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Our Cover PictureA visiting photographer recently scrambled up to the top of the oil refinery

and took the picture of the old storage tanks, with the corn plant in the back-ground. It is an unusual shot and finds unsuspected beauty in most utilitariantanks.

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JOURNAL

FEBRUARY, 1950

Of Many Things 2

Recognition Dinner 5

Brand and Moore Here 35 Years 18

Guests Saw These Pictures.... ....20

Dorothy Makes Headlines 23

Safety Bird ....26

Family Party '. 28

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The Employees Of

A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANYManufacturers of Corn and Soybean Products

DECATUR, ILL.

Volume XXXI11 Editor: Ruth E. Cade Number 8

O f M a n y

THINGS

YOUR COMPANY AND YOU

The following is a reprint from theprogram used at the award dinner. Sta-ley people not eligible to attend theaffair will doubtless find this as inter-esting as did those who were there:

Year's end is a time for lookingback.

For the Staley Company, lookingback recalls to mind Mr. Staley, Sr.'sstruggles to finance and to start theoperation of a starch factory in De-catur, the long shutdown of 1914-1915, the great expansion of the plantafter the first World War, the thin baddays of the depression, the productionrecords we hung up by working asmuch as 72 hours a week during thesecond World War and the buildingand modernization program we arenow completing.

It calls to mind our progress froma small company which crudely proc-essed starch and feed and corn oilwhich now. because of careful researchand good engineering and aggressivesalesmanship, makes and sells morethan a hundred highly specialized andwell-known products from corn andsoybeans for American homes, farmsand factories.

It calls to mind too the people, pastand present, who built and shaped andflavored this company.

There was George Chamberlain,whose energy and genius built build-ings, improved processes and com-manded the unswerving loyalty of hissubordinates. And Dr. Kutsch, whofollowed him as General Superin-tendent.

There was Jim Galloway, whose softScotch burr and slow speech concealeda quick mind and an ability to keepthings going. And John Kuhns, whomade himself loved by Staley peoplewhile doing a great job of organizingour power facilities.

There was old Newton Simpson, anessential part of the Staley tradition,Cap Enloe, founder and Grand Mas-ter of the "Royal and Ancient Orderof Fleas", and Cap Whitten, whowatched our gates for so long and com-bined that duty with watching our ballgames so long as we had them. Therewas Tom Gogarty, who bet on the Re-publicans and who incorporated theimaginary "South Sea Island StarchCompany," and "Clamshell Charlie"Wyant, who unloaded thousands oftons of Staley coal. There was JohnWhite, who would lend a hand in push-ing a heavy bull wagon up a steepslope and then laugh and say, "I didn'tpush a pound. You did it all your-selves." There was Tom Thornbor-

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ough, who preceded his son, Claude, asBoiler Room foreman, and "Sunny"Myers, who pushed thousands of feetof lumber through the table saw in theold millwright shop. There was JoePolluck, who started with the StaleyCompany pushing starch cars by handthrough the kilns and was Feed Houseforeman when he died shortly aftercompleting 35 years of Staley service.There was Otto Snelson and FredKlump, who ran the Feed House andthe Mill House back in the early days,and Ot Falk, who repaired their pip-ing. There was Bob Patton, who gaveyou a fifteen minute lecture when youcame to the storeroom to get a bolt,and Ike Ragsdale, who raffled off tur-keys and did a swell job of running ouroil expellers. There was Bill Heer, ourfirst syrup mixer, and Harve Thomp-son, who was a gateman, and Samand John Seibert, who presided overthe Packing House under Kay Sher-man's supervision. There were HenryDubes and Bill Morrison who presidedover our night shifts for so many yearsand "Army" Armentrout who kepttime for them.

In the group who are now retiredare Mike Honold, who produced ourfirst syrup, and Luther Humiston, whohelped him, and Andy Blakeney, whohelped string the wires in our "new"power house in 1926, and MorrisRabenold, who was foreman of No. 16Building for many years, and HarryCasley, who used to run Elevator A.This group also includes Uoug Wil-liams and "Big Jack" McMillan andBill Van Dyke, who always had a smileand a cheery word for everyone, andLouie Kossieck, who ran the office

building elevator from the time thebuilding was built until his retirementin 1948.

If you are a real Staley old-timer ofmore than twenty-five years, you re-member all of those men. Even if youare a ten-year Freshman, you remem-ber some of them. Those are the men,who with many more like them andmany who are still with us, made Sta-ley's a good place to work; gave it thefriendly spirit it keeps today, got thework done and made the company'sreputation in this community and inthe business world.

The Staley Company, after forty-four years of busy life, has manythings to call to mind at year end, butnone so important as the people whobuilt it; its old-timers, past andpresent.

It is worth our hoping that all of uswill be able to do our jobs so well anddeal so fairly and kindly with the peo-ple with whom we work that our namestoo many some day be written in thelist of those who are gone but stillremembered, still respected, still loved.

Year's end is a time for looking for-ward too.

We have problems to solve becausewe are now back in the kind of day-to-day competition in price and qualityand service into which this companywas born. But we grew up and expand-ed our business on that kind of com-petition because we were good at it.So we have problems but not worries.This ball team has always had prob-lems but it has always licked themand the current crop will not prove anexception to that rule.

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Honored guests—those with 55 years or more service—always sit at the headtable. In the top picture the men are Heinle Broadbear, Harvey Crose, Bob Keck,Frank Moore, Harry Walmsley, A. E. Staley, Jr., and Paul Doolen. The lower pic-ture shows the group at the other end of the table. From left to right they areFather Spitznagle, Earl Leek, Helen Harder, Ray Scherer and Nate Smith.

StaleygramsFOR STALCY EMPLOYEES ONLY

Expeller plant January 1950 was the worst January inhas rough time many years for our soybean expeller

plant from the standpoint of operatingschedule and profits.

The best we were able to do was to squeeze outfive-day operating weeks. The production that we didhave on expeller meal and oil showed a loss.

We have said all along that sooner or later anexpeller plant could not operate in competition withextraction plants, but we did not think that it wouldhit quite so soon or quite so hard.

As we have told you before, buyers of meal and oilwould not buy ahead last fall, so we came into the newyear with only a small amount of expeller meal and oilorders on the books.

All during the month of January the demand formeal and oil was very light, so the prices kept sag-ging, while, on the other hand, soybean prices heldfirm. Farmers who own beans have put them in storageunder government loan, and, naturally, won't sell thembelow the loan level.

Practically all of the expeller meal and oil salesthat we made in January showed a loss. Naturally thefirst inquiry is: "Why do we sell goods at a loss?"

There are two reasons: First, we always want todo our level best to provide useful and productivework for all regular employees. Second, the company'sloss by operating the expeller plant was smaller thanif we had shut down tight. Insurance, taxes, depre-ciation, a certain amount of maintenance, and overheadcosts have to be paid whether we grind any soybeans inthe expeller plant or not. So it makes no sense toshut down and throw people out of work until our losson product is more than our loss from shutting down.

We have hopes that the relationship of meal andoil prices to bean prices will improve during the com-ing months so that we can cut our losses and resumefairly full operations of the expeller plant, at leastuntil our new extraction plant is ready to operate.

This situation emphasizes the need for everyoneconcerned to pull together and get the new extractionplant built and operating in the shortest possibletime, at the least possible cost.

Also we are counting on the boys down in the ex-peller plant doing the best job they have ever done tokeep the oil content in meal as low as possible, andthe processing costs at an absolute minimum. Onlywith peak efficiency and a better market can we hopefor a more favorable operating schedule there.

Everybody work for sales Our corn refining and oildivisions are just fair—

volume pretty good, but margins being squeezed allalong the line.

