Sohio News April 1947 Page 6

TOGETHER Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jaycox, State and Park, Westerville, Columbus, cut their wedding cake.

Akron: Two service station men recently married are William N. Campbell, Tallmadge, who took Gloria Wahl as his bride and R. W. "Bob" McCoin, Broad and Second, Cuyahoga Falls, who said "I do" with Kathleen McGraw at the Church of Christ in Cuyahoga Falls . . . The announcement has been made of the marriage in lipley, New York, of Marjorie Reed, former billing clerk, and Vincent Krutel . . . Fred Sand-born, Furnace Oil Department, and Roberta Jastromb became VTr. and Mrs. in the Hudson Congregational Church.

Cleveland: Ed Rosman, Waren and Triskett, took Lois Ann Wohl as his life partner in the Church of God . . . Ralph Kucera, Warren and Lakewood Heights, and Jean Telleriti were married at Napoleon, Ohio.

"To Have and To Hold ..."

Toledo: Russell G. Wall, senior operator at Conant and Wayne, Maumee, was married to Ruth Reed ... A honeymoon in Detroit followed the marriage of A. J. Youngs, Toledo Bulk Station clerk, and Gene Baker in the Trinity Baptist Church ... A ceremony at Lorain, Ohio, united B. R. Baxter, senior operator at Main and Van Rensselaer, Huron, and Maxine Buckholtz . . . James Thompson, construction mechanic, was married to Mary Jane Tallin and M. Saionz, junior operator at Detroit and Collingwood, to Lucille Seller . . . Servicenter manager Joe Mercer and Mary Jane Pfeiffer spent a short honeymoon in Canada following their wedding. Sohio Pipe Line, Michigan: The Baptist Church in Elsie, Mich., was the setting for the marriage of Marilyn Doten and Gerald Butler, stock gauger.

"... From This Day Forth"

Sohio Petroleum, Oklahoma City: Elouise Norris, Accounting Department, is now Mrs. M. W. Fletcher, and Ila Mae Morris, clerk, was married to E. E. Grove. Home Office: Helen Ruth Bodish, Accounts Payable, and Leonard Dicks were married and honeymooned in Florida. James Holliday, Sales Merchandising, and Margaret Tyler Hobbs were married in St. James Episcopal Church at Wooster, Ohio, and honeymooned at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. Sales Accounting: June Whiting, Stock Department, became the bride of Patrick Logan in the Lyndhurst Community Church. Department members presented her with a table lamp at a luncheon held in her honor . . . Before Alberta O'Con-nell, Service Station Department became Mrs. Raymond Heth, her co-workers gave her a luncheon in the Green Room. Dayton: Earl M. Lambert, operator at Far Hills and Orchard, married Vera Dellard . . . Joan Thornton, clerk in the Furnace Oil Department, and Everett Collins were married in the Belmont EUB Church.

Florida Beaches Lure Sohioans on Vacation

Pre-summer suntan statistics show that Florida is still the favorite vacation spot for Sohioans.

Virgil Lundgren, Akron Office, set out with his family and parents for a trip to Florida in his brand-new trailer. Another Ak-ronite, Noble Drake, and the new Mrs. Drake toured the same state on a belated honeymoon. While inquiring about tourist reservations in Florida, Joe Keener, Toledo Refinery Pump Station engineer, met annuitant Howard McAran and his wife, who were also vacationing there.

Toured Florida Coast

Elsie Sovish's suntan proves where this Sales Accounting Bulk and Refinery Checking employee vacationed. Elsie took in all the famous places in Florida, touring down the west coast and up the east. Lola Pierson, of the same department, also enjoyed a Florida motor tour; and Edward Heinz, Home Office Traffic Department, basked in the sun at Orlando.

Merle Evans, Sohio Western Pipelines gauger, and his family visited in their home state of Illinois, which was also the vacation spot for L. B. Adams, Sohio Pipe Line, Grayville, and his family. Another Grayville employee, J. W. Gibson, and his family vacationed at Mr. Gibson's home in Kentucky. Herman Gwin, Latonia Refinery, reports that it was just as cold in Charlestown, W. Va., as elsewhere.

SANDRA LOU TIMMONS (facing camera) put aside her school-girl duties to serve as a volunteer solicitor during the March of Dimes campaign in Columbus. She is the daughter of S. L. Timmons, Manager at 20th and Summit.

Italian Underground Aided Sohioan Who Parachuted Into Italy

By W. I. Smith, Jr.

The story of ex-Prisoner of War Ray Barthelmy, of Sohio's Heat Department at Ashtabula, Ohio, rates high on the list of breath-taking war time adventures which many Sohio veterans are now able to relate.

A former service station operator under Manager J. T. Heakin at Ashtabula's Five Points station, Ray enlisted in the Air Corps in 941, and subsequently became a navigator and 2nd Lt.

On April 25, 1944, then on duty as a Squadron Navigator in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, his ship was hit by enemy fire, and Ray and four of the crew of 11 were the only ones able to parachute to safety.

