NO ONE FACTORY EVER WINS A PENNANT; BACK OF EVERY SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE IS THE EXPERIENCE OF THE OLD-TIMERS, INTER-WEAVING THROUGH ALL THE FACTORIES A COMMON KNOWLEDGE OF SUGAR-MAKING THAT MAKES FOR THE COMMON PROGRESS IN THE GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY.

•• DAVE ROACH ••

. .,... 1 1Pd ,r~ /~~ LOVELL'S NEW LANDMARK

Time was, in the early 1920's, when the Lovell factory worked under the dubious collective name of "Midget Kewpie Coffee Grinder Runt Infant Baby of the Outfit." But look at her now! The views here show Lovell's new bulk sugar storage bins breaking the skyline almost like the Big Horns on the completion of slip-form concrete work on June 15. These are the same "tall boy" type of bins already at Love­ land, Longmont and Fort Morgan with a height of about 185 feet and a capacity of about 500,000 bags of sugar. No longer runty at all, Lovell also boasts a twin-scroll automatic diffuser installed last summer and worked last campaign for an average daily slice of nearly 1800 tons and a record day of 2138 tons. That's about 100 percent better than the best day of 996 tons during the Midget Kew pie's Pen­ nant-winning campaign of 1922-23-a campaign, incidentally, of only 35 days. • Photos by Andy Enevoldsen. SIGNS OF SUMMER by Leslie J. Welch Signs of summer are all around us now. The kiddies have already felt the thrill that comes with the last day of school. Everyday several barefooted boys pass our window with their poles over their shoulders, lunches under their arms and their minds far ahead of their scurrying feet. They are trekking to that shady nook along the old creek bank, known only to "the gang." It surely brings back the memories of days spent in carefree child­ hood by the old pond, throwing rocks at the bull frogs, and grabbing vainly for the wiggling pollywog. It also reminds us that vacation time for the older kids is close at published hand. Already plans are being worked out for the big event. Whether the vacation takes you to the busy East or to the scenic by West; or if it consists only of a few trips close to home, make it a real holiday and The Great Wes tern Sugar Company don't let a thing in the world remind you that you are grown up. -The Sugar Press: May, 1926 for These brief but poignant lines were set down by Les Welch in one of his first Great Western Men and Women columns as associate editor at Mitchell. He went on to write many other irJ,teresting and entertaining pieces for The Sugar Press, but none quite so captivating as this MAY, JUNE & JULY, 1962 pastel. Les, who was later sales manager, now operates his own sugar brokerage firm in St. Louis.

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3 Operating Department ...

ROBERT E. MUNROE G. R. ENEVOLDSEN DAN E. CONWELL from superintendent at Ovid from superintendent at Lovell from assistant at Loveland to assistant to vice president to superintendent at Ovid to superintendent at Lovell

Auditing Department ...

0. P. DITTMAN ROBERT A. WITMER CHARLES LAUTENBACH retires as assistant to auditor from accounting supervisor from cashier at Billings with 46 years of service. to assistant to the auditor to accounting supervisor

J. GERALD KISLER GEORGE R. GIBSON CHARLES B. MERRITT from cashier at Greeley from cashier at Windsor from General Office tax staff to c.ashier at Billings to cashier at Greeley to cashier at Windsor

4 PROMOTIONS and TRANSFERS

■ Operating Department: ■ Auditing Department: • J. Gerald Kisler, cashier at Greeley, was advanced in the same position to the Bil­ • Robert E. Munroe, superintendent at • 0. P. Dittman, assistant to the auditor, lings factory. Ovid, was appointed assistant to Vice Pres­ retires in August with 46 years of contin­ Jerry first worked for GW at Johnstown dent Lloyd T. Jensen on the operating uous service in the various sections of the in 1926 and again at Lyman in 1928, staff at the General Office. A graduate of Accounting Department. both places as assistant storekeeper. He Colorado School of Mines, Bob joined Ditt joined GW in 1916 as construction began his continuous service in 1933 as an Great Western in 1949 as a student as­ storekeeper at Lovell. After a tour of duty assistant storekeeper at Billings and moved sistant chemist at Windsor. He became an in the Marines, he returned to the ac­ in 1934 to Brush as timekeeper. In 1939 assistant chemist in 1950 at Loveland and counting staff at the General Office. he came to the General Office accounting moved to Johnstown in 1951. In 1925, he was appointed cashier at staff. The same year he was named chief Johnstown, then under construction; and In 1942, Jerry was appointed cashier at Lyman; he was sent to Ovid in 1943, to chemist at Johnstown and in 1953 he was in 1926 at Lyman, also under construction. Sterling in 1946, and to Greeley in 1952. superintendent at the Process Development In 1927, he came back to the General Of­ He is the son of John G. Kisler, an Lab at Loveland. Moving to the operating fice staff. He was appointed assistant to early-day Great Westerner who retired as side, he was named an assistant superin­ the auditor in 1937. treasurer and now lives in Greeley. tendent at Loveland in 1956 and at Johns­ A baseball player of note, Ditt played town in 1957. Upon his promotion to su­ for the Denver Bears in 1910 and was one perintendent, Bob was assigned first to of the playing organizers of semi-pro clubs • George R. Gibson, cashier at Windsor, Greeley in 1957 and then to Ovid in 1959. in the North Platte Valley. He also played was transferred in the same position to the on Great Western teams and in recent Greeley factory. years represented the Company in spon­ George joined Great Western in 1930 soring teams for youngsters in the Denver at the Windsor office. He was sent to .. Old Timers League. His "GW Sugars" in Wheatland in 1938 as a timekeeper and - ➔- 1959 won the city title and took second then to Longmont in 1940 in the same job. in the state tournament. In 1946, George was promoted to acting After an extended trip, Mr. and Mrs. cashier at Wheatland and named cashier • G. R. Enevoldsen, superintendent at Dittman will make their home at Seal there in 1947. The next year, he was ap­ Lovell, was transferred to Ovid in the same Beach, near Los Angeles. pointed cashier at Windsor. position. Andy first worked campaigns at Gering in 1928 and began his continuous .. • Charles B. Merritt, tax accountant at career there in 1937 as an assistant chemist. ➔- the General Office, was appointed cashier He was transferred to Billings in 1937 - at the Windsor factory. • Robert A. Witmer, accounting supervisor, in the same job and became a student was appointed assistant to the auditor at Chuck joined Great Western in 1951 foreman there in 1946. Upon his promo­ the General Office. as a store bookkeeper at the General Office. tion to assistant superintendent, he was Bob joined GW in 1928 as a side record In 1952, he was sent out as a timekeeper sent to Lovell in 1947, to Gering in 1949, clerk at the General Office. He was sent to the Sterling factory, and in 1955, he and to Billings in 1952. He was promoted out as a timekeeper at Minatare in 1935 was returned to the General Office to to superintendent at Lovell in 1955. and then to Windsor in 1936. He returned join the staff of the Tax Department. to the General Office accounting staff in 1942 and became head bookkeeper in 1943. ., In 1948, Bob was promoted to traveling ■ In the Chemical Department: auditor and held that position until 1951, - when he was appointed accounting super­ • Russell W. Dilley, chief chemist at Bay­ visor. ard, was appointed to the same position at Gering. • Dan E. Conwell, assistant superintendent • James D. Dalbey, chief chemist at at Longmont, was appointed superintendent .. Sterling, was appointed to the same position at Lovell. - at Bayard. A graduate of the University of Denver, • Charles J. Lautenbach, cashier at Bil­ • Paul H. Pumphrey, assistant chemist at Dan joined GW in 1946 as a draftsman in lings, was appointed accounting supervisor Scottsbluff, was promoted to chief chemist the Engineering Department at the General at the General Office. at Sterling. Office. He became a traveling engineer in A graduate of the University of Colo­ Northern Colorado in 1949, a buyer in rado, Chuck joined GW in 1947 as a the Purchasing Department in 1950, and timekeeper at Ovid and then at Fort Col­ ■ In the Agricultural Department: returned to his post as traveling engineer lins. He came to the General Office ac­ in 1952. counting staff in 1952 and in 1953 be­ • Robert N. Sanborn, fieldman at Mitch­ Moving to the operating side, Dan was came head bookkeeper. ell, was appointed assistant manager at named an assistant superintendent at Love­ Scottsbluff and Gering. In 1954, Chuck was appointed cashier He succeeds Donald S. Redabaugh, who land in 1960 and then at Longmont in at Sterling and in 1959 he was transferred was transferred to the Windsor district 1961. to the Billings factory. field staff. Mechanical Department ...

C. M. IVERSON RAY BROWN C. W. HINES retires as master mechanic at retires as master mechanic at retires as master mechanic at Loveland with 40 years' service Sterling with 47 years' service Bayard with 33 years' service

KERMIT W. BEAL FLOYD MITCHELL THAD W. CREAGER RALPH E. TOWNSEND from master mechanic, MSG from master mechanic at Ovid from master mechanic at Fremont from master mechanic at Lovell Plant to master mechanic to master mechanic at Gering to master mechanic at Ovi•d to master mechanic at Bayard at Loveland

JOHN D. SPALL JAMES C. YOUNG MERLE W. FLEENOR OAKLEY C. MILLER from assistant at Loveland from assistant at Longmont to from assistant at Scottsbluff from assistant at Fremont to master mechanic at Sterling master mechanic at MSG Plant to master mechanic at Lovell to master mechanic at Fremont

6 PROMOTIONS and TRANSFERS

■ Mechanical Department:

• C. M. Iverson, master mechanic at • Kermit W. Beal, master mechanic at • John D. Spall, assistant master mechanic Loveland, retired in August with 40 years the Johnstown MSG Plant, was appointed at Loveland, was appointed master me­ of continuous service. to the same position at the Loveland chanic at Sterling. Ivy first worked at Longmont in 1920 factory. John joined GW at Greeley in 1946 and while a student at the University of Colo­ Kerm joined GW in 1935 at Ovid and moved the next year to Johnstown, where rado, where he won a degree in mechanical moved to Bayard in 1936, where he be­ he became a mechanic and then headfitter. engineering. He began his continuous serv­ came a house mechanic the next year. In Upon his promotion to assistant master ice at Longmont in 1922 in the machine 1940, he was boilerhouse foreman, and in mechanic, he was sent to Windsor in 1954, shop and became a house mechanic in 1941, acting assistant master mechanic. to Bayard in 1955, to Fort Morgan in 1924. He was transferred to Brush in 1925 After serving with the Navy in the 1957, and to Loveland in 1960. and was shop foreman there in 1926 and Solomons, he returned to Bayard in 1946 promoted to assistant master mechanic in to become assistant master mechanic. He 1928. He was moved in the same job to was sent to Gering in 1947, to Billings in k .. Ovid in 1934 and to Scottsbluff in 1940. 1950, and to Fort Morgan in 1953. In 1945, Ivy was appointed master Promoted to master mechanic in 1955, • James C. Young, assistant master me­ mechanic at Windsor; he was transferred Kerm was assigned to Findlay with the chanic at Longmont, was appointed master to Fort Morgan in 1946 and to Loveland original Great Western cadre in Northern mechanic at the Johnstown MSG Plant. in 1951. As a master mechanic, Ivy served Ohio. He was transferred to the MSG Jim joined GW at the Johnstown sugar on four Pennant-winning crews-once at Plant in 1958. Windsor and Fort Morgan and twice at factory in 1938. After three years in the Loveland. • Floyd Mitchell, master mechanic at Ovid, Navy, he returned to Loveland in 1945 and His son, C. H. Iverson, serves on the was appointed to the same position at then to Johnstown in 1946. He became General Office staff as district engineer Gering. shift electrician in 1947 and chief elec­ for the Northern Colorado mills. Floyd joined GW in 1926 at the Johns­ trician in 1948. town sugar factory as a welder. He was He was promoted to asistant master transferred to Bayard, where he became mechanic at Johnstown in 1958 and moved shop foreman in 1943 and assistant master to Longmont in 1959. • Ray Brown, master mechanic at Sterling, mechanic in 1944; he was sent to Gering retires in September with a record of 47 in 1949 and to Fort Collins in 1951. k years of continuous service-the longest Upon his promotion to master mechanic, ◄- .. career of anyone in the Company at the he was sent to Lovell in 1954 and trans­ time. ferred to Ovid in 1957. Ray started in 1914 at Fort Collins, be­ • Merle W. Fleenor, assistant master me­ chanic at Scottsbluff, was appointed mas­ came a machinist in 1918, and shop fore­ • T. W. Creager, master mechanic at Fre­ ter mechanic at Lovell. man in 1929. mont, was returned to the West and ap­ Merle first worked campaigns at Gering, In 1930, Ray was promoted to assistant pointed master mechanic at Ovid. master mechanic at Windsor; he was later Thad joined GW in 1927 at Minatare beginning in 1936, and began his con­ sent to Eaton in 1935, to Wheatland in as a pipe fitter and moved the same year tinuous career there in 1950 as a mechanic's helper. He was advanced to house me­ 1936, to Lyman in 1940, back to Eaton to Lyman for construction. He became a chanic in 1952 and to headfitter in 1954. in 1941, and to Fort Collins in 1945. headfitter there in 1937 and moved to In 1957, he was promoted to assistant Upon his promotion to master mechanic Greeley in 1943 and to Billings in 1944. master mechanic at Mitchell and the next in 1947, Ray was assigned to the Sterling In 1946, he was promoted to assistant year sent to Scottsbluff. factory, where he completed his long master mechanic at Gering; he worked career. on construction at Longmont the summer of 1952 and returned to Gering until k .. 1957, when he was appointed master me­ chanic at Fremont. • C. W. Hines, master mechanic at Bay­ • Oakley C. Miller, assistant master me­ ard, retired in May with 44 years of con­ • Ralph E. Townsend, master mechanic chanic at Fremont, was appointed master tinuous service. at Lovell, was appointed to the same posi­ mechanic at Fremont. Muggs joined GW in 1918 at Eaton as tion at Bayard. Oak, who was the first member of the an electrician and moved to Fort Lupton Ralph first joined GW at Bayard in original Fremont crew to win promotion in 1921. He was promoted to assistant 1925, becoming shop foreman in 1938. He to top factory rank, began his sugar career master mechanic in 1937 at Fort Lupton left in 1943, but returned to Bayard in with the former Great Lakes firm in 1930 and later was sent to Ovid in 1941 and 1949 to become electrician and in 1951 a at Blissfield, Mich., now abandoned. He to Loveland in 1946. machinist. was advanced to assistant engineer in 1936 Upon his promotion to master mechanic He was promoted to assistant master and transferred in the same job to Fre­ in 1952, he was first at Lovell before he mechanic at the Johnstown MSG Plant mont in 1943. came to Bayard in 1954. during construction in 1953; he went to With the acquisition of Northern Ohio Muggs is a brother of W. H. Hines, Mitchell in 1956 and to Billings in 1957. by Great Western in 1955, Oak continued who retired as master mechanic at Brighton The next year he was appointed master in the same job but with the title of as­ in 1960. mechanic at Lovell. sistant master mechanic. At the Pennant banquet, flanking the silver shield, Vice President Lloyd T. Jensen at left congratulates Supt. Dwight A. Gordon upon the Findlay mill's second flag in the last three campaigns. Starting from eighth place at the end of the first period, Findlay overhauled Fort Morgan in the closing weeks of the race. The table below shows the final standings of the 1961-62 race, while the photos below show two groups of Findlay Sugar Tramps and their ladies at the Pennant banquet. Gordon led the Findlay crew to the victory in his first campaign as a superintendent-the fifth superintendent to accomplish the feat in 43 years of the Pennant Plan. The others were 0. M. Cummer at Brush in 1920-21, Claude T. Carney at Greeley in 1926-27, N. J. Muscavitch at Brush in 1946-47, and F. H. Barnhart at Brush in 1949-50. For a complete summary of Pennant winners and Pennant personalities, see Pages 16 to 21.

