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CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 17, 1980
Waterloo

Once Rossland’s rival?

Clipping from the Victoria Colonist of Sept. 3, 1896. Courtesy of
British Columbia Archives.

ARIVAL OF ROSSLAND
The Wealthy Waterloo District — a Succession of Most Promising
Mines

a *

over the Montgomery Townsite —

Prospective Legal C
The Apache Camp

Waterloo Landing Aug.,29 - (Special) :

A two days tramp in the mountains:.a steady climb over rocks and
precipl ly gch hrough babbling brooks and across
dry plains with the sand above your boot-uppers, until you gain an
eminence 5,000 feet above sed level and gaze spellbound upon a scene of
grandeur and b y that tches far away’én either angle of vision un-
til It melts away and is lost inthe blue haze that invests and hides from
view the more distant hills... | |’ :

So far as the eye can reach, in this land of glant mountains, height is
piled on height, with here and there patch2s of green, glistening like
emeralds amid a snowy expanse of glacier with Ice-crowned crest, while
the lordly Columt ding its course towards the sea, looks like a thin
silver thread drawn across the horizon. :

The scene Is one not soon to be-forgotten by those privileged to
behold it, and though arduous the task of gaining the summit the toll was
amply repaid by the charms that Nature had prepared for her lovers.

We left Waterloo Landing at, an early hour in the morning. Our
destination was the Apache mountain, in. which the Horne-Payne syn-
dicate and others have acquired several claims and where they have
established o mining camp. The trail zig-zags along the mountainside, the
turns being often sharp and dangerous, ..2!3-":

The mines are being actively tested at many points. Some of the
characteristics of the Rossland district are visible hereabouts, only the
ledges seem a little wider. and perhaps a litter richer. One giant ledge ex-
tends from the base of Waterl in to_its it and is met at
least six times during the roundabout. climb. of these routes. It is
remrerkably well defined and shows the red tron capping’ the entire
length. Voie Ba lee

Several of the claims are said to possess great merit and the rock-at-
tracts and holds the attention of capitalists and experts. Already we hear
that it is the i ion of the top the work all through the
winter: and buildings ere to be built and supplies laid in with that object
in view. Ree an :

Thirty-three Aquanauts —
te attend Provincial meet

The, Castlegar Aqua-
nauts won the Regi

1Swim,

Innes, (first in girls 11. and
12), Sh D (third

meet in Nelson last weekend
and in the process 33° Aqua-
nauts qualified to compete in
the B.C. Provincial meet
Aug. 22 and 28 in Vancouver,

Trail finished in second
place with 363 points. The
winners had 642,

Aquahaut aggregate
winners were: Chris Kinaken

(first in girls eight and’

under), Jason Sch

in girls 11 and 12), Keith
Klimehuck (third in boys 11
and 12), Alexis Walsh (firat in
girls 18 and 14, Jason Leitch,
Mike Berger and Chris Wan-
joff (first, second and third
respectively in boys 18 and
14), Rob McGauley (firat in

: boys 165 and 16), and Grant

Stewart (third in boys 15 and

16).

Many Aquanauts put in
and

(firat in’ boys eight and
under) Lisa Uchida (first in
girls nine ‘and. 10), Doreen

r
h

CLEANING HOUSE in the boys 13 and 14-
year-old category at the Regional Swim
Meet in Nelson last weekend are

strong fe
the improvement continues,
the team may do well in
Vancouver,

couver next

‘ Lise-Anne Abrahamse, Den::;.

Berger (second), Jason Leitch (first) and
Chris Wanjoff. (third).
travel to the Provincial finals in Van-

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ity on the weekend includeY

ise Martin and Jannifer Mair
(girls 8 and under), Shannon
Dunaway (girls 11 and 12), :
Ken Kinaken and Tom Carew
(boys 11 and 12) and Lucl-
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training until next Wednes-
day at which time ‘most!
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The rock is harder near the surface than that of R d, and is of a
finer, closer grain. Some specimens taken from the Lottie and Charleston
groups after shots had been fired are h ly impreg: d P L
copper. Experienced persons say that the indicatigns of rich mines of gold
and copper are favourable, and that even should the rock be of low grade
the ledges are so wide that they will pay handsomely to work. a

The Aaron's Isle group and the Fi have i} howing
are being worked with vigor and abilit:

and
. The specimens taken from these
claims are very handsome and are said to assay high in gold.

