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East Joins West To Establish New Accounting Office

By M A R G A R E T S C O T T OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla-

homa—Seventy-two Sohioans from various parts of the com-pany have joined hands here to help establish and operate a newly expanded Production Accounting Office under the supervision of Assistant Comp-troller Harry May, formerly of Cleveland.

T h e transfers were effected in a move designed to get product ion account ing personnel closer to the field of operations.

Of the 72 people now here, 21 were t ransferred f rom Home Of-fice Finance & Accounting; 8 are temporary; 12 are iormer Okla-homa City Accounting people; 28 are new employees; 1 f rom the Oklahoma City Purchasing De-par tment ; 1 f rom Houston, and 1 f rom the Secretary's Office, Cleve-land.

Transfers by N a m e T h e 8 Sohioans who went to

Oklahoma City temporari ly are: Edi th Colebrook, Eldon R . Groll, Gladys Fronek, Robe r t Shirley, Edward J . Tet lak, Eleanor Tom-kalski, Ar thu r C. Zarbock and Rober t Warnock. Mr. Warnock has finished his assignment and re turned to Cleveland.

T h e 21 who left Cleveland to make Oklahoma City their new home are: Eugene D. Carmichael, F. V. Dil l ingham, Gilbert E. Ed-gington, T h o m a s K. Edwards, Jean A. Hami l ton , Louis T . Hough, Sandrea S. Johnson, Wil-liam H. Johnson, Patricia L. Krause, George H . Lovelady, Wil-liam S. McCullough, Jer ry A. Marcis, Ernest E. Miller, Kermit M. Murdoch, Haro ld E. Neikirk, Carl E. Nore, Dow Snyder, Gay-lord W . Stephens, Wil l iam j . Thomas, Edgar S. Winans , and Theresa Spagnolia.

T h e three f rom other offices are: L. M. Parkhill , f rom Hous-ton; Mary D. Rallis, f rom Okla-homa City Purchasing Depart-ment ; a n d Helen Kilcoyne f rom the Secretary's Office in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A boom year is in sight for the Sohio Travel Service.

Widely heralded as "Another Sohio Service" when Sohio's Merchandising Department first developed the old touring service into a world-wide travel bureau in December, 1945, the new travel service aided 50,000 travelers in its first year. Now, just halfway through 1947, its patronage has already increased more than 50 per cent according to Manager Edward Hamilton.

* Its facilities are free. They are available to customers, employees, and the general public.

Whe the r you plan a j aun t or a journey, whether you plan to travel by car, train, plane, bus, or steamship, the bureau is fully organized to help you.

J o h n G. Hylkema, formerly in the traffic depar tmen t and now assistant to Mr. Hami l ton , and Helen V i n c e n t are among those who will help you match your vacation spot to your income, secure hotel reservations, obtain tickets, suggest and prepare itin-eraries, or explain passport, visa, and foreign money regulations.

"Unfor tuna te ly ," Manager Ham-ilton states, "travel and resort accommodations are still lagging behind the demand ."

H e recommended that em-ployees and others who desire help, forward their requests as early as possible, in order to give the bureau time to meet the com-peti t ion for space and vacation facilities-

Apply at Service Stations Applicat ion for travel service

may be made at any neighborhood Sohio station in Ohio, but direct inquiries by mail, telephone, tele-gram, or in person are welcome.

T h e bureau acts as authorized representatives for all the well known tour companies and travel organizations, and cooperates with various groups in order to main-tain an up-to-the minu te informa-tional file of travel l i terature.

Leaflets, pamphlets , guide books, rate sheets, resort folders, and tour suggestions arrive daily. If they don ' t have what you want, they will get it for you.

Industrial Nurses Elect Mrs. Steibel To Chairmanship

Mrs. Mildred Steibel, nurse in the H o m e Office Medical Depart-ment for the past two years, has been elected chairman of the In-dustrial Nurses Section of Dis-trict No. 4 (which includes Cuya-hoga, Lorain, Geauga, and Lake counties) of the Ohio State Nurses Assoc i a t i on . I n that capacity she headed the sec-tion's annua l din-ner which was re-cently held at Ho- j tel Statler for in-dustrial n u r s e s , physicians a n d surgeons, and per- L sonnel workers.

Sohioans a t t end ing the d inne r were Mir iam Rogers and Dr. C. A. Swan, Flome Office; Mr. and Mrs. George Hi l ton and Mrs. Ellen Dut ton , Cleveland Division; Gus Trikey, No. One Refinery; and Helen Heintz, No. T w o Refinery.

Besides ho ld ing the chairman-ship of the I. N. Section, Mrs. Steibel is on the District No. 4 Finance Committee and has been appoin ted delegate to represent the I. N. Section at the state convention in Columbus this month . She also a t tended the con-vent ion of the American Associ-ation of Industr ia l Nurses, held in Buffalo the first week in May, at which there were nurses f rom 43 states.

Daughter Barbara Ann is Jack Rover's Favorite Model (Story on Page 8)

St. Louis Forms Recreation Club

T h e St. Louis Office recently organized a new Recreat ion Club and made plans to sponsor its first gala affair, a picnic at Blan-chette Park in St. Charles, Mo. Frank T . Metz, Accounting De-par tment , is president of the club; R. F. White , Engineer ing Dept., vice president; Nancy Schnur, Personnel Dept. , secretary; and J. I. Probus, Accounting Dept. . treasurer.

T h r e e pe rmanen t committees, organized to head the club's first year of activities, are: Ath le t i c s -Carl Mertens, chairman; R a m o n McCance, Ray Johnson, Dean Smith, and Eddie Ward ; Soc i a l -Virginia Kessler, chairman; Rose-mary Hogan, Harvey Koehler, Frank Plurt, and Margaret Twy-ford; Budget—Bob Roberts, chair-man; Charles Karcher, Raymond Black, Adolph Schmidt, and FI. C. Spindell .

Sohio Bride's W e d d i n g O n H o l l y w o o d Broadcast Thousands of persons from

coast-to-coast, including The Sohio News staff, heard the Hollywood "Bride and Groom" program broadcast the wed-ding of Edna Campbell, secre-tary to the Land Department manager, Sohio Petroleum Co., Oklahoma City, and Ray Stansel, also of Oklahoma City.

Prior to the wedding, Ray and Edna told how they met in an Ok-lahoma City bowling alley and how Ray proposed to Edna four months later.

Following their marr iage in a chapel across the street, the br ide and groom went back to the radio studio to receive wonder fu l pres-ents, including sterling silver, a camera, luggage, a wedding al-bum, and a gas range. T h e n they left in a special p lane for a honeymoon, all expenses paid, at

Edna Campbell, Sohio Petro-leum secretary, and Ray Stansel who were married May 21 on "Bride and Groom" radio program.

the R io del Mar Hotel , San Francisco.

south of

Other Sohioan Marriages

Canton: Anne Schuster, divi-sion office clerk, and David Mor-gan were marr ied and enjoyed a two-week honeymoon. Toledo: Dorothy Parker, s tenographer, is now Mrs. F. C. Noyes . . . Elsa Stevenson, stenographer, and Paul Lawrence were marr ied and are making their home in Chicago. Toledo Refmery: Dick Heferle, boilermaker helper, was recently marr ied to Mary Mart in . Cincin-nati: Senior operator Brown Hus-ton, at T e n t h and High, and Evelyn Rogers are now Mr. and Mrs.

Ex-Sohioan Designs Gowns

Sales Accounting: Mary Klucho, Accounts Receivable Depar tment , became the br ide of R u d o l p h W. Sigmund in St. Benedict 's Church. Her white satin gown and those

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Directors Announce Military Trainees To_ Get Leave With Pay

Effective May 1, 1947, So-hio's Board of Directors an-nounced the adoption of a plan for granting leaves of absence with pay to employees called to temporary active duty at training camps.

As a measure of cooperation with the military t ra in ing pro-gram of the government , any reg-ular full-time employee who has completed one year of cont inuous service with Sohio and at least one year of cont inuous active service in the armed forces of the U. S. and who is called to camp or other active duty with the Army, Navy, Mar ine Corps, or a Na-tional Guard uni t , may be granted such leave of absence u p to fif-teen days per year.

T h i s policy should not be con-strued as covering absences of one day or less for purposes such as a t tending weekly drill .

Pension, g roup life insurance, hospitalization and E.M.B.A. de-ductions will be made in the reg-ular manne r dur ing this leave of absence.

T h e plan does no t affect the regular vacation with pay to which the employee may be eli-gible du r ing the same year.

An employee granted a leave of absence in accordance with the plan, will receive normal con> pany base pay for the period (not more than 15 days), exclusive, however, of any premiums or overtime pay, with the under-standing that any remunera t ion (not in excess of his normal com-pany pay) received by h im from the government will be re turned to the company.

T h e plan will remain in effect unt i l f u r the r notice; bu t an ex-tension or elaborat ion of govern-men t plans may provoke modi-fications.

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A Sound Basis For Future Plans In spite of the fact that Sohio has often held a deep con-

viction of the great worth of many of the public service cam-paigns which direct their appeals to Sohioans, it has never forced the support of any of these community enterprises.

The Standard Oil Company believes that if employees are given an opportunity to learn the bare facts of any cause, they themselves are quick to sense its value. This has been proved time and again by the whole-hearted response which Sohioans have made to the American Red Cross, Community Chest, Green Cross, Blood Donor campaigns, etc.

Campaign For Bond Purchases Accordingly we wish to bring to your attention the June

through July campaign of the U. S. Treasury Department aimed to increase the purchase of U. S. Savings Bonds through the payroll savings plan.

Since the day the first War Bond was issued all elements in the country have been united on the value of government savings bonds. Although the war stimulus is over, the facts remain the same. Unlike the other public service campaigns, your share in a U. S. Savings Bond is not a contribution; but an investment. You don't buy U. S. Savings Bonds; you can't spend money on bonds—they actually cost you nothing, for you still have your "money" in your hand. You merely take these interest-earning securities from your government in place of dollar bills which do not earn any interest.

Buying Bonds Is Way To Save Most people don't save money, because they just can't get

started. Buying bonds through regular payroll savings is auto-matic and systematic. They offer a sound basis for your plans for a new car, a college education for your children, a vacation, or a new home. Bonds you started buying in 1941 are six years old today. Before long they will be returning four for three, and in the meantime your money is available to meet an emergency. These reasons for saving are every bit as im-portant today as they were three years ago, or five months from last Thursday.

Safety is another important fact about U. S. Savings Bonds. They are safe because the full credit of the government stands behind them. They're safe because if they go down nothing else can remain intact. Savings bonds, furthermore, are safe because the Treasury will reimburse you if they are lost, mis-laid, burned, or destroyed.

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Annuitant Status Achieved by Three— Spees, Furze, Lytle

Forty-two years of active Sohio service was cu lmina ted when Charles E. Spees, assistant still-m a n at the Coke Stills, re t i red f rom Lima Refinery. O n May 11, 1905, a t the age of 25, he h a d been h i red to work in the Labo r Depar t -men t . I n Novem-ber, 1906, he was t ransfer red to the P u m p i n g Depar t -men t as gauger a n d p u m p e r , where he worked for almost 14 years, un t i l he became assistant st i l lman at the Steam Stills.

