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CENTRAL REGIONAL OFFICE ETC 11821 ETWYL bulletin BOARD ;i948 etc 11822 ETC 1182.1 ETC 11824 The supper was delicious. Enjoying it in the picture above are Mitch Kapron, oi Chem Research, Rita /osetf. of Finance, Mari Lynn Koeisch. secretary to ChucJc HawJey. Dorothy Rhoades, secretary to lack Macauiey and Research Engineer Bob Spanqenbetq. ) Detroit Labs Celebrate 20th Anniversary In Motor City Ethyl Corporation's record of the past two decades was recalled and the Company's success in the future was predicted at ceremonies in our De troit Research Laboratories marking the 20th anniversary of the estab_ lishment of the Labs in that city. | The three men who have served as I President of Ethyl Corporation -- Charles F. Kettering, Earle W. Webb and Edward L. Shea--were the main speakers. All three expressed convic tion that the entry of a competitive antiknock compound on the market in 1948 would result in Ethyl becom ing a stronger enterprise. Discussing what competition may do for us, not to us, President Shea declared, "I believe that we will be better as a result of competition coming into the field. We've got to be better. I believe that five years 3 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY from now we can meet and you will of high-type personnel in developing agree that as good as we are now the organization and the policies of we'll be better then." fair and equitable treatment by which In tribute to the men and women the Company has been run have re of the Laboratories staff, he said that sulted in a reputation that is truly 1 a great part of the responsibility for remarkable. The past conduct of the the Company's future success will business has laid a firm foundation rest in their hands. for our future. Terming it a phenomenal record He named his predecessors, Messrs. that ``Ethyl" antiknock compound Webb and Kettering as the two men costs customer companies so much "most optimistic about the Com less today than it did when it first pany's future," and praised Mr. Webb appeared on the market, the President for his leadership in bringing Ethyl said that keeping the cost of our Corporation to the position it holds product low is one of three essentials today. Mr. Shea also commended the for the future. "Ways and means" men who have served as members of also must be found, he said, to make the Ethyl Board of Directors, stating "Ethyl" antiknock compound better that if it had not been for their and to produce new products in our "courage and stick-to-it-iveness we bread and butter line. wouldn't be here tonight." He told the Research gathering that Mr. Webb also praised past and during the four months he has been present members of the Board of j President of Ethyl, he has been Directors during the brief talk which i pleased and even astonished at the he made, for their leadership and good will of the petroleum industry willingness "to go ahead in the face 5 toward our Company. The selection of things that looked pretty dark in X j i Ethyl's lirst President Charles F. Kettering, in his typically intormal style, sits cross-legged at i right, while regaling his listeners. Enjoying the anecdotes are, Irom lelt. Board Chairman Earle \ W. Webb. Charles L. McCuen, Ethyl Director and a vice president o1 General Motors, lack Macauley, Director o1 Research, and Bob Stevenson, Research Engineer. i <i i i i iP i i iir*0 jrr K ic & .4 ia L rfc v m i 4 fii i ETC 11826 At the bu/fef sup per, Engineers Howard Hesse/berg, Merrill An derson and George Betker help them selves to the ap petizing dishes. years gone by." He gave much credit for the desire to go ahead to Mr. Kettering, from whom "the inspira tion stemmed." Praising the Ethyl men who moved from Yonkers, he said they have made the Laboratories "an institution of which all its members are proud." While acknowledging that there are many individuals worthy of being singled out for their contribution to the success of the Company, Mr. Webb said that without the work and cooperation Ethyl Corporation has had from all the people who work for the Company, it couldn't have come as far as it has--"and I think we've only come part of the way." "Boss Ket" kept his audience in a continuous state of laughter by recall ing the many now humorous incidents that attended the search for and discovery of a successful antiknock compound. He gave a complete his tory of the early knock research and said he is "more enthusiastic than ever about the future of `Ethyl' gasoline." Mr. Kettering said he did not think the fact that some patents were expir ing was of any special concern at this time. "I think patents are very im portant in getting a company started, but after that, just plain, good, intelligent management is all that is necessary." "Boss Ket" cited some of the many advantages of "Ethyl" antiknock compound and said our product should become even more necessary as engines of higher compression make their appearance. Earl Bartholomew, General Man ager of the Laboratories, served as toastmaster, introducing the speakers and other honored guests. Among 5 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY them were Charles L. McCuen, newly elected Ethyl Director and a Vice President of General Motors, and Ethyl Vice President Graham Edgar. In his introductory remarks, Earl Bartholomew spoke of the events of 20 years ago when the transfer of the Research Laboratories from Yonkers to Detroit got under way. He noted that nine men, who helped get the Laboratories started in Detroit are still with Ethyl today. Those nine are Ben Brewster, Hume Chenault, Julian Frey, Chuck Hawley, Joe Mescher, Bob Mescher, Bill Schulze, Cleve Walcutt, and the General Manager, himself. He mentioned that T. A. Eoyd, Tom Midgley's closest assistant dur ing the many years of early knock research, had been invited to attend the 20th anniversary observance but was unable to come. Among those present were John M. Campbell, Mr. Boyd's recent successor as Head of the GM Organic Chemistry Depart ment, and Wheeler Lovell, of his staff. 6 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY Although the 20th anniversary of the transfer of the Laboratories to Detroit was in November, the cere monies at the Laboratories were de layed until December 10, due to a series of November and early Decem ber meetings that made many of the principal participants unavailable at the exact anniversary time. Three hundred of the Laboratories' 350 employes attended the program in spite of a severe snowstorm. The celebration got under way in midafternoon when the speakers and guests, after a luncheon at the Recess Club in Detroit's Fisher Building, were conducted on a tour of the Labs. A buffet supper was served in the cafeteria for guests and employes and a program of Ethyl motion pictures was shown in the road test garage for those who had already eaten or were waiting to eat. The evening speaking program also was held in the garage. Ray Faller, Frank Fricker, and Chuck Hawley were in charge of arrange ments for the anniversary celebration. ETC 11828 Jim Hyland Elected Ethyl-Dow Secretary At a meeting of the Eoard of Directors of the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company on November 14, 1947, James A. Hyland was elected Secretary of the Company. Jim joined Ethyl Corporation as an auditor more than 15 years ago, after broad experience with General Motors Corporation both here and abroad. In 1934, shortly after the organization of Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company, he became Comptroller of the new Company and was responsible for the establishment of its accounting system. In 1936 Jim became Assistant Treasurer of Ethyl-Dow. He will con tinue to handle this job along with his new responsibilities. How fax down did the deepest producing well go? See insert. Tond farewells were said lo Mrs. loyce Welch on December S when Ethyl Iriends gathered ;n the home ol the Boss Biles, shown al the extreme Ielt. Boss is Supersisos ot Purchasing, Receiving and Shipping and loyce worked in Purchasing before leaving lor her home town ol Kansas City lo intanticipate. loyce is seated in the middle ol the group, surrounded by, from Ielt tstanding just behind Mrs. Rilel. Mrs. Bob O'Meara (the former Margaret Garvin, ol the Chem Labi; Eddie Welch, husband ot the guest ot honor; Line Cole, ol the stockroom; Bob O'Meara, Purchasing Assistant; the Wils Souters -- he's a member ot Shipping and fleceiving; Marion Townsend, ol Purchasing; and Herb loyce. etc 1.1-82 9 Vice President John Schaefer endorser the Management Development Program, and urges management to cooperate wholeheartedly. Gathered tor the final organization meeting are: around the table. (1. to t.) Harry Wheeler. S. A. LeCroy, John Ward. Jimmy Vernon. Tom Seybold, John Schaeter. Clint Bond, Lester White. John Furr, Gust Larson, and Leonard Tomlin; against the wall at right -- Wallace Armstrong. Harry O'Connell, A. C. Burdick, Dr. R. C. A. Bock. G/ertn Hayes. Bob Asbury and Ed. Kurt. Looking over Harry Wheeler's right shoulder is Bill Boss. Next to him are Tom Davis and Steve Henry. Back of John Schaeter is Bill Henry on the left and Ed. Acker, right sitting by the blackboard are Lew Barnum and Tom Mixon. Baton Rouge Management Starts Idea Exchange Our plant at Baton Rouge should be one of the best places to work in the whole country when the Management Development Program, which got under way in October, swings into full stride. Men of management, from first-line foremen up, will hold a series of planned conferences to discuss sub jects of vital interest to everyone at the plant. They will exchange ideas, discuss their mutual problems, and work them out in the light of their com bined experience which represents a sum total that one man couldn't gain in 100 years. These meetings will afford an opportunity for the men to gain an understanding and apprecia- 8 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY tion of each other and of their mutual interests and aims, that will go a long way toward making everybody's job easier and pleasanter. The subjects to be discussed were chosen by the men, themselves, who asked Tom Seybold, of the Employe Relations Department, to map out a program. With the help of Huber Griffin, also of Employe Relations, Tom prepared the basic material for the No. 1 subject on their list--Fun damentals of Supervision. The' pro gram, based upon wide experience, deals with the broad principles and proven rules of human relations. It is adaptable to all personnel regardless of department or location. etc 11 ti 3 0 The plan got under way in Baton Rouge last October when Tom pre sented to the conference leaders the material which will serve as a guide for holding these meetings for the other management men at the plant. The 12 leaders chosen to head the discussion groups were trained in the techniques of conference leadership-- techniques which they worked out and put into practice right in their own group during the 25-hour course which extended over a three-week period. John Ward, Training Supervisor at Baton Rouge, is in charge of the entire Management Development Pro gram at the plant. Conference leaders, who have already introduced the pro gram to 200 men with their first series of meetings, are: Ed Alford, Bill Edwards, Jack Furr, Walter Kinzer, Gust Larson, S. A. LeCroy, Pud Marix, Leonard Tomlin, Jimmy Ver non, Harry Wheeler and Les White. The men at Baton Rouge have shown a keen interest in the program and a desire to gain information and training in many fields of vital im portance to the success of their jobs and the Company. After the first series of conferences on the Funda mentals of Supervision has been com pleted, others will be planned on other subjects which the men wish to explore. Detroiters Top Chest Quota Civic-minded employes'of the Re search Laboratories at Detroit dug deep during the Community Chest drive in Southern Oakland County last Fall to exceed by almost onethird their unofficial quota. The 174 employes who made their Red Feather contributions at the Labs, instead of at their homes, gave a total of $1,659.50--an average of almost $10 a person. The Labs had no quota, but Fritz Schroeter, Labo ratories chairman for the drive, and his 11 solicitors were out to top the 51,280.50 contributed by employes in 1946. And did--by almost 5400. Frank Fricker, Business Manager of the Laboratories, who served as gen eral chairman of the Southern Oak land campaign, was both pleased and proud of this generous response of Ethyl personnel. It was support like theirs which enabled Frank and his co-workers on the drive to exceed their quota by more than 55,000. The 11 Laboratories solicitors who helped Fritz Schroeter put the cam paign over the top were: Fred Dykstra, "Cap" Hall, Louise Hennessey, John Murphy, Joyce Myron, Helen Peckham, Don Remter, Gerald Stanke, Margaret Takish, George Vaughn and Laurel Wilkinson. Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson, photographer: Chicago: Mary Hughes; Cincinnati: Iota Sheppard; Dallas: Ann Setfridge: Dayton: Elma Griffith; Deepwater: Rudolph F. Williams; Detroit: Fritz Schroeter, Helen Donovan, Florence Held, Joyce McDonald, Jean Vincent, photog rapher, and Phyllis Wilhelm; Gasoline Testing Division: John Clifford Pope; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Charles O. White; MexicoCentral America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Betty Beach, Yvonne Guertin, Erma Harris, Ellen Svendsen, Edith Wilson; San Bernardino: Rollin E. Gish, Jr.; Seattle: Aili Koskela; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson: Ethyl-Dow: Jack Dooher. 9 BULLETIN BOARD-JANUARY ETC 11831 Nuptials in New York Wedding Bells will ring out m /une tor Gerry Harms, secretary to Jim Baldwin, Chief Safety Engineer ot the Eastern Region. Gerry's engagement to Fred Schroeder ot Jamaica, L. was announced at a tea given by her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Barclay -- f h e bride is the former Helene Larson, of New York Purchasing. Their wedding was reported in the December B.B. ,-m\ i s ml Betty TorJcelson, of Statistical Research in New York, has also found her one and only. He is Ernest Schmidt, Jr. of Baldwin, Long Island. They'll be wed this year. Meanwhile Betty's sporting a beautiful diamond. ETC 11832 Lee Armstrong Goes Pelican Lee W. (Army) Armstrong who has charge of all water-borne foreign drum shipments for Ethyl Corpora tion, has set up headquarters in New' Orleans where he will continue to supervise the shipping of our anti knock compound. From the Deepwater Plant in New Jersey, where Army worked for more than 20 years, shipments were routed through Atlantic Eastern Seaboard and Gulf ports. With the completion of the drumming plant in Baton Rouge, most foreign shipments will be made from Gulf ports, principally New Orleans. Army's responsibility for the hand ling of our product during loading and storing entails the instruction of pier personnel and ships' officers in the safe handling of "Ethyl" drums. Since they are deck freight, all the drums must be expertly and securely lashed to prevent rolling. Before moving to New Orleans, Army went down on a business trip, investigated the housing situation and closed a deal for what he thought was a very nice home. Eut moving into it sight unseen didn't strike Mrs. Army's fancy. The news filled her with dis may, and she filled him with mis givings. Sure enough, it turned out that she didn't like the place--not at first. By now, however, she has become reconciled to the fact that she just can't duplicate her home on the Dela ware anywhere in New Orleans, and finds that the South and her new home have a charm all their own. 11 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY SIGNS OF PROGRESS \ * a 1 4 Rumbling Trucks/ swinging cranes and whizring tools speak noisi// oi the progress that is being made on the huge expansion program underway at i i Salon Rouge. The heavy-duty trucks, shown above and at left, rumble back and forth carrying dirt from the hili north of the plant to the huge hollow that is being filled in on the north eastern edge. As soon as the ground t work is completed construction will 4 i1 begin. t, j When the Medical and Personnel Building fbelowj emerges from (he scaffolding you'll see a streamlined face brick front with limestone coping and trim. The main entrances * will have granite and marble facing. Members of the Medical and Personnel staff should be walking through them to their new offices sometime next summer. ETC 11834 California Keglers Beat Michigan jntersectional bowling competition began within the Ethyl family this season, when five-man teams of the Detroit and San Bernardino Research Laboratories squared off against each other--via the mails. The San Berdu quintet were victors in the six-game series by 107 pins. To show their fighting spirit, the Californians have offered to give the Detroiters another crack at them later in the season. The tourney-by-mail was conducted late in November, over a two-week period. There were many' anxious moments at both Labs until the post man arrived with the scores of the opposing team. For tournament pur poses, the San Berdu team counted its scores in the regular City Handicap League on each of two Tuesdays, while the Detroit gang used its scores in the Ethyl's Men League on two successive Thursdays. Art Stahlheber, of San Berdu, copped six-game high honors with a total of 1,127--537 on the first night and 590 on the second. All other indi vidual laurels, however went to Rollie Ostrander, of Detroit. His 604 on the second night of competition was good for three-game high honors. He was his own closest rival for individual high game, with a 227 the second night--four pins better than he had bowled the previous week. Members of the teams and their sixgame totals are: Art Stahlheber, 1127; Dwight Gruwell, 1091; Larry Stinson, 1023; Claude Guinn, 1002; and Ray Seymour, 890. Detroit--Rollie Os trander, 1100; Bill D'Arcy, 1009; Ed Johnson, 1004; Merrill Anderson, 997; and Durwood Rossman, 906. This first match was so successful that the Research teams are inter ested in lining up a three- or four-way match, with Baton Rouge and New York bowlers included. How about it, keglers? New Officers for San Berdu Society Two new officers--Carol Simcock and Dean Painter--were elected to the steering committee of the San Bernar dino Ethyl Society at the December meeting. They take office this month, and both will serve two-year terms. Carol, who was transferred to San Berdu from the Detroit Labs last spring, represents the North-WingEngineering group. She replaces Mike Remondino, one of the charter mem bers of the steering committee. It was at Mike's suggestion that the Ethyl Society was organized in San Bernar dino in 1946, following his return to the West Coast after three and a half years in Detroit. He served as its first chairman. Dean, elected to represent the Gas Test Lab, takes over from Bob Adams. Bob has also served on the steering committee since it was organized and was publicity officer for the Society. Other members of the original com mittee who continue in office are Marjorie Poindexter, Ray Seymour and Whitie Gruwell. How fat down is the deepest oil shaft ever sunk? See insert. 13 BULLETIN BOARD-JANUARY Helen Grella is the new typewriter tapper in N. Y. Stenographic. Lyn, who has lived on Long Island all her life, commutes daily be tween Wesf Hempstead and the Chrysler Building. Her first position, after graduation from Hempstead High, was with the Franklin Shops, Inc., a local department store. Later she attended Browne's Business School. Barbara Burch, receptionisf in (he Tulsa Sales office. has settled down with Ethyl alter a varied school career. She attended high schools in Tulsa, Wichita, Kansas and Laramie, Wyoming. After graduation, Barbara enrolled at AH Saints' Jr. College in Vicksburg, Missis sippi, and on completion of her course (here went on to Tulsa University. Barbara is a mem ber of Phi Mu sorority. Margaret Ellis, statistical typist in N. Y. Finance, happily taps out an order at her desk in the Chrysler Building. Margie, as she prefers to be called, came to Ethyl from the Ward Saving Company. A graduate of William Cullen Bryant High, she attended New York University and Queens Plaza Business School. Margie lives in Jackson Heights. Long Island. ETC 11836 milestones CO BY There's another diamond in the serv ice pin of Charlie Gamhrill, who heads the Analytical Section of Chem Research in Detroit. This month he completes his 20th year with Ethyl. On a cold day in January, 1928, Charlie trekked to the old Chem Lab in Yonkers to start work as an ana lyst. When the Chem Lab moved out to Detroit in 1932, Charlie went along. He continued as an analyst, and in 1936 was appointed head of the Analytical Section. Before moving to Michigan, Charlie had spent most of his life in the East. He was bom in Baltimore and at tended the University of Maryland. With his B.S. degree under his arm, Charlie went to work for the Bureau of Mines in Pittsburgh as an analyst. His next position took him to Niagara Falls, New York, where he was with Mathieson Alkali Works for several years before joining Ethyl. Charlie holds two chairmanships in the American Society for Testing Materials and is also chairman of the employment committee of the Amer ican Chemical Society. He belongs to the Association of Analytical Chem ists and the Engineering Society of Detroit. Charlie is an amateur philatelist, specializing in United States stamps. He also builds model railroads, and in this gets a helpful hand from his 12-year-old son, Johnny. Last summer Charlie Gambrill the Gambrills--Charlie, Mrs. Charlie and Johnny--attended the convention of the National Model Railroad Association in Los Angeles. Anne Caplan has the distinction of being the first woman hired by Chemical Research in Detroit. That was 15 years ago this month, when she started to work as secretary to George Calingaert. She has been filling that job ably and well ever since. In New York, a diamond sparkles in the service pin of Lillian Johnson/ secretary to Vice President Graham Edgar, who celebrates her 15th Ethyl Anne Capian L_ ETC 11837 Lillian Johnson birthday this month. Born in New York, Lillian has lived in the metropolitan area all her life. She attended Julia Richman High, and worked for the Buffalo Weaving and Belting Company before coming to Ethyl to work as secretary to Graham Edgar. She has enjoyed watching the Company expand from floor to floor in the Chrysler Building as our business increased and the staff grew larger. When vacation time rolls around, Lillian puts on her seven league boots and heads for the deep South or the islands beyond the sea. She has done a good deal of traveling, and especially likes Cuba. Marking their 10th Ethyl birthdays are two members of the Manufactur ing Department--Judson Biehle of New York and Edwin Booth of Deep water--and Donald Forsdick of the Specialties Operations in New York. 'Round the fifth milestone go Lor raine Hahn of Finance in Deepwater, Fred Green of Detroit Engineering, and three New Yorkers--James Lonergan of Finance, and Joseph Schwanzer and Frances Wege of Sales. Hebert and Porch Aid Safety Program Ever on the alert for new ways to be of service, the Pelican Safety Associaof Baton Rouge is now helping to eliminate traffic accidents in that city through a two-fold program of co operation and advice to the police jury for safe handling of traffic during the widening of Scenic Highway and the organization of a school safety program. Two Ethylites, Carroll Hebert and Mike Porch, are active in this accident prevention work. Carroll is chairman of the Traffic Safety Committee, and Mike heads the subcommittee on School Safety. Mike's group is working out a pro gram for training safety patrols, made up of students from each school. All 16 BULLETIN BOARD --JANUARY children who take the training are volunteers, and must have their par ents' consent. They go through a series of talks, movies and traffic in struction, learning to handle traffic-- both student and automobile--at crossings near their school. The pro gram conforms with standards of the National Safety Council and the American Automobile Association. When the children have completed their training, and are qualified to handle traffic, civic clubs and the P.T.A. will furnish hats, rain coats and other equipment they will need. Throughout the country, school pat rol units have established admirable safety records. In Chicago alone, an estimated 5,000 lives are saved yearly. etc 11838 Beverly Duckworth is a new stenographer on the Southern Regional otiice start. Oklahoma born and bred. Bev attended Will Rogers High ;n Tulsa and Oklahoma A. <S M. College in S/i/Jwarer. She went on to the Oklahoma School zl Business to learn about the fine points of shorthand and typing. Tulsa-born Miriam Border has swapped her studies for a secretarial position in our South ern Regional office. Miriam attended Tulsa. Columbia and Northwestern Universities. She is a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. During the war. Miriam spent six months in the Mid-Pacific theater with a US0 entertain ment unit, giving the boys a look at the brighter -- and prettier -- side ot life. Eloue Hurt brings eight years of experience to her work as secretary in our Tulsa office. orn in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Eloise followed up her studies at Henryetta High with a year at Tulsa Business College, where she added the finishing touches to her "Girl Friday" tech nique. Eloise came to Ethyl from the Shrimpton Equipment Company, before that was with National Mutual Casualty Company. She lives in Tulsa with her husband, /ohn. ETC 11839 A group oi metr makers pause to co ofi between sets. Fro left to right are Mr Wils Hancock. fa Schroefer, Mr. and Mr Bob Spangenbert Chartie Kass. Mr. George Betker. Wi Hancock. George Beth and Mrs. Kass. Swing Your Partner Abandoning jive, the rumba and sweet swing, a hundred or more am bitious Detroiters gathered 'round for a good old-fashioned square dance last November 25. For the sake of the uninitiated, a top-notch caller explained the intrica cies of the grapevine twist and other complicated-looking patterns, proving that it's all in knowing-how. Rhyth mic music was supplied by an old-time orchestra. Intermissions found many a weary whirler relaxing in the cafeteria, en joying cider and doughnuts. The country-style entertainment was such fun that plans are underway for one or two more square dances. How far down does the average oil well go? See insert. Plenty of Bucks, No Dough -- (We Mean Doe) The primitive instinct rose in the boys and girls of Ethyl's Detroit Labs like sap in the trees when the deer season opened in Michigan last November. Bundled in woolen the color of a flaming sunset, and carrying enough rifles and ammunition to put down a revolution, they made tracks for tall timber, home of the white tailed buck. Tramping through snow, panting and aching they arrived in the north woods, full of high hopes and wondering just how they'd cart all the bucks back to Detroit. Each had his or her own version of how to bag the prize head of antlers. Well, from all reports--we don't mean rifle shots, either--they all got back safely, despite severe weather which had much of northern Michigan snowbound. But there is mighty little talk about how they got their bucks home. In fact, we heard of only two killings. Mabel Gillig, whose husband, Emil, heads the Instrument Section, bagged one the first morning out. The other was downed by Bill Book, of Pop Mescher's machine shop. 18 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC 11840 The frontier fleiining Company, as you can see. will go to any lengths to convince mo torists oi the superiority of Frontier Sthyl gaso line. The cartoon shown here appeared in Fron tier's publication, "flar in' To Go." and though the feat depicted belongs to the Buck flogers era. the message behind it is timely. J. W. "Dixie Bell" Devoll, right, and Jimmie Prestridge, brother oi C. H. Prestzidge of Sodium, hold up their quick and countless catch irom the Petite Amite fliver. On the 14 foot, 7 inch string are goggle-eye, bream and bass who obviously didn't have to be strung along--two and three at a time they latched on to the water cricket and spinner menu inside oi 4 hours. 19 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY ETC U841 CUPID SCORES IN BATON ROUGE Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Hill, pictured amid Jiiies and chrysanthemums at (heir wedding reception. The bride is the former Viola Varnado, a member oi (he Production PJanning Section. Mr. and Mrs. George Woest, an Ethyl couple, smile /or the cameraman. George is Sodium Lab Supervisor and Mrs. George, the former Sue Carbo, is back at her desk in the Finance Department. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Manuel cut into their weddinq cake. Doris, whose last name used to be Forbes, has resiqned from the Production Pianning Section to spend full time Jceeping house* for her husband, who is still a member of that section. ETC 11842 Discussing pl^ns ot the Ethyl Athletic Association in Baton flouge aie officers and committee chairmen who p/an an active sociai and ath/etic program tor the coming year. Standing are Ben Surge, executive secretary and Wallace Mixon, chairman oi the house committee, looking over the shouiders oi Treasurer Bill Morris, Vice President H. O. White and President Harry Demouy, while / W. Marts (tar left), Ath/etic Committee chairman, looks on. At riqht are J. B. Alexander, chairman ot the constitution and by-laws committee and "Tinker" Harrell, entertainment com mittee chairman. Not present tor the picture were Frank Padgitt, secretary and R. H. Moles. finance committee chairman. The Stork Club Font brand new models, one pink and three blue, have been delivered to Ethyl families. Emily Estelle's debut on November 6, to the tune of eight pounds, four ounces, was announced by her parents, Estelle and Don Martyn. Emily has a four-year-old brother, Donald. Their dad is an engineer in Chem Research. Richard Alan is the new member of the Cipolla household. Joe and Emily, better known as mom and pop, welcomed their first child on Novem ber 22. Joe is an engineer at the Detroit Research Labs. Thanksgiving Day brought a double celebration to the home of Mary and Ed Johnson with the arrival of Mark Ashwell. Mark, who weighed in at seven pounds, has dark hair and blue eyes. His dad heads the Chemical Engineering Section of Chem Re search in Detroit. Paul Frederick, tipping the scales of the East Orange (N. J.) Hospital at seven pounds nine ounces, arrived on December 6 to make his home with the Paul Merrigans Young Paul is their first child. His dad is with the Specialties Operations in Newark. The American Automobi/e Association is suggesting the use ot personal reflector lights which pedestrians could wear at night on rheir wrists or attached to some part ot their clothing where motorists could see them. 21 BULLETIN BOARD- JANUARY ETC 11843 The product o/ fbree-monfhs' patience is shown above, on the chins oi Art Stahlheber. Claude Guinn and "Whitey" Gruwell. of fhe San Serdu Lab. This heavy-duty chin shrubbery was grown fo add color to the Covered Wagon Days ce/ebrafion. The Pony Express Rides Again The '`good old days" of covered wagons, pioneers and pony express riders galloping across the plains was the therrie of a three-day celebration in San Bernardino last October. One big attraction was a ride cover ing 40 miles of the old pony express route, from Victorville to San Bernar dino. Seven riders, using a total of 15 horses, pounded along the trail through Cajon Pass and the Joshuatree country and came within 45 minutes of tying the Santa Fe Super Chief's running time for carrying mail between the two cities. The last rider was so far ahead of schedule that he had to wait an hour before climbing into the saddle, to avoid spoiling the ceremonies that climaxed the re enactment. Among the people who lined the streets to see the two-hour "Covered Wagon Days" parade was Ethyl's Bob Adams, who took the accompany ing pictures. As you can see, some of the onlookers--energetic folk and youngsters--climbed to roof tops for a better view. Covered wagons, bewhiskered "pioneers." and pony express riders were part ot the Iwo-hour parade recalling early days in the wooly West. ETC 11844 I ethyl bulletin board by and for Ethyl employes nubJ/shed by the Ethyl Corporation. 405 Lexinqton Avenue. New York. New York: inward L. Shea.' President; Sfan/ey T. Cross/and, Vice-president and Treasurer; Julian C. Gonzaies. Secretary. Marceline Marquis. Editor Understand Rivalry and you understand America by Ed Thorgersen Whenever sports Ians get together, sooner or later the talk gets around to famous upsets. Well, the upset that gave me one of the greatest thrills was the 1934 Rose Bowl game, when Coach Lou Little's football squad from Columbia gave a heavily-favored Stanford eleven the surprise of its life. Stanford was loaded with power that year with a record that showed wins over the top teams of the West. Columbia, on the other hand, had been trampled by Princeton, and lacked reserves. The game was figured to be so one-sided there was trouble selling tickets. Came the kickoff and the dawn! For it was Columbia forcing the play . . . tackling viciously . . . driving deep into enemy territory. And by halftime, the little Columbia eleven led the big, unbeatable Indians, 7-0. In the second half, Stanford came back with everything it had. Time after time, the Western backs plunged deep into Columbia territory until it was first down for Stan ford on Columbia's three yard stripe. Four plays later, it was Columbia's ball on their own one yard line! The kids they said "didn't have a chance'' had upset the experts! What made that upset possible? Competition - rivalry . . . the old, typically American trait of wantingto be betterthan the next fellow, the trait that is evident in everything Americans do -- from playing football to making better petroleum products. Yes, just as competition brings you great sports events, competition brings you the latest developments in petro leum. For over 34,000 individual oil companies--producing, refining, trans portation, distributing and retail sales --are in this competitive business and there is plenty of rivalry to bring you the best gasoline and lubricants in the world--at the world's lowest prices-- and meet demands for more and more petroleum products. That's why it is so true there's a plus for you in Petroleum's Progress. Pr'nted in U. S. A. 23 BULLETIN BOARD--JANUARY I I 1I I r. wrey rererat ETC ETC 11846 A% fcft Developers of "Ethyl'* fluid -- These three men, Thomas MidgJey, jx., Charles F. Kettering and T. A. Boyd, worked long info many nights searching for the elusive answer to what makes an engine JcnocJc and /ina/ly came up with '`Ethyl" antiknock compound. "Ethyl" Meets the Test At 6:00 a.m. on the morning of Feb ruary 2nd. 1923, a small group of sleepy, anxious-eyed men met at a gasoline station in Dayton, Ohio. By the time the thin, winter sun looked down upon Daytonians hurrying to work, these men, who the night before had poured their hearts, hopes and futures along with a new magic liquid into a deep storage tank with 1,000 gallons of gasoline, were ready to see whether success or stark failure waited around the corner for them. The little station shone like a new brass button, for it had been scrubbed like an army depot for inspection, and the new sign beaming to the world for the first time, "ETHYL GAS-- ANTIKNOCK GASOLINE" gleamed like the hope in their hearts. These men, adventurers all this morning, moved nervously about the station as the first cars passed by completely ignoring their offer. Al ready acutely aware of the public's reluctance to try the new, they be came more so as they watched the cars go by, leaving their dust on the 3 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 11849 '' Fixtt Cuslomet--Mike Redelle, of Dayton, Ohio, who bought the first gallon of "Ethyl" gasoline, is still an enthusiastic customer. Fill ing his tank is Harry Reehl, who delivered the first truckload of the magic Quid 25 years ago. Harry now owns this station. shining pumps, their blase attitude cutting lines in the faces waiting at the station, and lines into the faces of others waiting at the G.M. Research Lab for .the delayed news--Thomas Midgley,' Jr., "Boss Ket," T. A. Boyd, Carroll A. Hochwalt and their associates, who had faithfully pursued the elusive answer to the questions, what makes gasoline engines knock, and what to do about it, down through the years since 1916. 4 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Their faces were already lined by the dramatic events behind the slow, painstaking discovery and develop, ment of "Ethyl'' antiknock. Such events as: The discovery of iodine as an anti knock agent, only to find that it was expensive and impractical. The decision after three years of searching, to abandon the project un less new developments were made within two weeks. The discovery, two days later, of aniline as an effective knock sup pressor. Having to discard aniline because of its pungent and disagreeable odor and other qualities that made it im practical. The discovery of selenium and tel lurium as antiknocks, followed by their abandonment for similar reasons. Events such as these carried them through years of peaks and depths and tireless work, until finally in the summer of 1921, using a special ar rangement of the periodic table of elements designed by Dr. Robert E. Wilson, director of the research labo- , ratory of applied chemistry at MIT (now Board Chairman of Standard of Indiana), they were led to the dis covery of tetraethyl lead. That was December 9, 1921. During the follow- | ing year research failed to reveal any more effective knock inhibitor, and tetraethyl lead became the prime 1 ingredient for the new magic fluid, 1 Now it was being offered to the public, a public oblivious to all this, as they rode by. Finally a big Buick touring car nosed its way to the pump and stopped. A customer! It was a big moment. Several men at Ethyl today remember ETC 11850 I Hebert S. King and Harry Mack look through some old records recalling the days when they were making arrangements tor (he marketing ol "Ethyl" gasoline. Harry was with General Motors Research and Mr. King was presided ol Refiners Oil Co., first marketers of "Ethyl" fluid. it well. Pat Harding, of our Detroit Research Labs, who had helped pour the "Ethyl" fluid into the tank the day before, was there. So was Harry Mack, of our Dayton office. He was then purchasing agent and assistant business manager of the G. M. Re search Lab, and had arranged for de livery of the"Ethyl"fluid compound to the Refiners station. "Shorty" Wells, whose wife, Viola, is now in our New York office, was also on hand to take care of last-minute details. He, too, worked at the G.M. Lab. As the morning advanced, other cars began leaving the stream of traffic, like planes peeling off of forma tion. By noon the tension had left the faces of the men who had ventured in "Ethyl" gasoline. The word spread among Dayton motorists about the new, powerful gas on sale up at Re finers service station. By sundown cars were lined up waiting their turn like holiday crowds at the Music Hall. The test of every product is public acceptance and performance over the years. Since the first sale "Ethyl" antiknock fluid has successfully met the test. The Picture on the Cover: The filling station on the cover is the spot where "Ethyl" gasoline was first offered to the public in 1923. It was the Refiners Oil Company station at Sixth and Main in Dayton, Ohio. 5 BULLETIN BOAR D --FEBRUARY ETC 11851 Born in Providence, Don attended Brown University and received his degree in civil engineering cum laude. He is a member of the Society of Auto motive Engineers and has been active in the Kansas City Chamber of Com merce. Don and his wife, Anne, have two sons--Richard, 13, and Doug las, 10. Don Flynn Heads East Donald S. Flynn moves to New York this month to take up his duties as Sales Coordinator for the Eastern Region. For the past nine years he has been in the Kansas City Office. Don joined Ethyl in 1931 as a field representative for northern New Eng land, with headquarters in Portland, Me. The following year he moved to Providence, R. I., and in 1935 went to the Boston Office as Assistant Divi sion Manager. Don has lived in Missouri since 1939, when he was transferred to the Kansas City Office as Assistant Divi sion Manager. He was named Man ager in 1945, and became a Sales Coordinator there when the Sales Department was reorganized last year. 6 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY Good Luck, Roy Roy GodJboy, who recently resigned as a Central Region Fleet Engineer, will continue his association with Ethyl, indirectly, through his work in the dynamometer field. Now Sales Manager of the Dynamometer Divi sion of the Electric Products Company of Cleveland, Ohio, Roy is currently launching a program to introduce an electric chassis dynamometer. We all wish him the best of luck in his new job. Tour for Talent Ray Faller, Manager of Personnel and Employe Relations in Detroit, has left on his annual tour of colleges. Each year Ray, who directs the engineering training program, visits colleges and universities all over the country to line up engineers and chem ists for Ethyl's graduate training school. From the many he meets, a hand-picked group is selected for the course that begins at the Labs this summer. The year-long program is designed to give the engineers an overall picture of the Company's operations. On his present trip, Ray expects to interview prospective trainees in 25 colleges in every section of the country. Homeward bound blow Yorkers p/owed through the snow. Shoveling was an unending task.* THE SNOW OF '47 Late on Christmas afternoon the radio weather forecaster mentioned snow flurries for the following day. Those who heard this quickly forgot it. and that night New York trust ingly tucked itself in to sleep off the effects of the holiday. At 3:20 o'clock in the morning it began to snow. By the time most of those who heard the Christmas fore cast had started for their offices, the flurries" were already three inches deep and capable of slipping in the tops of shoes. A strong wind was blowing the white powder around the streets like smoke, turning umbrellas inside out and whipping the girls' skirts high. Ethyl employes depending upon the radio forecast of light snow flurries, buttoned up their collars and bucked the storm head on to their offices, secure in the belief that by noon the sun would again be shining. But as the morning advanced, faces peering from the various Ethyl win dows lost their placid look and began to take on lines of anxiety. The storm was not abating. There was no sign of the patch of blue sky big enough to make a pair of Dutchman's breeches. The air was filled with swirling snow in flakes so large and thick it was al most impossible to see across the street. By noon reports began to pour in: "The crosstown bus line is stalled. . . . Long Island and New York Central trains are running hours late. . . ." Anxious Ethyl executives closed the office at 2:00 o'clock so that com muters could reach their homes before transportation broke down completely. By then even the weather bureau was resigned to the fact that a real snow ' Picture courtesy ot Edith Wilson, 43rd Floor receptionist in file Chrysler Building. 7 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY Mute testimony ol a hard day's work, a snow shove/ leans against the door of Ed Nieser's garage, Ed says he spent practically ai} day clearinq the driveway of h.'s home in Malverne Park, L. 1. Dick (Dan Boone) Murphy, whose dad is Eastern ftegionai Manager, has the riqht idea about winter headgear. He posed for a picture on the lawn of their Bedford Vil lage home, while pop pushed the button to get this snow scene. storm had descended upon the city. Most Ethyl employes reached home --sooner or later. The snow kept right on all afternoon without let-up--and long into the night, piling up a record fall of 25.8 inches. It was several days before all were heard from and the stories they told were swapped for days afterwards. Westchester-bound Dick Murphy, Eastern Regional Manager, and Wal ter Cosgrove, Supervisor of Employe Benefits and Services, spent seven hours on a train. After reaching their station and shoveling the car out of a mountain of snow, they managed to make it into Bedford Village but couldn't go on to their homes. Dick and his nine-and-a-half year old son, who was with him, stayed at a neigh bor's. Walter spent the night in the local fire house. They arrived home at noon the next day. Marion Pettegrew, Employe Rela tions Manager, lives more than two 8 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY miles from the station in Harrison, N. Y. He walked it, through waistdeep snow, next day paid $38 to have his driveway cleared with a tractor. In Larchmont, Bill Hubner walked the four miles from the station. Bea Farrell Reber was snowbound in the same town. New Jerseyites fared badly because of ferry and. tunnel tie-ups. Virginia Atamian of Purchasing, Irene Sweeney and Mike Gaydos of Traffic, and Betty White of Employe Relations, reached Jersey's shores by round about means, plodded through deep snow to reach their homes hours late. Frank Howard, Assistant Advertis ing Manager, who had driven in from Elizabeth, N. J., worked for almost an hour to get his car out of a parking lot near 42nd Street and 3rd Avenue. Four hours later he was only at 24th Street and 10th Avenue. He left the car in a drift, walked up to Penn Station and headed home by train. ETC U8 54 )- H' glsa Weber of Employe Relations tells a tale t0 renew faith in human nature. Her bus to New Jersey was stuck on the New York side of the river for several hours. The driver, who hadn't eaten since 10 a.m., finally left to look for a quick sandvrich. He returned with an enormous bag--coffee for everyone. Elsa finally deserted the bus for a ferry, had a tbree-hour walk from the other side. The freezing rain storm a week later that cut off electricity in parts of New Jersey for days caused Alexander McBean of Finance even more trouble than the snow. At 11:45 p.m. on New Year's Day the power went off in Mac's Chatham home and the McBeans found themselves with no modern conveniences. (They have an electrically-controlled oil burner, stove and pump which brings well water into the house). On January 5 they gave up living like pioneers, moved in with a neighbor who at least had heat and running water. Long Island commuters had their troubles, too. Eleanor Dunlop of Finance took a subway out to Ja maica, hoping to get a bus for Queens Village. Many other people had the same idea, and there was no system for lining up. When a bus finally came along, fist fights started over who was there first. Eleanor decided to brave the storm rather than the mob, walked home in an hour plus. Gen LeRoy, of Employe Relations, sat for eight hours on a train that usually makes Great Neck in 40 minutes. Walking home, a neighbor went ahead and broke a path--Gen says it wasn't bad at all. Ed Nieser of Finance reported an 8-hour trip to Malverne Park instead Transformed info a fairyland. New York's Bryant Park lies beneath a blanket ot snow. The park is across the street Irom our Public ity and Publications otfice on West 42nd. of the scheduled 50 minutes. Emily Whitfield, who heads the Mimeograph Department, was on a train that stopped two stations short of hers. She walked home through three towns, in driving snow. Dot Balliet Klein, also of Mimeograph, got stuck in a big drift on her way home from the station. Her husband and a friend pulled her out--minus shoes. They couldn't find them in the deep snow, so Dot went on, barefoot. Mac McCulloch, Sales Promotion Manager, on vacation, had come into New York with his wife for the day. The Long Island R. R. temporarily suspended operations, and the McCullochs checked into a hotel for the night. 9 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY [ i j 1 ETC 11855 Ed Ellerbe Organizes Atlanta SAE Ed Ellerbe/ fleet engineer in our Southern Region, displaying quite an ability for organization, has been busy launching a new section of the Society of Automotive Engineers down in Atlanta. The newly-organized group had a highly successful dinner meeting on January 12. Almost 100 men turned out for the affair, held at the Piedmont Hotel. Guest speaker was our own B. R. Jones. Casey brought the men up-todate on the automotive situation, speaking on the topic, "What Is New in Automobiles and Fuels." As head of the Passenger Car Section of our Technical Service Operations, he is well qualified to handle this subject. His talk proved very stimulating to the members, and out of it grew a discussion that was lively as well as profitable to all present. On hand were men representing al phases of the automotive industry ii the Atlanta area. Some were SAI members; the others were prospectivi members. Ed had brought together at ai earlier meeting in December the met who were already affiliated with tb national organization. At that timi they had planned the dinner ant agreed to invite others who might b interested in becoming members of tb proposed new chapter. Most of them signified that the; would like to join. So Ed is now goinj happily along with his plans, confiden there will be enough active member to make an Atlanta section. The nex meeting is scheduled for February 2'. with a prominent engineer from Ne\ York as guest speaker. Serving cake to a group ot well-wishers is Anne Caplan, guest of honor at a party celebrating her ISth anniversary with Ethyl at the Detroit Labs. Gathered round are Hymin Shapiro, Motley Morgana, Anne Caplan, Ellis Neunherz, Harry Ditlmar, Peggy Fox, Fred Dykstra, Don Remter. Gua Ligeti and Rex Closson. ETC 11856 Nation's Business Leaders Crusade to Save the Soil With the food shortage becoming an increasingly serious problem in world affairs, America's soil conservation program is gaining new and important converts among the nation's business and industrial leaders. An example is the Second National Hank of Houston, Texas, which last year established an Agricultural De partment. They have presented a soil conservation program to more than 50,000 people throughout the state of Texas at over 150 meetings. One of the features of these meetings is Ethyl Corporation's movie, This Is Our Lsnd. The bank, in conjunction with var ious railroads, has sponsored several tours during the past year to carry the gospel of soil conservation to the people of the Lone Star State. Offi cials of the bank and the railroads held meetings, met with local bankers, businessmen and farmers. Last November more than 175 of the nation's top men in business, in dustry and agriculture took time out from heavy-duty business affairs to make a 10-day tour of Texas on the Soil Conservation Special. Believing that America's real wealth lies in the soil, and restoration of the land to 11 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC This gulley, 30 feet deep, has become a community problem to Corsicana, Texas. Caused by improper drainage, the gulley developed in a completely flat area. Men from the Soil Conserva tion Special are shown here inspecting the gulley which damages a large area. fertility is fundamental, they turned missionaries to spread the word among the people of Texas. The 17-car train loaded with bank presidents, railroad presidents, manu facturing executives and other indus trial leaders stopped at seven of the state's key cities during the tour. A number of oil men were aboard the train, representatives of companies whose budgets include agricultural development programs. In this group was Ethyl's Ed Hendrick. Southern Region tractor engineer. Earle W. Webb Re-elected to N1CB Board Earle W. Webb was re-elected to the Board of the National Industrial Con ference Board at their 292nd regular meeting held December 18, 1947 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. This will be Mr. Webb's fourth term as a member of the Board. The Conference Board, founded in 12 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY 1916, is an independent and nonprofit institution for research and education in the fields of economics and busi ness. The work of the Board is sup ported by nearly 3,000 business con cerns, trade associations, labor unions, government bureaus, libraries, colleges and universities. ETC 11858 WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT COLDS? V Fact 1. Few people have colds........................ ~ 2. Colds are catching F! 3. Wet feet may give you a cold................ F 4. Colds are never serious........................ F 5. If a cold starts with chills, fever, or aching, a physician should be called without delay........................................ F 6. When a cold "hangs on", it is best to ignore it............................................ Q] 7. There is no "sure cure" for a cold....... [F 8. It is possible to prevent colds.............. H Near Fact Fj ~Fj F] F Lj F] For correct answers, see pae 24, Fallacy n Look, There's Gil (And 92,999 Others) Among the 93,000 spectators who witnessed the Rose Bowl slaughter of Southern California by Michigan were Gil and Bess Way. Gil, one of Ethyl's roving engineers, and a University of Michigan grad uate, cheered his alma mater on to a 49-0 victory over the West Coast champs. That, as you probably know, was the same score by which Michigan won the first Rose Bowl game, back in 1902. Leaving the stadium, Gil overheard a disillusioned USC fan remark to a friend, "All I can say is, Michigan hasn't improved a bit in 45 years." 13 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY ETC 11859 There too were Earl and Mary Ellis (with the flower in her hairJ af left, Ray and Evelyn Seymour and their son. Ronnie. Good food and good chi abound" at Ethyl pan everywhere when Ch masfime comes `round. Ladies Only sign was at the Defroif party ab< when fhe girls gathers the Lab cafeteria to < carols, exchange qiits feast on Turkey. I Smiling over their coffee cups in San Bernardino are Muriel Stinson, Max Roensch. Judy Schaub. Larry Stinson. Carol Simcock and Dale Thompson. JSTMAS Marcelle and Bill Mason try ouf a new step as Florence Gish (back to camera) and Harry Perdew swing right -- a/mosf ouf of the camera's lens. They're dancing at Club Oaks, near San Bernardino. ETC 11860 ^ ia r More merrymakers at San Berdu. Rofltn Gish. Grl Way. (wo quests, Bess Way, another quest, and Margaret Remondino enjoy the festivities. coast to c0^ Walter Bauer tells his latest fail faie to Merriff Collins. Gathered 'round for the Christmas turkey 41 Yonkers are (clockwise) Al Morschauser, Marko PaJuch, George Car penter, Virginia Mitcheii, Hob f/ess, Softer Sauer, Emma Reiss. Ed Stafiel, Chris Bruhl. Louise Hill, CM Pope, Kay Foster, frene Buckley, George Holiwedel, Stella Gemborsky, V Garnsey, Lorraine Erlinq and Elmer Mahlke. ETC 11861 In Detroit... Two weary couples sit one out. He/axing catch their breath are Hymin and Bern* Shapiro, Peggy Fox and her escort. Bill Paschedag, Office Manager at the Uh Dick Sneed, the Central Region's roving gj'neer (see page 2U, and Charlie Kass, taboi lory Contact flepresenfafive in Tech Serv;* enjoy a delicious dinner surrounded by /e. nine pulchritude. The party was held at Bonnie Brook Golf Club. Barbara and Chuck Hawley, Merrilyn and Bob Johnson, and Helen and John Zawadski trip the light tantastic. In the background, between Chuck and Merrilyn, are Florence Held and Art Zeitz. A lovely line-up watts to be served at the all-girl party. Doris Kipp (in white) puts the finishing touches to Ruth Simons' plate as Marion Mecoli, Rita Clark and Stella Shafer place their orders. 11862 ETC. and New York Presidenf Shea (center^ seems to like the story Ralph Clark is teiiing. Bill Machle. at /e/f. and Marion Petteqrew. in the rear, lend an ear. 4 circle ot smiling faces makes a fine target tor the photographer. From lower left, reading clockwise, the faces belong to Estelle Caldwell, Helen Macintosh. Genevieve Corcoran Murphy. Corinne Hill. Hazel Anderson, Redg Bushell. Marquerite McDonald, Art Acken, Gene Gamier and Lillian Johnson. Watching the dancing from the sidelines are Dottie Hayes, Dot Campion, Bill Kanavy, Phil King, Betty Mergner, Jules Dammon. Ben Johnson, Charles Finney, Mai tfeyburn and Gene Lenahan. Eleanor Dunlop, winner of the ladies' doorprize. shows her three-strand string of pearls to John FincJc and 5d GressJin, Ed, who pulled the names out of a hat, drew Johns name as winner of the men's gift certificate. Chemists Can Be Clubby Ed. Note: Claire Olsen, who is Technical Librarian at the Detroit Labs, wishes to dispel the popular notion that chemists live in a test tube world completely withdrawn from their fellow men. 4s proof that chemists are not shrinking violets, Claire submits the follow ing article telling about the ac tivities of some of our Ethyl men. Claire, herself, is a member of the American Chemical Society, and writes a column of personality news and views for the Detroit ACS section publication. Many Ethylites take leading roles in the ACS, AICHE, OSA and ASTM. Translated, those alphabetical soup concoctions are the American Chem ical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Optical Society of America, and the American Society for Testing Materials. Heading the list is George Calin- gaert, the Associate Director of Re search on Manufacturing and Chemical Products. George recently was elected to a three-year term as a councilor of the Detroit chapter of the ACS. Also active in AICHE work, he was cochairman of the committee which arranged for that group's annual crJri vention in Detroit a few months back Ted Carron, also of the Ethyl Labs served on this committee, too. Leon Chrzan, an Ethyl chemirai engineer, has been active in organizing a junior group of the Detroit AICHE Leon is president of the Junior group and treasurer of the regular Detroit section of the AICHE. Analytical men Charlie Gambrill and A1 Gassman are serving as chair man and vice-chairman of the ACS employment committee, respectively. Charlie also heads several technical committees in the ASTM. Ray Faller was among the speakers at the first of three occupational forums for the January graduating class of the Royal Oak (Mich.) High School. Ray, Manager of Employe and Personnel Relations of our Detroit Labs, addressed the graduates on "The Place of Technical and Man agerial Workers in Industry." Bill O'Neill of the spectrographic lab is- head of the membership com mittee for the local section of the Optical Society of America. Between courses at the General Motors Club Christmas party in Houston, members and their wives posed lor the cameraman, fn the usual order are Virginia and Loti Mock (he's Account Bepresentattve in Houston^ Safety Engineer Dale Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Casey (he's branch manager of GMAC1 and Mrs. Dale Miller. 