Page 1 of 2
Regular Session, 2013 ENROLLED
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 140
BY SENATOR WARD
A RESOLUTION
To commend James Douglas Holden for his long and enduring achievements and
remarkable contributions.
WHEREAS, James Douglas Holden has been married to the love of his life,
Henrietta Michelli, for seventy-one years; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Holden is the father to three wonderful sons and grandfather to
seven precious grandchildren; and
WHEREAS, he served his country with honor in the United States Navy during
World War II; and
WHEREAS, he was a pilot for twenty years and earned his commercial pilot's license
although he never worked for a commercial airline; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Holden used his expertise in aviation to judge aircraft aerobatic
competitions throughout the United States; and
WHEREAS, he built and flew an experimental kit plane out of fiberglass; and
WHEREAS, throughout Mr. Holden's life and career, he designed and developed
many inventions, including an air injected pressure cooker used by Kentucky Fried Chicken
to cook chicken at a high temperature while injecting steam pressure which allowed chicken
to brown, stay moist and tender, and prevent it from burning at a high temperature; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Holden developed retention band ring type gas and oil burners and
designed the machine that used steam injection on women's nylon hosiery to hold its shape;
and
WHEREAS, he also developed ground level ignition for gas flares, as well as the
tubular air heater used to dry lumber in kilns; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Holden developed a metering device for filling containers with
semi-solid material and also developed a flange pack used to assemble the steel pipes on the
Alaska oil pipeline and is still used today; and SR NO. 140 ENROLLED
Page 2 of 2
WHEREAS, he built furnaces which could anneal tubes used for toothpaste and fill
those tubes at one per second; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Holden developed an incineration process that burns plastic
insulation off of copper wires which allows the copper to be re-used; and
WHEREAS, he also developed the process, and furnished the steam boilers, used to
remove the unpleasant odor from soybeans; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Holden furnished the start-up boilers for nuclear power plants in
middle Tennessee and Paducah, Kentucky, and developed and built the ovens employed to
cook the drying agent used in oxygen tanks; and
WHEREAS, James Douglas Holden merits a special measure of commendation for
his numerous achievements and remarkable contributions, and for the tremendous pride that
he brings to his friends, family, and community.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend James Douglas Holden for his long and enduring achievements and
contributions and does hereby extend to him every good wish for continued success,
prosperity, and happiness in the future.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
James Douglas Holden.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE