Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois.
A. S. Rairden has been appointed sales manager, W ire Rope Division, W ickwire Spencer Steel Co., N ew York.
Charles S. M attoon has been appoint
ed industrial relations director of the W eatlierhead Co., Cleveland. Previous
ly Mr. Mattoon directed industrial rela
tions for the Airplane Division of Curtiss- president, Industrial Metal Fabricators Inc., Chicago.
Frederick W. H ainer, form erly chief engineer, Cleaver-Brooks Co., M ilwau
kee, has been appointed vice president.
H e will be in charge of numerous m an
agement, sales and production activities.
G. J. M etzger, previously assistant gen
neering departm ent of Allison Division of General Motors Corp., D etroit, to cope w ith increased production, has been announced. T he new positions and men
Wilcox Co., Southington, Conn. Pre
viously he had been engineering co
ordinator, Firestone Aircraft Co., and mechanical research and development engineer, Firestone Ordnance, Akron, 0.
W illard W alker, vice president, Mack- International Motor Truck Corp., has been appointed to the managerial post of the G reater New York Division, with headquarters a t 625 W est 42nd street.
Frederick Kalmbach Jr. has been elected president, General Machine Co.
Inc., Emmaus, Pa., to succeed his father, F red Kalmbach, who becomes chairman of the board. M. Lindroth, production m anager and purchasing agent, has been elected a vice president.
who fill them are: Executive engineer, Roy E. Lynch; chief developm ent engi- gineer, Charles J. McDownll; chief tur
bine engineer, J. C. F etters, and chief engine engineer, Dim itrius Gerdan.
A lbert W . Nelson has been appointed
eral sales manager, Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corp., Detroit, is now in charge of parts and accessory merchandising, warehousing and distri
bution. H e will be assisted by I. W. chemist, Garfield Division, Houdaille- Hershey Corp., D etroit, has joined the Procurem ent Division’s purchasing activ
ities. sales and field engineer.
W illiam Rodgers, formerly chief metal
lurgist of the Cleveland district public Steel Corp., Cleveland, has been appointed assistant superintendent of the 98-inch strip mill and T. M. Chapman
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to the comptroller. A. G. Burton has ken named chief, Production an d Stores Accounting D i v i s i o n , Com ptroller’s Branch, succeeding Mr. James, and W. McCready becomes assistant chief of the division.
L. F. Campbell, formerly w ith United Aircraft Corp., N ew York, has joined Foote Bros. G ear & M achine Corp., Chicago, as vice president. E . A. Johnson and R. B. M oir have become assistant vice presidents, and I. C. McVicar and L, J. Mnlina have been nam ed assistant secretary and assistant treasurer, re
spectively.
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W. H. W ebb has been nam ed assistant sales manager, Alkali Division, D etrex Corp., Detroit. Previously he was m an
ager of the company’s Indiana Division.
Murray B. W ilson has been appointed district sales m anager in D ayton, O., for American Rolling Mill Co., M iddle
town, 0., succeeding Edson D . D ron- berger, who is moving from Dayton, and W. B. Quail succeeds Mr. W ilson as New fork district m anager of sheet and strip sales. Mitchell G. D uncan has been transferred from St. Louis to the D etroit sales office. F red M ayhew replaces Mr. Duncan in St. Louis, and R obert L.
Wells Jr. transfers from the Minneapolis sales office to Dallas, Tex.
Jerome Benjamin, steel pricing official
® Los Angeles for die OPA, has resigned
•o take an executive position w ith In dustrial Materials Co., new ly organized steel and m etal warehouse opening a t 1950 Long Beach avenue, Los Angeles.
Thomas J. Bannan has been elected president of the W estern G ear Works, Seattle, succeeding his father, the L ' ®annan Sr- O ther members
°‘ the family w ere elected to th e other Principal offices as follows: Berchman
A. Bannan, vice president; Phillip A. Ban
nan Jr., treasurer, and Charles F. Ban
nan, secretary. President Bannan is also president of W ebster-Brinkley Co. and H allidie M achine Co., Seattle.
U. E. Sandelin has been appointed m anager of Allis-Ghalmers Mfg. Co.’s Seattle district office, succeeding A. J.
Schmitz, Pacific regional manager.
Raymond D . D w yer has been appoint
ed superintendent of th e steel produc
tion departm ent, Gary Works, Camegie- Illinois Steel Corp., Chicago, and Jacob C. Wilkins has been m ade superinten
dent of central mills.
