The Sugar Press

THE MAGAZINE FOR GREAT WESTERNERS • FEBRUARY 1964 Photo courtesy Plainview Daily Herald

Sugar Press Picture of the Month

• Ten-thousand-pound smiles decorate the faces of six Texas sugar beet growers surrounding Kenny Knaus, center, who seems pretty happy, too. The occasion was a "beet banquet" for the high producers of the High Plains Sugar Beet Assn. last January at Plainview, Texas. The six growers here were congratulated by Kenny for producing more than 10,000 pounds of sugar per acre and for doubling the membership of the 10-Thousand Pound Club formed in Colorado seven years ago. They are, from left, Keith, Fred and Don Marble, brothers who farm in Floyd County; Jeff Terrell, behind Kenny, also of Floyd County; Jim Miller of Hale County and Kenneth Bean of Floyd County. • Kenny and Great Western were both lauded by the Plainview Daily Herald for their energies in exploring beet-growing possibilities in the North Texas area. In complimenting Kenny, the Herald also extended Texas citizenship to him. Knaus assisted the Texas growers with their crop throughout the season while "on leave" from his usual duties as assistant livestock consultant. About I ,000 acres of beets were harvested in the High Plains area by 38 growers. Their average yield was about 24 tons per acre, with some fields exceeding 30 tons. The beets were shipped from Plainview to the Longmont factory for processing.

2 The Agricultural Tree -Family Style or There'll Always be a Johnson!

• If you do a double-take on many of the names of the agricultural personnel listed in this issue, just climb up into the family tree and take a look around. Among the fieldmen, for instance, there are eight who are sons of Great Westerners. There are also three sets of brothers. Duane McDonald of Windsor is the son of Jack McDonald of Longmont, who retired there as superintendent. Roy Marsh of Loveland is the son of the late R. K. Marsh, a pioneer Great Western executive at the General Office. Dick Riddell of Brighton is the son of Harvey Riddell, who helped to build the Fort Collins factory and became a Heldman there. Bill Jones of Fort Morgan is the son of Clarence Jones, retired cashier at Scottsbluff who now lives in the Mitchell Valley. Jerry Jarrell of Scottsbluff is the son of J. F. Farrell, an agriculturist at the Longmont Experiment Station in the early years. Augie Heldt of Bayard is the son of the late Gus Heldt, the illustrious agricultural superintendent who pioneered the beet crop in the North Platte Valley. Jerry Reed of Mitchell is the son of George 0. Reed, who was manager at both Ovid and Sterling. Jim Gonyou of Lovell is the son of Ed Gonyou of Loveland, who retired as superintendent there. Among the brothers, there are Bob and Sam Barton, the smiling Heldman at Gering; the Stahle boys, Ivan at Sterling and Ralph at Lovell; and the Gray brothers, Bill at Brighton and Bob at Ovid. Another branch of the tree-Agricultural Supt. Herb Pearcy of Wheatland is the father of Chuck Pearcy, stock transfer clerk at the General Office. Among the dump repair crewmen, there are the Bangharts-not two generations, but three! Foreman Charlie at Scottsbluff is the son of AI Banghart, who was also a foreman there in his day and at Longmont in the early years. Charlie's son, also named AI, now works on the dump crew at the Bluffs. And Charlie's brother, Harry, worked with their Dad's crew until he became shop foreman at Bayard. Another member of the Bluffs dump crew, Jim Graham, is the son of the late Alex Graham, the jovial Scot of the old outfit. Then there are the Wagys-both dump foremen; Harold R. at Brighton is the son of Harold E. at Windsor and Fort Collins. And on the reloading crew at Greeley, Asst. Manager Paul Jesser is the father of Bob, an equipment operator. Now if you can't see the forest for the trees, just consider the Agricultural Johnsons. There is Leonard at Loveland, there is Red at Ovid, there is Chuck at Lovell, all managers; plus two fieldmen, Carl at Eaton and Sven at Greeley (from the Danish branch spelled Johansen). And there was also Charlie John· son, one-time manager at Brighton, Fort Lupton and Lovell. Among Great Westerners, the Agricultural Johnsons are rivaled only by the Operating Millers-Floyd at Brighton and Ty at Mitchell, both super­ intendents and sons of Sugar Tramps; /Ius Oak Miller, master mechanic at Fremont, along with others present an past, including Frank the Pennant­ winner at Fort Morgan and Bob the Builder, who erected six GW mills. The Agricultural Johnsons have no kinship, but in sharing their surname, Len, Red, Chuck and Charlie certainly offer an obvious moral for this little essay ... If a young agriculturist wants to became a manager, he should change his name to Johnson/

~ Cover Photo Last light silhouettes the bulk sugar storage bins at the Scottsbluff factory during the construction last summer. Fremont Frosts the Campaign Cake

