GW--GRAM Late news & comment, • in capsule form . • •

New GW golf champ! He's Harry Wheeler That was biggest percentage gain of any of Longmont, agent for Railway. Harry brand--in fact, several lost ground. It won annual GW Tournament by firing 155 reflects energetic work of GW sales crew for 36 holes on Riverview course June 23 in rough and tough cane market area. In and 24 at Scottsbluff. Secondwas Dwight only 5 years, according to Survey, GW has Gordon of Gering, defending champ, with jumped 12.3% in preference among Greater 164. Herman Amend of Bayard was third Milwaukee families. In number of house­ with 168, Jay Hall of Scottsbluff fourth holds using GW, that's from 11,929 in with 169, and Harold Burk of Scottsbluff 1951 to 51,391 in 1956. fifth with 170. In the first flight, Herb Marten of Lovell won with 171, Pat Pump­ hrey second with 178. Lloyd Jensen of Denver won second flight in 191, Francis Entire beet sugar industry launches all­ Wood and Gabe Randall of Gering tied for out attack on mysterious enemy--the tiny second, 192. Lloyd Garber of Gering won worm called the nematode. The research third flight in 198. Steve Karnes of project will be conducted during the next Bayard took fourth flight with 198, Doug 18 months, thru two crop seasons, in the Callahan of Gering and Otto Nieder of states of Colorado, California, Michigan. Mitchell tied for second, 226. In fifth It's the first time the beet companies flight, Jim Denner of Denver won in 219, have teamed up to fight the nematode in­ Cal Smith of Brush was second with 221. festation problem. Project will be led by Dr. Fields E. Caveness with two other researchers, plus the agricultural staffs Suggestion Plan Committee sets new rules of all beet sugar companies, including for cash payments to award-winners. Ef­ Great Western. Plans were announced by fective June 18, full and final payment Beet Sugar Development Foundation at a will be made when suggestion is adopted, ,meeting in Fort Collins on June 20. if its earnings can be estimated at that time with reasonable certainty. Under old rule, suggestion had to be installed Promotions and transfers for Operating and checked for earning performance. In supervisors ••. A. L. Wetlaufer, house case earnings cannot be determined, the mechanic at Longmont, promoted to asst Suggestion Committee reserves the right master mechanic at Eaton ••• Dwight Gor­ to make a $15 minimum preliminary award don, asst supt at Gering, transferred and to pay balance of money on the basis to same position at Scottsbluff. He re­ of the suggestion's earnings in actual places Ty Miller, who became supt at operation when installed later. Change Fremont, 0 ••• Walt Ashby, asst supt at was made to speed awards for winners-­ Bayard, transferred to same job at Ger­ in view of seasonal operation. At the ing to replace Gordon ••. Bill Smoyer, same time, Committee authorized the very asst master mechanic at Mitchell, moved first five awards of Plan (See Page 5). to Johnstown MSG to replace Ralph Town­ send, who takes Smoyer's job at Mitchell. Carl Haffner, house mechanic at Bayard, Sales-wise, GW Sugar scores another gain promoted to head pipefitter at Bayard ••• on cane competitors in Milwaukee area. Art Bohm, chief electrician at Mitchell, Milwaukee Journal's Consumer Survey shows transferred to Johnstown for boiler and GW Sugar up 3.1% over last year's rating. turbine installation. THE COVER For rnany Sugar Trarnps, July rneans only fishing season. So here's one of those wishful scenes far away from the work-a-day world. The trout seern to be lurking under the water in schools. But don't be too sure. It's actually an irrigaUon ditch in the Flathead country of Montana. But it still looks good-and it doesn't hurt to drearn !

THE SUGAR PRESS

ASSOCIATE EDITORS Published Monthly by the Employees of IRENE SWORD, Brighton MARVIN PETTIGREW, Johnstown The Great W estern Sugar Company, Denver, Colorado RAY GLASER, Johnstown JACK YORK, Johnstown HAROLD CAMP, Johnstown MSG JULY~ 1956 C. W. SMITH, Brush GWEN D. BATH , Fort Morgan HOWARD SCHAAL, Sterling In This Issue ... G. N. CANNADY, Ovid P. W. SNYDER, Scottsbluff GW Beet Crop- 1956 Model ------4 C. W. SEIFFERT, Gering T he 1956 crop appears prornising near rnid-season. Here's the outlook. A. J. STEWART, Bayard The First Five ! ------ART BOHM, Mitchell 5 Six rnen share in the first five cash awards of the GW Suggestion Plan. DOROTHY COOPER, Lyman JACK K. RUNGE, Billings Ladies Night ------6 BESSIE ROSS, Lovell The Technical Society winds up another season with annual dinner-dance. LOIS E. LANG, Horse Creek C. G. REINHART, Fremont The Right to Grow ------8 A review of the new Sugar Act--its basic principle and future prospects. WARREN D. BOWSER, Findlay DORIS SMITH, Eaton Pot-luck in Purchasing ------9 MARY E. VORIS, Greeley The P urchasing office gang throws a lunch-tirne picnio---a la desk tops. KAREN WAGNER, Windsor F. H. DEY, Fort Collins Western Beet Produces ------10 The full narne is Western Beet Sugar Producers; here's what it produces. BOB LOHR, Loveland RALPH R. PRICE, Longmont School for Salesmen ------12 C. J. AMOS, Denver GW salesmen gather in Denver for a refresher course in selling meth ods. ANGEL SMITH, Experiment Station DOROTHY COURTNEY, Denver Opening Day at the GW Cafe ------13 BOB GODFREY, Denver The new lunchroom at the General Office-and some of its first customers. C. B. GOODRICH, Denver Secret of Good Taste ------14 DOROTHY HARRIS, Denver Great Western goes "Eastern" to sell MSG to Chinese-American trade. JO JACOBS, Denver BOB MAKIE, Denver Mister Boots ------16 From waif to watchman-the story of Gering·s adopted Sugar Tramp, dog. HOLDEN NICHOLSON, Denve r HERMAN SCHERTEL, Denver Log to Haiti ------17 RONNIE STAINBROOK, Den ver A travel-book vacation trip aboard an ocean liner-away from it all.

EDITOR Among the Personnel ------18 JAMES LYON GW people in pictures-followed by the reports of the associate editors. GW Beet Crop 1956 Model

by Phil Smith

After a swing around the fa rm d istricts, GW's general agriculturist reports on the progress and prospects of the crop.

This spring, more beet acreage was thinned with GW th inning machines than ever before. Here's one working in a field in Northern Colorado.

HE 1956 sugar beet crop in record year. June has caused an early run off T Great ·western and Northern Billings and Lovell are at least of mountain snows which were Ohio territories is well underway. 10 days ahead of last year and ex­ from 100 to 120 per cent of normal. The new model is somewhat spotty cept for some of the Milk River Because of this, many beet fields in character with some of the areas area, where drought existed, both were watered prior to June 15. receiving too much moisture and districts are in excellent shape. Thinning has proceeded extreme­ others hardly any. In contrast ·with the Great "\Vest­ ly rapidly because of the earliness Over 190,000 acres were planted ern area, farmers in the Fremont of the crop. Twice as much acreage in the four ,vestern states and be­ and Findlay districts in Ohio re­ was thinned by June first as was cause of lack of rain during April, ceived an unprecedented amount of completed in the previous year . many growers immediately started rainfall starting about April 25, In order to assist growers in get­ to irrigate up. and continuing until about the first ting the crop thinned on time, be­ cause so much of it had germinated Almost half of the acreage in of June. Low temperatures pre­ vailed also ·which made the spring about the same date, twice as many Colorado received an irrigation for Mexican Nationals were brought germination and much of it also a backward and farmers were unable to plant their allotted acreage. in by the Company as in the preYi­ second irrigation in order to hold ous year. the seedlings. This made it very This was extremely discouraging ~Iechanical thinning really paid difficult and used up a lot of very to officials and Company men in off in 1D56. Farmers went OYer Yaluable water. Southern Michigan and "\Vestern nearly 100,000 acres with machines Some districts, notably the North Ohio as nearly 18,000 acres had in the four "\Yestern states in order Sterling, Riverside, the Bijou and been contracted but rains pre­ to assist the labor to complete the the Henry Lynn, were too short of vented about a fourth of it from job as quickly as possible. This was water to permit irrigation for ger­ being planted. considerably more acreage than in mination. Unfortunately, some of The reservoir situation in North­ the last couple of years. About these areas also received only a ern Colorado was much improved 1,-1:00 Ureat "\Vestern thinnino· ma­ token of rainfall. · as of June 1, over what existed in chines were employed in the me­ The Nebraska district got off to either 195-! or 1955 on that date. chanical work. an excellent start with some very Totaling the amount of water in Generally, the thinned stands are excellent and timely rains which the reservoirs and including the much superior to what they were have given farmers the best stands water stored under the Big Thomp­ in 1954 and 1955. It is hoped that of beets that they have had in sev­ son project on the eastern slope, the climatic conditions will be favor­ eral years. unless some unfavorable figures show 93 per cent of a nor­ able during the balance of the ea­ weather or storms develop, the Ne­ mal storage supply. son for producing a much better braska territory should be off to a Extremely hot weather in early than normal total crop.

■ T HE SUG AR PRESS The First Five!

Six men share in the first five cash awards granted by the GW Suggestion Committee. They're ]. B. Buckendorf of Scottsbluff, Ralph Lynch and H. J. Parish of Johns- town MSG, Bill Oatman of Lovell, Lyle Lafferty of the Johnstown Refinery, and Gordon Rudolph of Fremont, 0.

IVE Great "\1{ estern employees Engineering Department decided for his suggestion to promote fur­ F and one Northern Ohio man that it would be more economical to ther use of the GW thinning ma­ have been presented cash awards use drainable tees instead of re­ chine by beet farmers. H e proposed for the first five suggestions arranged pipe. the use of the slogan : '' More Beets adopted under the GW Suggestion in the Row with a Smaller Hoe.' ' Plan. The awards were authorized Ralph Lynch, mechanic foreman, by the GW Suggestion Plan Com­ and H. J. Parish, foreman, both of The awards were presented to mittee on June 18 in Denver. the Johnstown MSG Plant, received each of the winning suggesters at a preliminary award of $15 jointly informal ceremonies at their re­ The immediate payment of the for their suggestion of a new spective factories. In the case of awards was made under a change method to prevent wash water from those who still may get additional in the Suggestion Plan rules ap­ contaminating salts while cleaning amounts, their suggestions will be proved by the Committee at the the No. 3 and No. 4 Bird centrif­ installed as soon as practical so same meeting. The old rule said ugals. They may receive a sub­ that they can be evaluated for ac­ that the suggestion must be placed stantial additional award if their tual earnings. in actual use and evaluated before idea proves out in operation later. payment could be made to the sug­ They proposed the use of a di­ All the awards were set by the gester. verter gate, along with a belt con­ Suggestion Committee in accord­ But because of the seasonal na­ veyor instead of the present screw. ance with the rules that payments ture of the Company's operation, Their idea will be modified by in­ be based on 10 percent of the the Committee voted to make im­ installing an independent scroll for adopted suggestion 's estimated net mediate full payment for adopted each centrifugal. earning's during the first year of suggestions if the earnings of each operation-or the suggestion's in­ idea could be estimated with rea­ Bill Oatman, boiler house fore­ tangible value to the Company. . onable certainty at the time of man at Lovell, was awarded $15 in full payment for his suggestion to In changing· the basis for pay­ adoption. If the earnings cannot ment of awards, the Committee be estimated at that time, then the build an air duct to collect pre­ heated air from the apex of the approved new language for Rule 4, suggester receives a minimum pre­ under the A wards section, on the liminary award of $15 with the re­ boiler h(:)use for introduction into the Riley boiler through an exist­ back of the Employees Suggestion maining amount to be determined Form. It now reads : by the earnings of the idea in ac­ ing forced air fan. tual operation later. Lyle W. Lafferty, first class '' An adopted suggestion is one The first five awards were swing man at the Johnstown Re­ that has been approved by the granted to the followino· employ­ finery, was awarded $15 in pre­ Company or any of its subsidiaries ees : liminary payment for his sugges­ for use in its operations.'' This tion to enlarge the line to the eliminated the requirement for an J. B. Buckendorf, beet end fore­ valves for draining the Moore sac­ adopted suggestion to be put into man at Scottsbluff, wa · awarded charate load tank. He may be eli­ actual use before awards could be $15 in full payment for his sug·­ gible for a small additional award made. gestion to drain off tarry residue if his idea proves to have more from the large CO 2 gas pump. His earnings in actual operation. Earlier, the Suggestion Commit­ idea was to save time and labor by tee announced the appointment of rearranging pipes so that the pump Gordon Rudolph, assistant to the a new administrator, Jim Lyon. would discharge into the side of district manager at Fremont, Ohio, H e replaced Bruce Slade, who re­ the header instead of the bottom. and former fieldman at Mitchell, signed from Great Western to t ake In investigating his suggestion, the was awarded $25 in full payment other employment in Denver.

JULY, 1956 ■ 5 The Sugar Press goes to a party-

LADIES

Above, Mr. and Mrs. Les Garner of Sterling. NIGHT He's GW manager of the Sterli ng di strict.

The Technica l Society caps anot her successful season with memb ers entertaining their wives at the annual dinner dance on June 8.

Operating and Agriculture get together Above, Mr. and Mrs. Herb at the Lakewood Country Club with Sheffield at their table Above, Mrs. Lloyd Jensen , left, wife of Lloyd Jensen, left, and Phil Smith. during dinner. Herb is master Northern District superintendent, talks mechanic at Gering. with Mrs. Dan C onwell, whose hu sba nd works in Denver Engineering Dept.