PENNANT

1. Findlay 102.188 2. Fort Morgan 101.791 3. Mitchell 101.638 4. Ovid 101.145 5. Sterling 101.018 6. Gering 101.017 7. Bayard 100.624 8. Fremont 100.571 9. Brighton 100.235 10. Eaton 100.232 11. Lovell 100.217 12. Windsor 100.059 13. Billings 99.946 14. Scottsbluff 99.901 15. Loveland 99.845 16. Greeley 99.616 17. Longmont 99.418

8 THE FINDLAY CREW

Winner of the GW Pennant for the Campaign of 1961-62

Front Row: Jack E. Slagle, Sugar End Foreman Thomas L. Downey, Asst. Master Mechanic Charles D. Royer, Janitor Frank W. Hall, Asst. Superintendent Elmer Penrod, Dryer Foreman Harry L. Dougherty, Chief Chemist Thomas A. Kroske, Extra Station Warren D. Bowser, Timekeeper Merle Butler, Sugar Boiler Lee F. Coon, Cashier Richa.rd Land, Extra Station Francis McMahon, Stenographer Wesley Thomas, Dryer Foreman Beatrice Grindell, Clerk Typist Harold H. Conrad, Beet End Foreman Jerry L. Gephart, Superintendent's Clerk Alfred C. Heiing, Warehouse Foreman Harry W. Andrews, Asst. Superintendent Fourth -Row: Henry Grasmick, Jr., Asst. Superintendent Wilbur Smith, Crane Operator Leo S. Dunn, Jr., Asst. Master Mechanic Eugene E. Works, Repairman Second Row: Robert J. Phillips, Repairman Harold Searcy, Sugar End Foreman Lloyd George, Repairman Keith L. Ross, Beet End Foreman Floyd Keeler, Fieldman August Schneider, Master Mechanic Floyd Brown, Fieldman Robert D. Shuck, Top Mechanic John Luft, Fieldman Robert Krieger, Storekeeper Ronald D. Steck, Manager Fred E. Bills, Sugar Boiler Dwight A. Gordon, Superintendent Hubert L. Dougherty, Beet End Foreman Doug Burkhart, Fieldman Robert Myers, Dryer Foreman Emery Williams, Fieldman Harold Fagan, Repairman Harold Heilman, Fieldman Robert L. Kelim, Sugar End Foreman Richard Moon, Sugar Boiler Richard E. Cunningham, Top Mechanic Not Pictured: Arthur V. Ginter, Lead Mechanic Joseph Kittle, Dump Foreman Third Row: Shelby V. Knepper, Asst. Chemist Lavern Marquart, Boilerhouse Foreman Ray Myers, Extra Station Herman Ault, Boilerhouse Foreman Alfred Dillon, Diffuser Operator

9 SAFETY

■ The photos above show the presenta­ SAFETY WINNERS IN THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE CONTEST tion of Safety Award Plaques at the ban­ quets for the winning crews and their Year Factory Superintendent Manager ladies at Gering and Fremont, the two factories that finished in a first-place tie in 1961 with no lost time. On the left, 1952 Lovell Francis A. Wood W. C. McCarty Gering's safety chairman for 1961, Asst. Supt. Pryce Mitchell, holds the factory's 1953 Windsor Mart C. Schmode A. M. Watson plaque in the company of Safety Director Rober( A. Wherry, Vice President Lloyd Mart C. Schmode A. M. Watson T . Jensen, and Asst. Master Mechanic 1954 Windsor { Oliver H. Swaney W. C. McCarty Maurice V. Rogers, the factory's safety chairman for 1962. In the smaller photo 1955 Johnstown J. H. Zisch (none) on the right, Vice President Jensen pre­ sents Fremont's plaque to Supt. Jesse E. 1956 Mitchell E. E. Lingle Herman Juergens Stone on behalf of the crew. E. E. Lingle 1957 Mitchell { L. W. Feland Herman Juergens ■ The winning factories of the first ten years of the Great Wes tern Safety Contest 1958 Gering E. E. Lingle M. S. Clement appear in the table at right with the names of the principal supervisors respon­ 1959 MSG Plant George W. Halbur (none) sible for safe work. Gering joins Mitchell and Windsor on the honor roll as one of 1960 Eaton Floyd W. Miller Lee Butler three factories to win the Safety Contest twice in the last decade: With three Fremont Jesse E. Stone Gordon Rudolph double-winners now, the ten-year results 1961 tend to show a build-up of "second-nature { Gering Sabin G. Hooper L. H. Henderson safety"-grief-free and pain-free.

10 SAFETY STANDINGS

Results of 1961 Results of 1960 1. JFre1:11ont 0.00 Eaton 284.55 )Gering 0.00 Mitchell 293.62 3. Brighton 300.35 Windsor 595.40 4. Fort Morgan 406.16 Loveland 599.43 5. MSG Plant 436.09 Lovell 614.88 6. Greeley 498.34 MSG Plant 1012Jl 7. Lovell 605.69 Fort Morgan 1217.61 8. Mitchell 709.51 Bayard 1418.13 9. Ovid 1053.37 Fremont 1493.26 10. Longmont 1059.95 Greeley 1770.82 11. Eaton 1149.37 Ovid 1947.03 12. Bayard 1205.97 Findlay 2453.54 13. Loveland 1297.71 Johnstown 2482.87 14. Windsor 1540.96 Billings 2805.47 15. Sterling 1554.51 Scottsbluff 2812.47 16. Johnstown 1823.39 Longmont 3007.82 17. Billings 1902.35 Gering 7896.64 18. Findlay 2100.25 Horse Creek 7960.33 19. Horse Creek 5845.65 Brighton 8134.67 20. Scottsbluff 8700.78 Ste.rling 8237.33

■ The table above shows the Safety Con­ OPERATING DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT test standings for the last two calendar years with the accident frequency figures I. rre".'ont 0.00 ~Fremont 0.00 expressed in terms of weighted averages 0.00 Gering per million man-hours worked. The 1961 Gering 0.00 results show a noticeable reduction in ac­ 3. Brighton 261.82 I. Eaton 0.00 cident frequency under 1960. For instance, 287.26 the first place figure in 1960 would be 4. Greeley lFort Morgan 0.00 only in third place in 1961. Also, 17 fac­ 5. MSG Plant 432.51 Lovell 0.00 tories finished better than 2000 in 1961, 486.39 6. Experiment Sta. compared with only 11 in 1960. Gering 6. Fort Morgan 478.76 displayed the most improvement, rising 7. Loveland 587.73 7. Brighton 526.26 from 17th place in 1960 to a tie for first 639.49 8. Scottsbluff with no lost time in 1961; Brighton also 8. Mitchell 560.87 made commendable improvement, moving 9. Windsor 664.90 9. Ovid 694.05 from 19th to third place. 10. Lovell 697.54 I 0. Sterling 1166.14 ■ The table at right shows a breakdown 11. Longmont 852.52 11. Mitchell 1179.75 of the 1961 figures on the same basis ac­ cording to the performances of the operat­ 12. Ovid 1116.16 12. Bayard 1218.81 ing and agricultural units at each installa­ 13. Bayard 1205.18 13. Greeley 1288.50 tion. Aside from Fremont's and Gering's goose-eggs in the operating column, the 14. Eaton 1386.68 14. Findlay 2360.79 notable performances were by the agri­ 15. Billings 1465.78 15. Longmont 3377.48 cultural units at five factories with their we~come goose-eggs. It is easy to see from 16. Sterling 1641.84 16. Windsor 4159.17 this comparison that successful safety de­ 17. Johnstown 1808.18 17. Billings 4446.43 pends on the combined efforts of both the operating and agricultural units at each 18. Findlay 2059.97 18. Loveland 9549.45 place. (There are no agricultural units at 19. Horse Cree.k 5798.95 (Windsor figures include Fort Collins; Johnstown, the MSG Plant, and Horse Creek Quarry; there is no operating unit 20. Scottsbluff 9768.84 Fort Morgan figures include Brush; at the Longmon.t Experiment Station.) Mitch,ell figures include Wheatland)

11 THE FREMONT CREW

Co-winner of the GW Safety Contest for the Year of 1961

Center, front: E. 0. Earhart, Beet End Foreman Arthur Melson, Repairman William J. Swint, Extra Stationman ( Safety Committeeman) Leward Anstead, Top Mechanic C. E. Michaels, Asst. Master Mechanic John N. Homan, Asst. Superintendent (Safety Chairman) Leeroy A. Wyss, Craneman Front Row: William A. Swint, Beet End Foreman Jesse E. Stone, Superintendent Gideon R. Billow, Dryer Foreman Richard F. Mally, Cashier Clifford J. Dickman, Beet End Foreman Gordon Rudolph, Manager Darwin E. Bliss, Asst. Superintendent Richard L. Homan, Electrician Third Row: Albert L. Sabo, Sugar Boiler Rita Swint, Superintendent's Clerk LeRoy Williams, Fieldman John N. Gurtzweiler, Fieldman Fred A. Wargowsky, Fieldman Robert L. Zilles, Fieldman Frank Schultz, Dryer Foreman Oakley C. Miller, Asst. Master Mechanic John W. Horner, Pan Floor Helper Alfred J. Schmidt, Asst. Superintendent John P. Kenan, Sugar Boiler George L. Keller, Storekeeper Donald H. Smith, Warehouse Foreman Donald E. Sherman, Sugar Boiler Joseph A. Sidoti, Repairman James E. Heffernan, Chief Chemist Thad W. Creager, Master Mechanic H. E. Heileman, Dryer Foreman Second Row: Gerald W. Shannon, Sugar End Foreman Melvin N. Shafer, Fieldman Howard J. Haubert, Sugar End Foreman Mildred Kinney, Timekeeper Kenneth B. Clark, Fieldman Richard C. Zielke, Agronomist Sherman B. Moses, Repairman Lucille Kessler, Bookkeeper Not Pictured: Dale F. Huber, Sugar End Foreman Frank W. Young, Suga,.. End Foreman

12 THE GERING CREW

Co-winner of the GW Safety Contest for the Year of 196 I

Front row: U. W. Goos, Asst. Superintendent Pryce Mitchell, Asst. Superintendent Frank Lee, Stationman Leonard H. Halagin, Handyman Melvin Uhrich, Beet End Foreman Ted Schooley, Boilerhouse Foreman Third row: Paul Stuckey, Stationman Darr L. John, Headfitter Edward Bott, Dryer Foreman John Margheim, Steffen Foreman Jack Leonard, Dryer Foreman Floyd S. Enlow, Craneman Donald L. Smith, Extra Stationman Ray Davidson, Top Mechanic Delbert Smith, Sugar Boiler LeRoy Reynolds, Handyman Carl A. Hurich, Asst. Superintendent Frank Carpenter, Stationman Maurice Orr, Handyman H. T. Waggoner, Supt's Clerk Jack Schneider, Steffen Foreman Charles A. Driver, Top Mechanic Maurice V. Rogers, Asst. Master Mechanic Omer L. Kelley, Sugar End Foreman William C. Sinner, Shop Foreman William H. Heily, Chief Chemist Floyd R. Brown, Chief Electrician Vernon Churchwell, Asst. Master Mechanic Alan Wood, Handyman Sabin G. Hooper, Superintendent Wesley Netherland, Top Mechanic Clarence A. Way, Asst. Master Mechanic Second row: Leonard H. Henderson, Manager C. W. Uhrich, Steffen Foreman Donald S. Radabaugh, Asst. Manager Lewis C. Cawley, Top Mechanic Not pictured: Gordon Randall, Storekeeper H. C. Sheffield, late Master Mechanic Robert D. Cleary, Sugar Boiler Douglas Callahan, Cashier Charles Arends, Stationman Alex Schild, Jr., Sugar End Foreman Clifford Robinson, Stationman Albert A. Ruth, Timekeeper Marvin Sinner, Extra Stationman Rena Gross, Stenographer Floyd A. Sinclair, Sugar Boiler Eldon E. Lewis, Dryer Foreman Bruce Stallings, Beet End Foreman Kenneth H. Bauer, Extra Stationman George A. Howard, Warehouse Foreman Robert Gross, Stationman Arlie Braudaway, Sugar End Foreman William H. Nansen, Craneman Arthur W. DeVall, Beet End Foreman Benjamin Fink, Stationman