I n 1932 Mr . Spees, n i cknamed "Davey" by his co-workers, trans-fer red to houseman at the Pipe Stills a n d in August , 1933, was made assistant s t i l lman at the Coke Stills. D u r i n g the War he served a two-year i n t e r im in the Labor D e p a r t m e n t .

Mr . Spees, who likes to fish dur-ing his leisure time, was an hon-ored guest at the semi-annual service p in and r e t i r emen t party at the Ref inery C lub House .

Coving ton Eng inee r Ret i res

Fred J . Furze, eng ineer at Cov-ington Stat ion of the Eastern Di-vision of the Sohio Pipe Line Co., re t i red May 1 wi th 25 years of service to his credit . Born in Cromwell , Eng land , Mr. Furze came to this coun-try in 1905, a n d jgN star ted to work in f % September , 1921, >' | in the Automot ive . "'•* D e p a r t m e n t i n ^ ' f r T o l e d o .

Fie la ter was ^ ~nmmri L t r a n s f e r r e d t o | ^ j H k t ranspor t dr iver ou t of T o l e d o a n d then to the Flee t -Wing Corp. , Det ro i t . In 1940 he r e t u r n e d to T o l e d o as dispatch driver ou t of the refin-ery. F r o m there he wen t to the Covington Stat ion.

Mr . Furze was hono red wi th a farewell d i n n e r by the employees and families of Covington Station and M r . a n d Mrs. H o m e r Carl-son of Rossburg Stat ion; and a d i n n e r par ty at F la rd ing Hote l , Mar ion , Ohio , by the employees of the Eastern Division. Twenty-two Sohioans a t t ended the lat ter , inc lud ing F rank A. Smith, Wil-l iam H . H a u g h t , a n d D o n J . Wa r d , of the Mooresvil le office.

Ends Por t smou th Service

R a l p h P. Lytle, since his re-t i rement f r o m Por t smouth Divi-sion on February 1, has been enjoy- i ing his leisure t ime at his h o m e »„«« in Manchester , ^ { O., re la t ing amus- • ing a n d interest- » iffiST <

"Pop" , as Mr . Lytle came to be called, s tarted

D O N ' T F O R G E T ! T h e scope of bir ths , marriages,

a n d deaths which are listed regu-larly in The Sohio News indi-cates tha t the re is a great ra te of change of Sohioan beneficiaries a n d co-beneficiaries each m o n t h .

I n o rde r to avoid f u t u r e con-fusion, don ' t neglect to repor t these beneficiary changes to the Supervisor of Benefi t Plans .

Changes may b e r epo r t ed via your local pe rsonne l clerk who can also supply you wi th a Bene-ficiary F o r m for your par t icu la r

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, corres-pondence and exchange to the Editor, The Standard Oil Company, Cleveland, 0.

FRANCES KENNEY Editor F. M . PAULSON Associate Editor A N N N E U B A U E R Assistant Editor EARL J . NEFF ' Staff Artist J O H N T R A U G E R Staff Photographer

U N I T N E W S R E P O R T E R S AKRON DIVISION M a r g a r e t S u l l i v a n C A N T O N DIVISION Eleanor Dietz C I N C I N N A T I DIVISION Mi ldred W e n d t C L E V E L A N D DIVISION A n n Cogan COLUMBUS DIVISION Bernice Thompson D A Y T O N DIVISION , Virginia Kelley L I M A C R U D E G A T H E R I N G Betty A . Dickes H O M E O F F I C E Betty Deahl L I M A DIVISION Fred Stover L I T H O G R A P H C A N F A C T O R Y Phillip L. Garvin M A N S F I E L D DIVISION " Helen Drushal M A R I O N DIVISION F . E . Ar thur No. 1 R E F I N E R Y W m . Smith and Jos. Pinos No. 2 R E F I N E R Y E lmer Riendeau PORTSMOUTH DIVISION Nadiner Fenner SALES ACCOUNTING OFFICE V a n e s s a D . G r i f f i n L I M A R E F I N E R Y Alda G . Claypoole T O L E D O DIVISION F. E . Gipson TOLEDO REFINERY F r e d e r i c k E . Gres s l e r YOUNGSTOWN DIVISION W . I . Smith, J r . ZANESVILLE DIVISION J . G. V a n Arsdale S O H I O - F L E E T W I N G , I N C Alyce Boltach S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Houston Division R u t h Maxwell S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Illinois Division F. C. Clark S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Kentucky D i v i s i o n . . . . Mar jor ie Greenwell S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Michigan Division Bernard Michaels S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Oklahoma City Division. . . M a r g a r e t Scott S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Shreveport Division J u n e McGahee S O H I O S O U T H E R N P I P E L I N E S , I N C I la Lee Wilson S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—River Opera t ions J . D . Cal lahan S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Kansas Alice Bell S O H I O P E T R O L E U M CO.—Latonia Refinery R a y Elo S O H I O P I P E L I N E CO.—St. Louis Office M a r y Ellen Fechter SOHIO PIPE LINE C O . — G r a y v i l l e D i v i s i o n R . J . H a g e d o r n S O H I O P I P E L I N E CO.—Eastern Division Mar jor ie A. Smith S O H I O P I P E L I N E CO.—Michigan Division Elwood Kisby SOHIO PIPE LINE C O . — M t . V e r n o n Div is ion W a l t e r B e r t r a m S O H I O W E S T E R N P I P E L I N E S , I N C J . B. Pat ton PRODUCTS P I P E L I N E H . M . Fisher

Refinery Bride is Feted

No. One Refinery girls held a spinster dinner for co-worker Evelyn Vilita {Mrs. John Clements) at Cleveland's Alpine Village. First row, left to right: Helen Heath, Helen Vales, "Bobby" Minnichbauer, the bride, Helen Gorny, Florence Kruggel, "Peggy" Horan. Second row: Betty Skuse, Dorothy Dalton, Kathy Ernst, Marie Belley, Bernice Kvetko, Muriel Jones, Estella Koch.

with Sohio in J anua ry , 1924, as a t ank t ruck driver a t Manches te r Bulk Stat ion. T h e fo l lowing year he was p r o m o t e d to agent a t tha t bu lk stat ion, ho ld ing the posi t ion un t i l 1933 when he was m a d e tank t ruck salesman at Georgetown, a n d then t ranspor t dr iver a t Po r t smou th Bulk Stat ion. I n 1943 he was t ransfer red to the ware-house.

Guests traveled 10 to 250 miles to Lake Arthur, Louisiana, for the first anniversary dinner at Lakeshore Club of field production operations for Seismic Party No. 1, Sohio Petroleum, Hous-

ton. Jim Lasater, observer, cut the birthday cake {arrow); and after Fred Columb poured the champagne, Geophysicist Roy Bennett toasted the Party's enviable record and continued growth.

Six Servicemen Return to Sohio

Six Sohio servicemen re-ported back to work last month.

Akron Division's H e r m a n C. Giles, Jr . , is back at Broad and Second, Cuyahoga Falls, a f t e r a so journ in the Army a n d a stay on the Wes t Coast. E lmer J . Sabo is at 30th and Cleveland, Can ton , as a senior opera tor .

P ipe l ine r R e t u r n s

C. A. Tay lo r has r e t u r n e d to Sohio Wes te rn Pipelines, Inc., fo l lowing his discharge f r o m the Army. Mansfield Division's R . R . Sipes, fo l lowing the t e rmina t ion of his mil i tary service, is a t the Gal ion Servicenter, Bob Hotes re-t u r n e d to Eucl id a n d N o b l e a n d Steve Suhar to 22311 Lake Shore when they were discharged f r o m the army—both are in Cleveland.

The Welcome Mat Have you met the new So-

hioans in your depar tment? Why not look them up and say hello. Remember your first day on the job?

H o u s t o n P r o d u c t i o n — Dona ld Layne, d r a f t s m a n , L a n d Depar t -men t ; J . F. Burdwood , clerk, P roduc ing a n d Account ing; C. H . Vandegaer , j u n i o r in t e rp re te r , Geophysical D e p a r t m e n t ; Juan i t a Vaughn , secretary to F rank John -son, L a n d D e p a r t m e n t .

T o l e d o — A. J . Deangelo , A. Samelak, D. C. Yoder, G. C. Wil l iams, D A. Fe ind t , C. L. Mil-lard, O. H . Simon, J . G. Schramm, G. E. Mande l l , N . A. Gar tee , T . L. Brown, C. W . Gray, J. E. Bishop, M. R . D e C a m p , R . L. Hayes, F. D. R u h l , R . J . Adams, R. L. Maple , J . Z immerman , FI. A. Stagge, D. L. Roster , W . R . R o t h , a t service stations; J . P. Strope, E. G. Stoner , C. Rys, con-st ruct ion mechanics ; a n d B. L. Johns , garage mechanic .

O k l a h o m a City P r o d u c t i o n — Pamela Wat t s , Geological Draf t -ing; M a r j o r i e La r imore , Indus-tr ia l Re la t ions ; a n d Foye Bene-field, P r o d u c t i o n Payroll .

C a n t o n — B e r n a r d McCaul ley, R o b e r t Snee, A lbe r t B u t t o n , Wal-ter Ickes, J u l i u s Gergel , at the t r a in ing center ; a n d Be t te Scatter-day, s t enographer , division office.

Dayton—Freder ick Becker, Geo. Vorpe, W i l l i a m H e c k m a n , Edward Sowell, A l f r e d Dye, L ione l H e m p -ling, J o s e p h Clemens, R o b e r t Wr igh t , A r t h u r Keller, R o b e r t Mitchell , W i l l i a m Flarrow, Ern-est Emmons , R o b e r t Smith, James McKisic, Lewis Wi l l i amson , at service stat ions; Edgar M u m m a , Springfield Bu lk P lan t ; Sallie Hea rd , clerk, M a i n a n d Bruen ; Mrs. Gi lda Hughes , division of-fice s t enographer .

L a t o n i a Ref ine ry — R o b e r t Hurs t , J r . , George W a r r e n , Yard D e p a r t m e n t ; H . D. Applequis t , co-op f r o m the Univers i ty of Cin-c inna t i , j o ined the eng inee r ing staff.

C inc inna t i — Charles Bredwell , N o r b e r t F ryman , Ear l M a h a n , H e n r y F rondo r f , H a r r y Shumate , dr ivers at Tennessee Avenue ; J ames Wi lpers , garage mechanic ;

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SKEMBBKKmm- — Photo by II. A. Humiston

THE CHEMICAL RESEARCH Laboratory, background in the above picture, was on the itinerary of these Sohioans who gathered for an Industrial Sales Conference last month.

SAMSPONSELLOR, Regional Director, C. I. O.; Thomas Fairley, No. One Refinery; and President W. T. Holliday were speakers at the No. One Refinery Dinner - Dance at-tended by more than 300 per-sons. The affair, held in honor of six retiring Sohioans, was em-ceed by Kal Spluvak of the Refinery.

