Annual Report Issue - - How We Did In 1955

SPRf lGUE ELECTRIC COmPf lOY nORTH flDfimS, m n S S Q C H U S E T T S

Our Company's operating results in 1955, its twenty-ninth year of

operation, were little changed from those of 1954.

Total Income the lifeblood of the business registered $44,679,836

during 1955 reflecting a 5% increase from the $42,549,021 which

was reported during 1954.

Our Company continued to maintain a position of leadership in the

industry during 1955, although to do so has entailed increased ex-

penditures for research and product development. We can look for-

ward to 1956 knowing that we have a sound foundation for future

growth.

Speaking for the Company, Messrs. Robert C. Sprague, Chairman

of the Board and Treasurer, and Julian K. Sprague, President, have

extended their appreciation for your loyal efforts on the Company's

behalf.

VOLUME XVIII MARCH, 1956 NO. 7

All of us in the Sprague family had the same interest in 1955

the Sales Dollar WHERE DID IT COME FROM? AND WHERE DID IT GO?

Sprague Electric, just like you has income and expenses, we both have to

save a little for that rainy day. Let's see what happened to our dollar in 1955.

Out of every dollar youearned in 1955 youspent . . . .

Money for doctors, den-tists, carpenters and thehosts of people whoseservices you used.

You also had expensesfor groceries, water,heat, and electricity toprovide for your family.

During the year youprobably had to re-place or repair yourcar, refrigerator or tel-evision set.

Uncle Sam took hisshare.

You probably earnedmoney in the form ofinterest on your savingsaccount or savingsbonds.

Finally you put away anest egg to buy thathouse, or send yourchild to college.

Income

Labor Costs

Materials & Services

Depreciation

Taxes

Stockholders

Reinvestments

Sprague Electric had asimilar problem — outof a total sales of$44,679,836 let's seehow a typical sales dol-lar was spent.

Sprague Electric alsohad to pay wages andsalaries. Out of everydollar earned the Com-pany paid 45c.

Sprague Electric had tobuy many raw materialsand services needed tokeep our company pro-ductive. They cost 36c.

Sprague Electric had torepair and replace wornout equipment. Out ofevery dollar it cost 3c.

Sprague Electric wasn'texempt either. Out ofits gross profits, taxestook more than $4 mil-lion. To each dollar ofsales this was. . . . 10c.

So Sprague Electric wasable to repay the stock-holders for the use oftheir money. Their divi-dend share of the salesdollar amounted to 3c.

Sprague Electric had tosave for expansion,growth and research,insuring employment op-portunities for all—re-taining out of everysales dollar 3c.

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Publishing Staff "1955 in Review" The Operating Story in 1955

John H. WinantManager of Publications

Kenneth S. BrownAsst. Manager of Publications

Rose Marie TobinAssociate Editor

Circulation Manager: Marion Caron Social Chairman: Ann HeathPhotographer: Albert Horsfall

ASSISTANT EDITORSHarold Carson, John Davis, Sylvia Flanders, Peter Mancuso, Jim Oldham,

Etta Owen and Kenneth Russell.

Marshall Street ReportersBarbara Armstrong, Carolyn Baroni, Gloria Biondo, Betty Bogus, Dorothy

Boutwell, Joan Bryce, Dorothy Buzzell, Jeannette Cady, Susan Cancro, MaryCantoni, Margaret Champagny, Nora Christie, Lawrence Clark, Edward Cook,Marguerite Daub, Jane Delisle, Julia Desrosiers, Irene Dubreuil, Janice Fowler,Ralph Fressola, Virginia Gallese. Jennie Garceau, Ida Gigliotti, Jeanne Grasela,Margaret Hauptfleisch, Larry Hiser, Esther Holloway. Betty Jangrow. MillieKawa, Amelia Koza, Suzette Lemieux, Bernard Loncto, Geraldine Macchia,Anabelle Mahar, Betty Mahoney, Carmela Mancuso, Grace McConnell, AliceMonette, Joan Murray, Steve Neily, Mary Odell, Dominick Pisano, Betty Recchia,Nick Richardello, Marjorie Richer, Mary Pat Riley. Ceil Risch, Reginald Rowett,Selma Sabin, Patricia Schabot, Diane St. Pierre, Gladys Sullivan, Cecile Trudeau,Lea Walden and John Walsh.

Beaver Street ReportersEmma Alongi, Marion Andrews, Leona Denault, Clifford Domenichini, Esther

Driscoll, Lorraine Duffy, Agnes Fitzgerald, John Gallese, Joan Hyndman, DeliaKeating, Marie Rose LaFlamme, Jean MacDonald, Jessie Meczywor, FrancisMiles, Justine Minor, Theresa Morin. Gertrude Noel, Ruth Richmond, Cora Ryan,Veronica Sobon. Lillian Stahelek, Rita Sullivan, Theresa Thomas and NinaUnderwood.

Brown Street ReportersDorothy Baker, Betty Barcomb, Rita Brooks, Martha Clark, Florence Clement,

Chick Currant, Charles Felix, Isabelle Fuller, Alice Green, Herbert Hafner,Ann Heath. Lena Kerr, Tiny Knights, Dorothy LaDue, Jean Levy, Mary Messier,Madeline O'Neil, Irene Pidgeon, Alma Pratt. Ace Samia, Frank Santelli, AdellaSmith, Erminia Sweeney, Lorraine Tanguay, Blanche Tatro, Corena Tatro, ArtVan Steemburg and Isabelle Witherow.

Sports Reporter: Tiny Mancini

"Every Sprague Employe a Reporter"

Published by SPRAGUE ELECTRIC CO.. North Adams, Mass..

New Products - - Our InsuranceFor A Brighter Future

Our jobs depend on the ability of ourcompany to develop and introduce newproducts into the market. A majorevent during 1955 was a cross licenseand engineering interchange agreementwith the Philco Corporation in thefield of semi-conductors. This will per-mit the production by Sprague of thePhilco Surface Barrier transistor in thenew plant to be built at Concord.

Our Research and Engineering Di-vision also made available to the elec-tronic indust/y a number of newproducts. Some of these are:

A complete line of Extended LifeElectrolytic Capacitors, similar to thehigh quality units we have been supply-ing for many years for telephonesystems, was made available formilitary electronics, computers, lab-oratory test instruments, industrialcontrols and other applications requir-ing trouble-free performance over atemperature range which exceeds thenormal requirements of telephoneoperation.

For transistor circuits, we supple-mented our TANTALEX® line oftantalum electrolytics with a new lineof LITTL-LYTIC® miniature alum-inum electrolytics. In addition to be-ing the smallest aluminum capacitorson the market, these units are char-acterized by very low leakage currents.They are especially useful in transistor-ized pocket radio receivers, wirelessmicrophones, personalized wire record-ers and similar devices.

An outstanding development in thefield of paper capacitors was the intro-duction of a molded paper tubularcapacitor using the new impregnant

HCX®, a solid hydrocarbon, develop-ed in our research laboratories. Out-standing temperature stability andsuitability for mechanical assemblymake these units ideal for TV and autoradio use.

For several years we have beendeveloping techniques for the manu-facture of metallized paper capacitors,and in 1956 were able to make generallyavailable to the trade a complete lineof subminiature metallized paper unitswhich are expected to find widespreadapplication in military and industrialequipment where both reliability ofservice and economy of space are vitalconsiderations.

In resistors, we broadened our lineduring the year with the addition ofPERMASEAL® precision wire-woundresistors, encapsulated in a Sprague-developed plastic embedding materialwhose performance exceeds even severemilitary humidity specifications.

The market for continuous-dutyAC capacitors in home appliances isgrowing rapidly. In order to servebetter the manufacturers of single-unit air conditioners, we have madeavailable in our UNIPAK® assemb-lies various combinations of motor-starting electrolytic capacitors andCLORINOL® continuous-duty capa-citors for motor-running and fan ser-vice. These assemblies provide acustom-tailored, prewired package,matched to power factor correctionneeds, in place of several capacitorsrequiring individual mounting, wiringand handling, thereby cutting costsand speeding production in the equip-ment manufacturer's plant.

The year 1955 was characterized bya generally high level of economicactivity. This activity was reflectedin the electronics industry, which at-tained a new sales high of about $5.4billion of end products at factoryprices. Dollar value of home enter-tainment products was a major factorin this increase, contributing $1.7 ofthe total, but the sharpest percentagegains were in sales of industrial andcommercial electronics and replace-ment parts, which together account foranother $1.3 billion. Military elec-tronic procurement approximated $2.4billion.

Markets for electronics in industrialand commercial applications showedsharp increases last year, both for theindustry and for the Company. Oursales to the communications, homeappliances and office equipment in-dustries continued to grow, reflectingprincipally the further growth of thenew product lines introduced in thepast several years. For example, inour specialized magnetic componentsfor digital computers, quantity pro-duction was achieved in stabilizeddesigns of pulse transformers, demandfor which continues to grow at agratifying rate, while production ofmagnetic shift registers was broughtsuccessfully through the difficult periodof pilot plant production.

