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- Paul_G._Blazer abstract "Paul Garrett Blazer (September 19, 1890 – December 9, 1966) was President and CEO of Ashland Oil and Refining Company (Ashland, Inc.) located in Ashland, Kentucky.In 1924, Blazer was hired as general manager of the Catlettsburg, Kentucky refinery and later promoted to president of the Ashland Refining Co., a division of the financially shaky Swiss Oil Company of Lexington, KY. At the time of his hire, the company was purchasing the small refinery in northeastern Kentucky where the Big Sandy River joins the Ohio River. The refinery had a capacity of 1,000 barrels a day and had been losing money since its construction in 1916. After making repairs and purchasing some new equipment, the refinery soon had output of 500,000 barrels a year and sales of $1,300,000.The liberally educated Blazer, with impressive mathematical and analytical skills, set the tone of the informal organization. Blazer was six foot, four inches tall. He seldom used his office to discuss matters with his subordinates and visited them instead in their offices or work areas on his regular walks around the refinery and the company's facilities. The annual company all employees Family Christmas Party at the Ashland National Guard Armory and the all employees Family Picnic at Camden Park (amusement park) in Kenova, West Virginia became company trademarks in the community. At the Christmas Party, each family member received an individualized present from Santa. Blazer also recognized early on that community education opportunities and inexpensive river transportation were going to be important to Ashland's growth.Ashland Refining Co. grew rapidly through both internal expansion and acquisitions including Union Gas and Oil Company (1925), Tri-State Refining Company (1930), and Cumberland Pipeline Company (1931).By 1933, Ashland Refining Company owned more than 1,000 wells, 800 miles of pipelines, bulk distribution plants in twelve cities, service stations, river transportation terminals and river equipment. In 1936, under Blazer's leadership the Company ownership changed from Swiss Oil to the Ashland Oil and Refining Company shareholder group in Ashland, KY. Blazer was appointed Chief Executive Officer.Blazer's success as manager was recognized by major stock holders. They gave him the power to run Ashland as his own operation, though at no point during his tenure as Chief Executive Officer (1936-1957) did he own a controlling interest in the company.Two of his early changes were offering employees sick leave with full pay and in 1947 the introduction of an employee profit-sharing plan, which made Ashland Oil and Refining Company one of the first companies in the region to offer such benefits. Blazer also started the well known tradition of having local Greenup County educator and internationally acclaimed author Jesse Stuart open each annual meeting with a story, a poem, or a bit of humor.After World War II, Ashland teamed with Sperry Corporation to develop the introduction of radar on commercial river vessels and teamed with various shipyards to develop the integrated tow. The "jumbo" tank barge of 195 ft. by 35 ft. became the industry standard. Ashland was growing from a small eastern Kentucky refinery into a Forbes 500 company by relying on barges to bring in crude oil and deliver refined products to independent marketers. In the process, Ashland soon operated the nation's largest inland towing fleet and in 1953 the Port of Huntington-Tristate West Virginia (Kentucky and Ohio) exceeded Pittsburg as the busiest port on the waterway After WWII, Ashland Oil & Refining Company's acquisition activity picked up with Allied Oil Company (1948), Cleveland and Lakeland Tankers (1948), Aetna Oil Company (1949), Freedom-Valvoline Company (1950), Frontier Oil of Buffalo (1950) and National Refining Company (1950) joining the Ashland family.).By 1953, Ashland Oil and Refining Company had 3,518 miles of crude oil pipelines, 252 miles of product lines, six refineries processing an average of 124,000 barrels a day, operated nine tow boats on the inland waterways, and owned over 100 barges.Although still involved as Chairman of Ashland's Finance Committee and Executive Committee, Paul G Blazer stepped down as Chief Executive Officer in 1957.Louisville Refining Company was purchased in 1959. United Carbon was purchased in 1963.According to the author of The Exception, Otto J. Scott, in November 1966 Scott inquired about the 1936 ownership change. Blazer invited Scott to come to his Scottsdale, Arizona home in January 1967 to hear the story. Blazer died in December 1966.At the time of Blazer's passing, Ashland Oil and Refinery Company Inc.'s sales had grown to $699,000,000.In 1968, the company's sales surpassed $1,000,000,000. In 1970, the company's name was changed to Ashland Oil, Inc. and in 1995, to Ashland Inc.".
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