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Jim Schwandt, not quite three, really isn'tgoing to kill the turkey, but the turkeydoesn't seem to realize that. Probablyit senses that Thanksgiving is just aroundthe corner. Incidentally Jim's father, Bob,Sta ley chemical engineer, has since killedall their turkeys and put them in thelocker. This one, and the rest of theSchwandt flock were graduates of theStaley feeding experiment—extra fineeating Bob tel ls us NOW.

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Shal l we say, beauty admires beauty?These—and about 65 other new Decaturteachers, visited our plant and offices theweek before school started. Leek tookthe picture of this quartet of "schoolmarms" as they looked over the plantJrom the administration building tower.

THE STALEY

Published monthly for our employees. Mailed

without charge to friends outside the Staley

organization six times a year.

Vol. XXXVI No. 4

October, 1952

Ruth E. Cade Editor

Leek Ruthrauff Photographer

Hilbert O. Bell.... ....Cartoonist

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Of Many Things I

Our Soybean Division 2

Married in Japan 7

Ad Agency at Work 9

Almost a Post Office 12

No Parking Blues 15

North, West, South, East .16

Up Goes New Sign .18

25 Years 21

TV—It's Wonderful .. 22

Staley Foot Bailers 26

Speakingof Voting You've probably all run into that old refrain: What

good will my one vote do? Here's a little bit of his-tory which we ran onto recently which shows that one vote canoccasionally pack plenty of punch.

Rutherford B. Hayes, the 18th president of the United States,owed his election to one vote. Here's how it happened. Becauseof the extremely close election results, the matter was referred toan electoral commission. Hayes was elected by a single vote ma-jority of that commission.

The man on that commission who cast the deciding vote forHayes was a congressman from Indiana who was elected to congressby a margin of just one vote. And that one big vote was cast bya friend who had to be carried to the polls because he was des-perately ill.

ElectionStatistics Aren't very encouraging for anybody who takes the

right to vote seriously. The last president of the U.S.was elected in 1948 by less than one-fourth of the eligible voters.Another fourth voted for the losing candidates, and the rest of thepeople stayed home. The following table tells the story, and it'snothing to be proud of—

Australia 96% voted (1951Great Britain 83% voted (1951Sweden 80% voted (1950Western Germany •-... 75% votedCanada 74% votedIsrael 72% votedUnited States 51% voted

19491949)1951)1948)

The High Votein Australia May be explained in part by the fact that cit-

izens of that country are fined if they don'thave a good excuse for not going to the polls. But that can't bethe answer because we in the U.S. pay plenty for the right to becitizens. Take a look at the following table of current taxes—

Income Federal Tax State-Local Tax Total Tax$1500. 16.2% 5.9% $331.50$2500 19.0% 6.3% 632.50$3500 20.8% 6.4% 952.00$4500 23.0% 6.6% 1332.00$6250 25.9% 7.2% 2068.75

We could go on and on, higher and higher, of course, but thisshould be enough to convince you that the average American tax-payer ought to have the right to go to the polls at least once a week.

Soybean MealPrice Ceilings Don't have any direct connection with elections,

of course, but we probably ought to follow upwith something in view of our lengthy discussion of the subjectin September. The Office of Price Stabilization finally came throughwith a new ceiling of $87 a ton on soybean meal. That's higher thanthe old ceiling but considerably lower than the prices we've receivedfor soybean meal mixtures. At this writing the market price ofsoybean meal was under the ceiling price so our business hasn'tbeen affected by the new ceiling. However, a rise in bean pricescould push us into a position where the meal ceiling could push usout of the soybean business.

The StaleyParking Lots Attracted the attention of several of the French-

men who visited our plant recently to find out howwe ran our oil business. The Frenchmen couldn't get over the factthat an awful lot of Staley people owned their own cars. In France,they told us, there's no parking problem at a factory because fewpeople can afford cars. They told us the average French factoryworker must work 50 minutes to earn a pack of cigarets and aboutfour weeks for a suit. With a little figuring, we came up with thefact that the average Staley plant employee can earn a pack ofcigarets in 10 minutes and a suit in a week. The answer, of course,is that Staley people produce more.

WHEN THE JOURNAL MAKESMISTAKES the world that reads knowsit. Because most of those readers areour friends they tell us about these mis-takes—but that's all right too. If peopleare interested enough in the Journal tocall us—about things that are wrong, oreven about things that are right—we arepleased and, upon occasion, flattered.

After the August Journal came out wegot plenty of calls—they were not all thekind that flattered, but it did please usto find so many of our friends interested.

Remember—but of course you saw themistake we made. Got our right and lefthands mixed up again. As a consequencewe had good old reliable Charley Longgiving the wrong traffic signals in astory written by Lovell Bafford.

It wasn't Charley's fault, nor Lovell's.As one of the engineers said, maybe wewere just trying to show how a lot oflocal people give turning signals. Hethinks Decatur drivers, on the whole,are pretty poor.

Another friend, after ribbing us, wrote"Evidently Decatur has a system all itsown. In the rest of the United States,a hand pointing upward means a rightturn, and extending straight out meansa left."

You're right, brother—and we cer-tainly were wrong. Does it help to saywe know better and that we are sorry?

AND SPEAKING OF LETTERS wedo get a wide variety here.

Take this letter we got from Canadathe other day. Its about corn—but notthe kind we process here at Staley's noryet the kind we often use in the JOUR-NAL. Its a recipe for cooking sweetcorn—and its from a man.

The man in question is our old friendand Montreal broker, James Doig.

Listen to this—and drool along withus—

"Strip and clean corn in the usual way.Then brush each ear with melted butterand sprinkle with salt AND ZEST. Rolleach ear in aluminum foil.

"Twist the foil at each end to keep ittight, then place the package in a 400°oven and bake 40 minutes.

YOUR PICTURE ON THE COVERof the JOURNAL is practically as goodas a marriage announcement. Twicewithin the last few months we have usedpictures of Staley girls on our magazinecover, and both times marriage hasfollowed.

Both times the girls have marriedStaley men, too, but we'll be honestabout it. We feel sure they had the boyspretty well snagged (is that the word?)before we used their pictures.

The girls? Oh, Louise Daugherty ap-peared on the March Journal, holdingtwo boxes of CREAM corn starch—andin April she and Daniel David Smithwere married.

Then in August one of our three bath-ing beauties was Barbara McCammon.In September she and Jim Fisher weremarried. Jim, on leave in the Marines,was home for a few days when theysuddenly decided to have the wedding.

While in both cases, as we said, marri-age plans had been made previously, welike to think that the boys realized allover again how attractive their girlswere when they saw their pictures onthe JOURNAL. They decided they'd feelsafer with those attractive gals tied upwith marriage vows.

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Paul R. Ray, as manager of that division, head all the company's soybean operations.

Organization Completed

N. M. Grain, office manager, and DickLapham, central division sales manager,

look over some meal samples.

As revised organization chart and op-erations manual for the soybean divisionhas recently been announced by P. R.Ray, division manager. The soybean divi-sion, which recently moved into newquarters in the west wing of the fourthfloor, has been in the process of reorga-nization for the past year. There havebeen some additions and changes inpersonnel as well.

