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LOCAL HISTORY

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The Story of a Box of Starch and HowIt Grew—

Our President's Annual Report to Stock-holders and Employees —

The Success Story of One of Our OldestBrokers —

And By All Means —

the Sayings of the Safety Bird!

CONTENTS • MARCH, 1948Of Many Things 2

A Box Of Starch 5

Annual Report 9

The Safety Bird 18

Kuehn Company 22

Now Take Soup 2?

Fellowship Club Election 30

Published Monthly In The Interest Of The Employees Of

A. E. STALEY MANUFACTURING COMPANYManufacturers of Corn and Soybean Products

DECATUR, ILL.

Editor: Ruth E. Cade

Volume XXXI Number 9

O F M A N Y T H I N G SThe other morning when I got on the elevator in the office building Roy Roller

said—':You must have said something funny. The girls are still laughing." I'veno idea now what any of us said, but I remember what I told him. I told him

that one of the first things I learned"TRY TO LEAVE THEM WITH when I came to work at Staley's wasA SMILE" WAS HIS METHOD to try always to leave people in a

good frame of mind.My teacher was the unmatchable G. K. Chamberlain who was my boss for

the first three years I was with the company. And when he was your boss Mr.Chamberlain was just automatically your teacher. It was not at all uncommonfor him to call one or the other of us who worked directly under him, and askus to sit there while he carried on some other business. Sometimes he dictatedletters while we sat, sometimes he carried on telephone conversations—andoccasionally he gave crisp, salty orders. But always he ended with some littlepleasantry which would soften the impact of even a severe calling down.

The hundreds of people who remember G. E. know that he was no discipleof the sweetness-and-light idea. He could tear into a situation—or a man—with a flow of words which would curl the hair of even an innocent by-stander.He meant what he said, and the person being chastized knew it. But he alsoknew that when the lashing was over the boss harbored no ill feeling.

I have never been by authority nor necessity forced to so curl the hair ofanyone in the company, but there have been times—and probably will be more—when I have disagreed with the people with whom I work. I know that toeveryone concerned Mr. Chamberlain represented the Staley company, and bythe same token I know that to everyone out here I represent the Staley Journal.It is a human trait to want to be liked by the people with whom one works.It is just as natural to want those most concerned to like the thing you represent.You and it go hand in hand.

By the same token all of us with the Staley company are the Staley companyto the community at large. We know the good things for which our companystands. We know it is a good neighbor and we want the rest of the commu-

nity to know it.YOU SHAPE COMMUNITY'S S ta ley people have new evidenceOPINION OF COMPANY daily that Decatur thinks of them as

representatives of the company, as wellas individuals. If you want to rent a house, or open a charging account or makefriends with new neighbors—you generally use as a reference the fact that youare with Staley's. And that helps in smoothing out any difficulties that mighthave arisen.

If a man is running for office, or taking the lead in some community affairthe little sentence "he works at Staley's" is used to good advantage. This isnot a tradition that has grown up unfounded. It has grown because a manwho always played fair with the community and his employees built up a largecompany which always does the same. And such a company attracts square-playing people.

Because the people who work for the company are proud of Staley's theywant the community to feel that same pride. Because Staley employees liketheir company, the community in which they live likes it. We do not have tomake soap-box talks to show this liking. We show by being good citizens thatwe have a natural pride in our homes and our jobs—and we and the companygain added respect thereby.

My job takes me into all sorts of situations and gives me an excuse forasking all sorts of questions. Recently I was curious as to why so many Staleypeople needed help in making out their income tax returns. I do not know what

the direct opposite of a mathematicsWHY SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE whizz is, but I am it—and I alwaysNEED OF TAX ASSISTANCE struggle through my report. Of

course Bob Boyer checks it over,and makes the always-necessary corrections in my addition and division, but itis never complicated.

I had thought that all the complicated work was done in the payroll depart-ment where deducts work. But it seems that an amazing number of Staleypeople have a business on the side. They live on small farms, raise hogs,chickens, grain or garden stuff which brings in a considerable additional income.They drive a truck on their days off, they own a little grocery or small restau-rant, or they own rental property. In recent years, the income tax helpers tellme, more and more Staley people are converting the large houses in whichthey live into income apartments and making a nice little thing of it.

Not by any means are all of these enterprising people the ones who are near-ing the retirement age. Some of them are, but many of them are quite youngmen and women. When they do reach retirement age, they will need no coaxingto quit . By that time this side line probably will have grown so absorbing theywill be anxious to devote full time to it. During the war years our peopleworked long past the ordinary retirement age, and when they did retire wereready to rest a while and enjoy the radio and good fishing. But recently therehas been a tendency to interpret retirement to mean slowing up instead ofquitting. As one man told me recently, "I'm retiring but that means I'm justgoing to take things a little easier. I'm not going to hop when the whistle blows,and on days when I feel like fishing—I'll go fishing. But on days when I feellike working—I'll work."

^rre dreamed, ana kis dreams took gooalu form,

~Xrarf out of tke mist, a dream child was born.

^Jis tkuS tkat Some visions from neaven Sent

*-Jake Snape as a tlvina monument,

vUnen tke keart is strong, ana tke wilt is bent

n usina those gifts that Ljoti kaS lent.

(Lines from "Dreams", a poem written byMrs. A. E. Staley, who better than anyone elseknew of her husband's dreams and plans.)

The Story of

A Box of Starch

And How it Grew

People who know anything of thehistory of the A. E. Staley Manufac-turing company, need no convincingthat great things can have small be-ginnings. In the world of commerceand finance today this company is bigand it is important, but just SO yearsago this month it was one man, work-ing in a loft in Baltimore. Today thelist of products made by this companyis long and varied and sold all overthe world. Fifty years ago this monththere was one product and it wasknown only to a few grocers in themeaner section of Baltimore.

That one product was Cream CornStarch, the first material realization ofyears of dreaming and hard work onthe part of a North Carolina farm boy.And that is the same Cream CornStarch package the world knows to-day. Augustus Eugene Staley. whohad left the family farm to become asalesman while still in his 'teens, wasat 31 already a successful man. Sell-ing tobacco, spices, baking powder andflavorings he had traveled much of theUnited States and had reached theplace where he was making $5,000 ormore a year. Fifty years ago not manyyoung men of 30 were making so muchmoney, a fact of which he was wellaware and extremely proud.

Two Reasons for Ambition

Most young men would have beencontent with that, but there were two

very good reasons why Gene Staleywas not. He had always dreamed ofgoing into business for himself—andhe had fallen in love with a young mu-sic student in Chicago who said shewouldn't marry a traveling salesman.She had always had a very good home,and when she married she intended tohave one of her own. So what elsecould the young man do?

The decision he made meant, heknew, some lean years for both ofthem, but the possibility of eventualfailure, characteristically, never oc-curred to him. It well might have,because he gave up his good job, andstarted in business for himself with$1,500 as his only tangible asset. Butas always in his case it was the intan-gibles which tipped the scales in hisfavor. It was his shrewd brain, hiswillingness to work hard, his ability tosell and his almost uncanny way ofmaking friends.

Made Decision

After he made the decision he knewwhat he wanted to do—and of course,being Gene Staley, he did it. He wentto Baltimore and started in the cornstarch business. That soupds, perhaps,as if he acted impulsively but while heacted quickly, he seldom acted on im-pulse. Because he had long intendedto go into business for himself, he hadbeen making what businessmen todaywould call a survey. He had been

watching and listening in every storehe went into, and had come up withthe decision that corn starch was oneitem every housewife bought regularlywithout regard to season or circum-stances.

He started the new year of 1898,the proud young head of a new busi-ness. He had decided on Baltimore asthe location because his travels hadshown him that the thickly settledeastern coast offered a fertile field inwhich to start. He rented a loft andthen proceeded to do one of his goodselling jobs. He sold the country's big-gest manufacturer of corn starch theidea of letting him buy starch in bulkto package. If those firm memberscould have looked a few years into thefuture Gene Staley would have had togo elsewhere for his starch. In fact infive years time he had made such in-roads on their package starch busi-ness that this did happen.

