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Argus Family June GraduatesANN ARBOR HIGH SCHOOL

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DONNA KEARNEYdaughter of

Berniece (CameraAssembly)

DORIS FITZdaughter of

Ernest Wilson(Maintenance)

DOUGLAS PITTMANson of

Delia (CameraAssembly)

CAROL SUESCHNEEBERGER

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DICK EASTMANBrighton Highson of Glenn

(Tool Room, Nights)

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As you know, all Argus employes received an increase on June 1.Because the Annual Improvement Factor on which this increase isbased was adopted a number of years ago, it might be helpful toreview the reasoning behind it.

Any improvements in tools, methods, processes and equipmentenable a progressive company to produce more with the sameamount of effort from its employes. By giving employes this an-ual increase, the company passes on to them direct benefits fromtechnological improvements.

Actually, the employes benefit in another way, also. Increasedor more efficient production makes the company more competitiveand helps to achieve steady employment.

COMPETITION IS KEEN

At this time it is particularly important that Argus keep in afavorable competitive position. Perhaps many of you noticed therecent Plant I showcase display of the A4 camera and its compe-tition. As you could see, our competition—particularly in theGerman field—is getting tough. Competition with Eastman Kodak,another competitor shown, is always keen because this companyhas strong advertising and years of prestige behind it.

In order to maintain this favorable competitive position, it isnecessary to keep improving our methods and standards and toreduce costs. The Engineering, Methods, and Purchasing Depart-ments are constantly working on these problems. Their effortshave been greatly responsible for Argus' success in cutting a pieceof the industry for itself ever since the beginning of the company.

GENERAL BUSINESS CONDITIONS

General business conditions, including sales in the photographicindustry, are somewhat behind last year's. We at Argus arefortunate in that our commercial business for the first five monthsof 1954 is equal to the same period last year. However, salesof two of our cameras have been less than anticipated, with theresult that we have higher than normal inventories of these prod-ucts. The months of January, February, and March are histori-cally low points in photographic sales. As a matter of policy,we planned to manufacture more cameras and projectors duringthis quarter than we expected to sell in order to level off employ-ment to the best of our ability. If the seasonal pattern of in-crease in photographic sales in late spring and early summer isrealized, our inventory will be reduced to normal and we will beable to continue our current rate of production.

EMPLOYMENT REMAINS HIGH

The first of the month there was an article in the Ann ArborNews indicating that Ann Arbor employment was down 15 per centfrom a year ago. In contrast to this, Argus employment as ofJune 1 was 1202 as compared with 1185 on the first of June lastyear. In other words, Argus employment is up 1-1/2 per centwhile Ann Arbor is down 15 per cent.

INDEPENDENCE LAKE WORKPROGRESSING

A representative from the RecreationClub came in to sell me my annual mem-bership card recently. It was gratifyingto hear about the progress that is beingmade at Independence Lake this spring.Improvement of the bathing beach, build-ing of a new bathhouse, and the addition-al playground facilities for children allhelp to make a more attractive and usefulplace for employe recreation.

DONALD L.HOLZHAUERson of Ken(Shipping)

Ann Arbor High

DOLORES RAYMENT, daughter of George Belanger (Engineering)graduates from Fenton High School, Fenton, Michigan. (Photo un-available).

Two Men Get PromotionsSuperintendent of Commercial As-

sembly was the new position givenDick L e g g e t t lastmonth. This job putshim in supervision ofC a m e r a Assemblyand Civilian OpticalAssembly.

Leggett, a nativeAnn Arborite, came

< to Argus in March,19 5 3 as a trouble

* shooter. In June oflast year, he was promoted to Pro-duction Engineer. His office will betemporarily located in the FactoryManager's office.

Manager of the newArgus Canadian Op-eration to be some-where near Torontois Fred L e e m a n ,Methods and Stand-ards S u p e r v i s o r .Leeman, who w a sborn in Chicago, be-gan working for Ar-gus in March, 1942

as a lens grinder.

Above: a w a r d w i n n e rJames Ritchie with hismother, Louetta, Govern-,ment Optical Assembly.

4 AWARDED ARGUS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPSArgus employee scholarships (one-

year awards of $250 each) have beenwon by children of three Argus peo-ple and one Argus employee herself.

James Ritchie will attend Michi-gan State Normal College next fall;all the rest will enter the Universityof Michigan.

