May 1950 The Sohio News Page 3
Personnel
Dannie W. Smith Appointed Assistant Superintendent
Dannie W. Smith, formerly production foreman, Holyrood Area, Russell. Kansas. District. Sohio Petroleum Company, has been promoted to assistant dis-trict superintendent. Russell, Kansas.
Born in Orlando, Oklahoma, in 1910. Mr. Smith graduated from Oklahoma A. and M. in 1935 as a Bachelor of Science. Prior to joining Sohio in 1948 as assistant forman in the Holyrood Area, he spent ten years as petroleum engineer with Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in Central Oklahoma, North Louisiana, and West Texas. He became foreman in the Holyrood Area in November. 1948.
Married since 1939, he has one daughter, Diana Lee, age 4.
In addition to being an enthusiastic baseball fan, he spends many leisure hours golfing, hunting, or fishing.
D. W. Smith
Zanesville
Paul J. Finneran, formerly industrial salesman, has been appointed assistant merchandising manager in charge of Consumer and Industrial Sales. Zanesville Division.
John L. Bates, formerly Industrial Sales clerk, Akron, has been appointed industrial salesman as Mr. Finneran's replacement.
A native of Columbus. Ohio, Paul Finneran joined Sohio as an office boy in the Columbus Division in 1916 when he was 19 years old. He left to join the U. S. Navy when World War 1 started, but he returned to Columbus Sales following his war service and served there in various clerical capacities until 1936. In that year he became a general salesman in the Zanesville Division. He was appointed industrial salesman in 1938.
Married, he has a boy. Paul. Jr.. 12. and a daughter, Veronica, 17.
He is a member of the American Legion. Knights of Columbus, and the American Society of Lubrication Engineers. For leisure time activity he likes both golf and bowling.
P. J. Finneran
Home Office Sales
Lewis J. Hatfield. assistant to E. J. Burkhardt, manager of Aviation Sales, Home Office, has been transferred to Contractor Sales, under C. R. Webb. Home Office Merchandising, where he will share the responsibility for this field of sales with Clayton Heinz, J. J. Adams, general manager of Sales, has announced.
Mr. Hatfield's assignment will help meet needs created by increased activity in the Contractor Sales market, stated Mr. Adams.
Leland S. Hall, formerly sales representative for Liquificd Petroleum Gas in the Fleet-Wing Corporation, has been appointed to the Aviation Sales post left vacant by Mr. Hatfield.
I. A. Mathias, who is charged with T.B.A. Sales, Fleet-Wing Corporation, will now handle L.P.G. field sales, in addition to his current responsibilities.
Leland S. Hall, who was born in 1910 at Webster Groves. Missouri, came to Sohio in early 1946 to work as a senior engineer in the Fuels and Lubricants Service Division of the Manufacturing Department. He is a 1932 graduate of Washington University, where he majored in chemical engineering. Prior to coming to Sohio he had served two other oil companies in technical and sales capacities. In mi1itary service from 1912 to 1946, Mr. Hall's duties included flying as a liaison pilot, and start duty with General Mac-Arthur's staff in the Philippine Islands. Released with a major's commission, he has maintained his interest in aviation and the military. Currently he has a mobilization assignment as an operations officer with an Air Force Reserve unit at Cleveland, and has purchased his own airplane which he pilots regularly. He remained in Sohio's Fuels and Lubricants Section, where his work included aviation engineering problems, until April. 1917, when he was assigned to The Fleet-Wing Corporation as a district manager. In November of 1949 he was appointed sales representative for Liquefied Petroleum Gas.
Married, he has three children, Ann, 14, Leland. Jr., 11. and Phyllis, 8. Away from work he likes to golf. fish, and play tennis, but he devotes most of his leisure time to his interest in aviation activities.
L. S. Hall
Home Off ice — The Finance and Accounting Departments announce these changes: Einar Erickson from Executive Administration to the Consolidating Research staff: Norman Lehman from Merchandise Control to Station Examiners: Margaret Angelo from Payroll to Bulk Station Cheeking: Shirley Engert and Joyce Lee, respectively, from Mail to Refinery Orders and Control and Addressograph: Robert Hauck from Payroll to Special Assignments; Marilyn Hilfer from Service Station Credit Ticket to Bulk Station Checking: and William Cox, Paul Greten, and Cyril Long from Station Examiners to Mid-Valley. Additionally, Corietta Coleman was transferred from the Mail Department to Accounts Receivable: Lowell Rupp from Accounts Payable to Budget; and Eileen Hoffman from Tech Service to Refining Control. In Asphalt Sales, Rosemary Soeder, who replaced Dorothy Loose as William Snead's secretary, was in turn replaced by Winifred Marsh from Youngstown Division.
Sohio Petroleum, Oklahoma City—Steffie Sawchak was transferred to the Accounting Department here from Home Office Production.
Lima—R. J. Rodney and F. C. Hughes were respectively promoted to assistant managers at Market and Metcalf and North and Elizabeth.
Portsmouth — Senior Operator Winston Price is acting manager at Fourth and Jefferson. Greenfield, while Manager Lloyd Baker is on sick leave; J. W. Holt, senior operator at Main and Hickory, transferred to the
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THIS is Judy Ann Thatcher.
Wo-o-o-f!!
CLEVELAND-Onc long, low-whistle coming up! That's for Judy Ann Thatcher, Sales Accounting Accounts Receivable, recently voted "One of the ten girls in Cleveland most likely to be whistled at."
Judy won her title as part of a Maizie Contest broadcast by radio station WHK. One of six finalists to be voted upon by audience applause at the Loew's State theater, she just missed out on the first prize—a trip to Hollywood.