March 3, 1 898

Fortunately for him—and the thou-sands who today call themselves Staleypeople—the members of that firmwere not given second sight. Theygraciously decided to let the pooryoung fool have a few barrels of starchJ O

in February, 1898. With it, and someboxes he had bought the business gotunderway. As he told it in later years,he packaged the first delivery, and onthe morning of March 3, 1898, startedto make the rounds of Baltimoregroceries to sell his first Cream CornStarch. Although accustomed in pre-vious years of selling to taking ordersfor hundreds of dollars worth of goodsat a time, the first order he got thatday, totaling six dollars, looked largerto him than any he had ever writtenbefore.

The loft in which he worked was thecheapest he could find—rental $200 a

year—and he lived in an inexpensiveroom, but his starch package was welldesigned and expensive looking, andhe always managed to look welldressed when he went out to sell. Heknew he had a quality product and heset his stage to prove it. Customersneed not know that he packaged thatstarch himself at night, that for awhile he was the entire staff, or thatthose well cut clothes he wore werecarefully saved and worn only on sell-ing trips about Baltimore.

"Cream" Not New

The design for his package—thefamous Cream Corn Starch trade-mark—he had selected carefully—socarefully that it is still outstandingtoday. He did not pick the nameCREAM out of the air. It was a namewhich not only suggested a smooth,well made product, but it had alreadybeen associated with starch for 20years. In 1878 Thomas Cumpson, ofBuffalo, N. Y., had legally taken thetitle CREAM to apply to corn starch.It was passed on to his heirs, doingbusiness as T. and E. Cumpson, andit was from this firm that Mr. Staleypurchased the right to use the word."In consideration of the sum of TwoHundred Dollars ($200.00) to us thesaid firm of T. and E. Cumpson, inhand paid by the said Augustus E.Staley, we * * * assign and transferunto the said Augustus E. Staley allour right, title and interest in the saidtrade-mark CREAM as applied tocorn starch."

During the 50 years that havepassed since that March morning.-many things have changed but theCream Corn Starch package remainsthe same. The trade-mark name ingold, blue and red lettering has be-come firmly entrenched in the mindsof the home-makers of America. Sug-

gestions that it be "modernized" havealways been opposed by the companychiefly because the buying public re-gards any other package as a substi-tute. Discriminating designers stillpoint to it as a package for which ademand has increased during the yearsbecause of its eye appeal and becauseits quality appearance is backed by ahigh quality product.

First Registered in 1902

Mr. Staley first registered his trade-mark in 1902 although the statementin the registration papers says that it"has been continuously used in mybusiness since early in March, 1898."This first registration was made in the

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Celebrating its fiftieth birthday thismonth, the Cream Corn Starch packagewas recently awarded a Brand NamesFoundation Golden Anniversary certifi-cate.

name of the Staley ManufacturingCompany, of Baltimore. In 1906 thefirm name was changed to the A. E.Staley Manufacturing Company, ofBaltimore, and the registration assign-ment was also changed.

By that time the eight year oldtrade-mark was making money al-though it has literally passed throughtrial by fire. The Baltimore fire of1904 had destroyed the building Mr.Staley's small factory occupied, as itdid so many others in the city, and theinsurance company was unable to re-pay the loss. A banker with whom Mr.Staley had done business had been im-pressed by the young man's ability,and offered to loan the funds for a newstart.

It was about this time, too, that themen supplying Mr. Staley with starchdecided he was branching out entirelytoo much for their comfort. He wasbranching out, and decided he wouldinclude lump starch in his line, butwhen approached, the suppliers notonly declined to furnish that, but toldthe young Baltimore menace that theywould no longer supply him with pow-dered starch either. It was then thathe decided to build his own starch fac-tory, but in the meantime he had tofind another source of supply. For awhile he had to use American starchthat had been exported to Europe, buthis Baltimore packaging plant contin-ued to operate and his selling field wasconstantly widening, spreading intoneighboring states, and up into NewEngland. His old suppliers got theirfirst big surprise when Staley's busi-ness did not fold up right then.

Ready to Build

He had reached the place, by 1906,that he was making money. His grosssales of $1,700 his first year had in-creased amazingly. At the end of his

sixth year his sales reached $49,000.00—and the only thing he had offeredfor sale was Cream Corn Starch.—aproved product in an attractive pack-age-

Since he had proved to himself andthe world that he could make his ideapay. Mr. Staley was now ready to goon the next step—and build his ownstarch factory. He and the prettyyoung music student had been mar-ried less than a year after he startedin business—in December, 1898, inher parents' home in Bryan, Ohio—and now they had a growing family.He could not afford not to succeed inhis plans—and he had no intention ofnot succeeding.

Grocers Buy Stock

His capital was larger than the orig-inal $1.500 with which he started in1898, but considering the venture heplanned it was pitifully small. He hadan idea, though — and as usual itworked out. The grocers who knewCream Corn Starch were given an op-portunity to invest in the new factoryand they welcomed the chance. Theybought the stock generously, but whenthe factory in Decatur was actuallybeing built, money had a way of melt-ing quickly.

At one time he gave as security fora loan from a Chicago bank, his rightsto his precious Cream Corn Starchtrade-mark. That, in 1909, was hismost valuable possession. He made theassignment of patent because he wassure that the factory he was buildingin Decatur would give much widerscope for his original product, and theothers he intended to make.

Closes Baltimore Plant

After the factory in Decatur gotunderway, in March, 1912, he did notclose his Baltimore plant. He made his

own starch now, in his own plant inDecatur. but all Cream Corn Starchwas packed in B a l t i m o r e , b e i n gshipped from Decatur in bulk. Al-though all Cream Corn Starch wasmade in Decatur after 1912, none waspacked here until the new starch pack-ing house was built in 1931.

At that time modern machinery wasinstalled and the Cream Corn Starchpackage came to its new home. A yearlater the Baltimore plant was closedand since then all Cream Corn Starchoperations have been carried on fromDecatur. But while the factory haschanged and grown, the firm name hasbeen altered and the address has beenchanged, neither the package nor thequality of Cream Corn Starch haschanged. It is still the same attractivepackage and the same high qualitystarch which won for Mr. Staley thegold medal at the Paris Exposition in1900. It is still the trade-mark dis-criminating housewives recognize. Itis going strong on its fiftieth birthday.

PLEASE REMEMBERTO SIGN LETTERS

A short time ago a letter, evidentlymeant for publication, was received inthe Journal office. It is not being pub-ished. however, chiefly because thesender chose not to sign his name toit. The Journal never publishes anony-mous communications. Even if it weresigned it would be pointless to publishit since the person referred to in" theletter is not a Staley employee.

For obvious reasons the Journal can-not promise to print all signed letters,but most definitely it long ago took astand against publishing any whichwere not signed.

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RECORD YEAR IN 1947

ANNUAL REPORT SHOWSNew records in sales volume and

profits were set by the A. E. StaleyManufacturing Company, during theyear 1947. In the detailed report tostockholders and employees, pub-lished in February. A. E. Staley, Jr.,president, gave a comprehensive pic-ture of the year's business. Some partsof his letter, as it appears in the re-port, are given here—

Net sales for the year were $146,-353,726, well above our previous rec-ord of $99,762,966 attained in 1946.Net profits, after taxes and after pro-viding for a $2,500,000 reserve for

future price adjustments, were$9,491,-266, compared with $7,660,559 in1946.

The earnings of the Company dur-ing 1947 were increased, as in 1946,by abnormal and nonrecurring factors.Briefly, they consisted of an inventorygain from soybeans acquired at theceiling price in 1946 during the daysof OPA control, followed by a sharpupward surge in price after decontrol.Earnings were also enhanced by un-usual margins between the cost of soy-beans and the selling prices of productwhich existed during the chaotic pe-

Last autumn this new grain dump was put into operation at Elevator C. It wasinstalled when truck shipments of grain were accepted in increasing numbers.

