The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-05-01
FORMER PARIS BOY
GETS MERITED PROMOTION

The Rochester IN. " Express, of a
recent date, has an account of the pro
motion of former Partisan, Lucier
Buck, who has been elevated to a
hne position by the Parana Paper
Company, with headquarters in Bra
I'll.
! Mr.. Buck is a son of Mrs. Evelyn P
Buck, of Paris. and 2 brother of Mrs
John Yerkes, of this city. lis father
the late DR.. o. H. Buck, was one OF
Bourbon's best known and most sue
cessful physicians.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Buck arrived in Paris
yesterday for brief visit with the
formers mother, Mrs e. P. Buck, and
his sister, Mrs. John Ye-kes, on Pleas
ant Street, before departing for their
new home in Brazil.
! The notice as published in the Ro-
chester Express follows:
! 'Lucien Buck, purchasing engineer
for the Eastman Kodak Company, with
headquarters in this city, has resigned
to become general manager of the Pa
rama Paper Co., with headquarters in
Curityba, Parana, Brazil. The mill,
which Mr.. Buck will design in part
and build, will be located at Morretes.
not far from Curityba. Mr.. Buck leaves
the Eastman Company to-day, but will
remain in this city until April 1st,
when he will remove 10 New York
and about June list, accompanied by
Mrs. Buck, will sail for Brazil. They
will reside in Curity5a.
Born ard reared in the Blue Grass
region of Kentucky, Mr.. Buck is an
honor graduate OF the Millersburg
Military Institute, and a graduate of
the College of Mechanical and Elec
trical Engineering of the University OF
Kentucky. After graduation Mr.. Buck
was engaged for several years in civil
engineering, including street, water
works and sewer construction and
maintenance, and as division transit
man on maintenance and conStruc.
ton with the Louisville and Nashville
railroad in Alabama. He was also
with the United States government on
the improvement of the Mississippi, as
assistant engineer in topographic, hy-
geographic and right-of-way work.
while making operation maps and
timber surveys for one of the large
pulp companies about ten years ago
Mr.. Buck became interested in the
manufacture of paper. He has made
a special study of the subject ever
since, and in responsible charge of
maintenance and engineering has been
with some of the largest pulp and
paper manufacturing companies in
the United States. Immediately be-
fore coming to Rochester, Mr.. Buck
was chief engineer of the Champion
Fibre Company, whose mills near
Asheville, n. c., are the largest in the
South.
I'm 1913 Mr. Buck entered the en-
ploy of the Eastman Kodak Com
pany as special engineer in charge of
the design and construction of the
Company's experimental paper mill at
Kodak Park, and for three years has
been purchasing engineer for the en-
tire company. With a wide acquain-
tonce and enviable reputation in the
paper trade, Mr.. Buck has lectured ser-
eral times in this city and elsewhere
on the manufacture or pulp and paper.
In the recent convention number OF
Paper one of the technical journals
in the trade, Mr.. Buck had an exhauS-
tive article on IN manufacture of
paper.
The Parana Paper company, OIL
which Mr.. Buck is to be the general
manager and in which he is a stock
holder, is composed of several large
paper manufacturing interests in New
York and Boston. He will have charge
of the construction OF the company's
mill at Morretes. and will be its man
ager after completion.
1.-The position is considered impor
tant, as it involves the manufacture or
a large scale of paper from a hitherto
unused fibrous material. That the
can be so utilized has been
demonstrated in a small mill that has
been in operation for some time. The
supply of the raw material is said to
be practically ineXhaustible. The
product will be disposed Of
almost wholly in the South American
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