Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. II—NO. 2
BEAUMONT, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY
New500-Foot Outfitting Dock In Use
PSY Tops In Attendance And Safety
Gul£lJ£ards
Get Ratings
USMC Gives Figures
Through October
Top places for good attendance
and safety records are given to
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc., by
the United States Maritime Com-
mission in ' their latest report
which is based on October figures
available from the nine Gulf Coast
shipyards which hold contracts to
build ships for the USMC.
MUST EMPLOY 2500
The report applies only to yards
employing 2500 or more workers
and it reads in part. “Your yard,
with 4.8 percent (absentee rate)
again leads the ^procession as it
did in August.”
The letter from the Commission
also shows that PennShip’s ab-
sentee rate is only 67 percent of
the average 7.2 percent rate for
the entire region and 47 percent of
the 10.2 percent rate for all regions
in the United States.
PSY has been leading in safety
in district, and regional safety
standings in the majority of the
monthly reports for 1942, and her
national standing has been very
near the top, but it is gratifying
to see that the USMC finds Penn
again leading Gulf Coast yards
under USMC supervision in their
current reports v/hich are based
on accident frequencies in relation
to the number of employees work-
ing in each yard.
Both of these high standings are
sc-rnething for each Penn man and
woman to be exceptionally proud
of.
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Safety Men
Attend Meet
Together with other industrial
workers interested in safety in the
conference of the Texas State
Safety Association which met in
Beaumont, Dec. 3 and 4, E. S.
Winfree, Penn safety supervisor.
John A. Kimball, night safety su-
pervisor and safety inspectors and
key men from the plant heard
many interesting talks on the sub-
ject of accident prevention in in-
dustrial plants.
R. B. Roaper, president of the
association and chief safety engi-
neer for the Humble Oil and Re-
fining Co., was chairman of the
convention, while Frank Werner,
safety engineer for the American
Petrole u m Co., Houston, had
charge of the program.
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NOW IT’S WAR MOMS
Plans are under way to organize
a PSY American War Moms’
chapter on the Island as an auxil-
iary of the War Dads. No definite
organization meeting has been an-
nounced.
TWO NEW GIANT WORK HORSES, huge
steam-powered cranes with a lifting powrer of 50
tons, are in full swing on the job at the new 500-
foot outfitting docks, recently put in use.
The big cranes, shown silhouetted above, are
busily engaged in placing equipment on two coast-
ers berthed at the docks. In the foreground a deck
house waits its turn to be swung aboard.
Two More Ships Join
Growing Penn Fleet
Two. more ships went down the | ——— — ' — ~ ‘
ways at Pennsylvania Shipyards, j son of New Orleans. Mrs. Jacob-
Inc. Sunday morning, December j son is the wief of the chief of the
12, when the MV CAPE MATA- j (rial board of the USMC.
PAN and the SS SAMUEL j Mrs. Jacobson’s party included
YEATON received their official j her husband. Mr. Jacobson, and
Santa Sta
In Varieties
I christening.
Sponsor for the CAPE MATA-
PAN was Miss Janet Elizabeth
Shaw of. New Orleans, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Shaw. Mr.
Shaw is technical assistant to L.
R. Sanford, Gulf Coast regional
director of the USMC.
In Miss Shaw’s party were her
parents,. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, Mr.
and Mrs. L. R. Sanford, Mrs. W.
C. Seeley, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Sanford, and Frank Sanford,
father of L. R. Sanford. Herbert
Slade, vice-president and general
manager of PennShip, introduced
Miss Shaw.
The SS SAMUEL YEATON had
as its sponsor Mrs. John S. Jacob-
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Moran. Mr.
Moran, who is head of the piping
and machinery division of the
Engineering Dept at PSY, intro-
duced Mrs. Jacobson.
The CAPE MATAPAN was ded-
icated at its keel laying to Lieut.
John M. Guiterman, son of Mrs.
Nora Guiterman of Rye, N. Y.,
who lost his life in December,
1942, while serving with the Air
Corps in North Africa. Lieut.
Guiterman was born in Beaumont
and was in business here at the
time of his death.
The SAMUEL YEATON was
dedicated to Pvt. Ollie B. Keller
(See LAUNCHING On Page 2)
Santa Claus is really coming to
town tomorrow evening, Dec. 16,
when C. R. Sory and his musicians
and a galaxy of big-town stage
and vaudeville talent appear in
PennShip’s fourth Variety show at I
the Beaumont City Auditorium at
8:15 o’clock.
