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THE BROWN BULLETINPublished By and For the Employees of Brown Company

Volume IV BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AUGUST 22, 1951 Number 15

Who Needs Who?...One hundred and seventy-five years ago our forefathers

needed Freedom so much they risked their necks and all theirearthly goods to put together history's greatest declaration ofa free people. Since then we've enjoyed a big package of free-dom "for free" . . . and now Freedom needs us, lest in time tocome she become no more than a worn-out word in a dog-eareddictionary.

How would you like to roll out of bed some dark morningand have a big palooka tell you where you're going to workthat week, what your wife's going to wear, and what yourkids have to do?

Don't shrug it off, sink it in — it can happen here!The point is, we're more likely to toss Freedom away our-

selves — unthinking as with an old cigarette butt — than loseit in a fight.

Over the years we have tended to become a nation of specta-tors of the things that keep us free, just as we are at baseballgames, movies, or our radios. In government, we have tendedto become a nation of Monday morning quarterbacks, grand-stand umpires and sideline sophisticates.

Haven't we?We watch a few others vote, then gripe because the wrong

man gets in and moral standards suffer. We look on while thecommunity discusses a project, then kick like steers becausethe new school didn't get built. We view with alarm prices goingup, but don't stop to think of putting some of our excess changeinto Defense Bonds and other savings.

Here are four short words to think about: WORK. SAVE.VOTE, and PRAY.

It takes doing things like that to keep Freedom solvent —(Continued on Page 3)

Supervisors Complete ExtensiveCourse In Accident Prevention

Paper Machine Modernization ProjectNearly Finished-All Work On JobDone With Brown Company PersonnelPresident Main Speaker At Fox

Research Forest Annual Field Day

Research in Forestry: The above photo shows a portion ofthe 200 people who attended an annual field day held by theFox Research Forest, Hillsboro, N. H. Mr. Whittemore, theprincipal speaker, (in above photo speaking to group) out-lined the importance of forests to our northern New Englandeconomy. (staff Photo)

Key supervisors in all ofBrown Company's plants to-talling one hundred and fiftyin number have recently com-pleted an extensive series ofsafety courses conducted byHugh Cronin, Liberty MutualInsurance Company, assistedby Jack Rodgerson, Safety

Engineer; Dr. Arnold E. Han-son, Director of Company Re-lations; and Dr. Robert Kas-chub, Medical Director.

Accident PreventionThe course was designed to

better acquaint supervisorswith basic methods of accidentprevention and included valu-

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Bermico Pipe Solves Problem

Lucien BilodeauReported Wounded InAction In Korea

Pfc. J. Lucien Bilodeau,staff cartoonist for the BrownBulletin while an employeeand while serving in the U. S.Army, was recently reportedwounded in action in Koreaand is now recuperating in aTokyo hospital, according tolate word from his parents,Mr. and Mrs. Treffle Bilodeauwho reside in Berlin at 752Western Avenue. Prior tojoining the Army, Mr. Bilo-

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Idea Plus . . •Equals Success

An idea, plus ingenuity,plus customers, are the ingre-dients that make for successin America. Willard E. Crotty(it doesn't matter where helives) is an example.

Mr. Crotty decided therewas a market for engine gas-kets. He sold his car to acquirenecessary funds and he andhis wife worked side-by-sidein the empty garage.

Today, with contracts for46 items for Oldsmobiles, and25 parts for Chevrolets, the

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Chemical Debarking ExperimentConducted By Woods Department

Bermico to the Rescue: A problem was developing on theGlen Road a few months back when a beaver family decidedto build a dam and set up camp for the winter. They did — andflooded the highway nearby making it necessary to break upthe dam so that the water would subside. But the industriousworkers always did a fine job of rebuilding and reflooding thehighway. Bermico soil pipe was then installed at the properlevel (you'll see it if you look closely) and has been doing agood job of keeping the water at a lower level than the high-way despite the continued efforts of Mister Beaver to disruptthe plan. (Staff photo)

(By Bill Johnson)Far up in Twin Brook Val-

ley, northeast of AziscoosLake, a strange operation isgoing on this summer.

Each morning, not longafter sunrise, a dozen youngmen can be seen strugglingover the ridge into the valleyloaded down with packs, axesand peculiarly shaped tools.

