AMONG OTHER things that have changed in - Staley...

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AMONG OTHER things that have changed infootbal l s ince 1920, are uniforms that the playerswear. Jack Mintun looked like this when hekicked his record break ing 58 yard field goalwhile on the Staley team. Jack, a lineman,could a l w a y s be relied on for long kicks.

the cover...• IT'S BEEN almost 30 years since JackMintun thought autumn was made onlyfor football, but he says he was almosttempted to try one of those long kicksfor which he is famous, the day he metJ. C. Caroline, famous Illini left half-back.

The meeting between Jack and Caro-line, pictured on the cover, took place atthe University of Illinois stadium thisfall. Jack, now night superintendent inthe plant, played his last professionalfootball in 1925, before Caroline wasborn, but the two found that they hada lot in common.

Jack played his first football in 1913with the old Decatur Indians, when ateam-mate was Chuck Dressen. Afterthree years Mintun and Dressen trans-ferred to the old Decatur Athletics, andthen in 1919 they came to Staley's—toplay baseball. But they remained to playhistory making footbalLon the team thatnow is the Chicago Bears. Mintun didn'tjoin the Bears—instead played with Ra-cine three years, then Kansas City aseason—then back to Staley's—this timeto work.

Jack has a sincere admiration for theshifty work displayed by Caroline andadmitted he was more than pleased tomeet and chat — and be photographedwith—Caroline.

THE STALEY

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

2 Blood Record

7 United Fund Charter

8 Fire—666!

12 The Good Life

15 Repair Job

18 High School Football

20 Carnival of Fractures i

Vol. XXXVIII October, 1954 No. 4

Ruth E. Cade Editor

Jack Erickson Photographer

Published monthly for employees of A. E.

Sta ley Manufacturing Company, processors of

corn and soybeans. Mailed without charge to

friends outside the Staley organization six times

a year.

THE UNITED FUND appeal now being conducted in Decatur is inline with a trend throughout the U. S. to lump all possible charitabledrives into one big campaign.

That, of course, was the original objective of the Community Chest,but the growing interest of people in other health and welfare pro-grams has resulted in the development of a numberof other cam-paigns in support of worthy causes. In recent years the number ofagencies carrying on separate campaigns has made fund raisingalmost a year-round activity. The action of Decatur business andlabor organizations in establishing a Decatur United Fund is theiranswer to the confusion and bother of many drives.

They believe that we can accomplish more for these worthy agenciesby putting all of our gifts in one basket and having them allocatedto the co-operating agencies on the most intelligent and equitablebasis possible. That is, of course, what we all want when we makeour contribution.

The present United Fund drive is bigger than any campaign ourcommunity has seen because it represents many drives. When youcalculate the amount of your contribution this year don't forget thatthe list of agencies co-operating in the United Fund includes notonly the Community Chest agencies but also takes in Red Cross,Crippled Children, Heart, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Cerebral Palsy,and USO. The size of our contribution to United Fund is going tohave to be equal to the total that we would contribute to the indivi-dual agencies over the year, if the United Fund campaign is goingto be a success.

This is not to say that you should not also support charities sponsoredby your church or your club or health activities conducted by or-ganizations outside the United Fund if you care to do so but, forthe bulk of our community welfare agencies, you can give theUnited way.

Staley people have always led in their generous support to theseagencies in the past, and we expect you'll be in the forefront in mak-ing United Fund a success this year.

the trend in starchingCHEMICAL WEEK magazine recently took note of the fact thatthere have been a number of significant changes in starchmakingfor the American housewife ... a business estimated to total be-tween 35 and 40 million dollars a year.

"There have been some big changes in preference among house-wives, but these changes have been largely post-war," the maga-zine stated. "Basically, this has become increasingly evident: theU. S. housewife will pay a sizeable premium for convenience. Thatyen for convenience has meant a boom for the makers of liquid,pre-cooked starches."

One of the reasons for the rapid increase of our STA-FLO liquidstarch sales since we first introduced the product in 1946 was thefact that it was the first to be promoted and marketed on a na-tional basis. Being first with a new product is as important as beingfirst in a horse race. STA-FLO owes its present top position in theliquid starch field to accurate market analysis and forecasting, goodproduct research and development, high quality manufacturing, andintelligent, aggressive salesmanship.

community relationsBLOOD CONTRIBUTIONS are about as good a way to demon-strate community spirit as anything we know of, and the responseof Staley employees to the Red Cross Bloodmobile last month cer-tainly added to the reputation of Staley people as good neighbors.We knew that the Central Illinois blood contribution record whichStaley people set last year would eventually be broken, but wedidn't dare hope that the new record would be set in our ownmechanical shops auditorium. It's not taking anything away fromthe representatives of Local 837 of the United Automobile Workersand our own Personnel Department who managed the drive sosmoothly to state that top honors for the fine showing should go toeach and every Staley employee who bared an arm to make a con-tribution. We repeat: It was an excellent illustration of the finecommunity spirit of people who work at Staley's, and has addedconsiderably to your standing in our community.

"I WORKED AT STALEY'S"

IS BOAST OF MANY

• SOMETIMES IT seems that prac-tically every family in Decatur has atone time or another been represented onthe Staley payroll.

That is why we were not too sur-prised the other day to get a call fromLaurence Tangney, long time MaconCounty clerk, telling us that in clearingout a desk he had found a grouppicture taken "when he worked at

Staley's."

"When he worked at Staley's" wasback in 1920 but several men in thegroup are still around here—and righthearty looking, at that. Among thoseare Red Owens, Ira Dunham, and GilHoft. In the group, also, were MikeHonald and Dave Crawley, both retired.And smiling from the very center of thepicture—Newt Simpson, now dead, butstill remembered by older employees asthe most picturesque character in theplant.

NORTH CAROLINA WOMAN

VISITS OFFICE

• AN INTERESTING visitor in the of-fice the other day was Mrs. Ernest B.Huffines of Greensboro N. C. What madeher of particular interest to us—asidefrom the fact that she was a charminglady -was the fact that her father was

a friend of the late A. E. Staley Sr.,founder of the company.

