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THE BROWN BULLETINPublished By And For The Employees Of Brown Company

Volume BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1949 Number 16

All-Day ProgramMarks Labor DayCelebration Here

International UnionPresident SpeaksWhat was probably the big-

gest Labor Day celebration inthe history of the local unionwas planned for last Mondayby members of Local 75, Inter-national Brotherhood of Pulp,Sulphite and Paper Mill Work-ers, A. F. of L.

Union Head SpeaksA 26-man committee, with

representatives from all themills, arranged a program toinclude entertainment for allmembers of the family.

Highlight of the programcame during the evening.Scheduled as speaker was thepresident of the internationalunion, John P. Burke. Otherbig events of the eveningwere eight acts of top-qualityvaudeville, a band concert andthe awarding of prizes.

The day's program openedwith the traditional solemnhigh mass, celebrated at St.Anne's Church.

Beginning at 10 o'clock, theprogram listed a wide varietyof sports for both young andold. Included were such fun-provoking events as a wheel-uarruw race, a ultuufold raUeTa fat man's race, a girls' base-ball accuracy throw, a juniorbaseball game, money scram-bles for both boys and girlsand the traditional tug-of-war, with Burgess Mill pullingagainst a team from CascadeMill and the Upper Plants.

A band concert was sched-uled to open the afternoon'sprogram, followed by anotherin the red hot series of base-ball games between the BerlinRed Sox and the GorhamTownies.

These are the committeemembers who planned thecelebration:

General CommitteePhilip Smyth, president of

the local union; Armand Le-gere, vice president; WilliamBrideau, financial secretary;George Gauvin of the Powerand Steam Division; NormanTondreau of Cascade Mill,

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Here's New LawTo Remember

There's a new law on thebooks which every motoristshould keep in mind.

It regards overtaking andpassing school buses.

Under this new law, thedriver of a motor vehiclemust stop when meetingor overtaking any schoolbus displaying flashing redlights which has stopped onthe highway to receive ordischarge school children.

The driver must not pro-ceed until such school busstarts up, or until the redlights stop flashing, or untilsignalled by the bus driverto proceed.

The law pertains to driv-ers approaching from eitherdirection.

Group InsuranceIs 30 Years OldCompany Cited AsPioneer In FieldBrown Company is well

known as a pioneer in the pulpand paper field. Many of itsdevelopments and productswere "firsts" in the industry.

Pioneering"

Employees Invest $95,000During Savings Bond Drive

COMPLETE LONG SERVICE

But recently, the 30th anni-versary of another type of"pioneering" was marked.

Thirty years ago the com-pany made arrangements forits first group insurance pro-gram.

In a letter to President F. G.Coburn, J. M. Campbell, a vicepresident of the MetropolitanLife Insurance Company, de-clared that when the companyfirst arranged a group insur-ance program "there was acomparatively small numberof such contracts in existence,so that your company can ina sense be considered a pion-eer in this field.

"Today the insurance com-panies are underwriting em-ployee programs for over 50,-000 employers in this country.You will be interested to knowthat over 39 billions of dollarsof group life insurance exists

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These two veterans of 55 years service with thecompany recently retired. They are George Mur-

dock (left) and Carl Hanson.

Two 55-Year EmployeesAre-AmQng-TliQse Retiring

Accident Rate ContinuesTo Show Steady Increase

are cBeThe watchwordsCareful".

The accident rate still wasclimbing slowly as the ninthperiod ended.

Up 10% From Year AgoA report from the Safety

Division showed that the fre-quency rate was slightly morethan 2% higher at the end ofthe ninth period than it wasat the end of the eighth. Com-pared with a year ago it alsowas up—and by a considerableamount, almost 10%.

Six people were hurt badly

enough during the ninth peri-od to keep them out of work.That meant that those sixpeople lost time and moneyand the company lost theirservices.

The total number of lost-time accidents was three be-low what it was for the ninthperiod a year ago. But it mustbe remembered that therewere quite a few less manhours worked this year. Thismeant that more people weregetting hurt during the sameamount of time.

