Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 1, 1945 Page: 2 of 4
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TPAGE TWO*
PENNSHIP LOG
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1945
BEAUMONT, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1945
Published om the 1st and 15th of each month by ' Pennsylvania
Shipyards, Inc., for its employes. Distributed free to PS IT personnel.
RUTH G. SCURL0CK .................................................... ............... EDITOR
XiOrice Beular ....................................................................... Associate Editor
REPORTQRIAL STAFF: Antigone Megas, Marjorie Youngblood,
C. B. McCulloch, T. Jim Davis, J. D. Watt, W. R. Van Davier, J, J.
Keim, J. W. McGinty, Addie Mae Moon, J. L. Fontenot, Audrey
Jarrell, Arthur “Pop” Forster, Louis Lowe.ry, Helen O. Jones, Mona
Rose Ray, H. B. Haley, Lorna Ogden, Alma Hetzel, Margie Ray
Keith, T. L.’Richey, J. C. Monts.
A Good Workman Is Careful With Tools
A good workman is easily spotted by the way he uses and cares
for tools. Most tools do not wear out. They are broken, damaged or
lost long before they serve their full life. With good tools as hard to get
as they are today each item that goes out of service creates a real loss
to production.
The tools now in use on the Island in all departments will have
to serve many more months at their task of shipbuildinig before they
can be replaced by a quick call to the dealer or manufacturer and
Victory in Europe will not mark the end of the time when they are
needed. Even after the war is over in the Pacific there will be great
need for the tools of shipbulding to keep ships moving and repaired.
Handle tools carefully. Treat them well. Good tools are built to
stand hard use—but not abuse.
CREED FOR ISLANDERS
Until my job here on the Island
is finished I’m sticking with it,
but on the day that there is no
more need for my work I’m ready
to go.
■ I joined the forces of PSY be-
cause there was something on the
island that I could do to help
in the war, because I liked the
work I had before me, and be-
cause the pay and working condi-
tions looked good . . . and they
have been . . . but I knew then
ihat, some day the war would be
over and that there would be a
cut back to something like peace-
time output in shipbuilding as in
all industry and that then my job
would be finished.
If I wished for the continuation
of high pressure production like
we have had for the past four
./ears, I would be wishing for
:.omething that would have to be
paid for by the blood of many
men who are dear to me and
others I have never seen. I would
also be wishing for 1 overproduc-
tion that would bring economic
disaster to me as well as to oth-
ers. No job is worth that price.
That’s why I’ve been preparing
for peace during these years I’ve
been on the Island. I lived be-
fore the war and the War Bonds
I have been able to buy will give
me a good sendoff after I. have
gone back to my peacetime job.
It’s been a goo'd job and I’m
not afraid of the future . . . That’s
why I’m going to keep on with
my work until it’s done.
BONDS~
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available on PSY war bond sales
but E. M. Ratcliff, bond chair-
xq'an, declares that business is
lagging. Many cards have been
turned in with pledges though
scores are still missing and likely
stuffed away and forgotten in
some pocket.
The time is now to buy that
bond and if you haven’t already
done so, don’t delay. Get a card
from your department chairman
or go to the bond station day or
night and you can either sign a
pledge or buy a bend for cash.
Stress is placed on E bond sales.
THE BOND STATION inside
the Yard is open Monday through
Friday from 7:30 a. rn. to 11 p. m.
and on Saturday from 8 a. m. to
10 p. m. The day shift at the sta-
tion is held down by Mrs. Aline
Gillette and the night shift by
Mrs. Doris Roberts. The station
is under the supervision of Ed
Dyer.
The Night Owls are on their
toes as usual in the drive and
according to the most recent re-
port 93.5 per cent of the Owl
pledge cards have been turned
back in with 83 per cent signed
PYLE’S PEN STILLED
The rough soil of the little
island of Ie in the Pacific was
drenched with the blood of a great
man recently when the little white
haired guy with the big heart,
Ernie Pyle, was mowefi down by
Jap machine gun fire.
