Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1945 Page: 2 of 4
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*AGE TWO
PENNSHIP LOG
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1945
BEAUMONT, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1945
Published on the 1st and 15th of each month by Pennsylvania
Shipyards, Inc., for its employes. Distributed free to PSY personnel
RUTH G. SOURLOCK ...................................................... EDITOR
Lorice Beular ........................................................................ Associate Editor
REPORTORIAL STAFF: Antigone Megas, Marjorie Youngblood,
€. B. McCulloch, T. Jim Davis, J. D. Watt, W. R. Van Davier, J. J.
Keirn, J. W. McGinty, Addle Mae Moon, J. L. Fontenot, Audrey
Jarrell, Arthur “Pop” Forster, Louis Lowery, Helen O. Jones, Mona
Rose Ray, H. D. Haley, Lorna Ogden, Alma Hetzel, T. L. Richey, J. C.
Monts, Martha Hatfield, L. E. Bemvell.
Home Vacation Isn’t So Bad
It would be nice to go places .once more for a vacation, but cars,
gas and tires are still scarce and train space is needed more than ever
or military uses so most of us will have to spend our vacations at
home.
This needn’t be such a terrible privation, however. Vacations are
merely changes of scenery and since most of us work six days out of
a week we can get a change by finding out what our homes and
mends look like once more.
Sleeping late in the morning, eating meals when and where we
please and a few simple things like this can go a long way toward
making a restful and different vacation at home. It will be easy on the
pocketbook, too.
Plate Shop Given Housecleaning
HIS NUMBERS ^ Gooch Cows
UP!
GI’S BILL OF RIGHTS
Don’t think the GI Joes haven’t’
been thinking about post-war
plans just as well as you. They
have a few ideas all of their own
and they don’t concern that new
automobile, an all-electric kitch-
en, new refrigerator o:r washing
machine.
They are a lot more practical.
Take Pvt. Jack C. Black, of Dal-
las, for example. Pvt. Black says
that when he drops his military
“title” and becomes “mister”
again he’s got 10 do’s and don’ts
lie’s going to follow and the
chances are his 10-point plan will
be followed by other GI’s.
Here’s Pvt. Black’s credo:
1. I shall not wait in line for
anything or anybody, anywhere.
2. I shall not eat corned beef,
oven if it is served as patties,
.fried, boiled, roasted, drowned in
gravy, or creamed.
3. I shall have a private bath-
room, in gleaming white tile, with
a huge shower and a deep tub.
4. I shall never again sleep on a
cot, jungle hammock or in the
mud.
5. I will have ice cream every
meal—with cereal, steak, or mid-
night snacks.
6. I will not do any laundry,
not even wash a handkerchief.
7. I’ll not be lured into hikes,
bird walks, blueberry-picking ex-
peditions, quail hunting or trout
fishing.
8. I will confine my automobile
driving to a class A, superduper
concrete highways, as level as a
billiard table.
9. I will eat exactly nothing
from a tin can.
10. I will not go on a camping
trip unless the plans for same
meet specifications in articles 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 9 above. Then I
will take it under advisement.
Private Clark says he doesnrt
want to be arbitrary about it.
“I am not going to make this a
permanent policy—only tempo-
rary. Say about 30 or 40 years.
‘ After that, like any open-
minded person, I’ll listen to rea-
son.”
NO. 101
(Continued From Page One.)
Marchand, all of New Orleans,
and Mr. Motran.
At its keel laying the MV
HAWSER SPLICE was dedicated
to Pfc. Charles W. Weaver, 18,
U.S. Marine killed at Iwq Jima.
Pfc. Weaver was the sop of E. L.
Weaver, Penn burner for 17 years.
Young Weaver was a sharpshooter
who lost his life in an heroic at-
tempt to wipe out a Jap gun
emplacement.
MANAGER BILL VAN Norman
isn’t saying much about it but his
PennShip Nighthawks caught a 36
to 6 licking at the hands of the
Beaumont Travelers the other
Sunday at the municipal golf
course diamond.
Don’t ride trains.
FATHER S DAY
After so many years poor old
father got his day. Few poems and
songs are written about father but
he doesn’t mind and he’s glad to
give the laurels to his faithful
spouse, the mother of his children.
He toils away day after day and
his only thought is of those de-
pending on him, their happiness
is always in his mind.
Father many times denies him-
self the bare necessities of life
to provide the happiness and com-
forts for those depending on him.
Many times he’s first to be for-
gotten but when real need comes
he’s first to be called as those
depending on him know down
deep in their hearts that dad
can’t say “no.”
