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Show ilEIITAL I ENLARGES STIFF Two Departments Added to General Offices at Denver. C. !. Strong of Denver, secretary-treasurtr secretary-treasurtr of the Continental Oil company, com-pany, is to be made a vice president o: the company October 1, It was announced yesterday. George F. Smith, assistant se :retary-:rea?urer, former'.;,- in the offices of-fices o' the Sa.t Lake division, will assume as-sume Mr. Siror.g's position. To handle t he business more effectively, effective-ly, two new de'-'arfnents have been added to the general o: fives a: Denver, the e.is'.edn dt-ranrr.ent including Colorado, Wyom i:iEj and New Mexico and the western west-ern department con.istlntc of I'tah. Idaho and Montana. -J. M. ilol lister, manager of the Pv."Ar division, will become sales manager of the eastern department and C. W. fiiield, manager of the trait Lake division, will become sales manager of the western department. Other promotions include that of John T. Strontr, assistant manager of the t-alt Lake division, to Mr. Fi field's position, and T. A. Thurman, district superintendent superinten-dent at Proco, to assistant manager of the Salt Lake division. V. E. Hird. formerly for-merly of Koswell, N. M., and J. M. Scifers, district superintendent at Pocatello, will aio enter the Salt Lake office as assistants. as-sistants. Since it.? organization thirty-five years zso the Continental Oil company has trrown from a small concern to an industry indus-try operating in six states. It has five division offices and plants, -125 supply stations, sta-tions, and a distributing system which offers the city dealer, country merchant, mining company and rancher equally efficient ef-ficient service. The present enlargement and strengthening strength-ening of its executive department is done that it might more effectively serve iU patrons with commodities that are essential essen-tial to the development of the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain states. |