During the winter propane gas, stored in these tanks, was used in grain driers whennatural gas supplies were reduced.

riod in the fall of 1946 when virtuallythe entire crop was marketed in amonth's time. These factors ceased toinfluence our profits at the end of thethird quarter of 1947.

Dollar sales increased sharply, pri-marily due to the higher price levelsprevailing for grain and the resultingnecessity of higher prices for finishedproducts. The higher level of costsand prices caused some pressure onprocessing margins.

During 1947 grain prices reachedthe highest levels ever attained in ourhistory. Much has been said and writ-ten about the cause, but certainly twoimportant factors were the short corncrop of 1947 and the need for shippingvery large quantities of grain abroad.

Present prices are far above paritylevels and we sincerely hope they willrecede to more normal levels. We do

not, however, wish to see them too low,since our country cannot prosper forlong unless agricultural purchasingpower is maintained. Price levels ator somewhat above a true parity aredesirable.

Earnings for the year, after provid-ing for dividends on the preferencestock, were $10.99 per share of com-mon stock, while our total dividendpayments were $2.00 a share, consist-ing of four quarterly dividends of 40cents each and an extra dividend atthe year-end of 40 cents a share. Thereason for this conservative dividendpayment is that funds were needed tofinance the modernization program re-ferred to in the following section. Re-tained earnings caused the book valueof the common stock to increase by$8.99 a share during 1947.

The Board of Directors recognizes

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the desirability of a reasonably liberaldividend policy; however, the Boardwas unanimous in its viewpoint thatthe need for the additional capital inthe business made a moderate pay-ment desirable.

Modernization Program

In our annual report of a year agowe announced our intention to proceedwith a modernization and expansionprogram which was then estimated tocost between $15,000,000 and $18,-000,000. By June 1947 our engineer-ing was sufficiently complete to per-mit more accurate cost estimates andit was found that the cost of the entire

program would approximate or some-what exceed $20,000,000.

For this reason and because of theuncertainty of the future trend ofcosts, the Board of Directors deter-mined to revise the plan. It was de-cided to make our existing plant asmodern and as efficient as possible,but not to embark on a complete ex-pansion program at this time. There-fore, the project was revised to includeonly the modernization features at anestimated cost of $11,000,000, ratherthan the $20,000,000 or more thatwould have been required for a com-plete program. The expansion portionof the program has been deferred for

The tank farm at the oil refinery has as its background in this photograph thegrowing framework of the new feed packing house and the mechanical shops andservice building.

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an indefinite period, but will be re-viewed again when the time seemsopportune.

The principal items included in thepresent program are: (1) new mechan-ical shops to make our maintenancework more efficient and less costly;(2) a new feed packing house to ac-complish some cost reductions andgive us better control over the qualityof our feeds; (3) the replacement ofan old method of starch separation bygravity with a new centrifugal proc-ess; (4) other modernization measuresin our corn milling division; (5) someincrease in steam and power produc-tion; (6) a new, modern first aidbuilding with complete facilities to en-able the medical staff and the full-timenurses of the Company to give the bestpossible care to our employees; (7)a new plant cafeteria to be installedin the mechanical shops building; (8)facilities for an increase in the produc-tion of special starches.

The revised program is now wellunder way. It is anticipated that theprogram will be completed by thespring of 1949.

Other Construction

In addition to the modernizationprogram described above, the Com-pany has proceeded with the comple-tion of the new monosodium gluta-mate plant, which should be in opera-tion by the spring of 1948. The con-struction of this plant was announceda year ago. Monosodium glutamate isa salt or condiment widely used to en-hance food flavors. It has met withincreasing acceptance by food manu-facturers and by restaurants. TheCompany's research laboratory hasdone considerable work on the productand its method of manufacture, andthe new plant will incorporate the re-sults of this research.

The Company has also proceededwith the completion of the pilot plantbuilding which was described in ourreport of a year ago and which willexpedite our research and develop-ment work.

The working capital of the Com-pany increased during the year from$18,755,360 on December "si, 1946.to $24,175,402 on December 31, 1947.

Partly because of the increase in ournet working capital and partly becausemarket conditions made it unneces-sary to accumulate as large an inven-tory of soybeans as usual, our notespayable declined sharply from theyear previous. On December 31-, 1946,they were $25,590,000 and on Decem-ber 31, 1947, $7,300,000. By early inJune, 1947, our bank notes had beenpaid off and it is expected that ourcurrent bank borrowings will be re-tired by the end of April. 1948.

Working capital will decline in 1948due to the progress of our moderniza-tion program, but should be adequatefor our needs after we have completedall expenditures involved in the pres-ent construction program.

Reserved For Adjustments

During the third quarter of 1947 theBoard of Directors considered it ad-visable to establish a reserve in the netamount of $1,500,000 to cover anyfuture contingency which might re-sult from a sharp downward trend incommodity prices. Later in the yearthe Board decided to increase the re-serve to the net amount of $2,500,000.Since the reserve is computed on a netbasis after taxes, the reserve is ade-quate to provide for total gross adjust-ments of about $4,000,000 at presenttax rates.

Labor Relations

The Company has maintained cor-dial relations with the unions repre-

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senting the employees of our Decaturand Painesville plants. A new contractwith the United Automobile Workersof America (AFL) covering our Deca-tur employees was concluded on Au-gust 19, 1947, and an agreement withthe Chemical Worker? Union (AFL),representing our Painesville employ-ees, was signed on August 18, 1947.

On March 23, 1947, a wage increasewas negotiated with these unions, in-creasing hourly rates by 10 cents. Atthe same time, corresponding adjust-ments were made in the salary sched-

into effect. At the same time the Com-pany also substantially increasedabove legal requirements the benefitspaid for occupational accidents. Theyincreased costs about $95.000 a year.

Early in December of 1947 the Un-ion at Decatur requested a further in-crease in wage rates for hourly em-ployees which the Company felt itcould not grant at that time. The in-flationary aspects of higher wage ratesand the effect of the present high grainprices on the Company were discussedwith the Union. After considerable

Glistening bottles are moved along on a carrier belt to the automatic fillingmachine, inhere they are filled with "Sweetose" syrups.

ules of the other members of our or-ganization. These resulted in an in-creased cost to the Company of about$730,000 a year.

During the year a much more liberalplan for group life, sickness, and acci-dent insurance was negotiated and put

discussion and negotiation, the Com-pany did, however, agree to pay abonus of $62.50 to every employee.Such payments were made shortly be-fore Christmas to all hourly and sal-aried employees at Decatur, Paines-ville, and elsewhere.

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Transportation

The operation of a grain millingbusiness requires, of necessity, thehandling of very large tonnage. Dur-ing 1947 our total freight bills, bothinbound and outbound, were approxi-mately $10,530,000. The trend to-wards higher freight rates is of someconcern to the Company, but as longas such increases are applied relativelyuniformly to all commodities and toall competitive points, our fundamen-tal situation should not be seriouslyaffected.

Depreciation

The Company is charging deprecia-tion based on the original cost of itsexisting capi ta l facilities at ratesagreed to with the Department of In-ternal Revenue. These depreciationcharges may have been reasonablewhen adopted, but at today's construc-tion costs they do not accumulate suf-ficient funds to replace these capitalfacilities when their useful life isended. Construction costs have morethan doubled from a decade ago. It isour hope that the Congress will giveconsideration to the question of ap-propriate changes in the tax laws topermit more flexible methods for thedetermination of depreciation chargesand reserves.

New Products

During the past several years theCompany has made and sold substan-tial quantities of a special nutrientwhich has proved to be valuable in themanufacture of penicillin. More re-cently a new antibiotic, streptomycin,has been found to have value in someinstances where penicillin is ineffec-tive. The Company did a considerableamount of research endeavoring tofind a nutrient which would meet theneeds of the manufacturers of strepto-

mycin, and finally succeeded. TheCompany is now manufacturing andselling the product under the name ofSpecial Nutrient 4S.