In ActionIf one could muster the

strength and courage to fol-low them over the rough androcky trail into the valley theywould come upon an areawhere all the hardwood trees

have a six inch wide band ofbark removed from themabout three feet above theground, with the leaves of thetrees now brown and shriv-eled. To see the crew in actionshows the reason for thesestrange phenomena.

Two crews of six meneach pick their way throughswamp, thickets and blow-downs, four men in each crewselecting the trees and peelinga band of bark around thebase of each. One man in eachcrew is equipped with a tankmounted on a pack board car-

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One of Biggest PhasesOf Over-All Plan

First Beloit MachineEver InstalledGeorge Craig, Chief Engi-

neer for Brown Company, re-cently reported that work on±f 1 paper machine at Cascade,one of the biggest phases ofthe company's over-all plan ofmodernization, is now nearlyfinished and that all engineer-ing and construction work wasdone by Brown Company per-sonnel under the supervisionof the Engineering depart-ment.

Ten months of engineeringwork were required to mapout complete details of the jobbefore construction could getunderway. After looking overstatistics on material require-ments one can easily under-stand that the installation ofthis completely modern papermachine was definitely a tre-mendous undertaking. Someof the larger requirementswere: 22,500 feet of piping,48,000 feet of electrical con-duit, 1,000 valves, 41,000board feet of lumber, 160,000feet of copper wire, and 5,700bags of cement.

Beloit MachineThis installation, commonly

referred to as the #1 papermachine modernization pro-ject, is the first Beloit paper

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Uncle Sam Says:The biggest "secret weapon" inthe world is our American abilityto produce. We know power ma-chines and have the skills to usethem. If we are to rearm in time—and supply essential civiliangoods too, we'll have to break allour own records. Only higher out-put per hour will do this bigdouble job. Send for booklet TheMiracle of America, which tellsyou how Americans have keptproductivity rising, and why itmust go up faster than ever now.It's FREE! Address AdvertisingCouncil, 25 West 45 St., New York17, N. Y.

The Better We Produce,the Stronger We Grow

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THE BROWN BULLETINPublished every other week by and for the employees of

Brown Company, Berlin, N. H.Editorial Offices: Company Relations Department.Telephones: Automatic 208; New England 46, Ext. 9.

STAFFPULP DIVISIONBuster Cordwell

Paul GrenierMark HickeyRay Holroyd

Adam LavernoichLeo LeBlanc

CASCADE MILLErnest Castonguay

Buster EdgarLeroy Fysh

Robert MurphyLucille Tremaine

REPORTERS-AT-LARGEAngus MorrisonJack Rodgerson

ONCO PLANTAlfred ArsenaultPhil Farrington

CHEMICAL PLANTAsh Hazzard

Alfred McKayCharles Anderson

RESEARCH DEPARTMENTThelma Neil

MAIN OFFICELucille Lessard

WOODSBill Johnson

POWER AND STEAMCharles Enman

RIVERSIDE MILLRonaldo MorinLeo Landers

Clarence Welch

BERMICO DIVISIONRussell Doucet

STAFF CARTOONISTSLeo LeBlanc

Jack RodgersonLucien Bilodeau

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERVictor Beaudoin

PORTLANDDoris Smith

BOSTONRuth Poole

EDITORJames P. Hinchey

Vol. IV. Number 15 August 22, 1951

Pointersfrom

PortlandBY DORIS E. SMITH

Following a r e severalpointers which are designedto ease the job of doing thefamily laundry, which isoften quite a chore. Thesepointers are all taken from"Cleanliness Clips" issuedby the Cleanliness Bureauof the Association of Amer-ican Soap and GlycerineProducers, Inc., New YorkCity.

Before removing yourl i g h t - c o l o r e d summerclothes, it's a smudge-sav-ing precaution to wash yourhands well in plenty ofwarm, soapy water. Itmight be well to put on anapron before you startwashing-up. If not, youmight splash your prettyclothes and undo all thegood you had planned.

You'll find that swimsuits stay new-looking long-er, wear better and drymore quickly if sand, salt,and suntan lotions arewashed out in w^arm soap-suds after each wearing.

For outdoor furniturecushions, why not use foamrubber, slipcovered in col-ored chenille or terry cloth ?Such detachable, washable,no-ironing covers perk upgarden furniture with aminimum of effort f o rmaintenance.

Here's what to do to cleana cotton hat: Swish itthrough soapsuds and rinse.Pad a bowl which is just alittle smaller than the hatcrown and shape the hatgently to fit. Turn on a fanfor quick-drying.