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Among Brown Companymen retiring recently are twowho came to work for thecompany 55 years ago.

They are Carl Hanson, gate-man at the Grand Trunk Gate,and George Murdock, an op-erator at the Riverside PowerExtension, both of whomstarted work with the com-pany in 1893.

Worked In Saw MillMr. Hanson first worked as

a slab cutter in the old sawmill. Later he was engaged in"taking lumber away from thesaw" and as setter, in whichhe set up lumber. He workedat this latter job for 24 years.He has been with the Watch-men's Department since theclosing of the saw mill in 1929.

Mr. Murdock has been work-ing at the Riverside Extensionsince 1921.

Two of the men retiringhave been with the companyfor 45 years or more. They areMark Wight, who began workin 1903, and Thomas McCar-thy, who first worked with thecompany in 1904.

A number of the group re-tired after 40 or more years ofservice. They include (withthe date when they startedwork):

Cleburne Locke (1906), JohnMcKinley, Sr. (1906), JamesMonahan (1906), Henry Pin-ette (1906), Mike Stranger(1907), Urbain Caron (1907,Frank Frabizio (1907), Arthur

Bolduc (1907), Edward Hall(1907), Arsene Cote (1908),Nicodemo GaUuzzo (1909), Jo-seph Valliere (1909).

Other men retiring include:Valentino Addario (1910),

Eugene Jolin (1912), VincentPoretta (1912), PolycarpeBeaupre (1913), Walter Ken-ney (1915).

Joseph Tremblay (1916),Thomas McGinnis (1916),Charles Cox (1916), DavidBourbeau (1917), Camille Dal-phonse (1917), Frank Heath(1917), William Hall (1917).

Emile Lefebvre (1918), Ed-ward Bedard (1918), XavierCote (1918), Edward Desilets(1919), Peter Lataille (1920),John Kennedy (1924), CuvierEvans (1925).

Amount Equal ToAlmost 50 P. C.Of County QuotaTotal Invested InPayroll SavingsBrown Company employees

have shown they still can setthe pace when it comes to in-vesting their money in U.S.Savings Bonds.

"Job Well Done"Figures released by Loren A.

Littlefield, state director of theTreasury Department's Sav-ings Bonds Division, showedthis;

1. Brown Company employ-ees invested more than $95,000in bonds during the recent Op-portunity Drive.

2. Brown Company peopleaccounted for almost 50 percent of the investment inbonds in the entire county.

Mr. Littlefield declared thatemployees "should derive agreat deal of pride and satis-faction from a job well done."

Doing a job well in savinsthrough bonds is an old storywith Brown Company people.Their record throughout thewar was one of the best in theU. S. And since the war, theyhave been saving thousandsof dollars a year.

Sends County Over TopThanks to Brown Company

people, Coos County went overthe top in the drive. Officialsset $218,000 as the Coos quota.Actual cash investment inbonds during the drive was$226,687.50. Of this total,Brown Company people invest-ed $95,658.39.

There are some other inter-esting figures in the report.

Brown Company people in-vested more during the drivethan did all of the people ofBelknap and Carroll Countiescombined. They invested al-most $20,000 more than all thepeople in Sullivan County.

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Jack Eads Sets Fires —But Only For Good Cause

Jack Eads, who is plant pro-tection foreman, reversed hisrole the other day.

Not Fire BugIncluded in Jack's job nor-

mally is the prevention andextinguishing of fires. But thatday Jack was setting fires—onpurpose.

Jack's fires couldn't gainmuch headway, because justas soon as they began to burnwell, they were put out.

The purpose of Jack's fire-setting was to demonstratethe effective work of dry

chemical fire extinguishers.The demonstration was held

in the west yard of BurgessMill, where about 30 membersof the Burgess fire brigadeand other interested peoplewere on hand for another ina series of periodical demon-strations.