The Company has completed aplant to manufacture lecithin fromsoybean oil and is now in commercialproduction. Lecithin is a phosphatidewhich is used as an emulsifier in cho-colate, margarine, and a number ofother products.

During 1948 the Company has ex-panded the market for two relativelynew consumer products. Sta-Flo, aliquid, easy-to-use laundry starch, hasbeen introduced into many new im-portant markets and is now the onlyliquid starch with national distribu-tion. Cameo, a powdered laundrystarch, has been distributed over aconsiderable portion of the country.

Outlook

The Company has reached the endof a period when profits were enhancedby abnormal and nonrecurring fac-tors; hence, profits should approach amore normal basis. The Corn RefiningDivision faces some unusual, adversesituations which we believe to be tem-porary in nature, but the divisionshould, in spite of the difficulties, oper-ate profitably. We have obtained areasonable supply of soybeans andhave merchandised the products to beproduced from them at levels whichwill return a normal profit. We arecontinuing the development of newspecial products for industrial applica-tions which should create expandingmarkets for the Company. We are con-tinuing to advertise and promote thesale of our trade-marked consumeritems, including ''Sweetose'' syrups,Sta-Flo and Cameo laundry starches,and Cream Corn Starch. We are com-pleting a modernization of our plant

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which should reduce our costs. Ourresearch program has been expandedand is progressing.

The Company's organization, in-cluding its hourly employees, its officestaff, its foremen, and other members

of management, continued to functionin an effective and able manner during1947. Their ability and their team-work enables us to look forward withconfidence that they will solve anyproblems which the future may bring.

We Account For Work And Savings In 1947

On January 1, 1947. there were2,900 employees on the Staley payroll.During the year 603 people left ouremploy and 814. of whom 65% wereex-servicemen, were hired so that, onDecember 31st, we had a total of3,111 employees. The average num-ber during the year was 3,029.

Owing to sickness, and other causes,an average of about 2,905 employeesworked during each pay-period. Theseaveraged 40.8 hours per week duringthe year so that, collectively, they per-formed 6,140,132 hours of work, anincrease of 12.6% over 1946, pre-viously our biggest year. The relation

YEAR 1947

AmountAverage Per

Employee

Value of Products and Services Sold(Gross sales and other receipts)....$156.827.510 $53,985

Distribution of Values:Sellers of corn, beans, supplies and

other services—purchases $125,005,363 $43,031Government for taxes 8,073.556Reserved to restore and rebuild

plant and offices—depreciation.. 917,144Employees for time, energy, and

know-how—wages, salaries, ben-efits and retirement 10.840.181

Reserved for possible future pricedeclines 2.500.000 86C

Owners; for use of their savings—dividends - 1.880.512 647

2.779

316

3.732

Total for distributions $149,216,756 $51.365Retained and used by the company to

protect jobs and savings:To construct new buildings and

purchase new equipment; to re-tire long term debt, and to in-crease working capital 7.610.754 2.620

YEAR 1946Average Per

Amount Employee

$108.273,431 $42,228

86,338,922 $33,6735.200,250 2.028

831.085 324

8.242.615 3.215

1.740.304 679

$102.353.176 $39.919

5.920,255 2,309

$156,827,510 $53,985 $108,273,431 $42,228

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WHAT WE OWN AND WHAT WE OWEAT DECEMBER 31, 1947

We Own:

Total Amount Approximatefor the Amount per

Company Employee

Cash on deposit in various banks needed for the promptpayment of payrolls and purchases $ 2,132,847 $ 734

Due from customers for merchandise delivered to themand from other persons for various charges.... 6,456.145 2.222

Invested in corn, soybeans, manufacturing supplies, andfinished products on hand 35,262,098 12,138

Plants:Total original cost of lands, buildings, and equipment $30,693,726 $10,566

Less the amount that has been deducted for depreciationand reinvested in various assets .. 14.755.264 5.079

NET BOOK VALUE OF PLANTS $15,938.462Cost of lands and other properties held for possible use

or sale 406.180 140Insurance, supplies, and other expense paid in advance 948,600 327

TOTAL VALUE OF THINGS OWNED.. $61.144,332 $21,048

We Owe:

To employees for wages and salaries, to manufacturers formaterials purchased from them, and to customers foramounts paid us in advance $ 3.704,034 $ 1.275

To Government for taxes 8,302,654 2.858Money Borrowed:

To purchase corn, beans, and materials (short-termnotes) '. 7.300.000 2,513

To provide additional working capital (long-term notes) 4.000,000 1,377Set aside to cover possible future price declines and for

retirement of employees 2,644,000 910

TOTAL WE OWE $25,950,688 i

Savings of Owners:The total value owned less the total we owe leaves a balance

representing the savings of our 2,060 stockholders in-vested in our Company $35.193.644 $12,115

of total hours worked to total amount time spent on new or promoted em-of product turned out is unfavorable ployees and. in part, to some ineffi-compared to 1946. This is due to the ciencies which will want correction,amount of work spent on our building The earnings and benefits of the av-program, the increased standards of erage Staley employee came to $3,732sanitation in our plant, the training in 1947 as against $3,215 for 1946.

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This increase was caused by wage andsalary increases in November 1946and March 1947, a bonus of $62.50paid before Christmas to all employeesand increased insurance programs foroccupational and non-occupational in-juries, illnesses or death.

Profits of $7,610,754 were retainedin the business in 1947. These, andother funds of the Company, will fi-nance our modernization program andbuildings for new products.

The Government's share of ourearnings for 1947 a m o u n t e d to

$8,073,556, an increase of $2,873,306over 1946. This amounts to $2,779per employee and 429% of the amountpaid to shareholders.

Dividends totaling $1,880,512 werepaid to the Company's 2,060 owners.This amounted to a return of 5.99%on their average investment as against7.17% last year.

A simplified financial statement,given below,shows the average amountper employee as well as the totals oneach item.

N I T S O F O N E M i l L I O N

Only little men are ever satisfiedwith their accomplishments . . . that'swhy they remain little. The big menare never satisfied , , . that's why theybecome great.

Happiness seems to be some kind ofbalance, as in riding a bicycle, at-tempted painfully a thousand times,and achieved at last without effort.

—Ladies' Home Journal.

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Tuesday, Feb. 3—Bill Swinford, plantclean-up, and I are going towrite a book on what not to dowith used razor blades. Hetells me he finds them in thestrangest places! How's forgiving Bill's hands a break,folks?

Wednesday, Feb. 11—Got out ourJanuary acc iden t summary.Take a look at that safety rec-ord some of the folks are cook-in' up. . . . The power division,Elevator C and starch packingand shipping division are lead-ing off with a perfect safetyscore for the new year.

Kibitzed today while the in-surance company's elevator in-spector checked elevators inthe office building. Roy Roller,operator, offered some goodsafety suggestions. Good deal.Roy.

Thursday, Feb. 12—Lincoln's birth-day . . . Our insurance mantells me bright and early thisA. M. that the BEST insur-ance is safety. Well, I thinkwe'll all vote for that. But let'skeep our policy in effect, any-way.

Monday, Feb. 16—Yours truly isbuying for the house today.

Was walking by the refinerythis A. M. and stepped into acamouflaged (so help me!)hole. Well, that's one way offinding hazards. How am I go-ing to explain this to Joe Walshin our Health and Safety com-mittee meeting next week?

Sunday, Feb. 22—Celebrated GeorgeW's birthday (and mine) bybreaking wishbones with Mr.and Mrs. B. S r . . . . I read some-where that young GeorgeWashington m i g h t h a v echopped down that cherry treefor safety. Maybe he hadchoked on a seed, or fallen outof the tree, or had a tummy-ache from eating too manycherries. And reported to Pop:"I cannot tell a lie. I did it toprevent accidents"... could be.

