Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1965 Page: 3 of 15
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SUPERVISING CHEMIST JACK
KENNA, goes through checkout proce-
dure before operating the Baird Atomic
Spectrovac machine installed in Lone
Star Steel Company’s new Chemical
Laboratory and Technical building. The
electric typewriter in the foreground re-
ceives simultaneous analysis of fourteen
different elements from the machine and
records them in digital code. The chemic-
al technician must convert the code to
per cent of element concentration con-
tained in the steel sample. The machine
performs analysis in 70 seconds that
previously required more than half a
day to perform in the laboratory.
New Steel Plant Lab
Analyzes in Seconds
An open house at Lone Star Steel
Company’s new technical building
climaxed celebration of “Joe Roughneck
Week In Texas.” Visitors toured the new
building last Friday. A press preview
was held the same day for represent-
atives of area daily and weekly news-
papers, radio and television outlets.
Lone Star showed the public its new
22,000 square foot building which
houses both plant and industrial engine-
ering departments and new laboratory
facilities. The new lab contains the
latest scientific equipment for steel in-
dustry use.
The occasion was the first public
viewing of the Baird Atomic Spectrovac
which has been installed in special
quarters in the 9,000 sq. ft. laboratory.
The equipment consists of a vacuum-
path spectrometer which is utilized for
analyzing up to 14 element concentra-
tions in an iron or steel sample. The
analysis is made in 70 seconds, recorded
on dials and teleprinted onto a perm-
anent record.
By comparison, routine, wet chemi-
cal methods of analysis require up to
an hour to analyze only five elements
in a sample.
The new Spectrovac may be used
to analyze iron and steel samples for
carbon, manganese, phosphorous, sul-
phur, silicon, copper, nickel, chromium,
molybdenum, tin, aluminum, vanadium,
titanium, nobium and magnesium. Slag
and sinter samples may be analyzed
for silica, alumina, calcium, magnesium,
iron and phosphorus.
Because of the precision nature of
the instrument, it was installed in a
special room constructed to maintain
constant temperature and humidity. A
pneumatic tube system had been in-
stalled from the open hearth depart-
ment to the laboratory to speed delivery
of samples.
The new instrument will be used
in open hearth furnace control, analysis
of samples from ladles of steel and iron,
and quality checks in the company’s cast
iron pipe foundry and electric weld
pipe mills.
To speed results of analyses, a spe-
cial teleype network has been installed
from the new laboratory to the open
hearth, cast iron foundry, blast furnace,
electric weld pipe mills, shipping, pro-
duction planning and the by-products
area.
KatherinePickitt
Will Receive BS
At U. of Houston
Miss Katherine Pickitt of
Gilmer will receive a Bache-
lor of Science degree in
home economics from the
University of Houston at
commencement ceremonies
this Friday evening on the
campus. She is daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Pickitt
of Gilmer and a graduate of
Gilmer High School.
Recent Deaths
Mrs. Honeycutt
Funeral services for Mrs.
Mollie Honeycutt, 68, of Big
Sandy were held Wednesday
morning at the Big Sandy
Church of Christ.
John Teel and Charles
Turner officiated.
Burial was at Chilton
Cemetery.
Mrs. Honeycutt died Sun-
day at her home after a
sudden illness. Born in Ten-
nessee, she had been an Up-
shur County resident since
childhood. She married the
late Frank Honeycutt at Big
Sandy in 1915. He preceded
her in death in 1961.
Surviving are two sons,
Bob Honeycutt, Monahans,
and Neil Honeycutt, Denver
City; a daughter, Mrs. Mattie
Lee Whatley, Irving; two
brothers, Howard Phillip,
Shreveport and Henry Phil-
lip, Conroe; three sisters,
Mrs. Iren Halladay and Mrs.
Mae Siser, both of Marshall,
and Mrs. Margeret Shaw,
Natchitoches, La., 8 grand-
children and 3 great grand-
children.
Croley Funeral Home was
in charge of arrangements.
S. C. Thomas
Mr. Stephen Cicero
Thomas, father of N. D.
Thomas of Gilmer, died May
31 at Ragland-Fenlaw Hos-
pital. He was 84 years old
and a retired farmer.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at Mc-
Cray, Waggoner, Edwards
Funeral Chapel in Winns-
boro. They were conducted
by the Rev. George Lester of
Scroggins, and assisted by a
son, the Rev. Belvin B.
Thomas of Temple.
Burial was in Maple
Springs Cemetery near New-
some, Camp County. Pall-
bearers were grandsons and
grandsons-in-law: Kenneth
Thomas, R. C. Thomas, Glenn
Mackey, Roger Tutt, James
H. Jones and Kenneth Bu-
chanan.
Mr. Thomas was born in
Franklin Co., near Winns-
boro and spent most of his
life in that area and Gilmer.
He resided here for the past
six years.
He was a member of
Smyrna Baptist Church,
Wood County.
He married the former
Madie Leola Cook in 1900 in
Franklin County and she
preceeded him in death.
