoger. The seated panel, left to *aht consisted of Hank Ball, manager, product services and safety; Dave Bartleson, products manager for AN's; Jack Bailie, manager of Sales' technical services; and Mac McCotloch, sales manager for petroleum additives. The theme was ''Sales Results, Forecasts and Plans." \K t a discussion eorge Sewell, ing manager. Various promotional material was surveyed by Frank Howard (laft), merchandising monager; Kemey Hurst, assistant merchant dising manager; and Harold Mehler, senior project engineer. Ken Swartwood, general manager, RAD (left), Roily Ostrander, assistant director, Technical Services; and Tom Taylor, contract administrator, Orangeburg, reviewed new products for the group. 9 etc i3 972 Meeting in Progress (continual) il n itin i On seminar day, these refinery technologists met for discussions. Shown from left are Dale Burstetta, Bill Sabin, Fred Robinson, Wayne Warren, Bob Riggs, Norm Gerber and Don Horbeck. At the export group seminar meeting, left to right, were Bayard Brown, Gus Clarites, Oscar Laos, Bill Trelease, Chris Holland, Mike Espinosa, Ed McDonald and Julian Frey (back to camera}. The merchandising seminar was attended by (I. to r.) Bill Spierer, Kerney Hurst, Harold Mehler, Doug Baker, Harry Man ning, Grant Scott and Frank Howard. Frank led the seminar. 10 ETC 13973 t^ J' Seminars and informal meetings provided opportunities for representatives to meet in small groups to discuss areas of related interest t, were Bayard Chris Holland, ick to camera). Members of gasoline testing seminar were (left to right) Fred Romine, Ed Otto, Elmer Mohlke, Charley Rankin, Tucker Dawson, Bob Adams, Biff Ludt and Hudson Kellogg, leader of the group. t to right, were a, Cliff Leaning* Claude Harkins. Attending the Standard of Indiana account conference, left to right, were Stan Eskridge, John Morton, Al Ryan, George Rose and Paul Harris, leader. Other individual account groups also met in seminar sessions during conference to discuss sales and service. Walter Cosgrove, assistant manager, Em ployee Relations, held private meetings on benefit questions. Here he meets Louis Slack. ETC 13974 Meeting in Progress (cnnihmcd) I Ray Bell (left) and Den Connell, both of Southern Region, look over an impressive display of the Company's 50 products and talk over ways to put into effect the hard-hitting sales plans outlined during the conference. iDuring a break between Sales conference meetings, li Wilson (left) and Jack Wallace compore notes on points raised. Lou and Jack are in Central Region. Hank Ball, left, and Len Huxtable look over a demonstrator engine which shows detergent action of MPA; many exhibits were on view. 12 Between-seminor breaks provided good opportunities for informal discussions. From left above, Ed Muller, Western; Chris Bruhl, New York; Larry Reis, Southern; Jack Fuller, Western; Bill Van Wyck, Western; and Jack Pruitt, New York, compare notes. ETC 13975 I Between scheduled meetings at the Conference members had a chance to get together and go over notes for hard-hitting 1960 sales plans :e meeting*, loj ! note* on tome ra| Region. i Coffee break* proved a good time for comparing note*. In thi* group, from left are Knox Delombre, Southern Region; Scotty Dubois, los Angeles district manager; and Larry Matthews, Southern Region. Len Huxtable, left, Western regional manager, and Dick Murphy, Eastern regional manager, talk ever various mat* ters related to their territories before going into conference. ussions. From rn; Jack Fuller, otes. Backstage workers during the conference included Jim Douglas, left, of the Young and Rwbicom agency; Harold Mehler, senior project engineer; Wally Distler, manager of sales administration; and Bob Marks of advertising and sales promotion. Ellis Locher, left, assistant regional manager in Chicago, and Stu Forbes, then Chicogo re gional manager, carry on business as usual 13 ETC 1397G HIGHLIGHTS OF WOM petroleum congress venous gu*R hd^ubs batoh rouge plant wins safety awari WARNER AND HOPKINS RECEIVE OIC GOLD AWARD . \' ETHYL ANNOUNCES 21 GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 6IS0UKTtSTOK eww FIRST AID COURSE GIVEN AT HOUSTON PLAN! PARKINSON NAMED TO CANADIAN POSTS SHONFIELD ANO ...... COH^tSS himub H> TM"l -- ETHYL INTRODUCES MOTOR 33 ML zv> r" C0NFEK"" I" GALVESTON ,?;ii f' B.B. TURNER ADDRESSES RICE ALUMNI ETHYL'S PETROLEUM AMERICANA EXHIBIT SHOWN AT TULSA'S INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM EXPOSITION ; l-?; ;-J*f*:+ s.-;-v.. - ETHYL CITED FOR BRUSSEL'S FAIR EXHIBI OSCAR ,, CAMP TOR EMPLOVEESCWIOREN want CONDUCTS OAT CM* UMfNING MEN MEET s*' -is- -.tA - *iiv - ;f-"r v*~'; ~ DETROIT- SPECTRUM MAKES DEBUT BOUDREAU NAMED "OIL MAN FOR A DAY" ^ D HOGAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF NEW YORK SAE iso*1,1 As the old year backs into the past and becomes a collection of memories and experiences, the things that were a significant part of it become flagstones into the future coffield goes ABROAD FOR ETHU CARL SPRUNK WINS COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD ' D BALL NAMED ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Si >4 - krieger elected president OF FARM CLUB OF NEW YORK i r HUBBLE, BALZER AND HENDRICK PROMOTED y^v~.^ oc nrHT\w course AROi t it- ij\i HOUSTON EMPLOYEES GET FIRE" TM houspoh ,^ 1; I a \T-' r ' ' ' * nm` Whcu Am *"m WTM & ETHYl PARTICIPATES IH ANNUAL API CONVENTION E,r BH0H R0"a ^LONERGAN BECOMES ADVERTISING MANAGER "lURICT MAHABERs Afffr nHYl EMPLOYEES FETED AT 25-YEAR DINNER * HOUSTOH -V" -sasAV*' ? LANDIS PRESENTS FIRE POWER SHOW ON PHILADELPHIA TV tefi?WARDR0BE;:iHTR0DUCmS2Sil;?||^^^iuiiL ETC 13978 Life of the Party In their best bib and tucker, Ethyl's New Yorkers celebrated Yuletide at a luncheon and dance high above Manhattan at the Star light Roof of the Waldorf Astoria. The pictures below illustrate the spirit of the occasion, an event wreathed in smiles and holly 1 ETC 13 980 BOOKS Frederic E. Faverty, professor of English at Northwestern University, has compiled a group of his essays that have ap peared in The Chicago Tribune Magazine of Books under the title Your Literary Heritage. A Lippincott book, the new volume is a full warehouse of the great authors of all times and their most prominent works. The authors intent is to prove that there need not be anything dull about the classics, a point that his own liveiv essays manage to make significant. Among the inanv writers he discusses are Jane Austen, Anton Chekhov. Willa Cather, Henrv James, Thomas Wolfe. George Bernard Shaw, Boris Pasternak. Tolstov, Virgil. Mark Twain and twice as manv others. Alexander King, who hit the literary horizon with a pyro technic display in Mine Enemy Crows Older. has managed to find the time between Ins numerous television appearances to write a second chronicle, a volume even- bit as luminous as his first. May This House Be Safe From Tigers, a Simon and Schuster publication, mav not win anv prizes for the best title of the vear but it will win many new friends for its raconteur author. Not since the late Alexander Wollcott has anyone brandished so delightful and piercing a pen. Mr. King is an extremelv literate man, and what he remembers, recounts and vivisects is done with the utmost skill and a devastating wit. He has added several drawings of his own. William R. Cox. who has up to now turned his hand to motion picture scenarios and magazine fiction, is the author of McGraw-Hill's new western novel Comanche Moon, a highlv commendable job that blends all of the familiar ele ments of frontier fiction into a rousing, exciting yam. Mr. Cox has assembled a handful of people at a stage coach outpost on the night of the full moon, an occurrence that usually spurs the dreaded Comanches to attack. The war of nerves is on. and it's everv bit as vicious as the Indian raiders. Fear both binds and alienates the group as the bloodthirsty horde prepares to swoop down. Quick! Grab that rifle! Here they come! The fate of the world is, thank heaven, not entirely in the hands of the astronauts. There is plenty to do down here, and no little contribution to our earthly tidying up is being done by some 4,000 Junior Chambers of Commerce across the nation. In Young Men Can Change the World, a McGraw-Hill book, Booton Herndon tells the story of the Javcees, a dedi cated group of voung men who participate activelv in com munity life and trv in copious wavs to improve the local scene. 18 Good citizens of a community, thev are also good citizens o{ the world, far more than aspiring commercial captains. Their work mav be subtle, and it may seem small in the enormity ol today's world, but there is a unitv ol strength and purpose that cannot be taken lichtlv. Andrew Tully, who has been a White House correspondent and was an on-the-secne reporter during the recent Cuban revolution, is the author of Simon and Schuster's new novel A Race of Rebels, a fierv store of an American journalist whose job it is to report on war. As an objective observer, he has hix own life to lead, but he often finds it difficult to be dispas sionate in the face of so much clatter and commotion, lit* makes a choice, which is not entirely jovous. Mr. Tulh'x descriptions are. as vuu might expect, quite vivid, and lie writes with conviction, if not with an inspired stxle. Dangerous Climate, a Doubledav release, is an obviously superficial tale that doesn't (we hope) make am* pretenses to do anything more than entertain, an end that its author. Diana Caines, has achieved successfully. A lustv story set against a backdrop of Panama during the daws of the Gold Hush, it has among its cast of characters some brawling, sprawling, rowdy folks who manage to keep active most of the time. Heading all of this activity is a tough girl from New York. Tiger Belle McGlorv, who changes her ragtime tune when she meets a handsome newspaperman from New Orleans. If good, gaudy fun is what you're after, you'll have a merry old time. Alan Dunn, whose speedhall pen has brought manv a smile to mam1 a face, lias combined some brilliant cartoons with some equally endowed words in Is There Intelligent Life ON Earth ?, a Simon and Schuster book that is wittv, worldly and wise. Mr. Dunn's scrutiny of our life and times here on this mundane planet comes in the form of a special report to the Senate of .Mars.bv three recent visitors to our orbit. Even if vou weren't one of those interviewed. \ou can imagine some ol the impressions the emissaries mav have gotten. Mr. Dunn sees our foibles hilariously, and, though he picks at many a sore spot, he does it with a deep affection and a firm conviction that democracy, our democracy, is a highly advanced state of civilization. Stephen Longstreet, who has written for practically everv medium, has added another impressive hook to an already voluminous roster. The Crime, a Simon and Schuster release, is based upon the famous Hall-Mills case that blazed upon the front pages of the nations newspapers back in The Roaring Twenties. The author, who was actually a reporter during the case, has used fact as a springboard into the psvcholome.il involvements and tensions that go on within the people as sociated on both sides of justice. The hook spans the last tim e davs of the trial when fear, doubt, recrimination and tempera ment are running at a frenzied pace. Though any number of classicists will still dispute the wurth of modern jazz, there is no doubt that this inspired n.itoe music has amassed a devoted following of its own as well .>\ : t f s ETC 13981 ms of Their litv of e that indent 2uban ivei A whose .as his lispas.. He Tully's nd he iouslv ses to Diana linst a . it has rowdv :ading Belle eets a gaudy smile ; with r Life orldlv ire on iort to Even some Dunn a sore /iction .ate of every Ireadv elease, on the oaring ng the logical )le as: three npera- worth native veil as butcd some notable names to the history of music. In C0U i Rinehart book edited bv Nat HentofT and Albert ^r'rthv 1- of the world's foremost jazz critics and scholars ke a crack at boiling it all down. The paste is smooth, and Nicies included cover everything from the roots up. Along 1 e 1 ,,u- you'll meet some of the folks who helped set the beat. 1 e ]e like Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker and Jelly Roll \Iorton Art or artifice? Well, that's for you to decide. Henried are on hand to see that there are no holes in the line, and to back it all up there is Metrocolor and CinemaScope to enhance the Cevlon backgrounds. The plot is fairly compli cated. but it reallv doesn't matter as long as the principah are around to take \our mind off it. TELEVISION You ma'` not e thouSht much about it. but there is cjuite a reiaarhable history to the English Channel. J. A. Williamson. eminent maritime historian, has set forth the fascinating s"torryv of it all >n the nesv World book The English Channel, scholarlv work that is constantly alive and intriguing. Mr. Williamson begins with the formation of the body of water tint separates the British Isles from European continent and continues through World War II. In between there are any number of wars in which the Channel played an important ule not to mention its contribution to discovery, shipping and tnCle fishing and the magnificent sport of yachting. It's uitc a waterwav. and it can practically tell a world history. MOVIES Beginning on January 23. a Saturdav. NBC will introduce a promising new series of hour-long public affairs programs. To be called WORLD WIDE 60. the series will treat such am bitious subjects as Cuba's first year under Castro, alcoholism, baseball and life in the suburbs. Castro has been announced as the first subject. On Januarv 29. Ernest Hemingway's oulv plav will be given a television production. The title is 7Vir Fifth Column, the scene is Spain during the Civil War. the stars are Richard Burton and Betsv Von Fursteuherg, and the channel is CRS. Metro-Coldwvn-Mayer's film version of the Broadway comedy The Gazebo (it's pronounced "guh-zee-bo," and it simply means "a little summer house") stars Glenn Ford and Debbie Revnolds in the roles originally brought to life br Walter Slezak and Jane Meadows. The popular stars play a young Connecticut couple who become involved in murder when a bodv is found in the newly poured concrete foundation for their gazebo. Our hero, as Fate would have it. is a mystery writer who happens to be threatened with blackmail as does his charming wife. There are some funny lines and lots of red herring to keep things moving along fairly enjoyabiv. Come the last night of January, viewers will face tin* dilemma of having two top productions to choose from. CBS's muchtouted Fabulous Fifties, originally scheduled for earlier in the month, has now been set for the 31st; among the stars who will recreate highlights of the decade during the twuhour show are Rex Harrison. Julie Andrews. Jackie Gleason. Henrv Fonda and Ethel Merman. NBC. not to he outdone, will present Pulitzer-Prize-winner Archibald MacLeish's first TV play. The Secret of Freedom, on the same evening. The third of February will sec an all-star production of Shakespeare's 7'/ie Tempest on Hallmarks HALL OF FAME series. The telecast will be in color, but even if you don't own a color set you can still enjoy the (wrformuttces of Mau rice Evans, Lee Remick. Roddy McDowell, Richard Burton and Tom Poston. Last year NBC garnered considerable praise witli its docu James Mason. George Sanders and Vera Miles head Para mentary Meet Mr. Lincoln, a portrait of the great president mount's A Touch of Larceny, a rather contrived film that drawn through old photographs, etchings and historical docu owes a great deal to the smooth performances of its stars. The ments. Those who missed it on the first round will get another plot has to do with the exploits of a landlocked commander chance on February II. when a repeat performance is sched who. because he wishes to lure a lady from a wealthy aristo uled. crat. conjures up a-means of having himself accused of treason so that he muv prove himself innocent and sue for libel. The Just about everything is being set to music these davs and *' whole thing backfires, but nobody is any the worse for it and our man regains his respectability as well as the hand of the the latest to get the treatment is Stephen Vincent Benet's popular The Devil and Daniel Webster. The result, starring lady. Edward C. Robinson as Webster and David Wayne as his adversary, will be on view on February 12. Frank Sinatra and Gina Lollobrigida are teamed for the first time in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production Never So Few', a romantic drama set in the Burmese jungle during World War II, and they come off quite well in the duet. Such capable plavers as Peter Lawford, Brian Donlevy and Paul Lovers nf British comedy can expect a double treat on Febru ary 24. The matchless Beatrice Lillie will team up with Cyril Ritchard on that date, and together they will lead The Pon tiac Star Parade on NBC. 19 1 ETC 13982 25 YEARS Rose E. Lipsitz Research & Development, Detroit Elmer C. Miller. Jr. Manufacturing. Edce Moor Terminal iw m 1 Mary Carnes is a receptionist at the Tulsa office. She enjoys many activities, including dancing, horse back riding and bowling. 20 Jane Hudlemeyer is a secretary at the Kansas City office. In addi tion to being a music and theatre enthusiast, Jane also enjoys cooking. Charles Wjldermuth, draftsman for General Services in the New York office, served three years in the Navy. He enjoys fishing. etc 13983 J an Eagle Scout award. Lee previously paquu. New 'lurk. Esther is an asMNt.ml ON THE ROSTRUM earned a Cod and Countrv award and secretary of our Company. The new U- is a member of the Order of The Arrow. weds will reside in Ciuppaqua. Mam Ethvl employees in several Com- Toronto pam locations made donations to a col lection for local charities instead of ex changing Christmas cards to the people tliev see everv dav. Joy Creber and David Maughan were married on Decembei A The couple traveled to Nassau ior their wedding trip. ]ov is with the Sales department. Several groups at the Baton Rouge plant turned over collections to the Dick Courtney of the Detroit Labs Coodfellows. Toys for Tots, Salvation Armv and several local orphanages. BIRTHS ;/ ,-ccentlv addressed the University of De The New York office turned over its troit's American Society of Mechanical collection to the LTnited Nations Chil Ensmeers Student Group. His subject dren's Fund. was "Taking the Mystery Out of Gaso CuilN >ment, Detroit line Additives." During the Western Petroleum Refiners Association Computer conference held in Tulsa. Bill Healy of the Detroit Labs presented the technical paper "Two Approximation Problems in Linear Prooraming of Gasoline Blending." Woody Merritt of Safety in Baton Rou<re was the principal speaker at the annual Fire Prevention banquet of the Franklinton. Louisiana. Fire Department. Two sons of Baton Rouge plant cm* plovees were among the IT Baton Rouge voungsters representing their funior Achievement companies at the two-day Southwest Regional junior Achievement Management Conference in Dallas.Texas. Thev were De Wayne Lann, son of John Lann. Sod. Op., and Claude Ste phenson, son of Ton) Stephenson. Com. Rel. Personnel of the Maintenance section of the Houston plant, for the second time in William and Lois Fangert-u daugh ter. Lisa Kay, born on December 15. weighing 7 pounds 13 minces. The Fangerts are parents of two other chil dren. both girls. Pop is with Product Application at the Labs. the history of the plant, have achieved Duane and Jacquelyn Hargis-u NEWS BRIEFS one million man-hours of safe work with out a disabling injury. The group worked daughter. Elaine Louise, born on De cember 1. weighing 5 pounds 15 ounces. T Ethvl Corporation announced an increase in its commercial capacity for making aluminum alkyls and alkyl aluminum 479 davs. reaching this mark in Decem ber of last vear. Thev are now eligible for the American Petroleum Institute's Accident Prevention Award as a result The little gal joins two sisters in the Hargis family. Duane is with the Labx Chemical Research. halides, with a new plant recently com of the high achievement. Don and FLORENCE RaDZWION--a son. pleted and in operation. Mark, bom on November 15. The The plant, which is located in Orange voung lad, who weighed an even 9 burg. South Carolina, is said to repre pounds, is the second son in this lamilv. sent the first major plant to be completed WEDDINGS. Pop is with Instrumentation at lJr Labs. in the United States for the production of aluminum alkvls. In operation since Patrick and Ruth Traynor-u daugh October of last year, the plant utilizes several methods for producing these JQ5t ter. Coleen, horn on Oetobei 30. weighing 7 pounds I ounce. This new alkvl aluminum compounds, including a triethvl aluminum process developed by > / /MArried/ .,/ addition brings the family count up to three little lassies. Pat is with the Labs' Ethyl. Completion of the new plant, which Product Application. has a multi-million pound capacity per Eastern Region uth, draftsman s in the New year, permits Ethvl to offer a complete Archie and Jean Smith--u daughter. line of aluminum alkyls and alkyl Cynthia Lynne, born on November aluminum halides, the Company says. New York 13. The little miss tipped the scales at These include triethvl aluminum, a mix ture of triethvl aluminum and dieth'l aluminum hydride, triisobutyl aluminum, Judith Gay Roberts, daughter of George Roberts of Finance in New S pounds 2 ounces. Pop is a field engi neer in Atlanta, Ceorgia. V trimethyl aluminum, diethvl aluminum chloride, ethvl aluminum dichloride, ethyl aluminum sescjuichlorfde, methvl York, was married to Richard Bissett on November 2S at the Communitv Congregational Church in New Hyde New York Anne O'Neil--a grandson, David aluminum sesquichloride, and methyl Park, New York. The couple honey Michael, born on December 14 to her aluminum sesquibromide. mooned through the Southern states. daughter Joan Valero. The young lad. who weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces, is the three years in vs fishing. Lee Horton, 14-vear old son of Frank Horton, Stores and Services at the Esther Lyman and Edward Pierce were married December 27 at the Chap- fifth bov bom to Anne's daughter. The proud grandmother is with Public Re Houston plant, was recently presented paejua Congregational Church in Chap- lations in New York. 21 ETC 13984 Pittsburg Martin and Bernice Enni--a daugh ter, Teresa, born on December S. The tiny miss weighed 6 pounds 7 ounces. Pop is an operations technician at the plant. Garland and Marjorie Miller-- a daughter, Kathleen, bom on No vember 26, weighing 6 pounds IDs ounces. The proud father is a technical service engineer at the plant. Club and presented the Fire Power show to 55 residents of Fairbanks and Hudson. Texas. Bob Thurston, Pittsburgh district of fice, gave the Earlv Days of the Oil Industrv presentation to approximately.' 40 members of the Glenshaw Kiwanis Club in Pennsvlvania. Whit Sweeney of the Pittsburgh dis trict office gave a presentation on 1960 automobiles at a luncheon meeting of the Elk Refining Company. IN THE FIELD Dale Miller of the Tulsa district office discussed the impact of compact cars on the petroleum industry before members of the Ponca City Engineers Club of Oklahoma. He also spoke on the changes made in the 1960 automobiles as com pared to the 1959 models. Following Dale's discussions, Marty Alspaugh, Southern Region, participated in the question and answer session. The audi ence at the meeting included members associated with Continental Oil Com pany's refineries as well as those from the Cities Service refinery. Harry Manning of the Western Re gion showed a film commemorating the Petroleum Industry' Centennial at the recent meeting in Santa Barbara of Sea side Oil Company's distributors, district managers and executives. Eugene Gallagher of the Dallas dis trict office presented the Early Days of the Oil Industry before a meeting of the Lion's Club in Calton Valley, Louisiana. The Fire Power Show was presented by Roland Hargis, Jr., Tulsa district of fice, before members of the Mid-Conti nent Pipe Line Company, a subsidiary of D-X Sunrav Oil Company of Tulsa. The show was presented before an audi ence of 250 in five different locations of Oklahoma. Claude Harkins of the Houston Dis trict office was recently quite active. He gave an Oil Americana presentation be fore 85 members of the Texas City Lions As a token of gratitude, the Desk and Derrick Club of Little Egypt in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, presented a Certificate of Appreciation to Louis Wilson of the Kansas Citv district office. Louis gave a speech as part of his contribution for the benefit of the Club. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS The following changes in the Finance personnel at the Baton Rouge and Hous ton plants have recently taken effect: Hubert Crook, formerly superin tendent of Finance at the Houston plant, was promoted to the newly created po sition of chief accountant of Finance at the Baton Rouge plant. He is reporting to Robert Cowlishaw, assistant treas urer. Robert Downey has been assigned to the position of management methods analyst in Data Research, Baton Rouge plant. John Fleniken, formerly of the Baton Rouge plants Data Research, is now superintendent of Finance at the Houston plant. Robert Copes, Houston plant, has been assigned to the plant's Employee Relations department as acting special assistant responsible for labor relations activities. Richard Love has taken over Mr. Copes*s former duties as Stores supervisor on a rotational assignment. Ethvl Corporation of Canada Limited recently announced that it has created two new sales divisions embracing all of Canada to serve its customer oil com panies better. H. J. Philp. vice presi dent, Sales, said that the new Eastern and Western divisions became operative on fanuarv 1, I960, and will have Fort William, Ontario, as their geographic di viding point. James H. Main has been named man ager of the newlv-created Eastern Sales division and Frank G. Huyler man ager of the Western Sales division. Each lias been associated with the sale and servicing of "Ethvl" antiknock com pounds in Canada for more than 10 vears. Mr. Main has his headquarters in Toronto, the home office of Ethvl of Canada. Prior to his new assignment, he was senior sales representative in Mon treal. Mr. Huyler, also a senior sales representative, remains in Calgarv, his present location, where Ethyl of Canada will open a new office to serve as West ern Division headquarters. Frank C. Huvlcr 22 The fol recently plant: CH At of Con Rouge ] retired War. position and Ins General John muted of the t product The fol plant's ment \v Regions Cbemic. Baton F Sid I Dave ( the co Frank the lot chairm; Clare.' printing Tom S mittee; chainna symposi chairma swnposi chemist: Martin other it. Prese meeting Laran. Podall ETC 13985 J .ida Limited has created nbracing all mer oil com. vice presi new Eastern me operative ill have Fort -ographic di- named manCastern Sales UYLER manvision. Each he sale and knock comire than 10 idquarters in of Ethvl of iignment, he ive in Mon senior sales Calgary, his 1 of Canada :ve as West- Charles H. Zeanah The following personnel changes have recentiv taken effect at the Baton Rouge plant: Charles Zeanah is now manager of of Community Relations at the Baton Rouse plant. He succeeded the recently retired Steve Henry. Warren Green was promoted to the position of group leader of the Process and Instrument Development Group in General Engineering. John Mundinger has been pro moted to the position of group leader of the design engineers assigned to new products and to the EtCl -- VC1 area. EXTRACURRICULAR The following men of the Baton Rouge plant's Research 6t Development depart ment were active during the Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society which was held in Baton Rouge: SiD Blitzer was program chairman; Dave Campbell served as secretarv of the committee planning the meeting; Frank Conrad was chairman-elect of the local host ACS chapter and also chairman of the awards committee; Clarence Harvey was chairman of the printing and advertising committee, with Tom McKay also serving on this com mittee; Hyman Shapiro was the subchairman of the organometallic chemistry symposium; Al Haefner acted as sub chairman of the high energy combustion symposium and of the section on physical chemistry; and Walter Foster and Martin Smith served as chairmen of other meeting sections. Presenting technical papers at the meeting were Julian Honeycutt, Roy Laran, Richard Gorsich, Harold Podall and Dave Depree. Julian spoke on "Triorganoboranes as Alkvlating Agents." co-authored by Jim Riddle. Ron's paper, entitled "A SteadyState Temperature Difference Method of Comparing Vapor Pressures" is co authored bv non-emplovee Thomas Moore. Dick delivered the paper "Prep aration and Properties of Cvclopentadienvl -- Titanium Trichloride." Harold presented the paper "Recent Advances in Metal Carbonyl Syntheses," co authored bv James Johnston. Dave delivered the paper "Preparation of So dium Cyanate by the Reaction of Sodium Metal with Urea" which was co-authored bv E. B. Oldenburv and J. A. Burns, Jr., both non-emplovees. James Boggus is one of the three authors of the paper "Emission Spectra of a Charge Transfer Complex: Anthracene-Trinitrobenzene" which was also presented at the meet ing. The other authors are non employees E. Elder, who presented the paper, and S. P. McGlynn. Jessie Halton. General Services, New York, was elected vice president of the Desk & Derrick Club of New York. She succeeds Dorothy Watson, Public Relations, New York, who held the post for 1959. Wallace Armstrong, resident man ager of the Baton Rouge plant, was elected president of the United Givers Fund of Greater Baton Rouge. Judson Ourso, Purchasing. Baton Rouge plant, was recentlv installed as first vice president of the Circle Civitan Club. This is the second Civitan Club organized in Baton Rouge. Bill Croissant of the Baton Rouge plant's traffic group was recently elected 1960 president of the Ethvl Recreation Association. It has been seven years since the start of tiie Baton Rouge plant's Ethvl Manage ment Club's annual Tovs for Tots collec tion. Chairman of the '59 successful campaign was Jesse Ivers. Seventeen Baton Rouge plant emplovees participated in a 6-week practical course in instrumentation at the local branch of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company. Homer Sanders of Engi neering, worked with the local repre sentatives of the company in developing the course. Six members of the Baton Rouge plant at tended the ceremonies at which members of the Ethvl-sponsored Junior Achieve ment comp.un received their charter and achiever pm*. Those present uere Wal lace Armstrong, resident managet. who made the charter presentation: John KLOCK, M&C. presented pins to the ad visers; John Hogan, Emp. KeL piesented the achiever pins; Tom Mixon and Jim Carlisle, Eng., and Charley Zeanah, Com. Re!, also attended the ceremonies. SUCCESSFUL - SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the bil lowing emplovees in Detroit, New York, and the Sales department: Detroit: Albert A. Breuleux, $15.00 (Sidewalk from N building to F). New York: Irene Rowan, $20.00 (Eliminate yellow dummy card used in maintaining regular Ethyl Svtvs mailing list). Sales Department: H. Mehler and F. Ramin, $300.00 (Advise all con cerned that polvethvlene buttles should not lie used to store, mix. blend, transfer, retain or ship gasoline samples, hydro carbon blends or hvdrocarbons); J. S. Morton, $10.00 (Test three more types of ball check valves for blending plants); Catherine M. Weaver, $10.00 (Rear range and increase spacing for subject in next printing of Ethvlctter forms. ETC 13986 Anne Zallio (right), secretary to Frank McNally, executive assistant for Finance, is shown with Muriel Smith, ii secretary to Paul Cahill, who heads the tax section, as they examine a color drawing of the Truman Library which will be hung in the Library building at Independence, Mo. The drawing appeared in national mag azines as part of a Kansas Citv Magic Circle advertisement and Library officials requested the original. ! I T FTC 13987 riel Smith, in Library onal magi original. ALL-ROUND ATHLETE In tile classroom and on the pla\ mg field Bruce Hancock, son of Wil Hancock, product sen ice en gineer in San Francisco, has set an outstanding record. Bruce lias been elected to his high school conference All Star football team and was recently honored as the most valuable plaver on his team. In addition, he won the Excellency Award for Citizenship in his school. ENGINE DEMONSTRATOR In the photograph below George Henning (center) of Central Region is shown demonstrating engine operations to personnel of the Ashland Oil and Refin ing Company in Cleveland. George made a number of engine demonstrations while he participated in a petroleum processing training course which the Ash land company gives its own personnel. ETC 13988 BATON ROUGE D&D PRESIDENT D`kora Pepe, seated, of Stores at the Baton Rouge plant, is shown receiving congratulations from Flovd Fife, Maintenance. The occasion for the tribute was Dora's recent election as president of the local Desk and Derrick club, an organization of women in the oil industry. She succeeds another Ethvlite, Alice Gooch, of Purchasing, who was 1959 president. more people, more places TV AT BATON ROUGE PLANT Hugh Bourque (left), superintendent of power at the Baton Rouge plant, and Ed Coxe, supervisor of power sub-stations, watch television as part of their jobs. Not television in the usual sense, however; there's onlv one channel on this station, and the only dancing is provided by the needles on an instrument panel. It's a new supervisory system recently installed VISITOR IN MICHIGAN Fred Ramin (right), manager, Yonkers Testing Laboratory, is shown above on a recent visit to the West Branch Refining Company in Michigan. Fred made the Michigan trip to give advice on the service and operation of a CFR engine, used to test octane number. Ethyl assisted in locating and in stalling the test engine at the West Branch company. at the plant, bringing together at a single viewing location all of the information necessary to operate the power svstem. Remotely controlled television cameras are used to transmit pictures of instrument panel boards to a central control room, thus enabling simultaneous monitoring of the whole system. The picture is viewed on a regular 21-inch screen. ETC 13989 Testing visit to '.ichigan. ; on the 1 to test and inmipany. viewing operate levision rument nabling n. The MEXICAN REFINERY TRIP The picture above was taken at the Salamanca Re finery in Central Mexico during a special trip made and Oscar Laos, refiners- technologist attached to the export division in Mexico Citv (second from right). to introduce the new Chevrolet Corvair to various re Ed and Oscar stopped off at five refineries during the fineries throughout Mexico. The car, an instrumented long trip to give refiners' personnel a chance to get model, was driven from San Antonio, Texas, to Mexico acquainted with the new-style car, one of the first of Citv by Ed Smith, a field engineer now on rotational its kind to be seen in Mexico. Ethvl furnished the s e- training with R&D, Detroit (second from left above), hicle as a customer service. AFTER-HOURS RUSSIAN Baton Rouge employees who think they may be imagining things are herein- advised to stop room going over some fine points of the difficult lan guage. The purpose of the course is to provide re worrying -- that is Russian thev hear coming from one search workers at the plant with an opportunity to of the buildings on the plant grounds. It's a special learn enough Russian to keep abreast of technical class in scientific Russian being given one afternoon developments described in the scientific journals of a week after work by Bob Weaver, R&D Process De that country. A similiar course was recently given sign; in the picture below Bob is shown in his class with success to employees at the Detroit Labs. ETC 13990 AID GROUP DRILL FATHER OF THE RRIDE Dr. J. Gordon Burdick, Houston plant medical de partment (kneeling above), is shown examining The happv father abuse is II. |. Rhilp. sice presi dent. Ethvl ot Canada, and the reason for bis a "disaster victim" during a recent drill staged by the happiness, as ans one should be able to see, is the mar Ship Channel Industries Disaster Aid Group. Trained riage of his daughter Heather. Heather recentb' be personnel from Aid Group industries up and down came Mrs. Richard Mason, and in the time-honored the Channel took part in the large-scale drill, and out tradition the father of the losels- bride escorted his standing results were achieved. daughter to the church for the ceremonv. outre penjtlr, more plat es YONKERS PARTY Shnrtlv before tile holidass. emplosees of the Yonkers Lab held their annual Christmas parts' at the Parkssav Casino in nearbs Tuckahoc. W ises and husbands of emplosees also attended and. as in past sears, the affair ssas enjosed hv all. George Carpenter. Walter Kenneds and Emma Reiss of the Lab svcre in charge of arrangements for the function. PARTY ON PARTING Don FIs un (belosv left) is shown receiving a hand some piece ol luggage at a parts' gisen in his honor belore he left to take up bis nesv duties as manager of the Central Region. With him are Dick Murphv (center). Eastern Region manager, and Hedge Bushell. svho has been named assistant re gional manager in Nesv York. : 'ip ETC 13991 presifor his e martly beonored ed Iiis handin his :ies as Dick , and nt re- RETIREMENT party Some SO people attended the recent parts' held in San Bernardino in honor of Bill Schulze, who retired after 32 years service with the Company. In the picture above. Bill (second from right) is shown with his wife (at left) and Mr. and Mrs. Hume Chenault; Hume is a chief product service engineer in the Western regional office at Los Angeles. The retirement of Steve Henrv, formerly director of community relations at the Baton Rouge plant, prompted a festive party in Baton Rouge attended hv approximately 400 friends and fellow employees. Above he is shown with his wife Mitzi as Lew Bnrnum presents the couple with a silver trav; a portrait of his granddaughter Susan was also given him. TOUR AT TULSA Shown in the photograph below are a group of employees of Phillips Petroleum Company who were taken on a recent tour of Ethel's Casoline Test ing Laboratory at Tulsa. Charley Rankin, lab man ager (in dark suit, center), explains the operation of the lab to the Phillips employees, while Herb Witty, field representative in the Tulsa district office (second from right), listens; Herb arranged the tour for the customer company personnel. The tour through the lab lasts approximately two hours, and the purpose is to acquaint dealers and customer company territory sales men with the qualities of gasoline and show them some of the equipment used in determining gasoline qual ity. The visitors are given a formal presentation. ETC 13992 FUND DRIVE WORKER Most gills dream of being crowned a cjneen, and for prettv Sally Rusestine, daughter of Lillian TB. Warren of Maintenance at the Houston Plant (above at left) was a member of one of the Rusestine of Business Services, Detroit, the dream hard-working teams responsible for the success of this came true. Sallv was recently named Homecoming sear's United Fund drive in nearby Pasadena, lie Queen at the new Ferndale High School, which is worked with the group of Pasadena residents for two located directly behind the Detroit Labs. Above she weeks during the annual charity collection, and the rides in the parade that provided the day's highlight. group went well over its announced quota of $1,307. more people, more places GREENFIELD VILLAGE DISPLAY iS/^V il Americana," one of the Company's most popV/ ular traveling exhibits, was recently on view for an extended period at the famous Henrv Ford Mu seum, located in historic Greenfield Village near De troit. The Museum, which is an exact replica of Independence Hall, is an outstanding attraction in the Village, and many visitors enjoved the fascinating display. Among the rare documents from the early days of the petroleum industry shown in the exhibit were the celebrated Evans map. old oil stock certifi cates and posters, advertisements and leaflets of a centurv ago. The EthvI display has been a prominent feature of several Oil Centennial celebrations during the past vear. ; ? * j | ETC 13993 on Plant j of the .s of this ;na. He for two and the SI,307. ie early exhibit cert i fi ts of a minent during i inong the recent groups of customer companv personnel who took tours through the Gasoline TestLaboratorv at Tulsa was the above group from t)ie Skelly Oil Companv. The Skellv men listen attentivelv while Al Sandlin, CFR engine operator at the |ab, goes over some of the equipment; at far right is Charlev Rankin, manager of the Tulsa lab, who also spoke with the visitors. During the lah tour, the Skellv men were given a formal presentation entitled "The Significance of Motor Fuel Tests," which makes use of slides and the film "Slow Motion Studies of Combustion." Such tours pror ide an effectiv e way ot showing the qualities of gasoline and of demonstrating the equipment used at the lab. AWARD winning presentation A novel wav of explaining the operation of the sug gestion system was recently introduced bv the in a national competition of suggestion system promo tion methods. The plan illustrated in the slides was an Training Office at the Baton Rouge plant. Called "The idea for improving air-driven grinders, conceived bv Etlivl Suggestion System in Practice," it shows through Charlev Walton. Charlev has since patented the idea. the use of slides how an employee's solution to a plant Shown in the photograph above is Rav Mctternich of problem was processed, investigated, approved and the Training Office, who is showing the award-winning put to work; the dramatic presentation won first prize presentation as part of a supervisory training program. etc 13994 c 0 M P AN C R O S S W! O;R:D! ACROSS 1. Vapor. 5. Social strata in India. 10. Shopper's event. 1-1. Roman road or highway. 15. Place of worship. 16. In the meadow. 17. Where our largest plant is. 19. Extinct birds of New Zealand. 20. Is wearing it (3 words) 21. Bob Hope's forte. 23. Suffixes in chemistry. 24. Lawyer (abbrev.) 25. American buffalo, for example. 28. What to do with a good meal (2 words) 30. Our chief product, for short. 33. Boy's nickname. 34. "--, --, Nannette." 3-5. French for "laugh." 36. I am, you are,----------. 37. Crowing old. 39. Went by car. 40. Doze. 41. Commotions. 42. Part of a machine. 43. Familiar suffix for an ingredient of Mo tor 33 Mix. 44. Goodbye to a Frenchman. 46. Utilizers. 47. "Singing in the --." 48. Not any. 50. Woodland. 53. Where a baseball fan would rather be. (3 words) 56. Single part. 57. Uneducated. 60. Girl's name. 61. Sheer fabric. 62. Lump of earth. 63. Give temporarily. 64. Come inside. 65. Barnyard friends. DOWN 1. Small falsehood. 2. 84,916 sq. mi. of the U. S. 3. Prefix meaning "along with" or "after." 4. They change the shape of the land. 5. A la --. 6. Disconnected. (Dial.) 7. Daze or stupefy. 8. Game for children. 9. Building. 10. "What Makes -- Run?" 11. South African plant. 12. It helps keep the knock out. 13. Not difficult. 18. Simpleton. ------ von Bi.Munrck. 24. Two thousand pounds. (2 words) 25. Salty solution. 26. Small quantities. 27. Popular game bird. 29. Aromatic cooking herb. 30. Treasure------ . 31. Down used in pillows. 32. Looks in a sinister way. 37. "Ethyl" is one. 38. Enter. (2 words) 39. Part of R&l). 41. Belonging to a motoring group. 42. Spring forward. 45. Remove ceramic squares. 47. Sunbathe again. 49. Horse opera. (Cnllnq.) 50. Motor------ . 51. lias someone's numl>cr. (2 words) 52. Miss Hayworth. 53. Illuminated. 54. "The------ Animal." 55. English school. 58. Mr. Chaney or son. 59. Desmond, Lee, McDonald, etc. Aft*wr on 21 13995 etc FEBRUARY 1960 ETC 13996 ETHYL Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Stop Thief! ........................................ 2 Bringing Up Beagles .................... 4 Hither and Yonkers........................ 6 A Certain Smile ............................... 12 Time to Kiln ...................................... 14 What's Going on Here?................ 16 For Your Entertainment................ 18 Milestones .......................................... 20 Ethyl Welcomes............................... 20 Personals ............................................ 21 People and Places........................... 24 Leonhard Dowty ................................... Editor William Warren ..................Associate Editor Stella Sideris ....................Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffet; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robichaux; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Baylerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motsoo, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Alvce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Lillian Walker; Houston: Dave Agnew, Elizabeth Dodson, C. S. Harkins; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Jane Hudlemever; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Mike Espinosa; Sew Orleans: Maxine Blue; Sew York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Ema Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace; Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pitts burgh: Meredene Portzer; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst; photog rapher: Fred Green, Judy Schaub; San Francisco: Jefif Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers Testing: Catherine Henderson; Yonkers Central: A1 Morschauser; Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Sarnia: C. G. Manore; Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON OUR COVER: Ed Dailey, a technician at the Yonkers Gasoline Testing Lab, operates an apparatus for the determination of traced quan tities of lead in a gasoline sample. The Yon kers Lab story begins on page 6. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. B. Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. ) List year a thief stole money from a hundred and sixty ! 1 million people--including you. He stole some of j your food money, some of your savings, some of all j the monev vou earned. He stole some the year before 1 last, the vear before that. And unless something is ; done about it, lie'll keep on stealing. j Who is the thief? The name isn't important--call him "Inflation," | ''High Cost of Living," "The Shrinking Dollar," anv- j thing you like. , But what is important is the historical fact that in j any country where this inflationary process has been ; carried to a conclusion, the result has been depression; j not "recession," but depression--a dark, agonizing j t ETC 13997 ed and sixty ole some of some of all vear before omething is "Inflation,' dollar," am- fact that in ;ss has been 1 depression; agonizing period of hardship, poverty and suffering, often lead ing to revolution and dictatorship. How can we stop this thieving? How can we halt inflation? There is a cure. Something can be done about in flation. All of us can help, including business, govern ment and labor. The' government can help by living within its income. Business shoTild be both judicious and responsible in its pricing and also in its profit-taking. And certainlv labor should be both judicious and re sponsible in making its requests for increased pay and other benefits. We the people must not demand that government spend monev for improvements--new roads, schools, recreation areas--and then balk at paying for them through the necessary increased taxes. To anyone who studies this phenomenon of rising prices and shrinking money, one thing becomes clear: The haute problem of inflation stems in large part from the desire of graujis or individuals to advance their own interests--and the devil take their fellow citizens and the country as a whole. Once this is recognized we believe that inflation won't be just one of those things the government and the bankers worry about. It will be something that evervbodv will do something about. 3 ETC 13998 T- J. B. Luker of Baton Rouge has made pups his pastime and the proud result is a kennel of champion canines St. Bernard is credited with having been the first man to tell friends "Love me, lor e my dog," and canine lovers have been upholding this ancient prov erb even since. Usually the warning applies to one or possible two four-legged friends, but not in the case of J.B. Luker, a supervisor in Emplovee Relations at the Baton Rouge plant. If s ou love J.B. and his familv, vou've got to lore no fewer than eight dogs--all beagles, all stalwart hunters and all very much a part of the Luker household. J.B. started bringing up beagles about 10 s ears ago, mostlv because he liked hunting and because he knew that the beagle is America's favorite hunting hound. His first dog was Major, who was raised in the house on a pillow but who for all his pampered puppyhood was, to quote f.B., "a real gone hunter." The latest addition to the kennel is a voungster named Belle Star, who in all likelihood will turn out to be a real gone hunter, too. During the time between the two, there have been quite a few beagles around the Luker ` home, and J.B.'s interest has broadened to include the fine art of breeding champion beagles. To anvone who doubts his success, he can display an impressive collection of gold medals, blue ribbons, The luker* with fix of their beagles behind their Baton Rouge home. ^ The curious youngster attracting the attention is named Belle Star. ^ tsglF *"' ETC 13999 ) lg hound, the house uppvhood The latest ned Belle he a real i the two, the Luker iclude the an display .e ribbons. !ouge home. i Belle Star. t-ituettes and other tributes to beagle aristocracv, as ]] as a sterling reputation among hunters in a state wideb' celebrated as a "sportsman's paradise." His .,11-time show champion, a tan-colored charmer named \1 acrrrie, has won more than 50 citations for her out standing qualities. -phe rest of the Luker familv is just as enthusiasti|]v beagle-conscious as J.B. His wife Margaret, whose father is a veterinarian and whose interest is therefore longstanding, plays an active part in trainjnir the pets; and his three sons are all avid hunters and doll-lovers. The boys and J.B. regularly test the dogs' skill on week-end hunting and camping trips. According to J.B., who mav be prejudiced in the matter, the beagle is not onlv man's best friend, lie's also a prince among dogs. Beagles have long been famous as show dogs and as first-rate hunters, and their small stature and gentle nature makes them ideal for pets. They are speciallv skilled at rabbit hunting, and thousands of rural sportsmen make use of their 'noseability" for this purpose. Single dogs are generallv used for hunting, but beagles can also be hunted in braces or packs. J.B. and Margaret agree that two things are essen tial in the successful raising of champions: lose and patience. The beagles brought up by the Luker familv get plenty of both. The neighborhood children are more than willing to pro vide some of the love prescribed by J. B.r and champion show dog Moggie is equally willing to give it right back. ETC 14000 The Yonkers lob is equipped to moke many different kinds of im* portant tests, in this photograph Al Mortchauser, technical at* sistant, is shown operating the sulfur determination apparatus (Lamp method) by which the sulfur content of gasoline is traced Hither and Yonkers ent kinds of inv ?r, technical asjtion apparatus toline is traced. Come hither on a tour of Yonkers and find out what goes on inside one of the Company's gasoline testing labs Not long ago, a visitor completed a tour of the Yonkers Gasoline Testing Laboratory and con made at quarterly intervals. These reports are invalu able aids in keeping oil and automotive men posted on gratulated Fred Ramin, manager of the lab, on the trends in fuels. impressive scope of the testing operations. He hadn't An individual gasoline sample may be run through been aware, the v isitor said, of just how much went as manv as 10 different tests, including tests for Motor on at Yonkers. It was a familiar reaction to Fred. Until and Research octane numbers as well as TEL content. someone actually goes through one of the Company's With the extensive equipment at their disposal the five gasoline testing labs, located strategically through labs can meet just about anv testing demand made on out the country, thev seldom realize the extent of this them, be it for gum content or anti-knock value. important customer service. As the visitor remarked, the scope of the testing labs With the aid of specialized equipment and engines, is impressive--and so is the service they perform. the testing labs analyze more than 28,000 samples of gasoline from refineries and serv ice stations each vear, involving more than 190,000 tests annually. Some 7,000 samples are tested at the Y'onkers lab alone. The re sults are passed on to the individual refiners and are tabulated into regional and national gasoline surveys, providing accurate and useful information for cus tomer companies and the petroleum industry as a whole. _ In addition to the lab, Yonkers is also the home of the gasoline testing division headquarters. All five labs report to the central, as the division headquarters is called, which in turn compiles and processes the data to be used in regular reports. Monthly reports are issued on gasoline quality, and reports on volatility are The data processing room at division headquarters. Shown from left are Emma Reiss, secretary; Al Morschauser, technical assistant; and Hudson Kellogg, division manager at Yonkers. t ETC 14002 -.T fZ Z iX ... ETC 14003 Gil de Malvilain, lab technician, is shown operat ing the OU Flame Photometer, which is used for the determination of TEl and manganese in gasolines. With their equipment, Yonkers lab technicians can test gasoline samples for a variety of hidden substances. Above, Victor Ailing runs test to determine existent gum. Ed Mulligan, staff assistant to Hudson Kellogg, operates an X-Ray photometer machine, employing a method developed by Ethyl for fast determination of TEL in gasoline. 9 ETC 14004 ETC 14005 Fred Ramin, manager of the Yonkers lab, demonstrates proper use of dilute TEL fluid. Fred regularly takes customer company visitors on lab tours. ting a disthe test apparatus. Over 100 years of Company service are represented by these men talking to Fred Ramin (center) in the CFR engine operation section. From left are Harold Ritchie, Larry Hunt, Ai Ramsey, George Gier. ETC 14006 ETC 14007 a certain smile Airood many explanations have been advanced as to whv Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was smiling etiquette -- advise rinsing with the nearest glass o! water. This simple act will wash awav most of the that strangely haunting way, but none is perhaps more acid and sugar that cause decav before the corrosive novel than the one suggested recently by a dentist: process can get started. Remember: decav of the She kept her mouth closed because she didn't want to teeth never starts from within. It begins on the out show off a set of bad teeth. side, from elements surrounding the tooth. Of course the art-minded dentist knew no more than Along with knowing when to brush, it is important the man who thought she was smiling at some mild to know how to go about it. Even conscientious joke da Vinci had just told her; but historically speak- brushers mav not be doing it the right wax', and thus intr, he could have been right. Thanks to ignorance be expending a good part of their energx' in x ain. The about good dental care in those distant days, most trick, authorities sav, is in the wrist moxement. The people did have poor teeth, and it's reasonable to pre brush should be placed against the upper gums with sume that Mona Lisa was no exception. the bristles pointing up and then brought downward Times have changed now, and most people today with a wrist motion that makes it reach the areas be think of themselves as well-versed on molar matters. tween the teeth. When brushing the lower set, the But according to several new surveys on the subject a procedure should be reversed, with the bristles aimed surprising number of them are still a bit vague on the downxx'ard and then brought up. Brushing should basic facts of dental hygiene; if some simple rules are follow a definite pattern to coxer each tooth, and followed, one studv maintains, tooth decay can be re and strokes should be repeated four to five times in duced as much as 60 per cent. With this in mind we each position. herewith present a few familiar but possible forgotten A recommended cleaning aid is a dentist's examin pointers -- and a few more that max' come as a surprise. ing mirror. This helps xou check ox er x our teeth as vou To start off with a shocker, take this statement from clean them and catch an\- areas xou max- haxe missed. the American Dental Association: "No dentifrice Other helpful items arc a small flashlight to supple available to dav has been shown to contribute signifi ment usuallv inadequate bathroom lighting and a cantly toward reducing tooth decay under conditions round hardwood toothpick to dislodge material of ordinarv home use." In saving this, the A.D.A. isn't trapped between the teeth. rejecting the usefulness of dentifrices as an aid to Good brushing habits, plus the usual periodic brushing; it is merely rejecting any claim of a xisits to the dentist for polishing and checkup, can `miracle" toothpaste, be it green, vellow, pink or polka- saxe xou plentv of future trouble. It's a mistake, dotted. You can use the latest, most "advanced" prod dental experts sav, to consider bad teeth one of the uct on the market, and you'll still have dental trouble inevitable old-age worries. As a prominent dentist if you don't know when and how to brush your teeth put it recentlx-: "Win- should patients feel thev haxe with it. arrived at the age when they ought to hax-e their teeth Extensive research indicates that the time element out? Hax'e thex' excr thought thex1 might arrive at the is of paramount importance. Tooth decav is not a age xx'hen thev might have an exe out? Vital organs slow, drawn-cmt process, as most people believe, but a xvere meant to last -- xvh\' not the teeth?" relativelv rapid affair lasting onlv 20 to 30 minutes. To Dentists agree that the wav to make xour teeth really fight the destructive elements, you should brush last is through proper, sxstematic care, not haphazard your teeth within a half hour after each meal; if von brushing and reliance on wonder products. Don't wait wait much longer the beneficial effects of brushing will until the trouble comes; it's too late then. Nature be minimal. generouslv provides a second set of teeth in childhood, Suppose you don't happen to have a toothbrush but there's no third chance later on. Start paving at handy at lunchtime? In that case the experts -- who tention to them now and x'ou won't hax-e to fall back plainly aren't cowed bv Emily Post's rulings on table on the Mona Lisa smile in the future. 13 ETc 14008 TIME TO KILN > Weekend callers at the home of Dolly Greblick, Chemical Research, Detroit, will more than likely for about a year now. Since she took it up, she has turned out a colorful assortment of bowls, vases, ash find Dolly standing watch over a hot oven, waiting totrays and figurines, most of which have ended up as see how her latest creation is going to turn out. If the gifts in the hands of delighted lab employees; for her visitor expects some tasty delicacy to emerge, how own personal use she has designed and baked a beau ever, he's in for a disappointment. Mugs, not muffins, tiful set of original dishes and mugs. are Dolly's bakery products, and her oven is a special The beginning of a piece may be an admired object fire-brick and nichrome wire kiln built for tempera in a Detroit shop which Dolly sees and decides to tures up to 2300 degrees. reproduce, or it may be an idea entirely of her own The ancient art of ceramics has been Dolly's hobby creation. To translate it into reality she buvs "green 14 ETC 14009 Detroit's Dolly Greblick spends her weekends baking--but don't expect to eat any of the colorful creations that result from her novel hobby p, she has vases, ashded up as es; for her ed a beau- red object decides to f her own ivs "green ware" (that is, pieces already moulded in the desired shape but not ret decorated or fired) or special clav with which to mould the object herself. Firing the kiln takes from six to eight hours, which explains why Dolly must wait for the weekend to do her baking. To avoid cracking, at least eight hours are required for cooling before remov ing the finished piece from the kiln. Dolly devises the design and selects the glaze for each piece herself. Her white mugs, which have garnered her widespread praise, have a calypso dancer motif, and some of the ashtrays have varicolored over lapping glazes. For others interested in taking up the fascinating pastime, Dollv recommends a visit to the nearest ceramics store. There the novice will find most of the necessary equipment to start out with, plus a hook of instructions. For employees with time to kiln, ceramics can be both a stimulating hobby and a handy way of getting Christmas shopping done at home. 15 fc ETC 14010 1. In the picture above, the busv hands of an Ethyl emplovee are working with: a) apple cores c) pvrex corps b) spark plugs d) solvent samples WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? 3. 1 liis laboratory employee is occupied with the im portant job of: a) testing nozzles c) Maccadamization b) blending fuel d) connecting pvlae 4. Dressed in wool-lined leather clothing, this em ployee is at work in: a) Alaska c) the cold room b) a refrigerator d) an auto factory 7. Tne device used in the picture above, common at our labs, measures: a) fuel centers c) lead in air b) octane bleach d) film volatility 8. Developed by Ethyl Corporation, the method shown above is used in testing the color of: a) pigmentation c) a muffle furnace b) aviation gasoline d) automobiles ETC 14011 ""1 3 > uite often pictures puss our desk that both claim Q 0ur interest and baffle us. Thev seem familiar, |nit for all of their familiaritv we cannot alwavs identifv pveciselv what's going on. A recent look through n,r files brought out this group and got us to thinking that perhaps vou would he both informed and enter tained bv truing to peg some of the activities therein. \ianv of vou are, of course, so thoroughly acquainted with what's going on that it won t be much of a chal lenge, but for those of vou who work in offices they should present at least a little head-scratching. The answers are on page 23. 2. One of Ethvl's manv demonstrations, this is one ol the segments of our: a| Progress Program c) Fire Power Show b)Magic Circle Clinic d) Vapor Lock Lecture oom ctorv work on: a) a TEL drum b) a base vat c) a bongo drum d) a gasoline can ti. These workers at our baton Kouge plant are re covering lead at a: a) lead spindle c) roto-broiler b) melting pot d) pigging table ;hod shown irnace :s : 9. The lad.v above,* wearing asbestos Ogloves,'arranges a sample in: a) a roaster c) a muffle furnace b) a themiobroiler , d) a vaporizer 10. A part of the Fire Power Show, this hand-held device produces: a) instant coffee c) boiling water b) sparks d) lead solution ETC 14012 YOUR Hath Adams Knight, under the Donbleday banner. has writ ten an excellent historical novel based upon the life ol lYtcr Cooper, the patron industrialist ol New York in the past ven ture. Certain Harvest ought ecrtainlv to live up to the pre diction of its title and find an eager audience, lor it is a. fine, big. warm-hearted book alnnit a verv vivid personality. \\ hatever license Mrs. Knight has taken is neatly controlled and thoroughlv credible. Her Peter Cooper and his friends are not made of fictional glitter hut of a far more mundane sub stance. The sure hand of the reporter is at work side l>v side with the imagination of the novelist. Anvone who has ever been fascinated bv the towering sky scrapers of New York will be cijualb fascinated by The World Beneath the City, a new Lippincott release by Robert Dalev. who explores the underground bustle of the nation's largest eitv. In addition to the labvrinth ol the subwav svstem. the sewer svstem and the electrical system, there is a whole world of subterranean amazement, much of it in credible and all of it delightful. What Mr. Dalev lias done is to furnish a kind of glass bottom boat through which the reader can see the very roots of the eitv while meeting some thoroughlv fascinating characters who are literally involved with New York's underworld. The Story of the U.S. Air Force Academy, a Rinehart publication, is the work of master sergeant Lawrence C. Lan dis, a man who has soared to considerable heights in the wild blue vonder as well as being a part oF the Air Force informa tion and public relations office. In this, his second book, he presents a vivid picture of the new ami exciting training academv at Colorado Springs, of cadet life and opportunities, of aviation's accomplishments into the Space Age and of the men who foresaw' the necessity of such a center. H. Shepard Brown's Stringfellow of the Fourth is an other in the long grey line of books about heroes of the War Between the States, and a thoroughly engrossing addition to the rush of recent Civil War Iwoks. A Crown release, it is the truthis-stranger-than-fiction story of Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow. the Confederacy's crackerjack spy, a 21 year old weakling who proved himself to be the strongest and bravest of men. Mr. Brown writes with a swift pen, and he recreates the days of the internal strife with authenticity and excitment. Al though it has all of the elements of good cloak and dagger fiction, it is basically a story of heroism and courage, and it sheds a further light on a calamitous period in our national history. I. Compton-Burnett, a grand dame of British fiction, is not everyone's cup of tea, but for those who appreciate subtle, intense fiction she Inis few peers. Her latest novel, a Simon and Schuster release, is A Heritage and its History, and 1 i ! j ETC 14013 rr . luis writ* e of Peter * past cen to the pret is a fine, !itv. What* rolled and riends are idane subde by side cring sk\i by The release by tie of the if the sub stem, there -h of it in* has done which the eting some .