Thursday, Feb. 26—Hea l th andSafety committee meeting. Ev-erybody should get acquaintedwith the members of this com-mittee, and with the importantpart they have in our safetyprogram. Joe Walsh, electri-cians, chairman; Todd Riley,paint-roof department, andMike Duggan, machine shop.These men are trying to makeyour job safer for you—so give

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them a hand when you can.Month End—Hats-off Department or

It-can-be-done Department.For the month of February, notone lost-time injury in the De-catur plant. Leap Year, too.Our first perfect month sinceMarch 1936—and that's some-thing to be proud of, folks!

Note!!!—Watch for the Safety BirdSuggestion Box in your depart-ment. It will be left for oneweek, then moved on to an-other department. Its locationwill be advertised on the newclock house bulletin board. Ifyou have a safety suggestion,just write it down, sign yourname and drop it in the box.No labels or box tops to sendin.

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Editor's Note: Beginning this monththe wise little Safety Bird will have acolumn each month in the Staley Journal.In case there is any doubt in your mindas to who coaches this little bird, we willtell you the open secret. It is our mostefficient and decidedly gifted director ofsafety—Lovell Bafjord. He tells us theBird is going to need help from all of you,but be sure to sign your name and depart-ment number to any notes you write him.

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Hansen's GrandsonsWin School Honors

Adolph Hansen, mechanical super-visor, who has been ill, is feeling muchbetter these days—and the reason—his two grandsons have been winningschool honors. The boys are JamesHansen and Eugene Cowger, sons ofMr. and Mrs. Walter Hansen and Mr.and Mrs. Carroll Cowger. Walter Han-sen is a Staley millwright. Both arehigh school seniors and both plan toenter Millikin university next year.

Membership in this national honorsociety is not only offered to students

with high grades. They must alsorank high in citizenship, leadershipand service. Only a few students inDecatur High school were admitted tomembership this year.

James Hansen

Eugene Cowger

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KIEHN COMPANYOne Of Our Oldest Brokers

When the Staley company let it beknown in 1920 that it would soon puta table syrup on the market, brokersall over the country pricked up theirears. Some of the more energetic didmore—they came to Decatur andtalked things over. In that group wasOtto L. Kuehn, of Milwaukee. When,during that year, Mr. Staley choseseveral brokers in various parts of thecountry, the Otto L. Kuehn companywas on the list—and it has continuedall through the years in that capacity.

It was not just chance which di-rected the choice of the Staley com-pany to Mr. Kuehn. That broker hadalready, in 1920, well established him-self as a progressive and dependableman with whom to do business. Hehad come to the United States in 1881,at the age of 22. He knew almost noth-ing of the English language, nor ofAmerica and its business methods. Buthe had been employed for a while ina brokerage house in Germany, andhe decided he would become a foodbroker in his new home.

He wasted no time, for the verynext year saw him launched on hiscareer. He made it his business tolearn how things were done in thiscountry, and particularly to learn thelanguage. He had a keen mind and hewas a hard worker so it did not takehim long to learn both. One of thehardest things he had to fight was thefeeling prevalent 60 years ago, thatthe native Americans who controlledthe wholesale grocery business werethe almost-divine holders of that title.But his willingness to work and to

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learn won over any claniness he foundat first.

Mr. Kuehn died in 1933 at the ageof 74—a year after he had celebratedhis 50th year in the food business and13 years after taking over the Staleyaccount. But he had builded well, andnow, 65 years after, the business isstill growing and forward-looking.

At his death he left his business tofive sons, all active at the time of hisdeath, and to a group of loyal associ-ates. One of this group, Edward B.

Otto R. Kuehn, president; Edward B. Vecker, vice president; Walter L. Kuehn,treasurer; Karl H. Kuehn, secretary.

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Glocke, L. L. Guell, Ralph G. Kuehn, William C. Bruce.

Vickers, has been with the firm since1899.

Otto L. Kuehn company has been inexistence since 1882, beginning, as wesaid, with one dynamic individual. Ithas now survived 65 years — yearswhich have embraced three wars, atleast three depressions and two panics.Today it has a personnel comprisingnine jobbing salesmen, eleven retailsalesmen, nine persons performing theinside office details, four warehousemen and a fluctuating crew of fromfive to 25 producing the "O.K." brandof spiced herring.

In one respect the Otto L. Kuehncompany functions quite differentlyfrom most other brokers. The com-pany is completely departmentalizedinto what one might refer to as sevendistinct brokerage offices. Each of theseven department managers is respon-sible for adequately representing cer-tain accounts or certain products. Byfollowing this method it is believedthat the department heads becomemore thoroughly familiar with a fewproducts that they are expected to sell.In this way each man solicits businesson his items from every potential cus-tomer instead of from a picked few.This method of solicitation is probablynot entirely unique, but the Kuehn

organization feels it has proved itsworth.

The scope of Otto L. Kuehn com-pany's sales activities are wide andthorough. Two of its wholesale sales-men devote their entire time calling onjobbers and chains outside the city ofMilwaukee—they travel throughoutthe state of Wisconsin, in the UpperPeninsula of Michigan and the citiesof Rockford and Freeport in Illinois.These men represent the company onits full line and contact the trade intheir respective territories on a bi-weekly schedule.

In addition to systematic jobbingand chain coverage, the sales staff ofthe Kuehn company has in the pastfew years been augmented with a crewof capable men calling exclusively on

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the retail trade. The retail depart-ment, ably and efficiently supervised,now totals 11 persons—soliciting or-ders for delivery by jobbers, buildingdisplays in independent supers andcontacting chain store managers when-ever possible with a view to furtheringthe cause of Otto L. Kuehn company'sproducts.

The varied line of Staley productshas been entrusted to Otto L. Kuehncompany since 1920. Karl Kuehn hasbeen directly responsible for its prog-ress over a period of many years, hav-ing successfully collaborated with

Staley district supervisors, the presentone being R. C. Nelson.

When the senior Mr. Kuehn ex-pressed the desire to become a foodbroker, one of his original listenersback in 1882 told him—"Well, youngman, the brokerage business is a goodbusiness, as neither brains nor capitalare required." Mr. Kuehn's snap re-ply was—"I think I can qualify".Perhaps this facetious remark helpedto spur on Mr. Kuehn and later hissuccessors, to attain a commendablerecord throughout the years—with orwithout brains.

Representatives of the Otto L. Kuehn Co., visiting in Decatur, had their picturestaken with some Staley men recently. Seated in the front row were H. A. Lochel,Frank Kekeisen (Staley's) and Karl Kuehn. Second row—R. L. Nagle (Staley's),Russell Devore (Staley's), Bill Bruce, August Wendell and Henry Voile (Staley's).Top row—Charles Joslin, R. C. Nelson (Staley's), Morgan Pascal, Jerome Rutkiewiezand Les Guell.

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HOW WE LOOKED— 25 years ago

In the Staley Journal for March,1923—just 25 years ago—the salesdepartment was featured in an articlewritten by the general superintendent,G. E. Chamberlain. The article con-sisted of a short introduction, andthen a biographical sketch and photo-graph of each man and woman in thedepartment. J. L. Anderson was gen-eral sales manager. His assistant, whowas also in direct charge of starchsales, was i n t r o d u c e d as ''E. K.Scheiter, a young man, of fine pres-ence, with unlimited capacity for hardwork, a brilliant mind and a deep stu-dent of the theory and intricacies ofsalesmanship."

R. M. Ives, syrup and sugar salesmanager, he characterized as "giftedby natural commercial sense, almostintuition, with an affable manner anda rare gift for t r a n s m i t t i n g histhoughts on paper".

The only two men still with the out-of-town sales force mentioned in Mr.Chamberlain's article are W. H. Ran-dolph and G. A. Dean. "Bill Randolphholds the responsible position as man-ager of the Xew York office," the arti-cle said. "He is a real fellow and agreat business getter." Of GeorgeDean he said—"Mr. Dean is branchoffice manager at Spartanburg. S. C.He has the spirit of eternal youth."

W. H. Randolph, Sr., now retired,he said "is a gentleman, a good mixerand a dad of whom young Bill hasevery reason to be proud and to set ashis example."