Surviving are three sons,
Rev. Belvin Thomas, Norman
Dewey Thomas of Gilmer
and Huey C. Thomas in the
Army in Germany; two
daughters, Ima Mae David-
son of Shreveport, Evelyn
Marie Tutt of Beaumont;
two brothers William M.
Thomas of Gilmer, and
James A. Thomas of Corpus
Christi; three sisters, Mrs.
Dolly E. McMurtry of Risen,
Ark., Mrs. Musie E. Holcomb
of Jacksonville, and Mrs.
Gladys L. Shattuck of Rusk;
17 grandchildren, 22 great-
grandchildren and one
great- great-grandchild.
THE GILMER MIRROR, Gilmer, Texas June 3, 1965—3
Rosewood Boy Scouts
Get Tenderfoot Bodges
Rosewood Boy Scout Troop
311 issued Tenderfoot
Badges. Twelve candles
were lighted to stand for the
12 points of the Scout Law.
The meaning of each was
given.
Tenderfoot Badges were
issued to Mike Miller, Butch
Davidson, Charles Johnson,
Richard James, Joe Bunn,
Deane Carter, Robert Yost,
Jimmy Cross, Bill Kennimer,
Clifford Yost, Wendell Elli-
son, Larry Barton and Larry
Seeds.
Next meeting will be Fri-
day night.
GUY JOHNSON
Auditions for
Piano Pupils
Slated Here
auditions of the
Guild of Piano
ire scheduled for
through Saturday
Annual
National
Teachers
Thursday
at Gilmer High School.
Gilmer students of Mrs. E.
Hollis Arnold and Miss Stella
McClelland and piano stu-
dents of Mrs. Frances Scrog-
gins of Daingerfield and Mrs.
Horace J. Searcy of Center
will play before Guy C.
Johnson, assistant professor
of music at Luther College,
Decorah, Iowa.
A native of Wisconsin, Mr.
Johnson began study at age
13 under Irma Schenuit Hall,
widely known teacher of
Milwaukee, who is still
guiding his musical activities.
He graduated from the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin and
studied on a scholarship at
Chautaugua, N. Y., under
Katherine Bacon of the Juil-
liard School of Music.
He received his master’s
degree in 1956 from Indiana
University, where his teacher
was Ozan Marsh. He taught
at Drury College in Spring-
field, Mo., for a year, then
returned to Indiana Uni-
versity to study toward his
doctorate with the famous
Hungarian artist-teacher, Dr.
Bela Boszormenyi-Nagy. In
1961 he studied with Gyorgy
Sandor at the Music Acad-
emy of the West, Santa Bar-
bara, Calif.
He has been presented in
many solo recitals and has.
played with several sym-
phony orchestras, including
the Milwaukee Pops Orches-
tra.
Charlotte Bishop Gets
BS Degree from ESTU
Miss Charlotte Bishop,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.
J. Bishop of Route 1, Pitts-
burg, was graduated from
East Texas State University
with “Superior Academic
Standing” on May 23, 1965.
She received a Bachelor of
Science degree in elementary
education. K
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40 Class Reunion Date Nears
Much evidence of Gilmer’s
good will toward the 1940
Class Reunion, and enthusi-
astic support for the event
slated June 25-26 at the
Country Club, is being
shown, says Jack Baird, gen-
eral chairman.
Not only have cash dona-
tions come from totally-un-
expected sources, but one
Gilmer businessman is mak-
ing up souvenir address
books as gifts to every class
member attending the re-
union.
B. E. Porter Jr., and his
wife, Catherine, both of
whom taught the 1940 group
at one time or another, told
Baird of their plans to make
the address books at their
leather goods manufacturing
plant here, and give them to
the reunion.
LAUD SUPPORT
“The planning committee
certainly appreciates such
wonderful support by the
Porters and so many others,’’
Baird said.
Cranfill Cox Sr. recently
wrote the class a letter of
congratulations on reunion
plans and enclosed a check
to help with expenses, as
have a number of others who
have donated money for the
reunion’s success, the chair-
man revealed.
Gilmerites and all area
residents are invited to at-
tend the reunion on Satur-
day between 3 and 5 p.m. to
greet the exes from near and
far, during the two-hour
open house.
“We want every person
interested in the Class of
1940 to take this as a per-
sonal invitation to attend the
reunion during the open
house hours. Some have said
that because they were
neither parents or relatives
of a 1940 graduate, they did
not know if they were in-
vited to open house, and we
want them to know that
they are,” Baird emphasized.
SPECIAL EDITION
The Gilmer Mirror, in co-
operation with the class, will
publish a special section in
the June 24 issue immediate-
ly preceding the opening
activities of the reunion on that we want him to be with
Friday night, June 25. The
section will follow the silver
anniversary theme of the
reunion—“25 in ’65”—and
contain pictures of the class,
the old high school building
and gymnasium, special
stories about class members
who have distinguished
themselves in various fields,
and items reminiscent of the
year 1940.
