Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 15, 1945 Page: 3 of 4
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SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1945
PENNSHIP LOG
PAGE THREE
Stores Spring Shindig April 28
Tall Fishing
Tales Spun
Lee Brasfield Back
From Vacation
Spres Dept., i« planning .a
spring dance on Hotel Beaumont
roof, Saturday night, April 28,
arid if you want to have a lot of
fun contact someone for an in-
vitation.
Carpenter “Twins” Watch
Each Other Like Hawks
NEW SECRETARY
- Thelma Lusk has replaced Mrs.
Monroe as E. O. Sheffield’s sec-
retary and Marion Clark has left
the office.
Ed Easters, a lieutenant in
World War I, is in San Antonio
recovering from an eye operation
at a government hospital and says
he’s the only World War I vet
in the hospital.
• Ernest Hale, of the Truck Dept,
writes from Germany to say
“hello” to his PSY friends. Ern-
est sent a number of pictures of
trucks and said one of ’em, a job
with one front wheel, was just
about Pee Wee’s speed.
Addie - Mae Moon is eagerly
awaiting a visit from her son, S
1/c Herman Moon, just back
from the South Pacific. Herman
has a 40-day leave, including
traveling time. He suffered a
black eye and broken arm when
his LCI went down after hit-
ting a mine. Herman is going to
pick up some slack eating mom’s
lemon pie and going fishing with
uncle.
OLD CLO
(Continued from Page One.)
haven’t given their old clothes to
the YMBL are urged to do so. It
may mean saving a life. The
YMBL collection campaign will
continue through the month of
April and the national quota is
150 million pounds.
All serviceable clothing, winter
and summer, together with bed-
ding is needed.
V-E DAY
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back on the job the following day
as all of Penn’s work is tabbed
for Jap invasion and urgently
needed.
Original plans for Beaumont
that called for wild celebration
have been canceled. There will
be no parade, high school bands
will not play in the parks and
the show scheduled for the city
auditorium will not be held.
Schools will turn out for the day
following thanksgivinig programs
in auditoriums and churches will
remain open throughout the day
for those who wish to offer pray-
erful thanks.
All liquor stores will be closed
There will be no whistles ex-
cept the air raid siren provided
it is repaired in time.
It is requested that if any major
There are two leadermen in
the department who look so
much alike that they follow each
other around for the purpose of
being sure that no one talks to
one thinking that it is the other.
For sale: one pair of city shoes,
owner is gong back to Arkansas,
signed, M. Gray.
P. L. Wooley has been removed
to his home from Hotel Dieu
and thanks Stores for floweis.
Sam P-arigi, formerly of Penn-
Ship, now of Uncle Sam’s army,
was by the other, day while home
on furlough.
LIFE OF SAILOR
Tom Cain has left the employ
of PSY to enlist in the Merchant
Marine.
Lee Brasfield is back from a va-
cation in Austin. Teddy Vender-
slice is off a few days to be with
Jeff, her Merchant Marine hus-
band. Jeff is a junior engineer.
Mr. Brownlee, back from an Ar-
kansas vacation, says they are
raising fish by the acre in the
Razorback state. He says they put
a net around 20 acres and. caught
2,000 pounds of buffalo fish.
Marian Hunt's recent birthday
took her out of the ’teen age and
now she will have to act grown-
up.
Sympathy goes to . V. L.
Bridges over the recent death of
his father in Nacogdoches.
PRETTY BIG FISH
McAneally insists that he caught
a goggle eye scaling 40 pounds,
Sgt. Brimlow, Mildred’s hub-
by, writes from Europe that the
spring weather reminds him of
Texas and says that it may be
over soon “over here.’’
presented the neatest appearance
to what the well dressed leader-
man will wear. V. Reviea of the
firm of Reviea and Reviea (day
and night) blossoms out in a seven
and one half gallon Triple X and
right away the leaderman from
down Anahuac way comes out
with his Sunday best.
In the meantime, Old Timer
Huff, the pride of Silsbee, comes
out one day with a gray fedora,
Only time will tell where it will
all end.
Several of the boys have been
interviewing Arthur Reviea to
see what is the secret of getting
his picture in the LOG in the last
issue.
• You know how it goes, each is
desirous of doing the same thing
in a slightly different way and
wondering why he did not think
of doing it before Arthur did. It
seems that Arthur has really
achieved something in getting on
the preferred list. Through it all,
Arthur is. not telling anyone his
secret so maybe it will stop right
there. .
Bull ...Durham is between two
fires. Frank* told him that if his
crew got down to less than five
men, he Would have to bring out
his tools and go to work. He says
he wants' to go back to work. His
architect has left. His first assis-
tant is &abdut to leave and then
Bull will be like the farmer-
stuck with nothing to unload.