On hand with extinguisherswere Philip M. Marvel of theGeneral Equipment Corpora-tion of Boston and Don Kidderof Blanchard Associates, Inc.,Turner, Maine, dealers for An-sul extinguishers. These men

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

Brown Company, Berlin, N. H.Editorial Offices: Company Relations Department.Telephones: Automatic 379; New England 46, Ext. 60.

STAFFPULP DIVISION

Buster CordwellPaul GrenierMark HickeyRay HolroydAdam LavernoichLeo LeBlanc

CASCADE MILLErnest CastonguayBuster EdgarLeroy FyshJulia HarpAlice HughesRobert MurphyEarl PhilbrickLucille Tremaine

REPORTERS-AT-LARGEAngus MorrisonJack Rodgerson

POWER AND STEAMCharles Enman

CHEMICAL PLANTArthur GoyetteGeorge LafleurAsh Hazzard

RESEARCH DEPARTMENTThelma NeilMAIN OFFICE

Roberta DevostNina Kluchnick

WOODSLouis Catello

Bernard FaunceONCO PLANT

Alfred ArsenaultCharles SgrulloniRIVERSIDE MILLRonaldo Morin

STAFF CARTOONISTSLeo LeblancJack Rodgerson

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERVictor Beaudoin

PORTLANDDoris SmithNEW YORKDoris Reed

EDITORA. W. (Brud) Warren

Volume II No. 16 September 6, 1949

How 'Work* Became 'Employment9

In a society in which every man produced only for his ownuse and that of his dependents, there could be no enforced idle-ness which is now loosely called "'unemployment.''

Under these conditions his economic life was what he madeit: His own material welfare and that of his dependents wasdetermined by the quantity and quality of his energy and histools.

His own needs and those of his dependents controlled andguided his work.

If he was idle, it was either because he wanted nothing orbecause he chose to go without that which he wanted ratherthan expend energy to get it.

But as society developed and families lived in communities,men started to devote their energy to the work they did bestand to exchange their products with workers producing othergoods and services.

Thus, a man with a talent for making shoes did nothing butmake shoes.

He did not have to spend time making other things becausehe could exchange part of what he made for the other thingshe needed.

Thus, man gradually stopped producing only for himself andhis dependents and began to exchange his work with otherworkers.

Under these conditions it was other men's wants that con-trolled and guided his work.

He was no longer his only "customer."Unless other men were willing and able to "employ" (make

use of) his labor, he could not be "employed."

This is the fifth of a series of six editorials which explain simply the basiceconomics which govern our lives. Text is from "How We Live." written byFred G. Clark and Richard Stanton Rimanoczy and published by D. VanNostrand Co., Inc., New York. It is by permission of the American EconomicFoundation.

3n jHemonam

OCTAVE ROYOctave Roy, a Burgess Mill

employee, died recently. BornMay 9, 1890, at Dixville, P.Q.,Mr. Roy had lived in Berlin for28 years.

JOHN" POIRIERJohn Poirier, a retired em-

ployee of Brown Company,died recently. Mr. Poirier wasborn at St. Martin Montreal,P.Q., in 1860, but had lived inBerlin for 60 years.

GREGORY O'NEILGregory O'Neil, a Cascade

Mill employee, died recently.He was born November 1471881, in Charlestown, P.E.I.,and had been a resident ofCascade for 40 years.

ERNEST G. PORTERErnest G. Porter, a sample

clerk at Burgess Mill, died Au-gust 14. Mr. Porter was bornSept. 10, 1874, in Ulverton, P.Q.He joined the company in1918.

RALPH F. PETERSONRalph F. Peterson, an elec-

trical foreman with the Powerand Steam Division, died Au-gust 18. He was born in BerlinSept. 21, 1895. Mr. Petersonjoined the company in 1920.

OLIVA LARRIVEE

Oliva Larrivee, a formeremployee of the Bermico Di-vision, died August 19. Mr.Larrivee was born in BerlinAug. 4, 1908.

Woods Dept.Cuttings

Best wishes to Lorraine Bis-son of the Woods AccountingDepartment on her recentmarriage to Philip Goss ofHartford, Conn.

