The Sohio News
What Does Christmas Mean to
You?
Sohioans at the Home Office
Process and Product Development Lab Give Viewpoints
Stenographer Joan Seidehamel: "Christmas
gives everyone a chance to do a little better, to help each other, to be less
selfish."
Don Logsdon, assistant technician: "At
Christmas people tend to treat their fellow men as they should treat them all
year long."
Group Engineer Wendel Berg: "What
does Christmas mean to me? For me it's the time of year when family traditions
are revived."
Secretary Jane Zimmer :"For
me, Christmas is a spirit. It's a spirit no other season of the year can ever
hope to capture."
Charlie Slapak, technician:"Christmas
is comradeship and a renewal of faith. It's a hope for peace and joy for the
kiddies."
Dave Thomas, technical supervisor: "Christmas
is for children — it's a time for families to gather, be merry, forget their
cares."
The Sohio News
Vol. 7
DECEMBER 1953 No.
12
Basketball Game Brings Death To Sohioan Son
News of an intercollegiate basketball game that brought death to a Sohioan son shocked all Akron Division Sohioans on Dec. 9.
Their heartfelt sympathy is extended
to Wilbur Eshelman. Akron Sohio-Heat salesman, whose son Kenneth was injured
while playing for Kent State University against Bow1ing Green University on
the evening of Dec. 8.
Young Kenneth, a sophomore, age 19, struck his head on the floor of the court when he fell after colliding with another player during the game at Kent.
Suffering no apparent immediate effects, Kenneth later re-entered the game which his father was attending.
About midnight, however, he complained of a headache and was taken from his dormitory to a hospital where he died the next morning from a delayed cerebral hemorrhage.
The unusual tragedy was given national publicity by press-and radio.
In addition to his mother and father, Kenny is survived by a brother Craig, 4, and a sister Jane, 15.
API Commends W. J. Loufman
CLEVELAND - W. J. Louf man, president
of Fleet-Wing Corporation, was one of 31 oil industry leaders who recently received
certificates of appreciation from the American Petroleum Institute, "in
recognition of outstanding service to the industry and API."
Mr. Loufman is now completing the second
year of his two year term as Kentucky-Ohio-Tennessee district chairman of the
API's Oil Industry Information Committee.
Akron Elects Forum Officers
AKRON—The new officers at the helm of the Sohio Marketing Forum, which will meet here monthly during the coming year, are G. E. Bullock, Jr., president; J. M. Reed, vice president; and Ray Adey, secretary-treasurer.
CHALLENGING ALL SOHIO TRAP SHOOTERS
is this five man team from the Latonia Refinery. From left to right they are:
Joseph F. Hellard, carpenter helper; David M. Cain, gas plant operator; William
S. Clinkenbeard, boilermaker; Grover E. McMillan, boiler house engineer and
fireman; and Charles R. Hutsell, boiler house engineer. Hutsell is president,
Hellard is secretary, and Clinkenbeard is a director of the Latonia Gun Club,
of which Cain and McMillan are also members. In a contest with the Western Hills
Gun Club of Cincinnati, the team averaged 121 hits out of a possible 125.
Plan to Dig Caves to Store Propane Underground at Lima
LIMA — Sohio's first venture into underground
cavern storage of liquefied propane gas will get under way on the refinery grounds
here next year, according to E. B. McConnell, vice president in charge of Manufacturing.
Hollowing out of at least two 30,000-barrel-capacity
"caves" from solid rock will permit recovery of more of the propane
produced in refining processes at Lima.
Experimental core drilling over a period of several months has convinced company officials that the project is feasible. The company is now seeking bids on the sinking of a shaft and blasting of the caverns. This will probably cost in the neighborhood of $450,000.
Construction of storage units of comparable capacity above ground would cost more than $2,000,000.
The core drilling, conducted under supervision
of Sohio Production Department men from Oklahoma City, confirmed a water well
driller's report that a bed of solid shale lies approximately 400 feet under
the refinery property.
It also determined that depth of the
bed exceeds 75 feet, and that its
area is sufficient to per-mit excavation of sizable caverns. Examination of
shale samples at the Production Department's laboratory in Oklahoma City established
the rock as sufficiently "tight," insofar as permeability is concerned,
to seal in any gas placed in the caverns.
Actual mining of the caverns also will
be under supervision of the Production Department.
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Wives' Club Elects Officers
CASPER-The Sohio Wives' Club, starting its third season of semi-monthly meetings, elected Mack Larguier, chairman, and Fran Locker, vice chairman.
Mrs. Larguier is the wife of L. J. Larguier, area geophysicist for this production district; Mrs. Locker's husband Walter is a geologist.
Sohio Offers Five New College Scholarships
Sons and Daughters Have Their Choice of 22 Ohio Colleges
Sons and daughters of Sohioans—those of you who plan to begin your freshman year at college next fall —
You can win one of five new, four-year
Sohio scholarships, providing full tuition and certain fees at any one of 22
Ohio colleges, members of the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges. (See
page 8, column 4. for box list of names.)
The five scholarship awards for the 1954-55 school year, according to an announcement by A. A. Stambaugh, chairman of the board, are again available under terms of the Sohio Scholarship Plan (now in its third year) and will be administered by OFIC.
To date Sohio's contributions to OFIC — incorporated in 1950 for the purpose of gaining financial support from industry and commerce for non-tax supported colleges—amount to $140,-000. From these grants funds have been set aside for payment of 15 scholarships, including those currently available. The balance is divided among OFIC member colleges.
Those eligible to apply are children, including adopted and step-children, of regular, full-time Standard Oil Company
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Ohio State Sesqui Commission Lauds Sohio Activities
Ohio's Sesquicentennial Commission recently
honored Sohio with a certificate of commendation, expressing the "gratitude
of the State of Ohio for devoted and valued service in the observance of the
sesquicentennial."
During the year marking the 150th anniversary
of Ohio's admission as a state, Sohio produced a color motion picture, Freedom's
Proving Ground, describing Ohio's history; the color booklet, "Land
of the Pioneers," used by schools throughout the state; the continuing
series of "Let's Explore Ohio" newspaper articles; the "Sesquicentennial
Salute to the Pioneers" at the National Aircraft Show in Dayton; and published
special sesquicentennial articles in both the Sohioan and the Sohio
News.
Fleet-Wing Corporation also published
and distributed through its dealers a special series of folders describing the
history of several Ohio cities.
In recognition of the same achievements,
the Ohio Sesquicentennial Committee of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) on Dec. 8
presented certificates of award to several Sohio department heads.
Throughout the year-long sesquicentennial celebration, President Foster served, by appointment of Governor Frank J. Lausche, on the Sesquicentennial commission established by the Ohio Legislature. Scores of Sohioans were named chairmen and members of the many state, county, and city committees which developed local observances.
Mid-Continent Is In New Offices
OKLAHOMA CITY-Sohio's Mid-Continent
Division recently staged a formal opening of its new offices at 50th and Francis
here with "open house."
Guests included President C. T. Foster
and R. S. Stewart, assistant to the president.
Division offices are located on the second floor of a newly constructed two-story, beige brick building. Sohio offices in the two-level structure face west on Francis, while shops on the lower floor face east on Shartel.
The offices were laid out to specifications drawn up by Sohioans Glen Woodward, Joe Field, and John Atwood.
Production Department headquarters will remain in the Skirvin Tower in downtown Oklahoma City.