Above, left, Margaret Metzner (dad,Ernie, from Model Shop stands be-hind her); Robert Wetzel (dad, Billfrom Model Shop behind him) andMildred Kintigh, Machine Shop, nightshift.

Work Parties Go-To-Townat Independence Lake

Argus people are rolling up their sleeves and REALLY DIG-GING these days at Independence Lake. Playground equipmentis now up; painting of boats has begun, construction of the newbathhouse is underway. But there's lots of work still to bedone. Join the next work party—your help is needed!

MANY HANDS make light work as (left to right) Wilfred Bonne-well, Bill Betke, Roger Westphal and John Kenne help eachother. Helen Breining and Ethel Huffman paint boats.

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NIGHT SHIFT CLUB MEMBERS Shorty Bergey (left)and Elmer Johnson (right) make their shovels fly!

ABOUT TO EMBARK on the first slide of the sea -son is Sharon Dersham, daughter of Shirley (Tabu-lating) and Art (Service).

WORKING ON the kiddie's water slide are George Navarre,Machine Shop (nights) and Wilfred Bonnewell, lake overseer.

WATCHING MOM paint boats is Katherine Anne, daughter of Eloise and JohnKenne, (Camera Assembly).

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Hubbell Collects $931 for Suggestions

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First of all, let's clear up some unfinished businessfrom last month. It's the question asking about a mis-take in the book "The Man You Hurt May Be Yourself"on the Good Reading Rack. The answer I got from theGood Reading Rack Service went like this:

"Well, I guess you really stumped the experts. Theauthor took the figures about the 70 falls a day from theNational Safety Council booklet entitled "Falls, " but inhis enthusiasm included the two words "at work, " whichaccounts for the discrepancy.

"So I think you should congratulate your employe forbeing so alert, and tell him that you hope all of the em-ployes who read the booklet will do so as carefully.Thanks so much for calling it to our attention. "Why do we have to have so many large chuck holes inour parking lots ! ?

I want to Tom Spitler for an answer on this one Itseems that the chuck-hole condition was caused by springthaws and rain. You've probably noticed that since yournote was written, gravel has been placed on the parkinglot to remedy the situation. Parking and driving prob-lems should have been made easier by this addition.Time Study Policy

Why is it that production workers are allowed onlycertain specified minutes per hour by the foreman andtime study? If we make over those specified minutes,time-study men say that we are eliminating certain partsof an operation or something is wrong with the timing.In Dept. 10, every job is being retimed! If our super-visor and the time-study men take it on themselves tocut our wages, why shouldn't they have their wages cutaccordingly?

Bill Thompson, Methods and Standards Manager, gaveme the answer for this sticker. He said:

"The Argus Incentive Plan, as stated in our IncentivePolicies, is designed to pay the production worker foroutput over and above that required by a normal fairday's work. At no time, with the exception of a con-trolled machine cycle, is an employe limited to only acertain specified minutes per hour.

"It has always been the policy to continually maintainall time study standards with regard to the method,material, equipment, or Quality Control requirements.In Dept. 10 we are merely making the investigations and,where the operation has changed, increases or decreasesto the standard are taking place in a normal fashion.

"There are many instances where the new Quality Con-trol practices have not been included in the operation andthis is being added at the time of the investigation by theTime Study Engineer. All the changes that are beingmade throughout Argus are being reviewed with the super-visors, foremen, and employe on the job. M

Engineering Goes . . . Bats?Instead of bats-in-the-belfry, Engineering had bats in

New Products last month.

The situation was short-lived, however, because TomHeermans and Bob Gramprie became brave headhunterswho subdued and extinguished the intruder. Tom foundthat a beam compass can be used for other things be-sides drawing!

Ken Hubbell, right, receives his suggestion award fromSupervisor Cliff Olson, left, as Suggestion Plan Man-ager Art Parker, Jr . , center, looks on.

Two suggestions which he submitted to the suggestionplan office brought Ken Hubbell, Machine Shop, a totalof $931. 35 last month.

For his first suggestion, to extrude the stop pin fromthe release grip on the C-3 Camera, he received $854. 62.His second suggestion, to eliminate a restrike operationon the lock clip for the C-3 Camera, brought him $76. 73.

Other Machine Shop employees who cashed in on sug-gestion ideas last month were George Conn who received$47. 87 for suggesting the elimination of two burring op-erations, Harold Toutant who received one award of$14.14 and another of $5, Russell Widmayer who received$13.65, Gene Rohde who received $17.84 and TravisBrooks who collected $10.