• The campaign was a sugar-record­ smasher at Fremont with the first output by the factory of one-half million bags of Pure GW Sugar on Jan. 8. The photo above shows the historic bag with Supt. Jack Corsberg, left, congratulating Asst. Supt. Jerry Shannon, whose shift sacked No. 500,000, with Manager Gordon Ru­ dolph at right. While Northern Ohio beets came through with record sugar contents, in contrast with the crop in the West, the lack of ton­ nage kept the mills at Fremont and Find­ lay from attaining their goal of one-million total bags production. Still, sugarwise, it was the best year yet in the history of the two mills. Fremont's beet crop averaged 19.21 % sugar content, with the yield at 12.77 tons per acre-just about the opposite results of most other beet areas in the nation. The Fremont combination-high in quality, but light in weight-produced 4,906 pounds of sugar per acre.

• The Fremont factory receives 25 tons of beets in one swoop from this semi-trailer rig unloading on the new hydraulic automatic platform. At the rear stands the factory's new bulk sugar storage bin-182 feet high.

4 Take Your Pick For the Pennant

but don't bet on it! There were no reliable position-calls beyond the ninth furlong, shown below, in the 45th running of the Pennant derby (one week's vacation added). The horses hit the whistle wire in the midst of the end of the tenth period, so the judges had to go down on the track with their measuring sticks and then study the photo finish of three "thoroughbreds"-(an approbation borrowed from the Racing Chairman). At first glance, the photo showed a filter cloth over Sterling, the pace- sett~r out for a second straight blue in the stable; Fort Morgan, the perennial place-winner in recent sweepstakes; and Windsor, very much at home in the winner's circle. To everyone else but the contenders, it was just tough turf.

EIGHTH PERIOD NINTH PERIOD (To Jan. 13) (To Jan. 27) 1. STERLING 102.710 1. STERLING 102.634 2. WINDSOR 102.524 { FORT MORGAN 102.437 2 3. FORT MORGAN 102.505 . WINDSOR 102.437 4. OVID 102.322 4. OVID 102.282 5. MITCHELL 101.914 "5. EATON 101.768 6. EATON 101.873 6. MITCHELL 101.690 7. GREELEY 101..837 7. GREELEY 101.643 8. LOVELL 101.708 8. LOVELL 101.528 9. GERING 101.191 9. GERING 101.086 10. LOVELAND 100.730 10. LOVELAND 100.649 11. BAYARD 100.583 11. BAYARD 100.575 1,2. BRIGHTON 100.201 12. BRIGHTON 100.063 13. SCOITSBLUFF 100.039 13. SCOITSBLUFF 99.963 14. BILLINGS 99.443 14. BILLINGS 99.304 15. LONGMONT 98.586 15. LONGMONT 98.626

Eighth Period Only Ninth Period Only 1. GREELEY 101.986 1. STERLING 101.594 2. STERLING 101.671 2. OVID 101.481 3. FORT MORGAN 101.547 3. FORT MORGAN 101.423 4. OVID 101.474 4. WINDSOR 101.320 5. WINDSOR 101.277 5. EATON 100.526 The major projects now authorized for plant improvements this year:

• Expand the sugarend at Fort Morgan

• Build tall bulk sugar bins at Eaton

• Complete the tall bins at Bayard

• Erect a gas-fired boiler at Sterling

• Modernize the pulp dryer at Ovid

• Install modern centrifugal stations Eaton's new bulk sugar storage bins rise at the south end of the factory with the benefit of pencil sketching. They will be about 185 feet high. The view here is from the northeast. at both Scottsbluff and Billings. P-1 Spells Plenty Improvements

• With the conclusion of the longest campaign in many years, sugar handling in the trade. With the Eaton and Bayard bins in work got underway almost immediately on one of the largest service, 14 of the 17 beet sugar houses will be equipped with plant improvement programs in recent years. bulk storage systems, including four mills with extra sets of The biggest project was set for Fort Morgan. There, the bins added in recent years-Longmont, Fort Morgan, Scottsbluff sugarend will be expanded to upgrade the factory's capacity to and Billings. Greeley, Sterling and Mitchell will be the only the "big house" classification. With the sugarend uncorked by houses without bin storage. the new equipment, Fort Morgan's standard will be raised by At Sterling, the Pennant pace-setter in the last two cam­ about 400 tons per day on beets and 30 tons on molasses. paigns, the factory will probably be even more of a threat with the installation of a new gas-fired boiler rated at 150,000 pounds Morgan, now rated at 2,500 tons per day, will then be up per hour. in class with Loveland, Longmont and Scottsbluff. At Ovid, a new dryer building will be erected to house a The factory's sugarend will be expanded two bays to ac­ new 12 x 56-foot drum with a gas furnace and two new presses, commodate one new pan (the sixth), one new crystallizer, six plus other equipment. In changing the Ovid dryer to 100 percent white automatic centrifugals and four continuous hi-raw centrifu­ dried pulp production, the four old smaller drums will be junked. gals. The older centrifugals will be moved to low raw service. At Scottsbluff, the new centrifugal station will consist of Other modifications will also be made. six automatic batch whites and four continuous hi-raws. The At Eaton, the factory will be enhanced with the construc­ Scottsbluff filtration system will also be completed with the tion of a cluster of "tall-boy" bulk sugar storage bins-about installation of five second filters. 185 feet high-similar in set up to the layout at Lovell. The At Billings, the modern centrifugal statioh will consist of bins will hold up to 300,000 hundredweight bags of sugar and seven automatic whites and five continuous hi-raws. will be equipped with a bulk rail car loading station. Another automatic white centrifugal will also be added The same bulk sugar bin installation at Bayard will be to the Loveland station, which was modernized last year. completed upon the foundations and basements built last summer The first Plant Improvement authorizations also included in a project planned for two years of work. two additional char cisterns for the Johnstown sugar factory and The bin projects attest to the increasing importance of bulk an allocation for machine tools at various factories.