Ernie will go down in history
as one if the best loved war cor-
respondents of all time for he
was the voice of the GI’s, and
with them he shared the terrible
grind of war on the front lines.
He knew their heartaches and
their humor and through his
writing the GI’s were able to
tell the folks back home some-
thing of what war is really like.
The whole world will miss
Ernie Pyle, a man who achieved
greatness bjy shunning it, and a
writer whose simple words paint-
ed pictures of the soldiers’ life
more graphically than volumes
of fine writing could ever have
done . . . J. J. Keim, PIW Div.
for bond purchases totaling $260,-
025.
Owl bond chairman, Slim Hol-
land says that the night sfoft lead-
erman and quartermen have real-
ly been hustling to put the bond
sales over. He also emphasizes
that there is still time for more
bond buying and that the bond
station near the C-l office is open
every night until 11 o’clock, not
only for the delivery of bonds
already bought, but to make, and
deliver bonds in cash sales.
PENN’S COORDINATORS in
the Seventh War Loan Drive In-
clude W. J. Moran, Engineers;
W. E. Holland, Accounting; C. E.
Deakle, Purchasing; Miss Martha
Donivan, Personnel; H. D. Haley
and H. Weaver,. Safety; E. H.
Travis, Guards; Mrs. M. B. Stout
and Mrs. L. B. Collier, Time-
keeping; N. M. Debes and M. E.
Holland, Ship Repair; E. W.
Evans, S. B. Perry and B. C. Mul-
lins, Hull; Johnnie Roberts and
Charlie Jordan, Paint; C. O.
Cheatham, Production
L. E. Benwell and C. C. Shelly,
Machinists; W. McDonald and A. L
Reviea, Carpenter; Hoyt Brown,
PIW Plate Shop; Paul Blaschke
and Mrs. Flo Sullivan, Welders;
Bill King, Outfitting; LeRoy Mey-
ers and S. W. Van Norman, Burn-
ing; W. Van Davier and W. H.
Vaughn, Crane; J. W. McGinty,
Electrical; F. B. Davis and J. F.
Hamilton, Salvage.
R. G. Anderson, Mold If>ft;
Chester Steinberger, Pipefitting;
Miss Thelma Lusk, PIW Stores;
J. E. McDonald, Jr., Stoi'es; F.
Portie and Ed Hooter, Hull; A. V.
McBride, Tool; Ed Dyer, Bond;
Tom Boykin and W. L. Musick,
Fire, and Bruce Ferrell, Training.
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Stormy weather makes staunch
pilots.
Cooperation Counts
Tool Room
- Coming to Penn four years ago
as a shipfitter, J. B. Tindall, bur-
ner leaderman on the East Racks
at night, attributes his rating as l
leaderman in this craft to coop- :
eration of men he works with
and Under.
He’s a good leader, conscien-
tious and always trying to do
his best is the praise Tiiidall re-
ceives from his supervisors and
J. B. calls his PSY job “the
best I’ve ever had, even though
the going has been tough at
times.”
Born in Many La.,Tindall has
lived in Beaumont five years and
worked for Red Ball Motor
Freight Lines before coming to
Penn. He was practicing burn-
ing on his own when Percy Lin-
scomb noticed him and put him
to burning. J. B. has worked on
all types of ships which have
been built on the Island.
Tindall is married and has two
children, the oldest a girl and the
youngest a boy named Kennis
Earl for his wife’s two brothers,
Kennis and Earl C. Noland, both
of whom lost their lives in the
service of their country.
Kennis, with the Army, was
killed’ at Anzio on March 1,
1944, and Earl, with the Ma-
rines, died in combat on Iwo
l!
J. B. TINDALL
Jima on February 19, of this
year after being in five major
battles and receiving several
medals and citations.
Tindall expresses the hope
that his your^g son will do honor
to the two hero uncles for whom
he is named.
Painter Gives Up Gun
And Br For Bible
J. F. (PREACHER) DAVIS, tal-
ented member of the spray gun
crew, has resigned to devote his
entire attention to the ministry.