In the Lens Polishing Department, Stan Koning receiveda $25 suggestion award, Herbert Roberts received $10.

Irene Swaney in Lens Centering suggested a method tosave scrapped lenses and received $28. 50 and LucilleHarvey, also of Lens Centering, received an award of$10.

Other cash-winning suggestors last month were BillRuzicka, Purchasing, who was awarded $10, Orviel Har-rison, Production Planning, who received $5 and HildaWhite, Mailing, who was awarded $10.

Survey Shows High EmployeInterest in Argus Credit Union

From approximately 1,000 credit union surveys dis-tributed throughout the plant, 876 replies were re-ceived. Of the 876 total, 782 people answered "yes"to the question, "If a credit union were started atArgus, would you be interested in saving money in it. "94 people answered "no" to the same question.

258 profit sharers said they were interested in sav-ing money in a credit union, 37 said they were notinterested.

Credit union representatives say that the total of"yes" answers indicates a very high amount of inter-est in an Argus credit union.

An employe meeting with a representative from thecredit union association to answer questions was heldthis month. Further plans to organize an Arguscredit union were made at that time.

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Argus People TakeLetter Writing Course

Often our customers have no other wayto judge the character of our companyexcept through the letters they receivefrom us. Because we want to make thebest possible impression through our let-ters and build up good will and sales ,mmy Argus people are now taking a cor-respondence course in letter-writing.

Correspondents in the sales and service departmentslearn to correct "grammarphobia" (bad grammar) use"breakfast table words" (simple language) "shave thewhiskers" (avoid formal business language) in a HowerFour-Month Letter Improvement Course which they arecurrently taking.

Members of the course receive weekly lessons andmonthly bulletins to study. Carbon copies of letterswhich they compose are sent to Hower's. These lettersare criticized and returned to their owners. Occasion-ally an exceptional letter becomes a blue-ribbon winner.Then congratulations are attached to the letter and per-

Blue ribbon letter winners at leftare: Wes Donaldson and TedWatt, Service; Dorothy Bell,Sales; Barbara Titus, Sales, alsoreceived the award.

mission is asked to have the letter published in Hower1 sBusiness Digest.

MANY ARE 0-1-2 CLUB MEMBERSA similar letter-improvement course is taken by ste-

nographers in sales, service and advertising. Theirletters are corrected for typographical and grammaticalerrors rather than for composition. Letters which haveless than 2 mistakes receive congratulations and maketheir owners members of the 0-1-2 Club. Argus girlswho are 0-1-2 members include: Joyce Boyle, adver-tising; Ann Agnew, Service, Frances Vining, Service;Bonnie Griffith, Sales; Alice Riley, Sales; Virginia Brum-ley, Sales.

Club To Have Honor RollAll Recreation Club members who

work at least eight hours at Inde-pendence Lake this summer will gettheir names on the honor roll, clubofficers recently announced. Onehonor roll will be hung in a promi-nent spot in the lake area and onewill be hung at Argus.

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Ruth O'Hare, Camera Assembly, ex-amines cameras in the Argus boothit the Builder!s Show. Wiles Con-verse and Dick Wood were boothattendants.

One of the Argus cafe tables withits colorful umbrella from the Chi-cago Photo Show lent a festive airto our booth at the Ann Arbor Build-er ' s Show.

Argus men who are members ofthe Junior Chamber of Commerceattended the booth and pointed outcamera features to visitors. Menwho set up the booth and attended itwere: Jack Grimston, Irving Hal-man, Dick Wood, George Haas, FredSteinhebel, Will Van Dyke, WilesConverse, Bob Lundquist, Don Phil-lips, Harold Thompson and MartinBreighner.

Honors Received by Junior Achievers

Beverly Gray with her mother, Wilma, Ronald Muchnick from Peggie Prod-Sales, ucts.

Ronald Muchnick, member of the Argus-sponsored Peggie Products JuniorAchievement group, and Beverly Gray, 16-year-old daughter of Wilmot Gray,Sales Department, received honors at the Junior Achievement Banquet inDetroit last month.

Ronald, who graduates from University High this month, received theKatharine Cornell award of $100; Beverly received a Junior Executive awardfor her work as sales manager of Products Unlimited (sponsored by HooverBall and Bearing Company). The banquet was held at the close of thisyear 's operations of Junior Achievement.

