GE Today's News (1958)

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PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS -
COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
VOL. IV, No. 1
January 2., 1958
For food to nourish our bodies, to Thee we are truly grateful.

us also the very Bread of Life. Amen
Be unto
American scientists expect the

Russian Sputnik I to fall to the
earth sometime today, although
they do not know where the
sate Uite 1 s journey will end.
Sputnik I has traveled approximately 35, 000, 000 miles to date
in its journey through space.
.e President of Vene z uela

stated this morning that his
troops have put down the revolt
which started yesterday. A
large force of troops was reported earlier today to be marching to ward the base of operations
of the Air Force units, which
were revolting against the r e cently re-elected President.
BOWL GAMES
Cotton Bowl
Navy
Rice
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EMPLOYEE STORE WILL OPEN . SPECIALTY CONTROL RANKS

SECOND IN SAFETY FOR THE
IN NEW LOCATION TODAY
ENTIRE COMPANY
The Employee Store will be open
The Specialty Control Departtoday in its new location in the
ment has moved up to second
factory next to the Tube Cage .
Hours for the store are ll:l5 AM- p lace in its safety rating as compare d with all other GE depart1:15 PM and 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
ments , according to the GE
Mondays and Thursdays.
Comparative Injury Report for
January l to September 30, 1957.
Employees are r e minded that
merchandise is not a:v:ailable
from the store at any time other
than ~e g ular store hours .
T wo of the costumes used by

Santa's Helpers at the Christmas
Party have not yet been returned.
Please return thes e to Cha r lie
Spencer, Time Standards.
A doctor had an urge nt phone
call from a gentleman saying h is
small son had swallowed his
fountain pen. The doctor said
he would come right away and
also asked what was being done
in the meantime. The father
replied, "Using a pencil."
Oran~e
Bowl
Oklahoma
Duke
48
21
Rose Bowl
Ohio State
Oregon
10
7
Sugar Bowl
Ole Miss
Texas
39
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The only department which ranks

above us in safety is the Laminated Products Departme nt. Both
departments have an injury rate
of zero ~ but Laminated Products
has accumulated more injury
free man - hours worked since
January 1.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 178 days
5, 816, 832 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
ABSENTEEl~M
"When did you first expe rience

the tendency to be happy paying
income tax?"
SPECIALTY CONTROL
EMPLOYEES
HAVE AN EXCELLENT
SAFETY RECORD
AT THE PLANT
ARE WE CONSCIOUS OF
SAFETY
OFF THE JOB
AS WELL?
AT HOME OR AWAY FROM HOME,
ON THE JOB OR OFF - - - - -
BE SAFETY-CONSCIOU S
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VOL. IV, No. 2
January 3, 1957
0 God, our Father, who giveth food for the body and truth for the soul,
so nourish us as to be wise and strong to do Thy will.
Amen.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 179 day.s
5, 826, 778 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
C. W. GERNI
D. M. HOUSE
C. L. HUGHES
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L. BARRINGER
IS APPOINTED PURCH.
AGENT --- HUGHES IS
APPOINTED SUPV., PROD.
CONTROL-INDUSTRIAL CONT.
PRODUCTION
HOUSE IS APPOINTED SUPV. MAGNETIC WINDING

COMPONENTS - - -BARRINGE R
BECOMES SUPV. -REQUISITION
PROCESSING & WARE HOUSE
C. W. Gerni has been appointed

Purchasing Agent and C. L.
Hughes has been appointed
Supervisor, Production ControlIndustrial Control Products, it
was announced today by J. F.
Ponzillo, Manager - Materials.
The two appointments are
effective immediately.
Donald M. Hous e has been appointed Supervisor-Magnetic

Winding Components, according
to K. N. Bush, Manag e Manufacturing.
Mr. Gerni previously held the

position of Supervisor, Production Control-Industrial Con trol Products, while Mr .
Hughes was formerly Purchasing
Agent. Both positions are in the
Materials Sub-Section which i s a
part of the Manufacturing Section.
..-.tie change was made, accord~1g to Mr. Ponzillo, in order to
give both men an opportunity to
broaden their knowledge of the
complete Manufacturing function.
(Cont. col. 3)
Lawrence Barringer has been

appointed Supervisor-Requisition
Processing and Warehouse, fil ling the position which was pre viously held by Mr. House.
SCOGEE girl's basketball teams

will practice Monday, January 6,
at the Jackson-Wilson gym. T he
Redbirds will practice at 7:00PM
and the Blackbirds will practice
at 8:00PM.
PLANT INSPECTION MONDAY,
JANUARY 6.
GERNI, HUGHES
(Cont. from col. 1)
This is in line with the Department's continuing program for
the development of people by
t raining them in the broad
functional aspects of the
business.
The Magnetic Winding Compone nts operation was established

HOUSE , BARRINGER
e ffective December 1, 1957, with
(Co nt. horn col. 2)
came Specialty Control) in 1950
its broad function being the
factory operations, production
and has held various jobs in the
Materials Sub - Section. He was
control, test and inspection, and
direction of manufacturing
appointed Supervisor-Requisition
engineering for transformers,
Processing and Warehouse on
; January 1, 195 7.
r e actors, and other magnetic
c omponents.
Mr. Barringer joined the Con Mr . House joined the Control
trol Dept. in 1948 and has worked
Dept. (part of which late r bein the Materials Sub-Section
(C o nt. col. 3)
since that time.
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JOB PLACEMENT WHEN RETURNING AFTER ABSENCE FOR ILLNESS OR

PREGNANCY (This is the third in a series of articles which attemp t to make
clear the policy of the Department and Company concerning removals from
payroll and continuity of service.)
In most cases of illness, an employee's absence is of short duration and it is not

generally necessary to replace the employee. However, in cases of prolonged
illness and of pregnancy, where the absence is of severa l months duration and
where it is possible that the employee may choose to not return, it is necessary,
in most cases, to fill the job.
When an employee returns after such a prolonged absence the Department policy
is to return him to his former job, providing seniority provisi ons per m it and th e
emp loyee is able to perform the job. (In some cases an employee can no longer
work at his old job as a result of his illness.)
If, when an employee is ready to return to work, there is an opening in his
former job classification, the employee will fill that vacancy and no shifting of
people is ne cess ary.
However, if there is no vacancy in t he former job c las s ification, other action must
be .considered. If there is another employee with less seniority working in the
job classification, the r eturning employee can bump that shorter service employee.
But if there is no one with shorter service in the job c lassification, then no bump
is possible and the returning employee must be con: i dered for other open jobs for
which he may be qualified.
Sometimes, though, none of the open jobs will be sui tabl e . This makes it necessary
to consider the possibility of bumping into another job classifi cation. In order to
do this, an employee must be qualified to do the job with a minimum amount of training. A minimum amount of training means the length of time that it would take for
an employee to reach normal job performance when he already has the required
basic knowledge and skills. This limits the jobs into which an employee can bump,
to those on which he has worked in the past or those that are so similar to jobs that
the employee has worked on, that he can quickly learn them.
An employee who is bumped by a longer service employee can, in turn, bump into
a job for which he is qualified, if there is an employee in that classific ati o n with
less service than his.
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SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD MEWS -
COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
January 6, 1957
Lord, Thou dost not nee d our thanks, b ut we have c o n stant n eed to r e mind
ourselves of our obligations to Thee. Make us trul y grateful. A m en
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THERE WILL BE NO PLANT

INSPECTION tonight as had been
previously announced. PLANT
INSPECTION WILL BE HELD
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9.
SCOGEE Glee Club will re swne

meetings on Tuesday, January 7,
at 7:30PM in the Plant Audi- . I
toriwn. New members are wel- 1 SCOGEE girls' basketball teams
come.
will practice tonight at the
I Jackson-Wilson Gym.
The
JOHN S. ZIMMER
I! Redbirds will practice at 7:00PM
Specialty Control welcomes to
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and the Blackbirds at 8: OOPM.
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our plant today four representaZ IMMER RECEIVES FIFTH
tives from American Airlines,
PATENT
'sa, Oklahoma. Enrolled in
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John Zimme r (Engineering ) has
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ce d by the Aviation and
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recently been granted a U. S.
SAFETY SCORE
Defense Industry Sales Dept.
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Pate nt c o ve ring inventions use d
l,182days
unit here, the representatives
in the C R 27 90Gl25 and
5, 836, 724 hours
a re receiving instruction in the
CR2791Gl25 and Gl53 relay s.
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
Lockhe ed Electra system. They
This is the fifth patent i s sue d to
ACCIDENT
will be in our plant the rest of
M r. Zimmer,
the week.
Used in a ircraft applications,
the relays are designed to stand
WHAT'S AHEAD FOR SPECIALTY CONTROL FOLKS IN 1 58
up under s hock o r vibratio n without signific ant effects. They ar e
Here are just a few of the things that Specialty Control employe e s
a l s o de s i g n ed t o withs t and e xcan look forward to in 195 8.
t reme conditions of altitude,
te m p e rature and humidity .
1.
A larger pay incre ase for hourly and non-exempt salaried
employees, amounting to 3. 48% in September, 1958, c ompared to 3% in each of the previous three years.
2.
A minimum of 5 cents an hour unde r this increase, comp ared to the minimum of 4-1 / 2 c e nts an hour in eac h of th e
previous thre e years.
3.
Elimination after September, 1958, of all employ e e contributions to the Pension Plan on earning s up to $4200.
(A tax free increase of 1%. After September the Department will pay this contribution for the employee s.)
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Continuation o f cost-of-li ving adjustments when calle d fo r

by increas e s in the governme nt C o st-of-Living Index.
"How d o y ou k now you don't like

the picture? You ha ve n't see n
it enough times y et t o d ecide! 11
'INSEPARABLE SIGNS
Every time a prospective customer of Specialty Control says "no sale" to one of our
products, part of an existing or future job d i sappears. In time , enough NO SALES
add up to NO HELP WANTED.
All the union contracts , government decisions, strikes, pickets, boycotts and speeches
in the wor l d won't make jobs because they can't make the cus tomer buy our products.
There is only one thing that will make the customer buy our products, and that one
thing i s value. As long as we give more value to our customers than they can get any where else, they will buy our products.
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To give this value, all of us must constantly work to produce a quality product at the
lowest possibl e cos t. We can get this quality and low co st by each doing his
best way he knows how, and by doing it right the first time.
NO HELP WANTED is an unpleasant kind of sign to see. Each of us has, as part
job, the r esponsibility of se eing that such a sign never appears at Specialty Control.
way we do our jobs now - - giving the b e st in quality and value - - w ill determine how long
we will continue to have our jobs to do.
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SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS -
January 7, 1958
Our Father, we thank Thee for this food, and for all other expressions of Thy goodness
to us. Guide us and protect us, in Jesus' name. Amen.
PROFIT MARGINS OF U.S.

CORPORATIONS DROPPED
DURING THIRD QUARTER, 1957
In spite of record high sales,
profit margins for U.S. corporations during the 3rd quarter,
1957, dropped to the lowest level
since the recession year of 1954,
according to the Federal Trade
Commission and the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
Manufacturers' earnings after
__.t..,axes averaged 4. 7 cents on each
tles dollar, compared with 5
cents for the second quarter.
ANNUAL INCOME OF UNIONS

SKYROCKET
The annual income of labor
unions in the United States and
Canada is $620 million, according to a survey by the National
Industrial Conference Board.
INCOME TAX NOTES

When you figure the deductions
for your 1957 Income Tax Return, be sure to remember this-only 1/3 of the amount you pay
each payday for Employee Insurance may be used as Medical
Expenses for tax purposes. The
remaining 2/3 of your regular
Employee Insurance payment
goes to pay premiums for the
Life Insurance which is also included in the GE Insurance Plan.
Life Insurance premiums are
not deductible for Income Tax
purposes.
However, all of your regular
payments for Dependent Insurance may be used for Medical
Expense deductions, since there
are no Life Insurance premiums
included in Dependent Insurance.
Beginning Monday, January 13,

the door at the Northwest corner
of the factory will no longer be
used as a regular entrance - exit
door; instead it will be used as
a Fire Exit only.
Employees who normally have
used the Northwest door will use
the door by the scrap platform
beginning Monday, January 13.
The time clock which had been
located by the door in the Northwest corner will be moved to a
location near the door by the
scrap platform before Monday.
The change is being made as
one step in restricting the flow
of unnecessary traffic through
the Relay area.
Minds are like parachutes -won't work unless they are open.
This is an increase of 162 million

or 35% over the 1955 figure largely due to increased dues.
WATCH OUT FOR

THE CHILDREN
DOOR IN NORTHWEST CORNER

WILL BE CHANGED TO "FIRE
EXIT ONLY"
Sherman .Byrd (Inspection)

wishes to thank everyone who
was so nice to him following his
recent operation.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 183 days
5, 846, 631 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
''When the hi - fi bug bit him, it

bit hard!"
WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE NEW YEAR
On the front page of yesterday's NEWS was an item, "What's Ahead for Specialty
Control Folks in 1 58. 11 The list contained such things as a larger pay increase,
smaller employee contributions to the Pension Plan, and continued cost - of - living
adjustments.
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GE employees whose lives are controlled by the IUE will have these same things
to look forward to; but, in addition, they have some unpleasant prospects ahead.
For them, 1958 could be a troublesome year.
James B . Carey, President of the IUE, threw out some strong hints during 1957
which forecast that trouble. Most of you will remember these two quotes in
particular:
THERE WON'T BE ANY WORKING. E. PLANTS IN
THIS COUNTRY. II
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"IF WE DON ' T HAVE AN AGREEMENT (WI TH G. E. ) ON

OCTOBER 1, THERE'LL BE A STRIKE OCTOBER 2 (1958)."
Nobody profits fr9m a strike - - nobody, t h at is, except the. union l eaders. The
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business suffers the sometimes permanent loss of customers, the employees lose
their pay checks and go into debt, the community suffers from lowered income and
often from the effects of viol ence, but the union bosses are immune from all these
things. In fact, they seem to feel that strikes are essential and profitable to them;
that without strikes, things would become too peaceful and orderly; that a happy,
financially secure membership is not as easy to control as those in debt.
Apparently this is the reasoning of Mr . Carey. Why else would he make the state ments quoted above? Why a strike at GE? What is so wonderful about contemplating hungry people? Carey knows there is no need for a strike at GE. He knows that
he, himself, described our Program for Better Living as 11 splendid;" that General
Electric employees are guaranteed pay raises every year through 1959 -- and that
GE Employee Benefits are among the very best to be had anywhere . So why the
talk about strikes?
We hope Mr. Carey will not carry out his threat. We hope that GE empl oyees who
are controlled by the IUE will have a better year in l958 than Mr . Carey's statements
would indicate.
But as long as the union bosses have the power to call a strike, then those employees
whom IUE controls must wonder "What's ahead in 1958 for me?"
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Help us to r e 1-ember, Lord, that we are always dependent upon Thee, and help
us always to receive Thy mercies with thankfulness. Amen.
INVESTMENT COURSE WILL BE
OFFERED
SPECIALTY CONTROL LOSES

$400, 000 ORDER BECAUSE OF
PRICE
In the mid dle of last month,
Specialty Control lost an order
for approximately $400, 000
because we were unable to meet
our competitor 1 s price. The
order was for ll87 sets of con trol equipment for 45KW engine
driven ground power carts for
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the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
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RECOGNITION oFABILITY
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A course in the basic principles
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Specialty Control had good sales

relations with the c ustomer, but
we wer e not able to build the product that the custome r wanted at 1
a price as low as the one our
c ompetition was able to offer.
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Turn In
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i quality product and c ontinue to
develop better and more efficient
, ways of doing it, we may lose
j other orders because of price
j competition.
That
Today!
I tion is
wer, lights , heat and air will

oe shut off on that day so that
additional capacitors may be
ins t a lle d at the sub-sta tion.
.SAFETY SCORE
1, 184 days
5, 856, 538 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
The meeting day has not been

set, but will be decided by those
taking the course, so as to b e
most c onvenient for all.
At present, there is room for a
fe w more participants in the
course. Anyone interested
should contact Joe Pimental,
Ext. 472, before Friday.
There will b e no charge for the
course.
I Offering a quality product at a low'

! e n ough price to beat our competi- j
the job of all of us. The

! mo.r e effort and care each of us
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puts into his job, the more good
products we c an build at a lower
PLANT WILL BE CLOSED ON
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18
I c ost . And the lo wer our costs,
the lowe r our pric es to our cus _
The Specialty Control plant will t t omers will be.
b e closed on Saturday, Jan. 18,
from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
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of investment, which is open to

anyone interested, will be offered at Specialty Control, beginning next week. Scheduled for
one night each week from 4:30 5 : 30 PM, the course will be
taught by representatives of
Wiley and Thornhill Investment
Co. in Charlottesville.
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Would the person who side-swiped

the right rear fende r of the 1957
i two-tone Plymouth in the parking
! lot yesterday.please contact E. A.
: Fitz g erald, Industrial Electronics,
l' Ext. 202.
Among other things, physic ians

j c a ll the incurable cold "pharyn! goconju c tival fever". If you can
I p ronounce it
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c l e arly, you have n't
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g ot it.
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THE FORGOTTEN MAN
On the back page of yesterday's NEWS was an editorial "WHAT'S AHEAD FOR
THE NEW YEAR?" In it, we expressed the hope that Mr. Carey, President
of IUE, will not carry out his threat to strike GE in 1958.
You may ask "How can a man like Carey call a strike?
have to do that? 11
Don't the members
THE ANSWER IS A FLAT NO, because the dues - paying union member is, as
Senator Karl E. Mundt describes him, "The Forgotten Man. 11 He is a persor~
who has lost the right to control his own union.
Senator Mundt describes the problem further in these words:
"IT APPEARS THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF 1957 IS THE
TRAGIC FIGURE OF THE DUES-PAYING MEMBER WHO
MUST JOIN A UNION AND PAY THE ASSESSMENTS TO
EARN A LIVELIHOOD, BUT WHO HAS LOST CONTROL
OF WHAT HAPPENS IN OR TO OR BY HIS UNION. HE
IS COMPELLED TO BUY A TICKET TO RIDE TOWARD
A DESTINATION WHICH HE HAS NO EFFECTIVE VOICE
IN DETERMINING. 11
Together with Mr. Carey's threats which we quoted yesterday, this is the
picture for 1958 for those G. E. employees who are controlled by the IUE. On
the one hand, members who have no way of controlling the union officials that
represent them; on the other hand, the union officials themselves with the
firm conviction that strikes are necessary if they are to remain in power.
The individual member of IUE is truly THE FORGOTTEN MAN I
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_PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

J anuary 9 , 1958
VOL. IV, N 0 6
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For all the spiritual and temporal blessings Thou art giving us, Dear God, we thank
Thee. Amen.
FOUR FREEDOMS OF THE MARKETPLACE
SCOGEE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

UNDERWAY
Under our busines s system, we say, the customer is king. Next

time you're shopping, take a look around you at your fellow cus tomers. You'll see them exercising some special freedoms which
are their rights under a system like ours.
A SCOGEE Membersll.ip Drive

got underway this week and will
continue until Friday, January
17. SCOGEE duee s are $1. 50
for 6 months or $3. 00 for the
year, and may be paid in cash
or by a payroll deduction.
We don't hear much about these special freedoms . Most customers

take them for granted. Here are what we think are the "four freedoms of the marketplace."
SEE THE SCOGEE REPRESENTATIVE WHO WILL BE IN

THE CAFETERIA DURING YOUR
LUNCH PERIOD the remainder oj
this week and all of next week .
_:: OR -- SEE ONE OF THE FOL: LOWING:

Virginia Smith - Machine Shop
Catherine Bosserman-Aircraft
Asm.
Charlie Spencer-Elec. Disp. Cage
Dukie Gum - Room 122
FREEDOM TO BUY WHEN WE WANT
FREEDOM TO BUY WHERE WE WANT
Peggie Pattie - Room 17
Rose Belak - Room 126
Mary Jo Davis - Room 101
! Jo Ann Anderson - Room 229.
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Ruby Dickerson - Room 252
FREEDOM TO BUY AS ~ AS WE WANT
; Katherine Humphries - Room215
As customers, we enjoy these freedoms. As a business, we must
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remember that our customers enjoy them, too, and so we must
Members who have already signconstantly work
make our products the very best available and
ed a payroll deduction card' for
make our customers want to exercise their freedom by buying from
SCOGEE dues will not need to
FREEDOM TO BUY WHAT WE WANT
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The YOUNG members of the

Apprentice Training Course
would like to issue a challenge
the OLD Apprentice Alumni
meet them in a game of basket
ball. Date for the contest will
be set when and if the Apprentice
Alumni can get enough OLD MEN
ready to play.
SCOGEE Rifle Club meeting has

been postponed until Thursday,
January 16.
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PLANT INSPECTION TONIGHT
activities, turn to the back page

of TODAY'S NEWS.
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SAFE TY SCORE
1, 185 days
5, 866, 445 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
SCOGEE MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IS NOW ON

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VOL . IV , NO. 7
Ja nua1 y 10 , 195 0
For our health , and for our food , we ar e i n dee d gratefu l , 0 L or d .

with us in all that we do and say. In Jesus' name. Amen
Be
GE EXECUTIVES VISIT SPECIALTY CONTROL TODAY

NORTHWEST DOOR WILL BE
CHANGED TO "FIRE EXIT
ONLY"
EMPLOYEES OF KLANN ORGAN

SUPPLY AND VIRGINIA
MET ALCRAFTERS REJECT
UNIONS
Beginning Monday, Jan1ary 13,

the door at the Northwest
corner of the factory will no
longer be used as a regular
entrance-exit door; instead it
will be used as a Fire Exit
only.
In two separate elections yesterday, employees of the Klann

Organ Supply Company and
Virginia Metalcrafters, Inc. ,rejected the two unions that were
trying to gain control at the local
plants.
who normally ha ve
.tsed the Northwest door will
u se the door by the scrap plat.
fo r m starting Monday. The
time clock w hi ch had been
located by the door in the
Northwest corner will be
moved to a location near the
door by the scrap platform
before Monday.
~ mployees
This change is being made as

one step in r estricting the flow
of unne cessary traffic through
the Relay area.
Results of the National Labor

Relations Board election at
Klann Organ Supply in the morning were 42 against the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America, AFL-CIO,
and 20 for the union.
In a later NLRB election at
Virg inia Metalcrafters yesterday,
employees voted 25 against and
16 for the Inte rnational Molders
and Foundry Workers Union of
North America, AFL-CI('
High Single for the night was 222

Oh, so if I ever n eed a salesman,
rolled by Bob Smiley. High
I'm to r e member you have quite a
Triple of 515 was rolle d b y Bob
following, e h?"
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Messrs. Paxton, LaPierre and

Strickland, who ar riv e d around
10: 30 this morning, will meet
with Dr. L. T. Rader, G e neral
Manager, and the Section
Managers to revi e w the operations
of Specialty Control Department.
The G. E. executives plan to leave
Waynesboro about 4:00 PM today.
SCOGEE BOW LING

The Cannon Balls defeated the
League leading Dynamic Five, 2-1,
and tighte ned the L eague race as
the second place Alley Cats defeat
ed Ertle's Turtles, 3-0, in
Wednesday nigh t ' s SCOGEE bowling matches. In other action, the
Retreads defeated the Roll Tillers,
3-0.
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Paying a brief visit to Specialty

Control Department today are
Mr. Robert Paxton, Executive
Vice President - Operations,
Mr. C. W. LaPierre, Vice
President and Group Executive Electronic, Atomic and Defense
Systems Group, and Mr. H. A.
Strickland, Jr., General Manager,
Industrial Electronics Division.
SCOGEE Board meeting will b e

held at 7: 30 PM on Monday,
January 13, at the home of Jim
Cross, 656 King Avenue.
SAFETY SCORE
1,186 days
5, 876, 3 52 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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QUALITY CONTROL
AND YOU
The tough and durable skin of the alligator is very much in demand for fine
leather goods.
Even though Mr. Alligator may not contemplate with much joy the idea of
becoming a lady's handbag, still he must take pride in knowing that the skin
he produces is a real quality product.
Now, the alligator produces this fine product without any thought about QUALITY
CONTROL. Things are pretty rough down in the swamp and so he just naturally
grows as tough a skin as he can, because his life depends on it.
Here at Specialty Control Department, however, we think a lot about QUALITY
CONTROL. We even have a sub-section by that name with people who spend
all their time working on it.
But they are not the only ones who are responsible for QUALITY CONTROL.
They can only tell us when our quality is good or bad and help us improve . All
of us must be responsible for QUALITY CONTROL, because we are the ones
who must build quality into our products. This is t h e job of everyone at
Specialty Control, not just the Quality Control people .
Just as Mr. Alligator's life depends on the quality he builds into his product,
so our livelihood, our jobs, depend on the quality we build into our products
and the way we perform our jobs.
Only as long as we each put quality into our products, will our customers continue to exercise their free choice in the marketplace and buy our products.
And only if our customers buy our products will our jobs be secure.
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VOL. IV, NO. 8
COURTESY OF WAYS AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
January
13, 1958
Dear Father, accept the gratitude of our hearts for this food now before us, and for
all other blessings with which our lives are daily blessed. In Jesus' name. Amen.
1957 INSURANCE CLAIMS
SHOULD BE FILED
IMMEDIATELY
Specialty Control employees who
incurred medical expenses over
and above the deductible amounts
during 1957 should file an insurance claim as soon as possible,
if they have not already done so,
according to R. B. McKenzie,
Manager-Personnel Accounting.
Whenever your covered medical
expenses under Type A exceed
,-.. 5, when covered expenses under
_ tpe B exceed $50, or when a
combination of the two types of
expenses exceeds $50 in any one
year, then a claim should be filed.
Claims for all 1957 expenses
should be filed immediately.
VALLEY ENGINEERS WILL HEAR

THEORY OF ULTRASONICS
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
"Theory and Application of Ultra
Sonics" will be the subject discussed at the Valley Engineers
Club Dinner Meeting Wednesday,
January 15, at 6:15 PM. The
speaker will be Jack McDonald,
Development Engineer in the
Material Engineering Department
of the Westinghouse Corporation.
A new Program Chairman will be
elected at the meeting, which will
be held at the Hotel General
Wayne. Contact C. A. Thompso1,
Ext. 270, today for reservations.
IMPROPER PARKING HAS IN CREASED; PARKING AREAS

WILL BE CHECKED
The plant parking lots and driveways are apparently being mis used by some employees. Improper parking creates inconveniences for others as well as
safety hazards, in many cases.
Beginning today, all parking zones
and drives at Specialty Control
will be checked daily for cars
that are not in the proper place.
Employees whose cars are improperly parked will be notified
to move their cars immediately.
A car is considered to be improperly parked if it is in an area
not designated for parking or if it
is in the wrong zone.
If no other claims were filed
during 1957, then expenses

incurred during the last three
The Blackbiras, girl's SCOGEE
months may be applied to your
basketball team,will practice tonight at Jackson-Wilson gym at
1958 deductible a~ount, provided
7:00 PM.
the expenses were for illnesses
which occurred during those last
three months of 195 7. If expenses
An electrical insulation called
for the last three months of 1957
Mica Mat has been developed by
are to be applied to your 1958
General Electric which is so heat
deductible amount, then it is not
resistant that 1/1000-inch thicknecessary to file a claim at this
ness of it can block the flame of
time. In this case, you may wait
a blow torch.
until the entire deductibie amount
is incurred before a claim is filed.
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BOOMERANG
.!Ch evening it is mandatory
To tell my son a bed-time story.
I do, in accents soft and deep,
And put myself, not him to sleep.
Need something else to worry

about? An astronomer predicts
that 11 billion years from now the (
temperature of the earth's sur- I
face will be 1, 000 degrees.
CAREt.ESSNE~t TOMY
REGRm TOMORP.OW .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 189 days
5, 886, 259 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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1 N S P E C: T I O N
RATINGS USED FC1. .. ..bJJT_'Y~~CT IQ_t:;!_ Sheet Metal - 75% - Unsafe

241 - 75 - Materials stuck to
106',l
Good
: r otobins overloaded.
glass partitions.
75%
Fair
j
Rooms:
Foor
; AI RCRAFT - J ohn Haun - Inspector 269 - 100 271 - 100 273 - 10<
25'
Unaccept abl e
Wi re Harnees - 100% Plate Rm 280 - 100 281 - 100 282 - 10<
DEDUCTIBLE POINTS
1 100% Aircraft Panel - 100%
284 - 100 285 - 100 287 - 10<
Haterial Handling
- 25
I Car bon Pile _ 100%
288 - 100 289 - 100
Wo;:k Ar ea
-25
.' J eep
_
75"
M
ateri
al
needs
_
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AFpa.r atus Sales - 100
Safety Hazards
- 25
better handling & coats on
Aircraft Rm. - 100
Fire Hazards
-25
lockers .
1
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Aircraft Developnent Lab - 100
MAT SUB-SECTION - Insp. G. Bradt Potted Area - 50% - Fire Hazard
Aircraft Systems Class Rm 100
Receiving - 100% Room 101 - l~ & unsafe. Mach Shop - 75% Oil
Aircraft Systems Mezz - 100
Room 104 - 100%
Ship. - 1()0,f; ; on trash barrel.
Vibration & Drive Rm - 100
Warehouse - 100% R & R - ioa,i :
Eng Lab Office - 100
001 Area - 100%
! =MA=N=UF=A=TU=R=I=N:::G:EN:;:::G=.=_=I;:n=s=p=.=o;:ra=y::+ Cont rel Rm - 100 Hot Rm - 100
Ai rcra f t Stock - 100%
! Prototype _ 100% Tool Rm - 100% Dark Rm - Development - 101;
Room 102 - 75% - Stationary looks Room 18 _ 100% Room 16 _ 100%
Dark Rm - Froduct - 100
like Fibber McGee's closet.
. Room 106 _ 100% Special comm.en- Altitude Chamber - 100
Room 128 - 75% - Two cabinets need: dation.
Stock Rm - 75 (Almost Good )
painting.
' Tool Crib - 75% - Too much dust
Model Shop - 100 Mach Rm - 100
Electronic Stock - 75% - Excessive,
i Light Test .Rm - 100
cardboa rd tote boxes under decking =RELA==y==I===t===========*i Main Eng Lab - 100
- nspec or - Hamblin
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- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - .;..;Ma=c=h-Relay - 100%
1 FINANCE
Inspector - Olsen
QUftL I TY OJNTROL
Sub Min. - 100% Open Relay I Rooms: 124 (Hayes) - 100
Inspector - Archambeault
75% Work Place Layout
j 124 (Rogers) - 100 Rm 111 -100
Room 17 - 100%
Inc. Insp. - 100% Miniature - 75% - Inflammable
122 - 100 127 - 100 129 - 100
Mech. Prod Test - 100%
material in cabinet
' 231 - 100 133 - 100 292 ~00
Sheet Metal - 100%
Min. Relay - 75% - Meter not
Reception Rm - 100
Mforo Test - 100% Mach ShoP-100% calibrated. Micro Min - 75% Contour - 100% Min Test - 100%
E & CR - Inspector - Ferry
Paint cans ??
Test Constr. - 100%
Room 105 - 100 Dispensary 100
Potted Unit - 75% - Meter not
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Employee Store - 100
C & T AREA cal i brated and area looks
Inspector - Sornborger
. Prop Room - 75 - Overloaded
disor ganized.
Asm Area - 100%
Ai rcraf t Test - 75% - Paper
Stock Area - 100,t Off ice - 100% ; =M=ARK=Er=r=NG=-=r=n=sp=.=_=:Ma=1=1=o=y==~
storage too near paint booth.
Heat Treat Rm - 75
Rooms:
Jeep Test - 75% - Dirty area &
Test
75%
Disorderl
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- 100 256 - 100 265 - 100
~ oats on lockers.
~i rcraft Mezz. - 25% - Oil on
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~loor - Dirty area & lockers area
ENGINEERING - Insp. Schneider
: trays. 252 - 75- Charts and
msafe.
201 - 100 204 - 100 206 - 100 cardboard in corn~s. .ill 209 - 100 211 - 100 212 - 100 : 75 - Boxes & books atop cabinet,
\eg Test - 75% - Materials
214 - 100 215 - 100 219 - 100 ' ill - 75 - Charts in office
;cattered.
Large Panel - 75% leeds more effort. Poor storage.
221 - 100 223 - 100 226 - 100 1 2bO - 75 - Books on top of file.
>mall Panel - 75% - Fick up odds
227 - 100 228 - 100 229 - 100 267 - 75 - Cardboard files on
.nd ends .
230 - i r10 232 - 100
I table
Li
brary
100
Livingston
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MAINTE?\ANCE - Insp. - Curto
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hai
Boilerroom - 100 Bldg. 5 - 75
ontour Sub - 100% Reg Asm - 100% e ep one on c
r
Bldg. 6 _ 50 Ground _ 100
aint Booth #1 _ lOQt
I Rm 210 - 75 - Cardboard boxes I _
need storing .
, Maintenance Shop - 75
aint Booth #2 - 100%
aint Booth #3 _ l00%
Rm 213 - 75 - Materials stuck on [
a!]je Panel _ 100% Small Fanel _ floor
Rm 211 - Attention neede~
OO% . Printed Circuit _ 50% _
Rm 225 - 75 - Need at : ention.
rea dirty. Fire Hazard in rag can Rooms: 234 - 75 - Box of old
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ontour Asm - 75% - Reels in rack records & charts.
.
ixed . Mixed hardware .
236 - 75 - Cardboard. boxes need
d
storing. 229A - 75 - Cardboard
eg & Harness - 75~ - Trash in
boxes need bett er stori ng and
~ e0! spool barrel.
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January 14, 1958
VOL. IV, NO 9
Bless this food to the nourishment of our bodies and our bodies in Thy
service; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PAXTON PRAISES SPECIALTY
CONTROL FOR OUTSTANDING
PROGRESS
REMINDERS
All parking zones and drives at
Specialty Control are being
checked daily now for cars that
are not in the proper place.
Employees whose cars are improperly parked will be notified ,
to move their cars immediately.
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A car is considered to be improperly parked if it is in an

area not designated for parking
or if it is in the wrong zone.
Outstanding progress by Specialty

In answer to Thursday's
.
.challenge Control Department since his last
b y the young and ine~enenced
. . t h ere in
195 5 was no t e d F ri
-- visi
Apprentice
Trainees,
the
d
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p.
I ay y r. o ert axton,
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A pprentice Alumm will be glad to E
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yice p resid entxecutive
meet and beat the young "whipper- 10 perations
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f or G enera1 El ectric
snappers" at basketball or any

C ompany. M r. p ax t on, w h o visit
other sport. The alumni insist '
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ed the plant on Fnday,said that
h owever, t h at t h e pub lie be int d t
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the progress of the Department
vi e
o witness t e massacre
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was particularly
noteworthy in
Electrons traveling at more than

Sack McDonald, Development
600 million miles an hour are
Engineer in Material Engineer- being used by General Electric in
ing Dept. , Westhinghouse Corp, 1 the production of a new electrical
insulation. The polyethylene
will speak on the subject
11 Theory and Application of
material is the world's first commercial product of electron irUltra Sonics" at the Valley
Engineers 1 Club Dinner Mtg.,
radiation.
Wednesday, January 15, at
- - - -- -6:15PM. The meeting will be
held at the Hotel General Wayne..
Please contact C. A. Thompson,
Room 205, Ext. 270 for reservations.
While the bells in the Cafeteria
are temporarily out of order,
employees should be especially
careful to observe the time
limits for the morning and after
noon break periods.
The morning break period is .
.-.. from 9:30 - 10:30 and the afternoon break period is from 2:303:30. All employees should
leave the Cafeteria by the end
of each break period.
DO YOURSELF
A FAVOR
the light of the many technical

!difficulties in a business such as
ours.
In addition, Mr. Paxton was impressed with the cleanliness of
the plant and the friendly atmos phere.
Mr. Paxton was accompanied by
Mr. C. W. LaPierre, Vice President and Group ExecutiveElectronic, Atomic and Defense
Systems Group, and Mr. H. A.
Strickland, Jr., General Manager,
Industrial Electronics Division.
JOIN THE
STOCK BONUS P.LAN
SAFETY SCORE
1, 190 days
5, 896, 12$ hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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EVERYONE LOSES IN A STRIKE
The I UE strike at the Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation has at last
come to an end. Four thousand one hundred striking employees have
spent 87 days without work and have had 12 payless paydays. Work stopped
and pay stopped -- but the monthly bills continued to roll in!
The average Federal employee has lost $804 in wages; it will take nearly
four years to make this up with the increase granted as part of the strike
settlement. I n addition to the lost wages, many workers have had to go in
debt to get the necessities of life for their families.
The company has lost millions of dollars worth of business, which may
result in permanently lost jobs for some workers at Federal. Customers
have turned to other companies for their needs and many will never come
back.
This is a high price to pay for a small immediate gain which undoubtedly
could have been attained by peaceful negotiation. If the union leaders had
used better judgment and had more concern for the welfare of the members
as well as the welfare of the company which furnishes the members their
livelihood, these losses might have been prevented.
In a strike -
EVERYONE LOSES!
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VOL. IV, NO. 10
COURTESY OF WAYS AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
January 15, 1958
Dear heavenly Father, at every table where food is spread Thou art host.
Prepare our hearts, through love and service, for these blessings from Thy
hands. Amen.
STOCK BONUS SHARES
RECEIVED BY EMPLOYEES
MUST BE REPORTED FOR 1957
INCOME TAX
Any employees who received
Stock Bonus shares last March
as a result of having participated
in the GE Savings and Stock Bonus
Plan for the full five year holding
period must report this on their
1957 Federal Income Tax returns.
Stoc k Bonus shares should be re,-..te d as ordinary income according to the market value of the
s har e s at the time they w ere
r ece ived by the employee.
The accumulated income on the
Stoc k Bonus which partic ipants
in the Plan r ece i ved by c heck in
March, 1957, should also be reporte d as ordinary income on the
1957 F ederal Income Tax r e turn.
FOUNDER OF GE RESEARCH
LAB DIES
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Push harder,
times. "
Dr. Willis R. Whitney, founder of

the General Electric Research
Laboratory, died last week in
Schenectady at the age of 89.
Known as the dean of industrial
research in America, Dr. Whitney
was affiliated directly or indirectly
with many far-reaching scientific
discoveries.
In 1900, Dr. Whitney founded the

GE R e search Laboratory, the first
industrial research laboratory in
the country devoted to basic re The Specialty Control plant will search, setting the pattern for
be closed on Saturday, Jan. 18,
scientific research in industry.
He served as director of the
laboratory until his retirement in
Power, lights, heat and air
1932. During the last four years
will be shut off on that day so
of that time, Dr. Whitne y also
that additional capacitors may
served as vice president in
be installed at the sub-station.
charge of research for the
Company.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18
The average of the hig h and low

STOCK BONUS (Cont. from col. 1) Since 1932 Dr. Whitney had cons a l e s pric es of General Electric
Company stock on the New York
tinued research in the capacity
March 19, 1957... 56.13
Stoc k Exchange on the date of
of honorary vice president and
March 20, 1957... 56. 38
r ece ipt may be used for the purconsultant to the laboratory.
March 21, 1957... 56. 56
pose of determining marke t value.
March 22, 1957... 56. 63
The following table shows the
March 25, 1957... 56. 50
market value, computed on that
March 26, 1957... 56. 56
basis, of General Electric
Common Stock on the t e n business
days followin g the day stoc k
ce rtific ates were maile d from
More than two million different
SAFETY SCORE
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w York city last year.
colors can be distinguished, by a
l,19ldays
iiarch 13, 1957 . $ 56. 31

General Electric .instrument called
5, 905, 997 hours
March 14, 1957
56. 38
a "recording spectrophotometer."
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
March 15, 1957 . . 56. 38
Most the human eye can disACCIDENT
March 18, 1957 . . 5 6. 00
tinguish is a bout 100, 000.
(Cont. c ol. 2)
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RECALL AFTER LAYOFF FOR LACK-OF -WORK (This is the fourth in a

series of articles which attempt to make clear the policy of the Department
and Company concerning removals from payroll and continuity of service.)
Employees who have been laid off because of lack-of-work are recalled for
job openings before any new people are hired. The Employment Office
keeps a list of all employees who have been laid off; names are listed in
order of seniority.
When the Employment Office gets a Request for Help, the list of laid off
employees is checked and the employees with the longest service who have
past experience in the job classification concerned are recalled first.
If there is no one on the list of laid off employees with past experience in
th.e open job classification, others on the list will be considered for the
openings, in order of seniority, before any new applicant is hired.
When an employee is recalled after a layoff for lack-of-work, the employee's

service is restored according to the following continuity of service rules.
(These rules are Company-wide and are followed in all plants of the Company
both union and non-union.)
Employees who have not established continuity of service by being employed
for 52 consecutive weeks and who are laid off for lack-of-work will have
the entire period of absence deducted from their service when they are recalled. When an employee who has established continuity of service is
laid off for lack-of-work, no timewill be deducted if he is recalled within
six months. If the .e mployee is recalled after six months, the excess length
of time over six months will be deducted-.-If an absence for lack-of-work exceeds one year, the employee's service is
broken and all continuity of service is lost. However, if an employee loses
continuity of service because of a layoff for lack-of-work and is later rehired,
the employee 1 s continuity of service is automatically restored, if the layoff
was not longer than three years and if the period of layoff was not longer than
the employee 1 s continuity of service at the time of layoff.
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VOL. IV, NO. 11
COURTESY OF WA YB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
WAYNESBORO, VIRGIN IA
January 16, 1958
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Dear Lord, we thank Thee for food for our bodies and for Thy love, which is
the food for our souls. In J esus 1 name. Amen
SAFETY GLASSES MUST BE
WORN AT ALL TIMES IN THE
FACTORY
immediately, the
Department safety rules regarding the wearing of safety glasses
will be strictly enforced for the
protection of Specialty Control
employees . Loss of eyesight or
injuries to the eye are among the
more serious safety hazards in an
operation such as ours, and the
number of Wise Owl awards in the
Department points up the need for
~ -.lplete eye protection for all
euiployees at all times.
Be~inning
Recently the rules concerning

we a.ring of safety glasses have not
been observed as they should be,
according to Bill Perry, Safety
Specialist. It has become
necessary for us to re-emphasize
these rules.
COMMUNITY CONCERT TICKETS

AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO
MISSED 1957 MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Membership tickets for the
Waynesboro Community Concert
Series are available now for those
people who have come to the city
s ince the May, 1957, membership
drive. The first concert in the
series will be January 20 at
8:00 PM at Waynesboro High
School and will feature Rise
Stevens.
--.
1 ne wearing of safety glasses is

also required in the Engineering
Labs and the Manufac turing
(Cont. c olumn 2 )
Bits /
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The Blue Ridge Sub-Section of

AIEE will meet at Westwood Hills
Elementary School tonight at 7: 30.
Highlight of the meeting will be an
address by Mr. B. J, Wilson of
the Naval Research Laboratory,
entitled "A Giant Step in Hyper atmospheric Research: The
Vang uard Satellite. 11
Appearing in the
two conAll members and others interestwill b e the Festival (string)
ed are invited to attend this meet. Quartet on February 21 and Ar cher
ing.
and Gile, ballad singers, on May 1.
1 certs
Membership is $6. 00 for the

series . Contact Mrs. D. H .
Gordon, WH 2 -5188, or Mrs. H . H .
Allen, WH 2-8493, for further
information.
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In order to provide the maximum

prote ction from eye injuries for
Specialty Control employees, all
persons must wear Plano Safety
Glasses or Prescription Safety
Glasses when working in or passing through the manufacturing
area of the plant. This rule
applies regardless of the time of
day or the day of the week, and
includes entering or leaving the
plant at regular changes of shift.
Feather Specs (used by visi tors)
must not be worn by emp loye es .
othe~
News~
We extend our sympathy to Paul

Caron {Wire Harness) on the
d eath of his father-in-law Monday
in Auckland, New Zealand.
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SAFETY GLASSES .
{Cont. from column 1)
Engineering Development Room.
There is only one exception to the
above rules: employees using the
south side office entrance {by the
Dispensary) to go to and from the
Cafeteria need not wear safety
glasses while passing through
that part of the fac tor y between
the southside office entran ce and
the Cafeteri a ,
Ea ch employee should have a
pair of safety glasses in his
possession. Anyone who does not
have a pair of safety glasses
should contact Ruth Gray, Plant
Nurse, immediately.
The SCOGEE RIFLE CLUB will

meet Thursday, January 16, at
7:00 PM on the Fishburne Range.
Eugene Bradshaw (Mfg. Eng.) has
been appointed compan y commander of L Company, 116th
Infantry Regiment, Virginia
National Guard.
FOR RENT - - three apartments,
just remodeled and redecorated,
One -- 6 rooms and bath, heat
and water furnished, built in
surface unit and oven -- $125 per
month. Two - - 3 rooms and bath,
heat, water, electric stove fur nished -- $65 per month.
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more suggestions and earning

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PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELAT IONS SECTION AS A SE RVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES
SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD N EWS -
VOL. IV, NO. 12
January 17, 1958
Not only for this food, do we give Thee thanks, 0 God, but for work and its
rewards, for friends, for health. Amen
EVERY SPECIALTY CONTROL
EMPLOYEE SHOULD HAVE A
PAIR OF SAFETY GLASSES
Each employee of Specialty Control Department should have a
BOWLING
pair of Plano Safety Glasses or
Prescription Safety Glasses in
Ertle's Turtles dumped the Leag ue
order to be fully protected when
leading Dynamic Five Wednesday
working in or passing through the
night by a score of 3-0 in the
manufacturing area of the plant,
regular SCOGEE bowling matches.
the Engineering Labs or the Mfg.
The Roll Tillers rolled over the
Engineering Development Room.
Alley Cats, 2-1, and the Retreads
(TODAY'S NEWS, Januar y 16).
defeated the Cannon Balls, 3 -0.
Anyone who does not have a pair
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of these safety glasses should con0 Smiley took High Single with a
tact Ruth Gray, Plant Nurse, as
192, while High Triple was rolled
soon as possible.
by Corbin Dixon with a 496.
Pres e nt L eague standings are:
Dynamic Five
Alley Cats
Roll Tillers
Ertle's Turtles
Cannon Balls
Retreads
Won Lost
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28
18
27
23
22
23
22
18
27
27
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WANTED -- Apprentice Alumni

(who can play ba sketball) to meet
the Appr e ntice Trainees in a
little game. Conta c t Art Groat Sheet Metal - Ext. 464.
SAFETY SCORE
l,193days
5, 925, 7 35 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDE NT
Specialty Control Department

safety rules regarding the wearing of safety glasses at a ll times
in the areas mentioned are being
re-emphasized because of the
seriousne ss of eye injuries as a
safety hazard.
SATURDAY, JANUARY18
The Specialty Control plant will
be closed on Saturday, Jan. 18,
EIGHTEEN RECEIVE SUGGESTION

AWARDS
Eighteen Specialty Controllers
received Suggestion Award checks
today as a result of having their
suggestions adopted by the
Department.
Employees who turned their ideas
into money through the Suggestion
Plan are: R. L. Saunders (A&M
Prod.), Billie Meeks (Prototype),
Louis e Stalter (Ind. Electronics),
Robert Harkne ss (A&M Eng.),
Ruth Campbell (Air c raft), Mary
Harvey (Air craft), Elmer H.
Clark (Sheet Metal), Herbert
Blackwood (Apprenti ce ), E. I.
Grove (Sheet Metal), Anne Hi pe s
(Coil & Trans.), Nancy Stinespring (Relays ), R . Todd and
E. Armentrout (Sheet Metal),
Fred DeMastus {Aircraft Test),
Lucille Davis {Contours), Winifred Warner {Relays ), John
Hensley {Mach. Room), L eon
Hensley {R e lays ), and Dorothy
Fox (Contours).
~ rNewst
~it
Power, lights, heat and a ir

will be shut off on that day so
that additional capacitors may
b e installed at the sub-station.
A suggestion has be en sent to the

Suggestion Committee without a
name. The suggestion co ncerns
F4H SCP T -- Terminal Board
111A9018.
Trouble with women is when they

get mad they get historical
keep bringi ng up th e past.
If this is your suggestion, please
c ontact Bill P e rry, Employe e

Re lations.
lead grinder forgetful named Peck

Parked his respirator south of his neck
'Twas a very poor notion
The lad lost al I motion
For lead dust made him a wreck!
WEAR YOUR RESPIRATOR

WHERE THE JOB REQUIRES ---
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NEWS

VOL. IV, NO. 13
COURTESY OF WAYS ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
January lO, 1958
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~___:~=...:...:.::..:..~=--~
For this country, for its freedoms, for our rights in this country, we are
grateful, 0 God. Make us grateful for this food also. Amen.
REMINDERS .
APPRENTICE ALUMNI WILL

MEET APPRENTICE TRAINEES
IN BENEFIT BASKETBALL
GAME FRIDAY
The Apprentice Alumni "Old
Timers" will meet the Apprentice
"Whiz Kids" in a basketball game
Friday, January 24 at 8:00 PM
in the Waynesboro High School
East Gym. Proceeds from a
free will offering taken at the
door will go to the March of
Dimes.
-
i.day night's contest has been

~ heduled as a result of a
challenge issued by the Apprentice Trainees to the Apprentice
Alumni in TODA Y'S NEWS on
January 9. The challenge was
answered on January 14 and both
groups have been busy gathering
together their forces.
Playing for the Apprentice Alumni "Old Timers" will be:

Art 11 Ace" Groat (She et Metal)
Bob "Pegleg" Failing {Tool Rm.)
Bob "Flash" Broughman (Mach.
Rm.)
Red "Curly0 Slater (Mfg. Eng.)
I
Ed" Deadeye" Hamblin(Mfg. Eng. :. ,
"Chucking" Charlie Hughes
(Ind. Cont. Prod. )
Chet "One Shot" Allen (Mfg. Eng., 1
Ed "Red Dog" Philpot (Mfg . Eng.) '
Ed "Jigger" Collins (Eng.)
Wyatt "Fireball" Haney (Time
Standards)
.ie Apprentice "Whiz Kids"
roster includes:
Senior Apprentices
Lyle "Coochie Coo" Coffman
Mabel Foley (Micro-Min. ) wants

to thank all the people who sent
flowers while she was in the
hospital.
Anyone interested in a housekeeper t o work b y the day or by
the week, contact Employee
Relations, Ext. 469.
APPRENTICE BASKETBALL
(Cont. from column 1)
George "Cutie Pie" Craig
Wes "Bashful" Wade
11
Josephine" Mc Dorman
Jim "The Menace" Hagwood
Junior Apprentices
Barney "Buffalo Bill" Basham
Herb "Teddy Bear" Blackwood
Max "Cuddles" Lantz
Merv "Baby Face" Daughtry
Jim "Footsie" Shoemaker
Referees will be Dick Spinazolla
and Jim DeWitt (Tool Room).
SAFETY SCORE
1, 196 days
5, 935, 604 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
All Specialty Control employees

should have safety glasses.
These glasses must be worn
at all times when working in
or passing through the manufacturing area of the plant,
the Engineering Lab and the
Manufacturing Engineering
Development Room.
Parking zones and drives are
being checked daily for cars
that are improperly parked.
Be sure to park only in
designated parking areas and
in the proper zone.
Good housekeeping is a continuous process. It should not be
neglected until just befo~
each plant inspection.
Claims for medical expenses
which occurred during 1957
should be filed immediately
unless they are to be used as
part of your 1958 deductible
amount.
With the new garbage disposal
unit at the Cafeteria exit, it
is no longer necessary to
empty cups before disposing
of other material. Liquids
may be disposed of along with
waste paper and cups in the
garbage disposal unit.
Remember that these trying

times will be the good old days
in a few years.
SPECIAL ...'Y CONTROL EMPLOYEES ENJOY N E W SERVING

LINE IN CAFETERIA
~everal
Specialty Control employees we r e q uestioned last we e k about

w hat th ey thou gh t of the new serving line i n th e Cafeter ia, and how
they felt about the quality and servic e . Here are some of the answers
to the questions :
KE NNETH H. REID (Machi ne Roo m) -- 11 1 like the new

setup very much and I be lieve the majority of the em ployees like it also. The q ua lity and quantity of food
served is r e al g ood a nd I c ouldn't expect any better
service."
MARY LEE BARKER (Aircraft) -- "I like t he new setup
fine. The quality of t h e food i s exce llent . Ho we ver,
sometimes the fren c h fries are hard and not hot. The
s e rvice has always b ee n good. On occasions I have had
to wait when a machine br eaks down. O ve rall, I like it
v ery much and the prices seem reasonable . "
Kenneth Reid (Machi n e Room) is

shown as h e prepares t o pay for
hi s lunc h at the new h ot foo d servi ng l ine in the Cafete r i a. M orris
Hudson (Cafeteria Mgr.) i s
pictu red with his back to the
camera.
Mary Lee B a rke r (Aircraft) is

picture d r e c e i vin g h e r change
a fter selecting h e r lunch fr om the
n ew serving line in the Specialty
C o ntrol C afeteria.
JOHN H E NS L EY and ROBERT CAMPBELL (Mach. Room)

both agreed t hat t h e new setup is excellent. T h ey h a ve
been partic ularly i mpre s sed with the quantity o f food
offered at t he pr ice as well as the good quality.
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SPORTS. NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS -
VOL. IV, NO. 14
January 21, 1958
For home, for family, for friends, we thank Thee, 0 God; help us to make our
place today a friendly place toward Thee and toward others . Amen
SPECIALTY CONTROL WINS
CONVER TOR ORDER AS A
RESULT OF CUTTING SHIPPING
TIME ALMOST 2/3
Specialty Control won orders
totaling $197, 000 from Packard
Bell Electronic Corporation
recently because of the excellent
job on the part of all employees
concerned in cutting the original
time estimate from 37 wee ks to
14 weeks. The orders are for
50 converto rs for the Thor
missile ground unit. Each con.-... rtor consists of a speed regu1ator, a voltage regulator and a
rectifier.
Specialty Control's original bid
was for 37 weeks, but as it became apparent that time was a
major factor, th e bid was changed to include an estimated
delivery time for the first 4
units of 14 weeks. As a result,
Specialty Control won the order.
All Sections concerned did their
utmost to help the Department
meet the 14 week schedule. As
a result of the excellent job
which was done by Aircraft and
Military Products Sales, Military Control Design, Aircraft
Production and the Prototype
area, the shortened schedule
was met and Spe cialty Control
received an order for 46 more
units.
_, cause of excellent perform ance on the delivery schedule ,

it is hoped that more orders
for the same units will follow.
PHOTOMETRIC DEVICES AV AILABLE AT EMPLOYEE PRICES

Specialty Control employees may
purchase photometric devices
(such as exposure meters) and
accessories at Fishburne Drug
Store at the regular employee
price. It is necessary for employees to identify themselves i11
order to get the employee price.
However, photoflash lamps, photo
flood lamps, and projection lamps
may be purchased at employee
prices through your Employee
Store only.
Employees are reminded that
GE products other than major
appliances may be purchased at
employee prices only for the
personal use of the employee or
to be used as a gift by an employee. This includes items
such as photoflash lamps and
photometric devices as well as
small appliances.
SAFETY SCORE
l,197days.
5, 945, 406 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
THE BEST thing to save for old

age is yourself.
jj;~
~Bits]
SCOGEE has had a number of

inquiries recently about the
possibilities of organizing a
Model Airplane Club for Specialty Control employees . Anyone
who is inter ested in participating
in a club of this type should fill
in the form below and drop it in
the BALLOT BOX at the C~e teria exit today.
For further information, contact
Bill Meeks (Special Products).
I would likP. to participate in a

SCOGEE Model Airplane Club.
Name
"Back in high school, he could

toss the discus farther than anybody."
Section
Ext.
AFL-CIO EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
Last week we reported, in a special bulletin, the very unusual behavior

of the AFL-CIO in discharging 100 union organizers with little regard for
seniority.
Particularly interesting was the fact that among the group was
Robert Christofferson of Charlotte, N. C., a leader in the new organizer's union

that has been fighting for recognition by the AFL-CIO, who is their employer,
without success.
Mr. Christoffer son made a statement about the discharge which points out
the fact that "organizers with upwards of 30 and 35 years service have been
handed notice "
"You have done what you condemn other employers for
doing," said Mr. Christofferson.

From all of this, it becomes pretty obvious how little the AF L-CIO
bosses really consider the welfare of the individual employee.
When it suits their own purpose politically to be in favor of seniority and
joh security, then this is what they say they are for.
But when it does not suit
their purpose to practice these things in their own backyard, then the rights of
employees, their own employees, are ignored completely.
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SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WA.YB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 15
January 22, 1958
Every good and perfect gift comes from Thee, 0 God, and we thank Thee for
all that Thou hast given. Amen.
CASHIER'S CAGE HOURS WILL
CHANGE MONDAY
Beginning Monday, January 27,
the Cashier's Cage in the Personnel Accounting Office will be open
during the mornings only. The
regular hours for this service
will be 10:00 AM to 12 Noon,
Monday through Thursday, and
8:30 AM to 12 Noon on Friday.
NEW 8-BALL "TROPHY" WILL

BE "AWARDED" TO AREA WITH
POOREST HOUSEKEEPING
Beginning .with the next Plant Inspection, employees who do a
poor job of housekeeping will be
"behind the eight-ball" in more
ways than one. A new plant
"trophy" has been created and
will be "awarded" to the area that
shows up the poorest in each Plant
Inspection.
The change in hours is being made I

to accomodate those employees
who make the most use of the
~shier service in obtaining cash
advances for business trips.
The service of the Cashier's Cage
will, of course, be available to
employees at other than the regular hours listed above in the
event of unexpected business trips
or emergencies.
The new "trophy" (which is

pictured at left) will be a symbol
of poor housekeeping, and will
show that the area which "wins"
it is "behind the eight ball" as far
as housekeeping goes.
I
f This
is the "EIGHT-BALL'' which

wi ll be the symbol of poor housekeeping at Specialty Control. The
! inscription on the brass plate
reads: "Awarded to this area in
RISE IN COST OF LlVING WILL
recognition of achievement of high
MEAN ANOTHER PAY RAISE FOR degree in the field of poor housekeeping, slovenliness and general
HOURLY AND NON -EXEMPT
disorder."
SALARY EMPLOYEES
A rise in the Consumer Price In- COST OF LlVING

dex from 121.1 to 121. 6, announced
yesterday, will mean a O. 5% insince the program was initiated.
crease for Specialty Control hourly and non-exempt salary emThe present pay increase will
ployees, effective Monday,
first appear in checks received
January 27.
on February 7.
Part of the General Electric
Better Living Plan, the automatic
,...-.....: rease is the seventh such adJUStment for all G: E. employees
since 1955. Cost of living adjustments alone have totaled 5. 5'}'o
(Cont. column 2)
SAFETY SCORE
1, 198 days
5, 955, 208 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Three "awards" of the "eight-ball

trophy" to one area will "entitle
that area to possession," and the
trophy will remain as a lasting
symbol of a poorly kept work area.
A 1/2" d r111 and sold ering gun di s appeared Monday night from
Quality Control. Will the person
who borrowed them please notify
Fred Curto (Supv. Maint,) and
sign a loan slip.
A lot of insults are introduced

with, "Now, for your own good,
l'm going to be perfectly frank
with you. 11
SHOW THEM WHAT WE CAN DO
An article in yesterday's NEWS pointed out that Specialty Control had

been able to get a large order from Packard Bell by cutting the delivery time
estimate from 37 weeks to 14 weeks -- and then making good on the delivery
of the first units.
Performance like that requires a lot more than the promise of a salesman to a customer.
Behind that promise must be a knowl edge by both the
salesman and the customer that the promise will be met.

A continuing record of promises met and quality products delivered on
time will build up the reputation of Specialty Control so that whenever a
customer needs his order in a hurry, he will know that w e will deliver when
we say we will deliver.
The unusually short time in which delivery o f the first unit was made
to Packard Bell recently w as an excellent example of what w e can do when
everyone cooperates to get the job done.
As long as we continue to approach each new orde r with that same
d e sir e to show the customer that we can do it better and faster, the orders
will keep coming in and our jobs will continue to be secur e .
'S NEWS
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S'OllTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 16
January 23, 1958
We thank Thee, 0 God, for the hand that feeds us, the love that cares for us,
and the l i fe whi ch T h ou hast entrusted to us. Amen.
TENTH FATAL ACCIDENT I N
COMPANY FOR 1957 OCCURRED
IN ERIE PLANT LAST MONTH
The tenth accidental death in the
company for 1957 o c curred in the
Locomotive and Car Equipment
Department in December when a
welder was fatally injured.
The victim was working on a
locomotive platform when an
industrial railroad car snagged
another locomotive truck parked
- - ~side its path. The truck was
"""" d against the welder, pinning
.gainst the platform on which
hv .vas working.
The employee
died three hours later from internal hemorrhages.
APPRENTICE ALUMNI WILL
MEET APPRENTICE TRAINEES
IN BENEFIT BASKETBALL
GAME TOMORROW
The Apprentice Alumni "Old
Timers " will meet the Apprentic e "Whiz Kids" in a basketball
game tomorrow night at 8:00PM
in the Waynesboro High School
d oor will go to the March of
Dimes.
Friday night's contest has been
scheduled as a result of a
challenge issued by the ApprenTrainees to the Apprentice
~ tni in TODAY's NEWS. The
... enge was answered and both
groups have been busy gathering
together their for ces .
YP6M SEAMASTER, FIRST JET

SEAPLANE MAKES SUCCESS FUL FLIGHT
Phyllis Armentrout (Re l ays)
wishes to thank her friends at GE
for the many cards and flowers
she received while a patient at
Waynesboro Hospital. Phyllis
will undergo a heart operation at
this address shortly:
National Institute of Health
9000 Wisconsin Avenue
Clinical Center 8 East Rm. 207
Bathesda, Maryland
The Industrial Electronic Drafts men accepted a challenge from

the Aircraft & Military Draftsmen1Tues . night by meeting them
in a hard fought basketball game
at Jackson-Wilson Gym. The
final score was 38-37 in favor of
the A & M Draftsmen. Ralph
Billings was high-scorer for the
winners with 12 points. Tom
Whe e ler was high point man with
15 for the losers.
The Navy' s YP6M SeaMaster,

made its first successful flight
on January 20. The huge jet
seaplane, which is classed as a
600 MPH - plus plane, has an
electrical system produced by
General Electric Co.
Specialty Control's contribution
to the system is a generator,
regulator, exciter and protector
panel. The plane is being <level.:.
oped by the Martin Co.
Two previous models of the
plane, which is designed for
minelaying and photoreconnaissance, were unsuccess ful, both resulting in crashes.
Neither of the previous models
had GE electrical systems .
An emergency drill was held this

morning in order to test the
effectiveness of the artificial
resuscitation classes whic h were
held recently. All members of
the fire brigade participated in
the classes.
The drill pointed out the value
of the classes and served as an
additional training experience
for the fire brigade.
and if this one doesn't do it,

they ' ve got the Giant-tone Super
Model!"
11
~FETY is BerrER ~
CoMPENSAT'"loN ./
I HAD JUST
BEEN
MORE
C~~~IRYL ...
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SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 17
January 24, 1958
For life, for food, for daily care here in the plant and at our homes, we g i ve
Thee our thanks. Amen.
HARNER SAVES EYESIGHT WITH
SAFETY GLASSES IN UNUSUAL
ACCIDENT
our plant today: Mr. H.B.
Miller, Vice Pres. -Mfg. Services,
Mr. W.W. Beardsley, Mgr-Mfg.
Eng. Services and Acting Mgr. Mfg. Laboratory, Mr. C. E.
Warner, Acting Mgr. -Advanced
Equipment Development, and
Mr. E. L. Rogers, SpecialistControl Engineering, Advanc.e d
M_uipment D e velopment.
The basketball game between the
Apprentice Alumni "Old Timers"
and the Apprentice "Whiz Kids"
will begin at 8:00 o'clock tonight
at the Waynesboro High School
door will go to the March of
Dimes.
New hours for the Cashier's Cage
in the Personnel Accounting
Office will begin Monday, Jan. 27.
The Cashie r s Cage will be open
Monday through Thursday from
10:00 AM to 12:00 NOON and on
Friday from 8: 30 AM to 12 NOON .
Employees who use the Rest
Rooms in .the front office should
be careful. with the hot water for
the next few days. Because of a
broken valve, the wate r is much
,-....,ter than usual, and could
td.sily cause serious burns.
A replacement valve has bee n
ordered and will be installe d as
soon as it arrives.
Bobby Harner (Maintenance) became the latest Specialty Control

candidate for a Wise Owl award
last week when his safety glasses
prevented an eye injury in an unusual welding accident.
Bobby was welding on the top
section of a storage rack in such a
position that he had to look up
from below. A piece of the hot
metal dropped under his welding
helmet from above and bounced
off the inside of the helmet, landing on his safety glasses. (Fortunately, Bobby was wearing his
safety glasses under the welding
helmet.) The hot metal pene trated nearly through the lens of the
safety glasses.
Two other Specialty Control employees have been recommended
for Wise Owl awards because
they prevented eye injuries recently by wearing safety glasses.
They are Ed Rankin (Sheet Metal)
and "Buster" Stover (Prototype).
CORRECTION:
Yesterday we reported erroneously that two previous models
of the Martin YP6M were unsuccessful. Actually, the two
earlier models, designated as
XP6M' s flew suc cessfully, but
both crashed and were destroyed
intrial flights.
MIGHTY GLAD he had on his

safety glass es l as t Thursday was
Bobby Harner (Maintenance) who
is shown in top pic ture holding
the safety glass e s. The lo wer
picture s ho ws t he piec e of metal
that pene trate d nearly through the
safety glasses right ove r the eye.
The hot metal c ould easily have
caused a serious injury or loss
of eye sight.
It's a s e asy to g rin a s to gro w l.
FOR WANT OF A WASH E R , A MISSILE WAS LOST
There is a little poe m whic h you have probably heard that begins "For
want of a nail a shoe wa s los t ... .
for "want of " a horseshoe nail.
11
It tells about a battle being lost
The poem points out that one nail from a
horse's shoe caused a soldier to be out of the battle,which caused his unit to
lose its part of the fight and so on until the entire battle was lost.
Next time you are te m p t e d to do le ss than your very best on a small

job, because you feel it probably would not be important, think about this
news item--"WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (AP) -- A
defective washer in a $5 switch caused
the failure of a projected missile flight
recently at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The disclosure was made by Rep. Scrivner
(R-Kan) during recent hearings on new
missile funds before the House Appropriations Committee. Scrivner is a committee
member and has been attending missile
tests at the Florida base.
He did not identify the missile but said a
small washer in the switch buckled, the
switch failed to work and the flight failed.
When the switch was replaced, the missile fired perfectly, Scrivner said."
No matter how small the part, or how unimportant the job may appear
to be, it could very well b e that without it, something much larger will fail.
Remember this as y ou
approach~
job.
Each part of your job is
important enough to deserve your very best efforts every daX
'S NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROl EMPLOYEES

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VOi.
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NO
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Help up to be grateful for this food and use us to render service to Thee.
Amen.
SUGGESTION AW ARDS EARNED

BY EIGHT MORE SPECIALTY
CONTROL EMPLOYEES
Eight more Specialty Control employees earned awards last week
under the Suggestion Plan, by
submitting their ideas of how to
improve a job. Appearing on the
latest Suggestion Award list were:
Gaytha Koogler (Relays), Terry
M .Brooks (Prototype), H. A.
Stover (Prototype), Milton Bliss
(Mach. Room), R. Todd & E.
Armentrout (Sheet Metal),
~arlotte Holliday (Ind. Elec.
:ad.). Ward Showalter (Relavs).
and Marshall Fitzgerald (Mach.
Room).
The Suggestion Plan is an easy
way for employees to turn their
ideas into money.
All of us have ideas from time to
time of how our job could be done
better or how our products might
be built more economically.
There ideas are valuable to the
Department and to all of us be cause they help us remain competitive. Each idea is also
valuable to the person who has it
because it is worth money if it is
turned in as a suggestion and
adopted.
Convert YOUR IDEAS to MONEY.
......
''On the other hand, the people on
the other side have the most wellbehaved children you ever saw!"
BOWLING LEAGUE TIGHTENS:
SAGER ROLLS RECORD 242
In the SCOGEE Men's Bowling
League last week the race continued to tighten up as the first place
Dynamic Five and the second
place Alley Cats were both def eat
ed 2 -1 by the Roll Tillers and the
Retreads. In the other match on
Wednesday night the Cannon Balls
defeated Ertle's Turtles 2-1.
A new all time High Single for the
League was rolled last week by
Bill Sager who pounded out a 242.
The High Triple for the night was
rolled by Stan Stocki who had a
Carl Alexander (Regulators) is
501.
the proud father of a baby girl
born January 21. The baby weighSAFETY SLOGAN: Watch out for ed 6 lbs. 14 oz. His wife, Dot~
formerly worked in Coil & Trans.
school children -- especially if
they're driving cars.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 201 days
5, 984, 614 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
An article by H. L. Palmer,
Manager-Engineering, entitled
''Reliability of Electronic Con trols" has been published in the
January issue of ELEC:TRONIC
EQUIPMENT Maga'Zine.
RECEIPTS AND BILLS MUST BE TURNED IN WITH INSURANCE CLAIMS
Recently there have been some misunderstandings about how claims for medical expenses
should be submitted under the GE Employee Insurance and Dependent Insurance Plans.
When claims for medical expenses are turned in, they must be accompanied by all receipts
and bills. These receipts and bills should be identified as to the person for whom the
expense- was incurred and the date that the expense was incurred, as well ae the exact
amount.
Doctor's bills or receipts should also have a notation showing the diagnosis,. Bills or receipts
for medical expenses other than those from hospitals or doctors should be initialed by your
doctor. However, the doctor's initials are not necessary on dru6gists'receipts, provided the
prescription number is shown.
The Medical Expense Record which is pictured below is designed for the convenience of the
employee only and should be used only for keeping personal records of medical expenses. It
is not a claim form and will not be accepted as proof of medical expenses incurred, unless
accompanied by all bills and receipts which apply.
S NEWS
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Sl'ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYP, AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 19
January 28, 1958
In the strength of this food, 0 God may we be able to serve Thee and our
fellow man. Amen.
GE NOW HAS 100, 000 MORE
OWNERS THAN EMPLOYEES:
MORE WOMEN THAN MEN
OWN STOCK
EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION
WILL GRADUATE 34 TONIGHT
AT WESTWOOD
Thirty four employees of
will be graduated from the Effective Presentation Course at
a special dinner meeting at
6:00 PM today at the Westwood
Restaurant.
SCOGEE Glee Club will meet at

7:30 tonight in the Plant Auditorium. New members are
welcome!
APPRENTICE ALUMNI DEFEAT

APPRENTICE TRAINEES 44-38
FRIDAY NIGHT
Climaxing 16 weeks of training

in the presentation of ideas
Age and experience paid off for
through written communications
the Appprentice Alumni 11 Old
and public speaking, this will be
Timers" last Friday night as
the final session for three E. P.
they
defeated the Apprentice
classes. In a contest which will
"Whiz
Kids" at basketball by a
be held at tonight's meeting,
score of 44 - 38.
students from each of the three
classes will compete for awards
Proceeds from the game, which
in three areas. Competing for
was played at Waynesboro High
the best extemporaneous speech
School,
went to the M~ ch of
will be Harold Stover (Marketing)
Dimes.
Dick Wilson (Aircraft) and
Earl Lish (Engineering). In the
"prepared speech" contest will
be Glenn Ertell (Engineering),
Lowell Bashlor (Engineering) and
Irving Mater (Engineering).
Instructors for the three EfTrying out for the best written
fective Presentation classes are
paper submitted will be Bill
P. J. Caron {Aircraft), W. J.
East (Engineering) and Bill
Flynn (Employee Relations) and
Humphreys (Stock Room). Each
C. J. Allen (Mfg. Eng.) .
of these men has been selected
as the best in his class in the
particular category.
The three contests will be judged
lY S. D . Fendley, E . L.
McCleary and G. R. Petersen,
all of Marketing.
(Cont. column 2}
SAFETY SCORE
1, 202 days
5, 994, 329 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
General Electric has approximately 100, 000 more owners

than employees , according to a
recent analysis of the Company's
ownership. And women outnumber men as share owners,
according to the survey.
At the end of 1957, the total
number of share owners was
3 80, 107, an increase of 13, 583
during the year. Of these share
owners, approximately 158, 000
are women and 134, 000 are men.
Other shares are registered in
joint accounts or are held by
institutions, trust funds,
brokers, etc. No individual
owner holds as much as one tenth of one per cent of the
Company's stock.
The number of employees who
are also share owners has increased rapidly in the last few
years; the total now is 55, 000.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA EXTENSION DIVISION ANNOUNCES

SPRING TERM
The University of Virginia Extension Division has announced the beginning of its Sprit, _
semester of extension courses in Staunto n, Waynesboro and Fishersville. Courses in
Education, Engineering and Psychology will be offered during the Spring semester.
Undergraduate classes which will m e et at Waynesboro High School are listed below with
the starting date, time, room number, and tuition for each course. Registration for
all of these courses will be held at 7:30 P. M., January 30, at Waynesboro High School,
Room 201.
ENGINEERING 42. 21-2b:
Tuition $36. 00
CALCULUS II, February 3, 7:00 P. M., Room 201.
ENGINEERING 45. 54 MECHANICAL DRAWING II, February 3, 6:30 P.M.,

Room 205. Tuition $24. 00
ENGINEERING 43. 01: GENERAL CHEMISTRY II, February 4, 7:00 P. M.,
Room 306. Tuition $60. 00 , Lab fee $12. 50.
ENGINEERING 42.103: ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY, February 4, 7:00 P. M.,
Room 201. Tuition $36. 00.
PSYCHOLOGY El: GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, February 3, 7:00 P. M.
Tuition $25. 50
An undergraduate class in TEACHING OF ART will be offered, also.
for this class will be announced later.
The time and place
Graduate courses in Education whic h will be offered are listed below with the dates and
times for first meeting and registration, tuition, and location.
EDUCATION GE125C: TEACHING OF READING, first meeting and registration, Monday, January 27, 6:30 P. M., Main Parlor, Virginia
School for the Deaf and Blind. Tuition $31. 00.
EDUCATION GE142: TEACHING IN KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY
GRADES, first meeting and registration, Thursday, February 6,
6:30 P. M., Conference Room, Wilson Memorial High School.
Tuition $31. 00.
EDUCATION GEll4: MENTAL HYGIENE, first meeting and registration,
Thursday, February 6, 6: 30 P. M., Conference Room, Wilson
Memorial High School. Tuition $31. 00.
An undergraduate class in TEACHING OF ART will be offered, also.
for this class will be announc ed later.
The time and place

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Further information about these classes may be obtained from Mr. C. K. Landes, Local
Director, University of Virgini a E x t e n s ion Divis ion, Fi s h e r sville, Virginia. (Telephone
Staunton TU 6-5042).
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SltORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD HEWS - COURTESY Of WAY& ANO HEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 20
January
29, 1958
F or food a nd h ealth and lif e and l o v e, h e lp u s to b e g r ate ful and humble b e fore
Thee . Ame n .
TEMPORARY ORGANIZ ATIONAL
CHANGES IN QUALITY CONTROL
MADE BECAUSE OF HEAVY
LOAD
ERTELL, LISH, EAST WIN

CONTESTS
HUNTER APPOINTED MANAGERAIRCRAFT AND MILITARY

OPERATIONS
Winners in the Effecti ve Pre s e n W. A . Hunter has been appointed

tation c ontes t s last night we r e
Manage r -Aircraft and Military
Glenn Er te ll (Eng .) - best p r e Operat ion Sub-Section, effective
pare d talk ; Carl Lish (Eng .) F e bru ary 10, 1958, according to
b e st extemporaneous talk; and
K. N. Bush, Mgr . -Manufacturing.
B i ll East (Eng . ) - best w ritte n
i
paper.
I The ne w Sub-Section will be es1 t a blished on that date as part of
Last night's conte sts wer e t he
the Manufacturing Section. Mr.
main feature at a graduation d in- ; Hunter will be responsible for
n e r whi c h w as held at the W estl manufac turing engineering and
wood Restaurant for the 34 em- ) factory operations for all aircraft
ploye es who successfully c omI a nd military products.
p lated the 16 weeks E ffe cti ve
Pr e sentation Cours e .
J. F. Ponzillo , Manage rMate ria l s, h as been a ppointed

A c t i n g Manag er-Quality C o ntr ol,
Industrial Electronics and Re g ul ator Products, and B. Sussman
has been appointed ManagerQuality Control, Aircraft and
Milita r y P r oducts, Incoming I nsp.
and Test Equipment.
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..... nd have been made to help e a se
the extra heavy load i n t h e Quality
Control Operation a t pr esent.
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M r . Ponzillo will assume t he

t e mporary responsibili t ies i n t h e
Quality Control operation in ad d i tion to his dut i es a s ManagerM aterials.
POLIO CLINIC WILL BE HELD
IN WAYNESBORO TODAY AND
FRIDAY
Jud g es were S. D . F endley, E. L. j

M c C lear y, a nd G . R. P e ters e n ,
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all of Ma r k e ting. Instruc tors fo r I
the three E. p . clas ::-e s were Paul ! The model airplane on display in
C a ron (Air c r aft), Bill Flynn (Em- 1the Cafeteria Trophy Case is a
ploye e Relations) and Che t Alle n I sample of the models which will
; (Mfg . Eng.).
be produced by the SCOGEE Model
Airplane Club, whi~h will be
organized soon. Contact B.
Meeks (Prototypes) for further
i nformation.
A fr e e polio clini c w ill b e held at

the Waynesboro Hea lth Buil ding
today and Friday for r es ide n t s of
the Waynesboro area who w i s h to
receive their third immuni zation
shot.
T h e clinic will b e open from
12:00 NOON to 2:00 PM and from
,.-., 30 PM to 9:30 PM today a nd
,..c-om 12:00 NOON t o 2:00 PM only
on F riday.
The Loy al Order of Moose will

have a March of Dimes Dance at
the Moose Lodge, Bayard Ave . on
Satur day, February 1. Jimmy
Lunsford and his orchestra will
play from 9 to 1. Admission i s
$2. 00 per couple.
Here 1 s a n author with an inve nOf all the things y ou wear, your
t ive mind - - t he husband is takin g e xpre ssion is the most important.
the wife out f or dinne r. 11
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MARK THE DATE ON YOUR CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY12
THE RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE
WILL AGAIN
VISIT
SPECIALTY CONTROL DEPARTMENT
Plan to Give Blood

On That Day
Watch for details of the Bloodmobile Visit in a later

issue oi TODAY's NEWS
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J anua ry 30, 195 8
Sanctify the food we eat to the strengthening of our bodies and help us to
u se the strength to serve Thee and our fe ll ow man. Ame n.
Courses which will be offered

during the second term inc lude
typing, shorthand, bookkeeping,
business English, citi zenship
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English, an all - inclusive arts and The date on whi ch Mr . Sechrist
crafts course, apprentice ship
will assume his new duties will be
instruction, blue-print reading
announced later .
and hobby shop .
SPORTS
Students may register with M r.
Any driver who hits another car

in the parking l ot has an obligaon to find the owner of the other
ar and report the accident to
him. (T hink of how YOU would
feel if you discovered a dent in
the fender of YOUR car and no
one 11 owned up" to it. )
Damage to the right rear fen der of a green and white 1956
Chevrolet on Thursday,
J anuary 23, in Zone D.
Please contact Glenna Burn~
(Aircraft).
Damage to the right rear fe nd e r of a gi nger and white 1957
Plymo uth on Monday, Dec . 16,
195 7. Pleas e contact Mary
Har vey (Ai rcraft) .
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Charles D . Tolley, Principal,
Adult Night School, at the Wayne sIn the SCOGEE Bowling League
boro High School offic e. Tui tion
g ames last night, the Roll Tillers
is $10 for the 31 - hour term.
took 3 straight from Ertle 1 s
Turtles, the Cannon Balls defeatC lasses will meet between 7 and
9 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays. e d the Alley Cats 2-1, and the
Dynamic Five took the Retreads
2 -1.
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SAFETY SCORE
1, 204 days
6, 013, 759 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Bob Jone s took both High Single

(218 ) and High Triple ( 547).
S COGEE Girls 1 Basketball
SCOGEE Rifle Club will me e t

tonight at 7:00 PM sharp on the
Fishburne Range .
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H . S. Sechrist has been appointed

Manager - Aircraft and Military
Produc t Engineering Sub-Se ction,
a c cording to H . L. Palmer, Mgr . Enginee ring . In his ne w position,
Mr . Se c hrist will replace W. A.
Hunter, whose appointment as
Manager-Aircraft and Military
Operations was announced in
TODA Y 'S NEWS on Wed., Jan. 29 .
The Waynesboro Adult Night

School has announced the beginning of its second term on Feb . 3 .
Registration for the spring
semester is in progress and will
continue until classes begin.
We have had two more cases reported to us of damage to cars in

the parking lots, where the owner
of the damaged car has not been
contacted by the person who
caused the damage .
The two latest reports are:
SECHRIST APPOINTED M G R . AIRCRAFT AND MILITARY

PRODUCT ENGINEERING
WAYNESBORO ADULT NIGHT

SCHOOL ANNOUNCES SPRING
TERM
TWO CARS DAMAGED IN

PARKING LOT: R ESPONSIBLE
PAR TIES SHOULD CONTACT
OWNERS OF DAMAGED CARS
"What this house needs is automation!"
The B lackbir ds defeated the Redbirds 3 7-2 9 this week in the

Tuesday n i g ht SCOGEE Girls '
Ba s k etball League . Charlotte
Barnes (Air craft) was high scorer
for th e Blackbirds with 28 points ,
and J o yce Gr e ave r ~Furch.) l ed
the R e dbirds with 14 points .
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WO N DE R I N G
FO R
WHAT
YOUR
TO
II
DO
v A LENTINE"?
HERE 'S THE.ANSWER

TAKE HIM OR HER
TO THE
SCOGEE VALENTINE DANCE
Saturday, Feb. 8
at the
WAYNESBORO COU N T RY CLUB
9 to 1
Music by "The Melodiers 11

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Admission -
$ 2 . 20 p e r c ouple for members

$ 3 . 30 per c oupl e for non-membe rs
Get your tic kets now from one of thes e

SCOGEE membe rs
C. Spence r - M fg . Eng.
Gracie Lay ne - R egulator Asm .
Shirle y D e maste rs - El ec t . Asm.
Bob Ja c obs - E lec t . S t ock Room
Mary Bridgeforth - R epair & R e turn
Buddy Coffman - Mach i ne Room
Al McKech nie - Engineering Lab .
Ruth Gray - Di s pensary
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C . R. Minter - M ain t e nanc e

Mary A g nes Whe atly - Eng inee ring
Jane Bateman - Mfg . Enginee ring
Ros e Belak - Orde r /Sale s A ccounting
D . J. Trobau gh - Eng inee ring
Rub y Dick er so n - R e n ewal P arts
Peg gie Pattie - Qua lity C o ntr ol
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VOL. I V, NO. 22
COURTESY OF WAYB A ND NEWS VIRGINIAN
January
31, 1958
N ot only do we thank Thee for o ur food, b u t we thank T hee fo r J e sus C h ris t

our S avi or. Amen.
T HE ABILITY to speaK i n s everal
la n g uages i s valua ble , but the
a bility to keep your m o uth shut in
one is priceless .
The U n ivers i ty of Vir ginia

E x ten sion Divi s i o n will offer one
mo r e course in a ddition to thos e
announced o n the bac k p a ge of
TODAY ' S NE WS o n Tue sday.
J a nuary 28. The additional
course will b e T EACHING OF
ART. 3 semeste r h o urs, unde rgra d uate . Tuitio n i s $2S, SO . The
cours e will meet on Tue sday
from 7: 0 0 - 9: 4 0 ..P M a t M a ry
B a ldwin College A rt St udio in
S taunt on, b e ginnin g Feb. 4.
SCOGEE now has on dis p lay in the
Ca feteria trophy case two mode l
airplanes . T h ese a r e example s
of the work whic h will b e done by
the Mode l A i rp la n e C lub w hic h
wi ll b e organized s oon.
If you are inte r e s ted in joi n i n g
the Model Airp lane C l ub , pleas e
fi ll in the form b e low a n d drop i t
in the BALLOT B O X i n the
Cafeteria today.
I would like to par ti c i pate in a

S C OGEE Mode l Airp la n e Club.
''Now I'd just like to see m y s elf

forg et h e r birthday a n d our anni v ersary ! 11
Name
Sec tion
Ext.
SCOGEE DUES WILL BE

DEDUCTED IN FEBRUARY
The semi-annual deduction of
due s for SCOGEE members ($1. SO)
will be taken from the payroll
checks which will be rec.P.ived on
Friday, F e bruary 7 , by hourly
and weekly salaried P.moloyees.
Deduc tions from c heck of employees on monthly payroll will be
made in February and will be re fleeted in c hecks received on
February 28.
The c ollection of SCOGEE dues
h as been delaye d this year be cause of the SCOGEE Membership
Drive which was held recently.
SCOGEE BASK.l!:: T BALL ALLSTARS WILL MEET ROANOKE

T EAMS TONIGHT AT WAYNESBORO HIGH SCHOOL
Sp e cialty Control's SCOGEE
Basketball Alls tars , both men
and girls, will meet teams from
the R o anoke Industr y Control
D e p a rtment a t 8:00 o'clock
to ni ght.
Originally sc h e duled to be playe d at Roanoke , the game will be
played inste ad in the East Gym
of Wa yn e sboro High School.
No admi ssi on will b e charged,
but a free - will offering for the
Ma r c h-of-Dimes will be taken
a t t h e doo r.
SAFETY' JS BETTER THAN COMPENSATION./
Oo You
GET A 81/NG oNt t("
TAK.ttJ6 CHANCES?
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COURTESY OF WA YB AND NEWS VI RGINIAN
February 3, 1958
In the name of Christ we thank Thee for our food and pray that we may find
food for our soul also. Amen.
IUE ORDERS GE EMPLOYEES AT
TRENTON, N. J., OUT ON
STRIKE
General Elec tric employees at
T rento n, New Jersey, were calle d
out on strike on January 22 by the
IUE.
Using an illegal walkout on Jan.
14 as a beginning, the union
bosse s c alled the strike even
though the grievance had~been
processed through th e grie vance
procedure.
MAKING PLANS for the SCOGEE Valentine Dance are four members
of the Dance Committee, (above, left to right) Charlie Spencer (Mfg .
Eng.) - Tickets; Shirley DeMasters (Elec. Asm.) - Dance Chairman;
Grace Layne (Re g . Asm.) - Decorations; and Mary Bridgeforth (Rep.
and Return) - Publicity. The SCOGEE Valentine Dance will be held
Saturday, February 8, from 9 to 1, at the Waynesboro Country Club,
with music by 11 The Melodiers".
HALF OF Z ONE BIN PARKING
LOT WILL BE CLOSED FOR
REPAIRS WEDNESDAY
The North aisle of Zone B in the
Parking Lot (next to the Cafeteria)
will be closed We dne s day, Feb. 5,
so that necessary repairs can be
made.
The entire Parking Lot will be
open for use a gain on Thursday,
Feb. 6.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 208 days
6, 033, 189 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
The SCUGEE GLEE CLUB will

appear at the Community Sing
being sponsored by the New Hope
Mothers' Club at the New Hope
School tonight at 8: 00 PM. No
admission will be charged, but
used books will be accepted for
the community library.
The January 14 walkout was the

result of an employee's refus a l
to perform the work in a new
welding job.
The IUE later claimed that the
illegal walkout and the strike
were both based on another
grievance which was discussed
through the g rievance procedure
early in November.
SCOGEE ALLSTARS TAKE
ROANOKE TEAMS 42-35
AND 43-34
Specialty Control 1.s SCOGEE Allstars defeated two basketball
teams from Industry Control
Department in Roanoke Friday
night at Waynesboro High School.
Final score in the men's game

The Employee Store has a special was 42 _ 35 in favo>:" of the SCOGEE
group of 50 used salvage blankets
team, while the SCOGEE ladies
(with wires) on sale at $2. 00 each.
took their Roanoke rivals by
First come, first served.
43-34.
SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES PASS THE SIX MILLION MAN-HOUR

MARK WITHOUT A DISABLl.NG INJURY
Last week Specialty Control employees added another one million

man-hours worked without a lost-time accident to their already
excellent safety record, making a total of six million man-hours
worked without such a disabling injury.
In commenting on this achievement by Specialty Control employees,
Bill Perry, Safety Specialist, had this to say:
"It has become e vident that the employees o! this

Department a c cepted the challenge of last September to
reach the 10 million man-hours worked without having a
disabling injury.
reached.
Last week the 6 million hour mark was
I feel confident you will beat the challenge.
"We rank second in the Company for having the

best safety performance and the only reason we are not
in first plac e is because we hav e less man-hours worked.
Let's continue to build up those hours so our Department
will be in first plac e where it rightly deserves to be.
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5'0aTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEW$ - COUITE5Y Of WAYB ANO NEWS VllOINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 24
February 4, 1958
"All things c ome of Thee 0 God" and for all things we thank Thee now.
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SCOGEE Glee Club will meet at
7: 30 tonight in the Plant Auditorium. New members are welcome.
FOR RENT: House at 917 Sherwood Ave., 6 rooms plus bath,
2 porches, adequate closet space,
located on 1/2 a.ere l ot with s h ade
trees. Call WH 3 - 88 9 5 a f ter
3:15 PM.
ELEVEN FOOT FREEZER WILL

BE SOLD AT AUCTION THURS.
Amen.
RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE WILL

VISIT SPECIALTY CONTROL
FEBRUARY 12
An eleven cubic foot used GE

freezer-chest will be sold at
auc tion Thursday, February 6, at
4: 30 in the Maintenance Shop.
Used by Specialty Control Department in the Aircraft area for
approximately 10 years, the
freezer is in need of a clean-up
job, but is in good working order.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will

pay its first visit of 1958 to the
Department on Wednesday, Feb.
12, The Bloodmobile makes two
regular visits to Specialty Control
each year.
Specialty Control employees have

become some of the most dependThe freezer may be seen Wednes- ab.le blood donors in the area,
day and Thursday in the Mainte n- having broken all community
ance Shop. Terms at the auction records for donations during a
Thursday will be cash
.! North aisle of Zone B in the
Bloodmobile visit. At the last
Parking Lot (next to the Cafeteria)
i visit on Aug. 21, 1957, 177 pints
will be closed Wednesday, Feb. 5,
were collected! M o re than 200
so that necessary repairs can be
employees signed up to give
made.
blood for that visit.
Afte r the South aisle of Z one B is
Within the next few days, Specia lfilled on Wednesday, employees
ty Control employees will be
who normally park in that zone
approached by Blood Drive Chair should use the North Parking Lot.
men appointed in each area. At
that time, they may sign up for
A pair of pliers with r e d plas tic
an
appointed time to give blood on
handles has disappeared from the
February
lZ.. Appointments will
IBM Room. Will the person who
be
made
from
9:15 AM to 3:15 PM.
borrowed them please contact
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Don't forget the

SC OGEE VALENTINE DANCE
Saturday, February 8
Waynesboro Country Club
9"The leng ths h e goes to , to b eat

me to the Sunday paper s. 11
Musi c by "The Me lodie rs"
Blood donations will be made o n

Company time and employees will
be paid for the time lost. Approx.
imately eight people will be able
to give blood every 15 minutes
next Wednesday.
The Blood Drive at Specialty
Control is under the direction of
Bill P e rry, Employee Relations.
Mrs. Betty Steves is the Way ne s boro Blood Bank Coordinator.
By Frank Ketchum
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Mtnau
SAYS ...
fiOSllME
N TEDDY
ARE TOO
LITTLE TO
GIVE BLOOD...
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YOU'RE
NOT/
WHEN THE BLOODMOBILE VISITED SPECIALTY CONTROL

LAST AUGUST, WE BEAT OUR OWN RECORD AND THE COMMUNITY
RECORD BY GIVING 177 PINTS OF LIFE-SAVING BLOOD TO THE
BLOOD BANK.
LET'S BEAT OUR OWN RECORD AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY,

FEBRUARY -12.
SIGN UP TO GIVE BLOOD NEXT WEDNESDAY!
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VOL. IV, NO. 25
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WAYNESBO.RO, VIRGINIA .:
February- S; 1958
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Without food our body will die; without Christ our souls will die.
Thee for both just now. Amen.
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Father we thank
SPECIALTY CONTROL NEARLY LOSES SAFETY -RECORD

DEPARTMENT NARROWLY
MISSES BREAKING SIX MILLION
MAN -HOUR SCORE
Specialty Control employees

narrowly missed having their
e:cellent safety record broken
yesterday when an employee who
was hospitalized Monday night was
able to return to work Tuesday
morning.
~nting up the fact that the little
i..Juries are just as important as
the big ones, yesterday's near break in the Specialty Control
record came as a result of a
minor injury which was left untreated, and which later developed complications.
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The fifth point of the Department's
five-point Accident Prevention
Program is:
"If you do get hurt, no matter
how slight the injury, report
it and get first aid. 11
First shift employees should report all injuries to the Dis pens ary; second shift employees
should report all injuries to the
Sheet Metal Foreman.
If complications should set in at
,-.. me when the services of the
l.J1spensary are not available,
contact the Plant Physician. If
he cannot be reached, employees
may go directly to the Waynes-
(Cont. column 2)
DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE

FOR LOCAL INDUSTRIES WILL
BE HELD TODAY
Specialty Control Department wUl
act as host today to 54 repre sentatives of industr / press and
radio from Waynesboro and the
surrounding area at a special
Open Ho.u se to acquaint them with
some of the Department's achieve.
ments in the area of program
control,
High point of the meeting will be
a .demonstration of our numerical
positioning control as applied to a
Burgmaster drill. Guests will
a lso be given a demonstration of
a small milling machine controlled by magnetic tape.
SAFETY RECORD
(Cont. from col. 1)
boro Community Hospital
Emergency Room for treatment.
Remember, the little injuries
can be just as serious as the big
ones. Report every injury,
regardless of how small, and~
treatment immediately.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 210 days
6, 052, 581 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
' TODAY IS LAST DAY OF

REGISTRATION FOR ADULT
NIGHT. SCHOOL
Registration for cou-r ses in the
Waynesboro Adult Night School
program at Way!lesboro High
School will end t?night.
Classes which are open include
Woodworking, Arts 'an~ Crafts,
Business English, Citizenship
English, Bookkeeping, Shorthand,
Typing (Beginning ad Advanced)
and Blueprint Reading and
Mechanical Drawing~
Anyone interested in one of these
courses should sign up at 7:00
tonight at Waynesbor9 .High School.
~n
Apparatus Handoook #15

(Switchgears) has disappeared
from Room 205. Will the person
who borrowed it pleas'e return it
as soon as possible.
Don't forget the SCOGEE Valentine Dance, Saturday, Feb. 8,
from 9 to 1. Get your tickets now!
THE
BLOODMOBILE
IS COMING
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Mary Agnes Wheatley
Pe_te Ervine
Vinton Cook
.c. L. Kniskern .
Kathy Humphreya
Je~n Kent
Ann Shifflett
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Page Hollow;;Ly
Evelyn Irvin - ,
Anne Coffey .
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PaUline St~neburuer
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Demmie .Layne.
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Annie Foltz (Mach. Room & .. Piati.ng)
Gladys Carmichael (Aircraft)
Virginia Coffey (Aircraft)
Gaynelle Lilley (Air~raft) '
Mary Bell (Aircraft)
Genevieve. Deadrick "(Relays)
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Cr.~9la Church. (Coil and trans.) :
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Jack Moren (-Purchasing)

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Buelah Smith (Shipping).
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Bob Wirt (Aircraft Prod. )
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George Sheffer (Tool Room)
Charlotte. Harman (Prototype)
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Gr.acie Layne (Ind. Ele.ctronics)
Virginia Rexrode (Ind. Electronics)
Shirley DeMasters (Ind. Electr.onics)
Gerald Wade. (Sheet Metal)
. Helen Suddarth ('Ind. Ei~ctronics)

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February 6, 1958
"Praise God from Whom all bless ings flow", For food and power and
love and peace accept our thanks 0 God. Amen.
REPRESENTATIVES OF AREA
INDUSTRY, PRESS AND RADIO
SEE NUMERICAL POSITIONING
CONTROL IN ACTION
The Burgmaster
Drill to which
Specialty Control 1 s Numerical
Positioning Con50 representatives from industry,
trol has been ap press and radio in the Waynesboro
plied is pictured at
area were guests of Specialty
right, with Buddy
Control Department yesterday
Coffman (App.
afternoon at an Open House which
Trainee) demonwas given to demonstrate to them
strating the use
the application of the Departof the machine.
ment' s Numerical Positioning
An on-the-spot
Control.
demonstration of
this combination
J: eatured at the meeting was a
was given to 50
demonstration of a new Burgrepresentatives
master drill to which our Numer- of industry, press
ical Positioning Control has been
and radio from the W a ynesboro area yesterday.
applied for use in the Deparbnent.
BLOOD DRIVE UNDERWAY:
After the principles and appli CHAIRMEN WILL CONTACT
cations of the Numerical PositionALL EMPLOYEES
ing Control were explained to the
group by Dr. L. T. Rader, Genl. Specialty Control Blood Donor
An eleven cubic foot used GE
Manager, and other members of
Chairmen, the names of which
freezer-chest will be sold at
the Department, the guests
were announced in TODAY'S
auction today, at 4:30 PM in the
participated in an on-the-spot
NEWS on Wednesday, February 5, Maintenance Shop. Used by
demonstration of designing, prohave begun making their rounds
Specialty Control Department in
gramming, and drilling a part
of Department employees to sign
the Aircraft area for approximate.
using the new machine.
up donors for the Red Cross
ly 10 years, the freezer is in need
Bloodmobile visit on Wednesday,
of a clean-up job, but is in good
The new numerically controlled
February 12,
working order.
drill will be used by the Department to make parts for other
More than 200 volunteers are
The freezer may be seen today
numerical controls, and to help
needed to give blood next Wedin the Maintenance Shop. Terms
speed the development of electrinesday in order to make the Drive at the auction will be cash.
cal systems for new aircraft and
a success. Specialty Control
~ ssiles .
employees have set new comBecause of limited space, the
munity records in past Blood
number of tickets that will be
Liuests at the Open House also
Drives, by contributing more
sold
for the SCOGEE Valentine
saw a demonstration of a small
pints at a single Bloodmobile
Dance will be limited to 100. Be
milling machine controlled by a
visit than had ever been given
sure to get yours today !
magnetic tape.
before,
7
DON 'T BE "HALF-SHOT"
GET ALL THREE!
SEE YOUR DOCTOR

IF YOU DIDN'T GET
'EM FREE!
G ET YOUR POLIO SHOTS RIGHT AW A Y
*Protection a gains t
Paralytic
Polio
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11
Let the wo r ds of m y mouth and t he meditation of my hear t b e a cceptable i n T hy

sight 0 Lord 11 Amen.
CAFETERIA PHONE EXTENSION

MUST NOT BE USED
BY DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES
The use of the Mac k e telephone
extension in the Cafeteria by
causes unnecessary delay and
confusion for Macke personnel.
Because of the incr e ase d number
of people working in the Cafeteria
and because of the crowded
quarters in the Cafeteria stor e room, Specialty Control em - .oyees will no longer be allowed
"' recei ve calls or to make calls
on the Macke Cafeteria telephone
extension.
SPORTS
RESPONSE TO BLOOD DRIVE IS

GOOD: MORE DONORS NEEDED
SCOGEE BOWLING LEAGUE

The M e n's Ten Pin Bowling
League rac e tightene d up fur t h e r
this week as the bottom three
teams knocked off the top three
teams by ide ntic al s c ores of 2-1.
The C a nnon Balls took the
measure of the League leading
Dynamic Five, Ertle 1 s Turtle s
dumped the second plac e Alley
Cats, and the Retreads edged the
third plac e Roll Tillers.
Del Niede ntohl regained his front
position in the individual a v erage
race as he rolled t h e High Single
(192) and High Triple (520) for th e
night.
Information about calls received

will be announced over the public
address system in the Cafeteria
as before so that the c aller may
SCOGEE GIRLS TAKE BOTH
be contacted on anothe r telephone
GAMES IN CITY BASKETBALL
by the person who is being called.
LEAGUE TUESDAY
The first r e p orts b y Spe cialty

Control's Bloo d Donor C h airmen
show g ood r esponse from Department employe es in signing up for
t h e Red Cross Bloodmobil e visit
s c h e duled for W ednesday , Fe b. 12.
More volunteers are n e eded in .
order to e qual o r better the previous reco rd for blood donations
b y Specialty Controllers last
Augus t . In order to make t he
visit a complete succes s , there
must be more voluntee r s than
c an be handled in one day by the
Bloodmobile crew, because the r e
are always some wh o sig n up that
are unable to gi v e blood for
various reas ons.
Wh e n your B l ood Donor Cha irman
approaches you, take advantage o f
the opportunity to "bank your
blood". Sign up TODAY I
Both SCOGEE girls 1 basketball

teams c ame out on top in their
City Leag ue games Tuesday night.
Reggie Davis (Mach. Room) bought
the used GE freezer which was
sold at auction Thrusday afternoon in the Maintenanc e Shop.
Thelma Conner (Small Panels)
won a GE radio at the benefit
dance for the March of Di mes at
~e Moose Hall last Sat1.1rday.
Because of limited space, no
tickets for the SCOGEE dance
will be sold at the door tomorrow
night.
The SC OGEE Blackbirds defeated

the YMCA girls team 54-47, while
the R Anbirds walked away from
Acme with a score of 73-40.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 212 days
6, 071, 973 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
SECOND REPOR T S ARE EXPECTED FROM ALL BLOOD CHAIRMEN TODAY I
WOULD YOU HIRE YOURSELF?

