Evening star., 1950-05-25
4D.C. Area Employees
Cited For Service in
Agriculture Bureaus

Fourty-four Washington area
employees Of the Agriculture De-
partment were among the 11S
workers cited for outstanding
service or long employment at
ceremonies today at the Monu-
ment grounds.
The annual department pre-
sentation was made by Agricul-
ture Secretary Brannan. followed
by an address by Vice President
Barkley.
In addition, the first w. A.
Jump Memorial Award to an out
standing administrator in Fed
eral service was presented by
Daniel w. Bell, president of the
American Security and Trust Co.
and chairman of the memorial
fund trustees. 1t went to Philip
Caldwell, deputy director of the
Procurement Policy Division. Of
flee of Naval Materiel of the Navy
Department.
Awarded Gold Medals.
Gold medals and certificates of
the Agriculture Departments dis
tinguished service award went to
the following:
Miss Lucy M. Alexander of the
Bureau of Human Nutrition and
Home Economics, DR.. Charles E.
Kellogg and DR.. Max A. Mccall, /
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils
and Agricultural Engineering, and
Lyle F. Watts, Forest Service.
Group awards for distinguished
service also went to the Economic
Geography and Graphics Section
of Washington and the Volatile
Flavor Concentrate Group of
Wyndmoor, Pa.
Superior Service Awards.
Silver medals and certificates
of the Superior Service Award
went to the following Washington
area workers:
David M. Adison, Rural Electri-
fication Administration: Lyle T.
Alexander, Plant Industry, Soils
and Agricultural Engineering;
Miss Lenor M. Benik and Robert
Bier, Production and Marketing
Administration; Mrs. Lillian B.
Birdwell, Rural Identification Ad-
ministration; Walter H. Conway,
Extension; William L. Evans,
Production and Marketing; Paul
Froelich. Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.
Also, George r. Greenbank, Bu-
reau of Dairy Industry; Miss
Louise M. Kruger, Budget. and
Finance; Wolf I. Ladejinsky, Office
of Foreign Agricultural Relations;
Carroll K. Mingle, Bureau of AMI
NAL Industry; Lane A. Moore,
Dairy Industry.
Also, Glenn B. Robson, Rural |
Identification; George P. Sand
ers. dairy industry; Miss Edna c.
Selander, Office of Experiment |
Stations; Miss Margaret M. Sin
kula, Production and Marketing;
c. D. Stein, Animal Industry;
Walter A. Stroud, Production and
Marketing, and Kenneth F. War;
ner, Animal Industry.
Groups Get Citations.
Washington groups receiving
citations were the cheese investi- |
cation group, Bureau of Dairy In
dustry. and the group engaged in
revising indices of prices, Bureau
OF Agricultural Economics.
Among the awards for length
OF service in the department, only
one employe was cited for service
of more than SO years. He was
Joseph H. Stevenson, artist and
head of the Illustrations Unit of
the Office of Information, who en-
tered the service as a messenger in
the Mckinley Administration.
The following Washington area
employees received awards for 40
or more years of service:
Elmer E. Doolan, George A.
Duthie, Reginald G. Hainsworth, II
Ralph Hoagland, Joseph Jacobs,
L. A. Jones, Robert L. Kause,
Charles F. Kinman, William Kirk
sey, Alfred r. Lee. Raymond E,
Marsh, Oscar r. Matthews, Dana
Parkinson, Henry E. Platt, Sievert
A. Rohwer, Francene E. Sizer,
Thomas E. Snyder, Raymond j.
Wier and Claude R. Wright.