Her father, now dead, was J. TheodoreNeese, who as he grew up in the Julian,N. C., area, knew the Staley family andwas always fascinated, she says, by thesuccess story of the son, Gene, who "hadthat big starch plant in Illinois." Mr.Neese, a sausage manufacturer, visitedMr. Staley in his office here a few times.

Because she had heard so much aboutStaley's all her life, Mrs. Huffines madea speecial trip up to Decatur fromCharleston 111., where she was visiting,just to see the place. A tour of the officebuilding, she said was one of the highlights of her trip to Illinois.

CREDIT UNION MOVEMENT

IS WORLD-WIDE

• SINCE IT was organized 24 years ago,the Staley Credit Union has loaned tomembers the rather staggering sum of$11,439,831. When you are reading inthe papers, as you will this month, aboutNational Credit Union day, rememberthat figure and strut a little, becausethat amount certainly makes the Staleygroup one to reckon with.

There are now almost 20,000 CreditUnions in all parts of the world, in-cluding such places as the Fiji Islands,India and various South American coun-tries. The Staley group, with 3343 mem-bers is just a part of the nine millionmembers included in the groups aroundthe world.

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RecordBRYAN YETTER, br ickmason, smiled broadly

VOLUNTEER, Mrs. Hollis Hise, wife of purchas-ing agent, takes temperature of Beverly Logan,

'products development, Don Amberg, 29 building.

B,>LOOD FLOWED freely and donorrecords were shattered in the Staleyplant Sept 15. That was the occasion ofthe second annual of the mobile unit ofthe regional Blood Bank to the plant.

During the ten hours the unit was inoperation here that day a record-smash-ing 506 pints of blood was collectedfrom Staley employees. This is the sec-ond year in succession the Staley grouphas topped previous local area donorrecords. Last year Staley contributed492 pints in one day.

HAROLD SMITH, personnel, not only helped getin the 506 but a lso gave his own blood for bank.

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This year, as last, the unit visit tothe plant was sponsored by the UAWA-AFL, with the close cooperation of theStaley company. Robert Reinhold, re-gional representative of the union, wasgeneral chairman. Working closely withhim were Harold Smith, personnel inter-viewer, and Gerry Eubanks, placementsupervisor. Nothing was left to chance.A week or more before the date set,posters through plant and offices an-nounced "We Want Your Blood," and de-partment heads and union stewards

SUSIE GEBHART, s a l e s , watched blood pressuretaking operation before going on the final stage.

CARDS in hand, there was a line likethis waiting at all times during the day.

MRS. DENNIS, wife of Rudy, assistantformula feed sa les manager, heads thecanteen. Others: Glen Dicken, lab, JimDustin, production superintendent, andRay Meisenhelter, of the engineers.

HOSPITAL for a day was the plantauditorium, furnished with 15 beds.

S T A L E Y J O U R N A L

FOOD fo l lows donations. Volunteer Mrs. E. R.Buck serves Jody Cross of the storeroom, EileenRoyal of feed sa les , Mary Ann Sanner, who isemployed in the garage, Yvonne Stanley, shops.

SMILING over success are Al Ewing and BobReinhold, representat ives of the Auto Workers.

MRS. HAROLD WILBER, right, below, servescoffee to Smith father and son, Woodrow, #20,and George R., truck operator, in warehouse.

CARL WEBB, syrup refinery, drank coffee afterhe had given blood. He belongs to gallon club.

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SEVERAL TIMES during the day cases letteredin red, like this, were sent on to the Bank.

MRS ROBERT CRAWFORD, wife of engineer, LAST STEP was presentation by Mrs. Hopkins,was volunteer serving Janice Willoughby, comp- wife of Dick, safety director, of pin. Heretroller, Gene Cottle, assistant grain manager. Chet Boyle, assistant shipping foreman, No. 20.

gave each person in his department anopportunity to sign up. There were 585persons registered and only 54 of thosefailed to appear at the Blood Bank.They were balanced by 60 persons re-porting who had not previously regis-tered.

Mrs. Robert Mueller, chairman of theRed Cross Blood Program, expressedparticular satisfaction over the fact thatonly 28 persons were rejected by thedoctors in charge, for medical reasons.She also noted that 121 pints weregiven as replacements for blood receivedby relatives or friends of the donors.

A number of wives of Staley menwere among the volunteer Red Crossworkers, and on the technical staff serv-ing during the day. At the end of the dayeach volunteer was given a bottle of STA-FLO liquid starch by the company. Sev-eral unusual type blood donors wereamong those reporting that day, and anumber of men wefe in the "gallon"class—persons who have given morethan eight pints to the Bank.

Last year's record was tied whenAugust Grunden, refinery, reported. Itwas broken when Ed Lane, meal salesmanager, checked in as the 493rd man,and there was considerable excitementwhen John Lampitt, millhouse, broughtthe number of donors for the day to500.


IHE STALKY United Fund Chapterreceived the first charter in Decatur onSept. 21, when J. W. Patterson presentedit to Lloyd Cox, president of Local 837U.A.W.A.-AFL. Also present at the timewas Roy L. Rollins, director of person-nel, and United Fund chairman for theformation of chapters in industrialplants.

The United Fund drive, which runsfrom Oct. 18 to Nov. 13 is Decatur'snew answer to the problem of funddrives. This year 21 agencies will becombined in the drive for funds. The

, list includes the 15 health and welfareagencies of the Community Chest, Crip-pled Children's Clinic, Heart, Arthritisand Rheumatism, Cerebral Palsy, USOand the American Red Cross. The lastsix in the group formerly staged drivesindependent of the Community Chest.

A number of Staley men are servingas chairmen or on committees workingfor the success of the fund drive.Rollins and Gilbert Jewell, director ofRegion 8, U.A.W.A.-AFL, are co-chair-men of the industrial division. H. J.Roche, public relations director is publicrelations chairman and on his committeeis Robert Stroyeck, chemical engineer-ing in charge of the employee partici-pation publicity.