Have you ever thought about whether or not you would hire yourself if you were an employer?
This might be a good indication for most of us as to just what kind of employees we really
are?
Most of us would probably hire ourselves. But could we tell why? What makes you a good
employee, worth m ore to the Department than someone else who might have been hired
instead of you?
It is difficult enough to measure someone else as an employee. It is even more difficult to
measure ourselves. Here is a list of questions which might help, however, if they are
answered honestly. Try them, and see how you "shape up" as an employee, in your own
opinion.
The more Yes answers, the better.
Yes
1.
Are you genuinely interested and enthusiastic about

your job?
2.
Do you like to work with others in a team effort?
3.
Are you considered friendly and congenial by your

co-workers?
4.
Are you trying to carry your share of the group effort?
5.
Are you known as one who
6.
Do you report to work on time - - and regularly?
7.
Do you carefully follow all Department rules and

regulations?
8.
Do you keep your personal appearance as neat as

possible?
9.
Do you conscientiously promote safety on and off the

job?
10.
Do you take your work problems directly to immediate

supervision?
11.
Does your work reflect neatness, accuracy and

thoroughness?
12.
Are you eager to learn more about your job?
13.
Are you anxious to help develop ways to make your job

more productive?
14.
Are you known as one who will l e nd a willing and

helping hand to anothe r employee?
fl
sticks to the job? fl
No
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Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
IUE STRIKE AT TRENTON GOES
J.NTO THIRD WEEK: PICKET
LINE GETS TOUGHER
275 General Electric employees at
Trenton, N. J., began their third
week without pay last Wednesday,
as the IUE bosses kept the illegal strike going.
A noticeable toughening of the
picket line became evident last
week, as only o ne person, the
plant manager, was allowed.by
the IUE agitators to enter the
~nt.
Beginning on January 22, the illegal strike was forced on the

Trenton employees, even though
the matter in dispute had not
been processed through the
3-step grievance procedure.*
Representatives of the Company
hav~ stated that they will not dis cuss the issue at hand until the
illegal strike is terminated and
mass-picketing ceases.
*********
February 10, 1958

Amen
CITIZENS' COMMITTEE
WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR HIGH
SCHOOL ATHLETIC .FIELD
IMPROVEMENT
A committee of interested citizens has been organized to raise
money for a Waynesboro High
School Athletic Improvement
Fund. The money will be used foz
improvements on the stadium at
Waynesboro High School and also
for a new lighting system for the
athletic field.
In order to help raise money for
the Fund a benefit dinner will be
given at the Waynesboro High
School East Gym on Monday,
February 17. Tickets will be
$10. 00 each, of which $7. 50 will
go directly into the Fund.
Members of Specialty Control
Department who have tickets to
sell for the dinne;r are H. W.
Tulloch, Mgr. -E & CR, E. A.
Brennan (Purchasing), C. L.
Hughes (Ind. Control Prod.),
C. Smith (Tool Mfg.) and J. R.
Neet (Marketing).
*ED. Note - According to the IUE

contract, in order for a strike to
be legal, it must not be started
until after the issue at hand has
gone through all three steps pro- Both SCOGEE Girls' .dasketball
vided by the grievance procedure. teams will practice tonight at
7:00 PM at Jackson-Wilson School
\
SAFETY SCORE
1, 213 days
6, 081, 669 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
AC CJ.DENT
DECREASE IN ORDERS WILL

BRING LAY -OFFS IN SHEET
METALAREA
A general decrease in orders for
Specialty Control products has
created a lack-of-work situation
in the Sheet Metal Area which
will result ill three employees
being laid off at the end of this
week, according to K. N. Bush,
Manager - Manufacturing.
The decline of sheet metal work
will actually take six people out
of the Sheet Metal area, but three
of these will be transferred to
other jobs in the plant in line with
the Department policy on senior ity.
Every effort has been made, and
will continue to be made, to provide sheet metal work in an attempt to prevent further lay-offs .
Attemps have been made to bring
in sheet metal work from other
GE plant locations, but lack-ofwork situations in other plants
has made it virtually impossible
to secure work from any of them.
It is hoped by Specialty Control
management that an increase in
orders which has been predicted
for the third quarter of this year
will materialize so that the employees who are being laid off
now may be recalled as soon as
possible.
In the event of recalls, the
Department policy on seniority
will be followed in all cases.
HOW THE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY SPARKS AMERICA'S PROGRESS
This' week is National Electrica,i We ek.We mark the lllth anni versary of the birthday of
Thomas A. Edison, a man of enterpris e and vision.
We also take time to analy ze some of the
gigantic accomplishments of the industry which Edison helped bring into being.
In 1878,. when his lamp was merely an idea, Edison persuaded a small group of 13 men
to risk their savit;igs in his venture -- forming the first of t he prede c essor c ompanies of
General Electric.
their money to
Today, nearly half a million General Electric share owners are risking
provide~
with the plants, machines, research, and innov ation needed to meet
customer wants.
Every new product developed by the electrical industry spreads progress as a pebble
spread~
ripples in a pond.
Ot.Uy a handful of men were employed by Edison when h e deve loped the first incande scent
lamp.
Today the electrical industry employes some 4, 000, 000 men and women.
Electric alone is 1957 provided an average 200, 000 more jobs than in 1939.
General
In General
Electric today, one third of all employees are working on products de v eloped since 1939.
Besides stimulating employment, each new product prov ides new opportunities f or
suppliers of parts and services, for distributors and dealers and for people in allied industries.
In making our products, we in General Electric use the products and services of some 42, 000
large and small suppliers.
Some 400, 000 distributors and dealers gain income from General
Electric products which they sell and service .

When Edison produced his electric lamp 79 years ago, his one product seemed to have
only one simple function:
it brought light into darkness.
But it also sparked the entire electrical
j.ndustry, which not only brings light into darkness but also eliminates much human drudgery ,
plays
a. vital role in our national defense, and provides better living for all America.
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VOL. IV, NO. 29
February 11, 1958
Dear Lord, we thank Thee for Thy care, the food we eat, the clothes we
wear; Be present with us everywhere. Amen.
HERTNER ELECTRIC
EMPLOYEES VOTE IUE OUT
In an NLRB election at the Hertner Electric Co. plant in Strongville, Ohio, recently, employees
voted the IUE out, 109 to 1. The
election, which came as a result
of a petition from Hertner employees, ended an IUE strike
which had been in progress since
last Fall.
T .a.st
year, the UE was ousted as

gaining agent by employees of
Hertner plant in Cleveland,
aio, in another NLRB decerti fication election.
IN THE STATE of Washington it
is against the law for a man to
hug a girl companion while driving a car. The solution is for
the girl to do the driving.
MORE THAN 200 SIGN UP AS

BLOOD DONORS
Eleven employees of Eastern

Airlines in Miami, Florida, are
attending the Systems Training
School at the Specialty Control
plant this week. The School is
conducted by the Aviation and
Defense Industry Sales group
that has its offices in the Specialty Control plant.
SCOGEE Glee Club will meet to night at 7: 30 in the Plant Auditorium. New members are
welcome.
Attendance at the SCOGEE

Valentine Dance last Saturday
night was the be st that a SCOGEE
dance has had in a long time.
Shirley DeMasters, Chairman for
the dance, wants to thank everyone who helped make it a big
success.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 216 days
6, 091, 365 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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under pressure. 11
More than 200 Specialty Control

employees hav e signed up to give
blood tomorrow when the Red
Cross Bloodmobile visits our
plant . Blood donations will be
made on Company time and emp l oyees will be paid for the time
lost.
Appointment slips will be re-
ceived today by all who signed up.
The slip will give the time for
each donor to report to the Plant
Dispensary. Donors should report promptly so that the steady
flow of donors will not be broken.
All donors who have blood donor
cards s h ould bring them to the
Dispensary so that the cards may
be brought up-to-date .
After registration at t h e Dispensary and a routine medical
check, each donor will proceed
to the Auditorium, where the
blood will be taken. Refreshments will be served to donors
after they have given blood. As
soon as possible, each donor
should report back to his workplace.
Helping with the Blood.mobile
visit tomorrow will be Dr. C. W.
Caulkins, Jr., Dr. J.P.
Anderson, and Dr. S. J. Crawford. Mrs. Betty Steves is the
Blood Bank Coordinator for
Waynesboro.
S TAUNTON NEWSPAPER ANSWERS UNION STRIKE THREAT
An e x cellent exampl e of the comple te disregard which many unions have for
the rig hts of employ ees to decide for themselves whether or not they will be
r e p resent e d by a union is the pr e sent attempt by the International Typographic al Union to get recognition by the Leader Publishing Co. in Staunton,
publishers of the Staunton News-Leader.
Afte r several demands that the publishing company recognize them without an
N. L . R. B. elect ion, the union hos ses recently threatened t o strik~ if the
comp a ny does not recognize them.
Last Monday, the management of the Leader Publisn1ng Company printed
their answer to the union 1 s strike threat. Part of that answer is reprinted
below.
"Leader Publishing Co. could command
no public c onfidence if it ignored the law
and delivered our employees into the
hands of a union without a se c ret
election as prescribed by law
"We abhor the thoug ht o f a strike and
the hardships it w ould inflict on nonstrikers, r e aders, advertisers and the
str ike rs the mselves. If need be,
h o w e ve r, The L e ader Publishing Co.
would ha ve no c hoice but to tak e a strike
whe n l eg al, de mo c ratic procedures have
b e en ignored. We shall take a strike if
we m ust, l e t the chips fall where they
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February 12, 1958
Be present at our tabl e, Lord; be here and everywhere adored. Thy

people bless, and grant that we may eat and drink to honor Thee. Amen.
PLANT AUDITORIUM WILL BE
REMODELLED: ST AGE AND
LIGHTING WILL BE IMPROVED
BLOODMOBILE VISITS
SPECIALTY CONTROL DEPT.
TODAY
The Specialty Control Auditorium

will get a new and improved stage
and a better lighting system as a
result of work which will begin
this afternoon.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile is

paying its first visit for 1958 to
Specialty Control today, and
more than 200 Department employees have volunteered to
donate blood.
The new improvements in the

auditorium are designed to increase its value as an effective
location for selling the Department's products, plans, and
)grams to our customers.
Appointment slips have been

sent out to all donors. The slips
give the time when each donor
should report to the Dispensary.
This is part of Specialty Control 1 s continued efforts to find

better ways of presenting our
products to our customers and
so do a better job of selling.
Employees whose appointments

are after lunch should remember
that fats (such as cream and
butter), meats, fried foods and
eggs should not be eaten for at
least four hours before the appointment.
The Auditorium will be closed

from 4:00 PM today until 4:00PM
Monday, February 17, so that
the work may be performed.
SMILE A WHILE
The nickel and penny aren't of
much value these days, but a
dime can serve as a fairly good
screw-driver.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 217 days
6, 101, 141 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
IUE THREATENS MILITANT

ACTION AT TRENTON PLANT
The Plant Manager of the GE
Trenton, N, J,, plant stated Monday that Trenton's Mayor had
made a deal with IUE bosses
which would limit the right of
access to the strike-bound plant
to only those "chosen by union
officials."
The charge came as a result of

a meeting Saturday between IUE
officials and the Trenton Mayort
at which the IUE bosses agreed
to let 11 salaried or supervisory
personnel" report to work
beginning Monday. (IUE agitators had used mass picketing to
keep all employees except the
Plant Manager out of the plant
last week.)
The IUE said, however, that if
GE attempts to import scabs or
strikebreakers, the "union will
deal with this attempt in the
USUAL IUE MILITANT MANNER.
The GE Plant Manager said that
all persons authorized by the
Company have access to the plant
without exception whether
salaried or hourly-rated.
A tough, tight mass picket line
has characterized the IUE
Trenton strike, which began on
January 22. Saturday's meeting
came about as an attempt "to
avoid violence on the picket line."
TAKE A LOOK AT THE ODDS!
Next time you're tempted to crowd the yellow light at the intersection,
or pass that "blankity-blank slow poke" half way up a hill, or take any
kind of short cut or chance while driving to save a little of your "valuable"
time, stop and think about this.
You're risking your whole remaining
lifetime to gain a very small second or two.
If you should wonder what
kind of a gamble this really is, just check these figures for the precise
odds you 1d be betting on
Age is
Approx. Life
Expectancy
Years
To Live
Seconds
To Live
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
55
60
65
65
65
65
65
65
65
65
65
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35
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25
20
1.5
10
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1, 419, 120, 000

1, 261, 440, 000
1, 103, 760, 000
946, 080, 000
77 8, 400, 000
620, 720, 000
473, 040, 000
315, 360, 000
157, 680, 000
If Your
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second
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second
Suppose someone walked up to you today and asked for odds like these on
a bet.
Suppose he said: "How's about betting $1, 419, 120, 000 against my
one buck?"
Yo ur answer is obvious.
Think about these odds the next
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Gracious Giver of all good; Thee we thank for life and food.
all we do or say; meet Thy 'favor through the day. Amen.
February 13, 1958

Grant that
ANOTHER RECORD SET IN BLOOD DRIVE

NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK
WILL BE FEBRUARY 16 - 22
SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES GIVE 179 PINTS OF BLOOD
A new record for Specialty Control and for the community was set by
Next week, February 16 - 22,
Department employees yesterday, as they donated 179 pints of life1958 is National Engineers Week.
saving blood to the Red Cross Blood Bank.
Sponsored by the National Society
The regular Bloodmobile crew and the volunteer help~rs who visited
of Professional Engineers,
National Engineers Week was
the plant yesterday were kept busy as a steady flow of donors moved
to the Dispensary for registration and a routine medical check, and
first observed in 1951 and has
been observed each year since
then on to the Auditorium where the blood was taken.
then. It is always scheduled for
IUE WALKOUT IN SCHENECTADY After giving blood, each employee
~e week of George Washington's
spent approximately 15 minutes
INVOLVES 74 EMPLOYEES,
rthday because our country's
resting in a special area set ajiide
RESULTS IN LACK OF WORK
first president was himself a
for
that purpose. Refreshments
FOR OTHERS
notable engineer.
were served to help restore
3nergy.
In connection with National
The IUE staged two walkouts in
Engineers week, several activiSchenectady last week, involving
The previous record for the
ties have been planned by
a total of 74 employees and cas - community for the number of
engineering groups in the coming more than 20 more to be sent pints donated in one day was set
munity.
home for lack-of-work.
by Specialty Control employees
at the last visit of the Blood:On Monday, February 17, at
The first of the two walkouts was mobile t.o our plant, on Aug. 21,
7:45 PM, a special 15 minute
in the Large Motor and Gener1957, when 177 pints of blood
radio program will be presented
ator Department, with 51 people
were collected.
entitled "Engineering Builds
involved. Later in the week 23
Broader Horizons". The proBill Perry (Emp. Relations),who
employees of the Large Steam
gram will be based on the Inter Turbine Department were called directed the activities for yesternational Geophysical Year.
out. Both walkouts were illegal, day's Bloodmobile visit,expressed
according to terms of the IUE-GE his appreciation yesterday afterA special Ladies Night Meeting
noon for the excellent job of signcontract.
of the Valley Engineers Club will
ing up volunteers which was done
be held on Wednesday, Feb. 19.
Because of the first IUE walkout, by the Blood Donor Chairmen.
more than 20 employees (whose
On Thursday, February 20, there work depends on the work of the
Specialty Control Department also
will be a joint meeting of the
appreciates the cooperation of
group that walked out) had to be
.American Institute of Electrical
sent home for lack of work
Mrs. Betty Steves, Blood Bank
.gineers and the National
Coordinator for Waynesboro, and
Society of Professional Engineers.
the Bloodmobile ere~ both regular
SCOGEE Rifle Club will meet
and volunteer helpers, who helped
Details of these activities will
today on Fishburne Range at
make yesterday's Bloodmobile
appear in TODAY'S NEWS next
7:00 PM.
visit a success.
week.
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EASY IN, BUT NOT SO EASY OUT!
In considering the promises made by the union organizer as he attempts to

persuade Specialty Control employees that they need the IUE to speak for them,
some employees may feel that they might 11 give it a try", that you can always
get out of the IUE as easily as you can get in.
BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE!
you want.
Once in the IUE, you cannot get out at any time
Article II, Section 2, of the national agreement between GE and the IUE says:
"Subject to applicable law, any such authorization shall be revocable by the individual employee by individual notice in writing mailed
by registered or certified letters to the
Company and the Local at any time between
September 20 and October 1 of any year dur ing the term of this Agreement, or of any
year during the term of each succeeding
applicable collective bargaining agreement
between the parties hereto, or 10 days prior
to the termination date of each such succeeding Agreement."
In other words, once IUE dues are being deducted from the pay of a member,
the only way to stop those deductions is by written notice with copies to the
union and the Company by registered mail during a two week period, only
once a year.
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VOL. IV, NO. 32
Feb
1958
This food, which Thou hast already blessed in the giving, bless also in
our partaking, that God may be honored, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
BU.RGMASTER DRILL WILL BE
DEMONSTRATED TO
EMPLOYEES
A number of Specialty Control
employees have expressed an
interest in seeing in action the
new Burgmaster Drill to which
the Department's Numerical
Positioning Control has been
applied.
Arrangements have been made
demonstrations of the
chine for Specialty Control
employees during the week of
.February 24 - 28. Those interested should contact their supervisor for further information.
Jim Torrance, Relay Sales, is

recovering nicely in Waynesboro
Community Hospital from an
appendectomy last Saturday
morning. He will probably return home in a day or two.
Tonight is the night for the VMI William and Mary basketball
game at 8:00 PM in the Waynesboro High School East Gym. And
don't forget the prelimininary
game between Hamburger Franks
. Wilson Rehabilitation Center
~ . ich starts at 6: 30 PM.
SPORTS
MAINTENANCE CREW CON TRIBUTES MORE THAN BLOOD

TO BLOODMOBILE
I
men 1 s
In the SCOGEE
ten pin
bowling league last Wednesday
night, the league-leading Dynamic Five came roaring out of their
slump and raised the old high
team triple by 1 pin to 2434 as
they swept all three games from
Ertle ' s Turtles. The Cannon
Balls also took their three games
from the Retreads and the Roll
Tillers continued their climb
toward the top by dumping the
second place Alley Cats 2-1.
John Dvorscak rolled the high
single of 210 for the night and
Del Niedentohl had the high triple
of 524.
The Specialty Control Ind. Elec.

Draftsmen beat the Aircraft &
Militay Draftsmen 55-32 in a
basketball game Tuesday night.
The game was played in the
Jackson-Wilson Gym.
SCOGEE 1 s girls basketball teams

won one and lost one in this
week's play. The Redbirds defeated the YMCA girls by a score
of 40-36, while the Blackbirds
defeated Newberry's, 50-32.
VALENTINE'S DAY
1958

made another contribution to the
Red Cross Bloodmobile Wednesday, in addition to giving a
record 179 pints of blood.
Noticing the damaged condition of
some of the tables and other
equipment used by the Bloodmobile in their regular visits,
members of Specialty Control 1s
Maintenance crew straightened
and tightened le gs , repainted,
and made general repairs on the
equipment while the blood donations were being made.
OUTSTANDING BLOOD DONOR

AREAS LISTED
Response to the Red Cross Blood
Drive by all Specialty Control
employees was exce llent this
week. However, some areas did
such an exc ellent job that they
should be especially congratulated.
Areas which had unusually high
participation (listed with the
Blood Donor Chairmen) were the
Machine Room and Plating Room,
Annie Foltz; Tool Room, George
Sheffer; Wire Harness, Mary
Bell; Ind. Control Prod., Bob
Smiley; Aircraft and Mil. Eng.,
Jean Kent; and Elec. & Reg.
Eng., Mary Agnes Wheatley.
ON-THE-SPOT PICTURES TELL THE ST '

BREAKING B LC
Pictures on these pages show Specialty Cont

to donate a record 179 pints of blood to
: R
First stop for Specialty Control blood donors on Wednesday was the Dispensary, where they registered and then
received a routine medical check. Pictured above, waiting to complete the medical check are (front to rear) Fay
Cash (Aircraft), Patsy Massie (Aircraft), John Lotts
(Relay Prod.), Vinda Sullivan (Aircraft), and A. B.
Valz (Eng.). On the other side of the room (rear), Willie
Almarode (Relays) has his medical report reviewed by
Dr. C. W. Cauilkins, while Pauline Chandler (Aircraft)
and Earline Elkins (Relays) are pictured as the routine
medical check is completed for them by volunteer Red
Cross workers.
At the second step in yesterday's

blood donor routine, bottles were
prepared to receive the blood. At
right E. L. McCleary, Mgr'. -Elec.
Motor Drive Sales, is given a
bottle by Mrs. L. T. Rader, while
Mrs. F. D . Gelsleichter (seated,
left) and Mrs. Harold Stover
(seated, right) look on.
)RY OF SPECIALTY CONTROL'S RECORD ODMOBILE VISIT
ol employees as they teamed up on Wednesday

ed P""'--oss Blood Bank.
Facilities for taking the blood donations we re set up in

the Plant Auditorium. Pictured above giving blood are
Specialty Controllers Fred Miller {Machine Room), front;
Carleton Barrett {Methods and Planning), left; and Paul
Myrtle (Machine Room). Bloodmobile nurses pictured
are Mrs. H. L. Landes (le f t) and Mrs. P H. Blankenship.
After giving blood, the donors

rested for 15 minutes before returning to work. Refreshments
were provided to restore energy.
At l eft, John Beatty (Aircraft
Test) receives a 1 gallon donor pin
from Mrs. Betty Steves, Blood
Bank Coordinator as he sits at the
refreshment table. Also pictured
is Archie B a rne tt (Stock Room).
SALE
G. E. CLOTHES CONDITIONER
MODEL DA-920R
SPECIAL E M PLOYEE
PRICE
NOW UNTIL MARCH 15
$179.75
i Retail P r i ce .. , , , $314. 95
I Regula r Employee Price,,$199.75
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SPECIAL Employee
Price . $179.75
Clothes C onditioner
with automatically controlled high-speed , low temperature drying
MODEL DA-920R
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VOL. IV , NO. 33
February 17, 1958
A ccept our thanks for this food and keep us throug h t he hou rs of thi s day.
For Christ's sake we ask it. Amen.
GE ANNOUNCES EMPLOYEES
EDUCATIONAL LOAN PROGRAM
FOR 1958 -59
MAGNETIC TAPE CONTROL

TRAINING SCHOOL WILL BE
CONDUCTED HERE
The General Electric Co, has

announced its continuation of the
Employees Educational Loan
Program and the S c holarship
Award Program for the 1958-59
acadezn.ic year .
Specialty Control D e partment

will conduct a Magnetic Tape
Control Training Course from
February 17 - 20, for representatives of customers of t h e
Department.
Under the plan, GE employees

with one year of continuous
service may obtain loans up to
$1, 000 for their own use or for
~e use of their children for
.11-time under-graduate c ollege
study. The current rate of
interest on these loans is
3-1/2% per annum.
A limited number of Schola rship
Awards will be made to some
students for whom an Educational
Loan has been applied for. Only
an application w hich indi c ates
outstanding scholastic ability
or unusual need, will b e submitted by the Department in
the Scholarship Award compe tition.
Scholastic standing, financial
need, character and general
merit are the factors considered
in approving loans or scholarships.
The student for whose use the
loan is granted must be a high
school g raduate or must be a
~ndidate for graduation before
J beginning of the academic
year for which the loan is to be
used.
(Continued Column 2)
Representatives of machine tool

manufacturers and their user c ustomers will participate i n t h e
program, part of which will be
conducted at the plant and part
at the Hotel General Way ne.
Twenty three customer representatives are expected to
attend.
Latest reports indic ate that

Howard Shifflett (Contour s ) is
progressing as well as can be
expec ted. Howard is in the
University of Virginia Ho spital.
EDUCATIONAL LOANS (Cont.
from Column 1)
Applicatfons for Employee
E ducational Loans must be sub mitted before April 15, 1958, if
the applicant is to b~ considered
for a S cholar ship Award. The
application should include a
trans c ript of the student's g rade s
as well as three letters of
recommendation. Forms and
further information are available from Bill Perry, Employee
Relations .
NATIONAL ENGINEER'S
WEEK ACTIVITIES
A special 15 minute radio program w ill be presented over
WAYB tonigh t at 7:45 P M .
The p r ogram, which will be
based on the International
Geophys ical Year will be
entitled " Engineering Builds
B roader Horizons."
T he Valley Engineers Club will
have their first annual
L adies Night o n Wednesday,
F ebruary 19, at t he H o tel
G ene ral Wayne. Dr. George
P erkins w ill address the
group on the subject
"Aluzn.inum in Your L ife."
A social hour will open the
meeting at 6:15 PM, with
dinne r at 7:15 PM. Tickets
a r e available from Charlie
Thompson (Eng.) and Jim
Ho_y leman (Quality Control).
A join t meeting of t h e American
Institute of Electrical
Engineers and the Nati onal
S ociety of Professional
Engineers will be held o n
Thursday, Feb. 20, be g i nni ng
at 6:15 at t h e Thomas J effe rso n
I n n in Charlottesville. Speake-r
for the o c casion will be Dr .
T h o mas H u g h es o f Was hington
and Lee Uni v ersity_, :R:e-s-e!'-atien-s-shOtJ.l~ed by
Tues day mor ni ng from D. B .
S chnei der.
Engineering Builds Broader Horizons

.
FEBRUARY 16-22, 1958

Sponsored by : NATIONAL SOCIETY o F PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
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F eb ruary 18, 195 8
Our F athe r in heaven, with gratitude we acknowledge rhee as the Giver of

e very good and pe rfe c t gift. We thank Thee in His name. Amen.
NATIONAL ENGINEERS'
WEEK ACTIVITIES
The Valley Engineers Club will
have their first annual Ladies
Night on Wednesday, February
19, at the Hotel General Wayne.
Dr. George Perkins will
address the group on the subject "Aluminum in Your Life".
A social hour will open the
meeting at 6:15 PM, with dinner
'it 7:15 PM. Tickets are available from Charlie Thompson
(Eng. ) and Jim Hoylman
(Quality Control).
A joint meeting of the Ame r i can
Institute of Electrical Engineers
and the National Society of
Professional Engineers will be
held on Thursday, Feb. 20,
beginning at 6:15 at the Thomas
Jefferson Inn in Charlottesville.
Dr. Thomas Hughes of Washington and Lee University will
speak o~ the subject "THE
ELECTROCUTIONER ~
CURRENT.
MORE REDUCTION IN FORCES

RESULT FROM DECREASED
ORDERS
22 SUGGESTIQ.l' AWARDS MADE:

SHARPE AND ALMARODE
RECEIVE $50 EACH
The general decrease in orders

for Specialty Control products,
which was r eported in TODAY'S
NEWS on February 10, will
result in furthe r reductions in
force at the end of this week.
Seven employees will be laid off
for lack-of-work, effective
February 21; three from the Coil
and Trans f ormer Area, two from
Wire Harness and two from the
"Potting" Area.
T wo Specialty Controllers receivec

suggestion awards of $50. 00 each
yesterday; while twenty others
we re a w arded checks for various
amounts be cau se their suggestions
were adopted.
Continuing efforts are being made

to keep further reductions at a
minimum. Wherever it is possible, employees are transferred
into other jobs. Any vacancies
which oc c ur, due to employees
leaving for any reason, are b eing
filled from within.
Nellie Sharpe (Wire Harness)

received a $50. 00 a ward for a
suggestion involving lace s in a
cable assembly; and Willie
Almarode (Micro -Min. Relays)
was a warded $50. 00 for his suggestion concerning ne w sleeving
on terminal board leads .
Others who receive d Suggestion

Award checks yesterday were
Isabe ll Fitz ge ra ld (Prototype),
Ben Williamson (Maintenance),
Arthur Morris (Prototyp e ), Ruth
Campbell (Aircraft), Curtis
Whenever it does become necessar Ball (Quality Control), Carl Cash
to reduce for ce s, the Department's (Coil Winding ), Robert Saunders
seniority policies are being
(Production), Preston Hippeard
followed in every case.
(Quality Control) , Robert Harner
(Maintenance), Wade Hutchinson
(Potting), Doris Demastu s (Ele c . ),
Luc ille Mace (Micro-Miniature),
L. B. Coffman (Apprentice). John
Long (Sheet Metal), Mareta
Bowles {Small Cables), Virginia
Coffey (Small Cables). Guy Coffey
Charlie Hughes, Supv . - Ind.
{Contours), Marshel Fitzgerald
~ntrol Production, is recovering
{Machine Room), Erma Morris
ely after being operated on
(Micro-Miniature), and Mae
Saturday. He is at the Wayne sborc
Heatwole
{Air c raft).
Community Hospital.
"I guess you know who ' s the
boss in that famil y ! "
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VOL. IV, NO. 35
F e bruary 19, 1958
Our Father in heaven, with gratitude we acknowledge Thee as the Giver of

every good and perfect gift. We thank Thee in His name. Amen.
SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOY 23 CUSTOMEREES RECEIVE PRAISE FOR
REPRESENT A TIVES WILL BE
PACKARD BELL, THOR JOB
IN SPECIALTY CONTROL PLANT
TODAY
Employees of Specialty Control
Department were congratulated
recently for their excellent
performance in getting out the
3 KVA frequency converters
ordered for the Packard Bell and
Thor program.
In a letter to D. O. Dice, Mgr. Marke ting , from T. I. Bruce
Aircraft Motor t>pecialist in
~ Angeles, it was pointed out
t. __ c the customer was extremely
pleased and impressed with the
way Speci alty Control employees
apptoached the problems of engineering and manufacturing this
difficult job.
As a result of the fine job done
by Department employees, the
General Electric Company will be
the only approved source of this
particular equipment for the
Packard Bell and Thor job.
A movie "Jamaica Isle of Progress" will be shown tonight at

the Valley Engineers Club First
Annual Ladies Night. There
~l also be an address by Dr.
)rge Perkins, as announced
before. The meeting will begin
at 6:15 PM at the Hotel General
Way.ne.
-.

our plant today 23 customerrepre sentative s who are participating in a four-day Magnetic
Tape Control Training School
conducted by the Department.
The school began M nday with
sessions at the Hotel General
Wayne, and will continue through
Thursday with the r e maining
meetings being held in the plant.
Pr esent for the school are Dave
Alkire, C a rl Theis, Malcolm
Curry, Aluminum Co. of
America; E. W. Mahuson, Consolidated Machine Tool Co.;
John McGee, Stanley Turner,
Gray Tool Co.; Bruce Burgess,
Kearney and Trecker Corp.;
J. Rackerby, Marquardt Aircraft Co. ; W. Knox, M.
Palumbo, Morey Machinery Co.;
A. L. Davis, Larry Lenihan,
Earl Killonen, North Ame rican
Aviation; James Boiseau, Al
Scardepane, Charles Schuhanek,
R e public Aviation; Russell Jo hn son, Reynolds Metals Corp. ;
Frank Brzostek, Robert Varley,
C. E. Ch.a pman, C. E. Van
Schaick, J ::i seph Pour, E. A.
Yates all from other General
Electric Departments.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 224 days
6, 149, 861 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
SPECIAL SERVICES IN AUDITORIUM WILL MARK LENTEN

SEASON
In honor of the Lenten season,
which begins today, Specialty
Control employees will have the
opportunity of participating in a
series of brief worship services
in the Plant Auditorium. The
first of the Lenten services will
be held next Wednesday during
lunch time. (No service will be
held today be c ause the present
work on the Auditorium has not
been completed.) Other services
will be held on following Wednes _
days until the end of Lent.
Services will be held at 11: 30,
12:00, 12:30 and 1:00 on each of
the Wednesdays, and will last
from 10 - 15 minutes each. The
services are scheduled to coincide with either the beginning or
the end of each of the seven
overlapping lunch periods.
Conducting the brief periods of
worship will be members of the
Waynesboro Ministerial Asso c: ,
Yesterday's NEW 'S reported that

seven employees would be laid
off for lack-of-work effective
February 21. In addition to
these, seven more employees
who were h i red on a temporary
basis, will have their employment terminated because the
temporary work situation is
terminated.
HARD W O RK AND TEAMWORK AT SPECIALTY CONTROL
A ni ght of har d work, a lot of hope, and a little luck thrown in got the heating
system at Specialty Control operating Tuesday morning, and so enabled
D epartme n t empl oyees to car ry o n as usual, in spite of an unusually cold
spell that has brought s.ome activity t o a complete halt in many parts of
Easte rn United States .
As near- zero and sub-zero t e mperatures gripped the entire Eastern Seaboard
in the wake of the heaviest snowfall in many years, suppliers of natural gas
throughou t the area were forced to curtail i ndustrial consumption in order to
assure adequate heating for h omes, schools and hospitals. The Virginia Gas
Distribution Corporation informed Specialty Control Monday that our gas consumption mus t be cut to 25% of normal until the extreme temperatures break.
An immediate changeover to oil was begun (the Department's boilers will
operate on gas or oil) but it was discovered that the oil supply (36, 000 gallons
of No. 6 Bunker 11 0' fuel oil) was frozen. Attempts to bring the oil to operati ng temperature (around 100 degrees) failed Monday afternoon, due to the
technical diffic ultie s involved in preheating this low grade oil.
Word had already g one out that the plant would not be open Tuesday because
of lack o f heat, when the temperature o f the oil supply finally began a slow
incr ease . Encouraged by this, members of the Maintenance Crew worked
all night to bring the oil to a temperature w h ere it could be pumped into the
boilers for s hort periods of time.
Then, being careful not to exceed the limitations imposed on all industry in
the area b y the Virginia Ga s Distributing Corp., heat w as restored in the plant
with gas. As soon as the proper temperature was established, the changeover
was mad e to oil, and a series of changes from gas to oil was begun in an
effort to keep the plant open.
By Wednesday mornin g, near-normal operation of the boilers on oil was
possible and a supply of higher grade oil, which had been ordered Monday, was
on the way. Things were pr ett y well back to normal.
What is mor e, employees all over the plant made every effort to get to work
on short noti ce. Even thou gh many had been told on Monday night that we
would b e shut down on Tuesday, they later got the word through radio, TV,
friends , or neighbors that work would proc eed. Enough people reported so
that work of the plant could continu e. So once again hard work and teamwork
at Spe cialty Control overcame an emergency.

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VOL.- IV, NO. 36
February 20, 1958
We thank Thee, our heavenly Father, for all the manifestations of

Thy kindness, for this food, for the joy of feeling Thee in our hearts. Amen.
AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
RECORDS SMASHED BY
NUMERICALLY -CONTROLLED
MILLING MACHINE
RECENT SUGGESTION AW ARD WINNERS RECEIVE CHECKS
A giant "pushbutton" milling

machine has written a new chapter in aircraft production history
in Burbank, Calif. , by effecting
savings up to 90 percent on complex aircraft production parts.
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A new tape-controlled milling

machine, developed for Lock~ed Aircraft Company by
jdings and L e wis Machine
Tool Company and equipped with
an electronic control system
designed by the General Electric
Company, set the new record
while turning out parts for
Lockheed's F -104 jet Starfighter.
Operating instructions are re corded on magnetic tape similar
to that used on ordinary tape
recorder s. These instructions
are then transmitted electronically to the milling machine's
cutting tools, which respond to
the commands by carving away
excess metal to create a nearperfect aircraft part. By replaying this tape over and over again,
this process enables the manufacturer to reproduce these
parts with almost no dependence
on manual operations.
~hen
used in full production, the

~ll will make a series of major
parts for Lockheed's F-104 jet
Starfighter with 11 substantial
reductions " in tooling, cost, and
(Cont. Column 2)
'
For his suggestion concerning

new sleeving on terminal board
leads, Willie Almarode (MicroMin. Relays) receives a $50. 00
check from his foreman, Bob
Strack.
Nellie Sharpe (Wire Harness)

receives a $50. 00 award from
F,oreman Paul Caron for h er
suggestion involving laces in a
cable assembly.
BURGMASTER DRILL
DEMONSTRATION
NUMERICALLY -CONTROLLED
MILLING MACHINE ... .
(Cont. from Col. 1)
The demonstration of the Burgma:ster machine equipped with

Numerical Positioning Control
will be held next week as explained in Today's News of Feb. 14.
Individual foremen and supervisors will be contacted on
Friday for the names of their
personnel desiring to see these
d emonstrations. Anyone wishing to see this machine demonstration should notify their immediate supervisor today.
l ead time, according to Dr. L. H.

Ferrish, Lockheed's coordinator
of numerical control.
The operator's functions in this
all-automatic mill consist of
setting the machine and pushing
the start button. The machine
does the rest and from that point
on, the operator stops the machine only to change cutting tools.
The General Electric magnetic
tape control is manufactured by
the Company's Specialty Control
Department.
I.
Ann Shifflett r epor ts that the

doctors are very satisfied with
the progress her husband
Howard (Contours ) is making at
Univ. of Virginia Hospital. He
has now regaine d c ons c iousness
and is able to r e cognize people.
ELECTRIC
BLANKET
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,t:'Jlt.ST C..OME - lJP.ST Sl"VED

CLEARANCE ON
1957 BLANKETS
4-PB18'A4 Deluxe Blankets
Twin Bed-Single Control
Reg. Employee Price
Special Employee Price
CLEARANCE ON
1957 BLANKETS
$22. 25
$14. 95
2-PB18Al Peluxe Blankets Double Bed

Single Control
Reg. Employee Price
$25. 95
Special Employee Price $17. 95
1-PB 18A2 Deluxe Blanket
Double Bed Dual Control
Reg. Employee Price
2-PB16B4-C Twin Bed Blankets
including Control, Custom

Contoured Slumber Cover
Blanket
Reg. Employee Price
1958 G. E. Automatic Deluxe Blankets ..

As sorted Colors
Al 1 - TWIN BED, Single Control
Straight Blanket
- DOUBLE BED, Dual Control
Straight Blanket
Reg. Employee Price

$18. 50
Reg. Employee Price
$29. 65
Special Employee Price $26.95
A2 l - TWIN BED, Single Control

Contour
Reg. Employee Price

$21. 95
A.22 - DOUBLE BED, Single Control

Contour
Reg. Employee Price

$25. 95
Special Employee Price $23 .95
A23 - DOUBLE BED, Dual Control

Contour
Reg. Employee Price

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COURTESY Of WAYI ANO NEWS VlltOINIAN
:February
2i: '19ss
Bless Thou this food to the ~trength of our bodies and feed us "1th that bre ad
which cometh down from heaven. Amen. '
REVIEW COURSE FOR VA.
PROF. ENGINEERS EXAM WILL
BE OFFERED
A special review course to help
engineers prepare for the
Engirieer-In-Training' portion of
the Virginia Professional Engineers Examination will be offered
by the University of Virginia
Extension Division.
Scheduled to begin Monday,
March 3, the ten - session course
1 be taught at Waynesboro High
ol. Classes will be held on
,days and Wednesdays from
1 :-00 to 10:00 PM.
Registration will be held on Monday, February 24, at the High
School, from 7: 30 to 8: 30 PM.
Tuition is $20. 00.
In addition, a review course for
Part II of the Professional Engineers Exam may be organized if
enough interest is expressed.
Anyone interested should contact
Mr. C. K. Landes, Local
Director, Univ. of Va. Extension
Division, Fishersville, Virginia.
Tuition for the four-session
course on Part II of the Exam
would probably be $10. 00 if an
enrollment of 10 students can be
obtained.
SMILE A WHILE
Nomen are not dangerous, why
do men always increase their insurance when they marry?
IUE PREVENTS TRENTON EMPLOYEES FROM RECEIVING PAY
SCOGEE BOW LING
As the IUE strike at the Trenton,

N. J., .General Electric Plant
continued, union bosses last
week created an additional hardship for employees who were
forced out an strike.
In the Men's Ten Pin Bowling

League Wednesday, the Roll
Tillers climbed into second place !
I
Employees were informed by
as they dumped the Cannon Balls I
letter that they could come in
2 -1; the League leading Dynamic
and pick up their paychecks due
Five swept 3 games from the exthem. The foremen were to
second place Alley Cats. T.n the
pass these checks out to the emthird match Ertle's Turtles took
ployees.
2 out of 3 from the Retreads.
I
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Dan O'Donnell rolled the High

Single of 207 and Joe Belak and
Del Niedenfohl rolled identical
High Triple scores of 503.
Congratulations to Helen Morris

(on leave from Incoming Insp.)
small shots
a nd Arthur (formerly of Prototype)
on the birth of a baby girl last
Saturday. She weighed 6 lbs. 14
oz. and they have named her
Cynthia Ann.
SAFETY SCORE
l, 226 days
6, 169, 253 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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When the time came for the employees to be paid, the IUE refused to let the foremen and payroll employees into the plant.
After two weeks without pay for
GE employees at Trenton, the
IUE p-revented their dues-paying
members from receiving wages
already earned.
SCOGEE ELECTIONS WILL BE THURSDAY, MARCH 20
Elections for officers to serve in 1958 will be held by SCOGEE on Thursday, March ZO.
At a meeting of the SCOGEE Nominating Committee this week, nominations were made
for President, Vice President, Secretaryt Treasurer and Directors. Committee
nominations appear at the bottom of this page.
Additional nominations may be made by petition with the signatures of at least 35
members. All nominations by petition must be turned i n to Warren Johnson, Ruom 106,
byFRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1958.
Serving on the SCOGEE Nominating Committee were Jim Cross (Marketing), Warren
Jonnson (M~thods and Planning), Sunny Miller (Eng. Lab.), Pam Pattie (Switchboard),
Peggy Pattie (Quality Control), and Charlie Spencer (Time Standards).
COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS FOR SCOGEE OFFICES

President
Sunny Miller, Engineering Lab.
Billie Meeks, Prototype
Vice President
Warren Johnson, Methods & Plng.
James Austin, Incoming Inspection
Secretary
Mary Bridgeforth, Rep;. & Return
Pam Pattie, Switchboard
Treasurer
Sherwood Black, General Books
Don Trobough, Engineering
Board of Directors (Vote for 7)

Bill Hughes, Marketing
Lowell Bashlor, Standards Eng.
Peggy Pattie, Quality Control
Inez 0 1 B~ugh, Aircraft
Shirley DeMasters, Electr onics
Phil Bee son, Methods & Planning

Gracie Layne, Regulators
Dukie Gum, Transcribing
JoAnn Anderson, Engineering
Robert Jacobs, Elec . Stockroom
Names of any of the nominees for President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer
(above) may be written in for election to the Board .of Directors without a petition
being submitted.

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S'O ITS, NATIO NAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYll AN D NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 38
February 24, 1958
0 Lord God, heavenly Father, bless unto us these Thy gifts , which of Thy tender
kindness Thou hast bestowed upon us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
IUE CALLS OFF ILLEGAL

TRENTON STRIKE AFTER
FOUR FRUITLESS WEEKS
The IUE called off its four -week
old illegal strike at the Trenton,
N. J., GE plant Wednesday,
after a membership vote showed
that Trenton employees were no
longer willing to go without pay
in support of the union bosses.
Beginning on January 22, the
strike was called by the IUE
- en though the grievance had
..ot been processed through the
3-step grievance procedure.
Company representatives have
not been willing to discuss the
matter in dispute until the il legal strike was called off and
mass -picketing ceased.
As the strike went into its last
week, the IUE refused to let
members receive their paychecks due them, which Company
management attempted to hand
out. Foremen who were to give
out the checks and payroll
personnel were not allowed into
the plant by the IUE pickets, and
so they were unable to distribute
the paychecks.
SPECIALTY CONTROL RECEIVES UNSATISFACTORY RATING ON

AEC INSPECTION
Specialty Control Department received a rating of UNSATISFACTORY
on an Atomic Energy Commission Inspection which was held recently by representatives of the AEC, the Sandia Corp. (AEC contractors) and Bendix Corp. (which supplies equipment to Sandia, includ ing relays purchased from Specialty Control).
Although the inspection was conducted primarily in the Re lay Area,
the general condition of the entire plant was considered in the report.
The UNSATISF AC TORY rating on the Inspection means that the
Department could lose its position as a supplier of relays to Bendix
unless corrections are made in the next few months to bring the
rating up. With this rating, the Department is allowed to continue
work on present orders, but must take corrective action immediately. All corrective action must be complete within 6 months, and a
report must be issued every 30 days showing progress on the corrective action.
Among the things on which the UNSATISFACTORY rating was based
were POOR HOUSEKEEPING and USE OF VERBAL INSTRUCTIONS.
EMPLOYEES ASKED NOT TO
SMOKE IN RELAY AREA
As part of an attempt to "clean
up" the Relay Area after the UNSATISFACTORY rating in the
recent AEC Inspection (see
column 1), employees have been
asked to refrain from smoking
in that area, beginning Monday.
Signs have been posted to remind employees of the necessity
for keeping this area free of
smoke and ashes.
ictors report that Pete Shifflett

(1:;ontours) continues to improve .
He is fully conscious and easily
recognizes people.
L
The new NO SMOKING re striction applies to those who

work in the Relay Area as well
as those who enter the area for
any reason.
Included in the housekeeping

report were general untidiness
and dirt, dirty trays being used
for clean parts, and unidentified
material lying around.
In the report on the use of verbal
instructions it was pointed out
that verbal instructions should
be confirmed in writing as soon
as possible .
A REGULAR PLANT INSPECTION WILL BE HELD TONIGHT. Our UNSATISFACTORY
rating on the recent AEC inspection points out a need for
extra housekeeping effort by all
of us. Let's make tonight's
inspection results the VERY
BEST YETI
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VOL. IV, NO. 39
February 25, 1958
The eyes of all wait upon Thee, 0 Lord; Thou openest Thine hand ,and satisfiest the
desire of every living thing, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SPECIAL TY CONTROL
CHORALIERS NEW NAME FOR
GLEE CLUB
RANKIN AND HARNER RECEIVE

WISE OWL AW ARDS
Two more Specialty Control emThe Specialty Control Choraliers

ployees have been added to the
is the new name adopted by the
list of those who have prevented
SCOGEE-sponsor ed s inging group, eye injuri es by wearing safety
formerly known as the Glee Club.
glasses . Wise O wl awards were
At a m eeting on February 11 the
presented last week to Warren
group took on a new name and
Rankin, Jr. (:Sheet Metal) and
adopted a new constitution, outBobby Harner (Maintenance). A
lining their purposes and organthird Wise Owl a ward was made
ization.
to H. A. Stover , who left the
Department befor e the awar d w as
.A_e Choraliers now have 25 mem- presented.
:s and are hoping to double that
number with new "re c ruits" in the Warren Rankin's eyes were saved
n ear future.
from a possibl e serio us injury on
Dec. 6, 195 7, when a die exp loded,
Coming events planned by the
throwing metal fragments into his
Choraliers include a 15 minute
face and forearms . S everal
appearance on the University
pie ces of the metal were embedHour, which is s ponsored by the
de d in his safety glasses.
Uni v. of Virginia and which will
be broadcast over 27 radio
A piece of red hot metal was
stations, A TV show is also
thrown inside Bobby Harner 1 s
planned for this year.
welding hood on January 16
(TODAY'S NEWS, Jan. 24) a s he
The Choraliers appeared in a
was welding on a stora ge ra ck.
Community Sing at New Hope in
Fortunately , Bobby had on his
January. Public appearances in
safety glasses under the hood,
1957 included a Concert and
and the metal fragment landed on
Variety Show at Waynesboro High the gl asses .
S c hool in December.
Pictures ot the presentation of the
The Choraliers will meet to night
two Wise Owl awards appear on
and every Tuesday a t 7: 3 0 in the
the back of TODAY'S N EWS.
Plant Audi t or ium.
' HE HUMAN BRAIN is about 90
per c ent water," says an
anatomist. That answers a lot of
questions.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 230 days
6, 188, 530 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
LEN TE N SERVICES WILL BEGIN

TOMORROW
A special series of Lenten services for Specialty Control em ployees will begin tomorrow .
S chedule d to be held in th e Plant
Auditorium during the regular
lunch periods, the brief ser vices
will be conducted by members of
the Waynesboro Ministerial
Asso ciation.
Rev. H arvey Powell, pastor of

the Waynesboro Christian Church
will conduct tomorrow's services .
Services will be held at 11:30,
12:00 , 12:30 and 1: 00 on Wednes days, during the remainder of the
Lente n season. The services a r e
sc heduled to coincide with eithP-r
the beginning or the end of each
of the seven overlapping lunch
periods . E ach service w ill be
from 10 to 15 minutes in length.
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The F4H Aircraft will be studied
this week by six represe ntatives
of McDonnel Aircraft who are
attending the S ystems T r a ining
School at the Specialty Control
plant. The school is conducted
by the Aviation and Defense
Industry Sales unit.
The PLANT INSPECTION REPORT for la st night's inspe ctio n
will be published in TODAY'S
NEWS on Wednesday.
TWO WISE OWL AW ARDS PRESENTED LAST WEEK
A Wise Owl Plaque is presented to Warren Rankin, Jr., (above,

left) by Art Groat, Foreman-Shee t Metal. Warren prevented what
c ould have been a serious eye injury on December 16 b y wear ing s afety glasses, when a die exnloded in his face.
Fred C u r t o, S up v. -Maintenance, is shown above (right) as he pins a

Wise Owl Button o n the s hirt of Bobby Harner . B obby received the
award for having on hi safe t y gl asses under hi s we lding hood w hen a
piece of hot metal b o unced under the hood and struc k .the glasses.
The safety glasses prevented a serio u s injury to the eye .

NEWS
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S'OlTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYa ANO NEWS VllGINIAM
VOL. IV, NO. 40
February 26, 1958
Give us truly grateful hearts, Heavenly Father, for these and all Thy gifts to
us. Amen.
REMINDERS
TWO APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED IN MANUFACTURING SECTION
LENTEN SERVICES begin today

in the Plant Auditorium. Services will begin at ll: 30 AM,
12:00 NOON, 12: 30 PM, and
1:00 PM . Rev. Harvey Powell
of the Waynesboro Christian
Church will speak today.
PETITIONS for nomination of
officers for SCOGEE must be
submitted by Friday, March 7,
to Warren Johnson, Room 106.
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JOHN W.
HERBERT E. QUICK
!j..t!.;ATT l
BEATTY APPOINTED FOREMAN- QUICK APPOINTED FOREMANQUA LITY ASSURANCE

MICRO-MINIATURE RELAYS
A Card party and auction will be

held for the benefit of the Heart
Fund Thursday evening Feb. 27
at the Westwood Restaurant.
Ladies and men are invited to
attend. There will be bridge, .
canasta, pinochle and other games,
and door prizes will be given.
Tickets are $1. 00. Contact Frank
Gelsleichter, Ext. 280, or
WH 2-5361 for tickets .
John W. Beatty has been appointed Foreman-Quality Assurance,

Aircraft and Military Products in
the Quality Control operation,
according to B. Sussman, Mgr. Quality Control.
Herbert E. Quick has been

appointed Foreman-Micro-.
Miniature Re lays and Relay Machine Parts Manufacturing, it was
1 announced by C. Eirich, Manager
of Relay Manufactur.ing. He will
assume the duties previously held
In his new position as Quality
by Bob Strack, who has been
Assurance Foreman, Mr. B eatty
appointed Methods Specialistwill be responsible for the testing Micro-Miniature Relays in the
and inspection of all Aircraft and
Re lay Manufacturing operation.
Doctors report that Pete Shifflett Military products produced by the
is still improving. His address
Departme_nt before shipment to
As foreman of the Micro- Min.
is East 1, Room 101, Univ. Hosp., the customer.
Relay Manufacturing operation,
Charlottesville.
Herb Quick will be responsible for
John Beatty joined the Specialty
i the manufacture of machined relay
Control Department in November, , parts as well as the assembly of
The PLANT INSPECTION RE 1954, as a Methods and Planner.
the micro-miniature relays. He
)OIQR T for Monday's inspection
In April, 1956, he was appointed
joined the Specialty Control
.i not been completed at press
Assembly Foreman-Mechanical
Department in August, 1955, in the
time, Consequently the report
Regulators and Wire Harness. He j Production Control Unit of the
will appear in TODAY'S NEWS
held that position until his current Materials Sub-Section, where he
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on Thursday.
appointment
; worked until his present appoint-
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ment.
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G. E. CLOTHES CONDITIONER
MODEL DA-920R
SPECIAL EMPLOYEE
PRICE
NOW U N TIL MARCH 1 5
$179.75
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Re g ular Employee Price $199. 75
SPECIAL Employee
Price $179. 75
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Clothes Conditioner
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with auto~atically controlled high-sp eed, low temperature drying
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PUBLISHED IY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIA LTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES
SPORTS. filATIONAl AND WORLD N!WS - COURTESY OF WAYI AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 41
February 27, 1958
Our FatheT, Thou h&at opened Thy hand to bless, and hast given us all things to
enjoy. We thank Thee. Amen.
1ewaf
SPECIALTY CON';l'ROL
CRORALIERS NAME OFFICERS
REED WILL STEP DOWN AS

CHAIRMAN OF BOARD FOR GE
The Specialty Control Department

Choraliers {formerly known as
the Glee Club) has announced the
election of their new officers at a
recent meeting.
Philip D. Reed, Chairman of the

Board of Directors of General
Electric Company for the past 19
years, announced last week that
he will not seek re -election to that
office at the Company's annual
share owners meeting in April.
Mr. Reed plans to retire from the
Board in 1959.
BitB J
The SCOGEE Blackbirds are in
second place in the YMCA Girls'
Basketball League after defeating
Crompton 42-40 last night.
Playoffs for the YMCA championship will be tonight at 7:00 in the
Waynesboro H. S. Gym, when the
Blackbirds will meet the first
place Newberry's girls.
,,-...? Waynesboro
Vol11nteer Fire
epartment has a need for used
furniture for their new building.
Anyone who wishes to donate
furniture to them may contact
Davie Kern {Maintenance) and the
furniture will be picked up.
Pete Lovegrove {Sheet Metal) is
in King's Daughters' Hospital in
Staunton.
By last night, Pete Shifflett' s condition was improved to the point

that
he was able to begin speaking.
The Employee Store has received
two items for which there is no
record of the employee's name.
These items are:
One - Circleline Fluorescent
Lamp {FClZTlO/CW) ordered special
One - Black Alarm Clock
{7H216K) - repaired
Will the employees to whom these
items belong please claim them at
the Employee Store.
Officers of the organization for

1958 are President - Lowell
Bashlor {Eng.); Vice-Pres. Dukie Gum {Transc. ); Secretary Esther Maloney {Adv,); Treasurer In making the announcement Mr.
Reed said, "For many years I
Jim Harris {Eng.); Librarian have planned to retire from active
Rosemary Howard {E&CR).
service with General Electric
Company
at age sixty which I
Bill East {Eng.) is Director of
shall
reach
next year. Nineteen
the Choraliers, and Mrs. Katy
fifty
nine
will
also be the
McLean serves as accompanist.
twentieth anniversary of my
election as Chairman of the Board
APPRENTICE ALUMNI SOCIAL
of Directors , and the thirty-third
CLUB ADOPTS CONSTITUTION
year of my service with the
AND BY-LAWS
Company. 11
The Apprentice Alumni Social
Club adopted a constitution and
by-laws at its second dinner meeting on Friday, February 21, at
Rowe's Steak House .
Commenting on Mr. Reed's announcement, Ralph J. Cordiner,

President of General Electric
Company, said: "All members of
the Board of Dire ctors and Mr.
Reed's associates throughout the
After adopting the new constitution Company greatly regret Mr.
and by-laws, the group was adReed's approaching retirement
dressed briefly by H. A. Slater,
from active duty, but recognize
'supv. -Tool Mfg.
and respect his long-standing
personal plan.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 232 days
6, 207 , 692 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
"Everyone in the Company recognizes Mr. Reed's unique contributions over the period of his
long and dis tinguished service.
Fortunately, we will continue to
have the benefits of his counsel
for some time."
PLANT INSPECTION REFORT

INCLUDES ALL AREAS EXCEPT MFG .
100%
75%
50%
25%
Due to space, the plant

p.
report will be issued in t .... _
subsequent days hereafter. Eng.
Mktg., Finance & E & CR will be
reported the first day and Mfg.
the foll owing day. ~ that
ratings ~ ~ Y.T.D. average.
DEDUCTIBLE i:OINTS
RATINGS USED FOR PLANT INSPECTION
Material Handling
Work Area
Safety Hazards
Fire Hazards
Good
Fair
Poor
Unacc eptable
-25
-25
-25
-25
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AfFEARANCE
. Neat arrangement .
Desk tops cleared of loose
I, paper.
CHECK LIST FOR OFFICE INSPECTION

SAFETY HAZARDS
Wiring: Elimination of extension
cords which could lead to falls.
Fire Hazard~ ' Cloths for
duplicators net in cans. Safety
cans for duplicator fluid.
Health: Food present. Calendars
hung insecurely. Accumulation of
dirt.
Typewriter: Bolted on drop fold
ped estals.
CLEANLINESS
Mat erial not stored ii1 proper
storage spaces, vehicles, et c .
Floors not clean.
Windows not clean.
Cabinets and files not dusted.
Loo~ 0 naper under or behind
des.!'.:5 , etc.
Material hung on walls not

pertinent to job.
Material stored in aisles.
Chairs placed at desks, where
possible.
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ENGINEGP.ING
287 - 100 288 - 100 289 - 100 Dispensary - 100
Inspector - Rubenetein
215 - 75 Blackboard not erased. , Cafeteria - 100
Aircraft Rm - 100 Improper
223 - 75 Poor storage
j Employee Store - 88 Diepl,
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1 228 - 100
230 - 75 Table mat j windows dirty, mechandise
100
filthy & electrical hazard.
1 displayed not priced.
1 Prop Room - 88
A~rcraft Development Lab - 100
234 - 75 Improper storage
Overloaded.
1
Aircra ~t Systems ?lass Rm - 75
i 236 _ 75 Improper storage
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Improvised electrical cards,
! 208 _ 75 Telephone still on
papers, ~olders, etc. - Door won' t chair and improper storage.
MARKETING
lock . Aircra ~ Systems Mezz J 234 _ 75
Improper stora ge.
Inspector - Mangold
88 Oily rags & dusty floor.
j 236 _ 75 Improper storage
Rooms:
Vibration.& D:ive Rm - 75 Oil on 229A _ 75 Improper storage.
1
265 - 100 255 - 100 256 - 100
f~oor, hoist is not permanently
241 _ 75 Storage of dead files
253 - 88
252 - 88
254 - 88
wired in power connections not
in corner fire hazard unlocked
251
88
260
75
Publications
1 security files.
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permanent.
sta cked on desk, papers and enve:
Apparatus Sales - 100
Eng. Lab Office - 100
envelopes
stacked under desk.
Dark Rm. Development - 88
267
75
Parts
of office
Improper storage
Altitude
equipment
scattered
on floors,
Chamber - 100 Stock Rm - BS Ugh1 1
bookcase
overflowing
with charts
Model Shop - 88 Containers poorly i FINANCE
(Off
i
ce
in
process
of
moving)
Macb. Rm _ 88 Improper I Inspector - Hayes
marked.
storage .. Light Test Rm - 88
Rooms:
Main Eng. Lab - 100
124 - 100 (Hayes)
Rooms:
124 - 100 (Rogers)
MAINTENANCE
201 - 100 204 - 100 206 - 100 . 111 - 100 122 - 100 127 - 100 1 Inspector - Curto
209 - 88 211 - 88 212 _ 100 I 129 - l oo 215 - loo 135 - 100 Boilerroom - 100
219 - 100 214 - 100 221 - 100
292 - 100
Building #5 - 75 Keep trying,
226 - 100 227 - 100 229 _ 100
Reception Room - 100
beginning to look good .
232 - 100 210 - 88 213 - 88
Building #6 - 67
217 - 88 225 - 88 264 - 100
Grounds - 100
269 - 100 271 - 100 273 - 100
Maintenance Shop - 75
E & CR
Inspector - Cooley
280 - 100 ~81 - 100 282 - 100
Rooms:
284 - 100 286 - 100 285 - 100
105 - 100
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COURTESY OF WAY! ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 42
February 28, 1958
As we receive our daily food, Dear God; help us to remember Thee as t he great
Giver of all good things. Amen.
FIVE EMPLOYEES RECEIVE
SUGGESTION CHECKS
SPECIALTY CONTROL RECEIVES

PACKARD BELL ORDER FOR
$298,620
Five Specialty Controllers cashed

in on the Suggestion Plan this
week. Receiving Suggestion
Award checks Thursday were
Patricia Carr (Marketing), B. B.
Jamison (Elec. P r oduction),
Mattie Saufley (Inc. Insp. ), W.
M. Showalter (Relays ) and R. D.
Rickman (Elec. Test).
Specialty Control Department has

re ceived a new order from Pack ard Bell Electronics C o rp. total ing $298, 620. The order, which
was received last wee k, is for
12 6 pieces of ground po we r con verter equipment for the Thor
Missile.
The Department is to shi p 15
pieces of the e quipme n t each
month, be ginning in July.
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KIRK SNELL
SNELL AN D KELLING RE CEIVE
PATENTS
T wo Specialty Control employees

have
recently b een granted U . S.
The de adline for submitting appli - L ast week 's order from Packard
Patents , according to Mel G olden cations for loans unde r the GE
Bell is the third o rde r that
1
berg, Patent Attorney . The two
Employee Educatio nal L oan ProSpecialty Control has r ece i ved
gram is April 15, 1958, if the
. from this c u stomer since O ctobe r me n are Kirk Snell and Leroy
Ke lling , both engineers . This i s
applicant is to be considered for
1957. The three orders total
1
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t he second patent for Mr . Snell
a Scholarship Award. Employees
$499 , 320.
1
and
the fifth for Mr. Kelli ng .
who wish to apply for educational
loans for the mselves or their
The pate n t is sued to M r . Snell
children s hould begin preparations
covered his invention of the selsyn
now. Contact Bill Perry, Emtracing head manufactured b y the
ployee Relations for further in Department. This devi ce is a new
formation.
app r oach for derivi ng electrical
signals to control machine tools
Under the dependent coverage
from trac i n g heads following tempart of the GE Comprehensi ve
p lates.
Insurance Plan,claims wi ll be
paid only for persons who are c onMr. K e lling ' s patent is for a
sidered e lig ible d e pendents under
" Director Positioning S y stem. 11
t he Plan. Eligible dependents are
"Well, I certainly didn ' t make all This i nventi on, used in the D epart.
husband, wife and children (inthose mistakes ! There must be a ment 1 s N ume ri cal Positioning
cluding adopted children).
s h ort c ircuit in the electri c type - Contr ol, is a means for convertw riter !"
ing the information stored on
te Shifflett (C onto ur s ) and his
punched cards or punched tape i nwife , Ann (Eng . Lab) are both
to electrical s i gnals for c ontrolSAFETY SCORE
deeply grateful for the check
ling
the movement of a program 1, 233 days
w hic h was prese nted to them by
med
device such as a machi n e
6, 2 1 7, 273 hours
Specialty Control e mployees,
ool
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WITHOUT A LOST TIME
afte r Pete ' s rece nt ac cident .
ACCIDENT
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PLANT INSPECTION REPORT

RATIKGS USED FOR PLANT INSPECTION
100%
75%
50%
25%
(Ford) Test Construction - 100

Machine ShoE - 100
Sheet Metal - 100
(Holyman)
Program Control & Welder - 100
(Moran)
Thymotrol - 100 Dust on equip.
(Fitzgerald)
Reg. & Elect. Drives - 25
Safety hazard, wiring broken,
Foor material storage.
(Bare)
Relaz Test - 100
(Archambeault)
Incoming InsEection - 100
(Sussman)
Offices - 100
Good
Fair
Poor
Unacceptable
DEDUCTIBLE f'OINTS
Material Handling
Work Area
Safety Hazards
Fire Hazards
-25
-25
-25
-25
disc grinder, band saw, dust

on tops of racks.
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(Failing)- Tool Room - 7~
Dust on tops of cabi~ets
and high machines, tool
cabinet on lathe.
Tool Crib - 100 Dispose
of broken tools.
(Slater)
Of fices - 100
Lab - 100
RELAY (Eirich)
Machine Relay - 75 Tools
improperly stored.
MAT SUB-SECTION - Insp. G. Bradt
Micro
Miniature - 25 Dust
Office Areas - Rooms: 101 - 102
in
White
Room, dressing room,
10.fl - 128 - Score 100 ELECTRONIC
AREA
(West)
dust
in
lockers,
tool boxes
Stock Rooms - (Humphreys)
(Groat)(Van
Lear)
out
of
lockers,
misplaced
Receiving - 100
Sheet Metal - 100
parts, process sheets out of
Aircraft Stock - 75 Misc. scrap
Paint
Booths
100
place,
conveyors equipment
& conveyor materials in stock. (Wolanin)
very
dirty,
open el ectrical
Electronic Stock - 75 Condition
Pr
i
nted
Circuit
&
Contour
100
bos
fire
hazard
unidentifie
of stock racks on assembl y
(Gook)
liquid
in
containers.
floor very poor as to dirt , etc
j
Large Panel - 100
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Sub Min. & Min. - 25 Mixed
Floor Stock - 75 Dusty
(Crummet)
parts, fire hazard, elec~ca
DO I - 100
l
Small Panel - 100
obselete process, untidy
rt
Shipj)ing & Warehouse - (Mead)
(Cholewa)
cabinets, torn c~shion,
Shipping - 87 Unsafe ladder,
Reg. & Harness - 100
misplaced parts, air
small stock rack not braced,
connector in aisle, crushed
dust on top of excl. bid.
AIRCRAFT & MILITARY ASM. (Davis) paint can - fire hazard, tray
Warehouse - 100
improper stored.
(Haun)
Repair & Return - (Wylie) - lOC
Open Relay - 50 Misplaced
SEecial Panels - 100
parts, dusty storage bins,
(Caron)
dusty
benches and equipment
Wire
Harness
&
JeeE
Poor
87
MAGNETIC \'!INDING COMF-ONENT (House)
dust
on
tops of benches.
material
handling,
signs
on
Assembly - (Sornborger)
tanks,
broken
platforms.
Stock Area - 100 Non-production i
(Wilson)
materials in racks.
Militarz Slstems Panels &
Due to space, the plant
Assembly Area - 87
Devices
100
Inspection report will be
Un-identified material.
(Lonas)
issued in two subsequent days
Office - 100
Potted Units - 75 Need more
hereafter. Engineering,
Heat Treat & Test - 87 (H 0 use)
improvements.
Marketing, Finance & E & CR
(Hyde)
will be reported the first da
Plating Rm. - 75 Signs on tan~ and Manufacturing the
A & M QUALITY CONTROL
& broken platforms.
following day. ~ ~
Inspector - Archambeault
(Broughman)
ratings~ all Y.T.D. averag
A & M Test & Mezz - 25 Rejected
Machine Room & Job ShoE - 75
material mixed with good parts
Alum. mixed in steel chips,
conv. & misc. sheet parts on flr.
unsafe tools storage of cannin~
Received tags on load bank fire
Specialty Control Fire Dept.
area.
hazard, oil - nuts - bolt. Misc.
as of this date has gone~
through 1124 days withou
Potted Units - 100
MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING (Schmitt reportable fire. A fire is
Jeep Test - 50 Marked up Test
"reportable" when the damage
Panel, Poor safety guards. (Beat ty (Reasoner)
Prototype - 75 Signs for
exceeds $5~ .oo. Flant Insp.,
safety, and f i re Prev. Maint.
are the contributing factors.
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SPOITS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYll AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
W AYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
VO L. IV, NO. 43
Mar c h 3, 195 8
Help us t o c ultivate the fin e ar t of gratitude and not fo r get Thee as Our God and
Our Provider . Amen
11 /,.
FRANK PARKER
PARKER APPOINTED MANAGER
O F NEW RESIST ANGE WELDING
CONTROL SUB-SECTION
CRAFT AND MILITARY TEST AREA RECEIVES 8-BALL "TR0 FOR POOR HOUSEKEEPI NG. Pi c tured at left i s the presentation of the De partme n t's 8-BALL " trop hy" to personnel of the Air.., Frank S. Parker has been appoint.
c raft and Military T est area for th e poorest YEAR -TO- DATE rating
ed Manager-Resistance Welding
on Plant Inspections. L e ft to right are C . A . Ford, Quality Control;
Control E ngineering and MarketJohn Beatty, Foreman-Quality Assurance, A irc raft and Military Pro- 1 i ng, it was announced l as t week
ducts (r ece i ving the trophy ) ; B. Su ssman, Mgr. -Quality Control; K . N . l by H. L. Palmer , Manager Bu sh, Mgr .-Manufacturing ( presenting the trophy ); a n d Bill Perry,
i Engineering and D. O. Dice,
Safety Specia list. The presentation wa s made last F r i day.
Manager-Marketing. As manager
of the new sub - section, which will
be a part of the Engineering
BAKER TO L EAD SER VICE WED.
Section , Mr. Parker will be
Bits
responsible for both e ngine erin g
The secon d in a series of L ent en
and
marketing of a ll resistance
servi
ces
will
be
held
a
t
Spec
ialty
A 4-string tenor banjo is needed
welding
con trol products for the
Control
on
Wednesday,
March
5.
for t h e Kiwanis Minstrel Show,
Department.
The
brief
inspi
rational
talks
will
whi c h will be held next week.
be gin at 11: 30 AM , 12: 00 NOON,
Anyone wh o has a banjo of this
Fr a nk Parke r joined the G ene r a l
12:30
PM and 1:00 PM. Rev.
t ype and w ho would be willing to
E l ec t r i c Company in 1937 as a
Frank
L.
B
aker,
pastor
of
th
e
l e n d it to the Ki w anis Club,
member of the Test Program.
Ba
s
ic
Methodi
s
t
Church
w
ill
conp l ease contact Dave Coughtry,
After several Test ass ignments ,
duct
the
ser
v
i
ces
this
'Week.
Pur chasing .
he was assigned to the Portland ,
Oregon, Sales Office as District
S cheduled to talk at future ser All SCOGEE Mode l Clubs (AirApplication Engineer .
vices durin g Lent are Rev, Ir vin
plane, Train, Auto ) will meet
Block, Mt, Vernon Church of the
~ es day afternoon at 4: 30 PM in
Brethren, Stuarts Draft; Rev.
In Feb . , 1955, Mr . Parker joined
o m 210 .
L o ui s Fracher, St. Johns E pisco- ' Specialty Control Department as
pal Church; Rev . Ralph T iland,
Sales Specialist, Resista n ce
The Employe e Sto r e received a
Second Prebyterian Church; and
Welding Control Sa les. He has
new s hipment of salvage blankets
Dr. Julian Pentecost, Waynesboro worked in that capac ity until his
whi c h will be so ld for $2. 00 each.
Baptist Church.
t c urrent appointment.
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SCOGEE NOMINATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY FRIDAY, MARCH 7
All nominations for SCOGEE officers must be turned in by FRIDAY, MARCH 7, in

preparation for the SCOGEE elections which will be held on Thursday, March 20.
The SCOGEE Nominating Committee met recently and nominated members for each
office. Additional nominations may be made by petition with the si g natures of at
least 35 members, provided the petition is submitted to Warren Johnson, Room 106,
by the Friday deadline.
As a reminder, we are reprinting the Committee nominations below.
COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS FOR SCOGEE OFFICES
President
Sunny Miller, Engineering Lab.
Billie Meeks, Prototype
Vice President
Warren Johnson, Methods & Plng.
James Austin, Incoming Insp.
Secretary
Mary Bridgeforth, Rep. & Return
Pam Pattie, Switchboard
Treasurer
Sherwood Black, General Books
Don Trohough, Engineering
Board of Directors (Vote for 7)

Bill Hughes, Marketing
Lowell Bashlor, Standards Eng.
Peggy Pattie, Quality Control
Inez 0' Baugh, Aircraft
Shirley DeMasters, Electronics
Phil Bee son, Methods & Planning

Gracie Layne, Regulators
Dukie Gum, Transcribing
JoAnn Anderson, Engineering
Robert Jacobs, Elec. Stockroom
Names of any of the nominees for President, Vice President, Secretary and
Treasurer (above) may be written in for election to the Board of Directors without
a petition being submitted
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VOL, IV, NO, 44
March 4 , 1958
Strengthen our thanksg i ving as Thou dost strengthen us with this food .
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ELEVEN SPECIALTY CONTROL

EMPLOYEES HAVE RECEIV ED
WISE OWL A W ARDS
A total of eleven Specialty Controllers have saved their eyes
from serious injury by we aring
safety gla sses since the Department be ga n operations here three
years ago. All eleven received
Wise Owl Awards for preventing
eye inj uries .
Amen.
INDUS TRIAL POW E R

COMPONENTS DIVISION DIS CONTINUED
lfe~
Bits
-Salvage blankets which were so ld

in the Employee Store recently
are rejects, and should not be
used as electric blankets. Many
of these blankets are rejected be cause of faulty wiring, and so any
attempt to use them as electric
blankets is extr emely dangerous .
The Industri al Power Components

Division of the Industr ial Com ponents and Materials Group of
General Electric Co . has been
disc ontinue d , effective March l ,
it was announced last Friday. All
Departments which were assigned
to that Division have been re assi gne d to o t her Divisions .
Many more Department employees
Rev. Frank L. Baker of the Basic Wi lliam C . W i c hrr.an, Vice Presi de nt and former General Manager
Methodi s t Church will c onduct
of the Industrial Power Com Specialty Control's Lenten ser ponents
Division, has been apv i ces Wednesday . Services will
pointed
Genera
l Manager of the
begin at 11:30 AM, 12:00 NOON ,
General
Electric
Supply Company
12: 30 PM and l: 00 PM.
Division,
replacing
Charles R.
The number of cases in which
Prit
c
har
d,
Vice
P
r
esident.
Mr .
safety glasses have prevented eye
Pritchard has been appointed
injuries indicates that the proThe Specialty Control Choraliers
I Consultant in the GE Supply Comgram for the wearing of safety
will meet tonight at 7: 30 in the
' pany Division.
glasses at Specialty Control is
Plant
Auditorium, New members
essential to the safety of all of us. 1 are welcome.
have had minor a ccidents in whi ch

-..fe ty g lasses have prevented
, ..JSsible e ye injurie s , but which
were not serious enough to merit
Wise Owl recognition.
"SAFETY SAM" , the dummy on

display in the Cafeteria today, is
one more reminder of the necessity for all employees to obser ve
the rules for the wear ing of safe t y glasses.
WHY WEAR SAFETY GLASSES ?
TAKE A LOOK AT "SAFETY SAM"
I N THE CAFETERIA TODAY
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 237 days
6 , 236, 416 hours
WITHOUT A LOST T IME
ACCIDENT
small slwt.s
Congratulations to Nina B . Hens -

ley {Magnetic Winding Comp .) o n
the birth of a 6 lb . 14 oz . son last
Friday n ight.
LOST: A pair of safety glasses

wi th clear frames . Contact J , E,
Jones, Ext. 370 .
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MAKE OUT?
SALE
EMPLOYEE STORE SALE
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DISCOUNT HOUSE" PRICES
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NE=~OM~
COFFEE
MAKER
SPE ED
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.. Extra-rapid He at R esponse
. Chrome plated steel soleplate
... New Teleheat indicator li '.::;!1 t
. . Li ght we i gh t -- only 2 - 1/ 2 lbs ,
... Handy Cor d - Lift
, BREW SELECTOR
. MAKES 3 TO 9 CUPS
p _ 31
R e tail Price
R egular Employee Price
SPECIAL EMPLOYEE PRICE
$19.95
$14.85
$10.95
'
Retail Pri ce
Regula r Emp loyee Price
SPECIAL EMPLOY EE PRICE
$ 12 . 95
$9 . 60
$7.-0
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1958 G. E. Automatic Deluxe Blankets

Assorted Colors
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Al 1 - TWIN BED, Single Control

Straight Blanket
Reg. Employee Price

$18. 50
Al 3 - DOUBLE BED, Dual Control

Straight Blanket
Reg. Employee Price

$29. 65
Reg. Employee Price

$21. 95
- TWIN BED, Single Control

Contour
A.22 - DOUBLE BED, Single Control

Contour
Reg. Employee Price

$25. 95
Special Employee Pri ce $23. 95
A23 - DOUBLE BED, Dual Control

Contour
Reg. Employee Price

$33. 35
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S'OITS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of W>,YB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 45
March 5, 1958
For food, for friends, for loving care, we thank Thee, our -Father.
FACTORY AISLES SHOULD BE
KEPT OPEN
Factory aisles should be kept
open and clear at all times so as
to allow easy movement of people,
products and equipment, and provide for immediate exit in case of
emergency.
Aisles that are blocked with
material, pallets, hand trucks,
etc., slow down operations and
cause waste of time and effort.
~ addition, the blocking of aisles
eates safety hazards.
Do your part to KEEP FACTORY
AISLES CLEAR!
BE SURE to attend Lenten Services today in the Auditorium at

11:30 AM, 12:00 NOON, 12:30 PM
or 1:00 PM. Rev. Frank L.
Baker of the Basic Methodist
Church will speak.
DO YOURSELF
A FAVOR
JOIN THE
STOCK BONUS PLAN
SAFETY SCORE
1, 238 days
6, 245, 978 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Amen.
NEW DOOR WILL BE CUT IN

EAST WALL OF CAFETERIA
Employees of Incoming Inspection,
Machine Room, Sheet Metal and
Mechanical Products will meet
to a<:> ether with their families for a
special Family Night program at
Specialty Control tonight from
7:00 to 9:00 PM. Approximately
60 people are expected to attend.
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority is sponsoring a Spring Fashion Show at

the Wayne Theatre, Thursday,
March 6 at 7: 30 PM. Following
immediately wi ll be the movie,
"Ambassador's Daught.e r".
Tickets are 50 for children and
90 for adults and can be pur chased from Rosemar y Ho ward
(E & CR).
As part of the promotion for the

Waynesboro Kiwanis Club
Minstrel Show, which will be
held on March 13, 14, and 15,
Radio Station WAYB w ill present
a MINSTREL MYSTERY RECORD
Contest, beginning tomorrow.
A pair of tickets for the Kiwanis
Minstrel will be given to the first
person to identify each "mystery
record." The first MYSTERY
RECORD broadcast will be
Thursday, March 6, between
9:35 and 10:00 AM. Other broadcasts will be held on March 7, 8,
10, 11and12, at different times
each day.
A new doorway will be cut and a

door installed in the East wall of
the Cafeteria, next to the pay
telephone booth. Planned for the
use of office personnel in entering
and leaving the Cafeteria, the new
door will eliminate some of the
traffic in the aisles leading from
the offices to the factory and
Cafeteria.
There will be no changes in the
Cafeteria serving procedures, but
trays and cutlery will be provided at the ne w entrance. It will
still be necessar y to dispose of
waste at the trash window by the
present Cafeteria exit befor e
leaving the Cafeteria.
The new Cafeteria entrance will
be ready for use on Tuesday,
March 11.
''The Pe e Wees traded me to the

Midgets for a catcher's mitt!"
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Wherever you're working -- in office or shop -And however far you may be from the top,
And though you may think you 're just tr~ading the mill, .
Don't ever belittle the job that you fill.
For, however little your job may appear,
You' re just as important as SOII?-e little gear
That meshes with others in some big machine,
That helps it keep going -- though never is seen.
They could do without you -- we'll have to admit -But business keeps on when the big fellows qqit!
And always remember, my lad, if you c.an,
The job's more important -- oh yes -- than the r,rian!
So if it's your hope to stay .off the shelf,
Think ~ore of your job than you do of yourself.
The job is important -~don't t.hink it is not -So try hard to give it the best that you've got! .
And don't ever think you'~e of little account -Remember you're part o~ th~ total amount.
If ~hey didn't need you, you wouldn't be there --
So always, my lad, keep your chin in the air.
A digger of ditches, mechanic, or clerk -Think well of your company, your self, and your work.
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SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD HEWS - COURTESY OF WAYS AND HEWS VI RGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 46
March 6 , 1958
WAYN ESBO RO , V IRGINIA
For the b eauti ful world abou t us , for t rees , f or fields, for flowers , and
for this food we praise T hee and g ive Thee thanks . Amen.
EMERGENCY AID P L AN GI VES
FINANCI AL ASSI STAN CE TO
EMPLOYEES I N NE ED
The GE E mergency Aid Plan is
des i gned to g ive financial he lp to
employees who ar e in need be cause of some emergency or mis fortune . Spe c ialty Cont ro l em ployees who have a t least one
ye ar of servic e and who are membe r s of the I nsu r ance P lan are
eligib le for loans or g rants under
t he Emergency A i d Plan, pro ~ d the r e i s a r eal need indicat eu ,
I UE boss es at the P h i ladelphia

S witchgear plants , which incl udes
h e adquart ers of t he Switchgear
a n d Control Divi s ion, called GE
employees out on strike th is
morning . Picket lines were set
up around the plant while Phila delphia GE employees walked the
streets .
R easons for the sudden I UE
a c tion wer e no t available to
T ODAY ' S NEWS E d ito r at pre ss
tim e .
No contributions are paid by em ployees to make t hem eli gible for

benefits under the Plan.
E mploye es may appl y for Emer ge n cy Aid loans to meet emergen c ie s s u ch as personal i ll n es s ,
illne ss or death in the immedi ate
family, fire or othe r disaster af fec ting t h e immediate family .
U nder the Plan, a n employee may
borrow up to $5 0 0. No interes t
i s charged o n the f ir s t $300 of the
loan . Int er es t i s charged on any
amount above $ 3 00 at a rate f i xed
by the Tr u s tees . (Curr ent rat e is
3%). The loan is repaid through
payr oll dedu c tions.
In cases of extreme emer ge ncy ,
an outright g r a nt may be made ,
~h no r epayment requir ed.
Du r ing the pas t three years , a
number o f Specialty Contr ol em ployees ha ve been helped b y the
(Con t. column 2 )
GE JET ENGINE SETS NEW

ENDURANCE REC ORD
IUE CA L LS PHI LADELPHI A GE

E MPLOYEES OUT O N STRI K E
Four General Electr ic J4 7 j et

engines have been authorized by
the U nited States Air Force for
ope rati on fo r 2000 hours before
major overhaul. Thi s is enough
time for mo r e than 40 jet flights
aroun d the world.
l O ne of the engines has already
I completed 1700 flight
hou r s , es : tablishing a new endurance reco rd

f
i for j et engines. The other units
have completed m or e than 1600
flight hours.
,
I
I The four
T hree varie ty acts from the

Kiwani s Minstrel will appear on
WSV A - TV Friday at 6 : 15 P M.
The Minstrel w i ll be p re sented
Mar ch 13 , 14 and 15 at Wa ynes boro Hi gh S chool.
engines power B oe i ng
B47 Stratojets assigned t8 the
32 0th Bomb Wing at March Air
F orce Base , Calif. One of the
reasons for the out standing reco r d
was the excellent mainte nan c e
record o f t he 320th Wing .
I Whe n
the fi rst jet engines were

introduced to USAF operations
I
the y were allowed only 15 hou rs
1 b etween overhau ls.
Subs equent
impro vements in both the e ngines
a n d maintenance procedures have
EMERGE NCY AID . ....
resulte d in the cu rr ent all time
(C ont. from column 1)
h i gh between overhauls.
Eme r gency Aid Plan. Any em ployee who has need of an E mergency Aid L o an should conta ct
Petitions for nomination of of his super viso r or Bill P e r ry ,
ficers for SCOGEE shoul d be
E mployee Relations .
turned in t o Warren Johnso n ,
Room 106, by Friday , March 7 .
The E mer g ency Aid P lan is not
SCOGEE e l ec tions will be held on
available to emp loyees in I UE
March 20. SEE BACK PAGE
plants , b ecause the I UE does not
FOR NOMINATION CHANGES.
a ccept the Plan.
II
CHANGES ANNOUNCED IN SCOGEE NOMINATIONS
Because of personal considerations beyond their control, three SCOGEE members

who were nominated for office by the Nominating Comm ittee have withdrawn from
the election. These three are Sunny Miller (Engineering Lab), Warren Johnson
(Methods and Planning) and Peggie Pattie (Quality Control).
At a special meeting last night of the SCOGEE Nominating Committee, three new
nominations were made. The pre sent Committee nominations are shown be low.
P :r esident
Billie Meeks - Prototype
*Jim Austin - Incoming Insp.
Vice-President
*Al McKechnie-Eng. Lab
*Phil Bee son - Methods & Plng.
Secretary
Mary Bridgeforth - Repair & Return
Pam Pattie - Switchboard
Treasurer
Sherwood Black - General Books
Don Trohough - Eng. Lab
Board of Directors (Only 6 to be elected)

Bill Hughes - Marketing
Lowell Bashlor - Engineering
Inez O'Baugh - Aircraft
Shirley DeMasters - Electronics
Gracie Layne - Regulators

Dukie Gum - Transcribing
JoAnn Anderson - Enginee ring
Bob Jac o bs - Electronic Stockroom
*Indicates changes made by Nominating Committee, Wednesday, March 5.

