Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 15, 1945 Page: 3 of 4
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SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1945
PENNSHIP LOG
PAGE THREE
Ex-Mold Lofters,Now
In Service, Visit Isle
Four Won and Three
Lost For Softballers
TWO FORMER MOLD Lofters,
Cadet Midshipmen Billy Krueger
and Billy Robinson, were recent
Island visitors. Robinson, who also
worked in the Engineering Dept.,
said his brother, Lee Warren, also
an old Lofter, was still overseas
but. was expected home soon.
LOUISE (JO) Thompson has re-
signed to take that much needed
rest.
PEARL BLOCK wrote her
thapks to the Loft for the flowers
sent on the death of her husband.
Mrs. Block worked in the Loft
before her husband’s illness.
J. D. HICKS’ smaff son, Harold,
had his tonsils removed and we
think J. D. survived the operation.
We feel sorry for Mrs. Hicks with
two patients at the same time.
BOBBY, YOUNG SON of C. A.
Hicks, in charge of Template
Storage, has an illness that is baf-
fling his folks and doctors.
MRS. BECKER’S husband, a
USMC inspector, represented the
DAV at conventions at Fort Worth
and Galveston.
CORPORAL WILLIS A. Jester,
son-in-lawT of Mrs. Helen O. Jones,
has just been awarded an Oak
Leaf Cluster, three Bronze Stars
and a citation for heroic action in
Germany. Cpl. Jester is with the
8th Armored Div., Ninth Army,
and is stationed in Polin, Czecho-
slovakia. Mrs. Jones is LOG re-
porter in the Loft.
PEARL JAMES, who worked
on the rack near the Loft, married
her paratrooper sweetheart at
Memphis recently.
PVT. WALTER H. LOONEY,
who recently returned to the
United States from a base hospi-
tal in England, and Katheryn
Day were married on June 27.
Walter, who has a 45-day furlough
from the hospital, is a former
Loftsman. The Looneys are spend-
ing their honeymoon at Galveston.
THE MOLD LOFT SOFTBALL
team, which has won four and
lost three games during the past
seven weeks, defeated the Sand-
pile, 20 to 15, in a game played
on a muddy diamond July 4th. It
was a sloppy battle.
The Mold Loft lineup: Hugh
Pettit, ss.; Mac, 3b.; Ross, p.; J.
M. Stuart, c.; W. Lyons, lb.; A.
R. Richardson, 2b.; Woodell, rss.;
Williamson, If.; Davis, cf.; Buddy,
rf. The Sandpile lineup: Simo,-
neaux, 3b.; Millican, ss.; Ener, 2b.;
Tromwall, lb.; Wright, cf.; Wald-
rop, c.; Gray, p.; Portie, rf.; Wil-
son, If.; Rogers rss.
RECUPERATING AT HER
home at Amelia following an ap-
pendectomy, Mrs. Fay Latham,
Welding Dept., wishes to thank
her Island friends for their kind-
ness to her during her illness.
Mrs. Latham expects to be back
at work soon.
I. WISH TO THANK my fellow
workers at PSY for their flowers
and sympathy at the death of my
mother.—.Arthur Rucker
I WISH TO EXPRESS my sin-
cere appreciation to the boys of
the Electric Dept, for the gift they
gave me upon my departure from
PSY. I also appreciate the coop-
eration from all the Electrical
Dept, and the other crafts with
whom I worked. — Vernon R.
Holst.
JOHN ,C. MARSHALL, son of
Rev. John C. Marshall, night ven-
tilation leaderman, graduated from
SMU with a BA in business ad-
ministration on June 25. Young
Marshall played in the band, was
a member of the varsity track and
basketball squads and was prom-
inent in student activities.
A 50 PER CENT overall reduc-
tion in the nation’s artillery shells
is now being put into effect.
Fewer storage cases, cartridge
cases, containers, fuses, primers
and boosters are needed now that
the European phase of the war is
over.
“Angler” Collison
leal “Rail Bird”
And now they call him “Out-
side” Johnnie Collison!
