W h i l e r e a d i n g t h e Sohio News, d o you ever think what you would do about the pictures, the younger set, the news stories, the editorials, or t h e c a r t o o n s if you were editor?

Yes, that 's right. If you were edi-tor, what would you do to improve t he News?

We're not asking for bouquets, but we are asking for brickbats. Will you write them down and send them

in to us today. Tell us what changes you would make. Your letters need not be fancy. There are no age lim-its, no restrictions, no word limit. We want to hear from Mom, Pop, and the teenagers. This is everybody's chance to tell what you'd print in your company newspaper.

We're accustomed to receiving and using suggestions from readers. You have given us some of our best story

tips. We've had many good ideas from you, but we'd like more.

If you were in the editor's chair, what changes would you make? Would you want more, or less, Quar ter Cen-tury Club news? What do you like on page one? What kind of assign-ments would you hand out to the reporters? We want your comments on any and everything. This is your newspaper. What do you think of it?

We'll publish the best letters, and they won't necessarily be complimen-tary. Write now to the Editor, the Sohio News, 1823-N Midland Build-ing, Cleveland, Ohio. Just begin by saying, If I were editor, I would . . .

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Th i s week is the second = nation-wide observance of | Oil Progress Week. 5 From October 15 through | 21, local oil groups through -i out the United States are i cont inuing their policy of I making detailed reports to 5 customers and fellow towns-| men on the contributions I they and their industry i make to nat ional defense I and to the comfort and 5 prosperity of 150 million 1 Americans. f | Oil Progress Week this § year is keyed to the pros-| pects for better living with 3 increased use of machinery I lubricated and l a r g e l y = powered by petroleum. Its I general theme is "Your I Progress and Oil Progress | Go Hand in Hand." I Th is year is especially 5 significant to Sohioans in | that it is also the 80th an-il nivcrsary of the company. § Sohio has long made a | point of report ing its ac-g tivities to the communities § in which it lives and does f business. It is again follow-= ing through on the indus-| try campaign this year with 5 special shows, advertising. 1 displays, etc. | Are you, as a Sohio em-1 ployee, backing u p your I company and i n d u s t r y g action? I You arc the most in Hu-ll ential messengers the § dustry has. | Speak up! Tell y o u r | c neighbors and f r i e n d s § 1 about your work, your com- I | pany, not just this week, 5 | but every week. Eiiiiiiiiimiiiinimiiaiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiitiiii

Two Injured When Explosion Strikes Holiday Boat Ride

By G. E. T I L L E Y

H O U S T O N - T a k i n g the chil-dren for a boat ride on Labor Day almost turned into a major tragedy for two families at this Sohio Petroleum Company.

Seriously burned when their boat, a 25-foot gasoline pow-ered cabin runabout , exploded near Seabrook docks were Mrs. Thomas A. Bowles, Jr., and Mrs. Roy F. Bennett, Sr.

Borrowed Boat Mr. Bennett is chief geophysi-

cist at the Houston office and Mr. Bowles is superintendent of Land for Sohio, with offices in Houston.

Mr. Bowles explained that the boat was borrowed from R. D. Roberts, geophysical field super-visor, so that Roy, Jr., 14, his sister, Anne, 15, and Thomas III, 11, could have a ride.

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5 VOL. 4 OCTOBER 1950 No. 10

Sohio Teamwork Enables Board to Grant 6% Increase

Effective with the first pay period in October, all Sohio em-ployees earning less than $10,000 annually, except those covered by collective bargaining agree-ments w h i c h require negotia-tions, were granted a 6 per cent increase in pay.

Sohio directors were faced with many complex factors while de-termining this new wage in-crease, it was explained, but So-hio management has long recog-nized that the unstable economics of today and the fluctuations in the availability of national man-power have created many per-sonal as well as company prob-lems. This increase, which the productive teamwork of Sohio-ans everywhere has helped make possible, is an effort to help meet some of these problems.

Set Safety Record At Latonia Refinery

Setting an all-time record at the Latonia Refinery, Sohioans here on September 12 concluded 1000 days worked without a lost-time accident. They were still going strong, pyramiding their own safety record, as the Sohio News neared its press schedule this month .

Highest Record Highest record in Sohio safety

history was established at No. T w o Refinery from 1933 to 1937 when No. Two's men worked four years and one day without a lost-time accident.

Contract Let For New Crude Units at No- One

CLEVELAND—Const ruc t ion of two new cruclc distilla-tion units at No. One Refinery will begin early in 1951, ac-cording to a recent announcement by E. B. McConnell, vice president in charge of Manufacturing.

To cost five and one-half ntil-

Seventh in Roadeo N E W Y O R K - C a n t o n ' s Vernon

D. Swan. Ohio State champion truck driver, who represented Sohio at the American Truck ing A s s o c i a t i o n Truck Roadeo here, placed s e v e n t h in the tandem-axle class in national competit ion.

Laud Sahsoans for Help at Ashland 05! Company Fire

By W I L L M O R A N C O V I N G T O N , K y . - T h i r t y -

five employees at Latonia Re-finery were lauded for t h e i r assistance in put t ing out a raging fire, followed by four explosions and causing more than $10,000 damage at the Ashland Oil and Refining Company September 16.

A large petroleum storage tank and one of the company's load-

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To Build Waste Water Separator Construction of a $350,000 waste water separator at Lima Re-

finery was begun this month by Arthur G. McKee Company. An anti-pollution unit , the separator cleanses Lima Refinery's waste waters before they are discharged into the Ottawa River here, and practically eliminates any possible contamination from refinery waste waters.

Water entering the separator is gathered from various refin-ery operations, tank drainage, equipment clean out, and proc-ess operations, all of which un-avoidably add some oil to the w a t e r in use. Manufacturing Depar tment engineers estimate that an average of 700 barrels of skim oil will be recovered per day for reprocessing.

lion dollars, the new p l a n t , which will replace 16 existing shell stills, will be capable of processing 22.500 barrels of crude oil per day per unit, or a total daily capacity of 45,000 barrels.

Better Products

Better quality products will be produced more efficiently and economically and with greater safety as a result of the modern design of the new pipe still units.

Contract to Mckee

Construction of the new plant will enable No. One Refinery to produce 10 per cent more civilian and military products such as jet fuel, high octane gasoline, diesel fuel, and asphalt.

Contract for the units was let to Arthur G. McKee Company of Cleveland.

T.C.C. Plant

Approximately 65 per cent finished, a new thermofor cat cracking plant is also being built at No. One Refinery as part of Sohio's modernization program. About 450 men are now working on this plant being built by the Bechtel Corpora-tion. It is scheduled for com-pletion in mid-December* 1950.

Personal Viewpoints

Wil l There Be a Wor ld W a r III? Please turn to page 8. column 1. to read complete statements on war possibilities by these Lithograph Can Factory respondents.

T o Include

T h e waste water separator in-cludes a concrete separator box, consisting of one primary and three secondary chambers, a re-covered oil pump and pump-house, a sludge pumphouse, two sludge ponds, two 2,100-barrel recovered oil tanks, and all nec-essary piping and sewers.

By March, 1951

Completion is scheduled for March, 1951. Robert Skamser, Technical Service, was process design engineer for the unit , and Donald MacDonald, Gen-eral Engineering, served as proj-ect engineer.

Personnel

E . O . Wallace Appoints J. P . Speer Supervisor Industrial Relations

James P. Speer, formerly as-sistant supervisor of Industrial Relations, Production D e p a r t ment, with headquarters at Okla-homa City, has been appointed supervisor to replace John T . Reynolds who resigned.

Earl D. Wallace, vice presi-dent in charge of Production, announced the appointment ef-fective October I.

A native of Comanche, Okla-homa, where he was born in 1917, Mr. Speer c a m e to Sohio a t t h e s t a r t of our G u a t e -malan o p e r a -tions with a wide a n d varied ex-perience in in-ternational rela-tions.

A 1941 gradu-ate of George Washington Uni-versity which he a t t e n d e d evenings while employed in the State Depar tment at Washing-ton, D. C., Mr. Speers was later in charge of certain State De-partment activities in Chile. Dur-ing 1943 he was in New Delhi, India, as secretary of the Diplo-

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J. 1*. Speer

No—Joe Kopac

Yes—George Dorko

Yes—William Schieff

Yes—Clarence Rice

Office and Lab Building Finished at Lima Refinery

A new office and laboratory building at Lima Refinery was completed early this month at a cost of S325.000.

T h e light tan brick building is located at the Metcalf Street gateway and is "L" shaped. T o house administrative and tech-nical personnel, one wing, two stories high, serves as an office building. T h e other wing, one story high, contains a chemical control laboratory.

Built by H. K. Ferguson and Co., the sections of the building are connected through a com-mon entranceway. Immediately above this entrance a penthouse, or small third floor, houses the

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Sales Policies Win National Publicity I n Business Week

Sohioans everywhere, a n d es-pecially sales personnel , can well he p r o u d of the fo l lowing quotes . T h e y were taken f r o m Business Week magazine of August 12, which gave na t iona l publ ici ty to Sohio's sales policies in a fea-ture art icle devoted to Sohio marke t ing . W r i t i n g a b o u t Sohio, Business Week said:

"Sel l ing itself as an O h i o in-s t i tu t ion helps Sohio sell more gas than any o t h e r company in the s tate ."

"Personal service to all its cus-tomers, big a n d small, helps p u t Sohio ou t in f r o n t of the com-pe t i t i on . "

Sohio Again Says You Start or We Pay T h i r t e e n years old this season,

Sohio's pledge. "You Start — or W e Pay" is again be ing m a d e to O h i o motorists .

G u a r a n t e e d Star t ing, an ex-clusive Sohio service, has proved its popular i ty . O n e state-wide survey showed more O h i o mo-torists knew abou t G u a r a n t e e d Star t ing than anv o the r change-over. Ano the r state-wide survey of G / S customers revealed that 96 pe r cent asked that Sohio repeat its G / S p rogram.

Except for the war years, when G / S was suspended , each year has seen a t r emendous in-crease in G / S sales. Last year Sohio dealers a n d stat ions did by far the biggest business in

G / S history with an increase of 20 per cent over the year before .

T h e w r i t t e n guaran tees against the hazards of win te r are avai lable at any Sohio s ta t ion. T h e r e is no extra charge. All a motor is t needs to do to receive his gua ran t ee is to winterize with: 1. any Sohio winter-grade moto r oil 2. Sohio winter-grade gear lubr icants in d i f ferent ia l a n d transmission 3. have his bat tery checked at 1.250 — ful l win te r s t rength 4. use winter-g rade Sohio X - T a n c or Sohio Supreme gasoline. H e will then be g ran ted a G u a r a n t e e d Start-ing certificate immediately—and Sohio will pay his garage start-

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"(Sohio is) an a l l -around good ne ighbor to O h i o motorists."

