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FORGET YOUR CARES

AND TROUBLES FOR

A DAY AND COME

TO THE FAMILY

PICNIC.

e 30, 1949 * Published by and for the Employees of the Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Penna. * Vol. 7 No. Copyright, 1949, Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Penna.

HAMILTON FAMILY PICNIC JULY 9 AT ROCKY Election Of Officers And Talks By G. P. Luckey

And Alex Osborn Highlights Of HMA June Meeting

The new ILJU.A. officers for the 1949-50 term are: Front row (L to R) : Rola:nd Bi~er (Assem. "B") 1st vice-president, H. C. Dobbs (Sect. Supt.) president, Joe Butson (Damask.) 2nd vice-president. Back Row (L to R): Al Mathews (Training Supv.) secretary and M. C. Smith (Budget) treasurer.

The highlights of the final meet­ing of the 1948-49 Hamilton Man­agement Association season held June 6th in the Auditorium were:

(1). The election of new H .M .A. officers for the 1949-50 season.

(2). An interesting talk, "How To Hunt Ideas" illustrated with 42 slides by Alex Osborn of the advertising firm of Batten, Bar­ton, Durstine and Osborn, Hamil­ton's national advertising agency.

(3). An informal talk by G. P. Luckey (V. P . in Charge of Mfg.) on "Observations in Switzerland" followed by a question and answer session in which M. F. Manby (Dir. of Eng. ) and Mr. Luckey an­swered the questions presented by the audience on the Swiss watch industry.

The new H.M.A. officers elected

for the 1949-50 term are: H. C. Dobbs (Sect. Supt.) president; R. P. Bitzer (Assem. "B") 1st vice president; J. E. Butson (Damas­keening) 2nd vice-president; A. J. Mathews (Training Supv. ) secre­tary ; and M. C. Smith (Budget) treasurer. The executive board elected for a one year ter.m is composed of : R. M. Kuhns (Dial), Paul Seibel (Sales) and J. R. Brill (Spec. Assem.)

Mr. Osborn, whose recent book, "Your Creative Power," which is in its fourth printing, was intro­duced by Carl Williams, vice­president of Batten, Barton, Dur­stine & Osborn, who in turn was introduced by Bob Waddell (Dir. of Advertising).

Mr. Osborn, whose talk, "How (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)

The speak el'S a t t he iJune ff.MA. meetin g were, Alex Osborn of B.B.D. & 0 a nd G. P. L u ck ey, V .P. in Charge of l\lfg.

I PICNIC COMMITTEES I The following committees have

been appointed to handle the Hamilton Family Picnic:

General Committee: Garth Hacker (T & C), Nancy Brown (T & M Study), Marcia Hughes (Watch Res.) , Jinx Ganse (Insp.) and Woody Rathvon (Insp.).

R egistration Committee : Gene Barber (Prod. Con.), Kitty Young (Sec. to R. Waddell) , Betty Mar­tin (Sales), M . C. Smith (Budget), Dick Dietz (Watch Res.) and Bet­ty Bassett (Watch Res.) .

Publicity Committee: R. J . Gun­der (Dealer Serv.), Bob Welsh (Dealer ServJ , N ed Aurand (Chem-Met), Francis Meyer (Watch Des.), AI Mathews (Train­ing Supv.) and C. H. Frey (Per­sonnel).

Dance Committee: Yvonne John­son (Cost Analysis) , Carl Yecker (Eng. Serv.), Mary Jane Hecker (Material Sales), Bill Gassman (Works Lab.), Pat Bixby (Cost Analysis), Jean Sherick (Bal. Staff), Betty Marshall (Prod. Disp.) and Joe Centini (Equip. & Tool Des.).

Amateur Show Committee: Sam Bard (Prod. Con.) , Herb R,oberts (Prod. Disp.), Ed Hendrix (Mate­rial Sales) and Wally Bork (Proc. Engr.). Game Committee:

Girls & B oys 2 to 4 Yrs : Arlene Bullock (Timing), Jean Flick (Plate), Buelah Stauffer (Mat'! Sales), Emma Frick (Mat'l Sales), Hazel Keller (Case), Lois Brandt (Case), Dave Goldberg (Chem­Met) and Dick Denlinger (Watch Res.).

Girls & Boys 4 to 6 Yrs.: Ray Erisman (Maintenance), Alice J ohnson (Dial), Joyce Rhen (Per­sonnel), Ira Fickes (Mach. Exp.), Sam R oh re r (Personnel), Joe Brill (Spec. Assem.), Elizabeth Wintermyer (Casing), Mary Mc­Murtrie (Adv.) and Don Smith (Mach. Elxp.).

Boys 6 to 10 Yrs.: Bill Carey (Prod. Con.), Jinx Ganse (Insp. ), Frank Remley (Proc. Plan.), Tom Stump (Prod. Con.), George Falk (T & C ), Russ Hershey (Stocks & Stores), Charley Kauffman (Cas­ing) , George DorwP.rt (Mainten­ance), Don Smith (Mach. Exp.), Ed Long (Works Lab.) , Howie Marzolf (Works Lab.) and Bill Dinges (Process Plan.).

Gir ls 6 to 10 Yrs: Julia Heida (Stocks & Stores) , Fran ces Burk­h1i.rt (Dial), Theda Hallacher (Adv.), Arlene Hoff (Plan . Div. Sec.). Erla Witmer (Plate), Mur­iel Turton (Quality Div. Sec.) , Doris Shindell (Plate), Mae Ev­a ns (Order) and Doris B u rgess (T & G).

B oys 10 to 15 Yrs. : Fred A. Hauer (Prod. Sch eduling), W. S. Davis (Dir. of Planning), J oe Gegg (Prod. Con. Supt.), Frank H eck­endorn (Spec. Mfg.) , S k ip Wise (Spec. AssemJ, . Len Kissinger (Service), Amy K line (Ma inten­a n ce), Charles Gehr (Mach. Shop)., Charley Cibos <Escape), Ken

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Park Open 11 A. M. To 5:30 P. M. Bus Service Every 8 Minutes. As Many Rides As You Like On 9 Amuse· ments, Plus Dance, Amateur Show & Swimming. In Case Of Rain, Picnic Will Be Held On July 16.

The day you've been waiting for all year is Saturday, Ju' y 9. That's the date of the Hamilton Family Picnic at Rocky Springs Park. The gates swing open at 11 a. m. a n d close at 5 :30 p. m .

During that time you, your fam­ily and your relatives, all for the price of a single dollar bill, can enjoy rides as often as you like on the roller coaster, airplanes, whip, m e rry-go-round, bumping cars, miniature railroad, ferris wheel, fun house and speed boat, plus an amateur show, kids' games, swim­ming and a guessing contest.

Buses will leave Duke & East King streets every eight minutes starting at 10 :30 a. m . and through the day the bus service will be closely checked so that transpor­tation will be at ample intervals when you desire to go home.

If you intend driving to the pic­nic there will be plenty of avail­able parking space.

If you are planning on brin g­ing a basket lunch (and who isn't? ), there will be plenty of picnic tables available throughout the park. If you have any parti­cular table in mind, it is suggested you get there early and reserve it.

Concerning swimming, the only request the Rocky management

makes is that you bring your own suit, soap and towel.

If you roller skate, the park management has announced re­duced prices will prevail for all Haf!iilton employees, families and relatives who care to use the rink.

The only amusement which is not free to Hamilton employees' youngsters is the miniature air­plane for kiddies up to six years of age, a new amusement at the park. The regular everyday ad­mission price on this amusement will be charged.

