VOL. XXII JULY, 1960 NO. 11

$270 AWARDED TO* ELEVEN EMPLOYESAT MAY-JUNE SUGGESTION MEETING

David Scholz, winner of $50.00 sugg.cutting machine to his foreman, Billment. David is also an Advance CouiTechnical School.

Eleven suggcsters are a total of$'270.00 richer as a result of the May-June Suggestion Committee meeting.Leading the group was CarolynMullen of Sprague Products who re-ceived $100.00. Following her wasDavid Scholz of Test Equipment whowas awarded $50.00. Rachel Garnerof Magnetic Coil Winding received$30.00 for her suggestion; RoyAstorino of the Machine Shop andJoseph Bianchi of Industrial OilsFinals Assembly split $30.00; DonaldBourdon of Maintenance received$25.00; Peggy Roberts, Lurice Faour,Noella Shepard. and Flora Plumb,all of Magnetic Coil Winding, divided$20.00; and Melwood Downs ofSub-Miniature Stock was awarded$1:1.00.

Carolyn Mullen's suggestion, whichnetted her $100.00, provided for thesubstitution of IBM cards in place ofshipment notices, thereby reducingthe time necessary to make out theMonthly Report on Cost of Sales.

•stion award, explains his spaghettiNovacek, Test Equipment Depart-se student in the Sprague-Franklin

Her suggestion also reduced paperwork allied to the preparation of theshipment notices for use in makingthe monthly report.

David Scholz received his awardfor a suggestion to use an automatic-machine for the cutting of spaghetti.Rachel Garner earned her award foran improved method of hand wind-ing, while Roy Astorino and JosephBianchi suggested a new method forsandblast and zinc spray operations.Donald Bourdon came up with anidea in which the use of a jig simplifieswiring cannon plugs and cannonsockets. The four ladies, PeggyRoberts, Lurice Faour, NoellaShepard, and Flora Plumb, combinedon an idea of using a color scheme toimprove a production process. Mel-wood Downs suggested a jig whichimproved a manufacturing process.

The $270.00 awarded at this meet-ing brings the grand total of dollarsawarded for suggestions to $1,055.00for the first six months of 1960.

Sprague Is AwardedAutonetics ContractAir Force's MinutemonDevelopment Progresses

Sprague Electric Company hasreceived a $1,263,355.00 contractfrom Autonetics. a division of NorthAmerican Aviation, Inc.. for develop-ment of high reliability capacitors foruse in the Air Force's Minutemanintercontinental ballistic missile.

i The contract calls for solid tantalumelectrolytic capacitors for use in thedevelopment of the. Minuteman'sinertial guidance and Might controlequipment for which Autonetics isassociate prime contractor.

The guidance system's perform-ance will depend on the quality levelof its capacitors and other electronic-components. This is particularly truein view of the fact that Minutemanmissiles may be left unattended forlong periods of time in concrete-lined underground silos, yet must beready for launching on a moment's

| notice.Consequently, Autonetics is ask-

ing subcontractors to manufacturecomponents whose quality in terms ofreliability is as much as 100 timesabove previous standards.

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Names in the News

MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

COURTNEY W. FLANDERS.Manager of Training & Publicationsin the Employe & Community Rela-tions Department, was one of threefathers who gave Commencementaddresses at Williamstown HighSchool graduation exercises. Thesubject of his talk was "Wrhat Busi-ness Expects of The Graduate".

ROBERT W. HAMILTON, sup-ervisor in the Filter Department,was appointed to the North AdamsHousing Authority for a five-yearterm. He succeeds Dr. EsmondeR. Sullivan.

SUSAN POLLONE, of MetalClad. Beaver Street, became a mem-ber of the Two-Gallon club of theRed Cross Blood Service during therecent visit of the Bloodmobile toNorth Adams. Recent additions tothe One-Gallon club include:FRANCIS BRAZEAU of QualityAssurance & Reliability. MarshallStreet; Z.FRANCIS CZERWINSKI.foreman of Mica and Fabmica De-partments, Brown Street; HARVEYGOODELL, Interference ControlF'ield Service. Marshall Street;ROBERT HEGGIE of Research and

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Marion Caron (center) Employment Manager, discusses Personnelpractices and procedures in the final session of the regular Manage-ment Group Indoctrination Program. This program was establishedto better acquaint prospective new members of the Managementgroup with Company policy and procedure. They are: (left to right)Gerald Dubois, Time Study; Henry Testa, QAR; George Champagne,Time Study; John Ogilvie, SPD; Edward Younglove, R & E; John New-man, R & E; William Gaffey, QAR; Kurt Schoeni, Mathematical Services;and Jozsef Lindmayer, R & E.

Last Call ForSprague-Franklin

School-ApplicationsDUE AUGUST 8

See your Foreman or DepartmentHead For An Application

R. C. Sprague Named Grand MarshalOf Fall Foliage Festival Parade

The selection of Robert C. Sprague,Chairman of the Board and Treasurer,as Grand Marshal of the I960 FallFoliage festival Parade to be held onSunday, October 9th was announcedrecently by Francis Florini and JohnDempsey, co-chairmen of the eventfor the North Adams Chamber ofCommerce.

The parade is the climax of a weeklong series of events conducted an-nually by the Chamber of Commerce

panorama of the North Adams area.Last year's parade lasted for threehours with units of 'the NationalGuard, Army and Air Force Bands,colorful drum corps, and M) floatssponsored by local business firms.clubs and organizations.

The theme of this year's parade is"The Spirit of Progress", which thefloats are to reflect. The co-chair-men staled that "Mr. Sprague, aschief executive of his company, expanded Horse SI:represents this spirit, which will be the Queen Contest and Cicarried throughout the Festival pro- Ball, the festival of Music, aigram". It was pointed out that flower and art show.Sprague Electric is developing a Last year's Festival drew Im a j o r port ion of the urban r e n e w a l c r o w d s a n d it is e x p e c t e d tha tp ro j ec t as a r e s e a r c h a d m i n i s t r a t i o n 1960 ed i t ion will be e v e n b i g g e rc e n t e r . b e t t e r .

ROBERT C. SPRAGUE

This year's festival wil l be a weeklong event, stretching from October2nd through 9th. Many new features

••' being planned including a greatlyn.n.ill

SPRAGUE ELECTRIC MANAGEMENTGROUP ADDITIONS ANNOUNCEDRICHARD MORSE — Section Head,

Field Engineer-ing, joined Spra-gue in June 1958,coming from posi-tions at DowChemical Co.and Union Car-bide and CarbonCorporation. Heis a native of

Middletown, Connecticut and a 1948graduate of Yale University with aBachelor of Science degree in Industrial Arts. In 1958 he graduated fromWashington University as an Elec-trical Engineer. He is married tothe former Sarah Luten of St. Louis,Missouri and they have two daughtersand two sons.

JOHN NEWTON, JR. Section Head,

HSales Engineeringcame to Spraguei n November1959 from theNewton Electric-Company wherehe was employedfrom 1950 to 1959.He a t t e n d e dWorcester Poly-

technic Institute and graduated fromRPI in 1954 as an Electrical Engi-neer. From 1942 to 1944 he attend-ed the RCA Institute and served inthe U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1946as an electronic technician mate. Heis married to the former MaradeanConstanz of Albany, New York andthey have two sons.

FRANK PATTERSON — Section Head,P l a n n i n g andMethods, joinedSprague in 1953.He is a graduateof Boston Uni-versity School ofMusic and anative of Lawr-ence, M a s s a-chusetts. He has

been connected with the BostonSymphony Orchestra as AssistantManager, the Choros Pro Musica asmanager and music department headat the North Shore Preparatory-School, Evanston, Illinois. He spentthree years in Time Study beforemoving to his present position.Married to the former EleanorHathaway of Andover, Massachusettsthey have a daughter, Meredith.

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Section Head,Planning andMethods, joinedSprague in 1951as a s I u d c n IMethods a n dPlanning Engi-neer under theCooperative Pro-gram al North-easK-rr !'nivers

ity, Boston, Massachusetts. He- grad-uated from Northeastern in 1958with a Bachelor of Science degree inMechanical Engineering and contin-ued his employment in Planning andMethods on a lull lime basis. A NorthAdams native, he now resides inPittsfield. He is married to theformer J u d i t h King of l'ittsiicld.

JOSEPH SlLVEIRA Section Head .

Test Equipment,graduated fromM i I W a U k e eSchool of Engi-neering, Milwau-kee, Wisconsin in1954 with a Bach-elor of Sciencedegree in Elec-trical Engineer-

ing and immediately joined Spragueas a Test Equipment engineer. Priorto college he served for two years inthe U. S. Army. He is a native ofNewport, Rhode Island. Marriedto the former Mildred Hanson ofDiamond Bluff, Wisconsin, they havethree daughters and two sons.

SIMON ULCICKAS — Section Head,

Sales Engineer-ing, joined Spra-gue in September1959 upon com-pletion of a tourof duty in theU. S. Navy asoperations officer

. on the U. S. S.English DDG 696.

He is a native of Nashua, NewHampshire, attending the Universityof New Hampshire and graduatingfrom the United States Naval Acad-emy in 1955 with a Bachelor ofScience degree. He is married to theformer Patricia Harrington of Alex-andria, Virginia and they have adaughter and a son.

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Publishing Staff

HENRY G. GOKTSCH

Editor-in-Chief

MARION MANION

Associate Editor

Circulation Manager: MARION CARON

Sports Reporter: Louis ZITERSocial Chairman: A N N H E A T H

Photographer: A L B E R T H O R S F A L L

Assistant Editors

JOHN DAVIS, ETTA OWEN and GERAI.DINE MACCHIA

MARSHALL STREET REPORTERS

Peggy Brule, Leo Cyr, Marguerite Daub, Julia Desrosiers, Lucille DiLorenzo,Harry Embry, Edith Fields, Ella Genesi, Herbert Hafner, Janice Harriman,Nancy Harvey, Ruth Haskins, Marjorie HauptHeisch, Sandra Isherwood,Betty Jangrow, Emma Jobin, Judy Kelyer, Lucy Kenney, Barbara King,Amelia Koza, Suzette Lemieux, Kay Mancini, Carmela Mancuso, Rita Mc-Clintock, Grace McConnell, Gladys Moderski, Alice Monette, Carolyn Mullen,Barbara Pierce, June Rock, Alda Roy, Dolores Shaker, Mae Stoeber, SidneyTaft, Harry Trombley, Cecile Trudeau, Lea Walden, John Walsh, EmilyWlodyka and Marie Ziemlak.

BEAVER and UNION STREET REPORTERS

Marion Andrews, Helen Burdick, Ida Decoteau, Dot DeGraff, Cliff Dom-enichini, Lillian Gainer, Elaine Girard, Shirley Harris, Lillian Hartwig,Cecilia Kozik, Evelyn Luczynski, Jean MacDonald, Jerry McClelland,Janet Mahar, Jessie Meczywor, Ceil Mikuszewski, Shirley Noring, JosephPilling, Doris Richards, Barbara Rondeau, Pat Roy, Adele Solari, RitaSullivan, Veronica Utman, and Wanda Wandrei.

BROWN STREET REPORTERS

Martha Clark, Florence Clough, Dolores Davis, Richard DeGraff, AliceDupuis, Lillian Flaherty, Frances Guyette, Ann Heath, Joan Hyndman,Evelyn Jones, Irene Pigeon, Ace Samia, Frank Santelli, Adeline Segala,Dorothy Shea, Erminia Sweeney, Mae Veazie, and Isabelle Witherow.

Cartoonist: Harry Saunders

Feature Reporters: Peter Mancuso and Kenneth Russell"Every Sprague Employe A Reporter"

Published by SPRAGUE ELECTRIC COMPANY, North Adams, Mass.