PEGGIE PRODUCTS DECLARES DIVIDEND

Peggie Products Co. , the Junior Achievement group sponsored by Argus,declared an eight per cent dividend (54£ per share) for the year. The com-pany made Peggie Boards which were sold at Argus early in the year anda memo pad, made and sold later in the year. Business advisor for thegroup was Sherwood Mclntire, Accounting; Production advisor was RalphParsons, Paint Shop; Sales Advisor was William Armstrong, Sales; Alter-nate Advisor was David Oughton, Engineering.

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT TO CONTINUE IN ANN ARBOR

This was the first season of Junior Achievement in Ann Arbor. So far,Ann Arbor businessmen and industrialists have raised more than $6,000 tocontinue operations of the group when school starts next fall. Purpose ofthe program is to provide high school youths the opportunity to learn a busi-ness by operating one.

Pauline Spence, Bakelite Room, broughther grandchildren, Jerry Ann and MaryAnn, to Community Night.

COMMUNITY NIGHT GUESTS included Beverly and Scott Bullis (left) familyof Russ Bullis, Standards, and Rev. Agamemnon Papastefanau of St. NicholasChurch shown at right with Andy Kokinakes, Production Planning.

Left to rightare: PresidentHarlan Hatch-er, Universityof Mich igan ;Jack Meadows,Ann ArborBank; Mrs. Har-lan H a t c h e r ;Jim Brinker-hoff.

G r a c e Hinz,C a m e r a As-sembly (farleft) b rough ttwo guests toC omm u ni tyNight.

(Corner photo)Hilda Whi te ,Mail Room, andF r e d V e e s ,Standards, re-laxed when hos-tess and guided u t i e s wereover.

Photos by Eddie Girvan

Une Community,Corned cA'Calling,

"Aw, come on, Henry. They justwant to watch you work!"

About 650 people from the AnnArbor area toured Argus on Commun-ity Night, May 14. Among the guestswere people from the University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor schools andbusiness people from the city.

COVER PHOTOOpal Sanch (Final Inspection)

examines grinding operations inPlant II with her children, Lynnand Lola.

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Above, left, Mrs. Radford greets Ethel Hedrick, princi-pal of Eberwhite School.

At the right is Johnny McKinney, Camera Assembly,one of the tour guides, with a guest.

HARLEY BOUGHNER (Tool Room)explained tool and die operations tointerested tourers.

MR. LEWIS presented A-4 Camerasto four lucky winners during theevening.

PROUD CAMERA WINNER was 7-year-old Sharon Boudeman, nieceof Betty Bliss, Advertising.

3edtiive3or Une Jamily,

Tours, Prizes, FoodFor a Gala Affair

Photos by Vern PetersonBig night for Argus folks' families

was May 7, the annual family openhouse.

About 560 people toured the plant,gazed in amazement at intricatemanufacturing processes, met newand old friends and had ice creamand coffee in the cafeteria.

Four Argus A-4 Cameras wereawarded as door prizes. As memen-tos of the occasion, the kiddies gotballoons and the ladies receivedroses.

SAM NEUSTADT (Plastics Room) anddaughters watch Millard Michael toolcamera cases.

EARL BURT (top photo) Tool Room,received an A-4 Camera as a doorprize.PHYLLIS BAKER, 13-year-old daugh-ter of Lucille (Camera Assembly)was the happy winner of an A-4Camera.

LITTLE LEGS of weary young-sters like this one gave out beforethe 45-minute tour was over.

TOURERS watched Stanley Fritz(above) in Automatic Screw MachineShop. (Below) polishing operationsinterested many.

HOSTESS LEONA SMITH, Paint Shop, (left) chats with Rube and LauraEgeler. Rube is Paint Shop foreman; Laura formerly worked in ReceivingInspection.BIGGEST TREAT for youngsters like the wide-eyed boy above was ice creamand cookies in the cafeteria!

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20 Words Win Washer! Weber-Morgan Marriage Marjie Gets Showered!

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Jean Bruetsch, above, smiles hap-pily as Mr. Finn from an Ypsilantiappliance store makes her the luckywinner of a new automatic washer.Her answer, in 20 words or less,to why she liked to shop at NationalFood stores won the machine. Jeanis the wife of Harold Bruetsch, En-gineering.

Tiny Brother DisruptsFamily's Life

Above Pete Chapman sleeps quietly,at last, in laps of sisters Colby andChristine.

