years' computer experience the figure averages only 0.31%.

Today the companies in the study devote 47% of their computers' time to finance and administration. The remainder is split between produc­tion, distribution, marketing, planning and control, and research and develop­ment and engineering. The use of computers in finance and administra­tion will continue to grow; but by 1970 it will take only 3 1 % of the greatly increased total computer ef­fort. All the other computer-use areas will show substantial percentage gains. For instance, R&D and engineering will then take an average of 10% of the time, up from 8% now.

Drug and chemical makers devote much more of their computer effort to R&D and engineering than do other companies. They now put 20% into this area, which will grow to 22% by 1970. One drug company is already devoting 50% of its computer effort to R&D, largely to handle clinical data.

Ch.E.'s head new Humble groups Humble Oil & Refining has named chemical engineers to head the two new operating departments—in min­erals, coal, and shale oil—it has formed to engage in potentially profitable fields of activity which use the com­pany's skills and resources. R. C. Curtis is general manager of the min­erals department, and G. H. Shipley is general manager of the coal and shale oil department.

The minerals department will ex­plore for certain selected metals and nonhydrocarbon minerals (although Humble hasn't disclosed what metals and minerals it will look for). The

department also will do economic analysis and business planning con­nected with an exploration program to evaluate profitability of deposits which may be found or acquired.

The coal and shale oil department is an outgrowth of Humble's various activities in shale oil. Its basic respon­sibility will be to manage the com­pany's interest in solid hydrocarbons as energy sources.

Since 1964, Humble has been con­nected with a group working on a re­search program in shale oil. The group (Mobil Oil is the manager) has an agreement with Colorado School of Mines, which has leased the Anvil Points shale oil mine and plant near Rifle, Colo., from the Bureau of Mines (C&EN, May 11, 1964, page 21) .

Mr. Curtis had been exploration analysis manager in Humble's explora­tion department. He joined Humble in 1937 after obtaining his B.S. in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University. After various as­signments, in 1958 he became vice president of Jersey Production Re­search, a subsidiary of Standard Oil (N.J.) in Tulsa, Okla. He was named president of the subsidiary in 1959. He transferred back to Humble when Jersey Production Research was con­solidated with Esso Production Re­search.

Mr. Shipley, formerly industrial business manager in Humble's market­ing department, received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Rice Uni­versity in 1936 and an M.S. from MIT in 1937. He joined Humble at its Baytown, Tex., refinery the same year. After various assignments in the com­pany's manufacturing and marketing departments, he became industrial business manager last November.

ICWU, Teamsters sign pact The International Chemical Workers Union disclosed last week that it had signed a mutual assistance, no-raid pact with the International Brother­hood of Teamsters. The pact—in the form of a memorandum of agreement-was signed by chemical workers presi­dent Walter L. Mitchell and Teamster president James R. Hoffa in Mr. Hof-fa's office in Washington, D.C., just before Labor Day.

A key section of the agreement is that each union has agreed that it will recommend to its members that they respect lawful picket lines established by the other union. Thus, Mr. Hoffa could recommend that teamsters re­fuse to drive their trucks through the gates of a chemical plant being struck by ICWU. By crippling the move­ment of raw materials into and prod­ucts out of a plant, teamsters could

Teamsters' Hoffa New weapon for chemical workers

nullify the efforts of supervisory per­sonnel who are frequently called upon to keep a struck plant in at least par­tial operation.

After the signing, Mr. Hoffa tele­phoned one of his locals in New Jer­sey to recommend that the members refuse to cross ICWU picket lines around Du Pont's photo products plant in Parlin, N.J. At midweek, however, Du Pont said Du Pont's trucks, driven by Du Pont employees, were moving in and out of the plant on a regular basis. Supervisory personnel have kept the plant operating at about 65% of capacity since the strike started more than two months ago. Accord­ing to the company, it had reached agreement last week with the union on most of the economic issues involved in the strike. "Strike settlement prob­lems" were holding up a final agree­ment, however. One such problem was the company's refusal to take back

G. H. Shipley R. C. Curtis Coal and shale oil Minerals

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