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                                                                Exhibit 24.1




                                    POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them full
          power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing 
          requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and 
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby 
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or 
          cause to be done by virtue thereof.        
                    
                  

          May 12, 1994                              /s/ Leonard M. Carroll
                                                    ---------------------------
                                                      Leonard M. Carroll
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to 
          file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents 
          and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof.                                   



          May 12, 1994                              /s/ Conrad A. Conrad
                                                    ---------------------------
                                                      Conrad A. Conrad
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof. 



          May 12, 1994                              /s/ Laurel Cutler
                                                    ---------------------------
                                                      Laurel Cutler
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof.
                          


          May 12, 1994                              /s/ Homer M. Ellenburg
                                                    ---------------------------
                                                      Homer M. Ellenburg
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof.
                          


          May 12, 1994                              /s/ C. Fred Fetterolf
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                                                      C. Fred Fetterolf
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof. 



          May 12, 1994                              /s/ Thomas A. Gardner
                                                    ---------------------------
                                                      Thomas A. Gardner
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof. 



          May 12, 1994                              /s/ H. Bryce Jordan
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                                                      H. Bryce Jordan
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof. 



          May 12, 1994                              /s/ W. Craig McClelland
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                                                      W. Craig McClelland
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof. 



          May 12, 1994                              /s/ Delbert J. McQuaide
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                                                      Delbert J. McQuaide
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                               POWER OF ATTORNEY



                    KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
          constitutes and appoints Herbert M. Baum and Gerald W. Callahan, and
          each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
          agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
          undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any
          and all capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8
          relating to 1,250,000 shares of Capital Stock, par value $1.00 per
          share, of Quaker State Corporation which may be issued under the 1994
          Stock Incentive Plan of Quaker State Corporation, and any and all
          amendments thereto (including post-effective amendments), and to file
          the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in 
          connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 
          granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them 
          full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and 
          thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and
          purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby
          ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents 
          or any of them, or their or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause
          to be done by virtue thereof. 



          May 12, 1994                              /s/ Raymond A. Ross, Jr.
                                                    ---------------------------
                                                      Raymond A. Ross, Jr.