Aquanaut swimmers, left to right, Mike

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The return down the steep mountainside was rendered dingly
uncomfortable by the i heat that p iled. The g d was dry
and parched. All the pretty flowers of the high elevations had long since
withered vey bet the drought, and ght but the detestable
fireweed — which would grow in Hades, ! think — remalried to rear Its’
saucy head and look the scorching sun straight in the face. But little game
was seen. One of the party slow a foolhen with a stone and a most accep-
table addition to the menu of bacon and beans it made at the evening
meal.

At Waterloo Landing a very large city might be built. The flat is 40
miles long and several miles in breadth. (Editor's note: This must mean 4
miles long and certainly not several miles in breadth.) The Columbia
River laps the front of the new town of Montgomery, and very little
grading will be required when substantial buildings come to be erected
on the plot. At present there are about 50 id at the Landing
Several log houses have been put up, but the bulk of the inhabitants have
pitched tents. g

A capital meal can be obtained at a restaurant tent which Is conduc-
ted by two married women and at night { stretched my weary limbs on a
spring mattress beneath the folds of a wall tent and enjoyed a most
refreshing rest.

The people at the mines and the Landing are confident of a favorable

Ss I have come to Montgomery prepared to build
substantial hotel and business houses; but a notice cautioning them that
they would be ded as sq has p d the erection of any
but the most temporary structures.

One man | met was felicitating himself upon the prospect of a legal
contest between the three great corporations — the CPR, the Corbin and
Heinze railway interests — with the Horne-Payne syndicate constituting a
. good fourth in the fight. He said that the bond, through some mistake,
was claimed by all three railway companies and that: neither the
Canadian Pacific Railway nor the Corbin panies would recognize the
sale of M y ite. “It'll be strange,” said ho, “if between the
conflicting elements the people do not come into their own again.” —
| left Waterloo strongly eupreteed with the feeling that the district
has a bright future — so bright that In course of time the glories of
Rossland may be eclipsed and the star of empire shed its radiance upon
the new town that is now preparing to nestle at the foot of the Apache’
mountains.

Results from Joy
Keillor Bridge Club

Six tables, with an aver- with 71 and fifth, Judy Good-
age of 67%, participated in win and Bert Tyson ‘with
Monday night's session of the , 0%.

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the following results:

First, Dr. Ken Wagner
and Wayne Wyton with 871;
second, Lorne Musclow and
Chuck Clarkson with 8412;
third, Terry Sabourin and
Hubert Hunchak with 78;
fourth, Jim and Bev Swain

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PEOPLE keep asking me if I
ave any plans for ye rest of
he summer, such a: ‘going on

“trp, renting a cottage;
learnihg to’ scuba-dive or
whatever. To each'and all of
them I have one answer:
“I'm going into a rest home
where nobody under the age
of 50 can get near me."

We've just had a lengthy
visit from our grandboys, the
first. in’ more than six
months, .

If you have any druthers
when your children are ex-
Pecting children, put in an
application for girls.

There is no girl or girls on

earth who could. have put .

their Grandad through the
. Physical obstacle course I've
been through in the past
week, a

"When school ended. in
June, I thought I'd hang
around for one more year be-
fore making way for a real
teacher, I was in pretty good
Shape and another . 10
months in front of the chalk--
board would be no sweat.

This week, I’ve almost
decided to retire on the third
of September. Somehow, ‘I
don't think cither the-author-
ities or the students want an
English department head
cranking around in a wheel
chair,

The bursitis in my shoul-
der is killing me, after throw- .
ing a baseball to a potential
Babe Ruth. for hours. My
right foot is bruised, battered

-and sprained from trying to

prove I can still kick a foot-
ball over a big spruce tree.
My-knees are scraped, my
hands are raw, my torso is
thoroughly pierced from

_ limbing trees to bring down.

small boys who. can get up,
but like cats, can’t get down,
My back door had to be re-

moved and repaired after be-&
ing .slammed - approximately?
3,000 times? by ‘the boys and’;
their bidtlids fip the Street.’’*"

My }fhed-fiss, burnedi::t0:.

lobster-like hue from being *

out in the sun as long as +
seven:hduis at a‘stretch’. The ;
boys never burn. They're |
moving too quickly for the

sun.to hit them a single direct “!.

blow. « Fs ies
I don’t know much about |

girls, I had one about 28

Ynanaert:
you're not prevaricating?