Our Sales Departments are stepping up the pressureand working on new and hard-hitting merchandisingplans to put new customers on the books. They needevery employee's support in supplying the very bestquality products and the best service we can give.

Our sales managers spent the week of January 22 inAtlantic City at the brokers' convention, holdingsales meetings and encouraging our brokers to work alittle harder and a little longer, to get a biggershare of the orders, particularly syrup. Our competi-tors were there too, but we believe we more than heldour own.

Little things do count The company's bill for station-ery, carbon paper, pencils,

printing and miscellaneous office supplies runs about$71,000 per year.

With the cooperation of a lot of our people, BuckScherer is doing a swell job in ferreting out waste onthis expense item.

He found quite a few good Staley employeesthoughtlessly wasting a little here and a littlethere, not much for any one person, but when 300 or400 people using office supplies forget to be eco-nomical the waste gets to be pretty big.

Several employees have made helpful economy sug-gestions to .Buck. If you have an idea along this linegive him a ring—phone 353.

This follows his study of the company's telephonecosts which have been reduced without any loss ofefficiency. Actually, we are doing a better telephonejob for less money. There is still much to be doneand Scherer is working on it.

There is no excuse for waste at any time, but thepresent competitive conditions should sharpen therealization that "A dollar saved is a dollar earned."

Election coming up! This is an election year forAre your Registered? Congress. All seats in the

House of Representatives andone-third of the seats in the Senate are up for elec-tion this fall.

There will be a lot of "guff" by Democrats andRepublicans alike. Don't be indifferent—try to getthe facts and form your own opinion of what is bestfor you, and your family, and your country in the longrun.

Don't accept promises unless you can see a way inwhich they can be fulfilled. Don't support a programthat talks about a pleasant tomorrow, but means alower standard of living for everybody, including you,in the future—when the bill has to be paid.

There is nothing free. Whatever we get from anygovernment must be paid for by someone, and that some-one is, inevitably, all of us.

You can be just as smart about many of the impor-tant issues as these candidates. Don't let any ofthem talk down to you.

The loudest, most eloquent candidate may not beentitled to your vote.

People like us working here at Staley's are thebackbone of a free and strong and prosperous America.Our country can't afford to have us or any of itscitizens indifferent.

Listen to them all—and vote your conscience. Weare in a changing world. Vote to change it the wayyou want it.

You can do this only if you are registered tovote. If you are not sure you are registered—or notsure you changed your registration the last time youmoved to a new address, a phone call to the CountyClerk's office will straighten you out. The spectacleof Americans trying to run a democratic form of gov-ernment with less than half of the eligible voterscasting a vote, is not a pretty one. Don't add to it.VOTE!

We need parking space Time was when the big plantparking lot on the northwest

corner of Eldorado and 22nd looked as empty as theoffice building did when we first moved in here in1930. In the last year, however, it has often lookedabout as full as the bins at Elevator C during thegrain rush. Reason is we have more people and more ofthem are driving their cars to work. Moving the

mechanical shops, the feed pack house and some otherbuildings east of the viaduct has added to the prob-lem by giving employees working there further to walkto work. So we are worrying the engineers with thatproblem now. Possible solution is a new office park-ing lot east of the building to free the presentoffice lot for plant parking but we've got to makesome reasonably good guesses on future growth to avoidhaving to do the job over again. So we may not havean answer tomorrow but it is "in work."

We like this publicity You always get some satisfac-tion out of the notion that you

are a "pace-setter" and that is the way we are feel-ing about our "Statement of Policy", our new First AidBuilding and our truck radio system. As a result ofnews stories on them we have received and are stillreceiving lots of inquiries from other publicationsand other companies who hope or plan to do the samekind of jobs. That kind of publicity helps to buildthe Staley name and building the name builds us busi-ness for the future.

Stores cataloguing job Kenny Higdon and Jack HowleyGetting well underway are making progress on this

big job of theirs. They aresorting out, cataloguing, recording and storing morethan 30,000 items. These consist of mechanical parts,tools and supplies we need to keep our plant running.Moving to the new storeroom wasn't quite as simple ashaving a van back up to your door and haul your fur-niture to a new wigwam (and sometimes even thatdoesn't seem simple). They had to stay in the storesdispensing business while they were moving and justthe mere moving took a lot of days, and work. But, inaddition to that, they took over the very considerablejob of handling the small stores of parts that eachmechanical shop had built up over the years. Then, tobe sure they didn't run out of work too soon, theystarted figuring out, with the help of our mechanicalsupervisors and engineers, just exactly how many ofeach item we needed to keep in stock. And the lineis thin.

If you have too few, a breakdown may be extendedfor lack of a part. If you have too many, money isneedlessly tied up in inventory. There's another yearor two of work for them in finishing the job but wethink the results will justify it.

OUR RECOGNITION DINNERGood fellowship, good food and

good fun prevailed at the third annualrecognition dinner January 19. Mostof the 600 persons eligible to attendwere present at the dinner and pro-gram in the Masonic temple. Theyvisited with old friends, they definite-ly liked the turkey dinner and theywhooped and clapped to show theirenjoyment of the program. And fordays f o l l o w i n g the event, peoplegreeted friends with "Didn't we havea grand time at the party the othernight?"

These annual affairs are beginningto take on just enough pattern now tomake us who attend regularly, feel athome. They are varied enough thatthere is no sameness, and there is al-ways a surprise to be expected. Thisyear, the same seating arrangementswere followed as in previous years,and the usual before-dinner ceremon-ies adherred to.

There is never any speakers table,as such, at these pa r t i e s becausespeeches are not emphasized on the

program. There is a head table, butit is always reserved for the honoredguests—employees who have 3 5 yearsor more with the company. At thistable were seated this year, as always,the toastmaster, the minister who asksthe blessing, and A. E. Staley, Jr. Thisyear Paul Doolen serving as toast-master shared these top-table honorswith the Reverend Father Spitznagle,from St. Joseph's Seminary , whoasked the blessing. A special festiveair was given the party by the longflat arrangements of spring flowers onthis head table.

Following custom the other guestswere seated at long tables, each per-son with others of his own servicegroup. As is usually done, the peoplereaching their thirtieth anniversarythis year, were seated at a table di-rectly in front of the honored guests.Those reaching their twenty-fifth an-niversary were seated at tables onboth sides of this central one. Therewere other tables for the 20 yearpeople, the 15 year groups and the

Some after-25 boys—and Jack Howley surprised that he has reached the 30 mark.

7. A. Boggs admires his new watch, and Lily Fryman dines at 15 year table.

Four handsome "graduates" smile—while Matt Wolf and friends eat their pie.

Two pairs of fathers and sons—Don and Joe Pygman and Don and Clif Carroll.

Bessie Neyhard accepts her watch, and Marge White waits, Lisle Brown ignores her.

"freshmen" having their tenth anni-versary. There was also a table forthe men finishing their apprenticetraining.

Then way off in one corner was atable for the '"help"—members ofthe personnel department who eachyear carry through all arrangementswhich make these parties the successthey always are. They get no recogni-tion, but if they have time betweenseating people and d i s t r i b u t i n gawards, they do get their dinners.

Paul Doolen proved during hisclever piloting of the program that hehad a deeper understanding and feel-ing for company customs and tradi-

tions than might be expected with hisadmitted six service years. Only out-siders assisting were Father Spitz-nagle, Harry Bloomquist who leadgroup singing, and Harry Wheeler, atthe organ.

Because at all family gatherings thehead of the house is expected to greeteveryone, A. E. Staley, Jr., in thatcapacity made a short talk after din-ner. He missed last year's dinner be-cause he was at the time out of thecountry, serving as EGA director inNorway. During his year away, hesaid, he learned that nowhere are theopportunities offered that are availablein America. He stressed the fact that

L. E. Thompson takes his watch and Roy Ives says "I'm fine now, thanks."

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Jennings Heer takes his watch. Wyde Pollard and L. B. Stiith talk.