Another view at Eaton, showing the site of the sugar bins just At Fort Morgan, the factory will be extended two bays or 35 south of No. 1 sugar warehouse, where the walls are being rebuilt feet on the east end, just in front of the small cluster of sugar to accommodate the structures and machinery. bins, to house new equipment for expansion of the sugarend.

6 • Great Western agriculturists gather with officials of the Eversman Manufacturing Co., of Denver, to check the latest improve­ ments in their joint project for mechanizing springtime work on beet farms. The m echanical marvel is the GW Multiplex, a power incorporator for chemical weed control. From left, in front: Manager Frank Zumbrink of Longmont, Labor Commissioner Cal Smith, Manager Vic Ostermiller of Fort Morgan, Asst. Manager Bob Sanborn of Scottsbluff, Manager LaMar Henry of Brighton, Manager Ralph Wood of the Experiment Station, Wally Borden of Eversman, Acting Manager Ralph H ettinger of Billings, Development Direc­ tor Phil Smith, Manager Leonard Johnson of Loveland, Manager Les Gamer of Sterling, Northern District Manager John Edmiston. Back row: Ed Campbell of Eversman, Agric. Supt. H erb Pearcy of Wheatland, Manager Chuck Johnson of Lovell, Agronomist Dick Zielke of Fremont, AI Ericksen, Ed Sullivan and Bob Abrams of the Experiment Station, Fieldman Stan Walters of Lovell, Manager Gordon Rudolph of Fremont, Manager Red Johnson of Ovid, Bob Shoemaker of Eversman, Manager John Stewart of Windsor, Asst. Manager Waldo Peterson of Billings, Asst. Manager Don Redman of Fort Morgan, President Larry Shoemaker of Eversman, H erb Bush of the Experiment Station, Kenny Knaus of Denver, John Rowe of Eversman, and aboard the tractor, Jim Wright of Eversman.

The Agricultural Aggregation

With spring just around the corner, Great Western operations Senior Fieldman once again turn to the field and to the planting and raising

of another crop of sugar beets-along with the preparations

for harvesting and receiving the crop next fall at the mills.

To introduce those responsible for the work at the factory

level, The Sugar Press on the next three pages presents the

names of all the agricultural personnel at each location.

Ted Stevens of Greeley, senior in service among GW fieldmen, observes his 40th anniversary on the job this July. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, T ed joined Great Western at Loveland and served at Sterling and Lovell before moving to Greeley in 1943.

