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Factory-- Manager Superintendent Master Mechanic Cashier Chief Chemist -Symbol E for EATON Lee E. Butler George W. Halbur Vernon Churchwell Francis X. Rice Russell D. Smith E

G for GREELEY Lee E. Butler Frank Jones Lynn Brown George R. Gibson Richard W. Mann G

W for WINDSOR John Stewart Oliver H. Swaney Edgar 0. Williams Charles 8. Merritt Stanley G. Webster w

V for LOVELAND Leonard M. Johnson E. E. Lingle Kermit W. Beal J. Lowell Bond Matthew Sheldon V

L for LONGMONT Frank Zumbrink L. W. Feland Charles A. Kupilik C. B. Nasi Stewart Foster L

N for BRIGHTON LaMar C. Henry Floyd W. Miller Richard W. Dayton A. C. Hamilton Dana E. Wells N

J for JOHNSTOWN (no manager) Lloyd V. Sybrandt George J. Morgan H. R. Koenig John M. Farlow J Z for MSG PLANT (no manager) Lloyd V. Sybrandt James C. Young H. R. Koenig James D. Dalbey z Q for OVID I. L. Johnson G. R. Enevoldsen Thad W. Creager Ralph T. Smith Paul H. Pumphrey Q S for STERLING Lester B. Garner Jack W. Eastman John D. Spall John C. Schrade Jerry W. Steinmeyer s

M for FORT MORGAN J. V. 'Ostermiller Mart C. Schmode Lee J. Kelim Harold E. Smith Harold D. Camp M

F for SCOTTSBLUFF L. H. Henderson Sabin G. Hooper Matthew P. Brennan Don L. Cross E. C. Culver F

R for GERING L. H. Henderson Jack B. Powell Floyd Mitchell Joseph H. Lawson Russell W. Dilley R

D for BAYARD Lowell E. Giauque Jesse E. Stone Ralph E. Townsend Dale H. Quinn Harry C. Brown C

T for MITCH £LL W. C. McGuffey Tyler W. Miller Dan Schmidt W. V. Vermeline James P. Teters T

B for BILLINGS Ralph W. Hettinger* Francis A. Wood D. C. Davis J. Gerald Kisler W. G. Rogers B

0 for LOVELL Charles R. Johnson Dan E. Conwell Merle W. Fleenor H. L. Marten Thomas L. Clements 0

Fr for FREMONT Gordon Rudolph John R. Corsberg Oakley C. Miller Richard F. Mally James E. Heffernan Fr

Fy for FINDLAY Ronald D. Steck Dwight A. Gordon August Schneider Lee F. Coon Harry L. Dougherty Fy

C for FORT COLLINS John Stewart (not operating) Hugh E. Cook C * Acting Manager LONGMONT EXPERIMENT STATION - Ralph Wood, Manager • HORSE CREEK QUARRY - Philip Ford, Superintendent The 1947 Factory Staff List Factory Manager Superintendent Master Mechanic ~ Chief Chemist

R eveals "Palace Revolution" Eaton Robert L. Kimmons Edwin G. Gonyou Walter D. Brossman A. A. Tinn Paul M. Smith

In the Ranks of Supervisors Greeley Robert L. Kimmons Claude T. Carney Joseph M. Mooney William D. Bruce J. Wesley Kendall

• Let's take a tum down memory lane just a Windsor John D. Edmiston* Mart C. Schmode J. R. Goodner J. J. Campbell c. H. Mccurry short way to 1947--only 16 years ago-to look at the members of the factory management staff. Fort Collins Ralph Partridge Roland L. Colwell W. W. Christinck Byron Albert Jay A. Bair The war was wet) over then, the boys were back home in civilian harness, and the sugar mills were beginning their post-war improvement Loveland Frank Whiting Henry H. Sandmann Frank Davies Allan M. Robb V. V. Hartmann program with Fort Morgan installing the first continuous diffuser. Longmont Homer S. Varner Fred S. Treadway Charles A. Kupilik J. B. Hitt Harry 8 . Saxton Fort Collins, Fort Lupton, Brush and Lyman were operating then; but the MSG Plant was still a distant dream and Fremont and Findlay Brighton Charles F. Johnson John B. McDonald A. M. Schertel D. Sigwing C. 8. Millen were far away in Ohio, not yet related to Great Western. Fort Lupton Charles F. Johnson C. W. Scotland Harry E. Faust J. Lowell Bond Charles A. Horne Who ran the factories then? Their names ap­ pear in the table at right. But compare those names with the ones on the list above for the Johnstown (no manager) J. H. Zisch Chester I. Sherman H. R. Koenig A. J. Thomas• current inter-campaign. Suddenly, from the vantage point of 16 years, Ovid George 0. Reed George W. Atkinson Fern H. Barnhart John C. Schrade P. M. Grissinger there appears an astounding rate of retirement and replacement. Except among the cashiers, there is almost an entirely "new generation" of Sterling J. Gordon English Harold D. Burk** Ray Brown J. Gerald Kisler A. H. Edwards factory supervisors. Only those with names in bold type in the list Brush Joseph L. Williams N. J. Muscavitch** John W. Karns Harold E. Smith M. V. Huleatt at right held like positions 16 years ago. In the meantime, to fill all the vacancies in those 16 years, the management staffs at the Fort Morgan Joseph L. Williams Raymond H. Myers C. M. Iverson Frank H. Lore C. R. Koontz various factories went through a virtual "palace revolution" with a total of 236 promotions and Scottsbluff M. S. Clement 0. M. Cummer Lee A. Whipple C. B. Jones Roy I. Babbitt promotional transfers! The "revolution" occurred gradually but in­ sistently in the wake of 58 retirements, 12 deaths, Gering M. S. Clement Lloyd T. Jensent William T. Warren Douglas Callahan George Goldfain nine resignations, and 16 promotions to the Gen­ eral Office or District staffs. Bayard A. M. Ginn Ralph F. Bristol, Sr. William F. Hartney W. H. Wadsworth C. H. Ninegar So now, surprisingly enough, the roster of managers shows a complete turnover in 16 years. C. B. Nasi Frank Hargreaves And the present ranks of superintendents and Mitchell Herman Juergens Charles D. Towse Matthew Brennan chief chemists include only one each from the 1947 list-Mart Schmode, superintendent at Fort Lyman Herman Juergens W. H. Evans H. C. Sheffield Charles Schwaner W. G. Rogers Morgan, and Glenn Rogers, chief chemist at Bill­ ings, who were both in the first year of their Jack T. Davis appointments then. Billings Lyman H. Andrews• Charles S. Scott William Jensen Paul H. Marsh Among the master mechanics, two served in that position in 1947-Charlie Kupilik of Long­ Lovell R. K. Bischoff John S. Ankeny S. J. Houser H. L. Marten Oliver H. Swaney** mont and Matt Brennan of Scottsbluff. And among the cashiers, there are the eight present ones whose names appear in bold type. t Now Vice President-Operations Wheatland: * Now Asst. Supt. The 1947 staff list at right was taken from George R. Gibson ** Now Supt. at W the appointments in effect that year just before * Now District Manager the start of campaign. * • Now District Superintendent

w Purchasing

• M. H. (Red) Ruebush, bulk sugar engineer at Denver, has been appointed assistant purchas­ ing manager. Ruebush moves to Purchasing with broad experience in both sugar factory and sugar sales engineering. He specialized in bulk sugar handling systems in consultation with industrial customers in the Mid-West. He I started that phase of his career in 1956, along with design work A. M. Watson J. V. Ostermiller M. H. Ruebush on the Chicago and Milwaukee bulk sugar terminals. Earlier, Ruebush was a designer at the Scottsbluff District Office from 1954 to 1955. Then and before his engineering work took him to every operating factory from the start of his year-around service in 1950. Appointments Ruebush was also a CW engineer brieFly in 1945 and 1946. From then until 1950, he traveled extensively in the United States and Europe and worked for Spreckels Sugar in Salinas, Calif., and in the salmon fishing industry in Alaska. and A member of a nine-generation farm family in Illinois, Rue­ bush was born in Macomb and schooled in Good Hope. He attended Western Illinois College and Aeronautical University in Chicago. Ruebush was married in 1955 to the former Angeline Kalinoski, who worked in the Chemical Department at the Gen­ Advancelllents eral Office in 1953.

Agriculture Department Al Watson, Manager at Fort Morgan, Retires with 35 Years of GW Service • J. V. (Vic) Ostermiller, manager at Longmont, has been ap­ pointed manager at Fort Morgan to succeed A. M. Watson, who • A. M. Watson, veteran manager at Fort Morgan, retires at retires. his own request on Sept. 1 to close a notable career of 35 years His transFer marks a return to familiar scenes for Ostermiller, in sugar beet agriculture in the Morgan and Windsor areas. who spent 20 years in Morgan County before his appointment to Al leaves on Aug. 1 to begin his vacation before his retire­ Longmont in 1957. He joined Great Western in 1942 at Fort ment date. He was manager at Fort Morgan for the past nine Morgan as a fieldman, moved the next year to Brush, where he years and also at Brush until that district was joined with Fort was a fieldman until 1950, when he became assistant manager. Morgan in 1959. He held that position until he moved to Longmont. Before moving there in 1954, Al was manager at Windsor Earlier, Ostermiller was a vocational agriculture teacher in for six {ears. There he played an important part in the develop­ high schools at McClave, Yuma and Brush, and also farmed two ment o machine thinning for the beet crop. years with his father south of Merino. While at Windsor, Al began an association with Supt. Mart Ostermiller was schooled in Merino and then at the Univer­ Schmode that proved to be a winning combination for six out sity of Nebraska and Colorado A & M College, where he took a of the last ten years. With Al in the field and Mart in the degree in animal husbandry in 1932. factory, they led Windsor to first place in the Safety Contest in 1953 and! again in 1954 during the first part of the year both • Frank Zumbrink, assistant to the southern district manager were there. And at Fort Morgan, where they teamed up again, at Denver, has been appointed manager at the Longmont fac­ they led the mill to the Pennant in 1957-58 and in the last three tory, where he succeeds J. V. Ostermiller. campaigns performed the outstanding feat ,,f taking second place Zumbrink came to the General Office in 1960 from Fort each time. Morgan, where he was assistant manager for three years. Ex­ Before he went to Windsor as manager, Al was a Fieldman cept for a brief assignment at Gering, his earlier service was spent at Fort Morgan from 1929 to 1948. He helped to pioneer the in the Lyman district from 1952 to 1957. He joined Great West­ beet crop in the Wiggins and Hoyt areas, where plantings grew ern there. from a 12-acre contract to the 6,000 acres there this summer. A native of Alma, Mich., in the "eastern" sugar beet area, Al began his Great Western service as a Fieldman at Windsor Zumbrink grew up on a farm with sugar beets and other local in 1928 after his graduation from Kansas State. He and his wiFe, crops. He attended Michigan State College and then joined the Gladys, plan to remain in Fort Morgan, where they take an active Army Air Force. As an aerial gunner and mechanic, he saw part in civic and social groups. service in Texas and on Saipan and Tinian in the Pacific. • Alvin C. Robertson, a fieldman in the Greeley district, has been promoted to assistant to the southern district manager at Denver. He replaces Frank Zumbrink. Robertson began his Great Western career at Greeley in 1952. He previously farmed with his father, Charles Robertson, a beet grower near Wellington. Robertson also studied agricultural ad­ ministration and livestock feeding. He attended Colorado A & M College and Barnes School of Business in Denver. During the war, Robertson was an instructor in multi-engine aircraFt in the Navy and then a flight commander of transport operations in the Paci£ic theater, with the rank of lieutenant. • Dennis Giddings, Jr., a member of a pioneer Fort Collins fam­ ily, has been appointed an apprentice fieldman at Billings. A graduate of Fort Collins High School, Giddings took a de­ gree in entymology at Colorado State University in 1961 and then worked in Arizona before joining Great Western. His father operates a farm equipment firm in Fort Collins. Frank Zumbrink Alvin C. Robertson 4 • Floyd W. Miller, superintendent at Eaton, was moved up in the same position to the Brighton factory, where he replaces Jack B. Powell. In his four years at Eaton Miller led the factory to first place in the Safety Contest for tne1 year of 1960. Before coming to Eaton in 1959, Miller served as an assistant superintendent at three factories in three years. He went to Windsor in 1956, to Mitchell in 1957, and to Gering in 1958. Earlier, he was chief chemist at Sterling from 1955 to 1956. In the Chemical Department, he was an assistant chemist at Fort Collins from 1949 to 1955 and at Ovid from 1945 to 1949. Miller's year-around service dates back to 1949, but he worked campaigns at Eaton beginning in 1933 and spent one season with Holly in 1941 at Tracy, Calif. A graduate of Eaton High School, Miller took a degree in chemistry at the University of Col<'rado. During the war, he served with the Air Force in the Mediterranean and became a captain. Sabin G. Hooper Jack B. Powell His father was George W. Miller, a pioneer Great Westerner who served many years as an assistant superintendent at Eaton Operations Department . . . and then at Brighton before he retired in 1953 and died in 1960. • George W. Halbur, superintendent at the Johnstown MSG Plant, was transferred to beet sugar operations and the superin­ • Sabin G. Hooper, superintendent at Gering, was advanced in tendency at Eaton, where he succeeds Floyd W. Miller. the same positton to the Scottsbluff factory where he succeeds Halbur took over the MSG Plant early in 1959 and led C. E. Potter, who retired. the crew to first place in the Safety Contest that year. He was At Gering, where he served for three years, Hooper led the previously an assistant superintendent at the MSG Plant, where factory to the Pennant in the campaign of 1960-61 and to a tie his appointment coincided with the start of operations there in for first place for the Safety Award in 1961. He was previously 1954. superintendent at Sterling from 1957 to 1960. Before moving to Johnstown Halbur was a chemical engi­ Hooper was first appointed an assistant superintendent in neer at the Process Development Lab at Loveland in 1953. Earlier 1946 at Mitchell; he moved up in the same job to Sterling in he was lab foreman there, starting in 1950, when he began his 1951, to Fort Collins in 1954, and to Billings in 1955. year-around career. He also worked campaigns in the lab at the Earlier, he was at Gering, where he became a beetend fore­ Scottsbluff factory from 1947 to 1949. man in 1944 and also worked in the Engineering section at A graduate of Scottsbluff High School, Halbur attended Scottsbluff. He was a sugar boiler in 1943, a Steffen foreman in Scottsbluff Junior College and later took a degree in chemical 1942, and an extra stationman in 1938, when he began his year­ engineering at the University of Colorado. In between his school­ around service. He also worked summers at Scottsbluff and Gering ing he served in the Army Infantry for several years. from 1932 to 1938. A graduate of Scottsbluff High School, Hooper attended the University of Nebraska and Colorado A & M College. His father • Lloyd V. Sybrandt, superintendent of the Johnstown sugar was Harry W . Hooper, a pioneer Great Westerner. factory, was advanced with the additional assignment of super­ intendent of the adjacent MSG Plant. There, he replaces George W. Halbur. • Jack B. Powell, superintendent at Brighton, was promoted to In a new arrangement combining the management of the superintendent at the Gering factory, where he replaces Sabin two factories, Sybrandt takes over with extensive experience in G. Hooper. both operations. Before he became superintendent of the sugar Powell came to the Brighton factory in 1961 from Mitchell, factory in 1958, he was an assistant superintendent at the MSG where he had served since 1959. In his years as superintendent Plant from the start of operations there in 1954. He also worked at the two mills, Mitchell took second place in the Safety Contest on the construction of the MSG Plant. for two straight years and Brighton took third place in the fol­ Earlier in his career, Sybrandt was an assistant superintendent lowing two rears. at the Greeley factory in 1953. And he was a chief chemist at Earlier, Powell was superintendent at Fremont from 1957 to Windsor in 1952 and an unassigned chief chemist in 1951, work­ 1959. He moved to Ohio in 1955, with the beginning of the GW ing most of the time at either Greeley or Windsor. subsidiary operation, to become resident engineer for both Fre­ From 1947 to 1951, Sybrandt was an assistant chemist at the mont and Findlay. Johnstown sugar factory; previously he was in the same job at Previously, at the General Office, Powell was traveling engi­ Loveland in 1946 and at Windsor in 1945, when he began his neer for the factories at Brighton, Fort Morgan, Brush and Sterling year-around service. His earlier campaign work dates back to from 1949 to 1955. He began his career in the Engineering De­ 1934 when he was in the lab at Johnstown and later at Windsor. partment in 1947. A graduate of Johnstown High School, Sybrandt took a degree An engineering graduate of the University of Illinois, Powell in the physical sciences at Colorado State College at Greeley. also attended West Virginia University before the war. During the war he served in the Army Signal Corps and became a first lieutenant.

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5 • Vernon S. Churchwell, assistant master mechanic at Scotts­ bluff, was appointed master mechanic at the Eaton factory. He replaces Dan Schmidt. Churchwell was an assistant at Scottsbluff for one year. He previously held the same position at Gering from 1960 to 1962 and at Eaton from 1959 to 1960. He was also head fitter at Loveland from 1956 to 1959 and at the MSG Plant from 1954 to 1956. Churchwell was one of the erectors of the MSG Plant on the site in 1953. His background also includes process experience. At Brush, he was a sugarend foreman from 1950 to 1953 and a sugar boiler from 1947 to 1950. And at Longmont, where he was graduated from high school and started his year-around service in 1945, Churchwell worked as, a sugar boiler. He was also a stationman there during campaigns going back to 1941.

• Donald D. Morris, assistant superintendent at Mitchell, was Lloyd V. Sybrandt Jesse E. Stone moved up in the same position to the Loveland factory. Before going to Mitchell in 1961, Morris was an assistant superintendent at Greeley for one year. From 1958 to 1960, he was a beetend and sugarend foreman at Ovid. Earlier, he was a sugar boiler at Bayard from 1956 to 1958, at Billings from Operations Department . .. 1955 to 1956, and at Fort Collins from 1953 to 1955. At Fort Collins, where he began his year-around service in 1950, Morris was also a warehouse shift foreman, beltman and • Jesse E. Stone, superintendent at Fremont, was promoted to extra stationman. He worked one campaign there in 1946 upon superintendent at the Bayard factory. He succeeds B. F. (Jack) his return from three years in the Navy as a machinist. He is Hostetler, who retired. a graduate of Fort Collins High School. Stone, who came to Fremont in 1959, led the factory to first place in the Safety Contest for two straight years-1961 and 1962. He and his Fremont organization were the first in Great Western history to work two full years without any lost time due to • Paul Manweiler, assistant superintendent at Eaton, was ad­ accidents. vanced in the same position to the Mitchell factory. Before he was at Fremont, Stone was an assistant superin­ Manweiler was first appointed an assistant in 1961 at Eaton. tendent at three factories-at Billings, from 1954 to 1959; at Ovid, Previously he was a beetend foreman at Longmont from 1957 to from 1952 to 1954; and at Lovell, from 1949 to 1952. Earlier at 1961 and a sugar boiler there from 1955 to 1957. He began his Lovell, he was a sugarend and beetend foreman and a sugar year-around career in 1952 at Fort Collins, where he first worked boiler in the years after his return from the Navy in 1945. stations and then became a sugar boiler in 1954. He also worked In his wartime tour with the Navy, Stone served as an on construction at Fort Morgan in 1953 and at Johnstown in aviation chief machinist's mate aboard aircraft carriers. He also 1956 and served one campaign at Windsor in 1946. achieved the rank of chief petty officer in a peacetime tour with A graduate of Windsor High School, Manweiler served three the Navy from 1929 to 1933, when he became an aviation chief years in the Army Air Force during World War II. pilot. He served aboard the first aireraft carrier, U.S.S. Langley. Upon his return from the fleet, Stone worked stations at Lovell from 1933 to 1941, when he returned to wartime duty. In earlier campaign service with GW, Stone first worked • Edward R. Schwindt, assistant superintendent at Lovell, has at Scottsbluff in 1924 and then at Lovell in 1927. He is a graduate been advanced in the same position to the Mitchell factory, where of Scottsbluff High School. he began his career in 1950. His father was Everette E. Stone, a Great Western pioneer Before his move to Lovell last year, Schwindt was a beetend who worked the first campaign at Longmont, became a foreman foreman at Mitchell for four years. He was promoted to extra at Scottsbluff, and then an assistant superintendent at Lovell stationman there in 1952. He attended Liberty High School in for many years. Morrill and served two years in the Army Infantry.

