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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 18, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Pennzoil chief steers cafes by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Mui Stuttgart this year Frank a. Turne worries about smaller can smaller crankcase and longer Drain  next year he will Settle for lesser challenges such As improving his Golf score. Turner a is presi Dent of Pennzoil products co., a subsidiary of the 97-year-old Pennzoil co. Pennzoil products has grown substantially in re cent year despite heavy Competition due to the reduced demand for motor Oil Turner said the company s sales vol ume too increased 20percent Over 1985, Mak ing Pennzoil the lop jell ing motor Oil in the unit to state in the Tasi two fiscal quarters. Turner Turner in sni Folgart last week to publicize the debut of Peim Zoil product at cafes european stores has had a Parath Misc est. Peni Oil hired the Burlington Iowa native in California As a delivery Man in 1946, shortly after his discharge from the old army air  a modest Nan and Lack of a College degree Turner worked his Way to the presidency last year the Lail Feather in Hii Cap before a 1987 retirement is his a Horatio Alger Story in a mall Way i guess you could say tint Turners id dooming his own mod Fortune in the context of Pennzoil s Success. He said his to years at the univer sity of Southern California probably would t be enough preparation Tor a Youn adult entering business  need at East a Bachelor s degree today Turner said adding that in Lac Job training helped him. We have a lot of Mas in our company today who Are very helpful to me. And of course by years of association i teamed a lot of what they  he must have paid close attention. After 14  los Angeles where he sold Oil to car dealers on automobile  Turner became a division Man Ager in Denver and later a regional vice president. He worked five More years in los Angeles As sole manager then five at the company s Houston head quarters before winning the president s Job. Turner said executives in the Parent company s production Arm tend to move from one company to another during their Careen but most Pennzoil marketing executives have been at i hair present jobs for decades As he has in. And after 40 Yean Turner still relishes Many Job characteristics which would Wear other people down.-1 dont really Rind Competition hits ii it Timulas my he said. He gets no thrill from working on the Row however. The travelled All Ray life and travelling to me is hard work. It just fighting planes and hotel he married his wife Mary in 1946 after Peputo hired him squeezing in a honeymoon before i lint Day on the Job. In some ways the company was a part Ner in the nutria be a condition his family accepted in the 1960s when Turner began spending half his tune away from Home  was Nevra serious problem wifi a Home  he said of his frequent absences. My wife has Bee virtually an employee of the company for 40years, i think if i were working 9-to-s, re get in a rut think a Ehtle separation is Good for a  he said his most difficult years were the 1950s, when the company was an Independent marketer searching desperate Lylo retail outlets Independent garages car dealerships anything. Sales improved so much m the1960s that the Denver warehouse would run out of Stock. Sometimes on sunday i d go Down and my son would go with me. And have 10 pack  recalled. Both Bis son and i son in Law now work for the company. We Doeier Eise some nepotism in the company but very carefully Turner said 2 million expected at Bremen s Freimark Bremen More than 2 million Vii tors Are expected to attend the Frei Markl one of Germany s oldest and larg est festivals which starts a two week run today. Only the onto Beim in Munich and he hamburger Dom attract More Visi tors than the Freimark. Said a spokeswoman for the City of Bremen. Emperor Conrad it first decreed  in 1035. With few exceptions the festival has been held in late october each year since then. The highlight of the festival i planned for oct. 23 when a carnival Parade will Snake through the Center of Bremen. More than 100 groups arc registered for this year s procession. Participants throw beads to the crowd Ashe human train winds its Way to the festival grounds located behind the main train italian. Ice Cream and Waffle stands Are Amon the 350 concessions spread across More than 320.000 Square feet of ground i front of the Bremen Sla Thalle. Rides in clude a roller coaster that reaches speeds of More than 60 rope. The festival is open daily from noon until 11 . On Friday and saturday. The festival is open until Midnight. The festival ends nov. 