* involved a Rinehart :e C. Lan ai the wild e informal book, he g training lortunities, md of the <th is an.f the War ition to the ; the tmthringfellow, i weakling st of men. s the days ment. Alnd dagger ige, and it ir national ion, is not ate subtle, l, a Simon TORY, and ! tikes place in the kind of setting that the Bronte sisters ide far*10115* Compton-Burnett has her eve on the rh-illoner family, whose world is encompassed in their mag* ficeiit mansion, and whose lives are filled with intricacy. To 111. I. Compton-Bumett is like trying to detect the mix- - of color that go into creating a single shade of painting, her talent is unmistakable and there isn't a sharper, wiser esc contemporary fiction. Quiet, penetrating, remarkablv skillful, her work is always a literary banquet. Louis K. Koenig, professor of Government at New York Uniersitv and the author of several impressive books on our -itioiuil politics, has added to his roster the new Rinehart niblication The Invisible Presidency, a collection of thouShtfid and thought-provoking pieces about seven men who "occupied positions of unusual power as unseen aides be hind the man in the Wh.te House. The seven men Professor Koenig inspects, quite microscopically, are Alexander Hamil ton Martin Van Buren. William Loeb, Jr., Colonel Edward \| House, Thomas G. Corcoran, Harrv Hopkins and Sherman \clams. -Not only has the author drawn interesting portraits of his subjects, but he has also managed along the way to tell a governmental history and present a thorough picture of the Presidency. MOVIES Columbia Pictures, with British director Carol Reed at the helm, has transferred British novelist Graham Greene's recent bestseller Our Man in Havana to celluloid with the utmost success, in fact thev have enhanced the spoof of the British Secret Service immeasurably. No small amount of credit goes to a superb cast headed by the versatile Alec Cuiness and backed up with such a Who's Who of actors as Burl Ives, Noel Coward, Ernie Kovacs, Maureen O'Hara and Ralph Richard son. They all seem to be having a marvelous time playing cops and robbers under the sultry sun of Cuba. Although the emphasis is on comedy, there is a considerable amount of suspense, and the entire proceedings are flawless. Mr. Greene may well have had Mr. Cuiness in mind for his Havana man; if not. thank heaven Columbia did. Columbia is also responsible for Who Was That Lady, an other venture into-the secret world of undercover agents. This one is a version of the Broadway plav Who Was That Lady 1 Ssw You With?, and except for the shortening of the title it adheres closely to the original. Not nearlv as droll as the earning on in Havana, it has a lot of good natured humor to recommend it, and the plot is built along the lines of a roller coaster. Those who get themselves mixed up in pre tending to be members of the FBI are Tonv Curtis and Dean Martin, who did it to pacifv Janet Leigh, who plays the former's suspicious wife. Before long there are real G-men, foreign agents and assorted Max Sennett chases. Clifford Odets is the author of Twentieth Century-Fox's The Story ON Pace One, which puts the new courtroom drama in a class considerablv above the average movie tare. His dialogue, though it lacks the barb of earlv Odets, is superior talk, and it's capablv delivered bv Rita Havworth. Anthoin Franciosa, Cig Young. Mildred Dunnock. Hugh Griffith and a thoroughlv professional cast. The storv behind the headlines has to do with the possible murder of Miss Hayworth's hus band. whom she and her lover are accused of doing in. The*' didn't reallv do it, however, and. though things look pretty bad for the home team, Mr. Franciosa gets them off. Evervbodv is in fine fettle, and James Wong Howe's camera is frequently brilliant in close-ups. TELEVISION One of the most promising new programs on view is the CBS Television Workshop, an hour-long Sunday program aimed at developing new writers and actors for television. The emphasis is on experiment rather than cut-and-dried formula, and while .some of the writers mav he familiar to TV audiences, most of them will be untried newcomers. The first few programs indicate this is one worth watching. A celebrated American novel. Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, has been adapted for television and scheduled for a February 18 production on CBS. Dealing with a tragic love affair, the drama will have an impressive cast headed bv Julie Harris and Kim Stanley, two of Broadway's leading young actresses; Sterling Havden will portrav the title role. Van Heflin will be the star of an original drama bv the noted television playwright Reginald Rose on February 2-4. The title is The Cruel Day, and it can be seen on Playhouse 90. On February 29 the durable Pern* Como will pav a visit to the even more durable Bing Crosby on the latter's ABC pro gram. Don't be crushed if vou can't stav home to watch on this evening, however; come March 16, Mr. Crosbv is return ing the favor by appearing on Mr. Como's NBC show. The four Crosby sons are promised for both programs. Woman, a CBS series of special interest to the ladies of the audience, will treat the subject of old age on a March 1 tele cast entitled The Lonely Years, The distinguished aetreus Helen Haves will be on hand to act as hostess for the program. March 27 will see an NBC Sunday Showcase plav dramatiz ing the last years of Ira Haves. In case the name doesn't ring any bells. Haves was the American Indian who participated in the historic flag raising on Iwo Jirna in J9-4S and who died a tragic death four vears ago. Opera lovers can look forward to a special treat on Sundav afternoon, April 10. NBC is planning a two and a half hour telecast of Mozart's Don Giovanni on that date, and a roster of distinguished singers is promised. 19 ETC 14014 MILESTONES' 30 YEARS * 25 YEARS J. 0. B.alzer Sales, Southern Region Sidney T. 1`rlitt. Jr. General Sales, New York Georce 1\ Rosser Sales, Eastern Region Fred J. Sciiiiok.tkr Research & Development. "'s Eight new employees join the Company at three different locations in positions ranging from chemist to secretary Milham Howie, chemist. Baton Rouge plant, holds his Ph D. from Purdue Universitv. Roman Jordan, mathemjj eian, Detroit Labs, is a u don Universitv graduate, 1 1 Carole Polkinghorn ijt' secretary at the Detroit Lab She likes to dance and ski.1. 20 i J ETC 14015 I j. \RS l5 years Tom V. McKay (-helical Kesearch, Baton Rouge 10 YEARS Richard F. Cook Public Relations, New York Frank M. Hopkins Chemical Research, Raton Rouge *an\ mnthemnti* Labs, is a Lon* v Graduate. Waiter Kennedy, Jr., Yon kers Laboratory technician, is a graduate of St. Michael's. `UNCHORN is a he Detroit Labs, lance and ski. Edvard Zaveski, Detroit Laboratory chemist, holds his Ph.D. from Iowa State. ON THE ROSTRUM ;/ Rov is repoitmg to Waldo Ligett. dueetor of Chemical Research in Detroit. Rov's former duties as MipcniMii of the Pioccss Development group ate mm being handled on a rotational basis In Joseph Odenw ei.ler. who is acting miper\ Nor for six months. Wheeler Lovell of the Detroit Labs recently gave a talk in Ashland. Ken tucky. before SO members of the Central Ohio Valley Section of the American Chemical Society. His topic was "The Role of Metallic Catalvsts in the Con trol of Combustion." Herb Neal of the Detroit Labs re cent lv discussed methods of measuring heat content at a meeting of the Redford Union High School s Science Sem inar. At one of the school's earlier meetings. George Forth, also of the Detroit Labs, stepped in. as a last-minute replacement tor the .scheduled speaker, and gave a talk on various types of engines. The science seminar was designed to stimu late and enrich the minds of select stu dents who have scientific inclinations. Woody Merritt of Safetv in Raton Rouge was the principal speaker at an installation of officers banquet ot the Cretiu Fire Department in Louisiana. The following new assignments relating to AN" compounds have rccentlv taken effect in the Detroit Laboratories' Re search and Development department: Roy SugimoTO lias been appointed project manager for the AN compounds. He is responsible for coordinating all activities in Research is Development re lating to the alkylated phenols, including research, patent matters, process devel opment. and market development. He also is representing R&D in inter-depart mental matters involving these products. Caul Wolf has been transferred to Business Research and is respon>ib!e for developing markets for the AN com pounds as chemical intermediates. Carl is reporting to Ear! DeWitt in Business Research. Frank McNalU The billowing organizational changes in the New Mirk office have recentK been announced by William R. Perdue. Jr., vice president ol Etlivl Corporatiun: Frank McNally, lormcrlv acting executive avsi.staut lot Finance, is now executive assislant lor Finance. Paul Cahill i.s now the manager oi the Tax section. He was lormcrlv the acting manager. Bruce Douglas has become the as sistant manager ut the Tax section. Tom Mungall of the Raton Rouge plant lias recently been transferred from Process Development to the plant's Re search and Development Services in the Chemical R\D division. 'rite following new assignments for three men in Manufacturing at the Raton Rouge plant have reccntlv taken elfeet: Herb Collier, chief supervisor. Stores, became supervisor of Cost Engineering; Dale MotsjngeR, Cost Engineering su pervisor in Industrial Engineering, is now supervisor, EtCI Operations; and Bill RoLSTON, Inventorv and Stores Standards engineer, became acting chief supervisor of Stores. 21 etc 14016 Estaleta Dale has been appointed su pervisor of the Literature Searching sec tion of Information Services at the De troit Laboratories. She is now responsible for providing all desired literature-search ing services, whether on fuel additivesor on other subjects. In addition to her new duties, Estaleta will continue to provide answers to brief reference ques tions. New assignments for three Baton Rousze Research & Development employees and the transfer of another to the Houston plant have recently taken effect. Tom Mungall has been transferred from Process Development to Research & De velopment Services in the Chemical R&D division. In Process Design, Don Park, formerly a process engineer, as sumed the duties of process design engi neer. Marvin Roof, who has been act ing senior process design engineer, was named to the position on a permanent basis. Joyce Hooper lias been trans ferred as chemical engineer from Engi neering and Mathematical Sciences to the Houston Engineering Services. Suggestion awards were made to the following employees in Detroit and the Sales department: Detroit: Clyde Clark, $15.00 (Lights on rear of moline tractor); A. C. ColoSIMO, $10.00 (Telephone on B mezza nine); Calvin H. Cook, $15.00 (Surge tank for cold room); L. R. Goodwin, $25.00 (Dollies for drums in H build ing); Earl Hoornstra, $180.00 (Pump & hose line to return fuel to original rather than to waste tank); E. LatuLIPPE, $20.00 (Stair rail in stairway to tunnel); Robert L. Mescher, $40.00 (Apparatus for cleaning engine parts); Norman W. Mosey, $25.00 (Time delav relay on CO alarms in chassis dy namometer rooms); L. Normile and H. Reynolds, $15.00 (Show type of extinguisher on outside of fire extin guisher houses); Bruno V. Walczak, $10.00 (Revise PA speaker system in F-22 and 23.) Sales Department: J. T. Beckwith, $10.00 (Indicate on mixing tables for 22 Ethvl antiknock compounds dve infor mation that 454 grams equal 1 pound), Margaret C. Donoho, S60.00 (Send Ethvl News Previews and other items to regional offices in one large envelope rather than individually addressed small sealed envelopes); Adeline C. Ed wards, $15.00 (Replace Western I'nion machine with a Desk Fax): Eileen H. Guernsey, S25.00 (Suggestion Com mittees be instructed to send to Patent section a cope of their committee min utes so that the section need only re quest files of suggestions which need further stuclv); if. M. Smith, S10.00 (Delete from aviation fluid mixing tables certain information on motor mix fluid.) EXTRACURRICULAR Franklin Fricker, staff assistant to director of administration, Detroit Labs, was appointed a lav member of the board of directors of the newly estab lished Oakland County Legal Aid So ciety in Detroit. Bill Meyer of Employee Relations in New York was once again chief judge at the tenth annual world barrel jump ing championship held at Grossingers in New York, Bill, who held the champion ship himself from 1945 through 1950. has been officiating at all meets since 1954. Tom Allen of Technical Services. Baton Rouge, was first place winner of the lightning class series in the Annual Sugar Bowl Sailing Regatta which re cently took place in New Orleans. Two Houston plant men have been re elected officers of the St. Pius Holv Name Society in Pasadena. Cameron Currier was re-named president and Clarence Holthaus was re-elected second vice-president. At the 1960 annua! convention of the Society of Automotive Engineers held in Detroit. Gil Way and John Wintringham, both of the Detroit Labs, were elected to the SAE board of di rectors. Henry Smith of the Baton Rouge plant, who is mavor of Baker, Louisiana, has been named ex-officio member of the Plan of Government Study Committee which is to consider recommendations for changes in the local citv-parish gov ernment. Ray Faller, manager of training. Em ployee Relations, New York, has been appointed a member of the American Petroleum Institute's Committee Training tor i960. In order to give the Houston plant em. plmees a better understanding nt tl)e emergence procedures followed at tl,e plant. John Glynn ami Hylio\ Webb of the Houston plant piocntal a oO-minute slide film and tape-tecoidu,,, summary on the various pli.ocs of tlie plant's emergency methods. Chuck Colvin of the Baton Rouge plant was recently elected president Qf the Istromna Area Council ot Bn\ Scout* of America. Other Baton Rouge men elected to the executive board of th* local council were: Wallace Arm., strong. Lew Barnum, H. F. Brad., ford, Jerry Gjraitis, John Klocri '* Sam Roberts and Dick Schneider Elected ex-officio members of the execy. d tive board, were Henry Bradford, dis. trict chairman of East Baton Rouge Parish, and Ivan Martin, ^estside.| chairman of Iberville, Point Coupee and i West Baton Rouge Parishes. 4 The following Baton Rouge plant men^ took part in the annual YMCA banquet recently held in Baton Rouge: ^ Charles Zeanah, manager of Com.) numitv Relations, was the master ceremonies, and Dick Day, Employees Relations, was program chairman. Both' Dick and Frank Padgitt, YC1 Opera, lion, are members of the YMCAs Ixunj of directors. 1 Two New York office employees attetii. ed the recent New York Regional Man.; agemeut Conference on Employee Conv munications, sponsored by the Commit, tee on Public Affairs of the America' Petroleum Institute. Stan Nickerson and Bill Warren, both of the Public; Relations department, sat in on the two. day conference. \ Approximately 17 members of the Ethyl* sponsored Junior Achievement Company recently went cm a tour of the Baton' Rouge plant. The high school student* visited the H&D laboratory, were guestt , for supper and held their monthly board meeting. Handling the arrangement! were Gene Ashby, Larry Dallam, Dick Goodrum and Bill Rolston. i ? Carroll Hebert, Safety, Baton Ilmiggr was elected first vice president of tk, Greater Baton Rouge Safety Council fat I960. He was also named to a three* year term on the board of director! Wallace Armstrong, resident mana^ ger. Baton Rouge, was re-elected as | member of the board. J i* *1 etc 14011 Committee on uiston plant emstunding of the followed at the anti Hylton i.mt presented a :1 tape-recording s phases of the ids. e Baton Rouge ted president of :il of Boy Scouts on Rouge men e board of the Wallace Arm- H. F. BradJohn Klock, ck Schneider. ;rs of the execuBradford, dis; Baton Rouge .rtin, Westside lint Coupee and hes. ouge plant men YMCA banquet Rouge: .anager of Comthe master of Day, Employee chairman. Both TT, VC1 Operaj YMCA's board iplovees attend: Regional ManEmplovee Comby the Commitf the American *n Nickerson h of the Public t in on the two- >rs of the Ethylement Company r of the Baton school students )iv, were guests r monthly board ? arrangements arry Dallam, .ll Rolston. v. Baton Rouge, resident of the fetv Council for led to a three:d of directors, resident manu re-elected as a New York r0semaR,e Cavallino and Jerry .MoneleONE "'ere married on January 23 at S-iint Barbara's Church in Brooklyn. York. After a Miami wedding trip, ihc coup'1' " ill reside in Maspeth. Long j |.UKl Jcitv "ork.s in General Services. . ^ NEWS BRIEFS * ^ Bests, son of George Beste of Re search & Development in Baton Rouge, jecentlv won the championship for boys 15 vears of age and under in the New Orleans Recreation department tennis touriiev which was held in conjunction with the Sugar Bowl. Charles Marionneaux, Jr., son of Charles Marionneaux. who is with TEL Operations at the Baton Rouge plant, was awarded the sportsmanship award ju the holidav tournament of the West Baton Rouge Knights of Columbus Bas ketball League. Mrs. B. M. Bryant, wife of Buddy Brvant of Industrial Engineering in Baton Rouge has been elected 1960 president of the Baton Rouge General Hospital Auxiliary. [n 1959. twenty-nine of 77 technical pa pers processed bv the Company's Tech nical Publications Committee were writ ten bv employees located at the Baton Rouge Plant. Emplovees at the Detroit Laboratories prepared 36 papers and New York personnel prepared 12. The 77 technical papers involved S3 authors and were presented to 14 technical so cieties. _ Ethyl was recently honored in three dif ferent areas by the New York Employing Printers Association. The group's Certifi cate of Merit, the highest honor at the annual Printing Exhibition held in New York, was bestowed upon The Annual Caroline Quality Survey, Ethyl Ncie.v and Bulletin Board for the high quality of printing, content and layout. The three publications were on displav at the exhibit. The latest Ethvl booklet to join the im pressive shelves of companv literature is "Ethvl" Oil Soluble Dyes, which has been released to all customer companies and to Ethvl held personnel. The new brochure stems from Product Services and Safetv and is the first of its kind that the Companv has issued directlv to customers. Ethvl Corporation recently offered its customers a new vacuum pump svstom for boosting the vacuum in Mixing Plant weigh tanks to aid in the unloading op eration. The svstem. which was devel oped bv Ethvl. is the first to be offered to customers domesticallv bv a lead sup plier, and is another example of the Companv's long and continuing list of developments for making the handling of "Ethvl'' Fluid easier, safer and more efficient. The first work on the vacuum pump svstem was clone in the Central Region in 1954. Then, in 1959, it was assigned to the Experimental Mixing Plant at Houston as one of their projects. There the study was completed and the unique svstem developed. A patent application has been filed. The new svstem is designed to in crease the unloading rate of antiknock compound frum anv bulk shipping con tainer, and will be most useful at plants where the eductor svstem produces in sufficient vacuum for complete transfer or where it is desirable to increase un loading rates. BIRTHS Detroit Theodore and Joanne Carron--a daughter. Aimee Marie, bom on De cember 31. The little gal joins three sis ters in the Carron familv. Ted is with Administration 6c Services at the Labora tory. Stanley and Mary McNeff--a daugh ter. Mary Louise, born on December 23. The little miss, who weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces, is the Mc.Wfis' firs* child. The proud father is a technician in the Laboratorv > Chemical Research section. Leonard and Jeannette Niebylski --a son. Charles Drew, born on Januarv S. The little fellow, who has four brothers and two sisters, weighed in at 9 pounds S ounces. Pop is with Chemical Research at the Laboratorv. SlEGERT and OLC.A SePPANEN -- a son. Jay SiGURO, born on Januarv 15. The voung lad weighed in at 7 pound:* A ounces. This new addition brings the familv count up to three lads ami one lass.* Pop is in the Laboraturvs Plant Operation 6c Maintenance section. New York Edward and Susan Emmon --a son. JOHN Edward, bom on [anuarv 2. The young lad weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces. Susan was formerlv with the Finance department. IN THE FIELD Bob Thurston of the Pittsburgh dis trict office presented "The Earlv Days of the Oil Industry'' to approximated 40 members of the Pittsburgh Desk & Der rick Chib. Jack Close, account representative, and Jim Sadler, automotive engineer, ix>th of Southern Region. Houston district, have developed a slide presentation on "Combustion Phenomena in Automotive Engines.'' The show met with such wide local approval that it is currentlv being made available for presentation in all regions. Al Ryan, Denver district manager, reccntlv presented Ethvl's films Tire on Signal Hill and Danger Water to a safetv meeting of the Cooperative Re finery Association in ScottsblufF, Neb. Answers to Photo Quiz 1. 00 2. (c) 3. (I>) 4. (c) 5. (a) 0. (d) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (b) 23 f ETC 14018 As the photograph above shows, J. S. .Morton of the Salt Lake Citv District Office is one of our must intlm-j siastic--and successful--hunters. The impressive horns he is holding belong to a four-point buck r. shot ^ while on a recent hunting trip to the Utah hills. The party consisted of seven hunters, and one day's s!, >tingt resulted in a triumphant bag of no fewer than seven bucks and three does. * ETC 14019 ost enthuk he shot s shooting ALL FENCED IN Herb Neill, Chemical Research. Detroit (right), is shown above with his son, |anies, as thov inspect their recently completed English 4-rail fence. Herb and fames erected some 1800 feet of fence, enclosing four acres. While involved in the undertaking. Herb made all of the mortised posts and part of the rails, using material from his own wooded laud. TECHNICAL CONFERENCE TALK Ed Desmond of Technical Service, Detroit, recently gave a discussion on "Part Throttle Octane Re quirements" at the Ohio Oil Company's Joint Tech nical Conference. Ed. who has over -0 s ears experi ence with Ethvl, is one of the inanv experienced en gineers who seise as liaison betsseen the Compans s research labs and the petroleum industry. ETC 14020 SOUTHWEST ACS RALLY A number of Research and Development employees from the Baton Rouge plant participated in the recent Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Ethyl men in the gathering above are Sidnev Blitzer (first row, left), who served as pro gram chairman, and Frank Conrad (back row, left), who was chairman-elect of the Baton Rouge Section. more people, more places TEACHERS TOUR HOUSTON PLANT One of the most memorable features of a recent Business-Education Day observance in the city of Pasadena, near the Houston plant, was a tour of the plant made by a group of teachers from the Pasadena School District. In the photograph below, the teach ers who made the educational tour are shown as they prepared to board the bus that transported them to JUNIOR RIFLEMEN Shown above are some of the youngsters who participated in a recent junior rifle activity sponsored bv the Ethyl Recreation Association of the Houston plant. On the firing line, from left, are Recreation Supervisor C. E. Tippen, Joev LeRav, Jenny Berry, Lee Horton, C. D. Berry (range supervisor), and Bruce Burdick. Rifle meets are held bi-nionthiv. the plant. During their visit they acquired a valuable fund of knowledge on details of plant operations. About 300 Ethyl employees live in the Pasadena area; counting dependents, the total number is about 1,200 persons. Such sendee projects as the teachers' tour play an important part in the Company's longstanding belief in good community relations. ETC 14021 FANTASTIC A pproximatelv 150 employees of the Detroit Lahs and their families turned out for the local Ethyl Society's T*. recent ice-skating party. In the upper lefthand shot, Edith, Stanley and Eric Livingston tie their skates; Edith is with Administration and Services. In the upper righthand shot, Dick Husta of the Sales Department skates with son Peter and wife Xancv. Fave and Fritz Shroeter (he of Administration and Services) glide along in the lower left shot, and Joan and Carl Koelsch do likewise, lower right; Joan is with Information Services. ETC 14022 n American naturalist was living lor, where the weather was nearly old enough to freeze meat left outhe man noticed that meat frozen instantlv in the sub-zero weather of tasted much better than foods frozen mg and fall. a Nicholas Appert. born in 1750. worked at various times as a pickier, a chef, a brewer and a confectioner. One day an idea occurred to him: Whv nut pack foods in containers, like wine? An ISth century Parisian named JeanJacques Perrett became tired of hal ing his face cut while his barber shaved him. Wouldn't shaving be much safer, Perrett wondered, if a wooden guard were attached to the straight razor so that onlv a snip of blade protruded? In 1929, Clarence Birdseve, tile naturalist who lived in Labrador, sold his frozen foods conipanv for 822,000,000. Today, 150 years after Appert published word of his invention, Americans open 60,000.000 cans daily. And one conipanv spends S30,000,000 a vear just to advertise its safety razors and blades. The great idea mav lie just as close as the job you go to every day. Your Suggestion Svstem is the means bv which you can put it into practice. ETC 14023 ETHYL MARCH 1960 ETC 14024 IN THIS ISSUE PAGE A Lizard's Lament.......................... 2 Three Men on a Job........................ 4 Fever Pitch ........................................ 10 All Out for Scouts.......................... 12 For Your Entertainment................ 16 Milestones .......................................... 18 Ethyl Welcomes ............................... 18 Personals ............................................ 19 People and Places.......................... 22 Leonhard Dowty ................................... Editor William Warren ..................Associate Editor Stella Sideris ....................Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: Louise MolTet; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robichaux: Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Baylerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Mvron, Eric Owen, Alvce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon. Lillian Walker; Houston: Dave Agnew, Elizabeth Dodson, C. 5. Harkins; Kansas City: Glenn Babcock, Lola Chinn, Jane Hudlemeyer: Los Angeles: Harry Man ning; Mexico: Mike Espinosa; New Orleans: Max ine Blue; Setv York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace; Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Meredene Portzer; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst; photographer; Fred Green, Judy Schaub; San Francisco: Jeff Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers Testing: Cather ine Henderson; Yonkers Central: A1 Morschauser; Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Sarnia: C. G. Manore; Toronto: Alan Thomas. OS OUR COVER: Elmer Mahlke. division business manager of the Yonkers GasolineTesting Division, spends his spare time work ing with a local Boy Scout troop. A round-up story on Ethyl men who work with the Scouts begins on page 12. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. B. Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Primed in U.S.A. a lizard's lament I'm lizard, chameleon true. Lizard born, lizard grew, And my parents were pure lizard, too. I'm lizard from pink tongue to fail, Complete lizard, Sauria male, Weighing, stripped, one ounce plus on the scale. But it's not so important what a lizard weighs As how a good lizard spends his days. Mostly he lies alcaf in the sun Snatching flies one by one, Which is highly indigestible and not much fun. lust to carty things a bit. He changes color for the heck of it-- For a lizard, prerequisite. But I don't want to bore you with trivial data. The point of my story's considerably greater. I'm a lizard, a fact I abhor. Being a lizard's an absolute bore. (Just try it sometime and see what's in store.) You're mortal, pure homo sapieu. A state I'd be quite happy in. Anything but lizard, which you can onh/ be nappy in In your world, where l wish Til been put. Crass seems to be greener on .wiw other foot. Well, it isn't, I'm here to tell. Loafing all day is positive hell. You've progress to make and products to sell. UV lizards sometimes hear people say "Boy, what a life, sleeping all day.'' Well, I'll tell you, my friend, I'll trade you. Okay? I'll take your taxes, your job and your beef. You catch the flies and lie on my leaf. ETC 14026 F Three Men on a Job Idan Flaa Marshall McOorman Bill Van Wyck Bill Van Wvck, Idan Flaa and Marshall McDonnan of the Los Angeles, Tulsa and New York Dis trict Offices respectively may be miles apart in terms of geography, but they've got one very important thing in common. All three are account representatives, entrusted witli the vital job of keeping the top man agement of our customer companies well informed on exactly what Ethyl has to offer in the way of prod ucts and services. But that's onlv part of an account representative's job. He also has to know his customers -- their pres ent and future interests and their sendee needs -- and be able to follow through with Ethyl specialists. His work mav take him across the street to the head office of a customer companv, or it mav take him many miles across tlje country to one of its distant refineries. He may be sitting at a desk one day, operating a multi cylinder demonstration engine the next, and helping a customer set up a dealer training program the one after that. In other words, he's a sort of jack-of-all-trades -- conversant with nearly even- phase of the Company's operation and capable of pulling them together for the benefit of the accounts he services. Obviously such a complicated job calls for plenty of experience, and here Bill, Idan and Marshall have another significant point in common. Between the three of them they have a grand total of 56 years with Ethyl, and during that time they' have managed to cover a variety of activities. Bill, for example, was a Safety Engineer when lie first came with the Companv 15 years ago, and lie later worked extensively with training presentations for oil companv marketing personnel as well as in ' other assignments. All this valuable past experience was consolidated when he became an account repre sentative. Idan's long career started 22 sears ago as a mechanical engineer, and before assuming his pres-! cut job he worked at everything from managing a ; motor clinic to representing Ethvl as a chief automo tive engineer. His wide range of knowledge covers not onlv sales but research and service as well. And : Marshall, during his 19 years with Ethyl, has been ' both field representative and safety engineer, each of which contributed importantly' to the fund of in-; formation he now shares with his customers. i As account representatives, Bill, Idan and Marshall; each have a number of individual accounts to service It's their business to know the particular needs of the accounts they handle, and to recommend Ethyl sen- ices or products to fill them. Most of their work is I done at the management level of the customer coin-1 panv, but on occasion they also travel to branch offices I and refineries. Either directly or indirectly they are in contact with their accounts nearly every day. Bill Van Wyck, Idan Flaa and Marshall McDorman I all have the same title, and they are all charged with the same responsibility, too -- to personify our Com pany's longstanding belief that service is just as im-1 portant as product. 4 ETC 14027 b I ieer when lie ago, and lie presentations s well as in experience -count repre years ago as ling his presnianaging a liief automoledge covers s well. And v], has been gineer, each fund of inners. nd Marshall is to service needs of the Ethyl servleir work is tomer cornranch offices :Iy the}- are / dav. McDorman larged with v our Corn- just as im- Marshall, right, keeps in regular contact with Esso Standard, one of his New York accounts. Here he talks with ft. H. Scholl (left), executive vice president, and O. V. Tracy, president. Bit) (right), together with Marv Russel), Ethyl automotive specialist at the Los Angeles Dis trict Office, presents a dealer training program based on Ethyl's Automotive Training Kit. Before an audience of customer company personnel, Idan gives a chalk talk on fuel efficiency as part of a dealer training program. ETc 14028 Three Men on a Job (continued) An account representative is the major link between the Com* pony and our customers; above Bill is shown on one of his reg ular visits to top management of his West Coast accounts. I ETC 14029 instance, He arranged to have an Ethyl product service engineer come out for consultations with the customer's safety chief. Below, Idon lends an Ethyl-instrumented car to a customer, explain ing how special instruments allow precise testing of fuel blends. At the American Oil Company, Marshall (right) makes a presentation to C. H. Coughlin (left), general mana ger for sales; T. A. Aldrich, vice president for sales; and G. M. Glaxier, assistant general manager for sales. ETC 14030 Three Men oil a Job (continued) ETC 14031 Marshall often takes customer company personnel on tours of the Yonkers Gosoline Testing Lob; above Fred Ramin (left), (Ttanager of the lab, talks with two Esso Standard visitors. Bill (left), together with Harry Manning and Ed EHerbe of the Western Region Office, checks performance of an Ethyl dynaprover engine. 9 ETC 14032 Sir William Osier, a distinguished physician of the last centurv, once noted that "Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine and war: of these by far the greatest, the most terrible, is fever." Modern medical men no longer share Sir William s ominous view of the thermometer's verdict, but they still admit that fever presents one of the most puzzling diagnostic problems. A doctor must determine, for instance, where the fever comes from. Is it a product of disease, infection, excessive fatigue or is it FUO -- "fever of undetermined origin?" The answers to these questions are vital to the diagnosis and treatment of the ailment. Most of us are unhappily familiar with fever and its discomforts, but we may not know everything we should about its causes and dangers. This article will explore some of the latest findings on what makes the mercury rise, and on what it mas- or may not mean to our health. First of all. fever is not an ailment in itsclt -- though in some societies the word "lever is often used to designate a specific illness, such as malaria or vellow fever. To doctors, fever is a symptom, a warning signal that the balance of heat production and heat loss in the body has been disturbed bv some foreign agent or substance. Subsequent investigation nun show that the rise in temperature is due merely to excessive fatigue, or being out in a hot sun too long; but it mav also be the first sign of something more serious. The best rule is to view fever as au important indicator and. if it persists, have a doctor track down its origin. FEVER PITCH ETC 14033 ii I -- though i used to or yellow warning and heat e foreign :ion may nerely to too long; ing more m portant .ek down \Vhen feyer reaches 103 degrees Fahrenheit or over it becomes dangerous, though the degree of danger lV varv according to age and persistence. A child's body heat react much more drastically with a fever than an older person's; for this reason, a tempera ture of 104 would be a serious matter in an adult but niav be a routine reaction in a child. In either case, however, a high fever is dangerous if it persists more than a few hours, and your doctor should be called immediately. Persistent lower fevers of a degree or less, which can be traced to no definite source, are frequently considered normal -- normal, that is, in a particular individual. Some people, for instance, have a higher normal body temperature than others; and some, whose bodies lack the ability to sweat normally, mav run a steady, slight temperature elevation during the summertime. The accepted normal temperature of the human body is 98.6 degrees, but this is an aver age, not an absolute. Doctors agree that a person should not worn' about slight elevations of bodv tem perature once a thorough examination has found no cause for it. But let a doctor decide whether there is or isn't a cause; don't do it bv vourself. The major danger of fever is the dehydration and consequent breakdown of bodv tissues. At hitjli tem peratures the cells of the bodv work faster and break down more rapidly. Because of this dehydration danger, people with fever should drink increased quan tities of liquids such as water, fruit juices and soft drinks to replenish the bodv tissues. Probably the most popular general remedy for reducing fever is aspirin, but it would be dangerous to rely on this drug in all cases. It all depends on where the fever comes from. Doctors todav look on fever as a significant sign and so should von. In most cases the mercurv rises for some reason. When it does, see vour doctor. ji I 11 ETC 14034 ETc 14035 iVN'SM'Mrttir'Wi George Burcal of Chemical Research, Detroit, who serves as advancement chair* man with a Scout group in Royal Oak, Michigan, officiates at a recent meeting. In the picture on the opposite page, George instructs the boys in life'Saving. This vear marks'the 50th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America, and over its eventful first half- who was recently elected president of the Istroumu Area Scout Council. At the Yonkers Gasoline Testing centurv that noted organization has achieved some Division, we have Elmer Mahlke, division business impressive statistics. More than 10 million persons manager, who shares his knowledge of fishing with have enjoyed the benefits of Scout training in this local Scouts. And in Detroit we have Boh Kerlev, countrv since its founding, the current U.S. mem director of the Products Application division, who bership numbers over two million, and overseas the serves as a troop committee chairman. movement is now organized in some 75 different But these are only random examples. Manv other lands. From the relatively small group founded in Ethvl men also give their time to Scouting activities England in 1908--the American movement started in their communities, therein- plaving a vital role two vears later--the Scouts have grown into a vast in training the leaders of tomorrow. worldwide association, dedicated to the highest ideals of character and citizenship. One thing hasn't changed since the early days, however, and that is the need for volunteer leaders to work with Scout groups in their extensiv e training programs. Today, as in 1910, the success of the movement still depends on those civic-minded adults willing to devote their free time to working with local Scouts. "Without them," an official commented recently, "there wouldn't be any movement." Ethyl Corporation can point to quite a few such leaders among our employees, performing duties ranging from executive guidance on the committee level to working directly with boys on Scouting projects. In at least one case--Ed Coxe of Power at the Baton Rouge plant--it can point to an active Scout worker whose interest goes back almost to the beginning of the organization. As a bov in Binning- ham, Alabama, Ed first joined the Scouts in 1912, just two years after their inception. To cite another Baton Rouge example, we have Chuck Colvin, director of Purchasing and Traffic, Carl Cyriax, of Finance, New York, is shown above af right with sen Jimmy. Carl works regularly with Jimmy's troop in New Jersey and often accompanies the group on country outings. 13 ETC 14036 ETC 14037 3 Dove Johnson of the Data Research Division at the Baton Rouge plant, serves on the Eagle Review com mittee. Above he pins Eagle Badge on Bob Edwards. Hank DeArman, painter trainee in the Maintenance Section at the Houston plant, is Scoutmaster of a troop in Pasadena. He reviews troop above during a recent ceremony at the Pasadena City Hall. Bob Kerley, director of the Products Application Division at the Detroit Labs (at {eft above), serves as troop committee chairman for a Scout group in Birmingham. ETC i 4038 BOOKS There is bound to be a lot that will anger and annoy you in Nikita Khrushchev's For Victory in Peaceful Competi tion with Capitalism, but you will certainly not be bored bv this collection of speeches and letters of the Premier of the Soviet. All of the characteristics that were so clearly revealed on Mr. Khrushchev's recent visit to our country are evident in this stout book and he elucidates on a variety of important international subjects. The tone of the volume is one of peace and harmonv, but there is no doubt of the competition and little doubt of the adversary. Francoise Sagan has written another slender volume, aimezVous Brahms, which like her other wisps of fiction has been published in this country by Dutton, and which conforms to the established pattern of the celebrated authoress. Though she has not lost any of her perception, her story does not seem to have the vitality that she displayed so brilliantly in her vounger davs of literary ascension. 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Parker, Republican State Senator from Massachusetts, has contributed to the current shower with **1/ elected I promise ... ", a Doubledav book that is both wise and wittv. In this small volume the Senator lias collected 1001 jokes, jibes and jottings on politics and politicians. Many of them are attributed to some of the sharpest wits of our times, and the majority of them arc <piite amusing. Although there are plentv of charts and statistics in The Prac tical Economist, Burton Crane has managed to endow his book with lively language and make of his studv of the Ameri can economic svstem something both extremely fascinating and highly entertaining. A Simon and Schuster release, the new book by the author of The Sophisticated Investor is crammed full of economic philosphv and it answers a great mam* perti nent (|uestions about the financial state of onr country in our times. Mr. Crane has been a financial uniter in several major newspapers and. with the exception of a sojourn in the Orient, has been on The Sctc York Times since 1937. And speaking of economics, Ralph Hewins lias set-down a remarkable portrait of J. Paul Cettv in The Richest Ameri can, a book about as far from the Communist philosophies of Khrushchev and company as sou can get, which is about j billion dollars far. In the new Dutton bonk, Mr. Hewms has not so much told a success storv as he has partruved a man of many contradictions, a man whose wealth has bromic j modem legend and whose life is more complex than his m.mv business holdings. Mr. Getty has known some fascinating ;ro. pie, and he is himself a fascinating character, both hl<i ,.:.J despised, an enigma of perplexing portions. 16 ETC 14039 :n a Seimin setting .mily. and ele of the "nod. bacl chronicle ed on the his latest has eonital agen;ht up in 5 both in certainly .ital men, unittee in n a coma govcrnht on his >eginning bout poscal scene tor from with *7/ >oth wise ted 1001 Mnnv of ur times, I E PraCidow his e Ameri.ting and the new crammed ny pertiv in our al major * Orient, down a Ameri*phies of about a vins lias J a man ^come a sis many ing peoked and Ivird Llewellvn, whose Hoic Green Was My Va/fei/, was *'lC of the most popular books of our generation, has con one ed the story of Huw Morgan in his latest novel Up, into linn1 Singing Mountain. The new Doubledav publication \jr Llewellyns best work since his aforementioned best- Mler and ^ ^ilS same warmth and vitality that charac- > the forerunner. This time, however, Huw Moreau lias ^.ecl from his native Males to a M'elsh settlement in Patn- uiii w^ere South American Indians are neighbors to jjie Welsh colony. Though they live in Argentina, Mr. Llewel- |vll's islanders are as Welsh as eisteddfod, and they are a pleasure to be with. Richard Gordon's Doctor in Clover is a sequel to his suc cession of delightful novels of young British practioner Dr. Gaston Grimsdyke, who was responsible for a good many jUi<rhs in both the books and motion picture versions of Doc/or at Large and Doctor at Sea. A Doubleday release, the slim uew volume is quite humorous, and Grimsdyke is in fine form -iS jie accompanies a wealthy Lord to the sunnv Riviera, a prescription that the young medico finds much to his own Jjkin'1'- Crimsdyke's foot is constantly in the soup, but it's a nice, bubbling broth. If vou have ever doubted the ingenuity of the American, your mind will certainly be put at rest by Ira Wolfert's An Epidemic of Genius, a new Simon and Schuster book that traces the progress of contemporary America through the working men across our country. Who says there are no new frontiers! Thev mav be in our own back vard, in our mountains, under the waters that lap at our shores . . . they are wherever Amer icans use their minds and muscles to develop them. Mr. Wol fert's book is a song of praise and it hums with excitement. It sings of the little man with great ideas and the talent of hope that has always spurred on progress from the paper clip to the skyscraper. MOVIES Joshua Logan has transplanted Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's Broadway comedy Tall Story to the screen for Warner Brothers, and the noted director's batting average con tinues to be high with this diverting film. No small part of the credit, however, goes to an extremelv talented cast headed by Anthonv Perkins, Jane Fonda, Marc Connellv and Rav Wal ston, who seem to derive considerable enjoyment from their participation. It all has to do with the pros and cons of schol arship versus athletics at a small college, where basketball is of particular importance. Metro-Goidwyn-Mayer has made a stunning motion picture out of William Humphrey's successful novel Home From the Hills, a melodrama that is as swift and powerful as a buzz saw. Headed bv Robert Mitcham and Eleanor Patker. the film introduces two talented new actors who are destined tor stardom. George Peppard and George Hamilton. The place is Texas, where emotions run hi"h in a small town in which Mitchum is a big man with an assortment of domestic prob lems that finallv brings him to his knees. In all departments, the new film is stellai tare for fans who like their drama strong. Sink the Bismarck! is a Twentieth Centurv-Fox release that was made m England and that recreates one of the most au thentic naval engagements yet to be put on film. The sea scenes are outstanding, and they make up for whatever the negligible plot mav lack. Kenneth More is stoic and heroic as the Director of Naval Operations for the British, and Dana Wvoter as a naval officer anvbodv would like to haw around is appropriately decorative. The fateful words of Winston Churchill are the guiding spirit of the screenplay, and when his order to sink the Bistnurk is carried out, it is in a stunning blaze of "lory. TELEVISION A Florida town isolated after a hvdrogen bomb attack is the subject of Alas. Baln/lon. an adaptation of Pat Frank's best selling novel o( the same name. The plav.. which will bo done on tbe Playhouse 90 scries, is scheduled for CBS on April 3 and will have the expert assistance of the Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization to insure authenticity. Come April -1. movie Ians can watch their favorites at the animal Academe Awards presentations. The alwavs reliable Rob Hope will .serve as master of ceremonies for tin's year's show, which as usual will be telecast from both Hollywood and New York. The channel is NBC. Cradle Song, a lovable play that has charmed television viewers before, will be back in a new production on April 10 ns a Hallmark Hall of Fame entrv. There's a good chance that Helen Hayes will again play the leading role. Jerrv Lewis admirers can put down April 15 as a night to stay borne. The popular comedian, who doesn't appear on tele vision verv often these davs, is set for an NBC special on that date. Guest stars haven't been announced vet. Those who have never seen Hal Holbrook's famous impersona tion of Mark Twain will get a chance to do so an April 22, when the actor presents a program called Mark Ttcuin's Amer ica over NBC. Mr. Holbrook will read excerpts from the great writer's work. 17 ETc 14040 r ETC 14041 jrv.aua sh, Jr. elopment . technical \t Detroit, ie mother lildren. presented the Ethvl File Power film to employees of the Magnolia Petroleum Company in Baton Rouse. 5-4 score. Bob Parent .scored the win ning 50.1l. The other scoieis on the S.unia team were J. F. ALLEN. GekRY Beauchamp and Harold Dowswell. The Detroit tallies were h\ Bill Cook. Paul Hlsey ami Al Palm by. Malcolm Murdock, vice president in cliarge of Sales, New York, gave a talkbefore members of the Oil Men's Club 0f Kansas City. His topic was "Market Expansion Is Everybody's Business." Joe Kienincer of the Detroit Labs spoke at a meeting of the American Society of Lubrication Engineers held ;it the Rackham Memorial in Detroit. Joe's topic was about "Ortho-Alkylated phenols as Lubricant Additives." Two Ethyl men participated in two dif ferent programs given bv the Metropoli tan Purchasers Club, an association of Greater New York purchasing men. Harold Woods of Purchasing and Traf fic, New York, participated in a panel discussion on "Materials Management and its Relation to the Purchasing Ex ecutive"; and Joe Hopkins, regional merchandiser in the Eastern Region, gave a "Creative Thinking--Brainstorm ing" presentation. Woody Merritt, Safety, Baton Rouge plant, was the banquet speaker at the annual Salvation Army meeting recently held in Bogalusa, Louisiana. The Southern California Historical Sym posium held in Los Angeles its second annual winter conference of historically minded groups sponsored by the Con ference of California Historical Societies. Dean Painter of San Bernardino's Casoline Testing division gave a talk on "Desert Historical Sites." Dean is regional vice president of the Conference of California Historical Societies. Carl Alsterberg, who is in the Instru ment section of the Detroit Labs, gave a speech at the recent meeting of the Michigan Nucleonic Society held at the Henry Ford Hospital Auditorium. Carl's topic was "The Scintillation Crystal Detector." William Smith, who is a safety en gineer at the Baton Rouge plant, recently William Ball, assistant director of Pub lic Relations. New York, represented Ethvl at the recent two-dav gathering of the Advisory Committee on Public Re lations held at the Hotel Pierre in New York. The purpose of this group is to advise the Committee on Public Affairs of the American Petroleum Institute. Bob Palmer, safety engineer at the Baton Rouge plant, served as one of the judges of the LaSalle School PTA safety poster contest in Baton Rouge. The con test was under the direction of Mrs. Al Smith, who is the PTA safety chairman for the school. Mrs. Smith is the wife of Al Smith, who is in Process Design at the Baton Rouge plant. Jolene MOTLEY, daughter of William Motley of the Houston plant, and a senior at Pasadena High School, recently was awarded first place in the "My True Security" contest sponsored by the Pasa dena Jaycees. f Mrs. Marjorie Swartwood, wife of Kenneth Swartwood, manager of Gen eral Research & Development in Baton Rouge, was elected a member of the 1960 board of directors of the Young Women's Christian Association in Baton Rouge. Bert Burdick, son of Clarke Burdick of the Baton Rouge plant, added to his golfing laurels recently when lie took his third straight Tournament of Cham pions Trophv in the Eighth Annual March of Dimes Tournament held at the Westdale golf course in Baton Rouge. Marsha Terry, 16-year-old daughter ol Tom Terry of Employee Relations ut the Baton Rouge plant, has been selected for the cast of two plays--the next Little Theater production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" and for the Baton Rouge High School production of "Meet Me in St. Louis." Again this vear the Sarnia plant men challenged the men from the Detroit Laboratory to a hockey contest, held in the Sarnia area. The game between the two Ethyl installations was a close match, with Sarnia on top in the final IN MEMORIAM Edwin Reid It was with deep regret that his main friends at Ethyl Corporation learned ol the tragic death of Edwin Reid, who died on January 27. An employee in the Chemical Research section at the Detroit Laboratories, he was the victim of a fatal automobile accident. Born in Wavne, Michigan, on Novem ber 20, 1927, Ed received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Chemistry frnm the University of Michi gan in 1956. He was an Ethvl employee since 1951. A bachelor, lie is survived bv his mother, four sisters and a brother, all of Wayne, Michigan. THREE DIE ON WEST COAST Just as we went to press on March 2. we were informed of the fatal automobile accident that took the lives of three em ployees from the Pacific Coast plant-- Thomas D. Zaiac, operating supervisor; Reno J. Passoni, maintenance foreman; and Earl S. Wirtz, Jr., industrial engi neer. A fourth passenger. Kenneth D. Morgan, Jr., who is an engineer, was seriouslv injured, but doctors were hope ful of In's recovery at press time. The car in which the four men were riding was struck head-on by another vehicle that came over a hill on their side of the road. To their families and friends go our deepest sympathy. ETC 14042 IN THE FIELD- Christopher Bruhl, assistant manager of marketing analysis and planning. New York, presented a paper entitled "The Gasoline Market" before the InterMountain Oil Jobbers Association meet ing recentlv held in Las \ egas. Nevada. Don and Lyla Cunningham--a Gene Stevens, born on Januarv 2.3 wei`2hin*2 7 pounds ]2 ounces. The Cunninghams haw two other children Bruce and Lam. Don i> in Chennai Research at the Labs. Charley Welch and A. F. Johnson were on hand with Ethvl demonstrations for a meeting of the Iowa Farm Bureau Service. Charley, a tractor engineer in the Central Region, conducted an engine clinic while Art, a fleet engineer in the same region, demonstrated the effect of MPA on icing and detergency. J. W. Wilson, product service engineer. Central Region, showed Ethyl's films Danger! U'fl/er and Fire on Signal Hill to 30 management and supervisory per sonnel of Texaco at Lawrenceville, Illi nois. George Henning, field representative. Cleveland district office, recently pre sented "The Early Days of the Oil In dustry" to the members of the Louisiana Oil Men's Club. Ed Agnev, field representative in the Cleveland district office, recently pre sented the "Fire Power Show" to termi nal employees of Sinclair Oil. Clermont, Indiana; to an employee meeting uf ihe Ohio Oil Company. Indianapolis; to di visional Sales personnel of Shell Oil. Indianapolis; and an employee group of Standard Oil Company (Indiana* in Evanston, Indiana. At the annual membership meeting ot the Kansas-Oklahoma Division, MidContinent Oil & Gas Association which was held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Robert Douglass, manager of the Southern Region, was elected to serve as a mem ber of the Kansas-Oklahoma Division's Executive Committee for 1960. Bob also received an appointment from the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce to serve Tulsa on the 1960 Petroleum Industry Committee. The Kansas City Oil Men's Club recently elected Lowell Dollahan as director of the club. Lowell is district manager of the Kansas Citv office. Russell Weston, director. Ad\ertising and Sales Promotion. New York, gave the Macic Circle slide presentation at two separate meetings ot the National Hiuhwav Users Conference and the American Automobile Association in Washington. D. C. The Central Region recentlv had the following assignment changes: Deane BirkeS has been transferred to the Southern Region; Chuck Gordon has re-joined the Cleveland district upon completion of a New \ork rotational assignment; AL Guus has replaced Dick Husta in Detroit; Joe Hopkins was appointed regional merchandiser for the Eastern Region; Dick Husta has transferred to Cleveland and, in general, has taken over Bruce Crane's work; and Herb Witty lias been transferred to Kansas City. Detroit Tom and Caroline Coffield--a son. Thomas Alexander, adopted in Jan uary. The young German lad was horn in April 1959. Tom is with the Labs' Chemical Research. Tom and Marie Collins--a daughter. Coleen Mary, born on January 22. weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces. The little gal joins three sisters and two brothers in the Collins family. Pop is with the Labs' Administration 6c Services. Wallace and Carol Connolly--a daughter, Ann Marie, bom Oil February 10, weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces. There are four other children in the Connolly household, three boys and one girl. Pop is in the Labs* Plant Operation and Maintenance. Joseph and Ann Davis--a daughu-r Gladys Elizabeth, hum on |anu.trv 29. Tle little miss, who was welcomed hv a brother, tipped the scales at ^ pounds 5 ounces. The proud pop R Iri Chemical Research at the Labs. Allen ami Mary Lee Fii.bey--a mhi William Allen, born on January ]jj weiizhimi 8 pounds 11 ounces. The Filbevs haw three other children, a}} ejrls. Al is with the Labs' Chemical Research. New York Edward and Catherine Cunningham --a son, John Patrick, bom on Jan uarv 30. The tinv fellow, who weighed 9 pounds 15 ounces, has one brother and three sisters. Ed is supervisor of Financial Forecasts and Analvsis in New York. Eugene and Dorothy Lenahan-* daughter. Donna Susan, born on Feb ruary IS. The little miss weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces at birth. The Lcnuhaus are parents of another daughter, who will Ir* three wars old. Pup is in Pur chasing and Traffic. Edwin and Ceci (Levcs<pie) Mruks-- a son. Gregory, born on January 28. The little fellow weighed in at 6 pounds 12 ounces. Ceci was formerly a member of the Eastern Region. - 1'^ WEDDINGS New York Carlin Eliot and Peter Bettencourt ; were married on January 29 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The couple are presently living in Plainsville, Mass achusetts. Carlin was formerly a member of Public Relations. 20 J IW I ETC 14043 ^GHAM---a SOn n January 2.3} ounces. The other children is in Chemical ;--a daughter, n on January was welcomed e scales at .5 oud pop is in Labs. ilbev--a son, n Januan- 18, ounces. The children, all ibs* Chemical iUNNINGHAM born on Jan* who weighed one brother supervisor of .alysis in New >ENahan -- a bom on Febi weighed 7 fhe Lenahans tughter, who op is in Pur* e) Mruks--. Januan- 28. at 6 pounds ly a member / TTENCOURT 29 in Cape couple are ille, Massv a member SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS 5UCTfrestion awards were made to the folio"'111? employees in Detroit. New York and the Sales department: Detroit: James S. Jackson, S30.00 {Eliminate external cable on Phillips detonation meters on knock test engines. Mount switch on instrument panel). York: Catherine M. Diez and Marilyn Sax, $35.00 (Combine into one set the forms for Committee & Manicrement Action, Notice of Installation, and Request for Suggestion Award Checks. Revise the forms). Sales Department: W. S. Alexan der and E. P. Watson, $100.00 (Make up small dye kit to assist customers in dve evaluation, setting dye standards, checking dye results in new stocks, etc.); Agnes L. Morgan, $15.00 (New type binder offering convenient accessibility of leafing through the contained mate rial). EXTRACURRICULAR The Ethyl Management Club, Baton Rouge plant, recently was chosen as one of the excellent management clubs of the United States in 1959 by the Nation al Management Association. An award plaque was presented to 1959 president Duke Hartsfield by NMA Area vice president Joe Culmone. Robert Weaver of Process Design in Baton Rouge is currently instructing a class in scientific Russian at Tulane University in New Orleans. Bob recently was named a member of the university's faculty committee. Several Baton Rouge Quality Control and Research & Development Services employees participated in the annual Symposium on Modem Methods of Analytical Chemistry at Louisiana State University. Claude Arceneaux of Re search & Development Services was secretary-treasurer of the Symposium Committee. Pictures and biographical information on six members of the Baton Rouge plants Safety group and four members of the Sales department are appearing in "Who's Who in Safety," the first annual yearbook of the nationwide Veterans of Safety organization. They are, from Baton Rouge. Carroll Hebert, Bill Heck, Ed Lorio, Bob Palmer, Mike Porch, and W. S. Smith; and from Sales. Jim Baldwin and John Watt of New York, Mac McCooley of Phila delphia and John Rollins of Tulsa. Dick Schneider of the Baton Rouge plant, who is and has been president of the Baton Rouge Civic Symphony Association for four years, was elected a member of the board of directors for a two-year term at the association's recent annual meeting. membership includes representatives trutn lar^e industrial companies and Ivom the Civil Defense organization itself. Ollie Jones of Purchasing and Tiaffic m the Baton Rouge plant recently was advised bv Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton of his selection as a member ol the Petroleum and Gas Unit oi the De partment of Interior National Defense Executive Reserve. In his letter, Secietarv Seaton wrote that this unit is the basic reserve organization which would go into operation in time ol national de fense mobilization. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Bynum B. Turner, president of Ethyl, was re-elected a member of the National Industrial Conference Board for 1960. Mr. Turner has been a member of the board since February 1959. Frank Conrad of the Baton Rouge plant, who is chairman of the American Chemical Society in Baton Rouge, re* cently announced that 15 plant em ployees are participating in a new experiment in science education at Istrouma High School. Under the pro gram each member of the Istrouma honor chemistry class has an Ethyl chemist as a "big brother" who is responsible for assisting his "little broth er" on technical matters and for stimu lating and maintaining an interest in science. Chester Holmes, also of the plant, is coordinating the program for the ACS. Good planning and hard studv recently paid off for two Ethyl employees. James Boag of the Detroit Labs received his bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Wayne State University; and Bill Ruhlin of Process Design. Baton Rouge plant, earned his masters degree in chemical engineering at Louisiana State University. The following new assignments at the Baton Rouge plant for two Technical Services men and one in Process Design recently took effect: James Browning is now acting area technical services engineer and will continue to be in charge of TEL develop ment studies. Irving Levine, formerly assistant area technical services engineer in So dium, is now a process design engineer in the Process Design section. Louis Reynolds moved from acting senior process design engineer in Process Design to acting area technical service engineer for development work in the Sodium area. James Riddle recently has been trans ferred from the Baton Rouge plants Chemical Research and Development to Business Research. At the annual meeting of the National Institute for Disaster Mobilization held in New York, JuD Biehle of Adminis tration, New York, was elected a vice president for 1960. The NIDM serves as the common meeting group for all concerned with national preparedness through non-mili tary defense and disaster control planning for peacetime or war emergencies. Its The following rotational assignments fur two Baton Rouge plant men recently took effect: Carl Steffek has taken over the po sition of assistant purchasing agent in Purchasing; and Joe Tinney, formerK a maintenance engineer, has taken over Carl's former duties as field services su pervisor in Stores. 