JOHN REGAN, black - face comedian, was one of the en-tertainers at the Minstrel Show sponsored by Lima Re-finery and Lima Division. The show, held at the refinery club house, was arranged by C. C. Cleveland and M. R. Wendelmoot.

Photo by Charles Proctor

A SOHIOAN FAMILY GATHERS to celebrate the fifth birthday of Ronnie Williams, son of Charles Williams, 93rd and Cedar, Cleveland. With Ronnie are his mother; Virginia Williams; his grandmother, Grace Proctor, wife of Charles Proctor, Home Office hall man; his cousin, Olive White, and his aunt, Bessie Batch.

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THE FATHER AND SON TEAM IN THE SADDLE ARE Don Stevens, left, and O. E. Stevens, Akron Heat Department Man-ager, and Mrs. Stevens, on foot.

Saddle H orses P r o v i d e Spi r i ted Recreat ion for A k r o n Family

By M A R G A R E T S U L L I V A N

A K R O N , O h i o — T h e hoofbeats of racing saddle horses, more familiar to Sohioans in the western states than Akron Division employees, are however a daily sound for Akron's Sohio H e a t Depar tment manager , Orville E. Stevens.

back to his first days wi th T h e S t anda rd Oi l Co., 27 years ago. H e s tar ted ou t as a t ank wagon driver , a n d for the first th ree

U n l i k e the h o m e workshop en-thusiasts, Steve's passion is the j reat ou tdoor s a n d horses. Steve oresently owns two horses, b u t he ran recall a s t r ing of eight which tie has h a d at o n e t ime or ano the r . Nei ther , he says, are show horses; iteve, his wife Stella, a n d the i r son D o n en joy r i d i n g t hem in a n d i r o u n d Yellow Creek, G h e n t , a n d Bath townships . D o n , who is now 16, s tar ted to r i d e when he was 12, a n d Steve insists t ha t D o n is the be t t e r r ider . Mrs. Stevens does less r i d i n g t h a n f a t h e r a n d son, but she never fails to a t t e n d the liorse shows wi th Steve a n d D o n , who k n o w pract ical ly every horse 's name a n d the first n a m e of the r ider in this p a r t of the count ry .

Steve's love for horses dates

years he drove day in a n d day ou t , sometimes fou r horses to a wagon d u r i n g bad weather .

H e has only to step ou t to the tool r o o m at the A k r o n yards to find a sharp r e m i n d e r of the days when horses were a means of work instead of pleasure. H e r e the r ings are still in the wall whe re the horses former ly were fas tened in the i r stalls. T h e sight also never fails to r e m i n d h i m of J i m , a one-man horse who ba lked for anyone o the r t h a n Steve. Steve o f t e n wonders wha t h a p p e n e d to J i m a f t e r he was t rans fe r red to Cuyahoga Falls.

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Service Pin Award s

June, 1947

50 YEARS George N. Crooks Annuitant

45 YEARS Amos G. Mauk Annuitant Martin Szymanski Annuitant

40 YEARS Ralph O. Cowin Home Office Dan W. Dority Home Office William J. Franklin Lima Refinery George Kamp Home Office

35 YEARS Roy Marshall Lima Refinery John J. Soederstrom. Lithograph Can Factory

30 YEARS Edgar W. Allgower Home Office Herman F. Fisher. Sohio Pipe Line Company Guy J. Munger Mansfield Division Steve Solski No. 1 Refinery

25 YEARS Ray B. Gunn Toledo Division Clayton Heinz Home Office Carl H. Metz, Jr Home Office Maurice C. Vonck Toledo Refinery Harry R. Wilson Columbus Division Charles G. Young Mansfield Division

20 YEARS Walter B. Helphrey Columbus Division Patrick H. Hensley Products Pipe Line Vincent E. Sauer Zanesville Division Ladimer E. Shafranek No. 2 Refinery

15 YEARS William G. Boyd Dayton Division Salem A. Hart, Jr Cleveland Division Joseph J. Kish Cleveland Division Charles K. Strong Home Office Joseph F. Supensky Dayton Division

10 YEARS Stanley D. Ashcraft.... Sohio Petroleum Co.

(Latonia Refinery) John H. Bergman Toledo Division Jack C. Besaw Akron Division Guy E. Bullock, Jr Akron Division Loren H. Carr Toledo Refinery Charles L. Cousino Toledo Refinery

Homer H. Cowell Toledo Refinery Harold E. Emch Toledo Division Karl Engel Toledo Refinery William H. Fletcher No. 1 Refinery Wilbur L. Hamilton Toledo Refinery Donald W. Heil Home Office George J. Hulvat Cleveland Division Clarence L. Jeandrevin.... Canton Division Andrew Kichka No. 1 Refinery Ellis E. Kile Canton Division May Peth Home Office Robert A. Pierce Toledo Refinery Herbert J. Reichart Zanesville Division Charles E. Rodgers . . . . Sohio Pipe Line Co. Forrest H. Shank Toledo Refinery Kevin N. Thompson Toledo Refinery Elbert C. Tipper Youngstown Division Walter L. Weir Dayton Division

5 YEARS Daniel V. Anderson Toledo Refinery William Asman Toledo Refinery Dale M. Beavers Toledo Division Noal M. Belkofer Toledo Refinery Jessie L. Benedict . . Lithograph Can Factory Herman G. Brandt Toledo Refinery Lee C. Brazie . . . Sohio Petroleum Company Richard A. Brust Akron Division George E. Butler.Sohio Petroleum Company Bentley S. Case.... Lithograph Can Factory Therlis L. Clift.. .Sohio Petroleum Company

(Latonia Refinery) Ann M. Cogan Cleveland Division

Allan A. Cook Cleveland Division Mary E. Delo Zanesville Division Dorothy G. Demuth Home Office Lucille L. Fackelman Home Office Richard G. Fangman Toledo Refinery Philip S. Fay Home Office Bert E. Fisher Toledo Refinery Rollen P. Franklin Home Office Robert D. Furnish Cincinnati Division Robert L. Gillen Portsmouth Division Carl D. Gillespie Toledo Division Gene R. Groll Toledo Refinery Helene G. Bobowski Home Office Jerome Grummitt Cleveland Division Glenn B. Hamilton Toledo Refinery Helen M. Hanzo Home Office Barbara F. Hegedus No. 2 Refinery Ausby H. Henderson.. . Sohio Pipe Line Co. Robert E. Hense Home Office Curtis A. Hill Cleveland Divisicn Robert A. Hine Cleveland Division Lawrence L. Jameson. . . Cincinnati Division Theodore Kallach No. 1 Refinery Harry R. Klosterman Toledo Division Mary C. Klucho Home Office Stanley A. Konicki No. 1 Refinery Ralph H. Langendorf Toledo Refinery Bessie L. Lasko Toledo Division Ralph D. Lewis Lima Division George W. Lumm, Jr Toledo Division Anna C. May Akron Division Helen D. McGrail Cleveland Division John W.[Moore Lima Division

Fred S. Moring Toledo Refinery Ida A. Neupauer Cleveland Division John P. Noreika Toledo Refinery Vernon L. Odom... Lithograph Can Factory Irene Olah Cleveland Division Joseph G. Palka Toledo Refinery C. J. Pawlowski.... Lithograph Can Factory David E. Petteys Toledo Division Richard L. Pfitzer Toledo Refinery Miriam L. Plagenz Home Office Dale N. Pleitz Toledo Refinery Lawrence W. Purser Toledo Refinery Clifton J. Ream Toledo Refinery Edgar E. Rehn. . . Sohio Petroleum Company Douglas P. R enaker Cincinnati Division George R. R eynolds Toledo Refinery Carl E. Rice Cleveland Division R. E. Riddlebarger, Jr . Portsmouth Division Leroy J. Robinson Home Office Everett E. Rogers Columbus Division Walter A. Rutkowski No. 1 Refinery C. Denzil Saunders .. . .Sohio Pipe Line Co. Frank J. Scheel, Jr Columbus Division Martha A. Schmager Toledo Division James T. Schrubb Toledo Refinery Clara I. B. Schultz Home Office Valerian F. Sernka No. 1 Refinery Joseph E. Sheatzley Cincinnati Division George J. Silver Cleveland Division Catherine A. Smith Columbus Division Marion E. Smith Dayton Division Elizabeth J. Spangenberg Home Office John T. Stephenson Cincinnati Division Herman L. Summers. . . Sohio Pipe Line Co. Eugene F. TenEyck Toledo Refinery George S. Thompson No. 1 Refinery Robert M. Tignor Cleveland Division Anna B. Tinics No. 2 Refinery Dexter O. Tribby. Sohio Pipe Line Company Kenneth R. Turner Portsmouth Division Darrell V. Van Horn Toledo Refinery Robert J. Velliquette Toledo Refinery Arthur L. Vogelpohl Toledo Refinery Dennis D. Walker Cleveland Division John F. Weisenburger Toledo Division Richard K. Wells Canton Division Harry W. Wilbert Toledo Refinery Glen A. Willard. .Sohio Pipe Line Company Calvin Williams Cleveland Division Robert B. Williams Home Office Eleanor H. Zak No. 2 Refinery

TOLEDO REFINERY - "Let's All Get Acquainted" tons the theme of the Sohio Recreation Club's big spring party. Dancing and refreshments drew the largest turnout of the season . . . Jim Schrubb's bowling team nosed out Connie May's team for prst place in the Standard Oil League.

Mansfield—Dick Starrett took a chicken home and pu t it in a crate in the basement unt i l he was ready to kill it for the din-ner table. T h e next evening he discovered the chicken was out of the crate and roaming a round the basement. H e couldn' t catch it by chasing it, so he tried lur ing it wi th a h a n d f u l of corn. Finally he resorted to the pursuit rout ine again. T h e n he lost his temper! H e hasn' t repor ted what hap-pened to the chicken.

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Toledo—The spring meet ing of the To ledo Uni t Quar te r Century Club was held at Swiss Hall, for which Har low Webb, Earl Hall , Ray Hershman, Hezzie Ward , Harry West, and Goclfry Ladd prepared a fish fry . . . Ninety employees of To ledo Division and Refinery were present at the Serv-ice Pin Dinner at the Commodore Perry Hotel . John Remmel , an-nu i t an t of To ledo Division, re-ceived a 50-year pin . . . Mrs. Harold Hei lner rates tops with the dealers and distributors in her husband's field since the delicious dutch luncheon she served at their meeting.

Latonia Refinery — T h e semi-annual service pin banquet of Cin-cinnati Sales, Latonia Refinery, and Bromley Te rmina l was held at the Cincinnat i Club. R. E. Preston, S. R . Bolles, S. H . Elliott, and C. H . Metz, Jr., were speak-ers . . . Frank LeFort , mechan-ical super in tendent , tr ied to push down a small tree by bracing his back against the side of his porch and pushing with his feet. Some-thing went down: 250 bricks and a slab of concrete f rom the porch. . . . J o e Pollard, boilermaker, had an exciting past mon th . His daughter Aileen was marr ied to Raymond Cleary, with A1 Schild singing at the ceremony; Joe won the bowling shoes offered by S. R. Bolles with a score of 233; he became a g randfa ther when his son Melvin was presented with a daughter . Next event on Joe's calendar is the marr iage of his daughter Laverne to Bob Nie-haus . . . T h e bowling team of G. Jackson, C. Bach, R. Mulloy, R . Hughes, and B. Vastine won the r u b b e r match with the Cin-cinnat i Division. Mulloy rolled the high single game and Hughes the high three game.