13 up to the seenery some, which they wasent much of it right in Seattle, but more as you get out into the coun­ T~J:C::El TOJ:...,:D T ..a..::c...,:Es try. We -roomed at a hotel which we FE.O~ thot was a 1st classhotel, but we found out when we come to pay our bill it wasent near as good as we thot it was, but it was pretty steep for me, only the Duke payed my bill, so it didnent cost me nothing. Well, we went to a show one nite, and a boob with a straw Draw up a pew while Uncle Gwesco pulls out all the stops hat came out and sung a song about on the family house organ and renders an opus from the hisself, lettin us know that he was a classics of yesteryear - the first of a delightful series. 3 twelve oc1ock feller in a nine oclock town, or something, but he sure dident look it, and them four guys looked at me and they an laughed and I laughed too, but I dont see yet what ■ There's a tale within this twice-told tale Friend Al: they was laughing at. Maybe they from The Sugar Press of January, 1919. Well, Al, I spose you think maybe thought I couldent see· the joke, but I It is best told by the author of the epic himself, Jack Ankeny, sometime associate I'm dead or lying in a hospital some­ fooled them all right. editor and man-about the Banana Belt and where with a broken leg and can't Well, anyway, we all went to bed North Platte, who retired as superintend­ write no more or something, but it ent at Scottsbluff in 1959. Jack wrote re­ and I thought I was going to get some cently to correct a caption for the photo of aint nothing like that, only I been out rest but about four oclock the next 0. P. Dittman and George Reynolds on on a commission for the Sugar Com­ Page 50 of "The Sagas of The Sugar Press." A. M. I was woke up by a combina­ It said that George wrote the famous letter pany buying mules and aint had no tion of a cyclone and a indian war to Friend Al about the mule-buying ex­ time to write. They was some of us hoop, and I looked around and there pedition, but Jack demurs: went out one day last week to the "As fond as I am of George-and always was Andy sitting in front of a little have been so-I cannot permit this base Pacific coast where they were having table, piaying solitary with hisself, canard that he would stoop to any such a sale of govmnt mules to see if we and I cant figure out what has woke mangling of his mother tongue, even in couldent pick up some nice soft bar­ fun ... George's natural wit makes such me up unless I been having a dream distortions unnecessary and out of char­ gins, now the govment is threw with or something, but here comes Bill acter. all their mules and wont want them "The fact is that with some collabora­ around the comer of the bed, and tion from Bob Horne, bookkeeper at Lovell, no more. Probly the mule skinners Andy· pipes up and he says its time I concocted and wrote the entire story, in the army dont feel bad about it to get up and go out after mules, and purloining the style from Ring Lardn~r's and I know I wouldent if I was a 'busher' stories in the Saturday Evening I says you cant pull any of that stuff Post. I well recall that when The Sugar mule skinner in the army, but then you on me, I know what time mules get Press landed in Lovell, it generated a bit cant tell, some of them fellows is not up, and he shut up, but Bill soaked me of heat in George's bosom, and he im­ out of their class any chasing around mediately wrote a rather snappy letter to one at the side of the head with a pil­ the editor, stating that he was not aware with mules, and not to be compared low and that made me mad, and I that a new correspondent had been ap­ with the inftry, which I was in when got up. The Duke he gels sore be• pointed at Lovell. (Up to that time, George I was in the army. had been performing that chore in noble cause he has been woke up, too, and fashion.) . But anyhow, me and Andy and we was about to start in the clean up "To this day I am not certain that George knows who authored the horrific Bill and the Duke and John Maier was on Bill and Andy, only I dident want fabrication of the mule-buying expedition. commissioned to go there and look for to hurt Bill any, and the Duke dident In using the word fabrication, I am not mules and see if we could find any exaggerating. Other than the bare fact want to hurt Andy, and we dident that Bill Hogarty-rest his genial soul/­ that was worth bringing back to Lov­ neither of us feel much like raising together with Andy Cross and John Maier, ell with us, for there aint enough mules any he-ll around there after having and with George as chancellor of the ex­ around here anyway, and when you've chequer, headed for Tacoma to look into only a couple of hours sleep, but I the possibility of buying some government had_a mule for forty or fifty years you dident care much anyway, so I got surplus 'Missouri tractors' for Company kinda get attached to him, so they up. So we all went dQwn for break­ farms, there is not one shred of anything but fiction in the whole account. If there would make good pets, if for nothing fast, and had to sit around for several is, it is purely accidental-and I might else. This Duke I told you about is hours until the cooks got up. Bill and say unintentional." a British fellow, but he is a good scout So with apologies to both Jack and Andy and John ordered a real old­ George, we offer here the first in a series anyhow, and more so when you get fashioned American breakfast three-• of entertainments to be plucked from The him wound up a little bit, and you fourths grape frute, ham and eggs, Sugar Press tree of literary plums. The cast of c!iaracters consists of the know Andy and Bill and John, so 1 five buckwheat cakes and coffee. The one and only Bill Hogarty, manager at don't need to tell you what kind of Duke, he is kind of a peticular guy Lovell and Billings and then district man­ guys they are. ager there; John Maier, agricultural SUJ?er­ and ordered porrije, 2 boile_d egg~, intendent at Billings; Andy Cross, live­ Well, anyway, we went out there to tost and T, and when the water stock feeding superintendent; and the Seattle and fooled around a day or so brought in the car go, the 1st 3 birds Duke of Lovell, to the manor born George Reynolds, then cashier at Lovell and later 'till they could get this sale started seemed satisfied, but the Duke balked traveling auditor, now residin~ in Casper. good, and sort of got ourselves wised at the eggs being stuck in a glass, so he had the water bring in hole eggs days will it take Pres. Wilson to settle would cum along and shine his shoes stuck in an egg glass. The table we the world serious in Ver say, and vise for him, but no such luck Al, they sat at had a marble table cloth and Vera? were stole and now the shoe is on the over in 1 corner was a glass with a But Al one of the funnyest parts other foot. You know all about that lot of papers in it, and the Duke of the hole thing was when we all went old add age that goes something like either passed it up or was short sited, into the Auction Blok the Duke this you can put your shoes in my lit­ so he awsked the water to bring him saw a lot of them birds in uniform and tle trunk any old time you like, I a servy et, whatever that is, and be­ his memry served him mean by drivin think sherman said it but I aint sure lieve me, Al, the way the water looked him back at once upon a time when Al. This should ought to be clasfd at him werent slow. some of them gunholders in the 1st on the books as a rear joke but if you Well, anyway, we went out and Natl. Gard claimed exemptn. to his cant see thru it awsk Bill Sikes he looked at the mules who are armistist acting around a certain watter tank bloom in well knows dont yo know. from the war, and believe me, Al, the in Denvr Col USA which was then B~lieve me kiddo I can sure sling that map of Mizoury was written all over in the Westn. cirket and he immdtly. old cockney stuff when Im in the there face, just like that big right wanted to horde a Aurora Boulder­ right tempratour but if the words is hand picher I put it all over in the alice car or some such name to get 2 big and heavy why Ft. Collins will world serious when we played the Red away from it all and not spend a be your little Webster. And some Socks. I cant see how the 1st bunch nother nite in the Basteel and have few months ago some smart Alex in the we saw ever got by the draught board, all of his friends lookin for him and sugar Press up and says he could see but they must of rased a kick to there those who wasnt lookin for him going why Hank .Sammon looked so sheep­ local bord, and got in that way. Some his bale with the capt. or the gendarm ish on acct. of him feeding Bills Ram­ of them you could not guess there or who ever he is and sending him ble A sheep on the factry grass, so wates with in a city block, but Andy, home safe to his wife and kid. I when some of them Bo brommels in he is a good guesser, and 1 time he Denver Col who takes the ladees to must of forgot how heavy mules ears the Man Raton for eats after th~ pic­ are, so he is going to take it up with ture show or free band consert which the Engr. dept. to make a slide rule they have down there and says to the for figerrin these out of the way things. water kind of smart like, bring me 2 After several days dillying-dallying orders of sped. Ramble A muton chops around like this and not buying any a la Lovelle Bill et Hank et grass and mules, and not liking the climb it any the ladees not being all wised up \vill way, it being wet all the time and figir they been to the trenches. and rainy, but not so bad as when unpro­ come back full of the french langj ige, hibition was in voge, we all got soar and now I suppose some other smart except Andy, because hying is his Alex he will up and say he can see bisness, so he stayed to see if the luck why Bill and Andy and John and the would change any, and he has been JACK ANKENY Duke looks so darn onery because relax in letting us know of any big A portrait of the author they go try buy some mules, and be­ sails. Sum day in the dim future, as a lieve me Al if them mules had of been he will probably take out his noat retired superintendent bought they sure would of shipd. thern book and give us some figrs., and viz Brush fargo Xpress c o d and f o b until that time we will hold our horses, never could see anyways Al why a meaning that they were from Mizouri eh Al? If he does buy any, Al, it will man should ought to hang round a and had to be shoed. kind of swell up our in ventory, as it little old watter tank in a town which But taking it all and all Al, these is fast cralling along tords the end of the statue of probition had not been birds were glad to get back on to the the physical year, when we will all be erekted yet, in the

15 * *

The Mystic Order of Premiums and Penalties

Est. 1919 0. M. CUMMER FRANK MILLER Oley Cummer won four Pen­ Frank Miller also won four Pen­ Membership Limited nants outright-the best record nants, all at Fort Morgan in his of any superintendent. His first 24 years there as superintendent, was at Brush in 1920-21, his but shared one in a tie with to first year as a superintendent; his Gering in 1931-32. His other others were for three straight flags were in the campaigns of Superintendents Who Win Pennants campaigns at Windsor from 1923-24, 1924-25, and 1930-31. 1943-44 to 1945-46. Oley joined Born Charles Francis, Frank was GW in 1911 at Fort Collins. one of the original "boes" at From Brush, he moved to Ovid Fort Collins in 1904. He worked in 1926, served on the Operating up from sweeper and press puller Our Motto: staff from 1931 to 1936, when he through the foremen's jobs to Keep Your Flagpole Painted became superintendent at Wheat­ become an assistant superintend­ land. He moved to Lyman in ent. In 1917, he went out as a 1940 and to Scottsbluff in 1947. superintendent to Fort Morgan He died in 1954 upon his retire­ and remained there until his re­ ment at Scottsbluff. Oley was the tirement in 1941. Frank con­ son of George W. Cummer, con­ tinued to live in Fort Morgan struction superintendent at eight until his death in 1944. GW factories. * * *

H. H. SANDMANN N. J. MUSCAVITCH V. I. DANIELS Hank Sandmann, another legend­ Norm Muscavitch, now district V. I. Daniels won three Pennants ary Great W estemer, was one of superintendent, also won three during his long career as super­ three superintendents who won Pennants-two at Brush in 1946- intendent at Gering, but shared three Pennants. His first was in 47 and 1947-48 and another at one flag with Fort Morgan in the famous 35-day campaign at Fort Morgan in 1950-51. Musky 1931-32. His other wins were in Lovell in 1922-23. His other first worked at Brush in 1919; he 1932-33 and 1940-41. Danny flags were at Windsor in the began his continuous service in joined GW in 1908 as chief campaigns of 1927-28 and 1929- 1922. He became chief chemist chemist at Greeley; after two 30. Hank joined GW at Love­ at Wheatland in 1930 and moved years, he became traveling chem­ land in 1903, moved to Brush as to Scottsbluff in 1935. In 1943, ist for Northern Colorado mills. a foreman, and became an as­ he was a technician at Billings He later engaged in technical sistant superintendent at Fort and in 1945 an assistant super­ research and served as assistant Morgan in 1911. He was an as­ intendent at Lovell. He was pro­ to R. M. Booraem and H. W. sistant at Billings in 1915 and moted to superintendent at Brush Hooper. He became superintend­ promoted to superintendent at in 1946, winning a Pennant his ent at Gering in 1919, where he Lovell in 1917. He moved to first year out, moved to Fort remained until his retirement in Windsor in 1925, to Ovid in Morgan in 1948 and to Billings 1947. Now 81 years old, Danny 1931, and to Loveland in 1936, in 1956. He was appointed dis­ still makes his home in Gering. where he retired in 1948. He trict superintendent of Northern died in 1957. Colorado mills in 1957.

16 FERDINAND KLINGENBERG CLAUDE T. CARNEY SAMUEL C. MOONEY ROLAND L. COLWELL Ferd Klingenberg was the winner· Claude Camey won two Pen­ Sam Mooney, a pioneer Great Roland Colwell, who began on of the first GW Pennant race nants at Greeley, during his first Western Sugar Tramp who rose the chemical side, won his two in the campaign of 1919-20 while year out as a superintendent and to executive positio~ won two Pennants while at Windsor in he was superintendent at Brigh­ his last before retirement. They Pennants in a row while at the campaigns of 1936-37 and ton. He also won a second flag were the campaigns of 1926-27 Loveland during the campaigns 1942-43 Colley joined GW in at Fort Collins in 1928-29. Ferd '8'nd 1952-53. Claude joined GW of 1933-34 and 1934-35. Coming 1912 at Longmont and became joined Great Western at Eaton in 1910 at Fort Morgan and from the British Isles via Phil­ chief chemist there in 1914 and for the first campaign in 1902. worked in labs there and at adelphia, Sam joined GW as a at Scottsbluff in 1915. From 1916, He worked up through the sta­ Windsor before he became chief pipefitter at Fort Collins in 1903. he worked in the Scottsbluff dis­ tions and became assistant super­ .chemist at Eaton in 1911. The He became master mechanic at trict office and also as a travel­ intendent at Windsor in 1905. next year he was chief chemist Greeley in 1909 and returned ing chemist. In 1922 he returned He was promoted to superintend­ at Longmont and in 1913 travel­ to Collins in the same job in to the Scottsbluff mill as chief ent at Windsor in 1905 and ing chemist of the Montana dis­ 1916. Changing to the process chemist and in 1926 engaged in moved to the new Brighton fac­ trict. In 1920 he moved to Scotts­ side, he was superintendent at research work. He was promoted tory in 1917. He was transferred bluff to become assistant to Harry Loveland from 1917 to 1936, to superintendent at Windsor in to Fort Collins in 1920, where he W. Hooper, assistant• general su­ when he became a district su­ 1931, moved to Ovid in 1943, remained until his retirement in perintendent, and in 1926 he was perintendent. In 1940, he was and to Fort Collins in 1945, 1943. Now 85 years old, Ferd still named superintendent at Greeley, appointed general superintendent where he remained until his re­ lives in Fort Collins. where he remained until his re­ in Denver and in 1941 elected tirement in 1955. Colley still lives tirement in 1953. Claude died vice president, but Sam died the in Fort Collins. last March at the age of 76. next year at the age of 63. *

HOWARD A. LANG H. S. BARRINGER F. H. BARNHART E. GONYOU Howdy Lang won his two Pen­ Herb Barringer won two Pen­ Fem Barnhart won two Pennants Ed Gonyou, who boiled sugar as nants at Eaton in 1937-38 and nants in a row at Billings in the at Brush in 1949-50-his first a boy in Canada, won both of at Ovid in 1941-42-the only campaigns of 1938-39 and 1939- year out as a superintendent­ his Pennants at Loveland in time either factory won the flag. 40. Herb joined GW in 1903 at and in 1951-52. Fem first worked 1954-55 and in 1958-59. Ed first A graduate of the University of Eaton after tough seasoning with for GW at Sterling in 1916 and worked for GW in 1913 at Eaton, Michigan, Howdy came West to the Kilby Construct o rs . He began his continuous service there moving up from sugar boiler to join GW in 1916. He was first worked on the construction of in 1919. He became a beet end general foreman by 1920, with a student engineer and then a Windsor and became assistant foreman in 1924 and moved to time out for war duty. He left sugar end foreman before he be­ superintendent at Ster 1 in g in Ovid in 1926. There, he was to join Independent at Fort Lup­ came an assistant superintendent 1905. He was promoted to su­ foreman of both ends and general ton, but returned in 1925 when at Greeley in 1919. He returned perintendent at Fort Morgan in foreman until he was named as­ the mill became part of GW. He to engineering in 1924 as the 1911, but left in 1915 for a like sistant · master mechanic in 1937 continued as assistant superin­ traveling engineer for Fort Mor­ position at Blissfield, Mich. ( then and then assistant superintendent tendent at Fort Lupton until gan, Brush, Sterling and later a sister mill of Fremont and in 1944. In 1946, he was pro­ 1930, when he moved in the Ovid. In 1927, he was promoted Findlay). After one campaign, moted to master mechanic at same job to Brighton, to Fort to superintendent at Eaton. He he returned to become superin­ Ovid and in 1949 to superintend­ Collins in 1940, and to Loveland was moved to Ovid in 1939 and tendent at Billings in 1917, where ent at Brush. In 1952, he was in 1943. He was promoted to su­ then to Billings in 1943, where he headed operations for 26 years appointed district superintendent, perintendent at Eaton in 1946, he died suddenly in 1946 at the until his retirement in 1943. Herb and in 1957 he asked for assign­ served briefly at Longmont in age of 51. died in 1950 at the age of 69. ment as superintendent at Brigh­ 1947, and moved to Loveland in ton. Fem retired in 1961 and now 1948. Ed retired in 1959 and still lives on his ranch near Brighton. lives in Loveland. 17 E. E. DURNIN C. H. CRISWELL, SR. FREU S. TREADWAY Ernest Durnin won his Pennant Cris Criswell won his Pennant at Fred Treadway won his Pennant at Mitchell in the third race for Greeley in the campaign of 1925- at Longmont in the campaign of the flag in 1921-22. He joined 26. Cris joined GW at Greeley 1935-36. Fred was one of the GW at Sterling in 1907 as an in 1909 as a chemical engineer. original Sugar Tramps at Fort assistant superintendent, but had In 1916, he was a traveling engi­ Collins; he joined the factory worked since 1902 with other neer and in 1917 a technician construction crew in 1903 and Great Westerners who learned for the Operating staff. In 1918, worked up through the stations their craft at Ames, Neb. In 1916, he was promoted to superintend­ until he became an assistant su­ he was appointed the first super­ ent at Greeley, where he re­ perintendent in 1911. In 1916, he intendent at Lovell; in 1917, he mained until 1926, when he took was moved to Longmont as an was construction superintendent over the difficult assignment of assistant and in 1917 he was at Missoula and the next year superintendent at the new Johns­ named the first superintendent at superintendent in the mill's only town sugar factory. In 1933, he the new mill at Bayard. In 1920, campaign. When Missoula was returned to the Denver Operating he was transferred back to Long­ moved to Mitchell, he became the staff and in 1940 was appointed mont, where he served as super­ first superintendent there in 1920. district superintendent for the intendent for 28 years-one of the Ernest was sent to Minatare in Northern Colorado mills. He con­ longest tours of any superintend­ 1926 and to Scottsbluff in 1927, tinued in that position until his ent at one factory. Fred retired in where he died in 1939 at the age retirement in 1952. Cris now 1948 and still makes his home of 61. lives in Estes Park. in Longmont. *