Predictions on the Coming Elections

In a few months Americans will be electing a new President and a newCongress. This will not be accomplished without a good deal of campaignoratory — promises, criticism, attacks.

With no pretense of being political forecasters, crystal-ball gazers, or evenexperts, we are willing, nevertheless, to make a few predictions:

Some political candidates will refer to themselves as "liberals," even whileproposing measures that will take individual liberty away from private citizensand put control over their lives in the hands of government bureaucrats.

The industrial worker will hear politicians talking about him as if he werea starved, exploited, over-worked peon who was awaiting rescue by the politicalparty whose candidate happens to be doing the talking.

This same industrial worker may — under the spell of the silver-tonguedorator — forget that he owns a home and a car, is putting his daughter throughcollege, and has savings, insurance, or pension prospects.

Politicians will do a good deal of talking about the need to increase the"purchasing power" of employes. They will say (a) that government spend-ing, and wage hikes beyond productivity gains, will not cause inflation, and (b)a little inflation won't do much harm anyway.

Some candidates and their supporters will talk as if "conservative" was asort of cuss word, mainly because conservatives believe, among other things,that if you're planning to leave your wife some insurance, you hope it will beworth at least 30 cents on the dollar.

Although certain candidates will talk up the need for greater "fringe benefits,"they will forget that retirement pensions are a big part of fringe benefits butwon't amount to a tinker's dam if the same candidate's program for inflationis carried out.

Other candidates will talk as if all workers in business and industry owedtheir jobs — and will owe their jobs in the future — to politicians and politicalprograms. They will ignore completely the fact that jobs are created by thesavings of private individuals, invested in business enterprises.

More industrial employes than ever will refuse to be herded to the polls as a"labor bloc" and will vote according to their intelligence and conscience.More industrial employes will be "liberal" about the rights and freedom ofothers; and "conservative" in guarding the soundness of the national economy,the strength of the dollar, and their own future security.

As this issue of the Log goes to Press,our Country is beginning to realizethe effects of the war in westernEurope.

The Country's preparedness pro-gram is already being felt here atSprague.

Pictures in this issue

In the girls bowling team are JuneLamoureux (now Mrs. Norman Chen-ail of Advertising); Tina Turgeon(now Mrs. Henry Vareschi of PaperRolling); and Rita Siciliano (nowMrs. Ernest Jones of Brown StreetOffice).

Shown in action are members ofthe Sprague Rifle Team. "Zig"Nash (now Eoreman in Misc. Partsand Prep. Dept.); Erank Chilson(now Foreman in Incoming Inspec-tion); Frank Gassett (now Foreman inPacking and Centrifuge).

Boy Scout workers in the Plant:Jim Fitzgerald (now Ass't. Dept.Head in Sales); Leonard Lewitt(now Foreman in Industrial OilDept.); Charles McNulty (now inInd. Oil Impregnating Dept.); JackWashburn (now Director of Person-nel); Lewis Cronin (now Superin-tendent in Ind. Oil Dept.); and PeterMancuso (now Section Head inProduct Engineering); and HarryLovett (now in Ind. Oil Impregnat-ing Dept.).

Management GroupContinued from page 1, col. 5

ROBERT WAGNER — Section Head.

Sales Engineer-ing, joined Spra-gue in June 1953upon completionof his studies asan Electrical En-gineer at PrattInstitute, Brook-lyn, New York.He has also at-

tended RPI and Williams Collegesince joining Sprague. A native ofBrooklyn, New York, he is marriedto the former Barbara Ann Butlerof Williamstown and they have a son.

LEONARD WURZEL — Section Head,

Field Engineeringjoined Sprague inDecember 1959.He formerly wasa s s o c i a t e dwith the WardLeonard ElectricC o m p a n y ofMount Vernon,New York and

Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. ofSeneca Falls, New York. He is agraduate of Columbia University.School of Engineering and is marriedto the former Lillian Ritter of MountVernon, New York. They have twosons.

Names In The NewsContinued from page 1, col. 3

Engineering, Marshall Street;LORETTA JAMES of Check In-spection, Beaver Street; RICHARDLAFLAMME of Special Products,Union Street; and PETER MAN-CUSO and OMER RICHARD ofQuality Assurance & Reliability onMarshall Street.

MOUSHY MARKARIAN of SPDwas awarded a patent for a papercapacitor having an impregnant ofmineral oil that is gelled withpolyethylene.

ALVIN L. SCHILS, Plant Man-ager for Nashua, was awarded apatent for a process for sealing metalcapacitor cans by simultaneouslyvibrating and heating an epoxypreform and a ceramic washer in themouth of the can.

WALTER C. LAMPHIER of FieldEngineering was awarded a patentfor an endseal for a metallic capacitor

(Continued on page 8, col. 3)

Your United Fund At Work

Did you know that without theYMCA there probably would be nobasketball or volleyball game, no Boyor Girl Scout activities for yourchildren to enjoy, no Father's Day?

Why? Because basketball was in-vented by the Springfield CollegeYMCA in 1891 and volleyball wasdeveloped at the Holyoke, Mass. Yin 1895. The Y provided leader-ship and quarters many years agountil the Boy Scouts of Americacould stand alone. They also wereinstrumental in initiating Father'sDay.

Many things that we now accept aspart of our American way of life wereinvented, developed and pioneered bythe YMCA since its beginning in1856.

You may use the North Adams Ybuilding and facilities without chargeas a member of one of 60 organiza-tions, not a part of the Y, that holdmeetings there.

Or, your children may be learning,or have learned to swim, play basket-ball or tumble under excellent Ysupervision. Perhaps they arc evenattending the Y sponsored Day Campat Windsor Lake where they have thebenefits of much exercise and sunand are learning lifetime rules offellowship and good sportsmanship.

During 1959 alone, a total of I 293men, women and children activelyparticipated in program activities.And, the North Adams facilities were

taxed beyond their capacity so thatregistrations had to he curtailed for alimited time and children had id beturned away. These same childrenmay have no other plate to go toparticipate in these healthful activ-

Your United Fund supports theYMCA and its activities as it docs loother agencies. Through the Spra-gue Electric Employes Benefit Fund atotal of $14,300 is being donated for1960, but the needs of agencies areincreasing and it is hoped that every-one will consider increasing his dona-tion so that your community agencieswon't have to turn anyone away dueto lack of funds.

R. D. Miner Rejoins Sprague

AutoneticsContinued from page 1, col. 3

Solid fueled Minuteman will berelatively easy to launch and willcarry a nuclear warhead at speeds upto 15,000 miles per hour. It willhave a range of approximately 6,325nautical miles.

Minuteman is expected to beoperational in mid-1962.

The Air Force has announced thatthe first Minuteman squadron is tobe situated at Malmstrom Air ForceBase in Montana.

R. David Miner has rejoined theSouthern California office of theSprague Electric Company in LosAngeles, it was announced by NealW. Welch, Vice-President in Chargeof Sales. Mr. Miner will serve asassistant to George H. L. Norman,Sales Manager. Mr. Miner returnsto Sprague from Telemeter Mag-netics, Inc., in Los Angeles wherehe was sales manager of the com-ponents division.

Alexander Hamilton Institute Award

Z. Francis Czerwinski (center) Foreman in Mica and Fabmica Depart-ments, receives his plaque from the Alexander Hamilton Institute forcompletion of the Modern Business Course and Service. Presenting theaward is Courtney W. Flanders, Manager of Training and Publications(left) while William Pierce, General Foreman Resistor and Wire CoatingDepartments looks on.

Gerald Dubois and Leon Beverly demonstrate their prowess on thetrampoline, one of the more popular pieces of YMCA gymnasium equip-ment which is available to the community. The YMCA is one of 17agencies supported by your contribution to the United Fund.

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"Let It Rain" - LOG Reporters Enjoy Picnic

All the practice went for naught because the rains came and the outdoo».mies were washed out. After last year's picnic many reporters had vowed tbecome expert at the art of egg throwing.

In place of the Softball game a slogan contest was held. A three wordslogan was broken up into 28 letters. Twenty-eight people had letters attachedto their name tags and there was much comparing of notes and letters tryinglo come up will) the winning combination.

All of this activity look place on June 14th at the Mountain View Restau-rant in Clarksburg when some 90 Log reporters and guests attended the annualLog Picnic.

Prior to the games a buffet luncheon was served which consisted of ham-burgs, hot dogs, potato salad, rigatoni, assorted relishes, watermelon andbeverages. Everyone ate heartily . and needless to say — a good time was THE WINNER! Hank Goetsch WHAT LETTERS HAVE YOU GOT? That was the question every-had by all. presents Kay Mancini with her one was asking as they tried to figure out the slogan.

prize.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the food at the indoor picnic".

Departmental News • • .

STRKT

Industrial Oils Officeby Florence Clough

Vacations are the latest topics ofconversation this month with ShirleyDeMarco staying around home tocatch up on her sleep. Larry Moreau,of Purchasing, and his family have acottage on Long Pond near NewBedford, Mass., for a week of swim-ming and lazing in the sun. PhyllisFaustini will enjoy her rest travelingin New Hampshire with her daughterand husband. . .We are very happyto have Vincent Tassone of Purchas-ing, back with us. Vincent spenttwo weeks helping out at Concord,New Hampshire and about four weeksfilling in for Joe O'Keefe of MarshallStreet Purchasing who had been outill. The latest remark from Vincentis, "I guess it's about time for me togo back to Concord !" . . . Althoughwe tease you unmercifully, Vincent,we are g^d to have you back.

High Quality Coolersby Evelyn Jones

Dig the new name! ! We havemerged since last we met. Stillthink they should have called thedepartment 'Odds and Ends'. Isn'tthat right, John Georgini?. . .Twenty-five girls from the rolling group had areunion dinner at Taconic Park onJune 2nd. Most of them have beenin other departments since January.It was nice to see Vickie Bissaillion. . .Lydia Spooner spent her vacation at

home. She did take one trip toMountain Park where they mistookher and her husband for schoolteachers. We hear they had a verynice time. . . Sarah Brown spent hervacation visiting her daughter inCalifornia. She came back tan andrested.

What's the name of that littlemotor you have Angie Ponder?. . .Welcome back to Flora Niebling. . .That's a pretty station wagon youhave Rocky Trimarchi. . .Bon Voy-age to Vi McClelland who is flyingto Ireland. . .Hello to the girls whoare on lay off. Hope you'll all beback soon. . .Oh well, I have to gopound nails. See you all next month!

Industrial Oilsby Dorothy Shea

Vacations have already started inour department. Our foreman, JohnMuldowney, took his two weeks andstayed at home catching up on all thework in and around the house. . .Mertie Bishop got underway againthis year. She and her sister traveledall the way to the West Indies. . .Others who went on vacation withindefinite plans were: Roma King,Harry Knapp, Mary Marchio, VivianMontgomery, Mary Provost, OrrieRoy, Dorothy Shea, Thomas Sullivan,Rose Vareschi, Robert Witherelland George Simon. Those on ournight shift are: Ovila St. Pierre, PaulRisi, Len Foisy and Larry Hurlbut.We hope a good time was had by all.. . .The welcome mat goes out to AlFolino who will be our night super-visor, and Kay McAndrews who willbe our new clerk. Hope you likeworking with us.

Welcome back to Louis Lillie who

has returned from sick leave. Nice tosee you looking so well again.. . Aspeedy recovery is wished for RomaBrusatori who has been in thehospital and also to Frank Lineberrywho made the same trip. Hopeeverything turns out well for both ofyou. . . A pink and blue party washeld in honor of Dot L'rquhart whowill go on leave to await the stork.The party was held at the home ofMary Marchio. She certainly was awonderful hostess. The lunch sheserved was delicious. We all enjoyedit very much. A special cake wasbaked for the occasion by Lil Bab-cock. Lil's cakes can't be beat.