Three gals from 17 arrive together as do Brix, Ragel and Coverstone.

Howard File and Doc West at 30 table, Brix, Napierski and Galloway at 15.

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Doolen presided and Harry Walmsley was commentator for pictures.

!29 ears owe e?^ 6/i;ie, /lrc/i Taylor suggests—the others eat

Gz7 //o/< takes a seat and Ed Jacobs comes out of retirement to celebrate.

in no other part of the world is itpossible for men to realize theirdreams of liberty and freedom to im-prove conditions as we can in Amer-ica.

Just as nations are made by men,so are organizations, he stressed. Themost priceless asset of a company arethe men who comprise it, he felt.

After Mr. Staley's very brief talkMr. Doolen said he was ready tospring the surprise of the evening.While some of the ever-alert personnelhelpers rolled down a big screen, thelights were turned out and the voiceof Harry Walmsley greeted the crowd.

For the next hour the group, throughthe aid of a projector, leafed througha family picture 'album.

With Harry keeping up a runningcommentary pictures were shown ofthe plant as it looked when Mr. Staleybought it and as Decatur looked 40years ago. Pictures showed AdolphLeipski as he looked in knee pants,Helen Harder with her hair in a knoton top of her head, Ed Scheiter andRay Scherer with hair, Lucile andBaldy May at the time they weremarried. Others showed Marge Whitewhen she played golf 25 years ago.Charlie Ellis in an oriental costume

Joe Kanariem came out of retirement; right 15 year boys look into camera.

The help ate well. Janet Mertz, second from left, and her crew from personnel.

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Bitrk/iart, Henson and Creek stand at attention, Waltens and Hansen eat.

A serious trio, Cornthwaite, Davidson and Wills. Baford hands watch to Saloga.

Some of the "ten year babies" but Fain is big for his agt it seems.

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Simroth eats, Leaser and Scheiter talk. Welch, Mintun, Willis and Slover pose.

People from 17 building always try to sit at the same table.

Schnitzmeyer and Boggs read, Shively and Walker talk, Doris watches.

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Carl. Yarnell waves his watch as Koshinski, Johnson and Flowers listen.

John Fruchtl and Eric Augustine, Matt Wolf and Harry Burgener arrive.

30 years ago, Claude Thornboroughwhen his now-married daughter wasa baby.

The selection of Harry Walmsleyas commentator for these slides was ahappy one. He has known Staley'sand most of the people who haveworked at Staley's, for 34 years. Inaddition he has a dry sense of humorand a clever gift of words. The pic-tures alone were funny. With Harry'scomment they were super-fine enter-tainment for such a party.

Slipping back into the general es-tablished pattern, the program endedwith the presenting of 25 year watch-

es, service pins and certificates to theapprentices who had completed train-ing during the year. Mr. Staley pre-sented 35 year diamond-studded pinsto two men—Louis Brand and FrankMoore. They were the only employeesreaching the 35 year mark this year.

These two men and the other hon-ored guests sat at the head table. Theothers and their years of service, wereW. H. Broadbear 39, Harvey Crose36, Helen Harder 38, C. A. Keck 37,Earl Leek 37, R. C. Scherer 37, K.D. Sherman 37. Edmund Smith 37and Nathaniel Smith 37. Because ofillness K. D. Sherman was unable tobe present.

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The 30 year people were presentedwith gold recognition pins with dia-monds in them, slightly larger thanthe stones in their 25 year pins. Inthis group were Jesse L. Anderson,Ray S. Bass, Delton O. Baugh, Wil-liam E. Bloemker, Clifford Carroll,David M. Crawley, George A. Dean,Charles G. Ellis Sr., Howard File,

George E. Grabe, Adolph Hansen,Donald W. Hansen, Gilmore Hoft,John M. Howley, Roy M. Ives, Wil-liam B. Jackson, Walter E. Knack-muhs, Charles Lawrence, Gerald Leas-er, Thomas Longbons, Margaret PrellLupton, Harrison B. McArty, ElnerR. McCoy, John C. Martin, JackMathews, Walter H. Meinert, JohnT. Mintun, James R. Nance, WilliamNickel Sr., Carl J. Oakes, Fred C.Orkowski, Judge A. Parker, JosephPygman, Ernest P. Reich, E. K.Scheiter, Charles Seibert, Claude L.Smith, Harvey L. Smith, Leonard B.Smith, William R. Spicer, W. E. Stim-mel, Claude W. Thornborough, CarlL. Waltens, R. A. West.

'Be sure you have your ticket"—in the background Ken Snelson waves.

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Then as Paul Doolen read theirnames the 25 year people stood andas each person stood his watch waspresented him by one of the personnelgroup. There were two women and53 men in the group. The womenwere Bessie Neyhard and MarjorieWhite. Of the men receiving watchesfour were salesmen and not present atthe dinner. They were P. J. Friendt,industrial sales in Minneapolis. C. A.Moore, industrial sales southwesterndivision manager, in Dallas, Harry J.Reavis, industrial sales division man-ages, Philadelphia, and E. A. Snook,package sales, Topeka, Kan.

Others in the 25 year group receiv-ing watches at this time were HermanAllen, Homer Allen, William Barter,Estol Beasley, Joseph A. Boggs, Lum

Brandon, Lisle R. Brown, Mike Cas-per, Henry W. Colbert, Walter H.Connard, Claude V7. Cox, Chestern N.Crockett, John M. Durchholz, JohnL. Etcheson, Fred G. Harless, Roy O.Hartman, William J. Heer, MurrayA. Hildebrand, Charles A. Hood.Dewey L. Johnson, Willis Johnson,Charles Koshinski, LaMont E. Leaser,Raymond K. Lenover, Willis Liston,Clarence W. Lyons, William BradleyMinton, Edmund D. Moore. Ollis E.Owens, Ozie Owens, John F. Parker,Franz Saloga, Charles W. Schmitt Sr.,Martin Schnitzmeyer, Fred O. Schwe-sig, Kermit D. Shively, Norval A.Smith, Ralph H. Smith. Benjamin H.Smyers, W. J. Swindle. Lloyd E.Thompson, Russell B. Trowbridge,B. H. Walker, John R. Weger, Law-rence P. White, Adam V. Wilkie, CarlYarnell.

In addition to Hamilton watches,each of these 25 year people receiveda diamond studded recognition pin.Men were given their choice of wristor pocket watches. The women weregiven gold wrist watches. All were en-graved to commemorate the occasion.

Girl, Grinestaff and Kapp get 20 year pins, John Durchholz a watch.

^ Margaret Girl looks about, while Sally Moore directs guests.

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Scribner, R. L. Shartzer, Carroll W.Sutton, Thomas J. Walsh, and OdellWoodcock.

In the 15 year group were L. A. Al-britton. Irvin Andrews, M. N. Armen-trout, Evelyn Bafford, R. P. Baum.James A. Bean, Clyde Billings, W. R.Boyer, P. J. Braun, Robert Brix, B.S. Burkhardt, James Coffey, LevyCreek, Delmar C. Denton, Carl Don-gowski, William E. Dunham. AlbertP. Edwards, Lynden W. Etcheson,Floyd O. Feltenberger, Lilly M. Fry-man, James H. Galloway, Harold D.Gentry, Clyde W. Greenwood, ErvinGuyse, E. L. Hedburg, Roy A. Hef-fington. Ralph E. Henderson, RobertG. Henninger, Thomas W. Henson.W. Dale Himes, Clyde W. Hoyt, R.E. Kilty. Paul D. Kirkpatrick, Clar-ence Koshinski, Wendell E. Kurr,Neva C. Long, Dale David McCul-ley, William H. Miller, Carl J. Mint-ler, Clarence Moutray, Ivan W. Mul-vey, Carl Napierski, Andrew Neu-reuther, Frank J. Prell, John F.Querrey. George Raney, Earl E. Rid-dle. Katherine A. Russell, John A.