21 ETC 14044 immy O'Neill of Chemical Research, Detroit, measures wear scars on specimens which have been tested in thel J Shell four-ball wear tester. The tests are being made in conjunction with studies to find an anti-wear addi-{ tive for lubricants. Prospective additives must weather a total of eight different bench tests to determine their j anti-wear effectiveness; Jimmy is part of the Detroit research team working on the project. ETC 14045 i mA Sf-^ r>;t^'-r.JSWv Igjsssg sas5 ted in the ear addi.iine their SAN FRANCISCO D&D ohn Koelmle (second from left) and Cal Dunbar J (right), both of the San Francisco District Office, presented Eth\Ts "Fire Power Show" to a recent gathering of the local Desk and Derrick Club. Lucv Johnson (second from left), a secretary in the San Francisco office and s ice president of the Desk and Derrick, arranged the presentation. PRIZE WINNER The striped bass being held below by Ken Scott, Operations Technician at the Pacific Coast plant, weighed in at 13 pounds, 15 ounces, and it won Ken first place in the local Ethyl Recreation Association's recent fishing contest. The smaller fish Ken is holding won no prize in the popular contest but it was still a welcome addition to the dinner table. ETC 14046 etc 14 04 7 ir. As sub.e men with lering at the 59, Jack and active in oblaving plans en's Club. Rouge plant Christensen, ing Service, .ceptance of Association aton Rouge e campaign. CHAMPS --PAST AND PRESENT The intrepid young man flving over no fewer than 16 barrels -- on ice skates yet -- is Leo LeBel, the 1.5 inches to win this year's crown. Bill gave up jump ing for judging in 1954, and since then lie has officiat world barrel-jumping champion, and the sharp-eyed ed at all championship meets. Prior to that he was an judge checking his great leap is our own Bill Meyer enthusiastic contender in manv matches and walked, of Employee Relations, who can look back on world or rather skated, away with several titles. This r ear's and Eastern U. S. championships himself. LeBel, who meet was held at Grossingers, New York, under the has won six consecutive world titles, jumped 26 feet, sponsorship of the National Winter Sports Association. POWER OF SUGGESTION ETHYL ON TV Fred Ramin, manager of the Yonkers Lab, and Har old Mehler, senior project engineer, recently re Ethyl viewers of NBC's "'Continental Classroom'' on television might have recognized some of the ceived a joint award of $300 for their suggestion warn demonstrations used for a recent lecture on petroleum. ing against the use of polyethylene bottles for storing Eastern Region prov ided several pieces for the pro oasoline. Hudson Kellogg (left), Gasoline Testing gram, among them the single-cvlinder engine being Division manager, presents the check while Bill Ludt, inspected by Dr. Frank Baxter (left) and Dr. Calvin assistant Division manager, watches at right. VanderWerf, who conducted the TV class. ETC 14048 ETC 14049 As a result of the expanding vinyl chloride market, Ethyl Corporation recently announced plans for a new plant to manufacture vinvl chloride monomer at the Houston center. The new plant will supplement the : production of the Baton Rouge vinyl chloride monomer plant, shown in the photograph above, which went into operation early in 1958. Since then there has been a steady increase in the sales of this product. ETC 14050 OTTT r T B " " I .---------------------------- !............................... ....................... l 't ' lin n '.11. . . . | | | | T - lUm .J IIII1 H J I|JB. ETC 14051 ETC 14052 ETHYL board Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE How to Break a S100 Bill......... .. . 2 10 Years at 100 Park.................. . . 4 Where Are You?...................... . . G A Matter ol Degree.................. . . 8 Modem Design........................... .. 12 Ride Your Own Hobby Horse .. 14 For Your Entertainment......... . . 16 Milestones ................................... ...18 Ethyl Welcomes ........................ .. 18 Personals ..................................... .. 19 People and Places .................... .. 22 Leonhard Dowty ............................... Editor William Warren................Associate Editor Stella Stderis ................. Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moftet; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robichaux; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Baylerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Alyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Neva Yanakeff; Houston: Dave Agnew, Don Connell, Elizabeth Dodson; Kansas City: Lola Chinn, Jane Hudlemever; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Mexico: Mike Espinosa; New Orleans: Maxine Blue; New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace; Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Meredene Portzer; Salt Lake City: John Morton; Son Bernardino: Adeline Furst: photographer: Fred Green, Judy Schaub; San Francisco: Jeff Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew-, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers Testing: Cather ine Henderson; Yonkers Central: A1 Morschauser; Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Sarnia: C. G. Manore; Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON OUR COVER: Secretary Jayne Carlson of the New York Office studies a contemporary abstract metal sculpture that represents a form of plant life. At Ethyl plants (and labora tories) modem machines and equipment also have intriguing form. The story and pictures are on page 12. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. Edward L. Shea, Chairman of the Board; B. B. Turner, President; William R Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treasurer; Herbcn A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. HOW TO BREAK A $100 OILL } .i; Along with being the first full month of Spring, . April has another claim to distinction: it's the month for paying federal income taxes. In the ex es of some, taxes mav he less welcome than the turtledove, l hut that doesn't diminish their importance in the na tional life. Of the eighty billion dollars spent annually bv our federal government about half comes from per sonal income taxes, and our defense programs, foreign aid and public welfare projects are directly dependent on those dollars and cents withheld from your pay check. Whether we pay cheerfully or begrudgingly, we all recognize the fact that taxes are essential to the country's operation. Mulling over our own income tax forms recently, however, a startling thought occurred to us -- we weren't exactly sure where all that money was going. We knew it went to the government, of course, and we knew it was apportioned out to various projects; but W ETC 14053 ' Spring, it's the e eves of rtledove, i the naannuallv rom per;, foreign .pendent our pav idginglv, ial to the recently, us -- we as going. and we ects; but / how much went to each project? Out of X number of tax dollars, how much went to foreign aid, how much to schools, how much to national defense? As a shareholder in this 80-billion-dollar business, we decided we ought to know the answers to some of these questions. So we took S100 as our sample taxdollar figure and set about getting an up-to-date breakdown on what happened to it after it left our pavcheck and went into the national treasury. The re sult of our quest was the following collection of rough figures, which might give you some idea of how vour taxes are spent. N'earlv half of everv hundred dollars vou pav in taxes--S48.80 to be precise--goes for military expendi tures, which includes national defense. The next larg est amount, $11.40, goes to pay the interest on the national debt. And the third largest, 86.90 out of everv $100, is used for routine operation of the government. Veterans' relief comes fourth on the list, with $6.60. This is followed bv $4.70 spent on price supports for farmers, $4.30 for foreign aid and $3.20 for re search and development of atomic energy. Federal relief claims $2.50 of vour centurv note, and $2.30 goes for the conservation of our national re sources. $1.00 is allotted to the public health program. Federal aid to aviation gets 90 cents, and SO cents is used for space exploration. Education and aids to water transportation are tied at 70 cents each, com munity development gets 30 cents and public housing aid uses up 20 cents. The remaining $4.70 of the total is placed in a surplus to reduce the national debt and tor miscellaneous expenses. Vou can see from this breakdown that vour 1959 tax money will go into a variety of different activities, ranging from health to housing and from welfare to waterways. What do vou think of them? i ETC i 4054 ETC 14055 ^any notable achievements characterized our Company during the decade from 1950 to 1960 Te,i veins ago this month, the executis e offices of Ethvl Corporation moved into the newly-com|eted skyscraper at 100 Park Avenue. The new gilding in which the Companv chose to make its li^Jquarters was in the heart of the "Grand Central 11 feature that made it extremelv attractive to the Ne"' York Office's mam- commuters, not to mentj01i its considerable advantages of space, light, air conditioning and other up-to-date concepts and con veniences. It also stood on the historic site of Murrav pill, a landmark that played an important part in the American Revolution. Past history, however, seemed to he swept aside as the new edifice joined its lofty neighbors in a city where impressive heights frequentlv change the sky line. The new building spoke up for architectural progress in a simple, handsome and utilitarian blend of steel and brick. Inside, Ethyl spoke for progress, too--for automo tive progress, for industrial progress, for the progress of ideas in the intricate world of commerce, for the progress of people, whose energy is the real back bone of modern American business. Though the change of quarters by no means in spired these things, it was the beginning of another important decade in our corporate historv. a decade in which a still-voung Companv reached out for and attained a notable maturitv. To be sure, the road was not without rocks and, now and then, there was a boulder. But. bv and large, the bumps were small compared to the ad vancements and achievements that characterized the era of "the Fifties." For example, a few months after Ethvl moved into its headquarters at 100 Park Avenue, the first "Two Equals Three" demonstration was staged in Detroit and, subsequently, proved to he one of the Com pany's most effective presentations for both ourselves and the American oil industry. A year later, a new regional and district office building was opened in Los Angeles, a modern build ing with an auditorium in which our West Coast customers could see the Company's latest demonstra tions and films. Two years after Ethvl Corporation became a tenant of 100 Park, our Houston Manufacturing Plant went on stream to serve our customers in the Southwest even more cfficientlv. Perhaps the most significant event of the follow ing sear was the announcement of "Ethvl Ignition Control Compound No. 1--the first of a series of highly effective phosphorous compounds to control preigni tion and spark plug fouling. In April of 195-1, the Companv announced its plans to expand capacitv at Baton Rouge and Houston bv 15 percent. That same sear saw the introduction of the XO-121 "tractor of tomorrow." developed jointlv bv the Oliver Corporation and Ethvl. At the halfwits' mark of the decade the Compilin' achiesed several notessorthv milestones. In Juls- of that sear Etlnl Corporation of Canada Limited sva.s formed. And the succeeding month, the Baton Rouge plant reached a significant point in its manufacturing historv bs- producing its four billionth pound of tetra ethyl lead. In 1956, the vear in svhich B. B. Turner became president of the Companv and E. L. Shea was named Chairman of the Board, the Sarnia plant was officiallsopened. One of the highlights of 1957 svas the announce ment of a nesv method of manufacturing tetraethsl lead, developed by Ethyl scientists. On its heels came the announcement of AK-33X, a nesv manganese com pound also dcseloped in Eth\Ts research laboratories. The Pacific Coast plant took the spotlight in June of 195S. further seis ing our customers on the West Coast and broadening our operations in a competitise field. That same sear the Compilin' put into operation in Baton Rouge its first unit for the manu facture of sinsl chloride monomer, entering one of the largest and fastest-gross ing plastic fields. In 1959, svhen the Compilin' was 35 years old, it has put a great mans- notches in the big belt of prog ress, and it added another svith the introduction of a nesv and important product--Motor .33 Mix. Throughout the sears, it has been a Company ss'ith not only its eye on the future, but its mind as ss'ell. It has stcadils- attempted to operate progressively under the healthiest and svisest business practices of the land. Though it cannot read the future, it svill continue to help to svrite it bv efficient planning and active research. ETC 14056 ETC 14057 i) Baton Rouge Manufacturing----------j) "The ----------- of glory lead but to the grave.' k) . gonna roll right bv them pearly----------- ' l) Don't--------- Mein m) Three Coins in the----------n) the----------- path o) the comer of Hollywood and----------p) Please Don't Eat the----------You are in a----- :------ 4. a) shuffle the----------b) The------------Paradise c) Red----------- in the Sunset d) Two Years Before the----------e) Xo----------- barred f) Any----------- in a storm ff) "When in the----------- of human events . . h) Down the----------i ) "I'm Popeve, the----------- man . . j) When my----------- comes in .. k) a------------ of beer You are on the------------ 5. a) ----------- skin paper b) -----------Roll Martin c) Sow your wild----------d) -----------and Kings e) X'oel Coward's "Red----------- " f) East-----------, X'ew Jersey g) -------------pie order h) a------------ of hair i) ----------- for Two j) ----------- in your beer k) not worth his----------l) variety is the----------- of life m) bring home the----------- n) a----------- in every pot o) the----------- of the crop You are in a------------ 6. a) ----------- Jim Brady b) ----------- the Fords go by c) every cloud must have a----------- lining d) ----------- blonde e) The----------- Isle f) ----------- White g) a heart of----------h) The Postman Always----------- Twice i) ----------- money j) ----------- Keeler k) a rolling----------l) Columbia, the----------- of the Ocean m) paper----------You are in a------------ 7. a) Walden----------b) Sacred----------c) Rebecca of Sunnybrook----------d) ----------- on the Floss e) W. C f) stubborn as a----------g) ----------- in a poke h) let's talk----------i) hit the----------j) Jovce Kilmer's poem,----------k) TV's----------- Train l) "You couldn't hit the side of a----------- " m) Friml's "----------- Serenade" n) "the----------- is as high as an elephant's eye .. o) ----------- cruiser p) ----------- of a different color q) back in----------You are in a----------- ETC 14058 ETC 14059 J. strengtn 01 ;i nation is apt to ue judged less nv titan bv its mental resources, the vital ini- F ` .t.ince of higher education is clear to just about ^ \ bodv. Henrv T. Heald. the president of the C-()ici Foundation, has called it "the indispendable cljum for survival and progress," and main other titll0iities have expressed their com iction that a ,'itiiificant part of the future nil! be determined in tjlt. classrooms of our colleges and universities. For the process of education doesn't stop with the xVj[]iiin of a college degree. In a wav, it ninv be said till, lasting benefits How from men and women who hat e tasted the pleasures of learning : the education svmbolized h\ a degree is simplt the foundation on which the graduate builds his future achievements. To illustrate, take a chemist in our Detroit labs. Anv chemist: it doesn t matter who. He is an expert in a complex, difficult field, and because of this he usuallv holds a degree from some institution ol higher learning. More times than not. he holds several de grees. And each time lie runs a test on a new chemical compound, each time he ventures into the unknown Lab's is enevoluo- a PhO George Beste (left) general manager of R&D Operations at our manufacturing plants and George Kirby, Vice President _Opertion*' hold doctorates from Co lumbia and LSU, respectively. ehnicol A me* is Purolds a Jud Biehle (left), who is general coordina tor of the Manufacturing department, holds an MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while-General Counsel Fred Worne is a Harvard LL.B. Bill Adams applies college training and practical experience to Products Applica tion at the Detroit Labs. He holds a Bache lor of Science degree in Mechanical Engi neering from Ohio State. Baton Rouge's Lee Briggs has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineer ing. Process Engineer in the Process De sign section of RAD, his sheepskin is from the University of Wisconsin. 9 ETC 14060 wonders of experimental research, he dips into that basic fund of knowledge acquired long ago in the classroom. The same is true of am' other graduate, in anv other line of work. Lawyer or sales representative, administrator or mechanical engineer; for each, edu cation is a continuing process. The diploma on the wall may be yellowed with age. The force it repre sents is not. Since a large part of our Company's activity is centered around highly specialized fields, it should come as no surprise to find that our records reveal a variety of degrees. What may come as a surprise, however, is the impressive extent ol the variety atl(j the over-all number of graduates in our plants, offices and laboratories. To begin with. Ethvl has more than 1100 volley graduates working in the various phases of its opera. tion. Of this total, 175 have gone beyond t!ie,'r Bachelor's degrees to earn a Masters in their speCj_ altv, and S6 can point to a PhD. the highest educa. tional achievement. Several have two or three differe degrees. Approximately 245 colleges and universities are represented through the personnel of our Company including 35 state universities. Schools from 44 of Louisiana's capital also claims Tom f Allen, process engineer in Technical i Service, R&O. Tom did undergraduate T work in Chemical Engineering at Tulane, got Master's from Louisiana State. ETC 14061 DEAR CUSTOMER DUE TO A CLERICAL ERROR, THERE ARE NO ORIGINALS FOR THE BATES RANGE SHOWN ETC 14062 TO ETC 14063 IKON OFFICE SOLUTIONS riety and ts, offices 0 college ts opera nd their ir specit educadifferent ities are ompany, in 44 of r jjg 50 states have graduates working at Ethvl. The .c]iool with the largest representation. Baton Rouge 51 Hit emplvees will be proud to hear, is Louisiana jfite University, with S6 graduates. The runner-up, t]vi"^s t0 ^le ^etroit *a^s' *s Universitv of \lichiganLovejov's College Guide, a standard reference book 011 American colleges, lists 219 schools approved bv the American Chemical Society for the training of future chemists. One hundred and twentv-nine of these recommended institutions have turned out grad uates now employed in Ethyl laboratories. They range fr0m relativelv small schools with less than 1.000 students to some of the largest like New York Universitv. with 50,000. Degrees held by Company employees cover put about everv field--chemistrv. mechanical engineerin'.;, chemical engineering, international relations, busi ness. law. liberal arts and accounting, to mention onlv some. In the men and women who hold them is reflected that intellectual power which is the true measure of a nation's greatness. As B. B. Turner, president of our Companv, said in a recent address at Rice Institute, "The countries that succeed will be the ones whose people are being equipped now to think accuratelv and to plan wiselv." :mt Tom Technical 'graduate it Tulane, The University of Kansas graduated Don Park with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. Don is a Proc ess Engineer in the Process Design Sec tion of RAD at Baton Rouge. Gene Ashby, Chemical Research, Baton Rouge RAD, attended Loyola University of the South, Alabamo Polytechnic in stitute and Notre Dame, from which he got his doctorate in chemistry. college h at the an Ethyl PhD in Chemicol Researcher Adele Rozek is at the Detroit Laboratories. She got her Bochelor's degree from nearby University of Detroit. Labs at both Baton Rouge end Detroit employ women. An assistant engineer in the Mechanical Development section of the Engineering department at Baton Rouge, Carl Hill man holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois. Bob Curry, Baton Rouge, received his PhD in Chemistry from Purdue University. A Xavior gndergrad, he Is an analytical chemist in the instrumentation group of Research and Development Services. 11 ETC 14064 ETC 14065 s ling rt-i],e most perfect example of twentieth centurv de- X si!?'1, according to a recent international jury, is a certain kind of typewriter. And a soft-drink bottle has bee" proclaimed a masterpiece bv another critic. Far-fetched? Not really. For in the modern world industrial design is frequently as creative as a piece 0f sculpture. In use, it may serve a mundane, unnlamorous purpose; but to an imaginative mind it can Fe as exciting as anything on exhibit in the Museum 0f Modem Art. Take the pictures on this page, for example. Un labeled thev might suggest a thousand things--dis torted figures, trees, or perhaps just fishbones. Actuallv, thev are autoclave stirrers, used in our manufacturing plants to mix chemical compounds before synthesizing them under heat and pressure. A varietv of such designs have been investigated to promote better mix ing of the reacting materials. Neither figures nor fishbones; onlv stirrers. And further proof that art turns up in unexpected places. ETC 14066 ride your owj In choosing hobbies, you should see to it that they contrast with physical and mental energies demanded by your job SC'V/'oung man," the late A. Edward Newton once advised, "get a hobby; preferably get two, one for indoors and one for out; get a pair of hobby horses that can safely be ridden in opposite directions." Most of us would accept the truth of Mr. Newton's recommendation without argument. For about as far back in history as you care to go, people have realized the value of having some hobby to take their minds off things. Julius Caesar, it is said, raised fighting cocks for his amusement; Queen Marie Antoinette played at being a shepherdess when the royal life got too much for her; and a mathematics teacher named Charles Lutwidgc Dodgson amused himself bv writing a children's story called "Alice in Wonderland." Com ing up to our own time, an informal survey of our friends here at the office turned up a wood-worker, a coin collector, a golfer, an amateur actress and several Sunday sailing enthusiasts--all of whom agree that a hobby is an invaluable way of "unwinding." What some of us may not realize, though, is that many people inadvertently pick leisure-time activities that prove to be more work than play, more tiring than relaxing. Admittedly, recreation is doing what you want to do, but surveys have shown that some activities are better for certain people than they are for others. It all depends, according to authorities, on what kind of job you have. Joseph Prendergast, executive director of the Na tional Recreation Association, has come up with a list of recommended pastimes based on different types of ETC 14067 i )wji hobby horse i>v writing id." Comev of our -worker, a ud several I'ee that a ;h, is that activities lore tiring >ing what that some i thev are uthorities, f the NTa-vith a list t types of work. The list is offered onlv as a guide, but it liiav help you work out a better balance between work and relaxation. Suppose you: (1) Work by yourself all day. According to Mr. Prendergast, the best forms of recreation for you are folk dancing, spectator sports, choral singing. Little Theatre or concert groups, coaching or other voluntary leadership, competitive sports or team participation. (2) Work with a group. The best pastimes would be fishing, hunting, target shooting, reading, listening to music, collecting, or volunteer leadership of chil dren's organizations. (3) Have a very active job. This type goes well with shuffleboard or horseshoe pitching, arts and crafts, checkers, crossword puzzles, model building, weaving or collecting. (4) Have a routine job. The best work-play har mony lies in roller and ice skating, skin-diving, fashion shows, dancing, weekend travel, magic tricks, com munity betterment activities, puzzles or Iroating. (5) Have a sedentary job. Try golf, archers', swim ming, table tennis, camping, dancing, boat building, boating, handball, home-workshop projects, trips and tours, or tennis. (6) Have a job involving a great deal of respon sibility. Then square dancing, photography, wood working, radio and TV listening, movie-going, golf and tennis would be good leisure activities. (7) Arc under constant supervision. For a relaxing contrast, vou should consider creative arts, sailing and boatin::, reading, adventure-travel, handball, tennis, roller and ice skatin'O:,' skiingO,' gardeningO,' sketchinog or painting. Re-examine vour own hobbv to see how it compares with Mr. Prendergast's chart. And remember: the purpose of a hobby is relaxation, not work. 15 ETC 14068 FOR YOU R ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS Among the crop of recent writers be sure to place Richard Condon in a prominent position. His first two novels. The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate, met with considerable acclaim and he amassed an ardent following. With his latest book. Some Angry Angel, he is not only going to please his loyal fans immeasurably, but accumulate a let of new ones. A McGraw-Hill publication, the latest in the Condon chain is the story of a famed gossip columnist, a man who is about as easy to hate as a Mau Mau warrior. He cer tainly won't bore you as he coils and recoils, and eventually brings about personal disaster. Mr. Condon manages to tell about it with a rare gift of style, a sharp scapel and a thorough sense of what keeps a reader glued to the page. Love in our time is the inspiration behind Hans Koningsberger's new novel. An American Romance, a slim new novel from Simon and Schuster that is worth considerably more than it weighs. If Mr. Koningsberger has no objection, we shall liken him to Francoise Sagan. He has the same sense of economy; a similarity of style; and the ability to extract a great deal of philosophy from an underwritten line or scene. He has moved in quite close to a healthy American couple who met, fell instantly in love and were married. Their problems are alt very human-problems of restlessness, of searching for that middle ground between reality and fantasy, of evaluating their love against all of the odds of the unknown search for the ideal. What would you do if you had A Choice of Heaven? J. M. Scott has some very paradisical ideas in the new Dutton novel. A shipwrecked London clerk and a Scottish sailor both, un known to each other, meet on a remote Pacific isle, where the latter has created his personal idea of heaven on earth--and it isn't a bad idea at all! To be sure, the climate is about as heavenly as anything can get and there are--count them--21 gorgeous girls. Add to it all towering palm trees, undulating surf, island moonlight, and you have an adventure story that is a pure delight. (Unfortunately, the island is not on the itinerary of Thos. Cook, but Mr. Scott's view' of it is marvelous fabrication and plum good storytelling.) Paul Gallico, who certainly needs no introduction to anyone who has ever set foot in a library, has written a sequel to his best selling Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, a small novel that seemed to entertain a vast number of ladies. This time, by wax Doubleday, Mrs. `Arris Goes to New York, where an as. sortment of sentimental and amusing incidents prove there i$ life in the old girl vet. If you are familiar with Mr. Callico'j successful character, you'll recall that she is a British charwoman. Well, she's still just as British and she hasn't lost a trace of her haccent. The prolific author moves her about an oceanliner headed for New York with a good deal of ease, surrounds her with uncharacteristic types and poms a good bit of cream into the tea. There aren't many people who know more about books than Clifton Fadiman, a man who can chart our literary course any. time. In his latest volume. The Lifetime Reading Plan, the celebrated author, critic, columnist, translator and jack-of-all. literarv-trades has done just that--selected one hundred books from antiquity to the present that represent the greatest litera ture known to Western civilization. Published by World, it is a college course in itself and an enterprise tlvat will prove rewarding even if vou are not familiar witli the books the author has chosen. Mr. Fadiman has bv no means a narrow mind; he has selected works from every possible field. What a joy it would be to know them all! It is seldom that a book as sinister!)' fascinating comes along as Simon and Schuster's Dr. Goebbels. Co-authored by Roger Manvel!, for 12 vears Director the British Film Academy, and Heinrich Fraeknel. one of the world's foremost chessplavers. While you may think this an unusual subject for two such men, thev have done a magnificent job of portraying a complex personality' with a genius for evil. Their l>ook reads like fiction, rapid and terse, with a plot that no mere imagination could possiblv conceive. Thev have found out "what manner of man is this," and have unraveled their findings into a true-life psychopathic study. . The tawdrv world of a traveling carnival is the background of David Mark's latest novel, And Where It Stops Nobody Knows, and no one lias yet to depict it as thoroughly and with such realistic detail. A Doubleday book, it is a careful scrutiny of that half-real, half-fantasy world, crowded with all ; of the rough, tough types vou might expect to encounter at the fair grounds. It is not, however, without compassion, not ! without evaluation, for the author has plenty to say about this strange way of escape and the people who flock to see the carny. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes as gay as the dancing | girls, the atmosphere is continually exciting as the story moves y toward a highlv suspenseful climax. If you're one of those people who stay up until the witching hour and bevond to watch the sometimes-amusing talk of \ guests on the Jack Paar Show, you have no doubt l.uii>lied at , the weird humor of one Jack Douglas, who made the h-st- : seller list with his recent book. My Brother Wt/s an ( *u'y Child. His latest, a Dutton release, is entitled Never Trust t A Naked Bus Driver, and it's absolutely wild. Mr D-m^Iah r humor is broad--broad? it rambles all over the place-`"it he * 16 ETC 14069 w wav of :ere an as. e there is . Callico's itish char.sn't lost a about an of ease, rs a good ooks than nurse anvPlan, the jack-of-att ired books test literaYorld, it is prove rethe author mind; he .t a joy it s along as by Roger Academy, nst chess* ct for two rtraving a >ook reads imaginaut "what dintjs into ground of . Nobody :ighly and a careful d with all .-ounter at -ssion, not about this u see the dancing rv moves witching g talk of aughed at the best- mi Only er Trust Douglas's e-but he iS tood sense of disproportion and the exaggeration that tjie basis of farce. His take-off on a lavish Chinese menu is ' ^ite finin', as is another piece on the Reader's Digest. ptiiii.ii11 Can-, whose popularity has grown from his native pi nice and spread across the world, is no mere storv teller: he ;i storv teller with ideas for his times. In his new Simon and Schuster novel. A European Education, he is at his brilliant |K-st as lie tells a tale of a youth's fight with the Polish army, where his education is one of death and destruction, hate and cn,eltv. horror and misery. This comes naturallv in the world jn which janek must struggle. The tough part is to learn the (1ppsites--love and hope, life and cheer, tenderness and com passion. Janek learns them, as all mankind must, for all is taught and humanity hangs on the choosing. Although Mademoiselle magazine is basically concerned with fashions for young women, the publication has been respon sible for some of the best short stories to be found in anv of our national magazines. In the new Harper book, Forty Best Stories From Mademoiselle, you will find some of the brightest names in contemporary literature, names such as Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Ten nessee Williams, Joyce Carey and others equally impressive. Their works are uniformly significant and, while each mav not be indicative of the author at the top of his fonn. each is far above average magazine fare. MOVIES Hecht-Hill-Lancnster, who gave Marty to the screen archives, have produced The Unforgiven for United Artist release, and it is a Western that fairlv boils with hot temper under the broiling Texas sun. To make everything in the Panhandle prettier, there is Audrey Hepburn as the younger sister of Burt Lancaster and Audie Murphv. Indian threats are responsible for the biggest problem, and the cause of it all seems to be the intimation that Miss Hepburn is really a Kiowa. Her family vigorously denies it, but their neighborhoods, anxious for an end to Indian attacks, begin to believe it. Things get pretty rough, even for Texas, and the new film emerges as superior Western fare. Scent of Mystery, Mike Todd, Jr.'s presentation in SmellO-Vision and color is pure movie-making fun. aromas and all. Fortunately, it does not have to rely upon its principal gim mick, but more upon the scent of red herring that keeps it baffling and suspenseful. The scents are actually a part of the mystery, and it's pretty engaging now and then to get a whiff of things. Photographed in Spain, it is beautiful to behold and every bit as colorful as it is aromatic. Denholm Elliot, a young British actor who resembles n youthful Laurence Olivier, that hoasts Peter Lorre. Paul Lucas. Diana Twentieth Century-Fox's latest release. Can-Can*, is based upon the Cole Purtcr-Abe Burrows Bm.ulw.n musical, which it has attempted to one better In tossing into an already agreeable score several of the tutu-smith's old favorites. The plot is reallv of verv little importance, but there is more than a fair share of good humor, hi^h spirits and inelmK. all ad mirably dispensed bv such professional vendois as Frank Sinatra. Shirley MacLaine. Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jour- dan. The Technicolor is striking, ami the dancin*: is li\olv. Paris back in the days of the horse and carriage looks like something out of a confectionary, and the entire ride is divert ing with this talented company. TELEVISION Boone Show' will offer special treats with programs filmed abroad and featuring international talent. Paris will have the spotlight on the young Mr. Boones April 14 and 21 shows, while the casual Como will present Austria, Venice and London to his viewers on April 27. One of the most delightful movies ever to kid the pants off the Russians or anyone else, .Viuotchka will be one of the big events on April 20. Entrusted to recreate the famous Greta Garbo role is the talented Maria Schell, who will be supported bv such notable personalities as Gig Young. Mischa Auer, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jules Munshin. On April 27. ABC is devoting an hour to the special charms of the French capital in a presentation called Invitation to Paris. On hand to make sure the visit is a pleasant one will be Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, Jean Sablon, Fernandcl and Patachou, all of whom are dedicated citizens of the Citv of Light. Croucho Marx, who stops at nothing, will venture into the magical world of Gilbert and Sullivan on April 29, when he will star in a Bell Telephone Hour production of The Mikado. Martvn Green, of the famous D'Oylv Carte Opera Company, will stage and adapt the work for television. On May 2, The Hallmark Hall of Fame will bring another impressive play in its superior series to TV fans-- George Bernard Shaw's Captain BrassbouncTs Conversion. Heading the cast will be Christopher Plummer and Greer Garson. On May 9, NBC will repeat for those who were unable to attend An Evening with Fred Astaire, one of the highlights of the television season. Hal Holbrook, who was recently acclaimed for his Broadwnv interpretation of Mark Twain, will star in the celebrated writer's 140*10 ETC 30 YEARS ETC 14071 RS RS llLLER Baton Rouge a technician Laboratory, d and the boys. promoted to research supervisor in charge i of the new hydrocarbon oxidation group. ON THE ROSTRUM Reporting to Tom are Margaret Grif- fing, who is now senior research associ ate; and Harold Orloff. who has been made assistant supervisor of the Hydro carbon Oxidation group. James Hin- kamp is now research supervisor ol Pe troleum Additives. Daniel Hirschler became supervisor of a new group on propellants: and Jerome Brown has be come Dan's assistant. Dan has also been ToW Sistrunk has transferred from Baton Rouge plant's Chemical Re search to Business Research and is revjnsible for commercial development of (irfianometalIic chemicals which are not preseut in the semi-commercial or Commercial stage. Fred Frey is now responsible for the research work forinerlv held by Tom. ToM Coerver, who has been on spe cial assignment with the Manufacturing appointed the research supeivisor of the Exhaust Products group, with Francis Lamb as assistant. Cleveland WalCUTT is now staff assistant to Ellis Rifkin. Harold Chalk and Joel Warren of the Detroit Labs have transferred from Chemical Research to Products Applica tion Division. The following new engineering assign ments have recently taken effect at the Baton Rouge plant; Don Chappuis is now project engineer on the Houston Wheeler Lovell of the Detroit Labs delivered the James Clavtun Lecture be fore the Institute of Mechanical Engi neers in London. England. Wheeler's paper was entitled "The Chemistrv of Future High-Compression Engines.'' Bernard Sobel, Engineering and Math ematical Sciences in Baton Rouge, re cently was a speaker at a meeting of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the So ciety for Industrial and Applied Mathe matics. department. New York staff, has been re issued to the position of general super intendent of Maintenance in Baton Rouge. He succeeds Bill Riley, who re cently left the Company. Claude Harkins has been transferred from the Southern Region to a two-year rotational assignment in Product Service and Safety, New York. Albert Haefner is now supervisor of the Intermediate Products Research group in Chemical Research and Devel opment at the Baton Rouge plant. Al was serving in this position in an acting capacity. The Detroit Laboratories' Chemical Re search division has announced the fol lowing new assignments: Rex Closson has been appointed research supervisor of a new group devoted to exploratory research. Allen Filbey is now research supervisor of Organometallic Applica tions; and William Burt has been made Allen's assistant. Charles Shepherd, YCI team; Roland Leblanc has been made project engineer for the Baton Rouge area to work on TEL projects; Roy Rutland became construction co ordinator for the Canadian EtCl-EDC project; and Jim Washington is now project engineer for the Baton Rouge Chlorinated Hydrocarbons program. Frank Cheely has been appointed director of the Chemical Engineering di vision in the Research and Development department at the Baton Rouge plant. Frank had been acting director. E. F. Diedrich. plant manager of Ethvl Corporation of Canada Limited recently announced three promotions at the Sarnia plant. George Mills has been named assistant plant manager. He joined Ethvl of Canada in 1955 as a chemical engineer, and in 1958 was promoted to operations superintendent, which he has held until his recent promotion. Maurice Siverns is now operations superintendent; and John Shirriff has been made en gineering superintendent. "Cost and Budget Functions in a Chemi cal Process Industry" was the topic of a speech given bv Dewey Fournet, Data Research in Baton Rouge, before the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Ameri can Institute of Industrial Engineers held at the Bellemont. Shelby Lowe, EtCl Maintenance in Baton Rouge, addressed inmates at the Louisiana Penitentiary in Angola. The program was arranged by the Knights of Columbus, at the request of the prison chaplain, to have local business people speak to the prisoners every week. Carl Alsterberg of the Detroit Labs gave a talk at a meeting of the Michigan Nucleonics Society in Detroit. His speech was titled "The Chemistrv of Future High-Compression Engines." NEWS BRIEFS in addition to his duties as research su pervisor of the stability group, is now re sponsible for the bench-scale evaluation of antioxidants in .petroleum products. Herbert Sumner, in addition to his duties as research supervisor in charge of the new group devoted to research on metal plating, is also responsible for the bench-scale wear and friction research. The five men mentioned above are reporting to Arthur Hawkes; and the New assignments for two men in Eco nomic Evaluation at Baton Rouge have recently been announced. Bryan Day has been transferred to Engineering Services in Houston; and Arthur Helwjg lias been named acting supervisor of Economic Evaluation. Robert Geiger of Business Research in Baton Rouge has been transferred to the Detroit Labs to assume responsibility for Jon Buyan, son of Theresa Buvan of tlie Detroit Labs, was one of three Uni versity of Detroit students recently chos en Seniors of the Year on the basis of grade averages and activities. Jon, an electrical-engineering major, is president of the Tau Beta Pi chapter, correspond ing secretary of the Engineering Student Council, and Enroller for the Honor Council. men mentioned below are reporting to Ellis Rifkin. Thomas Coffield has been developing certain markets for the Com pany's alkylated phenols. Anne Gayle, daughter of Homer Tan ner of Technical Service in Baton Rouge, 19 ETC 14072 a,n uuTTc^t?" ui uHAciilN In (lie Lluicu States or Canada. Anne is a senior at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massa chusetts. Raymond Coxe, son of Eduard Coxe of Baton Rouge plant, was a member oi the United States Air Force rescue team which was one of the first to arrive in Agadir, Morocco, just a few hours attei the recent earthquake. Raymond is sta tioned at a base in Morocco near Agadir. The National Association of Suggestion Systems has requested reprints of the two-page Idea Bowl feature in the Januarv 1960 issue of The Antiknock for dis tribution to approximate!v 1.000 member companies throughout the United States. The Idea Bowl, featuring leading sug gested on the Baton Rouge plant, was developed by Dick Day and Tom Stephenson of the Baton Rouge plant. When Mike Vanecek, son of Jerome Vanecek of the Houston plant, recently completed his '`boot" training at San Di ego, he was selected as Academic Award Winner and Outstanding Recruit of his company. Winston Day, 14-vear-old son of Dick Day of Employee Relations, Baton Rouge plant, who is president of the student council of Baton Rouge Junior High, re cently served as the schools "principal for a day." SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the following employees in Detroit, New York and the Sales Department: Detroit: Leslie Motson, $30.00 (Eliminate steam valve and manual con trol from unit heaters). New York: Anne M. Daul, $15.00 (At employees' discussion meetings, a representative give a talk on Ethyl's new products in layman's language). Sales Department: F. D. Baker, cer tificate ("Impact of the Compact Car hucu'.ci'n p.iCk.ixcu, iH small samples of products); J. T. Beck-\xtth, S15.00 (Gasoline sample cans be painted red to avoid penalties and pro mote safety regulations); Alexander G. Gulis, S15.U0 (Change order pro cedure to eliminate duplication m writ ing and acknowledging oi tiers): F. D. Baker and N. ]. Linstromberg, $100.00 (Develop farm tractor preven tive maintenance program with presen tation); Ann Selfridge, $15.00 (Place section I of Form 476 REV. 4-55 at top of perforated page and section II at bottom). ;.;y IN THE FIELD ^ Merrill Anderson, field engineer in the Chicago district, was a guest speaker at the Wyoming Engineering Society's annual 1960 convention, which was sponsored bv The Frontier Refining Company. Merrill's presentation was en titled "The Future of the Piston in Passenger Cars.'' Joe Hopkins, regional merchandiser in the Eastern Region, gave the Creative Thinking presentation during two sepa rate meetings of the Esso Bayonne Re finery. There was an audience of 75 supervisors present at each meeting. Lewis Rumph, automotive engineer in the Atlanta district, was selected a mem ber of the Audit Committee of the At lanta Farm Equipment Club for 1960. Kerney Hurst of Advertising and Sales Promotion in New York recently completed an advertising and selling course conducted bv the Advertising Club of New York. Jack Close and Ken Jost, both of the Houston district office, recently pre sented die Mobilgas Quality Show for the Mobil company's future sales train ing personnel. The show was held at the Mobil's training station in Dallas, .Texas. Tuuiae un management ui tue AnierSS Management Association in New YorU ;v WEDDINGS^ New York Carol Tobias and Dan Blrack were married oil Febman -S. Alter hnnev. mooning in Jamaica. B.W.I.. the couple settled in Riverdale, New Yoik. Dan is in Finance. Southern Region Covar Jeppe, daughter of Doughs jeppe. New Orleans district manager, was married to Eugene Dabezies on December 19 at the Trinity Episcopal Church in New Orleans. The couple traveled to Mexico for their wedding trip. EXTRACURRICULAR Claude ArCENEAUX of Research & De velopment Services, Baton Rouge, has been elected the first chairman of tlie newlv organized Louisiana Society for Electron Microscopy. The organization, which has as char ter members 50 people engaged in elec tron microscopy work in the state, was lormed during an organizational meet ing recently held at the Louisiana State Universitv's School of Medicine. Four Baton Rouge plant engineers have recently been elected to serve on the board of the American Society of Mech anical Engineers in Baton Rouge. Sam Roberts was elected secretary, and Louis Dupont and Dick Phillips were named members of the executive committee. Art Decker, retiring chair man of the board, is an ex-officio mem ber of the executive committee. Ross Rife of the Detroit Labs was elec ted by members of the Ferndale City Planning Commission to be their new chairman. Ross has served four or five years on the Commission, which advises 20 ETC 140^3 .,/ vck were r honevie couple . Dan is Douglas manager, EZIES on Episcopal e couple wedding ch & Deuge, has n of the cietv for as charl in electate, was rul meetma State ers have on the of Mechge. Sam m', and Phillips executive ng chair;io mem- was elec:ale City ieir new .r or five i advises jit- citv ffovernmeut on zoning requests. f control, and other municipal prob- ciation. Burke has been active in the formation of the state croup and will Bells. R.w is an account representative in San Antonio. Texas. assist in conducting the first statewide checker tournament in Alexandria later Arthur and Rose Ann DeLaune-.i \Villiam Ball, assistant director ut Relations, New York, recemlv this \ear. son. Don Michael, born on .\uwnux-i 20. Art is a field representative in Lake re-elected t0 *he Board of Trustees John Klock of the Baton Rouge plant Charles. Louisiana. f flic* Village of Lurchmont. Bill was was the chairman of arrangements lor fip-t appointed to the board in N'ovem- the Annual Bov Scouts Circus in Baton Howard and Lois Gerber-u daughter iw.r jy-53 and since 1956 has been re Rouge, [ohn is a member of the I>- Sally Ann, born on Februarv 14. i t.lecto>C1 three times. trouma Area Council executive board. weighing 7 pounds 10 ounces. The Gerbeis are parents of two other children. \,ilT0N Ketter, assistant purchasing ^eut at the Pittsburg plant, has been [flvanced to certificated membership in die American Society of Traffic and Tjun*portation' lnc* To obtain membership in this societw oliich b ;t professional group for indus trial traffic management personnel, can didates must pass Tigid written examina tions and prepare written studies of original problems in the freight field. Roy Clothier and Pud Marjx, both of Baton Rouge, have been re-elected on the board of directors of the local Red Cross Chapter. William Mc Carthy, also of the plant, is continuing as a member of the board. Kathleen. 7b \ears old. and Michael. 13 years old. Pop is an account repiescutative in Corpu> Cluisti. Texas. In Memoriam It was with the deepest regret that his manv friends at Ethvl learned of the death of Arthur W. Myers, a retired emplovee who died on Februarv 24. Arthur, who joined the Companv in 1946 and retired last vear, was a tool Cal GlaSSBROOK of Research 6c Devel opment in Baton Rouge is one of the in structors conducting a free nine-week ^fetv course for small boat owners be crib attendant at the Detroit Labs. He is survived by his wife. Martha, his son and daughter, and five grand children. ing held at the Highway Building Audi ! torium in Baton Rouge. i Leonard Watlington of TEL Opera Pittsburg tions in Baton Rouge was a member of the winning team in the recent Sher wood Forest Pro-Am Golf Tournament in Baton Rouge. Freddie G. and Margaret Beck--a sou, Freddie H., bom on January 31. The voting lad weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces. Pop is a maintenance trainee Answers to `'Where Are You?" 1. (a) pot; (b) Knife; (c) fork; (d) sink; (e) pan; (f) Tray; (g) Class; (h) Pitcher; (O plate; (jl saucer; (kl Range; (11 cup: (in) dish. You were in a kitch en. 2. (a) paper; (b) Desk; (c) forms: III at the plant. Clarence Harvey of Business Re i search in Baton Rouge served as a Robert and Dorothy Doxsee, Jr.-a judge in the chemistry division of the son, Edward, born on February 27. Seventh Regional Science Fair held at weighing 5 pounds 3 ounces. Bub is a University High School in Baton Rouge. technician at the plant. id) type; (e) pen: (f) calendar; (g) Secretary: (li) Telephone: (i) basket: (j) file; (k) Ink; (1) Rule. You were in an office. 3. (a) grass; (b) Swing; (e) Ruse; (d) bulb; (e) tree: (f) Spades; (g\ Flower, (h) Leaves; (0 Plant; (j) Maxine Blue of the New Orleans dis trict office was elected vice president in the 1960 New Orleans Desk and Derrick Club elections. Dick Lundquist of the Detroit Labs served as a judge at Romeo's Junior High School Science Fair. Students of the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades pre pared about 360 exhibits. Jack and Norma Jones-.i daughter. Kimberly, born on Jamuirv 1. The tinv miss tipped the scales at 7 pounds 7 ounces. The proud pop is a mainte nance technician at the plant. Kenneth and Carole Scott--a son. Gary, bom on October 10, weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces. Ken is an operations technician at the plant. paths; (kl gates; (11 Fence: (in) Foun tain; (n) primrose: (o) Nine; (p) Dais ies. You were in a garden. 4. (a) deck; (b) Captain's; (c) Sails; (cl) Mast; (e) holds; (f) port; (g) course; (h) hatch; (i) sailor: (j) ship; (k) schooner. Yuii were on the water. 5. (a) onion; (b) Jelly; (c) oats; (d) Cabbages; (e) Pep pers; (f) Orange; (g) apple; (h) mop; (i) Tea; (j) egg; (k) salt; (1) spice; (m) bacon; (n) chicken; (o) cream. Members of ETHCO, Ethyl-sponsored James and Mary Jo Sullivan--u son, Junior Achievement Company, were Mark, bom on December 27. The little guests at a meeting of the Ethvl Man fellow weighed SJs pounds at birth. Pop agement Club in Baton Rouge. Ray is a maintenance technician at the plant. Metternich was the programs chair man. Southern Region I Burke Grandjean of Business Re Ray and Celia Bell--a daughter, search in Baton Rouge was named as Karen Marie, bom on February 6. sistant to the state president in the The little miss, who weighed 5 pounds newly formed Louisiana Checker Asso 12 ounces at birth, is the first for the You were in a grocery store. 6. (a) Dia mond; (b) watch; (c) silver; (d) plati num; (c) Emerald; (f) Pearl; (g) gold; (h) Rings; (i) pin; (j) Ruby; (k) stone; (1) Gem; (m) clip. You were in a jew elry shop. 7. (a) Pond; (b) cow; (c) Farm; (d) Mill; (e) Fields; (f) mule; (g) pig; (h) turkev; (i) bay; (j) Trees; (k) \Vagnn; (1) barn; (m) Donkey; (n) corn; (o) cabin; (p) horse; (ij) harness. You are out in the country. ETC 14075 I unotive be pre- TULANE TEAMMATES r I Vo former teammates enjoved a nostalgic reunion *- recently at a meeting of the Ethyl Management Club in Baton Rouge. Charlev Kvle, Legal (at right above) swapped old stories with Claude "Monk" Si mons, featured speaker at the meeting. Charlev and Monk were both on the Tulane football team that plaved (and won) in the first Sugar Bowl game. BIG DUCK HUNTER ' I Mie hunting season mav be over, but memories of triumph are still fresh for Jim Lowe, ten-vear-old son of Clarence Lowe, general superintendent of maintenance at the Houston plant. Young Jim par ticipated in a shoot near Katv, Texas, and as the pho tograph below shows, he bagged his share of plump mallards and pintails. ETC 14076 "t o J* t y r t r r RECORD AWARD EJ. Darraugh, traffic supervisor at the Houston Plant, is shown above receiving a Suggestion Svstem check from Finance Superintendent H. D. Crook. The award, S150, is the largest ever presented to a Houston plant supervisor. The suggestion in voked a Sales Department procedure, and provides further proof that suggestions do pay off. DETROIT FLOWER SHOW HThe woodland setting being admired above bv Pau) 'j Thompson of Chemical Research at the Detroit t labs isn't up in the Michigan woods, as first appear- i ances might suggest. It s in the Detroit Armory, part J of an exhibit set up bv the Michigan Botanical Club f for the annual Detroit Flower Show. Paul designer) i the outdoor scene, which won several awards. , more people, more places ^TM*"1" JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT President Manager M. C. Hudgins of the Houston plant (left below) presents Rodnev Cox, presi dent of the Ethvl-sponsored Glo-Mark Specialties company, with Glo-Mark's charter. Looking on is Assistant Resident Manager J. F. Kobler and A. C. Hopper, superintendent of Employee and Community Relations. SERVICE MAN Tn the photograph below, Fred Ramin, manager of j our Yonkers gasoline testing laboratory, is shown ! with Victor Buckle, center, and Gene Murphy, right, i both employees of Ashland Oil and Refining Com- i pane at Canton, Ohio. In describing the latest gaso- | line testing methods, Fred exemplifies Ethel's belief ! that "service .is as important as product. " ! 4 ETC i 40 77 toy Paul Detroit : appearony, part cal Club designed &. uniger of is. shown list right, n<j Corn iest gaso ils belief MANAGEMENT club officers ewlv-elected officers of the Ethyl Management N Club at the Houston plant were installed at a Sendees, R&D, out-going president: Dewev Burkes, Employee and Community Relations, who conducted iccent meeting of the club. Shown at the installation the installation procedure; Bob Maeser, supervisor, ceremonies in the photograph above, left to right, are Operations, the new vice president; and Charles Hugh Gordon, engineer, R&D, who is the new treas Smallwood, Maintenance, the club secretarv for 1960. urer; Jess Tovey, Maintenance, the new club presi The incoming officers will direct the varied activities dent; Clifton Gremillion, acting supervisor, Technical of the Management Club during this vear. DATA AT DINNER Ethel's Casey Jones, supervisor of the passenger car and accessorv section. Technical Service, Detroit Laboratorv, recentlv addressed a dinner meeting of local management of the Sun Oil Companv's refinevv in Toledo, Ohio. Casey, seated at right (leaning for ward, wearing dark suit and glasses) spoke on new trends in passenger cars. Bob Richardson, district manager of the Philadelphia office, stands at left while making the introduction. Other Ethvl men who at tended the meeting were Norm Linstromberg, man ager of the Cleveland district office: Ed Michael, account representative, Philadelphia district; Al Gulis, account representative, Chicago district; and Lou Slack, Product Service Engineer, Cleveland district. ETC 14078 ETC 14079 ETC 14080 THE POWER OF SUGGESTION ETC 14081 ETC 14082 i r m m r t- T'd .' TKriisuLW HKM m .m w ^ r - r r tfs s s s s ' ^ w rS Hjie.Tim w y -TC 3n^u ETHYL Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited f.r IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Pick a Day in May........................ 2 In Case of Emergency.................... 4 Weather for Wheels........................ 8 A New Look at the Magic Circle. 10 ... And Bring Along the Children 12 Across the Board........... For Your Entertainment Milestones ........................ Ethyl Welcomes............. Personals .......................... People and Places......... Leonhard Dowty ...............................Editor William Warren ............... Associate Editor Stella Sideris ................. Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: I.ouise Muffet; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robichaux; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Bayleriao, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Aiyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Neva Yanakeft; Houston: Dave Agnew, Don Connell, Elizabeth Dodson; Kansas City: Lola Chinn, Jane Hudlemeyer; Los Angeles: Harr}' Manning; Alexico: Mike Espinosa; New Orleans: Maxine Blue: New York: Jim Donohue, Wilma, Hana, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madee Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace; Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield: Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Meredene Portzer; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst; photographer: Fred Green, Judy Schaub: San Francisco: Jeff Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers Testing: Cather ine Henderson; Yonkers Central: A1 Morschauser; Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Sarnia: C. G. Manore; Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON OL'R COVER: Young Paul Stevenson, son of Harold Stevenson of the Instrument Section at the Detroit Labs, receives congratulations from his mother Pat after winning a prize Jt the annual Bingo party. Story and pictures of the party on page 12. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. B. B. Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer: Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. all its gaiety,'the merry, meriy monji is by no means noted for frivolity alone. .Tfiroog theyears any number of significant events have^oi ;/i?3E=Q:'cuixed during the 31 days of;the. fifth'nionthy.sqS of_them world shaking, some of them joyous, some o ^ them, bitter. At any rate. May has not been slaclc'nj -iiy the annals of history. Here are . some events mark thejdays of May.;' May X? 1073 -- The United States Tost'Office pu .penny, postcards on sale for ;the first-lime.^3^p 2^1954 -- Stan. Musial,' playing, for; ;ihe^$ Lbiiis Cardinals', established "a major' league^rec"for home runs in a doubleheader. i?lZ^;-7*May 3, 1810 -- Lord Byrra'swam^Sbie^lleDcspouS :-*-TStS%lMdy 4,1863 -- General Robert E.'LMlaniJ federate- forces-.defeated-, the...NorthemvArmiesj. Chancelldrsville. ' A/flfJ 5'7^30 7 __ Monnlonn Rrmnnopio' rliotl inf pt) ~ on the is May 6, 1937--The German dirigible Hindenburi -explodedat Lakehurst, New rt:y.^'d'Ai:. .May 7,1812-- Robert Browmjng"was lni.";Ando ^ihe''samd;'date'in-'1833 and' IS^jj-TfespScrivelyr/! ETC 14083 'T iiHWUSHg -^>1 i :L: j. s ^ - v -.- Yi\; '\ 1 I ' .' S I -.-w V /' _ / - '- /'' s- ^ --/'S'V'' My *" v , V*'' ** c. ' * - t - L i" .- V- ' ` day in May I of May; hrough ave oci, some >ome of stack in its that 7^ May 9, 1926 -- Commander Richard E. Byrd and ; Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole. JO, J865 -- Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, was captured. May 11,1858 -- Minnesota became a state. May 12, 1937 -- George VI was crowned King of England. May 13, 1607 -- The first colonists to establish a May 22,1813 -- Richard Wagner.was bom in Leip zig, 46 years to the day before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.' May 23, 1701 -- The notorious Captain Kidd was hanged in London. May 24, 1626 -- Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Indians for the equivalent of $24 and founded the colony of New Amsterdam. ace put permanent English setdement in the New World landed near die James River and started what was to May 25, 1935--The immortal Babe Ruth swatted out his last home run. the St. record spont. ris Con nies at become Jamestown. May 26, 1954 -- The funeral ship of the Egyptian if -. ~ May 14, 1802 -- Captain Meriwether Lewis and ' Pharaoh Cheops was'unearthed. '" ' ; ' ; '; fe; William Clark set out from St. Louis on their expedition to the Pacific Coast. . / ^ May 27,1937 -- San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge . opened to traffic. ... - . 