CHARLES S. SCOTT J. B. McDONALD FRANCIS A. WOOD E. E. LINGLE Charlie Scott won his Pennant Jack McDonald won his Pennant Francis Wood, now superintend­ Ev Lingle, now superintendent at at Billings in 1948-49. Joining at Longmont in 1953-54. A Great ent at Billings, won his Pennant Loveland, won his Pennant at GW in 1912 as an assistant Westerner for 48 years, Jack be­ at Gering in the campaign of Mitchell in the campaign of chemist at Fort Morgan, Charlie gan his career at Loveland in 1955-56. He first worked cam­ 1956-57. Ev first worked stations became chief chemist there in 1912 and moved to Longmont the paigns at Gering in 1921 and at Fort Morgan in 1918 and be­ 1916. He was moved in 1918 to next year. In 1917, he was con­ began his continuous service there gan his continuous career there Loveland and in 1920 was a struction clerk at Bayard and in 1924. He was an end foreman as a Steffen foreman in 1922. traveling chemist. In 1921, he then a foreman. In 1919, he was in 1928 and general foreman in He was advanced to • beet end was named chief chemist at Long­ promoted to assistant superin­ 1935 before he was promoted in foreman at Brush in 1937 and at mont, where he served until 1939. tendent at Bayard and in 1925 1944 to assistant superintendent Longmont in 1944. Upon his pro­ He was then an assistant super­ moved to Gering. In 1939, he was at Lovell. He then served at motion to assistant superintend­ intendent at Longmont, Gering appointed to his first post as su­ Mitchell and moved to Fort Col­ ent, he served first at Eaton in and Fort Collins until he was ap­ perintendent, at Eaton; in 1946 lins in 1949, where he was also 1947, then at Fort Morgan in pointed superintendent at Fort he was transferred to Brighton an assistant master mechanic. In 1948 and at Billings in 1951. In Lupton in 1941. He was moved and in 1949 to Longmont, where 1950, he was named superintend­ 1953 he was appointed superin­ to Ovid in 1945 and to Billings in he supervised the modernization­ ent at Lovell, in 1953 he was tendent at Lovell; he was moved 1946, where he retired in 1954 of the biggest sugar mill in Colo­ transferred to Gering, and in to Mitchell in 1954, to Gering in because of poor health. Charlie rado. Jack retired in 1960 and 1957 to Billings, his present post. 1957, and to Loveland in 1959, died in 1959 at the age of 66. still makes his home in Long­ his present post. mont.

18 MART C. SCHMODE TYLER W. MILLER SABIN G. HOOPER DWIGHT A. GORDON Mart Schmode won his Pennant Ty Miller won his Pennant-the Sabin Hooper won his Pennant Dwight Gordon won his Pen­ in 1957-58 at Fort Morgan, where first for Northern Ohio-at Find­ in 1960-61 at Gering, where he nant at Findlay in 1961-62-his he is still superintendent. Mart lay in 195~-60. Ty· began sum­ is still superintendent. Sabin first first campaign as a superintend­ first worked summers at -Scotts­ mer work at Lyman in 1932 and worked summers at Scottsbluff in ent. He first joined GW in 1925, bluff in 1913 and began his con­ year-around at Brush in 1940. 1932 and began his continuous serving at Greeley, Johnstown tinuous career there in 1916. By After three years in the Army, career at Gering in 1938 as a and Ovid until 1943. He returned 1920 he was a sugar boiler at he was a henchman at Scotts­ ~tationman. He was a Steffen in 1945 to Fort Lupton as a Mitchell and in 1923 a beet end bluff in 1945, assistant chemist foreman in 1942, a sugar boiler sugar boiler and moved in 1948 foreman at Gering. In 1926 he at Billings in 1946 and a student in 1943, and beet end foreman in to Fort Morgan as a sugar end was named assistant superintend­ foreman there in 1948. He be­ 1945, all at Gering. Upon his foreman. Upon his promotion to ent at Gering; in 1929, he was came beet end foreman at Bay­ promotion to assistant superin­ assistant superintendent, he was moved to Lyman, in 1939 to ard in 1950 and chief chemist tendent, he served at -Mitchell in at Brush in 1952, Bayard in Gering, and in 1943 to Scotts­ there in 1952. He was named 1946, at Sterling in 1951, at Fort 1953, Gering in 1955, Scotts­ bluff. He-was promoted to super­ assistant s u per i n tend en t at Collins in 1954, and at Billings bluff in 1956, and Billings in intendent at Windsor in 1947, Mitchell in 1953 and at Scotts­ in 1955. He was named superin­ 1959. He was promoted to su­ served briefly at Brighton in bluff in 1954. Upon his .,..promo­ tendent at Sterling in 1957 and perintendent at Findlay in 1961, 1954, and moved to Fort Mor­ tion to superintendent, he went moved to Gering in 1960. Sabin his present post. Dwight is the gan in 1955. He is the son of to Findlay in 1956 and returned is the son of Harry W. Hooper, son of A. F. Gordon, who was an Henry A. Schmode, retired GW to Mitchell in 1961, his present retired operating executive. assistant superintendent at Gree­ pioneer, now nearing 92 years of post. Ty is the son of S. T. ley, Johnstown and Loveland. age. Miller, retired superintendent. of cars is a noble old bus, but she struck a rough and rocky road this year; her tires w~re shot to pieces, and On Losing The Pennant she had to make the last fifteen or twen­ ty miles on the rims ; she ran out of gas Here is Lovell's lament from The Sugar Press of Dec., 1923, and had to burn anything that came by Wes Kendall, later chief chemist at Greeley and now retired. handy to get power; one of her con­ necting rods broke and for lack of an­ other one had to be patched; but boys, Now that the last bit of earth from ner, but it now appears that even that her motor is still good, and there is the surrounding country has been distinction is to be denied us, unless nothing wrong with the steering gear, some of the other factories exhibit a sliced, and the trash crop has been so when Henry cranks her up in 1924, burst of speed which will be without just pin your ears back, because you'll properly diffused, the operating men at parallel in the annals of beet-slicing. have to eat dust if you don't keep your Lovell feel that they are in a position According to the dope we are able to foot on the accelerator. to speak authoritatively upon the sub­ assemble, we will be somewhere be­ tween twelfth and fifteenth, which ject, "How to Lose a Blue Banner." It wins nothing except a golden opportun­ When we stop and reconsider is difficult to explain a matter of this Things we've done in days gone by; ity to "snap out of it" the next time. How we've worked and how we've nature without appearing to offer the Ev0n before the campaign was finished struggled well-known alibi, but we venture to we realized that the efficiency label floating from the flagstaff was, more or With the problems that pass by. say "without fear of successful contra­ less, a delusion and a snare to the diction" that even Gering, with her casual observer, and the very material Do we find our errors greater sails all set for the capture of the of which the flag was made began to If we smile along the way? Or should glumness be our motto Large Lovely Bunting, will concede the give evidence of wear about the edges. It was tattered, it was torn, it showed When we've made a rotten play? so-called quarter horse a better slic­ signs of being worn, and if the little ing record in seventy days this year old mill didn't act the same way, we Are the things we all work hard for than it made in thirty-five last season. don't want a nickel. Worth a smile, or happy grin? While we pause to consider the phe­ A word of advice to either Fort Mor­ What's the use of always scowling nomenon of a horse having any kind When a smile will help us win? of a slicing record, we will quickly gan or Gering, which factories appear shift the mind of the reader into an­ to be the only ones really in the race other channel, lest a number of other at the present time : When you get If you pull a lot of boners results which do not compare favor­ that flag keep it in a glass case, and Like old Jiggs did with his wealth, ably with those of last campaign be don't allow the edges to become worn Smile like H-1 and grin all over, dragged out and exhibited under the or frayed if you want to r etain it; be­ You will have much better health. effulgent rays of the noonday sun. cause we have it from a r eliable au­ For a time we contemplated with thority that the factory's r ecord will Even Andy Gump, the bankrupt, some awe and considerable misgiving suffer in direct proportion to the num­ Smiles when Min says "It's too bad" the possibility of wresting the Mon­ ber of loose threads on the bunting. But I'll bet he gets that kale back, golian Streamer from last year's win- The flivver of the Great Western fleet Same as we will get that flag.

19 The Sugar Tramps Who Showed the Way for the Pennant-Winning Factories in 43 Campaigns for the Flag

Campaign Factory Superintendent Manager Master Mechanic Chief Chemist Cashier ■ Who was where when what factory won the Pennant? The answer appears in the roster at right 1919-20 Brighton Ferd Klingenberg C. L. Castleton Harry H. Johnston E. J. Matteson James F. Hume with the names of the principal supervisors at each 1920-21 Brush 0. M. Cummer Henry C. Giese J. 8. Lackner L. E. Jeffrey Charles M. Good factory that won a Pennant ;ince the efficiency 1921-22 Mitchell E. E. Durnin C. S. Campbell Floyd Powell Roy I. Babbitt Max K. Hollowell competition was established in the Cd.mpaign of 1919-20. 1922-23 Lovell H. H. Sandmann Charles F. Johnson Harry Fletter Wesley Kendall A. A. Tinn The first race of 1919-20 can still be recalled by 1923-24 Fort Morgan Frank Miller Henry C. Giese William E. Martin E. K. Huleatt Allan M. Robb three members of the Brighton staff who live in 1924-25 Fort Morgan Frank Miller Henry C. Giese William E. Martin E. K. Huleatt Allan M. Robb retirement in Colorado. Ferd Klingenberg, the first superintendent to win a Pennant, lives in Fort Col­ 1925-26 Greeley C. H. Criswell, Sr. Charles E. Evans Joseph Mooney C. C. Crawford Ira E. Gilbert lins, along with E. J. Matteson, who later was a 1926-27 Greeley Claude T. Carney Charles E. Evans Joseph Mooney Wesley Kendall Ira E. Gilbert Heldman. C. L. Castleton lives in Drake. 1927-28 Windsor H. H. Sandmann David J. Roach Charles Shaffer P. M. Grissinger J. R. Cfark The retired ranks also number other members of flag-winning teams in the early years of the 1928-29 Fort Collins Ferd Klingenberg David J. Roach Robert G. Miller Jay A. Bair Byron Albert Pennant-Roy Babbitt lives in Scottsbluff, Wes 1929-30 Windsor H. H. Sandmann John Comer Charles Shaffer P. M. Grissinger J. R. Clark Kendall and Cris Criswell in Estes Park, Andy Tinn 1930-31 Fort Morgan Frank Miller Henry C. Giese William E. Martin E. K. Huleatt Frank H. Lore in Eaton, Billy Martin in Englewood, Al Robb in Loveland, Frank Lore in Longmont, and Jay Bair 1931-32 Fort Morgan Frank Miller Henry C. Giese William E. Martin E. K. Huleatt Frank H. Lore and Byron Albert in Fort Collins. { Gering V. I. Daniels David J. Roach William T. Warren George E. Stevens J. B. Badgley Two Great Western notables of later years appear 1932-33 Gering V. I. Daniels David J. Roach William T. Warren George E. Stevens J. B. Badgley on the list-Dave Roach, the beloved executive vice 1933-34 Loveland Samuel C. Mooney Joseph L. Williams Fra,:1k Davies V. V. Hartmann Charles L. Atkins president; and Sam Mooney, who became vice presi­ dent and general superintendent. 1934-35 Loveland Samuel C. Mooney Joseph L. Williams Frank Davies V. V. Hartmann Charles L. Atkins The winningest supervisor of all was Joe Wil­ 1935-36 Longmont Fred S. Treadway Frank A. Wilson Eugene Vosburg Charles S. Scott J. B. Hitt liams, now retired in 'Loveland. While manager at 1936-37 Windsor R. L. Colwell Ralph Partridge Charles Shaffer P. M. Grissinger J. R. Clark Loveland, Fort Morgan and Brush, Joe acquired seven Pennants and an epicurean reputation for 1937-38 Eaton Howard A. Lang Charles E. Evans Harry Fletter P. J. Haffey A. A. Tinn groaning tables of beef steak at the Pennant ban­ 1938-39 Billings H. S. Barringer James R. Mason William Jensen Jack T. Davis Paul H. Marsh quets. 1939-40 Billings H. S. Barringer P. H. McMaster William Jensen Jack T. Davis Paul H. Marsh Among the cashiers, J. R. Clark was associated with six flag-winning efforts at Windsor; and Harold 1940-41 Gering V. I. Daniels M. S. Clement William T. Warren George Goldfain J. B. Badgley Smith with five at Fort Morgan and Brush. 1941-42 Ovid Howard A. Lang Homer S. Varner W. W. Christinck P. M. Grissinger W. H. Wadsworth Among the managers, Henry Giese enhanced his 1942-43 Windsor R. L. Colwell Ralph Partridge Charles A. Kupilik Frank Jones J. R. Clark stature with five flags at Fort Morgan and Brush, while Dave Roach brought in the beets for four 1943-44 Windsor 0. M. Cummer Ralph Partridge Charles A. Kupilik Frank Jones J. R. Clark top-line performances at Windsor, Fort Collins and 1944-45 Windsor 0. M. Cummer John D. Edmiston Charles A. Kupilik Frank Jones J. R. Clark Gering. 1945-46 Windsor 0. M. Cummer John D. Edmiston C. M. Iverson C. H. Mccurry James J. Campbell From the operating standpoint, two superintendents each won four Pennants-Oley Cummer won the sec­ 1946-47 Brush N. J. Muscavitch Joseph L. Williams John W. Karns Jack Huleatt Harold E. Smith ond race at Brush and three others in a row at Wind­ 1947-48 Brush N. J. Muscavitch Joseph L. Williams John W. Karns Jack Huleatt Harold E. Smith sor, while Frank Miller won four flags for Fort 1948-49 Billings Charles S. Scott Robert L. Kimmons William Jensen Jack T. Davis Paul H. Marsh Morgan, including one tie. Among the master mechanics, three engineered 1949-50 Brush F. H. Barnhart Joseph L. Williams John W. Karns Jack Huleatt Harold E. Smith four winning efforts each-Billy Martin at Fort Mor­ 1950-51 Fort Morgan N. J. M uscavitch Joseph L. Williams C. M. Iverson Paul M. Smith Frank H. Lore gan, Charlie Kupilik at Windsor and Longmont, and 1951-52 Brush F. H. Barnhart Joseph L. Williams Lee J. Kelim Jack Huleatt Harold E. Smith Ivy Iverson at Windsor, Fort Morgan and Loveland. There were three chief chemists who each took 1952-53 Greeley Claude T. Carney John D. Edmiston John F. Grabski Wesley Kendall J. Gerald Kisler part in four Pennant victories-Paul Grissinger at 1953-54 Longmont J. 8. McDonald Homer S. Varner Charles A. Kupilik C. R. Koontz C. B. Nasi Windsor and Ovid, Jack Huleatt at Brush, and 1954-55 Loveland E. Gonyou Frank Whiting C. M. Iverson V. V. Hartmann Allan M. Robb Elmer Huleatt at Fort Morgan. 'l 1955-56 Gering Francis A. Wood M. S. Clement H. C. Sheffield Don F. Latta Probably some assistants and crew members took Douglas Callahan part in more victories and banquets than listed here-­ 1956-57 Mitchell E. E. Lingle J Herman Juergens C. C. Rawson Matthew Sheldon W. V. Vermeline especially if they worked for Windsor's seven flags 1957-58 Fort Morgan Mart C. Schmode A. M. Watson Matthew Brennan Lloyd E. Hanna Harold E. Smith or Fort Morgan's six. If anyone active or retired can claim a Pennant record better than Joe Williams' 1958-59 Loveland E. Gonyou Frank Whiting C. M. Iverson Paul M. Smith J. Lowell Bond seven advances upon his own table, he wins a two­ 1959-60 Findlay Tyler W. Miller Ronald D. Steck Richard W. Dayton H. L. Dougherty Lee Coon way stretch cummerbund. 1960-61 Gering Sabin G. Hooper Leonard H. Henderson H. C. Sheffield Matthew Sheldon Douglas Callahan 1961-62 Findlay Dwight A. Gordon Ronald D. Steck August Schneider J. E. Heffernan Lee Coon