CINCINNATI - Annuitants Charles Specht and Bert Spohn dropped in to see the gang . . . Bob Hughes, service station su-pervisor in the Midclleton area, is a deacon in a Middletozun church.

Oklahoma City Product ion — Steve Maples and J . L. Strat ton went on a field t r ip to the Ouachi ta Mounta ins . . . W . W . Brown, district geologist f rom Wichita Falls, spent a few days in the office.

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River Operat ions — Geraldine Oeth spent a weekend at Wyan-dotte Cave—had a fine time in spite of a mild case of poison ivy-

Akron—Akron's bowling team in the Ohio Business Men's league tied for th i rd place. Glenn Hol-m a n tied wi th three others in third place with an average of 160 for 93 games out of 105 played.

| mi Peck, T B A clerk, had a 160 average for 15 games. T e a m mem-bers were Holman . Peck, C. M. Brubaker, W . E. Beier, Louie Tay-lor, Zack Gray, Wal ter Scott, and A. Gray . . . Bob Osborne, tank truck driver, discovered that turn about is fair play. W h e n he got stuck in the m u d making a night delivery to a circus, one of the elephants gave him a he lp ing push . . . J o h n D. Watts , 13-year-old son of Jack Watts , examiner, got his first-prize article "Christ, the Light of the World ," pr in ted in a Bath Townsh ip publicat ion. . . . Nationally-known Frankie Carle had breakfast at his friends' house, the W i l b u r Eshelmans.

Canton—Station Manager Mat t Morvatz and his wife went to Rochester, Pa., to visit a buddy of Matt 's f rom the 751st T a n k Battal ion . . . Part-time Opera tor Delbert Uhrich won honorable ment ion for his essay on "Print-ing" at T i m k e n High School.

Mt. Vernon Pipe Line — T h e strange fever which A1 Westman, shop mechanic, said he had one morning, tu rned out to be "fish-ing fever" . . . A handpower lawn mower has been purchased for the lawn a round the office, L. R. Ainscough furn ish ing the power.

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Lima Refinery—The Lima Re-finery and Lima Division Service Pin Dinner was held at the Re-finery Club House. C. C. Cleve-land, president of the state Quar-ter Century Club, received his 45-year pin, and W. E. Rice and W. J . Frankl in received 40-year pins. . . . T h e Supreme T e a m came out on top in the bowling league, winn ing 67 games and losing 38, with an average of 704. T e a m members: H . V. Carolus, captain; H. V. Semken, C. E. Maxwell, A. R. Weber , H . V. Anderson, and H. L. Ewing. High scorer was R. K. Huston, assistant office man-ager, with 244. Members of the "200" club are R . K. Huston, R. D. Davis, A. R . Blank, C. E. Max-well, R. F. Wilson, R. E. Hall , H. V. Semken, J . F. Ridenour , A. R. Weber , R . S. Armstrong, R. K. Jewell, R . A. Bishop, C. F.. Mil-ler, J . Nicoline, I. I.. Peterson, W. F. Beeler, and H. L. Ewing. Prizes were awarded at a d inne r dance at Lost Creek Country Club.

Sales Accounting — R u t h Nor-man, Ann Matyaszek, and Grace Campion have been ini t iated into Beta Sigma Phi, in ternat ional business girls' sorority . . . George Baum, Stock Dept . , opened his lunch one day to find he had picked u p a bag of socks to be darned .

Dayton — Seventeen pin recip-ients were present at the Service Pin Dinner held at the Bee and This t le Res tauran t near Fairfield, O. C. H . Margraf was toastmaster and presented A. J . Dudley, Bulk Station agent at Eaton, with his 25-year pin and Quar ter Century Club membership certificate. E. C. Vesy, annu i t an t , eligible for his 30-year pin, was not able to be present . . . T h e Standard Oil Bowling T e a m emerged in first place at the end of the season . . . T h e Sohio Bowling T e a m and the Standard Oil T e a m played the To ledo Division teams with the Dayton men coming out on top. T h e scores were: Sohio T e a m — Guy Hickman, 465; Bud Morris, 557; Bob Heintz, 518; Lou Schwartz, 495; Spencer Bowman, 515. Standard T e a m — Frank Glasscock, 481; Paul Cremeens,

| 475; J o h n Neff, 430; Earl Shoup,

445; and Ernest Hakes, 507 . . . A week-end fishing party was en-joyed by Harold Canned , W. H . Thomas , T o m Glasscock, Guy Hickman, Roy Stockwell, Lou Richardson, Haro ld King, Mark Dooley, Leonard Kuckherman, Gene Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barker, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ditzel and son Don, who caught the largest fish.

SHRE VEPOR T P R O D U C-TION — L. A. Warren, new dis-trict land man at the Jackson, Miss., office, was presented with a brief-case by the employees of the Land Dept. and the Sohio Recreational Club as a going-away gift . . . Brame Womack, J. T. Reynolds, C. W. Day, Jr., Paul Thiel, Roy Fisher, Joe Gaspard, Joe Tischner, Bill Ranney, and Leo Recknagel are golfing fast and furiously these days in an attempt to win the weekly pot of $10.

Columbus — A large crowd at-tended the dance held at the Rose R o o m of the Virginia Hotel . L. V. Krueger, Bulk Station agent at Reynolds Avenue, won first prize in the quiz program and Mrs. Charles Mote (Mote is manager of High and New England, Wor th ing ton) won second. Mr . and Mrs. H e r b T h o m p s o n won the waltz contest.

H o m e Office—The second for-mal dance sponsored by the H o m e Office Recreat ion Club held at Hote l Carter was as suc-cessful as the first. Over 500 mem-bers and guests danced to the music of Charlie Barrgtt 's _ 12-piece orchestra. Much credit went to R u t h Perry, secretary, who was chairman of the dance . . . Ninety-five women bowlers and C. H . Metz, Jr . , and J o h n T . Bird at-tended the bowling banque t of the Sohio H o m e Office Girls League a n d the Standard Oil Ladies League. Pearl Zerambo, Betty Ril ing, Helen Vrabel came out tops (in that order) in the single game scores of the Stand-ard Oil League and Lillian Pro-kop, Eleanor Hess, and Arline H a r t m a n were single-game high in the H o m e Office League. Mary Kulie and Mildred Shaw received boxes of Wheaties as the leagues' low scorers . . . Howard Pres-ton, Cleveland Newspaper col-umnist , devoted one. of his articles to a character sketch of Ra lph Har t ' s (Tax Dept.) five-year-old son . . . Samuel M. Darling, Chem Research Lab., received a Ph. D. in organic chemistry f rom Western

Reserve University.

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Cleveland—E. G. "Bud" Got t is still saying good-bye to his many fr iends acquired through 18 years of Sohio service. H e resigned re-cently to become president of Multi-Ways Industries, Inc., manu-facturer and distr ibutor of pa in t products . . . When Charl ie Schreiber, Chardon Bulk, was un-able to a t tend the Geauga Maple Festival because he has been con-fined to his bed since last June , the Chardon R u b e Band sere-naded h im at his home.

Portsmouth—W. H . Rit terhoff , Sohio Hea t salesman; Charles Winn , clerk; C. E. Wagner , clerk; H- D. Lochbaum, clerk; and J o h n Marshall , Sciotoville T e r m i n a l agent, went to Waverly, O., for the annua l inspection of the Ma-sonic Lodge. Given Shoemaker, tank truck driver at Chillicothe, is beg inn ing his second year as Worsh ip fu l Master of the Waverly

| Lodge.

TROPHIES WERE AWARDED at a bowling banqnet to members of the top bowling team in the Columbus Division, who were (left to right) E. M. Riley, E. F. Evans, L. F. Kaiser, J. Mathews, and E. T. Coady.

WHO WAS CHIEF COOK is debatable, but H. Webb, E. Hall, G. Ladd, C. Saunders, R. Hershman, C. V. Smith, H. Ward, and H. West all lent a helping hand in preparing the fish fry for the Toledo Unit Quarter Century Club Party.

DINNER IS SER VED, via chow line, at the Lima Refinery Bowl-ing League Party. Back row: W. A. Goodbar, R. D. Davis, M. U. Zimmerman, Home Office, R. A. Ludwig, and R. W. Kendrick. Front row: I. L. Peterson, W. F. Beeler, R. S. Armstrong, and A. R. Weber.

A 10-YEAR SERVICE PIN is presented to Clyde Lapham by Walter White as other Sohio Pipe Line, Michigan Division, pin recipients look on. Left to right: Walter White, Eber Spencer, Clyde Herlan, Clyde Lapham, Stan Michael, Walter Helrigle, Elwood Kisby, Harry Gunton, Melvin Gray, Dick Harkins, Joseph Hackett, and Glenn Gorby.

LOW COLUMBUS TEAM got dunce caps. They are K. C. McComb, Bob Nutter, Carl Shaw, I. L. Timmons, and John Kidwell. (They were also compensated with small trophies.)

Deaths: Illness Is Fatal T o J. W . Herron

John W. Herron, 75-year-old Lima Refinery annui tant , died April 16 at St. Rita 's Hospital after an illness of two weeks.

H e was employed as a laborer February 1, 1919, and re-tired September 1, 1937.

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H e had resided in Lima for thc past thirty years and in re-cent years had made his home with his daughter , Mrs. Flossie Bob-son. Mr. Her ron was a member of the Second Bap-tist Church and was custodian of the church unt i l the time of his illness.

All Sohioans extend sympathy to his survivors: daughters, Mrs. Flossie Bobson and Mrs. Faye Corbett , Lima; sons, Russell and Wil l iam Her ron , Columbus.

Killed at T r a i n Crossing Eugene O'Keefe, also 75 years

of age and a Lima Refinery annui-tant , was killed April 21 at the Main Street crossing of the Penn-sylvania Rai l road in Lima. Since there were no wit-nesses, details of the accident are lacking. H e had gone to the busi-ness district early k in the a f te rnoon and is believed to have been on his way home when the accident happened .

Mr. O'Keefe was born in Abby Fayle, I re land, coming to the Uni ted States at the age of 9 years. H e was employed in May 19F3 at Lima Refinery and worked as sub-foreman in the Labor De-par tment , in the Pipe Shop, and was transferred to watchman in 1931 where he worked unt i l he ret i red "in August 1937. Dur ing the emergency, he re tu rned to duty in J u n e 1944 as a guard and worked unt i l August 1945.

Sohioans extend sympathy to his daughter , Mrs. James Christie, St. Louis, and one son, Eugene of Lima.

Dies Suddenly at Work Carl Lash, 54-year-old Canton

Sohioan of Beach City, died sud-denly May 3 af ter suffering a heart attack while at the Fleck-noe Service Station in Navarre.