Sprague continues to be a leadingsupplier of component parts for virtual-ly all types of military electronics, andhas taken the lead among componentmanufacturers in the creation of newand better materials, parts and func-tional assemblies, as well as in achiev-ing a much higher reliability in theirdesign. We continued to supply awide range of capacitors, resistors,filters, pulse-forming networks, cer-amic-coated wire and piezoceramic de-vices to the Armed Services. Volumeof our military business in 1955 wasapprox:rr.s.lcl> unchanged from theprevious year.

The outlook for military business in1956 is good, as there are indicationsthat the rate of procurement of thenewer weapons will soon begin to catchup with the increased appropriationsfor electronic equipment under thecurrent defense budget.

EmploymentAverage monthly employment at

Sprague Electric during 1955 was6,000, compared with 5,000 in 1954.

Membership in the 25-Year Clubincreased during the year from 12 to51. The addition of 39 new mem-bers to the Club came as the Com-pany marked its own 25th anni-versary of operations in NorthAdams. In addition, we now have198 employes with 20 years or moreof service, 317 employes with 15years, 957 employes with 10 years,and 2,202 employes with 5 years ormore of service.

FacilitiesDemand for new types of components

and entirely new standards of pre-cision and control made it necessaryfor our Company to spend large sumsin 1955 on buildings and equipment toinsure our competitive lead. At ourthree North Adams plants, extensiverehabilitation work was carried out toprovide a very high degree of cleanli-ness, combined with controlled atmos-pheric conditions.

Our electrolytic capacitor plant inAshe County, North Carolina, wassubstantially increased in size duringthe year. Plans are currently underway for an addition to the paper capa-citor plant at Barre, Vermont.

The Pacific Division in Los Angeleshas attained a worthwhile volume ofshipments, and has materially im-proved service to our West Coastcustomers. Plans are being made at

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Here in tabular form is the story of our Company's operating record forthe year 1955.

You will note that once again the largest single item of cost to the Companywas the wages and fringe benefits we received during 1955 This figure reachedan all time high of more than 20 million dollars. The table below lists the othercost expenses which our Company had to meet in order to maintain its positionin the fast-moving electronic industry.

1955 1954$ 44,679,836 $ 42,549,021Total income

Paid for raw materials, power, fuel and otherpurchased items and services

Available for the balance of the needs of the business and used as follows:.

Wages and salariesWear and tear and amortizationTaxes '.Interest on borrowed moneyDividends to stockholdersReinvested in plant expansion, inventories, work-

ing capital and other needs of the business

15,950,376 16,435,013

28,729.46020,090,813

1,253,5534,278,907

103,0591,490.054

1.513,074

26,114,00817,100.1691,060,2524,497,763

122,4161,346,862

1.986.546

Sprague and Automation Sprague ResearchDuring 1955 there was more "to do"

about the word Automation than anyother in industry's vocabulary. Noprecise definition of this term asapplied to manufacturing processes hasbeen generally agreed upon. In theelectronics industry, great advancesare being made over the conveyor-beltsystem which has been the standardmass production method in the assemb-ly of electronic equipment for manyyears.

The Sprague Electric Co.'s programin the area of automation is two fold.First, in the current stage of appraisalby our customers of the various sys-tems for mechanical assembly of com-ponents, we have accepted a responsi-bility to work closely with the customeron modifications of our products to fitthe needs of his particular system, andof supplying these either as samples oras limited-quantity production runs.To the extent that some standardiza-tion has begun to take place, it has beenpossible to offer full lines of Spraguecomponents designed for mechanizedassembly. For example, we are in regu-lar production on disc ceramic capa-citors with accurately spaced pinterminals, with opposed leads for tapemechanisms, or with flat taper-tabterminals. In paper capacitors, ourAUTOCON® tubulars are being sup-plied in a premolded plastic case havingan index key molded into the housingas well as other features necessary foraccurate insertion on printed wiringboards. A new line of PUSH-LOK®electrolytic capacitors has special con-necting lugs and an index terminal forproper positioning of these relativelyheavy units on a wiring board withoutadditional fastening. These and otherspecial types of components for auto-mation have necessitated modificationsin our own manufacturing processeswhich are quite expensive in relation tothe volume of business presently avail-able in these lines.

A second and longer-range phase ofour program involves the design andproduction of complex components and

mechanical insertion on printed wiringboards or conventional chassis, andfulfilling the electrical functions ofentire circuits or portions of circuits.

In order to minimize the large capitalinvestment which will be required formolds, tools and dies, componentmanufacturers must individually andseverally standardize on as few prac-tical sizes, shapes and terminal con-nections as possible. However, it islikely to be some time before thisstandardization can be achieved, and inthe meantime revision of componentdesigns is a tremendous task calling forclose cooperation among componentmanufacturers, equipment assemblersand the military agencies. Our Com-pany will continue to devote its effortsin this area to a program which issound and will be in the best interestsof the future of our business.

Since electronic parts of the typesmade by Sprague are basic to all elec-tronic circuits, end equipment designscan be no better than the componentsavailable to the circuit engineer.

Our Company has long recognizedits responsibility to the equipmentmanufacturer, and has for many yearsdone outstanding work in the development of improved capacitors, resistorsand other parts. Now, however, it isbecoming increasingly evident that theadvancing frontiers of electronics havepushed the time-honored materials andtechniques of parts engineering veryclose to their ultimate limits, and thishas made it vitally important that weseek entirely new physical and chemicalphenomena that can be put to use tomake electronic components which willfulfill the difficult new requirements ofthe growing electronic art.

In the past year, our Research and

ed from 250 to 323 people, including 43holding master's or doctor's degrees invarious fields such as physics, chem-istry and electrical, chemical andceramic engineering. These men havebeen carefully selected and are leadingmen in their fields. During this periodwe have been engaged in a major effortto increase our competence in basic re-search, and have added considerably tothe personnel of the Research Section.

Our Research Section has been activein many fields this past year. Some ofthe more important programs include:The extensive program of semi-conductor research and development inwhich valuable knowledge has beenyielded concerning solid-state reactionsfundamental to all semiconductor de-vices; physical and organic chemicalresearch, in which we have under waystudies leading to a better understand-ing of the mechanism of electrolyticreactions in capacitors; physics andanalytical methods research, engagedin devising techniques and instrumentsfor evaluation of new materials havingpotential component applications; fer-roelectric ceramics and ferrites re-search, in which we are building up anextensive body of knowledge of thesenew and promising classes of com-ponent materials: metallurgical re-search, which is engaged in a continuing search for new and useful metalsand alloys, and in improving ourknowledge of the many metals alreadyin use We also have a radio-activitygroup which is studying radiationphenomena as they apply to the designand operation of electronic parts.

The Product Development Sectionwas extensively reorganized and itsfacilities rearranged to make betteruse of our engineering staff. Severaldozen new products were brought tothe stage of possible marketing in 1956Activities in the field of printed circuitsand encapsulated subassemblies werestepped up sharply, and increasedemphasis was placed upon miniaturizedcomponents for transistor circuits.

March 1956 SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOG Page 3

Nathan M. LevinsonNamed Mgr. IndustrialCapacitor Division

Appointment ol Nathan M. Lev

inson as Manager, Industrial Capacitor

Division, has been announced by Neal

W. Welch, vice president in charge of

sales.

In his new post, Mr. Levinson will be

responsible for sales of Sprague in-

dustrial power factor correction capa-

citors to industry and utilities. Mr.

Levinson has been connected with the

Sprague organization since 1950 in

developmental and sales capacities on

carrier current and radio noise loca-

tion equipment. He succeeds Jesse

M. Allison, who has resigned.

A registered professional engineer,

Mr. Levinson is a graduate of Purdue

University. Prior to joining Sprague,

he was senior field engineer for the

Rural Electrification Administration in

the northeastern United States

ivir. Levinson resides a I 25 May

Terrace, Pittsfield, with his wife,

Beatrice, and his three children.

"I ignored the Safety rules.What's your story?"

Four ScholarshipsTo Be AwardedGrads This June

The Sprague Electric Company

again this year will make four scholar-

ship awards to worthy graduates of

high schools in the Northern Berkshire

region. Applications will be accepted

from 1 April to 31 May 1956.

Awards will be made for the follow

ing classifications:

The Sprague Electric Scholarship

I'und Award, established in 1950. will

be conferred on a graduate of Drury

High School whose father or mother is

in the active employ of the Sprague

Electric Company This award is for

a maximum of $500 a year for a period

of not more than four years of higher

education. The recipient must major

in college in a field that could lead to

eventual work with a company of the

type of Sprague Electric. The re-

cipient is selected on the basis o! scho-

lastic achievement, all around ability,

leadership and financial need.