Five sales departments that formerlyoperated more or less independently, arenow combined under the head of thesoybean division.

Under the new organization charteach of these five departments has itsown manager. These men, in turn, aredirectly responsible to Mr. Ray. Thesoybean division is now composed of themeal sales department, crude oil sales,formula feed sales, refined oil sales andthe Painesville plant. In addition the

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soybean division has its own advertisingdepartment.

Under the new plan meal sales hasbeen separated from formula feed sales.Formerly both were combined under thesupervision of H. T. Morris. This changewas made at the time of Mr. Morris"retirement in July of this year.

The meal sales department is nowheaded by E. C. Lane and Clyde Thomp-son is in charge of formula feed sales.Mr. Lane has been with the companysince the first of the year and has a goodbackground in both soybean processingand merchandising. Under his supervi-sion come divisonal sales managers, fieldsalesmen and brokers.

There are three sales territories underMr. Lane's supervision. Sales managerfor the central division is R. P. Lapham.He started with the company as mealsalesman in the field. Later he wasbrought in to Decatur and has been adivisional sales manager for some time.

New in the department but not withthe company is A. C. Wright, Jr., newlyappointed southeastern divisional mana-ger. He has a well-rounded companybackground which includes a short timein the plant, service as an office messen-ger and clerical work in two depart-ments. More recently he has been inthe oil sales division. For the timebeing, the western division is beinghandled by Mr. Lapham and Mr. Wright.

N. M. Grain, who came to the company

E. C. Lane, J. W. Moore and H. E. Lents,left to right, keep a finger on markets by

reading the t icker-tape.

in 1930 as a messenger, is office managerfor the feed sales department. He hasbeen in feed sales for some time in theposition he now holds.

Mr. Thompson, who heads the formulafeed department, has had many yearsexperience in this field. He started hiswork as a weighmaster with CentralSoya. He served as farm sales repre-sentative and as territory manager withthat company before being promoted todistrict sales manager.

Mr. Thompson has on his staff RudyDennis and Dr. W. N. McMillen.

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At left, Melvin Longbons, left, Lloyd Smith,right, talk over samples with M. M. Durkee,oil division superintendent. Above, Bert

Falkenburg makes a laboratory check.

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Rudy Dennis, standing, and Dr. W. N.McMi l len discuss a stock feeding prob-

lem.

Mr. Dennis has been named assistantmanager in formula feed sales. For thepresent he is devoting much of his timeto operations in the southeastern broilermash section and to the western rangeterritory. Mr. Dennis started with thecompany as a messenger, but has beenin feed sales since 1945.

Dr. McMillen is director of feed nutri-tion. He handles all technical matters

in the soybean division, with specialattention to formula feeds.

He has supervision over the live-stockfeeding experimental work and worksclosely with the research department.Dr. McMillen is well known in his fieldand came to Staley's from Allied Mills.He is the author of several books onanimal nutrition.

M. J. Longbons continues as managerof refined oil sales. He works closelywith M. M. Durkee, oil division super-intendent in the plant, on the operationof the oil refinery.

Under his supervision, also, comethree branch sales offices. Mr. Longbonshas been with the company since 1920,and in oil sales for many years. He wasmade assistant oil sales manager in 1938and oil sales manager in 1948.

His assistant is Lloyd Smith. He hascharge of all brokers handling refinedoils and representatives in three branchoffices. Mr. Smith's first job with thecompany was as assistant cashier. Laterhe had charge of oil sales in the Chicagooffice. He returned to Decatur more thana year ago to a position in the oil salesdepartment.

Also in Decatur is L. C. Woods. Mr.Woods, who came to Staley's from theNorthern Regional Research Laboratoryin Peoria, specializes in industrial oils.

Clyde Thompson, seated, and Gene Sta-ley are talking over a feed ad. Mr.Thompson is in charge of formula feedoperations. Mr. Staley is advertising

manager in the soybean divison.

Women in the soybean division lined upfor their picture. Left to right they areBernice Herzog, Ruth Kennedy, NormaReatherford, Joann Missler, Barbara Col-

lins and Frances Herron.


For several months after joining thecompany Mr. Woods worked in the Chi-cago market but more recently has beenassigned to the Decatur staff.

S. F. DeJanes is in charge of refinedoil sales in the Chicago market. He wasin feed sales before transferring to re-fined oil sales and taking the positionin Chicago.

Refined oil sales in Philadelphia arehandled by Eric Roos. He was in theDecatur office before going to Philadel-phia several months ago.

This summer R. L. Bentley was namedto handle refined oil sales on the WestCoast. Mr. Bentley, who will headquar-ter in San Francisco, has been with thecompany since 1947. He was in thecredit department before joining therefined oils staff in 1950.

Heading crude oil sales as manageris James W. Moore. Taking a positionin our order department in 1941 he laterwas a salesman in both our package andindustrial products divisions. He joinedthe oil division in 1948.

His assistant in the operation of thisdepartment is H. E. Lents. He has beenin oil sales since 1951, formerly was inspecial products sales for many years.

R. L. Bentley has recently been trans-ferred to San Francisco to handle oil

sales in that area.

His first job with the company, in 1926,was as an office messenger.

A new member of the crude oil staffis W. L. Dicks who is in charge of crudeoil shipments. Before his transfer tocrude oil, Mr. Dicks was in charge ofsoybean operations accounting for theaccounting department.

R. W. Saunders, left, and A. C. Wright, Jr., refer to a mural-photograph of the plantto get the exact location of the feed house in their minds.

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Technical supervisor in oil sales isL. B. Falkenburg, a chemist formerlyin our research staff. He has been inoil sales for about a year.

In this position he is responsible fordevelopment and organization of tech-

Lou Louro explains some of the intrica-cies of the job in oil sales to Wally Dicks,

standing.

nical data and information. This infor-mation is of great value to salesmen inincreasing sales of refined oils. He is inregular consultation with our researchdepartment concerning customer prob-lems and developments.

The Painesville plant has recentlyundergone extensive modernization asdescribed at some length in the Septem-ber JOURNAL. Thomas Longbons, man-ager there, now has as his assistant L.F. Wiegand, who has been in Painesvillesince 1949.

One of the newest members of thesoybean division executive staff is GeneStaley who took over the position asadvertising manager there this summer.The agency appointed to handle the soy-bean division advertising is Fuller andSmith and Ross.

Announcement ComesAs Big Surprise

Rhea Held, now Mrs. C. B. Bennett, kepther marriage plans secret from all thepeople with whom she worked. She leftthe company Sept. I I, and that week enddrove to New Mexico for her wedding.She wrote friends of the marriage after

it was over.

A few days after she left her positionin the credit department, Rhea Held wasmarried in Clovis, N. M., to C. B. Ben-nett. The ceremony was performed inthe Methodist church there Sept. 16.

The marriage announcement came asa surprise to Staley friends of the bride.She had announced early in the summerthat she was retiring in September, after26 years with the company.

She did not reveal her plans, only say-ing she was going into business in thewest.

The wedding story tells what the busi-ness is. She and Mr. Bennett have pur-chased the Foster Motel in Clovis. Shehad flown to New Mexico early in thesummer to complete the purchase. Soonafter their marriage they changed thename to the Bennett Motel.