Below, Bob Makie and his wife , Dorothy, a little wide-eyed from camera flash. Bob is in Denver Sales Dept, ·-·-··- - •·· ___...... , A nother set of beaming appetites at the Technical Above, Kenny Knaus of the Denver office strikes a big gri n Society's annual dinner-dance. From left, Vic Ostermiller while posing between Mrs. Knaus, right, and Mrs. Leonard of Brush , Bob Wherry and Ed Walsh of Denver. Johnson , wife of the assistant manager at Brighton.

Watching the dancers: Mrs . Charlie Hi rsch, left, wife of the chief engineer, and Mrs. Harold Burk, wife of Nebraska district superintendent.

At left, Johnny Spall of Bayard, with Mrs. Spall, talking to Cecil Doherty of Denver, on the right.

■ THE SUGAR PRES S 6 JULY , 1956 ■ 7 The new Sugar Act improves the long-range outlook for GW by giving the beet sugar industry -

THE RIGHT TO GROW

by Bob Fisher

MERICAX consumers and pro­ about 22 percent of the U. S. re­ consumption sugar; increased di­ A ducers of sugar were assured quirements above 8,691,818 tons. rect-consumption quotas for Ha­ continuance of fair prices through The fixed Philippine quota re­ waii, Puerto Rico, and some foreign 1960 when President Eisenhower mains unchanged at approximately countries; and reduced total quotas signed the new Sugar Act on May 980,000 tons. Quotas for other for­ in subsequent years for foreign 29, 1956. eign countries after 1956 will be on countries which in certain instances The law, with several amend­ a different basis than for the first fail to fill quotas. ments, continues the tax-quota­ year of the new law. Beginning in Conditional payments continue payment plan, which has provided 1957, foreign countries other than to domestic producers who comply a stable sugar supply for the the Philippines will divide their with allotment, wage, and other United States since 1934. Quota 45 percent share of increased specified requirements. These pay­ provisions end December 31, 1960, American requirements above 8,- ments total considerably less than while the excise tax expires six 350,000 tons as follows: the excise tax connected on all months later. Cuba, 29.59 % ; Mexico, 5.10%; sugar consumed in the United The right to grow with the na­ Dominican Republic, 4.95 %; Peru, States. From 1937 through 1955 tion, a principle embodied in the 4.33%; and all others 1.03% . the tax exceeded payments and law from 1934 through 1947, was Under the new law, the Secre­ other costs of the program by more restored to the domestic producing· than $300,000,000. If excess beets areas by the amendments. Under tary of Agriculture must again de­ termine each year the sugar re­ 01· cane are produced and con­ the 1948 Act, domestic areas were verted into sugar for livestock feed, frozen at fixed quotas, which be­ quirements of the nation at levels that will "protect the welfare of the new law makes clear that the came minimum quotas under the grower will not lose his conditional revised law. consumers and of those engaged in the domestic sugar industry.'' His payment on allotted production for In addition to such minimum human consumption. quotas, domestic area will supply determinations, as in the past, shall be based on quantity of sugar dis­ During the period from 1956 to 55 percent of American sugar re­ 1960, the House-Senate Conference quirements above 8,350,000 short tributed for consumption during the preceding November-October Committee estimated that U. S. tons, raw value, slightly less than sugar consumption will increase a the 1955 level. year, inventory levels, population changes, demand conditions, con­ total of 44,025,000 tons. On the Foreign countries other than the basis of that figure, the beet area's Philippines will share the other 45 sumer purchasing power, and rela­ tionship of sugar prices to the gen­ quota would increase a total of percent of increased usage, with 9,558,946 tons over the same years. Cuba the principal beneficiary. eral cost of living. Such relation­ Cuba's share of the increase from ship, however, will now be meas­ In 1956, for example, the beet 1955 through 1960, however, will ured with the 1947-49 average as area's quota will be 1, 52,401 tons. be only about one-fourth as much. a base instead of the January­ And in 1960, according to the esti­ Until consumption reaches 8,- October, 194 7 average as hereto­ mate, it would be increased to 1,- 650,000 tons, the beet and mainland fore. 970,739 tons. cane areas share 51½ and 48½ When the total requirements ex­ So far as 1956 is concerned, beet percent, respectively, in the do­ ceed 8,350,000 tons, if any domestic sugar marketing allotments will be mestic areas' increase in quotas, area cannot supply it quota the revised upward to match the new 165,000 tons at that level. Puerto deficit will be apportioned first to quotas, but beet acreage allotments Rico will receive all of the next other domestic areas. If still un­ will not be subject to increase until 20,000-ton increase available to filled, the remainder of any such 1957. At the consumption level of the domestic areas, and the Virgin deficit will be assigned to Cuba. 8,450,000 tons effective Nlay 1, the Islands the next 3,000 tons. Under the prior law, uba shared 1956 beet sugar quota will be At consumption levels above , with domestic ar as from the be­ 28,325 tons larger than previously. 691,818 tons, the quota of the beet ginning in filling any domestic Great Western 's 1956 marketing areas will be 1,8 4,975 tons. That's deficit. allotment will be increased 97,506 about 40 percent of the total quotas Other changes include revised bags to 7,186,366, and orthern for all the domestic areas. It's also definitions of raw and direct- Ohio's 3,306 bags to 438,306.

8 ■ TH E SUGA R P RESS • Pot-luck Ill Purchasing

The men chipped in and the girls cooked the food for a lunch-tinie picnic in the Purchasing office .

A counter in the office provided serving table. In line above, Jack Frost, Larry , Olsen, and Paul Cunningham.

Here's Nancy Porter, Kay Pettis and Jeanette Day loading up on the dishes they helped to prepare.

Everyone came back for more delicious ham and side dishes. Above, Everett Meyer, Johnny Aiken, Bill Craig.

Jim Lingle and Dale Rightmire help themselves.

Gwen Hanks and Doris Anderson lay out on desks.

of Denver buyers in the line-up. From N icholson, Ray Lupton, and Earl Moon.

Kay Pettis enjoying the lunch. Charles Benson, here at work on a news story, is the Denver At the Sa n Francisco main office of Western Beet- Herman manager of th e W estf~rn Beet Sugar Producers, Inc. His F. Mertens, left, is the publicity director, and Harold 0 . region includes th e GW territory. Belknap, right, the general manager.

Western Beet Produces!

Denionstrating thP uses of beet sitgar or telling about the value of the industry­ it's all in a day's wo rk for the staff' of th e TV es feni B eet S ugar Producers, lnc.

K San Frnncisco, a group of present a more effective baking 1Ir. Belknap lJeca rn c general I shirt-sleeved men sit around program ( usino· beet sugar) to manager of W'BSP in 1954 after typewriters, turning out stories their respective clubs. many years of public relations ex­ about the latest developments in Unconnected activities? ~ot at perience for an important part of the beet sugar industry. In a all. All of the people involved are the nation 's food industry, closely nearby office, the stories are copied members of the staff which "\Vest­ associated with agriculture. Short­ and rushed to a selected list of ern Beet Sugar Producers, Inc. ly before being· selected to head the newspapers, TV and radio stations. (probably better known as WBSP ) beet sugar organiz:ation, he was In a Minneapolis TV station, a maintains throughout the West­ " loaned" to the federal 0 ·overn­ pert young mi s smiles into the from Chicago to Los Angeles. ment to serve the u. S. Depart­ camera and explains away some of WBSP is the public relations ment of Agriculture as a special the "old wives' tales " about beet arm of the beet sugar industry. It consultant on public relations. sugar, and demonstrates how to represents the industry's effort to Directing the publicity program live better with sugar. meet the ba.· ic requirement of any of \YBSP is H erman F. l\Iertens, In "Windso r, Colorado, a denim­ sales program-that the product a veteran newspaperman with a clad man-camera slung around and the industry which produces deft touch for ideas and stories his neck-scrambles around a cattle it must be favorablv received bv which newspapers, TV and radio feed lot to get a good picture of a the public if it is to· prosper. · stations will use-plus an intimate steer that has been "finished" to Thus, \YBSP supplement the knowledge of the industn- and its choice grade, at a profit, on a high­ sales programs of the beet sugar problems. protein ration based on beet sugar companies which comprise the in­ Directing WBSP 's impol'tant by-products. dustry. Consumer Service Department is In ebraska, a congenial blonde WBSP is headquartered in San Miss Helen Jensen, who had several explains to a group of home dem­ Francisco, where its activities are years of experience as a home econ­ onstration agents how they can directed by Harold 0. Belknap. omist in other business fields-

10 ■ T HE SUGAR PRESS rang·ing from home appliances to and talks before consumer groups, In addition, the mail man works meat packing-as well as respon­ radio and television appearances, 'round the clock for the beet sugar sible work in dietetics, before join­ personal con tacts with leaders of industry, delivering beet sugar ing the WBSP staff. Under her influential groups, and a variety of recipes to consumers on all age direction materials about beet other activities. levels, instruction material to ugar, including recipes, are de­ WBSP takes a positive approach. schools, brochures to community veloped for consumers and for use Beet sugar and its by-products are groups which use them for back­ in schools. promoted on their own merits as ground in their search for tips and A regional form of organization unsurpassed products. ideas on modern living. enables WBSP to work with the nwarranted attack are some­ As an example, working on the effectiveness that only close, day­ times made on the industry, of ''request'' policy only, WBSP dis­ to-day contacts can produce, in all course-but when they are, tributes more than 25,000 tested major producing and consuming WBSP 's entire staff is available to recipes monthly to people who have areas from Chicago to the Pacific refute them. been ''sold'' on beet sugar. Coast. All the regional managers How effective is this kind of are experienced newspaper men, program~ The WBSP program is also well seasoned also in the public re­ It would be impossible to meas­ geared to specific company require­ lations field: orton Baser in Chi­ ure the columns of favorable pub­ ments. A complaint to Great ·west­ cago, Al Bloomquist in Minneap­ licity the industry has received as ern Sugar Co. about an unfair olis, Don Martin in Salt Lake City, the result of WBSP 's efforts­ story in a Colorado newspaper Lee Goodman in Los Angeles, and ranging from industry policy to wound up on the desk of the Den­ Charles Benson in Denver. frostings and cattle feed. Besides ver WBSP manager, with the re­ Working with each regional man­ national magazines, trade journals sult that the same paper willingly ager is a graduate home economist and daily newspapers, special illus­ published a longer correction than - chosen for her ability to effec­ trated features have been placed the original mis-statement by a tively present the beet ugar story in Sunday newspapers from Seattle banquet speaker. A complaint to consumers. They are : Miss Ber­ to Minneapolis. from a woman that a recipe on a nice Vasey in Chicago, Miss Doro­ The home economists-all work­ G\V sugar bag wouldn't work thy Carlson in Minneapolis, Mrs. ing under the name of Nancy wound up in the kitchen of the Ruby Garrett in Salt Lake City, Haven - have appeared before Denver Nancy Haven. The recipe Miss Phyllis Kuckuck in Los An­ thousands of senior high school, was tested and retested and in the geles and Miss Dorothy Buhr in junior college and university stu­ end the woman was satisfied-and Denver. dents, bringing the beet sugar still is buying GW sugar. All in all, it i a team designed story to the constantly changing Co-ordinating this kind of a pro­ to '' win friends and influence peo­ potential market of future home­ gram takes close co-operation with ple '' for the beet sugar industry. makers. They also have appeared the sugar companies themselves, In doing this, WBSP uses all before hundreds of adult groups­ and Great Western has never been the ''tools'' of the modern public people who fill today's market remiss. Frank A. Kemp, GW pres­ relations profession. These include baskets. ident, is on the WBSP board of farnrable publicity for beet sugar The Nancy Havens- as do the directors, and Robert J. Fisher, and the industry in newspaper regional managers- place special G W treasurer, is a member of the and consumer magazines, news emphasis on reaching people who three-man management committee tories in farm journals, movies influence community thinking. and also treasurer of WBSP.

Helen Jensen, below, directs Western Beet's Working under the name of Nancy Haven, Dorothy Buhr travels extensively broad variety of consumer service activities around the GW territory and nearby states giving consumer demonstrations throughout entire West. with sugar. Her office is in Denver. New-style dispensers make sugar more attractive to eye and appetite by keeping envelopes neat and unwrinkled. They also hold more than ordinary bowl. Dispensers are stocked by several Denver firms.

School for Salesmen

LL of Great Western 's salesmen make an all-day tour of Great explain how the new Sugar Act ef­ A and merchandisers, both for W estern facilities in Northern Col­ fects the Company's plans and op­ sugar and MSG, were due in Den­ orado. They will visit the sugar erations. Jack Barrows, GW's ad­ ver the week of June 25 for theiT factory at Brighton, the Agricul­ vertising agency, will discuss past annual sales school and sales meet­ tural Experiment Station at Long­ and future plans for the product ing. mont, the Molasses Refinery and advertising program. Bert Cope The school and meeting are held MSG Plant at Johnstown, the Mon­ of the Sales Department will talk each summer, just before the big fort livestock feeding operation about damaged sugar procedures buying rush for canning sugar, so near Greeley, and a sugar beet and prepay rate structures. And that the salesmen can exchange farm near Greeley. each divisional sales manager will ideas on their methods and markets They also will be taken on a tour go over the activities in his district. and also view current activities in of the General Office under the the producing territory. The meeting concludes on Satur­ guidance of Curtis Packer of the day, June 30, with a general round The meetings are to be conducted Sales Department, who has served by Bob Makie, who heads the Mer­ table talk on plans for merchandis­ the Company for more than 50 ing sugar in the coming year, along chandising Division of the Sales years. Department in Denver. Also on with a review of the subjects dis­ hand for the discussions will be In their discussion, the salesmen cussed earlier in the week. Ben Oxnard, vice president and and merchandisers will cover a In addition, the salesmen and general sales manager; Sam Mc­ variety of topics. For example, merchandisers will be given a brief­ Dowell, -vvestern Division sales they will hear Cris Criswell explain ing on the activities of the West­ manager; Claude P ettit, Eastern his program for introducing the ern Beet Sugar Producers, Inc., Division sales manager; Charley GW trademark in the Northern ( See Page 10), so that they will be Franzen, Northern sales manager; Ohio territory. Bill Warren will more familiar with the work of the and Bill Warren, MSG and Special talk about the merchandising of industry association in promoting Products manager. Great -vvestern MSG around the the use of beet sugar. This briefing In addition to discussions and nation. will be presented by officials of meetings, some of the salesmen will Bob Fisher, GvV treasurer, will Western Beet.