Presentation of 20-year pins wasmade to Ross Alverson, Charles Rich-ard Beal, William E. Broughton,Harry J. Burgener, James L. Carter,Ralph F. Clifton, Herman Crawley,Calvin Emert, Morris Fisher, JamesGharst, Margaret Girl, Delpha Grine-staff, Donald Hall, Herbert Harless,Joseph Hedrick, Clarence Z. Holmes,John J. Joynt, Horace J. Kapp, Law-rence Kirk, Walter Moody, CharlesR. Nuehs, William O'Steen, LeroyParker, Arthur E. Patton, DonaldPygman, Clarence Roderick, HenryScherer, Clifford Smith, George H.Smith, Arch Spears, Troy A. Stratton,Cecil W. Taylor, Howard L. Vander-berg, Raymond Van Gundy, HanselV. Weatherholt, Mathias White, IvanF. Wieland and Perry Withrow.

Two women who have worked to-gether 20 years in.various parts of theplant received their 20 year pins atthis dinner. They were Margaret Girland Delpha "Betty" Grinestaff. Orig-inally they were employed in the com-pany cafeteria but now both are inthe sewing room. Lilly Fryman, whohas worked with them IS years, gother IS year pin that night.

We had some brothers getting serv-ice awards, too. Fred Harless got his25 year pin and watch and his brother,Herbert, a 20 year pin. James H. Gal-loway got his IS year pin and hisbrother Jack his 10 year award. Theyare sons of the late well-loved JimGalloway, for many years plant super-intendent.

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A number of the 10 year people arein the Painesville plant. They had aspecial party in Painesville in Decem-ber, but their names were listed withother Staley 10 year people at theDecatur party. They were OliverAlanen, Catherine Clark, George Ev-ans, Howard Flacke, Percy Fry, Eu-gene Kerven, Joseph E. Maruschak,Albert C. Rodgers, Lee W. Taylor,Basil Underwood and Lyle F. Wie-gand. Other 10 year people wereRoger Q. Barbour, Hilbert O. Bell,Lloyd J. Blankenship, D. L. Bowers,Glenn Robert Bowman, Lester P.Carter, Robert Ralph Clark, John T.Creamer, Jace W. Davidson Jr., Rob-ert E. Deardorff, Dale Deibert, JamesDeibert, Stanley Dejanes, William

Ellis, Grover Engle, Robert I. Fain,Clifford Finley, Dale H. Fisher, ChaseA. Fitch, Benjamin E. Fleck, NinaL. Foreman, Harold Fuson. Jack A.Galloway, Gilmore Gillon. Dean A.Greenwood, Orval Hale, M. F. Harris,Lawrence Hebenstreit, James A. Hen-derson, Dave Hopkins, SherwoodHoward, Walter G. ,Howe, L. B. Huf-fer, W. A. Hughes, Kenneth M. John-son, Lucien B. Johnson, Paul Kalem.James T. Keating Jr., John Knox,Bernard Kohlbecker, John McCol-lum, Harlan W. Malott, Fred L. Mar-tina, Clifford E. Mast, Walter GeorgeMeyer, Everett F. Moore, AnnamaryMyers, R. L. Nagle, William Nation,Charles Nesler, George Newberry,Otto Oak, Lee Owens, Euell Perkins.Herbert T. Pexton, Jack W. Potrafka,Roger M. Randol, Homer Reidel-berger, Verl Rusk. Harold Schable.Carl F. Smith, Henry Sowa, JamesSpears , K a t h e r i n e B. Starbody.Charles J. Stone, Everett Sutton, BertSwafford Jr., O. A. Tow. KathrynWalker, Ernest Whitrock, Charles R.Wilber, Adam V. Wilkie Jr., andCharles Willard.

Lejt, Ray Bass and Tom Longbons talk, right Jay Johnson is interested.

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Brand and Moore

Are Honored for

35 Years' Service

At left, Louis Brand proudly shows his new 35 year pin to Father Spitznagle. Inthe picture at the right Frank Moore accepts his from Mr. Staley.

About 50 years ago the neighborsaround St. James church and schoolwere accustomed to seeing a chubbylittle boy, golden cu r l s bouncingaround his shoulders, flying homedown Webster street at meal time.Later, his golden curls cut short, theylearned to know him as the boy-of-all-work around the Decatur Drug com-pany. Then one day in 1914 he had aserious conversation with his life-longfriend, Ray Scherer, and decided totry for a job with Staley's. Ray hadbeen working there a couple of yearsand liked it.

Thus Louie Brand came to Staley's.The round faced, blue-eyed boy wasgiven clerical work which by the nextyear had jelled into the paymaster'sjob and Louie was it. And he has beenour paymaster ever since, except fortwo years he took out to serve in theXavy during the First World War.

In those 35 years Louie has changeda little but not nearly as much as hisjob has. In 1915 it was a one-man de-partment. Louie knew everyone in theplant by name and by sight, and wroteall pay checks by hand. As he remem-bers it he wrote them—about 300 herecalls—then on Sunday morning Mr.Staley, Sr., sat in his office and signedeach one.

But as the plant grew Louie's de-partment and responsibilities grew. Asa service to employees of the companythe deduction system for payment ofvarious things—Fellowship club duesfirst, then others as various employeebenefits were added. More people, andmachines were added. He no longerstands at an open window and paysthe men as they come from work. Heno longer knows all of the men in theplant. His office is now in the adminis-tration building, walled off with wal-

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nut counters and bronze grills. Hedoes sometimes go over to the gatewith his box of checks to pay men atshift change. But he has help now torelieve him of that duty.

And he no longer rides a bicycle towork. For years after he married andbought a house in 22nd street it was acommon sight to see him wheelingalong to and from the office on his bike.But regardless of his means of trans-portation he is always in a hurry. Hehas always been a great gardener—both flowers nad vegetables.

He and his wife have five daughters—all curly heads when they weresmall girls, and now they have agrandchild which Louie will tell any-one interested is the world's finest.

When Mr. Staley presented Louiehis diamond studded 35 year pin atthe recognition dinner, he said he wasthe man we had all grown to dependupon. He is always there on payday.In fact, during his 35 years he hasalways been there. In all that time hehas never missed a day because of ill-ness, and we might add, very few forany other purpose.

FRANK MOOREThe way he remembers it now Frank

Moore had always cherished a desireto go west—well anyway as far westas Racine, Wis. That was when he wasa little boy on the home farm nearGreensburg, Ind. Since his desire totravel was greater than his financialresources he had to content himselfwith quite short trips in a westerly di-rection. By inching along, stoppingoften at long intervals to work, hereached Danville, Til.

Early in his adventuring career hehad shown an aptness for wood-work-ing, but in Danville he took a job witha milling company. Even though hewas determined to keep moving, heliked that job and stayed on in Dan-

ville for some time. But came a daywhen the urge to move conquered andhe was on his way. It was easy forFrank to move—he simply paid uphis room and board bills, packed hisclothes and was on the first train west.

This time, as usual, he had a direc-tion rather than a destination in mind.It was hot weather and by the timethe Wabash train he boarded reachedDecatur he decided to rest for a day ortwo. After he got here he decided hemight as well be earning a little moneyas he rested and was directed by ahotel clerk to ''that new starch plantout in the east end. Hear they are hir-ing a lot of help these days."