Research Data

Congra tu la t ions to JohnMagnusson on his recent mar-riage to Rachel Holt of Dum-mer.

BURGESS BLOTS By Leo R. LeBlanc

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PortlandBy DORIS E, SMITH

IT IS A REAL TASK for somepeople to prepare and serve ameal which is wholesome, nu-tritious, and pretty to look atas well. This sometimes be-comes an even harder taskwhen they are hot and both-ered on a mid-summer dayand don't even feel like think-ing of food.

Perhaps the following sug-gestions might be helpful tothose who fit the above cate-gory !

Serve meals which can beprepared as much in advanceas possible.

Look through your favoritecook book and try some ofthose delicious casserole-typeluncheon and supper dishes.

Take advantage of all thefresh fruits and vegetablesnow on the market and make

different type salads through-out the week. Current maga-zines are full of eye-appealingsalads which taste as good asthey look.DURING THE REAL HOTDAYS take it a little easywhen it comes to desserts. Icecream is an oldnfavoritxTwitrTmost Americans, young andold alike. There are so manyvarious ways to serve ice creamand so many flavors to choosefrom, I won't even try to listany suggestions on that item.Here again, your favorite cookbook could probably give yousome wonderful new ideas onthat subject.

A simple change in routine,such as serving a meal out ofdoors or on the porch insteadof in the conventional mannerof eating in the dining roomor kitchen, might help to

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Meet Your Neighbor These are some of your neighbors in Brown Company.

ALFRED ROBERGECaustic purification foreman

at Chemical Plant . . . withcompany since 1915 . . . sonMaurice works at Research,son Lawrence at Flock Plant. . . four brothers, Joe, Albert,Willie and Harvey, also workwith company.

CECIL MANTONForeman in the Caustic

Plant of the Chemical Plant. . . has held that position for31 years . . . joined companyin 1914 . . . first worked atBurgess Mill . . . went to theChemical Plant 33 years ago.

ROMINALD BOUCHARDShift foreman in the Cell

House of the Chemical Plant. . . first worked for the com-pany in 1898, doing construc-tion jobs . . . went to work atthe Chemical Plant in 1900 . . .at one time worked in thescreen room at Burgess Mill.

JOHN BECOTTEForeman in the Liquid Chlo-

rine Department of the Chem-ical Plant . . . first worked forthe company in 1916 . . . wasat Burgess Mill and CascadeSulphite Mill.. . joined Chem-ical Plant in 1923 in CausticPlant.

RICHARD CHRISTIANSENForeman at the Chloroform

Plant . . . joined the companyin 1903 . . . worked five yearsat the Cascade Mill in the Fin-ishing Department . . . hasbeen at the Chemical Plantsince 1908 . . . son, Rudolph,formerly worked at Burgess.

Albert Takes Batting Crown With .704 AverageRiverside TakesSecond Round

Loses Only OnceIn Seven StartsRiverside, with six wins in

seven starts, captured RoundNo. 2 to gain a spot in theplay-offs of the Brown Com-pany Softball League.

Lost To WoodsRiverside's only loss was in

its second game of the round,when it dropped a 20-to-12 de-cision to the Woods Depart-ment.

However, the race was tightright up to the last week. Oncowas rolh'ng along with only asingle defeat until it met Cas-cade in its last game.

It was nip and tuck all theway. Cascade took a third-inning 4-3 lead, and thenpicked up another run in thefourth. Both clubs scored inthe sixth.

In the top of the seventh,Bilodeau opened with a doublefor Onco. After two were out,Girard sent him home witha single. But Pitcher ErnieFournier made Saucier groundback to the mound to cut therally short and give Cascade a6-to-5 victory.

Bermico ForfeitsRiverside's final victory was

a 9-to-O forfeit from Bermico,when Bermico had only five ofits players appear. Under therules adopted by the teamrepresentatives at the start ofthe season, a team needed sixmen on the field.

