The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1946-01-23
FROM WASHRACK TO
STATION MANAGER

an NiiOSt dbilil9 W ltdiil buSihc'
thoroughly proves worth to Por
land chain operator when broke
leg takes him off job, and ga
lonage drops.
This is Stan Speaking.
Stanley Jordan. manager {
Bozeman's Standard Station, N,
2 Portland, wasn't Acknowledged
he was Mister" Jordan. We ha
just phoned him for an appoint
ment. Naturally. We asked for Nj
Jordan. But the soft-spoken Gu
tured voice that came back owe
the wire implied there was no MI
Jordan. He was just Stan.
And Stan it was with everybod
who drove up to the pumps o
dropped into the station durin
our visit with the modest, cour
teous station manager. AS our &C
quaintance ripened, we understood,
why STAINS affability rated sucl
high praise from L. f. Boezman
head of both Bozeman STANDARD
Stations and the Merchants Mo
torcycle Delivery Co.
We understood. too, how vol
ume at Station No. fell off NOR,
than 40 per cent during STAINS 4
months lay-off as a result of {
broken leg suffered while on the
job. For with Stan away, and with
due respect to attendants who
came and went in the interim
folks missed both STAINS never.
failing smile and his skilled work.
manship.
Specifically, the unit was doing
5000 gallon monthly volume
when STAINS accident occurred
Four months later gallonage was
down to 5000. Faced with dwin-
ding volume, Bozeman felt
obliged to get Stan back on the
job before the compound fracture
in STAINS. left leg was wholly
healed. Just to have Stan sitting
in the station where folks could
see him. Bozeman figured, would
help to hold the drifting Gus
toners.
In the course of two weeks or so
after his return, Stan was on trial
of faces formerly seen at the is
land. Believed to be the only col
ored manager of Standard sta
ton in the country, Stanley Jor-
dan, of Portland, is convinced that
careful attention to prewar serv-
ices like polishing windshields
will give stations preferential GUS
toner rating after the war. When
Stan started lubricating cars he
always worked on he rear end
while the station manager worked
up front. Now that's all changed
since many of the customers in
sist that Stan work on their cars.
GRANGE to Make Good
Here was an undreamed chal-
lenge. To Stan, as he told us.
Those were fighting words. l
realized that Mr.. Bozeman saw in
me a capacity for making some
thing out of myself. l wanted that
chance when I went on the wash
rack-and here it was. II Mr..
Bozeman figured had the ability,
I would try to measure up to it, l
decided"
That Stan has done good job
is proven by the fact that the sta
tons volume climbed month by
month until its new manager met
with the misfortune mentioned
earlier in the story. In fact, II
wasn't long after Stan took over
until the growing business neces-
STATED addition of a third man.
Which of the two, Bozeman OF
Stan, holds the other in the high.
er esteem We can't figure. For Ger.
tainly the former had any number
of kind things to say about Port
lands only colored man who II
managing a service station. AS fol
Stan. he sums it up like this: Il
the world were filled with Mr.
Bozemans, there would nevel
have been a World War II.
What Stan will be doing in thu
years to come We wouldn't pre-
dict. But this ambition hasn'
stopped with his present niche; OF
the contrary, he's looking forward
to a day when he can return t
the university of Idaho to com
plete a course in business admin
istration which was interrupted
when he was called to the colors
Stanley Jordan is the son o
Mrs. Ola Reed in Sc. Tibbetts
with whom he and his recen
bride makes their home.
This story of STAINS skyrockete'
success and achievement was on
of several current events given a
the Roebud Study Clubs Januar,
meeting plus an informative re
port on public affairs as given b.
the clubs public affairs chair
man, Mrs. Mary M. Duncan.