Mr. Lash came with the com-pany in February 1931 as a clerk and was transferred to bulk sta-tion a g e n t at Reach C i t y in 1932. He held this j g position u n t i l B . J a n u a r y 1947 gV ^ w h e n he was P p * ' ^ ^ t T / t r a n s f e r r e d to • N m I p Canton Bulk as tank wagon sales- tittm man.

Born at Bolivar, Mr. Lash lived his entire life in Stark County. H e was a graduate of old Central High School in Canton a n d Otter-bein College. He was a member of the U. B. Church at Beach

City and of the IC. of P. Lodge there. Hav ing been an employee of Sohio for 16 years, Mr. Lash was well-known throughout the division.

Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Dora Lash; one daughter , Mrs. J e a n n e E. Fisher: one grand-son; and a sister, Mrs. Zelma Demorest of Pit tsburgh, to whom we extend sympathy.

Family Deaths T o these Sohioans we extend

sympathy upon the death of their fathers: Betty Weisend, Sales Ac-* count ing Accounts Receivable; Clara May, Sales Accounting Bulk Station; Jocelyn Christian, Sohio Petroleum, Houston; Ray Mark-ley, Toledo; Donald Orr , Youngs-town; Donald W a r t h and Jim Thompson , Cincinnat i ; Charles Allen, deckhand on the Fleet-Wing, A1 Dey, dealer sales man-ager, Cleveland, and to Jim, driver, and George Menzing, Pearl and Bradley, Cleveland.

O u r sympathy goes to Patricia Natto, Sales Accounting Steno-graphic; J o h n Watts, Akron exam-iner; and James Froman, Cincin-nati truck driver, whose mothers died.

Sympathy is also extended to Evelyn ICosty, Sales Accounting Btdk Station, on the death of her grandfa ther ; to Hazel Eschweiler, same depar tment , on the death of her grandmother ; to Bill Ellis, Mt. Vernon construction worker, on the death of his grandson; and to Betty Ladd, Sales Accounting stenographer, on the death of her mother-in-law.

S a f e t y D i r e c t o r I s

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T h i s is the invitat ion which R. T . Henderson, Sohio's safety director, received asking h im to a t tend T h e President 's Conference on Fire Protection in Washington, D. C., on May 6, 7, and 8. T h e 2,000 delegates were welcomed by President T r u m a n who thanked them for accepting his invitation to come to Washington to deter-mine the causes of the 830,000 fires that occur annual ly in the Un i t ed States a n d to map ou t a program of preventive action.

Mrs. A. V. Karpinski (Continued from Page 1)

of her a t tendants were designed by former Sohioan Betty Bogesch, who now operates her own bridal shop.

Prior to the wedding, Accounts Receivable girls gave a d inner party for the bride at ICieffer's Tave rn and presented her with a mirror. Former Sohioans at tend-ing were R u t h Dudley, Margie Legate, Coletta Washington, and Mabel Radtke .

No. One Refinery: Evelyn Vilita is now the wife of J o h n Clements. She was given an elec-tric waffle iron by the girls in the office when they held a spinster d inner in her honor at the Alpine Village . . . Helen Holt , Lafayette, Ind., became the bride of Richard J. Popple ton, metal inspector. Portsmouth: Don Sprinkle, senior operator at Main and Walnu t , Wilmington, and Helen Walker , also of Wilmington , are now Mr. and Mrs.

T w o Sohioans T a k e Vows Home Office: Joe August, Jr. ,

Tech Service, and Joan Weise, who resigned f rom that depart-ment May 15, were marr ied and honeymooned at Sea Island, Ga.

G r e a t - G r a n d m o t h e r From Scot land Finds A m e r i c a n W a y s A m a z i n g Catherine Ann Hindman, 3, Mabel's daughter, and Baby Sharon Lee Campbell, Mabel's niece, meet Granny for the first time.

By B E R N I C E T H O M P S O N

COLUMBUS, O h i o - A seventy-year-old great-grandmother, Cath-erine McGrae Campbell , of Gols-pie, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, is here to visit her son and her son's children, one of whom is Mrs. Mabel Campbel l H i n d m a n , Col-umbus Division Office stenog-rapher .

W h e n Columbus Division per-sonnel met M a b e l ' s grand-mothe r they ex-p r e s s e d amaze- • • • ^ • • • • • j m e n t t h a t a • • H H ^ ^ H j woman of her age ^ M F ^ w o u l d a t tempt H H

• an ocean crossing. j f l K ^ J H But the S c o t c h fff l a d y ' s age has H H t X 2 | little to do with her a c t i v i t i e s . -She has outlived . . , , T r . ,

. , Mabel Hindman five of her seven children, and is presently engaged in opera t ing two fishing boats with the aid of a son.

"I am more amazed," she told Mabel 's Columbus friends, "a t the way Americans make them-selves at home in each other's houses. And, for example, at be-ing allowed to walk into the Standard Oil office and meet you."

Mrs. F. C. Noyes

T h e y are now at home on Vine Street, Maple Heights. Joan was honored with a luncheon shower in the Green R o o m of the Sohio Cafeteria .. . . El inor Fluke, Tech Service stenographer, became the bride of Wil l iam Mart in in Nan-kin, O. After a honeymoon in the Smokies, the bride, who was also honored with a luncheon shower in the Green Room, and groom are at home in an apa r tmen t on Glenside Avenue . . . Jack D. Stubbs, Tech Service, and Joseph-ine Cryer, of Shaker Heights, are residing in an apar tment on East 132nd Street following their mar-riage at P lymouth Church . . . W e d d i n g bells have also rung for Eel Marsh, of Tech Service, who took Margaret Cook, of Cald-well, Tex. , as his bride. T h e y are at home on Ludgate Road, Shaker Heights . . . Adelle Rattay, Land Depar tment , became the br ide of Alfons V. Karpinski at St. T im-othy's Church.

Mansfield: Win i f r ed Cline, bulk station clerk, was uni ted in mar-riage to Haro ld H a n n o , of Shelby, O. She had previously been hon-ored with a party at Scotty's Sup-per Club by the girls in the di-vision office. Youngstown: Dick Coy, truck driver in the Ashtabula territory, took Silvia Richards, of Ashtabula Harbor , as his bride. Sohio Petroleum River Opera-tions: Capt . Mark Lucas, a l ternate master of the Str. Sohio Latonia, and Cather ine McManus, formerly employed at the Wyatt , Mo. office, were marr ied at the Catholic Church in Cairo, 111.

Extends Visit Dur ing her visit, which was

originally scheduled f o r s i x months, a n d which she is extend-ing another six months, Great-grandmother Campbel l has keen-ly commented on American life.

She thinks the roads, including the scenery, are wonderfu l . She thinks American people are very friendly; and she has been as tounded by the abundance of clothes and yard goods. "At home," she says, "even handker-chiefs require clothing r a t i o n points."

Chi ldren Outs tand ing Granny's American kin have

also exhibi ted her outs tanding and independen t traits.

H e r son, Wil l iam Campbell , who is Mabel 's father , has been a golf professional at the Gran-ville Golf course for about twenty years. His children, bo th Mabel and her bro ther Bob, came to America when they were very young.

T o u r n a m e n t Player

Mabel also plays golf, and at the age of 16 she played in the Women's State T o u r n a m e n t at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus. She was the youngest in the tournament , playing against old time golfers, and made second flight. She was captain of the f reshman golf team at Dennison University.

W h e n Mabel first came to this country, she enter ta ined by doing the High land Fling and the Sword Dance wear ing kilts. She won first prize at an Amateur Stage Show when she was six.

(1) James Edward, six-month-old son of Carl J. Zeigler, transport driver for Lima Crude Gathering at Findlay, O. (2) Patricia Antoinette, nicknamed "Pattie", two-year-old daughter of Bruce Williams, Home Office chauffeur. (3) Ten-year-old Jimmy,

son of Ernest E. Hakes, Dayton Bulk Plant driver. (4) Donnie and (5) Elizabeth, son and daughter of D. L. Hyatt, geologist, Oklahoma City District. (6) Elena Marie, eight-month-old daughter of Edward R. Frederick, tank truck driver, Akron Division.

(7) Harold Gene, two, and Garry Lee, five, sons of O. H. Toole, pipefitter helper at Latonia Re-finery. (8) Carolyn and (9) Eddie, 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son of C. E. Wagner, clerk in the Portsmouth Division office.

Personal V iewpo in ts Being safety conscious is an

ever-present problem at home, at the shop, or in the office.

Here Sohioans state their personal viewpoints in answer to the question: "What do you believe is the best way to put safety education across to your fellow employees?"

MOTOR—1 h.p. gasoline motor, new Briggs-Stratton, Will sell for $50. E. Hauser, Box 317, R. R. 3, Covington, Kentucky. AUTOMOBILE—1939 Willys, two-door sedan. In fair condition, with extra good tires. Will trade for any-thing of equal value. J. T. Smothers, Box 194, R. R. 2 .Edmond, Oklahoma.

ART GRINNELL, senior accountant in General Bookkeeping, sits surrounded by the trophies of his many hunting trips.

By B E T T Y D E A H L

Stepping into the recreation room at the Art Grinnell resi-dence in Berea, Ohio, is like entering a hunting lodge in miniature.

Mounted on the walls, encased in glass cabinets, and sitt ing on ledges a n d cases are the animals, birds, a n d fish which Art, taxi-dermist, has bagged on his many hun t ing and fishing trips through-out half of the states in the Union .

Art, who has been with Stan-dard Oil for 18 years and is now a senior accountant in the General Bookkeeping Depa r tmen t of the H o m e Office, became interested in taxidermy when he was 20 years old — but his hun t ing and fishing began long before that . H e was six years old when he caught his first fish.

I t was Art 's desire to preserve his kill tha t led to his taking u p taxidermy. T o have it profes-sionally done was ra ther expensive for a young man 's pocketbook, so he decided to do it himself.

Besides doing his own taxider-my, Art stuffs for his friends, and so the hobby keeps h im busy when the h u n t i n g and fishing sea-sons are on.

A converted tur t le and the horn of a moun ta in goat with a l ignum vitae (a ra ther rare wood) base are two of the ashtrays f o u n d in the "rec" room which reeks of a sportsman's life. T h e base of a table l amp is made out of three deer feet.

Inside the display cases in his "rec" room there is everything f rom squirrels a n d pheasants to a redwinged blackbird, Art 's l a s t project . O n the walls are the heads of an ante lope and deer and fish, including a little sunfish which Mrs. Gr innel l says was her catch.

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Delbert Carroll, Construct ion De-par tment ; Mrs. Beatrice Lang, clerk, Furnace Oil Depar tment ; Haro ld Clay, Mar ian McCracken, Lafe Woodruff , Jr. , Dale Allen Fishback, Chester Cantor, Wil l iam Baker, Joseph Pelopida, Ar thur Streckfuss, T h o m a s Clark, Press Sebastian, Robe r t Cornele, and Virginia Kibbey, at service sta-tions.

St. Louis Office — Madel ine Schmidt, Division Order ; Eugene Laemmli, Purchasing; E i l e e n Hoepker , Accounting.