Those of you who washclothes might appreciatethe following: Turn pocketsand trousers cuffs insideout and brush thoroughly.If garments are heavilysoiled, moisten and rub soapon the worst spots, then rollup and leave for severalhours. Before tubbing, ei-ther by machine or hand,scrub these spots with soapand a stiff brush.

Most cottons are machinewashable. Be sure to checkthe labels of all cottonitems before you buy them.When they need washing,first brush thick soapsudsinto especially soiled spotsand always wash before dirthas a chance to set in thefabric. Soiled areas on deli-cate materials should alsobe pre-soaped by rubbingsuds in with the finger tips,then wash the article byhand in warm, soapy water.

To prevent a linty tingeon dark cottons, use freshsuds for different colors;never the wash water inwhich white clothes havebeen sudsed.

If starch is used forblacks, and navys, add a bitof blueing; for browns, addtea.

It's worthwhile to putcolored clothes, even color-fast ones, through severalfresh suds during the firstlaundering. Then, excessdye is washed out and gar-ments may be washed withother things later.

Supervisors Complete peOD/e Af(Continued from Page 1) I CwJL/IC ^» •(Continued from Page 1)

able information concerningthe accident problem in indus-try, with emphasis on BrownCompany, and the steps nec-essary to keep accidents onthe decrease.

Lectures, literature, and vi-sual aids were the methodsused in the company's seriesof safety sessions, officiallyknown as the Supervisor'sSafetv Refresher Course.

Robert Erickson, sheet met-al worker, is shown here lay-ing out a pattern at the Tinshop, Cascade. He is a 30-vear man.

L Bilodeau(Continued from page 1)

deau was employed by BrownCompany in the dryer buildingof the Burgess mill.

In ActionAccording to word received

from the Third Infantry Di-vision in Korea, Pfc. Bilodeauwas instrumental in securingHill 717 in Korea. His platoonof Company "L", 7th Regi-ment, led the assault on Hill717 after four other units hadfailed to dislodge the enemy.

After encountering stub-born resistance from the Chi-nese the American squads be-gan giving each other support-ing fire and attempted to out-maneuver the Reds. At onepoint in the assault, Bilodeauand a buddy knocked out amachine gun nest, killing oneChinese and capturing twoothers.

TechniqueOne of the techniques used

by the Americans was to setup a grenade-handling systemsimilar to the method usedby a bucket brigade. Grenadeswere tossed to men in higherpositions on the hill — withthe pins still in — and theuppermost infantrymen tookout the pins and threw themon up at the enemy.

The terrific heat, the prob-lem of supplies and the well-entrenched enemy all weremet by the platoon and theChinese were forced to aban-don their positions.

Machinist Maurice Landersis shown here running a latheat the Machine shop, Cascade.He's been with the companysince 1918.

Here is George Oswell, op-erator at Cascade's water tur-bine room, shown checkingthe brushes on the commuta-tor. George is a 35-year man.

Shown adding distilled wa-ter to one of the batteries usedby the electric trucks at Cas-cade is Arthur Wentworth, a14-year man.

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The Bloodmobile unit will be at St. Barnabas Hall

Thursday, August 30

Drop in anytime between the hours of 11 a. m. and 5 p. m.

August 11, 1951 T H E B R O W N B U L L E T I N Page Three

For Your SafetyBY JACK RODGERSON

The "other guy" is any fel-low worker or any other per-son who may follow alongafter you or use the sametools, equipment or materialthat you do.

First of all, we want to helpyou to be a safe worker. Next,and just about as important,we want you to help this otherguy to be safe.

We can't be selfish or buck-passers about safety. It isn'ta one man job. We can't say"I'll take care of myself — butlet the other guy take care ofhimself."

Your management — yourforeman — your safety com-mittee — and others are alleager and willing to help butthey can't be everywhere alli:he time. Our safety recorddepends on the cooperation ofeverybody.

You may be an experiencedsafe worker. The next fellowmay not know half as manyanswers as you. Why not bea good neighbor and help himto keep out of the hospital?

It's just good sportsman-ship to help the other fellowto take care of himself.

Don't be afraid that you willbe misunderstood or consid-ered a "wise guy" by offeringadvice. Do it in a sincere, co-operative way and your in-terest will usually be appre-ciated. At least try!

The real slogan behindevery successful safety pro-gram is "One for All and Allfor One." That's the spirit wewant here — so give the otherguy a friendly safety tipwhenever you can.