The December Varieties can
truly be said to top all efforts
previously made for sparkling tal-
ent and entertainment. As an
added feature there will be a huge
Christmas tree and Santa Claus
will appear in person as the grand
finale of the program and give
each child under 12 years of age
in the audience a gift from the
tree.
All of PennShip’s employees
and their families and the general
public is invited to be present and
enjoy the fun. Every employee in
the yards has had a part in plan-
(See REVUE On Page 2)
Berths For
Five Vessels
Two New Gantries Go
In Operation, Too
The big news in Island con-
struction circles today is the
opening of the new 500-foot
outfitting docks on the east side of
the Island and the putting into
service the two new cranes which
will serve the docks and which
are already placing equipment on
the coasters PHINEAS WINSOR
and ELISHA WHITNEY as they
lie berthed on each side of the
TRACKS BUILT
Tracks, additional electric cables
and wiring, strengthened bulk-
heads and freshly shelled ap-
proaches have kept pace with the
completion of the work on the
docks and the erection of the
gantries.
According to E. A. Dempsey,
crane superintendent, the two
American Crane Co. gantries now
in operation on the new docks are
as good machines as can be found
anywhere. Their booms have a
50-ton lifting power with a 45-foot
radius. They are constructed in
such a manner as to minimize any
mechanical break from sudden
stopping, and their cag construc-
tion's such that the operator has
a clear view of the work he is
doing.
Gunnar Johnson, representative
of the American Crane Co., has
been in PennShip since the big
machines were unloaded, acting in
the advisory capacity for the PSY
cranemen who put the big gan-
tries together and placed them on
their permanent location. Mr.
Johnson and PennShip cranemen
expressed themselves as highly
(See 5QO-FOOT On Page 4)
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FLU CATCHES PERUGI
Assistant Superintendent Frank
Perugi broke a record of long
standing recently when he had to
take two days off to win a battle
with the flu. He’s back on the
job now though and claims to be
in the very best of health.
Figures On
War Ghest
The final report of the recent
War Chest drive contributions
from PennShip employees show
the Safety Dept., Production Dept.,
Purchasing Dept, and Porters and
Chauffeurs all as 100 per cent con-
tributors.
The department having the
highest average per person pledged
was $9.71 per person from the
Mold Loft, with 17 out of their 22
employees contributing.
Second in per capita contribu-
tors was the Crane Dept, with
$8.98 per man from the 75 con-
tributors out of their average of
269 employees.
Runnerup for second place was
the Administration with $8.86 each
for their 94 pledges out of their
average of 116 employees.
The new boy in Mike Rainey’s
office in the plate shop is J. F.
Booker, who at the ripe old age of
16 is a veteran of three major sea
battles and has three stripes to
prove it.
He joined the navy at the age
of 14 and got a piece of shrapnel
in the leg in the last sea engage-
ment and was evacuated to a hos-
pital in Oklahoma and would
probably still be in the navy if
fate, in the guise of the family
doctor from home, hadn’t recog-
nized him, and knowing his true
age, was instrumental in having
him honorably discharged
the service.
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The P. I. V/. plate shop is really
humming with activity now. With
all the work being done on new
ships, contract work is practically
a thing of the past in this shop.
And judging from all the meetings
held in H, R. Jones’ office- more
and more work will be coming our
way.
Has anyone noticed the minia-
ture victory garden sprouting upon
the upper lip of Ray Latil of the
P.I.W. storeroom? After much kid-
ding he was forced to do away
with it.
Mr. Beech, our genial toolroom
man, can sure spin some tall fish-
ing yarns. Sure makes you want to
get out your tackle and go .search-
ing for the finny tribe.
DRAFTSMAN DIES
Clyde D. Jones, Sr., draftsman,
Engineering Dept., died early Sat-
urday morning at a local hospital
following a brief illness. Funeral
rites were held Sunday. Mr. Jones,
a PSY employee for the past 18
months, is survived by his wife
and 13-year-old son.
WELDER NOW WAC
Mrs. Elizabeth Lively, PSY
welder, left Saturday, Dec. 4, to
become a WAC. She will be sta-
tioned at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
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Scurlock, Ruth G. Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 1943, newspaper, December 15, 1943; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1170328/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar University.