"Sohio has to push constant ly o n all f ronts to keep its posi t ion as Ohio ' s No . 1 oil company . T h o u g h S o h i o accounted for more t h a n one- th i rd of the nearly two bil l ion gal lons of gasoline sold in O h i o last year, it had compet i t ion f rom 17 o the r oil companies . "

"Sohio doesn ' t hams t r ing its dealers by hewing to a ha rd a n d fast price. (It is) fast on its feet to meet price compe t i t i on . "

"Sohio never slackens its efforts to keep old f r i ends a n d make new ones. (It) pu t s as much en thus iasm beh ind a small com-muni ty ' s home-coming as it does in he lp ing the Cleve land Cham-ber of Commerce stage a n d back the Na t iona l Air Races."

Elect Q.C. Officers At N o . T w o Refinery the fol-

lowing men were elected to head the Q u a r t e r Cen tu ry C l u b un i t for the coming year: Wi l l i am Killey, cha i rman : Ar thu r Butler , vice cha i rman ; J o h n Esson, sec-retary; a n d Fred Wr igh t , treas-urer .

50 YEARS William M. Faist Annuitant

45 YEARS Chauncy G. Nida Annuitant

40 YEARS Fred R. Jaynes Home Office

35 YEARS Clarence DuVall Annuitant John J. Evans Annuitant Roy H. Goetz Home Office Harry O. King Annuitant Newell S. Lloyd Annuitant George I. Reichelderfer Annuitant William F. Schanzlin . Annuitant Maurice A. Snider Lima Refinery Samuel G. Straker Lima Refinery

30 YEARS Ellis C. Blessing Columbus Division Claude E. Brown Toledo Refinery Frank E. Buchele Toledo Refinery Ray D. Hershman Toledo Division Ramona S. Manne Home Office Vernon B. McCall Columbus Division Cecil J. McClary Zanesville Division Joseph L. Papajcik No. 2 Refinery Arvid F. Randau No. 1 Refinery Daniel P. Rolinson Annuitant Joseph Rucky No. 1 Refinery Charles A. Schmidt Toledo Refinery Hezzie N. Ward Toledo Division

25 YEARS Alvin W. Ballash Home Office Arthur W. Butler No. 2 Refinery Edward H. Schaefer Home Office Adam Zentkovich No. 2 Refinery

20 YEARS Edwin L. Arnold, Jr Home Office Thomas R. Deering Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Edward G. Fulton No. 1 Refinery Harold R. Gould Mansfield Division William Hadden No. 1 Refinery Stanley J. Kirchner Cleveland Division George A. Mansfield Toledo Division Frederick A. Myers Canton Division Oswald Price No. 1 Refinery James M. Reilly Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Charles R. Scott No. 1 Refinery William J. Tuccinardi Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery)

THE SOHIO NEWS Published monthly by and for the employees of The Standard Oil Company of Ohio, to whom it is distributed free of charge. Address all news items, corre-spondence and exchange to the Editor, The Standard Oil Company, Cleveland, 0.

FRANCES KENNEY Editor

F. M. PAULSON Associate Editor ANN N E U B A U E R — J U N E EPPINK Assistant Editors

EARL J . NEFF Staff Artist JOHN TRAUGER Staff Photographer

U N I T N E W S R E P O R T E R S AKRON DIVISION Marga re t Sullivan CANTON DIVISION Ellis Kile CINCINNATI DIVISION Mi ldred Wend t CLEVELAND DIVISION Glen Pinkerton COLUMBUS DIVISION Olga Sylvester DAYTON DIVISION Virginia Kelley LIMA DIVISION Ka th ryn Kunk leman MANSFIELD DIVISION Helen Drushal MARION DIVISION Betty Anderson PORTSMOUTH DIVISION J o a n Collins TOLEDO DIVISION F. E. Gipson YOUNGSTOWN DIVISION W. I. Smith, J r . ZANESVILLE DIVISION F. T . Lemon LITHOGRAPH C A N FACTORY Philip L. Garvin SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Latonia Refinery W. L. Moran LIMA REFINERY R. K . J e w e l l and Irwin Wauben No. 1 REFINERY Will iam Smith and Joseph Pinos No . 2 REFINERY Agnes Masek TOLEDO REFINERY Frederick E. Gressler SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Houston District G. E. Tilley SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Shreveport District R u t h Howell SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Oklahoma City District Peggy Dut ton SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Kansas District Louise Tisdale SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Evansvil le District Marcel la Borden SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Kentucky District Mar jor ie Greenwell SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Abilene District Dolores Gregg SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Rocky Mounta in District Dorothea Knepper SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—South Louisiana District. Willa M a e R iedlinger SOHIO PETROLEUM CO .—Regina, C a n a d a B. M . Abbot t SOHIO PIPE LINE CO.—St. Louis Office J a n e Steis SOHIO PIPE LINE CO .—Eastern Division Harr ie t Craven SOHIO PIPE LINE CO .—Grayville Division R. J . Hagedorn SOHIO PIPE LINE CO .—Mt. Vernon Division Walter Bertram SOHIO SOUTHERN PIPELINES, INC Jewell A. Nolan PRODUCTS PIPE LINE *. Ka th ryn Kelly SOHTO-FLEETWING, INC Alyce Boltach SALES ACCOUNTING OFFICE Vanessa D. Griffin

Military Bonus Policy Amplified Appl ica t ion forms for Sohio's

newly created mil i tary bonus a re be ing p r in t ed for d i s t r ibu t ion to all depa r tmen t s .

Incomple te in t e rp re t a t ion in the September Sohio News arti-cle on Sohio's new mil i tary policy a p p a r e n t l y left some r e a d e r s confused on eligibili ty regula-t ions for the mil i tary service bonus .

A mil i tary bonus equal to one

mon th ' s pay will be pa id to a r egu la r employee who can sat-isfy three r equ i remen t s :

1. H e mus t have one year or more of service at the t ime of ent ry in to the Armed Forces.

2. H e must have been on the payroll J u n e 25, 1950.

3. H e mus t submi t satisfactory evidence of his en t ry in to mili-tary service.

Fred R. Tuttle No. 1 Refinery John Weghorn Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery)

15 YEARS Alphonse A. Kisiel Lithograph Can Factory Albert C. Vieweg Home Office

10 YEARS Frank C. Berger Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Marvin Butz Columbus Division Cecil H. Carter Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Raymond M. Cayton Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Jerry Cimler No. 2 Refinery Paul W. Dietzel . . . . Youngstown Division George A. Dorko Lithograph Can Factory Rees G. Emerick Youngstown Division Vincent P. Finn Home Office Alfred E. Schild, Jr Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Harry J. Sprekelmeyer. Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Alice M. Starr Home Office Mike J. Vargo No. 1 Refinery John M. Waters Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) George M. Wootten Home Office

5 YEARS Jack F. Albury Canton Division Frank Anders No. 2 Refinery Dutton J. Ashcraft Home Office John T. Bassett Akron Division Howard C. Beck Akron Division George D. Bennett . . . Youngstown Division

Joseph J. Benyo Home Office William L. Bernritter, Jr . Toledo Division George Bludges Cleveland Division William J. Burress Cleveland Division Paul H. Carr Toledo Division Myrl F. Carter Sohio Petroleum Co. Robert C. Clabaugh No. 1 Refinery Frank J. Czajkowski No. 2 Refinery Dow J. Daken Cincinnati Division Ernest C. Day Sohio Petroleum Co. Roger O. Dodge Lima Refinery Wilson W. Drennan Toledo Division Daniel J. Drozen Youngstown Division Garfield R. Easter Cincinnati Division Wilbur B. Eshleman Akron Division Donald C. Fellhauer Toledo Division Cecil Fielders Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Orville E. Fleece Cleveland Division Robert J. Ford Home Office James R. Froman Cincinnati Division William F. Gannon Sohio Pipe Line Co. James M. Gibson Sohio Petroleum Co. Warren F. Gossard Akron Division Virginia L. Hartzke Sohio Pipe Line Co. Ambrose P. Herron Cleveland Division Melvin E. Hockman Columbus Division Rudie A. Hostetler Canton Division Norman W. Ish Home Office Henry F. Jablonski Cleveland Division John P. Jones Home Office Fred E. Kendall Cincinnati Division Mary J. Kleeman Home Office Joseph E. Klueger Home Office Joseph A. Korczynski, Jr Toledo Division Florence R. Kruggel No. 1 Refinery Edward J. Latos No. 2 Refinery Charles W. Leming Lima Refinery Walter W. Luhrs Toledo Division

Joseph J. Makasky Cleveland Division Michael A. Marnecheck No. 1 Refinery Harold A. Martin Cincinnati Division Francis L. Martz Toledo Division Russell E. Massie Cincinnati Division Charles E. May No. 1 Refinery Robert L. McCormick Sohio Petroleum Co. Edward F. McNay Cincinnati Division Paul M. Miller, Jr No. 1 Refinery Mary K. O'Brien Home Office Thomas F. Paranish Akron Division Arthur J. Pelander Home Office Carl C. Perry Lima Refinery Robert W. Pfeiffer Marion Division Charles V. Proctor Home Office Herman J. Reinecke, Jr. Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Margaret L. Ring Home Office Floyd R. Rodehaver Akron Division George Rodusky No. 1 Refinery Joseph H. Rudischum Home Office Josephine Rupnik Sohio Petroleum Co. Samuel V. Sanders Sohio Pipe Line Co. Charles C. Sanford . Cleveland Division Harold L. Sargent Home Office Frank G. Schulz Cincinnati Division Marjorie C. Schwartz Home Office William P. Shontz Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) Joseph Sienczak No. 2 Refinery Edward A. Skuza Cleveland Division Frank H. Sliter No. 1 Refinery Kenneth C. Smith Youngstown Division Leslie T. Snyder Mansfield Division Ralph A. Snyder Toledo Division Joseph A. Solek No. 1 Refinery John W. Spalding Cleveland Division Jean W. Sparnon Home Office Leonard B. Stubleski Toledo Division Charles J. Thein Akron Division David A. Thomas Home Office Atlee D. Tidball Canton Division Eleanore V. Tomkalski Home Office Russell A. Trump Dayton Division. John M. Tucker Sohio Petroleum Co. John A. Twarry Cleveland Division Frank J. Vlasak Cleveland Division Howard M. Williams, Jr Cleveland Division Glen H. Wilson Youngstown Division Ralph E. Wilson Portsmouth Division Donald E. Winkler . . Portsmouth Division Alvin E. Wiseman Columbus Division Alfred K. Wright Lima Division Edwin K. Wright Home Office John M. Yates Cincinnati Division Ruth Zuback Home Office

Obituaries Little but Plucky Joel Muckaby Join Armed Forces Death Overtakes F j n d s W a y t o C o m b a t Misfortune Four Sohioans

Services for Edward J. Dehler, a clerk at No. One Refinery, were conducted September 14 at St. Peter's Church.

