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increasing coke production, had been reduced to 2,569,690 tons. At the end of 1940, with production still increasing, stocks had become 1,913,134 tons and in June 1941 the stock on hand was 1,427,663 tons, only a 9-day supply at present production rates
Manganese Obtained from Low-Grade Deposits A SSURANCB of a possibility
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Columbia Schedules Evening Textile Courses TJ^IFTEEN-WEEK
evening
courses in textiles are announced by University Extension of Columbia University for the winter session of 1941-42. Included in the series are Rayon and Spun Rayon Manufacture; Textile Design; Textile Chemistry; Cotton Manufacture; Woolen and Worsted Manufacture; Identification, Analysis, and Testing; and Materials of Merchandising—Textiles and Nontextiles. Registration began September 22 and will continue until September 27. Inquiries should be made to Director of University Extension, Columbia University, New York.
Coke being pushed from by-product coke oven to fall in quencher
NEWSMAKERS
of greatly increased manganese production from domestic sources comes from a report to the Secretary of the Interior t h a t t h e U. S. Bureau of Mines has successfully produced concentrates with high manganese content ores from low-grade deposits in the Las Vegas, Nov., area. The first unit of the comprehensive group of pilot plants built by the bureau at Boulder City, Nev., under a defense appropriation has started operations. A test run has demonstrated definitely the* applicability of a process developed in bureau laboratories for supplying a portion of defense requirements for manganese from domestic sources. High-grade ore, as Bussian ore containing 48 per cent or more manganese, is usually used by Americans i n making ferromanganese. Few deposits of high-grade ore exist in the United States.
-_ George A. Stevenson, who has resigned to become assistant to the president of the Ames Baldwin Wyoming Shovel Co., also of Parkersburg.
Holden Co., New Haven, Conn., in the same capacity. Previous to employment with Muncie Gear Works, Mr. Everett was with General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp.
Richard O. Edgerton has accepted a position as research chemist in the Cine* Processing Department of the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. During the past year Dr. Edgerton has been research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Merle L. Griffin has accepted a position with the Chemical Section, Division of Civilian Allocation, OPM. He was formerly head of the Market Development Division of Westvaco Chlorine Products Corp.
John C. Bird, director of the Division of Applied Research and Medicinal Specialty Development for Hoffmann La Roche, Inc., Nutley, N. J., for the past seven years, has been named vice president of Vitamins Plus, Inc., and director of the Vitamin Division of the parent organization, Vick Chemical Co., New York. Carl M. Conrad has been transferred to the Southern Regional Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, New Orleans, La., where he is to work on fundamental chemical properties relating to new or extended uses for cotton fiber. Thomas E. Bads has been made general manager of the Knickerbocker Stamping Co., Parkersburg, W. Va., succeeding
Eugene E. Everett
Charles F. Hammond
Eugene E. Everett, formerly with Muncie Gear Works as process engineer -and metallurgist, has joined The A**>$1
Charles F. Hammond, for 22 yean chief metallurgist of the Winchester ItepeatcoNTitnnaD ON PAOI 1044
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ing Arms Co. and more recently superintendent of the Cartridge Division, has become assistant to the president of The A. F. Holden Co., New Haven, Conn. S. A. Harris has been appointed eastern regional manager of the Detroit Rex Products Co., Detroit, Mich., succeeding W. F. Newbery, who has been promoted to the general office on special duties. Oregon B. Helfrich has been appointed to the Chemical Drug and Paint Section, Price Division, of the Office of Price Administration. Mr. Helfrich was formerly employed by the Resinous Products & Chemical Co.
College, has joined the research staff at the Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, and has been assigned to metallurgical research. Virgil L. Koenig has accepted a position as research chemist in the Pharmaceutical Division of Chemical Research, Armour and Co., Chicago, III. During the school year 1940-41 Dr. Koenig was a research fellow in the Department of Physiological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Minnesota. Ervin F. Kurth, for the past four years associated with the Institute of Paper Chemistry, has been ordered to active duty and appointed head of the recently created Wood and Wood Products Unit, Office of the Quartermaster General, Washington, D. C. Arthur P. Lien, who received the Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University in June, is now employed as research chemist with the Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), Whiting, Ind., in the High Pressure Laboratory. H. J. Loeffler, formerly Glass Container Association Fellow under the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in Los Angeles, Calif., is now associate chemist in the Western Regional Research Laboratory, Albany, Calif.
Howard M. Hubbard, formerly president and general manager of the Greenfield Tap and Die Corp., Greenfield, Mass., became president of Elliott Co., Jeannette, Penna., September 1.
Oliver H. Johnson, formerly research chemist for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., is now in command of the Chemical Warfare Section of the Shamokin General Depot, Shamokin, Penna., which is just being organized. He has recently been promoted from first lieutenant to captain, Chemical Warfare Service. W. £• Kaufmann has resigned as professor of chemistry and chairman of the de- 4 partment at Alma College, Alma, Mich., to accept a similar appointment at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn. Naaman H. Keyser, a graduate of Antioch
W. E. McCauley H. S. Olcott, formerly of the Cotton Research Foundation Fellowship, Mellon Institute, has been appointed senior chemist in charge of fundamental research, Protein Division, Western Regional Research Laboratory, Albany Calif. John Rehner, Jr., has recently resigned his position in the chemical research laboratories of the B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, to accept a position as assistant professor of physical chemistry at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. John D. Schumacher, since 1932 a member of the Chemistry Department, Roanoke College, has resigned to accept a position with the American Viscose Corp.. Roanoke, Va. Nicholas J. Simatovich, who had been employed as an analytical chemist by the Federated Metals Corp., a division of the American Smelting and Refining Corp., San Francisco, Calif., is nowassociated with the Philippine Smelting Co., Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, Philippine Islands, in the capacity of foreman.
Howard M. Hubbard
H. Jensen, who has been associated with the Squibb Institute for Medical Research, is now connected with the Upjohn Co. Research Laboratories, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Vol. 19, No. 18
OBEYSTONE STUDIOS. INC.
R. N". McAdams R. N. McAdams, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del., has been elected secretary of the company. He fills the vacancy created by the death of H. F. Smith. William R. Stevens, credit manager, was elected assistant treasurer, and George B . Baylis, who has been connected with the treasurer's office, assistant secretary. W. E. McCauley, for four years assistant entomologist with the State of Illinois Natural History Survey, has resigned to become manager of the Insecticide Division of the Velsicol Corp., 3542 North Kimball Ave., Chicago, 111.
Donald B. Stewart has been named manager of the general chemical laboratories of the B. F. Goodrich Co., succeeding Victor £ . Wellman, who has been appointed technical assistant in the general factory administrative department, a new post. Dr. Wellman joined the Goodrich research staff in 1929 and became manager of the chemical laboratories two years ago,- while Mr. Stewart has been associated with the organization since his graduation from the University of Washington in 1939. Douglas Ward, formerly assistant sales manager of the Irvington Varnish & Insulator Co., Irvington, N. J., has been appointed general manager of the company's new Fibron Division. John W. Apgar, who was assistant sales manager from 1928 to 1938, has returned t o the position. In the interim he was production manager.