Mr. Bennett, father of Maxine Rausch-ke, financial department, is a long timefamily friend of the Held family. Heformerly lived in Bloomington, 111., butmoved to New Mexico last autumn.

Shortly before she left the companyRhea was guest of honor at a dinnergiven by a group of her friends withwhom she had worked for many years.


MAYBE she doesn't speak fluent Eng-lish but Hiroko Yamada Evans is

rapidly becoming Americanized. Sinceshe landed in Chicago last Novemberwith her husband, Sgt. Oscar Evans, shehas learned many things about her newcountry, and likes them all.

Oscar Evans, now employed in 20building, was a civilian between wars,living in Japan when he met Hiroko inYokohama in 1948. At that time thepretty little Japanese girl was hostessin an American Officers' club.

Soon after that Oscar went back intothe Army, thinking he would get anassignment in Japan. "But you knowthe Army. The nearest I came to Japanwas another small island in another partof the Pacific."

Love evidently laughs at other thingsas well as locksmiths, because eventuallyhe got a leave, and on New Year's Day1950 he was back in Yokohama beingmarried. Because Hiroko's family is

Oscar Evans and his Japanese bride woretraditional robes for their Shinto cere-mony. (Note to American husbands) theornaments on the bride's hat are symbolswhich protect her from ever being jea lous

of her husband.

Shintoist, those ancient rites were usedin that ceremony.

For the day-long affair Oscar bowedto custom and wore traditional robes.The only modern note in the whole affairwas the G.I. uniform worn by the bride-groom's attendant. He balked at wearinga kimono.

The next year, with his discharge datecoming up, Oscar decided that he wouldlike an American wedding, even if thatShinto ceremony was binding. Accord-ingly on May 2, 1951, he and Hirokowere married in an American civil cere-mony in the American consulate in Yo-kohama—this time it took a matter ofminutes.

They flew home in an Army plane andlived last winter at Camp McCoy, Wis.In April, a few weeks before Oscar'sdischarge, their daughter was born.

Since mid-summer the three Evans'have been living in true American style—in a compact trailer in McKinley Trai-

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ler Court at the north edge of Decatur.In a country where everything is newit probably is easier for this tiny womanto take over her American-style house-keeping on a small scale at first.

"In America it is different," she says,glancing around at her neat little home.She is learning to cook American foodson her electric range. She has confidedto her husband that it still seems strangeto stand up when she cooks. For cen-turies women in Japan have knelt besidea brazier or open fire to do the familycooking. American foods, clothes, shopsand manners were all strange.

She liked the clothes even before shecame to this country. The foods seemedstrange for a long time and at first inan effort to learn to like them, she ateeverything offered her and some thingsdid not agree too well. Now that sheis developing a taste for western foodand learning western ways she eats whatshe likes—and feels better.

As an American wife Mrs. Evans is quicklyadopting customs of her new country.When she has nothing else to do she knits,generally with the radio or the recordplayer furnishing a musical accompani-ment. In the picture at the bottom thewhole family posed outside their trailer

home.

For the most part she cooks only foodsfound in our markets. Occasionally whenshe wants some special dish peculiar toher homeland, they send to a Japanesemarket in Chicago for it.

Of course her greatest pride and joyis her young daughter. Katherine isnow five months old, a happy, plumpbaby, always ready for a romp with hertiny mother.

Since her mother greatly enjoys knit-ting Katherine will never lack for beau-tifully made sweaters and caps. Andwhile she knits Mrs. Evans enjoys listen-ing to records of Japanese songs, sungby Japanese singers.

She knows few other women yet, andbecause she is extremely conscious ofher limited English she hesitates tomake friends. But her little household,her family, her knitting and her recordsseem to keep her happily occupied inher new country.

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Ad Aoenca at W

The impressive London Guaranty building, on Wacker Drive, in Chicago, houses ouradvertising agency, Ruthrauff & Ryan. The picture at the right was taken in the agency's

art department. The agency occupies several floors of the building.

You may make the world's best mouse-trap, but if you keep quiet about it, youwill not be rushed to death supplyingthe demand. In this world of sharp com-petition the old slogan 'It pays to adver-tise'—is out of date. Now businesspeople know that advertising not onlypays, but is a necessity. Our advertisingand sales departments work hand inhand in the preparation of advertisingand promotional programs, with a defi-nite sales objective always in mind.

As it has grown as a necessity it hasalso grown in importance as a profes-sion. A business concern doesn't justdecide to put an ad in a paper or maga-zine. Those attractive, colorful andinteresting ads you read as you flipthrough modern magazines did notspring up full blown.

In mighty few cases are they everthe work of one person. As they in-crease in attractiveness and interest, you

may be sure that probably an increasingnumber of experts have had a handin them.

That word experts is not used just tobe funny either. The people who areresponsible for the ads you see areexperts. They not only know how topresent attractive advertising that willmake people want to buy your product.They know where to run those ads—asthey put it—what media to use, howoften to run them, when to schedulethem. They can tell you how many read-ers your ad will reach; and in what partsof the country it will be most successful.

That is why companies such as oursengage the services of advertising agen-cies. Our own advertising departmentworks closely with the agency, thus giv-ing the company the benefit of the serv-ices of the many trained people in allphases of advertising.

The bulk of our advertising is handled

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through Ruthrauff & Ryan, Inc., theagency which has represented the com-pany for several years. Henry Voile,advertising manager, in the corn divi-sion, works directly and closely withthem, through their Chicago office.

In its 14 offices across the country, inMexico, and in Canada, Ruthrauff andRyan has a staff of more than 700 menand women, each trained in his ownspecial field. An impressive proportionof these people are at the services ofthe Staley company through our con-tract with their Chicago office.

Nothing in advertising is left tochance. No ad is ever just something

Jo Nelson, standing, is the copywriterwho writes all our STA-FLO advertisingcopy. Here she watches Chuck Ulrich

make a sketch for an ad.

that was suddenly decided upon, anddashed off in a few hours.

An advertising campaign is a care-fully planned thing, the outcome of manyconferences and discussions. As soon asa decision is made to launch such acampaign, Mr. Voile, division headsand Ruthrauff & Ryan representativesmeet for the first of many planningsessions.

There will be many such conferencesbefore even the first semblance of anad is put down on paper. Known is theproduct to be advertised, but just whatis to be the approach? What form shallthe sales promotion take? Shall the adsbe placed in newspapers or magazines?Shall the radio be used?

For an answer to these and manyother questions no one man's opinion isaccepted. The specialists, the expertsfrom the agency, and our own sales man-agers each give opinions based on factsand previous experience. Out of theseconferences, then, eventually begin tocome rough suggestions in sketch form.

Copy writers and artists work togetheron this first rough sketch. It has littlesemblance to the beautiful, illustrated

Hank Voile, left, our advertising mana-ger, looks at the display of magazinesthat are carrying Staley advertising thisfall. With him is Herb Lund, Ruthrauff

& Ryan.

Here Hank, seated right, talks over someideas with three men from Ruthrauff &Ryan. The men seated, left to right, areHarry Crosswell and Mr. Lund. Standing,

Jack Lawrence.