The dance with Monnie Wike and his four m en of swing hand­ling the music, featuring Eddie Rumpf (Raw Mat'! Stock) at the piano, will be h eld in the ballroom near the swimming pool from 2:30 until 5:30 p .m . Various priz.es will be awarded during the da nce.

In the outdoor theatre down by the Conestoga Creek an amateur show will be staged from 4 :30 to 5:30 p. m . Entries for this show will be taken until starting time. If you are interested or any of your family or relatives have tal­ent along these lines and wish to enter between now and showtime, they may do so by contacting one

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Bounce your car es awa y on the bumping cars.

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Volume 7 Timely Topics Number 6

EDITORIAL BOARD WALLACE BORK, Chair., Proc. Engineering

J. ED. MILLER, Case Order Division MARGARET SHADE, Chem. and Met. Res.

HAZEL KELLER, Case Office

EDITORIAL STAFF General News and Production, CHARLES H . FREY

Personnel Consultant. R. A. PRESTON Cartoonist, CHARLES SHINDELL, Jr. Copyright, 1949, Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Penna.

Quotation or reproduction forbidden unless permission has been granted.

LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA. JUNE 30, 1949

John G. (Jack) Manning After 29¥2 Years Of Faithful Service Retires From Hamilton

Like the other employees before him who reached the end of the line in their careers at Hamilton and who regretted leaving the Com­pany because they all enjoyed working here, John G. "Jack" Man­ning of the Friction Jeweling Department retired on May 31 after 29 1h years with the Company.

Jack, who has been a watchmaker for 42 years, said as he sat on a bench in the sun on the West Tower lawn during his last noontime rest period on May 31st, "It's rough to say, so long, because I really liked it at Hamilton."

Jack was a well liked employee as was evident by the $50.00 pre­sented to him by his Friction Jeweling mates on the day he retired.

A sports mag, a cigarett;e and Jack Manning

Born in London, England, May 10, 1884, Jack came to America with his parents when he was six years old. The family settled in Wal­tham, Mass., where Jack received his early education.

He started his career in the watchmaking industry when he was 23 years old, going to work as a stem fitter with the Howard Watch Company in 1907. After five years with this Company, Jack came to Hamilton in 1914 where he worked in the Finishing Department un­der William Manby. He worked here until 1916 when he returned to Waltham and got a job with the watch company of that town from 1919 to 1921.

Back to Hamilton he came in the fall of 1921 where he worked steadily until his retirement. Jack was a stem fitter in T & C until 1932 when he was transferred to Finishing where he did stem, and cannon pinion fitting. In 1937, he was again transferred, this time to the Friction Jeweling Department where he worked on the can­non pinion fitting job until his retirement.

Happily married for 33 years, Jack has two sons, Gordon, 32, and Frank, 30, both college graduates. Gordon received his degree in journalism from Boston University, while Frank is a graduate of F. & M. and the University of Pittsburgh. Gordon worked for the United Press before the war, and when he was honorably discharged he became managing editor of Sportfolio magazine (hence the rea­son for his pappy reading the mag in the above picture). Frank is manager of the Southwest Chair Comp~y of Lincolnton, North Car­olina.

Hamiltons To World's Record Endurance Fliers And Capable Ground Crew

Endurance fliers Bill Barris and Dick Riedel, who established a new world's record marathon flight of 1008 hours, 1 minute and 50 seconds covering 42 days in the ajr in their "Sunkist Lady," re­ceived Hamilton strap watches (Neil model) at a testimonial dinner honoring their endurance achievement at City Hall Audito­rium, Fullerton, California, on May 3, as well as the four mem-

bers of the ground crew-Dean Bellinger, Lloyd Colboch, Frank 1

Miller, Don Janson.

The watches were presented by Taylor Jacobson, Hamilton retail jeweler in Fullerton and master of ceremonies at the event, in be­half of the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, who sponsored the fight. Mr. Jacobson also headed the fund-raising campaign tor $3,500 to underwrite .the flight.

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Family Picnic (Continued from Page 1, Col. 5) of the amateur show committee members.

Contests for kiddies an.d teen­agers will be held from 3 to 4 p. m. on the field to the left of the main park entrance. There will be all sorts of games with prizes awarded to the winners.

During the day seven Mainten­ance employees (Harry Herr, Abe Young, Charley Wagner, Frank Aument, Charlie Frey, Frank Zecher, Dave Kitch) will circulate around the various amusements to keep fun-seekers coming off rides from getting ahead of people who have been standing in line wait­ing to get on.

For those who want to pitch quoits, the quoits will be at the boxes located left of the main park entrance.

Those employees who have not as yet purchased tickets may do so from their departmental clerks here at the factory.

Don't wait until picnic day to secure tickets because, despite the fact there will be a registra­tion desk located in the center of the park, there may be only a few tickets remaining and you run the chances of not being able to purchase any.

That's it, mates. That's the story of the pre-picnic set-up. The rest is up to you. Be on hand on July 9 and have more fun than you've had in a long time. As a closing reminder, in case of rain, the picnic will be held at Rocky on July 16.

HOW SECURE IS YOUR JOB?

Between issues of TIMELY TOPICS much outside written matter passes over the editor's desk. Most of it packs little punch for suitable reading. However, every once in a while a good piece of copy does come in. We ran across such a release the other day which we figure is power packed with plenty of food for thought. Its title is, "How Secure Is Your Job?" It follows:

"Security is the aim of almost everyone who works for a living. The question is, how do you get job security? What formula do you apply to find a place you can stay in and grow in?

"There · are two things a man or woman who wants that kind of a job should do:

"Pick an employer who is mak­ing a profit.

"Help him to continue to make a profit.

"For there is no security for any employee, in any business, unless that business is making money.

"Why is this so? For the an­swer, see what business does with profits.

"Business pays out profits-as compensation to investors who risk their savings. And investors

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- ... OON·-T FORGET

THE ANNUAL HAMILTON

FAMILY PICNIC SATURDAY JULY 9

(RAIN DATE JULY 18)

. ~ DANCING ~~ SWIMMING

~ AM/ISEMENTS

GAMES FOR EVERYONE

ROCKY SPRINGS PARK

e MAKIN' WITH THE WORDS e They're callin' Ray Foultz (Statistics) "Shad Beater" these days . . .

Seems the boys went fishing the other Satdee down at Conowingo .. . Before they went, a pool was made up with the dough going to the guy who caught the first fish .... Nobody caught any until late in the day when Ted Franklin (Sales) hooked a white shad and played it up to the boat where Foultz grabbed it and beat its skull in with a butterfly net, then laughed when it slipped out of his hands and flopped back into the water .... Just how far will a guy go to keep an honest citizen from gettin' two bucks?

T. T. lost a top correspondent when Marillyn Bond of Watch Re­search left the Co. on May 20 .... Bill Boyle (Hspg. Mfg.) sez if those sheep don't get out of the middle of the road when he comes through Lime Valley on his way to work, he'll pull into the parkin' lot some morning with lamb chops all over his fenders ..... Esther Bowman (Train), a would-be farmerette, awoke one recent morning the sole owner of a flock of chicken .pox .... Edna Weber (Train) stood wait­ing for a Millersvill~ bus and two passed while she was day dreaming.

The top soil taken from the new portion of the South Parking Lot has been stored at the west end of the old Wheatland Parking Lot where it will be used for grading around the outside of the new Research & Engineering Laboratory bldg ..... Rudolph "Dude" Wil­liams, who retired from the Service Department last Oct. after 47 years with the Co., returned for a visit on May 24 . ... Dude and his wife are now located in Tampa, Fla., where he is in business .... Bar­bara Eshleman (Prod. Disp.) had the 11:15 club play ''Red Roses For A Blue Lady" by Guy Lombardo for her on May 17.

