Page 6 The Sohio News July 1950

Sohio Petroleum, Abilene Take our geologists' word for it, the new strawberry blonde in their department is a bit of all right. Her name is Mia Patsy Shumaker. . . When Kate Hall, Land, Draftsman Lee Puckett, and Rucnclle Moore, Geological, get together, they talk of vacations: Kate spent her's getting ready to move into a new home; Lee went to Houston and Galveston with his family; and Ruenelle and her husband, who was recently graduated from Hardin Simmons University, visited his former Iowa home. . . Cloenell Hoffman.

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Akron Gauger S. E. Rardin sure piled up the mileage during his vacation—he motored to the West Coast. . . If D, M, Kemp. Lima operator, sends back all the fish he's promised

from Canada, it'll cost him a week's wages for ice. . . "Mac" Mclntosh, Bradley Road station engineer, went to the auto races at Indianapolis on his vacation —came home a bit disgusted at the rain . . . Kathryn Kelly.

Sohio Southern Pipelines What's the good word here? "Vacation!" When he wasn't working on his new home. Gauger M. T. Kirk went fishin". So did L. B. Callihan, head gauger, who also visited relatives in .southern Mississippi. Relatives were also visited, respectively, in Houston. Texas, and Maud, Oklahoma, by Gauger A. A. Peters and D. L. "Moon" Mullen, transport driver. L. A. Murrell, field mechanic, spent his three weeks right around home; and your reporter went in New Orleans and Ponchatrain Beach . . . Jewell Nolan.

Sohio Pipe Line, Michigan- Mary Kathryn Huber, who's returned to the Mt. Pleasant office, reports her new son is very capably bossing the house-hold. . . St. Marys, West Virginia, is where Homer Laidiey, automatic station engineer at Greendalc, vacationed. . . El-wood Kisby.

Sohio Petroleum, Houston- If you've been wondering where everyone is, they're vacationing: Paleontologist L. M. Pveatt went West, Clint Fagg, land draftsman, took the family to Carlsbad Cavern and Grand Canyon; S. E. Estes, seismic chief clerk, and wife, Maxine, sport first class tans from Acapulco, Mexico; Dick and Gladys Wagar, Geophysical secretary, are San Francisco-bound; and the L. A. Brocks, Seismic Party No. 1, and Millie Blanks, secretary-steno, visited folks in God's Country — Mississippi, suh! , . Fred Colomb, manager of Seismic Party No. 3, is back from an Advanced Officers' Training Course. . . At a recent regional meeting R. F. Bennett, chief geophysicist, was elected president of the Houston Section of the Society of Exploration Geo-physicists . . . George Tilley.

Cincinnati- The Managers' Social Club held its annual picnic at the CAC Club in Bromley, Kentucky, on June 8. Strictly stag, much fun. . . Divisionites are sending "get-well-quick" messages to Jack Enginger, industrial salesman, . . Mildred Wendi.

Sohio Pipe Line, Eastern- In no time at all, George Coyne, 12-inch mechanic at the Hagerstown, Indiana, Pumping Station will be moving into that new home he's busy building. . . Reed Warner, son of Mechanic Harold Warner, won first prize in a poster contest sponsored by the local Soil Conservation District for sixth-grade pupils at Mooresville Schools . . . Harriet Craven.

Sohio Petroleum, Oklahoma City- Clad briefly in shorts, AI Padgett, Chief Clerk's, was shaving the other morning when he noticed a possum sniffing 'round his chicken house. Pausing only long enough to don a trusty gun, loaded with bird shot, Al took out after the culprit. Several direct hits merely stunned Mr. Possum, but finally, jumping a fence, Al caught up with him and killed him with the butt of his gun. . .

H. B. Shelton. division superintendent of Gas Gasoline, has returned from a 13-week session at Harvard Business School. After graduation he and his family vacationed along the East Coast and Canada—now they're home feeding a family of motherless rabbits with an eye dropper! . . . Quebec, Fort Scott, Kansas, and Ellinwood, Kansas, are the vacation spots respectively chosen by W. J. Thomas, Accounting, Roger Hartman, Purchasing, and Maggie Robl, Engineering. . . Having completed the engineering trainee program, Junior Engineers Bill Wagg and Preston Rennie are now at Russell, Kansas, and the Oklahoma City Reservoir Engineering Section. . . Here the Mixed Bowling League climaxed its first season with a banquet honoring 120 members and guests. Bill Nolan was high single man (293); Pauline Henderson, high single woman (256); Tom Edwards, high three-game man (747); and Edna Stansel, high three-game woman (658). High-team single honors went to the Trouble Shooters (1116): high-team three games to the Gravel Grabbers (3060). . . . Betty Still.

Zanesville- We thought Paul Crumrine, who's in the office, was too grown up to catch three-day measles! . . Glad to hear that Neil Porter, youngest son of Assistant Manager E. H. Porter, is coming along okay after an emergency appendectomy . . . Dealer Salesman J. B. Council and Phyllis Lipps, credit clerk, are all pepped up after recent vacations. Phyllis spent part of her's in Indiana . . . F. T. Lemon.

No. Two Refinery- You don't talk about keys in the home of Driver Clarence Dunman—at least not in front of three-year old David. After losing his dad's last set of house

keys, the little feller said they were in the woods next door. But everytime Clarence asks him where, again, David has a different answer! . . Agnes Maseh.

Sohio Petroleum, Evansville- "Artificial Respiration" was discussed at a recent safety meeting here which, for the first time, w^:as planned and conducted by field men. Mechanic Leon Bullock was elected chairman of the safety meetings; Pumper A. G. Hanson, chairman of the program committee; and O. E. Sechrest, roustabout, assistant chairman of the program committee. A joint family meeting is now being planned on "First Aid in the Home" . . . Marcella Harden.