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Sta-Flo1

StaFlcNow Impfovtd—C^flfen^forerf.'

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Three stages in the making up of an ad are shown in these pictures. The rough draftis on the left, the mechanical in the center and the finished ad on the right.

ad you see in Good Housekeeping orMcCall's but it gives the layout man,the copy writer and the artist somethingto work from. Also it shows our adver-tising manager how the idea is to becarried out, and the way it will be pre-sented, in the finished product.

After all concerned have worked overthis first rough sketch—and do theywork it over!—another more finisheddraft is presented. This is known asthe "mechanical". On the mechanicallayout finished drawings and headlinesare stripped into place as they will ap-pear in the finished ad. This is the guidefor the making of engraving and litho-graphic plates. At the time this mechan-ical layout is given the printer a colorguide and proof of the type to be usedare also given him. This is his completeblueprint of the ad as it will appear whenfinished. It is his working guide.

A final proof reading makes doublysure that everything is in order. Thatincludes checking legal points that mightarise as well as spelling and facts. Withthese steps to be taken before even asimple ad reaches the public, it is plain

to be seen that it requires an agencywith a trained staff to handle it.

Often a campaign includes specialmerchandising and sales promotion pro-grams. For instance, in the early springthe Staley company often offers a packetof flower seeds with each purchase of—say a bottle of STA-FLO, our liquidstarch. When such a promotion is plannedthe agency does not only the ads fornewspapers and magazines, but the coun-ter cards and sales posters as well.

One department in its office helps findsuitable premiums. If the offer is onewhich includes the sending in of a boxtop and coin, our mail department takescharge of that, sending results to theagency to check. It is plainly evidentthat when the advertising agency hasan idea for a campaign, it backs it upwith a staff that will carry it through.

Actually the agency acts as a staff andcounsel for our advertising department.Without it Mr. Voile would need a largecorps of writers, artists, layout men, re-searchers, proof-readers and contactmen, as well as others too numerousto list.

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As the new JOURNALS start arriving from the printers, Robert Mayberry, left, startsaddressing them. At right Ruth Tabor takes over for a while. Harold Doddeck gets

a preview of the new magazine.

ALMOST A POST OFFICEMailing 100,000 pieces of printed mat-

ter in a year is no small job, particularlyif you must address them first, and thensort them according to states. That isthe job the STALEY JOURNAL asksof our mailing department. The job isspread over 12 months, but the mailroom gang never has a month, or evena week, in which to handle one issue.For the Journal's mailing is just onepart of the work done there.

It is true that the mailing department,years ago, developed around the JOUR-NAL mailing list. For a long time thatwas the largest single mailing list thecompany had. Now it is just one ofmany, and addressing and mailingJOURNALS is just one of the jobsscheduled there.

Someone asked Harold Doddeck, mailand printing supervisor, how manypieces they handled on an average daythere. He answered that he hadn't a

very clear idea. Everyone is always toobusy handling the mail, to count thenumber of pieces.

He does know how many JOURNALSgo through there every month, and hedoes know that every day approximately4,200 pieces of mail go to our 350 fieldsalesmen, brokers and branch offices.But that, he says, is only the beginning.That does not count all the other com-pany correspondence which goes outdaily, nor the extra mailings sent outseveral times a month, by various de-partments. It does not count the intra-plant correspondence, either.

Theoretically the principal duty ofthe mail room gang is to mail properlyall company correspondence and manyof its packages. Actually that is all thatis done there—but that All is a Lot!

When the daily slug of mail beginsto pour in along toward the middle ofthe afternoon, no one could blame the


mail room people if they think some ofus write too much. But if they do thinkthat they keep their thoughts to them-selves. They are too busy to expressthem. Out-going mail is all that is han-dled there, but that includes all mail—first, second, and third class, parcel post,express and intra-plant.

If all mail came to this departmentaddressed one group they would behappy. The addressing machines areclicking away most of the time. AllJOURNALS are addressed there, andall mail sent out by the company toemployees. There are also some specialsales department mailing lists keptthere.

There is one class of mail which ar-rives there without benefit of envelopes.That is for the salesmen and brokers.

In racks facing the mail table arepigeonholes for each salesman and bro-ker. As correspondence and invoices forthese persons come down during the

Just at office closing time messengersgather up the last batch of out-goingcorrespondence. In the top picture Wil-ma Gordon is headed for the mail roomwith an armload of letters. In the centerJim Noonan and Doris Cruit are stamp-ing first c lass mail, while Chuck Willard,below, puts brokers' mail in the proper

pigeon holes.

day, they are sorted and put in theirproper place. Before mail time in theevening the contents of each pigeon-holeis sealed in its proper envelope. Thuseach representative gets all his mailfrom the home office in one big envelopeeach day.

Responsibility for sorting, sealing andmailing this particular type of matterrests with Chuck Willard, mailing su-pervisor, and his assistant, Jim Noonan.Most of the other first class mail is putinto envelopes by the departments fromwhich it comes, but it is seldom sealed.Since the mail room is equipped witha sealing machine it is much more effi-cient to send the mail down there. Beatsthe old-time licking method.

The postage meter has the same ad-vantage. While stamps are used forcertain classes of mail, the regular firstclass correspondence is sent through themeter in jig time.

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You know the day is practically overat Staley's when the last mail truckleaves in the evening. Jerry White andRalph Blair share the responsibility oftaking these loads to the post office.Since the company mail check runs intothe neighborhood of $3,000 monthly itmight be said they carry precious loads.

While no postage is involved, anotherduty of the mail room crew is to keepthe never-ending stream of correspond-ence moving to and from the office andthe plant, and in the plant. Two boyson bicycles, carrying approximately 12pounds on each trip, spend their entireday riding between plant and office.They handle about 480 pounds of maileach day.

Chuck Willard, supervisor of the mes-senger department, paid special tributeto these plant, and other messengers re-cently when he said, "We feel that allour company messengers do an excellentjob on mail distribution, because of thevolume they handle. We must rememberthey are the company's newest employ-ees. Names, faces, buildings, buildingnumbers are all new to them!"

Special mailings and advertising jobsare not regularly scheduled for thisdepartment but when they come theirway the boys take them in their stride.For instance, this year they came tothe aid of the advertising departmentby mailing out 56,000 checks. This was arefund to customers who had partici-pated in the STA-FLO money-back offer.

Some of the boys shredded this packingpaper before these three started pack-ing syrup samples. The boys, left toright, are Robert Mayberry, Other Sum-

merlott, Jr. and Sam Roller.

Recently the mailing room crew helpedout in making up and mailing 3,500 feedsamples. This was a big and time-con-suming job in which the boys wereassisted by some of the fifth floor mes-sengers. As a rule they seldom ask forhelp. They handle staggering amountsof mail each day, and take on the extrajobs as they come. The rest of us seem-ingly take them for granted but dependupon them to carry on these necessarythings.

Ralph Roarick, left, and John Wolfe prove that the boys in the mailing department doother things when they are not getting our mail. For instance they prepare materialand run duplicating machines of various types, get out notices, bulletins, department

mail and other intra-company communications.

Persuading visitors to the office to usespecial parking space keeps Charley busyCharley Morenz was practically tear-

ing his hair out by the roots. Two cars,without drivers, were parked beside thefountain in the rear of the office build-ing. Another man was drawing into aplace near the mailroom door.