Therefore let those of us who
are fortunate enough to still have
a dear old dad not to forget him
on his day Sunday. Gladden his
torn old heart with a kind word
and a visit or a kindly message.
He doesn’t care for gifts, he
merely wants love and gratitude
for his heartaches we caused him.
If he’s old and feeble give him
a kindly* smile, a kiss perhaps on
his toil-worn brow.
Remember he still loves you
as he did when you were cuddled
in his rough, strong arms. You’ll
always be a kid to him so don’t
forget him. He may be a bit
grouchy, a bit out of date or a
bit old fashioned but don’t forget
he’s still your dear old dad.
F—is for fun he had with me.
A—is for the aid he gave to me.
T—is for the truth in his'heart.
H—is for the hell he’d go
through for me.
E—is for the earning power
which he never failed to
provide.
R—is for the restless nights he
spent on me.
Put them all together they
spell Father, a word that means
a lot to me.—J. J. Keim, PIW Di-
vision.
Your bonds which helped crush Hitler will also hurry the finish
of Hirohito. Buy as many as you can.
Brushman Jordan Takes
Over As Owl Quarterman
Trouble Strikes
Allens Twice
W. M.| McMASTER, PSY di-
rector of public relations, was
present at a dinner honoring Col.
Howard Yost, who is retiring as
district engineer of the U. S.
Engineers after 28 years, that was
held at Hotel Beaumont the other
night.
Don’t gamble with safety.
QUARTERMAN JOHN L. Berry
of the night shift is taking a 60-
day leave of absence and Leader-
man C. T. Jordan is pinch-hitting
while J. L. is away. H. A. Man-
ning is taking Jordan’s leader-
man job.
W. W. SNOWDEN, recently
felled by Kid Cupid, has returned
from his honeymoon.
QUARTERMAN LOU Thomp-
son has high praise for the lead-
ermen and their painters for
their splendid effort in pulling
Hull 337 out of a “hot spot.” Lou
especially mentioned the night
crew and the cleaner crew su-
pervised by Leaderman Chris
Borge.
LEADERMAN J. L. Hillyar has
a rehire back on his crew, C. S.
Bonner, who is glad to be back.
R. G. GOODMAN is a new ad-
dition to the night owl crew un-
der L. G. Bourgeois.
L. McQUEEN has joined Quar-
terman C. T. Jordan’s crew.
C. H. MONSMA has swapped
his paint brush for a musket in
his Uncle Sam’s army.
C. R. OLLER is back as a re-
hire with E. H. Smallwood’s spray
gun crew.
S. C. RUTLEDGE, who is bring-
ing up Hull 338, has two new
additions to his brush painter
crew, R. E. LaDeau, a newcomer,
aod R. W. (Bob) Ervine, one of
the former old regulars.
J. E. HOLLAND is the new
brush painter working with Lead-
erman T. S. (Tom) Gilcrease.
ED OSTEBEE, talkative mem-
ber of J. D. Watt’s sign crew,
came back to the shop recently
looking for a ribbon. It seems
that he wanted it to tie a tag on
his arm identifying it as support-
ting the hand that shook the hand
of Admiral Vickery while he was
visiting in the Yard last week.
There is some doubt as to Ed
using that hand again. It seems
he wants to keep it for a “mo-
mento.”
Double trouble hit the L. C.
(Pop) Allen family in one day.
First “Pop”, PSY general super-
intendent, was ordered to bed for
a month’s rest and that very same
day Mrs. Allen fell at her home
and broke her ankle.
Now ‘Top” is propped up in
bed at St. Therese hospital and
Mrs. Allen is in a wheel chair at
home.
Supt. Allen is following the doc-
tor’s orders and taking it easy.
IISMC SHIPS
(Continued From Page One.)
during the month. The May de-
liveries were mostly merchant
ships with only 14 going for mil-
itary use. Of the 14, eight were
merchants ships for military use
and six were built as military
types.
West coast shipyards deliver-
ed 52, the east coast built 32 and
the Gulf-Great Lakes region
build 28.
Give Plenty
Charles Pilling Tells
Of Pulling ’Em In:
THE OLD PIW SHOP is un-
dergoing a spring housecleaning.
All the machines are being com-
pletely overhauled and painted.
Even the building itself is under-
going a cleaning preparatory to
a fresh paint job.
You’ll hardly know the old
place when it is finished.
WALTER GOOCH, PIW Black-
smith Shop, has several fine 10
and 12-gallon cows on his Voth
road dairy farm that he is will-
ing to sell. ' And if he gets the
right price for the cows he might
sell the dairy.