Note To New Employees:You may be a new man,

or woman, on a new job.Don't be afraid to ask yourforeman or the man or wo-man working beside youany question you may haveabout your work. Askingquestions is one of the bestkeys to wisdom — and tosafety. You will find our"old timers" cooperative.

Fishing Contest WinnersAnnounced For Last Month

The following fish have been weighed in at the Curtis Hard-ware Store and were found to be prize catches for the month.

Fisherman Mill Prize Weight LengthLAKE TROUT

Joseph Chevarie, Cascade; 1st — S.2J50, l.ib.JLoz,, 17 in.

HORNED POUTEdward Montminy, Burgess; 1st — $2.50, 12U oz., 12 in.Paul Bouchard, Chemical; 2nd — 1.50, 10 oz., 11 in.Conrad Hamel, Cascade; 3rd — 1.00, 9 oz., 10 in.

RAINBOWRudolph Peloquin, P & S; 1st — $2.50, 1 Ib. 15 oz., 17 in.Louis Croteau, Floe; 2nd — 1.50, 1 Ib. 6 oz., 16 in.

PICKERELRene Labbe, Burgess; 1st — $2.50, 3 Ib. 10 oz., 23Vo in.Leo Beaupre, Burgess; 2nd — 1.50, 3 Ib. 6 oz., 23i4~in.Roland Bouchard, Onco; 3rd — 1.00, 2 Ib. 12 oz., 23 in.

Who Needs Who?(Continued from Page 1)

and America needs 150 million people in the act.Sure, we need tougher tanks, "jettier" jets and more de-

vastating bombs and the brave men to handle them to keep ourcountry safe. But doesn't real American Freedom start withyou and me right in the old home town?

Doesn't it?

Idea Plus(Continued from Page 1)

Crotty Corporation is keeping125 other companies in busi-ness with orders for supplies.

Ashes to ashes and dust todust — if dusts don't getyou, poisonous vapors must!WEAR THE RESPIRATORALWAYS IF YOUR JOBCALLS FOR ONE.

Paper Machine(Continued from Page 1)

machine ever installed byBrown Company and includesseveral novel features formore efficient operation.

Cream SeparatorClutches are operated by

compressed air while the headbox operates under air pres-sure making it possible to usea smaller type of box. A radi-cal departure from previousinstallations was the elimina-tion of screens and the useof a series of devices calledVortraps which work on thesame principle as a cream sep-arator and remove dirt par-ticles from the pulp before itgoes to the machine. All tankshave been lined with tile inorder to make cleaner andhigher quality papers. A com-pletely modern remote controlswitch gear will drive the pa-per machine and its auxilia-ries.

Another outstanding fea-ture in the electrical designof the machine is that themachine is driven by two mo-tors with speed electronicallyregulated so that both flat andcreped papers can be producedsimply by making a few sim-ple adjustments which requireonly a few seconds to com-plete.

1200 Feet Per MinuteWhen all phases of the in-

stallation are completed themachine will be capable ofrunning at 1200 feet per min-ute on light-\veight papers.For heavier grades of paper,however, lower speeds will beused in order to properly drythe paper.

Mechanical engineers forthe job were headed by ErnestCook and Pete Lepage and in-cluded Martin Pietsch, RobertWilson, Don Brown, and GuriCici. These men made 91drawings for the project. Hen-ry Stafford headed the Steamand Electrical engineers. 102drawings were made by thisgroup which included JohnButler, Dick Cross, Harry Sul-livan, Harold Blakney, JohnAvore, and Dave Crockett.The administrative work washandled by Pat Coffin.

The next issue of the BrownBulletin will include a com-plete story of the constructionwork accomplished by BrownCompany personnel on thissame project.

The Softball LeagueTeamCascadeUpper PlantsBurgessBermicoWoods-OfficeResearch

LEAGUE STANDINGFirst Round

Won Lost033

Percentage1.000

.400

.400

.400

.400

.400

TeamCascadeBermicoUpper PlantsWoods-Office-ResearchBurgess*

^Postponed

LEAGUE STANDINGas of August 9, 1951

Second RoundWon Lost

3 13 13 11 21 30 3

Game to be played later.

Percentage.750.750.750.333.250.000

10 10* 8

Second Round ResultsTEAM R HJuly 17, 1951Cascade 7 10Upper Plants 6 10

Cascade: 3B by McGill, Pike; 2Bby Gendron. Croteau.