Mr. Dehler, who was born in Cleveland 48 years ago, died

September 11 of a stroke at his home, 1594 East 26th Street.

He joined So-hio S e p t e m b e r 26, 1916, as a messenger b o y , shortly after fin-ishing his studies at the old Cen-

tral High School. At the time of his death he was in charge of tank car shipments at No. One Refinery.

His survivors include three brothers, Joseph J., C. G.. and Robert J., and two sisters, Dor-othy and Louise.

E. J. Dehler

John E. Shawd John E. S h a w d , Columbus

Hulk Station clerk, who was 31 years of age. died on September 17 after a short illness.

Employed by Sohio on May 1. 1940, he first worked in the Service Station Department. Later he served as truck driver and had advanced to bulk station clerk at the time of his death.

Anxious to better his position, John had been at tending eve-ning classes in accounting. Be-sides his studies he was interested in all sports and had played basketball on the Rec Club's team. He was also very inter-ested in aeronautics. Often on Sunday afternoon he would take his two sons, John, Jr., and Tommy out to the local airport to see and study the planes.

A veteran of World War II, he was in the Air Force Reserve.

Surviving him, besides his two sons, is his wife, Roberta.

John A. Hunt A Cleveland Division annui-

t a n t , John A. Hunt , died on September 5 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Employed in December, 1924, as a service station operator in Cleveland, Jack H u n t worked at various stations. As an operator Jack was very popular. Because of his especially skillful lubri-cation technique, he built up a large following of fai thful cus-tomers.

In 1943, he became a watch-man at the Broadway Bulk Plant where he remained until he was pensioned on January 1, 1947.

His ret irement years have been spent in Colorado, living with his two s i s t e r s , Dorothy and Lydia Rodruan, who survive him.

Joel shows one of the hot pads he's just finished to Gay and Bob Shick, children of R. L. Shirk, Evansville District engineer.

By MARCELLA BORDEN

EVANSVILLE, Ind iana—Li t t l e Joel Huckaby, seven-year-old son of Joe Huckaby, district clerk at the Sohio Petroleum Company here, knows how to turn the tables on misfortune.

Joel, who's been sick with nu-phrosis for many months, caught on quickly when the Grey Ladies taught him how to weave dur-ing a recent hospital stay.

In no time at all he'd made several hot pads, using a small weaving frame and scraps of colorful jersey. These he gave to his mother, and then he started thinking. Why not make one for the nurse in his doc-tor's office?

He did. and a few days after she received his present, the nurse phoned. T h e hot pad had made a hit with several friends. Could they order some?

"Now," says Joel, and you should see that smile, "I'm in business. I'm not only having fun, but I'm earning spending money!"

Elect Q.C. Officers At a meeting of the Cincin-

nati-Latonia Q u a r t e r Century Club Unit September 22 Frank LeFort was elected chairman; Frank Sprengard, vice chairman; Robert Milligan. secretary; and Edward Ahlers, treasurer.

All the men, with the excep-tion of Mr. LeFort who is a Latonia Refinery employee, arc Cincinnati Division Sohioans.

Laud Sohioans for Help at Ashland 011 Company Blaze (Continued from Page 1, Col. 3)

ing barges on the Licking River were destroyed by the blaze, which kept the fire fighters busy for more than four hours.

"The Sohio men and their equipment aided greatly in put-ting out the fire," said Thomas McCracken, m a n a g e r of Ash-land's marine terminal here. "They worked alongside of our own employees and city firemen and all of them deserve a world of credit."

Ray Elo, acting superintend-ent at Latonia Refinery, said that approximately 35 Sohioans, 12 from the plant and nearly two dozen off-duty men, volun-teered to go to the aid of their stricken competitor.

All who responded gave a good account of their training in fighting refinery fires, effi-ciently battl ing the blaze in the face of a driving rain, burning gasoline, flying debris, and the danger of more explosions.

T h e fire, which raged in a 42-foot tank and sent giant clouds of smoke billowing into the air, apparently started while two Ashland men were piping gaso-line from one storage tank into another. T h e cause of the blaze has not yet been deter-mined.

It was finally brought under control after the Latonia Re-finery men erected a t o w e r which permitted the crew to di-rect Foamite onto the flames.

T h e Sohio men were directed by Charles Bach, safety engi-neer: Herbert Doolin. l a b o r foreman; Jack Rover, personnel director: and Ralph Baum. shift foreman.

Organizes Company Friends of Harold Chopard, a

former Sohioan, will be inter-ested to learn he has organized and is sole owner of the Chopard Gathering Lines, purchasers and gatherers of Michigan crude oil.

Here's "Mikie" Reamer, son of E. L. Reamer, Toledo meter gager, Products Pipe Line, and a day's catch from Portage River.

T h e following Sohioans have been reported e n t e r i n g the armed forces since the last issue of the Sohio News.

Lima Refinery Park B 1 u b a u g h, pipefitter

helper, joined Air Force. Evan Davidson, machinist, to

Seabees with his former rank of machinist mate first class.

Richard Shaffer, stillman, lube plant, to duty in Armored In-fantry; formerly tech sergeant in the Paratroops.

Robert Slechter, a s s i s t a n t storekeeper, recalled by Marines with rank of sergeant.

C. D. Snyder, assistant office manager, called for duty with 408 Military Government Com-pany, Army Reserves. Served in World War II from February. 1941, to December, 1945, and was released as a major .

J . M. L e e c h, boilermaker helper, to duty in 408 Military Government Company. Served in World War II from April. 1941, until December, 1946; was captain when released.

R . J . Hudachek, junior en-gineer, served in World War II from August, 1945, to December. 1946, and was first l ieutenant at release. Called to duty with 408 Military Government Company.

Marvin M. Evans, Jr., 23, cat cracker gas compressor operator, to Army; at present at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

John W. Gwinn, 23, messen-ger, to Army; also at Fort Knox.

R . L. Joseph, treater helper, called by Navy Reserves. Served as fireman first class from May to December, 1945.

Home Office Theodore J. Jakim, 35. Gen-

eral Engineering, a l ieutenant colonel, recalled as command-ing officer of the 408 Military Government Company.

Charles H. Gatchel and R. J. Cunningham, both of Purchas-ing, called to duty in Air Na-tional Guard.

Albert J . Noort, 20, Service Section, called by Naval Re-serves.

Pete Smith, Refining Control. Army Reserve unit , called to duty.

Charles H. Cornell, Cost, first l ieutenant in the Army Reserves, called to duty.

Marion V. H. Thomas, 22, senior serv-

ice station operator, called back into Marines.

Jack L. Cudd, 20, junior op-erator, to the Army Air Forces.

Mansfield Roger Cotsenmyer, bulk sta-

tion, to Army.

No. I Refinery Richard C. Manning. Engi-

neering Department, to Army. Robert F. Manning, Engi-

neering Department, notified by Navy Reserves to report to Phil-adelphia.

Cleveland Donald R. Immke, 22, senior

operator at Lee and Essex, to Army.

James A. Harper , 27, tem-porary junior operator at Main and Washington, called by U.S. Naval Reserves.

Edward L. Andrews, junior operator at Erie and State, Painesville, joined Navy.

William Porterfield, senior op-erator at Euclid and Richmond, joined Army.

Harold S. Baumwell, 20, ju-nior operator at Chagrin Blvd.

Marilyn Rachelder, daughter of Marion Division's C. H. Rachel-der, receives a $25 savings bond from Robert Mason of IVMRN after being named Queen for a Day at Marion County's 100th fair. This is the second beauty honor for Marilyn this year-she placed second in the Quar-ter Century Club's Sohio Beauty Contest at Lima August 12.

and Sorn Center Road, called by Marine Reserve.

Jerry Krejny, 24, senior oper-ator at Harvard and East 131st, to Army.

Henry Stanish, 19, junior op-erator at Euclid and Forest Hills, to Marines.

Willard T . Felger, 20, senior operator at Main and Washing-ton, called by National Guard.

Raymond A. Jaworski, senior operator at Superior and East 40th, called by National Guard.

Emil A. Vecchio, 24, junior operator, called to Navy Re-serves.

Dayton Durward N. Amey, 27, senior

operator, recalled by Navy Re-serves.

J. B. Bryant. 24, junior oper-ator, to Army.

Harold E. Hayden, 25, junior operator, to Navy.

Hobart Kissinger, 23, junior operator, to Marine Corps.

Cincinnati Robert F. Bauman, 22, senior

operator, joined Air Corps. Harold N. Ingram, 24, senior

operator, joined Navy. Paul W. K i m b a l l , Jr., 23,

s e n i o r operator, recalled by Army Reserves.

Zanesville Charles L. Bell, 21, senior op-

erator, called by Army Reserves. Blaine Love, 24, senior opera-

tor, to Army. Curtis F. Sidwcll, 22, senior

operator, joined the Air Corps.

Akron Edward H. Boylan, 24, junior

service station operator, recalled by Navy.

James Demboski, 22, senior operator at Main and Gougler, Kent, joined the Army.

Robert L. Warner , 25, senior operator at East Market and Buchtel, recalled by Navy.

Columbus Richard L. C a m p b e l l , 24,

senior operator, called for duty with National Guard.

John E. Mock, 19, senior op-erator, joined the Navy.

Dean A. Wright, 22, senior operator, recalled to Navy.

Canton David H. Laughlin, 22, part-

time junior operator, recalled to Navy.

Sales Accounting Jerome A. Olson, 19, Bulk

Station Checking, joined the Air Corps and is now at Laddand Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

(Continued on Page 8, Col. I)

Albert J . Hudson Albert J. Hudson, a No. One

Refinery Sohioan, died Septem-ber 1 at Deaconess Hospital.

Services for him were con-ducted at the Carl Kaufmann

Funeral H o m e

g u a r d . T w o years ago, follow-

ing an illness, he was assigned to a mail car as driver.

In addition to his wife, Elsie, and a son, Ralph, he is survived by a sister. May, and two broth-ers, Edward and John. Another brother. Clifford, preceded him in death.

