The Sohio News
ARE YOU ALSO GETTING READY TO ATTEND THE Q-C REUNION?
Q-C REUNION?
Anticipating a higher attendance than ever before, primary plans have been set for the Sohio Quarter Century Club's eleventh annual national reunion, according to Karl E. Kirk, general chairman.
More than 850 members have already announced their intent to attend the reunion to be held Saturday, September 13, at the Carter Hotel in Cleveland.
By questionnaire to all members the reunion committee solicited ideas and has evolved a program of events recommended by a majority of the membership.
Good fellowship will again prevail as the most important part of the program, and in addition, the timetable of events includes a tea. attendance at the ball game, door prizes, favors, a dinner, floor show, and sightseeing tours.
Formal requests for reservations will be mailed to all members about August 1. Dale Wilder, state president of the group, says, "Please, will you all mail them back immediately, so we can get the details over with quickly and get on with the fun."
Lithograph Can Factory and Two Refineries Achieve Sohio Safest Award
Signal honors as Sohio's Safest were won by two refineries, No. 1 and Latonia, and the Lithograph Can Factory when each of these units concluded the first six months of 1952 without a single lost-time accident.
Safety conscious Sohioans at No. 1 and Latonia will be awarded a green and white flag containing two stars. The second star indicates this is the second consecutive time each unit has won a Sohio Safest award.
No. 1 Refinery
At the top of the five refineries competing for the semi annual award, No. 1 Refinery on July 1 had completed a total of 471 days and approximately 1,972,018 man-hours without a lost-time accident.
Latonia Refinery
The Latonia Refinery, which formerly had achieved a three-year continuous record without accident, on July 1, was well on the way to a new record with 409 days without a lost-time accident, and a total of approximately 619,142 man-hours worked.
Lithograph Can Factory
In a class by itself, the Lithograph Can Factory on July 1, concluded 322 days or approximately 292,891 man-hours without a lost-time accident. Sohioans here previously won a Sohio Safest flag for their performance in the first six months of 1950.
Celebrations in honor of these awards are being held for all three plants. Similar messages were dispatched to the Sohio Safest units by E. B. McConnell, vice president in charge of Manufacturing, in which he said, in essence, "An achievement such as this is the result of daily vigilance on the part of each one in the plant.
"Encouraged, I look forward with you to many more accident free days. Congratulations!"
"Operation Whiteface" — Here a group of volunteers from Home Office General Engineering, Tech Serite and Refining Control tackle a housepainting job for Henry Bricker, who stands on crutches at right. Mr. Bricker, head of maintenance at the Process and Product Development Lab, was stricken with polio three years ago. The busy painters, from left to right, included Elmer Vaultman (who organized the good will project), Harry Judson, Dick Knowlton, Joe Battistone, Jack Jones, Don Roberson, Nelson Salathe, Don Day, Jack Taylor, and Roemer Scholtz and Andy Zales (neither of whom are pictured). Mrs. Bricker cooked lunch for the gang midway through their eight-hour stint; the Bricker youngsters turned "water boys" and carried the Pepsis to and fro. The men plan on returning to the Bricker home soon to put on a second coat.
Sohio Employee Investment Plan Fully Approved
Many Join Newest Sohio Benefit Plan
CLEVELAND — All governmental approvals needed to activate the Sohio Employees' Investment Plan were received by June 30, reported President C. T. Foster in a flash announcement to all Sohioans.
Offering employees an opportunity to save money and share in the company's earnings, the new employee benefit plan was also endorsed by more than 80 percent of eligible employees who elected to participate in this newest benefit.
First payroll deductions will be made for the pay period beginning July 1 or at the beginning of the first full pay period subsequent to July 1. Enabling employees to directly share in Sohio's success, participants pledge either 3 per cent or 6 per cent of base monthly earnings to the plan. Sohio contributes up to 66 2/3 per cent of the employee's pledge. The rate of Sohio's contribution is depend-
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Sohioan Helps Rescue Wounded Captain at Koje
John C. Tuersley, Sohio truck driver on military leave from the Canton Sales Division, was recently praised in news releases from Korea for his part in the heroic rescue of a wounded U. S. captain from a rioting Koje Island prison compound on April 10.
Sfc. Tuersley and Capt. A. Washam of Oklahoma crawled from outside the compound under a stream of machine gun fire to rescue Captain Jack McGuire of New York who lay wounded as a result of a prisoner riot while he was inside the unruly compound.
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Wage Increases Pending Approvals
Sohio is still awaiting approval of the U. S. Wage and Salary Stabilization Boards in order to effect the general wage increases recently announced, and those concluded with collective bargaining units. Requests for approval of such increases for all employees, except members of Toledo Refinery who are represented by Local 346 OWIU-CIO, have been before the national boards in Washington for some time. Petition for increases for Toledo Refinery employees so represented cannot be processed until it is signed by the union officers.
Increases will be included on the earliest possible pay day following receipt of government approvals.
Getting people to vote shouldn't be a difficult task, but Alice Merydith has discovered it is.
Meet Mrs. Sohio
Civic-Minded Homemaker Seeks Ballots by Ringing Doorbells
By JUNE EPPINK
Get riled — even feverish — when you pick up the daily paper and read political news? Think that you—maybe blindfolded—could do a better job running your town, county, state, or perhaps the whole United States government?
Congratulations if, like Alice McCoy Merydith, you feel that way. It's the sign of an A-l American! But how many of you, like Mrs. Merydith—whose husband Lester is staff assistant in charge of management development, Industrial Relations Division, Sales Department, Home Office — are doing something about it?
Alice, a newly elected precinct committeeman in Lakewood, O.. is putting all her steam behind Dwight Eisenhower, Republican presidential candidate. Her job, lowest rung on the ladder in any political party, links the voter to his party.
Days, evenings, in as much time as she can muster, Alice is working to get a maximum number of ballots cast in her precinct November 4. Right now
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Don't Forget to Vote
on November 4
No. 1 Refinery is Host to 120,000 Unwelcome Guests
By TOM BURDEN
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In the past month No. 1 Refinery played host to a record 120,000 visitors.
The visitors, to identify them, were bees. Caught in a thunder-shower, they sought refuge in the shelter of refinery tank 203.
In no time at all, the swarm was surrounded by a group of Sohioans, among them No. 1's bee expert, Machinist John Scar-don. The circle widened, however, and John soon found himself alone as the bees one by one parked and dropped anchor.
That's when he estimated their numbers: eight pounds, 15,000 to a pound. That's when, too, he enticed them into a makeshift hive.
But Beekeeper John, who sells honey to many of his Sohio friends, is now warning them—if your honey lasts funny this fall, blame it on HQD, not on the individual bee.
Form Rec Club
CLAY CITY, Ind.-A new recreational club has been organized here by Sohio Pipe Line, Tri-State, Sohioans.
A. L. Ray is the group's first president, and Olen Reed will serve as secretary.
Personnel
J. R. Reid Named Safety Engineer Sales Department
James R. Reid, electrical engineer. Home Office Sales Construction, has been appointed safety engineer. Home Office Sales, reporting to O. A. Ohmann, manager, Industrial Relations in Sales, who made the announcement effective July 1. A native of Cleveland, M r . Reid is a 1942 graduate of Case Institute of Technology with J. R. Reid a degree in electrical engineering. During World War II he served in the U. S. Army Signal Corps where he became a captain and saw service in the Philippines.
Following the war he worked for U. S. Steel as an electrical engineer until he came to Sohio in 1951. With Sohio he has been close to the safety features of construction engineering in the Sales Department.
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