• Vernon F. Zimmerman, beetend foreman at Loveland, was • John R. Corsberg, assistant superintendent at Loveland, was appointed assistant superintendent at the Greeley factory. appointed superintendent at the Fremont factory to replace Zimmerman came to Loveland in 196C with four years of Jesse E. Stone. experience at the Findlay factory in Ohio, first as a sugar boiler Before becoming an assistant at Loveland in 1961, Corsberg and then as a sugarend foreman. He also helped to train sugar held the same position at Ovid from 1959. Previously, he was an boilers at the Fremont factory in the first GW campaign there operating technician and assistant to the general superintendent in 1955. at Denver from 1958 to 1959. Earlier, Zimmerman was at Ovid, where he began his year­ While away from GW from 1956 to 1958, Corsberg worked around career in 1947, working up through the stations to be­ for the Phillips' Petroleum atomic energy reactor project at Idaho come a sugar boiler in 1953. He was graduated from high school Falls, Idaho. at Big Springs, Neb., where he was born and raised. In his earlier career with GW, Corsberg was chief chemist at Bayard from 1953 to 1955 and an assistant chemist at Billings and Fort Collins. Corsberg took a chemical engineering degree at Stanford University and also attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the University of Colorado. He is the son of H. R. Corsberg, auditor at the General Office.

• Dan Schmidt, master mechanic at Eaton, was promoted to master mechanic at the Mitchell factory. He succeeds C. C. (Curly) Rawson, who retired. As a member of the Eaton staff since 1957, Schmidt helped the factory to win the Safety Contest for the year of 1960. Schmidt came to Eaton from the Billings factory, where he was an assistant master mechanic from 1952 to 1957. He served in the same position at Fort Morgan from 1951 to 1952, at Bayard from 1943 to 1944, and at Lovell from 1942 to 1943. Schmidt began his year-around career at Lovell in 1931 as shop foreman. Earlier he worked campaigns dating back to 1927. John R. Corsberg

6 Chemical Department ...

• Matthew G. Sheldon, chief chemist at Fort Morgan was ad­ vanced in the same position to the Loveland factory. H~ succeeds Paul M. Smith, who retired. Before going to Fort Morgan in 1961, Sheldon was chief chemist at two other factories-at Gering from 1958 to 1961 and at Mitchell from 1953 to 1958. Earlier, he was an assistant chemist at Fort Morgan, where he began his year-a•ound service in 1949. Sheldon's campaign service dates back to 1944 at Fort Morgan. He is a graduate of North Denver High School.

• Harold D. Camp, chief chemist at Ovid, was appointed chief Dan Schmidt Ver non $. Churchwell chemist at Fort Morgan to replace Matthew G. Sheldon. C:amp was _at Ovid for three years and was previously chief chemist at Sterling from 1958 to 1960. Earlier he was an assistant chemist at the Johnstown MSG Plant from 1954 to 1958 at Loveland in 1953, and at Windsor in 1952. ' From the start of his year-around service in 1951 Camp Operations Mechanical Section . alternated between the Process Development Lab at Loveland an1 the factory labs a~ Windsor and Johnstown during cam­ paigns. He also worked m the same locations during prior service • Harry M. Scilley, assistant master mechanic at Brighton, was dating from 1949. advanced in the same position to the Longmont factory. Camp studied engineering at Colorado A & M College and Before moving to Brighton in 1962, Scilley was at Fort served in the Army Field Artillery from 1944 to 1946. Morgan. From 1953 to 1962, he was head fitter, and from 1945 to 1953, he was a beetend foreman. He began his current year­ around service there in 1944 as a welder. Scilley was previously a civilian with the Navy for three • Paul H. Pumphrey, chief chemist at Sterling, was promoted to years. He earlier worked two tours at the Loveland factory­ chief chemist at the Ovid factory, where he replaces Harold D. from 1935 to 1940, and from 1926 to 1932. In between he was Camp. with Holly at Worland, Wyo. His GW campaign service dates Pumphrey was first appointed a chief chemist in 1962, at back to 1919 at Loveland. Sterling, and was previously assistant chemist at Scottsbluff from A graduate of Loveland High School, Scilley attended the 1957 to 1962. A graduate of Limon High School, Pumphrey took Missouri Military Academy. He is the son of Hugh Scilley a pio­ a degree in agriculture at the University of Nebraska and served neer Great Western agriculturist who was manager at Loveland two years in the Army Chemical Warfare Service with the rank for many years. of second lieutenant.

• Jerry W. Steinmeyer, acting chief chemist at Bayard, was • Carl Reich, assistant master mechanic at Ovid, was promoted appointed chief chemist at the Sterling factory to succeed Paul in the same position to the Fort Morgan factory. H. Pumphrey. Reich was first appointed an assistant in 1960 at Ovid. Pre­ Before moving to Bayard late last year, Steinmeyer was viously he was at the Brighton factory, where he was shop fore­ assistant chemist at the Billings factory, where he began his man from 1959 to 1960 and a top mechanic from 1955 to 1959. year-around service in 1958. He also served briefly as acting He began his year-around service at Brush in 1950, where he was chief chemist at Brighton in 1961. first a handyman and then a house mechanic in 1954. Reich A native of the Scottsbluff area, Steinmeyer was graduated also worked the 1946 campaign at Brush and served there from from_ the University of Nebraska with a degree in chemical engi­ 1947 to 1949. neering. He served in the Montana National Guard in 1959. A graduate of Brush High School, Reich served five years in the Navy with the rating of aviation metalsmith. • Harry C. Brown, Jr., chief chemist at Windsor, was advanced to chief chemist at the Bayard factory. He takes over there from • E. C. P. (Art) Bohm, temporary assistant master mechanic Jerry W. Steinmeyer. at Longmont, was appointed assistant master mechanic at the Before his appointment at Windsor in 1961 Brown was an Lovell factory. assistant chemist at the Johnstown sugar factory. Previously he Bohm's temporary assignment at Longmont was made last was '.1n assistant chemist at the Loveland Process Developr:ient year. Previously there, he was chief electrician since 1956. In Lab m 1960, at the Loveland and Longmont factories in 1959 the same year, he was also chief electrician at the Johnstown and at Windsor and Loveland in 1958, the year he began hi~ sugar factory. He held the same job earlier at Mitchell from 1955 year-around service. to 1956, at Fort Collins from 1954 to 1955, and at Brighton, A graduate of College High in Greeley Brown took a degree where he began his year-around service in 1947. in physical. sciences at Colorado State College. He served nearly Bohm also worked on construction at Fort Morgan in 1953 four years m the Navy as an electronics technician. and at the MSG Plant in 1954. In 1951, he was recalled to active duty with th~ Air Force for two years in the grade of technical sergeant. During the war, he served four years with the Air Force. • Stanley G. Webster, assistant chemist at Loveland, was ap­ Before the war, Bohm worked campaigns and some summers point~ chief chemist a~ Windsor to replace Harry C. Brown, Jr. at Greeley from 1933 to 1941. A graduate of Greeley High School, Smee he began his year-around career in 1959 Webster he attended Colorado School of Mines. served as an assistant chemist at Loveland in either the factory lab during campaigns or the Process Development Lab. A grad­ uate of McCook High School in Nebraska, Webster attended McCook Junior College and then served nearly four years in the • ~udy ~- Bretzke, assistant master mechanic at Fort Morgan, Navy as a hospitalman. He returned to Nebraska State College resigned m May to enter the real estate field in Arkansas and at Kearney to take a degree in chemistry in 1959. be near his favorite country, the Ozarks. Rudy was at Fort Morgan for four years and was pre­ viously an assistant at Ovid for five years. He was also chief elec­ trician at Fort Collins from 1952 to 1954 and was at Brush, where he began his service in 1947.

1 • One of the biggest and best retirement parties in recent years was staged in Scottsbluff on April 19 to honor the departure of three veteran factory supervisors in the Valley- Supt. Clarence Potter of Scotts­ bluff, Supt. Jack Hostetler of Bayard, and Master Mechanic Curly Rawson of Mitchell. They were feted by some 150 friends from throughout the Company­ from the factory, the field and the office, who all chipped in to make the occasion a resounding remembrance. After a "social hour" and dinner, the three guests of honor were showered with gifts for their leisure time-(apparently they think they can f ish)-plus identical engraved wrist watches. The photos here show the three in groups with their respective colleagues. At the top: Jack Hostetler and Clarence Potter sit in the center surrounded bu the superintendents a

who attended the party. In the front row, from left, Mart Schmode of Fort Morgan, Skip Lingle of Loveland, and Bill Feland of Longmont; in the rear row, Andy Eneuoldsen of Ovid, Ty Miller of Mitchell, Sabin Hooper of Scottsbluff, Jack Powell of Gering, and Jesse Stone of Bayard. In the photo at bottom: Curly Rawson sits in the center with his fell ow master mechanics. In the front, Matt Brennan of Scottsbluff, left, and Charlie Kupilik of Longmont; in the rear, Floyd Mitchell of Gering, Ralph Townsend of Bayard, Thad Creager of Ovid, and Vern Churchwell, the new master mechanic at Eaton. After their retirement, Clarence moued to Greeley, Jack to Van Nuys, Calif., and Curly remained in Mitchell. The memorable affair was engineered by District Engineer Pat Pumphrey of Scottsbluff with the aid of his two "purchasing agents," Bill Todd and Dave Davidson. The em-cee for the evening was the guests' boss, District Supt. Harold Burk, with remarks by his boss, Vice President Lloyd T. Jensen. 8 The Fremont Sugar Tramps Winners of the CW Safety Award for 1962 & 1961

Front row: Second row: Third row: Supt. Jesse E. Stone Beetend Foreman William A. Swint Manager Gordon Rudolph Asst. Master Mech. C. E. Michaels Dump Repair Foreman Jack Senseney Supt's Clerk Rita Swint Asst. Supt. Jerry W. Shannon Asst. Master Mech. Richard Homan Chief Chemist James E. Heffernan Dryer Foreman Harland E. Heileman Asst. Supt. John N. Homan Cashier Richard F. Mally Craneman LeeRoy Wyss Utilityman Gregory Szakovits Sugarend Foreman John P. Kenan Electrician Charles Gnepper Top Mechanic Maurice Widman Sugar Boiler Albert L. Sabo Warehouse Foreman Donald H. Smith Lead Mechanic Leward G. Anstead Extraman Kenneth Reidling Extra Stationman William J. Swint Sugarend Foreman Frank W. Young Utilityman John Hensinger Sugar Boiler Arthur F. Martin Truck Driver Ernest Emrich Dryer Foreman Frank Schultz Extra Stationman Dave Martin Extraman Ivan Garn Extraman Robert Gurley Beetend Foreman Clifford Dickman Kiln Foreman Stanley Kwiatkowski Extraman Francisco Martinez Craneman John W. Homer Repairman Harry Rinebold Fieldman Kenneth B. Clark, Jr. Repairman Joseph A. Sidoti Storekeeper George L. Keller Fieldman Robert L. Zilles Master Mechanic Oakley C. Miller Sugarend Foreman Howard Haubert Fieldman Fred A. Wargowsky Fieldman LeRoy Williams Back row: Timekeeper Mildred F. Kinney Bookkeeper Lucile Kessler Repairman Arthur L. Melson Top Mechanic Sherman B. Moses Sugar Boiler Lowell E. Batie Repairman Woodrow Shrout Extra Stationman Dale Huber Repairman Richard Richter ~ Repairman Serge Harmon 'V Sugar Boiler Donald Sherman Beetend Foreman E. 0. Earhart 'Z. Asst. Supt. Alfred J. Schmidt m Fieldman Melvin H. Shafer \ .... _...... ____ ...,u, Fieldman John N. Gurtzweiler • • Photo by Vince Williams of Fremont I • ,S lJ R 9 Fremont Joins the Mitchell and Windsor Mills In

Winning the Safety Award Two Years in a Row On• behalf of the Fremont crew, Supt. Jesse Stone displays Year Facto!l'. sueerintendent Manager the factory's second straight CW Safety Award plaque 1952 Lovell Francis A. Wood W. C. McCarty in company with three guests at the Fremont banquet: 1953 Windsor Mart C. Schmode A. M. Watson Industrial Relations D irector Ed Niehaus, at left, {Mart C. Schmode A. M. Watson Safety Director Bob Wherry, 1954 Windsor Oliver H. Swaney W. C. McCarty second from left, and Vice President Lloyd Jensen, 1955 Johnstown J. H. Zisch (none) on the right.

1956 Mitchell E. E. Lingle Herman Juergens T he Fremont safety victory was celebrated by the members {E. E. Lingle of the crew and their wives 1957 Mitchell L. W. Feland Herman Juergens and husbands at a dinner-dance at the Fremont Country Club 1958 Gering E. E. Lingle M. S. Clement on the evening of May 17.

1959 MSG Plant George W. Halbur (none) See also photos on Page 12.

1960 Eaton Floyd W. Miller Lee Butler

{Fremont Jesse E. Stone Gordon Rudolph 1961 Gering Sabin G. Hooper L. H. Henderson

1962 Fremont Jesse E. Stone Gordon Rudolph

10 Fremont's Finest 575,000 Hours

. . . and the finest and safest in Great Western operating history, too!

• From Dec. 10, 1960 to May 6, 1963-875 straight Safet, in Si,t,-two days-almost two and ,one-half years-the Fremont • Final Standing~ • factory crew worked an estimated 575,000 man-hours

1. Fremont 0.00 without one single lost-time accident. The crew's

2. Greeley 341.42 achievement- unbeatable by any standard in any 3. Brighton 386.95 industry-earned the Fremont organization the Great 4. MSG Plant 654.17 Western Safety Award for the second straight year and

5. Mitchell 681.65 set a record safe-work performance for GW operations.

6. Fort Morgan 832.22 The happy and healthy fact was that Fremont was the

7. Ovid 899.82 first Great Western factory to work two full years ( and

8. Billings 942.88 more) with a perfect score in safety-zero!

9. Loveland 1268.39 • The safety break-through at Fremont was accomplished

10. GW Railway 1517.92 by the leadership of the factory's Safety Committee

11. Gering 1665.84 under the direction of Supt. Jesse E. Stone in the mill

12. Lovell 1681.92 and Manager Gordon Rudolph in the field. Their

13. Bayard 1756.36 combination of effort last year helped to make the most

14. Windsor 2046.50 successful season in the 63 years of the Fremont sugar

15. Eaton 2298.07 factory- in safety, in efficiency, in productivity.

16. Johnstown 2424.25 Fremont finished fourth in the Pennant race last

17. Scottsbluff 2760.28 campaign and joined its sister mill at Findlay to produce

18. Longmont 2847.54 a record output of more than 876,000 hundredweight

19. Sterling 3682.15 bags of Pure GW Sugar. For the Northern Ohio

20. Findlay 12687.23 subsidiary factories, this was the largest volume by

21. Horse Creek 36187.22 over 100,000 bags since the last best year of 1960.!

11 At Fremont's Safety Celebration

• Three members of the Fremont crew receive their • Vice President Lloyd Jensen of Denver offers his Great Westerner service pins during the banquet congratulations to the Fremont crew members for their from Supt. Jesse Stone, right. From left: Asst. Supt. success in safety over the last two years. His talk was Al Schmidt, a "native" Ohio Sugar Tramp with one of a series of brief remarks at the banquet by 25 years of service; Chief Chemist Jim Heffernan and Company officials. At the head table, from left: Master Craneman /ohn Horner, both five years of service. Mechanic and Mrs. Oak Miller and Mrs. /esse Stone.

12 C: C: C: (Q C: ~ -(Q b.O :::s I,,, "C C: ll,,,, - 0 0 b.O - Cl) C: >,, - >,, C: 0 0 C: C: 0 ::c t),0 "C a; t),0 G) Cl) (Q E Cl) Cl) ll,,,, -0 C: .c: ~ C: (Q .c: C: .!!! a; "C a; t),0 -C: C, "C "t: <.> a; E "C 0 -t),0 G) 0 >,, G) G) C: C: .c: ·~ :!:: > C: > en - G) (Q ll,,,, I,,, 0 0 ·~ 0 '> -<.> 0 ns -, LL. C, m ~ ii:i ...I LL. Li: LI.I- C, i ...I ...I m ~ 0 en- - en 1952 5 2 3 4 1 1953 4 1 3 5 1954 4 1 5 3 2 1955 4 3 1 2 5 1956 5 3 4 1 2 1957 2 3 4 5 1 1958 3 2 4 1 5 1959 5 1 4 2 3 1960 1 3 4 2 5 1961 3 5 4 1 1 1962 2 3 4 I 5 1

Tie for first place in 1961 Fremont and Findlay have competed only since 1959. Brush won second place in 1953 Horse Creek Quarry entered the compet it ion in 1960 and the GW Ra ilway in 1962, but neither has yet gained t he top five.