AT 1940 PRICES
“It has been suggested
previously, that Gilmer busi-
nesses advertise ‘1940 spec-
ials’ ' in The Mirror that
week, sell an item or two at
the 1940 price during a stat-
ed period on Saturday,”
Baird explained.
“We hope the business
firms will join in this plan.
We believe it will create
more business downtown on
June 25 than there might
otherwise be, and also that
it will result in everybody
enjoying and having a share
in reunion festivities.”
The Mirror advertising
department already is ac-
cepting special ads and will
have a representative call
on business firms who want
further details.
As the reunion nears,
Baird told of a very special
guest who has been invited
—Col. Robert L. (Bobby)
Stephens of Edwards AF
Base, Calif., who graduated
from Gilmer High in 1939.
BOBBY WAS SENIOR
“Bobby was a senior when
we were juniors,” said Baird,
“and since all of us went to
school with him and were
associated closely through
football, basketball and other
activities, we felt he would
enjoy seeing old friends and
acquaintances at the reunion,
if he can get away from his
duties to attend. We have
written him a personal invi-
tation, and we are hoping,
from the depth of our hearts,
that he can be here.
“It isn’t because he’s a
world-renowed figure these
days, having broken the
speed and altitude record of
the world in that new YF-
12A tri-sonic interceptor jet,
us,” Baird continued.
“It’s because he’s ‘Mizz
Manie’s son and the Class of
1940 couldn’t have graduated
without all the help ‘Mizz
Manie’ furnished us,” he
quipped.
Disappointing to reunion
planners—particularly the
14 class members who start-
ed in first grade and finished
GHS together—was a letter
from Alice and Warren
Whittlesey in Houston on
May 24 that “it looks im-
possible right now” for them
to attend.
Mrs. Whittlesey as Alice
Maberry was first grade
teacher in the old two-story
red brick “ward school” in
Gilmer when many of the
1940 class started their edu-
cations. Mr. Whittlesey later
taught many of them in ele-
mentary grades and high
school band classes.
LOOKING FORWARD
“We are looking forward
to seeing all our former
teachers,” said Faye Hay-
good, reunion publicity
chairman, “but I think every
class member had very par-
ticularly anticipated seeing
our ‘Miss Alice’ again. I be-
lieve the 13 others who start-
ed and finished school to-
gether in Gilmer, will join
me in saying this,” she add-
ed.
“During this past year of
planning, we have discussed
all our former teachers and
our hopes they will attend,
but invariably we have come
back to ‘Miss Alice’ and our
personal memories of her
being at the same time, both
formidable, yet sweet and
gentle, in our tender impres-
sions at six and seven years
of age,” she continued.
Equally disappointing to
the 14 who started school to-
gether will be the absence of
five of their number.
GOES TO EUROPE
Dr. Jim Berry Pearson will
be in Europe; Dr. Paul Rob-
ertson of New Orleans wrote
that he has “pressing busi-
ness”; Mrs. D. H. Lanning of
San Antonio (Louise Eddins)
has undergone major surgery
and does not expect to be
able, physically, to make the
trip; Mrs. A. W. Robertson
(Mary Jo Boykin) is moving
from Maryland to Virginia;
and William Brison of Bir-
mingham, Mich., has not
been heard from.
The other nine plan to at-
tend, including Mrs. E. W.
Galle Jr., Warren, Mich.
(Mary Ruth Denson); Frank
Murray, Albuquerque, N.M.;
Mrs. Donald Joyce, Fort
Worth (Virginia Ann Cox);
Mrs. A1 Badger Jr. (Faerine
Maberry) and Mrs. Haygood
(Faye Castloo) both of Dal-
las; Mrs. Bruce Morris Jr.,
(Juanita Harris), Mrs. Dur-
wyn Robertson (Bonnie Ste-
phens), Mrs. Bill Lansdale
(Martha Epperson), and
Richard Davis, all of Gilmer.
Four handsome, engraved
plaques will be awarded
during the Saturday night
banquet which climaxes the
reunion program. They will
go to the class members
traveling the farthest, the
one with the largest number
of children, of grandchildren,
and the one married the
longest.
NUMBER OF CHILDREN
“In the event of a tie in
the number of children or
grandchildren,” e x p 1 a ined
Mrs. James White of Gilmer,
awards committee chairman,
“the winner will be deter-
mined by the ages of the
children and grandchildren,
the oldest in each case.”
The New York offices of
the American Tobacco Com-
pany recently complied with
a request from Mrs. Lou Mil-
ler of Henderson (Emma Lou
Ellard) and sent her a list of
33 songs that appeared on
“Your Hit Parade” during
1940. These will beplayed by
the Louise Powell Orchestra
which will entertain for the
dance which follows the ban-
quet Saturday night.
Mrs. Miller also is doing
research for the reunion on
1940 automobiles and fash-
ions of that year for both
men and women. The infor-
mation will be used by the
decorations committee for
the reunion.
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