Here's a double take for you .... Bob Funnan and .Harry Hough­ton, both of Bal. & Hspg., and who both work on the vibrating ma­chine on different shifts, were both painting the other week and both fell off their ladders ... Both suffered injuries ... Now they're both bMk at work .... Bob Braner (Bal. & H spg.) owns a TV set . ... Those were good lookin' color shots Ed Joline (Maintenance) took of his depart­ment's recent safari to World's End, Pa ..... Speakin' of good pictures, did you ever look at Ken Trees (lnsp.)) the first thing in the morn­ing?

Paul McGeehan (Adv.) got himself married on May 28 ... . He'll reside in Manheim .. . . Those "No Game Today" signs which hang in­side the East and West Tower entrances and at the Wheatland Ave. guard house when rain postpones games in the HRA Men's Softball League, are all right. .... They keep the employees posted . .... And speaking of the Men's League did you know that the softballs used for the games cost $3.00 apiece? .... Red Shanabrook (Fin.), who is whipcracker over the circuit, figures this will be a rugged season be­cause the guys at this early date seem to be playin• for keeps.

If you got a spare hour sometime, lend a lobe to Dick (Case) Leinaweaver's "Dad's Old Fashioned Root Beer" gag ... It'll give you a burp .... Lyn Wallick (Train) reports his favorite team is the Phil­adelphia Phillies .... Sez the A's are lucky .... The Chorus was in the midst of "As Torrents In The Sununer" number at the Concordia Lutheran Church, Chestnut Hill, on May 22, when the thunder roared and the lightning flashed outside to give a more realistic setting to the words .... At the same concert Nancy Brown (T.&M. Study) and Catherine Smith (B.&F.S.) were dueting when the lights went out.

G. P. Luckey <V. P. in Charge of Mfg.) admits he was cold from April 28 until his boat docked in N . Y. on May 24 .... The Swiss weath­er is chilly .... But both M. F. Manby (Dir. of Eng.) and Mr. Luckey admit that Albert Vuille (Foreign Representative) was the perfect chaperone .... Lillian Hertz (B.&F.S.) used to be president of arch­ery at Manor High .... Ray Ulmer, coach of the Maple Grove swim­ming team, pays frequent visits · to the cafeteria as a salesman.

Harry Stirling (Plat.e) used to be an iceman .... While Marian Shoff (Train) is a former gym captain at Manor Hi ..... To say noth-ing of Jane Sherts (Cost Analysis) being a member of the Columbia Hi Press Club Willie (Traffic) Reapsome's son, Jim, has been on the Dean's List at F. & M. every semester but 0tne since his fresh­man, year .... He'll be a senior next fall .... That's a fine record and Willie's .proud of his kid.

Sox Weaver (Service) became pappy for the second time on May 2 when Mrs. Weaver introduced him to Linda Marie, a 5 lb. 12 oz. baby gal. .. .,Sox's other daughter is Sharron Ann .... The lawn bench­es made their first appearance on the campus in mid-May .... That employment sign off Columbia & S. W. End Avenues with i.ts arrow pointing towar(.l the West Tower entrance could stand a fresh coat of paint. ... Glad to see Art McCormick (Cafe) back at work after a recent illness .... Muriel Turton (Sec. to A. B. Sinkler) has added 15 pounds of highly becoming weight .... Lois Rohrer, who used to be in Statistics, is now iri the Adv. Dept.

Harry Wolpert (Plate) is a graduate of the Hollywood Beauty School. ... Got his diploma in seven months .... We wanna know if guard Abraham Lincoln Young made the recording for that laugh used by the Rocky Springs Ij'un House .... Joe Brooks (Quality Con· trol) sez his seven or eight year old muzzie is beginning to turn red. .... H e definitely will not knock it off because he can save two min­utes per shave by letting it attached .... The long and short of life was on display the other noon in the cafe when Johnnie Dirks (Fin.), s, ft_ 3 in., stood beside Francie Meyer (Watch Des.), 5 ft. 4., at the candy counter .... Did you notice that Secretary of State Dean Ache­son wears the same style hat as Elvie Silvius? .... So what? .... So Achie's a snitch!

Hank Kirkpatrick (Process Eng.) and his Missus-to-be will fly down to Cuba on their honeymoon and boat it back .... Wally Bork of the same dept., still thinks Cleveland is the team to beat in the American circuit .... The dimensions of the cornerstone of the new Research & Engineering Lab., which will be located to the left of the Main Entrance, ground floor, will be 30" wide, 12" high, and 16" deep .... While the T.T. camera wasn't on the spot when the first brick was placed in the new Research & Engineering Lab., we know two guys who were, they were Mark Ryder (Quality Control) and Marlin Boyer (Service). .

Les McCrabb, who used to pitch for "Our Roses,'' but who is now batting practice and bull pen employee for the A's, gets $8,000 per annum, according to C. Dietrich (B.&F.S.).

HMA Meeting (Continued from Page 1, Col. 2)

To Hunt Ideas," was based on the use of the imagination to stimu­late ideas. He aimed his talk at the H.M.A. audience, although its significance could be carried into any field of endeavor. To illus­trate his talk, he used 42 slides on how different ideas created from the imagination worked in adver­tising. As the slides appeared on the screen, Mr. Osborn followed with a script, thus showing the audience the various idea angles used to "sell" the products by means of these advertisements. Operating the slide projector for Mr. Osborn was Dick Pond, also a member of the B .B .D.&O. agency.

Mr. Luckey, who spoke straight from the shoulder on his recent observations in Switzerland, told H.M.A. members that, "Apparently from all signs, the Swiss are mak­ing money from the manufactur­ing of watches. Because of favor­able tax laws they are able to re­habilitate and re-equip their fac­tories with the most modern and newest type machinery. Machine builders are busy improving ma­chines so they can replace the old equipment with new equipment."

Mr. Luckey, who with Mr. Man­by made a three weeks' tour of the Swiss watch industries, said one of the most interesting devel­opments by the Swiss watch parts manufacturers in recent years is in the improvement and the strides they have made in cutting tools and their use. "Anything we want made in the way of tools," he said, "they can duplicate in tungsten carbide."

The Swiss have perfected tung­sten carbide for use in tools to the point of making small circular saws 3/1000 thick and small drills for drilling smallest copper beryl­lium balance wheels. To make full use of using tungsten carbide tools, special equipment has been developed for grinding and sharp­ening tools, and the newest parts makjng machines have been es­pecially designed to make full use of the speeds and feeds made pos­sible by using these tools.

"The chief aim of the Swiss," concluded Mr. Luckey," is to turn out more accurate parts at lower costs."

Following his talk and the brief question and answer session which Mr. Manby and he conducted with the audience, Mr. Luckey showed some 30 color slides of factories, machinery and country scenes of Switzerland which he took on the trip.

Tick Yockers Hold June Bingo Party And Picnic

June was a big month for the Hamilton Tick Tock Club with a picnic on the 14th and a bingo party on the 21st.

The picnic was held on Flag Day in Buchanan Park with 21 members in attendance.

With 40 people present the bin­go party on the 21st at Beulah Stauffer's home near Kissel Hill was a big success with prizes awarded to the winners.

On June 8th, the Tick Tockers sent five cartons of clothing to New York where it was shipped out to Europe's needy. The club also has m a de arrange­

ments for a corn roast to be held sometime in September at Miss Stauffer's home.

Picnic Committees (Continued from Page 1, Col. 9)

McMurtie (Fact. Rates & Costs Plan.1, Johnnie Sheets (Machine Shop), Charley Peters (Press) and Dick Vaughan (Cost Analyst).