Staley's getfirst charterin united fund

Company group organizes

to handle giving

through one drive

ACCEPTING the United Fund Chapter charterfrom J. W. Patterson, seated, right, is R. L.Rollins, left. Standing, from left, Beecham Jack-son, Ray Reinhold and Lloyd Cox. representingthe union, Janet Mertz, Harry Walmsley andGerry Eubanks, all representing the Staley Co.

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PRIDE OF the department is the big red fire truck which is always ready to gothe moment the button is pushed to release the door in the garage. Generallya few of the firemen hop aboard, getting into their uniforms as they dash away.

HARRY LYNCH answers the 666 ring in thepower plant, and gives the alarm on the plantsiren and to the fire department of the city.

IN THE GARAGE M. G. "Mac" McKown listensin on fire cal ls, and points to location onchart. He also presses button to open door.


FIRE!^

..•666

CHARLES MURRAY is on seat of big fire truckand ready to go almost as soon as the doorsopen. Truck is off before the siren is sounded.

B,• EFORE YOU HEAR the Staley firesiren four things have happened.

The person who discovers the fire hasdialed 666 and reported it.

A man at the garage, listening in, hasstarted out with the fire truck.

The man who takes the report soundsthe alert in the fire house.

The person reporting the fire has goneto the nearest fire plug to direct thefiremen to the blaze.

Does that sound as if the fire wouldget a good start before there is any ac-tion?

If it does, it is because, in this case,words move more slowly than people.Actually these four things happen al-most simultaneously.

The number 666—the fire call—ringsa phone in the operator's room in thepower house. Harry Lynch, one of themen on duty there, answers it immedi-ately, knowing that the phone has alsorung in the garage where Mac McKown islistening in and has sounded the alert inthe fire house where a man on duty takesthe call. Before Lynch has had timeto walk across the floor to set the firewhistle blowing, Mac has either jumpedon the truck or shouted to one of themen in the garage to do so.

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POINTING to exact location of fire which hehas reported is Paul Nixon, I I I building. Hestays by plug number reported to guide men.

And he and the truck are off. If anyof the firemen have been near enough—and quick enough—to get aboard theyride to the fire in style. But Mac and thebig red truck wait for no man.

VOLUNTEERS follow the assistant chief, GlennClark, center front, as he runs toward buildingwhere fire was reported. Others, from left, areLeslie Adams, John Westphal, both plant pro-tection, and Don Hall, from millwright shop.

A quick get-away is no problem either.The truck is without a doubt the mostperfectly kept piece of equipment be-longing to the company. It has a specialspot in the garage, just inside and facingits own special door. And it is a specialdoor in more ways than one. For as Macanswers his fire phone he presses a but-ton nearby which opens the garagedoor.

By the time the siren is blowing Macand his truck are streaking out of thegarage toward the fire plug reported.He doesn't worry about the Chief,George Leonard, or any of the othermen getting there. The chief has his'own truck and the volunteers pick up ahandy car—or just run.

That fourth thing that happens be-fore the whistle blows is rated as highlyimportant among the firemen. They knowthe vicinity of the fire because the codesignal tells that. They are dependent,however on the man who turned in thealarm, to tell them exactly where thefire is. That is the reason the fire de-partment always urges the person whoturns in the alarm, to dash off to thenearest fire plug and wait for the chief.

Generally by the time the majorityof the firemen are there the truck driverhas the pumper hooked up to the fireplug and everything in order for the mento get going.

LAYING THE HOSE are Charles Clow, feedpacking, at left, Clyde Hoyt, M. & L. mechanicin center and Floyd Cuttill, Elevator A weigher.

At the fire the chief takes three vol-unteers with him into the building toinvestigate the nature and size of thefire. They do not go empty handed byany means. To be prepared for whateverthey may find they carry—

Fire extinguishersHose rollersA lead of ropeA rope hose toolThey may not use water—not nearly

all fires in the plant are so extinguished—but to be on the safe side if it isneeded, the hose is made ready. While thechief is in the building the firemen arelaying the hose, accordian fashion, onthe ground, from the pumper toward thebuilding. This manner of laying out the

FIRST arr ivals atrach hose to hydrant as AndyWhite, left, pipefitter, and Charles Murray, gar-age are doing. Murray drove truck, Andy rode it.

hose, according to the chief makes itmuch easier to pull up into the buildingif they decide they need to do that.

Unlike the firemen in many cartoons,Staley firemen seldom resort to the useof ladders in fighting fires.

"We attack them at the base, if pos-sible," Chief Leonard says. "Only ifthere is no other means of access do weuse a high stream."

While the firemen are volunteers thtchief has four assistant chiefs, one ofwhom is always on duty, and two reliefassistants. The assistants are MorrisFisher, Glenn Clark, Dewey Deckard andJoe White, and the reliefs are JohnMurphy and Leslie Adams.

IT TAKES TWO men to hold thehose on occasions when it is used.Here, from left, Don Hall, LeslieAdams, Glenn Clark, assistant chief.

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BREAKFAST is now a leisurely meal for WalterDavid since he has retired. They often visitwhile he drinks coffee and she waters plants.

READING the newspaper is one of the thingshe does each day—got to keep up with world.

KEEPING the lawn in perfect condition is aboutthe hardest work he does now, he says, but inthat way he can keep in touch with neighbors.

The Good LifeA HANDY MAN with tools neverfinds time lagging, even after retirement.This is the verdict of Walter David,who retired in the spring of 1953 after31 years with the company. Most of thattime he was a machinist, but his dexter-ity with tools is not limited to thattrade.

According to his wife, he has prac-tically re-made their home in the 25

more years they have lived there.According to him, she is just full ofideas like the one she had which re-sulted in completely doing over thekitchen—taking out a door, putting in anarch, putting in new cupboards, andtiling the walls. Mrs. David insists thatsince he can do the work so well, andenjoys it, she might as well do her part—come across with the ideas.