20 21 Scottsbluff's Boiler house -- Now and in 1910

The crane lifts one of the steam drums into place in the steel framework of the boilerhouse just above the super-heater tubes. Another drum sits in position below.

Four members of the Bluffs crew ponder their next step The view above and the two below show the boilerhouse in construction of the boilerhouse steel work. From t.aking shape on _May 25. The one above looks south left, Extra Stationman Ron England, Top Mechanic from the mill,· showing the coal bunkers on the east Jim Burry (now assistant master mechanic at Lovell), side; at left, below, the air pre-heaters and dust Asst. Master Mechanic Vern Churchwell, and Welder collectors; and at right below, the sidewall and Glen Reed. feeder tubes along with the coal bunkers.

22 The brick work starts up on the walls of the original Another view of the boilerhouse, from the southeast, Scottsbluff boilerhouse on April 22, 1910, while showing the walls about finished on May 27, 1910 and steelwork starts on the roof of the main house at rear. work under way on the original sugar warehouse at right.

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The inside of the 1910 boilerhouse, on July 27. While Also on July 27, 1910, the chimney starts up from the most of the Scottsbluff machinery came from the 1899 boilerhouse behind the elevated tracks for the beet factory at Ames, Neb., the boiler equipment was new; sheds. Below at left, the first forms for the base the Ames boilers were sent to Loveland to replace old of the stack on July 12, 1910. Below, right, the Scotch marine boilers and were used there until 1948. Scottsbluff factory from the rear on Feb. 9, 1911, The photos on this page are from the collection of after the first campaign, with the old materials George W. Cummer, construction superintendent, who warehouse and yard in the foreground. The Scottsbluff with Med Sullivan moved the mill from Ames, Neb. mill ushered in the great sugar beet expansion in The project was in charge of Chief Engineer Edwin the North Platte Valley. Morrison.

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23 Members of the agricultural management staff pause for a picture during a meeting earlier this year at Greeley. Kneeling, from left, Manager Leonard Johnson of Loveland, Labor Commissioner Cal Smith, District Manager John Edmiston, Manager Leonard Henderson of Scottsbluff-Gering, Manager Lowell Giauque of Bayard, Manager Lee Butler of Eaton-Greeley. Standing, from left, Manager Bob Kimmons of Billings, Vice President Fred Holmes, Manager John Stewart of Windsor-Fort Collins, Manager Al Watson of Fort Mor­ gan, Manager Vic Ostermiller of Longmont, Manager Red Johnson of Ovid, Manager Chuck Johnson of Lovell, Asst. Manager Don Red­ man of Fort Morgan, Corporate Secretary Bob Wherry, Manager LaMar Henry of Brighton, District Manager Lyman Andrews, Manager Les Garner of Sterling, Asst. to District Manager Gigson Zumbrink, Asst. Manager Don Redabaugh of Scottsbluff-Gering, Agricultural Supt. Herb Pearcy of Wheatland, Asst. Manager Lynn Pitcher of Eaton-Greeley, and Manager Bill McGuffey of Mitchell.

Among the Agriculturists

District Manager Lyman Andrews presents a 20-year service pin to Manager Vic Ostermiller of Longmont with Manager John Stewart of Windsor at left rear and Secretary Bob Wherry at right rear. Below, Phil Smith, director of agricultural develop­ ment, presents a 20-year pin to Ralph Wood, manager of the Longmont Experiment Station.

It was a golden wedding anniversary recently for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Joost of Fremont. Art, who is consulting agriculturist at Fremont, began his mgar career in 1919 under the old Continental Sugar Company anid continued with the successor Great Lakes firm that was acquired by the CW subsidiary, Northern Ohio. It is no wonder then that Art goes by the honored title of "Mr. Sugar" of Fremont.

24 Harry Wadsworth, tax agent at the General Office, responds to Here Harry takes his ease on his last day of work in a. chaise the good wishes of his friends and associates at a luncheon honor­ lounge, one of the gifts from his associates, along with the wrist ing his retirement in June with 36 years of service. He is flanked watch on display in the case on the desk. His relaxed approach by Auditor Herb Corsberg at left and Vice Presidents Bob Fisher to work is observed by, from left, Herb Corsberg, Bob Fisher, an,d Fred Holmes. Harry began his CW career at Fort Collins in Frank Begley (the new tax agent and former cashier at Fremont), 1926, moved to the General Office accounting staff in 1929, went Chuck Merritt (now cashier at Windsor), Bob McKee and Bob to Wheatland as construction timekeeper in 1930, returned to Perkins. Another member of Harry's staff, Roy Jensen, was away Denver the same year and then worked in all the accounting on vacation at the time. One precedent was shattered at Harry's sections until 1940, when he was named cashier at Minatare. As retirement luncheon-it was attended by eight Lady Sugar a cashier, he was moved to Ovid in 1941, Bayard in 1943, and Tramps from the General Office staff, who app:irently were the Longmont in 1949, where he stayed until he returned to the Gen­ first ever to lend their charm and dignity to such proceedings. eral Office in 1953 to become tax agent. Harry and Mrs. Wadsworth will continue to make their home in Longmont, from where he commuted to Denver.

Among

the

Personnel

Purchasing Manager Carl Roberts, seated, presents ten-year Great Westerner service pins to Paul Cunningham, left, and Holden Nicholson, center, who are both buyers in the Denver Purchasing Department.

Northern Ohio District Manager Dave Sunderland, left, receives his 15-year CW pin from Phil Smith, director of agricul­ tural development. Jimmy Wacker, left, a member of the labor staff at the General Off ice, receives his five-year CW pin from Labor Com­ missioner Cal Smith.

25 Asst. Supt. Chuck Sword and Sugar Boiler Eaton's Storekeeper Ar,die Scofield appears Here's Master Mechanic Dan Schmidt of Harry Harding, at rear, work on Eaton's in a mood of meditation in his off ice. Eaton in the machine shop checking lathe vapor lines. work.

Dump Foreman Dan Bernhardt of Eaton, Sugar Boiler Wes Engle tips his welding Eaton's new diesel crane, at left, makes left, receives his 20-year CW pin from hood to say hello while working on the the old locomotive crane look rather for­ Asst. Manager Lynn Pitcher with Ray slicers in the Eaton mill. lorn in the yard. Farrell at right. Shorty Ferrell is planning a trip to Ohio and New York. He claims he's going to ride a jackass out there, and says if the Mrs. Eaton Greeley goes they'll ride double. Should be quite a trip for them both, as well as for the jackass. BY OWEN KNIGHT BY RUTH GI RNT We always enjoy the visits from the re­ tired Sugar Tramps. Those visiting lately The Eaton crew was hard at work the Spring and vacations seem to go to­ were Harry Ev ans, Bill Bruce, Heinie day after campaign ended and the men gether, and itchy feet have struck the ma­ Zisch, Les Miller, Allen Gordon and Cur­ are still going strong. Plant improvements jority of our group this year. Phoenix tis Packer. authorized this year include a new first attracted Supt. and Mrs. Frank Jones, as Tony Brown, son of Master Mechanic effect evaporator, four Blanchard elements well as Katy and Gerald Kisler. Hap and and Mrs. Lynn Brown, is home from his for the crystallizers, new main water pump, Ruth Alexander went to Cortez, the Butch first year at CU where he also participated gas dryers in the tarehouse, and automating Godfreys to Omaha and St. Louis. Those in the Orange Bowl festivities with the CU the melter station. having taken in the fair at Seattle, or marching band. Mike Prall is going great-guns with the planning to journey there, are: The Roy Our deepest sympathy to Dan Rose on new diesel crane purchased this spring. Cappers, Fred Brothers, A. 1 ice and Bob the recent loss of his father; also to Frank Mike tried to "fire" it up the first few Crosley. The LeRoy Steinmillers journeyed and Ruth Alexander on the loss of Ruth's days, but is using the starter now. to San Francisco and the Dan Roses to mother, who recently passed away. Vacation-wise Chief Chemist Russell Texas. Art Dimmitt received his 35-year tie bar; Smith and wife Doris have returned from Pete Brumley went fishing, and accord­ Don Dinnel, 5 year pin; and Frank Alex­ a two-week vacation in Hawaii during May. ing to Pete, they will be needing to re-stock ander, 20 year tie chain. Congratulations Supt. Floyd Miller and family recently de­ the streams. However, reliable sources say to all three. parted on their vacation to Canada via he couldn't find the stream for the snow Harry Brown, chief chemist from Wind­ Seattle. storm. Tub Brumley and Les Hibler are sor, assisted in the lab while Russell Smith Timekeeper George Divine, was recently going to try fishing with Pete next week. vacationed in Hawaii. Russ daims to have elected commander of the Eaton American I guess he convinced them. Lots of Luck. mastered the hula, and we have been try­ Legion. Jack Stewart has gone to the dogs. He's ing to get him and Katy Kisler to perform, Asst. Supt. Charles Sword has his hands rather disappointed on the bets he's made, since she also visited the islands recently. full this year after accepting the job of and says he plans to bet them by slide rule Rita Milner filled in for Alice Crosley Scoutmaster for the Eaton Scouts. in the future. while Alice was in Seattle. Social event in May was the marriage of Miss Joanna Knight of Eaton to Alvin Krutsch of Denver on May 12. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Knight of Eaton and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Krutsch of Denver. They drove to Las Vegas, Nev., for their honeymoon and are now at home at 3618 W. 20th Ave., Denver. On the recovery list after major surgery are Asst. Supt. Vic Beets and Handyman Harold McWilliams. Both are doing nicely and the crew is looking forward to their return to work.

Knife-setter Don Dinnell of Greeley, left, Sugar End Foreman Hap Alexander of receives his five-year CW service pin from Greeley, left, receives his 20-year pin from Asst. Supt. Les Hibler. As.st. Supt. Butch Godfrey.

26 Windsor

Fort Collins Clarence F. Osborn, Great Western pioneer in sugar beet agriculture, poses by the table setting for his 85th birthday party at his Fort Collins home on May 20. Nearly 150 friends and relatives, includin.z many Sugar Tramps, dropped in to congratulate Clarence on his anniversary. Born one mile east of Loveland, he joined the Lovekmd factory field force in 1901, the year the mill was erected. He moved to Fort Collins in 1904 and continued his career as a CW fieldman there and at vVindsor until his retirement in 1935.

Fort Collins Dump Foreman Oscar Wetzler, left, receives his CW At the same Fort Collins party, Watchman Roy Wagner rises retirement certificate from Manager John Stewart at a party in to respond to the good wishes of his friends upon his retirement the factory office. Oscar retired in July with 26 years of service. with ten years of service. Mrs. Wagner sits at left, while Mr. and Mrs. Wetzler appear at rear.

At Windsor, Manager John Stewart pre­ Here Manager Stewart presents another Introducing Lorraine Eads, the pretty ste­ sents a five-year CW pin to Fieldman five-year Great Westerner pin to Ernest nographer at the Fort Collins office. Duane McDonal,d, right. He's the son of Daudert, right, an employee of the Com­ Jack McDonald, retired Longmont super­ pany farm at Windsor. intendent. 27 we offer sincere condolences and sympathy. Boilerhouse Foreman H. H. (Hank) Steiner died on May 16 after suffering a Loveland heart attack about May 1. Hank worked many campaigns in the factory and boiler­ house before he began his continuous serv­ BY BOB LOHR ice here in 1949. He was promoted to boilerhouse foreman in 1953. Hank, too, was the kind of man who did his share In our fast-moving world of today there of work--conscientous and loyal, always. seems to be a tendency to minimize or To the Steiner family, we offer sincere even eliminate eulogies for departed friends condolences and sympathy. and relatives. I do not agree with this Personal friends, these two, Hank and philosophy and propose to write some ap­ Duke; it was good to have known them propriate words about two friends of ours. and won't be the same around here with­ By "ours" I mean the entire crew of the out them. Loveland sugar factory. Elton Miller, brother of Kenny Miller, Sugar Boiler C. B. (Duke) Cowles died died in California during the last cam­ on April 27 after a brief stay in the local paign. Elton had worked here some years hospital. Duke was a person small of sta­ ago and is remembered by many Love­ ture but big in courage, willing to do his land residents. part at all times around the plant. I never A. M. (Mack) Hawkins retired last Jan­ heard an angry word pass his lips, never uary after many years of service. Mac set an undue criticism of anyone. Perhaps he knives during campaign and watched dur­ thought like it sometimes, as we all do, ing inter-campaign. Good luck, Mack! Loveland Storekeeper Joe Weddell, left, but he kept his peace-which is indeed a To Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Jack Corsberg receives his 40-year Great Westerner pin virtue. Duke was stricken by illness sev­ go congratulations upon the birth of a from Cashier Lowell Bond. eral times during this past year, but he son last March. came back to work faithfully each time. That seems to be about the news at To his wife Alice and his brother Sandy, this time from our comer of Colorado.