A. J. Hudson

Will Award Pins to Safe Drivers

Three-color lapel pins, indi-vidual awards for the safest d r i v e r s in Sohio's sales divi-sions, are now being manufac-tured, a n n o u n c e s R a l p h

B a r t u n e k ,

^af l t i f t feses . H ° m e o f f i c e Sales safety en-

I o f a n i < l e a orȣ-

^jpSSpF^ inated by Lima D i v i s i o n , the

pins are to be awarded annu-ally to drivers in each sales division who have driven one or more years without accident. First presentations will be made this fall.

Made of ten-carat gold, the pins have as their central motif the Sohio oval mounted on a shield. T h e number of years that the safety-conscious drivet has earned the award will show as a numeral at the top of the pin.

Sohio Southern Pipelines E. E. Gary and H. A. Han-

cock, pipeliner and head gauger respectively, are back at work after vacationing at home, fish-ing and taking it easy. . . Jewell Nolan.

Cincinnati After 37 years of marriage

Tony Averbeck, Tennessee Ave-nue Bulk Station, and his wife finally saw Niagara Falls this

year . . . These stations were winners in the Tire Contest which ended recently: G r o u p 1 — Warsaw and Cleves, Tenth and High, Delta and Columbia. Group 2 —Third and Market. Vine and Corry, Kenwood and Montgomery. Group 3—Paddock and Tennessee, Madison and Ravenna, Main and Carthage. Group 4 — Broadway and Silver, Main and C, First and Main. . . . Mildred Wendt.

Sohio Pipe Line—Eastern A picnic at Greenfield, Indi-

ana's Riley Park in August was attended by 38 Sohioans and their friends. Besides two meals, the younger set enjoyed swim-ming while the grownups pitched horseshoes, offered a d v i c e to those pitching, played canasta or just visited.

T a l k i n g of vacations are: Reese Crumb, dispatcher, who traveled through Pennsylvania, Canada and Michigan, particu-larly enjoying the bass fishing near North Bay, Ontario. Merle

ledo supervisor, took. "Gene" Heller, meter gauger at Toledo, showed off his Ohio tan to en-vious Florida bathers . . . After working vacation relief at the Toledo Terminal, Clyde Lcntz returned to University of To-ledo . . . H. F. Doersam, ex-products pipeliner, was a wel-come visitor at Moorehead Tank Farm . . . Kathryn Kelly.

Sohio Petroleum—Lafayette Ruth Ballard, wife of George

(civil engineer here), who has been attending Louisiana State University during summer ses-sions doing work on her mas-ter's degree, gave her graduate recital in Baton Rouge. Mrs. Ballard is a member of the music faculty at Southwestern Louisiana Institute . . . On va-cation: R. E. Johnston, petro-leum engineer, and family to Ridley Park, Pa.; W. E. Cole, senior production clerk, to Terrv, Okla.; and Robert Rice, geolo-gist, and family to F.1 Paso, Texas . . , Willa Mae Riedlinger.

Akron T h e corn roasts, September 5

and 6, again proved to be the most popular activity sponsored by the Recreational Association. Among the many assisting Presi-dent Walter Scott were C. S. "Chuck" Smith, who steamed wieners: Linda Manzoni, Jean Hoffman, the Weyland Gossards, and Mrs. Chuck Smith fried hamburgers; Elvin Zehner took charge of the coffee urn; Sarah Leas operated the melon table: your reporter cooked the 70 dozen ears of corn; Bill Rouse manned the soft drink stand: supplies were transported to the park by Noble Drake; Mrs. Wal-ter Scott purchased prizes; and Wilbur Eshleman ordered food.

Bulk station employees were dubious that Guy Mott's old Ford would make the trip to

Hammel, Brooklyn Station fore-man, drove 3500 miles through the southeast and inspected the Tennessee Valley dams. M. C. Lewis, engineer at Hagerstown, went to New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee . . . H a r r i e t Craven.

Products Pipe Line Lee Masters and Harry Aiken.

Fostoria Office, vacationed at Geneva-on-the-Lake and Yellow-s t o n e Park, respectively. Post c ards trickling back from Canada showed route Max Roberts, To-

Boston. However, it did and even beat the mail. Guy, who is gasoline dispatcher, was back in Akron two days ahead of the cards he mailed in Boston . . . Norman White, Painting Depart-ment, and his wife, daughter, and grandson, saw the sights in New York City . . . Catherine Lies, stenographer in the divi-sion office, devoted her vacation to her avocation—sketching and painting . . . Marian Evans, stenographer. C r e d i t Depart-ment, and her husband vaca-tioned on Lake Erie . . . Annui-

tant Rose Heisler, with husband Harry, left August 26 to visit her brother in Seattle, Wash. . . Dorothy Kcirn, clerk in the bulk station office, visited her sister at Memphis, Tenn . . . Betty and Dusty Rhodes took short trips during their vacation. Betty is billing clerk, and Dusty is stores clerk . . . Cedric Ritenour, Credit Department, used his vacation time to move into his new home on Westvale . . . Driving along one of the most used streets in downtown Akron, Bill Beam, operator at Cole and Arlington, saw an object in the road. The car ahead hit the object, but Bill stopped. Picking it up he found it to be a bowling ball that belonged to Steve Sauner, bulk station warehouseman. After bowling, Steve had placed it on

Loretta Mathews, Service Sta-tion Checking, is also recovering from a serious operation . . . Hope Kippenbrock left Service Station Checking to enroll in Transylvania College, Lexington. K.y., to study religious education preparatory to foreign mission-ary work . . . E. Thoburn Nel-son, Marketing Revenue and Expense, with his Mrs. drove over 2250 miles through New England and visited their daugh-ter and two grandsons at Need-ham, Mass. . . Audrey Hallein, Service Station Credit Ticket, va-cationed at Cape Cod while Alice Starr, same unit, visited Toronto. Grace Walton, same unit, went to Boston where her son is studying to be a minister. Marge Aftoora, Service Station Checking, with her mother, sis-

the bumper of bis car and for-gotten to put it in the trunk . . . Margaret Snllivan.

Marion George Stults was lost twice

in Pittsburgh when attending the Motor F l e e t Supervisor Course held at Penn State Uni-versity . . . Main and George, and Main and Columbia went over the top on their quotas in the recent Monroe Shock Ab-sorber Contest. High individual salesmen were H. F. Monk. Main and George, with 94: and W. C. Hughes, Main and Columbia, with 53 . . . Betty Anderson.

Sales Accounting From Bulk Station Checking

we learn that Alice Hopp and Jenny Baldo left Sohio to be-come full time homemakers . . . Wilbur Stump and family spent a week at Chippewa and then motored to Niagara Falls. Lil-lian Charles visited Lima and Chippewa Lake, and Imogene Siegel saw her family in North Carolina. Iris Brunner went to Canada, while Arlene Gatz ac-quired a gypsy-like tan at Day-tona Beach. Elsie Sovish visited in Chicago. Estelle K r u m e r stayed with her family in Cin-cinnati. Betty Nemeth and Helen Flory cruised to Mackinac Island where they were surprised to see Paul Busev, head of Tabu-lating. and his Mrs. Cy Craw-ford and his family had a pleasant time in Mackinaw City. Janis Johns toured Michigan and Penn-sylvania visiting friends. Bill Fur-niss visited in Nelsonville. Alice Clifford, Control and Addresso-graph. found the flight to Chi-cago so rough over Labor Day week end that she returned by bus. Mabel Personette visited her mother in Columbus. Kay Gedeon, Refinery Billing, had a c o t t a g e at Vermilion. Eileen Ranck, Refinery Billing, with her mother and sister visited Niagara Falls, while Elsie Sti-bora. same unit, had a cottage at Vermilion. M a r i o n Kassel-mann, Control, visited Yellow-stone Park. Jeanette Balog and Mary Shimko, both in Addresso-g r a p h , vacationed at Geneva, Peggy Hunt. Control and Ad-dressograph, went to Ashtabula. Vince Brady, same unit, visited in Toledo.

Tabulat ing employees rented a television set to have it in-stalled in the hosoital room of Walter "Mac" Mt Kirov when he was recovering from a serious operation. Speaking of opera-tions it is nice to have Elizabeth Tyrrell back in Bulk Station Checking after a long illness.

ter and a little niece, made a complete tour around the Lake states . . . Dorothy Mikolack, Service Station Checking, and several girl friends took a cot-tage at Conneaut Lake. Pa. . . Betty Hagemann, Refinery Or-ders, with her husband, Ray, from Cleveland Division, reports a wonderful time in Toronto and Altoona. Pa. (Betty's home town). Dorothy Stotter and her new husband vacationed in Chi-cago and Indian Lake. Phyllis Kuehn saw Philadelphia, Wash-ington and New York sights. Ray Finneran fished at Pyma-tuming Dam. Ruth Stahl flew to Canada for a delightful week at Honey Harbor. Dorothy. Phyl-lis, Ray and Ruth are all in Accounts Receivable . . . Doro-thy Bell, head of Stenos. says she enjoyed her front porch vacation . . . Vanessa Griffin.

No. 2 Refinery While visiting his wife's fam-

ily in Granville, Mich., G. W. "Bill" Walters, tried to imitate

the "Lone Ranger" for the bene-fit of his two youngsters. He returned to work still feeling the effects. Bill, chief chemist of the control laboratory, and his wife celebrated their 15th wed-ding anniversary in August . . . Clarence H. Marshall, foreman of the Labor Gang, and his wife welcome friends at their new home at 31 10 Washington Blvd., Cleveland Heights . . . Vacation time: Elmer C. Kollie, senior clerk, Accounting Office, visited a World War II buddy at Minneapolis. Harry Pence, senior clerk, Accounting Office, not only enjoyed fishing and bathing at Newaygo. Mich., but still talks about the thrilling rides on the sand dune scooter. Manager F. G. Brown went to sunny Florida. Clarence and An-jeanette Hysek saw several shows in New York City. Clarence is grease maker, first class, and An-jie is junior clerk. Accounting Office. With his family William A. Hess, senior engineer. Me-chanical Department, drove more than 2200 miles in the New England States. . . Agnes Masek.

Sohio Pipe Line—Grayville Among the vacationers were:

Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Faunce who

visited their daughter at South Bend; the Charley Edwards' fam-ily toured the southwest and western states: J. S. Floyd, W. E. Coker and Brade Payne stayed home; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Mc-Kechnie and family, to Monti-cello, Ky., and Oklahoma: the Chet Ulms and son to Wiscon-sin; Chester Bridgeman and fam-ily to Monticello, Ky.; I v a n Bosley stayed home and attended the DuQuoin State Fair: G. E. Cox with relatives in Casey, 111.: Roy Bell. C. W. Hosmer, Ed Elder and H. 1). Payne repaired and remodeled t h e i r homes; Georganna Sturm, a stenogra-pher, at home; the R. R. Mc-Kechnies v i s i t e d relatives in Flora, 111.; your reporter and family saw relatives in Okla-homa and Kansas; D. W. Ike-inire, fished: Willard Howe also fished in the White, Wabash and Embarrass Rivers; Loy G r o f f stayed home. ..R.J. Hagedorn.

