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merit jobs offered them in 1958, com­pared to 12' f in 1956. Job acceptance by engineers in these grades rose to •59'' last year, also up from 12 rr in 1956. Shortages remain mostly in highly specialized technical jobs, ac­cording to CSC .—for exainpit-. those concerned with space problems.

But to ensure a flow of young scien­tists into government research. CSC is retaining a premium of four grade steps for new recruits. This gives them $400 to $500 a year more than re­cruits of the same grade get for other types of jobs. Before the recession cut down industry hiring. CSC was forced to pay scientists and engineers top-of-grade rates—sometimes double the present premiums.

N . J. Oganovic, director of CSC's Bureau of Depar tmental Operations,

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A HE Civil Service Commission sees no need to up the premium it pays for government scientists and engineers at this time. Incentives added by Con­gress last year to bring federal salaries and career benefits in line with indus­try's have improved the government hiring position, the commission su. vs. So has the recession.

CSC now reports an ample number of technologists in most fields show in­terest in federal jobs. And agencies say more scientists and engineers accept their job offers. Physical scientists, grades 9 and 11, took 45r,i- of govern-

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cites reasons besicles the recession for improved government recruiting. The publicity program conducted during CSO'S Diamond Anniversary, he says, displayed a few real drawing cards for federal employment. It stressed integ­rity of scientific research, challenging problems, and the* modern facilities available to creative scientists. Agen­cies also helped the caus^. Oganovic adds, through personalized recruiting, better use of scientists on the job, ami new training programs.

if the favorable trend toward govern­ment emploxment continues, Oganovic believes, federal agencies will get their fair share of scientific talent this year. He expects a new CSC scientist exam, emphasizing research potential, to at­tract qualified people to careers leading to high-level R&D jobs.

Freezing Converts Brine

By this summer, a pilot plant to con­vert salt water to fresh water hy a di-rect-freeze process will be completed at Syracuse, Ν. Υ. Departnx-ent of t h e In­terior has awarded Carrier Corp. a $150,000 contract to build the plant, which is designed to yield 15,000 gal­lons of fresh water a day.

Carrier is basing the plant on a proc­ess it developed under an earlier con­tract. Interior says it's the first freez­ing process developed under the Saline Water Conversion Program to reach this advanced stage of development. If the process is successful on a pilot scale, the department will consider us­ing it in a full-size demonstration plant with a capacity of several hundred thousand to a million gallons per day.

Briefly, the process works like this: A small amount of water is evaporated in a partial vacuum. This removes enough heat at low temperature to turn the remaining water into slush. The mixture is then pumped to a flotation separation chamber, where the ice crystals are washed free of t rapped brine. This last step, long a stumbling block in adapting freezing as a method of salt water conversion, is wha t makes Carrier's process successful.

After preliminary testing a t Syracuse, the Office of Saline Wiater expects to move the pilot plant to a seacoast site for experimental operation. Carrier is pushing to complete trie entire pilot plant test program within 18 months, Β

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I&EC to Have International Edition

Beginning in July 1959 the American Chemical Society will publis.li an inter­national edition of Industrial ami Engi­neering Chemistry. The new pufelica-tv.ii will be called / EC—International.

Circulation will consist of well over 8000 subscriptions among chemical process companies; technical, admini­strative, production, and research man­agement; and chemists and chemical engineers.

Both the domestic and international editions of Industrial and - ngine'ering Chemistry will continue to serve the same fields of design, development, research, plant operations, &ηά market­ing. Content of technical articles will be identical in both editions. Certain features of particular interest to foreign, subscribers will lie a d (led to the international edition. Circulation of the domestic edition will be well over 22,000.

Down through the years t h e Society's publication program has always been concerned with serving readers* needs in the most effective way. It l^as al­ways been alert to changing condi­tions affecting the work o f chemists, chemical engineers, and chemically trained executives. It is £elt tfcie two editions will in many ways provide possibilities for improving the services performed by l&E'C.

Briefs · · . • L. O. F. Glass Fibers' stockholders approve sale of the company to Johns-Manvi l l e (C&EN\ Oct. 13, 195S, page 2 4 ) . Properties and assets will g o to Johns-Manvi l le Fiber G l a s s , Inc·̂ which will he incorporated in Delaware as a wholly owned subsidiary (and tenth operating division) of Johns-M ar.ville.

• U. S» Borax & Chemical boosted sales 4r/f to $53.1 million during its fiscal year ended last Sept. 30. but earnings fell to $2.4 million (41 cents a share) from $5.5 million ($1.15 a share ) in fiscal 1957. Sales of boron products were higher, the company sa\s . but potash volume was down and competi­tive conditions pushed prices lower. Reduced earnings resulted from startup difficulties and expenses a t new plants at Boron, Calif., higher depreciation

charges, and lower income from potash operations.

• Standard Oil (Ν. J.) is planning to spend $1 billion—the same amount it spent last year—on capital expenditures. Summing up the 1959 outlook, board chairman Eugene Holman notes, "The prospect of an increase in U. S. demand for petroleum, together with a rising demand in other Free World areas, makes the near future outlook for de­mand more optimistic* than at this time last \ ear."

• St. Paul Ammonia Products is offer­ing 250,000 shares of common stock at •S2.50 each to holders of stock now out­standing. It will use the money it is raising to help pay for new construc­tion and improvements.

• Goodyear Tire & Rubber, looking iorward to a prosperous year, is plan­ning a capital expenditure of $70 mil­lion in 1959. The company has re­called 609f of the workers laid off dur­ing 1958, says inventories of raw ma­terials and finished goods have reached their low point and are rising.

New Facilities » · · • SunOlin will build a urea plant at North Claymont, Del., using a Fauser-Montecatini process. M. W. Kellogg will engineer and construct the plant with technical assistance from the Italian firm. Capacity will be 73,000 short tons a year of prills and crystals.

• Monsanto Chemical completes an ex­pansion that lips phthalate ester ca­pacity at Everett, Mass., by 25 r 4. Plant's capacity for the plasticizer is now three times what it was in 1953, says Monsanto.

r Naiionaî Gypsum is planning to build a multi-million dollar plant at Lorain, Ohio, to produce wallboard, piaster, and other products. Construction will start this spring.

• Atlas Powder is building a $500,000 lab at its Darco Experimental Labora­tory near Marshall, Tex., to expand re­search on activated carbons. Yates Construction is general contractor.

• Leberco Laboratories, Roseîle Park, Ν. J., ;s expanding facilities for pharma­cological and toxicological studies in drugs, foods, and cosmetics.