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S'OlTS, NATIONAL AND WOLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAY! AND NEWS VlaGIHIAH
VOL. IV, NO. 47
March 7, 1958
Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and all that is within me; bless His holy
name. Amen,
1'evJ
'Bite]
W. M. 11 Stub 11 King (Ind. Cont.

Prod.) has just received a BA
degree from Los Angeles Univ.
11
Stub11 completed the equivalent
of the last two years of work
toward his degree by correispondence in three years time,
while working full time at
Specialty Control. His major i s
economics.
Congratulations, "Stub", on a job
well done I
SAFETY SAM GETS A DONATION. Adding a light note to the

grim message portrayed by
SAFETY SAM, Morris Hudson
(Macke Caf. Mgr.) drops a coin
into SAM's Tin Cub. SAFETY
SAM is being displayed in the
Cafeteria to point up the necessity
for wearing_safety glas sea at all
times in the manufacturing and
laboratory areas of the plant.
Most men don' t bring the boss

home to dinner . She's already
there.
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SAFETY SCORE
1, 240 days
6,265, 102 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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INCREASE IN SHEET METAL

ACTIVITY PROVIDES QUICK
RETURN FOR SHEET METAL
OPERATORS
A buildup in load for the Sheet
Metal Area will make it possible
for several sheet metal operators
to be returned to their former
jo~s soon.
Because of a decrease
in sheet metal wo rk three weeks
ago, several operators were
moved out of that area (TODAY 1S
NEWS, February 10 ).
The current increase in sheet
metal work i s the result of new
orders for the Department's
Pete Shifflett (Contours ) is sched-' products.

uled to come home from the
hospital this afternoon. He is
The Department policy on seniorallowed t o have visitors now.
ity will be followed for the return of operators to t he Sheet
Metal Area.
Three variety acts from the
Kiwanis Minstrel will appear on
WSV A-TV toni gh t at 6: 15 PM.
The Minsttel will be presented
March 13, 14 and 15 at Waynesboro High School .
BOWLING
A new High Team Triple for the
SCOGEE Men's Bowling L eague
was set Wednesday night when the
Cannon Balls rolled up a total of
2461 against Ertle 1 s Turtles, defeating the Turtles 3-0. The
League -leading Dynamic 5 swept
all 3 games from the Roll Tillers
and the Retreads dumped the
second place Alley Cats, 2-1.
Oscar Fox rolled a 224 game - High Single for the night and
Del Niedentohl took Hig h Triple
with a 557 se ries.
HELPING MEET THE CHALLENGE OF THE FUTURE
UNDER THE GENERAL ELECTRIC EDUCATIONAL LOAN PROGRAM

AND SCHOLARSHIP AW ARD PROGRAM, EMPLOYEES WITH AT LEAST
ONE YEAR OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE MAY OBTAIN LOANS UP TO
$1, 000 FOR THEIR OWN USE OR THE USE OF THEIR CHILDREN FOR
FULL-TIME UNDERGRADUATE STUDY.
The deadline for submitting applications for loans i s April 15, 1958, if
the applicant is to be considered for a S c holarship Award.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT BILL PERRY, EMPLOYEE

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Sl'OllTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY O f WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
V OL. I V , N O . 4 8
March 10 , 1958
Thou hast made us and loved us and given us every provis i on for our needs
and w e thank The e fo r t hese g i f t s . A men.
TOP SP E CIALTY CO N T R OL
BOWLERS WI L L ME E T L AD Y
C H AMPION
Rev. Ervin Block, pastor o f the
Mt. Vernon Chu r ch of the Brethren at St uarts Draft will be the
g uest speaker at Lenten s e rvices
in the P l ant Au d i torium on Wed nesday, M a rch 12 . Se r vice s will
b egi n a t 11: 30 AM, 12 : 0 0 NOON,
12: 30 PM and 1:00 PM.
.J. n e E m ploye e S t ore ha s a s uppl y

of r e plac eme nt fillers to f it the
p e ns in t h e d e sk p e n s e t s t h a t
we r e g i v en to Specialty Control
employ e e s last Septe m ber in
r ecognition of the achieveme nt of
the 5 million man hour s safety
re c ord. The fillers sell fo r $. 25
each.
T h e t wo top bowle r s i n Specialty

Control ' s SCOGEE Me n 1 s Bowling
L eag u e will meet the Cham pi on of
the M a di son S q uare G a r de n I nvi tational Wom ens Match a t t he
Arcadia Bowling Parlor in Staun ton on Sund a y , Mar ch 23.
Miss Murian Turash, the
Women 1 s Champion, will app ea r
a t the Arc a d i a alleys in a s eries
o f e xhibi ti o n ma tches Sunday a f t e r.
noon a nd night.
Around 3: 30 PM, Miss Turas h
will me et the Number 2 bowle r
i n the GE League and shortly af ter 8: 30 PM she will go a gai n st
t he GE Hig h S c orer .
Curre ntly i n the first a nd second

place in the SCOGEE Lea g u e are
The Specialty Cont rol Main tenance Joe Belak (Eng . ) and D el Nie de ncrew worked a ll ni g ht last n i ght,
tohl (Ind. Cont. Prod.). Thr ee
removi n g snow f r om the d riv e s
o ther Specialty Controlle rs w i ll
a nd par k i n:g lots , so t h a t the p l ant bowl in Sunday ' s matc h es -coul d open and oper a t e as us ual
Stan Stocki (Mfg . Eng . ), Garl a n d
t o day .
Fulk (Mfg . Eng. ) and Bill
H enderson (Eng .).
P ASTRY SUPP LIER OUT O F

B USI NESS : T E M P ORARY
A RRANG E M E NTS HAVE BEEN
MADE
Macke Cafeteria personnel were
n otified jus t befo r e noon last
F r i day that the company from
which they have been purchasing
p as tr ies has been s o l d and will
go out of bus i ness immediately .
Because of the unu s ually short
n otice , a new pastr y s upp lier i s
no t available on a permanent
basis .
A t emporary pastry supplier will
be used for a few days until new
arrangements can be made which
will provide the quality and ser vice necess a ry for the Specialty
C ont rol Cafete r ia .
It is exp ected that a new perman ent p astry su p plier w i ll be
s ecured by the end o f this week.
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TOP QUA LI TY
PRODUCTS
SAFETY SCOR E
1 , 243 d ays
6 , 274, 664 h o u rs
WI THOUT A LOST TI M E
ACCI DE NT
Would 1 ja kindly hang your c oat

in the closet! 1 1
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VO L . IV, NO. 49
WAYNESBORO, V IRGINIA
March 11, 1958
Open our eyes, 0 God, to see Thy power about u s ; ou:c ears to hear beautiful
sounds about us; our hearts to know love, T h ine and other's. Amen.
HALLER, GEN. MGR. OF DEF.
ELECTRONICS DIV ., ELECTED
VICE PRESIDENT
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Dr . G eorge L. Haller, gene ral

An Advanced First A id Course will
mana ger of the Defense Electron - be held soon at the Wayne Hills
ic s Division, has be e n elected a
Baptist Chur ch. Anyone interestvice president of GE. Dr. Halle r ed may c ontact Warre n Johnson,
has heade d the Defense Electron- Room 106, fo r further information.
ics Div ision since 1956 .
Dates and time for the cou r se
will be announced later .
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 244 days
6, 284 , 3 07 h o urs
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
COOPER ADDRESSES VIRGINIA

EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
Ben Cooper, Mgr. -E lec tronic
and Relay Product Engineering,
was the princ i pal speaker at a
meeting of District D of the Vi r ginia Education Assoc i ation at
P etersbur g last Saturday.
Mr. Cooper's s ubj ect was R ece nt
Scientific Advances -- Impli ca tions fo r Curric ulum Development. Approximately 400 educa tors were prese nt a t t he meeting.
AND LET'S ALWAYS

PRACrlCE WHAT WE PREACH
INSPECTION EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILlES ENJOY FAMILY

NIGHT
Approximately 60 people were on hand l a s t Wednesday night, when

employees of Inc oming Inspecti o n a n d the In s p ection areas of the
Machine Room, Sheet Metal and Me chanical Products entertained
members of their families at a Family Ni ght program.
Measuring instruments used for in spection of incoming part s and material

are shown to a group at the F amily
Night l as t Wednesday. Pictured at l eft
are (l eft to right) War r en Coleman (Inc.
Insp. ), Mrs. Doss Snead, Myrtle Snead
(Inc. Insp. ), Mrs. Pauline N i ce ly and
Doss Snead.
Enjoying refreshments in the Plant

Cafeteria, part of the g roup that attended the Family Ni ght last Wednesday are
pictured at right. Left to right are
Camelia Rose Saufley, Matti Saufley
(Inc. Insp. ), David Archambeault,
Elaine Archambeault, Bernice Soo ey,
Mervin Lily, Norma Lily and Donna
Lee Saufley. The program included a
brief welcome in the auditorium, a
demonstration of the new Bur g master
Drill with the Depa dment' s Numerical
Positioning Control, a tour of Incoming
Inspection, a refreshment period and a
tour of the plant.
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VOL, IV, NO. 50
March 12, 1958
Fathe r we thank Thee for this food, bless it t o our bodies good.
VALUE ANALYSIS SERVICES
REPRESENTATIVE WILL TALK
HERE
J. K. "Dusty" Fowlkes, Value
Analysis Services,will speak to
Spe cialty Control employees who
have cos t reduction responsi bilities on Thursday, March 13,
in the Plant Auditorium.
The subject of Mr. Fowlkes 1
tal k will be 11 T he Specialty
Supplier". Three sessions have
~ en scheduled -- at 8:30 AM,
: 30 AM, and 1:15 PM.
There will be an organizational

meeti n g for the Advanced First
Aid Course on Tuesday, March
18, at 7:30 PM at the Wayne Hills
Baptist Church. Anyone interes ted is invited to attend or contact War~en Johnson, Room 106.
Lenten Services today will be

conducted by Rev. Ervin Block ,
pastor of the Mt. Vernon Church
of the Bre thren at Stuarts Draft.
.-.. :e way to keep from getting

o tiff in the joints is to keep out of
them.
Amen.
SCOGEE WILL ELECT OF F I CERS

THURSDAY, MARCH 20
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SCOGEE
TEAM WILL
ENTER AREA
INDUSTRIAL
GOLF LEAGUE
A g r oup of industries in the

Waynesboro area will organize
a Golf League soon and Specialty
Control's SCOGEE will enter a
team. Participating in the l eague
will be golfers from DuPont,
A. S. R., Westinghouse, Reynolds
and Merck and Co.
SCOGEE i s presently looking for
ten golfers to represent the
Department in the Leag ue.
There will be eight regular play ers and two alternates. Any one
inte r es ted should contact J oe
Belak (Eng. ) befo re Wednesday,
Mar ch 19, and g i ve him your
current handicap.
Election of officers for SCOGEE

will be held on Thursday, March
20. A ballot will be printed in
'l'ODA Y 1 S NEWS and a ballot box
will be placed in the Cafeteria .
All members of SCOGEE are encouraged to vote .
O ffi cers to be e l ected a re presi dent, vi ce president, secretary,
treasurer and s ix dire c tors.
Two members were nominated by
the Nominating C ommittee fo r
each of the fi r s t fo ur offi ces and
e i ght members were nominated
for dir e ctors (TODAY' S NEWS,
March 6 ). In additi on, Allen
Harris (E ng. Lab.) was nominated for director by petiti on.
Pictures of all nominees will
appear in T ODAY ' S NEWS T h urs day and Friday , Marc h 13 and 14.
The new league w il l play five

matches on Saturday mornings
(once a month for five months ).
HuttI s ign: " 0011 ' 1 sm o k t

in hc d. Tht> ashes 1hu1 f all to
rite floo r may h e your own."
SAFETY SCORE
1, 245 days
6 . 29 3, 950 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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"When you men test this area for

radiation, look out for poison
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VOL. IV, NO. 5 1
March 13, 1958
For flowers and birds and growing things, for food and health and all that's
good, 0 God we rende r our thanks to Thee. Amen.
COMPUTER DEPARTMENT
PLANS NEW BUILDING
The GE Computer Department
wiil start work in May on a
1
$3, 000, 000 building n ear Phoenix 1
Arizona, it has been announce l
by H. R, Oldfield, Jr., Gene ral
Manager of that Department. The :
building, which will contain
. HARVEY E. JOHNSON
L. ANDREW HEARN
ROBERT C. GILL
104, 000 sq. ft., will be located
rin Deer Valley Park . T he $3
THREE MARKETING APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED
million includes the land and the
Three appointments have been announced recently in the Specialty
building .
Control Marketing Section. Harvey E. Johnson has been appointed
Specialist -C ontou ring Control Sales in the Program Control Sales
S ub-Section and L. Andrew Hearn has been appointed to replace him
!fews4
in his previous position as Sales _Servi c e Specialist in the same SubBits )
Section. Also, Robert C. Gill has been appointed Specialist - Relay
Sales in the Relay Sales Sub-Section.
FOR RENT: 4 bedroom house,
gas heat, centrally locate d. Call In his present position as Contouring Control Sales Specialist,
Harvey Johnson will be responsible for sales planning and direction
WH 3 - 4626.
of the Department's contouring controls in a territory which includes
the East Coast and New England States.
Will the person who borrowed th e
black notebook containing Method~ Harvey joined GE in July, 1954, on"the Engineering Program and had
and Time Study information from
his first assignments at For t Wayne, Indiana, and Schenectady, New
the Mechanical Products area
York. In March, 1955, he transferred to Specialty Control on a proplease return it immediately to
duction test assignment. He was appointed Sales Service Specialist
Joe Archambeault, Inc . Insp.
in August, 1955, and has worked in that capacity until his present
-&
.
appointment, having had experience with Thymotrol and program

control.
I' ve often heard my wife declare
She hasn't got a thing to wear
Which makes me wonder, in
surprise,
Who's wearing all the clothes she
buys?
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SAFETY SCORE
\)
1, 246 days
6, 303, 593 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
As Relay Sales Specialist, Bob Gill will be responsible for the promotion of sales for the Department's relay products in states along
the East coas t. Bob j oined GE and Spe c ialty Control in Februar y
1956 as a Sales Service Specialist in the Relay Sales Sub-Section. He
has held that position until his present appointment.
11
Drew" Hearn began working for GE at the Apparatus Service Shop

in Charlotte, N. C., in the summers while still in college . After
graduating, he joined the T echnical Marketing Program at Industry
Control Department in Roanoke, After an assignment there and another in Rome, Ga., "Drew" came to Specialty Control on Feb. 24,
1958 on the Technical Marketing Training Program in the Program
Control Sales Sub-Section.
MEET THE CANDIDATES

HERE ARE THE SCOGEE MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR OFFICE
FOR 1958
SCOGEE elections will be held on Thursday, March 20. The people pi c tured below have
been nominated for office by the SCOGEE Nominating Committee. On Friday, TODAY'S
NEWS will run pi c tures of thos e members who have been nominated for the SCOGEE
Bo ard of Directors.
FOR PRESIDENT
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
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Billie Meeks
(Pr ototype )
Jim Austin
(Inc. Insp . )
{llef'~ lit Ret':' )
- - - -- - -- - - - --
Phil Beeson
(Methods & Plng.)
FOR TREASURER
FOR SECRETARY
Mat y Bridgeforth
Al McKechnie
(Eng. Lab. )
Pam Patti e
(Switchboard)
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Sherwood Black
(Gen~ Books)
Don Trobough ,,-.....

(Eng. Lab.)

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VOL. IV, NO. 52
March 14, 1958
O God, may the physical strength from this food make it possible to serve Thee
and our fellow man better. Amen.
SCOGEE .BOW LING
In the Men's SCOGEE Ten Pin
Bowling League Wednesday night,
Capt. Joe Belak led his Dynamic
Five team to a 2-1 victory over
the second place Alley Cats. Joe
set a new individual High Triple
of 599 and took ever first place
in the Average Race.
In the other matches the Cannon
Balls defeated the Roll Tillers
A I and the Retreads swept three
.mes from Ertle 1 s Turtles.
High Single for the night, 214,
was rolled by Bob Hull.
ALL EMPLOYEES MUST

HAVE SAFETY GLASSES AND
USE THEM
Specialty Control employees are
reminded that everyone must
have a pair of plain or prescription Safety Glasses. These
glasses must be used by all
employees whenever they are in
the manufacturing area of the
plant, the Engineering Lab or
the Manufacturing Engineering
Development Room. Employees
should not use the plastic shields,
or Feather Specs, which are provided for visitors to the plant.
The Macke Company will soon

be gin baking its own pastries to
be se r v e d in the Specialty Control
Cafeteria and other Mac ke installations in the area. Ovens and
other bake ry e q uipment will be
installed in the Fishersville
Commissary, beginning Monday,
March 17.
Specialty Control employees will

again enjoy an extra half-hour
of day light this year during June,
July and August, as the plant
goes on special 11 summer hours"
for that period. The special
hours will go into effect Monday,
June 2, and will continue until
Tuesday, September 2 .
Mr. Don Robertson, former

proprietor of Don's Pastry Shop
in Waynesboro, has been hired by l
Macke to make pastries. Don's .,
Pastry Shop had been supplying
pastries to Macke until last week i
when the pastry shop was sold
I
and closed.
I
Macke p e rsonnel hope to be able
to begin baking their own complete line of pastries by Monday,
March 24. In the meantime,
temporary suppliers are being
used.
The change in hours will be made

to enable Specialty Control employees to take full advantage of
the additional daylight during the
summer months.
During the three months when the
"summer hours" are in effect,
each shift will report to work 1/2
hour earlier than usual and will
leave 1/2 hour earlier than usual.
Under the special summer schedule , first shift factory employees
will report for work at 7:00 AM
and will leave at 3: 30 PM.
Second shift employees will re port for work at 3: 30 PM and will
leave at 12:00 midnight. Office
employees will report for work
at 7:30 AM and will leave at
4:00 PM.
A revised c afeteria schedule for
the summer months will be published later.
~ch
employee is responsible
r having a pair of Safety
Glasses. The glasses may be
obtained from Ruth Gray, Plant
Nurse.
SPECIALTY CONTROL WILL

GO ON 11 SUMMER HOURS"
JUNE 2
MACKE CO. WILL BEGIN BAKING ITS OWN PASTRIES
''I c all it 'The Meeting Place"'
You can carve your own tombstone by chiseling in traffic .
MEET THE CANDIDATES
PICTURED BELOW ARE THE SCOGEE MEMBERS THAT HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR ..-..
THE SCOGEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 1958. SCOGEE E .L ECTIONS WILL BE HELD
THURSDAY, MARCH 20.
Lowell Bashlor
(Engineering)
Dukie Gum
(Transcribing)
JoAnn Anderson
(Engineering)
Shirley DeMasters
(Electronics)
Bill Hughes
(Marketing)
Gracie Layne
(Regulators)
Allen Harris
(Eng. Lab.)
Inez 0 1 Baugh
(Aircraft)
Bob Jac obs

(Ele ctronic Stockroom)

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VOL. IV, NO. 53
"Break Thou the bread of life, Dear Lord to me.

bread may I live for Thee. Amen.
11
March 17, 1958
And in the strength of that
PROGRAM CONTROL SEMINAR TO BE HELD

NO LENTEN SERVICES THIS
WEEK
There will be no Lenten services
in the Plant Auditorium on Wednesday of this week. Lenten
services will resume on Wed nesday, March 26, and will be
held at the usual times.
ev . Louis Fracher, St. Johns

....... piacopal Church, will conduct
the services on the 26th. On
Wednesday, April 2, Rev. Ralph
Tiland, Second Presbyterian
Church, will condu c t our Lenten
services.
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DAILY CHECK OF PARKING

ZONES WII.,.L RESUME
Due to unusual weather conditions
for the past few weeks, rules
gover ning the use of the parking
lots have not been enforced
strictly.
Beginning immediately, all parking zones and drives will be
checked daily for cars that are
not in the proper place.
A car is considered to be improperly parked if it is in an
area not designated for parking
or if it is in the wrong zone.
Lenten services will a lso be held

on Thursday, April 3, with Dr .
Julian Pentecost, Waynesboro
Baptist Church, leading the wor ship.
There will be an organizational
meeting for the Advanced First
Aid Course on Tuesday, March
18, at 7:30 PM at the Wayne Hills
Baptist Church. Anyone inter ested is invited to attend or contact Warren Johnson, Room 106,
.... and as an added feature,

you merely press this button and
it gives a liberal contribution to
office collections I"
SAFETY SCORE
I, 250 days
6, 322, 879 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
SPECIALTY CONTROL WILL

CONDUCT MEETING THIS WEEK
Forty-seven General Electric
product Departments will be
represented at a Program Control Seminar to be held at
Specialty Control Department on
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. Sponsored by this Department, the seminar is part of a
program to aquaint other GE
Departments with the latest
manufacturing methods a vailable
so that the Company will remain
in its position as a leader in
manufacturing operations.
Managers of Manufacturing and
Manufacturing Engineering from
Departments in three product
Divisions, as well as representatives from Manufacturing
Services and the Apparatus Sales
Division will attend the seminar.
Specialty Control employees in
the Program Control Sales SubSection will attend and participate in the seminar.
Approximately 47 people will
attend on Wednesday, March 19,
and approximately 61 on Thursday, March 20.
There are two well known

finishes for automobiles:
Lacquer and liquor,
AND THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!

The other day an "inquiring reporter" of a newspaper in another city stopped six
people and asked "Why haven't you bought a color TV set?"
Three said they were waiting for the price to cdtne down.
waiting for the quality to go up.
The other three were
Most of us would like to own a color TV set. But for one reason or another many
of us are not yet satisfied with the price or quality. By our refusal to buy color
television, we customers are, in effect, demanding either lo.wer prices or better
quality or both.
Meanwhile, not too many color television sets are being produced, and few new
jobs are being created by this new product.
The only worthwile way yet found to make possible more and steadier jobs is to
devise better products which customers will desire in larger quantities
and to
offer these products at prices that customers are willing to pay.
That's true of color TV sets - - and its true of all
of~
products, too.
Only by cutting costs, by improving methods, by eliminating waste, by building more

value into our products, can we insure steady work for ourselves, by making our
customers want to buy our products.
When it comes to the deci s ion to buy or not buy our produc ts, THE CUSTOMER IS
ALWAYS RIGHT.
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COURTESY OF. WAYa AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
March 18, 1958
We thank The e, Lord, for life and all its provisions; and bless this food of which we are
about to partake. Amen
PLANT I NSPECTION WILL BE
HELD TONIGHT
A regular Plant Inspection will be
held at Specialty Control tonight.
It is hoped that everyone will put
out extra effort in cleaning up
for this Inspection, because of
the large number of visitors who
will be in our plant Wednesday
and Th!-lrsday, attending the Program Control Seminar.
Although the participants in the
..-.... ogram Control Seminar are
r e presentatives of other GE
Departments , they are all potential customers for our products.
All employees will b e "salesmen"
for the Department, then, as they
contribute to the overall good
impression made by Specialty
Control.
A complete report on the Plant
Inspection results will be printed
in TODAY'S NEWS later in the
week.
If a person can clearly see both

sides of a question, it in no way
involves his prejudices or his
pocketbook.
f~
1'ewJj
Bits
Dr. L. T . h.ader, General

Manager, will appear on WSVA TV (Channel 3) tonight at 6:15PM
in one of a series of special programs presented by the TV
station in which industry and re tail leaders will be interviewed
in an attempt to analyze the present condition of our economy.
Other dates for the series are
March 18, 19, 26, 27, 31 and
April 4, 10, 14 and 29.

held at Specialty Control this
week.
Mr. E. C. Blackman of the

Socony-Mobile Oil Co. will address the Valley Engineers Club
at their regular dinner meeting
on Wednesday, March 19, at the
Hotel General Wayne. Mr.
Blackman will speak on Automotive Lubrication and will use
films of the Indianapolis 500
mile race.
The meeting will begin at 6:15PM.
Contact C, A. Thompson, Ext.
270, for reservations .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 251 days
6, 332, 412 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDE NT
The Choraliers will meet today

at 7: 3 0 PM in the Plant Auditorium. New members are welcome.
STRICKLAND TO ATTEND
SEMINAR AT SPECIALTY
CONTROL ON WEDNESDAY
Harold A. Strickland, Jr. , Genl.
Manager, Industrial Electronics
Division, will visit our plant on
Wednesday, March 19, in connectjon with the Program Control
Seminar which will be conducted
here Wednesday and Thursday.
Also present for the S eminar on
Wednesday will be approximately 51 other visitors including
managers of Manufacturing and
Manufacturing Engineering from
GE product Departments .
Approximately 61 more are
scheduled to attend the Thursday
Seminar session.
SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS WILL

BE MADE IN CAFETERIA FOR
SEMINAR VISITORS
In order to save time and avoid
overcrowding the Cafeteria serving line on Wednesday and Thurs day, special arrangements will
be made to serve the representatives of 51 GE Departments who
will visit our plant this week to
attend the Program Control
Seminar.
The visitors will be served in a
special area which will be reserved for them in the Cafeteria
during the morning break period
and during the lunch period.
THE FASTEST RUNNER WILL WIN THE RACE
THE BEST QUALITY WILL WIN THE ORDERS
DO YOUR PART TO HELP SELL SPECIAL TY CONTROL

PRODUCTS BY PUTTING QUALITY INTO YOUR JOB I
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VOL. IV, NO. 55
Mar c h 19, l 9 5 8
Come, Lord J esus, be our guest; let T h y gifts to us be b le ssed.

NEW lvllCRO-MINIATURE RELAY
DEVELOPED BY SPECIALTY
CONTROL
FOUR DIVISIONS OF APPARATUS

GROUP WILL BE REPRESENTED
AT SEMINAR TODAY

has developed a new hermetically. I
sealed micro-minia tur e relay for j
use in printed c ir cuit equipment.
Designated Type GS, the new
double-pole, double-throw d - c
relay is an improved vers i o n of
the G-200 micro relay which h as
been on the market for two years . HAROLD A. STRICKLAND, JR.
According to George Hausler,
nager-Relay Engineering, the
_ fPe GS is tailored to the new
grid-spaced concept in printed
circuit layout. Simplif i ed plug-in
positioning and placement of
relays are made possible by
development of the Department's
new relay.
Although designed primar ily for
use in printed c ir cuit s, the
Type GS micro relay is ideal for
many electronic appli cations,
particularly in aircraft and
missiles, having b een des i gned
to gi ve extremely reliable oper ation under severe conditions.
BOWLING
Specialty Control bowli ng fans
are reminded that the top man
in the SCOGEE bowling race will
match scores Sunday with Miss
~rian Turash, Champion of the
_jison Square Garden Invitational Women's Match . The
match will be held at the Arcadia
Bowli n: Parlor in Staunton,
b e gi m'.'. ir g at 8:30 PM.
Amen.
P i ctured above is Harold A.

Strickland, Jr., General
Manage r, Indust rial Electronics
Division, who will visit Specialty
Control Department today in
:
c onnection with the Program Con. ;
trol S e minar which is being held
here.
Attending the Pro gram C o ntrol

Seminar at Specialty Control
D epartment today are representatives from product Departments
in fou r Divisions of the Apparatus
Group. The Divisions rep re sented are th e Motor and G e n erator Divi s ion, the Switchgea r
and Control Division, the Transforme r Division, and the Turbine
Division.
Tomorrow's v1s1tors will include

representatives of product Departments in the Aircraft Gas
Turbine Division, Atomic Products Division, Defense Elec tr on.
ics Division, Electronic Com ponents Divisi on, Industrial
Electronics Division, Component
Products Division, Measurement
and Ind ustrial Products Division
and Canadian General Electric.
William W. Be ardslee , Manager, ; A total of 51 product Departments
Manufacturing Engineering Ser- : will be r epresented at the semivices , is visiting Specialty Con. nar.
trol Department today and tom orro w. Mr. Beardslee will
Repr e sentatives from the Appa speak at the Program Control
ratus Sales Division and ManuS eminar.
facturing S er vie es will partici-
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in the Auditorium today. L enten
services wi ll be held next Wednesda y at the usual times.
The chief proble m of the leader

of a totalitarian country lies in
keep ing the stomachs of his sub jects full and t heir heads empty.
pate in the seminar today and

Thursday.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 252 days
6, 341, 945 hours
W ITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
WAYS TO HELP KEEP OUR JOBS

SECURE
--
SERVICE
FOR OUR CUSTOMERS
Prove to our customers that we are
the best people m the world to do
business with!
PRICE
--
Continue to cut costs so we can

offer our produ c ts at a lower price
than our competitors!
---
QUALITY
Supply our customers with the best quality

products on the market, so that they will
keep coming back for more!

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VO L. I V, NO. 56
March 20, 1958
For life, and health, and daily food, we thank Thee, giver of all foo d.
ELEVEN SPECIALTY
CONTROLLERS RECEIVE
SUGGESTION AWARDS
McDOWELL RECEIVES CHECK

~R MAGAZINE AR TIC LE:
...:... B. McDowell, Engineering,
(abo ve , right) is pictured as he
receives a check from Welding
Engineer Magazine as payment
for a signed article which he
submitted and whi ch was pub lished in the November issue of
the magazine. Presenting the
check is C. T. Humphrey, Mgr . Adv. & Sales Promotion, who
handled negotiations with the
magazine.
Mr. McDowell's article was
entitled "A New Basic Compo nent for Electronic Resistance
Welding. "
Most of the footprints on the

sands of time are made by work
shoes.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 253 days
6, 3 51, 4 7 8 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Awards were made Wednesday to

eleven employees of Specialty
Control Department for the
adoption of their Suggestions.
The Suggestion Award checks
were presented to Eloise W.
Layton (Relays), Evelyn Simmons
(Relays). Kenneth Morris (Air craft Test), Carolyn Hite (Aire raft Assembly), E. R . Brower
(Insp. ), Wade Hutchinson (Plating Rm.), Wirt Hughes (Ind
Elec.), C. S. Diehl (Ind. Elec. ),
Doris DeMastus (Ind. Elec. ),
Shirley Sandridge (Ma g. W dg.
Components) and Kenneth
Marshall (I nd. Elec. ).
Amen.
EIGHT MORE GE DIVISIONS

REPRESENTED AT SEMINAR
TODAY
Attending the Program Control
Seminar at Specialty Control
Department today are representatives of product Depart ments in the Aircraft Gas Tur bine Division, Atomic Products
Division, Defense Electronics
Division, Electronic Components
Division, Indus trial Electronics
Division, Compone_nt Products
Division, Measurement and
Industrial Products Division and
Canadian General Electric.
Representatives from the Ap paratus Sales Division and Manu facturing Services are partici pating in the seminar again today .
A total of 69 visitors will be in
our plant today in connection with
the seminar .
The Specialty Control

CHORALIERS, sponsored by
SCOGEE, will perform in the
Sherando -Lyndhurst Ruritan Club
annual Minstrel tonight and to morrow night. Scheduled to be gin at 7: 30 PM, the show will be
held at the Sherando Community
Center .
R IDE WANTED on 7: 30 to 4: 00
shift from Brand. Anyone coming from Staunton via Route 250
would pass close by. Contact
Joyce Greaver on Ext. 265.
SCOGEE ELECTIONS TODAY

Election of officers for SCOGEE
will be held TODAY in the Cafeteria. The ballot appears on the
back of TODAY'S NEWS. All
SCOGEE members are encouraged to vote.
Results of the election will ap' pear in TODAY'S NEWS Friday ,
March 21.
A woman always is looking for

good measure -- except when she
weighs herself.
SCOGEE BALLOT
All SCOGEE members are encouraged to vote in the election today. Mark an
X by your choice for each office and deposit your ballot in the BALLOT BOX in
the Cafeteria. BE SURE TO VOTE FOR 6 DIRECTORS.
PRESIDENT
Billie Meeks - Prototype
Jim Austin - Incoming Inspection
VICE -PRESIDENT
Al McKechnie - Eng. Lab.
Phil Bee son - Methods & Plng.
SECRETARY
Mary Bridgeforth - Repair & Return
Pam Pattie - Switchboard
TREASURER
Sherwood Black - General Books
Don Trohough - Eng. Lab
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ( Vot_e for 6)
Bill Hughes - Marketing
Lowell Bashlor - Engineering
Inez 0' Baugh - Aircraft
Shirley De Masters - Electronics
Gracie Layne - Regulators
Dukie Gum - Transcribing
JoAnn Anderson - Engineering
Bob Jacobs - Electronic Stockroom
Allen Harris - Eng. Lab
NOTE:
The ballot box will be at the north Cafeteria entrance today.
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March 21, 1958
Give us strength from the food which Thou hast provided, and make us thankful for
all Thy mercies. Amen.
PROGRAM CONTROL SE.MINAR
CONSIDERED SUCCESSFUL
The Program Control Seminar
which was held at Specialty
Control Department Wednesday
and Thursday was considered
highly successful by those who
participated.
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION: Vis itors at the Program Control

Seminar are shown in the Plant Auditorium as they programmed a
part which was made later on the Burgmaster Drill. Mel Russel,
Marketing, is pictured (above, left) as he receives instructions from
the audience and sketches the part for all to see. Waiting to type the
dimensions and prepare the punched tape is Mrs. Joanne Fox,
Purchasing. At right, Chet Allen , Mfg . Eng., waits to record the
dimensions of the part on a pr og ra mi ng sheet.
AUSTIN, McKECHNIE ELECTED
TO HEAD SCOGEE
Jame s Austin (Inc. Insp.) was
elected President of SCOGEE in
the elections yesterday, and Al
McKechnie (Eng. Lab) was chosen
as Vice-President. Other officers elected were Pam Pattie
(Switchboard) - Secretary; and
..-.._erwood Black (Gen. Books) .easurer.
New directors elected for 1958
are Bill H ughes (Marketing),
(Cont. column 2)
According to G . R. Petersen,
Mgr. -Program Control Sales ,
the meetings on both days produced excellent reactions from
those present, mostly managers
of Manufacturing and Manufacturing Engineering from 51 product
Departments. A number of
specific leads for possible sales
of our Program Controls resulted from the seminar.
In addition, many of the visitors
were impressed with the cleanli ness and orderliness of the entire
Specialty Control Plant, and
commented on the good job of
housekeeping that was being done
by emp loyee s .
SCOGEE .... (C ont. from col. 1)

Lowell Bashlor (Eng.), Shirley
DeMasters (Elec. ), Dukie Gum
(Transcribing), JoAnn Anderson
(Eng.) and Allen Harris {Eng.
Lab).
Outgoing President J oe Belak
would like to extend his best
wishes to the newly elected officers and calls upon SCOGEE
members to give them their
support.
POWER WILL BE SHUT OFF

SUNDAY
The plant will be c losed completely all day Sunday, March 23,
because of alterations iP-- the
power system. The shutoff of
power will mean that there will
be no heat or lights available.
A man will down his drink with

nary a question, but he wants to
k n ow all about the oil he has put
in his car.
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Giver of every good and perfect gift, favor us with Thy blessing, we pray, as we
partake of these bounties. Amen.
1957 COST CONSERVATION
EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL
Specialty Control Department 's
efforts in its Cost Conservation
Program during 1957 were highly
successful, according to Frank
Gelsleichter, Value Analysis.
Dr. Julian Pentecost, pastor of

the Waynesboro Baptist Church,
will conduct Lenten services at
Specialty Control on Wednesday,
March 26. The services will be
held in the Plant Auditorium at
ll:30 AM, 12:00 NOON, 12:30 PM
and 1:00 PM.
Attending the ADI Systems Train'Y School on the Electra electrical" system this week are four
men from American Airlines,
two from Braniff Airways, and
two from Grumman Aircraft.
Shipping Department employees

and their families held their
annual Spring Southern Fried
Chicken Dinner Wednesday night
at the Moose Hall. A travel
movie was enjoyed by the group
as part of the program.
RECEIVES AWARD FOR COST

CONSERVATION: A token of
appreciation for the Cost Conservation efforts by Specialty
Control employees during 1957
was presented last week to
Charlotte Holliday (above, right).
Pictured as he makes the presentation is C. L. Hughes, SupvInd. Control Prod. Charlotte
received the award, an engraved
memo pad, as representative of
all the employees who are engaged in cost reduction efforts.
Commenting on the award Dr.

L. T. Rader, General Manager,
said 11 A successful business,
good morale, and an active Cost
Conservation Program go hand in
hand. Each participant in the
1957 effort has helped to increase
job security and make more jobs
available. 11
Constant efforts to reduce costs
are necessary in order to offset
rising material costs and keep
our Department competitive.
There are two positions open on

the SCOGEE Golf Team which
will enter the Golf League being
formed by several area
industries. Anyone interested in
playing on the team should con-tact Joe Belak (Eng.).
..-.n ant has more intelligence
. d.n a whale, 11 asserts a
biologist. But a whale has better
manners, since he doesn't attend
picnics to which he hasn't been
invited.
In recognition of the fine job done

by all employees who have cost
reduction responsibility, an award
was made last week to Charlotte
Holliday (Ind. Cont. Prod.).
Cost conservation will be increasingly difficult in 1958 due to

a decline in orders for our products. Because of this, even
greater efforts will be necessary
in order to keep our costs down.
11
And three months after you buy

it, the satellite falls out of orbit
onto the floor I 11
HOW A MAN turns out in the long

run depends a great deal upon
what kind of woman decides to
marry him.
PLANT
INSFECTIO~
P.EPORT
INCLUDES ALL AREAS EXCEPT MFG.
RATINGS USED FOR PLANT INSPECTION 209 - 83 Improper storage

210 - 92 211 - 92 215 - 92
100%
Good
213 - 83 223 - 92 Still poor
75%
Fair
storage 225 - 92 234 - 83
50%
Poor
230 - 92 229A- 83 236 - 83
25%
Unacceptable
Still room for improvement.
241 - 83 Micro film needs
improvement.
DEDUCTIBLE POINTS
Material Handling
Work Area
Saf'ety Hazards
Fire Hazards
w. -
m -
m-
ALL FIGURES INDICATE YEA.R TO

l!ATE AVERAGES.
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-25
-25
-25
-25
E & CR
Inspector: Diaz
Room 105 - 100
Dispensary - 92 - Weight chart
~----~-----------------------+ needs replacing & framed. Junk
on bec..m behind air condition unit
ENGINEERING
Shelf in treatment room needs
Inspector: Thompson
painting, disposal bags needed
Aircraft Room - 100
for waste cans. Fluorescent
Aircraft Systems La.b - 100
lights need cleaning.
Aircraft Systems Class Room - 83
Cafeteria - 92 Dirty in east
Class in progress
corner of cafereria. Bulletin
Aircraft Systems Mezz - 92
board - Some notices over a month
Unable to inspect.
old. Tile needs replacing at
Vibration & Drive Room - 83
can opener counter. Fire
Good improvement.
extinguishers - Last date
Eng. Lab Office - 100 Looked
very good - however someone wasn't inspected Apr. 16, 1956
tall enough & overlooked the top Employee Store - 92
of large flat files.
Prop Room - 92
Photo Lab - No Score - Photo Lab
always locked. However, we have
a pretty good idea what it looks
FINANCE
like -- get it cleaned up.
Inspector: Flynn
Control Room - 100
Rooms:
Dark Rm Developnent - 92 Junky
275 - 100 Locked
High Temperature Rm - 100
124 - 100 Hayes
Altitude Chamber - 92 Junky
124
- 100 Rogers
Stock Rm - 92 Maybe someday.
111
- 100 122 - 100 127 - 100
Hodel Shop - 92 Valuable tools
129
- 100 ill - 100 292 - 100
left out, improper storage, Junk, Reception
Room - l GO
No effort to improve.
Lift Test Rm - 92
Main Eng. Lab - 100 Gallant
effort. Room 201 - 100
MARKETING
Rooms:
Inspector: Miller
-'.Q5 - 100 204 - 100 205 - 100
Rooms:
100 212 - 100 .ill - 100
255 - ldo 265 - 100 251 - 92
_gl,9 - 100 221 - 100 ~ - 100
256 - 92 Loose paper on desk.
loo
ioo
loo 252
- 92 253 - 92 Special
232 - 100 264 - 100 2.22_ - 100
situation - Media for program
271 - 100 .KQ - 100 1filL - 100
control meeting being
100 ~- 100 283 - 100
temporari)J stored this office.
100 28e - loo 189 - loo
::zgo - 100 "2'0S - 75 Te ephone is 254 - 92 Special situation
still on cnair & improper storage Media for program control
.w m -
meeting being temporarily

stored this office.
260 - 83 267 - 83 217 - 83
Improper storage of na. terials .
m -
"Don't you like that ticklish

feeling in your hands doing
an electrical job without an
insulated screwdriver?"
SAFETY SCORE
1, 257 days
6, 370, 544 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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Transfer this food into strength, 0 Lord, and this strength into noble service, which
we ask in Thy name. Amen.
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IUE HAS $25, 000 SUIT AGAINST

IT FOR BREECH OF
AGREEMENT
I
: The IUE and its local #165 are

facing a $25, 000 damage suit in
YOIJ/l
i
the U.S. District Court in PhilaWASff /MW/Al
Af fHf ~ECUl A R
1 delphia as a result of alledged
DISPOSAL UNJr
. illegal work stoppages in the
: Philadelphia Univac plant of Sperry
; Rand Corp.
BE SURE l LEAVE
: The suit charges that the company

suffered $25, 000 in damages because the IUE violated its "no
work stoppage" agreement with the
' company's Uni vac division, when
i union members refused to work
thre e days this month.
Even as Spec.la ity Control employees were being congratulated by

visitors at the Program Control Seminar on the cleanliness of the
14H WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD
plant, there appeared one 11 sore spot" in our good hous ekeeping
HERE TONIGHT
record -- the new Cafeteria entrance. Pictured above is the ac c u- I
mulation of waste material (mostly cups) on the floor and on the
shelf by the phone booth as a result of improper disposal of wastes . A "workshop" on electricity for
AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, this embarrassing display takes members of the Augusta County
4H Clubs will be held at Specialty
place within a FEW FEET of the sign which requests that the
Control tonight at 7: 30 PM. This
regular disposal unit be used (above right),
is one of a serie s of workshops on
this subject, which are being held
Specialty Control is pleased to
at various industries in the area
have as visitors today Carolyn
this month.
Herman, Allaire George, Martha
McGee and Peter Mayfield. This
Lenten services will be conducted group are members of the staff of Approximately 60 young people
tomorrow by Dr. Julian Pentecost, Duke University Bureau of Testing and 4H group leaders are expected
to attend the meeting tonight. The
pastor of the Waynesboro Baptist and Guidance.
workshops are being led by memChurch. The services will be
bers of industrial and power organ.
held in the Plant Auditorium at
izations in the area.
ll: 30 AM, 12:00 NOON, 12: 30 PM
SAFETY SCORE
~d 1:00 PM.
1, 258 days
Representing Specia lty Control
6, 380, 010 hours
Department in the works hop series
The Choraliers will meet tonight
WITHOUT A LOST-: TIME
is Wally Kennedy, Engineering.
in the Dispensary instead of the
ACCIDENT
Plant Auditorium. The meeting
will begin at 7:30 PM.
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A CHANCE TO THINK IT OVER
According to the union organi z er the National Labor Relations Board

has recently ruled that cards whic h are sig ned by employees requesting a
union election are not good after six months if no election is called.
Because of this, he is frantically attempting to get those Specialty Control
employees who signed cards last y e ar to sign new cards now.
The six-month time limit on the validity of these cards is a very
good thing for those who signed cards before.
the cards cannot be held indefi nitely.
Becaus e of this time limit,
A person who has had time to think
and study the facts in the matter and has changed his mind does not have to
regret his action of eight or ten months ago.
Everyone has had a lot more time to hear the facts and to come to a
rational decision about whether or not he wants his or her name on an IUE
card.
Signing a union card enc ourages the organizer to continue his campaign of distortion, name-calling and mud-slinging in an effort to sell you
things you already have without a union.
You have the same promised pay
raises, benefits, seniority rights and e v erything else that unionized plants
have but you don 1 t have to pay dues to a union to get them, and you don't
have to take part in IUE strikes, e ith e r.
The N. L . R. B. ruling has provided something that is extremely help~___../ _/
ful in making sure we are doing the right thing;
A CHANCE TO THINK IT OVER!
it has provided every one
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March 26, 1958
For food to nourish our bodi es , to Thee we ar e trul y g rateful.

the very Bread of Life. Amen.
SECOND PAID HOLIDAY OF 1958

WILL BE FRIDAY, APRIL 4
4H CLUBS VISIT SPECIALTY

CONTROL
Approximately 35 member s of
the Augusta County 4H Clubs
and their leaders visited Specialty Control last night, and were
given a tour of the plant.
Last night's meeting was one of
a ser i es of "workshopf?" on the
subj ect of electricity which are
b e ing held this month for the 4H
..-... oups.
THE EMPLOYEE STORE wi ll be

c los e d for inventor y tomorro w ,
Thur sday, March 27. The store
will b e open on Friday, March 2 8 ,
ins t ead.
WHY IS I T?
Couples. prone
To priv ate quarreling
In public call
Eac h other darling .
Be unto us also
Lenten services are being conducted today by Dr. Ju l ian

Pentecost, pastor of the Wayn es boro Baptist Church. Services
will be held at 11: 30 AM, 12: 00
NOON , 12:30 PM and 1:00 PM.
V i siting Spe c ialty Control today

are Dr. Henry Weitz, Di rector
of th e Duk e Univ ersity Bur eau of
T esting and Guidance and Mr.
J. L , Johnson, Principal of
,
Waynesboro High School.
Dr. We itz and mem bers of hi s
staff are administering voca tiona l guidance t ests to students at
Waynesboro High S c hooJ.
Specialty Control employees will

enjoy a long weekend for the
Easter season next week, as the
Department ' s second paid holiday
for 195 8 rolls around. T he
holiday will be Friday, April 4 -Good Friday.
As part of the General Electric
Better Li ving Prog ram, all GE
emp loy ees ha ve 7 paid holidays
each year . At Specialty Control,
these holidays are New Years
Day, Good Friday, M emorial
Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.
In preparation for the E as ter
seaso n, a seri es of Lenten ser vi ces has b ee n held in the Plant
Auditorium on Wednesdays
during L e nt. In addition to
those on Wednesday, servic es
w ill also be held in th e Plant
Auditorium on Thur sday of n ext
wee k.
E mployees who have someone

pick them up after work in the
afternoon should be sure that
t he ir cars do not block the drive ways. When cars are parked o n
both sides of the driveway on the
South s ide of t he p l ant, it i s dif ficult and some ti mes impo ssibl e
fo r other cars to ge t by.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 259 days
6 , 389, 4 76 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Del Niedentohl, the to p bowler in :

the SCOGEE Men ' s L eagu e , defeat ed Miss Marion Tura sh,
Madison Square Garde n Invi tational Champion in an exhibition
mat ch in Staunton last Sunday;
t he score was 186 to 160.
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that ' s a ll . 11
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PLAN
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"l'M AN EMPLOYEE, A CUSTOMER ... AND

l'M AN OWNER!"
NOW
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0 God, our Father, who giveth food for the body a n d truth for the soul, so nourish
us as to be wise and strong to do Thy will. Amen.
SPECIALTY CONTROL HOLDS
SECOND PLACE POSlTION IN
GE FOR SAFETY RECORD
employees remained in second
place at the end of 1957 in the
Genera l Electric Co., with
their outstanding safety record,
according to the latest Comparative Injury Report.
The latest report, which is for
the quarter ending Dec. 30, 1957,
shows only one Department,
Laminated Products, ahead of
Specialty Control in the number
of man hours worked without a
disabling injury.
GETTING RID OF THE EIGHT - BALL: In recognition of the im ..

provements in housekeeping b y all Specialty Control employees, the
8-Ball " trophy" was returned to Bill P e rry, Employee Re lations
(abo ve , right) last week and was not "awar ded" t o any group for poor
housekeeping. Pictured above getting rid of the 8-Ball is J ohn B e atty,
(c ent er ) Quality Assurance Foreman in the Aircraft and Militar y test
area. The "trophy" had b een " awarded" to that area after the last
plant inspe c tion. Looking on above are B. Sussman, Mg r. -Quality
Control, J ack Davis, General Foreman, Aircraft and Military, and
Fr ed Curto, Supv. of Maintenanc e . Expressions on all five faces
are noticeably different from those in the picture of the original
11
award", which appeared in TODA Y'S NEWS, March 3. The 8 -Ball
is not being retired permanently, but will be available to be awarded
next month to any area that falls down in housekeeping.
S AFETY SCORE
1, 26 0 days
6, 398, 942 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDE NT
'
MISCHIEF AFOOT
When they hear the patte r of little
feet
Most parents think it's great,
For the y know the moment the
patt er stops
They'd better investigate .
Specialty Control moved from

third to second place during the
quarter e nding Sept. 30, 1957.
This change appeared in the last
Compa rative Injury Report which
was published in December, 1957,
a nd was reported in TODAY'S
NEWS at that time.
The United Automobile Workers

union in Evendale, Ohio. has
notified General Electric Co.
there that the dues which are de ducted from the paychecks of
UAW members will be increased
from $3 . 25 to $8. 25 per month.
The union says the increase will
be for the months of March,
April and May.
S'AFETV
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0 God, our Father, who giveth food for t h e body and truth for t he s o ul, so nourish
us as to be wis e and strong to do Thy will. Amen.
SUGGESTION AW ARDS GO TO
ELEVEN EMPLOYEES
R USSEL L RECEIVES CHE CK

FOR AR T I C LE: Malcolm," Mel",
~ssell, Program Control Sales,
shown above (ri g ht ) as he
receives a che ck from Automatic
Control Magazine for an article
which appeared in the March
issue of that magazine . Pre senting the c heck is C. T.
Humphrey, Manage r-Advertising
and Sales Promotion. Mr.
Russell ' s article, whi ch is entitled 11 Punched Cards or Punched Tape" , is his first to be published. I t is a discussion of the
types of inputs used with Numer i cal Positioning Controls.
INSURE
RUSH ORDER FOR MISSILE J O B

CAUSES OVERTIME IN MIC R OMIN. RELAYS
Eleven Spe c ialty Control employees were presented with

Suggestion Award checks yesterday, as a result of their suggestions being adopted.
Receiving checks yesterday were
Z. P . Hughes (A & M Prod.) ,
Kenne t h Morri s (Aircraft Test) ,
G. A. Archambeault (Insp. ),
Kenneth Kent (Mag. Wdg. Comp .),
C.H. Gentry (Maint. ) , F, K.
Dillon ( Test), Wade Hutchinson
(Plating), R. C. Fields (Mag.
W dg. Comp. ) , C. E . Frazier
(Mach, Room), A, T. Layne
(Regulators) and R. E, Harner
(Maint. ) .
I S N 1 T I T FUNNY how a secr e t is

either too good to keep or not
worth keeping ?

has just received rush o r ders
for several thousand relays
which are urgently ne e ded i n the
government balli stics mi s s i le
program. Because of the sho rt
delive r y dates , some ove rtime
will be necessary in the MicroMiniature Relay Area for a short
time, in order to fill the orde rs.
Specialty Control ' s customer s
for these relays are Aerojet,
Lockhe ed Aircraft and R a dar
Relays .
The Employee Store will be ope n

for business today during the
regular store hours (11:15 A M to
1:15 PM and 4:00 PM to 4:30 P M ).
The store was closed yeste r day
b ecause of inventory,
OUR
. . JOB SECURITY
RIDE WANTED from 553 Walnut

on 8: 00 to 4: 30 shift. Contact
Dreama McMillan, Ext. 282 .
By
Constantly
Practicing
Quality
on the job
" Of cours e the ne w owner will

have to as s ume a 17 mortgage .
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SAFETY SCORE
1, 261 days
6, 408, 408 ho u rs
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
WANT TO SAVE SOME MONEY?
WELL, HURRY
ON DOWN TO THE
EMPLOY EE STORE
TODAY!
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THREE REAL VALUES - Salvage and Scrap I tems

WHI LE THEY LAST !
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Just recei ved - -- some slightly used
$Z. 00 ~ch - Single or Double
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Strong and Light
EXCELLENT FOR:
- Bow Strings
- Fishing Lines
- Kite Strings
Black
Red
White
Special
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- - Ideal for night-light - very soft
light
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a month to operate /
- - Costs about
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VOL. IV, NO. 63
March 31, 1958
Lord, Thou dost not need our thanks, but we have constant need to remind ourselves
of our obligations to Thee. Make us truly grateful. Amen.
TODAY IS LAST DAY FOR FIL.
ING 1957 INSURANCE CLAIMS
FIRST GE ACCIDENTAL DEATH

FOR 1958 IN SCHENECTADY
Will the person who borrowed

the two books on electroplating
from Carl Hyde, Plating Room,
please return them as soon as
possible.
The deadline for filing claims

for 1957 under the GE Insurance
Plan is today, March 31. These
Claims must be processed by
the Personnel Accounting office
and sent in by the end of this
week.
Congratulations to Nancy Flynn,

daughter of Bill Flynn, E&CR,
who won second place in the
,.-.rews-Virginian Spelling Bee
I
.lUrsday night at Waynesboro
High School. First place winner
was Diane Lyons; third place
went to Claire Robertson.
Anyone who has a 1957 Insurance

claim that has not yet been filed
may bring it in early Tuesday
morning, according to R . B.
McKenzie, Manager -Personnel
Accounting, and it will be processed with those claims filed
today.
The Large Motor and Generator

Department in Schenectady,
N. Y. , was the scene of General
Electric's first accidental death
during 1958 on March 4. The
death was the result of a crane
follower being crushed by a
heavy steel 11 V" block which had
slipped out of position while
supporting a large armature.
All three girls will represent

Waynesboro in the Twin Valley
Finals late in April.
A box of shotgun shells was

found in the stock racks in the
Magnetic Winding Components
area. Will the owner please
contact Fred Curto, Supv. Maintenance, and claim them.
WE HAVE HAD SO MANY

QUESTIONS. the
article in TODAY's NEWS
Thursday, March 27, was not in
error as to the amount of the
UAW dues increase at Evendale
GE. The union dues went from
$3. ZS per month to $8. 25 per
month. The UAW bosses say
that the increase is for the
months of March, April and
May only.
**********
Appa:rently, the UAW is antici
pating a need for extra money
soon -- a strike fund, maybe?
THE EMPLOYEE STORE still

has Glow-Lamps and a few
spools of stranded thread at the
special prices advertised Friday in TODAY'S NEWS.
The crane follower was attempting to return the "V" block to

its original position when it
toppled over and fell four feet,
crushing him to death.
The 11 V 11 block was 5 1 6 11 wide,
32-1/411 high, and 7 11 thick and
weighed 1/2 ton.. It had been
forced out of position by a rod
which was used to rotate the
armature, and had not been re moved before the armature was
rotated again.
During 1957, there were ten
accidental deaths in GE plants.
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 264 days
6,417,874 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
TEN YEARS AGO most of us

dreamed about the day we might
make the salary that we can't
seem to get along on now!
AN IMPORT ANT ORDER
Specialty Control last week received an order for 6 sets of controls with
a total selling price of $60, 237.
These controls will be used on nuclear sub-
marines. Although this is not an unusually large order, from one point of view
it !!_an unusually important one.
Included in the order is an option to increase the number by as many as 12

additional sets of equipment within a six-month period.
This would mean additional
~I
orders in the neighborhood of $120, 000.
However, our past performance on
************
Actually, every piece of equipment we ship carries an implied option. If
the customer is satisfied with our quality and our ability to ship on schedule, he
will certainly come to us to fill bis future orders.
And so, in effect, our performance on each order may well be the deciding
factor as to whether or not our customers will exercise their "options" and come
back and buy again from Specialty Control.
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VOL. IV, NO. 64
A.pril 1, 1958
Our Father, we thank Thee for this food, and for a ll other e xp re ssions of T hy goodness
to us. Guide us and protect us , in Jesus' name. Amen.
, EMPLOYEES WILL RECEIVE
I lNDIVIDUAL BENEFIT PLANS
STATEMENTS
LENTEN SERVICES WILL BE

HELD WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY
Special religious services for
the Lenten season will continue
at Specialty Control this week.
Because this is Easter Week,
services will be held on Wednes da y <..nn Thursday {Friday, of
cour,,.;.;, is a paid holiday for
Specialty Controllers.).
Any girl interested in being a

Ea ch Specialty Control employee
contestant in the MISS STAUNTON. ' will r eceive a statement of h is
AUGUSTA COUNTY Beauty Conper sonal share in three major
test to be held in Staunton on
. benefits plans soon. The s tate ments will include full i nfo rmation
April 11, please contact Mary
on
each employee's s har e in t he
Agnes Wheatley sometime this
P
e
nsion
Plan, the Insur a n ce Plan
week. Contestants must be- beand
the
Savings
and Stock Bonus
tween the ages of 18 and 28, and
Plan.
must neve r have been married.
Rev. Ralph Tiland, pastor of the

Presbyterian Church will
The information will be se nt to
_ Jnduct the services on Wednes - Specialty Control Department wel- each employee as a r es ult of a
day; and Rev. Louis Fracher,
Company - wide project to help
comes two gentlemen who are
pastor of St. John's Episcopal
employees
fully understand the
i visiting our plant this week, Th e
Church will conduct the services two men are Dr. C. M. Davis of
benefit s plans and obtain full use o n Thursday. Services will be
fulness from them. By having
Convair, San Diego, Calif.; and
held in the Plant Auditorium on
full
information on his personal
M.P. Eis en of the San Diego A&
both days at 11:30 AM, 12: 00
:
share
i n these plans, each emDI Sales Office .
ployee
can plan better for his
NOON, 12: 30 PM and 1:00 PM.
future sec urity .
.- ~and
The Choralier s will meet tonight

at 7:30 in the Plant Auditorium.
New members are welcome.
AS A RULE, the husband who

shares a joint bank acc ount with
his wife is at a disadvantage because she is quicker on the draw.
Hundr eds of people across the

Company will have a part in com 1 piling t he informat ion necessary
to inform all emp loyees of their
I
o wn investment in employee
,_s--'-_
mall--'-slw
-'-"-'tc;.._
.s _ _~ ~------~ ! Our deepest sympathy to John
benefits and the Company's conNOW THAT WE GOT THEM,
I B.e atty (Airc raft T.est) whose wife tribution to these plans. Some of
WHAT ARE WE GONNA 00
I
WITH THEM 1
died yesterday while undergoing , the information w ill be compiled
, surgery .
at Specialty Control Department
'
by the P ersonnel Accounting SubS ection.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 265 days
6, 427, 330 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
The benefits plans statements

will be mailed to employees
sometime in early May .
Remember
To Suggest
WHAT MAKES A BUSINESS THRIVE?

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VOL. IV, NO. 65
April 2, 1958
Grant us, oh Lord, strength, courage and perseverance so that we may live
a life with the true spirit of Christianity. Amen.
SEVEN MEN FROM WAYNESBORO GE WILL PRESENT PAPERS
AT SYMPOSIUM
Seven men from the Spe cialty Control plant -- five from the Specialty
Control Engine e ring Section and two from the Aviation and Defense
Industries Sales unit here - - will present technical papers at an Air Craft Electrical Systems Symposium in Dallas, Texas, next week.
L enten services will be conducted

today by Rev. Ralph Piland,
pastor of the Second Presbyterian
Church. S ervices will be held in
the Auditorium at ll: 30 AM, 12:00
NOON, 12:30 PM and 1:00 PM.
Scheduled for April 8 and 9, the symposium will be jointly sponsored

by four GE Departments, including Specialty Control.
The last in our series of Lenten

services will be held tomorrow,
with Rev. Louis Fracher, pastor
:it. John's Episcopal Church,
_ ... ding the worship.
Present at the m e eting will be 150 to 200 representatives of air frame

c ontractors, military services and c ommercial airlines, who will
hear papers on air c raft electrical s y stems and related subjects.
participants in the symposium
who will present technical paper s
and their subjects are D. L.
Plette, "Overvoltage Protection
Coordination" and "A. C. Generator Protective Systems"; H. W.
Gayek, "Aircraft Regulators";
H. G. Carlson, "Static Exciters";
'
W. O. Hansen, "Product D esign";
and H. S. Sechrist, "Trends in
~
Electrical Ground Power EquipL....Jil j ment".
Employees who would like to have

salvage blankets may sign up at
the Employee Store tomorrow and
the blankets will be ordered. It
will take approximately three
weeks for the blankets to arrive.
r1
'
Only enough blankets to supply

those who sign up will be ordered
at this time.
E.W. Riggs, Manager-Market

4f~tj The two parti.cipant.s from A & DI
i ~ Sales and their subJects are L.
Planning for the Aviation and
i
Klein, "System Protective
Defense Industries Sales Dept.,
Y:">\~.. Characteristics"; and M. J. Powel
has been visiting the Specialty
.. .. ...,= .
.
. week in
. prepar- 1'
""'(.'*~~
Control plant this
-..
.. .. . _.,
-~ ....'IJ,
..:>.:.;;;-::.:;:-.. ,, .... .".~ Powell, "Systems Laboratory
.
.
.
-. -:-: -~;:..,. : A Customer Service".
ation
for the symposium
which
!I g ~ 1'j""'iF"'
will be held in Dallas, Texas,
"You're a foreman DO something!"
All of the papers will be published
next week.
in book form and will b e distributed to those attending the
SAFETY SCORE
symposium.
1,
266
days
.... ~w can a man be so dece itful
6,
436,
786
hours
as to mislead his wife? 11 asks a
H. C. Sloan (Marketing) is coWITHOUT A LOST TIME
preacher. Is that a rhetorical
ordinating
Specialty Control's
ACCIDENT
questicn, parson, or are you seekparticipation in the symposium.
ing information?
I
I
Advise Your Elected

Officials Of Your Opinion
YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WERE CHOSEN TO RUN

Y OUR GOVERN M E N T
FOR Y OU
LET THEM KNOW HO W YOU W ANT IT RUN
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VOL. IV,
NO. 66
April 3, 1958
Guide us, oh Lord, through the winding path of life so that we, in approaching
this Easter season, may be ever thankful for our many and unseen blessings. Amen
LENTON SER VICES WILL BE
CONCLUDED TODAY
GE DEVELO.PS HIGHLY
SENSITIVE INSTRUMENT FOR
DETECTING RADIOACTIVE
Our series of Lenten services will
ELEMENTS
be concluded with today's worship
service, which w ill be conducted
General Electric scientists at the
by Rev. Louis Fracher, pastor of Hanford Atomic plant in WashingSt. John's Episcopal Church.
ton state have developed an instru-
Specialty Control welcomes to our

plant today a group of 21 District
Managers and Headquarters
Section Managers from the Installation and Service Engineering
ment which is so sensitive it can
Department, Today's visit to our Today's services will be held in
measure radioisotope concentraDepartment is in conjunction with the Plant Auditorium at 11: 30 AM,
tions in smaller quantities than
the annual meeting of this group
12:00 NOON, 12:30 PM and l:OOPM. those occurring naturally in comwhich was held yesterday in
. mon foods, such as milk, meat
Roanoke.
Specialty Control Department is
and vegetables.
grateful to the members of the
Waynesboro Mini sterial AssociaThe instrument, which was design.
Another in the series of programs tion who made possible our Lenten ed for use in measuring extremein which leaders of business and
series by donating their time and
ly small amounts of radioactive
industry in this area analyze the I efforts .
elements in the Columbia River
economic conditions of the area
near the Hanford p lant, can detect
I
will be broadcas t Friday, April 4,
a thousandth of a gram of
I
at 6:15 PM over WSVA-radi o and
A YOUNG COUPLE had an "Uncle I chromium -51 dissolved in the
Harry" that had moved in on them river ,
will be seen on WSVA-TV at the
I
i ten years before and almost
same time.
[ wrecked their marriage by his
Before the developme nt of the new
Other programs in the series will I constant criticisms, bad temper,
instrument, quantitative measureI taking choice cuts of the roast,
be presented on April 10, 14 a nd
ment of radioactive materials in
etc. Finally he died and on retur
29.
the river was impo ssible without
ing from the ceme t ery the husband chemical separation,which is a
I turned to his wife and said:
tedious, involved process.
"Honey I have a confession to
Employees who wish to ge t salmake -- only the fact that I love
vage blankets are reminded that
you
very much kept me silent all
they may sign up for them at the
I
these
years but I came close to
mployee S tore today. The
throwing
y.o ur Uncle Harry out of
blankets will be ordered immediour
home
several times. 11
ately and should be here in about
three weeks .
"My Uncle H arry !" shrieked his
OVER THE HOLIDAYS
wife, "Why I thought he was~ i
11
I Uncle Harry.
DRIVE
SCORE
I
1, 267 days
WHENEVER nature l e aves a hol e!
CAREFULLY!
6, 446, 242 hours
in
a person's mind, she generally
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
I plasters it over with a thick coat ,
ACCIDENT
I
!I of conceit.
lI
I
!
I
~SAFETY
WE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY

TO WISH ALL SPECIALTY
CONTROL EMPLOYEES
A HAPPY
EASTER
****
TAKE TIME FROM THE

RUSH OF
HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES TO
REMEMBER THE REASON
FOR CELEBRATING EASTER
SO THAT YOU WILL
RETURN TO
WORK ON MONDAY REFRESHED
BOTH
PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY
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SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD MEWS - COURTESY OP WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 67
April 7, 1958
Help us to remember, Lord, that we are always dependent upon Thee, and
help us always to receive Thy mercies with thankfulness. Amen.
LOST AND FOUND

A number of items have been
turned in to Lost and Found
(Employee Relations) over the
last few months, and have never
been claimed. If you think one of
the items listed below belongs to
you, please claim it by Friday,
April ll.
ITEMS WHICH HA VE BEEN IN
LOST AND FOUND FOR
S j;VERAL MONTHS AND HAVE
/
T BEEN CLAIMED BY FRJDA Y ~
.ARIL ll, WILL BE THROWN
AWAY .
These items are unclaimed at
present:
2 Thermos bottles
1 boy's cap
Miscellaneous 'keys
Miscellaneous gloves
Miscellaneous earrings
Miscellaneous cuff links
1 ladies watch
1'evJ.
RELAY AREA GETS AF ACE

LIFTI NG
Bits1
John Beatty wishes to express his
sincere appreciation for the kind
expressions of sympathy extended
to him after the death of his wife
last week.
WAS IT ANY WONDER?

During the filming of "Unchained"
at the California Instit1,1tion for
Men, a group of prisoners were
showing Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch,
the former All-American, a diagram of one of their football plays.
"Hey, 11 protested Crazylegs, "you
have five men in your backfield.
That's against the rules!"
Over the past few weeks a real

change has been taking place in
the Relay Area. Because of the
increased demand by our customers for better quality relays, a
program to promote cleanliness is
underway.
Relays are seriously affected by
dust particles, and so the present
program is designed to eliminate
dust wherever possible.
All benches, chairs and other
equipment has been painted white
so that dust and dirt can be easily
seen and removed. Special metal
trays have replaced wooden trays
to eliminate wood fibers and
"pockets" which collect dust.
Materials and parts are kept in

covered
containers to minimize
11
grinned one of the prison- the amount of dust which will col1ers, "that's why we're here. We
lect from the air. Smoking is
1c heat! 11
prohibited within the Re lay Area
because the tobacco and smoke
particles also contaminate relay
parts.
Ij"Yeah,
Operators in the Relay Area use

twee zers when working with relay
parts; they are cautioned to avoid
putting finger marks on relay
parts and relay assemblies.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 271 days
6, 455, 698 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
In addition, the exhaust facilities

have been increased so that dust
particles in the air will be re moved more quickly.
As a result of this special program to increase cleanliness in
the Relay Area, the entire area is
practically a White Room in itself.
DON'T TRITgT TO
YOUR
8.AFBTY GLAS8E8 /
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VOL. IV, NO. 68
A pril 8 , 19 58
For all t he spirit ual a n d tempor al bles s ings T h o u art gi ving us , Dear God , we tha nk
Thee . Ame n .
EMPLOYEES CA N ESTIMATE
RETI REME N T I N C OME W I TH
PENSION PLAN STA TE M E N T
OVE R T I M E I N RE L A Y A RE A
PROVIDES WORK FOR OTHERS
SCH ENK T RANSFERS TO

AI RCRAF T AND MILITARY
O P E R A TIONS SUB - SE CTION
As a result o f a f ew h ours of over .

W . H. Sche nk has been t ranstime wor k l.ast Satur day b y some
erred t o the Airc r aft and Milita ry ! e mployees i n the R e l ay Are a ,
Ope r ations Sub-Se c tion and has
ano th er g_roup ~f Re l ay e ~ploye es
bee n appo inted Manu fact uring
was p r o vi de d w i th wo r k t hi s week
Enginee r-Ai rcraf t and M i litary
t hat t hey would not have had othe r .
Ope r ations . Mr . S chenk was
wise .
forme r ly a member of the Manu factu rin g Engineering Sub - Section. I Approxi mate ly 10 emp loyee s
worked Satur day in t he prima r y
a
I ss embly g roup in Relays i n
Th e change is in line with the
o r d er to pr ovid e w ork o n Monday
recent creation of the A i rcraft
fo r th e fi n a l adj u s tment and fi n a l
and M i litary Ope rati o ns Sub 1 a s sembly r e lay oper ato r s.
S
e
ction,
whic
h
will
include
a
ll
l
Anothe r fo rm in the i ndi vidual
fa c t ory opera t i ons and manu If th is o vertime had not been
sta t e ment s will show t he e mfacturing
engi
ne
e
r
i
ng
fo
r
airc
raf
t
I
worked , a g roup of ope r ato r s
p l o y ee's s tatus i n t he Sa vin gs and
and
mili
t
a
ry
produ
c
ts.
I
n
hi
s
!
would
have had to be sent home
Stoc k Bonus P lan; and a th i rd
n ew p ositi on, M r . Schenk will be e arly on Mo nday fo r lac k of wo r k .
fo r m will s h ow all of hi s c ove rres p ons i ble fo r f a cilitie s, e qui p age under the Insurance P la n - ment
and processes utili ze d b y
the a mo unt of his life i n s u ran c e, j
.1
t
he
Air
c raft and Militar y O p era nd th e a mount of hi s weekly sick .
e~
a
ti
o
ns
Su
b
S
ec
tion.
Bits /
n ess a n d accident b e nefi ts, plu s
Specialty Contr ol employees will

be able to determine the i r app r ox
imate inc o me afte r retir ement
from the ind i vi d ual Pension Plan
statements whic h will b e issued
early in M ay (T ODAY ' S NE WS,
Aprill) . The P e n s i on Plan s t ate ment will s ho w t he amount of
pension bene fits a cc u mula ted t o
t he e nd of 1957 , as well as the
~ployees c ontr i butions to the
isio n Pla n .
I
I
1
r-
informat io n o n his m edi c al ex pe ns e cove r a ge . Provision is

j
made on t his form fo r t he indi vid u a l e m p loyee to m ake c alcu lation
o f acciden ta l death and d i sme mber me nt b enefit s .
All th i s i nformati on w ill be sent

to each employee as a result of a
Company - wide p r oje c t to he lp
employees fully under s tand the
bene fits pla ns a nd obtain f ull u se
fr o m t hem.
S AF ET Y SCORE
1,272 d a ys
6 , 465 , 1 54 h ours
W ITHOUT A L OS T TIME
ACCI DENT
RAP HAZARD
C o n g ratulati o n s to Norma (for mer l y of T ran s c ribing ) and Jim

Haye s (Eng . Lab). w h o are th e
parents of a 7 l b . 3 oz. boy ,
bo rn yeste r da y a t Way nesboro
Community Hospita l.
Hom e r R ansom, S enio r M e thod s
and Time Standards E nginee r ,
Me t hod s and Time Standards
Se rvi c e s , is vis i ting Speci alty
Contr ol to d ay.
We exte n d our sympathy to J e an
Bryd ge (T ra n scribin g ) whos e
fa t he r d i ed las t S unday. F une r a l
se r vi ce s wi ll be held a t 2: 00 PM
today .
IF YOU CAN'T GET MEMBERS, GET MONEY!
For some time, we have felt that most unions were more interested in the
money they collected in dues, than in the members they say they want to help.
Well, two unions have recently come right out with it, and in what seems an
incredible admission of what their real interests are, they have forced two companies
to make non-members pay the same dues as members I
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company was forced into this arrangement by 15 non-operating unions; while the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International union used a strike threat to force the Corn Products Refining Company into
the same agreement.
This new arrangement, called the "modified union shop" allows employees to
work in the plant without joining the union, provided they pay the same initiation fee, the
same dues, and the same assessments as union members.
If these non-union employees
object to the new arrangement, all they have to do is join the union!
These unions, by their actions, are admitting that they care little for the members,
but they care a lot for the money that is paid into their treasuries in dues, fees and
assessments!
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VOL. IV, NO. 69
April 9, 1958
For our health, and for our food, we are indeed g ratefu l, 0 L ord.
in all that we do and say. In Jesus 1 name. Amen.
EACH EMF LOY EE IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR FILING HIS
OWN INSURANCE C LA.IMS
INSURANCE CLAIMS
(Continued from col. 1)
Be with us
STEEL RULE DIES REDUCE

COSTS AND SPEED CONV AIR
880 PROGRAM
payment is $85. 00, regardless of

earnings. Salaried e mployees
Some Specialty Control employees receive $15. 00 per week during
' The use of steel rule dies, dehave not received full benefit
signed and manufactured by the
any period of salary continuance
from the Weekly Sickness and
Specialty Control Manufacturing
up to 20 days. After salary conAccident payments which are a
Engineering Sub-Section, will
tinuance stops , full benefits are
part of the GE Insuranc e Plan,
provide increased accuracy, ease
received.
because claims for weekly payof assembly and faste r delivery
ments have not been file d in time :' Claims s hould be filed on the
for th e con trol and regulating
for payments to be rec e ived while ; pink form, FN688A -- "Statement equipment which t his Department
employees are still absent from
will supply for the ne w Convair
; of Claim for Accide nt and Sickwork. When a n employee who is . ness Weekly Benefits," and
880
c overed by the Insurance Plan
1 should be s igne d by the physician.
absent from work and totally
The new jet passenger plane,
T wo copies must be filed with
u.J.sabled for an extended period
which will go into service next
, Personne l Accounting.
because of sickness or accident,
year, is expected to improve
0r when he is confined to a
commercial aviation with faste r
If an employee knows he is going
hospital, he be comes eligible for
schedules
and i nc r e a sed carryto the hospital, forms should be
weekly payments in lieu o'f
ing
capacity.
secured in advance from
regular wages.
Personnel Accounting. At any
Specialty Control engineers have
time an employee is ill and his
Each employee who b ec omes
designed equipment for the 880
disability goes into the eighth day
eligible for weekly payments
which is simple and compactly
or h e enters the hospital, the
under the Insurance Plan, is
packaged; and the use of the steel
employee or a member of his
responsible for filing h is own
family may contact his supervisor, r ule dies will gi ve the acc uracy
claim at the prope r time to rerequired at a greatly reduced
Personnel Ac counting or Emceive full b e nefit from the pay cost, as compare d with con. ployee Relations, a nd the forms
ments.
ventional dies, in ad dition to
; will be sent to him.
shortening the time necessary to
The weekly payme nts start with
procure the dies.
I
i The pink form, "Statement of
t he eighth day an e li gible emClaim for A ccident and Sickne ss
Steel rule dies have been used
ployee is totally disabled or with
Weekly
B
e
nefits",
is
used
only
the first day of confinement in a
successfully by Specialty Control
1
hospital as a b ed patient,and con- for claiming weekly b enefits and
for about a yea r. Up until about
should not be used for claiming
a month ago, the dies we r e
tinue during the period of total
benefits
for expenses incurre d
disability up to a maximum of 26
secured from outside the Departfor services from physicians and ment.
weeks.
hospitals. The latter should be
~" e weekly payment is equal to
claimed on blue form, FN688XC, About a month ago, Specialty
~1?. the e mploye e 's normal
"Statement of Claim for Hospital, Control became equippe d t o make
straight-time weekly earnings
Surgical and Other Medical Ex: steel rule dies here in our own
with the nrinimum amount set at
penses."
plant and so take full advantage of
$32. 50. The maximum weekly
this low-cost tooling.
(Continued column 2)
Eight Steps 1n Developing an Idea

5. Think
1. Name the target. What ' s
hard
about
the
problem-until you have
the problem?
a solution-or reach frustration.
?.
2. Get the facts. Pile up all
the information you can
about the problem-including unsuccessful at
6 . Walk
away
probl em.
from
the
Put it out of
your conscious mind-let

your
subconscious
take
over.
te mpts to solve it.
7. Seize the flash of insig ht.

When an answer starts
3. Try the obvious solutions

ft rs t.
we ll ing up in your mind,

seize the idea and get it
on paper.
4. Next, try the wild ideas.

Look for apparently trivial, irrelevant aspects.
8. Th en do something about
it.
TURN IN THAT SUGGESTION TODAY
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VOL. IV, NO, 70
April 10, 1958
Dear Father, accept the gratitude of our hearts for this food now before us, and
for all other blessings with which our lives are daily blessed. In Jesus' name. Amen.
SAFETY REMINDERS- - - -
EMPLOYEE PURCHASE PLAN

PROVIDES SAVINGS FOR
EMPLOYEES
In order to help protect employees from possible injury, we

' Visitors to Specialty Control
' are repeating some of the
One of the Benefits Plans which
Department today include Messrs. I Department Safety Rules as a
provides substantial savings for
Wm. Rose, Ray Holtz, A. P.
I reminder,
all GE employees and retired em- Cameron, and Thomas Thompson
ployees is the Employee Purchase of Voss Engineering in Pittsburg,
- -Women who work around rotat Plan, under which General
Pa; Messrs . Frank Zwilling,
ing machinery or equipment
Electric products may b e pur Robert DeBruler and Wayne
must protect their hair by
chased at special Employee
Blackman of the Accessori es
wearing the approved proPrices .
Division of Thompson Products;
tective gear. All hair should
John Miller of the Pittsburgh GE
be tucked within the protective
Class I products
major apSales Office; and Messrs. Cecil
head covering.
- . ances, television sets and
Minor and George Alex of the
Jom air conditioners - - may be
Cleveland GE Sales Office.
-- Women who work in manupurchased from local GE dealers
facturing areas of the plant
at the Employee Price by pre EMPLOYEE PURCHASE PLAN ..
must wear substantial , comsenting to the dealer a certificate
(Cont, from col. 1)
pletely closed shoes with heels
obtained from the Pers o nnel
no higher than Cuban heels.
Television -- one standard and
Accounting office.
two portable sets in any
No one will be permitted to
12-month period.
Since the Employee Purchase
operate machines or equip Plan is designed exclusively for
ment unless authorized to do
Home Heating and Cooling -the benefit of eligible employees,
so and properly instructed by
one
unit
in
any
36-month
Class I products may be pur his supervisor,
period.
chased at the Employee Price
only for personal use in the~
- - Factory aisles should be kept
Small appliances and many
~ee 1 s own home, e:,cept for
open and clear at all times so
the portable television set, which general products are available at
as
to provide easy movement
employee prices from the Emmay be purchased as a gift to a
of
people
and equipment and
ployee Store. Small appliances,
n1ember of the employee's
such as radios, vacuum cleaners,
provide for immediate ex.it in
family.
case of emergency.
electric blankets and skillets,
may be purchased for the emIn general, purchase of Class I
ployee 1 sown personal use or as
products are limited as follows:
gifts but may not be resold.
: wife: "Oh John, that woman next
I
Major Appliance - - one of each
door has a hat just like
TURN TO THE BACK OF
in any 36-month period,
mine.''
except room air conditionTODA Y 1 S NEWS for an announce - I John: "Well, I guess that mean~
ers (four room air conment of a special employee SALE
you want to buy a new one?"
ditioners may be purchased on GE Electric Ranges. Special
Wife: "It would be cheaper than
in any 36-month period) .
prices on other major appliances !
moving. 11
will be announced later.
(Cont . col. 2 )
E /VI 1-~ t.) ye 1:_.

S PJ:C / Al-S
..I
GENERAL ELECTRIC RANGES
New 2 in 1 extra high speed automatic

Calrod unit.
Automatic speed grill.
'.
New electric meat thermometer with

buzzer.
Controls for ever y cooking operation
at your fi'ngertips.
Removable oven doors.
REGULAR
EMPLOYEE PRICE
LIST PRICE
$26 8.25
$409 . 95
SPECIAL Employ ee Price

Ap r ill to May 31 ON LY
J 304
~ IJ
JI
BIG 40 11 DELUXE RANGE

WITH ALL ABOVE FEATURES
PLUS
2 COMPLETE OVENS
,,.. ...
LIST PRICE
REG. EMPLOYEE PRICE

$34 6 .00
$539. 95
SPECIAL EMPLOYEE PRICE
''
#'3//,60
J408
MODEL J30 3R NOT ILLUSTRATED
Reg. Employee Price $169. 50
SPECIAL $154. 50
BUILT - IN RANGE SPECIALS
J507R
J508R
J551 R
J5 52R
J5 55R
J556R
BUILT-IN
BUILT-IN
BUILT -IN
BUILT-IN
BUILT-IN
BUILT-IN
OVEN (COLOR)
OVEN
S URF ACE UNIT
SURFACE UNIT
SURFACE UNIT
SURFACE UNIT
List Price
$239.95
249.95
134. 95
149. 95
129. 95
134. 95
SPECIAL
Regular
Employee P r ice Employee. Pri c e
$137.00
$142.00
143.50
148. 50
63.25
83 .25
69.25
89.25
58.25
78. 25
65.00
85.00
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WAYNESBORO, vmGINIA
SPECIAL EDITION
April 10, 1958
4000 GE EMPLOYEES CALLED OUT BY IUE IN SCHENECTADY
Approximately 4000 General Electric employees were walking the streets of

S chenectady this morning as a result of a walkout called by the IUE.
The ::;trike,
which
includes all hourly-rated employees in the Large Steam Turbine Department, was called
by the union bosses in support of a union steward who refused to use an oil can to squirt
kerosene as part of his job;
,,-...
but instead led about 100 workers in an illegal walkout last
week.
The group that walked out last week were flame gougers and chippers.
is to repair flaws in large turbine castings .
T "iei job
Blue chalk has been used to find cracks
in the casting, but this has not been satisfactory.
Consequently, red-dyed kerosene
was substituted and was to be squirted from an oil can.
The union steward refused to
use the squi:.t.can, insisting that another employee should be hired to squirt the oil.
Becaus e the walkout which followed was illegal, the Company would not discuss
the matter until the e mployees returned to work.
After a week, the group returned to
work and a meeting was arranged.

When the meeting was held, union bosses refused to discuss the case with the
management representatives who were present because the Department General Manager
was not pres ent.
Instead, the IUE called the 4000 hourly workers in the D e partment
...-....
out in another walkout, and is attempting to get employees in other Departments in
Schenectady to join them.
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April 11, 1958
Bless this food to the nourishment of our bodies and our bodies in Thy service;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
ROANOKE GOES ON FOUR-DAY
WEEK IN SOME AREAS
$$$FOR SUGGESTIONS - -ANOTHER GROUP CASHES IN
Because of a lack of orders,

Another group of Specialty ConIndustry Control Department in
trol employees cashed in on their
Roanoke, Va., has been for ce d
ideas this week, when Suggestion
to go on a four -day wo rk week in
A ward che cks we r e presented to
the Sheet Metal and Wiring areas. J them. Fourte en employees re,
The four - day week started Mon- ' ceived the checks for their efforts ;
in taking time to write up
day.
suggestions on improving operations
in the Department.
Employees at the Roanoke plant
were reminded this w e ek by
Receiving checks this morning
Industry Control Department
were Kenneth Morris (Air craft
~ nagement that quality and ser; e to the customer are essential T est), James Truslow (Stockroom), Mel Shick (A&:M Prod.),
at a time like t his, when it is
important that each product ship - Oscar Claytor (Machine Room),
Hattie Carswell (Relays), Robt.
ped to a customer do it s part to
Baugher (Contours), R. D.
earn and maintain customer conHarris (Machine Room), A. G.
fidence in the ability of Industr y
Small (Machine Room), H . B.
Control to supply the best proBlackwood (Machine Room, C. F .
ducts available.
Ball (Aircraft Test), L . B. Coffman (Apprentice), H. B . Knox
(Plating), R. C . Fie lds (Magnetic
Winding Components) and Fay
Cook (Stockroom).
lJ=~
C . E. Cox (Eng. ) was chosen

last week as the "Key Man" for
the past year by the Waynesboro
Junio r Chamber of Commerce.
The award is gi ve n e ac h year to
the JayCee who contributes the
most outstanding service to the
community through the Jr.
Chamber of Commerce organization.
In case you've been wo ndering

what has been happening to Room
17 (forme rly the Quality Control
Office) the last couple of days,
Specialty Control is "raising the
roof" to make room for new
engineering development work in
Program Control.
The area will be a temporary
additio n to the Engineering Lab,
and will be used for development
wo rk in connection with a Kearney
and Trecker machine tool. In
order to provide room for the new
equipment, the ceiling of Room 17
is b eing raised.
The space was formerly used by
Quality Control personnel, who
have recently moved out onto the
factory floor to get closer to the
particular manufacturing areas
in whic h they have quality
responsibilities.
The most disappointed people in

the world are those who get
what's coming to them.
,-.
.1e Employee Store now has on
display the new GE Rotisserie,
which retail s at $89. 95. Employe e Price is $66. 95.
SPECIALTY CONTROL "RAISES

THE ROOF" TO MAKE ROOM
FOR DEVELOPMENT WORK
"Sooner or later, I knew some

loafer would sneak a TV set in
there!"
SAFETY SCORE
1,27_5 days
6, 493, 522 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
MORE JOB SECURITY - IUE STY LE
Yesterday afternoon, a special edition of TODAY'S NEWS was published,

reporting an IUE strike in Schenectady, i n volving about 4, 000 hourly employees
in the Large Steam Turbine Department.
Irresponsible action such as this Schenectady walkout makes us believe
the IUE is truly not interested in the welfare of its members.
At a time when
business is not good, and most of industry is striving to maintain its present
employment le vel and provide work for its employees - - a time when production,
quality and prompt delivery are essential to keep the orders coming in -- the
IUE in S chenectady has called 4, 000 people away from their work
because~
union steward felt that he should not have to squirt kerosene from an oil can, but
that someone else should do that for him!
Not only will the se 4, 000 employees lose their pay for the time they are
out, but also the lost production could cost that Department a lot in lost orders
and consequently mean lack-of-work f or many o f the employees.
No doubt, the union b osses have a reason for calling this strike, but
certainly that reason can have nothing to do with the welfare of the employees it
represents.
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April 14, 1958
Dear heavenly Father, at every table where food is spread Thou art host. Prepare
our hearts, through love and service, for these blessings from Thy hands. Amen
SPECIALTY CONTROL FIREMEN

WILL MARCH IN SHENANDOAH
APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
PARADE
DENTIST'S DRILL CUTS HOLE

IN MANUFACTURING LOSSES
Harding Lonas, ForemanMilitary Encapsulation, is pictur ed at left with the dentist's
drill which is now being used to
reduce waste and prevent scrap
in the "p otting" area.
The Specialty Control Department

Fire Brigade will participate in
the Shenandoah Apple Bloss om
Festival this year by marching
in the Fireman's Parade. The
parade, which will be held at
Winchester, Virginia, will beg in at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, Mayl.
~e
Department firemen will be

1 dressed up for the o ccasion,
and will wear new white shirts
with GE monograms on the back
and bright red buttons on the
front.
AIEE WILL MEET WITH UNIV.