7 I. L. JOHNSON J. V. OSTERMILLER LEONARD H. HENDERSON Manager-Ovid Manager-Fort Morgan Manager-Bluffs and Gering

Eaton Greeley Windsor Loveland Brighton 0 vi d Fort Morgan Gering

Manager Manager Manager Manager Manager Manager Manager Manager • LEE E. BUTLER • LEE E. BUTLER • JOHN STEWART • LEONARD M. JOHNSON • LaMAR C. HENRY • I. L. JOHNSON • J. V. OSTERMILLER • LEONARD H. HENDERSON Asst. Manager Asst. Manager Fieldmen Fieldmen Fieldmen Fieldmen Asst. Manager Asst. Manager • LYNN E. PITCHER • LYNN E. PITCHER • GEORGE LAPASEOTES • REID C. DICKERSON • R. W. (BILL) GRAY • GORDON FRIEDE • DONALD G. REDMAN • ROBERT N. SANBORN • DUANE C. McDONALD • ROYDEN E. MARSH • CARL LUFT • ROBERT V. GRAY Fieldmen Fieldmen • DONALD REDABAUGH • 0. L. OLDEMEYER • RAY L. REYNOLDS • MAX HUBBARD Fieldmen Fieldmen • ALLAN AUGER • SVEN JOHANSEN • RICHARD H. RIDDELL • JERRY F. YOUNG • PHILIP ANTES • ROBERT G. BARTON • CARL W. JOHNSON • MERLE RIGGS Dump Repair Foreman Dump Repair Foreman • MURRAY SILVERNALE • ALAN B. BERRY • SAM BARTON, JR. • JAMES ROBERTSON • CARL SORENSEN • HAROLD E. W AGY • RALPH W. ANDREW • MERLE E. WORDEN Dump Repair Foreman • NORMAN C. DAVIS • DALE B. TORMEY • TED STEVENS • GOTTLIEB WALTER • T. E. ENGLISH Dump Repair Crew Dump Repair Crew Asst. Fieldman • ELDON N. GRAHAM Dump Repair Foreman Asst. Fieldman • LAWRENCE MEYER • EDWIN G. ANDERSON • DERRELL HUTTON Dump Repair Crew • C. W. (BILL) JONES • DAN BERNHARDT • ARTHUR MEISNER • VERNON BROWNELL Bayard Dump Repair Foreman Asst. Fieldman Asst. Dump Foreman Asst. Reloading Mgr.* • HAROLD R. W AGY • LARRY G. OTT Manager • RAYMOND 0. FERRELL • PAUL JESSER • LOWELL E. GIAUQUE Fort Collins Longmont Dwnp Repair Crew Sterling Dump Repair Foreman Dump Repair Crew Reloading Crew* Fieldmen • KENNETH 0. BISHOP Manager • CLANCY H. LaRUE • MELVIN BALDWIN • ROBERT P. JESSER • CHRIS WEBER • ROBERT CHINNOCK • JOHN KINDSFATHER • ELMER H. JONES Manager Manager • LESTER B. GARNER • STANLEY DAVIDSON • FRANK ZUMBRINK Dump Repair Crew • LENN E. RIDDLE • EARL LEWIS • JOHN STEWART • MARION H. BLECHA • JOHN R. ELLIOTT • JACK NEERGAARD Fieldmen • EDWARD WAGNER Fieldman Fieldmen • ROBERT W. CAMPBELL • AUGUST E. HELDT • DOUGLAS STEPHENSON • DONALD B. CLEMONS • J. FRANK CAVINESS • GORDON HOBERT • RAYMOND C. WEBER • BERTRAM A. NELSON • ROBERT J. BEVER • ROBERT E. HELTON • MELVIN A. GRIGGS • C. A. SPURGIN • ROY V. DRAGE • IVAN STAHLE Dump Repair Foreman • TIM R. MAYFIELD * Employed throughout • WILLIAM G. KRUEGER • WILLIAM D. THOREN • ROBERT F. PATTON Dump Repair Foreman Company territory • HAROLD E. W AGY • RALPH R. PRICE • RALPH E. RICE Dump Repair Foreman Asst. Dump Foreman Dump Repair Foreman • CARL A. NUSS Dump Repair Crew • NORMAN E. METCALF • EUFELIO ARAGON • GEORGE W. COLGROVE • LLOYD BAKER Dump Repair Crew Scottsbluff Dump Repair Crew • FRED E. EHLERT • WILLIAM EHRLICH • JAMES L. LaFRENZ • 0. C. HOLLAND • RAY J. KOEHLER Manager (Continued on next page) • LEONARD H. HENDERSON Asst. Manager • ROBERT N. SANBORN Fieldmen • LLOYD E. CROOK • HAROLD HALL J • JERRY E. JARRELL } District Dump Foreman • CHARLES C. BANGHART Asst. Dump Foreman • JAMES GRAHAM Dump Repair Crew • ALVIN H. BANGHART • ANDREW LANDON • DAN TEMPLE LEE E. BUTLER JOHN STEWART LEONARD M. JOHNSON FRANK ZUMBRINK LaMAR C. HENRY LESTER B. GARNER LOWELL E. GIAUQUE Manager-Eaton and Greeley Manager-Windsor and Collins Manager-Loveland Manager-Longmont Manager-Brighton Manager-Sterling Manager-Bayard

8 9 W. C. McGUFFEY RALPH W. HETTINGER GORDON RUDOLPH RONALD D. STECK Manager-Mitchell Acting Manager-Billings Manager-Fremont Manager-Findlay Mitchell Billings Fremont Longmont

