rgus eyesVol 4—No. 9 ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN July, 1946

With the month of July comes the start of the vacation season.& year, for the first time since the war, thoughts are turning toopen road . . . to a summer place on a lake . . . to the woods . . .

the mountains . . . and to the seashore. Fishing, fun and pho-tography are all in the air.

Now that film is easy to get, it's important to take your camerawhen you go. Get back into the habit of making a pictorial record

of your enjoyment, so your 1946 vacation album will be filled withpermanent memories in snapshots.

"Argus Eyes" will need some of them when you get back, sotake pictures a plenty .. . snaps you can show off when you bragabout the swell time you had, and don't forget the ones to proveyour fish stories. The editor says, "good 'snapping'."

P a g e 2 A R G U S E Y E S July, 194G

ARGUS EYE§This paper is an employees' publica-

tion. Its aims are:

1. To present news of individualsthroughout the two plants.

2. To keep former employees now inthe service informed as to what isgoing on at Argus, Incorporated.

3. To present up-to-date informationon all problems vital to employeeswhich the war has brought about.

4. To give all employees an oppor-tunity to express themselves.

No items will be used which will tendto ridicule or embarrass anyone. Humorand good-natured fun, however, are al-ways acceptable.

EDITORIAL STAFF

Editor Chas. A. BarkerAssistant Editor . . . . Helen O'SullivanSports Harold Peterson_, . , \ Jerry DavenportPhotographers •. i XT T> <.U

6 H I Norman BoothCartoonist Marie Barbier

The Representatives of each Depar t -ment are responsible tha t the news ofthese Depar tments reach the desk ofthe Edi tor in the Advertising Depar t -ment, Plant 1.

Thank You NotesThe flowers you sent came just as I

was waking up, and were very welcomeas well as helpful in brightening up thehospital room.

Thank you so much.Sincerely yours,Robert D. Howse

Thanks for the lovely , flowers sentwhile I was ill.

I enjoyed them very much.Berniece Wilson

SOCIAL SECURITYARE YOU CURRENTLY INSURED?

The other day a young woman came to an office of the SocialSecurity Board. She was nearly frantic with anxiety. Her husbandhad died a few weeks before, leaving her with two small childrento support. He had worked for about a year and a half in a warplant and she knew he had paid something on social security.Could she get back what he had put into the Old-Age Fund, shewanted to know.

That young widow is today getting regular monthly survivorsbenefits for herself and her two children. She will continue to getthem until her youngest child is 18.

How is that?Well, her husband worked in covered jobs only 18 months, true;

but those 18 months were during the last 3 years of his life. Thatmeant he was "currently insured" under old-age and survivorsinsurance.

So a worker's family can get survivors benefits even when thewage earner was employed in covered jobs only 18 months, pro-vided they are in the last 3 years of his life?

That's right—so far as some of his family are concerned. The lawshows special consideration for children under 18 and widows withchildren under 18 in their care. In their case monthly benefits arepayable even when the wage earner worked in private industryor business only approximately half the last 3 years of his life.

However, if a worker is only currently insured when he dies, hiswidow cannot get monthly benefits when she gets to be 65. Norcan his aged dependent parents get monthly benefits. To such per-sons monthly survivors benefits are payable only if the wage earnerwas "fully insured" at death, that is, if he had worked in coveredjobs approximately half the time between the beginning of theold-age and survivors insurance program on January 1, 1937, andthe date on which he reached 65 or died.

The Social Security Board office which serves Washtenaw Countyis located at 709 Reynolds Bldg., Jackson, Mich. The telephonenumber is 25588.

Lens CenteringThe Centering Department wishes to

congratulate and bestow much happi-ness on Bob (Robert) Haines who wasrecently married to Carol Stevens onJune 15th, 1946, at 4 o'clock at the homeof the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs.Carlton Stevens of Traverse City. Boband Carol are now residing at ProspectAvenue. We are hoping that all theirtroubles may be little ones.