T ' 3- "7 ■'■■■ ■
For s6mer time the assistant
superintendent of this department
has had a 'certain quarterman un-
der his arm for the purpose of
teaching hhp the ropes of being
the mayor s and member of the
school board of a certain little
town on the other .side of the
river in Oi;ange County. Now it
seems %, though the quarterman
doesn't want to take over.
It was a wonderful Easter D^y
for Martha Lou Lydic who re-
ceived word that her brother, Lt.
Phillip Hall, recently reported
missing in action, was a prisoner
of war of the Nazis.
A 12-year span at sea in the
U. S. Marchant Marine qualifies
Ambler Branham for his impor-
tant post as night quarterman m
the Rigging Dept.
Branham, who learned his
trade at sea, has been with PSY
for three and one-half years and
declares that folks don’t real-
ize just how important the
rigging business is in shipwor r.
The Rigging Shop is the scene
of many interesting jobs where
everything is done by hand and
no material is wasted. Such
things as cable splicing, making
rope ladders, etc., is done here.
During his days in the Merchant
Marine, Branham visited nearly
’every port in the world and found
time to explore the interior of
the countries he visited. Twice he
visited Spain during the revolu-
tion.
Branham was born in Am-
herst, Va., in 1909. He is mar-
ried and has three children,
two daughters, Donna Marie
and Linda Lee, and a son,
Larry James. Amblers four
brothers, Lonnie, Clarence, Ab-
bit and Bill are in the service
of Uncle Sam. Abbit has been
in the Merchant Marine for 12
AMBLER BRANHAM
years.
Branham’s big hobby is base-
ball.
Since Branham has been in
charge of the Rigging Shop at
night his gang has had a perfect
safety record.
There was a “colorful riot”
Easter Sunday when Mrs. Marie
Snyder’s grandchildren staged
their annual Easter egg hunt at
her home.
Engineering Gal’s Huhhy
Sends Orchid On Easter
Verline Sheffield says that
Monday after stormy Easter
should have been declared an of-
ficial holiday so the girls would
have staged their Easter parade.
Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Huff recent-
ly visited their son, Pvt. Riley T.
Huff, Jr., who is hospitalized at
Camp Fannin, Tex.
EnroUte home Christine brought
back a bouquet of beautiful wild
flowers.
Mrs. Huff’s brother, Aubrey
Davis, with the 5th Marines, sur-
vived the fierce fighting on Iwo
Jima and another brother, J. K.
Davis, of the U. S. Navy, has been
transferred from Bermuda to New
Orleans?
J-. F. Williams, who has been off
for something more than a month
is back with us again in his old
spot in the door crew.
We think’ that we have one
leaderman vMio holds the doubt-
ful distinction of having the
smallest, crew for some distance
around about. W. K. Sherman is
the leaderman of a one man crew,
himself. ''
SARTORIAL CONTEST
Something of a contest has de-
veloped as to which leaderman
tests, such as dock trials, refriger- ‘
ation tests,- etc., are under way at
the time the news comes in that
these tests be continued to com-
pletion before the men are dis-
missed.
All department heads have noti-
fied in advance all men in their
departments who may be required
to remain dri the job because of
safety, fire, protection or plant
maintenance.
Orders to this effect were is-
sued on the yard by L. C. Allen,
PSY general superintendent.
Mrs. Marian Willard spent
Easter Sunday with her sister,
Mrs. Phillips, 1466 Calder, and re-
ports having a great time with
her sister’s grandchildren. Col.
and Mrs. Bryson, of Fort Benning,
Ga., were also-guests of the Phil-
lips’.
Helen Wilson received wrord
that her husband, J. D. Wilson of
the Army ^.ir Corps, has been
promoted to sergeant. Sgt. Wilson
sent an orchid to his wife for
Easter and a bouquet of red car-
nations to his mother-in-law.
Lurline Norwood is leaving to
take an extended vacation in
Spartanburg, S. C., to visit her
sister, Mrs. W. H. Harlan.
Lurline will be accompanied on
the trip by her; cousin, Lt. H. K.
Hall, of the Marine Corps, en
route to Cherry Point, N. C., re-
distribution center.
Pat Swain reports that her
mother, Mrs. J. J. Real, is much
better though still in the hospi-
tal.
J. S. Hardy’s wife has been in
San Diego for some time, visit-
ing their son, Platoon Sgt. Sam
W. ffardy of the Marines and his
wife j and baby daughter. Sgt.
Hardy has served overseas and is
now stationed at Camp Pendleton.
swimming but she went wading
anyway.
Jimmie Beadle has been trans-
ferred to the Layout Dept.
B|tsy Greatnouse received
word that her husband, John,
has been promoted to Pic. and
has received the Infantry Combat
badge. He is serving with the
91st Division in Italy. Bitsy also
received a photograph of John,
the first he has sent since going
overseas.