Peter Chapman is only 6 monthsold—but what a stir he has createdin his short life!

Pete's dad, Carlos (Sales) andmom, Helen, were moving from Bos-ton where Carlos had been working,back to Ann Arbor when Pete arrived2-1/2 months ahead of schedule. Thefamily was visiting in Rochester atthe time. Peter weighed 2 pounds,9 ounces. "I never had seen any-thing that small that was yelling,"Mrs. Chapman said.

First Pete was hustled into an airlock; then he was moved to an iso-lette, then an incubator. When hewas 5 weeks old, Mom left for AnnArbor with the 2 girls. Carlos hadalready begun his new duties as

./Argus marketing manager by thattime.

Then mom returned to Rochesterand when Pete was big enough—6 lbs.,3 oz. —took him home where, at thismoment, everything is once againback to normal.

Richard Weber, Grinding, wasmarried to Pauline Morgan on April17 at Saline Baptist Church. Mr.and Mrs. Weber took a wedding tripto northern Michigan. They are nowliving in Saline.

Yerebech-Howard WedRobert Yerebech, Polishing night

shift, was married to Frieda Howardon May 1 in Angola. After the cer-emony, the couple traveled to Chi-cago. Mr. and Mrs. Yerebech arenow living in Ypsilanti.

Jerry Bowerman MarriedJerry Bowerman, Grinding night

shift, was married to Patricia Bar-ron on May 8 in Immaculate Concep-tion Church, Milan. Their weddingtrip was to Luray, Virginia. Mr.and Mrs. Bowerman are now livingin Milan.

Braun-Romine MarriageJoyce Braun, Accounting, became

the bride of James Romine, OpticalAssembly on May 16 in an afternoonceremony at the Bethlehem Evangeli-cal and Reformed Church. After aneastern wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs.Romine were at home in WhitmoreLake.

Paul Pohnert WedGrace Bible Church was the scene

of the wedding ceremony of PaulPohnert, Shipping, andMarcella Sayreon May 8. After a short weddingtrip, Mr. and Mrs. Pohnert were athome in Ann Arbor.

Joanne Crawford BrideJoanne Lois, daughter of Loyal

Crawford, Tool Engineering, becamethe bride of Richard Swischer onMay 28 at the home of the bride.The newly-married couple traveledto Cleveland. They will make theirhome in Ann Arbor.

Euchre Winners NamedFinal results of the men's Euchre

Tournament which ended May 24 wereannounced recently. These are thewinners: 1st place, Clyde Riley,Maintenance, 2nd place, RichardTowner, Machine Shop, 3rd place,Bill Fike, Tool Room.

CAKE MASTERPIECE BAKEDLucy Dunn, wife of Jerome, Ship-

ping baked this 4-tier wedding cakefor her par-ent's 40thwedding an-nive rsary.200 luckypeople at-tended thecelebr ati onand helpedeat the cake.

SURPRISED was Marjie Yokoyama,Camera Assembly, when 22 girlsshowered her with baby gifts on May19. The shower was held at thehome of Betty Shattuck, Timekeep-ing. Assisting Betty were Ruth Howeand Alice Alt.

Pictured above is Dale Alan,brand new son of Walter Purdy,Service. Dale was born May 5weighing 8 lbs., 10 oz. He has asister, Gale Rose, 2 years old.

Jerry Patterson, Planning, has ababy girl. Cheryle Lyn, born May13 weighing 8 lbs. , 15 oz.

Ann Burgess is the name of DickFoster's daughter born May 5 weigh-ing 8 lbs. Dick works in Purchas-ing.

Ty Kemp, Purchasing, has a son,Scott Mitchell, born May 4 weighing8 lbs., 9 oz. Ty also has a 3-year-old daughter, Debbie.

Bob Nickels' (Purchasing) new son'sname is Timothy. He was born May11 weighing 7 lbs. , 6 oz. Bob alsohas a son, Jimmy, and a daughter,Aleta.

Ralph Merrell, Service, has ason, Bruce Everette, born May 9weighing 7 lbs. , 6 oz. Ralph's wifeis also formerly of Service. TheMerrell's also have a 4-1/2-year-old girl, Denise May.

Mory Carr, Engineering, has anew red-haired daughter, PatriciaMargaret, born May 9 weighing 8lbs. , 1 oz. The new baby has 2sisters and 3 brothers.