Manager Acting Manager Manager • W. C. McGUFFEY • RALPH W. HETTINGER • GORDON RUDOLPH Experiment Agricultural Supt. Actg. Asst. Manager Fieldmen • HERBERT H. PEARCY • WALDO T. PETERSON • JOHN N. GURTZWEILER Station (Wheatland area) • MELVIN H. SHAFER Agricultural Supt. • FRED A. W ARGOWSKY Fieldmen • PAUL N. McMILLAN • LeROY WILLIAMS Manager • PAUL M. BLOME (Chinook area) ROBERT L. ZILLES • R. RALPH WOOD • ROBERT M. MORLEY • • WILLIAM N. NELSON Fieldmen Asst. Fieldman Director of Beet • JEROME D. REED • DONALD R. CANDLIN • RICHARD SAIONZ Seed Development • T. W. MULLOWNEY • R. K. OLDEMEYER Dump Repair Foreman • ROBERT L. PIERCE Agronomist • CHESTER L. MORSE • WILLIAM R. RALEY • RICHARD C. ZIELKE Agronomist • JOHN W. SHERMAN • EDWARD F. SULLIVAN Dump Repair Crew • JAMES A. SMITH Agricultural Consultant • ROGER LOWRY • ARTHUR C. JOOST Statistician-Agronomist • E. ZITTERKOPF Agricultural Asst. • HERBERT L. BUSH • JEROME P. PYETTE Agricultural Foreman (Chinook area) • JACK SENSENEY Asst. Agronomist • ROBERT L. ABRAMS By-Product Sales Repr. Agricultural Helper • RALPH C. STENEHJEM • RONALD E. PERKINS Plant Breeder • ALVIN W. ERICKSEN Dump Repair Foreman • A. E. HUDDLESTON Biochemist • ROBERT B. MELVIN Asst. Dump Foremart Findlay • HENRY J. LAPP Farm Superintendent • FAYE J . FLOREA Dump Repair Crew Manager • EDWIN CARMICHAEL • RONALD D. STECK Shop Foreman • ROBERT FITCH • KENNETH WALLACE • LEON RIMMERIE Fieldmen • WILLIAM ROBERTS • FLOYD C. BROWN, JR. Seed Foreman • DOUGLAS BURKHART • RICHARD G. WAGNER CHARLES R. JOHNSON • KENNETH B. CLARK Manager-Lovell • HAROLD H. HEILMAN Farm Foreman • JOHN C. LUFT • DENZEL E. THOMPSON • EMERY E. WILLIAMS Lovell Greenhouse Technician Agricultural Foreman • WALTER 0. LIERMAN • JOSEPH L. KITTEL Manager Stenographer • CHARLES R. JOHNSON Agricultural Helper • LOUISE WEBBER • THOMAS W. MILLER Fieldmen Records Clerk • ROBERT D. FISHER • MARJORIE HICKMAN • JAMES F. GONYOU • ROLAND A. JACOB Seed Analyst • RALPH J. STAHLE • MARY E. JENSEN • STANLEY WALTERS Farm Crew Dump Repair Foreman • JOSE S. CARDENES • LESLIE W. CLINE • ALEX DIESING • JAMES M. SWALLOW Dump Repair Crew • LOUIS J. ZUNIGA R. RALPH WOOD • HAROLD H. HAZEN Manager-Experiment Station • DONALD LOOS

10 • Steve Greenwald of Windsor High School, above, displays the $50 savings bond he won for the best sugar beet project in the contes t sponsored by the 4-H and Great Western. Steve appears with 4-H Director Cecil Staver and President W. E. Morgan of Colorado State University. Steve's crop averaged 29.5 tons per acre, with 17.6% sugar content, yielding more than 10,000 pounds of sugar per acre. • Larry Weickum of Weld Central High School at Keenesberg, at left, shows his bond award to President Frank A. Kemp, center, and FFA Director Marvin Linsom. In winning the Future Farmers beet contest, Larry produced 31 tons per acre, with 16.6% sugar content, yielding 10,290 pounds of sugar per acre. The winners of both the 4-H and FFA contests were announced at luncheons for all the factory district winners during Stock Show Week in Denver.

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E. /. Maynard P. B. Smith

• Jack Maynard and Phil Smith, agricultural executives at the General Office, were both honored at the San Francisco meeting of the American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists eo.rly in February. Jack, who is general livestock consultant, was presented with the society's coveted Meritorious Service Award; and Phil, director of agricultural development, was cited for 40 years of service. Phil received the Meritorious Service Award two years ago. Only five other Great Westerners have received the award of merit-President Frank A. Kemp; David J. Roach, late execu­ tive vice president; Henry W. Dahlberg, late research director; and Asa C. Maxson and H. E. Brewbaker, both retired directors of the Longmont Experiment Station. Jack Maynard, a Great Westerner for 28 years, was cited for his work in the field of beet by-products and livestock feeding. He is a nationally-recognized authority on the subject and also author of the standard work, "Beets and Meat." Befort joining GW in 1936 at Billings, Jack was dean of the schools of agriculture and forestry at Utah State Agriculture. From 1919 to 1931, he was an associate professor at Colorado A & M College. Jack was graduated from New Mexico Agricul­ • At Longmont, Cashier C. B. Nasi, left, receives his 35-year tural College, where he served on the faculty for two years; he Great Westerner service pin from Auditor Herb Corsberg. took his master's degree in animal husbandry at Iowa State.