His favorite summer job, she says,is clipping the grass along the side-

walk. He likes it, his wife insists be-cause they live at the corner of Johnsand 22nd and by picking his time, hecan always be out there working whenthe neighbors are Waiting for the bus.Gives him a chance to visit with them.

Taking care of his job at the plant,and keeping his home in perfect con-dition has occupied most of his time,but now that he has the leisure he sayshe thinks he may get out the old gunthis fall and do a little hunting.

He admits that he has developed anew interest this last year. He has be-come an avid television fan. Daytimeshows get some of his attention, but itis the evening programs he looks for-ward to. Before TV, he says, he gener-ally went to sleep in his easy chair ofan evening. Now he sits in the samechair but he never naps now—the pro-grams are too exciting.

EVENING finds him stretched out in his favorite chair watching television. Formerlyhe spent his evening in this same chair, book in hand but sound asleep. TV changed that.

iHE EIGHTH annual Service AwardDinner will be held on January 20.uary 20.

That sounds like a long time off, butthose in charge of these dinners havelearned by experience that late summerisn't too early to start making plans forthe January affairs. For that reasonthe committee to plan this year's din-ner has been named, and had its firstmeeting early in September.

At present this group is lining up aspeaker for the evening. Already otherplans for the affair are forming. Personseligible for the awards have made theirselections and these awards and thewatches for the 25 year people, havebeen ordered.

This year there will be a record-breaking 32 persons observing their35th anniversaries with the company,while 33 will join the quarter-centuryclass. Louis Brand will join the 40 yeargroup.

As usual the dinner will be held inthe banquet room of the Masonic Tem-ple. There is no other place in Decaturlarge enough to hold the 600 or morewhich always attend these affairs.

award groupsets Jan. 20for dinner

PLANNING COMMITTEE for the awards dinnerhas announced date as January 20. Seated,Kathryn Sheeny, representing office women;Lucile Fain, plant women; Merle Blair, union;Frank Lewis, Foremen's Club; Bill Jaske, CreditUnion representat ive; and Carl Waltens, officemen representative.

E-I VERYBODY CxOT INTO the act fora few days out at the extraction plantsin September. That was during theweek set aside for the annual repairshutdown—and this year word has gotabout that it probably will be annual.

Every craft was represented on thisjob, and much of the company's big-gest materials handling equipment wastaken to the scene.

One of the many big repair jobsscheduled for that week was the re-tubing of the big 40 foot long beandrier on top of the fifth floor roof. Thatwas the job the photographer decidedto follow with his camera.

Putting new tubes in the drier meanttaking out the old ones and replacingthem with new ones. The tubes, also40 feet in length, are two sizes—3 and4 yz inches in diameter. They were landedon the roof by one of the big cranes.

ON PRECEDING page Arvle Colter, of theround house, is seating tubes in the big drier.

THIS 40 foot drier on the roof of the preparation builextraction plant was the center of much activity when ne

LANDING the 40 foot long tubes on the roof is best accomplished by a crane. Here Maurice True-blood stands on the roof to guide them in. Since dr ier is on the roof all work on it was done there.

Jing at the soybeaniv tubes were put in.

IT'S A TWO man job when the long tubes have to be put into the bean driers.Here William Thompson and Maurice Trueblood, yards, proceed to put one in.

Staley families are well represented on teams of

THE FOUR men picturedacross the top all playon the Lakev iew team.From the left they areLawrence Hanson, sonof Cleo, control labora-tory; Bob Hedden, sonof Robert, yard depart-ment; Gene Waller, sono f W o o d r o w , g l u t e nmeal operator; and SamYork, son of Isaac, whois employed in the millhouse.

THE FOUR at left, alsoall Lakeview High play-ers are Larry Grunert,son of Emery, machinist;Keith Wilber, son ofRussell, 59 building; El-vin Carter, son of Cager,an inspector in the ship-ping department; DeanRoberts, son of Garland,mill house.

ACROSS the bottom,from left, all Lakeviewplayers , Wayne Tip-sword, son of E. R., No.20 building; Paul Bohn,son of Robert, electri-cian; Tom Gerk, son ofErnest, yards and RaySnelson, son of Jameswho is in extractionpla nt.

By Leek RuthrauffPICTURED on these two pages are 24

darn good high school football players.Every one of them is the son of a manworking at Staley's, so we can be surewe have at least 24 dyed-in-the-wool foot-ball fans here—and I might add a mightyproud bunch of dads. But knowing Sta-ley's I am quite sure there are a lotmore than 24 fans here, and we are allinterested in these boys, and proud ofthem.

The fathers of these kids have a rightto be proud of them. I have watchedthem in action both on the practice fieldand at game time. They are all of thetype that can take care of themselves inthe hard rock 'em sock 'em game offootball.

In these 24 pictured here we haveenough to field two full teams witli acouple of substitutes. If I were a highschool coach I am sure I'd like to havethis two dozen boys as my team. I amsure that all three local high schoolcoaches will agree with me.

High school football has a large fol-lowing here in Decatur. Among the 6,000or more fans who watch our threehigh schools play their homes games area lot of Staley people. If you, when at-tending a game, hear an unusually largecheer go up as the result of some play,

footbal

all three of the high schools in the Decatur area

the chances are one of these Staley boysis involved in the play and the Staleyrooters are just making their presenceknown by cheering on their favoriteteam and players.

Of the three, Decatur High is the topteam in my book. It has a good big lineand some fast shifty backs. It looks likea team that would win the conferencechampionship and if it does the eightStaley boys will have played their part.

I rate Lakeview as the No. 2 teamwith St. Teresa a close third. There are13 Staley boys playing at Lakeview andthree at St. Teresa's. Lakeview has thebiggest boy playing high school footballin the state—Elvin Carter, the 315 poundlineman. He is a hard worker and has adesire to be a real football player.

He has two more years, after thisyear, of high school football playingahead of him. If he keeps up this hardwork I feel sure he will develop into anoutstanding college prospect.

The same three coaches are back againat our three schools and all of them aredoing a fine job. We here in Decatur arelucky to have three such men handlingour high school football.