James D. Jones has joined H. A. Bras- sert & Co., consulting engineers, New York. F or die past ten years Mr. Jones has been chief engineer of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Youngstown, O.
Carlton J. Daiss, assistant vice presi
dent, W ells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co., San Francisco, has resigned to be
come associated w ith Charles E. Moore, president of Joshua H endy Iron Works, Sunnyvale, Calif., and general partner of Moore M achinery Co.
J . Raymond Smith has been appointed to the new ly-created position of assistant to the general sales manager, Rustless Iron & Steel Corp., Baltimore. Previ
ously Mr. Smith was m anager of stain
less steel sheet sales for E astern Stain
less Steel Corp., also of Baltimore.
A rthur H . H jortsberg has been ap
pointed assistant operating head of the Gary steel works of Camegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Chicago. H e succeeds D r.
Erie G. H ill who resigned recently to take a position w ith another company.
E dw in H . Gott has been nam ed assistant
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to general superintendent, in charge of service departments, and John J. Golden has become division superintendent of the com bined open hearths and central mills.
R. L. H eath, formerly chief m etallur
gist of the Allison Division, General Mo
tors Corp., a t Indianapolis, has joined Climax Molybdenum Co., N ew York, as metallurgical engineer.
A rthur R. C. M arkl has been nam ed chief research engineer, Tube-Tum s Ine., Louisville, Ky. Before joining Tube- Tum s Mr. Markl was in charge of de
velopment of equipm ent for oil refineries, M. W. Kellogg Co., New York.
Changes in the sales departm ent of National Tube Co., Pittsburgh, have been announced as follows: J. B. Graham, assistant to the vice president, sales;
W. J. McKee, central area sales manager, and W. T. Miller, assistant to general m anager of sales.
Lester F. Clawson has joined the staff of Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, O., w here he will assist in research on product design and production methods.
Donald O. Notman has been nam ed director of the newly-formed technical division of the Electrochemicals D epart
ment, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Inc., W ilmington, Del. Dr. C. W. Tucker will be chemical director of the new division and D r. Sterling Tem ple will be a special assistant to D r. Tucker.
H. F. Howard has been appointed vice president in charge of manufacturing, Fruehauf Trailer Co., Detroit, and A. K.
Tice has been nam ed vice president in charge of sales.
T. EMBURY JONES E. W . FORKNER — 0—
Mr. Jones and M r. Forkner have o rg a n iz e d Precision W e ld e r & M achine Co., C incinn ati, Maj. Thomas II. Bradley has assumed
°s ann°enced in STEEL, Feb. 12, p. 89. M r. Jones is slated to be elected president an d com mand of the Kingsbury Ordnance
treasurer, a n d M r. Forkner is to be vice presiden t in charge o f operations. plant near LaPorte, Ind., succeeding Maj.
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sistant to the president, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., since his res
ignation as vice chairman of the W ar Production Board 18 months ago, has been elected vice president and assistant to the president of GE. board chairman of International General Electric.
gineer, Gary works, Camegie-IUinois Steel Corp., Gary, Ind., has been elected chairman, and E . J. E hret, district repre
sentative, Farval Corp., 327 South La
Salle street, Chicago, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago section of the recently or
ganized American Society of L ubrica
tion Engineers. American Society for Metals. Maxwell Gensamer, professor of m etallurgical en
gineering at Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology, Pittsburgh, is the Campbell Lec
turer for 1945.
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John R. Ford and W alter M aynard Joyner have joined International Rust
proof Corp., Cleveland, to serve in the manager, respectively, of the foreign en
gineering departm ent; S. C. Hoey, as
sistant director of tire headquarters man
ufacturing engineering department; J.
H ow ard W enner, street lighting specialist for the Middle Atlantic district, and
bined its works engineering department w ith the Experim ental Engineering Divi
sion to form the Experimental and Works Engineering Division, w ith Noel J. Point as manager. Reporting to Mr. Poux are H orace Keech, chief production engineer, and John Gamble, chief experimental en
gineer.
o---G. B. Berlien, formerly chief metal
lurgist, Lindberg Steel Treating Co., Chicago, has joined Industrial Steel Treating Co., Oakland, Calif.
0— automobile accessories, including one of the first types of electric horns. relations, American Standards Associa
tion, N ew York, died F eb. 8 in Chap- paqua, N. Y. Form erly Mr. Smith was assistant to the director of the Conserva
tion Division, W ar Production Board.
M ichael V. Bonomo, 51, treasurer, Schiavone-Bonomo Corp., Jersey City, N. J., died Feb. 6 in Glen Ridge, N. j..