'V 4 May 15 is Straw Hat Day. J. .. . . ; ~' - May 28,1929 -- The first all-color, all-talking motion ^'. ' 1 May 16, 1903 --George S. Wyman left San Fran- picture, On With the Show, opened on Broadway at ' ^ ----- ,.cisco on a motorcycle ride to New York, where he ar-: the Winter Garden. - - _ in exile rived less than a month later. ` ..J. ' J-/ May 17, 1875 -- The first Kentucky Derby was run" May 29, 1736-- Patrick Henry was bom. May 30, 1431 -- Joan of Arc met her death at the , lenburg at Churchill Downs.. May 18, 1860 -- Abraham Lincoln is nominated as a stake in Rouen. May 31, 1889 -- Johnstown suffered its disastrous And on v, comikovsky - presidential candidate. : ' ' $y^;' May 19,1536 -- Anne Boleyn lost her head. T May 20,-1932 -- Amelia Earhart took off on the A? flight that distinguished her as the first woman ever to flood.' T' . .. = ' V., . ; ' What will be the most significant day in May this ~ year?. Well, no one can predict that. But one thing .; that we do not know for sure is that most every day in red the War II fly the Atlantic alone. ;/.; ~ !giMay 21, 1819 -- The.first bicycle, imported from May is a day in which to see the countryside by car, ETC 14084 ETC 14085 ETC 14086 her cause which might develop sastrous fire or explosion, or road responsibilitv calls for a emergence rescue techniques, the Detroit crew have devoted e to studs ing and testing vari.. .ealistic drills are onlv part of their training activities, which also include frequent discussion meetings and home studv. The current crew members, who were selected on the basis of their experience and familiarity with lab operations, are A1 Bozung, Bill Fangert. Karl Schmid and Larrv Sibson, of Product Application: Rav Good win, Bob Isanhart, John Pesonen and Laurel Wilkin son of Services; and Emmie Ide, Jim Jackson, Chet Kellev and Jimmy O'Xeill of Chemical Research. Fritz Schroeter acts as supervisor of the crew. The members attend one formal meeting per month for purposes of training and studs'. Here thev learn to use such safety equipment as gas masks, inhalators, and stretchers, and practice various first aid tech niques. Complete familiarity with the labs is important to effective rescue procedure, and to achieve this the crew has made inspection tours of all tunnels, mezza nines and remote areas, as well as a study of diagrams showing the locations of safetv equipment, electrical disconnects, critical valves and other equipment. Standing, from left to right, Emmie Ide, Ray Goodwin, Schmid, Chester Kelley and Jimmy O'Neill prepare to "victim" Bob isanhart onto stretcher during drill at lab. : Three crew members have taken rescue training from the Ferndale Civil Defense organization, and these have assisted in training the rest of the crew ^ special techniques. All the men have visited the Ferndale Fire Department to observe procedures in there, and plans are being made for a visit to the entergency room of a local hospital. In addition to these activities, the men are also assigned regular lessons in "Rescue Skills and Techniques," a standard tcxtltoolc published bv the U. S. Civil Defense Administration. Full-scale drills take place about everv two months, and actual emergence conditions are simulated. The use of "scripts" such as the one quoted above has lteen found particularly helpful in giving the operations a heightened sense of reality. Crew members draw their "roles" blindly, and onlv the drill supervisor shares the actor's knowledge of what his movements are to ETC 14087 training ion, and crew in lie Fern 'S in use lie emerto these essons in textbook istration. months, ed. Tlie has lieen -u tions a aw tlieir r sliares is are to ke Tims the employee in the crawl tunnel with the broken arm came as a surprise to the other members of (lie crew, who had to form their judgments onl\ on the p-isis of what they saw and heard. Usually the drill "situations" are suggested and thinned bv crew members on the basis of their own personal knowledge of what could happen in various actions of the lab, but on one occasion the emergency cUieht nearly all of them bv surprise. Fritz and two members planned the test operation secretly, so that the crew responded to what thev thought was a real distress signal. Smoke from carefully concealed smokebombs, the sound of breaking glass, and the hindering tactics of a planted helper all added to the realism of the drill. The long hours of practice and classroom studv paid off, however, and the results of the im promptu emergency offered gratifying proof that the crew can meet the unexpected as well as the expected. After each drill, Fritz and the crew hold a discussion meeting and go over the operation point bv point, evaluating the rescue techniques employed. If am' weak spots are uncovered, thev are analyzed and cor rected. So far, it has not been necessary for the Rescue Crew to meet and deal with a bona fide situation. Thanks to the highly efficient safety practices at the Labs, they mav never have to. But an important part of anv good safety program is to be readv -- in case of emergency. ETC 14088 \V N.i \ \. \ vTv \ t\ fjgr //HI V/i // //! \\\ 'Cm -.. /' ri'i ^ ,, // \^ WEATHER FOh\ Throughout the country there are something like 25 million bicvcles and uncounted millions of tricycles, scooters, wagons and pairs of roller skates. Right now, with the pleasant spring weather upon us, there will be times when vou will be convinced that every last one of these small frv vehicles is in opera tion at one and the same time--and all in the imme diate vicinity where vou are motoring on vour round of Saturday errands or enjoving a leisurelv Sunday afternoon drive. From behind a parked car, just as vou prepare to drive past it at a respectable 20 miles per, mav dart a cute pom-tailed voting miss on her roller skates, forgetting to look either to her right or left, or even ahead or back of her. And everv last intersection, it will seem, has as standard equipment a laughing, freckled boy who picks just the moment your car approaches to come zooming out of nowhere right across your path to join forces with a waiting buddy on the other side of the street. The smallest of the small fry--twisting, turning, weaving up, down, across and over the street on their tricycles and wagons-- will appear to be as numerous as the summer insects. It should follow that so long as children are old enough to be enjoying life on wheels, thev should be old enough to know and obey the rules of the road. But we older folks know it doesn't work that way. The burden falls upon us to be double on the alert so that our motoring and their carefree riding will not be marred bv tragedy. Those wlio have youngsters in their own household have still a further obligation. It is their responsibility to make certain that the bicycles, tricvcles, skates, scooters and wagons their children drive are in tip top mechanical condition and that the voting opera tors know how to handle them. Particularly is this true in regard to bicycles. The fact that usually only older children ride bikes is no guarantee of safety. It is apt to he just the opposite. Teen-agers like nothing better than a session of der ring-do on their bicvcles, trying to outperform their pals in such tricks as "look, ma, no hands" and lump ing on and off their bikes while in motion. Two-wheelers are a problem in--and to--most vmnmunities. Many towns have adopted strict Inode ordinances, and violators are fined both in money ETC 14089 )/? WHEELS Spring not only brings out the buds, it brings out tykes on bikes and increases your responsibility as a motorist and a parent art- old ' should s of the ork that v- on the e riding luschold risibility , skates, _* in tip5 opera- ies. The res is no pposite. 5 of derrrn their d jump- ast co111. bicvcle i money and by having their bikes impounded for periods ranging from a day to a month. This is hitting the bo\s and girls where it will do the most good, for the SI fine that is usually levied means three less ice cream sodas that week. It's a real telling blow, too, when they are deprived of the use of their "wheels" for any length of time. You know how lost you are when your automobile is tied up for even a few hours getting a grease and oil job. Bicvcle mishaps don't always make headlines but they are far more numerous than most of us realize. Considerable progress has been made in recent years in reducing the number of cycling accidents but there is still a big job to be done. That's where you come in--first of all by being especially careful while driving through populated areas and, secondly, by making sure that any foot-powered vehicles in your house hold are in A-l condition and that the youngsters (or adults, for that matter) who ride them know the rules and courtesies of the road. It takes but a few minutes to check a bicycle's working parts and give a bicycle safe-driving test. Why not--right now--inspect any bicycles used by members of vour family? Are the handlebars, hand grips and fenders securely in place? Is the drive chain tight enough? Are the tires and rims in good condition? Does the bell or born work? If driven at night, is the bicycle equipped with a rear reflector and front headlight? Are the brakes in good order? After you ve checked these items, put vour bicvcle riders through a simple series of tests. Does the child know the proper hand signals for turning and stop ping? Can he or she avoid obstacles in the road with out losing balance? How about emergency stopping? Can the rider change direction quickly to avoid strik ing an automobile or pedestrian and yet swing into the path of another car? What is true about automobile safety applies no less to our young people in the operation of their ve hicles. They should be carefully taught how to handle their wheeled fun, how to enjoy their youthful loco motion without endangering themselves or others, and made to appreciate the responsibility that must accompany their privilege. Whether weather for wheels is perfect or not depends as much upon the climate of safety as it does upon nature. H1' ETC 14090 ETC 14091 a new look at the Magic Circle Last month, with a special "Fisherman's Magic Cir cle" in Outdoor Life magazine, Ethyl opened its I960 Magic Circle campaign, the sixth consecutive vear of this popular program to help the oil industry sell more gasoline and other service station products. As in past years, the campaign will seek to stimulate more driving by encouraging motorists to take more Magic Circle trips. But this year Magic Circle Adver tising will have a new look. To the basic concept have been added several innovations to increase public at tention, strengthen customer impact and build up Oareater merchandising force. First of all, the 1960 campaign will affect more readers directlv through the use of localized advertise ments in the various regional issues of Life, Look and the Saturday Evening Post. Previouslv Magic Circle ads in these national magazines were the same the country over. Now for the first time ads can appear regionallv; in other words, four different ads will run simultaneously in one issue, covering the four major geographic areas of the nation. Motorists in Portland, Maine, for example, will read an ad suggesting trips in New England or the Eastern states. At the same time, car owners in Portland, Ore gon, reading the same issue of the same magazine, will find a Magic Circle of direct regional appeal to them, such as a West Coast or Rocks' Mountain trip. Each Circle can thus be aimed at that segment of the reading public most interested in it. In addition to Life, Look and the Saturday Evening Post, plus two "specials" in Outdoor Life and Sports Afield, Ethyl will also sponsor regional advertisements in Sunset magazine on the West Coast. A new look, too, will be added to the special Magic Circle ads for Sunday newspaper supplements. These ads, which were started last sear, will be continued in 27 major oil marketing areas and svill continue to supply copy, maps and illustrations of local interest. But this year, as a further inducement to get people out for more pleasure driving, the ads svill include an up-to-the-minute calendar of major esents scheduled for the area. Another nesv feature ol the 1960 campaign is en largement of the Magic Circle Trasel Clinic. Some 60 articles on suggested automoble trips svill be pros ided to the top dailv and Suudav nesvspapcrs that regu larly carried this feature last s ear, and, in addition, the Trasel Clinic svill be made available this s ear to more than 500 small-tosvn dailies and ssceklies throughout the country. A special sersice svill also be pros ided to 350 leading women radio commentators, svhose com bined female- listening audience runs svell into the millions. All these innosations are based on intensise studies and surseys made by our Adscrtising and Sales Pro motion Department and the Young and Rubicam adscrtising agency, svhich bandies the Magic Circle campaign. What readers svant and ss-liv they ss-ant it are important questions in deselopiug an effectisc promotional program, and the success of the Magic Circle is due in large part to the continuing effort to make it better cs cry s ear. In its first fisc years, the Magic Circle campaign has svon the enthusiastic approval of both the petroleum industry and the driving public. With its "new look", the 1960 program promises to be the most effectis e vet. 11 i i .1 SH 1 ii i ETC 14092 ETC 14093 ...and bring along the children Approximately 425 employees of the Detroit Labs - and their families attended die festive Bingo partv This alert young player is Gary Hnizda, the son of Vincent Hnizda of Chemical Research. held recently at the Acom Post of the VFW in Roval Lab Oak, Michigan. The party, which was sponsored bv the local Ethvl Society, featured a variety of prizes for both children and adults in each of the 12 games called bv L. C. Wilkinson and his assistant Christine Bongero. Serving refreshments to the Bingo players and work ing in the kitchen at the party were Bill Burns, Bud Goddard, Ray Goodwin, Bob Isanhart, Jim Jolly, Dan LaPoint, Dick Lundquist, Carl Michael, Frank Mvers, George Porth and Carl Wolf. Prizes given were se lected by Anne Pearson and Ken Ralph. First started several -yearos ago,' the Detroit Bingoo party has become a popular annual event with Lab employees and, as the pictures on these pages show, Maureen O'Meara, whose Janet Hirschler, daughter of Dan dad, Bob, is with Purchasing. Hirschier of Chemical Research. with their children as well. According to all reports, this year's gathering was one of the best ever held. sted by oology. Paul Stevenson, son of Harold Stevenson, Instrument Section, fills in his final number for a Bingo score. David and Glenn Smith enjoy a pretzel while their dad Morvin Smith, Technical Service, helps keep watch over their cards. Dale Buerstetta, Refinery Technology, gives fatherly aid to son Danny. ETC 14094 ETC 14095 across the board Meet Ethyl's growing family of products for the petroleum industry TT'or manv vears Ethvl Corporation was known as a "one-product" company, but that singleness of purpose, like main- other persistent images, has passed into the pages of ancient historv. Today the Company is a very different kind of enterprise indeed, and it has become increasingly diversified. Although antiknock compounds are still our principal product and we continue to lead the field in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, we have added considerably to our growing family of products for the petroleum industry. Continued research in our laboratories at Detroit and Baton Rouge has produced an impressive number of new "Ethyl" products for our customers as well as the bright promise of many, many more to come. At present the Compain- is marketing 56 products, a far cry from just a few short vears back. Of these, 44 are available in commercial quantities and 12 in development quantities (relativelv small amounts with which our customers can conduct tests and evaluation studies.) Our line of products is divided into two groups: 31 are classified as "additives," and 24 fall into the general category of "chemicals." Additives are products which improve the performance or char acteristics of other products, while our chemical products are compounds which have a wide range of petroleum and industrial application. Under the classification of "additives," the Company markets 4 Antiknock Compounds, 4 Ignition Control Compounds, 1 Multi-Purpose Additive, 8 Antioxidants, 1 Diesel Ignition Improver, 2 Monopro pellants and 12 Oil Soluble Dyes. In the category of "chemicals," Ethyl Corporation produces 6 OrthoAlkvlated Chemicals, 5 Aluminum Alkvls and Mixtures, 5 Alkvl Aluminum Halides, 3 Chlorinated Hydrocarbons, 3 Sodium Products and 2 miscellaneous chemicals. Such technical and chemical names as Azobcnzcnc-4-azo-2-naphthol (methyl derivatives). Dimethyl Xylyl Phosphate, Diisopropylaminoanthraejuinone, Tris (chloroisopropyl) Thionophosphatc, Tetraethyl lead plus Methylcyclopcntadiemjl Manganese Tricarbonyl and Orthoisopropylphenol may seem no more than tongue-twisters to most people, but to our chemists, engineers and technicians they are the words that stand for the output of their inventiveness and diligent research. They are big words that do big things in the field of petro leum and automotive progress. Put them all together, they spell Ethyl. a. jj i 4i l! I ETC 14096 1 I FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT Robert Graves enjovs a comfortable reputation as a poet, novel* ist, essayist, historian, translator and lecturer, and samples of all these varied talents are to be found in his latest Doubleday release, Food for Centaurs. In the sharp, clear style which has earned him widespread critical praise over the past 40 years, he examines such seemingly disparate subjects as Ava Gardner, the poetiy of T. S. Eliot, Benedict Arnold's treason, and the Trojan war, to mention only a few; and he also throws in twenty-odd poems for good measure. Whatever his topic, Mr. Craves is always highly stimulating company -- learned but never dull, light but never frivolous. New Yorkers will probably be especially interested in Joseph Mitchells The Bottom of the Harbor, published by Little, Brown, but readers anywhere should appreciate the excellence of his writing and reporting. The book brings together Mr. Mitchell's collected writings about the New York harbor, a strange and fascinating world known onlv to a few insiders and full of both charm -and terror. Among the topics explored are the celebrated restaurant affectionately known as Sloppy Louie's, the men who fish in the harbor and the time (in 1943) the dread bubonic plague almost struck New York. Such is the skill of Mr. Mitchell's writing that even landlubbers will recognize the sights, sounds and scents of the world's greatest harbor. The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1959 continues the annual collection of the 20 best short stories to appear on the pages of that wade-read periodical during the year. A Double day product, the latest in the series presents a wide variety of prose ranging from the highly humorous to the highly dramatic, and all of it is of a uniform calibre. Such first-rate authors as Shirley Jackson, Frank Harvey, Sean O'Faolain, John O'Hara, Paul Horgan, Robert Nathan and Nicholas Monsarrat are among the contributors. Craftsmanship has never been demon strated more clearly than between the covers of this pleasant sampler, which contains a measure of entertainment for every one in the family. In a world where hoaxes are forever popping up in the head lines of the tabloids, John R. Brinkley doesn't take a back seat to any of the frauds who ever pulled the wool over the eves of the unsuspecting. ,In Rinehart's The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, Gerald Carson has set forth an awesome true story* of the infamous medical quack who almost twice became the governor of Kansas, and it is a rousing bit of rf portage that reads with all of the vitality of suspense Youth was the biggest product Brinkley peddled to the ag^ and he almost got awav with it until government agencies able to catch him out of the bounds of legality. A powerf,j charlatan in the flesh, he is a powerful and ghoulish charact^ on the printed page. Take a look at The View from the Fortieth Floor. The* dore H. White's new novel (he wrote The Mountain Road and Fire in the Ashes) takes vou into the offices of a once-influers tial magazine that conducts its publishing operations high over Manhattan. The view in the new Sloane release, however, i, considerably closer as it depicts the collapse of the company and the men who are caught up in the demise. Mr. White has made something thoroughly engrossing of his material and his characters have a criss-cross of motives and emotions that keeps them going with more than ordinary vitality. Honor, pride and a couple of other respected principles are at stake. The fascinating culture of the Chinese is revealed with wit and wisdom in the latest of Lin Yutang's impressive contributions to our literary shores. The Importance of Understanding, a World book, is a collection of assorted bits and pieces from the literature of China, many of which have never appeared in the English language. The selections go back as far as Confucius, some 2,500 vears ago, and include just about even* form that man has used to convey his ideas with the written word. The writing is effectively beautiful and delicate, and the wisdom of the ages is frequently caught in a simple sen tence. There are over a hundred tales, fables, poems, letters, proverbs and essnvs, each of them a jovous thing to come upon. Short of a trip to China, this is one of the most enjoy able and informative trips to be recorded for the armchair traveler. As long as writing materials have been available, fathers have probably felt the urge to send communications to their off spring on one subject or another; and now Evan Jones has had the bright idea of bringing together a collection of letters from well-known men to their sons and daughters. Entitled The Father, the volume has been published by Rinehart and covers a wide variety of fatherly sentiments, Candhi defines his creed for education, George VI tells how lie felt at Queen Elizabeth's wedding, Damon Runvon writes a temperance letter, and the father of Catherine the Great tells his daughter how a wife should behave. If it proves nothing else, the col lection shows that famous fathers are not much different from us average citizens. Dutton has come along with just the right book for baseball fans eager to start a new season. The Yankee Story, by Tom Meany, starts in 1915 when a beer tycoon named Colonel Jacob Ruppert bought a sorry-looking team called the Yankees and traces them through their fabulous 40-year history. With players like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra, the Yankees have won 24 pennants, 18 World Series and 1 ETC 14097 it of re, ' - fiction. ie aged, ics were owerfu| *aracter Theoad and influengh over ever, is >mpanv ute has and his t keeps : . pride wit and buttons NDINC, -*s from peared far as t every written te, and Ie senletters, come enjovmchuir '.s have ir offes has letters htitled rrt and defines Queen erance lighter ie colt from iseball tY, bv Colonel inkees With I Yogi -s and 5enes records than any other team. Mr. Meany tells how 11101 is all done and even readers who are less than dedicated lt sport will undoubtedly find it a fascinating saga. Tl"-1 th ird and final volume in the memoirs of Charles de Salvation covers the war years 1944 to 1946. the F"''-fill, era tfrr.oMmii Mthieo Utimmeo Mthieo Fh ree French tntonoL-k norvoerr Mthme [7g0oVv- ^'nmciit of France until the General's retirement. In the ligghht what has happened in post-war France and what is happen1 f on the present-day scene, the latest of the de Gaulle ' lininicles should prove of particular interest, whether you find 1 mrself in agreement or not. A Simon and Schuster publica tion it *s a definite contribution to contemporary history. The french President wields a mighty pen and, as he has proven in t|lt past, is an extraordinary writer with a talent for being preci<e and positive and a gift for recall that has prompted leading critics to compare him to the best historians. Whenever you're in a mood for nostalgia, you'll find an ihuudance of delight in The Lore and Language of 5chOOL Children, Iona and Peter Opie's enchanting and scholarly volume on the games, expressions and customs of the voutig the world over. An Oxford publication, the new book 'traces some of childhood ways from earliest times, such fa miliar little superstitions as crossing fingers and "bread and butter." You will remember hundreds of them from your own vouthful days, and hundreds more will please you by their inimor, insight and far-flung usage. Some of the rhymes and savings will induce a flood of memory, and all of them will bring manv hours of thoroughly enjoyable reading pleasure. Books bv Bruce Catton are crown jewels in die library of any Civil War buff. In Grant Moves South, published by Little, Brown. Mr. Catton presents another gem which is the second in a three-part study on U. S. Grant. The first book. Captain Sam Grant, was written bv the late Llovd Lewis and it examined Grant's pre-war vears. It was equally first rate. In this latest work Cotton's style is a reflection of his excitement in the Civil War period and the research is sound. The book takes us from the start of the War through Vicksburg: a time that saw Grant rise from obscure Colonel to Army Commander in the West. It is historv, good historv, but also bv anv stand ards it is an enjoyable reading experience. MOVIES Anvone who has seen a Tennessee Williams movie before need not be told that his latest. The Fugitive Kind, deals in strong, violent stuff that may not appeal to every member of the audience. For those who can take it, though, the film offers manv rewarding moments and an absolutely first-rate cast that includes Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward. The background is a small Mississippi town, and the plot traces the fateful career of a wandering guitarist who comes to the town in search of a place to settle down. Ativ Williams follower knows he doesn't find it. Wake Me When it's Over, which stars Ernie Ko\aes. is another one of those movies dealing with the lighter side of life in our military services. In this case, it's the Air Force, and the scene is an isolated Japanese island where a group of servicemen decide to establish a hotel. The gag wears pretty thin about three-fourths of the wav through the film, but Mr. Kovacs, who is one of the funniest men around, does a lot to compensate for it. All in all. not a bad way to spend a summer evening if vou re in the mood for a few chuckles. In book form, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, by lean Kerr, topped the best-seller lists for quite a few weeks: and those who enjoved Mrs. Kerr's sketches of life in a singularly active household will probably find the movie version just as much to their liking. Doris Day may not be precisely the heroine readers imagined, but David Niven is fine as the drama-critic husband and Janis Paige has some good moments as a str.iv actress who momentarily endangers the marital bliss. Then there is a passel of loveable children bounding about, a rowdv maid, a talking dog. a--well, just about evenbodv in the book. TELEVISION Simone Signoret in her American television debut on Mav 15. She will star in a psychological drama called Don't You Rcmcmhcr? May IS will bring Jackie Gleason to CBS in a special hour-long show bearing the unusual title of The SI.000,000 Incident. The plot is a secret, but with Gleason around it won't reallv make anv difference what it is. Any Hemingway fans in the audience? If so. be sure to tune in to CBS on May 19, when one of the master's best-known stories. The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio, will be pre sented in a 90-minute television adaptataion. The cast had not been announced at press time. Doctors in America will be the subject of a 60-minutc treat ment on May 20 over NBC. Titled M.D. USA, the special presentation will utilize documentary films covering a broad variety of medical activities in this country. As every regular viewer knows, summertime is replacement time for most of the big television shows, and mans- programs will start bowing out for the hot-weather season around the end of this month. One of the first to go will be The Dinah Shore Show, NBC's Sunday night variety program. As of May 29th, it will be replaced temporarily with The Chevy Suspense Show, an hour-long mvsterv series with Walter Slezak as host. Ir h A: :? ; i 4 * \ A ! l I ETC 14098 25 YEARS ETC 14099 % IS HEBER merit Pegcy Banninger, stenogpplier, Detroit Labs, is married and enjovs reading. Raymond Bickert, shift su pervisor, Pittsburg plant, likes fishing and hunting. Ten new employees, with a wide variety of interests and abilities, join the Company in two areas f! i . Jr. Rouge s Dale Calvin, shift supervisor, Pittsburg plant, is married and has three sons. Arlene Clark, stenographer, Detroit Labs, is married and the mother of four boys. Thomas Lajiness, R&D, Detroit, holds his B.S. from the University of Michigan. Arthur Levi, shift supervi sor, Pittsburg, is married and is the father of three. 1 1ST gion Jerrie Swain, stenographer, Detroit Labs, enjoys sewing, knitting and crocheting. Marva Wielsie, stenogra pher at the Detroit Labs, is interested in bowling. 19 ETC 14100 SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees in Detroit, New York, and the Sales department: Detroit: Jake Boss, $15.00 (Three wav switches at stairway to B mezzanine as safety improvement); William Burns, $35.00 (Improvement to rinco evaporators to prevent breakage and loss of material); K. Gary Hotchkiss and U. Albert Lehikoinen, S30.00 (Split award for idea and method for opening U building doors without obstructing the corridor); Anthony J. Krempa, $20.00 (Shield for gauge glasses in boiler room. Will protect occupants in case of breakage); Siegert Seppanen and Phil Thomas, $30.00 (Special tool for use in maintenance work); Calvin C. Shepherd, $15.00 (Light in stair well to D-25 as safety improvement); L. K. Welch, $20.00 (Installation to promote flow of heated air over boilers to combustion air inlet). New York: James J. Cusack, $10.00 (Signs be posted at conidor intersectionsto indicate the range of room numbers to be found in each direction); Mar jorie W. Fleck, $1-5.00 (Skull caps for men cleaning tanks be made of cloth like paper). Sales Department: F. E. DeVore, $50.00 (Accounting department furnish Sales department with monthly reports of sales for each product, arranged by regions, districts, account representatives and accounts, so that each level of Sales department mav base that part uf re port with winch it is concerned): G. F. O'Connell. S30.00 (Make survev on customer companv basis to determine reason for tank entrv. Compile findings showing reason for failures to save tinnecessarv tank cleanings); Ann SelfRiDGE, $10.00 (In our Catalog of Ethifl Published Material a title be followed indicating whether or not a descriptive leaflet for a particular film has been printed); J. C. Watt, S40.00 (Recom mending new data forms and isometric drawings describing Ethyl blending equipment). IN THE FIELD Gene Gallagher, Dallas district of fice, is part of a group selected to help reorganize the Texas Oil Information Committee for its years work ahead. Gene is a member of the committee re sponsible for community programs in the North Central Texas area. Tom Hanlon and Bob Kimpton of the Pittsburgh district office recentlv were active giving the Selective Studv of Fleets presentation before the dealers, salesmen, and supervisorv personnel of the following companies located in Pcnnsvlvania: American Oil Companv, Cities Service Oil Companv, Mobil Oil Companv. and Sun Oil Company, all located in Pitts burgh; and before Texaco Inc. in Coraopolis, and the Gulf Rescarcli and De velopment Companv iu Harmarville. Refilling Oomp.im. The >lum was sented at the compam`> "emi-ann,,^ s.ifetv meeting recentlv held m Menip^j ]ack Fuller and Marvin Russe^ both ot the Los Angeles drillict olfj ' recentlv spent three weeks with the cock and Norwalk Oil people inlrotit,^ ing their new Multi-Blend Casolnle Pumps to distributors and dealers. Man in and jack u.sed the D\napro\-vr to demonstrate the performance of t},e various gasoline blends the new pump* are capable of delivering into the tu$. turners gasoline tank. The\ also worked up the data for the huge charts cljs. played at the stations. Whit Sweeney of the Pittsburgh dis. trict office recently presented the I960 Passenger Car Story before a group 0f dealers and salesmen of the Gulf Oil Corporation. The presentation was given at the companv's training station jn Charleston, West Virginia. Danger! Air/ is the title for a safetv. promotional film currently being pre pared by the Advertising and Sales Promotion department. George Unzelman, Advertising in New York, has been working with vanous customer refineries for shooting lo cations and disaster case histories in which inadvertent use of air has pre sented a hazard in refining operations. Redo Bushell, assistant manager of Eastern Region, has replaced Don Flynn, now in Chicago, as a committeeman on the New York State Petroleum Council. Dick Murphy, manager of Eastern Hegum, lias been re-elected a director of the Oil Trades Association of New York. Cal Dunbar of the San Francisco dis trict office was recently elected chairman of the San Francisco Oil Information Committee for the current year. Cal lias been an active member of this group for several years. Buck Hargis and Tony Woska, both of the Tulsa district office, presented the Fire Power show before members of the Oklahoma Oil Jobbers Institute in Nor man, Oklahoma. Buck Hargis also presented the Fire Power show before employees of Esso Standard, a division of Humble Oil and Detroit Howard and Barbara Hildenbkanda son, Bruce James, born on March 24. The young lad weighed in at 7 pounds 4 ounces. Barbara was formerly with Administration & Services at the Labs. 20 was m-annii.,) Memphis. Kusseu set offit-c, the H.mmtrodiuj. Gasoline lers. naprovL*r e of the e pumps the cus> worked arts dis- irgh dishe 196U group of Gulf Oil as given ation in a safetying pre ales Pro- tising in ith varioting lorories in has preorations. mger of d Don mmitteectroleum 'tern Reector of \v York. BRAND-- arch 24. pounds ly with re Labs. ,q ;Uid Celia Walczak --a son. ^jiCh^eL John> korn on ^hirch 30, * crhinC ^ pounds 6 ounces. Pop is with " .,hs' Chemical Research, the lU5 -poM nncl ^IaRLYS Wilkinson - a Iu,filter. Jane Ellen, born on April 3. ^idling 8 pounds 14 ounces. Jane Ellen .1 one brother and two sisters in the lWnlliSlkinson cfami-liy. Eastern Region p]CHARD and Gen Conroy--a daugh ter Abigail, born on March 24. The jjttle girl tipped the scales at 3 pounds ounces. Gen was former secretary to Richard Murphv in New York. Gene and Dolores SATTLER-a dnughlet Allyson Lee. born on March 20. She is the first in the Sattler family, pop is a field representative with head* quarters in New York. Richard Love and Rose mono Triche, both of the Houston plant, recentlv pre sented a conference paper in Houston before the American Institute of Elec trical Engineers. Southwest District. The title of the paper was "Remote Opera tions of a Rectifier Substation." John Wintringham, Research & De velopment, Detroit Labs, gave a tech nical paper which he prepared before the Lead Industries Association meeting held in St. Louis. He spoke on "Future Automotive Powerplants and the Casoline Market." During the 137th national meeting of the American Chemical Societv which took place in Cleveland, Gordon Knapp presented the technical papei "The Synergistic Effect of Di.ilk\] PIujnphonates on the Antioxidant Action ot Hindered Phenols." The paper was coauthored bv Cordon and Harold OkLOFF, both of the Detroit Labs. Two Baton Rouge plant emplovees were the discussion leaders at a two-dav Jun ior Achievers Management Conference recently held in Baton Rouge. Approxi mately 150 Junior Achievement mem bers from Pensacola. New Orleans and Baton Rouge attended the conference. Merle Gould of R&D Commercial De velopment handled discussions on "Eco nomics of World Trade"; and John Hogan ot Emplovee Relations conduct ed sessions on "What Is Productivity?" IN MEMORIAM New York Donald and Eleanor Clum--a son. Gregory Dean, born on March 24. The little fellow, who weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces, is the first for the Clums. Eleanor was with Purchasing and Traffic. Pittsburg Henry and Blanche Rooney -- a daughter, Jennifer, bom on March 17. The tiny miss weighed in at 6 pounds 2 ounces. The proud pop is an opera tions technician at the plant. San Bernardino Claude Guinn-u grandson, David Leman, born on April 9 to his son and daughter-in-law, Bob and Marv Kay Guinn. The young lad weighed an even 8 pounds. Claude is a technician. ON THE ROSTRUM "What is a Chemical Engineer?" was the title of a speech given bv Phil Davis, Research 6c Development, Baton Rouge, before the student body of Natchitoches High School on the school's Career Day Program. Dr. George Cai.ingaert John R. Murphy His manv friends at Etlnl were grieved It was with deepest regret that his manv to learn of the death of George Calin- friends at Ethvl learned of the recent Gaert in Naples. Italv, on April 16 after death of John Murphy, who died in a short illness. Formerly head of Chemi Detroit on April 17. cal Research at Ethyl's Detroit, labs, John, who was 62 years old, was a George's career with Ethyl spanned 24 member of Ethyl's original research staff vears. He retired from company service at Yonkers and at the time of his death in 19-58. could point to nne of the longest service George was a recognized authority on records of anv employee in the Company. organo-metallic compounds and his pa He started with Ethyl on April 5, 1926. pers on this subject were widely read. as a test driver with the Yonkers Road He was also the holder of manv patents. Test and Gasoline Testing Division. He After graduating from the University was transferred to Detroit in 1929 when of Brussels with the degree of Doctor of the engineering research laboratory was Science in 1921, he came to the United relocated there and staved in that citv States to studv and teach at Massachu for the rest of his Ethyl career. In 194-5. setts Institute of Technology, where he he became a member of the Technical contributed to the early research work Service group at Detruit. He was sujxr- for making TEL commercially. visor of business offices at the Labs when George is survived bv his wife. Doro- he died. thv; his two sons. Peter and Michael; a He is survived by his wife, Frances; sister. Mine. Germaine Blom of Brus by his daughter, Mrs. Jean Slavin; and sels; and a brother, Paul. by five grandchildren. 21 ETC 14102 ETc 14103 r>as a -Dean sumter aanrists DEMONSTRATION GARB Harrv Manning. Western Region Merchandiser, is shown above-in the outfit he often uses for dem onstrations. Harrv is standing bv an antique auto mobile on exhibit in Ethvl's West Coast auditorium in Los Angeles; the vintage vehicle is frequentlv fea tured in parades of old cars held in the Los Angeles area and is still in good driving condition. I* DENVER DISTRICT VISITORS The photograph below was taken at the Ethvl ex hibit in the Petroleum Club building in Denser, set up bv the Denser District Olfice. Shosvn looking user the exhibit (left to right) are Mac Murdock, Vice President of Sales; Al Hvun, Denser District Manager; and Don Flsun, Central Regional Manager. Mac and Don svere on a visit to the Denser district. ETC 14104 ETC 14105 11'1 p?j wVfm " id this, too, he trip as a i the job of ii checking istion arose been activ e v runs. and in the istening to vision as he re a dvnaalso heard ais during Tlie Ethvl men shown in the shot above were all members of the third annual meeting of the Com representatives came to New York from Ethvl instal lations throughout the country to attend the three- pany's "training" men, held this year at the Commo dav meeting, which was held to discuss current prog dore Hotel in New York. Shown clockwise around ress and proposed training programs. Each man thus the table are Howard Gulick, Fred Xavlor, Rav Fal had an opportunity to outline activities in his area. In len Ray Metternich, Hilton Webb, Jim Cusack, John charge of this year's assembly was Rav Faller, manager Furr and, addressing the group, James Huguet. The of Training. STEERING COMMITTEE Members of the Detroit Ethvl Society's 1960 Steer ing Committee are shown in the photograph be Porth, Jim Jollv, Carl Wolf, Dick Lundquist, Carl Michael and Ken Ralph. Members not present at the low at a recent meeting. Seated in the front row, from picture-taking are Lowell Goodwin and Dan LaPoint. left to right, are Anne Pearson, Christine Bongero, The Steering Committee is responsible for planning Bill Burns, Phyllis Hipkiss, and Joan Koelsch. Stand and staging the Ethvl Society's various social func ing, from left, are Stanley McXeff, Frank Mvers, tions, such as the annual dinner-dance and the family Durelle Guthrie, Bob Isanhart, Bud Goddard, George Bingo party shown elsewhere in this issue. 41 ETC 14106 ETC 14107 ETC 14108 ETC '4109 ETHYL ETC 14110 ETHYL i f i- ! 5J rt f f ! i ! iHinMHM t j iU; <i i\ U` r is !& !- ! i! i t'j n i i mim UUUi u Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited : IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Two More for the Road............... 2 One Man Show................................. 4 The Guileless Gunman.................. 8 Suddenly This Summer ............... 10 i Keys to the City................................ 12 A Date for Dinner............................ 14 For Your Entertainment.................. 20 . Milestones ........................................... 22 1 Ethyl Welcomes................................ 23 ` Personals ............................................. 24 People and Places............................. 26 Leonhard Dowry ................................... Editor Edward Metcalf....................Associate Editor Stella Sideris ....................Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moftet; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robichaux; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleteland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Baylerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Alyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Neva Yanakeff; Houston: Dave Agnew, Don Connell, Elizabeth Dodson; Kansas City: Lola Chinn, Jane Hudlemeyer; Los Angeles: Harr)' Manning; Alexico: Mike Espinosa; Sew Orleans: Maxine Blue; Sew York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace; Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Meredene Portzer; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Adeline Furst; photographer: Fred Green, Judy Schaub; San Francisco: Jeff Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers Testing: Cather ine Henderson; Yonkers Central: AI Morschauser; Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Limited; Sarnia: C. G. Manore; Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON OUR COVER: Don Williams, who con ducts a one man show at Ethyl's New York Sales and Service Auditorium, performs a demonstration. The story on Don's activities at the unique installation begins on page 4. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. B. B. Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. ... lllil y.----- r*" ' In a very generaPsense you might say. that Eth! ..- Corporationis.!_in'"the business of road jeryi( The vast and constant movement of motor vehid " :.r* ! along the highways and byways of America is as mui a concern of the Company as it is of the oil and motive industrieR^"-^#''-?' Though we are not'as directly concerned, 'we ^ nonetheless involved in the mobility of the 'nation' supplying' our ` customers \ (and ^throughT,them,?" i?motoring public) with a diverse and effectiyfeiiTproducts.'-v ^ This relationship to automotive, transportation; ok .not, like Topsy. just grow. It was won by imaginafii '^y^t.initiatiye, service and years olreliability.^It has.br r " maintained by the same resources along with coiist research1 and progressive efforts to producejmore'an Now; add two more for the road--"Ethyl^ Igniti^ ' Control Compound 4 and tetramethyl lead, two prod] iiAfc tkot wara' ra/untKr antt/MinAa^ ' tn'-tliA ` etc 14lll -I ! i -i'-i- "1 i: .'5*v 'l -VjV-V ' . <#i yz.y CiT.V- -:v- ROAD J iPr '. hat Ethyl i service.r vehicles s as much and auto- 3, we are nation in hem, the ve line of ation did agination, has been 1 constant more and mere and ' Ignition :wo prod- national ICC 4, our newest preignition control additive for gasoline, is known chemically as trimethyl phosphate r and is highly effective in controlling such automotive 'combustion problems as spark plug fouling, surface .'ignition and ramble. Extensive tests conducted by the : Company revealed that the use of ICC 4 in gasoline increased spark plug life three to three-and-a-half times, reduced surface ignition 70% to 80%, and greatly reduced the incidence of ramble, which is a form of abnormal combustion. Protected by U. S. Patents, the . hew additive, which is being manufactured at our 'A?y Baton Rouge plant, will enable refiners to achieve greater, preignition control . effectiveness in their gasoline at a lower cost than ever before. - Tetramethyl lead, which is being made at Baton Rouge as well, is an antiknock compound for gasolinesimilar to tetraethyl lead. In an announcement to the press, following the in troduction by a West Coast oil company of gasoline containing tetramethyl lead, B. B. Turner said, "Tettramethyl lead as a potential antiknock has been known for many years. It was not, however, eco nomically competitive with tetraethyl lead because of the kind of fuels and engines previously in use. Today, however, with the greatly changed fuel and engine environment, the problem of providing fuels . of adequate antiknock value for all cars on the road has grown increasingly complex, and has led to re newed interest in TML, which will give the oil indus- try another tool for meeting present-day fuel require- - ments. The availability of two antiknock compounds ' --TML and TEL--will increase the flexibility of refin- _ ing operations and will enable the oil industry more '>'" economically to satisfy all segments of the car popula- j': - tion with gasoline of adequate antiknock quality." . _ v Id order to make it available to refiners as soon as ...... - N the need might arise, Ethyl has been working inten- sively on manufacturing processes for TML in recent " years. Through extensive research and study, the Company developed a new manufacturing process for the product. Our tetramethyl lead operations at Baton - r' ..I --i Rouge represent the first commercial production. Like any good driver. Ethyl has its eye on the road; . . like any good company, it also has its eye on the future. '-'ri \-t- iZ:`r '7 -r *. `V Vi ETC 14112 ETC 14113 nw ite!m a&A'.y- i T ' n tr r ti'iik one man show Don Williams has a unique job at Ethyl's Sales and Service Auditorium in New York. Part-time en gine expert and part-time teacher, Don's full-time favorite with Eastern Region field representatives. he Ethyl Sales and Service Auditorium on East T39th Street in New York City occupies a unique clair fuels he was using were at fault. Knowing of the Edivl facilitv, an appointment was made to go over position, due largelv to the character and talents of its the errant automobile. Don found the trouble in 10 01ie-man staff, Don Williams, and the unusual work minutes and the customer was happv to acknowledge he does for Eastern Region sales representatives and his error. their customers. Needless to sav, Sinclair and other Ethvl customers While the Auditorium is supervised by Walter are most grateful for such services but this is just one Strange, field representative for the area, onlv Don is part of the Auditorium's function. As a practical re assigned to work there full time. minder to oil company executives of Ethyl's services It was 22 years ago that Don joined Ethyl after to its customers, the personal cars of these top man draduating from Carnegie Tech, teaching in the New agement people are tuned under Don William's prac York Cits- School System and working for Bendix. For ticed eve. Too, sales demonstration kits are often pre his eventual assignment at the Ethvl Auditorium this tested before the training groups at the Auditorium. background was useful, for besides having to draw on Bv such means suggestions towards their improve his wide automotive engineering experience there, he ment can be incorporated before distribution in quan is called on to teach classes of oil company trainees in tity. Don's teaching experience and automotive know the use of various oscilloscopes, distributor calibrators how are especiallv helpful in this regard. and other testing equipment. Oil companies in the last three vears have become In addition to serving as an auditorium for Ethyl increasingly interested in the potential of tune-up serv and customer meetings, facilities were set up 10 years ices. Automotive equipment manufacturers are aware ago to process complaints involving the products of of this trend and seek everv means of presenting their our customers and maintain a tune-up service for products to likelv customers. With this in mind, all automobiles of customer executives. Though the au major tune-up equipment makers have made their lat ditorium looks like any meeting hall, the section est models available for use at the Ethyl Auditorium of the building in which Don conducts his operations on a permanent loan basis. Such is their respect for is equipped with the latest devices for engine the abilities of Don Williams that they feel it is a fine diagnosis and resembles a laboratorv with science wav of getting independent evaluation of their prod fiction overtones. Often an audience is present, ucts before some of their best potential markets. They and what it learns is rewarding. One has only to talk have learned from working with Don that anv mal with v isitors to gain some idea of the unique reputa function or flaw that might crop up in the equipment tion this facility has established and of the respect will be quickly brought to their attention and, more held for its "staff", Don Williams. Little wonder activ times than not, a wav will be suggested for solving ity there has grown apace from the beginning. the problem. Manv Ethvl customers, too, appre As final arbiter for complaints on customer products, ciate the value of disinterested opinion on tune-up Don has an impressive record. Walt Strange savs, "He equipment and thev are often able to get good advice is our ace in the hole. I've never known him to be concerning it for their specific purposes. All parties stumped yet." Russell Meals, chief automotive engi benefit from the loan out arrangement and Don is neer for Sinclair, recently told Bulletin Boajid one especiallv pleased that such valuable training aids case in point from his experience: have been procured without nicking his budget. Field testing had failed to turn up the source of a Multiple what goes on each day at the Auditorium customer complaint forwarded to his department from bv many hundreds of times and you get some idea of a Sinclair service station operator. Low mileage on the unique and valuable work that's being done on His car had caused the customer to think that the Sin 39th Street. o ETC 14115 ETC 14116 ETC 14117 I A Detroit employee uses his hobby to track down legendary heroes A tvtwist of die television dial on just about any eve 1*- mning will reveal one of the most enduring figures y, American folklore--the lean, laconic cowbov of die Q]d West. According to the legend, he spoke onlv u-heii absolutely necessary, defended everv damsel in distress and whipped his six-shooter out with the speed of a lightning bolt. In a showdown (and a showdown always came, sooner or later) his superior ity on the draw invariablv spelled doom for the villain, who dressed in black, chewed tobacco and ]0\ ed to foreclose mortgages. How true to life is this well-known stereotype? Hot very, according to John Boaz of Chemical Re search at the Detroit Labs. In reality, the typical cowboy was a shiftless character whose respect for law and order was limited at best and who usually ended up in a well-deserved earlv grave. And "the fastest gun in town" wasn't always the winner, either, when it came to a showdown. "Actually," John says, "die slow', careful draws were more likely to come out of a fight alive. Those rapid draws were generally town rowdies who lasted through a couple of brawls and then got laid out bv somebody who took the trouble to aim." All this information John has gathered along with a large collection of some 65 guns, most of them antiques from various periods of American and Euro pean history. He has made it a practice to trace the background of each gun as closely as possible, with the result that going through his collection is like a journey through some of the major events of the past hundred years or so. The eight guns being displayed by John in the picture at left, for example, reflect a wide range of notable people and periods. Gun A (sec diagram below for identification) is a U.S. Army single-shot percussion pistol manufactured in 1S54. In his re search John found that the heavy weight and inac curacy of this pistol made it verv unpopular with the soldier to whom it was issued. Specimen C is a French pin-fire revolv er produced about 1S7S. This weapon was popular in Europe but pioneers found it too delicate to withstand the rigors of frontier life. More favored on this side of the Atlantic was gun E, a Smith and Wesson 32-caliber, breech-loading revolver made about 1S60 and widely used in the Civil War. This is considered Insome the first breech-loading revolver produced in the U.S. and is the tvpe of gun "Wild Bill" Hickock carried during his earlv days in the West. Probably the most popular and lethal side arm ever used in this country is the Colt-45 revolver in position G. Produced in 1873, this weapon is reputed to be "the gun that won the west." Also important in pioneering days was the 1S45 Allen pepperbox (gun H), which protected manv of the Forty-niners on their long trek to California. Gun F is a Savage Navy six-shooter used by the Union Xuvv during the Civil War, an early example of the double-action mechanism which is now stan dard on most revolvers. Billy the Kid is supposed to have been carrying a Colt-3S revolver like gun D when he was killed, and according to John there are at least a dozen guns around that arc supposed to have done the killing. If in reality those damsels in distress couldn't de pend on the cowbovs, they were nonetheless often adept at defending themselves. Example B, a pearlhandled derringer-stvle revolver made in 1878, was much in vogue with the weaker sex of that era. John has been collecting guns about five years, but he still doesn't think of himself as a collector in the professional sense; that is, he wouldn't think of buying a gun through one of the many dealers in the trade. In his opinion, the real thrill comes from uncovering some forgotten relic in an old attic, or in a mustv junk shop--a relic that may turn out to he worthless and then again may turn out to be the verv gun that did in William Bonney, alias Billy the Kid. But worthless or rare, every old gun is full of fascinating lore to John--even if it isn't quite the same lore to be found in a television western. 9 V ETC 14118 ETC 14119 * / s * * -0NV that the initial furor surrounding the Salk Yac|\| cine has subsided, the changes this medical mir- c|t. has wrought in America can be more rationally pvunined. New statistical ev idence is constantly accu mulating and, with the advent of another polio sea- n jt seems a good time to review developments. \ small but significant rise in the number of polio cases over the past two vears has prompted scientists to look again at their evaluation of the Salk method, phis re-evaluation has prompted a greater confidence among the experts in the present techniques. In fact, t]iev are now quite sure that the Salk Vaccine con fers a more durable immunitv than was originally hoped for and the latest surveys also serve to buttress the original optimism that was voiced at the introduc tion of the serum in the 19.54-55 field trials. Whv, then, are more polio cases appearing? It is quite clear now that fears of a new virus strain, im mune from the effects of Salk shots, are groundless. Some evidence pointed also to a concentration of polio cases in lower income groups, whereas the dis ease before had shown itself no respecter of person or pocketbook. In lower income strata the children, alwavs polio's most vulnerable target, have been hit these past two vears with unusual severity. The omi nous portent of both suspicions have, however, been largelv dissolved by careful examination of the facts. It is now quite clear that the basis of the present polio increase can be found in a single statistic: 51 percent of the entire population have remained un vaccinated. These 91 millions are the source of over two-thirds of present cases. Of that number, five mil lion are children under five. Indeed, of the 87 million who have taken shots, onlv 68 million have taken the entire three-shot series. This means only 38 percent of the country's population have adequate immuniza tion. Experts agree the shifting incidence of cases into specific areas of the societv does not mean the nature of virus itself is changing. Rather, tliev sa\. the increasing vulnerabilitv of defined social groups indicates onlv that thev all largelv fall into the unvac cinated part of the population. The 1959 figures point up the inherent dangers in the present trend: Polio and Shots (1959 Vaccination status of polio cases) Un vaccinated 1 or 2 shots 3 shots 4 or more 64.6 percent 17.8 percent 14.2 percent 3.4 Without question the trouble lies with people who fail to use the Salk Vaccine, not with the vaccine it self. Moreover, if the 1959 figures are anv indication, the number of polio cases will continue to go up. It is difficult to draw exact conclusions about the indifference of so manv people. Price and availability are not todav a real concern but fear of taking the shots themselves is thought to be a factor. Some others mav base put off taking the shots in hopes that the new oral vaccine will soon be available. Pres ent indications are, however, that government accept ance of these new techniques is further awav than their protagonists claim. . Whatever action the government eventuallv takes, each of us has a present responsibilitv to himself and to his familv. The consequences being what they are, there is little excuse for not taking the necessary pre cautions. With another summer polio season coming up, we must again be alert to the greater chance of contagion and, if three-shot series have not been com pleted, act accordingly. i j i t |!i 11 ETC 14120 KEYS TO THE CITY ETC 1412.1 gaSt Coast, West Coast, all around North America-- ^at's where we got these shots of Ethyl installations. Unlock oUr brain with the keys given and see if you can place them -"ton Rouge .os Angeles Detroit Sarnia Red Stick Memphis Toronto Pittsburgh 5. If you walked out of the Ethyl district office here, you would be on Peachtree Street in: Biloxi Atlanta Mobile Detroit Tulsa Chicago 6. The home office of an Ethyl Corporation subsidiary company, this new building in the land of the Maple Leaf is in: Sarnia Toronto Vancouver Peoria Ottawa Guatemala testing divi- lanhattan ankers 9. ten Huxtable and Scotty DuBose, respectively, head the regional end district offices here in: San Francisco Portland New Orleans Los Angeles Cleveland Pittsburg 10. Hometown for this Ethyl gasoline testing laboratory and district office is: Kalamazoo Charleston Reading Gaol Ellis Island Washington, D C Kansas City ETC 14122 a date for dinner This year's 25-year dinner for employees who work in areas along the eastern seaboard was held in New York's Sherry-Netherlands. Among those feted were, left to right, Jim Krick, Matt Taylor, Lillian Johnson, Russ Weston, Marguerite McDonald and George Krieger. 14 During the month of Mav, the Company again entertained the growing group of employees who jvlve been on the Ethvl roster for 25 years or more. j,, Baton Rouge, Xew York, Detroit and Los Angeles, congenial groups of men and women met to share a festive board and dip into the inkwell of nostalgia. \[emoi'ies and anecdotes were exchanged gaily, and sentiment was a constant companion of the evening. Vewcomers to the group quickly entered into the spirit of the exclusive club that bars all others and sets aside its particular night to reminisce and honor those who yearly join its ranks. If nothing else, the parties testified to the conviviality of Ethyl and the unified spirit in which men and women join in an industrial endeavor that depends largely on the en terprise and resourcefulness of the people who compose it. Fun was the keynote, but behind it all was the pride of accomplishment. At the celebration in New York, Vice President Joe Costello, right, presents Ed Nieser with his 25* year certificate. Behind them is Ray Failer. Alvin Hubbs, standing, greeted veteran employees at the southern area dinner, held in Baton Rouge. Seated at the table, from left to right, are Art Stover, Bunk Kobler and Don Robertson. Seated around the festive board at the dinner held in Detroit were old-timers Harold Soroos, Cleve Walcutt, Ed Paige, Fred Dykstra, Charlie Gambrill, Rose Lipshitz and Ferd Gillig. Rose, who was eligible this year, is the only woman in Detroit group. erlonds. Krieger. ETC 14124 ETC 14125 Above ore shown other celebrants at the New York 25-year dinner. Left to right are Mac McCooley, Bob Jordon, Mac McCulloch, o partially-hidden Emma Koster, Jack Pruitt, Ray Faller, Alice Wygand and Moc Murdock. They seem to like the party. - group -idering Dick Scales gives Don Flynn a 30-year plaque during a serious moment in the festivities at the Detroit dinner. Harold Chalk, left, gets a special ''gag" gift from the smiling Frank Fricker. Casey Jones' expression, right, seems to approve the award. etc 14126 Irene Buckley, at left, smiles at the camera Qj she displays her 30-year certificate at the festivj. ties held for employees along Eastern seaboard. ETC 1412^ ~~~ ' man* |hi* family portrait, taken at the West Coast dinner for employees with 25 or more years of service, includes from left to right, stand* jng, len Huxtabie, Jim Terrell, Walter Rantanen, Hume Chennault, Charlie White, Ray Wyrick, Bud Johnson, Bob Adams and Jack Cole; seated. Bill Schultze, Art Stahlheber, Ed Lindsay, Ray Seymour and San Wagner, ETC 14128 FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT Michaela Denis, authoress of the successful Leopard in A/y Lap, has written another book about her romance with Africa, and her new entry is every bit as fascinating ns her first volume. Ride A Rhino, a Doubleday publication, is made of the same ingredients -- a love of the jungle and, in particular, the animal kingdom, a curiosity and an understanding of the native tribesmen and a skill in reproducing her unusual adven tures with humor and excitement. In a number of photographs that illustrate the book, the beautiful young authoress always comes up smiling whether in the midst of a pvgmv tribe or astride a rhino. That same quality of delight lias been thor oughly imparted to the reader. Legend has it that any talented writer who submits to the blandishments of working in Hollywood does so at his peril. The author of The Stars in Their Courses, published by Knopf, either makes a liar of the legend or is the exception that proves the rule. His name is Harrv Brown, and he certainlv seems to have escaped the usual fate despite having worked as a screen writer for many years. This novel's quality is, and the word is carefullv chosen, exceptional. The setting is the western plains in the 1870's and the plot is that of the Iliad with six-shooters instead of Crecian spears. On paper it sounds an unlikely arrangement, but Brown's skill makes it work. As good a novel as vou'll find in this or anv other vear, it is a rewarding reading experience. If vou want to do some homework before the Presidential campaign starts and you're not as up on politics as you might be, you'd do well to read 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, published by Little, Brown. The author, Walter Johnson, is head of the Political Science Department at the- University of Chicago and he has written a clear, primer-like studv of the presidency from 1929 to the present. The title comes from the actual address of the White House, and the book examines the mores and concepts of its most recent occupants with an eve to history. It is valuable background material, especially in tlie light of the coming political contest. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, one of the publishing field's newest amalgamations, has produced Crimean Blunder, the work of Peter Gibbs, and a sure bet for those who prefer their history straight. A little war with tremendous consequences, the Crimean War as described bv the author is a lively affair with such personalities as Queen Victoria, Louis Napoleon and Tsar Nicholas influencing its outcome. Though no war is verv sane, this war, according to the current version, was but a series of mishaps, perhaps best characterized by the Charae the Light Brigade. History has never been set down rnore vividly or with more vitality. William Murray's The Self-Starting Wheel is a slyly comjc novel that has quite a lot of serious intent tint it tackles witfi4 vengeance. A Dutton publication, it is concerned with the inhabitants of a fashionable Long Island summer resort, far the most part people from the publishing and theatrical world Put them all together in the hands of Mr. Murray and vou\-e Cot a bubbling verbal stew that gurgles, steams and hisses Mr. Murrav is short on words, but lie's long on thought as he kicks about some pertinent ideas about people and our times. There is plentv of fun along the wav. and behind it all a sabretooth. The New Professors, edited bv Robert O. Bowen, will gjVe vou a close-up view of American education today, the ijuiet revolution that lias taken place since Sputnik went nut into space. A Holt, Rinehart. Winston book, the new volume contains articles bv nine vmmg professors from as many col. leges in different sections of the country and with varied academic standards and points ol view. Each tells his personal reasons for wanting to teach, for feeling the dedication neoes. sarv for the important profession. Though the men represented teach a varietv of subjects, they share a common, vital goal, and each makes clear to the reader the importance of education in our times for the student and the country. Cracie Nies Fletcher's No Marriage In Heaven is designed for the distaff side, for whom it ought to prove pleasant sum mer reading. A Dutton book, the new novel relates the events in a marriage between a New England minister and his trans planted. tempestuous Southern wife, an unlikely combination that sets a good bit of conflict into action. Set in Boston dur ing the 1920*s, it is a sentimental piece of work that has a small theme, but it is nicely blended and pleasingly nostalgic. Most of the thoughts are not any deeper than a wading pool, but what's there is trim and accelerated. Raoul de Beaudcan mnv not be a familiar name to vou. but if vou think back to a foggy julv night in 1956 you will recall that die Andrea Duria collided with the Stockholm near Nantucket, and that the French Liner lie dc France heroically came to the rescue. Raoul de Beaudcan was the Captain of the Ile, and in the new McGraw-Hill book he recounts the fateful night and other episodes of his long and colorful career. He writes with the accomplished pen of a professional, re creating moments of humor, terror, excitement and gaiety with equal skill. In addition to a tour of his famous vessel, the Captain takes the reader aboard other ships of war and peace. Even in your wildest dreams you are not likely to meet such thoroughly outrageous characters as the whack)' folks who dwell By the Sea, by the Sea in George Sumbcr Albce's new novel of the same name. A Simon and Schuster release, this unconventional (to say the least!) bit of bedlam has many a delightful moment and its humor often hits you broadside. It isn't, however, for the prim and proper reader, who will find ETC 14129 Jbarge of "n more >'!