Hardly had Johnnie, ABS in-
spector, gotten outside the .jetties
on a recent week-end fishing trip
to the snapper banks than he
hustled to the rail and remained
there all of the time until the fish-
ermen reached land again nearly
24 hours later.
There were 10 fishermen, or
would-be anglers, aboard Matt
Calias’ boat and only five wet a
hook. The others were horizontal
most of the time.
Collison admits his weakness
but insists that Eddie Hansen,
Dry Dock, beat him to the rail
rail and Eddie is an “old sea dog.”
C. E. DeaGle, PSY purchasing
agent, was the sturdiest sailor of
the lot and steadfastly refused to
turn green with his fishing pals.
Their catch? The anglers blush-
ed as they brought home 40 punny
fish to show for their deep sea
efforts.
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EXPEDITERS
MRS. JERRY GORE, spare parts
expediter, resigned from PSY re-
cently. Mrs. Eunice Davis has re-
placed Mrs. Gore.
MISS DORIS ENNIS is the
new expediting file clerk. Other
new employes are Miss Wilma
Howery and Miss Marjorie Spaf-
ford.
MRS. LUCILE BARTHELL has
ben absent from work on account
of illness.
SAFETY AWARD
(Continued From Page One.)
time frequency and the Carpen-
ters 19,73.
A. B. (Chick) Matthews is su-
perintendent of the Paint Dept,
and W. B. Porter is superintendent
of the Carpenter Dept. They will
receive “President’s Trophies.”
The two “8 Balls” for the poor-
est record go to Supt. H. R. Jones’
THE WIFE OF BEAUMONT’S mayor, Mrs. Fred
C. Stone, christened the MV WATER KNOT which
was launched Tuesday, July 3, at 5 o’cloc'i. It was
Penn’s 104th war-built vessel.
Mrs. Stone is shown above with her launching
party, left to right, J. H. McGregor, PSY treasurer;
Mrs. H. M. Pitts, H. A. Dodd, Mrs. Stone, sponsor;
Mayor Fred C. Stone, Miss Lucy Jane Dodd, Fred C.
Stone, III, Mrs. H. A. Dodd and G. Hughes Pet-
kovsek, city manager.
W. R. MILLER, hull foreman on
No. 368, is taking a much needed
rest on the advice of his doctor.
LIEUT. ABIE SCHNITZER
visited the Yard one day last
week before reporting for reas-
signment.
J. W. HURST, teller of tall
tales, is enjoying his vacation this
week. Taller tales will be told on
his return.
JOHNNY FRANKS, formerly
with the Slab Shop, and more re-
cently of the South Pacific, paid
a visit to friends in the Yard.
MRS. GEORGIA MAINARD
has gone all out for antiques. Any-
one wishing to dispose of their’s
would do well to call her.
WE ARE GLAD TO have Mrs.
Trudie Haynes, the “fruit girl,”
making regular visits to our office
again after a two week’s vacation
spent in San Francisco with her
husband on leave from the Navy.
&Bouumm
The Engineers are back in the
lead in the PSY Summer Bowling
League which comes to a rousing
end Monday night, July 16, at the
Tower Bowling Lanes. The race is
exceedingly close and it is slid
anybody’s championship.
Bybee with 628 pins has the
season’s highest series and Au-
coin’s 237 is good for high game
of the season. Here is the stand-
isg tmough Saturday, July 14, to-
gether with the high-average
bow’ ers:
Team
W L
HG
Pet.
Engineers ...
......24 15
896
.615
Safety ...........
......21 15
937
.583
Mundet Cork
...22 17
907
.564
Welders ........
......22 17
902
.564
Personnel ...
......19 17
852
.528
Penn Pipers
......20 19
918
.513
Inspectors ...
......17 22
867
.436
Electrical ....
..... 7 32
821
.179
INDIVIDUAL AVERAGES
G
HG HS
TP
A/.
DuBose . 39
222 577
6887
17r>
Carter ... 39
225 575
6685
172
Carroll . 39
235 607
6637
172
Seale ......12
219 579
2043
170
Winfree . 36
213 562
6088
169
Chance . 35
197 551
5891
163
iliwif/erf
Plate Shop and Supt. E. A.
