NEWS OF THE WEEK

Enjay Co., Inc., has placed Ε. Ν . Cun­ningham, who has been supervising the sale of Paracril rubber, in charge of the metropolitan territory for all rubbers ami plastics; he replaces R. M. Howlett who moves to the Midwest territory with headquarters in Chicago. A rubbers and plastic sales oHice has been opened at 1143 East Jersey St., Elizabeth 4. X. J.

At the Rensselaer, X. Y., dyestuff plant of the General Aniline & F i l m Corp., F. H. McGraw & Co. is com­pleting construction of a three-story brick and glass block building in which various dyestuff intermediates, essential ingredients to dye manufacture, will be produced. The building was specially designed by McGraw engineers to sup­port the weight of the dye plant's mas ­sive mixing kettles.

S. H. Reynolds has been appointed sales manager of Great Lakes Carbon Corp.* s electrode division.

Hilton-Davis Chemical Co., Cincin­nati. Ohio, has made its first batch of colors using β-naphthol produced in its newly completed S1.5 million plant on the factory site on Lanjrdon Farm Road. The plant is expected to be in full production by October.

The Indiana Farm Bureau Coopera­tive Association, Inc., has announced its decision to install a T O P fluid catalytic cracking unit in its refinery at Mount Vernon, Ind. The unit, which will have a nominal capacity of 4,000 bbl. of fresh charge stock per day, is being engineered and designed by Universal Oil Products Co.

Wayne McCarthy has been promoted to the position of NOrth coast regional manager of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.

A. T . Rush, president of Newark Paper Box Co., Newark. N \ J., has purchased the entire production facilities of. the See-Thru Division of the George V. Clark Co., Inc., of Astoria, L. I .

The Pennsylvania Crusher Co., a di­vision of Bath Iron Works, has an­nounced the promotion of W. W. West to chief sales engineer. He will be at the main offices of the division in Phila­delphia. Pa.

Substantially all of the production of anhydrous ammonia and ammonium sul­fate of Phillips Chemical Co. is now available for commercial sale.

Rogers Corp. and Bakélite Corp. have announced that their toll agreement will terminate as of July 31, 1949. Under the agreement. Rogers, which has plants in Goodyear and Manchester, Conn., had manufactured a group of high-strength thermosetting phenolic materials for Bakélite. Rogers also announced the expansion and integration of its m a t e ­rials and services continuing t o produce the same plastics materials it made

under the toll agreement, but merchan­dising them through its own plastics division.

Stacey-Dresser Engineering, Cleve­land, Ohio, is building a Dcsulfo unit for the Hoosier Gas Corp. in Vincennes, Intl. It will be in operation in Septem­ber ami will process up to 3 million cubic feet of gas per day, reducing the hydrogen sulfide content of the gas to one grain per 100 cubic feet.

The Stalwart Rubber Co. can now furnish molded, extruded, punched, and lathe-cut rubber parts fabricated from the new No. 250 silicone rubber stock, recommended for applications requiring good mechanical strength and resilience at temperatures below — 50°F. and above 200° F.

Stanolind Oil and Gas Co. held open bouse for the public at its Stano gasoline plant, near Ulysses, Kan., on July 17. Located seven miles west of Ulysses, it processes gas from the Hugoton gas field, the world's largest known natural gas reservoir. It is a conventional absorp­tion-type gasoline plant and one of the newest of its kind in the area. Capacity is 100 million cubic feet of gas daily.

L. J. Wing Mfg. Co. has appointed A. D. Hecker as representative for the eastern section of Xew York, Vermont, and Berkshire County in Massachusetts.

I University N e w s I

Nuclear Energy Fellowships at Michigan

Applications for five SI,500 Phoenix predoctoral fellowships for the study of the applications and implications of

atomic energy for the 1949-50 year at the University of Michigan are being received through Aug. 15 by the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Ann Arbor. Appointments will be made by Sept. 1. Research under the fellowships should fall into one of the following divisions: use of radioactive isotopes in biological, physical, and engi­neering sciences; the physical, mathe­matical, or chemical aspects of nuclear theory; the social philosophical, legal, or economic aspects of nuclear energy; or education needs in this field. The fellowships are named for the Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Project.

Stale of Virginia Science Appropriations

The state of Virginia has allotted S250.000 for a science hall at Madison College, Harrisonburg, supplementing another unconditional appropriation of $250,000 for the hall and other improve­ments at the college. The state govern­ment also assigned $125,000 for a new marine biological laboratory at Glou­cester Point.

Galveston Industrial Hygiene Laboratory

The University of Texas Medical Branch will open a special industrial hygiene research laboratory in Galveston in September. This laboratory, which will be under the direction of Carl A. Xau, professor of preventive medicine and public health, and J. M. Neal, sani­tary engineer, will cooperate particularly with the chemical and petroleum plants in Texas City but will be available for consultation and service to all Texas industries.

University of Portland Dedicates Engineering Building The new engineering building at the university of Portland, Portland* Ore·, provides classrooms and shops to accommodate the school9» newly established course in engineering· Laboratories to be used by the department of physics are also included· Jantes R, Griffith is the dean of the school of engineering

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