Mansfield Bonnie Fay. recent high school

graduate, is the new clerk in the division office. Marilyn Witt-mer resigned to enter Miami U. . . . Friends of Dealer Sales-man Oscar Allen await his re-turn from Guatemala to sec if his stories are as good as ones he brought back from Alaska last year. Assistant Division Manager Harry D. Klee divided his vaca-tion between a cottage on Lake Erie and a trip to Washington, I). C. . . Helen Drushal.

Sohio Petroleum—Oklahoma City Telling of recent vacations are

Becky Burgin who went to Hot Springs. Ark.; Rita Johnson to Kansas City and Oklahoma; F. C. Swartzbaugh, Robbers Cave State Park, Okla.: Edythe Story, Red River, N. M.: Irene Shaw, Ed Dovle, Rod McTvor, and Bettv Still, California; Mildred Willi-ams and W. I.. Pcmber, Rock-A-Way Beach, Mo.; Chet Deckert, Russell. Kan.; Doris and Louis Hough. Texas, Arkansas a n 1 Oklahoma: R. M. Lowe. Texas: Maxine Dodd. Salt Lake City and Denver; Beverly Tillman, Texas: B. W. Whitelev, Colo-rado and New Mexico: S. W. Hamner, Oklahoma and Mis-souri; Betty McFarland. Kansas City; L. F. Elkins. Denver; Pearl Craven, Arkansas: Margaret Sil-ver, Utah, Wyoming and Colo-rado: and B. F. I.asseter and J. R. Wilson, Oklahoma . . . Peggy D lit ton.

Toledo Refinery Guests attending the Sohio

Recreational Club golf tourna-ment at Chippewa Country Club included Messrs. Foster, McCon-nell, Bergen, Sanders, Ferguson, and Jones. The weather failed to dampen the spirits of the golfers, and following a change of clothing, a good dinner and entertainment made up for the weather deficiency. Investigation will be made of the Engineering Department to determine why so many prizes went in that direction . . . Fred Gressler.

Lima Refinery On the first day of the squir-

rel season, Stubb Miller, engi-neer at the cat cracker, got three

at a distance of 900 feet with a sling shot. He says he would have gotten a fourth but a mos-quito spoiled his aim (Terminal Tower top, favorite roosting spot for Cleveland wildlife, is only 708 feet high. Come on up. Stubb, and bring your slinky . . . Editor) . . . Irwin Wauben and Robert Jewell.

Sohio Petroleum—Casper This district enjoyed v i s i t s

from Mr. and Mrs. Jim Foraker and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Sil-vers who stopped during vaca-tions. Mr. Foraker is district landman and Mrs. Silvers is draftsman, both in the Okla-homa District office . . . Doro-thea Knepper.

Sohio Petroleum—Russell. Kansas Back from v a c a t i o n i n g is

f e a n n e Becker, junior clerk. Nancy Balloun, junior clerk, and her husband went to Minne-sota. grand fishing country. Your reporter took a 10-day tour visit-ing Washington, D. C., Norfolk, Williamsburg, Annapolis, Phila-delphia and New York City. Earl Wilson, field clerk, went through the 07arks and up to Wisconsin. His wife and parents accompanied him. A. J. Yost, gangpusher, vacationed in the Ozarks . . . Louise Tisdale.

Can Factory Vacationists include William

Hartland and Mrs. Bess Chalkey. T h e latter went to Canada . . . Phil Garvin.

Lima V a c a t i o n highlights: L. T .

Cluff, manager. Main and Front, Findlay, saw five ball games at Cleveland; Vic Eisaman, Find-lay, fished in Canada; D. R. Corbin, Findlay, spent a week in the Smoky Mountains and fished in Michigan; Glen Vogel-song, Findlay, saw ball games iti Cleveland and Detroit, and fished at Put-in-Bay; Mildred Hunun. F i n d l a y , went to Montreal. Roosevelt's home at Hyde Park, and home via the Pennsylvania turnpike; John Eiche. manager, Market and Pine, Lima, to Ni-

agara Falls and Lake Placid; Don Walters, assistant manager, Allentown and Wayne, Lima, to Tennessee; Chuck Burtchin, sen-ior operator at Grand and West, Lima, fished in M i c h i g a n ; Marion Phillips, Van Wert, to Florida; Frank Hughes, man-ager, Market and Metcalf, Lima, to Kentucky . . . Kathryn Kun-kleman.

Latonia Refinery Recently the storehouse took

on a nautical atmosphere with a simulated porthole, d o o r s marked "escape hatch," "ship stores" and "anchors aweigh." All this was for the benefit of Bob Ashcraft, assistant senior clerk, who is active in the Navy Reserve . . . The Rec Club's softball team copped its third straight pennant in the Indus-trial League with 12 wins and 2 losses thereby adding another trophy to its collection . . . In the Kentucky State Slow Pitch S o f t b a l l Tournament , Sohio fought its way to the finals by defeating Glenway A.C. by a score of 8 to 4. However, in the finals they were defeated by Charlie's Cafe in a bitterly con-tested game, 7 to 5 . . . Will Mora 7i.

Sohio Petroleum—Abilene Mr. and Mrs. Walt Wilkinson

vacationing in Kansas were given a round of parties by these So-hioans and ex-Sohioans of the Kansas District: the K. T. Wood-mans, Robert Williams, the P. C. Musgroves, Mrs. P. T. Amstutz and the C». L. Yateses. Mr. Wilk-inson is d i s t r i c t geologist at Abilene . . . Early in September Charles Aikman, district chief clerk, j o i n e d his wife and daughter who were vacationing in Evansville, Ind. . . Arlene Collins is the new receptionist here . . . Dolores Gregg.

Home Office From Chemical and Physical

Research Reporter Swatik says: Dorothy Sandrock, Phyllis Paul and Kathleen Roege enjoyed the sports and entertainment at Va-cation Valley. Echo Lake, Pa. "Sandy" returned with a shining new bracelet—evidence that she was the tennis doubles champion

in a tournament held at the resort that week . . . Baseball was eagerly followed here. After the final encounter the SOCs of this lab were in the top spot with a record of nine wins and one setback, followed by the Pastimers of No. 1 Refinery. Outstanding was the pitching of Mel Fink with a record of seven victories and no defeats coupled with a team b a t t i n g average of .300.

Arline and Harvey Hartman, Budget, enjoyed fishing at Kelly's Island. About two weeks after Jim Burns, same unit, returned from New Jersey we received a card he mailed from there . . . Ruth Stamman, Organization and Methods, vacationed a r o u n d Devil's Lake in Michigan, while

co-workers Jack Potash journeyed to Norfolk, Va., and Rannie Dal-low trudged to California . . . Marcella Hamm and Eleanore T o m k a l s k i , Payroll, drove through upper New York, Ver-mont, New Hampshire to Bar Harbor, and then came back along the coast . . . Asphalt Sales's Rosemary Soeder returned to work with a lovely sun tan after golfing and swimming around Cleveland . . . Winnie Marsh and husband. Jack. Sales Publi-cations. had two wonderful weeks in Los Angeles. Winnie's home-town . . . Herb Olson, Betty Pfaffman. Emma Edelbrock and H. A. Reitzman. Ledgers and Journals, all enjoyed vacations at home, while co-workers J. M. Birsinger t o u r e d the Smoky Mountains and K. C. Scluimaker drove to New York City . . . Bob BoAven took a trip along the east-ern coast; Don Hinchliffe stayed home as did A1 Miller, the latter planted grass seed only to have it rained out two days later. The three are in the Tax unit . . . General Engineering vaca-tions: Jack Jones in Harvey, 111.; Helen Karolak at Indian Lake, Ohio; Marion Fosdick. in Chi-cago; Dean Felmly in New Jersey: Duane Manning and family mo-tored to Ogunquit, Me.: Don Wilkinson and his wife on Great Lakes ore boat. Pontine: Ed Al-vord in Michigan; and Fred El-liott to Glacier National Park.

Mary Higley and Marge Aebie, flew to Miami Beach; Tabor Farm, Sodus, Mich., on the St. Joseph River was the destina-tion of Margaret McCormack, and Flora Kuehn drove to New Orleans. All are in Production . . . Tech Service reports that Gordon Good vacationed in Il-linois and Indiana; Ed Marsh at Lake Mohawk, New York; Virginia Rose, Rockv Mountain Park, Colo.; Claire Gifford, New England . . . Lloyd Kugel, Ac-counts Payable, found the fish-ing excellent at Pt. Aubearville, Ontario, Canada, while Harold McMurtie said the same about a spot called Gun flint Trail, in Minnesota. Chester Bovs, also Accounts Payable, and his wife were joined by son. daughter-in-law and grandson at Indian Lake.

On vacation from C e n t r a l Stenographic: Beverly Graham drove 5,000 miles to Bar Har-bor, and on to Cabot Trail , Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Dor-othy M a k r a at home; Mary Brennan helped with prepara-tions of her sister's wedding in which she was maid of honor: Rita Kadlec to Washington and at home resting; Matilda Maag to New England states and Bar Harbor; and Gayle Kloots, New-York City and Niagara Falls.

Consolidating a n d Research staff reports: Bill Walker vaca-tioned at Vermilion on the Lake; Art Pelander at home: A1 Mcke-dis, eastern Pennsylvania, Balti-more and Annapolis; E i n a r Erickson, home painting; Rog Tucker, visited hometown; Ed Schaefer, Kelly's Island and Pitts-burgh: Tom Cadwell, New Eng-land states; Cove Ramay of Oklahoma Citv Office, who is temporarily assigned here, drove his family back to Oklahoma

The Purchasing Department picnicked on September 16 at North Olmsted Park with 70 adults and 35 children attend ing. Featured was a ball game for the men and pony rides for the children . . . June Eppink.

S i i i i i i n * ' r F u n

It took a tug-of-war at Litna Refinery's Rec Club picnic to prove to these men. left, that crime doesn't pay. The Process boys, right, tugged and won in spite of their opponents tying their end of the rope to a near-by telephone pole.

Home Office Accounts Payable people recently picnicked at the North Olmsted home of their unit head, Harry Gatchel. That's Mr. Gatchel at the head of the table. Those red hots he's holding aloft were a major part of the program, along ivith badminton, table tennis, croquet, bingo, and pitching horseshoes.