Upper Plants: 2B by Hayes, Bilo-deau.July 18, 1951BermicoResearch

Bermico: Home run by Fissette.Research: 3B by Bannano; 2B by

Hamlin, Steady.July 23, 1951BermicoCascade 1 *4

Bermico: 3B by Guitard, Poulm,Desilets.

Cascade: 2B by Buckovitch.July 24, 1951ResearchWoods-Office H 18

Research: 3B by Agrodnia, Hamlin,Lebonte, and Steady.

Woods-Office: 2B by Carrier, Mo-rency.July 25, 1951Upper Plants 18 18Burgess 8 14

Upper Plants: Home runs by Whee-ler. Hayes: 2B by Bilodeau.

Burgess: Home run by Lessard; 2Bby Melanson, Ferrari.

July 30. 1951Upper Plants 15 14Research 7 8

Upper Plants: Home runs by Whee-ler. Roberge: 2B by Patrie, Girard.

Research: 3B by Vallee; 2B by Ro-berge.July 31. 1951Cascade 12 16Burgess 7 H

Cascade: 3B by Gendron.Burgess: 2B by Sullivan, Mullen.

August 1. 1951Woods-Office 15 11Bermico 9 13

Woods-Office: Home run by Mac-Kay.

Bermico: Home run by Mullins.August 6. 1951BermicoBurgess 0

Game forfeited.August 7, 1951Upper Plants 10 13Woods-Office 2 8

Upper Plants: 2B by Hayes.Woods-Office: 3B by Anderson.

August 8. 1951Cascade H I4

Research 3 8Cascade: Home runs by Villeneuve

( 2 ) . Pike; 3B by Keene; 2B by Gen-dron.

Research: 3B by Anderson; 2B byAnderson, Steady.

Chemical Debarking(Continued from Page 1)

ried on his back. A rubbertube from this tank runsthrough a valve to a paintbrush which is used to spreada thin, blue liquid over eachgirdled surface. The othermen of the crews maintaindirection and record the vol-ume of the treated timber.

The purpose of the wholeproject is to quick-kill thetrees by use of a chemical sothat the bark may becomeloosened. When the timber iscut about a year followingtreatment, much of the loosebark will be removed in nor-mal wood-handling and thewood will dry out much morequickly than when cut green.Such a process should reducewood-handling and truckingcosts and reduce barking prob-lems at the mill.

The work is being done byyoung men from high school

and college who have an in-terest in continuing in somephase of woods work. Thesemen live in the Parmacheneelogging camps, and are ex-posed to both the serene andtempestuous factors that gowith woods life. If good foodand youthful courage triumphover flies, mud and sweat, atleast 2,500 cords of hardwoodwill receive the experimentaltreatment this summer.

And What Next?According to the Kremlin,

Russia, and not necessity, wasthe mother of all inventions.And the l a t e s t inventionclaimed for Russia is certainlythe tallest tale of them all,for a Vladivostok newspapernow claims that a Russian log-ger, Paulski Bunyanovitch,was the inspiration for ourstrictly American s t o r i e sabout the legendary NorthWoods giant, Paul Bunyan!

FIRE BREAKDOWNS

it makes a difference to YOU!

PRO iCTyour Skillyour Familyyour Jobyourself

If motes o difference to 1Photographs: Copyright The Sheldon-Claire Co., Chicago, HI.

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What's News Around The PlantsRiversideRambling*

BY LEO LANDERSAND CLARENCE WELCH

From where I stand I cansee that the Machine room hasdone a good job of breakingin John McKelvey. He is nowsupplying the crew on hisshift with lolly-pops. What isit, John — a peace offering oran advertising stunt?

Hector Vezina tells us he isbadly in need of dark glasses.It seems that he is workingdays this week and can't standdaylight.

Our congratulations to LeoLanders and Charlie Ray ontheir recent promotions.

Welcome and congratula-tions to Howard Robinson onhis new appointment.

It is being said around thatAlbert Wheeler won't haveto camp out under the starswhen he goes hunting thisyear. They say that he isabout to purchase (or alreadyhas purchased) a camp up onNay pond.

Congratulations t o S i gAube on the birth of a son.

Why is it that Vic Chalouxwants to take a shotgun towork? Is it because the win-dows in the sample room werebehind the 8-ball or does hejust like pigeon pie?