11 • F/l/21-Art Harris made a flying trip He came to Eaton March !, 1948 and to Omaha Dec. 4 where the degree of he served the Galeton, Lowe and Cloverly High Priest, Royal Arch Masons, was con­ districts until the spring of !9S8. From ferred upon him. Even with that weighty that time he has served the Galeton, Lowe title Art didn't look much different except and Hereford districts. Previous to his em­ that he was a little "pooped." ployment with GW he was cashier of Rumor has it that "A" shift was des. the First National Bank of Julesburg where perately in need of a boat to navigate on he served from Jan., !920 until February the 2nd floor one day recently. An at­ !938. tempt to interview Matt Brennan concern­ "Schrod" and Maude plan to spend ing the situation only resulted in a "no their retirement in Eaton in their lovely comment." new home. "Schrod" will be leaving for George Luce is counting the days until Texas the last of February to recruit labor he can start using that fancy camper he for the beet fields for the GW Labor carries around on his pickup. Sure you Department. Good luck to you in your don't want to postpone retirement for a retirement, "Schrod." year or two, George? James F. Robertson will replace Mr. Several members of the crew were sad­ Schroeder. Jim was born and raised at dened by deaths of close relatives during Ordway, Colo. He graduated from Colo­ the campaign. Among them, Bob Tarr lost rado A&M at Ft. Collins in 19Sl. He LYLE A. BowMAN his father, Virgil Wecker his mother, Levi started with the Company in Feb., 19SS, Koenig a sister, and Jerry Jarrell's father­ and took his training at Prospect Valley in-law passed· away. Our deepest sym­ and at Eaton. He came to Eaton in Sept., • Death has closed the half-century legal pathies and condolences are extended to 19SS, and was later transferred to Sterling career of Lyle A. Bowman, the Company's these men and their families. in March of 19S6, where he had Iliff attorney at Lovell. He died at the age of Pete Conrad insists that he is going and Proctor territory. He moved from 74 on Jan. IS. to ask for early retirement next July ... this district to Holdredge, Nebr., district Mr. Bowman was retained by the Com­ says he has been at it since he was 14 in the Sterling area, in August of 1961. pany from the time of the construction of years old and that's long enough. We'll We are happy to have you back with us, the Lovell factory in 1916. He was honored miss ol' Pete if he goes. Jim. by the Wyoming Bar last year for SO John Arends has moved off the pan -Pat Manion years of practice in the state. floor and is working on the beet end Twice a member of the Wyoming Legis­ with the old master, Bus Hight. lature, he represented Big Horn County in Norm Vogel is working with Irv Zitter­ • Z/l/24-At this time here at MSG we both houses. kopf in the Steffen house. have Alex Miller, Wayne VanMatre, and A graduate of the University of Colo­ Doyle Clark was strutting around like Henry Erbes hospitalized. We are hoping rado, Mr. Bowman practiced law at Long­ a peacock not too long ago; albeit we they will be back to work by the time mont for five years before moving to must admit, for good reason. His some­ this is printed. Lovell. At CU, he was a classmate of times balky charge, the S lb. "Racehorse" Mrs. Gerald Coats presented Mr. Coats President Frank A. Kemp. with a six pound baby girl, and intern Mr. Bowman leaves his wife Bertha, machine produced over 3,000 12/S's in an 8-hour shift for the first time. Jerry gave us all a cigar. son Robert, and two grandchildren, all of Lee Alkire is back on the job after a Since the government findings on the Lovell. long session in the hospital following an dangers of smoking was reported, there auto accident shortly after Campaign has been quite an increase in pipe and • Death has taken Alice Smith Crosley, started. Welcome back, Lee. cigar smokers. superintendent's clerk and associate editor Rudy Temple has been on the pan Jim Kelim is still bragging about two at the Greeley factory. Alice, who was a floor for several weeks as sugar boiler geese he bagged this winter. Gene Wild Great Westerner for 13 years, died on trainee. Replacing Rudy in the Steffen failed in his elk hunting, but as always Jan. 19 after a long illness. house is Clarence Schmidt, who, according he had excuses that were doozies. A favorite of the Greeley organization, to Pryce Mitchell, is doing a bang-up job. Charley Minch has a boy that's quite Alice came there as a stenographer in !9S7. Joe Stromski is another of the few re­ a basketball player! Y~s .became clerk to Supt. Frank Jones in maining "old-timers" who will be leaving Das Ist Alles! 9 us in 1964. Joe has been boiling sugar so -Augie Blanco Previously, Alice was at the Brush fac­ long somebody said the other day they tory, where she began her year-around thought he was on the pan floor before career in 19Sl as a steno. But her cam­ the factory was built. A little premature, • N/l/29-Big news around the Brighton paign service there as head beet clerk Joe, but "Good luck!" mill was the visit to our Brighton factory dated back to 1943. -Les Enwall on Wednesday, Jan. 29, of Senator Ed­ Alice also worked as a clerk for the mund Muskie of Maine. The visit was ar­ town of Brush in 1943. ranged by Mr. Kemp. Also in the party Born in Chappell, Neb., Alice was grad­ • E/l/23--C. F. Schroeder will retire Feb. were Senator Muskie's administrative as­ uated from high school in Marquette and ruary !st. sistant, Donald E. Nicoll, and Messrs. F. G. was a college student at Peru Normal "Schrod" began his employment with Holmes, R. J. Fisher, L. T . Jensen, John and Kearney State, all in Nebraska. GW at Ovid, March !, !938 and located Bunker, E. R. Niehaus, E. H. Hunger­ Her first husband, Howard K. Smith, at Sutherland, Nebr., as a fieldman until ford, S. L. Force, L. H. Andrews, H. J. died in Brush in !9SO. After moving to he moved to the Big Springs, Nebraska Ward, and J. S. Lyon. Greeley, Alice was married to C. Robert district in the spring of !94S. -Jack Eachus Crosley. Besides her husband, Alice leaves two sons, Richard E. Smith of Greeley and Dudley J. Smith of Fort Collins, and three grandchildren . • W /2/13--The many friends of Clarence W. Crosby were saddened at the news of his death on Jan. 19. "Cros" or "Dutch" as he was known by his many friends in this and other mills had retired in 1961 and had been in poor health since that time. Cros was employed at the Lyman mill during 1926 and came to Windsor as storekeeper in 1927 where he remained until retirement. He is survived by his widow, 2 daugh­ ters, 2 sisters, I brother, 6 grandchildren At the Bluffs, Manager Leonard Hentler­ At Eaton, it's a rare seven-star GW pin and 3 great-grandchildren, and the sym­ son presents a five-year GW pin to An­ awarded by Supt. George Halbur, left, to pathy of the whole mill goes out to them. drew Sanchez. Boilerhouse Foreman Clyde Pryor, one of -Paul Brown the few 45-year Great W esterners.