Do little girls eat junk food
all day, then,come home and

+ Babble: down enough dinner

to keep a healthy lumberjack
going?
,Do little girls plague you
‘Calise everyone else on: the
highway is passing you, and
when you tell them the other
drivers are turkeys, suggest

} with a grin that maybe you

area chicken?
Do little girls put on box-

years ago, and she ‘was no
problem until she became a
teenager. The only idiosyn-
racy she had was wanting to
Bo to the bathroom at the
most inopportune, times,
such as sailing along on the
three-lane highway at 60,
with two turkeys, tail-gating
you, and not a tree or bush in -

sight. Me,

But I’m, sure. girls: are not-

is’ possible, go
as fast as possible, lean as far
as they can over a dock or
cliff, and hit each: other ag
hard as they can ‘over the
head with a fist, 'a stick or a
baseball bat, s+
Dolittle girts get all clean-
ed up, dressed up, and then
dash . through the lawn

i
ing gloves and try to hammer _,

the daylights out of each
other; no quarter asked: or
given? ‘

‘Do little girls, the moment
they’ve arrived for a visit,
ask that everything be turned
on: the fireplace (in July), the
hi-fi, the fans, and the lawn
sprinkler? .

Do little girls go’from six
in the morning until nine at
night without stopping in one
place for more than nine
seconds, aside from the odd
four-second pee demanded
by Grandad? ¢
+, Well, maybe little girls are
not as. angelic as I’ve sug-

gested, but little boys are just.

as demonic as I’ve intimated.

In fact, my wife heard at
the hairdresser’s that little
boys are more honest, more

and

af and more’ lov-

frequently? eee
Do little girls go down to
‘the docks with you, ask how
deep the water is, then lean
over at an angle of 65 degrees
to look down and make sure

able than little girls, who of
course, are practising to be
big girls. That may be.
However, I’m about as
bruised, battered, bewildered.
and burnt as though I'd

‘The merit of boys and girls

climbed a moyntain without
any ropes, or crossed a desert
without water, Y
Gran doesn’t take the pun-
ishment I do. Oh, she does a
lot of work. The washing
machine is thumping most of

the day, there isn’t a dry
+ towel in’ the house, she’s

about run out of Band-Aids,
and she spends hours in the
kitchen, whipping up such
delicacies as  honey-and-
peanut butter sandwiches
and strawberry shortcake.

"A sad state whe

CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 17, 1980 :

n regulations.

_ gre more important than people
JOHN CHARTERS’

Reflections &
_Recollections _

By JOHN CHARTERS

T have a theory (as who
doesn't?) that we live: in a
universe which is not only
orderly, but frugal. That is to
say, there {s not only a dis-
cerned pattern to existance,
but that the laws or prin-
ciples which govern that

chilling, and

ve a
application, Thus, for ex-
ample, Newton's famous phy-
sical law of dynamica which
states that ‘every action has
an equal and opposite re-
action,’ has equal

are
for the physically handi-
‘ capped, horrendous. It goes
briefly as follows: :
Mrs. ‘Smith’ who is a:
multiple sclerosis victim, and

in the fields of psychology, |

ethics, religion and soon. The
. Law of the Conservation of

Mass has an .equally. wide

application.“

(Guess who picks the ber-. -

ries?)