Two Sprague Electric Engineering

Scholarship Fund Awards will be made.

The engineering awards are for a grant

of $500 to a worthy high school grad-

uate who enters a cooperative course of

higher education in the field of engi-

neering. Persons graduating from a

high school located within 25 miles

of North Adams are eligible.

The company will also make an

award from its Sprague Electric Nurs-

ing Scholarship Fund, which was

established in 1954. The nursing

award is for a grant of $400 to a high

school graduate who is entering an

accredited school of nurses' training

within 25 miles of North Adams.

The Company announced that the

scholarship awards will be made at

Class Night or graduation ceremonies

at the high schools concerned. Selection

of me scholarship winners will be made

by the Sprague Electric Scholarship

Committee which functions within the

Company's Employe & Community

Relations Department.

Anyone interested in any of these

scholarships should contact the Career

Guidance Director at their son's or

daughter's high school or the Employe

and Community Relations Department

of the Sprague Electric Company.

FacilitiesContinued from pane 2

present to establish a similar filter

engineering laboratory in conjunction

with our sales office at Dayton, Chio,

to service customers in the Midwest.

A specialized training program for Field Engineering and SpragueProducts personnel was held recently under the supervision of the Em-ploye and Community Relations department. Shown above is thegroup which participated: usual order Kenneth Price, of the SpragueProducts Chicago office; Millard Porter, field engineer from our PacificDivision; John J. Gumbleton and John P. Campbell of Employe andCommunity Relations who conducted the tour; Ronald Kelstrup, PacificDivision sales engineer; Irwin Hanke, Boston office sales engineer, and AlCoumount, Sprague Products, North Adams. Missing when the picturewas taken was Andrew Furgeson of the Boston Sprague Products office.

Photo by Vogue Valliers Studio

"INTRODUCING MISS MARCH" -- Gail Boucher. This little 18-year-old charmer — a newcomer tothe Company — works in Sprague Products. She is a resident of Adams and graduated from Adams Highlast June. Her hobbies include dancing and swimming.

Suggestion AwardsMount Up - - EightGiven Last Month

Eight employes have cashed in on

the Suggestion System within the past

month. Each received a check for $25

for his idea.

The group included:

Gerald Cronin. Shipping Mr.

Cronin advocated simplifying the ship-

ping procedures for materials brought

from local suppliers which are to be

sent directly to the various branch

plants.

Leo Mcreau, Jr , A. C. Dry Assembly

-Mr. Moreau proposed the use of a

simplified card in the AC. capacitor

operations.

Mr. Moreau also received an addi-

tional award for two suggestions which

pertain to the same subject. These

suggestions advocate elimination of

certain sizes cf foil and paper in rolling

of condensers

Florence Toyne and Norman Bour-

don, Industrial Oil Impregnation pro-

posed the use of a bakelite test tube

holder for testing. Their proposal

has been placed in use and is a saver of

test tubes.

Harry Brierly, Shift Registers,—

Mr. Brierly suggested the use of a new

type of mold for use in the Magnetics

Department.

Frank Pushee, Machine Shop—Mr.

Pushee advocated a new type of rolls

for formation machines.

Julia Desrosiers, Filters -Mrs. Des-

rosiers advocated a method of rolling

cylindrical type sections in the Net-

work and Filter Assembly room.

Lawrence Hiser, Magnetics—Mr.

Hiser suggested a new process tor the

manufacture of pulse transformers.

patents have been issued to the Sprague

Electric Company by the respective

inventors.

The former patent deals with the use

of stabilizing agents for the impregnat-

ing materials which serve as dielectrics

in capacitors. The value of a stabiliz-

ing agent lies in the fact that the insula-

tion resistance of dielectrics at normal

and elevated temperatures is much

improved over the insulation resistance

of non-stabilized dielectrics. The use

of a stabilizer further greatly increases

the operational life of capacitors at

elevated temperatures.

The latter patent teaches the pro-

duction of a capacitor by convolutely

winding electrode foils and planar

oriented Mylar films, with the usual

terminal tabs merely inserted into the

roll at the proper positions, and then

heating the unit so as to relax the

orientation of the films to produce a

shrinkage of the films which results in a

tightening of the entire condenser

section and an imprisonment of the

tabs in place.

Both of these patents are examples

of the productive research being con-

ducted within the various sections of

the Research & Engineering Depart-

ment of our company. The impressive

list of over 160 active Sprague patents

has now grown greatly, with high ex-

pectations that its growth will continue.

SAFETY SALUTE

Phil Talanco's Traffic and ShippingDepartment on Marshall Street can btvery proud of its record of more than33 months without a lost-time accident.

The department employs approxi-

mately 34 people, with the majority en-

gaged in the physical end of shipping.

This group is exposed to the hazards

usual!} associated with the moving of

equipment. The greatest one is strain

from lifting. Some others include

dropping boxes, injury from use of

handtrucks, injuries associated with

the loading of trucks, and mishaps in

the use of the conveyor system.

Mr Talarico's safety success formula

is one that is very simple good house

keeping plus a continuous safetj

consciousness on the part of supervisor

and employe There are no sudden

bursts of safety instruction, instead,

an employe is instructed as to the safe

and correct way every time he is

spotted doing his job in some way that

might cause an accident

(Editor's nole: Mr. Talarico has been

elected First Vice-President of the

Berkshire Traffic Association, an organ-

ization of industrial and commercial

traffic men of which he has been an

active member for the past 15 years.)

Patent NewsTwo patents have been issued to the

Company in recent weeks. They were

Letters Patent 2,734,035, entitled

"Dielectric Compositions ", submitted

by Sidney D. Ross, head of the Organic

Section of the Research & Engineering

department and Irving Kuntz, who is

presently employed by Esso Research

and Engineering Company, and Letters

Patent 2,735,970, entitled "Electrical

Condensers" granted to David B. Peck,

Supervisory Engineer and Preston

Robinson, Director-Consultant. Both

James Lowthers, former manager of the local New England Telephoneoffice, is shown above explaining the Sprague display to four unidentifiedvisitors. This was part of the open-house activities held by the telephonecompany during the month.

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Marshall Street Employe Is"Spare -Time Artist'1

Barbara Slade Armstrong

Creates Imaginative

Holiday Outdoor Scenes

Goblins witches elves — rein-deer wisemen! Any and all of thesecome to life at the well-known Muster-field House in Clarksburg, owned byMr. and Mis. C. Stafford Slade, eachtime a holiday rolls around.

Responsible for this artistic outlet isMrs. Barbara Armstrong, daughter ofthe Slades, whose outstanding displaysattract viewers from miles around.

The Musterfield House, which isapproximately 150 years old, is theperfect setting for Barbara's detailedartwork, its uncluttered Colonial archi-tecture providing the simple back-ground needed to compliment hertalent.

Barbara, who has been an employeof Sprague Electric for the past twoyears in the Warehouse and Receivingdepartment, has had no professionaltraining everything she does isoriginal and free-hand. Her work-shop is located in a single room of herhome and from this room her delight-ful scenes come to life. The majorityof her figures are completed in less thana half hour, including the preliminarysketching and final paintwork.

To give an idea of the popularitywhich has been given to Barbara'shandiwork here in part is a short articlev.-hieh appeared ir. the North AdarnaTranscript when one of her exhibitswas on display: "On arriving homeChristmas night from a tour of the areato view other holiday displays, mem-bers of the C. Stafford Slade familyof Middle Road, Clarksburg, wereunable to get in their own drivewaybecause of the numerous cars parkednear their home, attracted by the Sladesown display. Late in the evening,they turned off all the lights but hornblowing motorists forced the Slades toagain light the display. As many as50 cars at one time have been countedat the home "

Besides doing outdoor scenes, a fewyears ago, Barbara went into makingframed oil paintings on black velvetsquares. Scenes done on the velvetincluded flowers, ballet dancers, wood-land scenes and many other subjects.Although she does not do as much workon the velvet now, she does occasional-ly paint one for a friend or some other

The simplicity of this 150 year old colonial home in Clarksburg eachtime provides an excellent setting for Barbara's imaginative creations.Shown above is her Christmas display which featured "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".

Above—Putting the last toucheson another pumpkin for her Hal-loween display is Barbara Arm-strong. Barbara has shown artis-tic talent since a youngster andeach Christmas and other holidaysfixes up her parents' MusterfieldHouse in Clarksburg.

Left—This past Christmas, theNativity scene was done by Bar-bara. She does all the art work andher father, C. Stafford Slade, doesthe heavy job of securing thefigures! It takes her about a half-hour to complete one figure suchas a wiseman in this scene.

