Sohio News Page 2 May 1950
Contest entries, 1,329 strong, were quickly sorted and directed by Home Office Mail Room staff. ' From left to right are Phyllis Katz, Marjorie Mascha, Rita Jakubowski, and Joyce Pearce.
Contest Comments
This newspaper is exceedingly proud of the manner in which the Sohio Family responded to the All-Sohio Anniversary Contest.
"What," we asked, "should Sohio do to maintain its position as a recognized leader in the highly competitive oil industry?"
In soliciting employee opinion on this subject we hardly knew what to anticipate. It is a difficult subject, and especially difficult to compress a response into a mere fifty words.
Lacking the popular appeal and zest of the radio quiz contests and publicity contest ventures so prevalent today, we had a good many doubts about our ability to achieve more than a minority response.
But one by one, from Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Mississippi, you spoke up. Voice by voice you erased every doubt we entertained about your willingness to participate in the serious, complex problem we had posed. It was a marvelous, gratifying response, 1329 strong.
We are even more pleased by the magnificent vote of confidence rendered the American way by Sohioans, wives, and children who participated in the contest. You proposed hundreds of ideas for advancing Sohio. They ran a gamut of thoughts on advertising, employee relationships, cost-cutting methods, new operations, profits, etc. All in all they constitute a great supply of valuable opinion of use to Sohio management. But one blanket theme was woven in and out of a majority of your replies. It was a vote for continuing those economic principles on which America's free enterprise system is founded.
It was indeed heartwarming to see how strongly you Sohioans, who by geography and position are a cross-section of America, voted for maintaining the tenets of free enterprise as a way of providing for your own security and Sohio's future success.
Gas Price Up One-half Cent Per Gallon
CLEVELAND - Cost of all grades of gasoline sold at company stations was increased 1/2 cent per gallon on May 1.
Sohio's new prices followed national wholesale market trends where prices rose shortly before as a result of increased demand. For example, in the areas lying east of Ohio prices rose from 1/2 to 9/10ths of a cent per gallon on April 24.
Reflecting stronger wholesale markets, this is the third price change effected by Sohio this year. The former two changes were price decreases of 1/2 cent per gallon each.
Excluding tax, current price for Sohio X-Tane is 18.5 cents per gallon, and 20.5 cents per gallon for Sohio Supreme.
Vanderbilt Wins NOMA Office
CLEVELAND - George T. Vanderbilt, assistant to the vice president in charge of Accounting, Home Office, was elected president of the Cleveland Chapter, National Office Management Association.
Mr. Vanderbilt, who has been serving as first vice president of NOMA, is also a national committee chairman on office standards for that organization.
A Sohioan since 1917, when he was employed as a stenographer at Cincinnati, he is married and has three children, George, John, and Joan.
Contest Winners
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"Well, I may use the money for violin lessons. I like to play the violin. I've been wanting to take some private lessons, but Daddy wasn't sure that we could afford them just yet.
"Two hundred dollars! That's so much money. Oh, I'm so happy."
Doris is in the sixth grade at Moses Cleveland School. She writes plays and speeches and her teachers say she is an outstanding pupil.
Her father, Wesley Dobish, No. 1 Refinery welder, has been with Sohio for 14 years.
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, correspondence and exchange to the Editor, The Standard Oil Company, Cleveland, 0.
FRANCES KENNEY ....................................... Editor
F. M. PAULSON ................................. Associate Editor
ANN NEUBAUER—JUNE EPPINK ................... Assistant Editors
EARL J. NEFF ..................................... Staff Artist
JOHN TRAUGER .............................. Staff Photographer
UNIT NEWS REPORTERS
AKRON DIVISION ............................. Margaret Sullivan
CANTON DIVISION .................................... Ellis Kile
CINCINNATI DIVISION ........................... Mildred Wendt
CLEVELAND DIVISION ........................... Glen Pinkerton
COLUMBUS DIVISION ............................. Olga Sylvester
DAYTON DIVISION .............................. Virginia Kelley
LIMA DIVISION ................................ Kathryn Lippott
MANSFIELD DIVISION ............................. Helen Drushal
MARION DIVISION ................................. Pat Conklin
PORTSMOUTH DIVISION ............................. Joan Collins
TOLEDO DIVISION ................................. F. E. Gipson
YOUNGSTOWN DIVISION ........................ . W. I. Smith, Jr.