L ima Refinery — Wal te r Kep-ner, storehouse clerk; Vernon Archer, Richard Curtis, Paul Baker, Gi lber t Hageman, War ren Line, O m a r Erickson, Darrell Lehman, Marion Brown, Chatles Johnston, Robe r t Fritz, J o h n Mil-ler, George Nicholson, Jack Gar-ver, Ernest Lause, Labor De-par tment .

Sales Account ing — Dorothy Bucholtz, Mary Davis, Mar tha Redmond , Accounts Receivable; R i t a Casselberry, re-employed Bulk and Refinery Checking; Rus-sell Biddle, Jr . , Theresa Pohman Frieda Daley, Marion Schmidt, Mail and Addressograph; Joseph Walsh, Jr . , Sy Long, Stock; Ches-ter Pernosky, Glaudio Schelfe, Jo-sephine Sopka, Tabu la t ing .

No. O n e Refinery — Will iam Wallace, Engineering; Richard Dettmer, Yield; Joseph Masl, Shipping; R o b e r t Winchel l , Pay roll; Andrew Molnar , Inspection; Virginia Morris, I . B. M.; An-drew Sulik, Fred Zwolenski, Har-old Moyse, Theodo re Krause, Norbe r t Rell , Kelly Smiley, Rob-ert Schwartz, Joseph Render , Fred Volny, Jr . , H e n r y Stachowicz, Don Deacon, J o h n Armstrong.

To ledo R e f i n e r y - C . J . Fogle, D. E. Shearer, W . M. Murphy , D. D. Nor ton , H . L. T h o m p s o n .

Youngstown — James Powers, t ransport driver; Paul Culler, p u m p mechanic at Salem; Nich-olas Zurrow, James Snyder, watch men; Magdalen Krichbaum, clerk; Morris Jar re t t , Jr . , Charles Wil liams, Wil l iam Boyles, R . J . Wil-liams, Charles Price, M. J. Hurst , Brewer Neville, Ar thur Judd , Wil-l iam Fyke, Robe r t Eliser, Michael Lewak, Haro ld Wilson, Calvin Pinney, Karl Adams, James Ham-mond, Ed Cullen, J o h n Bulvony, James Sidley, Frank Coulter, Vic-

TYPEWRITER — Remington port-able. Price $30. A. J. Kruse, Phone AC-3001, 2056 Wyandotte Avenue, Lakewood 7, Ohio. BLOWER — New air - conditioning type, with 1/8 h.p. electric motor and six-inch rotar-type fan. Will sell for $45. E. Hauser, Box 317, R. R. 3, Covington, Kentucky. GOLF CLUBS—3 woods and 5 irons, not a matched set, and bag. Price $35. Robert C. Campbell, Phone WA 5080, 4204 Fulton Avenue, Dayton 9, Ohio. REFRIGERATOR — Six-foot Cold-spot, kerosine. Will trade for electric box of same size. J. T. Smothers Box 194, R. R. 2, Edmond, Oklahoma.

Poly Towers at Lima Refinery

Staff Photographer Exhibits At M a y S h o w

"Poly Towers ," a picture of Lima Refinery by staff photogra-pher J o h n Trauger , was one of the 98 photographs out of ap proximately 275 entries which were accepted and exhibited dur ing the mon th of May at the Cleveland Museum of Art 's 29th Annual May Show.

Al though acceptance for the May Show, which has become a headline event in the art world in Cleveland, is a signal honor in itself, J o h n Trauger ' s p r in t was also among the first three which were purchased by museum patrons.

HOT WATER HEATER — Used,* coal-burning. Will swap or sell for $3.50. E. Hauser, Box 317, R. R. 3, Covington, Kentucky. COCKER SPANIEL — Black, one year old. Registered female. Gabor Szabo, Phone MA 0973, 103 Yellow Springs Court, Dayton, Ohio. GOLF BAGS-—Two, have never been used. Earl J. Neff, Phone CL 6909, 4171 West 219th Street, Fairview Vil-lage, Ohio. FURS—Two perfectly matched silver fox skins. Patricia Camfield, Phone PO 7443, 1720 Chapman Avenue, East Cleveland. Ohio. HOT WATER TANK—20-gallon tank, with brass fittings. Like new, used six weeks on soft water. Price $6. E. Hauser, Box 317, R. R. 3, Cov-ington, Kentucky. STORM WINDOWS AND COP-PER SCREENS—two 24" by 24"; two, 24" by 20"; one, 30" by 24"; one, 24" by 16"; and one, 24" by 18". Price $2 each. May Peth, Phone FL 9272, 7417 Whittington Drive, Parma, Ohio.

W a n t e d to Buy

STEAMER TRUNK—half size. T. E. Stewart, Phone Parkway 5100, Hotel Metropole, Cincinnati, Ohio. APARTMENT-Three or four rooms, unfurnished, preferably east side of city. Clara Schultz, Phone EV 3661, 4141 Lambert Road, South Euclid 21, Ohio.

tor Colla, Charles Mansfield, Richard Stran, Richard Vaness, Carl Holmes, at service stations.

Akron — Joseph Soudill, Ed Crawford, Lewis Sacomani, Vin-cent Crawford, Robe r t Earl Ben-son, Robe r t Leroy Johns ton , Ar-thur Carmack, Robe r t Williams, Jasper Goodson, Jr . , Carl Siers, at service stations; I rene Cooper, Furnace Oil Depar tment .

Mansfield — Betty W i n n , divis-ion office clerk; Neal Duffy, V. A. Davis, K. E. Conrad, R . O. Bar-ker, C. M. McCormick, W . W . Warner , at service stations; Mar-guerite Harr ison, service station clerk; Robe r t May, bulk station.

H o m e Office—Marjorie Fisher, T e c h Service; R u t h Nossal, T a x ; Betty Springer, George Reed, General Engineer ing; R e e s e Davis, Jr. , Purchasing; E a r l Schindler, Stationery Stockroom; E. L. Anderson, Ref ined Products Distr ibut ion; King Lees, Crude Oil Distr ibut ion.

Shreveport Producton — Ethel Atkinson, Geological Depar tment ; Eleanor Padget t a n d Peggy O'Neall , Product ion Depar tment . Miss O'Neal l will also serve as relief switchboard operator .

By H E L E N D R U S H A L

MANSFIELD, O . - B y combin-ing the black ar t of the great H o u d i n i a n d the showmanship of P. T . Barnum, J o n Young, eleven-year-old son of Charles G. Young, general salesman here, has already discovered one way to fame and for tune .

As producer, director, barker, press agent, and fea tured perform-er he sponsors " T h e Greatest Show in Mansfield". T i m e : Sat-urday af ternoons. Place: T h e Charles G. Young residence.

His three-ring-circus approach features no t only magic by J o n Young, bu t a special pony act, and snakes.

Profits, the proof of the suc-cess of any enterprise, have been good. Twenty-five less talented neighborhood youngsters laid out a total of $3 of their hard-earned dishwashing and lawn-mowing money to witness his most recent performance.

At interview time Mr. Young refused to comment as to whether or no t Jon ' s d isappear ing acts were adaptable to cookie jars and the like.

Instead, his fa ther said dryly, "Our lawn gets t ramped down dur ing these performances, b u t I suppose that 's beside the point ."

Initiative, ambit ion, and imag-nat ion characterize all of the youthfu l ent repreneur ' s activities. A fifth grade s tudent at Mans-field Brinkerhoff School, he is a member of the school baseball team a n d also plays on the team

Sportsman's Paradise

of his Cub Scout pack. Another profitable sideline is the collecting and selling of junk , which net ted h im $25 last season; and he is presently forecasting a bet ter year as soon as school lets out for the summer.

Forward the items which you would like to advertise through The Sohio News re-porter for your unit.

I'll Sell O r S w a p

D. E. Shoemaker

Combinat ion

Uni t

Chief Opera tor

To ledo Refinery

Safety education can best be accomplished by means of fore-men's discussions and employee committees. Foremen are in the most strategic position to inter-pret company safety policies, and instill safe work procedures in the minds of employees. Em-ployee committees serve the very useful func t ion of s t imulat ing part ic ipat ion in accident preven-tion.

J . E. Amor

Construction

Depar tmen t

T b l e d o Division

I believe that colorful or comic posters in p rominen t places are a great aid. H o l d mee t ings -—d-discuss the problems that come u p and the ways to overcome them. Send out a quest ionnaire periodically asking all employees for suggestions.

J . A. TenEyck

Bulk Station Warehouseman

To ledo Division

T o pu t a safety program over to fellow employees it is necessary to make each and every member feel that he or she is taking an impor t an t par t in the program. Th i s could be done by means of safety conferences conducted by employees, and finally by appoint-ment of employees with the power to vote a n a order any change necessary.

C. R . McNit t

Office

Clerk

To ledo Division

Safety educat ion should be pu t across to fellow workers r ight f rom the start of their employment with the company. T h e best and most effective way to do this is to analyze the word "safety". Web-ster says "A way in which to do a th ing safely without in jury ." Teach ing our fellow workers courtesy by be ing courteous to them would accomplish a great deal toward any safety program.

io New5

Fred Gipson

Editor's Choice We asked Fred Gipson, the

crack Sohio News reporter who covers the Toledo Division for us, how he happened to get his reporting job.

F r e d answered simply: " M a n a g e r R . G. T r a c y called

m e in one day and said we needed a r epo r t e r .

"I ' l l be glad to look a r o u n d a n d pick someone, I said.

" 'Don ' t look any fur ther , ' T r a c y told me, 'you're i t . ' "

In typical fash ion Fred "ac-cep ted" the ass ignment a n d has been d o i n g a good j o b ever since.

Sohioan Since 1915 Fred has an enviab le back-

g r o u n d in the Sohio family which serves h i m in good stead as a r epo r t e r . H e was first em-ployed Ju ly 9, 1915, in Cleve-land, whe re h e worked a t the o ld 55th St. office e n t e r i n g sales figures on cards. W h e n tha t job was d i scont inued , he was trans-f e r r ed to the Col l inwood Bulk Sta t ion as clerk, whe re h e worked in a r o o m tha t h a d been con-ver ted f r o m a horse stall i n to an office. T o d a y his fu l l t ime j o b is pe r sonne l in terviewer for the T o l e d o Division.

En joys Var ied H o b b i e s R e p o r t i n g for The Sohio News

is only o n e of his many activi-ties. H e is a m e m b e r of the To -ledo Indus t r i a l Editors ' g roup , Personnel Managers ' Association, T o l e d o Post N o . 335 of the Amer ican Legion , M e m b e r of St. Mark ' s Church , a n d an elected represen ta t ive to o u r own E. M. B. A. H e spen t two years repor t -ing T o l e d o Post news for The Toledo Legion Press.

T a b l e t enn i s in the win te r a n d c roque t in the summer h e l p h i m to keep in t r im. Dramat ics a re also o n his pr ior i ty list. Fred has acted in a b o u t a dozen plays, "usual ly t ak ing the par t , " he says, "of the comedian ."