Where Our Products Go

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Barbara Armstrong is shown above with some of her framed and un-framed oil paintings done on velvet squares, a hobby she developed a fewyears ago. Also shown are some of the elves and the Santa Claus whichwere used in her Christmas display that year.

Pictured above, without outside cover, is the new transistorized 4-channel remote amplifier (212Z-1) manufactured by the Collins RadioCompany, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for use by radio broadcasting stations.This is the most light-weight and most compact amplifier of its typebeing manufactured. It is used for on-the-spot broadcasts whichoriginate away from the broadcasting stations. Collins has chosenSprague components because of our reputation for reliability which is aresult of your fine workmanship.

FOR SALEG. E. Dryer, brand new. $100. Call Adams 49 anytime.

Heatrola, large, coal or wood fired, heats 4 rooms, excellent condition, $25.80 feet 1 I inch steel baseboard heating element rectangular fintube, brandnew, $2.00 foot. i inch bronze body circulator brand new. $6U. Various con-trols.Hot water heating tank and coal stove with ring. $15.Gravity hot air furnace, complete with duct and registers for 5 rooms, coal orwood fired. $25.Kodatron Model No. 1 speedlamp, 200 watt second input, 1/5000 sec flash dura-tion. $175.For all of these call Adams 1 381 -J anytime.

10 Element Yagi antenna for Channel 4-5-6. 20 foot mast, guy wires, lead wire.4 months old. $25.00. Astatic Booster $20.00. Call MO. 3 3082 between5 and 8 any evening.

2 tubeless tires. $30 for both. Size: 6-70-15. 1 month old. Call Williams-town 733-M.

Drop leaf White sewing machine. Standard (pedal) type. Good condition.Also f metal bed with inner spring mattress. Dial MO: 3-5661 anytime.

Green and black hard top Plymouth convertible. White wall tires. 1952 model -2 door. Radio, heater — all equipped. Excellent condition. $775. DialMO: 4-9677.

FOR RENT6-room apartment. Heat and hot water furnished. Call Adams 543-RK.

WANTEDRolls for player piano. Call Adams 1571-W.

Riders from Adams to Marshall or Brown Street plants on 8-5 shift. TelephoneAdams 1752-J.

(WMGT)The Adams Chamber of Commerce deeply feels the loss of WMGT

Television Station and requests that the newspapers in the area run thefollowing as a public service:

We say it, Will you?To WMGT Television Station, Mt. Greylock:Our thanks for a task well done. We are hopingfor your early return to the air. — We miss you.

WMGT has been an asset to the area it serves.Let's extend a helping hand. Show them you'rebehind them. Sign your name to this in the abovespace and have your friends do the same, thenmail to the Adams Chamber of Commerce, WMGT,Committee, Adams, Mass.The more signatures the better!! !! Do it now! ! ! !

March 1956 SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOG Page 5

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS . . .

Pulse Transformers (nights)by Betty Barcomb

Welcome to the new girls in our de-partment. They are Shirley Maxwell,Flavia Gilmore, Judy Walker, RuthWright. Joyce McGrath and GiseleDel Negro. Two of our girls have leftto await the arrival of the stork. Eachgirl was presented with gifts for theirblessed events. Good luck to RitaBrooks and Dora Cohen BarbaraLeonardo has left for California. (Hopeto hear from her scon). . Rita Luscierhas left and Doris Daniels, Rita Brooks,Isabelle Corbesiero and Ann Sharonhave all returned from their vacationsall rested and ready to go. Because ofLent, everyone will be either a scare-crow or beanpole by the time Eastercomes. Candy and cake are con-stantly being refused. There'll be manysize 7's sold this spring.

Hi-ReliabilityMarion Andrews & Valarie Piantoni

Everyone is getting ready for Easter.Your reporters wish to extend to every-one a Happy Easter Peggy Lauthwas one of the lucky ones to win a furcoat at the Boston Store during theWashingron Birthday Sale. Pete, justwhat is a flub-a-dub? We are glad tosee Pauline Beliveau and MarieGattuso back on days Also welcome,Florence Carsno, after a sick leave .Alice Boneville's daughter Carole hadher tonsils out. She sure was gladwhen it was all over. We mothers doworry and have our problems . DorisMonette will be putting out a shinglesoon. She is becoming quite a sewer.We were sorry to hear about NormaLaBree breaking her elbow. Hurryback, Norma Eva Jowett is on amonth's leave of absence. Hurry backback for we all miss you It onlytook the help of two co-workers forFrancis Laghi to be able to knit a pairof mittens. Has anyone seen anynineteen double "o's" anywhere? Thatis Teddy Pierces' biggest problem.Keep looking, Teddy . Our eight-hourday just wouldn't be complete withoutClaire Cantoni's blushing face, DorothyWolkowicz's eating a half dozen bunsevery morning, Tootie Choquette'shiccups, and Dorothy Saulnier's one-a-day orange Alice Albertazzi wouldlike another pet since her cat died.A pet that has a white stripe across hisback is living in my back yard, you mayhave him, Alice. Is it a bird or a plane

Why no. it's only Shirley Brownwhizzing by.

Shift Registersby Theresa Morin

A speedy recovery is wished to JanetHaas Welcome back to Julia Gregal-is after your recent illness . Also,welcome to all the new girls. Hopeyou enjoy working with us. . Theplace is smiling again since SoniaDrawee has come back after her recentillness. Does anyone have rubberfenders for Ronnie Dean? Seems asthough they were tested for durability

Agnes Chesbro has now completelyreformed. She has also lost her nick-name Seems as though MiriamBuzzell had trouble finding where shelives. I wish someone could straightenout the matter for her Lent hasbrought out the best in everyone.Alice Badorini is staying true to hersacrifice of giving up smoking. HelenBurdick's resolution hasn't been broken either . She doesn't write notesand Jane Pollack has given up cornyjokes. All these brightly shining haloshave caused a few of us to dig out oursunglasses. . . IV:earl Burdick has madeus proud to have him working with us.He has suggested many improvementsfor our work. Recognition 13 cilso sentto Miriam Buzzell on her award forher very sensible suggestion. HazelGoddard has a very profitable hobby,raising canaries. The major problem isthe breaking of eggs when you dropthem, right Hazel????

Special Products Dept.by Nina Underwood

We miss Jane Boucher who has leftthe department to take an office jobon Marshal! Street . . The welcome matis out for Alice Booth Ronny Crock-well's daughter, Linda, has returnedhome from the hospital We also missJanet Tatro who is taking a leave of

This cute young fellow is JamesRussell Noel, the two year old sonof Russell of Maintenance andgrandson of Edith who works inMetal Clad.

Little Sherry Lee Pierce is thedaughter of Mr. and Mrs. TedPierce her daddy is a supervisorin the IBM room on Beaver Street.

"Well now, imagine that!" saysBeryle Shaw, Jr., son of VirginiaShaw who worked in the F.P.Ovens and grandson of Harry andSophie Embry.

Misc. Paper Finishby Gert Noel

On March 9, all the gang honoredour supervisor, Frank Major, who wascelebrating his sixty-sixth birthday.Frank was presented a gift and a beau-tiful cake which was very good MMM!. Glad to hear Mary Lataif has re-turned home from the North Adamshospital and sincerely hope she willsoon be back with us. Our sick listhas run up and down the scales thiswinter and we hope that all those whofell before one virus or another are onthe "well list" to stay Martha La-Valley has left us to await Mr. StorkUpon completion of her work, Marthawas presented some lovely gifts for thebaby-to-be The welcome mat isrolled out for Genevieve Gorczakowski,Betty Wol, Helen Aliprandie andBarbara Dami. Hope you enjoy work-ing with us Edna Cwiertniewicz andStephanie Kulpa enjoyed a trip toSpringfield where they took in theFlower Show. . . Frances Gayda had agay time at the Ice Follies in Boston. . .Our desk clerk Rose Bombardier de-cided she couldn't take running up anddown these stairs any longer, so shemoved her desk back into our depart-ment right in its original spot. Welcomehome Our foreman Art Spencer isvery busy working weekends fixing uphis new home in Stamford, so that it'llbe ready to move in come warm weath-er . Margaret Accetta is very proudof her ycung son Francis who is takingorgan lessons at St. Francis Church. . .What's this I hear about Ray Guyettebeing first in the line to get tickets forthe recent stage show at a local theatre?We also heard that he was a little dis-appointed. Well, it wasn't the ZeigfieldFollies, you know.

Chuck Shea, is home fromfor good, after 4 years.we'll see you next month.

