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NEWS-MAKERS Porcelain Co., Macomb, III. He conns trim ι Locke. Inc., where he was vice president in charge or manufacturing. Robert J. S peer has been appointed head of the radiochemical laboratory ol the Texas Research Foundation, Renner. Tc\. He and his associates are engaged in a study of phosphate fertilizers by the u>e of radioactively tagged phosphates. Lawrence R. Sperberg, forme -ly head of the rubber evaluation and testing sec- tion of Phillips Chemical Co.'s labora- tories at Phillips. Tex., has joined the staff of the J. M. Huher Corp. as chief chemist of their carbon black division at Borger, Tex. Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, until recently a member of the Atomic Energy Commis- sion, and Charles E. Cotting, president of Lee Higginson Corp., have been elected to the board of directors of Tracer lab. Inc., Boston, Mass. James M. Sugihara, secretary of the Northwestern Utah Section of the ACS, has recently l>een promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of chem- istry at the University of Utah. Gerald F. Tape, formerly associate pro- fessor of physics at the University of Illinois, has joined the scientific staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory as assist- ant to the director. George V. Taylor lias been made di- rector of sales development at Spencer Chemical Co., Kansas City, Mo. He has been director of market research. George J. Tombak-, a technical sales- man in the New York office of the Du Pont Co.'s fine chcmica.1.% division, has been transferred to Wilmington as a technical adviser and consultant. E. Dale Trout, a Ceneral Electric x- ray official, was honored by Franklin College, Franklin, Ind., with the award ol an honorary doctor's degree in view of lus major contributions to science. He is assistant to the vice president at GEXCO. Four employees of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., were recently presented with the Allegheny Ludlum Award for Achievenient, the highest recog- nition for outstanding achievement the company can bestow. Those winning tin- awards were John HL Werthman, and Charles Pochiber and R. W. Thompson, jointly, all of the We*st Leechburg, Pa., plant, and Chester M. Honsinger, Water - vliet, N. V. The award consists of a cita- tion from the board of directors, the presi- dent's medal, and $1,000 in cash. Charles E. Whittem has been elected a director of Robert Gair Co., Inc., New York. He was also elected president and general manager of Cair Co., Ltd., Toronto, Canada. 1UBE BRAHO « — Since 1S85, the words "StaurTer" and'*iSul- phur" have become virtually synonymous. Today, eight Stauffer plants refine and process sulphur, and are conveniently located at 3ay- onne. N. J., St. Louis, Mo., Harvey (New Orleans), La.. Freeport, Texas, Orlando, Fla., Los Angeles, Cab, Berkeley, Cal., and North Portland. Ore. niiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Qillllllltllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll HiiJiiiiiiBiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiffSfiiiflftiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiitiiiiifiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii CII Ε Μ I C A L C Ο Μ PAN V 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 1 7, ΝΎ. 221 North LaSalle Stieet, Chicago 1 , Illinois 82-4 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 14,Cal. 636 California Street, San Francisco 8, Cal. 42-4 Ohio Bldg., Akron 8,0.—Apopka.Fla. N. Portland, Ore.—Houston 2, Tex.—Weslaco, Tex. Stauffer Sulphurs are processed grades of ele- mental sulphur in Refined <not less than 99.S% pure) and Commercial (not less than 99.5% pure) grades. There are several physical fo .ms—Lump, Roll, Flour, Flowers and In- soluble. The Flour or powdered grades are obtainable in a number of finenesses. These many available types of elemental sulphurs ! make StaufTer the acknowledged sulphur h<»ad- ' quarters of the world. Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllin NECROLOGY Lloyd Kitchel Lloyd Kitchel, a member of the board of directors of Hercules Powder Co.. and general manager of the Virginia cellulose department, died June 30 of a cerebral hemorrhage. Born in New York City, he had devoted his entire career to the de- velopment and expansion of the cellulose industry. I le became associated with the Vir- ginia Cellulose Co. in Hopewell in 1926, serving as vice» president. When the com- pany became the Virginia cellulose de- partment of Hercules in 1929, Mr. Kitchel was named sales manager of that depart- ment. He became general manager of the department and a director of the com- pany in 1937. His duties included the supervision of Hercules relationship with Holden Vale Mfg. Co., Ltd., in Hasling- ton, England, a Hercules affiliate which produces chemical cotton. Roy R. Rogers. Sr. Roy R. Rogers, Sr., head of Rogers Chemical Co., San Francisco, died July 5. He was 75. Mr. Rogers graduated from the University of California in 1896. After completing his graduate work at the Uni- versity of Chicago he returned to teach at the University of California and later at Cooper Medical College, now Stanford Medical School. Mr. Rogers opened his own firm, the Rogers Chemical Co., in 1908 and headed the firm until his death. He joined ACS in 1917 and headed the California Section in 1925. Fritz Winkler Fritz Winkler, 62, died recently in Ludwigshafen, Germany, after a long ill- ness. Dr. Winkler was the author of several patents, including that on the gasification of coal in a fluidized bed in which oxygen or air is blown through the coal, keeping it in a turbulent condition at water-gas temperatures. Known as the "Winkler Generator," this process is con- sidered by some as the forerunner of our modern fluidized solids technique as ex- emplified in the fluidized catalyst crack- ing process. Dr. Winkler was associated with the IG Farbcn Industrie through most of his active life. Alfred E. Galloway, principal chemist, Bureau of Industrial Hygiene, Depart- ment of Health, Harrisburg, Pa., recently. ACS member since 1919. Walter Gray, technical adviser for Free- port Sulphur Co., New Orleans, La., June 27. ACS member since 1938. Bruce A. Irwin, 48, vice president and general manager, Hammel-Dahl Co., Prov- idence, R. L, June 14. Nicolas N. Vishnevsky, chemist, Ameri- can Smelting & Refining Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, recently. ACS member since 1943. CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS mmm 5HJ Γΐ/ΗΓ-Ί ©XBTÎRB Ê l ^ toi/ f./i Ι Λ\ cf π II Pi J^^H Ni rail a I f a l
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NEWS-MAKERS
Porcelain Co., Macomb, III. He conns trim ι Locke. Inc., where he was vice president in charge or manufacturing.
Robert J. S peer has been appointed head of the radiochemical laboratory ol the Texas Research Foundation, Renner. Tc\ . He and his associates are engaged in a study of phosphate fertilizers by the u>e of radioactively tagged phosphates.
Lawrence R. Sperberg, forme -ly head of the rubber evaluation and testing section of Phillips Chemical Co.'s laboratories at Phillips. Tex., has joined the staff of the J. M. Huher Corp. as chief chemist of their carbon black division at Borger, Tex.
Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, until recently a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, and Charles E. Cotting, president of Lee Higginson Corp., have been elected to the board of directors of Tracer lab. Inc., Boston, Mass.
James M. Sugihara, secretary of the Northwestern Utah Section of the ACS, has recently l>een promoted from assistant professor to associate professor of chemistry at the University of Utah.
Gerald F. Tape, formerly associate professor of physics at the University of Illinois, has joined the scientific staff of Brookhaven National Laboratory as assistant to the director.
George V. Taylor lias been made director of sales development a t Spencer Chemical Co., Kansas City, Mo. He has been director of market research.
George J. Tombak-, a technical salesman in the New York office of the Du Pont Co.'s fine chcmica.1.% division, has been transferred to Wilmington as a technical adviser and consultant.
E. Dale Trout, a Ceneral Electric x-ray official, was honored by Franklin College, Franklin, Ind., with the award ol an honorary doctor's degree in view of lus major contributions to science. He is assistant to the vice president at GEXCO.