Wind s or Hold s Edge ov e r Mitchell I. Windsor 23 2. Mitchell 20 In E leven Y e ar s of Safety Conte s t ; 3. Lovell 17 4. Brighton 15 Lovell , Brighton and Gering Next 5. Gering 14

10 • The Windsor factory holds the mythical safe-work championship in the first 11 years of the tton Great Western Safety Contest. 6. Johnstown 10 The table above shows the winners of the first five places in the Safety Contest for each year since the competition started in 1952. The list at left shows the cumulative standings for Fremont 10 the 11 years figured on the basis of "track meet" scoring;. that is, five points for each first place, four points for each second place, three for third, two for fourth, and one for fifth. 8 The Windsor organization, also holder of the mythical Pennant championship· with seven 9. { MSG Plant victories, was the first factory to win the Safety Contest for two straight years. The feat was equalled later by Mitchell and then by Ffemont, while Gering was the winner in two separate Ovid 8 years. (The Gering and Fremont victories included a tie with each other in 1961). Fremont topped the other double-winners with the most enviable record of any mill by 11. Greeley 7 working more than two full years without a lost-time accident. Fremont's performance takes on even more significance since the factory, like the other Northern Ohio mill at Findlay, did 12. Longmont 6 not join Great Western until 1955 and did not enter the official safety competition until 1959. Among other signal safety honors, Mitchell was the first and only factory to win both the 13. Bayard 5 Safety and Pennant prizes in one year-1956 ... The Lovell factory, winner of the first Safety Contest in 1952, achieved high standing in the eleven-year ratings by gQOli performances in later 14. Billings 3 years . . . The Brighton factory, while never a winner nor even a runner-up, claimed a notable long-term rating by taking third place in five different years, including the last two. { Loveland 2 Another steady performance in recent years occurred at the Johnstown MSG Plant, winner in 1959 and never settling for less than sixth place in the yearly ratings since then. I 5. Fort Morgan 2 While the 11-year championship standings may be "mythical," there is no myth whatsoever about freedom from pain and tragedy on the job. And th~e is no myth about the build-up of Scottsbluff 2 benefits from safe-work habits. The concentration of safety honors here shows that-dramatically!

13 • Under the flash of a news camera, President Frank A. Kemp congratulates Supt. Jack W. Eastman upon Sterling's award of the Pennant Shield in the background during the banquet for the crew members and their wives on March 29. The President Presents the Pennant

Boss K ernp congratulates Sterling upon a "most spectacular" victory in his address to the crew rnernbers at their first Pennant banquet.

• If the Chicago Cubs win the National League Pennant and the But more than that, they reflect the ability and spirit of World Series this year, I know how P. K. Wrigley will feel be­ Company people. cause I am still enjoying the surge of feeling that I experienced I do not believe that it is possible to say that the spirit and when the final figures showed that Sterling had won the 1962 energy of the winner of the Pennant Plan were necessarily greater competition for best performance by Great Western factories. than that at other plants, but I am sure that no factory ever won I have taken time to go back over the Company's Pennant Great Western's Pennant if it did not have a harmonious and race records since 1920. I found that Sterling won second place closely knit crew with knowledge of what had to be done and twice-in 1921 and again in 1946; that Sterling was in third the zeal and determination to see that it was done. place twice-in 1951 and in 1959. In all of the other years, Ster­ It was not very long ago that there was a good deal of talk ling did not place among the first three factories. about the possibility that Sterling might be closed, and I think To stand at the very top in a year when on the whole the that for some years that talk had a depressing effect upon the final Pennant figures were higher than usual is an extraordinary men charged with responsibility for the operation at Sterling. I accomplishment. Sterling's final Pennant rating was the highest, am sure that the very substantial investments made by the Com­ with the single exception of Gering in 1960, in the last 15 years pany in the conversion of the boilerhouse, the installation of the and the premium earned by the Sterling factory this year for diffuser, the pre-limer, and other improvements that have been slicing above the standard set was the highest ever achieved by made, have set at rest whatever uncertainty once prevailed as to any factory over the 42 years that competition for efficient per­ Sterling's continuous operation. formance has been carried on through the Pennant Plan. That this body of men, under fine guidance, could rise to so I am not qualified to express a very expert opinion as to the capable and efficient a performance as was shown last year in factors that contributed to Sterling's outstanding record in 1962, itself warrants the highest praise that I can give. It is of real but I am sure that among other talents and abilities, these things interest that at Sterling in 1962 there were more internal promo­ were important: tions than are generally made at our plants. Through having charge of the installation of the Brighton I should like to say to Supt. Eastman, Master Mechanic Spall, diffuser, Supt. Jack Eastman had an unusually high degree of to the assistants, both on the processing and mechanical sides, knowledge and skill for the installation of the diffuser at Sterling and to every man who through his knowledge and effort made and the maximum capacities achieved here last campaign can be a contribution to last year's campaign, that we deeply appreciate traced back in part to his knowledge of the problem and what all that you did and regard your final victory as one of the most should be done. I believe that Sterling benefited throughout the spectacular in the Company's entire history. That this old mill, year from a very sound engineering talent supplied by District actually moved from another location in the first instance and Engineer Harry Ward. Other individuals made substantial con­ erected here in 1905, should have sliced daily an average of tributions to the effectiveness of both the precampaign and cam­ 2123 tons throughout a 103-day campaign was a great perform­ paign work, including Master Mechanic John Spall, Asst. Supt. ance. J. C. Patten, L. L. Groves, H. C. Pfeifer, Charles Van Dyke and I read not long ago an address by a very prominent Ameri­ D. A. Gillespie-to name a few. can in which he pointed out that as a matter of fact we are all But as I see it, a very great part of the credit should be given in business for ourselves in that we have a job and that job is to a most effective leadership and plan of management and to our business. I think the record that we have met here to cele­ one of the most outstanding examples of teamwork on the part brate is proof in itself that every man in the Sterling crew thought of the whole crew that is to be found in Great Western's history. of his job as being his business and that he made a conscious So far as the beet sugar business is concerned, the measure­ effort to perform that job exactly as if the work of his job was ment through Great Western's Pennant Plan of the effectiveness a business of his own. of the operation of the Company's 17 beet factories, is not only I think it also proper for me to comment somewhat upon the unique in the industry but is a practical and quite severe com­ increase in the efficiency of this factory brought about by the petitive test of the efficiency of our plants. The figures reflect the very substantial plant improvements made. Without them, we adequacy and the strains and stresses on our equipment. would have dragged aloni at around 1650 tons of slicinp; and

14 less efficient results on many of the standards that are a part ot not in any way worked against the interest of the American true factory efficiency. It is important to consider . where the consumer. money came from that made possible the improvements at Ster­ A great debate is now being carried on as to whether income ling. taxes should be cut, whether federal spending should be reduced It came from one source-profits on the whole operation how large a national deficit will be manageable, what can be don~ over the years. to stop what appears to be a slow but steady rise in unemploy­ Factories cannot be improved nor modernized unless there is l'l'_len!. Experts in th~ fie!d point out that because of the steady money available to make the improvements from profits on the nse in U. S.. _populauon, it takes close to a million new jobs every whole operation. We forget this fact sometimes and there are year to provide employment for the annual addition to the work those in the country who would have us believe that there is force. something censurable in a profitable operation. On the contrary, How are we going to create another million jobs a year? no business can continue unless it be profitable. Its plants and Like a good many others, I think it can be done only through equipment cannot be improved nor modernized unless the opera­ the expansion of business, the creation of new jobs through the tion has been profitable and the money so retained in the busi­ building of new factories and the enlargement of old ones; through ness can be put to work on the new equipment and the new the commencement of new undertakings; through the expansion procedures that alone will keep the business vibrant and efficient. of business activity. The improvement in our operations at Sterling is a true But these things cannot be done nor can the money be example of the way sound business works. It operates at some found to do them under our r,resent confiscatory income tax profit and a part of the profit is returned to the business in the rates. ~e~ember that ~f pr~ctical y every _dollar earned by corpor. replacement of old and obsolete equipment and in the betterment ate acuvtty, 52 cents is paid to the national government in in­ of the operation. come taxes. That is too high a rate to permit the expansion of Most of the news to be found in our newspapers and maga­ business that we need. zines today seems to originate from faraway places and to deal But if we simply cut income tax rates and thereby reduce the with new and difficult subjects. We have experienced in very government's tax revenue, we increase the national deficit at recent months almost a transformation of the relationship be­ great risk to our economy unless present governmental spending tween world sugar supply and world sugar demand. Cuba, which plans can also be reduced to avoid the increased deficit that would customarily produced five and one-half to 6 million tons of sugar otherwise result. I believe in a program that can be very annually, has been reduced by the harsh and restrictive measures simply stated: of a communist dictatorship to about three and one-half million We ought to reduce the present confiscatory income tax rates; tons of sugar production. Two indifferent sugar beet crops in we ought thereby to make possible and stimulate the expansion and Central Europe further reduced world supply. Increasing standards e!'ten~ion of business activity to provide more jobs and check the of living over wide sections of the world have brought about an nse in unemployment. We ought not to increase the national increased sugar demand in many countries. deficit; . and we can avoid this by reducing federal spending, The result of reduced production on the one hand and an by getting the _government to recognize the need on its part to increase in sugar demand on the other made for an actual short­ cut out everything that can be cut out, to live within its means. age of wo~ld supply and this not only prompted bidding for sugar I believe we are looking forward to a good sugar beet year by countnes that were not self-sufficient in sugar but induced an in 1963. More land than usual was fall-plowed; seed beds are enormous and unfortunate speculative interest in the commodity. w?rking up over most of the territory in very good shape. We The world. pric~ of sugar, which was very little above S2.00 per will contract somewhat more acreage than in 1962. We should hundredweight in early January of 1962, has increased to almost have more beets planted by April I than we have had for a $7:50 per hundred, a rise of more than 300 percent. The price in good many years. !his country, as was to be expected from this development, has If we can have a reasonably favorable spring and get this increased somewhat because the isolation of this market, formerly crop off to a good start, we should have more beets to receive brought about by our Sugar Acts in the whole period back of than last year. We may have a pretty long campaign but our 1962, has been replaced by a system under which in effect we factories should be in better shape to commence and c~mplete a compete and bid for an important part of our sugar needs in longer operation. competition with world prices. The country needs our sugar-all that the beet industry can It was expected by the authors of the present legislation that produce. the world price would be below our own. When the world level As you know, the government has stimulated larger beet got ~bove the U.S.A. level, the shipper of sugar from India or sugar production by announcing already that there will be no Mexico or Peru had the option of shipping here or selling to the beet ac~eage allotm_ents in 1_964 and by pointedly urging as large world. We a~e getting the supplies we need, but the sellers have producu~:m _as the. industry 1s capable of turning out. I hope that asked for pnces approximately those of the world market, and the temtones which our factones serve may contribute in even of cours~ the buyers of raw sugar in this country had to pay larger measure to the nation's sugar needs. those pnces. But to return to the purpose for which we are gathered Now mind you, this whole development and the modest in­ here ... crease in price that has taken place in the United States is not I should like to express to Supt. Eastman and to every mem­ a result of, nor was it caused by, any provisions of our Sugar Act. ber of t~e Sterling factory organization the warm appreciation Actually, the effect upon our market would probably have been and gratitude of the management for your superb operation of more severe had the Sugar Act not been in effect. I think it is the Sterling factory last year. And to evidence that appreciation imJ?<)rtant_ for all spokesmen for our industry to make clear to and your fine record, I present to Mr. Eastman, for all of you, the their audiences that the American sugar legislative system has Company plaque attesting your victory.

• The Sterling supervisors, from left: Chief Chemist Paul H. Pumphrey (now at Ovid), Manager Lester B. Garner, Supt. Jack W. Eastman, Master Mechanic John D. Spall, Senior Asst. Supt. ]. C. Patten, and Cashier John C. Schrade.

15 Excerpts from the 58th Annual Report Major projects now under way in­ clude bulk sugar bins at Fremont, to the Stockholders of Great Western . Findlay, Scot ts b 1u ff and Bayard; continuous diffusers at Windsor and Greeley; a pulp dryer and warehouse at Greeley; pulp-pelleting machines at Billings, Loveland and Bayard; a sugar terminal and distribution facil­ ity at St. Louis; and extensive work on modernizing filter, centrifugal and packaging stations at a number of factories. In total more than The President's Letter $6,000,000 will be spent in the 1963- 64 fiscal year on the improvement of plants and properties. To the CW Stockholders ~ A substantial decrease in Cuban production, two indifferent sugar beet crops in continental Europe and an increased sugar demand in many countries resulted in some shortage of supply for world demand. As a consequence, the so-called "world" price of sugar has risen dramatically since early 1962 and commencing in Important developments in the The Company has made a careful the latter part of that year there has Company's fifty-eighth fiscal year study of the advisability of construct­ been some increase in the level of includedJreater sugar production, ing a new factory in a new area, a U.S. sugar prices stemming out of accelerat improvement of the prop­ subject assuming increased import­ the rising cost of raw sugar supplies. erties and some incr.ease in sugar ance from an amendment to the Heavy speculation in the com­ prices. Earnings were less than in Sugar Act in 1962 setting up an acre­ modity added to the influences mak­ the prior year because of a smaller age reserve for new areas to be allo­ ing for a volatile market. The Com­ opening inventory and consequent cated by the Department of Agricul­ pany has advanced its own prices reduction in volume of sales. ture. Our study indicates that cur­ but not commensurate with the in­ The Company produced 25.2 per rent high construction costs of a new crease in the world price or to the cent of the total output of the United and efficient beet factory would re­ level of the resultant cane refined States beet sugar industry. sult in a very high investment per price in many sections of the coun­ bag of probable output. try. Recognizing its responsibility to ~ growers, customers, stockholders and the U.S. sugar system, the Company On the whole the growing season will continue its policy of marketing was unfavorable. There were no gov­ We are continuing our analysis its sugar in an orderly manner. ernmental acreage restrictions on the but, up to the present, believe that 1962 sugar beet crop and total acre­ a wiser course lies in the continued age contracted for Company factories improvement of the capacity and ef­ was about five per cent greater than ficiency of existing plants and facil­ Sincere thanks are expressed to in the previous year. Except in Ohio, ities, and it is in this direction that the men and women of the Com­ the spring was cold and dry; severe our i mm e di a t e efforts are being pany for their resourceful, efficient hail was frequent during the growing pointed, although we are carrying and loyal service throughout the season and loss of acreage before out tests of the beet-growing poten­ year. harvest was larger than average. tials of several new areas. FRANK A. KEMP Beet yields in the West averaging President 14.72 tons per acre were relatively low, but the Ohio crop resulted in a very good average of 17.l 7 tons. Excellent weather during the har­ vest permitted late storage of sugar in the beets and offset to some ex­ tent the harsh conditions that pre­ vailed during the spring and sum­ mer. Sugar production totaled 12,131,216 cwt., 11,254,848 in the West and 876,368 in Ohio. Factory performance continued to improve. Total beet tonnage sliced per day -~- .,,.-·--....,.,., 'C again exceeded all previous figures ;.,,Q: for the same plants and final sugar extraction was also improved over . the previous year.

16 sugar, which was $3.28 per cwt. in October Another item from the Annual Report ... 1962, had increased by mid-April 1963 to $7.70 or about 135 per cent. As the price of raw sugars at U. S. ports advanced, the levels of U. S. refined sugar prices have risen, although the extent of these increases varies across the country. Domestic beet sugar prices and the price of Hawaiian sugars are today well below the prices of other sugars sold in the United States. Shifting Sources of Supply In obtaining the foreign sugars needed for our market, the U.S. has bought from a number of countries that had never before supplied sugar to us-India, Australia, Fiji Islands, Mauritius among them. These countries had no specific U. S. quotas and had the choice of selling their sugars at world prices or to the United States. It was inevitable, therefore, that the price of raw sugars at U. S. ports would have to in­ crease if the U. S. were to obtain its needed supply. As this is written, the world price • Deliveries of domestic sugar, beet and or additional legislative quotas to specific of sugar is higher than the U. S. price. cane, to the U. S. in 1962 totaled 5,194,000 countries and in part through soliciting tons. The Philippines, with special rights commitments to fill a so-called "global" The U. S. sugar system was not a con­ in this market, shipped in 1,257,000 tons. quota of approximately 1,500,000 tons. tributing cause to the world sugar shortage Other foreign countries exported to us nor did it prompt the increase in sugar Cuba's sugar production has declined prices that has occurred. In effect, we have 3,341,000 tons. Thus, of total quota charges sharply under communism. It is now re­ of 9,792,000 tons, the domestic areas-beet, been compelled to bid for sugar against ported that the 1963 crop will not produce prevailing world prices. Under the circum­ mainland cane, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and more than 3,500,000 to 4,000,000 tons. A the Virgin Islands-contributed 53 oer cent. stances, this would have been true had we substantial part of this production has been had no U. S. sugar system. In the advan­ bartered to Russia and Red China. Just before the communist take-over in tage given the Philippines and through Cuba, that island produced annually about The continental European sugar beet specific country quotas to other foreign 6,500,000 tons. The U. S. sugar system crops of 1961 and 1962, particularly the nations, we have helped to insure ship­ then made it possible for Cuba to fill a latter crop, fell considerably below recent ment to this country of the sugar thus al­ high proportion (about 3,150,000 tons or levels of production. Improved standards of lotted. 94 per cent) of our imports from countries living in many countries havf' brought Our own Company's sugar has been dis­ other than the Philippines. At that time about a greater sugar demand. Reduced we obtained the balance of our foreign tributed to meet the demands of the trade. world sugar production plus increased sugar Toward the end of the recent dock strike needs largely from friendly countries in demand combined to make for an actual on the east coast,· sugar from our factories Latin America. shortage of world supply, now thought to moved as far as New York harbor. At the exceed 1,000,000 tons in 1963. On July 6, 1960, the President by execu­ present there appears to be no shortage in tive order, stopped further Cuban sugar Speculative trading in the commodity total potential U. S. supply. shipment and it became necessary to re­ plus real competition for actual sugars have The importance of maintaining a sound place our Cuban imports. This has been brought about a very sharp increase in domestic sugar industry has again been done in part through the granting of new sugar prices. The asking price for world demonstrated.

Thomas B. Knowles, Denver Businessman, Rejoins GW on the Board of Directors

• Thomas B. Knowles, a Denver realty executive and one-time Great Western employee, has returned to the Company as a member of the Board of Directors. Knowles was elected to the Great Western Board on April 16. He suc­ ceeded to the seat formerly held by the late Fred H. Roberts, who was associated with Great Western for the most part of 60 years until his death on March 18 at the age of 85. Knowles is president of the real estate firm of Van Schaack & Company and is a director of the Colorado National Bank in Denver. After his grad­ uation from Harvard, Knowles came to Denver and first worked at the Sugar Building from 1937 to 1938. He was born in New Bedford, Mass. With Knowles' election, the Great Western Board continues the prac­ tice of recent years of seating members from among the businessmen of the immediate region. In fact, all the present 13 members are long-time resi­ dents of Colorado, although John B. Welborn now operates a ranch in Wyoming. Thomas B. Knowles At the June 19 meeting of the Board, meantime, all the Great Western corporate officers were re-elected and all the managerial executives were re­ appointed to their present positions.

17 -·

Scenes of Summer Sixty-three

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Again this summer the Great Western scene changes with major construction projects at four /actories. I Here's a picture progress report o/ the changes that will be improvements in operating elficiency this campaign.

• The scene at Findlay offers something new to the eye of a Great Wl'stern Sugar Tramp---<1 single, soaring bulk sugar storage bin, instead of the usual cluster of four silos. The sinl(le bin was desil(ned e.~p('cial/y for the Northern Ohio factories (another was also erected at Fremont in the same style). The sinl(le bin features an ann('X structure, shown in the photo below just behind the silo, rising to the same height as the bin, to house the sugar and freight ('/evators, the sugar holding tanks, scalper, scale, and other machinery. The desi/(n also allows for the construction of additional bins in the future, if necessary. The single bins at Findlay and Fremont measure 50 feet in diameter, instead of the 35-foot diomrter of those at the factories in the West. The Findlay bin stands 176 feet abot•e the ground while the one at Fremont rises 180 feet because of an elevated basement to avoid possible flooding. Each will hold 150,000 bags of sugar. Th(' Findlay bin, wh('n completed, will also d('part from the standard white masonry paint. Because of flight safety regulations, th(' top 60 feet of the Findlay structure will b(' paint('d in IS-foot "checkers" of bright aviation orange and white. The Fremont bin will b(' the standard white. The projects at both mills include more effective air conditioning of the sugar inside the bins to contend with the high humidity of the locality and also extensive improvements in the packaging stations to handle bulk sul(ar. The slip-form concrrt<' work for the bins at both factori<'S was performed by the Ruttmann Company of Upper Sandusky, Ohio.

., Bulk Sugar Storage Bins Take on New Styling With Single Silo at Findlay And Also at Fremont

18 1 April 12: Starting up from base. 2 April 13: Up about 20 feet. 3 April 14: Up about 40 feet.

Up with the Bins at Scottsbluff

PHOTOS BYE. C. CULVER

4 April 15: Up about 59 feet.

5 April 16: Up about 69 feet. 6 April 17: Up about 85 feet. 7 April 18: Up about 105 feet.

8 April 19: Up about 123 feet. 9 April 20: Up about 140 feet. 10 April 21: Up about 160 feet.

Now, turn the page to see the full scene at Scottsbluff . 19 The night working lights lend an eerie appearance to the sugar bins at Scottsbluff- somewhat like the launch tower for a missile shot­ while slip-forming of the circular concrete structures continues around the clock. Here the bins ,. stand about 140 feet high on the night of April 20.

On the morning of April 21 the bulk sugar storage bins-both new and old-shroud the Scottsbluff factory in this view from the northeast. Only the sugur warehouse can be seen at left behind the older cluster.

20 Sugar Bins Soar on Scottsbluff Skyline

Another view on April 20, in the aftemoon, shows the new bins just about to top the height of the older set with still another bucket of concrete rising up the skip hoist on Les Enwall's "Angel's Flight."

Now here, one week on April 26, the "tallboys" stand head and shoulder, so to speak, above the older cluster and disclose the pyramiding elements of the new layout at Scottsbluff in this view from the north-northwest. Both views on this page were taken from the same angle and position to show the change in one week's time. PHOTOS BY JIM LYON

From the front lawn of the factory, on the west side, the Scottsbluff structures look even more imposing in their rise over the older set and the factory office in the foreground at right. Both views were taken from the identical position one week apart­ the top one on April 20 and the lower on April 26 with the slip-forming topped out. Fremont and Findlay Nor SuC)ar Production in H undredweiCJht laCJs • With spect, From 1900 to 1962-63 than one-mill operations- c Fremont Findlay 1900 30.b95 1901 24.92b • The upsuri 1902 30,20b 1903 40,8bl over tlu> last 1904 95,188 of S750,000 a 1905 94,4bb twin-scroll au 190b 79,433 1907 b3,435 summer, plus 1908 b8,b21 Fremont and Findlay 1909 77,711 1910 7b,355 • The result: 191 I b9,088 83,141 Factory Supervisors 1912 89,IOb 138,934 below coverir 1913 75,82b 128,553 the hundredu 1914 Idle 114,199 beets sliced. · Down thru the Years 19 I 5 b4,035 151,231 191b 34,202 84,b95 both the graJ 1917 44,545 91,5b2 fall. (For ex(l 1918 IOb,329 14b,04b Italics indicate appointments by CW!Northern Ohio 1919 89,548 104,993 1920 139,435 125,7M 1921 75,100 100,88b • The figure 1922 Idle 1 I I ,b27 Steffen housl 1923 103,553 124,224 per/ormance Fremont Findlay 1924 122,005 157,463 1925 110,428 111,557 previous ow, Erected in 1900 by Dyer Erected in 1911 by Dyer 192b b7,5b2 75,08b Bliss/ield Jae for Continental Sugar Co.; for Continental Sugar Co.; 1927 I 74,b53 Idle to 1950, exce, acquired by GW in 1955. acquired by GW in 1955. 1928 111,153 85,149 1929 53,928 Idle by Continent, CONSTRUCTION SuPT. 1930 157,901 135,409 when they W< • John A. Shepard CONSTRUCTION SUPT. 1931 Idle Idle Western with • Robert E. Webster 1932 238,999 Idle 1933 192.484 149,427 operations th SUPERINTENDENTS 1934 194,474 150,085 Clarence Granger 1900-01 SUPERI.NTENDENTS W. G. Hotchkiss 1911-13 1935 179,915 132,960 R. S. Bulla 1901-02 I9 3b 172,342 98,875 H. S. Dyer 1902-05 Charles H. Hine 1913-16 W. H. Adams 1905-14 C. F. Jackson 1916-16 1937 82,357 51,652 Bert Rosevear 1914-17 John Fell 1916-17 1938 232,221 259,247 E. C. McClenathan 1917-22 A. B. Robarge 1917-17 1939 285,b57 221,415 Louis Atzinger 1922-34 A. C. Heresy 1917-19 19-40 351,55b 213,549 E. C. McCienathan 1934-42 W. E. Weller 1919-35 1941 313,543 224,217 Byron J. Paschal 1942-45 E. A. Wolfe 1935-37 1942 325.858 332,2b8 300,000 - M. R. Allen 1937-43 Don F. Richter 1945-55 1943 211,427 Idle Lee A. Daniels 1955-56 C. D. Fox 1943-45 Don F. Richter 1956-57 Byron J. Paschal 1945-50 1944 lb9,b55 I lb,890 Jack B. Powell 1957-59 Don F. Richter 1955-56 1945 253,22b 175,333 Jesse E. Stone 1959-63 Tyler W. Miller 1956-61 19-4b 2b2,b70 197,122 John R. Corsberg 1963- Dwight A. Gordon 1961- 19-47 lb9,431 •• 19-48 253,520 Idle MASTER MECHANICS 19-49 255,704 175,210 1950 259,713 149,118 200,000 - John A. Shepard 1900-01 MASTER MECHANICS E. C. McClenathan 1901-06 Robert E. Webster 1911-12 1951 272,790 Idle Walter Rounds 1906-14 Jean Girard 1912-15 1952 2b2,000 Idle James Conway 1914-22 Jack Large 1915-22 1953 337,b45 Idle William Rice 1922-23 James Booth 1922-25 1954 288,570 Idle John Merrifield 1923-34 Hans Oksen 1925-27 z 1955 271,704 195,786 0 Ray Decker 1934-42 John Fell 1928-42 .... 1956 221,337 158,557 John Fell 1942-44 Ed McCormick 1942-44 1957 305,6-4-4 260,066 1944-46 < C. E. Michaels John Fell 1944-45 1958 331,424 328,271 100,000 - Ed McCormick 1946-50 Ed McCormick 1945-48 "'w "- 1959 253,202 320,334• C. E. Michaels 1950-55 Walter Mitchell 1948-50 0 C. E. Michaels 1955-57 Kermit W. Beal 1955-58 1960 389,741 382,756 Thad W. Creager 1957-62 Richard W. Dayton 1958-60 1961 287,901f 315,077• Oakley C. Miller 1962- August Schneider 1960- 1962 454,951 f 421,264

• Pennant Winner f Safety Winner •• Process corn syrup 1900 01 02 03 thern Ohio Nears the Magic M

'.Cular incrPases in production in recent years, the Northern Ohio factories at FrPmont and Findlay appear on the verge of t on hundredweight bags of Pure CW Sugar. The magic mark- double the amount produced eight y<>ars ago at the start c >uld be attained this coming campaign with reasonable success in the field and factory.

P in sugar in Northern Ohio attests to the working value of factory improvements and maintenance accomplished •ight years under the CW banner. These expenditures for both mills total more than S6 million-or an average year- or, to bring the money home, S375,000 a year averagely at each factory. The improvement program included omatic diffusers- in 1960 at Fremont, and in 1958 at Findlay--along with bulk sugar storage bins at both mills this many other substantial items from year to year, along with the equally important investment in yearly maintenance.

can be seen in the production progress of the two factories, combined, in the graph 700,000 - g all the years of operations under several ownerships. The top line of the graph shows eight bags of sugar produced earh campaign, while the lower line represents the tons of 'he table at left shows the bags of sugar produced by each factory over the years. In h and the table, the yearly dates indicate the year in which the campaign started in the rnple, 1962 denotes the campaign of 1962-63.) 600,000 -

here cover only Fremont and Findlay, including Fremont's output from 1927 t!o 1943. They do not reflect the overall )f the ContinPntal or the GrPat Lakes sugar companies, the ers before CW/ NorthPrn Ohio. With the predecessors, the ory in Michigan was also an integral operating unit from 1905 500,000 - ,t for 1943 and J9,J4. The three factories were originally operated il until 1930; they u:ere in receivership from then until 1934, re takPn ovPr by GrPat Lakes. They were acquired by Great the Northern Ohio subsidiary in 1955; Findlay resumed m with Fremont, while Blissfield was later abandoned. Fremont idle in I 914, 1922, 1931. 400,000 - Findlay idle in 1927, 1929, 1931 , 1932, 1943, 1948, 1951 thru 1954.

Sfafisfical Information Courtesy of Dan Gufleben, 33 34 The Sugar Tramps Chronicler , Walnut Creek, Calif., From His Own Memorabilia of fhe Beef Sugar Industry 30 24

200,000 1

- Fremont only ------+1

04 05 06 07 08 09 10 II 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 1,000,000! ark of One Million!

900,000 urning out more >/ Northern Ohio 1962~76,2 I 5 bags

800,000

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58 1942-658, 126 bags

61 600,000

500,000

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400,000

1962- 363,499 tons

300,000

200,000

100,000

36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 55 56 Zoom! Marks the Slicing Rates at Fremont and Findlay During the Eight Years of Northern Ohio Operations

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IHIO Findlay IIGO ·- ,. IOIIO 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 The Greeley mill underwent radical surgery at the hands of the crew early this year to make ready for the new twin-scroll diffuser on the inside and the pulp dryer and pellet! warehouse abutting the main house. Here, on April 12, the gaping wall reveals the steel incline for the diffuser inside the house near the floor and the ground work for the modem dryer structure.

Here's a closer view of the steel frame for the diffuser The first section of the Greeley diff 4 inside the main house at Greeley with Asst. Supt. lowboy truck backed through the to~ Doc Van Dyke, the project "pusher" on loan from Brighton, to be. hoisted off and into position t standing at left with Engifleer George Hobbs of Denver. This view was also taken' on April

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Now, on June 7, the Greeley project began to take shape. The steel frame of the gable against the mill indicates the size of the dryer facility while the white pellet storage tank stands where the dryer warehouse will reach when completed. At this stage, the diffuser was fitted together and about ready to be turned ouer on a trial spin.

ser rests on the Another uiew of the same general scene at Greeley on the same ri wall day-June 7-with half of the dryer drum ,n the steel frame. about ready to be moued in and hoisted into position on 2. the trunions. Several pellet mills were also in then. Greeley Agape

with -- Growing Pains

I From the top of the Greeley mill, this view looks west through the framework of the dryer's end gable down on the floor of the pellet warehouse with the storage tank in the background.

This wide-angle view of the front yard provides a last look at the "old" Greeley. It probably looks strange here to the old hands who no longer get a chance to see the mi/I-with the trees gone from the yard and the timbered beet sheds torn out and PHOTOS BY JIM LYON the ground leveled for piling the harvested crop. But it will look even more strange when the dryer house and the pellet warehouse occupy the expanse stretching from the peak of the gable on the factory to a point over the white storage tank at le( t.

29 The Brand New Package of Pure CW Sugar!

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Here's the huge new package of Pure GW Sugar-a 16-thousand gallon container! It's one of three cars leased by Great Western to supply. liquid invert sugar to the new St. Louis terminal from the processing facilities at the GW bulk sugar terminal in Chicago. The 16-thousand gallon capacity equals about 1,375 hundredweight bags of dry granulated sugar-or somewhat more than the load of an Airslide rail car for bulk-dry sugar. The liquid sugar moves and arrives in perfect condition due to the tank's insulation and lining of Amercoat 23 vinyl. The tank itself measures nearly 47 feet long. The three cars were built to Great Wes tern specifications by the General American Transportation Co.

Limestone Chambers Provide Storage Underground for GW Sugar in Bags

• Underground chambers now provide storage for Pure CW Sugar in bags and bales for the Southern Missouri trade. The three photos here illustrate the facilities of the General Ware­ house at SpringField, Mo., a unique installation built underground in a worked-out limestone mine. The main portal and outside docks appear above against the wall of limestone, while freight cars move along an inside dock at right above. At right below, pallets of CW Sugar rise almost to the top of the 25-foot ceiling under a roof SO feet thick, averaging 25 feet of solid limestone. The vaulted chambers contain a complete air conditioning and temperature system along with constant humidity control. The underground security terminal spreads about 129,000 square feet with another 400,000 square feet available for development; meantime, limestone mining continues in the adjacent area. So here, GW Sugar again relies on limestone, the raw material for purifying juices in the process at the sugar factories.

30 Great Western Backs Gift of Two Black Leopards for Denver Zoo

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• Two black leopards for the new feline house at the Denver City Park Zoo were assured with the gift by Great Wes tern of $2,000 for their purchase. Here Boss Kemp looks on while Mrs. George Caulkins, Jr., displays the check in the company of Mrs. Paul Douden, Jr. The two Denver ladies helped to campaign for funds for animals to be kept in the new zoo facility resembling the natural habitat of the big cats. Black leopards differ from spotted ones only in their perfectly black coat; they are not uncommon in Africa and Asia, where they range. Since arrangements for the two leopards are not complete yet, there was no date set for their delivery to the zoo and no indication o whether they would be cubs or adult animals.

Ed Niehaus Attends World-wide Labor Agency Meeting in Geneva

• Ed Niehaus, director of Industrial Re­ of Nations effort to achieve world peace lations, has been in Geneva, Switzer­ in the wake of World War I. With the land, to serve as a United States delegate demise of the League of Nations and the to the 47th annual session of the Inter­ disruption of World War II, the I. L. 0. national Labor Organization. became a branch of the United Nations Niehaus was selected by the U.S. with permanent headquarters and the an­ Chamber of Commerce to be a technical nual sessions in Geneva. adviser with the management section of The management section of the Ameri­ the American delegation at the meeting can delegation consists of Richard Wagner of more than 1,000 representatives from of Chicago, chairman of the Champlin Oil over 100 nations of the world. Company, chief delegate; Malcolm Denise The session began June 1 and ended of Detroit, vice president of industrial re­ June 26. lations for Ford Motor Company; John Niehaus was accompanied to Europe by Branch of Savannah, Ga., a labor attorney; Mrs. Niehaus and their two children, Richard Doherty of Washington, D. C., Honey and Eddie. She and the children management consultant; and George Pantos plan side tours from Geneva to neighboring and William Van Meter, both on the staff countries while he attends the daily meet­ of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in ings of the I. L. 0. They flew by jet air­ Washington. liner to Europe and returned on the liner, United States, sailing June 27. As a technical adviser delegate to the I. L. 0. meeting, Niehaus will be con­ cerned with the agenda subject of "Safety and Hygiene in Shops and Offices." The agenda also includes five other technical subjects in the field of industrial rela­ tions, plus a general review and recon­ sideration of the main objectives of the I. L. O. in relation to current world prob­ lems. The delegations of the member nations consist of representatives from government, business management, and labor groups. With this "three-party" organization, the I. L. 0. holds the unique distinction of being one of the few international groups with private individuals that can effect binding agreements or conventions among sovereign nations. These agreements amount to international treaties, ordi­ narily negotiated by government diplomats at the highest level. The International Labor Organization was founded in 1919 as part of the League Ed Niehaus

31 Sugar Press

Pictorial Pages

Gifts of identical engraved wrist watches capped the presentations to three veteran Valley supervisors at the party honoring their retirement-from left, Master Mechanic Curly Rawson of Mitchell, Supt. Jack Hostetler of Bayard, and Supt. Clarence Potter of Scottsbluff. At far right, District Supt. Harold Burk, who made the presentations.

Jack Maynard toastmasters at the golf dinner-dance; at the table Some of the 198 Great Westerners and their ladies who enjoyed at left, Mrs. Frank Begley and Mr. and Mrs. Don Rauer of Denver. the dinner at the Technical Society event at the Stanley Hotel.

Sugar Tramp Sodbusters m Summer Session

• It was a wonderful weekend for the Clan McDonald at the Great Western Golf Tournament at Estes Park on June 8 and 9. Duane, a Fieldman at Windsor, walked off with the golf title with a 77, while his father, Jack, retired superintendent at Long­ mont, won the third flight and also the Champion Mug Hunter award. In the championship flight, Duane was one stroke better than Bob Brenimer of Denver and Tom Stevens, son of Fieldman Ted Three young guest golfers-Larry Johnson, son of the Leonard Stevens of Greeley. Duane was also medalist with a 70. The Johnsons of Loveland; Tom Stevens, son of the Ted Stevens of other flight winners: Greeley; and John Ostermiller, son of the Vic Ostermillers of First, Jim Donelan of Fort Lupton; second, Kerm Beal or Longmont, with Fred Nixon, timekeeper at Longmont, at right. Loveland; fourth, Bob Makie of Denver; and fifth, Red Johnson of Ovid. The most improved golfer was Dick Priest of Bayard. At the Ladies Bridge Luncheon, Mrs. Jack Maynard of Denver took first prize followed by Mrs. Andy Enevoldsen of Ovid and Mrs. George Halbur of Eaton. The door prize winners were Mrs. Red Johnson of Ovid, Mrs. Paul Keller of Windsor, Mrs. E. C. Peterson of Ovid, Mrs. Chuck Sword of Fort Morgan, Mrs. Dick Priest of Bayard, and Mrs. Lloyd Jensen of Denver. Again, the golf tournament was combined with the Technical Society's annual Ladies Night dinner-dance. There were 198 diners and twisters at the Stanley Hotel with the Hon. Jack May­ nard of Denver officiating at the podium. The promoters of the event were Frank Begley and Ed Rebhan of Denver-and a job well done. Despite the influences of the McDonalds, everyone else enjoyed Lloyd Jensen of Denver and Kerm Beal of Loveland address the a wonderful weekend, too! sod in a playoff just before the rainstorm struck Estes Park.

32 The Pennant Shield awarded to Sterling provides a backdrop for Ruby Reichert and her son, Tommy, who was a guest at the factory's flag banquet. Ruby is superintendent's clerk and associate editor at Sterling.

Two members of the Railway staff at the General Office receive their Great Western service pins from Vice President Jens Jensen, at left. They are Jim Kelly, center, and Don Rauer, right, both with ten years of service.

• Doyt L. Conn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Farrell Conn, has taken his doctor's degree in medicine at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. Dr. Conn won the college Alumni Award for the outstanding senior thesis. A graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan and Gering High School, Dr. Conn will be an intern at Wayne County Hospital near Detroit.