That was in July, 1913. Frank hadno trouble at all getting a job but itdidn't last long. And the odd partabout it was that now when he had ajob he wanted to keep, the job provedrather temporary. But by late the nextyear, he was given a job, this time inthe millwright shop and it proved sopermanent that Frank has ceased longago to hear the siren voices calling himwest.

To be sure he was away for a while,when he was in the Army during theFirst World War, but he was back in1918 when he was made assistant fore-man in the millwright shop. In 1932he was made foreman and held thatposition until he was promoted to theposition of mechanical supervisor in1946.

In his 35 years as a mechanic or su-pervisor he has not only seen the plantgrow, he has actually built much of it.Not that he ever says that. Frank isfar too modest and quiet to tell of hispart in building Staley's. But the menwho have worked with him throughthe years were pleased and touchedwhen, at the recognition dinner, Mr.Staley handed him his diamond stud-ded 35 year pin.

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The pictures on these, two pages were among those shown at the recognition dinnerand were definitely among the side-splitters. The group picture on this page wasprobably the earliest picture shown that night. It was taken in the spring of 1919but some of the people in the group were at the dinner that night—and in a fewcases did not recognize themselves. For instance that woman in the white shirt waist—the sixth woman from the right—that's Helen Harder. And that gay buck in thebow tie—second from the right—that's T. C. Burwell.

The man in the middle of the back row, who is beginning to look a little bald, isEddie Lahniers. That handsome, frowning young man—the next man to the left, isEd Scheiter. He had been with the company just a few weeks. At the extreme leftend, looking very serious and holding his arm so his wrist watch would show, isAdolph Leipski, then the office boy, now pipe fitter.

The little girl with the dimples, second from the right, is Mrs. Bert Muthersbaugh,then Rubymae Kiely.

The group at the top of the opposite page had just formed the Staley Sales Cor-poration in 1927. In case you do not recognize them they are, left to right, Roy M.Ives, Ray C. Scherer, A. E. Staley, A. E. Staley, Jr., and E. K. Scheiter.

Next is the first fire truck, fashioned by Red Thornborough and his men from anold Ford sedan.

And the original office building. It stood where 20 building now stands and thebrick addition was the vault where valuables were kept. This picture was takenabout 1910, or 1911.

Grinders—K. Tate, J.Stricklen, M. Grolla, D.Tate, J. Tate.

Engineers No. 1 —Chicolne, Freyfogle,Kessler, Rogier, Hang.

Machine Shop—Front—Page, Sims, C. Sim-roth. Rear—Hagen, P.Simroth.

Cherry Pickers—£.Pritts, Heiland, Rusk,Helm, Lupton, J. Leaser.

Dorothy the "trundeler" Makes Headlines

Dorothy—the headline bowler—takesa serious view of the whole thing. Hermother, Pauline Cable, who says shenever bowled a game to equal that oneof her daughter's, is ready to try oneanyway.

The Chicago Daily News called hera "mediocre trundeler" but it gaveDorothy Albert two column headlineswhen she bowled a 597 series. Doro-thy rolled this astounding series Jan-uary 18 in regular league play.

Of this event the Daily Newssaid—

"Men and women who bowl inclassic, major and senior leagues indownstate Illinois provide most ofthe big series and scores. But everyonce in a while a mediocre trundelerwill steal the headlines away from theelite pinsters and pinsterettes.

"Dorothy Albert of Decatur be-longs in the class we have just dis-cussed. She is captain of the Cososteam in the Staley Girls' League atSchaefer's lanes in Decatur and has a131 average for 39 games.

"The 131 average indicates thatDorothy can shoot 393 pins for threegames every time she performs inleague play.

'Tn her last league outing Dorothyshot a brilliant 597 series on gamesof 188, 189 and 220. The 131 bowleraveraged 199. Pauline Cable leads theStaley Girls' league with a 146 mark."

What the Daily News did not knowis that Pauline is Dorothy's mother.But Pauline says she never bowledlike that. Dorothy has been bowlingabout five years—Pauline nearer 20.

These unhappy looking bowlers have named their team Personnel. They are RoyRollins, Eubanks, Smith, Bufford, Kennedy and Ruthrauff.

Safety Bird

By LOVELL BAFFORD

Fri., 1/6/50—Today's bouque tgoes to a safety shoe. Robert Fortner,Extra Board, reported to First Aidwith minor bruises on the top of hisright foot. It seems that over in No.16 bldg.. in the starch transfer caralley, Bob's foot had accidentally ar-gued the track right-of-way with thecar wheels. We can joke about it now—but think of the horrible results ifBob hadn't had that steel cap to winthe argument for him!

Tues., 1/10—We all breathe a biteasier this A.M. During the night awarm rain and a southern windbrought back safe driving and walk-ing conditions by giving the ice andsnow the old melt treatment. But let'sdon't secure the salt and "falling ice"signs yet—there'll be more.

Chairman Todd Riley opens 1950'sfirst Health and Safety committeemeeting this afternoon. We reviewlast year's business briefly, and aresurprised at the long list of safetyprojects that were completed in 1949.The committee would like to start offthis new year by saying much obligedand. well-done to a lot of people atStaley's for all the help and advice

CO TO FIRST flID- I'LL GET IT OUT"

given us in the past year. Sure, wemade mistakes—as who doesn't—andwe hope that we've profited by ourmistakes, and by what constructivecriticism these mistakes bring us. Sta-leys' management, supervisors, engi-neers, maintenance, and all employ-ees, have worked with our Health andSafety Committee to make 1949 oneof the committee's most successfulyears.

Fri., 1/13—Flying in the face ofsuperstition. Smitty's pencil mixes in-injury reports with man-hours, andcomes up with the rates for our 1949safety record. . . . The only connec-tion with the old Friday-the-thir-teenth superstition is that ANY IN-JURY RATE ABOVE ZERO ISBAD.

We find that with a frequency rateof 5.0 lost-time injuries per millionman-hours last year, 1949 was secondonly to 1948's record rate of 4.8.

Last year's severity rate—.31 dayslost from the job per thousand man-hours—won no medals, but it's ourbest since 1941's .22 rate.

So our injury record is on a generaldownward trend—and that's good.BUT it could still be a lot better—and that's bad. Our only chance of

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keeping those accident figures on thedowngrade is for all of us to remem-ber it's a full-time job. When we putSafety on a part-time basis—thenwe're in trouble.

Much obliged to these men forturning in safety suggestions thisweek: Francis Dively—Tin Shop,Ernest Reich—Pipe Shop, Tony Ro-mano—Electrician, Walter Koshinski— Millwrights, Jack Welch— Mill-wrights, Homer Hanson—Yards.

Tues., 1/24—Brings us more warmrain yet. Very de-pressing, to bothmind and clothes (we've just GOTTAbuy a new joke book!) But we stilllike the rain better than snow and ice—right?

Health and Safety committee has alot of suggestions to discuss this after-noon. Our thanks to these men forturning them in:

Gordon Winchester—Millwrights,Vorris Blankenship—Millwrights,Harold Gentry—Corn Oil House,Tony Eppolito—Standards,Floyd Hazenfield—Machine Shop.Fri., 1/27—For the second time

this month, safety shoes saved theday. Don Hall, Millwright, was work-ing in No. I l l bldg. when a pressplate fell on his right foot—edgewise.In case you've never seen a pressplate, they're somewhat more than abit heavy. . . . Damage—A piece ofleather skinned off the steel toe.Conclusion—Thank goodness for thesafety shoe! Note—Don has promisedto put some bright yellow paint onthat skinned place on the steel toe.We think it would make for goodsafety-shoe-publicity.