Girls 10 to 15 Yrs.: Mollie King (Plate), Grace Ursprung (Plate), Helen Rini ck (Train), Anna Mae Snader (Sec. to G. P . Luckey), Ethel Brown (Prod. Disp..) and Carolyn Delaney (Finishing).

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Hamilton Chorus Closes Successful Season Advertising Dept. Has With Banquet At Manheim And Election Of Officers Xmas Campaign Ready The Hamilton Chorus with 56

members present closed out a suc­cessful 1948-4.9 season with a ban­quet held at the Manheim Legion on June 6th at which time the officers for 1949-50 were elected.

The new officers are: Ed Joline (Maintenance) president; Charley Habecker (Bal. & F . S. ) 1st vice­president; Paul Harnish (Bal & F. S.) 2nd vice-president; Anna Mae Snader (Sec. to G. P. Luckey) secretary; and Helen Harmon (Case Office) treasurer. The ex-

Beulah Stauffer presents flowers to Miss Satchel Snout Gassman, the winnah.

ecutive board, elected for a one year term are: Catherine Smith (Bal. & F. SJ, Bob Ferguson (Stocks and Stores) and Arlene Hoff (Sec. to Wyn Davis).

The retiring officers were: Bill Gassman (Works Lab.) president; Bill Mack (Press) 1st vice-presi­dent ; Francis Meyer (Watch Des.)

HMA President Dobbs Appoints Committeemen

H . C. Dobbs, newly elected president of the Hamilton Man­agement Association, appointed HMA members to the Member­ship, Educational, and Social-Rec­reational committees recently.

Membe rs of a fourth committee. By-Laws, have not as yet been selected.

T l1e Membership Committee is composed of: Jack Leaman (Pur­chasing). Sam Rohrer (Person­nel), Bill Sterling (Process Eng.), Russ Philip (Chem-Met), Fred Judith (Quality Control), Russ Markert (Bal. Staff) and Horace Smith (T & C).

Members of the Educational Committee are: M. N . Rivenberg (Adv. Prod. Mgr. ), R. A. Preston <Dir. of Ind. Rel.) , Russ Hershey (Stocks & Stores Supv. ), Harry Hovis (Works Lab. ), Clair Shenk (Hspg. Assem.) , Harold Shoff (Train ) and Bob Wenzel (Assem. "B").

The Social-Recreational Com­mittee is composed of: Paul Rod­gers (Cafe.), Lloyd Fichtner (Jewel Set.), Wally Bork (Pro­cess Eng.), Bob Coxey (Escape), Jay Mueller (Plate), Bill Fordney (Dial), W . W . Macintyre (Ma­chine Shop), Gene Barber (Prod. Con.) and Marvin Hess (Damask.)

The annual Hamilton Manage­ment Association picnic will be held on Saturday, August 27 at Wheatland Park. The Social­Recreational Committee will be in charge of the affair with Bill Fordney (Works Lab.) acting as chairman of the group.

2nd vice-president; Jean Doll (Prod. · Dispatch) secretary; and Lois Brandt (Case) treasurer. The retiring executive board was com­posed of: E 'd Joline (Mainten­ance), Esthe r Miller (Jewel Set­ting) and Ira Wolf (Material Sales). Jane Hougendobler (Plate) and Harry McCullen <Insp.), ap­pointed last season to a two year executive board term, still have another year remaining.

The guests of the evening were: Harry Lawrence (Treasurer), Dorothy Brachtendorf (Prod. Dis­patch) and Bill Bennett, who teamed with Paul Harnish in the "Sonny Boy" act in the Spring concert.

R,etiring president Gassman and director Abe Longenderfer (Bal. & F . S.) spoke briefly.

The feature attraction of the evening, next to the meal of sir­loin steak, was the Miss America Bathing Beauty Contest in which five contestants put their wares on the wire with the judges being Nancy Brown (T & M Study) and Buelah Stauffer (Material Sales).

The competitors in the contest were: Miss Satchel Snout (Bill Gassman), Miss Hammer Head (Gene Bard), Miss Hatchet Face <Dick Leinaweaver), Miss Liver Lip (Herb Roberts ) and Miss Blubber Gut (Paul Harnish) . Dressed and proportioned for the occasion, these "fillies" after strutting their stuff, showed fur­ther talent by each producing a specialty routine. Gassman play­ed " Mary Had a Little Lamb" on the trumpet. Bard went all out on " l Can't Say No," while Lein­aweaver was stellar on the port­able radio. Roberts gave a rib shaking dance, while Harnish tore down the house with his piano workout on Mozart's Concerto in C sharp major via Chop Sticks.

Gassman was declared the win­ner after a dark horse judge, Francie Meyer, entered the pic­ture and cast his vote for the Works Lab. beauty.

BLESSED EVENTS

Hamilton's Advertising Depart­ment and its National Advertising Agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, thinks and works six months in advance as evidenced by the fact that it already has its Christmas advertisement ready with space reserved in sixteen of the top magazines of the country.

As last Christmas season, the thrune of the ads will be centered around, "To Peggy, To Jim," those two young people whose emotional appeal on the American gift buy­ing public produced good business for the Company and many letters of favorable comment to our Ad­vertising Department. The mes­sages incorporated in the ads were so down to earth and pleasing that it was decided by Hamilton to again build its Christmas ads around Peggy and Jim.

Of the sixteen top magazines in which Hamilton Christmas adver­tisement will appear, thirteen will have the Peggy and Jim ads in color in them. The other three magazines, The New Yorker, Har­per's Bazaar and· Vogue will be one page black and white ads featuring a high style campaign of Hamilton women's watches.

The Hamilton Christmas adver­tisements will start rolling in No­vember with double page color spreads in Collier's and the Chris­tian Science Monitor.

During December, double page color spreads will appear in Holi­day, Look, Country Gentleman, Life, and The Saturday Evening Post, with single page color ads in Time, Esquire, National Geo­graphic, American and Red Book.

Vacation Time Can Be Trouble Time. Watch It

Where are you going on your vacation (July 22-Aug. 1)? That's kind of a nosey question isn't it?

Maybe you're going to take a trip somewhere by machine? May­be you're going to the seashore or the mountains?

No matter where you go your Al main purpose is to have a good

Schacheman (Sales) became the time. But in order to have a good On June 14 (Flag Day)

proud Pop of a baby daughter, Nancy Ann Schacheman, a 7-lb. 15-oz. bundle of femme. It was the Schacheman's first child.

Congrats to Morrell Smith (Bud­get) on the birth of his child, Jo­anne, 81h pounds of femme dyna­mite on May 22. The Smittys now have two daughters and one son.

time, let's keep a few things in mind.

(1). If you're driving, take it easy and play it safe.

(2). Watch that sunburn. Get it gradually.

(3). If you're headed for the mountains, watch the poison. Let's have a good time without scratch­ing.

THE START ·Of THE WALLS

The first brick in the new Research & Engineering Laboratory was laid on May 25th. The TIMELY TOPICS camera caught the laying of the first portion of the wall on the east front or auditorium section of the building. Shown behind the wall is Karl Haines, brick­layer, who along with Gord on Mumma (not shown) started the brick construction on its way.

CHOP TALI PRE-PICNIC CHATTER

All roads lead to the Hamilton Family Picnic on July 9 at Rocky Springs ... If it rains that day, the same roads lead to the same park, July 16 ... This will be the third consecutive year the HRA "bought out" the park for the day ... Here's hoping the weatherman turns on the sunshine and heat as he has for the past two picnics ... One of the bright spots of the affair is always the appetizing tables of food that the Moms make and ar­range for the occasion ... This is a big day for the retired employ­ees because it gives them a day in the sun with their old cronies and memories ... While Mom and Pop are walke.d to death trying to keep up, the kids don't care be­cause the rides are free and the old man won't squawk ... It also gives them a chance to bury their noses in cotton candy, munch hot­dogs, shovel in the ice cream, and drink cokes and root beer till they start poppin' buttons ... The thought of stomach ache takes a back seat as they march on and on, while Mom and Pop retire to a bench in the shade ...