There were more than 200 employees and their families at the Sohio Petroleum, Kentucky, picnic at Legion Park in Oivensboro. At left, Hershel Park, C. N. Hancock, Ed Milt, and Paul Quillin are talking it over. The small fry, right, had to take a breather, too: Johnny Prit/irose, grandson of Superintendent M. A. Arvin, and Jean and Pat Pfeuffer, whose dad, Chief Clerk Al Pfeuffer, u'oti the pressure cooker offered as attendance prize.

On the spot photography at the Home Office Rec Club's annual picnic was capably handled by Al Kruse, head of Maintenance. The 800 guests included Sharon Walker, right, daughter of Rill Walker, Consolidating and Research. Arline Hartman, Budget, is busy helping Sharon keep that "buckin' bronco" in line.

There was a iveek-end outing recently for members of the Sohio Petroleum Company, Oklahotna City, Rec Club and their families. These Sohioans journeyed 100 /niles to Lake Murray for 48 hours —well, almost—of picnicking, swimming, dancitig, and bingo.

Amateur operator H. H. Nehrenz gets ready to call his dad.

1,100 Miles Separate Father and Son But Mutual Hobby Affords Chats

Father and son chats between Harold H. Nehrenz, statistician, Engineering Department, Oklahoma City, and his clad, Doctor J. W. Nehrenz, Rocky River, Ohio, are nightly affairs, despite the fact that they are located 1,100 miles apart.

The explanation is as simple as it is unusual. Both are ama-teur radio operators. The elder Nehrenz, following in his son's hobby footsteps, just recently acquired his operator and sta-tion license from the Federal Comrnun ications C o m m i s s i o n . Among many technical require-ments he learned the Morse code, not an easy task at age 63. His call letters are W8FJH.

His son, Harold, first joined Sohio in the Production Depart-ment in Cleveland in 1946 in the same year he won his class B operator's license. Since his assignment to Oklahoma City he has won a Class A license, and operates station W5NQV.

Another Sohioan member of America's group of 80,000 "ham" operators is Harry Johnson, Sr., accountant in the Oklahoma City Production Department. His call is W5CFA.

In addition to deriving per-sonal pleasure from their sta-t i o n s , amateur experimenters such as these Sohioans, are often credited with advancing radio knowledge. In line with public service the amateurs also work with the Red Cross, newspapers, and law enforcement agencies during local and state emergen-cies when other communications in the area fail. Amateurs in the United States converse regu-larly with foreign amateurs and among themselves.

For the Nehrenz family, ama-teur radio has also kept them in more frequent touch with a sister in Dallas.

Harold calls her from Okla-homa, plugs the phone into his transmitter, and all three. Dad in Ohio, Harold in Oklahoma, and his sister in Texas stage a real family "get-together."

Sohio Students Achieve Goals

Their goals reached, two So-hioans in the Home Office — Donald Hinchliffe, Tax, a n d Alex Mekedis, Consolidating and Research—have chalked an end to long hours of part-time study.

Mr. Hinchliffe recently won his C.P.A. certificate, and Mr. Mekedis passed the Ohio State Bar examination.

Al, who was graduated last June from Cleveland-Marshall

L a w S c h o o l after four and one-half years of study, took a re-fresher c o u r s e under the Sohio E d u c a t i onal Plan b e f o r e tackling the Bar exam. He and his wife, Mary,

who's employed in Sales Ac-counting, live at 16711 Stock-bridge Avenue.

A graduate of Dyke and Spen-cerian College, D o n ' s C.P.A. studies started two years ago w h e n he en-rolled at Fenn C o l l e g e a n d L i p s c o m b's S c h o o l of Ac-c o u n t ing. He a n d h i s wife, Marie, live at 16707 Lakewood Heights Boulevard. Their chil-dren, Drucilla, 12, and Danny, 6, have great plans for Daddy's new-found leisure.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Roive

Couple Celebrate Golden Wedding

CLEVELAND-Severa l hun-dred friends attended an open house recently in honor of An-nuitant and Mrs. Edgar Rowe, who were c e l e b r a t i n g their Golden Wedding.

Mr. Rowe, a foreman at No. Two Refinery in 1932 when he retired, and his wife, Anna, re-ceived many anniversary gifts, inc luding a "money bush," made of 50 silver dollars.

Elect Rec Officers CLEVELAND - The n e w l y

elected officers of the Tech Rec Club, Home Office Manufactur-ing, are Bill Witham, president; Helen Karolak, vice president; Christine Majcher, secretary; and Bart Holm, treasurer.

With the exception of Miss Majcher, who is employed in Tech Service, all the officers are in General Engineering.

Hello, World! New arrivals were welcomed

by Sohioans at the following units:

L a t o n i a Refinery — Carolynn Marie, five pounds and fourteen ounces, for J. E. Dault, appren-tice clerk.

Sohio Pij>e Line, St. Lou i s -Connie Arline for John Boros, administrative assistant.

Cincinnati — Boys for Robert B a b e l , construction mechanic; Richard Strickland, Madison and Brotherton operator; J o s e p h Lickliter, senior operator at Read-ing and Oak; and Howard Stagge, Tennessee Avenue driver.

Sales Accounting—Robert War-ren for Bob Jagusch, Accounts Receivable; and twin boys for Pauline Hayman and a girl for Helen Oldacres, both former employees.

Sohio Pij>e Line. Grayville— Cathy Elaine for George Tucker, station engineer "B" at the Mt. Vernon Terminal; and M a r y Alice for Glenn Anderson, now employed by Mid-Valley at Heb-ron, Ky.

Toledo Refinery—Marsha Jane for Laborer D. E. Shearer.

Cleveland—George Bernard for Donald Rybarczyk, Harvard and East 131st Street.

Akron—M a r g a r e t Ann for Charles Susong, manager at West Market and Balch.

Lima Refinery—Paula Elaine, seven pounds and ten ounces, for Bruce Barrol, sample man.

Can Factory—A son for Ollie Smart; and daughters for George Bomba, Kenneth Dillinger. and George Dorko.

Sohio Petroleum. Houston—A son, seven pounds and fourteen ounces, for C. W. Day, division land man.

Home Office—Ellen King, sev-en pounds, for Frank Smartt. General Engineering: Philip. Jr.. seven pounds, for Frances George, formerly employed in the Fi-nance Department; and grand-daughter, Linda Pat, six pounds and eight o u n c e s , for John Christman. Purchasing.

Sohio Petroleum, Russell—Lin da Kay for Louis Bieker, senior clerk.

Lima — Twin boys for John Joseph, Jr., Grand and West operator: Vickie Ann. s e v e n pounds and six ounces, for Man-ager Norm Kremer, Grand and West; and a son, seven pounds and fifteen ounces, for Vic Eisa-man. senior operator at Main and Front. Findlay.

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air conditioning and refrigera-tion equipment.

Covering 14,770 square feet of floor space, many modern design features were incorporated in the new building. Interior de-sign was arranged in "modules," units which permit expansion of given rooms into larger units by removing partitions. Fluores-cent lights are recessed in ceil-ings. In the laboratory, fume hoods collect and expel all odors to the outside air. The service piping has been arranged within a monitor section above the cen-ter hallway. The piping was in-stalled so that future needs may be met by tying into units in-corporated in the current in-stallation.

Adaptable to future n e e d s , neither the architectural sym-metry nor the functional quali-ties of the building will be destroyed by future additions.

Completion of the new build-ing marks a final step in the $30,000,000 expansion and mod-ernization p r o g r a m at Lima Refinery.

This month, in almost every Sohio town, a legion of volun-teers from all walks of life, from industry and labor, churches and civic organizations, are joining forces in one of the country's most vital Community C h e s t campaigns.

Their total national goal is to raise approximately $190,000,-000 for the more than 15,000 community health and welfare services united under the heart-ening symbol of the Red Feather.

What you give to the volun-teer who seeks your contribution makes the difference between hope and despair, sickness and health, happy families and bro-ken homes, fine young citizens and juvenile delinquents in your community.

It makes the difference, too, in services provided the increas-ing numbers of men and women in uniform, in local emergency purposes such as recruitment of volunteers for civilian defense measures, and in planning day center care for c h i l d r e n of women needed in war industry.

So GIVE—give enough to sup-port all of your local Community Chest services. No one else can make your Red Feather pledge. It has to be you.

Two Injured in Holiday Boat Ride (Continued from Page 1, Col. 1) "We had just refueled and

started down the channel, away from the boathouse, when the explosion occurred. It w a s caused by sparks from the en-gine igniting spilled fuel.

"All of us jumped or were thrown into the water," he added.

While Bennett accompanied the children on their swim to s h o r e , Bowles kept the two women, who couldn't swim, afloat until help came.

Mr. and Mrs. Bowles, as well as Mrs. Bennett, were given emergency first aid at the Pasa-dena Hospital. Later the two ladies were moved to Herman Hospital in Houston.

S e r v i c e P i n P a r t y

Income Taxes

Rise to Meet

Defense Needs Beginning October 1 payroll

deductions for income taxes rose 20 per cent (after exemption allowances) as a result of new personal United States tax in-creases recently legislated to help meet Russian aggression.

Also helping to pay for the Korean War and rearmament, corporation income taxes were boosted from a maximum 38 per cent to 45 per cent retro-active to June 1.

Affects 50 Million New personal levies are ex-

pected to produce an additional $2,745,000,000 annually. The cor-poration increase will yield ap-proximately $1,500,000,000 a year.

A b o u t 50,000,000 Americans are affected by the income tax hikes on individuals. Total levy, including the results of other new tax provisions, is expected to produce $4,700,000,000 for the United States preparedness pro-gram.

Payroll Deductions

Payroll deductions which pre-viously consisted of 15 per cent of pay after subtracting exemp-tions now consist of 18 per cent of pay after exemptions. Allow-able deductions for each exemp tion according to pay periods are: S1.80 daily; $13.00 weekly; $26.00 bi-weekly; $28.00 semi-monthly; $56.00 monthly.

T o estimate your new payroll withholding tax, multiply your exemptions, (yourself and each dependent) by the a l l o w a b l e amount for your pay period and subtract from your gross pay. Next take 18 per cent of the balance. This result is your new withholding tax per week, bi-weekly, or semi-monthly, etc., de-pendent upon your pay period.

For Example

For example an employee with four exemptions in effect earns $120 bi-weekly. He multiplies his bi-weekly exemption of $26 by four. This $104 exemption al-lowance is subtracted from $120. The difference, $16, is multiplied by 18 per cent. The result is $2.88, his new bi-weekly with-holding tax.

Since the new tax law is ap-plicable to all wages paid after October 1. those employees who had pay periods beginning in September and e n d i n g after October 1, were also subject to the new withholding tax rates on money earned in September.