UNCLE SAM HAS called Henry
Reese of E. H. Smallwood’s spray
gun crew.
GEORGE LYONS, former quar-
terman who recently resigned, and
his son, Archie, USMC, were Yafd
visitors the other day. The girls
who didn’t get a look at good-
looking Archie missed something.
George says he misses his old
buddies in the Yard.
C. T. ANDERSON and W. L.
Jones have joined Leaderman
Jack Watt’s crew to finish “hot”
334.
LEADERMAN E. LEON Mid-
dleton, who has been doing a
splendid job handling the paint-
ing at the 550-foot docks, is slated
to bring up Hull 339 all the way
through outfitting to delivery. J.
F. Corley and J. F. Stanley are
now on Middleton’s’ crew.
T* ALLEN RUTLEDGE, an old
regular, has transferred to E. H.
Smallwood’s spray gun crew and
says since he can shoot a good
pistol he should be all right on
the spray gun.
B. H. SEHON is the new night
owl leadermah who took S. C.
Rutledge’s place when S. C. trans^-
ferred to days.
O. L. RICE, one of the vet
painters, • suffered a slight heart
attack recently and had to be
taken home. He is recovering sat-
isfactorily.
G. W. ALLEN, JR., is on his va-
cation.
J. D. GOSSETT is the newest
addition to E. H. Greathouse’s
spray gun crew.
L. J. BOURGEOIS has C. J.
Calcoate as a new member of his
JACK (LITTLE DOC) Wilson
has been crowned champion yod-
ler.
RUTH MACOMBER’S husband
is recuperating in a Philippines’
hospital from shrapnel wounds in
the face and shoulder.
MRS. PATTY BROWN has re-
signed to punch a clock as full-
time housewife.
EX-NIGHT Timechecker Jack
C. King is now Pvt. in Uncle
Sam’s army.
JACK (HAPPY) Lindsey rates
1*A with Uncle Sam, so rumor
has it.
HERMAN BATES IS in the
market for a pack of Luckies, but
who isn’t?
JUANITA PENNY’S hobby is
collecting German souvenirs sent
her by her Berlin-bound hubby.
Juanita has a stone bust of Hitler,
an officer’s srword, an insignia and
a Nazi flag, colored, not white.
ImlpsT
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deadweight tons with Gulf Coast
yards and Great Lakes plants
turning out but seven.
Permanente Metals Corporation,
Richmond, Calif., took individual
honors with 15 Victory ships.
gang.
J. V. (VINT) TINER, veteran
painter, has been promoted from
leaderman to quarterman.
J. W. (SHORTY) PARKS is
hoping daily for word of the re-
lease of-his son who is a German
war prisoner.
Machinery Dept. Proud
Of Brand New Metalizer
“BIG BOY” McGOWAN is ac-
nowledged as Tool Room checker
champ but he’s closely pressed by
Jimmie Monts and A. V. Mc-
Bride in that order. The boys
have an interested audience dur-
ing their lunch-hour sessions and
many amusing situations arise
though no harm is done.
‘DREW N. McGOWAN, son of
“Heavy’’ McGowan, was home re-
cently after 15 months in the
South Pacific. “Heavy” has been
in the Tool Room for nine months.
ONE OF THE steady workers
is E, R. Kershaw, of No. 1, who'
has been on the job nearly a
year. Born and raised in Phila-
delphia, E, R. came south about
15 years ago and worked at
Orange before coming here.
K. F. SCHOFIELD has left
Tool Room No. 1 to go with East-
ern Cold Storage. ,
F. A. (SLEEPY) Pierce, of No.
2, has been with PSY for 10
years and before coming to the
Tool Dept, was with Outfitting.
He’s a World War I vet and has'
a nephew in this war.
C. B. JONES, of No. 8, has
four brothers in the service. He’s
been with us 2i/2 years.
FEELING CHIPPER or bad, M.