All day long, linllS are formed with anxious fun-seekers waiting to ride the whip, merry-go-round, airplanes, wildcat, bumping cars, speed boat and miniature railroad ... Sun bathers with sun lotion us­ually line the pool early with a tan rather than a swim the upper most item in their minds ... The ferris wheel, a new amusement at the park, ought to capture plenty of business ... An amusement with a st.eady pull is the miniature rail­way that chugs along the rim of the Conestoga and once ar<>und the cows on its way back t o the station .. Kids and grown-ups alike rnlish in screaming and shouting on the ups and downs of the noisy wildcat ... It's a ll t here, mat.es, waiting for you to enjoy it .

For the dancers, the tunes and vocals will fil! the afternoon exer­cise for your ambitious feet ... The ballroom will also be a mecca for the old timers where as they sit and watch the younger set work <;>ut on swing and bop, they laugh to think the kids call it dancing ... If you want a cigar try swingin' the sledge against the weight .. Maybe the bell will clang for the pay-off .. We remember last year seeing one femme almost knock the gong off the bell . . . She got a cigar and .daggers from the guy operating the concession ... T. C. Cathey is the Rocky biggie the HRA did bizness with for this picnic ... If you roller skate and you wish to do so at the picnic, that'll be extra.

Last year the picnic was on August 14 and 5600 attended .... The year before that it was Aug­ust 2 with 4000 on hand .... It's growing, mates ... This year we break the 5600 mark, what say? ... 'When you walk around t h e park with a camera, it's amazing how many willing birdie watcher s you run into ... H. C. Dobbs (Sect. Supt.), \Vho was M.C. at the ama­teur show last year, won't be on hand for this picnic ... We remem­ber stopping one little kid las& year and asking him how many times he rode the bumping cars .. Without hesitating he said, "Twenty-five times, and darn it, I'm still five behind my brother." . .. And so it goes, the kids love the rides and they never grow tired ... Whatever you do, don't miss the big $1.00 value on Ju]y 9 . .. You can't go wrong for a buck ... Be there and have fun at the Family Picnic ... D on't forget, if you're going swinuning, bring your own suit, towel and soap ... This is the only request made by the Park management.

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HAMILTON'S AUTOMATIC DEPARTMENT PRODUCES SOME 3,000 ,000 PARTS PER MONTH The Automatic Department which stresses quality improvement on a par

with production as evidenced by its current spoiled parts average of 4.1 % and which has gone as low as 2.1 % weekly as compared with 16% for the year 1946, is composed of seventy employees (49 males, 21 females) and 64 automatic machines.

Automatic, an originating department, makes practically all the finished turned parts such as, center staffs, balance staffs, cannon pinions, spring barrels, barrel arbors, winding clutches, winding pinions, etc. - some 155 scheduled parts in all - plus special parts made for other departments from bar or cylindrical stock of steel, brass, nickel or silver. Screws are not made by Automatic. A conservative monthly estimate of Automatic's production is 3,063,188 parts on 45 Tornos and 19 Brown & Sharpe precision machines.

Each Tornos machine has five to seven tools, these tools in turn per­forming some 60 to 100 tool movements to produce one piece of work. On certain parts like balance staffs, center staffs, etc., tool adjustments are necessary due to the design of the cams. Each Brown & Sharpe machine has eight tools, each tool performing one operation or eight operations to one completed part. The Brown & Sharpe machines are used chiefly to produce parts that are finished turned, semi-finished turned, and roughings which require subsequent turning operations.

Automatic does not deal in a sequence of operational steps as other departments since the precision machines handle the succession of steps all in one operation. This means that the operators of automatic machines must be ever on the alert because they are respon-sible for the quality of parts produced by the machines. The operators must have the skill and the ability to keep the machines o p e r a t i n g at tolerances of 3/ 10,000th and sometimes 2/ 10,000th of an inch on certain jobs. It is also the oper­ators responsibility to see that certain car­bide tipped tools used in the machines are ground properly to maintain the tolerances and finishes required. The only non-ma­chine work done in Automatic is in wash­ing, counting and inspecting the parts. Delivery from this department is made to Parts Stock.

Planner to the Job Boss, who in turn collaborates with the Set-up Man in putting the new job on the machine. The Job Boss then follows through to the completion of the set-up where it must meet the Inspector's approval. The job is then turned over to the operator where it is his responsibility to operate the machine and secure the kind of quality and quantity the job requires.

Quality Control was first applie·d in the Automatic Department in August, 1945. It was here that the Quality Control experiments on machine capability studies, use of control charts and sampling techniques were pioneered success­fully. As a result of these techniques the spoilage in Automatic has been re­duced to a point where 100% inspection is no longer necessary, having been replaced by sampling procedures. Quality Control now furnishes Automatic with important weekly charts, showing individual operator quality and produc­tion performance by shifts.

The Automatic Department is under the supervision of E. L. Mester, Section Superintendent, and Maurice She·arer, Foreman, with Jim McCurdy as the General Job Boss. The other job bosses are: Bill Marks, Art Dirks and Dick Mohn, with the four set-up men being, Jim Hall, Russ Weidman, Harry Lyle and Bob Ulmer.

The oldest member in Automatic is Ben Charles, who has been at Hamil­ton for 29 years.

In the eight pictures taken below by Ned Aurand (Chem. & Met.) for TIMELY T O PICS, the major operations in Automatic are featured.

Automatic's work starts in the Stocks & Stores Department where the request to manufacture is submitted to the Central Planner in the Production Scheduling De­partment who plans the order. The order is then issued to Automatic at the proper time. When the order is received it is immediately scheduled for set-up. The job is handed out by the department's Job 1

E. L. Mester (right), Section Superintend­dent, checks a Tornos cam layout with Maurice Shearer, Foreman of the Auto-

Jim Hall (left), Set-up Man in Automatic, 2 inspects a piece of work off a Brown & Sharpe precision machine operated by Tom

Horst. matic Department.

Two of the newest pieces of equipment in 3 the Automatic Department are the Hamil-ton barrel cap machines shown above with

Dick Mohn (right), Job Boss, looking over a piece of work just handed him by George Mor­gan, who operates the machines.

Husky Harry Glazer is shown sharpening 4 carbide· tipped cutters on diamond wheels. This machine uses two wheels in the pro­

cess, one for roughing, the other for finish lapping.

5 Here is an over-all shot of the Automatic machine room, showing the 42 precision machines in operation. During a day's

work (three shifts), thirty-three operators handle the running of these machines. In the right foreground, wearing a work coat, is Ben Charles, a 29 year man at Hamilton, inspecting a piece of work with Harry Lyle, Set-up Man.

Arlene Mease, who works in Automatic's 6 cleaning and separating room, is shown separating chips from automatic parts by

air. Arlene handles all the work from three shifts or approximately 150,000 parts per day.

Aida· Zorger, chief counter of the Automatic 7 Department, operating an analytical balance scale used to speed up the counting oper­

ation on small, high production parts.

8 Automatic's inspection and counting room is a busy place whe·re some 3,000,000 parts are inspected and counted per month.

Warren Boyer (right-center) is the Inspection Supervisor, while Paul Bucher (standing left) is the Assistant Supervisor.

Ryder Elected Chairman Orchestra Exec. Board

At a r ecent m eeting of the Ham­ilton concer t orchestra executive boa:rd, the group elected Mark Ryder (Quality Control) as chair­man of the boa rd.