"See what I mean?", he groaned. "Weput in special parking space for visitorsto the building and they won't use "em."

Charley, officially gardener at theadministration building, is also chargedwith controlling traffic and parkingaround the building. Sometimes thingsget pretty thick for him.

When the new parking space was com-pleted several months ago a number ofone-hour spaces were provided and plain-ly marked as such. These are con-veniently located near the west door onthe court, which is the door most em-ployees use when entering the building.

It is this door which is most used bypersons who have business in the Fellow-ship Club, Credit Union, personnel orJournal offices.

Not Charley, nor anyone else con-

nected with the administration buildingmanagement decided upon this trafficregulation. It was the fire departmentthat felt some such regulation must bemade.

Many persons employed in other plantbuildings have business in the officebuilding. If a number of them had busi-ness there at the same time, and allparked around the fountain at once, thedrive could be blocked. In case of afire in the building, the plant protectiongroup point out, there would be no roomfor fire trucks to get through. Please,they said, can't you figure some way sothese people can park near the buildingand still not block the drive.

The new one-hour spaces are the solu-tion. Charley thinks the reason somepeople haven't been using them is thatthey do not realize that they are there.They drive in, they are in a hurry tosee someone in the building, and fromforce of habit park beside the fountain.He hates to ask people to move on—buthe has to do it sometimes.

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A camera's eye view of the plant from 2 3 1 feetup in the air! From the top of the work houseat new Elevator D, the highest spot in Decatur,the JOURNAL camera looked in all directions. Thecamera took this picture at the left after the pho-tographer came down. Says if he had taken itfirst, and realized how high he had to go, he wouldnever have gone. When he got up. there wasStaley's—-and—Decatur—spread out before him.To the north, rai l road yards, to the west the vaststretch of Elevator D bins and our own corn plant;to the south our extraction plants and Lake Decatur

and to the east, Elevator C work house.

Up goes the first letter in the big sign on the bins of Elevator D. Letters weighed from350 to 600 pounds each, had to be handled with heavy ropes and pulleys. The "S"was in the heavy-weight c lass, required considerable strength to raise it into place.


Company Name on ElevatorsTells Passing World Who We Are

Approaching the Staley plant fromthe north you can see this sign as soonas you can see the bins of our newElevator D. Across the face of themthe words A. E. Staley Mfg. Co. proclaimto rail, motor or air travelers that thisis the Staley plant.

The letters are high enough up on thebins, and dark enough in color to standout in sharp contrast to the white binwalls.

For years persons traveling throughDecatur on Wabash trains have asked—"What is that large plant along thetracks?" Staley people who happenedto be on the train and hear the questionhave always been more than eager totell their fellow passengers not onlywhat it is but a lot more about it.

And always when such Staley trav-elers returned to the plant they said—

"There ought to be a sign."

When the plans were being completed

for Elevator D, Mr. Staley said approxi-mately the same thing. There should bea sign, he felt, that could be read fromtrains or even from automobile trafficcrossing the viaduct.

Such a sign must be large enough tobe easily read, it must be high enoughto be visible from a distance, and it mustnot be too high to be read from the win-dows of a passing train. And it must beof such construction that it would with-stand wind and rain.

The sign finally decided upon meetsall these requirements. Now that it isup it not only gives the world the in-formation it seemingly wanted, but italso gives the entire elevator group afinished look.

Erecting the sign was a major jobwhich was done by a crew of profes-sionals. The 13 letters, each ten feethigh, weigh from as little as 350 to asmuch as 600 pounds each. They are

In the picture at the left those tiny things on the letter "E" are workmen fastening itinto place. In the center two workmen standing beside the "L" before it was hoisted,show its size. At the right its a big heave-ho as the last letter—the "O" starts up.

made of 12-gauge Armco enameling iron,and are approximately six inches thick.

They are a dark red, the color beingbaked on at a 1500 degree Fahrenheittemperature. This, the manufacturerassures our company, is the most perma-nent finish known to the sign industry.

Since the bins will tend to becomeeven whiter as they age, these dark redletters should tell the world the nameof our plant for many years.

The letters have been put on the 17bins near the center. They are 75 feetup from the ground on bins which are131 feet above ground level. While thisbrings them slightly more than 50 feetfrom the tops of the bins, it puts themwithin the range of the vision of trainpassengers.

Each letter is fastened individually bythree-inch cinch anchors. They wereraised into place by block and tackle.

As they swung into position menworking on cable chairs drilled themsecurely into place.

The letters were ordered about a yearago from Federal Enterprises, Inc., Chi-cago, with the understanding that theywould be ready when the elevator wascompleted.

The week the first grain was put intoElevator D the last of the 13 letterswas fastened into place.

While the letters are large enoughto be visible for several miles, no Staleypeople have been able to test the manu-facturer's statement of this fact. So far,trees and other buildings have inter-fered with trials for a proper test.

The sign is easily visible from theStaley viaduct and from passing trains.Actually persons traveling through De-catur on these two routes were the onesfor whom the sign was primarily erected.

All dressed up in their new sign, the bins of Elevator D present an impressive viewto passing rail traffic.


Clifton F. Martin Ray H. Huffer Louis Appelt Russell L. Devore

25 YEARS THIS MONTH

Four men who were employed by thecompany in October 1927, will observetheir 25th anniversaries of that eventthis month. The four are Louis J. Appelt,Russell L. Devore, Ray H. Huffer, andClifton F. Martin.

Ray Huffer

In his 25 years here Ray Huffer hasworked in different departments. Hestarted in the syrup house, then after awhile transferred to the pipe shop. Therehe worked as a helper. Later he trans-ferred to the kiln house.

He was an American Filter operatorfor some time, and now is a vacuum anddry starch pump operator.

Louis AppeltLouis Appelt probably knew little

about corn products when he came toStaley's but he learned rapidly. Heworked in the kiln house at first butlater transferred to the syrup refinery.Now he is a pump operator in that build-ing.

Clifton F. MartinClifton F. Martin probably thought a

few years ago that he would always beemployed in the refinery. His first job

was in 5-10 building and he worked onthe bone filters there for many years.

About four years ago he transferredto the monosodium glutamate building.Since that time he has been a centrifugeoperator in that building.

Russell Devore

When he took his first job at Staley'sRussell Devore was just starting out inthe world of commerce. He worked herea short while then quit after a fewmonths. The next year he was back andthis time he was given a clerical jobin the sales department.

He worked as a sales order clerk forsome time. For several years he hasbeen in the package division, as shippingco-ordinator.

RETURNING FROM SERVICE

Cecil Barr Ray, Elevator C shoveler;John Paul Stowell, extra board; Theo-dore H. Beker, extra board; Fred L.Martina, tin shop; William Lindsten,bulk packer in 20 building; Robert Rich-ards boiler room relief man.

James Fisher, yards, and WilliamTruebe, extra board, returned to workwhile on furlough.

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This corner of Ted Shondel 's work room at home is certainly a TV center. Half of hisenjoyment of television is in putting them together—and then taking them apart again.