One of the surprises of theround was the showing of theMain Office. Unable to win agame in the first round, theOffice picked up three victor-ies in the second round. Theyreally broke loose in the finalgame of the year against Bur-gess, pounding out a 14-to-9victory.

Biggest reverse in form wasBermico. It forced Cascadeinto a play-off game in the op-ening round. But in the sec-ond round it picked up onlyone win to wind up in thecellar.

FinalStandings

RiversideOncoBurgessCascadeOfficeWoodsChemicalBermico

Won

654

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321

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.857

.714

.571

.571

.429

.429

.286

.143

Because of an early dead-line, details of the play-offgames between Cascade andRiverside were not availablebefore press time.

A full account of thechampionship games will begiven in the next issue ofThe Brown Bulletin.

A complete round-up ofthe horseshoe season alsowill be included.

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Seven Must ReallyBe Lucky Number

Here's a softball recordthat's hard to beat.

Gerry Gionet of the Berm-ico Tubemakers went to batseven times as his club de-feated the Main Office, 30to 14.

He singled in the first, hittwo home runs in the sec-ond, hit a homer in thefourthr-collected two singles—in the fifth and belted hisfourth home run in thesixth. He scored seven runs.

SOFTBALL AVERAGES

Gionet, BermicoAlbert, BurgessDay, OncoHolland, OfficeBilodeau, River.St. Cyr. BermicoBilodeau. OncoF. Bosa. Burg.Grigel. WoodsLoven, WoodsBartoli, BennicoMacKay, WoodsLaCrois, River.Ramsey, BurgessRoss, ChemicalGravelle, Woods

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11 43 2614 61 3512 44 253 11 69 38 209 36 188 32 164 12 64 10 52 6 35 21 10

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Pointers Continuedfrom Two

make the meal a gayer occa-sion.

A few flowers can add a lotof color to the meal table. Whykeep such treats for company?After all, your family ratessuch attention, too., don't youthink?

You can save yourself workas far as laundering is con-cerned if you'll take advan-tage of the various plastictablecovers and place matswhich are on the market thesedays. They come in manystyles and colors and can bewiped clean with a damp clothafter using, and be used overand over again.WE ALL HAVE THE TEND-ENCY to treat ourselves tocold drinks during hot weath-er. This is something whichcan be overdone and should beguarded against. After all, themore liquid we drink, the morewe must perspire, which, ofcourse, adds to our discomfort.However, we usually keep icedtea and lemonade on hand atour house for in-between-mealthirst quenchers. Probably youhave your favorite cold drink,too. Iced lemonade tastesmighty good on picnics, too.

As for housework during thesummer months in particular,I prefer to do as little as I findabsolutely necessary and stillhave our home comfortable tolive in and presentable to allwho may care to visit us. Ofcourse, we do have an occa-

Reid. WoodsWebb. BermicoBetz, BurgessHeroux, OfficeBrown, OfficeLaFrancois, River.Roberge, BurgessFournier, CascadeReekie, OfficeMelanson, BurgessLavernoich, Burg.Faunce. WoodsMorin, CascadeSaucier. OncoMartin, BermicoBouchard, CascadeFysh, WoodsNapert, River.Walker, BermicoRoberge, ChemicalGuay, BurgessAubin, Burgess

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Ave. G.737 Taylor, Office 2.704 Labrecque, Onco 11.692 Chase. Office 7.667 P- Therrault, River. 11.667 Lemieux. Burgess 13.605 Keene. Cascade 7.574 Lemire. Office 12.568 Chevarie. Cascade 13.546 Fortier, Bennico 8.526 Goudreatt, Cascade 10.500 Gflberu Cascade.500 McGHt Office.500 Garland, Woods.500 R- Morin. River..500 Daley, Office.476 Langevin, Onco

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Bonds Continuedfrom One

There is another remark-able item in connection withemployees' investments inbonds. The entire §95,658.39credited to employees was in-vested through payroll savings.That means that employeesare regularly saving a part oftheir paychecks.