We wonder why Harry Erskin is sointerested in Reveille?

Who was the person who ordered 500bars of sheep soap at $2.00 a bar? Pret-ty expensive sheep "Pete".

Wilbur Salow has a big interest atthe University. Good luck, Willie, you'llneed it.

George is now working days and com-plaining about getting only eight hourssleep.

There seems to be a big attraction onthe stairs lately; it seems that produc-tion has dropped 20%.

WILL YOU GIVETHAT THEY MAY LIVE?

The Emergency Food Collection on behalf of UNRA isan effort to save the lives of millions of starving men, wo-men and children caught helpless in the path of famine.Give food canned in tin or money to buy food today toyour local committee. Or, you may mail checks or moneyorders to National Headquarters, Emergency Food Col-lection, 100 Maiden Lane, New York 7, N. Y.

Linda Mae

Born April 14, 1946, Linda MaeGuarino is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. Richard Guarino. The proudfather is a Model Maker in the Op-tical Engineering Department.

Optical ChatterThe assembly again extends a hearty

welcome to the new arrivals, namelyMarion Thompson, Esther McAuliffe,Leona Wai'd, Shirley Hawks and!Dorothy Lang. We hope you'll like itwith us girls.

Summer has at last arrived. The prooflies in the beautiful bouquets seen aboutthe assembly.

One gal who enjoyed her rest periodsmore than anyone else was Helen Allen.The main reason for that was her hus-band, Bob, was one of the Edison menworking on the transformers in the backof the building. Who said you can'tmix business with pleasure? That's a lieisn't it, Helen?

About the happiest member of ourcrew is none other than Shirley M.We wonder if those trips to HelandLake have anything to do with it.Could be!

Yup, bringing up a family is a fulltime job, but when it is done afterworking eight hours in a factory, it be-comes quite a problem. Rocking a howl-ing baby all night and stumbling intowork at the crack of dawn (7 bells tobe exact), isn't too nice. Ask MargueriteSmith who really knows. However shethinks it's worth it because just lookingat that black and white bundle of joy

her heart bursts with pride and soon itwill be old enough to hunt rabbits. In-cidentally this gal really swings a meansoldering iron and is seriously thinkingof going into the Tatooing business.

Then we have our Rosie, "The GolfChamp". That Pinckney match wasquite an event. Bette R. also participat-ed. The girls are now willing to give in-structions for just a small fee.

One of our travelers over the Decor-ation week end was Cecile Eubank,who visited at her home in Columbus,Kentucky.

When things get too dull we can al-ways count on Ma Green for a goodlaugh. She can spin many of those fa-mous stories.

We've also enjoyed having MauriceCarr working with us on the CeilingProjector. He's the proud daddy oftwo bouncing boys and we do meanbouncing. Right now any clues to avacant home would be greatly appre-ciated. We'd call that a project in anylanguage.

It's nice having you back with usonce again Etta. You do look kindalost though without Gravel and Lois.

Congratulations to WAC Ann Letsison her promotion.

Optical Assembly has been like aFlower Show these last few days, thanksto Mary Wingrove and Gert Haines.We sure all enjoy them.

NOTICE TO EMPLOYEESAll employees must notify the Personnel De-

partment of any change of address. This infor-mation is necessary to insure contact with em-ployees in regard to work in their departmentas well as with relatives in case of emergency.

PRO:By H. J. R.