TV-IT'S WONDERFUL!A tall antenna sprouting from the

roof is a good sign there is a televisionin that house. To be sure receptionin the Decatur area is not the best, butthe popularity of television is growingamong Staley people.

At least one Staley man is so enthusi-astic about it, that he has taken a two-year course in television engineering.Not long ago he completed a set whichhe says gives better reception than onehe purchased. This man is Ted Shondel,millwright.

He hastens to tell'you that he did nottake this course just so he could buildhis own set. He took it, primarily be-cause, with his interest in television, hethought he would like to qualify as arepair man.

Like many other things, televisiongets more intricate as you learn moreabout it, Ted finds. That being the casehe decided to concentrate on learning

a lot about one important part of theinstruments—the speakers. Consequent-ly Ted has been doing chiefly that typeof repairs.

Building his own set comes under thehead of strictly fun. He had a grandtime building it. Now he and his wifeenjoy using it.

Some time ago he had purchased acombination radio, record player andtelevision set of well known make. Withan antenna that would bring in Channel5 programs he felt fairly well satisfied.That is until he completed his own set.He says he doesn't want to sound boast-ful, but there are times when the com-mercial set presents actually a dim view,and the set he made will bring in thesame program much more clearly.

Ted says he learned a great manyother things about television, in additionto learning to build and repair them.He learned what every television owner


should know, he says. That is that un-less you want to run the risk of gettinghurt if anything goes wrong with yourTV set call in an expert. Don't monkeywith it yourself. "And I'm not solicitingany business. All I repair are the speak-ers anyway."

Ted perhaps knows more about theinner workings of a television set thanmany other Staley people, but he is nomore enthusiastic about TV than aredozens of other Staley men. Hearingtheir morning after conferences, old-timers are reminded of the early daysof radio. In the mid '20's the man whobrought in a squeaky radio programfrom Pittsburgh was as enthusiastic thenext day as the modern TV fan is afterhe has seen a complete program thenight before without too much "snow".

These modern day morning after con-ferences contain many references tokinds of antenna. One fan has decidedthe important thing is to get your an-tenna high enough to cut out groundnoises.

"A V-8 Ford going by can tear up apicture about as effectively as anythingI know of," Ted says.

So far we haven't heard of any StaleyTV fans who are selling their homesand moving to quieter sections becauseof interference, but such a move wouldnot be too surprising. People who enjoytheir television sets are always out forperfection.

All Staley fans agree on one thing.The time you invite friends into see aspecial program is the time reception isterrible. Of course, too, the minute theguests leave, the screen clears and theprogram comes in perfectly.

Among the Staley men who have setsand can safely be rated as fans are Dud-ley Boren, Dud Fain, Paul Jobes, NewtGrolla, Henry Colbert, Gerry Horton, H.V. Wetherholt, Paul Troxell, and MarionJackson.

There are dozens more who are justas enthusiastic, some who have alreadypurchased sets—others who still have toconvince their wives that they must havethem.

But on one thing they all agree—TVis WONDERFUL!

HORTON IS PUZZLED

Just one of those decis ions people haveto make. Gerry Horton must be a push-over for antenna salesmen. He actual lyhad all these on his roof at one time.He says he was trying them out, finally

kept the most satisfactory one.

FAINS AT HOME

• "

Lucile and Robert "Dud" Fain are bothenthusiastic TV fans but its easy to seewho takes over the controls. Lucile does-n't mind. When static is bad she can letthe head of the house worry about it.

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The champion Smoke House team, leftto right—Eddie Boyle, Red Riddle, HarryAtkins, Bob Nihiser and Pete Kelley. Theunidentified person peering over Eddie'sshoulder evidently wished he belonged to

the team.

Norm Schultz, left, accepts the Leakesoftball trophy from Larry Withrow, for-mer Staley employee, now on the policeforce. His many Staley fans feel that

Norm rightfully deserves the honor.

Norman Schultz Wins

Softball Trophy as

Outstanding PlayerSelection of Staley's Norman Schultz

as star softball player of the seasonwas a popular one. Public recognitionof his ability came when he was awardedthe trophy given each year by Tom'sGrill at a ceremony at Johns Hill.

The trophy is given in memory ofGene Leake, Tom's Grill player who diedwhile a member of the team. Each yearit goes to the local softball player judgedby city league managers as the outstand-ing player, with sportsmanship countingas well as playing ability.

Norm Schultz has been playing soft-ball in Decatur for a long time. Whenthe Staley company had a team—orteams—he was a stand-out pitcher-out-fielder. All Staley fans feel that hisselection for the honor this year wasa wise one. This season Norm playedon the Rusk-Morrow team in the cityleague. He works in the round house.

While the Staley company had noteam this year, many Staley men wereplaying in the league. In most casesthey were playing up to what we liketo think of as the old Staley tradition—at or very near the top.

This year the local Smoke House soft-ball team won the city championship.Playing an important part in winningthis title were five Staley employees.

Pete Kelley, of the pipe shop, was themanager. Pete is a veteran Staley base-ball and softball star.

Playing on Pete's championship SmokeHouse team this year were Eddie Boyle,20 building; Melvin "Red" Riddle, de-velopment engineers; Bob Nihiser, recla-mation, with Harry Atkins joining theteam later in the season.


Art Deibert, machinist, celebrates the openihg of Fire Prevention Week by showingthe correct way of putting out a grease fire.

KNOW YOUR FIRE EXTINGUISHERSBy Mike Paczak

Director, Plant ProtectionWhen a man is drowning, it's too late

for him to learn to swim. By the sametoken, when a fire breaks out it is toolate to learn to operate a fire extinguish-er. There is no doubt about it—the timeto get acquainted with extinguishers isbefore a fire emergency occurs.

Safety Through ProtectionIn spite of all our efforts here at

Staley's fires will break out. We allknow our fire hazards, and for the mostpart we all take more than ordinarycare. It is because there are times whena fire starts in spite of this, ALL per-sons should know how to use first aidfire extinguishers.

Lack of Know HowIt is an established fact that approxi-

mately 95 percent of all grown-ups donot understand the operation of handfire extinguishers. Probably the major-ity of people do not realize that thereare different types of extinguishers fordifferent kinds of fires. One extinguisherwhich is most effective in putting out a

wood fire, for instance, not only is use-less but dangerous in case of a chemicalfire.

Three Classes of FiresWe divide fires into three classes—A,

B, and C.Class A fires are those of wood, cloth,

paper, feed or rubbish. In the plant wehave for them soda acid, water pumptype or water hose. In using the sodaacid extinguisher, it is tipped upsidedown and the stream directed at thebase of the fire.

Class B—These are oil, grease, paint,flammable liquids or chemical fires. Onthose we use dry chemicals.

Class C are electrical fires. Againdry chemicals are used, with this cau-tion added—DO NOT USE WATER ONELECTRICAL FIRES.

There's an Extinguisher HandyThere is a fire extinguisher located

near or in every working area. It is thetype which is generally needed in thatdepartment. If you have not done so,learn how to use the one in your workingarea NOW.

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Sfatey

Why look outside Staley families when we can muster this impressive gang for theD.H.S. varsity? And at that there is one more eligible who was not there when thepicture was taken. That is Darrell Adcock. In the front row, left to right, are Sowa,Kaltenbach, Spears, Moutray , Sherman, Fuson and Powell. In the rear are Mines,

Stone and Davis.

