NOW, Volume 6, Number 2, May 30, 1941 Page: 4
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P L A N T
R.G.'s speaking schedule: 6/4 3 p.m. Fletcher
College, University Park, Ia.; 6/5 Sunday School
conv., Anderson, S.C.; Sat. 6/7 6 p.m. Gideon ban-
quet, Fargo, N.D.; 6/8 11 a.m. Fargo Methodist
Church; 2:30 p.m. Civic School Auditorium & 8 p.m.
Wesleyan Methodist Tab. Camp Grounds, Aber-
deen, S.D. Following weekend with Gideons,
Toronto, Can.
PEORIA
I. F. "Whitey" Eckland starting new plant-built,
25-wire stranding machine this week. By end of
summer 6 stranding machines & 2 closers should be
producing 800,000' rope per month.
Area east of LeTourneau Court to be filled with
5,000 yds. crushed brick, then topped with cinders
for parking lot large enuf to accommodate all
LeTourneau plant autos. When ready, time clocks
will be moved to center gate.
New Cars: Walt Brooking, lab., Ford; Everett
Bell, plate shears, Chev.; Service Mgr. Ray Gieszl,
Buick; Ted Peterson, mach. shop, Buick; Emerson
Wehrli, production, Olds.
New Babies: Eldred Buchanan, prod,, 8 lb.
girl, Bonnie Loretta, 5/17; Leo B. Swearingian,
nite paint, 9 lb. 14 oz. boy, Kenneth Wayne, 5/25;
Reinhold Zwicker, scraper welding, 7 lb. 13 oz.
girl, Claudia (?), 5/25; Bob Chamberlain, tool
room No. 2 nites, 7 lb. 2 oz. boy, Robt. Allen,
4/19; Bill Doran, press, adopted baby boy.
New Wives: Leslie Alexander, prod.: Juanita
Lauterdale, San Antonio, Tex., last week. Frank
Harker, scraper cleaning nites: Rachel Ingram of
Sparland, somewhere in Mo. 5/24.
New Home: Chief Field Engr. Ken F. Park at
212 Biltmore.
New Faces: Henry Hartwig & Leo Smith, prod.;
Sarah Oldendorph, main office; Joe Lentz, messen-
ger; Chas. Claus, shipping; Wm. Kusz, sales train-
ing. Girl (as yet unnamed) to keep Credit Union
books, give Heinie Blome more time for Shylocking,
etc.
New Job: Estler "Wally" Watkins, printing,
drafted, goes to work for Uncle Sam's army
Monday.
Last Sat. nite bowlers ate, distributed trophies,
cash prizes, elected: Pres. Leon Abrams, V-P Bob
Thomson, Secty. Nite Hawks, Bill McFarden;
Secty. Fri. Nite League Clifford Masters, Secty.
Thurs. Nite League Vernon Pray, Treas. Blaine
Moore.
At plant No. 2 (Avery's to the ignorant) fence
to be installed in front of windows on Adams St.
where machinists draw nightly audience of sidewalk
supts.
Plant No. 2 Heat Treat to have central control
room from which to control 9 Perliton pots, 3 air-
draw furnaces, 2 large heat treat carburizing fur-
naces, complete with oil quenchers, circulators &
cleaning tanks.
Tournapull assembly line due to move over to
No. 2 from plant No. 1 next week; PCU assembly
already in production. Eldon Warnke supervisor
both TP & PCU lines. 2 new PCU test stands
building.
Machine Shop reorganization: Day Supt. C. D.
"Pop" Cook & Nite Supt. Fred Peterson, head-
quartering at No. 2, to control No. 1 Machine Shop
thru following aides: Days, Jack Stone, assisted by
Harley Thrush & Leslie Peterson; nites, Paul Peter-
son, aided by H. D. Diehl & Joe Neal. No. 2
Machine Shop foremen are: days, H. Geurin & Bill
Griffin, PCU machining; Ted Miller & Walter Fisch-
bacher, Tournapull machining; Wm. Wall, bar
machines & hack saws; nites, Lester Law & John
Rentsch, PCU; C. Bryant & T. Peterson, TP;
Ralph Perry, bars & hacks.