She had a whirl in “tte
backyard one. day, batting,-
fielding, being shot with’ the
hose, did nobly, but hasn’t
been out of the house since,
and spent most of the next
day in bed. ot

Thank goodness for good
neighbors. John ‘‘fixeded’*
the car doors when the boys,
through some miracle of
mechanics, had made it im-
possible to: close them. He
also “fixeded’* the sprinkler. -
(Ballind, the little guy, wants
to make-sure the past tense is

“quite clear, so he adds an ex-

tra ‘‘ed"),

Jim, another . neighbor,
fixeded the door, which was
just about to fly: away by it-
self. ae

All’ in all, however, ‘it
hasn't: been too bad, except
for the sleeping.’ arrange-
ments, The boys are peripa-
tetic while somnambulant.
You go to bed in one room, -
alone, wake up at midnight
in another another
toom, three of you, and may
wind up in the morning in
still another, four of you.-

I wouldn’t trade them for
all the Sanianthas and Mary
Ellens and Joannes in the
world. But make me an of-

bed,

( By. ANTHONY J. PARISI
The room is half the

in uninterrupted wainut
and carpeted in quiet lux-
ury. The table is long and
tapered, pieced from six
massive sections of Indian
laurel. The eight men who
sit in the swivel chairs
around it are a blur of blue,
gtay and tan suits,

They are here to make
what for them isa routine
decision involving the ex-
penditure of several hun-
dred million dollars. They
“run the Exxon Corp., the
biggest industrial concern
in the world.

Clifton C. Garvin Jr.,
chairman and chief execu-
tive officer, has entered
the boardroom from one of
the far corners, through a
private door from his ex-
ecutive suite. Howard C.
Kauffmann, president and
No. 2, at Exxon, has a
mirror-image set of offices
on the other side of the
boardroom.

As always, the two
chieftains have taken the
center seats on the long
sides of the boardroom
table, facing each other
and flanked by the six
senior vice presid who

” size of @ tennis.court, lined >

meeting of Exxon's to
management. :
The committee secre-
tary, a polished young man
‘on Garvin's right, presses
one of the buttons on a
control panel in the drawer
in front of his" seat. It
signals an attendant at a

phone and T

which made more money
Inst year on half the rev-
ehues and twice the assets.
(Ma Bell, a-regulated mon-
opoly, is not considered an
industrial concern.)

And the Exxon labor
force of 169,000 people

EXON

console outside that the six

men who' have been wait-

ing there may now enter.

They file in and take as-

signed seats at the ends of
* the long table.

For the next 60 min-
utes, these six empioyees
of the Exxon Chemical Co.
will explain why they think
the corporation should in-

World's big

vest in a major new

have wandered in through
two doors at the other end
of the room. These lead
through anterrooms to the
main corridor beyond
» even there, the sounds of
the street 51 floors below
rarely penetrate. :

In theory, the ultimate
power of a corporation lies
with its board of directors.
In the case of Exxon, the
board consists -of these
eight men, who are em-
ployees, and the 10 men
and one-woman who are
outside directors.

It meets once a month
to review the company’s
activities. But it is the
eight men around this
table, members of what is
known as the management
committee, who really rule
“Exxon, : p

The committee ga-
thers, on the average,
-three mornings a week.
Other than a few aides,

willishow a score of tech-
ni¢al slides to illustrate
wi

plant, what they think are
“the best, worst and most
probable returns that can
be expected from such an
investment — and how po-
litical factors might affect
those returns. :

The Exxon Corp. is al
most ii

plant. They .

hy they want.to build the -

pales beside that of GM
(764,000), GE (405,000) and
other companies where
workers are needed to
shape and assemble the
product. (As a “process”
company, Exxon primarily
requires workers who tend
the pumps, pipelines, dis-
tillation towers and other
costly apparatus that, day

in and day out, recover the

crude oil and process it into.
Fefined products.) .

What may be most
awesome about the Exxon
‘empire ‘is its scope. It
operates, for example, in

nearly 100 countries. Its ,

195 ‘oceangoing tankers,
owned and chartered, con-
stitute a private navy as
big as Britain's. ‘
Even with the latest in

big. Last year, itsrevenues
totaled $84.8 billion — a
figure ‘slightly higher than
the ‘gross national product
of Sweden and somewhat
less than that of Spain. The
net income from those 1979
revenues. came to $4.3
billion, more than the prof-
its of Eastman Kodak;'Du
Pont; Sears, Roebuck;
Procter & Gamble; Xerox
and RCA combined.