Brown Company people est-ablished their excellent rec-ord not because of any con-centrated drive in the plants.They established the excellentrecord by simply continuingtheir regular savings plans.

sional rainy day or an extracool evening when the silver-ware gets a little more atten-tion or the stairs get a goodscrubbing instead of just amopping and dusting.

Hawkes. Office

Hazzard, ChemicalPike, CascadeA. Morin, River.R. Therrault, River. 10Martin, Woods 4Sloan, Office 6Houle, Riverside 11Croteau, Cascade 13Morrisette, Cascade 8Montminy, Cascade 7Buckovitch, Cascade 14Kearns, Cascade 14Leclerc, River. 8Croteau, Burgess 11Ramsey, Chemical 7Champoux, Chemical 4Girard, Onco 13Bouchard. Onco 12Bertin, Chemical 11Piper, Bermico 3D. Bosa, Burgess 12Quimby, Office 11Collins, Onco 10Dube, Woods 13Delorge, River. 10Poulin, River. 12Roberge, Onco 11Marquis, Chemical 9Gallus, Bermico 12Leveille, Onco 8Guilbeault, Onco 14Boulanger, Chemical 4Griffin, Bermico 3Baker, Bermico 10Arsenault, Onco 8Moreiicy, Woods 3H. Roy, Chemical 3Standish, Woods 3Perrault, Bermico 2Crockett, Office 5Morrisette, Burg. 10Bouchard, Chemical 10Dube, Bermico 6Corriveau, Burgess 5S. Oleson, Woods 3Crotto, Chemical 13Vaillancourt, Chem. 5Clark, Office 3Cellupica, River. 11Chassie, Office 5Jutras, Onco 2M. Oleson, Woods 6Lavoie, Chemical 3Theberge, Woods 4Croteau, Office 3Roy, Office 3Sylvester, Bermico 2

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Collects 38 HitsIn 54 Times UpSt. Cyr SecondWith .605 MarkVal Albert, heavy swinging

batsman for Burgess Mill, to-day wears the batting crownof the Brown Company Soft-ball League.

The Burgess catcher-infield-er-pitcher rolled up an almostunbelievable mark of .704.

Not Easy WayHe didn't do it the easy way,

for he appeared in every oneof the 14 games his teamplayed. Val was at bat 54 timesand hit safely in 38 of thoseofficial trips to the plate.

Val outdistanced by almost100 points his closest rivalamong those who played in atleast seven games or had 28official trips to the plate.

In second place was JohnnySt. Cyr of the Bermico Divi-sion. His average was nothingto laugh about. It was a redhot .605. amassed through 26hits in 43 official times at bat.He appeared in 11 games.

Others in the top 10 includ-ed Bilodeau, Onco, .574; F.Bosa. Burgess, .568; Loven,Woods, .526; Bartoli, Bermico,.500: MacKay, Woods, .500;Henderson. Office, .468; Con-way. Woods, .442; Riley, Bur-gess, .441.

22 Hit .400

Twenty-two regulars, whoin at least seven

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Only 25 hit under the .300mark.

Eight players saw action inall 14 of the games their teamsplayed.

Albert also topped the listof those getting the greatestnumber of hits. He had 38.

Fire Continuedfrom One

showed the quick and good jobthe extinguishers can do ongasoline and oil fires.

The demonstration was an-other in the training of BrownCompany's fire brigades.Under the direction of Mr.Eads, 280 men are organizedinto five fire brigades, readyat all times to fight any firethat should break out in themills.

Insurance Continuedfrom One

in America today, which is al-most one-fifth of all the lifeinsurance in force. There areapproximately 20 million livescovered.

"In addition to this, a verylarge number of employershave contractual group acci-dent and health insurance,hospital expense benefits, sur-gical operation insurance (in-cluding your company), acci-dental death and dismember-ment insurance, and many ofthem group annuity contractsas well.

;iWe are happy to congratu-late you and your associateson your company's leadershipin this field, and to have hadthe opportunity of serving youand your employees."