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EGELER, Laura Elizabeth

Popular, diminutive inspection supervisor, Plant I, where she may be foundstudiously and methodically passing judgment on the thousands of nuts, bolts,washers and so forth that stream into the inspection department. Weighs only97 lbs. and stands 4 ft. 11 ins. but can heave a nifty 16 lb. bowling ball andknock up an average of 150. Has been associated with Argus sinjce 1929 . . . .before the Company moved to its present site; has worked in almost every pro-duction department and consequently has acquired a vital fact or two about themachinations of production. Was born on April 27, 1907 in Ann Arbor and isbusy finishing a new home . . . held up by the inevitable material shortage. Hasa 20 year old son, Pfc. Military Police, who is now attending the Army WarCollege, Washington. Recalls exciting fishing expeditions to Lake LeeLanau, butmore vividly remembers a jaunt to Oklahoma City in a tightly crammed 1931Ford Roadster with a pick-up trailer bouncing behind, carrying all the necessaryelements for a livable four weeks for a party of six. Favorite sports are iceskating, bowling, and skiing in winter. Claims emphatically and with a glint inher eye that she scored 78 in her first game of golf. Is president of the ArgusLadies Bowling League which she founded in 1940, and is currently working ona ponderous history of this same League, the first six years of which have evi-dently been packed with interesting goings-on.

BY AN UNKNOWN SOLDIERHere is the mystery poem of World War II. Written on a scrap of

—and called "A Soldier: His Prayer"—it fluttered into the hands of a figrcrouched in a trench during the battle against Rommel for El Agheila.^lwas entered in a poetry contest conducted by "The Crusader," the BritishArmy's weekly paper. Published anonymously, it won—but its authornever knew it. He is dead or missing.

tay with me, God. The night is dark,The night is cold; my little sparkOf courage dies. The night is long;

e with me, God, and make mestrong.

love a game. I love a fight,hate the dark; I love the light,love my child; I love my wife.am no coward; I love life—

Life with its change of mood andshade.

want to live. I'm not afraid,ut me and mine are hard to part;

Oh, unknown God, lift up my heart.

ou stilled the waters at Dunkirk\.nd saved Your servants. All Your

works wonderful, dear God. You strodeefore us down that dreadful road.

Ve were alone, and hope had fled;Ve loved our country and our dead,nd could not shame them; so we

stayedhe course, and were not much

afraid.

ear God, that nightmare road! Andthen

hat sea! We got there—we weremen.

[y eyes were blind, my feet weretorn,

[y soul sang like a bird at dawn!

knew that death is but a door,knew what we were fighting for;eace for the kids, our brothers freed,

kinder world, a cleaner breed.

m but the son my mother bore,simple man, and nothing more,

ut—God of strength and gentleness,e pleased to make me nothing less.

elp me, O God, when death is nearo mock the haggard face of fear,hat when I fall—If fall I must—

My soul may triumph in the dust.

BirthAnnouncement

A boy, weighing seven pounds fourounces, was born at St. Josephs Hospi-tal, on June 10th, to Mr. and Mrs.Harold Schoen. The baby was namedPhillip Crandell Schoen.

Mrs. Schoen is better known to herfriends at Argus as Jeanne Crandell,who worked for Herb Oliver in thestock room.

George F. Conn

This husky little boy is themonths old son of Mr. and Mrs.George A. Conn. (Papa is night su-pervisor in the Machine Shop). Thispicture was taken with an Argoflex.

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CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY AT ARGUS

HELENE BRAZEEMachine Shop

THRESSEL CONLEYOptical Assembly

RAY IMUSBuilding Maintenance

EMIL JOHNSONPurchasing <& Expediting

OLIVE KNOWLSONMachine Shop

ROLLAND RANSONShipping Dept.

CLARA SCHALLHORNReceiving Inspection

HAROLD J. WIRTHLens Grinding

Tenth Anniversary

JESSE COPEStandards Department

Maintenance andMethods

Well, it happened, we moved into ournew quarter, and we sure like it a lot.. We were sorry to leave our friendsEd, Dutch, Gus and the rest of thegang, and we hope we will see themonce in a while.

Boyd Head has moved to Chicago,where he intends to open a shop of histown. We all wish you luck and suc-cess, Boyd.

We welcome Charles (Hank) Millageto our department. Hope he will likeworking with us.

