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w KIR RELEASK April 24, 1957 Lead Industries Association 60 East 42nd Street New lor* 17, N. T. 0 0 Her* than 100 executive* of load mining, smelting, refining and manu facturing companies ara gatharlng at tha Draka Hotel, Chicago, today for tha annual meeting of tha Load Industries Association. In addition to tha regular business of sleeting directors and hearing various committee reports, they will hear a number of experts in their respective fields talk about the outlook for a number of Important lead products. The Association's president, Andrew Fletcher, president of the lit. Joseph Lead Co., will preside at the opening session and Kenneth C. Brownell, president of the American Smelting & Refining Co., at the afternoon session. Dr. D. P. Barnard, research coordinator of tha Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) will present the petroleum Industry's views on ths future for tetraethyl lead anti-knock compound used in practically all gasoline today. Dr. Alex Stewart, director of research, and Hugo Rattl, head of new product development, both of the National Lead Co., will review the place of other rhecdcal compound* of lead In Industry. Roger H. Cutting, vice president. The Bunker Hill Co., will outline tha use of lead in building and chemical construction. Tha outlook for lead in atorag* battalias, lead's largest single us#, will ba discussed by B. B. Steiner, president of ths Association of American Battery Manufacturers, whils lead cable sheathing, third largest us# of lesd, will b* handled by C. C. Sheckford, chief engineer of the Electrical Wire Division of John A. Roebllng's Son* Co. TV) smaller but rapidly growing applications of leed, its employment to combat atomic radiation and lta use in carasdna, will ba covered by Dr. Charlee E. Crompton, associate technical director, National Lead (More) isp i,a 't** ' mw "'WIU*. uBPWimujii.w^- L t A214 3 2 ,- - ft .Ilt.i-.iirt. Press Release -2- April 24, 1957 Co. of Ohio, and Prof. R. 1. Cook, University of Illinois, respectively. Industrial medical problem# oi *he industry will be the subject of talk by Or. William E. George, chief nodical officer of Consolidated Zino Proprietary, Ltd., of Australia, On the following looming the Lead Industries Association will meet v" jointly with the American Zino Institute to hear three papers on world produc tion and consumption and the market outlook for the two metals. They will be presented by R. H. Mote of the 0. 3. Bureau of Mines} R. Hendricks, rice presi dent of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of Canada, Ltd.j and Ur. Joseph Zinnaraan, editor-in-chief of the Dally Metal Reporter. (an>) 1= t r-