55 YEARS AGO - - - AND TODAY

The old Brown Company store looked as in the photo at the left when Carl Hanson and George Murdock first cameto work with the company. Today, at their retirement, the spot looks as it does in the photo at the right. Take particu-lar notice of the tree in the foreground of both pictures. Fifty-five years ago it was but a struggling sappling. Todayit is tall and majestic. Note also the comparison of vehicles in the two photographs. There are two eras of transporta-tion— one, the age of the horse; the other, the age of the automobile.

BurgessScreenings

Rollie Melanson of the AcidRoom has a smile a mile long.The reason: Rollie was pre-sented with a smiling babygirl. Happy landings.

Jake Caron is out on the sicklist.

Many Brown Company peo-ple have been spending theirnice evenings going to DollyCopp camp grounds for supper.

Adam Lavernoich's "Bache-lor's Quarters" at Dolly Coppwere taken over by some ofthe girls from the TabulatingDepartment, Barbara Mason,Irene Lavernoich, Ann Went-worth and Joyce Bedard. Areally good time was had.They were real out-door camp-ers.

Other girls who have beenspending week-ends at DollyCopp are Rita Richards, Ade-line Arsenault, Lorraine Ma-rois and Doris Vaillancourt.

Some of the girls werepledged to the Bachelor's Cluband others to the ChickenClub at Dolly Copp.

Many an old-timer turnedout for the benefit game ofbaseball to support the build-ing of the field house at Me-morial Field. Some of the Bur-

gess men were Harvey Ro-berge, Al Therrault, Val Albert,Rollie Melanson, Adam La-vernoich, George Anderson,Phil Morrisette and Ed Coreau.Our hats are off to these menfor coming out for a good deed.

Sam Croteau's Rockets mettheir first defeat in the handsof the Easy Side Vets. Toughluck, Sam.

Chemical PlantExplosions

There are some big smilesaround the Chemical Plantthese days. And no wonder.There axe four proud lauiersof four boys. Congratulationsare extended to Mr. and Mrs.George Vaillancourt, Mr. andMrs. Donald Gauthier, Mr. andMrs. Oscar Dupont and Mr.and Mrs. Leo Therrien.

We understand Leo Ther-rien's boy was named the "pin-up" boy at the St. Louis Hos-pital. Out of six babies, hewas the only boy.

Bill Raymond and familymotored 'round the coast ofMaine, and enjoyed the drive-in movies at different points,among other things. Mrs. Ray-mond was handicapped by abroken bone in her foot, butshe showed her good sports-manship during the trip.

Continuedfrom OneSafety

What Were Accidents?Most serious accident result-

ed in a broken arm. The pa-tient reported it occurredwhen his arm jammed be-tween a mill truck and a rail-road car.

Another accident came whenan employee slipped and in-jured his right foot. One em-ployee crushed a finger, whenhis hand was jammed betweentwo skids. Another injuredtwo fingers when his handwas caught between a droppedshaft and a drum.

A board caught under achain and struck an employeeon the back of the head, caus-ing him to fall about 10 feet.This, the report said, causedlacerations and contusionsabout the face.

A girl employee received astrain which, she said, wascaused from handling pack-ages.

Together, the estimated timelost by these accidents is al-most 100 days. That is equalto every employee in the millslosing almost 20 minutes work.

But, as always, there weresome bright sides to the pic-ture. Those were RiversideMill, Burgess Mill, the BerlinRailway and the Onco Plant.All showed improvements sincethe end of 1948.

Continuedfrom One

Sales Department In Review SafetyStandingsHarold S. Chellis was born

in Portland, Maine, and edu-cated in the local schools. Heis a graduate of Deering HighSchool.

His career with Brown Com-pany began in June 1918 as astenographer in the Pulp SalesDivision. The company at thattime had its main offices at404 Commercial Street, Port-land. Two years later, Mr.Chellis became a shippingclerk.

He was appointed assistantto E. F. Moody, manager ofthe Pulp Sales Division, in1926. In 1933, he became NewEngland representative for thePulp Sales Division, a positionhe has held since.