Bill was on his vacation last week,and we think he had a good time be-tause he came back to work Mondaywith a smile, and that's something aftera vacation.I The guards are all getting ready forSheir vacations. Hope they all have afeood time.| Everyone seems to be wearing a smile,fince moving down in the new carpen-er shop. We are all happy to see ouross, Mr. Sleezer, enjoying the first> again.

rection, PleaseThe new Vice-President for the Ar-s Ladies League for next season is

rene McCowan, instead of Sally Knei-er as stated in the last Argus Eyes.Your reporter is very sorry.

Advertising andSales DepartmentsAt the expense of sacrificing formal-

ity, we can't help thinking of that storyof "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (andwe aren't referring to any particularArgus male-, as we find ourselves in thatsame bereft position regarding our newoffices. So many times we have pro-claimed loud and long of the super de-luxe offices we "will occupy by the nextissue of ARGUS EYES", and now thatstatement will be an actuality . . . thismonth. We have been inspecting thedaily progress and needless to say, wethink they are simply out of this world.(Golly, they even smell good!) How-ever, with summer in full bloom, theold office has been seething with storiesof golf, tennis, swimming, etc., too nu-merous to mention. Best news flash ofall, we believe, concerns Carolyn Wil-son. Such excitement! Lt. Ray Wilson,Carolyn's husband, didn't even take ourweak hearts into consideration . . . Hejust cruised into California from Indiaand telephoned the unsuspecting Caro-lyn. Of course we all were extremelyhappy for the Wilsons and hope theirreunion in Indianapolis was every bitas wonderful as they planned. Eventhough our loss is Ray's gain, we doextend to both of them, our sincere bestwishes for happiness and loads of luckin the future.

We dood it! "We" meaning, JoeLease, Marjorie Kennedy, EvelynNavarre, Audrey Harding, ClaireRoyal, Julia Wright and Becky Matson

. Our husbands are college studentsand we managed to pull them throughfinal exams. Amazingly enough, we arestill alive to tell about it. Oh, happy day!

Betty Collingwood came in lastMonday after a trip to Pittsburgh overthe weekend. She said she didn't havetime to unpack and after we looked atthe bags under her eyes, we agreed withtier! However, the trip must have beenworth losing two nights of sleep, as theyhad lots of fun.

Did you know that the Krapf-Figgnuptials have been set for August 31st?The ceremony is to be at 8:00 o'clockin the First Baptist Church. We knowEarlyne will be the happiest, prettiestbride ever, and her wedding plans sound"simply terrific". We certainly hopeto be among the rice throwers!

A hearty welcome to Irene Schnei-der. She hails from New York and ifyou have two hours, just ask her whatthat Metropolis has that Ann Arbordoesn't. (We know. The same thing,only more of it!)

Whatta coincidence! We had a dou-ble exposure of birthdays in the SalesDepartment last month. Bud Davis andJulia Wright celebrated June 11th, andDoris Strite and Ann Kachula cele-brated June 15th. Belated as they maybe, our sincere best wishes to all ofthem.

The name of our fair city is soon tobe changed. After the gals in the SalesDepartment discovered that they writethe words "Ann Arbor" approximatelyone million times every year, they de-cided to give our Company some extrapublicity and change the name of thetown to ANN ARGUS.

Claire Royal was on her vacationwhen Argus Eyes went to press. Wejust know she is going to come back allbeautifully brown, and the rest of uswill be green . . . with envy.

Evelyn and Nelson Navarre spent arecent week-end in Detroit with a groupof friends. They took in a few popular"hot spots" there, then ended up atWall Lake, dancing to the tunes of TedFio Rito's band. Everyone had a won-derful time and Evelyn still insists thatshe didn't suffer a hang-over. Wonderwhat her prescription is?

During the past few weeks, JackieSchaffer has acquired a fondness forsoftbeall games. Could it be that heart-throb Don Naylor plays on the DixboroAthletic Club team? Anyway, Jackiedashes around the office singing "TakeMe Out To The Ball Game" and as weunderstand it, Don does just that.