- "In the first three
months of 1980, Exxon
made. a profit of $1.9
billion, more than any
other isé has ever

only i
usually attend, though on
this day a writer repre-
senting The New York
Timea sits on the sidelines,
one of the few strangers
ever to witness a formal

earned in a single quarter.

Yet the ‘customary
yardsticks fail with Exxon,
Indeed, by some measures,
the company takes a back
‘seat to American Tele-

lite-directed communica-
tions; how is it possible to
keep so mammoth an en-
terprise running smoothly,
to fit all the far-flung bits
and pieces of this empire
into a profitable pattern?

Exxon has ‘a highly

structured, highly imper-’.

sonal management system,
When such a system be-
comes nothing more than a
sequence of rituals for per-
Petuating itself, a company
grows sluggish and unres-
ponsive. The ailing auto
companies suffer from that
menagement malady. Buta
truly effective manage-
ment structure . ensures
that a company is run col-
lectively, on the theory
that there is strength in
numbers.

‘then they rarély fall badly”

, example, So is Exxon.

- command, but it also-en-

satel- -

but*

pany. However, when all else
fails and given the right set
of circumstances 1; will; like
my ‘numerous confreres, go
all the way — sit down and

: write, as'I did recently while

-crossing the Pacific.

While cramped position
and turbulent atmospheric
conditions were not condu-
sive to the best writing, and
clues to identities have been
eliminated, since the recipi-
ent may not yet have re-
ceived the letter, the facts
and the principle are still
there. I offer then the letter:

The, General Manager,
The XYZ Airlines, Canada.
Dear Sir:

“While travelling with a
tour group in the Philippines
I was made aware of an
incident which I feel you
would wish to know about.
‘The details of the matter are
simple, but the implidations

to a.
wheel chair, left (home city 3

and province) with a tour
group earlier this month for
Baguio in the Philippines,
where she had hoped to get
sonie alleviation of her condi-
tion. On or about the 22 of
July Mrs. Smith left the tour,
and i. company. of a com-
panion flew to Hong Kong via
Manila on the Philippines
“Airlines in order to get a
XYZ flight leaving Hong
Kong the next day.

When she arrived at the~

Hong Kong airport she was
taken by two attendants
through all the necessary
preboarding procedures with
the greatest dispatch since
there was very little time in

which ‘to make the transfer... : «

When, however, she arrived
- at the door ofthe aircraft she
was told by an official that
she could not go aboard
unless she was accompanied
by a companion. When she
asked for an explanation for
this turn of

plead her case, the door
closed and the aircraft took
‘off without her. ‘The official .
did not, apparently, ‘suggest

that she might sign a release, -:

or that a call could be: placed

with the Canadian consul in
Fong Kong; in fact his only -
suggestion was that another
flight would be leaving in two
days and that if she could find
acompanion in that time she
would be: permitted ; to- go,
aboard, ' line
As a result Mrs, Smith
was left without funds,

out friends, without medical”

afd and without the physical
resources: needed in such a
situation .and .in a totally
strange city. Since:-there was
no accomodation for a person
in her condition in the airpoi
she was left’ virtually alone
for six hours inithe’ general
foyersjrar Qin Gish oes
Fortunately, ithe Phill
pines airlines agreed to ty
her. back’ to’ Manila‘ withopt
charge’ where’ she was again

tragedy. We are, however
most concerned that a Can-
adian citizen, travelling on a

aniadian airline could have
been placed under such men-
tal and physical anguish
through the unthinking and
rigid application of regu-
lations. We are concerned
when bureaucracy takes pre-
cedence over the lives of:
citizens, particularly Cana-
dian citizens, and above all

;over the physically handi-

capped who already: have
little enough of resources in-
the battle for survival.
I trust that the airlines
can rise to meet the challenge
of this and future situations
ofa like nature, and hopefully
toset some precedents in the
doing of it. 3
Yours very truly, ete,
The letter was read ahd
counter-signed by all mem-
bers of the tour. Copies will
be sent to the signators and
to several high offices,
The incident in total is

our
(Canadfan):tour whose guide
and di d the

anil iz ple of the
wider application of the law
of actis

butt-cavor-

money for the of a
ticket back to Vancouver,
made arrangements for her
travel; and provided her with *

events she was told that if
anything happened to her
enroute the company could
be held liable for damages.