George Haas, Accounting, has ababy girl, Teresa Lynn, born May10. The Haas' also have a 3-1/2-year-old boy.

John Borgerson, Accounting, hasa new daughter, Judith Leigh, bornMay 1. The Borgersons have 2 otherdaughters.

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NEWS FROM ARGUS MEN IN SERVICEWaxman and Wiedmeyer Visit Argus

TED WAXMAN, Government Optical Assembly,stopped at the plant last month while home on fur-lough. Ted brought news of his marriage on March 27in Jeffersonville, Indiana. His wife, Marie, lives inAnn Arbor. Ted is being sent to Fort Lewis, Wash-ington; from there he expects to be shipped to theFar East.

Another serviceman about to em-bark for the Far East is ALVINWIEDMEYER, B l o c k i n g Room.Alvin was home on a 2-week fur-lough last month. He expects tobe sent to Japan, he said.

Neither of the men were ableto leave forwarding addresses forcorrespondence.

MARVIN PRATT, Government Optical Assembly, whois now in the air force reports that he was recently pro-moted to "Senior A/C Mech. and from A/3C to A/2C(the equivalent of Corporal in the Army). "

"Give my regards to the boys and gals on the T-150 and 49 l ine," he said.At last report, he was stationed in Florida at Eglin Air Force Base.

CLARENCE CARRINGTON, Optical Assembly, who is on the hospital staffin the navy reports "I have sold a few Argus Cameras to some of my bud-dies by just talking about them. I've heard some wonderful remarks fromdifferent people about the Argus products. This really made me feel goodsince I used to work on the projector line. " At last report, Clarence wasstationed at Great Lakes.

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IN THE NEWS •

• Jim Meldrum, Engineering, waselected president of the Lyra MaleChorus during the group's 1954-55Diamond Anniversary year.• Jack Grimston, Inventory Control,was elected secretary of the JuniorChamber of Commerce.• Irv Halman, Accounting, was elect-ed member of the board of the JuniorChamber of Commerce.• Isabelle Nash, Controllers Office,and Betty Bliss, Advertising, repre-sented the National Association ofSecretaries' chapter of Ann Arbor atthe state meeting in Muskegon lastmonth.• William Thompson, Methods andStandards Manager, talked on "TheUse of Methods, Time Measurementfor Methods and Standards" at a WorkMeasurement Conference in Chicago.• James Brinkerhoff, factory man-ager, discussed "Effective PersonnelAdministration" at the Society for theAdvancement of Management in De-troit.

Profit Sharer's AccountsContinue To Grow

Profit sharer 's accounts are con-tinuing to mount steadily judging bythe balance sheet for the nine monthsperiod ending April 30.

The ledger value of the profit-shar-ing investments was $1,551,741.17as of the end of April, 1954. Theirmarket value is $1, 574, 699. 99. Thismeans that the profit-sharing fundinvestments are currently worth about$23, 000 more than we paid for them.

Profit-sharing funds are investedin the same U.S. Savings Bonds,Treasury Bonds, Commercial Deben-tures and Argus Profit-Sharing pre-ferred stock listed in the March "Ar-gus Eyes. "

Tlxe Balance Sheet showed that$1,515,124.09 h a s been d i v i d e damong the profit-sharing membersaccounts from the beginning of thefund to April 30, 1954. This year'scompany contributions will be addedto the fund at the end of the fiscalyear (July 31, 1954). Indications arethat the company's contribution willbe large again this year.

Vets Praise Argus Lens Grinding ProcessAmong recent tourers through the plant were a group of disabled veterans.

After the tour, this report on Argus was made in an issue of the vet'spaper, "The Green Sheet. "

"Their (Argus') process for creating the various types of lenses seemedto impress us most. A great deal of time is spent in training lens grind-ers and Argus really has the know-how when it comes to lenses for theirprocess is recognized as one of the finest in the business. "

Cal Foster is Argus20 Year Man This Month

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The service honor roll has a newman, Calvin Foster, on it this month.Cal (above), who has been with Argusfor 20 years this June is Night Sup-ervisor in the Shipping Department.

Another man who marks his Argusanniversary in June is James Kane,(above) Receiving Inspection. Jim,has been with Argus 10 years.

When anniversary photos wereposted in last January's "ArgusEyes", William Paradise was mis-takenly omitted. So late anniversarycongratulations now go to Bill, Ma-chine Shop, who is an Argus 10-yearman.