Paper Rolling (Days)Joan Hyndman and Frances Miles

Vv hat is gomp[ on in this department?There must be a mint hidden some-where here by the looks of everyonegetting new cars Flo Gaffey has anew Chevrolet and Lena Solomon, anew Ford. Tell me, what do I do toget one???...We wish Joe Farley abelated birthday greeting. . NancyCook has an anniversary on March 3she's had her driver's license for oneyear . . We wish the best of everythingto Jean Perras who has left us to be-come an X-ray technician. . . Eva rCingis looking for everything white for herbedroom. What's going on, Eva?. .Roma Sacco almost knocked herselfunconscious the other day. Yes, Roma,that window is really there We'reglad to have Nan Cook back with usafter a short visit to the hospital andwe also wish Blanche Mazur a speedyrecovery from the hospital Hurryback, Blanche. Esther Shea is ahappy girl, and no wonder, her husband

This happy little girl is DonnaAnne Diodati, who celebrated her3rd birthday on March 3. She isthe daughter of William Diodatiof the Material Control Depart-

the service, Hospital. Our department was griefSo long— stricken by the death of Doris Arm-

strong, our union representative; sym-pathies are extended to her family.

TransformersCora Ryan and Jean MacDonald

Flash North, South, East, West—please tell Pete Law and Jim Nicolwhat direction the sun comes up!. . .Belated birthday greetings to IsabelLipinski and Walt Gould Bananamuffins are Lucille Lewis's favoritedelight. How about a copy of thatrecipe? We haven't seen any goldstars floating in the air lately for ourbowling team. Let's cheer a little bitlouder for our Nicolettes We sayfarewell very reluctantly to JamesDeSanty who is leaving our lab. Aftera farewell party which was held at theHeartwellville Lodge on February 28,Jim sure knows he'll be missed by all. .Good luck, Jim. Get well wishes arebeing sent out to Mae Goodrich who isill at home, and to Dottie Thomas,convalescing from a recent operation;also to George St. Cyr, husband ofAnna St. Cyr, who is ill at the Deacon-ness Hospital in Boston... A good timewas had by Margaret Perreault whospent a weekend in Connecticut re-cently. . Jean MacDonald would liketo teach Aggie Vanuni how to drive af-ter her recent mishap. But, by the way,who is going to teach Jean? Anyonewish a party? Cora Ryan's rumpusroom is just the place. A few of thegirls found this out after a rollickinggood time at her home MargaretPerreault and Carol Gamache reallykept the party alive and the spaghettiwas delicious...Welcome to all thericw girls who have joined us. . Getwell wishes to John Murphy, husbandof Helen, who is also in the Deaconness

Quite a boy is David Alan Lam-oureux, 10 month old son of Mr.and Mrs. Robert Lamoureux. Fath-er works in the A.C. Department onMarshall Street and Mother in theIBM Assembly room on BeaverStreet.

Metal CladEmma Alongi and Veronica Sobon

Jerry Bressette was one of the luckyones who attended the basketballgame between Adams High the Berk-shire County Champions and St.Peters Central High from Worcester,at the Spring ield College Field House. . Alice Domin and Pete Rondeaurecently celebrated their birthdaysand were presented gifts and a cake bytheir co-workers Pete Rondeau hasleft our department and now works inHi-Reliability. With him go our bestwishes . We welcome back from sickleave Florence Pellows and ShirleyMorgan. . Recently discovered somehidden talent, the possessor of whichwishes to remain anonymous . ClaireDaniels is now the proud owner of a1955 Plymouth and a thoroughbredBoxer dog 1955 model . Our deskclerk Pauline Barrett is out on sickleave. We wish her a speedy recovery.

Paper Impregnation andSmall Order Metal Clad

by Agnes FitzgeraldWe all miss Eva Thibodeau who is

still on the sick list Rose Valliereshas returned to work and we are allglad that her young daughter, Diane,who had pneumonia is on the road torecovery. . . Kathy Gifford spent aweek in Virginia where her grandfather

George Klucky, our sportsman, tells usover 1 70 rabbits have been released inthe area. . When Letty Demo gets herpicture in the paper, she takes the wholepage. Letty and her son Billy attend-ed the Hough ton Branch Library onFebruary 28, where the hobby interestsof the children were on display. .Sporting a new Nash is none other thanMay Lefave Mary Benson is get-ting ready for a big event. Her babyLawrence will celebrate his 21st birthday on March 25. However, Marydoesn't want everyone to get the ideathat she is old Jeanne Dufresneattended the Ice Follies in Boston onFebruary 19, and also went to NewYork for a weekend during January. .Paul Miller, 6 year old son of Raymond,fell on the way to school on March 8and broke his leg. Here's hoping he'llbe up and around real soon.

Although he is only 2\ monthsold, John Arthur Heyes, son ofArthur Heyes, seems to know ex-actly what he wants!

"The girl with a twinkle in hereye." That 's Diane Marie Poirot,2 year old daughter of Louis of theSample department on Marshall,and Ruth, formerly of the IBMroom. She is also the niece ofClaire, Rita and Jean Poirot, allon Beaver Street, Marceline andAdeline Poirot and Dolly and Reg-gie Rowett at Marshall Street.

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Networks and L.C.C.by Irene Pigeon

We were all sorry to say goodbye to)ohn Muldowney but also were happyto say hello to Stanley Bagdon, our newforeman. We wish good luck to bothof them in their new departments."Roz" Vincellette has been walkingaround with a smiling face recently.The reason: she just moved into hernew home in Williamstown We wisha speedy recovery to Stephie Driscoll shusband who recently returned homefrom the hospital. One of our coworkers. Rose Walczek, entered thehospital for observation We hopeyou'll be back with us soon We alsohope Thomas O'Neil feels better.Tommy had an attack of appendicitis.

Industrial Oils FinalAssembly

by Charles FelixThe welcome mat goes out this

month to greet the following new facesin our department Irene Delisle,Doris Paquin, Helen Williams, EmmaTanguay, Eda Unis, Lillian Trombley,Edward LaFleche, Joseph Raczka,Ernest Blondin, Ralph Burdick andour new foreman John MuldowneyRay Brown was given a farewell giftbefore leaving the department to takeup his new duties in the Chlorinal department. Everyone wishes Ray thebest of luck An interesting note wasbrought to our attention by Bill Drury.It was this: three out of our four lastforeman have been left handed (KennyRussell, Ray Brown and John Mul-downey.) A few think Bernie Fitz-patrick might have been also but of thisno one was sure We have threepeople on leave from our room. Theyare Cecilia Maxymilhon, Beatrice Ponti,and Germaine Molleur Bill Drurypassed out cigars recently in honor ofhis new daughter who was born onMarch 4 March was a big month forthe Drurys. Both Bill and his wifecelebrated their own birthdays onMarch I and Bill's vacation started onMarch 12 and just to keep the re-cord straight, it's a 1956 Mercury forCeleste Niece.

Misc. Resistor Assemblyby Jean Levy

We're happy to report that oursupervisor, Art Bissaillon, is improvingevery day, and we all hope that he willsoon be back to work with us. We allmiss you, Art . . Our co-worker BlancheTatro recently had a bad fall and in-jured her leg. Hope you will be backwith us by the time this is out, Blanche

. . Jessica Pike and her husband areenjoying a month's vacation in Cali-fornia . One of our former co-workers

Priscilla Sherman, was guest of honorat a pink and blue shower recently.The hostess was another former co-worker, Connie Hagan Mary LaDame and yours truly attended Aperfect hostess is Mary LaDame, whorecently gave a personal shower inhonor of one of her friends, TheresaBushika, who is to be married in May.

KVAby Frank Santelh

Bill Pasotti of the KVA room is thenew weather man. His predictions havebeen coming true this year and hislatest was that the last snow stormwe had would be the end. Let's hopethis is true! Doc Logan is getting hisfishing equipment ready for the troutseason and is making flies in his sparetime . Frank Santelli says the Yank-ees and the Dodgers will be playing theWorld Series in October. What already yet????? Eleanor and Millieare getting all ready for Easter.

GUESS WHO?

Industrial OilsCover Assembly

by Isabel WitherowFirst of all, Betty Nichols and Ann

O'Dell want to thank Doris Pepin forthe lovely chocolate cake she baked fortheir six month anniversary here atSprague's Why doesn't someone askHenry who sat him on the floor??? .Someone better tell Betty Nichols thatin Massachusetts you have to pay anexcise tax on cars and you also have toput money in the parking meters. . .Oh, by the way, does Aime Morin takea good picture. Ask him if you canswap a few. . . Mr. and Mrs. DanielDuprat have a new baby girl, DonnaMarie, which makes Isabel Witherowa proud grandmother. Congratula-tions and best wishes to Betty Nichols'daughter, Barbara, who married JosephCozzaglio . . Birthday greetings to Lil-lian Flaherty, Letty Ferra, GuidoLibardoni and Aime Morin.

Shown above is Beverly Ann An-drews, daughter of Marion Andrewsof the Hi-Reliability departmenton Beaver Street.

GUESS WHO! This young misshas grown up since this picturewas taken and is now employed inthe Maintenance Cost Control de-partment. Well, if you haven'tguessed yet, it's Shirley Ferrari, atthe age of 11 years!

