Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1 Monday, January 1, 1945 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL, III.—NO, 3
BEAUMONT, TEXAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1945
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY
Fine Work Brings Penn Fourth 'M* Star
Three New Hulls Dedicated Admr- w N°mes Isle
One Honors
Ex-Islander
McGrew9 Carter and
Swope Mentoralized
The increased tempo of the war
in Europe and the Pacific calls for
a step-up in production of all war
necessities and PennShip is an-
swering that plea for “ships and
more ships.” The keels for three
more new ships which will be
among the first to hit the water in
the early part of 1945 to carry
on for the boys whose memory
they carry in their dedication
have been laid on the ways at
PSY.
PVT. NEVILLE M’GREW
The first of these, Hull 338^ was
dedicated at its keeJ laying’” to a
former Island employe, Pvt. Ne-
ville F. McGrew who died on No-
vember 26 of wounds received
the previous day in action in
France. Pvt. McGrew, well known
to Islanders during the time he
worked in the Plate Shop, is
the son of Frank N. McGrew, long
time employe of the PIW Div.,
(See HULLS On Page 4,)
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New Ration j
Scale Fixed
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PennShippers need not be
alarmed over the returning of
canned vegetables and meats to
ration lists on December 26, but
they should familiarize themsel-
ves with the new points and ra-
tioned items before they start
their meal planning and grocery
shopping. Here is the current
food situation as it now exists:
There is a rise in red point
value of butter from 20 to 24
points a pound. About 85 per
cent of all meats went under ra-
tioning yesterday.
Canned vegetables which will
require points are peas, corn,
green and wax beans, asparagus
and spinach, in addition to toma-
toes, which are already on the
list.
All red and blue stamps which
became good before December 1
and all sugar stamps and home
canning certificates except No
34 are canceled.
Five new red stamps—T5
(See RATION On Page 7.)
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WASHINGTON, D. €. DEC. 20, 1944
_ _ COPPINGER, PRESIDENT
PENNSYLVANIA SHIPYARDS, INC.
BEAUMONT, TEXAS,
AS CHAIRMAN OF THE UNITED STATES MARITIME
COMMISSION, I TAKE PLEASURE IN ADVISING YOU
THAT THE BOARD OF AWARDS, IN RECOGNITION OF
YOUR CONTINUED OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
ACHIEVEMENT IN SHIP CONSTRUCTION, HAS AWARD
Of High Honor On Dec. 20
USMC Recognizes Building Skill, Low Mark
In Man Hours And Fine Safety Record
In the near future the “M” pennant on the Island flag-
staff will be flying four gold stars instead of the three it
now has. Official announcement that PennShip had received.
_______________ - ______ its third additional gold Merit
luff Honored
By Engineers
H, K. Rupp, PIW Division en-
gineer at PSY, was elected presi-
,-»» n li, ..,***, ____----------------- dent of the Sabine chapter of the
ED YOUR YARD ITS THIRD GOLD STAR TO BE ADDED j Texas Society of Professional En-
TO YOUR “M” PENNANT,
E. S. LAND,
CHAIRMAN
U, S. MARITIME COMMISSION,
Future USMC Building
Program Being Planned
PennShip Workers Have
Holiday On Christmas Day
PennShip workers enjoyed
Christmas Day as a holiday. Office
workers were through with their
work for the holidays at 1 o’clock
Saturday, December 23.
Other workers finished up at
the usual time, 4 o’clock, which
still left them some time to fin-
ish last minute Santa Claus Shop-
ping. Only the absolutely essen-
tial work was carried on Christ-
mas Day.
Shipbuilding contracts for mer-
chant marine vessels to be built
during 1945 are now under discus-
sion in Washington, and a U. S.
Maritime Commission spokesman
stated last week that present con-
tracts will keep yards running
full force until July 1, the begin-
ning of a new fiscal year. Penn-
Ship’s 36 “Reefers” fall in this
“rush” category.
At present time no shipbuilding
contracts have been awarded for
the new fiscal year which begins
July 1, 1945 but the demands of
the Army and Navy for more and
more supplies indicates no let up
in shipbuilding.
Yards building the Liberty
ships are being converted to re-
(Se® CONTRACTS On Page 4.)
NAZI VICTIM
gineers at their recent annual elec-
tion meeting held in the Rose
Room of Hotel Beaumont.
Other officers elected were T.
3. Kelly, first vice president; C.
E. Eisler, second vice president;
and H. Marlow, PSY naval arch-
itect, C. H. Brown and G. A. Yea-
ger, new directors.
'mustm
CAN’T MIT ’EM
M. G. Hickman, Main Gate
guard, spent his recent vacation
trying to get in some hunting. “No
luck this year,” Hickman report-
ed.
Another A-V
Is Laun
The AV vessel, SPANISH BOW-
LINE, slid down the ways at
PennShip Friday, December-29 at
5:55 p. m., with Mrs. H. Slade,
wife of PSY’s vice president and
general manager, as sponsor. Serv-
ing as her escort was W. R. Mo-
ran, Island marine engineer, and
other members of Mrs. Slade’s
party were Mrs. W. R. Moran, H.
Slade, Mr, and Mrs. S. A. Mc-
Manus, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Mc-
Cormick, Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Culp of Port Arthur; Mr. and Mrs.