The executive board consists of the following members:

Frank H eckendorn (Spec. Mfg.) , Alice Johnson (Prod. Disp.), Ira Fickes, Jr. (Casing), Mark Ryder (Quality Control) and Harold Quickel (Works Lab.), who re­placed Marilyn Bond, no longer with the company.

At this same meeting the execu­tive board as a nominating com­mittee selected the following can­didates for offices in the concert orchestra:

President: Frank Heckendorn (Spec. Mfg. and Jim L e Va n (Mach. EXp.)

Vice-President: Harold Quickel (Works Lab.) and Lou Brethauer (Watch Des.).

Secretary: Jean Doll (Prod. Disp.) and Elaine Graybill (Assem. A).

DON'T WAIT In case you haven't re­

ceived your tickets for the Family Picnic as yet, you can do so by contacting your departmental clerk right now. Don't wa it until' Picnic Day to secure tickets, be­cause, despite the fact that there will be a registration desk located in the center of the park, outside the main pavilion, there may be only a few tickets remaining and you run the chances of not being able to purchase any.

Ballots have been sent out to the 25 employee members of the orchestra to elect one candidate for each of the above posts.

Questionnaires have also been sent out to orchestra members for a vote on whether, they wish to continue rehearsals during the summer months or disband until r.ext fall .

Treasurer: Alice Johnson (Prod. The results of the election of Disp.) ·and Evelyn Eby {Mech. officers will appear in the July Plan.). T.T.

HAMILTON ON PARADE

The only industrial float in Lancaster's June 14th Flag Day Pamde was entered by the Hamilton Watch Company. It was a colorful and neat red, white and blue float, .six feet high by seven feet long, mounted on the bed of the new Hamilton truck driven by Charley Gehr (Maintenance). The theme. of the float was "Hamilton Times the Nation" with two portraits in color of a ma.le and female employee at their work benches. The float was designed and built by Donovan Smith of Lancaster with the ideas supplied by the Adver­tising and Display departments.

How Secure? (Continued from Page 2, Col. 8 ) run risks- over the last 31 years, an average of slightly more than half of all corporations reporting failed to show a profit. Without the investors' money there is nei­ther enterprise nor job.

"Business reinvests profits -plows them back. Last year, 60% of all money . spent by all U. S. rorporations for replacement, ·ex­pansion and development came from retained profits and depre­ciation allowances. This is the source of the · better machines, the research, the new buildings that mean p.igher wages to the employee and l_ower cost to the consumer.

"And business holds on to pro­fits- for emergencies. Some · day the ra in may come. A business, often with hundreds and thou­sands of jgbs at stake, must be ready. - -

"Thus every functfon of a pro­fit is job protection for every­body- right down the line. , · '

"How secure is your job? As secure as the profits . of the ·bus­iness you work for. For the i:uies of the game never ·change-the steadier the profits, the steadier the business, the steadier the jobs Of all."

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Eight Hamiltonians Officiate At Derby

That the second annual Soap Box Derby held on June 11th on Reservoir Street was a success is proven by the fact that 15,000 Lancastrians lined the course to see the racers operate their "boxes" during the competition.

In on the success of the event were eight Hamiltonians who offi­ciated at the races. They were: Bob 'Preston (Dir. of Industrial Rel.) , official starter, Ken Weeks (Personnel) , starter, Art Sinkler {Dir. of Quality), starter, Fred Hauer (Mgr. of Mfg.), director of heats, Wyn Davis (Dir. of Plan­ning), heat director, Fred A. Hauer (Prod. Scheduling), direc­tor of finish line operations, Frank Remley (Mech. Planning) and Russ H ershey {Stocks & Stores) who both assisted in the finish line. pperations, and Joe Gegg (Prod .. Con. Supv.) , official of the finish line.

For the past two years the Der­by has been sponsored by the Lancaster Newspapers and the Chevrolet dealers of Lancaster County.

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RETTIG A WARDED HAMILTON RAILROAD WATCH FOR WINNING MODEL RAILROAD EXHIBIT

Bill Echternach (left) secretary-treasurer of the Lancaster Model R. R. Club, presents a Hamilton railroad watch to Joe Rettig for his winning circus train exhibit.

Joe Rettig, an insuranceman who Jives at 510 South .Shippen St., Lancaster, Pa., was awarded a Hamilton railroad watch by the Lancaster Model Railroad Club at the Mid-Eastern region of the Na­tional Model Railroad Association convention held at the Hotel Brunswick on May 21-22, when his quarter-inch scale model circus train composed of 10 cars and 17 circus wagons was judged by popular vote as tops from a field of some 60 exhibits.

At the time of the actual pre­sentation at the Brunswick, Time­ly Topics was not on hand to record the event so we had Joe do a re-take with his winning ex­hibit at his home on June 8th with Bill Echternach, secretary-treas­urer of the Lancaster Model Rail­road Club, making the watch pre­sentation. The arrangements for this second shot were made by Ned Scheffer (Accts. Rec.), past president of the local Model Rail­road club, who was also instru­mental in the club selecting a Hamilton railroad watch as the award.

Joe's winning circus train was

built during spare hours over the past two years .down in his cellar where he has a work bench set­up. The model was not copied from any cars or wagons of any big time circus, although Joe says a circus friend of his saw his ex­hibit and admitted that the set-up looked like the real wagons of a Sells-Floto show. Basically, Joe's winning exhibit was built from modeling kits and other plans. The cars and the wagons, which included a ticket wagon, dining wagon, ca lliope, animal wagons a.nd poles and seat wagons, were made from wood with the excep­tion of the wheels which are made of metal. The engine that pulled the circus car is a model Balti­more & Ohio ten wheeler.

Fascination for trains since boy­hood Jed Joe into the model rail­roading hobby. "Whenever I take the wife out for a drive on a Sun­day," Joe said, "I usually select a route that will take me close to a railroad where I can watch the trains go by. Believe it or not, I get a lot of good ideas for new models from watching the unus­ual cars pass."

PERSONNEL PICNIC

On June 4 the ·Personnel Department plus a few guests held its first family picnic of the season at Bob Preston's Acres near Blossom Hill. It was a beautiful day and the picnic was a big success topped off by hot dogs, hamburgers, baked beans, sauer kraut and· all the trimmings. Pictured above is a group of the picnickers gathered around the festive boards prior to the feed.

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JOTS & DOTS Received a card from Cynthia

Godshall (Cost Analysis) who is visiting her parents in Hales. worth, England ... After watching a cricket match, she says she thinks baseball is much more ex­citing . . . Ken Trees (Insp.), who comes from a long line of ba kers, has a Dad who is 75 and who still is tops in the intricate art of dec­ora ting birthday and wedding ca kes ... Doris Brubaker (Person­nel) left the Company on June 17 . . . And speaking of Doris, her Dad, Bob Reese (Material Stores), is mighty proud of his son, Tom, who graduated with high honors from Quarryville High on May 25, winning the American Legion and Quarryville Lions Club awards for the outstanding boy in his class.

Walt Breen (Maintenance) cele­brated his ( ?) birthday on June 1

. . The candy was all right, Walt

... Muriel Turton (Sec. to A. B. Sinkler) had a birthday with cake on June 1. . . Amy Kline {Mainten­ance) still thinks the West End A. A. was the "finest assooiation of its kind in the bizness back a few years ago ... Ain't the boys on Smithga.ll's corner gonna like you for that, Amy . . Ed (Machine Shop) Breen's youngest son, Tommy, ls now an errand boy in Small Tool . .. Betty Messiru!. (Assem. Res.) will become Mrs. Fran Krushinski on July 16 in St. Anne's Catholic Church . . . Fran works in Plate .. . It will be a double ring ceremony ... Bob Henry (Machine Sho.p) fol­lows Millersville's Lanco League team with interest.