GW's three sugar sales managers in huddle. From left, ClaudJ Bob Welke, MSG salesman, poses with a model in the GW Pettit, Charley Franzen, Sam McDowell. booth at National Restaurant Show in Chicago.

■ THE SUGAR PRES S A general view of the GW cafe in the Sugar Bu ilding, showing the service bar with over-hang ing shingle roof and girls enjoying coffee break on opening day.

Bos s Kemp, right, goes through the serving line on the first day with Jack Frost, assistant purchasing

Opening Day . at the GW Cafe

May 31 marked the grand opening of the GW cafe, or lunchroom, for employees of the General Office and visiting Great Westerners. The cafeteria was built in the old barber shop on the ground floor of the Sugar Build­ ing. The facilities provide service for coffee and other drinks, packaged sandwiches, canned soups, and similar light refreshments. The room was furnished with cap­ tain's chairs and tables, plus handsome photo murals of farm and factory scenes around the Great Western terri­ tory. Also a welcome mat for all Sugar Tramps to drop in for a cup.

Bessie Katt, hostess, with Jack Frost, Sales talk over coffee. From left, Roy McDermott of Hurd who supervised all the arrangements Brokerage, Sam McDowell, Bob Makie and Bert Cope (back for setting up the lunchroom. to camera) of GW Sa les Dept. At right, Catherine Cummings.

JULY , 1956 ■ 13 Monica Moye, a Chinese-American model, who posed for GW's Oriental MSG label

Great Western has gone buy 100-pound drunu;-nvt a "Eastern" in expanding the mere 10-pound can. sales of its one-year-old product, To direct GW's Chinese sales Jlf SG. But why the Eastern ap­ program, the Sales Department proach-why the Chinese label? retained Albert Kam Leong, who B ecause, for a good many has more than 20 years of ex­ years now, ll!SG has been a perience in selling and distribut­ staple in the diet of peoples of ing MSG. A man of most un­ the Far East. And Oriental peo­ usual personality, ll!r. L eong ple in this country have always holds a prominent position had the same high regard for among the Chinese in this coun­ the flavoring qualities of MSG. try. Among other things, he has served in several capaC'ities in To reach these people with a Washing ton as an advisor on product they would easily recog­ Oriental policies and inimigra­ nize, the GW Sales Department tion. decided to market MSG under In designing GW's Chinese ct Chinese label. The Chinese­ lab el, Mr. Leong held to one Americans, in particular, have single idea, the universal, or more f ciith in a brand with Chi­ world-wide, use of MSG. And to nese characters on the label. carry out the theme, he selected Their liking for MSG provides llfiss .Monica Moye and super­ c1, market that Great Western imposed her picture on the could not ignore. While the world globe. American housewife buys only a In the acc01npanying article, tu.:o-ounce or four-ounce contain­ Mr. L eong tells from his own er of JIISG, the Chinese keeps family memories how the Chi­ c1, one-pound package. And sim­ nese learn to like and rely upon ilarly, Chinese restaurants ,-use MSG in their food from earliest so much MSG that they often childhood.

14 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS Johnstown 's MSG product takes on a new look

with a Chinese label to appeal to Oriental

people. Here's the idea behind the move.

by Albert Kam Leong

HROUGHO T the :-,·ear. of my asking the question I 'd been won­ sauce and others. However, we now T childhood in the Chinatown dering about for years : know that their greatest contribu­ section of San Francisco, a small "Mother, what do you keep in tion to good eating is their discov­ lacquered box seemed to contain the little lacquered box1' ' ery and development of the univer­ the ke:-,· to the wonderful things She smiled and said : '' Son, :-,·ou sal flavoring crystals. that happened to food in my sound like you were disappointed Oriental names given to the var­ mother's kitchen. The vegetables with the food tonight. Let me tell ious brands of this product clearly and meats she prepared for us al­ you a secret . . . demonstrate the importance and wavs tasted delicious. ' ' Jot many people know of the universal character of the crystals. Then, when I was a little older, magic universal flavoring crystals They include " Ve-Tsin," the con­ I was invited to attend a large ban­ which Orientals discovered vears centrate of flavor; "Ve-Me," the quet. It was to be my first expe­ ago. You have seen me us~ the mother of flavor; '' Ho-Ho Fen,'' rience with American food and my white crystals in the lacquered box. the powder of harmony. excitement ran high. A budding It gives the flavor sparkle which we To Professor Ritthausen ( 1 66 ) gourmet even then, I thought the do not find in American foods. of Germany must go the scientific coming banquet would be a high You see, it unveils the hidden fla­ credit for his discoveries that the adventure in good eating. vors, gives us more of the taste that '' universal f 1av o ring crystal,' ' The great day came. )Iany we like best in meats, poultry, sea­ w-hich he prepared from cereal guests at the dinner spoke well of food, broth, bouillon, and veg­ gluten was a pure compound and the food, but to me the meats and etables.'' not a mixture. Scientists now call vegetables tasted flat, dull, and un­ She took the lacquered box from it mono sodium glutamate. interesting. It was a very baffled the shelf and showed me the fine Today the universal flavoring boy ,vho returned home that eve­ white crystals inside. I took a small crystals are made in many modern ning. pinch of the crystals and tasted it American plants, and distributed Mother vrn s waiting for me. It - truly, it had no flavor of its own! nationally. The best of our indus­ was past her bedtime, but she And yet, it did wonders for trial technology is employed to pro­ wanted to hear of the banquet. Mother's cooking! duce these pure white crystals in She must have sensed from my As I grew older, an idea began quantity to give savory goodness to voice that something bothered me to come alive in my mind. ·why not countless recipes. because, suddenly, I found myself tell people who like good food as Though the little lacquered box much as I just how delicious their is now only an heirloom, and its flavorless dishes could be1 magic contents have become big So I began telling everyone about business, we can all be reassured the '' universal flavoring crystals'' that this universal flavoring crys­ that strengthen and re tore lost fla­ tal is not a synthetic chemical, man­ vors in protein foods, such as meat, made from strange materials un­ poultry, fish, and seafood. Also, related to food. It is made by na­ I told them it had no distinct char­ ture, and may be found in the acter, because it has no flavor of proteins of both the animal and its own-merely the wonderful vegetable kingdom. (In America, property of giving appetite appeal it is made from the proteins of to protein dishes. su 0 'ar beets, corn, or wheat gluten.) I knew from my l\Iother that it ow, I believe you can see why wasn't really new, because the Far I am proud to say of G W MSG : Eastern nations have used it as an '' Produced by nature, refined by essential part of their cookery for The Great ·western Sugar Com­ CM generations. In fact, Oriental peo­ pany, to bring you 'universal fla­ ple have given us many of our fla­ voring crystals' for more appetite vorings such as spices, vinegar, soy appeal.''

JULY, 1956 ■ 15 At left, Mister Boots on watch in the Gering factory yard. At right, he poses with Watchman Harry Sinclair be/ore going on their rounds.

Mister Boots l

by Cliff Seiffert

T was a windy and cold Halloween in 1946 that a this time that the highway going past the house was I hungry and lonely black and white pup was whin­ a dangerous place to cross. Whenever the Woods were ing at the back door of the home of the late Max out of town, Boots was readily adopted by the Frank Redding, then cashier at the Lovell Factory. Being Fosters next door; and he also was wise to the fact that lovers of dogs, the Reddings took in the waif-looking Mrs. William McCarty in the factory club house saved terrier and mothered him while trying to find the meat scraps and bones for him. owners of this friendly little creature. Newspaper ads When the Woods moved to Gering, Boots immed­ failed to bring any claim on the puppy. iately became well-acquainted with the country sur­ It was then that Max offered the pup to Francis roundings. With Janet married and away from home Wood's children, Janet and Alan. Their other faith­ and Alan busy with school and other activities, Boots ful dog had only recently entered dog heaven, but became more friendly with the factory watchman. only after accompanying the children to the picture Even to the point that he feels he must make the show on a Sunday afternoon and then coming home nightly rounds. for the final rest. By his sniffing this and sniffing that, Boots sig­ The new doo" was promptly a family pet and named nified that no other dog or animal had better invade Boots-because of his four white paws. his private domain. After a snowy and real cold Boots loved to be with the children and learned wintry night, Boots has even had the royal treatment to wait at the corner a block away from home for of being taken to the Woods' back door the next morn­ them to come from school. He enjoyed the family ing by hi pal and night watchman, Henry Hoffman, outings and the runs in the hills. ·while on one of in his car. Janet and Alan 's bicycle hikes, Boots was struck and Boots has fared right well by the food the watch­ almost killed by a speeding car. The children care­ man brings him and the feedings at home. But he is fully placed him in the basket of the bicycle and no spring chicken if one year of a dog 's life equals nursed him back to the same happy, tail-wagging dog nine of a human being. Age is creeping up on him that he is. as well as the rheumatism on his formerly injured legs, but he is quite agile. Especially when he sees Boots must have as many lives as a cat because a bunny nibbling at the Woods' young green garden. while the Wood family were livino> in Mitchell he wa ight has become his day and day his nig'ht. Dur­ again struck by a speeding car-and recovered. It ing campaign, Mister Boots is a very busy dog indeed, was not unusual to see Boots and the family cat sleep­ having to inspect the back wheels of parked cars. 1 ing on the bed with Alan out in their screened porch. Watchman Harry Sinclair insisted that Boots had After' the move to Fort Collin , Boots was quite a part in Gering's winning the Pennant by helping frustrated and at first thought he had to whip every keep stray cats, etcetera, away-and was entitled to dog that crossed the corner lot where the Woods had be in the Pennant-winning group picture. So Boots bought a home. has a fitting and honored place with the gang. In 1950, when Francis Wood went to the Lovell Supt. ,Vood say that Mister Boots will soon be on Factory as superintendent, Boots moved along and the retirement list. All the Gering people wish this enjoyed his three-year stay at the club house there. kindly and expressive brown-eyed dog a happy and He had lots of room to run and he had learned h,v long retirement.

16 ■ T HE SUGA R PRES S Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McAllister just before they boarcad the S. S. Panama in New York for their Caribbean cruise.

Log to Haiti

1I by Evangeline S. McAllister

One of those travel book vaca­ Bingo tonight. Also the Cap­ one drives-or walks-by ear. Both tion trips was taken earlier this tain's Dinner, a dress affair with autos and pedestrians angle across year by Asst. Supt. and Mrs. J. E. colored balloons, crepe-paper decor­ streets at will. lVIiraculously, most McAllister of Scottbluff. They ations and noise-makers. After din­ survive. went on a 15-day cruise of the ner, played horse-racing with tin In the city, wealth rubs shoul­ Caribbean. Mac still talks about it, horse propelled across deck. Lost ders with poverty, Cadillacs along­ but Mrs. McAllister writes about all six races. side anemic burros. lVIagnificent it. Here's her log of the first leg of April 8-Sunday morning, sea homes with landscaped gardens thefr voyage. restful, ship rocking gently. Air and the hovels and nondescript fresh and cool, though temperature shops of the poor. The magnificent 78. Saw our first flying fish. Pas­ cathedral, the plazas, the fine gov­ April 5-Aboard the S. S. Pan­ sengers blossomed out in all sorts ernment buildings, the open air ama, New York Harbor. Destina­ of tropical get-ups. From English markets. tion, Haiti, Canal Zone, Republic shorts to casual coats worn with Everywhere people walk-young, of Panama, and return with an­ bill-caps. old, women and children. Some­ other stop at Haiti. Rousing bon At church, the chaplain read the times with large bundles on their voyage party with the children and Sailor's Twenty-third Psalm begin­ heads, occasionally even a man. All their friends. ning with: '' The Lord is my Pilot going about their business, each At 4 :45 PlVI, the gangplank ... '' Afterward, up on the bridge, with something to sell. Vegetables, raised, the ship's whistle sounded First Officer explained how ship berries, nuts, flowers, livestock. three times, and the Panama eased operates automatically with elec­ Two women in faded wrappers, out into the Hudson River. On our tronic instruments. Dad getting each leading a thin pig by a string. way. vVithin a few minutes of sail­ well-acquainted with officers and lVIen and women squatting on the ing time, lifeboat drill. Instructions crew. street beside their small piles of on emergencies, in life jackets at Not many at lunch, since most merchandise. Some barefoot. assigned stations. passengers eat in their staterooms But still, most everyone seems Looked around the ship. Except on Sunday. Seasick last night and cheerful. Sort of a perennial holi­ for the ocean, she seemed like a swore never to eat another full day atmosphere in spite of any­ modern hotel with a swimming meal, but now scallops and huckle­ thing. pool. Crew of 125, about the same berry pie! Had one of the world's Haiti, land of contrasts. Garbage number of passengers. A few small best waiters, Frank Laboda of trickles down the gutters, while children, but mostly middle-aged Chile, 62 years at sea. green mountains rise from the blue or elderly tourists. April 9-Up early, shore lights Caribbean in a beautiful setting April 6-Everything under con­ of Haiti visible at 5 :30. Clouds low amid the riotous colors of the wild trol with military precision. Rooms, on the mountain slopes. Small fish­ poinsettias and poincianas. food, service, all the best. Regular ing craft already far out in gulf. On the winding mountain road, 1 entertainment. News bulletins from Entering harbor, ship met other smoke spirals from tin-roof shelters ship's radio. But the ocean's the small boats filled with near-naked where the hill people stop for a real show. boys who dived for coins or any­ meal on their trips back and forth April 7-Headed south, opposite thing tossed overboard. Docked at to market. At almost every turn in Jacksonville, Fla., at noon. Sea 6 :30, ready to go ashore at 8 :30. the road, hucksters and vendors, fairly rough, lots of whitecaps, but Port au Prince, capital of Haiti. many of them children, bowing and ship holding steady on course. The grand tour by auto from the offering their wares. Our driver ex­ Fresh breeze. Will go through the dock through the city and then to plained:'' In Haiti, everyone works Bahamas. Tour of the galley, but two mountain villages, Petion and for himself!' ' we renigged. Kenscoff. Few traffic rules. Every- (Continueci on page 31)

JULY , 1956 ■ 17 Among the Personnel

Above, Mr. and Mrs. Homer S. Varner with some of the gifts they received at a party honoring his retirement as manager at Longmont. At right, Homer greets C. V. Maddox, retired GW labor commissioner, one of his many friends who attended the going-away party.