TabulatingDepartment

There was a picnic on June 13th atRoy Hiscock's cottage, at which theCost Dept., Tabulating Dept., Person-nel, First Aid and Payroll Dept. gath-ered. Everyone enjoyed themselves andthe refreshments were exceptionally

od. Too bad Rockman can't learn tocatch a baseball.

Dottie Bisson would like to knowhow she could chisel a Saturday morn-ing off, and not have anyone knowabout it.

Sid Wiener thinks it a waste of mon-ey to buy a movie camera, as everytime you wish to take pictures, it rains.

Kay Bond still has hope that some-day her husband will have every week-end off, so she can see him once in awhile.

Alice Blanchard would like to knowwhere she could find an extra packageof gum to keep on hand for the boss forSaturday mornings.

If anyone cares to have a good break-fast and have no place to go, drop inat Helen Pearce's. She wouldn't mind,as she serves breakfast for six at 8:00A.M.

Garrie and Bruce

Garrie David, age 5V2, and BruceAlan, age 2 months, are the sons ofMr. and Mrs. Harold Yates. Haroldworks in the Tool Designing Depart-ment.

Payroll andTimekeeping

"Scotty" and Terry (Mr. and Mrs.)Michal.

We do greatly miss Scotty Michalwho left our midst last week. Her hus-band, Terry, having completed his class-es here on the Campus with flying colors—and accepting a position in Forestry,which takes him to Wisconsin. Well, itis "back home" for Scotty. She willspend a few weeks with folks in Mosi-nee, then on to Solon Springs wherethey hope to find a place of abode,which shouldn't be difficult 'cause Terryis to have charge of 73,000 acres offorest, so surely there's a cave or a bighollow tree which might be vacant. Wehave enjoyed Scotty in our office, eventhough it was only for a few months.Our wishes for the best of luck followthem, and we hope to hear from themoften.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dean (MarieSmiley, formerly of Payroll) becamethe proud parents of a baby daughterDiane Marie, weighing 9'A pounds onJune Sth. Marie had a phone at herbed side and was able to call the girlsin payroll and talk to several of them.Congratulations, Marie, and best of luck.

June 13th was a lucky day for theoffices who accepted Roy Hiacock's in-vitation to dinner and refreshments athis cottage at Lakeland. A very deli-cious dinner was prepared and thecrowd arrived at about 6 P. M.

The following menu was served:Hot barbequed sandwishes

potato saladpotato chips radishes

• onions pickleswith plenty of coffee

Joe Clemens, Mrs. Clemens andBarry stopped in for a short time.Barry certainly enjoyed the fire andstrolling around the group of cars.

Gene Schumann arrived when everyone had had plenty to eat and were ina singing mood. Russ Warren andGlenn Harrie gave a very good imper-sonation of a Kaliope. Charlie Gray,and Charlie Newman took turns row-ing the children and then the Rockmanboys took over. A very fast game ofcatch ball or "snooks" was played bythe more athletic part of the group withthe ball heading for the lake on severaloccasions.

"Ken Tyler" came to the rescue ofFrances Watterworth who found her-self getting colder each moment. He ad-ministered first-aid by racing her aroundthe garden to step up her circulation. Atabout 9 P.M. we retired to the cottagewhich was a little more comfortablethan the cool out-of-doors at that time,but four of us certainly enjoyed thatbonfire and weren't going to let it goto waste.

A very good time was enjoyed by alland we thank Roy and Mrs. Hiscockfor their kind invitation and for enter-taining such a large crowd of our folks,about 40 in all.

I wonder if that train ever came inthat Rocky, Terry and Charlie wentto meet? Also, anyone raising moreonions than they can use, might let acertain little gal in Personnel know aboutit. She may be interested in taking themoff your hands. How about that?

Are You A Member?