18 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY MILESTONES GO BY Rounding a big milestone, Doug Jeppe, Southern Region Account Rep resentative, celebrates this month his 15th Ethyl Anniversary. Doug, who has been on the road with the Company's postwar Safety Show for the past year, did some globe trotting during the war to teach mem bers of the Air Transport Command about the safe handling of gasoline. As one of the Ethyl engineers who carried the safety program to bases all over the world, he visited such far-off places as Liberia, Dakar and Karachi, India. Traveling seems to be an important part of Doug's life. Bom in Trevatore, South Africa, he attended Trin ity College at Oxford University, England, and continued his studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy in Cambridge. After graduation he did engineering work for the Metro politan Water Supply Commission in Eoston, Murray and Flood in New York City, and the South Carolina Highway Department. Doug began his Ethyl career as a field representative in South Carolina, in 1936 he sailed for Melbourne, Australia, where he remained for four years as a representative for the old Ethyl Export Company. He returned to the United States in 1940, and has lived in Oklahoma City ever since. The Jeppes--Doug and Alice-- have three children, 16-year-old Doug Douq leppe about to demonstrate the explosive power oi gasoline to a safety show audience. las, Jr., Joyce, 12 years old, and Arthur, six. Although his family occupies most of Doug's after-Ethyl hours, he is an active member of the General Motors Club in Oklahoma City and has served as its president. Three Detroiters celebrate their fifth anniversaries this month: Alfred Kolka, Project leader in the New Pro ducts Research Section, Ray Leonard, of the Fuels Handling Section and Maude Wesley of Administration. A miniature central heating system has been introduced for use in trailer coaches. The unit, which bums any grade of automotive gasoline, features a ventilation device which enables the heater to rid the trailer of cooking and tobacco odors. 19 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY Overjoyed with his presents, Arnold Nel son's son Ronald goes on record as being in tavor of Christmas. Ronald, whose dad is a member of Accounts Payable in N. Y. Fi nance. celebrated his first birthday on the 28th of January. Holding her shiny, new bicycie steady, Helen Hendrick lets sister Judy try ouf her Christmas present. Helen and Judy are the daughters of Ed Hendrick4 Southern Region Tractor Engineer. (See page ll.) It's ski, heil, for thrills and spills as Clarke Cole tries out the snow on Casper Mountain (Wyo ming). Man-behind-the-camera for this shot was his dad. Jack Cole. Western Region Safety Engineer. ETC 11866 OH to a good start, the Ethyl basketball team at Baton Rouge has downed five opponents and is fhe only undefeated team in <he City Industrial League. In the front row are Elmer Nettles, Hal Newsom, Herschel Irwin, "Red" Haiie, Howard Newsome and Harry Demouy. manager. Standing are Murray Jones, coach, Ray Whitaker, C. D. Mitchell, Jake Myers, Rhauman Browning and LuJee Lea. Players not in the photo are W. H. Fortenberry and Jack Evans. On the Rostrum Ralph Clark, Publicity and Publi cations Manager, served on a panel of experts who discussed trade publica tions at the annual meeting of the Middle-Atlantic District of the Amer ican College Public Relations Associa tion. The meeting was held at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City, January 9. Jack Macauley, Director of Re search at the Labs in Detroit, spoke at the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit on January 14. He was a member of a four-man panel that discussed "The Efficient Production and Utilization of Motor Gasoline." Dick Sneed, Ethyl's roving engin eer for the Southern Region, spoke on "The Fundamental Aspects of Super charging" at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Norman, Oklahoma, on December 10. Grover Wilson, Coordinator of Diesel Engine Products at the Research Labs, was on the program at the annual SAE meeting in De troit. He presided on January 15, as chairman of a panel that discussed diesel engines. 21 BULLETIN BOARD --FEBRUARY Arrived home safe and sound. That's fine. But how safe are you when you are at home? According to the National Safety Council, you're not safe at all. Every year accidents, which rank fourth as a cause of death, take more lives in the home than in industry or on the highway. Recent records show that an aver age of one person dies every 16 min utes as a result of a home accident. In addition, one person is permanently disabled every 4 minutes, and some one is temporarily disabled every 7 seconds. As long as nothing happens to us, we take unsafe conditions and unsafe practices calmly. Fatalists believe that only one fatal accident has our name on it. But accidents come ad dressed "to whom it may concern.'' There are many things we can do to keep from falling into that category. Experienced safety engineers say that all accidents are preventable. Acci dents are caused by unsafe conditions or unsafe practices. Eliminate them and you eliminate accidents. How are conditions in youx home? Safe or unsafe? Here are a few ques tions you might ask yourself to see if you can make your home more safe for the New Year. 1. Do you keep stairways, halls and floors free of articles over which a person might fall? 2. Do you keep chairs and other furniture away from walking space in rooms? 3. Are room doors and other doors kept closed or left in such a position that no one can run into them? 4. Do you keep the attic and cellar free of rubbish and flammable ma terial? 5. Do you always keep medicines, cleaning materials and poisons out of the reach of children? 6. Are the pots and pans so placed on the stove that the normally inquis itive child cannot grab the handles and overturn the contents on himself? 7. Do you keep matches in a safe place, out of the reach of children? 8. Are you careful to keep sharp objects, such as knives, axes, rakes and tools, where children cannot get them and cause injury to themselves or someone else? 9. Do you choose toys which fit the age of your child? 10. Do you use a ladder that is in good repair for emergencies and for reaching high places around the house? 11. Are you careful about lifting heavy furniture, trunks and boxes? 12. Do you caution your children, when they are playing, not to take chances and injure themselves? ... I ETC 11868 Thomas E. Seybold Dies Thomas Elwood Seybold, Superjsor of Employment and Training, jied suddenly on January 17 at Lady the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. He had been in Baton Rouge since he first of the year working with the inen at the plant on the Management development Program. He entered the hospital on Friday, January 16. Tom joined Ethyl a year ago this month to fill the newly-created post of Employment and Training Super visor, which he held at the time of his death. Before coming with us he had been a vice-president of Dale Car negie Institute in New York City, and assistant director of industrial rela tions and assistant to the president of the Cramp Shipbuilding Company, which is located in Philadelphia, Pa. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. He was a member of Phi Delta, the Young Men's Board of Trade of New York and the Sales Executive Club of New York. We at Ethyl extend deep sympathy to the members of his family. Sur viving are his wife, Margaret, two sons, Thomas E. Seybold, Jr., five, and David Crockett, six months, of Wells Lane, Stony Brook, Long Is land, and his father, Albert O. Sey bold, of the same address. Funeral services were held at Bel mont Avenue Baptist Church in Philadelphia at 2 p.m. January 22. When if comes to "pushing around", this bulldozer and operator really "take the cake"--salt cake. which is a by-product of our production process in the Mannheim plant at Baton Rouge. This salt cake is brought by conveyor and deposited in the huge storage space as illustrated. It is then pushed aside and into position lor most convenient handling at the loading chute, from which freight cars carry it to the American paper miffs. where it is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of Kraft paper, that sturdy brown wrapping for heavy-duty packaging. ETC 11869 WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT COLDS?* Answers to questions on page 13. 1. Fallacy. The common cold is uni versal. and practically no one goes through life without catching cold now and then. 2. Fact. True cold (not allergic con ditions such as hay fever) are caused by living disease agents (viruses or bacteria), and all diseases so caused are catching. 3. Near-Fact. Wet feet alone prob ably cannot give you a real cold; but if cold virus is already present in your nose or throat, anything which causes chilling--wet feet, drafts, damp cloth ing, exposure to bad weather--may lower your resistance and allow a cold to develop. 4. Fallacy. It is not true that a cold is never serious. 3. Fact. A physician should be called without delay if a cold starts with chills, fever or aching. 6. Fallacy. It is not best to ignore a cold which "hangs on;" on the con trary, it is best to see a physician. 7. Fact. There are many remedies designed to relieve some of the dis comforts of a cold, but there is no "sure cure." 8. Near-Fact. While there is as yet no sure preventive, the body has nat ural forces of resistance to infection. * Information published here was obtained from a pamphlet put out by the Metropolitan Life In surance Co, 24 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY How to Drive Your Boss ... Once there was a business man who had a "girl Friday." And like many another girl Friday (but not at Ethyl, of course), she had her faults. They were little things, and she didn't do them all every day, but they added up. Then one day a questionnaire came in. The Albany Business College was making a survey, and wanted to know what he thought about the "company manners" of his secretary. There it was--his chance to let off steam. And he did. In all, 500 businessmen listed their pet peeves. The College has illustrated the outstanding ones, in a booklet called "Memo to Miss Jones." No. 1 pet peeve was personal phone calls. Oh yes, / almost loiqot . . . she said . . . and 1 said . . . then he said . . . and so on ad infinitum. The average American today uses as much petroleum every four minutes as he used all year in 1859. The first radar-equipped tanker to be built postwar has been launched by an oil company. J Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stackable Wedding Bells and Rings Surprises were in store for two Ethyl girls in New York during December, when Cupid took over from Santa and brought them sparkling diamonds. June Lohlein of Stenographic re ceived her ring from Thomas Fay on December 12. She didn't expect it until Christmas, but Tom decided not to wait. June and Tom live around the corner from each other in South Ozone Park, Long Island. A surprise Christmas present for Terry Aziz of the Statistical Depart ment was an engagement ring from James Nelson. Terry and Jim, both New Yorkers, plan to be married as soon as they can- find a place to live. Marjorie Reese, secretary to Dick Murphy, Eastern Regional Manager, has joined the third-finger-left-hand club with the announcement of her engagement to Gurdon P. Ludlow, on January 18. Marge, a daily commuter from Yonkers, and Gurdon, whose home is in Bridgehampton, Long Island, plan an April wedding. In Tulsa, Sylvia Shumake, steno at the Test Lab, became Mrs. James C. Stackable on September 27. Jim, who comes from Fort Smith, Arkansas, served three years in the Navy as a Lt. fj.g.), now works in Tulsa. 25 BULLETIN BOARD-- FEBRUARY Newly-installed officers and board 0/ control 0/ /he Ethyl Management Club are (seated, l. to r.i Alvin Hubbs, Treasurer, Harry Royal, President. Mel Hudgins, Vice-Pres/den/. and /iramie Vernon. Secretary. Standing are Feltus Wade, Bill Latil. "Doc" Crunk and Mike Ziegler, members oi the board. Dan Sutton, also a board member, was not present tor the picture. Management Club Installs Officers The Ethyl Management Club of Eaton Rouge held its first meeting of the year on January 8 at Club Tropicana. Installation of newlyelected officers and board of control was the feature of the evening. Serving his second term as Presi dent is Harry Royal. The other new officers are Mel Hudgins, Vice-Presi dent; Jimmie Vernon, Secretary; and Alvin Hubbs, Treasurer. The officers are also members of the board of con trol. Other board members are Ernest (Doc) Crunk, Bill Latil, Dan Sutton, Mike Ziegler and Feltus Wade. The installation was conducted by John Ward, Director of the National Association of Foremen, with which the Management Club is affiliated. He charged the new officers with promo tion of the organization as well as the Company, and reminded the mem bership of the necessity for 100% cooperation. Recent figures show that the NAF has a membership of 35,000, representing 1,200 industries in 44 states. Color movies of the LSTJ-Tulane football game followed the business meeting. Club plans for 1948 include a spring dance and a picnic during the summer. Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago; Mary Hughes; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Elma Griffith; Detroit: William Book (photographer), Audrey Bloomer, Helen Donovan, Sue Gendemalik, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer), Margaret Takish; Houston: Kathleen Finen: Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Joanna Bell, Estelle Caldwell, Muriel Homer, Barbara Kelly, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Seattle: Aili Koskela; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: Chris topher Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--FEBRUARY etc 11812 J \ ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes i i Published by the Ethyl Corporation, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York: Edward L. Shea. President: Stanley T. Crossland, Vice-president and Treasurer; Julian C. Comalez. Secretary. tm Marceline Marquis. 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ETC 11873 ALL OUT FOR THZ OIL INDUSTRY PAGE 4 'Nai at foCf #Oo 1 PAg $* ** DETROIT GETS NEW ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR PAGE 9 MANHATTAN MEETINGS PAGES IO AND 14 T**YnL. FfaAnNsS NEAR MILLION PAGE 16 big HOWL PAGE 22 ETC 11876 Like soldiers steading inspection, drums of "Ethyl" fluid wait their turn on a loading platform at the south side of the new drumming plant. At the west, or left, side of the building the drums are loaded into box cars for shipment to customer companies. New Drumming Plant Starts Operations at Baton Rouge Fills Drums for Export and Domestic Use jj With the completion of the new Drumming Plant at Baton Rouge, || Ethyl Corporation has taken another if step to facilitate its services to cus!t tomer refineries. n The Plant, designed to supply "Ethyl" antiknock compound for exB Port, and for shipment to domestic B companies requiring drum quantities, V is almost entirely surrounded by load in6 platforms. Of glazed tile and steel, K building has 22,000 square feet m of floor space. B After the final steps in the manuS facturing process of the "Ethyl" fluid K are completed at the Blender, the finished product goes to the Drum ming Plant. Here it is loaded into 10and 5 5-gallon returnable containers for shipment by truck of box car. Po tential capacity of the Plant is be tween 8,000 and 9,000 drums a month. The plant has facilities for inspect ing, cleaning and servicing drums. It also has storage space for a substan tial number of filled drums that are kept ready for immediate shipment. Henry Houdart supervises the new. operation, with the help of two fore men, Anthony Fonte and L. E. Shaffett. In addition to the loading crews, 10 men are kept busy on the day shift. 3 BULLETIN BOARD -MARCH ETC 11877 Ethyl Men Aid Oil Industry Information Program l Thirteen Serve on District Committees The oil industry's public relations program swings into its second year augmented by the resources and man power of more than 1,000 companies across the nation. These companies are contributing manpower and money in a nation-wide effort to win the favor of all Americans for the oil business. To do this the big objective is to get better public under standing of the oil business: to tell people what the men and women in it do: what the oil companies are like; why the competition and enterprise in the industry makes for progress; and therefore how the oil business makes everyone's life better and more comfortable and America more secure. Ethyl men throughout the country have joined forces with the oil men to help tell the story out in the grass roots. In New York last month Ralph Champlin, our Employe and Public Relations Director, was elected chair man of the Oil Industry Information Committee, formerly the Public Rela tions Operating Committee. Those who are serving on the vari ous district committees are: Russ Weston, New England, New YorkNew Jersey; Gel Howell, Mid-At lantic; Jack Warner, Southeastern; Jack Pruitt, Ohio-Kentucky-Tennessee; Jim Boudreau, Great Lakes; Ray Faller, Great Lakes; Clint Bond, Mississippi-Louisiana; Alan Tully, Texas-New Mexico; Harold Berg, Oklahoma; Jack Cole, Rocky Moun tain; San Wagner, Ted Littlefield, and Fred Naylor, West Coast. BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 11878 Ray faller / V Gel Howell Jack Warner ETC 11879 right. Behind it is the warehouse, and at left is the weigh tank building where a tank truck 15 being loaded. East Coast Terminal Nears Completion Last July on the banks of the Dela other buildings and of the bulk stor ware, bulldozers, trucks and cranes age tanks that are now being built. started buzzing as work got underway Snow and winter's chilly blasts have on our new Edge Moor terminal just hampered construction and kept the north of Wilmington. By the first of sidewalk superintendents inside, but the year with weigh tanks, pumps, Spring will doubtless change all that. receiving and loading facilities com The Edge Moor installation is one pleted, operations began while con of the three new terminal and distri struction continued. bution plants Ethyl Corporation is On hand to start the ball rolling building to supplement normal deliv were a group of Ethyl folk from the eries made from our plant at Baton Deepwater plant--Rudy Williams, Rouge. Conveniently located on the Charlie Remsburg, Ed Herbert, Shorty East and West Coasts and in the cen Miller and Dick Eoyer. WTren they ter of the country, they will provide i moved in, the office, tank truck load our customer refineries with a second i ing building, drum warehouse, pump source of supply for their require house and boiler room were finished. ments of "Ethyl" antiknock com From their office windows they have pound. Construction is underway on < watched the slow progress of the the terminal at Wilmington, Calif. 6 ) BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH \ * 1 11880 etc r foundation work for the luge,steel storage tanks laid last Fall. Two tanks with a total capa- ^ 0f two million pounds of TU- are aow 9in9 UP- Holding a ioui-cornered discussion in their shiny, new office are (from left) Charlie Bemsburg, Dick Boyer, Ed Herbert and Shorty Miller. Ethyl tank cars be the familiar black trade-mark am EBAX label stand o siding behind the li gallon building. \ 1lS8l Bob Takes Over for Guy Bob Hogan is now handling auto motive, fleet and tractor work in the Eastern Regional office. He moved to New York from Washington, D. C. when Guy Donohue left to devote full-time to his bakery business. Bob had been working as a field represen tative in Washington since his release from military service in 1945. Pre-war he was a member of the old Baltimore Division. Bob and his charming wife Melva have bought a home in Stamford, Conn. They also have one in Virginia they'd be happy to sell, in case you're interested. Bob is now recuperating from a spinal operation which he underwent on Friday, February 13. Detroiters Take Armchair Tour James Welsh, famed "Old Traveler" of the Automobile Association of America, took Detroiters and their guests on a tour of historic spots off the beaten path at the Ethyl Society meeting on January 27. Bob Spangenburg, social chairman, turned the meeting over to Bill Paschedag, office manager at the Labs, who introduced the speaker. A qualified guide, Mr. Welsh has visited little-known nooks and corners all over' the United States. As a boy in the old Southwest he acquired the wander-lust, became a cow puncher on King Ranch in Texas, and later was a U.S. Cavalryman "with cal louses `this thick'." No sentimentalist, Mr. Welsh gladly stabled the horse in favor of the automobile. He is a long-time user of "Ethyl" gasoline, and says he "couldn't do without it." This Spring, during another of his expeditions, Mr. Welsh expects to travel his two millionth mile. 8 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 118&2, 4- New Associate Director Joins Detroit Research Staff Wheeler G. Lovell has joined our Laboratories in Detroit as an assoc-, iate director of research in the basic combustion field. He comes to Ethyl from the General Motors Research Laboratories, where for the past 21 years he has been assistant head of the Organic Chemistry Department. Wheeler was bom in Mason City, Iowa and attended Harvard Univer sity, majoring in chemistry. After graduation he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his chemical engineering degree in 1924. Later that year, after a brief period as dye chemist with the National Aniline Chemical Company in Buffalo, N. Y., he joined the General Motors Research Corporation in Moraine City, Ohio. Wheeler first went to Detroit in 1925, when the GM research organiza tion moved its headquarters to that L_ city. Two years later he became as sistant head of the Organic Chemistry Department, known in those days as the Fuel Division. He worked with T. A. Boyd, who had been a co-worker of Tom Midgley in the research pro gram that lead to the discovery of tetraethyl lead as an antiknock agent. An active clubman, Wheeler is a member of the American Chemical Society, American Petroleum Insti tute, American Society for Testing Materials, Society of Automotive Engineers and Engineering Society of Detroit. He has served on committees for all of these organizations. He has written more than 30 tech nical papers covering many phases of the fuel-engine relationship. His most recent paper, "Engine Knock and Molecular Structure of Hydrocar bons," was delivered on January 16 at the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Detroit. 9 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 11883 Safety is the subject and Ollie Jones the speaker as this five-day conference gets underway at the Barclay Hotel in New York City. Seated at the table are, from left, Ham Greenup, Jim Baldwin, Bill Newman, John Capinjola, Ellis Locher, George Hick, Van Fleck, Gerry Forsdick, Hank Ball and Hume Chenault. Nation-Wide Safety Conference Held in New York Ethyl's safety chiefs burrowed in at the Barclay Hotel, on New York's Lexington Avenue, January 19 and didn't emerge for five days. They had much to discuss regarding the various aspects of their work. Exchanging views, raising questions, solving problems and getting decisions on policy matters, they busily confer red from Monday through Friday. It was the second time a nation wide meeting devoted exclusively to safety matters had ever been held, and the first meeting of the safety engineers, who were appointed chiefs 10 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH under the regional plan of operation. Ollie Jones, manager of customer services who planned and conducted the conference, set forth the safety policy for 1948. In addition, he in vited to the meeting representatives of Sales, Manufacturing, Order and Shipping and Traffic to present upto-date information on these phases of operation. Dr. Robert A. Kehoe, head of our Medical Department, spent two full days with the group discussing the medical aspects of safety work. On the second day of the meeting ETC President Shea invited the group to lunch at the Cloud Club. He presented to them an over-all view of the Com pany's activities and painted a bright picture of the business outlook. On hand for the sessions were: the four safety chiefs -- Jim Baldwin, Eastern; Hank Ball, Southern; Hume Chenault, Western; and Ham Green up, Central; John Capinjola, from Detroit, liaison man between Chemical Research and New York Safety; Bill Newman, from Dayton; Ellis Locher, assistant safety manager; Van Fleck, Gerry Forsdick and George Rick, of the New York staff. Harry Hollingsworth Switches to Sales Harry Hollingsworth has trans ferred from the Development Section at Baton Rouge to the Sales Depart ment, as a field safety representative for the Southern Region. Harry came to Ethyl six years ago as a chemist in the Development Sec tion. He received his degree in chem istry from Tulane University, and has done graduate work at Louisiana State University. Before joining Ethyl he was with Mathieson Alkali Works at Lake Charles, Louisiana. In his new work, Harry will remain in Baton Rouge as field safety man for that territory. In 1905 the U. S. drilled new wells at the rate of 45 daily; today we spud in one every 23 minutes. 11 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH ETC 11885 Earle Webb Retires from Office But Not from Ethyl Last summer, as he approached re tirement age, Mr. Webb resigned the office of president which he had held for 22 years. Our board of directors accepted his resignation and elected Mr. Shea to succeed him as president. But at the same time, the board created the new office of chairman of the board and elected Mr. Webb to that position. On February 9, Mr. Webb celebrated his 65th birthday, and in conformance with the retire ment plans he helped develop for all Ethyl employes, he retired at the end of that month. At the unanimous request of the board, however, he has agreed to act as an adviser to manage ment and continue as a director, and to occupy a desk in the New York offices--but not as a full-time em ploye. As he says, he is no longer "going to punch a time clock.'' But those who know his interests know that "Ethyl is in his blood" and are confident that in the future as in the past he will always be available for the advice that has steered us through many stormy waters since the day he came aboard as captain of our ship. In April of 1925, Earle Wayne Webb stepped to the helm of the infant and unknown corporation. Organized the previous summer by General Motors and Standard Oil (N. J.) to take over and develop the business of anti knock compounds started by General Motors Chemical Company in March, 1923, Ethyl's assets consisted then mostly of ideas and hope plus a merit orious product. Also in the little office in the Cunard Euilding there were 12 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH many uncertainties and problems to be met. Mr. Webb, as general attorney for GM in Detroit, had drawn up the papers to incorporate General Motors Chemical and was one of its original directors. Except for that, he knew practically nothing about the anti knock business. One day Mr. Sloan asked him to see Mr. Teagle, as the two of them were going to pick a president for the new enterprise. When he was selected and reported at the Ethyl offices to take charge, the handful of employes said, "Oh-oh. This must mean that the Company is folding. GM has sent their lawyer to wash up the contracts with as little loss as possible." Their fears evaporated as they felt the confidence and the strong sense of justice which we now know are so characteristic of Mr. Webb's person ality. And soon again the fires of ambition and missionary zeal that had been originally built by "Boss Ket" and Tom Midgley were lighting the way to the future. Tom Midgley and Arch Maxwell, who were Mr. Webb's right and left bowers in those days, have paid high tribute to the guidance Mr. Webb gave to the struggling business. His keen analytical powers, patience and diplomacy, and his unquestioning faith in the organization and the product have led Ethyl's development and expansion. He gives great credit for Ethyl's success to the foresight, the business sagacity and confidence the board of directors have given him. ETC 11886 But those who have served close to him throughout the years say that granted that is so, still it has been the character and principles of Earle W. Webb that formed the warp and woof of Ethyl's fabric. It is an outstanding characteristic of Mr. Webb that he has always had a real interest in the personal welfare of all the people who have helped him to run the Ethyl business. In the old days he knew personally every em ploye. In recent years, of course, that has been impossible but the interest was still there. On the elevator and in the hallway he chatted informally with vice-president and messenger boy alike. On many occasions, department heads have been surprised by his knowledge of the family and personal history of some employe whom he hadn't seen for years. His interest in every individual who is a member of what he thinks of as the "Ethyl family" is keen and personal. His kindliness and tolerance are prover bial. And with it all he has always maintained a great personal modesty. Years ago he laid down a law that nothing in praise of him should be printed in any Ethyl publication so long as he was head of the Company. That is why this is the first story you have ever read in the Bulletin Board that even mentioned the great char acter of Earle Wayne Webb. 1 Michigan refiners pose with their Ethyl hosts during a top overhaul demonstration at the ; ! Research Labs in Detroit. John Fischer of the Central Region (third from right) conducted the demonstration. In-front of the table are Robert Smith, Socony-Vacuum; Walker Hatfield, Old Dutch Refining; L. A. "Dolly" Dollahan and Charlie Gambrill, Ethyl. Grouped around Dean Birices (in white coat), who operated the CFR knock-testing engine, are Fred Westphal, SoconyVacuum; Hudson Kellogg, Ethyl; Howie Sicard, Continental Motors; John Cooper, Naph Sol Refining; Steve Droege, Ethyl; Don Martyn, Ethyl; Gerald E. Potter, Louis Rose Refining; Ed Bennett, Petroleum Specialties; John Fischer and Fred Robinson, Ethyl. Sales Executive Vice-president Harry Kaley discusses sales plans for 1948. Lending an ear are, from left, Mac Murdock, assistant sales manager, San Wagner, western regional manager, Dick Murphy, eastern ditto, Lou Shank, southern operations manager, and Ollie Jones, head of Customer Services. Next to the presiding vice-president is Sales Manager Julian Frey. At the right are Oscar Lewis, assistant sales manager, Ray Wyiick, western operations manager, Harry Kuhe, central ditto, Russ Weston, advertising manager, and Harold Berg, southern regional manager. On the mori Ethyl's regions agers met in ] five-day sales , in the secluded on Long Island from Monday around an obi, with Vice-Presi Sales Manager sales plans foi evolved there > to all members regional meet: country. On Friday thi to the Florenti Lexington in N final luncheon t In the late bulging, the i trains and plat Penn Station port, heading Local resident Kaley endorses checks, while Lou Shank, San Wag ner and Dick Murphy look on. Harold Berg and Mat Taylor line up at left. ETC 11888 get " New York February 9, doperations manYork to begin a oe. Ensconced fcnCity Hotel out ,, were in session trough Thursday tabic in Salon C ' er - 1 -- r rs O Frey, discussing The program Sow be presented Sales staff at jihroughout the nee adjourned of the Hotel rk City for the jjjfcon, brief cases i climbed aboard t Grand Central, 1a Guardia Airt, South, home. Mr. Webb attended the wind-up luncheon of the week-long confab. He is sitting at the head of the table flanked by the men who make our Sales Depart ment tick. Next to him on the right is San Wagner. On the left (from front) are Ray Wyrick, Lou Shank and Harold Berg; on the right, Oscar Lewis, Harry Kuhe and Jim Boudreau. Standing, from left, are Ollie lones, Bill Turnley, Mac McCulloch, Mac Murdock, Tom Ronan, Mat Taylor, Bayard Browne, Harry Kaley, Ralph Champlin, George Krieger and Julian Frey. Regional operations managers confer. Lou Shank makes a point while Ray Wyrick, Mat Taylor and Harry Kuhe lean and listen. ETC 11889 Ethyl representatives, at the beckon of a customer's hand, will be most happy to put on a show. The customer may take his pick of the 27 films in our library ranging in subject matter from dealer training to technical in struction and general information. These films have proved to be one of the most popular features of Ethyl service. Oil companies use them for presentation before special groups such as employe training schools and other types of intra-company meet ings, and technical societies and other organizations request them for pro grams of various kinds. Last year hundreds of thousands of people--923,100 to be exact--from Maine to California saw these Ethyl productions. Most popular was Magic in Agriculture, released late in 1946. 16 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH Last year it had 2,135 showings before a total audience of 444,033. Next in popularity was This Is Our Land with 1,840 showings before 174,504 people. Our most recent farm movie, Pattern for Progress, re leased late in 1947, is expected to be in great demand during the coming year. Farm movies have proved especially popular because of the intensive cam paign many oil companies are putting on in the rural areas. Consumer meet ings are the chief means of promotion and our movies provide an entertain ing and instructive part of the pro gram. The farm movies, incidentally, are the only ones we make that are made particularly for consumers. All the others are used by customer companies for showings before special groups. etc n890 4- Gasoline for Everybody, a movie showing the different methods used t0 refine gasoline, has been in great demand ever since its release in 1947. VVe have distributed approximately 225 prints to customers, who are keep ing them on hand for repeat perform ances. We have no way of knowing how many times these films have been shown or to how many people. Ethyl's first movie, the Long Road, made back in 1936, is still going strong. It had 678 showings last year before a total audience of 54,751. A fare farewell--Before Don Flynn left for New York to become Eastern Region sales coor dinator, members of the old Kansas City Division held a send-off dinner at the Hotel President in Kansas City. They presented Don with a wrist watch, and for his wife there was a beautiful orchid. Anne and Don, guests of honor, are seated at the head of the table, surrounded by their send-off committee. At left are Doris Nixon, Lou and Virginia Wilson, Jack Clark, Blanche Ash, Jim Boudreau and Nick Nixon. On the right, from front to back, are Bob Smith, Howard Lappe, Charles Welch, John and Leona Fischer, Art Johnson, Bob Douglass and Sue Johnson. W\ r: r~ a-- IF' !( ,/T( Frosted good wishes for Char lie Gambrill's 20th Ethyl birthday are about to be served up by Margaret Griffing. Charlie's anni versary on January 16 was the occasion for a party in his office at the Detroit Labs. On hand to help him celebrate are Clint Leacock, A1 Gassmann, Dorry Whitman, Adele Rosek and John Murphy. ETC 11891 New Models in Detroit Betty Sullivan, steno in Tech Service, was born in the blue grass country of Kentucky. She at tended Mayfield High and after graduation went to Chicago, where she was with John Sexton <5 Co. Before joining Ethyl, Betty was a medical clerk at Chrysler Corporation. She lives in Royal Oak with her husband, who is attending college. While Dick studies, Betty keeps busy with her sewing. I Lydia Huxn, steno in Refinery Technology, is a Pennsylvania-born Detroiter. At Northeastern High she received a shorthand award, and went on to practice her skill at Stewart-Warner. Lydia brings five years' secretarial experience to her work at the Labs. An outdoor girl who likes tennis, skating and swimming, Lydia's indoor likes include playing the piano and a friendly game of bridge. Margaret Ana Davis, who keeps typewriter keys clicking in Purchasing, finds commuting to the Labs is no problem--she lives right in Eerndale. Marge attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and before Ethyl was with Chrysler Cor poration. Creative writing is her spare-time specialty and she's an ambitious letter writer. In nice weather, look for Marge on the fairway. Chemist Beatrice Salisbury received her degree from Jamestown College in North Dakota cum laude. After a year of lab work in Portland, Bea crossed the ocean to Hawaii where for two years she taught science at the Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu. Back in the States, Bea returned to her alma mater and managed the Student Union at Jamestown before moving to Femdale. Ethyl Is Host at Cage Tourney The second annual Ethyl invitational tournament brought 14 crack quints to Baton Rouge January 31 and Feb ruary 1 for some of the best basketball of the season. Shreveport's Royal Crown Cola team copped the trophy by defeating Ryan Plumbers in the final game. The Royal Crown cagers received indi vidual basketballs. A trophy for second place, and silver basketballs, went to the Ryan quint, who handed Ethyl a surprise loss in the semi-finals. The Plant team took the consolation game for third place from Kaiser Aluminum 46-35. Don Forsdick Joins Sales Staff Don Forsdick, formerly eastern ter ritorial manager for Ethyl Specialties Corporation, has joined the Eastern Regional office in New York. Ten years ago Don joined Ethyl as an office boy, and by the time he left to go into service was in charge of the Mail Room. After four years in the Coast Guard he returned to the Company and joined Specialties. One of Ethyl's many commuters, Don lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, with his wife Kay. Jack Cole Goes West Jack Cole, Western Region safety engineer of Wolf Creek Ranch fame, has gone west--further west, that is. He has moved with his wife and three sons from Casper, Wyoming across the border to Salt Lake City, Utah. Petroleum Demand 1941 and 1947 Here you can see the tremendous increase in America's demand for every kind of petroleum product which has occurred since the prewar period. This chart makes it clear why, in areas where demand is exceeding supply, oil men are urging saving in the use of fuel oil. Meanwhile, the industry is proceeding with a gigantic expansion program, which in the two years 1947-48 alone amounts to four billion dollars worth of new facilities to meet the ever increasing oil demand. On File Paul Merrigan is now in charge of our New York warehouse. George Brum is his right hand. They used to be members of the Specialties staff. The newly-acquired storage facili ties occupy the entire second floor of the building at 116 Hudson Street. New supplies, old files and Company records will be stored there. Paul joined the Company in 1946, after four-and-a-half years as a pla toon sgt. in the Marines. He and his wife and three-months-old son, Paul Frederick, live in New Jersey. George, who joined Ethyl two years ago, was a T/sgt. in the Infantry and served four-and-a-half years. 19 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH Add 12 to 5 and 10 An even half-dozen names are added to the 10 Year Club's roster this month--all field men. Five are in the Eastern Region: Redg Eushell and Herb Moseley, field engineers; Frank Huyler and John Pauli, fleet engin eers; and Gel Howell, account repre sentative. Sixth new member of the Club is Jack Warner, Southern Region account representative. Celebrating their fifth Ethyl anni versaries in March are Rita Joseff, of Detroit Research and five New Yorkers: Herb Case and John Palmer, of Finance; Jules Damman, Mailroom; Ed Enoch, Advertising; and Del Ritchie, Specialties Operations. Elected to Office Audrey Bloomer, pert nurse at the Research Labs in Detroit, has been elected vice-president of the Detroit Industrial Nurse's Association. She will serve a two-year term of office. Bill Heck, plant safety engineer at Baton Rouge, has been elected presi dent of the Pelican Safety Association. He was one of the organizers of the group, in which a number of Ethylites are active. May Devlin Dies With sorrow we report the death of May Devlin, who was a member of the mechanical bookkeeping section of the Finance Department in New York. She died suddenly on January 27, at her home in Jackson Heights, 1 Long Island. Born in New York City, May at tended Newtown High in Elmhurst, L. I., and the Merchant and Bankers Eusiness School in New York. She had been with the Company since May, 1946. Surviving are three sons, Charles, 21, Edward, 15, and Richard, 8. We : at Ethyl extend to them our sincere ; sympathy. Sorry, Terry No one was more surprised than Terry l Aziz when the Bulletin Board an nounced last month that, she was engaged to James Nelson. She had never heard of the man. Our face is very red and we extend sincere apologies to Terry for betroth ing her to the wrong man. Her husband-to-be is Joseph Nolan. From Forms to Farms Marguerite McDonald has swap secretary to Jay Goux. Since his retire ped forms for farms to take over as secretary to George Krieger, Ethyl's ment last year she has handled orders. The girls in Order and Shipping agricultural engineer. Until recently she has been a member of the Order and Shipping Department. Marguerite, who wears a diamond gave Marguerite a royal send-off-- luncheon at the Hotel Commodore's j Century Room, an orchid corsage, I and flowers to brighten her new office j in her service pin, was for many years in the Chrysler Building. 20 BULLETIN BOARD-MARCH ETC U89* t- I I [ I I The American way--Dr. and Mrs. Purshottam get pointers about quantity cooking and serving at Ethyl's cafeteria in Detroit. Here they watch as Maude Wesley prepares luscious cream puffs for dessert. Busy in the background at left is Hattie Stafford. East Meets West From far-off India came two recent The Purshottams were impressed with visitors to the Detroit Labs. Dr. and our shiny, modern equipment and Mrs. N. Purshottam, who have come efficient methods. to America to study community Dr. Purshottam, who studied pedi feeding methods, stopped off in Fern- atrics at Harvard University, has dale to inspect Ethyl's cafeteria. done Public Health work among chil * i The Purshottams, in this country dren in India. His wife has a B.S. ct under the auspices of the United Na in nutrition from the University of i tions fellowship program, are making Wisconsin. a six-months' tour of industrial cafe terias and school lunch rooms all over A new supersonic whistle will permit the country. They plan to put into the tired motorist to open his garage practice in India the organization door without getting out of the car. and operation methods they are learn The whistle, operated from the instru I ing in the United States. ment panel, is picked up by a micro Ruby Fertal, cafeteria manager, phone and magnified by an amplifier took them behind the scenes to see to actuate a door-lifting motor. Suc how well-balanced meals are prepared cessive whistles raise, stop, lower or for Ethylites at the Labs each day. lock the door. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--MARCH ETC 11895 I Dogs Have Da\ Prize Winners it "Baton Rouge Rusty," Ed Acker's devoted red Irish setter, placed in the winning ribbons at the Baton Rouge Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show on December 14. Captain and Mrs. Will Judy, editors of "Dog World" magazine, judged the entries. The Club will present during the coming year its first All-Breed Championship Point Show. Ivan Lee of TEL Maintenance shows John Schmitt's winning Boston, "Black Mischief On Parade." Ivan's prize-winning collie missed the show for eight good reasons--her brand new puppies. Art Stover's Newfoundland, "Jumbo," won best of breed and placed in the working dog group. Art and "Jumbo" pause for a photo. ETC 11896 pBaton Rouge fennel Club Show Lillian Kobler, daughter of Sodium Supervisor laspar Kobler, with John Schmitt's "Hinterwald I Love a Parade," best of opposite sex to best of breed. Johnny Schmitt won the Children's Handling Class with his home-bred "Hinterwald Tor pedo." He hopes to become a professional handler and show judge. Ward and Brenda, children of Clint Bond, display the cup won by "Bond's Connecticut," best of breed English spaniel. "Connecticut" was handled by Johnny Schmitt, who groomed and trained her. ETC 11897 Mite-sized models lor this pin-up picture are Janet and Joan, twin daughters ol Dan Hirschler, who made their debuts last May 31. Their dad is an engineer at the Research Labs in Detroit. Baby Parade Recent weeks have found the Detroit Labs well supplied with candy and cigars, in celebration of the arrival of Lilliputian Ethylites. Bruce Alfred, new boarder at the home of Carol and A1 Kolka, registered on January 30. Bruce, who weighed in at six pounds, is the first addition to the Kolka family. His dad is a project engineer at the Labs. Two-year-old Roger Pauls has a new playmate, sister Linda Grace. She was presented to society on Feb ruary 3 by her parents, Nance and A1 Pauls. A1 is a dynamometer operator. A few days later Detroiters wel comed another young lady named Linda, whose dad is also a dynamo meter operator. The seven-pound- fourteen-ounce bundle of charm, Linda Gail, is Lois and Bill Fangext's first child. She'll have one candle on her birthday cake next Feb. 7. In Yonkers, Christopher Bruhl celebrates his fourth birthday on March 9--four months, that is. The strapping young man, who tipped the scales at eight pounds, three ounces last November 9, has a sister, threeand-a-half year old Ellen. Chris Bruhl, their dad, is B.B. corres pondent for the central office of the ^Gasoline Testing Division. An income tax deduction, addressed to A1 Morschauser, arrived on De cember 2. Richard, who prefers to be called Ricky, weighed a sturdy seven pounds, 10 ounces. His dad also works at the central office in Yonkers. Between 60 and 70 percent of all livestock and dairy product shipments in the United States are by motor truck, according to a recent survey. 24 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH A departure in truck design is a 35-foot freighter with twin engines, synchronized so that both transmis sions can be shifted at the same time. 11898 etc Mr. and Mrs. Adam Voulgaris Here Come the Brides Lorraine Gullen, of the Yonkers Lab, is now Mrs. George F. Erling. She and George exchanged vows on November 22 at St. Bartholomew's, Yonkers. Lorraine works in the central office of the Gasoline Testing Division. ?? 7 7 Stella Gemborslcy, also of the Yonkers office, and Albert Oliva will soon be targets for rice and old shoes. Al, back in New York after three years in the Army, gave Stella a diamond for Christmas. 7v v Nancy Anuta/ of Chem Research in Detroit, became Mrs. George Beauchamp on January 3. Following the ceremony at the First Presby terian Church in Menominee, Nancy's L home town in northern Michigan, the couple left for a trip to Chicago.George is a student at Wayne Univer sity in Detroit. 7 7 '? Janet Santostefano/ switchboard operator in the Chrysler Building office, surprised everyone with the news that her marriage to Thomas Leecock on January 18 was a repeat performance--she and Tom had been married secretly in Maryland last July 2. They're busy now setting up housekeeping in their Richmond Hill, L. I. apartment. 7 9 '7 Mrs. Adam Voulgaris is the former Margaret Ellis, of Finance. Marge and Adam were married January 25 25 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH PTC \ 1 B 9 9 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tujague at The Holy Trinity Church in New York. A reception was held at La Guardia Field's Aviation Terrace, and the newlyweds honeymooned at Lake Placid. // Add another name to the list of apartment hunters. Hope Petxoff, of the Statistical Department in New York, received her ring from Roy Morano of the Bronx on February 7. Hope, a Brooklyn girl, says they'll probably "compromise and live in Brooklyn." V? sy< A double order of good wishes flocked in on February 9 for Thelma Hansen, whose engagement was an nounced on her birthday. She and Walter Elsasser, of Flushing, will say "I do" on April 17. Thelma is in the budget section of N. Y. Finance. v1 -7 7 On Valentine's Day the engagement of Janet Terry to William E. Burt was announced by her parents at a tea at their Huntington Woods (Mich.) home. Both Janet and Bill help keep the wheels of Chemical Research 26 BULLETIN BOARD --MARCH turning at our Detroit Laboratories out on West Eight Mile Road. V} 'O February 15 was a very special Sunday for Ray and Vally Tujague --it was their six-month anniversary. Val, whose name was Squillario before her marriage last August 15, is secre tary to Jim Kirby N. Y. Finance. rv) fO Marian Sussek Dennelly, also of Payroll, has recently resigned to join her husband in Chicago, where they will celebrate their six-month anniversary this month. Marian and John were married September 7 at Sacred Heart Church, Glendale, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. George Erling ETC 11900 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Published by the Ethyl Corporation. 405 Lexinqton Avenue. New York. New York; Edward L. Shea. President; Stanley T. Crossland. Vice-president and Treasurer: fulian C. Gonzalez. Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor THE CONSTANT CLAMOR "There are persons who constantly divided than anywhere else, they rend clamor. They complain of oppression, the air shouting agrarian doctrines. speculation and the pernicious influ In a country where wages of labor are ence of accumulated wealth. They cry high beyond parallel, they would out loudly against all banks and cor teach the laborer he is but an op porations, and all means by which pressed slave. small capitalists become united in "Sir, what can such men want? order to produce important and bene What do they mean? They can want ficial results. They carry, on mad nothing, sir, but to enjoy the fruits of hostility against all established insti other men's labor. They can mean tutions. They would choke the foun nothing but disturbance and disorder, tain of industry and dry all streams. the diffusion of corrupt principles and "In a country of unbounded liberty, the destruction of the moral senti-. they clamor against oppression. In a ments and moral habits of society." country of perfect equality they would This message was sent to the United move heaven and earth against privi States Senate on March 12, 1838, by leges and monopoly. In a country Daniel Webster. The clamorers and where prosperity is more evenly complainers are always with us! i it t *t Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Elma Griffith; Detroit: William Book (photographer), Audrey Bloomer, Helen Donovan, Sue Gendemalik, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer), Margaret Takish; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Joanna Bell, Estelle Caldwell, Muriel Homer, Barbara Kelly, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino: Seattle: Aili Koskela; tt ti Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: Chris topher Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. i Printed in U. S. A. Ethyl BULLETIN BOARD APRIL, 1948 22 . -< i 4 A a ETC H903 *'. *' ?***: "r-*l:>*V*~$0^,3*^ "S^2Tt '1NTS^Wf** *- fJrp4* S/O^ P4c* THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY GOES PAGE 16 .__ 3**nJi',-n-- ZT'Z" .- -x~ 'L~i3.'<' >'-P* ~^-'Z5'~*9^ >?*?* EASTERN REGION TALKS SALES AND SERVICE PAGE II SERVICE STEPPING STONES P*CE 33 ETC 11904 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL I I ETC 11905 Billy, son oi Bob Douglass, is dressed for the West Jack Clark, caught trying on his pop's clothes for size Carol and Jim my, children of Ham Greenup ETC 11906 etc 11907 Dave DePree's Susan Bill Shortt's son, Gary ^533 ETC 11910 Denny, George Burcal's etc 11914 Young New Yorkers, below and at right, introduce the children of Ethyl folk in the Chrysler Building Offices. Faith, A1 Warrington's daughter Florence and Barbara, daughters oi Catherine Klein oi Payroll John Palmer's youngsters, John, Mary Jean and Robert ETC 1191 etc 11916 ETC 11918 / etc Marvin Russell's four--baby Gary with his brothers, Marvin and George, and sister, Mary Small Fry Below, Jean Gamble, and right, Bobby Guinn, the progeny of Miner Gamble and Claude Guinn Six Southern Small Try Pres Berry's cowboy son, Preston, Ir. "i Bobby and Donald, sona of Larry Reis, and pal, Speckie Yonkers Young Folks, at left and below--Beth-Anne and Rose-Marie, twin daughters of Bob Fless (lower left); Maureen and Jay, children of John Melody at right. ETC 11922 Keith, son of Leif Zars Young Bill Van Wyck Future soap box derby winners--Larry and Beau, son* of Bo Weill Three scouts from the West, Larry, Kit and Susy, children of Hume Chenault New Managers Named for Test Labs ist at the Yonkers Lab in July, 1930. A graduate of Ohio Northern Univer sity, he had received his degree in chemical engineering only a month before. Later that year he was trans ferred to Detroit, and when the San Bernardino Test Lab was built in 1938, Bob moved out to California. Until his recent promotion to man ager, Bob has been Charlie Rankin's assistant. In taking over at the Tulsa Lab, Charlie finds himself back where he started--he began his Ethyl career in 1932 as a chemist there, and became assistant to the manager. In April of 1941 he headed westward to become manager of the lab in San Bernardino. After almost seven years in sunny Bob Adams Thxee of Ethyl's test labs are "under new management," as a result of recent appointments in the Gasoline Testing Division. Bob Adams has taken over as manager of our lab in San Bernardino, replacing Charlie Rankin who is now in charge of the Tulsa Test Lab. Bill Ludt, former Tulsa Lab manager, has moved to Missouri to head the lab in North Kansas City. He succeeds Harold Mclntire, who has resigned. Bob Adams joined Ethyl as a chem- i ETC 11924 Charlie Rankin California, Charlie's return to Tulsa is really a homecoming. Charlie attended Trinity Univer sity and did graduate work at the University of Texas. He was a chemist with Mid-Continent Petroleum before joining Ethyl. Bill Ludt, like Bob Adams, was introduced to Ethyl Corporation at Yonkers, where he started as a lab technician in 1940. Two years later Bill was transferred to the test lab in Tulsa, and since that time has been living in Oklahoma. Bill, who at tended New York University, con tinued his studies at the University of Tulsa. He was appointed manager of the lab in 1945 and has filled that position until his recent move to North Kansas City. Jim Boudreau Heads Army Reserve Program Twenty-five oil and Army men met in Chicago early in March to make plans for organizing the oil industry's officer and enlisted reserve potential in the Fifth Army Area. Heading the 18-man committee who will put the plans into action is Ethyl's Jim Boudreau, Central re gional manager. In addition to the chairman, Ethyl is also represented by John Howard, of our Detroit Research Labs, who is serving as a member of the committee. With the industry's Army reserve organized, it will be possible in time of emergency to place men in jobs where they will be most valuable with a minimum of delay. Similar reserve programs were worked out by railroad and telephone companies before World War II. When the Selective Service Act went into operation, reserve units in those industries were applied against the quotas demanded by draft boards. Dupet Elects New Directors Stockholders of the Dupet Federal Credit Union at the Baton Rouge Plant elected three directors at their annual meeting. New members of the board are C. O. Harrell, J. W. Mills and M. D. Stiles. Other members of Dupet's board of directors, are H. D. Crook, A. D. Hubbs, E. A. Rachal and Fred O'Rourke. The Credit Union has declared a 3% dividend for 1947 on all shares outstanding December 31. This is the second consecutive year that stock holders have received 3% interest. 23 BULLETIN BOARD APRIL i l II s ETC 11925 Georgia Meeting--Pies Beery end his single-cylinder engine tell this audience about easier starting and warm-up, additional power and other advantages gasoline has over ordinary tractor fuels. Pres, field engineer who works out of the Atlanta office, gave a talk and demonstra tion as part of a two-day tractor school held at the University of Georgia. On hand for the sessions were a group of county agents, assistant county agents and 4-H Club leaders. On the Rostrum Carroll Hebert, safety supervisor at Baton Rouge, spoke at a meeting of the YMCA Men's Club on March 1. Discussing the value of a safety pro gram, he outlined the major steps in a safety campaign. Stephen G. Henry, manager of Plant and Employe Services at Baton Rouge, was guest speaker at a meet ing of the Young Men's Business Club on February 4. He outlined the history of Ethyl Corporation, in connection with the 25th anniversary celebration. Ed Kerr, technical editor in the De velopment Section at Baton Rouge, was interviewed on a broadcast over radio station WJBO, February 19. The program was sponsored by the Baton Rouge chapter of the Reserve Officers Association, in observance of National Security Week. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL Ellis Locher, assistant safety man ager, gave a talk on tank cleaning before the Petroleum Section of the Detroit Industrial Safety Council on February 9. Visual emphasis was added by demonstrating tank ventila tion with plastic models. Dan Reed, safety engineer at Baton Rouge, spoke at a meeting of the Parent-Teacher Council on January 21. He asked the council's help in the ``Accident Prevention Through Saf ety" program that the Pelican Safety Association, of which he is a member, is backing. J. Lester White, special assistant to Steve Henry at Baton Rouge, gave a talk on "Human Relations in Industry" in Shreveport on March 16. He spoke at a meeting of 300 foremen and super visors of northern Louisiana industries. ETC 11926 L Cost of Baton Rouge Expansion Program Up to $28,000,000 i additional $8,000,000 appropria: tion for the expansion program at Eaton Rouge has been voted by the ' Eoard of Directors, bringing the total ; expected cost to $28,000,000. The scope of the program is sub: stantially the same as originally planned when the expansion program ; was announced last July, but due to higher construction costs and, to some extent, changes and improvements that have been incorporated as the engineering progressed, the cost will exceed the estimated $20,000,000. Most of the work on the program of enlarging the facilities of the three principal manufacturing areas is pro- (gressing on schedule, according to John Schaefer, vice president in charge of Baton Rouge operations. So far it f has consisted mainly of planning, engineering and design, and ordering equipment. Last month actual construction began, foundations were laid in the TEL area and groundwork was begun in the Ethyl Chloride area, while con version of the cells in the Sodium I plant continued. Work on general i facilities is also under way. In the TEL area the principal items of new construction will be a new TEL building and wash house, additional alloy manufacturing facilities and a refrigerated water system. The major improvement in the Sodium operations will be the con struction of a third cell room. Cells in the other two rooms are now being converted to higher capacity. In the Ethyl Chloride area a new ELA plant will be built, while ELA No. 3 will be improved by new com pressors, heat exchangers and process piping changes. A new Ethylene Dichloride plant is also planned. Of special interest to Baton Rouge folk are the new change houses to be built in the TEL and Ethyl Chloride areas. Expansion of the Sodium change house will include additions and improvements to make its facil ities as complete as the new ones. Included in the over-all improve ments will be various kinds of auxil iary installations . and equipment. Among these are fife and safety pro tective devices, repair and paint shops, drains and sewers, lighting, and walks and roadways. Early in March Baton Rouge folk watched workmen lay the foundations for the sixth TEL building and wash house that i will go up here alongside the "E" TEL building, at left. Scheduled for completion in Ii May 1949, it will be known i as the "F" building. L ETC 11927 Who Gets Our National Income?