At Decatur High we have Van Howe.Out at Lakeview the coach is HaroldPetty, and at St. Teresa's we again haveJoe Venturi.

ACROSS the top areTom Coffman, Lakeview,son of Hershel, tinner;Tom Medell, St. Teresa,son of Frank, engineer;John Tokarz, son ofJohn, gluten meal oper-ator; and Larry Lavery,son of Charles, mill-wright. The latter twoboth play on St. Teresa'steam.

A T R I G H T a r e f o u rD. H. S. players. LeeSpears, son of Arch, I I Ibuilding; Darrell Ad-cock, son of Floyd, shiftf o r e m a n , e x t r a c t i o nplant; Don Workman,son of Morris, electri-cian; Roger Fox, son ofArthur, garage.

ACROSS the bottom,also all D.H.S. men are,from left, Allen Short,son of J. L., 20 building;John Duddleston, son ofJohn, 16 building; LynnFranklin, the son of Jack,millwright and Don Si-week, son of Robert,who is foreman in thereclamation plant.

local schools

NEWEST METHOD of artificial respiration wasdemonstrated with David Henderson, son ofJames, millwright, as victim. Walter Scribnerwatched as Dan Kashefska worked on victim.

FRED BILBREY played to the hilt his role as thebadly injured victim. Giving first aid are, fromleft, James Henderson, Billy Brown, Larry Bil-brey, the victim's brother, and David Rogers.

A LATE ARRIVAL might havethought disaster had struck a Septem-ber gathering of Troop 9, Staley BoyScouts. Scattered around were "vic-tims" of shock, drowning, broken legs,etc.—but all for the sake of a First Aiddemonstration. From the looks on thefaces of some of the visitors, many ofthem were surprised that the "victims"survived—but they did, in spite of theirtreatments.

This demonstration in First Aid treat-ment was put on by the members ofTroop 9 under the leadership of theirScoutmaster, Larry Trolia, of 20 build-ing. Parents of the Troop memberswere special guests, and after the "in-jured" had all recovered, the boys servedcoffee and doughnuts to their visitors.

Trolia has recently taken over asScout Master for Troop 9 to relieveMorris Fisher, assistant fire chief, whocarried on in that position alone fortwo years. Fisher was presented with anecktie by the boys of the troop.

With Trolia now are three other menacting as assistants. They are GerryHorton Jr., sanitation; Everett BrownJr., millwright, and Harry Cook, whois not employed by Staley's.

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Recently this group accompaniedTrolia when he took Troop 9 on atraining junket. Outstanding event ofthe trip, according to the boys, were thepies Horton and Cook baked in an oventhey built of old tin cans.

Other Scouting groups sponsored bythe Fellowship club are also stepping upactivities this fall. Post 9, for boys 14years and older, recently had a week endcamping trip at Podesta Big Timbercamp. Adult advisors who accompaniedthem were Hank Meyers, M. and L., andFrank Witt, syrup house.

For the much younger boys—thosebetween the ages of 8 and 11—a CubPack is being reorganized. This is Pack9, with Orval "Lucky" Lewis, mill-wright, as Cubmaster. His assistant isDon Donovan, 13-21 building. Theseboys meet after school one day eachweek for a session of handicraft, work,organized games and just plain fun.

Once a month they gather in a Packmeeting with the parents. Boys of Cubage interested in joining the Pack areasked to call Lucky.

Official meeting place is the ScoutHouse, 2100 E. Eldorado.

AFTER THE PROGRAM—just fun. Front row: David Rogers, son of Bob andDorothy Rogers, boiler room and IBM, Walter Scribner. Rear row: DanK a s h e f s k a , Chuck Thimens and Dale Schawitsch—all of them Troop 9 boys.

Carnivalof FracturesFor Scouts

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Staley man ishonored bySoftball league

u,

Bob Metzger is one of three

named "Umpire of year"

by Recreation Department

i MPIRES are called by various namesbut right now Bob Metzger is called onethat he likes.

Near the end of the Softball seasonthis summer he was named one of thethree "umpires of the year" by the CityRecreation department Softball league.

Bob, who works in the shipping de-partment at 17 building, has been um-piring softball and baseball games, andrefereeing basketball games aroundtown for the last four years. He averagedumpiring seven games a week this year•—sometimes two in one evening.

Bob was trying to play baseball whenhe was so small he was making a nui-sance of himself on the neighborhoodvacant lots. When the grades schoolteam he played on won the champion-ship for small fry, he was incurably bit-ten by the baseball bug.

He wasn't long out of high school whenthe Army tapped him for service. Thenhe got married and now he has threeyoungsters—but the middle one is a boyand he may in turn play baseball.

In the meantime Bob umpires CityLeague games in the summer, and of-ficiates at basketball games in the winter,and tries not to look too proud over hisnew title as Umpire of the Year.

BOB METZGER


IN AN AUGUST wedding Doris Bell, above, andWalter Morganthaler were married in Oakley.She is in accounting, he in the Navy. Herfather, Orville Bell, is on the extra board

FATHER OF THE bride, above, Jo Ann Moutray,is Clarence, labor coordinator, formula feeds.Bridegroom is Clifford Stine. They were marriedin St. Paul's Methodist church, Decatur, Aug. 8.

BOTH BRIDE and groom in the Hodge-Reather-ford wedding Sept. I are named Carol. She isin the Credit Union office, he with the DecaturHydraulic Co. They are living in Moweaqua.

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Three more classes finish Red Cross training courses with Staleymen who took special work as instructors last year

as teachers in charge of the groups.

IHERE WERE NO caps and gowns,and no academic parade, but there wasan important graduation ceremonystaged in the plant auditorium late inSeptember.

The event marked the completion ofthree more classes of intensive Red CrossFirst Aid training. This time there were34 men who completed the course. Earlierin the year 55 men had taken the train-ing. This fall, as last summer, the classeswere taught by Staley men, who them-selves had taken the training last winter.