While she continued to

for' thé return‘to

her’ home provines... . 6; 3°
+ My companions and I are
not concerned solely with
this single cases though it
had ‘the ‘potential’ for ‘real

of unthink-
ing b

ing ‘versus compassionate
caring. The letter itself may
come to nothing, though I
doubt it, for only nothing
comes of nothing, and a
journey of a thousand miles
begins with the first step,

It’s good to be back
home.

The practicality of men’s fashions

Erma

Bombeck .

behind. They endure, GE,
with its enviable record of
steady growth, is a prime

Exxon'’s system per-
meates the corporation. It
provides the overall frame-
work, the formal chain of

courages the informal con-
tacts across boundaries
that are the hallmark of a
collective management. ‘It
gives supervisors substan-
tial automy, but within a
top-to-bottom network of
checks and balances,

And it puts an as-
tonishing emphasis on ex-.
ecutive development, turn-
ing out the Exxon man — a
manager who has repeat-
edly demonstrated to both
his superiors and his peers
that he can do the job well,
and do it the Exxon way.

gest industrial concern

At the top is Clifton
Garvin, the epitome of the

“Exxon man, A chemical

engineer be training, the
58-year-old executive .has
spent his entire profes-
sional life with the com-
pany, 2 ing his way

The dull'thirig about men’s fashions Ia that they're

always so ‘‘practical.’*

‘They always put zippers and buttons in the front of
thelr clothes where they can see to fasten them. They
uever let thelr ankles. see daylight. They always have a
Jacket handy to slip into and cover their stomachs after
they eat. Their styles are controlted by the ‘conservative
party,’’ which has been in power since-they voted out
whita knee socks and satin breeches.-

It was rather predictable that during a recent transit
strike In New York, men started to wear aneakers with
their ‘‘serious suits" to work just to be comfortable when

they walked long distances.

However, the real shocker is that.the strike [a ove!
and men are still wearing their sneakers. | never thought
I'd live to see the day when Prof. Irwin Corey and my

d-sett

would be t fs
With Prof. Corey, it’s an act. With my kusband, It's

a statement against style. He started wearing gym shoes

ten years ago when he began to Jog. ‘Healthy feet are

my Ilfe,"’ he would say dramatically. | went shopping

with him just once for a pair of running shoes. With three
more days, he could have created a world. We saw the
Inner sole dissected . . . the construction blue-print of the

hee! . .. the stress areas diagrammed. We
them in mirrors, in a crouching

J locked at
position: and:under: an.

X-ray machine. He paid more for them than our wedding
pictures. He never takes them off. . _ :

It's Ike traveling with Woody Allen. He walks Into a
room and just In case no one notices he's wearing blue

sneakers with an.18-Inch optic yellow cushioned tongue
and grip-fast shoestrings with a star on each heel with a
dress suit, he calls attention to it. “Yes, these little
babies have carried these legs ever the finish line at

Boston, San Diego and Phoenix," ete. é
i think there's more to it than Just ‘‘comfort."’ I think

“‘conservatives’’

are once again flexing their muscles

and saying, ‘'I’m sick of being told by my mother, my

wife and my employer to w

being told | have to wear a tie to be dressed up or a coat
to be allowed to eat dinner in a restaurant with valet

parking. From here on In,
want, and where | want.””

ear, ‘hard’ shoes. I'm sick of

1 wear what | want, when'l

. me t
related affiliates, are or-
genized according to. geo-
graphy; they include Esso
Middle East, Esso Europe
and Exxon U.S.A. the
largest of them all. (Out-
side the United States, the

company still-uses the old
Esso trademark from its
early days as the Standard
Oil Company of New Jer-
sey.) * Ree
The non-oil affiliates
include Exxon Chemical,
il for the cor-

up ‘through the system —
managing a refinery, hold-
ing down headquarters

_ Staff jobs, running the

company's chemicals bus-
iness, He got the top post
in 1976, at

A gruff but personable
sort who speaks his mind,
Garvin is nonetheless a
consummate pragmatist.
Narrowly defined, his goal
is clear, to see that Exxon
makes money, but in a
broader sense, he must

‘also see to it that the
organization keeps adapt-
ing ‘to the changing en-
vironments in which it op-
erates,

The management com-
mittee runs the sprawling
Exxon empire more o7 less
the way Rome governed its
far-flung holdings. Exxon’s
resources are concentrated

Poration’s chemical busi-
ness worldwide; Exxon
Enterprises, which handles
the company’s budding line
of office equipment and
other new products, and
the Reliance Electric Com-
pany, the motor manufac-
turer purchased last year.