MSG Plant

BY DON MOOMEY

Beautiful spring weather and those wel­ come spring rains have come to our part of the country once again but to look around the plant, this balmy weather has not seemed to cause too much spring fever. Ren­ ovation, experimentation and fix-up seem Dora Jeffers and Rene Christiansen Sugar End Foreman Smoky Zimmerman to be the key words at the plant, and everyone is keeping up a pretty good pace under the watchful eyes of Supt. George Halbur and Master Mechanic Kerm Beal. .. I With the retirement of Ed Brunmier, diesel switcher operator, came the promo­ p,. -~··: :,ir tion of Dave Bender to fill that vacancy . ~ . !I! . and also the promotion of ·Murl Watson to fill the slot left by Dave. ! \'9 j ~. l George Sisler was welcomed into the •-~ I. MSG crew in April as assistant chemist, transferring from Longmont. We regret the passing of Gilbert Dilley, who had joined our warehouse staff re­ ' cently. The World's Fair Bug has bit lightly here and "Dutch" Schwalm is enjoying a three­ weeks' stay in Seattle. Nate Hawkins is Jim Meeker and Sol Winter Dick Weaver scheduled to go later in the summer. Wedding bells rang for Cammeron Alley and Karen Nelson, married on June 9. They are home now on a farm west of Johns­ town. Cigars were passed out by Asst. Supt. Heinz Herzog, a girl, Heidi Marie, born on March 3, and by Supt. Clerk Don Moomey, a boy, Christopher Mark, born on March 18. The warehouse crew enjoyed cigars later on when Bill Jewett became the father of a boy, Ross Eugene, on June 7. Chuck Dunning is having a multiplica­ tion problem-with his guppies. It seems that he has run out of fish bowls now that his wife has informed him that the bath tub is no place to keep baby fish. Armond Adkisson left for California to visit relatives and return via Las Vegas. We know Armond will be anxious to get back Glen Klinkacek Jim Graybeal to his paycheck.

28 Sterling

BY RUBY REICHERT

At Sterling we have had two extreme kinds of weather since early spring. An un­ usually long dry spell for this time of year, followed by the other extreme--a long wet spell with 7½ inches of rain in a 25-day At Johnstown, Cashier Harry Koenig on Here Cashier Koenig congratulates the period. This is more than one-half of the the left presents a IO-year CW service pin Johnstown storekeeper, C. R. Osborn, upon Sterling area's rainfall for the entire year. to Asst. Cashier Wayne Trotter. his IS-year service award. Also it was quite a bit heavier in the north and south ends of our district, to say nothing of the Nebraska area where Mrs. Schrade of Denver. Poor Paul, being growers were seriously considering plant­ the only grandchild of the Schrades, was ing rice. practically ignored. Ha, ha! Before the rains came it was necessary to So far we have not heard of too many do considerable replanting of beets due to vacations being taken. However, Timekeeper the drouth and weeds which don't let a little Bob Ball informs us that he and his wife Songs thing such as lack of moisture discourage and daughter expect to spend a week at their their growth. However, our replant is doing annual summer Bible Camp, Marantha, at nicely due to the good moisture conditions Maxwell, Nebr. My Mother at present, and our crop looks fairly good as Visiting at the Lester Gamer home are of now. We have had two hailstorms, both Jo and Harvey Boatright of Dallas, Texas, Never Taught Me in the same area. However, it is believed daughter and son-in-law. Jerri Garner they did not set us back too much. Lines, another daughter, received her A.B. It is with regret that we report the death degree from the University of Colorado at on June 10, of Mrs. Dilla Drew, wife of Boulder, majoring in Home Economics. Sugar End Foreman Ed Drew. Mrs. Drew Daughter Jean Gamer Wiliamson, recently had been in failing health for some time, presented Manager and Mrs. Garner with but seemed to be improving following ma­ another grandson. Congratulations to jor surgery when she took a sudden tum for parents, grandparents, and graduate! the worse. Our deep sympathy is extended to Anna Miller, wife of Top Mechanic Rudy Ed and his family. Ed has been with the Miller, was a member of the 1962 graduat­ company for 43 years, a close member of ing class of Northeastern Junior College at the Sugar Tramp family. Sterling. Mrs. Miller decided to continue her Cashier and Mrs. John Schrade enjoyed education that was interrupted by the ac­ a vacation in Florida and other southern quisition of a husband and two sons some states in April. They report having a mar­ years ago. The Millers, together with son velous time; but like all vacation trips, it Gary, expect to spend their vacation visit­ ended too soon. A week ago they enjoyed ing their son and brother Rudy Allen and a visit from their grandson, Paul, who was family this summer in Seattle and take in accompanied by his parents, Stanley and the World's Fair. Rudy, Sr. is looking for-

Brighton Cashier Scotty Hamilton, left, District Manager Lyman Andrews, left, presents a five-year CW pin to Jack presents a IS-year service pin to Murray Eachus, assistant storekeeper. Silvernale, Brighton fieldman. Cigars Better Than Camels Anyway

When two of the three wise men suggested walking a mile to get a camel, Edwin Mor­ rison replied: "We'll never get to first base monkeying along like this." So they bought horses. Edwin named his steed Larry. The wise men came out of the East in 1903. On February 7, the following year, this picture "IS taken at Fort Collins.

May, 1927

Brighton Master Mechanic Dick Dayton, Denver Muse of Brighton, left, receives his left, presents a IS-year CW service pin to five-year Great Westerner pin from Asst. J. J. Kreitzer, beltman. Supt. Dean Overstake.

29 Just reported to us: A brand new son to Top Mechanic and Mrs. Ralph Degenhart. Congratulations! This is the newest news we have. Chief Chemist Jim Dalbye is again assist­ ing at Johnstown for several week as he did last summer. Our most recent newlyweds are Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Nation. Congratulations and much happiness!

Fort Morgan

Sterling Manager Les Garner, left, hands Here Manager Garner presents another a 15-year Great Westerner pin to Ray 15-year pin to Ivan Stahle, a fieldman at BY ROBERTA WEISGERBER Koehler, dump repairman. Sterling. It's time once again to give an acount­ ing of all the Fort Morgan Sugar Tramps. At this writing, several are on vacation and ward to seeing his first grandchild, Nancy Sup'ts Clerk Ruby Reichert and son Tom are probably not worrying much about us Ann, whom he has not yet seen. She is have taken off for Greeley to give Tommy a here on the job. Have fun fellows-our tum eight months old. session with the dentist. From there their is coming. Van Stahle, son of Fieldman and Mrs. vacation plans are a deep, dark secret. We'll Maintenance work is coming along nicely, Ivan Stahle, recently had the lead role in find out anyway and let you all know later. one new plup press is being added, four new the Operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore" staged by Marge Wood is pinch-hitting for Ruby as U. S. Filters for the standard liquor filtra­ the Junior High eighth graders. Elaine Ball, Supt's clerk. tion station, a new calandria pan to replace daughter of Timekeeper and Mrs. Bob Ball Sugar shipments have been light the past the old ribbon pan, along with several other was the piano accompanist for the entire several weeks; however, the mill crew has P. I. jobs. This keeps Supt. Mart Schmode play and did a very commendable job. had no time to spare what with trying to and Master Mechanic Pete Kelim busy and The Sterling High school graduating complete the new job, a Silver diffuser in also puts that "satisfied grin" on both faces. class of 1962 inc 1u de d Linda Wood, time for harvest. No one is sitting aro~nd Asst. Supt. Clyde Kemper reports the daughter of Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Harvey in the mill right now. arrival of a new grandson, Paige Creighton Wood; Victor Ruf, Jr., son of Custodian and Storekeeper and Mrs. Howard Schaal Loomis, born May 6, and weighing 6½ Mrs. Victor Ruf. The Rufs' daughter, Janet, spent their vacation in Des Moines, visiting pounds. Clyde and Mrs. Kemper have just was a member of the graduating class of two of his brothers. returned from a visit with their daughter, Colorado State College at Greeley. Among Our feeding operations are practically at Mrs. Gary Weaver and family at Colum­ the graduates of St. Anthony's high school a standstill with most of the cattle having bus, Ohio. in Sterling was Verli Vecchia, daughter of been shipped to market. This will give Pete Steno Delila White, vacationed in Se­ End Foreman and Mrs. Aldo Vecchia. Verli Soper and his feeding crew a chance to ren­ attle, taking in the World Fair. She reports distinguished herself by being valedictorian o_vate the feedyards for next year's opera­ a wonderful time and the Fair well worth of her class and also being awarded a tion. the trip. scholarship to Northeastern Junior college. The Herb Mc Queens have had their Our congratulations to all graduates; their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Russel and parents for seeing them through, and best family as guests. Herb reports that the wishes to all for the future. oldest granddaughter, Celeste Ann, is going Attending the GW Golf Tournament at to remain here with them until July. No Estes Park from Sterling were: Cashier and wonder Herb has that tired but happy look Mrs. John Schrade; Mr. and Mrs. George these days. Mark; Supt. and Mrs. J. W. Eastman; Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Schiefelbein of and Mrs. Howard Schaal; Doc and Mrs. Fullerton, N. Dak., are announcing the en­ Van Dyke, and Harvey and Marge Wood. gagaement of their daughter Marlys Marie, Fieldmen Ivan Stahle, Al Walby, and to Richard W. Mittelstadt, son of Mr. and Bud Clemons were busy as little beavers Mrs. 0. L. Mittlestadt of Fort Morgan. An scooting Nationals from place to place to early July wedding is planned. keep them busy, and thereby doing a mirac­ The GW Ladies dinner party was held ulous job of getting the thinning job done. April 30 at the V. F. W. Hall. A good time Martha Quint is on the job again to assist was had by all and our thanks go to the with the payroll work. With the exception following committee members: Mrs. Conrad of some replant, thinning is progressing rap­ Hoffmann, Jr., Mrs. Mickey Berry, Mrs. idly and most of the beets are thinned. !he new U . S. filters about to be lifted Mart Schmode, Mrs. Elmer Smith, Mrs. Al Fieldman Jim Robertson and wife Jean, into place at the Fort Morgan mill. Martin and Mrs. John Lawther. are having a ball in the Nebraska area of the Sterling district. What with extreme wet weather most of the s pr in g, foul growth, more rain, and trying to keep the Nationals busy while Jean checked their payrolls, they have been going round and round and round. Jim says he's been on the verge of throwing in the sponge but couldn't find one big enough. However, they're determined, and steadfastly main­ tain they'll come out on top. Good luck Jim and Jean! Charley Kaepernik and his dump repair crew are tearing into several pilers in the hopes of getting them back together again in time for harvest, which might turn out to be a good one again with a little co­ operation from the weatherman. They are Dump Repairman Fred Ehlert of Long­ Bayard Dump Foreman R. E. Rice, left, working over six of our pilers, putting them mont, left, receives his 20-year CW service receives his 25-year gold service pin from in A-1 shape. pin from Manager Vic Ostermiller. Manager Lowell Giauque.

30 after 21 years of continuous service and 39 campaigns. We wish each of them the best of everything and hope they are able to come back and see us often. Summer is also vacation time and the Seattle World's Fair seems to be drawing a good number from here. Cheif Chemist Carrol Culver, and Asst. Supt. Floyd Logan have already been there while Head Fitter Leo Schanders, and Asst. Supt. Less Enwall are planning on going. Steffen Foreman Rudy Temple is planning a trip to Wash­ ton, D.C. where he plans to see several ma­ jor league ball games. Others are planning trips to the mountains and lakes and still others will just stay at home and work on the house. This year so far has brought only two transfers to the personnel here. First to leave was Merle Fleenor who was promoted to master mechanic at Lovell. Next was Joyce Dromheller, who moved back to the cash­ There is a total of 168 campaigns among these four Scottsbluff Sugar Tramps who retire ier's office at Gering. Replacing Merle was this summer. From left, Shop Foreman Harry Hood, with nearly 43 years of continuous Vernon Churchwell from Gering; and re­ service; Pipe Fitter Ray Darnell, 20 years; Extra Stationman Alex Wasmiller, also 20 years; placing Joyce was Helen Roberts. Welcome and Sugar Boiler John Schraeder, 37 years. to the crew.

Gering

H. T. WAGGONER The Gering crew and their wives were honored guests at a smorgasbord dinner at the Scottsbluff Country Club May 25, given by the company in recognition of their be­ ing designated co-winners of the Company's Safety Award Contest. Among those attend­ ing from the general office were Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Jensen, Bob Wherry, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brenimer, Ronald Bigler, and Jim Lyon. Attending from the district office in Scottsbluff were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Burk, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Pumphrey, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Todd and Mr. and Mrs. Darold Davidson. It was a real pleasure to see the:,e Here at Scottsbluff Fitter Ray Darnell receives his 20-year service pin from Asst. Master friends come and be with us and celebrate Mechanic Eldon Hood, center, and Asst. Master Mechanic Dave Hopper on the right holds this occasion. his ten year service pin. Mr. Wherry, Mr. Bigler, Mr. Jensen and Mr. Burk all addressed the group with a credit. Leo Shandera replaced Glen as head theme of continued safety efforts company­ fitter. John Schrader, Sugar Boiler, will be wide stressed in what they had to say. Mr. the next to leave on July 1. John will at J~nsen presented the plaque award to the that time have 38 years continuous service past year's Safety First Committee Chair­ and 46 campaigns. On August 1 Shop Fore­ man, Asst. Supt. Pryce Mitchell. man Harry Hood and Pipe Fitter Ray Dar­ The Gering crew extends congratulations Scottsbluff nell will also retire. Harry will have 43 years to Asst. Master Mechanic, Vern Churchwell, continuous service and 45 campaigns, while on his promotion to a like position at BY PAUL PUMPHREY Ray will have 20 years continuous service Scottsbluff, and invites him back for a visit and 38 campaigns. Extra Stationman Alex now and then. W asmiller will leave us on September 1 Gering wishes to welcome back among us, Summer is always a busy time around a sugar mill but this summer the pace around '9 Scottsbluff is faster than usual. Almost be­ fore the fires were dead in the 12 old boil­ ers, preparations were being made to tear them out and replace them with two new high pressure boilers. As the new boilers would not fit in the old boiler house it had I to be torn down and a new boiler house I I built. With all this work going on around the mill, there has been a large num her of new faces; also there has been several men here from the Gering and Mitchell mills to help out on the various jobs. Even though the weather has not been the best, being at times very cold, very hot, very dry, and very wet, the boilers are still on schedule and will be ready when campaign comes. Scottsbluff Cartoonist Neal Westervelt This year we are having a number of catches Merle Fleenor busily cleaning up men retire. First to leave us was Head Pipe Ellis Einsel, left, livestock feeding foreman his work at the Bluffs' factory before he Fitter Glen Kline, who had 37 years of con­ at Scottsbluff, receives his 15-year service moves to his new job at Lovell as master tinuous service and 43 campaigns to his pin from Manager Leonard Henderson. mechanic.

