-------------------- SIJGAR PRESS Published Quarterly by the Employees of the Gr, at Western Sugar Company AntnDln quarter - 1948 I Autumn foUage at Horse Creek Quarry. Through the leaves you see t he rock convey01· moving from the crushing plant to the screening plant at the right . The dome-like structures contain rock of various sizes. Our Company and Ourselves Windsor Leading Pennant Race- Billings Second Among the .Personnel The Sugar Press PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE EMPLOYEES OF THE GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY DENVER, COLORADO VoL. XXXII AuTUMN QuARTER-1948 NuMBER 4 "The State of Being Along With" HIS is the largest issue of The Sugar Press ever published- 60 pages-and quite a contrast from Vol. I. No. 1 back in 1917, T which was 16 small pages of mimeographed material with no illustrations. 'rhat fir t issue was a bit "preachy, " featuring an edi­ torial: ''Our Duty 'ro Our Neighbors.'' There is nothing ''preachy'' in this issue, but a few hard facts that speak pretty well for them elves. Perhaps the editor should be taken to task for getting out such a large issue at a time when need for economy is so urgent. But the large is ·ue was not his idea. It happened almost automatically as a result of our tremendous interest in each other. 'rhis, in itself, is noteworthy. Personal corre~pondence in this issue, although severely edited, runs 33 pages. In other words, when we got to writing about each other, we didn't know where to stop. It was like writing· a family letter: the goings and comings of our friends, their joys, their sports, their achievements, their marriages, their babies, their kids in school, their illnesses and bereavements. This in itself, it seems to us, proves better than anything else, how closely knit our fe·elings for each other are. ' The Great Western Family'' is no idle phrase. If we do constitute a unique industrial organization, the reasons are obvious. In one real sense we are a large industrial group, like other large American industrial groups, but in another sense, equally real, we are companions living for the most part in intimate com­ munities, close to the farms that supply our raw material, and fully aware of the hazards or advantages which affect the sugar factory around which so much of our community life centers. Sometimes we may use the word ''Company'' as something de­ tached or apart from ourselves. Webster's Dictionary, in defining the ·word "Company," starts off with "The state of being along with; (Continued on page 25) SIGNING THE UNION AGREEMENT September 9 at the Oxford Hotel in Denver following discussions which brought out the serious and complex problems confronting the industry. Additional photographs appear on the last page of this issue. In this group on the opposite page are seen: Left side of table, front to rear: R. E. James, Kansas City, Kansas; Sam T. Shellburn, Eaton; I. E. Enwall, Eaton; V. L. Donahue, Greeley; Marius Conradson, Greeley; C. W. Crosby, Windsor; Hugh Dey, Fort Collins; W. R. Moore, Fort Collins; 0. H. Nieder, Fort Collins; A. R. Tyler, Lovelar.d; E. G. Cowles, Loveland; C. R. Peak, Loveland; William M. Hamilton, Longmont; A. V. Willaufer, Longmont; Claude H. Lewis, Brighton; C. L. Potts, Brighton; G. A. Burt, Brighton. Right side of table, front to rear: Frank Quinn, Gering; R. 0. Belden, Bayard; J. R. Shaw, Bayard; Pryce Mitchell, Gering; Jack H. Hood, Scottsbluff ; George W. Luce, Scottsbluff; Floyd M. Logan, Fort Morgan; S. H. Schoepflin, Fort Morgan; R. 0. Capper, Brush; Frank Tate, Brush; J. E. Hays, Sterling; F. W . Miller, Ovid and J. T. Stafford, Ovid. 4 THE SuGAR PREss FORT COLLINS, LOVELAND and LONGMONT gathered together at The Armstrong Hotel, Fort Collins, September 27. In the upper picture, working more or less clock-wise around the room, you'll bump into L. A. Parker, Rex Miller, Jack Peyton, E. W . Shannon, Russell Nelson, H. E. Brewbaker, V. H. Babbitt, Ed Gonyou, Jack McDonald, Frank Davies, W. W. Christinck, 0. L. Oldemeyer, Harry Jones, Oscar Johnson, J, Coulter, John Fiori, Frank French, E. J. Maynard, R. L . Colwell, Lynn Pitcher, Bob Moore, E. C. Peterson, Dale Bush­ nell, Charles Lautenbach, A. J. Fiolkoski, Riley Harris, Felix Michaud, AI Nies, William Hamilton, Kenneth Knaus, Ralph Partridge, E. R. Niehaus, Jr., D . J. Roach and J. R. Mason. In the lower picture, if you follow the rows, left to right and front to rear the grouping goes, first row: Frank Wilson, Pat Carey, Walt Stewart, R. Portner and Gene Morris; second row: Charles Foss, Phil Kern, I. H. Drennon, R. B. Jessee, C. B. Cowles, Alex Stephen; third row: Harold Brooks, Jim Shields, Oscar Wetzler, Joe Moore, Charles Witte, Jake Derr, Norm Cimiyotti and Brian Rundle; back of room: Robert Bennett, Fred Brewer, Art