Clorinol (Nights)by Adeline Segala

Well here it is the real nice hotweather. If it seems like too much,just think of last March and howsome of us got stuck in a snowdrift atmidnight. . .This place is not what itused to be with Doris Horbal, RuthBernardi, Mamie Guerino and "Gin-ger O." elsewhere. Also transferredare Paul Paquin. "Pee Wee" andDonald Clark. It was so nice work-ing with all of you. It seems awfullyquiet around here without Donaldserenading us now and then. . . HelenHafner sure has the start of a beauti-ful tan — and just from our own FishPond. . . Corinne Sutton anxiouslyawaits her new car. She now joinsthe station wagon crowd. . .JennieMarceau sure believes in comfortwhen she is working. There is noth-ing like a loose duster for freedom isthere Jennie?. . .Belated anniversary-wishes to Bill Bakey and his betterhalf on July 4th.

Clorinolby Alice Dupuis and Fran GuyetteWe would like to wish the best of

luck to Frances Guyette who is leav-ing us for a short time to await thestork. . .Also say hello to BernadetteBarbeau and hope she enjoys her staywith us. . .Congratulations are inorder for Ronnie Hurlburt who is theproud father of a baby girl. . . Alsocongratulations to Rose Tassone andher husband on their 25th weddinganniversary. . .Ann Foote has a newaddition to her family — a good look-ing car. Hope you enjoy it, Ann. . .We're all wondering if we should be-lieve the story that June Cole tells usevery morning. It seems as thoughshe has to go up to her camp everyevening and clean up, but seriouslyJune, we're beginning to think thereis another attraction . . . If you happento see a red and cream colored bomb-er coming out of the Brown Streetparking lot, just clear out of the way.It's Anita Esposito sporting her newBuick. . .We understand that oursupervisor, Frank Stawarz, had quitea crop of hair at one time. Wellwhat happened, Frank? Is it work-ing with all us girls that made youlose it?

We either have a new south paw inour department or are you starting anew style of rolling, Nancy Doan?But seriously, Nancy, we hope yourhand feels better. . .Boy you wouldthink that Lorraine Tanguay and herhusband, Don, were courting in-stead of being an old married couplewith four children. Don visits herseveral times a day and they sit andsip theiif cokes together. Hope itwill always be that way.. . .We see that Eleanor King is sportingquite a tan, but only on her legs.What happened, Eleanor? Did yourun out of lotion?. . .You can seethat Frances Guyette hasn't had muchexperience in the motherhood cate-

gory. She thought the release pedalon her new bathinette was a brake.(Lots of luck. Charlie.). . .On thevacation list this month are: ConnieDavis, Letty Demo, Muriel Goodrich,Margaret McClelland, Joseph Blay,Rose Cantoni, Leona Lamoureaux,Anna Racine, Phyllis Santerre, PhiliaPonder, Nancy Doan, Walt Gliwski,Matthew Krzeminski, Eleanor King,and Anna Deeb. We hope you allhave a very nice lime. If we forgotsomeone that is on vacation we'resorry, but have a good time also. .See you next month!

Industrial Oilsby Irene Pigeon and Ann Heath

Vacations: Frances Rocray, tour-ing the South; Bill Spencer, OldOrchard Beach; Dot Pringle, at home;Ann Heath, drinking coffee with theneighbors; Bill Sheldon, at home;Alice Beer, at home; Clara Lescar-beau, Hampton Beach and Connect-icut; Francis Delisle, Old OrchardBeach; Tom O'Neil, Atlantic City;Tom Attella, Saratoga; KennyRussell, golf course; Irene Chouinard,Canada. . Irene Pigeon was maid ofhonor for her girl friend Edith Dean 'who was married to George Ames onJune 4th. She must have caught thebouquet for shortly afterwards Irenereceived a beautiful diamond ringfrom Robert Ames. They believein keeping it in the family. Con-gratulations to both couples. Irenewill be married sometime in July atLong Beach, California.

Sorry to see Al Folino leave us to -take a job on the Clorinol night shift. . .Storms are not in favor with RayClark because they wash his drivewayout on the street. Martha standsover him with a whip until every-thing is back in place. . . Miles andAnn Heath celebrated their 22ndwedding anniversary on June 24th,and John and Millie Garner cele-

It was an interesting conversation we're sure! It took a lot of hot air to blow up those balloons.

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Pamela Sue, 17 months, and Robin Jean Landy, 2 months, are twolovely little girls. Their mother, Susan Landy works in Cover Assemblyat Brown St.

brated their 24th on the same day.The Heath's gave a dinner party tocelebrate. Congratulations to bothcouples.

sickness or troubles. . .Bye for now!See you next month.

Ind. Oils Final AssemblyNights

by Dick DeGrqffThe battle that's been going on for

some time now is the small car versusbig car fight. We haven't made anyreal converts yet. but some are gettingto the point where they might con-sider trying out a small car. . .Afterhaving two farewell parties on menwho have left, we've decided to havea get-together without waiting forsomeone to leave. We've formedthe "buck-a-week" club and in a fewshort weeks should be able to have areal blowout cookout. . .Paul Risiis back from a camping vacationlooking tanned. . .Villa St. Pierrelooks tired. He's made about threetrips out of town to the tune of 2,000miles of driving so he needs a restand his bank book needs a boost, hesays. . .After our last contest we nowhave a new dart shooting championtrick shots yet. You know what Ialways say. comrade.

High Qualityby Mae Veazie

Hello once again everyone. . .Wellvacations are in full swing in our littlegroup with Maude Waska at hersummer home on the Trail. LarryBrothers going here and there, RockyTrimarchi puttering around, ArtVan Steemburg doing this andthat and yours truly fishing andtanning — mostly tanning. . .Wel-come back to Ella Nary who has beenworking at Union Street, FloraNeibling who was on leave, and toRose Mazza who was on sick leave.(Jlad to have you back girls. Hopeyou stay with us longer this time. . .Get well wishes to Millie Patryn whohas been in the hospital again. . .Hello to our former co-workers whoare on lay off... Belated birthdaywishes to Julie Morin. Sorry Imissed it.

Networksby Dolores Davis

Vacation time is really starting inour department. Harry Haddad isspending two weeks at NantasketBeach . . . Bucky Williams is still un-decided, but is going anyway. . MaryCook is going to Lake Sebago, Mainefor two weeks of camping. . .RoseWalczak spent her vacation at home,and Evelyn Morton celebrated theFourth of July at Lake George. .We were all sorry to see Kay Mc-Andrews leave us and hope she re-turns soon . . . Mary and Ed Cook cele-brated their 25th wedding anni-versary on June 26th. Their twodaughters, Patricia Cook and Mrs.Robert Newton, held a surprise partylor them and Mary was reallysurprised. That new diamond ringMary is flashing around was a presentfrom her husband . . . Barb and PeteMayo celebrated their :57th anni-versary on June 18th. . .Congratula-tions to both couples from the Net-works.

KVA Stockroomby Ace Samia

First of all we- want to welco.neJimmy Higgins into our group. Wealso are very sorry to lose Ted Dziok,Jr. to the service-. Our thoughts arewith you, T e d . . . l for one, includ-ing many other Log reporters, had avery good time at the Log picnic inspite of the- rain. We'll probablyhave better luck in the- future-. . .Walt Kondej and his friends wentdown to a wedding in New Jerseylast week. They all had an enjoyabletime drinking and dancing. . .By thelime this Log conies off the press,Bob Maxwell will be away at CampDrum with the National Guard.. .With summer here, Charlie Zocchi'scamp will be jumping with all the;KVA boys as usual. . .Harold Brownand son went to Lake Champlain inCanada fishing on their vacation inJune and caught many a trout andpike. We all were shown the fish,too! Lucky cigar, Brownie!

Cover Assemblyby Isabelle Witherow & Lillian Flaherty

Susan Landy has returned to ourflock after a long absence. . .We areglad to see Kate Field back to workafter being out on sick leave. . .Isabelle is still on leave. Hurry andget well, Is. The Red Sox need you.. . . Marty better buy a car instead ofusing the toy one — then he couldmake it back from those businesstrips. . .Does anyone know where Ican get a rule book for Softball?Seems there have been some pitcherswho never knew the rules. If youdon't believe me, ask the catcher, huhFYed. . . Did you ever hear of an 18lb. box of chocolates? Ray Colo saysthey have them. Doesn't he folks. . .What brand of cigarettes do we buyyou for Christmas, Marty?. . .Hopewe have our whole crew back with usby the next reading — and no more

Metal Clad Finishby Pat Roy and Wanda WandreiSummer is here and with this nice

weather we are having everyoneseems to be going places. AliceNichols spent a week-end recently inWest Orange, New Jersey and attend-ed the wedding of her nephew. . .Joan Mahar had a very enjoyable 4thof July week-end at Lake George. . .Vacations are at their peak. JuneBarnhart spent two weeks fishing. . .Vi Scott enjoyed her vacation visitingfriends at Newburyport. . . MargaretO'Neil went to Florida. . MariaMelchiori visited a niece and nephewin Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. . . .Johanna Bruggeman, Anna Lam-oureux, Fran Filip, Jane Paradise andErnest Bradley rested at home andtook short trips. . . Others going placeswere Lil Rivard who motored to

Niagara Falls and Canada; LI tonHoughtaling, Lake St. Catherine;Yvonne Davison, Lake George; ClaraMarceau, New London. Connecticut;Yvonne Perras, Lake George; andHazel Windrow. Providence. RhodeIs land. . . Your reporter, Pat. hadtwo of her sisters visiting her. Theyalso spent a few days in New YorkCity.

Small Ordersby Shirley Hams

Vacation time is here again andeveryone is looking at the calendar.Julia Alfred and Dot Tatro havebeen enjoying their vacations. . . DorisLussier spends her sunny week-endsdrinking iced tea in the shade of thetwo (shade?) trees she planted in theearly spring. Why the pink suntan,Doris? Didn't the trees take? . . .Betty Vigna, husband, and childrenare spending their vacation visitingthe St. Anne De Beaupre and St.Joseph shrines in Canada and sight-seeing. . .Irene Odell and her hubbydecided to play gypsy this year andsee some of the interesting points inNew England. . Jane Gross, ourcheck inspector, and her family areroughing it in the wilds of Maine anddoing some fishing. Come back withsome big ones, and we don't meanstories. . Julie- Rarick is having hervacation and then is going on leave.We sure are going to miss you. . .Arlene Rabidoux and family aregoing to Missouri to visit her sisterand brother-in-law. . .Cheena Bush-ika, Gladys Brierley and GertrudeBrcjwn are going to have a nice restat home. . .Mac Filiault is vacationb o u n d . D e s t i n a t i o n ? . . . D o l o r e s a n d

Joe Lipinski are spending a week-endat Atlantic City. . Yours Truly andhusband are going to Cape Cod fortheir vacation. . . We also wish towelcome Irene Drobiak to our de-partment. Hope you enjoy workingwith us. . .Guess it's time to pack —so see you next month.

Hi-Rel Test and Shipby Evelyn Luczynski

Hello again everyone! Sorry tohave missed the last issue, but had novacations to report and there hasn'tbeen much going on in this depart-ment lately. . .Congratulations againto Ethel Brown who has become agrandmother for the second time intwo months. You'll be kept busysitting now, Ethel. . . Vacations arenow in full swing with ValeriePiantoni starting hers with the tworainiest weeks we've had so far. It'sa good thing she planned to stayhome and rest a n y w a y . . . . MaryMondia and Yours Truly also spenttheir vacations at home taking lifeeasy. . .We take this opportunity towelcome Charles Mulcahy to our de-partment as oui new foreman. Gladto have you with us Chuck. . .Happy-anniversary to Lino and ValeriePiantoni on their 7th wedding anni-versary. May you have many morehappy years together. . .Your re-porter attended the Log picnic heldat Mountain View Restaurant. Itwas a rainy evening, but a wonderfultime was had by all. See you nextmonth!