OF VIRGINIA STUDENTS
The Blue Ridge Sub-Section of the
American Institute of Electr ical
Engineers will have a joint meeting with students from the Univ.
of Virginia on Tuesday, April 15,
at 7: 30 PM. The meeting will be
held at Thornton Hall at the
University.
SYSTEM
My wife and I don't argue
As other couples do.
She always travels her way,
And I go her way too!
~-
"If you're looking for the fish

you caught, I froz e it in an ice
cube !"
Previously, if a component
buried in the hardened resin of
the cast block failed test, the
compl ete block, which includes
parts and labor worth about $150,
had to be scrapped. Now, however, a regular dentist s drill is
used to cut into the resin, allowing access to the parts for
correction of the defect. After
correction, the block is resealed.
This cost reduction,for which Mr.
Lonas was largely responsible.
will recover over $5, 000 in lo~t
material and labor this year.
The unusual application of equip ment

such as this dentist's drill
Mr, J ohn Ward, fr om Specialties,
provides
a fertile field for
Inc., in Charlottesville will speak
creati
ve
thinking
to bring about
to the group on" A Newly Develop.
cost
reductions.
Problems can
ed Color Comparison Device. 11
often be solved by the use of
simple, everyday items in a way
The last meeting of the year for
that
was n ot thought of previously.
AIEE wiU be a Ladies Night and
dinner meeting on May 15 at the
Anything which reduces manu Ingleside Hotel, near Staunton,
facturing losses, such as the one
mentioned above, helps keep us
I
Whenever a man begins to think he working, keep our customers
satisfied, and keep us in a
is indispensable, he should stick
position to get new business.
I/ h"is f"inger into a bowl of water
: then notic e the big hole it mak~s
Cost reduction is fundamental to
when he takes it out.
business success.
INCREASED EFFICIENCY -- MORE JOB SECURITY
OR LESS?
The management of any business has a responsibility to keep its operations

competitive. Only by doing so can the business thrive and provide any measure
of security for all concerned. In order to run an efficient shop, it sometimes
becomes necessary to alter the requirements of a job. This is not because
efficiency is an end in itself but because managers know from bitter experience
that inefficient operations cost money, cost orders, and cost jobs.
While fulfilling the . responsibility to keep operations competiti v e, management
also has a corresponding obligation to act wisely and not make any unreasonable
requests of employees. In the current strike at the Turbine Department in
Schenectady there is certainly nothing unreasonable in asking employees to pick
up an oil can and squirt some fluid on a casting. The entire operation takes less
than a minute.
It requires no skill.
But apparently the IUE is not concerned with efficiency, competitiveness, or
security. It seems only concerned with making trouble. Else why would it insist
that other employees -- not the chippers or g?ugers -- should be the ones that
squirt the oil?
If that were done, the chippers and gougers .would
spend a lot of time I just standing
.
around and w aiting for someone to squirt the oil for them, and, they would have
to be paid for standing around.
ls it reasonable to demand pay for doing nothing?
We don't believe that Specialty Control employees think so. And we don't believe
that most of the people on strike in Schenectady think so either. They are honest
and fair-minded people too, but they have lost their right to make their own
decisions about their jobs and are coerced and pressured into following the bidding
of leaders w hose only purpose seems to be to cause unrest and dissension.
,.-..,.
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VOL. IV, NO. 73
April 15, 1958
Dear Lord, we thank Thee for food for our bodies and for Thy lo ve, which is the food
for our souls. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Rews4
'Bits
PLATING ROOM GETS NEW LAB

FACILITIES

the shipment of salvage blankets
for which individual orders were
taken. THOSE EMPLOYEES
WHO PLACED ORDERS for
salvage blankets may pick them
up at the Employee Store on
Wednesday, April 16.
.Aecause of the lar ge number of
eople that ordered blankets,
the. store will be open on W ednes
day (during regular store hours )
so that the blankets may be
picked up ONLY.
New laboratory facilities are

being install ed in the Plating
Room this week, as part of
Specialty Control's continuing
efforts to do a better job and
produce better quality products.
~
REMINDERS
Federal Income Tax returns
are due today, April 15.
State Income Tax and Personal Property Tax returns
should be filed by May 1.
THIS IS SUCCESS:
The Valley Engineers Club will

hold a dinner meeting on Wednesday, April 16 at 6:30 PM at
the Hotel General Wayne. Two
films will be shown "Colonel
Drake's First Barrel" and "More
Than Just Steel".
A new program chairman will
also be elected.
To be able to carry money without spending it,

To b e able to bear an injustice
without retaliating.
To be able to do one's duty even
when one is not watched .
To be able to keep at the job
until it is finished.
Congratulations to two proud

Specialty Control fathers
Dave Grove (Air craft), whose
8 lb. 8 oz. daughter was born
..-. Friday night, and
Russ Walker (Cost Acctg.') who
is the father of a new baby girl,
born Sunday, weighing 6 lb.
10 oz.
To be able to make use of

criticism without letting it whip
you.
Reprinted from the
Hendersonville GE Reporter.
Ther e were fewer wrecks in the
horse and buggy days because the
driver did not d epend entirely on
his own intelligence.
The new lab facilities should

save time in the continuous job
of a nalyz ing solutions in the
Plating Room and also should
should enable Plating Room
personnel to do a better job of
checking these solutions.
Analyses of solutions for the
Plating Room have been done in
a small room in the Maintenance
Shop.
In order to assure the proper
concentration for all solutions
used in the Plating Room, the
fluids are analyzed on a regular
basis -- some monthly, some
weekly, some daily. Some of
the fluids are replaced from
time to time, but all plating
solu.t ions are kept and not replaced unless they become contaminated. As analysis shows
a need for it, changes are made
by adding or removing ingredients.
The Specialty Control Choraliers

will meet tonight at 7: 30 in the
Plant Auditorium. New member.:i
are welcome.
ARE YOU PROTECTED FROM "THE SUMMERTIME CRIPPLER"?
Within a very short time. the summer season will be here, and with it the
usual increase in the number of cases of polio.
Medical authorities have never been
able to find out for sure why polio occurs more frequently in the summer, but for
some rea s o n, it does.
There was a time when this fact was frightening to all, and rightly so.
when the Salk polio vaccine became available in 1953, this situation changed.
But
Now
those who become vaccinated with the full three shots can look forward to the sum mer season with the assurance that they are protected against polio.
You would think that such an amazing d i scovery would be readily recei ved by
the public and that by now a large majority of the population would be protected by
the 'v accine.
Yet, after the initial demand was taken care of, the vaccine has
accumulated on dealer 1 s shelves, unused, and approximately 90% of the adult

population has not yet received the full protection of three shots.
Many of our children have already received polio shots, but these children
are not protected from the effects of this disease unless their parents are immunized
also.
And, except for children, the 19 - 40 age group is the most susceptible to
polio.
But this is the group that is largely unprotected.

REMEMBER, YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT REALLY PROTECTED UNLESS
YOU ARE.
ASK YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN ABOUT GETTING YOUR POLIO
SHOTS!
As a reminder, we will print a few questions and answers about polio and
polio shots in TODAY'S NEWS for the next few weeks.
POLIO.
Look for POINTS ON
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VOL. IV , NO. 74
April 16, 1958
Not only for this food, do we give Thee thanks, 0 God, but for work and its r ewards,
for friends, for health. Amen.
SMALL GAUGE LAB WILL MEAN
MORE ACCURATE MEASUREMENT FOR SPECIALTY CONTROI
PRODUCTS
will set up its own Small Gauge
Laboratory soon for making
mechanical measurements to
0001 in. The new lab will be a
part of the Quality Control
operation.
Because of the accuracy neces 'Y in checking parts associated
with the Department's Program
.Co ntrol products, and be cause
we are manufacturing more pre cise parts than ever before, our
own measuring equipment must
be much more accurate than
b efore,
In order to achieve the required
accuracy, equipment will be
.secured for the new Small \ raucc
Laboratory to n1easu r~, calibrate
a nd evaluate new and existing
tools, ji g s, fixtur es and inspection instrume nts . After the
new equipment h as been installed,
a set of Specialty Control standards will be established for all
instruments used in m e asuring
close tolerances in the Department.
-- ~
SCHENECTADY EMPLOYEES
ARE BACK AT WORK
1'f3W8T
Bi~
~arl
Pu~chasing
c::erni,
Agent, is
attenchng a seminar on Negotiate d
Purchasing at Bronxville. N. Y
this week and nex t .
In Mr. Cerni 's a bs e n ce, Dave
Coughtry is serving as Acting
Pur c hasing Agent.
Congratulations to Paul Wright
(Sheet Metal) whose wife gave
birth to a son Saturday at
Wayne sboro Comm u nity HospitaL
Another addition to the Specialty

Control family is a son, 7 lb.
10 o z., born to B everly and Lyle
Har man (A&DI) last Wednesday.
SMi\LL GiJAGE LAB

(Cont. from Col. l}
used in c onnt>:: tio n with our Prot3ram Control products right
away.
As parts become mor e and more
pr ecise, and measurements become more accurate. a co ntrolled temperature room must
be used to c heck the measu ring
instruments. Some of the e quipment which will be used b y

The new Lab w ill be es t ablished
Specialty Cont rol will have to b e
r -tt to the Tool Crib, and wo rk
checked in controlled temperature
<!nlarge the present area will
room:;; e i thel" at the Bureau of
begin soon.
S tandard s or some manufacturing
Some of the new equipment will be plant tha t h as faciliti es to
measure even more a c cur'a te l y
ordered immediately so it can b e
than
we will b e able to.
{Cont . Col. 2)
Approximately 4000 employees of

the Lar ge Steam Turbine Department in Schenecta dy were back at
work this week after ha ving
walked the streets most of last
w eek because of an IUE strike,
The payless days for thi3 group
of employees came as a result
of a union steward refusing to
squirt kerosene from an oil can
to locate cracks in a cas ting.
The stewar d insisted th a t another
employee should us e t h e oil can,
and the IUE ordered a ll hourly
employees in the Departme nt out
on strike i n an a.ttempt to back
him up.
The .result " 1 a rnet:tir.g Saturday
bet'h ?' :r. the IUE a.nd C"1npany
repr e sentatives were that the

C omp a ny asse rted its right to
change the c ontent of a job in
order to improve its operations.
All employees of th~ Large Steam
Turbine Department we re back at
wo rk on Monday, with nothing to
show for the time s pent on last
week ' s I UE strike.
TODAY IS THE DAY that new

state and city or county tags
should be di spl ayed on all automobiles.
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 280 d a y s
6 , 521, 852 hours
WITHOU T A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
HOW
ro GET
JOB SECURITY-
P.D.Q.
By now, all of us are familiar with the fact that Specialty Control's
business, like most of the business in the country, is down.
doesn't mean that there are not some orders to be had.
But that certainly
People are still buying
our products; there are just not as many orders for as many of our products as
before.
A lot of other manufacturers are having the same difficulty -- some of
them are even in the same kind of business we are in.
These people -- our
c ompetitors - - are tryi ng just as hard as we are to sell

Now, we have two choices in this matter.
We can sit around and worry
about the lack of orders or we do something about it.

checking our servi c e date or
We ca n spend our time
we c an de something to help build job security.
And how do we build job security?

Price, Delivery and Quality.
products .
The best way we know i s P. D. Q, --
We can reduce our prices by c utting c osts.
We
can improve delivery by planning better and by operating our business more
efficiently.
And we can improve quality by always doing the very b es t job
possible.
Regardless of what our parti c ular job is -- the job security we all want
depends on all of us.
So -- let's do everything we can to help build that job se c urity -- P. D. Q .
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VOL. IV, NO. 7 5
April 17, 1958
For this co untry , for its fr eedoms, for our rights in this country, we are grateful,
0 God. Make us g rateful for this food also . Amen.
WRITTEN PROCEDURES MUST
BE FOLLOWED
CLARK RECEIVES
RECORD CHECK
FOR PUBLISHED
I
Back in February, we rep ort ed
AR TIC LE: Steve
that Specialty Control DepartClark, Progra m
ment had re c ei ved a rating of
Control Sales,
Unsatisfactory on an Atomic
is p i c tured at
Energy Commission Inspection.
right as he re The Department was allowed to
ce i ves a check
continue work on the orders al wh i ch was sent
ready in progress, with the
from the editors
stipulation that corrective action
of A UTOMATION
be taken imme diately.
M aga z ine for an
ar-ticle publ is bed
..-. part of that correc ti ve a c tion,
in their April
. itten instructions have been
i ss u e . T he
issued on many jobs that did not
check , w hich is for $225, is the largest re ce i ved by a Specialty
have them before.
Control employee as a n honorariurr1 for a signe d article. Presenting
the check i s D. O. Di ce , Manager -Marketing, while C. T. Humphrey,
In order to re gain our SatisManager-Advertising and Sales Promotion looks on. Mr . Humphrey
factory rating with the AEC, it
is the Department co ntact wi th t echni cal ma g azines and handles
is necessar y that these w ritten
ne goti a tions in conn ection w ith the publishing of articles. Mr .
instructions be followed carefully Clark's article , entitled "Improve Job-Lot Production with Numeriby a ll employees ; no deviation
cal Positioning", deals with incre a s ed ac ti vi ty in t he field of
from the written procedures
numerical c ontrol of machine tools, and establishes the fact that
sho uld be made b y an employee at , this is one of t he most signifi cant trends in t he metal w orking
any time .
indus tries .
Another important factor in the
AEC rating was poor housekeeping. For this reason, e ve ry
effort should be made to continue
the good job of housekeeping that
was evident in the last Plant
Inspection.
Destiny is not a matter of chance ,

a matter of choi ce; it i s not
~ .ning to be waited for, it is a
thing to be a chi eved.
- -Willi am J ennings Bryan
~s
--
SCOGEE I NCOME AND EXPENSE

STATEMENT PUBLISHED
In o rder to show SCOGEE mem b ers wha t happens to th eir
Cong ratul a tions to Natalie (formei l
mo ney, a statement of income
Receptioni s t) and Bobby Hoy
and expense for the year endin g
(Sheet Meta l). who have a new
:
April 14, 195 8 has been prepared
daug hter, born Monday.
by Sherwood Black , recent l y
elected SCOGEE Treasurer.
T h is statement appears on the
SAFETY SCORE
back pa ge of TODAY'S NEWS.
1, 281 days
6, 53 1, 289 hours
Serving on the Finance Committ ee
for SCOGEE, in addi tion to Mr .
ACCIDENT
Black ,ar e Joe Belak, Ray Flynn,
Frank Gum, a nd Bill Hugh es.
SCOGEE
Statement of Income and Expenses for the
Twelve Month Period ending 4-14-58
Income
Income from Dues
Less Refund of Dues
Skating Income
Golf Income
Dance Income (4 dances)
Miscellaneous Income
1153.00
3. 00
1150 00
12 . 60
153 00
653. 60
67. 00
2036. 20
Expenses
Skating Expense
Dance Expense (4 dances)
Softball Expense
Drive-In Movie
Basketball Expense
Volleyball Expense
Glee Club Expense
Insurance Expense
Golf Expense
Taxes
Trout Contest Expense
Miscellaneous Expense
23. 92
500 . 35
198 12
14 7. 00
189 29
25. 00
251 74
38. 72
148 87
46. 11
30. 00
58 . 95
1658 07
Net Income
Balance on Hand 4-29-57
Balance on Hand 4-14-58
378.13
506. 04
884 . 17
Regular Fund
Building Fund
527 . 67
356. 50
884. 17
'S NEWS

S,ORTS. NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of. WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, N O. 7 6
April 18, 195 8
For home, fo r family, for friends, we thank Thee, 0 God; he lp us to make o ur place
toda y a friendly place toward Thee and toward others. Amen.
DYNAMIC 5 ARE SURE WINNERS
IN SCOGEE MENS BOWLING
LEAGUE
Members of the Dynamic 5 team
will be the SCOGEE Men's Bowling Leag ue champions for the
third straight year, after clinch ing their victory last night in a
rather inglorious manner. They
lost all 3 games to the C annon
Balls, but the seco nd pla ce Alley
Cats dropped one g ame to Ertle 1 s
Turtles, which eliminates the
'. ey Cats from any chance of
ca.khing the Dynamic 5 in the
remaining two matches.
In the other match of the evening,

the Retreads knocked off the Roll
Tillers in all thre e g ames.
Joe Bela k rolled the Hi g h Triple
for the ni g ht with a total of 534
and Del Niedentohl had High
Single with a 198.
CAFETERIA WILL GET MORE

STORAGE SPACE
There are only a

few months re maning before the
usual polio season begins. Every one under 40
should be vacc inated in order to pre vent as many cases
of paralytic polio
as possible.
~~~wJ
~Bits /
Congratulations to H. P. Fea ther stone (A &: DI Sales) whose

wife gave birth to a 7 lb. 8 oz.
daughter Wednesday morning.
Anyone who is interested in
having washing and ironing done
may contact Ruby Brown (Air craft). Her home telephone no.
is 2 - 5955.
plan to travel with the money I

get for this expedition. Aside
from this trip, I ' ve never been
west of Hoboken, New Jersey. 11
More storage space and a larger

work area will be provided for the
Macke Cafeteria as a result of
work which will begin this weekend. The additional space is
needed because of problems
created by the installation, about
four months ago, of the hot food
serving line.
The presen t sto rage and work
area, because it is covered with
an expande c me tal ceiling,does
not provide the work area and
refrigeration space which is
needed to operate the new serving
line properly.
In order to provide the necessary
space, the expanded metal ceiling
will be removed and the present
partitions will be extended to the
cafeteria ceiling. Additional
shelving will be added on the
wall space provided by this change,
leaving spac e at the floor level
for additional work area and
additional refrigeration equipment. A new three-compartment
stainless stee l sink will also be
added, because the present sink
is inadequate .
Several pieces of cutlery are

found nearly every day in
Results of the change will be
the garbage disposal unit at the
better control of food prepara Cafeteria exit when it is emptied.
tion and better storage and
Employees are reminded that a
refrigeration facilities.
place is provided at the Cafeteria
exit for the disposal of the cutSAFETY SCORE
lery.
1, 282 days
PLANT INSPECTION MONDAY
6, 540, 726 hours

WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
t1(J~I!
s
\i .1J;
_..
PRl/\I G
~.:.iMlllt-ririlfl*t._._
t hrough May 31
GENERAL ELECTRIC BUILT IN RANGES

- - OVENS AND SURF ACE UNITS - -
NEW --- --- 4 UNIT COOK TOP WITH

BUILT-IN PUSH BUTTONS
Four fast-heating Calrod units (two

extra high speed) with push button
control right at hand on the cooktop.
-Model J-555 in
Mix or Match Colors
List Price
Regular Employee Price
/129. 95
7 8. 25
SPECIAL Employee Price
Model J -556 in
Stainless Steel
$134. 95
List Price
85.00
$fo:{ ~
New---- DELUXE OVEN WITH

AUTOMATIC ROTISSERIE
See - thru oven door
a glass
window set into the door lets you
watch the progress of your baking,
roasting or barbecuing without
opening the oven door.
Model J -507 in
Mix or Match Colors
239, 95
List Price
t# 142. 00
SPECIAL EMPLOYEE PRICE ?'P/37~
Model J-508 in
Satin Chrome
List Price
249, 95
148. 50
f/_,ft3
.f!_
'S NEWS
PUBLISHED IV THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

SPOlTS. NATIONAL AND WORLD NfWS - COURTESY 01' WAYI AND NEWS VlltOINIAM
VOL. IV, NO. 77
April 21, 1958
Every good and perfect gift c omes from Thee, 0 God, and we thank The e for all that
Thou has given. Amen.
RECORD ATTENDANCE EXPECTED FOR G. E. ANNUAL
MEETING
A world's record attendance for
such meetings is expected when
share owners of the General
Electric Company gather at
Schenectady for the Company's
56th annual meeting on Wednesday, April 23.
This year ' s session is expected
to attract even more than the
cord-setting 3, 600 persons who
_ .cended last year's meeting. The
1957 meeting was the largest of
its kind in American industry.
The share owners will hear a
report on the status of Company
operations and its plans for the
future. Company President
Ralph J. Cordiner will discuss
the growing importance of the
electrical industry in its relationship to the total economy with
special emphasis on the Company's plans during the current
period.
Prior to and immediately follow ing the business meeting share
owners will have an opportunity
to see a series of exhibits showing the Company's broad diversity
of products - - from modern
appliances to a giant 80-ton
switching locomotive.
~
ne huge plant of the Large

Steam Turbine Generator Depart
ment will be opened during the
day for tours, and the worl d ' s
(Cont. column 2)
A number of uniforms which were

used for the SCOGEE Men's
Volleyball team and the men's
and girl' s Basketball teams, have
not been turned in yet. Team
members who still have these
uniforms should turn them in to
their team captains or to Bill
Meeks by Friday, April 25 .
There will be a regular PLANT
INSPECTION tonight. Results of
the Inspection will appear in
TODAY'S NEWS Wednesday and
Thursday.
ANNUAL MEE TING
(Cont. from col. 1)
largest industrial box lunch will
be served the share owners.
Following the business session
share owners will also get a
glimpse of the Company ' s extensive contribution to the defense
effort through its specialized
skills in such fie l ds as fasterthan -sound aircraft, guided
missiles and radar equipment.
Pointing up the large number of
people who actually own the
Company is the fact that approximately a half million persons are
owners of its stock with none
holding as much as one halfOf
one percent. There are some
394, 000 General E l ectric share
owners on record and an estimated additional 100, 000 register .
edin name of brokers or nominees
of banks or trust companies.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 285 days
6, 550, 163 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Sure, a dollar used to buy twice

as much 20 years ago. But who
had one then?
If we notice d little pleasures as we

notice little pains - - if we quite
forgot our l o s se s and remembered

all our gains - - if we looked for
people's virtues, and their faults
refused to see - - what a comfortable, happy, cheerful place this
world would be!
TIRED OF CARR YING AROUND

EXCESS WEIGHT, GIRLS? .
Well don't fret; here's the perfact solution. Throw away those
old girdles, get out your shortshorts, and sign up for SCOGEE
Softball. Fill out the blanks below, tear off this corner of
TODAY'S NEWS, and drop it in
the box in the Cafeteria today .
More information on girl's softball will appear later.
------------ ---I would like to play in the Girl's

Softball League .
Name
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Location in plant
~~~~~~~~
Extension
HOW OPPORTUNITY FOR PROFIT HELPS CONQUER DISEASE

Why is it important to each of us for the successful firms among America's l, 100 highly competitive drug companies to make good profits? Let's look at the record.
The other day, the American Medical Association reported that at least 75 per cent of pre scriptions being written today were for drugs that were not available 20 years ago.
New drugs have taken much of the fear out of pneumonia, "strep" infections, polio, meningitis,
and even leprosy.
Behind each of these new drugs lies at least a million dollars of res ear ch. That's the estimate
of the research investment required to produce a single new drug today. Last year drug manufacturers spent more than 7. 3 cents out of every sales dollar on research - - the highest ratio
of any civilian industry. These big investments (totaling about $127 million) could only be
warranted by the opportunity for good profit.
Yet occasionally you'll hear someone critici.ze the profits of drug companies. "Too big," they
say. These ?eople are overlooking the vital importance of opportunity for profit in helping conquer disease.
Much of this year's research and next year's research will be aimed at conquering some of
cripplers and killers whose names still frighten us. Cancer. Arthritis. Heart disease.
..-...
If the opportunity for profits can spark research which will be as effective in the future as it has
in the past, we say it's all to the good.
'S NEWS

Sl'OlTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD MEWS - COURTESY OF WA.YI Ji.MD NEWS VllOIMIA.M
VOL. IV, NO. 78
April 22, 1958
We thank Thee, 0 God, for the hand that feeds us, the love that cares for us, and the
life which Thou hast entrusted to us. Amen.
PROGRESS REPORT ON
PEOPLE 1S CAPITALISM
TONIGHT
This evening, on the GEspons ored television program
Cheyenne, a Progress Report
will be televised which should be
of interest to all Specialty Control employees. Entitled
People's Capitalism, the Prog ress Report will plac e special
emphasis on opportunities for
young share owners.
IUE FISTFIGHT AT LOUISVILLE

According to a syndicated news
story, members of the IUE approved a new layoff agreement
with the General Electric Company after a fist fight almost
broke up the meeting recently at
Louisville.
The fight errupted as the agree ment proposal came to a vote.

Frank Longachre, leader of a
faction opposing local president
John . J. Johnson, rose to speak
against the proposal and was
~-popular Tuesday evening proordered to stop. Cries of
gram, Cheyenne appears on the
"Dictator" broke out. When the
Nielsen Ratings as second only to
Sergeant-at-Arms approached
the General Electric Theatre when
Longachre to eject him from the
compared with all other insti meeting hundreds of people
tutional programs. When comswarmed onto the floor with fists
pared with all shows of competiflying.
tive sponsors, General Electric
Theatre is in second place and
The fight was stopped by David
Cheyenne ranks third.
Fitzmaurice of Cleve land, Ohio,
a troubleshooter for James Carey.
He bellowed through the microphone, "You're not acting like
union people . "
POINTS ON POLIO
LARGE ORDER RECEIVED FROM

BUREAU OF SHIPS
Shipme nt Will B egin A Ye ar Fr om
June
Spe c ialty Control Department las t
week re c eived an order from the
U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships total ling $826, 638. Delivery on the
equipment involved will begin in
June 1959 and will be spread out
over a period of approximately
15 month s.
The orde r i t fe r 150 sets of
400KW s t a tic excitation systems
and 74 sets o f spare parts.
The e quipment will be used on the
Navy 1 s Cla ss 692 destro y ers.
**************
Question: Why are
people being urged
to get polio shots
now?
Answer: Now is the
time to get polio
shots in order to be
protected during
the summer months
ahead.
Ed. Note: Mr. Fitzmaurice is,

of course, entitled to his opinion.
The Choraliers will meet tonight

at 7: 30 in the Plant Auditorium,
Results of last night's PLANT

INSPECTION will be published in
TODAY'S NEWS Wednesrh.y and
Thursday.
11
Along with my references, I

brought samples of my filing."
SAFETY SCORE
1, 286 days
6, 559, 619 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIMF;
ACCIDENT
CITY COUNCIL ELECTION WILL BE JUNE 10: REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 10
Citizens of Waynesboro will elect two members to the City Council on

Tuesday, June 10.
The last day of registration for that election will be Saturday,
May 10.
The two councilmen which will be elected on June 10 will be from Ward III
and Ward IV .
All Waynesboro voters may vote for one candidate from Ward Ill
and one candidate from Ward IV, regardless of the Ward in which the voter lives.
(Each member of the Council is elected by all the voters, instead of being elected
by only the voters in the Ward which he represents.)
Voters are reminded that payment of poll tax does not constitute
registration
for the election, but poll tax must have been paid before December 10, 195 7, in
order to qualify a voter in the Council election.
Poll tax receipts for 1955, 1956
and 1957 should be brought to the polls on June 10.

In order to be qualified to vote in the General Election on November 4,
1958, and in the Democratic Primary which will be held on July 15, voters must
pay their poll tax before May 3.
Registration deadline for the Democratic
Primary is June 14 and for the General Election is October 4.
FURTHER INFORMATION ON LOCAL ELECTIONS

MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS.
PHONE
WH 2-7644, 2-4022 or 2-5299
A copy of the LEAGUE 1 s Voter's Guide may be obtained from them on

request.
'S
NEWS
PUBLISHED IY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROi. EMPLOYEE$

s'us. NATIONAL AND WORLD News - COURTESY Of WAYI ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 79
April 23, 195 8
For life, for food, for daily care here in the plant and at our homes, we
give Thee our thanks. Amen.
GE SALES AND EARNINGS DOWN
FOR FIRST QUARTER, 1958
General Electric Company's
sales and earnings for the fir st
quarter of 1958 were below the
record first quarter of 1957,
President Ralph J . Gardiner
announced last week.
Earnings were equivalent to 56
cents per share of common stock
and 5. l cents per dollar of sales
as compared with 73 cents per
share and 6. l cents per dollar
sale'S for the first quarter of
..... .........
POINTS ON POLIO .
HOLYOKE GROUPS REJECT IUE
Question: Vlhat percentage of people

have not had polio
shots yet?
Two separate groups of General

Electric employees at the
Holyoke, Massachusetts , plant
rejected the IUE in NLRB elec tions recently.
Answer: Approxi mately 90 percent

of the adult population has not yet
received all three
polio injections.
Techni cal employees (draftsmen

and lab assistants) chose ndt to
be represented by the IUE by a
vote of 33 for NO UNION and 5
for the IUE.
SIGNS OF OUR TIMES
. 7.
Mr. Gardiner attributed the low- !
er earning rate to decreased
~
sales volume in most commerci al l
product areas, a higher propor - !
tion of defense business with low
profit margins, continually rising employment costs and in...
creasing costs of many raw
materials .
Mr. Gardiner said that new
orders received during the first
quarter exceeded sales and the
rate of incoming orders increased markedly in March, as com r-ared with January and Februar y.
Sales of General Electric' s
defense product departments increased during the quarter, Mr.
Cordiner said, while sales in
the other areas of the business
~ ged in comparison with the
st quarter of 1957. Total
sales billed for the Company in
Marc h increased sharply, however, he said, but it is too ear ly
(Cont. col. 2)
"Our Steaks Are So Tender We

Wonder How the Cows Ever Held
Together," says a sign posted on l
Dangerous Dan McGrew's restau- iI
rant in Rapid City, S. Dakota .
At the same time, clerical em ployees also turned down the

IUE 1 s attempt to organize them
by a vote of 45 for NO UNION and
18 for the IUE.
1'ewJ
B1ts j
Sign at a Seattle fishing spot:

"Old Fishermen Never Die -They Just Smell That Way !"
Specialty Control welcome s to

the plant today two visitors from
GE EARNINGS DOWN
USER SALES; Messrs . E . H.
(Cont. from col. l)
Alexander, Manager-Product
to know if a trend of this magniSales, Atlantic District; and W.
tude can be sustained.
I C. Bloomquist, Manager I
Application Engineering, Atlantic
Despite the first-quarter decline, )
1 District.
Mr. Gardiner reaffirmed his
1
confidence in the long-term outlook for General Electric, the
.
electrical industry and for the
There will be a meeting to night
economy as a whole.
1
in the Cafeteria at 7: 30 for all
men who are interested in Softball. Both a Fast - Pitch
SAFETY SCORE
I
Industrial
League and a Slow1, 287 days
Pitc
h
YMCA
League will be dis6, 569 , 075 hours
cussed.
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
iI
l
ACCIDENT
I
!
PLANT INSPECTION RE,PORT
'

Good
Fair
Poor
Unacceptable
100%
75%
50%
25%
DEDUCTIBLE FOINTS
Material Handling
Work Area
Safety Hazards
Fire Hazards
-25
-25
-25
-25
Special Panels (L0!18.B)

Score 12. ~ 22. - Lyon~
rack disarragned old ext~~~t
(unmarked)
Devices (Caron) Score lOU
~!QQ
ELECTRONIC AREA
MAGt~ETIC WIN.iJING COMFONENT (Houser QUALITY CONTROL (Sussman)
Inspector - Cholewa
Inspector - House
4 & M Test & Mezz (Beatty)
Sheet Metal (Groat &VanLear)
Assembly
Score 75 Aver 68 - Dust
Score,_22 ~ .!
Stock Area Score 100 Aver 100 I on testriXEure J no
Unsafe ia~~ 2leaky steam valves,
Assembly Area Score ,ii Aver IQ identification on glass jar
Fire hazard rags in boxes.
Utlmarked spools or iNire, very
in Mezz.
Paint Booths Score 100 Aver 100
cluttered tool cabinet
Potted Units Score 100
Printed Circuit & Cont'Our:- Office Score 100
Aver 100
Aver JA.
--(Wol&nin) Score 1.S. Aver 9Jt
Heat Treat & Test (House)
Test Score l.QQ Alc.1:
Large Panel (Cook(;) 'S'COre !QQ.
Score 1i. .!!! 1i..
Congasted
Test Construction (Ford)
Aver .22
.
Score 12
Aver ~
Small Panel (Crummet) Score 12
Mach Shop Score :ZS. Aver 3lJ:.
Aver 88"- Mat 1 1 not identified, MATERIAL SUB fiECTION
Sheet M~tal Score lQQ
Hardwire in waste basket
}J.1:.
lQQ
Reg & Harness (Cholewa) Score 12. Inspector - Rannie
Pro gram Control tit Welder
Rm l.Q!..- ~ - 104 - ~
!!.! g - ~ Unidentified safety Offices
~Hoylma.n) Score 12 Aut !lli
104
Score
1.2. !!.! jJ;t
can.
Improper
identification or
!Draw:.ngs in waste basket not torn
test
booths,
dust on equip,
Stock Rm (Humphreys)
rags
in
barrel
I""..
MFG. ENG
Rec Score 100 Aver 100
Thytnotrol (Moran) Score.
Inspector _ s. Stocki
, Aircr&ft score 2.Q Aver 1i
Aver fil-- Metal plate on .
Office Rm 16 Score 100 Aver 100~ Elect Stock Score !QQ ~ ~
test fixture, dust on equip.
Prototype (Reasoner')ccz:e100I ~ Sc~re 12. .!!.!!: .21!
Reg & Elect Drives (Fitzgeralc
Aver 1
; Racks dirty
Score 1i Aver fil - Dirty
Tool Rm (Failing)' score !QQ.
.Ship & Warehouse (Mead)
shelves in cabinet, :iirt on
!!!!: Z
Ship SLO re !QQ. ~ !lit
equip.
Tool Crib Score !QQ Aver !il1
Warehouse Score 100 Aver 1
Relay Test (Bare) Scor~ lQQ
Some unidentified tools, some
'.R.& R (Wylie) Score 12. Aver !ili
Aver 100
dusty dies.
Devices in area with MON tag
~ r;;p (Archambeault.)
Offices (Slater) Score !QQ.
since July 1957
Score .lQ Aver fil.
Aver 100
Offices (Sussman) Score ~
LabRiiT4 Score 12 ~ fil:
Aver l.Q.Q._
. AIRCRAFT & ?1IJLIT;~RY ASM (Davis)
Material on desk, poor mat'l
Special Panels (Davis)
handiing.
; Score 12. ~ ~ - Loose hardRoom 106 Score 100 Aver 100
~L~INTENANCE (Curto)
Mech Prod - Scorei'oo--P:Yerlco ~ware-tying on bench 1 unidentified
Boilerroom Score 100
; sub assanblies.
--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - : W i r e Harness & Jeep (Caron)
, Aver 100
BuITarng
#5
~
loo
RELAY
; Score 12 .!!! fil:. - Unmarked
; Aver 82
Inspector - Brunetto
'terminals, mixed wire in tote tray;
BUriding #6 Score iQ
Micro Min (Quick) Score 2Q
"Militarz Systems ranels & Devices
AYJJr_ fil .r lr.a.nt dwnping ervund
~ ~ - Unidentified parts,
(Wilson) Score 12. !!! ~
Grounds Score 100 ;ycr lQC
sign not up to date, equip not ~ Potted Units (Lonas) Score 12.
Maintenance Shop Score 12.
covered with plastic,. dirty tool; Aver 7Q - Unidentified hardware
Aver 75. Odds & ends still.
box, surplus hose on floor.
.' & mixed parts
lyjkaropd.
~Machine Area Score !QQ. .. Aver 12. : Plating Rm (Hyde) ~ !QQ
~Gl60 Score !QQ Aver !QQ
.!!!!: ~
Miniature (BrurtettOr-Score 100
Ma.ch Rm & Job Shop (Broug~.ma.n)
Aver 88
Score 100 Aver J1. Area looks
--Sub'Min Score !QQ. Aver 81
very good but suggest you repair
Oben
Score J;QQ, Aver ~
shelf in cabinet (Overloaded)
GS-300 Score 1QQ ~ .lQQ..
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JeiP
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'S
NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROi. EMPLOYEES

S'OUS. NATIONAL ANO WORLD HEWS - COU RTESY Of WAY& ANO HEWS VllGIHIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 8 0
April 24, 1958
H elp us to be g rateful for this food and use us to render service to

Thee. Amen.
ANOTHER COST-OF-LIVING
INCRE ASE FOR HOURLY AN D
NON-EXEMPT
Effective Monday, April 28, all
hourl y and non-exempt salaried
employees of Specialty Control
Depa rtment will rec eive an ad ditional 1- 1/ 2% cost-of-living inc re ase as a result of another
increase in the Co nsumer Price
Index, which was announced y esterday. The U.S. Dept. of Labor
announced that the Consumer
..-.,; ce I ndex for the month of
. a r ch was 12 3. 3.
Under the GE Bet ter Living Plan,
a ll hour l y and non - exempt sal aried emp loye es of the Company
receive automati c cost-of- living
adj u s tments of 0. 5% for each
O. 5% increase in the Consumer
Pr i ce I ndex. The current adjust ment brings the accumulated
cos t- of-living i ncreases for all
affected employees to 7% s ince
t his feat ure be cam e effective in
1955 .
TOOL ROOM AND PROTOTYPE

AREA WILL HAVE FAMILY
NIGHT
CORDINER ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF BOARD; PAXTON

BECOMESPREfilDENTOFGE
Empl oyees of the T o ol Room and

Prototype a rea and membe rs of
the ir family will enjoy a Family
Night Program tomorrow night
at the Specialty Control plant.
App r oximately thirty -five people
are expect ed to attend the program, which will begin at
7:00 PM.
The Board of Directors of the

General Electric Company yesterday elected Ralph J. Cordiner
Chairman of the Board. Mr.
Cordiner will continue as chief
exe c uti ve officer of the Company.
Robert Paxton, formerly Executi ve Vice President in charge of
Operations was elected President.
The g roup w ill see several

special exhibits of too ls a nd
equipment w hich a r e representitiv e of equipment manufac tured
a nd used i n the Tool Room and
Prototype Area.
1
They will be g i ve n a g uided t our

of the Tool Room and Prototype
Area , a n d late r , a tour of the
entire p l a nt. Refreshm e nts will
be served in the Cafeter ia.
r-~
lfewJ.
Mr. C o r d iner, Pr~sident of

G e neral Electric since 1950,succ eeds Philip D. Reed as Board
Chairman. Mr. Reed announced
las t year that l o n g standing per sonal plans called for his retirement in 1959 and, the refore, h e
woul d not se ek re -election.
The new assignments are in line
with the relationshi p es tablished
last fall wh e n Mr. Cor diner
delegated operating responsibility
t o Mr. Paxton.
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' Adrian Shifflett (Relays ) wishes

to thank a ll those who have sent
1
flowers and card s and who have
yi sited her in the h ospit a l. She
i s in the Waynes b o r o Community
Hospital.
"I think our des i gning depart ment has be en straining a bit too
h a r d ! 11
SAFETY SCORE
1, 288 days
6 , 578 , 531 hours
WITHOUT A LOST T IME
ACCI DENT
As chi ef executive o fficer, Mr.

Cordiner has overall r esponsibility t o the Board of Director s .
Mr. Paxton and the Vice Pr esi dents in char ge of the Company's
functional S e tvi ce s continue to
report to Mr. Cordi ner . The
Vice Presidents in charge of
General Electric' s fo ur ope rating groups continue to report
to Presiden t Paxton.
To b e successful, look for

work after you have found a j ob .
THE ARTICLE WHICH IS REPRINTED BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE G. E .

SCHENECTADY NEWS WHILE THE RECENT IUE STRIKE WAS STILL IN PROGRESS. This
article shows how completely useless the strike was and how little good can ever come from
action of this type by the union bosses.
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APRIL 11, 1958
Visit to Bldg. 273

Steam Turbine's Shutdown
Is aTragic Reminder of
Lost Pay, Lost Production
Yesterday we walked down the main aisle of an almost idle plant
and what we saw was a disheartening sight.
It was a building almost emptied by a needless strike. As we
walked through Bldg. 273, where just two days before so~e
5000 General Electric employees were working together to build
mammouth power producers for American utilities, we w_ere
stricken with the tragedy which almost always follows rash action.
Even more tragic was the thought of the thousands of dollars

which just a week from now will be missing from the paychecks of
these striking turbine employees. Altogether they total $80,000
for every day the strike continues.
If it should last a week, almost a half million dollars will be
lost to these men and their families forever.
Financial loss to the Company is substantial , but even more
important is the loss of customer confidence suffered by all
Schenectady departments, which may be irreparable.
Finally, we turned left into K-Bay where the gougers and chippers normally would be at work.
We talked to a couple of foremen in K-Ba:y and as~e~ them to
explain briefly what had precipita~ed .this stnke now. m .its .fou:th
day. They showed us an oilcan which is meant to squirt md1catmg
fluid on castings to show up cracks more clearly.
It was difficult for them to believe t hat an op~ration as simple
as squirting a fluid on a casting could cause a major walkout such
as this.
We agreed-but we felt that there must be more to this than
just an oilcan. They said yes t here was. The real issue was ove1
whet her management had the responsibility and the authority tc
go with it to assign work to Company employees.
They said the union had told .the workers that squirting thi~
oilcan was higher rated work wh1c~ should be don.e by test mer
and that placing fluid on castings 1s one of the thmgs done as c:
small part of an electrical test which must be done by test men.
They said that maybe these worker~ ~bought or ~ere led t.c
believe that management intended to ehmmate all testmg of theu
work but that testing could never be eliminated because Genera:
Electric's high quality standards would not permit it .
We left K-Bay puzzled over how su~h a thing as no~mal a:
squirting an oilcan could grow to such importance, how 1t coulc
be blown up all out of proportion, why it is that it 's so easy foi
management to mistake what is in the minds of the peop1,-.;1 thE
floor and for those people to view with suspicion every cha ..,..: tha1
our dynamic economy insists that management make.
As we slowly left the building, passing groups of men who con
tinued to try to do their work despite the strike, we pondered or
the rumors for a plantwide walkout and. picket line~ and th(
futility of losing pay in a premature stnke-one which begar
before management and union had any chance to sit down togethe1
and intelligently discuss the situation.
And we thought of the individual tragedies which make up .
the $80,000 a day now being lost and how it could run into
millions of dollars a day if the now disinterested employees
in the rest of the plant could be convinced that the principle
involved is really important enough for them to join the strike.
We thought too of the thousands of General Electric employee

who, we're sure, want to work but are idled because of misplacec
loyalty.
Our thoughts wandered to the reaction of our customers to thi
precipitous demonstration. We wonder~d what they would thin]
of our ability to deliver, to produce quality, to compete, when the:
read of how our turbine plant was idled because a handful o
employees would rather wait for someone to squirt an indicatin;
liquid on a casting than just pick up an oilcan and do it them
selves.
Perhaps 10 years ago we wouldn't have given this a secom
thought but today job security which is based finally on orders, i
uppermost in nearly all minds.
As we passed the guard in the foyer, we thought of law <'~rde
and a contract to which we all subscribed and how it sat. .cd u
all , and how it provides the means for peaceful settlement of ou
day-to-day differences of opinion.
We were reminded that strikes, like wars. never settle anything
We left that idle pla nt, glad to leave it because a tremendow
machine for bett ering all of our lives stood idle and filled us witr
depressing thoughts.
G-E SCHENECTADY NEWS
PAGE '
A Discouraging Experience
HERE'S HOW Large Steam Turbine-Generator

Department chippers and gougers r emove cracks
in turbine castings. (1) A typical section of a
casting shows the cracks which must be removed
to allow for the repair welding. (2) A carbide
burring tool-one of many met hods employed
to remove defects from castings. (3) Defective
area being chipped- another method of metal
removal, and the defect has already been re moved to a point where it is no longer discernible to the naked eye. ( 4) Here the operator
is shown flowing the indicating fluid over the

affected area. This activity is the new method
which has been assigned to the operators as a
guide in performing their chipping operations.
The flowing indicant deposits a substance in the
worked area a llowing observation of the defect with the naked eye. The operator, by using
this method, is then able to continue metal
removal and repeated checking until complete
absence of the defect is in evidence. At this
time a final magnetic test must be made.
PL~NT
INSPECTION REFQRT
INCLUDES ALL
J, ~E.".S
EXCEFT MFG .
RATJNGS USED FOR HANT INSFECTION Rooms: 201 - 100 Aver 100
202 - 100 Aver 100 Box of
100%
Good
material behind dr afting board.
Fair
2C4 - 100 Aver 100 205 - 100
75%
50%
Poor
Aver l Cu Fan ne eds storing
Unac ceptable Library cabinet needs straighten25%
ing up. 206 - 100 Aver 100
_ _ _ _D_E_D_tJ_C_T_I_B_LE_i'_F
_O
_I_N_TT_S_ _ ____. 209 - 100 Aver 88 Container for
l ayout of tracings needed.
Material Handling
- 25
Telephone
en ch&ir .
Work Area
-25
210
]i
Aver
88 Tracings stored
Safety Hazards
-25
-improperly & improper storage of
Fire Hazards
-25
!materials under desk. 211 - 100
in treatment room needs

painting. Disposal bags needed
for waste cans , flourescent
lights need cleaning.
Cafeteria Ji ~ 88 - Fire
extinguishers l ast date
inspected Apr 16, 1956 . Floor s
air condition units, & overhead
lights are filthy.
Employee Sto re 100 Aver :1J
Prop Room - 100 Aver !lb.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aver :1J 212 - 100 ~ lQQ

FH;A~C:. Inspector - Walker
1 213 - 100
/1ve r 88 Good effort
Rooms: 124 (Hayes ) 100
E~GINEERING
, 214 - 1.2. Aver :tJ Misc materi als . Aver 100 ~ (RogersY--1(,()
Inspector - Wadsworth
! i ncluding Xmas decorations
Aver 100 111 - 100 Aver 100
Aircraft Rm - 100 Aver 100
i..'Tlproperly stored . 215 - 100
122 - 100 Aver l CJO 127 - 100
Airc r aft Systeir.s Lab Score 100 Aver J.li 219 - 100 ~ 100
Ave r 100 129 - J&Q_ ~ 100
/, ver 100 - Wind ow pane broken,
; 221 - lQQ Aver 100 Fair effort, lli - 7.i Aver !lb. Storage
oil piping system bad, take
1however book case disorderl y.
r oom ba ck of telephone room,
t ime out & stop excessive oil
223 - 75 ~ 88 Window sills & is filthy , paper on floor.
leakage .
filing cabinet to ps cluttered.
:1..:22 - 100 Aver 100 292 - 100
Aircraft Systems Mezz - ~ 100 225 - 1QQ Aver ~ 226 - 100
1 Aver 100
Reception Rm -..lQQ
Aver !lb.
,Aver 100 31J. - 100 Aver 100
A
ver
100
...-..,
1
Vibr ation & Drive Rm Score J.2
-Scrap chair or get repaired,
I
Aver fil. _ Oil on fl oor - 2nd
locat ed behind JnftinE table .
reminder, Open condulet & general 228 - 100 Aver 100 229 - 100
MllRKE."I'lt-IG
untidyness.
Aver lOG What is status on boxes I
t
M Cl
.-o -f ma-eria
t . 1 be h"ind f i 1 ing
nspec or~- - c100eary

Engineering Lab Office
ca b"inet . Rooms:
Aver 100
Score l CO Aver 100 - Impro per
229A - 100 Aver 88 230 - 100
~
0 Aver 100
122
- 1100 A.Aver J.lioc
Aver 94 232-:-10storage of material in Managers
Aver
7r:.. Stora ge very
:3M
OO ~
L
0 ff ice.
. 234 -- -5.0 - ..!..J:.
ill - 100
Aver 2l
Photo Lab - No Score
bad . 236 --1.2 Aver 1 Failed
:
- l
-;-2 2 - ~00P ~ J.lt ~53 ~ .29.
Control Rm - Score 100 Aver 100 .to ap~reciate the ~revious month '~
Dark Rm - Development
- - - - ~ptimi stic score . 241 - 12.
~ .:=..J..
rof~r ~on ro
Score 100 Aver 0 1. Return
: Ave1 81 Open electrica l wires
.adreak retspons . teh 0 r 3 messy
--. - - ..L!:i
-- .
es s s r ewn Wl
oose paper.
fol ding t a ble to auditorium
abo;e switch box . General
:~ _
Aver 2lf1
_
100
260
100
AVer e
Dark Rm _ Product .rn iQ
rnnt1dyness. 264 - 100 Ave r 100 :Aver 88 26-_s
100
f..ve r 6~ Apparently not trying
.269 - 100 Aver 100 271 - 100
I
ill
- - ::...!.
-- -- :217 - -100 Aver

3rd consecutive low
score .
:Aver 100
273 - 100 -Aver ~
l vO
- -88
280 - 100 Aver 100 Base board
P.igh Temperature Rm Score 100
Ave r l GO
Missing - electrica l ~i res exposedJ--------------------Altit\ide Char:iber Score '1i
'. 2e1 - 100 Aver 100 282 - 100
Aver 88 General untidyness .
iAver 100 283 - 100 Aver 100
Stock Rm Score 100 Aver J..!
'. 284 - lOC Aver 100 286 - 100
~afety hazard exists on top of
.Aver 100 285 - 100 Ave r 100
storage r a ck on left side.
.2e7 - 100 Ave r 100 288 - 100
Model Shop No Score Aver _2
iAver 100 ~ - 100 Aver 100
Could not inspect - Lock ed
290 - 100 Aver l CO
Kachine Rm (Generator) Score 1i 1Libra ry l OC ,\ve r 100
Aver 1i More effort - pl ease
Life Test Rm - Score 100 Aver J.Ji--~-----------------Floor ne eds tidyingAp.
jE & CR
Ins pector - Flynn
Main Engineering Lab Scor e 100 '. R~oms 105 - 100 Aver 100
Aver lOO
Conditional
, Dis ~ensary 100 Aver 94 Shelf
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Sl'ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD HEWS - COURTESY Of WAYI AND HEWS VlaOIMIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 8 1
April 25, 1958
In the stre ngth of this food, 0 God may we be able to serve Thee and
our fellow man. Amen.
ANY EMPLOYEE MAY HAVE
HIS C HECK DEPOSITED BY
PERSONNEL ACCOUNTING
POINTS ON POLIO
Question: I s poli o vac cine safe?
Answe r: Experience
with the polio vaccine
since the early days
of immunization has
shown that it is completely safe. Each
batch that is manufactured is individually tested on experi mental animals fo r
safe ty.
One of the se rvices performed

by P ersonnel Ac counting is the
direct deposi t of paychecks in
a local bank for any employee
who wants to have this done.
When the check i s deposited in
the bank, the employee receives
a stub showing all the information about his pay that normally
appears on the che ck stub.
Any e mployee who wishes to have
his paycheck deposited in a local
bank at the e nd of e ach pay
pe riod may have this done by
filling out a Deposit Authorization and turning it i n to Per so nnel
Accounting,
WALLPAPER
r -~
llfewJ
'Bits /
"It's a simple pattern, yet it's

rich-looking."
j ~
SAFETY SCORE
1, 289 days
6,587,987 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
\)
DON'T FORGE T to regis ter by

May 10 in o r de r to vote in the
City Council Election on June 10.
Also, poll tax must be paid by
May 3 to qualify a voter for the
Democratic Primar y on July 15
and the General Election on
May 3.
Two separate sums of money

were found in the Cafeteria, one
Wednesday and one Thursday.
The per son who lost each may
claim it from Morri s Hudson,
Macke Cafeteri a Manager.
OUTSTANDING REPORT RECEIVED ON FIRE PREVENTION

Specialty Control Department has
received an outstanding report on
its fire prevention program, as a
result of a recent inspe ction by a
representative of the Factory
Mutual Insurance Company,
which ca rrie s our fire insurance.
The report is issued periodically
after the insurance company's
field inspector has made a comple te inspection every three or
four months. The last one is the
best which has been re ceived
since the Department be gan operations in Waynesboro over three
years ago. The first few re ports contained as many as 50
different items that needed cor rection: the latest report, re ceived la st week, showed an almost perfect record. The fe w
items listed were ones which are
being corrected, but will take
longer to complete.
The Factory Mutual field
inspector, at each visit, inspects
a ll fire prevention and fire fighting e quipment, as we ll as
the fire alarm system. He also
notes the efficiency of the fire
brigade a nd makes a complete
p lant ins pection for possiqle
fire hazards.
As a re s ult of these regular
inspections , changes are made
to improve our fire prevention
program. Examples of c hanges
resulting from the inspections
are the us e of safety cans in the
factory and the cr eation of NO
SMOKING areas.
SPRING SPECIAL
employee sale
THROUGH MAY 31
G-E COMBINATION WASHER-DRYER

FEATURES
*Only 30 11 -wide
*Auto. Water Saver
*Auto. Water Heater
*Auto. Dry Selector
*Auto. Lint Drainage
*8 lb. Capacity
*Straight Line De sign
*Mix or Match Colors
WD 660 P
LIST PRICE $499. 95
?PECIAL Employee Price
$353.00
THE EASIEST WAY TO WASH AND DRY CLOTHES

One minute to set the simple controls and put the soiled
clothes jn. One minute to take them out-clean and
fluffy dry. No lifting of heavy, wet clothes from one
machine to another. No more clothesline or weather
worries. This G-E Washer-Dryer Combination washes
your clothes thoroughly clean and dries them wonder,
fully soft-all in one continuous operation.
GET YOUR EMPLOYEE PURCHASE CERTIFICATE TODAY I
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NEWS

Sl'ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYI ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 82
April 28, 1958
For food and health and life and love, help us to be grateful and humble
before Thee. Amen.
SAFETY REMINDERS
Employees working at machines must not wear rings,
wrist watches, bracelets,
pendants or loose -fitting
garments.
All work performed on a
drill press should be blocked
or clamped before performing the operation. No work
is to be held in the operator's
hand.
Warning labels must be placed
on all containe r s of solvents,
chemicals or other potentially
harmful material, regardless
of where the material is
located. Unlabeled bottles or
containers must not be used.
INSURANCE PLAN COVERS

TREATMENT FOR ALLERGIES-POISON IVY SUFFERERS
CAN CLAIM BENEFITS
With spring upon us and summer
not too far away, Specialty Control employees who suffer from
an allergy to poison ivy will be
g lad to know that expenses for
treatment (such as the series of
shots give n dur ing the dormant
stage) when a known allergy
exists are covered under the
G. E . Insurance Plan.
Recent interpretations of the
Plan are more liberal with respe c t to treatment of hay fe ve r,
asthma and other allergies, also,
during the 11 dormant" season.
POINTS ON POLIO
DAY LIGHT TIME BEGAN IN

MANY CITIE'..S YESTERDAY
On Sunday, April 27, many cities
in the United States adopte d the
Daylight Saving Time Plan, mov ing all their clocks ahead an
hour.
Even though Waynesboro has not
changed its time, many Specialty
Control emp l oyees are affected
by the changes made in other
cities, because of long-distance
calls , trave l, etc .
When making travel reservations
or any appointments in other
cities, be sure to find out just
what time the other city is on.
On the back of TODA Y'S NEWS
an attempt is made to show how
the time in some cities will
differ because of the chan ge.
Question: Ho w does one

go about getting a polio
shot?
Specialty Control will be represented in the Shenandoah Apple

Blossom Festival this week when
the Department Fire Brigade
marches in the Fireman's Parade
at Winchester, Virginia, Thursday night. The parade will be gin at 6: 30 PM.
Answer: Make an appointment with your

family physician. He
undoubtedly has the
vaccine available.
Six representati ves from Braniff

Airlines, three from other G. E.
~artments and one from I. G. E,
attending a school on the
.b.tectra electrical system this
week at the Specialty Control
plant. The school is conducted
by the A. D. I. Sales unit here.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 292 days
6, 597, 443 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
A CCIDENT
"And I say, my father's electric

brain can outsmart your father ' s
electric brain!"
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WHAT TIME IS IT?

Here's what the time picture looks lik~ in. ~o~e cities as a result of the
change t~ Daylight ~ime, whic_h went intQ effect yesterday in many plapes.
When it's 12:00 NOON in WAYNES~ ORO (we are on Eastern Standard
Time), then it's. .also 12:00 ~OON in
CINCINNATI and DETROIT (those .
cities are on Eastern StandaJ;d Time_,
also).
It is alee;> 12,:00 :NO.ON in-C_HI~AGO andST. L.OUIS, because they are in

Ce~tral Time Zone but tl\t)Y h~ve adopted Daylight Saving Time.
~he
However, it is 1:00 PM in PHILADELPHIA, WASHINGTON and NEW.

YOR.l{, because they are in the
Eastern Time Zone and they have
a.dopted the Daylight Saving Tfme.
A.t the same tim.e i.t is 5:00 AM.

tomorrow in We lling1ion, New
Zealand; just in ca~e anyone is
interes*ed.
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'UILISHED IY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

S'OITS, NATIONAl AND WOllD MIWI -
VOL. IV, NO. 83
COURTESY OF WAYI AND HEWS VIRGINIAN
April 29, 1958
Sanctify the food we eat to the strengthening of our bodies and help us
to use the strength to serve Thee and our fellow man. Amen
12 SUGGESTION AW ARDS LAST
WEEK BRINGS DEPARTMENT
TOTAL TO 8 11
Congratulations to Nancy Flynn,
daughter of Bill Flynn (E&CR).
Nancy won 2nd place in the Twin
Valley Spelling Bee last week.
Mary Skillman (Aircraft Test)
wishes to thank her friends for
the flowers sent after the death
of her brother.
_ ~ len Desper expresses her
thanks to employees in the
Industrial Electroni cs area who
sent flo we rs while she was in the
hospital.
Specialty Control employees are
reminded that running, at any
time or any place in the plant is
an unsafe prac tice. Employees
should not run to the time clocks
in the afternoon to punch out; the
few se conds saved is certainly
not worth the risk of possible
injury to the pers on who is running or to others.
The Choraliers will meet toni g ht

at 7: 30 in the Plant Auditorium .
Children begin by loving their
parents. As they g row older,
~y judge them. Sometimes they
6ive them.
No two people are a like - - and

both are g lad of it.
******
BARKER RECEIVES$125 AWARD

Suggestion Awards to twelve
Specialty Control employee s last
week brings the total to 811
awards give n since the Depar t ment began operations in Waynes.
boro a little over three years
ago.
Mary Barker (Aircraft) received
an awar d of $125 las t Thursday
for her suggestion con c erning a
c hange in the assembly of Potted
Unit 186D271. Other Specialty
Control employees who received
suggestion checks last week
we re V a n Pitche r (Quality Control), Marion P. Clark (Hermet ic Relays), A. G . Small (Mach.
Room), Mark Skillman (Quali t y
Contr ol), L. B. Coffman
(Apprentice), Albert May (Contours), Kenneth Kent (Mag. Wind.
ing Components), C. E. Frazi er
(Mach. Room), H. B. Knox
(Plating), David Grove (Air craft)
and L. R. Coffey (Magnetic Wind.
ing Components).
Beginning with the first Suggestion Award of $18 0 to Evelyn
Simmons (Relays) on August 4,
1955, a total of 341 employees
have received a wards.
Some employees have been con sis tent Award winners. The
large s t total number of awards
has been r eceived by Gracie
Layne (R egulators) and Van
Pitcher (Quality Contro l) who
( Cont. column 3 )
BARKER RECEIVES $125

AWARD: Pictured above i ~ Mary
Barker (Aircraft) receiving a
$125 S u ggesti o n Award from Dick
Wilson, Foreman-Military
Systems, whi le Jack Davis,
General Foreman-Aircraft and
Mi litary, looks on. Eleven other
Specialty Control employees re ceived Suggestion Award checks
last week.
SUGGES TION AW ARDS ..
have 16 each to their credit.
Martha Campbell (fo rmerly of
Aircraft) received the largest
sing le award -- $505. 00 -- on
Sept. 12, 195 5. S he a lso re ce i ved
the largest total amo unt of
awards with a total of $'515. 00.
From the first Suggestion Award
to the present, Speci a lty Control emp l oyees have re c eived a
total of $12, 539 through the
Department Sugges tion Plan.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 293 days
6, 606, 84 1 hours
WITHOUT A L OST T I ME
ACCIDENT
'.i?A'FETy
IS
BETTER..
~ CoMPEJ,JSAno"'.
11 /JOINT
70
f?MMJ5Etf'./
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S'OltTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VlltGINIAM
VOL. IV, NO. 84
April 30, 1958
Not only do we thank Thee for our food, but we thank Thee for Jesus Christ our
Savior. Amen.
A group of engineering students

from the Univ. of Virginia in
Charlottesville visited Specialty
Control Monday afternoon and
were given a tour of the plant.
Conducting the tour were Don
1
Rogers, Jim Harris, Phil Corey, .
and John Witry, all of Engineer- 1
ing.
~proximately 17 members of
plorer Scout Post 44 will visit

tne plant Thursday night .for a
demonstration of "electrical
; TOOL ROOM AND PROTOTYPE EMPLOYEES AND THEIR FAMILIES
The
AT FAMILY NIGHT PROGRAM: Pictured above is a group of emengineering in action".
ployees from the Tool Room and Prototype areas and members of
meeting will be one of a series
their families who enjoyed a Family Night Program at the Specialty
of vocational counseling sessions
Control plant last Friday night. Watching as Bob Failing, Tool Room
for the Scouts.
Foreman, explains the use of a tapping head on a drill press are
(left to right) Charles Reade (Tool Room), Mrs. Mary Reade, Nancy
There will be a ground breaking
Shaver,
Herbert Blackwood (Apprentice), Mrs. Jean Reasoner,
ceremony for the Church of God,
Fred
Shaver
(Prototype), Mrs. Blackwood, Bob Failing, Glen Allen,
Crozet, at 3:00 PM, Sunday,
Gene R e asoner, Supervisor-Prototypes, Eugene Allen (Tool Room),
May 4. The public is invited to
Mrs. Ernestine Moomau, and (operating tapping head and partly
attend.
hidden) Dwight Moomau (Tool Room).
UNNATURAL SILENCE
Question: How long

does protection by polio
vaccine last?
Traffic cop stopping motorist:

"Mister, your wife fe 11 out of the
car three blocks back."
Answer: The manufacturers and public

health services feel the
protection may we 11 be
permanent. However,
sufficient time has not
elapsed for the observation necessary to
determine a definite
time.
Motorist: "Thank heavens! I

thought I'd gone stone deaf. 11
SAFETY SCORE
1,294 days
6, 616, 239 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
"Have you any idea how the two

fives and a ten in my wallet suddenly changed into three ones?"
SKIN
PISASE
CAN BE AVOIDED!
WHERE THE JOB REQUIRES THE USE

CREAMS,
FOLLOW
OF PROTECTIVE
THIS ROUTINE:
2.
APPLY THE PROPER

PROTECTIVE CREAM FOR
THE JOB.
1.
WASH HANDS THOROUGHLY -REMOVE ALL THE DIRT.
3.
RUB CREAM IN WELL, COVERING ALL EXPOSED S UR FACES ...

,
.. BETWEEN THE FINGERS
4.
FINGERNAILS
. SIDE OF HAND
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In the name of Christ we thank Thee for our food and pray that we may f i nd food fo r our
soul also . Amen,
NEW APPARATUS AND
INDUSTRIAL GROUP FORMED
The establishment of a new
Apparatus and I ndustrial Group
within General Electric was announced la st Friday by President
Robert Paxton. The new Group
will combine the duties and
responsibilities of two former
Company components, t he
Apparatus Group and the
I ndustrial Components and
~te rials Group.
4 STAGE ROCKET" TO REPRESENT SPECIALTY CONTROL:

When the Specialty Control Fire Brigade steps off in the Fireman ' s
Parade in Winchester, Va., today at 6 : 00 PM, the 11 4 - Stage Rocket"
pictured above will be a part of the fo rmation. The first 11 stage"
shows that the Department has gone 11 86 days without a fire in our
plant; the second points out that over 1000 employees have been
protected during that period; the third 11 stage" shows the number of
hours worked without a lost time accident -- _6, 635, 035; and finally
the last" stage" (above and behind the third " stage") cautions every
one to "THINK" about fire prevention and other safety practices .
Walt Snyder (Maintenance ) sits at the wheel of the Department 's
Jeep Fire Truck which will pull the "rockets" in the parade. The
parade is being held as a par t of the Shenandoah Appl e Blossom
Festival.
11
Mr . Paxton said the organizational move is des i gned to "provide

a more closely integrate d and
coordinated customer service by
bringing together virtually all of
the General Electric divisions
which manufacture and sell prod uc ts for use by our industrial
and utility customers. 11
At the same time, Mr. Paxton

announced the appointment of
Arthur F. Vinson to head the new
, NEW GROUP . (Cont. from co l. 1)
component. Mr. V inson, a
The new Apparatus and Industrial
General Elec tric vice president,
formerly was group executive of
Group includes the Apparatus
;,ales Division, C rJ mponent Prothe Apparatus Group and has had
thirty years of service with
ducts Division, Construction
General Electric .
Materials Division, Measurements
and Industrial Products Division,
Motor and Generator Division,
Mr. Paxton also announced the
Switchgear and Control Division,
appointment of John W. Belanger
as consultant to Mr. Vinson. Mr. Transformer Division and
Turbine Division
.A_elanger formerly was vice
esident and group executive of
the Industrial Components and
We extend sincere sympathy to
C. L. Hughes (Sup v. -Ind. Cont.
Materials Group, and has had
Prod.) whose father died yesterover forty years of service with
General Electric.
day afternoon.
(Cont. column 2 )
Congratulations to Sylvia Steagall

(formerly T abulating) on the
birth of a boy, Stephen Scott,
last Friday. He weighed 6 l bs.
10 oz.
Congratulations to Art. Groat

(Foreman-Sheet Metal) who be came a father for the third time
Monday afternoon whe n his wife
gave birth to a boy -- 8 lbs . 6 oz.
A "UNION-MADE DEPRESSION"
Much has been said recently about the causes of the current recession as
well as what can and should be done to remedy the situation.
Last week Dean
Charles G. Abbott of the University of Virginia made some very interesting remarks
about the causes of the recession to the Senate Finance Committee.
Mr. Abbott said that if the recession deepens, it might be labeled "the first
union-made depression in our history".
His remarks, as reported by the
Washington Post and Times Herald for April 26, are reprinted below.
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"All things c ome of Thee 0 God" and for all things we thank Thee now.
Amen.
OPERATION
UPTURN -COMPANY-WIDE
PROGRAM-ANNOUNCED
CORDINER WILL VISIT

SPECIALTY CONTROL ON
MAY 12
Ralph J. Cordiner, Chairman of
the Board and Chief Exe cutive
Officer of General Electric will
visit Specialty Contr ol Department
on Monday, May 12, it was announced today by Dr . L. T. Rader,
Department General Manager.
An aggressive program to build sales and jobs in 1958 has been

announced as General Electric's answer to its conviction that "what
happens to the economy will be largely determined by what business
does to help its customers and itself." First announcement of the
Company-wide program was made at the 66th annual share owners'
meeting in Schenecta dy, April 23.
Mr. Cordiner, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of
G. E., said that the new program, known as OPERATION UPTURN,
is mobilizing all Gene ral Electric personnel and facilities in six
month drive to accelerate the upturn in business.
Let me emphasize that this is not simply a sales promotional effort

based on reducing the already fa vorable prices . It is a sustained
Company-wide program focused on bringing to customers the better
service and better values now available. It is calling forth the
enthusiastic efforts of more th an a quarter million employees in
factories and offices across the country. It is enlisting the support
of 45, 000 suppliers and more than
400, 000 firms that sell or service
the Company's products. And it
is
our hope that share owners of
NEWS BITS
General Electric, nearly half a
Will the person who borrowed the
million of them, including
large torque wrench from the
3 94, 000 share owners of record,
Aircraft Area please return it
will catch the spirit of this proimmediately.
gram," Mr. Cordiner said.
11
The visit will be the first Mr.

Cordiner has made to the Specialty Control plant in Waynesboro .
While here, Mr. Cordiner will
review the progress of the Department in some of its product areas,
particularly Program Control.
,._,
Saturday, May 3, is the last day

to pay poll tax in orde r to vote
in the Democratic Primary on
July 15 and the General Election
on November 4.
"Isn't this a gorgeous day?"
He explained that OPERATION UPTURN will be carried out primarily by the Company's decentralized
departments . Instead of depending on ideas, directions, and
(Cont. page 4, col. 2.)
CROWNING "KING CUSTOMER": Robert Paxton, recently elected

President of General Electric Company, crowns 11 KI NG CUSTOMER" in
the picture above, as part of the activiti es which marked the beginning
of OPERATION UPTURN, a Company -wide program to accelerate the
upturn in business. The picture above was taken at a meeting of over
100 OPERATION UPTURN Council Chair men in Schenectady on .
April 22. At that meeting the philosophy, organization, objectives,
and plans for the campaig n were reviewe d. Present at the meeting
was D. O. Dice, Manager-Marketing of Specialty Control Department
and Department OPERATION UPTURN Council Chairman.
OPERATION UPTURN BEGINS: "Kicking off" OPERATION UPTURN

with a three-way handshake at the Company's annual share owners'
meeting are (left to right, above) General Electric President Robert
Paxton, newly elected Chairman of the Board Ralph J. Cordiner, and
retiring Board Chairman, Philip D. Reed. In his address at the share
owners 1 meeting , Mr. Cordiner said, 11 This is a moment of opportun.n y.
The sli ght upturn in orders could well turn into a definite
trend, and then snowball into a steady recovery, if every person in
business and industry will join in a fresh, concerted effort to go after
the orders. A powerful customer-focused effort now can make a
listl ess market come alive, and start the volume of production moving
up again."
SPECIALTY CONTROL
OPERATION UPTURN COUNCIL
ANNOUNCED
PROGRESS REPORT TO
DESCRIBE OPERATION UPTURN
ON GENERAL ELECTRIC
THEATER MAY 4
The formation of Specialty ConThe entire nation will get a de r

trol Department's OPERATION
cription of General Electric's bv.d
UPTURN Council was announced
new program, OPERATION UPtoday by Dr. L. T. Rader, Genl.
TURN, on Sunday night, May 41
HAVE A PART IN
Manager. At the same time, Dr.
when Ronald Reagan, host of the
Rader announced that D. O. Dice,
General Electric Theater; and Don
Manager-Marketing, will serve as
H erbert, General Electric Prochairman of the group which will
gress Reporter, team up to desplan Specialty Control 1 s particicribe the program to the television
pation in the Company-wide effort
audience.
to build sales dur ing the next six
Build sales
months. Other members of the
andjobs in '58
In the General Electric Theater
Council are H. L. Palmer, MgrGENERAL f j ELECTRIC
Progress Report this Sunday,
Engineering, K. N. Bush, MgrReagan will point out that OPERManufacturing, R. L. Wilbur,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 ATION UPTURN's purpose is to
Mgr -Finance, and H. W. Tulloch, COMPANY -WIDE PROGRAM....
bring all General Electric em Mgr-E&CR. Dr. Rader will serve
(Cont. from page 1) ployees1 efforts to bear on serving
as adviso r to the Council.
11
General Electric customers
decisions from a centrali.zed head- more effectively than ever, and
Emphasizing the fact that the
quarters, the program will have
thus to build more sales and more
more than one hundred decentral- . b .
11 Customer is King" and that it is
11
.
.
JO S ln 1958
ized points of initiative and de the job of each Department employee to increase the value of our c isi on, each group applying its
Progress Reporter Don Herbert
products so that the customer will efforts to the specifics of its own will show that while the national
want to buy, OPERATION UP- . market and location.
population has grown from 129
TURN will have two main themes:
million in 1937 to more than 171
OPERATION UPTURN, in
Build Sales and Jobs in 1 58 and
million, yearly national income
addition to being a program to
Buy Now for Extra Values.
has expanded from 71 billion to
build sales and jobs in 1958, is almore than 300 billion dollars.
Although OPERATION UPTURN is so a salute to Philip D. Reed,
He'll point out how yearly savings
retiring Chairman of the Board .
designed to provide job security
have grown from three and sevenof Directors of General Electric.
by increasing sales, it is not a
tenths billions to 20 billions, and
Marketing effo:z:t alone. All
that what is needed now is positive
Sections of the Department will
As part of the OPERATION UPaction based on confidence in a
have a part in increasing the pro- TURN program, the progress
growing America to build sales .
duct values which we offer to our
made by G . E . during Mr. Reed's and jobs.
customers.
period as Board Chairman will be
reviewed, in an attempt to build
Herbert will emphasize that G. E.
confidence among the buying public employees, suppliers, and retailThe present business decline has
in General Electric and the
era -- are dedicated to "bringing
affected this Department and
electrical industry. Mr. Reed
you -- King Customer -- the best
other GE Departments to the expossible reasons why you can buy
tent that many jobs are threate ned. was Chairman of the Board of
Directors of General Electric
now with confidence." He'll conOPERATION UPTURN is de signCompany
for
nineteen
years
(1939
elude
b y pointing out that OPERed to give all employees a hand in
1958).
A TION UPTURN i.s "General
helping provide for their own job
Electric 1 s part in the effort needed
security by doing everything they
can to help bring business back to
from e ve ry one of us to accelerate
the upturn in our nation's
norm~l.
RE LIEF FOR HER EYES
economy 11
Spec ific plans for Specialty Con"I know I'm not much to look at, 11
trol Department in OPERATION
admitted the suitor.
UPTURN and the part that each
SAFETY SCORE
employee can play in this mutual
"Oh, well" philosophized the
1, 296 days
effort will be announced by the
bride - to -be , 11 you 1 11 be at the
6,
635, 035 hours
Department OPERATION UPTURN
office most of the time."
WITHOUT
A LOST TIME
Council next week.
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Without food our body will die; without Christ our souls will die .
thank Thee for both just now. Amen.
SCOGEE BOW LING
Father we
COOPERATION OF OTHERS
IN COMMUNITY WILL BE URGED
IN OPERATION UPTURN
In the final match of the SCOGEE

Men's Ten Pin Bowling League
last week, the Alley Cats were
As part of its all-out efforts,
knocked out of second place by the
under OPERATION UPTURN, to
Cannon Balls. The Alley Cats
accelerate the business upturn,
have hel d . i to second place for
the Specialty Control Department
28 of Lhe previous 29 weeks, but
OPERATION UPTURN Council
the champion Dynamic Five took
LARGEST RELAY ORDER IN
will enlist the aid of other local
all three games from them and
HISTORY
OF
DEPARTMENT
business
conce rns and businessthe Cannon Balls took one game
RECEIVED
l
men.
from the Roll Tillers, which put
the Cannon Balls 1/2 game ahead
Specialty Control last week re The two themes of OPERATION
~ he Alley Cats .
In the other
. . ~tch, Ertle ' s Turtles took two
ceived the largest order for relays UPTURN, Buy Now for Extra
in the history of the Department.
Values and Build Sales and Jobs in
out of three from the Retreads.
The order, whi ch is for micro'58 could well apply to any other
miniature relays in the amount of business or industry in t he a r ea.
Del Niede ntohl wo n the Individual
$434, 000, is from the Bendix
It is felt b y Council members that
Average Crown, as Joe Belak
Aviation Corp .
a continued effort by all bu siness
failed to come up with the
people, employers and empl oyees,
necessary pins to overtake Del.
Scheduled for delivery before the to add new value to the products
A Hi-Lo Tournament i s scheduled end of the year, the relays w ill be w~ich are offe~ed to the. cus tomer
built in the Micro-White Room.
will mean a quicker bu sin_es s
for this week, which winds up the
1
bowling for this season.
The relays will be used in a highly ! recovery and more security for
. d mi1i tary app l'ic a tlon.
all,
c l ass if ie
Final League standings are as

follows:
Dynami c Five
Cannon Balls
Alley Cats
Retreads
Roll Tillers
Ertle's Turtles
Won
~
47- 1/2
47
42
41
36 -1/2
Lost
34
42- 1/2
43
48
49
53 -1/2
SAFETY SCORE
1, 299 days
6, 644 , 433 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
I
The Bendix Aviation Corp. insists
on the utmost in re liability for its
relays, and they have found that
relays built by Specialty Control
Department meet their rigid
requirements,
"Did you learn very mu ch on

you r first day of school,
Johnny?" asked Mother .
"Not enoug h, I guess ," replied
Johnny, "I have to go back a g ain
tomorrow."
SPECIAL fY
CONTROL FIR:h;MEN IN APPLE BLOSSOM PARADE
F II~
_ B RIGADE ON THE MARCH: Members of the Specialty Control Fire Brigad e1

along with the Department's Jeep Fire Truck and the "4-Stage Rocket" showing
the Department's fire prevention and safety record,ar e shown above as they
stepp ed along last Thursday night as part of the Fireman's Parade in the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester, Va. Participating in the 2-1/2 hour
parade were 167 fire companies from 10 states. Specialty Control's 22-man
marching unit was 11 all dressed up" for the occasion in new red, white and blue
uniforms.
PARADE MARSHALL ON
PARADE: Parade Marshall Kitty
Kallen, sin:ging star of radio and
TV (pictured above) was one of the
many celebrities in last Thursday
lilight~ Fireman's Parade at
Winchester, Va. The Specialty
Control Fire Brigade, which
marched in the parade, was the
first unit to represent an industrial
organization in the 31 years that
these parades have been held.
Until this year, only municipal
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MUSIC AND MAJORETTES:

Majorettes with one of the approximately 75 bands in the Fireman's
Parade at Winchester, Virginia,
last Thur sday night, are pictured
as the parade got underway. Amid
the lively music of the bands and
the screaming of sirens from the
fire trucks, the parade continued
for 1- 1/ 2 miles. An es timated
150, 000 people were on hand for
the festivities last Thursday.
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"Prai se God fro m Whom a ll bl e ssing s flow'.

ac c ept our th a nks 0 God. Ame n.
GOLF
INDUSTRIAL
GOLF LEAGUE
UNDERWAY
~
~
T h e r ecently o r ganized Shenand oah V al:..: y Industrial Golf

Leag ue g ot unde r way last week
with the Specialty Control team
on the s hort e nd of a 10-1 / 2 -1-1/2 scor e a gains t DuP o nt.
The second match fo r the
e c ialt y C ontrol g olfers w ill b e
_ 15ainst A. S. R. a t Ing l e side
S a turday, M a y 10 a t 8: 00 AM.
T h e GE te a m h a s d rawn a b y e
for J u ne, and will m eet Me r e~
and Co. ear ly in July. The
c losing m a t c h will be against
W e stinghous e in Sept ember.
SCOGEE GOLF LEAGUE
T O B EGIN SOON
Preliminary arra n geme nts h ave
b een c ompl e t e d fo r the SCOGEE
Golf L eague, whic h will b e p l ay e d at the Swanna n oa G olf and
C ount r y C lub b eginning the latter
p a rt of this m o nth. The League
will be c onducted the s ame as l ast
ye ar' s L e a g ue wit h t wo -ma n
t e ams . G re en f ees a r e $1. 00
for the nine ho l es which will be
played on M o nday aft e rnoons
a fte r worki n g ho ur s . The l e n g th
of the L e ague season will depend
..-... the n umber of t e ams e nte red
_ .d a ll team m embers a re required t o be member s of
SCOGEE . Inte r ested emp l oyees
are r e que s t e d to c ontac t C urt
Lunds trom, E xt. 339 , b y M a y 23 ,
May 6 , 1958
For food and power and lov e and peace
NEWS BITS
Jim S e dwick (Marketing) was
ele cte d Pre sident of the JacksonWilson PTA last w e ek. Other
Spec ialty Control e mployees who
a r e PTA pr eside nts are Bill
Hunter (Mgr. -Air c raft and
Military Operations) - - Westwood Hills; Clarence Wyrick
(Financ e ) -- Wayne Hills; and
Ben Cooper (Mgr. -Elec. and
R e g. Prod. Eng.) -- Waynesboro Hig h S c hool.
The Y. M. C. A. "Slow-Pitch"
Softball League is scheduled to
begin soon, and SCOGEE will
fie ld a te am if e nough men are
inte r e sted. Any male employee
who would like to play in the
L e ague s hould fill o ut the fo rm
in the low er ri g ht corne r of
TODA Y'S NEWS and drop it in
t he box in the Cafeteria today .
All playe rs must be members of
S C OGEE.
The Choraliers will meet tonig ht at 7:30 in th e Plant Auditorium.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 300 d a ys
6 , 65 3, 774 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDE NT
U. VA. GRADUATE STUDENTS

WILL VISIT PLAN T
Approx imately 47 students from
the Graduate School of Business
Administration, Uni v ersity of
Vir ginia, will visit the Spe c ialty
Control plant on Wednesda y ,
May 7. The purpose of the visit
will b e to gather information for
a case study on business organi zatio n.
After a we lc ome by L. T . Rader,
Gene ral Manag er, pres entations
will be made to the students on
the produc ts of the D e partment
and the ope ration of our business ,
After the presentations and a
brief plant tour, there will be a
que s tio n and answer period.
Sche duled to present talk s at
tomorrow' s mee ting are P. B.
Korneke, M g r. -Industrial and
Utility Equipment Sales; L. L.
Holmes, Manag er-Program Control Product Engine ering ; J. R.
M c E ckron, M gr . -Offic e Pro c edures and Facilities, and
W. F. Ostrande r, SpecialistBudge ts and M e asure ments .
TO: SCOGEE S oftball Committe e

I would like to play on the
SCOGEE "Slow -Pitc h" Softball
Leag ue.
Name
Tel. Ext.
Work Location
YOUR SIGN~
OFLIFE
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"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be

acceptable in Thy sight 0 Lord. 11 Amen.
BABE RUTH AUCTION HELD:
CHALLENGE ISSUED TO
MATERIALS TEAM BY GE
INDIANS
The auction of candidates for the
Babe Ruth Baseball League was
held May 5, according to Ben
Cooper, President. Manager Ed
Brennan, Purchasing, announced
the following boys whose fathers
are employed at Specialty Control
are members of the GE Indians;
~ Brennan, Allan Tulloch,
.rie Hutton, Dick Cooper, Tom
Rannie and Ronnie Schneider.
DEPARTMENT FIREMEN WILL

PARADE IN LOVINGS TON
SPECIALTY CONTROL HAS

VISITOR FROM MILAN, ITALY
The Specialty Control Fire Brigade, which last week marched

in the Shenandoah Apple Blossom
festivities, will step off again
Saturday, May 10. Levingston,
Va., will be the scene of the
Brigade's appearance on Saturday, and the occasion will be the
Nelson County Day celebration.
Mr, G. Camatini, Manager of

the Industrial Electronics Department of Compagnie Generale di
Elettricita, Milan, Italy, is visiting the Specialty Control plant
this week. The Compagnie
Generale di Elettricita is one of
the foreign companies with which
we have a technical exchange
agreement. Mr. Camatini, who
is on his second visit to this
Department, is here to review
our new products and the technical advances that we have made
since h is last visit in May, 1955.
He is also telling Department
personnel of the product and
technical activities of his company where they are related to our
business.
Miss Sandra Davis (Maintenance)

will accompany the group as
"Honorary Fire Chief" and will
ride in the parade with the
marching unit. Also on hand will
Ed Brennan and C o ach H. W.
be the "4-Stage Rocket", showTulloch, Mgr. -E &:CR, say the
ing the Department's fire pre team shows plenty of promise.
vention and safety records. The
They have also issued their annual
"4-Stage Rocket" was used last
challenge for a ball game between
week in the Apple Blossom
the Babe Ruth League GE Indians
parade at Wincheste r.
and the Materials Sub-Section
"Old Timer s", to be played later
The parade at Levingston will
in the season.
begin at 10: 30 AM.
Last year's contest between the

boys and "old men", which was
held in August saw the youngsters
take the "Old Timer s" by a score
of 4-2, amid the hilarious antics
of the Materials team.
NEWS BITS
Mary Jane Kern (Telegraph)
~ ould like a ride to wo rk from
.,,18 James Street, Wayne Hills,
on the 8:00 - 4:30 shift after
summer hours begin in June .
COUGHTR Y TEMPORARILY
ASSIGNED TO AIRCRAFT&:
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Because of the heavy customer
load in Aircraft & Military Oper ations, D. L. Coughtry has been
temporarily assigned to that
group, according to J. F.
Ponzillo, Manager-Materials.
Mr. Coughtry will retain his
present position in Pur chasing
becau se it is expected that this
temporary assignment will be of
short duration.
Mr. Camatini has with him a book

of photographs of the industrial
electronic products of his company, showing outstanding
mechanical design and workmanship. Anyone wishing to review
these pictures should contact Mr.
J. R. Devoy, Mgr. -Engineering
Administration.
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PLACE YOUR ORDER TODAY, USING THE ORDER FORM BELOW. Bring this form to the
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8048
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Concrete Floors
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Gray - (Chlorinated Rubber)
Red - (Chlorinated Rubber)
1201
1272
Metal Primers
Red (Indoor}
Orange (Indoor &t Outdoor)
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Red
Black
Gray
Maple Green
Aluminum
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1265
1296
7351
8167
8162
8057
8085
1170
1652
D5B.8
1500
D5B8D
Name
$1.60
3.90
7.15
7.15
2.15
2.15
4.65
4.50
2.15
1.75
4.50
4.50
4.50
1.35
1. 35
1.35
6. 00
1. 80
Outside Lead &t Oil House Paint

White
5.80
1.75
Varnishes
Spar-Clear (Indoor &t Outdoor)
G lyptal-Clear (Outdoor)
4.05
4.05
1.20
1.20
Thinners
Petroleum Spirits
For 1201 only
Low Odor
Location
1. 80
1.80
1. 65
I.OS
.45
1.60
50
1.os
-.
1.40
1.35
7.10
5.75
5.95
s. 95
5.40
White &t Tint Base

Primer Sealer (Indoor)
Flat White (Indoor)
Semi-Gloss White (Indoor)
High Gloss White (Indoor &:
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B less the Lord, 0 my soul, and forge t no t all his benefits.