Dempsey’s Cranes and Riggers.
The Painters had previously
won the “President’s Trophy” in
March, April and May without a
lost time accident. Winning in
June gave the Painters four
months in a row without a lost
time hurt. This department also
includes the dock crew, known as
Levis’ gang. The Carpenters have
two full months without a lost
time injury. Burners and Shrink-
ers with no lost time injuries are
to be congratulated.
“Our frequency rate for\ the
Yard is still too high and greater
efforts should be put forth to cut
this down,” E. S. Winfree, Safety
supervisor, declared.
Here is the “8 Ball” safety con-
test standing for June:
Injuries Minorlnjuries Hrs. Worked No L. T. Lost Time
LOST: Gold-rimmed sunglasses
somewhere on Sandpile. Re-
turn to Welding Office or
PENNSHIP LOG. W. H. Silver-
nail, 7-0002.
LOST: 21-jewrel Bulova wrist-
watch Wed., June 27, between
550-foot docks and Pine Street.
Finder return to J. D. Chesser,
welder leaderman, Hull 344 on
400-foot docks.
-•-
ROUGH WATER kept Arthur
(Pop) Forster from fishing during
his recent vacation trip to Corpus
Christi.
Eyes Others
Frequency Frequency
Painters ...........
...0
1
0
73,780 13.75
0.00
Carpenters ......
...0
1
0
50,723 19.75
0.00
Machinists .....
..1
9
4
'33,922
12.65
Welders ............
...1
7
2
207,919
4.80
All Others ......
...2
7
177,185
11.28
Outfitting ........
...3
18
10
181,440
16.53
Burners ..........
...0
3
7
78,696 114.35
0.00
Pipe .................
...3
6
18
170,530
17.59
Construction ..
...2
18
18
248,389
8.04
Electrical ........
...1
4
5
144,234
6.93
Plate Shop ....
...3
4
4
48,817
61.65
Cranes & Rig.
...2
0
4
64,561
29.43
Painters Turn I
Jobs On Hulls 340, 341
QUARTERMAN J. V. TINER
reports that Leaderman J. A.
(Jack) Wall turned out Hull 340
in one of the shortest periods of
time yet required to paint a ship
and it was accomplished with very
little overtime. Much credit for the
fast and fine work on the hull
goes to the cooperation of the night
crew.
FOREMAN C. E. HALLBROOK
and Quarterman Lou Thompson
report that most of the finish coat
on Hull 341 was put on in a 24-
hour period, Sunday, July 8, and
that in the neighborhood of 400
gallons of paint was used during
this period of time.
C. T. JORDAN is celebrating the
arrival of a son, Walter Rowan,
born June 24 and scaling 10
pounds. Charlie is proud of his new
son because he is a night worker.
“He does his broadcasting at night
and sleeps all day and so doesn’t
bother my sleep.”
LEAVE IT TO leaderman T. T.
Tanner to break in the new men.
I. W. Moore,a rehire, and E. L.
Benedict, B. F. Duckworth, W. L.
King, J. H. Smith and A. Slaydon,
new men, have joined Tanner’s
crew.
M. H. COYLE, of Leaderman
Jack Wall’s crew, is taking a 30-
day leave of absence because of ill
health.
W. L. DAVIS is back at work
after several -weeks’ absence be-
cause of an infected hand.
A. L. LeDEAU has resigned to
go back to sea.
NIGHT QUARTERMAN Charles
Jordan has assigned two new
brush painters, O. R. Dry and L.
C. Schmidt, to his leadermen.
F. B. MILLER is a rehire to E.
L. Middleton’s brush paint crew
and C. B. Woolard is a new brush
painter assigned to Tom Gil-
crease’s crew. Other new members
of the Paint Dept, have been as-
signed as follows: S. C. Crocker
and J. A. Gurley to Leaderman S.
C. Rutledge; M. Shelton to Lead-
erman J. A. Wall; J. T. Sullivan to
Leaderman C. H. Taylor; P. H.