Ty Miller, who has left Scottsbluff to become ' superintendent at Findlay.

Donna Joy Patton and Don Ruhl, who were married in Fort Morgan in April. She's the daughter of the E. L. Pattens.

Charlie Glasgow and John Kelim working over a shaft at Loveland mill.

18 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS in band and chorus, and the last two years a member of the football team. Gene has also been very active in the local Boy Scout program. He be­ johns town came an Eagle Scout at the age of 14, and is a member of the Order of BY MARVIN PETTIGREW, RAY Arrow. He plans to use his scholarship at the University of Colorado this fall GLASER AND JACK YORK where he will major in electrical engi­ neering and minor in business admin­ The long awaited fishing season has istration. finally arrived. Spare hours and days off, now find a good share of the men Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Zisch of in pursuit of the wily trout. Due to Puente, Calif., a son, May 18. The baby the high run-off there have not been has been named William Bradley. many reports of large catches from the The Zisches have two other children, r iver. Rickey. 5 and Christi, 3. Grandparents are the J. H. Zisches of Johnstown and A few of the lake enthusiasts have Dr. and Mrs. Robert Young of Denver. netted nice fish out of Carter Lake. Billy is the twelfth grandchild for the Opening day George K idd reported tak­ Zisches. ing three nice fish from Carter, one of which was about three pounds. Sam Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest V . Stanley of the MSG plant recently Lynch a daughter, Karen Kay, May 10, at the Weld County General h ospital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark, Jr. , who were hooked a 211/4-inch , 3½-pounder from Carter Lake. Grandparents are the Melville Masts married in Brighton last March. The bride and the Arnim Lynches of Johnstown. is the daughter of Supt. and Mrs. Frank We are now nearing the completion Jones. of campaign and as always the men Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lein­ are awaiting their long-planned vaca­ weber of Greeley, a baby girl. The new tions. addition has not been named at this writing. Ralph Moser has reutrned to work after a 13-day absence during which he underwent surgery in the Longmont hospital. Bill Zisch of Pasadena, Calif., son of brighton Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Zisch, was a week­ end guest of his family in J ohnstown. Bill was on a business trip east and BY IRENE SWORD had a brief stop in Denver.

Just about everybody went fishing Construction of the new boilers is the first day of the season and just rapidly going ahead. The footing for about everybody brought home the the new turbine has been poured and biggest ones. But it's just like Henry the turbine w ill be installed after shut says, "The pictures are still in the down. Will try to get some pictures camera." ready by next month's issue. With vacation time just beginning we might say that Alice and Bill Rich­ ardson started off the season with their annual fishing trip of one week to Gunnison and other points where the fishing was good. Mr. a nd Mrs. MCllUrice Schuyler are Jeffrey Case at the age of 7 weeks. He's touring the East, Indiana a nd Ohio, the son of the Clark Cases. Gene Koenig, son of the Harry Koenigs, and on to Milwaukee. was valedictorian of graduates at the Johnstown High School. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Twonibly spent the last week in May in Topeka with Mrs. Asst. Master Mechanic Ted Grott has Twombley's parents and other rela­ just returned from vacation on which t ives. he and his w ife motored to San Diego, Harold Wagy is in Fremont, Ohio, Calif., in their new Dodge. helping with beet dump maintenance George Kidd replaced Ted during his work. We hope he brings back a hat absence and is now filling in for Asst. full of wet weather when he comes Master Mechanic J i1n Teal, who has home. Mrs. Wagy is also in Ohio. just started his vacation. J erre Jones and EdW

JULY , 1956 ■ 19 on June 6. Larry Melton and his broth­ ers and his sisters treated their par­ ents to a chicken dinner at the Way­ side Inn, in Berthoud. Mr. and Mrs. Melton took a second honeymoon trip fort to the West Slope. Dale Yise has decided to quit com­ muting from Windsor and has bought a house at 221 West South First Street, morgan here in Johnstown. Welcome to our happy t0wn. Don Keirns· son has received his de­ BY GWEN D. BATH gree in agronomy from Colorado A&M. Upon completing his college work he With vacations here again, it gives received his commission as second lieu­ the Sugar Tramps something to talk tenant in the Army Ordnance. Ted about and then I have something to and his wife Mary are now stationed write about. at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Mary­ land. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Urbach spent a week in T·exas visiting their son, Jim Meeker, MSG crystallizer operator at Carl Bernhart is going to start build­ ing his new home during his vacation. Harold and family. Their daughter-in­ Johnstown, on station running the MSG law and grandson accompanied them centrifugal. Lowell Miller and family spent the week-end fishing at Ogallala, Neb. back home for a short visit. Bill Sholdt spent this last week at William Thornsby spent a week in the State FFA convention at Meeker. the mountains fishing. On their return While on the Western Slope tried to home they found their son Norman, catch a few trout, but discovered that who had arrived for a 15-day leave johnstown the fishing is just as good on the East­ from the Navy. Norman was enroute ern Slope. from Tennessee to Texas where he will Among the graduating seniors from become a jet airplane mechanic. msg Johnstown High School were Peggy Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Mittelstadt also Schwallem,, (valedictorian) , daughter spent a week fishing on the Gunnison. of A. J. "Dutch" Schwallem; Van Sy­ They were accompanied by Mrs. Mittel­ BY HAROLD CAMP brandt, son of Lloyd Sybrandt; Rich­ stadt's parents, Judge and Mrs. Wells, ard Churchwell, son of Vern Church­ also other members of the Wells fam­ An interesting side light to the con­ well. Richard is working in Estes Park ily. "Oc" won't let me, tell they caught struction of the new boiler is best de­ for the summer. scribed by this poem. over their limit every day. For the want of a header the holes Dick Dayton went over to Greeley were lost, and kidnapped his granddaughter while For the want of the holes the tubes on his vacation. I'm sure she'll be were lost, royally entertained. He said he was For the want of the tubes the boiler going to take her for her first airplane was lost. ride. This is very appropriate because one Included on our list of regular every of the smaller headers was late in week-end fishermen are: Harry Scilley, being delivered, thus holding up the Dave Woelfle, Jesse Evans, Chuck construction of the boiler for a few Heffner, Henry Geist and no doubt days. others. These fellows don't wait for vacation time, they just wait for fish A note of commendation was di­ -any time will do. rected to all the men, by Supt. George Atkinson, upon the realization that Mr. and Mrs. Ray GordJn enter­ our campaign average for the tons of tained Memorial Day with a backyard filtrate worked reached the design ca­ pacity. While on his vacation, Duane E. Some of the MSG boys at Carter Lake for Norman Thornsby, son of the Bill Thornsbys, Larkins was ordained an elder in the George Halbur's shift picnic. who was home on leave. E.U.B. Church, at the First Church in Pueblo. The Presiding Bishop was Ira D. Warnar. George Halbitr and Bus King have purchased a boat to go fishing. So far, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M elton cele­ no remarkable catches. brated their 25th wedding anniversary John Bradbury has a Chrysler New Yorker four-door, two-tone gray. Joe Berry has a black four-door Olds 88 . Ted Karns, graduate of Aggies, is "com­ Jim Kelim is driving a two-tone green missioned" in the Army by his father Don Cadallic coupe Deville. John Hass has and his wife Mary. a new red and white Chev pick-up. Bill Sholdt broke down and had his Stude­ baker painted green. It looks real neat. Bill Dum,bler is going to take the big step June 14. His intended is Eileen Allis. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Allis of Greeley. Geo1·g e Halbur's shift had a big pic­ nic at Carter Lake on June l. All the fellows and families showed up and everyone ate and ate and some of them fished, and everyone reported having a very wonderful time. About f~rmer personnel, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Muller and son Piet er are home from Spain. Dan is now working in the Development Laboratory in Loveland. They have rented a home on Highway 34, one mile east of Kelim.

20 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS they attended the Baptist Bible Fellow­ ship. Shirley Price from up Brighton way paid us a visit. He challenged Store­ keeper Schaal to a duel to the finish sterling at the GW golf tournament at Scotts­ bluff. May the best man win. A couple of rainstorms of sufficient BY HOWARD SCHAAL quantity to really wet things down occurred in the, Sterling area the past W. A. McKune was a recent visitor weekend. However, on Saturday, June in Sterling on his way home from a 16th, some hail came with the rain tour of Michigan for the first time in and did damage to all crops in varying 52 years. Mr. McKune worked in the degrees. In several spots it is estimated Brush, Sterling, Scottsbluff, Mitchell the grain crop was a total loss. and Minatare factories. He started his sugar career at Ames, Neb., in 1904 with Henry Schmode. He now resides at 6759 - 11th N.W., Seattle, Wash. Keith Ross and family are moving to Findlay, Ohio, where Keith will take avid Grace Whilte, dau ghter of the Roy Whites, in her prom formal. Sh e was one of 5 Fort on the duties of sugar end foreman as soon as he completes his vacation. We Morgan juniors named to attend Girls BY G. N. CANNADY State in Denver. regret that Keith must leave the Ster­ ling community. The best wishes of the The Ovid Methodist Church was the picnic. Their guests were Mr. and Mrs. Sterling crew go with him on his new setting on Sunday, June 3, when Miss Fred Stites of Independence, Mo., (sup­ job. Ma,rilyn Bauer, daughter of Mr. and pose they know my friend Harry?) , Vacations are the order of the day. Mrs. Herman Bauer, became the bride Mrs. J enny Walton of St. Jose, and the The Howard Schaals recently returned of John B eckl er, Jr., son of Mr. and parents of both Ray and Eileen of from an enjoyable two weeks in Los Mrs. John B eckler of Chappell. Rev. Greeley, also Ray's grandmother, Mrs. Angeles visiting with their daughter, R. L. Kirk performed the single ring Dora Gord'on, who only two weeks ago Joan, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ed ceremony. A reception was held in the celebrated her 91st birthday. Slama are spending their vacation in Church Educational Building with Mrs. Special visitors at our factory the and around Stockton, Calif. Mr. and J. C. Peyrouse in charge. past month included Ed Niehaus, Mrs. J. C. Patten returned from a trip Mrs. Beckler attended Ovid schools, "Red" Ruebush, and B ob Brenimer, all through Colorado Springs, Grand Junc­ graduating with the Class of 1956. Mr. of the Denver Office. tion and other points of interest in Beckler was graduated from Chappell Mrs. Roberta Weisgerber is again Western Colorado. Pat was a delegate schools in 1952. After a short honey­ helping out this summer in the cash­ to the Republican State Assembly in moon trip the couple will live in Chap­ ier's office, working the Mexican Na­ Colorado Springs. pell. Congratulations and best wishes. tionals' Payroll. She has between 450 Mrs. Ed Litty underwent major sur­ Asst. Sup,t. and Mrs. Jack Whittier and 500 and that's quite a few "bull­ gery recently. She is now recovering and daughter, Joan, vacationed down fighters" to keep tab on. satisfactorily. Ruby Reichert is taking south for three weeks the latter part Mr. and Mrs. J esse Evans recently a few days' vacation while son To'llimy of May. They spent most of their time moved to 1036 Meeker Street. All Jesse is recovering from a tonsil operation. in Kentucky and report a very enjoy­ has to do now is step across the street Marie L'u,ft has again taken a work­ able trip. and into the factory. ing vacation. She cleaned the basement Carmen Lau/man, wife of Sugar We are sorry to report several peo­ of her home. Gertrude Lautenbach End Foreman Maynard Lautman, un­ ple on our sick list the past month. served as stand-in during Marie's ab­ derwent surgery at St. Luke's Hospital Mrs. Lloyd Hanna is recuperating at sence. Fieldman Jim Robertson and in Denver. We are happy to report the present time from a serious opera­ Cashier Chuck Lautenbach did some that she is recovering satisfactorily. tion. Norman Muscavitch is also on the manual labor for a change. They Miss Joan Rue Saiser, daughter of mend after an operation. Mrs. Neeley worked 12 hours helping the Junior Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Saiser, was gradu­ Winbourn suffered a heart attack a Chamber of Commerce on their paper ated from Northwestern Junior College week ago. We are happy to report she drive. at Sterling on June 1. Commencement is home now but doctor's orders are I van Stahle is practicing up on his exercises were held at Jackson Field­ to take it easy for a long time. culinary pursuits. It seems his wife house. This has certainly been an eventful and family have taken off for Wyo­ Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Snyder vaca­ month for Norman Muscavitch. To be­ ming for a month's vacation with her tioned in California, visiting relatives gin with, someone banged into the side parents. Dale D eRock and family have at Ventura and San Francisco, return­ of his car, smashing in the back door been enjoying their boat on the North ing home through Oregon. The Sny­ and fender. Then he went into a Fort Sterling reservoir quite frequently this ders report a very scenic and enjoy­ Collins hospital for surgery and had past month. able trip. quite a tussle there with a setback Chuck Merritt from the Denver Of­ Miss Jane Van Voorhees of Conway, from infection, only to return home to fice spent a week end in Sterling re­ Arkansas and John C. P eyrouse, Jr., find he was the new superintendent of cently. The way he was shaking hands son of Asst. Sup,t. and Mrs. Jack P ey­ the Billings Factory. We all wish you all around we are wondering if he has rouse, were married recently at Raton, the very best of everything, Norman, gone into politics and perhaps intends New Mexico. in your new home. to give Adlai a run for his money. Mrs. Peyrouse is a graduate of Ran­ We in turn welcome Mart Schmode Charles Kaepernik, John Engraff dolph-Macon Womans College, Lynch­ as our new superintendent who comes and Ray Koehler have been tearing burg, Virginia, and received her M. A. to us from Windsor where he served down a beet dump at Julesburg for in English literature from Columbia in the same capacity. The Schmodes shipment to Northern Ohio. Al Artzer University, New York City. Mr. Pey­ have one daughter, Carol Mae Benton recently had surgery done on his wrist. rouse received A. B. and M. A. degrees of Denve,r, and a son, Gerald, who is. a He sustained a broken bone recently in drama and speech from the Univer­ graduate of C. U. and now attending from a falling sugar bag. The wrist sity of Denver. Navy Officer's Candidate school in seems to be mending satisfactorily. The couple is presently living at Rhode Island. Manager and Mrs. Lester Garner Pueblo where they are on the faculty of Miss Eulalia D. Grether, sister of drove to Colorado Springs recently Centennial High School but plan to Mrs. David Woelfle, arrived recently where they attended a piano recital by move to Baltimore soon where Mr. from Cairo, Egypt to visit relatives in their daughter, Jo. Jo returned to Ster­ Peyrouse has employment . Congratula­ Loveland and the David Woelfles in ling with them for a week's vacation tions and best wishes to the newly­ Fort Morgan. Miss Grether is the head and has returned to Colorado Springs weds. of a girl's Boarding School in Tanta, for the summer session of school. It seems that Finley Ritter has been Egypt, sponsored by the United Pres­ Timekeeper J],obert Ball and family vacationing a lot this year. He took byterian Church. spent a week in Springfield, Mo., where two weeks in January and almost three