NEWS BITS
The Nelson County Day P arade ,

j.A.._which Specialty C ontr o l D epart nt 's Fire Bri g ad e w ill m a r ch
Saturday, will begin at 10:00 AM.
TODAY'S NEWS r e porte d yester day, by mistake, th a t the parade
would be gin at 10: 30.
SAFETY SCOR E
1, 302 days
6, 672, 45 6 h our s
WITHOUT A LOST TIM E
ACCIDENT
'11 be late, dear . beer and c ol d

cuts in the refrigerator . b e ans
in the pantry . clean up the m ess
you 1 ll make "
VIRGINIA REGISTRATION LAWS

EXPLAINED
SPECIALTY C O NTROL WILL

SUPPLY E LEC T RICAL S YSTEM
CONTROLS FOR FIRST MULTIJET SEAP LAN E
During a recent inspec ti o n of the

rest rooms in t he plant, a number
of combs, lipsticks a n d o t her
cosmetic s were note d l ying
around. Thes e a r ticles should
not be left in the r es t r oo ms . At
the next i n s pe c tion, which w i ll b e
tomorrow night, any of the se
arti c les w hich are l ef t i n the r est
rooms will be throw n away.
Amen.
A great d e al of interest has been

expressed recently in the state
P r oduction co n t ra cts fo r e l e ctriregistration laws. According to
cal power sys t e ms o n M a rtin
the League of Women Voters,
multijet seaplan e s have b e en
1
under the present registration
awarded to the G e n e ral El ec tric
1 laws the registrar will show the
Company , and Spe c i a lty Control
person who is registering w hat
will supply the control a nd proinformation is required and how
tection equi pment.
the registration should be acc o mplished. (One proposed method did
Announ c ement o f t he c ontrac t
not allow the registrar to do this.
1
awards was made r ec ently b y
\ That part of the bill was not pass The M artin Company, manued. )
fact u rer of the P6M-2 S eaMas ter
-- firs t m ulti-jet seaplane ever 1
: The registration deadline for the
developed. The an swe r to a
Way nesboro City Council ele c tion
Navy reque s t fo r a hi g h ! is May 10. The registrar' s office
pe r formance , a ll - j e t s eaplane,
is located in the City H e alth
the P6M - 2 w i ll be c apable o f
: Building, 201 South Wayne.
co n ti nuo u s o pe ration from the
w a t er a nd w ill be refueled b y
1 JET SEAPLANE
t e n ders o r s u bmarines.
(Cont. from col. 2)
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E ach a ir c raft w ill be e quipped
Gene
r ator Department, are inte wi t h three sta ti c all y -ex cited
grate
d in a complete syste m by
ge n erato r s . A u n iqu e f e ature of 1
t h i s syst em is the c ompatible use : the Aviation Electrical Systems
of t wo main e n g ine-mounted c on- j Engineering Unit,_ which is also
located in the Specialty Control
sta nt s p ee d drives with one
1
plant.
aux i liary power plant gas turbine 1
to d ri ve the t h r e e 40-kva parallel l
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ge n erato r s . T he sys t e m is
: Wat ching a girl cheer leader in
automati c in its ope ration and
action causes one to realize that
p r otection thr o ugh use of autothe various parts of the huma n
matic paralle ling a nd r e laying,
body are wonderfully and inand it require s a minimum of
credibly strongly attached to one
m oni t o r ing from fli g ht personnel.
another.
T he co ntrol a n d pr o te c tion e quipm e n t supplied by Spe cialty Cont r ol, and the ge ner a tor s , manu factu r ed by Gene r a l Elec tri c ' s
( Cont. c o l umn '3 )
There will be a PLANT INSPECTION Friday night, May 9.
MOTHERS DAY SPECIALS

and continuing thru 5/ 31
GENERAL ELECTRIC
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MOBILE MAID" AUTOMATIC DISHWASHER

Needs no installation
Power pre -rinses
Holds g iant capa city
Rolls on wheels
Fully automatic - - does a ll the work including
the r insing and drying
Calrod heating e leme nt keeps water hot
dries dishes quickly
List Price
$22 9. 95
SP40R
Regular Employ ee Pr ice

$166.00
Specialty Employee Price
Thru May 31
$ 149 . 95
PRINCESS 11 24'' AUTOMAT IC UNDERCOU NTER DISHWASHER WITH NEW

" F LUSHAWAY" DRAIN (W /0 FRONT PANEL)
Colorful styling
Easy installati o n
Fully automat ic - - does all the work
inc luding the rinsing and drying
Solid, noise-resistant con str ucti o n
Full extension s li des permit tub to g lide
all the way open for easy loading
Built-in pump e liminates necessity for
separate d rain
List.Price
$ 175. 25
$259.95
Thru May 31
$159. 5 0
;:,u OU.t:U~.l:'
W/O FRONT PANEL
MODEL SU80PNP - 30 11 EMPRESS W /0 FRONT PANEL - Not Illu strated

List Price $3 3 9. 95
R eg. Employe e Pric e $226. 75 Special Empl oyee Price $208 . 00
ALSO
GE ' s AUTOMATIC DISPOSAL (FA60R ) List $94. 95 Reg . Emp. Pri ce $69. 00
Sp ec ial Employee Price $49. 95
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VOL. IV, NO. 91
May 9, 1958
Dear Lord, we thank Thee for Thy care, the food we eat, the
c lothes we wear; B e present w ith us everywhere. Amen.
NEWS BITS
A g roup of phys i cs stude nts from
Madiso n College in Harrisonburg,
Virginia, will visit Spe c ialty
Control this afternoon. They will
be shown the film" Thi s i s Automation" anr' will be gi v en a tour
of the plant.
Will the person who borrowed the

Ferrule Crimper (#4 77 50) from
the Jeep Line in Air c raft
se mbly please return it im- .;diate l y .
Waynesboro voter s are reminded

that t he deadline for registration
in order to vote in the City
Council e l ection is May 10. The
e le cti on will be held on June 10.
REGISTRATION IS PERMANENT.
The Employee Store will be open
from 11:15 AM to 1: 15 PM in order
to accomodate employees who
wish to s hop for Mother ' s Day.
IUE BOSSES GIVE $200, 000 PLUS

TO UAW
The IUE has donated $200, 000 to
the UAW to bolster the UAW
finances, it was reported the
first of this week b y the Wall
Street Journa l.
Donating t he m o ney we re some
320 , 000 membe rs of the IUE, but
the decision to give this tremendous s um away was made by the
IUE E xecutive Board last weekend.
In addi tion, the Exec utive Board
voted to fore go the $1, 000 a month
rent on the Washington office
w hich the UA W r ent s from the
IUE until the UAW is ready to
resume payment. This is, in
effect, an additional g ift of $1, 000
a month.
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Ed. No te: The membership of the
IUE w a s not consulted before the
E xecutive Board made this
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ge n erou s " ges ture. The top
union brass seem to handle the
union funds as if it belonged to
them, rathe r than to IUE members.
PLANT INSPECTION TONIGHT !
If child ren did not ask questions
they would never learn how little
adults k now.
"Wouldn't you know when we did

d is cover the equation, it would be
something as simple as that !"
SAFETY SCORE
1, 30 3 days
6, 68 1, 797 hours
WI THOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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CURTO TURNS AUTHOR, RECEIVES CHECK: Fred Curto,

Super vi sor-Mai n tenance , is all
smiles {above, right) as he accept s a check from Southern
Power and Industry Magazine for
an article which was published by
them. Entitled " Plant F ire Prote ction" , Mr. Curto's article
appeared in the May issue of the
magazine. C. T . Humphrey,
Manager -Adverti s ing and Sales
Promoti on, who contacted the
magazine, i s shown presenting
the check. The article i s part 01
Southern Power and I ndustry ' s
special "Maintenance I ssue", and
tells of how Specialty Control
attacks the problem of giving
complete fire protection for a
plant of this size .
HOW EYES ARE SAVED .
SHIELDED FROM MOT

AND CAUSTIC LIQUIDS
PROTECTED FROM
HARMFUL LIGMT

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PUILISH!D IY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROl EMPLOYEl!S

l'OUS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD N!WS - COUllTESY Of WAYI AND N!WS VlllOINIAM
VOL. IV, NO, 92
May 12, 1958
Be present at our table, Lord; be here and everywhere adored,

and grant that we may eat and drink to honor Thee, Amen,
Thy people bless,
MR. CORDINER VISITING PLANT TODAY

.KECENTLY ELECTU
CHAIRMAN OF BOARD WILL SEE
WAYNESBORO PLANT FOR
FIRST TIME
MOYER RECEIVES WISE OWL

AWARD
Janis A, Moyer (Aircraft
Assembly) received a Wise Owl
certificate Thursday for prote cting her eyesight by having
safety glasses on when an accident occurred on February 20,
19 ~ which might have seriously
in_ .!d her eyes. Janis was
attempting to pull wire out of a
magnetic amplifier which goes
into a "potted" bloc k. The w ire
released suddenly and solder was
thrown onto J anis 1 s afety
glasses. The solder was deeply
imbedded in the l ens of the
glasses.
The only treatment whi ch was
ne cessary after the accident was
a prescription for a new pair of
safety g lasses, which Janis believes was much b etter than having to be fitted for a glass eye.
R~lph
J . Cordiner, recently elect.

ed Chairman of the Board of
Directors and Chief Executive
Officer of General E l ectric, is
visiting Specialty Control today
for the first time since the
Department moved to Waynesboro
a little over three yea r s ago. Mr,
Cordiner will review the progress
of the Department in some of its
product areas, particularly Program Control.
RALPH J. CORDINER
ORDERS FOR GE PAINT at

employee prices may be place d
at th e Employee Store today.
(TODAY'S NEWS, May 7). Thi s
w ill be the only order for these
paints.
For a picture of the Wise Owl

presentation, turn to page 2.
THE REASON it' s so dangerous
for you to drive in traffic is that
all the cars except yours are
; driven by other people,
SAFETY SCORE
1, 306 days
6, 691, 1 38 hour s
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDE NT
Before his election as Chairman

of the Board on April 23, 1958,
Mr. Cordiner had served as
President of the Company since
Dec. 15, 1950. Under his leadership, General Electric has experienced rapid growth. It was
under his dir ection, also, that
the new organizational structure
of the Company was established,
based on the concept of decentralization.
At the same time that Mr,
Cordiner was elected to his present office, announcement was
made of OPERATION UPTURN,
the aggressive program developed
b y General Electric to build sales
and jobs in 1958. In connection
with OPERATION UPTURN, Mr .
Cordiner has said, 11 We believe
that what happens to the economy
(Cont. page 4, column 1)
Pagel
Page 2
SPECIALTY CONTROL WISE O WLS C

SAFETY
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Specialty Control Wise Owl Award winne::i.

in
tributed greatly to the excellent safety record c
lost time accident. ) Each eye injury pre vented
have meant a lost time accident for the Departi
MOYER BECOMES llTH WISE OWL AWARD WINNER: Janis A. Moyer

(Aircraft Assemb l y) receives a Wise Owl Award (above, right) from Foreman Harding Lonas, to become the eleventh recipient of such an award in
the Depa rtment, since Specialty Control moved to Waynesboro in 1954. The
eight other employees who have received Wise Owl Awards and who remain
in the Department are pictured as they watch the presentation. Left to
right are Charles R. Glass (Ele ctronics), Warren (Eddie) Rankin (Sheet
Metal), Terry Brooks (Coil Winding). Robert Failing (Tool Room), W . H .
S c h e nk (Mfg. Eng. ), Van Pitc her (Qu ali ty Control), Robert Lee Harner
(Maintenance ), and Me r l Meri c a (Quality Contro l ).
:ONTRIBUTE M UC H TO DEPARTMENT
:lECORD
Page 3
adC. 0n to s avi ng the ir own eye si ght, have con1f the Depa r t ment. (6, 691, 138 ho u r s without a
{see pictu re at right, b e l ow) would probably
n ent.
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13 E YES SAVED A T SPECIALTY CON TRO L: S pecialty Control Wise Owl

Awa r d w i n n ers sho w t h e thirteen eyes that have b een saved by safety g lasses
in the Wayn es b o ro Spe cialty Control plant. Black patches cover the eyes
that would have b ee n se riously injur ed and t h at m i ght have been lost if safe ty g l a s ses ha d not b ee n worn. Pictured above (l eft to right} a r e Char l es
R . Gl ass, Edd ie Ranl_<in, Terry Brooks , Bob Failing, Bill Schenk, Van
Pitche r a n d Robert H a rner . Seated are Janis Moyer and Merl Merica.
N o t shown a b ove ar e W ise O w l Award winners Virginia Henderson and H .
A. Sto ve r w ho have l eft the D e partment.
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Page 4
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DEPARTMENT WISE OWL CLUB

TO~E FORMED
OE BOARD CHAIRMAN,,,,,,
(Cont, from page 1)
now will be largely determined by
what business does to help its
customers and itself, 11
12 SPECIALTY CONTROLLERS
RECEIVE SUGGESTION AW ARDS
Co~'J.
A Wise Owl Club,made up of

Depart~ent employees who have
prevented serious injury to their
eyes by wearing safety glasses,
will be formed soon, according to
W, R, Perry, Safety Specialist.
At present there are nine prospective members --- eleven Wise
Owl Awards have been made, but
two of the employees have left
the Department.
Twelve more Specialty

employees received awards last
week for their suggestions on how
to improve operations in the
OPERATION UPTURN is General
Department, Receiving checks
Electric 1s answer to that
through the Suggestion Plan on
challenge,
Friday were: Lucille H, Showker (Aircraft), Violet Gochenour
(Aircraft), Carl Jones (Contours),
FIRE BRIGADE WINS FIRST
Wanda Morris (Relays ), Robert
PLACE IN NELSON COUNTY
Saunders (Production), L, B.
PARADE
Coffman (Apprenti~e), Nancy
Snider
(Relays), G~orge Bolton
~e Specialty Control Department The objective of the club will be
(Aircraft), Adrian Shifflett
Fire Brigade won first place for
to promote the wearing of safety
l
(Relays), Sherwood Black
the commercial entries in the
glasses to prevent serious eye
!
(Finance), James Truslow (StockNelson County Day parade at
injuries. Department safety
i
room) and Wade Hutchinson
Lovingston, Virginia, last Satur- I rules require that the glasses be
! worn in the Manufacturing and
(Plating).
day. The Department's entry
consisted of a twelve man
; Laboratory areas of the plant.
marching unit, "Honorary Fire
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Chief'' Sandra Davis (Maintenance)! 11 D~~n11 of the club will be Bob
I AIEE WILL HAVE LADIES NIGHT
who was. driven by Bill Hughes
\ Fathng t:i:-orern:-n-~ool Room)
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THURSDAY
(Marketing), the Specialty Conwho received his Wise Owl award I
trol Jeep Fire Truck, and the "4- 1 on February 5, 1955. Newest
! The Blue Ridge Sub-Section of the
Stage Rocket" display which shows; addition to the club is Janis A.
American Institute of Elect:-~!
::-.e Department's excellent Safety ! Moyer (Aircraft Assembly) who ; Engineers will have its annua....
~:id Fire Prevention Record.
j received a Wise Owl award last ) Ladies Night on Thursday, May 15
Thursday.
The meeting will be held at the
I Ingleside Hotel and will begin at
6:15.
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WHAT IS IT?
Ii Speaker for the evening will be
pays most of the taxes.

l Dr. Fordyce Mitchel of Randolphmost of the jobs.
: Macon Woman's College in Lynch1 It has always done most to raise
! burg, Virginia.
Dr. Mitchel will
wages.
l speak on 11 The Language and
It has given us all our factories
Customs of the Blue Ridge Mounand shops.
tains and Southern Appalachians."
It has built our ships and railways.!
1 It develops inventors and business i AU engineering personnel are
builders.
; invited to attend. Tickets are
It originated the principles of
, $3. ZS for members and $3. 75
efficiency.
I for non-members. For reserIt has done most to lower costs
' vations contact D. B. Schneider
and prices.
; (Eng.).
It created the whole structure of .
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b us1ness.
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NEWS BITS
I It alone can raise our standard of '
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living.
. We extend our sympathy to?~
~.,,.... ~ It is the hope of the human race.
Snopkowski (Finance) on the neath
"Oh, I think I'd be tine at filing! 1 Yet -- Karl Marx said it must be
of his daughter Saturday. The
Listen ---A, B, c, D, E, F, G,
destroyed.
baby, Sharon Marie, was born
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, What is it?
It is Private
last week.
H' I ' J ' K
Enterprise.
He examines your throat,
Your heart and your lungs;
He may speak one language
But knows many tongues I
I It
!It provides
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I.
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VO L. IV, NO. 93
Gracious Giver of all good; The e we thank fo r life and food.

or say; meet Thy favor through the day. Amen.
PATENT ISSUED IN NAME OF
M, E. BIVENS, FORMER
SPECIALTY CONTROL
ENGINEER
JOHN S. Z IMMER
Z IMMER RECEIVES SIXTH
PATENT
A United States Patent has been

issu ed in the name of Maurice E.
Bi ve ns, former Specialty Control
engineer , who died in Nove mber,
1956. The patent is for a nove l
timing c ir cuit for particular
application in resistanc~ welding
c ontrol equipment. The timing
c ir c uit i s extr eme ly accurate
because it is insensitive to variations in supply voltage whi ch are
u s ually present in fac tories u s ing
resistance welding equipment.
John Z i mmer {Eng. ) has rece ntly

received the sixth United States
Patent issued in his n ame. The
patent, which shows Mr. Z immer
as the i nventor, was is s u ed to the
General Electric Co.
Mr. Bivens made many co ntributions to the electroni c con trol

fi e ld before his death. T he presen t patent is the thirty - fourth
issu ed in his name.
Mr. Z immer 1 s inventions, whi ch

a r e c overed by thi s patent, are
con cerned wi th t h e des i gn of the
m i crominiatu re relay.
VALLEY ENGINEERS WILL

HEAR STORY OF PRECISION
MEASUREMENT
NEWS BITS
Anyone interested in obtaining
tickets for next year 1 s Community
Concert series may contact Bill
Walker, Manager-Engine e ring Lab ,
A few tickets are available.
The Specia l ty Control Choraliers

w ill me e t tonight at 7: 30 in the
Plant Auditorium.
The Valley Engineers Club w ill

h ear a l ectur e and see an exhibit
on 11 Th~ Story of Precision
M eas ur eme nt" at a dinner meeting Wednesday night, Ma y 21.
Be ginning at 6:30 PM, th e meeting will b e held at the Hotel
General Wayne.
Reservations for the meeting
should be made by contacting C.
A. Thompson, Ext . 270, by
4:00 PM Monday , M ay 19.
May 13, 1958

Grant that all we do
REDUCTION IN FORCE WILL

AFFECT MAGNETIC WI NDING
COMPONE N TS AND AIRCRAFT
A reduction in force of seven
people will affect employees in
t he Magnetic Winding Components
Operation and th e Aircraft a nd
Military Ope ration next week .
The r e duc tion h as b ee n made
neces s ary by a l ack-of-work situation in t he Indu str i a l Electroni u
area. Effo rts t o pr e v ent thi s
reduction have been unabl e to
overcome the continued decline in
busine ss in that area.
Although the lack - of - work
s ituation exists in the Industrial
Electronics area and the reducti on
will actually occur in that area ,
six of the peo ple affected will be
from the Magnetic Winding Com ponents area and one will be from
Aircraft and Military, because of
the D epartment policy on seniority.
The Department seniority policy
i s b e ing follo wed stric tly in the
prese nt s i tuation and w ill continue
to be fo llo wed in the event of any
fut ur e reductions which might become necessary because of the
decline in customer orders for
o ur products .
Our rugs and floors give eviden ce,

Enough to wear our pati enc e thin,
That one small boy with t wo small
fe et
Can bring a lot of outdoors in !
May 13, 1958
To All Employees of Specialty Control Department:
I want to personally congratulate all of you for the excellent impression

which you, as employees of this Department and of the Company, made on
Mr. Cordiner during his visit yesterday.
By his remarks to me and to the others who met with him, Mr. Cordiner
made it known that he was extremely pleased with the attention to your
work and obvious desire to do a good job that was displayed by all of you.
He was also impressed with the housekeeping of the Department, telling
us that it was as good as he has seen anywhere, at any time.
Again, let me express my sincere congratulations and my personal thanks
for doing the kind of job which made such a fine impression.
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VOL. IV. NO. 94
COURTESY O~ WAYI AMO NEWS VIRGINIAN
May 14, 1958
This food, which Thou hast already blessed in the giving, bless also in our partaking, that God may be honored, through Jesus Christ ou r Lord. Amen,
SPECIALTY CONTROL DEFEATS
A. S, R. IN INDUSTRIAL GOLF
i..EAGUE
LOCKHEED EMPLOYEES
ACCEPT CONTRACT IN SPITE
OF UNION PROTEST
Specialty Control golfers last

Saturday defeated A. S. R. in the
regular Shenandoah Valley
Industrial Golf League match by
a score of 7-5. The match was
played at Ingleside. Low man
for G. E, was Jack B ro ughman
with an 85. Low man for A. S. R.
was Wells with a 79.
Eight thousand Lockheed Aircraft workers in Los Angele s

voted to accept a new contract
offered by the company last
Saturday, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch, in spite
of the fact that national union
bosses would not approve the
contract and refused to sign it,
,-.. e Specialty Control team has

~awn a bye for June in the
Leag ue, but will play a team
from Industry Control in June
and again in August. The next
regular match for the Specialty
Control golfers will be July 12,
at Ingleside,against Merck and
Co.
The union -- the IAM -- said

that the contract could not be
signed without its a ppr oval. However, the employees o verwhelm ingly.approved the contract and
Lockhee d officials said that t hey
intend to go ahead and put the
terms of the contract into effect
on Monday.
You can, of course, get along

fine with anybody who is reasonable -- provided his conception of what is reasonable coincides with yours.
The vote, as reported by the

Richmond Times, was 7, 332 in
favor of the contract and 461
opposed.
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I Editor's
Note: It becomes apparent,in a situation like the one

1above,that the national union
bosses do not really intend to
represent union membership. For
some reason, the se bosses must
have felt that their own purposes
would be served by turning down
the Lockheed offer. It is encouraging,at lea s t, to see one
group of employees who are able
to make their wishes known, in
spite of the national union leadership.
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My vacation starts this noon.
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REDUCTIONS REPORTED YESTERDAY HAVE BEEN AVERTED

TODAY 'S NEWS for Tuesday,
May 13, reported prematurely
that a reduction in force would
affect six employees in the Magnetic Winding Components Operatio n and one in Aircraft & Military. Additional information r e ceived yeste rday has enabled
Department management to make
transfers which will mean that
these layoffs will not occur.
A reduction will be necessary i n
the Industrial Electronics Area
as reported, but the people involved will be absorbed in other
areas . When any lack-of -work
situation occurs, a continuing
effort is made to prevent an
actual reduction of for ces ior the
Department.
NEWS BITS
The Jaycees Home Fair Show
will be held at the Waynesboro
H igh School Gym on Friday,
May 23 , and Saturday, May 24.
Tickets may be obtained from
Phil Beeson, Ext. 391.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 308 days
6, 709, 878 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
PLANT INSPECTION
Specialty Control employees did such an excellent job preparing for last Friday night's F
Inspection that the inspection team decided not to is sue a regular Inspection Report for
publication. Instead, a letter was written by members of the team to K. N. Bush, Mgr. Manufacturing, reporting the fine appearance of the plant. The letter appears below.
(The excellent scores; of course, will be added to the year-to-date averages.)
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VOL. IV, NO. 95
May 15, 1958
Grant that we may ever be grateful unto Thee, 0 Lord, our Father, for the many
blessings of our daily lives. In the spirit of Christ we pray. Amen.
. WYLIE APPOINTED SPECIALISTRETURNED APPARATUS
VISITORS TO PLANT WILL

DISCUSS NEW PRODUCT FOR
SPECIAL TY CONTROL
Paul D. Wylie has recently been

Four visitors to Specialty Conappointed Specialist-Returned
trol Department today from the
Apparatus, in the Materials SubApparatus Sales Division are
Section, ac cording to J. F.
here
to discuss a new magnetic
P o nzillo, Manager - Materials. In
amplifier
type drive which is
his new position, Mr. Wylie is
being
developed
by Specialty
responsible for handling returned
Control
Department.
The new
apparatus, including equipment
which is repaired and returned to product, which will be put on the
the customer and equipment which market befor eI the end of the year,
I""". repaired and returned to stock. should help build sale s and jobs
for the Department, and is an
example of one of the many kinds
Paul Wylie joined Specialty Conof things included in the OPERtrol Department in March 1955
ATION
UPTURN program.
and has worked in Production
Control since that time.
SECOND G. E. FAT ALI TY FOR
1958 OCCURS AT DEKALB
The General Electric Company's
second fatal accident for this
year occurred at the plant of the
Appliance Motor Department in
DeKalb, Illinois, recently.
The victim was i nstalling safety
hooks on a steel, vertical permanent ladder to an overhead
conveyor,
Although the exact cause of the
accident was not known, the
victim either slipped or released
~s hold from the ladder a nd
n about 10 feet to the floor.
.He struck the floor head first
and suffered severe brain damage. Death occurred at a hospital shortly after the accide nt.
Today ' s visitors are W. D.

Vincent, Manage r-Industrial
Machinery Engineering, User
Indu stry Sales Dept.; W. W.
Litfin and C. D. Beck, Senior
Application Engineers, User
Industr y Sales Dept.; and R. C.
.Berger, Senior Application
Engineer, C. I. D. Sales.
FASTER BY FAR
When it comes to getting news
around,
You'll find that without fail
The female of the spec i es is
Lots faster than the mail I
SAFETY SCORE
1, 309 days
6, 719, 248 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
MANUFACTURING SECTION
WILL SHUT DOWN FOR
INVENTORY JULY 7 - 11
The Manufacturing Section of
Specialty Control w ill shut down
July 7 - 11 (the week before the
regular vacation shutdown) in
order to take the annual physical
inventory. In the Manufacturing
Section only those people
required to take the inventory,
a skeleton crew for emergencies,
and employees in the Micro Miniature Relay operations will
work during the week before
vacation shutdown.
Because of the present business
l evel, it is felt that the week of
July 7 - 11 will be the most ad vantageous time for the taking of
the annual physical inventory .
W. H. Grimsley has been appoint.
ed Annual Physical Inventory
Representative and will be responsible for the taking and reporting of the 1958 inventory. D.
M . House will be responsible for
Manufacturing Operations July 7
through 25.
NEWS BITS
Mr. Andrew Haley, President of
American Rocket Society, will
speak at 8 o'clock tonight at the
Univ. of Virginia on space l aw
The meeting will b e he ld at
Maury Hall.
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SPOltTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VllOINIAN
VOL. IV I NO. 96
May 16, 1958
Accept our than.ks for this food and keep us through the hours of this day.
Christ s sake we ask it. Amen.
For
NLRB RULES AGAINST AFL-CIO PRODUCTION COUNCIL FORMED

IN ORGANIZERS 1 CASE
FOR MICRO-MINIATURE RELAYS
The National Labor Relations
Board ruled against the AF L-CIO
yesterday in the case of the union
organizers 1 right to have a union
i of their own. The organizers do
, have the right to organize them ! selves and to bargain with their
employers, the union bosses,
according to the NLRB. An
NLRB election will be h e l d within
30 days.
._ .cl. CORDINER TOURS PLANT:

Specialty Control photographer
11
Sunny" Miller snapped this
picture last Monday as Ralph W.
Cordiner , Chair~an of the B )ard
of Director s and Chief Executive
Officer of General Electric Co. ,
was being shown around t he
Specialty Control plant. Mr.
Cordiner {abo ve center) li s tens
while K. N. Bush, Manager Manufacturing, discusses the
NA123 static regulator. Loo king
on at right is Dr. L. T. Rader,
General Manager. Mr. Cordiner
paid his first visit to the Specialty Control plant on Monday,
May 12 . Before l eaving, he congratulated all employees on their
fine job of housekeeping and
the excellent attention to their
work that was displayed.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 3 10 days
6, 728, 618 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
The AF L-CIO had previously

denied the right of its paid
or ganizers to have their own
union, . and has refused to deal
with the Field Representatives
Federation, which was formed
by the organizers. About 100 of
the 2 15 organizers were fired or
transferred recently by the AFLCIO, a move which cut the number of potential membc.rs of the
F. R. F. in half.
GE FANS.AVAILABLE THROUGH
EMPLOYEE STORE
G. E. fans are available n ow
through the Employee Store.
Because of the large number of
different models and the limited
space in the Employee Store,
these fans will not be kept in
stock . THEY MAY BE ORDERED, however, at any time,
through the Employee Store. See
pages 2 , 3 and 4 of TODA Y'S
NEWS for descriptions of th e fans
' available.
ISAVE TlilS ISSUE OF TODAY ' S

! NEWS for reference when you are
1
ready to order.
A Micro-Miniature Relay Production Council has been formed

with the purpose of identifying,
evaluating and correcting problems in micro-miniature relay
manufacturing.
K. N. Bush, Mgr. -Manufacturing
for the Department, is serving as
Manager of the Council . Other
members of the Council are W. O.
Bare {F oreman-Quality
Assurance ), R. A. Holcomb
(F actory Contact Engineer ), W. E
John (Quality Control Engineer),
H. E. Quick (For eman-Oper. ),
L. 0, Simonetta (Supv. -Production
Control) and H. A. Slater (Sup v. Tool Mfg. and Design).
Advisors to the Council are
C. Eirich, Mgr. -Relay Mfg; G.
M. Hausler, Mgr. -Relay Eng.;
R. H. Schmitt, Mgr. -Mfg. Eng.;
and B. Sussman, Mgr. -Quality
Control.
Objectives of the Council are
to make a high quality relay at
prices which are fair and competitive, while at th e same time
earning profits which are satis factory;to properly satisfy customer s ' deliver y and service requirements: and to maintain equipment and facilities in optimum
condition.
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srORTS. NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS -
COURTESY Of WAY& AND NEWS VllGIMIAM
VOL. IV, NO. 99
May 2 1, 1958
Bless Thou this food to the str ength of our bodies and feed us with
that bread which cometh down from heaven. Amen.
SPECIALTY CONTROL EQUIPMENT PRAISED IN CONV AIR
REPORT
A re cent Installation Inspection
Report from the I. & S. E . Dept.
on the installation of equipment
with contr ols produced by this
Department contained special
praise for Specialty Control work
mans hip.
The report covered the installa tion of two Giddings and Lewis
mills, to which our numerical
3itioning controls have be en
applied, in the Convair plant.
NEWS BITS
A pair of clear plastic prescription safety glasses with the ini tial
W. S. were picked up by mistake
recently, and another pair left in
their place. Please contact Bi 11
Sager, Ext. 260.
The SCOGEE men 1 s slow -pitch

softball team will practice today
at 5: 00 PM on the Specialty Control diamond.
.-..
She: So Jane is sore at her hus band. I always thought he was

perfect. In their ten years of
married life, hasn't he always
turned his check over to her
the first of every month?
In discussing the Specialty Control equipment, service eng ine er

P. R. Christiansen, who made
the report, wrote "I would like to
add that the impressions recieved
by those I talked to were extreme He: She just discovered he gets
ly favorable to this equipment.
paid on the fifteenth, too.
From an appearance standpoint
the internal and inter - connection
CONV AIR REPORT ...
wiring was beautifully done -certainly a credit to both General
(Cont. from col. l)
Electric and Giddings & Lewis.
products and more sales and jobs
The pr i nts supplied with this
in 1 58 .
equipment b eat any competition
to date and the maintenance
An Installation Inspection Report
people express appreciation for
is made by I . & S. E. after each
this fact .... "
installation of G. E. e quipment in
a customer's factory.
In view of the efforts of all
Department employees, under
OPERATION UPTURN, to bring
~tter quality and more value to
r customers, reports like this
one are extr emely encouraging.
Continued good impressions of
the type reported here will mean
better acceptance for our _
(Continued col. 2)
ZIMMER RECEI VES CHECK

FOR ARTICLE
John Zimmer (Eng.) has receiv ed a check from the Penton
Publishing Company for an
article which he wrote and whi ch
was used in the April issue of
Machine Design magazine, which
is published by that company .
Mr. Zimmer ' s article deals with
some unique design features of
the m i cro - miniature relay
POINTS ON POLIO ,
Question: If the third polio shot
is not taken at the end of seven
months as recommended, will
it be necessary to begin the
seri es over?
Answer : According to medical
authorities , the third shot may
be taken at any time between
the recommended seven months
and one year 1 without loss of
effectiveness .
At any time, howeve r, that
polio should reach epidemic
stages in an area where you
live or plan to travel, an ex tra "booster" shot should be
taken, regardless of the
number of shots already
received.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 315 days
6, 756, 888 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
CHORA LIERS PREPARE FOR SHOW LAST FRIDAY NIGHT
L ast Friday night, the Specialty Control Choraliers presented a

musical program for a special Ladies' Night meeting of the Piedmont
1
Traffic Club. The program was presented at the Ing leside Hotel in
Staunton. Below are pictures of members of th e Choraliers as they
prepared for the show last week.
w--tr-J
Rehearsing a song for last Friday night's show are members of the Specialty
Control Choraliers . Pictur ed above a r e (fr ont row, left to right) Gwen B lack
(Tabulating ), Rosemary Howard (E & CR), Rosa Lee Pugh, Dot Foss, June
Harper (Finance ) , Jane Bateman (Methods & Planning), Ruby Di ckerson, Ruby
Shifflett (Eng .), Esther Maloney (Marke tin g ), Jane Fitz gerald (Eng.) Ruth Gray
(E & CR) , Dukie Gum (Transcribing); (back row, left to right) Jim Harris (Eng .),
Al McKechnie (Eng .), Harold Harvey (Eng.), Al Foss (Eng.) and Lowell Bashlor
(Eng. ). Not pictured are Jean Gum (En g .), Wynona Stinespring (Tabulating ),
Ro se Belak (Finance ), Joe Belak (Eng.) and Don Trohaugh (Eng . ).
Individual performers for the Choraliers

program la st Friday night are shown at right.
Left t o right are J oe Poleo (Eng.) - Master
of Ceremonies; soloists Ruby Dickerson,
Katie M c L ean, Jane Bateman (Methods and
Planning )J and hypnotist Wally Kennedy (Eng.)
Not pictured are P ete Shiflett (Ma g . W dg .
Comp.) and his wife Ann (Eng. L ab) who did
a pantomime act.
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PUBLISHED IY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEE$

Sl'OITS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYI ANO MEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 100
May 22, 1958
0 Lord God, h eave nly Father, bless unto us t hes e Thy g ifts , which of Thy t e nde r
k indnes s Thou hast bestowed up on us, throu gh J es us Chri s t our L ord . Ame n.
SIX MORE SCOGEE MEMBERS
WILL SELL DANCE TICKETS
T he number of tick et sellers for
the SCOGEE Spring Dance has
been increased b y s ix p eople. In
addition to the list published in
TODAY'S NE WS Tuesday, May 20,
these SCOGEE members have
tickets fo r sale: Gracie Layne
{Ind. Elec. ), Shirl ey
McCambridge (Ind. Ele c . ),
Kathlee n Bosserman {Ma g netic
W dg. Comp.), Vi rginia Smith
~ach. Room), Ele anor Falls
viation L ab ) and Jim M ayes
{Tool Crib).
Admission i s $3. 30 per couple
for non-member s and $2. 20 per
c ouple for members . The dance
will be held Frida y ni g ht, from
9:00 to 1:00, at the Waynesboro
Country Club.
Y 'ALL AUTO COME !
TENT COVERS EXCAVATIO N

FOR NEW WIEDEMANN BASE
N. L. R. B. CERTIFIES I. U. E.
AT ROANOKE
In case you 've been wo nd ering

why the big tent appeared i n the
Sheet Metal area this we ek, the
Department i s not hous~ng circus
animal s .
The National Labor Re lations

Board Monday c ertified the IUE,
AFL-CIO .as bargaining agent
for produc tion employees at the
Industry Control D epartment at
Ro anoke . The ce rtification,
which came as a result of a ru ling on a pro tes t by the Industry
Control Departme nt, will be
effe c tive immediately .
. E xc avation began this week in

preparation for a new automatic
Wiedemann turret punch press
whi ch has been ordei:ed and which
should be delivered within three
or four w e e k s . B ecause of the
s i ze of the n ew m achine {it wei ghs
50, 000 pounds ) the foundation is
being exc avated and a hea vi e r
base will be put in.
The tent has been put up over the
excavation area in order t o help
maintain the present hou sekeep ing standards by keeping dust and
dirt c reated by the excavati on
away from the surrounding area.
The excavation should be completed in about a week .
NEWS BITS
Spec ialty Control Departme nt
welcomes to our p l ant today fou r
v i s i to rs from Control Engineer ing Magaz ine: W. W. Garey,
Publisher , B . K. L edgerwood,
Managing Editor , J. D . Cooney
and L. H. Young, As soci ate
Editor s , who are he r e to gain
firsthand kno w l e dge o f our
~roducts in the industrial area .
A ccompanying the group is H .
Zane Robbins, News Bureau
Supv., A &SP Dept., Apparatus
Sales Div .
RADER WILL BE HEARD

ON WAYB
Dr. L. T. Rader, General
Manager , will c ongratulate the
automobile dealers of Waynes boro o n their aggressive "YOU
AUTO BUY NOW 11 campai g n, and
will s how the c onnection between
that program and our own
OPERATION UPTURN, tonight
fromRadio Station WAYB . The
brief message, which was reco rd.
ed earlier this week w ill b e
broad ca st a t 7:35 PM. The same
message was broad cast at
7:00 A M today.
The NLRB election was held

last November at t he Roanoke
plant .
Paul Thomson, M a nagerEmploy ee and Community
Relations for Industry Control
Department, stated yeste rday
that the cer tification of th e IUE
as bargaining agent fo r Industry
Control e mployees wo uld cau se
little or no change in the bene fit s
received by all employee s o f the
Department. Industry Cont rol
e mp l oye es , along with all other
GE employees , already enjoy the
fu ll benefits of the GE Bette r
Living Program. Parts of this
Better Livin g Program ha ve been
i ncorporated into the IUE-GE
national agreeme n t .
**************
Editor ' s Note: The only r ea l
change in benefits for Indu s tr y
Control emplo yees will be that
they will los e the Emerge ncy Aid
Plan, which has nev e r been accepted by the IUE. The othe r
obvious loss i s money paid out
in dues, muc h of which goes to
the national officers for us e as
th ey see fit.
S'AFETV
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Sl'OlTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD HEWS - COURTESY OF WA.YI AND HEWS VllOIHIAH
VOL. IV, NO. 101
May 23 , 1958
The eyes of all wai t upon Thee, 0 Lord; Thou openest Thine hand, and satisfiest the
desire of every living thing, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SPECIALTY CONTROLLERS
COMPLETE CITIZENSHIP
ENGLISH COURSE
Reinhold Kerber (Mac hine Room)
and Siegfried Winkler (fo rme rly
Machine Room) were among those
who completed a course in
Citizenship English at Waynesboro High School last Wednesday
night.
The course, conducted by Paul
Wylie (Materials) included basic
incip l es of reading and speaking English and an introduction to
the fundamentals of local, state
and Federal government.
THIRD PAID HOLIDAY IN 1958

WILL BE NEXT FRIDAY
SUMMER HOURS WILL BEGIN A

WEEK FROM MONDAY
On Friday, May 30, Spec ialty

Control employees will enjoy the
third paid holiday of 1958. The
holiday, Memorial Day, is one of
seven paid holidays each year for
all Specialty Control employees
and all General Electric employees, under the G. E. Better
Living Program.
Specialty Control "summer

hours" which were announced in
TODAY'S NEWS, March 14, will
begin on Monday , June 2, and
will continue until Tuesday,
Sept. 2.
NEWS BITS
Mr . J.P. Turner, Jr . , Manager Central District, Aviation and
Defense Industries Sales Dept . ,
Dayton, Ohio, is visiting the
Specialty Control plant today.
DON ' T FORGET THE

SCOGEE
SAFETY SCORE
1, 317 days
6, 77 5, 7 88 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
The change in hours will be made

to enable Spe c ialty Control employees to take full ad vantage of
the additional daylight during the
summer months.
During the three months when the
summer hours" are in effect,
each shift will report to work 1/2
hour earlier t han usual and will
leave 1/2 hour earlier than usual.
11
Under the special summer schedule, first shift factory employees

will report for work at 7: 00 AM
and will leave at 3: 30 PM.
Se cond shift employees will r e port for work at 3: 3 0 PM and will
leave at 12 :00 midnight. Office
employees will report for work
at 7: 3 0 AM and will leave at
4 :00 PM.
Cafeteria hours under the special
summer schedule will be announced next week .
TONIGHT
9: 00 TIL 1: 00
STATISTIC
...VAYNESBORO COUNTRY CLUB

Y ' ALL AUTO COME
11
Say-y-y- the re ' s a pretty dress,

dear!"
He rests beneath
The sod and dew - He stopped in traffic
To tie his shoe
am1 1ar
ymbol
The s ymbol above is new right now, but during the next several months it will become
increasingly familiar to millions of Americans .
It is the symbol that marks General Electric's
OPERATION UPTURN.
To Specialty Control employees, it will be a symbol for renewed effort to build even
better value into our products and servi ces through such things as improving product design,
inc reasing quality, reducing manufacturing time and minimizing a ll forms of scrap and waste.
In this we will be joined by the more than a quarter million General Electric employees
all ove r the country who will also b e givi ng special attention to bringing better values to GE
c u s tomers .
And to millions of Americans not directly connec ted with General Electric, OPERATION
UPTURN and its symbol will become familiar as a s i gn of maximum value in General Electric
products, and as dramatic evidence of General Electric's confidence in the American economy .
As the p ersonal contribution of each of us to OPERATION UPTURN helps strengthen
the s tability of jobs a t Specialty Cont ro l and throughout the Company, and t h ereby contributes
t o an acce l eration of economic recovery, the symbo l above wi ll become even more familia r.
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SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYa AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
V OL. IV, NO. 102
May 26, 1958
Give us truly grateful hearts, Heavenly Father, for these and all
Thy gifts to us. Amen.
PAL.M ER ON SPECIAL OPERATION UPTURN ASSIGNMENT
H a rry L. Palmer, ManagerEngineering, will begin immediately a special assignment
in connection with OPERATION
UPTURN, it was announced today
by Dr. L. T. Rader, General
Manager. Mr. Palmer will de v ote full time, for the next few
months, on a concentrated effort
to increase sales for Specialty
Control products within the
:neral Electric Company.
As part of this effort, Mr.

P a lmer will participate in a
s e ries of 12 programs conducted
by Engineering Services and
Manufacturing Services for other
GE Departments in which methods
of improving manufacturing and
e ngineering operations througho ut the Company will be disc ussed. Mr. Palmer will discuss
th e possibilities for improving
manufacturing and engineering
e ffi c iency through the u s e of our
P r ogram Control.
D uring the period of this temp orary special assignment, Mr.
Palmer will make many personal
c ontacts in other GE Departments
whe re Specialty Control products
mi g ht be used to the mutual
b e nefit of both Departments. Inc reased use of our products in
.-. h e r GE Departments could inc rease sales for the other Depart.
ments and for Specialty Control,
a nd so protect the jobs of many
G E e mployee s.
(Cont. column 2)
CASHIER'S CAGE HOURS WILL

NOT CHANGE UNDER SUMMER
SCHEDULE
The hours for the Cashier's Cage
in the Personnel Accounting
Office will remain the same during the summe r months, instead
of being moved up a half hour
with the Department's "summer
hours."
The Cashier's Cage hours have
been set to coincide as nearly as
possible with transportation
schedules outside Specialty Control, because the service provided is primarily for the use of
employees who need cash advances for business trips. For
this reason, it is felt that better
service will be provided if the
hours remain the same as before.
The regular hours for the Cash
Cashier's Cage are: Monday
through Thursday, 10:00 AM to
12: 00 NOON; Friday, 8: 30 AM to
12: 00 NOON.
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT
(Cont. from col. 1)
J. R. Devoy, Manager-Eng.
Administration, has been appointed Acting Manager of Engineering for the period of Mr.
Palmer's special assignment.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 320 days
6, 785, 238 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
./\C CI DENT
NEWS BITS
Bob Edwards (Manufacturing
Training Program Membe r) left
last Friday for Evendale, Ohio,
where he will be as s igned to the
Jet Engine Department. Bob had
been at Specialty Control Dept.
since August, 1957, and worked
as supervisor of test equipment
construction during his assignment here.

a new shipment of blankets (rejects with the wire removed)
which will be sold while they last
for $4. 00 each.
The Store also has remaining a
supply of the Glow Lamps ($. 35
each) and heavy Dacron stranded
thread (2 for $1. 00) which were
advertised in TODA Y'S NEWS
several weeks ago.
Congratulations to David Wampler (Eng.), whose wife presented

him with a 5 lb. 9 oz. son last
Thursday. The baby's name is
Jeffrey David.
Specialty Control golfers will

meet a team from Industry Control Department, Roanoke, on
Saturday, June 21. Twenty people
are needed to play in th e m a tch.
Golfers who would like to play
in this match should contact Joe
Belak (Eng.). The m a tc h w ill
be played in Roanoke .
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(Radi o Batter ie s n ot i ncluded in above prices)
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PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELAT IONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES
s,ons. NATIONAL
AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYB ANO NEWS VllOINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 103
May 27, 1958
Our Father, Thou hast opene d Thy hand to bless, and hast given us all thin g s
to enjoy. We thank Thee. Amen.
WICHMAN NAMED GENERAL
MANAGER OF HOTPOINT
Appointment of William C.
Wichman as General Manager of
the Hotpoint Company Division
of the General Electric Compan y
was announ -: ed in New York ye sterday by James H. Goss, Vice
President and Group Executive
for the Company ' s Consumer
Products Group. The appointment is effecti ve June 1.
NEWS BITS
REMINDERS .
. Friday, May 30, will be a
paid holiday for Specialty
Control employees.
The Choraliers will meet at

7: 30 PM today in the audito rium
Citizens of Waynesboro who are

qualified to vote in the City
.. "Summer hours" begin on
Council Election, Tuesday,
Monday, June 2. Specialty
. June 10, but who plan to be out
Controllers will be setting
of the city that day, may vote by
their alarm clocks a half
absentee ballot.
Applications
hour earlie r every morning
for
absentee
ballots
must be
until Tuesday, September 2.
r eceived by Mrs. Julia Maupin,
Registrar, by June 2.
HOT POINT . (Cont. from col. 1)
...-... .. Wichman, a General

Headquarters of the Division are
.e c tric Vice President, sue in Chicago.
ceeds John C. Sharp, President
and G e neral Manager of the
Hotpoint D i v ision since 1952 . Mr. Concurrently, Mr . Goss announced appointment of Reginald
Sharp, who will continue for
H. Jones to succeed Mr . Wich se veral months as a consultant
man as General Manager of the
to Mr. Wichman, announced his
General Electric Supp ly Company
retirement earlier this week.
Division with headquarters in
( Cont. co lumn 2 )
Bridgeport, Conn.
Don't hesitate about giving advice.

It passes the time and nobody
listens to it anyway .
Blessed is the man who appre ciates his own time too highly to
waste another's.
You Can't Always See Trouble Coming!
.......
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THIS SUMMER, BE SAFETY CONSCIOUS ALL THE TIME
...
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you can't pull a

out of
Pulling a rabbit out of an apparently empty hat is a difficult trick unless you happen to
k now the secret.
But this trick is easy compared to c r eating jobs w here none e xisted before.
There's no "magic se c ret" to crea ting jobs.
c ustomers want.
Jobs are made by produ c ing a product that
Of course, this doesn't just happen.

To be gin with:
. . A n ew or improved product must be developed. It mus t be a pr oduc t
customers w ant and i t can cost no more than t he c ustomers are willing to
pay
The savings of many people must be invested to provide the facilities
to manufa c ture the product . . buildings , machine s, tools, furniture, and
powe r plants to n ame a few .
...!.:) ('
.....
Ge neral Electric has created some 200, 000 new GE j obs across the c ountry in the past
20 years. Right here in Waynesboro, Specialty Control has cre ated nearly -1,000 jobs
1
whe re none existed a few years ago.
b() u
It is true that ther e were a fe w more j obs a year or so ago than there are now, but there
are still nearly 1, 000 jobs that were not here four years ago.
It is proper that we should all be con ce rned about t hos e j obs that have been lost, but l e t's
not forget the numbe r of job s that have been created du ri ng these last three years and are
still here.
Creating thes e j obs was a feat much more d iffi cult -- and mu c h more re w arding - - than
pulling a rabbit out of a hat .
Protecting these j obs, at a time like the present, is an equally difficult task, and the
results are of vital concern to each of us . Through the combined efforts of all Specialty
Control employee s, ho wever, this job can and must b e done.
By providing the extra s ervice, the extra quality, and the lowest possible price (through
reduced cost) that will make our customer s want to buy our products now, we can build
sales and iobs in 19 58 1
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NEWS
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S'ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 104
May 28, 1958
As we r ece ive our daily food, D ear God; help us to rem e mber Thee as t he great
Give r of a ll good things. Amen.
LEAGUE OF WOME N VOTERS
WILL SPONSOR CANDIDA TES
MEETING
A Candidates Meeting, sponsored
by the Waynesboro L eague of
Women Voters,will be h eld T ues day, June 3, at 8:00 PM a t W es twood Hills Elementary School.
Purpose o f the mee ting w ill b e to
g ive Waynesboro vo t ers an
oppo rtunity to hea1 candidates
for t h e June 10 City Council
electi on.
...... ach candida te will b e g i ve n a n
opportunity to speak and then the
floor will be ope ne d to questions.
The l ength of time to be u se d by
each candida te will be limited.
Appear ing a t the Tues d ay ni g ht
m eeting will b e Char l es F.
Mc C lung and Bernard W. Ze h,
candidates from Ward Ill; a nd
Frank S . Parker , Flemin g R.
Hurt and Robert Kirby, Jr.,
candidates from Ward IV.
NEWS BITS
Mary Lou B l ose (Ext. 2 19) w ould
like a ride home from work (to
Elkton) at 4 :00 PM daily b egi nning June 2.
Anyone who needs a ride or who

wants to start a car pool from
S tau nton on the 7: 30 to 3: 00 shift
for the n ext e i gh t weeks , pl ease
c all Bill Siege l (Ex t. 339 ).
An auc tion s ale i s where,

Mid secret s igns and such,
It u s ua lly does n ' t pay
To fidget very muc h .
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 322 days
6, 803 , 862 hour s
WI THOUT A LOST T IME
ACCIDENT
Loui s Spilma n, publisher of the

Way nesbo ro News-Virginian,will
act as mode r a tor. The public i s
i nvited and urged to a tt e nd th e
meeting, which w ill adjourn at
9 : 30 for refreshments.
MANY A PERSON h as so little

in hi s beliefs and
.Jinion s that he studiou s l y avoids
reading or li"s tening to co ntrary
ones .
~nfide nce
LUNCH SCH EDU LE WI LL RE MAIN THE SAME FOR SUMMER:

SUMMER STORE HOURS
ANNOU NCED
Lunc h sc hedules a nd hours fo r
t he morning b r eak period for
first shift employees will remain
the same as u sual during the
s ummer , instead of being
changed with the beginning of
" s ummer hours" next week. The
supper period and the first br e a k
period for second s h ift e mployee s
will a l s o r e m ain o n th e same
schedule as b efo r e
According to an announcement
w hich w a s made to a ll employees
Tuesday after no o n, the afternoon
break period for first shift em ploye es and the aft er - s upper
break period for second shift
e mployees h ave b ee n elimi nat ed.
Hours for the Employee S tore
for the p e riod from June 2 to
Septembe r 2 will b e:
Monday and Thursday
ll:l5 AM - l : 1 5 PM (no chan ge)
3:30PM - 4 :00 PM
"A year's fre e se rvice with your

TV doesn't mean moving it every
time yo u change the living room,
Mr s . W igdo rtz I "
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f'UOLISHED BY THE EM PLOYEE RELATIONS SECTIO N AS A SERV ICE TO SPECIA LTY CONTROt EMPLOYEES
SPORTS. NATIONAL AND WO RLD NEWS - COU RTESY Of WAYB AND N EWS VIRGINIAN
W AYN ESBORO, VIRGINIA
VOL. IV , N O. 10 5
May 2 9, 19 5 8
Help u s to c ultiva t e the f i n e a r t o i g r a titu de a nd no t fo .::ge t T h ee as O u r G od a nd

P rovider . Amen.
0 1.11
SC O U T T R OOP WILL C O L ::... EC T

ITE MS FO R R O T A RY AUCTION
LION S CLUB H O R S E SHOW WILL

BE TOMO RRO W
M e mbers of B oy Sc o ut T r oop # 7
The W a ynes b o ro Lions Club will
h av e its 11th A nnu al Cha ri ty H ors E wi ll c o ll e c t i t e ms o n S a tur d a y
M ay 31 , for th e R o tary A u ction,
Sho w t omor row at t he Ea s ts i de
whi ch will be held n ext w e ek.
Sp eedway on Ro u te 34 0 . Sho ws
w i ll b egi n a t 1: 3 0 PM a nd 7: 00 PM . The S c o u ts wi ll cove r m os t
W ay n es boro n e i g hbo r hoods
Adm iss ion is $ 1. 00 for ad ults a n d between 9 AM a n d 12:0 0 N O ON,
a n d ha v e reques ted t ha t a nyone
$ . 50 fo r c hildren. T i c kets are
availabl e from W e s P e t rie (Eng.}, w ho w o uld lik e t o donate o l d
items whi c h a re no lo ng e r need ed
L e n P artridg e (Marke ti ng ) , C a r l
G e rni ( Purc ha s ing ), B i ll
arou n d the ho us e , to have t h e
~ walt e r (P ro du ction ) , B ob
ite m s r e a dy whe n t h ey c a l l.
.lin g ( Toom R o o m) a nd P aul
C a r o n (Wi re H a rness }.
Troo p #7 will receive a pe r centage of t h e p roceeds fro m
e ve r yth i ng they c o lle c t for the
Au c t i o n .
RE MINDERS
. Summer hour s b e gin Monda y ,
June 2 . All shi f t s will sta r t
and e nd o n e half hou r ear li er
th a n u s u a l. L unch sc h edules
a n d hours fo r th e m o rning
break p e riod wi ll not c h a n g e.
SAF E TY .SCOR E
1, 32 3 day s
6, 8 1 3, l 74 hou r s
WITHOUT A LOST T I ME
ACCIDENT
Spec ialty C ontro l golfe r s wi ll te e

off Monday a fter noon, June 2,
as so on afte r 4 :00 as p os s ib le i n
the s tar ti ng r o und of th e S COGEE
Golf L e ag u e p i a y . T h e L e ague
wi ll play at Swan n a noa. C oun try
Club each Monday fo r i4 weeks
(e x cluding the vaca ti o n s h utdown
peri od)
Fifteen t wo-ma n te a m s h a ve
b e en s et up for t h e S COGEE
Leag ue . Sche dule s ar e b eing
p r inte d a nd will b e d i st r ibute d to
a ll playe rs by Monday afte rnoon,
Any o n e who i s s i g n e d up fo r the
G o lf L e a g u e and who does not
r ece ive a sc h e d ule Monday
shoul d co n tact Ed K e n t , E x t. 4 71.
NEWS B ITS
The S COG E E Soft ball Team will
m e et She nan doah Heights B aptis t
Chur c h today a t 5: 3 0 PM. on th e
Spe cia lty C ont rol d i amond .
. . Ju n e 2 i s also the l a s t da y t o
fi le a pplic ations for ab se nte e
ba llots fo r th e Ju n e 10 City
Counci l El ec ti on .
N OW i s t h e ti me t o ge t po lio
s hots i f yo u have no t ye t
re c e i ve d th e full p rot ec ti o n
of t hre e s hot s .
S C OGEE GOLF LEAG UE P LAY

W I LL START MON DAY
O N THE HIGHWAY
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AND C O U R TE O US L Y
T h e fe llow w h o s p e nds t oda y

b ragg ing abou t wha t he is going
t o do to m o r row, probably did th e
same thing yeste r day .
small :;/iots
RIGHT NOW, ALL O F US AT SPECIALTY C ONTROL ARE TRYING T O DO

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S,OllTS. NATIONAL ANO WORLD NfWS - COURTESY Of WAYfJ ANO HEWS VIAGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 10 6
J u n e 2 , 1958
S tr e n g th e n our th an ksg iving a s Thou d os t s t re n g the n u s with thi i-<

f ood . A me n.
MACrNE TTC WI N DI NG
S OMPONEN TS OPERATI O N
Pt<.O V I', . succr::SSF U L
T li e M .q~ n nf i1 Wi ndin g Compo nents

O r cration, w hich was es t a blish e d
D ~c 1 nib e r L, 1957, i s a lrr. acly
p c :)Ving ve ry suc ce ssful,acco rding t o K. N. Bush, M anag r.r ~A a nufac t urin g .
Th e mos t r e ce nt
e vidence of progre s s by that
g
.p is the fa c t that a ll new
d e s i g n s for Industrial El e ctro nk
m a g n e ti c windi n g components will
"::l e mad e only for manufac tu re at
S ?ec i a l t y Control. No drawin g s
will b e made for pur c ha s e d m a g ne ti c winding compo nent s for
I n dustrial Electronic app li cati on
e xcept in a few cases w here it
wo uld not b e practical to pro cur e
spec ial laminations or too l s .
I n addition, w ork i s continuing on
the r e d e s i g n o f a ll mag ne ti c windin g c omponents u s ed by th e
Dep artme nt so th a t ev e n tually
our own fac ilities m ay b e used
f or the manufac tur e of a ll mag neti c w inding components u sed in
o ur p rodu c ts.
NE WS B ITS
Ruth G r a y, Pla n t Nur i:;e , und e r we nt a n o p e r;\lion thi B mo rnin g
at Way n es bo r o Co inmu n jt y
H o spita l. S h e will he> aw;t y
fr om th e pl ri nt unti l after th e
vac a tion s hu t d o wn in July.
Temporarily r e p lacing Mrs.
Gray in t h e Dispe n s ary wi ll b e
Mr s . William B a re .
H arr y Ho well (E&CR) is c onv ale scing a t hom e ;:i. ftf"' r a r e c e nt

operati on at W a ynes boro Community Ho s pital.
INCREASED L A B OR COS T S
BLAMED FOR R I SE JN S TEEL
PR I CES
A c co r cl i11 g
Lo ;1
r ec ent pn ll of Hw
s tc> c> l i n d ll s t r y h y
S Tl~ EL ,
!he
ind us t ry ' r; ma g.1zine , ~ 1tPP. l pri < c s

w i ll r i se ;ib o ut $ 4 to JiG and to n
s oo n. O ne rca.s on f o r t h e inc r ea se w ill b e t h e 2 0 to 25 cents
a n h o ur per w or k er i n c re a se in
bbo r c o s t s o n July l.
Stec l o fficial s s ay th a t th e p r i c e
inc r eas e w ill cove r abo ut h a lf
t he inc r e ase i n wag e s and
m a t er i a l c osts ; t he hi ke would
have to be $9 t o $10 a ton to com p l c te ly cov e r th e i n c re a s ed co s t s .
Specialty Contro l' s SCOGEE Golf

L e agu e play be g ins today soon
after 4:00 PM at Swannanoa
Country C lub.
MAGNETIC WINDING COM PONE N TS .. (Cont. fro m co l. I)

and faciliti es instead of those of
outs ide ve ndors , and more jobs
have been a nd will c ontinu e to b e
provide d he r e in our own plant.
By manufac turing mag ne ti c w1 nd i n g c ompon e nt s h e r e at Specialty
Control, instead of buying t hem

, -.1ide th e Depa r tme nt, procu.r e mo.::nt d iffi c ulties s hould b e e liminated, b ett e r d e liver y schedules
wi ll be poss ib le, mag ne ti c wi nd i n g compo n e nt de s i g n s can b e
made to suit our own conditions
{Continued co lumn 2)
Even tho u g h this parti c ular

change b eg an Jong before
OPERATION UPTU RN, i t is
11
Late a g ain, eh, P e rkins? 11
SAF ETY SCORE

1, 3 27 days
6 , 8 22 , 486 ho u r s
W I THOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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Operation Upturn
AN AGGRESSIVE, CUSTOMER-FOCUSED EFFORT WILL BRING
THE ATTENTION OF CONSUMERS AND INDUSTRY TO THE
BETTER VALUES WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED NOW THAN WILL
BE AAILABLE ONCE THE RECOVERY ACCELERATES.
PRICES RIGHT NOW ARE ABOUT AS FAVORABLE AS THEY
ARE GOING TO BE.
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VOL. I V, NO . 107
COURTESY Of WA.Ya ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
J un e 3, 19 58
Bles se d art Thou, 0 Lo rd, our God , Kin g of th e univer se , who b ri n g est forth b re ad
fr om the ea rth . A men .
DRIVING RULES APPLY TO
ALL, NOT JUST EMPLOYEES
Rules pertaining to the operatio n
of automobiles on Specialty Con t r o l prop erty are for the protecti o n of a ll , employees and
visitor s to our plant. These
rules app ly to peop l e who bring
emp l oyees to and from work as
well a s to employees and visitor s ,
and the y must be obs e rved b y
ever y one . The
rule s include
e e d limits and the u se o f
_ e c ified parkin g area s a n d l o a d in g a nd un l oading ar e a s .
Specialty Contr ol employ ees are
asked to carefully observe the
p lant traffic re g ula ti o n s and to
call these r egulations to th e
att ention of their fri ends and
m e mbe rs of their families who
drive them to and from work.
The spe e d limit on main drives
is 25 mi le s p er hour. Extreme
caution should be exerci s ed in
a reas where peop l e are crossing
th e drive and at the shipping and
receiving doors. Within all
p arkin g a r e as , moveme nt of
c a rs shou l d be much slower than
the 25 MPH limit for main drive s ,
and drivers should be extra careful to avoid endangering
pede s tria ns .
-
::>lation s of the traffic reguLcLtions may resnlt in the loss of

park ing pri vile ge s on Company
pr o perty for the emp lo ye e invol ved .
NEWS BITS
The special Candidates Meeting,
s ponsor ed by the Waynesbo r o
L eague of Women Voters, will b e
he ld ton i g ht at 8 :00, at Wes t wood
Hi ll s Ele mentary School. A ll
candidates in the June 10 City
C ouncil Election will speak.
The publi c i s invited and ur ged
to attend toni g ht's meeting .
Louis Stal ter (E l ectronics )

wis he s t o thank a ll the employees
in E l ectronics for the flowers
they sent durin g her re cent illness.
Eve lyn Taylor (Elec troni c s) who
is prese ntly a patient a t Waynesboro Community Hospi tal ex p r esses her thanks to the em p loyees in E l ectronics for t he
g ifts they h ave sent to her .
Specialty Control Choraliers will

meet tonight in the P lant Auditorium. The m ee ting will be gin
at 7:30.
A young fellow enlisting in the
Navy told friends he would like
to b e assigne d as commande r of
an LMD.
" What ' s a n LMD?" asked a
friend.
The young fe llow r ep lied.
" Why, it' s a Long M a hogany
Desk !"
THIRTEEN I S LU C KY N UMBER
FOR SUGGESTIO N WI NNERS
The number 13 turne d ou t to be a
lucky one for Su g ge s tion Awa r d
wi nners this week, a s th a t many
Specialty Contr o l emplo y ees
cashed in on the Department's
Sugges tion Plan. Lea d ing the
field, as the checks w ere presented yeste r day, was R . C .
Fields (Magnetic Winding Comp . )
who received awards for three
separate sug gestions th a t were
adopted. Others re ce iving
checks fo r their su gge s ti ons
yesterday were Inez 0 1B a u g h
(Aircraft), Fre d di e K. Dillon
(Qua lit y Control ) , Kenneth Ken t
(Mag . Wdg. Comp. ), Mar g are t
Foster (Prod .), A. T. L ayn e
(Regulators ), E rma Morris
(Relays ), Billie M . Meek s (P rototype ), John Lovelac e (Quality
Contr ol), Kenne th Taylor & L.
Hens l ey (Plating ) , Lyle Coff -
man (Prototype ) , M a r garet
Earman (R e la ys ) and J e al Wade
(Shee t M e ta l).
S AF ETY SCORE
1, 328 da y s
6 , 83 1, 6 35 hours
ACCIDENT
Rt.PRINTED BELOW IS A TRIBUTE TO "THE SALESMAN", WHICH WE BORROWED

FROM ANOTHER PLANT NEWSPAPER. WE MAY NOT AGRF.'.;E W.I T H ALL OF IT,
BUT THER E IS AS MU C H T R UTH AS NONSENSE IN THIS LITTLE A RTICLE . WE
OFFER IT AS A SALUTE TO OUR OWN SPECIALTY CON TROL SA LE SMEN, WH O
ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN RIGHT NOW TO "BUILD SALES A ND JOBS I N
1
5 8.
II
THE SALESMAN
It has bee n s aid t ha t sale s men are a bi g proble m to thei r b osses , t he ir cu s tome rs
and th e ir wi ve s, to c ons ervative c redit m a na gers, t o h o te l s a n d sometime s to
each oth e r.
Individually and c ollectively they are cussed and dis c ussed in s ales meeting s,
conventions, behind c losed doors, and under one' s breath fr o m as man y
angles and with a bout the same fervor as the daily headlines of the Ne w Deal.
Th e y m a ke more noise and mor e mistakes, c reate more che er, c orrect mor e
error s , adjust more differences, cause more divorces, spr e ad more gossip,
explain more discrepancies, hear more grievances, pacify more b e lligerents
and waste more time under high pressure without losing their temper than any
group we know.
The live in hotels, c abs, and tents, on trains, busses and park benches, eat
all kinds of food, drink a ll kinds of liquids (good and bad), sleep before, during
and after business with no more schedule than the weather bureau and little, if
any, effect on the publi c health.
And yet salesmen are a power in society and in the e c onomy. In many ways
they are undoubtedly a tribute unto themselves. They draw and spend more
money with less effort than any othe r group in business. They come at the most
inopportune time, under the slightest pretext, stay longer under more opposition,
ask more personal que s tions, make more comments, put up with more inconveniences, take more for granted under greater resistance than any group or body,
including the U. S. Army.
They introduce more n e w goods, dispose of more old goods, load more freight
cars, unload more ships, build more factories, start more new business and
write more debits and credits in our ledgers than all other people in America.
Yes, with all their faults, they keep the wheels of commerce turning and the
currents of human emotions running . More cannot be said of any man. Be
careful whom you call SALESMAN, lest you flatter him.
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NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD HEWS - COURTESY Of WAYB AHO HEWS VIRGINIAN
WA YNESBORO, VIRGINIA
VOL. I V, N O . 10 8
J1111c 4 , 1958
Fo r food, fort -- i e r: <i s , for lovinr, c are , we t h -'lnk T hee , Otl r Fathe r.
- ._ ---,-====---=--="-=:".- =:-. :- .PHO T O L A f-" F ACILITI ES WJLL

Bl::: INC RE ASED
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G E l N llJANS UND.E:FEATE D IN
Th e Sp<'c: ia.l t y Co ntr ol photo l;-,},

t<t c iliti c s wi ll be increa se d soon
to pr ovide fo r th e in c r ease d aa 111ou n t of ph'-' to graplii c work
1
I
w hich i !" lh: 1n g do n e in the Depa rt - ;
m 1~ nt.
I n o rd e r to accoinodat~'
:
th e n e \.\ fa c: i ti l i c :" , an ad <l i ti on '1 l
ro oin will b e a dd e d tJnd er the
r:ne n ' s r oo m a t the N orth e n d o f
t he factory, a <lj o ining the pr e se nt
~o to lab .
B/\DJ:: RUTH LEAGU E

fh(~ GE Indians r a n over
Crompton AC last nigh t in t h e
Babe R 11th L e ague , anrl fo u n cl
th e tn s c lves th e o n ly unde feated
team in t he Leag u e as a r esult .
Butch Tyree thre w a three-hitte r
for t he I nclian r..: .in la st ni g h t 1 s
g<u 111:~ , and allowed o nly one run.
PHOTO LAB . . (Co nt. from co l. l)

sent outs id e the D e partme n t
( be c a u s e of the lack of faci lities
an d the increa sed volume of
work ) w ill 1.;,. h a ndled in the
Specialty Control photo l ab in the
f u tur e .
he h a r dware whi c h i s prese:-i.tly

s t o r ed under the me z.~ a nin e wi ll
::..c m oved to a te mporary Jo e a tion
u ntil s t ora ge f a c ilitie s c an bi r e a rrang ed. Wo r k will begin the
f ir s t o f next w ee k on the new
add ition t o th e p hoto lab.
.i.
T h e photo la b ad dition w ill b

u s e d fo r t he dev elo pin g of a ll
ne ga t iv e s , c onta c t p ri ntin g a nd
e n la r ging , ma sking, reto u cj-ling ,
1
ai r u r ush i n g , c ol o r w o rk, a n d f p ,c '
I
photog raphi ng all equi p men t
j
e :;.r c p t large multipl e - cu bi c le
c ontro l s .
:I
The n e w fa c ilities shoul d be in

f ull operation afte r th e vacation
shutdown .
c :.c w fa< i litie 8 w ill m can irn ;; r 0 vcd q u a l1ty o f p h <) to graphi c
-.1c ,+ of al i kind s w i t hin the
~J (! ;,,.1. nrne nl.
I n i.! dd ni on, e xpcnsc.:s for 1)ho tog Japh y will be
reduced a s wor k whi c h h a b ee n
(Cont1 ~1ued co lumn 2 )
P7 35 l ,o rtable Radio , Case , and

a Croton wri s t watch
($84 . 40 va l ue) for on l y $39 . 95
(A dverti s ed in TODA Y 1 S N E \\' S ,
M ay 26 ) A few s ets left at th is
SPECIAL PRICE .
J\lso . a few b lankets ( r e je c:i:s

with the wir es remo ved) ar c l eft
and wi ll be s o l d at $4 . 00 eac h .
'i'.-1: pr1.;s e nt l a b f a c ili ti e s wil l
> JS1 t i ves .
IF SHE SAYS YES . ...... . .

Get h P. r a weddin g g ift fr o m
y our E m p loyee Stor e .
And don't fo r ge t to p l a c e your

order for GE fa ns f or the su 1T1mer at you r Emp loye e S to re .
..::,1 :-.tinue t o b e u se d fo r ph o lo: ; , :-: '.)g r a ph y , c opying ins t ru rlion

' , Juk!.; , and rn ak i ng n a m e plate s ,
. -.c:!t i li th mas t e r s a nd a uto -
Amen
.SO .l\1i7: T I IJ NG F OR ALL OF

U.S 'l 0 RE:Ml'.:MH ER!
SAFL;:; TY SCOH 1::;

l, 3 2<) day s
(,, 81 0 , 7 iH I1<> u r :;
wn J !OUT A L O:i 'l' TIME
ACC ID E N T
sr-: VER AL T IMES DU H.I N(~ n 1,. l i\ ST FEW WEEKS, H.EM TNDI!:RS ABOUT P OLIO
SI fO TS AND QUESTIONS N \l"D AN S WERS ON POLIO HAVE APPEAR ED IN
TODAY ' S NEWS . A :::> A FJ ~~ A L R E MINl>EF, W E AHE PR I NTING DE LOW A LET TER
FROM DR. S. R. P ENN, P LANT P HYSICIAN, TO ALL S P ECIAL TY CONT T{OL
EMPLOYESS.
Snmrncr i s '1.lm o s t npon u s . A fe w ycr:i.rs ag o thi s fact wou 't d h.:ivc be en

rr~ ;"LS On for ap prc h~ n sion;
for, until re ce ntly 11nmm.~r broui~h t with it the
pos s ibility of a polio epidemic. And medical scienc e w as unable to pro t ect people from thi.fl c rippl ing dis ease .
When the Salk poiio v a c.cine b ecame available i.n 195 3, h oweve r, this
s ituation chan ged. Those w ho b ec ome vacc ina ted with t he full three shots
c an look forwar d to the surnmer season w ith the assurance that th e y a r e
prot ected agai nst p olio.
Amazing l y e no ugh , a lar ge majority of the p opula tion h:-i.ve not take n
advantage of thi s protec tion, and today approximately 90% of th e adult
population have n o t ye t received the full protec tion of th e three shots.
Of cour se , many o f our children have already received polio shots, but
these children arc not protected from th e e ffects of the disease unless
thei r parents a r e i mnrnni ze d al so. A nd, except for children, the 19 40 age group is the mos t s u scep tible t o polio.
For a littl e ove r a m onth now, reminders about the polio shots, in the
form of quest i ons and answers on polio a n d polio prevention, have appeare d i n T ODAY'S NEWS. All of th ese re minder !>, including this lette r, are
a part of Spe c ialty C ontrol Department's contr ibution toward promoting
immunization ag ains t polio .
As a fina l reminder b efore the coming "polio season", I urge you to
complete yo u r own polio v acci n.:ition progra m as soon as possible.
'S NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE Teo ~~,~~ll'ZiN~~~UROL EM PLOYEES

SPOllTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS
VOL. IV, NO. 10 9
COURTESY Of WAYB A
J une 5
1953
For th e beautiiul world a bout us, for trees, for fields, for flowers,
and for t he foo d we prai s e Thee and 8ive Thee than.ks. Am e n
SP J:;C I ALTY C OI'l''tROL
EMF LOYEES NEA~ 7 MILLION
MAN lJOUR SAFETY RECORD
MATERIALS SU 8-SEC TION'S

OPERATION UPTURN P ROGRAM
UNDERWAY
Take a look a t th e Safety Score

below. Becrtu s e we print this
score near l> every da,. it may
be taken for g r anted by m~st of
us -- to the point that we don ' t
even bother to see what it is .
As p a rt of th e OPERATION UP TURN Program for the Manu facturing Section of Specialty

Control, a number of projects
have been start~d by the
Materials Sub-Section.
Well , as of thi s morning at

7: OOAM, Spe cia lty Control em --Y. ees had worked l, 329 days
o. .. d a t o tal of 6, 849, 933 hours
without a d i sabling injury . That ' s
nearly 7, 000 , 000 hours - - which
i s an outstanding record for any
plant, but especia lly so for one
wi th the potential s afety hazards
of an operation suc h a s ours .
One of these proj ects is the use

of th e OPERATION UPTURN
symbol to remind our suppliers
and our customers of the Departm ent ' s efforts right now to give
extra value . The symbol is n ow
being placed on all outgoing shipments and is being stamped on al1
purc hase orders .
In order to keep GE distri ct ofAll of the e T!lplo yee s of Specialty

fices informed of our increased
Control are to be cong ratulated on efforts to offer better delivery,
thi s e xcellent record . And at the
t he distr ict offices are being
same time, all of us must be
notified
b y teleg ram each day of
cautioned. Let's not take our
shipments
to customers with
safety practices for gran t ed as
whom
they
have contact.
easily as we do our safety sc ore!
Ea ch day that passes pre sen ts as
many chances of an ac c ident as
th e day before. As the number of
days increases , the chan ce of
accidents certainly does not de crease.
Remember SAFETY . Let's
: h the 7 million hour mark
a ....i go on to 8, 9 a nd 10 million I
SAFETY SCORE
1, 329 days
6 , 849 , 933 hours
WITHOUT A LOS T TIME
ACCIDENT
I n addition, vendor's rep r esentatives and sales personnel

are being give n guided to u rs
throu gh our plant wi th special
emphasis on our end products.
The purpose of these tours,
which are be ing conducted with
the coo pera tion of our own
Marketing personnel, is to enlist
the participa tion of our suppliers
in a combined attempt to offe r
more a nd better value to our
c u stome r s th rough our end
products.
(Continued column 3)
Tuesday, June 10
is the d ay
YOU wi ll e lec t
t wo member s
City C o uncil!
On th a t da y
GO TO THE POLLS AND VOTE!
If you have n't hurt a n ybody to day,

it's been a good day.
And then there's the lady o n a

vacation fishing tri p with he r
1' us band , who turne d to him and .
asked " Have you another co rk
for my line, dear ? This one
keeps sinking !"
MATERIALS SUB-SECTION .. .
(Cont . fr om col. 2)
A display with samp le s or
pictures of our products will a l so
be used soo n to familiarize the
vendors with the e nd produ c ts of
our Department.
**************
Thi s is one of a se ri e s of reports on the ac tivitie s of the
various Sec ti o ns and Sub-Sections
within the Depar tment under
OPERATION UPTURN.
You Can't Build A House

From The Roof Down
T h e o nly way to build a house is to s tar t at the b o tto m
and build up . and any house is only as secu r e a s i L'l
foun datio n.
Jobs must b e made in much the same way .. . the y
m ust be built on a firm found a t ion of s al es. T he jobs
in any bus ines s a r e o nly as s ecu re as th e s a les which
s upport th em.
Anything we, a s empl o yees , can co.-\trihute towa r d i ncreasing sales for Specialty Con trol pi Od uc t s will b e
a p art of a so lid fo indation for building jobs for our

s elves and for others.
W h at can we contribute? Su c h things a,s extra effort,
c areful a ttention to quality, ideas for improving our
ope rations, c oope ration with others to get the job done
q uick ly and c orrectly, service to our customers
a ll of the s e things will help convince our customers that
our p roducts are the very best values that can be had,
and s o will build iiales and prov.ide a firm foundation
for j o b s in 1958.
'S NEWS

SPORTS. NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. I V , NO. 110
J ome ti , 19 58
Bl e s s the Lord , 0 m y i:;ot li, <rnd all ll1 <t l. is w ithi n me ;

n :1 rn t' .
A 11 1 111.
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1\L J. Kleinicltcr , Air For c-c

O ttal it y C o ntrol Repr ese nt a t i v e ,
ha,; c ompl e t e d hi s tour o[ duty a t
the S p c c i alty C on tTo l p l a nt a n d
will b e l eav i ng in a few days . Mr,
Kleinfclter asked that we print the
following messa ge t o Spe c ialty
Control employe es :
Friday, the t h i r teent h , d ot ~ ' t

seem to wor r y th e Sp ec ialty C <i:1-t rol Fir e Br i gade one b it - - rn
that day thi s month tlw y w i ll ap pear in ano t her par a d e . Thi s
time it ' s th e Fir eman' s P..t ..-;1d :!
a t Or a n gu , Virg ini a , and th e
Specialty Controllers wi ll again
be competing against fir e com panie n from other to w n!; in this
an~i1.
(Our F ire Bri g a clv
won fir s t place for com m e r e i al
entrie s in the Nelson C ou nt y Day
P a r ade at Lovingston, V a ., on
May 10 .)
Th e l ocal Air Forc e Quality

C on tr ol Representative ex '. l~nrl 0; to all perso nn e l of th e
Spt:cial ty Contr ol Departmen t a personal as well as
a n o ff i c i a l th a nk s for th e
r ooperati on and c ons ide ration
s hown d u r i n1~ this tour of
rlnty.
M . Kleinfelter , AFQCR
OFFICE BELLS WI.LL NOT
CHA NGE FOR SUM MER
NO ... HE JUST
FORGOT TO VOTE IN
THE LAST ELECTION
DON'T YOU FORGET

TO VOTE
IN THE NEXT ONE
Th e bells in th e office, which

m a r k the break a n d iun c h p e riods
and the b eginning and e nd of
shifts, will not be c hanged to
coin c ide with the "summer
hours" , b ec aus e of the diffi cu lty
an d c xpens e involved in changing
the bells, as well as the relatives hort time that the earlier
hours will be in effe c t .
-.
The fac tor y horns, however, are

being sounde d m anually to c oinc ide w ith the summe r schedule.
(Cont. col umn 2)
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FIRE BH.lGADE WILL ST P <JUT

AGA I N NEXT F R IDAY
NE WS BITS
Every w i s h for a very

success ful a nd pros pe rou s
De partm e nt i s extended.
bles s Hi s h o l y
C ITY CO UNCIL ELECTION

Tuesday, June 10
OFFI CE BELLS
(Co nt. from c ol. l)
They will be changed over soon
so that they will wo rk a utomati cally with the new schedule. The
h orns can be changed with much
les s d iffic ulty th an the office
be 11 s.
At 6: 30 PM n e x t Fri day , when

till~ parade begins, th e Spe c i a lt y
Co ntrol Fire B ri gade wi ll be
represented b y a 22 man n1 arch i n g u nit, the Department ' s J C'ep
Fire Truck a n d the 11 4 - sta g e
roc ke t" display which w as ll f;C d
at th e She na ndoah Apple Blos s om
Fes ti va l in Winchester, Va., on
May l; and in the Ne l son County
Day Pa rade . The "ro ckets"
show th e exce ll e nt safety and
fire preventio n records set by
S pecia lty C ontrol empl oyees .
The human brain is a wonde ~ful
thing. It start s working the
moment yo u are born, and n eve r
stops until you s tand up to speak
in public .
SAFETY SCORE
l, 330 d ays
6 , 859 , 082 hours
WITH OUT A LOST T IME
ACCIDENT
IUE CONDUCT CALLED "DISGRACE TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT"
By their ir respo nsible conduct, officials of the IUE have gained , and continue to
g ain, a very poor reputation as a labor group. An example of the k ind of t hing
-vhich has helped earn thi s poor reputation for th er:-1, i s the conduct of IUE
President James Carey and other IUE officials du ring their ne goti ations with
G e neral Motors.
The article below, describing that conduct, appea r ed i n an Ohio newspaper last
T:1ursday:
''Rational negotiations with the IUE have been virtua lly
impossible because of the disgrac efu l conduct of spokesmen
representing the union at the bargaining table.
The top officers
of the I n t ernationa l Union, IUE , led by Jam es B. Car ey ,

President , and ce rtain of th e other union spokesmen have c ontinuously resorted to foul, profane , o bsce ne and insu l t ing
lang uage," General Motors Corp . said today.
"General Motors regrets that th e conduct of the union,
which is a disgrace to the labor movement, has made a trav es t y
of co ll ecti ve bargaining ."
'S
NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY ~~TROl EMPLOYEES

V O i _,
COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGIN A
IV , N O . I l l
l' ho 11 ha s t n 1a tk u s and loved us ;ind g i v l'n u s every p r ovi s ion for 0 11r
;i n d we' 1h a n k T hct' for the se' g i f t s . A1n c n .
11 ('<'ds
SI 11:" r:-:--i- ~IET A L
A i~{f:'X'--=~- .
REA!{ H ANG ED IN 72 H O URS

The r1 rn ar k;i ble ver s a t i li ty o f th e
Sp <' c i ; 11 v Control M a nll fa c t11ring
Ar l! a w is de n1onsl r ;1lC'd a g .ti n r e c e n t l y w It" " .i1 ~ S lw e t I'd t. ti Ar e a
wa s r,. '"ra nged i n o nl y 7 C. h o 11r s .
Contr ib1 ling to lh c q u i c k n1ovcwc re t lw e xce ll e nt tean n ' <' 1k d i s p l a yed b y the m a int c nanc" c r e w ,
th e u s t of Ba rrym o unt ca s t e r s
for m o 11ntin g m achine too l s , a n d
.Ale' fl c~.i bili t y pr ovi ded h ; the
d i tiC' s drop lin e s .
T we l ve rnac h i n cs , w ith an
a vr' r'l "L' we i g ht of 8 , 0 00 lb s .
e ac h , w er e mo ved a n a"' c r age
di s tan ce of :13 ft . eac h a nd were
re i n s t a lled . Th e l argt':, t p i ece of
equip ml! nl w as a 150 to r, Pr es!'
Brak0 whic h wa s mo ved 30 ft. t o
i t s ne w loc at ion .
A c compli s hme nt s o f th is typ e
c l 0 a rl y de inons t ra t e l h b e n e fi t s
o f th e l ong r a n ge p l a n n i ng whic h
t o ok pl ace wh e n our p l a nt wa s
built.
N EW S BITS
Th e Y MCA S lo w - Pi tch Softb a ll
L e a gue wi ll get und e r w ay to day
as t he SC OGE E tea m m e e t s
D a w b a r n D roth c r s a t C i t y Park
a t 6 : 00 P M. Spec i a l t y Co n t r o l l e r s arc inv i ted l o com e out a n d
- ;i t c h th i s o p e nin g clay g am e .
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/\CC I D Ci I f
/ .I P P O C O . GETS AD V ERTISI N G
BOO S T FROM SPECI A L TY
CO NT::lO L
U n de r OPERA TION U PT U RN,
Sp "t i a lty Con tr o l D e p a rtm en t i nt end s to do eve r yth i ng il c an to
h e lp p romote a ge n era l b us i nes s
up turn , not j u s t ct n upturn f or
o u r own bu s ines s , b u t. . . . t he
D ep ar t me n t ' s s a l e s pr omotion
a c ti vili c s took a n un expec t ed
tur n r e c e n t ly , a s w e re ce i ve rl a
Thank Y ou fro m t he P re s i d e nt o f
L ippa Ma nufac turin g Co . for
he lp ing boo s t s a l es for the i r
ti~.t r e tt e l i gh t er .
It h a ppe n e d like t his . a pict u re

o f S p ecia l ty Co nt ra l ' s n e w T yp e
G S r e l a y was used in a r ece nt
i ss ue of Prod u c t Desi g n a n d
D e ve l o p me n t M aga z i ne' , In ord e r
t o s h ow the s i ze o f the r e la y , a
/, ip p o li g h t e r {w i t h a G E mo n o g ram , of c o ur s e ) w as s ho w n b e s ide th e r e l ay fo r comp a ri s on.
D1~ ing l a r ge r tha n t h e relay , t h e
li g h t er " s t ood ou t" in t he pi c tur e .
Th e P re s i den t of t he '/ , ippo M anu f ac tur i n g Co . s aw t h e p i c tu r e
a nd wrote a perso na l l e tt e r of
th a nk s to S p ecia lty C o n tr o l
De p a rt ment fo r sho wi n g th e i r
product in conne c tion w ith our
product .
D e partme nt h t! a d t o c l erk : " I

wo1ddn ' t wak 1 yo u , Jo ne s , if it
w er1n ' t i mpnrt;i nl. Y on ' r e
f i r <'d ! "
S PECIALTY C O N THOL WI NS
I MPORTA N T O R D ER THH.OUC H
S HORT D E LI VERY PROMIS E
S pec i a lty C o ntro l D e p a r tm ent
won ;1 smal l, b ut i m por tan t ord e r
l as t wPck bc rause of the 1:;<t ra
effor t a nd c oope ration o f M a rket i ng , Eng inee ring a nd Manu f ac tur i n g p e r s onne l in arr a n g ing
for u nusual ly sho rt d e li ve ry t i ryie .
A s p a rt o f t he D epa rtmen t 's
a tt empts , u n d e r OPER ATI O N
U PTURN, t o o ffe r b e tt e r d e livery
s c h e d ules and so bu ild s a le s and
j obs thi s yea r , t hi s p artic ul :1 r
orde r w as "taken awa y " f r o n1 a
c omp e t itor w ho al re ady h ad l he
t e ntative order i n ha nd. T h e
customer , F el lows G ea r sha p e r
Co . in Spr i ngiie ld , V e r mo n t , w as
o p l eased wit h tlw Spec i a lt y
Control d e l i v ery p rurn i s e tha t
th e order wa s g iven lo S pe!o;llty
Co ntr ol i n s l e ad.
Th' urde r wa s f o r a 1 hymo t r o l

drive with a s pec i al ro ntr o l pa n e l
to b e used w i th a n e w ~ea r s h a.p e r m a c h i n e wh i ch will be sc n t t o
G e r man y . A l thou gh l his o r dt'r i s
s 1na ll, t he fa c t tha t o u r cont r o l
is on thi s firs t ma c h i n e n1 e;t n s
t hat a n e w li ne o f b u si n es s , with
e xc ellent p o tent i al for fu tu rP
o rde r s , is op0 n e d u p to 11u1
D e pa t tn1ent.
Sp<'c i alty Contr o l w o n thi s onk r
by p r on1bi11g :-;hip1ne n t of t h<'
pr o t otypv i n fo u r wee k s , ,t s \0111 p :i red wi t h 1 :-;even \\'l' <'ks
p 10 11 ds1' fru 111 Pie co1np l ili v1
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
One of the characteristics of c1: free society is that for every

privilege there is a corresponding responsibility.
Tomorrow's City
Council election is an example of one of these privileges and its

re sponsi bili ty.
Here in Waynesboro, Virginia, U.S . A., we have the privilege
of running our own city government through officials whom we elect
to represent us.
We also have an obligation to participate in that
election so that those who are elected will be chosen by, and w ill
represent, the majority .
Our part in this process is to make our wishes
known at election time and then to cooperate with those who are elected
by continuing to let them know how we want our city run.
The men who are elec t ed tomorrow will decide how yo ur tax
money will be spent, and how your city will be run.
Do your part by going to the polls tomorrow to vote in the City
Council election.
'S
NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYS AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
V O L . I V, NO . 112
J1 1ne 10 , 19 58
Bl ess us, 0 Lord! a 11d the s e Thy g ift s , w hi c h we a r c ab o ut to r c cc i'l'e from

Th y b o unt y , t hrou g h Chri s t our Lord. Ame n .
NE WS DITS
M e mbc r s of the Wa ynes boro
Nu r se s A ss oci ation will vi s it
th e Spe c ialty Co nt r o l p La nt to n i g ht. Th e g r oup will ha ve th e ir
regu lar b u s iness m ee ting , b e ginnin'.:' a t 8: 0 0 PM, a fter which th e y
w ill be giv en a tour of the ,t-1 l ant.
A s pecial m ee ting will b e held in

t h e Aud i torium tomorr ow, at
~hich B o b Bri ckl e y, Jac k
e l vi ng ton, a nd Ben Adkins , a ll
o f th e W e s ting hou se Elec tri c
C o r por a tion, wi ll speak about
11
s ilic o n r e ctifi e r ce lls - a c ti viti e s to i mpr ov e qu a lity of
uni t s ." The me eting will b egin
a t 9 : 3 0 AM. Any one inte r es t e d
i s invite d t o atte nd the m eeting .
E LECTRICAL UNIONS C A LLED

100 STRIKES IN 1957
A cc ording to a report publi s hed
l as t we ek by the Bur e au o f
Na tiona l Affairs, unions in
elec trical industries c alle d a
tota l of 100 strike s during 1957
alone . A s a result of t h ese
s t r ikes , a total of 7 P? , 000 m a nd ay s wer e lo s t by e mployees .
The wa g e s which w e r e lost dur ing th e 100 s trikes were in ex ce ss of 12 million doll a rs.
CITY COUNCIL ELECTION
TODAY
For your information, the polling
place s ar e listed b e low:
Ward I - American L egion
H a ll - Delphine Ave.
Jo e Pim e ntal (Marke tin g ) is the

fa th e r of a 7 lb. 8 o z . boy, born
Thur sd ay ni g ht at Way n es boro
Co m mu nity H os pital.
Ward II - Library - 11th stre e t

e n t r a n ce
Ward III - F ir e Sta ti o n
Broad Street
Ward IV - High School Gymna s ium - Poplar Av e .
e ntr a n ce
Polls will be open until 7: 30 PM.
DES PITE RUMORS , O N LY

3 3 EMPLOYEES ARE OUT FOR
LACK OF WORK
In s pite of r u mor s a b o ut la r ge s cale layoffs a t Spec i a lty C ontrol,
the truth i s th a t the r e are at
pre se nt 33 p e ople out for lac k-ofwor k . Of that numbe r, 15 ar e
h o urly e mplo yee s .
In addition, two non-e xe mpt
s a larie d employees have b ee n
given notic e tha t they will b e r e l e as e d b e cau s e of lack-of-work.
The relative l y s mall numb e r of
Specia lty Control employe es who
a r e out for lack-ofwork during
this p e riod of decreas e d orde rs
has b ee n made possible b y the
continue d efforts of D e partm e nt
management to r e duce exp enses
in eve ry othe r way po ssible befor e r e s orting to redu c tions in
for ce as a last resort.
The Choraliers will m e et tonight at 7: 30 in the Pl a nt Auditorium.
Eve ntu a lly your childr e n will

start h e eding your advice -when the y are p a r e nts the m se l ves .
BE SURE TO VOTE I
"Do n't jus t s t a nd ther e - - refi ll

m y p ur se ! ''
Hitting the OPEN ROAD

this sum),l:!er ?- - ~, "'
' .~< ~K eep on
"' ,~
.
"
,___. ..
A~,..the SAFE
sidet Yoifr OWN side!
SAFETY SCORE
1, 334 days
6, 877 , 380 hour s
WI T HOU T A L OS T TIME
A CCI DE N T
'S NEWS

VOL. IV
NO. 112
COURTESY OF WAY& AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
June 11. 19 58
Open our eye s, 0 G od, to see Thy power abou t us; our ears to he ar b eautiful
sounds about u s; our heart s to k now love, Thine and other ' a . Am e n.
LYNCH B URG. PLANT BECOME S

PART OF LQW VOLTAGE
SWITCHGEA..li\ DEPART MENT
The R ec tifier .Oepartment a t
Lynchburg, Virginia, has been
discontinued as a D epartment
effective J,upe l. The facilities.
personne l. and business that we r e
formerLy the Rectifier Departme n t have been assigned t o the
LQ.w Voltage ?wit chgear DepartIl).ent;.;. which has its headquarte rs
t l?hila.ctelpliia. P ennsyl vania.
Aa part of the Low Voltage
Switchgear De p ar t me nt, the
rectifier bu s ines s is now i n the
Switchgear and Control Division.
The Rectifier Depar tment. befor e
this c ha nge. wa s a par t of the
M e asurements and Indu stri al
Prbduc ts Division.
NEW S BITS
Anni e Foltz (Machine Room) and
her dau ghter would like a ri d e to
Schenec tady during vacation.
Th ey will be glad to s hare ex penses for the trip.
PARKER WI NS COUNCI L RACE

Frank Parker. Manage rRcsistance Welding C o ntrol, was
e l ected C ity Councilman fr o m
Ward IV yes t erday with a to tal of
1007 vote s. At the same time
Charles McClung, local printer .
was e lected to the Council from
Ward III.
A tabulation of the e lection re s ults i s shown below. (All
e ligible Wayne s boro voters ,
regar dless of the Ward in which
they live, had the p rivilege of
voting in the e le ction of Councilmen for Wards III and IV.)
WARD III
Ward
Ward
Ward
Wa rd
I
II
Ill
IV
Total s
Mc Clung
169
422
461
4 87
15 39
HICKORY EMPLOYEES REJEC T

I. U. E .
G enera l Electric employees at
t he Hickory (North Ca rolina )
Transforme r Plant rejected t he
JUE by a vote of 112 to 72 yest erday, in an N. L. R. B. e l!'!ction
h eld there.
T he JUE has been c onduc ting an
expensive. but fruitless c amp a i gn
in Hickory fo r a bout 14 months,
in an attempt to p e rsuade the
approximately 200 e li gible e mployees that they shou ld allo w
themse l ves to be organize d and
h a ve th e ir affairs run by the JUE.
Results of ye sterday' s election
were:
Zeh
~
140
115
148
No Union
IUE
Votes challenged
by JUE
11 2
72
466
Total Voting
194
10
WARD IV
Hurt
Wa r d
Ward
Ward
Ward
I
II
III
IV
Totals
2 58
198
230
Kirby
29
48
68
66
792
2 11
lo6
P arke r
93
259
307
348
1007
SAFE T Y SCORE
1, 335 days
6, 886, 529 hour s
ACCIDENT
''G ee , Al, we sure miss you out

on the job . . a l ways c lowning
a round on t he s caffolding l 11
'S
NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLO YEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES
SPORTS, NATIONAL AMO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYS ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 113
June 12 , 1958
Father we thank Thee for this food, bless it to our bodies good.
IUE LOCAL AT LYNN
ANNOUNCES AU TOMA TIC DUES
INCREASE
A recent issue of the Ele...;trical
U nion News (IUE) at Lynn, Mass.
announced that the dues would
increase this month from $3. 77
t o $3. 83. This is an automatic
incr ease provided by the local
I U E constitution.
NEWS BITS
Specialty Control's Fire Brigade
will march tomorrow night in the
Fireman's Parade at Orange,
Virginia. Twenty-two smartlyc l ad vo lunteers will represent
the Department, a long with the
J eep Fire Truck and the " 4-stage
rocket11 float.
4.
The parade will be g in at 6:30 PM.
Leaders of the Lynn IUE local,

as well as many other IUE locals
(including Sche n ectady) have
~rit ten the automatic dues inreas e into their constitutions .
Whenever members receive a
general wage incr ease or a cost
of living adjustment, the dues
that members pay are automatically increa sed. The dues
are also increased every time the
national union raises the amount
which the locals must pay into
the national tre as ury for each
member.
WATCHYOUR STEP
.... NOT HERS!
Joe Davis (Engineering ) is th~

father of a 5 lb. 6 oz. baby girl
born last night.
SCOGEE dues, for tho se employees who have signed authori.

zations for deduction s , will b e
deducted from the weekly pay c hecks which will be received
Friday, June 13, and from the
monthly payche cks for the month
of June.
The succ essful man is the one

w ho make s hay from the grass
growing under the other fellow 1 s
feet.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 336 days
6, 895, 678 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Amen.
RECEPTION ROOM WILL BE

CLOSED THREE WEEKS
IN JULY
The Specialty Control reception
room will be closed during the
p e riod from July 7 to J uly 28,
a nd some other Departme nt
activities will also be curtai led,
During the first of those three
weeks (July 7 to July 14) the
Manufacturing Section will be
shutdown, except for the Mic r o Miniature Relay Operation and
thos e emp loyees who will take
the annual physical inventory.
There is a possibility,of course,
that some other areas in Manufacturing might continue operations during that week if an unexpected increase in orders
s hould occur.
The latter two weeks (Jul y 14 to
July 28) will be the regular plant
vacation s hutdown.
:i The s tationery room will a lso be
c losed during the July 7 to July
28 period. Supplies which are
n eeded during thos e three weeks
should be drawn on or befor e
July 3.
Whereas men usually know when

to keep qui e t, wo rnen know what
to keep quiet
'581''
sales and ;obs 1n
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. THE RUMORS WERE
The rumors were that some ZOO to 300 people are being laid of! for lackof-work by Specialty Control. TODAY'S NEWS for Tuesday reported that
only 33 people are off for lack-of-work now. Compared with the exaggerated
numbers in the rumors, the truth seemed hard to believe.
In addition, there are no large-scale reductions expected by the Depart:ment in the next few weeks. Everything possible has been done and is being
tlone to prevent large scale reductions in spite of the present period of
decreased business.
********************
AU of us must remember that rumors are just that -- rumors . Before you
pass along a rumor, consider the anxiety you may cause if you help' it
spread. If it should turn out that the story is based on fact, everyone concerned will be informed promptly by those who know what the truth is.
Befor.e you repeat, or even believe a rumor, think about the thing which
probably -caused it, and don't let yourse 1f be responsible for its spreading
u.rtheJr.:... 'nry. to find out the facts and then do your part to help get the story
straight..
Remember,. a rumor is still a rumor, even if everyone believes it -- and

facts .a~e still facts even if nobody be lie ves them.
'S NEWS

VOL. IV, NO. 114
June 13, 1958
For flowers and birds and growing things, for food a n d health and a ll that 's
good, 0 God wt render our thank s to The e . Amen.
NEWS DITS
Dues "che c k - off" will be g in thi&
month for employees of th e
Industry Contro l De partment in
Roa n oke who hav e signed IUE
cards . The IU E dues, which a re
$3. 00 a month 1 will. be deducted
au tomati c ally from the em ploye e ' s payche c ks.
The Department Fi re Brigade

..,.i(ill take part in the Orang e ,
1rginia, Fireman's P arade
tonight, beginning at 6: 30 .
The GE Indians lost their first

gam e of the season to B as i cWitz Furniture in the Babe Ruth
L eague last ni g ht b y a score of
10-2. The Indians had won their
first three games.
Playing o n the Basic -Witz team
are the sons of two Sp ecialty
Co ntr ol e mployees ; David
Mitchell and Wayne West , whos e
fath e rs are Boyd Mitche ll and
Jack West (Manufac turing) .
The Valley En gineers will have a

fam ily pic nic at DuPont Park in
Waynesboro on Wednesday,
J une 18.
Membe r s s hould mak e rc s erva...,tj.o n s with C. A. Thomp son
~ ng . ) by Friday, Jun e 13.
A r egular PLANT I NS PE C T ION

will be held Monday, J11ne l(J.
SATURDAY EVENING POST WILL

FEATURE G . E . INSURA NCE
PLAN Nl<XT W E..:E K
The Saturday Evening P ost will
feat ur e the G e neral Ele c tri c
Insurance Pl an in an article
which will appear in next w ee k's
issue . The Plan ' s compreh e nsive hea l th c overage may set
t he patte rn for health insurance
of the future, according to th e
P ost.
The article , by Post wri t er
Milton Silverman, will b e
e ntitled "I s This the Patte rn of
th e Future?" It is the third and
final installment of a series on
medical insur anc e .
The previous installments have
pointed out faults of some other
p lans . Next week's a rticl e will
end t he series on an optimistic
note, as the " pattern-setting"
GE Plan i s discussed.
The broad and flexibl e c overage
of the GE Plan will be explained
in the article . The artic l e will
point out that parti c ipants in th e
GE Plan can choose th e ir own
doctors and are cov e red not just
for s pecific ho s pitalizations, but
for medical care i n the do c tor' s
office or at home, fol' dru gs ,
for nursing and for other n eeded
expenses as well.
/\ l'ticles which h a ve led up to
this final insta ll ment have show n
(C o nt. co lnrn n 3)
ORDEH. RECEIVED FOR

REGULATORS AND PANELS
FOR JET TANKER
Sp ecial ty Control D e partment
h as r e ce i ved an order for 211
air c raf t-typ e MB2 r eg ulators
and 211 control panels from t h e
Solar Aircr af t Corpo r ation in
San Diego, Califor n ia. The
sc lling price for thi s equipme n t
is $169, 222 .
The se regulators and panels will
be used on the Air Force K C135
jet tanker, and w ill go into the
unit that pumps gas during the
in-fli ght refu e l ing of othe r aircrait.
Ship ment on t his order will begain September l, 1958. There
is also a po ssibility that S ola r
A i r craft will place an order for
50 to 100 additional sets of thi s
equipment within the n ext month
or two.
SATURDAY EVENING POST ,
(Cont. from col. 2)
th e need for this type of insu ra n ee and the need for one com pany to take the pioneering step
of providing it.
General Electric , acco rding to the
article , has done the pioneering .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 33 7 days
904 , 82.7 hours
WlTJIOUT A LOST TIME
ACC IDENT
o,
"Usually, h e comes bock from his vacation with

.sunburn, poison ivy, insect bites and a sprained back.
This year he came back with a blood brother!"
'S
NEWS

y OL. ry.
NO .
115
J une 16, l 9 5 8
0 God, may the physical strength from thi s food mak e it possible to serve
Thee and our fe llow man b e tter . Ame n.
FIELDS RECEIVES $100 AW ARD
FOR REOPENED SUGGESTION
GE DEFEATS DAWBARN 19 - 2
IN INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE
R. C . Fields (Magnetic Winding

Components ) received a Suggestio n Award fo r $ 100 Frid~y
after a sugges tion of his,
The Specialty Contro l SCOGEE

team d e f e ate d Dawbarn Brother s
19 - 2 in the City Industrial Slow
Pitch Softball L eague last Friday,
adopted in April, 1958, was

reope ned recently. A small
awa rd had already been made in
April when the suggestion was
fir s t a dopted.
The suggestion was for a method
pre v e nt breakage of bus bars
in an AC coil which is part of
the Saturated Current Potential
Tr a nsformer used in the Lockheed Electra. Mr. Fields
sugge sted cutting the bus bar at
a different angle and welding
it in a different way.
A fter the suggestion had been
adopte d and an award had been
made, it w as di s cove r e d that the
savings to the Department would
be more than had b ee n anticipate d . A s a result of the recommendation of Don House, Supv. Magnetic Winding Comp., and
Ed Philpot, Manufacturing
E n gineer, the suggestion was r e opened and the additional $100
was awarde d to Mr . Fields by
the Suggestion Committee .
Other Spec ialty Control emw ho received Sugges tion
wards Friday were Vir gini a
Coffe y (Ai r craft) , Eva Blosser
(Ai rc r a ft), A d rian Shifflett
(Relays ), Cleste r H ewitt (Mag.
Winding Comp.), K e nne th Kent
The SCOGEE team will meet

Virginia Metalcraf ters today at
City Park at 6:00 P. M.
SUGGESTION AWARDS
(C ont. from Col. l)
(Mag . Winding Comp.), Kay
Bosserman (Mag. Winding
Comp.), O. Claytor and G.
Archambeault (Quality Control),
K e nneth Worrell (Mag . Winding
Comp.), Paul A. Myrtle (Mag.
Winding Comp.) and Nina
H e nsley {Mag. Winding Comp.).
SAFETY SCORE
1, 340 days
6, 913, 976 hours
ACCIDENT
~oyees
(Continued - C o l. 2)
going on a
fi s hing trip, dear . is it
a ll ri gh t with you if I t ake a
little vaca tion during my
vacation?"
APPLICATIONS ARE BEING

CONSIDERED FOR NEW
APPRENTICE CLASS
Spec ia lty Control Depar t m e nt is
now conside ring applications
for n ew members f~r th e College
Level Appre ntice Training
Course . Present plans call for
a clas s to begin in the ear l y
Fall.
Department employees who are
qualified for the cours e may
a pply , and their ~p plicat ions
will b e gi ven full consideration
a long with applications fr om
people ou t s id e the D epar t me nt.
Anyone who is inter ested, or
who has a relative w ho is
intereste d, may pick up a n
application form from Bill
Flynn, E & CR.
Candidates for the College
Level Appr e ntice T rainin g
Course must be 18 to 2 5 years
o ld, and must be high school
gradua tes wi th backg r oun d in
Algebra, plane geome try, and,
if possible, physic s and trigonometry. They mu s t b e we ll
rec~mmende d and must b e ab l e
to pass the physical examination.
Applicants who satisfy these
requirements will b e g ive n a
series of aptitude t es t s a nd will
be interviewed. Appr e ntice
Cours e mem be rs are selecte d on
the b as is of competitive examinations and interview results .
PLANT INSPECTION TONIGHT
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HOME!
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PORTABLE RADIOS
Model P745
Pocket Size-Big Power

5 Select-Quality Transistors plus
2 crystal diodes p r ovide r emarkable power and range. Earphone
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Retail Price
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Big-set sound with large 4-inch
extra-powerful speaker. 200
hours play on ordinary flashlight
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Retail Price
Employee Price
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Employee Price
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long-range reception and fine
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Retail Price
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6 Select-Quality transistors plus
1 crystal diode in a maximumefficiency circuit. 400 hours play
on ordinary flashlight batteries.
Deluxe 3-Way Portable Radio

Handsome styling plus added
convenience of precision Vernier
tunin g . Ba tteries or AC-DC.
Power cord hide-away; big -set
tone.
$61. 95
$45.20
Retail Price
Employee Price
3-Way Portable Radio

Plays on batteries or AC-DC
house current. Easy-access
power cord compartment. Powerful performance, excellent tone
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Retail Price
Employee Price
$36.95
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Retail Price
Employee Price
$69.95
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One set of rechargeable batteries plays up to
10,000 hours. H a n dsome leather recharger
doubles as travel case. Earphone jack.
$49.95
$38.50
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Alumin um Voice Coils for fine tone
in any climate.
Conelrad Civil Defense markings
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Decorator styling.
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90-day warranty on parts and labor.
Full one-year warranty on portable
radio cabinets.
GENERAL. ELECTRIC
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b e gan work ycst<' rl' ; i n cs to th l'

property of the D is tric t Home
for t hi: Aged . A s .1 r csnit of
t h i s work, t h e drive in to Spec i a l ty C ont:ol wi ll be p ar t i a ll y
blocked fo r a tempor ar y perio d.
l! :x t-r a c are should b e c xi: r c i ~>c d
wh <.: n e nte ring a nd leaving th e
plant while thi s work is in
prog r es s.
d :"\ \ " n two
w;::, t c
...Qnc wa ter line will t a k e cit y

...tte r to the Distri c t Home; t h e
other w ill bring water from a
spring on the District Home
prop e r t y to be used a s an
addition to the city w a ter
supply.
Spe cialty Control parking p e rmiti
w i I l be checked this week or next
we e k. All e mploy e e s must h a ve
p er mits to park in the p l ant
p a rking areas .
D . H . Mill e r {En g.) re c ei vr:d a
i ive - year servic e emblem ycs t()r day. Mr. Miller joined
G r-~ nera l Electric on June 15,
1953 .
The Maintenance unit h ;1s 65
g allo n s of surplus varnish which
will be sold to employees for
$ L. 00 a gallo n. Employee s who
wish to buy this varnish must
k
ing their own containers.
The GE Indians defeated th(;
Dawb arn Orio les 7-1 l ast ni g ht
i n t he Babe Ruth Leagu e .
"Bu t c h" Tyree pitched a oneh1 t t e r for the Indians.
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A nd J n the f'lrC'ngth of t hat i>r c ;v l
J\ nh' IL
CllA i"lGED TO .l l1 LY 3
T he 1 ,~g ul a r P l;:in1 In s p ec tion ,
w h ich was s chedul <:cl for las t
ni ght, was nul h,, ~d ; i n st~a d i1
will be he ld on Thur s d ay , Jul y 3 .
VJSOR FO R SCC O N D .SHIFT

l\ ob e rt V anLcar h d s D<~e n
a p po inte d Supc r vi s o r-Manu ~:i c
turi n ~ O perations , Sc>co n d Sh:ft,
according t o K. N . Bus h, }.~g T.
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T he ;ippoi ":"l: metrtI M;umfacturi ng .
v :'J s pffer f:ive J111"\e 2, 195 8 .
B e c ause o .f the l o n g period of

tim e d urin g w h i r. h most of the
J n hi s n e w p os ition, Mr . V a.1 Lear
op e r ations in t h < ~ pl;i.nt will be
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will be re s pons ible fo r all
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s hut down, it i s folt that an
s e c ond s hift op e rations and pe ~
ins p ec tion s h o uld b e he l d imm e - I
s onne l. At pr es ent there ar e
d i ate l y befo re the s hutdown .
s econd shift o pe r a tions in Si-. ee-::
An inspection at that time will
Metal , Micro -Miniature R elay
s er ve a s a ch L, ck that the plant
Assembl y and M a chine Shop ,
will be clean and will be pro M a gneti c Wind ing Compone 1,t s,
t e cted ag ain s t fire fo r the annual
Aircraft Test, Relay Test, anc
physical inventory and for t he
I ndustrial Ele c tronic As s embly.
vacation shutdown period.
Before his present a pp ointn, e r..
Sta tistics show that a large
Mr. V an Lear was Second S'.1: ::
number of industrial fires occu r
Foreman for the Sheet Metal
a t times when employees are
A re? .
away from the p l ant, such as
TODAY'S VISITORS
vacation shutdowns, weeke n ds,
Specialty Contro L welcomes t o
and at night.
our plant today several rep r e-
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A few more players are needed
for the golf matc h which will be
held between S p e c ialty Control
and Industry Contr ol Department!
in Ro ano~e Saturda y, June 21.
Anyone who is i nter ested shoul d
contact Jo e B e lak, Ext. 233.
The Specialty Control Fire
Brigade will march in a parade
Friday, J une 20, in Staunton,
Vir g i nia. The p a rade i s bein g
held a s part of th e Northern
Vir g inia Fire m e n ' s A s s ociation
Co n ve ntion.
sentative s of the Gis h olt M a chine Co., i n Madison, Wis c onsin,

who are here to tal k <cbout
Program Control. The v i s ito:s
are Messr s. F. Cha;:111:.an, G.
Class , R. Bruce , C. J o hnson,
and L. Hes s . .-i . A c c o mpanying
the vi s i ts are J. B aker, Sal e s
Engineer and J. M ctt er sheim,
Application En g ine er, both fro.;
the Milwaukee Apparatu s Sales
Of.fice.
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It does a m a n n o g ood to sit up

and tak e notic <.: if he k eeps o n
s itting .
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VOL. IV, NO. ll7
WAYN~BOllO, Vl~Olt'flA
June 18 , 1958
We thank Thee, Lord, for life and all its provisions; and bless thi"s food of w hi c h
we are about to partake. Amen.
PLASTIC TOOLING -- AN IMP OR.