Man., 1/30—While bowling (andwe use the term loosely) this P.M. inthe Staley league, we run into a situa-tion that contradicts all the safetypreachings we've heard and readabout non-slip floors. . . . Somehow

yours truly gets some moisture on thebowling-shoe soles. We gallop up tothe foul-line, the shoes stop, and wekeep right on going. Give me strength.So now we must admit of ONE placewhere—for safety's sake—we don'twant non-skid floors!

What if we went home to find thelittle lady preparing the evening mealwith pots and pans scattered all overthe living room floor and our favoritechair?

All right—so we wouldn't like it.But doesn't it prove that we're notexactly consistent ? The very next dayon the job we'll maybe walk around,over, and between obstructions on thefloor that have no business there.We'll maybe drop a milk bottle andleave the broken pieces for someoneto step on. In the locker room we'llmaybe throw paper and towels on thefloor rather than walk over to the con-tainer. . . . And then raise the dickensabout the plant cleanup men becausethe place is a mess! Brother, one per-son can mess up a room faster than aSQUAD of men can clean it up!

Each week we spend more than athird of our waking hours in the plant.We should enjoy neatness and clean-liness during those hours just as muchas we do at home. After all, WE haveto look at it—and work in it. WeKNOW that a neat and clean placeis SAFER for us.

MOST of us DO take pride inkeeping our departments as neat andclean as possible. And—thanks to theco-operation of this majority—theplant sanitation rating for our lockerrooms and departments is getting bet-ter. But it only takes a few to undo alot of good work.

An old saying—and a good one,worth remembering—is, "A place foreverything, and eve ry th ing in itsplace."

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Stafey products improve

THESE LENTEN DISHES

By MARY MATHEWS,Home Service Director

Lenten dishes are naturals for theuse of Staley's own products ."SWEETOSE", "CREAM CORNSTARCH" and "ZEST", our mono-sodium glutamate, can be used to greatadvantage. Our taste panel approvedtheir use in these recipes given here:

R I C E AND SHRIMP MEXICALI2 tablespoons CREAM CORN

STARCHl/2 teaspoon ZEST (monosodium

glutamate)YJ, teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon salt2 cups milk

l/2 cup mayonnaise1 small onion, chopped2 green peppers, chopped2 tomatoes, sliced2 cups hot cooked rice1 cup cleaned shrimp

C o m b i n e C R E A M C O R N -STARCH. ZEST, pepper and salt.Gradually add milk. Heat to boilingover direct heat and then boil gently2 minutes, stirring constantly. Addmayonnaise and beat until smooth.Add onion, green peppers and toma-toes; cook 5 minutes longer. Serveover rice and shrimp. Makes 6 serv-ings.

SAUTEED FISH1 cup CREAM CORN STARCH3 teaspoons salt ,

j/2 teaspoon ZEST (monosodiumglutamate)

3 pounds fresh or frozen fishfillets

5 tablespoons salad oil

C o m b i n e C R E A M C O R NSTARCH, salt and ZEST. Dip fish inmixture so that it is thoroughly coat-ed. Heat salad oil in a skillet. Placefish in skillet and saute or pan-fryuntil browned on one side. Turn fishcarefully with a broad spatula andcook until tender and browned. Serveimmediately. Makes 6 servings.

SCALLOPED EGGS AND TUNA

2 tablespoons CREAM CORNSTARCH

l/\n saltl/2 teaspoon ZEST (monosodium

glutamate)l/& teaspoon peppery$ teaspoon paprikal/\n onion salt

3 tablespoons butter or mar-garine, melted

1/4 cups milk1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce6 hard-cooked eggs, sliced2 (7-ounce) cans tuna fish3 cups crushed potato chips

C o m b i n e C R E A M C O R NSTARCH, salt, ZEST, pepper, pap-rika and onion salt. Add to meltedbutter and cook over low heat until itbubbles; add milk. Heat to boilingover direct heat and then boil gently1 minute, stirring constantly; addWorcestershire Sauce. Arrange sauce,sliced eggs, tuna fish and potato chipsin layers in a 1^2-quart casserole orindividual casseroles. Top with potatochips. Bake in moderate oven (375°F.) abou t 25 m i n u t e s or u n t i lbrowned. Makes 6 servings.

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SCOUTOPICSBy H. G. DEIBERT, Asst. District Comm.

POST 2009 GOES EXPLORINGThere were six Explorers of Post

2009 who went to Turkey Run, Dec.26, for a three day winter campingtrip. While at the Park, they exploredmany of the caves and an old coalmine. While covering almost all of thetrails in the Park, they studied com-pass and map work that are requiredin Scouting. They found this Parkbeautiful and interesting enough thatthey have planned another trip inFebruary. Making this trip were Rich-ard Adcock, Robert Badorek, GeneBurse, Gene Wall, James Witt andLarry Lucas.

The Post is planning to visit BobBadorek's cabin on the KaskaskiaRiver later on.

NEW POST OFFICERS NAMEDJohn Ehman was named Senior

crew leader, with Jim Witt as his dep-puty. Bob Badorek is new crew leaderand Larry Lucas will be his assistant.Dick Adcock was named scribe andBob Browning as his assistant. LarryLucas is the post reporter.

AT PANEL DISCUSSIONNancy Lenover, Troop 79 Girl

Scout, sat in on a panel discussion onthe likes and dislikes of scouting as apart of Girl Scout leader's club pro-gram in the Recreation Departmenton January 12.

NEW RATINGS EARNEDPhysical fitness rating was earned

by A d c o c k , B a d o r e k , Browning,Burse, Crawley, Lucas, Schmidt andWitt; craft skills rating by Badorek,Burse, Crawley, and Lucas; outdoorskills by Burse; vocational explora-tion by Lucas and Schmidt; naviga-

tion rating by Moldafsky. Eligible forBronze Awards are Badorek, Burse,Crawley, Lucas and Schmidt. TheGold Awards have been earned byLucas and Burse.

SLUMBER PARTY HELDOn January 6 a s lumber party

was held at the Scouthouse. Amongthose present were Burse, Browning,Crawley, Witt and Adcock.

ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE POSTOn January 18, Irv Moldafsky,

post advisor, held a class on Naviga-tion. Mr. Moldafsky was a formernavigator in the U. S. Air Force. Thiswas reported by Larry Lucas.

The Post has started a collection ofpenants. Most of them were donatedby Larry Lucas.

Accomplishments made in the pastmonth are as follows: Jim Witt: aleather belt. Badorek: knife sheathand hatchet sheath combined. Lucas:hatchet sheath, picture frame for postcharter, knot board, a model of snaresand a model of trails signs.

TROOP 9 NOTESAssistant Scoutmaster Paul Strong

and Lewis Smith, our Troop Com-mitteeman, took five Scouts on a fivemile second class hike on January 14.Several Scouts under the leadershipof Paul Strong have been helping inthe Isaak Walton project at BeverlyHeights Park on Saturdays.

Reports from the Troop show that75 per cent are now in uniform andthat meetings have a 90 per cent at-tendance.

Eagle Scout Koven Leigh is takingflying lessons.

A number of former Cub Scoutsare now members of Troop 9.

Recent visitors at Troop meetingwas a Decatur Den Mother and herDen of Cub Scouts.

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Big Club Party for FamiliesHJWI A|£l JU I

Family group gathered around the tables in the club dining room to enjoy the bigdinner. At the left, above, Willie Magnier had a family party eating with him. Atthe right the Watson Hill family ate together. The children found the camera almostmore interesting than the food.

In the lower picture, at the left, Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Triplett visited withI. V. Thompson. At the right there was a group composed of Joe Hunt, Mrs.Thompson, Charles Worls, Charles Long and Russell Collins.