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SportA (J\eviewSoftball b? Babe Peterson

Manager Jack Scott and his Argus nine are off to a very impressive startin league play. In the season opener Argus was pitted against a strongDexter team, and the Argus entry gave promise of another successful seasonthis year. Manager Scott chose Bob Koch to hurl the initial game and Kochresponded with a clutch-pitching shutout performance. Tom Bates in rightfield made the play of the game in aid of the goose-egg hurling of Koch.Bates scooped up a line drive and fired a strike to catcher Max Robinson toerase the runner trying to score from second on the hit. The Argus defensehad to be at its best because the Argus batsmen were finding it difficult tosolve the slants of the Dexter twirler. With the aid of two misplays in theiropponents' infield, Argus pushed four runs across the plate. It was a well-played game, and Manager Scott felt quite satisfied with the opening 4-0 vic-tory.

In their second test, the Argus hitters found their batting eyes and madeit easy for Bob Mclntyre to coast to an easy 17-3 win over the Knights ofColumbus. Bob showed Jack enough so that the manager is now rather opti-mistic over his mound staff. This game also afforded an opportunity to lookover all the players on the Argus squad. From their performances in thiscontest, it appears that Argus is blessed with a strong bench. Two gamesdo not make a successful season, but the play in their first two games hasbeen most encouraging.

The Recreation Club reports that new uniforms have arrived and that theteam should be all decked out for their next game. Argus employes are in-vited to attend all the games. Schedules are posted on the bulletin boards ofboth plants.

GolfIn the Tuesday group, Ted Adams and Art Selent are out to make a shambles

of the title chase in that league. Ted and Art have moved along in almostunbelievable fashion by taking 56 out of 60 points. Even though it is certainthat this pace cannot be maintained, it seems probable that the margin thatis now being built up will be all the cushion needed for any slump that maycome. The teams of Tom Heermans-Bob Nickels and Joe Detweiler-JimBrinkerhoff will prove the strongest threats to the leaders. In the person ofBob Nickels we have one of Ann Arbor's best golfers. Besides playing anear flawless game, Bob has shown true sportsmanship in helping his oppon-ents with their games even when that help has meant defeat for his team.The match with Bob and his very popular partner, Tom Heermans, is lookedforward to by all the members of the league. The smooth-swinging Joe Det-weiler and his recovery shot-making partner, Jim Brinkerhoff, are stayingclose enough to the pace to be troublesome in the last half of the schedule.

Dick Leggett and Neil Navarre have vaulted into first place in the Wednes-day League, and are demonstrating why they were the pre-season favorites towalk off with the title. This duo boasts the lowest average team in any ofthe leagues. It is very likely that this is the team to beat in order to qualifyfor the final play-offs to determine Argus championship. In the runner-upspot is the surprising team of Max Putnam and Ralph Flick. Each of theseis participating in league play for the first time, and both have so far provedexceedingly tough to handle. The Wednesday group seems to have the bestbalanced teams. The Barsanteefather-son combine, Hal Thompson(who with Bob Nickels is one of twogolfers whose average is under 40)Bill Doyle, Joe Dobransky-MaurieHowe, Chuck McClune-John Shattuckare all low handicap teams and shouldprovide many interesting matches.

In the Thursday League, the teamsof Herb Pfabe-Roger Westphal andRay Clark-Eric Soderholm are wag-ing a battle for first place with Pfabeand Westphal now holding a narrowtwo-point edge. In the past, Pfabehas proved a sharp competitor andRoger seems to be catching much ofthe same fire. Clark and Soderholm,however, have their own ideas aboutleague titles. The top five entries ofthe Thursday group have only a six-point spread so there should be quitea scrambling for positions in the nextfew weeks.

Afternoon Shift Golfby Tom Mitchell

The afternoon shift eight-team golfleague is going into its fifth week ofplay. Gene Rohde and Bill Ambra-zevich lead the way with a perfectscore of 40 points. The way thingsare shaping up now, it looks like anyteam can win, especially so, sincethe high handicap golfers are begin-ning to show a lot of improvement.

Golf Outing ScheduledThe first golf outing of the season

was announced recently by ChairmanOscar Spaly. It will be held at thePlymouth Golf Course, Saturday,June 19. The outing will start witha round of golf to be played anytimeafter one o'clock. Dinner will beserved in the clubhouse at six. Thecommittee has planned a full day.