T AN T RO L E I N OPERATION
U P TUR N; One of the many
c ontributio n s which t he Manu f ac turing E n g i neer i ng Sub Section is making under the
Op eration Upturn Program is t he
d e velopme nt o f fix t u r es u s i ng
plas tics , as illu strat ed in t h e
pic tur e at l eft.
NEWS BITS
Employees of the Wire Harness
Area and their families will
have a weiner roast today at
5: 30 P. M. at Coyner Springs.
The Valley Engineers will have
a picni c at DuPont Park today
at 5: 30 P. M. Dinner will begin
at 6:45 P. M.
Congratulations to Del Thayer

Lrcha s ing), w ho became a
grandfathe r yeste rday whe n his
s on and daught e r-in-law had an
8 lb. l o z . dau g hter in D avenport,
I owa.
Visiting the Manufacturing Engine e ring Sub-Se c tion this w eek i s
Vi n c ent P. McConne ll, Consultant - El e ctrochemistry,
M a terial s and Proc esses
L a bor a tor y , Elec troni c s Park,
Syrac u se , New York.
A ccording to the Vir g inia State
D e partment of Labor and Indus try, records for 1957 show
t h a t j ewelry was a m a jo r factor
in the cau se of a large number of
industr ial injurie s , particularly
those injuries in which female
e mploy ee s were involve d.
Spe cialty Control employe e s are
.-_m inde d that the D e partment
,,afe t y rules prohibit the w earing
of jewelry such as rings, wrist
w atche s , brace l e ts, or pendants
w hile w ork ing a t m achines .
LASHER APPOINTED GENERAL

MANAGER OF COMPUTER
DEPARTMENT
Clair C. Lasher has bee n
appointed Gene ral Manager of
the Compute r Department in
Phoenix, Ari z ona, effe ctive
June 16. Mr. Lashe r will replace Homer R. Oldfield, Jr . ,
who will b e on special assi g nme nt
for Cramer W . LaPie rr e , Vice Preside nt and Group E x ecutive Electronic, Atomic and Defense
Syste ms Group.
B efore hi s c urr e nt appointme nt,
Mr. Lasher was Manager-Marketing for th e Comp uter D e part m e nt, which is part o f the
Industrial Ele ctroni c s Divi s ion~
Flor a B elle Humphries (Ind.

Elec .) i s s h own here holding a
locating a n d assemb l y fixture
made partly of plasti cs (the
inse rts are p lastic ) . The part
fo r w hich this fixture was produ ced is displayed on th e bench
in the picture .
If t h i s fi xture had been made
complete l y of metal materials,
it would have cost .approximately
$40. 00. By usi n g p l astics, the
c o s t i s red uced to $6 . 0 0, saving
ab o ut $34. 00. The to o l
perform s the same function
t hat an all metal tool would.
A lthou g h t he r e a r e many simi lar

applications for p l as t ic tool s in
the Department today, a ll Spec i alty Control employees can
he lp t he Operation Upturn pro g r a m by watching for oth er u ses
a n d n o tifying t heir supervisors.
I mp ro veme n ts such as p l as ti c
too li ng p lay a n i mportant part
toward job security, because
the res ulting l ower costs for
qu a lity produ cts means more
sales .
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TALE OF TWO TURRET LATHES

p<H1 sc d one Wednesday afternoon to think about wha t. he h;i,rl a< co mpl i n l 1r~ d
T o drty li e had so lcl two irlcntic:al Turr<~t Lathes -- one to Ajax M ;tchi nc Shop
.111d th .. nt h<~ r to Benton Br o thers, ln r ., right down the road from Ajax. Beil Ii " nrn p:111i" ~'
WP rt: in the s ame line of business.
Sam wished them both success.
5.aJn
~:i;ile!rna.n
flat day.
When thf' lathes were installe d, a month later, a representative of the lath<~ man11farl11 r" ,c;tmc out to instruct the operators. At Ajax , Bill Big, with twelve years expr~ri c n cc .:J !>
a lathe operator, listened politely, a little bored with the instructions. After a ll, o ne
Turret: Lathe was like another. Every now and then he interrupted to set th e instri1 ctor
straight on some of the fine points, and to let the instructor know that he (Di 11 Di r~ ) I{ ti<~,,.
mor e abo u t lathes than any factory representative.
Down at Benton Brothers, Frank Fine gave the instructor a workout. H e ask e d a h11ndred questions. Sometimes he appeared incredibly stupid. He even called the instructor
at night to get some points straight. But he found out everything he could about the new
machine and how to handle it.
Six months later, Sam Salesman visited both plants again. Bill Big , at Ajax, was
figuring angles and short cuts. He knew the tolerances on the drawings could be "fudged".
All you had to do was get close; you nee dn't be exact.
Over at Benton Brothers, Frank Fine had become efficient on the la the. He was like a
mother hen to his machine. He nursed it and fussed with it, and did everything exactly
as he had been instructed. He was never satisfied with his work unless it was just right.
About a year later, Sam Salesman came around again. At Ajax, business was very poor.
Customers were scarce; orders were slow. Because of the lack of busines s , a number
of employees had lost their jobs; among them Bill Big.
Over at Benton Brothers, things were just the opposite. Satisfied customers were co ntlng
back for more Benton products. Sales were increasing, seve ral new jobs had been
created. Frank Fine had become an expert at his lathe, and he worke d as carefully and
conscientiously as ever.
As he started home, Sam Salesman began to wonder what really caused the differ e n ce
in what had happened to the two lathe operators and the companies they worked for.
"I wonder," he thought "if maybe those two men themselves were p r etty much responsibl e
for what happened to them and to their jobs?"
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Com e', Lord
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b0 011r g1u'st;
l<'t Thy gi.fts to us br
.fo110 19 . 195 8
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PALMEP. AND I lOLMES TAKING

PART IN PH.OGRl\MS FOR ALL
GE DEPl\RTMENTS
OH.DER Rr: C EIVED FOR EQUIPMP:NT FOR VOODOO FIGHTER

Speci.:i.lty Contro l relrh e d a
$ 2 9.1, 000 or d 0r from fhe Air
For c e thiR week for equip1nent
fo r the electri c al syR t cn1 of the
Mc Do n;ilrl F IOI Vo orl no fighte r
p l;i.ne .
Harry L. Palm er , Managcr =:n.gineering and Low<'ll L.

:-Io l mes, Manag0r-Progr:i.m
Co n trol Engineering, arc pa1ti l:ipatin g this week and n ext week
:::. a series of programs conduc t ed
:: y Engineering Se r vices and
;.ian ufactur ing Servi ces for all
Gene ral E l ectric Departments .
T:ie program, a part of OPERA J:.I...O N UPTURN, will pre se nt to
Depa r t m ent s methods of im proving manufacturing and
e nginee rin g ope rations .
Mr. Palmer and Mr. Holmes
will discuss the pos s ibilities
:or improving manufacturing a n d
~ngi n ee r i ng efficiency through
~;1e use of Program Control.
w o compl e te teams will presen t
s ix programs each at six plant
locations , and a ll G . E. D epar tments have been invited to send
rep re se ntati ves to one of the
meetings. Mr . Palmer and Mr.
Holmes will make similar pre se ntations as me mbers of the
two separate t eams .
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The team w i th which Mr . Palmer

is working ga ve presentations at
Cleve land and Cincinnati , Ohio,
on T uesday and We dnesday of
.-..._s week and are holdi n g a meet c at L ouisvill e, Ke n t u cky,
today.
The other t eam, of :Which Mr.
Holmes is a member, presented
(Corl,
Col. 2 )
Shipment on the order , which is

fo r 325 voltage regulators and
243 c ontrol pane ls , is scheduled
to begin in Jan u a r y , 195 9 , and
continue for a period of six
months .
"The trouble is, he like s m e iust a s I am and I'm tired o f the pretense !"
GE INDIANS DEFEAT DUPONT
9 - 5
PALMER AN D HOLMES (Con t .
from Col. l )
j prog ram s a t Fo rt Wayne, Indiana,

, and Chic ago on Tuesday and Wed 1 nesday, and will b e i 11 Toronto,
Canada, today.
Th e GE Indians took t he DuPont

Braves, 9 - 5, last night in the
Babe Ruth L eague. The Indians
a re in first place in the League
with 5 wins and l loss.
Ben Cooper, Mgr - Electr o n i c and

Regul ator Engineeri ng a n d Joe
Ponzi llo , Mgr - M ate rial s , are
representing Specialty Contro l at
the Louisville meeti n g today.
Tonig ht the GE tearn will me et

Crompton A . C .
I n TODAY'S NEWS for May 7, a

list of the p lay ers on the GE team
whose parents are Spec ial t y
Control emplo yees was published. ,
By mistake, we left out Gary Cash, I
whose mother, Margaret Cash,
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works in Air craft Assembly.
An experienced husband is one
who can forget the shopping list
and still do a decent job.
SUGGESTIONS PAY OFF
FORGET
5AFETY AND
(\
YOULL REMEMBER
THE HESULTS
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Jun e 20, 1958
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For life, and health, and daily food, we thank Thee , giver of all food.
NEWS BITS
Amen
SMITH APPOINTED TEMPORARY AIRCRAFT ASSEMBLY AREA

QC REPRESENTATIVE BY AIR
WILL BE REARRANGED
R. IL Norris, Heat Transfer
FORCE
Consultant, General Engineering
A rearrangement of the Aircraft
Laborato ry , will visit Specialty
. M erril Smith has been appointed
Assembly Area will take place
Control next Monday and Tuesday.
Air Force Quality Control Repre- next week, in order to improve
Mr. Norris will be here to work
the layout in that area and make
sentative at Specialty Control
on possible i mprovements i'n a
it better fit the current production
Depa rtment for a temporary
new magnetic amplifier motor
period. Mr. Smith replaces Mel
requirements~
control line for the Department.
Kleinfelter, who recently comPr e liminary work will be done
pleted his tour of duty as AFQCR
Anyone who would like an appointover this weekend and should be
in our plant.
ment with Mr . Norris, please
completed b efore Monday, June
contact Don Rogers, Ext. 426.
23. Actual rearrangement of
Mr . Smith has been in the Specthe area will take place o ver th e .
ialty Control plant as an Air
next weekend, and should be comForce inspector since February,
A large number of employees
pl~ted by Monday, June 30.
1955.
have inquired about Ruth Gray,
Plant Nurse Mrs. Gray is
The preliminary work will conGE INDIANS LOSE TO CROMPTON sist of removing the overhead
getting along very well after her
recent operation and is convaconveyer from the area above
Crompton A. C. beat the G. E.
lescing at her home. Her
Aircraft Assembly,and installing
Indians , 8-2, last night in .t he
address is Fishersville, Va.
e le c trical power lines in the same
Babe Ruth League. The game was place.
Mrs. William Bare is temporar- played at Fishburne Military
Academy.
ily replacing Mrs. Gray in the
The new arrangement in the AirDispensary.
craft
As sembly Area should proThe Indians are now in second
vide
for
better material storage,
place in the League.
easi e r passage through the area,
The Specialty Control Fire Brieasier housekeeping, better
gade will march in a parade in
appearance , and an operation
Staunton, Virginia, tonight. The
that is generally more efficient.
parade will be a part of the
Northern Virginia Firemen's
Association Convention.
OLD FAITHFUL
Fourteen men will represent the
Department, along with the Jeep
PltlV.q-E
I like gals who wiggle
And gals who giggle,
Fire Truck and the 11 Four Stage
Gals who wink
~ ket" display.
And g als who slink,
But the gal who daily burns m y
Before a person tries his hand at
toas t
"Uh-oh ! We're in for a nother of
something, he should try his head
Is
sti ll the gal. I love the most.
his a bs ent-minded days! 11
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The quotation below is very familiar to mos.t of us. .Because of our

attempts to. give extra service and extra value, and to build saies and jobs under
OPERATION UPTURN, it might well serve as a reminder of one of the most
important
things we can ........,_
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Let us not for'get that anyone who' will visit us, anyone who
will call us on the telephone, anyone who will seek our aid, offei:s
'to us the privilege of creating goodwill for the Generai Electric
Company.. Let us not throw away that privilege.
Let us. ~ot. rebuff

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Chairman of the Board
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June 23, 1958
fro111 th e iood whi c h Tho u h as prov ided, and make us th ankful for
Amen.
INDUSTRY CONTROL DEFEATS

SPECIALTY IN GOLF MATCH
The Industry Control Department
in Roanoke defeated Specialty
Control, 13-1 /2 t o 4 -1 /2 , in a
golf match which was held
Saturday at the Mountain View
Golf Course at Roanoke.
Low scorers for Specialty Control were E. Bradshaw, 7 5; H.
Stover, 76; J. Hagwood, 77; and
~ Hawkins, 79.
Hawkins and
:... _.Jver teamed up for a combined
"best ball" of 71, one under par.
A return match will be played
Sunday, August 10, at Ingleside.
NEWS BITS
Personnel of the Aviation and
Defense Indu s try Sale s Unit are
conducting another training school
o n the Electra system this week
a nd next in the Specialty Control
p lant. Nine repre se ntatives from
E a ste rn Airlines and one f rom
I & SE,Apparatus Sales, are
a tte nding the t wo week 'school.
J. M. Rhoades (Eng.) was prese nted with a 10 year service
e mblem today. Mr . Rhoades
joined th.e Company on June 21,
1948 .
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Th e ELECON Club Da nce, which

had b e e n scheduled for Friday ,
June 27, will not be held.
NUMERICAL POSITIONING
CONTROL SCHOO.LIS BEING
HELD HERE
A Numerical Positioning Control
Training School is being conducted by Specia lty Control
Department this we ek . Atte n d ing the school are representatives of customers who have purchased our nume rical positioning
control products or who are considering purchasing them, as
we ll as G. E. Installation and
Service Engineering personnel
and personnel from Manufacturing S ervi ces. Twenty-eight
visitors and two Spe cialty Control employees are taking the
course.
The purpo s e of the school is to
instruct the se people in the
installation and servicing of our
nume rical positioning control
equipment, and to t eac h them
how to solve any problems that
might aris e in t he use of the controls.
Some of the customers repres ented a re manufac ture rs of
machine tools w ho sell our
products in connection with the ir
own -- some are other G. E.
Departments who are u s ing our
controls in their own plants.
The schoo l, whic h began this
morning, will run through Thurs.
day afternoon.
An office war i s one in whic h
everyone shoots from the lip.
KEN MEAD DIES SUDDENLY

Kenneth S. Mead, Sup e r vis or Shipping, die d s udd e nl y yes t erday afternoon at Sherando Lake .
Mr . Mead had been employed by
General Elec tri c for 26 years .
H e was one of th e first group of
Spe cialty Control s u pervi so ry
employees who moved to Wayne s .
boro when the pla nt first be gan
operations here,
VOCATION AL REHABILIT A TION

FILMS WILL BE MADE AT
SPECIALTY CON T ROL
R epresentati ve s of the Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation in Washington, D. C., will visit Spec i a lty Contra l tomorro w to "shoot"
film for a series of TV spots on
vocatio n a l rehabilitation.
"Star " of the filmed s pots will be
W. M . Hamrick (Engi n ee ring).
The spots will be distributed to
approx imate ly 400 t e l evision
stations across the cc:iuntry for
their us e in te lling the story of
vocational re habi li ta ti on.
A check this mo r ning showed

tha t many Specialty Contr o l park.
ing stickers have fade d and
should b e replaced. Employees
who n ee d n ew parking sti cke r s
should contact Mrs . Ours in
Employee Relations .
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PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROl EMPLOYEES

COURTESY OF WAYP, ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. TV, NO. 12 1
June 2 4, 195 8
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S COGE E SOF TBALL

The SCOGEE softball team won
t wo g a1n e s and 19st o ne last
we e k .
On Wednesday afternoon th e y
..d.l.:_feated Whi te 1 s Depa r tm ent
ire , 8 - 3, in a slow-pitch
game a t C ity P ar k.
That same night , the G . E .
player s took on DuP ont i n a fas tpitch ga me, a n d ca m e out o n
top by a score of 11 - 2 , as J oe
Z aluski (Eng . ) pitc h e d a five
h i tte r. F red B o we r (La r ge
P a nels ) a n d Ji m D e Witt (Tool
Room) both h it home ru n s i n th e
se c o nd ga m e .
On F r ida y ni gh t, Q ua lity Sup e r
Mark e t de f ea t ed the SCOGEE
team 18 - 4,
U NIVERSIT Y OF VI R GI NIA
GRADU ATE STU DENTS WILL
VI SI T SPECI A LT Y CO NTRO L
DUNN APPOINTED G E NE RAL

MANAGER - MOTOR A N D
GE N ERATOR DIVISIO N
S tud e nt s o f the G radua t e S c ho o l

of Bu s ines s Admin istr a tion at
t he Uni v e rs ity of Vi rg ini a in
C h a rl o tte sville will visit S pecial.
ty C ont ro l Dep a rtm e nt t o mo r r o w.
A program of pre s e nta tio n s
a bout t he Dep art m e nt a nd it s
busi ness has b e en ar r anged for
t he g r o up
Oscar L. Dunn h as been a ppointe d G e n e r a l Ma nage r of th e

Mo t or a nd G e n e r a tor Di vi si o n
effecti ve Ju l y l . M r. Du n n
re pla ces Jame s M . C r o.wford,
V ice Preside n t, who is r t.: tiring
t he firs t of J u l y a f t e r 3 6 ye ar s
w i th Ge n eral El e ctric .
T he students , w ho are att ending

a su rnmer sess ion a t the Uni versity, are a ll business e x ecutives.
Tomor r ow ' s vi sit i s i n c o nnecti o n with an a ss i gnme n t in
w hich the stud e nts will w rit e a
pap er on the pr oble m s of oper a ting a bu sin e s s of thi s type .
SAF ETY SCO R E

1, 348 days
6, 969, 047 hours
WITHOU T A LOS T TIME
A C CIDENT
NEWS BITS
T h e Speci alty Control Choralie r s
wi 11 mee t toni g h t at 7: 30 in th e
A u ditoriu m ,
.~1110 ll
shots
I HELPED HER CARRY
THE GROCERIES HOME
Today i t's no t so muc h a q ues ti o.n of fi lling the bill as it is of

foot i ng i t.
B efor e hi s present appoint m e n t ,

Mr. Dunn was G e n e r a l M anage r
of the Dir ect Cu rrent Mo tor a nd
Gene r ator Departme n t in E rie,
Pe nnsylvania. Mr. Dun n ' s
o ffi ce , and the headquar t ers of
t h e Motor a n d Ge ne.ra ter D l' v . ,
w ill be l ocate d in Erie .
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T. A . Swanson (Marketing}
r ecei ve d a pin y e s t e r day f or
fi ve years of s e r vi c e with th e
C o mp a ny. Y e s t erday was h i s
a n ni ve r sary d ate ,
Sy l via Steagall (Ta bulatin g}

wou ld like to ob tain a rid e from
Kingsbury Ma nor (Ro ute 25 0
two mile s we st o f Waynesboro)
on t h e 7 : 30 to 4: 00 s h ift . Sh e
c an b e r eached o n E x t . 4 11.
SALE
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ANY OLD
SPECIAL
JU NE 26, 30 , AND JULY 3 ONLY
Junio r and Little Mis s Special

$39.95
De luxe 3-way Portable Radio
n/c
L eathe r Carrying Case
n /c
Ladies or Gentlemen's Wrist Watch
$39. 95
Less batte ries (Model P735-36)
Mom's Special
Ste am and Dry Ir on (F 60 )
Visualiz e r Spe ed Iron (F43)
$14.95
9.95
FREE Deluxe Ironing Board with each

purchase - - Limited Qua ntities
Pop' s Special
Pocket Size Tr a n sistor Radio (P745)
3-Way Portable Radio (P671)
Portable Transistor Radio (P750)
(Le ss batteries)
FREE P arker Pen and Pencil S et with
purchase
$31. 65
$23. 40
$45.20
each
EMPLOYEE STORE DAYS: Mondays and Thursdays

EMPLOYEE STORE HOURS: 11: 15 A M through 1:15 PM and
3: 30 PM throug h 4: 00 PM
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NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD HEWS - COURTESY OF WAYa AHO HEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL . IV, NO. 122
June 25, 1958
A TRIBUTE
Last weekend the employees of Specialty Control Department we re

saddened by the death of Ken Mead, Supervisor of Shipping.
We are dedicating
this issue of TODAY'S NEWS to Ken, as a tribute to a man who was well kno wn
and liked by employees, neighbors and business associates.
Ken Mead was a loyal employee of Specialty Control and General Electric,
a nd he in turn e njoyed the loyalty of his employees and his associates .
E ven
personal atta cks from others could not change his own loyalty; and he counted
amon g his most prized possessions the loy alty of those wit h whom h e was
associated .
Ken was always w illing to do that little extra something that earned for
him and for the D epar tment the goodwill of thos e with whom he came in conta c t
custo m ers, shippers, other employees, c ommunity neighbo rs.
E ven though we 'Nill all miss K e n Mead, the example whi c h he set for us in
g iving and re ceiving intense l oya lty and in giving t hat little bit extra in every thi n g
he did, w ill be r emembe red for a long time by all who knew hi m .
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NEWS

VOL. rv ' NO. l l3
J une 26 , 1<) 5R
Transfer this food into s tr e ng th, 0 Lord, a nd this s tr e ngth into noble s e rvice,
whi c h we ask in T h y na me. Amen.
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FRIDAY, JULY 4 WILL BE

PAID HOLIDAY
ORDER RECEIVE D FOR AT LAS
I. C . B. M.
T h e t wo power failures in the
plant yes terday afternnon, at

2 : 0 5 and 2:52 , were caused by
tran s mission interruptions in
Char lo ttes ville.
A se ries of movi.e shots was

made a t Specialty Control last
Tues day by the Norwood Studios
from Was hington, D. C. Work~ in co nnection with: the Office
Vocatio n al R e habilitation, the
studio is filming a series of TV
spots on vocationa l r ehabili t ation.
Wilto n Hamrick (Eng.) will appear in one of th e spots. O t her
s h o t s for the film were made at
the Rehabilitation Center at
Fishe rs vi lle.
The spots will be dis tribute d to
TV stations a ll over the country
for their us e in t e lling th e s tory
of vocational r e h a bilitation.
FEELINGS THE SAME
"I broke my engagement, 11 the
g ir l confided to her friend. 11 My
feeli n gs a re c hanged completely
fr o m what they were w hen I
accepted him."
_;.-...,t why do you still wea r the
~.
t!. ? " asked the friend.
" Oh , 11 r ep lied the gi rl in su rpri s e , " my f e eli ng s to ward the
rin g are ju s t the same . 11
Frid ay , July 4 - - Independence

Da Y-- will b e a p aid holiday for
all Spe cialty Control emp l oye es.
This wi 11 be the fourth of seven
paid holid ays for Depa r tment
employees in 1958.
All General Electric employees
have seven paid holidays each
year as part of the GE B e tter
Livi n g Program.
PLEASE CONSI DER OTHERS

IN CAFETERIA
Macke Cafeteria p ersonnel have
b een r e ceiving c omplaints that
condiments suc h as mus t ard and
catsup are not a vaila ble o n the
table in the center of the Cafet eria. In a lmost eve ry case ,
thi s i s b ec ause someo n e has
t aken th e contai n ers to other
t abl es and l eft them there .
Special t y Contro l D e par t ment

has r eceived a n impor t ant order
for equipment to be u se d on t he
Atla s Interconti nental Balli s tics
Mis s ile . The o rde r is for
regulators wi th a total selling
price of $34, 170.
The pres e nt or d e r is to b e us ed
for prototype s . The importance
of thi s orde r is that if the
G e neral E l ectric e quipme nt i s
satisfactory, much lar ge r
quantities will probabl y b e
ordered for fu tur e u se on Atlas
miss iles .
SAFETY SCORE
l, 350 days
6 , 987 , 4 79 hour s
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
In order to make these co ndiments avai lable to eve ry one,

please u se them at the central
table a n d l eave the containers
the re when you h ave fini s h ed.
In a ddition, sugar , salt and
pepper conta iner s have been dis appear ing rec e ntly. These cont a iners a r e the prop erty of the
Macke Co . ;:i.nd s h ou ld not b e
removed from th e Cafeteria at
a n y time .
" Ever cons ide r hiring a p rofe ss i o n a l to t a ke up the office

c o lle c tions? "
WE HAVE HAD SO MANY QUESTIONS . . . .
. . a bou t the carto on tha t a p pea r e d i n T ODAY ' NEWS la s t F r i day that
we fee l a n e xpla na t io n i s in o rde r. WE DIDN'T G E T TH E POINT
gITHER; but not b e in g an "expert" on c a rtoon humor, we decide d to
pr int it a nyway, figurin g som eon e e l se mi ght ge t a c huck le . S ur e
e n o ug h, we noti ce d som e l a ug h s as p e ople looked a t th e c artoo n in
the Cafeteria!
Apparently ther e we re more people who didn't get the point than
there were who did, however.
So --- why don't you who did get the point share it with the rest of
us who were too dull to catch on?
Or maybe someone who didn't get it , could suggest a better caption

to go with the drawing . Why not write your ideas below and drop
this paper off at the Employee Relations Se c tion. We'll print th e
best explanation or c aption we g et.
Here is the cartoon in question .
l'RIV,t;f
" Uh-o h! WP. 'r c in fo r :i n ol h c r of

h is ab s c n l - m i n<lcd day :: I"
( Ple (I s e giv e name "nd Section)
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VOL. IV, NO .
12'1
.T11ne 27, 19 58
For food t o nourish our budies , t o Thee we are truly g rateful.

;:i lso th e ve r y Br ead of L if<' .
A m en.
SCOGEE S OFTBALL TEAM

DEF EATS DAW BARN , 17-5
The Spec i a lty C ontrol SCOGEE
Softball T ea m defeated Dawbarn
Bro s . by a scor e of 17-5 l as t
Wednesday ni gh t. Pitche rs fo r
the GE t eam were Fred Bowe r
(Lar ge P a ne l s ) and Frank Gum
( Ac counting ).
Fir st ba se man Dave Harrell
(Pr od . ) got a thr ee base hit
th the b as es loaded, bringing
_ _ three runs .
Next Monday, June 30 , the
SCOGEE t ea m will take on
Quality Supe r Market, the t eam
which accounted for the onl y
SCOGEE l oss thi s season, whe n
they beat SCOGE..E; 18-4 last
week. The game will be played
at City P ark.
11 s
THE Y'RE AT IT AGAIN . . ...
S8VEN MILLlO N HOURS WILL

BE RE ACHED MONDA Y, IF . . .
Member s of the Specialty Cont rol Fi r e Brigade arc at it

agai n . parading, that is .
A nine-man marching unit appeared in th e Fireme n's P a r ade
at Elkton, Virginia , l ast ni g ht:
a nd a n e l e ven - man g r oup will
marc h t o ni g ht in Harrisonburg ,
Vir gi nia , in the Firemen 1 s
Parade there. Toni g ht's parade
wi ll .b egin at 7:00 PM.
Specialty Control emp1oyee s will

reach the 7, 000, 000 hour m a rk
sometim e Mond ay, if nothin g
happen s t o b rea k th e t h re e - yea r
safe ty r ec ord. At that ti m e ,
Department employee s wi ll have
worked 7, 000, 000 h o ur s and
l , 354 days without a disab ling
injury -- a truly ou ts tanding
example of safety performance.
The parade unit for both parades

includes the J eep Fire Truck
and the rocket disp lay.
NEWS BITS
A. B . Carson (Engineering ) was
a warded a se r vi ce emblem yes t e rday for 10 years service with
GE . Mr . Carson joined the
Company on June 25 , 1948.
During the three weeks period

from July 7 throu gh July 25, the
Ca s h i ers Cage in the Personnel
Accounting Office wi ll be open
each day from 11: 00 to 12:00
only .
"Guess who talked in his s leep

aga i n , d ea r ."
Be unto
A check a t the p lant e ntrance thi s

mor nin g found 31 car s entering
the plant to park without parking
permits . B eginning , Tuesday ,
July l,the r e will be no parking on
Spe cialty Control property with out a parking permit.
According to the late st GE

Comparative Injury Report (for
the first quar ter , 1958), Spec ialty
C o ntrol still r a nks second i n the
entire Company w i th its safety
record, based on the nu mber of
hours worked without any lo s t time accident. The to tal injury
freq uency for the Department has
inc reased since the la s t qu a rter ,
1957, a lthough the Sp ec ialty Con trol frequency rate i s ve r y lo w
comvared with othe r GE D e p a rtments .
In addition to the low injur y
r ecor d, Special ty Contr o l em p loyees have worked Jl 43 days
without a reportable fire .
All employees are ur ged to b e
extra cautious b e t wee n now and
Monday in order to b e s ur e tha t
the 7, 000 , 000 man hour r ecord
is reached without a mishap .
SAFETY SCORE
I , 35 1 days
6 , 996 , 695 hour s
WITHOUT A LOST Til\lE
ACCIDENT
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V O L . iV, NO. l l.S
COU RTESY OF W A Y8 ANO NEWS VIRG INIAN
June 30, 1958
0 God, ou r Fa t.h er , w ho gi veth f ood for the b ody and t r uth for the so ul , so
no u rish u s as to be wise and otrong to do T h y wi 11. Amen .
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7,000,000 HOURS WORKED SAFELY HERE

NEWS DI T S
SPE C I ALT Y CONTROLLE:RS S ET ANOT HE R SAFET Y RE C ORD
C ong r a t u l ations to Paul Wa rre n

(Time St;rnd :~ :- ci s) wh ose wife
p rese nted him wi t h a 6 p o und
bab y girl ,Thu r sday, a t t h e W ay ne s b o r o Communi ty 'Hospi t al.
Spe ci alty C .rn tro l e rn p 1o ye.<i!s a c hie v ed a nother outstandi n g r ec o r d th i s

m o r ':1i n g wh e n t hey re a c h e<J the 7 m i llion h o u r mar k . E m pl oyees
o f t he Departm ent h a v e w~ tke d a to t al o f l , 354 days and 7 m i lli o n
ho u rs wi t hou t a dl S <l !Jl! 1~g rnju r y . There h a ve be e n no d i s a blin g i n j uries si n ce t h e De p a r t m e n t s ta rte d ope rations in Way nes b o r o n ear ly 4 y ea rs a go .
Acc o rding to Bill Per r y , Safe t y

.~ -:: i alist , i t i s per mi s s ible fo r
11:. -.iale e m p l o y ees to wea r s h o r t s
i n t h e factory , p r ovided t h e short s
reach t o the kne e . Bill poi nt e d
o u t t ha t t he reaso n fo r thi s is t he
As a r e s ult of t hi s out s ta n d i ng r e c o rd, S pecialty Cont r o l ranks

s e cond i n th e Compa n y fo r t he n u mber of hours worke d withou t a dis a bling i n jur y. In a dditi o n to t h e r x celle n t 'reco r d of wor k w ithout
se r iou s i n jur y , Sp ia l ty Con tro l e mp l oyees have w orke d 1 , 245 d a y s
with out a re po rta b le fir e .
p ro t e c tion which th e lon g er s hor t s

affo r d .
In comme ntin g on t h e s;ifc t y record , Bill Pe r ry , Safety Specialist ,

said:
I t i s felt t h a t short - s h o rt s a re <

s afe ty haza r d because of th e
d a n ger of d r op p i ng s o lde r a nd
o t he r mate r i a l on t he le gs as well
as the possibility of r ec ei v ing
s c rat che s and c u t s f r o m m achin e s
a nd equipment .
"W e h ave be e n able to ach i eve t h i s re co rd only be c ause eve ry Spe c ial .
t y C ontr o l e mp l oyee i s safe t y cons c i ous . T h i s i s indicate d by the
num ber of safe t y sug g es t io ns submi t ted, by the fr e quenc y of repo r ts
o n u n s afe pr ac t i ce s , and hy the exc e llent cooperation of all e m p loye e s i n wo r k i ng t oge lhe r t o cor re c t a n y safety viol a t ions t h at occu r.
E qu ally i mp o r tant has b e e n t he e xc e llent wo r k t he s a fety chai r me n,
t he D e pa r tmen t fi re bri gade and
I NDI ANS WIN AG A I N; LEAD
t he Departm e nt f i r st aid c r ew . "
L E AG U E AT H ALFWAY M ARK
Today is th e las t d a y to ge t par kin g permits be fore t he ru les w ill

be s t rictly e nfo r ced. Beginning
Tu e s d ay, J uly 1, t here will b e n o
pa r k ing o n Spec i a lty Contr ol
prope r ty witho ut a par k ing pe r mi t .
SAFETY SCOR E
1 , 354 days
7 , 0 00 , 0 00 ho ur s
W I THOUT A L OST T IME
AC C I DENT
11
T h e GE I nd i ans beat D uPont ,

6 - 0 , Fr i d a y ni g ht i n the Babe
Ruth Le ague , as B ut ch Tyr ee
struck out 18 o f 2 1 to s 1' t a n ew
Leag u e reco r d . A t t i ha lfway
ma r k of Lea gue p l ay , lhe GE
tea m i s leading th e L eag ue .
Pla ye r s for t he Al l Hlar Team ,
whi ch wi ll ente r t h e Bab e Rut h
Sec tional T o urna me nt, w i ll be
Llt! l ec ted th i s we e k . T he to u rn a m e nt w i ll be he l d in Way ne sbor o
J u l y 24 , 2 5 a nd 2 6 .
The mo re h o u rs we b u i l d up wi th out a los t time a cc i dent , t he m o r e

diffic ult i t i s t o maintai n ou r
r ecord. We s u cc e ssfully pass ed
the 5 mi llion ma r k and no w w e
h ave made i t to 7 mi llio n . Our
next challenge i s to r ea c h the 10
mi lli on hou r mark w i th t he s ame
fi n e r e c or d that we h ave now. I
kno w that eve ry Specialty Cont rol
emp l o yee will c ont inue t o work
t oward the ach i e vement of thi s
goa 1. "
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the heartiest and very special congratulations of the directors and

staff of the N alional Safety Council on your fine safety performance -
truly a job well Jone!
The congratulatory message above was received this morning from the
National Safety Council.
The Council was notified last weekend tha t Specialty
Control Department would achieve the 7 million man hour safety r ec ord early
this l"(lorning .
In addition, the Safety Council notified the Department that we would

receive an Award of Honor, whi c h is the hi g hest safety award given by the
Council.
A plaque, showing the number of hours worked without a disabling
injury and the achievement of an outstanding safety re c ord,will be sent to the

Department by the C ouncil within the next week or t w o.
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NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAY'S AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV , NO. 126
July l, 195 8
L ord, Thou dost not need our thanks, but we have constant need to remind
ourselves of our obli gations to Thee. Make us truly grateful. Amen.
SCOGEE SOFTBALL
TRUSLOW RECEIVES $100

SUGGESTION AW ARD
T he SCOGEE Softball Team de fea ted first place Quality Market

last night, ll-9, in the YMCA
Industrial League. This puts
SCOGEE in a tie for fir st place.
Jame s Truslow (Maintenance) received a $100 award Friday afternoon for a Suggestion which involved the installation of jacks in
the load centers in the Engineering Lab. The jacks permit recording ammeters to be plugged
in at any time without interrupting service from the load centers.
Before the jacks were installed,
power had to turned off at each
l oad ce nter in order to hook up
recording ammeters.
During vacation shutdown, the

regular schedule will be played
because it was impossible to
postpone t he games. All SCOGEE
players who are not going out of
t 0wn are urged to keep up with
schedule th rou gh the News v ir gi nian, a n d report to the field
for each game.
Eighteen other Specialty Control

employees also received Sug ges tion Award checks Friday.
NEWS BITS
Curt Lundstrom (Eng.) comple te d lo years wi' th th e Campa ny
yesterday. He was presented a
s e rvi ce emblem yesterday morning.
Ruth Gray (Plant Nurse) has asked that we express her appreciation to all the Specialty Control
employees who sent cards ,
flowers and gifts after her recent
operation.
Phil Beeson (Relays) be came the
proud father of ~n 8 l~ 7 o~. girl
yesterday, The baby was born
at the Waynesboro Community
Hospital.
SAFETY SCORE
1,355 days
7, 014, 368 hour s
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
: Specialty Controllers whose ideas

off. for them throu gh the
! Suggestion Plan la st week were :
; Richard Moore (Quality Control),
! Helen Corbett (Electronics),
l Gaytha Koogler (Quality Control).
i Edwar d Painter (Maint. ), Jearl
Wade (Sheet Me t a l), Robert Lam
: (Sheet Metal), Geo rge Rash
1
(Quality Control), Lawrence Camp.
i' bell (Stockroom) , T. J. Diamond,
1 Jr. (Mag. Wi nding Comp.).
I Kenneth Kent (Mag. Winding Comp
Comp.), Betty Harris (Ma g .
Winding Comp.) , Ruth Marks
(Aircraft), Flora Humphries
(Ele ctroni cs ) , Mae Heatwole
(Aircraft), L. B. Coffman, Ill
(Appr entice ), Billy R. Borden
(Production), Oscar F ox (Po tting)
and Dellia Wright (R elays ).
i paid
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HERE'S WHERE THE IDEA WAS

USED: Jim Truslow (Maint.)
(top) points to the jacks which
were installed in one of the loa d
centers in the Engineering Lab as
a result of his suggestion. The
idea pays off for Jim (lower
picture) as he receives a check
from Fred Curto, Supv. -Maint.,
last Friday. The Suggestion
Award was $WO. 00.
PLANT INSPECTION
Choraliers meet t onight at 7: 30.
THURSDAY --- JULY 3

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PUBLISHED 8Y THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROl EMPLOYEES
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Our F;\ th e r, we thank Th ~e {u 1 t h i i; food. and for <lll o th e r e x pr cs1-Jionfl of Thy

goodn cs s t o u R . Guide ll '.l a nd pro l1 c l 11s , in Jesus' nrirnc . Ame r.
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SC OGE:E GOLF L EAG U E:

Th<! S C OGEE Golf League i s we ll
underway, with 15 teams com ?e l ing i n re g ul ;t r p l ay e ve r y Monday af le rno o n a t Swanna noa Go lf

C l ub, The n p th'r ce t eams at
rest! n t a re Ed Gi llette (Marketing ) .111d B ill West (Marketing )
wi t h M wi. n s and l loss for a n
ave r age of . 9 39 points; Joe Be la k
{En3 . ) and Cur t Lundstrom (E n g .)
wi th 8-1/2 wins a nd 1/2 l oss for
~ave"t".-ige of . 77 3 points ; a nd
.l Pe ny (E& CR ) and Sunny
Mi ller (Photo Lab ) wi th 5 wins
::..ncl 2 l osses for an ave r age o f
. 714 points .
Joe Belak a nd Cha rl es Minter
(Mainten ..m ce ) are tied fo r the
b es t 9- hol c., score, w ith a 44 ea. h .
r,
S Pl!:CIALTY CONTl\ OL
RECE IV 8S LARCi E on DER FOH.
FlOh EQUIPMENT
Spt~cialty
C o nt r o l D e p a rtmen t
r ece iv ed an o rd e r f r o m the Ai r
Force thi s week for e quipment
f or th e F l O(i air c raft. The total
amount of the order iR
$235 , 260. 0 0.
The e quipm e nt, wh i c h i s t o be
delive r e d from February thr o u gh
M ay , 1959 , c onsists )f AC'
exciter-regulators and protective
pa n e l s , a nd DC gene rators wi th
pro t ec tiv e feat u res built in.
Si g n under a W i ldwood-by-theSe a , N . J. , offi ce c loc k: It ' s

Ear li er Than You Think.
NEWS BITS
PLANT I NSPEC TION
The Sp.::c i a l t y Contro l Chor a l i e !" s
e nj o yed .., 1) i cnic las t Sa t urday a t
S he 1an <lo Lakl~ . About 10
peop k - .. n-w tnb e r 1:1 a nd their
f:-trni li c:~ and gues t s - - attended.
.::::m ploy 1 ~ e::
o f t he Cos t A ccountSub - Se t i on and their famil i es

nd a p i c: nic l a~ t Satucday, at
.: .c h o1n\. o i H. us 1:1 Walke r , at
Ly n dh ur s t .
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BE L A NGER NAME D T O HEAD

AP PARATUS SA LF.:S
John W. fl c !anger ha ~ h !en
appo i n ted G e neral M::in;1gcr o f lhe
Appar atu 1:1 S a l es Di v if' ion, <1 11.o r c-!in g t o an an n o unceme n t n1r.i d1;:
last Friday by A rth u r F. Vin s on,
Vi c e P reR idcnt and G :-o up
Exe c uti v e of t he A pp ;i rat u R and
lndustri ri l Gro up. Mr. B elange r,
w h o iR a G . E. Vi ce Pres ident,
s u cceedH t he late Wi lliam V .
O ' Brien, who died June 2 1.
Mr . Be ll a nge r was Gro u p
Exe cu t iv e - - Indu s t rial C o mp onen t s and Mate ri a ls Group ,
until April, 19 5 8 , when that
g roup w a s co mbined w ith the
form e r App a ratus Group to for m
t he Apparatu s and Indu:;trial
Group. S in ce lha t ti me Mr.
Belanger h as been associated
with t he Apparatus and Industri;:l
Group a s a Consultant.
THURSDAY- --- -JULY 1
SAFE TY SCORE
l, 356 days
7 , 022 , 825 hours
WITHOUT A L OST TIME
ACCIDENT
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T h e: GE lr.dia n ::i dL:ieatcd Ba s i c
:.'itz , 'l-1, l as t ni g ht in t h e Dabe
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Build :..</~ ,
ond jobs 111 5 9
GE IH HA L ~<) ELE C TRIC
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When the Specialty Control Golfers journeyed to Roanoke Saturday, June 21,
meet
feam from
Industry Control, Sunny Miller (Photo Lab) took a few pictures ' before and af.ter. Sp~dalty
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Control lost the match, but some of the pictures were 11 winners 11
.
THE BERMUDA BOYS: Charlie

Minter (Maintenance) and Jack
Broughman (Tool Room) pose be fore the g olf match wi th Industry
Control.
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READY TO GO: (From left)

Sherman Byrd (Aircraft), Lyle
Coffman (Apprentice), Jim Hagwood (Apprentice} and Jack
Broughman (Tool Room) are
shown as they wait to tee off at
Roanoke.
MINTER MISSES AGAIN: Charlie
Minter (Maintenance} practices
chipping before the match begins.
(The ball lying near his ri ght fo ot
is .101 the one at whi ch he was
swinging.)
AFTER THE GAME: Golfers

from Industry Control and
Specialty Control re lax after the
golf match in Roanoke. Specialty
Controllers in the group are:
(front row) Sherman Byrd, third
from left; Joe Belak (Eng.),
second from ri g ht; and Curt
Lundstrom (Eng . ) right; (second
row) Lyle Coffman, third from
left; Jim Hagwood; and Gene
Bradshaw (Mfg. Eng.); (back row,l....
Charlie Minter, fourth from
...._
left; and Bill Perry (E &CR ) right.
Not pictured are Ralph Hawkins
(Marketing ) H a rold Stover (Marketing) and Sunny Miller (Photo
Lab).
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VOL. IV NO. 12.8
Ju l y 3, 1958
Help us to remember, L ord, that we are always depe nd e nt upon Thee, and
help us al ways to receive Thy mercies with thankfulness . Amen.
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PAYCHECKS MAY BE PICKED

UP DURING VACATION
SHUTDOWN
Employees who would normally
receive paychecks on any of the
next three Fridays - - July 11,
Jul y 18, and July 25 -- ma'y pick
up those checks d ur ing the shut down period if they wish.
The Cashiers Cage will be open
from 11 to 12, Monday through
F r iday, during the next . three
~ eks; and employees who w ant
pick up t heir checks should
c a ll for them during those hours.
The checks may be picked up on
t h e Friday that they would
normally be rec e ived or any time
l ater when the Cashiers Cage i s
open.
Employees who do not w ish to
p ick up their checks during the
s hutdown period, will receive
t hem on Monday, July 28.
Vacation pay checks will be dis t ributed to all eligible e mployees
b efore they leave for the vaca t ion
shutdown.
REMINDERS .
Emp loye es are reminde d that a
sp e ci a l pass is necessary for
e n t rance to the plant on Sundays
a nd holidays for any emp loyee
--.,,.., does not have a permanent
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P LANT INSPECTION T O NIGHT

L e t's leave it spotless for
the v a cation shutdown.
I UE
LOSES
TODA Y ' S NEWS WILL NOT BE

PUBLISHED NEXT WEEK
This issue of TODAY'S NEWS
will be the last regul ar issue
until Monday, July 2 8.
Because of the number of people
who will not be working and the
curtailment of many operations
in the pl a nt next week, it is f e lt
that a regul a r issue of TODAY '0
NEW S will not be ne e ded e a c h
d ay. If enough items of general
interest appear and if any
a11nounc e1ne nts to employe e s are
ne c e s sary, one or m o re special
e ditions will be pub li s hed as
nee d e d .
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B e cause this is the last issue of
TODA Y ' S NEWS before most of
us g o on vac ation, we t a k e this
opportunity to wi s h all S p e cialty
Control employees a "Happy
Holida y" (July 4) and a " Happy
Vac a tion. 11
Have a w onderful time, t a ke care
of yourselves, and for goodness
sake -- DRIVE CAREFULLY,
SAFETY SCORE
l, 357 day s
7 , 031,282 hours
ACCIDE N T
AGAIN!
The JUE received onl y 32 vo t es

as the employees of General
Electric at St. Petersburg, Fla.,
rejected a union bid yesterday to
take over their plan t.
The results of an N L RB election
were:
3 86
15 3
32
No Union
I.B . E . W.
I. U . E.
NEWS BITS
In orde r to keep all employees
_c overed by the Insurance P l an
during July (when some employees will not be worki ng),
regular insuranc e deductions for
the entire month of july will be
made from all weekly paychecks
for the week ending Jul y 6.
These are the c hecks which wi ll
be received on Ju l y 11.
The Dispensary will be open all
next week and dur i ng the regular vacation shutdown. A full
time nurse will be on duty during
the entire three-week period.
Art (Marketing ) and Marie Highla nd , and their daughte r, Wendy,
ag e d 3, welcomed the arrival of
an adopted boy, Jeffrey Arthur,
las t Thursday. Jeff is 4-1/2
months old. Our congratulations
to the Highlands.
R uby Shiffle tt (Eng . ), who h as
bee n ho spita li zed , wi ll be going
home tod a y .
REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER
SPECIAL
EMPLOYlrE
SAL
1:
Buy now for extra values
GENERAL~
ELECTRIC
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JULY - AUGUST
SEE THE DISPLAYS

I N THE
PLANT CAFETERIA
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COMBINATION
REFRIGERATOR-FREE Z ER
MODEL BH-12R
*Three Mini-Cube Ice Trays .
* Juice Can Dispenser and Ice
C ream Rack.
* Automatic Defrosting 9 . 4 Cubic
Foot Refrigerator S ection.
*Revolving E'helves.
* Removable and Adjustable Door
Shel ves .
* Magnetic Safety Doors .
*Foot P edal Opening.
Retail Price
$ 4 39. 9 5
Reg. Employee Price
$284 . 50
SPECI AL Employee Pri c e
$257 . 50
"BOOK SHELF" FOOD FREE ZER

MODEL HU - 13R
*Nine-P o sition Temperature
Se le ctor .
Book-S helf Door.
* Positive Safety Latc h.
*Bui lt-In Lo c k .
* Glide -Out Basket.
* Juice C an Dis p e nser .
$364. 95
Retai l P rice
R eg. Emp loyee P rice $ 25 4. 75
SPECIAL Employee Pri c e
$ 2 3 0. 75
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REFRIGERATOR -F REE Z ER
MODEL BH-13R
* Revolving Ve getable B i ns .
E gg Ra c ks.
*Removable and Adjus table Door
She lv es.
* Magn etic Safe t y Door .
*Roll O ut Freezer .
*Foo t Peda l Ope ning .
* Re mo va b l e
LWllP REFRIGERATOR (not s ho wn )

Retail
$489 . 9 5
Reg . Employee Pr i ce
$337 . 7 5
SPECI AL Employ ee Pric e $ 30 9. 2 5
SEE YOUR AUTHORI ZE D G. E. MAJOR A PP LIANCE DEALER
Retai l Price
$559. 95
Reg. Employee Price $364. 00
$329. 00
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SPECIAL EDITION
WORK WILL BEGIN TOMORROW ON RESURFACING PARKING

LOTS AND ROADWAYS
The Specialty Control parking lots and roadways will be resurfaced, and some new
storm sewers will be installed during the next two weeks, it was announced today
by K. N. Bush, Manager-Manufacturing. Work will begin tonight (if the weather
permits) to clean the parking lots and roadways to prepare them for the new surface .
The W. T. Wells Construction Co. will do the job.
Beginning tomorrow morning, and for the next few days, employees may park in the
South Parking Lot (Zones A and B) and the Visitors Parking Lot on a "first come - first served" basis, while work is being done on the North Parking Lot. After the
South Parking Lot and Visitors Parking Lot are full, employees will park outside the
Specialty Control property. Maintenance employees and City Policemen will be on
hand to direct traffic and parking each day, while the temporary parking arrange ments are necessary.
As work begins on other parking areas, they will be closed and traffic will be directed to those areas that are available for parking . All employees are urged to cooperate
with those who are directing traffic while the resurfacing is in progress.
When the present roadways and parking lots were first built, the final layer of blacktop was left off to allow the base and grounds to settle. The base and grounds are now
ready for the final layer to be applied.
Because of the severe weather last winter, it is necessary that the final layer be
applied before another winter passes. Otherwise, winter damage could destroy the
base in mat y sections and cause extra maintena~ce expense.
In addi~ion to reducing the maintenance expense ~ the new surface will pro vide a
cleaner area around the plant, and provide better parking lots and roadways for
Specialty Control employees and visitors. Extension of the storm sewer s ystem will
permit better drainage of the roadways and walks around the plant, and should e li:minate
the pools of water tb;:i.t have cc' . ! cted after heavy rains in the past.
July 8, 1958
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WA YNESBORO, VIRGINIA
.I iily 28 s 1958
He lp us t o r e m e mbe:r , Lor d, tha t we a re 1 1 vay s dep e nde nt u p o n T h ee, and

u s a l wa y s t o recei v e Thy me r cie s with th ankful n e sa. Ame n,
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SUGGESTIO N AWAR D BEF OR E
VAC ATI O N
Just i n tim e fo r the vacati on sh ut .
do wn wa s t he $10 0 Suggestion
A ward r ec eh ~ d hy We ldon
Ho lsi n g e r (lh l a.y Test) on Wednesd ?. y, .Ju l y 9. M r. H o ls i nger
s u gg es ted a test fix t u r e a d aptc1
w h i ch wi ll speed up th e t e sting of
B e ndix relays . His s u gge stio n
w as adopte d and the $100. 00
a w ard was p res e nte d t o h im by
,._, Ba T"e , F or e m an-Qua li ty
r . .. a u ra nce, R e lays .
Two o th e r Speci alty Co ntrol em p loy ccs rece i v ed awar d s w h en
I.heir S u gges tions we r e ado p t e d
lite sa m e week. T h ey we r e
l l e len V . Arth u r (two sep a r a t e
<l ward s to talli ng $70 . 00) , a n d
J\dr i a n M. Shif fl e tt {$2 5. 00 ) ;
J.o th wo r k in the Mic r o- Mini a tur e
l '! la y area.
B-Il:S... ------ :.-. -. -:~-OS T O F
T e n y e;u s ervic e emblems were

p:r e sent e d b e fore th e v a c a tion
s h u tdown to L . B a-r rin ger
(Materi als ), E .
Hewe tt (E ng. )
a nd M. R o se nblatt (E n g. ) . Mr .
B arringer join ed Ge ne ral
Electric on July 19, 1948; M r.
He wett on July 7 , I 9-' 13; and
Mr. R o s e n b l a tt o n J un e 3 0 , 194 8.
h~ lp
LI VING INC R E ASE FOR
HO URLY , NON-EXE MPT

E M PLOY EES OFFSETS R I SE
IN GOV ER NMENT INDEX
n:
Pr i ces of so m e commoditi e s a re
g oi ng u p acco r d ing to a gover n m ent
annou nc e ment whi c h revealed a n
increase i n th e national Co st - o fL iving Index fr om 12 3 . 3% t o
123 . 7 %, but S pe cialty Cont r ol e m plo y ees wo n't fee l th e p inc h .
Two o th e r Speci<1 lty Control e mployees rece i ve d ten y e ar pi.p a

this mo r n ing . They a r e J. F .
S co vi lle (Eng.) who joi ned the
Co mp a n y on July 12 , 1948 , a nd E.
R . Ros e n (Eng . ) w ho j o ined t he
C ompany on Jul y 19, 1948 .
LA TE DA L L SC O RE S
Am e rican:
C l ev. 7, 7 - N. Y. 2 , 2 ( 2 ga m es )
Was h . 4 , 6 - D e t ro i t 3, l
B os ton 7 - Chi cago 3
K . C . ll - B a l timotQ. 6
1n kee ping with th e Ge nera ~

El ect ri c Be t te r Li ving Program,
hourly and non- exe m p t s al a r ied
emp loy ees will r ece ive an 0. 5%
" esca la t or" adder in t h ei r pa y
c h ecks to offse t the r i se in th e
go ve rn me nt ' s cost -of-li vin g i nde x .
C ost-of-livin g fluc tu a tions ar e
f ac t ored i nto exempt salar ies in
a n o ther manne r.
T h e C of L i nc r ease i s effecti ve
with t h e sta rt of w ork toda y and
will b e re flecte d i n weekly checks
i ss u ed o n F rida y , A u g u st 8.
F R E EZ ER SAL E EX'lENDED
T h e s pecial R E FRIGERATOR a nd
FRE EZ ER SALE which was a n n o unce d i n T O DAY'S NE WS,
J uly 3 , wi ll b e e xtended to S e pt.
J 5. (It was previous l y a n noun ced
t ha t the s ale would end Aug. 30 ).
Nat iona l:
Mil wa ukee 4 - Chicago l
Pitt s b u r g h 2 , 3 - Sa n Fr a n. 1, 3
St. Louis 4, l - C incinna ti 3, 10
P h i la . 7 , 2 - Los Ange l es 4, l
CONDOLENCES
EVERYONEe
Spe ciaity C o ntro l D e par tme nt ex te nd s i ts s i nc e r e condol ences t o

Dr . P e nn on the death of h i s
fa the r ,
"Mi ss Smith, wou l d you step out
h e r e for a minu te?"
NEW SU R F A CE PUT ON PARKING LOTS AND R OADWAYS
T h P. Specialty Contro l parkin g lots a nd roadway s had a ne w s urface appli ed

to t h e m during the va c a ti on s hut do wn p e rio d, p rovid in g be t t er parking a nd dri vl n
a r eaf: fo r Df'pa rtm e nt e mp loy e cs a nd visitor B .
i ng during the
l a~ t
Thos e '..: m ployec s who we r e wor:k
week b e fore the r eg ula r vaca tion, sudd e nly began to appr eciat
the c onv1-r nience o f the parking lots, as all but th e "e a ri y bi rds " h a d to park out s ide the Depa rtm e nt proper ty a nd m ake "the lon g wa lk" in w hile t h e res urfacin g
was i n prog ress.
Members of the Waynesboro Police Departme nt and Sp ed<i :L y Control
M ainte nance personnel did a n excell e nt job directing t raffic a nd parking whii e
par ts o f the plant parking areas and roadways we r e c: los e d for the res u rfacin g.
Wh en the parking lots and roadways at our plant were first built, t h e fi nal
layer of bla cktop :was l e ft off to allow the bas e a nd g r o unds to settle .
su mmer, the base was ready for the final s ur face.
By this
The sever e wea the r la st
wi nter had caused so much damage that it waa nec essa ry to apply t h e new surface
before anothe r winter.
Other wise, winter weath c r co uld have destroyed the base in
many sections and would h ave causerl
~ xt ra
mainte nance expense.
At the same t ime
the new surfac e was applied, the storm sewer s ystem was extended to p e rmit
better drainage of th e g rounds.
In addition to reducing maintenance e x pense, th e new surface on t he parking
lots will provide a much c leaner area around the plant.
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July 29 , l 95 8
F o r all th e s piritual and tcmpor ;l b les sings Thou art r- ivin g u s , Dea r God, we
thank The e . Amen.
WBRO. BABE RUTH ALL STARS
WIN DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP
ADVANCE T OPOR TSMOUTH
PLAYOFFS
Waynesbor o ' s Babe Ruth L e a g u e
All Star s c o nfirmed their win
over Front R o y al yes terday afternoon with a final ta lle y of 8- 1
to cop the Di s tric t Champions hip
and win a b e rth in the Portsmouth
playoffs. This is the first time
that Wayne sboro Babe Ruth
Le aguers h a ve advanced past the
"; trict playoffs.
Waynesboro's Little League
(South ) All Stars will a l so play in
Portsmouth on Thursday evening.
They took the District Championship l ast Friday after whipping
the Clifton Forge aggr e gation.
Speci alty Contra l tips its hat to
Ed Brennan (Purchasing) who is
Manager of the Babe Ruth All
Stars.
CALL FOR HELP
Ed Br e nnan reports that the Babe
Ruth L e acru e All Star t e am will
need tran~portation to the Ports mouth playoffs this Thursday. If
you can help, pleas e c o ntact Ed
on E x t. 217 .
,-.. CONGRATULATIONS .
.. to H a rry Crummett and hi s
Mr s . w ho we r e bles s ed wit h a
6 l b . 5 - 3/1 o z . b a by boy d uring
v:t ca lion.
BASEBALL
N ::ttional:
S a n Fran. 3, 2 - Phi la . 2, l
American:
Detroit 5 - Boston 4
New York 14 - K. C. 7
Chicago 6 - Wash. 5
JULY 3 PLANT INSPECTION

SHOWE D LAG
IN HOUSEKEEPING
The Plant Inspe ction, which was
h e ld Thursday, July 3 (just
befo r e the Manufacturing Section
shut down for in~entory and
vacation) indicated a s harp drop
in th e housekeeping effort since
the last inspection.
Fred Curto, Supv. -Maintenance,
and Bill Perry, Safety Specialist,
who were in charge of t h e inspection, reporte d a poor housek ee ping job in both the factory
and the offices. '!'.he results of
the inspection were particularly
disappointing because the danger
of fir e s is greater during any
p e riod when employees are away
from th e plant.
No regular inspection r e port
wi ll be issued on the July inspectio n. It is exp e cte d that
eve ry '> ne will work hard to bring
our housekeeping back up to the
previous high standards by the
time of the Aug u s t ins p ec tion.
IUE STRIKES LOUISVILLE G. E.

9. 000 EMPLOY ES B L O C KED
FROM WORK
Production grou nd to a d e ad stop
at the huge G e neral Electric plant
in Louisville, Kentu c ky, y e sterday morning, and some 9, 000
emp loyees there today fac e d the
bleak prospects of th e lar ge st
sing le strike in the hi s tory of the
city. Name - c alline and fi c ratc hed
automobiles at the pic ket lines
marked the beginning of the
stri ke as a number of s ala ried
and hourly employe e s attempted
to cross the IUE picke t lines a nd
report for work.
WHODUNIT?
The master tape for th e F lexi writer in the Purch asing Office
disappeared during the va cation
shutdown. Will the pe rs o n who
hel;s the t a p e ple ase r e turn it to
Carl G e rni, Purchasing Agent.
FAMILY APPRECIATION
The family of Ken M e ad, fo r mer
Sup e rvisor of Rec e i ving , ha v e
expr e s s ed th e ir gratitu de to
Spe cialty Control emp loy e es fo r
the many expr e ssions o f s y mpa th y
after Ken's death.
CONDOLENCES
We are sorry indeed to h ear o ( the
death of the g randda u ghte r of Annie
Foltz (M ac h. Room).
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July 30, 1958
For our health, and f o r our food, we a r e indee d g rate f u l , 0 L or d .

us in all that we do and say. In Jesus' name. Amen.
RANNIE COMP LE TES 2 5 YEARS
SERVICE WITH GENERAL
ELECTRIC
PARKING VIOLA TIO NS PERSIST

In spite of numerous requ e sts that
employees park in their assig ned
parking zones, frequent violations
are still occurring. The s e violations are causing no small inconv e nience to some employees w ho
then are not able to find parking
places in their assigned z ones.
John Rannie, Supervisor of Aircraft Production, joined the

Quarter Century ranks l a s t we e k
a s he round ed out t wenty five
y e a rs o f s ervice with General
Electric .
With Sp ec ialty Control since it was
fo rmed as a Department in 1953,
J o hn's previous assignment here
i~aynesboro was Supervisor]
:e, Edit and Warehouse. H e
was appointed to his present position January 1, of this year.
J o hn b e g an his career with Gener a l
E lec tri c o n July 24, 19 33 , as a
M e ssenge r in the S c hen e cta dy
Shipping Department. Later he
wo r ked as a Production Clerk, a
R e quisition Ser vice Clerk, and a
Leader -Requisition Distribution.
In reco g nition of his servi ce , John
was presented with a 25 ye ar
s e rvic e pin by J . Ponzillo, M g r. Materials.
J. ARCHAMBEAU LT APPOINTED
SUPER VISOR OF SHIPPING
Effective Monday, July 2 8 , Joe
Archambeault has been appointed
Supervisor of Shipping, according
to an organizational announcement
r-. J. Ponzillo, Manager of the
.cer i als Sub-Section. Archambeault previously worked as a
supervisor in the Quality Control
Sub-Se c tion.
Be with
25 YEARS WITH G. E.: John

Rannie, Supv. -Produc tion Control, A&M Unit (abo v e, left) r e ceives a 2 5 year pin from Jo e
Ponzi llo, Manager -Mate rials.
Mr. Rannie joined G e n e ral
Ele c tric on July 24, 19 33 .
LO NGEST G. E. STRIKE
The longest strike i n the hi s tory
of the Comp a n y ha s no w entered
its ele venth month at the New
Orleans Apparatus S e r v i c e Shop.
Most of the employees , h oweve r,
have b ee n w orki ng r eg ular ly and
ignoring the union pi c k e t since the
early days of the strike.
Worst of the violations is the parking of employee vehicles in front

of the office in places reserved for
c ustomers, salesmen and other
visitors to our plant.
If th e se violations of our p a rking
rules persist, unpleasant
measures to bring about c ompli a nce will be necessar y . Let 1 s
no t l e t that happen - - please
c ooperate.
AROUND SPECIALTY
The Auto -Snak is now featuring
w e ekly Hot Counter Specials at
budget prices. Watch for the
special menu each week in the
cafeteria.
Congratulations to the Bob Gunns ,
on the birth of a 6 lb. l oz. Don
Juan.
Ditto also for Len Hayes and his
wife who have added a 5 lb. 12 oz.
boy to their family circle.
SAFETY SCORE
7, 076, 075 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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PETITION FILED WITH N. L. R. B.
THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD HAS INFORMED US BY

LETTER THAT THE IUE-AFL-CIO HAS FILED A PETITION FOR CERTIFICATION
TO REPRESENT SPECIALTY CONTROL FACTORY EMPLOYEES.
MATTER
WIL~
THE
NOW BE INVESTIGATED BY THEN. L.R.B. TO DETERMINE
WHETHER A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER OF OUR FACTORY EMPLOYEES WISH

TO BE REPRESENTED BY THE IUE.
THE RESULTS OF THIS INVESTIGATION
WILL DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT AN N. L. R. B. ELECTION WILL BE

HELD.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP YOU INFORMED AS NEW DEVELOPMENTS
TAKE PLACE.

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SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAY! ANO NEWS VllGINIAN
Jul y ~ I. 19 58
VOL. IV, NO. l L~
f).-~r Father , accep t tlH' gra titud e of ou r 111 .11 1

(t>r- ;i[ ] o th e r
\ ,
tor this food now before us , a nd

bless ing s with which Oll r livf' " ~n 1J :lily bl essed . In Je s u s ' name~.
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S LOPPY HOUSEKEEPE:RS
About 8 , 000 year s ago a g roup
of pr eh i stori c p e ople lived in a
big cave in Al abama. Sloppy
hou s e k e epers, they s quatted
ar ound a fi r r in thP. middle of the
cave ;i,nd threw t he i r gar bage on
th e floor. Wh en the mess g ot
too bad, instead of sweeping the
dump out, th ey carried in fresh
earth and cover e d it up! Fo r
thousands of years the i r s loppy
A.ece ndan.t s follo wed the sam e
:ac tic es , even to th e extent of
cove ring up a dead relative now
and then.
Today ' s archeologists are thankful for the bad hous e k eeping .
Digging down throu gh the alter nate lay ers of earth and rubble ,
they can date each layer by
measuring the radio active count
from th e charcoal l eft at the
ancient fires . That ' s how th ey
know that this parti cular cave
was inhabited 8 , 000 years ago.
Note: No h e lp for futur e ar c h eologists here . Good houseke ep ing will co ntinu e to be s tand ard
practice at Specialty Control.
IND. GOLF LEAGUE MEETING
HERE
Welcome to representatives of
~e area I ndustrial Go lf L eague
:ich is meeting at Specia lty

Control today.
Memb er indus tries include A. S . R., DuPont,
M erck, W es tinghouse and
Sp ec ialty Contro l.
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BALL SCOH.ES
American Leagu~ =
D e tr oit 2 - Boston
Chicago ll - W ashington 9
Cleveland 6 - Baltimore 3
K. C . !. - New Y or i-- 0
National L eague :
Milwa uk ee 5 - L . A . 3
Philade lphia 5 - St. Louis
Pitt sburgh 7 - Chi cago l
Cincinnati 5 - S an. Fran. l
AROUND SPECIALTY
Congratulations to Ed and Kay
Monger on the birth of their
second daughter , Mic helle L ynn.
The Waynesboro Babe Ruth All
Stars wi ll make a bid for the
State Championship a t the Port s mouth playoffs tonight. Also
playing in the P ort smouth games
tonight will be Wa ynes boro' s
South L itt l e L eague.
Danny O ' Donne ll, Jr., 8 y e ar old
so n of Dan O'Donnell (Eng. ) won
second prize in Childr e n ' s
Horsemanship and fourth prize
in C o stume Clas s at the Weyers
Cave Pony S how ye sterd a y. He
will show in the Stuar t s Draft
Horse Show Saturday.
Most of the shadows of this life

are c aused by standing i n our own
sunshine.
BREA K FAST WILL flE NEW

AUTO - SNAK FEATURE
STAR TI NG MONDAY
Mi ssi n g your breakfas t in the

morning? Well no need for that
anymore because the Auto - Snak
will be se r v ing breakfast beginning Monda y morning , A ug . 4.
The decision to provide break fas t stemm ed from numer ous re quests by employees for that
k ind of se rvi ce . However , the
Mack e Company wi 11 i ns ti tute the
service on a 30 day trial basi s to
determine if the demand for a
breakfa st se r vi ce is g r e at eno ugh
to warrant the opening o f the
se rving li n e.
The Auto-Sna k will ope n for
breakfast each morning at 6 : 3 0
AM to accommodate those em ployees who mu st r epo rt to wo r k
at 7:00 AM. The l ine wi ll be
closed down at 6 :45 AM and will
reop e n from 7:00 AM to 7 : 15 AM
to accommodate employees who
report for work at 7: 30 AM.
So, if you ' re a bac h e l or who
hates to c ook his own or i f y <)u
wa nt to l et your wife catch a
couple of ex tra winks in t he AM,
ge t in the Ma c k e b r eakfas t habit
here at the p la nt.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 37 8 days
7 , 085, 243 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Save the Stock Bonus Way
One way for everyone t.o build up their savings is through the General
Electric Savings and Stock Bonus Plan.
Through regular payroll deductions of a minimum of seventy five cents
a week or a maximum of $10. 00 a week, employees can receive both
the regular interest on their Savings Bonds plus 15% of the amount
speht on the bonds in st.ock if they remain active in the plan for five
years .
For example, if $10.00 a week is deducted for one year, $520 is spent
in bonds. After five years, a bonus of $78 plus the accumulated dividend
income in addition to the regular 3 1/4% interested is added t.o the original
investment.
Watch it
GROW
'S
NEWS
s,ons.
NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYS ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 133
August l, 1958
Bles s thi s food to the nourishme nt of our bodie s and our bodies in Thy servi ce ;
through J esus Christ our Lord. Amen.
URGENT!
A very expensi ve and hard to get
sili con controlled rectifier has been
misplace d in the Prototype Ar ea
(near t he t ube cage ) and is urg e nt ly n ee ded for an important ex p erimental projec t being worked
on b y engineer ing .
Resembling a more common
silicon diode used frequ e ntly in
the Department, the sili- LOS T
con controlled re c tifier
~ a special device r e liring a special circuit
~,
'
and wo ul d not be suitable
for ordinary silicon
,-~1
diode applications. I t i s
I
bluish in color. The
l I
..._-...
drawing (right) is the
.-.--actual size and appea r ---=- jl
--=
ance of the rectifier.
,,
If anyone finds it or knows of its
STAMPS SPIRAL
OLD PENNY POSTCARDS AT
NE W HIGH
That famous post office bargain,

the old penny postcard has hit a
n ew high wi t h the l atest po s t a l
hike that goes into effec t today.
P ostc ards will be 3 from now on,
while the 3 l etter goes to 4. The
price change puts Air Mail stamps
at 7 and rai ses the rates on other
classes of mai l as we ll . Hop e all
this doesn't dis co ura ge o ur faith. ful letter w riting friends,
RIDE WANTED
Al Saufley n eeds a ride from
Staunton o n the 7: 30 to 4 :00 shift.
If you have room in you r car p ool
or can g i ve Al a lift, please contact him on E .< t . 331.
BLO ODMOBILE DUE THIS

MONTH
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will
come to Specialty Control this
month for its final visit. of the
year on Aug ust 20, it was announced today by B i ll Perry, Emi:
Rel., who will take char ge of
plant arrangements for the visit.
Mrs . L. T. Rader, in charge o f
the Bloodmobile program in
Waynes boro, will handle external
a rrange ments for the visit.
The Bloodmobile ' s last visit to thE

plant netted 179 pints of blood , an
all time record in the community.
In announcing the August 20 date,
Bill e xpressed the hope that
Spe c ialty wo uld reach that figure
again this time.
Blood donor solicitors from
various parts of the plant will be
named later in the month and
a ppointme nts will be made for
donors to give blood on Company
time .
whereabouts the y will do Specialty

Control a big favor by bringing it
THE IUE AT LOUIS VILLE
to Bill Wolanin's d esk ( Electronics
mf g. area) or to Lo st and Found
Sin ce Sunday night the IUE has
in Employee Relations.
b ee n on s trike at Applia n ce Park,
The Bloodmobile is a life-saver
the huge GE installation in Louis for many - - someday it may be
ville, Kentucky. With produc tion
able to help you. Do your part -ALL STARS RAINED OUT
reduc e d to little mor e than a
plan to contribu te your pint of
trickl e and some 9, OOCJ workers
blood to the Bloodmobile this very
... ;-ie Waynesboro B a b e Ruth All
invo l ve d, this is the biggest strike
next visit.
Stars were rained out last night
that has eve r g ripp ed the c ity of
at the Portsmouth playoffs . Both L o uisville.
the Babe Ruth and the Litt l e
League t eams are schedul ed again The inside pages of TODAY'S
SAFETY SCORE
r today.
NEWS carry a copy of an advertise 1, 379 days
ment run by GE Appliance Park
7, 094, 411 hour s
management. B e s u re to r ead it
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
carefully.
PROVERB : A short sentence
ACCIDENT
bas e d on long exp eri e n ce.
,e
e e e
Heavy-handed mass picketing of all Appliance Par k entrances

by JUE Local 761 prevented employees from going lo theit"
jobs yesterday morning. Company officials arc cndea\oring
to keep the plant open for <.i ll '\ho wan t to com e lo work
..-..
This strike at Appliance Park is costing

employees more than $1,000,000 a week ... it
is costing the community three to five times
this much. Why have Local 761 officials
elected to take this irresponsible action?
In spite of these tragic consequences - consequences that
will affect everyone in this community-officials of L ocal

761 have refused to inform the Company, employees, or
the community why they have called their strike at
Appliance Park, or what they hope to gain.
On several occasions they have contended in the newspapers that it is because the Company disciplined 38
employees who-for six weeks-have conducted a concerted slowdown in the Household Refrigerator Department.
Other times, they have said the strike is because of their
dissatisfaction over the way 24 grievances were discussed
at the third level of the grievance procedure.
Yet, when they took a strike vote on July 11, they reportedly used ballots reading:
VOTE YES (for a strike) and protect your Union
rights
VOTE NO (against a strike) a nd give the Company
your rights
At the Union's request, the Company scheduled a meeting
in New York last Friday with top union officials to specifically rediscuss the 24 grievances. However, throughout the
21/2-hour meeting, union officials refused to discuss these
grievances; they even said they "were no longer interested
in them."
The union did try to get the Company to discuss the
disciplinary action taken because of the slowdown. As
before, the Company explained that the slowdown was a
violation of the n ationa l GE-IUE contract, and that the
Company would not discuss any breach of a contract while
it was still in effect. So there the confused matter stands.
Local 761 officials placed pickets on Appliance Park gates
last night before 9 o'clock. They informed the Company

at 9:30 p.m. that Local 761 was on strike. They were
reported in the newspapers as striking "over failure to
reach agreement with the Company on 24 grievances that
have gone through all levels of processing."
If this is the reason for the strike that is costing employees
more than $250,000 every day it lasts, why didn't union
officials discuss it Friday at a meeting arranged specifically
for this purpose?
If the strike is, after all, over the slowdown, then it is an
illegal strike and Local 761 officials are denying employees,
the community and the Company millions of dollars.
The big question now Is: How and when will this costly,
irresponsible strike be settled when Local 761 officials
consistently switch issues, always refusing to tell why they
have decided to take this hasty, tragic action?
The Company will make every effort to keep Appliance
Park operating. Pickets have no legal right to block the
entrance of employees and a court order has been obtained that limits the pickets to three at each gate.
As to discussion between the Company and the union
regarding settlement of the strike, we see little hope for
an early end to i"t as long as Local 761 officials refuse to
specifically identify the issue. If the strike is over the 24
grievances that have gone through the grievance procedure,
there just is nothing 'in the wood" that the Company can
agree to do beyond what already has been done about
those grievances.
Meanwhile, Appliance Park employees, the community and
the General Electric Company will continue to lose . . .
and the loss will be irreplaceable.
To All Employees: Appliance Park is open and you are

legally entitled to return to work.
Relations and Utilitiea, General Electric Company
.Appliance Park, Louisville, Kentuck7
Substantial Wage and Benefit lncreas~

Go Into Effect This Fall ...
AUTOMATICALLY
HERE IS WHAT YOU GET:
1. The largest pay increase yet
Effective this fall, wages will be increased
automatically by 3.48%. This pay increase will
be higher than the annual 3 % increases in each
of the first three years of the contract.
2.
The highest minimum under this

increase
The new higher minimum provides that in

no case will an eligible employee receive less
than 5c per hour. T his compares to the 4Vi
cent minimum effective so far under this contract.
3.
This m eans that since employees are already paying taxes on the basis of their gross
earnings before d eductions, they will be receiving the equivalent of a tax-free increase of 1%
because their take-home pay will go up without
any increase in taxes.
4. Increased gua ranteed mm1mum

pension
For employees who retire with 15 years or
more service, the guaranteed minimum monthly
pension will be $2.25 instead of $2 for each year
of credited service up to 25 years.
The equivalent o f an additional

1% tax-free increase
5. Continuation of cost-of -living adjustments
The elimination of the I % pension contribution on earnings up to $4,200 will put up to

42 tax-fre e dollars into employees' pockets.
The contributions of employees on earnings
above $4,200 will be reduced from 4% to 3 % .
And all without reducing the value of
pensions!
I n 1957 alone, this cost-of-living adjustm ent program provided a 3Vi % increase in addition to the regular annual increase. So far in
1958 there has been an extra 2Vi% pay boost
( including the 9th increase announced this
week) from the cost-of-living "escalator" plan
alone.
'S
NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROl

S,OllTS. NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
yOL. Iy. NO.
133
EMPLOYEES
August 4, 1958
D ear H eave nly Fathe r , a t eve ry table w he r e food i s spr ead Thou art host. Pr e pare
our hearts, through lo ve and servic e, for these blessings from Thy hands. Amen.
V IOLENCE , LOST $
MOUNT AS LOUISVILLE
STRIKE ENTERS 2ND WEEK
CONTROLLERS EARN
TOP SAFETY AWARD
CONTROLLERS EARN
TOP SAFETY AWARD
Incidents of vio lence and vandalisrr,

mounted on the IU E pi cket lines at
GE' s Appliance P ark in L ouis ville as the strike continued into
its second week.
So far in the week-old strik e three
men ha ve been arrested, autos
have been de libera te l y gouged with
n~s , car win dows have been
. shed a nd at l east one nonstriker's house has b een smeared
with paint.
Specialty Control employees received the Nationa l S afety Council' ~

. highest a ward l ast week when they
completed 7 million man hours
worke d w ithout a single lost time
accident.
(L-R) Mary Coffey and Mae
Hostetter present Dr, Rader with
!the Award of Honor which Spe cial ty Control employees won for their
safety achievement. Safety
.specialist Bill Perry looks on.
The Award of Honor , a plaque

upon which is recorded the safety
achie vement and the name of the
Department, was forma lly prese nted to General Mana ge r Dr. L.
T . Rader by Mae Hostetter (Wire
j Harness) and Mar y Coffey (Relays)
; in hehalf of all Sp ecialty Control
employees . Dr. Rader con -
Strike costs, too, have mounted as ;

BREAKFAST ON GRIDDLE
Company officials pegged lost
BACH A. M. IN AUTO-SNAK
produc tion at $5 million a week
and a million dollars each we e k in
A reminde r to all you big break; gratulated a ll members of the
employees' lost wages .
fast eaters that the griddle will be D e partment for accomplishing
T a l ks b etwee n IUE stri ke leade rs .hot every morning in the Auto: such an o ut standing record and set
and Company r e pr esentati ves have ' snak to serve up your eggs t h e way a new goal of 10 million m an hours
failed to bring the strike any closei} you like ' e m.
: without a l ost time accident. Safety
t o an end.
. Specialist Bill P erry estimated
! that the 10 million mark c ould be
The Macke Company will be open- : reached sometime i n June 1 59 at
ing its serving line on an experi - : the p rese nt leve l of employment
MEETING SCHEDULED WITH
.mental basis for the next 30 days.
N . L. R. B., UNION REPS.
If there is ade quate employee ac Specialty rates second in safety
Representati ves of Specialty Con- ceptance , during the next 30 days, ! performan~e out of more than 130
trol, the National Labor Relations Macke will c ontinue to make break.i plant locations in General Electric.
Board, and the IU E-AF L-CIO will !fast available in the Auto - SI\ak.
[
me et next Monday, August 11, at
1:30 PM to discuss a date and
G. E. SCOGEE SOFT BALL
I 11UNION NEWS" POSTED IN THE
arrangements for an NLRB supe rGE
goes
agai
nst
Daw
barn
Bros.
CAFETERIA
,..-.~ d election at our plant,
tonight at 6 P M in t he league play-1
ioffs. Come on o ut and see the
In case you haven't seen it yet,
1game at the softball diamond in
I there is a bulletin board in the
Baldne ss is a crisis coming to a
!back of the municipal swimming
cafeteria carrying latest inforipool tonight.
! mation on IUE activities at Louishead.
'
: ville and elsewhere.
WASTE TAKES JOBS
Was te is a qui e t enemy.
It
cre e ps into our work in the factory

and the offic e .
S ometimes i.t t ake s
the form of materi a l or parts cas t
i.nto a t r ash can because of s l opp y

workmans hip .
S o m e times we see
i.t in the form of u nnecessa r y p ape r

work in the offi ce.
Some times we
see it in the form of inad e quate

plannin g which leads to misdirecte d
e ffo rt.
Befor e we know it, we m.1y find that our values a r en 't up to those ,of our
comp e titor s .
lost.
An order is l os t.
Or two .
Or a dozen.
And then a dozen jobs are
Or 50 . Or 100.
It' s as simple as that.
Waste takes job s.
Waste stands squarely in the
path of our OPERATION UPTURN efforts t o build sales and jobs in' 58.
Waste
i s our personal enemy.

Each of us can h e lp in th e f i ght to whittle this enemy down to size.
b y keeping was te at a m i nimum we can bol s t er our chan ce s to build sales and
jobs not only in 19 58 but fo r years to c o me .
And
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$,ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WA YB ANO NEWS VlllGIMIAM
VOL. IV, NO. 135
August 5, 1958
Dear Lor<l , we thank The e for foo d for our bodies a nd for Thy love , which is t he food for
ou l' s oul s . In J cs ul'l 1 name . Amen.
DEP T . AWARDS PRESENTED TO

K ELLI NG , LIVINGSTON F OR
' NEW PATENT APPLICATIONS
L eroy K e lling and O rrin L i vingston (both E n gi neeri n g ) received
Departme nt ciward s l ast F r iday
fo r th e ir work which l ed to the
filing of applic a tion s for two ne w
patents.
L eroy Ke lling ' s a pplication was
fo r a c ir cuit for. a regi s ter cont ro l devic e which would be used
"h e manufacture o f paper cups .
Orrin L ivin gsto n fi led application
for a patent on a fe edback c ir cuit
in ai rc raft vol tage r egulation s ys tems which h e deve l oped h e re at
Specialty Control.
Or r in Livingston hold s 51 patent s ,

one of the large st number of
patents grante d to anyone in t he
Company .
A ROUN D SPECIAL TY
Di ck Schmitt ( Mgr. - Mfg. E n g .) i s
sti ll out with a broken ankle which
h e r ec ei ved i n an auto accide nt
d urin g vacation shutdown.
S or ry to he ar a bout Peg Huffman's
boy Billi e who serious ly bur ned
t he p a lms of both hands when h e
fe ll on a hot k itc hen ra nge.
Vi s iting wi t h us today is Prof. R.