* By Rev. Edward A. Keller, C.S.C. Father Keller La director of Notre Dame University's Bureau of Economic Research, whose purpose is "to find the truth about our material existence (using official governmental data) and to translate this truth into words so simple that anyone can understand it." "The rich get richer . . . and the poor get--children." Not too many years ago that jest was mouthed by every vaudevillian treading the boards. Americans lis tened and laughed; and believed. The fact is that it's not true. At least not wholly. Our birth rate con tinues to develop in a manner con sistent with the needs of a healthy, vigorous nation. But as for the rich getting richer, well, as A1 Smith used to say, "Let's look at the record." The facts shown in the accompany ing charts completely discredit the common belief that a few wealthy indi viduals receive most of the national income, while the majority of the people receive the minor share. This, the legend continues, leaves insuffi cient purchasing power in the hands of the majority of consumers, with the result that they are unable to buy the goods and services they have pro duced. And this in turn is supposed to be the main cause of depressions. The spendable income of the wealthy class in 1944 was two billion dollars, and consumer expenditures in that year amounted to 90 billion dollars. It is obvious that the two billions of the well-heeled could hardly account for the purchase of 90 billions of goods and services. The figures reveal some other inter esting facts about this wealthy class. For instance, those with incomes above $25,000 are largely a workers' class, since 67.5% of their total in come was in payment for personal labor. And what huge proportion of the total U. S. income from interest, DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL INCOME ncrocMM comuiiom This chart shows how the distribution of the national income has changed since the 1920's. The people getting $5,000 or less were the only group whose share of the national income increased. From 76.5% in 1928 it rose to 90.2% in 1944. On the other hand, people earning between $5,000 and $25,000 saw their share decrease from 12.4% in 1928 to 8.5% in 1944. People earning $25,000 and over were hit the hardest. Their share dropped from 11.1% in 1928 to 1.3% in 1944. These figures take on added significance when it is recalled that the total national income in 1944, at $155.3 billion, was more than double the $78.7 billion national income paid out in 1928. They show that people in the lowest income bracket received a larger share of an expanded national income, whereas people in the middle and high income brackets received much less. `Abstracted from an article published in LOOK Magazine, March 16, 1948 26 BULLETIN BOARD--APRIL ETC 11928 I. co*oriOM The above chart tells in dollars what the preceding chart told in percentages--how the national income was divided among various economic groups in two years, 1928 and 1944 (latest avail able figures when study was made). Comparing those two years, we see some significant changes: (1) While the total national income increased from $78.7 billions in 1928 to $155.3 billions in 1944, the share of people who get $25,000 a year and more decreased from $8.7 billions in 1928 to roughly $2 billions in 1944; (2) The share of people who get $5,000 to $25,000 increased only slightly--from $9.8 billions in 1928 to $13.2 billions in 1944; (3) But people earning $5,000 and less saw their share more than double--from $60.2 billions in 1928 to $140.1 billions in 1944. All figures on personal income distribution are after taxes. dividends and rent would you guess this wealthy class to have received? Three and one-half percent. Since 1929, labor has received an increasing share of the national in come, while the owners (mostly other workers) of the "tools" (machinery, plants, etc.) have received a declining share of total national income. Unfortunately, the word "profit" has a bad, anti-social connotation due to the influence of Karl Marx who said that "profits" were taken away from labor by capitalists. Actually, just as wages are that part of the selling price collected from the cus tomer for the use of the workers' human energy, profit is that part of the selling price collected for the use of the tools. Great ignorance about the amount of payment for the use of tools (profits) was brought to light by a nationwide survey of white-collar and manual workers made in May 1946 by Opinion Research Corp. (see chart page 29). 27 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETc 11929 Actually, during the past 20 years, corporate profits paid out to individ uals have averaged a little more than 2 cents out of every sales dollar. Even in 1946, the year of the highest cor porate profits on record, profits of all manufacturing corporations averaged 5 cents out of the sales dollar, which was less than 1940-41; trade corpora tions averaged 3.3 cents which was less than some years of the depression. The over-all average was 4.7 cents. It is no accident that the American worker has the highest standard of living of any worker in the world and in the history of the world. He has this high standard mainly because he works with labor-aiding tools. The American worker gets the tools he uses from individuals who do not spend all of their income for consumer goods and services, but save part of their income and invest it in tools. In this country, most of the tools were accumulated in the 30 years prior to 1929. During the period 19201930--the period of greatest expan sion in new and better tools--new capital issues averaged 6 billion a year. Most of the savings which made possible these new and better tools came from those in the income bracket of $5,000 and over. This was possible because the government did not take their savings in taxes, but permitted them to be invested in business. In 1933, however, a new tax policy was adopted in this country. It was based on the "mature economy1' and "planned scarcity" theory, which maintained that our national economy had too many tools due to a maldis tribution of national income by which too much income went to the upper classes, therefore into "savings," and not enough into "purchasing power." In line with this theory, the govern ment adopted the policy of taking in HOW WORKERS AND INVESTORS FARED BETWEEN 1929 AND 1946 f Between 1929 and 1946, all of the gains reflected by the great increase in national income went to workers in the form of increased labor pay ments. However, corporate dividends--which represent the return to stockholders on their investment--witnessed a 14% decline. National Income Labor Payments 28 BULLETIN BOARD -- APRIL Corporate Dividends U930 WHAT EMPLOYES THINK ABOUT PROFITS I! Ml RIMO OOOOOOQOO 60% THOUGHT THAT . . . 25< WAS EARNED ON EACH DOLLAR RRRRRR o o o o o o SAME 60% THOUGHT THAT ... 10 WOULD BE FAIR ACTUAL PROFIT 5*j^(f0M0M0<)(lUXlU*)(lUXlUKlU` s A survey by the Opinion Research Corporation revealed a surprising amount of misinformation among employes about business profits. Six out of every ten employes interviewed thought that the average manufacturer made 25% or more in peacetime. These same employes thought that a 10% return would be a fair rate of profit. Actually, manufacturers' profits in 1946, year of highest corporate profits on record*, amounted to only 5%--in other words, exactly half of what employes thought would be a fair return. taxes a large part of the savings of those in the income bracket of $5,000 and over, and especially those in the income bracket $25,000 and over. Funds, therefore, were simply si phoned from the private capital market to the government. Private investment practically ceased. From 1933 to 1945, new capital issues averaged less than half a billion dollars a year. For the first time in our history-- during the period of 1930-1940--our economy went backward. The national tool account (capital) fell 19.4% from 1930 to 1940. Those who suffered most were the workers, because the result of such tax policy could have been nothing but contin ued economic stagnation. SThis actually was the case. Evi dence is the fact that in 1940, after government expenditure of these sav| ings taken in taxation, the country f was still in depression. And there still * were 7 million workers unemployed. I It would have been much better if these savings had been permitted to remain in the hands of individuals, to be used to create more and better labor-aiding tools--the vital ingred ient of our high standard of living. Today the former exponents of the "planned scarcity" economy have shifted ground completely; they now advocate an "expanding economy," for example--labor's demand for in creased steel capacity. Unfortunately, they don't say where the funds will come from for this "expansion for full employment." They advocate contin uance of the extremely high income taxes on those incomes which in the past have accounted for new tools. And they also demand an increasing share of "profits" which today are the important private source for "new tools." Therefore, they logically must advocate that business expansion be made from government funds. This is socialism. One need look no farther than Great Britain and France to see what that kind of socialism has done for the working people. 29 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL I ETC 11931 L. A. Host to San Berdu at Services Show Bob Mead, BB correspond ent for the Western Re gion, reverses things by sitting pretty while his wife Roberta gets out (but not under) to crank this old Brush. The car was on the dynamometer in the auditorium at Ethyl's Los Angeles office. Food and lun followed facts and figures on Feb ruary 18 when a score of San Berdu Ethylmen and their wives spent the eve ning in Los Angeles as guests of the Western Region. Bill Van Wyck (standing) and Becky Chenault share a joke with Chris and Bo Weill as Hume Chenault looks on from across the table. etc 11932 i rr> ! Salesmen Meet in Atlantic City At the Seaside Hotel, a short half down expenses and paper work. block from Atlantic City's pounding On the second day of the four-day surf and famed boardwalk, the men meeting, Dick Scales, director of of the Eastern region met the week Technical Service, discussed the fleet, of March 8 for the first of a series of farm and passenger car programs meetings to be held in each of the four conducted by our Detroit Labs. Sales regions. For the first time since Ben Brewster, technical represen 1941 they got together to discuss their tative, gave a brief resume of the activities and clear up any problems cooperative activities that have been or questions on operations and policy. undertaken between our Research On hand to clear them up were Sales Laboratories and the technical depart 1 Manager Julian Frey, who got the ments of our customer companies. meeting off to a good start with his Oscar Lewis, assistant general sales presentation of the current sales pic manager, discussed a balanced Sales ture and the outlook for the future, Department service program as a | Dick Murphy, Eastern regional man- means of improving customer rela ; ager and Mat Taylor, Eastern opera- tions and increasing the acceptance r tions manager. and use of our product. Others who f President E. L. Shea, speaking at discussed various phases of the Com ' the first day's afternoon session, pre pany's operations included Jim Bald sented Management's position on win and Ollie Jones, Safety; Joe broad policy matters. Emphasizing Costello, Manudacturing; Walter Cos the necessity for economical operation grove, Annuities and Insurance;Bayard in the face of competition and rising Browne, Order and Shipping; Ed Gresscosts, he pointed out the need for lin. Traffic; Russ Weston, Advertising; , carefully examining all expenditures Mac McCulloch, Sales Promotion. in order to reduce costs and hold A "Stump the Experts" session them at a minimum level. gave the men an opportunity to ask Dick Murphy discussed the present any questions still on their minds. operating organization and reasons Their questions answered, the men behind recent changes. He explained then gathered for the wind-up ban I that the changes were made to obtain quet. The following day most of the maximum operating efficiency. Re safety engineers and account repre gional offices, sub-offices and members sentatives went over to Delaware to of the Sales staff are strategically visit our new Edge Moor terminal. located to give the most effective and A similar meeting was held for per efficient service to our customers. sonnel of the Southern region in Gulf Mat Taylor outlined features of the port, Miss., March IS, 16, and 17 at operating organization specially de the Markham Hotel. The Central signed to increase the efficiency and region meeting is scheduled for April productiveness of the personnel. He 26, 27 and 28 at the Blackstone in emphasized the importance of ade Chicago, while the Western region will quate interview reports and cutting meet in Los Angeles in May. 31 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 11933 It's Love Again Dozis Sasse, skyscraper steno, said goodbye to her Ethyl friends in the Chrysler Building last month and is busy getting ready for her wedding on April 10. From that day forward, her name will be Mrs. Robert F. Lange. Doris and Bob will be married in the Larchmont Avenue Church, with a reception at the Westchester Country Club. After a wedding trip to the South, they'll live in Fleetwood. Mary Hughes of Chicago became a candidate for the rice-and-old-shoe department with the announcement of her engagement to Malcolm Kelly. Mary is secretary to Jim Boudreau, Central Regional manager. V vv Audrey Bloomer, whose engagement to Robert G. Wright has been announced in Detroit, is well known among Ethyl Research Lab folk. Familiar figure in her crisp white uniform, she administers aspirin and advice. Dorothy St. Ana/of the Automo tive Products Section at the Detroit Labs, became Mrs. Henry Laberge on February 24. She and Henry were married in Toledo, Ohio, with Georgenia Slack of Employe Relations as Dorothy's attendant. The Laberges spent a week in Montreal, Henry's home town, and are now making their home in Detroit. Raymond Shugart of Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company has slipped a ring on the third finger, left hand of Clara Bell Gay. The new Mrs. Shugart is from Clute, Texas. Ray is in the Maintenance Department at EthylDow's plant in Freeport, Texas. Jim Thomas Wins Scout Honor The highest award that a scoutmaster can receive--the Scoutmasters' Key-- was presented to Jim Thomas at the February Court of Honor in Wilming ton, North Carolina. Jim is office manager of Ethyl-Dow's plant there. He received the key in recognition of five years' service as a scoutmaster, and has also completed specialized training in the Boy Scout program. 32 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL Norm Finds Needle in Haystack Norm Linstromberg has moved from Excelsior, Minn, on Lake Min netonka's shores, to Dayton, Ohio, where he'll continue his work as fleet engineer and headquarter in the Cen tral region's sub-office there. Norm and his wife succeeded in finding a brand new apartment in Dayton, where they are now getting settled. ETC 11934 MILESTONES GO BY Bill Ransier (left) checks engine per* formance at the control panel of a pynamometer, while Harry Toulmin re cords instrument readings. From coast to coast new names are added to the long-service list, as seven more pass Ethyl milestones in April. William Ransier of Detroit has a second diamond in his service pin to mark the completion of 20 years with the Company. He joined Ethyl shortly after the Research Laboratory moved out to Detroit and over the years has watched the Labs grow and develop into the present modem buildings that stand on West Eight Mile Road in Femdale. Bill first worked with Joe Mescher in the Machine Shop, and later with George Calingaert in Chemical Re L. search. For the greater part of the time, though, he has been a member of the Dynamometer Section. In the great out-of-doors lie Bill's two main interests--hunting and fish ing. He's equally at home casting in the lakes and streams of Northern Michigan and tracking deer in On tario's forestland. Michael Remondino, research engineer in San Bernardino, is a new member of the 15-Year Club. Mike came to the Company after his graduation from the University of Detroit, with a degree in aeronautical engineering. You might call him a 33 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL Mike Remondino charter member of the San Bernardino Lab staff, since he was one of the original group who went out in March, 1935 to start the laboratory. Mike worked there for seven years, then returned to the Detroit Labs. During his stay in Michigan, Mike was active in the Ethyl Society, and on his return to San Bernardino in the fall of 1945 started the wheels rolling for the organization of an Ethyl Society there. He was the first chair man, and until recently has served on the steering committee. He is a mem ber of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Lions Club. Like Bill, Mike is an enthusiastic fisherman and hunter. He is also handy with a camera, and serves as BB correspondent for the Lab. Mike and his wife, Margaret, have two sons--Michael will have four candles to blow out on his birthday cake next month, and Roger will be two in July. The 10-Year Club has the welcome 34 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL mat out for Arthur Deverill of N. Y. Finance, Ben Penrose, safety engineer in Seattle, and Don Williams, Eastern region fleet engineer. Shiny new pins for five years of Ethyl service decorate two lapels in Detroit Research -- Halbert Bean's and Wilson Hancock's. Charlie Kass Elected to Civic Board Headlines in the weekly Birmingham (Mich.) Eccentric went to Charlie Kass recently upon his election to the board of directors of the Birmingham Community House, hub of social and cultural activities in the Detroit sub urb where many Ethyl people live. Right after his selection as a board member for a two-year term, Charlie was handed the major job of campaign chairman for the Community House's 1948 fund-raising drive. He heads a committee who will set out this month to raise a minimum of $28,000 so the Community House can carry on its activities. Charlie, as you probably know, is one of the four "Rover Boys" at the Ethyl Laboratories in Detroit. Good Medical Service The American College of Surgeons has awarded its certificate of approval to the hospital at our Baton Rouge plant. The ACS, after a careful study of facilities and personnel, found that Ethyl's hospital meets the standards for medical service in industry. When Dr. Roy C. A. Bock and his staff move into the new Medical-Personnel Build ing this summer, the award will go along with them to hang in a new place of honor. Smiling Lois Cassell welcomes callers at the Los Angeles office--both in person and over the telephone. A native Californian, Lois studied the three r's in Los Angeles schools. She was with Western Airlines and the Donald R. Warren Company before joining Ethyl as receptionist and switchboard oper* ator. Lois likes to sing and is an accomplished pianist. She also enjoys swinging into the saddle for a trot around the bridle path. Constance Nichols is secretary to Ray Wyrick, Western region operations manager. Born in London, she attended school there and later worked in the office of the Ministry of Supply. Connie has been in California just over a year, and likes the States. She and her husband (they met when he was in England with the Army Air Corps) live in Los Angeles. Connie prefers classical music, and is gifted with paint brush and easel. Delle Cardwell/ steno in the Western re* gional office, takes dictation like a veteran-- and she is. During the war she served in the WAC for two years, part of the time in the Southwest Pacific as a stenographer for the Army Corps of Engineers. Delle was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and went to school there. She now lives in Los Angeles with her hus* band. Bowling is a favorite pastime. Dorothy Silvij/ a new member of the office staff in Los Angeles, celebrated the first anni* versary of her arrival in California last month. Dot's home town is Massillon, Ohio, where she learned about readin', writin' and 'rithmetic. She attended business college there, and before moving to the West Coast was with Hercules Motors in Canton, Ohio. Dot spends many an after-Ethyl hour swimming. etc 11937 Virginia Mitchell makes typewriter keys fly as she transcribes shorthand cotes at the Gasoline Testing Laboratory in Yonkers. Jinny, who was born in Yonkers, has lived there all her life. She attended local schools, and is a graduate of Roosevelt High. Jinny came to Ethyl from the American Electro Metal Corporation. Bowling is her favorite indoor sport, but come summer she likes a splash in the surf. Louise Hill, of the Gasoline Testing Division's central office, is right at home in Yonkers. She was born and educated there, now lives in near-by Hastings-on-Hudson with her teen-age daughter, Marcia. Before Ethyl, Louise was with the Automotive Metallizing Corporation and the Anaconda Wire & Cable Company. She has been active in the Yonkers ParentTeacher Association, enjoys an evening of bridge or kegling. Emma Reis* keeps a typewriter busy at the central office in Yonkers. Emma was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and attended Julia Richman High in New York. A past-champion canoe paddler, Emma took first place a few years ago in double blade races at Central Park and the Thousand Islands. She goes in for homier things now--likes to work in her garden. Emma lives in Yonkers with her husband and daughter, Roberta. ETC 11938 Jimmie Bridges Shoots His Way to Championship Pistol packin' Ethylites shot it out at State Police Headquarters in Baton Rouge on February 8, but it was all in fun. A pistol match, sponsored by the E.A.A., brought a baker's dozen of marksmen to the range and bulletriddled targets are evidence of their skill. The shoot was divided into three parts: 25-yard slow fire, 10 shots: 25-yard rapid fire, 10 shots (five shots must be fired in 10 seconds); and 50-yard slow fire, 10 shots. City champion Jimmie Bridges took home the winning trophy, scoring 231 out of a possible 300 points. The second-place trophy went to Louis Menville, who chalked up 222. Dan McDonald received a medal for plac ing third with 213. Supplying compe tition for the three crack shots were Edgar Alford, Clive and Thad Bridges, Wilson Devall, C. O. "Tinker" Har-. rell, Harry Hinnershitz, .Jimmie Mc Kinney, Paula Stogner, Reese Summrall and Albert Troth. y, v.i ' Mvv . Ready . . . Aim .. . Fire! Here's Champ Jimmie Bridges with his .22 Hi-Standard pistol. Baton Rouge Ethyl Folk Give $2766 to March of Dimes Digging deep for a worthy cause, employes at our Baton Rouge Plant added a total of $2,766.19 to the 1948 March of Dimes campaign. J. Lester White, coordinator for the drive, was assisted by a chairman for each of the three plant groups. Joe Stewart was chairman for Local 12900 UMW, with Willie Dipaola, L. E. Hernandez and C. E. Wilkerson as vice-chairmen. Chairman for the Cooperative Bargaining Agency was D. C. Atkinson, with W. L. Pickett as vice-chairman. Frank Roe served as chairman for the Ethyl Management Club. Over 100 captains assisted. 37 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETc 11939 .1 Dick Scales, diiector of Technical Service, points out the special features of this single-cylinder engine as he takes visiting engineers on a tour of the Research Laboratories in Detroit. They are members of the Michigan Section of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, which held an all-day meeting at the Labs on February 14. Our own engineers in Tech Service were hosts to the group, who were officially welcomed by General Manager Earl Bartholomew. Flickers in Ferndale The February meeting of the Detroit Ethyl Society was a gala movie night, featuring current events and travel. Members and their families saw "Palestine," a March of Time film. On the lighter side was a travelogue about the land of the conga and the coffee bean, "Wings Over Latin America." Then came refreshments, card games and ping pong. Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson (photographer): Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Elma Griffith; Detroit: William Book (photographer), Audrey Bloomer, Helen Donovan, Sue Gendemalik, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson {photographer), Margaret Takish; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash: Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Joanna Bell, Estelle Caldwell, Muriel Homer, Barbara Kelly, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Seattle: Aili Koskela; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: Chris- topher Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. 1 { BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL ETC 11940 r j ! i;, j ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Pubi/shed by the Ethyl Corporation, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York: Edward L. Shea. President: Sfaniey T. Crossiand, Vice-president and Treasurer: Julian C. Gonzalez. Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor V./i i v.;:; People vs. Rabbits Have you heard about the rabbitpower theory? It's headed our way. Formerly practiced in Berlin and Rome, its current citadel is Moscow. In the Communist Capital the rab bit-power theory is practiced with great proficiency. Let's take a look and see how it operates. Very simple. The state provides a maximum of hypnotic supervision and a minimum of hutch fodder to keep its citizens alive, but not lively enough to kick. Once their own people were taken in with this sleight-of-hand economics, the Com munists began to think of the whole world as their rabbit farm. The Iron Curtain fell on the necks of one country after another. Now people in these new rabbit-power countries are bred, rationed, hutched, and pulled around by the ears until they forget to be people and act like rabbits. J Those countries that still remain outside the Iron Curtain look to America--the last strong land of human freedom--for leadership. Free dom, world events have taught us, Printed in U. S. A. L isn't free. It was won by bitter struggle and it can be lost with tragic ease, if we as citizens lack the integrity and the ability to continue to earn it. There's a price on freedom. The price is doing our jobs so well that free democracy does more good for more people than any other system in the world. Part of the price is uninter rupted production and uninterrupted wages. Part of the price is to get along with other free men in honest trust and friendship. The "divide and con-. quer" game of the rabbit-theory boys starts with a quarrel. Never was so small a price asked for so great a reward--a prosperous, thriving nation of independent people, courageously standing on their own two feet--people who refuse to become anybody's rabbit because they believe in themselves, because they believe in the dignity of man, because they have a passionate desire to live the way they want to live. This is the time for America to show the world that freedom works. 39 BULLETIN BOARD --APRIL 1 t ) ETC 11941 ETC 11942 etc U943 ETC 11944 r Curtis Holton Named Director Of Industrial Relations Curtis R. Holton, who has been a consultant to Ethyl Corporation on industrial relations for the past three years, has been appointed director of Industrial Relations to be responsible for all employe and industrial rela tions in the Company. With the appointment of Curt Hol ton as head of the department of In dustrial Relations, the former depart ment of Employe and Public Relations has been divided and Ralph Champlin is in charge of the new department of Public Relations. Curt's department will include Com pany-wide administration of wages and salaries and all benefit plans including group insurance and retire ment programs. In addition, he will be in charge of matters pertaining to employment in the New York office. For the past four years Curt Holton has operated his own business as an industrial relations consultant to large business establishments. A native of Indianapolis, he entered the industrial relations profession shortly after his graduation from the University of Indiana in 1926. For eight years he was personnel director of the St. Louis division of the Kroger Company, a. large food concern in the midwest. For the next eight years he was a senior staff member of Industrial Re lations Counselors, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to give research and consulting services to American business firms. Curt, through his association during the past three years as a consultant to the Company, is widely known to many Ethyl people in the executive offices in New York, the research lab oratories in Detroit and the manu facturing plant in Baton Rouge. 3 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY--JUNE i ETC 11945 Lea Hurtable (seated second from right), of the Southern Regional office, served on the refining subcommittee of the International Petroleum Exposition. The group is shown here as they were making plans for the refining exhibits in the Hall of Science prior to the opening. Thousands Saw Ethyl Movies at Tulsa Oil Show In Tulsa on May 15 the world's largest industrial show opened with oil men from the far comers of the earth on hand for the 25th anniversary of the International Petroleum Exposition. They saw the latest equipment dis played by top manufacturing and service companies in petroleum and related industries. They also saw educational exhibits and movies. Ethyl Corporation par ticipated in the educational end of the show with an exhibit and three films. The films were on the bill at the movie theater where various phases of the petroleum industry were de picted in movies shown continuously on an advertised schedule throughout 4 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY--JUNE the eight days of the exposition. They were: Pattern for Progress, The Long Road and Gasoline for Every body. Lou Shank, our Southern Op erations manager, says that Ethyl was the only company invited to con tribute that many films. In the Hall of Science the various steps in the processing of petroleum from the well to the automobile were shown--with working models wher ever possible. Included among these exhibits Ethyl had in operation a plastic model blending plant, show ing how "Ethyl" antiknock compound is mixed with gasoline. The manufac turing panel from the Services show was used as a backdrop for the exhibit. r Financial Men j on the Move ^everal changes in the Finance de partment were announced early in (June by Vice President Stanley T. jcrossland. The changes, effective jjuly 1. include the transfer of several frnajor accounting activities to Baton cRouge, heretofore located in the New {York office. } Robert H. Cowlishaw, assistant treasurer, will move to Baton Rouge jto take charge of all accounting ac- Vivities at the plant. Edwin A. Acker 'will continue as resident controller. Assistant Treasurer Paul B. Mona han will assume along with his present responsibilities the duties Bob leaves behind. James C. McC. Wilkin will assume the responsibilities of a new adminis trative position maintaining account ing control of capital projects and financial authorization procedures. Bob, who is a certified public ac countant, came to Ethyl in 1943 from the accounting firm of Loomis, Suffem and Fernald. Starting with us as chief accountant he was elected assistant treasurer in July 1946. Bob's college career included two years at Rutgers as an engineering student, and two at New York University where he earned his bachelor of commercial science degree in 1936. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Bob now lives in Elizabeth, New Jersey with his wife and eight-year-old son, Rickie. He's looking forward to seeing a lot more of them after he moves to Baton Rouge and eliminates his threehour daily commutation time.* * Affected by the changes are: Robert H. Cowli| shew, top; Paul B. Monahan, center; and i James C. McC. Wilkin, pictured at the right. L A WORD ABOUT OUR PLANNING TO ALL EMPLOYES: Compared to many large corporations, our Company is one of moderate size. Yet, the problems we face in managing our busi ness are as complex as those which have to be solved by some of the largest organizations. Finding the right answer to these problems is very important, of course, to the future welfare of our Company. More than a year ago, for example, the Company started a program of expanding its manufacturing facilities in order to get ready for increased demands for our products. You will recall the announcement, made last summer, of a $20 million expan sion program for this purpose. The estimated costs for this program have now increased almost SO percent. This was in addition to several million dollars worth of construction that was already under way for the new drumming plant, personnel and medical building, and the new development laboratory at Eaton Rouge. At the same time, we decided to build terminal storage facili ties for "Ethyl" antiknock compound in order to give our cus tomers better and quicker service. Since that time, we decided to increase the expansion program further, where it proved advantageous to do so. These additions added several more millions to the cost of our program. Also, in the intervening months, the prices of building materials and construction have gone up. Today, we calculate the cost of the entire program--for plant expansion, terminal bulk plants and other new facilities--at 40 million dollars. This is a large sum of money to put into a business the size of ours, but your manage ment believes the future prospects warrant this action. To meet the large capital requirement for this program of expansion, it has been necessary for your management and stock holders to fix a policy of using our cash reserves and nearly all our earnings over the next several years to defray this cost. A second important problem has been the continually rising costs for nearly everything Ethyl buys. All of you are familiar with the way prices of consumer goods have risen since the war. 6 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE f 1 i i I I II ! i I i k ETC 11948 !*. Your Company has faced similar increases in the prices we have to pay for raw materials, electricity, cars, trucks and other equipment, and freight charges. Also, a very important increase has gone into Ethyl payrolls. We have added to the number of our employes as the business has grown, but most of the increase in payrolls has gone into higher wages and salaries. Since June 1946 our annual payroll has been increased by six million dollars. By developing improved manufacturing processes, we have been able to increase production volume and to achieve many important operating economies. Because of these improved manufacturing processes and the cooperative effort of our people in the operations and maintenance end of our business and in research, development and engineering sections of the Company, we have been able to keep our manufacturing costs from going up as fast as they would have gone, had we made no improve ments in our operating methods. However, in spite of this, the continually rising costs made it necessary for us to increase the selling price of our product. On April 19 we notified our customers of our decision to increase the price of "Ethyl" antiknock compound beginning July 1, 1948, and we gave them the reasons behind this decision. Within a few days, we received assurances from customers, as indicated by their acknowledgments, that they fully understood our position. Since we notified our customers of the price increase to be effective July 1, we have been faced with further increases in our overall costs, as you know. While all of you are generally familiar with these problems, I thought you would be interested in what Ethyl management has done to meet them. I know you realize that the success of our Company depends not only upon efficient low-cost produc tion, but also on making sure that Ethyl products, prices, and services are as good or better than those offered by competitors. And, of course, if the Company we work for makes steady prog ress and is successful in meeting the problems that face it from year to year, the business opportunities for each of us are sure to be better. Cordially, 7 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE XT RUMS IN THE FAMILY Two popular father-son combina tions at the Detroit Research labo ratories are the Meschers (below) and the Princes (right). Joseph, better known as "Pop," and Bob Mesoher have been helping turn the wheels ol progress at the labs for more than 20 years. Harry Prince has been pitching on the Ethyl team for over 15 years and his son, Dick, joined the league about a year ago, right after he turned 18. Pop is head of the machine shop, where the highly specialised equip ment designed by Ethyl engineers for use in our labs is turned out. His son, Bob, installs special equip ment on dynamometer test engines and sees that it operates properly. He does a lot of other things, too, such as provide stiff competition in Detroit's horseshoe, bowling and ping pong events. Teamed with Eddie Gofier, he has copped the horseshoe doubles championship two years running, and this year was runner-up for high game among Ethyl bowlers throughout the country. Harry Prince, who presides at the West gate of the labs, greets all cornea with a Georgia-bred southern drawl. Dick, shown with him (above), is an engine operator in Bob Kerley's Aeronautical Research lab. He is the oldest of the four young Princes Harry and his wife, Jay, are rearing. The hospitality of their home--just a stone's throw from the lab--is well-known to Ethyl folk. Harry is one of ihe Detroit Ethyl Society's most enthusiastic members. Behind most of the events put on by the Society--social or sports--lurks his fine Italian hand. An ardent bowling fan, he ranks high among Detroit keglers, and for the past several years has helped the win ning team carry home the cup. ETC II Airview of the Wilmington, California terminal showing foundations for the four storage tanks in the background. The large building in the front is the garage, to the left of that is the pump bouse, and across from the garage are the warehouse for drum storage (left) and the 15,000 gallon weigh tank building. The office building is at the far right, and at the left, the water tank. West Coast Terminal Starts Operations Early in April, Ev Clough, Merritt Martin and Bill Thompson stepped behind their steering wheels and set out on a safari to the West. Their destination was Wilmington, Cali fornia, where Ethyl's new terminal, under construction since last Sep tember, was nearing completion. The men, who used to work at the Deepwater plant, have moved to the Golden State to help Bud Johnson run the new terminal, which started opera tions last month. Bud is No. 1 man there and went out to Wilmington last Fall to watch the terminal go up. Ev, Merritt and Bill have been working at Edge Moor, Delaware since the first of the year when that terminal got under way. The West Coast installation, just outside Los Angeles city limits, is only twenty miles from the heart of the business district, five miles from the harbor, and within easy reach of many of our customer companies' plants. Primarily designed as a tank truck delivery point, the terminal will also be a source of standby supply in case of emergency. There are four storage tanks with 9 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE I ETC 11951 a total capacity of four million pounds of TEL. Other buildings and equip ment include a garage, an office build ing, a warehouse, weigh tanks for tank truck and tank car deliveries, pumps, receiving and loading facilities. This maze-like structure of reinforced concrete furnishes a solid foundation for the tanks which are surrounded by a sturdily built retaining wall. In the foreground, the track scale building. 7.V' ETC 11952 Baton Rouge Chemists Develop Corrosion-Testing Meter Working in cooperation with the Battelle Memorial Institute, chemists of the Development section at Ethyl Corporation's plant in Baton Rouge have helped to perfect a meter for measuring corrosion. The instrument measures the thick ness of metal by registering the re sistance to a current passing through the object. The amount of damage done by corrosion can easily be deter mined by a comparison with the original thickness of the metal. The meter cuts down inspection time and reduces shut-downs because the ob ject being tested can remain in use. The old method for determining corrosion, boring a hole in the equip ment, was not only time-consuming, but also expensive. And so, in Novem ber 1945, Bob Asbury, assistant man ager of the Development section and Bob Herzog, a chemist, talked over the problem with Battelle officials. Within six months the Institute had developed a metal-thickness meter. Chemist Clarence Harvey of De velopment was given the job of adapting the original model to Ethyl's needs. The meter has been used since Roy Phillips, of Development, and George Cline, of Inspection (left), check a tank with the new metal-thickness meter, while Develop ment Chemist Clarence Harvey and Tommy Mixon, of Inspection, stand by. April 1946 and Battelle Memorial Institute has recently built another model incorporating improvements recommended by the Ethyl chemists. Ten thousand persons are employed and fifty million dollars is spent annu ally by U. S. oil companies for re search in their never-ending quest for new and improved products. Work now being done in petroleum research laboratories will be reflected in more and better products to be used in agriculture, industry and the home. Although there are one million fewer workers on American farms today than in 1935, farm food production has increased repeatedly during that time as the farm has been mechanized largely with equipment using oil prod ucts. Since 1935 agricultural output has reached a point 40% higher than any peak year prior to that date. 11 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE In New York ior a two-day conference April 12 and 13, after completing a nine-months' training, program, four fuel technologists of the Sales department discuss plans with Julian Frey, Oscar Lewis and Tom Risk. In the picture, (left to right) standing are: Jack Fuller, Central region, Oscar Lewis, assistant sales manager. Herb Peters, Western region, and Tom Risk, head of the Refinery division; seated, Russ McGuiney, Eastern region, Julian Frey, general sales manager and Rollie Barnes, Southern region. Sparking lor Still Better Customer Services Sales department specialists in re finery operations, who have just com pleted a nine-months' training pro gram, are now back in their regional offices ready to put their information to practical use for the mutual benefit of Ethyl and the oil companies we serve. They are: Russ McGuiney, of the Eastern region, Jack Fuller of the Central region, Rollie Barnes, of the 12 BULLETIN BOARD-MAY -- JUNE Southern region, and Herb Peters, of the Western region. In addition to these men from the Sales department, two engineers from the Research laboratories--Martin Alspaugh and Larry Warzel--partici pated in the program. These men have acquired first-hand information about the operations of our customer companies, their equip- ETC 11954 1 ment, refining processes and particular problems. They spent from one to three months in on-the-ground study at the refineries of various companies across the country. Included in the trip were plants of Cities Service, General Petroleum, Gulf, Phillips, Richfield, and Tidewater Associated (West Coast division). In the South, short trips were made to Erath, Humble, Magnolia, Standard of Louis iana and Warren plants. Tom Risk, who runs the Refinery division at our Research laboratories, and Oscar Lewis, assistant sales man ager, worked out the program. Tom, in cooperation with various members of the Sales department, contacted the oil companies and discussed with their manufacturing and process develop ment executives the program to be followed at each plant. Working closely with the fuel tech nology men in the Sales department, the Research engineers will be able to direct their efforts along lines that will be most useful to our customers. Result: still better and more spe cialized service to oil companies in helping them to make more effective use of "Ethyl" antiknock compound in their refining operations. Three Serve in Civic Affairs Three civic-minded Ethylmen -- Frank Flicker, Bill Paschedag and Tom Risk--are leading lights in the town of Franklin, Michigan. During the coming year they will be busy dis charging their civic duties serving on various committees of the thriving suburban community. Frank is a member of the Franklin Community Association's membership committee. Bill, who serves on the same committee, has recently been elected treasurer of the Association. Tom is a member of the civic affairs committee. Bill is also one of the leading citizens of Woodcreek Farms, a sub-division of Franklin Village. He is treasurer of its Civic Association and chairman of the fire protection committee. Frank is business manager and Bill office manager of Ethyl's Research laboratories in Detroit, while Tom is Refinery Technology coordinator. Ethyl Men Advise Educators Two of our research scientists at the Detroit Labs are giving time and talt ent to industrial committees that help | Wayne University plan its curriculum. | Hal Beatty, technical assistant to * Earl Bartholomew, is on the Friends of the Kresge-Hooker Scientific Li brary Committee. George Calingaert, associate director of research, is a member of both the Chemistry Ad visory Committee and the Advisory i Committee of the Engineering Society of Detroit. The industry-education committees have been organized in Detroit for a three-fold purpose. They offer con structive counseling, give the uni versity new ideas for directing its educational programs, and help Wayne to follow the progress of its graduates, many of whom are em ployes of committee members. 13 BULLETIN BOARD-MAY -JUNE i ETC 11955 Patt Rouman receives her diploma from Little Flower High this month and plans to enter the College of Dentistry at the University of Michigan. Part's dad, Durward Rossznan, is head of laboratory engine research equipment in Automotive Research at the Detroit labs. Sheepski Petex Calingaert has just graduated cum laude from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Peter, 16-year-old son of George Calingaert, associate director of research in Detroit, is one of the first five in a class of 226. He will enter Swarthmore College this fall. Gloria Matthews, another Michigan miss, is also a June graduate. She will complete her studies at Cooley High in Detroit this month. Gloria is the daughter of Gilbert (Tommy) Matthews of the Maintenance section at Ethyl's Research laboratories in Detroit Gower left). Beth Schulze took her first deep breath in Detroit but moved to San Bernardino with the Ethyl caravan in 1935. She graduates this month from San Bernardino High, plans to study home economics and business at one of California's colleges. Her dad, Bill, is manager of the Engineering lab in San Bernardino. etc u956 r * fIfrVvilfnlCe Hill graduated in May from Indiana Technical College at Fort Wayne, with a nachelor of science degree in electrical engi"eering- Irvine's mother, Louise Hill, keeps usy with shorthand and typing at the Gaso il Testing division's central office in Yonkers. sticates Barbara Jean Deverill, of Tarrytown, N. Y., (a a June graduate of Washington Irving High there. She plans to study business at Cazenovia Junior College in Carenovia, N. Y. Barbara's dad, Art Deverill, is head of the Control and Cost section of N. Y. Finance. Bob Richardson, Jr. received his diploma from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass, on June 6. He expects to study forestry at Penn sylvania State College. Bob is the oldest of four children. Bob Sr., Eastern region field engineer, headquarters in Swarthmore, Pa. Alice Jean Harris leaves happily behind the halls of Great Falls (Montana) High. Next Fall she will expectantly cross the threshold of Utah State Agricultural College, where she plans to major in education and domestic science courses. Her father, Paul Harris, is a safety engineer in the Western Sales region. ETC 11957 tJL Among the Sales representatives who gathered in Baton Rouge were the men pictured above. That's Bill Mundinger in front, and seated are Ed Hendricks, Dan Guy, Harry Cottrell, John Schaefer, Bob Jordan, Hank Ball, Cliff Lenington and Ed Muller. Standing are Bruce Crane, Leif Zars, Jake Balzer, Tucker Dawson, Jack Laubach, Dick Sneed, Lou Mock, Larry Reis, Dale Miller, Harry Hollingsworth, Wallace Emery, Frank Devore, Pres Berry and Don Phipps. Southern Region Salesmen Visit Baton Rouge Plant Members of Ethyl Corporation's Southern region staff visited our plant in Baton Rouge on March 18 and 19, following a sales meeting in near-by Gulfport, Mississippi. Steve Henry, manager of Plant and Employes Services, welcomed the visitors and told them about some of the outstanding features of the plant's facilities. Highlight of their visit was an all-day tour of the plant conducted by members of Process Engineering. 16 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE Acting as guides were George Kirby, section manager, Barker Killgore, Frank Sergeys and Tom Smiley. Luncheon was served in the plant cafeteria. During their stay the group enjoyed an informal get-together at the home of Bill Mundinger, Louisiana account representative, and a dinner at the Baton Rouge Country Club at which John Schaefer, vice-president in charge of Manufacturing, presided. ETC 11958 r Baton Rouge Breaks A Billion As our Baton Rouge plant prepared to make its billionth pound of tetra ethyl lead on April 22, the special hopper of lead-sodium alloy used in manufacturing the billionth pound of tetraethyl lead is put through its paces to make sure that everything is ready for the production milestone. Shown checking operation of the hopper are (left to right) lames Schmidt and Wilson Ponthieu, who are first class operators in TEL, and George Fairchild, a foreman. Plant officials stop by to see pre liminary arrangements being made for the production milestone. From left to right are John Schaefer, vicepresident in charge of manufacturing; Roy Clothier, head of all plant opera tions; Bynum Turner, assistant resi dent manager; and Clint Bond, who is the resident manager in B. R. ETC 11959 High average among all Ethyl keglers went to Whitie Gruweil of San Bernardino, who shows here how it's done. It/s easy--Rollie Ostrander of Detroit shows how he rolled a 246 game--the high for our bowlers all over the country. Whitie Gruweil Wins Ethyl Bowling Championship Coast to coast, from the Canadian border to the Gulf, Ethyl's keglers have been deep in arithmetic adding scores and figuring their averages for the season. California, Louisiana and Michigan share top honors for 1948. Whitie Gruweil of San Bernardino came up with the high average of 179, Rollie Ostrander of Detroit rolled 246 for high game and Charlie Gauthier of Baton Rouge took high series with a 704 total for three games. Percy Trotter, who had high aver age last year, heads the Baton Rouge keglers with 171.7. Runners-up are Paul Nash with 167.7 and Harry O'Connell with 165.8. Percy also scored high game with a 244 roll. The Browns, winners of the first-half play, took team honors for the year by nosing out the Indians, second-half winners, in the play-off. Wanda Garrot led the girls in Baton Rouge with an average of 140. Ruth David rolled 203 for high game and Marjorie Hunt scored 486 for the high three-game series. The Roses were the winners in both halves of the play. In Detroit, Merrill Anderson again takes high average honors with 172.7, almost three points above his last year's average. The runners-up were neck and neck--Rollie Ostrander with 167.5 and Ed Johnson with 167. Bob Mescher was just one pin behind Rollie's 246 high game, and Harry Prince was in third place with 243. Rollie walked off with the three-game series, too. His 604 was just ahead of Bill D'Arcy's 602 total for three consecutive games. Art Felt led the Class "B" keglers with a 154.6 average. Ferd Gillig had the high game of 243 and took high series with a 565 total for three games. f 18 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE ETC 11960 It was a close contest all the way and the Champs won the men's bowl ing cup by only two points. Right behind them three teams were tripletied for second place. Florence Held, Ruth Simons and Georgena Slack made up the top girls' team, and like the Champs they won by only two points. Florence Held carried off all the individual honors with high average of 146.4, high game of 211 and high series of 516. The girls wound up their bowling season with a banquet in Royal Oak, where Helen Zane, president of the league, awarded prizes to the winners. In New York, A1 Merz and Betty Beach came up with high averages for the year. When the scores had all been added, A1 led the men with 160 and Betty, with 126, nosed out Margie Smith by one point. A1 had high game, Southpaw Florence Held took all the honors --high average, high game and high series --in the girls' tournament in Detroit. A strike--New Yorkers George Sexton, Betty Beach and Danny O'Dougherty watch Margie Smith roll one up the middle for a winner. Success smiles--members of the Rose teem, winners in the Beton Rouge girls' tournament, are Madge Aubin, Lou Knighton, Mary Clark, Dot Goodman and Marguerite Brinson. too, but his 214 was just one pin up on Dan O'Dougherty who rolled a 213. Among the girls, Betty had high game with a 190 and Eleanor Helmrich was runner-up with 182. Whitie Gruwell led the field in San Bernardino with a 179 average, 231 high game and 610 three-game series. Claude Guinn and Art Stahlheber took second and third place with averages of 166 and 165. Runners-up for high game were Larry Stinson with 226 and Ray Seymour with 225. Five of San Berdu's eight keglers bowled each week in the 10-team City Handi cap League. The Ethyl team finished in fourth place, and stayed in the top half throughout the season. Bowling Biownj--winning men's team in Baton Rouge: Army Armstrong, A1 Adams, John Fleniken, Roy Bock and Ed Aliord. Mil ford Hardy, another member of the team, was not present when the picture was snapped. On their toes to watch A1 Men, top kegler in New York, are Barney Weyhrauch, Ernie Lange, Eleanor Helmrich and Howard Costello, all members of the Finance Department. Kegling Californians--Larry Stinson and Shorty Guinn check scores while Mike Remondino, Ray Seymour, Marv Russell, Whitie Gruwell and Art Stahlheber stand by. ETC 11962 , Jud Biehle Wins Orange Cluster From now on Jud Biehle, of New York Manufacturing, will be careful about what he asks for--he might get it. Especially if Ben Harrison has any thing to do with it. Jud is now the owner of a Prompt ness Badge, elaborately decorated with a Blue Eagle and Two Orange Clusters. | That's an example of the type of thing Jud is apt to get if he fools around j making requests of Ben. j Ben, manager of the Industrial En gineering section at the Baton Rouge plant, had requested some information from the New York office. There was a slight misunderstanding as to just who was going to supply the informa tion and as a result nobody did--that is, not for two weeks. Then Jud crashed through with it in answer to a teletype, requesting for his efforts a Promptness Badge. ness being of a nature above and be By return mail came the badge yond the call of duty." The medal, (shown here) and a citation, signed by the citation stated, is to be worn only B. D. Harrison, Commandant, and on state occasions, and only when H. J. Madden, Executive Officer, com uniformed in "dark blue pin stripe mending Jud for "meritorious prompt (.vertical only) or somber solid brown." lane Cannlette, right, on the answering end of an interview with Estelle Caldwell, Bulletin Board correspondent who covers the 35th floor of the Chrysler building. lane came to New York late in March to see her mother and stopped in for a look-see at our offices before leaving to go back to her home, husband and job in Baton Rouge. lane is work ing as a stenographer at our plant while her husband is studying at L.S.U. with his eye on a mechan ical engineering degree come January 1950. ETC 11963 Miriam Dickman of Employe Relations keeps her typewriter tapping in the New York office. Mim was bora in Coatesville, Pennsyl vania and attended Temple University in Philadelphia, where she majored in commerce. Last year she turned student again, as a member of the advertising workshop at City College in New York. A star tennis player, Mim was city champion in Coatesville for two years and a member of the varsity team at Temple. Dr. Frederick Gregorius, examines a chest x-ray in the medical offices in New York. Greg, who helps Ethyl's Gothamites keep healthy, studied medicine at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania and New York Uni versity College of Medicine. After interning at City Hospital he donned a first lieutenant's uniform and served for three-and-a-half years in the U.S. and ETO, was a major when re leased. Before joining Ethyl, Greg was a resi dent physician at City Hospital in New York. Sergio Minori delivers some letters to Camille Russo, who will put them away for future reference in the General Files. Cam, who also works at the switchboard was a long distance operator for the New York Telephone Company before coming to Ethyl's Chrysler Building offices. She's a daily commuter from White Plains, likes to swim and is an amateur angler. Sarge is a recent graduate of Evander Childs High in the Bronx. Softball is his favorite sport, and baseball season his favorite time of year. ETC 11964 r United States Uses 28 Times As Much Oil As Rest of World The United States today consumes 28 times as much oil per person as does the rest of the world, using oil for industry, transportation, the home and the farm. With the close of the heating season, current emphasis is on the farm use. Since 1941, the farmer has virtually doubled his use of gasoline for tractors and other equipment and is utilising Diesel oil, kerosene and bottled gas in increasing quantities. On the Rostrum George Calingaert, associate direc tor of research on Manufacturing and Chemical Products at the Detroit labs, spoke at a meeting of the University of Michigan Club of Ferndale and Pleasant Ridge (Mich.) He compared conditions in Europe as he saw them last summer with the situa tion in 1945. George toured Western Europe in 1947 for the Department of Commerce's Office of Technical Service, and in 1945 as a member of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. He also spoke on this subject at the Femdale Exchange Club on April 13 and at the March meeting of the Detroit Ethyl Society. Ralph Champlin, director of Pub lic Relations, of New York, addressed the mid-year meeting of directors of the Independent Petroleum Associa tion in Wichita, Kansas on April 27. He was the principal speaker at a public relations forum. Bill Heck, safety engineer at Ethyl's plant in Baton Rouge, presented a re port of the recently-formed building codes committee to members of the Pelican Safety Association on March 15. The committee has been gathering information from national agencies for a revision of the building code in Baton Rouge. Bill is president of the Pelican Association. Doug Jeppe, Southern region safety engineer, spoke at the Rotary Club in Wichita Falls, Texas on April 15. His talk, "Don't Sell Safety Short," was highlighted with the demonstra tions he used in the refinery show. 23 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY--JUNE ETC 1196 ^ MILESTONES GO BY Three score years with Ethyl add up to three new members for the 20-Year Club in June--Elwood Anderson, Merritt Collins and Lawrence Hunt. Andy Anderson, of the Manufac turing department in New York, spent his first three Ethyl years as manager of the old Gasoline Test labo ratory in New Orleans. When the new Baton Rouge lab opened in 1931, Andy took over and managed it until 1936. The next stop was Yonkers, where he headed the Gasoline Testing department for two years. Andy trans ferred to Manufacturing in 1938, went back to Baton Rouge for an assign ment connected with the new Ethyl Chloride plant there and later did technical and operations work at the TEL and Ethyl Chloride plants in Deepwater. He has been in the New York office since 1942. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Andy attended The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He studied chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology and came to Ethyl in 1928 with a brand new B.S. degree. Andy is a member of Sigma Chi and the American Chemical Society. He lives with his family in Stamford, Connecticut, gets most of his fresh air and sunshine in the garden. Andy says he used to play golf and sail, but these days four-year-old Martha and the new twins, Nancy Lewis and Mary Lee, keep him close to home. Merritt Collins, like Andy, has spent all his working years with Ethyl. His first assignment was in Omaha, Nebr. where he had charge of the Gasoline Testing laboratory. He moved to Missouri in 1930, when the Lawrence Hunt , . j I ETC 11966 r I Kansas City lab was completed, and spent the next eight years there as manager. In 1938 Merritt went out to ' California to take over at the San Bernardino test lab. He has been back ! East since 1941 as assistant manager of the Gasoline Testing division at the central office in Yonkers. Merritt grew up on a farm just out side Ord, Nebraska. During his first year of high school the Collins family moved to Idaho, but Merritt returned to his home state to attend the Uni versity of Nebraska. He was elected to Sigma Tau, honorary engineering society, and after receiving a B.S. in electrical engineering stayed on for < another year to get a mechanical engineering degree. Merritt and his wife live in Crestwood with their children, Doris, 15, and Bob, 10. Tinkering is Merritt's favorite pastime--he'll tackle any thing from mending clocks to building bams, from carpentry to plumbing. Larry Hunt is the third new 20j Year Club member. He joined Ethyl j back in 1928 as an engine operator at the old Yonkers lab and has seen many changes take place there. Larry is an engineer at the Gasoline Testing division's central office in Yonkers. Larry, who was bom in New York and has lived most of his life in West chester County, feels very much at home in Yonkers. He attended White Plains High and then went off to Pennsylvania to study engineering at Swarthmore College. In those days Larry traveled a good deal by bicycle and even made a trip from White Plains to Boston and back, more than four hundred miles. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1928 and Merritt Collins came to work for the Company in June, just after graduation. Larry and his wife, Edna, live in Dobbs Ferry. He is a member of the Wharton Club and the Society of Automotive Engineers. Ed Herbert, of the Edge Moor ter minal, has a new gold pin on his lapel with a diamond that means 15 years of loyal Ethyl service. Herb first worked in the shipping department at the Deepwater plant and became a foreman in Manufac turing in 1937. With the beginning of operations at Edge Moor, Delaware early this year, Herb switched over to the new terminal where he is now working. Minersville, Pennsylvania is Herb's home town, and he attended high school there. Before Ethyl he was with the B & O Railroad in Philadelphia. Well known to the keglers in the Com pany, Herb was Deepwater's star bowler and was president of the Cen- 25 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY--JUNE I ETC 11967 Edward Herbert tral Wilmington Bowling League for three years. He and his wife have a son, Buzzy, who will cast his first vote in the presidential election this year. Leonard Huxtable, Southern re gion field engineer, has also passed his 15th milestone. Len began his Ethyl career as a field representative in Little Rock, Arkansas. He moved to Leonard Huxtable Tulsa as a safety engineer in 1936, and four years later was made assistant manager of the old Tulsa division. Len was born in New York City. He studied at Columbia and com pleted his education at Purdue Uni versity, majoring in mechanical en gineering. Len was on the debating and fencing teams there and belonged to Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity. After graduation he spent three years with Martin Motors in New York as a research engineer be fore joining Ethyl. Len is a member of the SAE. He and Mrs. H. have two children, Gayle, 12, and Robbie, 14. Tenth anniversaries have been cele brated by Harry Edgar of Detroit, and two New Yorkers--Art Roberts, safety engineer, and Barney Weyhrauch of Finance. New five-year pin owners are Claude Hoffman of Chem Research, Detroit; Frances Hunter of Gasoline Testing, Kansas City; Hazel Anderson of Employe Relations, New York; and Bob Fless of Gasoline Testing, in Yonkers. Dan Guy Elected Dan Guy, who heads the Agricultural section of Technical Service at the Research labs in Detroit, has been elected chairman of the Michigan area section of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. There's a big job ahead for Dan since the Michigan area section will be host next year to the national ASAE convention. His election was announced at an ASAE meeting held in connection with the dedication of a new agricultural engineering building at Michigan State College in East Lansing. Dan was pro gram chairman for the dedication. j j , ! | : : j I j , ETC 119^8 Bob Kerley, associate director of research on Aviation Products, shows Col. Kingsland around the Aero lab. Here he points out a special furnace for determining the corrosion resistance and de formation of materials that are exposed to high temperatures under stress for long periods of time. Detroit Ethylites Hear Talk By Patent Commissioner During a visit to Detroit on March 18 Col. Lawrence Kingsland, U. S. Com missioner of Patents, spoke to a group of Ethyl's Research staff members at our labs in Femdale. He described the history of the patent system and its development in this country. Forty years of law practice in St. Louis are only part of Col. Kingsland's experience. He was our Gov ernment's adviser to the Philippine commission that set up a Patent and Trade Mark Act before the Islands obtained their independence, was ap pointed Commissioner of Patents last September, and in December repre sented the United States at the Inter national Patent Congress in London. Before his talk Col. Kingsland made a tour of our Research Labs. The visit was arranged by Ken Swartwood, Ethyl's patent attorney in Detroit. The value of petroleum and petroleum by-products produced in the U. S. now constitutes one-third of the value of all minerals produced in this country. 27 BULLETIN BOARD--MAY --JUNE 1 ETC 11969 Ernest Goodman helps keep cars run ning smoothly at our San Bernardino lab, where he is a member of the Maintenance department. Ernie is an exception to the saying that "you can't have your cake and eat it" -- working on cars is his hobby. When he isn't tinkering with "beat-up heaps," he's usually entertaining a trio of little girls--his daughters Terry, Donna Jeanne and Colleen Joyce. Bernadette Curtin checks copy with Eve Pavelchelc in N. Y. Stenographic. Bernadette attended St. Dominic's High in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and the Domini can Academy in New York City, came to Ethyl from the Borden Company. Swim ming is one of the things she likes best about summer. Eve was bom in Pennsylvania and moved to Yonkers five years ago. She graduated from Roosevelt High, was a secretary at J. Walter Thompson before joining Ethyl. Eor relaxation Eve rides, bowls, or settles down in an easy chair with a good book. Mary O'Hern, busy at her desk on the 43rd floor of the Chrysler Building. A new member of the Employe Relations depart ment in New York, Mary came to Ethyl from Baldwin, Todd & Lefferts where she had been a secretary for the past four years. She is a graduate of White Plains High and received her business training at Katharine Gibbs in New York. Mary is a summer sportster, likes swimming and boating. ETC 11970 George Betker, winner of the men's singles, thanks runner-up Punch Pfundstein (left) for giving him some stiff competition. Bill D'Arcy (left) and Dick Bothwell show how they defended their doubles title, as Bill makes a smashing return with his right. Tops in Table Tennis it was touch-and-go to the end in the hotly-contested finals of Detroit's 1948 ping pong tournament on April 16. Most of last year's champions have been crowned again, after defeating their opponents three games to one. Helen Donovan Zane (see page 32), star paddler at the Labs, kept the women's singles title after downing Angeline Colosimo. She then teamed with Ruth Simons to cop the women's doubles from Helen Krueger and Kitty Weiss. Helen was half of the winning doubles team last year, too. George Betker is the new men's singles champ. He and Punch Pfund stein, runner-up, were both in the finals for the first time this year. Howard Hesselberg, last year's singles winner, joined Merrill Ander son to reach the finals in the men's doubles, but they were nosed out by Bill D'Arcy and Dick Bothwell who smashed through to take first place for the second year running. The tournament is an annual event sponsored by the Detroit Ethyl Society. Harold Faucher, as sports chairman, arranged the matches and kept en thusiasm at the Labs running high. Merrill Anderson and Howard Hesselberg, runners-up in men's doubles, fight it out in the finals of the tournament. Ruth Simona and Helen Zane, new doubles champs, shake bands with runners-up Helen Krueger and Kitty Weiss (left). Make Mine Music On Thursday nights in Freeport the air is filled with music. For Thursday is the night that the Brazosport chap ter of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America devotes heart--and lungs--to the cause. Among those who raise their voices in tuneful harmony are a couple of warblers from the Ethyl-Dow plant-- Fran Overman and Shep McKeithan. Fran was recently elected first vicepresident of the chapter. Pass the Gavel This is election year and the Detroit labs, not to be outdone by politicians, have come up with two presidents of their own--Coleman Davidson and Frank Davis. Coleman will take office as president of the Rotary Club of Romeo, Mich igan, on July 1, the day he celebrates his fourth anniversary as a resident of the little town northeast of Detroit. "Dave" is manager of Automotive Research operations at our labs. Frank Davis has been elected presi dent of the United States Naval Acad emy Alumni Association of Detroit for the coming year. He will head an organization of some 120 Annapolis graduates and other commissioned naval officers. Frank is Laboratory Services manager at our Research labs. Stork Club A twin-engined stork delivered two passengers--both dressed in pink--to the Elwood (Andy) Andersons on April 20. Nancy Lewis and Mary Lee, who weighed 5 pounds 15 ounces and 6 pounds 10 ounces respectively, have a sister Martha who was four years old in March. Andy is in the Manu facturing department in New York. Little Dennis Burcal has a new brother to play with. Gary Brian, who was bom on April 22, is the second son of Nancy and George Burcal. His dad is a chemical engineer at the Research labs in Detroit. Ruth Ann Meyer arrived on April 18, weighing in at seven pounds, eleven ounces. She's the daughter of Nina and Fred Meyer and has a four-year-old sister, Sarah Lee. Fred is a chemist at the Detroit labs. Christine Therese Mock made her debut in Houston, Texas on March 25. She is the daughter of Virginia and Lou Mock, and has a brother Brian who will be two in July. Lou is a Southern region account representa tive with headquarters in Houston. Paul Remondino, tipping the scales at a husky nine pounds, checked in on April 3. His parents, Margaret and Mike Remondino, have two other sons, four-year-old Michael, and Neil, almost two. Mike is a research engi neer in San Bernardino. Bernice and Hymin Shapiro wel comed Galia Muriel on April 18. Galia, who weighed a dainty six pounds six ounces, is their first daughter. Her brother Gary will be five in July. Hy is a coordinator in Chem Research at the Detroit laboratories. Proud prize-winner, Ambracrombe of Bravier, poses with ribbon won for placing second in his class at the Detroit Kennel Club show. The three-year-old Manchester terrier, famil iarly known as Bambi, be longs to Bob Mescher of our Detroit Research labs. Introducing "Ginger" and "Mike," two of a litter collie puppies whose mother belongs to Harold Stevenson of the Detroit labs. New owners of these little fellows are Nurse Audrey Bloomer, shown at left, and Dr. Carl Sprunk. J. D. Daigre, mainte nance supervisor in the Engineering and Main tenance section at the Baton Rouge plant, with his Bayou Blue Beagle. Jack Fuller, mechanic at the Baton Rouge plant, posing Queen, his Bayou Blue Beagle. c ii 9 It/s Mr. and Mrs. Now Thelma Hansen, of New York Fi nance, is now Mrs. Walter Elsasser. She and Walter said "I do" at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Brooklyn on April 17. Thelma has resumed her duties in the Chrysler Building as secretary to Bill Sterrett, who is in charge of the Budget Section. 9 79 Jane Jordan, of RefineryTechnology at the Detroit labs, became Mrs. M. C. (John) Towner on April 23. Jane and John were married in the Birming ham (Mich.) Methodist Church. The Towners have bought an old farm house in Jordan, N. Y., near Syracuse, and are having it remodeled. Jane says it should be livable by fall, when she plans to swap her Ethyl career for that of a housewife. Meanwhile she'll Mr. and Mrs. Ed Betchaver, on their honey moon in Washington, pose with the Capitol and John Marshall's statue for background. stay on at the Research laboratories. 9 9i 9 999 Edward Betchaver, of Traffic in New York, has a new "boss" who has even taken over his name. That's right --he's married. Ed exchanged vows with Irene Faupel on Easter Sunday at St. Edmonds Church in Brooklyn. Following a reception at the Elks Club, Ed and his bride left for a wed ding trip to Washington. 999 Helen Donovan was married on April 1 to Robert Zane in St. Cecelia's Church, Detroit. Following a wedding breakfast and reception at her brother's home, Helen and Bob left for a motor trip through Ohio and Kentucky. Helen is in Accounting at our Labs, and is Bulletin Board correspondent for the Detroit Ethyl Society. 32 BULLETIN BO ARD-- MAY -- JUNE Manhattan merrymaker--There were good-byes, good wishes and gifts for Marjorie Reese when her Ethyl friends gathered for a party at New York's Hotel Barclay on April 2. Marge is now devoting full time to being Mrs. Gurdon Ludlow, after saying "I do" on April 17. Here the beaming bride-to-be displays pieces of the Fostoria glassware she received, surrounded by a smiling semi-circle. Seated are Mary Sullivan, Barbara Kelly, Yvonne Guertin, Marge, Gen LeRoy, and Madge Lofthouse. Ringed around them are Dot Granger, Dorothea Held, Edna Blakley, Virginia McGuire, Gladys lensen, Lillian Kraker, Alice Lahn, Marguerite McDonald and Marie Burch Anderson. Marge has been secretary to Dick Murphy, Eastern regional manager. I Detroit Researchers Guide Students Four members of the staff at our Re Calingaert and A1 Gassman. The search laboratories in Detroit took conference was sponsored by the part in vocational guidance programs Detroit public schools and Wayne designed for high school students in University. George is associate direc the Motor City. tor of Research on Chemical Products On April 28, Leon Chrzan and Ray and A1 is assistant head of the Ana Faller represented Ethyl Corporation lytical Section at the Research labs. at an engineering and science voca tional guidance meeting sponsored by j the Engineering Society of Detroit. Each year now about 4,000 "explora- | Leon is in Chemical Products research tion wells" are drilled in new territories ! and Ray is manager of Employe Rela where geologists think there may be a tions at the labs. chance to find oil, at costs which run j At the eighth annual Community up to $500,000 or even $1,000,000 j Careers Conference held the same day, each. An average of one out of twelve | Ethyl was represented by George turns out to be a producer. i 33 I BULLETIN BOARD --MAY--JUNE l ; I > ; ETC 11975 Percy L. McCoy Percy Lane McCoy, of the New York office, died May 7 in the New Rochelle hospital. We at Ethyl extend our sincere sympathy to his wife, Mrs. Claire Lohman McCoy, and his son. Captain Robert B. McCoy, U.S.N. Mr. McCoy, who joined the Com pany in April of 1944, was an archi tectural and piping draftsman in the Safety department. Before coming to New York he was a member of the firm of Fecheimer, Ihorst Ss McCoy, of Cincinnati, associate architects in the establishment of the experimental town of Mariemont, Ohio, in 1923. A native of Ohio, Mr. McCoy was bom in Bloominburg and was grad uated from Miami University in Ox ford. He was a Mason. BB Award The Bulletin Board won an Honor able Mention Award in the 1948 Inter national Industrial Publication con test. The award was given "in recog nition of exceptional accomplishment in achievement of purpose, excellence of editorial content, and effectiveness of design." It was the fourth annual contest sponsored by the International Council of Industrial Editors. Awards were made at their convention, which was held May 5-7 in Milwaukee, Wis. Henry G. Canda Henry Greenman Canda, a senior account executive of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc., advertising agency, died April 29 in his home in New York City. Mr. Canda, who had handled the Ethyl account for the agency since 1936, was well and favor ably known by many Ethyl people. The Shift Key Ed Cunningham, who used to be supervisor of Finance at the Deep water plant, has moved to New York, where he is working with Bill Sterrett in the Budget section. Genevieve LeRoy is now secre tary to Dick Murphy, Eastern regional manager. Gen, who formerly worked in Employe Relations, switched to Sales when Marjorie Reese left to get married (see page 33). Del Ritchie has returned to the staff of the Eastern region as a field engi neer. Del has been working on the Specialties Operations for the past two years. Before that he devoted his time to safety work in the former New York division. Tom Tennent, who also switched to Specialties two years ago, is now back on the staff of the Southern region. Tom has resumed his post as a field engineer with headquarters in the regional sub-office in Atlanta, Ga. r i Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Ruth Baker; Detroit: William Book (photographer), Audrey Bloomer, Helen Donovan, Sue Gendemalik, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer), Margaret Takish; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Joanna Bell, Estelle Caldwell, Muriel Homer, Barbara Kelley, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; North Kansas City: Nathan Fay; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: Christopher Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. 34 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE ) ETC 11976 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Published by the Ethyl Corporation. 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York; Edward L. Shea. President; Stanley T. Crossiand. Vice-president and Treasurer: Julian C. Gonzalez, Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor .x S 1 I i Have You Got a Problem? Problems, problems, problems -- everybody's got 'em. Personal, fam ily, business. And then in addition to our own assorted varieties, we have the world problems to think about. As a result a new complex is loose in the world--the problem complex. Many people are succumbing to its virulent venom, and there is danger that it will soon become the national disease, outstripping in its sweeping stride even the inferiority complex. The disease starts with a tendency to regard the simplest decision as a Problem. Before you know it, every thing becomes a Problem--even little things like whether to eat chocolate pudding or vanilla pudding, whether to wear a blue necktie or a red one, whether to drink your coffee black or with sugar and cream. In its worst stages, the victims see their lives, their work, their neigh bors' lives, and in fact the whole world as a great mass of knotty tangles, an unsolvable jig-saw puzzle. They drop into the slough of despond, where they linger, listlessly casting dark glances and uttering glum views about everything and everybody. This disease that starts in such a Printed in U. S. A. simple way can quickly develop into a grisly monster, so don't let it get a foothold. Just remember that man kind has been facing--and solving-- problems for a good many years now. Should the day arrive when we have no problems to solve, no decisions to make, it would mean that we have been deprived of our greatest gift-- the gift of free will. It would mean somebody was mak ing our decisions for us, and we would have nothing to say about it. We would no longer have the privilege of choosing whether we want to be an engineer or a policeman, whether we want to buy a Pontiac or a Plymouth, whether we want to go to the Metho dist Church or the Episcopal, whether we want to be a Democrat, a Repub lican or a Socialist. It would mean that we were no longer human beings but automatons --bodies without a spirit. And when the spirit is gone nothing that is worthwhile remains. In the armory of experience-- meeting and solving problems--the spirit is forged. Have you got a problem? It's a good thing. Go out and meet it head on. 35 BULLETIN BOARD --MAY --JUNE ETC 11979 11980 etc "Trade-Marks" of Nature Ads Win Wide Praise Out RA is going up! The animals in the zoo, the birds in the trees, the fish in the stream have tremendous RA, and Ethyl is making the most of it. RA, in case you haven't guessed, is Reader Appeal. Our advertising au dience (consisting of millions of magazine readers) votes enthusiastic approval of Ethyl's current "TradeMarks" of Nature advertisements. Their approval is registered by many favorable comments from customer company representatives as well as a tremendous flow of unexpected and unsolicited mail. From men and women, boys and girls, parents and teachers, students and naturalists come welcome words of praise. City dwellers and their coun try cousins throughout the length and breadth of America as well as Hawaii, Canada and England are writing in to tell us that they like our "TradeMarks" of Nature series. Their letters commend the ads for reflecting "both taste and distinc tion," for being "entertaining as well as educational," for their "accurate portrayal of birds, fish and animals." One man sending enthusiastic con gratulations on the series was highly pleased that "the advertising genius who thought up the ads had the good judgment to admit, at long last, that the public at large is not simply a mass of morons." 3 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY ETC 11981 Many of the letters request reprints of the ads for use in schoolrooms, dic tionaries, guide books and scrap books. Many others ask for nothing--are written by people who simply like the ads so much they want to tell us so and thank Ethyl for publishing them. Our agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, prepared the cam paign under the direction of Ethyl's Advertising Manager, Russ Weston, and his right hand man, Frank Howard. Full-color ads in this highly popu lar "Trade-Marks" of Nature series are appearing each month in Collier's, Holiday and the Saturday Evening Post. Black and whites are running in Life, Look, Time, Country Gentle man, Capper's Farmer, and various specialized publications. Most recent in the series, which started last January with the "big cats," is an ad showing the identifying marks of various game fish. The fish are reproduced in color and their special characteristics described. You may have seen them in the July issue of Holiday, the June 26 Collier's, or the June 12 Saturday Evening Post. Other ads presented such interesting subjects as giants of the sea, farm animals, "look-alikes," apes and mon keys, birds, and insects. Ethyl ads are easy to find as they're always near the front of the magazine. They reach more than 48 million readers every month with their color ful presentation of the "Trade-Marks" of Nature, hitting home the message, too, that the trade-mark "Ethyl" identifies high quality gasoline im proved with "Ethyl" antiknock com pound--that famous ingredient that steps up power and performance. 4 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY Kirby Named General Auditor James H. Kirby has been named General Auditor for the Corporation. His appointment was announced by Vice President S. T. Crossland on June 22, and he immediately assumed the duties and responsibilities of his new position. Jim, as he is familiarly known throughoutthe Company, wasformerly assistant head of the Tax division in New York and, prior to that time, was associated with Lybrand, Ross Bros, and Montgomery, certified public ac countants, handling tax and general auditing activities. He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Notre Dame University, where he majored in ac counting and received his B.C.S. degree in that subject. Jim is a certified public accountant and served as a special agent for the F.B.I. during the war. He lives in Irvington, New Jersey, with his wife, Peggy, and his two daughters, Mary Colleen and Anne. j| ETC 11982 Ben Brewster Promoted Ben Brewster has been appointed to the new position of Technical Serv ice operations manager at the Re search laboratories in Detroit. Ben, an Ethyl pioneer, helped establish the old lab on Milwaukee Avenue a little more than 20 years ago, when our re search department moved to Detroit. Technical Service is the liaison group between the Ethyl labs and the technical departments of oil com panies, and automotive and farm equipment manufacturers. As oper ations manager, it is Ben's job to see that activities planned by Dick Scales, Tech Service director, and his staff are carried out. Ben also will continue as a member of the Technical Representative group, which maintains contact between our Research laboratories and oil com panies throughout the country. Ben first came to Ethyl back in 1927 following his graduation from Harvard Engineering School. The following year he accepted a position as sales engineer with an electric com pany in Boston, remaining in Mass achusetts until 1936 when he returned to the Ethyl labs. Ben is vice-president of the Harvard Club of Eastern Michigan, and a member of the SAE and the Harvard Engineering Society. IRI Elects lohn Schaefer Research executives from the na tion's leading manufacturing firms gathered in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia May 13-lSforthe annual spring meeting and 10th anniversary celebration of the Industrial Research Institute. John Schaefer, Ethyl's vicepresident in charge of Manufacturing, was elected vice-president of the In stitute for the coming year. He also serves on the board of directors and is chairman of the program committee. The Industrial Research Institute promotes high standards in industrial research and the development of im proved techniques of organization and operation. Its membership is made up of research executives representing more than 100 companies in widely varied industries. Net sales of member companies total several billion dollars annually and their research staffs number more than 20,000. By discussing common problems and pooling their experiences members gain information that leads to more efficient operation and better results in their individual businesses. 5 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY ' ETC 11983 Curtain, equipment and prop3 were set up in the garage of the Yonkers laboratory where these men worked long and hard last month getting the show ready. They are, from left: Doug Jeppe, Harold Mehler, Bill Ball, Lon Wilaon, Del Ritchie and Bill Van Wyck.. FIRE POWER it starts off with a bang--our new gasoline show that is going on the road this month to be shown to customer company personnel engaged in the marketing and distribution of gaso line. A blast, caused by an explosion at a miniature service station that is blown to bits, brings the audience to attention to begin an action-packed 45-minute presentation that points out the hazards involved in handling gasoline. Designed to bring home to those who handle gasoline the importance of treating it with caution and care to prevent accidents, the show dramati- Del Ritchie shows how merely separating a metal disc from a piece of plastic generates enough static electricity to light the neon "Ethyl" sign. At right, Bill Van Wyck demonstrates that the same static spark which lit the sign can also ignite gasoline vapor to blow a hole in the paper roof of a plastic tank. r cally demonstrates how the elements present at service stations and bulk plants can combine to cause fires and explosions. The energy and volatility j of gasoline--valuable sources of great power when harnessed in engines-- have destructive qualities that must be kept under control. The presentation, "Fire Power," is a revised version of the safety show, beamed to sales personnel. New dem onstrations and new equipment have | been added to make it faster-moving , and more effective. The script and show were produced *' by Bill Ball under the direction of 1 Assistant Sales Manager Oscar Lewis, | with assists from Ellis Locher, Mac j McCulloch and others. Equipment, j tricky'push-button magic and unique , demonstrations are the result of Harold Mehler's engineering. The four men who will handle the show in the various regions spent a week at the Yonkers lab learning the script and rehearsing the show with Bill coaching from the sidelines. Per formers are: Lou Wilson, Central region; Del Ritchie, Eastern region; Doug Jeppe, Southern region; and j Bill Van Wyck, Western region. I j Preview of the show was held for j Ethyl people on the afternoon of June 23 in the Florentine Room of the Hotel Lexington. Next day Dick Murphy, Eastern regional manager, arranged the first full-dress preview for customer company executives. They enthusiastically approved and all were eager to schedule showings in their own companies. One man hailed it as "the best show Ethyl Corpora tion has ever put on." With an ordinary sprayer, Doug Jeppe shows that kerosene insecticides and other non volatile materials will flash and burn if sprayed near an open flame. In addition to performing a real service to the oil industry, these men expressed the belief that Ethyl Cor poration, by graphically putting across the idea that gasoline when handled correctly is "as safe as water," is contributing much to the public rela tions program of the oil industry. The glowing filament, exposed when Lou Wilson cracks a lighted bulb with water, ignites the combustible mixture of vapor and air in the beaker of gasoline. 11985 etc We're Right Proud of Them! Before Ethyl came the General Motors Chemical Company. Before that came the General Motors Re search lab. That's where Tom Midgley and his associates discovered the anti knock qualities of tetraethyl lead. And that's where Ethyl's three musketeers, Pat, Bob and Harry came in. Pat Harding, Bob Jordan and Harry Mack who have just received their 2 5-year Ethyl service emblems, were selling "Ethyl" antiknock fluid long before Ethyl Corp. was born. Their memory--and their service-- goes back to the General Motors Re search lab in Moraine City, Ohio, where they were all working at the time tetraethyl lead was discovered. Later when the General Motors Chem ical Company was organized to market "Ethyl" antiknock compound, they Fat Harding 8 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY Bob Iordan transferred to the new company. And still later (August 1924), when the Ethyl (Gasoline) Corporation was formed by General Motors and Stand ard of New Jersey to succeed General Motors Chemical,' they transferred to Ethyl. These three men were in on all the events leading up to the formation of the Ethyl Corporation. Harry Mack, purchasing agent and assistant busi ness manager of the General Motors Research lab, became Purchasing Agent, Business, Traffic and Produc tion Manager of General Motors Chemical. Pat Harding was a mechan ical magician, turning out all kinds of hickeys dreamed up by Tom Midgley and his associates. Bob Jordan also started in the design end but was later put in charge of blending. He ETC 11986 J takes great pleasure in being known as "one of Mr. Midgley's boys." They were all keenly interested in the project and worked night and day when ideas were boiling and enthusi asm was high. After General Motors Chemical Company was formed. Bob and Pat hit the road to sell the new product. Many times the roads they hit turned out to be mires of mud, and it took a team of horses to pull them out and start them on their way again. But the product stood the public test, first made 25 years ago, and its ac ceptance and performance has in creased through the years. These three men, still with us today, Harry and Bob in the Sales Depart ment, and Pat in the Machine Shop at the Research labs, are proud of the part they played in getting Ethyl started, and Ethyl is right proud of them. Congratulations! Harry Mack Wally Distler Goes to Chicago Wally Distler has moved from Co lumbus, Ohio, to the Central region's head office in Chicago and a new job as senior sales-service engineer. The work involves handling cus tomer company automotive engineer ing activities, truck, bus and auto mobile dealer contacts, and complaints (if any) relating to the use of leaded gasolines in greater Chicago. It also is Wally's job to correlate fleet, car and tractor activities for the entire Central region. Wally joined Ethyl almost 13 years ago as a field representative in the old Dayton division. He remained in the Ohio area and before his transfer was a tractor engineer in Columbus. The Distlers were lucky enough to find a house and are living in Glen view, Illinois. Besides Wally, the family includes Dorothy (Mrs. D.), daughter Dorothy, 15, and Tommy, 6. 9 BULLETIN BOARD--JUL ETC 11987 Welcoming committee--As the first tank truck of "Ethyl" antiknock compound from our new terminal in Wilmington, California rolled through the gates of the McCallen Refining Company, Ethylmen and refinery personnel lined up for a picture. One hour and 16 minutes later, 12,050 pounds of "Ethyl" fluid had been delivered and unloaded and the truck was on its way. At left are Chief Safety Engineer Hume Chenault watching O. L. Nelson come in on the running board. At right, in the usual order, are Bill Van Wyck, Ethyl safety engineer; W. J. Fosbury, refinery superintendent; and P. L. Davis and W. R. Goodspeed, blenders. On the Rostrum Harold Gibson, coordinator ofMotor Fuels and Lubricants at the Detroit labs, was co-author of a paper that was presented at the annual summer meeting of the SAE in French Lick, Indiana on June 6. The title of the paper was "A New Approach to the Evaluation of Fuel Volatility and Associated Engine Variables." George Krieger, agricultural engi neer, addressed a meeting of the American Marketing Association in New York May 7. He stressed the importance of a stable farm economy and the effect of farmers' buying power on the general economy. 10 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY A1 Tandrup, of Tech Service's Com mercial Engine and Fleet section in Detroit, read a paper at an SAE meeting in Richmond, Virginia on May 10. Titled "Utilization of Chassis Dynamometers and Maintenance Records Analysis to Improve Oper ating Economy," the paper was pre pared by Heinie Mueller, head of Engine Development in Tech Serv ice, and former Ethylman Errol Gay. * Original investors in Ford Motor Co. (1900) who held their stock until 1919 got $355,000 for every $1.00, or a re turn of 355,000% on their investment. w ETc 11988 r Engineers-in-Training Complete Course Winding up the second post-war class of engineers-in-training, four men who com pleted Ethyl's year-long course have been assigned to new posts. Three have joined the Sales staff, and the fourth remained at the Detroit labs. Below is a thumb-nail sketch of each. John Koehnle . . . field engineer in West- iern regional office, Los Angeles . . . graduate of University of San Francisco . . . three : years in Navy, It. (j.g.) in Pacific . . . in( terested in racing cars, boxing, football. i William Rusher . . . Eastern region field engineer . . . graduate of the University of Illinois, B.S. in mechanical engineering . . . Infantry sgt. in European theater for three years . . . member of ASME. [ Grant Scott . . . field engineer assigned to Tulsa office . . . born in Arkansas City, Kansas . . . mechanical engineering degree from University of Oklahoma . . . three years in Navy, It. (j.g.) . . . golfer, kegler. Lawrence Warzel... in Automotive Re search, Engineering Project Personnel at Detroit labs . . . born in Ft. Scott, Kansas ... B.S. from Tulsa U. . . . member of Sword and Key . . . two years in Army. j John Koehnle I Grant Scott Larry Wane! y***8*^ it- . l , . ::.?. ': : ' w.?c " i.-i --to Take Part in a Contest *. * i :.* Three cash prizes will be awarded in the 1948 Bulletin Board Photographic Contest--$15 for first, $10 for second, and $5 for third, as well as five one-year subscriptions to a photography magazine. The panel of judges will include two prominent personages in the photographic arts field, and a representative of the Bulletin Board. Here are the rules: .. ' ' 1. Black and white prints only are eligible. No color prints, or hand-colored prints. 2. Pictures should not be smaller than 4 inches or larger than 10 inches on any side. 3. Contestant's name, department and location should be printed in ink on the back of each picture. 4. Only pictures taken since January 1, 1948 are eligible. 5. Prints must be in the mail by midnight, August 31. The winning picture will appear on the cover of the October Bulletin Board. Do accept this invitation to compete. Send all entries to: 12 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY Photo Contest Ethyl Bulletin Board 405 Lexington Avenue New York 17, N. Y. ETC 11990 The Central region meeting was held April 26*29. Present and here pictured are: seated-- John Fischer, A1 Basye, Mel Olson, Norm Linstromberg, Howard Lappe, Charlie Welch, Harry Mack, A1 Bingham, Rollie Barnes, Bill Wilson, lack Maynard, Julian Frey, Jim Boudreau and President Shea; second row--Bob Douglass, Bill Polachek, Bill Ludt, Charlie Kass, Jack Clark, Wally Distler, Lou Wilson, Art Johnson, Dick Scales, Ed Paige, Walt Cosgrove, Jack Fuller, Nick Carter, Doily Dollahan, Joe Hopkins, Ham Greenup, Jack Pruitt and Tom Tennent; third row--Bob Smith, Dan Guy, Clarence Kautz, George Rose, Nick Nixon, A1 Ryan, Harry Kuhe and Lou Slack. Scene of this Central region meeting, third in the series, was Chicago's Ambassador East Hotel. Regional Meetings Wind Up on West Coast The regional meetings, which began at Atlantic City early in March with the Eastern region, wound up on the West Coast when the Western region met at the Ojai Valley Inn and Country Club May 17-19. President E. L. Shea, speaking be fore the group, pre sented Management's position on broad pol icy matters. The pro- Tech Service Director Dick Scales tells about the serv ices oi his department at the Western regional meeting. gram was similar to that of the other meetings (see April BB) with key men on hand to discuss various phases of the Company's activities. Recreational facilities at Ojai were varied, and time was made available for golf, swimming and other diver sions. The banquet held the last night highlighted the fun. Following the meeting, Mr. Shea and all the men who had not yet seen them, visited the San Bernardino labs and the new Wilmington terminal. Pointing a linger at San Wagner (Western regional manager), As sistant Sales Manager Mac Murdock makes a point. Ray Wyrick looks on. while Charlie White jots down a few notes. ETC 11991 Ethylmen who attended the Western regional meeting pose with California's mountains Lq the background. .Pictured, in the usual order' are: front row--Bill Sievert, Gil Way, Hum^ Chenault, Scotty DuBose, Bob Adams, Charlie? White, Harry Manning, Bob Mead, Raji Wyrick, Paul Harris, Walt Cosgrove anc Herb Peters; back row--Glen Grant, Frani Elliott, Bo Weill, San Wagner, Lynn Phillips Bill Van Wyck, Don Chapman, lack Cole, Jef Bessire, President Shea, Oscar Lewis, Free Naylor, Mac Murdock, Buss Weston, Diet Scales and Ben Penrose. Two kibitzers--Jack Cole, straddling the corner, and Bill Sievert, standing--watch bridge players Frank EUiott, Scotty DuBose, Bill Van Wyck and Ben Penrose. i Bill Sievert (standing) tells a good one. Enjoying it are Glen Grant, Herb Peters, Scotty DuBose, Walt Cosgrove and Jerry Lofquist. Sidelights fay Glen Gtant Ted Littlefield leading the singing. Mac Murdock thumping the piano. New "broad beams": Jeff Bessire and Paul Harris. Too many Montana steaks? Refreshing moments: "Eager beaver" Van Wyck and his stimulating sincerity. Interesting conversationalist: Lynn Phillips on Mexico. Top honors: To Ray Wyrick and Bob Mead for the choice of choice spots to hold the meeting. Best dressed: Gil Way. Best golfer: Frank Elliott. Loudest sport shirt: Herb Peters. Best Looking: That Naylor guy. Easiest goin' disposition: "Carolina Scotty" DuBose. Most harrassed: Mac Murdock. ("Just a little more lead for my customers, Mac?") Most stared at: The red head at the desk. (Who did you suppose?) e sun was bright, the air was fine, the golf was good, m Chapman (left), Scotty DuBose and Bill Van Wyck tde a threesome for golf. Swimmer Jack Cole looks on. Music-makers pictured here are Ted Littlefield (in dark suit) and Gil Way. Lynn Phillips (left), Mexico representa tive, talks with Herb Peters. ETC 11993 Frank Elliott Tours SAE Circuit Frank Elliott, Western region fleet engineer, is now catching his breath following an SAE speaking tour in the Far-West. Appearing as guest of honor and principal speaker at seven SAE meetings, he discussed "Practical Pointers on Engine Operation." Frank attracted a large turnout of fleet maintenance men and oil com pany engineers at all meetings and put on a good show for them. Using a device of his own invention he dramatically demonstrated the effect of heat on valve stem expansion. He also showed a motion picture on com bustion chamber flame travel. The meetings were held at Sait Lake City, Spokane, Seattle, Van couver, B. C., the University of British Columbia, Portland, and Ore gon State College in Corvallis. It's a Man's World The male sex has chalked up a unani mous score at Ethyl with the arrival of five baby boys. Three of the youngsters, whose dads all work at our Detroit labs, are first sons. Ann and Kay Jennings have had a real baby to play house with since their new brother arrived on May 4. Young Lawrent, the son of Beth and Don Jennings, weighed in at 8 lbs., 6 oz. Don is accountant in charge at the Detroit labs. New star boarder at the home of Myro and Bob Kerr is Robert Wil liam, who registered on May 10. He weighed 6 lbs., 8 oz., and is their first child. Bob is a chemist at the Re search labs. Another member of this first-son series is Timothy Ivar Krohn, who 16 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY arrived on May 14 to make his home with Shirley and Ivar Krohn. Tim checked in at a sturdy 7 lbs., 2 oz. His dad is a chemist in Detroit. A bundle weighing 9 lbs., 14. oz. was delivered to the Pruitts in Louis ville, Ky., on May 8. Jack Pruitt, announcing David Fleming's arrival, writes that his family now consists of Jean (Mrs. P.), Louise, Richard, David, Red (male cocker) and Lucinda (female cocker). Jack is a Central region account representative. Stephan Dana Wrightington is the newcomer at the home of Molly and Dana Wrightington. He arrived on June 20, weighing 6 lbs., 13 oz. and has a brother, David, who will be four the day after Christmas. Dana is in the Traffic department in N. Y. ETC 11994 MILESTONES GO BY Durwazd Rossman of the Detroit labs celebrates this month his 20th anniversary with Ethyl Corporation. Back in July, 1928, when Durward joined the Company as a research engineer, the Detroit Engineering lab was an eight-month-old infant--it had been moved to the Motor City from Yonkers, N. Y., the previous Fall. When Engineering Research moved to the new lab on West Eight Mile Road in 1941, Durward went along to head the engine test equipment sec tion. Since the reorganization last year he has been in charge of labora tory engine research equipment in Autmotive Research. Blanche Ash L Durward Rossman Durward is one of Michigan's native sons. Born in Kingston, he attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, received a B.S. in mechanical engineering in June, 1928, and the following month joined Ethyl. The Rossmans -- Durward and Frances--have four daughters, Patt, Kay, Betty and Dotty. They live in Birmingham, Mich., where Durward is a member of the Men's Club at Holy Name Church. He also belongs to the SAE. After Ethyl hours Dur ward turns to planes, saws and woodworking.power mower and garden tools. July marks 15 years with Ethyl for Blanche Ash of the Central region. In 1933 she left a position as secre tary to the District Attorney in Kansas City, Mo., to join Ethyl and has been with us ever since. Blanche was secretary to the divi sion manager in Kansas City until the regional plan changed it from a divi sion office to a sub-office of the Central region. Now the only girl on the staff, 17 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY ETC 11995 she keeps busy turning out reams of re ports and handling telephone calls from customers, in addition to shorthand, typing and other secretarial work. Blanche was born in Bethany, Mo. and after graduating from high school there attended Kansas City Business College and Teachers State in Mary ville. Tennis and swimming are two reasons why she likes the summer, but sewing and cards are high up on her list of pastimes. Blanche has a son, Harold, who was 16 this month. One new member has been added to the 10-Year-Club roster -- Frank Jobes, Southern region fleet engineer. The Detroit Research labs have a monopoly on the Five-Year-Club in July, with four new names added to the list: Mel Deer, Ed Goller, Don Offord and Dick Taylor. Silver Anniversary for Leo Glesner Twenty-five years -- that's the record chalked up by Leo Glesner, superintendent of Maintenance at the Ethyl-Dow plant in Freeport, Texas. He recently received his 2 5-year pin from the Dow Chemical Company, where he first began working in 19-23. Leo transferred to Ethyl-Dow in 1937 and for the next three years was in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1940 he went down to Ethyl-Dow's plant in Texas and has been there ever since. Hunting and fishing are Leo's week end and vacation sports, and like many a good Texan he has learned to do a little steer rassling, too. Leo lives in Freeport with his wife and their two boys, Pat and Arthur. Research Chemist Dies A. E. Parmelee, one of the nation's outstanding industrial chemists, who was largely responsible for developing processes used at our plant in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, died on May 14. Chief chemist of the Du Pont Com pany, which operated the TEL area for Ethyl until 1945, Mr. Parmelee was directly connected with experi mental work which led to our present TEL process, and helped establish Ethyl's Baton Rouge plant. In the early days when Ethyl bought tetra ethyl lead from Du Pont, he worked with John H. Schaefer, our vicepresident in charge of manufacturing, and others now at our plant. As our business expanded, Mr. Parmelee was a key man in developing manufactur- 18 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY ing improvements. After our Baton Rouge plant was built, he made fre quent visits there to help train men and to instigate process improvements leading to better yields. Mr. Parmelee joined Du Pont in 1916 and served as a research chemist in their Eastern and Jackson labora tories. He was placed in charge of the chemical control of TEL manufacture for Du Pont in 1925, and travelled abroad in the interests of his company. At the time of his death he was special assistant to Mr. J. L. Stecher, manager of Du Pont's Petroleum Products Division. A native of Emerson, Nebraska, he was bom on November 5, 1888. He was a graduate of the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. ETC 11996 Beaming bride -- Ioanna Bell (seated fourth from left) was guest of honor at a party In New York's Hotel Commodore on lune 9, three days before her marriage to Karl Hude. Ethyl friends who gathered to extend best wishes and present her a gleaming electric toaster and automatic iron were: seated, Barbara Randolph, Alice Lahn and Dorothea Held, left of Joanna, and right Betty Mergner and Dottie Hayes; standing, in the usual order, are Margaret Orzio, Marie Burch Anderson, Edythe Kimball, Dorothy Hadsell, former Ethylite Karen Klemens, Gerry Harms, Louise Jensen, Chris Jennings, Betty Hench Metxger, Dottie Campion and Camille Russo. Orchids to Betty--Bride-to-be Betty Hench was honored on May 5 at the Hotel Commodore. Friends from the Chrysler Building gave her two place settings of her sterling. Seated are Ellen Svendsen, Eileen Charman, Betty, Lillian Kraker, Haxel Anderson and Elsa Weber; stand ing, Lillian Campbell, Eleanor Schreyer, Barbara Landers, Erma Harris and Alice Lahn. Combustion confab--Chicago's American Society for Testing Materials, Division of Com bustion Characteristics, met at our Research laboratories in Detroit for their regular quarterly meeting on April 23. Here they are in session at the lab. Ethyl's John Fischer, of the Central Region, who is seated in the front row at the extreme right, made arrangements for the meeting. Charlie Kass, sitting behind and just left of John, discussed the work of our Technical Repre sentatives, better known as the Rover Boys. Following an official welcome from Research Director Jack Macauley came Charlie's talk and the rest of the afternoon was devoted to a tour of the labs. Ted Carron, Rollie Ostrander, Gerry Stanke and George Thomson acted as guides to the group of almost 50, representing oil companies and engine manufacturers from 5 states. Good job, well done--The Sunland Refining Company of Fresno, California completed its first post-war series of dealer training meetings with a wind-up session held May 10 at Ethyl's Los Angeles auditorium. Ethylmen Harry Manning and Bill Sievert, who discussed fuel and engine problems at these meetings, are shown here with the men who put them on. From left are: William Rousch and Ed O'Donnell, Sunland; William Foran, States Battery Company; Harry Manning, Ethyl; William Love, Diamond Tire & Rubber Co.; and Bill Sievert, Ethyl Corporation. ETC 11998 About People Carl Bartholomew, general mana ger of the Detroit Research labs, has been elected a member of the board of trustees of the Traffic Safety Associa tion of Detroit. A non-profit organiza tion, the Association stresses safe driving and walking habits. Ralph S. Clark, publicity and pub lications manager, has been elected to the board of directors of the Public Relations Society of America, New York chapter. He is also chairman of the Industrial Publicity Association's committee on designing a course in in dustrial publicity for New York Uni versity, to be inaugurated next winter. Dan Guy, who heads the agricultural section of Tech Service in Detroit, acted as chairman when Ethyl enter tained the American Agricultural Editors' Association at breakfast on May 11. The Association held its annual meeting the week of May 9 to 13 in Detroit. Carroll Hebert, supervisor of Safety and Plant Protection at Baton Rouge, has been elected commander of the Sixth District, Louisiana Amvets. A member of the Christ-Dickerson Post No. 30, of Ethyl, Carroll served last year as vice-commander for the area, which includes the greater part of Southeast Louisiana. Harry Kaley, vice-president, New York, is a new board member of the National Better Business Bureau. The election was held in May at the annual meeting in New York. George Krieger, agricultural engin eer, is chairman of an API sub-com mittee that has been established for liaison between the Rural Information Committee and the Oil Industry In formation Committee. George has also been elected a member of the Research Committee of the Agricultural Devel opment Committee of the API. Fred Naylor, sales coordinator for the Western region, who headquarters in Seattle, has been elected vicepresident of the General Motors Club there. He also is secretary of the Northwest section of the SAE. Jack Pruitt, Central region account representative, broke into print re cently with an article in the Oil Log, a monthly magazine published by Ashland Oil & Refining Company of Kentucky. Jack's story discussed the increased farm demand for petroleum, particularly as it applies to the Kentucky-Ohio-West Virginia area. Dan Read, safety engineer at the Baton Rouge plant, initiated a traffic safety campaign that was conducted in Baton Rouge during the month of June. Dan planned the campaign as chairman of the Nicholson Post (American Legion) safety committee. Ralph Wahrenhrock, assistant head of the engine durability section in Detroit, and a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve, spent a two-week military leave on reserve duty at the Navy laboratories in Annapolis. Ralph is the second Detroit research engineer to take reserve training this year. The first was Jim Mason who spent two weeks at the naval air station in Grosse He, Mich, early in April. Jim is a lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Air Reserve. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--JULY I ETC 11999 Time out--Larry Stinson's son Bobbie turns from cake to camera. He was snapped enjoying refresh' raents following the April 28 Ethyl Society meeting. Feature attractions of the evening were two movies-- "The Last Wilderness" with famed archer Howard Hill, and "Wings to Ireland," a technicolor travelogue. Lined up near the refreshment table are some other members of the younger generation, who came along to the meeting, which was held in the garage at the San Bernardino lab. From left to right are: a guest, Bobby Guinn, Johnny Schulze, Eddie Lindsay, Tony Painter, Gary Schaub, a guest and Tommy Schaub. Family Fare Step right up--Judy Schaub serves refreshments following a San Bernardino Ethyl Soci* ety meeting March 11. Hume Chenault and Bill Van Wyck came down from Los Angeles, presented the Safety Show to an audience of Ethylites, their wives and children. High spots for the youngsters were the explosions, fires--and food. Barely visible over Judy's head is Art Stahlheber; next come Margaret Stahlheber, Bay and Evelyn Seymour, Ed Lindsay and Marv Russell. ETC 12000 Circling the floor at the Forest Lake Country Club, Detroit Ethylites dance to the strains oi Bill Raleigh's orchestra. Photographs in the background are of 1948 tournament winners. Emcee lack Bailie, snapped on the sidelines, has a good laugh with Connie Anderson, Bob and Barbara Spangenberg, Jewell and Herb Sumner. Herb's seated back to camera. Dinner-Dance in Detroit Rocked by the rhythm of hundreds of dancing feet, the Forest Lake Country Club was filled with happy Detroiters on May 15, when a record crowd turned out for the Ethyl Society's annual Spring banquet. Almost three hundred people were on hand for the affair that marks the end of the bowling season each year. One of the evening's highlights came when Jack Bailie, as emcee, presented the winners in the 1948 tournaments. Champion golfers are Rollie Os trander, who had men's low gross, and Kitty Weiss, with women's low gross. Three pitchers with big scores are Ed Goller, Bob Mescher and Merrill Doughty, champion horseshoe hurlers. Ed copped the Class A singles crown for the third year running, and teamed with Bob Mescher to take the doubles title as well. This is the second straight year that Ed and Bob have won the horseshoe doubles. Another repeat performance was staged by Merrill Doughty, who won the Class B singles for the second consecutive year. Merrill Anderson, Bowling League president and Ethyl Society chairman, presented the bowling cup to Chick Sortman, who captained the winning men's team. You read about the bowl ing and ping pong champs in June. All of the 1947-48 tournaments were arranged by Harold Faucher, sports chairman for the Society. Jean Vincent and Alyce Peterson, photographers at the Labs, were re sponsible for the decorations. Large portraits which they made of the champs were hung on the walls around the room and lighted by small, in dividual flood lamps. Bob Spangenberg, as social chair man, headed a committee who worked long and hard to make the affair a success. Helping him were Merrill Doughty, Harold Faucher, Peggy Fox, Bill Gilpin, Bill Hancock, Howard Hesselberg, Florence McMahon, Eleanor Ott, Alyce Peterson, Ross Rife, Ruth Simons, Wally Spring, Jean Vincent, Thom Yates and Helen Donovan Zane. Bubble Bath in a Manhole Probably the only manhole in the world ever to blow bubbles is the one in front of our Central region's sub office in Dayton, Ohio. Passersby on June 8 noticed foam coming from the manhole, and in no time the street was three feet deep in suds. They called out the Fire Department, they hailed the Police, and Second street was blocked off while the building manager investi gated. What he found hit the headlines in The Dayton Herald. Harry Mack had 40 cases of "Ethyl ' ' Cleaner at the office, which were being loaded onto a small truck in the garage. The truck got loose, slid down a ramp, and spread the contents of 360 bottles on the floor of the garage. The men hosed the Cleaner down the drains in the basement and thought that the last of it. But 60 yards away, a mountain of suds soon foamed up out of a manhole, giving Second Street its first bubble bath. Everyone got a laugh out of Second Street's unexpected facial. ** Thank You We were delighted to hear from 12.6% of you in response to the BB's post card survey. But what happened to the other 87.4%? We're interested in your opinions, too. Here's your chance to let us know what you like to read in the Bulletin Board. If your card is still around, won't you dig it out now and check off your answers, then drop it in the mail? 24 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY Bob Hope Runs on "Ethyl" Have you noticed how often the word "Ethyl'' finds its way into radio scripts? Our product's name is a part of the everyday vocabulary-- a synonym for power and push. The Bob Hope Show was especially interesting to Ethylites on May 11 when Bob had as his guest Mel Patton, the University of Southern California's star track man. In case you missed it, here's the payoff. Patton: YouwillracemetoGrauman's Chinese, Bob? I suppose you mean you want to prove that you can out-run me. Vague: No. He wants to get there before the prices change. Hope: Yeah? Well, slip into your track shoes and a vitamin tablet, Patton, and let's go. I'll show you--I got blood that's half "Ethyl." Virgil Allied . . . back at San Berdu lab as a test driver after two-and-a-balf years in trucking business . born in Lexington, Arkansas . . . has lived in San Bernardino most of his life . . . before Ethyl was with Divi sion of Highways, State of California . . . married and has two children, Charles and Pauline . . . likes all sports, hunting, fishing. i l i ETC 12002 Latest on Love Joanna Bell and Karl Hude were married on June 12, in Clinton, N. J. with the Mayor performing the cere mony. Joanna, who has charge of the general files in our head office, is Bulletin Board correspondent for the 36th floor of the Chrysler Building. Betty Hench has been Mrs. William Metzger since May 9, when she and Bill exchanged vows at the First Presbyterian Church in Richmond Hill, Long Island. Following a wedding trip to Williamsburg and Virginia Beach, Betty returned to New York and her work in Order and Shipping. Irene Sweeney became the bride of John Weingartner on May 22 at St. Anastasia Church in Teaneck. A wed ding breakfast followed the ceremony, and Irene and John honeymooned in Florida. Irene is a member of the traffic department in New York. Janet Terry and William Burt were married on May 29 at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich. They spent their honeymoon at the Terry Lodge in Canada, and are making their home in Femdale. Both Janet and Bill are chemists at Ethyl's Research laboratories in Femdale. Lucille Wielandt became Mrs. Speight on May 1 at the FlatbushTompkins Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Following a reception at the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn, Lucille and Bob left for the Sky Top Club in Pennsylvania. Lucille is receptionist on the 36th floor at Chrysler. Majorie Mouron is a member of the third-finger-left-hand club. Her en gagement to William Brown has been announced in Detroit. Marge is a steno in Chem Research at the Labs. 25 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY ETC 12003 r A big girl now--Elaine Emery, who blew out three candles on her birthday cake July 6, has grown a little since this picture was taken. She posed last October in a dress that her dad brought back from Mexico. Wallace Emery is a Southern region safety engineer. 'Tennnn-shun! Armchair strategists, asked to name the No. 1 characteristic of the CBI theater, would probably say "heat" or "mosquitoes." But ask a veteran who served there, and you'd probably find that "com radeship" had nudged the mosquito bites and humidity out of first place. Maurice Granger, of the Detroit labs, is one of those vets. He is helping to spark a drive that will bring to gether former GI's of the CBI theater in an organization to be known as the "CBI-ers." The group's main pur pose is to perpetuate the spirit of good fellowship that existed in the "forgotten theater." Ethyl's CBI veterans can get the details from: Maurice Granger, c o Ethyl Corporation, 1600 West Eight Mile Road, Ferndale 20, Detroit, Mich. Pavement Pounding Pays Off One day the newspaper in Covina, California announced a big contest. Thousands of dollars in prizes were offered, and all you had to do was sell subscriptions. It sounded good to Larry Chenault, whose dad is chief safety engineer for Ethyl's Western region. So he pounded pavements, rang doorbells and sales-talked his way to success. Larry finished near the top and the editors were so impressed that they awarded him a job on the paper. A part-time job, that is, because Larry is only 12 years old. All the other contestants were adults. Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Ruth Baker: Detroit: Sue Gendemalik, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer), Margaret Takish, Helen Zane; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; MexicoCentral America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Estelle Caldwell, Wilma Hansa, Joanna Hude, Barbara Kelley, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; North Kansas City: Nathan Fay; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: C. E. Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. 26 BULLETIN BOARD --JULY J ETC 04 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Published by the Ethyl Corporation, 405 Lexington Avenue. Sew York, New York; Edward L. Shea, President; Stanley T. Crcsaiand, Vice-president and Treasurer; /uJian C.' Gonzalez, Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor Understand Rivalry and You Understand America by Ed Thorgersen Next time you miss a short putt or slice a drive, and are tempted to break your clubs and spend Sunday after noons listening to the radio, count to ten and then count to ten again. Just remember, golf is a grand sport, and wonderful exercise, and there's always hope of a better score tomorrow. Be thankful, though, that you didn't roam the greens back in the 1880's. In those days, Scotch niblick lovers were content to use any knobbed stick as a club. And the original golf ball was really something to behold. For the forerunner of our elusive white pellet was little more than a sack of feathers. Can you picture yourself trying for that hole-in-one with noth ing to swat but a ball made of bird covering? Golfing has come a long way since the early days. Today, well-balanced clubs and golf balls make it possible for fans everywhere to get more enjoy ment from this great sport. Hidden behind this great improve Printed in U. S. A. ment in golfing is a little word that works magic in America. The word-- competition. The magic--more for your money. For competition makes a business work harder to bring you newer and better products. In golf, it means many manufacturers turning out top-notch equipment. And in the oil business, competition means over 34,000 individual oil companies com peting with their rivals to bring you and everyone better products from petroleum at fair prices. Over 1,250,000 people are employed in the oil industry and there's great contesting between companies to bring you the latest developments of fuel and lubrication research. That's why we Americans enjoy the finest in fuels at the world's lowest prices. Better lubricants . . . finer fuels . . . newer products ... good value for your money. That's how you benefit from the competition and intense rivalry in the oil industry. That's the plus for you in Petroleum's Progress. 27 BULLETIN BOARD -JULY ETC 12008 Harold Beatty Beatty Named Assistant Director of Research Beste and Kurt Move Up Three research and development men--Harold A. Beatty, George W. Beste and O. Edward Kurt-- moved up to new posts last month in a change brought about by the creation of a new position at the Research Laboratories in Detroit. Hal Beatty was named to the newlycreated post of assistant director of research. Ed Kurt was brought up to Detroit from Baton Rouge to succeed Hal as technical assistant to the general manager of the Labs. George Beste was made manager of the devel opment section at the Baton Rouge Plant to fill Ed's former post. In his new capacity, Hal assists Director of Research Jack Macauley in the over-all guidance of research and technical service activities. Hal started his business career with Ethyl almost 18 years ago, following his graduation from Princeton Univer sity with a doctor of philosophy degree. Joining the Laboratories' staff as a chemical researcher, he moved up to the position of assistant director of chemical research and then to his 3 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST 12009 etc most recent job as technical assistant to the general manager. He and Mrs. Beatty and their two sons live in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Ed Kurt's new job takes him back to his friends in the Detroit Labora tories, where he first started to work for Ethyl in March of 1936. After five years at the Labs, he went down to the Plant at Baton Rouge as man ager of the development section. In filling Hal's former job, Ed becomes not only technical assistant to Earl Bartholomew, but technical consult ant to the research executive group as well. Before Ethyl, Ed was a research chemist and engineer for the U. S. Rubber Company at Passaic, N. J. and in Detroit. A native of Bellevue, Iowa, he attended Loras College in Dubuque, then took his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He and his wife, Dorothy, have three children, Tom, 11, Martha, 9, and Carolyn, 7. George Beste, who has been named successor to Ed as manager of the George Beste Edward Kurt development section at our Manufac turing Plant in Baton Rouge, moved up from his position as a supervisor in the development section to take over the management of it. George came to Baton Rouge and Ethyl eight years ago with a Ph.D. from Columbia University to start his career in in dustry. He had worked as a laboratory assistant at Columbia and also at Monmouth College in Illinois, where he received his B.S. At war's end, George served as a member of the United States Strate gic Bombing Survey that studied oil and chemical plant installations in Japan. He spent two months in Japan and upon his return directed the writing of the final report titled "Chemicals in Japan's War," one of the two official documents of the Oil and Chemical Division of the Survey. The Bestes--George and Margaret and their three children--Jean, seven, Jim, four, and David, almost two-- live at 2219 College Drive in B. R. ETC 12010 Earl Currier A1 Men Currier and Merz Promoted Eaxl C. Currier has been appointed assistant chief accountant and Albert Merz has succeeded him as head of Accounts Payable in the New York Finance department. In his new job Earl will share the responsibilities of running the Ac counting division of the Finance de partment with Chief Accountant John Smith. Earl came to Ethyl eight years ago from. Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery. Before that he was traveling auditor for Petroleum Heat and Power Company, and had worked as an accountant for Gulf Oil and Continental Baking. Starting with us as an accountant in June of 1940, Earl was put in charge of Accounts Payable in April of 1942. The section, then numbering four, has grown under his guidance to a staff of 11, as their work increased and new duties were added. Born and reared in Fairfield, Maine, Earl was graduated from Rider Col lege in Trenton, N. J., with a bachelor of accounts degree. He lives in Sunnyside, Long Island with his wife, Helen, and three-year-old daughter, Joan. Enjoys bridge, swimming and fishing. A1 Merz, who succeeds Earl as head of Accounts Payable, started with Ethyl 12 years ago this month as an accountant. For the past five years he has been a member of the Accounts Payable staff. He had pre viously been manager of the New York office of the National Transit Company. A1 was bom in Brooklyn, graduated from Commercial High and attended Long Island Business School. He lives in Hollis, Long Island, with his wife, Laura. Brand-new grandparents, they are very proud of the recent addition to the Merz clan, young Richard Alan. Al, top kegler on the New York bowling team, is already planning to teach him how to make the tenpins topple in championship form. 5 BULLETIN BOARD--AUGUST ETC 12011 For a Better Understanding of Our Economic System Ken Wells Last month Ken Wells, director of Operations of the Joint ANA-AAAA* Committee on Improvement of Public Understanding of Our Economic Sys tem, presented the Committee's pro gram to Ethyl groups in New York, Detroit and Baton Rouge. With the world today divided by a struggle of ideas, this campaign to awaken Americans to the value of the rights they enjoy, is of vital impor tance to the public interest. Ethyl Corporation is cooperating with the committee by helping them reach the people in our own Company. The current program, result of 17 months' research on the part of top advertising minds, is designed pri marily for management groups. Main 6 BULLETIN BOARD--AUGUST feature is a movie titled, "This Is Our Problem." Mr. Wells presented the movie with introductory remarks about the his tory of the committee, the work they have done to date, and the scope of the program they have planned. The group is now working on plans to inaugurate a program of information about the American economic system for men and women who work in the plants, laboratories and offices throughout the country. Larger in scope than any campaign ever before attempted, it will be designed to reach every citizen in America. Mr. Wells' Ethyl tour took him to our Head Office, our Research Labo ratories and our Manufacturing Plant. In New York on July 19, he met with a group from the Employe and Public Relations and Manufacturing staffs. In Detroit the following night he appeared at the Detroit Ethyl Society meeting. In Baton Rouge on July 22 he spoke before, the Ethyl Manage ment Club, and on July 23 before the Louisiana State University Chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management. *Association of National Adver tisers--American Association of Advertising Agencies. > ' i In 1899 the War Department in Washington purchased three auto mobiles for officers' use. Each was equipped so that a mule could be hitched to it in case the automobile should balk and refuse to run. ETC 12012 { X. r Sergeys Report on German Processes Published by Commerce Department A report by Frank Sergeys, chemical ! engineer at our Plant in Baton Rouge, describing two German processes for the chlorination of ethane, has just ! been placed on sale by the Office of Technical Services, United States Department of Commerce. ; In the Spring of 1947, Frank and j George Calingaert, associate director ; of research at the Detroit Labs, went j to Europe to investigate wartime j manufacturing developments. The trip was sponsored by the Department of Commerce, who arranged for their entry into Germany. They were particularly concerned with German processes for the- manu facture of TEL, fuel additives, etc., and on returning to Baton Rouge Frank wrote reports of their findings for the Government. The chlorination of ethane is the second of four reports to be published. Leaving New York's LaGuardia Airport on April 12, George and Frank flew to Brussels, Belgium by way of London. From General Motors in Antwerp they got an Oldsmobile in which they toured the American, French and British occupation zones of Germany. They were assigned billets by the Army, and had the first-floor apart ment in a two-story house in Karls ruhe, Germany. Gas was turned on for only one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, and the pressure was very low. George and Frank had a little trouble getting to the house at the right time to bathe. i George Calingaert, surrounded by Ger man children, hands out cookies, chew ing gum and candy. This was a daily scene in Essen. L BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST ETC 12013 Frank Sergeys (right) chats with his cousin, lean Sergeys, in Louvain, his cousin's home in Belgium. This was Frank's first trip to Belgium since 1926, when he moved to the United States with his family. Meals were served at the FIAT (Field Investigation Agency--Tech nical) mess. While the food was fairly good,' they had to be there at the ap pointed time or miss the meal--there was no other place to eat. It was often difficult while en route to locate the transient officers' mess, so they usually carried K rations, sardines and rolls. Motor fuel presented another prob lem, with gas stations from SO to 70 miles apart and open only a few hours each day. Traveling from place to place in volved considerable red tape. They had to submit itineraries, wait for orders, get plant passes listing the people they wanted to see and then hope they would be able to find them. By studying previous reports the men learned where the work in which they were interested had been done, and the names of people who could tell them about it. Finding the people was a major feat, as most of them had moved since the report had been made, and detective work was required to locate them. After following one man through five places, they finally dis covered him in a sausage factory. Vacationing aboard this trim 56ft. ketch, Betty and Ben Brewster sailed from Port Washington, on Long Island Sound, to Nantucket. * UNDER WAY WITH THE WINDJAMMERS Summer days find our sailors in Detroit outbound from Ethyl for fun afloat. As they trim the mainsail and head for the horizon, thoughts of bruised knuckles and aching backs are left far astern with summer's heat. Many a weary hour has gone into sandpapering and painting hulls, repairing and readying rigging, but once under way the months of prepa ration and hard work are forgotten. Betty and Ben Brewster have just returned from a vacation on the waves aboard their 56-ft. ketch. Putting out from Port Washington, Long Island they sailed to Nantucket, Mass., a 250-mile cruise. It was just a short jaunt for Ben, who crossed the Atlantic in the same boat back in 1928. Ben is manager of Technical Service Operations at the Detroit Laboratories. Two new recruits are Harold Chalk and Cleve Walcutt, who attended classes all winter to learn the technicalities of sailing. They are getting practical Putting the Sea Bag in condition for summer sailing, Harry Toolmin wields the paint brush as Cap Hall supervises from above. ETC 12015 r i experience this summer plying the waters of Lake St. Clair, near Detroit. : Both are in Automotive Research-- 1 Cleve is an engineer and Harold is i an assistant coordinator. Cap Hall and Harry Toulmin also have their boat, the Sea Bag, on Lake St. Clair. Harry plans a 120mile trip up the St. Clair River, into Lake Huron and on to Grand Bend where he and Cap have a cottage for the summer. Cap is an assistant co ordinator and Harry is an engineer in Automotive Research. Gordon Millar built his own boat, a 16-ft runabout with a 60-h.p. con verted Ford engine. Originally de signed for racing, he later conven tionalized it, spending spare hours on the job for almost a year. Gordon, an engineer-in-training, spoke on souped-up marine engine conversions at an SAE meeting in Detroit recently. On the distaff side, the sport is represented by Claire Olsen, who sails a 16-ft. cub on Big Cedar Lake, Wisconsin. She spends vacations there and once received a good sportsman ship trophy for entering her Stop and Go in a race. "It was more stop than go," says Claire, who is tech nical librarian at the Labs. Claire Olsen's brother Ralph was about to make off with her Stop and Go when this picture was snapped. has recently been appointed head of the Road Test section (see page 18) and A1 is an engineer in Tech Service. Gordon Millar has good reason to grin as be looks over the finished product, a 16-ft. run about that he built himself. Rollie Ostrander has a new home on Round Lake, not far from Detroit, and is building a small but sturdy dingy. Rollie's home is also head quarters for A1 Tandrup, who is pinch-hitting as captain of the Sea Hag, a snipe that belongs to Jim Zars, of our Southern region. Rollie ETC 12016 MILESTONES GO BY Four gold pins--each with a diamond in the border--are catching the sum mer sun and gleaming in the lapels of Eugene F. Gamier, John E. Hendrick, Malcolm P. Murdock and John P. Weeks, who this month celebrate their 15th Ethyl anniversaries. Gene Gamier of New York Fi nance began his Ethyl career as super visor of Accounts Payable and later was on the chief accountant's staff. He moved again in 1944, and for the next three years was cost accountant for "Ethyl" Cleaner Operations. Since May of last year, he has been in the Gene Gamier Statement and Analysis section of Finance. A New Yorker by birth, Gene was reared in the Big City, attended Fordham School of Business and New York University. He was assistant secretary of General Printing Ink, assistant chief accountant for General Motors Export and cost accountant for the Chevrolet Motor Company before joining Ethyl. Gene lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters, Skippy, al most 10, and Mimi, 8. He's a tennis champ and has been adopted by his daughters and their pals as official coach for all their games. His nick name, "Mr. Fixit," bespeaks a talent which he says is "sometimes a hobby and sometimes a nuisance." Ed Hendrick, Southern region tractor engineer, joined the Company as a field representative in Oklahoma City. After five years there he trans ferred to Dallas and has turned ETC 12017 r Texan. Since 1942 Ed has been a tractor engineer with headquarters in the Dallas office. Mississippi is Ed's home state. Born in Slate Springs, he was gradu ated from Mississippi College with a B.A. degree and took his masters in chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Before Ethyl he was an analytical and experimental chemist with Shell Petroleum Cor poration. Ed is a family man, spends most of his off-the-job hours helping Mrs. H. entertain 5-year-old Judy and 8-yearold Helen. He finds time for an occasional 18 holes of golf, likes to fish and work in the garden. Mac Murdock, assistant general sales manager, has traveled from coast to coast during his 15 years with Ethyl. His first assignment was in the old New York division as a field repre sentative. Mac became manager of the Motor Tune-Up Clinic in 1938 and taster was assistant division manager in Los Angeles and Chicago. Since last Mac Murdock J. P. Weeks summer he has been Ethyl's assistant general sales manager. Before this appointment he was sales manager for Ethyl Specialties. A native of Massachusetts, Mac attended Cornell University and was graduated with an A.B. in economics. He had charge of service station sales for Hygrade Petroleum Cor poration before joining Ethyl. The Murdocks are four--Mac and Mrs. M. have two sons, Douglas, 12 and Richard 8, living in New Rochelle. John Weeks, called JP by his associates in New York Finance, is an accountant in the Cost section. Bom in the Empire State, he at tended Hartwick Seminary and Albany Business College, later studied at Co lumbia University. During the first World War JP served as an ensign in the Navy aboard the U.S.S. West Zucker. Back in civilian life, he joined (Continued on page 28) 13 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST ETC 12018 You Meet the Most Interesting People Helen Macintosh, bonny lassie who sends teletype messages back and forth for Ethyl people in Baton Rouge, Edge Moor, and New York, does a bit of message sending on her own. After hours she corresponds with members of the Clan Mackintosh from Georgia to Canada and the British Isles. On July 28, one of the persons she has been corresponding with arrived on the Queen Mary and looked her up. He was Rear Admiral The Mack intosh of Mackintosh, head of the Clan Mackintosh. Chief naval repre sentative at the British Ministry of Supply and head of British Naval Equipment, he came to America as the British Government's official rep resentative at the dedication of the New York International Airport in Idlewild. Soon after arriving The Mackintosh looked up Ethyl's Helen Macintosh and they got together to discuss their illustrious ancestry. Helen has made quite a study of the family tree, and is trying to get other members of the Clan in America together. She is a member of the Clan Chattan Associa tion of London, of which the Admiral is president and he discussed plans with her for organizing a branch society in this country. It seems that the Clan Chattan has many branches--chief ones are the MacPhersons and the Mackintoshes. That includes all 172 varieties of spell ing the latter. Anybody who wants to join the association or wants to write to someone about the Clan, get in touch with Helen Macintosh, in the New York office. 14 BULLETIN BOARD-AUGUST Hack To Washington Bill Hack, who has been with us for the past two years in Product Devel opment, has been appointed director of the newly-created Division of Chemicals, Rubber and Allied Prod ucts of the National Security Re sources Board by Arthur M. Hill, chairman of the Board. Bill left Ethyl in July to take over the responsibil ities of his new post in the nation's capital. Adrift on a mi of grass--Marilyn Mason demonstrates the latest in life rafts in the safety of her own backyard. The three-yearold daughter of Jim Mason, she's learning young about things nautical. Her dad, who was a lieutenant in the Navy during the war, is an engineer in Automotive Research at our Laboratories in Detroit. 12019 IT'S PLAYTIME AGAIN '' 1 '. ! Maine Magic--This is what Bob Brown sees when he steps onto the porch of his cottage in Newagen, Maine, where he and his wife are vacationing. It's a three weeks' holiday for Bob, who has been a member of the New York Finance staff for more than 20 years. Alabama Garden-- Gertrude Horstmann (N. Y. Finance) pic tured on the grounds of St. Charles College near Mobile, where she visited her brother Rudy, who used to work at the Ethyl Plant in Baton Rouge. Pennsylvania Snow--Pleasant r minder of winter fun, this picture < Madelyn Drum (N. Y. comp operato: was taken near Harrisburg, Pa. California Candid--Vacationing on the West Coast, Howard Costello, of N. Y. Finance, pauses for a picture in front of Grauman's famous Chinese restaurant. No thank you--Twomonth~old Galia Shapiro noisily registers her disapproval of picnic fare, while her. mother across the way smiles radiantly over her piled up plate. Holding Galia is her pop, Hy Shapiro, and behind him are Evelyn Harworth's son, Bomnie, and Bea Salisbury's niece, Roberta Hall. On the other side, from back, are Ross Stevenson, Barbara Waak, Margaret Smith, Claire Olsen, Mary Carol Almen, Evelyn Harworth, young Gary Shapiro and Mrs. S. SATURDAY IN THE PARK Two hundred ice cream-gulping, soda pop gurgling Research labs em ployes and members of their families attended the fifth annual Detroit Ethyl Society picnic held Saturday, June 26, at Springdale Park in sub urban Birmingham. There were races, sports, games and refreshments, adding up to fun for all. Twelve events were staged for Ethyl small fry. These ranged from a 35-yard dash for children under seven years to a tricky knife-and-bean race for all the girls. Tab* Time--Golf champ Rollie Ostrander (behind the dark glasses) watches while Merrill Doughty (white cap) checks the goli tally sheet. Bill Wanderer (fedora), golf tour ney chairman, and Harry Prince double check. On the green--While his son, John, and a bevy of beauties look on, Merrill Doughty (Finance) prepares to sink a long putt. In the usual order, the girls are Kitty Weiss, Helen Krueger and Jewell Ahonen Sumner. f ' Two men's races resulted in a mo nopoly for Harold Faucher, the labs' assistant maintenance superintendent. He nosed out Barney Jones and Andy Pallay for top honors in the "fat man's" 50-yard run, only a few min utes after he and his son Gene had won the father-and-son wheelbarrow skirmish. Second in the wheelbarrow sprint was the team of Chick Sortman and young Gerry, while George Clixby and Laurel Wilkinson's boy, Don, were third. One-two-three in the ! special 50-yard backward running | race for the feminine contingent were Helen Krueger, Mrs. Jack McCul; lough and Mrs. George Vaughn. In the evening softball game the Regulars, captained by Ed Goller of Automotive Research, downed the Mighty-ites, led by George Clixby of Chemical Research, 5 to 4. Again this year, the "National Workingmen's Open" golf tournament held in connection with the picnic was run by Bill Wanderer, and to make the cycle complete the tournament came up with the same winners as last year. Rollie Ostrander's 73 was low gross among the men, and Kitty Weiss' 100 was lowest among the gals. Sharing in the prizes for the Blind Bogey golf tournament were Jack Bailie, Jim Bell, George Clixby, Charles Denzler, Merrill Doughty, Chuck Hawley, A1 Pauls, Punch Pfundstein, Harry Prince, Bill Ras mussen, Ross Stevenson, Herb Sum ner, George Vaughn, Larry Warzel and Late Willans. Andy Reimold, personnel manager at the labs, served as general chairman of the picnic, assisted by Bob Spangenberg of Automotive Research, out going social chairman of the De troit Ethyl Society. Gene Hill of Chemical Research was in charge of the children's events, aided by the following committee heads: proper ties, Bill Hancock of Laboratory Services and Barney Jones, section head of Technical Data; master-ofceremonies, Thom Yates, public rela tions representative; prizes, Mari Lynn Koelsch, secretary to Chuck Hawley; judges, Bob Spangenberg; and starter, Larry Warzel of Automo tive Research. Harold Faucher was in charge of getting equipment and properties to the picnic area. Other committee chairmen were: John Napolitano of Chemical Re search, refreshments; Merrill Ander son of Automotive Research, softball game arrangements; Helen Zane of Finance, publicity; Evelyn Harworth of Chemical Research, games for chil dren up to seven; and Jimmy Boag of Chemical Research, first aid. As far as could be learned, "Doctor" Boag's services were not required. The committee chairmen got lots of help from able assistants, some of whom were "horse-collared" for the last-minute duties at the scene of operations Saturday in the park. Hippity-hop--All set for a hop-along race, boys and girls get in structions from masterof-ceremonies Thom Yates. Andy Reimold, arms akimbo, looks on. etc 12022 Five Detroiters Get New Jobs Promotions and transfers at our Re search Laboratories in Detroit bring new jobs to five Ethylmen. Affected by the changes are Reginald Broquet, Arthur Huffman, Roland Ostrander, Leonard Smith and William Wanderer. Reg Brouquet has been appointed manager of Laboratory Services and Roilie Ostrander has been named head of the Road Test section. They suc ceed Frank Davis and Ed Oddy, who are no longer with the Company. Art Huffman has taken over for Roilie as head of the Engine Durability section in Automotive Research. Leonard Smith has been made Garage foreman, filling the shoes of Bill Wanderer, who has transferred to the Instrument section of Laboratory Services. Reg Broquet brings 13 years of Ethyl experience to his new position as manager of Laboratory Services. He joined the Company back in April Beg Broquet of 1935 as a draftsman and at the time of his appointment was head of the Equipment Design and Construc tion section of Aviation Research. Born on Guernsey Isle, England, Reg came to America as a young boy. His family settled in Detroit, where he attended Lawrence Institute of Technology and the University of Detroit. Before Ethyl he was with Continental Motors, Gar Wood In dustries and Chrysler Corporation. Art Huffman moves up from his work as an engineer to head the En gine Durability section of Automotive Research. He joined Ethyl in 1939 as an engineer-in-training, following his graduation from the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. Upon completion of the course he was assigned to Road Test work, which he left early in 1942 to join the Army Service Forces. A first lieutenant with the Detroit Ordnance Roilie Ostrander District for almost four years, Art has been back at the Labs since February of 1946. Rollie Ostrander, new head of the Road Test Section, came to the Com pany in 1940 from Michigan State University, with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. Another graduate of Ethyl's engineers-in-training program, he joined the Navy in 1943 and after completing his V-7 course, taught geometry and metallurgy at An napolis. Later Rollie was assistant to the Officer in Charge at the Fleet Diesel School in San Diego, Calif. He returned to the Labs in October, 1945. Leonard Smith goes from the Dyna mometer section to his new position as Garage foreman. He joined Ethyl in 1944 and has been doing mechan ical work with engines and dynamo meters. Born in Athens, Leonard attended St. Paul's College in his native Greece. He specialized in en gineering and has always been at tracted to things mechanical. His enthusiasm for racing cars has led to an interest in high speed engines and superchargers. Bill Wanderer, former Garage fore man, has transferred to the Instru- Leonard Smith ETC 12024 Prizes for Your Prints Bill Wanderer ment section of Laboratory Services. He came to work in Pop Mescher's Machine Shop at the Labs in January of 1941. Bill, a native of Jennings, Mich., attended high school in his home town and later studied mechan ical engineering in Grand Rapids. His first job was in the engineering depart ment of General Motors Truck. For 11 years he did engineering develop ment and field work for Pontiac Motor Company. He later became district manager for the Alemite Company in Columbus, Ohio and came to Ethyl from Bendix Aviation Corp. Today there are 9,000 farm airplanes, an increase of 8,900 percent since 1941. This increase is symbolic of the sky rocketing growth of oil-powered farm ing in the war and postwar years. 20 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST The judges are ready, the prizes are waiting, and now it's up to you. Have you entered the Bulletin Board's Pho tography Contest yet? Two leaders in the photographic field have agreed to act as judges-- Bruce Downs, photography editor of Collier's magazine, and Bill Finn, president of the New York Press Photographers Association. A repre sentative of the Bulletin Board will also serve on the judges' panel. All Ethyl employes are eligible and there's no limit on the number of photographs you can enter. Three cash prizes--$15 for first, $10 for second and $5 for third--will be awarded. In addition, five honorable mention winners will receive one-year subscriptions to their favorite photog raphy magazine. Just as a reminder, here are the rules of the contest: 1. Black-and-white prints only are eligible. No color prints, or handcolored prints. 2. Pictures should not be smaller than 4 inches or larger than 10 inches on any side. 3. Contestant's name, department and location should be printed in ink on the back of each picture. 4. Only pictures taken since Jan uary 1, 1948 are eligible. 5. Prints must be in the mail by midnight, August 31. There's still time to get out your camera and take a prize-winning pic ture. Let's show the experts what amateur photographers can do! ETC 12025 We Greet Winifred Natschke . . . comp tometer operator at the Detroit labs . . . formerly with Ford Motor Company . . . born in Ferndale, lives there with her husband, Arthur... likes bowling. Harold Orloff . . . Detroit Research chemist . . . born in Winnipeg, Canada . . . graduate of the University of Manitoba . . . member of Sigma Xi . . . married and has a twoyear-old daughter, Debby . . . favorite sports--golf, curling. Mieczyslaw Wojciechowaki . . . chemist in Detroit Research . . . born and educated in War saw, Poland . . . taught at Poly technic Institute there . . . plays violin and viola . . . member of the American Chemical Society. Joseph Kalb . . . lab technician in Detroit. . . born in Pennsylvania, attended St. Vincent College . . . lives in Royal Oak with his family--Mrs. K. and daughters Carolyn, Con stance and Joanne . . . member of PTA . . . camera fan. Ernest Pexry . . . Detroit Labs, assistant to wage and salary co ordinator .. . native Easterner ... attended Mechanics Institute and Columbia University . . . married and has two children, Robbin, five, and Bettyann, 10 this month. Rath Baker . . . secretary in Central region sub office, Dayton ... bora in Indiana . . . played violin in student or chestra . . . taught shorthand at business school in Dayton . . . Bulletin Board correspondent. . . likes outdoor sports of all kinds. Ross Stevenson . . . back at Detroit labs as chemical engineer . . . worked there for a year fol lowing high school ... in the interim acquired B.S. from Mich igan State and spent three years in Navy . . . hobbies--hunting, fishing, taxidermy. Jerome Westerfield . . . writer in Public Relations, New York . . . bora in Chicago . . . graduate of Northwestern Uni versity . . . free-lance writer be fore Ethyl. . . four years in Army Air Corps . . . hobbies--golf, woodworking . . . New Jerseyite. Baton Rouge Safety Contest Winners Awarded Valuable Prizes To improve safety performance at the Manufacturing Plant in Baton Rouge, ideas were solicited from all employes through a safety contest which closed July 1. More than 1600 employes sub mitted articles on "How We Can Improve Our Safety Performance." Seven prizes, consisting of $450 of valuable merchandise, were awarded to those who wrote the best articles. Winners were announced on July 19 and awards were made at the Plant picnic on August 7. Grand winner in the general classi fication was Rosemary Wilson, a ste nographer in the Plant and Employe Services section. A beautiful five-piece silver service went to Rosemary for 22 BULLETIN BOARD--AUGUST the best article submitted by Group I. This included all wage-roll employes working in the various areas and the service employes, and clerical workers in the Administration Building and all other office buildings. ' In the management classification, Alvin D. Hubbs won the grand prize --a Kodak 35 camera, Argus projector and Weston light meter. Competing in this group were members of super visory personnel. Second prize in the management classification went to Oscar J. Lasseigne. To him went a matched set of Bobby Jones golf clubs and a golf bag. The four winners of first prize in the areas were: Harold J. Patin, ELA; Delores P. Brignac, Service; Ripley F. Wilkinson, Sodium; and Marvin E. Phenix, TEL. Their prizes were: a picnic set; casting rod, tackle and lures; a Marlin 22 rifle; and a Westinghouse roaster-clock combination. They drew lots at the picnic to see who would get what prize. All entries were judged impartially on the basis of good ideas and interest value. Names were removed from the articles and kept separately until after r the judging. Harry Wheeler, chairman of the contest, turned out to be grand winner in the management classifica tion and requested that the prize be re-awarded. Also on the committee were A. S. Barton, H. L. Hinnershitz, J. F. Kobler and William Smith. Delores Brignac, stenographer in the Safety office, won first prize in the Service group. Oscar Lasseigne, TEL foreman, won second prize in the manage ment classification. ETC 12028 Arthur Deverill, Jr. Goes to West Point When a person who has been giving orders starts taking them instead, it isn't often considered a promotion. But that's what happened to Art Deverill, Jr., whose dad is head of the control and cost section in New York Finance. Art graduated from Washington Irving High back in 1945. In the Fall he entered Union College in Schenec tady, but left during his sophomore year to enlist in the Army. He served for almost two years--10 months of that time in the Philippine Islands-- and attained the rank of sergeant. During his stay in Manila, Art applied through the Army for admis sion to the military academy at West Point. He passed all the requirements and was recommended as the No. 1 candidate from Far East Command. The next step was an assignment to the Preparatory School, Newburgh, N. Y. Art was captain of the basket ball team there and received a trophy on behalf of the team for an unde feated season. After passing the entrance examina tion for West Point, Art entered the military academy on July 1. The former sergeant is now a lowly plebe who once more must work himself up from the bottom--but this time Art is learning about the Army from the standpoint of a future officer. Stork Over Detroit The population of Femdale went up on July 18 with the arrival of F. Douglas Baker, Jr. He weighed in at six pounds, and is the first child of Kay and Douglas Baker. Doug is one of Ethyl's new engineers-intraining. A bundle weighing 7 lbs. 3 oz. and tied with pink ribbon was delivered to Emma and Jim Jackson on July 16. Laura Jane is their second daugh- 24 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST ter--her sister, Louise, is now four. Their pop is in Automotive Research at the Labs. New star boarder at the home of Jane and Punch Piundstein is young Donald Keith, who registered on July 3. Tipping the scales at 8 lbs. 5 oz., the husky young man is the Pfundstein's first child. Punch is in the Agricultural section of Tech Serv ice at Ethyl's Research Labs. Harry Butler builds his dream house-- Why crowd into an apartment or pay high prices for a house when you can build your own? That w'as HarTy Butler's idea, and here you see the finished product. Harry built this home himself, but admits he had a good deal of able assistance from Mrs. B., who is very adept with hammer and saw. Dveams Come True for Harry and Cherry !TR IHJ1 :M.:1f 1 Flowers are Harry's hobby, and roses are his favorites. Here he looks over one of his bushes. California cottage--From the time Cherry Renfroe set foot on Louisiana soil, he dreamed of a bungalow like the one he left behind in California. His dream came true this summer when the Renfroe family moved into their new home in Wallnut Hills, a suburb of B. R. Pictured on the front lawn are Elwood (Mrs. R.), U-year-old Linda and Cherry, who de signed the house and drew up the plans himself. At right is the fourth and equally important member of the family, Miss Teddy. Cherry transferred from the San Bernardino Gas Testing Lab to the Test Lab in Baton Rouge in September of 194S. etc 12030 Confetti and Rice bert Weissleder. She and A1 both hail from Yonkers and were married in the Cresent Place Reform Church there. They honeymooned at Onawa Lodge in the Poconos. Now back in Yonkers, they are making their home in an apartment on Bronx River Road. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Weissleder Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fay June Lohlein of N. Y. Stenographic became Mrs. Thomas Fay on June 12. The bride and groom exchanged vows in St. Clements Church, South Ozone Park. Following a reception they left on a wedding trip to the Poconos. The newlyweds are now at home in Elmhurst, Long Island, where they found an apartment just six days before their wedding. Eve Pavelchek, also of Stenograph ic, has changed her name to Mrs. Al During the lifetime of an automobile tire, the average American car-owner pays $117 in state and federal gaso line taxes. This tax would amount to about eight times the cost of the tire. 26 BULLETIN BOARD--AUGUST Today the retail price of gasoline is little more than half the price 25 years ago, but the quality has steadily improved. Better mileage alone saves motorists $550,000,000 annually. "Ethyl" Sings a Song of Good Gas A robin out in Seattle has just hatched "Ethyl." Mrs. Robin's process won't affect our Manufacturing Plant, though-- her particular "Ethyl" has feathers and wings, and emerged from a cozy nest in a gas station. Last Spring Mrs. Robin spotted a canopy that juts out above the pumps of Dave Smith's gas station in Seattle, Wash. Dave watched the robins build their nest in plain view--mere people and their shiny cars didn't stop them. In time there were three little blue-green eggs, from which hatched three chirping birdies. Neither Dave Smith nor the pho tographer from the Seattle PostIntelligencer who took this picture was sure whether they were boy or girl GashoaM gang--Three little robins have come to Dave Smith's to stay. His gas station provides this sheltered nook lor Mother Robin's nest, and gives service with a song. robins, but one has been named "Ethyl" in honor of our product. Charlie and Jean Serve on ASTM Committees Fifteen hundred members of the American Society for Testing Mate rials convened in Detroit June 21-25 for the organization's 51st annual meeting. Charlie Gambrill and Jean Vincent, of Ethyl's Research Labs, helped to make the meeting a success. Charlie, as chairman of the hotels committee, had the enormous task of arranging for sleeping accommodations for the members, who came from all parts of the United States to attend the five-day session. Charlie, who heads the Analytical section at our Detroit Labs, is also a member of the D-2 committee on petroleum products and lubricants. Jean Vincent was a member of the apparatus and photographic equip ment committee, and helped put on a photographic exhibition at the ASTM meeting. Jean is head of the Photo graphic section at the Research Labs. The first advertisement for a petrol eum product was printed in the middle 1850's. It praised the cure-all qualities of a proprietary medicine labeled "Kier's Petroleum or Rock Oil." The placards urged prospective buyers to "Hurry before this wonderful product is depleted from Nature's laboratory." 27 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST 12032 etc Henry M. Grierson it is with sincere regret that we re port the death of Henry M. Grierson on July 15 at the Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn after an illness of six weeks. Funeral services were held at Fred Herbst Sons Memorial in Brooklyn, Sunday, July 18, and burial took place the following day. Mr. Grierson left Standard Oil Company to join Ethyl's Accounting department on September 15, 1926. At this time, the Company head quarters were located in the Cunard Building at 25 Broadway, and the accounting staff numbered five. Mr. Grierson was bom in Wood bury, New Jersey, on August 15, 1867 and would have celebrated his 81st birthday this year. He is survived by a sister, Grace Grierson, and a brother, William, both of Brooklyn. Milestones Go By (Continued from page 13) F. B. Wilcox & Co. as office manager, later moved across the Hudson to Jersey City, where he was office manager for the Excelsior Dairy. His next move brought JP back to New York and the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, where he was an accountant before coming to Ethyl. Reeling in fish and all phases of photographic work top the list of JP'3 hobbies. He does his own developing, printing and enlarging and was grand prize winner in the Bulletin Board's photography contest last year. One of our many Long Island commuters, JP makes his daily trek from Elmhurst. 28 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST New additions who joined the 10Year-Club are Stuart Forbes, East ern region account representative; Wilma Hansa, N. Y. Finance; and Lynn Phillips, Ethyl's MexicoCentral American representative. An even 10 names have been added to the Five-Year-Club roster: Edith Bryant and William Moon of De troit; Helen Furey, Gertrude Horstmann, Alexander McBean, Frances Macrae and Ralph Stenerson of N. Y. Finance; Margaret Dolan of Product Development; Lucile Titlar Dennis and Grace Ferguson of Sales in New York. r I Bob Spangenberg Killed in Plane Crash With deep sorrow we report the death of Robert K. Spangenberg in a plane crash near Salina, Kansas on July 15. Bob, who was a research engineer at the Detroit Laboratories, was on military leave at the Smoky Hill Airfield at Salina when the accident occurred. A captain in the Air Force active reserve, he was completing a two-weeks' training period, i He was one of nine who were killed when their B-29 Superfortress, which was limping back to base with a fire in the rear of the plane, crashed and burned in a wheat field a few miles from the air base, strewing debris over a 20-acre area. ! The plane was returning with other ! B-29's fron) a simulated bombing j mission over the Midwest, particu! larly St. Louis, Kansas City and i Omaha. The Commanding Officer, of ; the base called it a "routine mission." j The cause of the accident was not 1 known. One of the most popular members of the Laboratories' staff, Bob had just been elected chairman of the steering committee of the Detroit Ethyl Society, having served last year as social chairman. He joined Ethyl July 1, 1940 as an engineer-intraining after graduating from Case School of Applied Science in Cleve land. During the war he served as a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and saw overseas duty with the 36th Fighter Group in the ETO. In Janu ary of 1946 after five years in service he returned to Ethyl. He leaves his wife, Barbara, and two-year-old daughter, Kathryn Ann; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Spangenberg, of Cleveland; a brother, Charles B., of Chicago; and a sister, Mrs. Betty J. Dempsey, of Berkley, California. The funeral was held July 20 in Cleveland, where Bob was bom 30 years ago last June. Many of his friends from the Laboratories drove to Cleveland to attend the services. All of us at Ethyl extend heartfelt sym pathy to his family. 29 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST l ETC 12034 Henry M Grierson it is with sincere regret that we re port the death of Henry M. Grierson on July 15 at the Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn after an illness of six weeks. Funeral services were held at Fred Herbst Sons Memorial in Brooklyn, Sunday, July 18, and burial took place the following day. Mr. Grierson left Standard Oil Company to join Ethyl's Accounting department on September 15, 1926. At this time, the Company head quarters were located in the Cunard Building at 25 Broadway, and the accounting staff numbered five. Mr. Grierson was bom in Wood bury, New Jersey, on August 15, 1867 and would have celebrated his 81st birthday this year. He is survived by a sister, Grace Grierson, and a brother, William, both of Brooklyn. Milestones Go By {Continued from page 13) F. B. Wilcox & Co. as office manager, later moved across the Hudson to Jersey City, where he was office manager for the Excelsior Dairy. His next move brought JP back to New York and the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, where he was an accountant before coming to Ethyl. Reeling in fish and all phases of photographic work top the list of JP's hobbies. He does his own developing, printing and enlarging and was grand prize winner in the Bulletin Board's photography contest last year. One of our many Long Island commuters, JP makes his daily trek from Elmhurst. 28 BULLETIN BOARD--AUGUST New additions who joined the 10Year-Club are Stuart Forbes, East ern region account representative; Wilma Hansa, N. Y. Finance; and Lynn Phillips, Ethyl's MexicoCentral American representative. An even 10 names have been added to the Five-Year-Club roster: Edith Bryant and William Moon of De troit; Helen Fnrey, Gertrude Horstmann, Alexander McBean, Frances Macrae and Ralph Stenerson of N. Y. Finance; Margaret Dolan of Product Development; Lucile Titlar Dennis and Grace Ferguson of Sales in New York. 700 Turn Out for Baton Rouge Management Club Picnic More than 700 picnickers were on hand at the Port Allen Recreation Center June 12 to make the Baton Rouge Management Club outing a big success, despite showers that put a damper on some of the activities. The schedule of events planned to keep everybody busy and happy in cluded horseshoe pitching, sack rac ing, slipper kicking, lollypop racing, rolling-pin throwing, balloon throwing and a blow-dough contest, to mention only a few. Happy winners of these events were awarded prizes. In addi tion, there were four attendance prizes. To Hubert Wax, general chairman of the program committee, and his aides goes credit for planning the picnic and seeing that it went off well. His committee included: Nelson R. Hart, Harry L. Butler, Robert T. Edgar, G. Ashford Simes, Wiley T. Hartsfield, and S. J. Blanchard. Chairmen of the various commit tees were: F. M. Porch, safety; Dr. R. C. A. Bock, first aid; M. L. West brook, food; H. P. Houdart, soft drinks; Herb Baron, promotion and publicity; Dan Walsh, awards; P. J. Gurney, recreation, properties and grounds; and J. E. Vernon, public address system and lights. To the following go the honor and the glory for winning the prizes: Willie Davis, Mrs. Earl Levy, Ed Lorio and Lou Savage, attendance; Reggie and George Woest, horseshoe pitching; Stan D'Armond, sack race; Mrs. Louis Menville, slipper kicking; John Mire, shoe scramble; Sylvia Halphen, candle race; Dick Zimmerle, lollypop race; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fairchild, baby bottle contest; Mrs. C. C. Harvey, rolling-pin throw; Leonard Halphen and Michael Mire, run-tomamma race; Chester and Dick Zimmerle, three-legged race; Juliette Holmes, bag-bust race; W. C. Clancy and F. L. Smith, balloon throwing; Russell Efferson and Jada Hirschman, wheelbarrow race; Shirley Hamilton, blow-dough contest; Mrs. A. Rondo, chicken chase; Julianne, Gary and Ray Young, swimming; Ronald Effer-t son, Julianne and Gary Young, water melon scramble. Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Ruth Baker; Detroit: Sue Gendemalik, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer), Margaret Takish, Helen Zane; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; MexicoCentral America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Estelle Caldwell, Wilma Hansa, Joanna Hude, Barbara Kelley, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; North Kansas City: Nathan Fay; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: C. E. Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. 30 BULLETIN BOARD --AUGUST r ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Published by the Ethyl Corporation, 40S Lexinqton Avenue, New Yoik. New York; Edward L. Shea, President; Stanley T. Cross/and. Vice-president and Treasurer; Julian C. Gonzalez, Secretary. j Marceline Marquis, Editor Oil Industry Progress Is Booming ; The oil industry now is producing ! more petroleum than ever before. ; This year about thirty-six billion gallons of gasoline will be used to ; power the nation's cars, trucks and busses--more than thirty-one billion gallons of fuel oil will be needed-- more than four billion gallons will be required to meet Army-Navy needs. All this plus innumerable other com mercial and industrial uses add up to the biggest demand for petroleum ' products in history--far above even the peak wartime demand. Such a sudden increase in consump tion has naturally caused some tem porary difficulties for the oil industry j in meeting demands in full in certain | quarters. These temporary shortages i and fears of shortages, together with the subsequent plea for conservation, have tended to create an impression in the minds of some people that the industry is facing shortages, losing its reserve supplies or even facing decline as one of our nation's most important industries. What the public doesn't know--but j should know--is the fact that the oil industry has an enormous potential supply, unquestionably able to carry it for many, many decades. These sources are threefold: our most im portant source of oil today, by far, is Printed in U. S. A. the domestic supply of crude oil; next in importance are foreign sources of crude oil available to us; and third are the sources of energy, such as natural gas, coal and oil shale, con verted into synthetic oil products. Our proved reserves, known work ing stocks of crude oil, in the United States are accepted as some 21,500,000,000 barrels (42-gallon). The proved reserves outside of this country, ex clusive of Russia, were estimated as totaling more than 43,500,000,000 barrels in 1946. Both of these sources do not include the potential resources, expected but as yet undiscovered re sources. Moreover, synthetic proc esses are believed to be able to assure an almost indefinite supply of liquid fuel. Thus, any spot shortages that may currently occur merely are the result of a temporary situation which will be remedied when the availability of ma terials and equipment permit the indus try to expand its facilities accordingly. The tremendously increased de mand for petroleum products reflects its vital role in American life. Rather than being on its last legs, the oil industry is growing in a healthy man ner, establishing a valuable place in serving the American people in the future. --Adapted from The Esso Marketer L i t !I; I ETC 12037 ETC 12038 t H STICKS AND STONES 33 FOR SETTER HOMES PAGES 8, 9 AND IO EEsg # IP THE HfGH COST OF CAVIAR PAGE II 135 TEARS WITH ETHYL PAGES 14, IS AND 16 ABOUT PEOPLE PAGE 17 W 4 3.000 MAKE MERRT AT BATON ROUGE PAGES 18 AND 19 PUBUCITY COMES HOME PAGE n ETC 12039 Len Huxtable Harry Kuhe Kuhe and Huxtable Take New Posts Harry Kuhe, who has been Central region operations manager for the past year, has been transferred to the head office in New York on a special assignment. Len Huxtable, sales coordinator in the Southern region, has been named to succeed him in the Chicago office. Harry joined the Company 19 years ago as a field representative in the Chicago division and has since covered a lot of territory in the service of Ethyl. He was appointed assistant manager of the Tulsa division in 1932 and remained there for eight years, with the exception of 1938 when he was in Mexico City handling Ethyl business in Mexico and Central Amer ica. Harry moved to the Northwest in 1940 as manager of the Seattle division, and after six years there was appointed Chicago division manager. Last year when the Sales department was reorganized on a regional basis he was named operations manager for the Central region. His new position brings Harry back to New York, where he was born and spent his early youth. