r:EJ'W\'"J?, Colo,, Jun<, 24 -- Retirement of Harry W Hooper of Scottsbluff., Nebr • ., eesist.ant general ~erintendent of The Great Western Sugai.'" Comr::,ny., and ooneolidation of tlle company• a operating d:1.str1ct; with increased 1•eaponefl:.d.l ttte~, 'for Co H. Cri3Wel l Fmd JI. L. B'.artbm-,g., d1atr1ct super11tcmdents.s, was an:aounced toda.,y by Frank AG Kemps ·p1-eaider.:t,
Komp said Roope?' wi.1.l retire October l "after forty-five years of able and
dis-tinguished service including more th.a,~ tnirty-two years as aeststant general superintendent." Boru and educated in Caro, M1chlr.;e.n, ffooper ent.ered the ba<
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augur industry in Michigan, then came to (!olorado to work f'or the Fort Collins Su.gar Compan:· during its first campaign in1904.
Thie was one ofthe companiea :tnco:rporated in the Grea1 , Western group in1905.
Hooper spent t-w13lve years at Fort Cc•lline whore he a6l"Ved a.a SU?1erintendent for ·the legt, five yea.Y's, He went to Loveland ne euperint,mdant in1916
and ~,as transferred to Scotts-bluff e.s aeeistu.nt ganare.1 superintendent in 1917, with increaa '.ng reB'p0ns1b1lit1es which oam.e to innludo o:pera~1r.g 8UJ1erv1s1on of. all Nebrasll:.a, Wyoming and Montana :f'actor1en of t,10 001;1pan,,v, Many technical a.dvancea in 81.'.gar processing are cvedtted "to Hooper~With Hoop'3'1"' s ret:..rement, the oom:par.;.y0
3 tlu~ee operating cl via:1one ure to be
con-aolidtrl,ed into t.~o diat:r~ct o:r.•ganiz·it1onr-;o The f'iret, or south rn tUetriot, under
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H.C11i8\well, d:tstricrt ou1ie1 tntandent, will include Colo:rado fact.or.1.ss ot Eaten, Greeley., ;~inda::.ir, Fort Co'-1.ins, LoveJ.and, Longmont., 1·)hnstown~. °B.'l"igbton, lt'ort Lupton, Fort Morgan end BrttRh.
7h.e second, or no:rthen1 d1atr1.i:,t.,, und.er H. L. Ha.rtburg, d1etrtct superintendent, will include i'e.ctories at Ste:-.rling and Ovid., Colorado, tte Nebraska : actor1ee at Scotta·blutt·J Gel'.•ing_, Beya:rd and Mitchell, the W;y.)ffl.iD.g f'actoriea ct Wheatland. and J.,(>Vell and 'the Billinga_, Mont Q , factory.
Vice P'.r.esident A. A, Clar.k -will announco the effective di te of t.hesa conaolide.tions
prior to the beet-alicing aam.paign; rn.ean:wh:ile operat.ing procedm-e -wUl continue under the
HARRY W. HOOPER