L. Byrd, of No. 3, comes to work
just to keep Red Melton company.
AFTER THE WAR N. S. (Gran-
ny) Shellgroes, of No. 9, is going
back into the flower business. She
was in the floral business in Hous-
ton when the war broke out and
put in 17 months with civil ser-
vice before coming to PSY nearly
two years ago.
J. G. MARTIN and J. C. Wil-
liams are two other capable No. 9
workers. Martin has an honorable
discharge from the army and has
been with us a year and Williams
transferred from the Carpenter
Shop nine months ago. He has
been on the Island 2i/2 years.
A NEW WORKER' IN No. 8 is
E. Harvey. He has a son who has
been in the armed forces for four
years.
THE CURTIN WILL be lifted on.
the Night Tool Roomers in the
next LOG.
| Fabricating j
IT LOOKED LIKE old times
when an oil and gas separator ap-
peared in the Fabricating Shop
the other day. Turner feels at
home with this old familiar sight.
D. CHESTER, erection field
foreman for PIW the past 30 years
or more, rode a landslide into the
office of alderman recently at Ne-
derland. You had better watch
your stgp when you visit that
thriving city.
UNCLE SAM HAS beckoned to
W. W. Cox and Paul Lange of
the PIW Machine Shop and they
have already taken their phyicaj
at Houston.
SEAMAN J. KENNEDY, form-
erly of Plate; Shop Layout, is tak-
ing radar training at San Diego.
“I’m in good health and doing
fine,” Kennedy writes his old
cronies.
BILL PLAKE, ex-welder in
structural shop under J. M. Tur-
ner, is a welding instructor at
Camp Polk, La., and on a recent
visit to the shop told chums that
he was bucking from buck pri-
vate to buck sergeant.
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THE MACHINERY DEPT.' has
purchased a new metalizer after
a fine demonstration. This new
and latest model machine will
save the Yard and customers lots
of money.
“PEE WEE” KOCH planked
down the dough for four $1,000
war bonds which will give the
other departments something to
shoot at in the future. Some cre-
dit should go to Mrs. Koch.
L. J. BRAUD is at home conve-
■ lasting from a recent operation.
JOE MULLALLY has switched
from Stores to the Machinist Dept.
MOSE STEBBINS, versatile
shop sawman, is back and says he
likes the boys so much he’ll try
and stay awhile.
J. PRAZNIK has heeded Un-
cle Sam’s call and others are
getting ready. J. W. Grimes, bet-
ter known as “Slats,” is one of
’em.
WATER IS SO high at Earl
Manning’s home that he’s using
his motorboat to bring home the
bacon.
MACHINISTS WISH Jack Live-
ly, now superintendent of Too]
Rooms, good luck on his new job.
Jack had charge of Machine Shop
tools.
BECAUSE OF THE new hours
Fritz Cooper is available for gar-
dening and can be reached at 266
He’ll furnish all his own tools.
MRS. HARRY CAMPBELL,
Wife of the assistant superin-
tendent of Machinery, is recover-
ing at home from a recent opera-
tion.
THE BOYS ARE moaning about
the high water spoiling tlfeir
fishing but think how they’ll bite
when the river returns to nor-
mal.
FRAZIER ROBERTSON is back
at work after a recent illness.
“JUDGE” FRED WRIGHT is
the newest member of ’’Wardeil’s
Flying Club.”
GEORGE LANE has his mother,
Mrs. R. A. Ford, of Orlando, Fla.,
as a" guest. George’s brother, Pfc.
E. C. Ford, with the Army engi-
neers, was wounded in action .in
Germany recently. George is
mighty proud of his son, Joseph
Green,' who recently became an.
Eagle Scout.
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THE TASK FORCE held a dance
for visiting servicemen Saturday
night at the American War Dads
Service center. Dot Reaux has1
resigned as Task Force chairman
and J. L. LeJune has been named
sponsor of the junior hostess
group.
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Scurlock, Ruth G. Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 1, 1945, newspaper, May 1, 1945; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158906/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.