Frank W. Hart, Houston; and Miss
Hilda Slade.
At its keel laying the SPANISH
BOWLINE was dedicated to Col.
(See LAUNCHING On Page 7.)
ONE OF THE newest Penn hulls
was dedicated to Neville McGrew,
above, who died of wounds Nov.
26 while serving with the U. S. In-
fantry somewhere in western Eu-
rope. Neville was the son of Frank
N. McGrew. PIW Division drafts-
man. Neville was a former em-
ploye odf the PIW Fabricating’
Shop,
Income Tax
Take Bigger
Islanders will find a differ-!
ence in the pay checks they re- j
ceive after today for Uncle Sam
has made three changes that ef-
fect payroll deductions.
First new withholding tax rates
on wages go into effect. These
new rates are planned to make
withholding system more precise,
Second the government starts
collecting, through withholdings,
full income tax on earnings up
to $5,000 instead of $2,700 as at
present.
Third, there is a change in the
exemptions a taxpayer can claim.
Exemptions are now a flat $500
per person instead of $500 for a
single person, $1,200 for a married
couple and $350 extra for each
child. *
This change in exemptions low-
ers exemption allowances for
married people who have less than
two children.
Under the old rule exemptions
could be claimed for dependents
over 18 only if they were ment-
ally or physically incapable of
self-support. Effective today the
(See INCOME TAX On Page 7.)
Star came December 20 in the
form of a telegram addressed to
President L. B. Coppinger and
signed by Rear Admiral Emory
S. Land chairman of the U. S.
Maritime Commission.
STARS ARE SOUGHT
The Merit Burgee, the blue and
gold flag with the “M’ and one
gold star is awarded to Maritime
Commlission yards whi^h have
sustained outstanding records for
high production with low man
hours, few accidents and excel-
lent workmanship. At regular in-
tervals an additional gold star is
added to the pennants if this same
high standard is maintained or
bettered.
PennShip’s original merit pen-
nant was presented April 18, 1943
with USMC Regional Director L.
R. Sanford of New Orleans mak-
ing the presentation and all Island
employes taking part. The first
additional star was presented on
Sept 29, 1943 with Mr. Sanford
again making the presentation.
The second additional gold star
was added to Penn’s Merit Burgee
May 25, 1944 when Rear Admiral
H. L. Vickery, vice chairman of
(See NEW STAR On Page 4.)
Former Night Welding
Supervisor Dies Dec. 18
Noel Saucier, former night
supervisor at PSY, died Monday
afternoon December 18 at Hotel
Dieu following dn attack of ill-
ness with which he was stricken
at his home in Vidor.
Saucier, a native of Saucier,
Miss., a city named for his fath-
er who built it, had been in de-
clining health the past two years
and operated a- grocery store in
Vidor after leaving. PennShip.
VISITS IN VALLEY
Miss Dorothy Savoy, secretary
to C. R. Sory in the Music Dept.,
vacationed, in San Benito, Tex.,
last week.
MARINE INSPECTION
Merchant Marine inspectors who
conducted recent hull inspections
on the Island were Lt. Comdr.
Robert B. Scott, Lt. (j. g.) Jay
Harris, and Lt. Comdr. E. J. Flem-
ing all of the USCGR office in
Port Arthur.
Many PSYers are now serving
in the Seabees and the Island as
well as the'rest of the world paid
tribute to these men on Thursday,
Dec. 28, the third anniversary of
the organization of this “work-
ingest, fightingest” bunch of men.
in the nation’s armed forces.
Today there are 240,000 offi-
cers and men in the United States
construction battalions.
The Seabees were organized
just three weeks after the Pearl
Harbor disaster and with an au-
thorized strength of 3,000 won.
their spurs at Guadalcanal. They
(See SEABEES On Page 7.) ■
Penn Lends Hand
In Navy Building
Pennsylvania Shipyards is play
ing an important part in the con-
struction of naval as well as mer-
chant marine vessels according
to an announcement made recent-
ly by Rear Admiral A. C. Ben-
nett, USN, commandant of the
eighth naval district.
Of 372 Navy craft built in the
Sabine area for the eighth naval
district and already afloat, Penn-
Ship, according to Admr. Ben-
nett’s report has contributed one
cargo ship, 10 stores ships and
four minesweepers.
Other shipyards in the eighth
naval distict contributing to this
total were Consolidated Steel,
Orange, nine troop transports, 12
(See HELP On Page 7.)
Patient Didn’t Want To
Lose Both “Appendix”
First Aid has Us amusing mo-
ments as will be verified by any-
one of the nurses stationed there.
One of these moments occured re-
cently when a patient in a state
of dizziness was coaxed to lie
down on one of the cots, and in
doing so the patient remarked in
all seriousness:
“I know what you nurses are
up to. You’re going to operate on
me and take out my appendix.
Well, you can take out the left
one, but, by golly, leave me the one
on the right!”
SANTA VISITS COLEMAN
Bill Coleman, quarterman oven
the tank testers, received a nice
leather jacket and a pair of socks
from his gang. The boys say they
didn’t have a bit of trouble find-
ing his size—they just bought the
biggest pair they could find and at
that they were a shade smalii
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Scurlock, Ruth G. Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1 Monday, January 1, 1945, newspaper, January 1, 1945; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1170865/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.