Hi-Rel--Nightsby Janet Mahar

Hi girls! Well another month haspast — where does the time go? Weknow one girl for whom the timeisn't going fast enough. I'm speak-ing of Shirley, of course, who hasleft us to wait for the arrival of thestork. A chicken supper was en-joyed by all in honor of Shirley. Shereceived some lovely gifts. By theway Shirl — will we have to buyanother chair? We're just kidding.The best of luck to you and hurry-back. You'll be missed by a l l . . .Vacations for July have us all goingwild. Angie went to Boston andVermont. You know what they sayabout that "Moonlight in Vermont",A n g i e . . . . Thelma went to Lake

George and just going; Jane to LakeBomoseen and resting; Pauline toLake George and relaxing; Ginger toLake George and resting; Olga toLake George and relaxing; Albinahere, there and everywhere; Helenejust going and taking it easy; Harry

a little fishing and lots of rest.Have a good rest. It'll be a whole

We would like to welcome Mamie.Blanche. Claire. Doris. Helene,Ginger and Lorraine to our depart-ment. Hope you have a long staywith us. . By the way, Lorraine, getout in the sun all you can. May beyou can get rid of that onesided tan.Ha! Ha. . We would like to extendour deepest sympathy to RomaMorris and lamih on the recentdeath of her mother. . Well I be-lieve I've covered all for this month.Have a wonderful vacation and comeback nice and tan and ready to settledown for another fifty weeks of lotsof work. (We hope). . . Yours trulywill be enjoying her vacation at CapeCod. Just eating, swimming andsleeping. It sounds like a good wayto put on weight, wouldn't you say!So long and keep smiling.

Platingby Joe Pilling

Clayton Tatro enjoyed a we-ek offishing at Lake Champlain on hisvacation. . . . Recently Izzy Wolkintook a trip to Boston. He got as faras Littleton and had car trouble androde the train the rest of the way. Therepair bill for the car came to $50and he missed a day of work besides.Take a plane next time. Izzy andsave money. . Yours truly had a goodtime at the Log Picnic even though itrained. . Ness Robert moved to hisnew apartment the same night. Italways rains when he moves. . .StanLesnick was driving along in his caralone recently and almost jumped outof the seat when he heard, loud andclear. "Hello, daddy". Stan has atwo-way car to home radio and hisoldest son had watched his motherusing the radio so he decided to tryit himself.

We took our annual trip to Bostonto see the- Red Sox play the WhiteSox. The- party was composed of AlChalifoux. Bernie O'Neil. FrankMroz. Loren Estes. Angelo Mazza andyour reporter. We had seats in thethird row, but three members of ourparty saw most of the game from therear of the stadium. We finallyfound a restaurant in Boston thatmeets with Angelo Mazza's approval.Loren Estes, a die-hard Yankee andanti-Red Sox, surprised us by cheer-ing when the great Ted Williams hit ahome run. . .While on the subject ofLoren Estes — how come a Fordman like him traded his Ford for aChevy t ruck?. . . Our boy, SpeedyMartell, took off for two weeks withthe National Guard. He is one of ourprotectors, so we can sleep well atnight!

August. Also i«, Mary Koniecznywho is celebrating her anniversary inAugust. 1 do nol have the daleslisted, so congratulations once again....Belated anniversary congratula-tions lo Marie Gattuso and herhusband Anthony on their 23rdanniversary on July 18th. Also belat-

Hi-Reliabilityby Marion Andrews

At this time I would like to wishJoan Harrington congratulations onher fifth wedding anniversary in

to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sobon whocelebrated on the 4th of July. Mrs.Sobon (Ronnie to all the girls) is

July 4th. Alter a lainilv celebrationof their anniversary, Mr . and Mrs.Sobon are taking a trip through NewYork S ta te . Chris Pugliese is takingthe second week in August lor hervacat ion. Chris took the lth of July

Savoy. This will be her first ad-venture at camping. 1 will be wond-ering how she makes out. Chris alsowill have Dennis and Bobby enteringDimy High in September. Watchout for 'Dennis the Menace' girls.

Alice Carpenter is spending hervacation with her daughter in Mil-waukee, Wisconsin. Alice expectsto be a grandmother the end ofOctober. She sure is happy...Margaret Bradley went to Worcester,Manchester, N. H., and through theWhite Mountains and (hen on loBurlington. Vermont on her vaca-t ion . Leah Gamache is grand-mother again. This is her 9thgrandchild. Her daughter. NancyLucier. had a baby boy on June 26th.Leah starts her vacation on July 25thfor two weeks... We wonder whoLucille Racine is visiting in Vermont.Someone special, Lucille?. . . Jose-phine Lamarre visited her son inSomerville, Mass, over the 111) ofJuly week-end . Florence Milletteis spending her vacation with herfamily at Idlywild Park at Lake St.Catherine in Vermont. . .OlympiaDominick vacationed at the NewLondon beaches in Connecticut. . .Lucille Racine is spending part ofher vacation visithiu, her grandparentsi n . N o r t h T r o y , V e r m o n t . . . . P e gDoyle's daughter. Paula, took a sixweek trip to California with hergrandparents. Peg was quite lone-some without her.

We hear that Alice Bonneville likeslo admire her roses, but we wish shewould do it standing up. Whathappened. Alice? Did you lose yourbalance. . Aline Giroux siue wassurprised when she took her lunchout of the oven and found it waspickles instead of a sandwich...Marion Wabnig has a new grand-daughter in Arcadia, California. Itwon't be long before she will betaking off to see those grandchildren.. The girls in the Hi-Rcl depart-ment had a pink and blue shower lorCeil Mikus/ewski. our check in-spector. It was held at Heartwell-ville Lodge- recently. Congratula-tions to Elsie Andrews who tookcharge of everything. Ceil receivedmany beautiful gifts. There weretwo birthdays thai night ElsieAndrews and Leah Gamache'sdaughter, Nancy. Both received nicegifts. . . I wonder where Joan Harring-ton puts all she eats? She ate onelobster and could have eaten an-

Glen and Lu-Ann Heinrich are the children of Charles Heinrich ofNetworks and Lucille of the Industrial Oils Office both of Brown St.

July, 1960

THE TRADING POSTFOR SALE

NEW VIBRATOR MOTOR for Contour Chair — $10. Call MO 3-5122 between5 and 7 P.M.

YOUTH BED, $20. Heathkit ham transmitter, $15. Call GL 8-4058.

ROPER GAS and GAS STOVE like new, 2 yrs. old. Best offer. Call Ext.512 or MO 2-2769.

FLORENCE BURNER — A-1 condition. Gas and oil. Excellent buy. CallMO 3-5239 or MO 3-8606.

DUO-THERM SPACE HEATER with blower. 2 yrs. old. $60. Also 40 galglass-lined hot water heater. 1 yr. old. $45. Call MO 3-81 72 anytime.

30 GAL. GLASS-LINED HOT WATER TANK; Hod-A-Day stove with oilburner; 50 Gal. oil drum with stand and tubing; I sink suitable for camp. CallMO 3-9383.

2—640-15 WHEELS, SNOW TIRES AND TUBES. $25 takes all. Call Adams379-R.

RCA VICTOR ORTHOPHONIC HI-FI — blond, 2 speakers. Can be put ontable or stand on legs; 4-speed; excellent condition. $70. Call Adams M826-M.

1 LARGE SET-IN BATHTUB in very good condition. Call MO 3-7364 after

4 P.M.

% LENGTH TAN & BROWN COAT; also tan gabardine full-length coat.Size 12. Good condition. Both $25. Call MO 3-7434.

HIGH FIDELITY RECORD PLAYER—suitcase style, White and gold colortrim with block adapter for 45 rpm records. Will play all types of long playingrecords. $50. Call MO 2-2967 after 5 P.M.

(2) BEDROOM SETS including springs and mattresses. Excellent condition.Also Player type piano (with rolls). Call MO 4-9766.

30" ELECTRIC RANGE — Frigidaire Deluxe. 5 yrs. old. Like new. $100.Duncan Phyfe mahogany chest of drawers. Good condition. $35, 5-piecechrome & green kitchen set. $65. 3-piece wicker porch furniture & 2 tablesto match. $15. New medicine cabinet. Martha Washington sewing cabinet.$3. 3-way wall mirror. White frame mirror with easel. Chrome towel stand.Marie Schwarzer, 1169 Mass. Ave. MO 3-6142.

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4 ROOM APARTMENT with enclosed porch and automatic hot water. 5minute walk to Sprague Electric Marshall Street Plant. Call MO 2-2279.

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other. Alice Bonncville could notsay no to thai fresh strawberry pieand neither could a lot of others.Doris Monette and Lorretta Jamesdid some dance specialties. EvelynTruehart sure can dance. 1 thinksome of us should take lessons fromher. . . Mary Konieczny's daughtersure made a beautiful bride on June25th. . .Belated birthday wishes toPeg Deseoteau. . . See you next monthwith more vacation news... Pleasedrive slow. The life you save maybe your own!

Misc. Papersby Doris Richards

Yvonne Day recently went toPhiladelphia, Pa. where she attendedher nephew's wedding. . .Edie Amesis back from her honeymoon — look-ing happy as can be. . .Ida Gaunspent a few days of her vacation inFitchburg, Mass.. . . Fran Gayda hasreturned from her vacation which shespent in White Plains, N. Y. . . .JoeWilk spent his vacation at home. . .Doris Richards spent a few days inMiddletown, Conn. While therevisiting with her daughter Anne, shealso had a nice visit with DorisDaniels and family who now residein Middletown. Doris Daniels isa former Sprague employe. . Hopethis finds Emma Busby and YvonneDay feeling better.. . Sincere sym-pathy is extended to Amelia Dean inthe recent loss of her brother.

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Magnetic Finishingby Helen Burdick

Happy vacations to everyone. Bythe lime you read tin's John Gallcscwill be back from Texas and Cali-fornia and Buzz J&hndrow will beback from Seattle, Washington. Bothfellows flew both ways on their vaca-tion... As usual during the summerthere's not much news. . .Angie Carl-ton is having her vacation and shewill spend part of it in Boston andpart in Burlington, Vermont visit-ing her children and grandchildren.

I heard by way of the grapevinethat a certain guy invited some of thefellows, including our foreman, to hiscamp at Cheshire and he was goingto lake them for a ride in his boat.Our foreman even took his sons along,but no one showed up with the boat.What do you know about that, Buzz?

Jack Grady got a rousing cheerwhen he gave Terry (his wife) hispay check on Thursday. 1 thinkRay Blair had something to do withthat. . Nellie Hewitt's little daughter,Sandra, was flower girl at her cousin'swedding and she made a very cuteone. . .Carrie Wolkowicz has beenworking with me only about threemonths and she already picked upsome of my goofy habits like tryingto test with a lead and a pen. Watchout, Carrie, or you will be talking

backwards like I do sometimes. . .Ifanyone has any news or goes tointeresting places on their vacation,will you please tell me about it. . .Helen Kawa and Connie Lanouecame back from their vacation look-ing rested. . . Marion Parrino wassurprised recently when her nieceand little grandniece came up fromFlorida and didn't let anyone knowthey were coming... I enjoyed my-self very much at the Log picnic eventhough it was raining. Couldn'tstay very long as I had companycome from Florida that night.

just Larry Hiser with his new hairtonic. . .We all wish a speedy re-covery for Irene Davis who is at homerecuperating from a knee operation.. . . Congratulations to Leo Patenaudeand his wife on the birth of a sonrecently.