JULY , 1956 ■ 2l Service buttons were awarded to the Harry Sinclair and family vaca­ following employees: George Durnin, tioned with relatives in the state of 25-year; Glen Kline, 20-year; L eo Shan­ Washington. dera, 10-year; Jirn Burry and Harry Recent visitors to the home of the Banghart, each 5-year. Presentations Lloyd Garbers were Mr. and Mrs. Cecil were made by Supt. J. S. Ankeny. Cardinal, friends from Billings, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster are spend­ Mrs. Garber's sister, Mrs. Hazel Sulli­ ing the weekend with friends in Ovid. van, whose home is in Fremont, Neb. Floyd Logan is visiting at Billings Pryce Mitchell looked in on us while and Lovell in the interest of the local picking up some equipment for Bay­ Credit Union. Those factories are in­ ard factory. Nice to see you, Pryce. cluded in the field of membership with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sheffield at­ those in Nebraska. He will hold meet­ tended the Technical Society meeting ings with the Credit Union members in Denver. and prospective members in each plant. Mrs. Herbert Sheffield will vacation Floyd is a member of the board of di­ during the month of June with her rectors. brother in Chicago and mother who We congratulate Ty Miller upon his lives in Paris, Ill. promotion to superintendent at Find­ The Gering GWESCO Club held their lay, Ohio, but regret that he is leaving regular May meeting in the City Club us after so short a stay. Rooms. It was decided not to hold any Joan Saiser, daughter of the J. B. Saisers of meetings in June or July, due to vaca­ Ovid, was graduated in June from North­ tions. Next regular meeting will be eastern Jr. College. August 22, as a family picnic. Mrs. Thad Creager and Mrs. George Howard had the evening program. Mrs. weeks in May to Denver and the moun­ Miller's students gave two dance num­ tains. He should be rested up for a bers and Mrs. George Howard showed spell and go to work like the rest of us. slide pictures of their Eastern trip. On the sick list we find Eugene Hostesses for the evening were Mes­ Dernanche and Clyde Kernper. We are darnes Sarn Barton, Jr., Bob Gross and happy to report both are back on the Bob Latta. job and hope fully recovered. Delbert Srnith, LeRoy R eynolds and Mr. and Mrs. Shennan Schultz and Kenneth Bauer were on the sick list family vacationed to San Diego, where this past month. Happy to report all they visited Sherman's father. have returned to work. Recent tonsillectomies include Bruce Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Wood are taking Henry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin their vacation in short trips. They H enry, Jr., and J. B. Cannady, son of spent the Memorial week-end by attend­ Mr. and Mrs. Newt Cannady. ing two family reunions at Farnam We should have a lot of news on va­ and Moorefield, Neb. Mr. Wood hadn't cations and fish stories for the next visited his hometown in 20 years. issue as there are a lot of fellows gone The Woods also attended the Univer­ at this time. sity of Nebraska commencement and also a wedding of a niece there. Mrs. Cindy Davidson and sister, Mrs. Charles Cline, son of the Leslie Clines, who Ida Eubanks, journeyed to Portland, enlisted in Air Force. Oregon, to see their brother who is se­ scottsbl uff riously ill. We wish to take this opportunity to BY P. W. SNYDER congratulate two former Gering Sugar Tramps on their recent promotions­ 0. H. Knowles, for many years feed Stephen L. Force and Mart Sch1nocle. yard foreman, passed away on May 18. ger1ng We wish you the best of luck. Ott has been retired for several years At the time this is being typed news and lived at Gering at the time of his BY C. W. SEIFFERT came that Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Braud­ death. away be::ame grandparents of a bounc­ Mrs. J. S. Ankeny has returned to Congratulations to Wesley Nether­ ing baby boy. The proud parents are her home after a period of time in the land, our locomotive crane operator, Mr. and Mrs. Davicl Bra'lldaicay of Al­ local hospital. upon receiving his GW pin for 5 years buquerque, N. M. Roy I. Babbitt has just returned of service. from the meeting of the Masonic Grand Scoutmaster Merle Fleenor and his Lodge. Roy is deputy grand master young Scouters of Troop No. 97 in George Luce, chief electrician and for the Nebraska Grand Lodge. Morrill received top honors at a recent Union official at Scottsbluff. Jim, Buckendorf took a few days' va­ Boy Scout Camporee held at Kiwanis cation and returned to his native Park, Scottsbluff. The troop and pa­ haunts in Colorado. It was hard for trols under his guidance came home Jim to quit fishing, so he decided to with blue ribbons- nice going, Merle. cast just once more. Result- a tough Fred Anderson, company auditor, tussle and a 9 lb., 12¾, oz. trout. made his usual visit to the cashier's B. W. Morrison and D. D. Davidson office. are both owners of new 1956 Fords. Alan Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Jones have re­ Wood, while looking for some paint on turned from their vacation. They third floor of the factory, came face picked up their new Mercury at Flint, to face with a four foot Bull snake. Mich., enroute. The story ends here as there is no more Mr. and Mrs. Ge01·ge T. Burrows are Bull snake. vacationing in California. Bill Sinner, Clarence Way and Gabe Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bartlett and Randall have been spending week-ends family drove to Idaho to visit relatives. fishing at Lake Mcconaughy. More ew additions to the crew are: Dave proof of Bill's fishing superiority-Bill Kraus, watchman; Augie Muth, Rudy comes home with Walleyes and the rest Ternple. Henry Rupp, Salonie Blanco, claim they go along for the ride. Lee Alkire. Rudy Escaniilla and Mundo Ted Schooley spent his vacation Florez. all added to the loading and sight-seeing through Wyoming, Utah, packaging crews. Washington and Oregon.

22 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS were B. F. Hostetler. C. W. Hines. A . C. last weekend. The new boat must be Harnilton, J. R. Corsberg, Art Hitdson, charmed. John Spall, Floyd Wheeler, P ryce Mr. and Mrs. Julius Keil spent a Mitchell, L. H. H enderson, A. E. H eldt week-end in Denver with their daugh­ and W. B. Ashby. Retired employees ter, Mrs. George P ettis. Mrs. Pettis and attending were C. E. Moberg, Gordon Geo1·gia J ean accompanied them home Gardner, 0 . B. Oo1nstock, and R. F. where they visited until the following Bristol. week-end when they returned home to The L. H. Hendersons had as their Denver with Mr. Pettis and Dick. guests on Mother's Day Mrs. Hender­ Miss Charlotte Rae Coe, daughter of son's mother, Mrs. I. E. Silsby, and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Coe of Scottsbluff Mrs. Louise Willia11is, both of Chadron. became the bride of J. A. " Ja,ck" Shaw, Mrs. Elsie Swanson, mother of Harry son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Shaw, in Swanson, just returned from a 10-day a double ring candlelight ceremony on trip to New Mexico where she attended May 20 at the Bayard Church of Christ. a family reunion and did some sight­ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shaw, Charis and seeing. Diana of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Miss We have some dignitaries in our Betheen Shaw of Boise, Idaho, brother midst-Wayne Swanson was elected and sister of the groom arrived for the Jack Shaw of Bayard with his May bride, secretary of the local Jay-Cees and wedding and also attended the gradu­ Charlotte Coe of Scottsbluff. Jack Shaw director. ation exercises for the class of '56. We extend our congratulations to Sharon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. the graduating class of '56 which in- Walt Ashby, played a number at a piano recital presented by the students of Mrs. E. R. Trump. George Ca lvert, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. (Hap·) Calvert, was graduated bayard from Chadron State Teachers College. He has accepted a position as coach in BY A. J. STEWART the Lyman schools. Mr. and Mrs. Duane Srnith of Loup We have been told that the most City were guests in the home of Mrs. broadening part of a vacation is the Smith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted side trips- to the restaurants. At any Warrick. rate, vacations head the list of news Honored guests at a birthday dinner this month. were L. B. Lewellen and his grand­ Steve Karnes played the horse races daughter, Sherry L ewe ll en, whose in Omaha. To hear him tell it, he birthdays fall on the same day. broke even, but we wonder about that. Mrs. Madelyn Elcler is assisting the He then spent several days around cashier's crew with Mexican National home working in his yard. payrolls. Bill Robertson was bored rubbing We wish to extend our sympathy to shoulders with fellow sugar tramps the Al Clines in the death of Mrs. (also on vacation)-the reason he Jane Anne Bauer, daughter of the Joe Cline's sister in California. Enroute gave for his trip to Nessia, Oregon. Bauers, who was graduated from Minatare to the funeral, the car in which Mrs. Art Hudson is pinch-hitting for Walt High School this summer. Cline was riding was involved in an ac­ Crab b while Walt is on vacation. We cident near Flagler, Colorado and Mrs. haven't heard how Art is getting along Cline suffered a broken collar bone trying to be shop foreman, but if any­ eludes Mildred Cross, daughter of Mr. and numerous bruises. She is now re­ thing tragic happens we'll let you and Mrs. Art Cross; Erla Stewart, cuperating at home. know next time. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Stewart; The Floyd Wheelers have been hosts Mrs. Duane White is visiting her Donald Shaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. John to relatives from Portland, Ore. parents in Missouri, so Duane will be Shaw; Loretta Ashby, daughter of Mr. We are wondering what attraction batching for a while. We offer our and Mrs. Walt Ashby; Jane Ann Bauer, Wayne Swanson finds in Melbeta, but sympathy, Duane, if you are the kind daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bwuer, it seems to be a deep, dark secret. of cook we are. and D ennis Elcler, son of Mr. and Mrs. What's up, Wayne? Lloyd Rutan spent some time visit­ Paul Elder. FOR SALE: Thoroughbred mongrel ing in Johnstown, Windsor and points Mr. and Mrs. Roclerick Ma,cDonald pups. See 0. B. Conistock. (Charlie of­ beyond, but we were unable to get a of Excelsior, Minn., spent several days fered to sell the whole litter plus the report on Pr y ce Mitchell, Floycl ·'Andy" in the home of her sister and brother­ mother for 50c, but we think he might Anderson, and Seth Lyman. in-la w, the B . F. Hostetlers. pay anyone who would take them). It Among those attending the meeting We understand that Shorty Nagel seems that the family of dogs adopted of the Great Western Beet Sugar Tech­ and Carl Haffner caught their limit of the Comstocks and Charlie doesn't nical Society in Scottsbluff on May 11 Northern Pike at Lake Mcconaughy seem to be too good at selling dogs.

Sugar Tramps' sons and daughters who were graduated from the 1956 class at Bayard High School.

