PAUL ENDACOTT

ASSISTANT TO THE April Loy 1938.

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

E-119-38

Dr. F. CS. Alien,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kansas.

Dear Doc:

Wade Green was here to-day and I arranged
for our personnel manager to take him around tc the
four departments that employ engineers so that he could
interview the proper party in each of these departments.
I enjoyed visiting with him also and agree with you that
he appears to have possibilities.

The unfortunate thing about our situation

here at this time is that we built up a very large staff
of engineers in every department last year because of the
32 million dollar expansion program and then this year
without much expansion in the picture we are having to
find places in the gangs for many young engineers. Be-
cause of collective bargaining agreements which are in
effect with practically all of our field employees, we
are fining it practically impossible to put additional
men in these gangs in face of the Company's having laid
off one-thousand employees in the past five months.

Nevertheless, you can never tell in the oil
business when something might open up and with Wade's
application on file and with a few letters from him from
time to time to the parties he interviewed, it is entire-
ly possible that something may be developed for next fall
which is the time he says he would want to get under waye

In the meantime, I will keep my eyes open
also for anything which might fit into the picture.