Little Kim Susan is the daughterof George Barone of the ControlLab, Marshall St. Her mother,Lucille, formerly worked in MetalClad Finish and at Union St.

SPD Officesby Nicky Utman

Summer is really here and comingback sporting tans 'n tales of gloriousvacations are: Josie Kleiner fromLake George, Clare Montesanti fromthe Boston area, Hennie Langloisfrom parts unknown, George La-Bombard from the Lake George area,and Nicky Utman from the Cape. . .Congratulations go to Leo Patenaudewho is the proud new papa of a babyboy...We'd like to say 'hello' toLaurie Windover and Jackie Belouinwho are with us again for the summer.

Pre-Assemblyby Dot DeGraff

Dot Daunais - Combination of goodlooks with good sense, eye catchinglines and beautiful body. Ag Vanuni

Beautifully proportioned, foam-padded, delightfully nimble andresponsive. WHAT MORE COULDBE SAID ABOUT DOT'S NEWCHEVROLET AND AG'S NEWFORD!

Rotsa-Ruck! Now who else wouldthat apply to but Ray Wellspeak.With all those winnings it's nowonder he's sporting a new car.Rotsa more ruck, Ray. . . Congratula-tions to the Patenaude's. It's ababy boy. Mother and baby doingnicely so what happened to Papa?By the next edition (not addition) lieshould be fully recovered - andworking. . One has to admit wework on a lend-lease basis, or so itseems. Back to Brown Street wentEllen Nary and Connie Bush whomwe all miss, and fiom Brown Streetcomes Barbara Plankey. Welcome,Barb. . Dig Grandma Forgette inher pedal pushers - she's the cutestever, looking like a little girl. . .Warren (Burdick) Spahn and Ted(Heelan) Williams will soon be seenon television advertising "Tall Tales"on how to win a baseball game.

Magnetic Samplesby M. Shirley Noting

A warm welcome to FlorenceSaulnier who recently joined ourgroup. . .By the time this goes topress Vi McClelland will be with herfamily in Belfast, Ireland. Vi isflying over for a six week visit withrelatives and friends she hasn't seenin twenty-six years. We all hope shehas a wonderful t ime.. . If anyonesmells lilacs now that the flower is outof season, don't let it bother you. It's

Magnetic Windingby Elaine Girard and Jean MacDonald

Claire Robert certainly set the girlsaghast with her new haircut. It's very-becoming, Claire. . . Irene Morin andEva Cyr spent their vacations doingtheir domestic duties at home. . .Emily (Micky) Suprenant celebratedher 5th wedding anniversary with asurprise party at her home. About75 friends attented. . . Congratula-tions to Esther Sullivan whose songraduated with honors from HolyCross. . Also congratulations are inorder for Gerry Bessette whosedaughter, Caroline, graduated fromAdams High School. . . Belated birth-day greetings to Peg Roberts, AnneZoito and Viola Gamari.

Mag-Amp Assemblyby Barbara Rondeau

The following is a list of our currentvacations: John Petri - Cape Cod,Ann St. Cyr - at home and small trips,Bernice Plantier - at home, AldaAriazi - Indiana Car Races, AgnesRivers - camping in Vermont, AliceGreen - at home.. . . Mary Roy andLillian Sherman are the proud ownersof new cars. Mary has a new NashRambler and Lil a Volkswagen.Happy driving, girls. ..Eileen Koc-zela's daughter was a guest at aparty given by Jay North (Dennis TheMenace) on his birthday while shewas in Springfield. . . Mary Senecal istraveling every day to and fromCheshire Lake where she is spendingher summer at camp. . Happy vaca-tioning everyone. Enjoy yourselveswhile the weather is good because itwon't last long. Remember to becareful on boats and in swimming —you may want to do it again sometime.

General Accountingby Sidney Taft and Lucille DiLorenzo

Welcome aboard to Patty-JoMarchio, Lee Murray, Sydney Stack-pole, and Sylvia Piantoni - oursummer help. You certainly pickeda good time to join us. With our newair conditioning, working can be fun,almost!. . .Congratulations to MadgeBua who recently graduated fromhigh school and has now joined ourcrew. Hope you enjoy working withus, Madge. . Off to vacations wereIke Zavattaro to Holyoke, Troy,etc., Dot Boutwell to New Jersey,Pat Boucher to Maine, Jane Howell toAmherst, Rose-Ellen Shea house-cleaning, Ruth Graves and VerneSprague taking short trips and ingeneral taking life easy. We under-stand you all had a wonderful timeand are now counting the weeks toyour next vacation. . The New CarOwners Association welcomes DorisLaFrance into its midst. Doris andhubby have just purchased a newbeige Ford Galaxie sedan. Happyriding, Doris. . Jewelry party orhouse breaking? That is the ques-tion ! Brenda Bush recently invited usto her home for a jewelry party -but more than anything we enjoyedseeing her beautiful new home. Wecan't blame Bren for being proud ofit - the house is certainly adorable.Thanks for the invite.

Has anyone seen ZaZa? ZaZa,as we understand it, is Don Christen-son's pet walrus. Don is trying towork up a vaudeville act featuringZaZa water skiing, but the walrus iswater shy and keeps running (waddl-ing to be more specific) away. If onestray walrus, lost in the vicinity ofEast Main Street and answering to

Jimmy Roberts, son of PegRoberts of Magnetic Winding,Union Street was a June graduateof Drury High School.

the name of ZaZa, is found, pleasereturn to Don for a reward of 100fish to be paid on delivery. Mean-while - Have you seen ZaZa?. . .Along lonesome summer is the fate ofFlorence Siciliano since she (beingthe good Mommy she is) sent her sonoff to camp in Hinsdale for fun andfrolics. I've been trying to get her toadopt me in the hopes that I too mayvacation all summer, but, alas, she isnot buying the idea. Once again,Flor Please, Please, Please!. . .Shirley Papas, one of our new brides,cooks a mean dish of grease. Shirley,in an effort to preheat fat for frying -perheated a little too well and endedup with flaming fat. Don't feelbadly, Shirley. That's a step in theright direction toward preparation offlaming cherry jubillee. This, as youknow, is a gourmet delight, and a dishwhich generally requires a long ex-perienced chef. So - get busy in-gredient wise, combine with flame -and there you have it. Right?...The lohg week-end found LucilleDiLorenzo off to Lake George inpursuit of some excitement, AnnArchambault and Sid Taft to aHawaiian party at Cheshire Lake(grass skirts, coconuts and all),Duncan McNaughton off to NewJersey to see his son and family, PatBrosseau off to Canada, and PatBourdon to Asbury Park, NewJersey. By mutual consent, we all arein favor of more long week-ends.Amen!!. . . Our fondest wishes for aspeedy recovery to Barbara Zoito.Barb is home recovering from anappendectomy. Hurry back. Barb.We all miss you.

Ceramicsby Leo Cyr

Vacation time is still with us —one by one we are all getting ourchance to get out and enjoy summer.. . . Ed Mulvaney will go to NewYork and make a visit to Montreal,Canada. . . Harold Burdick plans to goto Suffield, Connecticut, while WandaScarpitto will be taking things easyat her camp. . .Ann Little also plansto visit Canada on her vacation. . .Mike Ciuk and Cecil Johnson willtake things slow and easy at home. . .Neville Toye will get an all expensepaid vacation from the governmentand will spend two glorious weeks atCamp with the Guard. . . Nina Budaplans to take a vacation, but whereshe is going is a big mystery. . .Canada will receive a lot of theCeramic Department's money as JimGonyea will be another rich Americanvisiting there. . . Leo Cyr and familywill continue to enjoy the fresh air ofthe Green Mountains of Vermont ontheir vacation... Leo Peters is un-decided as to where he will go, but itwill give him a chance to rest hisarm. . . Lee Grillone will spend a few-days in Connecticut. . .John D'Amicotook his time off to entertain a fewguests. . John Eckfeldt planned to goto Maine and also do a little camping.

Louise Therrien will spend hertime getting her son prepared to go tothe big Boy Scout Jamboree inColorado. . .A group from the lab

William Sullivan, son of Estherof Magnetic Winding, graduatedwith honors from Holy Cross Col-lege.

went to Cummington to dine anddance on July loth. . A formal wel-come from the department goes toRuth Edmonds who recently joinedus...Celia Shanahan sure is en-joying her lunch lately. She has ahabit of grabbing the wrong bagand ending up with something be-sides her lunch.

Miniature Drysby Rita McClintock

Did you know that from a fledglingline we have now become a depart-ment? To one and all we will nowbe known as Miniature Drys 594. . .Vacation time is now in full swing. . .Evelyn Ciempa spent a week atLake Champlain camping... HelenKordek (one of the lucky ones withthree weeks) is spending a week athome resting, and Ralph Lewis spenta week in Vermont fishing. . .BeaBrown has joined the ever increasingcircle of grandparents. It's amazingto note how many there are among us.It seems only yesterday we were allstarry eyed kids just starting out. . .Congratulations to Phyllis Oster-houdt and Rosalie Benoit, recentgraduates of Drury High. They arethe daughters of Eleanor Hall andLaura Benoit respectively.. .Thereare some rather gifted people amongus. Jeanette Trela could be quitean auctioneer; Luisa Mirante's ver-sion of "Butcher Boy" would putEthel Merman to shame: PeggyZepka is most adept with elaboratehairdos; and Jane Gross can createsome lovely floral displays.

Welcome back Bessie Garceau!We're all glad to have you back withus. Your sunny disposition and in-fectious giggle keep us all smiling . .Ned Sceery. our engineer, has aproblem. How do you get five kidsto wear out their shoes one week at atime, instead of all at once. Ned isanxious to hear from anyone who canhelp him out. . .Fourth of July week-end will have come and gone by thetime you read this. 1 sure hope itwas a safe one as well as glorious foryou all.

Centrifugeby Harry Embry

Vacation time is here. . . OliverOdell and his wife arc taking in theRose Gardens at Newark, New York,then they'll go on to Niagara Falls. . .Jack Sullivan spent a week-end inMaine. . . Your reporter and wifespent three days in Syracuse recently.

Maintenanceby Judy Kelyer

Dot Buzzell was recently feted at asurprise retirement party at FourAcres by her co-workers. We hopeyou are enjoying your well earnedrest. . .Katherine Scott recently enter-tained her brother and his wife fromBelfast, Ireland. Katherine worksin the Aging Group. . Gladys Jen-nings is taking a jaunt to the Big Cityon her vacation. Well, Gladys, havefun window shopping in New YorkCity. Gladys works in the AgingGroup. . Adrian Poirot of the Carp-enter Shop is vacationing at his campon Lake Champlain.

Nancy Means, granddaughter ofHelen Sikora of Metal Clad andgrandniece of Blanche & Leo Tatroof Brown St., made her First Com-munion recently.

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Marguerite Pelletier, daughter ofEleanor of Western Electric, grad-uated 3rd in her class at St.Joseph's High School.

Dry Rolling andWestern Electric

by Nancy HarveyHash No. I Vacations: Everyone

is doing it! Going to the beachthe mountains visiting friends orrelatives or just staying home, but

and worked hard to earn a week or

of our vacationers in the next fewmonths, have a grand and gloriousrest. May you all conic back to usfeeling tip-top whole and hearty,and raring to go for another dreary,long year! !

Flash No. 2 Farewell: "Absencemakes the heart grow fonder" sothey say. Since Miles O'Grady hasleft us for a new job as Supervisor, wemiss his griping, his role as repre-sentative and his horrible singing.Now we only see him about once a dayinstead of eight whole hours. We'reonly kidding Miles! We really missyou, and wish you the best of every-thing from now on.

Flash No. 3 Progress: Since JanetBruno's husband Benny has openedhis new store at the corner of Libertyand Eagle Street, we have observedthat Janet buys her shoes in doublepairs. Those were gorgeous ones shebought the oilier clay! Now every-one wants to start up a grocery busi-ness. Good luck to both of you twokids! !