>' comic ies with a w*th the ft. for the al world, cl you've id hisses, ght as he ur times. 1 it all a Will rrjve the cjuiet : out into v volume nanv eolth varied > personal 'on necespresented ital goal, education . designed .sant sumdie events his trans-nbination iston durhat has a nostalgic, ding pool, .ou, but if will recall ohn near heroically .PTAIN OF .cunts the ful career, sional, re nd gaiety vessel, the md peace. meet such folks who Ibee's new lease, this .is many a adside. It > will find r llSeIf somewhere out in space with the antics of this free^'ikin** free-thinking group of non-conformists. For those who C`l -Tiling to lau^h on the Rabelaisian level of farce, there is n,ad <ime ahead' Robert Nathan, for all of his sentiment and romanticism, has v of making the most sugary confections highly palatable. 1 (1 his latest novel, The Color of Evening, ought to delirdit Nathan fans no end. Set under the California sun. the nJw Knopf book follows the author's recipe from the mixing kt)wl to the frosting as it tells the story of two men whose so out to a stray girl. There is an occasional tendency toward candy-coated philosophy, but for the most part Mr. Nithan is concerned with the motion of his story and the very nice people involved in the tepid dilemma. There is more action in The Feud, a new novel by Amelia Bean, than vou are likelv to encounter in an entire evening 0f television. A Doubleday release, it is based on the famous Graham-Tewksburv rivalry that set Arizona's Tonto Basin aflame some 75 years ago when the Tewksburys brought sheep into cattle country. Vengeance boils up all over the place and fast guns blaze with the speed of a prairie fire. Apaches attack and some noble women stand by their men through the thick and thin of tough times. There is a good bit of soul-searching over the frequent splatter of blood. The elements are all there in profusion, put together in a first-rate Western saga that nnikes the most of material that lias been a popular target. MOVIES Bells are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday, was a major Broadwav musical success a few seasons ago. and there's no reason why the motion picture version shouldn't make it a two-time winner. It has the same ebullient high spirits, the same wonderful songs and--most important of all--it has Miss Holliday around to recreate her original role of a big-hearted telephone answering service girl. Her co-star this time is Dean Martin. No one should be surprised to learn that Mr. Martin has a deft wav with a popular tune, but for those wfio missed the stage show. Miss Holliday's skill might come as a revela tion on such familiar songs as "Just hi Time" and "The Party's Over." M-G-M gets the credit. Columbia Pictures has done a thoroughly suspenseful and ex citing job in bringing Boris Morros' book. Ten Years as a Counterspy, to the screen. The movie version is entitled Man On A String, and it parallels the original text of the author's unusual, true-life adventure closely. Ernest Borgnine stars as the Russian movie producer who enters the Soviet spy system in an attempt to get his aged father out of the Kremlin's domination, and subsequently becomes a counter agent with the Central Bureau of Intelligence. The entire affair has an air of authenticity since much of it is filmed where it happened -- Hollywood, New York, Moscow and Berlin. The documen tary style and recent events make it even more credible. An international cast has been brought together by Italian piuducer Dino De Laurentiis for a starkly realistic film of women in war called Five Branded Women. The story, laid in Yugoslavia during the darkest davs of the Second World War. deals with five women who join the guerillas fighting the Nazis in the mountains of that country. The stars, drawn from America. France and Italy, include Van Heflin. Silvano Mangano, Barbara Bel Geddes. Richard Baselurt and Jeanne Moreau. All of them are excellent in their Yugoslav roles, and in its final scenes the movie builds up quite a head uf steam. Paramount made the film. TELEVISION The summer television diet will contain fewer entertainment calories. With a chop of 25 percent in the viewing audience in tlie summer months, networks are cooking up a menu of reruns and shoot-'em-ups. Some of the better prospects are listed below. Sports fans interested in the Jolumsson-Patterson heavyweight championship fight will get a preview via ABC-TV on Sunday. June 19. Tape interviews until both fighters will bo shown along with a film of their last match. The fight, scheduled for Moudav, June 20. will not be shown on television but will be carried on ABC Radio. CBS-TV comes up with a comedy Special on June 30. It will star Phil Silvers and two Carols. Lawrence and Haney. Look for it under the title of Summer m .Wif York. A summer series entitled Reckoning will replace CBS-TV's Be Our Guest on Wednesdays starting in June. Only the name of the show is new for the content will consist of reruns from the old Climax, Studio One and Pursuit shows. A retreaded but not renin Talent Scouts has been tapped to replace The Danny Thomas Show mi CBS-TV beginning Monday. August 1. Famous guests will introduce new per formers but the contest part has been eliminated. No MC lias been selected as vet. Dinah Shore's summer replacement on Sunday nights will be The Chevy Suspense Show with Walter Slezak as host. A Thursday night substitute for The Ernie Ford Show is a western scries called Wrangler, ft's about a working cowbm who doesn't carrv a gun. DX; Unknown is the title for the Thursday night fill-in for Carry Moore. You'll be counting the bodies that are littering llit* landscape in this one. 21 ETC 14130 ETC 14131 qaVIS Batson, Business Re search Representative. Baton Rouse, is a grad of the Uni versity of Wisconsin. John Boaz joins Detroit as a chemical operator. He is a gun collector and also enjo\s reading. Ten new employees--eight men and two women--join the Ethyl family in five different locations. I Richard Boucher is u chemist in Baton Rouge. He holds his M.S. from Louisi ana State Universitv. Tom Davenport, Jr., is a chemist in Baton Rouge. He is a graduate of the Univer sitv of Texas. George Fanta, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, is a chemist in Detroit. He is married and has a son. Arthur Graham is a re search analvst in Baton Rouge. He is a graduate of Queens land Universitv in Australia. Vaughn \'ew York Dennis Oberding, chemist in Detroit, is married and has one daughter. He is a grad of Wisconsin State. Iris Pearrett,| stenographer in the Toronto office, is a native of England. She en joys playing tennis. Alan Rowe, a grad of the Universitv of Southern Cali fornia, is a field engineer for Salt Lake City. Patricia Stanton, stenog rapher, Denver office, enjoys water skiing. She attended Colorado Universitv. 23 ETC 14132 *r-' WEDDINGS NJUSt ' ' /Married/ .,/ Eastern Region Julia Baldwin, daughter of Jim Bald win, was married to Ronald Santmyer on April 13 in New Jersey. Jim is chief product service engineer in New York. New York Adeline Edwards and Frank Berger were married on Mav S at St. Marv's of Winfield Church in Queens, New York. The couple will reside in Manhattan. Adeline is with Order and Shipping. Eleanor Moss and John McSorley were married on May T in the Church of the Holy Family, Bronx, New York. The newlyweds went on a Poconos honey moon. Eleanor is with Finance. SUCCESSFUL SUG&ESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the following employees at the Pittsburg plant and in the Sales department: Pittsburg: Anton Baumgartner, $10.00 (Relocation of mask air lines at sludge water separator); Alfred BeBOUT, $10.00 (Sample carrier for boil ers); Lee Roy Deal, $20.00 (Install sul fite agitator); Walter Eckhart, $10.00 (Hose racks at melt pot and third floor furnace)-; Elmer F. Glasser, $35.00 (Install dowtherm safety valve); Elbert S. Isham, $10.00 (Method of changing dry feeder, by installing rollers between furnace columns); Elbert S. Isham, $10.00 (Puller for charge head adapt ers); Elbert S. Isham, $15.00 (Modifi cations to vent line on phosphate pump); Rayward Lynch, S10.00 (Resurfacing of ditch covers); Lawrence J. Reilly, $10.00 (Drain on fourth floor hopper booth area); Willie H. Walker, 310.00 (Gage for P04 Pump); Wayne \\"est, $10.00 (Torque wrench for sight ^lass tightening); \\ ayne \\ est, $15.00 {Flexible pipe on portable air compres sor) . Sales Department: J. T. Beckwith, $30.00 (Install sisn giving emergency instructions at Ethvl fluid transfer termi nal at Everett, Washington); Merlexe Evans, $10.00 (Distribute reprints to men in the field of article in Petroleum Refiner, "What Additives will do in Gaso line"); Francine H. Fountain, S10.00 (Method to more fully inform all em ployees about the Suggestion System); W. Y. Hancock, $20.00 (Make changes on mesh pump, install new screen on suction line and change pack ing on vacuum pump); C. V. HOLLAND, Jr., S30.00 (A suitable swing-joint with an extension be attached to the tank-car valve in order to attach the unloading line to Ethyl's Sea-Land tank); J. A. Hopkins, Jr., $20.00 (Our 6-inch and 3-inch diameter metal Ethyl trademarks in color have flannelboard material on back to secure them to any flannelboard presentation); Ann Selfridge, $10.00 (Revise format of mailing film address cards so as to show more distinction be tween sender and addressee). BIRTHS Canada Curtis and Harice Parkinson -- a daughter, Nancy Jane, born on April 16. The little gal joins a sister and a brother in the Parkinson family. Pop is with Sales in Toronto. New York Ed and Janet Kettle--a son, David Andrew, born on May 5, weighing 6!pounds. Sister Dorothv is now 31* years old. Ed is with Finance. Betty MERGNER-a grandson, Albert bom on April 26 to her daughter and son-in-law, Louise and Albert DePierro. The young lad weighed in at 6 pounds 8 ounces. Betty is with General Services. Pittsburg Howard and Carole Anne Tho.\1p ^son--a son. Howard Carl, bom April 21. The little kilow pounds 10 ounces. Pop is with Fin.ii)..* a*- the plant. EXTRACURRICULAR Fiv e Baton Rouge plant employees have been named to posts in the Louisian^ Petroleum Council for 1960. Wallace Armstrong was named member of the State Executive Cummittee; Ollie Jones was elected president oi the East Baton Rouge Parish Committee: Shelby Lowe was named chairman of the Dis* trict Six School Committee: Elbert Moore was appointed to serve with the Parish civic affairs group; and Don Rob* ertsON was named public relations chairman of the Parish. ` Paul Thompson of the Detroit Labs has been appointed bv Governor C. M. Williams to serve on the newlv formed Michigan Recreation Commission. It will assess the state's recreation potential and make recommendations for an expanded program to benefit both Michigan citi zens and visitors. The article written by William Smith, Baton Rouge plant, for tiie "Central Safety Topics'* has been reprinted and distributed nationally by the Chemical Section Newsletter of the National Safety , Council. The article, titled *\\ Fable?" ; discussed double standards of words and ' deeds in safetv and everv-dav life. Joe Culm one of the Baton Rouge plant ;. was awarded the National Management : Association's Certificate of Recognition for outstanding service in 1959. Joe is area director of the NMA. The Advisorv Committee of the Commit- ; tee on Public Affairs has appointed James Boudreau, director of Public Relations, New York, chairman of the working group on exhibits. The purpose of this group is to advise and guide the CPA staff in the preparation of basic ex hibit units for use by the state organi- zations. John Hogan, Employee Relations, ; Baton Rouge plant, was named chairman of the 1960 Teachers' Emplo\Tnent Pro gram of the Chamber of Commerce's . Educational Committee. Judson Ourso, Purchasing, Baton Rouge plant, has been named president l of the Circle Civitan Club of Baton * Rouge. 24 a f5* ETC 14133 F Thomp. brn 0,, `-glied 4 ' Fmniiot. ees have Louisiana Wallace vr of the Ollie the East Shelby the Dis- Hlbert with the )on Robrelations roit Labs or C. M. iy formed n. It will utial and expanded igan eiti- n Smith, "Central inted and Chemical ual Safety v Fable?", vords and ife. >uge plant nagement ecognition 9. Joe is Commitappointed of Public in of the e purpose guide the basic exte organi- Relations, . chairman rnent Proimmerce's g, Baton president of Baton 1 ChOLaK., consultant in Industrial Hv- Johnny Watt, product service engi Group's Western division held in San Vien^ Toxicology for our medical staff. neer in tlie New York district, lias com Diego. California. Gil is technical lepre- been elected chairman of Committee pleted a modernization of California Oil sentative in the Western Region. p no American Society for Testing Ma Company blending plants at their Perth terials. which deals with methods of Amboy refinerv. ionospheric sampling and analysis. At the request of Mobil Oil's aviation PEOPLE in the news Marshall McBean, son of Alexander sales department. Walt Strange of the \|cBemi of Finance in New York, was New York office presented the "Fire (m the tot of New Jersey winners of Power" show at the national convention tj,e i960 National Merit Scholarships, of the American Association of Airport these awards were distributed nation- Executives which was held at the Wal llv among 830 high school seniors. A dorf-Astoria in New York. third of the high school seniors in the Walt also gave the "Power Clinic" country participated. presentation before personnel of Tide water Oil in Belfast, Maine, and Shell Oil in Caribou, Maine. Tom Hanlon of the Pittsburgh district office gave two separate Fuel-Engine dis cussions before the district managers and dealer-trainees of the Gulf Oil Cor poration and Mobil Oil Compnnv, both located in Pittsburgh. Whit Sweeney of the Pittsburgh dis trict office presented the 1960 Passenger Car Story before members of the Amer ican Societv of Lubrication Engineers. The speech was made at the request of the American Oil Company at Wheeling. Whit also, together with Ed Bacon of the Philadelphia office, provided the new valuable customer service bv timing up the cars of the American Oil Company's Yorktown refiner}' management. During the tune-ups, Ed and Whit took the opportunitv to discuss fuels, additives and the Company's other products with the refinerv manager and his assistants. Joe Hopkins, merchandiser in the East ern Region, gave the Creative Thinking presentation before Tidewater Oil Com pany's refinery management and their petroleum technology graduating group. The presentation took place in Delaware City. Fritz Mercer, Atlanta district, con ducted a series of "Modem Fuels and Engines" meetings for the Gulf dealer development program and the Esso and Texaco dealer training programs through out North and South Carolina. Dale Miller, account representative in the Tulsa district, presided at the annual Armed Forces Day Public Affairs Forum Luncheon given bv the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce. ON THE ROSTRUM William Ball presented the "Earlv Days of Oil" at the Richfield National Distributors Conference held in Atlantic City. Bill is assistant director of PublicRelations, New York. MarCELian Gautreaux, Process De velopment, Baton Rouge plant, was the principal speaker at the annual initiation banquet of Tau Beta Pi, honorary engi neering fraternity at Louisiana State Uni versity. During the 25th Midyear Meeting of the API Division of Refining held in Detroit. Jack McCullough of the Detroit Labs gave the technical paper entitled "Some Sources of Errors in Laboratory KnockRatings." The paper was co-authored hi jack and William Adams. Woody Merritt of Safety in Baton Rouge was a speaker at the meeting of the Southwestern Association of Fire Chiefs in Houston. "The Impact of the Compact" was the title of a talk given by Gil Way at the annual meeting of the Oil Industry TBA T. W. Warren of the Detroit Laboratories has announced that the Refinerv Technol ogy division lias realigned its staff into the following organizational units: the Motor Fuels section, with Frederick BuerSTETTa ns supervisor: and the Computa tion and Economies section, with Wil liam Healy, Jr. as supervisor. Personnel formed}- assigned to the Re finer}- Operations section have become part of the Computation and Economics section. T. E. Lockerbie, formerly in the Motor Fuels section, has joined this group. The Computation ami Economics ac tion will continue to care for the compu tational and statistical needs of the di vision. In addition it will provide ex panded customer services involving mathematical programming of gasoline blending and other refinerv operations. The Motor Fuels section, in addition to its present responsibilities, will assume certain of those formerly handled bv the refinery operations group, in particular those in the field of new antiknocks and. except for mathematical programming, all refinery services and inquiries. In Memoriam We wish to express our deepest sym pathy to the family and friends of Halbert A. Bean, a retired em ployee of the Detroit Laboratories, who died on May 13. Retired since July of 1958, he is survived by his widow. Gladvs M. Bean, Hudson, Michigan. Answers to Keys to the City 1. Houston; 2. Baton Rouge; 3. De troit; 4. Sarnia; 5. Atlanta; 6. Toronto; 7. Pittsburg; 8. Yonkers; 9. Los An geles; 10. Kansas City. 2.5 i ! ETC 14134 ETC 14135 arnia high lead ingot. BEST BEEF Both Ethvl and Ethvl Management Club bought steers at the recent LSU Livestock Show and Sale in Baton Rouge. The heftv calf above was pur chased bv the Conipanv for 39'- cents a pound. From left to right, Frank Carlisle makes the sale to Charles' Zeanah, director of Conummitv Relations, and George .McKennev, Maintenance and Construction. FIRE POSTER IN OHIO Ethels Fire Power Show was recentlv given at sis annual safe driving award meetings for Shell Oil Conipanv's Cleveland division. The meetings were held throughout Ohio in Cincinnati, Toledo, Lima, Columbus, Cleveland and Davton. Below, George Henning, field representative in Central Region, pre sents the show in Cleveland. t4l36 ETC ETC 14137 oplied to as where t will first :t will be nit of exthe new intenance ton plant, !iich symnirs comintenance .ail down all. YOUNG scientist avne Unzelman, daughter of George Unzehnan, J who is technical assistant to Advertising and Sales promotion, New York, was awarded a bronze medal at the Westchester County Science Fair recently. Her exhibit, shown abov e with its creator, traced the geo logical transformation of Manhattan and resulted in a special examination at Columbia University. SERVICE AWARDS r I Mie three men shown above represent a total of three-quarters of a centurv's service with Etlivl Corporation. They are Art Stalillieber (left), Ed Lindsav (center) and Rav Sevmour (right). All these veterans work in Research and Development at San Bernardino and are shown here prior to recent in formal partv held in their honor. SURE SHOT A recent survey revealed that pistol champions are an average height of five feet ten and a half Army in national pistol matches, participating in com petition against the teams of all other branches of the inches and weigh 197 pounds, a qualification that Bill service, and is a veteran of contests against teams rep Spierer, Advertising and Sales Promotion, fills. A resenting all of the states of the Union as well as everv Lieutenant Colonel in the Active Reserve, Bill's sharp United States possession. Bill has used his skill and eye and steady hand have earned him the rating of experience on the firing line to teach pistol marksman "Distinguished Marksman." He has competed for the ship to reserve units. I ETC 14138 ETc 14139 ETC 14140 ETC 14141 ETC ETHYL i\ L vr; i rr |P 1 Published munthlv bv Echvl Corporation and Eth\l Cor poration of" Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE Freedom zi Enterprise A Day at Freedomland The Freedom to Choose The Freedom to Serve The Voices of Freedom Freedom of the Road The Freedom to Meet The Fun of Freedom For Your Entertainment Milestones .............. Ethyl Welcomes Personals People and Places PAGE 2 4 .S . 10 14 . 1G 18 20 22 24 .......... 26 ... 26 . 28 Leonhard Down' ...................................... Editor Edward Metcalf..................... Assmiute Editor Stella Sideris........................ Editorial Assistant I.avout and art work bv S.P.M. Studios Contributing editor' -- Atlanta: Louise Molteit: Baton Rougi: Ben Hodge. .{tie Martin, A. 1. Robichaux: Chicago: Ham Greenup: C/ci eland: Janice Gedridgc: Dallas: Ann Seilridge: Detroit. Marge Bav lerian, Jim Bo.';. Chris Bongc-ro. Joe Forsier. Rus* Frank. I.t' >>n. Kd Mxron. Eric Owen, Ahcc Peterson. K<>- .>c. F.d Simon, Neva YanakclT: Houston: Dave Agncw, Don Connell. Elizabeth Dodson: Kansas City: Lola Chinn. Jane Hudleme'er: Los Angeles: Hjrry Manning: Mc.\- /Vo; Mike Espinosa: Xi-ir 0i7r/j; Maxine Blue: Sctr Ymk: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, I'rna Harris. Gertrude Melloh. Dorothy Locke. Madge I.ofthousc. Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace: Pacifu, Const Plant: Gene Hatfield: Philadelphia: Man Levering: Pittsburgh; Meredene Portzer: Salt Laii City: John Morion: .Vi// Bernardino: Adeline Furst: photographer: Fred Green, Judv Schauh: San I'/anrisro: Jeff Bes.sirc; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker: Yonkers Testing: Cather ine Henderson: Yonkers Central: Al Mnrschauser. Central Office: Ethvl Corporation of Canada Limited: C. G. Manore: loionto: Alan Thomas. ON' OCR COVER. Dennis Vauglm. .son or Brink Vaughn. New Vork Finance, shako hands with the engineer of The Iron Horse that dclichts youngsters as it journevs around Freedomland. The story of a busy dav at the new amusement park begins on page -i. Published bv Ethvl Corporation, Km Park Avenue. New York. New York. B. B. Turner. President: William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer: Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. i >* ETC 14143 Competition is the hie-hlood or America. l'erhaps to a greater decree than am' other tree societv. Americans have traditionallv been a competitive people. Considerin'; our historv. this is not hard to understand. Without the naturallv competitive instincts ol its citi zens. the United St.ites could not hart' survived to become one ol the great nations ol the world. In the earlv stages of development, our forelathers had mainlv to compete against the elements: the sea. the weather, the land itsell. To build a home in the wilderness, to wring a livelihood from stub born soil, to compete against nature, all required great courage and phvsical stamina. Next, tvrannv was the principal antagonist, and in opposin'; that, the competitive spirit produced deinocracv. Hut even demoeraev. Hein" the work of mortal minds, was not then automaticallv perfect as. indeed, it is not now. It produced inequities that needed changing. and up to this verv moment of our historv we still seek to shape, change and improv e it. Freedom and the will to chant;c endures as a basic part of the American character. With such a heritage, it was inevitable that the economic svstem we would choose, one that has become as much a part of America as the Constitution itself, would he the svstem of free, competitive enter prise. For Americans it is a natural habitat, as familiar to all of us as the sights and sounds ol our dailv lives. Competition together with a free economv has produced a diffusion of wealth and propertv for all the people in the United States and has established a free asso ciation--to a decree unknown elsewhere--of owners, managers and workers in indnstrv. The soundness ol the choice of free, competitive enterprise lor America can he gauged bv the fact that we number our capitalists in the millions, not the hundreds, and that the standard of liv in'; is five times what it was less than a hundred vears a"o. It would require volumes even to list the statistics that prove our dvnumic economic growth. One has hut to cast his eves hack over the pages of historv to realize how far we have come. With laws which aim to establish, maintain and strengthen economic freedom, the wisdom of our past course is clear. With the competitive spirit and continuing freedom in the marketplace, America's economic hori zons in the future are limitless. As an integral part of our basic aspirations to diffuse propertv ownership further, to ensure equalitv of opportunitv and to stimulate independence and individual initia tive. free, competitive enterprise is a potent shot in the locker of deinocracv s arsenal. With it. America has come down the road of historv to greatness. With it, we can confidcntlv face the future. i ETC 14144 ETC 14145 * :.>Y ... ? ~....... vui Z*Z1* 4 t New York's newest and the world's largest -*- amusement park, Freedomland. American historv is reproduced in miniature. Laid out in the shape of the United States, the S65.000.000 enterprise offers an unusual holidav in the past as well as in the fu ture. Youngsters can travel lw mule train across a western slope, journev into the stars in a spaceship, ride shotgun with the Ponv Express, descend into a Colorado mine and cruise a northwestern riser in a fur trapper's boat. Such colorful cities as San Francisco. New Orleans, Santa Fe and Chicago are handsomelv produced in scale. Each is filled with divertin'; attractions to de light the voting of all ages. In San Francisco, there is Chinatown and Fishermans Wharf, and the de vastating earthquake again rumbles and shakes the citv. In New Orleans, a March' Gras is in progress and a pirate ship descends into Davev Jones' locker. In New York, a paddlewheeler tours the old water front. Santa Fe features an earls' opera house and a fort defended bv stalwart Cavalrvmen. In Chicago, the famous fire burns again. Historv repeats itself evervwhere educationallv and delightfullv. etc 14146 ETC 14147 ETC 14148 -"*sS i- --y -J ' l,' TO CHOOSE The stxles were modeled bx emplox ecs of the oj| and associated industries. Wearing a black dress for a fashionable exening. Sonja Huestis. Emplox ee He. lations, represented Etbxl in the fashion show. Since it is a woman's prerogatixe to change her mind, the ladies indulged themselxes in choosing and re-choosing the places the\' most wished to tour and the clothes the\' most wanted to take along for the ride. Their heads moxed in inspection of spurts clothes, excelling gowns, street dresses and beach attire as though the\' were xxatching a tennis match--and fortunateh' not judging it. It is, of course, difficut to choose in a countrx xxhere so much is axailable, but not nearlx so hard as to lixe without the right to select. etc 14149 of the oil chess for ;jfo\ee Rehow. Range her nosing and a tour and a" for tlie of sports each attire natch--mid utrv whore cl as to live Bockslage, Kerney Hurst and Harold Mehler, both members of the Advertising and Sales promotion department, review slides to be projected in Magic Circle presentation. Ethyl's Sonja Huestis and Shell Oil's Kathy Peterson model dresses for the cocktail hour and early evening. oitja Huestis ; weQr on Q A* the Ethyl table, a group of Desk and Derrick members from the New York office enjoy dinner with their male guests. From left to right are Len Dowty, Harold Mehler, Russ Weston, Erna Harris, Gel Howell, Kerney Hurst, Mary Dumville, Bill Ball, Betty Beach, Jim lottergan and Jessie Halton. ETC 14150 ETC 14151 E M E l mong the more precious rights that are ours as free men living in an active democracy is the freedom to serve. Since democracy gives all men a voice in its conduct, its governing bodies are composed of repre sentatives of the people, in essence the people them selves. Wherever Ethvl has its main arteries, employees of the Company are active in community affairs and manv have been elected to positions in local govern ment and planning. There are among the Ethyl men and women who serve such diverse office holders as niavors, justices of the peace, trustees, councilmen and citv planners. Each in his own wav has made a defi nite contribution to the operation of the citv or town in which he resides bv serving the people who have elected him to speak for them. Manv of the offices are time-consuming and cut heavilv into the leisure hours of already busy men. Manv demand special talents and training. All of them demand patience and good judgement. Too frequently we are inclined to let George do it. but gratefully there are among us those who have taken advantage of the freedom to serve and who have accepted the responsibility of contributing the most vital element in any democracy--one's self. Through those who serve the voice of the people is heard in our land, and it is a far, far stronger, far, far, wiser voice because of them. Paul Major, left, group leader in Estimating, Project Engl* neerirtg, Baton Rouge plant, is an alderman in lavonia, Louisiana. Charlie Major, right, a supervisor in Vinyl Oper afions, is a member of the City Council of Rosedale, Louisiana. Bill Ball, second from left, assistant director of Public Relations, is a trustee of the Villoge of Larchmont, New York. He is seen above with fellow trustees and Mayor John Coffinberry, at head of table. Freedom to Serve (continued) ETC 14153 Edd Miller, supervisor of Plant Protection at the Houston plant, holds night court as Corporation Court Judge for the City of Pasadena. He has served as director of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Safety and Traffic Council, Chief of Police and president of the Board of Trustees. At right are three of the men from the Detroit Lab who hold public office. Ross Stevenson and Andy Reimold serve on the Ferndale School Board. Andy shows Herb Neal, a member of Farmington Citizens' Advisory Committee, a feature of the new Ferndale High School which is located just behind the Detroit laboratory. etc 14154 The Voice: If men are to be precluded from offering their senti ments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to its; the freedom of speech may be taken awav, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. I believe that there are more instances of the ahridg. ment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison George Washington t has long been a grave question wlietlier am' gov ernment, not too strong for the liberties of its peo ple, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies. Abraham Lincoln When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of Government and expenses of economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free Government. Grover Cleveland ETC 14155 ie abridgadual and Iw v iolent of Freedom As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. Dwight D. Eisenhower Tlie mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained onlv bv an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion. Learned Hand anv gov>f its peoistence in is exacted cessary to t expenses ' becomes idainental the spon- God grants liberty to those who love it, and are ahvavs ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster Put fear out of your heart. This Nation will sur vive, this State will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if onlv men can speak in what ever wav given them to utter what their hearts hold -- by voice, by posted card, by letter or bv press. Reason never has failed man. Onlv force and oppres sion have made the wrecks of the world. William Allen White They that can give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safetv deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin 7 bile democracy must have its organization and I controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. Charles Evans Hughes Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own wav, everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world. Franklin D. Roosevelt The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. . . . Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadest doings of day and night. Walt Whitman 15 ETC 14156 -.'fiS _ '.-T -ja freedom of the i ETC 14157 Like other freedoms that aie preciously ours, we tend to take the right to drive where we please for granted. In this dav and age the road is ours, but the privilege to travel and transport was not alwavs a free choice. Our founding fathers could not roll out the concept of freedom and drop it like a blanket over all exist in'; institutions. Freedom, like anything newlv born and hard won, had to feel its wav, and it had to prove itself more than an idealistic dream. On paper it was one thing: on the road it was another. Not onlv were there verv few existin'; roads, there were limited means of travel. Realizing the importance of the vital freedom to come and go at will, the new government set about opening the road wider. It wasn't an easv task. For one thing, states exercised taxing powers over all ar teries of transportation within their borders. Travelers and shippers paid onerous taxes which mounted to a point where interstate commerce was slowed and nearlv stopped. With no freedom of the road, or rivers and harbors for that matter, the economv of the new nation was brought to a standstill. Before democracy could prove self-supporting, it had to prove itself mobile. Although it started out on tender feet, it won its wav through a wilderness and humped its wav from rock roads, to modern highways. Today, with over TO million motor vehicles regis tered. we look back on tremendous change and can point with pride to the finest highvvav svstems in the world, a network that links our countrv from shore to shore. Vital to free enterprise, our roads are also open to pleasure and carry us to all the wonders that our countrv has to offer in diversity of scenerv and climate. Our stop signs are stop signs of safety, not rifles and barbed wire barricades. We ride in comfort be cause freedom of the road has inspired men and in dustry to open our roads to their broadest expanse. America belongs to its people; it is theirs to use and enjov from the driveway to the turnpike, from the plains to the mountain tops, over bridges and through tunnels, from Main Street to open fields. The road is as wide as the width of freedom, and that is as wide as the breadtli of free men. ETC 14158 mtj ik' jkyT&Fi^TJPvTJiWrWMF- TO MEET panies to make use of our new facilities for their own gatherings." However unwittingly, the right of free assembly is implicit in Don s statement. One feature of the Servicenter is its chassis d\na. mometer which permits indoor evaluation of car per. formance under simulated driving conditions. The center also is equipped with movie and slide film pro. jection facilities, as well as a darkroom for on-the-spot developing of pictures taken of events held at the new Servicenter. This Chicago unit, located at 1420 South Michigan Avenue, is the third of its kind run by the Ethyl Cor. poration. Similar centers are operated in New York Citv and Los Angeles. Doug Baker, Central Region merchandiser, is in charge of the Chicago facility. ETC 14159 >r their own ight of free mssis dvnaof car peritions. The de film proon-the-spot 1 at the new h Michigan Ethvl CorNew York tral Region facility. iser, gestures ration as Bill watches, left. c0(fipany man on a chart at Ethyl's new Chicago Servicenter. The XO-121 experimental tractor attracts Paul Harris, Chicago field representative, at right, and two Servicenter guests. Chief refinery technologist for Central Region, Bill Sabin is shown, at right, looking over the shoulder of a guest at Ethyl product display. The XO~121 "tractor of tomorrow" attracts the eyes of visitors at the Servicenter opening. Developed jointly by Oliver Corporation and Ethyl, it boasts a 12 to 1 compression ratio. Bill Polachek, Chicago field representative, shows some engine component panels to Ethyl guests at the Chicago opening. 19 etc 14160 Bernice Alspace, Kay Kirk, Arlene Clark, Peggy Bonninger and Eleanor Walker make like beatniks in a "pad" of the Fifties. Ethyl's own Andrews Sisters; Dorothy Rhoades, Florence Bowman and Evelyn Lilley do a 1940's USO show. 20 \ % Wrhen it conies to the fun of freedom, few EthvI events are quite so merrv as the annual Detroit Girl's Party, an event at which the ladies let down their hair to spoof customs and trends. Exclusive for the distaff side, this year's Hour Class Revue was a six act burlesque of 50 vears of entertainment in America. The revue began with a silent film made especiallv for the occasion bv Eric Owen, who heads the Lab's photographic section, went on to depict the Roaring Twenties, the stars of the Thirties, the USO entertainments of the Forties, and the beatnik trend of the Fifties. The weeks of preparation paid off in laughter as co-workers, kept in the dark until the big night, guffawed at their colleagues on stage. i etc 14162 BOOKS Harry Golden, whose name is becoming as familiar to the best seller list as a lot of well-known authors who have been pro ducing more work over a much longer period of time, has con cocted a new potpourri of his special brand of wit and wisdom in Enjoy, Enjoy! A World release, Mr. Goldens latest col lection of bits and pieces stands up well against his success ful Only in America and For 2c Plain. It is. as were its prede cessors, a warm endorsement of things especiallv American. Some of the anecdotes are no more than a brief paragraph, but thev are all sharplv related in the Golden stvle with its truly golden touch. There are those who claim that the sports coverage in the newspapers is, as a rule, better written than anv other section. Certainlv u long list of famous writing names have started their careers at the sports desk. Ernest Hemingwav. Ring Lardner and Quentin Reynolds come immediately to mind. Some of the best work done by modern day practitioners of the art lias been collected in Dutton's Best Sports Stories of I960. All the thrills and excitement of manv recent sports events are collected here from all over the country--and if vou have a taste for such things, \ou'll enjov everv pane of this hook. As you read it will become dear that these stories, as pieces of writing no matter the subject, are of a verv high order. ' Visitors to New York City sooner or later wind up in Times Square. What they see is carnival atmosphere, a series of gaudy signs and people, people, people. It's a far erv from the rural rallying point used bv Washington for his troops after the battle of Manhattan; but this, too, happened in Times Square. To be sure, it was not called Times Square in those days but it has been an important crossroad since Revolution ary times. W. G. Rogers and Mildred Weston have written a book about the history and the mores of this world-famous spot. It's called Carnival Crossroads and is published bv Doublednv. From a primitive junction rutted bv wagon tracks to the concrete and neon meeting place of the famous and in famous of today: it's all in this book which should prove of in terest to tourists and New' York residents alike. Come along to MlQUEL Street, a lively thoroughfare in Trinadad's Port of Spain. Things get prettv rough and tumble in V. S. Xaipaul's fictional road, but you will seldom meet such a wild conglomeration of characters anywhere. A voting Hindu, the author has produced an incredible work, frequently like a jouruev through a house of horrors, hut written with tremendous sensitivity and an amazinc understanding nf the people he has chosen to put down on paper. The people are simple, violent, uneducated, but thev are filled with liie and curiosity. The sun beats down upon them anil thev laugh without knowledne as thev live simplv for the sake ot living. What a street, this Miquel Street . . . fascinating. Those who read and enjoved Henrv Morton RobinsonN The Cardinal will find something considerbaly different in the bestselling authors last volume. Water of Life. A Simon ami Schuster release, the latest Robinson entry is a big. panoramic novel that relates the trials and tribulations of a lamilv sup ported handsomely bv the distilling business. There h quite a parcel of them, and for the most part thev are a prettv shoddv lot for all of their interest and color. The author has fashioned them in a stvle appropriate to the turn ot the century, which is when all of this takes place. Prohibition rears its ugly head for the Woodhulls. and the dynasty trembles, but there are still plenty of spirits in the old vat. OUT OF the Burning, a new documentary novel bv Ira Henrv Freeman, is a powerlul book about juvenile delin quency. frequently shocking and continually amazing as a bov gang leader relates his own store of his life in the wild slums of Brooklyn. A World publication, it hits hard at the core of this new menace that threatens even big city. Frenchv. the voung bov who lived a life of recklessness and hatred, emerges to become a useful citizen and looks back at the life that had reduced him to a state of animality until he became the ward of a training school and discovered the good within himself. His storv is a burning one. and the issues are vital in our times. Rased upon an actual case history, the hook is considerably more fact that fiction. If vou're looking fur a hobbv to occupy \our time during the long, hot summer,-vou'll find considerable fun and amusement in You Can Draw Cartoons, a complete stcp-b\-step course given bv Lou Darvas. The new Doubledav lxx>k shows vou how to draw almost even- sort of figure vou can imagine and it gives von detailed instructions on how to do it the easy and professional wav. You'll be amazed hmv much better vou can cartoon than vou mav think when vou know the correct wav to do it. Designed for those leisurely davs on the beach or those quiet country evenings, Angeuque And the King is a glossy historical novel that is set in the sumptuous court of Louis XIV, A Lippincott release, it is the handiwork of Sergeanne Colon, who has fashioned a novel for popular consumption and fash ioned it out of the most silken thread. Angelique, who catches the king's roving eves, is a daintv morsel who resembles an earlv-dav Briget Bardot and who mav well take her place among those historical voung ladies who have Haunted them selves at other kings in other similar novels. As history . well, there is some fact here and there; hut as storvtelling, the new novel is fast, frivolous and entertaining. 22 written with incline of the te people are with life and l thev laugh .ike nf living. *binson\s The t in the best\ Simon and g, panoramic i family suphere is <|uite prettv shocidv iuts fashioned :urv, wliich is its ugly head ut there arc novel by Ira venile delin/ing as a bov .e wild slums .t the core of Frenchv, the tred, emerges life that had ime the ward -thin himself, in our times, considerably u* during the d amusement step-by-step book shows can imagine to it the easv .h better vou v the correct r those (juiet . is a glossy f Louis XIV. .nuine Colon, on and fash* who catches resembles an ce her place united them- history . . . storvtelling, j -fhose who get depressed at the idea of entertaining more than 0 quests can take a new lease on their social life. Florence grobeck, a well-known hostess and cookbook-writer, has just xv-ritten a large, thorough, eminently practical volume entitled The Family Book of Home Entertaining (DoublecLu) -u which she tells you how to cope with everything from a first birthdav partv to a fiftieth wedding anniversary. Miss grobeck's book is divided up into carefully detailed chapters 0n Traditional Family Parties, Engagement and Bridal Parties. tfolidav Parties, Children's Parties, Teen-age Parties, Costume , parties and Outdoor Entertaining, to cite only half of the j headings; and they are all designed to cover every possible i occasion. 1 Robert Nathan, for all of his sentiment and romanticism, has ;l wav of making the most sugary confections highly palatable, ;ind his latest novel. The Color of Evening, ought to de light Nathan fans no end. Set under the California sun, the new Knopf book follows the author's recipe from the mixing howl to the frosting* as it tells the story of two men whose hearts go out to a stray, girl. There is an occasional tendency toward candy-coated philosophy, but for the most part Mr. Nathan is concerned with the motion of his story and the very nice people involved in the tepid dilemma. There is more action in The Feud, a new novel by Amelia Bean, than you are likelv to encounter in an entire evening of television. A Doubleday release, it is based on the famous Craham-Tewksburv rivalrv that set Arizona's Tonto Basin aflame some 75 years ago when the Tewksburvs brought sheep I into cattle country. Vengeance boils up all over the place and ! fast guns blaze with the speed of a prairie fire. Apaches attack and some noble women stand bv their men through the thick and thin of tough times. There is a good bit of soul-searching over the frequent splatter of blood. The elements are all there j in profusion, put together in a first-rate Western saga that makes the most of material that has been a popular target. MOVIES Universal-International has assembled an all-star cast (Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Llovd Nolan, Sandra Dee, folm Saxon. Richard Basehart, Ray Walston and Anna Mav Wong) for Portrait in Black, a suspenseful and dramatic film in which an overbearing, invalid tvcoon is murdered bv his wife and the family doctor. From then on, the trail of murder is com plicated by mysterious letters and further suspicious acts that keep things going at a rapid pace. The murder, vou sec, has been covered up neatly by the doctor, but someone knows the truth and anonymously threatens to expose the erring couple. The end has a neat twist. Paramount is releasing the British-made thriller Chance Meeting in this country, and though its stars are not well known here, it is a first-rate cinema tieat lor those i\lm enjov adult murder mvsteries. Hardv Kruger and Mieheline Pre-ie are the stars, and thev do handsomelv in their rule.-, a- due' detective Stanlev Baker. It all takes place in Londim. which is just about the best setting in the world fur a nm-ing im-terv \arn. Miss Presle is the victim and Mr. Kruger i- the accused, which brings about a flashback that retraces the ewnts ot their erstwhile relationship. Things work out all right m the end, but not without some intriguing circumstances along the route. John O Hara, whose big books have been steadilv appearing on the best seller list, comes to the screen via Twentieth CenturvFox s On THE Terrace, a movie that uses onlv portions ul the author's giant novel, but which takes full advantage ol its drama of some fairly complex characters of suburbia. As in most of O'Hara's fiction, there is considerable iuterpla\. and in this case it is beautifully enacted In such accomplished people as Paul Newman. Joanne Woodward and Mvrna Lov. In a sense, the film is primarilv the store of a marriage gone havwire, but it isn't so simple as that when John O'Hara lulls it with his accustomed vigor and insight. TELEVISION The political conventions, with an audience estimated at over a hundred million people, took the television spotlight during the month and proved to he one of America's most lavish and exciting spectacles. Armchair politicians from Alaska to Florida found themselves in there fighting with the best of them to push their candidate home. There is no question that when the TV cameras move in close on historv in the making, the living room screens know their finest hours, hours packed with excitement and drama. The TV cupboard is bare for the rest of the summer for the most part but beyond lies a new fall season with some old. some new productions rc;tdv to brave the rating jungle. One nf the first new shows to appear in the fall will lie called JackPot Bowlinc. Not, certainly, a new idea for TV program ming but we bet vou'd never guess who will be host on this show? It's-------------Milton Berle! Special events too numerous to mention are now in the plan ning stage hut here's a partial list of high spots. Fred Astaire will he back for another Evening; ABC-TV will do an ambi tious series on the Life of Sm Winston Churchill; Candid Camera gets a time slot of its own; and Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healv, Andy Griffith ancl Tom Ewell will do a new scries. Culture will not be completely neglected with the return of Omnibus and NBC Opera continuing among others. All in all there will he something for even-body's taste. 23 i I 1 etc 14164 ETC 14165 John B. Taylor. Jr. Research & Development. Detroit vttbi. t'ELT \ William C. Ludt . Development, ; Gasoline Testing. Yonkers tetroit Joseph W. L eaner Research 6: Development. Detroit John >. Wintuim.h \m Research & Development. Detroit ' 15 YEARS Lowell D. Chrysler Research 6t Development. Detroit Oscar 0. Clo.en Research ts Development. Detroit Margaret E. Griffinc Research 6; Development. Detroit Bruce D. !,emberto.\ General Services, New York Clyde Sheppard Research & Development. Detroit Helen V. Ninclair Advertising, New York ^..HeSSELBERC ..Development. )tToit Daniel A. Hirschlkr, Jr. Research is Development, Detroit tC- Slmner .development, >roit G illum H. Thomson Manufacturing, Wilmington, California lO YEARS Geuoa E. Bohme Sales. Western Region Jesse G. Burdick Medical. Houston William S. Dixon, III Sales. Southern Region Harold A. Cloud Sales, Gasoline Testing. Y'onkcrs Richard I*. Hurta Sales, Central Region Anna V. Murphy Administration, New York Thomas I*. Whaley Chemical Research. Baton Rouge ETC 14166 ll I I I 1 fi i i ; SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the following empiovees at the Pittsburg plant and in the Sales department: Pittsburg: Lloyd Elmore, S10.00 (Improvement on hot and cold water valves); Elbert S. Isham, $15.00 (Modifications to the vent line on the phosphate pump); Lawrence J. Reilly, $10.00 (Hammer bracket at autoclaves); Willie H. Walker, $10.00 (Gauge for PO* pump); Wayne West, $15.00 (Flexible pipe on portable air compressor). Sales Department: Loretta Liebler and Rose Marie MacLellan, $30.00 (A list be made available to secretaries, statistical tvpists, etc., containing the new chemical terms and products which Ethvl is currentlv using in correspond ence); Laura Pierro, $10.00 (Make up physical inventory of furniture, fix tures, etc., at regional and district level on double spaced mimeographed sheets); Frankie D. Zycha, $25.00 (Parking area for district office and gasoline test ing laboratory of Houston be marked into regular-size parking spaces to im prove parking conditions and increase parking capacity). IN THE FIELD Richard Courtney has been reassigned from Research & Development in Detroit to automotive engineer in the New York district. Ray Daugherty, automotive engineer for the San Francisco district, has been elected to the board of governors of the Northern California Society of Automo tive Engineers. Ed Erskine, Los Angeles district, gave a Creative Thinking demonstration at a meeting of the Pacific Coast Cas Asso ciation in Salt Lake City. Following the regular presentation, Ed conducted an actual brainstorming session on problems effecting this industry. Jack Cole, Salt Lake District Manager, who is president of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association Refining Com mittee, recently demonstrated his ability to guide the refining committee during a two-dav session of highlv scientific lec tures and down to earth management problems at the 13th annual meeting held in Salt Lake City. ON THE ROSTRUM The following technical papers prepared bv the Detroit Labs were presented in Chicago at the annual summer meeting of the Societv of Automotive Engineers; The technical paper which was pre sented entitled "Are Octane Numbers and Hydrocarbon Type Enough?" was authored by Fred Buerstetta and Albert Caputo of the Labs, and E. S. Corner, T. M. Korn and E. C. Younghouse of Esso Research and Engineering. Howard Hesselbekg presented Antiknock Belu\ ior f the Alla| Leaj Compounds. co-authored bv j0^ Howard. Martin Gluckstein presented `*Entj Gas Temperature-Pressure Histones Their Relation to Knock." Martin'.,^ authors were Cleveland Walcutt Jn(j Richard Acles. Claude Arceneaux, Chemical Re search & Development, Baton R0uoe plant, presented a paper on "Electro^ Microscopy of Air Sensitive Material/ at a three-day microscopy s>mposiUni held in Chicago. He also served on j panel discussion of applications of electron microscopv. Claude is president of the Louisiana Societv of Electron Microscopv. PEOPLE IN *THE NEWS Roy Clothier is now manager of Op erations at the Baton Rouge plant and is responsible for TEL. Sodium, Etlnl Chloride and Vinyl Chloride Operations. William Cline will continue in the position of YCl Operations superinten dent. reporting to Rnv. The following organizational changes have taken place at the Detroit Labs: Roger BasCOM has been transferred to Technical Service; Jerome Brown has transferred tu Commercial Development at the Baton Rouge plant; and Thomas Wilkinson is now with Commercial Development and will continue to main tain his Detroit office. 1 *T j } \V. R. Perdue, Jr. has announced that Malcolm Harvey has been appointed to assume the responsibilities of manager of the Finance department's Economic ETHYL WELCOMES Six new employees join the Company in four different areas in positions ranging from engineer to receptionist Bernadinh Bishop, receptionist at the Detroit Labs, is married and has two children. Dorothy Connolly Business Services in enjovs ! ETC 14167 rented "The Alkyl Lead by John sented "Endlistories arid Martin's coalcutt and temieal Re nton Rouge n "Electron t* Materials" symposium served on a ions of elecpresident of tron Micros- IEWS ager of Opplant and is lium, Ethyl Operations, inue in the . superinten- nal changts Detroit Labs: ransferred to Brown has Development nd Thomas Commercial mie to main- tounced that n appointed s of manager :`s Economic Evaluation Coordination section, Xew York. \l:d succeeds Lloyd Andrew, who returned to Research & Development in Baton Rouge. Detroit Dick and Sara Abowd -- a daughter, Michelle Marie, born on June 3, weighing 4 pounds 9 ounces. The Abowds now have four lads and four lassies. Pop is with the Lab's Chemical Research. Eastern Region Don and Norma Forsdick -- a son, Gerald Duncan, born on May 20. weighing 6 pounds 13 ounces. The little fellow joins two sisters and three broth ers in the Forsdick family. Don is a field representative in Xew York. EXTRACURRICULAR Two Baton Rouge plant men, Wallace Armstrong, resident manager, and Charles Zeanah, director of Commu nity Relations, were elected to posts dur ing the annual Junior Achievement meet ing in Baton Rouge. Wally, outgoing president of the JA of Greater Baton Rouge, was elected to serve on the 11-state Region V Junior Achievement Board of Directors; and Charley was named a member of the local board. Kenneth Swartwood, Research & De velopment in Baton Rouge, has been elected a member of the YWCA Ad visory Board. The group works closely with the YWCA's board of directors on the organization's program of service in the community. Ralph Dupuy of Engineering in Baton Rouge was named 1960-61 president of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Ameri can Societv of Heating. Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers. For another four rears, Henry Smith of Economics Evaluation, Baton Rouge plant, will serve as mayor of Baker in East Baton Rouge. Ethvl Corporation received a plague presented bv the Oliver Corporation, makers of farm equipment, on the 25th anniversary of the high compression tractor. George Krieger, Public Re lations. Xew York, accepted the award at a dinner held in Charles City, Iowa. George has plaved a big part in the de velopment of the high compression gasoline tractor. During the Louisiana Petroleum Council meeting held in New Orleans, Ollie Jones, Purchasing and Traffic in Baton Rouge, was one of four Baton Rougeons to receive a special silver award for out standing contributions to the petroleum industry's public relations program. Ollie is now serving his second term as presi dent of the East Baton Rouge Division of the Council. John KloCK, Maintenance & Construc tion in Baton Rouge, has been elected vice president, and re-elected to a threeyear term on the board of directors of the Community Services Council. The Council plans and coordinates communitv programs of health, welfare and recreation. The 15 Baton Rouge employees who participated in the "big brother'' pro gram of assistance to members of Ltrouma High Schools honor chemistry class this vear were honored at the schools Honors Day Convocation. The school issued to each an honor award certificate in recognition of outstanding service to the students. The big broth ers who received the awards were Glenn Adams, Claude Arceneaux, Gene Ashby, Shirl Cook, Bob Curry, Vic Dayan, Fred Frey, Al Haefner, Ben Hodge, Don Johnson, Lou Menville, Tillmon Pearson, and Dick Pinkerton. Frank Con rad, local ACS section chairman, and Chester Holmes, agent for the pro gram, also received awards. WEDDINGS Detroit Carol Ann Sossi and Gary Dale Hotchkiss were married on May 28 at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Detroit. The couple trayeled through Xew York State for their honeymoon trip. Cary is a chemical technician at the Labs. ' Eastern Region Meredith Murphy, daughter of Rich ard Murphy, regional manager, was mar ried to James Suli.engek on June 11 at St. Matthew's Church in Bedford, Xew York. *ON NOLLY is with rvices in Detroit, -ports and music. James Spearman, Manufac turing, Pittsburg plant, is a University of Texas graduate. 27 ETC 14168 ETC 14169 wered racer higan. The CUSTOMER CLINIC ack Kaley of the Philadelphia District Office took J part in a recent Cities Sen ice "Dealerama" held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, Washington. D. C. Other Ethel men in the show were Pres Hern. Philadelphia District Office: Arch Smith, Atlanta District Office; and the New York District s Hob Thurston. Jack was snapped, above, during his part in the program. CALF COMBER The Ethel-sponsored calf, below, is being kept in top condition be Louis Wilson, a student at Pasa dena High School in Texas. The Compane sponsors a calf in a program conducted under the auspices of the Pasadena Livestock Show, Fair and Rodeo Associa tion. Louis, who appears more wars' of the camera than he is of the calf, studies agriculture. ETC 14170 etc 1*l7i ETC 14172 i Fifty stars and thirteen stripes--private lives and open gripes bubble gum. the hula hoop--Andy Hardy. Betty Boop The New York Times, the USO-the dollar bill, the poems of Poe Nellie Bly. Buster Crabbe--Bobby Jones, olive drab The Boston Celtics, Monticello--Sitting Bull, Spam and Jello * Jhe 3ill of Rights, honored truths-secret ballots, voting booths Lofty mountains. Texas plains--summer suns, winter rains Kentucky horses. Jersey beaches --Florida oranges, Georgia peaches Micky Mantle, Dinah Shore--solid rock and vital ore Titusville. Poker Flats--Credit cards and automats Plastic pools, swimming holes--Sugar, Orange and Cotton Bowls South Pacific, Ethan Frome-Kansas City, Newark, Nome Hot dog vendors at the game--Southern Cal and Notre Dame The right to laugh, the right to squawk--Wrigley Field and Kitty Hawk Gorgeous George, Helen Hayes--Tommy Sands. Willie Mays San Diego, Horace Greeley--Benny Field and Blossom Seeley NBC, Learned Hand--Valley Forge, Disneyland Myrna Loy, U. S. Grant--Oklahoma, Charley's Aunt Cooperstown, U. S.'Steel --N. Y. U., Eugene O'Neill Boston Harbor, Seminoles--Mindy Carson, Tootsie Rolls Middlecoff, Sugar Ray-- Westinghouse, Doris Day Miami Beach, San Francisco--Barney Oldfield, Spry and Crisco Lil Abner, Louisville--RKO and Bunker Hill Turkey dinners, Henry Ford--marble columns, beaverboard Buick, Rambler, Valiant, Lark--Susie Q. and Central Park Saran Wrap, Reynolds foil-Mobilgas and Standard Oil Appomattox, Ginger Rogers-Yankees, White Sox, Braves and Dodgers Life with Father, Mother's Day--Andrew Jackson, Oyster Bay Wagon Train, Carrie Nation--Jean Lafitte, Union Station Chinatown, Tennessee-F.P.A. and R.F.D. Illinois, New Mexico--Sinclair Oil and Texaco Gettysburg, Sammy Snead--The Great White Way and Walter Reed Robert Fulton, Keenan Wynn-Hiawatha, Rin Tin Tin The Merrimac, The Chesapeake-The National Guard, Battle Creek Rise Stevens, Yale, Loyola-- Decca Records, Coca Cola Jascha Heifetz, Ogden Nash-Lucky Strike and succotash Theda Bara, j| Clara Bow--The USN, the Alamo Apple Annie, Mr. Clean--Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Shean Stephen Foster, Seven Up-Shirley Temple, the Davis Cup Chevrolets, The Golden Gate--My Fair Lady, Kiss Me, Kate Atlantic City, Marlon Brando-Corpus Christi and Orlando Bobby Jones, Billy Rose-Sonny Boy and Old Man Mose Cap'n Andy, riverboats--Fanny Brice and Quaker Oats Grandma Moses, Calamity Jane--Walden Pond and Frankie Laine The Great Divide, Chevy Chase--This, all this, is freedom's face. ' ly I ETC 14173 jop--Andy 3ly, Buster Ho The -summer ky Mantle, ETHYL * III [III ni AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1960 ETC 14174 J ETHYL Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Sense Per Gallon............... A Movie in the Making. . . More About Movies........... Brother Act .......................... As It Was............................... Auto Biography .................. Doctors in the House......... Under Your Hat.................. For Your Entertainment. . . Milestones ............................ Ethyl Welcomes .................. Personals ............................... People and Places............. ......... 2 ......... 4 ......... 6 ......... 8 ......... 10 ......... 14 ......... 16 ......... 18 ......... 20 ......... 22 ......... 23 ......... 24 ......... 26 Leonhard Dowry .......................................Editor Edward Metcalf......................Associate Editor Stella Sideris........................Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors --- Atlanta: Louise Moffett; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robithaux; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridgc; Detroit: Marge Baylerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Alyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Neva Yanakeff; Houston: Dave Agnew, Don Connell, Elizabeth Dodson; Kansas City: Lola Chinn, Jane Hudlemeyer; Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Ale.vico: Mike Espinosa: Sew Orleans: Maxine Blue: Sew York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace; Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Meredene Portzer: Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Francisco: Jeff Bessire: Tulsa: Carl Bartholomew, Howard Hamaker: Yonkers Testing: Catherine Henderson: Yonkers Cen tral: Al Morschauser; Central Office: Ethyl Corpo ration of Canada Limited; Sarnia: C. G. Manore: Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON' OUR COVER: Young Nancy1 Hopkins, daughter of Joe Hopkins, Regional Merchan diser. Eastern Region, pretends to set the course of the Charles If". Morgan, an old wooden whaler that is one of the major attractions at Mystic Seaport, Conn. A tour of the old port with the Hopkinses begins on page 10. Published by Ethyl Corporation, LOO Park Avenue, New York, New York. B. B. Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Primed in U.S.A. ETC 14175 f vou own a car of am size or description, there's I ail unseen passenger riding along with vou e\erv time vou take the wheel. Nobodv asked this fellow to go along, but lie's there juSt the same. What's more, he puts an extra load on vou and vour car bv cutting down, wav down, on the amount of transportation you can get for a dollar. And the way this fellow has been pushing his weight around, he threatens to crowd main' motorists right off the highwav. Who is this guv? His name is Gus Gas Tax. And Gus Gas Tax. created by the federal, state and local governments, adds enormouslv to vour gasoline costs. Gus Gas Tax was onlv a little guv -- "Little Augie" thev used to call him -- when he first took to the road. In fact, back in 1920, only five states in the whole country levied any taxes at all on gasoline. But as the vears went on -- depression, war, inflation -- the federal government levied taxes, local governments laid them on, and every state imposed a tax as well. And in the meantime, all of these taxes have been steadily increased. This is how Gus grew. Once upon a time, Gus Gas Tax added onlv a penny, or maybe two, to the cost of a gallon of gaso line. That's peanuts, vou mav saw But as time marched on, the various taxing agencies recognized a good thing when thev saw it -- until todav, the aver age American motorist pays a total of ov er ten cents in taxes for everv gallon of gasoline he puts in the tank. What does this mean? It means that, at current prices, taxes add fullv 507 to the cost of every gallon of gasoline. It means that, were it not for taxes, a motorist's dollar would buv nearlv 5 gallons of gasoline instead I of about three. ! It means that, in a six-passenger car, Gus Gas Tax takes up, for all practical purposes, as much room as two full-grown persons. ! Add up these tax costs over a period of a year, and I the result is staggering. The amount of monev the average motorist pars in gasoline taxes in one war would be enough to buv an additional 32!> gallons ot gasoline for the familv car. And that's enough gaso line to provide 5.000 miles of additional transportation. Gus Gas Tax has grown to such proportions that he overshadows the trulv great accomplishment of the oil industrv in building more and more value into everv gallon of gasoline. During the first half of this vear, regular gasoline has sold at an average service station price of 20 and a half cents a gallon -- exclusive of taxes. That price was lower than the average annual price of the last seven years. That price was onlv a shade higher than the corresponding price of 1950, despite the tremen dous inflation that has taken place in the last decade. At the same time, gasoline cjualitv has been continuallv increased. A few months ago, the average octane number of regular gasoline was 92.5 octane number. Five vears ago, it was SS.3 octane number; ten vears ago, it was S4 octane number. In other words, motor ists are getting more power, greater mileage and better engine performance out of a gallon of gasoline than ever before. In fact, today's regular gasoline is higher in octane number than the premium gasoline of 1953. In addition, other areas of gasoline cjualitv have been improved in both grades. The high cost of gasoline -- meaning the high level of gasoline taxes -- has certainlv been a factor in the public's eager acceptance of the compact car. The compact car, by offering greater miles per gallon, means reduced gasoline consumption jier vehicle. And reduced gasoline consumption per vehicle means a reduced number of tax dollars available to pav for the nation s roads and highways. In this wav, gaso line taxes may be sowing the seeds of their own disso lution. No one will deny that Gus Gas Tax has a rightful place in our economy, to the extent he helps us build and maintain highways but without discouraging automobile use. Clearly, there is a serious national problem in a system of taxes that now extracts nearly five billion dollars a year from the pocketbooks of the nation's motorists. Clearly, it just doesn't make sense per gallon. ti 3 i ETC 14176 ETC 14177 /faking movies is part of the work jn Advertising and Sales Promotion. Here's news about their latest film. In November another Ethyl motion picture entitled Danger! Air! will be released. Based on Hazard of Air (Oxygen) in Refinery Process System, a publica tion of Standard Oil Company (Indiana), the thirtyniinute film in color will show why unwanted air in the refining process can be hazardous. That simplification does not, however, begin to in dicate the full scope of the film or the work that went into producing the final print. George Unzelman, Ad vertising and Sales Promotion, spent a full year on the project. Assigned as coordinator for all Ethyl aspects of the film, he had worked before on Danger! Water!, an Ethyl film widely acclaimed in the oil in dustry. George was charged with selecting and ar ranging for shooting sites through our field represen tatives; for supervising the writing and editing of the script; for supplying the producer-director with tech nical advice and more--much more. In the processlie found that his training in refinery technology was needed every step of the wav, for each foot of fin ished film had to be precisely, technically valid. Audio Productions, makers of Ethvl industrial films for 25 years, was chosen to do the actual shooting. They assigned Alex Gansell as producer-director to run the camera crews, incorporate animated se quences and edit the finished product to its proper length. Wishing to make a movie not only for the oil in dustry but of it as well, locations were picked from oil centers around the country. The location of repre sentative types of refinery equipment, suitability of climate and installations available for shooting at the proper time were all considerations that had to be taken into account. It was, to sav the least, a taxing exercise in coordination. Danger! Air! won't ever be found in vour local picture palace but it will be shown where it counts most for Ethyl. Thousands of oil company employees will be seeing and absorbing its message. They are sure to come away again impressed with the quality of our Company's customer services. The crew topes the sound of controlled ex* plosions in the Research labs of Standard Oil Company (Indiana) at Whiting, Indiana. The director lines up a skyline shot of refinery equipment at the Richfield Oil Refinery in Watson, California. Ethyl coordinator George Unzelman checks the next closeup point on location at Suntide Oil Company Refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. etc 141T8 Motion pictures are one of the many important quality services that Ethyl Corporation has provided for its customers through the years. Motion pictures made and distributed bv Ethyl are not likely to cop any Academy Awards, but they help win a much more vital prize for the Com pany--the appreciation of customers. Films mas- seem to base little or no connection ss-ith the manufacturing of products for the petroleum industrv, but actually they play an important part in our operations. Long ago, Ethyl Corporation realized the potential of utilizing sound film to promote its prod ucts, depict the high quality and many advantages of its service and aid customer companies in training programs and safety procedures. A pioneer in the commercial use of motion pictures for these purposes, the Company produced its first film. The Long Road, as far back as 193-1. The initial Ethvl film traces the history of transportation from the svheel to the then-modern automobile svitli its self starter (courtesy of Charles F. Kettering) and Ethvl antiknock compound (contributed by the same Boss Ket and Tom Midglev Back in those days few of our customers were equipped to show films, and Ethyl's field men took to the long road themselves with film and projectors, "trooping" in a sense to bring Ethyl's story to customers and prospective customers across the country. Since then Ethyl's film library has grown consider able larger and considerably more diverse. With a watchful eve to customer needs, the productions filmed within the last five years have been increasingly tech nical in content; so much so, in fact, that distribution outside the oil industry has been, for the most part, discontinued. Except for films designed for use specifically within the Company, all of the post-1955 prints are made available to the petroleum industry and allied either at cost or on loan through Ethyl's regional and district offices. ETC 14179 important ation has Hhe years. .1-; bv Ethvl Vjrards, but irt tlie Coni- ection with -tsoleum inAgurt in our realized the >te its prodkuantages of in trainin'* ion pictures zed its first . The initial )tn from the itfa its self: and Etlivl . same Boss oners were Ben took to projectors, ^customers ntry. x considerse. With a irons filmed singly teclicfistrihution emost part, tsallv within * are made tBied either and district Perhaps the most popular of the Ethvl motion pic tures is the Automotive Series, a package of 11 short films on automobile parts. Available in either black and white or color, each film runs from six to ten min utes. Technical animated drawings are used in all of diem to demonstrate the subject. This technique per mits the camera to depict each automobile part in detail as the narrator discusses exactly how and whv each functions. Designed primarilv as instructional films, the Automotive Series is a service to oil com panies in training marketing personnel. The series presently consists of three films on carburetors, two on gasoline and one each on the electrical svstem, the distributor, valves, the cooling system, fuel injection and spark plugs. Three other films from the Etlivl motion picture library are used bv our customers for similar purposes. Rumble in Gasoline Engines tackles the problem of rumble and is based on research from the Detroit Lab oratories, as is a great deal of the material used in the Etlivl films, all of which have been produced under the supervision of the Advertising and Sales Promotion department. Multi-Purpose Additive and For Better Performance, while instructional, make reference to specific Ethyl products. The former covers the use and advantage of MPA, and the latter describes the func tion of TEL and outlines the importance of good gaso line on engine performance. Another group of films has been especially designed to assist customer refiners in the efficient and eco nomical handling of our products. These are Mixing Plant Maintenance, Handling Ethyl Drums, Unloading Ethyl Tank Cars, and Safe Handling of Ethyl Fluid. In a more general area of safety, the film library also includes Danger! Water! Fire on Signal Hill, and Fire Power. In the near future. Danger! Air! will be added to that category. Each deals with a specific precaution and depicts the dangers that might arise unless the necessary steps are taken to avoid hazards. The series has met with considerable approval of both customers and safety experts, and it is widely used hv refiners. Producer of more than 40 motion pictures. Etlivl has also covered a wide variety of other subjects, such as recruiting and agriculture as well as technical matter. Though service is a difficult thing to assess. Ethel's films are a big part of the added extras that go along with Ethvl products. With a constant eve on the needs of our customers, the Company has focused the husv eye of its camera on several areas in which we can better serve the oil industry. Behind the lens lies the work and planning of mam- Ethvl people from the Laboratories, the Sales department, Product Services and Safety, Advertising and Sales Promotion, and other departments. There are no stars at Ethvl. but there is quality performance from first-rate talent. Shown obovo or come of the Automotive Series films which now number 11. The kit is available to customer companies at cost. ETC 14180 ; Pat Mclnm's, above with adviser Lou Men* vilie, charted the hardness of water from several major cities around the country. The diffusion of salts in a water solution was Ronnie Baker's enterprising task un der the supervision of Bob Curry, right. Mary Pierce investigated the various prop* erties of collodial systems under Ben Hodge's professional guidance. Don Johnson, a! left, advised prospective chemist Gary Bailey in his investigation of ion exchange resins and their application. by distillation was Wilson Grice's job oi vised by Gene Ashby. high school education, explains the lab* oratory balance scales to Pat Mdnnis. John Davidson's project with AI Haefn^r's guidance on equipment and procedures. sons for various crystal patterns. Ro of er I! Above, Fred Frey shows his charge, Cecil Shirt Cook, right, assisted Vida Davis in I Nall, how to go about conducting his her investigation of tar and other residues i: laboratory experiment. from cigarette smoke. ETC 14181 i \ ACT son Grice's job 04. 0jg Brother Tillmon Pearson aided Sumpter paviSf right, in his study of the chemistry 0f explosives and their uses- ommy Lang in the itols and the rea* \ patterns. Ronnie Turney studied elemental analysis of organic compounds aided by Big Broth* er Victor H. Dayan. In sessions from February through May of this year at Istvouma High School in Baton Rouge an innovation in chemical educa tion was tried and pronounced successful. Sponsored bv the Baton Rouge Section of the American Chemical Sociotv and im plemented with the help of 13 "Bit; Brothers from Chemical RSd) at Ethel's Baton Rouge Plant, chemistrv honors students from Istrouma had a chance to combine tlieorv and practice in their accelerated studies. Under the guidance of the high school teaching staff, these students had an opportunitv to initiate and earn' out individual assignments and report on them at term's end. The Ethyl volun teers who assisted them devoted two to three spare time hours a week in overseeing their voting charges. At the end of the pro gram the students expressed themselves to he pleased with the results for thev felt thev had gotten a better understanding of chemistrv and were more easilv able to assess the role and re sponsibility of chemists in adult life. Similarlv. Istrouma Principal Ellis A. Brown [liaised the pro gram. He said in part: "We give it our 100 per cent endorsement because it has given practical and scientific enrichment to our chemistry students. We want to be included next vear." The program was led hv Frank Conrad. R&D. chairman of the Baton Rouge Section of the American Chemical Socictv; Chester Holmes, Quality Control, serving as ACS agent for Istro uma High School, and Mike Chambers, chemistrv teacher at Istrouma, who works at the Plant during the summer. Another feature of the Big Brother program was the visit of the students to the Plant. They are pictured above dining with their mentors in the Plant Cafeteria. In the afternoon the students watched their Big Brothers at work in the laboratory. ETC 1418* An old seaport lives again... Joe Hopkins and his family sit on the rail of the Charles W. Morgan, last of the mighty wooden whalers. 10 Leslie is fascinated by the detail work of a miniature ship. Object attracting attention of the Hop* kinses is an armillary sphere. Aboard the Charles W. Morgan where the family saw the unusual equipment used by the men who sought the whale in oceans all over the world. Once upon a time there was a thriving seaport on the shore of the Mystic River in southeastern Connecticut. It was a busv and bustling place. Tower ing masts rose against the open skv and the sunlight plaved with the shadows on wide, white sails and intricate rigging. There, in the nineteenth centurv, the famous Greenmail Shipyard produced some of the country's outstanding examples of sealing sloops, packets, vachts, whaleships, clippers and schooners. Expert carvers fashioned magnificent figureheads to grace the bow. Anxious wives walked the widow's walk looking out across the water in search of a fa miliar ship. In the counting house (the bank of its day) captains and merchants met to discuss their cargo while men in bell-bottomed trousers waited for the news of a voyage. In the tavern, other seamen sat sipping their ale over checkers and chess. On the wharf, accomplished hands knitted nets, and at the shipsmith's equally skilled men forged harpoons and lances, blubberspades and gaffs for the arduous hunt of the whale. Though Mvstic died a centurv ago, it has been re stored by the Marine Historical Association, and it is as though nothing has changed. So it was that Eastern Region Merchandiser Joe Hopkins and his family found it on a summer Magic Circle tour, 20 acres of American history with pleas ures to delight the entire family. From penny candv at the general store to a New England seafood dinner, Mvstic seaport is just as it was. 11 etc 14184 Would-be sailors Leslie, left, and Nancy play at rowing out to the open sea in a dinghy tied up at the Mystic Seaport dock. ETC 14185 en sea in An enormous old anchor, one of many at the port, dwarfs Joyce and th girls. The girls particularly enjoyed the children's museum, where they were given colorful, unusual shells. With a feather pen, Nancy plays at being a financier by writing in ledger at the old counting house on Mystic wharf. All of the Hopkins eot penny candy under the watchful eye of a cigar store Indian. General store sells oldtime soap, scents and novelties. J Nancy ETC 14186 Above ore ome of the prize specimens from Ed Myron's collection of smoll scale model automobiles. The Myron collection now numbers 54 model cars of various makes and styles. To identify those shown here, consult the coded drawing on the right of this pegs. ETC 14187 r biography i 1 Avid collectors like Ed Mvron subscribe to trade papers devoted to the vintage car hobbv and. thus, keep up to date on the win s and whereabouts of rare old models. Old car enthusiasts continually correspond and exchange information for making trades probably in much the same wav as their grandfathers bartered fur horses in an earlier time. Ed, tor example, has his heart set on someday owning a 1932 Model "A" Ford Ed Myron who works in the Instrument Section of the Detroit Laboratory is mad about automobiles: while others search old barns and out of the waxplaces in hopes of uncovering the dustv shell of a long all kinds, shapes and sizes. He owns them, trades neglected Marmon or a Stutz Bearcat. them, rebuilds them and, for all anvbodv knows, There is a special zeal that motivates the work of dreams them. His hobby runs the gamut from full- the Myron-like collector. The face of such a hobbvist sized vintage cars to authentic scale models. Being a lights up at the mention of his special field and he resident of the automobile capital of the world. Ed never tires of explaining the smallest detail of his off- is in a good spot to indulge his hobbv to the fullest, hour preoccupation. To him it means excitement, a for Detroit is not onlv an ideal place from which to sense of challenge that no amount of long hours and trace automobile historv but also mnnv like-minded, fruitless searching can ever dim. The object mav be enthusiastic collectors live in the area. worth precious little, but to the collector it is prized. A familiar sight in the Myron driveway is a vintage The famous physician and surgeon, Sir William automobile that Ed is engaged in restoring to working Osier, said it better than anv other when he expressed order, while down in the basement are arraved the the following sentiments: collection of small scale models that grows with each "No man is really happy or safe xvithout a hobby, passing year. Some have been assembled from pre and it makes precious little difference what the outside pared kits and others have taxed Ed's ingenuity to interest may be--botany, beetles or butterflies: roses, build correctly. Whatever the problem, however, a tulips or irises; fishing, mountaineering or antiquities wide experience and manual skills bring the finished --anything xvill do so long as he straddles a hobbv and product close to perfection. rides it hard." collection now ht of this page. Before you check the identities, try and guest as many as yog can. if you get 10 right, that's a good score: 12 right answers put you in the expert class: and if you name all 14 cars in the picture, ot left, you are probably as dedicated a collector as Ed Myron himself. Ready? A) Model T Ford, 1909. B) Rambler, 1902. C) Mercedes, 1913. 0) Ford, 1903. E) M.G., 1953. F) "B" Ford, 1932. G) Mercer Runabout, 1913. H) Fiat Tourer, 1915. I) Maxwell, 1911. J) Renault Limousine, 1907 (held in Ed's hand). K) Rolls Royce, 1911. 1) Cord Phaeton, 1936. M) Ouesenberg Model J LeBaron Phaeton, 1929. N) Cadillac, 1903. 15 L etc 14188 DOCTORS IN THE MPMPMD HOUSE MDMDMDsscfrv.v: Kwmyngre: Seated left to right are Dr. Frank Princi, Cincinnati; Dr. Lester Saunders, Cincinnati; Dr. Carl Sprunk, Detroit; Harry Wheeler, Bot0n Rouge Medical; Dr. Walter Gillogley, Pittsburg; Dr. Wesley Horton, Cincinnati; Dr. Albert Brust, Cincinnati; Dr. Thomas Maloney, New York; Dr. Douglas Warren, Sarnia; Dr. Jack Cholak, Cincinnati; Dr. Robert Kehoe, Cincinnati; Bill Perdue, Ethyl vice president; 0nj I: I ETC 14189 /heeler. Baton Maloney, New president; and VVy hile attending the recent international Congress Vt on Occupational Health held in New York Citv. Ethels medical manpower got an opportunity to meet together for talks centered around the medical as pects of the newer Ethyl products and to exchange ideas on the techniques presently being used at Com pany installations around the country. Dr. Karl V. Kitzmiller. who heads the Compam s medical department, was chairman of the Ethyl meet ing. which was held in the Board Boom at 1 CXI Park following a luncheon at the nearby Chemists Club. Vice President and Treasurer Bill Perdue welcomed the medical men. who seemed appreciate c of the rare opportunity to meet in number. Dr. Karl Kitzmiller, head of the Medical Department. Standing left to right are, Dr. Alvin Davis, Cincinnati; Dr. Roy Bock, Baton Rouge; Dr. Leslie Sehradin, Cincinnati; Dr. Beniamin Blackmon, Orangeburg; Dr. Earl Doty, long Beach; Dr. Emil Beyer, New York; Dr. William George, Galveston; Dr. Gordon Burdick, Pasadena. ETC 14190 One thing nobodv wants to keep under his hat is a headache, though there are days when what goes on just south of a sombrero might seem as though the battle of Little Big Horn was at its height. Hardlv serious, a minor headache can play havoc with the best of us and often affect the entire system ache condition. Medical research shows that the with uncomfortable and annoying symptoms. Most maladv occurs more often in countries that are more headaches are as needless as Custer's Last Stand and highly urbanized: in fact, we have been said in this every bit as wasteful of human energy. country to have produced a "headache culture." What can be done, if anything, about.it? Research has established the belief that headaches Let's look under your hat. are caused bv the release of a substance from the The fact is that doctors do not now know all that nerve ends in the scalp at a time when the arteries they would like to know about what causes head there have become enlarged. When this happens aches, nor does a sure cure now exist. What we hear simultaneously, a headache results. Many clues have on the subject is often vague and contradictor}'; it been traced to try to find just why these two con causes some to worry needlessly; others to ignore its ditions, occurring in concert, produce pain in the head. medical significance. This pain may well be triggered by a bodily malfunc Headaches are probably the most universal human tion far removed from the head area. Headaches of ailment--more so, even, than the common cold. We this origin are caused by an expansion or pressing Americans, on the average, suffer from a headache, on any of the five pain-sensitive areas housed in the one that needs medication, six times a year, and pos head; the brain itself is insensitive. Ninety-five percent sibly 10 percent of our population has a chronic head- of the time, however, the real roots of the headache 1S ETC 14191 Whether you crown your cranium with a derby, a fedora, a stovepipe, a porkpie or a homburg, you'll do well to look under your hat at some of the correctable causes of the common headache . that the t are more ^id in this ufture." headaches from the he arteries s happens clues have r two con11 the head. :y malfuncadaches of v pressing Bed in the fve percent r headache must be looked for in another part of the bodv. Thus, it acts as a built-in warnin'; signal, an alert to unhealthful conditions elsewhere. Those afflicted with a recurring headache pattern, usually called a migraine, have a tougher problem. Such a migraine condition indicates a weakness in the actual mechanism governing the size of the blood vessels: a physiological imperfection, much less re sponsive to treatment. Moreover, the side effects in such instances are quite often severe. If symptoms such as nausea, spots before the eves, weakness in arms or legs, visual or hearing trouble or a marked personality change occur along with the regular headache pattern, it is best to consult vour familv doctor. Most headaches, other than migraine, are thought now to have their beginnings with some sort of ten sion and the best way of coping with the problem, at its source, is to seek a means of releasing that ten sion. A long period of concentration, working under pressure, preoccupation with unpleasant personal af fairs or even sitting too long in one position: any of these can, depending on the pcrsonalitv involved, produce too much tension. To be rid of it a wav must be found to induce a change that will relax the mind and body--and aspirin always helps. Often some physical exercise or merely walking around the room will do the trick, but basically each individual must find his own means of release. Oddly enough tlie effects of that old stand-by as pirin are not yet fully understood. We do know, nevertheless, that it helps to ease the pain of head aches and will be a major factor in treatment for some time to come. In sum, curing a headache means preventing one in the first place. When it happens, however, its presence can be your guide to real corrective meas ures. Except where a migraine condition is suspected, the key to the cure is usually tension. Seek a wav to reduce these tensions, even if it means changing some of your living habits. You will find the effort worth while, for if your tensions can be minimized, you will not only get rid of a pain in the head but you'll also gain a healthier, sounder and better functioning body. BOOKS In IST9 Lieutenant Adolphus A. Greely and his crew of 25 men set out to studv the. Arctic phenomena and were trapped for three tortuous rears in the frozen north. Theodore Powell has recreated the bitter tragedv in The Long Rescue, a Doubledav book that ranks with the best true adventure stories on your library shelf. How much the facts may have been tampered with for dramatic emphasis is hard to say, but certainiv everv bit of the harrowing experiences from which only six men returned is credible, horrible and realistic enough to turn vou cold with amazement. Although adventure runs high, the human emotions of men banded together to fight for their lives highlight the book. Outside there was the unpredictable frozen Arctic; inside there was the self-sacrifice and courage that only the desperate could know. Rona Jaffe, whose The Best of Everything, not only skyrocketed her to instant fame but set a lot of tongues to wagging, lias produced a second novel that is sure to appeal to all who pleasured in her first. A Simon and Schuster book. Away From Home is darned good popular fiction, especially for the ladies. Set against the exotic background of modem Brazil, it tells the story of an American couple transferred to South America and of their difficulties in acclimating to a very dif ferent kind of life. But Miss Jaffe is much too clever a writer to set off a mere problem. She has taken a good look at Brazilian life, recreated Rio's frantic carnival and produced half a dozen interesting characters from both of the American continents. Her new novel is full of vitality. An interesting look at polls, politics and the people has been compiled by John M. Fenton in a book which carries the title In Your Opinion. Particularly apt for this election year it traces the rise of the public opinion survey business since 1945 and outlines the effects that such activity has had on our politics. The reader gains an idea of what polls can do and how they should properly be evaluated. Mr. Fenton, who is managing editor for the Gallup Poll Organization, concludes in this Little, Brown publication that generally speaking the people appear to be about four rears ahead of the politicians in their political thinking. The Beardless Warriors bv Richard Matheson might well turn out to be the sleeper of the fall season. This Little. Brown book reaches a depth of feeling and perception rarely found in present day fiction. It is the chronicle of a youth in war and it is no exaggeration to sav that it compares favorably with Stephen Cranes immortal Red Bridge of Courage from earlier time. While there is no current vogue for books about the Second World War, the power of this work may well brin" to it the attention it so riehb deserves. Anvuue who has ever enjoyed the richness of the theatre will find an infinite amount of pleasure in the memoirs of the late Theresa Helburn. A Wayward Quest, from the presses of Little. Brown. The co-director of the Theater Guild for manv successful seasons lias set clown a chronicle that is practically a history of the American theater in the present century. She has known more stage greats--the Lunts. Katherine Hepburn. Marv Martin. Rodgers and Hammerstein, George Bernard Shaw. Eugene O'Neill, ad infinitum--than you could see at a \ear of benefits at Madison Square Garden. Her book is filled with delightful anecdotes about them as well as the trials and tribulations of bringing a play from hopeful manuscript to smash hit on Broadway. For example, a musical that was known during rehearsal as Helburn s Folly but which audiences the world over now know as Oklahoma! You may not know quite what to think of The Boy and the Brothers, but you can bet your last recurring dream that it will fascinate and ama2e you. The new Doubledav hook bv Swami Oinananda Puri tells the storv of a lad with a thick Cockney accent whom the author and her husband first met when lie came to help them in their home for the needv in London. Strange as it may seem, he went into trances I rum which another voice spk, an old language of India and gave forth prophecies', tnanv of which came to pass, known simplv as The Boy. the voung prophet was taken from England to India at the insistence of The Brothers who spoke to him in bis trances. There he lived with the author ami her husband for 21 years until his death in 195(5. visited bv manv of the famous philosphers of the world, who marveled at his occult powers. Diving for Pleasure and Treasure, a World publication, is basically Clay Blair Jr.'s exciting account of the underwater discmen* of the Spanish galleon El Matunzcro, which lie and professional diver Robert Marx found off tbe coast of Yucatan. The narrative rips along with the rapidly suspenseful quality of a good chase novel, and the fact that the eventuallv dis covered ship was in its waterv grave for more than two hun dred rears makes the realitv as elaborate as fiction. The volume is studded with 150 illustrations of the find, its treasures, the people and the research that determined origins and purposes. It may all make you and your flippers seem tame, but you'll certainly share an enormously rewarding adventure. John D. MacDonald's The End of the Night very likely keep vou up until the beginning of the morning. A Simon and Schuster publication, tbe new novel tells a strange, violent and harrowing tale of useless, ungainful murder as it follows the Wolf Pack, three young men and a girl who spread death and destruction across the country for no other purpose than the compulsion to kill. The author creates their individual backgrounds and digs out their sordid motives for being the 20 i<ic from an books about k mav we)] the theatre moirs of the the presses er Guild for iicle that is tlie present Lunts. Kalammerstein, on--than vou Garden. Her hem as well rrom hopeful >le, a musical Iv but which OY AND THE Iream that it day book bv with a thick md first met :he needy in trances from f India and niss. Known rom England >ke to him in her husband manv of the at his occult publication, underwater Inch he and t of Yucatan, seful qualitv entuallv disian two him. The volume reasures. the .nd purposes. e, but you'll e. v verv likelv A Simon and unge. violent as it follows spread death purpose than ir individual or being the nmoralists thev are. driven slayers to whom killing is as |Vltural as it is to a cobra. Each is a fascinating studv in crjniinolnv right through the time they are caught, tried and t.vecutecl. THE Ballad of Peckham Rye, a Lippincott book, is the woi'k of Muriel Spark, a \ounc Englishwoman who has an un- ,inv wa\ of combining the grotesque with the comic. The eSUlt of Iter dual talent as evidenced in her latest novel is. {0 sav die least, unusual and highly original and it ought to find a wide and delighted audience. Her tale has to do with one Dougal Douglas, whose presence has a way of bringing ,bnut the darndest calamities to evervone who crosses his sataibc path. What he does to a London suburb is furiously juntn and brilliantly satirical. Miss Spark's fantasy is Faustian with a twinkle in its eve and a pitchfork in its hand. y(,u will hardlv find a better morsel of summer reading than Best of the Best Detective Stories, a Dutton compilation put together bv David C. Cooke from his previous anthologies of sleuth-on-the-trail fiction. On the occasion of his fifteenth aiiuiversarv as editor of . the popular annual, Mr. Cooke has indeed put his best foot forward and collected fifteen tales of unusual excitement. You'll be engrossed bv everv single one of them, especially, we think, by Evan Hunter's First Offense, Kenneth Fearing's Three Wives Too Many and Richard Demin's For Value Received. The fascination of the wild blue yonder is vividly described by Percv Knauth in Wind On My Wings, a new Doubledav release that will not only find an audience among the airminded but among those who always dreamed of challenging the elements. Like "dat old debil sea," the open sky has in vited mail to conquer it. Mr. Knauth. like many others, heard the call of the clouds a.id made up his mind to soar above the earth. His hook is in a sense his air log. and he has recorded his experiences and sensations with genuine emotion. The thrill of flving has seldom been better described. Just about the next best thing to sailing for It.ilv is to to see It Started in Naples, a Paramount pictuie made m Naples. Rome and the Isle of Capri. A delightful comed\ romance starring Clark Cable. Sophia Loren and Vittorio De Sica, the new film has to do with the fight of an American uncle to win a delinquent Italian boy from lib adopted aunt, a slubbv ni^ht club entertainer who permits him to run wild. As you no doubt alread\ surmised., the aunt and the uncle aie greatly attracted to each other and thev display their mutual affection against all of those backgrounds. There is. as vou also may have suspected, a rift between them, but things are eventually squared away, the lovers paired and the child's future brightened. Columbia Pictures has packaged a superb bundle of enter tainment in the new CinemaScope and radiant eulor film Song Without End, a treat-not-a-treatment of the supposed life and loves of Franz Lizst. British actor Dirk Bogarde, the big box office favorite in Elizabeth's realm, portravs the noted pianist-composer who was a friend to manv of the musical and literary greats of his day as well as the nobilitv. and he sketches the virtuoso's dilemma and jo\s quite creditabh. Playing assorted contemporaries are Patricia Morrison. Martita Hunt and newcomers Genevieve Page and Capueiuo. Throughout there are selections from the music of Lizst. Chopin. Wagner. Bach. Paganini. Handel. Beethoven. Verdi. Mendelssohn and Schumann, all pia\ed to the nines. TELEVISION MOVIES Sons and Lovers, considered by many an astute critic to be the finest novel to come from the pen of D. H. Lawrence, has been brought to the screen by Jerry Wald for Twentieth Centurv-Fox, and despite the fact that there are faults in the diffi cult adaptation, it is nonetheless an extraordinary film. Law rence's study of a mining family is beautifully depicted by a cast of tremendous abilitv headed by Dean Stockwell. Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller. Mary Ure and Heather Sears. Made on location in the English Midlands, the new film gets a big boost from the authenticity of the scenery and superb camera work. Though it emerges as a kind of shorthand Lawrence, there are some unusuallv powerful and affecting scenes, and it is a pleasure indeed to watch such accomplished actors go about their business. Fred Astaire, whose evenings in America's living rooms have become something worth staving home for. will he dancing around your favorite armchair come September 2S. Barrie Clia.se will again be the dancing master's partner. Musical backgrounds will he supplied bv David Hose and Count Basie. On September 30. a new western joins the horse operas on NBC. The series is entitled The Lone Westerner, and the man who goes it on his own in the saddle is Brian Keith. On October 2. CBS will present an hour-long attraction star ring Emmy-winning Art Carnev. .The comedv revue will ju under the label Love in America and will depict in song and skit some satirical aspects of romance in the American manner. Another oater hows in on ABC on October 4. This one is called Stagecoach W'est and pnrtravs the adventures of the men who traveled the dangerous route from Tipton. Missouri to San Francisco. Wayne Rogers stars as an ex-Confcderate soldier and masterwhip of the stage. Later in October on a vet-unscheduled date, Hoagv Carmichael will host and narrate u full hour special on NBC to be called Those Ragtime Years. The noted singer-composer-pianist will also perform along with an array of guest talent that will re create the years from 1896 to the First World War in music. 21 ETC 14194 30 YEARS Dan M. Gly Research & Development Detroit 25 YEARS William J. Henry Emplovee Relations, Baton Rouge ;MILESTONES 20 YEARS James 5. Krick Sales. Eastern Region William H. nevkrt, l Sales. Southern Region Martin I. McCoouy ; Sales. ! Eastern Rewgion i I Archie L. Allred Maintenance & Construction, Baton Rouge G. W. Beste Research 6: Development. Baton Rouge Joseph T. Bridles Maintenance 6c Construction, Baton Rouge W. H. Dickerson Manufacturing, Raton Rouge Lyle C. Dixon Manufacturing. Baton Rouge William T. Edwards Employee Relations, Raton Rouge Lawrence R. Matthews Sales. Southern Region Arthur H. Middleton Maintenance A Construction. Raton Rouge Georce A. Roberts Thomas M. Smylie, Jr. James S. Socthvwck Mary E. U <t_'H Finance, Manufacturing, Finance, Research A New York New York New York Engineering 22 Baton Rouge I H. SlEVEKT, JH Sales. hem Region * I. McCoolf.v Sales, tern Region George Bass, Jk., Baton Rouge chemist, attended Southeastern Louisiana College. Rudolph Beck mann, a University of Texas grad, is an engi neer in Baton Rouge. Robert Berliner. chemist in Detroit, is a grad of City Col lege of New York. Raymond Brady, a grad of L.S.U., is a junior engineer in Ba ton Rouge. I. Dickerson tufacturing. ton Rouge Joe Carey, patent attorney in Baton Rouge, went to Stet son College of Law. Ronald Fontenot, a Southwestern Loui siana grad, is a Baton Rouge engineer. Roger Greenway, engineer. Baton Rouge, is a grad of Missis sippi University. Josef Hrach, a grad of Vienna's Teclinisehe Hochsehule, is a chemist in Detroit. H. MlDDLETON ntenance fit tstruction, .on Rouge Bernard Lofaso, en gineer, Baton Rouge, is a grad oi Louisiana .State University. Ruth Longden, tvpist-elerk for Yonkers' Sales. is married and has two sons. Anna Lynch, stenoclerk, in New York's Employee Relations, cnjovs .swimming. k, JOSEPH McGURK, who is married, is in New York's Finance, fie likes baseball. Mb E. Walsh search & gineering on Rouge Harold Place, engi neer in Baton Rouge, is a graduate of Texas A&M College. i Ernest Scheeres, mail clerk for R&D in Detroit, is an ardent car enthusiast. Howard Smith, Jr., Baton Rouge engi neer. is a graduate of Tulane University. Riley Wilson, Jr., Baton Rouge engi neer, is a Louisiana State University grad. 23 ETC 14196 WEDDINGS Sales Department: A. J. Baldwin, Certificate (Prepare a listing of services ON THE .ROSTRUM available from our Product Service 6c Safetv department): Maxine Blue, $25.00 (Alter present system of number ing Confidential, for Ethyl personnel onlv. Technical Sen-ice Bulletins!: D. J. Chapman, SS5.00 (All of the improve ments available to the customer's Etlnl mixing plant be built into a presentation which shows the time saving, less ex l pensive. greater safety, trouble free, bet i Canada ter design storv of Eth\Ts Product Serv The text of a speech delivered I>v t Barbara Trent and Richard Morris were married on June 24 at Grace Church on the Hill in Toronto. The newlyweds honeymooned in Mexico and are now re siding in Vancouver. Bob is a sales rep resentative in Calgarv. ice & Safety efforts); F. E. De Vore, $50.00 (Modifv gap in mark plug elec trodes to eliminate shorts due to "whis kers"); Catherine M. Diez, S10.00 ("Request for Material" be revised!; Margaret C. Donoho, S20.00 (New handling for Customer Record Forms B. Bynum Turner, president of Eth\| Corporation, who is board eluirnun of the proposed Agricultural Hall of Fame has been entered in the Congressional Record so that all members of Convey, have an opportunity to read it. Representative Newell A. George 0f < a > i i i New York =SG 31S-10M-5-57); John A. Fischer, Kansas placed the text in the official Tina Schrot and Carl Badura were married on June 12 at St. Marks Evan $25.00 (Color slides be made of our "Know Your Gasoline" flannelbo.ird pres entation); H. J. Gerber, $30.00 (Pro journal of Congress after hearing Mr Turner's speech .it a Kansas Cit\ lunch, eim meeting. Said Representative ( < gelical Lutheran Church in Yonkers. The vide onlv two colors of laboratory fluid. George: "Mr. Turner, in his address, r I couple traveled through Virginia on their wedding trip. Tina is with General Sales. One color for dilute fluids and the second color for concentrated fluid!; S. F, John showed a businessman s keen insight re. garding the situation confronting the t> t son, $20.00 (Certain parts of exhaust farmers of America and visualized the SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS svstem of some CFR engine installations be made of a corrosion resistant metal important contribution that the Agricultural Hall of Fame w ill make, nut only c to increase the life of the part). to agriculture hut to business, industry and education." fi BIRTHS^;; Dick Jones of tin* Detroit Labs spike at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy held in Chicago. ii li His subject was "Determination of Sul fur in Gasoline bv X-Ra\ Spectrographv." 'I Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing emplovees in Detroit, at the Pitts burg plant and in the Sales department: Detroit: Lloyd Goddard, $20.00 (List quantities required for various analyses); James S. Jackson, $15.00 (Modify car buretors of CFR engines to prevent over flow); Evariste Latulippe, $15.00 (Improve gas alarm system at gate house); James O'Neill, $20.00 (Oil filter in fume hood in D-20 to prevent condensation of oil vapors); W. B. RanSier, $25.00 (Revise test number card svstem); James Stratton, $20.00 (Air filter checking device) and $35.00 (Elec tric unit for motoring engines for com pression pressure measurements). Pittsburg: Cloyd A. Jones, $10.00 (Knock out pot drains in utility' area); Henry Paul, $10.00 (Pad eye on still condensers); Dale Spencer, $15.00 (Sample line on ditch treaters); Bryan Sutton, $10.00 (Insulating lines in col umn area); Bill Zenk, $10.00 (Relo cate conduit). Detroit Merlin and Gail Hjnz-u son. Craig Kevin, bom on October 5. 1059 and adopted Julv 22. The blond haired blue eyed lad is the first in the Hinz house hold. The proud pop is an engineering technician in thp Lab's Product Applica tion division. New York John and Betsy Bailie - a daughter, Beth Susan, born no June 18. The lit tle miss is the second daughter in the Bailie household. Pop is with General Sales. Pittsburg King and Cathy Clements-a son, Randell King, born oil June S. weigh ing an even 10 pounds. King is with the plant's utility group. EXTRACURRICULAR Fabio Halphen, General Engineering in Raton Rouge, has been elected to the board of directors of the West Baton Rouge Parish Farm Bureau. He was also a voting delegate at the state convention which was held in Baton Rouge. JOHN Furr of Employee Relations in Baton Rouge received special praise and expressions of thanks from the Baton Rouge Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board and from Police Chief Shirlev Arrighi for citizenship service. John was chairman of a committee of local citizens who made a studv of, and recommendations for improvement in. tfie testing procedure for selection of police personnel in Baton Rouge. George Krilgek of Public Relations. New York, who has served as president of the Farm Club of New York this year, has been named chairman of the board ! j j ^ j 1: a I? c E H ;r ii r I! s Ii oi m P1 \\ t: er th 24 ETC 14197 QZBI ufivered bv ot of Etlnl i&airman of iFl of Fame, .ingressionat <if Congress .t Ceorge of die official tearing City limelipresentative bis address, o. insight reitmting the >a)ized tlie the Agrieul''ie, not onlv .*, industry .ubs spoke at Societv for in Chicago, lion of Sul* ckrographv." 9 Engineering ;-cted to the West Baton He was also . convention age. delations in J praise and the Baton Police Civil 'olice Chief hip service, .nittee of loulv of, and vement in. election of age. :: Relations. ts president -rk this year, x the board 0f governors. Jackson Vernon of Food Machinerv and Chemical succeeds Ceorge as president of the club. five Baton Rouge plant employees quali fied for Atomic Energy Commission li censes to use radioactive isotopes through a special course at Louisiana State Universitv. Thev were Don Kirk and How ard W jer of Maintenance, Homer San ders and Noland Navarre of Engi neering and E. M. Marlett of Chemical R&D. Gene Bauer of the Detroit Labs was among the civic-minded Detroiters who Mayor Miriani appointed to serve on the International Freedom Festival Commit tee in charge of the joint celebration of Dominion Day and Independence Day. Members of the EthvI Management Club's board of control have elected George McKenney, Baton Rouge plant, to a three-year term as area direc tor of the National Management Associa tion. Ceorge will succeed Joe Culmone, who is also at the plant, on January 1. Clay Bourg, Securitv, Baton Rouge, was awarded a gold badge for his service as a member of the Port Allen volunteer fire department. The badge and congrat ulations from members of the department and Mayor Eugene Alexander, were in honor of Clay's retirement from the force after 19 years of volunteer service. Two Baton Rouge plant men, Jim Beste and Bert Burdick, have added to their laurels recently. Jim is the new Louisi ana State Jaycee tennis champion, and Bert took his second straight Bastrop golf championship. Berlin Harris, Jr., Engineering, Baton Rouge, was one of two Baton Rouge men awarded trophies for winning four places in the National Model Airplane Cham pionships held at the Dallas Naval Air Station. Approximately 40 sons and daughters of employees who did an outstanding job as leaders at the second annual Etlnl Boys and Girls Day Camps in June were guests of the Company at a luncheon held at the Baton Rouge plant. The col ored motion picture of camp activities made by ben Stubblefield of the plant, a portion of which was used on WBRZ-TV, was shown at the luncheon. Three Baton Rouge plant Safety Group employees were on the program and three others attended the eighth annual four-day short course on Fundamentals of Safetv at Louisiana State Umversitv. Bill Heck lead a discussion on "Safet\ Meetings and their Conduct "; Bob Pal mer conducted a session on Mainten ance and Safetv"; and Carroll Hebert served as a member of a panel discussion on overall industrial safety. Attending as delegates were Joe Achord of TEL Operations. Cap Blanchard of EtClVCl Maintenance, and Earl LeFeaux of Maintenance and Construction. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS The appointment of Chester D. Carter to the newlv created position of Export Sales Manager was announced by Mal colm Murdock, vice president in charge of Sales. He will report to Julian Frey, assistant vice president of the Company, and will make his headquarters in New York. He will have charge of sales of "EtlnT* antiknock compounds outside of the United States and Canada. He will also be responsible for overseas sales of other Ethyl products available to the oil and related industries. Associated with Ethyl since 1942. Nick has served in the Research, Product Service and Safety, and Sales depart ments of the Company, and has been engaged in export sales work the past ten years. In 1950, he served as a tetra ethyl lead consultant to the Supreme Command for Allied Powers (SCAP) in Japan. Prior to his present promotion, he was in charge of the Company's Far Eastern sales, and will continue to have that responsibility. B. Bynum Turner, president of our Company, has announced that the devel opment and commercialization of new products will be centralized under Dr. George Kirby who has been assigned authority to direct all phases of this program. Joseph A. Costello, vice presi dent, who is acting as advisor on mar keting and contracts, will provide close liaison and coordination with Chemical Sales. Dr. Kirbv will relinquish certain ad ministrative duties direetlv concerned with Manufacturing, Engiiurtmg and Research and Development ior the dura tion of this assignment. To the extent required, the General Managers of these departments will leport duectly to the president. George Lane, superintendent of Indus trial Engineering at the Houston plant, lias been transferred to the Baton Rouge plant as acting assistant director. Manu facturing Budgets and Costs. Concurrent with the above assign ment, the following changes in Houston's Industrial Engineering personnel have taken effect: George Glover has been named acting superintendent; Earl Young has been assigned to actin'* as sistant supervisor; and John Bridges is now acting cost, procedures and meth ods engineer. IN THE FIELD Tom Hanlon of the Pittsburgh district office gave the Fuel-Engine Relationship presentation before a group of dealertrainees and a district training manager of the Gulf Oil Corporation in Pittsburgh. At the first annual outing of the Pitts burgh Petroleum Club which was held at tlie Churchill Valiev Countrv Club. Bob Thurston, New York district, was acclaimed first honorary member in rec ognition of his efforts in developing in terest and setting in motion the formation of this Club. A presentation on 1960 Passenger Car Designs and Fuel Requirements was giv en by Whit Sweeney, Pittsburgh dis trict office, before an instructor and a group of dealers of the Gulf Oil Corpo ration in Charleston. John Cole, Salt Lake City district office, attended and participated in the 13th annual refining committee meeting for the Rocky Mountain Oil and Cas Asso ciation held in Salt Lake City. John made the opening remarks and welcomed the members and guests. 25 etc 14198 Ethyl Corporation served as the host in July for a group of oil company executives on a tour of the Detroit Laboratory and a weekend at the Seisiniorv Club in nearh-v Canada. Shown arrivinii back at Idlewild in New York at tour's end are, from the top of the ramp down, E. W. Lang (partly hidden), Cities ETC 14199 fulv for a >ur of the Seigniorv k at Idlehe top of a). Cities Service; P. A. White, Socony Mobil; Jack Pruitt, Ethyl Corporation; R. L. Mav, Sinclair Refining; Dick Murphv, Ethvl Corporation; W. E. Kuhn, Texaco; Jesse Stickel, Crown Central Petroleum. Standing left to right along the hardstand are pictured, J. G. McN'ab, Esso Research and Engineering; F. M. Simpson, Cities Service; C. F. McGoughran, Sinclair Oil; W\ C. Aslmrv, Esso Research and Engineering; J. G. Tiemaun. Shell Oil; E. S. Brown, California Texas Oil; Don Chapman, Ethvl Corporation; O. C. Johnson, Mobil Oil; Redg Bushell, Ethvl Corporation; Mac Murdock. Ethyl Corporation; and Stu Forbes, Ethyl Corporation. ETC 14200 TRAILER TALKS San Francisco District men recently outfitted a trailer to service a customer, The Caminol Com pany, with complete coverage of its entire marketing area. To assist Caminol in merchandising their prod ucts, 18 separate meetings were held in the trailer emploved as a kind of traveling auditorium. Both Ethvl and Caminol people took part in the presenta tions, which included Ethyl's carburetor cleanup dem onstration, our detergencv film and a product display counter. Above, at left, Caminol's Retail Sales Man ager mans the "oil bar" and Cal Dunbar, San Francisco field representative, adjusts the demonstration engine. Not shown are Ethvl's Rav Daughertv and Jeff Bessire who also helped conduct a part of the meetings. more people, more places FRIGID HEIR PARTING GESTURE Ralph Dupin', at left, has been elected to the presi dency' of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Ameri Cerise Cowlev was honored by the Tulsa Lab staff at a luncheon on the occasion of her departure to can Association of Heating, Refrigeration and Air live in California. She was given a coffee maker as a Conditioning Engineers. He is one of many Baton Rouge employees who are active in professional so parting remembrance. Cerise is seated, below left, with Gladvs Jones while, left to right, Charlie Rankin, cieties. In the picture above Ralph takes over the reins of office from the previous president Al Mayers. Howell Roberts, Cade Clover, Al Sandlin, Howard Hamaker, and Harold Lee stand behind. ETC 14201 leanup dem- duct display ! Sales Manin Francisco ition engine. 1 Jeff Bessire etinM. Isa Lab staff departure to maker as a below left, irlie Rankin, !in, Howard advise and consent Judson Onrso, Purchasing, at the Baton Rouge Plant has been elected to serve as the 1960 president of (lie Circle Civitan Club. At recent installation cere monies outgoing president Dennis Hima, shown at left, turned over the gavel to his successor. The Circle Civitan Club is one of the most recentlv organized professional groups in the Baton Rouge area. TIME TO IIETIKE Spike Speaker, Eastern Region automotive engi neer, retired on June 1 after 23 years of Company service. He was originally brought to Ethvl to co pilot and service the Company's Beechcraft airplane. Spike, on the left, was presented with a gold watch by Dick Murphy at a luncheon given in his honor to mark the occasion by his colleagues. BUG EYE BUSINESS LAMP LIGHTEN Gathered around Ethyls famous "bug-eve MPA demonstration equipment at a recent Premier Barney Lewis, newly assigned automotive engineer in the Seattle District, is shown below at the right saies meeting in Fort Worth is Dick Morrow, Dallas talking with Jim Beckwith and Bob Fisher, Seattle District field representative, shown at left below. District field representatives. Barney is using an old Dick is discussing the meeting with A. M. Ault, left, fashioned oil lamp as a prop to demonstrate to his and Mb K. Davis, center, who are associated with a colleagues liovv a proper adjustment of fuel and air Premier subsidiary, the Western Natural Gas Company. supply can be made visually. ETC 14202 SOCIETY PICNIC It was sun and games time for Detroit Laboratory emplovees at an outing held in Bob-Lo Park. Sponsored bv the Detroit Ethvl Societv, the Lab people and their families went bv boat to tbe park where a goodlv supplv of food and entertainment had been prepared. Under MC Laurie Wilkinson, Plant Operation & Maintenance, prizes were awarded for ! people9 more places CANADIAN CAPERS The fourth annual Ethyl of Canada picnic drew an enthusiastic crowd of nearlv 250 emplovees from the Sarnia Plant. Held on the baseball diamond, the festivities featured mechanical carnival rides for the voungsters and tests of "skill and strength" for the older folks. Below, at left, Bruce Carruthers takes a whack at the high ringer as, left to right, "Conces- ETC 14203 etc 14204 I i i iI: ) . Some people! You wonder if they're part of the human race The way they let doors slam in your face. Really! Some of them are positively eely. Such people Don't deserve the courtesy of others Xo one could love them but their mothers. Poor things, Stuck with such inconsiderate offsprings. Those people Who practically knock you down in the elevator Must think their hurry is much greater, Or perhaps They're not people at all but booby traps. However, The pushers and shovers, rankers and smackers Usually wind up the way-in-the-backers. So there! Impolite people get absolutely nowhere. Some people! Well, they just don't seem to learn That they ought to be patient, wait their turn. No, sir, They push ahead at the butcher, the barber, the grocer. We others Let them think they're getting ahead, But their motion is backward, they're simply ill-bred. Jeepers! I'm glad I'm not one of those creepers and leapers. I'm sorry For people who're so inconsiderate, Whose manners are poorer than any illiterate. Ahem. I hope you're not one of them. ETC 14205 ETHYL ETC 14206 ETHYL Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Where Once in Battle...................... 4 Chemical Conclave ........................ 8 Why Blow Your Top?.................... 10 They Work With Wood.................. 12 Desk and Derrick in Detroit......... 14 For Your Entertainment.................. 18 Milestones .......................................... 20 Ethyl Welcomes ............................... 21 Personals ............................................ 22 People and Places.......................... 24 Leonhard Dowry ...................................... Editor Edward Metcalf ......................Associate Editor Stella Sideris........................ Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffett; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Robichaux; Chicago: Ham Greenup: Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Baylerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Alyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Neva Yanakeff: Houston: Dave Agnew, Don Connell, Elizabeth Dodson; Kausas City: Lola Chinn, Jane Hudlemeyer; Los Angeles: Harry Manning: Ale.vico: Mike Espinosa; New Orleans: Maxine Blue: Sew York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace: Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mars Levering: Pittsburgh: Meredene Portzcr; Salt Lake City: John Morton; San Bernardino: Judy Schaub: San Francisco: Jeff Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Youkers Testing: Cath erine Henderson; Yonkers Central: A1 Morschauser: Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Lim ited ; Sarnia: C. G. Manore; Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON OCR COVER: Mack Lea, young son of Mix Lea. Baton Rouge plant, heads through the brush in search of Gvil War relics. The Leas have a week-end cottage on site where the Battle of Port Hudson was fought. The stow begins on page 4. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. B. B. Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in U.S.A. ETC 14207 I i i Nov. 8, 1960 ETC 14208 t where once in BATTLE The 300 acres on which Max Lea, Utilities super visor at the Baton Houge plant, spends most of his week-ends is thick with green-headed oaks, and their dappled shade sprinkles the landscape with shifting patterns. The heavv quiet of the country side is disturbed onlv In' the flutter of wings and the occasional niimicrv of a mockingbird. Contented cows move lazily in the warm Louisiana sun, and a peaceful bavou lies ever so still, ever so noiseless under a cauopv of Spanish moss. It is difficult to believe that here, in the midst of this pastoral scene, once raged one of the biggest Civil War battles in Louisiana--not as important as many, but one in which the largest number of troops opposed each other. In those days, Port Iludsonthe site of the Leas cottage--was a buss' riser port, from which as many as 50,000 hales of cotton svere shipped a sear, but the changing Mississippi shilled its course over the years and, literally, left the tosvn high and drv. ETC 14209 "tilities superiends most of fed oaks, and ndscape with tile country*'ings and the !. Contented sun, and a so noiseless the midst of i the biggest important as tier of troops art Hudson s' river port, cotton were >sippi shifted reft the town Max Lea, Utilities supervisor at Baton Rouge plant, and his wife Ruth wander across quiet terrain where a Civil War battle once raged. Some 20 miles north of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson now lies in defeat, the victim of the ris er more than the mortal enemy. An 1858 directors', however, lists among the town's enterprises a tailor, two hotels, a coffee house, a billiard hall, a bootmaker, a druggist, a physician, drsr goods stores, grocers' stores, cotton gins and sugar and cotton plantations . . . noss', all gone svitli the svind and lost in the tangle of the forest primes-al. In the spring of 1863, Xesv Orleans and Baton Rouge ss-ere both occupied bv Union forces, who controlled the Mississippi as far north as Port Hud son and as far'south as Vicksburg. In order to de fend the 200 miles of ris er remaining, the Confederates manned Port Hudson svith 7,000 troops and svere soon surrounded bv 15,000 Union soldiers. For several months, the opposing forces battled it out, until the Confederates surrendered. Though a Union victory, the Federals suffered 4,363 casualties, considerably more than the stubborn band that resisted them. Both sides were eager for the surrender and, it is reported, that on the das' hostilities ceased soldiers from both sides exchanged souvenirs and stories when the 6,000 Southerners gave up their position. The Leas--Max, his wife Ruth and their son Mack --base frequently combed the woods and creeks at Port Hudson in search of relics from the battle. Thev base found innumerable minnie balls, buckshot, can nonballs and even a bas-onct, an arrowhead (svho knows whether Indian or soldier?) a belt buckle and parts of a mess kit. Though the s ears bas e worn away a lot of the land, deep trenches still stand behind a high levee-like structure where the Confederates took the high ground. Here and there, dugouts like fox holes also remain and there is evidence of snipers' posts. In the thick brush, it is often difficult to spot the corroded metal, and on some occasions the Leas have utilized metal detectors. For the most pait. though, they have relied on Ruth's keen es'e, for it is she who usually cries, "There's a minnie ball!" Where once in battle (continued) i These relics of the battle of Port Hudson were found on the Leas' land. Note whiteness (from oxidation) of grape shot, buckshot and minnie balls, which oddly enough are not round. Cannonballs weigh 24 pounds; map, an old one, shows details of the battle. 'I Mack, Max and Ruth head out along bayou in search of further trophies. Dog at the lower right is appropriately named Stonewall. TC 14211 Mox's arm follows his sharp eye to an un earthed minnie ball, easy to spot against the reddish earth because of whiteness. r. of further i Stonewall. Ruth and her son Mack study a possible spot at which to commence digging. Relics are never deeper than eight inches; many of them are brought to the surface by heavy rains and soil erosion. ETC 14 212 i' l`" .1 I Michael Dubeck and R. L. Dreibelbis of Detroit co-authored "Reactions of Alkynes with Dicydopentodienylnickel", read by Dubeck, above. Detroit's Al Gassmann was chairman of a general session in the Division of Analytical Chemistry held at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York. I i i i i "Speetrophotometric Analysis of Diethylaluminum Hydride & -Triethyl' aluminum" was Baton Rouge's J. H. Mitchen's tongue-twisting topic. W. E. Becker and Shirl Cook's paper on "Preparation and Properties of Some Alkyllead Hydrides" was delivered by Becker, above, from Baton Rouge. J, B. Honeycutt, Jr. read "Preparation & Reactions of Sodium Tetraethylboron & Related Compounds", prepared in Baton Rouge with J. M. Riddle. A. H. Filbey, right, K. A. Keblys and J. H. Wollensak wrote "Some New Reac tions of Transition Metal Complexes" in Detroit. Filbey presented their work. 8 ETC 14213 ft'-. f-v u'- Ethyl men play a prominent part-- Sr#:.