NOW, Volume 6, Number 11, August 1, 1941 Page: 4
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P L A N T
TOCCOA
A heterogeneous conglomeration labeled "Office
Team" (as nondescript & incoherent as Peoria's
Service team) was swamped 25-4 by Machinist School
last wk. in opening play of intra-plant softball league.
Same nite Experimental nosed out Steel 16-14. Teams
& mgrs. are: Office (includes office, sheeps foot rollers
& rooters, stockchasers, Louise Farming Co.), Stump
Cline; Machinist School, Jack Acree; Steel, Joe Malik;
Foundry, Bob Flanagan; Shells, Geo. Morris; Inspec-
tion, Hugh Dorsey; Fabrication, Dale King; Machine
Shop, Lee Adams.
New Babies: Born 7/23 @ Stephens Hosp., Janice
Elaine, 7 lb. 8 oz., dau. of Sloan Whitlock, scrapers;
7/21 @ Stephens, Janice Ann, 8 lbs., dau. of James
Putnam, Tournapull case welding.
Standards wk. 7/19: Hi. man, James Beasley, Delta
drills, 1690 premium units; hi. dept. day cutters,
Foreman Roy Smith; most improved, forge shop,
Foreman Paul Stephens.
Hospitaled: Ann Athon @ Macon, Harold Lemke
@ Atlanta, Harold Reaves, back from Atlanta ap-
pendectomy.
New Plant Equip.: Installed, 3 Monarch engine
lathes-- in toolroom, 2 on production. Ordered, 12
Chisholm-Moore chain hoists for jib cranes & 3 Roll-
over & Pattern drawing machines for foundry.
New Faces: Frances Trotter, payroll; Dewey E.
Denson (bro. of Foreman John Denson) shell ma-
chine setup.
To Wed: Bobby Hardy, accounting, & Sena Page
of Commerce, Ga. in Sept.
Briefs: Nutcracker, the monotoothed Rooter, out
of paint shop; Knox Singleton & Jimmy Matthews,
standards, late to work Mon. last wk. because fog
forced them to land their Cub at Saluda, S. C. Three
c/Is machines & machine parts shipped to new
Australian plant. Walter Sorrels, nite inspector, gone
to machine gun job in a Va. arsenal; Ed. Day, WRLC
chief engr., to similar job in N. C. Shell Inspection
Foreman Philip Scott now heads crew of 11; govt.
inspectors number 10.
Bert Georges upped to mgr. of both WRLC at
Toccoa & WHEB at Portsmouth, N. H.-Bill Retts
still supervising WRLC.
In computing compensation of half regular weekly
wage to workers hurt on job, all overtime is excluded,
says Ga. Industrial Board.
PEORIA
Octagonal whse., now occupied by printing, is to be
new cafeteria, with seating room for everybody.
Printing moves to 2d floor of plant 2 office bldg.,
employment to office No. 2, advertising from No. 2
to Standards steel house. R. G. LeTourneau's Peoria
desk, Ray Peterson, Elmer Isgren, Elmer Miller,
plant management, production & engineering have
moved from office No. 10 to plant 2; standards &
standards clerical are together in office No. 10. When
purchasing can get into plant No. 2, plant protection
to take over steel office at middle gate.
LeTourneau Foundation has sold R. G. LeTour-
neau, Inc. the 7 steel houses used as offices & 23 steel
homes in LeTourneau Court.
New Cars: Paul Miller, adv., Olds; Ralph Harris,
nite machine shop 2, Ford; Walter Swanson, nite
Angledozers, DeSoto; Bob Van Petten, crane No. 1,
Ford; Rex Rinehard, nite scraper welding, Dodge;
Henry Dick, nite machinist 2, Chevvy (Henry due to
wed Ruth Smith of Eureka 8/30); Alton Merkle,
shears, Mercury; Sam Krisman, blades, Mercury;
Erby McGhee, cutting, Ford; Bob Christianson,
electrician No. 1, Ford; Dean Carter, nite electrician
No. 1, Chevy; Howard Tammeus, machinist No. 1,
Chevy.
New Babies: Born 7/23 @ St. Joseph's, Gary Paul,
6% lb., son of Ray Simpson, maintenance; 7/2 @-
/1 - - -
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Change scoring team's chest lettering and this pic-
ture should fit Service team's ballgame any week.L I F E
Pekin Hosp., Janet Kay, 6 lb. 9 oz., dau. of John
Linder, tractor driver.
Newlyweds: Joseph Silldorff, nite inspector No. 2,
& Ruby Campbell @ Minonk, Ill., 7/24; Bob Jost,
brake band welding, & Betty Potter, of Mapleton @
New London, Mo., 7/14; Sterling Coates, machinist
No. 2, & Viola Smith of Canton @ Palmyra, Mo.,
7/26; Gus Timmerman, steel gang, & Ruth Kettwich
of Minonk 7/25.
To Wed: Dan Demmin, inspector No. 2 & Dorothea
Martig, bindery, date unknown; Blanche Wiggers,
traffic, & Ivan Draper of Iowa City, date unknown;
Keith Fouts, nite printer, & Carole LeTourneau of
Indianapolis @ Indianapolis 8/24; Bruno Loewen,
nite PCU inspector, & Tessie Collins, date unknown.
New Faces: Bernice Uphold, parts catalogs; Joan
Musser, replacing Margaret Campbell in tract mail-
ing sec. of printing, as latter joining husband Ed
(PCU assembly), who has taken Chicago job; Dor-
othy Kastien, production, dau. of E. P. & sister of
Herb; Mrs. Esther Cline of Wash., D. C. (was Esther
Porter, export), bindery for few wks.
Cleaning on Standards. With addition of saw &
cutters, boxbeam dept. now 100% on Standards;
boxbeam has added 3d conveyor.
Briefs: I. F. "Whitey" Eckland entertained pur-
chasing Sun. at Matanza Beach. Glenn Peterson,
who broke ankle softballing with machinists, thanks
team & employes for bouquets. Paul McAdams, jigs
& experimental foreman, took 3d place Sun. in out-
board boat race at Liverpool. Cecil Baggs, wheel
assembly, underwent appendectomy 7/25. Leslie
Glick, draftsman, goes to Chicago job today. Main
office all screened in. Betty Applegren, transcribing
to sales. Mrs. Don Ellis, wife of nite wheel assembler,
recovering from appendectomy 7/25 @ Methodist.
Shop speaker next Wed. noon & nite Rev. Geo. W.
Terjung, Lincoln, Ill.
LeTourneau Stock Tues.: Preferred over-counter
101 % bid, 102% asked; common on N. Y. Curb 32 4
bid, 33 % asked.
Wives wanting to organize Better-Half Bowling
League for '41'42 season contact Mrs. Lyle Bibb,
phone 2-1082, before 8/9.
Welders have completed 1st round of 10 games in
Y softball league undefeated.
Standards wk. 7/19: most improved dept. machine
shops No. 1 & No. 2, aver. prem. per man $4.18; hi
man M. Ummel, Angledozers, 990 prem. units.
Distributors' Servicemen Trained: C. K. Cum-
mins, J. D. Pittman Tractor Co.; Dan H. Cayce,
Jeff Hunt Road Machy. Co.; Chas. McGill, Martin-
Roasa Tractor & Equip. Co.14
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R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. NOW, Volume 6, Number 11, August 1, 1941, periodical, August 1, 1941; Peoria, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1532620/m1/4/?q=%22~1%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.