We're sorry to hear thatJean Gilbert is in the hospital.Get well soon, Jean.

Cyrille Therrien, our yardboss, has been walking aroundwith a slight grin on his face.It couldn't be the new truckcould it, Cyrille?

Leon Hachez has finally de-cided to give up farming andmove to the city. He is nowliving on Sixth Avenue.

Oliver Morin and FritzFindsen went fishing the otherafternoon and for some reasonthey didn't stay too long. Theword is going around thatthey couldn't find the pond.What happened boys, did theymove it?

We're sorry to hear thatDon Bilodeau of our Machineroom is out for a couple ofweeks with a painful foot in-jury.

Lucien Trembley of our Ma-chine room journeyed to Co-ney Island recently. He tellsus that he jumped from thehigh parachute jump whilethere. The paratroopers arelooking for boys like you, Lu-cien.

Armand Laroche is out fortwo weeks on vacation. Hisdestination is Sherbrooke andhe claims that he will makeit in three days. He should!After all, it's a Nash and hiswife can act as co-pilot.

Percey is enjoying his va-cation at Locke Mills.

Latest flash from Lake Um-bagog! "Pooch Comes To Res-cue of Babe Pelchat and Par-

ty." It seems that Babe andhis party were having a gaytime when the accident hap-pened and some cute little"pooch" tried to save them.He must have been successfulbecause Babe is still in goodhealth. Better keep that dogaround all the time, Babe.

CascadeChatter

Congratulations to the fol-lowing: Rita Fortin—recentlymarried to Leo Martineau,U. S. Navy and now stationedin Florida. Edna Thomas, whobecame the bride of AlbertStranger. Dora Charette —now Mrs. Oscar Provencher.Dorothy Lambert has announ-ced her engagement to HectorPouliot.

Joyce Rines' brother, Lt.Gordon Rines, is a memberof the 433rd Air Force Unitwhich was the first to departfrom Donaldson Air Base,South Carolina, for duty withGeneral Eisenhower in Eu-rope.

We extend our deepest sym-pathy to Mr. and Mrs. ErnestLandry on the recent death ofMrs. Landry's mother.

Irene Laravie was confinedto the St. Louis Hospital fora few days recently.

VacationsThe following people recent-

ly enjoyed their annual vaca-tions : Mrs. Valide Buckovitch,Lorraine Villeneuve, and Gab-by Lefevre spent theirs at OldOrchard and Boston. DonaBoucher vacationed in NewYork. Mrs. Geraldine Judsonand Prudy Treamer spent aweekend in Sherbrooke.

The boys at Cascade arewondering if Earl Caird "cap-tured" all his bobcats in thesame manner as the last one.A little explaining is in order,Earl.

Ernest Castonguay of theStock Preparation departmentis enjoying a vacation with"the Mrs." visiting Yellow-stone National P a r k , theGrand Canyon, and LongBeach, California.

Miss Juliette Alonzi, a re-cent graduate of Berlin HighSchool, is currently employedin the office.

Miss Ida Jones of the officestaff made a flying trip toPhiladelphia this weekend tovisit her sailor brother, so thestory goes. But she ended upw i t h a sailor sweetheart.What say, Ida, when is yournext trip?

Congratulations, best wish-es, loads of luck, etc., to ourmanager's secretary, the for-mer Miss Barbara Norton,who was married July 21st.The lucky guy is Pfc. RichardBrynes of Hudson Falls, NewYork.

We know that this is vaca-tion time and we hope that

you all have an enjoyable one,but please do not forget tosend in your news for theBrown Bulletin. Contact BobMurphy and he wrill gladly seethat "Jim, the Editor" re-ceives any and all news.

Otto Oleson Announces Invention

BurgessScreenings

BY PAUL GREN.IER

The Storehouse crew re-cently enjoyed an outing atFred Marois' camp on Successpond. Emile Parent served asMaster of Ceremonies of theaffair which included a feastof clams, hot dogs, and corn.Ramsey and L'Heureux werethe cooks. A good time wasenjoyed by all.

Emile Ramsey spent theweekend in Springfield, Mas-sachusetts.

We wish to extend our sym-pathy to Babe Melanson whosuffered an injury to his kneewhile playing Softball for Bur-gess. We're hoping that youhave a speedy recovery.

Al Parent of the Storehouseis spending his full vacationin Sun Valley, Idaho. Al likesto ski and we don't mean may-be.