G. Kloeffer of Ka nsas State
College School of Engineering .
Professor Kloeffe r is gathering
up-to-date information on Resistance W e lding Control Ele ctronic
Motor Drives and other industrial
applicati ons .
It was announced Mo nday by a

Vice Pr es ident of t he American
Viscose Compa ny a t Roanoke t ha t
the R oanoke plant of American
Viscose will b e permanently
closed down. With the closing of
t he plant, 1150 e mplo yees will be
out of jobs .
../
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EX-U NION MAN

TORTURED, SET AFIRE
:F'rank Kierdorf, a former union

business age nt i n Pontiac, Michi gan, who r e c e ntly a ppeared be fore the S e nate inv e stigation on
rackete e ring in the labor mo ve ment, staggered into a Pontiac
hospital yesterday afternoon,
blistered and burned beyo nd
r ecognition. His hair and clothe s
AWARD OF HONOR DISPLAYED
were burned off a n d 85% of his
IN PLANT CAFETERIA
body was burned. Hoodlums had
T he Award of Honor p laque which apparently tortured him, poured
' gasoline o ver him and set him
was pr es e nted to Spe cialty Conafire.
t r olle r s for achieving 7 1 000, 000
safe man hour s can be seen in the
c afeteria near the south exit.
The p l aque will late r b e placed in

the recep tion room.
"G ood o h erooon, madam - I roprosont

tho Midlo wn Sale1 Company ... ,"
17 50 EMPLOYEE S LOSE
JOBS AT AM. VISCOSE PLAN'!'
SAFETY SCORE
1, 383 DAYS
7, 11 2 , 747 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
CONTROLLERS ADVANCE
IN YMCA TOUR NEY
The SCOGEE Softball Team beat
Virginia Me talcrafters last nigh t
in the first game of the YMCA
L eague playoffs . The Cont rollers
rtjeet Metalc rafters again tonight
in their second playoff gam e .
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A STRIKE NEVER MADE A JOB

_If y~u.re wondering what the big hole in the Sheet Metal Area
is. ..
.
for- the answer is that its for the new Automatic Wiedemann Press
that us.es Specialty Control's *'Numerical Positiob.ing C~ntrol."
. If you're
~ondering
when it's.going to be installed .... well,
we re wondering too I
_The Wiede~nn Preas Company promised delivery during
. vacation ~hu~d~wn so that it could be installed wfthout interfering with
.
'.
.. olir pi".od~ction~. Then in spite of a w::dtten:.itrio strike" agre.e~~nt; the

union at_Wiedemann called the workers off their jobs
July lZ,
freezing
'
all w9rk and shipments at their plant. Our
equipme~t
is still caught
.in that freeze-and we dont lt~ow when we will get it .
. We
ha~e
d$cided to wait for the Wiedemann Compa~y to get.
'bac~ into proc:1ucdon and:in the meantime we are finding other work for
the.people who
wer~
supposed to. we>rk on the .new press.
-We can't help but wonder, though, if there were any.Wiedemann

customers who ju~t couldn't wait arid placed their ~rders with a _co~~
petin.g-_ . _compa:ny. With this tho.ught in mind it's hard to see how strikes
and walkouts can give anyone more jc;>b security.
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SPO RTS, NATIONAL ANO WO RLD NEWS -
VOL. IV, NO. U6
CO URTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGIN IAN
August 6, 19 5R
Ou r H e a vl! nly Fat h e r , we th ank Tltcc (o r th e b l es s i ngs of thi s d a y , a nd as w e par tak e o f

thi s ft, o rL h e l p u s t o he m indful of t h e ne ed~ o f othc~r s , t h rou gh Jesus Christ, o u r Lord.
An1 e n .
HUMAN TORCH TALKS

TO POLI CE
Deepenin g th e g ri z z l y my s t e ry of
"vho soak e d ex - u n i o n Lu s inc s s
a g ent Fr a nJ<. l<: H: r d_o r f itt g aso line
and set h im a fir e, in ve sti gators
now r e port t hat K i erdorf 1 s un cle ,
a l s o a n ex - union b11sines s agen t,
di sappea red M o nday afte rnoon
aft er b e i n g thr e at e ned " You '.r c
next . ''
hum a n tor c h v i c tim F r ank
Ki erdorf told polic e ye ste rday
t hat h e was p os iti v e t h e t o rtu r e
burnin g wa s in s ome way conn e cted with union busine ss .
VISITORS
Visiting ou r plant t h i s week are
M ess r s. C . B. B ec k . SAE,
S c h f! n e ctady; R . E. Parke r , U ISD,
Cha rlott e , N . C .; and R.R.
Pr echter , USID, Atl a nta, Ga.,
who wil l p a rticipate in the te s t of
a new Par-ma ti c Dri v e for s ynthe tic fib e r spinning . Also vi s it ing i s Mr. G e org e F. Damon,
Organi c Finishing Engineer from
the GE Syracus e M aterials a nd
Pro ce s s es L aboratory. W e
e xtend our mo s t s inc e r e we lco me .
FOR M USI C LOVERS

(A comp i et( news report is posted
Mr . Clifford T. Mar s hall, Music
on the Union News bulleti n board
Di re c tor of Madison Co llege,
near the c afete r i a e xi t.)
Harrisonburg, is interested in
form ing a conce rt orchestra. If
enough inte r est is s h own, the
GE SPEC I ALTY CONTROL F IRE
orche s t r a will b e formed and
B R IGADE TO PARADE A GAIN
Madi s on College faci li t i es will be
us ed as a m eeting and p ra ctice
The GE V u luntcer F ir e Brigade
place.
If a n yo n e i s interes t ed
wi ll p a rad e to n ight, August 6, at
ple ase conta c t Rosemary Ho wa rd
She nando a h , Va. The smoke
or Bill Perry, Employee Relations
ca ter s w i ll lea ve GE g round s
a t 5 PM sha rp .
start a t 7 PM.
The parade will
by calling 243 or 244.
TWO MAGA Z INES FEATUHE

AR TIC L ES BY CONTROL
EMPLOYEES
The Jul y is s ue of "Electronic
Equipme nt Enginee ring" ma gazine
has a very interesting article on
" Mini a turization of D esig n Technique s " writte n by our o wn John
S .Z imm e r of th e Engine e ring
Section. Also, in the July issue
o f the "Ame r ica n M a chinis t", P aul
H e rmann and Ed Dinger, Eng ine e r ing Se c tion, c o lla borate d in wr iti n g a ve r y g ood artic l e on "How
To Choo se and Us e Ele c trical
Adjus tabl e Speed Drive s." Each
o ne of th ese e ngineers r e ceiv e d
a $50 award g ive n by the editors
of th e r e specti ve publications.
We exte nd ou r c ong ratu l at ions to
the wr iters.
SCOGEE C ARDS ARE
TEMPORARY ONL Y
Jim Austin, SCOGEE Pres i dent,
e xp l ai n e d today that the SCOGEE
membership cards which wer e
distr ibuted last Friday with checks
were only t empor ary. SCOGEE
r e c or d s are being put o n the IBM
sys t e m.
LOST
RECOVERING
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- i. Gille tt e of t h e Marke ting
Section underwe nt surgery at
King ' s D a u ~ ht e r s 1 Hospital i n
S taunto n. We arc glad to hear Ed
i s doi n g fine and w e w i sh him
a prompt re c ove ry.
New cards will b e issued Dec . 31

wh e n t h e c h a n geove r to IBM is
The Quality Control Sub -Section
complete
d.
reports the loss of a s p ecial
Starrett Micrometer u s e d i n th e
Coil A rca. This micromete r has
SAFETY SCORE
the GE ide ntific a tion number 259
l, 384 days
a nd if found s h ould b e returned to
7, 121, 915 hou rs
the Tool Ca ge.
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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B RE A KFAST I N CAF E T E RIA
T he C a fete r ia i s o p en f o r b re a kfast each mor n ing o n a 3 0 d a y t r ial b a s i s .

li s t e d s o me of t h e b r e a k f as t i te m s a v a ilab le.
Butte r ed T oa s t a nd J e lly
1 0~
Coffee or Hot C hocolate
1 0~
E gg Sa n dwi ch
20~
One Eg g, T oas t, Butter a n d J e lly

Two E gg s, T oas t , B utter a n d J e lly
2 5
One E gg, T oa s t, B u tte r and J e lly,

Ham or B a c on
Two E ggs , T oast, B utte r a nd J e lly ,
H a m o r B a c on
3 5f
55~
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O ran ge Jui c e
1 Of
T omato J ui c e
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P i n ea pple Jui c e
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n1 1.. _, , 11 ., , o Lord ! and th c!;e T h y
t hro u g h C hri s t ou r Lo rd. A1n e n.
NO MI::t\NS YES:
Th e: I VE ha s dc,v i sc d a new
n1cthod 0 f t;iking s t rike v ot l ~S , one
tha t coun t !; an unc a s t vot e a s a
" yes " vote.
R e c e ntl y IUE offi c'ials a t the

G e n e r a l Ele ctric Wate rford
Sili co n e Pr o du c ts D e partment
call e d a membe rship meeting for
t he purpo se of voting on whe ther
or n o t t o authori ze a s trik e over
t w o loca l g ri evances .
t h e m ee ting , th e a c tual count

was 6 7 - 6 2 in f a vor of no strike .
Howe v e r, pr i or to th e m ee ting,
t h e u nion offi c i a ls a nnounce d that
a ll m e mbe r s not attending the
mee ti nr ''lOuld b e c ounted a s
fa vor i n 1 he s trik e . Evide ntly 7 6
mem b ers faile d to attend, becau se th e uni o n officials notified
t h e Wate rford management that a
s t r ike had b e en authorized by a
vote of 138 to 67.
r-
It a ppe ar s that the union officials

wa nte d a s trike rega rdle ss of
wha t the m e mbers wanted e ven
tho u g h they would be the one s who
w>u ld lose th e pay while walking
lhe pave ments. It rai s es the old
ques tion: Are union official s the

naste r s or th e ser va nts?
SAFETY SCORE
1, 38 5 day s
7, 13 1, 083 hours
ACCIDE N T
COURTESY OF WAYS AMO MEWS VllGIMIAM
~ ift s,
Au g 11 ; t 7, l 958
w lii c h we a rc a h o 11t to rf'c.c i ve fr o 11 1 Thy bo u nty ,
POLIO SHOTS
NEW P AT EN T
T he pa te nt office in W ashin gto n

Vi rginia ' s p o lio cases for the year
h as rec e nt ly i s s ued t o t he
r eac h ed 3 5 today , with t he r e port
G e n e r a l El ec tr ic: Compa n y ,in the
by th e Sta te Health D e pt. of two
n a me of M. 0 . Bassett,a new
mo re cases o f t he pa r a lyti c t y p e .
pa.te nt f o r a "T wo Dime n s i o n
T<acer C o ntrol System" .Thi s is
The se two cas es were a 5 y ea r
the fifth patent issued in Mr.
old girl from Ro c kin gham County
Ba sse tt' s name . Cong ratulations.
a nd an 11 y e a< o ld girl from Warre n County. We urge a ll parents
to have their child< e n vacc inated
RETURN MATCH
against this d< e ad di s ease . See
your do c tor a bout th e Salk polio
A c onting ent of 15 club swinge rs
shots .
from G. E. Industry Control in
ANNUAL BARBECUE
The Gr e enville Ruritan Club will
have th e ir Annual Barbecue on
August 8 and 9 on the Greenville
School grounds. The affair will
be h e l d rain or shine . A .beautiful pony wi ll be given away
Saturday night to a lucky winn er,
R o anok e will invade the golf link s

a t Ing l e side Country Club on
Sunday, August 10, for a r e turn
match with the G. E . Specialty
Control golfer s . Anyone intereste d in partic ipating in thi s mat c h
ple as e contact Joe Belak, Ext.
233 , or Bill P e rry, E x t. 469. The
starting time of the match wi ll be
at 11 AM.
STATISTICS
In 1957, 38, 700 d e aths were
regi s t e r e d in th e U.S. due to
automobile driving,and of th e se
15, 670 were ov e r the weekends.
S o ple ase driv e car e full y . W e
want you back h e r e on Monda y .
SPORTS
It look s like th e Milwaukee BraveE
and the N e w York Yankees arc
bound for anoth e r W o rld S e rie s .
" J ohn Never F o r gets Our Annivcrs :11 y- It's the Same D:1y He
~ auk That 30- F oot P11 tt"
PREVIOUS R.F:I'USAL OF UPGHADING DOES

NOT RU LE OUT FUTUR I : OPPORTUNITIES
An e mplo yee who for his own pc r so n a l re a sons r efuses an opportunity

for upgrading is still co n s id e r ed for every s ub s e q11en t job opening for which
h e or she i s qualified, it was explained today by Bill Flynn, Department
Employment Spe c ialist.
Some times an employee who fully qualifies for a specific job opening
may prefer to remain on his pr ese nt job for any number of personal reasons.
For example, he or she may prefer the nature of their present work; or may
prefer to continue to work with his present group of fellow-workers , etc.
In such cases, the employee m ay refuse the opportunity for up g rading with out any fear of injurin g his chances of being offered the opportunity for an
upgrading another time .
Mr. Flynn went on to expla in tha t eac h time an opening occurs for
which an emp loyee has the neces sary qualifi cations and ability , the employee
will b e considered for up grading whether or not he has previously turned
down a n opportunity for upgrading.
"This has a lway s been Spec ialty Control policy," h e said "and we have
up g r a ded in se veral instan ces where an employee ha s pr e viously refused an
opportunity to b e upgraded. "
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VOL. I V I NO. 138
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B lessed art Thou, 0 Lord, our God, King of the unive rs e , who bringest fo r th bread from
the ear th. Amen.
DEPARTMENT BLOOD DRIVE BEGINS

NEXT WEEK --- PLE/\SE GIVE
Next week all employees of the
Special t y Control Department will
be approached by Red Cross Dlood
Drive Cha irmen appointed f rom
various plant areas . When you
are asked to s i gn up to give a
pint of bl ood on Wednesday,
August 20, we s incerel y hope you
will say "yes " because the Bl oodmobile needs your bl ood contr i bution now.
number of Specialty Control em.oyees have had occasions to call
upon the Blood Dank for hel p .
They know what it means to be
able to get bl ood f or a l oved one
without the necessity of any
troubl e . If you have been for tunate enough not to have needed a
pint or mor e of blood for yoursel f or a relative, there is still
the possi bility that s ome day,
somewhe r e you may require Blood
Da nk he l p. Your suppor t is needed for t his drive . PU :AS.8 GI VE!
AUTOMOBILE COLLISI ONS

Di d you know that during 1957
there were 1,838,200 per sons injur ed by automobile collisi ons and
Once more the snappy General
7,600
by rail road t r a i n collisions ?
Elect r ic Volunteer Fire Br igade
Pl
ease
observe the courtesy of the
have been i nvite d t o participate in
road and by this way you wi ll minithe Annual Fireman ' s Pa rade in
mize t he chances of getting into
Fairfield, Virginia, to be he l d
an accident .
toni ght , August 8. The Br igade
will leave G.E . gr ounds at 5:30 PM
and the par ade will start promptl y
at 7 :00 PM .
CO~ITEIY
G. E. FIRE BRIGADE
WIEDEMANN PRESS
The Wiedemann Press to be i nst a l l ed in the Sheet Metal Area was
delivered yesterday to the factory
This mammoth machine we ights
approximatel y 4o t ons , a nd whe n in
operation will be e quipped with a
Nume rica l Positioning Control designed by our Engineering Section
a nd built by our f actory pe r~ onnel
f or t hio particul ar type of equipment .
UNION "TORCH" DIES OF BURNS

Frank Kierdorf , Teamsters Union
of f icial and suspected arsoni st ,
di ed today of t he bur ns f r om
flames that t urned hi m into a
human torch.
REMINDER
The
BLOODMOBILE
is
COMING
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WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 20, 1958
Accordine to Bill Pe rry, Safety

Specialist, and Fred Cu.rto,
Supervisor of Maintenance, there
will be a eeneral plant inspect ion
on Monday, Aup;ust 11 . Needless to
say eve ryone should strive t o have
bis area in ship- shape condition.
B 1\. R B E C U E
The Annual Chicken Bar beque , sponsored by the Men ' s Club of Calvarv
Met hodist Church, will be hel d to~
morr ow, Saturday, August 9, on thP.
Stuarts Draft School gr ounds from
5 until 8 PM.
INJURED
SAFETY SCORE
1, 386 days
7. 14 0, 251 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
AC CIDENT
We are sorry to hear t hat Bill

Walker (Eng . Lab .) was inj ured recently at home while movi ng a
r efrigerator. We wish him a.
prompt recovery .
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Thirty years ago

1928 -- is a very significant year in General ~lectric
history, as it was the year when General Electric employees were tirst able to
enjoy group hospitalization benefits.
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Since that time, the hospitalization benefits fQr employees of General Electric
have been con~i~ually i~proved, and today we have a hospitalization plan which.
is generally recognized asithe ~est in industry.
The first group of employees to receive hospitalization benefits under this
plan in April, 1928, were those ~orking at the River Works in Lynn, Ma.Ssachusetts.
Three months later, similar "benefits.were offered to employees of.the Schenectady
.. Works Mutual Benefit ASsociation. Many other employees of the Company at qther
locations ;Were give~ an opportunity ~o receive this important coverag~ . .
In 1950, the General Electric Company offered to all employees its first
Company-wide package insurance plah which.inclu~ed:
1.
2.
Hospitalization - surgical and (later) i~-hospital

physician's attendance coverage.
Life Ihsurance
3 : Accidental death or dismemberment coverage.

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Weekly sickness and accident benefits.
5.
Maternity penefits.
General Electric continually studies all benefits programs and these studies led
to the development of the improved insurance package in 1955, including the pacesetting Comprehensive Medical Expense Insu~ance and other improvements.~ Thousands
of other companies have since patterned their employee insurance p~ograms. after
.General Electrie!'s Comprehensive Plan. Thereis a tradition in General Electric

Company going back morethe.n half a century of pioneering in employee benefits
plans and our lat~st Plan follows that tradition.
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S,OltTS, NATIONAL AND WORLO MEWS - COURTESY Of WAY8 ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 139
Au gust 11, 1958
No~ o nly for thi s food , <lo we g i ve Th ee thanks, 0 God, but for work a nd its r ewards, for
fr ie nds , for he a lth. Ame n .
SECRETARIAL TRAINING
C OURSE
Ac c ording to J. R. McE c k ron,
M a n ager -Office Procedures, a
spe cial tr a ining cour se for secre ta ri es hrt s b ee n organize d .
Twenty -nine secr~ tarie s hav e
a gree d to take the course whi c h
wi ll c onsist o f 10 se ssions for
eac h class .
Th~r e
will b e two c lass es eac h

W e dn e sday, one from 1: 30 to
:rn P M and th e othe r from 2: 35
.1 : 15 PM .
In addi tion to th e regular curriculum, a number of gu es t s p e akers
w i 11 g iv e s hort talk s on special i z ed s ubj e c ts pertaining to sec r e tar ial d uti es . These subjects
a r e typing , g raphs, filin g , proper
p osture and poise, report f orm ::i ,
teleph one e tiquette, e tc .
The inte res t s ho w n by thos e t a ktng th e c ourse is indi ca ti ve of our
e mployee 1 ::; i n te r e s t in se lf 1rnpro v emc nt a nd better performa nc e.
13 T O 8 IS THE SCORE
Th<:< i ndu s try Control Golfe r s
f rom Roanok e trounced th e
S pecia lty C o ntrollers by a scor e
oi i3 to 8 in their golf match yes da y at In g l e side C o untr y C lub .
B ill H aupt of Indus try carded a 76
w h il e Char li e Minter and Ra lph
Hawki ns of Specialty ca m e up with
a 7 8 sco r e.
INSPECTORS HOLD PICNIC

ARCHAMBEAULT HONORED
Jo e Ar c hambeault, fo~mer supe rvisor of the Inc oming and In Proce ss Ins pe c tion Ope rations,
was s urprise d with s ome attractive parting gifts from
inspec tion unit employees who
used to work w ith him .
Th e presentation was made to
Joe at the group's summer picnic
h e ld last S a turday at Gypsy Hill
Park in Staunton.
FLYING MACHINE THAT CAN

ACT LIKE A CAR
The Pias ecki Aircraft Corp. in
C a lifornia is buHding two opera tiona l models of a machine that
will perform a dual purpose. It
will either fly like a h e licopte r or
r ide like a n automobile. This
n ew machine has already passed
ground t e st s d~ te rmin g thrust,
s ta bility a nd c ontr o l. The flying
tests have not b ee n conducted y e t.
We wi 11 be anxious to know th e
ultimate r es ults .
NEW ELECTRON TUBE

An electron tube not much larger
than a shirt button, yet capable of
ope rating at 900 F to 1500 F ,
ha s b ee n develop e d re ce ntly by
Gene ral Electric Co.
This tube is made of laye rs of
titanium and special ceramic COfn
pol}.nd. Still in its infancy stage,
it will bring this type of tube
down to transi s tor size. It is
hoped that it will b e available in
the market for c ommercia l purpo se s within a reasonable period
of time.
CONG RA TU LA TIO NS
Cynthia Eileen H e arn, an 8 lh..
bundle of joy, arrived on Tuesday ,
August 5. The little Miss will
make her permane nt residence
with Mr. and Mrs . Drew ~ ea rn,
512 Brandon Avenue, in Charlottev ille . Mr . H e arn is with our
Marketing Section. Congratula-.
tions to the proud parents.
SAF ETY SCORE

I , 389 days
7, 14 9 , 4 19 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Running a business without adverti s ing is the same as winking at a

g i r l in th e dark - - you kno w wh a t
you ar e doing , but s h e doesn't.
I didn't obey the s afe ty

rules .
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DIGNITY ISSUE
Th e latest u nion l eafl e t a tte mpt s to ge t e mployees ' minds off the main issues
by a pp e aling to th e ir emotions with distorted ac c ounts of happenings in the
p la nt and by lab e ling distortions as fa c ts a.nd facts as distortions.
Th e o r ganize r t e lls of many things that we r e done to, or told to, employees
by ' 'unfa ir a nd dishone s t for e m e n. 11 But in no c ase does h e g ive names or
dates . Who is h e talking about? Who did what to whom? And when?
The leaflet proposes that the IUE will give our employees dignity and selfresp e ct,
We h a v e at a ll times done our human b e st to treat our hourly employees and,
in fa ct, all Specialty Control employe e s with the dignity and respect they des e r ve . As for the IUE brand of di g nity and respect, what kind of dignity does
a w orker have whe n h e is c alled a "s c ab" if he refus e s to walk off his job or
join in a strike, w hat kind of dignity doe s a worker have when he is called a
"free loade r" or a "company fink" if he chanc es to have an honest difference
o f opinion with his union bo ss es; w hat kind of dignity does a worker have w~en
h e i s for ce d into participating in slowdowns or other dishonest and illegal
union practices .
S p e c ialty Control emp loy ees have always had their dignity and self-respect.
The y n ee d no l e s s ons from the IUE.
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S'OUS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WA.YB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. T" . NO. lhO
August 12 , 195R
tb.'lnk Thee, 0 God, for tho hand that feed$ us, the love that c:ir0s for us, ::ind the
life which Thou hast entrusted to us . Amen
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.VISITORS
We extend our most sincere welcome to Hr . S. M. Vance, Manager Central District of C ~ ID Sales,
Chicago, and Hr . T. W. Burson of
,A & DI , San Francisco, who are
vis iting our pl ant today.
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HING
The Special ty Control Fire Brigade

has planned a specia l deep s ea
fishing trip for Saturday, August
16, 1958.
A special bus will leave t he
plant at 10 PM for Buchroe Beach,
arriving there somli.. t i me 'between
4l)O and 5: 30
ITT.ECTIOH
J\""l NLRB ELECTION FOR ELIGIBLE
SPECJ.ALTY CONTROL FACTORY EJ.1PLOYEES WILL BE HELD HERE AT THE
A. NT ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 28,
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THE AGREEMENT FOR AN ELECTION WAS

REACHED BY COMPANY, IUE-AFL-CIO,
MID THE NLRB REPRESENTATIVES IN A
MEETING THAT CONCLUDED AT 2:00
P.M. YESTERDAY.
IN TOMORRCW 'S ISSUE OF "TODAY 'S
NEWS 11 , CCMPLETED DETAILS WILL BE
GIVEN ABOUT THE ELIGIBil.ITY OF
EMPLOYEES TO PARTICD'ATE IN THIS
IMPORTANT EIECTION. WE URGE EVERY
ONE TO . VOTE.
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At 5:30 sharp, breakfast will be

served at the American Restaurant.
At 6:30 A. M. the fishing boat ,

"Judy Ray" will l eave Br eakwater
Pier, r eturning at 2:30 PM, where
you will be able to clean your
fish, swim, or do whatever you
want to.
At 4:30 steak supper will be serve(
at the American Rf>~; t.aurant and at
6 PM the bus will leave Buckr oe
Beach, arriving at Waynesboro at
10:30 PM.
GLEF: CLUB
The Specialty Control Glee Club

will start practicing a eain
toni~ht, Tuesday, August 12, at
7: 30 P.M. I f you can sing,
pl e~se come over and have some
f'un singing 'to your heart's c ontent. 'NF'..Jl. MEMBERS WELCOME J
REDUCING SCRAP LOSSES

IMPROVES QUALITY
If we are going to be a success

in building sales and making more
jobs for the balance of this year,
we must concentrate in the ever
tough task of reducing scrap
l osses and also the complaints
received from custaners by improving the quality of the products we manufacture .
There is no doubt i n anyone' s
mind about the personal c ontribution each employee of the
Specialty Control can make to
r educe scrap and .improves quality
to satisfy customers .
There i s a charge of $10 .00 per

person for this trip, payable to
1iss Sandra Davis , in Mr. Curto 1s
office . Only 2 seats are l eft for
his ga l a affa ir.
It is obvious that our supervision
and workers, as well as any one
connected with the manufacture . of
1.mr pr oducts , is making a very
LOST
detennined effort to i mprove the
quality of our pr oducts by pro Harold Bl ose reports the l oss of a viding better workmanship, and
care i n handling the mater ials
sum of money this mor ning between
supplied
and also in avoidjng
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the parki nr. lot, Secti on c , and
mistakes which may cause scrap
the flecei vine Area. Anyone find losses.
ing it , pl ease contact Mr . Bl ose
on Ext . 27li or the EJnpl oyment
Office, Ext.. 243 .
THE OTHER GUY
SAFETY SCORE
1390 days
7,158,635 hours
WITHOUT A LC6T TJME ACCIDENT
'!'he highways and streets could be

made imrnensel y safer by revoking
t he driving license of the "other
fellow". He 1 u the one who caus es
all the accidents.
!JLOOD DRIV E
CHA IRM l~N S JGN T~
ur DONOR.S: TODAY
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Blood d onor ch;i.i rme n t oday have b e r:un mak i.nr the j r :cou nd:.:; .:.tmonr, p~Lant empl oyee ::; tc
obt ..., i n donorf; fo r t he b lood d r:i.ve he r e ;lt Spe c :i11l ty Co:1tro l. 'I'h 8y will t. r y to
c .")mp1e t n t.he job b.V li'riday, Aur:uot 15 .,
\ ft.e r a n empl oyee is signed up on t h e Bl ood Drive :roster, h e will r eceive a n
s lip f r om the &nrl oyP c fi0l:J tior. 2 Off:i.ce inrlic:i.t inEY, the tir:ie he 5_s
scheduled t,o make h is cont ribut:i.on e
-' : 'l'0 :i.n ~.;:i.('n t.
The f ollowin g i s
G.
l i s t of blood nonor c hairmen i n t he v<i. r i ou s pa rts of t h8 pl ;rnt :
Helen Ch iodi
Jane Batema n
I-h.mter Temple
JoAnn Corbin
Evelyn Irvin
Rosemary Howard
Madeline Hensley
Shelva Jean Rodgers
Audrey Miller
SM rley l:fagner
Charlie Thompson
Ann Shifflett
John Witry
Cha rlie Hinter
Helen Sudda rth
Gracie Layne
Louise Stalter
Mervil Da u ghtry
Mary Bell
Annie Foltz
Esthe r Foley
Davie Kern
:::loris Dicke r s on
Shirl r.y Beard
Fay Cook
Dorothy Ale xander
Dot Hartless
Dwi i;ht Hooma w
Leora Ros s
Carolyn Hitf!
Phyl lis Annen tront
Nellie Ellinger'
Cla.ud i ne McAll:is t e r
Pauline Lai,1l !n rne
~unic e Buche r
Ma rketing
Gcne r .:tl Accounting
Cost Accounting
Pe rsonnel Accounti ng
Procedures
E & CR
A & M Product Engineering
Ele c. & n"F}llntor Prod. Eng r.
Stan. & Comp onent Design Eng r.
Program Control En!}ineerin g
Engin eering Administration
Eni;ineerinG Lab
Relay Eng in eering
Ma int e na nce
Prog r a m Control
Conto1Jrs
Small Pa nels
Sh eet Me t a l
Cas t S ub-As semblie s & Wire Harnes s
Mo.chine Room & Plating
Pur chasin g
S hipping
Aircra f t Production
Industrial El ectronj.c s Production
Stockroom
Coil a nd Tra ns formers
Quality Control
Tool Room
Method s and Planning
Sm'3.ll Products
Mic r o - Min inture Re l a ys
J Aep 300, Open & Minia tur e Relays
A & DI Sales
S e rvi.ce Eneine eri ng
Air cra ft Prototype
I f you haven' t b ee n contacted by on e o .f the hl.ood donor cha i rwe n by Frida y morninf'
you may s i gn up by ca lling i n to Employee l1nlat i.011s , or by contacti ne any one of th
blood dono r chairmen lis t e d above.
'S
NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAl ANO WORLD NEWS -
VOL.
COURTESY OF WAY8 AND NEWS VlaGINIAM
rv ' NO. 141
August 13, 1958
For life , for f ood , f or d aily c are h e r e in the plant and a t our h omes, we
gi ve T he e our thanks. A m en.
OUR ECUIPHEN'I' l1T
nm
NOHTH POLE
The Defen~e Depar tment annou nced

las t. n-Lght t hat the Nu c l ear Submarine Ska t e ha5 sailed under ttrn 1
Nort h Pol e . This wa io ::i lso cfone by
the Subrna rine N:rnt i.l 11 P s ever cil dnys
a~o .
Our D P).h! rt ment feels a ~e nse of

pride i n t h:ts : not only for th e
pe ri:!ou~> task accompl i shed by t he
officere a nd men of the Skat~ , but
2l so bec~ius "' the sub marine ca r r j ed
a DC re;;;ul'lt,or and acc cs sories
~ l t, her e i n 't laynesboro by t he
and women of the Sped.al t,Y
'.,untrol Department.
r~;is ,)qui prnent ,
known by u s a s t he
n..:>ubw~ r:!..n e Eqnipw~nt'' i s t he JS7933ND101GR1 whi.ch r egul ates the
speed a nd vo1tAf'.e of t he 300 KW
.'.u.-d.l :i ar y power motor generator
s et aboArd the Skate ,
This i s t he first t i me t o our
'.rno~1lcdr,:e , that any eq~ipment built
by vpecialt.y Control ha s sail ed
under the North Pole .
MA llCHING ALONG
Once more the Gener al Electri c
Company Spec i alty Contr ol Depa r t ment Vol unt eer Fire BriP"ade wUl
ma r~h :i.n the "Firemen' s ~Parad e "
:.:-i Gro ttoeR on Friday ni eht,
Ati [;US t
15.
The Bri(tade will l eave the Specialty Contro l croun::ls at 6 P. M.

~e parade will st':trt prompt l y
7 P.H.
:UGht a fter the par ade) the Bri-
gade will return t o \fay nesboro -to

t:iake l as t minute prepor ations fo r
t heir -<'ishing t rip tn Buckroe
Beach.
ELECTION
The NLRB el ecti on to be held on
August 28 :ts for the pur pose of
dct enni nins wh ether or not the
IUE sha ll b e cert :l.fiod as the
repr es ent.a tive 0 r t he pr oduction
and maint enance employees in the
Special t y Con trol Department.
The term "pr oduction and maintenance empl oyees " is de fined as
i ncluding al l hourly r ated empl oyees , except watchmen ard
gua rds. Certai n factory cl crlcal
empl oyees such as Gener al Cl erks
.
'
Time
and Shop Cl erks ,Shipping
Cl er ks , Dispat.cher s , etc . are
a l~o included.
VISITOR
We extend our welcome t o Messrs_.

C. Cockrell and W. F. Moore
f rom the General Eledtrlc Company
at West Lynn, Mass. wh o ar e
vi sit i ng th e Ai r cr a ft System~
Laboratory.
s.
SAV TI\GS
EMPLOYEE DI SCOUNT
As an employ ee of the Gener al

Electr ic Company, you are entitled.
to a di s count on all but a f ew GE
product s .
you wish, you may use t his discount beeinning on the first day of
your employment to purcha se for
cash small i terns such a s toas t ers,
i rons , el ectric blankets, clocks,
etc . After three months yon are
eligible to purchase major
appliances such as refri gerators,
ranges, dishwashers, disposalls,
kitchen cabinets, electric sinks,
However, employees who were temhome laundry equipment, automatic
porarily off the payroll on Aug.
heating
equipment, home air condi8, 1958 because of illness or
tioning,
console radfos, etc.
maternity leaves, will be eligible .
to vote. Also eligible are em However, it will be necessary for
you to work at GE a year before you
ployees who are off the payroll
are eligible to purchase these
for lack-of-work but who have
appliances through the dealer' s
continuity of service and are
Time Payment Plan.
eligible for recall.
If
Onl y thos e employee~ covered by

thi s definHion are penni tted to
vote, provid i ng th ey were employees of the Department on
August 8, 1958. Employees hired
after that date are ineligible to
vot e .
All eligible voters must appear in

person a t the polls during the
scheduled votinp, hours . No one
will be pennitted t o vote before
2100 or after 4:30 and no mail
ballots wil1 be accepted.
SAFETY SCORE
1391 days
7,167,851 hours
WITHOUT A LOOT TIME ACClOENT
No discount will be given on commercial equipment such as air conditioning for stores and so forth,
and all but small items can be
purchased only for your own personal uae .
Yoi.:r Foreman or Supervisor will
direct you to the person responsi. ble for sales t o employees and he
will give yo\l additional lnfonna, tion ~
PU.NT I111r:PECTTON O.EPQ!"IT
iNCT.lTDE'.2 ALT . AREt\S F.XCEPT
wr..
ENGI N 'F: IU NG
1
V1hratjon & Drive Rm - 100

Ene.- lab Office - 75
Aver 96 stora.ee r1a_pers on desks.
Z)J,.. - :~~core 100 Aver 100
Computer Rm - 100 Aver 100
2Qj - Score 75 Aver ~9 St.ill
erase boa.rd. Dark Rm - Develop.
no room number, ca.b::\.net for
Score 75 Aver B9 Mat'l on desk
suppller. untidy, loose paper on & floor.
Dark Rm. Product
desk . 212 - 100 Aver 100
75 Aver 75 more mat 1 1 could be
.2Ua. - lOfl Aver 9? 215 - 100
picke<l up--not all being used.
Aver 97 W - 100 Aver 100
High temryerat11re Rm 100 Aver lo
Al tit,;de Chamber 75 Aver 89
2.2l - 100 Aver 97 .22.3 - 75
Aver 8.2 Storage not adequate.
Stock Rm - 75 Av"" r 89 Same as
22.6 - 100 Aver 100 22.2 - 100 Jnly. Model Shop 75 Aver 75
Aver 100
.22.B - 100 Aver 100. Sti 11 mat 1 1 on floor 1 tools not
229. - l~o Aver 100 229.A - 100 put away. Mach. Rm - 50 Aver 64
Dead storage & cohection of misc
Aver lr.O
230 - 100 Aver 100
parts, nieces of wood etc.
2.32 - 100 Aver 100 2.34 - 75
AVP:.r 75 t rash in corner.
Life_Test Rm - 75 Aver 89
252 100 ,Aver 93 2.4 - 100
MaiD Eng. Lab - 100 Aver 100
Beginning to slip.
Aver 100 269 - 100 Aver 100
271 - 100 -rver 100 273 - 100
Aver 97 230 - 100 Aver 100
FINANCE
281 - lOO~ver 100 282 - lno
Rms. 124 -(Hayes) 100 Aver 100
Aver 100 283 - 100 Aver 100
124
_,Rogers) 100 Aver 100
284 - 100 Ave r 100
286 100
111
100 Aver 100 122 - 100
Aver 100 285 - 100 ay;;-r 100
Aver
100
127 - 100 Aver 100
2'38 - 100 Aver 100
289 - 100
~
100
Aver 100 275 - 100
AVer 100 290 - 100 AVE;; l~O .
Ave
r
17
1].2
- 100 Aver 100
206 - 100 Aver 97 Prints &
292
100
Aver
100
files on top of files (cabinet
Reception
Rm
100
Aver loo
requested.) 208 - 100 Aver 86
1
Mat 1 stored in corner dest OK
209 - 75 Aver 82 layouts stor- MA9KETING
ed in corner, unframed chart,
Rms: 255 - 101 Aver 100
dust thick on cabinet. 210 - 7 ~ - 100 Aver ~9 Loose papers
Aver 89 Poor st.ora'ge 211 - 75
on desk. 265 - 100 Aver 180
Aver 93 No number, one desk
251 - 100 Aver 97 ~ - 75
used for storage. ill - 75
Aver 82 Paners & books on desk,
Aver 86 Much loose mat 1 l on dee inadequate storage facilities.
22.5, - 75 Aver 93 Storage stil ~ - 100 Aver 97. 26o - loo
a problem. 236 - 75
Aver S6
Aver 9.3. 267 - 75 Aver 86
storage fadljties lacking,
Papers on table, 217 - 75
rnat'l under table. ~ - 75
Aver
86 Files on table.
Aver ?5 Mat 1 1 undeftables,
micro film r_m. storage co11ld be
improved. Aircraft Rm &
unstairs Mez z , 75 Aver 93
E & CR
Storage 1mder tables, pile of
Rms. - 105 - 100 Aver 100
wire bi ts ~t.c. on f loor.
Disnense.ry 100 Aver 9.3
Ai rcraft. SystemfL_Lab, - 100
, Cafeteria - 100 Aver 86 The
Ave r. l~O fU rc~r~a~f-"--:..0..~.........--........-~best yet, good imorovement~
Em - ?5 Airer ~2 Air fo 11l--floor, windows, machines , lights
needs outside vent, boards not clean.
erased, ta:ble tops not .~lea.n.
F.mnloyee Stori: - lno Aver 93
Aircraft Systems Mezz & Ue~d
Prop Room 100 Aver 97
Storage - 75 Ave r 75 look9
like a dead ~tore.ge &~ea .
Rms :1.3') - Gcore 100
Aw-:r 100
2.Q..'l,-.: <~CC''!'~ 100 Aver 100

2.Q2 - 1.00 i\vor 100
II AVerEfl,-
THE MANUFACTURING
SECTION SCORE
WILL BE ruBLlS HED

LATER ON
'S
NEWS

S'RTS, NATIONAL AND WORlD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYI AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
yo L.
IV
N O. 142
August 14, 1958
Help us to be grate ful fo r this food and u s e ua to render service to Thee,

Amen.
OUR FACTORY CHAIN
NEWS, we
pr inted the feat ori the Si:sbmar:i ne
"Skate" because it carries aboarrd
one of the products we build here
at Special ty Control.
In yesterday's TODAY'S
VISITORS
Visiting us today is Mr. William

McAvay, General Manager for t he
Eastern Sal es D:Lvis;!..on of the Burp,.
Tool Co. Mr. McAvay is acc ompanioa
by three representatives of the
Naval Bureau of Ships. They wiJ.:l
observe a demonstration of the
Burgmaster Machine Positioning
Contr ol System.
This brought to mind that there

is no Gener&l El ectric product
that is the ~esult of the efforts
of j ust one single individual ,
Also Messrs . Nims , Boerma and
but the contr:!.but.ion of sever al
Dubin from Chemstr and Company of
gr oups of people
Pensacola,Florida with Mr. R. R.
A'f!Y of our products i s concei ved
Pretcher, Applicati on Eng. from GE
Field Office in Atl anta . They will
one group and per fected by
__ ,other, designed by a third , and be looking at a demonstrati on of
s ol d by & fourth gr oup.
the Par-Matic dr ive f or synthetic
fiber spinning.
Another groupj t he f i fth, pl ans
the job for manufacture, while
From the Communicati ons Products
t he sixth schedules it for pr oDept. of the General El ectric Co.
duc tion. The seventh group is
in Syracuse, we have Messrs, E.
Purchasing} ;fuo get.s the material
Kenefake and c. Kramer , accomneeded for the job. After all
panied by Mr. W. Jand.s on from t he
t hese things ar e done, the eighth
N & Wand Mr. W. C. Jones from
group sets up the machine to do
Richmond Officd.
i t while the ni nth, ten'li, eleventh, and possibly a twel fth
We extend our sincere wel come to
all .
group manufactures it. A thirteenth group takes it away for
inspection and a f ourteenth tests
DID YOU KNOW
i t . The fifteenth packs it and
MORE BLOOD NEEDED BY HOSPITALS

According to a report just published by the National Red Cross
the need for blood in the nation' s
hospitals is very acut e , especiall:;
when blood is needed to save the
life of a child.
Children fall from play ground
swings , hurt themsel 1es roller
ska tine > and are hit by automo ~
~iles in crossing the strees.
Vic 'tiins of such accidents f requently
need blood. If the blood were not
availabl e, many of these children
woul d die.
REDISTER TO GIVE A PINT OF BLOOD.
the s ixteenth ships i t, and s o on

until it reaches the customer.
That in 18$0 more t han one ei ghth

of al l t he wor k was d one by peopl e, and mor e t han hal f by horses,
Every General Electric roduct,
mules and oxen . Today an estiwhether bu ilt here at Specialt y
ma Led 99% of the t otal useful
Contr ol or in Holla ni, Michi Gan
work ene~~~comes f r om machines,
is t he resul t of an unbr oken chain l eaving man .f ree t o exercise his
of effor t in which every sin~le
per son in t hat chain is a s i mpor- mind rather t han hi s muscles .
tant as the next.
APARTMENT OR HOUSE
SAFETY SCORE
1392 days
7,177,067 hours
WITHOUT A LOOT TilIB ACCIDENT
Needed to rent withi n t he next

t wo weeks -- a t wo bedroom apar tment or house near the West End.
If you know of any, pl ease contact Ann White, Ext . 470.
ON THE MEND
We are gl ad to hear that Dick
Schmitt and Bill Halker are doing
very nicel y - with their injured
legs. Dick had the cast ren:oved
last Saturday and Bil l 's stitches
were taken out l ast Monday.
Accor ding to reports they will be
on the job next Monday ,
PLA NT
INSP!~C TION
.,,
REPORT
.. ' t'. ;. (
..
1i\TJ ';r,;
IJ ~ 1 m
PO!t Pf. \ tVT TNSPECTTON
I nn~
Good
7 _-, ~
fojr
50;!.
P0or
llnacrerto.b1f'.
75~
Y!l t." r lrl. l 11.'.l prl, l in[".

lfrirk I\ r e!l
Sa f P t y ib :n r .1R
Fi. r e Ho. zn r d R
A & M '.)UALT TY c_0wrn0T. - {~is r.m:i.n)

L~_M T0st, &. M<~I'.;: - (RMI ty ) - 50
-25
Av n r 75 S1f0 t y vinlntlon , ~ oors

onen , nnnd pun r~ 1t ano r 0nnnin~
M0 'l 7. a nnex .
P0tt c rl Units - 1rn Ave r 97
~P0D Tes t - 100
Ave r ~~
Tr>st Co n;, tr11ctio11 - Po r .J - 1'10
Ave r P. 5, Mn ch . Sh no - l on Av8r
9 2. S"eP.t t.i~ t:d - Scor"! ] ()() Aver
--2 '1
i nn .
-25
- 25
MAT S!JB- SE CTTO N - I nsp, - Ge r ni

Of f i r, e ArP-ns - Rrns : lQl - 1'1 0 ~
l,Q2. - 7 5;.; 1'':'1 e phone out) e t oill e' l
o ut of fl oor - safety hazard.
~- 7 5% T~le pho n e outlet ri opP.d

out - mat 'l sto r ed in offi ce, box
o f loose IBM CQrds on floor.
UU - 100% Sco re - 50 Aver 89
Stock Rms : - (Humphreys )
Re c. - 100 Ave r 100 Very good
llicrntt. - 10 0 Ave r $5 Move
wi r e r eel s to lowe r l o cation
i f possible .
lli.tl.~~ - 7 5 Aver S9
Hea l ers co ul d he stored neat er
Mat ' ls unde r hard'n'are r a cks,
conside rable d ust in obvi ous
loca ti ons.
DOl - 100 Ave r 92 Looks neo.t
'~ hi p , & Wa re house - (Archambeault.
Sh i E. - 100 Aver 96 Sugf:est
clean up a r ound glue area on
d ock .
Wa r ehouse - 1no Aver 92 Good
R & R - ( Wylie )
Scor e 100 Aver 100 Good
MAGtVETIC 'ilINDING COMPONENT (House
As sPmbl y - ( Sornboreer)
Stock Area - 100 Aver 93
Sheet meta l s hou l d ha ve paoer
s e para to rs be t 'n'een pieces .
As sembl y A r e~ - 75 Ave r B5
Work Area ar ound :nach i ne fl di rt
Off ice - 100 Ave r 100
HP-at Trent & T~ilt - {House)
Sco r e 75 Ave r 79 Poo r 'n'Ork
area ir. heat treat area,
~--- - -
Prcwr nm Co n trol_:'.':__Hr;>l for (Ho lyman)

Sc o r~ 100 Av ~r 92
Th~mQ troJ. ( Mnr a n) - 75 fo.ve r ~.')
1".etr-r 0 11 t of Cn l ih- ,loin {-. , fll::!f .
mat 1 1 ma rk0rl c; - :?<_ -'1 (~ llfn rlu te,
Ref" & Elec t .
t ves (Fjt.z peral tl)
'
RE LAY - ( E:I rich)

Min - ( Qu ick)- 100
Aver 7~ r~ M0 V~ all l i nkage
boa r -1s o n h.-n ch 's a nci repl acP.
wi t h plain boa rd .
M~c h ine Ar~a - 100
Av~ r 35
Gl f?() - 100 fo.ver 100
filC;Q
M:I m t,ure - ( nru net to)

Sub Mi n - 100 Ave r 85
Open - 100 ~ ver 75
GS - J IJO - 7 5 Aver 9 6
Unident if1 ed l :lq11id in
co ntai ne r , too l s sto r ed i n
tray for reje cted mater i~l .
n. .
7 5 Av0r 64 Test fo.;:ea Dirty, work

area & I . R. Sec tion.
Relay Test (Bare) - 75 Ave r 92
Meter 1 n AC - DC nowe r s1oril y
out of date.
I nc . Inn ci ( Da vl s ) - 100 fo.ver 9 2
Te nsi on Te s ter hase dir~y.
Offices ( S 1ss man) - 100 Ave r 100
1
MAINTENA!'JCE - ( Cn r to)
Boi l erroom - l~ O Aver l C~
B11il~ ine #5 - 100 Ave r 87
Bui l di ne #6 - 100 Aver
Grounds - l JO Av e r 100
Mai nte na nce Shop - 7 5
Aver 7 5 Odds & e nd s sti l~
l aying a round .
ELECTRONIC AREA - (West)

(Groat) - ( Van Lear)
Sheet Me t al - 100 Aver 85
Paint Booth s - l nO Ave r 9 3
ALTHOUGH, IN GENERAL, ~HE:
Pr int ed Circuit & Co nto ur ( Wolani n
100 Aver 93
Large Pan t~ l - 100
FACTORY AREA LOOK@ GOOD, STILL
Aver 100. Small Panel { Crn mme t)
50 Ave r 82 Mo.t 'l ha n~l inr, i n
HERE 1, JERE PLl\.CES \-JH I CH CCUG
r a ck carts not l i nerl up pro pr> r ,
work area. Goose necks for rl rive r
HAVE BEEN IMPROV ED . WE SHOUD
on l ench . Loose t oo 1 s.
P.eg & Harness (Chol ewa) - 75
TRTVE TO DO OUR HOUSEKEEfD:G
Aver ~2 Crl m ~ers s e t uo too h i gh ,
1
watch out f or mat ] h~'1dli np, .
HOR:C.S DAILY , SO \IE WI LL NOT
1
{J\ VE TO DO IT /._LL AT ONCE \JH:::::

AIRCQA"'T - ( Quick)
New Products (Bea t ty) - 100
U.ISPEDTION DAY COMES ALONG.
Ave r g3 Iars e Pane ls ( Qnick)
75 Ave r ''2 Hat 1 J hu n<lll ng
panels stacked t oo close t o each
othe r . Militarl Slstems Pane ls
& Devi ce8 ( Reason" r ) 100 Aver 96
Sub Ass embly & Wi r !la rne ns ( Lnnas
100 Ave r 82 Pla tl nr, Fbil(T!Yde )
100 Ave r 9 6 t-hC11-:-~ J ob
Sho o ( FlrO\lf.hman) loO Ave r 89
Po t t. 0rl Units: (Lo na s ) - 75
p;;;;-~krna .
PUILISH!O
av
'S NEWS
THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROl EMPLOYEES

S'OlTS, NATIONAL ANO WOltlO NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYll ANO NEWS VlltGIHIAN
A1qwet 15 . l 9S 8
I n the strength of this food , 0 God may we h e able to s erve Thee and our
fellow man. Amen.
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SUGGESTI O!m CAN MEAN MONEY
Your id eas for improvenent of our

methods , pr oducts or safety can be
very profitable to you. Last
year over 20,000 such ideas were
accept ed by the various Suggestion
Committees es t 3bl i shed throu~h the
General Elect ric plants in the
country and used in its 0perations .
Cash awards were made for c ach of
these id eas .
Suggestions mus t be submitted in
1-1riting, and if you need help in
getting yours down on paper , your
s
-visor or a member of the Sug~ E: .. ui on Commi ttee will be very glad
t o help you . Suggestion boxes are
located throughout the plant for
your convenience.
(continued in column 2)
SCCXJEE SOFI'BALL
There will be a slow pit ch softball game between the SCCXJEE softball t ea m and the Port Republ ic
team at 8 PM Morrlay_, August 18.
The r,ame will be played at Gypsy
llill Park in Staunton as pa rt of
the Staunton District Slo!i Pitch
::i oft ball 'l'ournament. Let 's have
a e ood t urn- out to cheer our
:jo.ftball team.
SAFETY SCOR!:
1393 day::i
7,186,283 honrs
WITHOUT A LCS'I' TD-JI!: i\CCJDEm'
WHERE WILL
YOU BE
(continued from column 1)

Keep in mind th at suggesU.on s
written by you and s ent in, r eceive prompt attention f r om th e
Committee ,
The highest award given yonterday ,
$100.00, goes to G~ H. Sheffer
(Tool Room) for a su~gestion on a
coin die, while Marie Shifflett
(Relays) received the second largest, $30.00, for sur,g enting a
change in shaft 289A275;
Dean Harris (Tool Room) rec ei Yed
three awards, and W. M. Showalter
(Relays), Kenneth worreJ l (Coil
and Transformers ), and Jearl
Wade (Sheet Metal) each received
two awards .
other 22 employees r eceiving
smaller awards were William Ball
(Electronics), Sam Preston (Test
Equipment), Hel en Arthur (tli.cro Mini ature ), W. M. Freeman ( l'ool
Room), w. M. Showal ter (Relays),
El izabeth Earhart (Relays) , Cliff
Martin (Purchasing) , Dean Harris
(Tool Room), Richa rd Fields (Coil
and 'l'ransformer s ) , Doug Bat ten
(Tool Room) J Bob Br yant (Airr.r aft
Production), Earl Burcham (Tool
Room), Kenne Lh Worrell (Coil and
'l'rans f ormers) , Jear l Hade (Sheet
Metal), Helen .Suddarth (Electronics), c. F. Davis (Electronics), Allies Layne (Regula tor s ),
Lyle Coffman (Apprentice), Char'lotte H.::irris (White Room) , Mary
Cof f ey (Micro Relay), Clay Love gr ove (Sheet Metal ) , and David
Grove (Aircr aft).
OCT 2 ?
. . . .... . ... . . . . . .. ... . .
I. U. E. DOUBLE TALK
Before the election at our Roanoke

Plant the IUE l eaflets were just
like t he ones t he union organizer
pas ses out a ~ our gates here - t he name promises of more pay,
bet t er bene fi ts .
BUT AITER THE ELECTION - - PAT
MARTill, ONE OF THE IUE ORGANIZERS
IN ROANOKE SAID
uELEVEN HUNDRED EMPLOYEES AT GE
KN CNI NO PROMISES WERE MADE TO THEN
BY ANYONE. 11
But i t was t oo l ate then. The

workers wer e stuck with the IUE.
PARADE IN GROTTOES
This eveni np, t he Special ty Control Fir e Br i gade will participate

in the Grottoes Firemen ' s Parade.
Tak e your famil y to see and cheer
them . Starting tiine - 7 P.H.
REMINDER
Bill Per ry r eminds all Blocxi
Donor Sol icitors that a fina l
report i s due tcxiay on those
per sons wishinc; to donate bl ood
no x.t Wednesday .
'
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Most of us remember that nurs ery rhyme we l earned in grade school about th e
Spl.de'r w ho tried to fool t he fly into his t rap.
Once an employee is trapped by the IUE they Wi ll hang on to him against his will
if necessary - - and if he has enough c ourage to go through all the red tape of
getting out during the ONE TIME A YEAR HE IS ALLOWED TO RESIGN by the
JUE -- they hound him day after day. The same employee who was promised
dig nity and self-respect -- then is publicly denounc ed -- called ~ scab", "a
free rider" , l'a company fink' 1 or some special union terms that are unprintable.
11
He re is a direct quote from the IUE newspaper at Cleveland. Ohio:

SIX JOIN FREE RIDERS
11
The chiseling, sponging outlook th at some few people t ake on lif

was in evidence last week w hen six G eneral Electric employees
sent in letters of resignati un from IUE Local 707.
********
"Let 1 s hope the money they save is worth the scorn and loathing
they ' ll h a ve to contend with in the plants. "
YES . LIKE THE 'SP1Dl!:R 'S 'TRAP, IT'S. E ASY TO GET IN -- BUT AWFUJ,:,LY
HARD TO GET OUT.
'UILISHEO
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THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROl EMPLOYEES

SrotTS. NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COUITESY OP: WAYI AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VO L . IV, NO, 144
August 18, 1958
F or food and health and life and love, help us to b e grateful and humbl e before
Thee, Amen.
LOCAL HES IDEN1'S IBE 517 PINTS OF

Tl LOOD DrHING yr.11n
of l/lnyne::;bor o r eceived
517 pillt f; of hloCY.l t\1;r i nr t.he pa ~t
12 rnon Lhs , ;i ccordi nr t,(' l.nf ormat i on trnppliorl by Mrs . L. 'l'. llader,
Cha irnk1 11 of t he Dl ood Pror,ram i.n
the c Hy ,
Rco idont~
Ki nf'( 1 ;, Oa ui;hter s 1 Ho;. pit.a l , Univer :;i t.y nf Vi r gi ni <' Ho :pit-<l arrl
out - of - th e -n. r ~~ ho: ; i. t~d. G 1
1itcre
bl ood was needed fo 1 .'l r cn patients.
r e~rd. ved 396 pinto, makin g a toto.l
o.f 913 pint_s , of which 087 were
....-ollected in \'laynei;bor o .
How many lives were saved f rom
those bl ood donat"ions i s har d to
determine , b11t 0 1 0 t hinr. is certain, " 'tie di d out part here at
Specialty Control by donating 357
pints ciur ing t he l nst t wo vis its
o f the Bl oodmobile t o onr pl ant':
To the men and women of t he Spec1.31 t y Control Department we send
our salute for this ontntarrlinr,
contribution to a nobl e and humanitarian cause.
IF' YOU HA VE NO'l' SIGNf-:0 1'0 GI VE
BLOOD, DO TI' TODAY. THE J3LOODMOBJLE WILL BE HEHE vJEDNl!SDAY,
AUGUST 20 .
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B 'A DONOR
THE $18 , 000 QUESTION
Why does thP- IUE s pend s o much

ttme and money to p.et you t o join
t hei r union?
If you were on one of the TV Quiz
pr ograms and s omeone popped that

question - - what would the answer
be ?
I s lt to eet you hi~her pay? No,
because ot her IUE plants in t his
area and elsewhere don't do as
well with the IUE as yon d o without a union
Is i t to get you seniori ty? No,
becaus e we follow the same seniori t y policy as IUE plants in GE.
I s i t to t;et you more benefits?
1
No, because you already get all
t he benefit::; t hat IUE member s get ,
a nd the r'dner ~e ncy Loan Plan
besides.
rs IT TO GET YO.JR DUES ? n ;s, because t hey can col l ect at l east
~ 18 , 000 or more f r om you - - z~ay:_
after y ea r J.n dues .
The IUE doesn't have a t hing for

you,
n uT YOll HA VI:; AN .1~ 18 ,000 DUES POT8NTIAL AND THE IUE IS HERE TO
'l'Arn I T AWAY FROf! YOU.
I s the IUE ~oinr, to get it? Will
the IUE super - sal esman talk his
way i nto Specialty Control and
i nto your pocketbook?
THAT' S AN z~ Hl,000 l!ESTION YOU
vllLL HA VF. TO tiNS:lER ON AUGUST 28.
t,1
ON
AUGUST
28
SPORTS
The mi c;hty New York Yankees ha ve
los t er ound in the f i bht for the
American Lear,ue pennant , by having
t heir lead cut from 16t game s to
11~ in j ust one week. Maybe
Casey Stenr,el is gi vinr. the boys a
breathing spell.
The worl d ' s champi on Milwaukee
Br aves incr eased th eir lead . to 8
games by defeat i ng t he Philadel phi a Phillies i n both games of
their doubleheader yesterday .
FOOTBALL
Come September and baseball will

b e finished but football will jus t
be startin~:- Below i s t he schedul e of t he Univer s ity of Vi r ginia
f or the 1958 season.
9- 20
Vi r gir.ia at Cl emson
9- 27
Duke at Virginia
10-4
N.C. State at Virgi ni a
10- 11 V. P.I. Rt Virgi ni2
10-18 Virginia at Anny
10- 25 Virginia at Vanderbilt
11-1
V.M.I. at Virginia
il-6 N.cfo rolina at Virginia
11- 15 Virginia at S .Carolina
11- 22 Marylarrl a t Virginia
In successive issues, He .will publish the schedules of VMI and
VP!. (&iitor )
The SCOOEE softball r-ame at
Staunton which wRs to ha ve been
played t onir,ht has been r>ost poned
on ac count of rain.
SAFl!:TY SCORE
1396 days
7, 195 , 501 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TD1E ACCIDEI\"l'
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C 0 L L E C T I NG
ON
S UGG E S T I 0 NS
From left to right: Dean Harris, G. H. Sheffer, W. M. Freeman, Doug Batten,

Foreman Robert Failing, and Earl Burcham of the Tool Room receiving their
suggestion awards from Foreman Failing.
Take a good long look at this group. They are receiving suggestion award
checks because they turned in their ideas.
The Specialty Control Department makes awards for suggestions relating to its
business when approved by the Suggestion Committee for such items as:
Reducing cost of production
Improving manufacturing methods
Improving quality
CoITecting conditions that a re hazardous to safety and health
Elimination of waste of materials
Reducing breakage and spoilage and others.
'S
NEWS

S'OllTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYB AND NEWS VlltGlNIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 145
August 19, 1958
Our Father, Thou hast opened Thy hand to bless, and hast given us
all things to enjoy. We thank Thee. Amen.
flECIPROCITY
SPORTS
Area residents are reminded by

VMI FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
the chairman of the Blood Program
in Waynesboro, Mrs. L. T. Rader,
9-20 Morehead at VMI
that your coverage under the
9-27 VMI at Villanova
blood program now extends to f!Very 10-4
Riclrnond at VMI
spot in the nation served by the
10-11 Wm . &-.. Mary at VMI
Red Croes Bl1..vd Program.
10-18 VMI .at Tampa
Most important tofolks in the
10-25 VMI at Davidson
Waynesboro area is the fact that
11-1 Virginia at VMI
you can now get blood al.most ~
11-8 Lehigh at VMJ;
where in the countzy under the
11-15 VMI at Citadel
same eligibility requirements that 11-27 VMI vs VPI at Roanoke
exist here at home.
This nationwide protection against

'
"gencies is the result, she
VPI FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
~ _d, of a modernized reciprocity
plan. Through it, pints of human
9-20 W.Texas at VPI (night game)
blood can be credited and debited
9-27 Wake Forest at VPI (night)
10-4 Wm. & Mary at VPI
to Regional Blood Centers across
the nation.
10-11 Virginia at VPI
10-18
VPI at Florida St.
It you are hurt in an a ccident a
thousand miles .from home or require 10-25 W. Va. at VP!
11-1 VPI at N. c. State
an emergency transfusion while
ll-8 Richmond at VPI
visiting some distant place, you
11-15 VP! at Mississippi So.
need only advise your doctor or
' 11-27 VP! vs VMI at Roanoke
hospital officials of your residence within the Roanoke Regional
Blood Program. As a member of a
SCOOEE SOFTBALL GAME
donor group, your needs in vital
blood will be taken care of through The often-postponed slow pitch
the Red Cross.
softball game between the SCCXJEE
So join the march of donors an::!.
softball team' and the Port Repubgive a pint of blood tomorrOlof .
lic team will be played tonight at
the Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton as
The pint you give, will help aarepart of the District Softball
one to live.
Tournament. We pray that the
weather does not interfere with
the game. Let's go and cheer our
boys. Game time 8 P.M.
THE IUE
I.<>ng on PromiBes-Short on Delivery
After wading thro~h all the foolishness in today's IUE handout -we noticed SOD'lething really significant buried down in the middle
of the back page un:ler the heading
of "Higher Wages".
The leaflet states (in small print)
''Although IUE has never promiaed
!lVOne a specific wage increase .. '
Employees who have read the IUEs
"pot of gold" promises time and
time again -- now can see that the
IUE is long on promises and short
on delivery.
------BOND ISSUE
Today is voting d~ in Waynesboro

for the Rosenwald Bond Issue. We
urge every quallfied voter to go
to the poll and vote according to
his thinking. Polls open until
7 P.M.
GLEE CLUB REHEARSAL

There will be afchoir practice
tonight,. Au~st 19, i~ the plant
auditorium at 7:30. All ,.ou
music lovers who are interested
in the success of the Glee Club
are urged to attend this rehearsal. Tenors, baritones, contraltos, sopranos are welcome. If
you ean sing, please join our
olub.
THERE IS ALWAYS A FIRST TIME.
Jhe place to go
TO GIVE A
PRECIOUS Gift
Hank Aaron, colorful outfielder or I

the Milwaukee Braves was the first
' player in the National League to
hit a home run in avery park in
1958.
SAFETY SCORE
1397 days
71 204,784 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME ACCIDENT
"IT'S COMPANY PROPAGANDA .. THERE AIN'T NO FISH IN THEREI'"
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SPORTS. NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WA.Ya AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
vot.
IV ' NO. 146
A ugu st 20 , 1958
11
Let the w or ds of my mouth a nd the m e dita tion of m y h eart

b e a cce p ta ble i n Thy s ight 0 Lo rd . ~ ' Ame n.
THE TRUTH ABOUT A FACTORY
WELCOME
The man in the street thinks of a

factory in terms of manufacturing
pe ople and machines. But no factory could exist long without an
enginee ring s taff t.o i mprove its
products and c reat e new ones. Nor
could it exist long without an
on-the-spot sales staff to
bridge the gap between factory
operation and CUB tamer needs.
We sincerely welcome the Bloodmobile personnel and all the members of the Blood Program to the
Specialty Control Dept. today.
In our businesses , therefore, thee

three major groups, manutacturing
people, engineering people, and
1s people cont)ine their efforts
\... ~er a manager to fonn a complete
operating unit for each major
product li.~e. In addition to
thes e , t here a re production people,
maintenance people, shipping personnel, and others whose contributions a re v ital to the averall
operation of a fact ory.
Those employees of Specialty Control who are giving blood tod~

will be doing their share toward
this humanitarian cause.
The outstanding work of this organization has made it possible

for residents of this area to obtain blood fran the bank when it
was urgently needed.
Well over 200 employees signed up

to give blood tod3i1. This number
represents more than ever have
signed up. However, it is possible that not all can be taken in
the time allotted.
Each group of people contributes

advice and counsel to the other
groups and all groups acting together under a manager, harrlle
the entire product lines .
SPORI'S
SCCXlEE DEFEATS' PORI' REPUBLIC

The SCOOEE softball team defeated
the Port Republic team by a score
of 9 to 3. Hugh WoOd hit a grand
slammer for the SCCXlEE team.
Tonight the SCOOEE team faces a
tough team, the Waynesboro NewsVirginian in a game to be played
at Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton.
Game time is 9 P. M. Make an
effort to be there.
Pitching tonight will be H.
Eppard for the SCOOEE team.
BOND IS b1JE RESULTS
The citizens of Waynesboro voted
for theRosenwald School Bond
issue 1192 for and 75 agains t.
THIS 15 ONE KIND

OF DUTY WE DON 1T
GOOF OFF ON. BLOOD
15 ALWAYS NESDED.
The General Electric Company

places a high importance on its
decentralized business organization because it puts responsibility
and authority on the management
closest to the job and develops
in the r anks the leadership and
administrative talent which over
the years has made General
Electric a great Company
.---.
, cf'od leader inspires other indivi uals with confidence in him; a
~ leader inspires them with
co:ili'Idence in them.selves ~
Anon .
THE ECONOMICS OF MARRIAGE
SAFETY SCORE
1398 days
7,214,067 hours
"Concluding that I had more poverty than any one person was anti tled to, I made up my mllid to
endow some deserrvi.ng young woman
with part of it. 11
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VO L. I V, NO. 1 17
August 2 l, 195 8
1.1<.: lp u R t o c ulti v q. te t h e fin e a rt o f g r a ti t ude a nd n o t: for get Thee as o u r G od a nd our

P r ovide r . A me n.
HEGULAR HOURS WILL BE hES UMED

SEPTEMBER 2
On Tuesday, September 2 , when
Specialty Cont rol employees ret urn
from the Labor Day "long weekend",
they will be ~b le t o catch a few
extr a winks of sl eep, because the
Department will go back to regular
sta rtin g times on th at day. The
Department has been on earlier
"summer hours " since June 2. Under
the regul ar s chedul e , first shift
factory employees will report to
r k at 7:30 A.M. Office employ..:s will r eport at 8 : 00 A.M., and
second shift factory employe es
will r eport at 4: 00 P. M. , unles s
otherwise noti fied by t heir
supervise rs .
Lunch schedules and hours for the

morning break period will not
change when 113gular hours are
resumed, becaus e the s chedules
f or the summe r mont hs have been
the same as t hat followed und er
the r egul ar schedule.
The afternoon b r eak period will be
resumed when the Department returm
t o regular hours , and the cafe te ria will be open f :n:>m 2: 30 P.M.
to 3:30 P. M. The afte rnoon break
pe riod had been discontinued
during t he t ime when summer hours
we re in effect.
The suppe r period and the two
br eak pe riods for second shift
empl oye es wi ll return to the
s chedule t hat was in effect bef ore
"""'me 2 .
SAFETY SCORE
1399 days
7, 223,352 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TH:E ACCIDENT
177 PI NTS OF LIFE-SAVffi1 BLOOD

GIVEN BY CONTllOLLERS
Specialty Con t :rul employees did a
repe at pe rformance yesterdizy- even
t hough b reaking the record was
missed only by 3 pints of blood.
Bill Perry, Plant Chaitman, said
he was extremely pleased over the
blood drive response. He expressed his sincere thanks t o all
Plant Blood Donor Chairmen who did
such a magnificent job in securing
volunteer donors.
Mrs. L. T. Rader, Chainnan of the
Blood Program expres sed
her appreciati on to all of her
volunteer wo rkers and especially
to our Maintenance Personnel who
set up the blood center, the Macke
pe rsonnel who provided many itel'l6
for the recovery room, and of
course the blood donors themselves
who once again made such an outs tanding contribution to the Red
Cros s Blood Bank.
She added that
the cooper ation she received from
the Specialty Control Department
yes te rday was s upe rb.
W~esboro
The lis t of volunteer workers who

gave thei r se rvices during the
Bloodmobile visit yesterday will
appear in Friday 's paper.
1 GALLON DONOffi
Robe rt L. B:ruughman
John G. Scott
Robert C. Failing
Leon M. Hensley
John H. Waite , Jr.
John M. Malloy
Peaches and oranees were cultivat ed i n China !1000 years ago .
ANOTHER WIN
The SCOOEE softball team last

night defeated the Wayne sboro
News-Virginian t eam by a score
of 9 to L. Woods hit another
home run las t night.
With this victory, the SCOOEE
team 'Will play tonight in the
semi-finals again.a t the River
Jackets at 8 P.M.
At 7 P.M. the Montivideo team
will pl ay Shenandoah Heights also
in the s emi-finals.
The winne rs of the above games
will play f or the DiBtrict Champi onship and 'Will repre sent the
St aunton-Waynesboro dis trict in
the State Tournament to be held
in Richmond Sunday, August 2L.
The championship game will start
at 9 P.M. tonight. All garoos are

to beplayed at Gypsy Hill Park in
St aunton.
Come and cheer for your team I
TEAM WORK
Annie Foltz wish1?s to express her

gratitude to her co-workers in the
Mach i ne Shop who donated blood for
her grandauehte r .
Emma Rankin also wishes to thank
the peopl e -who gave her blood

during her illness.
SOffiY
Sorry to he ar that Dan Hull's
little boy is in t he Conununity
Hospital. We wish him a speedy
recovery.
By now everyone who is interested in the question at all has heard

most of the arguments for and against having an IUE union here in
this plant now.
In these closing day_s of the union's campaign we will probably hear
even more of the IUE claim that you need the IUE to get along at
GE.
But by now you can see that there is nothing the IUE can give you
that you don't already have - - and there is nothing the IUE can
get for you that you can't get for yourself - - without paying dues
and without risking strikes October 2 or any other ti.m e .
On Thursday, August 28, you must decide between your manage ment or the IUE national union. What you have said or done in this
union campaign up to now doesn't really count -- BUT YOUR VOTE
WILL.
EVEN IF YOU ONCE SIGNED A UNION CARD - - YOU CAN $TILL
CHANGE YOUR MIND AND VOTE NO UNION. NO ONE WILL KNOW
H6'w YOU VOTED AFTER THE ELECTION.
In fairness to yd_urself and to everyone else who feels the way you do
you should vote.
We sinc e rely hope that you will vote "NO" for NO UNION.
But whfc.hever way you will vote, THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT
YOU Db VOTE. Don't let other people make this extremely important
decision for you.
'S NEWS

S,ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAY8 AND HEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. I V, NO. 148
Aug ust 22 , 1958
For food and health and life and love, help u s t o b e g ratefu l and humble
before Thee . Am e n.
OPERATION UPTURN WILL BE THEME OF

CONGER!' AND VARIETY SHCW
The Specialty Control Choraliers
and members of SCOOEE will combine
their talents t o give another boost
to OPERATION UPTURN> on October 2
and 3 when the s econd annual concert , variety, and fashion show
will be presented at Waynesboro
High Sr.hool. Pl~ns are underway
for a col orful and entertaining
program , 'Which promises to be even
more of a success than last year 1 s
POLIO HAS STRUCK CLOOE TO HOME I
NEWS
According to Dr. Penn, Plant Physician, one case of polio has been
reported in Wayne sboro this week.
STRIKERS THRCM ROCKS AT

WORKER3 IN INDIANA
Let this unfvrtunate and grim

reminder serve to impress upon
everyone the recessity of getting
FULL immunization agai nst polio
by having the THREE shots prope rly
spaced.
Polio can be prevented, but it is

up to the individuals to take the
necessary steps. Parents by all
0arryi ng the OPERATION UPTURN
means should make sure that t heir
theme t hroughout , the production
children are protected against
will be one more example of the
this dreaded disease. Remember
part t hat Speci al ty Control emthat your family :Ls not protected
ployees are playing in helping
from the effects of po!io unless
publicize the GE prog ram t o build
you also are immunized. "See
sales and j obs in 1958.
your personal physician to get
your protection NOtl 11 is the advic e
Committee chairmen for the program given by Dr. Pen'ii:"""
have been appointed by SCOOEE to
take charge of the many ,1obs which
SPORTS
mU!lt bf! done to put the s how together. These chainnen an:!. members The SCOOEE softball team, after
winning the semi-final game
of their committees will meet
ar,ainst the River Jackets by a
tonight to make final plans fo~
t he program.
score of 9 to 6, lost the game
for the championship to Montevideo by a score of 7 to 4.
Details of the program to be presented will appear in TODAY'S NEWS It was a very hard fought battle
later.
up to the end. The team wishes
to express its thanks to all
those who gave th em their support.
MAKIN:J SUGGESTIONS PAY
A ow
William J. Pike, an assembler in

the Gaa Turbine Department, Schenectady, New York has just made
~a 8816th suggestion since
.arting to work for General
~lectric in 19310
Bill says he has received well
over $7000 jo although all his suggestions have not been accep~ed~
THINK AND SUGGEST! _I
The General Elect ric I ndians will

play Crompton Shenandoah's team
for the Babe-Ruth League city
champi6ruthip Saturdey, August 23 i
at the Fishburne Military Academy
field o Grune time is 3 P.M.
SAFETY SCORE
1400
d~s
7,232,635 hours
WITHOtrr A LOST TIME ACCIDENr
I UE
Connersville, . Ind. (AP) -- About

34 nons trikers marched past a
jeerin~ pi cket line at a c~ffin
ornament factory this ioorn i ng .
St ate troopers armed with clubs
watched.
Two pic kets were ar rested on dis orderly conduct charges for re fusing t o move out of the workers 1
path. Eleven other pickets were
arrested in a rock-throwing
scuffle Tuesday morning.
About 50 pickets shouted "scabs "
and "don't come th rou g1l the line"
today at the workers going into
the National Metal Products Co.
main plant, involved i n an eightweek sttike over a union official 1 s firing.
Two dozen city police augmented
the 120 state troopers, ordered in
by Gov. Harold W. Handley Tuesday.
Local 918 of the International
Union of Electrical Workers struck
the plant June 2h after the local
president, Willi.am Remml.er, and
Clarence Maxwell, a shop steward,
were fired. J. P. Epperson, company vice president, said they
were distributing union literature
inside the plant on COllllaDY time.
The company normally employs
about 260 men and has been on intermittent production since the
strike began.
PROMPT RECOVERY
Lucille Davis daughter, Barbara,
is in the University of Virginia
Hospital. We wish her a prompt
recovery Q
ADVICE
from
NEUTRAL
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,Grius~;~~;i;;i~!~~~~;i~~'::
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Augu 19,
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A.~
many of the workers In the General Elcclrlc

Speclalt:v Control plant at Waynesboro
belong to The Leader 's family of reader.s , fl wot d
abovt the union election in lHnl plant on Aug. 28 may
not he amiss. The International Union o! Eleclrical
Worker.s rs ~eeklng lo organize the workers. whc
votrd Agaln~t the union In fl I.RB Plectlon two years
I
ago.
.
ThL~ year 's elecllon is o! unusual lll)Porlance lo
GE's Specialty Control workers because a majority
votr for IU E could im:olve-them In a threatened' nationwide strike. The union's international officers
have recently JSsued a threat that there will be "no
work In GE plants on Oct. 2" if a bargaining agre~
ment Is not reached by Oct. L workers of the Waynesboro pl am undoubllldly could be called Outin-uiiil
Com pA ny '.~
This passiblllty illustrates anew the monopaly

pawer of I.he big national e.nd international unions
by which they can tie up <and hold up) an entire
industr;. Sci far as this newspaper has been able to
learn, Specialty Control employees have no. grievances. They have excellent working conditions and
pay, and a thoroughly modern plant which makes
for heal~hful work. Why should a small group of
union oftlcers have the pawer to force them to stop
work. for the chimerical demand tor a guaranteed annual wage when they have no grievances and would
have to suffer heavy financial losses In the event of
prolonged strike?
There are few exploiters of labor these days
and GE Is certainly not one of them. The place for
Specialty Control employees to seek reasonable adjustments of working conditions, pay e.nd benefits
is in Waynesboro and not in some distant clfY through
union officers who have no real interest, in them except as dues-paying members.
The only sure way to 'avoid the yoke of an Impersonal, undemocratic union and the remote conlrof
It exercises over its locals Is to vote against aff111a~- PFomlses of yet hlghe~ pay and benefits and
the lure of a "guaranteed annual waire'I must be
weighed aga inst the peril of ruinous inflation caused
In large part by annual rounds of )Vage and price
lncr~es and the sure loss ot lncllvldual liberty on
the part of every worker. As ror a guaranteed annual
wage, a principal IUE demand, It Is an obvious lmPoSSlblllty, for no employer can guarantee suf!lclent
demand for hls products to justify :iuch a contra.ct.
Here is what an impartial

observer says about the union
election here next week.
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NEWS
s,ons. NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS -
VO L . i\r , NO . 14 q
COURTESY OF WAYP, ANO NEWS VI RGINIAN
WAYNESBORO, VI RGINIA
A u g u s t 25 , '. 9 58
Sanctify the food we eat to the s tr e ng t he n.i n of our bodies a nd help us to

u s e the stre ngth to serve Thee and our fe 1.l o w man . Amen.
CUS TOMER3 WORRIED OVER I. U E.

OCTOBER STRIKE THREAT
THE 1958 SECOND QUAIITER

SALES ACTIVITIES
SPOR!'S
The GE Indians of the Babe Ruth

In the Marke ting Section there 1.8
Baseball Lea gue won the c i ty chama friendly rivalry betwe en t he
pionship last Saturday at the
Sales Sub-Sections to hlwe the
Fishburne athletic field by debest overall sales pe"rfonnance
feating the Crompton AC team by a
for their own product gl'Oup. Each score of 10 to 9 in t en innings.
Quarter 1 by a point system, the
JL~ Tate , whc handles our Thymotrol
Several players on the winning
outstandirlg _group is seJe~ted to
s a les, was contacted by our Disi;eam are sons of Specialty Control
receive
the
accolade
.
t rict Sales Office ir. New Haven
employees.
Here are their names:
concerning a Pitney-Bowes Company
Tommy
Rannie,
Jimmy Brennan, Allan
award
for
the
second
quarter
The
o.rder for a multi -mot o; thymotrol
Tulloch,
Gary
Cash,
Dick Cooper,
goes
to
Jim
Neet's
Aircraft
and
drive to be used on a prototype
Ernie Hutton and Ronnie Schneider.
Military
Equipment
Sales
team.
~ post office mail sorting equipCongratulations 1
.t. Pitney Bowes Company, fear- Congratulations fellows 1
:wg IUE President Carey's threat
Each sales sub-section also nomiof a company-wide s trike a gainst
AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY
nates one of their group "for an
GE on October 2 would give us the
Around the turn of the century,
order only ON THE CONDITION THAT IT outstanding sales activity duri~
oi l began to drive tractors , autothe quarter.
WOULD BE DELIVERED BEFORE OCTOBER
mobiles, trucks and ships. To the
1. We promis ed t o deli.ve r before
The five nominees for second quar- farmer, oil helped bring power that
t hat time and go t the order. I f
could out- perfonr, any number of
t e r recognition were Bob Gill,
the Post Off ice Depa rtment likes
work
animals and power that reArt Highlandj Jim Martin, Hi Sloan,
this new mail sci";.ting machine, we
quired
no crops to feed it ~ the way
and Ted Swanson. After much
may get many more similar orders
animal
power
did. Competition
deliberation, the committee
for Thymot rols f rom Pitney Bowes.
produced
petroleum-powered
vehipicked Jim Mart1n for top honors
cles of all sorts-wcbeaper, more
fo"i"
the
outstanding
sales
job
be
Two other customers , t he Cessna
efficient tractors and trucks. As
did in getting a combination
Ai re raft Company and th e General
fanns became mechanized, moX"0 and
Purpose Contn>l Department of Gen- Register Control and Thymotrol
more
fann products flowed to marorder from the Huck Company. Conaral Electric (not an I UE plant )
ket. Farmers cultivated more lam,
gratulations,
Jim.
have also inquired as to what
raised more crops for every hour in
effect a nationwide IUE strike will
the fiel d than ever before-and
have on our Department.
VISITORS
they also had ti.roe fo r leisure. Today, one fann worker supports more
We have told t hem t hat we d o not
Visiting Specialty Control Dept.
than fifteen people. In 1900, he
have the IUE in our plant although to~ ara Mr. w. Brainard and R.
co uld support only eight. This is
a union election will be held here
Sedgwick~ representing Kearny
one of the ~asons that Americans
on Thursday.
and Trecker. We extend our sineat more and better food than ever
cere welcome.
before, and one of the big reasons
We also informed them about our
. that we a re the first nation to
efforts.. to find secondary suppliers
banish the fRar of want .t hat dar......._:omponents for our products so
;
kens much of the globe.
1. . ... t
we can continue to operate
DON'T FORGET
here in spite of any national
TO VGI'E
strike action that may be taken by
ON
;:>AFETY SCORE
the union at IUE organized plants
THURSDAY
1403 days
in General Elect ric .
SEPTEMBER 28
7, 241 , 918 hours
WITHOUT A IJJST TIME ACCIDENI'
Conc ern over the possibility of a
company-wide IUE strike against the
General Electric Company has been
voiced by t h re"' Specialty Control
customers .
... :.: .
VOTE
DON'T THROW YOUR RIGHTS AWAY
Tl-IURSDAY
BY NOT VOTING
S e> me p e ople ha ve said. " I'.m not inter e ste!d in t h e IUE - - I d.on 1 t want anything
to do with it - - I'm not eve n going to vote on Thu rs day.' 11
THAT WOULD BE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE. If you don 1 t vote you will give the
IUE an unfair a dvantage becaus e then the IUE orga nizer would need less votes
to win. You s ee, he only needs a majority of those who vote and not of ever'ybody
eligible .
F o r example . , There are approximate ly 475 employees eligible to vote.
If all 47'5 voted he would then need 238 votes for the IUE . Howevero if only
some employees v ot eD say 100 of tho se eligible, the YUE could get in het'e with
only 51 v otes I And t hose few votes c ould determine what is going t o happen
t o 47 5 employees -- INCLUDING YOU. So you see, if you didn't vote you could
be helping t he IUE organizer be c ause the election is decided on t'he basis of a
majority of those who actually vote.
We hope you will VOTE "NO" against the IUE.
Bu t whether you are against the IUE or in fayor of it - - you owe it to yourself
and to your family t o be sure to vote on Thursday.
VOTING JS BY SECRET BALLOT IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION.
YOU WI L L VOTE IN A PRIVATE VOTING BOOTH,
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW HOW YOU VOTED.
YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO VOTE EXACTLY AS YOU FEEL NOW NO
MATTER WHAT ANYBODY HAS TOLD YOU ,,. NO MATTER WHAT YOU
HAVE SAID OR HEARD BEFORE. YOU CAN STILL VOTE " NO" EVEN IF
YOU ONCE SIGNED A U NION CAR D.
DON' T LEAVE IT TO OTHERS TO DECIDE SOMETHING THAT IS SO
IMPORTANT TO YOU . YOU SHOULD VOTE,
'S
NEWS
'UBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROl EM PLOYEES

SPOlTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 150
A ugLt s t 26, 1958
Not onl y d o we tha nk Th e e for our food, but we t hank Th e e for Jesus
Christ our Savior. Amen
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SPORTS
I'M A NICE CUSTOMEH--BUT I NEVEH
NEWS
Charles Minter of the SCOGEE Golf
League, shot a 38 yesterday at the
Swannanoa Golf and Country Club
which is par for the course. If
Charlie ke eps this up, he wil l no
doubt join 'he rank of the profo$sionals . Cong ratulations.
RICHMOND FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Richmond at w. Va.
Richmond at Dayton (night)
10-l.i
Richmond at VMI
k -11 Richmond at Rutgers
Richmond at G.W . (night)
-~.13
.t0-25 Richmond at Villanova
ll-1
Citadel at Richmond
11-8 Richmond at VPI
11- 15 Richmond at Davidson
11-27 Wm. & Mary at Richmond
?-20
':-27
THESE TRYlNG TIMES
COME BACK 1
"You know me . I'm a nico customer.
I never complain, no matter what
kind of service I get.
I 'll go in a restauran~ and sit

and sit while the waitress gossips
wi th her boy friend and never
b others to see i f my hamburger is
ready. Sometimes someone who came
i n after I did gets my hamburger,
but I don't say a word.
"If the soup is cold or the cream
for the coffee is sour, I'm ni ce
abo ut it . When I go to a s tore to
buy something, I'm thought ful of
the other person. If I get a
snooty salesperson who gets nettled because I want to ' l ook at
several things before I make up
my mind, I'm polite as can be. I
don 1 t believe rudeness i n return
is the answer. You might say I
wasn't raised that way.
Taxes, politics a.Sd the high cost

of living have been causes for
alarm sine e the beginning of time,
a s witness these eloquent complaintf "Sometimes I order things by call from citizens who struggled for
ing on the tel ephone. I a sk for
survival centuries ago:
a promise on a delivery date.
They give it to me but they never
"Who has not seen with his own eyes keep that promise. They instead
the present spir it of speculation
give poor excuses when I call
which forces up the prices of comma again, but:
diti es to such a deg ree that hwnan 1
11
laneuage cannot find words to ex1 neve r kick. I never nag . I
press the transaction~ 11
never criticize. I wou.ld not
-- Diocl<!!ti1m, 301 A ~D . -- dream of making a scene, as I've
seen others do. I think that 1 s
awful. I 1 m a nice cus tomer. I 1 11
NOT FIT TO EAT
tell you what else I am. I'm the
customer that NEVER COMF.3 BACK
~atives in the African and Asian
FOR ANOTHER ORDER 11 11
lllilt ries where the jeep i s repl a cing the camel are not comSAFETY SCORE
pletely satisfied with the new:1.LOh days
come r. Their co mplaint is that
7
,2
51,220 hours
the jeep can't be milked, eate n
nor turned into tents when
retired.
RACK TO WORK
We welcome back Grace Simmons
who has been absent from her j o b
i n the Micro Relay 2nd Shift due
to illness. Grace wants to thank.
every one for the beautiful !'low-.
e r s and cards sent her while at
the hospital.
VISITINJ
Jat}et Speck, formerly of White
Print, visited Waynesboro last
week end as guest of Shirley MacCambridge. Janet resides now
with her husband and 8 month old
baby girl at New Castle, Del aware.
CONGRATULATIONS
We exte nd our congratulations to
Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Clark (Sheet
Metal) on the biith of a son an::l
to Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Worrell (Coil
and Transfonners ) on the birth of
a daughter. We understand that
both mothers and their offspring
are doing fine.
CHORALIERS REllEARSAL
The SCOGEE Chorali ers will meet
tonight in theplant auditorium
at 7 : JO. New members are welcome
so i f you l ike to sing, come on '
out and join the group.
VOTE
AS YOU PLEASE
ON THURSDAY
BUT
PLEASE VOTE l
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\;/l-IAT /S THE ISSUE . . .. .

to SE VOTED ON TNllRS/JAY?
MAKE NO MIST AKE ABOUT IT . . . . . . . . .
T he ques tion to be decide d is thi s .....
DO YOU WANT THE I UE?
************
T h e qu es tion you will a nswer on the secret ba llot i s " Do you wish to be represented
fo r purpos e s of coll ective bargaining by Inter n ati ona l U nio n of El ec trical, Radio and
M a c hine Worker s , AFL-CIO?"
On the l e f t side of t he ballot i s a box marked YES .
O n the rig ht side of the ballot is a box marked NO.

W e s incere l y hop e you wi ll vote on the right s ide --vote ''NO".
R EMEMB ER THIS IS A SECRET BALLOT.

N o o ne will ev e r know how you voted a s an ind ividual. You can vote exactly as you
fe el i n thi s se cr e t b a llot e l ec tion. Even if you once signed a union card -- you can
s ti 11 vote "NO" !
D o n't l eav e it to some one e l s e to decide some thing that is so important t o you and
you:r fa mily.
Vote a s you plea s e -- ye s or no -- but YOU SHOU LD VOTE ON THURSDAY.
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VQI,
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Aqgq et 27: 1958
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In the name of Christ we tha nk Thee for our food and pray that we ma y
find food for our soul a i so . Am e n .
VI3ITms
DON 'T FOIUET
TO VOTE
ON
Visiting us today are Messrs.