ZANESVILLE DIVISION ............................. F. T. Lemon
LITHOGRAPH CAN FACTORY .................... Phillip L. Garvin
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Latonia Refinery. ......... W. L. Moran
LIMA REFINERY ................... R. K. Jewell and John Hogan
No. 1 REFINERY................ William Smith and Joseph Pinos
No. 2 REFINERY .................................... Agnes Masek
TOLEDO REFINERY.............................Frederick E. Gressler
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Houston District............ G. E. Tilley
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Shreveport District......... Ruth Howell
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Oklahoma City District. . . . .Marjorie Ross
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Kansas District........... .Louise Tisdale
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Evansville District....... Marcella Borden
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Grayville Office............. V. L. Clark
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Kentucky District..... Marjorie Greenwell
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—Abilene District........ Cloenell Hoffman
SOHIO PETROLEUM Co.—River Operations......... .J. D. Callahan
SOHIO PIPE LINE Co.—St. Louis Office................. Jane Steis
SOHIO PIPE LINE Co.—Grayville Division......... R. J. Hagedorn
SOHIO PIPE LINE Co.—Eastern Division........... Harriet Craven
SOHIO PIPE LINE Co.—Michigan Division.......... Elwood Kisby
SOHIO PIPE LINE Co.—Mt. Vernon Division....... Walter Bertram
SOHIO SOUTHERN PIPELINES, INC ................ Jewell A. Nolan
PRODUCTS PIPE LINE ............................. Kathryn Kelly
SOHIO-FLEETWING, INC .......................... Alyce Boltach
SALES ACCOUNTING OFFICE. .................. Vanessa D. Griffin
Here's part of the merry throng that attended the first dance to be given by the Cincinnati Servicenter Recreational Club.
Sohio Honor Roll
Service Pin Awards May, 1950
60 YEARS
William E. Duff ...... ... Annuitant
45 YEARS
Charles E. Spees. ....... Annuitant
40 YEARS
John E. Chalfant ......... . Annuitant
George L. Hilton........... Home Office
Albert F. Metzger . Annuitant
35 YEARS
George H. Bachtrup... .Portsmouth Division
August J. Dieringer ..... Lima Division
Merle R. Hammel Sohio Pipe Line Co.
Isaac H. Hartley ....... Annuitant
George A. Schubert Lithograph Can Factory
Allen C. Shumaker Mansfield Division
Howard N. Stone ........... Annuitant
30 YEARS
Antoinette Gertz . Home Office
Elfry C. Harris. ............... .Annuitant
Samuel F. Hunter............... Annuitant
Erwin L. Mohr ........ .Canton Division
Charles H. Monks............... Annuitant
Edna H. Myers .............. Home Office
Clark T. Smith............ Canton Division
Ralph M. Smith .......... Toledo Refinery
Thomas J. Steed ......... Lima Refinery
Orval E. Stevens........... Akron Division
Harry L. Stickel .... .Annuitant
Benjamin F. Wilson Portsmouth Division
Carl E. Wolfe . Lima Division
25 YEARS
Bruno Block ............. No. 2 Refinery
Grant E. Conrad .......... Toledo Refinery
James S. Dalton ............ No. 1 Refinery
Mike Fritskey............... No. 1 Refinery
Arline E. Gatz............... Home Office
Merlin A. Kennedy.......... Lima Division
George B. Pugh............. Lima Refinery
Corrine E. Schwarz........... Home Office
Wilton R. Simpson . Sohio Pipe Line Co.
Curtis G. Turner ......... .Akron Division
20 YEARS
Edwin J. Backer....... . . . Home Office
Harry F. Brockman .......... Home Office
Fred Donaldson......... Cincinnati Division
Harold E. Fisk. ........... .No. 2 Refinery
Frances Kenney.............. Home Office
Wendell P. Long........ Mansfield Division
Walter C. McElroy. . . . . . . . Home Office
John A. Noch............... No. 1 Refinery
Fred H. Slocum ............ No. 1 Refinery
John B. Zawacki. .......... .No. 2 Refinery
15 YEARS
Alfred J. Cook, Jr. . Youngstown Division
Silas M. Deane. . . Sohio Petroleum Co.