Elton Mitchell, Storehouseinventory control purchaseda used Dodge recently. Takeour advice and keep your eyeon two meters — the speedo-meter and the city meters.

Labor Day, 1951

When we go out on Labor Day,Like most Americans, to play,There's none can tell, by what

we wear.The job we do, (and few will

care).No laws in Freedom's Haven

canDictate the clothes of any

man,So waiter, banker, grocer, lookThe same as doctor, lawyer,

cook,The shoes, the pants, the

shirts, won't tellWho owns a mill, who digs a

well.When we go out on Labor

Day,Like most Americans, to play,We'll wear one label all can

see;Our happy face will say: we're

YREEl

Chemical PlantExplosions

BY ASH HAZZARDAND AL MCKAY

George Lafleur is the cham-pion raspberry picker thisyear. Louis Gallant is runninga close second.

Bill Currier finds it too ex-

Shown above is a sketch of a suggested teakettle for theboiler house with apparatus to insure it against going perfectlydry. Otto Oleson is the artist and author of this revolutionaryinvention.

This kettle should be con-structed of an unbreakablesteel alloy with cover bolteddown to insure it against fly-ing off under a head of steamand possibly injuring some ofthe crew. It has an ordinarywater gauge which showswater level at all times. Thesecond line of precaution isa whistle located on snout ofkettle which operates under a200 pound saturated steampressure. In case this fails,the head of whistle is cappedby a fusible alloy which willmelt on contact with super-heated steam at 550 degreescentigrade. This will releasea rocket with a 5 - poundcharge of TNT which will ex-plode at an elevation of 1573feet above sea level (figuring

wash room floor at 1561 feetabove sea level). At base ofrocket are two wires—one willpull boiler house siren, theother will pull lever on phono-graph. The phonograph willplay a recording into hornover a public address system(same to be installed through-out boiler house). The record-ing should say, "The kettleis dry" at least forty times.

Under ordinary circumstan-ces, this should attract some-one's attention to the factthat the kettle is dry and thatwater should be added. If thisshould fail donations shouldbe solicited for a new kettle.

Respectfully submitted,

Otto Oleson and"The Boiler House Boys"

pensive to take his car towrork. He lives about a milefrom the time office. Onenight recently he left homewith five gallons of gas safelytucked away in his tank andthe next morning the Nashwouldn't start. The cause —"loss of gas."

"Tish" is sporting around ina car that shines like the lightin her eyes. (Editor's note:the fellow who wrote thatwould make a good poet.)

Louis Gallant is having"battery trouble." He is mostgrateful to have a Ford pushhim out of the yard once ina while.

Bert Turcotte is enjoyingthree weeks' vacation in Cana-da. Bill Raymond is back fromthe "wilds of Maine" with lotsof fish and stories. Earle Phil-brick is back on the job afterspending h i s vacation atLocke Mills, Maine and otherpoints of interest. He hadquite a tan but is graduallyworking it off. Norman "PeeWee" Lowe is hitting the roadin his Studie for a well earnedvacation. Paul Bouchard isback from a vacation at Aker'spond. How's nature, Paul? J.Nichols is on vacation. LifieJensen is wearing away thefoot prints left by Birt whois on vacation. Never a dullmoment, eh Lifie! Joe Vallois back after relaxing duringhis vacation. Leo Lapointe,our early bird, took the wormin July along with his vaca-tion. Jules P. Cote is taking

his last week of vacation afters c h o o l begins. Ed Hickeyseems to be in shape after hisvacation. W. Santy has thatfar away look in his eyes sincehis return from vacation.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stoneare to be congratulated uponthe birth of a baby daughter,Brenda Ann. Happiness andgood fortune to both of youfrom us all.

R. Downs is reported to beout sick. An early return isour greeting to you.

Bill Lemire has been missedaround here lately. We allwish you a get-well, Bill—andget back real soon.

what Jo qoufdink?

If, as some propose, a Federal re-tail sales tax were to be tried as ananti-inflation step, it would requirethe setting up of at least 3,000,000business units to make the collec-tions.

The public thinks that price con-trol, which Washington set up as ameasure against inflation but whichactually attacks only the symptomsof inflation without stopping it, hashad very little effect on controllingprices, a nationwide survey indi-cates.

Three-fourths of the men andwomen from coast to coast who wereasked if they thought price controlis working said they were dissatis-fied with it; only 18 per cent saidthey were satisfied, and 7 per centhad no opinion.

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