• Death has taken Robert L. Kimmons, and Robert L. Kimmons, Jr., an executive veteran manager at Billings, along with with the Creole Oil Company in Vene­ his wife, Harriet. They died June 3 at zuela, plus seven grandchildren. Billings. Bob, who was a Great Westerner for • E. J. Matteson, a retired Fieldman who 35 of his 62 years, became manager at the was originally a chief chemist, died on • Jerry W. Petitt, a summertime Great Billings factory in 1948. Earlier, he was June 2 in Fort Collins, where he lived. W estemer and the son of Sales Manager manager of the Eaton and Greeley district His age was 72. and Mrs. Claude W. Petitt, has been grad­ from 1945 to 1948 and also manager at A Great Westerner for 41 years, Matt uated with honors at Thomas Jefferson Ovid from 1943 to 1945. was the father of Keith Matteson, assistant High School in Denver. His agricultural career also included a superintendent at the Greeley factory. Jerry was a finalist in the National tour as assistant manager at Brush from Matt retired in 1956 as a fieldman at Merit Scholarship competition and was 1939 to 1943 and service as a fieldman Fort Collins, where he served for three the winner of the Colorado Engineering at Longmont from 1938 to 1939 and at years. Previously he was a Fieldman at Society's top award in mathematics and Gering from 1928 to 1938. Sterling from 1929 to 1953. science. He also won the Junior Achieve­ Bob began his year-around service at It was in 1929 at Sterling when Matt ment Executive Award, the highest award Gering in 1928, working briefly at first switched from the factory lab to the beet in the state by the organization for youth as an agricultural clerk. He also worked fields. Before then he was chief chemist business projects. earlier on an agricultural survey in 1926 at Sterling for six years. He also held the In addition, Jerry was fifth among Den­ at the Longmont Experiment Station. same appointment at four other factories ver high school seniors in the qualifring A graduate of Fort Collins High School earlier-at Brush from 1921 to 1923, at scholarship tests at Colorado Schoo of in 1918, he went on to Colorado A & M Fort Collins from 1920 to 1921, at Bdghton Mines. However, he will enter Dartmouth College to take a degree in science in 1922. from 1918 to 1920, and at Windsor from College in New Hampshire this fall. In between high school and college, he 1917 to 1918. Meantime, Jerry returned to work at the served brie£ly in the Army Infantry dur­ Matt began his year-around career as Sugar Building in June for his second sum­ ing World War I. an assistant chemist at Fort Coll ins in mer as a messenger. His older brother, Bob and his wife are survived by two 1915, but worked two earlier campaigns in Norman, works in their father's trade­ children, Mrs. Wallace Martin of Billings, the beet lab there. sugar-with the Meinrath Brokerage in Minneapolis.

33 We can certainly be proud of these Sugar Tramps. We would like to extend our sympathies to Les Butler on the death of his wife on Billings Feb. S; Virgil and Bernie Lindell on the death of their brother-in-law Carroll Blee, BY BILLIE VEIS and the death of Frank Jones's two-year­ & MARY M. MANNI old nephew, Jason Brennan, both due to unfortunate accidents. Master Mechanic D. C. Davis finally • With the circus in town and such warm joined the ranks of house-owners and pur­ sunny weather it Io o ks as tho "Mr. chased a beautiful three bedroom home on Weatherman" has finally made up his mind Parkhill Drive. We are sure that they will about the weather. Spring is here at last! enjoy their new home. In the Winter League Play the GW­ New cars on the parking lots are a 1962 sponsored bowling team placed high single Chev for Dryer Foreman Al Bittner and a game-1075; and was second high series- new 1963 Buick for Asst. Supt. Marvin 2972, for the entire league. In the Billings Pettigrew. Inter-City Tournament, Ivan EnwaU and It is always nice to see the Sugar Tramps Don Morris finished eighth in the doubles that have retired, wish they could come and Bob Camp and Jerry Wilson finished more often. Hear that! Pop Teters, Merle 40th of the 268 teams entered. Bob Camp Kimble and "Chily'' Childers do come Billings' happiest fisherman is Beetend was 23rd out of the 536 singles entered more often. Foreman Don McCracken with the nine­ and in the handicap all events; Bob fin­ Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wood recently pound Rainbow he hooked in the Yellow­ ished fifth with 354 entered. In the team attended at Rotary District Conference held stone near Livingston, Mont. bowling they were 26th out of 153 entered. in April at Bozeman, Montana. On April

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( J. Asst. Supt. Earl Bittner of Billings dis­ Asst. Master Mechanic Art Hudson, left, Here Asst. Master Jim Kiedrowski, left, plays his 20-year CW pin with Supt. presents a JO-year CW pin to Sugar Boiler hands a JS-year CW pin to Top Mechanic Francis Wood. Bob Logan. Slim Roslien.

Storekeeper Bob Camp presents a five-year Asst. Supt. Don Morris congratulates Ware­ Introducing Sharon O'Donnell, the new CW pin to his assistant at Billings, Jerry house Foreman Don Underwood upon his stenographer in the office at the Billings Wilson. five-year CW pin. factory. Among

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~ Asst. Supt. Ike Enwall stands between Nick Billings' new Hough payloader meets with Personnel Hess and Bill Beard, who got their five­ the happy approval of Earl Bittner, Lou and ten-year CW pins. Holoubek, and Clyde Breshears. It's an H-30. 34 J J Miss Sally Ayre, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ayre of Billings, with her bride­ groom, Jeffrey C. Miller. The Millers now live in Albany, N. Y.

Supt. Francis Wood proudly introduces his Miss Mary Ayre, whose> engagc>ment to grandchildren - twins Larry and Garry, Pfc. Robert Salinger was announced by front, and Judy and Bruce, children of the her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ayre Alan Woods of Gering. of Billings. They plan a summer wedding.

18 they toured the Anaconda-Berkley pit won't be taking any trip this year as I mechanic, are employed at Lovell. mine and new 31-million dollar concentra­ have spent all my money on curtains, and Cashier Hub Martin who has been in tor in Butte. all those things that you have to buy when the hospital for surgery, is on the road We would like to congratulate Mr. and you purchase a new home. to recovery and has returned to work. Mrs. Martin Cooper on their new daughter Last but not least, we have a bowler. Donita Rae, and also the Tom Tumbulls Master Mechanic Merle Fleenor bowled the on their new granddaughter, Cynthia Anne, best so far in the new Lovell Lanes. He daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Chritton. Lovell had nine straight strikes, then came up The D. C. Davis family spent the Easter with a spare in the tenth and finished with weekend in Bozeman, and the Art Hudsons BY VELMA COWAN a strike on the third ball of the same travelled to Alliance, Nebr. frame to end with a 279 game. His spare Gerald Bittner, son of Asst. Supt. Earl • Since the last issue you will notice a in the tenth had only one pin remaining! Bittner, is attending Eastern Montan a new name attempting to write this column He surely was close to that perfect game. College of Education in Billings. and fill the spot vacated when Bessie Ross That's all for now, see you next time. retired in March. On March 29, Bessie was honored at a retirement dinner with 85 attending. Lots BILLINGS OFFICE of good food-group singing-a talk by the Supt., Dan Conwell, and the presen­ • At the present time the crop outlook tation of a gift of luggage to Bessie, plus at Billings is excellent. Almost all of the the showing of two movies, made it a very beets are in the ground and we have re­ enjoyable evening for all. Bessie is now in ceived some moisture to help the cause California visiting and seeing the sights. along. This trip is just one of the many things For the past two weeks Cashier and Mrs. she has planned in the future. Jerry Kisler have been touring the North­ Ralph Townsend, who is now Master west and California. From the cards we Mechanic at Bayard, was in Lovell for the have received they have had a few days Easter holiday to visit his daughter and of rainy weather but otherwise seem to son-in-law, and also paid the factory crew be really enjoying themselves. This trip a visit for a few minutes. has been a good chance for Jerry to break Recently several employees at the Lovell .. in his new Buick . factory have received pins for their CW Sharon O'Donnell is the new steno in service. Cashier Hub Martin, 30 year pin; the Billings Office. She has replaced Donna Deanna Wagner, Stenographer, five year Bernhardt, who had a babr girl on April pin; Beet End Foreman Ervin Lynn re­ .. I. We hope that Sharon wil enjoy working ceived his 25 year pin and Sugar Boiler, for CW as much as we like having her Henry Kober, Jr., five year pin. with us. Our sympathy to Keith and Garth Allred Timekeeper O Ii v er Brush is buzzing and families, whose father passed away • 41 ' / around these days in a new Chevy II. He on April 13. Mr. Brooks was called to claims it is the best purchase he has ever Colorado recently where his father passed made. Supt's Clerk, Billie Veis is driving away. to work these days in a snappy looking A retired Sugar Company employee, This happy and handsome young fellow is 1959 Buick. George L. Averett, passed away in Lovell, Chuckie Merritt, son of Cashier and Mrs. Everyone is looking forward to their April 19. George worked for the Company Chuck Merritt of Windsor. As you can see vacations, but I coula not find anyone for 31 years as beet end foreman, and from his plump muscles, Chuckie victimizes who had made any definite plans yet as to retired in 1958. At present his two brothers, the victuals so he'll be able to keep his what they were going to do. Yours truly Myrl, beet end foreman and Glenn, top Pop in the proper place.

35 Above, at Lovell, Cashier Hub Martin and Steno Deanna Wagner receive their service pins from Manager Chuck Johnson. Hub's was for 30 years and Deanna's for five years. At le{ t, Bessie Ross of Lovell with her retirement certificate at a dinner party in her honor attended by 85, including Manager Chuck Johnson, le{ t, and Supt. Dan Conwell.

Cheyenne. And Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Kolk­ man also have a baby girl. Congratulations to all. Fremont Horse Creek Ed Hays was very seriously burned in a gasoline explosion while on duty as a mechanic for the State Highway Depart­ BY LOIS E. LANG ment. He was hospitalized for well over a BY RITA SWINT month, but is now home and recuperating nicely. His son, Tommy, works in our • With our March flood behind us and • Frank V. Koza, our houseman for many crushing plant, and his wife, Loretta, the clean-up completed, we're looking for­ years, retired on Jan. I, and now lives in formerly worked here as superintendent's ward to a busy "intercampaign". The con­ Cheyenne. He has been replaced by W. A. clerk. She was an associate editor for The struction of our new sugar bin is progress­ Dennis. Mr. Dennis and his wife occupy a Sugar Press, sending in her news items un­ ing very well. The Agricultural Depart­ small apartment here in the hotel. V{c are der the name of "Tizzie". ment is enlarging the piling ground in happy to have them with us, hut are sorry Ronald and Joyce Preston are sporting anticipation of a bigger and better cam­ to lose Frank, after his many years of faith­ a new 1963 Falcon, of which they can be paign. Also, the preliminary work on our ful service. justly proud. It's a very good looking car "small packaging" station has begun and Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. Penny are now -with bucket seats and an especially the new radial drill has been installed and driving a nice looking 1959 Ford station built transmission. in operation. So, all in all, things are really wagon. And Mr. and Mrs. Howard Davis Francie Ford was painfully injured when buzzing around Fremont. also have traded for an attractive looking the pickup in which she was riding hit The big news here is the transfer of car-a Rambler station wagon. a rock slide on a mountain road near our Supt. Jesse Stone to Bayard. Jesse took Frances Ford, daughter of Supt. and Caldwell, Idaho. She was thrown through over here April 10, 1959, in time to clean Mrs. Philip Ford, is one of fifteen College the windshield, and required 150 stitches up after our two big lloods. Under his of Idaho students chosen for the Who's in her face. She was released from the supervision, the diffuser was installed, the Who among Students in American Col­ hospital on April 17, and we are happy new dryer constructed and our Gantry leges. They were selected by a combined to report that she will be able to gradu­ crane rebuilt after a freak windstorm de­ ballot of students and faculty, and a 2.5 ate with her class. str_oyed it. grade point average was a requisite. Con­ Mine Foreman and Mrs. W. E. Cross, While at Fremont, all slicing and pro­ gratulations to both Francie and her par­ Sr. have purchased a new home in Chey­ duction records were broken and, last but ents! enne, and plan to m"ve in soon. not least, the Safety Conte~t was won for New little citizens of our community are This bit of news was reserved until last, two consecutive years. His stress on every Sherri Snyder, daughter of Claude and as it concerns such a small item that it's phase of Safety and First Aid has impressed Connie Snyder, and granddaughter of Mr. hardly worth the mentioning. This writer, every member of our crew. and Mrs. L. E. Snyder; and Twila Davis, Lois Lang, has traded her beautiful '59 Marie, his wife, has been active in church daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Boward Davis. Ford Galaxie for a sedate little 1963 Ram­ affairs and Red Cross volunteer work, and We extend a hearty welcome to both. bler American. But there is this to say in will be greatly missed by all her friends Also in the "blessed event" department its defense-it's very economical! And and associates. Their son, Mike, will re­ we have little Julie Romsa, granddaughter doesn't it look contented, sitting there be­ ceive his diploma this June from Fremont of Motorman and Mrs. Al Romsa. Her side its big sister, Bill Tourville's Ram bier Ross High and looks forward to furthering parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Romsa of station wagon? his education in the West. We hate to see the Stones leave, but as a farewell, we wish them lots of success and goo~ health. Fremont's loss will be Bayard's gai,p. Also, we'd like to take this opportunity to welcome the Jack Corsbergs. Jaek, our new superintendent, comes here from Love­ land where he served as an assistant super­ intendent. We're sure they'll like our friendly town of Fremont. The entire crew is now looking forward to the Safety Award party to be held at the Fremont Country Club, May 17, with high hopes of keeping the honor here at Fremont for the third consecutive year. At Fremont, Fieldman Mel Shafer receives Here Fremont Fieldman Fred Wargowski his five-year GW pin from Manager Gor­ receives his five-year GW pin from Man­ don Rudolph. ager Rudolph.

36 They participated in the Scout-0-Rama in Mr. and Mrs. John Roth spent their Greeley, April 27. vacation over the Easter season with their Fieldman Dale Tormey has consented to son in Las Vegas and touring places of run for election to the Eaton School Board. interest along their route. "Doc" Russ Smith is conducting eye Asst. Supt. Roy Capper retired April I, examinations this week under the com­ after 40 years of continuous service with pany's safety program. Great Western Sugar Company. Roy and We are happy to see Asst. Manager Lynn Mrs. Capper have been living in a trailer Pitcher back on the job after a lengthy house this past winter after having sold illness. their home, and plan to leave soon to tour Kenneth Ogan of Ault High School, son the country. Roy says he will have his of Ivan and Donna Ogan, has been noti­ house, car and boat with him and can stop fied that he is the recipient of an Alfred wherever he sees a good fishing spot. Our P. Sloan National Scholarship to attend best wishes to Roy and Ruth for good Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ken health and happiness in their retirement. will enroll in M.I.T. in September. Judith A. Dinnel, a senior at Platte Tommy Dannatt, CS3, U.S. Navy, son Valley High School, was honored April of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Dannatt, has re­ 23 at a Masonic Awards program. Judith turned to the West Coast after spending earned straight A's during her four years a 20-day leave at home. His ship is de­ of high school. Judith is the 18-year-old ploying to the Western Pacific for a six­ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dinnel At Eaton, Manager Lee Butler, left, pre­ month tour in the near future. of Greeley. Mr. Dinnel is employed at sents a 30-year service pin to Asst. Manager Retired Great Westerner Vic Beets and the Greeley factory. Lynn Pitcher. wife Nina recently returned home from More than two dozen Greeley employees a four-month winter vacation. The first have completed six two-hour lessons in few weeks were spent visiting relatives in First Aid given by Courtesy Patrolmen San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vic's Don Girnt and Loyal Warner. All agreed Chicago brother Glen in Brawley, Calif. The re­ they had gained much from the lessons mainder of their time was spent in Phoenix, and hope to take advantage of advanced "basking" in the sun. classes in the future. Several wives of the It is with regret that I report that Ellis employees also attended the classes. Terminal Miller, retired Great Westerner, is in poor Chief Chemist Dick Mann has been giv­ condition in the Weld County General ing eye examinations to all Greeley em­ Hospital. We hope that Ellis is on his way ployees th~ past week. BY MI LDRED MICHALCIK to a speedy recovery. Folke Johnson is our new janitor follow­ ing the retirement of Mead Novinger. • With the coming of the warm weather, Arthur Meisner has joined the Greeley we are really getting busy. Our new invert Agricultural department as assistant field­ storage tanks are completed, and our three man, beginning his duties here April 16. new tank cars have arrived. These tank Vernon Zimmerman will be transferred cars will be used for shipping invert syrup to Greeley from Loveland as assistant to St. Louis. Our men, all five of them, superintendent on May I. are now working in two shifts. Our two Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Telk of Fuller­ college boys will soon be here to give us ton, Calif. are parents of a son, born Jan­ a hand during the busy summer season. uary 4. He has been given the name of Edith and Ron Williams spent a week's Charles Lawrence, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles vacation in the Missouri Ozarks. They re­ V. Telk of Greeley are grandparents. port the fish are biting and the weather Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Joe Burrous of Bur­ was ideal. The rest of the crew will scat­ lingame, Calif., are parents of a son, born ter their vacations throughout the summer April IS. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Burrous of and fall, depending on how busy we are. Greeley are grandparents. The bowling team sponsored by GWSCO Lois Yocam, cashier's steno., is driving had a successful season. They fini~hed first At Greeley, Asst. Supt. Roy Capper displays a pretty new blue Pontiac. in a league of ten. All vi$itors to our plant his retirement certificate, for 40 years of will be able to view the huge trophv won. GW service, with Supt. Frank Jones at We welcome all vacationers to drop in right. Roy retired in April. and visit us. Greeley

Eaton BY ALICE CROSLEY BY OWEN KNIGHT • Everything is humming about the Gree­ ley factory these days with remodeling and • Another campaign is over and the inter­ new construction, which is coming along campaign work at Eaton is in full swing. as scheduled. Plant improvement jobs authorized this The winds we have been experiencing year include four Blanchard elements, gas have made it necessary to replant a large dryers in the tarehouse, a third slicer and part of the beet acreage. an automatic brix control on the lime We have several avid fishermen that are slacker. planning their holidays and vacations try­ In the transrer and promotion line, Supt. ing their luck at the lakes. The campers Floyd Miller moves to Brighton. Floyd is and boats have all been painted and being replaced by George Halbur from the polished, in fact some have already made MSG plant. Master Mechanic Dan Schmidt early trips to the fishing spots. is going to Mitchell and is b<'mg replaced Mr. and Mrs. Lee Butler and family by Vern Churchwell from Scottst>lufl. Cnn­ enjoyed an early vacation in sunny gratulations and good luck to all of you. Phoenix. Warehouse Foreman Bill Popsa, has been Mr. and Mrs. Ted Stevens visited in appointed commander of the Eaton Ameri­ Billings a while back and stopped to see Judith Dinnel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. can Legion. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kisler. Don Dinnel of Greeley, was graduated from Platte Valley High School with a Harold Saxton has assumed the duties Mrs. Sven Johansen visited a :month record of all A's in all four years. as Scoutmaster for the Eaton troop and in Florida with their daughter and son­ is doing a very nice iob with the boys. in-law.

