[Newspaper]
Publication: The Muncie Star
Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 77, no. 73, p. 5, col. 6-7
General Manager
Is Appointed for
Kimble Glass Co.
R. H. Mulford, a vice president of Owens-Illinois Glass Company, has been elected vice president and general manager of Kimble Glass Company, a subsidiary, it was announced Thursday.
Mr. Mulford. formerly director of Owens-Illinois department of personnel administration, succeeds S. J. McGiveran whose new responsibilities will be announced at a later date. Mr. Mulford will report to C. R. Megowen, president of Owens-Illinois Glass Company, who is also chairman and president of Kimble Glass.
In his new capacity, Mr. Mulford will be responsible for the production and sale of all Kimble Glass Company products including television bulbs, Insulux glass block, specialty glass containers, laboratory glassware, glass tubing and rod, glass insulators, and miscellaneous press glass articles.
Kimble plants are located at Toledo and Columbus. O.; Sayreville and Vineland, N.J.; Muncie, and Warsaw, Ind.; and Chicago Heights, Ill.
Mr. Mulford, whose home is in Toledo, has been with Owens-Illinois since 1933. He served as plant manager at the Los Angeles and Oakland plants before becoming general factories manager of the Pacific Coast Division of Owens-Illinois in 1946. He went to Toledo in 1949 when he was elected a vice president and appointed to head the department of personnel administration.
Mr. Mulford is a graduate of Stanford University and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.