She's been busy since the contest, though, handling part-time modeling assignments at the Billy Tilton Models Agency.
Twenty-three-ycar-old Judy attended Kent State University before coming to Sohio in February of this year.
G. W. Stephens, titleman at Sohio Petroleum, Oklahoma City, with one of the beauties who attended a recent petroleum meeting!
Mid-Valley Starts South from Lima
Construe lion crews assigned to Mid-Valley Pipeline Company's 22-inch pipe line have recently begun work on that section of the line extending south from Lima, Ohio.
Other crews working north from Cincinnati expect to meet the Lima group in July. The Ohio sections will be placed in use as soon as completed to move oil from Cincinnati to Lima.
Meanwhile, Mid-Valley is nearly ready to start operating the line from Haynesville, La., to Mayersville, Miss. Sohio oil entering Mayersville tanks by this means will be moved by towboat up the river to Ohio refineries until the Mayersville to Cincinnati section of the line is joined and ready for use.
Engineers for the Mid-Valley Pipeline Company, which is jointly financed by Sohio and the Sun Oil Company, now believe that the entire 1000-mile pipe line, extending from Long-view, Texas, to Lima, Ohio, may be completed by about October, 1950.
State Shop and Warehouse Hears Completion Stage
TOLEDO—Equipment installation is nearly completed in Sohio's newly combined State Maintenance Shop and Stores Warehouse here.
This is the second function of this nature to be established on a centralized basis. A similar operation, functioning at Cleveland since October, 1949. is servicing sales divisions located in the eastern half of Ohio. The Toledo plant will service the western half of Ohio.
Personnel currently appointed to the Maintenance and Stores Warehouse at Toledo are: James Wyper, who has been named manager of both the Maintenance and Stores units; Ott Ames. who will be shop foreman: Frederick O. Nagcl, Paul A. Reid, shop mechanics; Harold E. Southard, clerk for both Shop and Stores; Edward |. Koch, Lowell E. Dennis, as warehousemen.
The Stores Warehouse will stock several thousand items in-tended for company consumption. They include light bulbs, paints, and repair parts. In addition, fuel oil supplies for consumers will be stocked here.
The Shop will provide repair service for bulk station and service station equipment, lifts, pumps, air compressors, etc.
"By centralizing these efforts Sohio expects to save time, money, gain increased efficiency, and improve quality," explained Dean Henderson, chief, Home Office Operations, Sales Department.
"As handled by local divisions, equipment is often returned long distances to manufacturers for servicing, and inadequate field facilities have not made the-most efficient repair service possible. The centralized Stores Warehouse will also enable us to reduce over-all inventories."
Transportation of stores and equipment will be conducted via Sohio's own van-dray system.
Southwestern Wins Division Safety Honors
Capturing first place for the second successive year, the Southwestern Division. Sohio Pipe Line Co.. again won honors as Sohio's Safest Transportation Division.
Bettering their 1948 record, they completed 1949 without any lost-time accidents as compared with one in 1948.
Symbol of the award, a bronze safety plaque, will remain in Southwestern's possession for another year. In addition, knives engraved "Sohio Safety, 1949" were presented each Southwestern Sohioan.
The Mt. Vernon Construction Croup also completed 1949 without a single lost-time accident, but placed second because of a lesser number of man-hours. They. too. improved their record for 1948 at which time they had placed third with two lost-time accidents.
Karl at the piano composing.
After Hours
Tin Pan Alley Artist Gains Recognition
By JUNE EPPINK
The trials and tribulations of Tin Pan Alley are dwindling for Karl Kuhlman, personnel assistant in Home Office Manufacturing, now that one of his songs. "Save the Blues for When It's Raining." is being whirled by disk jockeys
Margaret Whiting, a leading American vocalist, has announced that she, too, will record Karl's tune. After that, who knows how high it will climb on the Hit Parade! Persistence is Key
The story behind Karl's success as a leisure-time songwriter is one of persistence. Piano lessons, taught by his mother, led to his playing first for high school dances and then for dances at Hillsdale College in Michigan, where he was graduated in 1936. And, like all people who play in dance bands, he improvised. He would play a few chords, the melody would please him. and he'd elaborate upon it.
Before long he'd written several numbers—all without words. Which is where his sister, Magdalene, helped out. Now Magdalene not only adds the lyrics to Karl's music but also sees to it that he meets the right people in music circles. Her frequent work with other lyricists and as a critic for music magazines brings her in contact with many publishers, composers, and song pluggers.
Karl's first song. "The Vagabond Trail." was a sleeper. Written in 1939, it didn't find its way to the music sheets until 1946, when he entered it in a contest sponsored by the National Association of Amateur Songwriters. "The Vagabond Trail" placed first among several thousand entries.
Winning Spurs Him On
Winning the contest spurred Karl on—he started working for publishing houses, writing orchestrations, and sending out piano lead sheets, which carried a line of his music and indicated the words. He estimates that he and Magdalene mailed hundreds of these sheets to publishers and radio artists in vain.
Then the leads for "Souvenirs" and "Save the Blues for When It's Raining" attracted the interest of a Detroit song pluggcr. who had them recorded and played over WJR.
"Blues," says Karl, "was written in ten minutes. That's the thing about song writing—you never know when you have a hit. Magdalene and I just finished a number called 'Love Is More Than This.' We're hoping its future will be as bright."
Wanted to Buy
GOLF CLUBS — If you're doing your spring housecleaning, and you find some ladies' golf clubs that you'd like to sell, call Margaret McCormack, Phone Michigan 1-1546, 8007 Dorver Avenue, Cleveland 5, Ohio.
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