37 As is usual in all construction work, curiosity has led to a problem of "side line superintendents" and Supt. Oliver Fort Collins Swaney and Cashier Chuck Merritt are contemplating asking GO to set up Ac­ count X-2 for such time. Our most faith­ ful of outside "side line supts." has been Dr. C. W. Sabin, local physician and long­ time friend of this mill. Doc has in some­ • We welcome to Fort Collins a new field. way been able to schedule maternity emer­ man, Carl "Bud" Sorensen, who hails from gencies so that he may spend considerable a farm near Brush. We welcome "Bud" time with us. Doc is very mechanically to our organization and his wife Katherine inclined and we are always happy to have and their three children, Carl Ray, age him around, hard hat and all. We have 6, Jimmy, 5, and Randy, 2. They are mak­ always felt that engineering science lost a ing their home at 740 Eastdale Drive, Fort good prospect when Doc decided for med­ Collins. icine, but his many years of caring for the Our cashier, Hugh E. Cook, is now Windsor sick and wounded has endeared back at his desk after spending some time him to all. in February and March helping close the During last campaign some of the wives books in General Office. At Windsor, Farm Foreman George Weber, of local employees got together and formed At this writing the contracting is com­ left, receives his 20-year GW pin from the GWESCO Club making eligible for plete in the Fort Collins District and all Manager John Stewart. membership all wives of Windsor factory planting is finished. personnel. Officers at this time are Mrs. Oscar Hansen and his warehouse crew Charles Chipman, president; Mrs. Earl are busying loading bulk sugar. This should Morgan, vice president; Mrs. Glenn Troudt, continue until September. secretary; and Mrs. Henry Jacoby, treasurer. Lovena McGraw has been helping out in Meetings are scheduled for the last week in the office, with beet seed, fertilizer, etc., Windsor each month with a varied program of social while the cashier was in the General Office. activities. Year books listing and coming Manager John Stewart enjoyed a two­ year's activities have been issued and a week vacation the last of February. He BY PAUL P. BROWN committee has been appointed to draw up and his wife Belle took off for Idaho, a set of by-laws. California and other points in the West. • First, congratulations to Sterling on win­ ning the 1962-63 Pennant. Since this was a first time for them, it must have been doubly enjoyable. Even though Sterling was the first fac­ Alex Fritzler, Hob Allen, Dick Weaver and tory to win a Pennant in the first com­ other men are handling these chores very paign with a Silver slope diffuser, it gives us some hope that we may once again get Loveland efficiently. The Safety Committee spearheaded the back in the winning column. new look at Loveland's plant. No less than Those factories who have gone through orange-colored hard hats for all people, the throes of installing slope diffusers will BY BOB LOHR complete with name plates over the brim. understand when we say that at this writ­ Many and varied are the comments follow­ ing we are busier than the proverbial bees ing the new regulations concerning the with our own particular installation. The • Paul M. Smith, chief chemist at Love­ mechanical crew in charge of Asst. Master land since 1955 retired on May I. Paul wearing of said hats during the intercam­ Bressler are some two weeks ahead of served the Company at Wheatland, Bill­ paign season. Of course, some of the com­ schedule at this time. Asst. Supt. Glenn ings, Eaton, Fort Morgan and Loveland ments cannot be put into print. Troudt is in charge of the building crew during his career. He was presented with The Bob Lohrs have moved into their and is busy tearing out and rebuilding a money gift at a farewell party in April. new home at 10th & Colorado, with the stairs, floors, doors and what not. Best of luck to Paul from the gang here. help of Bert Lohr, a missionary on furlough Asst. Master "Chilly" Childers and his Many new cars showed up on the lot from Pakistan. crew have installed much of the side equip­ since campaign. Phil Kem has a Rambler, Some of the men hired this spring in­ ment such as picking table, etc., as well Bill Hardwick a Plymouth, Rene Christian­ clude Ralph Smith, Gilbert Englehardt, as beet end maintenance. Asst. Supt. Bill son a Plymouth, Austin Urbach a Plym­ Trinidad Ochoa, Harry Hersch, and Adron Rutz and Pipefitter Bugs Jacoby have had outh, Harold Arndt a Plymouth, Rube Sharp. Clarence Kern relieved Herb Fritch­ their crews busy with pipe and tank work Klein a Ford, Fred Lebsack a Chevrolet, ell on watching duties. Jake Lenhardt with more of the same to come. Asst. Supt. and Walter Wergin a Rambler. Looks like had surgery this spring but is now back in Earl Morgan and Asst. Master Dave Berens the Chrysler Corporation made the most the saddle. have been on a high lope taking care of dough off our Sugar Tramps. I believe this Service pins have been awarded to: Carl regular maintenance work for some of the last statement is borne out by the financial Glassgow and David Weitzel, five years of other Assistants who are tied up on the pages of the Denver newspapers. service; John P. Morris, Vernon Zimmer­ diffuser job. At this time Earl is rigging Harry Burgdorf£ is home recuperating man and Reuben Klein, 15 years; Phillip up to reline our lime kiln and Dave has from a serious stomach operation several B. Kern, 20 years; David Woelfle, 35 just returned from a pump dismantling weeks ago. Get well quick, Harry lots years; and William Arnst and Claud Peak, and shipping job at the Collins mill. more pipes and valves need fixin' before 40 years. We have been thinking of ordering a the wheels can roll this fall. pedometer to be attached to Master Me­ Roy Rowan, congenial janitor for the chanic Eddie Williams to see just how past ten years, retired on April I. Sugar many miles he actually does travel in a Boiler Ralph Gordon, retired immediately day's time in his supervisory work con­ after campaign. It has been good to have nected with all this construction. We have known and worked with Roy, Ralph and tried to slow him down so he might have Paul and we hope the best for all :hree a little energy left for the night races at of you fellows. Clarence Taylor took over the dog track, but no success. the janitor's duties following Roy's retire­ Asst. Supt. Ed Hemmerle, just returned ment. from a California vacation, is in charge Jack Corsberg is leaving our fair city of the 100-lb. bag sugar dumping crew soon to take up his duties as superinten­ in the warehouse. Genial Sugar Boiler Phil dent of the Fremont, Ohio, factory. Nofts, our intercampaign master painter, The major factory changes this summer is in the thick of things and is keeping include removal of all white and At Loveland, the camera sneaks up on right up with the construction work and hi-raw centrifugals and installation of auto­ Roy Rowan, Dick Swanson, and Sandy if you don't step lively you may find your­ matics. Also the fourth floor beet end Cowles. Dick is now at the General Of­ self wearing a coat of sticky old chromate changes include the installation of one f ice in Denver. primer. additional Oliver filter from Fort Collins.

38 At Loveland, above, Chief Chemist Paul Smith, on the left, with Supt. Ev Lingle, at an office party honoring Paul's retirement in April with nearly 44 years of service. At right, above, Paul appears on the right with the Loveland gang at the farewell get­ together.

Supt. Ev Lingle stands at left with Loveland crew members who received CW service pins recently. From left, at front: Dave Weit­ zel, Reuben Klein, and Phil Kem; back row, Lingle, Dave Woefle, Carl Glassgow, lack Morris, Smoky Zimmerman (now at Greeley), Bill Arnst, and Claud Peak. If the photo was in color, the hard hats would be flaming orange!

Manager J. V. Ostermiller and wife spent Early season vacationers included the Longmont a week of spring vacation visiting Charles Kupiliks, Art. Winfreys, Adam their daughter Karen in Riverside, Calif. Urbach, Ford Kimes, Clyde Kempers, Walt Vic reports they stopped over in Las Vegas Ash bys and Walt Strand. to take in a few shows. Marvin Wojahn had the misfortune of BY EVELYNE CUMMINGS & Cashier C. B. Nasi, accompanied by his falling at home and seriously breaking a RALPH PRICE wife and son Dick, spent their spring va­ leg. Marv has been off for several weeks cation visiting in Mitchell. C. B. should but hopes to get back on the job soon. Mrs. • At this writing we are experiencing a have spent this time on the golf course as Kenneth Johnson is home after undergoing record period of no rain in the Longmont his game has dropped to the point that surgery in a Denver hospital. district. Master Mechanic Charles Kupilik, he is now allowed to play only on ladies Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lawley have greeted Teller of Tall Tales, is lamenting the lack dayl their first offspring. Good luck to the new of snow surrounding his mountain cabin. • The official welcome mat is out to Harry young parents. For years Charley has been feeding the M. Scilley, recently transferred from Brigh­ chipmunks at his place, but this spring he ton to Longmont as assistant Master Me­ says he has been busy carrying water from chanic. Harry replaces Art Bohm, who re­ Longmont for the wee animals. ports to Lovell on May 20 where he will A new face has appeared in our office, serve as assistant Master Mechanic. Brighton that of Bruce Jensen, originally of Central Office Steno Evelyne Cummings and her City, Neb. He has taken over the position husband, Keith, accompanied by their niece BY JACK EACHUS of assistant timekeeper previously held by Jacky Anderson of Canon City, left May Fred I. Nixon. Fred now functions as time­ IO for a three-week stay in Hawaii. We keeper, replacing Frank Wilson who re­ regret to report the death of William • It is with regret that we report the death cently retired. Bruce, together with his Denly, father-in-law of Dump Foreman of one of our beloved employees, Lester wife and small son, joined us on Jan. 21. William Hammans, on April I in Afton, O. Hansen. Les was a top mechanic with They reside at 810 Appleblossom Lane, Iowa. Our sympathy is extended to the the Brighton crew since September 1957 Longmont. family. Our sympathies are extended to and specialized in welding. He was return­ Seed House Foreman Chet (Pancho) Allen Manwell, whose mother passed away ing from a trip to Julesburg on April 28 Berry is in El Paso, Texas, assisting in the recently in California. when he became ill. He was rushed to the job of moving labor from the border. He Clarence Derr, Walt Ashby and John hospital in Fort Morgan where he died speaks spanish with a Bostonian accent. Davis were among some of the employees early the morning of April 29. Our sincere Mrs. Ann Bever, wife of Fie Id man forced to stay home for several days due sympathies to Mrs. Hansen and family. Robert J. Bever has been recovering from to illness. Looking around the mill we find George two trips to the local hospital where she The Longmont plant is taking on a new Jorden, Harland Cavender and Jim Feldt underwent surgery. She is doing fine. Mrs. look due to the centrifugal installation, sec­ each sporting a five-year smile. Bus Jessie Krueger also spent some time in the ond filter installation, and the rebuilding Schuyler, Dick Riddell, and Al Kercher are hospital and she too is doing fine at this of the sugar handling equipment. wearing IS-year smiles, and Fred Schissler writing. Steve Nappie is competing in roller skat­ a 20-year smile. The smiles, in other words, Office Janitor Henry Ross and his wife ing contests as a speed skater. From the are for the service pins presented. recently returned from Topeka, where they district meet at Greeley he moves on to Transfers have taken quite a toll of the spent a week visiting their daughter, Mrs. the regional meet at Lincoln, Neb. Robert Brighton crew. Timekeeper Bill Miles re­ Wilmer Johnson. Poellet was a contestant in the same meet. ported to the Accounting Department in 39 parents are Mr. and Mrs. Art Measner and ing new pickup trucks. Supt. Lloyd Sybrandt Mr. and Mrs. Walt Fields. was driving a new International Travelall Spring has arrived and we find the fish­ recently. All types of campers and sleepers ermen turning out in force, attempting to have been seen on the parking lot. lure the Junkers into their creels. Reuben Many of the employees have cabins or Schnorr and Ted Grott can attest to thei trailer homes at various nearby locations, fact that we have a hot fishing spot located which they utilize during vacations and conveniently near. In March, Reuben was days off. Asst. Supt. Bill Tregoning is fishing with a lure and caught a nine pound located at the Red Feather Lakes. Chief German Brown from Horsetooth Reservoir Chemist John Farlow has a new cabin near Fort Collins. conveniently located up the Thompson Not to be outdone, Ted landed an eight canyon. "Slim" Cameron and Mel Mast pound German Brown on April 16 from have trailer homes in the Thompson can­ the same pond, also on a lure. Another yon and Les Adkisson has a brand new At Brighton, Manager LaMar Henry pre­ local person reportedly caught a 12 pound mobile home on the Poudre River. sents a 15-year CW service pin to Field­ Brown while fishing with a worm. The With the coming of intercampaign, we man Dick Riddell. largest we have heard of from Hor.setooth find that the installation of three new this spring was a 19 pound German Brown automatic centrifugals is scheduled. Con­ taken on a large sucker minnow. So here siderable successes have been experienced the General Office on April 15, Asst. is top fishing water, no matter what type with the four we now have. Master Mechanic Harry Scilly reported to fisherman you may prefer. the Longmont factory on April 24, and Bass fishing in this area has also been Supt. Jack Powell reports to the Gering fac­ good. Earl Nichols has caught several large MSG Plant tory around the middle of May. Doggone bass, including one of more than five it we hate to lose these guys, but we know pounds from Hillsboro reservoir located just that you recipients are gonna be well south of the refinery. pleased With the guy you get. We do wish Stokes Redabaugh died •April II at the BY DON MOOMEY each of you all the luck in the world. age of 77. He was a long time resident of • The coming of spring must have stirred Storekeeper Jim Twombly retired on this community and a past employee of the constructive talents of our management March I. Jim retired due to a disability. this plant. A son, Harold, preceded him in personnel. Construction has been stepped The gang all gathered in the storeroom death a few months ago. Surviving him arc up considerably since the warm weather and presented Jim and Mrs. Twombly with his wife, Bertha, a son, Donald of Windsor, has come and we are well under way in retirement gifts. The Brighton crew sin­ and nine grandchildren. Our condolences the construction of an addition to the plant cerely wishes Mr. and Mrs. Twombly best and sympathy to his family. to house eight new crude cystallizers which wishes for many years of happy retirement. Vacation time is rapidly approaching will increase plant capacity considerably. New cars-yes sir we got 'em. Steno Irene here at our plant and we find many of The installation of three new vacuum Durland is driving a brand new Nova II, the fellows well pre12ared to cruise the drum filters to replace our plate and frame Master Mechanic Dick Dayton a new Fal­ highways and by-ways in quest of fun, presses has been completed. After a short con convertible, and our new timekeeper, fish and relaxation in their new cars and time of experimenting and adjusting, the Jack Eachus, is driving a brand new Chev­ pickup trucks. To name but a few: Harold drum filters are now operating at capacity. rolet Bel-Aire station wagon. Eachus was Mitchell, Vern Thompson, Walt Arndt, A farewell party was given to Don Latta very proud of his new car because it was Harold Leinweber and Roscoe Sampson in December. Don resigned his position as the newest on the parking lot, when lo have new cars. Rudy Erbes, "Swede" Lin­ chief chemist to go into the grain elevator and behold, just three hours later, Cashier derholm, Bill Adkisson, Eugene Emmons business. We all wish Don success in his Scotty Hamilton came out with a new and Willard Leonard have been seen driv- business venture. Chevrolet Bel-Aire station wagon. Now Scotty has the newest car. We are happy to welcome Phyllis Burns to our crew to handle the Mexican National Payrolls. 'Tis all from Brighton for this writing.

Johnstown

BY CECIL LYNCH

• Mr. and Mrs. John Measner are the proud parents of a baby girl born April 17. The new arrival has been named Dawnna Lynn. At Johnstown, the MSG lab crew enjoys coffee and cake at a farewell party for Chief Gene Tow is back to work looking hale Chemist Don Latta, who le( t to enter business in Brush; Asst. Chemist Henry Klump, at and hearty after a siege of illness. le(t in the photo at right, presents a. l!!ift from the crew to Don. Larry Lay, who recently started work on Hank Wolf's shift, is the son of Delbert Lay, dryer foreman at Ovid. Frank Adkisson suffered a heart attack April 4 and is still hospitalized at the Osteopathic hospital in Greeley. Frank is reportedly making satisfactory progress. We wish him a speedy recovery and return to work. Several employees of our plant were members of a basketball team which was quite successful during the past season. The team, sponsored by Local Union 1065, cap­ tured the championship in its league in the Greeley City tournament. Congratu­ lations to all of you I The catch on the left was landed by Ernie Pope and Reuben Schnoor of Johnstown at Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fields arc the parents Del/any Buttes, while on the right Reuben displays a nine-pound German brown from of a 5 lb., 8 oz. baby girl born April 30. Horsetooth. She has been named Janetta Louise. Grand-

40 was attended by Supt. Andy Enevoldsen, Master Mechanic Thad Creager and Asst. Supt. Robert Belden. Sugar End Foreman Ervin and Mrs. Henry spent a week of their vacation visit­ ing relatives in Oklahoma. House Mechanic Phil Mollendor and Sugar End Foreman Charles Foss attended a union meeting at Billings. Asst. Supt. Nick and Mrs. Bretz, Electrician Bill and Mrs. Score and Supt's. Clerk Floyd and Mrs. Snyder were among those who attended the state basketball tournament at Denver. Supt. Andy and Mrs. Enevoldsen enjoyed a two-week vacation at Phoenix with their son Jack and family. Sugar Boiler and Mrs. "Doc" Seeber traveled by train to Detroit and drove back a new Pontiac in April. Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Merril Godfrey visited at Omaha recently with their son Merril, Jr., who is a student at medical school. The Godfreys also have a son Rich­ ard, who is a pilot in the Air Force sta­ tioned at Charleston, N. C., and another son, Larry, who teaches in the Peace Corps at Osmania, Hyderbad, India. Asst. Supt. Ralph Hays has been mak­ ing extensive repairs to his home. Boiler The fohnstown Local Union cagers captured the National League championship in the House Foreman Sam Scott has added a Greeley city tournament. Here are the members: Front row, from left: Ron Krieger, Mel two-car garage to his property. Mrs. Scott Leinweber, Don Moomey, Roger Gibson, and Louis Snow. Back row: Dick Rouse, Tom has some very beautifol flowers in her Buxman, Walt Hert, ferry Redabaugh, and Bob McCarthy. yard; must have a real "green. thumb". Dinky Engine Operator "Chick" and Mrs. Williamson have purchased a house in Ovid and plan to move in soon. Sugar With the resignation of Don Latta we Greeley National League Championship. End Foreman Maynard and Mrs. Laufman welcomed Jim Dalbey as chief chemist, Henry Knodel received his five-yea·r ser­ have sold their home in Julesburg and transferring from the Bayard factory. vice pin in December and Cecil Bunten are returning with daughter Janice to Ovid. Congratulations to George Sisler on his retired at age 65 with eight years service Dryer Foreman Del Lay and family have transfer from assistant chemist to the Re­ to the Company. moved into their newly acquired home. search Lab in Denver, and welcome to Calvin Kowalsky is the proud father of Custodian Finley Ritter is driving a John Cappis, transferring from the P.D.L. a baby girl, Amy Lee, born April 2. new blue Ford Ranchero pickup. Sugar to replace George. Congratulations to George Halbur on his Boiler "Stub" and Mrs. Bauer recently ac­ The newly organized basketball team transfer to the Eaton Factory. We're sorry quired a new "Chevy" hard top. sponsored by the Local Union 1065 had to see our boss leave us, but know that Shop Foreman Myron Schommer has quite a successfol season chalking up nine Eaton will beneFit by the move. Best of again hit the fishing trail and reports fair wins and one loss in league play to take the wishes from us all, George. luck at the Jumbo Reservoir. Asst. Master Mechanic "Pete" and Mrs. Peterson will !;ri!::ili!F.i~f!l:ot.ll~'B1!~4t?:U:ff~ .:..~3ii;!e~~'i:~~>s;!1!i~~~:~~#~=im~:~:l!ft~ represent the Ovid Lions Club at the County Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Upal convention in Colorado Springs. Mechanic's Hewgley, wife of Beetend Foreman Pat Helper and Mrs. Wm. Weinbender have Hewgley, has been at the Mayo Clinic in moved into the home they recently pur­ Rochester, Minn. for a physical checkup. chased. id Lowell Creager is spending a vacation Bob Williamson, son of Warehouse Fore­ Ov with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thad man Lawrence and Mrs. Williamson, re­ Creager. ceived a B.A. degree from Colorado State Sugar end foreman and Mrs. Lloyd University this spring. Their daughter, BY H. G. BAUER Graham spent their vacation in New Or­ Jeanne, is a sophomore at CSU. leans and other interesting places in the Sincere sympathy is extended to Mrs. south. Robert Belden on the death of her father, • As we are again about ready to go to The recent retirement party at Scottsbluff Mr. Royce Jeffres. press, we find some very significant changes honoring Clarence Potter, Jack Hostetler Beet End Foreman Gene and Mrs. De­ taking place in the Ovid Factory. In the of Bayard and Curley Rawson of Mitchell Manche are driving a new Mercury sedan. blue print stage are new hi-raw centrifugal machines, U.S. tray type filters for thick juice, new beet elevator, and other im­ provements too numerous to mention. Work on these new projects is in prog­ ress under the supervision of Superinten­ dent Andy Enevoldsen and Master Me­ chanic Thad Creager. New faces back to work are "dinky" engine operator, Jim Juett; boiler house foreman, "Ludy" Clayton; crane operator, Larry Radel; boiler house helper, Harold Hughes; sacking station foreman, Gerald Hughes; sugar cutters, Chuck and Jerry Collins; welder, Fred Lanckriet. Chief Chemist Harold Camp is busy these days repairing Polariscope equipment. Mrs. Loree DeManche, wife of Beetend Forman Eugene DeManche, is recuperating At Ovid Manager Red f ohnson, left, pre­ And here Manager fohnson hands a five­ nicely from recent major surgery. Machinist sents a JO-year CW service pin to Feed­ year CW pin to Fieldman ferry Young, John Prazak is back on the job again after Ovid's man at Big Springs. having been hospitalized in Denver. yard Foreman Keith Peterson. Mrs. Margaret Foss, wife of Sugar End Foreman Charles Foss, is up and about again after a lengthy illness in Sedgwick