That first course, an instructors' train-ing course, was given a selected group ofmen who signified their interest in suchwork and their willingness to train forinstructorships. They were taught byEverett Riedel, himself a qualified Red

Cross instructor, who gave the courseunder the auspices of the Decatur chap-ter of the American Red Cross.

At the time they finished their train-ing it was announced that they wouldteach other groups in the company, giv-ing them, not the instructors' course,but the regulation First Aid training.

It is the announced aim of the Safetydepartment to continue these classes untilthere are some men well trained in FirstAid, in each department on every shift.Training is not being confined to plantemployees only, but men from the officesare also being given the opportunity totake this instruction.

By dividing the group of 34 into threegroups each instructor was able to givethe men in his class more individual at-

CLASS GRADUATES in first aid. Harry Walmsley, plant superintendent, standing at left, handingout lapel buttons to graduates. Front, from left, Schenk, Sharp, Rade, Cline, Metiger, Harrison,Hale. Middle row: Bauman, Sheridan, Elder, Donovan, Weever, Naron, Goodman, Huxtable. Inthe rear row are Birkhead, Bailey, Wall, Brumley, Hawthorne, Nichols, Johnson, Lehew, and Horton.

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tention. Classes are held in the classrooms on the third floor of the servicebuilding.

In the recently graduated classes therewere 13 men from the plant protectiondepartment—the largest group from anyone department. They were William Win-ter, Harold Nichols, Montelle Huxtable,Ed Kushmer, Ralph Johnson, Glen Elder,Robert Sheridan, C. Bowles, Frank Car-mack, Glenn Shadrick, Robert Naron,Ted Lehew and Orville Hale.

Others who took the training wereAlva Hawthorne, reclamation; RobertCline, storeroom; Bill Burchard, boilerhouse; Howard Brumley, engine room;Clarence Bailey, syrup refinery; DaleSmith, feed house; Don Donovan, kilnhouse; Percy Tolliver, thin boilingstarches; Frank Witt, and Robert Metz-ger, syrup house; Lyle Bauman, ElevatorD; Holland Goodman, oil refinery; Fer-man Sharp, pilot plant; Vern Spaulding,feed packing house; Walter Rade, ex-traction plant; C. D. Weever, glutamateplant; Al Harrison, inventory control;Gerry Horton Jr., plant sanitation; DickSchenk, personnel; Morris Birkhead,engineering, and Dave Hopkins, graindepartment.

Adding the 34 who finished the courselast month, there are now 89 men in theplant and offices who have had thiscourse during the year. Some who havetaken the training have been with thecompany slightly more than a year, whileone man has a 38 year service record.

Certified instructors with the com-pany, who took the Red Cross training

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TALKING OVER program with instructors is theRed Cross representative, Everett Riedel, at left.Others in the group are, from the left, OtisSmith, Merle Blair, Del Owens and Joe Walsh.

last year, are Leslie Adams, plant pro-tection ; Merle Blair, chemical engineers;Henry Corbridge, 20 building; DonaldDye, small machine shop; Al Ewing,tinner; Dale Fisher, tinner; Herbert Har-less, electrician; Joe Livesay, 19 build-ing; Lee Lyons, electrician; Bob Mills,yards; Bill Richards, shift foreman, oilrefinery; Otis Smith, engineers; DelOwens, millwright; Todd Riley, painter,and Joe Walsh, electrician.

DISCUSSING THE COURSE are, from left, JoeLivesay and A! Ewing, two class instructors,W. A. Nielsen, supervisor of training, andW. H. Walmsley, Staley plant superintendent.

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New mechanicalsuperintendent

IROMOTION of Alden B. Foley asmechanical division superintendent wasannounced in September by W. H. Walm-sley, to become effective Oct. 1.

Foley, who succeeds C. F. Gebhardtwho resigned last year, has been an as-sistant mechanical division superinten-dent since 1948. He has been with thecompany, and in the mechanical divi-sion, since 1937.

He came here immediately followinghis graduation from Rose PolytechnicalInstitute in Terre Haute, where he tookhis bachelor of science degree in me-chanical engineering.

Foley has been called to Army serviceat two different times since he has beenwith the company. From 1941 to 1945 hewas with the Army, for the most part inEngland, France and Germany. He wasrecalled in 1951 and served for two

years, part of the time in Turkey. Heheld a lieutenant colonel's commissionin the ordinance corps.

James H. Galloway is assistant super-intendent in the mechanical division.

Walmsley also announced that effec-tive Oct. 1, the plant protection depart-ment is under the supervision of theplant superintendent's office instead ofunder the mechanical division as form-erly.

Staley's are featured

in Morton magazine

SEEING OURSELVES through theeyes of others can be enlightening. Re-cently the Staley company had such anopportunity when the Morton Salt Com-pany carried a story about the Staleyplant in its monthly magazine Spout.

A picture layout carried an unusualpicture of the administration building,taken from the southwest so that thesign at the entrance to the drive shows.There is also a picture of the drum fillingoperation in the syrup house of a starchfilter and a new an most impressivepicture of the elevators and the extrac-tion plants.

In her story the magazine editor quotesCol. Robert McCormick's Chicago Tri-

bune, which, at the time the administra-tion building was completed in 1930, saidit was a "castle in the cornfields."

Crude oil personnel

give 100 per cent• "OUR DEPARTMENT was 100 per-cent at the Blood Bank," Gerry Reecereminded us the other day. The depart-ment, to which he referred is crude oilsales. Not the biggest in the company,to be sure, with just four members, butas he insisted, "We all reported andgave blood".

This, Jim Moore, manager of the de-partment, reminds us, is the second yearin succession this has happened.

Completing the community consciousquartet Tony Lents and Emery Blythe.


BURTON SMITH, assistant credit manager, isfather of the two above—Jeanette Lynn, 4, andher young brother, Daniel Burton, who is two.

THE DAY she was six years old was a big one forCarol Ann Chamberlain. She had a party andbig cake. Father is Wilmer, assistant grain buyer.

GERALD WILLIAM ELLIS, above, is still so smallhe is called Gerry—a name that fits better. Sonof William, assistant reclamation plant foreman,he was six months old when photographed.