Another GUESS WHO! Can'timagine who this little tot in thetub is, can you? If you look closely,you can see that it's Judith MaeKelyer at the tender age of 11months. Judith also works in theMaintenance Office.

Sandia Coolersby Dorothy Bell Baker

Elinor Alibozek has a nocn-time job.hloor-walker at J. J. Newberry's .Like the lucky strike orchestra weSandia rollers say so long for a while,to Rita Charron, Florence Dupre andRita Zoito who have been temporarilytransferred Most popular girl of1956 goes to Florence Dupre for thebirthday celebration the girls gave her

If you want to see Theresa Matus-zak smile -just pass the cake Whois the dark-haired girl who tiptoesintc work in her stocking feet eachmorning? Cooler No. 2 must be verycool! All the girls are knitting gayboleros. Mary Dean being the last tojoin the knitting club. All instructionsare furnished by Emma Montagna.

Industrial OilsRolling(nights)by Lorraine Tanguay

Sorry your reporter missed lastmonth, but I'll try to bring the news upto date We all miss Nickey Fred-ricks who got transferred to the dayshift. Virgie Blondin was all excitedabout going to the Alert's Ball Gladshe had a nice time Sorry to have

Ann M. Sherry is the daughter ofGrace Sherry of the Filter Depart-ment. Ann recently became aRegistered Nurse.

Chosen "Girl of the Month" atMaria Assumpta Academy in Pet-ersham, Mass., was Sandra Isher-wood, the granddaughter of Mar-tha Isherwood of the Filter Depart-ment.

Phyllis King out with the virus. 1 lurryand get well, Phyllis Rose Gaspardiis busy moving into her new apartment

Hope you like it Rose We allextend our sympathy to Tony Zwiercanon the recent death of his motherThe main topic in our room is the girlsgoing to the Midway every Thursdayafter shopping. Everyone seems tohave a nice time Hope each and allhave a nice Easter.

Industrial Oils Rollingby Erminia Sweeney

Arlene Montgomery has taken aleave of absence. She is expecting anewcomer in the near future. Thegirls presented her with a carbed forthe future Miss or Mr. Dot Bastiensuie can whip up a mean cake dehcious too! Hello to the new girlsIrene Davis and Jackie Chapin AnnSacco is back at work again AliceBeauchamp's mother is home from thehospital and is dcing nicely KennyRussell and his wile attended theFlower Show in Springfield recentlyand brought seme flowers back withthem. Liz Slattery also went to theshow Fiannie Delisle and his two'sons went skiing over the weekend.Rita Fournier has started her springcleaning . Rose Dupre spent a recentweekend in Pittsfield. Ann Wabnig isback in our midst again after being inanother department fcr a few weeksLaura Lanoue received a painful in-jury to her hand recently when it gotcaught in a car door.

Hi-Quality Lineby Mae O'Neil

Hi folks sorry I didn't get the newsin last month but we'll try to keep youup-to-date from now on First of alla hearty welcome to Ella Nary, ReneBrassard and Ann Gentile who areworking with us. . . Beware pedestrians!The doll of the Salvage line, "Willv "has obtained his driving license. Badnews has finally come to the high-

Pictured here is Philip Collins ofthe U.S. Navy, brother of CathyCollins of Retail Sales, while in theMachine Shop of the ship Kaw-ishiwi.

Shown while vacationing in Ha-vana, Cuba, are Mr. and Mrs.George Simon, right, and a friend.George works in the Small Orderdepartment on Beaver Street.

George Frederick Morse, is theson of Linwood Morse, watchmanat Brown Street. George just re-cently was promoted from Privateto Pfc. in the Marine Corps. Beforeentering the service he worked forChuck Blouin.

quality line. Kilty is losing her Ipanasmile Happy anniversaiy to I/./.yPindick and his wile Ruth, who havehad 16 years of wedded bliss. Izzy isthe bird lover of our line Get wellwishes go out to Esther Prcndergastwho is in the hospital for an operation

Ann Gentile had the thrill ol herlife recently when her husband tookher out for a drive. They were ridingthrough Cherry Court in Pownal ontheir way to Bennington when a herdof about 18 deer crossed the highway.Ann still hasn't gotten over her sur-prise.

Clorinolby Dot LaDue

A party was held at 1 lelen lalco'shome where the girls had a wonderfultime. Pizza pie was served wi t h cheeseand hot sausage. Reason for the affairwas a cosmetic display, which inci-dentally, Ruth Bi-audin really enjoyed

We would like to wish Louise Doranthe best of luck in her future home-in Connecticut. Louise moved lo bewith her parents. We all miss herCongratulations tc Ray Brown, who isour new foreman. Best of luck to KenRussell. It's been swell working for you

I wonder if anyone likes spaghettilike Jean Schonfelder? Anita Lescarbeau is another big eater! Where dothese small girls put it? Walt Braman was elected union representativein Clorinol Assembly. Congratulations

A hearty welcome is extended to allthe new girls.

KVA Stockroomby Ace Samia

We are all sorry to have lost RalphBurdick to Industrial Oils, but wewish him lots ol luck on his new job.The gang in KVA wish Mr. and MrsHarold Brcwn the best in their newapartment . Marie Ducharme andhusband ivioe ar*e also happy in theirnew apartment . We see Phil Sprag-ue's son is starting to walk. It won't belong before Junior will be followingDaddy around the house!. . HaroldBrown will soon be passing out cigarsin the observance of his son's comingmarriage. Mr. Brown will be getting awonderful daughter. He linally has atruck to himself, too, after being ahelper to Ace Samia. Ace has the runfrom North Adams to Kingston andseems to enjoy it very much.

Small Orderby Tiny Knights

Sunny Cozzaglio, recently had a

vacation in sunny Florida Millie

Conroy celebrated her birthday last

month and received a new wedding

band to match her diamond. A very

pretty set, Millie. . . Albina Burdick has

a new granddaughter named Kathleen

Marie Delia Pilling celebrated her

21st anniversary last month. Congratu-

lations to you both!! Sally Talarico

has a new hair-do. Very becoming

Felix Rondeau is recuperating from a

gash on his arm.

Nancy Embry, a senior at St.Joseph High School, is the daugh-ter of Harry and Sophia Embry.

March, 1956 SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOG Page 7

Flat Midget Assemblyby Carmela Mancuso

Our weather man these days is tryinghis best to let us know that spring isreally on its way, and that Easter iscreeping up. Also, another year hasgone, and taxes are being paid onceagain February 21 was a busy dayfor Den Mother Corinne Simon. Yes.Corinne has charge of 9 cub scouts andenjoys working with these youngstersvery 'much. A blue and gold banquetwas held at the St. Francis' cafeteriain recognition of the 46th anniversaryof the Boy Scouts of America. At thebanquet, Corinne's son, Stevie, wasawarded bear and denner stripes.

Centrifugeby Belle Mahar and Dom Pisano

Hi folks! If you remember, lastmonth Harvey Valliers had a birthday.He received a parakeet from his wifeand parakeet food from his daughterWhose birthday was it, Harvey????Jack Sullivan spent three weeks inFlorida Harry LaPlante is working

better, Harry We are all happy tohave Sam Spagnolo back with us again.Sam went to Boston for a series ofx-rays and other tests Now we knowwhy Vic Vareschi was singing "Let MeGo". Art Molleur's gain is our loss.Good luck, Vic Boys we haven't avery large department now, so howabout contributing to your column?I'm sure you would all like to haveyour name in the LOG once in a while.Also, il anyone from the AC Dry's hasanything, please notify one of yourreporters »«» fHey wonld he happv toput it in for you.

Building No. 7 Officesby Selma Sabin

DEPARTMENTAL QUIZ: Prob-lem for Today: What if -f Y = X.For Example: "What if" a rubberglove was blown up like a balloon?Answer: Wearing lipstick, rouge, blood-shot eyes and Alex Petro's hat, it wouldvisit the Methods Department .No. I What if Frank PattersonACTUALLY had a TV set? No. 2No one in the department liked whitesweaters? No. 3 Lou Scalise, Esquire(?) couldn't keep certain people to theirno smoking contract? No. 4 Hearingaid buttons and cords connected toradio sets became the office vogue?No. 5 The beer-filled mugs and pret-zel design on the socks Joan Paradiseis knitting were edible? No. 6 BillCampedelli was written up in the LOGeach month? No. 7 Stuart Pead hada ski tow built at the State Teacher'sCollege?