Denny Elder Loretta Ashby Don Shaw Mildred Cross Erla Stewart

JULY, 1956 ■ 23 K enneth Flickinger, QM2, gets dis­ charged June 15 at Bremerton, Wash., from the Navy. He served on 00th the Atlantic and Pacific, his last duty sta­ tion being the USS St. Paul. Mr. and Mrs. E . S. Flickinger, his parents, left for Bremerton early in June to meet their son and to take him on their va­ cation through Oregon and California visiting relatives. R. a. (S1nokey) Hartz and family visited friends and relatives at Lin­ coln, Neb., on their vacation. The Gerald Johnsons vacationed in Colorado, visiting their son Bob and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Simpson vaca­ Robbie, Connie, and Rene Curtis, grand­ tioned in the Denver area. They visited children of the Herald Curtis and Gerald Mitchell's summer stack now sports a brand­ their son Fred who is attending college Johnsons of Mitchell. new coat of aluminum paint. at Boulder. He is to be married on June 30, while another son, Harold, John Menzell of Greybull, Wyo. Our gets married June 24. Another son, best wishes to the new couple; they Don, was married a month ago, so t~at will live in Worland, Wyo. Carol is will give them three new daughters-111- also a sister-in-law of our janitor, Ferd law in two months. Congratulations Splattstoesser. mitchell and best w ishes to all. Don Hansen and his family had a nice vacation. They visited relatives in eastern Idaho, Western Idaho at New Everybody's busy here and happy Plymouth and went on up into Wash­ because the beets are looking good, and ington to the Grand Coulee Dam area. lyman the prospects for the best campaign in Mr. George Milton, grandfather of many years is in sight. "Old Man Hail the Leo Sayre, Robert Lawson and Bob BY DOROTHY COOPER stay away from our door." McKee families, passed away at Kear­ Chief Chemist Matt Sheldon has been ney, Neb., at the age of 89. We extend With 361 Nationals arriving and be­ busy the last few weeks redecorating our deepest sympathy. ing distributed to the farmers through­ portions of the laboratory in prepara­ On the sick list, we fo und Ed out the Lyman area and the usual but tion for setting up a fuel testing lab. Schwindt for a few days, but he's back necessary paperwork and the inevita­ N. a. Dentry, quality control chemist and good as new. ble payrolls, this office has become a from the Denver Research laboratory, Mrs. Mau.rice Rogers was in the hos­ popular meeting place the past month. has been here instructing Matt and pital the past week for treatment. Much of the thinning has been done, Don Latta, chief chemist from Gering, Manager H. Juergens took Mrs. Juer­ the weather has been very cooperative, in the use of the fuel testing equip­ gens to Omaha for medical treatment. and the beet crop looks wonderful. ment, methods of calculation and re­ Say- we're not braggin' or nothin'­ We are happy to report that Mrs. port composition. Matt will be one but we think we have the smoothest Frank Zumbrink, who underwent sur­ very busy chemist. crane operator in the system. Leo gery at West Nebraska General Hos­ Don Hansen and Ott Nieder found a Sayre found four eggs in a robin's nest pital at Scottsbluff, is making a splen­ live coon on top of the hi-line watching half way out on his boom. The crane did recovery and returned home re­ them work the other day. It seemed was in operation every day and not an cently. quite tame and after some inquiries, egg was jarred. Last week they hatched Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lawson motored it turned out to be a missing pet of and Leo goes on moving dirt, rock, etc., to Rochester, Minn. where they re­ a local family. while the mother robin feeds its young. ceived medical check-ups and are now Several employees and their families Guess they'll be there, 'til they learn to back at work. Walt Vermeline, cashier have taken vacations this month. fly. at Mitchell, carried out the duties of Robert Lawson and family journeyed The family of W. V. Verrneline, our cashier h ere in Mr. Lawson's absence. to Colorado and visited the Clarence cashier, is very busy these days. Our congratulations to Ty Miller on Nasi family at Longmont. Bob a lso Daughter Elaine was selected from his promotion to superintendent at took time to redecorate his kitchen in Scottsbluff Junior College to attend Findlay. Lyman considers Ty almost a a bright yellow. He used a car lacquer YWCA camp at Estes Park; their local boy, since he lived here at the paint-something new! other daughter Beth is at Lincoln, time his father was superintendent of Orville Zwiebel took a few days off Neb., attending All-State, while Mrs. the Lyman factory. to catch up on his farming. Venneline is having a summer session B. E. Morrison, district engineer, do­ The Paul Blacks took their daughter at the Scottsbluff Junior College. ing a little checking in the factory, Phyllis to Yellowstone Park where she Walt is working in the yard and chas­ dropped in for a few minutes chat one will be working at the Old Faithful ing golf balls in his spare time. day last week. Cafeteria as cashier this summer. We're hoping everyone can make it to the GW golf tournament, supper, R. C. Hartz and Carl Case recoiling the and dance at Scottsbluff June 23 and Bending white pan coils with the hydraulic A-pan at the Mitchell factory. 24. Let's all go and have a good time. press at Mitchell mill. Visitors at the Earl Bittner home were Stu Foster, chief chemist at L ovell, and his wife. Art Bohm, our electrician, has been transferred to the Johnstown factory. A slide viewer was presented to him as a token of esteem and remembrance from the Mitchell personnel. Thanks to Art for being Sugar Press editor while he was with us. He did a fine job and we're sorry to have him leave us so soon. Miss Carol Ohirrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Ohirrick, retired sugar end foreman, was married to Jam,es Menzel, son of Mr. and Mrs.

24 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS billings horse BY JACK K. RUNGE creek We want to congratulate Supt. Steve Force upon his promotion to the Den­ ver office as assistant to Gen. Supt. BY LOIS E. LANG H. L. Hartburg. We want to wish Mr. James Hitchcock , of Wray Colorado, Force and his family the best of luck. spent two weeks with his daughter and They will be greatly missed at Billings. son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Town­ send, Jr. Mrs. Townsend's brother, Norm Muscavit ch, superintendent at Fort Morgan, ha~ been appointed super­ Jackson Hitchcock, and his wife, of intendent at Billings and we wish to Phoenix, Arizona, also spent a few welcome him to our midst. days with them. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Brewer drove Bert Huddleston is sporting a new to Grand Junction to spend a week-end 1956 Ford Station Wagon. with Mrs. Brewer's parents. Their Maynard Finkenbinder, former em­ younger son, Gail, stayed there, plan­ ployee, stopped and paid us a visit. He ning to spend the summer with his is now living in Missouri. grandparents. They were also accom­ panied by their daughter and grand­ Sharon Kiedrowski, daughter of Mr. daughter, Mrs. Earl Gregory and Helen, and Mrs. Jim Kiedrowski, underwent of Cheyenne. surgery in connection with the results Darlene Schindler, daughter of the Ervin B. J. Walters has traded his Ford of polio. Schindlers, who was graduated from Billings for a Chrysler convertible, a really nice Mrs. S. L. F01·ce is recovering from High School in June. looking car. an operation in which she had part of Mrs. Clara Tourville visited with her her stomach removed. Congratulations are in store for Mr. son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. R eid D ickerson, fieldman at W. H. Tourville, for about two weeks, Ray Di1?imitt is back punching the Hysham. A boy was born on June 2. recently. time clock after 13 weeks of convales­ Mrs. D. W. Harshberger was called cing from pneumonia. On May 11 Dan Schmidt became eli­ to Gering by the illness of her father, gible for the gold pin representing 25 James P. T et ers, son of Mr. and Mrs. who had suffered a heart attack. We years of service. Not to change the understand that his condition is much Pop Teters, has accepted employment pattern of faithful service, but Dan has at the Loveland Process Development improved now. not missed a day's time other than his Mine Fgreman W. E. Cross took his Lab. He recently graduated from the vacations during that time. Rocky Mountain College in Billings. vacation the latter part of May. He and Congratulations to Darlene Schind­ Mrs. Cross and daughter, Sandra, spent Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Houser have re­ ler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin the time visiting relatives in Colorado. turned to Billings after vacationing in Sc hindler, who graduated from the The spring reunion of the Consistory Oregon and California. Virgil Lindell Billings Senior High the first of June. was held in Cheyenne, May 16 through is spending his vacation at Helena at Bill Lagerwey reports that his son, 19. Supt. T. J . Larson attended and camp with the National Guard. William, Jr., is improving from in­ participated in most of the sessions. Bill H eily has returned to work af­ juries resulting from an auto accident Mechanical Foreman R. C. Snyder took ter a leave of absence. He claims that in Billings in April. He is in the his 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Degrees his wheat on the ranch is in dire need Army's Letterman Hospital in San at that time. of rainfall. Francisco. Wayne Townsend, young son of Har­ Our sympathy to John Sherman and old and J ean Townsend, had to have Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Lindell and family upon the death of his mother his toe lanced, after it had become in­ family spent part of their vacation in in Colorado. fected. Not so very long ago, his eastern Nebraska visiting relatives. B i ll Black and a rotated gang are mother also had infection in her foot. Bernie couldn't stand the heat there so We're wondering if perhaps they've they cut their trip short and came back building a new pump house and in­ stalling new pumps at the river. been kicking someone around. How t o Montana. about it, Harold- was it you? J ack Maynard, livestock consultant, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bly spent some Mrs. T. J. Larson and her sister, spent a couple of days in Billings pro­ Sunny Reed, who lives in California, time fishing and resting along the moting the sale of pulp and pellets. Madison river. spent two weeks visiting their parents, Can't get any news from the Agri­ Mr. and Mrs . .J. 0. Calvin, in Billings, Mr. and Mrs. Don Morris and family cultural Department as they are all Missouri. Mr. Calvin has been ill, but journeyed to Colorado. The minute Don very busy out in the territory check­ is improving nicely. gets the car out of town it heads for ing on the growth of beets and hand­ Mrs. Asa Burkett, daughter cf Mr. Fort Collins. ling thinning and labor. and Mrs. Robert Lopez, left here June Les Butler is back on the job after 1 for Portsmouth, N. H., to join her an operation and says he is feeling Ralph Wood, left, of Experiment Station, husband, who is stationed with the Air fine. visits with M. E. Rebhan, cashier at the Force there. Julius Bastoni was hospitalized for Bill ings factory. Funeral services were held in Boul­ burns caused when his clothes caught der June 5, for William E. Cross, J r ., fire while working with weed poison. who was killed when his pick-up truck A cutting torch caused the dust to ex­ ran off the road into Boulder Creek on plode. June 1. He was the son of Mine Fore­ man and Mrs. W. E. Cross, Sr. J im Kiedrowski had the misfortune His wife, P at, was injured in the ac­ to break his big toe in five places when cident, but was rescued after being a piece of pipe fell out of the power pinned in the truck for over an hour. saw. Young Mr. Cross was the father or Steve Force and his son and H enry three children. Sever al friends from Kupilik were among th e party of six Horse Creek drove to Boulder to at­ who made an exiciting 60 mile trip on tend the funeral. We extend our very rubber rafts through the Big Horn deepest sympathy to the bereaved fam­ Canyon. ily.

JULY , 1956 ■ 25 Treasurer's Department BY JO JACOBS Bo•b Barrick, our friendly petty cash custodian, was a rather nervous man for a few days, but everything is fine now. Mr. Stork delivered a lovely daughter to Bob and Lois on May 16. The young lady has been named Susan Denise. This is their very first edition, so you can imagine the joy and excitement prevailing in the Barrick household. There was some concern at first, but John Stark of Engineering. at last report, both baby and father were doing very well. It's all a bit Al Gallatin, long-time chief division clerk new, but, as Bob so aptly puts it, of GW Railway, opens retirement gifts from "There are a lot of changes being made Railway gang in background. Al completed now!" his service on May 31. general As previously promised, Frank WeiC'k did let us know more about his cool temperatures. (Nothing like the vacation trip. The Weicks traveled by current Colorado heat! ) All in all, it car to points east. They visited rela­ was a thoroughly enjoyable vacation. office tives in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Miss Jo Lauer recently forsook the and Fratn,.k, Jr., and family in Chicago. ways of a single girl to join the matri­ The particularly enjoyable part of monial ranks. Jo became Mrs. Albert Engineering the trip were the sights in and around L. Jacobs on Saturday, May 26, at Loy­ New York City. Although Frank ha.d ola Catholic Church, Denver. After a BY C. J. AMOS been to New York many times on busi­ wedding trip to Colorado Springs, the ness, this was the first time he went newlyweds are making their home in To continue with the introduction of strictly for pleasure. The boat ride a cozy apartment at 1250 Lafayette members of the Engineering Depart­ around Manhattan Island was very im­ Street. ment to the readers of T'he Sugar pressive. "Al" is employed at the Electron Press, I wish to submit the following Frank and Jane also liked very much Corporation in Littleton, and Jo is now evidence in defense of John J. Stark. the beautiful azaleas and wildflowers back on the job at her usual desk in John was born in Pueblo, and grew in the mountains of New Jersey and Mr. Fisher"s office. She admits that up on a farm in Delta County. Grad­ Pennsylvania. Frank reports that, on there are still a few improvements to uating from high school in 1940 he at­ the whole, the weatherman was quite be made on the home front, mostly in tended Mesa Junior College and the accommodating and they relaxed in the cooking department. University of Colorado from which he received a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering in the spring of 1944. During World War II John served in the Navy as a radio technician. Hon­ orably discharged in 1946, he began the SUGAR TRAMPS SPECIAL FOR RED ROCKS FESTIVAL great struggle for survival as an em­ ployee of the Western Electric Com­ The Mormon Tabernacle Choir of 375 voices, pictured below, heads the list of programs pany. In June of 1947, John joined the en­ for July at Red Rocks Park, near Denver. The Choir will appear Fri day and Saturday gineering staff of Great Western as a evening, July 13 and 14, and Sunday morning, July 15. Order your tickets now from draftsman. (Between the years 1947 and 1950, there does not seem to be the Employee Relations Dept., G eneral Office. Instead of the regular price of $2 for anything John wants to talk about. I adults, tickets may be o btain-ed by all GW employees for $I.SO ( ch ildren under do notice however the ex-bachelors of that period getting together now and I 2-75c) . The special rate also applies for the other shows durin g July: then and comparing notes.) In 1950, John took a leave of absence from the Monday, July 16-Marian Anderson with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Company to further his knowledge in Fri day, July 20-Gordon Mac Rae with the Denver Symphony Orchestra. · the metallurgical field at the Colorado School of Mines. Sunday, July 22-Family C oncert, featuring the Denver Symphony. John was married in January of 1952 Tuesday, July 24--Ge,rshwin Concert, featuring the Denver Orchestra. and now has a daughter aged 3 and a son aged l. The Starks have a nice Friday, July 27-Eileen Farrell, with Donald Voorhees and Orchestra. new home at 1469 So. Xavier where Sunday, July 29--Family Concert, featuring the Denver Sym.phony. John has plenty of room to work on one of his many hobbies, namely gar­ Tu esday, July 31-Peggy King , vocalist of the G eorge Gobel TV show. dening. John is well known through­ out the Denver Office for his sideline of Radio and TV repair and a little less known for his prowess with a fly rod. Using John's own words in summar­ izing the above: " ... 35 years of boy­ '·I;\ hood." John's work with the Company does ...... - not bring him to any certain factory but in time you will see him around. With the above information, you are one step ahead of him and take my word for it that is an accomplishment. In this space next month you will read the inside story of the "Life and Loves" of Wayne Argabrite. I men­ tion this fact only because the Editor wishes to increase the circulation of The Sugar Press.