By Leek Ruthrauffi

Football is with us again. This time,in trying to get the pictures and storyof Staley boys in the game, I got therealmost too early. The boys had justbeen called out for practise.

With my camera I visited all threeof the local high schools and with thegrand co-operation of all coaches andthe boys, think I got pictures of most ofyour sons who are in the big game.

As I said, it was too early in theseason to really do "the right sort of afootball story. I can't tell you whatposition each of the boys will play thisyear. Neither can I tell you what I thinkof the part each of them will have inhelping the team win.

This is true, of course, chiefly of theboys who are newer to the game. Insome cases the boys are old-timers. I

have seen them perform and I feel safewhen I predict what we can expect fromthis group this season.

For instance, take such players asBill Moutray, Terry Sherman, Jim Fu-son, Dick Powell, Don Stone and DecaturHi — I do predict you will hear a lot fromthem. I am just as sure you will heara lot of the playing of Bob Horton andJohn Wyant, with the Lakeview squadand of Larry Lavery and Jerry Royce,from St. Teresa's.

Some of these boys are playing theirfirst game of school-coached football.Whether they are new to the game ornot, each is an important member of histeam. Any successful football squadmust be a large one because of the im-portance of inter-squad scrimmage.

Under the modern method of playing


the game a large squad is important,too. Most coaches use both an offensiveand a defensive team.

The percentage of Staley employees'sons on the Decatur high squad thisyear is high. There were 11 Staley boyson the varsity squad early in the season—not at all bad, if you ask me.

As I say, my visit to the practice fieldwas too early to say just what positioneach plays, but here they are—thosevarsity squad boys:

Darrell Adcock, whose father is FloydAdcock, foreman in 47 building. Heplayed last year.

Bob Davis, a son of W. C. Davis, ofthe oil refinery.

Jim Fuson, the 260 pound son ofJames Fuson, shift foreman in the millhouse. He also played last year.

Norris Hines. He is the son of Syl-vester Hines, Proctor-Schwartz operator

Norton and Red Carter (he weighs about250) are practising blocking as Wyantprepares to pass the ball at Lalceview.In the center the Decatur C squad linesup—with a visitor. The fourth boy fromthe left has no Staley relatives—he justliked their looks and got into the picture.The others, left to right, are Tilinski,Duddleston, Willis, Franklin, Workman,Fox, Reinhold and Newbon. Staley's St.Teresa's representatives are Larry Lavery

and Jerry Royce, shown below.

in 20 building.Richard Kaltenbach, a son of Herman

Kaltenbach of M and L.Bill Moutray, another veteran of last

year. His father is Clarence Moutray,assistant to the supply supervisor.

Dick Powell, over six feet tall, alsoplayed last year. He is the son of S. M.Powell, tin shop.

Terry Sherman, played on the sopho-more team last year. His father is BobSherman, technical sales representative.

Ronnie Sowa is the son of Gus Sowa,office maintenance staff.

Lee Spears is the son of Arch Spears,MSG plant.

Don Stone, son of Ross Stone, electri-cian, also played on the sophomore teamlast year.

On the D.H.S. "C" squad we have nineStaley boys. They are: Fred Tilinski,son of Fred Tilinski, relief foreman 48-

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Two pairs of brothers make up two-thirds of the Staley squad at Lakeview Hi. In thefront row are Curley Carter, Bob Horton, Red Carter and Tom Coffman. In the rear

are Jack Coffman and John Wyant.

49; John Duddleston, son of J. W. Dud-dleston, development engineers; AveryWillis, son of W. M. Willis, 16 building;Lynn Franklin, son of Jack Franklin,millwright; Don Workman, son of M.H. Workman, weighmaster; Rodger Fox,son of Arthur Fox, garage; Willie New-bon, nephew of Paul Jelks; Ray Rein-hold, Jr., son of Ray Reinhold, tinner;and George Moore,

Staley's is represented by six boys onthe Lakeview squad. "Curly" and "Red"Carter are sons of Cager Carter, ship-ping inspector; Tom and Jack Coffmanare sons of Herschel A. Coffman, tinner;John Wyant is the son of John Wyant,chairman of the union bargaining com-mittee, and Bob Horton is the son ofGerry Horton, supervisor of union re-lations.

We have only two representatives onthe St. Teresa squad this year. JerryRoyce is an old timer, having playedthere last year. He is the son of J. D.Royce, millwright. The other boy isLarry Lavery, whose father, C. F. Lav-ery, is also a millwright.

Parents of all these boys are proudof them, as why shouldn't they be. Weare all proud with them, and many ofus will be out there watching and yellingfor them when they strut their stuff onthe local gridirons.

DOXSIE TO HARVARDLou Doxsie, production superintend-

ent, will be at Harvard Business Schooluntil the last of November, attendingthe Advanced Management Program. Heleft in September, the fifth Staley execu-tive to be enrolled in the course. BobBoyer, Roy Rollins, Gene Rhodes andPaul Shildneck attended in 1950, 1951,and the first part of 1952.

Lou, who has been with the companysince 1933, started on the extra board.Later he worked in the electric shop,then served as foreman and later asa division superintendent in dry starch.He was promoted to his present positionin 1950.

During WorldWar II he was onleave, serving as alieutenant in theNavy.

Jim Dust in istaking Lou's placeduring his absence.During the firsttwo weeks ArtWatkins took overwhile Jim was re-covering from anauto wreck.


Bauman (left) andRussell

Sfactfej ftHMwdTwo New Foremen

Two men weremade assistantforemen in Sep-tember. Lyle L.Bauman and Geo.R. Russell, both ofwhom have beenin Elevator C, arenow assistant fore-men in ElevatorD. Lyle has beenweighmaster andGeorge has been atruck dump opera-tor. Both menstarted with thecompany on theextra board.

PROMOTIONSOne promotion generally starts anoth-

er. In Painesville Maurice Eagan wasmoved up from office manager to anassistant in feed sales, and Dwight Englewas sent over from the Fellowship Cluboffice in Decatur to take charge of thePainesville office routine.

That moved Rosemary Orrell up tobe chief clerk in the Fellowship Cluboffice, Robert Heath up to senior clerkand Tom McEvoy up from messengerto Heath's former job as clerk.

In the maintenance office Peggy Mur-phy was promoted scheduling clerk thusmoving up Johanna Cross to typist ininventory control and Mary Vogel upfrom messenger to the job of duplicatoroperator.

Shirlee Click, now clerk-stenographerin engineering, has been replaced ingrain by Rosemary Curtis. Rosemary'snew job is that of junior clerk-typist.

Evelyn Cowan, who has been aclerk-typist in traffic, has been madean assistant to the traffic manager, fill-ing a vacancy. Replacing her is MarilynMcQuality, who has been a junior clerk.Marilyn's former job is being taken byEvelyn Morrison from messenger.

Shirley Querry, who started as a highschool cooperative student here last yearis now a junior sales expense clerk inthe service department. Jeannette Wea-ver has been promoted from the messen-ger service to the position of clerk-stenographer in the control laboratory.