Argus Recreation ClubEnroll Today

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Argus Flying ClubOur hero of the month this time is

Brother Ace Mervel Smith, who soloeda few weeks ago. He did an excellentjob on that first ride all alone, as wecan testify from personal observation.Congratulations, Smitty. From whereI am sitting it looks as if John Poetonis going to be the next member to makea first solo flight. He is getting to thepoint where he is flying the airplane,instead of the airplane him. VerneNelson successfully completed his re-quired solo cross-country flight lastmonth by flying from here to Saginawand Port Huron. His trip was unevent-ful except for having to sit down inPontiac to wait for a storm to pass.Hail to the pilot who has seen enoughto know that it doesn't pay to flythrough bad weather. Verne has enoughtime on his book now, and it should notbe too long before he can take a crackat getting his private license.

. Smitty has been appointed Mainte-nance Officer, and under his directiontwo or three times a month some ofthe members get together to clean theship and make minor repairs. The shiplooks pretty nice, Smitty, all polishedup.

Last month Don Feder flew the planeon a weekend cruise to Rochester, N. Y.to visit his folks. We'll let him tell youabout it: "We left at 6:45 A.M. becausethe weather around the lower lakesregion was expected to be very poor byafternoon, owing to a low which wasmoving in from the west.

It was cloudy and had just stoppedraining, but the visibility was okeh andit held all the way just as the weatherman had promised.

We stopped at the Cleveland Munici-pal Airport to gas up and get a bite toeat. This field is a bit awe-inspiring toa small town boy. We landed in a cor-ner of the field, however, and taxied acouple of miles up to the hangar line.The wind was so strong that we had totie the plane down.

Because of the rail strike there wererumors that all private planes were tobe grounded to conserve fuel. Withvisions of spending the weekend on apark bench in Cleveland, we grabbeda few sandwiches and checked out im-mediately.

Then we flew to Jamestown wheremy passenger left, and I flew on toRochester alone. This territory was fa-miliar and the trip uneventful.

On the return trip, we ran into ratherspotty visibility and the air was veryrough. We had no difficulty, however,in hitting all our check points, includ-ing the Toledo airport where we landed.This is a beautiful field. You shouldvisit it sometime.

The Coupe performed beautifully,and the engine never gave us any anxi-ety. The Lycoming is very quiet andthis makes it ideal for cross country.

You may be interested in the statis-tics: total distance, 775 miles; totaltime, 10.8 hours; total gasoline, 42 gal-lons; oil, none, which adds up to ouraverage cruising speed of 72 miles perhour at I8V2 miles to the gallon at acost of less than 2'A cents per mile perpassenger. Not bad for private air trans-portation!"

Production ControlProduction Control has two new

members, Caroline Wiley and FrancesNoreen Conklin. Up until February,when she was discharged, Noreen wasan officer in the Wac's at the MedicalEnlisted Technician School, Camp Ater-bury, Indiana where she was Supply andTransportation Officer for the school.

If you've never seen a one-arm-paper-hanger at work, you can get a roughidea of how busy he is by watchingJack Covey answering phone calls,writing requisitions for production ma-terial, checking in-coming shipmentsand keeping a puzzled look on his faceall simultaneously. Jack is one of thefew people who doesn't believe in thebarometer because on his last fishing tripup North, there was a considerableamount of snow and the fish didn't real-ize that the season had opened. Betterluck next time Jack; but that just goesto show what can happen to a MaterialControl Supervisor who takes time offto go on a fishing trip.

Things are in pretty bad shape whenan expert at ordering Raw Materiallike Leon.Q Breisch stands in line forhours to get a little Raw Meat. You'dthink that with her experience that shecould get it without standing in line. Ofcourse, that's about all you can expectnow-a-days when you don't patronizethe black market.