Rogers, spray painter, to Leader-
man Jimmie Hillyar; E. L. Tune,
rehire, to Leaderman E. H. Small-
wood, spray paint gang.
ED. J. OSTEBEE got in the first
week of his vacation fishing and
crabbing before his wife put him
to work painting the kitchen at
home. Anyhow, that’s not paint-
ing signs.
CECIL RILEY, member of the
sign crew, is back on the job after
a week’s illness.
FISH
(Continued From Page One.)
right away or you might contact
Harry Rupp.
JOHNNY PEET, chief operator
of the big burning machine since
its installation, has been transfer-
red to his old art of burning with
a real torch. Johnny likes the
change and said it would give his
blisters a chance to heel or be
transferred to his elbows.
THE “BIG PUSH” on the pon-
toon bridge has eased. Now if we
stop running in the Yard we’ll
have the thing licked.
UNCLE JOE KEIM, LOG re-
porter asks a bit of help on his
news gathering job as he moaned
that it was “too durn hot to run
you fellows down every issue.”
He means run you down for
news.
Save your war bonds.
The softball spotlight fell on
Pitcher McDaniels of the PSY
Victory Vagabonds today.
McDaniels pitched the Vaga-
bonds to a no-hit, no-run 10 to 0
victory over the Humble Oilers,
July 3, in a Commercial League
game at the fairgrounds, the
Vagabond chunker facing only
15 men during the five-inning
game that was cut short by the
time limit. McDaniels didn’t walk
a single man and he was given
perfect support.
Cummings, c; White,lb; Guarde-
mal, 2b; Brooks, 3b; L. Litton, ss;
H. Litton, rss; Smith, rf; Jones,
cf; Holland, ss; and Zummo, If,
are the other Vagabond players.
Here are the recent results, com-
ing schedule and loop standing:
July 3, PSY Vagabonds 10,
Humble 0; PSY Sports 10, Fire-
stone 5. July 5, rain, no games;
July 10, PSY Sports, 5, PSY Vaga-
bonds 2.
July 17, Vagabonds vs. Fire-
stone, 7:30, west diamond; Sports
vs. Humble, 9 o’clock, east dia-
mond; July 19, Vagabonds vs.
Marines, 7:30, west diamond; 9
o’clock, Sports vs. Lions, west dia-
mond. July 24, Sports vs. Fire-
stone, west diamond; Vagabonds
vs. Humble, 9, east diamond; July
26, Vagabonds vs. Lions, 7:30, east
diamond; Sports vs. Marines, 9
o’clock, west diamond; July 31,
Sports vs. Elks, 7:30, west diamond;
Vagabonds vs. Southern Acid, 9
o’clock, west diamond.
Through games of July 10 the
Sports were in second place in
the league with five wins against
one defeat for .833 average while
the Vagabonds were in fourth
place with three wins and three
defeats for a .500 mark.
BARROW
(Continued From Page One.)
ers in some departments. These
exceptions will continue to be un-
der the direct supervision of their
department superintendents.
Included in the transfer to Bar-
row’s department are the Paint
Dept.’s negro cleaners, and be-
cause cleaning for a coat of paint
requires the inspection of an ex-
perienced painter, three cleaner
leadermen from the Paint Dept,
have been placed in charge of this
group of workers under Barrow.
These three leadermen are
Chris Borge, W. I. (Walter)
Burkhart, and D. E. Burkhart.
Barrow, a former Beaumont
high football captain, has bee’.l
on the Island for four years,
working first with the Safety
Dept., then going to the Salvage
Dept. He became head of Salvage
a year and a half ago and has
done much to give the Island its
excellent record for economy and
good housekeeping.
GEORGE CALDWELL, the
Electrical Dept’s. number one
music man is spending his vaca-
tion in Dallas with relatives.
George spent many years in Dal-
las as one of that city’s most pop-
ular orchestra leaders.
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Scurlock, Ruth G. Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 15, 1945, newspaper, July 15, 1945; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158486/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.