41 Howard Schaal, Ford Galaxie; Le I and called to Ordway due to the illness of his Groves, Chevrolet; and Wilbert Brown, father. He reports his father much im­ Chevrolet pickup. proved. Sugar End Foreman Leland Groves re­ Mrs. Bob Ball, wife of our timekeeper tires on June l after nearly 47 years of has also been on the sick list recently. W~ continuous service with Great Western. are happy to report that she is improved Leland's first job with the Company was and we wish her a complete recovery soon'. at Fort Morgan where he was a sample Bob and family expect to spend a week of carrier in 1915. He has been continuously their vacation in Colorado Springs in June employed at the Sterling factory since where they will attend graduation exercises November 26, 1918, when he held the at _th_e Air Force Academy. Their nephew, position of bench chemist. He was pro­ Wilham Ball, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion moted to sugar end foreman in 1924, which E. Ball of Lincoln, Neb., is a member of position he still holds. Leland has always the graduation class. They will also spend been a loyal and dependable employee, a week attending Maranatha Bible Camp well liked and respected by everyone. at Maxwell, Neb. The Groves have one son, Robert, who Fieldman Ivan Stahle and wife, Virginia, is a social studies teacher in the Globe, are two of the busiest people we know of Arizona, High School. They will be tak­ keeping up with the activities of their four ing their vacation the first part of May sons. Van, the eldest son, recently re­ and plan to visit Robert and his family ceived a superior rating in the State Music - and get acquainted with their newest Festival held at Fort Morgan. Van plays grandson, Teddy, who is eight months old. the tuba. No. 2 son, George, is making quite Teddy has a brother, Lee, who is three a name for himself as an athlete in the years old. The Groves also plan to drive Sterling Junior High School. George re­ to San Francisco and will visit with Mr. cently broke the school record made in and Mrs. W. W. Dodd at San Jose, Cali­ 1958 by throwing the discus 123' ll ½". fornia. (Bill Dodd will be remembered as The previous record was 123'. Miss Janie Soper, daughter of Mr. and a former assistant superintendent who re­ George also won the crown in the 128 Mrs. E. T. Soper of Sterling, became the tired at Mitchell.) Mr. and Mrs. Groves pound class wrestling division, and that bride of Dan Wesley Crane last February. plan to retire in Sterling where they have ain't all-he was selected as one of the The Cranes live in Greeley and attend their home at 510 Columbine. Our very All Stars on the Junior High basketball Colorado State College. best wishes go with them for a long and team. In addition, in track, he won the happy retirement! 440-yard dash in the heavyweight division. Recent service pin awards include Alfred From all this, we would say that here is Younger, 20-year pin, Harold Bock, five­ an up and coming young athlete. George year pin, and Ulas Morton, 5-year pin. also knows something about the finer Sterling Our congratulations to these men! things as he, is a member of the Junior Bert Eastman, son of Supt. and Mrs. High band in which he plays the sousa­ BY RUBY REICHERT & Jack Eastman, is No. 2 man on the CSU phone. Good luck, George, in your many MARIE LUFT tennis team. During spring vacation, he activities, and best wishes to Ivan and and his team went to Phoenix for a week Virginia. Hope they can hold out with two of pre-season warmup. Bert is a sophomore younger ones beginning to show their at CSU. muscle. • We were all very proud and happy to Cashier and Mrs. John Schrade spent a Our custodian, Victor Ruf, and wife, be a part of the crew who won the 1962-63 delightful vacation in the south around Erma, plan to spend their vacation tour­ efficiency pennant, and it was even more Galveston, Texas, and vicinity. They re­ ing Yellowstone National Park. Their son "special' since this was the first time that port a real fine vacation which, as vacations Victor Jr., a student at Western State~ Sterling received such an honor. usually are, was far too short. College, and daughter, Janet, who is teach­ A very enjoyable Pennant Party was held Manager and Mrs. Lester Gamer enjoyed ing in Westminster, spent their Easter at the Graham Motor Hotel on the eve­ visits by their daughters and sons-in-law, vacations with their J'arents. ning of March 29. The dinner was abso­ Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Boatright and Mr. Storekeeper Howar Schaal and wife lutely delicious, the program of much in­ and Mrs. Jack Lines. Winifred, are planning to spend their va~ terest to all of us, and a large crowd Newcomers to the Sterling factory are cation with their daughter and family­ stayed to enjoy the dance which followed. Carl and Dorothy Nuss and their three es~ially their four grandsons-at Tarzana, Probably the most complimentary thing to daughters, Debra Kay, age 9, Linda Lee, Cal_1f. They look forward all year to this, be said about the party is that nearly every 7, and Pamela Sue, 21 months old. Mr. their annual romp with the boys. one who attended expressed the wish that Nuss has taken over the duties of dump Top Mechanic Rudy Miller and wife, we could have another one "just like it." crew foreman, replacing Charley Kaepernik Ann, are the proud grandparents of twin There were many who had a part in the who retired recently after many years of grandsons, Richard Lee and Todd Allen plans and preparations for this party, and service. We welcome the Nuss family and Miller, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Miller all are to be commended for a job well hope they like it here. Jr., of San Jose, Calif. Mrs. Miller mad~ done. We wish Charley a happy retirement. the trip to California and was on hand Our chief Chemist, Paul Pumphrey, was We hear, however, that Charley is busier to greet the new arrivals. Grandpa can honored recently as high individual in the than ever. Being a man of many talents, hardly wait to spend his vacation getting nation in indoor rifle shooting of National he is much in demand for many jobs. acquainted with the twins. Guard Units. Paul fired last spring while He has purchased an abode for himself, and residing in Scottsbluff. The winners were the latest rumor is that he is planning a anounced last fall, and the Scottsbluff trip to Hawaii. (Wonder if those beauti­ National Guard made its awards in March. ful Hawaiian girls had anything to do The awards he received included: the with that decision.) National Gallery gold medal for high in­ In the Agricultural Department, we wel­ dividual score, the Fifth Army medal and come William and Frances Thoren and plaque for high individual score in the their two small daughters, Tracey, age 3, Fifth Army area, and National Rifle Asso­ anw Alissa, age 2. Bill comes to us from ciation plaque for high individual score. the Bayard district where he looked after In addition, he and each member of the the Alliance area. He replaces former Field­ Scottsbluff team received silver medals for man Al Walbye, who resigned to become their second place finish and bronze a banker. Al has accepted a position with achievement medals and plaques from the the Commercial Savings Bank of Sterling chief of the National Guard Bureau. in the Agricultural Loans Department. We Wally North and Robert Terrill are !iad a nice visit with Al today at the bank, on "loan" to the Labor Department as bus out couldn't talk him out of anything. Sterling's Dump /{epair Foreman Charlie mechanics, and Cecil Swan is again serv­ Good luck, All Kaepemik gets good wishes on his retire­ ing as a bus driver for them. Jim Robertson, Fieldman in the Nebraska ment from Manager Les Gamer, left, and Recent purchasers of new vehicles are area of the Sterling factory, was recently Fieldman Ivan Stahle. Charlie retired last March with 21 years of service at Sterling. 42 Mr. and Mrs. Ron Stanley are the proud parents of their first child, Sheila Lynn, catching his limit of fish and thoroughly born March 26. Mr. and Mrs. William enjoying the trip. Ehrlich also recently became the parents of The "fishing bug" also took a firm hold a baby girl, and she is their first child. Fort Morgan on Bob Weisgerber and Vince McCune. Bill is a member of the beet dump repair Not being able to shake the "bug", they crew and is about the proudest papa also gathered up rod and reel and went we've ever seen. Congratulations and best BY ROBERTA WEISGERBER to Lake John, where Bob caught an 8 lb. wishes to these young couples! trout. Foreman of Feeding Operations E. T. • Time again for the news about Fort Mor­ KaSandra Cordon, daughter of Store­ Soper, /r. and Mrs. Soper became the par­ gan Sugar Tramps and their families. keeper and Mrs. Ray Gordon, gave her ents o a new son on February I, 1963 Jerry Schmode, son of Supt. and Mrs. Senior Piano Recital on April 14, after when their daughter, Janie, became the Mart Schmode, his wife and son spent the IO years of study with Mrs. H. E. Smith. bride of Dan Wesley Crane. The ceremony latter part of February visiting here. Mart Wedding bells have been ringing here­ was performed in Trinity Episcopal Church reports the grandson to be "quite a fellow". Congratulations to Sharon Dobner and in Greeley, Colorado. Both are juniors in Steno Delila White will soon be going Tommy Blake, who were recently married. the Colorado State College Honors pro­ on vacation. She and Mr. White plan a Sharon is the daughter of Sugar End Fore­ gram. Janie is a graduate of Sterling High trip to Madison, Wis., to visit their daugh­ man Kenneth Dobner. School where she was a delegate to Girls ter Crace who is teaching there, and then Arnold Hoffmann, son of Warehouse State and was a member of the National on to Huntsville, Ala., to visit their son Foreman Con r a d Hoffmann, Jr., and Honor Society. She is majoring in speech Gordon and family. Gordon is a member Sharon Smith, daughter of the C. W. correction. The bridegroom is a graduate of of the Huntsville police force. Smiths of Brush, were married on February Englewood High School and is majoring Manager and Mrs. A. M. Watson va­ 14. in English at CSC. The couple is making cationed in California and Arizona early Our sympathy is extended to Timekeeper their home in Greeley where they are con: this spring. Al reports a nice trip. Glenn Nelson and his family at the death tinuing their education. Congratulations Asst. Supt. and Mrs. Herb McQueen are of Glenn's father this month. and best wishes! anxiously awaiting the arrival of their son Our maintenance work is coming along Our cashier's office is sporting a new Herb, Jr. He has been in Korea the past in fine shape with a crew of 52 men on springy look in the form of a heavenly blue 14 months and is expected home about the job. We are going to install a new coat of paint. Makes us feel young and May 18. Herb, Jr., is a member of the second filter station this year to replace gay??? Just what we needed after a long, U. S. Air Force. the Borden filters. hard winter. We also needed this new Cashier Harold Smith has also contracted Chief Chemist Matt Sheldon reports that paint job, believe me! a touch of "spring fever". A few days ago he and Asst. Chemist Kenneth Hoff have The Agricultural Department has been he gathered up rod and reel and headed repaired some 12 to 14 polariscopes so far kept very busy with the Tillam incorpo­ for the Big Thompson River. He reports this year. rator; also with high winds, blowing dirt and dust which have harmed the small beets in many fields; and on top of all that, no rain! Some replanting is being done. Farmers are doing more and more Jack Whittier, Virg Wecker, and Dick irrigating for germination after holding off Kraus were noted sticking their heads out as long as they could. On April l we had Scottsbluff of the vacuum pans occasionally the last the largest early planted acreage in the couple of months. We noticed them a history of the Sterling factory district, ap­ couple of days ago hanging around the proximately 4,000 acres. To date we have BY LES ENWALL trash catchers as though they might be had no serious losses from freezing tem­ contemplating a little work down there. peratures in our area. Manager Lester Gar­ Floyd Logan and his gang have Finished ner has been commuting betwen Sterling • Scottsbluff is humming as the new land­ up the evaporators, sold and unloaded a and Holdrege, Nebraska and reports con­ mark of the North Platte Valley, namely, few carloads of fertilizer, and were last ditions there, too, are getting extremely dry, with the new tall type sugar bins rapidly seen heading toward the tare-house. and moisture is badly needed. taking shape. As of this writing, the walls Jim Buckendorf has been taking care of Fieldman Bud Clemons says son Bret is are at their full height and the head house the molasses, while Pete Conrad has main­ seriously thinking of getting into the Fair floor will be poured in a few days if tained his lonely vigil in the carpenter Rodeo this year. However, pop feels he Borton Construction Superintendent Rex shop, making and repairing windows and should wait a little while (he is 9 months Moore stays on the schedule he has set up. other odd jobs. Ray Schraeder, and Levi old). With 300,000 more bags to sack next year Koenig performed the duties of "bin in­ Virginia Albright, 12-year-old daughter and no bulk loading, somebody "up there" spector" on the night shifts while yours of the Ivan Albrights, received an outstand­ decided we needed a little help. As a result, truly took the same job on the day shift ing award for twirling in the recent dis­ Scottsbluff will soon possess a new five "gravy train." Art Harris is still wonder­ trict music contest held in Sterling. Virginia pound machine capable of turning out 120 ing how many more times some of these also received superior awards for twirling 5 pound pockets or IO 60 pound bales per old valves can be repaired, while Bus Hight and a clarinet solo at the State Music Festi­ minute. As if this weren't enough to keep and Leo Shandera are tracing down pipe val in Fort Morgan. She was also a member the crew busy, we are also p u t t in g lines for Jerry Fertig to clean. of the Small Group Seventh Grade Girls Blanchard elements in five crystallizers, George Luce and his "w1tts", consisting melter controls, a new boiler feed pump, of Doyle Clark, Johnny Arends, Duane Choir which received a superior award. and a few other more minor jobs. Looks like we have a promising musician Bouchard, and Steve Startzer, have been here. Browsing around the mill we note that busy getting things ready for the bins and In bowling activities, the GW Mixed George Heimbuch and his crew are still the new switchboard which will replace League has copped top place, in fact, it has busily loading, stacking, and filling sugar been at the top the entire season with the bags with one hand while unloading, un­ execption of one week. Members of the stacking and dumping sugar with the other. team are Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Stahle and Pryce Mitchell is in charge of the ware­ Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Rieke, whizzes, all of house and is doing such a good job he will them. The GW Men's Team consisting of probably never leave there. Rudy Miller, John Spall, Ivan Stahle, Paul Shop Foreman Walt Tucker and his Pumphrey, Clyde Pfeifer and Ed Drew, machinists are trying desperately to keep up with the demands of regular mainten­ didn't fare so well. They placed · sixth, ance, together with the work required by all which would indicate that they could have the extra-curricular activity. We don't see used a few women on their team. Nancy too much stuff piled around waiting, so Eastman, IS-year-old daughter of the Jack Eastmans, received the distinction of hav­ they apparently arc doing a pretty fair job. Elburne Hood, Maury Rogers, and Dave ing her name listed in "Bowling High­ Hopper have much the same predicament lights" under Stars of Tomorrow for bowl­ ~- ing a 212 game. rushing to get their maintenance work don~ At Scottsbluff, Fieldman Bob Chinnock while building various components for the tries out the rod and reel he received from bulk bins for both Scottsbluff and Ohio. his factory friends upon his departure to Before long their crews will be going to a new area at Hemingford, Neb. Bob was work on the bins in earnest. replaced at Scottsbluff by Lloyd Crook from Mitchell. 43 Stephen L. Seiffert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Three of our young ladies were honored Cliff Seiffert, is attending New Mexico recently when they were initiated into the State University at Las Cruces, N. M. He "Court of Queens", an honorary organi­ is majoring in nuclear physics and is pres­ zation which originated in the Gering High ently on a six-month work program at the School in 1958 for girls of the freshman White Sands Missile Base. He is employed and sophomore classes. The girls are chosen in the Photography Department. by the girls in their class for personality That about wraps it up for this time. traits which are considered essential for Time and space prohibit mentioning all of success and happiness, consisting of 25 cate­ the names of the large crew now working. gories. We are proud of the girls for their We hope that those who were omitted this achievement and extend our congratulations time can be included in the next issue. to them and their parents. Jo Ann Hooper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Hooper, was chosen as a princess from the freshman class and received her tr6ph{ for tact; Linda Drumheller, daugh­ Gering ter -o Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Drumheller, was chosen as queen by the sophomores and received a trophy for poise; Janet BY RENA GROSS Bauer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bauer, was a queen also from the sopho­ • A lovely wedding for a very pretty bride more class and her trophy was for person­ took place in Gering on April 21. Russ ality. Janet Bauer also received the honor Dilley escorted his daughter, Patricia, down of being chosen reigning queen for the the aisle to the altar of the Gering Metho­ organization. dist Church where she became the bride Among the entrants in the Miss Scotts­ Linda Lee Enwall, daughter of Mr. and of LeRoy Matticks, son of Mr. and Mrs. bluff pageant was Jennifer Barton, daugh­ Mrs. Les Enwall of Scottsbluff, was a June Bernard Matticks of Bayard. After honey­ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Barton. Jennifer graduate of Scottsbluff High School. Linda mooning in Colorado, LeRoy reports to displayed her talent as an artist and al­ plans to be a teacher and attend Scotts ­ Pensacola, Fla., on May I for Navy duty though she was not in the finals, she is to bluff Junior College and Colorado State and Pat will return to finish her enroll­ be commended for her presentation which College at Greeley. ment at Scottsbluff Beauty Academy, and was among the finest given. later join her husband in Florida. Debbie Waggoner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ,erry Morris and children are resi­ Mrs. H. T. Waggoner, is a member of a dents o Scottsbluff where Mrs. Morris and selected elementary choir of Linc o In the one which has blown up the last two the children will remain while her hus­ Heights School in Scottsbluff. The group is Campaigns. Also, Doyle, Duane and Steve band is serving in Okinawa witlh the in its second year and consists of about installed conduit and junction boxes in the United States Marines. Mrs. Morris (Willa) 44 members selected from the fourth, fifth bin walls as they were going up. Jay Hall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. U. W. and sixth grades. They have furnished and Clarence Schmidt have had the seed Goos. entertainment almost week I y for many mill going full blast almost since Cam­ As much as we regret the Hoopers leav­ events in the area. paign was over, while Joe Stromski has ing us, we can do no less than offer sincere About 32 ladies turned out for the been selling the end result to the farmers. con gr at u I at ions to our superintendent, Gwesco Club meeting the evening of April Burleigh Ricketts has gotten the Steffen Sabin Hooper, on his appointment to the 24. A "spring" theme was carried out by house in pretty good shape while Freddy Scottsbluff Factory on May l. We shall the hostesses and the entertainment was Robinson has been doing the same for the miss Sabin and his family, however, Ger­ our favorite bingo with numerous prizes. tanks and the lawn. ing will continue to claim them as residents The president chose an interesting subject Kenneth Jesse and Rudy Temple have at 1815 Q Street. Our best wishes go with for roll call-planned vacations by the been running the two shifts making pack­ Sabin in his new assignment and to all members. Maybe you husbands should have ages, and the bales have been rolling out the family in their new home. been there! of there like clockwork. Ron England and J. B. Olsen has purchased a new home Helen Hooper, young daughter of Sabin Irvin Zitterkopf have been working on at 57 Northfield, Gering, and will move and Kathleen, received a trophy for out­ various aspects of maintenance, and P. I. next month. Jim has been commuting from standing rating for performance on the jobs, while Al Starkey was prettying up the Bayard the past year and will be happy tenor saxophone at the Gering Junior High lobby and some of the rooms in the main to be in his new home and closer to work. Music Festival. This is a worthv achieve- office. Cashier Don Cross lent a hand to Mr. and Mrs. Olsen were recently visited the Auditing Department in Denver for a by their daughter, Greta and her husband, few weeks. Cliff Seiffert, Jack Fulton, Dick Shook of Elko, Nevada. Frieda Conn and Helen Roberts kept shop Floyd Enlow has been his own chief during his absence. cook and bottle washer, complaining of It was with very real regret that we dishpan hands and housemaid's knee, for said good-bye to Clarence Potter, our the past month. Mrs. Enlow and the chil­ Superintendent the past four years and dren went to Arkansas for her brother's a real GW veteran with some forty-three wedding and a visit with her parents in years of dedicated service. Clarence turned March. Her visit has been extended due over the reins to Sabin Hooper, effective to the serious illness of her father. May I, and will leave about May JO to New members of our Gwesco family are make his home in Greeley. We hope that Tina Lynn, a daughter born to Mr. and Clarence and Blanche Potter will have Mrs. Gordon Randall on March 11; and many happy years ahead, and that they Debra Sue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darr will truly enjoy the retirement so well­ John. born on March 30. Congratulations earned. to all. We want also to wish Vern Churchwell We have learned that Mr. andl Mrs. much success in his promotion to master Maurice Orr were recently presented with mechanic at Eaton. Vern came to us a a new grandson and also a granddaughter. year ago from Gering and has not only The Frank Carpenters are "new grandpar­ done an outstanding job, but has made ents" and Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Swanson many friends whom, we know, are sorry are grandparents of a little girl born to to see him go. Mrs. Swanson's son and his wife, Mr. and Replacing C. E. Potter as surrintendent Mrs. Terry Tornow. is Sabin Hooper, a native o Scottsbluff Along with the "new" theme, we see who started to work in the Scotsbluff fac­ Fieldman Bob Barton driving a 1963 Val­ tory and now returns in the top spot. Sabin iant and Al Ruth came back from vacation Janet Bauer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. was transferred from Gering where he has with a 1960 Lark. Carl Haffner has been Ken Bauer of Gering, was the queen of the been superintendent the past three years. driving a new Chevy pickup to work for sophomores at the Gering High School He is no stranger to most of the Scottsbluff several weeks and it recently showed up Court of Queens. crew, so we will just say, "Welcome, with a camper so it appears he might have Sabini" future plans for a fishing trip.