12 FEBRUARY ANNIVERSARIES

Eugene W. Kyger, Billings ...... 40 George W. Stillman, Denver ...... 40 In this corner, with the strong right hook, And here's Carol Nasi, born in July, the young Johnny Peyrouse, the new grand­ granddaughter of Cashier and Mrs . C. B. Betty Hanks, Denver ...... 35 son of Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Jack Peyrouse N asi of Longmont and the grand charmer H. L. Bush, Longmont ...... 25 of Loveland. of the Larry Nasi household. Mike J. Heiser, Billings ...... 20 Fred V. Lindberg, Greeley ...... 20 • V/1/11-Supt. Lingle returned to work them. However, Ray says that is in the John W. Stevens, Eaton ...... 20 today after missing work since the first future-for the time being he will relax Lin Ramsey, Railway ...... 10 with an inflamed elbow. in Longmont. Congratulations, Ray, we • V/12/31-Asst. Supt. J. C. and Mrs. all hope you enjoy many happy retire­ John Rothe, Railway ...... 10 Peyrouse of Loveland became grandparents ment years. John W. Wilson, Longmont ...... 10 again this date. John Claude Peyrouse, III, It pays to be at the right place at the of Crete, Nebr., made his debut at Bryan right time. Chief Chemist C. S. Foster Beverly Blasier, Denver ...... 5 Memorial Hqspital. He has two sisters, won $180.00 on Feb. 5 at the Longmont Robert M. Brewer, Longmont .. 5 Jane 6 and Marcia 4. Elks Lodge. Stew's name was called at the • V/1/23-Mrs. Ray Mullison is in the weekly drawing and as he was present. Paul A. Brubaker, Johnstown .... 5 local hospital at this writing with a pos­ was the lucky winner. John D. Lawther, Ft. Morgan .... 5 sible heart condition. Kent and Kirk, the Two retired superintendents, Jack Mc­ live-wire sons, are anxious along with their Donald and Harry Evans, were out and daddy for Elsie's rapid recovery. had a cup of coffee with the Longmont office crew and informed us that they • V /1/23-GW's bow I in g team here • C/10/1-0tto and Helen Nieder have were leaving Feb. 13 for Harlingen, Texas, moved back to Fort Collins since his re­ stands in 5th place in an 8-team league. to recruit labor for another beet crop. Members are Rene Christensen, Reid Dick­ tirement from Mitchell. Helen was head Another campaign is behind Longmont. be~t clerk here in the office during cam­ erson, Roy Marsh, King Minnick, Ray The 1963-64 campaign ended officially at Mullison and Reuben Klein. Come on out pa•gn and Otto was weigher at the Dixon 6:30 P.M., Feb. 11. receiving station. to Lucky Strike Lanes on Wednesday eve­ -Evelyne Cummings nings and watch the Sugar Daddies bowl • C/ 1/14-0scar Hansen is back on the 'em over. Picture of said team promised job a~ter a week's absence for an eye for a later issue, in their pretty snappy • C/12/l-Delbert Brady, who has been opcratwn. shirts. the janitor for the past four years, has -Lovena McGraw • V / 1/23-Doing a nice job of beet clerk­ graduated from CSU with a teacher's cer­ ing this campaign are Carol Frank, Ruth tificate and a degree in physics. We will • CHI/12/24-0ur second annual Christ­ Kramer, Alma Schake!, Margaret Mattoon, all miss Delbert but we wish him much mas dinner was held two evenings ago at Mildred McCrea, Ruth Masche and Wanda success in his new career. Gordon War­ El Bianco's restaurant in Chicago, and Disney. Wanda works part time in Matt ren, an engineering student at CSU, is our second annual party for employees Sheldon's lab office. now in charge of keeping the place clean. and their children was held today. • V/ 1/9-Kenny Miller moved to his new • C/12/27-A farewell party was given The party for the nine children featured home at 1325 E. 1st. George Workman Hugh E. Cook and the gift of a pen and lunch served by Helen W aznak, wife of moved from