31 Mitchell

BY DICK BARKER,

The beets are planted and the Mexican Nationals are here which signifies the start of another beet year. The crops have had to endure almost every kind of weather from a severe drought to a deluge of rain and hail. In approximately three weeks our pre­ cipitation went from 2 inches below normal to 2 inches above normal and all conversa­ tions changed abruptly from "I wish it would rain" to "I wish it would stop rain­ ing". I hope the weather settles pretty soon as the Field Department is giving our as­ pirin supply a bad time. Congratulations to Bill and Dorothy Nel­ son on their new arrival, Nancy Jean, who was born May 25. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Miller spent a vaca­ tion here with Supt. and Mrs. Ty Miller. Asst. Supt. Otto Nieder reached two mile­ stones recently when he was presented his 45-year service pin and with the aid of his Here are two members of Mitchell's exclu­ wife won a twist contest. Congratulations, sive Seven Star Club-Asst. Supt. Otto Ott; and from now on you will be known Nieder, smiling at left, and Master Me­ as "Twister Nieder". (Confidentially I be­ chanic Curly Rawson, at right, listening to lieve he earned the serivce pin, but I suspect Asst. S~pt. Adam Sinner, center, a young­ the dance contest was rigged.) ster with only 29 years of service. Otto Vacation time is on us again and several and Curly reached their 45th anniversary people are on vacation and the rest of us with the Company only 49 days apart. are ready and "rarin" to go. The Seattle Otto was the second Nieder to mark the World's Fair seems to be a popular vacation milestone, joining his brother Carl who spot along with camping and fishing trips re~ired at Loveland. Their father,' Fred and just plain loafing around. Nieder, was a pioneer sugar boiler at Fort Ott Nieder and Al Wagner attended the Collins in the early years. GW Golf Weekend at Estes Park. Under­ stand they didn't play golf, but just relaxed at the Stanley. Our sympathy goes to Beet End Foreman Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Mitchell from Ovid. Ed Schwindt for the dubious honor of being Floyd is no stranger to most of the crew "hard luck fisherman of the month". Re­ having been at Gering previously, he will cently while fishing he caught a nice string assume the duties of our master mechanic. of Walleye Pike and then his stringer broke and he lost all but one of them. Just goes The Gering crew was saddened by the Timekeeper Dick Barker of Mitchell, left, d~ath of one of our retired people, "Babe" to show you that you are never sure of Ne­ receives his five-year GW service pin from braska fish until they are in the frying pan. Kmgrey, formerly a dryer foreman for Cashier Walt V ermeline. many years here. Our sympathy is extended to his family. Sympathy is also extended to the Al Ruth family in the loss of Mrs. Ruth's mother, Mrs. Edgar; and to the Ed Bott family whose brother passed away suddenly at Hastings, Neb. Numerous members of the crew have taken vacations. Taking in the "World's Fair" in Seattle have been namely the Darr John, Robert Cleary, Ray Davidson and Bill Sinner families. Bill Heily and family tripped to St. Louis, and Bill and son Hugh took a Hatch River Expedition trip on the Green and Yampa rivers from yernal, Utah. All have reported back, tell­ Dump Foreman Chet Morse of Mitchell, Stat~onman Bill Rowlee of Mitchell, left, mg of eventful and pleasant experiences. left, receives his 25-year gold pin from receives a five-year GW pin from Supt. We have others reportedly on vacation Manager Bill McGuffey. Jack Powell, now at Brighton. trips, Mel Uhrich and Frank Carpenter at present, who have not come back with their tales as yet. Maury Rogers informs us he is about to depart back for Lovell to visit and make another effort at some of the big ones that got away while he was there. It is with a great deal of regret we make mention of the passing away of our genial master mechanic, Herb Sheffield; I am sure many of the readers who were acquainted with_ him join each of us at Gering in ex­ tendmg sympathy to Mrs. Sheffield and son Bob. His untimely passing has been a sor­ row to us all and it is certain he will be Here Manager McGuffey presents a five­ Stationman George Bomeke of Mitchell missed in his relations with us both on and year Great Westerner service pin to Field­ left, receives his ten-year Great W esterne; off the job. man Paul Blome of Mitchell. pin from Supt. Powell.

32 Sugar End Foreman Murl Kimble displays his gift of a gold en­ Mary Jane Wilson of the Billings organization does the honors graved watch from the B illin:gs crew upon his retirement, with in presenting a Great W estemer pin-to none other than her Supt. Francis Wood at right. Murl, who first worked campaigns husband, Warehouse Foreman Bill Wilson, upon his 30th anni­ at Billings in 1916, was senior in service at. the factory with 40 versary of service. continuous years on the job.

..... ~ .,,. ... Chief electrician George Mitchell and wife Convention of Highway Engineers in Ma­ put the World's Fair first on their vacation drid, Spain, in October. The Kimmons are trip then they too plan a trip down the very proud of this honor being bestowed coast. on their son and rightly so. I The Billings and Lovell Technical Meet­ Jerome Pyette has been appointed agricul­ ing was held at the "Turf Club" in Bil­ tural assistant at Chinook to take the place ings and was well attended by both fac­ of Roland Jacob, who has been transferred tories. to the Lovell factory as fieldman in the New cars are showing up in the Com­ Powell area. pany's parking lot: Glen Rogers, chief We would like to welcome Bill Nelson to chemist-new Chevy; Francis Wood, super­ the dump crew. He replaces Chris Wagen­

intendent-new Buick; Ivan Enwall, assist­ man, who passed away a couple of months 111 ant superintendent-new Oldsmobile; ago. Tommy Turnbull, asst. master mechanic­ We will soon be losing Meri em Bell, Charles Bracken, left, receives a gold new Ford, and Harold Lundby, shop fore­ steno, as she is expecting a "wee one" and watch from the Billings crew presented by man-new Ford. will stay home to tend the baby. Asst. Supt. Earl Bittner upon his retire­ Time and news has run out, so will see Mrs. Ralph Hettinger and her mother, ment in March. you next time. Mrs. Margaret Grady, will attend the World's Fair in Seattle while Billy and Woody, sons of Asst. Manager Hettinger, BILLINGS OFFICE will go to Windsor to visit their grand­ parents. I guess Ralph doesn't get a vaca­ Cashier and Mrs. C. J. Lautenbach, and tion this year. children Kay and Paul recently returned Billings from their vacation. They visited at Pella, Iowa, and attended the Tulip Festival while there. They also toured parts of Minnesota and returned to Billings via the Black Hills. BY BILLIE VEIS On June 3, Fred, son of Mr. and Mrs. & MARY M. MANNI Oliver Brush, returned to the U.S. from a tour of duty with the Air Force in Turkey. The job of Associate Editor for the fac­ Mr. and Mrs. Brush will accompany Fred to tory has been open since the transfer of San Francisco where he is to report before Clyde Breshears into the mill as sugar boil­ leaving for Japan. er. With no takers as yet it appears the job Fieldman Robert L. Pierce from Pompeys rides along with that of the Superinten­ Pillar spent two weeks at National Guard dent's Clerk, so here goes! By the way my camp at Helena, Montana. While away, re­ name is Billie Veis, now the superinten­ tired Vern Swartz is helping us out. dent's clerk. It is nice to have congenial Betty Otis Billings men Louis Hoiness, left, with his We would like to extend our deepest sym - back for a short time working on the Mexi­ five-year pin, and Cleon Bracken at right pathies to Mrs. F. A. Wood and Mrs. Tom­ can National payrolls. with his IS-year pin, presented by Sugar my Turnbull on the deaths of their mothers Manager and Mrs. R. L. Kimmons recently Boiler Bob Jacobs, center. in March and to the family of Paul A. purchased a new home at 1330 Crawford Parker. Mr. Parker, Boiler House Foreman, Drive in Billings. We all wish them many passed away May 6 after a lengthy illness; happy hours in their new surroundings. he had been employed by the Company for The Ralph Stenehjems, (he is By-Pro­ 20 years. ducts Representative) are planning a reun­ New additions to families of GWSCO em­ ion of Mrs. Stenehjems' family at Swan ployees are: boys-Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ayers, Lake in Western Montana as part of their Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Wilson, and girls to family's vacation. This will occur in the Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kiedrowski and Mr. and very near future and close to 40 family Mrs. Haydn Graves. Congratulations to members will be in attendance. them all. Sugar Clerk Stan Lewis and Mrs. Lewis Our crane operator, Bryan Cross, has been are going to Omaha soon to spend their in the hospital with a lung ailment but is vacation with relatives. They also plan to now home. Hope to see you back to work take a trip thru Missouri to visit some spots real soon, Bryan. where Stan spent his boyhood. Supt. and Mrs. F. A. Wood took a lei­ Bob Kimmons, Jr., who is with the Creole surely vacation trip thru California and on Petroleum Corporation in Venezuela, will Asst. Supt. Ike Enwall, left, presents a l S­ their way to the World's Fair in Seattle. deliver a paper before the International year pin to Sugar Boiler Fran Cashner.

33 ward are the Ervin Lynns-they will take in the fair and then fly to Alaska to visit their son Barton and his family. Barton is stationed with the Air Force in Alaska as a jet pilot. The Myrl Averetts journeyed to Laramie to see son Tom graduate from the university. Mrs. G. R. Enevoldsen has chosen a va­ riety trip for her summer vacation. She started out by waiting in Lovell three hours for the southbound train enroute to Cali­ fornia; 17 hours after leaving Lovell, she arrived in Casper. She then transferred to Frontier to complete her trip to visit her parents in Sacramento. Flash floods and late trains were the reasons. Hats off to our champion bowlers-Carl Haffner won the singles event with a score of 667-Ed Pfeiffer was a member of Mr. and Mrs. William Winterholler and the winning team of the city tournment. Mr. an,d Mrs. Fritz Fink of Lovell at a party honoring the retirement of Bill and Fritz from the crew last spring. Both couples will continue to live in the Lovell The Ralph Townsends are off on a trip area. to the fair in Seattle. They will have a very busy two weeks then they return getting ready for daughter Sheilla's wedding and then on to Bayard where they will move and make their home. Several parties have been given in their honor. Mr. and Mrs. Lovell Charles Ryan had a get-together of the fac­ tory bunch in their honor. Mr. Townsend has been transferred to BY BESSIE ROSS Bayard as Master Mechanic. Merle Fleenor replaces him in Lovell in a like capacity. We wish to congratulate our long list of Mr. and Mrs. Fleenor have moved to Lovell graduates, both from high school and col­ -welcome and good luck to both men in lege. Our best wishes go out to all of you your promotions. and from time to time we hope to hear Fred Ross and Wallace Baird have been from you in your new ventures and fields retired since the clo<;e of campaign. Fred of progress. was for many years sugar end foreman and Wallace spent his time in the warehouse as Two graduates of the University of Wyo­ Garth Allred, Norman Sorensen and Le­ ming were Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Magnus­ Mar Averett have all had trips to the hos­ foreman. The Union honored these men with parties and gifts were presented to she's the former Mary Ellen Johnson, pital that have kept them from their work daughter of Manager and Mrs. Charles in the mill for an extended period of time. them and their wives. Ron Olsen and family have spent a week's Johnson of Lovell. Doyle and Mary Ellen They are all much improved and, of the appear here with their son, Chuck, appro­ trio, Garth is back to work and the other va.cation in Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. two we hope will return shortly. Marvin Fillerup are taking in the Seattle priately capped and gowned. Ted Tippetts, Robert Walker, Jim Wag­ fair for their vacation. Also traveling west- ner and Harlow Brim ha 11 returned to Lovell June 17, having spent two weeks with the Lovell National Guard on their annual encampment. From reports they have done themselves proud in receiving the first superior rating in the battalion. Helmut Doerr, Keith Allred, Tom Clem­ ments, Roy Arnoldus, Keith Brimhall and Bill Oatman have been checking cement during the slip-form erection for the bulk sugar storage bins. All is quiet this morning as the top has been reached and now they are to start the final windup, the room at the top and the GW sign erection. Then to the elevator and installations inside the bins to finish the project. Men added to the regular crew that are back again this year to help with the bin job, the rock and coke handling equipment, as well as the new pan job, are John Na­ tion, R. A. Burke Ernest Howe, Chas Ryan, Wayne Walker, Lawrence Asay, Feron Cox, Dave Backer, John Bechtold, Fred K. Fink, Harlow Brimhall, Calvin Tilley, David Stanley, John King, Keith Brimhall, Fred Miller and Jake Adolph. Irvin Soiland and Don McClure are here from Billings. Art Hudson, Carl Hull, Frank Jones and E. M. Barker are here to install the Lyman pan, they also come from Billings. John Neeley is in the shop. The sugar crew, Robert Schultz, Charles Robison, Gary Averett, Robert Robison, Frank Cowley, Claus Schultz, Albion Rodrequez, Ben Mengel and Jim Beddes has the sugar loaded and The two happy couples here represent additions to the family of Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Joe moved on to the work at the pulp silo. Asay of Lovell. At left is Diane Asay with her bridegroom, Calvin W . Jewell of Phoenix, Regular watchmen Carl and John Fink are who were married in March. And at right is Myrna Jean Asay and her bridegroom, Larry also in the mill working_on the P. I. jobs. Sessions of Moorcroft, who were married last November.

34 The Clan Gathers and Golfs at the Grandest Great Western Wheek-end !

■ Estes Park was the scene of the "grandest" Great Western Week-end in many a moon on June 9 and 10, when the clan gathered for the combined GW Golf Tournament and Technical Society's Ladies Night dinner-dance. There were 292 celebrants at the dinner-dance, 63 golfers on the greens, and 54 ladies at the bridge-luncheon ... all enjoying the annual get-away-from-it-all. Bob Brenimer of the General Office won the championship flight in the golfing, while Mrs. Charles Dodson of Windsor won first prize at the bridge tables. The dinner-dance at the Stanley Hotel featured the music of Dean Bushnell and his Denver orchestra; it was preceded by a social hour with libations furnished by the General Office de­ partment heads and their assistants. One novelty was the invasion of the fairways by several foursomes of Great Western ladies; and, men, they think they may just be able to improve the play some in the future. Sheila Townsend, daughter of Dennis Lynn, son of Beet End The wonderful week-end was enjoyed through the good offices M as t e r Mechanic and Mrs. Foreman and Mrs. Ervin Lynn and energies of Frank Begley of the General Office and Vic Ralph Townsend, was a grad-. of Lovell, was a graduate of Ostermiller of Longmont, who were co-chairmen of arrangements uate of Lovell High School. Lovell High School. for the event. The prizes were carted off in the golfing according to these results: Championship Flight-Bob Brenimer, General Office, first; Duane McDonald, Windsor, second. First Flight-George Walters, General Office, first; Vic Oster­ miller, Longmont, second. Second Flight-Lloyd Jensen, General Office, first; Ike En­ wall, Billings, second. Third Flight-Louis Beeten, Johnstown, first; B. Johnson, second. Fourth Flight-Oscar Mittelstadt, Fort Morgan, first; Charlie Chipman, Windsor, second. Fifth Flight-Chuck Sword, Eaton, first; Bob McKee, General Office, second. Sixth Flight-Red JohQson, Ovid, first; Cal Smith, General Office, second. Seventh Flight-Bill Feland, Longmont, first; Cliff Gebow, General Office, second. In the bridge tournament: First prize-Mrs. Charles Dodson, Windsor; second prize-­ Mrs. Don Redman, Fort Morgan; third prize-Mrs. Lloyd Jensen, Denver. Gottlieb and Paul Fink, left and right, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Door prizes-Mrs. Betty Jo McKee, Loveland, and Mrs. George Fink, were graduates of Byron High School. Burrows, Scottsbluff.

