Personnel Changes in Industry Henry G. Berger, recently in charge of the chemical section of the research and develop ment division of Socony Vacuum, has been made assistant general technical manager of Socony Paint Products, with headquarters at 26 Broadway, New York 4.
A. K. Hamilton elected vice president and general manager of Pennsylvania Alcohol and Chemical Corp. and Siboney Distilling Corp., subsidiaries of the National Sugar Co. He was formerly president of A. K. Hamilton & Co., acquired by Siboney Dis tilling Corp.
Frank P. Bleier, research and development physicist since 1942, named director of new Ilg Research Laboratory, Chicago. Ray mond V. Pfautsch named assistant chief engineer, Richard Hanford, electrical engi neer, A. J. Lenke, production manager, and George Biggott in charge of production plan ning and scheduling.
Ches Herndon, for 13 years with Hanlon Waters, Inc., appointed manager of Tube Turns, Inc., Houston branch. . . Frederick K. Lovejoy appointed Kansas City district sales manager of American Machine and Metals, Inc., East Moline, 111.
Du Pont promotions: Explosives Depart ment, H. F. Brown to assistant general manager; P. J. Kimball to general superin tendent; F. R. Wilson to manager; J. H. Wellford to be associated with Ε. Β. Yancey, vice president. Charles J. Dumas appointed manager of insecticide division, Geigy Co., New York, in charge of activities in Gesarol, Neocid, and other insecticides. Thomas Evans, manager of Chemical Machinery Division, Baker Perkins, Inc., has been elected to the board of directors. The division is to be expanded to include engineering and manufacture of equipment for complete unit processes. . . Basil Hopper and Sam Grinsfelder elected vice presidents of Union Oil Co. W G. Frank made assistant to the presi dent, American Air Filter Co., Inc., Louis ville, Ky., H. C. Murphy general sales di rector, Howard W. Pound in charge of Air , Filter Division, and Wm. K. Gregory in charge of Special Products Division... Walter P. Konrad promoted from Phosphate Sales Department, St. Louis, to branch manager of the division sales department in Chicago. Otto If. Frankfurter, director of exports for Heyden Chemical Co., has started his 1944 Latin American trip, by air, planning to stop at various places from Puerto Rico to Argentina. David P. Graham, for several years man ager of Gas Scrubber Division, Peabody Engi neering Corp., New York, made assistant to the president . . . Angus B. Kennedy has joined technical staff of Read Machinery Co., York, Pa., as designing engineer of ex traction equipment . . . Captain Mack £. Kittay appointed manager of Southern Division, National Starch Products, Inc., with headquarters in Houston, Tex» Harry W. Gray, until recently assistant to general sales manager, Airtemp Division, Chrysler Corp., now instrument sales engi neer for Manning, Maxwell & Moore, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. . . Albert Hershberger appointed supervisor of new films research, Cellophane Research Section, Du Pont Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Daniel D. Lanning to super vise Cel-O-Seal and sponge research, and Howard. W. Swank to supervise coating research.
VOLUME
2 2,
NO.
August Heuser, control manager of Electrochemicals Department, Du Pont, retired Sept. 1 after 40 years* service, and was suc ceeded by J. H. Hildreth. Elmer F. Hinner appointed assistant general manager and Charles H. Lickle ap pointed manager of cellulose purchases, Virginia Cellulose Department, Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, E>el. Richard T. Coyne appointed manager of sales, Mt. Vernon Car Manufacturing Co., Mt. Vernon, 111., succeeding C. M. Wrigiht, ^vice president, who has resigned. Leo S. Hitchner, executive secretary of the Agricultural Insecticide and Fungicide Manufacturers Association, and Roscoe C. Edlund, secretary and manager of the Association of American Soap