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Harry received a B.S. in chemical engineer ing, then joined Strom Ball Bearing Company in Chicago as a design en gineer, later worked for Continental Paper and Bag Company in Oconto Falls, Wis. as a chemical engineer. Len Huxtable joined Ethyl in Jan uary of 1932, starting as a field repre sentative in Little Rock, Ark. He moved to Tulsa as a safety engineer in 1936, and four years later was made assistant manager of the old Tulsa division. Under the regional plan he became sales coordinator for the Southern region. He will move to Chi cago and take over his new post as soon as he can wind up his affairs in Tulsa and find a new home for his family. Another native New Yorker, Len attended Columbia University, later transferred to Purdue where he re ceived his B.S.M.E. in 1928. Before Ethyl he was a research engineer for Martin Motors, Inc. in New York. 3 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER ETC 12040 cated, is very short. To protect and pro long the life of build ings and equipment, representing a heavy capital investment, as well as to have ship shape surroundings, 100 painters and help ers are continually on the job at the plant. A Eve-foot billboard running from Baton Rouge to Chicago could be covered with the paint that is used at the plant in a year. To find out which paints give the best service, the men shown above experiment with test patches in the various areas. They are, from left, C. C. Harvey, T. L. Davis, Russell Whittington and T. M Mixon. Three painters (left) stand on their finished product. Reading from left, they are H. L. Lopez, J. B. Stubbs, and Leon Wunsch holding a spray gun. Painting hortonspheres (those big round ethyl chlor ide storage tanks) is one of their jobs. ETC 1204 1 r Smiling as he works, Boyd Devall (right) gives with the elbow grease as he sandpapers a smooth finish on a piece of plywood. Pre paring a surface for painting usually takes about 60% of the time, while only 40% is spent actually spreading the shiny stuff. This piece of plywood will wind up as a sign, one of the many used throughout the plant for safety and other promotional work. i Two men are kept busy 8 hours a day keeping a good surface on office fixtures and furniture and turning out signs. Here Sidney Sanders, in painting gear, mask and gloves, turns the spray gun on a chair in need of a refinish job. Spray guns are used in preference to brushes as they cover the surface faster and give a beautiful finish. Floyd Rodrigue pauses for a picture as he finishes a sign, one of the many turned out by the painters for use throughout the plant in safety and other promotional work. Their artistic ability has played a large part in the success of various campaigns that have been conducted at the plant for such things as safety, and good housekeeping. , ' \ etc 12042 Charley Bulloch mixes some paint in the approved manner. It takes a skilled painter to leave a smooth and even coat without any irregular patches and light spots. Ethyl painters put their paint where they want it, without patches, sloppy over lapping on other colors or unsightly drops all over the floor and surrounding area. At right, I. A. Devail turns a spray gun on one of our utility trucks at the plant, while E. W. Whittington masks the lights so they will not be painted. Below, L. L. Freeman wraps a brush before putting it away, standard pro cedure among Ethyl's painters, who get excellent service from brushes-- many last as long as a year--because of the good care they receive. _ Ob the cover--The three men who seem almost to be hanging in mid-air above an ethyl chloride sub-station at Baton Rouge are all members of the painting group at the plant. Maintenance of property and equipment at Baton Rouge as at all other locations is a highly important job. Exposed surfaces must constantly be protected against rust and deterioration. For that reason, our painters are on the job all the time. Here you see Foreman Austin Meador, at left, and Fete Gulla, center, and Thomas Smith |knocking off rust with a chipping hammer before applying a new coating. \2 Vi Price of ''Ethyl" Antiknock Compound To Go Up In October Further increases in the price of metallic lead and other materials, and increased payrolls required another increase in the price of "Ethyl" anti knock compound, which will become effective October 16. The increase amounts to approximately one and one-half cents per one hundred (100) cubic centimeters of tetraethyl lead used in the compound, which repre sents an advance of seven and one- half per cent (llA%) in the price of the compound used in automotive gasoline and approximately seven per cent (7%) for the compound used in aviation gasoline. The present price of Ethyl Corpora tion's motor compound is the same as in 1941 and is equivalent to approxi mately fifty-five cents (55c) per pound of tetraethyl lead, the active anti knock ingredient. The new price will be fifty-nine and one-tenth cents (59.1e) per pound of tetraethyl lead for motor mix and sixty-four and six-tenths cents (64.6c) per pound of tetraethyl lead for aviation mix. This is the second increase in price since the Company has marketed "Ethyl" antiknock compound. We re duced prices eight times between 1933 and 1942 from thirty-five hundredths of a cent (.35c) per cubic centimeter to eighteen hundredths of a cent (.18c) per cubic centimeter. The first upward change became effective on July 1 of this year when prices were increased per cubic centi meter from eighteen hundredths of a cent (.18e) to twenty hundredths of a cent (.20c) for motor mix and a new price of twenty-two hundredths of a cent (.22c) was fixed for aviation mix. 7 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER t Jim Sewell at work on the lawn of hi* home in Southfield Township, Mich, is supervised by Taffy, who dogs his steps. Seated on the terrace is fiveyear*old Cookie Sewell entertaining a young neighbor. When the landscaping is completed, Jim plans to paint the cinder-block exterior. Detroiters Hammer Down HCL By Margaret Dullinger You can lick the housing shortage! Three Detroit Ethylmen with more courage than skill have proved that you can make your dream house come true. All you need, say George Clixby, Jim Jackson and Jim Sewell, are pa tience, perseverance and a helping hand from friends. When Jim Sewell, an AAF pilot, received his discharge two years ago, his plans for a home were as clear and detailed as his past flight instruc tions. During the war Jim's wife, Muriel, and their daughter Cookie, 5, had lived with her family. Now they wanted a place of their own. 8 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER The housing situation irked Jim. He looked at lots, priced materials and consulted builders, only to find that prices were way out of reach. So, with much of the same courage he had shown during the war, Jim set out to build a house for his family. His enthusiasm soon spread to two fellow Ethylites, Jim Jackson who works with him in the Dynamometer section, and George Clixby of Chem ical Products Research. Although none of them had previous building or carpentry experience, with the help of the Clixby-Jackson team Jim's house was built in seven months. It was ETC 12045 started in October of 1946, and the Sewells moved in the following April. Spurred on by their success, the trio began construction of a home for George in April of 1947. After "roughing-in" the house, they started work on one for Jim Jackson four months later. Both the Clixby and Jackson families moved into their new homes in May of this year. The houses are located within a block of each other on Fairway Drive, in Southfield Township, Mich. They are about five miles from the Ethyl laboratories, in a rolling section di rectly behind Plum Hollow Golf Course, scene of the 1947 Professional Golfers' Ass'n tournament. All are one-story ranch type houses. They are situated on half-acre plots, so there will be plenty of room for lawns and gardens. The Jackson and Clixby homes cost $6,500 and $7,000 respectively. Each has six rooms, plus a utility room and garage. Jim Sewell's house cost $5,500, has five rooms, utility room and garage. Like George's, it is made of cinder block. Jim Jackson's is a clapboard house. The utility rooms take the place of basements, which the men did not dig because of the high water level. They worked mostly on weekends and evenings. On the average, it took about a year of spare-time activity to bring the houses to 75% of comple tion. There is still work to be done, and the interiors are being decorated one room at a time. George and Jim Sewell also plan to paint the cinder block exteriors of their homes. The only things they had trouble obtaining were rock lath, nails and plumbing fixtures. Their most serious oversight was milk boxes--a must in Michigan homes. Everyone on Fairview Drive forgot them, even a man who built a $20,000 home. "It's a jinx on the street," says George. lim Jackson, left, takes time out irom his building to smoke a quick cigarette. Quenching their thirst are Lacy Guthrie, who helped lim with electrical wiring, and Harold faucher, who did the plumbing work. Louise Jackson, 5, stands by as her mother tidies up one end of the living room. The lumber in the fore ground was stored in the house and Mrs. J. threatened to slipcover it if lim didn't use it soon. '> ETc 12 04b Here's how the Jackson home looked last winter, before the clapboard exterior was added. Also cussing are the chimney and all-important front door. The two Jims obtained their plans from magazines; George's was a Detroit News home. They changed the plans to suit themselves. As things progressed, Ethyl friends came to their aid. One was Jim Bell, a dynamometer operator, who hopes to be next on the list to build on the cooperative basis. Harold Faucher, assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds, was chief plumber in Jim Jackson's house and Lacy Guth rie, of the Instrument section, did some of the electrical work. Others who helped were John Koehnle, recent graduate of the engineers-in-training program; Carl Schmid, dynamometer operator; and Clyde Sheppard, of Maintenance. Many Ethyl wives chipped in by bringing out delicious hot meals to the home builders, and were not above swinging a mean hammer themselves. Besides having comfortable homes and a plot of good earth that they can call their own, the ambitious trio rated a feature story in the Detroit Free Press. Some of the pictures shown here are courtesy of that paper. Geoxge Clixby flashes a smile for the photographer, who caught him in the midst of installing kitchen cupboards. At left is a corner of the Clixby living room--not quite finished but they moved in anyway. George's wife, Margaret, takes time out to play with Corky, held affectionately by Judy, while Nancy looks on. M etc 12047 Contrast in Living Standards AVERAGE RUSSIAN MUST WORK THIS LONG TO EARN ENOUGH TO BUY THESE THINGS 583 hrs. 20 MIN. jum 32 HRS- 5 min. Am 108 hrs. 20 *'* AJm 3,750 hrs. 2 min. MAN'S SUIT COTTON DRESS MAN'S SHOES AUTOMOBILE AVERAGE AMERICAN MUST WORK THIS LONG TO EARN ENOUGH TO BUY THESE THINGS 38 hrs. 28 min. 375 hrs. 225 hrs. Ji.m 337 hrs. 30 MIN. MACHINE so RADIO WRISTWATCH 466 hrs. A Js 40 MIN. BICYCLE in--- 1 hr, 40 min: BEER (12 OZ. BOTTLE) Reprinted from *U.S. News 6 World Report/ an independent weekly magazine on national and International attain, published at Washington. Copyright 1948 United States News Publishing Corp. li BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER I \ i ETC 12048 Ethyl Folk Take Tim*) Beauty on the beach--Margaret Ellis Voulgaris of N. Y. Finance had just beached when her husband snapped a picture. They vacationed at Williams Lake, Rosendale, New York. California or bust--Those were Herb Neal's ds the luggage on top and headed for the wild .. Carlsbad Caverns, Yosemite National Park, Gr [ ( before they took off, the Neals are (1. to r.) lame: Nature Girl--With the Museum of Natural History for background, Charlotte Koenig of N. Y. Publicity poses for a shot that was a natural, while sightseeing in NYC. All at sea--John Robertson, left, cr_aboard Mike's boat, the Osprey. They 4*1 clicked for this one. We are sure tb a ETC 12049 t lor Vacation Fun is he packed the family into the car, loaded ally West. Vacation plans included stops at inyon and the Petrified Forest. Shown here Jr., Mrs. N., Melissa, Herb Sr. and Marcella. Good neighbor policy--David Donovan of N. Y. Finance, visiting in Detroit, is entertained by a pretty native on the shores of Cass Lake, one of Michigan's popular summer resorts. Solid comfort--Harold Ritchie, 19-year man, made the most of his extra week's vacation, left the Yonkers lab for 21 days of sunning and swimming at Miami Beach. Bth Mike Maroldy, right, and friends, pf Block Island, R. I., when the shutter * Father Neptune was smiling, too. L ETC 12050 1 MILESTONES GO BY I Two more Ethyl veterans--Harold Berg and August' Roemer -- have joined the ranks of the 20-Year Club, and are flashing gold and blue diamond-studded pins. Harold Berg began the Ethyl chap ter of his life as a field representative in the Chicago office. Two years later he was appointed assistant manager of the Chicago division, and in Decem ber of 1930 moved to Kansas City to take over as division manager there. With the exception of one year in New York on special assignment, Harold continued as division manager in Kansas City for 15 years. He be came sales manager of the Southern area in 1945, and when the Sales de partment was reorganized on a re gional basis in 1947 was appointed Harold Berg 14 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER August Roemer manager of the new Southern region, with headquarters in Tulsa. Bom in New England, Harold at tended the University of New Hamp shire in his home state and received his mechanical engineering degree in 1927. He then joined Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, and was their operations manager in Portsmouth before joining Ethyl. Harold is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and served as chairman of the Kansas City sec tion in 1941. During the war his spare time went into victory gardening, but he has reconverted to fishing, hunt ing and golf. The Bergs have a 14year-old son, Harold Jr. August Roemer came to Ethyl just after the Engineering Research laboratories were transferred from Yonkers to Detroit, and first worked in the Machine Shop at the old lab on I ETC 12051 East Milwaukee Avenue in the Motor City. When the laboratories moved to their new quarters at 1600 West Eight Mile Road in Ferndale, Augie went along. One of Ethyl's veteran machinists, his skill is a contributing factor to the good work turned out at "Pop" Mescher's shop. Before coming with us, he was with the Green En gineering Company in Dayton, Ohio, where he had worked as a machinist for nine years. Augie can always count on a holi day for his birthday--he was born on the Fourth of July. A native of Free port, 111., he attended school there and went in for baseball, football, basket ball and tennis. His favorite pastime now is woodworking. Augie and his wife, Inez, celebrated their 40th wed ding anniversary in February. Another pair of Ethylmen--John Cole and John Rollins--are wearing gold and orange pins in their lapels in lack Cole John Hollins evidence of 15 years of loyal Ethyl service. Jack Cole joined the Company as a field representative in what was then the Baltimore division. He took over the responsibilities of safety engineer in 1936, and remained in Maryland for another four years. Transferring to the West in 1940, Jack settled in Casper, Wyo. In January of this year, he moved to Salt Lake City, where he headquarters as safety engineer and account representative. Bom back East in Brooklyn, Jack attended Stevens Institute of Tech nology, belonged to Phi Alpha Sigma, received an M.E. degree. He did en gineering work for Socony Vacuum and The Texas Company before joining Ethyl. The Coles--Jack, Betty and their three boys--provided BB readers with more than one tale from fabulous Wolf Creek Ranch before moving to 15 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER ETC 12052 Utah. Jack Jr., Clarke and Bruce miss the Wyoming wild life, but are fast becoming urbanites. Jack belongs to the Lions, General Motors and Rocky Mountain Gun clubs, collects United States stamps between hunt ing and fishing trips. John Rollins also began his Ethyl career as a field engineer, starting in Texas with headquarters at San Antonio. In 1937 he moved to Hous ton, and after three years there went up to Dallas as a safety engineer. During the war he served as an engin eer with the Eighth Service Command in Texas and the ferrying division of the A T C in Cincinnati, was dis charged with the rank of major. Back with Ethyl, he resumed his work as a safety engineer, and is now located in Tyler, Texas. The Lone Star State has always been John's home. Bom in Houston, he attended Texas A 8s M College, received a B.S. in civil engineering. Pre-Ethyl he was with Magnolia Petroleum Company in San Antonio. John is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He and his wife have two daughters, Eliza beth, almost eight, and Theodosia Lynn, five. The Rollins' garden is John's hobby, and he fills in with wood working when the weather dictates. Emily Whitfield, who is in charge of the Mimeograph department in the New York office, celebrates her 10th anniversary of Ethyl service in Sep tember. New Five Year Club members are SEDRICK BARKER, Detroit Research; LOUISE JENSEN, LORETTA LIEBLER, JAMES C. MCC. WILKIN, ARNOLD NELSON and JOHN Sullivan, New York Fi nance; EDNA BLAKLEY, JULIA KEEHner, and LENA kosko, New York Sales; harry perdew, Engineering, and MARVIN RUSSELL, Tech Service, at the San Bernardino laboratories. Finny Philosophy Fishing can be fun, fruitful or frus trating. It's all in the way you look at it. Howard Gulick, of New York Finance, finds that fishing makes a philosopher of both the angler and the piscatorial prize. Fishing, says Howard, is the philo sophic dangling of a line in the vicinity of water. By the coincidence of the attachment to the line of a luscious lure, and the presence of a finny flash more avid than wise, philosophy is apt to fall overboard. Bang! A strike! Philosophic dangling becomes fren- 16 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEM BER zied angling. At last the resistible force has met a movable object. Now it's the fisherman's turn to join philos ophy and fall overboard. Instead, he is saved by the snarl in his line which first tripped him, then caught on a floor board. He blesses and curses his line in a single burst. Meanwhile, my friends, what news of the poor fish? Gallantly, he leaped from water, shook his head violently as he seemed to be standing on his tail, then fell back with a splash. Now he, too, had become a philosopher. > ETC 12053 About People Carl Cyriax of New York Finance has been elected senior vice-com mander of the Sgt. Walter Scott Brown Post of the American Le gion in River Edge, N. J. Dur ing the war Carl was an information education clerk with the Coast Artil lery forces in Panama. Bob Mead, Western region account representative, has been elected vice-chairman of the Fuels and Lubricants committee for the Southern California sec tion of the So ciety of Automotive Engineers. Bob headquarters in Los Angeles, is BB correspondent for the Western region. Hudson Kellogg, assistant manager of the Gasoline Testing division in Yonkers, has been elected a trustee of the Dobbs Ferry public schools. He heads the Board of Educa tion committee responsible for the buildings, grounds and transportation equipment. John Schaefer, vice president in qt ;. charge of Manuv$X facturing at our : Baton Rouge ;;r- plant, is the au- thor of a chapter "Research Industry -- Its and Manage ment," a book published recently under the sponsorship of the Indus trial Research Institute. Ellis Locher, has been appointed alternate for Ollie Jones as chairman of the American Pe troleum Insti tute's standing committee on tank cleaning to work with W.O. Wilson, manager of Safety, Standard Oil Company of Indiana, in drafting revisions for two API accident pre vention manuals on the cleaning of petroleum storage tanks. Harry Wheeler, superintendent of TEL operations at the Baton Rouge plant, was the official delegate of the North Baton Rouge Lions Club at their 31st annual con vention in New York City. Attending the four-day convention which was held in Madison Square Garden July 26-29, were 5,000 delegates from all over the U. S. and 22 foreign countries. 17 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER ETC 12054 BIG TIME IN BATON ROUGE Step right up--A crowd collects to watch the antics of Gus Kugler of TEL, who is "sobbing" as a clown. In the foreground Safety Contest prizes are on display. More than three thousand Baton Rouge Ethylites and their guests turned out on Saturday, August 7 for the plant's first post war picnic at Harding Field. From 10:30 a.m. until midnight there were games, contests, prizes, stage shows, swimming, danc ing and refreshments. Main event oh the program was the presentation of awards to the safety contest winners by Vice Presi dent John Schaefer and Resident Manager Clint Bond. Contest results were announced in the August BB. Morning and afternoon entertain ment featured H. L. Martinez and his trained Palomino colt; magician Pike Burden; a clown trampoline act by Toto, Yoyo and Bobo; the Ethyl 18 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER Boys' Club tumbling act; and Hubert Devall, ventriloquist. For the hungry there were hotdogs, ice cream, cotton candy and cold drinks. For the athletes there were plenty of games with track and field events scheduled for everyone from toddlers and teens on up. Spectator sportsmen gathered round to watch pistol shooting and golf chipping con tests. Softball was on the schedule with the exciting wind-up of the intra mural championship playoff in which TEL Maintenance defeated the Epps Shift Team 14-10. All through the day, clowns Jack Fuller, Gus Kugler, Herbert Wood ward and Albin Loupe kept the crowd in good spirits with their antics. From eight until twelve there was dancing in the Harding Field gym to the music of the Crews Orchestra. The informal dance concluded the planned activities. General chairman of the picnic was Ben Burge. Dale Daniel and Joe Stewart were assistant chairmen. Others who served on the committee were Herb Baron and Tom Stephen son, publicity; Harry Demouy, as sisted by Roy Phillips, .facilities; Tinker Harrell, program; Joe Marrs, coordinator; Bob Moles, finances; and Henry White, purchasing. Slamming the ball out over he treetops, Elroy Morgan brings in another run for TEL Mainte nance, which defeated the Epps Shift Softball Team 14-10 in the intramural championship playoff. Mermaid Ana Pheaix, about to take another dip, pauses on the edge of the pool. Her dad is Marvin Phenix of the Engineering and Maintenance section at the Bf) plant. Handing out the hot dog* was an all-day job. Harry Demouy, left, who helped cook the Wein ers, gets a helping hand from Curtis Williams and Sam Jones, ( while the hungry horde stands by. Head over heels--The Ethyl 1 Boys Club put on a tumbling exhibition that had plenty of action and audience appeal. -L ETC 12056 Romance, Inc. Emerson Blair and his wife, the former Janet Brith, are at home at 1419 Gordon Avenue, Lansing, Mich igan. Em and Janet, his high school sweetheart, were married in Tecumseh, her home town. Em, a 1941 graduate of Faller U., is an Automo tive Research engineer assigned to test work in Lansing. V v> Mr. and Mr*. Karl Hude cut the first slice of their wedding cake. The bride, who was Joanna Bell until a few minutes before this picture was snapped, has charge of the general files in New York. Full House One pair and three-of-a-kind is a good hand however you look at it. This time it's two boys and three girls, additions to the Ethyl family. Patty Jean, the daughter of Ruby and idan flaa, arrived on July 25. She checked in at 7 lbs. 7 oz. and promises to make a fine playmate for brother Bobby, who is going on five. Idan is in the Passenger Car section of Tech Service. Francis and rosemary cannon green welcomed a son, Francis Pat rick, on August 8. Young Francis is now at home with his parents in Ozone Park, L. I. Rosemary was in our Order and Shipping department in New York' before she switched to homemaking. Mary Lynn Huffman arrived on July 29 to make her home in Detroit with Mary and art Huffman. She weighed 9 lbs. 3 oz., exactly the same weight at birth as her sister Carol Ann, 2. Her dad is head of the Engine Durability section of Automotive Re search at the Detroit laboratories. Three's no crowd to Mr. and Mrs. frank m. jobes since young Charles Myron arrived on August 6. Charles, who weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz., is now comfortably settled in his Pasadena, Texas home. Frank is a Southern region fleet engineer. Julia Ann Wilcox made her debut on July 12, weighing 6J4 lbs. Her parents are Margaret and Gordon wilcox, of Detroit. Gordon is one of Ethyl's Chem Researchers at the laboratories on West Eight Mile Road. - 20 BULLETIN BOARD--SEPTEMBER r Four Army officers, ail West Point graduates and veterans of World War II, learn how the chassis dynamometer is used to determine octane require* ments. The officers, who are doing post-graduate work at the University of Michigan, recently spent two days at the Ethyl laboratories in Detroit dis cussing engine testing methods and procedures with our research personnel. A similar group visited the labs last ; year, and was so favorably impressed that these officers followed suit. They i are: front row, from left, Capt. B. G. ' Stevens, Capt. R. M. Cook, Capt. H. D. Boiler and Major O. C. Tonetti. With them are Ethylmen Tom Risk (behind ! the major) and Max Roensch, right. i Stephanie Ciul, white-capped and smiling, is a familiar figure to Ethylites at the Research i laboratories in Detroit. She took over for Audrey Bloomer, who left Ethyl to join the staff of the Anglo-American Hospital in Havana, Cuba. Born in Michigan, Stevie trained at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit where she and Audrey were classmates. Before Ethyl, Stevie was an industrial nurse at R. C. Mahon Com pany in Detroit. Stevie is treasurer of the Detroit Industrial Nurses Association, likes tennis, bowling and ping pong. Many happy returns--Chem Research folk at the Detroit labs, who always like to do things in a big way, celebrated a doxen birthdays in one fell swoop. Guests of honor, who had added a candle to their birthday cakes during June or July, are shown here admiring the decorations. Pipe-cleaner figures, each, with one of their photographs for a head, paraded across two large cakes. From left to right are Ernest Clinton, Chuck Denzler, Lewis Hess, Loren Knowles, Cecelia Thompson, Adel Rosek, Ted Carron, Ed Johnson and John Capinjola. The missing trio, Fred Dykstra, Fred Meyer and Don Remter, were on vacation. 12058 etc ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Pubii'shed by the Ethyl Corporation, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York; Edward L. Shea, President; Stanley T. Crossland, Vice-president and Treasurer; Richard M. Page. Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor East Side, West Side, Back to 405 After three years in separate quar ters at 11 West 42nd Street, New York, the Publicity and Publications department has moved back to the head offices in the Chrysler Building. The department had taken quarters in the West 42nd Street building in 1945 along with the old New York division, because at that time there was not sufficient space available in the Chry sler Building. Later Ethyl was able to rent another floor--the 43rd. Ralph Clark, manager of Publicity and Publications, led the trek back to the Chrysler Building. Moving day was pretty hectic--printers' proofs got jumbled up in files and corre spondence ; notes and memoranda were temporarily lost in the shuffle. Editors and writers, pending arrival of their desks, worked wherever they could find standing or sitting space, in an effort to meet their deadlines. But soon everything was straightened out, and the staff is now functioning in orderly fashion in its new quarters. The department's return to the famous skyscraper at 405 Lexington Avenue will give it a closer, day-to day contact with the activities of the Company. It will also make for greater efficiency in operations and a considerable saving in time by elim inating the many jaunts formerly re quired between its old offices and the Chrysler Building. In addition, the move puts the en tire New York public relations staff under one roof. The department's new offices are on the 43rd floor, just around the corner from Ralph Champlin, director of Public Relations. Besides getting out Ethyl News and Bulletin Board, the Publicity and Publications department is the cen tral source of information about the Company. In addition, the staff pre pares booklets, articles and general publicity about Ethyl activities, and helps to coordinate the public rela tions and community relations activi ties in Baton Rouge and Detroit. This keeps everyone busy gathering news, collecting research data for articles, preparing copy, and checking the fin ished material for accuracy. The staff's combined output runs into millions of words annually. Bulletin Board Correspondents Atlanta: Florence Liebermuth; Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Herbert B. Baron, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Ruth Baker; Detroit: Margaret Dullinger, Sue Gendemalik, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer), Helen Zane; Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; MexicoCentral America: Lynn Phillips: New York: Estelle Caldwell, Wilma Hansa, Joanna Hude, Barbara Kelley, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; North Kansas City: Nathan Fay; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Tulsa; Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable: Yonkers: Catherine Foster: Central: C. E. Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. The Indispensable YOU By Berton Breiey Public Relations is not just the art of Putting a message across; Public Relations is something you're part of Either for profit or loss, You, in your job, are the firm's emissary, All that you say and you do Counts--plus or minus--with Tom, Dick and Harry, Public Relations is--YOU! Millions that go into winning the people's Confidence, friendship, good will, You can knock higher than several steeples If you're a grouch and a pill. You put the blessing, or you put the ' curse on all Planning and policy too. Public Relations is private and personal. Public Relations is YOU! It is by you that the customer judges You give the Public its slant, ___ You're the promoter of grins or of ----- " grudges, It's the impression you plant i' That'll decide if your firm's reputation's Proved by performance, all through; Public Relations is private relations, Public Relations is YOU! This poem is reprinted from SERVICE through the courtesy of Cities Service Compeny. 1= iT-iWlU- ,V Printed in U. S. A. noio roues ETC 120G0 etc 12061 j Ethyl BULLETIN UN' ETC 12062 L ETC 12063 America's 30 million motorists travel 25% farther on a gallon of today's improved gasoline than they did 25 years ago, save a billion dollars a year. Keeping the supply line open for two and a half million people in Berlin is an example of the amazing feats that the power of today's improved gasoline enables us to accomplish. American farmers, with two million fewer workers and five million fewer draft animals than in 1910, now pro duce 87% more food--largely as a result of the increased use of oilpowered tractors and other mecha nized equipment. Tractors are far more efficient today than they used to be. One of the important reasons for their greatly increased power is modern, high-octane gasoline that has made possible today's high compression engines. On the farms of America three million tractors and thousands of This year's crops, biggest in the history oi America, are almost double what they were in 1935 when oil-powered farm-mechanization really took hold on U.S. farms. other oil-powered farm machines are operating to help our farmers produce the biggest crops in history. Motorists save a billion dollars a year because of improved gasolines and improved engines that give them 25% more mileage per gallon than the gasoline of 25 years ago. About half of 3 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 12064 p ------------------------Rendezvous^. Just as dawn was breaking over Ber lin, a C-54 swooped down out of the sky and landed at the Tempelhof air field. It was one of the 714 planes that roared into Berlin on just one day last month, carrying a total of 5,000 tons of food, coal and other essentials to the beleagured capital of Germany. Out of the plane leaped a young American pilot. "Hi," he said to the mechanic who came up to the plane. "Hello, Hank. Good trip?" "Beeoootiful. You know Shorty, there's nothing like flying. You sit upstairs in the clouds, way off from the world. You hear those engines purring the way they do, and you think about a lot of things." "It's a good thing you're feeling romantic so early in the morning. Believe it or not, there's . . ." "As I was saying," Hank cut in, ^ this saving may be attributed to in creased combustion efficiency achieved by using tetraethyl lead. Progress in oil refining techniques accounts for the other half--progress that is the result of research, faith and perseverance. Perseverance such as Tom Midgley, Jr. showed in pursuing the problem of knock through the testing of thousands of compounds be fore finding tetraethyl lead. He found that about a teaspoonful of tetraethyl lead added to a gallon of gasoline would get rid of knock. First Long Step His discovery, made in the early 1920's, cleared the way for the great progress in gasoline and engine effi- 4 BULLETIN BOARD-OCTOBER ciency that was to follow. Tetraethyl lead was combined with ethylene di bromide and ethylene dichloride to make a compound, which boosted the antiknock quality of gasoline to then unheard-of heights. Our Company was formed by Gen eral Motors and Standard Oil (New Jersey) to market the product and it was named "Ethyl" antiknock com pound. This was the first long step in the improvement of gasoline quality. With the problem of knock conquered the oil and automotive industries could then go forward together like a twolegged giant making great strides, first on one foot and then on the other in a continuous march of progress. As ETC 1206 r Dawn "it's wonderful up there. But first 100 octane gas to run these engines, there's the take-off. It's some job to they wouldn't be worth much. I don't get off the ground with 10 tons of coal have to tell you that, but it's easy to aboard--and then climb--up and up forget what a big job gasoline does." and up. But this old crate does it. I "Okay, okay, so the gasoline's tell you, Shorty, it's beeoootiful the good," Shorty growled. "Now if you way she runs." really want something a little more "Sounds like you're in love with personal . . ." that plane, or something," Shorty "It's better than good. Without it, grunted. "You'd make out better if brother, you'd never have those sweet you'd . . engines you've been pawing over. In Hank laughed. "You can say that fact you wouldn't have a lot of things. again. My plane and all the others. Did you ever stop to think what it When I see their shadows reaching would be like without gasoline--no from here right off to the Western planes, no cars, no busses, no trucks, . horizon, back and back, across the no jeeps! Holy cow! We'd still be jog j ocean, I think about the good old ging along on horseback if we didn't ] U.S.A.--the country that made those have oil and gasoline--and Ethyl." | planes possible." "That's her name!" Shorty pointed. "Yes, but over by the hangar . . ." "Over there by that hangar. She said "Of course it isn't just the planes," her name was Ethyl and she's been Hank went on, ignoring the interrup waiting for you all this time. I . . .'' tion, "it's the gasoline too. Without But Hank had disappeared. a result, with the petroleum industry steadily pushing up the antiknock quality of gasoline and the automotive industry upping the compression pres sure, today's automobile engines are giving about 88% more power per cubic inch piston displacement than in 1925. The octane rating* of regular grade gasoline is now about 76 as com pared with about 50 in the early 20's. Yardstick for Power In those days they had no standard way of measuring knock, for it wasn't until 1926 that Ethyl's vice president, Graham Edgar, invented the octane scale. Then director of research at our Yonkers lab, he took iso-octane which would not knock in the highest *ASTM method. compression ratio engines then in ex istence, as 100 on his scale, and normal heptane, which knocks under almost any conditions, as zero. Measured against this scale, a commercial gaso line was rated, for example 76 in octane number if it had the same knock as a mixture of 76% iso-octane and 24% normal heptane. With modi fications, mainly in testing techniques, this is the scale now used by the petroleum, aviation and automobile industries. The long road that gasoline has traveled--from a troublesome by product to the powerful fuel that gives our planes mastery of the skies -- is but one part of the story of petrol eum's progress. The Ethyl Corpora- 5 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER 1 tion is proud to have written a page in the brilliant history of gasoline improvement. Ethyl's Part in OPD We are cooperating with the oil companies by participating in a na tion-wide program celebrating Oil Progress Day on October 14. Adver tisements, news releases, articles in our Company publications, employe meetings and open houses highlight our participation in the program. Ethyl is running Oil Progress Day advertisements in national and trade magazines, and in plant city news papers. Special articles telling the story of progress in the petroleum industry are appearing in our Com pany publications--Ethyl News, Bul letin Board and Antiknock. News releases pointing out Ethyl's contribution to the development of progress in the oil industry and auto motive transportation, and reporting Ethyl's activities in observing Oil Progress Day will be sent to local newspapers in and around Baton Rouge, Detroit and San Bernardino. At meetings, held in Baton Rouge, Detroit and New York, employes will hear about the industry's progress and see movies which tell the story of oil. President Edward L. Shea and Ralph C. Champlin, director of public relations and chairman of the Oil Industry Information Committee, will speak at the meeting in New York. Open House will be held at the laboratories in Detroit and San Ber nardino for civic leaders, editors, educators, clergymen, and represen tatives of the oil industry and oil and automotive associations. Letter from the President And--to call your attention' to the whole program, President Shea has written a letter to be sent to every Ethyl employe. If you haven't already received yours, you will soon. So, look for it, read it and join with the petrol eum industry in telling the story of oil's progress on October 14. With the tradition of an everprogressive industry behind us, we look forward to continuous research and continuous progress in an effort to still better serve a world that turns on oil. At Ethyl's research labora tories in Detroit and San Bernardino, our chemists and engineers are constantly at work aiding in the development of modern, efficient fuels and helping to promote the best utilisation of those fuels in today's engines. ETC 12067 Richard M. Page Elected Secretary Richard M. Page has been elected secretary of Ethyl Corporation to suc ceed Julian C. Gonzalez who resigned September 1. Our new secretary has been with the Company eight years as a lawyer, handling many of the legal problems in the New York office. He will continue his legal work in addition to the duties of secretary. After graduating from the Harvard Law School in 1913, Dick Page entered the law office of his father, the late William H. Page and later became a partner in the firm of Page & Page. Upon the death of his father in 1935, the firm was dissolved and he engaged in private practice until joining Ethyl five years later. A descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, Dick Page was bom in New York City and attended Hackley School in Tarrytown, N. Y. before entering Harvard, where he received both an A.B. and LL.B., cum laude. ! At Hackley, he was on the football, j track and hockey teams; at Harvard ; he captained the second varsity foot ball team, made the varsity track squad and was middleweight wrestling champion. His current sports are swimming and tennis. Other interests are bridge, philately and literature. A first lieutenant in the Air Service in World War I, Lieutenant Page also served for a year in Squadron A of the New York National Guard, both in New York and on the Mexican border. The Pages live in suburban Larchmont, where Dick is an active member and former president of the League ofCivic Associations and the Gardens Association. They have two grown sons, Richard M. Page, Jr., and Ger ald Schuyler, both of New York. From only one producing oil well, in one state, in 1859, the oil industry, through progressive development, to day has 428,522 producing wells scattered through 25 states. And the never-ending search in other areas and at deeper levels continues day and night to supply America's ever-in creasing demands for oil products. L Petroleum research, which helped in the development of synthetic rubber prior to and during the war, is con tinuing at an accelerated pace. Scientists are pushing efforts to de velop commercially a synthetic rub ber for use in tires which may have a life expectancy exceeding 100,000 miles--as long as the average car. 7 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 12068 The Dallas business district forms the skyline oi a growing city. Six radio stations, 25 modern hotels, 1,300 factories specializing in consumer goods--these are but a few of the industrial and financial activities that have led Dallas to more than double in size in a quarter century. New Horizons in the Old Southwest North of the Rio Grande lies a fabulous state whose citizens proudly call themselves Texans. It is rich in natural resources, progressive and constantly expanding--since 1900 its population has more than doubled, and predictions now indicate that it is headed toward a future that seems unlimited. Long the leading petroleum producing and cotton growing state, Texas is now attracting manufac turers of everything from paper to industrial chemicals. With seven major ports, an abund ance of raw materials and excellent transportation facilities, it is not sur prising that Texas is rapidly climbing to the top as a center of business development. In 1946 and 1947 Texas led every state in industrial construc tion. And this year, 24 per cent of all industrial construction planned in the Ann Selfridge, Girl Friday for the Southern region staff in Dallas, is also BB correspondent. ETC 12069 ' Alan Tally, who moved to Dellas last year when the Sales department went regional, is ^ sales coordinator for the Southern region. Harry Cottrell, who traveled overseas dur ing the war to put on the safety program for the ATC, is now an account representative. i entire United States was in Texas, i In its two leading cities, Dallas and i Houston, many major oil companies j have executive offices and branch : offices. To serve our many customers located in Texas, Ethyl Corporation opened sales sub-offices in these cities last year, when the Sales department was reorganized on a regional basis. On these pages you meet the people j who keep Ethyl's Dallas office hum ming in the Lone Star State's second largest city. Hub of rail, air and truck networks, Dallas has become the distribution center of the Southwest. Hundreds of independent oil operators make their headquarters there. It is also head quarters for the American Petroleum Institute's production division. Near the great East Texas oil field, one of the most important in the [ Ed Hendrick, well-known for his witty after; dinner speeches, is the Southern region's senior tractor engineer. Wallace Emery, good golfer and good Texan, bom, reared and educated in Dallas, is a Southern region safety engineer. On the fourth floor of the new, air-conditioned Trinity Universal Building, Ethyl Corporation maintains offices where several members of the Southern region staff headquarter. The Trinity Universal Building, completed a little more than a year ago, stands at the comer of Harwood Street and Ross Avenue, a location that is the center of much building activity. world, Dallas is within easy reach of many refineries where "Ethyl" blend ing plants are located. Our sub-office there acts as a center where field men can get information, make out reports, and be on call whenever customer companies need their assistance. Ethyl folk who live in Dallas like its climate, its cleanliness, its friendly atmosphere, and its metropolitan mode and manners. Its streets are safer because of a constant campaign and strict law enforcement--jaywalk ing costs a pedestrian $5; speeding may cost a driver as much as $200. And its climate! Dallas boasts a yearly average of 2,951 hours of sun shine, and the temperature drops to freezing or below only one month out of the year. Only six years after the first com mercial oil well was drilled in 1859, oil men developed and placed in oper ation the first oil pipeline. It was of wood construction, five miles long, and had a capacity of 800 barrels daily. Today, modem steel pipelines, totaling 150,000 miles, carry 13 per cent of all freight moved within the continental United States. 10 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER Industry experts believe that Amer ica's oil reserves will last for genera tions. Synthetic fuels from natural gas, coal and oil shale can be produced whenever necessary. Gasoline will be produced commercially from natural gas this year, and other synthetic liquid fuels being developed in com pany laboratories assure the nation of a virtually inexhaustible supply. Big send-off--Len Huitable (left) was guest of honor at a party in Tulsa on September 3, just before he left for Chicago and his new position as central regional operations manager. Tractor Engineer Ed Hendrick, who came up from Dallas for the occasion, is shown here presenting Len with a gift from Ethyl friends of the Southern region who gathered in the Mayo Hotel. Tulsa Says So Long To Len Huxtable It's in the cards--Bob Jordan steps up to admire the plastic playing cards Olive Hui table is holding up for all to see. The cards and her orchid were gifts from Ethyl friends. During the evening, Bob, field engineer from Daytona Beach, was asked to take a bow on the recent completion of his 25th Ethyl year. John Rollins, safety engineer from Tyler, Texas, also on hand for Len's party, receives his 15-Year Service Emblem from Lou Shank (bow-tie), southern regional operations man ager. Belle Rankin gives him a big smile and a big hand. Ed Hendrick, tractor engineer also received his 15-Year Pin at the party. i ETC 12072 Ray Faller Takes New Post Ray Faller has been appointed to head the training activities of the Industrial Relations department with headquarters in New York. Formerly manager of personnel and employe relations at Ethyl's Research labora tories in Detroit, Ray now will have the responsibility for supervising train ing activities for the entire Company. Ray joined the Company in 1931 as an automotive engineer in Dayton, and five years later was named assist ant division manager there. In 1939 he transferred to Detroit as director of training, and has been manager of personnel and employe relations at the Research laboratories since 1945 when he returned from three years of Naval service. One of Ray's best-known activities was the training program for engineers, a year's course designed to familiarize future field and research men with all phases of Ethyl's operations. Bom in New York, Ray was grad uated from New York University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He was an instructor at New York and later at Yale University, where he studied for his M.S. Before coming to Ethyl, Ray was a fuels engineer with the U.S. Bureau of Mines. National Guard Needs Men At this critical period in our history, the National Guard is reorganizing a new force for the defense of the nation. Its ultimate strength is set at 684,000 men, an M-Day Force, trained and equipped for immediate action in any national emergency. The National Guard believes that the sooner it becomes strong and fully trained, the greater the chances for world peace. Aggressors hesitate to attack the strong. Streamlined to fit present world conditions, the Guard's new training 12 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER program has been cut from six to three years. It goes into high gear this Fall as more than 300,000 field-hardened Guardsmen in some 4,500 Army units throughout the nation get down to the year's armory training. The Guard must build itself, this year, to a force which will be com pletely prepared for the nation's de fense. Their Fall recruiting campaign, now in progress, will continue through November 24. The National Guard has a place for any man who wants to serve his country. Three Named To Run Terminals Rudy Williams, formerly assistant manager of Ethyl's manufacturing operations in Deepwater, N. J., has been appointed superintendent of ter minals, and will direct the operations of Ethyl's terminal storage plants. Two of these, located on the East and West Coasts, are now delivering ship ments of "Ethyl" antiknock com pound to customers in their territories. Clarence (Eud) Johnson is super visor of the terminal in Wilmington, Calif., and Charlie Remsburg is supervisor of the Edge Moor, Del., terminal plant. Rudy joined Ethyl as a chemist at the Deepwater plant in 1934, shortly after his graduation from the Univer sity of Delaware. Five years later he became assistant resident manager there, the position he held until Jan uary of this year, when our manufac turing operations were concentrated at the plant in Baton Rouge. In his new position, Rudy will headquarter at the Edge Moor terminal. Bud Johnson, who . celebrated his 20th Ethyl anniversary two years ago, was one of a handful of men who kept things running in Deepwater back in the early days. He was blender super visor from 1938 until last Fall, when he went out to Wilmington. Chaizlie Remsburg, another vet eran, began his Ethyl career as a ship ping clerk at the Deepwater plant, and by 1938 had been made shipping super visor there. When the East Coast terminal started operations this year, Charlie was put in charge. L I i Rudy Williams ETC 12074 Ready to deliver--Bowling Champ Andy Varipapa is about to release the ball. His left foot is sliding smoothly up to the foul line, his right leg acts as a brake. The ball is gripped easily but securely, and his eyes are directed toward the spot where he wants the ball to go. Bowlers Begin New Season The arrival of Fall is the signal for twenty million keglers to start con gregating in bowling alleys through out the U. S. to participate in the ~ country's most popular sport. Ethyl's bowlers began their 1948-49 league play last month. The New Yorkers, who meet on Wednesdays at the alleys in Radio City, opened their season on September 8. The next night in Detroit, 26 teams--16 men's and 10 girls'--stepped up to the foul line at the WY-7 Recreation alleys and began their annual competition. Again this year as last, the Detroiters will make the maples topple every Thursday evening. That's the night, too, our San Bernardino bowlers make the balls fly over the hardwood. Bowling is a yearround sport in San Bernardino. After taking second place in the Commercial Handicap League for the summer season, the eight-man Ethyl team rested for two weeks, then jumped into the City Handicap League on September 16. In the Pelican State, six men's teams and four girls' teams from the Baton Rouge plant began their season on September 17. They meet on Fri days at the Highland Bowling Lanes. Champion bowlers are made, not born, according to Andy Varipapa, 14 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 12075 r considered by many experts to be the best bowler in the world. The way to go about it. he says, is to use your own .. equipment, perfect your footwork, and deliver the ball with an extreme j follow-through. | For the edification and encourage j ment of Ethyl's bowlers, here are | some pointers that Andy has written i especially for beginners: : 1. Equipment: Select comfortable | bowling shoes and a ball that fits your hand. To determine the proper span, place your thumb securely in the thumb hole and lay your hand flat on the surface of the ball, extending your , fingers over the finger holes. The middle joint should extend about onequarter inch beyond the inside rim of the finger hole. 2. Position: Stand from 12 to 15 feet behind the foul line, facing the pins squarely, with weight evenly divided on both feet. Ball should rest in your left hand (if you are righthanded), somewhere between the belt line and shoulders. 3. Footwork: Use a four or fivestep approach. In the four-step, right foot moves first; in the five-step, begin with left foot. The approach is a smooth glide to the foul line, about ! the speed of a fast walk, j 4. Approach: Line up your right arm with the No. 3 pin (left-handed bowlers line up with No. 2 pin). Ap proach the foul line in a straight path, knees slightly bent and body relaxed. Slide up to the foul line on the last step with the off foot--ball leaves your hand at the same time. 5. Delivery: Straight ball is easiest to control--aim directly at the headpin. Use straight ball until your delivery is natural. Down the alley for a strike. Hook ball is thrown out of the side of the hand. A counter-clockwise twist of the fingers and wrist imparts spin to the ball. Hook ball is usually placed on the alley about 12 boards from the right hand gutter. 6. Always follow through. "And remember," says Andy, "a bowler's game is only as good as his footwork. To become a star, you must practice constantly and apply yourself to the rules of good bowling form." Westward, Ho! Merrill Doughty, one of Ethyl's top bowlers in Detroit, has taken his tal ents to the Southwest. Merrill, who was in the Accounting office at the Research laboratories, has said goodby to the Company and moved his family to Albuquerque, N. M., where he is going into partnership in the accounting business. Friends at the labs presented him with a handsome leather traveling case as a tangible way of wishing him luck in his new venture. 15 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ; | j ETC 12076 late Willans is middle man between ;on Davey and a nephew at Copper Harbor, in upper Michigan, Jon and Christy, twin sons of Chris Vogel, of N. Y. Public Relations, check the fishing taclde situation. Bob and John Palmer pose beside the pool at Jones Beach, L. I. Their dad, John Palmer, is in the Payroll section of New York Finance. ETC 12077 :om East to West Detroiter Vince Hnizda's son Ronny; two, made this catch in Nebraska. lical Engineering, and ^chasing at the Detroit Bed at East Lake, Onhtch of bass and pike. Dot Hogan, of N. Y. Payroll, and friend cruise on Canada's Saguenay River. Barney Weyrauch, of N. Y. Account ing, shoves off for a day of bass fishing at Beaver Dam Lake, N. Y. Winifred Natschke, of Finance at the Detroit labs, visits historic Fort Wilkins in upper Michigan. "There's nothing like rainbow trout for din ner," says Harry Manning, Western region fleet engineer. He caught these in Oregon. ETC 12078 This Will Burn You Up NO BETTER WAY TO START A BLAZE THAN BURNING TRASH ON WINDV DAYS. Whether you're heating beans over a camp fire, burning leaves at the curb or popping corn in the living room fireplace, be careful. Don't take chances with fire. Fire prevention is simple and it doesn't cost a thing-- but it may prove the biggest invest ment you've ever made. Eleven thousand Americans will die during 1948 in fires that could have been prevented. Enough timber to build 86,000 five-room houses goes up in smoke every year because of forest fires alone--and 90 per cent are the result of carelessness. To impress upon every citizen the importance of fire prevention, the President and state governors pro claimed October 3 to 9 as Fire Preven tion Week. Even the most simple thoughtless act can result in untold destruction of life and property. Each time you light a cigarette you handle two potential fire hazards--the match, and the cigarette itself. When you stop to consider that 800 million matches are used every day, and 250 billion cigarettes are smoked each year, you begin to realize what could happen. Bulletin Board Correspondents Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Douglas S. Price, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Ruth Baker; Detroit: Stephanie Ciul, Margaret Dullinger, Sue Gendemalik, Fred Green, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer); Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Estelle Caldwell, Wilma Hansa, Joanna Hude, Barbara Kelley, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; North Kansas City: N. Irving Fay; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Tulsa: Glenis Dickerson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: C. E. Bruhl; Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. 