Seven girls were listed as being em-ployed in the sales office at that time—Javais Cochran, Lucile Schulz, MarieBurchard, GraceWollerman and Fran-ces and Mildred Hodgins. Soon afterthat Journal appeared Lucile Schulz

resigned to take another position, butafter a few years returned. FrancesHodgins (now Wheeler) has retiredbecause of ill health, but none of theothers are any longer with the com-pany.

That was the month, too, that AliceWhite (now Mrs. Harry Walmsley)was voted Decatur's Mardi Grasqueen. At that time she was secretaryto Mr. Chamberlain. For her corona-tion, according to the Journal of thatdate, she wore cloth of gold and waspresented with a diamond ring.

That number of the Journal carriedthe story of the untimely death ofGeorge Auer, auditor and companydirector, and of William M. Walter,salesman in Baltimore since 1908.

Radio was new then and few homeshad them. But the Journal announcedthat the Fellowship club had gone toconsiderable expense to buy one forthe club house, and every Tuesdayevening had Dudley Boren there tooperate it. Those nights were reservedas radio concert nights at the club. Afree bus ran from William and Seventhstreet to the club on those nights, tak-ing members and their friends to the"concert".

Louis Brand, paymaster, had a ra-dio of his own, according to the follow-ing story that month—

"Late in the evenings when the con-certs begin to come in, Louis opens anupstairs window, puts the amplifierhorn out the window and entertainsthe neighbors for severa l blocksaround. His sister lives six blocksaway and often hears the concerts re-ceived by Louis."

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When the Abraham Lincoln Friendship train stopped in Decatur a jew weeks agosome cars of Staley's Syrups were added to it. The train, loaded with food supplies,was sent to needy European countries.

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FREEDOM TRAIN HERE LATE IN JUNE

Fourth of July in Decatur this yearwill mean something more than justa day away from business. Just fourdays before the Nation's birthday, onJune 30, Decatur will be visited by theFreedom Train carrying its pricelesscargo of historic documents. To seethe original Declaration of Independ-ence on its anniversary should makeboth the document and the day meanmore to the people of this community.

The Freedom Train, which leftPhiladelphia last September, is nowmaking its return swing back to theeast after having completed a trip tothe west coast by a southerly route.In a year's time it will make a 33,000mile trip, giving countless thousandsof Americans the opportunity to seefirst hand the documents upon whichthe nation is founded.

Aside from the cargo it carries thetrain is in itself of interest. To accom-plish this trip 52 railroads in the coun-try have co-operated and contributedparts of the train, and various services.It operates always as a special, but alljumps are short enough that highspeeds are unnecessary. It is an allsteel train, pulled by a diesel engineand specially refitted and wired toconform with underwriters' standardsand safety requirements. Marines areconstantly on guard.

The trip is sponsored by the UnitedStates Department of Justice and it isfinanced by the American HeritageFoundation. This Foundation is anon-profit, non-political citizens' or-ganization representing business, la-bor, industry, and various community,educational and religious bodies.

FAMOUS INN BURNSA Staley salesman and his family

barely escaped with their lives whenthe historic old Three Tuns Inn, nearAmbler, Penna., burned March 3. Thepackage division salesman, ClarenceMcGarry, had made his home at theInn for several years. He and his wifeand their two year old son, Joseph,were asleep in their third floor apart-ment, and were the last to escape,down smoke filled stairs.

The Inn was a famous landmark inthe Philadelphia district. It was thisinn which had served as a home andheadquarters for General Washingtonfor a time while the Army was en-camped at Valley Forge. The fire,which was first discovered when a petdog aroused the owner, spread quicklyand completely destroyed the historicbuilding.

N. SCRANTON ILLNorman Scranton, engineering, who

has been in the hospital for some time,is showing some improvement. Mr.Scranton has been the project engineeron the MSG building, and stayed withthe job, in spite of much pain he oftensuffered, until the building was almostcompleted.

Robert Roderick has recently beentransferred from the feed sales office tothe purchasing department.

Jack Payton, Jr., who has been aplant clerk, has always had a consum-ing desire to be a salesman, and earlythis spring had his wish granted. Hehas been sent to Louisiana where hewill represent the package division.

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NOW TAKE SOUP-you'// like it!By DOROTHY L. HEALD, Home Service Director

Soup is easy to make, but if properresults are to be obtained, must not becarelessly put together. The two givenhere are general favorites,but they canbe just flavored hot milk,or good taste-satisfying soups. Either one can beused as a first course, or as the maindish of a most pleasing dinner.

With both serve crisp, fresh crack-ers, and some of those good cucumberpickles you made last summer, using"Sweetose".

Oyster StewYZ cup butter or margarine

2 tablespoons Cream Corn StarchY-2 cup water

1 pint oysters (including liquor)4 cups milk1 teaspoon salt

;Mi teaspoon pepper.Melt butter. Mix Cream Corn

Starch with water and add to meltedbutter; mix thoroughly. Add oysters.Heat over low heat until the edges ofthe oysters begin to curl. Add milk,salt, and pepper. Heat thoroughly.Serve immediately. Serves six.

Mushroom Soup

1 pint fresh mushrooms4 tablespoons butter or margarine3 tablespoons Cream Corn Starch1 teaspoon salt

Y* cup water1 quart milk

Wash, but do not peel, mushrooms.Chop fine, and simmer in butter threeminutes. Combine Cream Corn Starch,salt and water. Add to mushrooms andcook over low heat one minute. Addmilk and heat just to boiling, stirringconstantly. Serve immediately. Serves

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LOOK!LOOK!LOOK!Snyder's Men's ClubDon't Miss This!

If you live in Snyder, X. Y., andbelong to a popular men's luncheonclub, you try never to let your photo-graph be published in any sort ofperiodical. If it is published, and somebright-eyed brother sees it—he an-nounces it at the next meeting, andyou pay a fine. Our information is in-complete on the subject, but doubtlessmoney so collected goes to some goodcause.

But the point of this too-long pre-amble is this. The Staley company hasa most energetic and extremely popu-lar salesman who lives in Snyder—oneLyle York by name. And Lyle, quitenaturally, belongs to the club. Andseveral of the brothers read the StaleyJournal—and will they collect whenthis issue conies out!

Also will they rib Lyle! The pic-ture, which is an excellent likeness ofboth Lyle and his most attractive wife,Gladys, shows a third party—a baby.When Lyle explains, as he will becalled upon to do several times, he willsay that it is a neighbor's child theywere keeping for the afternoon. Thatis the story as we heard it, and it is theone we feel sure Lyle will tell.

RICKETTS RETIRESAfter 25 Years

J. H. Ricketts retired the middle ofMarch after 25 years with the com-pany. He was born in Decatur andhas lived here all of his life. As a youngman he decided to be a blacksmith,and learned the trade. For IS yearshe worked with the Wabash Railwayblacksmiths in the Decatur shop, butin 1922 he came to the Staley com-pany.

His first job here was in the sugarhouse, but he made his widest circleof friends when he was employed asa truck driver in the garage. Severalyears ago he left that department, andat the time of his retirement was anashman in the boiler house.

Talks on FoodsHelen Whitson, ass is tant foods

chemist, was the speaker at the annualguest dinner of the Decatur societyof tool engineers. The affair was givenin the Decatur club, and special guestsof the men were their wives. MissWhitson talked on our various foodproducts, and the part science playsin their manufacture. She also told ofways to use Cream Corn Starch and''Sweetose" syrups in salads and des-serts.

This is the picture that is going to costLyle York.

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Robert Siweck, left,• was re-elected president

of the Fellowship Club.

E. P. S. Ecklund, right, is thenew vice president.

Ed Neuendorf, left, was again electedclub secretary.

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Fellowship Club Again Elects Si weekBob Siweck was re-elected presi-

dent of the Fellowship club in theannual election March 18, and E. P.S. Ecklund was elected vice president.Last year he served as a director. EdNeuendorf was re-elected secretary, aposition he held for the first time lastyear.