New messengers are Judy Owens,Mary Hastings, Doris Cruit, ShirleyFriesner, Normal Miller, Evelyn Riddle,Other Summerlott,'Jr. Don Wolfe, JamesLett, Jr.

Mary Good has been added to theCredit Union staff as clerk.

Virginia Ascherman has been pro-moted to a newly created job as seniorclerk-typist in the corn division, andLa Veda Klein succeeds her as librarianin the technical department library. Shehad formerly been employed in thatdepartment in the patent office.

NEW EMPLOYEES

William Swiney, a newcomer, is a newjunior order clerk in industrial sales.

Newell Austin recently came to thecompany as a time study man.

Dr. Arthur L. Gordon is joining ourprotein laboratory staff. He has recentlybeen doing special research work for theUniversity of Minnesota, from which hegraduated in 1948.

Robert Short has been promoted fromanalytical chemist in research to juniorresearch chemist. He is replaced byEllis Lehman, new with the company.

TWO MOVE UP

Rhea Held's re-t i r emen t movedMervin Kinert upto the position ofchief accounts re-ceivable bookkeep-er in credits. Re-placing him in theorder departmentis Robert Dickson.His old position inthe store room of-fice is taken byDorothy Stuart.

Kinert (left) and Dickson.

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Harold E. Chenoweth and Jacque Rhodes

were married Aug. 10 in the Rhodes

home. She is the daughter of E. E.

Rhodes, assistant treasurer, and Mrs.

Rhodes. Mr. Chenoweth is a farmer.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Parrish, left, were

married July 19. He is the son of Harold

Parrish, 20 building. The bride, formerly

llene Colbert, is a niece of Henry Col-

bert, mill house foreman.

Our cover girl a bride! Barbara McCam-

mon, credit union office, and Jim Fisher

were married in August. Jim, on leave in

the Marines, is employed in the yards.

Barbara was one of the bathing beauties

on our August Journal.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard Glosser posed with

members of their family right after their

July 20 marriage. On the left are Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Glosser. The bride-

groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne

Glosser, and their grandson are on the

right. Wayne is employed in the store

room.


iitUt& New*FINISHES TRAINING

Kenneth Wilson, right,union steward, lookson as Subby Kalb pre-sents Charles Danford

his certificate.

Charles Danford is now a boiler maker.Early in September he received his cer-tificate of completion from L. C. Kalb,boiler maker foreman.

Charles, who came to the company in1941, started his apprentice training af-ter he returned from Navy duty duringWorld War II. His apprentice trainingwas interrupted once when he was re-called to the Navy.

VACATION IN BRITAINRecord among Staley people for going

the longest distance on his vacation thisyear probably is held by Lowell Gill,technical director. He and Mrs. Gill madea trip to the British Isles. By flying bothways they were able to spend 15 daysin England and Scotland. They left De-catur the last Friday in August andreturned the middle of September.

This was their'first trip abroad butboth insisted that it was just a trialrun. If they enjoyed it as much as theythought they would there probablywould be more and longer vacationslater.

Its a long way from 101 building toEniwetok Island, in the South Pacific.That is the opinion of Donald J. Miller,Navy Storekeeper, on leave from 101.He is serving aboard the gasoline serviceship, Agawam, and for five months theyhave been anchored off Eniwetok, wait-ing for an A-bomb test.

Donald is the son of Paul Stroyeck,foreman in the extraction plant, andMrs. Stroyeck.

A recent letter to the Journal suggest-ed he'd be glad when they weigh anchorand start toward home.

TRADINGPOST

Got something you want to sell? Ortrade? Or is there something you wantto buy? Call the TRADING POST—itsheadquarters are the JOURNAL office.

Listing in the TRADING POST won'tcost you a cent.

Just remember the deadline—get it into the JOURNAL OFFICE by the 20thof the month before the publication date.For instance—for November publicationget it in to the JOURNAL office by Oct.20. Remember—this service is FREE.

* * *Here's a gas range

This apartment-size range is less thana year old. It is a Roper—one of the

best made—and it is in excellent condi-tion. It really must be seen to be fullyappreciated. Phone me at home—3-9691or come and see it—310 South Webster.

Harriett Houk, Cost Dept.* * *

Baby BuggyEd Holmes, of the tin shop, has a

baby buggy for sale. It is the famousStorkline make, in excellent condition.He originally said it was a straight sale,then decided he would trade, if you havesomething to trade in which he is in-terested. His home address is 2501 EastPrairie. His phone is 3-8757.

* * *Rent or Buy

Here's a modern four room, gas heatedhouse you can rent or buy. Rent it awhile, you'll like it so well you'll buy it.It is practically new. 2016 East Lincoln.Call Thomas Murray, Phone 3-0549.

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futurezens

Danny Miller \s the seven months old sonof Raymond Miller, 20 building, and Mrs.

Miller.

Leroy Parker, packing house, is the grandfather of smiling Phyllis Ann Parker, left,one year old. Her parents are Mr. and

Mrs. Clyde Parker.

Cecil Royce, 9, plans to see big brotherJerry, play football at St. Teresa's thisyear. His sister Mary LaVerne, 14, prob-ably will go to all the games, too. Theyare children of Jerry Royce, millwright,

and Mrs. Royce.

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Three little Smiths, all dressed up. Theyare children of Claude Smith, 20 build-ing, and Mrs. Smith. Left to right theyare Vicky Rae, Carla Gail and Bonnie

Helen.


THE QUESTION: "What issue do you believe willinfluence the voter in the November presidentialelection?"

John Ervin, Corn Oil House"I feel the im-

portant issue isthe effect of com-munism and itsworld power out-side this country,on the na t iona leconomy of theUnited States, andour American way

of life. I think it of greatest importancewhat the two candidates propose to doabout this situation and its great effecton all of us, especially the young peopleof the United States."

Charles W. Sims,

next President in"Also of vital

something aboutwar."

Pipe Fitter Helper"The high prices

on all commoditieswill surely influ-ence most voters.In my opinion theman or party thatcan promise to do

s. something aboutthis will be theparty that has the

the White House,importance is doingthe useless Korean

Gerald G. Garfoot, Elevator B"To my way of

1^ thinking the Taft-

.jpp- \ fartley law is the~^*\ *ssue as ^ar as *hg

m I laboring man is(W - concerned. I think

. j/* .\s the most im-i || portant issue as

S far as I and otherlaboring people are

concerned—at least I feel it should be."

Edwin L. Hale, Gateman"I figure the ma-

jority of peopledon't want a mili-tary man for Pres-ident. People arepretty much fed upon wars and suchthings. So I saythe main issue is—do we want a

military man or a non-military man asPresident."

E. K. Scheiter, Executive Vice-President"People want to

vote for a leaderwho is courageousenough to root outthe small and in-competent men inimportant govern-ment jobs. Theyare sick of double-talk, indifference,

dishonesty and waste. I think we areall seeking the candidate who is bestqualified to surround himself with theable and strong men needed to workunselfishly for peace in the world andfair and progressive government athome."

James W. Smith, M. and L. Oiler"I think the is-

sue of our nationaleconomy will bethe deciding pointthis year. I say thisbecause this touch-es more people ineveryday life thanany other issue."

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