Flash No. 1 Invitation: Anyonehaving a vacation, and not knowingwhat to do, or where to go, is cordial-ly invited to spend it inMaryEsposito'snew patio. She says she has allvarieties of drinks, and all are wel-come. Isn't that right, Mary?Flash No. "> Henry Brooks contendsthat Terry Blake is the messiest girlin the room. She scatters paper anddebris hither and thither, but neverseems to get it in the container pro-vided for this refuse! One dayHenry put a giant sized barrel therefor her, bul he sure got a kick-backwhen the place was twice as dirtyas before. Terry, taking the hint,emptied everyone's paper all over thearea in the hope that Henry wouldnot just pick on her again! I guessit worked! !

Flash No. 6—Welcome: Welcometo Andy Vachereau, and we hope heenjoys working with us. Also wel-come back to Helen Colo and AnitaGibeau, Pat Dickinson and TeresaVitro.

Flash No. 7 Best Wishes: Every-one wishes Dot Short the very best ofhealth, and hope she returns from theNew England Baptist feeling tip-top.

Flash No. 8—Summer Agony: It'spoison ivy time, and Mabel Lewitt isthe one who knows! We tried to tellyou to keep out of the woods, Mabel,bul guess you just didn't listen.However, we hope you'll clear upsoon and get back to the gang.

Flash No. 9—Southward Bound:Flo Danforth and Bill, her husband,recently took an enjoyable trip tothe deep South. They went as faras North Carolina, and had a terrific-time.

Guess that is all for this edition,

Selma Joseph, 8 yr. old niece ofAnna Deeb of Clorinol, took 3rdplace in the national contest forbaton twirling.

but we'll be seeing you next monthwith more of the same. Happy vaca-tioning. Quote: A vacation is atrip that puts you in the pink andleaves von in the red.

Small Ordersby Julia Desrosiers

Vacation time is here and Mr. andMrs. Harry Duffy are traveling toNew York to some nice cool place. . .Mr. and Mrs. Edward Belanger aregoing lo Maine.. . Leah Critelli isstaying at home and relaxing...DannyMaloney and his family to Portland.Maine . . Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Du.bois will travel to Montreal. Can-ada; Lawrence Folino and familywill enjoy a trip to Lake George. . .We wish every one a very nice vaca-tion. We will be waiting to hearabout all these nice trips. .. We wishLeah Critelli a happy birthday.We enjoyed seeing that cute babypicture that Richard Konopka show-ed us of his youngest. Linda sure isgrowing!

Bldq 7 Officesby Kay Mancini

Your reporter attended the annualLOG Picnic held at the MountainView Restaurant. Due to a veryrainy day, all activities were held in-doors, but everyone had a wonderfultime despite the weather. . YoursTruly won the prize for unscramblingthe three word slogan. How aboutthat?... George Paquin is back towork after enjoying a pleasant twoweek vacation at home. . . VerneAstorino has left us to work in dieQuality Control Department. Wehope she likes her new position. . .We would like to welcome Verne'sreplacement, Mary Puccio, a Junegraduate of Drury High School. Wehope you like working with us, Mary.. . . Congratulations to Sydney Stack-pole who graduated from Williams-town High School last month withhigh honors in her class. Bill Stack-pole is the proud father of this younglady . Our featured car owner thisissue is Bill Stackpole. Bill's sport-ing a beautiful 1960 Bonneville.

Filter Developmentby Lucy Kenney

It was a good-bye and good luckand have a nice vacation to BettyBattersby who attended her grand-son's graduation in Philadelphia. . .Virginia Delisle spent two weeks onCussoyuna Lake at Argyle, NewYork. . . Harry Duffy went to LakeChamplain. . . Mary Goodermote toHampton Beach. . Ann Dubie spenther vacation resting at home. . .Jeanette Cady went round and about.. . . Millie Blanchard about and a-round . Mary Burzimati took lifeeasy and Bob Stanton took life easierthan that. . .Dom Pisano had a choice— he could have seen the Yankee'sand the Red Sox game, but he boughta car instead. . . And who is the proudfather of the Filter Department?None other than John Davis. Hisson, Lance, you know walked out ofDrury with many scholarships. Con-gratulations to you!. . . Eff ie Colvin is

spending two weeks in Missouri visit-ing her family. Effie came all theway from Missouri to settle inBennington. Til bet you can't say-Tni from Missouri".

Sprodco Inventory Controlby Peggy Brule

We are very happy Rose MarieSacco was transferred to our group. . .Jim Lull is with us lor the summermonths. . Best wishes to Ken Haskinsand his wife as they were blessed witha nine pound baby boy. Also con-gratulations to Marily Lasher on hergraduation from Drury. She will beentering Albany Medical Center totrain as a nurse. Congratulations toNancy Lasher on her engagement toA. George. Both girls are daughtersof Margaret Lasher... Peggy Brulewas very proud of her daughter.Dolores Charron Brule. who recentlyreceived the Curve Bar. the highestaward in Girl Scouting...A part)was held at Hob Nob Restaurant forMr. Al Coumont, in recognition ofhis promotion to Sales Manager ofSprague Products Co. Our con-gratulations to \ou in your newposition. . . Ronnie Sacco is homeconvalescing after being in thehospital. He will be on leave for afew months. We all miss you. Ron.Hurry and get well. The followingwas one of the cards we sent to Ron.Just couldn't resist sending it on to allof you. This is how it went:

Hello. Dearie;Just heard you were sick and

thought I'd drop you a little note ofcheer up.

One of the children ate the dogyesterday but I can't tell which oneit was yet. The doctor said not toworry anyway because nothing canbe done. So, no more Fido.

You remember that Old Man upthe street who was always taking thekids for rides? His car blew up thismorning. Just like that. Nobodyknows what caused it. but I have mysuspicions if you know what I mean.He was pretty old, anyway, I guess.They say he was over 103 and neversick a day in his life. Oh. well!

One of the little girls in our blockwas kidnapped yesterday after dinner.Nobody knows who did it, but itcouldn't have been for money. Prob-ably just a joke or something.

A marvelous new Freeway is be-ing built just South of us. Forty-seven people killed already, and ithasn't even been officially dedicatedyet! Isn't that something! ! !

Did you read in the paper aboutthat elderly woman they found shutup in that house since 1924?? Fortun-ately, she was unconscious, if youknow what I mean.

Look, Dearie, I think I smell smokeagain, and you know the old saying.. . . Have to close for now, but sure dohope you'll be up and about realsoon. Don't let them hurt you.Take care.

As Ever,The GANG

Heat Sealby June Rock

Many things have happened to ussince my last writing. . Julia Cirillowent to New York on the SpragueExcursion where she visited herdaughter, Eleanor, and son-in-law,Jerry, and her three lovely grand-daughters. . . .Agnes John's grand-daughter, Mary Agnes Brooks, spenta few days in the hospital, but fromall reports she is feeling fine. .Rachel Filiault spent a week-end inLongmeadow with her son, Buddy,and daughter-in-law, Janet. . .Theresa Morin, daughter of GouchMorin, received her First Communionin St. Francis Church on May 29th.. . . Everyone is counting the daysuntil vacation. First to go was BeaBoccagni and husband, Remo, whotraveled to Washington. D. C. andtook other motor trips. . Julia Cirillowent to Boston to visit her daughter,Catherine, and also to take in the

handicapper, Julia. She also went tomany nice eating places. The galsfrom 'old Heat Seal' took an eveningout logo to the Springs where we hada wonderful time. We certainU,night to do this more often. Solong for now!

Retail Salesby Barbara King

Welcome back lor the summer toour college students. They are GeorgeHamer and Peter Jobin. . Congratu-lations to Tony Maz/a and wile.Dorothy, on the birth of their son.Anthony Frank. Vacationers arc:Larry Williams who spent his vaca-tion at home; Gert Pigeon visitedfriends; and Barbara King wenttraveling .What excitement (he da)a real live bat was loose in the de-partment. He dipped and clove and

didn't bump into a thing. LenaDeso wore a box on her head andquietly did her work, while otherswere screaming their fright. It seem-ed to hover over Mario Magnaniquite a bit. Someone was wonderingif perhaps Mario is the 'Batman'. Aman coming up the hall said. '"Don'tbe afraid girls it's only a mousewith wings." Finally after franticefforts to catch the bat. it Hew out anopen window.

Shippingby Cede Trudeau

Welcome to the Shipping depart-ment Harold Andrews and WilliamWalden, Jr. Hope you enjoy work-ing here. . . Philip Talarico and familyare spending their vacation at Well-fleet on the Cape. In addition totheir seven children, they have takenwith them four of the children of Mr.and Mrs. David Peck. Did you sayyou were going to rest on your vaca-tion. Phil? Have fun ! !. . . ErnestGregory and family are going to NewYork and Boston on their vacation.While in New York, the) are going tothe Aqueduct Race Track... AlfredBourdon spent two weeks at CampDrum. N. Y. with the NationalGuard. Al is a first lieutenant. . .Mildred Waterman is spending partof her vacation at Lake Lauderdalewith her family... For his vacation,George Shurtleff took his family toLake George... Stanley Pasierbiakand family chose Old Orchard Beachfor their vacation. . June Rock wenton short trips - Lake George, Mt.Snow. etc. during her vacation...Gerald Cronin spent his vacationtaking short trips and resting at home.

Quality Assurance andReliability

by Mac StoeberFirst of all, we must say "Au

Revoir" to our former Log reporter,Julia Sarkis. Julia was married toRichard Lloyd of Pittsfield on June18th and is now living in Danbury,Connecticut. A shower was held forJulia at Four Acres on May 26th, andJulia entertained us with her orientaldance. . Another radiant bride fromour department was Carol Flaherty

Church on June 4th to William Rossof the Electrolytic Lab. Carol willbe with usonl) until September whenshe and Bill will leave lor Angola.I n d i a n a w h e r e Bill w i l l e n t e r c o l l e g e .

Carol was honored with a shower b)the girls at Howard Johnson's Rest-aurant on May 12th. Pat Bartletlbecame Mrs. Harr) Smith in Maxand she was a lovel) bride. Ashower was held for Pal al laconicPark. . Louise Martin of our BluePrint stall, and Paul Hurley weremarried on July 2nd. The girls gave"Cooky" a shower at Taconic Park. .Ronnie Whitney, one of our abledraftsmen, also took the fatal plungeon June 10th. Ronnie was reallyworried about not seeing those fiveshows he had tickets lor. (luring thetheatre strike in New York City, butluck was with him. and he saw all fiveof them!

Mary Miranle of out Dry Divisionand John Aldrich have set the im-portant'date for their wedding whichwill be October 15th. We'd all liketo welcome to our department,Bernice Brazeau, Carolyn Aubin,Jane Sherman and Mary Puccio.Also our new draftsman, Don Dodge....Joe Wood is certainly missed aroundhere, and Jeanette Cozzaglio is en-joying her 'infanticipating leave" wehear. . .Florence Formhals is back tonormal now thai her son's wedding isover, and Corinne Gallup's bigproject, doing over her kitchen, isnearing completion, as is Mart)Sokolove's. . .Ed Catotti is spoilinganother Cadillac these days...Weall hope ihal Irene Dinneen's husbandappreciates that sweater thai he'sgetting in the near future — itcertainly has been a labor ol love!