Subject to Springfield okay expected next week,
plant college, as part of national defense school, to
open with 9 classes, 7 to 10 p.m. 2 nites a weekL I F E
for theoretical training under foreman & other com- -
petent instructors. Supervisor Walt Brooking, start-
ing with 3 classes in arc welding & welding symbols,
2 in flame cutting, 2 in machine tool operation,
1 blue print reading & 1 shop mathematics, expects
to add more this fall.
D. M. Burgess, back Tues. from Washington,
D.C., off Thurs. for week's trip to Stockton, Oak-
land, Los Angeles. E. R. Galvin returned Tues.
from business tour Canada, eastern, southern
states. E. P. Kastien at purchasing agents meet in 0
Chicago this week. Director Clay Sorrick, San
Francisco, spent past fortnite here.
Standards week 5/17: Hi man H. Kleppe, PCU,
1070 units. Most improved dept. Cutting. Av. prem.
per man $4.90.
LeTourneau stock on New York Curb 5/27:
27 bid, 28/2 asked.
Loiell Hyler, drafting chief, chapel speaker next
Wed. noon & nite.
Chicago Assn of Commerce delegation of 117
visited plant Tues. afternoon.
Toccoa Visits Peoria: Guy B. Arthur, Jr., ir.d.
relations mgr.; Sherman Miller, office mgr., com-
bined business & vacation tour; Vernon Smith, heat
treat foreman, enroute to Kansas vacation. R. G.
LeTourneau due about 6/3.
TOCCOA
Injured 5/22 by falling door at Forge Shop, Jack
Kellar died next day. Homer Streit, day machine
shop foreman, still ill in Crawford Long Hospital,
Atlanta. Lawrence Zuercher, prod. & trans. super-
visor, under observation at Ponce de Leon Hos-
pital, Atlanta.
Standards week 5/17: Hi man Joe Dean, day
steel, 1050 units. Hi dept., Small Parts days. Most
improved, Forge Shop.
Activities organizers, putting on pressure to get
out 150 softballers for 10-team intra-plant league,
embarrassed by 300 applications. Now hope to
divert surplus to tennis, bowling & other athletics.
Activities Asso. elected Secty. Orville Dubie to
board, succeeding retiring Joe Malik.
New Faces: Mrs. N. Gadley, Peoria, new Lake
Louise Hotel housekeeper. Jack Acree, counselor &
instructor at machinist school dorm.
Virgil Cochran & family vacationing at Bruns-
wick Beach; Roy Smith at home; Purchasing Agt.
Giles Klein & family in Florida; Henry Rogers,
oxygen foreman, somewhere.
Briefs: Roger Thompson, welding instructor,
has hot a Cub cruiser. Bill Glass, maintenance,
wedding Elsie Wolfe of Jackson, Tenn. 6/23 at
Jackson. Fred Brown wins special award in Hobart
arc welding news contest for April.
Not R. G. LeTourneau, or LeTourneau Co. of
Ga., but the new office boy is erecting the proposed
$10,000 recreation building. That is, he is if he is a
member of the Activities Assn., which is financing
the project from its own funds, donations of dollars
and labor by members and whatever necessary
mortgage loan it can negotiate.
A service station to accommodate plant folks &
motorists on U.S. No. 13 is to be built adjacent to
plant by Tournapull Housing Corp.
Last Sat. Atlanta's mayor visited plant to inspect
the Tournapass, portable steel overcrossing, and a
group of Army engineers came Tues. for same
purpose.
Foundry poured first heat Mon.
Peoria Visits Toccoa: Al Losch to get data for
Australian project; Ray Peterson coming over week-
end to talk over proposed new product, etc.; Ray
Gieszl to spend 6 weeks on inspection organizing;
Cloyd Richards to get notes for B Tournapull &
PCU service manuals; Fred Carlson to get drummed
into town by band, toted to city jail by Toccoa
police & front page publicity in Toccoa Record.
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R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. NOW, Volume 6, Number 2, May 30, 1941, periodical, May 30, 1941; Peoria, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1532611/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library.