18 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER r The Sales department this month adds four new members to Ethyl's 15-Year Club--Laurence Blatchford and Robert Richardson, of the Eastern region, Bruce Crane of the Southern region, and Charles White of the Western region. Larry Blatchford started with Ethyl back in 1933 as a field represen tative in the old Boston division, and continued his work in New England until Uncle Sam claimed his services Laurence Blatchford in 1942. Larry spent almost four years in uniform, 30 months of that time in England, France, Belgium and Ger many. He attained the rank of major and holds a European Theater ribbon with five battle stars. Following his discharge in 1946, Larry returned to Ethyl as Eastern region fleet engineer for New England. Bom in Hallowell, Maine, Larry attended Northeastern University in Boston. After graduating with a B.M.E., he was a field representative for Pontiac Motor Company for six years before joining us. He and his wife, Ethel, now live in Norwood, Mass. Larry enjoys golf and wood working in his spare time. Bruce Crane, field engineer who headquarters in San Antonio, started with Ethyl in the New York mailroom. In 1936 he was assigned to work on 19 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 12080 Robert Richardson the General Motors Parade of Prog ress and toured the Southwest, telling the crowds who gathered around our exhibit about the advantages of using gasoline to which "Ethyl" antiknock compound had been added. That was before the days of prepared speeches, and the men who traveled with the exhibit made up their own as they went along. Bruce later worked on the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland, Ohio, then joined the old Boston division as a field representative. The following year he worked with Ethyl's Motor Clinic. Now a field engineer in the Southern region, Bruce also han dles several accounts, and does some safety work. A member of the Society of Auto motive Engineers, Bruce organized the Mohawk-Hudson group in 1941 and held several offices before his 20 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER transfer to Texas. He is chairman of the farm chemurgy committee of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and is president of the Men's Garden Club there. Born in Berkeley, Calif., Bruce mar ried a Brooklyn girl two years after starting to work in our New York office. They have two children, Bruce, Jr., eight, and Alexandra, nine. Bob Richardson, who joined Ethyl's old Boston division in 1933, swapped his civvies for a blue uniform with two gold stripes in 1942 and began a tour of duty with the Navy. Upon receiving his commission, he was placed in charge of the construction, trials and acceptance for the Navy of submarine chasers, landing craft, picket boats and experimental refrig erated cargo vessels built under the supervision of the Navy Bureau of Ships. He was discharged with the rank of lieutenant commander and after three years and three months returned to Ethyl as a field engineer, covering Eastern Pennsylvania. Bob is a Bostonian, born and bred, and a graduate of Massachusetts In stitute of Technology. The Richardson family, an even half-dozen, live in Swarthmore, Pa. Bob and Margreth have two boys and two girls--Bob, 18, Julie, 16, Greta, 14, and Keith, 8. Charles O. White of the Western region, joined Ethyl 15 years ago this month, after having served for several years previously as engineer and service manager for large truck and bus fleets in Southern California. He came to us from the position of service manager for General Motors Truck and Coach at Long Beach. During the early years of his work with Ethyl, Charlie, who is regarded as one of our pioneer fleet engineers, had varied duties with natural em phasis on fleet work. In 1936, Regional Manager San Wagner, conceived the Motor Clinic idea, which led Charlie White into a two-year program of activities never duplicated before or since by an Ethyl representative. The design and construction of the first Motor Clinic involved doing many things that had never been done before, but Charlie was known as "the guy who can do anything, and do it well.'' After operating as de signer, purchasing agent, mechanic, electrician, carpenter, welder, and so on, he had the Clinic together and ready to go in the Fall of 1936. He j then supervised all physical handling i and operation of the equipment dur ing its early days on the road, and tuned cars during his "spare time." In 1937 Charlie was assigned the design and construction task involving all of the additional Motor Clinics operated by the Company throughout the country for the next few years. For several months he was chief engineer and general manager of the factory which produced the Clinics. Employment was provided for 22 men on this project. With the Clinic job well done, need in the Safety department for the varied talents of Charlie White was filled by his assignment to this work. He has served as safety engineer since 1939. Charlie and his wife, Polly, live in Pasadena, in their home designed (of course) by Charlie, himself. His chief hobbies are photography, machine shop, and vacation travel over wide areas of our country. Tenth anniversaries are celebrated in October by two New Yorkers-- Howard Costello and Eunice Sauls, both ofthe Finance department. The Five-Year Club welcomes eight new members this month: William McCracken, Detroit; Dorothy Cam pion, Mildred Cooney, Dorothy Grainger, Thomas Myrick and Mary Sullivan, New York; Dwight Gruwell and Ellis Ringwald, San Bernardino. Evelyn DeRuchie We report with sorrow the death of Evelyn DeRuchie, who was a pastry cook in the cafeteria at the Detroit laboratories. She died from coronary thrombosis on September 6 at a hos pital in Detroit. Funeral services were held on September 9 in Royal Oak. We at Ethyl extend to members of her family our sincere sympathy. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER I I ! ii ETC 12082 - - .xfl Peggy Cooper looks forward to her first solo flight. Detroiters Take to the Air By Louise Hennessey Air-minded America has come a long way in the four and a half decades since the Wright brothers flew the first mechanical airplane back in 1903. Gradually, the generation that had marveled at the horseless carriage came to accept the automobile as an improvement over Dobbin, and their grandchildren have already learned to take the airplane for granted. Millions of people now travel on planes oper ated by commercial air lines, and thousands make flying a hobby. At Ethyl's Research laboratories in Detroit, where flying enthusiasts wel come a new member almost weekly, the magic words, "I've soloed!" are 22 BULLETIN BOARD - OCTOBER greeted with understanding smiles. A number of the spare-time pilots at the labs have accumulated more than 100 hours of flying time. Leon Chrzan, who has about 400 hours in the air, bought a Stinson Voyager and flew to Alaska this summer for a vaca tion of sightseeing by air. He has been flying since 1941, holds an engineering maintenance license and received his aircraft maintenance license in August. Helen Krueger represents the dis taff side with some 150 hours of flying time chalked up during the past year. Helen has a private license, flies Cubs out of Big Beaver, Mich., airport, where she is the only woman flyer. ETC 12083 Ed Kurt, who recently transferred to Detroit from Baton Rouge, is another experienced pilot. He began flying in the Spring of 1945 and holds a private license. Ed has accumulated about 200 hours in the air, owns a Fairchild Army Primary Trainer (PT-19A) which has carried him on a number of long cross-country trips. His longest flight was between Beau mont, Texas, and Detroit, a distance of 1100 miles. Henry Maliszewski flies a Luscombe and Waco UPF- 7 out of Detroit City airport. Since he first took to the air in 1932, Henry has piled up some 300 solo flying hours. He holds private and radio and radio telephone licenses. Henry's narrowest escape came when he ran out of gas over Lake Michigan. His plane was 75 miles off shore, 8500 feet in the air. For explanation, Henry calmly says, "Oh, we just idled along and made it in." A number of postwar aviation en thusiasts caught the bug while in service, and have continued flying as civilians. Carl Schmidt and Jim Sewell, who learned to fly in the Army, are keeping up their skill through the Air Reserve program. Punch Pfundstein poses in a Piper. Ed Kurt and his PT-19A. Carl was co-pilot on a B-29, has a commercial license and now flies an AT-6 and AT -11 out of Selfridge Field. Jim flew a P-38 during the war, but these days .flies anything available. They both have in the neighborhood of 800 hours of flying time. Al Tandrup began flying in 1940 at Roseville airport. Holder of both a land and seaplane rating, Al has a total of about 175 hours in the air. Ralph Wahrenbrock, who started flying last year out of Pontiac City airport, pilots a Taylor Craft. He has 110 hours of air time to his credit, holds a private pilot's license. Among the more recent additions to the aviation group is Peggy Cooper, whose husband also flies. Peggy has 8 hours in the air and holds a student license. She flies an Aeronca at the airport in Plymouth, Mich. Emil Gillig, another Detroiter who holds a student license, has about 20 hours of air time. He soloed two years ago at Detroit City airport, but now does most of his flying with a friend who owns a Luscombe Silvaire at Roseville 23 BULLETIN BOARD -OCTOBER ETC 12084 !im Sewell (center) with his crew on Guam. airport. Emil's brother, Ferd, has done some flying, too. Howard Hesselberg, who has been flying for a little more than a year, has about 95 hours. He flies an Aeronca out of Berz airport in Birmingham, Mich., holds a private pilot's license. Rolly Ostrander has chalked up almost 80 hours in the past year. He holds a private license and is working on a commercial. Rolly flies a Piper Cub out of the Roseville airport. Henry Maliszewski has been flying for 16 years. The interference of work put Punch Pfundstein in the unusual predica ment of having to make three "first solo" flights--one in Minneapolis in 1941, another in St. Louis the follow ing year, and a third in Detroit in 1944. It came about because he was too busy to comply with a ruling that a minimum number of hours be flown within a given length of time after the first solo. Punch has a student license, flies a Cub and Taylor Craft, and has about 65 hours of flying time. Progressive improvements in ex ploration and drilling methods since 1859, when the first commercial oil well was completed, have enabled the oil industry to produce for America's welfare and security more than 37 billion barrels of crude oil. Loaded in tank cars, it would make a trainload stretching 64 times around the earth. 24 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER One motor car in 1913 sold by the pound--80 cents a pound, or $67 per horsepower. The Big Inch pipe line is 24 inches in diameter--large enough for a man to crawl through. Big Inch is 1,252 miles long, runs from Longview, Texas to Phoenixville, Pa., and can deliver 310,000 barrels of oil daily. Winners of the cup--Members oi the Detroit labs championship softball team smile victoriously at the end of a top-notch season. In the front row (1. to r.) are loe Laethem, Bob O'Meara, Bill Shortt, Lacy Guthrie, Ernest Clinton, Harold Faucher and Leon Chrzan. Standing are Manager Harry Prince, Merrill Anderson, Don Remter, Ed Goller and George Clixby. Other players not in the photo are George Betker, Chuck Denzier, A1 Pauls and Laurel Wilkinson. Detroit Lab Team Cops League Trophy Climaxing a climb from third place that began in mid-season, the Detroit laboratories softball team won the championship of the Femdale Old Timers' League by swamping their final-game opponents, 19-0 on a fiveinning no-hitter by pitcher George Clixby. Both from the standpoint of per formance and appearance, the Re searchers were in a class by themselves during the last half of the schedule. Attired in flashy new uniforms with the "Ethyl" sunburst trade-mark em blazoned on their shirt backs, the team copped its final six games of the year for a won-lost record of 9 and 3. The Ethylites won their first two league games, and then plunged to the middle of the five-team league standings by dropping their third, fifth, and sixth contests. After that, it was an all-victorious season. Throughout the season, the labs outfit received strong support from employes, despite the fact that Ethyl teams in the Old Timers' League have been batted around pretty much the past few years, and most of the time were fighting to keep out of the cellar. Thus, the Researcher's first champion ship in league play was an especially sweet one. With the championship went an impressive trophy, presented at the laboratories the day after Ethyl clinched the flag. Bud Brown, recrea tion director in Femdale, handed over the trophy to Harry Prince, manager of the laboratories softball team. 25 BULLETIN BOARD -OCTOBER Stork Club Six more additions to the Ethyl family -- second generation -- have been chalked up recently, all the way from Michigan to Texas. It was a girl for Berta Lee and Deane Eirkes on July 22. Their first child, Gail Evan, weighed 6 lbs. lJ-4 oz. at her debut. Deane is a member of the Testing staff at the North Kansas City lab. Ethel and Bob Cowlishaw wel comed their second child--another son--on September 11. Jeffrey Don ald, who weighed in at 5 lbs. IS oz., has an eight-year-old brother, Robert. Their dad, who was named assistant treasurer in 1946, recently transferred to Baton Rouge to take charge of all accounting activities at our plant. A second daughter arrived on Au gust 6 to make her home with Carol and George Hall. Young Martha Leigh tipped the scales at 7 lbs. 6 oz. She has a sister, Marynelle, who is four. George is a chemist at the Detroit laboratories. An 8 lb. 9 oz. bundle, all done up in pink, was delivered to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stanke on August 10. Her name is Kathleen, and she has a Gail Evan Birkes was just two weeks old when her daddy, Deane Birkes, caught her in the middle of a big yawn and snapped this picture. three-year-old brother, Ronny. Her dad is an engineer at the Research labs in Detroit. Two more income tax deductions are in order for H. G. White since the arrival of twin boys on August 14. Harlan Thomas weighed in at 4 lbs. 13 oz., and Harding Charles was a husky 6 lbs. Their dad is with EthylDow in Freeport, Texas. Johnnie's Lead Astray Latest authority on eating off the mantel is 12-year-old Johnnie Watt, whose dad is a safety engineer in Corpus Christi, Texas. Johnnie was accidentally shot with an air rifle, and had to recuperate standing up. To help him while away the time, the Southern region sent Johnnie two books. Here is the thank-you letter he 26 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER wrote to Lou Shank, southern regional operations manager in Tulsa: "I have received the very nice books and I do want to thank you and the Southern region for the gift. I am sure I will enjoy them both. Daddy thinks maybe I can be a safety engineer--I have some lead in the right place." 1 Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Cross Mr. and Mrs. J. Steven Blaisus Windfall of Weddings Terry Aziz, of Statistical Research in New York, became the bride of Joseph Nolan on Saturday, August 7. She and Joe exchanged vows in Holy Trinity Church, N. Y. Following a tour of the New England states, the Nolans returned to their new apart ment in Edgewater, N. J. Rita Clark and Joseph Steven Blai sus, of Detroit, were married August 21 in the First Presbyterian Church, Royal Oak. After a reception at the Clark home, Rita and Steve left for a wedding trip to Chicago. They are now at home in Hazel Park. Rita is a member of the Payroll section at our Detroit Research laboratories. The engagement of Peggy Fox was announced on August 23. Peggy, a technical assistant in Chemical Re search at the Detroit labs, plans to marry Burt Schimpke in November. Jane Ann Thalman, of the Tulsa office, and Jack Cross were married on Saturday, August 21 in the Rose Chapel of the Boston Avenue Meth odist Church. A reception followed at the home of the bride's parents. The newlyweds honeymooned at Rockaway Beach, Missouri. Bill Rusher, Eastern region held en gineer, and Lily Ann Sloboda, of Chicago, were married July 24 in Floral Park, L. I. at Our Lady of Victory Church. They are now living in Floral Park, after an Atlantic Sea board trip. Bill is a recent graduate of Ethyl's engineers-in-training program. Thelma Warner, of Chem Research in Detroit, is now Mrs. Joseph MeDyer. She and Joe were married August 28 at a nuptial mass in St. Martin Church, and a wedding break fast and reception followed. The 27 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER L_ ETC 12088 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund W. Wittneben Mrs. Joseph R. McDyer McDyers spent their honeymoon at Lake of the Bays in Ontario, Canada. Edmund Wittneben, of the Ethyl Dow plant in Freeport, Texas was married on August 8 to Dolores Haek- stedt. The ceremony was performed at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Needville, Texas. Dolores and Ed went to Monterey, Mexico on their wedding trip. Ed is a machinist. Shorter Days Shorten Lives Ten .thousand Americans literally walked themselves to death in 1947, the National Safety Council says. That was the pedestrian traffic death toll for last year. Since the total traffic death toll in 1947 was 32,300, the figures mean that almost one of every three persons killed in traffic was a pedestrian. In addition, pedestrian accidents injured 220,000 persons. "Heads Up -- Don't Be Struck Down" is the watchword of a nation wide effort by the Council to empha size pedestrian hazards this Fall as more hours of darkness double the danger. Pedestrian deaths reach a peak in the late Fall, when they are as high as 42 per cent above the monthly average for the whole year. Why? The Council says the most important single reason for the sea sonal jump in pedestrian deaths is darkness. Earlier nightfall, plus the fact that many communities go off daylight saving time, brings the eve ning rush hour of homeward bound workers into the hours of dusk or darkness, when danger increases. i 1 28 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ETC 12089 \ Chefs of the West--Ted Littlefield (left). Bill Sievert and Harry Man ning (wearing aprons) take time out from the siz2ling steaks to toast Paul Sprague (second from right). The occasion was a party at Bill's ranch near Concord, Calif., in honor of Paul, who, after winding up his activities with Ethyl Specialties joined the Tea Garden Company. l Something izom the girls--Jane Jordan Town er admires her farewell gilt from friends at the Detroit Research labs. The silver candlesticks and snuffer will be just the thing for Jane's new home in the suburbs of Syracuse, N. Y. From left to right are Nan Horning, Faye Kelly, Rita Joseff, Phyl Wilhelm, Helen Zane, Benue Bur dick and Shirley DeGrass, grouped around Jane. L Headed for home making-- LuVerne Geizer, of Automotive Re search, shows off one of the crystal goblets she received from girls she used to work with at our Detroit labs. She has said good-by to Ethyl and will devote full time to housekeeping for husband Bill. Looking on, from left to right, are Evelyn Stawart, Shirley DeGrass, Lydia Hurn, Faye Kelly and Marion Mecoli. ! ETC 12090 About People George Beste, manager of the De velopment section in Baton Rouge, spoke at a joint meeting of the local sections of the American Chemical Society and the Safety Engineers on August 26. He discussed "Hazards of Industrial Gases," and told of specific safety applications that Ethyl Cor poration has made. George Calingaert and Wheeler Lovell/ associate directors of research in Detroit, served on the general com mittee for the Third Symposium on Combustion and Flame Explosion Phenomena, held at the University of Wisconsin, September 7 through 11. Jack Cole, Western region safety engineer, has been appointed to the Salt Lake City committee of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Associa tion, which held its annual Fall directors' meeting in Salt Lake City September 3 and 4. Paul Harris, safety engineer, Fred Naylor, sales coordinator, and San Wagner, West ern regional manager, were on hand for the meeting. Van Fleck/ of the Safety depart ment in New York, spoke at a meeting of the National Petroleum Associa tion's Tri-State Safety Council in Indianapolis on August 27. He dis cussed Ethyl's safety program. Emil Gillig, head of the Instru ment section at the Detroit labs, has been elected president of the Detroit section of the Instrument Society of America for 1948-49. Emil is a charter member of the local society, and has served as its vice-president. Wylie T. Hartsfield, Morgan Many and Dan Sutton of Baton Rouge represented the Ethyl Manage- 30 BULLETIN BOARD--OCTOBER ment Club at the convention of the National Association of Foremen in Philadelphia, September 22 through 25. Wylie and Morgan represented the entire membership, and Dan, a direc tor, represented the board. Barney Jones/ head of the Tech nical Data section in Detroit, is teaching a course on technical report writing at Wayne University during the Fall semester. Offered by the department of English, the course is designed to teach young engineers, chemists and technicians how to write successfully the various types of reports required in modern industry. Ted Littlefield, Western region sales coordinator in San Francisco, was toastmaster at a luncheon on August 20 when Ethyl was host to the SAE on the final day of their West Coast meeting. Ethyl was also repre sented by Jack Macauley, director of research, Detroit. Wheeler Lovell, associate direc tor of research at Ethyl's laboratories in Detroit, presented a paper at the114th national meeting of the ACS in St. Louis, Mo., on September 7. Titled "The Problems of Knock and Antiknock Agents," the paper was prepared jointly by Wheeler and Hal Beatty, who was recently appointed assistant director of research. Heinie Mueller and Punch Pfundstein, of Tech Service in De troit, were co-authors of a paper that was presented at the SAE National Tractor and Diesel Engine meeting in Milwaukee on September 9. Titled "Discussion of Power Losses in Trac tor Engines," it included results of a survey conducted by the authors. ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Published by Ihe Ethyl Corp., 405 Lexington Aye., New York, New York; Edward L. Shea, President; Stanley T. Crossland, Vice-presideat and Treasurer; Richard M. Page, Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor i'j.*7 Don't Quit When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit-- Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns. As every one of us sometimes learns. And many a fellow turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out. Don't give up though the pace seems slow-- You may succeed with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man: Often the straggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup; And he learned too late when the night came down. How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out-- The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems afar; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-- It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit. --Author Unknown r 5_ 1. ETC 12093 ETC 12094 T FAIR EXCHANGE PAGt 7 IN THE SPOTLIGHT ' 1 ouV^ira '1 ?"<>? YV "JSSSS' PAGl * o **2*. WOW TO AVOID COLDS PAGE 24 THE BIGGEST WE'VE SEEU Sr SAN AND DEAN PAGE 29 r <i \ i Going up--the world's biggest jet refrigeration unit. An automatic refrigerator with no moving parts, it uses steam to cool water. Now being installed at the Baton Rouge plant as part of our expansion program, the unit will supplement present cooling towers in chilling the large amounts of water necessary to remove the heat from the TEL manufacturing equipment. The plant uses as much water as a city of 100,000. World,s Largest Jet Refrigerator Will Aid High Production A new refrigerating system now being installed at the plant will use steam to cool 24,000,000 gallons of water a day. Believed to be the largest jet refrigerator in the world it is being built at a cost of more than $500,000 and is expected to be completed by the first of the year. An important part of our expansion program, the refrigerating system will help to maintain the highest possible production level after the new TEL facilities go into operation. As pro duction goes up, the heat generated by the manufacturing process will in crease and in order to dissipate it more cool water will be needed than present production requires. The heat is removed by circulating cool water through our heat exchange equipment. After the water has picked up the heat, part of it is sent through cooling towers, where it is chilled and recirculated. The rest is thrown away, and is replaced by cool water from wells in the plant area during the summer, and from the nearby Missis sippi River during the winter. In the new system, called jet re frigeration, water acts as its own refrigerant. This is true also of the cooling towers, but jet refrigeration 3 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER L cools to a lower temperature, is not affected by atmosphere or humidity. The "jet" in jet refrigeration comes from the fact that the unit will pro duce cold water by means of steam passing through a number of jets. When a gas, such as steam, is passed through a jet, it tends to produce a vacuum. With the pressure reduced below atmospheric by this means, water will boil below the usual 212F. In the Ethyl unit, for example, suffi cient vacuum will be maintained to boil water at 60-65F. If a vacuum is created in a tank and hot water, at say 100F is introduced into the tank, part of the water will be evaporated, causing the rest of the water to be cooled to this boiling point. Our jet system, therefore, is an automatic refrigerator with no moving parts. The installation will consist of a tank, or flash drum, 50 feet long and 12 feet in diameter. Approximately 24.000. 000 gallons of water will pass through the drum daily and be chilled so that it may in turn remove heat from the TEL manufacturing equip ment. To create the vacuum necessary to perform the chilling operation, 2,500,000 pounds of steam a day will flow through a series of jets attached to the flash drum. Enough heat will be removed from the water to melt 8.000. 000 pounds of ice a day. The refrigerated water will cool the equipment used in the manufacture of TEL. It will also supply some of the Sodium plant operations that require cool water. Lynn Phillips, Ethyl's Mexico-Central America representative, was one of a group of American business men who welcomed U.S. Congressmen of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee on their recent trip to Mexico. Lynn (second from right) is pictured here with Walter S. Thurston, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Charles A. Wolverton, chairman of the committee, and Senator Antonio I. Bermudez, director general of Petroleos Mexicanos, who gave the party. The committee is currently studying the oil situation in Mexico in an effort to work out some means of helping the country to develop their petroleum resources. rt I ! Ernie Clinton, ot the Detroit labs, signs an application for activation of an oil industry photo interpreter team while John Howard looks on. The Army representative is Capt. Gus Dugas, military intelligence officer for the Detroit sub-office, Headquarters Fifth Army, Oil Men Work with Army to Build Reserve The oil industry, in cooperation with the Army, is organizing its skilled personnel into Army specialist re serve units. In Detroit, where Ethyl Corporation is sponsoring the activity, the Company has recently signed an agreement with the Department of the Army for activation of a photo interpreter intelligence team. Commanding officer of the team is Ernest Clinton, a member of the Chem Research staff at Ethyl's labs, who is a captain in the organized reserve. William Cash of Socony-Vacuum is the other officer member. This is the first of several teams to be formed in the Detroit area. The groups are being organized with their officer personnel only for the time being, and other members will be added later. The intelligence teams will train under regular Army instructors in meetings to be held at the Ethyl laboratories. They will also have op portunities for summer field training with Army ground force units. John Howard of Tech Service is supervising the organization plans, as representative of the Fifth Army area defense services sub-committee of the American Petroleum Institute. Jim Boudreau, Ethyl's Central regional manager, is chairman of the API's Fifth Army area committee. 5 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER i ETC 12098 TOUR INTO TOMORROW The GM Train of Tomorrow is packed full of mechanical marvels. Every car--diners in cluded--has an astra dome observation space. The glass is heat, glare and impact resisting. There are four floor levels in each car, with ramps or steps connecting them. The Train of Tomorrow, on tour throughout the country, is attracting big crowds at all stops. People, eager to glimpse tomorrow's travel com forts, come to view the newest marvel of this modern world. Among the 15,550 who boarded the train during a three-day stay in De troit the end of September were a number of people from Ethyl's Re search laboratories. The showing of the train, designed by General Motors as a contribution to the greater enjoy ment and comfort of the traveling public, was arranged especially for GM employes, and an invitation was extended to members of our Detroit staff. The fluorescent lighting and glittering stainless steel, the mirrors, and colorful fabrics, the astra dome observation space and all-electric kitchen provided a pleasant eyeful, left them wondering how distant a 6 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER On hand in Detroit to see what wonders are in store for the traveler of the future were members of the staff of our Research labs. Here Herb Neal brings up the rear as the Neals leave the locomotive, from top to bot tom are, Herb, Herb Jr. and a friend, Jimmy, Melissa and Marcella Neal. tomorrow it would be before all trains offered these luxuries and comforts. TC 12099 Manhattan meeting--In New York's Hotel Lexington the Eastern region automotive meeting convened September 30. Here you see representatives of Ethyl's Sales and Technical Service departments who attended. Seated are Jack Bailey, Tech Service; Bill Ball, N. Y. Sales; Frank Stablein, tractor engineer; Don Williams, fleet engineer; Heinie Mueller, Tech Service; Spike Speaker and Larry Blatchford, fleet engineers; Julian Frey, sales manager; and Dick Scales, tech service director. Standing are Russ McGuiney, fuel technologist; Oscar Lewis, assistant sales manager; Bob Kimpton, fleet engineer; Bob Hogan, senior automotive engineer; Frank Huyler and John Pauli, fleet engineers; Dan Guy, Tech Service; and Mat Taylor, Eastern regional operations manager. Ed Paige, of Tech Service, was not present for the picture. Sales and Tech Service Exchange Ideas in Regional Meetings One of the aims of our automotive program is to bring the latest infor mation to our field engineers so they can show customers how to get trouble free engine performance through the use of "Ethyl" antiknock compound. Toward this end series of automotive meetings were held during the Fall, one in each of the four sales regions. On hand to conduct them were Sales and Technical Service representatives, who met with fleet and tractor engi neers to discuss the Company's auto motive program in detail. Beginning in the Western region, meetings were held in Los Angeles, August 26 and 27, in Tulsa, September 14, 15 and 16, in New York, September 30 and October 1, and in Detroit (for the Central region) October 25 and 26. Much helpful information was ex changed in around-the-table discus sions at these regional automotive meetings. Fleet and tractor engineers (1) heard about the latest develop ments in the automotive and fuel fields from the Detroit men, (2) learned about Company policies on automo tive activities in the light of recent developments from the Sales staff, (3) discussed how to relate those activities more closely to customers' requirements. Tech Service men got an up-to-the-minute picture of field problems from Maine to California. Since engine problems are more likely to result from operating and maintenance practices than they are from fuels, lubricants or TEL, they can usually be worked out by a 7 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER California confab--The Western region's automotive meeting was held in the Los Angeles office. Snapped discussing problems of engine performance are Tech Service Director Dick Scales, Ray Wyrick, Western regional operations manager, and Oscar Lewis, assistant sales manager. Ed Paige, of Technical Service, is presiding at the blackboard. change in operation methods. That's where Ethyl service comes in. Our field engineers in contacting customer companies find out what their prob lems are, and work with our Technical Service division until they arrive at a solution. The automotive field men perform an important function in providing information for Tech Serv ice and Research. Their information and reports show any trouble spots and indicate what type of research is most needed and will be of greatest service to customers and the industry. Harry Kuhe Heads Chemical Sales Now it can be told that the "special assignment" which brought Harry Kuhe to New York early this Fall (see Sept. BB) was to take charge of the newly-created Chemical Sales divi sion. He will direct the sale of many of the chemical products made by the Company other than "Ethyl" anti knock compound. Harry is now inau gurating the sale of salt cake by Ethyl directly to the paper industry and benzene hexachloride to the insecti cide industry. Both of these com pounds are manufactured at Ethyl's Baton Rouge plant. Other chemical products which the Company has been selling to the trade in growing quantities in recent years include liquid chlorine, metallic sodium, ethylene dichloride and oil soluble dyes. American Automobile Association tests of gasoline consumption show that gasoline wastage increases with speed: a car which gets 18.7 miles to the gallon at 30 mph, gets only 15.8 miles to the gallon at 40 mph, 13.3 miles at 50 mph, 11.2 miles at 60 mph and 8.2 miles at 80 mph. 8 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER About People George Calingaert, associate direc tor of research at Ethyl's laboratories in Detroit, was the principal speaker for the Green Lights vocational pro gram on October 13. In a talk titled "The Sciences Open the Door for Youth," he advised high school stu dents to choose the work they like, not the work they think will make them rich. These vocational programs are sponsored by the guidance and placement department of the Detroit Schools, and the Detroit News. Mrs. Tucker Dawson, whose hus band is manager of the Baton Rouge Gasoline Testing lab, spoke at the 13th anniversary meeting of the Lit erary Club in Baton Rouge on October 14. A senior member, Mrs. Dawson was the first to join the club after the charter members. She gave a history of the club from its organization. Steve Henry, who heads the Plant and Employe Services section in Baton Rouge, has given his personal collec tion of engineering books, papers and journals to the Hill Memorial Library of Louisiana State University. The books and papers will be classified and placed irt the engineering branch of the library for use of the students and faculty at LSU. William McCarthy, TEL safety engineer at Baton Rouge, was Ethyl's representative on the City Fire Pre vention Week Campaign Committee. Plant observation of the week, Oc tober 3 through 9, included bulletin board posters, an Antiknock article and discussions in safety meetings. Mike Porch, of the Baton Rouge plant, was a member of the speakers bureau for the Community Chest Drive. The members addressed vari ous group meetings in Baton Rouge, explaining how the Community Chest operates, its aims and benefits. John Schaefer, vice president in charge of manufacturing at the Baton Rouge plant, was chairman of the discussion sessions at the Fall meeting of the Industrial Research Institute. He also acted as toastmaster at an informal dinner the first night of the meeting, held in Chicago, October 11 to 13. He is vice president of IRI. Gil Way, roving engineer in Ethyl's Western region, is the author of a paper that was printed in the Summer edition of SAE Quarterly Transac tions. Titled "Freedom From Vapor Lock," the paper was presented at the SAE National Fuels and Lubricants meeting in Tulsa last November. Milestones Ten-Year Clubbers welcome a new member this month--Ralph Hutch inson, of New York Finance, who marks the completion of his first decade with Ethyl in November. Two new names have been added to the Five-Year Club roster: Eleanor Helmrich of the Finance department in New York and James Hinkamp of the Detroit Research laboratories. 9 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER f Speaking at an Oil Progress Day meeting of New York employes, President Edward L. Shea said the future of this Company looks "wonderful.1' Ralph C. Cham pi in described the oil industry as typi cally American, oil men as straight speak ing, honest, clean, and hard-hitting. A BIG DAY FOR OIL PROGRESS Joining hands with the oil industry in its nation-wide celebration of Oil Progress Day on October 14, Ethyl, along with thousands of other com panies, told the story of petroleum's progress. In newspapers and maga zines, over radio and television, and from platforms at employe and civic club meetings the message was spread. Ethyl folk from coast to coast car ried the word to the people of their communities. Ralph Champlin, public relations director and chairman of the Oil Industry Information Committee, was a guest on the "Tex and Jinx" NBC show October 14, when their program was largely given over to Oil Progress Day. Ethyl's motion pictures "The Long Road," and "Gasoline for Everybody" were beamed to Cincin nati's television audience over Station WLW. In Baton Rouge the Ethyl Manage ment Club heard about the work of the Technical Service division from its director, Dick Scales of Detroit, Intently interested in the movie, "Amazing Molecules," New Yorkers watch this new documen tary made'|by Standard of Indiana. Molecules with Hollywood personalities tell the inside story oi modern gasoline. ETC 12103 who was on hand to address the meeting. Bulletin boards at the plant were bright with red, yellow and blue Oil Progress Day posters and stream ers. Ethyl people who drive to work spread the word with bumper cards saying, "Ethyl Means Progress." Telling the story to the Baton Rouge community was an important part of the celebration. News releases went out to the local papers and special advertisements appeared on October 14. A downtown department store featured a window display ar ranged by Bill Mundinger, showing how "Ethyl" antiknock compound increases the quality of good gasoline. Included in the display were a flow chart showing the raw materials that go into "Ethyl" compound, and aerial and interior views of the plant. Steve Henry, manager of plant and employe services, spoke at the Metro politan Kiwanis Club meeting on October 14. His talk was on "Oil Progress and Ethyl's Contribution through the Improvement of Fuels." The Detroit Ethyl Society cele brated Oil Progress Day a week early at their first meeting of the season on October 5. C. F. Bedford, chief pro duction engineer for Stanolind Oil and Gas Company, Tulsa, made the trip to Detroit especially to speak at the meeting, and give the Motor City Ethylites a picture of the producing end of the oil industry. He told them about exploration and drilling meth ods that his company and the oil industry in general use to discover and bring in oil. "Birth of an Oil Field," Shell Oil's latest picture, was also shown. Thom Yates, public rela tions representative in Detroit, briefly discussed the purpose of Oil Progress Day, told about Ethyl's part in it. C. F. Bedford, chief production engineer for Stanolind Oil & .Gas Co., Tulsa, talks with Earl Bartholomew, general manager of our Research labs. Mr. Bedford gave an inside view of the producing end of the oil industry to the Detroit Ethyl Society. Open House in Detroit Open House for some 100 commun ity leaders in the Ferndale area was held at the Research laboratories on October 14. Following escorted tours of the labs, refreshments were served and Ethyl's film "Gasoline for Every body," was shown. Committee mem bers for the Open House were Frank lin Fricker, Chuck Hawley, Karl Kuhn, Jack Taylor and Thom Yates. A press preview luncheon and tour for newspaper and radio station repre sentatives preceded the Open House. Before the luncheon a press confer ence was held with Earl Bartholomew, general manager of the labs, and Jack Macauley, director of research. Five members of the staff at our Detroit Research labs spoke at 15 Oil Progress Day meetings held by fra ternal and civic clubs. Serving as members of the speakers' panel were Idan Flaa, Bamey Jones, Charlie Kass, Punch Pfundstein and Dick Sneed. They also showed Ethyl's film "Gasoline for Everybody." As in Baton Rouge, news releases were sent to local papers announcing Ethyl's part in Oil Progress Day, and plans for the Open House at the De troit labs. Special advertisements also 11 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 12104 His Honor, Mayor Mallender of Birmingham (Mich.), and William Milligan arriving at our Detroit Research laboratories to attend Open House on Oil Progress Day, are registered by Stella Shafer and Louise Hennessey. Congressman George A. Dondero, caught here in an upward gesture, was among the inter ested guests who collected around Ethylman Art Zeitz (back to camera). Art explained road research methods used with this car. A few of the 100 invited guests who came to the Open House are shown here ready to start on a tour of the laboratories. Facing them, at left, are Ethylmen George Robinson, (polka dot tie). Cap Hall, and Art Felt, ready to serve as guides. They were among the group of 17 who acted as guides for the visitors. Representatives of newspapers and radio sta tions in the Detroit area attended a press preview luncheon. Ethyl's Max Roensch and Harold Gibson, at the head of the table, flanked by Earl Bartholomew (hidden from view) and lack Macauley presided as hosts, along with Thom Yates, PR representative. Civic leaders from Royal Oak, Haxel Park, Clawson and Femdale pause for a picture in front of a knock testing engine. Art Felt, (far left), of Aviation Research, explains how it is used to determine octane ratings. "Ethyl Means Progress" was the message put on wheels in Baton Rouge and Detroit with stream ers like these which were given to employes. Here Art Zeitz Oeft) and Len Smith attach them to test cars at the Detroit labs garage. ran in the newspapers in Detroit, Ferndale, Birmingham and Royal Oak on October 14. New Yorkers met in the Chrysler Building on October 13 to hear about Oil Progress Day from President Edward L. Shea and Ralph Champlin. Following their talks a movie titled "Amazing Molecules," made by Stand ard Oil of Indiana, was shown. Sales Staff on Stage Vice President Harry Kaley sent a letter to the Sales staff telling them about Ethyl's plans and suggesting that they cooperate in the observance of Oil Progress Day. They did. Bill Ball, of N. Y. Sales, faced the tele vision cameras at Dumont's station WABD, to put on "Fire Power" for audiences in New York and New Haven. Bill presented a half-hour version especially adapted for tele vision of this latest Ethyl show on the safe handling of gasoline. Frank Hayes, Eastern region field engineer, spoke at meetings of the Utica, N. Y. Lions Club on October 11, and the Schenectady Rotary Club on October 14. Art Roberts, Eastern region safety engineer, presented Ethyl's "Fire Power" show as a member of a panel on Maritime Safety during the Amer ican Merchant Marine Conference in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on OPD. In the Southern region, Lou Shank, operations manager, spoke at a meet ing of the Tulsa Exchange Club on OPD, and Alan Tully, sales represen tative, addressed the Oak Cliff Kiwanis Club in Dallas. A motor demonstration showing how engine performance varies with different grades of fuel and how "Ethyl ' ' antiknock compound improves per formance by removing knock, was one of the features of Gulf's Open House at their Harmarville, Pa. Research laboratories on October 14. George Rosser, Ethyl's account representa tive for Gulf, worked with them be hind the scenes, providing the demon stration engine, preparing a script and keeping the engine adjusted. Around 8,000 men saw the demonstration. Two Ethyl demonstration engines were set up in connection with the opening of Standard Oil Development Company's new laboratory in Linden, N. J. on October 14, 15 and 16. The engines, one with a 4.25 compression ratio, the other a 10.3, showed the effect of compression ratio on engine efficiency, fuel consumption and oc tane requirements. The demonstra tions took place every 20 minutes from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Advertising and Public Rela tions departments arranged for prepa ration and distribution of posters, pamphlets, buttons, streamers and car bumper cards at our Research and Gasoline Testing labs, storage termi nals, and Baton Rouge plant. 1. Last month (October) this Ethyl Engineering Research and Gaso line Testing laboratory was 10 years old. It is located in: (a) San Bernardino, Calif. (b) Houston, Tex. (c) Wilmington, Del. 2. This large, round tank, used to store ethyl chloride, is called a: (a) Hortonspheroid. (b) Hemisphere. (c) Hortonsphere. ETHYL PIC Sorry, no automobiles, television sets, refrigerators or washing machines are offered to you for answering these questions. We just thought you might find it interesting and fun to try an \ 5. This Ethyl representative is show ing our most recent movie, Pattern for Progress to a farm meeting. Last year Ethyl films were seen by audiences totaling about: (a) 100,000. (b) 500,000. (c) 1,000,000. 6. This year Ethyl's fleet of tank cars delivering "Ethyl" antiknock com pound will cover about: (a) 1,000,000 miles. (b) 5,000,000 miles. (c) 10,000,000 miles. '* etc X2 107 3. The SS Ethyl proved that it was possible to extract from the sea: (a) Iodine. (b) Bromine. (c) Fluorine. 4. In Ethyl Corporation's five Gaso line Testing laboratories, located throughout the country, engines like this are used to determine: (a) Volatility. (b) Octane number. (c) Vapor pressure. TORE QUIZ Ethyl picture quiz, see how much you know about your Company and its operations. You'll be a whiz if you know all the answers. If you get six out of the eight, rate yourself superior. (For answers se page 28.) 7. Salt cake, a by-product in our manufacturing operation, is sold to manufacturers of: (a) Table salt. (b) Kraft paper. (c) Salt water taffy. 8. A battery of equipment used for engine endurance and performance studies at our Detroit Research laboratories. These big, shiny in struments with the complex panel boards are called: (a) Cyclometers. (b) Dynamometers. (c) Rhododendrometers. --* 0 ETC 12108 The more gasoline-testing experience " "-- *h*> antiknock service The more technic the better thej trnrk coxxottATioM, 40* (.)(* *. *w r*m it. x. r. tu,rt cmMm, "------- --. Good Antiki Because Ethyl is proud of the unique experiei telling the oil world about them in a series of adi News. Here are three of the six ads which havi 16 BOARD--jv0VMSer a total of 673 years! ETC 12,09 V- ice experience, ock service iVorld They Give ick Service of our field and technical service men we're isements appearing in the National Petroleum ready been published, picturing 44 men with thyl experience. 17 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER ETC 12110 Roslyn Arbour is correspond* ent for the Gasoline Testing Lab in Baton Rouge. As secretary to Tucker Dawson, lab manager, she takes care of all the secretarial and clerical work. A graduate of Louisiana State Normal College, she specialized in kindergarten work, joined Ethyl in 1931 follow ing a successful career of teach ing in Baton Rouge schools. Chris Bruhl is the reporter for the central office of the Gasoline Testing division in Yonkers. A technician at the Test lab before the war, Chris received his chemical engineering degree from N.Y.U. in 1943. Shortly afterward he joined the Navy, became a lieutenant (j.g.). Chris returned to Ethyl two years ago. He has a son and a daughter. Maxgaxet Dollingei of the De- N troit Research laboratories keeps ^ N< BB readers posted on news from kr the Engineering lab. The only Hi girl in the Dynamometer section, J Margaret is a pert redhead you'd C* expect to find more familiar with ia tricky hats than complex en- y gines. She likes horseback riding ov and bowling, but spends most after-Ethyl hours with her son. Li BB CORRESPONDENTS Here you see some very important people. They are part of the group of Bulletin Board correspondents who help to keep you informed about who's doing what at Ethyl. With a sharp ear to the ground they go about their job of newsgathering in offices and laboratories throughout the country, reporting the events and activities C tf c< e: ri a y h Wilma Hanra keeps her nose for news busy on the 34th floor of the Chrysler Building in New York. A member of the Finance department, Wilma recently cele brated her 10th Ethyl anniversary. Born in Detroit, she was educated in New York and attended Pack ard Business School. Topping the list of Wilma's outside interests are her family, home and garden. Barbara Kelly sees that all the latest news from the 39th floor of the Chrysler Building is promptly reported. In her job as receptionist Barbara has a ring side seat for her news gathering activities. Bom in New York, she attended N.Y.U. and D'Youville College in Buifalo. She likes walking, especially when com bined with window-shopping. Bob O'Meara reports items of 1 A interest from the second floor lo offices of our Research labora- m lories in Detroit. Born in the 'n Motor City, Bob has lived there m most of his life. He joined Ethyl si after more than three years in the A Ir Army, and is a member of the y Purchasing section at the labs. it The O'Mearas, Bob and Margaret, j S have a year-old daughter, Sharon. ETC 121U living Fay, in charge of North Kansas City news, is a knock test engineer at the Gasoline Testing lab there. He studied engineering at Kansas City Junior College, was with the K.C. Test* ing laboratory before Ethyl. Last year Irving became a member of our 15*Year Club. The Fays have two daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Linda, 7, and a son, Lowell, 4. Catherine Foster reports from Yonkers about what's doing at the Gasoline Testing laboratory. Kay was born in New York but has lived in Yonkers most of her life. She attended Commerce High and the Assisium, where she learned the fine points of office work. Kay joined Ethyl almost three years ago, follow* ing a wartime inspection job. i ON THE ETHYL BEAT / they think will be of interest to you. This, of . course, is in addition to their duties as secretary, t engineer, receptionist, or whatever pursuit they o regularly follow in the interests of Ethyl. With a deep bow we present this group of VIP's. If t your correspondent isn't here, look for him (or s her) next month when we will introduce others. if Alyce Peterson, always on the r 1 lookout for BB pictures, is a .* ' member cf the photographic staff s in Detroit. Bofn in Chicago, she i moved to Michigan at an early L age. Alyce attended the Business t Institute of Detroit, piled up eight 3 years of experience before join* ing Ethyl. After hours she studies t, Spanish or turns a domestic hand u to sewing and cooking. Lynn Phillips, keeps us in formed about doings down Mexico way (see p. 4). Ethyl's Mexico-Central America repre sentative since 1942, Lynn joined the old Tulsa division 10 years ago. He was reared in the mining town of Joplin, Mo., once oper ated a lead mine in Oklahoma. The Phillipses have three chil dren, Lynn, Jr., Sylvia and Judy. Sue Gendernalik of Detroit covers the Chem lab and ana* lytical section. A transplanted Southerner, Sue was born in Kentucky. She joined the Chem Research staff after graduating from Marygrove College with a B.S. degree, is technical secre* tary to Charlie Gambrill. Sewing is a favorite pastime when the tennis season isn't in full swing. Edith Wilson, one of the New York newshounds, covers the 43rd floor of the Chrysler Build ing, where she greets visitors to the Ethyl offices from her desk just east of the elevators. She's a native New Yorker, studied fash ion illustration at Pratt Institute. A girl of many hobbies, her favor ite is adding choice pieces to her collection of antique jewelry. They Won Lab Tour Sales representatives of the Illinois Farm Supply Company, a co-op in our Central region, visited Ethyl's Re search laboratories in Detroit Sep tember 20 for a look behind the scenes. The group was made up of IFSC's top salesmen, 142 in all, who had won a tour of industrial plants in the Detroit area as a prize for their selling efforts during the past summer. Before the tour of our laboratories, General Manager Earl Bartholomew welcomed the men. Dan Guy, who heads the Agricultural section of Tech Service, told them about Ethyl's farm program. Dick Sneed, roving engineer for the Central region, took care of arrangements at our laboratories and George Rose, Ethyl's account repre sentative for the Illinois Farm Supply Company, showed the visitors around. "You know that money you gave me for a new hat, dear? Well, I donated it to the annual Community Chest fund. California Conclave--In San Francisco's St. Francis hotel many of the country's leading engineers gathered recently for the annual West Coast meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Several hundred of them attended this luncheon, presided over by Ethyl's Ted Littlefield, who was master of ceremonies. Principal speaker was T. S. Peterson, president of Standard of California. With him at the speaker's table were lack Macauley, Ethyl's research director, and Ray Wyrick, Western regional operations manager. ! ii l etc 12113 Andy Reimold Promoted Andy Reimold has been appointed manager of Employe. Relations at Ethyl's Research laboratories in De troit. Formerly personnel manager there, he succeeds Ray Faller who recently transferred to New York to head the Company's training activities. In his new position, Andy will be responsible for Employe Relations and Personnel functions at the labs. This includes keeping employes informed about Company plans and giving ad vice and assistance on individual personnel problems. Andy joined Ethyl in 1945 as per sonnel manager in Detroit, assisting Ray Faller. Andy coordinated person nel practices among the various depart ments at the labs, counselled employes and helped new members of the staff to become acquainted and feel at home. Born in Yonkers, N. Y., Andy attended Stevens Institute of Tech nology and was graduated with an Andy Reimold, newly appointed manager of Employe Relations in Detroit, shows Rev. Robert A. Lawrason an aerial view ot the labs at the Open House on Oil Progress Day. M.E. degree. In the early days of the war he was assistant director of the War Training School at Stevens. Be fore Ethyl, Andy was supervisor of personal services at Wright Aeronau tical Corporation in Paterson, N. J. Andy and his wife, Mary, live in Royal Oak, Mich. They have two children, five-year-old Ellen, and Lee, who is almost three. Stork Club Passing around candy and cigars to Ethyl friends in the Chrysler Build ing, Bill Lankenau, of Purchasing, announced the arrival of a son on September 11. Gary Willis weighed in at 5 lbs. 7 oz., received a hearty wel come from his sister Lindy Lou, who is 18 months old. There was a double debut on October 4 when Helene and John Smith introduced their twin daugh ters. Beverley Ann tipped the scales at 4 lbs. 4 oz., and Nancy Claire weighed 4 lbs. 8 oz. The Smiths have two other children, Edward, 9, and Carolyn, 5. John is chief accountant in Ethyl's New York office. A leading candidate for "Miss Oil Progress Day" was delivered to Leona and Thom Yates on October 14. An eight-pound-and-two-ounce bundle of charm, Mary Leith was almost a birthday present to her brother, Sandy, who was six years old October 11. Thom is public relations represen tative at the Detroit labs. 21 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER Second Prize, submitted by L. A. Dollahan, Central region Honorable Mention, submitted by Lillian Campbell, New York Top Honors Go To Lou Slack in Photo Contest Pictures from Ethylites all over the country, portraying everything from babies to porcupines, gave the Bulletin Board photography contest judges quite a time. Their unanimous choice for first prize turned out to be the picture on the cover, "Double Solitaire." In their opinion it is an interesting shot that took a lot of thought and planning, and is good,from a technical stand point as well. Lou Slack, who sub mitted the picture, played the leading role from beginning to end. He planned and set it up himself, posed for the photograph which shows him playing solitaire with himself, devel oped the film and enlarged the picture. Lou is a Central region safety engineer who headquarters in Dayton. Unusual patience won the red ribbon for L. A. (Dolly) Dollahan, who worked for almost two hours to get this surprisingly good shot of a cat with a live mouse. Dolly is an account representative in Ethyl's Central region. As third prize winner the judges selected Tom Stephenson's appealing Honorable Mention Submitted by Edith Wilson, New York ETrCr. A2IC r Third Prize Submitted by Tom Stephenson, Baton Rouge photograph, "Picnic Lunch." Tom, who edits The Antiknock at our Baton Rouge plant, caught the young ster unawares for this candid shot ii taken at a plant picnic. Honorable mention awards go to i five camera fans who win a year's subscription to their favorite photog raphy magazine. They are Lillian Campbell, teletype supervisor in New York; Harry Manning, Western re gion fleet engineer in San Francisco; Ruth Schoenling, of the Medical department in Cincinnati; Jerry Westerfield, of Public Relations in New York; and Edith Wilson, receptionist on the 43rd floor of the Chrysler Build ing. Judges for the contest were two men well-known in the photographic field --Bruce Downes, photography editor of Collier's magazine, and Bill Finn, president of the New York Press Photographers' Association. Honorable Mention Submitted by lerry Westerfield, New York i, " & <4 ft' f. \ *- 2..' V. JT Such Unpopularity Must Be Deserved! No doubt about it . . . the ordinary cold is a mighty unpopular visitor. Such unpopularity must be deserved --and it is! Statistics reveal that this common infection causes more lost time from work and play than any other disease, or, for that matter, any combination of infectious diseases. If you are now suffering from a cold, or can remember the last time the "bug" had you down, you know how irritating the common cold can be. Besides weakening you physically, it interferes with your plans, endangers those around you and sours your dis position. Until you get rid of the cold, you are apt to feel drowsy, uncomfort able and annoyed. The actual cause of colds is uncer tain, but it is thought to be one or more viruses . . . disease agents which 24 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER are so small they cannot be seen under an ordinary microscope and can pass through the finest filters yet made. Medical science is waging a constant war against this public enemy, but, at the present time, no "sure cure" or preventive has been found. Amazing progress in research is being made and some day someone may hit the jack pot, but at present, you possess the most effective weapon against the common cold . . . common sense. Hew To Avoid Colds 1. Stay out of crowds as much as possible when colds or other infectious diseases are going the rounds. 