26 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS New faces around the mill: Janies A. Fittra, M elv in Harvey, Robert Henry, Cornelius Karhoff, Homer D. Fox , P ablo Rive1·as, Juan Vargas. Kye Boggess, E1tgene Sc hmitz. Charles Bakzr, Jr .. Paul H ernanclez, John Hall, F. J. Fraley, J r., J. C. Steele. James Z ec hrnan, Carl H. Ra1n11i, J 1· .. Charles B. Haas, Raymoncl LaPierre. H erbert J . Price, Harolcl Searcy. William, Mc­ Cann and Hubert Doughtery. Here's wishing all the best of luck , working for a growing and dependable company to be well proud of the days ahead. D. F . Richter, superintendent of the Findlay plant, was transferred to Fre­ mont June 1. He was well liked and thought of by a ll the employees of the F indlay plant, and all wish him the Spring finally comes to Findlay, with shrubs best of success. in bloom near factory. Here Joe Sowder­ Harry and Lenora Luneack man suns himself. Victor Mccann, repairman, had an operation and is back to work after two weeks of excused absences. A . J. Mischke, machinist, is on two weeks to Madison Township to take up the vacation, John Jefferson, boiler house occupation of farming. At the age of foreman, one week vacation. six, Harry attended public school at findlay Wagner, Ohio, and in 1912 completed Warren D. Bowser and family made the eighth grade. BY WARREN D. BOWSER a trip to Pennsylvania for one week to visit with his mother and father. His His father needed help with his farm With half of our Inter-Campaign father had a major operation two land, so his next four years were spent gone you can really notice a lot of im­ months ago, and is recovering nicely. on his father's farm. At the age of 20 provements and changes here at the They took in a few ball games, some­ Harry was employed by 0. C. Bauer Findlay plant. New blueprint filing thing that both enjoy very much. Both and then by Andrew Beyer on their cabinets, awnings for the superintend­ used to be very active in the sport, but farms. ent's office, four electric water coolers, old age will finely get one sooner, or In 1918 Harry was inducted in the and remodeling of the main office. later. Army and served with the 26th Ma­ The job of installing facilities for chine Gun Battalion, Nineth Division, clarification and reutilization of flume until February 1919, when he received and condenser waters is in full swing; Findlay Sugar Tramps an honorable discharge. His next occu­ lengthening beet washer and installing pation was farming his father's land roller spray table, just getting into Harry William Luneack was born for three years. swing; and a lot more to follow as in Eagle Township, Hancock County, t ime permits. Ohio, on February 15, 1896, the son of On August 3, 1921 he married his Adam and Maria Luneack. former school-mate, Lenora E. Rettig. Until the first week of June, weather At the age of one his family moved After returning from their honeymoon, was really against the operating crew. Mr. and Mrs. Luneack rented a 40- We have had one week of nice sunny acre farm for four years, and then weather, and let's hope it continues to Harry Luneack in his Army uniform when he purchased this land and did farming stay favorable. In the month of May served during World War I. until 1943. we had 5.63 inches of rainfall, so the ground was in unfavorable working On May 26, 1933 Mrs. Luneack gave condition. Spring is about three weeks birth to a daughter, Twila Jean. Miss late and summer may be later yet, but Luneack still lives with her parents a few more weeks of weather like early and is employed by The Ohio Oil Com­ June and we can by-pass the following pany, in Findlay. month of May. In 1943, Harry began employment The Northern Ohio Sugar Company with The Great Lakes Sugar Company in Findlay received a new face on and worked as a repairman until 1950. June 1, 1956. I'm talking about Tyler In 1950 he worked as a carpenter until Miller, newly appointed superintendent becoming a repairman with The North­ of the Findlay plant. ern Ohio Sugar Company, April 25, 1955. On October 19, 1955 he was ap­ Miller was assistant superintendent pointed dryer foreman. for two years at Scottsbluff, before being transferred to our plant. He is Mr. and Mrs. Luneack still keep married to the former Helen Maxwell quite busy. He works his daily shift and they have two lovely daughters, here at the plant, Mrs. Luneack does Kathleen, 9, and Christina, 7. He plans her house work, and they both have to have his family in Findlay before their hands full with the farming end too many days are gone, and move into also. a home on 522 Second Street, Findlay. Mr. and Mrs. Luneack live at Wil­ Supt. Miller grew up in the beet in­ liamstown, Ohio, R. D. No. 1, and both dustry, and also has a degree in chem­ would welcome seeing their friends at istry, working as a chemist for The their home site of about 60 years. Great Western Sugar Company in Colo­ rado. He has made a great impression In case some of the employees here and many friends in the Findlay area. at the Findlay plant don't know Harry Luneack, just look for a gentleman All the employees of The Northern with a large lump on his left jaw. Ohio Sugar Company wish him the That's him. The brand is Red Man, best of luck. about two packages a day.

JULY, 1956 ■ 27 were sorry to lose them to Greeley but Marty Wilson, our new fieldman, who will be married in July, will move into the apartment in the factory dormitory vacated by Sven. John Reis, who has been timekeeper at Eaton for a number of years, has resigned his position with the Com­ pany and has bought interest in the National Investment Company of Den­ ver. The employees presented John with a beautiful brief case and wished him the very best of luck in his new venture. Tu,rner F. Davis has been transferred from the Denver Office to replace John Reis as timekeeper. The Davises have sold their home in Thornton and are Eaton's new timekeeper, Turner Davis, with moving to Eaton where they will re­ his wife Shirley and son Mark. side in an apartment in the factory dormitory. We are very happy to wel­ Wayne Abbott and Fred leis both got come the Davises and hope they will 5-year GW pins at Greeley. make many new friends here in Eaton. Mrs. C. E. Morehead is making a eoton very satisfactory recovery from sur­ gery to her nose which was performed greeley at Weld County General Hospital in BY DORIS SMITH Greeley. BY MARY E. VORIS Don McWilliams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sugar End Foreman Henry Niemuth Harold McW'illiams. was married June Extra Station Men Wayne Abbott 8 to Miss Bette Martin. daughter of was called to St. Louis by the, serious illness of his father-in-law, Mr. Louis and Fred Leis, Jr., received their five­ Mrs. Anna Martin, of Greeley. Our best Powers. Mr. Powers passed away on year GW service pins recently. The wishes are extended to the young pins were presented by Supt. L. W. couple. Don has been employed in the May 12. We extend our sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Niemuth. Feland. Laboratory as bench chemist during Wayne Abbott began his continuous the past two campaigns. Assistant Manager Lynn Pitcher has service June 5, 1951. He was an evapo­ rator man for the 1951-52-53 campaigns, Mr. and Mrs. Vic Beets have a new returned from T·exas where he spent approximately three weeks helping and was an extra station trainee the grandson, Donald George Garner, born Campaign of 1954. Successfully com­ May 14 at Weld County General hos­ with the recruiting of Mexican Na­ tional labor for thinning beets. pleting his probationary training pe­ pital. Mrs Garner is the former El­ riod, he was appointed extra stat10n berta Rae Beets, better known as If you should ask Cashier Don Cross man the beginning of the 1955 Cam­ "Bertie" to the people who have what he thinks about putting in a new paign. Wayne is also our extra crane worked with her in the beet laboratory lawn, he probably would tell you "it's operator. . . for several campaigns. a pain in the back." Don has found Fred Leis commenced his contmuous Little Pamela Ho,nstein, grandaugh­ he had back muscles that never had service June 18, 1951. He operated the ter of Engineer John Honstein and been exercised before. carbonation station during the 1951 Asst. Master Mechanic Walt Hamilton, Campaign and was appointed e~tra Boiler House Foreman C. E. Pryor station man during the 1952 Campaign. was confined to the hospital in Denver sustained a back injury and at present with a case of measles and pneumonia. Jack Burrous, son of Mr. and Mrs. is in Weld County General Hospital in Theodr;re J . Burrous, has had a very She is fully recovered at this time but · Greeley. The doctors are hoping that was a pretty sick little girl. busy spring. He was installed master rest and quiet will help to correct the councilor of the Greeley chapter of the Watchman Frank Zamora has been damage and that they will not have to Order of DeMolay at a public installa­ on vacation the past two weeks but result to surgery. tion at the Masonic Temple, and he stayed pretty close to home and prob­ Rupert Precht, son of Mr. and Mrs. and his mother are planning to attend ably enjoyed himself more than some H. J. Precht, was one of 145 who re­ the DeMolay Conclave in Grand June- of us who burn the candle at both ends ceived silver diplomas at the com­ during that precious "rest period." mencement exercises at Colorado Jack Burrous, son of the Ted Burrous, who School of Mines at Golden, on May 25. was graduated from Greeley High and also Fieldman Sven Johansen and his honored by De Molay. family have moved to Greeley where Rupert, a graduate of Eaton High he will be closer to his district. We School, majored in petroleum refining and will enter the employ of Richfield Oil Company of Wilmington, California on Sept. 1, following several weeks of Marilyn, Dennis, and Deborah, the children basic military training at Fort Leonard of the George Walkers. Wood in Missouri. The Prechts and small daughter, Mary Carol, will spend part of the summer in Eaton. H. J. Precht is agent for The Great Western Railway at Eaton. Idanuirie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Ogan; Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rutherford; and William, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Go·ok, were graduates of Eaton High School this year and are planning to attend Colo­ rado A & M at Fort Collins in the fall. Jack son of Mr. and Mrs. John Stevens, grad~ated from Ault High School and is entering the armed service. We wish the best of everything and lots of success for these students.

28 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS windsor

BY KAREN WAGNER The gang here at Windsor spent a very enjoyable evening at a party and dinner given by the Foreman's Club on May 25 at the Legion Hall here in Windsor. Among the night's festivities was a dinner, followed by a movie en­ titled "Cattle Country," which was shown by Royden Marsh and B. I . Becker. Later on in the evening every­ one had a good time playing bingo. Corsages were presented to all the women, and door prizes were given Vic Leffler on the Windsor crane. later in the evening. The grand prize was won by Mrs. Henry Kaiser, whose Carl Hurich , Bill Rutz and A . P. Tom Davis, son of the D. C. Davis, was an husband is a retired sugar boiler here at the Windsor mill. Second prize "Sandy" Stro1nberger were in Denver honor graduate at Greeley and winner of on Decoration Day to see the Denver scholarship to C. U. went to Mrs. John Bott, and the third prize was received by Mrs. A. P. Bears play a double-header against Strom berger. Omaha. Supt. Mart C. Schmode was trans­ tion. Jack was graduated from Greeley Among the guests that we were glad ferred to Fort Morgan recently, and High School on June 6. to see were many of the retired per­ Oliver H. Swaney is our new superin­ Tonimy Davis, son of Master Me­ sonnel, and also many of the wives of tendent here at Windsor. retired personnel. chanic and Mrs. D. C. Davis, was also We were sorry to see Mr. Schmode graduated from Greeley High and was Vacation time and fishing season is go, and we want to wish him the best one of 33 scholarship recipients of the here again and many of the fellows of luck as superintendent at Fort Mor­ class of approximately 250. T'Om re­ have taken to the open road and gan. ceived the Don Kinney Scholarship and stream. plans to enroll at Colorado University Mr. Swaney comes to us from Johns­ in the fall for a four-year Mechanical Superintendent's Clerk Pa1.ll Brown town, and we would like to extend a Engineering course and a one-year and Mrs. Brown spent a two-week vaca­ hearty welcome to him and his fam­ Business Administration course. Tom tion in Montana visiting friends and ily. is really to be congratulated as, being enjoying many of the points of inter­ Paul Melton is sporting that flat top the son of a true "Sugar Tramp," his est in Billings, Great Falls, and Glacier look again this summer. As soon as high school career was spent at two dif­ National Park. While in Billings, Paul the thermometer starts climbing, Paul ferent high schools. attended a reunion of the Scottish beats it to the barber shop for his an­ The Kislers report a very fine time Rite. nual scalping. on their vacation. They went to Phoe­ Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Rutz vacationed C. W. Grosby, storekeeper, swells his nix, Ariz., via the Million Dollar High­ in Muscatine, Iowa, recently where chest a great deal when he talks about way, and returned by way of Salt Lake they visited with Bill's brother, Henry his four grandsons, K enny, Jimmy, City, spending a few days visiting Rutz and his family, and his cousin, David, and Randy, who are the sons of Gerry's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. Jaco b Rutz. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fr(l;zier of Windsor. and Mrs. William H . MoU. They are quite enthused about camping in their Ed McKim spent his vacation visit­ station wagon, providing the weather ing with his son, E. L. McKini and his C. W. Crosby of Windsor with his grand ­ is warm. Katherine is planning to at­ family, who were here in Windsor sons, the children of the Jim Fraziers. tend the P.E.O. Convention in Durango from San Antonio, Texas. Ed also Kendrick, upper left; David and Jimmy, and for three days. spent a few days visiting with his little Randy. Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Roy 0. Capper mother, Mrs. H. E. M cKim in Wilbur­ have purchased a new home and moved ton, Okla. to Greeley. The address is 1806 Del­ A great many of the fellows at Wind­ wood Avenue-mailing address, Rt. 4, sor took off for the opening day of fish­ Box 77C. ing season, and everyone seemed to Crane Operator and Mrs. Roy An­ have pretty good luck, but there were drews are the proud parents of a baby no "big ones" reported. girl born May 18. She has been named Gwendolyn Sue. Our deepest sympathy is extended to Shop Foreman George Heiser and Em,anuel Felker on the recent death of Beet End Foreman Don White have his mother, Mrs. Katherine Felker. completed one week of their vacations. Mrs. W. C. McCarty underwent sur­ George and his wife were entertaining gery in the Weld County General Hos­ his brother and family from Califor­ pital in Greeley recently, and our best nia, spending their time in the moun­ wishes are extended for a speedy re­ tains and in Denver visiting the var­ covery. ious parks, shopping, etc. Don and his family spent a few days in the moun­ W. J. Geng has been recovering from tains and is complaining about the surgery, and we hope that he will soon heat down on the plains. be up and around again. The canner's sugar testing team­ Florine May B ernhardt, daughter of Chief Chemists J. W. K endall and Mr. and Mrs. R einy B ernhardt, was R. D. Smith, and assistant azaude married May 27 in Roswell, N. M. , to Mains-have finished the testing for Richard L esser. Mrs. Lesser and Mrs. the Company for this year. Bernhardt accompanied Florine to Ros­ Timekeeper Hugh Cook and family well for the wedding. The young couple entertained a school friend of Hugh's, is now living in Roswell, where he is and his family, from Gooding, Idaho, stationed with the United States Air over the Decoration Day holiday. Force.