44 to him and he said he took to Texas, and he had a real nice trip. The Don McDaniels have a new baby at their home-a boy-that makes a pair. Seth Lyman, a campaign chemist, rassed away the first part of April. We al liked Seth and will miss him. Our new superintendent, Jesse Stone, paid us a flying visit recently and should return soon from Fremont to settle down at ~ayard. We want to take this oppor­ tunity to welcome both Jesse and Marie back to the West-and also to bid farewell with the best of wishes to our retired super­ intendent, Jack Hostetler, who moves out to Van Nuys, Calif. (See the accompanying pictures of Jack's retirement send-off). Frank Townsend started to work recently -helping on the ta rehouse ... Sam Razo is helping Harry Swanson again this sum­ The Bayard clan gathers around to help celebrate the birthday of Supt. Jack Hostetler, mer. resplendent in stripes. From left, Cashier Dale Quinn, Supt's Clerk Madelyn Elder and Fishing has been rotten the last couple M_aster Mechanic Ralph. Townsend._ Bel_ow at left, Jack blows the whistle at the e;..d of of months, but we did catch a couple last his 44th and last campaign; he retired in May and at right below Jack receives the best fall and winter. They were sure thick-even wishes of Beetend Foreman Don McDaniel at a Bayard party. John Kelim caught one-so you see that they had to be thick! Friends of Chris Moberg will be glad to hear he is getting along fine after hav­ ing been in the hospital for surgery. Our depest sympathy to the family of Asst. Master Mechanic Al Wetlaufer, who passed away last winter after a long illness. Al will be long remembered in the Bayard community. Mitchell

BY DICK BARKER

• Spring is here and the big push is on ment, with about 10 schools participating a~ain. Crop prospects are looking good dis­ in the festival. pile the hard freeze on April 23. Thinning Al Ruth spent some time at home and will be starting soon and it won't be long during the time enjoyed a visit from his before the standard morning greeting from son, Don, home for Easter vacation. Mr. the Fieldman will be "Buenos dias, Senor!" and Mrs. Ruth took Don back to Denver Congratulations to two new proud papas to resume his studies. -a baby girl was born to Sugar Boiler and We have had many visitors during the Mrs. Bob Hendren, and a baby girl was past two weeks, what with retirement born to Sugar Boiler and Mrs. Homer parties, the technical meeting, transfers, Petersen. Keep up the good work, men. etc. They were very welcome and we hope In the past month retirements took three they come again soon. Mitchell old-timers whose combined service Now that it is time to look forward to a totaled over 125 years with Great Western. new superintendent, we extend a hearty Beet End Foreman Don Hansen and Asst. welcome to Mr. Jack Powell, Mrs. Powell Supt. Otto Nieder retired May 1 and Mas­ and the girls. Perhaps we are yrejudiced, ter Mechanic Curly Rawson is on vacation but we think Gering is one o the best prior to his retirement on June I. Every­ places to live and we sincerely hope that ones' wishes for a long and healthful re­ they will be happy in our midst. tirement go with these gentlemen. Our loss is Loveland's gain. Congratula­ tions to Asst. Supt. Don Morris, who was transferred to Loveland on May 6. And welcome to our new master me­ Bayard Bayard Manager Lowell Giauque congratu­ chanic, Dan Schmidt, from Eaton. We hope lates Fieldman Abe Spurgin upon his 25 you like our mill and our town. BY BRUCE GENOWAYS years with GW.

• Another crop of beets coming up-and we at Bayard are busy getting ready for them. Besides the usual repair work, we have to increase the capacity of our tare house -quite a project, so I hear. I also hear we are going to pelletize our pulp next campaign; and they tell me that's quite a project, too. And I also hear something about the construction of foundations for Bayard's first set of sugar bins, the tall style! All in all, sounds like we're going to be busy the rest of the summer. A1:ot~er Bayard pa:tY ?ono~ed Fieldman Bill Thoren upon his departure for the Sterling I see Mr. and Mrs. Julius Keil driving district. At left, 811!_ sits wit~ Mrs. Thoren, with Ma7:ager Lowell Giauque at right; in a new Chrysler-looked like a bank presi­ the photo at right, Bill and Fieldman Bob Chmnock discuss who will bring in the largest dent instead of a Sugar Tramp. I talked beet piles next harvest.

45 T""i.AZ"':CCE TOLD T...5..LES F RO~ T::S::E S""O"'G-...5..E FEESS

Ding! Ding! Ding! rang out the Duck Call. "That's my number," and he grabbed our hero's phone. "Ycs. Have Mr. C. B. & Q. sit down. I'll be right in." And the B. B. hastened away. Ring Out, Wild Bells! Decidedly this was getting on our hero's nerves. He tried to bribe the blondes who operated the Call, with negative results. 'Tis not a Christmas carol played here upon the house organ in He purchased an up-to-the-minute firearm summer time, children, but a sorrowful saga of the Sugar Build­ and persuaded Charlie Luff to show him how to use it. The pastime seemed to ing back in the days when-well, ah, it was penned in February soothe him. of 1921 by Clyde Osborn, under a chemical name still used by A few days later our hero stepped into CW. Anyway, read it; it will clutch right at your eardrums! the Big Boss' office. "Boss, you started to say something to me the other day when you were interrupted by that blessed Duck By C H 0 Call." (He didn't say "blessed," but this 12 22 11 Editor is a bit fussy, and it will strain no one's imagination to figure out just what (The man who did not put the 'ell in bell) he did say.) "I thought I'd better remind you of it-might be important." "Let's see, now, Hero," mused the B. B. "I have it. I was complimenting you on Fondling a blue-black automatic in the Everybody in the building who was any­ your work and was about to tell you that pocket of his smart top-coat a white-faced body had a number. And whenever a fel­ I had decided to raise-" Ding! Ding! youth opened the door of a sumptuous suite low stepped out of his office to borrow a Ding! An expression of deep concentration of offices in an imposing office building in cigarette or jolly a jane-Dingl Ding! Ding! shadowed the Boss' eyes. "That's your Denver. An attendant hastened down the would go his number, just as shure as fate, call," he announced, shoving his phone hall with his card and returned imme­ and he'd grab the nearest phone. And in across the desk. Our hero had to take it. diately with the information that the the meantime his boss would be wondering Suddenly the B. B. glanced at his watch president of the company would see him why the devil he didn't stay on the job. and dashed for the door, calling back: "I at once. Shortly after the visitor was Whenever the Duck Call intoned its gotta catch that 4:40 train. See me when shown into the president's private office musical notes everybody with a number I get back." two shots in quick succession reverberated would stop whatever he was doing and Here insert the first paragraph. It was through the building. From adjoining of­ count the strokes to make sure that it was, only put where it is for the reasons here­ fices a mass of startled humanity poured or was not, his call-and then he'd inquire tofore intimated. Now go on with the into the halls. With a grim smile the of the girl to whom he had been dictating: story: visitor unhurriedly left the president's of­ "What did I say?" And the unnumbered The president of the Duck Call Company fice and walked towards the elevator. counted each call on general principles, and followed the white-faced man to the ele­ wondered whose it was. And the efficiency vator. "Surely, you can't be serious about • • • man began to wonder what the 'ell. this, Mr. Hero?" he gasped. This is a sad story-not too sad, but sad. Our hero worked hard. He made good. lt ought to be a good story, too, for it "I was never more in earnest in my He was given a number. Then his grief life," was our hero's grim reply, for it was engages the reader's attention right in the began. Fate had it in fo~ .him. Ev.err time indeed he. "If you don't take that blessed first paragraph, as good short stories should he left his desk-on leg1umate m1ss1on or always do. When one reads of a daring (see above) invention of yours out of our otherwise-Ding! Ding! Ding! would go G. 0. I'll go through the whole Sugar hold-up, or a clever bank-robbery, or a his call. And on his return his office-mate Building and shoot to smithereens every nice, juicy murder, one just naturally wants would grumble: "Did you get that call?" to know who, when, where, why and how blessed (ditto) one of those bells as ef­ He almost wished he might again be one fectively as I did the one in your office-­ much or what was involved-and reads on. of the unnumbered majority. and as you haven't been paid for them yet, * * * After a hard day he would go home, put you'll be the goat!" Once upon a time there was a mighty on his slippers, fill up his jimmy-pipe, * • • decent young fellow who worked for the sink into the depths of an arm-chair and On the Big Boss' return to the now silent Gwesco concern, sugar-makers and men­ unfold the evening paper. Ding-a-ling! halls he listened to our hero's story, raised builders, in the Sugar Building in Denver. would go the door bell. He'd drop the his pay, and then queried: "How did you He was industrious, sober (perforce), law­ paper and frantically try to count its happen to hit on such an extraordinary abiding, good to his family, and every­ strokes. At dinner one of the children solution of your difficulties, my boy?" thing. He had none of the earmarks of would start a tattoo on a tumbler-a wild "I felt pretty sure of a verdict of justi­ the hardened criminal nor of the impulsive look would flash into our hero's eyes as fiable homicide, Boss. But my group life murderer. His finger-prints and Bertillons he poised a bite in mid-air and tried to certificate hadn't reached $3,000 yet, and had never been taken. count. Or the clang of a street car bell it costs a lot to hire a good lawyer like Now, in the general offices of his com­ would bring him up counting in the car's Caldwell Martin (Adv.). I couldn't afford pany there had been installed an ingenious path. to take a chance. I found that the Duck call system-bells here, bells there, bells One day the Big Boss strolled into our Call was installed on trial only and I everywhere. When one did not answer his hero's office. He was a regular fellow, thought I might get results without blood­ phone promptly, Ding! Ding! Ding! would was the B. B. - smoked cigarettes, and shed." go his call. Some called it the caterwaul. went to prize-fights, and played pool, and ''I'll say you did," remarked the B. B. Others called it unprintable things. drove a rattling good car, and said how-do with a contented grin. Its real name was the Duck Call. to everybody. "I like the way you've been * * * When one's number rang, one ducked hitting the ball," he remarked. "I believe Moral: You don't have to know the Morse for the nearest phone. Hence the name. you're entitled-" code to answer a Duck Call.

46 "And just a minute. Take one sheet The Office Boy Who Would Be President at a time and after 40 or 50 trips you By BOB WITMER should be clone, then come back. I thank you." Next I call in Mr. Kistler. At his Twice Told Tales here bares a true confession--<1 Juicy one, entrance, I says to him, "Sit down, Mr. too, by none other than the present Assistant to the Auditor. Kistler, I would like speech with you." Read how young Mr. Witmer trampled on tradition at the Sugar "Now," I says, "Mr. Kistler, I would suggest that you give the offi ce-boys Building in January of 1929, how he wreaked revenge upon his a raise every month, have every other seniors, how he . . well, read and find out. It's a little gem. month a vacation for them, furnish Model A Fords for them to do errands in, issue a statement that no one is to The other day Mr. Petrikin says to brushed off your shoes clear up to your ask the office-boys to get a letter, an­ me, "Bob, how would you like to have shin-bones. The very latest in soft swer a bell, get Agnes for the phone, or my job for a day?" comfortable chairs (easily converted deliver mail ; the rest of the time they And I said to him, "How would you into a day-bed) . Pure air supplied by may read detective stories." like to be a five-year-old kid stranded the latest type of fan which resembles He agreed and went forthwith to on a solid chocolate island covered an old-fashioned mouse trap; ma­ carry out my instructions. with nut sundaes and peppermint hogany furniture, elegant curtains, and shrubbery?" a solid gold cuspidor. For the next half-hour I amuse my­ Well, I remove my coat, roll up my self by pushing random buttons on my After this crack he said to me, "All desk. To each hurried answer I mere­ joking aside, do you want it?" sleeves, take off my tie, put my feet up on the desk, help myself to a good ly says, ··r rang by mistake," and in Then I said, "Well, after giving the about two minutes I ring again. matter due thought and deliberation, I cigar, light it with a ten-dollar lighter, accept." and in general prove my ability as a As the shadows lengthen, I ring for To which he said, "O. K." real president. the office-boy and make him a present After it becomes noised around that of two packages. The first is a ball Now anybody, even Mr. Phillips, bat, with instructions for its use con­ could see that this is a very good offer I am the head manager, boss, overseer, etc., you can bet I proceed to even the cerning certain people who make a and incidentally affords me the oppor­ habit of r inging and then ringing tunity of getting back at my superiors. score between myself and my erstwhile superiors ( my present hired help). again before you get back from an­ So I accepts and am duly installed in swering the first ring. The second is a my new headquarters. I call for Mr. Saunders and say, "Mr. Saunders, here are some papers to go check for two thousand dollars, which And just Jet me say a word about needs no instructions. them. Rugs so thick that when you down to Mr. Martin; will you please walk on them, or maybe I should say take them down?" And then came the dawn. through them, you get the dust "Yes, sir," says he. It was only a dream.

The Sad, Sad Saga-(Sob !)-of Superintendent Stone

• It's a custom among Sugar Tramps to present going-away gifts to departing members of the crew, even superintend­ ents. Now the occasion came up at the Fremont safety banquet on May 17, 1963-a real nice time to present something to Supt. Jesse Stone, since he was to leave shortly to take up his new appointment at the Bayard factory. After all, Jesse had been at Fremont for four years and even gotten his feet wet in one flood; and, yes, he had led the mill to a Safety title for two straight years. He belonged. Then, too, his wife Marie would also be present, and so would the wives of all the other members of the crew. The time couldn't be better. So a purchasing committee was formed and chaired by Asst. Supt. Al Schmidt with a commission to buy some token of the crew's esteem for Jesse and Marie. Unlike a lot of committees, this one really functioned. The hour came at the banquet for the presentation, the head table groaned with packages, and Jesse whipped out his knife and carved with a will at the wrappings. Marie watched at his side. The first big box yielded another smaller box-and so on. Finally, in the photo at left, with Al pretending to be shocked, Jesse and Marie hoisted out some lengths of pipe and other oddments handy to have around the house-much to their glee. But Jesse was not just being a good sport, for he could feel what he held in his left hand. (Lime rickey?) But lo and behold! Regard the photo at right, the unveiling. A bottle, yes, but containing precious few drappies. Furthermore, regard the face of the honored Super. It was enough to make a grown man cry, while, to add insult to injury, Al Schmidt just guffawed. But, as you might expect, things finally turned out all right. Someone rushed in quickly with one more big pack­ age. No, not a case of Old Tennis Shoes bottled in bond, but a matched set of luggage for Jesse and Marie. And were they pleased? Yes, indeedy.

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