Vacations are in full swing! JoeCusson went fishing in the wilds ofCanada. Ray Lamoureaux stayedat Lake George and so did ShirleyDeMarco. Hazel Goodell drove heinew green station wagon to Delaware,Joe O'Brien la/eel around al LakeSt. Catherine. Wine Smith waspretty evasive about his???, VivianAccetta just took it easy (with loutchildren are you kidding?). JimRobinson enjoyed Cape Cod alHyannis. Rita Bishop went to thesame wilds as Joe Cusson (Canada,that is). Mae Stoeber vacationed atCraigville, Cape Cod, Eleanor Abuisienjoyed hers just resting. CynthiaMillis adorned the beach al Millord.Connecticut, and Yin Tomasclli lab-ored on his vacation by painting hishouse... Congratulations go to ouiJoni Williams, who was chosen MissJune they couldn't have pickeda nicer one, for our Joni is burstingwith personality! Note to BeautyScout have a few more loveliesin our office, too!

Test Equipmentby Car me la Mancuso

Everyone in the room seemed toenjoy the 4th of July week-end andonly wished it had been a littlelonger... Ed Lamphier seemed tohave enjoyed his 4th of July week-endwith quite a bang. He sure has a

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Emily Wlodyka and her two nieces, Paula Emily and Judith Ann Polak,all decked out in Polish native costumes. Emily and Judith recentlytook part in a parade in Springfield, Mass, to commemorate Poland's1,000 years of Christianity and statehood.

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Emma Vivori of the FP Assembly and her husband Joe who is retiredand formerly worked in the Formation Department. They will celebratetheir 39th wedding anniversary on August 22nd.

black eye to prove it. Ed says hewas in a tree trying to prune it, butwe all think he was trying to getback to his childhood days. Thatsure is a beautiful shiner Ed. . Con-gratulations to Bob Hanley and BobJanes on their recent marriages. . .Our welcome mat is out again toRobert Morrissettc, Fritz Klein andDonald Laman. We all hope youenjoy working with us . . . Your re-porter is back in the swing of thingsalter being out on sick leave. I onlyhope I don't miss another issue of theLog.

Formationby Harry Trombley

II anyone wants their glass cut.George Perras specializes in cuttingthe flower beds first . . . M i k e Costalhas a bald haircut or an air con-ditioned crew cu t . . Mr . and Mrs.Ben LanctO a t tended the wedding of(heir son. Russell, to Marcia Furcoloof Red Hook, New Y o r k . . . T h efollowing is a list of those whom Iam sure will make the mosl of theirvacation in Ju ly : Henry Parker, EdDucharme, Mose Ducharme, HenLancto, Ed Cook-. Louis Perras,Leonard Bourrie, J im Shea, NapoleonPatenaude, Babe Gilbert, Will iamDavis. Louis Segala, Emile Goyetteand Archie Brown I was talkinglo J ack Sullivan about his trip toCalifornia and his visit to the racetrack. His comment was. "Boy, dothose horses owe me money."

Machine Shopby John Walsh

A stag party was held at FourAcres honoring Louis Morocco whowas married on June 18th lo RitaEnglish. . .Mr. and Mrs. GeorgeScarbo are the parents of a baby girlbom ai the North Adams Hospital . .Welcome to Alfred Daldoss who hasjoined (lie Machine Shop group.

Sprague International Ltd.by Suzette Lemieux

From a picnic point of view, our re-porters ' affair was a bit d a m p ; but asa party, it was the greatest, besidesbeing a marvelous opportunity forall the reporters to cry on each'others"shoulders over the terrible times wehave- to dig up the facts, and thefantastic imaginat ion needed to createnews in our respective- over-peacefuldepa r tmen t s Fortunately, thanks toour world-wide contacts ( ahem!) ,we do occasionally receive the visit

our otherwise absorbed and hard-worked hours the mosl recentbeing: Mr. IVicival Sporing as well asMessrs. Briggenshaw, Clark and Westfrom England; and Messrs. RaulAyala and Humberto Uquillas fromMexico. We hope these gentlemene n j o y t h e i r v i s i t s t o o u r little- c o i n e r o f

the universe.C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s t o the- l l a s k i n s

Kenneth and Joan on the birth ofa healthy 9V2 Ib. son, Steven. Towatch Ken beam, we know he's al-ready got all sorts of plans to takethe: lad hunting and golfing soon.All our hard labor must have sappedJo ' Ferris' strength because the Buggot tilt- best of her for a few (lavs

unless it could be the tremendousenergy she exerts cheering or bitingher nails when her son Bryan does hisstuff with the Whitney-Rexall teamof the Babe Ruth League. Themajor league may be the next stop, ifhe keeps up that fine pitching. . .Myrna Harvey launches vacationtime in our group — spends it athome and enjoys the company ofyoung daughter Donna. . . Sandy Seg-ala is busy being a hostess, betweengiving a birthday party for herdaughter Donna and entertaining aweek-end guest from Southwick.

Marilyn and Joe LoPresto are theproud new owners of a '58 Olds-mobile, and that should be good forquite a few smooth miles. . .Welcomeback to Beverly Sherman who isrejoining our ranks for the summermonths, after completing one year'sStudies at State Teachers Collegewhere she made the- Dean's List withhighest honors. Incidentally, Bever-lv is looking for a Russian-speakingindividual for a not too time-con-suming project coining up in the Fall.Anyone qualified should contact usfor further interesting details... Itwas "Good-bye" to Jean Gardzinawho has left us to await an additionalheir to the- Gardzina fortune. . Wegals all got together for a little picnicat Pedercini's Dairy Bar in herhonor. . .Dot Belanger seems to beon a solid diet of ice-cream thesedays. . . Bad for the waistline, somesay; but she doesn't seem to beworrying!

Nancy Kelly's major problem thismonth has been with door knobsOf course, at the rate of speed shetravels on her various importanterrands in the line- of duty, it's wellnigh impossible that a sleeve, belt, orsomething, shouldn't catch on a knobor any other protruding gadget nowand then. Speculation is mountingwhether or not Nancy can longsurvive these shocks. . On the beach,the gals to watch are Nancy Kellyand Barbara Neville who'll be model-ing sharp new bathing suits. . Theword has come- in that William Adamsis the uncrowned tennis championamong our foreign operations circle,although there are a few doubters,such as Henry Loh. 'Jo' Ferris, andYours Truly, who may just challengethat title one of these days. . .Mean-while, back to our fur wraps aftersome record-breaking low tempera-

FP Assemblyby Grace McConnell

On June 25th Emma Vivori andher daughter and daughter-in-lawwent to Hartford, Connecticut wherethey had a surprise pink and blueshower on her daughter. Mrs. FrankGassett, J r . . . On June- 26th Marg-uerite LaCasse decided to go for aride and landed in New York for theday. They had a lovely time-.O u r lore-man. Charles Sutlifl. went toSt. John's Canada for a lew daysduring his two week's v a c a t i o n . . .Doris Roberts spent her vacation athome-. . Sunny Cozzaglio took aday of her vacation to go to Albanyand have her car p a i n t e d . . . GerryCole took day trips dur ing her vaca-

tion once her daughter, Bonnie, gotover the measles. . Irene Pratt visit-ed her sister in Moodus, Connecticutand went to New York City. . . HazelRussell visited her daughter, Jean,and family in Manchester, NewHampshire and took day trips fromthere. . .Toni Connell spent her twoweeks vacation touring Cape Cod andattending ball games in Boston. She-is a great fan of Ted Williams. . .Yours Truly was very pleased andsurprised on June 23rd when she waspresented a beautiful birthday cakeby Marion Sherman.

Tantalum Finishby Dolores Shakar

Vacation time is here again —Alda O'Neill went to Cape Cod andBoston; Phyllis Lapine to the Adiron-dacks; Mary Boudreau to Boston;Mary Messier to Concord; MadelineJanuska and Lillian Trimarchi wenttouring on various trips and AliceKawa rested at home with herchildren. . . Who put the overalls inMrs. Parsons' oven? Phyllis Lapinebrought spaghetti to Mary LouParsons' and she put it in the oven toheat, but alas when she came to getthe spaghetti, there, lo and beholdwere a hot pair of overalls. . .ShirleyBurnett had a great surprise when hersister whom she hadn't seen in 17years came to visit her from Indiana.They both in turn visited their home-town of Bridgewater and are lookingforward to having another reunionnext year. . Happy birthday to DorisGaudette and Hannah Sarkis andbelated ones to Daisy Kuczenski andShirley Burnett whose birthdays werein July.. Congratulations to Lillianand Frank Trimarchi on their 7thanniversary.

Congratulations go out to MaryMessier's daughter, Maureen, whograduated from Our Lady of TheElms. Mary was there to see herbecome a full-fledged teacher... Byall reports from Doretta Blanchard,the Concord plant is in top shape asher son. Lyle, is to work there in thefuture. Doretta went to visit him.but we know it was to inspect theplant, huh Doretta?. . We were sorryto see Kay O'Connor retire, but nowshe is going to relax and enjoy her-self and will live in Worcester. Aluncheon party was held in our roomand she was presented a gift from all.Hope you come around and see usonce in awhile, Kay. . .We hope bythe time you read this that MaryBoudreau's daughter will be out of thehospital and in good health. We-hope she likes the gifts we gave her. . .A welcome mat goes out to DenColumbus. Mary Ziaja. Bill Peck. BobKurley and Al Deane. but we weresorry to see John Dubis leave ourdepartment.. . See you next month.

Western Electric andMisc. Drys (Test and Ship)

by Emily U'lodyka and Ella Gene siGlorious vacation time is in full

swing in our department. These folkshave taken theirs as follows: EdytheTeichert went to Newfoundland toattend her son Bob's wedding. He iscurrently stationed at the Naval AirBase there. The nuptials took place-cm July 9th. We should have moreinformation about the whole affair(which should prove very exciting)in the next issue of the Log. . .EllaGenesi spent most of her vacation ather beautiful camp in Rowe, Mass,plus a few days at Lake George, NewYork. . . Floyd Johnson went to LakeChamplain and did some fishing andl e n s o f " j u s t p l a i n r e l a x i n g ' . . . A l i c eMenard. in her first venture to theseashore, went to Old OrchardBeach, Maine and enjoyed some-swimming in the refreshing oceanwaters and absorbed plenty of thatbeautiful, healthful sunshine... DonTatro, with his family, spent hiscamping. . Eleanor Pelletier, BernieFern, and Delia Remillard spent theirsat home plus a few short trips on thesideline.... So much for vacations.

Young David Riseh. son of Cecile

Magnani. will not forget his campingexpedition (3 days on Mt. Greylockwith a few friends) in a hurry. Hismother prepared him some beautifullunches consisting of TV dinners,Lasagna, hamburgs and hot dogs butthe woodchucks did away with mostof his food leaving him with - guesswhat - only hamburgs and hot dogs!We wonder if they're educated wood-chucks. We're sure of one thing -David won't forget his experience. . .We have quite a motorcycle en-thusiast in our midst and it's noneother than Harry Beverly. He is so'hepped up' about it that he and hisfriend, Richard Gray, attended amammoth motor cycle meet over theweek-end of June 17-18-19. Bothhad an exciting time. . . Owing to theinclement weather, our annual Logpicnic was held indoors at MountainView Restaurant - but it didn'tdampen our enthusiasm one bit!Judging from all reports, everyonehad a wonderful t ime. . .We leaveyou now with these few hints andsuggestions: "The best way to con-vince a man that he is wrong is tolet him have his own way." "Youare getting old when you have morepills than pals."

Tantalumby Amelia Koza and Gladys ModerskiIt seems that last year most of our

people in Tantalum did a lot of travel-ing and we had some interestingstories, but this coming month most ofthem are too tired to travel or haveloads of work to do at home. Ourstay-at-homes for the next month are:Ceil Magnifico, Irene Sahady, AnnDassatti. Irene Konopka. and RilaBelouin. Corrine Sears will vaca-tion at Windsor Pond with her familyand be lazy for two whole weeks. . .Jennie Me-lito went to Natick, Mass.;Lena Ducharme went to Barre,Vermont and Canada; Lorraine Di-Lorenzo and her daughters went toHampton Beach. Mr. and Mrs.Lawrence Carlisle celebrated their25th wedding anniversary. We wishthem both many more years togetherin good health and happiness. Yvonne-was presented with a gift and awedding cake by her coworkers. . .Pauline Smith was not forgotten onher birthday by her friends. Shealso received a birthday cake and agift. . .Gladys Moderski hit the jack-pot on graduates this year. It seemsnine of her relatives graduated fromgrammar school up to college.