^-the recent annual meeting of ACS a Ethvl research men from Baton Rouge and Detroit presented a total of seven papers at the 138th national meeting of the American Chemical Society he held in New York last month. The quiet confines of the researcher's laboratory don't often draw much attention to its occupants but the honor of having a paper chosen for ACS presentation is a mark of pro fessional recognition deserving wide notice. Too, research work quite literallv points the wav of the Companv's future. With meetings spread out in 13 Manhattan hotels and papers being read and discussed in 22 categories of chemical research work, those in attendance were hard put to meet the tight schedule. For these chem ists, however, the invaluable forum provided for ex Baton Rouge's T. P. Whaley delivered "High Temperature Reactions of Sodium" to a packed morning session. changing ideas was ample reward for their efforts. >n >n V2QPRODUCTS in fcSiSPOCfSScS PCANTDEVEL jQQ ECONOMICS oo 8Y-p/z&ducts OOOOYNTHEB^ - 11 7.00 %EU[7ED Wheeler lovell of Research and Development in De troit presided over a morning general session of the Division of Petroleum Chemistry at the Savoy Hilton. John Lane, Detroit Information Services, outwitted-Hurricane Donna and arrived just in time to give his paper "Digesting for a Multi* company Management Audience" on the first day. 9 etc 14214 It may surprise you to learn that there are health factors involved when you get mad, some sound reasons that make anger good for you I i Is it really health)- to get mad? What makes one person "blow his top" over something that dis turbs another not a bit? Do women base shorter On the other hand, people who perpetually gripe over minor irritations are also apt to have neurotic tendencies. There's a big difference, experts sav, be tempers than men? If you've ever wondered about tween getting mad for a normal, justifiable reason such questions, you'll probably be interested in the and nursing a stead)- grudge against the world. findings of several scientific studies conducted in There is also a difference between men and women recent years at leading universities and research cen-. when it comes to getting mad, and those who believe ters on the subject of anger and its effects on us. that men hold their tempers better than the fairer First of all, modern scientists are inclined to agree sex had best revise their thinking. Survevs conducted with a seventeeth-century writer named Thomas by teams at Columbia University and Oregon State Fuller, who said that "anger is one of the sinews of Collette found that the average woman gets angry the soul; he that wants for it hath a maimed mind." - about three times a week, while with men the weekly In other words, it's perfectly normal to get mad every blow-up average is six. Moreover, the same studies so often--essential, as a matter of fact, for a well- found that women are most inclined to lose their balanced person. temper over situations involving people, whereas with Studies have found that people who never get angry men the source of irritation is more likely to lie are often mentally disturbed, and psychologists look things--a flat tire, for example, or a burnt-out light upon a suspiciously even temper as a symptom of bulb. trouble.. People who continually repress their natural Is there a daily "danger period," when people are ire frequently build up inner tensions that must more susceptible to anger? Yes, according to a recent sooner or later find release in some other, perhaps study made at Barnard College. The crucial times more harmful wav. are the half-hour periods immediately preceding 10 ETC 14215 'ally gripe e neurotic ts say, beble reason vorld. tad women ho believe the fairer conducted egon State ;gets angrv the weekly toe studies lose their lereas with ielv to be ifc-out light people are to a recent ucial times preceding breakfast, lunch and dinner, when hunger tends to wear tempers thin. If you've got to contend with a difficult situation, its best to wait until after you eat. Yet another investigation into anger discovered that tempers vary according to what occupation a person follows. Professional people--doctors, lawvers, and the like--were found to be the least prone to anger, with farmers and other agricultural workers ranking next on the list. Businessmen and workers with special skills came third, and among the quick est tempered were office workers. If you've ever thought that little things were more maddeningo than bigoones,'.vou're rigoht. Studies have shown that because the)' occur most frequentlv and because they possess the ability of seeming twice as important as thev really are, the so-called "little worries" can be more provoking than large-scale cala mities. So there's nothing wrong with blowing your top when a card-table leg refuses to unfold; just don't dev elop a permanent hatred of all card-table legs. Suppressing your anger can be harmful, physically as well as mentally, but giving free vent to it might also produce undesired results. If you tell evervbodv who annoys you exactly what you think of them, your social standing is liable to drop sharplv and it prob ably won't help vou on the job, either. A good deal of research has gone into the question of how steam can best be let off, and scientists have come up with several alternate wavs. One way is to unload your woes on a good friend. This serves the purpose of getting it off vour chest-- that is, releasing the tension--in a relatively private wav. Another harmless means of ridding yourself of anger is physical exercise: a long walk, or some active sport. This time-honored method is still favored as a reliable pacifier. Whichever way you use, or whether sou have some private method all vour own, the important thing is to get the resentment out. Don't let it fester and build up. All the studies on the subject agree that anger is one of the most basic of human emotions, with a valuable place in our mental make-up. So don't worry about blowing vour top--just do it in a safe and sensible way. II ETc 14216 i l! I i .i s ji Plain and fancy results are produced by wood workers who let the chips fall where they may H ouseholders will testify down to a man that skill with hammer, saw and lathe is a decided asset, if not a downright necessity, in maintainin'; a home. Gone are the davs when the home owner was willing --even preferred--to "let George do it." Today, for the most part, he does it himself, and he finds it a satis fying hobby. Thus, woodworking and refinishing have become a popular pastime for the man who enjovs using his hands, whether it he to create furniture of his own design or to sand off the years of paint from an old chest found in the attic of a greataunt. Ethvl's woodworkers have done it all, from buildin t; elaborate cabinets to house Hi-Fi to bringing out the beautiful grain on the aged wood of an object once ready for. the wood pile. What amateur wood worker is not proud of reproducing a table that was tagged S200 in the showroom of the local furniture mart for the mere cost of the lumber? Who but the hard-hearted doesn't respond to the golden gleam of wood as it begins to peek through layers of paint? Wives max' intervene occasionally with such re quests as "Will you tack down the fix ing room rug?" or "Can vou fix the garage door?" but the real xvoodworker is a man xvho takes to his shop alone and works happilv at a task that produces a tangible result. Jim Hinkomp, Detroit Chemical Research, examines a rustic bench for the fireplace made from a tree he chopped down in his yord. 12 ETC i*217 John Boss, Baton Rouge Employee Relations, did oil 0f the cabinet work required to house his Hi-Fi. Dale Chrysler, left, and Frank Myers, Plant Operation and Maintenance in Detroit, display one of the handsome con ference tables they made in the Shop for use at the labs. The Dutch hutch above, refinished by Ben Burge, Baton Rouge Employee Re lations, is only one of several o[d pieces of furniture that Ben has put into shape. 13 ETC 14218 ETC 14219 1 The Queen of Clubs holds its convention in The Motor City and attracts some 550 women of the petroleum industry Detroit was the scene unci Horizons L'idiiiiitcd was the theme when the Association of Desk and Derrick Clubs of North America recently met for their ninth annual convention. Some 550 delegates from all over the United States and Canada convened to conduct the business of this unusual organization, "the Queen of Clubs," whose exclusively female mem bership is dedicated to bettering their understanding of the petroleum industry that employs them. While there were moments of levitv and festivity during the three-dav meeting, most of the delegates' time was taken up with a round of dav-long business sessions, discussion groups and luncheon meetings that made for a schedule that would have tired the hardiest male. The dedicated ladies of the oil indus try, however, seemed to thrive on it. Ethyl delegates to the convention -- there were 12 of them from various locales -- were particularly pleased that the Company's President, B. B. Turner, was chosen to deliver the principal address this vear. Mr. Turner's speech, A Story That Must Be Told, was delivered before a packed banquet hall at the cli mactic dinner session and was received with enthu siasm by an attentive audience. The text's emphasis on the heavy gasoline tax had a particular interest to Mr. Turner's attractive auditors. No minor role in the preceedings was plaved by the Desk and Derrick members from the Detroit Labora tories, who gave generously of their time before the convention and during the actual conclave. To kick off the program, the 12 EthvI women were invited for lunch and a tour of the Detroit Labora tories, where they were welcomed bv General Mana ger Dick Scales, and from which they were whisked back downtown for their rigorous round of meetings. Almost without exception, they were "on the go" from that time on, imparting an air of interest and dedica tion to purpose of which the petroleum industry may well be proud. At left, Ethyl's President B. B. Turner oddresses the ladies of the industry at the packed final banquet of the convention. 15 i t i II I ETC U220 Desk and Derrick in Detroit (continued) Helping with registration are inge Arlington, Dorothy Laberge, Ethel Hawse and Eleanor Walker of the Labs. Angie Colisimo, also from the Detroit Laboratories, helps in the distribution of giveaways. 16 Ed Paige, Technical Services, escorts a group of Ethyl women on a tour of the Laboratories. ETC 14221 't Lucy Johnson, secretary in ihe San Francisco district office takes time to check on her return flight reservations. Mr. Turner receives a speaker's gift from Club President Glodys Watford. I This luncheon group includes, from left to right, Ethyl's Maxine Blue, Esther Pierce and Erna Harris. At another table Ethyl's Dorothy Watson, Dorothy Laberge, Ethel House ond Eleanor Walker convene. ETC 14222 FOR YOUR ENTERlAlNMENTl BOOKS Dr. Benjamin F. Miller and Ruth Goode have written a truly extraordinary book-Man and His Body, The Wonders of the Human Mechanism. Never has "the magnificent machine been put down on paper as interestingly and excitingly as in the new Simon and Schuster book, which traces life from a single cell to the complexitv of modern man and on into the future. The authors have done considerably more than write a medical book for the lavman; they have created a fascinat ing world in their explanation, exploration and analysis of the body. From blood to bone, from head to toe, the)' have scrutinized every facet of what makes you tick, what makes each man alike and what makes each totally different. You have never had such a good look at yourself, nor such an informative or enjoyable one. There is a great deal of excitement in the true adventure Seven Men at Daybreak, Alan Burgess' account of the men who parachuted into Czechoslovakia to kill General Reinhard Hevdrich, one of Hitler's most feared and most brutal henchmen. Jan Kubis and Josef Gabchick studied Heydrich's even- move, planned their strategy under the eyes of the Nazis and, then one morning seized upon their chance in one of the most courageous enterprises of the war. Mr. Burgess, whose The Small Woman became the successful motion pic ture The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, knows his material and presents it in a high suspenseful manner. Northern Lights, a new anthology compiled by George E. Nelson, includes three complete novels and twenty-two shorter pieces bv contemporary Canadian writers. The selections for the Doubledav release are widely varied and, for the most part, (juite distinguished. Among those stories that stand out are Brian Moore's Judith Hearnc, a remarkable stud) of lone liness; Frances Shelley Wees' M'Lord, I Ain Sot Guilty, a thoroughlv suspenseful unraveling of a murder; and Battle Tactics, a short but unforgetable dog story. Among those rep resented are Thomas B. Costain, Joyce Marshall and Hugh Garner. Everybody makes a fine showing in spite of the minute type. Svlvia Ashton-Warner, whose first novel Spinster created a con siderable stir among the reviewer, has written her second book and done an equally fine job. A Simon and Schuster publica tion, Incense to Idols, like its predecessor, takes place in New Zealand, where Miss Ashton-Wamer makes her resi dence. It is primarily concerned with the life of a widowed Frenchwoman who comes to New Zealand and who tells her own storv of a new life, of the dangers and emotions of a charming and talented woman who knows herseU to be irresistible. Though the subject could be tawdry in lesser hands, the authoress has made it something special, quiet and bcautj. ful. Words are not tools in her hands; they are paints. Many experts say jazz music is an art form. If so. it is the only art form with solely American roots. The unique quality of jazz is that it is created on the spot -- by improvisation not written down and onlv in rare instances preserved through recordings. Thus, the burden of creativity lies most often with the player rather than, as in other forms of musical ex pression, the composer. Doubleday has published a book entitled Jazz Street which graphically pictures some of the great jazz instrumentalists. Dennis Stocks camera records their midnight to dawn world: the faces and feelings of those who dedicate themselves to this demanding art: the moods of these men as they live and play. These really superior photo graphs are supplemented by Nat Hentoffs commentaries in the back of the book. Nancv Hale, who has been delighting and stunning readers of The Sew Yorker for man) seasons, has compiled a new volume of her short stories under the title Patterns of Per fection. A new Little, Brown release, the latest collection of Miss Hale's stories show her at her magnificent best, cool, calm and collected with a chilling undercurrent of the dis astrous and the devastating. There may he other writers of the short story- who tell more dramatic stories, but few can approach Miss Hale for subtle revelations of character and theme. Ranging in locale from the New England coast to the heart of Virginia, the stories are each perfectly wrought, each visualized with the dispassionate eve of an artist. The World of Rome that Michael Grant lias set down in the new World book of that name is a marvelous place, and that is not to sav that it is a totally pretty place. Mr. Grant's Rome is the Rome of the Holy Roman Empire, for the most part, and he has recreated it with all of its beauty and its horror, pointing out that from it and the earlier Greek civiliza tion we took our roots. There are remarkable parallels, im portant lessons to be learned as Mr. Grant, President and ViceChancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland, depicts the foibles of the Roman svstein and the events that brought about its demise. Many striking photo graphs and drawings illuminate the text, but most of all it is the author's approach from the present back into the past that makes this hook outstanding reading for any student of gov ernment and man of his times. Taylor Caldwell has long been one of the most popular novel-, ists of our times -- Dynasty of Death. The Eagles Gather, This Side of Innocence, The Devil's Advocate, Dear and Glorious Physician -- and her latest entry into the fiction sweepstakes, The Listener, will hardly disappoint any of her loval readers. 18 f a widowed A'ho tells her motions of a tf to be irrelesser hands, t. and beauti>uints. so, it is the lique quality yrrisation not ied through . most often musical ex ited a booksome of the *era records mgs of those be moods of >erior phototnentaries in ?ririg readers piled a new ;ns of Per- collection of t best, cool, of the dis.r writers of but few* can laracter and coast to the rraight, each down in place, and Sir. Crant's ;or the most jjty and its reek civiliza`^rallels, imTt and Viceiui Northern o* and the '.itfog photoi; of all it is lie past that -imt of gov- jular novel7other, This aU Glorious weepstakes, readers. \ Doubleday release, the new book tells a strange and un usual tale in which the troubled find a new peace bv bringing their woes to an unseen listener in a beautiful little chapel. The listener, whoever he is. is a man of great compassion and understanding. A religious allegorv. the novel is a deeply religious one, for Miss Caldwell is not plavin" tricks; she is unbearing the human soul and its need to be listened to. p. C. Wodehouse has been making the world laugh since be fore the First World War, which covers a fair amount of sears is well as some troubled times. On the pages of The Most of P. G. Wodehouse, a fine, fat new volume from Simon and Schuster, stories from then to now reappear, and they are as fresh and funnv as ever. Xobodv, but nobodv. knows as much about butlers, bachelors and Britishers or can bump two characters head on with such hilarious results. In the new omnibus, Wodehouse takes us again into the ratified atmosphere of the Drones' Club, into the fashionable world served by that butler of butlers, Jeeves, and into his very' special English world with its very special Englishmen. The Most of P. G. Wodehouse is decidedly "the most." Fairfax Downey is the editor of My Kingdom for a Horse, an anthologv of stories about equines that moves at the pace of a Derby winner. Under the Doubledav label, the new col lection of stories includes a vast diversity of stories from many times and many climes. Among the authors whose work is included are Marco Polo, Lafcadio Hearn, Mark Twain, Alphonse Daudet, Charles Dickens, Alexander Dumas, Jona thon Swift and Lew Wallace, whose contribution, as you may have suspected, is the famous chariot race from Ben-Hur. Some of the stories are hilarious; some of them are exciting; others are tender and touching. Here is a real merry-go-round for anyone who ever patted the velvety nose of a policeman's horse or rode the ponv ring in knee-pants. MOVIES Hot on the heels of Ben-Hur comes SpaRTAcus, a three-hour spectacle that holds its own against the recent multi-winner of Academv Awards. Rome in all its glory is the background, and it is frequently breathtaking, but the new film has as its major asset an all-star cast of actors who so thoroughly knows how to behave in front of a camera that they are right at home in and about the arena. The story has to do with the uprising of a slave army that holds off the Romans for nearly four years. Kirk Douglas heads the revolt and Sir Laurence Olivier is the chief opponent. They are' accompanied, one wav or another, by Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov and 10,500 others. The gladitorial goings-on are quite exciting, if sometimes bloody, and despite the fact that there are no chariots. Spartacus doesn't have to take a back seat to anybody. Warner Brothers is responsible lor the scretMi version ot the William lne Broadwav hit The Dark at the Top of the Stairs ancl. all in all. the' are to be commended lor assem bling a first-rate cast and adhering, for the most part, to the original. Heading the roster is Robert Preston, returning to films after an enormous success as The Music Man on the Great White Wav. His performance is admirable, and he is well assisted bv Dorothv McGuire. Eve Arden and Angela Lansburv. who brins* to life Mr. Inge's Oklahoma family of the Twenties. The film has a few tasteless moments, but by and large it is quite compelling and frequently touching. TELEVISION CBS-TV tours the national automobile show in Detroit with its cameras on October 16. If vou watch this, keep an eye out for the oil industry exhibit -- a number of Ethyl people had a hand in its preparation. `Step on the Gas: The Story of the American Motorist' is going to be shown on CBS-TV October 19. A light musicalcomedy special replacing the usual U. S. Steel Hour fare, it will star Jackie Cooper. Shirlev Jones. Pat Carroll and Hans Conreid. The last of four joint appearances by the 1960 Presidential candidates will be televised Friday. October 21 on all net works. Both Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy will be questioned by panel of distinguished newspapermen. How ard K. Smith will act as moderator. Look for a series of one-hour public affairs shows entitled The World of Huntley-Brinkley on NBC-TV. The net work wants to follow up on the national attention created by this crack news team with their political convention coverage. Chet Huntley and David Brinklev will each supervise and narrate three shows. The network lias granted them a free hand in selecting their materia). Hallmark Ham. of Fame's first fall entry over NBC-TV is Shangri La on October 2-4. An adaptation for television of James Hilton's great novel Lost Horizon, the show stars Claude Rains in the role of the high lama. The television agenda for October 27 includes The Debbie Reynolds Special. This happy hour featuring the vivacious young star will be carried on ABC-TV. Dannv Kaye makes his commercial television debut on ABCTV October 30. Almost the last of the big name attractions in show business to sign a TV contract, Dannv has signed Louis Armstrong to be the guest on his first show. 19 I ETC 14224 MILESTONES 20 YEARS 30 YEARS Irene Buckley Gasoline Testing. Yonkers Austin B. Wyrick Sales. Western Region John B. Alexander Manufacturing. Baton Rouge J. Wallace Emery Sales, Southern Region Elton E. Dixon Manufacturing, Baton Rouge Guy G. Haydel Manufacturing, Baton Rouge Shirley J. Hochenedel Research & Development, Baton Rouge Daniel M. McDonald Manufacturing, Baton Rouge Michael Rometti Research & Development, Detroit Joseph Stewart Manufacturing, Baton Rouge Leonard N. Watlincton Manufacturing, Baton Rouge Harold R. Woist Manufacturing, Houston ETC 14225 s ETHYU^WEIXOMEsf >: B. Wyrick Sales, cm Region h E. Dixon ufacturing, on Rouge Robert Caragher,\ Academy of Advanced Traffic grad, is in New York Traffic section. Calvin Cashman, mail clerk at Detroit Labs, attends Wayne State University. John Collins, engi neer at Sarnia plant, is a grad of Queen s University in Ontario. Carol Doehring, a clerk at Detroit Labs, enjoys swimming, wa ter-skiing and reading. G. Haydel ufacturing, on Rouge Evelyn Doehrman, a chemist at Detroit Labs, is a graduate of Purdue University. Sharon Fitzgerald, typist at Detroit Labs, enjoys reading and is active in many sports. Ernest Haufe, a grad of John Carroll University, is an ac countant in New York. Lorraine Konen has joined R&D in Detroit. Sire attended Michi gan State University. 'I. McDonald ufacturing, >n Rouge Kathleen Mathiot is a steno-clerk in the New York office. She enjoys bowling. Cassie Miller, a sec retary at Detroit Labs, is married and the mother of a son. Peggy Ott, who is married and has a son, is a secretary at the Pittsburg plant. Dorothy Ring is a sales analyst in the New York office. She likes to sew and knit. I R. Woest ifacturing, fouston Anita Rollo, a grad of L.S.U., is an engi neering assistant at the Baton Rouge plant. Archie Smith, who is the father of four, is a janitor for Mainte nance at Detroit Labs. Lowell Swaidner, a trainee in New York Finance, is a graduate of Indiana University. Mary Zirkelbach joins Products Service & Safety in New York as secretary'. 21 ETC 14226 WEDDINGS New York Glady D Arconte and John Dinger were married on September 10 at the Church of the Ascension in Elmhurst, Long Island. The couple are residing in Flushing. New York. Gladv is in the Pub lic Relations department. San Bernardino Tony Painter, Jr., son of Dean Paint er, who is assistant manager at the Lab oratory, was married to Marsha Diebold on August 20 at Calvarv Baptist Church in San Bernardino. SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the fol lowing employees at the Detroit labora tories. at the Pittsburg plant and in the Sales department: Detroit: Leslie E. Bellamy, $20.00 (Air hose reel for engine rebuilding crib); Raymond A. Schell, $25.00 (Improve ventilation of autoclave com partments as safety measure); Shirley Stickles, S20.00 (Numbers on CIF checks to appear on check stubs). Pittsburg: DennisMarchand, $10.00 (Modification to oiler on turbine gov ernors); Dennis Marchand, $10.00 (Fuel oil burner yoke pins); Ray Musgrove, $15.00 (Calibration block for re lays); Henry Paul, $25.00 (Elimina tion of sleeve on hot water pumps); Wayne West, $25.00 (Change in air supply for boiler controls). Sales Department: A.. G. Gulis, $50.00 (On pricing of MPA and ICC shipments originating from Orangeburg we include mixed truckloads to help makeup a truckload shipment): J. D. Fuller, $10.00 (All computer codes developed be copyrighted); J. V. Han lon, $10.00 (The automotive film kit or selected films from same be pro\'i<led to district offices in rear-projection prints): J. A'. Hanlon, $10.00 (Flan- nelboard "SLAP-' repair material be available to district offices). ; in the field - Bill Alexander, Los Angeles district office, gave a 40 minute talk on "The Handling of TEL in Refineries" to the Southern California Regional Croup of ASTM-DDC Members. Members of this group cover all major and independent refiners in the Los Angeles basin area that operate CFR engines. Joe Hopkins, Eastern regional mer chandiser, made a Ds-hour "Creative Thinking" presentation before Texaco's Boston division salesmen at an executive training three-dav meeting in New Hampshire. At the request of the field service man ager for International Harvester Com pany, Bob Kimpton of the Pittsburgh office gave a presentation on "Diagnosis of Failed Engine PaTts" to IS Lyons Transportation Companv maintenance superintendents from Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania. The same presentation also was given before a group of Gulf Oil's Boston di vision management, automotive engi neers and commercial salesmen. Lewis Rumph, Atlanta office, made a presentation on "Trends in Hcavy-Dutv Fleet Operations" before a technical group of the Sinclair Refining Companv in Atlanta, Georgia, which included staff consumer and lube sales managers and division engineers. Atlanta district field engineers Vince Hanlon and Archie Smith recently were active conducting a series of "Fire Power Shows" for all Standard Oil Com pany (Kentucky) dealers, and terminal and division office personnel throughout Alabama and Georgia. Archie also presented the "Gasoline Power Clinic" to Shell Oil salesmen and dealers in Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. Frank DeVore, Southern Regional of fice, has been appointed general chair man for the Society of Automotive En gineers National Fuels and Lubricants meeting to be held in Tulsa, Novem ber 2-4. Idan Flaa of the Tulsa district oft was among the men appointed to in preparations fur the meeting. 51 Richard Courtney and Gary of the New York office and John of the Philadelphia office held 14 mium Pointers" 30-minute live denioi)' sh-ations. plus slide presentations f0r -v> Tidewater Oil Company (Eastern diy; sion) salesmen, merchandisers, area agers. and district staffs from 13 Easley states. Ed Bacon and Pres Berry, both of the Philadelphia office, held a series 0( "Farm Tractor Fuel Economics" inns for Southern States Co-op employ in Man-land. Virginia and Kentucky. = -, ,--......cnS" to Tidewater salesmen at their tratnin school in Brookline, Massachusetts. The Refinery Technology group [rom the Southern Regional office, which in. eludes Martin Alspaugh, Norman Gerber and Robert Riggs, presented, refresher course to the personnel of the Houston and New Orleans districts. At the reipiest of Delhi-Taylor Oil Corporation. Gene Gallagher of the Dak las district office presented the ~'Sev Concept uf Casnline Progress" to the Linn's Club of Fairfield, Texas. ON THE ROSTRUM A technical paper entitled "Gasoline Additives--A Review for Engineers" was presented by Arthur Felt, Detroit Labs, before the National Farm Con struction and Industrial Machinery Meet ing of the Society of Automotive Engi neers held in Milwaukee. Arthur's co author was Herbert Sumner, also of the Detroit Labs. "How to Make Better Use of Time" was the title of a talk given by John Barks dale at a meeting of the Port Allen Rotarv Club. John is with Sodium Main tenance in Baton Rouge. Clarence Neher, Commercial De velopment in Baton Rouge, gave a talk 1 ETC 14227 1 district office ited to assist -ting. Gary Starr OHN KaLEY old 14 `Pre[ive demon, rions for 22o Eastern divj. rs, area man. u 13 Eastern ..both of the .t series of cnics'* meet* p employees Kentucky. urn Region, and engines heir training <usetts. group from which in- e Norman presented a -.mnel of the districts. k>r Oil Cor. of the Dal! the "New ess" to the UM K "Gasoline ;meers" was ET, Detroit farm Coniraery Meetirrtive EngiYrthur's co\ER, also of Time" was HN BARKS- * Allen Rofium Main- Tcial De rive a talk 1I entitled "Outlook for Continued Grow th of the Chemical Industry" at a Desk and Derrick Club meeting in Baton Rouge. Ed and Mary Agnew --a daughter, Rita Marie, born on August 9, weigh ing T pounds 3 ounces. Ed is with the Cleveland district office. Eastern Region Jack and Adrienne Kaley--a daugh ter, Kathleen, bom on September 10, weighing 7 pounds 15 ounces. The little gal joins a brother and a sister in the Kaley family. Pop is a field representa tive in the Philadelphia office. New York Dr. Thomas and Alice Maloney--a daughter, Amy, born on August 28. The little miss, who weighed in at S pounds 13 ounces, has two brothers and one sister. Tom is in Medical. Joe and Catherine McGurk --a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born on August 26, weighing 6 pounds 13 ounces. Joe is with General Accounting. Pittsburg Feltus Wade-u granddaughter, Jen nifer Ann, bom on August 10, to his daughter and son-in-Jaw Beverly Ann and Carrett Sbona. The tiny miss weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces. The proud grandfather is a maintenance superin tendent at the plant. San Bernardino Bob Adams --a grandson, Bradley, bom on August 23 to his daughter and son-in-law Janice and Jim Johnson. Bob is manager at the Laboratory. Southern Region Dick and Sandy MoRROw-a son, Eric Lane, bom on August 27. Dick is with the Dallas district office. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS B. Bvnum Turner, president uf Ethyl Corporation announced the appointment of Robert Herzog as director of Plan ning. Bob will also continue in his present assignment as assistant to the vice presi dent of Operations. Arthur Helwig of Research and Development, Baton Rouge, has been named superintendent of Long Range Planning, reporting to Bob Herzog. The primary purpose of this new ac tivity will be n stud}' of long range cor porate objectives and development of suitable plans to implement these objec tives. It will also contribute, as needed, to Dr. Kirby's new product and diver sification studies. The appointment of George Unzelman as chief refinery technologist for the Western Region was announced by S. T. Pruitt, general sales manager of Ethyl Corporation. For the past two years George lias been technical assistant for Advertising and Sales Promotion. New York, and lias been responsible for Ethyls technical advertising series. EXTRACURRICULAR The following Engineering employees in Baton Rouge participated in the 15th annual Petroleum Mechanical Engineer ing Conference at New Orleans. Tommy Mixon was chairman of the arrangements committee and also direct ed the planning of facilities and activi ties for the conference; Sam Roberts was vice-chairman of the session on su pervisory development; and Dick Phil lips, Jim Carlisle, Art Decker and Max Lea assisted in registration and other arrangement activities. Carroll Hebert and Bill Heck, both of Safety at the Baton Rouge plant, par ticipated in a one day On-tlie-Job Safetv Conference held at the Bellemont in Baton Rouge. Carroll presided over a panel discussion on "A Safety Program for Businesses and Industries without Full-time Safetv Emplovee." Bill, as president, represented the Great er Baton Rouge chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers which spon sored the conference along with the Greater Baton Rouge Safetv Council. Douglas King of New York Sales and William Morgan of Process Design in Baton Rouge have achieved recognition for themselves and Ethyl bv authoring a technical article appearing in the Au gust issue of Petroleum Refiner. The article is entitled "New Vacuum System Speeds Blending." It describes a new vacuum svstein used by Ethyl which lowers manpower and utihh cost.1* and offers increased flexibility and lower plant investment. The Petroleum Refiner, the monthly international oil publication uf Cull Publishing Companv. Houston, is read bv more than 24.000 persons in the hvdrocarbun processing industn. JOE Cockekham, Sodium Maintenance in Baton Rouge, was appointed director of Civil Defense of Baker, La. bv Mavor Henry Smith, who is in Economic Evalu ation at the plant. Two Baton Rouge plant employees have been named to state boards by Gov ernor Jimmie Davis. Bill Dickerson of Securitv was appointed to the Board uf Commissioners of the Ponchartrain Levee District, representing East Baton Rouge Parish; and Doussan Rando of Finance has been appointed to the Vet erans Affairs Commission, representing the Marine Corps League. IN MEMORIAL George Zelyez It was with deep regret that his many friends at Ethyl Corporation learned of the untimely death of George Zelyez, who died on August 22 while vacation ing in the Adirondack's. George, who was 54 at the time of his death, joined the Company in March of 1942 and was a senior auditor in the Finance department of the New York office. He is survived by his wife Anna, his daughters Anita and Georgianna, his son Ronald and two grandchildren. To all of them go our very deepest sympathies. 23 1 i I f ETC 14228 Gary Starr, Eastern Region field representative, seats himself behind the wheel and prepares to give a tractor dvnamometer presentation to a crowd at the New York State Artificial Breeders Cooperative. The event, which was sponsored by the Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange, Inc., was held at Cornell. ETC 14229 q tractor event, Cornell. GOVERNOR'S GIFT Governor Orville L. Freeman of Minnesota, left. was recently presented with an enlargement of the Magic Circle ad featuring the St. Paul-Minneapolis area. On hand for the occasion were Harold llerg, right, Chicago District field representative, and Circle Port of Mobil Oil Co. The Governor expressed his appreciation to the Companv for its support of tourism. PITTSBURG PENNANT The Ethvl team from the West Coast plant copped the pennant in their Industrial Softball League. The happy champions are, from left to right: front row, Roger Kreischer and J. D. Spearman: second row. Bob Armstrong, Tommy Winkle, Harrv Paul, Lvlc Hobbs and Marts- Enni; back row, Tex Jones, Hank Roonev, J. L. Moss and Rov Bloomfield. ETC 14230 ; these are the two most important voters in the world ... .i i j ii i i! ETC 14231 ETHYL NOVEMBER 1960 ETC 14232 ETHYL it. II !; i ! r I j I Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Some Simple Sentences................ 2 The Norwoods of Highland......... 4 Margin for Error............................... 8 5 O'Clock Scholars.......................... 10 The Crystal Gazer............................. 16 The Story Behind the Book......... 18 Sunny Thoughts for a Rainy Day 20 A Case in Point................................. 22 For Your Entertainment.................. 24 Milestones .......................................... 26 Ethyl Welcomes................................. 27 Personals ............................................ 28 People and Places ........................... 30 Leonhard Dowty ................................. Editor Edward Metcalf...................Associate Editor Stella Sideris.....................Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Atlanta: Louise Moffett; Baton Rouge: Ben Hodge, Joe Martin, A. j. Robichaux; Chicago: Ham Greenup; Cleveland: Janice Gedridge; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge BayJerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongero, Joe Forster, Russ Frank, Les Motson, Ed Myron, Eric Owen, Alyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ed Simon, Neva Yanakeff; Houston: Dave Agnew, Don Connell, Elizabeth Dodson; Kansas City: Lola Chinn, Jane Hudtemeyer: Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Afe.vico: Mike Espinosa; Seu- Orleans: Maxine Blue; Sew York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Lrna Harris, Gertrude Melloh, Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofthouse, Marilyn Sax, Miriam Wallace: Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield; Philadelphia: Mary Levering; Pittsburgh: Meredene Port2er: Salt Uike City: John Morton: Sau Bernardino: Judy Schauh; San Francisco: Jeff Bessire: Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker; Yonkers Testing: Cath erine Henderson: Yonkers Central: AI Morschauser: Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Lim ited ; Sarnia: C. G. Manure; Toronto: Alan Thomas. ON OL'R COVER: Baton Rouge chemists Ann Breaux, left, and Mary jo Pribblc cross through a section of the ampitheater on the LSL' campus. Like many others at Ethyl, both women are enrolled in courses of study. The story on employees' quest for knowledge begins on page 10. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New York, New York. B. B, Turner, President; William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Printed in US.A. ETC 14233 Some Simple 'Thanksgiving is a day when the drumstick \s something to eut rather than to march to. 'Thianksgrcini/ is a dax when carving the turkey reminds us that some would carve up the world. \Tha nksgiving is a day when we eat pump kin pie instead of listening to the rantings of i pumpkinhead. Tha nksgiving is a day when we are free to bow our heads in humble prayer rather than bow down to eat humble pie. 1Thanksgiving is a day when we are more I concerned with the crust of the pie than with kjStthe crust of a dictator. 'Thanksgiving is a day when we watch a football get kicked around instead of our neighbors. 8a Thanksgiving is a day when friends gather to break bread, not spirits. Thanksgiving is a day when "Mum" apmplies to a flower and not to the right to speak. ETC 14235 The past lives again, with modern touches, at Highland Plantation, beautiful ante bellum home of the J. B. Norwoods here is no architecture in our countrx more beau tiful or respected than that which characterized the Old South, those stately white mansions rising out of lush foliage against the warm southern skv. Though their age has long since "one with the wind, a tew ol them still remain to remind us of a colorful period in our national history and of an agrarian soeictx that could not withstand the rapidity of industrial change. Highland, the home of J. Ik Norwood and his wile Lucy, is such a place, a hig. simple, shining example of an era that belongs to the realm of romantic folk lore. The plantation, located a short distance from Baton Rouge in West Feliciana Parish, was huilt In J. Ik's great great-grandfather, who was one of the promi nent architects of his daw It is constructed of ex press and blue poplar. The bricks of its galleries, porches and foundation were made hv hand on the premises, as were the heavv nails that join the thick hoards. Its floors gleam like wide strips of satin be neath the hit'll ceilings in its enormous rooms. J. Ik. a field representative in Employee Relations at the Baton Rouge plant, and Lucv debated a Ion" time before tliev decided to restore the family home, but now that their project is nearly finished they won der how they could ever hare thought otherwise. It was a monumental job, and [. Ik did the major share of the work himself. In order to match the wood and brick, he tore down the old slave quarters and used the materials on the main house, which was built in 1799 and is now one ot the most handsome edifices in the state. The plantation originally consisted of J.'kSOO acres actpiired bv a Spanish land grant and is today a mere 543. most ot it a forest of magnificent live oaks planted in 1S32. In the spring and early summer it is ablaze with the blooms of crepe myrtle, day lilies, iris, azal eas, magnolias and rain lilies. In the evening the scent of honeysuckle and cape jasmine hangs in the air and the stillness of the country echoes the chirp of crick ets and the hiccoughing of frogs. Such personalities as Ilenrv Clay, Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison were visitors to High land, which "lows again with candlelight and easts its shadow out of the past. ETC 14236 I THE NORWOODS OF HIGHLAND (continued) Portrait of a lady: Lucy Norwood stands in reflected light omid the oaks of Highland. J. B., who did the bulk of the work in remodeling the plantation house, spends most of Saturday and Sun* day scraping old brick, sanding shutters, utilizing the materials of a past age to keep Highland authentic. The immensity of the house is revealed in this photograph of J. B. and Lucy taken from a second-story window looking down upon a brick walk of herringbone twill. ETC 14237 In an ivy-covered enclosure, J. B. and lucy read old headstones in the family cemetery on the grounds of Highland. Like this enormous fourposter in the Norwood's bedroom, many of the fvrnithingt of Highland were inherited by succeeding generations and date back to the early days when the thriving plantation was a community in itself. As his ancestors must have done before him, J. B. exercises his dogs under the live oaks. ETC 14238 TC 14239 MARGIN FOR ER^OR 1 When a child has mastered the alphabet, learned to spell words, join them into sentences and fumble and panic and do the wrong thing because you only vaguelv remembered the proper application compose the sentences into paragraphs, the next thingof a First Aid principle.? he is taught is to leave a margin on both sides of the Most of us hare onlv a smattering of knowledge paper. It's a lesson that endures throughout our lives. about First Aid; all of us could do with improvement. Similarly, with habit patterns and attitudes formed in Here is a basic check list that ought to be kept avail childhood, we learn as we grow older to leave a mar- able at all times, placed within easy reach of every gin for error. We don't drive our automobiles right up member of the family. to the other driver's fender; we don't spend our last First Aid Handbook -- a book simple indexed and dollar if we can help it; we don't shellac a floor by giving the important facts in concise, convenient painting ourselves into a corner. In other words, we form. Read it carefullv, know its contents and see to leave ourselves elbow room in which to operate. it that other members of the household brush up Many mature adults, however, are careless about on it. Paperback editions of First Aid Manuals can the margin for error in matters of health and safetv. be bought for fiftv cents or less. While vou're at it, Medical science has worked many a miracle in our buy two -- one for vour home and one for the glove time but it has yet to conquer the chance circum compartment of your car. Most accidents happen in stance or moment of forgetfulness that sometimes one of those two places. leads to serious, even fatal consequences. Experience Basic Medical Supplies can he obtained easilv from teaches that we are all vulnerable at one time or an vour neighborhood drug store. The druggist will as- other, yet even though an adequate margin of pro sist in their selection or he mav recommend one of the tection requires but little effort, manv otherwise packaged kits that have been assembled for general sensible people fail to take the necessary steps -- steps First Aid use. An adequate medical kit for home and that require a minimum of time and money but which car need not be expensive. The home kit should be can have incalculable value in a time of emergency. kept in an accessible place and should not become Stop now to think what First Aid means. For one entangled in the medicine chest with the toothpaste thing it has a sense of immediacy; it has the quick and hair tonic. Keep the supplies in a sturdy con ness of a snap of vour fingers, but bv no means the tainer and keep it out of reach of the vounger lightness. It is the serious business of knowing what children in the household. can and should be done before trained medical help Emergency Phone Stimbers should he listed sep can be summoned to the scene of an emergency. arately and clearly and should he kept in a permanent With an injury or sudden illness there is usually a and prominent place. Pasted up beside the telephone period before the doctor arrises when what is done or on the first page of the directory, this simple list or not done can be extremely, even criticallv im can save precious minutes at a time when every mo portant. Even a slight cut or a simple fracture can tion of the clock counts. produce medicallv severe results when thev happen All of these measures are simple and all of them to people unprepared to deal with them. are basic in maintaining a margin for error that Is your margin for error wide enough to cope with could without too much imagination be the most im unexpected illness or injurv at this moment? Think portant margin in your life. Make a marginal note about it. Imagine a situation. Could vou do the right right now to do something about taking out this mini thing to avert further complications or would you mal insurance for your household -- and before you just stand helplessly by? Worse yet, might you forget it, follow it through today. 9 ETC 14240 ETC 14241 The lamp of learning still burns brightly for Ethyl employees pursuing courses of advanced study w hen the working dav is over manv Ethvl em ployees at various Companv locations proceed in a scholarlv fashion to nearbv colleges, universities and other institutions for studs'. Their quest for fur ther knowledge leads them to a varietv of courses of study ranging from science to languages, from ballet dancing to fencing. In some of the more metropolitan cities courses are supplemented with educational tel evision programs that offer a further diversitv of studs'. At some Ethyl locations groups base gotten together to pursue the same course. Though most Ethvl stu dents are primarilv interested in simple adding to their knosvledge, manv are in pursuit of college de grees and are matriculated students at night school. At am' rate, the midnight oil burns bright and enter prising emplosees are a familiar sight during lunch hour as thev pore user a problem in psvchologv or trs' for the correct pronunciation of a tongue-tssisting word in French or Spanish. Some of them arc merels- involved in brushing up on their Shakespeare svhile others are heavilv involved in adding further dimension in subjects related to their jobs at Eths l-- the sciences, lasv, economics and finance, industrial pss chologs' and special courses offered in commercial fields at accredited universities and professional schools. .No matter svliat the courses of study, they are plainls- helping studious Ethsl people to satisfs- their intellectual cuviositv. At left, Bob Castle and Lou Harwitt, who are both employed in the mail room at 100 Pork, head for their respective classes. Bob is studying geology at Brooklyn College; Lou is enrolled in aviation mechanics at the Academy of Aeronautics. During lunch hour, New York's Rosemary McClellan and Cathy Fay polish up their French in Bryant Park. Cathy is studying at French Institute; Rosemary learns at Fordham University. On the left, law students Rick Geaman and John Floyd, both of R&D patent section, flank chemists Ann Breaux and Mary Jo Pribble on steps of ISU School of law. Ann and Mary Jo study German at the university. 11 ETC 14242 5 o'clock scholars fcon//nuedJ Gene Baida, Detroit Chemical Services, is typi* cal of many lab employees who attend school at night for advanced degrees in Chemistry. 12 ETC 14243 his notes jdent ot ETc 14244 ! t i 5 o'clock scholars (continued) Tony Rye pursues a course of study at the Detroit College of Applied Science, where he majors in Production Engineer* ing and Management. He's in the Design Section at the Lab. Bill Burnt, who works in Chemical Research at the Detroit Lab, spends most of his evenings attending classes at the University of Detroit, where he seeks a degree in Chemistry. 14 ETC 14245  College engineerthe Lob. Duane Hargis is another candidate for a degree in Chemistry. Employed in Chemical Research at the Lab, he attends night classes at Wayne University. Nurse Stephanie Ciul, Detroit Medical department, is in her senior year at Wayne University, where she is majoring in Industrial Psychology. > I r ETC 14246 In our enlightened times, gazing into a crystal ball to foretell the future is just so much hokum, but there is nothing bogus about the crystal gazing done by Claude Arceneaux, development chemist in Research and Development Services at the Baton Rouge plant. Part of Claude's job entails gazing into a massive, ultra-modern electron microscope at crystalline for mations that decidedly do have something to say CRYSTAL Claude Arceneaux's crystal gazing has nothing to do with sorcery; it is a part of his work in R&D Services Etc l424 7 each pattern has a definite scientific significance, en they are still highly meaningful to Claudes fellow abling him and other niicroscopists to identify organic chemists throughout the country. compounds formed by the complex fusing of various With the electron microscope, which has been in chemicals, a feat made far simpler and more accurate use at the Baton Rouge plant for about three years, by the powerful eves of the new machine. enlargements of up to 300.000 diameters can be ob Claude, who has had 16 years of Ethvl service, has tained--many times more than with the older type been working for some time on special problems in optical instruments. Clear photographs of crystalline nas volving the development of microscopical methods of transformations can also be taken for study and use in analysis and the application of microscopy techniques presenting technical papers, and the instrument can to research. He has written a number of technical pa be used in making motion picture studies. For the ices pers on his findings, and if the titles like Microthcrmal shots below, Claude utilized both the electron micro Analysis of the System 1,2,3,4-Tetrachlorobenzene- scope and, in some, a powerful optical instrument. Fentachlorobenzene tend to mystify non-professionals. No abracadabra here; just fascinating research. Patterns such as these, in vivid colors, are what Claude sees through microscope. This fusion preparation could easily be an aerial photograph of cultivated fields. What do you see in this transformation? Spinning film spools or rings of wood? These crystals might possibly remind you of pieces of charred or petrified wood. ETC 14248 Twelve outstanding authorities discuss the coun try's ability to feed its multiplying millions in Food for America's Future, a new book that recently appeared in bookstores, private collections and mu nicipal libraries across the nation. The compact vol ume was published for Ethyl Corporation bv McGraw- Hill Book Company and produced bv the Public Relations department as a public service. Publishing material is nothing new to Ethyl, but the new book is the biggest publishing job yet to be tackled by the Company, and producing it was a task that required the time and talents of many people in many different departments. As the President of our Company states in the foreword: "There is no simple solution to the problem; there are no pat answers. But a clear view of the problem and of the prospects of solving it can be important and helpful. With this in mind, Ethyl Corporation went to men who are well informed in re search, soil science, education, farm machinery and power, agricultural chemicals, food processing and Like most books, Food for America's Future grew marketing, and economics. We asked these men to out of an idea, a light bulb that continued to glow. outline briefly what has been done, and what can Getting it down on paper, transferring it from rough and probably will be done to better equip the farms manuscript into final book form, illustrating it and and industries of America to provide ample food for arranging for its widespread distribution as well as America's future. This book is the result." for bookstore sale was something else again. Ethyl 18 t 7Z^ ETc 14249 '|=rBOOK An unusual Ethyl project -- a new book on feeding the nation's growing population --has brought commendations from leading citizens re grew ;o slow, n rough ; it and well as !. Ethyl 't in the book business; it simply had something V, something it considered vital and interesting, .t set about finding accomplished spokesmen to ...,ip say it with authority, men to whom the subject was familiar and pertinent and whose voices were among the strongest in the land. Contacting these leading authorities--most of the actual legwork was done by George Krieger of the Public Relations department--was an arduous enter prise, and the Company was fortunate in securing the services of such distinguished persons as Firman E. Bear, Editor in Chief of Soil Science; Byron T. Shaw, Administrator, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture; Thomas A. Boyd, Consultant, General Motors Research Staff; Clifford M. Hardin, Chancellor, University of Ne braska; Herrel F. De Graff, Babcock Professor of Food Economics, Cornell University; Richard C. McCurdy, President, Shell Chemical Company; Ken neth S. Adams, Chairman of the Board, Phillips Petroleum Company; Robert S. Stevenson, President, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company; Robert E. Wilson, Chairman of the Board (Retired), Standard Oil Company of Indiana; Philip D. Reed, Chairman of the Board .(.Retired), General Electric Company; Charles G. Mortimer, Chairman and Chief Executive, General Foods Corporation; and Charles B. Shuman, President, American Farm Bureau. Each of them has approached his material with a fresh point of view and illuminated a national problem by stating it clearly, evaluating it, analyzing and setting forth respective solutions to assure our country of well-fed years in the future as well as assuming the enormous responsibility to help provide further food for a hun gry world. Dedicated to Charles F. Kettering, whose sense of humanity has been a source of pride to Ethvl at large, Food for Americas Future is food for America's thought, and an effort of which the Company is justly proud. The Company's pride, however, is not reward enough. To bring the book to the attention of thought leaders all over the nation, Mr. Turner wrote personal letters to 5,000 of our most prominent citizens and, subsequently presented them with complimentary copies. Among them were top government officials, presidents and deans of leading universities, presi dents of major industries, officers of business and civic organizations, editors, and leaders of farm groups. Letters of appreciation have been coming in at a phenomenal rate, among them a letter from the President of the United States and former Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman. 19 SUNNY THOUGHTS FORA RAiNY DAY 20 ETC 14251 Substantial improvements in Ethyl's Accident and Sickness Benefit Plan are likely to brighten many a rainy day for employees unable to work because of illness ^\n October 20 a letter outlining improv ements in For Permanent and Total Disability under previous the Accident and Sickness Benefit Plan was dis plan, discretionary controls on maximum amounts tributed to all regular employees. The new schedule were maintained bv the Company. In the future the took effect on November 1. Already the sponsor of a policy is now stated to be one of waiving all these liberal benefit program, the Company's announcement discretionary limitations except in rare instances. In revealed substantial improvements in the area of dis stances such as cannot be reasonably expected in the ability benefits. The changes apply to all regular sal normal course of events. aried and wage roll workers of Ethvl Corporation and Finally, those employees absent on disability through involve upward revisions in benefit payments for both November 1 this r ear will qualify for improved bene Noil-Occupational and Occupational Disabilities. fits on the basis of the new schedule as of the effective The chart on the right hand side of this page illus date. trates the changes in the Xon-Occupational category. As can be readily seen, the increases in available full- Xon-Occupational Disability Benefits pay benefits are especially attractive. By adding the maximum number of full-pav weeks now' granted under the new' schedule to one-half the number of maximum half-pav weeks listed in vour service credit Years Service Credit Figures Show Mriximum Weekcs FULL PAY HALF PAY old new old new classification, vou get the total number of equivalent full-pay weeks to which vou are now entitled. Con trast this total with the number of equivalent full-pav weeks available under the old schedule. In everv case you can see that the new maximums exceed the old. Again in the Occupational Disability Benefit area larger total payments mar now be made. Although the maximum number of weeks (52) for which vou are eligible for one occupational disability period re mains the same, an increase in the full-pav maximums from 16 weeks to 26 weeks assures a greater overall total benefit than formerly. Along with increases in benefit maximums, the rules governing requalification in both areas have been Up to 1 1 to 2 2 to 3 3 to 4 4 to 5 5 to 6 6 to 7 7 to S 8 to 9 9 to 10 10 to 11 11 to 12 12 and over o 3 4 5 6 i S 9 10 11 12 12 12 2 4 6 S 10 12 14 16 IS 20 ' 22 24 26 00 43 S6 12 9 16 12 20 15 24 IS 28 21 32 24 36 27 40 30 40 2S 40 26 liberalized. Previously it was possible to requalifv Under the old plan maximum benefits were reached >- under the Non-Oecupational schedule bv (1) working after ten years of service. The new plan pror ides im 26 weeks since your last period of disability or vour plored benefits for 10 years' service and reaches the last disability period during which benefits expired, maximum in 12 r ears. > or by (2) working 52 weeks from the time you last got full-pay Non-Occupational payments. The new arrangement requires only that you w'ork 26 weeks Occupational Disability Benefits after the date of your last receiving full-pav disability Figures Show' Maximum Weeks benefits. Similarly, before November 1 in the Occu No TWO-THIRDS pational Disability area there were no requalification Service FULL PAY PAY rights. The revised plan now allows vou to requalifv for any cause after having worked 26 weeks since the date of last receiving full-pay Occupational Benefits. Credit Required old new 16 26 old new 36 26 21 ETC 14252 ETC 14253 Color and design are blended in the accomplished hobby of a Detroit Laboratory employee Intricate needlework is the colorful hobby of Switlana Manastvrskvj (man-a-stir-skee), who spends her weekdays in Chemical Research at Ethyl s Detroit Laboratory. Inspired by the art of her natiye Ukraine, the needlework that occupies mam' of Lana's leisure hours involves cross-stitching in vivid wool and cotton yarns. What emerges is a folk art that reflects not only beauty but considerable skill and a great deal of patience. Characterized by striking hues, Lana's handiwork is not dissimilar to a painting, for it relies on a blend of careful coloring and intricate patterns. Not one to remain inactive, Lana often spends her lunch hour with needle and yarn as interested com panions look on and observe the casual facility with which she 2oes about her hobby. At home, too, with the radio plaving softly in the background and a warv eve out for the antics of her seven s ear old son, she employs her deft needle in producing a variety of blouses, table linens and decorative pillows for her self and her fortunate friends. To tell only of the unusual Manastvrskvj hobby would be to miss some other interesting aspects of Lana's life. Uprooted from her homeland during World War II, Lana and her parents managed to get to America in 1949 through the help of friends in Detroit. The Motor Citv became her home, and a job soon made it possible for her to studs' at night toward a degree in Chemistry at Wayne State. Lana not only got her degree at Wayne, she was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key. Shortly thereafter, she came to work for Ethyl, where her work in Chemical Research has centered mainly around organometallics. Besides these accomplishments, Lana speaks five languages fluently--Ukrainian, Russian, English, Ger man and Polish. Lana displays one of her personal favorites--a table runner of vivid yarn cross-stitched on white linen. 23 ETC 14254 FO R YO UR ENTERTAINMENU BOOKS Edith P. Begner's newest novel, Son and Heir, swings open the doors of East Side General, a New York hospital where all of the cutting is not confined to the operating room. Con cerned primarily with a verv successful surgeon and his worshiping-assistant, the Holt, Rinehart and Winston publication offers a realistic look at hospital politics, and Mrs. Begner does some thoroughly professional vivisections of her own as she moves from clinic to cocktail part)-, from operating room to breakfast table. When tragedy strikes, some all-too-human people are involved as an idol topples under- adversity and an underling begins to reach out on his own. Sketched with con siderable skill, the characters are distinct individuals, each with an attitude of his own. Anyone interested in the short story as art cannot afford to overlook Hanover Houses big, new anthology, First Prize Stories, selected from the annual O. Henry Memorial Awards. Needless to sav, these are all superior works of fiction and they cover a lot of literary ground. Chronologically thev span the years 1919 through 1960, and for the most part they reflect some definite aspects of American life during that era. They are widely diversified--some humorous, some powerful, some bitter, some tender. Among those whose work appears are William Faulkner, Eurdora Welty, Roark Bradford, Inin S. Cobb, Irwin Shaw, Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote. Harvey W ish, Professor of History at Western Reserve Univer sity, is the author of an important new volume that takes an unusual approach to history. In Oxfords The American Historian, the academician presents a thoughtful study of the men who have recorded our national history from its beginning, such men as Cotton Mather, John Smith and the long line up to the prominent historians of the contemporary American scene. He points out as well the effects of time on the men who reported events as they saw them in their own era and how those events are looked upon bv the modern historians. Here is history in a new light, as seen and as interpreted and reinterpreted. Another literary feast for those who take the short storv seriously is served up in Simon and Schuster s Stories From The New Yorker, the third volume in a series of exceptional pieces from the pages of the popular magazine. Some 50 morsels of short fiction appear therein, and each is in its own right something to savor. The list of contributors might well be a list of Who`s Who in contemporary fiction--for example, Eudora Welty, J. D. Salinger. Nanc\ Hale. Dorothy Parker Jean Stafford, Frank O'Connor. Tennessee Williams. John Updike and others equally as impressive, all af the top of their form. If Jean Kerr isn't the funniest woman writing today, then she is surely the second funniest by a nose. The author of Please Don't Eat the Daisies has again put together a collection of comic essays that is as thoroughly delightful as its predecessor. ln the new Doubleday book. The Snake Has All the Lines, she takes a crack at opening nights out of town. Lolita, a recog. nizable popular magazine that is free with advice, and the hec tic state of a household complete with children, one of whom donated the title. Mrs. Kerr's wit has a wide range, and it is particularly refreshing at a time when sick humor comes swoop ing down like vultures. Lincoln For The Ages, a new Doubleday volume edited by Ralph C. Newman, is a collection of 76 pieces about the Civil War president by some of the country's leading historians and exponents of Lincoinia. Thus the life of Abraham Lincoln is told in a fresh and comprehensive way that presents the philosophy, the wit. the ability and the simplicity of one of the world's greatest statesmen. Lincoln, the legend, and Lincoln, the man, are herein integrated in as rewarding an experience that anyone interested in history and biography could find. Such authors as Carl Sandburg, Allan Nevins, Norman Corwin. Bruce Catton, Slielbv Foote, Ulvsses S. Grant, III, and Marianne Moore arc among those contributing. If games interest you at all. vou will have a field dav with R. C. Bell's Board and Table Games: Front Many Civilizations, a new Oxford book that is crammed full of diverting games with which to test vour skill and or vour luck against an opponent. Manv of them are familiar, hut vou will no doubt be interested in knowing something about their background and how far they have come in time. Most of them, however, are new and unusual to Americans, although they are still played in many lands and may well have started in antiquity. Among the classifications are race games, such as Pachisi; dice games; war games, such as chess or checkers; games of position, such as solitaires and territorial possession; domino games, such as tnah joog and other block games; and mansala games, which are plaved with marbles or pebbles placed in slots. Tom Lea is an artist. He can draw' and lie can write. In The Primal Yoke both talents are impressively obvious for this book is not only written by Lea. it is illustrated bv him. Published by Little, Brown, the book recounts the story of two families, their search for identity in the world and their affinity for the mountains -- stark, high, uncivilized lakes and peaks in Wyoming. Although the two families have different back grounds they both look to the mountains as the key to the prob lem of their lives in the lower altitudes. The storv evolves as they ascend into the high country in search of their individual salvations. A taut, frank storv, it's a dam good varn. ,r example, `hy Parker, 'uns, John the top of then .she is lease Don't u of comic cessor. ]n "he Lines, ta, a recoa. nd the heee of whom e, and it is ;nes swoop. - edited bv it the Civil torians and Lincoln is resents the of one of gend, and carding an biography an Xevins, Ulysses S. mtributing. with R. C. ilizations, a games with opponent. .