Once on the ground the five men joined other allies composed of English, French, Arab, and Italian soldiers who had been wandering about living as best they could, while they eluded Germans with the aid of the Italian underground near Florence, Italy.

Ray Barthelmy

Through radio, they were in constant touch with our forces who flew over designated spots and dropped small arms and supplies regularly.

But the group barely escaped death one night as they were signalling some of our planes and one of the pilots, believing them to be Germans, dropped a bomb in their midst.

Later in August of '44, after weeks of wandering in enemy country, Ray and several companions unexpectedly walked right into a detachment of Germans.

He was sent to Stalag Luft No. 1, prison camp at Barth, Germany, where he was held prisoner until a company of Russian soldiers captured the German camp.

Ray says he was held by the Russians for 13 days, and then flown back to England. After being reassigned in England, he was promoted to 1st Lt. and shipped back to the states where he was discharged. He was awarded the Silver Star and Air Medal.

Versatile Author

by Mildred Wendt

Song-writer, poet, originator of radio gags, and magazine article writer are but a few of the titles which accurately describe H. Ray Noe in addition to Industrial Salesman, the title of the job he performs daily for Sohio's Cincinnati Division.

Like his father who had also worked for Sohio, and who gained prominence as a writer, Ray finds that writing as a hobby is a pleasant and sometimes profitable diversion.

While many of Ray's writings have found a place in religious publications, he has proved his versatility by turning out articles on salesmanship, the boys who man the pumps, and on occasions gags and jokes.

Under the letterhead H. Ray Noe reproduced above Ray received the thank you note shown at the end of this article for one of several of his gags which Uncle Jim of the Fred Allen show has used. Following the death of his father, Ray wrote My Favorite Author, which was recently published by some of the southern journals.

When President Roosevelt died he wrote Fala for the Poetic Outlook of Lexington.

After Pearl Harbor, Ray, his wife, and eleven-year-old daughter wrote the song, Meet Me in the Philippines. He wrote the lyrics and his wife and daughter the music. It was accepted, copyrighted, and published. While it did not become as popular as some others, it did receive liberal acceptance in Cincinnati, where Ruth Lyons and Frazier Thomas of W.L.W. and Helen Neugent of W.K.R.C. used it. Ray says it was a pleasure to know that it finally arrived in the Philippines before General MacArthur left for Japan; but most thrilling of all was its use on the "Flack-Shock Show", produced locally for the soldiers.

Ray emphatically disclaims any desire for fame or fortune through his writing.

"More than anything I enjoy working for Sohio and selling goods," he says, "but there are times following a day that's gone amiss, or a day that's been a cracker jack, when I like to sit down to my typewriter to try to prove that the 'Pen is Mightier than the Sword.' "

DEAR

RAY

NOE:

FRED

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OUT

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ABOUT

BENNY

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CONFEDERATE

DEUCE

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ME

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MOST

HEARTILY

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WRITING.

SINCERELY

(signed) UNCLE JIM

JIM HARKINS

FRED ALLEN

MANAGER

Join Annuitants

(Continued from Page 2) On March 15, sixteen girls from the Home Office and Sales Accounting lunched with Eunice in the Sohio Cafeteria and wished her the best of luck. Eunice, who has many plans for the future, may visit her sister in Scotland.

Edward Walsh

With 40 years of Sohio service to his credit, Ed Walsh has punched the time clock in the Machine Shop at No. One Refinery for the last time. He retired March 1 after having started work as a gauger at the Car Shops on September 22, 1906. From that job he went to the Machine Shop where he remained.

Using a lathe to keep up with the Refinery's progress, "Each change was better than the last one," says Ed. He watched the Refinery grow from a one-horse stage to the present mechanized one.

James Svoboda

Another No. One Refinery annuitant is James Svoboda. He started to work for Sohio on April 16, 1916, as a boilermaker helper. Thirteen years later he transferred to the Process Department, working at the Crude Stills and the Asphalt Department. At the time ol his retirement he was working in the Utilities Department.

Jim's co-workers say that he ha: always been a quiet person who went ahead and did his job with but few questions asked. Born and raised around E. 49th and Broadway, Cleveland, he likes to talk about the captains and chiefs in the fire and police department whom he knows intimately.

April Showers Also Bring Betrothals

LOVELY JAYNE NORRIS of Tabulating in Sales Accounting whose engagement to Jack Rutz was announced in our last issue.

Helen Vrabel, Sales Accounting Service Station Department, and John L. Pollack are planning an August 9th wedding. A wedding this month will unite Norma Jeane Bash and Harold Dryden, Canton operator. Another approaching marriage is that of Hedy L. Jackson, Sohio Petroleum, Oklahoma City, Purchasing Department, to Stanley Stafford.

Joe Klueger, Home Office Tech Service, has picked Terry Smolinski for his future bride. Art Kaczor, cashier at Turney and Sladden, Cleveland, gave a "sparkler" to Barbara Warren. Newest Can Factory engagements are those of Joan Josmata to Robert Uher, office force, and Rose Rini, Lincoln Line, to Frank Stano.