Wellington to Loveland at pencil set were presented to him, along our supervisor, Eddie. It was enjoyed by all, his new place west of town. with the best wishes of his fellow em­ including several of our drivers. • V/ 1/23-The old mill is grinding away ployees in his new job as cashier at Eaton. • CHI/1/4-The Terminal was tempo­ toward the close of a long campaign. Our • C/ 12/27-A farewell party and the gift rarily out of service due to a break in a iron horses (new white automatic centrif­ of a wrist watch was presented to Field­ water main 8 feet below ground. Thanks to ugals) have done a nice job this year. A man Ed Willis on his retirement of Jan. the plumbing contractor and the Brook­ couple more outlying beet piles besides the 1, 1964. Ed has been with GW since field Water Dept., our shutdown lasted factory yard pile and we're through. 1926. We all wish him the best of every­ only 12 hours. Leonard Johnson and the fi eld crew can thing in his new role of "man of leisure." -Mildred Michalcik head for a well-earned rest in Phoenix. -Bob Lohr

• U2/12-Ray H. Markham was the honor guest at a retirement party held Wednesday afternoon at the Longmont Office. Ray retired from the dump crew after 14 years of continuous service. Ice cream and cake were enjoyed by the office staff, manager and fie ldmen, dump crew and seed house men, after which Manager Frank Zumbrink pre­ sented Ray with a gift certificate to pur­ chase fishing equipment to do some fish­ ing in California. Ray has two sons in California and is Lee Anderson works on the lathe in the Dryer Foreman Ellis Wykoff heads off thinking about moving there to be near shop at the Loveland factory. with the loader at Loveland.

13 Anybody for Checkers?

• The Findlay factory in Ohio now presents a unique appearance among sugar mills. The new checkered storage bin, rising 176 feet high, does hold sugar-in fact, up to 15 million pounds of sugar. The single bin structure was decorated with red and white checkers-in IS-foot squares­ to serve as a fli~ht safety marker for airplane traffic from the landing strip shown behind the factory in the photo below. No doubt the checkered bin also provides an eye-catching ad for Pure GW Sugar along the heavily-traveled by-pass and highway running around the factory. AERIAL PHOTO BY TOM ROOT

14 • Phone Operators Alberta Welsh, left, and Teck James at the old switchboard in the Sugar Building. The overburdened and obsolete board was replaced with a modern one with automatic features to improve telephone service at the General Office.

Dial-It-Yourself Telephone Service

• The Sugar Tramps at the Sugar Building in Denver now have a brand-new telephone system. On Monday, Feb. 17, the network was put in service by Mountain States Telephone and Western Electric. It involved thousands of man-hours of work and planning over several months to install the new system. Among other things, a central switching room was erected and equipped on the roof, all the phone wiring was replaced and rearranged, all the phone sets were replaced, and a new switchboard was in­ stalled with greater capacity and ease of operation. The new • The main cable with 1,800 wires for the Sugar Building phone board offers more trunk lines, while the new service features system is shown to Accounting Supervisor Chuck Lautenbach, at direct dialing of calls both in the building and outside, instead right, by Roland Russell of Western Electric. Behind them stands of the old method of placing all calls with the switchboard oper­ just one of the panels of the automatic switching equipment ators in the building. housed in a special room on the roof.

15 COOPERATIOI

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