CHARLEY PILLING, of PIW
Engineering Dept.,, reports good
luck on recent fishing trips but
sdys the “big one” got away last
week.
Charley says that Mrs. Pilling
had the whopper on the bank but
it wriggled back into the w^ater.
Mrs. Pilling could not be
reached for a statement.
UNCLE SAMUEL is beckoning
to Jack Walker.
JIMMY DEAN, of Plate Shop
fame, attended a dance recital in
which his daughter appeared the
other night and they say he had
to be waked -*up at the finish.
Those long hours ara bad on
Jimmy.
BUILDINGS MAY come and
buildings may go but it looks like
we are going to have the old
Blacksmith Shop building for-
ever.
THEY SAY THAT Kink Wil-
liams, PIW blacksmith, has gone
into the crab business. ,
REPORT ANY NEWS you have
to your nearest reporter. You will
find their names listed in each
issue of the LOG. Remember
your reporter has his job to do,
too, and many times does not
have time to look you up for
that news item, so help by report-
ing any item of interest. (Editor’s
note: Blessings on thee, Brother
Keim, and we hope they follow
your timely advice.)
TUGS
(Continued From Page One.)
the most famous of the Penn-
built tugs and crashed headlines
the nation over for its heroic ex-
ploits during the “Battle of the
Atlantic.”
The Navy is high in praise of
the “little wonder ships” and PSY
can be proud of the part it played
in building the tugboat fleet that
is now doing ybeman work in the
Pacific.
E. W. PITTMAN, PSY engineer,
has been elected a director of the
Beaumont Club.
B. F. FREEMAN, safety inspec-
tor, is vacationing.
Two Engineer 'Farmers'
E. P. PRICE and G. S. Tweed
have returned from a tour of in-
spection to their respective farms.
Mr. Price’s farm is just out-
side Pineville, Mo., and he says
the country is beautiful. Mr.
Tweed’s farm is near Fayetteville,
Ark., in the heart of the Ozarks.
Quail are plentiful and fishinig
is handy as the farm is bordered
by the White River.
BILLY RUSHING looks as
pretty as a frosted birthday cake
in her pink and white dress and
Mildred Wright’s vermillion dress
reminds us of geraniums.
WHY DOES MR. CROOKE call
Raymond Hawa “Beaver”?
WE’RE WORRIED about Ther-
man Henderson drinking too
much coffee.
BUTLER STANLEY now com-
mutes to work from Jasper where
his family has bought a small
farm.
DOT McDANIEL is back from
her vacation.
J. H. YENTZEN is well again
and back at work.
J. O. CROOKE keeps his hat in
a handy place right by the stairs.
EUNIE DELL WELLS is the
new typist working for A. A. Cur-
tis and also new in the same of-
fice is Marjorie Nell Day, daugh-
ter of J. H. (Pappy) Day, fore-
man in the Electrical Dept.
BONDS
(Continued From Page One.)
than he has during the past few
weeks. It’s worth a try.
The company has purchased
$600,000 in war bonds in series
other than E and this amount can-
not be claimed for the Island E
bond quota. Corporation purchases
are not included in E Bond pur-
chases.
There should be no need to
stress the buying of war bonds
for they are an investment and
your dollars are needed to push
the fight against Japan to a suc-
cessful conclusion just as much
as any time in the past. Besides
their military might, your bond
dollars are blows to inflation.
Bonds are a good foundation for
post-war security and their ma-
turity value is backed by Uncle
Samuel.
FAILURE TO REACH the quota
is no reflection on the Yard war
bond “army” for men and women
on the committee have contacted
every worker on the Island. They
have done their job well though
their sales talk has fallen on deaf
ears in many cases.
The men and women who have
bought war bonds during the
drive are to be praised for their
liberality and farsightedness. They
have the knowledge they have
done their part.
Bond salesmen are going to
make another try and if you have-
n’t bought that bond, buy now.
One more name, W. B. Towns,
has been added to the $f,00Q,
Club membership.
Not only is bond buying lag-
ging at Penn but also in Beau-
mont. Only about two-thirds of
the $6,670,000 quota set for the
city has been reached, according to
Otis Fullen, city co-chairman of
the Seventh War Loan Drive. Na-
tion’s sales have reached 75 per
cent of the quota.
THE FIRST SHIP to lift cargo
in Beaumont since the lifting of
censorship restrictions was the
NEW ORLEANS, which docked on
June 2 to take on a 7,000 ton
cargo. Increased Beaumont
shipping is in prospect. ____
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Scurlock, Ruth G. Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, June 15, 1945, newspaper, June 15, 1945; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1159662/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.