It is unnecessary to remind mem-bers who have attended those outingspreviously to come out, but new mem-bers of the leagues are invited toattend if at all possible. Everyoneis guaranteed a very enjoyable day.

Swimming Classes Heldat Independence LakeWilfred Bonnewell, lake caretaker,

has offered to conduct afternoonswimming classes, free of charge,for Recreation Club members andtheir families this summer.

The classes will be available Mon-day, Tuesday and Thursday after-noons beginning after June 20 (exactdate will be announced later). Someclasses will be conducted after 3:30in the afternoon if day-shift peopleare interested in them. Transpor-tation arrangements will be madefor those who have no way to get tothe lake.

Persons interested should fill inthe form below and return it to thePersonnel Department.

Yes, We Want to Take Swimming Lessons!

Number of Adults_

Names

Number of Children:Boys

Girls

Ages_

Ages

Circle Day Desired:Monday (P.M.) Tuesday (P.M.)

I am interested in classes after 3:30 onThursday (P.M. )

(Mon. , Tues. or Thurs.)

I need transportation for

I can supply transportation for

people.

people.

(Return to Personnel Department)

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Above are Berniece Trail, Beulah Newman, Louvadelle Grapp, Charlotte Duart, MarianHirsch, and IreneMcCowan.

Muriel Raaf Wilma Haag I. "

BACK TO BACK are Juanita Boyd (left) and StephanieBurns. In the background is Mary Jane Rutledge.

v^mk S M I L I N G b ( ) w l ers above are (left to right) Lorie Johnson, Mary Thompson, Ruth Cran-

dall. Dorienne Lovings and Dorothy Lixey. The annual Women's Bowling Banquet wasClara Robison Mary Briggs held Wednesday, May 12, in the Pine Room of the La Gondola in Ypsilanti.

BOWLING BANQUETSThe annual Men's Bowling Banquet was held Tuesday, May 4 at the MooseLodge in Ann Arbor.

CONVERSATIONALISTS are (left to right): Jess Cope, Cliff Olson and ArtDanner. Feasters at right are (left to right): Don Crump, Jess Cope andJim Brinkerhoff.

CARD PLAYERS above are (left to right):Gerald Smith, Ed Zill, Tom Heermansand Harold Breutsch.

HUNGRY Ted Adams (below left) and Glenn Alt (right) watch Joe Jarosyzkdig in. Banqueters in photo at right and extreme left were snapped be-courses.

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Sylvia KalmbachTs (Timekeeping)birthday was the occasion for a cakeat lunch time in Plant II. HereSylvia gets all set to blow out thosecandles!

May VacationsArt Christ, Maintenance, took his

vacation last month. Art spent histime planting gladiola bulbs andworking in his garden.

Lois Elkins and Ginny Brumley ofSales flew to Denver, Colorado overMemorial Day weekend to visit Bar-bara Rider or "Red Rider" as shewas known to members of the SalesDepartment where she worked untila few months ago. Barbara's Col-orado address is: 3066 15th St. ,Boulder, Colorado.

Jerry Space, Sales, came backwith a nice tan after spending twoweeks in the deep South last month.This was Jerry 's first trip in hernew DeSoto. She visited her hus-band, Dallas, who is stationed atKeesler Air Force Base in Biloxi,Mississippi.

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TabulatingCelebrates

Birth of TwinsWhen John Braykovich

became the proud fatherof twin girls on May 19,co-workers in Tabulatingpresented him with thestart of a twin-layette.

The twins, D i a n n eMarie and Donna Jeanwho weighed 5 lbs. , 9oz. and 5 lbs. , 14 oz.at birth are the Brayko-vich's first children.

Surrounding John whoholds his gift are: (leftto right) Shirley Der-sham, Sue Burt, Marga-ret Dickerson, Lee Mon-son and Mary Thompson.

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ControlA 2-in-l celebration

was held in InventoryControl last month whenNancy Carpenter l e f tArgus and Betty Beckerwas married.

Co-workers celebratedwith a lunch at coffeebreak and gifts for thegirls.

Betty was married toJack Measley, Ann Arborpoliceman on May 15 inZion Lutheran Church.The Measley1 s took awedding trip to northernMichigan.

Seated are Betty Measley (left) and Nancy Carpen-ter (right). Behind them, left to right, are Vir-ginia Stoll, Edna Racicot, and Joyce Dietle.