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The Sohio News
July 1952
At this time of year the annuitants who went south for the winter are back at their northern homes. So far we have learned that Jesse Pelton and Gardner Stearns, Columbus annuitants, have returned from Florida. Also, Noel Duncan, who has been living in Florida, stopped in the Cincinnati Division Office to visit.
Henry Chisman of Loveland, an annuitant of Cincinnati Division, tells us in a letter that in the five years he has been retired he has done a lot of traveling.
"I have one son who was a warrant officer stationed at Seattle, Wash.; another son who teaches bombing at the Air Force Base at Lowry Field in Denver, Co1o.; and a daughter who lives in Ft. Collins, Colo., near the Wyoming border; and have made four or five trips among them. Also have spent three enjoyable winters at Miami. However, I will not say anything about fishing, as I may make them too big.
Henry Chisman
"I am in perfect health. Besides buying a few antiques and old coins, I helped build myself and my second youngest son new homes.
"I see John Furber often and he is well. Recently I talked with Kip Pierce and spent an afternoon with Arthur Anson. All three were pensioned from Cincinnati Division.
"Hope to see the Home Office when the Quarter Century Club has the annual meeting up that way."
A letter has been received from Nellie A. Hoover, an annuitant of the Home Office, who lives on Madison Ave., in Cleveland. She writes that "although I read the Sohio News with much pleasure, I miss many names and faces of the past. Father Time takes his toll eventually, yet in the case of Standard Oil he seems only to help it grow. When I started to work for the company it was a small family on East 55th St., where we all knew each other."
Adam Farnwalt of Creston, Akron Division, reports that his wife's health is improving since she is wearing a back brace while a crushed vertebra mends . . . It is good to learn that Edgar H. Johnson, Akron Division, is improving. Through the kindness of Garland E. Wilson, a TV set was sent to the Johnsons and it has helped pass the time for Mr. Johnson . . . Helen Smith, General Auditing, and her husband visited former co-worker Charles G. Bowen at Saluda, N. C., while vacationing recently. The Bowens, who moved there shortly after he retired, are finding the North Carolina climate delightful . . . Jacob T. Henderson, retired from Cleveland Division, was saddened by the death of his eldest son. Mr. Henderson, 75 lives in Cleveland.
On his way home front Florida, Annuitant G. V. Harris stopped at the Toledo Division Office to show his trailer. Since retiring last November, he has spent the winter at St. Petersburg.
Stewart Studio
Division Manager A. F. Busch awarded 32 pins, totaling 295 years' service, at Marion's recent service pin banquet in the Hotel Harding. Here Distribution Manager Walter Harvey receives his 25-year pin from Mr. Busch, left. A 35-year pin went to Sam Geiser, Jr., Tiffin Terminal dispatcher; one for 20 years' service to Ted Zucker.
Wedding Bells to Ring Soon
The Charles Devenys have announced the engagement of their daughter, Patsy Bea, to William Rice. Mr. Deveny, a Sohioan in Home Office General Auditing, is located in Zanesville, and Mr. Rice is employed at the Linden and Commissioner Station there.
Betrothals have also been announced by three other Home Office Sohioans: Arlene Nester, Accounts Receivable, will wed James Bartel; and Marje Aftoora and Mary McCormick, both Service Station Checking, are engaged respectively to Joe Hakaim and Robert Van Der Velde.
A royal welcome—decorated office and all—awaited A. D. Harlor, Columbus Division office manager, when he returned after an extended illness.
Tack Graham
Junior Sohioan Wins Silver Pin for Citizenship
By GILDA WARNER
At a mass meeting of the student body at Lincoln School, Dayton, George "Jack" Graham, Jr., was presented a silver pin for citizenship as he completed the eighth grade. This award is presented each year to one boy and one girl. Jack, Jr., whose father is accounting clerk, Dayton Division, has maintained a grade of "A" in all subjects through
the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.
Geography and history are his favorite subjects, and he is especially interested in politics, following the present political race with much interest. A political poster which he drew was displayed at Lincoln School, and the Dayton Daily News thought it good enough to ask to print it prior to the election in November.
Although very studious in school, Jack is an average 13-year-old boy. He serves on the School Safety Patrol, is a Patrol Leader in the Boy Scouts, and an altar boy at the Ohmer Park Methodist Church. Drawing is a favorite pastime.
Aids in Rescue of Wounded Captain
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On Koje Island for nine months, Sfc. Tuersley had, prior to this incident, been a victim himself of a vicious attack by Red prisoners. The husky, 6-loot-2 sergeant had been beaten earlier in the year while making his rounds at the compound, and he lay unconscious for three days as a result of the attack.