T rave l s Extensively U n l i k e m a n y w h o say they like

to travel, b u t never leave the threshold , F r e d has t ou red the N e w E n g l a n d states, F lor ida , a n d Canada . I n 1936 he w e n t to Mexico by a u t o wi th Maur i ce O b e n a u f , w h o is now indus t r i a l m a n a g e r in A k r o n . "Some day," he says, " I 'd like to go to South Amer ica via Mexico a n d the Cana l . "

H e has been m a r r i e d 27 years, a n d has o n e son, mar r i ed , w h o is a doctor n o w c o m p l e t i n g his i n t e rnsh ip a t T o l e d o Hospi ta l .

Fred, w h o was a sailor in W o r l d W a r I, also likes r e a d i n g Sabat in i ' s sea stories such as Captain Blood.

H e a n d his wife have n o pets, he repor ts , "except those the ne ighbors send over."

H u b b y : "Dar l ing , haven ' t I al-ways given you my salary check o n the first of every m o n t h ? "

Wifey : "Yes, dear , b u t you for-got to tell m e you get p a i d twice a m o n t h . "

Expanded Program In Manufacturing Provokes Transfers

In o rde r to d i s t r ibu te more ef-fectively the heavy work load created by a m a j o r capi ta l ex-p e n d i t u r e p r o g r a m which will a m o u n t to more t han twenty mil-lion dol lars in the nex t th ree years, Sohio's M a n u f a c t u r i n g De-p a r t m e n t recent ly a n n o u n c e d sev-eral pe r sonne l transfers.

Effective J u n e 1, D. G. Stevens, fo rmer p l a n t g r o u p supervisor in the T e c h n i c a l Service Division, was t r ans fe r red to the Gene ra l Eng inee r ing Division, where he is t emporar i ly assigned as supervisor of the design a n d cons t ruc t ion section.

I t is expected tha t most of the peop le in the P l an t G r o u p , Tech-nical Service Division will be t rans fe r red to the Design G r o u p . For the t ime being, E. P. K r o p p will be in charge of the P l a n t G r o u p a n d will r e p o r t directly to T e c h n i c a l Service Division H e a d , J o e August , J r .

Also effective J u n e 1, Ear l L. Mast was t rans fe r red f r o m our N o . 1 Ref inery 's Eng inee r ing Depar t -ment , where he worked as field eng ineer on const ruct ion projects , to the p ro jec t eng ine r ing g r o u p in the design a n d cons t ruc t ion sec-t ion.

Mr . Mast will assist W . M. B e n n e t t in h a n d l i n g the co ordi-na t ion of var ious cons t ruc t ion projects .

M a n y o the r Sohio un i t s have also effected t ransfers a n d promo-t ions to mee t e x p a n d i n g needs.

Russel l S. R i l ea has been trans-fe r red f r o m the R e t r e a d to the Cons t ruc t ion D e p a r t m e n t a t Cin-c inna t i as assistant manage r . Ela ine B. W o r f f o r d is now clerk in the R e t r e a d D e p a r t m e n t .

F. B. Shappel l , t ruck driver , has been n a m e d assistant l abor depar t -m e n t f o r e m a n a t L i m a Ref inery . Mr . Shappe l l was employed as gua rd d u r i n g the war and was t r ans fe r red to the L a b o r Depar t -m e n t w h e n a n n u i t a n t s came back to work as guards . In the new po-sition he will be assistant to M. R . W e n d e l m o o t . R . D. Davis, senior chemist , was t r ans fe r red to assistant f o r e m a n in the L ima Re-finery P u m p i n g , L o a d i n g Rack , Steam Still a n d Gas B l e n d i n g De-p a r t m e n t . Bob was employed as a laborer in 1936 a n d since t ha t t ime he has worked as a t rea ter , chemist a n d senior chemist . In his new pos i t ion he will be assistant to C. B. F raunfe l t e r .

I n the C a n t o n Division Clyde Decker has been p r o m o t e d to assistant service s ta t ion m a n a g e r ; Wi l l i am G r o h to m a n a g e r at W . T u s c a n d Bedford ; a n d Ph i l i p Gibbs to m a n a g e r at the new serv-ice s ta t ion at the Can ton -Akron a i rpor t .

P laro ld Canne l l , Day ton indus-tr ial salesman, has been transfer-red to the Sohio H e a t Depar t -m e n t in Cleveland. A. H . T u r n e r of A k r o n has rep laced M r . Can-n e d . D o n Keller has been trans-fe r red f r o m Far Hi l l s a n d Schantz, Dayton , to M a r k e t a n d Canal , T r o y , a n d C. L. Anderson , f r o m M a i n a n d Burne t t , Springfield, to t ank t ruck dr iver a t the Spring-field Bulk P lan t .

F r o m T o l e d o Division these changes were r epo r t ed : " R e d " M c N i t t f r o m T o l e d o Bulk Stat ion to T o l e d o Office as clerk; R i t a Puczynski f r o m T o l e d o Bulk Sta-t ion b i l l ing clerk to Cred i t De-p a r t m e n t clerk; E. L. Martz , bu rn -er service mechanic , to fue l oil salesman; Harvey Buck f r o m gar-age mechan ic to cons t ruc t ion me-chanic; H o w a r d R e i n e r f r o m con-s t ruct ion mechan ic to n e o n pa t ro l .

N o M a g i c N e e d e d T o M a k e Ice Cream Disappear

"Real live magic men, and movies too" entertained Susan, Sterling, Jr., Mama and Papa Apthorp—in fact, over 300 Sohioan kiddies of ALL ages—-at the Kiddies' Show which was sponsored by the Sohio Recreational Club of Home Office and held at Cleveland's Towne Club.

T h e par ty , the first of its k i n d to be he ld in H o m e Office a n d Sales Account ing , was given pr imar i ly fo r the employee 's chil-d r e n a n d y o u n g f r iends , b u t the grown-ups got as big a kick ou t of it as the i r offspring.

F i l l ing glasses wi th mi lk which sudden ly d i sappea red a n d p u l l i n g a r a b b i t ou t of a top h a t were jus t two of t h e " impossible" feats wi th which t h e Jones ' Boys in Black Magic thr i l l ed k iddies l ike J o a n Lee a n d J acque lyn Kay Hyl-k e m a a n d T i m Brady, w h o r u b b e d the i r eyes m o r e t h a n once w h e n silver qua r t e r s wondrous ly flew f r o m o n e glass in to a covered o n e o n the o t h e r s ide of t he stage.

Before the J o n e s Boys' act, the boys a n d girls—the Keegan sisters, Kath leen , Mary Ellen, a n d Marg-are t A n n , were lucky e n o u g h to have f ron t - row seats—saw a half dozen car toons a b o u t animals , t in soldiers, a n d magic carpets flash o n the screen whi le they ate all the candy suckers they could ho ld in the i r two hands . Whe i r the show was over, everyone f r o m c lub pres iden t Jack Bar re t t to l i t t l e * Ka thy R u p p received a c u p of ice cream, a n d the ch i ld ren also got bal loons.

T h e commi t tee in charge of the par ty was M a t t Meagher , chair-m a n , J o h n Morgan , Vince Brady, F a n n y Buss, J o h a n n a T e e r l i n k , Mary Kulie , Ar l ine H a r t m a n , Nor-m a n Wells , Lowel l R u p p , George Keegan, J o e Carney, Bet ty Ladd , R u t h S t amman , E d n a Myers, Dor-othy Nelson, R u t h Perry, a n d Jack Barre t t . J e a n n e Fischer f u r n i s h e d the accordion music.

With the aid of the J o n e s Boys, black - face magi-cians w h o enter-tained at the Home Office K i d d i e s ' Show, Guy Zenobi surprised h imse l f by pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Just as astonished were, left to right, Mari-lyn Kinney, Shiela R o h e n , and Ed-ward S c h a e f e r . "G e e , t h a t w a s good," says Judy Laskowski to Jackie Savasky and Joan A r n d t , a s t h e y finish the ice cream served at the end of the show.

Photos by Rod Cronk

George Rober t son , f o r m e r man-ager of Shelby Servicenter, is now in the T B A D e p a r t m e n t at Mans-field; Char les R o w e now manages Shelby Servicenter .

T w o t ransfers were r e p o r t e d f r o m Akron : George Brunsk i l l f r o m Storer a n d W h i t t i e r to M a i n a n d Furnace ; a n d Louis Disman f r o m Ar l ing ton a n d T r i p l e t t to C a n t o n R o a d a n d T r i p l e t t Blvd. J . M. H i g d o n , Youngs town serv-ice s ta t ion opera to r , has been assigned the j o b of p u m p mechan-ic. Service Sta t ion Supervisor W . A. "Bi l l" Stevens has moved his h e a d q u a r t e r s to the Mansf ie ld t r a in ing school.

I n the Sales Accoun t ing ' Office Li l l ian Price has t r ans fe r red back to the T a b D e p a r t m e n t f r o m the Service Sta t ion section. Patr ic ia N a t t o was r eemployed in the T a b D e p a r t m e n t a n d Li l l ian Georgeff t r ans fe r red f r o m there to the H o m e Office.

A t Cleve land Char les W . P l u m has been a p p o i n t e d M a n a g e r of the H o m e Office G e n e r a l Book-keep ing Section of the Comp-trol ler Divis ion. W . E. Beat ty, former ly m a n a g e r of this section, who has been away r e c u p e r a t i n g f r o m an ope ra t i on , is now back at work, b u t he has t r ans fe r red f r o m the Compt ro l l e r ' s Divis ion to the Gene ra l Aud i to r ' s Division.

T h e H o m e Office T a x Depar t -m e n t was increased by two wheii Gladys Borde r t r ans fe r red there f r o m P r o d u c t i o n a n d Char les R . Lucas f r o m Budge t . Russel l E. Nyerges t r ans fe r red f r o m Indus-tr ial Sales to the Chemical Re-search L a b .

' R o c k - a - b y e B a b y in the T r e e - t o p ' Canton—Both p i n k a n d b lue

are favor i te colors he re for Senior O p e r a t o r W . E. Pe terson, Carroll-ton , now treasures J u d i t h L y n n e ; a n d D o n Ray, Mine rva Bulk dis-t r ibu to r , boasts of son Douglas Alan . Sales Accounting—The ar-r ival of Ka th leen A n n was p roud-ly a n n o u n c e d by f o r m e r Sohioan Agnes Ray . •

Dayton—Mr. a n d Mrs. Clyde N a s h are thr i l led wi th M a r t h a Ca the r ine . Mr. N a s h is an oper-a to r at M a i n a n d Light , Spring-field, a n d his wife was an op-e ra to r a n d clerk at P l u m a n d McCreight . I t 's a th i rd son, Mich-ael, for E. E. Hakes , Day ton Bulk P l an t driver . O p e r a t o r Clarence Himes , M a i n a n d M o n u m e n t , is also the f a t h e r of a new son. R o b e r t B u r t o n , F o u n t a i n a n d G r a n d , Springfield, a n n o u n c e s the arr ival of d a u g h t e r L i n d a Lou .