Willie Nolan (Print Shop) is quite a good skate on wheels ... Willie the W eap knows a!J the la test tricks of the trade since skating ha ppens to be his favorite dessert ... Glenn Imber (Traffic ) got his hair streamlined again .. . This time it's so short tha t the golf greens a re jealous ... The gals in Advertising had a baby shower for Lois Wintsch {Dealer Serv.) at Mary McMurtrie's apartment on June 2 ... A Hamilton (Lang­don) was presented to St. John G. Page of New York University winner of the "El Centro His­pano" scholarship on May 23 ... President R. M. Kant wrote an ar­ticle entitled, " American Watch Situation" for the May issue of the Philadelphia Retail Credit Merchant magazine . . .. The time check every 9 p. m. on WGAL TV is by Hamilton . . . Dean Caldwell (Tab.) passed his recent exams and is now a senior at F & M ... Russ Kuhns, Henny Schneider, Chink Johnson, and Ted Hibner, all of Dial, and Dick Palmer {Maintenance) were up in the mountains at their favorite hunt­ing camp recently and reported seeing a bear with its ears paint­ed red ... Hie, set 'em up in the other alley .. .. Mose Good (Main­tenance) sez, "Never feed a bear tobacco. It makes 'em mad." .. . He had an experience along similar lines with a couple of bears in a cage out in his neck of the woods one time .. . For details see Mose ...

Woody Rathvon (linsp.) admits his \vife gave him the business the other evening when he cut cor­nel'!I in hls car ... Adam Brinkman (Maintenance) has a son who plays third base for Bird-In-Hand in the Lanco League .. . That's why Adam follows the Birds in the cir­cuit . .. Five new Hamilton model watches have recently made their appearance on the market .. . They are the Wenda, Alice, Gail;· De­Witt and Chatelaine .. . Dan Miley (Train) sez his 14 months old son is beginning to keep him stepping

. .. Don't forget for fun and a day in the sun take your hon along with the mon to the Hamilton Family Picnic at Rocky on July 9.

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• SPORTS SHOP • FOLLOWERS OF THE ROARING ROAD: For the past three Memorial Days, George King (Maintenance) and Wayne Ebert (As­sem. "B") have attended the 500 mile Indianapolis Speedway Classic and they admit they'll go back for more in 1950.

Motoring out and back, the boys said the tiresome ride was more than worth the effort because this year's ' race found records tottering all over the place. Bill Holland, of Reading, the winner, established a new time of four hours, seven minutes for the 200 laps with an average speed of 121 miles per hour.

Observing the race from the South Turn where George Lynch piled his car into the retaining wall and came out with a broken ankle, and where Rex Mays, one of the pre-race favorites, hit an oil slick, went into a spin and then conked out when his car wouldn't start again, the boys marveled at the calm manner in which these two drivers operated in the face of death. Both are convinced that the drivers leave their nerves in the pits and have their veins re­fueled with ice water as they thunder their powerful mounts around the track in this contest of men and machines.

George and Wayne, who were just two of the estimated 175,000 spectators at the event, figure the big thrill of the day, next to the actual race, is the lap taken prior to the start when the racers follow the lead car once around the 2'h mile oval to give the spectators an opportunity to see the combined field before it roars off.

The Indianapolis race plant covers an area of 433 acres with an infield so large that an 18 hole golf course has been built inside it with each hole bearing the name of a previous "500" winner.

The boys played it smart by leaving their machine in Indianapolis and taking a bus to the outskirts where the track is located, thus avoiding the traffic jam when the race was over. George said this year's race ended at 4:30 p. m. and the last of the traffic from the track headed homeward at midnight.

The boys paid $3.00 apiece (general admission) to get in to see the race, but the scalpers were moving ducats at $150.00 apiece for a seat in the homestretch grandstand and had plenty of interested customers. Souvenir salesmen cleaned up with jacked-up prices for their various items, with official program peddlers getting 50 cents per copy for their books of data. There was no official betting al­lowed on the race at the track, but that didn't stop the Indianapolis bookies from quoting outside odds on the drivers.

When Holland was declared the winner and he came into "Win­ner's Row," George and Wayne scrambled from the South Turn to­ward "Winner's Row" where they joined the mob some four rows back. George said the confusion was terrific with news cameras clicking, radio announcers pushing mikes in front of Holland while Hollywood's curvacious Linda Darnell planted kisses on Bill's greased pan.

All in all the team of King & Ebert were glad they made the trip with a fourth pilgrimage being planned for next Memorial Day.

PICK.IN' A FEW T OPPERS: With the annual All Star game pitting the people's choice of the top stars in the American and National Leagues listed for July 12 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, this column once again made its selections for that game and sent them in to the authorities in charge. When the selections from baseball fans all over the United ,States are in, they are counted up and the players receiving the most votes for the respective positions are selected as the ·starting performers in that game. Here's the way we picked them:

AMERICAN LEAGUE POSITION NATIONAL LEAGUE Eddie Robinson, Washington lb Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia Cass Michaels, Chicago 2b Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Eddie Joost, Philadelphia ss Emil Verban, Chicago George Kell, Detroit 3b Walt Kazak, St. Lo.uis Tom Henrich, New York RF Willard Marshall, New York Dom DiMaggio, Boston CF Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh Ted Williams, Boston LF Stan Musial, St. Louis Jimmie Hegan, Cleveland C Andy Seminick, Philadelphia Mel Parnell, Boston P Ken Raffensberger, Cincinnati

There you have them. You may differ. Go ahead. We picked only one player out of his regular position. He happens to be Emil Verb.an. Normally, he's a second sacker for the Cubs. We selected him at shortstop, a post we saw him operate at when he was with the Phillies. All the rest of the boys are familiar with their stations.

SPORTS CHOPPER: Frank Remley (Mech. Planning) didn't think much of the N . Y. Yanks sending King Kong Keller to Newark .... Bill Carey (Prod. Con.) informs us that he found the secret to hitting line drives in softball. ... Figures on opening up a line drive school for beginners in Florida next winter .... (0.K. fellows, just take him in outa the sun, he'll be all right when the heat gets off his head). ... . When Larry Doby, Cleveland's Negro outfielder, clouted that Her­culean homer; of 450 feet plus in dead centerfield in Yankee Stadium the other week, it brought up the question of the distances to dead­centerfield in other major league ball parks .... Thanks to a recent issue of "Sporting News" we're able to supply the information ..... . Here it is: Fen way Park (Boston Red Sox) 420 feet. .... Comiskey Park (Chicago White Sox) 440 feet .... Yankee ,Stadium (New York) 461 feet .... Municipal Stadium (Cleveland) 410 · feet. ... Griffith Sta­dium (Washington) 420 feet .... Briggs Stadium (Detroit) 420 feet . . .. Shibe Park (Philadelphia) 468 feet. ... Over in the National League: Forbes Field (Pittsburgh) 457 feet .... Polo Grounds (New York) 505 feet .... Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs) 400 feet .. .... Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) 393 feet. .... Braves Field (Boston) 401 feet. .. .. Crosley Field (Cincinnati) 387 feet .... Sportsman's Park <St. Louis) 425 feet. .... The other Saturday we saw Billy McCrea (Assem. "C") pitch­ing at batting practice for Bird-In-Hand .... Dick Sayres (Traffic) plays in the outfield for Smoketown in the Junior City and County League .... That's it.

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Service Dept. Bowling League Closes Keen Competition In Successful Season With Banquet & Elections Men's Softball Loop

By the time this story gets to you, the first half of the Men's Inter-Departmental Soft­ball League will be over and three games of the second half will have been played.

