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Show Glen Heaton , Retires After 43 Year Career A 43 year carreer' with standard Oil of California will come to a close March 1, when Cedar City's Glen Heaton retires. Heaton began his career j with the company in 1925 as I a transporter for the oil com- pany and since 1937 has i served as a distributor for the j Cedar City district. I During that period of time I many changes have occured j in the oil industry, Heaton j noted. When he first joined j the company his principal re- j sponsibility was that of taking : gas and oil products from j train units in Cedar City and ; transporting them to bulk j plants in Cedar City, Alton J and St. George. "At that time all gas and oil products came out of California. Cal-ifornia. There was no refinery operations in northern Utah at that time," he said. First major change was the establishment of distributorships distributor-ships by Standard Oil and that has been followed by a change in products handled from an original prominence of gasoline to one of heating fuel today. While distributing to a bulk plant at Alton in the early days Heaton reminisced a total to-tal usage of 380,000 gallons per year at that plant. Today many service stations will ut- ni&e more than that amount, he said. Heaton maintains several interests and upon his retirement retire-ment from Standard Oil hopes to devote more time to those interests as well as catch up on a number of recreational activities such as fishing. Succeeding Heaton as operator oper-ator of the Cedar City Distributorship Distri-butorship will be Bob Cooper, a former Standard Oil Company Com-pany employee and a native of Fillmore. Cooper operates a distributorship distribu-torship in St. George at the present time and he and his family will move to Cedar City in the near future to pursue pur-sue his newly acquired interests inter-ests here. He is married and he and his wife, Claudine, have three sons, Kelly, Craig, and Tommy and a daughter, Lisa. Personnel of the Cedar City plant will remain the same under the new management consisting of Ernest Macfarlane, Macfar-lane, Gordon Sorenson, and Rex Maxwell with Loren Whetten to continue as bookkeeper book-keeper for the distributorship. |