Norton helped organize Howell Electric M otor Co., Howell, Mich. He was vice mechanical engineer who traveled to China, Australia, India, and lived for eight years in Honolulu, Hawaii, as a representative for Allis-Chalmers Mfg.
Co., Milwaukee, died Feb. 6 in th at city.
Mr. Scoville had retired in 1930.
D r. John D. Ball, 62, professor of physics and business adm inistration at M ount M ary college, Milwaukee, recip
ient in 1916 of tire Longstreth M edal of the Franklin Institute for his work in
electro-magnetism, and for three years an assistant to Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz at General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., died Feb. 9 in Milwaukee. He
George M cLaughlin, 46, production manager, M iller Shelby Products <>•>
Shelby, O., died there recently.
H untington Downer, 57, an executive of Basic Refractories Inc., Clevelan , died Feb. 11 in F t. Lauderdale, Fta.
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New construction has passed
peak, survey indicates. De
cline in em ploym ent sighted.
Mechanics w ill be needed.
SA N FRAN C ISC O PACIFIC Coast shipbuilding during 1945 will be characterized by an increas
ing shift from ship construction to ship repair.
New construction has passed its peak, according to survey by the F ederal Re
serve Bank. Although current backlog of orders probably will carry most of the larger yards through the year, several are already making preparations to shift to repair work and are reducing labor forces, rearranging work shifts and otherwise adjusting their operations.
With the importance of repair work steadily increasing ( more than 5000 m er
chant vessels have received major repairs at West Coast shipyards during the past three years) mass production methods
"ill decline in im portance. Employm ent- wise, this will lead to an intensified de
mand for all-around, experienced m e
chanics instead of large gangs of semi
skilled workers.
Employment W ill Decline Under normal peacetim e conditions, commercial shipyard activity can be ex
pected to provide jobs for only a small fraction of the workers currently em
ployed. During a war-to-peace transition period, the bank estimates, which may Le put at from two to three years, ap
proximately 100,000 jobs may be pro
dded. However, w hen shipyards settle down to normal operations, after complet- postponed repair and m aintenance
"'ork, and removing guns and other special war installations, private ship
yard employment may be expected to the government-owned yards and facil-
’ties for private postw ar operation or for eonversion to the m anufacture of other Products.
Pacific Coast shipbuilders have built nearly 2000 new m erchant vessels.
The naval and m ilitary program, ini- ated ’n 1940, was impressive also. Con- rac'ts approximating $3 billion were Paced with private Pacific Coast ship- f k comPrisinS a wide range of vessels 0 the intermediate and smaller types,
including light cruisers, destroyers, repair ships, mine layers, and mine sweepers, subm arine chasers, destroyer escorts, landing barges, aircraft carriers, salvage vessels, tugs and floating drydocks.
Em ploym ent was expanded in private yards from less than 7000 in 1939 to more than 500,000 four years later;
around 400,000 are employed at present.
During this period th e government Navy yards have likewise increased their em
ployment, from less than 10,000 at the beginning of 1939 to around 100,000 at the end of 1944.
Approximately $230 million have been invested in shipbuilding facilities in plants participating in the Maritime Commis
sion program for the West Coast.
Los Angeles Chamber Forms Steel Committee
LOS A N G E LE S Form ation of a Steel committee to co-operate with tire recently organized W estern States Council in the develop
m ent of the western steel industry has been completed by the local cham ber of commerce. The committee is headed by Alden Roach, president, Consolidated Steel Corp.
Members of the committee, in addi
tion to Mr. Roach, are: LeRoy M. E d wards, vice president and general m an
ager, Pacific Lighting Corp.; W. C.
Mullendore, executive vice president, Southern California Edison Co.; Leon
ard E. Read, general manager, Los An
Buehler, general manager, Buehler Tank
& W elding Works; E. S. Dulin, Byron Jackson Co.; W illiam IT. Guild, execu
tive assistant, Union Pacific Railroad;
B. A. Hinckley, president, General W a
ler, Southwestern Engineering Co.; Em erson Spear, Pacific W ire Rope Co.; District to forge 105-millimeter artillery shells at Las Vegas, Nev. The opera
tion will be housed in the presently idle buildings of Basic Magnesium Inc.
The Rheem company is already setting, up to manufacture, at Basic Magnesium,.
Navy rocket projectile bodies and A rm y 81-millimeter trench m ortar shells.
W hen the three contracts are in full production, they will require approxi
m ately 1000 employes. T he buildings being utilized are largely warehouse structures.
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