2. Aircraft repair techniques honed by Jean Albright Hilton Bora a Tburg a Germany a team from the air font logistics Center came la tie 36lh tac fight Erwin this week for simulated experience in repairing aircraft in  airmen from the 295sth combat Logis tic support so. From . Ga., joined bit Turg repair tarns during exercise. The Ballac dam t repair technicians and aeronautical engineers Many do the same work under different Circum Meta Laid Cape. Donah Cohen director of Maine be for the visiting Squadron. Daring peacetime the technicians train for their wartime Mission by repairing damaged aircraft in the depot depot work is higher Jevel repair than is do neat the Wing structural repair is normally Only done at " jul Marinuk extensive capability to repair Battle a Fify m the Wing level is a fairly recent innovation. Kwh ice Vietnam when the air Force Learned themed to Quick turn aircraft and gel them Back in the b us Battle damage repair been developed to its current Fevel Cohen said. He consider Tilburg s team one of the most advanced in Europe. Their methods of operation observed by the visiting team this week will add to the developing program. Repair technicians and engineers approach a differ ent problem with every damaged plane he said. General purpose technical orders and Normal tech Nical orders for each Type of aircraft guide their work. But no technical orders address All of the things that can happen to a plane in Battle. Often neither Book will Tell us How to fix a specific break Cohen said. The aeronautical Engineer de signs our approach and the technicians go about the repair. During the exercise simulation we May be handed a card thai says the Wing lip thai been blown off. In that Case we d build another tip or hang a new Wing we May find a Shell Hole which will be Small wherein enter and huge where it leaves. There 11 no telling the damage inside so we Are prepared to fix Sheet Metal gears  soviet Antarctic base disappears Moscow u i an unmanned soviet geological base in the Frozen reaches of the Antarctic has Van feed it bout a Trace a official Taw news Agency mid  bib Agency said the base a Yuzhnaya a which Moi coast of the Weddell  Kolh Alan tic Ocean off the tip of South no longer where an expedition left l last Kathleen Reasoner Dies Mew York. Up Kathleen Carroll Reasoner strand the wife of lbs news correspondent Inci. I.  in rtt mis tatti or West Iutva Ivou i i grandchildren. Experiments and equipment left behind also have vanished. The base had been built near the Fishner Glacier one of the largest in Antarctica and soviet scientists believe Glacier activity is responsible for the misting base mystery. The seasonal geological physical base a Yuzhnaya has been lost the station has evidently drifted away on an iceberg that has not been detected so far Tass said. Even soviet satellites Bave railed to Rod the missing base Tass said. A three ship expedition the 32rat launched by the soviet government it preparing a Voyan into the area to Hunt for the missing base and to up apply seven permanently manned soviet stations m the Antarctic. The expedition will be fed by the research ship Mik Hail Slomov which Tail year spent 133 Dayi topped m ice in the to Arctic before being rescued. Military pm Milne Hessen minister president honors 3rd army div band Frankfurt the 3rd Astrid div band received a non Battle Streamer Ifor its contributions to German american relations. Holger Boerner mini Ler Presto pm of the Ger Man slate of Hessen. Presented the award saying he band s Many performances have become Art integral part of the musical life in  the award is. Given once a year to a German military unit for supporting the civilian Community in an exemplary manner. It is the second Lime . Army unit in Hessen has received theaward. 3rd inf div eulogies Gen. Fred 1c Mahaffey Wuerzburg Germany soldiers of the 3rd inf div paid tribute thursday � Gen Fredk. Mahaffey who died of cancer tuesday at the Walter Reed army medical Center. Mahaffey co minded the 3rd inf div from r98ltol983.mal Gen. George r. Slower division com Mander gave the Eulogy at the sender held a the Leighlon Barracks Chapel 3 Usa eur chess experts to compete in Denmark schwetz1ngen. Germany three Cobea experts representing Usa eur will compete inthe ninth nato Chew tournament sunday through Friday in Aalborg Denmark competing for Usa eur will be spec. 4 Wade Regensberg 66th Mico a Teube Ger Many runner up in the army Chest tournament held earlier at fort Hyer a. Pfc. Marmaro Vilch 565lb to. Pin Hueu Germany and sic. David Gavin such. Signal co. Now signal to Camp Darby Italy. I hey i usar flub Rufty prof a  
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