Six employees are advanced at Owens Illinois Muncie factory

SIX ARE ADVANCED

AT OWENS-ILLINOIS

W. P. Zimmerman Made

General Factories Manager.

Six staff members of the Muncie plant of the Owens-Illinois Company have been advanced in rank, it was divulged yesterday.

W. P. Zimmerman, plant manager, has been appointed general factories manager of the industrial and struc­tural products division of the com­pany. He will have general supervision of operations at the Muncie plant and of a plant at Newark, O. The position is newly created.

Other Advancements Made.

Carl H. Smith, plant service de­partment head, was named manager of the Muncie plant, filling the vacancy created by Mr. Zimmerman’s promotion. He will have charge of production and service operations at the plant.

M. K. Holmes was chosen as man­ager of the recently organized in­sulator department. In this position he will supervise the development and sales operations of insulators, and will be responsible for co-ordi­nating these with manufacturing in this line at the plant.

As successor to Mr. Smith. John E. Bauer was appointed service de­partment head. Malcolm Louden was named plant engineer and Don­ald Bridges development engineer.

The industrial and structural products division which Mr. Zimmerman now heads includes the manufacture and sale of glass blocks and Hemingray insulators produced at the Muncie plant, and of glass wool and fiber glass products made at the Newark plant. Increased activity and expansion in these lines was given as the reason for the creation of the new division.

Mr. Zimmerman first became con­nected with the Hemingray Com­pany. predecessor of the Owens-Illinois Company, in 1920. He served as secretary-treasurer a number of years, remained with the plant when Owens-Illinois acquired it in 1933, and was made manager in 1934. He said yesterday he plans to remain in this city.

Mr. Smith has been at the local plant since 1919. He served as pur­chasing agent a number of years and later as service department head. One of the oldest officials of the plant. Mr. Holmes started in 1904 in the machine shop. He later became machine shop foreman, and then was advanced to the position of plant en­gineer.