In the top picture at the left, on the opposite page, Rufus Broadnax hands hiswife her coat after the party was over. At the right the party chairman, Irvin Guyse,and Mary Johns listen to some music.

In the center Tom Curry evidently thinks Walter Moody's story is funny butMrs. Curry is not amused.

Some of the Slaw family got together for the picture in the lower left. Oliver"Happy" Slaw is standing, and seated left to right, Howell Taylor and Ms wifeJustine, who is Happy's grand-daughter, and Mrs. Hiram Guyse and Mr. Guyse.Mrs. Guyse is Happy's daughter.

And every good meal means that someone had to cook. The picture in the lowerright proves that, but the boys seem right happy about the whole thing. They areCharles Johnson, Mekkis Boyd and Sol Robbins.

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Officers of Staley Local 837 U.A.W.A.-AFL had this group picture taken justafter their recent election. Seated are Walter Grant, trustee; Delmer Cox, president;Lloyd Cox, vice president, and Gilbert Boren, financial secretary. Standing are FrankStarbody, sergeant-at-arms; Guy Thompson and Henry Meyer, trustees, and RalphHenderson, guide.

On the union bargaining committee, seated, are Richard Beal, John Wyant, andLloyd Cox. Standing are Robert Reinhold, Ray Reinhold, Beecham Jackson andOra Fisher.

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HAL ). ROCHETakes new positionas Personnel aide

Hal J. Roche came Feb. 1 to takethe position as assistant manager ofpersonnel. He comes to the Staleycompany from the Capitol News,Madison, Wis., where he served invarious editorial capacities much ofthe time since 1936. He worked onthe News during the years he was astudent at the University of Wiscon-sin, and for a year following his grad-uation there in 1941. For a brief pe-riod he was with the United Press inits Chicago and Springfield bureaus.Following his discharge from Armyservice in 1945 he returned to theNews.

During the war Mr. Roche was withthe Air Corps, serving more than ayear in the south Pacific theater. Since1945 he has been with the Madisonpaper. He is married and has twosmall children. He hopes to bring hisfamily to Decatur as soon as he canfind a house.

The position he is taking here isnewly created.

Here is another generation of Long-bans coming up. Janie, 2, and her broth-er Tommy are the children of Mr. andMrs. Ben Longbons of Painesville. Tom-my—named for his grandpa—was bornon the day last September which was hisgrandparents'—Mr. and Mrs. Tom Long-bons—silver wedding anniversary. Tomis our Painesville plant manager.

Mr. and Mrs. EldredUhler and their two chil-dren gave this picture ofthemselves to Mrs. Uh-ler's parents, Mr. andMrs. Jack Slover, recent-ly. Mrs. Uhler is the for-mer Marjorie Slover. Thechildren are MartinLynn, four and a half,and Carol Elaine, three.Mr. Slover is assistantyard foreman. An uncleof the children's is Nor-man Uhler, feed house.

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Staley people are loyal to their team. The pictures above were taken of the southand north sides of Johns Hill gym between halves at a recent game. The few emptyseats'here were all filled when play resumed.

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Manager of our basketball team, Leek Ruthrauff, upper left, and assistant HarryAtkins, upper right, look sad maybe because Toby Althoff, in circle, has left thecompany.

In the middle row are Curley Reinhold, Bill Day and Bob Williams. In the bottomrow, Asa Morris, Bob Daut, Curt Richardson and Jim Marshall.

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The jour Gill grandchildren are not camera shy. They are all the grandchildren ofL. 0. Gill, assistant technical director, and Mrs. Gill. The gay young fellow at thetop is Richard Gill Parkinson, year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Parkinson, ofChicago. His smiling cousin is Linda Kay Wilson, three and a half. The twins beloware her sister and brother, Bradford Lee and Constance Ann Wilson, seven months.They are all the children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Wilson, Oaklawn, III. TedThrelfall is a grand-uncle of the three little Wilsons.

Grand-dad Archie Taylor brought inthis picture of Vickey Lee Coan. She ishis only grandchild, but even if she werenot he would still think her lovely. Sheis the 14 months old daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Robert Coan. One thing forwhich Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are thankful.That is that Vickey Lee lives in Decaticr.

// everyone who sees this picturedoesn't notice at once what an unusuallybeautiful child Susan Marie is, her dad,Lou Doxie, will know they have poorjudgment. Susan will be a year old inMarch, but is much smarter than mostchildren that age (the man says).

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Officially her name is Judith CarolAughenbaugh but to most of her manyfriends she is Judy. She is four and ahalf years old and is the daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Eugene Aughenbaugh. Hermother is secretary in our Fellowshipclub office.

Alice Walker, order department, andGeorge Samuel Bray, 20 building, weremarried in December.

SILVER WEDDINGMr. and Mrs. Boyd L. Cornth-

waite, 710 West Forest Avenue, weresurprised by about fifty relatives andfriends on their silver anniversary.Saturday, Feb. 4. While they weretaken out for a dinner party withrelatives friends, gathered in the homeand prepared the party. Red roseswere used in the living room and onthe dining table.

Mrs. Harry Lichtenberger madethe presentation of the gift, a chestof silver. Mrs. Luther Hiser and Mrs.Ben Moody were on the general plan-ning committee.

Mrs. Cornthwaite was the formerJessie Craycroft and she and Mr.Cornthwaite were married on Feb. 4,1925 in the First Presbyterian churchin Springfield. Mr. Cornthwaite isassistant foreman in No. 16 buildingand has been with the Staley companysince 1923.

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White-WhiteDoris White and Gerald White

were married January 29 in EnglishLutheran church by the ReverendRoland G. Reichmann. The bride,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WalterWhite, is with Josephine Slattery Mil-linery shop. The bridegroom is theson of Mrs. John White and the lateMr. White. He is bank messenger inour financial depa r tmen t , and hismother is in the sewing room.

Following the ceremony there wasa reception in the Staley club house.After a wedding trip they went tohousekeeping in an apartment at 320West King street.

Owens-StratmanAnnouncement was made in Janu-

ary of the Nov. 22 marriage of Bever-ly Owens and Martin Stratman. Thebride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.George Owens. Mr. Owens is assistantforeman in the administration build-ing and Mrs. Owens is in 20 building.The bride is employed by Crum Dis-tributing company, and Mr. Stratmanis a student at James Millikin uni-versity.

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Bass-CurrySuzanne Bass, daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Ray S. Bass, and James W.Curry were married February 5 inFirst Methodist church. Dr. J. WalterMalone, president of Millikin univer-sity, and the Reverend Laren Spearofficiated. Both young people weregraduated from Millikin, the bride,just two weeks ago. The bridegroom,son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Curry, isnow doing graduate work at the Uni-versity of Illinois and they are livingin Urbana.

Russell-SchimanskiKatherine Russell and Leo Schi-

manski were married January 14 inSt. Patrick's Catholic church. Thebride, in white lace, with a veil, hadher sister, Mrs. Ann McGowan, as hermatron of honor. Best man was LeroyPfile. Later there was a reception inthe Southside Country club. After asouthern honeymoon the couple wentto housekeeping in the Lincoln apart-ments.

Both the bride and bridegroomhave been with the company for sev-eral years. Mrs. Schimanski, who hasbeen in credits, resigned just beforeher marriage to devote all of her timeto home-making. Mr. Schimanski is aStaley electrician.

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May-ThompsonMary Virginia May and William

Loren Thompson were married Jan.28 in St. James Catholic church. Theceremony was performed by the Rev-erend Joseph R. Nightingale. Thebride, in white satin, had as herbridesmaid Geraldine Brinkoetter inforest green satin. Donald DaleThompson was best man and usherswere Richard Radasch and RobertCantwell. Roberta Howley sang.

