Durholt named manager of Hemingray division to replace retiring Minot Holmes

Durholt Named

to Hemingray Post;

Holmes to Retire

Larry E. Durholt, associated with Owens-Illinois since 1929, has been named manager of Hemin­gray Insulator sales, according to an announcement by John P. Kearney, sales manager of the Industrial and Electronics Division of American Structural Products Company.

His appointment is effective at once, and he succeeds Minot Holmes, 912 West North street, who will retire shortly, after having served Hemingray for forty-seven years.

When Larry joined Owens-Illi­nois, of which American Structural Products is a subsidiary, he served in the Libbey Division working in various capacities until 1947, when he was transferred to ASPC.

Although Hemingray insulators are manufactured at the Muncie plant, he will make his headquar­ters in Toledo.

Minot started in the Muncie plant in 1904, in the machine shop. During his long association with Hemingray and later Owens-Illi­nois, he designed the basic ele­ments of the insulator machine and contributed to the plant’s pro­duction mechanization.

He also took part in early glass block experiments and advanced several ideas which helped to cre­ate the first satisfactory hermeti­cally-sealed block to be marketed in the United States. Many of his ideas are still in use today.