JULY, 1956 ■ 29 n erves get so dad-ratted steady they had to put him to bed. Fifth grader Ruth Stewart found out what the appendix is for. It's to have appendicitis with. Say Ruth, why didn't you have chicken pox? It's easier loveland to spell. We have a dandy idea for a "pome"! BY BOB LOHR We could start out by saying "Rue and Moore, they don't know the score." We have had a goodly number of They're listening to the Bears vs. Denver Office officials visiting Love­ somebody. It's the fifth inning, the land since the previous issue of The score is such and such. What happens? Sugar Press. Ed Niehaus and Bob Rue and Moore, eyelids heavy, drop Brenimer from the Personnel Dept. off. When they come to, Herman Has­ came along with our district super­ sen/fetter and his alley cats are knock­ visors, Lloyd Jensen and Ludwig ing out a rock and roll job. Rue and Schneider. Nearly everyone from the Moore they don't know the score. Engineering Department has been here R ed Metcalf is working on a new to check on the wet hopper progrei:;s, sugar beet that comes up every spring including Charlie Hirsch. like rhubarb. Charlie Bittiker and B i ll Taylor, both Roy Wagner prefers winter when it's retired, have been around several times summer and summer when it's winter. to say hello. Charlie brought Lew Appropriate ceremony ushered out Clements out with him on one trip. two of our folks here. Stenographer Lew has been getting around pretty David Kern, son of the Phil Kerns , graduated Ann Grey called it a day as uf May well on crutches following his return fro m Fort Collins High and plans to enter 31. She and husband John head for from Mayo's Clinic. He has suffered Aggies in fall. Gary, Ind., and U. S. Steel, with our the loss of his right leg which had to best wishes. John bowed out with h on­ be amputated at the Rochester hospital ors at A & M. in April. We have welcomed Bobbye Patterson Paul J esser's dozer and carryall oper­ who will occupy the stenog's chair. ators moved in May 21, leveling over fort collins Bobbye hails from Shawnee, Okla. the old flumes, filling in around the Bob Moore wound up July 1. June 9 hopper and starting the hopper ap­ BY F. H. DEY being the clincher date of activity. Bob proach fill. They have approximately hails from the Blue Grass state and 33,300 yards of dirt to move. In the spring the young man's fancy opened with GW along about Septem­ Shows signs of bill and coo. Not too many vacation trips under­ ber of 1912 as white sugar cutter. He way or completed as yet. John Kelim Oh how depressing it would be was promoted to pans in 1923 and ad­ If the young woman's didn't too. is taking the balance of his time start­ vanced to sugar end in 1940. ing May 31. Bob Lohr plans a week's Mr. and Mrs. John Rasmussen were There was one period of over 25 fishing trip on the Animas river near down South for a couple of months; years during which Bob never missed a Durango early in June. Georgia, Florida, and other points. shift. He was in Loveland during 1943 Jim Buckendorf dropped in. Jim This month of June, brings a 20-year and '44. Bob has three daughters. One service pin to Head Pipefitter Ed Wil­ hooked a big ten-pound brown on the in Pennsylvania, one in Utah and one North Fork. liams. Due for their first five-year in Bellvue, Colo. pins are Crane Operator Earl Eastin Alfred Williams was with us as He figures on making the rounds and and Shop Machinist Lee Anderson. "'Tongue-Twister De Luxe" during the with his nine grandsons and three Congratulations, fellows. National season. granddaughters he will have plenty to Henry Meyer has a new Chevrolet do, teaching rainbow technique. Bob Our Mutual Benefit Association paid six, standard shift. is well and favorably known over GW a $4 dividend to some 40 members this May. Total claims paid for the year Funeral service for Edgar Harbison territory. His fair and impartial judg­ ment has undoubtedly been an out­ ending June first were $464.58, com­ was held here June 4. Anybody who pared to $502.14 the previous year. ever worked around the Fort Collins standing factor. We'll see you around, mill knew "Hap." He was battery fore­ Sir Robert W. Harold Maisch won our "opening man for quite a number of years and Hansen says he has to hold his day" pool with a 16-inch rainbow lately had served as yard foreman. H e mouth open when he goes through the caught in Carter Lake near Berthoud. was born in Oklahoma and had worked hall upstairs. If he doesn't, the dang P.D.L. News: New faces on the pay­ in the Salt Creek Oil Fields before com­ millers hit him r ight in the puss. roll include Mrs. Fraru;es Flack and ing with GW. He was an ardent base­ At the moment the beet crop seems Richard Swanson. Bill Weber left the ball fan and nearly every year would to be coming a long in good order. Sim­ Company May 18, and John D evenney vacation around the big league ball ilar to all outdoor programs, weather May 11, for other employment. Heinz :parks. The place just won't be the is the main factor. Herzog is working here temporarily on same without "Hap." Furthermore, ca1npaign strife leave from Fort Morgan. Dan Muller We noticed quite a number of feath­ Like lO"Ve and life is coming back to the Development Lab ered friends around the mill this year. I s just a series of adjustments. on June first. Archie Gifford tells us they are Star­ lings. They whistle like the wolf at Main Street. Bob Moore calls them Killylulu birds. Chet Smith and Harry Burgdorff at work on Dale Bushnell, Al Lebsack and Bob Belden heaters at Loveland mill. repair Loveland pulp presses. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Rue vacationed with home folks back in Minnesota. Charlie Foss and son, Duane. dropped in for a chat. W etzler says: "When pocket gophers work it's a sign of rain." He and Dar­ nell are up on all the latest dope along this line. Kingfish Daniels was telling about a gent back in Missouri who claimed he took a little nip now and then only to steady his nerves. The Kingfish .says that he has seen this fellow's

30 ■ THE SUGAR PRESS longmont experiment BY RALPH R. PRICE Homer S. Varner, our retiring man­ ager, was g uest of honor at a very love­ station ly party Friday evening, May 25, at the St. Vrain Memorial Building. BY ANGEL SMITH Phil Smith, general agriculturist of Great Wes tern, was toastmaster and H. L. Bush claims he has proof posi­ Jini Mason, Southern District man­ tive that summer is here. Daughter ager, presented Homer with a gold Patty is home from college for the wrist watch in behalf of the group. Mr. summer and the house is over-flowing. Varner was also given a leather travel­ Patty completed her freshman year at ing case from the Sugar Workers Colorado A & M. A few days later Union. Mrs. Varner was presented a Margie Hickman (Mrs. L. R.) con­ beautiful orchid and a vanity case. fessed she was amazed when daughter Mr. Varner, who is retiring after 40 Ginny "moved" home for the summer, years with the Company, was subjected how much paraphenalia could be ac­ to a lot of ribbing from the gathering quired in one short year! Ginny is a about his being a native Missourian, student at Denver University. Annette Wykoff, daughter of the Ellis Wy­ but he didn't seem to mind. The room H. E. Brewbaker and R. K. Olde­ koffs, who graduated from Berthoud High was filled to capacity with friends of rneyer covered a lot of territory this School this summer. the Varners from the Denver office, and month. They drove to Washington, all surrounding factories, as well as D. C. to confer with the Sugar Crops Longmont friends. people of the U. S. Department of Agri­ Log to Haiti Mr. and Mrs. Varner are now enjoy­ culture, then spent 5 days at the Brook­ (Continued from 1)age 17) ing a vacation in Missouri. We wish haven National Laboratory at Long True-there doesn't seem to be much them the best of everything. Island, N. Y., for the Irradiation Con­ organization to Haitian industry. Su­ Conrad Gomer, our janitor, is taking ference held there and on the way gar, rum, hemp, and mahogany seem a vacation, and Fritz Ehlert from Bill back stopped at Fremont and Findlay, to be the basic items, along with the Hamman's dump crew is pinch hitting Ohio for several days to check the fruit and vegetable trade. The once­ for Con. Con told us he was going various tests and plots that were great mahogany forests are fast dis­ fishing. Hope he is catching his limit planted there earlier this spring. appearing, since the people use the each and every day. R. T. Nelson, R. R. Wood and P. B. fine logs not only for cooking fires, but Also vacationing is our cashier, C. B. Smith just returned from an extensive also as fuel for their sagar mills. The Nasi, and his family They are enjoying tour for inspection of tests on chemi­ result, land erosion. the cool weather in Morrill, Neb. cal weed control in sugar beets. They Visited several small factories. Most­ Congratulations are in order for A. were joined for the tour by Robert ly handwork. Saw very little machin­ L. Wetlaufer, our house mechanic, who Zedler and Aaron Stull of Carbide and ery anywhere, except antiquated sew­ is being transferred to Eaton as assist­ Ca.rbon Chemical Company and John ing machines in tailor shops. Also ant master mechanic. We'll all miss Gibson and Keith Barron of Dow very little electric power. One Haitian you, Al. Chemical Company. The group went businessman said the power situation Two more GW employees have been through Northern Colorado, Nebraska was very poor. His village, he added, honored for their service to the Com­ and Wyoming and completed their tour was luckier than most since it did have pany. Master Mechanic Charles Kupilik at Billings, Montana. current. But only a feeble flicker of was presented his 35-year pin recently Larry Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. light at night- none at all in daytime. by Supt. Jack McDonald, and Field­ Ral1Jh Wood, is home on leave from the Despite lack of improvements, the man Bill Krueger was presented a Navy. Larry is now a petty officer Haitians have a fierce pride. The,y five-year pin by Manager Lee Butler. Third Class and stationed at San have overcome Spanish and French Longmont's employees are scattered Diego. domination and set up an independent far and wide. Chet B erry, seed house Congratulations are being extended government of their own. They have foreman, is helping out at Brighton to LeRoy and Elaine Weisgerber on emerged from the chains and irons of factory, and Arnold Napple, handyman, the new addition to their family-little Napoleon's rule. But in the history of and John Dagle, mechanic, are assist­ Pamela Sue, who made her debut June Haiti, that was only recently. At the ing at the Johnstown factory. 5. Congratulations are also in order to National Museum, time stretches back Lynn and Kent McDonald of San An­ the C. 0. Montgomerys-Pamela is ~o the beginning of the New World, tonio, Texas, grandchildren of Supt. their first grandchild. m 1492 or thereabouts, with the dis­ Jack McDonald, have arrived for a six Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Wallace informs play of an anchor recovered from the weeks visit at the McDonald moun­ us that they now have two boys in the bay. It was from the Santa Maria, the tain cabin. "Mac" says they bounce Navy. Their son Charles joined the flagship of Columbus. him out of bed at the crack of dawn Navy a few weeks ago and son Ken­ Back to the ship and on to Panama. each day and he doesn't know if he neth has been in the Navy now for .a will last six weeks or not. year and a half.

Leroy Weisgerber takes his turn of sprinkling Alvin Befus and his crew do some selective Alex Diesing and Dick Wagner, the "arti­ at Experiment Station. thinning on Station farm. ficial weathermen," at work.

JULY, 1956 ■ 3 l THE GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY . Bulk Rate P. 0. BOX 5308 TERMINAL ANNEX U. S. POSTAGE DENVER 17, COLORADO PAID POSTMASTER: If addressee has removed, Denver, Colorado please notify us of new address on form 3547, postage for which is guaranteed. Permit No. 357

■ Ruth Richmond, recep­ tionist at the General Office in Denver, shows the convenience of GW's exclusive new " Easy-tab" for cartons of all one­ p ound sugar packages. Just pull gently on the t ab and the carton opens. What's more, the grocer can be sure of no torn packages from knife gashes and he still has a useable box for carry-outs. Easy-tab is another GW "first" and still another GW service to grocers. It' s on all new cartons for one-pound packages and will be advertised soon-with Ruth 's photo­ in grocery trade p ublications around t.he GW Sugar sales territory.

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