Newly elected directors this yearare W. O. Falk, Lee Lyons and ToddRiley. Todd was elected to succeedhimself on the board. Directors areelected for three year terms. Thosewhose terms will expire next year areSam Williams, Norman Lents andMerle Finson. The three who havetwo more years to serve are LovellBafford. Bill Brumaster and GilmoreHoft.

Bob Siweck, who was first electedpresident last year, is an electricianwho has been with the company sincehe started as a messenger 19 yearsago. He has been prominent in clubwork for a number of years. In theelection this year he was unopposed.

The new vice president. E. P. S.

"Scotty" Ecklund, is employed in thefeed house, and has been with thecompany since 1923. He has beenactive in club work for a number ofyears. Ed Neuendorf, re-elected sec-retary, is employed in the office ofindustrial sales.

Of the three newly elected direc-tors, Todd Riley has the longest com-pany record, having been here since1923. He is with the painters androofers. Lee Lyons, electrician's help-er, came to the company in 1936 andW. O. Falk in 1933. He is foremanof the extra board.

This year one woman—MarjorieWhite—ran for a place on the boardof directors and she ran a good race,falling just 14 votes below the thirdman. Lee Lyons, third high, had 350votes while Marge polled 336. RobertMcCartney took fifth place with 222votes and Ralph Clark sixth with205. Others up for election as direc-tors were Harry D e i b e r t , RobertFields, Clarence Moutray, GeorgeRanev and Alfred Trierweiler.

The Kello triplets are thriving at threemonths—on "Sweetose" Syrups. Theyare Ann, Bob and Anna, daughters andson oj Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Kello, Jr.,of Norfolk, Va.

Wayne Stanley, 17 building, and Mrs.Stanley, are the parents of these threelively and attractive children. Larry, thebig boy, is five, his sister, Louise, is fourand the baby, Ronald, is a year old.

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The engineering "Chumps"—the bowlers who did not win in the engineering tourna-ment, at least were awarded this hand-made trophy. Beautiful, they say, and made ofthe best coffee tins available. In the group are Anderson, Heavy Anchor Tomlinson,Capt. Dale Zimmer, Pick-up Crawjord and Split Campbell.

SIGNED UP YETHoward Peverly, garden supervisor,

no more than announces he is ready totalk about garden plot for the year,than a heavy snow covers the ground.But he is still ready to talk, and urgesall garden folk to get their applica-tions in early.

Name Bowling OfficersThe Staley men's bowling associa-

tion re-elected all officers to serve dur-ing the 1948-49 season. Joe Hilberlingwill again serve as president, MauriceBrumaster as vice president, and Rus-sell Dash as secretary-treasurer. IrvCox was again named City Associa-tion representative.

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Cherry Pickers(I nt e rnationalleague)—Front, V.Rusk, Jack Gallo-way. Rear, Law-horn, S. Wetlandand C. Lupton.

The Researchteam, Americanleague—Front, L.P. Hayes, J. Ziffer.Rear, J. Wagner,K. Brobst, D.Christ-man and W.R. Liggett.

Loaders (Inter-national league)—Front, Vern Ootonand Moll. Rearrow, Fox, Sterling,Johnson and Ran-dolph.

T. D. Hale ReturnsTo Kentucky Farm

It's back to the farm for ThomasDenton Hale. He retired in Marchafter 22 years with the company, butdreams of his immediate future do notcenter around an arm chair. He wasborn on a farm near Gamaliel, Ky.,and back there he is going.o o

He lived most of his early life inKentucky but in 1923 moved to De-catur and went to work soon after inthe Staley plant. He left, came back,l e f t and came a g a i n , before, in1926 he finally came back to stay.He was employed much of the time inthe kiln house, and in the feed ele-vator.

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Photograph used inCollege Bulletin

To interest young women in its sci-ence department, Marietta Collegedevoted a recent issue of its bulletinto that subject. Pictures of studentactivities were used, and one pictureof a graduate of that school appeared—that of Eleanor LeMasters, a chem-

ist in our research department. Elea-nor, graduated from Marietta in 1946,has been in our physical chemistrylaboratory ever since her graduation.

The picture which was used in thebulletin was taken in the Staley labor-atory as Eleanor read a viscometer, aninstrument which measures the vis-cosity of starch.

Marietta College uses this photograph of Eleanor LeMasters in a booklet sentjut to prospective students.

It's a Girl!Fog and forecasts of icy streets

failed to dim Walter Koshinski's broadsmile on the morning of March 2.Reason? The arrival the day beforeof Mary Ann. his first born. And youmay take Walt's word for it—she isa honey! Walter is the electrician whospends most of his time in the adminis-tration building, keeping various mo-tors in good condition.

Garden WorkJust here John Galambach tele-

phoned to remind the Journal thatthere is still time to call him for prun-ing shrubs and grape vines. Within afew weeks, he says, he will have gardenplants of all kinds ready for sale. Hehas his hotbeds all ready. John, whois an old-timer in the syrup house, doesgardening in his spare time. His hometelephone number is 6473.

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At a package sales meeting in Kansas City recently we find these gentlemen. Tableat left, left side, reading to the rear and around the table—King Vermilyea, H. R.Scranton, L. H. Pyle, R. M. Kirby, C. E. Crow, three representatives of SchwindlerBrokerage Co., Kansas City, W. F. Schmuck, H. H. Mace, Mace Brokerage, St. Louis,H. E. Woolsey, B. P. Thurber, R. R. Robison, W. L. Venter, R. C. Hunter, R. E.Mashburn, G. E. Morris, George Beatty, W. F. Sterle and S. L. Erickson.

Table at right, J. B. Brierly, R. Wilcox and F. Rinehart, A. R. Staley Sales Co.,Albuquerque, Mr. Coone, American Mutual Insurance Co., P. L. Wilson, R. L.Devore, Henry Voile, F. }. Bernier, L. J. Murphy, R. L. Nagle, F. W. Apperson, R.Merryfield, Selvage & Lee, D. J. Schneider, G. M. Carson, W. F. Conover, W. P.Hitchcock, W. H. Bissell, E. F. Hon, F. N. Bray and E. A. Snook.

Seated at extreme rear, H. C. Hinkley, Robert Wilson, of Hill Blackett Co., andHill Blackett.

Susan Otta, at one year, has her grand-father, Bill Lowen, assistant pipefitterforeman, completely enchanted. Hergrandmother, on whose birthday she wasborn, is quite as charmed. Susan is thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. 'Kenneth Otta,her mother, the former Betty Lowen,having been employed in the Staley of-fices before her marriage. Susan's great-grandmother, Mrs. Mary Facius Moore,was also a Staley employee at one time.

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Dolores Keck and James C. Laytonwere married Jan. 31 in St. James Catho-lic church. The bride, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Joseph V. Keck, is employed asstenographer by the Rath Packing com-pany. The bridegroom, a Staley employeefor 11 years, is in the civil engineeringdepartment. He was in the Army almostjour years, and for 16 months was in theEuropean theater.

Mrs. Donald Augustine was, before hermarriage Feb. 8, Norma Schmitt. She andMr. Augustine were married in St. John'sLutheran church. The bride, stenographerin engineering, is the daughter of C. W.Schmitt, yards, and Mrs. Schmitt.

The sales manager's wife walkedinto her husband's private office, un-announced. She discovered her busyhusband eating his lunch at his desk—while his beautiful secre tary wasparked on his lap.

"Charley," stormed the wife. "Whatis that girl doing' on your lap?"

The guilty husband almost chokedon a piece of pie. He pointed to thefood.

"I had to do something, darling,"he alibied. "The waiter forgot to sendup a napkin!"

Jane Greenwood McCartney gives hernew husband, Bob, a piece of their wed-ding cake at the wedding reception.

Annie: "Bill is nice but I think menare trying at times."

Virginia: "All the time, dearie, allthe time."

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Mr. and Mrs. HowardGeele had as their attend-ants for the Feb. 14 mar-riage, Mr. and Mrs. Wil-liam Morrison.