Stewart, Bill McGeorge, Charles Glasgow, Dan Woelfle, Lloyd Hanna and Henry Michaud. AuTUMN QuARTER-1948 5 Our Company And Ourselves VERY member of the Great West­ stand as a common objective and chal­ ern organization is doing his lenge. E work this campaign with in­ creased recognition of how the over-all Opportunities for Initiative situation of the Company is his own On conclusion of the meetings, how­ personal concern. over, members of the Great Western Ten pre-campaign meetings were organization did not come away with conducted with the informality of fam­ feelings of pessimism. On the con­ ily reunions. These meetings were trary, complete knowledge of the com­ held because of the need for compre­ plex problems confronting the industry hensive knowledge, on the part of have proved an incentive to fuller everybody, of the circumstances pe­ realization of personal initiative. culiar to our industry alone which had There was no doubt in anybody's mind contributed to our present difficult that our industry would weather its situation. current difficulties and continue to carry on those unique functions which Speakers developed the reasons why have proved indispensable to the agri­ we now have the smallest beet crop in cultural and industrial economy of the many years, the smallest sugar output, West. unique problems of selling sugar and The meetings began Friday, Sept. 10, tremendous increases in cost of pro­ with an informal discussion by Presi­ duction including increases in wages. dent Frank A. Kemp befoTe the em­ These facts were set forth against ployees of the General Office in Denver. the recent history of sugar, both legis­ Then came the Pennant Party at Fort lative and economic, from which it Morgan Sept. 24, honoring the Brush was apparent that our Company, organization for winning its third pen­ throughout the war period and up to nant-an outstanding example of the date, had been rigorously limited in type of effective operation essential to opportunities to earn money and was meeting the operating problems of the obliged to meet all the current infla­ industry. This was followed by eight tionary obligations to pay it out. dinner meetings in which all perma­ Moreover, the slowness with which nent employees, by single factories, or the Company's factories are getting conveniently grouped factories, got to­ back to anything approaching pre-war gether for cordial exchange of infor­ efficiency was discussed as a most puz­ mation. These were held Sept. 27 at zling and disturbing fact. It was made Billings and Fort Collins, Sept. 28 at clear that not only recovery of pre-war Sterling and Lovell, Sept. 29 at Gree­ efficiency but ability to surpass it must ley, S_ept. 30 at Keenesburg and Mitch­ ell and Oct. 1 at Mitchell winding up the Nebraska meetings. A final meet­ ing was held at Johnstown October 21. With local managers as toastmasters the Billings-Lovell and Nebraska meet­ ings were addressed by President Frank A. Kemp, Vice President A. A. Clark and Assistant General Superin­ tendent H. W. Hooper. Speakers at the Colorado meetings were Executive Vice President D. J. Roach, Assistant Vice President E. R. Niehaus, Jr., and, in their respective districts, District Superintendents H. L. Hartburg and C. H . Criswell. Investment Of Human Life N their introductory remarks Mr. Kemp and Mr. Roach reviewed the I history of the Company-how in the 43 years of its corporate life since 1905 (although some factories went back earlier) we had been receiving Slot-machine Hopefuls, left to right: J. 0. Onstad, Ray Tyler (rear), Jack Morris and beets, making good sugar and selling J. Coulter. it to thousands of people. Over this 6 THE SuGAR PREss EATON, GREELEY AND WINDSOR folks held September 29. In the top picture are Grover Nihiser, W. E. Walters, Adolph Lory, I. C. Bressler, Roy Marsh, Jim Gonyou, W. W. Rutz, C. W. Patten, Herb Lackey, Bob Bresnahan, Don Morris, Don White and Pete Brumley. The middle group includes E. 0. Edgar, Howard Reinks, C. W. Crosby, Calvin Smith, Wes Kendall, Layton Brumley, A. M. Watson, Tom Baxter, Roy Marsh, Carl Roberts and Andy Tinn. The bottom picture includes Walt Brossman, Dan Moore, Geo. Gibson, Wm. Galloway, Ray Ferri!, Chas. Springer, Morris Schoonover, C. H. Schroeder, Victor Leffler, Bob Fritzler, Les Garner, C. H. McCurry, J. R. Goodner and Mart Schmode. The center group above, all from Ovid, include, left to right, Nick Bretz, B. F . WiJJiams, E. B. De­ Manche, ]. C. Fey­ rouse and H a r v e y Wood. MEMBERS OF THE G-W ORGANIZATIONS at Sterling and Ovid held their pre­ campaign pow-wow with Company executives at Shell Chateau, Sterling, September 28. Upper left, an Ovid group, left to right: D. C. Davis, Charles Woodhams, B. L. White­ side, Raymond Seeber, Maynard Laufman, Floyd Miller and W.