Corrine Sears is a very happymother. Her son graduate-d fromgrammar school and received the"highest general average for boys",and was the student outstanding inhis attitude toward the teacher andclassmates. He also received theaward for very gejod work in his"Science Fair" entitled "King Nep-tune's Colonies".

Field Engineeringby Sandy Ishenvood

We'd like to extend welcome wishesto Mary Ann Pratt, who's been withus a couple of months now; and toNancy Fern who will be with ustemporarily for the summer. Also a

belated happy July birthday to Nancy— our youngest member is now asweet eighteen. . .We notice that thesummer weather seems to bring eventemperaments and anxious anticipa-tion of vacation time. Right now every-one seems to be real happy, but a lewof us were thinking on the depressingside the other day and we'll let youin on our thoughts. Wouldn't it beterrible if: Jane- lost her sunnydisposition; Agnes—suddenly forgother buzzer code system; Joan didn'tlike the trombone; Barb didn't haveany boyfriends; Millie didn't have;helpers to get supper ready at night;Marion C. forgot to turn the wateroff instead of the flat iron; Kaycouldn't answer everybody's ques-tions; Elaine couldn't go out shop-ping at noontime; Mary Ann didn'thave the same lunch hour as Johnny.She'd be even more lonesome; Delia's—pretty hair became straight when itrained; Sandy—didn't have a carthat was trained; Mary- had fourperfect angels at home; Marion S.—~wasn't permitted cigarettes and codec;Gloria—wasn't always so happy;Margaret and little Margaret wentto the open air without any food;Alice—forgot which office to go to;Nancy wasn't going to be- aroundfor the summer and Lyn didn'thave a place for our pern il sharpener.

You can see how awful this wouldbe and what might happen if thethings I just stated were true: Jane-would be called Rain Jane; Agnes—would need roller skates; Joanmight take up the drums; Barbwould go broke buying gas for hercar; Millie and her family would catby candle- light; Marion C. wouldhave to change her name to Mariner;Kay- it must be because- she's gotlaryngitis; Elaine would be rich;Mary Ann would have to start work-ing the night shift; Delia would benicknamed "curly"; Sandy woulddie- of thirst; Mary life would beboring in the Field household; MarionS. — the U. S. would acquire a surplusof matches and sugar; Gloria wewouldn't have anyone to lease;Margaret I just hope the moviewouldn't be- about food; Alicesomeone would have an extra secre-tary; Nancy no vacation horror!and Lyn would get lonesome- with-out any company.

Check Inspectionby Belly Jangrow

Jim Lewis is entertaining his friendsfrom New York City. Jim has beenvery busy with his flower garden.His 'glads' are doing beautifully andwe'll soon see samples as they beginto bloom. . .Andy and Jeanette Kon-opka are making final preparationsfor their vacation to Lake Cham-plain, of course. Andy promised lobring back the- Big One that got awaylast summer. . We enjoyed workingwith Amen Attella during vacations.He sure is a happy co-worker. . RitaFountain has no plans for her vaca-tion it worked last year. Hope itwill mean a trip lo Canada this yeartoo. . .Donald Langer had a veryprosperous vacation. He returnedwith a new car a Corvair.

"Dennis the Menace" celebrates his birthday with some of his friendsat the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel in Springfield. Denise Koczela, daughter ofEilleen of Pulse Transformer Assembly was one of the invited guests.

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Sports — SOFTBALLBASEBALL

ByLOU ZITER

Three Softball Teams To Watch

e* f f * T

QAR TEAM — Front row (left to right): Phil Collins, Tony Tassone,Tom Petro and Armand Delisle. Back row: Jerry Schmidt, John Cantoni,Ernie Rondeau, Jim Robinson, Vern Smith ana Fran Brazeau.

SPRAGUE PRODUCTS TEAM - - Front row (left to right): AdrianDarling, Mickey Boschetti, Don Esposito, Don Favreau, and JoeMoreau. The two little fellows arc David and Tony Nuvallie. Back row:Billy McKay, Don Adams, Mickey O'Neil, Joe Wood, Lou Carpinello,Joe Nuvallie and Rene Cote. (Lou Ziter was absent when picture wastaken.)

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SOFTBALLThe Sprague inter-plant Softball

league completed their first halfrecently edging the formidable Spra-gue Products nine for top honors wasthe QAR combine. QAR. under thesuperb coaching of Tony Tassone,completed its first half schedule, un-defeated.

Contributing heavily to their un-blemished record was the consistentpitching of Fran Brazeau who holds a5-0 record for the first half.

The second half of the schedule willbe a double loss and out eliminationwith the eventual survivor being thewinner. Then a playoff' between thefirst and second half winners will de-cide the championship for the year.STANDINGS TO DATE (18 July)TEAM WON LOSTQAR . 9 0Sprague Products . . .Control Lab 6 2Brown Street 5 2Labs 4 4Management 3 5Union Street. . .R & E. . . 2 6Western Electric.. . . 1 8Hy-Rel . . . 0

Sports Quiz • • •Test your baseball knowledge and

grade yourself as follows: 0-2 poor;3-5 fair; 6-8 good; 9-10 superior.

1. Who pitched for the most majorleague clubs?

2. Who is the only pitcher who haswon ERA titles in both leagues?

3. In twelve years as a minor andmajor league manager he has neverfinished below second place. Who ishe?4. Who was the last pitcher to hurl

a no-hit game in his first start in themajors?

5. In which World Series did everygame result in a shut out?

6. What major league team finish-ed in the cellar seven straight years?

7. What major league team hasgone the longest without winning thepennant?

8. What major league team wasonce called the Infants?

9. What player drove in the mostruns in his first season?10. How many teams changed man-agers during the 1959 season?

CONTROL LAB TEAM - - (left to right): Dick Bush, Neil Tanguay,little Gary Nichols, nephew of Neil Tanguay, and Leroy Vivaldi. Backrow: Chuck Mulcahy, Ed Sprague, Ed McCaffery, Norm Cyr, StanKoperniak, Ed Ziemlak, Pat Torchia and Hank Gamari.

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Freefall Parachuting Is Fun!

Eric Williams (left) and Kirk Andersen (right), of R & E, MarshallStreet, are active members of the Orange Sports Parachuting Center ofOrange, Massachusetts. The sport consists of multiple maneuvers dur-ing freefall. They claim that the sport is extremely safe and great fun,with competition every other week. The season opens in April and con-tinues until October, and anyone interested may contact either Eric orKirk. Paramount Pictures is now in the process of making a film at theCenter to be used for a Travelog for movies and TV.

flnmvERsnnES for ^ s ,1. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Godyn, I lth1. Mr. & Mrs. John Racette. 7th2. Mr. & Mrs. John Gaspardi, 2nd2, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Gliwski, 13th3. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Sears. 3rd3. Mr. & Mrs. Placide Dassati. 14th4. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Mroz. 15th4. Mr. & Mrs. Dominick Pisano,

32nd4, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Chilson,

24th4. Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Roberts.

14th6. Mr. & Mrs. George Ferran, 5th6. Mr. & Mrs. Albert Tremblay,

11th10. Mr. & Mrs. Bernard LaCasse,

14th1 1, Mr. & Mrs. Edward Wojicck. 4th11. Mr. & Mrs. Louis Toniatti, 9th16. Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Bradley, 12th16. Mr. & Mrs. Emil Prystas, 8th16, Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Veazie, 2nd17, Mr. & Mrs. Mario Magnani. 3rd18, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Noel, 19th18. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Lefave. 4th18. Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Lafond. 9th19, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Smith, 10th19, Mr. & Mrs. Giusti Arrighini, 19th22. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Vivori, 39th22, Mr. & Mrs. Elbert Becker. 38th26. Mr. & Mrs. Earl Jennings, 16th27, Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Wilk, 5th28. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dean, 44th

• 28, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Pepin, 12th29, Mr. & Mrs. Larry Williams, 2nd29, Mr. & Mrs. Adrian Lamarre, 23rd29, Mr. & Mrs. James Cooper, 29th30, Mr. & Mrs. John Szymanski, 13th30, Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Therrien,

2nd30, Mr. & Mrs. Albinon Brown, 9th30, Mr. & Mrs. Eli Plantier, 1 7th30. Mr. & Mrs. Frank Trimarchi.

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6, Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Mazza, sonif). Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Vachereau,

daughter18, Mr. & Mrs. J. Hodge Markgraf,

daughter20. Mr. & Mrs. Francis McKeon,

daughtei21. Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Haskins,

son21. Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Hurlbut,

daughtei22. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lavariere,

daughter24. Mr. & Mrs. Clarence A. Walker,

27. Mr. & Mrs. Olympio DePaoli,

27. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Drobiak,daughter

JULY1. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ciuk, son1. Mr. & Mrs. Leo Patenaude, son2. Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Monissey.

4. Mr. & Mrs. Arch C. Martin, Jr..

".? 2>o" NateiJUNEJune II. Carolyn Delany and

Ronald WhitneyJune 18, Alice Lubowicz and

Robert HeidemanJune 18, Julia Sarkisand

Richard LloydJune 24. Carol A. Davis and

Alan GleasonJuly 2. Nancy Bulled and

James SherryJuly 2, Patricia Tanguay and

Joseph Pozza

Ljolncf yyiij WaifIrene Pigeon and Robert AmesEvelyn Olson and Paul AllisonMarlenc Durocher and

William FitzGibbonsLois Lefave and Donald Rancatti

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can wherein the seal utilizes a ceramicwasher centrally embedded in anepoxy resin mass.

SIDNEY D. ROSS and WALTERJ. BERNARD of R & E. andMOUSHY MARKARIAN of SPDwere awarded a patent for a methodof producing an electrolyte for alum-inum electrolytic capacitors whereinthe electrolyte comprises a basicsolution of an amine salt of a strongacid in alcohol.

KURT LEHOVEC, Director ofSolid State Research & Develop-ment, R & E, was awarded apatent for a batteryless atomic radia-tion detector that utilizes a photo-transistor.

August Birthdays1, Bertha Richards1, Jeannette Bradley2, Frances Therrien3, Casimer Gliwski3, Do Hurd3, Pat Melito4, Corrine Sears5, Henry Goetsch6, Theresa Phaneuf6, John McKeon7, Theresa Vono7, Martin Kulpa8, Dorothy Davis8, Eva Brown9, Lydia Spooner

10. Marion Beer10, Mary Fulginiti11, Amy Bryant11, Harriet Ferrara

11, John Aldrich11, Frances Laghi12, Doris Pepin13, Gladys Dyndor14, Ronald Dean14, Ray Blair14, Bill MacAdoo14, Vassily deSamsonow15, Larry Burdick15, Leah Critelli18, Emma Tadiello18, Robert Hamilton19, Marie Dean20, Joanne Filiault20, Gerry Giusti21, Hannah Sarkis21, Jack Faustini22, Florence Gaffey

22, Angelina Odell23, Stephanie Kulpa23, Ruth Perras24, Ceil Magnifies24, Nicky Utman24, Doris Gaudette25, Emily Ragowski25, Lois LaCasse26, Nancy Harvey26, Florence Millette26, Myrna Harvey26, Carol Rohan-26, Mary Satko26, Evelyn Jones27, Ann Patenaude29, Hazel Windrow30, Marion Parrino31, Vivian Mould