Toledo—Shirley A n n , the f o u r t h child, ar r ived at the h o m e of Alber t Avers, Woodv i l l e distr ibu-tor. Virginia Ransde l l , f o rmer clerk in T.B.A. , is p r o u d of new-b o r n Sharon Lee; a n d Driver Car l Mil l inger also boasts of a daugh te r . Division M a n a g e r R . G. T r a c y be-came the p r o u d g r a n d f a t h e r of namesake R o b e r t Gregory when his daugh te r , Mrs. Francis Squire, welcomed a son.

Daddy of First Chi ld

Home Office—The arr ival of first add i t ion , Carol Louise, was ce lebra ted by Bob Mil ler , Sales Engineer ing . E. A. Erickson, T a x D e p a r t m e n t , is the fa the r of a th i rd child, T h o m a s H o w a r d ; a n d T . J . J ak im , Gene ra l Eng ineer ing , is " D a d d y " to a seven-pound baby girl. Gene ra l R e p a i r m a n Steve Sanislo, T e c h Service Lab , wel-comed a new son. T h e s e C h e m Research employees are now p r o u d paren ts : I t ' s a boy, Ron-ald Lee, for R . L. Har r i s ; a n d a girl, El izabeth A n n , for J . G. Par tch. T w o f o r m e r l ab employees became mothers w h e n Mary H e l e n Mine r welcomed P a u l Wi l l i am; a n d E leanor L a u t e n a n , J a n e t Sue.

No. One Refinery — A th i rd

child, L inda , was welcomed by C. D. Crawford ; while J o h n Brosch cherishes J o a n , a n d R o b e r t Wal-ters, D o n n a . Dick D e t t m e r has n a m e d his second chi ld H e r b e r t ; a n d J e r o m e Al lan is the n a m e of Insu la to r A1 Stachowski 's th i rd add i t ion . Can Factory — Wi l l i am A n t h o n y is exci ted a b o u t the b i r th of his new son.

Cincinnati—Sons a n d heirs ar-r ived for O p e o Meadows a n d Ed-ward But ler , Tennessee A v e n u e Bulk P l an t drivers. At Fa i rpa rk a n d Vine, R o b e r t Schwartz is thr i l led wi th his new son; a n d George Miller , Har r i son a n d Q u e e n City, wi th his daugh te r . Bo th fa thers are senior opera tors . A baby gir l has been a d d e d to the fami ly of Luc ian Litchfield, Cons t ruc t ion .

Sohio Pipe Line Co.—St. Louis: T h e stork b r o u g h t Mary Beth , the first girl in th ree genera t ions , to the h o m e of J i m Shipley, who has two o the r ch i ldren . Sohio Petroleum — Gulf Coast: Nelson J ames a n d his wife are thr i l led wi th the i r newly a d o p t e d son, S tephen . Oklahoma City: I t 's a boy for C. E. Flandley, Wes t Ed-m o n d Field. Shreveport: Char les Cur t i s also welcomed a boy a t his home .

Lima Refinery—The arr ival of a son, Char les Michael , was an-n o u n c e d by C. C. Kennedy , still c leaner; a n d a daugh te r , Carol Yvonne, by Labore r H . C. R a n -dall . T . I. Davis, p u m p e r he lper , ce lebra ted the b i r t h of a son. To-ledo Refinery—R. E. B r u m e t is f a the r to Michae l Edward ; M. R . Car r to J o h n Dennis ; a n d W . H . Savage to W i l l i a m Floward. R . G. F a n g m a n p roud ly speaks of daugh te r Cyn th i a Sue.

Portsmouth—Two member s of the Sohio Memphis crew wel-comed daughte r s : W . L. Aul t , deckhand , is Celesta Caryl 's fath-er; a n d D. L. Frost, cook, is Marsa Lee's. J o h n R i c h a r d a n d W i l l i a m R a n d a l l a r r ived at the respective homes of H u g h Ackison a n d Ben-j a m i n Sil l iman, senior opera tors a t T h i r d a n d Madison , I r o n t o n .

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COVERED BRIDGE as shown by Jack Rover is a study in sunlight and shadow with a human interest touch of three boys on a bicycle outing.

JOYCE RICHARDS, daughter of E. N. RICHARDS, chief engineer, Latonia Refinery was the perfect model.

ANOTHER BRIDGE STUDY by Jack Rover illustrates the stately grace of a modern highway span over the Little Miami River located at Foster, Ohio.

Sohio Vacations Cover All Points of the Compass

' A Picture Is W o r t h A Thousand W o r d s 7

Veteran Sohio News reporters Mildred Wendt , Cincin-nati Division, and Ray Elo, Latonia Refinery, describe the activities of two Sohioans whose off-duty recreational hours give proof to the Chinese proverb that a picture is worth a thousand words. T h e photographs in the left hand columns are the work of Jack Rover, Latonia Industrial Relations Assistant* and those in the right were made by picture-minded William J. Miller, a Middletown, Ohio Service Station manager .—Edi tor

M i l l e r ' s Pictures Rate T o p s By M I L D R E D W E N D T

Good photography and Wil l iam J . Miller, manager of the Central and First Service Station in Middle town, Ohio, go h a n d in hand . "Bill" started out with an Eastman box camera back in 1940, and became so interested in taking pictures that he now has a darkroom at his home that can compare with a modern professional photo-graphic studio.

He has been a member of the Middle town Camera Club since 1941 which consists of about 40 members, and while he holds no office in the club at the present time, he has held practically every office at some time or other f rom president on down. T h e club meets monthly. Ideas on photography are exchanged, pnotographic prob-lems discussed, and very of ten p rominen t speakers in photographic circles give he lpfu l talks. (Bill hasn' t missed a meeting.)

Despite the fact that Bill, a Sohioan since 1929, has never aspired to do commercial photography, his lively interest in the subject as a hobby has enabled h im to acquire a wide range of photographic techniques. In the seven years since he started out with a box camera he has thoroughly explored black a n d white still photog-raphy, color photography; and now his newest interest is color mov-ies. Fie says that he has exposed only several h u n d r e d feet of these to date.

Bill is also a consistent prize winner at the monthly competi t ions held at the Middletown Camera Club. T w o of his first-class winners are shown in the r ight-hand columns of this page.

Rover A i d s Camera Enthusiasts By RAY E L O

Jack Rover, Industr ia l Relat ions assistant at Latonia Refinery, is one of the top-ranking amateur photographers here. Jack has not only concentrated on achieving an excellent personal knowledge of films, lens, and photographic viewpoints in his after-hours hobby; he has also taken a keen interest in passing on his "know-how" to others.

Last year he helped to found a new photographic club called T h e Seven Hills Photographers, and still serves it in an elected office as treasurer, and as a member of its board of control. Dur ing this first year of existence the new club rose f rom the bottom, unt i l in the last quar te r of 1946 it was awarded the first-prize p laque by the Photographic Society of America in the In tercont inenta l Pr in t competi t ion. Jack does his own work in a well-equipped basement darkroom.

jack states that his family activities, which center a round his wife, Ru th , and daughter , Barbara Ann, are his first love; but photography as a hobby has complemented his home life for many years. He has kept a complete photographic record of his daughter f rom the time she was one week old; and in addit ion he uses his better pictures as decorations in his home and office.

Jack also is a firm believer that photography has its place in modern industry where it can be used in conjunct ion with safety programs, engineer ing problems, p lan t record work, and other train-ing programs, and in line with this has helped Latonia obtain its own Speed Graphic camera to be used in connection with p lan t problems.

FIRST PLACE went to Bill Miller for a portrait of his daughter's rag doll which he entitled a study in "Black and White Photography".

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ANOTHER FIRST PRIZE winner was the "Sentinel", which depicts the entrance gate of Armco Park.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT WORK is Bill Miller himself standing .before an enlarger in his own darkroom.

Dayton Division's Leonard Crist started the Springfield Bulk Plant vacation ball rol l ing by staying home to do the usual spring housecleaning. Leonard is a ware-houseman. Ed Nelson, clerk in the division office, visited fr iends and relatives in Phi ladelphia , and Frank Lucisano, assistant man-ager at Patterson and Perry, Day-ton, enjoyed a two-week sojourn in Brooklyn and Syracuse, N. Y.

A quie t vacation at home is repor ted by Stanley Lewis, crude still fireman at Latonia Refinery. Knox Frazer, Sohio Western Pipe-lines, and his family went to Monticello, Ky. Knox is an oper-ator at Banks Station. E. L. Stark, maintenance man at Sohio West-

ern, was content to remain in Oklahoma.

Tu l i p s Attract Jennings

Ben S. Jennings, Mansfield Di-vision office, a t tended the annua l tu l ip festival at Hol land , Mich-igan. A late Florida t r ip was taken by Amos W . Souders, tank truck driver, Cincinnat i Division. Mr. and Mrs. Norvin V. "Stumpy" Fischer r e tu rned through the Great Smoky Mounta in Nat ional Park f rom their stay at Grove Park Inn , Asheville, N . C. "Stumpy" is merchandis ing assist-ant at Cincinnat i . Dan Pr indible beat all travel-folder enthusiasts at Sohio Pipe Line, St. Louis, by taking a t r ip to Texas and re-

tu rn ing with a wonder fu l suntan. Bill Moore, mechanical engineer draf tsman at Sohio Petroleum, Oklahoma City, also went to Texas, to visit his family.

Another first spr ing vacationer was Leonard Avritt , watchman and jani tor at Sohio Pipe Line, Mt. Vernon. Margaret Scott, The Sohio News repor ter for the Okla-homa City un i t of Sohio Petrol-eum, was lured to the Florida sun-shine. T h e W . E. McKinneys of the same u n i t visited their family and fr iends at Wetunka , Okla., while Ernest Price p lanned on gett ing in plenty of golf.

T h e Smiths Go to Florida

T h e Chuck Smiths and Harold

Smiths drove to Miami, Fla., and came back with the usual tans acquired down there. Chuck is a fuel oil bu rne r main tenance man in Akron Division, and f l a r o l d is manager at W . Market and Balcli Service Station there. Steve Sauner, Akron warehouseman, went down to the fa rm again. Cleaning house was the vacation Sarah Mooney, Akron stenographer, chose for herself. Other Sohioans on the va-cation list are C. ]. Boso, Broad and Lyman, Wadswortb; D. E. Baucher, W. Market and Over-wood; F. A. Hammel , Main and Walnu t , Ravenna ; E. C. Williams, Cole and Arl ington; and Wil l iam Wright , p u m p mechanic in Fur-nace Oil Depar tment .

New Orleans, Miami, and all points south were on the vaca-tion it inerary of Neil Herner , Sales Accounting's T a b Depart-ment . First vacationer in the Flome Office T e c h Service Lab was Bill McKinney, who visited near Har r i sburg in his home state of Pennsylvania. Libby Cowan, Home Office Industr ia l Relat ions Depar tment , flew to San Francisco for two weeks of sunny spring weather and sight-seeing on the Pacific Coast and Las Vegas, Nev.

Take an extra snapshot during your vacation days for The Sohio News. Your Unit Reporter will welcome a chance to forward it to us for publication.