2. Do the best you can to avoid direct contact with people who have colds. 3. Wash your hands with soap and water before eating. 4. Use only clean eating and drink ing utensils and your own toilet articles. 5. Eat enough of the right kinds of foods every day. 6. Get enough rest and recreation. 7. Have chronic infections cared for by your doctor. 8. Keep warm and dry and avoid dampness or chilling especially when you are over-heated. 9. Wear clothes suitable to weather conditions and to your activities. If You Have One If, despite every precaution and the greatest care, you do catch a cold . . . as sometimes happens . . . here are a few suggestions which should help to speed your recovery and prevent more serious complications: 1. Rest. Stay in bed or indoors for the first day or so if you can. Get as much rest as possible. 2. Keep warm and dry. 3. If you go to work, wear clothes that will protect you when you are outdoors, and avoid drafts and sudden chilling when over heated. 4. Drink plenty of citrus fruit juices, water and other liquids. 5. Eat simple foods which agree with you. (If a cold starts with chills, fever or aching, or seems more severe than usual, see your physician right away.) Strong Body Resistance If you are in good health, you stand a better chance of resisting some of the effects of a virus infection. Have a medical check-up regularly and con sult the doctor promptly in acute illness or for any chronic difficulty. His advice and care will be a great help in warding off the dangers of colds or other infections. Don't wel come this unpopular visitor--keep healthy and avoid colds. Tuae-up session--Harry Manning (right) holds down the microphone while Frank Elliott and John Koehnle stand by lor the cue to begin a dynamometer tune-up demonstration. The three Western region engineers assisted Tidewater Associated Oil Company with the grand opening of S & C Motor Company's new sales and service station in San Francisco. 25 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER New Publications Supervisor in Baton Rouge Douglas S. Price has been ap pointed publications supervisor at Ethyl's manufacturing plant in Baton Rouge. A native of Kentwood in Tangipahoa Parish, he has lived in Baton Rouge for a number of years and is well acquainted in the public relations field there. Douglas began his college career at Southeastern Louisiana College. In January of 1941 he left school to take a civilian position with the U.S. Quar termaster Corps, and just after Pearl Harbor resigned to join the Navy. During his naval training, Douglas studied at Tulane and Notre Dame Universities. He was commissioned an ensign, and served in the Mediter ranean, European and African thea tres of operation. When he returned to civilian life in 1945, Douglas entered the School of Journalism at Louisiana State University and was graduated in June of 1947. Before joining Ethyl, Douglas was with the Louisiana De partment of Education, where his work included writing of radio scripts, Douglas Price public relations news and feature stories, and the department paper. Douglas is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism frater nity, the American Legion and the U.S. Naval Reserve. He and his wife, Jo Ann, live in Baton Rouge. A Lasting Impression Radio fans who were listening to the "Double or Nothing" show on the first of October heard emcee WalterO'Keefe toss an orchid to Ethyl Corporation and to the city of Baton Rouge. When one of the contestants on his quiz program mentioned that she was from Baton Rouge, Walter said he would never forget his visit th?re--the 26 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER wonderful hospitality shown him, and the beauty of the city. "And what a plant that Ethyl is," he said. "WTiat fine people and what a grand place it was to work in." The radio star had visited our Baton Rouge plant five years ago when Ethyl received the Army-Navy "E" award and was emcee at the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Gelston Howell with their attendants. Lohengrin Parade Gelston Howell, Eastern region account representative, married Kath erine Taylor of Lakewood, N. Y. on Saturday, October 2. The ceremony was performed at Holiday Lodge, home of the bride's parents. Dick Murphy, Eastern regional manager, was best man. The bride's sister, Mrs. Edward Clark, was matron of honor. Gel and Katherine went to Canada on their wedding trip, and are now at home in Warren, Pa. Beverly Duckworth, of the South ern regional office in Tulsa, became Mrs. Harry Kenneth Bums on Satur day, September 4. She and Harry exchanged vows in the Wheeling Avenue Christian Church. A reception at the Tulsa Country Club followed the wedding ceremony. Mrs. Harry Burns ETC 12120 New Steering Committee Takes a Bow The Detroit Ethyl Society held its first meeting of the 1948-49 season on October 5 with a capacity crowd of 175 present. Bill Burt, chairman of the newly-elected steering committee, presided and introduced the other committee members. They are: Evelyn Harworth, secre tary-treasurer; Ross Rife, social chair man; Fred Green, publicity chairman; George Betker, sports chairman, and Rex Closson, Harold Faucher, Art Huffman, Florence McMahon, Claire Olsen, Eleanor Ott, Don Remter, Evelyn Ryan, Chick Sortman and A1 Tandrup. Celebrating Oil Progress Day a week early, the Detroiters had an oil man from Tulsa as their principal speaker. He was C. F. Bedford, chief production engineer of the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company (see page 11). Answers to Picture Quiz 1. (a) San Bernardino, Calif. The first group of researchers went out in 1935 to conduct a series of road tests, and the present laboratory was opened in 1938. 2. (c) Hortonsphere. Hortonspheroids (the flattened spheres) are used for storing liquids (usually gasoline) under pres sures up to 30 pounds per square inch. Hortonspheres are used to store liquids or gases at higher pressures--up to 200 pounds per square inch. 3. (b) Bromine. The SS Ethyl, a floatingchemical factory which sailed from Wilmington, Del. in 1925, proved that bromine (used in the manufacture of "Ethyl" antiknock compound) could be recovered from sea water on a commercial basis. 4. (b) This ASTM-CFR knock-test ing engine determines the octane number of gasoline. As a service to the oil industry, Ethyl prepares quarterly re ports on gasoline quality 28 BULLETIN BOARD --NOVEMBER throughout the U.S., based on samples sent to our gasoline testing labs. Nine standard tests are performed on each fuel sample. 5. (c) 1,000,000. Ethyl was a pio neer in visual education meth ods and has produced many films on engines, fuels, and subjects of general interest to oil and automotive people. The motion pictures, . slide films and glass slides in our library are another one of Ethyl's services to customers. 6. (c) By the end of the year, Ethyl's tank cars will have covered between 9,000,000 and 10,000,000 miles. 7. (b) Kraft paper. This strong paper, usually dark brown, is used for wrapping. 8. (b) Dynamometers. With this equipment automobiles and trucks can be tested in the laboratory under conditions which simulate actual road operation. OUT OF THE DEEP A whale of a fish story--and Dean Painter (right) has witnesses to prove it. He landed this 107'pound marlin--his first--off Newport Beach, Calif. In the foreground, holding the rod and reel, is Dean's son, Tony. Flanking the fish are Skipper Jim Donnelly and Roger Steelman, another member of the party. Dean is a member of the Gasoline Testing staff at the San Bernardino Research laboratories. A fisherman's dream--San Wagner, West* ern regional manager, has caught what some fishermen spend their lives dreaming about-- a 46H pound salmon. He took him out of the waters of the blue Pacific off Vancouver Island. ETC 12122 RUSSIAN' CITIZEN -- MAY HOT OWN LAND MAY HOT 3c 7kiED 5/ A JURY MAY jV<?r CHOOSE HIS OWN JOB MAY AW ABSENT HIMSELF FROM WORK MAY HOT STRIKE MAY HOT PICKET m HOT EMPLOY LABOR MAY HOT TRAVEL MAY HOT OWN JEWELRY MAY HOT RING A CHURCH BELL MAY AW BE FRIENDS WITH A FOREIGNER -AND /S FORBIDDEN FREEDOM OF SPEECH-FREEDOMOFASSEMBLYFREEDOM OFRELIOIOHmFREEDOM nr C/VH 30 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER ETC 12123 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes r-1 ;.?:4 Published by the Ethyl Corp., 405 Lexington Ave., New York, New York; Edward L. Shea, President; Stanley T. Crossiand, Vice-president and Treasurer; Richard Si. Page, Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor Understand Rivalry and you understand America by Ed Thoigersen I'm sure you fans will agree that foot ball supplies more than its share of thrills. Even before the game gets under way, you can feel a certain tenseness in the crowd. And as the teams charge onto the gridiron and the referee's whistle breaks through the sharp Autumn air, you just know you're in for thrills-a-plenty! Yes, it's great to watch a cleverly executed play . . . thrilling to see a fleet-footed end snare a pass in the end zone. But to me, there's nothing to compare with watching a back break into the open, sidestep opposing tacklers, and race the length of the field for a touchdown. It happens every year--in many a game from Yale Bowl to the Rose Bowl--but somehow, I never tire of watching a lone figure race downfield for a score. And speaking of races . . . another great race is going on right now--to supply you with more oil products. You win--because you and your neighbors are being supplied with more oil products today than ever before in history . . . more than in the peak war years! More oil for your cars and trucks . . . your oil burners and farm machinery. More oil for Amer ica's transportation . . . her diesel trains, planes and ships. More oil for her factories and military machine. Yes, more and more of the oil prod ucts that mean so much to your better living. The need for oil in America is great. But demand has been met! Companies engaged in oil producing, refining, transportation and distribution have already shattered every record for oil supplied to you. And with every branch of the industry working con stantly to further expand facilities, you can be sure of receiving even more oil products in the future. Use them efficiently. Oil is energy. Oil means more comfort, better living, greater convenience for you. 31 BULLETIN BOARD--NOVEMBER etc 12125 DECEMBER', 1948 Merry Christinas to All (See page 19) ETC 12126 FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PAGE 4 DOUBLE CAPACITY PAGE 6 ,<***.* * SWING YOUR PARTNER PROMOTING PETROLEUM PROGRESS r PAGE 16 "A* you HEAKj). 25 PAGE 21 "Wshawks unlimited PAGE 22 ETC 12127 ETHYL STARTS SEVENTH TM PLANT t&r? The expansion program at Baton Rouge has been increased from 30 to 40 million dollars, to provide for the building of another tetraethyl lead plant. Plans to start construction of the seventh TEL building were an nounced on November 9 in Chicago, where more than 5,000 oil men were attending the annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute. The new plant will be the same size, and have the same capacity, as the No. 6 plant now going up, which is scheduled for completion in the fall of 1949. The seventh TEL unit is expected to begin operations late in 1950. These two new TEL buildings will increase production at the plant, already the largest in the world, by 40% over present capacity. With forecasts of continuing in creases in oil production, as well as improvement in the quality of gaso line over the next five years, our Company is preparing to meet the industry's needs for increased quanti ties of antiknock compounds. As in the past, the plant at Baton Rouge will continue to process practically all of the materials that are required to manufacture "Ethyl" fluid. When the expansion program was first announced in the summer of 1947, plans were made to increase facilities for the manufacture of sodi um and ethyl chloride, intermediate chemicals used in making tetraethyl lead, as well as ethylene dichloride, which is blended with TEL in the finished product. These increased fa cilities as originally planned will pravide ample supplies for the full production of the new TEL units from the day each begins operations. New change houses, better lighting, heating and ventilating equipment and complete safety devices are being added to improve present working conditions and to accommodate the additional employes who will join the Company as the program contin ues. Ethyl has always prided itself on its high standards for the workers' comfort and efficiency and our expan sion plans from the beginning, included provisions for even better facilities. 3 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER Efc l2l28 Charles F. Kettering receives the American Petroleum Institute gold medal lor Distinguished Achievement from API president, William R. Boyd. "You exemplify the spirit of young America," said he, "in your continued search for new and bigger problems to solve--so that the promise of the future may be more fully realized. We honor you alilce for your past contributions and for the spiritual impetus you have given to the quest for an ever brighter future." AWARD TO A GREAT AMERICAN Charles F. Kettering, Ethyl Cor poration's first president, now the senior member of our Board of Direc tors from General Motors, was awarded the American Petroleum Institute gold medal for Distinguished Achievement at the 28th annual API meeting last month. As he received the award honoring him for his many contributions to industrial progress and the benefit of mankind, the thousands of oil men who poured into the Grand Ballroom of Chicago's Stevens Hotel for the opening meet ing, rose to their feet in spontaneous and heart-warming tribute. 4 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER Following the presentation; the great inventor won further acclaim for his ability as a public speaker. Talking informally and without notes, he gave what was probably the most enjoyable speech of the, entire con vention. Though discussing subjects such as engine efficiency, thermo dynamics, and the fuel supply, the famous scientist stripped them of all complexity, had his audience listening intently, laughing frequently at his anecdotes and dry humor. Concerned about the fear that besets the world, he assured the oil men that we don't need to worry iI i ETC 12129 Old friend* -- They can tell you a lot about TEL. It was "Boss Ket" (right) who started Tom Midgley on his search for an anti knock agent, which turned out to be tetraethyl lead. It was T. A. Boyd (left) who worked most closely with him through the long years of searching. It was Robert E. Wilson (center) who gave Dr. Midgley his special arrangement of the Periodic Table with which Midge conducted a systematic survey of possi ble chemical compounds. Mr. Boyd has retired as head of the Organic Chemistry Department of General Motors Research, Dr. Wilson is board chair man of Standard of Indiana, and Dr. Ketter ing has retired as vice president of General Mo tors in charge of research. about running out of fuel or not having enough food to eat. "Nature provides ample resources for both fuel and food, and if we cannot obtain our needs of both it will be our own fault. "We have to learn more about how to capture energy from the sun. We have all of this know-how, all of this technology with which we can learn more. We need to recognize that there is so much we do not know." Alert industrialists and scientists constantly are aware of the unfolding problems of supplying the public needs, said Dr. Kettering, and they generally foresee important problems and solve them before they become serious. "Usually," he pointed out, "the people who get alarmed over one of these problems and want to do something about it tomorrow are people who have just heard of the problem yesterday. "With the competence of the engine and fuel industries, as long as the sun shines, if we just don't become stupid, we don't need to worry because we shall never run out of energy." Spotlight on Safety Gathering in Chicago October 18 to 22 for the National Safety Council's annual convention, 10,000 people from all over the U. S. met to discuss ways and means of saving lives by prevent ing accidents. On hand for this 36th National Safety Congress, the world's biggest safety meeting, were Ethylmen from Baton Rouge and New York. Repre senting the plant were Louis Davis, Robert Edgar, Carroll Hebert, Mel Hudgins and Ed Lorio, while from New York Roy Goltz, Ollie Jones and Ellis Locher attended. 5 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 12130 ni New Plant At Baton Rouge Doubles Nitrogen Capacity 6 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER The first completed unit of the plant expansion program at Baton Rouge began production on October 17 when the new nitrogen plant started opera tions. Equipped with three complete producing units, the plant will double our nitrogen output. This inert gas is used to protect sodium and sodium-lead alloy from the time they are manufactured until they are used in the TEL operation. Both sodium and sodium-lead alloy will react quickly with any moisture and oxygen in the atmosphere, so air is removed from the manufacturing process by displacing it with nitrogen, which serves as a protective blanket. In the nitrogen plant, oxygen is removed from the air by burning hydrogen which unites with the oxy gen to form water. The gas that re mains is mostly nitrogen, since it forms four-fifths of the atmosphere. Impurities and moisture are removed from it and the gas is then compressed for use in the TEL operation. TEL Supervisors Frank McCoy and Harry Royal had charge of getting the new plant ready for production and starting its operation. Assisting them were Work Leaders Lawrence "Wild Bill" Lea (who lit the first burner) and Reese Sumrall, and Operators William Atkinson, Charles Davis, John Day and William Yoes. Lawrence "Wild Bill" Lea fires the hydrogen burners to get things going at Ethyl's new nitrogen plant in Baton Rouge. ETC 12131 "Ethyl" Antiknock Compound Price Increase Higher costs of metallic lead and other materials used in the manufac ture of "Ethyl" antiknock compound are responsible for the price increase, which the Company announced last month to become effective on the first of February, 1949. The new selling price will be 63.23c per pound of tetraethyl lead content for Motor mix (approximately ,23c per cubic centimeter) and 68.72c per pound of tetraethyl lead content for Aviation mix (approximately .2SC per cubic centimeter). While approximately 30% over the lowest pre-war price (reduced eight times between 1933 and 1942 and held at .18c per cubic centimeter throughout the war), the new Feb ruary 1 price is substantially lower percentage-wise than the increased cost of other commodities. Metallic lead, which went from 19}^c to 21j^c per pound in November, has gone up 250% since the war.The costs of other materials used in manufacturing our product have also risen sharply. In notifying customer companies of the new prices, President Shea wrote that "We are following a policy of doing everything we can to produce as much `Ethyl' antiknock compound as possible, even though this policy results in somewhat higher costs. We are trying earnestly to keep such in creased costs at a minimum, but are not hesitating to spend what is neces sary to insure maximum supplies to our customers. "In our present `seller's' market for metallic lead," Mr. Shea added, "we are literally combing world markets and domestic scrap heaps. We are reasonably confident that under this policy we will secure sufficient lead to maintain our plants at their maximum production rate. All other materials are certain to be available in the quantities needed, but in some in stances, also at higher costs." ".Ethyl" makes the difference--Jack Cole, Western region safety engineer and account man, put on demon strations at Oil Progress Day meetings of the Utah Oil Refining and Continental Oil Com panies in Salt Lake City, gave 31 demon strations to audiences totaling almost 1,000. He used this demon stration engine to show how ''Ethyl" antiknock compound gets rid of knock. ETC 12132 Fresh honey is always on the menu at Bob Kimpton's home in East Aurora, N. Y., where 85,000 bees keep him and his family well supplied with the sweet golden delicacy. Bob, an Eastern region fleet engi neer, comes from a long line of bee keepers, for the Kimpton family have raised bees for years. Back in the Motor Clinic days Bob was too busy traveling around to follow the family hobby, but now that he's settled in upstate New York he's back in the honey business. Three years ago Bob built a hive that has been growing and thriving ever since. It houses a colony of some 56,000 bees and at the end of the 8 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER summer had about 160 pounds of honey in it. Bob took out 40 pounds, of this, leaving the rest to feed the bees during the winter. He has col lected 80 pounds of honey from this large hive during the season. Late in July, Bob added another hive, but because of its late start there will not be enough honey for both the bees and the Kimptons. The bees in this colony will need all the honey they have made during the summer for their winter food, and even then may have to be fed toward the end of the winter. Bob takes care of the two colonies himself, but looks forward to a helping hand from sons Billy and Bobbie ETC 12133 'O-llljJ- when they are a little older. The boys, four and six, show their biggest en thusiasm right now at the breakfast table--they have honey on their cereal every morning. Our expert on the life of a honey bee sends along the following informa tion. Life in a bee colony is well ordered, with a clear-cut division of labor. The queen bee lays all the eggs for the colony and is cared for by workers and drones. She is seldom killed by violence, and may live as long as three years. The average worker bee usually wears itself out gathering nectar, and during clover flow seldom lives longer than six weeks. A single strong colony, like the one in Bob's larger hive, has been known to bring in over 20 pounds of nectar in a day. The drones have no sting, gather no nectar, and are fed by the workers. They usually die a natural death, but if nectar becomes scarce they may be run out of the hive and left to starve. In a nutshell and speaking in round numbers, it takes 4,500 bees to make one pound of honey. On windy or rainy days when they aren't able to work, the bees become restless and are more inclined to sting. When they do, warm soda water packs are the best remedy, according to Ethyl's bee keeper, who makes no fuss about getting stung now and then. "It comes with keeping bees," says Bob simply. He finds the hobby a boon to his human relations, sums it all up this way: "If you can get along with a temperamental bee, you can get along with anyone on this earth." i ETC 12134 These Taxing Days Henry Suburban reaches out at 7 a.m. of a bright morning to turn off the alarm clock /price: $5: tax, $1). Accompanied by the trebling of birds, he climbs wearily out of bed (price: Si95: annual personal property tax, 75c), walks across the floor of his $8,000 house (annual general property tax $240), and switches on the elec tricity (33 c tax on his $10 monthly bill) which lights the bulb (price: 20c; tax, lp). To music from a bedroom radio (price: $30; tax, $3), Henry shaves with his electric (see above) razor. As a radio newscaster reports that Hen ry's state is preparing to increase in come taxes and impose a general sales tax on everything anyone buys, Henry slaps across his jowls a handful of bay rum (price: $1.30; tax, 21 d). He dresses quickly, hurriedly fast ening cuff links (price: $3.50; tax, 70e), and tie clasp (price: $1.50; tax 30c), puts on his Swiss wrist watch (price: $60;^tax, $12*), and rushes In the kitchen he's just in time to snatch two slices of bread from the electric toaster (price: $16; tax, $3.20), lift his coffee from the gas stove (price: $190; tax, $19), and grab a glass of fruit juice from the refriger ator (price: $300; tax, $30). A glance out of the window shows it's raining, so he calls to his wife downstairs. Tucked under one arm is a leather briefcase (price: $18; tax, $3.60) which carries papers from his real estate office, including one deed (property valued at $3,000; stamp tax, $3.30). *Not counting customs duty. 10 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER (marriage license, $2) to telephone (monthly bill: $12; tax, $2.05) for a taxi. Too many other people want taxis on a wet morning so Henry gets out his own car (price: $1,800; tax $105**) and drives (operator's license, $1) to the railroad station. **Plus annual registration of $8; tax of 5c on each pound of a new tire; tax of 5% on each new part or accessory; state and fed eral gasoline tax average: 5)4P per gallon. I Henry relaxes at the station with a cigarette (price per pack: 11c; federal tax, 7c), lit by a match (tax: Sj-oC per 1,000). Aboard the train, Henry gives the conductor his ticket (price: 85c; tax, 13c) and settles down to a hand of bridge with three cronies, using of course, a deck of cards (price: 40c; tax, 13c). In the city on his way to the office, Henry stops to buy a roll of camera film (price: 20c; tax, 5c) that he promised his son (birth registration $1), and the lipstick (price: $1; tax, 20c) he promised his wife. Because there are friends coming to his house in the evening, he buys a bottle of whiskey (price: $2.30; tax, $2.60). Arriving eventually at the office, Henry sighs (no tax!) and settles to a day's work (annual income: $5000; federal and state income tax, $510). If he works hard for the rest of his life, he will be able to provide the govern ment with a handsome slice of in heritance tax. And if he dies in a state that is fiscally tolerant, he can take comfort in the thought that his casket--provided it costs less than $100--will be exempt from sales tax. Reprinted from Tax Outlook (May, 2948) through the courtesy of the Tax Foundation. Oil Men Tour Ethyl Laboratories Forty-six oil men visited Ethyl's Research laboratories in Detroit the end of October on a two-day field trip sponsored by the National Petroleum Association. Members of NPA's East ern section, they represented 22 oil companies. On their first day in Ferndale, October 28, the group toured the labs, and afterward attended a luncheon in the cafeteria. A dinner was held at the Detroit Leland Hotel, with H. G. "Buck" Weaver, director of consumer research of General Motors, as speaker of the evening. The second day featured a luncheon at the General Motors proving grounds. Following a talk by John Campbell of GM Research they made a complete tour of the proving grounds. The idea of having the group visit the labs originated with Gel Howell, Eastern region account representa tive. Charlie Kass, roving engineer for the Central region, took charge of arrangements for the meeting. During the two-day session, 11 technical topics were discussed. De troiters who spoke were George Calingaert, Joe Cipolla, Harold Gibson, Cap Hall, Art Huffman, Wheeler Lovell, Jack Macauley, Ed Paige, Tom Risk, Max Roensch and Dick Scales. Hudson Kellogg, of the Yonk ers Test lab, also addressed the oil men. Representing the Sales staff at the two-day meeting were Nick Car ter, Dolly Dollahan and Jack Fuller of the Central region and Gel Howell, Russ McGuiney and Mat Taylor, of the Eastern region. 11 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 12136 On the air--This round-up broadcast was one of the features of the drive to raise $65,000 lor the new hospital in Baton Rouge. When all the nickels, dimes and dollars were added up, Ethyl and its employes at the plant had given almost a third of the quota. Pictured in the studios of WCLA are Ethyl's Ed Armistead, who organized the Cooperative Bargaining Agency campaign; Bob Bumpas, station manager; Bob Earle, announcer; Joe Stewart, who headed the fund drive among UMW members at our plant; and Dr. W. E. B. Lockridge, superintendent of the Baton Rouge General Hospital. Their Gifts Will Save Lives Giving all-out support in the recent drive to raise money for the new hospital in Baton Rouge, Ethyl Cor poration, together with the employes at the plant turned over $20,726.10 to the fund. Their contribution repre sents almost one-third of the $65,000 goal needed to renew work on the hospital. Construction was suspended for several months when funds ran out. The drive was conducted at Ethyl's plant by the Cooperative Bargaining Agency, under the chairmanship of Ed Armistead; the United Mine Workers, District 50, Local 12,900, 12 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER with Joe Stewart as chairman; and the Ethyl Management club. Ethyl Corporation, a substantial contributor to the original hospital building fund, made an additional contribution to complete construction of the much needed building. Two for Five Ethyl's Five-Year club has added two new members to its roster. Edith Mahoney, of New York Finance, and Eleanor Whipple, of the Detroit Re search laboratories have now passed their five-year milestone with Ethyl. ETC 12137 Baton Rouge Discusses the American Way In a series of meetings now being held in Baton Rouge, Ethyl's plant fore men and supervisors are getting to gether to discuss the American way of life. Meeting under the direction of trained conference leaders, they are thinking aloud on Basic Economics. This is another phase of the man agement development program"that got under way last year. Designed to reach about 400 supervisory employes at the plant, the sessions began on October 25 and will continue through the end of this year. A five-week training course was conducted for the nine conference leaders, who are continuing their studies as the program progresses. They lead discussions but do not lecture. Instead, the meetings are conducted on an audience participa tion basis, so that everyone attending can take part. The sessions give the foremen and supervisors an oppor tunity to exchange ideas, pool their information and together reach a better understanding of the American economic system. Meetings are held every day, and have been arranged so that people on all shifts will be able to attend one of the sessions. John Furr, training supervisor at the plant, is directing the program. Conference leaders are Alan Barton, Theodore Donaldson, W. T. Edwards, Carroll Hebert, S. A. LeCroy, Mau rice Marix, Raoul Menville, Floyd Smith and Walter Weakley. When day is done--ii it's moving day, you don't usually End such happy looking people. These Daytonians, snapped at the end ol the day, after moving from the 18th floor of the Mutual Home Building to the 14th, take it all in stride, smile pleasantly for cameraman Lou Slack. Feminine charm here belongs to Ruth Baker. The strong man in shirt sleeves is Harry Mack. Middlemen are Norm Linstromberg and Bill Newman. 13 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER Double Feaftui While George Better (white pants) of Fuel Research and wife Betty whirl around with another couple, the Harold Fauchers (assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds) get a laugh from the goings-on across the room. One hundred members and guests of the Detroit Ethyl Society got their national election returns last month in between rural-style dances. Detroiters say there was absolutely no political significance to the fact that the November meeting of the Society was a "Hard Times" square dance. Taking over the Road Test garage, the election night merry makers disposed of 11 gallons of cider and 20 dozen doughnuts while alternately "swinging their partners" and keeping posted on the TrumanDewey battle via two television sets. The sets were loaned by the Femdale store of Grinnell's, a Michigan music store chain, and were installed by Emil Gillig and his able Instrument Section associates. Len Smith of Road Test, Henry Malissewski of Dynamometer and his wife, and Berleigh Green (right) of the stock room watch the telecast. That's Berleigh's husband in the plaid shirt. Bill McCracken and his wife took the party's "Hard Times" label seriously, came rigged up in these relics of by-gone days. ETC ,2U9 Square Dance In addition to the help received from fellow-members of the Ethyl Society steering committee, Social Chairman Ross Rife also had an as sist from Late Willans of Finance. Late arranged for the excellent caller and square dance orchestra. Square dancing in'the'round--Bill McCracken and George Burcal of Chem Engineering en circle Mrs. McCracken (back to camera) and a guest. Looking on at the right is Bill Moon. lack Taylor, executive engineer of the Labs and Mrs. T. pause for a swig of cider. Tables are turned as Alyce Peterson, who took these square dance photos as BULLETIN BOARD cor respondent, is snapped at the cider jug. Larry Warzell of road test is next in line. At right, giving an over-the-shoulder grin, is Late Willans. Behind him are Mrs. Ross Rife and Mrs. Willans (just visible). ETC 12140 Ethyl's top salesmen confer informally in suite; SOSA, where they were on hand to greet customer representatives. At left end of couch is Sales Manager Julian Frey, surrounded by regional managers Harold Berg, at left, and Dick Murphy, San Wagner and Jim Boudreau at right. President Edward L. Shea, looidHon of the Slcelly Oil Co. greets Obai Kettering had just finished a prest co lunch with the board of directors if th Jack Pruitt, account representative, chats with Clive M. Alexander, vice president of Aetna Oil Corporation of Louisville,Kentucky. Over 5200 Oil Me API's Progress The American Petroleum Inst tut 5,200 oil men for their 28th annua me hotel last month. At 160 schedule! m of subjects from standardization of ii better methods of drilling, refinin' ar they heard the views of industryje. commentators on current problems, and group meetings scientists, technic together in earnest discussion of day-t Champlin presided at meetings of t Committee, presented their industry geted at $1,850,000 to the board, reo Below: B. H. Barnes, Gulf Oil's assistant general manager, manufac turing; W. R. Argyle, vice president, Sinclair Refining; Ethyl's Ollie Jones and A. P. Frame, vice president. Petroleum Advisers. Harry Kaley, vice president in snare Ethyl, goes all-out to put over a point liaison man between Tech Service in E *Ycm while W. G. Skelly, president Charles F. Kettering, at right. Dr. esi conference and was on his way to rs Jthe American Petroleum Institute. Ralph Champlin, relaxes happily as he turns the chairmanship of the Oil Industry Information Committee over to Conger Reynolds (center), of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana). The smiling gentleman on the left is Franklyn Waltman of Sun Oil Co. who was chairman for 1947. Men Rally Under essive Banner .stitute brought together more than uaimeeting held in Chicago's Stevens ilei meetings they discussed all kinds >n of industry equipment to new and iin;and research. At general sessions try leaders, congressmen, and radio le as, future outlook. At committee :ec hnicai men and operating men got day-to-day problems. Ethyl's Ralph ;s of the Oil Industry Information dustry-wide program for 1949, budd received unanimous approval. Charlie Gambrill (left) analytical sec tion head at the Detroit labs, with two members of his research staff, Frances Lamb and A1 Gassman. i^fearge of sales and advertising for a point to Dick Sneed, who serves as ioiin Detroit and the Southern region. Three's-a-company as Jack Macauley, Ethyl's director of research, links arms with Arch Maxwell, Sohio vice president and director, At right is Harry Mack, Ethyl's Central region sales coordinator. ETC 12142 San Wagner (left) welcomes Howard Cuyler, Standard of California. Looking on are Glen Foster and George Randall, also of Standard. Between sessions Bill Hubner (center) talks things over with Dr. W. F. Faragher, of Hcudry Process, and Reid Brazell, Leonard Refineries. Above: Dinner in the diner as Roy Goltz, Julian Frey and Mac Murdock head lor Chicago and the API. Below: Wally Distler perches on the arm of a chair lor a chat with H. W. LaFleur of Sinclair Refining. Above: A1 Basye; L. E. Kincannon and C. O. Anderson, Rock Island Refinery; A. L. Russell and Ralph Booker, Indiana Farm Bureau Coop. Below: Jack Coast, Coast Oil Co., Ethyl's Alan Tully and J. W. Shemwell, Atlas Oil. ETC 12143 About People Dale Daniel, of Baton Rouge,-was elected a vice-president of the Con federated Unions of America at the organization's national convention in New Orleans on October 22. Dale is president of the Co-op Bargaining agency at our Baton Rouge plant. Ed Enoch, of the Advertising depart ment in New York, spoke at a meeting of the Springfield (Mass.) Advertising club on November 9. His talk, titled "Look Before You Leap in Advertis ing and Merchandising," followed a luncheon in the Hotel Sheraton. Five Tulsa Ethylites helped fill the coffers of the Community Chest dur ing the recent fund drive. Charlie Rankin, manager of the Gas Test lab, was captain of a team. Working with him were Hank Ball, safety engineer, Fred Ramin, of the Test Lab, and Larry Reis, account repre sentative. They were the top team in their area, went over their quota 168%. Glenis Dickerson, of the Tulsa office, worked on the Quota club team, which also went over the top in the fund-raising campaign. John Furr, training supervisor at our Baton Rouge plant, spoke at a recent meeting of the North Baton Rouge Lions club. He discussed the two forces behind the rapid development of industrial training. In his talk he told about the conferences now being held at the BR plant (see page 131. Vince Hnizda of Chem Research at the Detroit labs delivered a paper before the Fire Marshals Section of the National Fire Protection Asso ciation at the group's annual con vention in Miami, Florida, on No vember 11. The paper was in two parts, entitled "Petroleum Products and Refining" and "Behavior of Gases and Vapors in Air." Herb Nixon, safety engineer in the Central region, spoke at a naval reserve meeting in Kansas City on November 12. The meeting, held at the naval training center, was at tended by members of volunteer petroleum unit 9-2. John Pauli, Eastern region fleet engineer, turned teacher last month. He was one of the instructors for the third annual short course for motor vehicle maintenance supervisors, that was held at Pennsylvania State Col lege in November. Thom Yates, public relations repre sentative at the Detroit labs, ad dressed public relations students at Detroit Institute of Technology on November 5. Title of the discussion was "Ethyl--A Unique Study in Consumer Relations." Thom was among those who helped plan the new public relations course at DIT. On the Cover: Pictured on the cover are the three daughters of Andy Anderson, of New York Manufacturing, ft is the first Christmas for the twins, Nancy and Mary, whose eight-month birthday is December 20. Big sister Martha is four, will be five next March. The picture was made at their home on Ridge Park Avenue in Stamford, Connecticut. 19 BULLETIN BOARD --DECEMBER < A Tops in touch football--Wearing their victory smile, the Ethyl Chloride team at the Baton Rouge plant poses for a picture. Champions of the National conference, they nosed out the Couey Shift team, American conference champs, in the play-off on October 29. In the front row are Wiley Duke, Robert Brian, W. Landry, Lynwood Morales, R. Phillips and Shorty Yarbrough. Standing are "Cotton" Hill, H. Miron, H. Lockhart, Frank Hill, lames French, and Rauhman Browning. Other team members, not in the picture, are P. Agnew, R. Rodgers and T. Woens. Coming Events (From Jud Biehle, of the Manufac turing department in New York, comes this anecdote about Ben Har rison, which Jud picked up while in Baton Rouge recently.) The business of forecasting received a shot in the arm recently when Ben Harrison neatly added two and two and got 4,000 0 for the answer. After a movie, the Harrisons were about to enter their sedan when they caught a strong odor of gasoline. They traced this to a nearby vehicle, some what past its prime, which was un concernedly filling the gutter with gas, endangering other cars that were parked nearby. "Somebody will sure as . . . (we didn't catch the next word) . . . throw a match into that gasoline," crystalballed Ben to his spouse. "I'm going to move our car right now before I do anything else!" After protecting his own property, Ben phoned the police who promised to ask for a fire truck immediately. As he left the drug store, he noticed that his prescience was batting 1,000. The match had already been tossed, so Ben waited around and watched the firemen, who arrived shortly there after, do their stuff. While there is little likelihood of a new issue of three cent stamps to commemorate the event, it is probable that Gallup and Roper will make Ben attractive propositions by mid-1952. 20 BULLETIN BOARD --DECEMBER ETC 12145 It's no secret-- yet it would take years to duplicate is the most important ingredient in "Ethyl" antiknock compound E 25 is the knowledge that Ethyl has acquired through twenty- five yeurs of service to the petroleum industry. It is the ac cumulated experience of twenty-five years of assisting refiners to get the most from every pound of antiknock fluid pur chased. It is the twenty-five years' work on the "selling line"--helping keep service station personnel, tank wagon drivers, dealers and jobbers up-to-date on modern gasoline and engines. ' ' ' ETHYL CORPORATION ChrytUr Building, New York 17, N. Y. Have you heard about E25? Oil men heard and read about it at the API convention in Chicago last month. The above ad, one oi a series ol four that appeared in the convention issues of the Chicago Journal of Commerce and the Daily Oil News, told them about it. And E25 buttons, which Ethyl men wore, further advertised it, gave a perfect opening to tell our E25 story. Similar buttons are now being distributed to all the men on our sales staff who come in contact with the industry. 21 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER Bob Adams keeps us informed about happenings in San Bernar dino, where he is manager of the Gasoline Testing laboratory. A native of Ohio, Bob was born in Elyria and graduated from Ohio Northern University with a B.S. in chemical engineering. He joined the Company in 1930 as a chemist, at the Yonkers lab, moved to California about 10 years ago. Estelle Caldwell covers ths 35th floor offices in the Chrysler Building, where she helps keep Manufacturing department rec ords straight. Bom in Amsterdam, Holland, Estelle now lives in the Bronx with her husband and 21-year-old son, Bob. Outside interests center around her home and her garden, and she's an ac tive member of the Eastern Star. Glenia Dickerson, of the South Joann ern regional office, keeps the latest i BB posted on events of interest vthe Cfc in Tulsa. Born in Tahlequah, has ch Okla., she went to school there, files. .' was with the Tulsa Chamber of Engla: Commerce before Ethyl. Glenis is little active in the Little Theater, Beta in Ne< Sigma Phi, Nu Phi Mu and the from ' Quota club. Favorite pastime joys ! when not "clubbing" is bridge. out m THEY COMB THE CG Last month you met some of the Bulletin Board correspondents and now another dozen members of the reporting staff make a bow. They collect news in Ethyl's labs and offices, tracking down leads about the interesting ac- tivil of s< cori knc hes Fred Green, who rounds up De troit news, is a lab technician in the Dynamometer section. Before joining the Company he had his own business as an interior deco rator, is still interested in "home alterations and furniture refin ishing." An outdoor man, he likes to hunt and fish, ties his own flies. Fred and his wife have two daughters, Bonnie and Sharon. Wilsoa Hancock covers the Road test garage, fuel house and machine shop at the Detroit labs. A New Jerseyite by birth, he attended Pratt Institute in Brook lyn, joined Ethyl in 1942 follow ing a position with Esso. Married and the father of three children, Bill is a member of the PTA and a Sunday school teacher in Birmingham, a Detroit suburb. Louise Hennessey greets visi Mil tors to the Research labs in De Enc troit. From her desk in the lobby din she watches the comings and was goings, has a box seat for news- wh gathering. Writing is Louise's the hobby. This year she won two bai prizes--a non-fiction award from ^athr the Michigan Conference for th< Writers, and a radio script prize Sc from the Detroit Writers' Forum. tbu Joanna Hude reports all the ! latest news from the 36th floor of the Chrysler Building, where she | has charge of New York's general | files. Ioanna' was born in Diord, . England, came to the States as a little girl and attended schools in New Jersey. A daily commuter j from Woodside, L. I., Joanna en joys sewing and cooking, tries out new recipes on her husband. Pt Kearney/ whose cheery voice answers calls to the Chicago office, reports goings-on from the Central region. A native of the Windy City, Pat is one of 12 chil dren, has seven sisters and four brothers. She joined Ethyl in 1946 after working for two years as a dispatcher for the Pullman Company. On weekends Pat likes to play some tennis or golf. COMPANY FOR NEWS tivities of their associates. Whenever you know of something you think is newsworthy, tell your correspondent. He can't see all, hear all and know all, but if you give him a hand he can see, hear and report more of the things that happen. Bob Mead, account representa tive who headquarters in Los Angeles, acts as correspondent for the Western region. A grad uate of California Tech, he joined Ethyl in 1936, has served as a member of the Clinic crew, a field representative, a truck, bus and tractor engineer. An exArmy captain, he and his wife now live in Manhattan Beach. Milce Remondino covers the Engineering lab in San Bernar dino. A research engineer, Mike was one of the original group who went out from Detroit to start the lab at San Berdu, was brought back to our Motor City labs for a t three-year tour of duty during the war. He is active in the Ethyl Society, SAE and Lions club. Has three sons--Mike, Roger and PauL Dot Rogan keeps her nose for news busy as reporter for the 31st floor offices in New York. Dot joined Ethyl's Finance depart ment nine years ago. A member of the Payroll section, she helps send out those welcome pay checks. A native New Yorker, Dot now lives in Rockaway Beach, L I.--good place for a girl who likes swimming and sunning. Sylvia Stackable covers the Gasoline Testing lab in Tulsa, where she is a secretary. Born in Muskogee, Okla., Sylvia went to school in Mississippi, worked in Alabama and North Carolina be fore moving to Tulsa and Ethyl. She enjoys dancing and music, collects records as a hobby. Most after-Ethyl hours are spent keep ing house for husband Jim. Marching Mary Hughes has changed her name to Kelly. She and Malcolm were mar ried at a nuptial mass at St. Kilian Church in Chicago, where she is secre tary to Jim Boudreau. Pat Kelly (sis ter of the groom) and Pat Kearney, of the Chicago office, were attendants. Herb Peters and Ethel Duffy had a Fall wedding in Buffalo, N. Y., at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. R. C. Troup. The couple motored to the West, are now at home in Beverly Hills. Herb is a fuel technologist. Thomas South, of the Ethyl-Dow plant in Freeport, Tex., married Lucile Kyle on October 16. Following the ceremony at the First Presbyterian Church in Freeport, Lucile and Tom mie left for a wedding trip to Mon terrey, Mexico. Tommie is a welder. Mendelssohn Marion Townsend/ of the Detroit labs, is now Mrs. Herbert Joyce. She and Herb were married on October 2 at the Drayton Avenue Presbyterian Church in Femdale, and toured northern Michigan on their honey moon. Marion is in the Purchasing section at the Research laboratories. Phyllis Wilhelm, of Public Rela tions in Detroit, became Mrs. Clifford Bonenberger on October 9. A wedding breakfast and reception followed the nuptial mass at St. James Church in Femdale. Phyl and Cliff honeymooned in the Pocono Mountains. Calvin Wotrel, of Detroit, and Cecelia Stocker were married on Octo ber 16. The ceremony was performed in St. Mary of Redford Church. Cal is a chemist at Ethyl's laboratories on West Eight Mile Road in Femdale. Mrs. Clifford Bonenberger Mr. end Mrs. Thomas South ETC 12150 26 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER Stork Club The cigars were on Bob Drake when he announced the arrival of a son on October 10. Timothy Alan weighed in at 7 lbs. 10 oz. and received a warm welcome from his sister Donna, four. Bob is on the Chem Research staff at the Detroit labs. It's a boy for Ida and Herb Neal of Detroit. David Richard, tipping the scales at 6 lbs. 8 oz., arrived on October 22. The Neals now have a full house--one pair of daughters, and three sons. Herb is a chemist at the Research labs. Christine Jan Pallay was intro duced to society on October 1 by her parents, Ruth and Andy Pallay. The 8 lb. 2 oz. bundle is their first daughter. She has a brother Gregory, two-and-a-half. Andy is a chemical operator at the Detroit labs. Happy birthday -- Rebecca Sue Kimpton had six candles on her cake on November 5, one for each month. Becky is the daughter oi Pauline and Bob Kimpton, oi East Aurora, N. Y. Bob is a fleet engineer in the Eastern region. Off to the racei--Johnny Schulze poses at the wheel oi the car he built and drove in the San Bernardino soap box derby. Although he didn't win the race, lohnny made a good showing in his class and won a prize. His dad. Bill Schulze, is manager oi Ethyl's engineering laboratory in San Bernardino. One of the "200" Betty Beach, of N. Y. Finance, is now a member of the "200." At the Radio City Bowling Alleys on Novem ber 3 while bowling with other N. Y. Finance department keglers, she won her "200" pin. Bowling ball in hand, Betty stepped up to the line as usual. Strike followed strike, with spares here and there, for a grand total of 211. The management happily welcomed here to the "200" club, gave her a pin shaped like a bowling ball and tenpin. Around the ball are the words "Radio City Bowl ing," and in the center the figures "200." Now she's heading for the next hurdle, hopes it won't be long before she succeeds in breaking 250. 27 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ,., and Ptetue Send the 'Htcue.' It'* as easy as that! When you are ill at home and feel that the services of a visiting nurse will be helpful, simply ask your employer to send her when you report your absence. Or, you may call her direct, or ask your physician to call her for you. Visiting Nurse Service is an added feature of your Group Insurance Plan and is given to you at no additional charge pro vided you live in any of the more than 7,300 communities where this service is maintained. It's for you . . . use it! The nurse who comes to your home when you are sick and in need of nursing care is a graduate, registered nurse, qualified by training and experi ence to give you skilled service. The number of visits she may make depends upon your physician's orders and the circumstances. She can make one visit, if requested, even if you have not called your physician, but she cannot continue visiting unless a doctor is in attendance. Nursing care early in illness will do the most good, so be sure to send for the nurse promptly. Here are a few of the things she can do for you: 28 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER 1. Make you comfortable. 2. Carry out your physician's orders. Or, if you have not called your physician, she will observe your symptoms and advise prompt medical care, if indicated. 3. Teach some member of your family what to do for you be tween visits. 4. Change dressings or give you other special care ordered by your doctor after you come home from the hospital follow ing an operation or other illness. She will visit you before going to a hospital too, if nursing care is needed, although she cannot take care of you while you are in the hospital. 5. Give you friendly counsel which will help you to keep in good condition. 6. Teach you how to control and prevent communicable disease. This valuable service of the visiting nurse is available to you, if you --are insured under the Group Insurance plan. --live in a community where the service is maintained. Other members of your family are not eligible for this service through your Group certificate, but they may, of course, hold Metropolitan policies of their own which carry the nursing privilege. Next time you are sick at home, remember that you may call the visit ing nurse. Her care and advice will keep you comfortable and help you to recover as promptly as possible. - rva Hello/Detroiters r. Douglas Baker ... engineerin-training . . . native of Illinois . . . B.S. in mechanical engineer ing from Purdue University . . . 1st It. with MP's in Japan during the war . . . married and has a five-months-old son, F. Douglas, Jr. Donald Cavanaugh . . . project chemist at the labs . . . born in Detroit, graduated from Wayne University there . . . fourand-a-half years in Army as T sgt. in ETO . . . likes all out door sports, especially softball. Douglas Ewan . . . chemist. . . graduate of Oberlin College . . . three years with AAJ weather service during the war . . . lives in Birmingham with wife Allaine and son Douggie . . . after Ethyl hours is a camera enthusiast, also collects antique firearms. Osborne Fremd . . . another engineer-in-training . . . Purdue University graduate in chemical engineering . . . served as a radioman 2/c on a light air craft carrier in the American and Pacific theaters . . . lives in Detroit with his wife Annette. Edward Rookies . . . Aeronau tical Research technician . . . native Detroiter . . . married and has two daughters, Connie and Karen . . . won a medal for softball pitching in high school . . . interested in anything mechan ical, particularly motorcycles. Louis Wardowsld . . , member of the Maintenance section . . . lives in Royal Oak with his wife and five chil dren -- two sons and three daughters . . . before Ethyl was a painter and decorator . . . angler and gardener in his spare time. Irene Wilhammer . . . back with Ethyl as a steno in Automo tive Research . . . left two years ago when infanticipating... lives in Royal Oak with husband Bill, and daughters Pat and Gwynne . . . after-Ethyl hours are devoted mostly to them . . . active PTA-er. Calvin Worse! . . . chemist . . . graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans, his home town . . . M.S. from Univer sity of Detroit . . . served aboard LCI as a Lt. (j.g.) in the Pacific for more than two years . . . member of the ACS, sports enthusiast. / 1 Shift Key Jack Laubach, Southern region fleet engineer, has a new address. He is now headquartering in Birmingham, Ala., after more' than a year in New Orleans. A graduate of Ethyl's engineers-in-training program, Jack com pleted the course in the summer of 1947. Leii Zars is now looking after the Southern region's fleet interests in New Orleans and vicinity. Also a graduate of the training program, Leif joined Ethyl in May of 1946. From the time of his graduation until his recent transfer to New Orleans, Leif has been located in Birmingham. * Bob Fless Dies We report with sorrow the death of Bob Fless, who was a lab technician at the Gasoline Testing laboratory in Yonkers. He died at his home in New York City on October 28, following a five-months illness. Bom in the Bronx, Bob was grad uated from the College of the City of New York with a B.S. in chemistry. He joined the Company five-and-ahalf years ago. Surviving are his wife, Lillian, twin daughters, Beth-Ann and Rose-Marie, Trances Hunter, secretary at the North Kansas City Test lab, is planning a double celebration this Christmas--double to make up for last year when lire broke out in her apart ment on Christmas Eve destroying all her presents and sending Frances to the hospital overcome with smoke. First question when she regained consciousness was, "Where are my presents? Didn't you save any of them?" Unfortunately, the answer was no, and Frances had to content herself with memories of the tinselled wrappings. This year she's plan ning to visit relatives on Christmas and take a fire extinguisher along with her. his mother and three sisters. We at Ethyl extend to all the members of his family our sincerest sympathy. Bulletin Board Correspondents Baton Rouge: Roslyn Arbour, Douglas S. Price, J. T. Stephenson (photographer); Chicago: Patricia Kearney; Dallas: Ann Selfridge; Dayton: Ruth Baker; Detroit: Stephanie Ciul, Margaret Dullinger, Sue Gendemalik, Fred Green, Wilson Hancock, Louise Hennessey, Robert O'Meara, Alyce Peterson (photographer); Houston: Kathleen Finen; Kansas City: Blanche Ash; Los Angeles: Robert R. Mead; Mexico-Central America: Lynn Phillips; New York: Estelle Caldwell, Yvonne Guertin, Wilma Hansa, Joanna Hude, Barbara Kelly, Dorothy Rogan, Edith Wilson; North Kansas City: N. Irving Fay; San Bernardino: Bob Adams, Michael Remondino; Tulsa: Glenis Dick erson, Sylvia Stackable; Yonkers: Catherine Foster; Central: C. E. Bruhl: Ethyl-Dow: Viola Wells. 30 BULLETIN BOARD--DECEMBER ETC 12155 ETHYL BULLETIN BOARD by and for Ethyl employes Pubiiahed by the Ethyl Corporation, 405 Lexington Avenue, Sew York, Sew York; Edward L. Shea, President; Stanley T. Crossland, Vice-president and Treasurer: Richard Af. Page. Secretary. Marceline Marquis, Editor Keeping Christmas i is a good thing to observe Christ mas day. The mere marking of times and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom. It helps one to feel the supremacy of the com mon life over the individual life. It reminds a man to set his own little watch, now and then, by the clock of humanity which runs on sun time. But there is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground; to see that your fellowmen are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to own that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness--are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the desires of little children; to remember the weak ness and loneliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask your self whether you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear in their hearts; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you; to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open--are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas. Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world-- stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death--and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas. And if you keep it for a day, why not always? But you can never keep it alone. Reprint'd from THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS by Henry ven Dyke; copyright 1901 by Chmrlee Scribners' Sons. 1933 by Ellen Reid van Dyke; used by permission of the publishers. Printed in U.S.A.