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...Menk, 47, will leave the $100,000-a-year presidency and board chairman ship of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. to take over as president and chief executive of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., succeeding Harry C. Murphy, who is retiring at 73. Jack E. Gilliland, 56, who has been a vice president of the Frisco since 1958, will move up to become its president and chairman...
...Gilliland made his own contribution to the Frisco's good profit picture in the late 1950s, when he coordinated the road's industry-leading development of two-and three-decker automobile carriers. Last year the Frisco hauled 250,000 cars and trucks on tracks that run through nine states (but come no closer to San Francisco than Floydada, Texas...
Like Menk, Gilliland looks to computers as a vital tool for further streamlining operations. The management itself is already streamlined. Frisco executives are young (average age: 45). Gilliland started as an office boy for the Santa Fe when he was only 14 and, despite five years of night school, never earned a college degree. These days most future Frisco executives come to the railroad straight out of college...
GEORGE COTTON GILLILAND Colonel, U.S.M.C...
...Gilliland is truly correct with her statement, "Isn't it a wonderful living memorial?" When she speaks of the donation of her husband's and children's eyes to medical science [Aug. 30]. I am seeing through someone's "living memorial...