Shippingby Cecile Trudeau

Welcome to the Shipping departmentMary Daub and Genevieve BeckwithAlso welcome back to Joanne Salta-martini who has returned from a leaveof absence We all miss Ann Tremb-lay and Claire Corsi who are out onleaves of absence and Ruth Livsey whohas been transferred to Factory En-gineering A pink and blue showerwas held recently for Claire Corsi andAnn Tremblay at the home of JoanneSaltamartini June Pringle is allsmiles these days. The reason she iswearing a beautiful diamond ring .Jean Phelps is the proud aunt of anephew born in Germany on March7th

Heat Seal Department: We all missTed Grogan who has accepted a job astruck driver for the Neway Express ofSpringfield. We all wish him luck onhis new job. Welcome to the Heat-Seal department, Francis StantonWe all miss Henry Frederick who isnow working at G. E. in Pittsfield.

Round Midget Assemblyby Jennie Garceau

My. my! What a lot of birthdays weare celebrating this month. George Rossand Emeline Lescarbeau, at this writ-ing, had had their birthday cakes andgifts, and cards. Many more are in linefor this as there are 12 in the room withbirthdays in March. May they all en-joy many years of happiness Somany are planning their Easter outfitsand we do hope nice weather is here forthe holiday We have had someslippery walking this winter, and RitaDiSanti is at the North Adams hospitaland Nina Buckley is at home as resultsof their falls Ida Chilson is on vaca-tion and Midge Valotta has returnedto us after being out for a week . . . RoseLane to presented Emy Lescarbeau witha very pretty letter opener on herbirthday. Emy will find plenty of usefor this gadget, opening al! the mailthat she gets A big welcome fromthe whole line to Mary Leja's newdaughter on Monday, March 12 at the

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Dennis James, 4 and Rose Marie,3, are the children of Mel Trim-arcni of Formation on IvlarsnallStreet, and Irene 1 rimarchi ofMetal Clad, Beaver Street.

Little Cheryl Eileen Taft, wasstill in the North Adams HospitalNursery when the above picturewas taken. She is the daughterof Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W. Taft,whose grandmother Madge Taftworks in the Small Order depart-ment on Brown Street.

This picture of Peter V. Mancusowas taken in Nova Scotia, whileduck hunting with Louis Croninin 1952.

Plunkett Memorial Hospital in Adams.May she grow up healthy and bringlots of joy and happiness to her family.Stanley Leja is the proud father.

Test Equipment, Researchand Engineering

by Mary CantoniIt's farewell to Glen Frank who is

leaving us. It was nice knowing youand we hope you don't forget us. .Congratulations to Jeanne Murphy onher purchase of a Ford Thunderbird.Now watch her kick up dust Thehappy smile on Mary Mazza thesedays is due to her son's being home ona 14-day convalescence leave EdLamphier decided to buy a motor boatfor the next rainy season The horseshave failed Bill Champagny, but nota care has Bill Anyone wanting agood pair of walking shoes, see Bill.They're mere reliable than horsesRobert Bardsley, who has been homeon a sick leave, thanks everyone fortheir kind thoughts What was thatshadow that just went by? O! that wasBill Pratt. Hi, Slim!! Everyone inthe department has been invited tohelp Russ Hansen lay the cornerstonein WilHamstown. John "Kiki" Aldrich

has that sad expression again. Seemsthat Adams High lost an importantgame by a little more than 7 points.

Ed Lamphier's daughter, Linda,was married to Robert Sheppardof WilHamstown. Now Ed can breatha sigh of relief Should you bewandering through the Test depart-

from afar.'tis only Mary Mazza. Marylost her voice a while ago It must becatching too, because after a briefvacation in Reading, Pa., yours trulycame back sounding a little weak in thevocal department Arnold Korelitzhas completed a short course in the artof cooking with R. F. energy. "Shock-ing, wasn't it, Arnie?"

Employe and CommunityRelations

by Mary Pat Riley"Welcome back" is extended to

Agnes Douglas, Sandy Primmer andVassily de Samsonow who have beenon the sick list Patricia Deame re-cently spent a weekend in Newark,New Jersey. . Three of our ardentskiers, Fred Whitham, Toby Tobinand George Bateman, have been thank-ful for all the snow we have had thisyear, even if some of us aren't! Theirskiis have had a good workout.Jackie LeMoine and Sylvia Flandersare busy making plans for their wed-dings in June Lidija Augstkalne re-cently spent a weekend in New YorkCity. She attended the opera "Lohen-grin" which she enjoyed very much.We don't think Lidija should go again,because she wasn't feeling too wellafter she came back! We miss Paul Luseand John Ricci who have left us.

Advertisingby Janice Fowler

Everywhere you look these days yousee diamonds and more diamonds.Bernie Fbrtini finally talked Dick intomaking the big step and Jan Reopell

These two fine boys are Vincent7, and Ernest, 8, sons of DorothyDeSanty, of Industrial Oil FinalAssembly on Brown Street, andnephews of Elizabeth Cross, Mar-shall street, and Beatrice Gebeau,Elinor DeSanty, and Thomas De-Santy, all of Brown Sti

has received her ring from still anotherDick. That's really taking advantageof Leap Year, girls. All kidding aside,both rings are very beautiful andhow can therestof ussingleg i r 1 sgoabo u t-snaggingaman? We bid fond farewellto Al Bourassa, who has joined theNavy, and to Caleb Harriman. It'sbeen fun working with these crazycharacters and we'll miss them both. . .Hello to George Perrino who has joinedour ranks as stock clerk. Hope you likeit here in little Siberia, George .Several of the gang were served ropespaghetti (a new concoction) at awingding held at Jan Fowler's . So howwas I to know you should stir the darnstuff during the cooking process???????

Executive Officesby Susan Cancro

The gang had a lovely eveningThursday, March 1st at a farewellparty for Betty Bastable who has leftus to go back to Boston. A nice timewas had at Mollie Avery's beforehand,a good meal and good company at theWilliams Inn, and wound up the even-ing at Alice Bratcher's for a short visit.Thanks to all for such a pleasant time.

Retail Salesby Betty Jangrow

Several members of the faithfulrooters of Adams followed their teamto Springfield on March 6. AlthoughAdams lost, everyone enjoyed a veryexciting game. Philip K. Collins,fireman in the U.S. Navy stationed atLong Beach, California, had the opportunity to be present at the AnnualRose Bowl game. He took many beautiful snapshots which he had sent tohis sister Cathy who works with us . .Before entering the service, Philipworked in Building 21. At present heis stationed on the tanker U.S.S.Kawiskiwi, awaiting orders to leave forJapan sometime in April. We hope• hat all rhe people who have been outon sick leave will be as healthy as ever

Dry Tubular Assemblyby Margaret Champagny and GladysSullivan

Well, its been a long winter, but weall hope it will end real soon PatO'Neil has returned to work afterbeing ill with a virus We welcomeour Rita Cardinal back from a longleave of absence. She has a beautifulbaby boy. We also tender birthdaygreetings to Rita on March 14 Jimand Barbara Randall have bought ahome on Reservoir Road. Good luck,kids, and happy living! Ann Fortinhas moved to a newly-decorated apart-ment and says it is wonderful Rosil-da Boucher recently spent a weekend inHartford, Conn., visiting her daughterand son-in-law Tessie Czaja attend-ed the capping ceremony at SpringfieldHospital on March 8th. Her nieceJacolyn Langer was capped Well,folks, short and sweet that's us thismonth. Watch for more next month.

Linda Crittelli, is the 3! year olddaughter of Lea Crittelli of theFilter Development department.

This bright-eyed youngster isMichael Danforth age 1 year old.He is the son of Paul Danforth ofthe Ceramics department andElaine Danforth of Tantalum.

Sandy and Frankie Hewitt, 7years old and 8 months old, are thechildren of Nellie Hewitt. Theirgrandmother, Maskina Morin,works on Brown Street.

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Maintenance Departmentby Dorothy Buzzell

We miss Annibale DePaoli in Build-ing 17. Mr. DePaoli has retired afterbeing with the company for over 10years. Now is the time to enjoy your-self, Annibale Vacations are starting in this department. DominicBernardi spent one week of his vacationrenovating his home . . Yours trulyenjoyed herself in Springfield for a weekrecently Congratulations to ForrestSherman of the Sheetmetal departmenton his election as constable in Clarks-burg The girls in the Maintenancedepartment and Maintenance cost con-trol feted Tom Dion recently in honorof his birthday by taking him to Florini's to dinner Congratulations toMr. and Mrs. C. Oakley on the birthof a daughter.

F.P. Ovens andCover Assembly

by Marguerite Daub

The girls from the ovens had a veryenjoyable evening at Annie Petersons'home last month. It was lovely, Annie,and we thank you . Catherine Coodyhas a new granddaughter. This makesthirteen for her. The baby's father isher son George Michael, My ladand Danny Boy have a sister Kathynow. They are all the grandchildrenof Emma McCuen. They live in Flush-ing, New York Mary Roberts isback from her vacation, which shespent moving Had a grand time?Evelyn Lyons spent her time at homevisiting her husband who is in thehospital. She has talent in her family!Minnie, her black cat, performed in aminstrel at Greylock School held bythe Girl Scouts. Emma Reardon is stillout on sick leave. Take care of yourselfand hurry back, Emma Joe Massonis still out also.