Veteran employees of Sohio's Finance and Accounting Depart-ments, Home Office, honored September 12 during a luncheon at the Hotel Cleveland, included, from left to right: Annuitant Frank Fray, 60 years; Ralph Hole, 30 years; Alexander Bain, 30 years; Robert IVarnock, 15 years; Annuitant Mary Metz, 10 years; and Carl Kollie, 30 years. A. E. Wolf and Hugh Patch, vice presidents respectively in charge of Fituince and Accounting, awarded the pins.

A. P. Mekedis

D. T. Hinchliffe

W e d d i n g s

A. W. Roberts, Home Office Ledgers and Journals, and his wife pose with their son, John, and his bride, the former Sally Lacey, following their wedding September 27. John and Sally have just returned from a wedding trip to Niagara Falls.

E. D. Wallace Appoints J. P . Speer Supervisor

(Continued from Page 1, Col. 5) matic Mission there. In 1944 he entered basic infantry training in the Army. Commissioned in the infantry, he was next as-signed to counter intelligence. Following his Army release in 1945 he accepted a State De-partment assignment in China. For a time after resigning from the State Department in May, 1947, he took an active part in the organization of the United World Federalists in Texas. After acting as resident manager of Sohio activities in Guatemala in 1948, he was transferred to Okla-homa City in 1949.

Married, he has three children: James, 8; Ann, 7; and Jeffrey, 6 months.

Sohio Pipe Line—Grayville— S. H. McCormick has been transferred from field gauger in the Smith-Mills District to pipe-liner, 12-months, in the Norris City area. Field Gauger E. D. McElhaney left the Omaha Dis-trict to work at Uniontown, Ky.

Cincinnati — John A. Crowe and Rudolph Boeschlin, former drivers, are now burner service mechanics at Tennessee Avenue.

Mansfield — R i c h a r d H. Schneider, a Sohioan since July, 1930. has been promoted to dealer salesman.

Marion—L. L. Frasch was pro-moted to assistant manager at Mansfield and Walnut, Bucyrus.

Sohio Petroleum — Oklahoma City — Transfers here include: Margaret Smith from Office Services to Engineering; Mil-dred Dunagin front Gas-Gaso-line to Water Flood; Rose Chowins from District Geology to Industrial Relations; Foye Story from West Edmond Hun-ton Lime Unit to Industrial Re-lations at Oklahoma City; Pete Cloose from Pipe Line to West-ern Division, Oklahoma City; and L. H. Ralston from St. Louis office to Oklahoma City as purchasing agent.

Sohio Southern Pipelines — J. W. Holder, transport truck driver, has been assigned a po-sition in the Production Depart-ment at West Edmond, Okla.

Home Office—Donald J. Ros-selle has transferred from Sohio Pipe Line Company to Stand-ard Oil and is in the Home Office in the Container Sales Unit. Robert J. Tracy, formerly at Columbus, is now in Home Office Sales, Industrial Relations.

Akron — James J. Peck, Jr., scheduled to go into the Ma-rines, was given a medical dis-charge because of a leg injury. He is now working in Akron as service station supervisor. Har-old Eckman, the former station supervisor, is now training su-pervisor. Ed Ruff, who had been handling training, was transferred to West Market and West as manager. Glen L. Ber-dorf, a Sohioan for the past 23 years, has taken a distributorship in Wadsworth and surrounding area.

Lima—Don Brown has been promoted to assistant manager at Market and Metcalf, Lima.

Sohio Petroleum — Lafayette —C. V. Aderman has been em-ployed here as geophysicist. He is from Houston, Texas, where he was employed by the Key-stone Exploration Company. Myrtle Sonnier will be his sec-retary.

W A N T E D T O R E N T HOUSE OR APARTMENT—Gen-eral Engineering engineer, with two children, desperately needs two bed-room house or apartment by No-vember 1. Can furnish excellent references from present landlord. Contact Donald Bodiker, Phone IVanhoe 1-1053, 1525 East 174th Street, Cleveland 10, Ohio.

New Legislation Increases Social Security Benefits

Payments to nearly three mil-lion persons currently drawing benefits under the Social Security Act increased an average of 77 V* per cent this month as a result of amendments recently made in the federal statute.

The old average $26 benefit has been increased to more than $48. The former minimum bene-fit was $10. The new is $20. The old maximum family bene-fit was $85 compared to the $150 new.

The new legislation increases benefits for those already re-tired, and provides a new for-mula to increase benefits for persons retiring in the future. It also liberalized eligibility rules and extended coverage to an additional 10 million people.

Sohio pays S o c i a l Security taxes for everyone on its payroll, and under the new bill Sohioans can expect larger monthly pay-ments from the government after they retire.

The current contribution rate for both company and employee for Social Security will remain at 1 Yz per cent. But beginning January 1, 1951, the maximum wage base which is used for de-termining the amount of con-tribution will be increased from $5000 annually to $5600 annu-ally. Therefore, beginning in 1951, every employee earning $8600 or more will have $54 deducted from his pay check an-nually, or $9 more than in 1950. because of the increased wage base. Similarly, Sohio will pay $9 more for each employee in this class.

The new bill also provides for a gradual increase in the rate of contribution for both companies and employees until 1970 at which time the rate of contribution will be 314 per cent of base pay up to $3600.

Since Sohio pension benefits are in addition to Social Secu-rity under the present S o h i o Pension Plan, participants can look forward to a higher total retirement income as a result of Social Security amendments.

United States Treasury De-partment officials are now study-ing the effect of the new law on existing private retirement plans such as Sohio's. Regula-tions governing the integration of Social Security benefits into private pension plans have not as yet been issued by the Treas-ury Department.

Elect Rec Officers CLEVELAND—Charles Vild is

the newly elected president of the Home Office Rec Club.

Serving with Mr. Vild for the coming year are Joe Perrault, vice president in charge of Sports; Margaret McCormack, vice presi-dent in charge of Social Activi-ties; Arline Hartman, treasurer; and Margaret McVeigh, secretary.

Treasure Chests A w a i t G/S Champs

Big treasure chest prizes totaling $4,200 await win-ners of the Sales Department's t h i r d annual Guaranteed Starting contest this year.

Duplicate treasure chests with duplicate prizes for dealers and company stations have been announced.

Grand state prizes for dealers and salaried stations are $500 each for first, $200 each for sec-ond, and $100 each for third place winners. In all divisions a $100 prize awaits both com-pany and dealer winners in each division.

Dealers are not eligible for prizes in the company station contests and company stations are not eligible for prizes in the dealer contests. Duplicate treasure chests for dealer and company stations will be main-tained at each division office. In the event of ties, prizes will be equally divided among the winners.

Division Contest Each week, for seven weeks,

beginning November 1, there will be a drawing at the division office. The stubs received dur-ing the previous seven days, will be placed in the treasure chest and from them 20 stubs drawn. The stubs do not accumulate from one week to the next.

Division Prizes The station having the most

stubs drawn at the end of the seven weeks wins the prize. T h e prize is $100 for each winning company and $100 for each win-ning dealer station.

State Contest All of the stubs used in the

division drawing each week will be sent in to the Home Office as soon as the division drawing is completed. T h e s e will be placed together in a large chest, and from them each week 25 stubs will be drawn.

State Prize Points If a station's stub is drawn

the first week, that station is credited with one point for each time the station stub is drawn. T h e second week two points are credited each time a station's stub is drawn. Finally, at the seventh week's drawing, seven points will be awarded for each stub drawn. In the state con-test each weekly drawing is made from stubs accumulating in the c h e s t . At the seventh week's drawing all stubs issued are pres-ent in the chest.

State Prizes T h e dealer station and the

company station in the state having the most points at the end of seven weeks will each receive $500 first prize. The dealer and the company station with the second highest number of points will each receive a $200 second prize, and the deal-er and the company station with the third highest number of points will each receive a $100 third prize.

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ing bill any time he fails to start during the winter season.

The chances he'll start with Sohio products are eight times better according to data on "can't start" complaints of Ohio car owners not having G/S compared with those of Sohio customers having Sohio's Guar-anteed Winter Starting.

Sohio's knowledge of its high quality products explains why Guaranteed Starting can be of-fered every motorist at no extra charge.

Home Office — The men of Chemical and Physical Research turned out en masse to pay final tribute to Hugo Martinson and Carl Ledinsky who decided that facing the future was not for man alone. They celebrated at Jim's Steak House and the Car-ter Hotel. The final moments bf freedom ended on September 30 for Carl when he formed a partnership with Rosanne Augus-tine at Cleveland's Holy Name Church, and 011 October 14 for Hugo when Winifred Wilson became his bride at S t e v e n s Memorial Methodist Church in Harrisburg, Pa. . . Roy Glauz, Refinery C o n t r o l , traveled to East Orange, N. J., to marry Jane W e b b e r . They honey-mooned in New England . . . Stenographer Mary Patricia Hart. General Engineering, and Joseph Walters were wed at St. Column's Church on September 2 . . . Mary Margaret Tarmey and Thomas P. Hinegardner, No. 1 Tech Serv-ice Lab, became Mr. and Mrs. on September 16 . . . Several Sohioans attended the wedding of Jacqueline Goetz, daughter of Roy Goetz, Tax, and Robert Jamieson, Euclid and F o r e s t H i l l s , Cleveland, at Heights Christian Church, September 14. Immediately following a recep-tion in the church, the couple left on a wedding trip to Chi-cago. An uncle of the bride, Henry Goetz, is employed in Sales Accounting.

Lima—Lorene Brentlinger and Frank Van Horn, senior oper-ator at Market and Metcalf, Lima, were married September 10 at the Elida Methodist Church and honeymooned at Virginia Beach . . . Kathryn Lippott, Sohio News reporter for this division, has just announced her marriage to Robert E. Kunkle-man in St. Louis on August 24.

Sohio Pipe Line — St. Louis — Loretta Harrell of Mid-Valley and Dale Wurtz were married August 26 . . . Florence Mat-thias, Accounting, and Melburn Haneline chose September 18 for their marriage . . . Jean Dean, Accounting, and LaVergne Mc-Evoy were wed on September 9.

Sohio Pipe Line — Grayville — C. E. Strothers, Grayville ware-houseman and utility man, and Mrs. Strothers announced the marriage of their d a u g h t e r , Helen, to Paul Gines at their home in Keensburg on August 5.

Cincinnati— Paul Schneider, op-erator at Springfield and Conip-ton, married Patsey Martin on August 19.

No. 2 Refinery—PL v e l y n E. Abraham and Earl D. Butler, junior clerk, Accounting, ex-changed wedding vows August 26 at the Old Stone Church, Cleveland. A reception followed at Newburgh Hall with about 350 attending. After honeymoon-ing at Wasega Beach, Canada, the young couple are making their home on East 81st Street.