Mr. and Mrs. Chellis havetwo children. Their daughter,Jo Anne, was graduated fromthe University of Maine in1948. Tommy, their son, is a

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HAROLD S. CHELLIS

student at the University ofMaine, where he will be a jun-ior this year.

Riverside MillBerlin Mills Ry.Burgess Mill 11Onco Plant 5Power and Steam + 2Bermico Division +42Cascade Mill +61Chemical Plant +96

GROUP II

Research Dept.Service Dept.Salvage Dept.Trucking Dept.Grounds Maint.Lumber SupplyPrinting Dept.Viscose Dept.Watchmen's Dept.

DSLA158242

144

12358

83

DSLA863

1040706

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Labor DayTickets

Mr. Brideau; Fred Levesque,Cascade; Arthur Michaud,Burgess; Reno Martin, Ber-mico; Edmond Babin, Onco;William Eichel, Cascade; Don-ald Haggart, Research; PaulLabrecque, Riverside.

PrizesMr. Gauvin; Wilfred St.

Croix, Power and Steam; Mr.Martin.

AdvertisingCecil Man ton, Chemical;

Bernard Roy, Burgess; Sher-man Twitchell, Burgess.

SportsGeorge Roy, Chemical; Har-

vey Roberge, Burgess; MikeAgrodnia, Research.

VaudevilleMr. Tondreau; Albert Gau-

vin, Chemical; Edgar Cor-reau, Burgess; Emmett Shev-

Snowshoed To Job,On Duty 72 Hours

The retirement of threemen at the Cascade SteamPlant brought to mind astory that should cool youoff.

During the big blizzard ofMarch 1920, George Hooper,Henry Tremaine and JosephStephenson snowshoed towork from Gorham. Theyfollowed the Grand Trunktracks.

All highways were blockedand the Berlin street carwas buried in snow in Gor-ham's Upper Village.

The men reported forwork on time — and re-mained on duty 72 hoursuntil the storm subsided.

Bermico Bits

Word was received recentlyfrom a former employee oithe Bermico Division, GeorgeBruni. George has been grant-ed a fellowship at VirginiaPolytechnic Institute for re-search work on the treatmentof pulprrill waste for the Na-tional Council of Stream Im-provement. He is working forhis doctorate in Chemical En-gineering.

lin, Construction and Mainte-nance.

BeanoRobert Neil, Burgess; Daniel

Therriault, Cascade; VictoiMortenson, Chemical.

GroundsFred Mason, Burgess.

Burgess Only One WithDepartment On 8-BalI List

Note: % Red. —Per cent reduc-tion in frequency rate since 1948.DSLA — Number of days since lastlost-time accident.

BEHIND THE EIGHTBALL(As of August 20)

Burgess Wood Preparation,Digesters, Raw Stock, Dry-ers, Wet Machines, etc.

* * *Burgess Mill was the only

one to have a department "be-hind the eightball" in goodhousekeeping, but the list waslong there.

"Record" IntactThe latest report listed these

departments at Burgess:"Wood preparation,"Digesters, raw stock, etc."Dryers, wet machines, etc."Those departments kept in-

tact the rather dubious recordwhich Burgess holds in alwayshaving had at least one de-partment "behind the eight-ball" since the Good House-

keeping program started inApril.

On the other hand, the Ber-mico Division and the OncePlant continued with clearrecords. Never in the GoocHousekeeping program haveinspectors found a departmentunclean enough to warrantplacing it "on the list."

The Berlin Mills Railwaywas not far behind. Only orthe first published list did therailway have a department"behind the eightball."

The Riverside Mill, the Re-search Department and theMaintenance and ConstructiorDepartment have had onljtwo marks against them.

As has been pointed outthere are many reasons be-hind the Good Housekeepingprogram.

One of the big reasons is fireprotection. Another is safetyAnd good housekeeping make*work easier, for materials anctools are where you want thenwhen you want them.

Good housekeeping also af-fects quality of products, foia clean mill makes for cleane]products.

Last but not least, it is monpleasant to work in a depart-ment that is clean.