Prokar and PolyesterImpregnation

by Reginald Rowett

Hello everyone! This is your newreporter taking over where NormanMiller left off, and hoping to do as wellwith your cooperation Congratula-tions to Nancy Doan, who is the proudaunt of Wendy Claire, McGlynn, bornMarch 4th. The proud father is JoeMcGlynn of the Machine Shop Willsee you next month with more news.

Betty Fleury was surprised on her birthday recently when the youngman on the lunch wagon brought in a cake for her that he had madehimself. If you look, closely, you will see the numbers "103" forBetty's age. We knew this was for a joke, of course, and we'll nevertell the right number that should be there!!

F. P. Assemblyby Grace McConnell

Rita Cooper and Loriaine MacKayare sporting around in new cars.Lorraine has a dark green Ford con-vertible and Rita has a blue and creamFord Victoria. Minnie Geddes spentthe weekend in Boston. While there,she saw the Ice Follies at the BostonGarden Rita Cooper and her familywent on the excursion to the Ice Folliesalso Lee Charbonneau was presenteda beautiful cake on her birthday by herfriend and former co worker EvelynPrystas. Minnie Hamlir. enjoyed a verypleasant vacation. She toured the coastof Florida, stopping in Miami for threedays . . . Our foreman Zig Nash andfamily attended the Flower Show inSpringfield I overheard a couple olthe boys talking about the MinstrelShows that we used to have to raisefunds for needy causes, and everyonewished they would come back again.(Maybe they have something there.)

Violet She? ir walking nn air ihesedays. The reason is that her son hasreceived his discharge from the AirForce at Denver, Colo. Blondie sawAdams play in the Western Mass-achusetts tournament at Springfield.It was too bad, but Adams bowed outin the first game.

Ceramicsby Ida Gigliotti

Congratulations to Carleton Hamil-ton who became the father of a son onFebruary I . . . We're glad to hearJimmy Paquin is feeling better now. .Congratulations to John Newman onhis wedding anniversary. The cake suretasted good Best wishes to CharlesLandry on his birthday. Also, manyhappy returns of the day for his anni-versary . . Birthday greetings are ex-tended to Mr. Francis Wilson Wewere sorry to see Louis Ross leave afterbeing with us so long. Louis has leftfor another job.

Sales Officeby Jane Delisle and Kay BaroniSo long to Florence Siciliano who is

leaving us this month, and welcometo Bruna Vivori who is taking herplace working for Jerry O'Grady. . .Goodby also to Joan Farinon who hasleft us to await a Blessed Event! Joanwas presented a stuffed toy and agift of money from the office. . .Willwe ever forget the first day JoanBlanchette came in wearing thatsmock?? Incidentally, Joan, whateverhappened to it? Ask Martha Harveywhere the phone was the day shecouldn't find it! Gee whiz, Martha, itwas right there all the time!. . .Con-gratulations to Ginger Mulcahy, whowas chosen a member of the court atthe American Legion Ball . . . At theFebruary 27 Western Gateway SkiersHop, the Sales Office was certainlywell represented in the court—membersof which included Doris Hartman,

Madeleine Rougeau and Barbara Mar-ceau Speaking of Barbara Marceau,she certainly is unlucky at BINGO.Seems like she s always one number off!

. As we go to press, Sylvia Borowski,who used to work with us, was stillat the North Adams Hospital after anautomobile accident en Curran Highway Hope this finds her feeling muchbetter! Requested by Joan Blanch-ette -an automatic brush to brush youoff while sharpening pencils. Anyoneusing our pencil sharpener will under-stand A surprise visitor to the officethis week was Marion Clark who usedto work for Futz Windover. Marion,who is now teaching again, lookedwonderful and told us she loves herwork very much We hear NancyBarber is going to be a bridesmaid atJane's wedding! Oh Nancy, we canhardly wait to see you Belated wel-come tc Mary Gallant who has recently joined the ranks. Mary is filing

What's this, Stacia? You smiling atstrange men in the hallways? Lucky,lucky Bill Rossell. Two weeks ofColorado skiing. How do you do it?

Filter DevelopmentCoil Winding Room

by Jeannette CadySorry to have Claire Martin, Edythe

Peltier, Alfred Bellew leave us. We en-joyed having them with us and hopethey like their new jobs Welcomeback to Margaret Starr. Now that youare better, we hope you'll be with us along time Good luck to Mary AliceLefebvre, who is on leave of absencewaiting the arrival of Mr. Stork. . .Francis Stawarz just isn't the samefellow in work now since a certain littlegal was transferred. . Gerry Guisti issure glad her guppy finally had herbabies. She couldn't take any more ofthis waiting Many happy returns ofthe day to Jeannette Cady who cele-brated her birthday on March 22. .We're glad to see Anne Scully is feelingbetter and finally got rid of the bug.It sure does take a lot out of a person. . From now on, just call him "Zip"Hamilton, and he was not given thisname because he is the fastest movingguy in the room "Mike" Morin hasbeen named "Weather Forecaster"for the coilwinder room. It seems nomatter what kind of weather Mikepredicts, it comes true. What magicdo you use? . Too bad, Frank, thatAdams lost. Better luck next time,if they get the chance.

Filter Developmentby Julia Desrosiers

We all miss Ruth Harris, LencCimmonetti and Marilyn Haley andhope they like their new positions. . .Birthday greetings to Jean Wheeler,Dorothy Belanger and Alida Heath. . .Ethel Murphy not only makes goodfudge—she also turns out beautifulbirthday cakes . Hariiet Sherman iswaiting for Easter when her son Biff will

Here are Diana 10, Terry, 21, andMichael 8, the children of DickDavine who works in the SampleDepartment on Brown Street, andBarbara who is employed in thePulse Transformers room on Bea-ver Street. A mighty fine lookingfamily there.

be home for a vacation A very happyEaster is wished for everyone Weare happy to hear Rita Blouin's daugh-ter Mickey has recovered. Who isthe nice looking fellow with the curlyhair that Jane Karrey rode with toWilliamstown?

Sprague ElectricInternational, Ltd.

by Suzette LemieuxBertha Richards and her son Paul

enjoyed their trip to the Ice Follies inBoston on February 19 on the Eagles'Excursion The Jack Silvia's apartment is taking on a new glow, thanksto Jack's (non-union) talents in paint-ing, tiling, etc. Rose Bua and AlRichards are also practicing the art ofinterior decorating in their new apart-ment on Cole Avenue, WilliamstownThp <-!»*rli;nf. ;«- April 28 GeorgeFerran thought there was a generalwalk-out on February 27 when ourtime clock read "10:39 a.m." but wasrelieved to find that it was really noon-time. Just a power failure!

Filter DepartmentMarjorie Richer and Alice Monette

Betty Fleury had a very happybnthday this year. Not only did herfriends and relatives remember her,but the fellow on the lunch wagonbrought her a birthday cake, which hemade himself. That was a nice gesture,Roy Clark. (See this page for pictureof cake.). . We received a letter re-cently from our two Filter boys in theservice Donald Adams and DonaldFaivreau, Both seem to like it verymuch Strangers? Not these two!When George Lord came in to re-place Ray Shartrand as shipper, re-cently, we found to our surprise thatthey were old acquaintances. Georgereplaced Ray once before at BrownStreet when Ray went into the service.Quite a coincidence!! We welcomeGeorge and say farewell to Ray. . .

Another "Guess Who". This oneis Helen Sikora of Metal CladTubular Finish at the age of 6months, who looks as if she'sdigging right into that pursewhich is in her hands!

Congratulations to Shirley Adams onthe birth of a daughter Lisa MarieCongratulations to Carol Senecal.daughter of I lenrietta who was awarded highest honors at Druryl lighSchool.She will be valedictorian ol her class.1 he best part of it was that it was acomplete surprise to her mother, whoread about it in the paper... MarySaunders left us last week to await thearrival of the Saunders heir. A parlywas held for her at Taconic ParkRay Shartrand leaves us also thismonth Good luck in your new job.Ray.

Anniversaries . . .March I, Mr. and Mrs. Amelio

Ariazi, I Oth.March 6, Mr. and Mrs. James Rowe.

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Baby Talk---February I, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton

1 lamilton, son.February I, Mr. and Mrs Warren

Cummings, daughter.February 22, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph

Hamman, son.March 1, Mr. and Mrs. Richard

Braman, daughter.

and Alfred J.Dorothy GhidottiGolonka, Jr.Theresa Bushika and Amedeo PontierOrlyn Bliss and Clayton BryantDorothy Zieba and Guy PellitierJeanne Kendrick and Robert ShookJohn Pennock and Dorothy Thomas

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