Three New Members Named to UO Library Staff
The University library staff
this year will include three new
members, all of whom have ex
tensive backgrounds in library
administration work.
Eugene N. Salmon, who has
been with the State Historical
Society of Colorado, will serve
as head circulation librarian. He
received his masters' degree at
the University of Denver school
of librarftmship.
J.E B. Morris has been appoint- |
ed senior reference librarian. A
graduate of the University of
Toronto, he did his graduate;
work at the University of Chi- j
cago graduate library school.
Morris hns been in charge of ref
erence and circulation at Iowa
State University and catalnger
for the Western Washington Col
lege of Education at Bellingham.
The new reference librarian
will be Kdward C. Kemp, Jr. He
in a gradual<• of Harvard, and
cornea here from the University
of California Library School at
Berkeley.
Dr. Norman Chin
...in petroleum, too, everything but the pig’s squeal
I have read that in a free country, business is
more efficient because it must compete suc
cessfully to survive.
“I believe this sincerely. For I lived in China,
India and Europe before becoming a United
States citizen seven years ago. No one equals
Americans for sheer ingenuity in finding better
ways to do things.
“I am thinking, for instance, of how at Union
Oil today we use—as they say in the meat
packing industry—‘everything but the pig’s
squeal.’
“Sulfur is a good exampleof what I mean.
At the start of the Korean War the government
put it on top priority.
“Curiously, though, one of the waste prod
ucts of petroleum refining is a form of sulfur—
hydrogen sulfide. We were convinced that we
could convert enough throw-away hydrogen
sulfide into valuable elemental sulfur to make
a special plant worth while. We put it up to
management and got a go-ahead.
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DR. CH IN : “NO ON'F. EQUALS AMERICANS IN FINDING BETTER WAYS TO DO THINGS.
uur project was a success, we now recover
about 120 tons of sulfur a day. It was good
citizenship, too. Because by creating a new
supply of sulfur we’re helping to conserve the
country’s natural resources.
r:
All this Ironi material once thought the
refuse of refining! Sec what I mean hy the
ingenuityof us Americans?”
♦ * * *
Typically modest. Dr. Ch’in does not men
tion he was process engineer of the original Sul
fur Recovery Unit at our Los Angeles Refinery.
1 his was one of our first steps in diversifying
our business through chemical by-products of
refining.
Hut l)r. Ch in's original point is most perti
nent. I-or it is possible that none of these things
would have happened, if we lacked the in
centive to find new ways to do a job more
efficiently than our competitors.
YOUR COMMENTS ARE INVITED. Write: The {'resident,
Union Oil Company, L ’rwm Oil Bldg.,Los Angeles 17,Calif.
Union Oil Company OF California
MANUFACTURERS OF ROYAL TRITON, THE AMAZING PURPLE MOTOR OIL