James F. Kocab............. No. 2 Refinery
Fred H. Kroos............. Toledo Division
Mike Nawracaj............. No. 1 Refinery
Albert W. Rust. .......... .Dayton Division
Steve Wiatroski............. No. 1 Refinery
10 YEARS
Lloyd I. Baker......... Portsmouth Division
William R. Brick........... Akron Division
Samuel T. Briggs....... ... Home Office
Charles A. Brown.......... Toledo Refinery
Homer W. Carlson.......... Lima Refinery
John L. Carroll. ...... .Sohio Pipe Line Co.
Robert V. Dennis........ Zanesville Division
Charles N. Edwards... Sohio Pipe Line Co.
Elmer J. Franxman.. Sohio Petroleum Co. (Latonia Refinery)
Donald C. Gentry. ........ .Toledo Division
Menno R. Hausch.......... Toledo Refinery
Richard W. Heferle ...... Toledo Refinery
Donald L. Hess. .......... .Toledo Division
Roy C. Hines. ......... Sohio Pipe Line Co.
Earl F. Hursey............. Marion Division
John P. Kerin......... Sohio Petroleum Co.
Harry B. Lainhart. . Sohio Petroleum Co. (Latonia Refinery)
Theodore R. Marriott. . . . Cleveland Division
John L. Murphy............. Lima Refinery
Horace Newton ............ Toledo Refinery
William C. O'Reilly. ......... .Home Office
John E. Shawd.......... Columbus Division
James R. Shipley, Jr. . . Sohio Pipe Line Co.
James F. Smith............. Toledo Division
Charles R. Sparnon........... Home Office
Ralph E. Treadway...... Cincinnati Division
Harold E. Vair............. Akron Division
Edward O. Watson . . Toledo Refinery
Walter Williams ... Toledo Refinery
Norman G. Young. .Zanesville Division
Willis E. Youtsey, Jr.. . . . Cincinnati Division
5 YEARS
Clarence F. Anderson. . Cleveland Division
Yvette D. Bartunek. Lithograph Can Factory
Alcied J. Breaux Cleveland Division
John Bruno. .............. .No. 1 Refinery
John E. Buckley....... Sohio Petroleum Co.
Richard demons ... .No. 2 Refinery
John D. Cochran ... Standard Oil Co. (River Operations)
Mardell E. Code....... Sohio Petroleum Co.
John B. Colley. ............ .No. 1 Refinery
Theodore E. Cowell......... No. 1 Refinery
Harold B. DeBord, Sr........ No. 1 Refinery
Jennie H. Doolin....... Sohio Petroleum Co. (Latonia Refinery)
John W. Fredericy...... Cleveland Division
James H. Frye......... Sohio Petroleum Co. (Latonia Refinery)
Henry C. Graham. . .Cleveland Division
George L. Heady. . . Sohio Petroleum Co.
Robert Henry ............... No. 1 Refinery
William R. Hosfield......... Akron Division
Orville L. Hubbartt. . . . Sohio Petroleum Co.
William C. Johnson.. . . Sohio Petroleum Co.
Shirley J. Kuhl . . Fleet Wing Corporation
Sarah F. Leas.............. Akron Division
Paul L. Lewis. ............. .No. 1 Refinery
Richard L. Locher. ....... .Dayton Division
Lydia L. Marcis .......... Home Office
Frank A. Marinyak...... Cleveland Division
Robert L. McCullough Cleveland Division
Samuel H. McKinney. ...... No. 1 Refinery
June R. Mills................. Home Office
Betty C. Pfaffmann........... Home Office
Olive A. Poole ............ Home Office
Bernice K. Schewe.......... No. 1 Refinery
Everett L. Snavley Sohio Petroleum Co.
Mildred S. Vigler............. Home Office
John R. Wilson, Jr . Sohio Petroleum Co.
Felix R. Zaleski............. No. 1 Refinery
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