The bride is the daughter of BiyronMay, yard department foreman, andMrs. May. She is a graduate of Milli-kin university where she was a mem-ber of Alpha Chi Omega, and is nowwith Shellabarger Mills Inc. Mr.Thompson, son of Mrs. Dale Thomp-son, is a graduate of the Universityof Illinois and a member of SigmaAlpha Epsilon.

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Half your troubles with people re-sult from misunderstandings. Talk tothem.

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A family reunion last summer brought Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hudgins, center, andtheir jour children together in Decatur. In the group are Mrs. Virginia Murray,Riverside, Calif.; Mrs. Ruth Armstrong, Dayton, Ohio; the proud parents; Mrs.Pauline Evans, Decatur, and Franklin Hudgins, a divinity student at Union college,Lincoln, Neb. Guy is a boiler maker in the plant. At present Mrs. Hudgins is visit-ing Mrs. Murray in California.

The Todd Riley's hadjust had 20 persons forChristmas dinner andthen could smile like this.But the Riley family islike that — that's whythey have so manyfriends. Todd is a paint-er-roofer, and active onthe plant health and safe-ty committee. He, Mrs.Riley and their son liveat 1929 East Eldorado.

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They Celebrate a BirthdayA birthday and New Years were

both celebrated by a group of Staleypeople in a party in the recreationroom in Ray Bomball's home. Ray isa shipping inspector in the plant. Oth-ers in the pictures taken at the party,and shown on the opposite page, areRoy Hill, yards, and his wife Hylia,Otto Artze, and Al Artze, round house,Carl Bombal l , assistant foreman,starch packing.

In the picture at the top, left, onthe opposite page, Ray is getting readyto blow out the candles on his birth-day cake. In the picture next to itCarl (in plaid shirt) is playing a gamethat involves a broom.

The center group shows Roy Hilltoasting the New Year and Hylie play-ing a game with an appreciative au-dience.

Below Ray, Otto and Clarence allenjoy the party. In the picture in thelower right Al Artze has been blind-folded for a game while Ray Bomballand Roy Hill cheer him on.

Mr. and Mrs. Herman Harris, Sr.,went to St. Louis Dec. 17 in observationof their second wedding anniversary.They were married in Pilgrim Rest Bap-tist church in East St. Louis, in 1947.Mrs. Harris' first husband was EmanuelHolt, Staley employee who died severalyears ago.

S/Sgt. Franklin R. Wade and Mrs.Wade were Christmas guests of Mr. andMrs. Todd Riley. Sgt. Wade was em-ployed at Staley's 15 years but has beenin the air corps since 1944. He is nowstationed at Dayton, Ohio, at WrightField.

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BELUE RETIRESAfter 32 Years

A syrup can filled with silver moneywas presented to Alfred Belue whenhe retired February 3. The moneywas the gift of the men with whom hehad worked in the office maintenanceforce and was presented by GeorgeOwens, assistant building foreman.

Ab, as he has long been known tohis associates, took his first job atStaley's in 1915, but was here only ashort time. Tn 1917 he returned andhas been here ever since. With his32 years and 10 months record he haslonger service upon retirement thanany other company employee.

He was born in A labama butmoved to Decatur in 1912. He workedfor a while for the Wabash beforecoming to the Staley company. Whenhe first came to Staley's he workedas a starch shoveller and as a pad-dler. Later he was on the yard gang,but since 1939 he has been on theoffice maintenance force.

He owns his home in West CerroGordo street and plans to spend mostof his time there just taking life easy.A son-in-law, Henry Hack, of theboiler house, will probably keep himabreast of Staley news.

A Journal ErrorAn error which the Journal regrets

deeply was made in the January issuein naming the children of Mrs. OliverSlaw, who died suddenly. The Journalsaid her husband and two sons, Robertand Oliver, Jr., were employed by thecompany. The name of a third son,Joe, should have been listed. A com-pany employee for almost 14 years,Joe is a corn oil house repair man, andwell known and well liked all over theplant.

Clyde Heffington Dies

Clyde Heffington, who died Jan. 31at the age of 80, has three sons em-ployed in the plant. They are Roy,millwright, Kenneth in the pipe shopand Robert in the extraction plant.He also left another son, James, andthree daughters, Mrs. Mildred Engel-hart, Mrs. Albert Miller and Mrs.Henry Morey. Mr. Heffington wasemployed in the plant until 1929, inthe process department.

Funeral services were conducted atDawson & Wikoff 's chapel with burialin Morrisonville.

SAM SWENSON DIES

Sam Swenson, who died in his homein Chicago January 1, had been em-ployed by the company since August.1925. From that date until his healthfailed a year ago, he had driven thebig company tank truck about thecrowded warehouse districts of Chi-cago. He had also served as mechanicin the warehouse and supervisedmaintenance.

Card Of ThanksCards of thanks for kindness and

flowers during illness or at the time ofthe death of a relative, have been re-ceived from Mrs. Mary Brown andfamily; C. L. Smith and sister; Mr.and Mrs. Clarence Lyons; the Klein-schmidt family; Mr. and Mrs. GilbertKratzner, Russell Meadows, Mrs.James Meadows; Arvle Colter andfamily; Jack Bowman, Mrs. WylieBowman and sons; J. Milton andMargaret Williams; the family ofClyde Heffington; Mrs . Fayet teCrowe and children.

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Remarks From The GalleryBy Q. SQUIGEL

H. O. Bell's daughter says, "I drawcartoons—I'm silly." Papa Bell draws'em too like this one of yours truly."It's the difference between the child-ish and the adult viewpoint," Hilbertexplains.

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On January 17th, the day afterincome tax returns were due ( f o rsome people) F rank Moore andHeinie Broadbear were as jumpy asa couple of guys who had made mis-takes on their tax returns. It must bea rough life in those higher brackets.

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Many and difficult are the prob-lems facing the world today. One ofthem is, "Why won't Walt Koshinskiwear his teeth?"

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One of the local car dealers raffledoff a new radio. Who won it? Dwight"Horseshoe" James, of course. Herents out his rabbit's foot at two bitsan hour.

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On Friday the 13th Morris Birk-head's car wouldn't start. Now he'ssuperstitious.

At the recent Engineers' conven-tion, a lady mind reader referred toTommy Tomlinson as "A great bigpuddle of purple passion." However,readers are asked not to mention thisto Tommy. He blushes easily.

A car without lights followed EldoRiecllinger out Eldorado Street to theExtraction Plant. Eldo was worrieduntil he discovered that it was onlythe police with a speeding ticket forhim. But what an audience he had atthe clockhouse! How can a guy keepanv secrets?

Clifford Rigsby. corn oil house, hasthat dreamy look. Who was he think-ing about when he ran the car throughthe back of the garage? Could be hername is Helen.

A chicken and beer bachelor dinnerwas given at Hank 1'otrafka's placefor Leo Schimanski. Bob Siweck atefour whole c h i c k e n s before beingdragged from the table.

Bob Stroyeck returned from hisMexican honeymoon with a load ofMexican cigars. Now some of the boyshave d i scovered how bad a cigarcan be.

This is an old story, but maybe youhaven't heard it. For a jug of wine,Joe Slaw was enticed out to HaroldGentry's place to saw up a log. Thelog was four feet in diameter and thecross-cut saw weighed a ton and ahalf. Harold's mother-in-law, who su-pervised the job, finally said, "Getaway, Harold, you're no good. Let meshow you how."

Joe hung on for quite awhile untilhis tongue was dragging. With hislast breath he gasped, "Wouldn't youlike to take a rest. Mam?"

Joe got his jug of wine, but themoral is: Never share a cross-cut sawwith a lady.

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