The heads of the 13
affiliates oversee their ter-
ritories like provincial gov-
ernors, sovereigns in their
own lands but with an
authority stemming from
the power center in New
- York. The

-up what might be €hought
of as Exxon's Cabinet. In.
- addition to watching over
such ancillary ‘activities as
corporate planning, law
aud public affairs, they ad-
vise the affiliates on such

functions as crude oil pro-
duction, refining or mar-
keting.
‘ The governors in the
field may d far

would be asked to hold off,
even though, from its par-
ticular point of view, a new
refinery was needed to
serve its market.
Probably the most im-
Portant of the 17 ‘staff

functions is that of the in-
vestment advisory commit-
tee. Unlike the others, .it is
headed by a member of the

greater resources with
their 18 operating affili-
ates, but the Cabinet offi-
cers gain'a special auth-
ority from their proximity

- to the real seat of power.

Allthrough the Exxon
system, checks and bal-
ances are built in. Each
fall, the presidents of the
13 affiliates take their
-plans for the coming year
and beyond to New York
for review at a meeting
with the management com-
mittee and the staff vice
presidents,

. The goal is to get a
perfect corporate fit. Some

it

* self, Jack F. Bennett. A

steely man who rarely
cracks a smile, Bennett
stands at a critical check-
point in the Exxon process.

An affiliate’s authority
to make an extra
expenditure varies, but
typically the limit is $5
million. Beyond that, to $25
million, the president of
the affiliate must have the
approval of the member of
the management commit-
tee who oversees his oper-
ations; he, in turn, usually
seeks the advice of the in-
vestment advisory commit-
tee.

committee exacts its tri-
bute (the affiliate’s profits
from current

'y The’
committee might decide
that Exxon is b too

i of over
$25 million must go to the

in A i

and issues doles (the
money needed to sustain
and .expand those oper-
ations).

There is, in addition,
another layer of authority
of 17 staff de-

in 18 oper-
ating companies, or affili-
ates.

"The majority, the oil-

, partments centered in

New York. The vice presi-
dents who run them make

and recommend that Esso
Eastern move more slowly
on that continent. Or it
might conclude that if the
affiliates were to build all
the refineries thiy are
Proposing, they would cre- -
ate more capacity than the

That means they must first
be reviewed by Bennett's
committee, regardless of
where they originate with-
in the corporate structure.
When a formal proposal
reaches New York, it runs
the gantlet again as the
staff re-examines all the

pany could p ly
use. One of the affiliates—

tions,

and calcula.

x Ta,

The system does not
guarantee that good people
won't leave, one longtime
Exxon employee admitted,
but it minimizes it. Like its
major competitors, Exxon
has been losing alot of
geologists to small com-
panies hoping to cash in
on the current drilling

” boom in the United States.

The small companies are
offering not only high pay
but a piece of the business,
and no corporate system:
can counter that,

People will also leave
the company, the employee
said, simply because there
is only so much room at the
top. The system inten-
tionally breeds more top
managers than the organ-
ization can use, to assure
an adequate supply, and
some will simply decide to
go elsewhere as they see
the pytamid narrowing to-
ward the top.

senior vice-president and
member of the board, who
left the company two-and-
a-half years ago, at 54
years of age, and became
chairman and chief execu-
tive officer of the Kenne-
cott Copper Corp.

But Exxon people
tend to stay Exxon people. .

Each year, it makes
investments in 18 affiliated
companies that are expec-
ted to return that money
Plus a suitable profit.
Those that can show they -
can make more with more,
get more. Those that can-
not, do not. It is just that
simple, and just that com-
plicated.

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