* interested id how far re new and *d in manv \mong the games; war >11, such as s, such as snes, wliich write. In obvious for ed by him. torv of two heir affinitv :\d peaks in rent back:o the prob- evolves as r individual .m. Sweden's Ingmar Bergman has emerged in recent vears as one of the screen's most honored director-scenarists. In a new volume entitled Four Screenplays By Ingmar Bergman, Simon and Schuster has compiled the scripts of Smiles of a Summer Sight, The Seventh Seal. Wild Strawberries and The Magician. Mr. Bergman's versatility could not be more clearly demonstrated, for although he writes primarily for the camera, he writes as well for the reader. Each of the screenplays is distinctly different. There is humor, mvsterv, tragedy, drama and comedy as Mr. Bergman goes about saving some important things in his inimitable way. In a book called Good Bye, Ava, Mr. Richard Bissell again mounts a successful assault on the reader's funnvbone. The story, told in the first person by a typically sardonic Bissell character named Frank Blanchard, takes place in a small Iowa river town, the author's native habitat. Frank, when he is not conducting a long range one-way romance with Ava Gardner, wants onlv to keep living in his houseboat tied to the river bank and has to fight from being dragged into the respectability of moving to a house on dry land. He succeeds and in the process winds up with a guitar twanging wife who replaces Miss Gard ner in Ins dreams. Bissell is no Shakespeare, but he is a verv funny writer. The book is published by Little, Brown. George Kirgo, a young man who came out of obscurity via The Ja.ck Paar Show and made people laugh at midnight, has writ ten a book. In fact, it was because he had written a book that the author first appeared on the television screens of the nation; his claim to fame was that he was the author of a smash flop. Now that he has come into his own he (with the help of Simon and Schuster) has given us the century's longest title, How TO Write Ten Different Best Sellers Now in Your Spare Time and Become the First Author on Your Block Unless There's an Author Already Living on Your Block in Which Case You'll Become the Second Author on Your Block and That's Okay Too and Other Stories. It's quite funny. MOVIES The new United Artists release The Alamo is a production of such bigness that it fairly makes you feel like an nnt beside an elephant, but don't let that small side effect distract you from seeing this Todd-AO version of what conceivably happened when a band of martyrs face almost certain death to defend the historic fortification. Recreating that heroic moment in history are such celluloid stalwarts as John Wayne (David Crockett), Richard Widmark (Jim Bowie), Laurence Haney (William Barrett Travis), Richard Boone (Sam Houston) and a cast of familiar faces around the western terrain of Hollywood. Though it may all seem a bit overblown, there are some truly wonderful moments and some acting far superior to most of what you see in more standard Westerns. History is the primary focus here, and it comes off sharply. It would certainlv appear from recent motion pictures and television that the West has never been completely won. This time it is John Sturges who takes a crack at it. and he conies off quite successfully in The Magnificent Seven, an adaptation of a fairly recent Japanese film transferred to Mexico. Though, the transformation mav seem odd. it works unusualh well in the hands of such accomplished actors ns Yul Brvnnei. Steve McQueen. Eli Wallach and Horst Buchholz. all of whom are concerned with the defense of a village against invading bandits. There are some magnificent shots of Mexico in the colors of Orozco, and the film is many, many gun-notches above average horse opera. TELEVISION First in a series of six shows entitled NBC White Paper is now being prepared for showing on November 29. It will ex amine the U-2 affair in the light of new evidence dug up through painstaking research bv an NBC team. Red Skelton supplements his regular TV schedule with a CBS Special on November 30. Red will welcome such guests as Dinah Shore, Jack Paar, Mickev Rooney and George Raft on this hour-long show. The Our American Heritage series on NBC will dramatize an incident in the early life of Andrew Jackson called Born a Giant. William Travers, an English actor, is cast in the title role and the supporting players include Barbara Rush and Far ley Granger. It's on December 2 on NBC-TV. For the third time NBC will present Peter Pan with Man' Martin in the starring role. Scheduled for the night of De cember S and earlv enough so the kids can watch too, this fantasy adapted for television is being repeated by popular demand. Yul Brvnner's Odyssey special is down for the night of De cember 10 on CBS. This is a show that covers the star's tour of refugee camps all over Europe in behalf of the UN world refugee association. Jimmy Durante and Buddy Hackett have been signed to ap pear on Happy Talk, an NBC special December 6. Moder ated bv David Susskind. the show will be a round-table discus sion of American humor featuring manv top flight comics. A documentary on genetics will be featured on the Bell Sys tem Science Series to be seen on the evening of December 9. Dr. Frank Baxter is lined up to narrate this very fine series. Keep an eye out for a new series on NBC called The Canfield Brothers which replaces Riverboat after the first of the vear. The stories each week will revolve around two broth ers who took opposite sides during the Civil War. Much of this series will be shot on location. 25 ETC 14256 MILESTONES- > 6 f i t s k .Clifford E Lenington Sales, Southern Region Dean A. Painter Gasoline Testing, San Bernardino Albert W. Ramsey Gasoline Testing, Yonkers Oliver P. Robert Manufacturing, Baton Rouge 26 T ETC 14257 N'ieser .rk Brenda Allen, a stenographer for Houston Sales, is a graduate of Rice Institute. William Beard, a chemist in Baton Rouge, holds his Ph.D. from Duke University. James Beresheim holds an M.C.E. Jim is in General Engineering at Baton Rouge. Thomas Bodeman. internal auditor in New York, at tended St. Johns University. mes, Sr. `ring, -uge Mildred De Rose, a secre tary for the Western Region, enjoys speed boat racing. William Finn, who is the father of two sons, is a pay roll assistant in New York. Donald Hutchinson, an acting engineering supervisor in Pittsburg, holds his B.C.E. William Powell, auditor. New York, is married. Bill is a graduate of Wilkes College. Robert `ring, i uge Marie Springer, a secre tary at Detroit Labs, is mar ried and a mother of five. Graham Stoner, a chemist in Baton Rouge, holds a Ph.D. from Tulane University. Charles Watson, Jr., grad of the University of Delaware, is an engineer at Baton Rouge. David Wilson is Toronto's new sales representative. Hr is married and lias a sou 27 . ETC 14258 ON THE ROSTRUM . John Hogan of Employee Relations in Baton Rouge was a member of a panel on "Communications" at the annual Louisiana Personnel Management Con ference. In his talk, John reviewed var ious methods of communication used on the plant. Taking time out from his duties at the United Givers Fund headquarters where he is presently on loan for this vear's fund raising campaign. Woody Merritt, Safety, Baton Rouge, gave a talk enti tled "Blueprint for Human Relations" before members of the Port Allen Rotarv Club. Clarence Neher, Community Develop ment, Baton Rouge, spoke at a meeting of the Tally-Up Club. His topic was the "Outlook for Continued Crowth of the Chemical Industrv." James Boudreau, director of Public Re lations, New York, gave his illustrated slide talk on "The Early Days of Oil" at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Ba ton Rouge. The talk covered historical documents and equipment connected with the pioneering davs of the petro leum industry. Robert Hogan of the Sales department in New York gave a talk on "Passenger Car Trends" during a meeting of the So ciety of Automotive Engineers, Inc., At lanta section. The meeting was held at the Chrysler Training Center in Atlanta. Ardis Hopper, Employee and Commu nity Relations in Houston, spoke on "In ternational Communism" before a group attending the Internal Security Confer ence sponsored by the Engineering Ex tension Service held at Texas Agricul tural and Mechanical College. Chuck Colvin of Purchasing and Traf fic in Baton Rouge was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Baton Rouge Rotary Club. He spoke on potential new developments in the transportation field. Alvin Hubbs of Employee Relations in Baton Rouge served as a panel member at a group session of the first State Con ference on the Aging. His subject was "The Individual's Responsibility to Plan for the Golden Years." . EXTRACURRICULAR ; > Under the sponsorship of the Finance de partment a new emplovee indoctrination program is being conducted for recent employees of that department as well as for those in other departments of the New York office. Ray Faller of Em ployee Relations. New York, is coordinat ing the program which will extend up to December 7. Representatives of each major department is outlining the objec tives and operations of his department. In this wav the new emplovees are get ting a working idea of how the Companv functions. In addition to the lectures and discussions there are field trips to a nearbv refinerv, the Yonkers Gasoline Testing Laboratory and the 39th Street Sales Auditorium. Three Ethvl men have achieved recog nition for themselves and Ethyl by au thoring articles that appeared in two outside publications. Ray Faller, Emplovee Relations, New York, is the author of the article " `Bong' Films" that appeared in the September issue of the Journal of the American Society of Training, Directors. Eugene J. Forster, project engineer in Detroit, and George Unzelman, chief refinery technologist in the Western Region, co-authored a 32-page technical article that appeared in the October is sue of Petroleum Refiner, international oil publication of Gulf Publishing Com pany of Houston. Dick Day, Emplovee Relations in Ba ton Rouge, served as moderator on a "Youth Services" panel at the 42nd an nual meeting of the Lnuisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District of Kiwanis International at Jackson, Mississippi. He is lieutenant governor of Division S of the Kiwanis District. William McCarthy of Fire Inspection in Baton Rouge has been named an hon orary chief of the Baton Rouge Fire De partment in recognition of 16 years of active service as a member of the city's fire prevention week committee. Bill is chairman of the industrial committee this year. The unsigned editorial, "Ballot Jargon Prevents Millions from \`oting on Im portant Civic Questions," that appeared on page 10 of the October 8 Saturday Evening Post was authored by Thom Yates of Public Relations in New York. The September 2b n^ue of Tone*mj zine had a feature article in n? \< .. r* Awdi. cine section, Environment \i ,, -'un" that has two quotations troni Dr ert A. Kehoe ut Cincinnati. The art- i deals with subtle new pollutants endanger modern health. people in THE NEWS Malcolm P. Murdock, vice president in charge of Sales, has announced tha[ Robert Riggs has been promoted to foreign sales representative in Export Sales with headquarters in the \exv York office. He will be responsible f0r sales of Ethyl products available to the oil and related industries in Europe and the Far East, with the exception of Japan. Bob has been associated with Ethvl as a chemical engineer in Refinerv Tech nology in the Company's Research and Development department, and most recentlv as a refinerv technologist in the Sales department's Southern Region. IN THE FIELD Pres Berry and Ed Bacon of the Philadolphin office held three meetings for Southern States Coop's seven new regional petroleum staffs. They presented "Significance of Gasoline Tests"; South ern States' 4 M program which Ethvl's merchandising group originated to pro mote their two new gasolines; they dem onstrated new gasolines on our engine; showed two "Ethyl" Multi-Purpose Ad ditive films; and distributed three tech nical notes. At the request of the Sun Oil Company, John Kaley, Philadelphia office, pre sented the live "Fire Power" show to an estimated audience of 10,000 people over educational TV station WHYY in Philadelphia. Bob Kimpton, Pittsburgh district, made his "Diagnosis of Engine Failures" pres entation to the Philadelphia division of Gulf Oil Corporation at two regional of fice meetings in Philadelphia and at meetings in Baltimore and Harrisburg. * J I f ? 28 ETC 14259 "c maga. i[s Medi' Man," R- Rob- I he article aits which esident in need that 'noted to ' Export `>e New n'sible for hie to the "rope and option of eith Etln-1 nerv Techearch and I most re sist in the Region. the Philaetings for :i new re presented :s"; Southich Ethyl's ed to prothev dem ur engine; irpose Adliree tech- Company, >ffice, prehow to an 00 people WHYY in trict, made <ires" presdivision of egional ofia and at Harrisburg. Approximately 2.000 people saw Dick Morrow, Dallas district office, demon strate the advantages of "Ethyl" MultiPurpose Additive in gasoline of the Bee line Refining Company at the San Juan, New Mexico Countv Fair. Archie Smith of the Atlanta district held eight Continental Oil dealer train ing meetings in Tennessee, North and South Carolina, and Florida presenting "Know Your Casoline," part of the "Casoline Power Clinic," and variable com pression ratio demonstration engine. Two Joint Technical Conferences were held recently in which four Eastern Re gion men participated. Marshall Me* Dorman of New York and Whit Sweeney of Pittsburgh coordinated EtlnTs part of the program at Virginia Refinery of American Oil Company in Yorktown; Don Forsdick coordinated a similar meeting at Esso's Everett, Massa chusetts Refinery; and New York's ALON Cole spoke on refinery technology at both meetings. SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were made to the following employees in Detroit, the New York office and the Sales department: Detroit; Eugene P. Balda, S30.00 (Automatic gas shut-off for wear test apparatus); Calvin H. Cook, $20.00 (Special fuel buggy for chassis dynomometer rooms); James S. Jackson, $75.00 (Method to increase precision in rating effect of additives on octane num bers). New York Office and Sales De partment: Anna M. Daul, $10.00 (Printed form. Expense Account No. 142, be revised to include an additional cate gory); Merlene Evans, $30.00 (Sub sequent ads in the Ethvl Representative Series be placed in the Ethyl .Vetcs); Diana Flmarola, $10)00 (A form be used in submitting material to be copied on the new Xerox machine. In submitting the material an envelope be marked with the individual name and location so as to have the work returned promptly); Eileen H. Guernsey, S10.00 (Executive Promo tions and Appointments release be dis continued since same information, word for word, appears in the Tcl-o-^ram which is issued on the same date in most instances): Harold D. Lee. $10.00 (The use of solenoid valves, activated In' foot switch, to operate the water aspirator on automatic sampling pipettes): Dean A. Painter, $15,00 (.People picking up monthly survey samples be supplied with printed postcards indicating their stocks on hand and their needs); Ann Selfridge, 520.00 (On the Ethvlletter Form SC 337, the Sav-A-Letter Form S-33S, Field Sample Origin Report Form SC322. and any other forms where proc essed paper which does not require car bon paper for copies is used, that the in side cover which is used under the last copy be of a heavier grade material). f NEWS BRIEFS V Martha Anderson, eldest daughter of Andy Anderson of Purchasing and Traf fic in New York, has been named a semi finalist in the 1960-61 National Merit Scholarship competition. Martha, who is a senior in high school at Green Farms. Connecticut, was among the S.246 Con necticut high school students that took the preliminary qualifying test last spring; 130 remained as semi-finalists. Finalists will be chosen following a 3hour scholastic aptitude test. Mickey Lou. daughter of Morgan Main* of Maintenance and Construction in Ba ton Rouge, who won the New Orleans Ballet Foundation's gold award for the most outstanding individual 1959-1960 performer, has been selected for studv at the American Academv of Dramatic Arts in New York. Notice Our Suggestion System's Certificate of Award is now more attractive and more significant than ever. Formerly a cer tificate was given for each adopted sug gestion. Now a redesigned separate color-border certificate will he issued only for each first, fifth, tenth, fifteenth and twenty-fifth suggestion. The nu meral and color will indicate your cu mulative score. This innovation comes as the result of a suggestion made by Mrs. Gladys Gil more, a Baton Rouge employee. It is not retroactive except for those with 25 or more awards. The Company wants vour suggestions --so why not send them in and make your bid to be one of the first to receive a new certificate--and a cash award. - weddings: New York Amelia Giannone and Leonard Stern were married on October 6 in Queens. The couple traveled to Canada for their wedding trip. Amelia is with Public Relations. Pittsburg Alta Davis and Lloyd Elmore were married on September 19 in Reno. Ne vada. Llovd is an operations technician at the plant. v.: BIRTHS:..': ; Central Region Al Bingham --a granddaughter, EmeLYNE Marie, burn on September 9 to his son Robert and daughter-in-law. The little lass weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces. Al is in the Cleveland district office. Eastern Region Clem and Margaret Maassen -- a daughter, Janet Marie, born on Sep tember 17, weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces. Clem is a refinerv technologist in New York. New York George Roberts--a grandson. Stephen George, horn on September 19 to his daughter Judith Bissert. The little fel low weighed 61a pounds. George is in Finance. Southern Region Donald and Arlene Connell - a son Timothy, born on September 19. The little fellow, who weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces, joined a brother and a sister at home. Pop is a field representative for the Houston district office. 29 ETC 14260 ETC 14261 there if c race is st Plant. A Company-sponsored First Aid Training program is being held this fall for New York Office em ployees. Above, Bill Brinn, General Services, demon strates a new technique of artificial respiration on Bill Lankenau, Advertising and Sales Promotion, while their instructor watches. The course covers five ses sions, and text books and box lunches are provided. NATIONAL GUARDIAN Tom- Woska, below second from ri^ht in first row, recentlv spent two weeks in camp with the 45th Infantrv Division of the Oklahoma National Guard at North Fort Hood, Texas. A first lieutenant of Com pany B of the 120th Engineering Battalion, Torn- is shown here with others of his outfit on the final dav of this vear's militarv stint. ETC 14262 CALIFORNIA COOKOUT A t the Los Angeles district office's recent annual barbecue party, Ken Freberg, left, chats with his wife Marv and Bo Weill. This year's outing was held at the home of District Manager Hume Chenault in Covina, California. Prefaced by a swim, the party featured charcoal-broiled steaks, cooked as ordered by Chef Chenault and his capable staff. ARMY HONOR Eastern Region's Whit Sweenev has been made an honorary member of the Staff and Faculty of the Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia. Cited for his guest lectures for the Petroleum Department of the QM School, Whit is shown here, above right, bein" presented with a certificate of appreciation by Colonel Robert Pearson of the U. S. Army. people, more places SUGGESTION CENTENNIAL The 100th meeting of the New York Committee of the Ethvl Suggestion System was celebrated re manent secretary for the committee; Andy Anderson, Purchasing and Traffic and present chairman of the cently with a business-as-usual session. Currently serv- committee: Kerney Hurst. Advertising and Sales Pro ing on the committee are, left to right: Frank Haves, motion; John Smith, Finance; Stan Nickerson, Public Eastern Region Operations manager; Jim Cusack, Em Relations. The group was represented along with ployee Relations; Doug King, Product Service and Houston, Baton Rouge and Detroit at the recent Na Safety; Howard Gulick, Employee Relations and per tional Association of Suggestion Systems Convention. made an 'Ity of the Cited for rtnient of .flit, l>einnr >' Colonel Anderson, an of the Sales Prom. Public ng svith -cent Xams ention. TTusiness-Education da\' was marked this rear at the Sarnia Plant by a visit from 18 teachers of the Sarnia schools. The guests toured the plant in the morning, following which they were entertained at a luncheon sponsored by the Company. Ethyl person nel in the picture, above, are Plant Manager E. F. Diedrich, standing far right, and Assistant Plant Man ager G. R. Mills, far left. The occasion was the fourth r ear of Sarnia's participation in the event in which mans' teachers were invited to visit business and industrv in the area. The photo shown here was taken just as the Ethvl guests entered the plant for the morning tour. Each of the teachers was given a copy of the photograph as a memento of their visit. BORN TO BOWL TTarry Prince. Detroit Plant Operation and MainJ-J- tenance, has raised his osvn bowling team. The picture, bclosv left, shows he started training early. Taken in 1941, it depicts Harry svith his four sons at a time svlien he svas a member of an Ethyl League team. In the photograph, belosv right, sve see the same group 19 years later. Nosv Harry and his sons howl together as a team. Left to ridit arc Harrs Prince Senior, Gerry (he's the one svith the dialers jn the photo on the left). Walls-. Richard and HarrsJunior. The record shosvs that Father still bowls best. Harry Senior's 163 aseragc topped the sons' efforts over the last season. As a team last year thcv finished third in a 16 team league, and are out to svin this s ear. etc 14264 PINNED BY PRUITT It is an obviouslv happv occasion for Bill Sievert. Dallas district field representative, as he receives his 30-sear pin from Jack Pruitt, New York general sales manager. The award was made to Bill and others who celebrated milestones in the Southern Region at the annual 25-sear dinner held recentlv in Dallas, Texas. Other regions celebrated earlier in the r ear. CEREMONY AT 30 High spirits also presail as Jake Baker, assistant manager of the Southern Region, accepts his 30year plaque and a pat on the back from Russ Schell manager of the Dallas district office. The presentation was also made at the annual 25-vear dinner for em ployees in the Southern Region, where others with 25 or more sears of service ss ere feted. more people, more places HOGAN HAILED MERCER MAGIC Bob Hogan, Eastern Region chief automotive engi neer, was feted recently in honor of his outstand "TVTot long ago, Atlanta Field Representatise Fritz ^ Mercer plaved ssould-be-professor to an Esso ing services as chairman of the Metropolitan Section dealer training group in Charlotte. North Carolina. of the Society of Automotive Engineers. In the photo Fritz spoke to the attentive audience on "Modern graph below, Bob, at right, is presented with a certi Fuels and Engines" and illustrated his talk svith the ficate of recognition bv the new chairman of the New use of an Ethvl demonstration engine. A frequent York chapter, Karl S. Ryan. function of field men, such talks are an Ethyl extra. ETC 14265 ETc 14266 I ETC 14267 ETC 142 68 | I t f t- I ETHYL Published monthly by Ethyl Corporation and Ethyl Cor poration of Canada Limited IN THIS ISSUE PAGE Rhyme and Reason........................ 2 Holiday in Hawaii............................ 4 Radio Active . ....................>.......... 8 A Little World of Its Own............. 12 For Your Entertainment ............. 16 Milestones .......................................... 18 Ethyl Welcomes ............................... 19 Personals ............................................ 20 People and Places........... ................. 22 Leonhard Dowry ................................. Editor Edward Metcalf ...................Associate Editor Stella Sideris.....................Editorial Assistant Layout and art work by S.P.M. Studios Contributing editors -- Athtula: Louise Moffett; Union Rouge: lien Hodge, Joe Martin, A. J. Itobichaux; Chioigo: Ham Greenup: Cfetcfuud: Janice Gedriilge; Dnilns: Ann Selfridge; Detroit: Marge Has lerian, Jim Boag, Chris Bongcro, Joe Forster, buss Frank, Les Motson, Fd Miron, Eric Owen, Abie Peterson, Ross Kife, Kd Simon, Neva Yanakcff; llouiton: l>ave Agnew, lion Connell, Elizabeth Dodson; Kansas City: Lola Chinn, Jane Hudlcmejcr: Los Angeles: Harry Manning; Ale.vico: Mike Espinosa: Sew Orleans: Maxine Blue: Nrir York: Jim Donohue, Wilma Hansa, Erna Harris, Gertrude Melloh. Dorothy Locke, Madge Lofihouse, Marilin Sax, Miriam Wallace: Pacific Coast Plant: Gene Hatfield: Philadelphia: Mari Lcicriitg: Pittsburgh: Meretlene Portzer: Salt Lttke City: John Morton: San Bernardino: Judy Schaub: San t'-raucisco: Jeff Bessire; Tulsa: Carl Bartholo mew, Howard Hamaker: Yonkers Testing: Cath erine Henderson: Yonkers Central: A1 Morschauser: Central Office: Ethyl Corporation of Canada Lintited; Sarnia: C. (*. Manorc: Toronto: A Ian Thomas. ON Ol`R COVER: Ham radio operator Dick Pinkerton, chemist in Chem Research at the baton Rouge plant, and his daughter Susan find a sympathetic ear on rig that Dick built. The story on Ethyl hams begins on page 8. Published by Ethyl Corporation, 100 Park Avenue, New ^ ork. New York. B. B. Turner, President: William R. Perdue, Jr., Vice President and Treas urer; Herbert A. Savage, Secretary. Primed in U.S.A. ano Reason With Santa on the roof again - . We take in hand our poet's pen And search for words to set in rhyme All we wish at Christmas time. As you know; onYuletide's eve We've yards of greetings up our sleeve, And if what's there is not enough We've more inside the other cuff. -v m J U*< is* I At any rate, let's now begin TO To usher this year's Christmas in 'V By lifting up a verbal toast From Eastern shore to Western coast. From Murray Hill to EightMile Road, We send this special Christmas ode. To those who dwell in Illinois Baskets full of Christmas joy. Paper hats and New Year's tooters To New Jersey's stout commuters. And as well to those who're thin, AU their kith, all their kin. ^ sn KS9 ETC 14269 m tfi Ladened trees, spicy nogs, v ' Brightly burning Yuletide logs T .Are wfaU.wewishfor Betty White, ; Maxine Blue and.Dotty Wright. Poinsettia plants tall and slim, To Frances Lamb and Paul McKim, v BartRegazzi, all the Greens/ Browns and Days and Watts andBeanes. Christmas cookies by the gobs To the Lanes and to the Cobbs. Add some nuts and top with cherries For the Murphys and the Berrys. ^ Arid for those whose names dorit rhyme, A special Christmas pantomime With cheery cherubs on the wing tTuI Joyous in theitcarpUng. . ,: xerrne wFwwT/Tit Siyf^irj.'s $jzTii/y< f T-ftJSrflil?I **7/77 3^*.Js*yb '<hSfi!^Siff?dji atsons odd tlungsGlmstmaswise ^^WMchgoasiveU^&thrilDees To all, to all JoyeuxNoel, Custards thick with caramel, Sugar plums, groups in song, Hot rum punch good and strong. WfiUeyou'reatyour celebration. Add to it this obligation: Have yourself a world of fun Throughout the yearof '61. gj ** M%Eo$KeW-uins/candyicanes. vf 0$6&ieMforimhgs/paper chains ***,,tti- '. ; ^dneri^Jt^hmg-Sdrita >Clausk/i< etc 1427o ETC 14271 Three native New Yorkers spend an exciting vacation in the 50th state One tiling, among a host of others, that results from a good job is an annual vacation from the dailv routine of our workaday lives. Though most em ployees choose to take their v acation during the sunnv months of summer, some prefer to escape from the drearv winter weather to a warmer part of the world, someplace where the trade winds blow and the surf licks at the sand. Among the latter, Agnes Morgan of New York Ad vertising and Jean Schneeman and Peggv Smith of the Public Relations department decided to spend their vacation on the exotic islands of the 50th state. Thev chose for their visit Aloha Week, a time when Hawaii celebrates with native pageantry and the islanders turn out to show their v isitors colorful re flections of their past. The hula, for example, is in full swing and grass skirts whisper under the enormous Hawaiian moon. Water sports are at their height at the famous beach at Waikiki as outrigger canoes battle the waves and surfboards sail on the crest of the sea. Loans (native feasts) are held as thev were long ago with tempting dishes utilizing the native produce of the islands and accompanied bv Polynesian rhvthms. And nature plavs its part with slim, rustling palm trees and flowers that fairlv burst with vivid color. Complete tourists, the trio joined the festivities, drank from coconuts, partiepated in the hula line, wore Hawaiian leis and gingerly fought the surl. One of them, with slightly more courage than the others, even went so far as to wear the native muu mini, a garment that bears a remarkable resemblance to a pitched circus tent. Summary: hie to Hawaii for a hospitable holiday. At the celebrated Kodak Show, the girls saw exhibitions of Hawaiian and Tohitian dances as performed in the pagan days before the coming of the missionaries and as now modified. i I i i | ETC 14272 HOLIDAY IN HAWAII (continued) i Like a scene from South Pacific, the spirit of Hawaii is captured as Peggy buys an orchid lei. ETc 14273 I The touring trio joins a group of Hawaiian dancing girls in front of their thatched hut. All but one of the island girls, Lelani, had typical American names. ad out At left, the Ethyl vacationers join other island visitors in an attempt to learn the difficult movements of the hula. At right, Jean, Peggy and Agnes laze in the Hawaiian sunshine to watch the professionals demon* strata how the hula is done. Etc 14274 I, -i- tT T aim" are what thev call themselves, these ^ addicts of amateur radio, and much of their talk often goes hevond the layman's understanding. The "ham" operates equipment called a "rig," but hevond these two terms the talk gets mightv complex. Complex or not, the amateur radio operator brings a zestful dedication to his hobby's practice and, fur ther, an unquenchable impulse to experiment. For some of the Ethvl "hams" amateur radio has been the preoccupation of a lifetime. For others it was military experience or just a wish to broaden their horizons. After all, it's not evervone who can boast of friends on four continents. Whatever the attraction, it's a strong one, requiring only a technical turn of mind and enough spare time. Besides talking to people all over the world, most of the Ethyl "hams" are affiliated with the Amateur Radio Emergency Corps. This organization has mem- bers in everv country in the United States. The volunteer membership cooperates with Civ il Defense, State Police and other agencies in preparing for local emergencies that require communication assistance. When a hurricane, flood or other disaster occurs, one of the first needs of any stricken community is imme diate and reliable contact with the outside world. It is then that amateur radio operators, under the AREC banner, perform a real and lasting service. By standing by on assigned wave lengths operators in the surrounding area are able to transmit messages received from the trouble zone quicklv and efficiently. The volunteer network thus does a valuable service, a service needed in this country on the average of five times a year. Beyond all this for the "ham" enthusiast, however, lies the endless and fascinating world of experimenta tion. There are those who build their "rigs" and those 8 ETC 142T 5 tes. The Defense, for local ssistance. curs, one is immee world, nder the \ ice. By rators in messages Ificientlv. service, ge of five however, rimentamd those Norman Wilton, at left, Instrument Foreman at the Baton Rouge Plant, Ss shewn above pricing new equipment. A "ham" since 1957, Norm has talked with such far away places as New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Canton Islands, Africa and Antarctica. who huv them. It depends on needs and means. But whatever wav equipment gets assembled, a world of trial and error remains in testing it. If it's not a new antenna, then it's a new receiver that will accomplish the job at hand. If somebody in Ohio can work Australia, perhaps more power will do the trick. Its a hobbv of unlimited challenges. Once contact is made between operators, be tliev in the next state or next country, cards are exchanged bv mail. These cards show call letters and indicate claritv of reception. These colorful cards line the walls of am' amateur radio bug's workshop. Messages from all over the world are commonplace. It has been said that greater communication between peoples is the single most important requisite for world peace. Perhaps, just perhaps, these "ham operators by making contact with people all over tinworld are showingO the rest of us the wav. Shirl Cook, Baton Rouge Chemi cal Research, adjusts a dial as he prepares to go on the air. ^ ETC 14276 A walkie-talkie is the latest addition to Harold Stevenson's electronic collection. Above, he checks reception in his yard. Harold Stevenson, Detroit Instrumentation, built his own transmitter in the basement of his suburban home. Detroit Lab's John Howard built his first radio set as a twelve year old and has pursued the hobby ever since. Bill Trelease, New York Export Sales, sometimes shops for new equipment on his lunch hour in nearby stores. Tom Sistrunk, Commercial Development Division at Baton Rouge, became interested in radio through an Army communications course. Tom has worked with Civil Defense and was active during recent louisiona storms. 10 {* etc 14277 ETC l42 78 etc l4279 Picture a pile of papers stacked as high as New York's Woolworth Building--792 feet tall! If vou can conjure up such a mind's eve vision, vou ll he able to visualize a vear's output from the Printing Shop at the Detroit Laboratory. Moreover, another stack of equal height would represent almost the amount of printed material that is processed through the Information Services Section in Detroit hut is contracted to he printed outside the Lab in anv given year. As might he expected, much of this mountain of printed matter is prepared for distribution to cus tomer companies and that fact, plus the highly tech nical content of most of this material, makes the tremendous volume of work turned out even more impressive. The Information Sendees Group is responsible also for a vast amount of research information, hut it is the Technical Writing and Editing and the Graphic Arts Sections which concern us here--that part of the work which takes place after the research paper or other manuscript has been cleared for publication. With the need for accuracy so great and the re quirements of much of the technical data to he repro duced so complicated, the material has to pass through many expert hands. These experts, working in a little world all their own, apply their special skills to each printing job as it comes along. The accuracy and high quality of the end products are eloquent testimony to their abilities. Once a manuscript is cleared the processing begins. Tvpe style and layout requirements have to be de cided. Special graphs and tables that will he used have to be taken into account. For reasons of econ omy, long run printing jobs are run on the outside but anv special material that has to he included is prepared internally. Paper must Ire ordered and, if the job is to be printed at the Lab, a schedule must be projected so the machines will not be idle. The Print Shop supervisor, Martin Perkins, true to the heritage of his Scottish homeland, likes to have his machines producing. The wav he and his crew keep their shop is remarkable for the inkv world of printing. When tvpe is set, it must be proofread and approved. Left, a panoramic view of the Detroit Lab's Print Shop staff at work on a typical day. 13 ETC 14280 Technical Draftsman Jim Hemp* seed busily prepares a graph. Dorothy Rhoades of Technical Staff at the Ozalid machine. C- John Lone and Technical Writer Burr French, right, select illustrations. little world of its own (continued) Plates must be made and ready for the print run and all these processes must be meshed to meet the schedule. It falls to John Lane, superintendent of Information Services, not onlv to brine the varied work skills to bear on each print job but also to coordinate these efforts to produce what is needed on time. What emerges, such familiar publications as Petrol eum Refining Developments, Ethvl Technical Notes plus scores of research papers, can be found in Ethvl offices around the country and in the plants and installations of customer companies. They are sent out from Detroit in a steadv stream--a printing load of roughly four and a half million pages this past year. This material is read and used by Ethvl people and by the people who buy Ethyl products. Our cus tomers know that Ethvl produces timelv, accurate reports. It's a maxim of the trade and another mark of Ethyl dependability. For this, all those who ride herd on the myriad printing problems involved de serve a full share of credit. Martin Perkins makes a camera ad* justment before photographing a plate. Jerry Boatz stands watchfully over reproduction machine to which assigned. 14 ETC 14281 Tom Collins, left, checks Pat McLaughlin's latest print order and coordinates with Martin Perkins. Jean Ostrowski picks up a special order from Tom Collins at collating machine. I * The meticulous job of proofreading falls to Burr French and Neva Yanakeff. Al Wilson sprays his artwork with an air brush to fix colors permanently. Prospective copy is sized up by Tom Collins and Ethel House. Martin Perkins and Oan Pannock take a look at the initial proofs. 15 etc 14282 BOOKS I The Genius of America, a McGraw-Hill book, is the work of Saul K. Padover, who in addition to teaching abroad has lectured widely under the auspices of the State Department. In his current volume, he has selected the nineteen men he believes to have had the greatest influence upon the political culture of America. Though his choice may not he com pletely vour own, the men he has chosen all left a stamp upon our special way of life. Mr. Padover has examined them carefully and thoughtfully and presents them both in the light of success and failure. His candidates are George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamil ton, James Madison, John Taylor, John Marshall, John C. Calhoun, Abraham Lincoln, Ralph Waldo Emerson, HeimDavid Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Heim- George. William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, Theodore Roose velt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Phoenix Nest, a compilation of urbane bits and pieces from the popular column of the same name that has delighted readers of The Saturday Reviewt is a new Doubleday entrv, edited by Martin Levin, who performs the same service for the esteemed weekly. The collection, as those familiar with the source can surely testify, is first-rate as it makes light of some of the facets of the contemporary scene. Most of the selections are no more than a paragraph or two, but their essence is considerably more weighty. Among those who take potshots at our times are such witty contributors as Ham* Golden, James Thurber, H. Allen Smith, Ceorge S. Kaufman, Howard Lindsnv. Edmund Wilson, Ben Hecht and Marc Connelly, to give you but a sampling. C. L. Stong has put together for Simon and Schuster a book to delight The Amateur Scientist, not to mention one that will keep him thoroughly occupied from now until the vernal equinox. A collection of projects, experiments and challenges from the pages of The Scientific American, the new volume dips into the fields of astronomy, archaeology, biolog)*, natural sciences, earth sciences, nuclear physics, optics, aerodynamics, electronics and mathematical machines. A whole world of precision and diversion is here for the man who enjovs tinker ing around in his own scientific sphere. Hundreds of drawings illuminate the way. Not recommended for anyone who is all thumbs, it is heartily endorsed for the do-it-yourself space man. Judge Peter Ustinov not merely as a talented actor, which he certainly is, and not as an accomplished mimic and humorist, which he also may claim in his justifiable position of fame, but as a writer working at the writer's trade with a definite ability to use his tools in a most skillful manner. In his first novel. The Loser, the celebrated actor earns the right to be assessed on his writing talent alone, and the assessment is sure to live up to other Ustinov standards. His new book, a product of Little, Brown, is not a gimmick designed to capitalize on his i \ u k. ETC 14283 r tlie work "Quel has lartment. men he political lie commp upon ed them ' in the George t HamilJohn C. Henrv Wiliam i'e Rnose- id pieces lelighted iv entrv, rviee for liar with light of it of the >ut their >se who utors as eorge S. vcht and r a book one that e vernal ft^ilenges volume . natural ynamics, vorld of s tinkerIrawings who is If space- vhich he lumorist, ime. but definite his first .fit to be it is sure product <eon his previous fame in other fields. It is a moving, sensitive story outlining the traced) of a German youth, trained and dis ciplined in the Nazi tradition, and the conflicts that arise for him in altering to live in a non-Hitlerian world. An anthologv of selected writing bv |. Frank Dobie has been issued b\ Little, Brown under the title I'll Tell You A Tale. What Mr. Dobie has in mind are several tales. Texas tales that have the true flavor of folk historv and which, if vou have become tired of the stereotvped cowboys that ride through vour living room on TV. vou will find thoroughly refreshing. The people herein are hard-working, tough-living human beings whose wav of life is rough in the face of in numerable obstacles of the raw country as well as the con flict of human emotions.1 There are no tattoos on the hands of Dobie's cowboys; thev are weather-beaten, industrious men out to do a job. and thev are as authentic as the bicness of their state. it stars Cantinflas with Shirlev Jones and Dan Dailev. it has a cornucopia of the biggest names in show business, amonc them Bing Crosbv. Maurice Chevalier. Greer Carson. Junmv Dmante. Fun Novak, Joe\ Bishop. Ernie Kovacs. Debbie Reynold:-. Edward G. Robinson. Jack Lemmon. Zsa Zsa Gabor and a> man\ others. Pepe is pure and lavish entertainment. Another western. Seven Ways From Sun Down, is not nearly so lavish as the current crop of bic outers, but it holds its own against more star-studded epics of the plains. Starrinc Andie Murphy and Barrv Sullivan as a young deputy and a captuied killer, it moves along at a brisk pace as it examines the relationship between the two men. On the long ride back, the deputy begins to see that die real man he has captured is not at all the brutal killer lie had expected and lie finds him self hard put to believe his prisoner capable nf the act even when he learns that it was his own brother who met death at his hands. Catfjsh and Crystals, a new Doubledav book bv Ernest Kirchten, is a welcome addition to the shelves of Americana. It is an affectionate, colorful, sprawling, rousing, no-holds-barred honev of a book that breathes on even' page with a sense of life, and while it doesn't bemoan the dead past it certainly makes the reader mourn for it. Here is the story of Joseph Pulitzer and the St. Louis Post Dispatch; here is the life of the river and the Gateway to the West; here are gamblers and crooks and wilv politicians and gingerbread palaces; here is nostalgia in a heaping tablespoouful. Ah, were the good old davs as good as thev can seem at the hands of someone articu late and talented? The People and Policies of South Africa is of particular interest at a moment in time when the world looks anxiously at the Dark Continent. An Oxford publication, the second edi tion of Leo Marquard's absorbing text sheds new light on the changing face of Africa, considerably altered since tlie original volume appeared in 1952. Mr. Manjuard's revisions are both timelv and astute in covering such facets of the controversial scene as historical background, people, government, adminis tration, education, religion and colonization. Concise and lucid, the new version presents a comprehensive picture of then and now. As a social studv. a brief historv and a document in modern philosophy of a people, it is worth vour attention. MOVIES TELEVISION The second in a series of three Sunday public affairs telecasts will appear on ABC-TV January 8. Entitled Roundup USA. tlu* program will feature news reporting on a regional basis in much the same format as the same network's series on the election. Campaign Roundup. Another in the C. B. S. Reports programs will be forthcoming in the near future. An examination in depth of the problems of those controversial offshore islands, Quemov and Matsu, die program is a production nf Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly and will be narrated bv Mr. Murrow. Last spring's one-shut special. Sing A/ong With Mitch, will become a regular feature on NBC-TV starting in January. It will feature the bearded musiemaster Mitch Miller leading his crew.of professionals and the TV audience in a twice monthly old fashioned song lest. The Bell Telephone Hour's theme on December 23 is ap propriately titled. The N'ig/if Before Christmas. Singing the snugs of tlu* Christmas season will be Maureen O'Hara, Rise Stevens. John Raitt and the Columbus Bov Choir. What promises to be an unusually fine evening of television entertainment will appear January 8 on CBS-TV. With Moss Hart as host and such vocal stars as Ethel Merman, Eileen Who cares what PEPE is about, which isn't a great deal. What matters about the new Columbia film is that it brings back Farrell and Florence Henderson featured. The Gershwin Years would appear to have all the ingredients for a darn good and lively show. Cantinflas, the internationally famous comedian who was in troduced to American audiences in Around the World in 80 While Dinah Shore vacations, her regular spot will be held Days, in a film so chock full of color and stars and delights down by a New Year's Day program called "Headliners of that it barely-gives you time to say bravo. It all takes place '67." NBC will emplov the talents of George Cobel, Carol between Mexico Citv and Hollywood, with some breathtaking Chunning, Steve Lawrence and Evdie Gorme to provide a stopovers in Las Vegas, Acapulco and Cuernavaca. Although colorful welcome to a brand new vear. f 17 MILESTONES 25 YEARS A \ I.LTIIKK \V. BkKSOiN Manufacturing, Baton Bonne Jaspeii A. Jines Manufacturing, Baton Rouge Ossif. W. .Marks Manufacturing, Baton Rouge 18 Efc 1*285 ETHYL WELCOMES I James Benjamin, chemical engi neer, Detroit Labs, is a University of Illinois graduate. Doss Berry, Jr. joins the Baton Rou^e plant's Purchasing and Traf fic department. Henry Braxton, Jr., chemist. Detroit Labs, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. - m 'M 34-MiJi Catherine Locke, stenographer at tlie Detroit Labs, enjoys swimming and water skiing. James McKechnie is an accountant at the Detroit Labs. He is married and lias a sun. Lorraine Parr, stenographer at the Detroit Labs, is married and has a son. seven vears old. Paul Rosenstock, chemist, De troit Labs, is a graduate of Penn sylvania State University. Charles Talbott is a technical writer and editor for R&D at the Detroit Labs. Barbara Watts, stenographer, Detroit Labs, is married and ha*> a daughter, three years old. -j. 19 ETC 14286 Vince Hanlon, field representative in the Atlanta district, has been nominated to receive the Petroleum Council of Georgia Silver Award for his distinguish ing and outstanding services in the in terests of the industrv for 1960. Tom Hanlon of the Pittsburgh district office made a two-hour "Fuel-engine Re lationship" presentation followed by the "Rumble" tape and question and answer period for a Pittsburgh dealer training school meeting. During the past few months John Kaley of the Philadelphia office has been active giving talks on gasoline and engines at Humble (Esso division) dealer training schools at several New Jersey and Pennsylvania locations; and also made the two-hour "Fuel-engine Re lationship" presentation at Gulf Oil dealer training stations in Newark, New Jersev; and at Philadelphia and Harris burg, Pennsylvania. Bob Kimpton conducted nine talks on "Diagnosis of Engine Failures" and "Fuel System Deposits" for Gulf dealer training managers and dealer trainees at several New York locations; at Greenwich, Con necticut; Cleveland, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Charleston, West Vir ginia; plus previews to the Gulfs South ern Region management in Atlanta. Bob is with the Pittsburgh office. Gene Sattler, New York district office, aminged for and participated in a spe cial three-day tune-up school held for all Esso Pelham, New York division dealer trainers by Don Williams at the Eastern Region's sales auditorium in New York City. Archie Smith, Atlanta district, pre sented the "Casoline Power Clinic" be fore two Esso dealer training groups at their Kingsport, Tennessee training school and also arranged to present the show to each new school group. Vince Hanlon, Atlanta district, pre sented two "Fire Power" shows to a group of Esso Charleston, South Caro lina sales terminal and sales personnel. The shows were arranged bv Fritz Mercer, also of the Atlanta office. Lewis Rumph of the Atlanta district was ven- active recently ^ivin^ demon strations and presentations before per sonnel of several oil companies; He made two Dynaprover presenta tions to Phillips Petroleum Company di vision management and dealers in At lanta; held a "New Opportunities in the Farm Market" meeting for the Phillips Petroleum Atlanta division management and gave the same talk before field per sonnel in Decatur, Alabama; and also participated in the Shell dealer meetings in Anniston and Gadsden, Alabama by presenting the "Rumble" story, the "Fuels and Engine" storv, a talk on "Factors Affecting ON Requirements" and also defined and demonstrated fuel detona tion. NEWS BRIEFS James Haas, son of Arthur Haas of Manufacturing in Baton Rouge, has been awarded the S500 Haskins and Sells Foundation Award in accounting for 1960-61 at Louisiana State University. James is a senior in business administra tion and has a 2.9 scholastic average in accounting and a 2.6 average in all his other subjects. Twenty graduate research fellowships have been awarded by Ethyl Corpora tion for the 1960-1961 academic year, the Company's 24th consecutive vear of such support of higher education. Total value of the grants is approxi mately S60.000. Most of the fellowships provide SI.900 each for living expenses, plus an allowance for tuition and fees. In addition, each university department concerned receives S600 for expenses in connection with the fellow's work. The fellowships are in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, me chanical engineering, industrial engineer ing and science teaching. The latter is at Teachers College, Columbia Univer sity. where Ethvl is a contributor to the Science Manpower Project. The Project selects its fellows from the science de partments of institutions that train sub stantial numbers of future teachers. These fellows are updated in chemistry and phvsics and also develop teaching aids and revised high school courses in those subjects. Upon completion of the fellow ship, thev return to their respective state teachers colleges and establish similar workshops there. Frank McNllv Frank J. McNally, who has been with the Company since 1946. has been up. pointed director of Finance and will be bead of tbe Finance department, accord ing to an announcement made bv B. B. Turner, president ol the Company. Prior to his recent promotion. Frank was tax attorney and assistant secretary. Finance department. Bill Perdue, vice president. Finance and Staff, wilt continue to he responsible for overall financial policy. SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTERS Suggestion awards were nude to the fol lowing employees: New York Office, Sales and Medi cal Departments: W. S. Alexander, $25.00 (On back of die tags indicating car number and weight four columns be printed with lines); J. V. Hanlon, $25.00 (Form SC-32 Rev. 6-59 I0M be revised so that a lighter paper be used as the copy sheets as in the older forms); Jane Hudlemeyer, $15.00 (Our Com pany make up some requisition forms for merchandising equipment to expedite shipment, routing and scheduling of that equipment); G. F. O'Connell, $15.00 (A drawing of the new sludge disposal method be put cm fiunnelboard); Dean A. Painter, $10.00 (A sample can cap 20 ETC 14287 ' been with ' been up. nd will be nt. accord ed by B. B. pIHIV. ion. Frank secretary, t. Finance responsible a ITERS to the fol- vnd MediLEXANDER, indicating .ulumns be Hanlon, 59 10M be cr be used ler forms); Our Comn forms for expedite ling of that ll, S 15.00 40 disposal :d); Dean *le can cap wrench be furnished at all field survev points; Western Union, Canadian Na tional Telegraph, Etlnl and others). Pacific Coast: Anton Baumgartner, $15.00 (Water lines to separator): Cloyd A. Jones, $20.00 (High pressure alarm on column); Myrland Mrzena, $35.00 (Autoclaves angle valve lock nuts); R. MuSGROve, $25.00 (Preform ing of Cal-Rod heaters); Richard Pierce, $10.00 (Anchor for fourth floor hoist); Lawrence J. Reilly, $10.00 (Holder for graduates at Zeolite filters); Henry J. Rooney, $15.00 (Remove part of concrete slab over melt pot); D. J. Spencer, $10.00 (Handle for sliding door at furnace); D. J. SPENCER, $10.00 (Platform on blender scale tank); Bryan Sutton, $10.00 (Rack for tools at wet hopper); Kenneth .Walker, $15.00 (Additional cut off switch on blenders). -. 'BJfRTHS - / Ralph and Donna Lawton--a son. Kenneth. Ralph is a mechanical engi neer in Manufacturing. LORNE and Mary Robb--a soil. JaMES. Lome is plant chemist. Darrell and Joan Stratton-a daugh ter. Veronica. Darrell is a shift tech nician in Manufacturing. Pacific Coast Edward and Mary Ann Warthen-u son. Brian Charles. Ed is a store in vestment clerk in the plant's Manufac turing department. Western Region John and Donna Koehnle-a daugh ter Alicia Jean. |olm is district manager of the San Francisco office. N ROSTRUM^ William Ball uf Public Relations in New York spoke on "The Public Rela tions Aspects of Corporate Giving" at the three-dav meeting ol the Natino.il Conference on Solicitations held m Cleveland, Ohio. Harry Wheeler, Medical m Raton Rouge, u.i'i the bampiet speaker at the fittli annual Supervisorv Conference at Texas Western College in El Paso. Texas. Harrv spoke on "What Have You Got to Sell? The conference was sponsored In the college and the Industrial Manage ment cluli of El Paso. "Potential Automotive Row erplantC wa\ the title ol the paper presented to tin* Fenn College student branch of the Societv of Automotive Engineers in Cleve land. Ohio. The speech was picscuted by John Wintringham, Detroit Labs, who is a member ol SAE's board of di rectors and represented the president of the S.\E at this meeting. ^pCTRACURRIcblAR^ Central Region Al and Priscilla GuLis-a daughter. Alexandra. Al is an account representa tive in the Cleveland district. Sarnia Ken and Ann CooKE-a son, Ken neth. Ken is an operating technician in the plant's Manufacturing department. Harold and Anita Dowswell-u daughter, Maureen. Harold is shift technician in Manufacturing. Dick and Marjorie FouBisTER-a son. David. Dick is an operating technician in the Manufacturing department. George and Jean Grabove-u daugh ter, Kimberley. George is a control analyst in Manufacturing. Bob and Pauline Hardy--a daughter. Paula. Bob is a technician in the plant's Manufacturing department. Terry and Gus Hungle--a daughter. ` Lisa Marie. Terry is a secretary in the Manufacturing department. Bob and Pat Knowles-u son, Randy. Bob is a technician in the Manufacturing department. Gordon Hughmakk, Engineering & Mathematical Sciences in Baton Rouge, conducted the first session of the Univer.sitv of Delaware s chemical engineer ing research seminars. Subject of his presentation was "Mechanics of Flow and Heat Transfer in Two-Phase Sys tems." Sam Henderson and Lou Snyder of Chemical Research & Development in Baton Rouge were co-authors of two technical papers that were presented at the Analytical Chemists Conference in Detroit. Sam presented "A Rapid Photo metric Method for the Determination of Triethyllead. Diethvllead and Inorganic Lead Ions and Its Application to the Determination of Tetraorganolead Com pounds"; and Lou. gave "A New Field Method for the Determination of Organo Lead Compounds." "Absorber Stripper Calculations with a Digital Computer" was the title of the technical paper presented by Bernard Sobel, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences in Baton Rouge, at the meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bernard's co-author was Phil Davis, who is also at the Baton Rouge plant. Four Baton Rouge plant girls will serve in important posts tor 1961 in the Desk and Derrick Club of Baton Rouge. Doris D'Aquin of Medical was elected treas urer; Ruth Borland, also of Medical will serve her second sear of a two-vear term on the hoard; Martha Monroe of Research & Development was eleeteil to the hoard of directors; and Dora PEPE of Stores, current president, will become senior member of the hoard. The New York section of the American Chemical Society has appointed Chris topher Vogel of Public Relations in New York as Publicity Chairman. Chris is also a member ol the Publicity Com mittee of the Chemical Industry Council of New York and is Club Activities Edi tor of the Percolator magazine pub lished bv the Chemists' club. Notice Bound volumes of the ETHYL News and Bulletin Board will he available at cost to Ethvl employees again this year. The price lor the I960 edition, including the cost of imprinting vour name in gold on the cover, will he $2.$5 for the News and $3.20 for the BB. Orders should he sent to Public Relations Dept., Room 1753. Ethvl Corporation, 100 Park Ave nue, X. Y. C. not later than January 20. Be sure to include vour check made pay able to Ethvl Corporation. ; 21 i ETc 14288 A * Detroit millionaire party, guests started with a million dollar stake of "funny money" and attempted to run it up at games of chance. At top left, George Port, chairman of the societv, conducts a lively Chuck-A-Luck game, while, top right, cigarette girl Carole Polkinghorn waits upon a chooser Phil Thomas. The Black Jackdealer, bottom left, is Anne Pearson; her customer, Layt Wilkins. Bottom right, the power of concentration. oo etc 14289 ! to run \-Luek k Jack nation. TORCH TOPPER Above left, Dick Scales, Detroit Laboratories gen eral manager, bands the Company's contribution to this vear's Torch Drive Chairman, E. D. Steinke. The average contribution this year was a healthy S25.94. Bv getting; over 90 percent participation, the 1960 Torch Drive Committee exceeded last years total substantially. MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT Ruth Warren, a nurse at the Houston Plant, wrote an article featured in the September issue of Indl'stiual Xuises JociiXAL. Under the title Orienta tion of Student Surscs to Industry, Mrs. Warren's story described a recent Compam-sponsored plant tour for senior nursing students in which problems of nurses in industry were discussed. ETC 14290 etc 14291 rations at fght, Boss idezande, e horclev. erintendoratories, mtingent. '.sored inmainlv of recently kers' Biil group to the total DOUBLE DAY To celebrate the recent opening of Ethvl of Canada's new ethvl chloride--ethvlene dichloride unit, the Canadian companv was host at a luncheon for some 60 prominent civic and industrial leaders in the flourishing Chemical Valiev. Ethvl Corpora tion's President B. B. Turner and Bill Perdue, sice . president. Finance and Staff, were in attendance at the ceremonies, which also marked the occasion of the fourth anniversarv of the dav the Sarnia plant went on stream. A model of the new facilitv was displaced for the guests, who were addressed bv Alan Tullv, president of Ethvl of Canada. Photographed above are, left to right, Dee Diedrich, Sarnia plant manager, B. B. Turner, Bill Perdue and Allan Tullv, NEW LAB S DEAN PIN AND PAPEB Flanked by Norm Pugh, left, and Gil de Malvilain, right, of the Yonkers Laboratorv, Dean Painter Below at left is Larrv Matthews, Southern Region field representative, who recently passed his 20th checks the plans for a TEL analysis hood, Dean has anniversary of service with the Companv. Southern been named assistant manager of the new Gasoline Regional Manager Bob Douglass, right, was on hand Testing facilitv in Long Beach, California now being for the occasion to present Larrv with the appropriate readied. Much of the testing equipment for the new pin and certificate and to help Larrv and his Etln l Lab is being assembled in Yonkers for later shipment. co-workers hail this significant milestone. ETC 14292 TULSA TOUR Lam' Reis. Tulsa district manager, explains to five high school seniors some of the operations of our business in his locale as part of a program for students in the area. Sponsored hv the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and the local Desk and Derrick chapter. Oil Men anti Women for a Din/, gives south a chance to observe a vital industrv at work. tastie until midnight. Relow leit. a group sits down to the festive hoard; couples facing each other at end of table are, left, the Mike Rcmondinns, and at right the Larrv Stinsons. Awaiting their slabs of beef are Dick and Connie Acles, below right. On the opposing page, the celebrants, left to right, are ]oc Kieninger, Mars' and Willis Zutaut and Rita Kieniiu'er. ETC 14293 ETC 14294 ETC 14295