Four employees of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., were recently presented with the Allegheny Ludlum Award for Achievenient, the highest recognition for outstanding achievement the company can bestow. Those winning tin-awards were John HL Werthman, and Charles Pochiber and R. W. Thompson, jointly, all of the We*st Leechburg, Pa., plant, and Chester M. Honsinger, Water -vliet, N. V. The award consists of a citation from the board of directors, the president's medal, and $1,000 in cash.
Charles E . Whittem has been elected a director o f Robert Gair Co., Inc., New York. He was also elected president and general manager of Cair Co., Ltd., Toronto, Canada.
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Since 1S85, t h e words "StaurTer" and'*iSul-phur" h a v e become virtually s y n o n y m o u s . T o d a y , e ight Stauffer plants refine and process sulphur, and are conveniently located at 3ay-onne. N. J., St. Louis, Mo., Harvey (New Orleans), La.. Freeport, Texas, Orlando, Fla., Los Angeles, Cab, Berkeley, Cal., and North Portland. Ore.
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CII Ε Μ I C A L C Ο Μ P A N V 420 Lexington Avenue, New York 1 7, ΝΎ. 221 North LaSalle Stieet, Chicago 1 , Illinois 82-4 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 14,Cal. 636 California Street, San Francisco 8 , Cal. 42-4 Ohio Bldg., Akron 8,0 .—Apopka.Fla . N. Portland, Ore.—Houston 2, Tex.—Weslaco, Tex.
Stauffer Sulphurs are processed grades of elemental sulphur in Refined <not less than 99.S% pure) and Commercial (not less than 99.5% pure) grades. There are several physical fo .ms—Lump, Roll, Flour, Flowers and Insoluble. The Flour or powdered grades are obtainable in a number of finenesses. These many available types of elemental sulphurs ! make StaufTer the acknowledged sulphur h<»ad- ' quarters of the world.
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NECROLOGY Lloyd Kitchel
Lloyd Kitchel, a member of the board of directors of Hercules Powder Co.. and general manager of the Virginia cellulose department, died June 30 of a cerebral hemorrhage. Born in New York City, he had devoted his entire career to the development and expansion of the cellulose industry.
I le became associated with the Virginia Cellulose Co. in Hopewell in 1926, serving as vice» president. When the company became the Virginia cellulose department of Hercules in 1929, Mr. Kitchel was named sales manager of that department. He became general manager of the department and a director of the company in 1937. His duties included the supervision of Hercules relationship with Holden Vale Mfg. Co., Ltd., in Hasling-ton, England, a Hercules affiliate which produces chemical cotton.
Roy R. Rogers. Sr.
Roy R. Rogers, Sr., head of Rogers Chemical Co., San Francisco, died July 5. He was 75 . Mr. Rogers graduated from the University of California in 1896. After completing his graduate work at the University of Chicago he returned to teach at the University of California and later at Cooper Medical College, now Stanford Medical School. Mr. Rogers opened his own firm, the Rogers Chemical Co., in 1908 and headed the firm until his death. He joined ACS in 1917 and headed the California Section in 1925.
Fritz Winkler
Fritz Winkler, 62, died recently in Ludwigshafen, Germany, after a long illness. Dr. Winkler was the author of several patents, including that on the gasification of coal in a fluidized bed in which oxygen or air is blown through the coal, keeping it in a turbulent condition at water-gas temperatures. Known as the "Winkler Generator," this process is considered by some as the forerunner of our modern fluidized solids technique as exemplified in the fluidized catalyst cracking process. Dr. Winkler was associated with the IG Farbcn Industrie through most of his active life.
Alfred E. Galloway, principal chemist, Bureau of Industrial Hygiene, Depart
m e n t of Health, Harrisburg, Pa., recently. ACS member since 1919.
Walter Gray, technical adviser for Free-port Sulphur Co., New Orleans, La., June 27. ACS member since 1938.
Bruce A. Irwin, 48, vice president and general manager, Hammel-Dahl Co., Providence, R. L, June 14.
Nicolas N. Vishnevsky, chemist, American Smelting & Refining Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, recently. ACS member since 1943.
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