Latonia Refinery- Forty keglers took part in the Rec Club's annual bowling party at Newport Alleys. Gale Jackson, Gas Lab, walked away with the high three-game total (605); Pipefitter Helper Nat Huff had high three-game gross score (683); top single game honors went to Dennis Hellmann, Yard; and Dike Cross, Boilerhouse fireman, had low single game. . . When the Sohio weed killer he brought home for his new lawn didn't work, Instrument Foreman T. L. Clift knew something was wrong. But it took him a while to find out Johnny Williams, Yard Department foreman, had emptied the can, filling it up with water instead! . . At least five thousand bees invaded Latonia early this month, most of them swarming on a fence near the refinery, in no time at all. Pipefitter Frank Bryant improvised a hive by cutting a small hole in a keg.

Then he literally shoveled them in until, with the entrance of the queen, he had himself a new hive for his collection. . . Will Moran.

Akron- "If I Had the Wings of an Angel" is getting to be the theme-song in our rest rooms. First it was sung in the boys', when Harold Eckman. service station supervisor, and Steve Sauner, warehouseman, were locked in: and then in the girls'.

when two of them were locked out. This business of sticking doors has been taken care of, now, but the girls claim they got the better end of the deal . . . There arc big doings in the Rec Club here. In recent weeks the association has sponsored a wrestling match, a fish fry (with Mrs. Elmer Kilborne and Al Inama playing for the dancing and singing), and then a trip to Cleveland for an Indians Yankees game. Next on its schedule is the annual picnic, July 19 at Cuyahoga Falls Water Works Park. . . How not to back out of the garage —like Painter Norman White did— with the door of his brand-new Oldsmobile half open ... Where'd divisionites go on vacations? Merchandising Assistant W. E. Baldwin, Tulsa, Oklahoma; William Bailey, Copley and Hawkins manager, New Jersey; Bill Wolfe, Akron agent. Pennsylvania; Dale Palmer, Akron Bulk Station, home; Dan Brown, manager at North and Furnace, California; the C. E. Hollidays, West Coast tour; Pipeline Checker Pat Hensley, Columbia River Valley; K. T. Noland. T.B.A. clerk, Des Moines: Dray Dispatcher L. D. Taylor, motor trip to California; and C. R. Linehan, loader, Washington, D. C. . . . Margaret Sullivan.

Toledo- Just about all our news is wound up in new homes and vacations. Bulk Station Dispatcher Red Cannaley is building a new place; and Clerk T. L. DeVanna has a new home on Strathmoor Drive — it's so quiet around there he can't sleep. . . The vacations were enjoyed by Clerk Earl Schnetzler and Van Dray Drivers Harry Bacon and John Wyse . . . Fred Gipson.

Home Office- Along with 600 other Redskin boosters, Marge Dulka, Barbara Gundic, Eleanor Hess, and Sa-bine Lcmlcr—all Accounts Payable — journeyed to New York City for an Indian vs. Yankees fray. The girls had a terrific time on the lour, which included a cruise around Manhattan and an evening at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. . . Tech Service's Renona Barllein is back from Beta Sigma Phi's Columbus convention, which featured a style show by Mademoiselle and tea at the Governor's Mansion. John Mussulman, head of that unit's No. Two Lab, is off to California for three weeks, and Stenographer Grace Brewer attended her brother's graduation from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. . . When Tech Service picnicked the whole unit went to Rock Haven Grove for baseball, games, and a big lunch. Bob Hoffman was the chairman . . . Property Records reports Marge Straw spent a week gardening. Another vacationer in that unit, Gladys Fronek, took a three-week, 4,000-mile trip down along the Atlantic Coast to Havana, Cuba. . . In the Controller's Division, Ednah Hildebrand, Charles Plum, Ed Greive, and Roger Tucker relaxed right around home. Tommy Cadwell drove to Northwestern; and Henry Lane came home from Canada with fish aplenty. . . Manufacturing notes that the E. B. McConnells vacationed in Bermuda, the J. P. Jones at Myrtle Beach, the Arthur Brad-leys in Washington, D. C. and the Thomas Wrights in Yellowstone. . . General Engineering's Donald Wilkinson, a lieutenant, j.g., in the Navy, spent two weeks aboard the (.'. S. S. Hugh Purvis, on maneuvers in the Gull of Mexico. It was vacation-time, too, for Bob Wehrlc, General Engineering, and Cicely Mr Kendrick and her husband, who returned from two sun-soaked weeks in Florida. . . Matt Mea-gher, Budget, had fun at Kclley's Island. The gals in Purchasing feted Betty Davis and Edith Browne June 15, both of whom left Sohio to become full-time homemakers. Jack Mills. Bill Fisher, and Rollie Franklin —all in that unit—are back from fun filled vacations. . . In the Tax Department Harvey Jack son took a trip to the Ozarks; while Allan Miller went East. Jack Stokes, also in that unit, has been on a two-week naval cruise. But wait, you ain't heard nothin' yet: Charles Lucas picked this time to win a bright red Ford convertible in a raffle! . .

Speaking of new cars, three Pay roll Sohioans are whizzing around in theirs these days: Eleanore Tomkalsi, Lillian Hura, and Paymaster Harlowe Farrell, who's been on a week's vacation. Stacey Gogulski, also Payroll, and her husband, Stan, motored to New York City. . . Louise Miller, Operations, headed for the Smokies on her two weeks; Jeanne Monson, Research, went off to Utica, New (cont page 7)