PAUL ENDACOTT July 30, 1958.

ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT

E-221-58

Dr. F. ©. Alien,

Director of Physical Education,
University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Doc:

This morning, upon receipt of your letter regarding
George Darrow, I did some checking up to find out something
more about his work with the Company. I find that he has been
on duty for only a little over a year, having started originally
with the Production Department at Oklahoma City, subsequently be-
ing transferred to the Construction Department there. His job
in Kansas recently was a result of his being "loaned" to Standish
Pipe Line Company, our crude oil subsidiary, to work for ir. E. V.
Kile, Superintendent, while Kile's regular employees were taking
their vacations. 1 find that Darrow, in the past few days, has
been returned to the Construction Department as a result of the
completion of Standish Pipe Line's vacation schedule and he
apparently is now en route to a construction job on a polymeriza-
tion plant being built at Judkins, West Texas, near the Southeast.
corner of New Mexico.

From the above, it is obvious that he has been shifted
about eonsiderably and it is rather a surprise that he has been
able to weather the storm in the face of the release of approxi-
mately 1500 employees since last July, most of whom naturally were
employees of short past service record.

You have asked what the Company's policy is as to an enm-
ployee keeping his seniority when he goes to school. The group in
which he is working covers such points under the provisions of a
collective bargaining contract which the Company has with this
group. Considered with seniority, however, is the ability of the
employee which sometimes accounts for the employee's progress not
necessarily being correlated directly with seniority provisions.

In Darrow's case, it would be necessary for him to handle
his plans with his direct supervisors in the Construction Depart-
ment. I note thet he had intended talking to Kile. The work in