Tom Averett, son of Beet End The gloom of the Superann11.ated Sugar Tramps Cellar Club in Longmont reveals (if you Foreman and Mrs. Myrl Averett look close) five retired Great Westerners who were surprised in the act of playing some of Lovell, was a graduate of the kind of a game at a card table. From the left they turn out to be Ed Gonyou, who was College of Education at the superintendent at Loveland; Heine Zisch (hiding behind Ed), who was superinten-dent at University of Wyoming in June. Johnstown; Harry Evans, who was superintendent at Eaton; John Price, assistant at Love­ land; and George Atkinson, who was superintendent at the MSG Plant. It is reported by unimpeachable sources that a secret tape recording was made of the Sf: ssion, but the tran­ script of the uninhibited and educational conversation was not available at press time.

35 Master Mechanic Thad Creager, left, with Fremont Supt. Jesse Stone presents a five­ Dryer Foreman Elmer Penrod Findlay re­ the watch he was presented from the Fre­ year pin to his clerk, Rita Swint. Jesse ceives his five-year CW service pin from mont crew by Supt. Jesse Stone upon his himself received a 35-year service pin. Beet End Foreman Keith Ross. departure to his new post at Ovid.

Oak Miller, new master mechanic at Fre­ Dryer Foreman Cid Billow of Fremont, Findlay Warehouse Foreman Alfred Hei­ mont, receives his 30-year CW service pin left, receives his 20-year service pin from ing receives his five-year CW service pin from Supt. Jesse Stone at right. Asst. Supt. Al Schmidt. from Beet End Foreman Keith Ross.

Fremont

BY RITA SWINT

Things are ruuning pretty much on an even keel around Fremont. Work has been started on the installation of the new beet laboratory and the improvement of the cen­ tral tarehouse. The beet lab will process samples for both Fremont and Findlay area growers. All other intercampaign mainte­ Lead Mechanic L. G. Anstead, left, pre­ At Fremont, Dump Repairman Ron Per­ nance work is progressing satisfactorily. sents a gift from the Fremont men to Ex­ kins, left, receives his five-year CW pin The biggest news here was the promotion tra Stationman Bob Covert, who entered from Manager Gordon Rudolph. Ron is and transfer of Master Mechanic Thad the Armed Forces. due back in August from active duty in Creager, to Ovid, Colorado. His five years the field artillery at Fort Campbell, Ky. at Fremont were memorable ones-the two floods, the rebuilding of our Gantry crane which was demolished in a freak storm, the installations of our diffuser and the new dryer, and many more too numerous to mention. We certainly miss the Creagers and hope they will be real happy in their new home and Thad, in his new job. Oak Miller, former assistant master me­ chanic, is Thad's replacement. Oak has been in the "sugar business" since 1930 when he started as repairman's helper for the Great Lakes Sugar Company at Blissfield, Mich. In 1936, he was promoted to assistant en­ gineer, a position he held until 1955 when the title was changed to assistant master mechanic at the time the Northern Ohio Sugar Company took over. His transfer to Fremont occurred in 1943 and he has re­ Fieldman Leroy Williams and his b,ride Fieldman Harold Heilman of Findlay, left, sided here since that time. Congratulations who were married in February. receives his 25-year service pin from Man­ and best wishes, Oak! ager Ronald Steck.

36 Horse Creek

BY LOIS E. LANG

A delegation of men from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation at Sunrise paid us a visit on May 18, spending the day in looking over our operation. They were es­ pecially interested in observing the results of the new ammonium nitrate blasting which we are now using in our stopes. Those making the trip were Asst. Supt. R. L. Wahl, Chief Engineer H. B. Lynch, Mining Engineer J. W. Johnston, Safety Engineer George DeFond, Plant Foreman Albert Testolin, Mine Foreman A. B. Tes­ tolin, Shift Bosses D. E. Albee and Bert Jesse, and Jigger Bosses Sam Perry, Roland See, Donald Troudt, Chet Morgan and Art­ hur Rennick. Come back again, fellows. We enjoyed your visit. Young Robert Lopez, son of Machineman and Mrs. Robert Lopez, is now home again, having completed his tour of duty with the Army. He was stationed in Germany the greater part of the time, and went on a number of tours, taking pictures, and writ­ The Fremont factory, co-winner of the GW Safety Contest for 1961, also received an ing up his experiences in detail, all of award for safe work performance from the Ohio Industrial Commission. Here Supt. Jesse which are highly interesting. E. Stone, right, accepts the certificates from RichaT'd W. Tobin, vice chairman of the com­ Supt. and Mrs. Phil Ford have recently mission. Below, at the Fremont mill, Master Mechanic Oak Miller on the left and Asst. purchased a home in Cheyenne, and were Supt. John Homan complete the "planting" of the GW Safety Sign singling out their fac­ all moved and sett 1e d in before their tory and crew. daughter, Francie, came home from school. We have three new little residents in our community: Cynthia Dawn Cross, and of Mechanic Alton and Dorothy Cross, and the granddaughter of Mine Foreman and Mrs. W. E. Cross, Sr.; Dedra Preston, daughter of Mechanical Foreman and Mrs. WE ARE THE WINNERS Ronald Preston, and granddaughter of Chute Builder and Mrs. C. C. Preston. ANNUAL A baby son has come to the Edward Lopezes so recently that we do not know GW SAFETY AWARD his name as yet. Also, Mine Foreman and Mrs. M. D. Van Zee have another grandson, HllP US KEEP IT.I little Robert Max Shanks, born in Denver on April 22. His mother is the former Isa­ belle Van Zee. Congratulations to all the new parents and grandparents. Larry Snyder, son of Machineman and Mrs. L. E. Snyder; and George Lopez, an­ other son of Bob and Naomi Lopez, have enlisted in the Army under the "Buddy" plan. They expect to be sent to Germany after completing their training. Supt. Phil Ford attended the mining con­ vention in Jackson recently. He was accom­ panied by his wife and daughter, who drove on to Idaho, while Mr. Ford returned to Cheyenne by plane. Also, we have the usual summer chores Electrician and Mrs. Don Wilson have Experiment going on-Mike Lierman devoting his tiine purchased a lovely new three bedroom Sky­ to "tropical work" on greenhouse projects, line trailer house. It's really a beauty. Bob Oldemeyer and Herb Bush out with Station the high school boys bagging beets, Bill Davis in Montana thinning beets, Ralph BY LOUISE WEBBER Wood on a trip to the West Coast looking at seed plots in California and Oregon, Dick Wagner and Alex Diesing in the With the 1962 growing season well under Glenwood Springs area spraying seed plots, way, one of the major concerns here at the and last but not least, the office force work­ Longmont Experiment Station is chemical ing hard getting acquainted with a couple weed control. Extensive experimental tests of new office machines. have been conducted not only here in the George Giebelhaus, our new janitor, has station greenhouses, but also at the Wind­ been doing a topnotch job keeping the Sta­ sor farm and in other Great Western areas tion in shipshape condition. Besides "swab­ of Montana, Nebraska and Wyoming. Ed bing the deck" inside, George spends many Sullivan, Bob Abrams (Bob was recently innumerable hours caring for the huge Harry Faust, who was master mechanic at transferred to the Station from the Ovid lawn surounding the station and shop Wheatland and Fort Lupton before he factory district) and LeRoy Weisgerber buildings. On days off, he likes to spend retired in 1948, sends this picture of him­ have spent countless hours testing her­ his spare time puttering in the yard at self an•d his bride of 50 years on their bicides, hoping to come up with one that home or else off fishing in some lake or golden wedding anniversary last year. will eliminate weeds in sugar beets. mountain stream nearby. They live in Paducah, Ky.

37 Three Lady Sugar Tramps at the General Office display winning smiles over It may be the wrong season for a bulky knit sweater, but their $90 prize for ninth place in the Denver City Bowling Tournament earlier Zada Spratt of the General Office comes through with a this year. From left, Betty Shea, librarian; Sue Gannon and Jeanette Day, fetching smile to display her trophy for winning the wom­ both of the Purchasing office steno group. Other members of the team were en's slalom in the Denver Industrial League ski meet at Helen Williams and Mary Winter White, formerly of the Purchasing group. Upper Hidden Valley last Memorial Day. Zada was re­ cently advanced from Bill Wright's payroll section to sec­ retary for Vice President Bob Fisher. This summer, she's water-skiing and may just provid? another photo in ap­ propriate togs. For a winter-time issue, of course.

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Here's the 1962 entry of the CW Sugars in the Denver Old-Timers Baseball League for boys 13 and 14 years old. The Sugars won five of their first six games to qualify for upper division play. Front row, from left, Manager Cas ey Biegler (representing the Company), Captain Bill MacIntosh, Bill Fink, Bruce Brown, Andy Naylor and Harry King. Back row, Manager Biegler with two other members from left, Curly Boyle, Jim McKinney, Jim Calloway, Pete Papedo, Garry Butz, and Stan of the Sugars-Dean Dazell and Bill Dunn of the General Off ice accounting staff. Brant.

38 ■ Samuel R. Roberts, member of a promi­ ■ Everett R. McAlear, head fitter at the Glenn was one of the "old originals" nent Great Western family, died on June Longmont factory until he retired because at Fort Collins. He joined the crew in 1903, 8 in Sheridan, Wyo., where he lived since of disability, died May 16 at the age of the year the mill was built. his retirement as agricultural superintend­ 59. In his first year, he was beet dump fore­ ent at Fort Lupton in 1931. His age was Mac suffered a hip injury and never man and the next year he was in the 89. fully recovered from the effects. factory. In 1913, he was promoted to boiler­ Sam, whose career dated from the earliest He first worked campaigns in 1920 at house foreman. With the exception of the days of the Company, was a brother of Gering as a pipefitter's helper and later World War II shutdown, when he was Fred H. Roberts, one-time superintendent served at various times at Greeley, Eaton, at Longmont, Glenn was boilerhouse fore­ at Sterling and now a member of the CW Sterling and Johnstown. man at Fort Collins until his retirement Board of Directors; and he was the uncle Mac began his year-around career at in 1947. of Carl R. Roberts, purchasing manager. Fort Morgan in 1934 as head fitter and As a young man in Rocky Ford, Sam moved to Longmont in 1949, where he ■ I. H. Drennon, a veteran of 46 years of heard of the plans for the first sugar fac­ served until his injury in 1960 forced him service at Fort Collins, died on May 13. tory in Northern Colorado at Loveland. He to retire in 1961. He lived in Collins since his retirement in came north then, in 1901, and helped to 1952. build GW's first mill and worked the next He joined Great Western in 1906 at two campaigns at the beet dumps. He also ■ Glenn Polley, a familiar face in the Collins as a sweeper; the next year he was worked on construction at the Longmont Fort Collins boilerhouse for some 34 years, a battery helper, and later a battery man. factory. died on May 10 in Fort Collins, where he About 1927, he became a sugar boiler and About the same time his brother, Fred, lived in retirement. held that job until he retired in 1952. was a young assistant superintendent at Longmont. In 1908, Sam turned to agriculture and became an assistant Heldman at Scotts­ bluff; he was promoted to Heldman in 1910 and transferred to Sterling. There, ~...,...,..., in 1916, he was appointed agricultural superintendent. He served until about 1919, when he was moved to the agricultural district at Missoula, then just developing. STICKY BUSINESS ON THE ROAD YOUNG KENNY OGAN WINS In 1920, he was transferred to Billings. EUROPEAN SCIENCE TRIP or Sam left Great Western in 1921 to join ■ International recognition for scientific the new Independent Sugar Company ven­ BEET SYRUP BITES THE DUST! study has been conferred upon Kenneth ture at Fort Lupton as agricultural con­ Ogan, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. sultant. Ivan Ogan of Ault an•d grandson of When Great Western took over the Fort One of the many advances of our crea­ Master Mechanic and Mrs. Ray Brown Lupton mill in 1925, Sam rejoined the ture comforts was uncovered by Frank of Sterling. Company as agricultural superintendent Begley, tax agent at the General Office, Mrs. Ogan is campaign bench chem­ and continued in that position until his while diligently perusing the papers. He ist at the Eaton factory. retirement in 1931. came across this item in the "Good Old Young Ogan was one of 14 high Days" column of the Julesburg Grit-Ad­ school student who ,represented the vocate for June 6, 1962, recounting events United States at the Fourth Internation­ of 50 years ago: al Youth Science Fortnight at London, ■ John W. Karns, a veteran Great West­ There has been some talk of trying out England, from July 19 to Aug. 4. He erner who retired as master mechanic at a plan of keeping down the dust on our and the group then left on a three­ Brush in 1950, died on June 20 in Loveland streets in some other way than sprinkling. week science tour of Wes tern Europe. after a long illness. He was 77 years old. It has been suggested that Cedar Street from John joined the Company in 1908 at Kenny, who will be a senior this the First National Bank corner to the fall at Ault High School, scored straight Loveland as a pipefitter and moved to Citizens National Bank corner be graded, Eaton in 1913. In 1918, he was advanced A's the last three years and won blue graveled and oiled, but some of the towns ribbons each year at the Colorado­ to head fitter at Loveland, where he re­ in Northern Colorado are contemplating mained until 1942. Wyoming Science Fair. Last year, he using beet syrup to keep down the dust. At that time, John was appointed master won the Adolph Coors scholarship for Eaton, Colo., has already used this plan study at the Frontiers of Science In­ mechanic at Brush; he was back at Love­ and in a recent dispatch to one of the land for a while in 1943, and then re­ stitute at Colorado State University. Denver papers says: On his way to London, Kenny stopped turned to Brush, where he completed his "In spite of the hard wind that blew 42 years of service in 1950. over in Washington to view the capital yesterday the streets upon which beet syrup sights and to visit Congressman Peter John was the father of Donald E. Karns, had been sprinkled in the last few days the new process control engineer stationed Dominick of the Northern Colorado were without dust." District. at Johnstown, and Mrs. Lee E. Butler, wife ... Quick, Henry, the Flit! of the manager at Eaton and Greeley. -Russ Smith, Eaton

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That 1,000,000 figure stands for the number of cubes of Pure GW Sugar donated by The Great W estem Sugar Company for the "Stop Polio Sundays" in the Denver area immunization program. Sugar Helps President Frank A. Kemp, right, arranges the cubes in the figure fo.r a newspaper picture to promote the campaign under the di­ rection in Denver of Dr. R. N. Chisholm, left. Several drops of the tasteless Sabin polio vaccine were placed on each of the million Stop Polio! cubes to be handed out free of charge at more than JOO places on the designated Sundays in the Denver area.

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