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• FAYE ZELLA CREEKMUR and Ju-dith Ann Edmonson are working in theoffices during the afternoons as part ofthe diversified occupational program ofDecatur High school. They attend classeseach morning, and report to our officeseach afternoon.

• HELEN PARRIS SCHWARTZ hasbeen employed as a transcribing machineoperator. She was formerly employed bythe company.

• RAMONA WASSON has been pro-moted from messenger to clerk-stenog-rapher in the research department. Shereplaces Annamary Myers who resignedto be married.

ASSISTANT FOREMAN• CHARLES R. NUEHS has been pro-moted to the position of assistant fore-man in the sheetmetal shop. In this newposition he succeeds Dwight James whowas promoted to the foremanship of thatshop some time ago.

Nuehs, with the company since 1929;

has worked in the sheetmetal shop eversince he came to the company. He startedas a helper but has been a mechanicsince 1941.

• MARY JANE CARR has been pro-moted from senior transcribing machineoperator to supervisor of messengers inthe service department. She succeedsCarolyn Wright, who resigned to joinher husband, Al Wright, in Atlanta, Ga.He resigned his position as southeasternmeal sales manager a few weeks earlierto take a position in the south.

• THOMAS C. GARREN has been pro-moted from the position of associate re-search chemist to the newly created posi-tion of assistant to the director of techni-cal service, J. P. Casey. Garren came tothe company last year from the VictorChemical Company in Silver Bow, Mont.

• DWIGHT BOLDT has been promotedfrom messenger to junior consignmentclerk in the order department.

• NEW MESSENGERS with the com-pany are Esther Ann Karlowski, BarbaraAnn Deckard, Patricia Ann Witts, TedShelly, Glenn Woodward, William Mil-ler and Delores Schaefer.

• LYLA LEE TAYLOR has been pro-moted from the messenger service tojunior file clerk in the stenographic de-partment.

• SAM ROLLER has been promotedfrom messenger to clerk in the terminalelevators during the soybean season.

SUDDENLY they are Staby girls. Theseare the girls employed in the Indianap-olis office. They are, from left, HelenHill, Mary Curd, and Ninee Austin.


TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT changes recently movedeach of these men up. From left they are LarryTrempel, Lynn Williams and Dick Radasch.

• JANET RIGGINS has been promotedfrom messenger to junior clerk-typist inthe grain department.

• WILLIAM SUTTON has been pro-moted from messenger to clerk in theextraction plant.

LKJHTHALL PROMOTED

a ROBERT LIGHTHALL has been pro-moted from position as rate clerk in thetraffic office to southeastern meal salesdivision. In his new position he succeedsAl Wright, who resigned a few weeksago.

Lighthall started, with the company asa messenger in 1941, but was promotedto the traffic department that same year.

In the traffic office he is succeeded byRichard Radasch who has been an ex-port clerk in traffic since 1950. Hestarted with the company in 1948 as amessenger.

Succeeding Radasch is Larry Trem-pel, who moves up from the position oftransit clerk to export clerk. He hasbeen in the traffic office since 1951. Re-placing him is Lynn Williams who isbeing promoted from the order depart-ment where he has been a junior con-signment clerk.

• CLARENCE WANGROW has beenpromoted to the position of senior clerkin the extraction plant. He formerly wasemployed in the round house. In his newposition he succeeds Henry White whohas been made a foreman.

• MARY HASTINGS has been pro-moted from junior file clerk in the serv-ice department to relief communicationsoperator in that same department.

• CAROLE NOLAND has been pro-moted from messenger to clerk-stenog-rapher in the control laboratory.

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NEW FOREMEN named last month areGlenn Sternes, left, foreman formulafeed warehouse, and Henry White, whobecame foreman in extraction plant.

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25 Years

Here Since 1929• HARRY BURGENER seems to haveentered life with one idea in mind—to bean engineer. During his school years hetook courses toward that and when hewas in the University of Illinois hestudied engineering.

Although he was born in Chicago, hespent most of his younger manhood inthe vicinity of Litchfield and Hillsboro.He was employed in both of those townsin engineering and drafting jobs. In De-catur prior to his coming to the Staleycompany he was employed as a drafts-man with the Leader Iron Works.

He came to Staley's in the fall of1929, when a big building program madeit necessary to expand the engineeringdepartment. He has been employed inthe civil engineering department eversince.

Charles NuehsCharles R. Nuehs was first attracted

to Staley's by the basketball team. Hav-ing played on the famous Witt, 111., Highschool team, he was just what the Staleycoach, Gene Roberts, was looking forin the autumn of 1929. From the recordsit would seem that Nuehs lived up tohis reputation. The Staley team wonthe Industrial League championship

that season, and Nuehs was one of thetwo Staley men named to the All-Starteam.

At first Charlie worked as a helper inthe tin shop and his boss made it easyfor him to be away if there was an out-of-town game. After a few years heplayed less and less basketball, and con-tinued on in the tin shop. In 1941 hewas made a mechanic. A few weeksago he was made assistant foreman inthat shop.

Arthur E. PattonArthur E. Patton was born in Mt.

Auburn, 111., but came to Decatur tolive while he was still quite young. Afterhe finished school he worked for a fewyears as a trouble shooter for GeneralMotors, in St. Louis, but 25 years agohe came to the Staley company.

He has worked in the feed house prac-tically all of the 25 years he has beenhere. And during that time he has learnedmost of the jobs. In 1952 he was a shiftforeman there.

He has always liked country life, andsome time ago purchased an attractivehilltop house north of the city. There heis rapidly developing another of hishobbies. He is raising chickens "just forthe fun of it," he says.

J. E. GharstJ. E. Gharst has worked in two de-

partments since he came to the company25 years ago, but he has worked onvarious jobs in one of those departments.He was hired for the extra board but

Margaret Girl • Arch Spears


after a short time was permanently as-signed to 17 building. After about tenyears there he was transferred to theM. & L. department. He has served invarious capacities in that department.For a long time he was an oiler, andlater was a supplyman.