Can Factory—On September 9 Sharon Graham, Engineering Of-fice, became Mrs. Dan Wisner.

It's cake-cutting time for the tieivlywedded Jim Englishes. The bride is the former Betty "Dee" Geyer, Purchasing, Sohio Petro-leum, Oklahoma City.

A reception folloived the Epis-copal Church wedding of Lois Elaine Woods and John Davis, Sohio Petroleum, Casper.

Sue Sikorski, Home Office Pay-roll, became Mrs. Robert Noyes September 9 at Blessed Sacra-ment Church. The couple honey-mooned in New York City.

Cleveland — The Old S t o n e Church, Cleveland, was chosen by Jean Murphy, biller, Order Department, for her wedding to Richard Cottier on August 19.

Sales Accounting — Joan Abel, Bulk Station Checking, is now Mrs. Robert Furniss. She was married on September 15 in St. Francis De Sales Church . . . An evening reception followed the marriage September 16 of Betty Selzer, Marketing Revenue and Expense, and John Miko at St. Mary's Greek Rite C a t h o l i c Church . . . Bea Woods, Tabu-lating, and A1 Buskirk, Service Station Credit Ticket, were wed September 16 at South Hills Bap-tist Church. Their attendants included Tom Ashwill, Service Station Checking. A wedding dinner at Ritter's in North Olm-sted followed and the newlyweds then were off for Potawatomi Inn, Angola, Ind.

Join Armed Forces (Continued from Page 3, Col. 5)

Youngstown Walter J . Wozniak, 22, junior

operator, joined Navy.

Lima Anton G. Arps, 27, Industrial

clerk, second l ieutenant in the 408th M i l i t a r y Government Company, called to duty.

Glen G. Vogelsong, 26, senior operator at Main and Front, Findlay, recalled to Navy Re-serves.

Marion Phillips. 20, senior operator at Main and Cherry, Van Wert, enlisted in the Air Corps.

Sohio Petroleum—Oklahoma City Thomas A. Reardon, 27, pro-

duction record clerk. Engineer-ing Division, joined Navy.

Sohio Petroleum—Houston Jack Morse, geophysical labo-

ratory technical helper, recalled to the Air Force. Jack was a reservist pilot in the Texas Air National Guard a n d dur ing World War II served for two years as a fighter pilot with the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater . He is a first lieuten-ant.

Sohio Petroleum—Russell Leo F. Stumps, roustabout, re-

called by Army Reserves. Alva L. R e i d, roustabout,

member of the Army Reserves with four years of service dur ing World War II, recalled.

Toledo John M. Curtis, 22, senior op-

erator, joined Army. B r u c e M. Shrewsberry, 21,

junior operator, recalled to Army Reserves.

Milton O. Smith, 20, tempo-rary junior operator, recalled to Marines.

A. J . Youngs, 23, bulk station clerk, recalled to Army Reserves.

J . M. Curtis, 22, senior opera-tor, enlisted in Army.

T o p 3 ballots are invalid because crosses were not used. Bottom 3 ballots are void because the lines of the cross do not inter-sect inside the circle or square.

E. M. Schmidt, 22, junior op-erator, enlisted in Army.

J. D. Smith, 20, senior opera-tor, enlisted in Army.

J . H. Bartzen, 27, senior op-erator, recalled Army Reserves.

J . L. Carpenter, Jr., 28, tank truck driver, recalled by Army Reserves.

Litho Can Factory James P. Coughlin, 20, pro-

duction helper, enlisted in Navy. Richard Patch, m e m b e r of

Navy Reserves, recalled.

Elect Q.C. Officers T h e new officers of the Home

Office Quarter Century C l u b were installed September 22, dur-ing a d inner dance at the Lake Shore Country Club. More than 100 members were present.

Two Reelected L. T . Rumsey took office as

chairman of the group. He will be assisted by Leonard Muddi-mer as vice chairman. Marie Wuellner and Rose Savasky were respectively r e e l e c t e d secretary and treasurer for the coming year.

Personal Viewpoints

Wil l W e Have World W a r III? Prior to the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, June 25, Phil

Garvin, Sohio News reporter at the Lithograph Can Factory, asked eight Can Factory Sohioans: "Do you believe that we will have another World War?" In view of what followed in Korea, the edi-tors felt that each respondent should have another opportuni ty to answer the same question. Questioned recently, each employee held to his original statement. Here are their opinions:

Clarence R. Rice, clerk: "It is my belief that Russia and the United States, being at this time the two top nations, are trying in all ways possible to protect that position. T h e potentialities of each nation, being what they are, naturally cause each nation to be on guard. ' I firmly believe that at some near fu ture date this tension will break out into a third World War . Greed and avarice have always been the prime factors in past wars, and I think that the present situation will hold true to the past."

Therese Vidmar, press operator: "Because of the present fric-tion between the U nited States and Russia, I believe that war is inevitable."

Lillian Cameron, production helper: "It is my religious belief that unless Russia is converted there will be a third World War. She is getting too powerful and has put religious worship almost at a standstill in order to have a more powerful governmental control."

George Vana, case loader: "Because of the present conflict in Europe, with the Russians taking too much for granted, I sincerely believe that we will have war."

Joe Kopac, utility man: "We are too far advanced in atomic energy to become involved in another war."

William Schieff, l i thograph handyman: "Yes, we will have another war because governments of the world do not get along with one another. The re should be more cooperation."

Jacob Benchek, transfer man: "If politics and world conditions continue as at present, we will surely have war. We should be prepared."

George Dorko, assistant foreman: "There definitely will be another World War. T h e domination and oppression of com-munism in other nations will be opposed and thwarted. T h e striving of science to produce more powerful and destructive missiles of warfare seems to point to such eminent action. When such a situation exists among nations, then surely there can be no peace. For bitterness among nations and a race for war-time strength can only end in disaster."

New Annuitants

Charles Cleveland Former Q.C. Prexy Enters Retirement

Charles C. Cleveland, Lima Refinery, probably one of the best known Sohioans in the com-pany retired on October 1 with 48 years of service. Mr. Cleve-land has been president of the national Quarter Century Club for the past nine years and his or-ganization a n d planning h a v e greatly contribu-ted to the suc-cess of the na-tional meetings. Ever s i n c e the L i m a Refinery T T T T c i e v " local Q u a r t e r Century Club was organized in 1938 he has served as its president.

Born in Lima on September 30, 1885, Mr. Cleveland started to work at the old Solar Refin-ery when he was not quite 17 years of age. His first job was that of office boy. It wasn't long before he was advanced to clerk and typist in the Engineer-ing Department. Next he was made clerk at the Shipping Desk and then cashier at the store-house and later company cashier.

In 1931 when Solar Refinery was taken over by Sohio, he was made a clerk at the Stock and Yield Desk. He has worked there ever since and is now a senior accounting clerk.

A man of many hobbies, he enjoys raising flowers, loves base-ball and traveling. At present he is p lanning a southern trip this winter with his wife, Nellie.

T h e Clevelands live at 700 South Woodlawn Avenue, Lima.

John Iwanicki John Iwanicki, Cleveland Di-

vision maintenance employee for the past fifteen years, retired October 1.

Born in Hroszowska, Galicia, P o 1 a n d , in May, 1885, John came to the United States in 1910. Shortly afterward he re-turned to P o l a n d where he married. His wife, Catherine, and their three children remained in Poland and their exact where-abouts are unknown.

John's last weeks as an active Sohioan were marred by an auto-mobile accident which left him badly bruised and shaken up but not seriously injured.

A resident of 2357 West Sixth Street in Cleveland, John 's plans for the immediate future include fishing and just loafing.

Elinore M. Hayes Elinore M. Hayes, senior clerk

in the Cashier's Office, who has t r a v e l e d extensively in the United States and some parts of Canada, will have more time for this hobby now. On October

1, after 38 years with Sohio, she retired.

Born in Cleve-1 a n d s h e h a s lived here ever since w i t h the exception of one year s p e n t in California.

It was on Jan-uary 16, 1912, that she was em-ployed as billcr clerk in Cleveland Division. In June, 1914, she trans-ferred to the Home Office as biller clerk and five years later became an Elliott Fisher check writing machine operator. In Jan-uary of 1921 she returned to Cleveland Division as clerk. Ten years later she was back in the Home Office as clerk in the Accounting Office. In Septem-ber, 1933, she went to the Dis-

E. M. Hayes

bursement Department as check writer and two years later to the cashier's office.

Besides traveling, Elinore likes to collect poetry and quotations. She also enjoys movies and shows.

A widow, she lives at 1720 Coit Avenue in East Cleveland.

Karl A. Frick On October 1, Karl A. Frick,

station foreman for the Sohio Pipe Line Company was pen-sioned.

Born of German parents sixty-five years ago at Wooster, Ohio, Mr. Frick engaged in farming prior to employment with the Tidewater Pipe Line Company on May 17, 1916. He was first located at Bellefontaine, Ohio, Station as station engineer. On July 1, 1939, he was advanced to station foreman there. He transferred to Sohio Petroleum Co. in Illinois production on April 4, 1941, and on June 1, 1942, transferred back to Sohio Pipe Line at the Coal City Sta-tion, Indiana, as station foreman.

Mr. Frick married M a r g i e Smith of Bellefontaine and they have a son and a daughter.

T h e Fricks have now moved to Kent at 414 East Main Street.

Will iam J. Crozier On September 29, William J.

"Bill" Crozier, Marketing Reve-nue and Expense, Sales Account-ing, w o r k e d his last day at Standard Oil and that evening he and his wife stepped on a train headed for Florida. He had applied for an early pen-

sion and it was granted to him e f f e c t i v e N o -vember 1.

On November 8, 1920, Bill was e m p l o y e d by Standard Oil as c l e r k i n t h e Treasurer 's D e -partment. T w o

years later he transferred to the Order Department. In 1931 he moved to the Sales Accounting Department as a clerk in the P. and L. Department, n o w known as Marketing Revenue and Expense.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Bill has lived in Cleveland most of his life. T h e Croziers have two children, a d a u g h t e r who is married and living in Cleveland, and a son, now a major in the United States Army in Tokyo.

Bill says as far back as he can remember he has gone to Florida for his vacation. Now he intends to live there, just swimming and playing, he says.

Michigan Division On September 1, when the

Michigan Division of Sohio Pipe Line was taken over by Michigan-Ohio Pipeline Corporation, these four Michigan men chose to re-tire early: Earl Robison, Homer Laidley, Walter Helrigle and Clyde Lapham. All except Mr. Robison will continue working for Michigan-Ohio Pipelines.