Receiving Inspection

The department wished MarjorieYoung a fond farewell on June 7th,by presenting her with gifts and decor-ating her table with flowers and signs.After five years of service with Argusand the Inspection Department, sheleaves us to become Mrs. Gordon Holli-day of Detroit. She will be married onthe 29th of June. Many of her friendsfrom Argus are planning to attend thewedding. Surely Marjorie will neverforget us after the way we teased her.We certainly will not forget her for theswell sport she is, and we wish she andGordon the best luck in the world.

We welcome to the department Har-old Lesperance, just out of the Mar-ines, and Howard Nelson, back fromthe Navy. Hope you like it here, boys.

Bessie Coon says all good people areborn on June 8th. Can't you guess,Bessie celebrated her birthday on thatdate. June 8th also proved to be ahappy day for Jerry McCroskey, as hewas presented with a fine red headedbaby boy. We extend our congratula-tions.

We all enjoyed our little vacationover Memorial Day.

Seems like Leola Stoner and AggieThurston just love to shop in the rain.They went to Jackson the Friday afterMemorial day and of course it rained.

Leola took a trip over the holidays

Cost CapersJune is here and the birds probably

are chirping, bees buzzing, etc. We ofthe Cost Department would never know.The sound of GREMLINS working be-low and on all sides of us with airhammers, regular hammers, pipe wren-ches, etc., have drowned out all othersounds. It is getting so people can'teven enjoy spring fever anymore.

One sometimes wonders about onesfellow men. Bob, with a group of hisBrother Masons, goes to Canada sup-posedly to receive inspiration of somesort or other. When he returns, all helas to report is what a whallop Can-adian beer packs, and the best way toget it. All useful information, I amsure—providing you are a Canadian.

The spring weather has made Kath-ryn take a good look at her car. Shelas discovered three colors showing andsays it is time to add the fourth. Alsohreatens to paint it herself. That way

when she finishes, she and the car willae the same color.

to her parents' cabin on Saginaw Baynear Standish. Too bad it wasn't bassseason.

Mary Jane Fike went to Leipsic, Ohio,to visit her parents, down on the farm.Did you bring home the bacon, Mary?

The rest of us just washed windowsput up screens, went to the farm, visit-ed neighbors, went to Milan to see"Pappy", cleaned closets and attics andjust raised the devil, in general. Mon-day we all came back to work with asigh.

If you see something streaking downthe highway, hitting on two, that willbe Doris Layer and company in thenew buggy, a model T Ford, 1926 vin-tage. She says it gets you there andback, anyway.

We are happy to have Bernice Wilsonback after a short illness.

Laura Egeler's son, Bob, was in tosee us while home on leave from theArmy.

Cecille FitzGerald and husband,Tom, took a trip to Alpena to attendthe Regional Probation Officers Conven-tion.

We hear Helen Clough, our W/operator, has a new assistant. "He" haseven invented a new hair-dress calledthe "Chicken Cut". How about that,Helen?

Roy is also having troubles. Seemslike the weeds in his yard manage tokeep just one jump ahead of him.Weeds can be a menace to a game o£golf as well as to the yard.

"Happy Birthday to You" was thetheme around the office on the 16th.Marilyn and Glenn were well awarethat Old Father Time had chalked upanother year against them. That paddlewill convince anyone, especially if Gracegets her hands on it. However, the dayhad its brighter side, too. The gangcame through with ice cream and cakefor a celebration.

If this food shortage keeps on therewon't be anything the modern girldoesn't know. Gert has met the emer-gency by learning how to bake bread.

What is that cloud of smoke goingdown the road? It's only Glenn in hisnew OIL BURNER! He now holds therecord for the most oil burned in anycar between here and Hancock. Jackwill vouch for it.

We will end up with a bit of wisdomAs Barnum's horse said, "There's a foalborn every minute."

Returned Veterans

WILLIAM FISCHERPolishing Department

WILBUR SALOWCentering Department

FRANCIS WRIGHTProcess Control

PAUL MCCOYGrinding Department

HARRY ESKINCentering Department

CHARLES SWANEYGrinding Department

GERARD BUHRMANMechanical Engineer