In 1950 he was made a pump opera-tor in the pumping station, and that isthe position he still holds. He has workedthe third shift there most of the time.

Margaret GirlMargaret Girl was one of the group of

women who came to work in the Staley, cafeterias when the company took overmanagement of its own food service in1929. She was born and had beenbrought up in Oakley, but her husband,the late Melvin Girl, was employed inthe plant, so she decided to take a jobhere.

She was pastry cook, range cook andsupervisor in the plant cafeteria. Laterwhen the company leased the food con-cessions, she worked in the syrup house.During the war she joined the group ofwomen who took over clean-up jobs,and worked as a laboratory cleaner.

Since 1945 she has been employed inthe sewing room.

Arch SpearsArch Spears got his start in life in

Kingsport Tenn., but has lived in De-catur many years. For two years be-fore coming to Staley's he was with theIllinois Power company, in their elec-tric division.

He worked on the extra board for ashort time after coming to Staley's,then, after a short time in the labora-tory, was transferred to the packinghouse. He worked there in various jobsuntil he took over his present one aspress and drier operator in 111 building.

George H. SmithGeorge H. Smith "came to the Staley

plant when the company did its owncar switching, and had its own enginecrews—locomotive engineers and fire-men. Since he had worked as a firemanon railroads before coming to Staley's,his first job here was in that capacity.Later he worked as engineer on one ofthe company switch engines.

After the company gave up its ownswitching he worked in the round housefor a while, and then in the machineshop. He has been a machinist since1936, and most of the time on the sec-ond shift.

Matt WhiteMathais A. (Matt) White took his

first job with the company when a bigbuilding expansion was underway andthe drafting forces were being enlarged.He worked as a draftsman for a numberof years but several years ago was pro-moted to the position of designing engi-neer.

He was born in Lexington, Neb., andall his life has been working with someform of drafting. Before coming to theStaley company he worked for a whileas a commercial artist.

Art Patton

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Retirements• RETIREMENT SHOULD offer no

problems to Harry E. Brown. He is al-ready well launched in a small scalefarming operation, and now he intendsto just go right along with it.

But before he settles down, he is tak-ing a vacation trip to Hot Springs, andhe is going well equipped. The last day heworked his co-workers in the pilot plantpresented him with a suitcase filled witha new outfit of clothes. A committeebought the suitcase but they asked Mrs.Brown to purchase the clothes.

Brown retired September 30 after 24years with the company. During thelast ten years he has been employed asa helper with the development engineersin the pilot plant.

He was born and reared on a farmnear Vandalia, 111., but early in life de-serted the farm for a railroad job. Foralmost 20 years he was employed by theWabash as a switchman.

In August 1930 he came to work forthe Staley company in the same capacity.When Staley's discontinued its switchingservice he transferred to the process de-partment.

• A BOX OF STARCH may have lookedlike a queer farewell gift to Ben H. Boydwhen it was presented him on his lastday with the company. If it did he gaveno sign, but as soon as A. R. Ragel,kiln house foreman explained the situa-tion, he saw the joke. The starch wasfull of silver dollars.

Boyd, with the company for 29 years,retired the last day of September. Inall his years with Staley's he has alwaysbeen employed in some phase of starchmanufacture.

When he came to the company hisfirst job was in the starch packing^^house and later he worked as a paddleiin the table house. At the time of his re-tirement he was vacuum pan operatorin 13-21 building, a job he had held formany years.

Boyd was born in Hillsboro but haslived in Decatur for more than 30 years.He was in the Army for a year duringWorld War I. Ever since he took his firstjob with Staley's the plant has been thechief center of his interests. When one ofhis friends asked him recently what heplanned to do after retirement he re-plied—

"Nothing. If I had wanted to workany longer I would have stayed on at theplant. I didn't have to quit this year."

Boyd's home in Decatur is at 2128East Johns.

Harry Brown

32 J O U R N A L

By Leek

QUESTION:

Do you think Decatur should adopt the council-managerform of city government?

I'm not too familiar with the set uphut from what I know I'd say its agood idea. With a council to lay downthe policies and a top-notch manager tofollow I believe we would have a betterform of government than we have now.

Frank Longhead

17 building

No. Our council members work sixhours and can be reached any time.Under management form they wouldnave to consider a means of livelihoodfirst, before city business.

Jim Moore

Manager, CrudeOil sales

Our present city council has done agood job. I see no reason to change solong as we can elect the calibre of menwe have now. I think we would be foolishto vote out our present commissionersby voting in the management type.

Jim Cozad

Power Div. Foreman

Bob Xihiser

Reclamation

Yes, I think its a good idea. To a greatextent it would take our local govern-ment out of politics. A real good mana-ger could save us citizens a lot of moneyby running the city as a big business isrun. I'm for the change.

Bay Reinhold

Tin Shop

I think council-manager type is themost businesslike, and over the yearswould give the city the better govern-ment. However, I will say I think ourpresent city administration is one of thebest I have ever seen.

_,_•ajf^" George L. Jones Sr.•p' •-• ' Wte Yard Department

i 'I think there are some advantages to

the manager form but I don't think thisis the time for a change. Our presentcouncil has done a good job. Most citieshave made the change because of badcity government experiences.

A. E. Staley Manufacturinq Co.

Box 151

Decatur, Illinois

U. S. POSTAGEPAID

PERMIT No. 49

DECATUR, ILLINOIS(Sec. 34 .66 P. L. & R.)

Harry A.

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1963 E. Prairie

Decatur, Illinois

Form 3547 Requested

FLOODS OF GOLDEN GRAIN ACTUALLY DO SHOWER DOWN INTO THE STALEY ELEVATORS.ESPECIALLY DURING THE SOYBEAN HARVESTING SEASON IN THE EARLY AUTUMN. WHENFARMS THROUGHOUT THE VAST MIDWEST AREA ARE BUSY PLACES. AT ONE TIMEPRACTICALLY ALL GRAIN REACHED THE PLANT BY RAIL. NOW MUCH COMES BY TRUCK.

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