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Olin news
Vol. XX, No. 5
December 1974
STRONGER EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY TO SOOTHE THE ENERGY CRUNCH
SCENES OF JOLLY
GOOD HOLIDAYS
Children by the hundreds came with parents
and friends to the annual Christmas parties
in the Ecusta Cafeteria, the scene also of
the 'teen-age dance for which Mr. and Mrs.
Fritz Merrell and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Payne were hosts. Santa's helpers, putting
to shame those of the jolly old man's North
Pole workshop, were Susan Aiken, Dot
Brooks, Jan Holden and Mary Metcalf.
Numerous pictures of the events are on
inside pages.
A BOUNTY OF PRIZES went to the
five winners of the Film Division’s
year-long 1974 safety contest at
Pisgah Forest. Pictured left to right
with Plant Manager J. Donald Parker,
left, and Safety Supervisor T. E.
Payne, extreme right, they include
Harold Ellis, Chemical Building:
first place with 1,715 points and
winner of the seven piece copper
cookware set; Ray Grogan, Main
tenance: 1,635 points and winner
of a 12” TV set; James Sorrells,
Service: 1,628 points and winner of
$100 worth of gasoline; Jimmy Reese,
Maintenance: 1,574 points and winner
Two moves to check the effects of
the energy crisis on the plants here
and in Covington, Ind., have been an
nounced by Garza Baldwin, Jr., Pres
ident of the Fine Paper and Film
Group.
Concerned that the problems of
supply and cost are becoming in
tensified, and fearful that the con
ditions will become worse, he ap
pointed the group’s first energy di
rector and reorganized the group’s
year-old energy committee.
J. H. Tomlinson, head of the group’s
of a tool set; and Henry Heatherly,
Casting: 1,565 points and winner
of tools and household items. Safety
contest points were awarded on basis
of submitting safety suggestions,
having a low injury record, wearing
safety shoes and persuading other
employees to wear them, demonstra
ting safety attitudes, and showing de
partmental improvement of its
monthly injury record by 20 per cent
of its 1972-73 average. The annual
contests are designed to promote
safety and to lower the injury fre
quency and severity rate.
pollution abate
ment programs
for the past sev
eral years, was ap
pointed Director
of Energy and En
vironmental Con
trol. He also was
named chairman
of the group
energy commit
tee, formerly
headed by Baldwin, and comprised
of the chairmen of the plant energy
committees: Robert H. Masengill
of the Ecusta Paper Division, James
H. McIlwain of the Film Division’s
cellophane plant at Pisgah Forest,
and Smith Conklin of the cellophane
plant at Covington, Ind.
Tomlinson and the committee were
charged by the group president with
“developing a program aimed not
only at saving energy now, but to
help create an atmosphere which
will continue to generate support
for the program developed.
“We must concern ourselves with
the availability and with the high
costs of our energy resources, and
we must make it a lasting concern.
The things that help save energy
now and tomorrow must become a
way of life for us,” Baldwin said.
In a comparison of the energy
crisis today and the swelling con
cerns about the environment in the
1950’s and 1960’s, Baldwin told the
committee to try also to anticipate
what will become a highly bureau
cratic system of energy management.
First priorities, he said, are to de
velop meaningful, practical and quan
titative measurements of energy us
age, and to determine reasonably
challenging energy saving goals for
the separate operations.
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