Capt. McGuire, now recuperating in a hospital in Japan, described the scene saying, "Red prisoners turned into a mob of howling savages, wielding knives, barbed wire flails, clubs and stones."
He said he was shot by U. S. machine gunners who fired into the compound and by a prisoner brandishing a Russian-made pistol. At first McGuire attempted to drag a badly wounded ROK guard along with him toward the gate and freedom, but about 15 yards from the gate he was hit again and lost the use of his arm.
The daring rescue by Sfc. Tuersley and Capt. Washam then followed.
Sfc. Tuersley served in the Air Force for 48 months during World War II as a Link trainer instructor. He was ordered to active duty from his army reserve status in August 1950. He and his wife have two sons, Tommy, 8, and Terry, 4.
Air Age Vignette
Payroll Clerk Vacations in Foreign Lands Across the Sea
Music, dancing, feasts, shopping, and sightseeing — take these ingredients, add the flavor of foreign lands, and you have some idea of Eleanor Tomkalsi's rollicking three and one-half week vacation.
Wearing a trim pink gabardine suit and navy accessories, Eleanor—a control clerk in Home Office Payroll—recently followed her 44 pounds of luggage aboard a Pan American plane. (Some of the poundage was in nylon slips, babies' rubber pants, and Nescafe, all items requested by a cousin who lives in Barcelona.)
Fourteen hours later she began her happy holiday at London's Park Lane Hotel. Eton College, Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, and Stoke Poges, where Thomas Gray wrote his famous elegy-she saw them all!
"One of the first things I noticed on the London streets," she adds, "was that everyone, child or adult, carried a small black bag. It's a hangover, I discovered, from rationing days when they never knew where to expect a lineup.
"Everywhere you go you hear people discussing the high taxes, low wages, the U. S. presidential election, and—of course—food. I ordered a chicken salad at Nell Gwynn's Tea Room, and was I surprised when it came to the table: two razor-thin slices of chicken, green pepper, baked beans, sweet and dill pickles, heaped on lettuce! No cold drinks, either—even the beer is warm."
In Barcelona, where she traveled next to spend 12 days at her cousin's home, Eleanor found . . . Spaniards start their day at seven, most of them spilling out of spacious, sparkling clean apartments into the fish and flower markets for the day's first purchases . . . Open their shops at ten; close them from one 'til three-thirty for their main meal of the day; then reopen until seven . . . Have two entrees, usually fish and Spanish rice (paille) at mid-day, end with misperos, an apricot-like fruit with two pits . . . Cook in oil; serve tea and coffee in the morning; wine at all other times.
Menus, checks—your waiter approaches only when you clap your hands at restaurants . . . where the Spanish senoritas, resplendent in black crepe and lace mantillas, hide their clumsy-looking shoes under the table . . . where Communists and two daily papers are chief conversation . . . where Franco, flanked by Spanish-Moroccan troops dressed in vivid red, yellow, and blue, may pass by.
Eleanor also went to Siteges,
Eleanor's souvenirs of her European vacation include these Spanish shoes, some French perfume and English china.
on the Spanish Riviera. There the town crier, at eight, moves from corner to corner, unrolling his scroll, and announcing the coming day's events.
In Rome, next on her itinerary, she discovered even greater interest in our presidential election . . . smart hotels and sidewalk cafes . . . young lovers, their thoughts only of each other, crowding the parks . . . fountains and churches illuminated against the evening sky ... a magnificent railroad station, built by Marshall Plan funds . . . warm friendship for American tourists — store clerks greet you with a handshake . . . and the majestic ruins of Hadrian's villa, the Catacombs, and the Coliseum.
Paris, her last stop, was Eleanor's greatest disappointment. So much of one, in fact, that she cut short her visit to take an earlier flight back to the U.S.A.
"People will think I'm crazy," she says, "but other tourists on the plane agreed. Paris is the Miami Beach of Europe — rude, high priced, and commercialized. The people pride themselves on loose morals, the women aren't fashionably dressed; and signs and posters openly flaunt Communism at every corner."
Phyllis Kuehn, in the white bathing suit,
and Dorothy Kuntz cooled off with a big plunge at Miami Beach, Fla., recently.
Both Home Office Sohioans, Dorothy and Phyllis are in the Accounts Receivable
Unit.
Columbus Dispatch Photo At Columbus Division 26 employees were awarded service pins during a dinner at the Seneca Hotel. Those present included, left to right above: Harry Wilson (30 years); Division Manager J. P. Sharkey, who presented the pins; Frank Ryan (35 years); and F. M. Tarr, guest speaker from the Home Office. In front Thelma Adkins (5 years); Carmen Grooms (10 years); Olga Manley (5 years).