WOOD-GEELE

Audrey Wood and Howard Geelewere married in Westminster Presby-terian church on Valentine's day, byRev. Paul H. Moehlman. The bride,in white wool with gold accessories,had as her only attendant. Mrs. Wil-liam Morrison, who also wore whitewool embroidered in gold. Mr. Mor-rison was best man.

The bride, a graduate of Decaturand Macon County Xurses Trainingschool, has been in the U. S. Public

Health Service, stationed at the Ma-rine hospital in Norfolk, Va. Beforetaking her training she was for severalyears in our accounting department.She is the daughter of S. S. Wood, ofthe engine room, and Mrs. Wood. Thebridegroom, son of Mrs. DorothyGeele of Boston, Mass., is a radiomanstationed aboard a government ship.

Following a reception in the homeof the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.Geele left for Norfolk where they willlive.

Not New England, but George Dean's home in sunny (?) Spartanburg, S. C.George, Staley manager there, sent these two views of his house as it looked on Feb.10 during "one of many heavy snows we've had this winter."

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A group of willing workers from theStaley company and heard once toooften, not to let their left hands knowwhat their right hands are doing. Byfollowing that rule they made them-selves a lot of extra work.

It all happened when a group ofvolunteers started putting together thebuilding to be used by the Boy Scoutsand the Handicraft club. The com-pany is furnishing the lot and some ofthe men interested in one or both ofthese groups said they would put upthe building on their own time. That'swhat they were doing when they at-tempted to erect a prefabricated house.

The directions said it was cut tomeasurements and all one had to dowas to put the pieces together asmarked. Some of the advertisementsinsisted a child could do it. The boyshave a lot of faith, so they hopped toit and in no time at all, whistling whilethey worked, had the walls up. Onlyto discover when they were ready forthe next step that the walls were notonly upside down, but they werewrong side out !

Now all the boys have to do is totake each piece down, turn it aroundand end for end, and start all overagain. As Red Smith said, he is not aconstruction man, and neither areDave Mitchell nor Sammy Martina,but they did think Todd Riley mighthave told them they were wrong beforethey got all the pieces up.

Aside from that little ' 'interruption"work on the house is going forwardvery well. Before freezing weatherstarted in some of the men put in thefoundation and floor of reinforced con-crete. When it is finished the StaleyBoy Scouts and the Handicraft clubwill have homes to use for meetings.

Top Basketball HonorsTo Staley Team

The Staley Union team took topplace in the Industrial basketballleague. The team, managed by PeteKelley, won all 14 of the games itplayed during the season. Since thatwas the case no play-off was neces-sary in the league and the Staley boyswere crowned undisputed champions.

OUT OF HOSPITALBob Siweck, electrician, went to

California for Christmas, came backand was seen around the plant briefly,and then disappeared again. Rumor inuninformed circles had it that Bobliked the west coast so well he hadreturned there. Far from it. Bob hadretired to a bed of pain. He enteredthe hospital late in January for anoperation, and spent the next sixweeks recuperating.

Bessie Newhard, orders, spent anunexpected few weeks in St. Mary'shospital in March. She stepped outof her car one evening or to rnevenground and broke her ank1..

Nita Kilburn, receiving clerk, hasbeen seriously ill in St. Mary's sincesuffering a heart attack in her homeearly in March.

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Express ions of appreciation andthanks to Staley friends and groupshave been received in the Journal of-fice from the following— »

The Sheets family.Charles Koshinski and family.The family of Anton Ruffus.The Marshall family.The Cottle family.The Lashinski family.

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Mrs. Heisler DiesMrs. Margaret Heisler, who died

March 16, was the mother of JuliusHeisler. tin shop, and Louis, researchlaboratory supplies. She was an auntof William and Maurice Brumaster.

Born in Nokomis, 111., Mrs. Heislerhad lived in Decatur 50 years. Shewas a member of St. James Catholicchurch.

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Package Salesman DiesAn illness which began with an ear

infection p roved fatal to WilliamCharles Montgomery, Staley sales-man. Mr. Montgomery, a native ofTexas was born 31 years ago. In Jan-uary, 1947, he came to work for theStaley company as a retail salesmanin the package division.

He was employed to work in thewestern division and continued tomake his home in Dallas. He wastaken ill in January of this year, anddied in March.

Mr. Montgomery leaves his wifeand small son, William Charles, Jr.

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Employee for 32 YearsDies Following Stroke

Antonio Ruffus, a Staley employeefor 32 years, died in St. Mary's hos-pital March 4. Death followed astroke which he suffered the day be-fore at his home. Born in Italy May20,1882, he came to this country whilequite young, and in 1898 became aUnited States citizen. At that timehe was living in Morris, 111.

He moved to Decatur 35 years ago,and was married here to Minnie Tro-lia, who survives. In 1916 he went towork in the Staley mill house, and al-though he had held various jobs there,he was still employed in that depart-ment at the time of his death. For anumber of years he had been a sulphurfurnace operator.

In addition to his wife he leaves ason, Donald Francis Ruffus, and adaughter, Mrs. H. E. Dawson, andfour grandchildren, all of Decatur. Anephew, Martin Trolia, is employed inthe refinery.

Funeral services were conductedfrom Morari's chapel and St. Patrick'sCatholic church.

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Mrs. Koshinski Dies ,

Mrs. Charles Koshinski, who diedFeb. 12, was the wife of Charles Kosh-inski, Staley millwright. She was alsothe mother of Edward Koshinski, elec-trical foreman, and the sister of Wil-liam Sharlock, electrician.

Mrs. Koshinski leaves three otherchildren, Carl, on the city fire depart-ment, Elsie and Mrs. Helen Gross.

Funeral services were conductedfrom Moran's chapel and St. John'sLutheran church with burial in theLutheran cemetery.

•MRS. ELMER LASHINSKIDies After Long Illness

Mrs. Helena Belle Lashinski diedMarch 11 after a long illness. She wasthe wife of Elmer Lashinski, Staleymillwright.

Born in Rochester, 111., in 1907, sheand Elmer Lashinski were married inDecatur in 1940. She had lived inDecatur most of her life.

She leaves her husband, her father,Edward Hawthorne, two sisters andfive brothers, three of whom are em-ployed in the plant. They are AlvaHawthorne in the garage, Howard inthe packing house and Robert in themill house. A brother-in-law is Ed-ward Lashinski, division superintend-ent, starch packing and shipping.

Funeral services were conductedfrom Tr in i t y Lu the ran church ofwhich she was a member with burialin Graceland cemetery.

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Vertical Jane Rent fro, a Decatur Highmid-year graduate, plans to enter nursestraining next fall. She is the daughter ofRalph Rentjro, Elevator C, and Mrs.Rent fro.

OPEN WINTER HASAided Construction

While most of the country has beenfighting below zero weather and heavysnow all winter, the Decatur area has,most of the winter months, had goodconstruction weather. For that reasonwork on the modernization of theplant has been able to go forwardfairly well. Three new buildings arenearing completion. They are themonosodium glutamate building, thepilot plant and the first aid hospital.

Steel work is up on the mechanicalshops and service building, and thefeed packing house. Work is progress-ing fairly well on the power plant im-provement program, according to areport recently made by S. B. Leslie,resident engineer for Burns and Mc-

Donnell, to John Winings, power engi-neer, and R. O. Hartman, Staley engi-neer acting as coordinator for all thiswork.

In his report Mr. Leslie suggestedthat a definite date be set for the com-pletion of the work there. It may notbe reached, he admitted, but if it is seteveryone will work toward it. At pres-ent work is being pushed there to geteverything done that is necessary be-fore now Xo. 19 boiler and the erec-tion crew arrive. Scheduled to arrivethe middle of March they will need,he feels, at least 150 days to get theboiler ready for its first testing.

Kiirni'tle douse is small but a mightyimportant person to her grandfather,Thomas Barbee. Mr. Barbee, who hasbeen with the company 26 years, is em-ployed in the mill house. Burnette is justa year old.

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