Lt. “Dubber” Carter, Polly
Carter’s hubby, now wears the
DFC for carrying out a raid
against heavy enemy air opposi-
tion in unfavorable weather. His
plane, A B-29, found its way
home after becoming lost from
its squadron.
Mrs. E. M. Thomas wishes to an-
nounce that she has two new baby
chickens in the family, Henny
and Penny, by name.
GUERRILLA~HERO
(Continued from. Page One.)
the war’s earliest heroes and was
featured in W. L. White’s classic,*
“They were Expendable,” the story
of the motor torpedo boats in the
first Philippine campaifn. Lt.
Richardson was at the helm of a
MTB which sank a Japanese
cruiser. The Navy officer went
ashore for a doctor to care for
the wounded and while he was
gome Jap planes destroyed the
MTB. The next day, April 10,
1942, Bataan fell.
GUERRILLA WARFARE
For two and one-half years Lt.
Richardson and a handful of Ba-
taan survivors carried on guerrilla
warfare against the Japs. They
were aided by patriotic Filipinos
as they fought and hid from the
Japs. Telegraph and radio com-
Margaret Cornwall and friends
spent a weekend in Galveston
recently. Margaret thought the
weather was a little too cool for
munications to and from the is-
lands were made possible through
the ingenuity of Lt. Richardson
and his comrades. Pop bottles
were used for insulators on the
palm trees to carry wires.
By this method Gen. MacArthur
was given invaluable information
regarding Jap movements and in-
stallations that made Yank land-
ings in the Philippines much
easier and saved many lives.
The story of Lt. Richardson’s
guerilla exploits was told in the
March edition of Reader’s Digest
in a condensed version of Ira
Wolfert’s forthcoming book,
“American Guerilla In The Phil-
ippines” which will be made into
a movie by 20th Century Fox
with Lt. Richardson as technical
advisor.
Lt. Richardson has earned the
Silver Star twice, the Army pres-
idential unit citation twice, the
Secretary of Navy’s personal com-
mendation and wears numerous
service ribbons including those
, for the Philippine defense anc
1 liberation.
The Navy hero made six per-
sonal appearances in Beaumoni
and also spoke at Orange.
J. B. Roberts made a lot of
painters happy when he return-
ed from a brief vacation.
Johnny, able warehouseman,
not only looks after the warehouse
and materials but keeps a detail
record on all painters for Supt.
A. B. Matthews.
Quarterman Geo. Lyons is hap-
py because he won’t have to take
care of the painters’ books any
more and J. W. (Shorty) Park is
breathing a sigh of relief to see
Johnny back as he has been act-
ing as warehouseman.
And O. L. Rice, who handled
the painters’ supply room and
took care of small finishing jobs
all at one time during Johnny’s
absence is probably also pleased
over Roberts’ return.
E. H. Smallwood, spray gun
leaderman, took a vacation and
O. C. Dorsey “pinch-hit” for him
during his absence and did a very
good job.
F. M. Ward, one of Early Great-
house’s spray painters, resigned
to go to West Texas because of
the serious illness of his mother.
Leaderman Jack Wall says
“thanks” for the fine cooperation
of his men on Hu1! 332.
Noah Hall is the new man on
Leaderman Vint Tiner’s brush
gang but Vint may lose him be-
cause Nolan is also a capable spray
gun finisher.
R. T. McDaniel has joined Lead-
erman W. B. Borge’s brush crew.
G. E. Holbrook has been named
general foreman of the Paint
Dept., succeeding George Renfro,
recently resigned. L. A. (Lou)
Thompson is the new quarterman
replacing Holbrook.
C. N. (Collie) Burkhart is the
third member of his family to join
the paint gang. He comes to PSY
from the City of Beaumont.
DEEPER CHANNEL
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shipped over the Sebine-Neches
waterway which made it second
only to the New York area in ton-
nage handled.
The proposed improvements,
which would cost $7,000,000, would
deepen the waterways to 36 feet,
increase the size of the Beaumont
turning basin along with a gen-
eral widening of the channel.^
Galveston army engineers en-"
dorsed only part of this program
and said the cost would be $15,-
000,000 but Texans say the cost
would be much less as they
sought full authorization for the
improvements.
PennShip would be greatly
benefitted by the improvements
which will mean that the big-
gest of ships could be brought
to the Island for repairs or con-
version.
SAFETY INK
(Continued from Page One.)
President’s trophies. The story
concerns the 12 ships that were
launched and delivered without
any lost time injuries.
One more ship, Hull 327, has
been added to, this list in 1945.
This ship, under the supervision
of “Pinky’ Davis and A. B. More-
field, was commissioned with a
record of not having a single lost-
time accident from keel laying to
commissioning.
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Scurlock, Ruth G. Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 15, 1945, newspaper, April 15, 1945; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1159577/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.