Manager of Kimble is changed

Manager of

Kimble Co.

Is Changed

John Bauer, manager of the Muncie Kimble Glass Co. plant, will leave Muncie Thursday to join the staff of Special Industries Division of Kimble in Toledo, O., with Edward P. Spence succeeding him in this city. Mr. Spence has been manager of the Kimble Plant at Sayreville, N.J. Announcement of the change in office was made to­day by S. A. Kenworthy, vice presi­dent of Kimble Glass, a subsidiary of Owens-Illinois.

MR. BAUER will be responsible for the sale of communications in­sulators in Toledo, with additional responsibilities to be assigned, ac­cording to the announcement. Mr. Bauer joined the Muncie plant in 1923 as the first personnel direc­tor, later serving in shipping and in sales. He sold glass block for small installations in 32 states and Mex­ico from 1935 to 1938; was named manager of the Columbus plant in 1947, and Berlin, N.J., plant in 1948.

Mr. Spence joined Kimble Glass Company at Vineland, N.J., in 1933, and advanced from clerk to time study man, industrial engineer and assistant plant service manager. He attended high school at Millville, N.J.; Wharton Evening School of University of Pennsylvania, gradu­ating with honors in industrial engineering and accounting, and took an extension course in shop engi­neering at Rutgers University. He was plant manager at the Kimble Plant in Warsaw, Ind., in 1947, later cost and budget supervisor at the Toledo Kimble Plant. He has been plant manager at Sayerville for year. He is 39 years old. He is mar­ried.