Due to deadline commitments, TIMELY TOPICS is only able to supply the results and facts of games up to and including June 16th at which time the Timing & Casing team, last year's champs was in the lead with five game~ and one reversal, and Plate and Finishing were pounding right on its heels with four wins and one loss

Up to June 16th, 19 games were played in the loop with the weath­erman interfering with only five tilts, while one game was won via a forfeit.

Winner of the Service Dept. Bowling League was the 992 team pictured above (L. to R.) : Hen Dorwart, Larry Floyd, Captain Dick Rote, Don Mimnall and Ed Sherick.

According to Red Shanabrook (Finishing), league prexy, the circuit is producing gqod softball with keen competition all along the line. "The boys hate to lose" said Red, "and when you have 'a league like that you can expect close play with plenty of argu­ments." After a successful kegling cam­

paign, the Service Department Bowling League held its first an­nual banquet at the Old Mill Inn on the evening of May 12 with 40 present at the affair.

Officers for the 1949-50 season were elected with Bert Lawrence, president; Harold Herr, vice president; and Paul Heistand, secretary-treasurer.

The winner of the six team cir­cuit was the 992 club with 73 vic­tories and 47 defeats. It was com­posed of: Captain Dick Rote, Hen Dorwart, Larry Floyd, Don Mim­nall and Ed Sherick.

The 992 club had to battle right down to the wire with the 974 team, since the winner of the loop wasn't decided until the l.ast two nights of play. On the 974 team were: Captain N o a h "Buck" Buckwalter, Harry Youtz, Paul Schwarz, John Hiemenz and George Kohlmaier.

High team single of 909 and the high team triple of 2504 both wen t to the third place 911 team com­posed of: Captain Bert Lawrence, Ted Lamparter, Aubrey Landis, Jay Miller, Jack Krause and Clayt Erisman.

A trophy for a 255 high single went to Harold Herr of the last place 922 club.

Vic Ault, captain of the fourth place 987A team, walked off with the high individual triple mark, rolling a beaut of a 635 on the last night of the competition with games of 221, 167 and 247. Vic also took care of the high individ­ual average for the season, a · re­spectable 177.56.

The final league standing fol­lows: Team Won 992 .............. 73 974 .............. 71 911 .... ... . ..... . 66 987a ... . ........ 58 9.SO .............. 55 922 ... . .......... 37

Lost 47 49 54 62 65 83

Pct. .608 .591 .550 .483 .458 .308

The individual averages for the 1948-49 season are as follows:

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Bowler Average 1. Vic Ault ............. 177.56 2. Bert Lawrence 169.68 3. Jack Sherick .... ~ . . . 168.58 4. Jack Krause ......... 167.20 5. Dick Rote . . . . . . . . . . . . 167.14 6. Noah Buckwalter .... 165.59 7. Phares Ulmer ........ 164.42 8. Don Mimnall 161.32 9. Harry Youtz ......... 157.21

10. John Hiemenz ....... 156.41 11. Harold Herr . . . . . . . . . 154.45 12. Abe Burkhardt ....... 153.62 13 Al Torr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153.21 14. Aubrey Landis ....... 153.10 15. Hen Dorwart . . . . . . . . 150.16 16. Ted Lamparter 149.72 17. Gehman Miller .. .. . .. 147.19 18. Jay Miller . . . . . . . . . . . 145.30 19. Al Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.13 20. Bob Sherick . ........ 142.48 21. Ed Hendrix . . . . . . . . . . 142.0 22. Paul Schwarz . . . . . . . . 141.13 23. Carl Williams ........ 139.24 24. Bill Roberts ........ .. 139.17 25. Elwood Miller . . . . . . . . 138.6 26. Furman McGuire . ... 136.44 27. Ed Sherick . . . . . . . . . . 135.26 28. Bob Blaebaum ....... 135.6 29. Len Kissinger . . . . . . . 134.48 30. George Kohlmaier . . . 131.49 31. Joe Hughson 131.9 32. Elmer Schweitzer . . . . 131.6 33. Don Beck ....... . .... 130.7 34. Jack Harrison .... . ... 130.4 35. Larry Floyd . . . . . . . . . 128.2 36. Norm Richardson .... 123.14 37. Don Keen ........... 121.12 38. Cecil Hamric . . . . . . . . 120.45 39. Charley Funk . ....... 111.21 40. Clayt Erisman ....... 107.26 41. George Boyle ........ 100.7

It Happened Recently Frank Bitzer (Tab.) was teach­

ing his wife how to cast the other day in a nearby stream for sun­nies, when suddenly the line he was holding near the surface of the water jerked and away it went for a merry ride .... Frank hung on and found on the other end a duck, which, Frank admits, is another way of getting the bird .... The Balance & Flat Steel Old Timers softball team bumped the present department varsity 24-17 the other nite .... Gene Wi­ley readily admits the Old Boys toyed with kids .... Ed Hendrix (Mat'l Sales) took a carp from the Susquehanna recently by put­ting the line over his shoulder and running up a hill.

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Including games played June 16th the league standing at that time follows:

Teams W. L. Pct. Timing & Casing 5 1 .833 Finishing . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 .800 Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 .800 Machine Shop . . . . . . 2 2 .500 Engineering . . . . . . . . 2 3 .400 Damaskeening . . . . . . 2 4 .333 Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 .200 Bal. & F . S. . . . . . . . . 0 4 .000

The results of the games played including June 16th are as fol· lows:

Plate 10 Engineering 8 Damask. 19 Case 7 T & C 9 Damask. 4 Plate 22 Bal. & F. S. 2 Engineering 12 Finishing 9

T & C 21 Case 1 Machine Shop 5 Damask. 4

Plate 15 Case 3 T & C 29 Engineering 12

Finishing 24 Damask. 5 Case 15 Engineering 12 T & C 10 Plate 8

Damask 15 Bal & F. S. 13 Finishing 11 Machine Shop 7 Finishing won by forfeit from

Case Engineering 11 Machine Shop 4

T & C 24 Bal. & F. S. 5 Plate 18 Damask. 3 Finishing 13 T & C 11 The second half schedule of the

league follows : June 30 T & C vs Machine Shop

" 30 Finishing vs Plate July 1 Open

" 1 Open " 5 Bal. & F. S. vs Eng. '' 6 Machine Shop vs Case

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7 T & C vs Damaskeening 7 Bal. & F. s. VS Plate 8 Finishing vs Eng. 8 T & c VS Case

" 11 Machine Shop vs. Damas, 12 Case vs Plate

" 13 T & C vs Eng. '

4 14 Damask. vs Finishing 14 Bal. & F .S. vs Mach. Shop

" 15 Eng. vs Case " 15 T & C vs Plate

18 Bal. & F. S. vs Damask. " 19 Finishing vs Mach. Shop

20 Finishing vs Case " 21 Eng. vs Machine Shop " 21 Bal. & F. S. vs T & C '' 22 Open '' 22 Open

Aug. 1 Plate vs Damask. " 2 T & C vs Finishing " 3 Plate vs Machine Shop " 4 Bal. & F. S. vs Case

4 Eng. vs Damask. 5 Open 5 Open

Kodak Monitor 620 (takes 214" The last team mentioned for by 314" pictures) , F4.5 lens, 1/ 200 each game is the home team. shutter. Complete with carrying All games will be played ac­case, .filters and new Mendelson cording to schedule unless the flash gun. It's in excellent condi- sign "No Game Today" is dis­tion with $60.00 taking it all. If played at the following exits: interested contact Les Sherr (Eng .. East Tower, West Tower, Wheat. Services), Ext. 272. land Avenue Guard House.

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