C. R. Swenson, H. H. Barr, T. R.
Whitehurst, E. L. Douville and
J. D. Landis. They will observe
a demonstration of the Par-Matic
Drive, an equipment designed by
our Engineering Group. We e xtend
these visitors our most sincere
welcome.
THURSDAY
AUGUST 28
"WE CERTAINLY ARE PROUD 11

I'rom the News-Virginian dated
August 23, below we rep rllit an
editorial entitl ed 11 Blood Bank 11
NLRB ELECTION HERE TOMORRCW
SECURITY OF SELF
Arrnngements have been compl eted

for the NLRB- conducted election
to be held here tomorrow.
The polling place will be the
plant cafeteria arxi the electi on
will be held between 2: 00 a nd 4 : 30
P.M.
In order to keep an even now of
vote rs at the polls, voting will
be scheduled by foremen group s .
The groups scheduled for a specific time will be notifi ed by their
f oremen and they will be released
from their jobs to go and vote.
The only securi t;v any person can

have lies within himself. Unless
he is free to act as an individuaJ1,
free to be productive in his own
behs.lf, free to determine what
The election v.U.l be by secret
part of that production he will
ballot and no one will ever know
consume now and what part he will
how any individual vot ed. Spec Pride over this accomplishment can save, and free to protec t his
ifll ty Control urges everyone who
savings,
there
is
no
chance
that
surely be excused. It represents
is eligible, to vote in the NLRB
he can find security anywhere.
a degree of cooperation on the
election . No matter how you
-Poirot
part of GE employees and a dedivote,
"No" (against the union),
cation to the Red Cross program
SPORTS
or
"Yes"
( in favor of the ,u nion) .
deserving of the communitys
With the Milwat kee Braves in first the important thing is that
cormnendation.
place in the National League,
you do vote s o t hat our e l e c t i on
l eading by 8 games and the New
in
a true Democ rat ic manner,
To the many who assisted in makir:g
York Yankees of the Ame ric an
represent the wishes of th e majorWednesday's visit the success that
League leading by 12, the re is
ity of our eligib le empl oyees.
it . was we giv e humble thanks. The
little doubt that the World Se r ies
need f or bl oo d is acute. The recwill be played by any other teams.
ognition accorded that need reCagy Casey and Silent Haney have
VOTE AS YOU PLEASE
BUT PLFASE
flects an unselfish spiri t and a
not made any statement a.s yet but
VOTE.
quality of public service of which
t he writing is on the wall as the
~~~----------we have a right to be proud 1 11
outcome of t heir respe c tive championships .
The men and women of Specialty
CARELESSNES~
Control, through this media, thank
HORSE SHCHI
the News-Virginian for its kind
The Middlebrook Ruritan Club is
words.
sponsoring the Middlebrook Horse
Show to be hel d Saturday, August
DRIVE
30, from 2 to 7 P.M. onthe grounds
CAREFULLY
adjacent to the new Mi ddlebrook
SAFETY SCORE
Fire House.
1405 days
We unders t and that Ed Menaker and
7,260,522 hours
Dan O'Donnell of the Eng. Section
WITHOUT A LCST TIME ACCIDENT
have entries in the Show . Good
l uck boys.
! he Red Cross Bloodmobile, in
Waynesboro Wednesday at the General Electric plant> collected
177 pints of blood . This exceeded,
by far, the assigned quot a.
--
wili
TODAY
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RIGRETS TOMORROW
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YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT
DON ' T THINK THAT YOUR SINGLE VOT E IS OF LITT LE

IMPORTANCE IN THEN. L. R. B. ELECTION HERE TOMORROW.
ELECTIONS HAVE BEEN WON AND LOST BY ONLY A HANDFUL
OF VOTES. FOR EXAMPLE, AT THE G~ E. BLOOMINGTON,
ILLINOIS, PLANT THE UNION WON THE ELECTION BY ONLY
ONE VOTE!
THAT MEANS THAT ALTHOUGH HALF OF THAT
PLANT'S EMPLOYEES DID NOT VOTE FOR IT --THE UNION WAS
BROUGHT INTO THE PLANT ON THE STRENcTH OF THAT
SINGLE DECIDING VOTE.
REMEMBER-- THE ELECTION TOMORROW WILL BE DE,TERMINED
BY A MAJORITY OF THOSE VOTING - - NOT BY THOSE ELIGIBLE
TO VOTEo
WE SINCERELY HOPE THAT WE HAVE A 100% TURNOUT IN THE
ELECTION TOMORROW SO THAT THE DESIRES OF ALL ELIGIBLE
EMPLOYEES MAY BE REFLECTED IN THE ELECTION RESULTS.
THIS ELECTION IS A SERIOUS MATTER -- DON'T LET OTHERS
DECIDE FOR YOU.
VOTE AS YOU PLEASE TOMORROW - - EITHER "NO" (FOR NO
UNION) OR "YES" (FOR A UNION) -- BUT PLEASE VOTE.
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Au gu s t 28 , 19 58
All thi ngs com e of Thee 0 God" and for a ll thin gs w e th a nk The e
n ow. A n1 e n .
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SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES TO

TAKE FIFTH PAID HOLIDAY MONDAY
EMPLOYEFB TO VOTE TODAY
Employees of the Specialty Control

Department are looking forward to
their Labor Day weekend which is
next Mond A.Y. This i s their ) th
pnirt hol iday of the year.
Production and Maintenance employees and eligible plant clerical

employees will vote today to detennine whether or not they wish
to be repres9nted for ~urposea of
collective bargaining by the IUE.
According to Mr. K. N. Bush, no

work is being plf}.Ilned for next
Sat urday. The;re may be isolated
r ases in which emergencies may
demand bringing in a few people.
The election, which will be conducted by the National Labor Relat ions Board, will take place in
t he plant cafet eria th is afternoon between the hours of 2:00 and
4:30 P.M.
I f you have been on the payroll
Three employees will represent the

over 30 days and work the day
before (Friday) and the day after Specialty Control Dept. at the
(Tuesday) you will be eligible for polls and three other employees
will represent the IUE. Ballots
the holiday pay. Th i s paid holiwill contain 2 places, one marked
day is one of the seven paid
11 Yes 11 and one marked 11 No 11 wheni
holidays that the employees of
the
employee may indicate his or
Specialty Control enjoy.
her preference. Voting will be
scheduled by foremen grt>ups in
AUTO-SNAK TO DISCONTINUE SERVINO
order to keep an even flow of voBREA:h'FAST
ters at the polls. Foremen will
notify their employees when they
It has been decided, after a 30
may leave their work places to go
day trial basis, that making
breakfast available to our employ- and vote. Radio news broadcasts
ees will be discontinued beginning and the newspapers will carry the
results of the election as soon
Tuesday, September 2. The demand
as possible after the results are
f or breakfaat has not been great
determined.
enough to warrant continuing this
sel"'lice. However, Macke stated
that later on when colder weather
s ets in, and i f the demand for
breakfast service is great enough
they will consider trying it out
again.
SAFETY SCORE
days
7, 269, 824 hours
.
__ TODAY!
Hurricane Daisy accompanied by

winds estimated at 115 miles per
hour are menacing the coast line
of the Carolinas. Small crafts
were warned to stay near protect ed
places from the Virginia capes t o
Jacksonville, Fla. Daisy probabl y
will increase in size and move
gradually northeastward for t he
next 12 hours.
FIRE BRIGADE
The Specialty Control Fire Brigade will talc~ part in the Luray
Firemen 1 s Parade to be hel d on
Friday night, August 29. The
Brigade will leave the Specialty
Control grounds at 4:30 P.M.,
according to Fire Chief Curto.
Par~dA starts 6:30 P.M.
On Saturday, August JO, t he Bri-
gade will parade at Shenandoah

leaving the plant at 3:30 P.M.
Parade starts 5:00 P.M.
On Monday, Labor Day, Sept . 1,
they will go to Gordonsville where
they will also take part in the
Firemen's Parade leaving the plant
at ltJO P.M. The parade i n Gordonsville will get underway at 5
P.M. sharp. Of course, the
''Rocket" will accompany the fire
fighters on both trips.
45 MILLION PUPII.S
1406
VOTE
N-E-W-S
0h , coma now, Ruth will not hurt

you that much ! 11 11
11
Enrollment in the nation's public

and private schools and coll eges
will reach a record peak of nearly
45 million students ltle n the new .
school year opens in September.
This is about 1 3/4 million higher
than last year.
DON'T THINK FOR A MINUTE THAT

YOUR VOTE WON 'T MAKE A
DIFFERENCE .
. IT WILLI
Some few employees have said that
YOU NOW HAVE ALL THE FACTS TO

they don' t think they will bother to vote
t oday because their individual vote s won't
GO ON .
m ake a difference.
TODAY YOU MUST DECIDE - - - IUE

Don 1 t be misled your single
v o te added to others will determine the
final outcome of today 1 s election.
NOIUE
If, one
by one, enough Specialty Control ern-
WE URGE YOU TO - p l oyees decided not to vote because their

i ndividual votes wouldn't make a
d ifference - - then all together they co uld
make a real difference to today's
e lection results .
Be sure to vote today.
LJ
VOTE "N0
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WitlioLtl. fo n d
F:tli r. r
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W" f'11 ; 111k
hody wil.I die; without C hl'if:1. ou r soul. swill d ie.

T h ee for both just now. Alllcn
'- ~::Av111,,~:>WJ.(iYEF:;
AN:~::IT~~mMM[::
I\J [ REJG::'-jtj): Lnday, Sep::::r":: is Lshor Doy,
.;
i
I-DH ALl
AN!WTINCEJJ
Dr. l .. T . h'.!3<ler, Genera.l Mnnar;er,
:rnnowir.~ ,.,d
t,xlny thnt a new Sav:l.ngs
111
itnd !;"c i t y pror, r al'' ldll ho made
ava Lli. b l o t0 .al~ miployoes of t.he
Depart.mi " " Tho new pionee ring
Prop;ir., r.c.mes as a. result of ext emi 1,,,, "urveys and stucty by the
Corr.my
lJndor t.hA new Program, every dollar of .1 n c:711plo,yee 's savings (up
~' 6% uf the employee's normal
.. r aleht timP. earnings) will be
inc re~~ed by a $ .50 payment fr001
the Company. Er(iployoes will be
abl e t o save 1,2, 3, 4, 5 or 6%
of theil' earnings and will have
t hes e savinge increased by a CC1!'0
pany payment. of 50% of the amount
oavoo. Thus, an employee who
saves 6% of hie own income will
nc t.ua1ly receive ~not.her 3%, making a total of 9% of his income.
Th e saVings will be invested in
11.S. Savings Borns, or employees
m~y elect to have up to 2/3 of
th<ir t o tal savings invested in
0.~. C01Tl1ll00 stock.
The new Program will probably be
p11t into effect by January 1,
1959, after certain approvals and

.:\tiafactory rulings from the
"ppropriate government agencies
finve neon obtainf!d (including the
'.1VrnE.l Rev enue Service). Some
"clmini.strative procedures remain
1,0 be workoo out also.
r the r explanation of the new
ro rr.ca.ll will be made in TODAY 1S
tll!lIS as soon as more infor111Rtion
is avail.able.
: ~! m e m bE; r ,
Mr . c(c:::a.per is just
i.round thi:: r::orrnff . Dtlve safAly.
The Ttrf':- CTO llni0n was r c.)ectP.d
fn! t.h". nc c 0nrl t,i. m" h.v V ir. Sp"!c hJ t .r r~o nt.rol nmp loypcs ~n YP S-
t.P. rday ' ~
() f
NLIIR elcctlon b:r

ovnr } to 1.
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vote
The n'sults as announc:ecl by the

HL Hl3 officials were as foJlows :
u~h
Tot.al Votes Cast

Ch allenged
For the Union
For No Union
lone wee kend, starting this evenin~ , 3ome of 11s wilJ. trok up to
the mountains for a family picnic
Others w:1.ll eo to the shore for a
:rn:l.m in t.he ocean. Others will
stay homo avoiding the crowded
highways, but all will enjoy a
t hree day vacation.
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353
one of the many paid holidays that
I et~he
employees of Specialty Control
n,ioy. No douht t hat du rinP, the
455
An atmo3phe1~ of good feeling was

evide n l, throughout the plant this
morning . Three c" mments among
many hea:n:l today typified the
feelings t hat seemed to generally
prevail.
The Safety Council estimates that

during the long Labor Day weekend
l.i70 persons will be ld..lled in accidents. Don't you be one of the
470.
So , have a pleasant holiday weekend. Drive carefully, give the

rieht of way to others even i f you
are tn the right, but by all means
Manager of Manufacturing K. N.
come back safe and sound to your
Bus h s aid , "I am very pleased with home and to your job. Good luck
the results of yesterday 1 s e l ecand God bless you all.
tion not only because our em 1""....
p l oyees rejected IUE so resoundVISITOR3
ingly but because it showed that
we h:we a good plant climate and
Visiting us today is Mr. T. R.
excel lent relationships between
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White,
App. Sales from Richmond,
our management and our employees.
acco.qipanied by two representativ~~
H. \-J. Tulloch, Manager of Einployee of DuPont's Martinsville plant. ,
purpose of their visit is- to obRelations commentedj "We are
serve a demonstration .of the Pargrateful for the e xpression of
confidenco shown by our employees. matic Drive. Also visiting today
w~ will continu to do our best to is Mr. R. B. Knollin from the sales
office San Diego. We extend our
maintain the excellent relationwelcome to all during their stay
ships that e xist throughout our
at our plant.
pl ant."
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P2r sonnel lffllations 0pec1alist

John Coolpy , said, "We are pleased
th:it 011r f~ctory employees plac13d
their confid1mce in Specialty
Control r ather t han in National
organizers. We appreciate that
confidence and we will strive to
continue to merit lt. 11
SAFETY SCORE
11107 days
7,279,126 hours
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AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL OUR FACTORY EMP.LOYEES
Time and time again sin.c e we established our plant here in Waynesboro,
Specialty Control employees have provided me with many proud occasions,
but yesterday's expression of confidence by the people who wo1k in our
factory operation gave me the greatest personal satisfaction of all.
I have been genuinely pleased and justifiably p r oud of such things as our
blood drive record. our remarkable safety record, and the outstanding
manner in which you all have accomplished project after project here in
our Department. But yesterday's overwhelming demonstration of loyalty
and faith in our De partment and its management, after weeks and months
of bitter personal attacks on us by the union organizers, was especially
gratifying because it showed that our determined efforts to deal with our
employees in a fair and a forthright manner, without fear or favor, is
understood and appreciated by our employees.
I have never seen a group of workers with bette r team spirit than exists
in'. our factory, nor have I seen a supervisory group that better recognizes
their duties and responsibilities to the business and to the people who work
under their direction. Each and every one of us must continue to do his
best to protect this atmosphere of mutual concern and trust.
I want to assure each and every one of you that your confidence is not mis-
placed.
LOUIS T. RADER
Augus t 2 9, 195 8
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SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAY& AMO NEWS VIRGINIAN
S e ptember 2, 1958
VOL. IV, NO. 154
"Praise God from whom a ll blessings flow. 11 For food and power and
love and peace accept our thanks 0 God. Amen.
HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
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BE SUR E TO READ about the

;~j new Savings and Security Program on the bac k of "Todays
.j News". Additional information
f'.l. on the ne w Program, which was
tji announc ed last week. will be
~ passed on to you as soon as it is
!J; available .
ll
lt TAR T PLANNING NOW TO

~KE ADV ANT AGE OF THIS
~CE LLENT INVESTMENT PRO
~GRAM.
A magne tic tape degausser made

by the Cinema Mfg . Corp. was
removed from the Engineering
Lab on August 27 or 28. The box
is about 12 inches square and 4
inche s thick. This device is needed for work in the Lab and anyone knowing its whereabouts,
please c o ntact Bi ll Walker (Ext.
246) or C. H. Swann (Ext. 421).
GLEE CLUB TONIGHT
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Kl DE NEEDED
Art Hupp (Eng.) is looking for a
JO-id e to and from the plant on the
8:00 to 4: 30 shift. Art lives on
the E a stside Highway about . 3
o f a mile south of the City limits.
Anyone who can accommodate
A1 t qhould call him on Ext. 437.
According to Rosemary Howard,

there will be a meeting of the
Glee Club this evening at 7:30 in
the plant auditorium.
LES FEMMES ARE NOT SO
"FATALE"
He re ' s a bit of information that
most men will find hard to be lieve after putting up with
11
holiday drivers" this past weekend.
According to s tatis tics published

by the Travelers Insurance Co.
women are mo r e r =t. reful d rivers
than men. In 19 57 , out of the
tr'ri~~m . . . 4 7, 52 7 fatal accid e nts in the
United States, only 5, 270 were
female drivers~ while 42, 257 were
male. Of co urs e~ they don't
mention the back seat drivers,
.. . . . ...- . ..... who a t times ara the cause oi
serious accidents too.
"Her baby sitter didn't show up today I"
COFFEE A ND CAKE 11 0N THE

HOUSE" TI-US AFTERNOON
With the return to ou r r e gular
working hours, the afternoon 10
minute r e st perio d w i ll begin
again today. The plant c a fe teria
will be open i n the afternoon from
2: 30 to 3 : 30 PM. The second
refres h me nt period for s econd
shift w o r k ers will be from 10: 30
to 10:40 PM.
To get the cool weather season off
to a good start - - the Macke Co.
will provide coffee and cake "on
the house" during today's afternoon bre ak period.
R. L . WILBUR APPOINTED TO
PLANNING COMMISSION
Manage r of Finance, R. L.
Wilbur, has been appointed to the
Waynesboro Planning Commission
a c cording to an announcement
received here this morning . Mr .
Wilbur 's appointment becomes
effective today and will continue
for a period of five years .
SAFETY SCORE
1 , 411 days
7, 288, 428 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
EMPLOYEES CAN ADD 3% TO TG T AL EARNINGS

THROUGH NEW PR<5GRAM
The new Savings and Security Program, which was a n no unce d to Specialty
Control employe e s last week, provides an opp o r t u n ity fo r e mploye e s to add
a n additional 3% to their earnings simply by saving a t le ast 3 -1 / 2 % of the ir
ea rning s durin g 1959 and 6% each year after that. The Program, whic h is
b e ing made available to non-union General El ect ri c e m p loyees a c ro s s the
country, is d e signed to help meet financi a l probl e ms arising from both
inflation and recession, while at the same time helping employe es build
p e rsonal estates for the future. Similar propo~ al s a r e being made to the
unions with which the Company is negotiating thi s month.
The n e vy Savings and Security Program gives each employee the opportunity
of saving up to 6% of his normal straight-time earnings, with the Company
matching each dollar of savings with a $. 50 payment which will be available
to the employee after a thr e e-ye ar holding period. Thus, an employee who
save s 6% of his earnings will be c redited with a total of 9% of his earnings.
The savings will be invested in U.S. Savings Bonds, or employees may elect
to have up to 2 I 3 of their total savings (including the Company payment)
invested in G. E. common stock. Meanwhile, the Program will make funds
available in case of total disability, layoffs, death, etc.
In addition, an employee may ele c t to leave the investments purchased with
the Company payment on deposit with the Company after the three-year
holding period and allow them to multiply into a personal retirement fund.
He may, of course, withdraw these investments at the same time he withdraws the investments purchased with his own savings, at the end of the
holding period.
The employee also has the right to withdraw both his total investment and
the Company payments before the end of the holding period if he is totally
disabled or if he is laid off for an extended period.
As an added incentive to enroll in the Program from the beginning, employees
who participate during the first year of the Program at a rate of at least 3-1/2%
of their earnings will receive the full 3% payment from the Company. In
addition, employees who enroll by November 1, 1958, at the full 6% rate, will
receive a full share of G. E. c ommons tock. A part of a share of G. E . stock will
be given to all employees who enroll by November 1, 1958, but who eave at a
lower rate.
The new Savings and Security Program will replace the present employee
Savings and Stock Bonus Plan which provides a Company payment of 15% of
employee savings .
'S NEWS

S,OUS, HATIOHAl AHO WORlO HEWS - COURTESY Of WAYB AND HEWS VIRGINIAN
\' OL.
v NO. 155
L 1: t t he wo rd s of my mouth and the m e ditatio n o i my heart b r:

in Thy sight 0 Lord. Amen .
.::; co 1 ~F: F
NIGHT AT S KYLINE
DRIVE -IN
A r r,onf~ lflcnt s hav e b ee n c om plet!d w1t.h the Skyline Theat e r

1n a 11 a ~ <'111e n1 which wi ll e n ab l e
e a c h S(.OG EE member and o n e
g u..: >il t i ci tt e nd t h e . Skyline DriveJn Th ..11 rr fre e of charge o n a ny
one night of the i r c hoos ing during
th t. " " :ll h of S e ptember. Free
p as " " ~~ \ re being dis tributed to
SCOGE: m e mbe rs in the cafe t e ri a ; 1t lunch time. Two of the
tu r .:.: s se lected for th e month of
::>e pternbe r ar e 11 The N a ked and
Th e Dead" and 11 lndi scree t 11
If
y ou don ' t be long t o SCOGEE, you
can joi n no w a n d ge t your free
pa ss to th e Drive-In while the
off ~ 1 i s s till g ood.
DEPT. BOWLERS TO M EET

LAUNCH PLANS FOR 158
Plan s for the '58 - 1 59 bowling
Reason w ill b e di scu ssed tonight
whe n member s of the Ten P i n
Rowling L e ague m ee t in t h e au dit o rium at 7: 30 PM, B esides o ther
bow ling bu s iness, team a c h e dul es
wi ll be outlined this eve ning a n d
c on s ide rati o n wi ll be given to the
possibility of adding two n ew
team s to the league. All m e mbe r s
are invit ed to attend.
Bowler Curt Lunds trom n rges any
men who a re i n terested in p l aying
in th e, leagu e to ca ll hi m ,or{
E xt. 339 or drop a note to him in
t he plant mail.
.1 c ccpt<1b le
S UGGESTION WI Ni'-lE.:RS
S i x Co nt ro ll ers will rc:ccivc
Sugges tion A war,d ::; tod ay be c a use
they thou g ht of way s to d o ,_,_
b e tter job. Today ' s winn er :.;
were: A. G . Sma ll a nd An ni<.!
Foltz - M ac hine Room ; C a therin e
Bals l ey, M a r garet E a r m a n a n d
H elen Arthur - Relays; a nd R .
D . .Richman - Elec t ronic Tes t .
SCOGEE GENERAL MEMB ERSHIP

MEETING TOMO RROW
There will b e a SCOGEE G enera l

Members hip Mee tin g tomo r r ow
eve ning at 8 :00 in the plant c afe teri a . All SC OGEE m emb e r s a re
inv ited to attend a nd e x pr es s t heir
THANKS
AU REVOIR--BUT NOT GOODBYE vie ws on va ri ous matters o f
SCOGEE bu sin ess that w ill be dis Danny Hull, Jr., ask e d us to exThe Airc raft Assembly g irl s threw c uss ed. Refre s hments w ill b e
p r <'ss his thank s to th e people in
a surprise party last Thur s day at
s e rve d in the cafete ri a after t he
the Machine Room and th e Plating Rowes Steak House for t h eir exme e ting ( s ee item b e low).
Ro om fo r th e g ift and flo wers that forema n, Dick Wil s on. Besides a
w 1! re se nt to him while he was in
de li cious steak dinner, the gals
t l1e hospital.
presented Dick with a shirt, ti e
a nd c uff links .
R. S. V . P.
Dick was tr ansferred thi s past
week to an Air craft and Military
production a s s ignment.
" You the new man? "
SAFETY SCORE
1, 412 days
7, 297, 750 hour s
WI THOUT A LOST T IME
ACCIDENT
To h e lp i n estimating th e a mo u n t
of refr es hm e nt s needed for tomorrow ' s SCOGEE G eneral
Membership M ee ting -- plea s ~
fill out t h e co upon on the' b~ck of
today' s paper a n d r e tu rn it to
TODA Y ' S NEWS (E m plo y ee
Rela tions Office ) or depo s it it in
the ballo t box n ear th<.' c::lf eter:io.
exit.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1~!18
The GE 'Election
The rlcct ion sponsored Thursd:1y
Rl fh!> \V(lyn<'sboro General Electric
pl nnl should revive faith in the sturrly
incf ur;t ri al climate that. exists in WayllC'sboro Here, indeed, is an oasis of
undC'rsl anding and confidence between managC'ment and workers that

was ernphaticnpy refl ected in the vote
casl by more than 450 employes.
The IUE , for the second time since
GE establislHid its Specialty Control
Divi.~ion in the city a little more than
rour years ago, failed in its effort to
attain bargaining representation for
workers in the Wayne~boro' plaI)t. The
vote this time . . . 353 against lUE and
f)8 for .... was even more emphatic
.
than the vote two years ago.
The vicious and personal attacks
upon the integrity of management a1
dictated by absentee IUE leaders is
obviously an unacceptable method ol
establishing a national union here.
No industriar orgattization can
operate where hatred and suspicion
ferments. No commwity can offer
pleasant surroundings where those engaged in the same work and dedicated
to the same objective are seared by
doubt and mistrust.
We are one. We are fe llow citizens.
Each contributes his portion to the
common good. In such a climate industries can succeed and the individual
employes of those industries can live,
rear their families and associate one
with the other in mutual confidence
and peace.
Union labor has done much to elevate the status of labor in the world .
But it }las done so without the bitter
ness and hatred that seems to be employed so much today by professional
organizers and leaders who have seem..
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N~Nl~r,INIAN , WoVMe!bor~',
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Vtrglflla
ingly forgotten the 1nitlll1 and major

goal of union 1abor . . . industrial peacs1
confidence and security.
That our friend s and neighbors in
Waynesboro have exhibited once again
a desire to be Independent of distant
dictation is a wholeHome and healthy
situation. As long a11 lnanagement and
workers cnn work 1f)gether as under
standingly as management and work~
ers do in Waynesboro t~ere is, indeed,
little advantage to bo gained from ~ur
render of indep9ndence and :'iabotage
of that pleasant relationship.
AS
OTHERS
SAW
IT
Last Saturday's Waynesboro News-Virginian carried

an interesting e ditorial concerning the results of the
union efection held at our plant last Thursday.
During the national union's bitter campaign, Spec i alt

Control employees were ~ o close to the situation tha
many wer e apt only to vi ew it as a matter limite d to
our own pla nt walls. The News -Vir ginian editorial, on
the o the r hand, is a look at the union election as others
in our community saw it and helps us to appreciate
it s broade r implications.
The e ditorial is reprinted here for the convenience of

thos e who may have missed it.
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Pl e ase r e turn thi s coupon to TODAY'S NEWS today, or dep o sit it in the ballot box near the
c a feter i a e xit.
I WILL ATTEND T HE SCOGEE MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT.
D I WILL NOT ATTEND THE SCOGEE MEETING.

Signed
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S NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAY8 AND HEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. TV. NO. 156
S c t em b er 4 , l958
B l ess th1 Lord , 0 m y soul , and forg e t not all his benefits.
"E: t.r=:<, TRA " CERTI FIED
.S PF C.lAL T'< T HA NKED

Ev ..: 1 y ,mp l o yee who h ad a nything
to do '.vith thr Lo ckheed Ele c tra
a i re r;1 fr 1o h c ;rn t;;i.ke a bow today
f or a JOh WE> ll don e . In a wir e
r ~cl.' i vt'd ht>rc: irom W. R . Wilson,
Gener :\! Purch ::ising A ge nt o f the
Lo c kh~ ~d Aircraft C o rp., Spec ialty Contr o l e mploye e s were warml y r ongrrt t ulate d for the ir part in
.-!": ~,k .n g th e Lockheed El ec tra air 1i~. i::: r a .s u c cess .
SPECIALTY TO MEET ROANOKE

IN SOFTBALL RIV A LR Y
Th e softball rivalry b e t wee n
Specialty Control and GE Industry
Control of R o anok e will flare anew
ne x t Saturday night when ba ll
teams from both plants Journe y to
Staunton to play under th e lights.
At stak e is the Rader -Mahone y

trophy which Sp ecialty Control
won at Roanoke last year. (The
trophy is on display in the trophy
A h c prop- je t ai rliner for which we case in th e cafeteria ).
'3 ii!n~<i and built a r ! ~ ulalor,
So come on out to Gypsy Hill
stati c excit er and protective panel
Park, Saturday at 8 PM. and
(all rart of i.ts e lectrical system)
c heer for our side.
wa s , rtifi ~d last week by th e
Ci v il A c n ."lr,;iutics A dministration,
m;-ik ing i t the f irst j et age four RlDE NEEDED
(' n_uif' a i d i ner of A merican d esi ~n.
Tic' follo"'ri.ng c opy of Lo c kh ee d' s

t1 l1 gram 'le n t to Manage r of
Marke ting, D . 0. Dice , sums th e
s to ry up n i <.:c ly:
'' The C. A.A. F riday certified

our l'lew p rop-jet "Electra" as
t he first jet age four-engine
airline of American des i g n.
Thi& approval earned five
woe Y.e 'ihead of the schedule
est.ablis!1e d two years ago .
The fine performance of your
p roducts made this record
pos sihJe. Hope everyone in
you r company share with uc a
feeling of pride in th is
acc omplishment . Official
:mnouncement ~f this achievemen t will he made next week.
All LocY.h~ed employees and
manar>;emeint send to you \)'\.l r
gral.eful appreciation and
t h anks ."
"5 i gned-W. R. Wilson"
Amen
SCOGEE MEETS TO NIGHT

Don't forget the SCOGEE Gene ral
Membe rship M ee ting toni g ht a t
8 PM in the plant c afeteria. All
members of SCOGEE are e ligible
to attend.
PENSION BASE INCREASE
SLATED -- 1% REDUCTION
POSTPONED
Spe'cialty Control employees und e r
the GE Pension Plan will see th e
Program s base increase d from a
minimum pension of $2. 00 per
month to $2. 25 per month for each
year of se rvice, according to an
announc e ment today by Bill P erry
who administers the Department ' s
benefit plans.
The pension increase becomes effective on
October l.
Art Hupp (Eng.) is still looking

for a ride to and from the plant on
the 8: 00 to 4: 30 shift. Art lives
At the same time, it was anon th e Eastside High w ay (South
nounced that a scheduled 1% reD e lphine Ave. ) about 3/10 of a
duc ti on in employee pension conmile south of the City limits.
tributions would be postponed
Anyone who can a cc ommodate Art unti l January 1, 1959, in con shou ld ca ll him on Ext. 43 7 .
nection with preparations for the
new Savings and Security P rogram. The three -month postpone ment is effec tiv e in a ll GE pla nt s
where th e new Program begins on
January l. Th e employe e p ens ion
contribution wi 11 be reduce d aftc r
J anuary 1, 1959, from 1% dow n to
O on annual earnings up t o $4:200
and from 4% to 3% on earni:1gs
over $4200 .
1\~~
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c; uess l complo.inl'd o nce to<>
o ft e r. ahou t atolr <i? gg Mand
"'ic:hes."
1. 413 da~; - - -
(,.
7 , 307, 072 hou rs

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WITHOUT A LOST TIME
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OUR CHILDREN ARE PRECIOUS TO US.
HELP PROTECT THEM BY DRIVING
WITH PARTICULAR CARE
NOW THAT SCHOOL HAS BEGUN.
'S NEWS

VO L . I V , NO. 157
COURTESY Of WA Ya ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
September 5, 1958
Dea r Lord, we thank Thee for Thy ca r e, and 1he food we e at, the clothes
we wear; be present with us everywhere. Amen.
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IS T HE RE A DETECTIVE I N THE
HOUSE?
To bo rr ow a phras e -- "one of
our air c raft panels is missing."
Effort s o ver the pa s t three days to
lo c ate a missing 2781Fl21C lB
Lockhe e d Ele c tra s ide panel have
fa ile rl to turn it up .
It is urgent that the panel be re t urned to the manufacturing fl oor
immediately. Anyone who knows
J.l;l._e whereabouts of the panel
)uld return it at once to Gene
R e asoner , Foreman of the A&M
S tandard P a nel line.
DATES FOR SCOGEE SHOW

CHANGED TO OCT. 16 AND 17
SIDELINE SUPP OR 1' HELPS

GO TO THE GAME'. !
T o morrow at 8 PM, Specialty

Control' s softball team will m ee t
GE Industry Control' s t eam under
the lights a t the Gypsy Hi 11 Ba 11
Park in Staunton.
Two Specialty Control engineers,

Jack Zimmer and Will Hans e n ,
have received a wards in conne c tion with two patent applications which they filed r ecently.
Our boys are favored to win the

Rader - Mahoney trophy which will
be at stake tomorrow, but sideline
s upport does a lot to keep team
spirit high and fielding errors low.
Come on out tomorro w night and
chee r for our side.
Jack Zimmer' s award was for one

of several patent applicati ons
which are being made for the n e w
"Unipole" relay which was developed here in o ur Department.
LADY BOWLERS TO FORM

INDUSTRIAL LEAGU E
A big bowli n g season looms this

The combination concert, fashion
year as women bowlers in the
show and vari ety show whi c h i s
Department make plans for a
b eing planned by Specialty Con,..
Ladies Indu strial Bowling League.
t rol Choraliers and members of
Any gals who would like to help
SCOGEE has b ee n postponed until
organize the _league and play on
Oc tober 16 and 17. Pr evious plans
one of the teams should contact
ca lled for the show to b e pre one of the following three gir l s
S !" led on October 2 and 3 .
Mary Bridgeforth (Ext. 374),
JoAnn Anderson (Ext. 432) and
The prog ram, which will carry
June Harrell (Ext. 333),
the Operation Upturn theme
throughout, has been named
"CON - FA-VAR".
TWO ENGINEERS RECEIVE

AWARDS
Will Hansen filed a patent applic ation for an improved vibratiori

machine techni que which he de vised in the cours e of his d.:!velo p ment work here. Will holds one
patent already, Jack Zimmer has
had six patents issued to him so
far .
0 LD GRADS BEAT
APPRENTICES
The apprentice old timers sq11eaked out a narrow softball victory
when they clashed with the ir
young er counterparts yesterday at
City Park. Art Groat pilo t e d the
Grads and Joe McDorman captain ed the Apprentices in a 15 to 11
donnybrook,
RECOVERING
~ wife of E. A. Fitzgerald
(.t<.egu la tors) is recovering nic e ly
a t Waynesboro C ommunity Hosp.
whe re she underwent major
s ur ge ry.
"Some minds arc like con

crcte-all mixed up and per
mnnently' set!"
1, 414 days
7 , 316, 394 ho urs
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE TODAY

PLEASE READ THI S
Yesterday afte rnoon, l e n y e ar old Betty Jo Broo ks wa s s truck down by an auto1nobil c whil e she wa s attempting to cross th e Ea s lsidc Hi g hwa y near the road which
l e ads to our plant. Sh e is at the Uni vers it y Ilos p ital in very c rit i cal conditio n .
Doc lo rs say she might die .
Sur e ly, any drive r who noticed Betty Jo tryin g tu get a c ro ss the Highway w o uld
have s topp ed to l e t her p as s . P erhaps she wasn't notic e d . . . Perhaps passing
motorists were leaving it to the car b e hind t o .stop ... Perhaps the littl e g irl just
became imp atient. . We don't know what the fa c t s are that led to the tragedy.
But le ~'s take war ning from this accide nt so n ear our own doorstep. Whe n dri v ing
particularly to and f o m the plant -- let's continue to keep a sharp lo okout for
chi l d r e n.
The following letter was recently wr itten to the
.
El mir a ( N . Y.) Advertiser. If any drive r can r es ist
thi s father's appeal, h e h as no business w ith a dr i v er' s
li cense.
D ear Driver:
A few weeks ago, I i:aw a littl e
girl struck by a cm as she tried to
cross the street. I saw a father race
toward her and hold her to 1him as
she struggled in the agony death.
I sa w a ll the plans that had been
made fo r her dashed and I saw the
look of despair that came over his
face. I cou ld only offer a prayer
that such a thin g might never happen again.
of
T oday my daughter, who is 6

yea rs old, started off to school. H er
cocker span iel, whose name is
Scoo t, watched he r leflve and
whined his belief in the folly of
education.
Ton ight we t nlkcd 11bo11t school.
She told me about the girl who sits
in front or her, a girl with yellow
curls, and about the boy across the
:iisle who makes f:ices; nbout the
leflcher who h:is eyes in the back
or her head; about the trees in the
schCYJl yard ond the big girl who
doc~ not believe in Santa Claus.
We talked about a lot of things

- tremendously vital and unimporta nt things.
Now, as this is written, sh e is
sound Asleep with he r doll "Paddy"
in her a rms.
Wh en her doll gets broken or
her fin ger gets cut or her head ge f.s
bumped, I can fix the m. But when
she sta rts across the street-then,
Mr. Driver, she is in your hands.
Much as I wish I cou ld, it's not
possible for me to be w ith her a ll
the time. I have to work to pay
for he r home, her clothes, her education.
So, Mr. Driver, please help me
to look out for her. Please drive
carefully. Please drive slowly past
schools and at intersections. And
please remember that sometimes
children run from behind pR rked
cnrs.
Plcnse don't run over my little
girl.
With deepest thanks for whatever you can do for he r, I a m,
Very sincerely yours,
(Signerl) FATHER
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S'OlTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYa ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. JV , NO. l 58
S'' P' <' mhe r 8, 195 8
B e pr e s e nt at ou r ta bl e, Lord; be her e and every Nhe r e ador e d . Th y

p e ople bless, and g r ant that we m ay eat and dri nk to h ono r Thee. Am e n .
SPECIALTY TOPS INDUSTRY IN
2ND ANNUAL SOFTBALL
CLASSIC
HOT POINT EMPLOYEES

DEFEAT UNION BID
Employees a t General Electric

Specia lty Control b eat Industry
Comp any 's Hot Point plant in
Contro l 3-2 last Saturday night in Chi cago gave a ve ry emphatic
th e annual softball class ic b e twee n " NO" to union or gani ze rs who
th e two G . E . b a ll t eams. It was
have campai gned the re for two
a we ll pitched ball game r i g_ht
years. The results of the Hot
from t he moment tha t Employee
P oint election last Friday werP. :
R e la tions Manage r H. W. Tulloch
For NO UNJON
1923
to sse d the first ba ll in game open Shee t Metal Workers
678
ing c e r e monies.
'1ec ialty 1 s Joe Z a lu s ki who gave
iJ five hits and Roanoke 1 s Larry
P e rry wh o a llowe d o nly three hits
pitc hed supe rb games . Zaluski
h e ld Roanoke score l ess until the
to p of the seventh inning when the
Industry Control boys finally made
a b r eak through.
S p ecialty c inc h ed t he RaderMahoney Trophy for the second
s u cc essive year whe n Carl
A l e xan de r s lamme d a home run
tha t scor e d a run from second.
Jim Mayes was manager of
Specialty's team while Roger
D e Busk piloted the Industry Control Club.
If Spe cia lty wins a ga in n ext year,
the Rader -Mahoney trophy will
r emain permanently with our
plant.
1, 417 d ays
7 . 325 , 716 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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MISSED YOUR TICKETS ?

Any SCOGEE memb e r who failed
to ge t hi s fr ee ti c kets to the Drive
In movie can pi ck them up in t:he
cafe teria at l unch time tomorro w
or from Rosemary Howard in
Employee Relations.
FATHER OF AUTO ACCIDENT

VICTIM THANKS G. E. FIRE
BRIGADE FOR ASSISTANCE
Mr . Walter Brook s has asked us

to exp ress his appreciation to the
BELAK-LUNDSTROM TOP
Spe cialty Control Fire Brigade
SCOGEE GOLFERS
which gave such prompt ass i stance
last week whe n his daughter B e tty
The SCOGEE golf leagu,e finished
Jo Brooks was s truck by a car on
las t week with the Be lak E as tside Highway near our p l a nt
Lundstrom c ombination still on
entrance . He was particularly
top . Charlie Minter had th e best
round for the year when he shot a appreciative of the qui ck thinkin g
and the capable first aid action
par 38.
take n by Charlie Minter. Charlie
ste mmed th e flow of blood by
Top prize money we nt to fi rst
place winne r s J o e B e lak and Curt applying pr essure to a pres sure
Lundstrom. In second plac e were point. Mr . Brook s fee l s that
B ill Bare and Bob Strack with Bill this act may have saved Betty
Jo 1 s life ,
Perry and Sunny Mille r taking
third money. Each competing
The latest report on Betty Jo's
team rece ive d a c onso lation
condition
is that she i s still on
award.
the Univer sity Ho spita l's c ritical
lis t , but she ha s shown some im provement,
Carey
Continues
Threat
T h e r e is ev e ry indic a t i on th a t IUE P r e 1d<l e nt Ca r e y i s g oing for ward

with his plans to strike G e neral Ele ctri c o n O c t o b e r 2, a c cording to a sta t e m e nt m a d e ove r th e w e e kend by M r . V. B . Day, Manage r of Union R e lations
for Gene ral El e ctric.
Mr . Day stated that G e ner al Elec t r i c c o uld not g o a lon g with th e unr ea son a bl e d e mands of the IUE, i ncl udi ng t h e g uar a n tee d a nnu al w a ge a nd
c ompa ny - w ide s e niority.
If C a r e y h as hi s way, th e IUE loc a l s w ill b e a s k e d
to s upport a s trike wi thout giving m e mbe r s a c h a n ce to look a t the Compan y 1 s

p r opos a l for the n e w Saving s a nd S ec urity P r o g ram .
During last we ek, C ar e y ins i sted on di sc ussing only his eig ht d e mands
a nd th u s preve nte d the neg otiati n g c ommitt ee from ca r efull y c ons ider ing the
S a vings a nd S e curity Pro g ram.
same t ac tics this we ek.
I ndi ca t i o ns a re that Car e y will continue the
Thi s m ean s tha t the uni on Conferenc e Board, whic h
m ee ts n e xt we ek, will be una bl e to r evi ew the Company's proposal before it

considers taking strike action.
C a r e y s pr e s ent tactics se e m to be aimed toward striking Ge n eral
E l ectric, regardless of the outcome of local strike votes .
Meanwhi l e , this Departme nt i s continuing to take steps to protect i tself
a s far a s possib le fr o m the ad ver se effe cts that a GE strike would have on
this business , b oth as a supplier a nd as a cu stomer of other GE departments.
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PUBLISHED IY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROl EMPLOYEES

S,OlTS. NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYS ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VO L. IV, NO. 159
September 9, 1958
Gracious Giver of all good; The e we thank for life and food.
or say; meet Thy favor through the day. Amen,
Grant that all we do
OPERATION UPTURN CONTEST

ST AR TS HERE SEPTEMBER 15
CAROLYN HIT E GETS WISE OWL

AWARD
Once again, safety glass es have
g uarded against a tragic accident
and Carolyn Hite joins the growing
number of employees who know
that our safety glass rule in the
factc.ry makes good sense.
This past summer Carolyn Hite
(Air craft and Military Assembly )
was so ldering a reactor on a
regulating panel when a splash
back occu rred sending hot molten
~ der back towards her eyes .
. e hot solder was stopped by the
glasses, but it would have done
serious damage to Carolyn's ri ght '.
eye if she were not wearing her
I
safety glasses .
An Operation Upturn contest designed to boost GE sales in our

community area and earn dollars
for Specialty Control employees at
the same time will begin here
September 15 and continue through
O ctober.
Carolyn Hite is shown receiving
her Wise Owl plaque recently
from Specialty Control Wise Owl
Club's Chairman, Bill Schenk
A&DI, SPECIALTY CONTROL

TEAM UP ON SYSTEMS
PROPOSALS FOR B70, Fl0 8
Take heed - - wear your safety

g la sses !
J a c k Lawrence, Manager of the

A& DI Sales unit located at our
' plant has asked us to express
A& DI 1 s appreciation to Spe c ialty
BASSETT GETS FIFTH PATENT
Control and particularly to th e
Merton Bas sett racked up his fifth Specialty Control employees who
patent re ce ntly when the Pate nt
helped eve nings last week and
Office issued a patent in his name over this past weekend in the
for a two-dimension tr acer control! reproduction and compilation of
that he developed here at Special- '-two important systems proposals
ty Contro l.
-- one for Air Force ' s B70
1 strategic bomber and the other
j for the Fl08 interceptor. Both
.
1 are being built by North American j
i Aviation and represent seve ral
!
' millions of dollars in potentia 1
orders for Spe c ialty if the A&DI
proposals are chosen.
i --
SAFETY SCORE
1, 418 days
7, 335, 258 hours
jWITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT _ __ _ _J
I
"You're Looking Much Better
Today, Dear - Your Eyes
Aren't so Bloodshot"
Ten teams and team captains will

be set up in the D e partment and
every employee wi ll be assigned
to a team, Each team member
will be given a suppl y of "prospect
cards" which he will pass out
among his friends, neighbors and
relatives, along with a sales
pitch urging th e i r "prospe cts" to
visit their local GE dealers to
see the latest line of General
Electric major appliances.
When a prospect purchases a

major appliance, the dealer wi '.I.
endorse the customer 's prospect
card. Each endorsed prospect
card will give the employee a
$5. 00 appreciation award and 100
team points. At the end of the
contest, the top employee of each
team will be guests with their
husbands or wives at a special
dinner party.
Area dealers cooperating in the
Operation Upturn contest are
Ward Cohron, Stuarts Draft;
Freed Co., Inc., Waynesboro;
Goodyear Service and Staunton
' Furniture &. Appliance Co.,
Staunton.
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IMPROVEMENT IN SAVINGS AND SECURITY

PLAN ANNOUNCED
Spe c i a lty Control Department has just been advised by Public and
Employe e Relations Services of an improvemient in the new Savings and
Security Program.
This improvement has cmne as a result of further work
on the admini s trative details and the application of the Program.

Unde r the Program as it is now planned, the percentage of his earnings
which an employee chooses to save will be applied to his gross earnings
instead of to his straight-time earnings as previously announced.
The 50%
proportionate Company payment will also be calculated on gross earnings.

Gross earnings will include not only straight-time earnings, but will also
include overtime pay, night shift bonus, vacation pay, and any cost of living
adjustme nt in effe ct at the time the deductions are made.
In other words, an employee may save 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or
6% of his gross
earnings under the Program (he may save 3-1/2% of his gross earnings during
1959) and the Company will make a matc hing payment of 50% of the employee's
sav ings , subject to the three-year hold period.
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wliil h Th ou h:1i; t .ilnad y bl cs~;e cl in t 1e g i ving , bl ess a l so in our

that Goel may b e honored , thr o u g h Je .;us Christ o ur L ord. Arncn
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S URPRISE I NSPECTION REV/\ I.S
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SAFET Y SC ORE
CLIM BS I IIGHER AND HIGHER
SlIF: l:T METAL VS. TOOL ROOM

J N SOFTBALL TONIGHT
The f1llows in t he Sheet Metal
ana will p l ay the T ool Room boysjl
in s low pi t ch softball at the City
ba 11 cl iamo nd toni ght at 5 PM.
II<' n s cl Eppard will m a nage the

Shd M.-tal team and Geor ge
('1 11g will capt a in th! T ool Room
ll .11n .
)NCER T TICKETS AV AlLABLE

N<wc orner s in the Way n e s l)oro
na are ld i gib l c t o l'u rchas c
.i Co rnmunity Con< e rt ticket for
the bal ance of the seaso n . Still
t. o l1 e sc<.:n arc brilliant i :inist
Jo ,;t!f Batti :< t<1 ,
b a rito ne
I go r Gorin a nd the Little Galli.l
Si n gers . Ca ll WH 2-51 88 or
W ti 2 - 8-! Q -~ for tickets .
I
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co u1 s<.: , und<.: r the dire c tion of

A & Dl Sa l <' s Uni t , i s bt!ing tau~ ht
b y Connie Phanncuf \\. ilh tlic
as s i s t ,u1ce of Bil l Ea s t.
BACKS LIDI NG IN OUR

HOUSEKEEPING
Ne.,t week we \vi l l be~~ in our f i f t h

Bi ll Perry , re gis tered keen cllsyea r of ope ra tio ~1 s he~ re at
a ppo intment with the ap p ea ranee
W ay nl!sbor o . Wt! k n ow our job s
of the offices in l ast Mon<lay'.,
h . tter now t h.1 11 "VCJ' b cforc , our
s urpri se inspection. " Apparl!ntl :
1L!cord s hows th .3.l V.t! know how to
work safe ly , we ha v v c liminatcd
th e regular office inspections a r e
ju st a goo d one night show, ' he
saftly ha1.ards wh t!r<'vc r they
showed up - - bnt th e <la n ge r of a
said . The insp ection r evea lt'd
se riou s ac c ident n our p lant i s
s loppy housekeeping h abits , dirt y
gn!atcr now th a n eve r befo r e .
' floor s , c luttere d d esks, i m Be cau se we know ou r jobs b e tt e r
proper s torage of eq uipment in
the la b , blocked a i s l e s and o ther
we arc more ap t t o take r i sks
w ith th e vquip1nent we 11 se . W e
infr actio n s . The ge n e ral offi ce
are in c lined to l o ok for sho rt c ut s
rating thi s time was 25% as c om by i gno rin g safe ty ru ' cs . Four
pared with a usual average of
a cc id e nt-fn:e year s i s li a ble to
95%
make us ca reless; encourage u s
to take foo l ish c hance s ; make us
The factory report is printed on
l e ss a l c!r l to dang! rou s work
the other s ide of today ' s paper.
s ituations.
W a t c h out! If you havt' broken a

safet y rule and got t en by without
a n acci d e n t -- don't push your
I
C. A. A . I NSP ECTORS I !ERE FOR : luck. C IH'c k the way yo u are
doing your j ob - - be s ure you
ELEC TRA COURSE
hav e n ' t b eco 1ne careless. Report
a l l potential safety ha:t:ards to
Scvun C . A. A . in s p ccton; arc
yo ur for e man or s upc i-vi s or at
he rt' (S eptcmbc r 8 - l l ) t o t ak e
I
o nc e-.
t hv Design Engi nc<.:r i11 g Couroe on !
Remc111bc r - - safety i s part of
th e L oLkh<'<.: cl El ectra . The
Sc pt c m !)(' r l ') , l 9 ) k
your JOb.
SAF ETY SCORE

\
l, -! 19 days
~
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~
WITHOUT A LOST TIME "\,-.
ACC IDENT
INDUSTRIAL GOLF LEAGUE

Spe c ialty Control d e f eated
W es t inghouse 10-2 in a golf match
l ast S aturday at Ing l eside. M edal
ist honor s for the Specia l t y Co ntro l t eam w e r e shared by I-1.
Stover and J o e B e l ak with ,;, o re s
of 8 1.
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Grant t hat we m a y e ve r b e g r a te ful unt o T h ee, 0 Lord , our Fat he r , for t h e
many b less ing s of ou r daily lives . I n t he sp i ri t o f C hr i s t our Lo r d. Amen
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GA TH. Y' S BAD CONDUC T HA L TS

I U E TALKS
T alks b e t w e e n G e nera l Elec tric

a n d a C ar e y - led I UE, A F L- C IO
d ele g;-ition w er e h a lted y e ste rd ay
by G F: as ' resu l t of "Mr.
Car ey 's c onduc t" a t th e m e etin g.
La R t May , IUE' s Preside nt
Care y 1 s anti c s in ta l k s wi t h
G e n e ra l M o to rs w ere c a lle d " a
d i s grac e t o t h e labo r mo v e ment"
v G. M. V i c e Pre s . S e a t o n.
At
.n c time G. M . said th a t "ratio nal
n egoti ations " with the I U E w e r e
i m p oss ible because of C a r e y 1 s
" fo u l , profane , obsce ne a n d in s u lting language . "
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I
SAFE T Y SCORE
1, 420 d a y s
7 , 354 , 342 hou r s
W ITHOUT A L OST TIME :
I
ACCI DE N T
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'TOOL ROOM TOO L EHS CLOBBER

SHEET META L SCR AP PERS (IN
D OUBLEHEADE R TWICE )
EMPLOYEES G I V E
E N THUSIASTI C RES PONSE. TO
NEW SAVI NGS PROGRAM
Bob F a i l ing ' s l a d s i n t he Tool

Room troun ced Art Groat ' s S h e e t
M etal bo y s t wi c e in Las t ni g ht 1 s
s o f tba ll doubl e h eade r a t C i ty
P a rk. Wi th a lopsi d c~d score o f
ll -3 in t he f i rs t ga m e to go on,
the To o l e r s n a ile d t h e coffin s hu t
in the se c ond game by a scor e of
11 - ?.. .
En t hu s i a sti c a n d i m mediate r e s p o n se g r ee t ed the new GE Sav i ng s a n d S ec u r i t y Prog ram here

yes te r d a y afte r noo n whe n em p loyees were g i ven t h eir fir st
oppo r tunity to s i g n u p for the
p lan.
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REPORT A UTO D AMAGE

F r om time t o tirne e mplo yees re -,
por t to us th a t t h e y have re t u rned
to th e i r c ars a f t e r work a n d
found th e m damaged.
P lease tr y t o b e ca rc1 ul a n d c onside rate o f fellow - worker s a uto m o biles wh e n l e avi n g t h e p ax k i ng
lot in th e evenings. And if you
a c cide n ta lly d a ma ge anothe r
ve h i c l e - - don ' t b e a h it and r un
dr ive r -- r e po rt th e a cc i d e nt t o
E mployee R e l a ti o n s o r d i r e c qy
t o the driver o f th e other c a r.
GE T O F F TO A GOOD S T ART
~a4'M~
" Hele n Jones of Account i ng is

leavin g loday t o g et ma rried- to
me! "
The S a v i n gs P rogram, through

whi c h the Com pan y m a t che s $. 5 0
. on e ve r y $1. 00 of e mp l oyee ' s
savings , won ins tant s uppor t fro ni
e v e ry part o f t h e De p artment.
F irs t area to r e: p ort 100 % p a r tic i
pation i n th e Prog r a m was P aul
Wy lie 1 s R e pai r and Retur n gro up .
R i g ht o n t he hee l s of R &. R w ere
100% rep or t s from the T ool R oom
a n d M e c hani cal Regul ato r Pro d u c ti o n. Wit h i n a few h our s fro m
t h e ti me s i g n -up c ards were d i s t rib ut ed, se v eral a r e a s of t h e
p lan t r epor ted t hat t h ey exp e cted
to h i t 100 % befo re the e n d o f t hi s
w eek. As o f pr ess ti me t h i s
mo r ning , 29 . 7 % of Sp ec i a lty C o n trol ' s e mployees had a lr ead y
_ s_i gne d up . C ards have be e n
turned i n at a s t ead y rate so far
t oday.
S i d Hu ds on, A u to -Sn ak m anage r,

rep o rts that u s u a ll y con s ide rate
fo lks a r e leaving the cafete r La
l i t t ere d with e mpty coffee cups ,
a n d othe r d i sp osable t rash .
W e 1 re sure it' s a n o v e r s i gh t, so
s tar t the d a y off r i ght by r e m e mb e rin g to cl ear your eati n g p lace
w h en you leave th e cafe t er i a .
Al thou gh emplo y e es m a y s i g n u p
no w f or th e Pr ogram , th e a ctu a l
s tarti ng d a te o f t he p lan is J a n. l ,
1959. E m ployees who sig n up b e f ore Novembe r l, howe ve r, will
rece i v e a f re e bo n us of o n e s har e
of G e n er al E le c tr i c stock .
SEE THE 100% R O LL O N THE
OTHER SI DE
THE SAVINGS AND SECIJRITY
PROGRAM ~
100 PERCENT ROLL

(AS OF PRE:SS TIM E -- SEP T EM .IJEH. 11 , 1958 )
M a nnfa.ctur ing Engineering S ub -Sec tion
P ur c lt as i.ng
E & CH. Se c ti o n
M c c; ha rJi ca l H.c gul a tor P roduction
Op e n R e la y s
P r o g ra m Contro l Production
Price a n d Edi t
Ai r cr a ft & Mil.itary Relay Prod.
R e pair a nd Return
Shee t M e tal
R e p r o d 11 c lion a nd Cu s ro m c r Data
S to c k Ro om
ZND SHIFT
S h e et Meta l
Machine Room
M ag n e tic Wi n d i n g C omp o n e nt s
Air c raft T e s t
Potted B l ocks
Electronic Assembly
M a inte nanc e
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Acc e pt o ur thanks fo r t his food and keep us thr ough the hou rs o f t hi s d ay.
F or C hr i s t ' s sake w e ask it. A me n.
CAREY W I T H HOLDS SAV I N G S
P L A N FOR IU E M EMBERS
SC OGEE E LE CTS OFFICERS T O

F I L L V A C ANC I E S
W h i l e t h o u sands of GE wor k e rs
S hir ley M c Cam sig n u p f or t h e C ompany ' s s tar t bri d ge ~ El ec . ) was
li ng n ew S avi n gs a n d S ecur ity
.:: le cted Vi c e P res
P rogram , Jim Car e y a n d th e I UE ' o f S C OGEE at t:he j
ar e withh oldi ng the plan from I U E Gene r al M e m ber mem b ers a nd con t i nuin.:; th e i r
s h i p me e ting l a s t
threat of an Octo b er 2 s t r ike .
w e ek. Shirley
But tw e nty - fo ur o the r unions i n
I was e le cte d to
G eneral E l e ctri c hav e ac c epted
c omp lete the un the n ew Saving s Fr o g ram.
e xpi red t er m of
fo r mer V. P. Al M c K ech nie w ho
~ r e ' s t h e pic tu re :
i s no longer w i th t he D ep art me n t .
IUE mus t de c i d e b y S e pt. 15 , t o

rej ec t o r accept the new Sa v ing s
Program. If m or e time is de s i red for c onsiderati o n -- I UE
mu s t d e f e r t he scheduled
S ept. 15 rai se until lat e r.
Als o ele c ted to fill va c a n cies on

the S C O G E E B oard o f Dire c tor s
we r e Gr ac i e L a y n e a nd M ary
Bridgeforth .
SI G N UPS FOR S AV I NGS

I UE' s Care y re j e c t s t he p la n,
PLAN R E A CH 91%
it could no t b e m ad e availabl e t o !
I U E membe rs 'til 1960 . Sep t .
' Spec ia lty Control employees
15 i s t he " p oint of no re turn. "
re cog ni z ing a g o od t h i ng w h en
t h e y s aw i t , gave enthusiastic
r But i n 196 0, I UE m e m b ers can res p onse to the new Sav i ngs a nd
not ge t the fre e b onus s hare of
Se c ur i t y Pro g ra m, yes te r day .
sto ck that we get b y s i g ning up
The fi r st o ppor tunity employees
b efo r e No v . 1.
had to si g n up for th e plan, 91%
o f ou r empl oye es have s i gne d up.
f N o n - u n i o n p l ant s under the pla n
The a p proxi ma t e perc e nta ge
w h i ch later b r i n g i n the IUE,
br eakd wo n is facto r y 9 7 %, non wi ll lose the S av ings Pro gra m i f e x e mpt 93%, and exemp t 8 0 %.
the IUE r e j ec t s it n ow.
I T h e Prog ra m p ro vides $ . 5 0 for
eve ry $1. 00 sa v e d u n d e r t h e plan .
S e ptemb e r 15 is the POI N T OF N O We s u gges t tha t it ' s a d eal yo u
A B T U R N for C ar e y a n d the I UE
c a n ' t afford to mi ss . W h y n o t
,nk a n d file .
s i gn u p today !
~If
D A FFY -NITION . Middle A ge:

When a w oman ' s h ai r star ts
turni n g from g r ay t o b l ack .
THE OLD DAYS

P i ctur e s of o ur e arly days at
Specia lty a re on display i n t he
cafete r i a .
T OMORROW
IS
O UR
F OUR T H
BIR THDAY
Tomo r row, S e ptember 13 , i s our

iou rt h jir t hday i n W aynesboro .
O f t he o ri g i na l e mployees who
.ve r e h i red h er e i n Wayne s boro
o n or b e fore S e ptember 13 , s i x
are sti ll wi th us ; t hey are
G e n evi ev e Rexr o de , E l ec tr onics ;
Cha r l o tte H armo n , P r o to t ype ;
J anet A l for d , Aircraft T e s t ;
M a r y Co ffey , R ela y T e st ; M ae
Hoste t te r , W i re H arness ;
Charlo t t e Barne s , Air craft
A s s e m bly; a n d H a z el H i ld e b r a nd ,
E & CR.
In f our s ho r t yea rs we have
m a t ur e d i n t o a h i ghly producti ve
tea m that kno ws how to work well
t ogethe r . W e ha ve e s tab li s hed
r e c o rd a fte r r e cor d - - no lost
t i me a c cidents , no r e p or tab l e
fi r es , h i ghe st Wa yne sbo r o blood
c o ll e c tion, two s mashing re j e cti on s o f the I UE, no t to me n tion o u tsta n d i ng perfo r ma n ce
t ime and t i m e a g a i n in th e d oing
o f ou r jo bs .
We ha v e an or g anization t h at is
sec ond t o n o ne , bu t we mus t l ook
ahe a d as well a s b ehind . O ur
f u t ure and c onti nue d prog r ess i s
in o u r o w n han ds .
S A F E TY S CORE
1, 42 1 days
7 , 36 3 , 884 h o urs
WI T H O U T A L OST TIME
ACCI DE N T
W E
A R E
THEN
U R
Y E A R S
T 0 M 0 R R 0 W
and
N OW
~i'Ji<~
At l eft, Specialty Control as i t appear e d on S e pte mber 3, 1954, only ten d ays b e fo r e
-Ne h ire d our first fa c t o r y p e ople . At rig ht t he sa m e vi e .;.; of the pla nt today . O t h e r
v i e ws of Sp ec ialty during the e arly building s ta g e s - - ar e on d isplay in t he ca fe t e r ia .
THE SAVINGS AND SECURITY PROGRAM,..,

1,00 PERCENT ROLL
Gener a l Accounting
A & M Pr oduction Eng .
Co s t A cc ounting
Mate rials Sub-S e ctio n, which
include s:
Personnel Accounting
Aircraft and Military Sa l es
A & M Contr o l Prod.
Shipping
Ind. and Utility Equip. Sales
P r ice and Edit
Reproduction & Cu s tomer Data
Standardization and Component
Program Contr o l P rod.
Hyds . Cont. & Mech Re g . Prod .
Design Engine e ring
R e lay Produ c tion C o n t r a l
Eng ineering L ab
Employ e e a nd Community Rel.
Purcha s ing
A & M Systems Prod. Des. Eng.
Re.turned Apparatus _ ,
; r"~ v ~-f'r r. .' ~ . .,,... . "' - . ~,.' ~"
A ir c r aft Control Des. Eng.
Stockroom
A & M System D ev . Eng.
A & M L ar ge P rod. Ass y .
A & M S u b- Ass e mbl y

A & M Q uality C ont ro l
R e l a y Q uality As s u ranc e
I ncoming I ns p ec ti on
Qua lity Cont r o l E quip .
C onstr . & Mai n t e nance
Shee t M e t al
Manuf ac turing En gineer i n~
Pr ogram C o n t. & L ar ge
P a n e l A s s e m bly
Relay Op er a tio n s
Ma g . Wi n di ng Co mp:::me n t s
M a i nte nance
ZND SHIFT
Sh e e t Metal
Magne ti c Wind ing Components
Potte d Blocks
Maintenanc e
M ac hine R o om
A i r c raft T e st
El ect r oni c As s e m bly
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VOL. IV, NO. 16 3
September 15, 1958
O ur Father in heaven, with g ratitude we acknowledge Thee as the Gi ver of

every good a nd p erfect gift. We thank Thee in His name . Amen.
SAVINGS
,P R 0 G R A M
&SECURITY
R E A C H E S
96%
CAREY VETO WOULD DENY PLAN TO

I U E MEMBER - EMPLOYEES
ome of the Soft ball All Stars of

Specialty Control took time to
pose for a picture during the
Staunton Slow Pitch Tournament.
( lst row, 1-r) Failing , Spinazzola,
Worrell, Broughman, Mayes,
D eW itt. (2nd row, l-r) Brown,
Fisher , Rankin, Eppard,
Humphries, McDorman, Friel,
Ramsey, Bower .
ROANOKE EMF LOY EES
VOTE TO STRIKE
IUE member employees~t GE ' s
Industry Control Department
voted last Friday to strike the
Roanoke plant should IUE Pre sident Car ey carry out his Oct. 2
s trike threat. The vote to strike
at Roanoke came a scant ten
months after hourly employees
the re voted to bring the I UE into
their plant.
SAFETY SCORE
1 , 424 day s
7, 373, 426 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Spe cial ty Control employees signed up for the

Savings and Security Program in record time
last week reaching a peak up to press time
thi s morning of 96%. Late sign - up cards are
still trickling in from those employees who
have been away from the plant on business
and Bob Ande rson (E &CR ) estimates that
parti c ipation w i ll inch even closer to 100%.
L a te st breakdown figures show t he factory at
99. 5%, non-exempt employees 95%, and
exempt employees 91%.
p"ol"
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The Shipping emp l oyees,and mem
b ers of thei r families h e ld t heir
annual Fall Weiner Roast Thur s day ni g ht at Dave y Driver ' s lake
at Lyndhurst SCOGEE softball players are requested . to turn
in their softball jer seys to team
manager Jim Mayes as soon as
possible ... " Co ncepts of Spac e "
was the title of a slide pre senta tion made la st night by Paul
Korneke to the Churchville
Ruritan Club ..... A baby boy
was born September 3 to Tiffany
(nee Trainum) and Larry
KLappenback both formerly of
Specialty Control .
Meanwhile , at IUE organized GE

plants, IUE members may l ose
the plan as union President Carey
s t alls close to the September 15
deadline for eit her accepting or
rejecting the Program. Care y 's
veto of the savings. plan could
mean that it will not be made
available to IUE members again
before 1960 . This would make it
two b enefits -- t he Savings and
Sec ur ity P rogram and the Emerge n cy Loan Plan -- t hat ar e avail.
able to Specialty Control employees but whi ch the IUE would
deny to its members .
PAY DAY MOVED

UP FOR SECOND SHIFT
So tha t they can cash their checks
and take advantage of Friday
shopp ing bargains , second shift
emp loyees will be paid on Thurs day nights ins t ead of Fridays .
"'One of your 'old buddies from overseas'

is he: re to see you."
SERVICE
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Z5 Ur
PINS
ARE
AWARDED
W i 11 Co c k re 11, Electronic & Regulator Eng . , adds

number 30 to his growing re cord of years of
service to G e neral Electric Company.
195:>,
5Ef!V
. IC'E
3 4 5 6
8 9
IO II 12
14- 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 21 23 14 25 26 27 26 29 -,0
Will, who joined GE in 192 8 on the Eng. Test

Program at S c henec tady, is presently assigned
to advanced e ngine er ing proj ects. Will recently
completed the Industrial Electronics Handbook
for which he was Editor-in-Chief.
Manager of Manufacturing K. N.
Bush collected his 25 year pin
Friday from General Manager L.
T. Rader. On hand to offer the
co n g ratula tions of the Manufacturing Section were B. Mitchell, M.
Coleman, J. Ponz illo, C. Eirich,
F. Curto, R. Schmitt, D. House,
(K. N . Bush and L. T. Rader), H.
Slate r, W. Hunter, B. Sussman,
D. Courghtry, J. West.
W. Sanderson
A. Rubenstein
E. McCleary
P. Bee son
S e rvice pins were also presented rec e ntly to Bill Sanderson of Ma: :e ting (10 year pin); Al
Rubenstein, Engineering unit manager (10 year pin); E. "Mac 1 ' McCleary , Marketing uni t
manage r (10 ye ar pin) and Phil Beeson, M e thods (5 year pin).
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S eptember 16, 1958
We thank Thee , our h eavenly F a ther, for all the manifestations of Thy kindness,
for this food, for the joy of feeling Thee in our hearts. Amen.
U. OF VA. ANNOUNCES
FALL EXTENSION COURSES
Registration for fall courses in
the University of Virginia
Extension program will be held
this Friday, Sept. 19, from 7:00
to 9:00 PM at Waynesboro High
S c hool.
Pre-engineering credit courses
being offered in the Extension
Program include:
College Algebra - 3 semester
us - meets Thursdays ....dtion $42
Trigonometry - 3 semester
hours - Mondays - $42
Calculus I - 3 semester hours Mondays - $42
M ec h. Dwg. - 2 semester hrs Tu esdays - $28
Gen. Chem. I - 5 semeste r .
hours - Tuesdays & Thur sday s
$85 (including Lab fee )
The CoUege of Arts and Sciences
will offer a 3 semeste r General
Psyc hology Course at th e High
School on Mondays ; tuition $31. 50.
In addition a few g radua te cour s es
in Education will b e offered at
Wilson M emorial Hig h a nd at
Staunton b eginning Se pt. 22.
Inquirie s concerning courses m a y
be made on registration night or
dir e ctly to Mr. F . C. M c Cormic k,
Supv. Eng. Ext., Uni v. of Va.,
,.-.:
.
ar l o ttesv1lle .
SAFETY SCORE
7, 382 , 949 ho ur s
WITHOUT LOST TIME A CCIDENT
SAVINGS PLAN INCHES

TOWARD 100%
Specialty Control inche d closer to
100% enrollment in the Savings
and Security Program today. The
latest count (up to pre ss time)
stands at 98%, with a few mor e
expected sign-ups yet to come in
from employees who are out of
town on Company business . Best
enrollment record was achieve d
by factory employees who are
now 100%.
C OF C TICKETS AVAILABLE
Ticke ts for the annual Chamber
of Commerce banque t, O c t. 3 ,
are available in the E & CR
office.
SAVINGS PLAN NOT

ACCEPTED BY IUE
Another Compa ny b enefit
apparently has gone down the
drain for IUE member-employees
as James C arey, IUE Pr eside nt,
allowed the Company Savings a nd
S ecurity Prog r am offer to expire at midnight last night. This
i s the second b e n efit program the
IUE has blocked from its memb ership - - the first one b e ing the
Emergency Loan Pla n.
We have heard from New Yo rk
that it appears Carey's plan is
to filibuster the rest of the month
and then try to c a ll his thr eatened
s trike.
FREE MOVIE PASSES

Don't forget those free movie
passes for SCOGEE members.
Th e. passes are good through the
month of Se pte mber at the Skyline
Dr ive -In Theatre .
SCOGEE I N BLACK
$1000 BUILDING FUND GOAL SET
The SCOGEE a n nual f inancial re port i ssued l as t week by the
SCOGEE E x ecuti ve Committe e
shows tha t the emp loyee soc ial
club i s operating in the black a nd
a substantial amount of cash has
be e n put aside for a building
fu nd.
According to SCOGEE Tr easure r
Sherwood Black's r e port, the
general treasury of the club a mounts to $ 5 18. 22 a nd the building fund totals $549. 00 . A total
appropriation of $470 . 00 has been
announced for this year . Jim
Austin, Preside nt of SCOGEE,
says the club expe c ts to swe ll the
building fund to $1000 durin g this
y e ar ' s admini s trati on.
Where would you send

your son for a job?
T o the company that has a l ways made good
profits -- or to the comp a ny that just ge ts by .
To the c ompany that is growing and putting
dollars as ide for expansion -- or the company
that wants to stay as it is or doesn't know how
to grow bi gge r.
To the compa ny that invests in the b e st
manager s it can find - - or the company that is
:;; atisiied with a third rat e type of management
because i t is cheaper.
To the company that make s sure of a fair
profit and pours. a s ubstantial amount of money
back into modern machines -- or the company
that doe s n't buy new equipment until it has no
other choice.
To the company whe re worke r s welcome a nd

cooperate in new ways to do a job b ett er a nd
faster -- or to th e company whose workers
are suspicious of change and do everything
the y can to hold bac k pro gres s.
To the company whose workers are loya l,
d ependable and a nxious to give a full measure
for th e ir day's pay -- or to the company who se
workers constantly criticize their e mployer a nd
are always seeking to ge t more and more money
for less and le ss wo rk.
Of c ourse t h e wise father will send his son to
the first co mpany.
...-...
JUST AS IT IS WITH YOU HERE AT SPECIAL TY CONTROL, HIS SUCCESS WILL GO HAND
IN HAND WITH THE SUCCESS OF HIS EM PLOYER.
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COURTESY OF WA Ya ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
Septcinber 17, 1958
B less T hou thi s food to th e s tr e n g th o f o ur b odies and feed us with that hr c: ad

wh ich c ometh d o wn fro 1n h eave n. Amen.
FALL C OURSES GET
UNDERWAY IN DEP ARTME NT
It' s "sc hool d ays" time again at
Spe cialty Control as Fall training
c o urses g e t unde r wa y.
SC O GEE KING, QLJEEN

TO BE ELECTED
1, 42 6 d ays
7, 392, 4 7 2 ho u rs
WITHO UT A LOST T I ME
' CON-F A-VAH.. 11 the Operati o n

Upturn show that SCOGEE a nd the
Spe cialty C ontrol Choraliers will
p r ese n t on October 16 and 17 will
have an added twist as emp l o yees
e l ect a Specialty Control "King "
and "Queen" to reign over t he
Upturn sh o w.
A l r<'<1<ly in p r ogress a r e the

M a nu fac turin g T ra ining Program
VALLEY ENGINEERS T 'eo VI SI T
courses w hi c h b egan las t we e k .
SPE C I A LT Y TONIGIJT
Tl1c: first two MTP c our se s being
offe re d are Piant Engi n ee r ing and
' 'Automati on" will b e the su b ject
M a nufa c turin g Eng ine e ri n g. The
Actua ll y the "King" and " Q u ee n"
of to n i g h t ' s p rog ram fo r thPD e p a rtment' s ninth Effe c tive
will be employees selected as
Valley Eng ineers r t ub. After
~ n!se ntation cou rse w i ll me et for
be ing " m os t popular" in the
meeti n g a t the H o te l G e n eral
:; first " c onfe r e n ce " this eve n W ayne , w h ere they will have their D e p ar tme n t. No m inations may b e
ing at 4: 30 in t h e Au d ito r ium , a n d d i n n e r a n d el e c t office r s for t h e
made on Sept ember 2.9. A nomi n a ti o n b l ank wi ll be printed o n t h e
h o n rl y e rnp l oyee s in th e Air e raft
coming year, t h e E n gi n eers C l ub
back
of TODA Y'S NEWS. Mem &: M i litary A ssembly a r eas a r e
will come to Specialt y Control
bers of su p ervision wi 11 not b e
taking a s hort fi ve-sess i on c our se for t h e program. U nder the
e lig ible .
in Basi c Wor k S implifi c a tion.
d i rec tion of Lowe 11 Holmes,
M a n ager-P r ogram Control
The top five nomi n ations for each
Me a n w hile , p l a n s are goi n g
Engineering, the program will
honor wi ll be voted on October 10.
fo r ward fo r a H y d rau li cs C o ur se
i n cl ud e a fil m on aut o m ati on
t h i s F a ll for test p e rsonnel, a
fo llo wed b y d emo n s tr a ti ons i n the Pam Patti e a n d R o se Harter will
ta b u l ate voti ng returns.
manufactu r ing e n g i nee r i n g cour se
fa c to r y of a dr illi ng machine and
as p a rt o f th e MTP progr a m, a nd
a mi l ling mac hine us ing p un che d
SAVINGS AND SECURI TY
se v e ra l engineering c our ses for
tape a n d m ag n e ti c tap e cont rols
NARROWLY MISSES 1 0 0 %
t ec hni c i a n s a nd e n g i neers .
w hi c h we b uild here a t S pec i a lt y .
T h e Savi n gs and Security Plan fell
2% s hort of its 100% goal today. I t
G L EE C LUB ENT E RTAINS
iA expec ted t hat t h e fi n al tally wi ll
go a b it higher as a few emM em b e r s of t h e S COGEE G l ee
p loyee ' e c ar ds are still comi ng in.
C l u b e n ter ta i ned t h e Elk ton
Wome n's C lub a n d E lkton teachers
A U T O ACCI DENT
las t week a t th e Elkton Methodi st
VICTIM I MPROVES
I C hu rc h. Par ti c ipating in the
va ri e ty s h ow p r o g r am we r e - The con di tion of Betty Jo Brooks,
Lo well B a s hlor, R o semary
who was serious l y injured in an
Howa rd, Ruth Gra y, Esthe r
a uto acc ide nt rece n t l y on the
M a l o n e y, K a ti e M c L ea n, Emily
E as t sid e Hi ghway, has imp r oved.
Our
s , Pam P a ttie a nd N a n cy
" The lirm could u1<e 1s li tt le of
Sigh t .in one eye may b e lost but
t h at <"onc-ent r n t ion, Frt nsw irk !"
Simmons.
Univers i ty do c tors ar e working
har d to save i t.
I'n1
tl1e Nice
.Customer
"I 'm t hi:': nice customer. J'm one of I.h ost> c u ,101ne r s who never complain,
no matte~at kind of service I get. from foll.; ;i.t Specialty Contro l.
U J buy one of your products and the quality i s not right, I don't complain..
I write you a letter, and wait weeks for an answer, I don ' t gc~ t mad. Jf
J cali you on the phone, and you are discourteous, it doesn't bother me.
Ii l get only alibia when delivery dates are not met, I don't get ~ ~c Hl'd .
'
I(
"I 1'ever g ripe, I n e ver fuss.
I'm. the e a i:Jy - going type, the nice customer .
~u t
let me te 11 you what else I am . I'm the c ustom er who is not com ing
That's why I to lera.tc such poor treatme nt. I know I'm not c oming
b-a7k, _ai-ld it' a easier to do this than to blow my top.
11
back .
Who cares if you never come back ? 1 , you say. 'W e' ve got plenty of
<: llato rners. One less won't make any difference.
111
"My an11wer is that i.f you take a nice cu stome r like me and add in all thost
whc.; n l iRht foel the same way, we could really hurt a business, eyen ruin
l I..
11
And <1. ll you have to do to make sure th;1t there are n o t any others who
feel thiR way is to do your job ju st a l i ttl~! b ~ tt er. Give me a quality
product, g ive me the prompt, courteous S <~rvi c c that I deserve a s one of
tho,3e c usto1ners who k eep your busine ss g<>ing. 11
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GOING! GIVE THEM THE COURTESY AND :-~ ~:1:v1 lCE THEY DESERVE.
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NEWS

COURTESY OF WAY8 AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
September 18, 1958
VOL. I V, NO. 166
0 Lor d God, heavenly Father, bless unto us these Thy gifts , which of Thy tender
kindness Thou has t bestowed upon us, throu gh J esus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SILICON CONTROLLE D
RECTIFIERS UNDERGOI NG
EVALUATION HERE
CAREY -I. U. E. HEADED

FOR STRIKE AGAINST G. E .
The first of a new 50 ampere

silicon controlled rectifier was
presented t o Specialty Control
last week for evaluation in our
equipment. Manufactured by the
Semi conductor Products Dept.,
the new silicon c ontrolled recti fier is smaller and more effic i e nt
than t h e thyrotronswhich we a r e
presently using in o u r equipment.
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FIRST SAMPLE of their new
silicon controlled r ectifier is presented to Dr. Rader b y Semi conductor Produc t s Department's
Peter V. H ahn. Ben Cooper
( rear ) and Will Cockrell ( right)
will do equipment development
work with the new rectifier.
~l
Cockrell, who i s doing the

evaluation on the newly developed
rectifiers in our equipment, says
that the new device may eventually
replace the thyrotrons and igni tron s presently being us ed in our
equipment.
"No progress" was the report

issued yesterday afternoon by
General Electric Company nego tiators as talks with the IUE,
AFL-CIO, dragged on toward the
October 2 strike deadline set by
union president Carey.
SAFETY SCO
1, 427 days
7, 401 , 995 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Baseball
American Lrar. ur
Best estimat e of Carey's plan for

IUE negotiations i s that he will
filibuster 'ti l October 2. If no
agreeme nt is reached, he will
resume talks one mor e week to
give the appearance of being
"reasonable" -- then he will call
his strike.
POP BOTT LES CAN

BE REA L HAZARD
YESTERDAY'S RE SUL T5
Oet rlo t. S: New Y o rk. '2.

K.ina,ia City, 62: Bost on. 3.4,
Bnltimo re i" t Chicago. r,ifn.
National League
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
Ch i<. .... go , 4 ; Phil:idel phl:i . 2 1 c:illea
after aeven. r"1" ).

St. Louis. S : Milwaukee . l.
co,,1y aamec
1cheduled >
A recent inspection of our grounds

revealed a number of empty pop
A WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS
bott le s and l unch bags lying aI
round -- especially near t he bac k I Visiting with us today from
of our building . The trash and
Swed e n ar e Mr. 0 Dahle and Mr.
bags look very un s ightly to
, M. Johansson of the ASEA
I visitors coming to our plant. Even Industrial Electronics Departme nt.
.vorse than that, howe ve r, is the I
danger
that exists from o ne of
M r .E. .
S
1 Al so h ere t o d ay is
I
.' these bottles breaking or g etting
I win l un d o f t h e c ompu t er D ep t . ,
1
tangled up in the rotary mower
Tempe, Arizona.
\and injuring someone. Pleas e
l don't litter th e area -- and be sure !
to take your empty pop bottle s
S
. h
GE to c k Report . . ...... 66- 3 / -l:
wit you.
I
"He followed me home. Can I keep him?"
Although the Company has labeled

the union ' s d emands fo r Companywide seniority, GAW , e tc ., as
unrealistic and unacceptab le, the
Carey-~ed delegation has insisted
on a daily rehashing of the union's
proposals while Carey seems
quite content to filibuster until
O ctober 2 .
SALES CONTEST
SEE THOSE PROSPECTS NOW I
The se a re "buying days " a nd Special ty Controllers are b e ing ur ged to ge t out now and c ontac t
t he ir GE major appliance "sales prosp ects". Every sale, remember, builds GE and every
e mp loyee sti mul ate d sal e net s th e al e rt emp lo yee a crisp $5. 00 bill and 100 team points i n
the Ope r ation Upturn Sales Contest.
All you ha ve to do i s give your "prospe ct" one of the prospect ca r ds distributed to all e mployees earlier this week. Ask your prospect to have the dealer s i gn the pr o spect ca r d whe n
t he sa le is made. You then present the c ard to .the dealer and rece i ve you r $5. 00 a n d your
team po int cre dit s . Participating de a lers are Ward L . C o hron, S tuarts Draft; Freed Co.
Inc., Waynes boro; S taunton Furniture and Appliance Co. I nc , Staunton; Goodyear S~ r vice
Store, ~taunton.
Teams and team captains a re listed below.
T eam I - - Ge nevie ve ,Dead rick, C aptai n
Ad vance d Mfg. Development (Eirich)
G -3 00 and G-1 60 (Gelsleichter)
Micro Miniature Re ia ys (Quic k )
E & CR {Tulloch)
T.eam II -- Demmie Layne , Captain
Ele c, Te s t Program Co ntrol (Hoylman)
A & D I Sales (Lawre n ce)
Marketing ( Dice )
Engineering Lab (Walker )
T eam III - - She l va Je an Ropge rs, Captain
Ele c. & Reg. Prod. E n g r. (Co oper )
Engi n eering A minist ration ( Devoy )
R e l ay Engineering (Hausler)
Service E n g ine e ring (Scheffter )
Team IV -- Au drey Miller , Captain
Stand. & Comp. Des ign Engr. (Er ikson)
Program Control Engineering (H olmes )
Aircraft & Military E n gr . (Sec hri s t)
Te am V -- Kay B osserman, Captain
Maintenance (Curto)
Mfg . - Ge n e r al ( Bus h)
Coil Winding (Hou se )
Ma c hine Room (B roughman)
A & M Ope r a ti ons - Gener a l (H unte r)
Large Pa ne ls ( C . Quick)
Te a m VI -- Clarence Wyrick, Captain
Air c raft Test (Knueppel)
F ina n ce ( Wilbur)
Repai r and R etur n (W ylie
New Pr o d u cts ( B eatty )
T eam VII -- Curti s Ball, Captain

Quality Control Adm . (S ussma n)
Ai rcraft T est (Fo rd)
Plati n g ( Hyde)
Wir e H a rness a nd Misc. ( Lonas)
Small Products (Reasoner )
Open Relay, S ub-Min & Min Relays (Brunetto)
Micro-Miniature R elays (Slater)
G3 00, Open, Su b-Min & Min & Gl60 (Coug htry)
Team VIII - - Mack Day , Captain
Shipping (Ar chambeault)
P r i ce Edit & W a r ehous e (Barr inge r)
Materials - Genera l (Ponzillo )
Me ch. Reg. & Wi r e Harness (Chol ewa )
Small We ld., Thymotrols & Dev. (Crumme tt)
T est Construction Air c raft Te st (Fitz ge r ald)
Electronics Test (Moran)
Quality Assurance Relays (Bare )
Team I X -- Dick Wilson, Captain
Program Co ntr o l Prod. Unit (Bradt)
Indu s trial E l e c . Prod. Unit (Hug h es )
Stoc kroom (Hu mphreys)
A & M Produ c tion Unit (R a nnie )
Pur c ha si n g (Gerni )
Prog. Control & E lec . Asm. (Wola nin)
Methods and Planning (Le e)
Mfg. Engr. -G eneral (Schmitt )
Tea m X - - Warren Coleman, Cap tain
Power Gen . & Reg. Prod. Uni t (Showa lter)
Re lay Production Unit (Simonetta)
T ool Room (F a iling )
Methods and P l anning (Gr ay)
Ti me Stan dard s (McKechnie)
Magneti c Winding (Philpott)
Tool Des i gn (Robinson)
S hee t Metal (Groat & Va n Le ar )
E l ec t roni c. s - Gene ral (We s t)
Incoming In s p ec tion (Davis )
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NEWS

SPORTS, l'IATIONAl ANO WORlO NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO, 167
September
19, 1958
The eyes of all wait upon Thee, 0 Lord; Thou openest Thine hand, and satisfiest
the desire of every living thing; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
SUGGESTIONS GIVE BOOST TO
OPERATION UPTURN
SCOGEE ANNOUNCES SOCIAL

PLANS
SAVINGS AND SECURITY

SIGN-UPS REACH 99%
Operation Upturn got a boost

rec ently as 13 3mployees present- An overwhe lming success, the
ed award w inning sugges tions that Savings and SecLtrity Program at
will help us to do a better job
Specialty Control D epartment torlirectly and indirectly for our
day reached the 99% mark with
c u stomers .
only a few more enrollments expected. Of a potential enrollment
Top award of .$175 . 00 went to
of 958 employees in the DepartHoward Knox, Plating, who sugment, 946 have already signed up
gested a n ew and improved
and among the 12 who have not as
method for degreasing hermetic
yet joined the program are some
ans.
employees who have indicated that
they will be sending in their sign The twelve other suggestions,
ed cards. Final tabulation shows
ranging from an idea for a rack
Factory 100%, Non-Exempt 98%
to hold socket and test fixtures
and Exempt 97%.
to a new method of br azi ng studs
on cover assemblies, netted
employees awards of $5 to $30
each. Other suggestion winners
GE Stock Report . . 66-1/2
were Robert Bryant (P rototype ),
Myrtle Whitworth {Sto ckr oom) ,
Pauline Bradley (Micro-Min. ),
H. C . Simmons (Stockroom) ,
Margaret Earman (Re lays ), A.G .
Small (Mach. Room) , Mary
Coffey {Mic ro-Relays ) , Ellen
Towler (Micro-Min.) , Thelma
Bryant (Micro-Min.), Adrian
Shifflett {Micro-Min.) , Willie
Almarode {Mic ro-Relay) anrl
George H. Sheffer (Tool Room) .
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"That was a pretty snoaky punch, Bradshaw I"

J.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 428 days
7,411,518 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
During the month of September,

he said, all SCOGEE members
are being treated to a free movi e
at the Drive-In. Free passes
were distributed several days a go
in the cafeteria.
The balance of the social schedule
includes :
Oct. 16-17 - Variety Show CONF A-VAR , Co - Chmn.
W. Perry - J. Gu m
Oct. 25 - Halloween Dance, Cha s
Spencer, Chmn.
Nov. 29 - Sadie Hawkins Danc e,
Stan Maupin, Chmn .
December - Christmas Dance,
Pam Pattie, Chmn.
January - New Years Dance , B ill
Hughes, Chmn.
February - Valentine Dance ,
Mary Bridgeforth,
Chmn.
March - Open Date
April - Installation Dance, Ji m
Austin, Chmn.
In addition, throughout the s ea so n there will be seasonal
activities such as basketball,
golf , s of tb a ll, bowling, e t c.
CHESS CLUB TO MEET

There will be a meeting of the
.....X.aynesboro Chess Club WednesY September 23, at 7: 30 PM
at W ynesboro High School. It
will be he l d in the D. E. room
{2nd floor opposite libr ary). All
who are intere s ted are invited to
.:l. ttend.
SCOGEE social activities between

now and spring were outlined thi s
week by Club President Jim
Austin.
REFRIGERATORS
LIST PR IG:
Li\381
8 cu. ft.
LB81
LBlO
LKXll1}
It
II
II
10 Cu.
11 II
Ft.
LKll~~
II
II
II
BJ12*
12
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
II
BHl~~
II
:3Hl J 1:
13
15
BH1 5'"
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SALE PR ICE
229. 95
239.95
259.95
359.95
399.95
419.95
439.95
559.95
619.95
189.95
209.95
199.95
299.95
339.95
349.95
389.95
499. 95
559.95
289.95
314.95
364. 95
484.95
239 .95
279.95
319.95
429.95
Automati c Defrost
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FREEZERS
HUlO
HUD.
HUlJ
HUlO
10 cu. Ft.
ll
13
II
II
II
II
18
II
II
In connection with the Operation
RANGE.~
J299
JJ02
JJOJ
J400
MAJOR APPLIANCE PRICES

LISTED TO HELP "UPTURN
SALESMEN" AT SPECIALTY
CONTROL
J l~ll
30 11
30 11
30 11
40 11
40 11
JhOJ
40 11
149.95
259.95
299 .95
219.95
259.95
299 .95
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Upturn Sa les Contest, we are printing

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approximate prices of G. E. majo4
appliances so that employees may have
them available whe n talking to their
sales "prospects."
St andard
Filter Flo-2 speeds
WA953R ~ 5 cycle-2 speeds,
F'ilter Flo-1958
WA950.S
cycle- 2 speeds ,
niter Flo-1959
WA650S Filter Flo
Wfl350R
Wf\850S
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169.95
339.95
289 .95
3J9.95
279.95
369 . 95
289.95
339 .95
239.95
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DliYERS
DAS20
DA920
DA923
DA620
299 .95
DehDce-1959
Deluxe-1958
Stand.'.l.rd
311+. 95
299.95
219. 95
259.95
289.95
239.95
189095
These prices are approxima te

only a nd may change from dealer to
dealer and from time to time.
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NEWS

COURTESY OF WA Ya AN O NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. JV, NO. 168
Septemb e r 22, 1958
G i ve us trLtly gra tl'flll h c <trts, Hcrivcnly Father , for thP.SI! rind all Thy gifts lo
us.
Amen
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SCllENEC T ADY IUE VOTES
H EGISTH.A T I O N T O NI C I IT FOR
SP (;-: Cl /1 !_,T ': 2 NG TNr: ;;: RS Pl.A Y
"NO STRIKE"
A D ULT EDU CATIO N COURSES
B!C, PA.r<.T !I~ N f :W I ND.
ELECTRON1CS HANDBOOK
JUE "top-br Jss" at Schenectady
Rcr,istr;1tion for ad u lt C'Vcning
GE
wa s handed a stunning , al A si g nificant c ont dbut1on to prog- co ur s es will b e held at Waynesthough
close defeat in last week' s
boro lligh School toni g h t from
re ss in the 1n<lu Atrial ell'ctronic-s
strike
vot
e by an aroused IT ! 1117 : 00 PM to 9 :00 PM .
fie lri h : , i ' II n1ad1 by a g roup
hC'rship that .troop e d throu g h a
oi 1' r11:1n < e 1s who co llilboratrcl in
Fcr-s for t he courses a r c $10 per
heavy rain storm to vote 5 , 561
thl' prepar a tion of the new lndus term prr R11 b j ect. Any <Onrse
to 1, 746 ;:igainst striki n g Gene r a l
t r i.i J.'fec lroni cs Handbook r11bfor which -it l east ten JH'Opk
E l <' c tri c . Nearly 100% of the
l1 s l11 f! thi s month by McGrawllilL
rcgistc1 wi l l be offerr-d anrl
mcmbe rs cast ballots in what
Will Co c kr ! ll of our E lc c t ron1c
requ es t s for specia l co11rses ar<
was said to be t he l argest tu r nout
and RC'gul a tor Product Engi n c <! l' we !corne d . ( See b ack of paper )
in the Schenec tady local ' s history
in g Suh-Section wag Editor - in and probab ly the largest vote ev er
11 1'f ~>f th e 1400 p;1ge book .
taken by a n y lo<"a l in t he elecCIRCUS COM ES TO TO W N
t ri c al indus t ry.
T OMORROW--ONE D AY ONLY
Th e r es ult o f 4 y e ars prepara fhe rc s ultR of the Schenectady
tion, llw n<:V' hrtndb o ok iA the
IU.8
str i ke ba llo t must have been
One of thC' ol d est a n d s ti 11 one of
most r. <>n1pnhen s iv c book of i t s
a
d
i
squieting
s urprise to IUE
the grea test t hrill s for American
typl' yet publish.-d and cover s
Presirl
e
n
t
Carey
and ot h er IUE
fundamen t als , c omponent s , baf:iic yo un gsters is -- th e c i rcus .
leaders who had asked for strike
Clo 'sns and trapeze art i sts ; elec ir c uit &, power <; upplics, pat ent
votes at all IUE locals in Gener al
phants
and
lion
tamers
,
tight
r1 nd Lib li og raphi c al i niorma ti on
Electric
in order to put mor e
rope wa lkers a n d a ll the rest
as well as s eve ral othe r i ndusteeth
in
Carey
' s October 2nd
will be on h and i n Waynesboro
trial Plt' l tronic s s 11bjects of im strike
threat
.
tomorrow only to p r ese nt one of
portance in the field.
t h e bigges t ;rnd b est of tr a v e li ng
( continued on h ack 01 papc r )
c:ir c uscs in America today. The
afternoo n performa n ce wil l start
al l : OO P M in stead of 3: 15 P M as
'' CON- F A-VAR'' T I C K ETS GO ON a d ver ti s ed in l ast T hu rsday ' s
SALE TODAY
editi on of t h'~ Waynes b oro News Vi rg ini :in. T h e P.Vc n i n g r p, r for1n;11H ' P \V1ll s l::i.ri at 8 :0 0 .
Tickcti.; fo1 CON-FA - VA.R , t h t
Ope rat i on Upturn show l:i~i ng p11 t
Do n ' t l t I y ollr youngstP r R miRs
on by SCOGEE , will bC' r!Jstri the c i n 11 s . Get t i c kets today
bu tt d today "ncl t o n 1or r o w to
through Ro sc rna ry HJward , Emsupervis i on thr011ghoat tht..: plant.
p l oy < ~~ Re l ations o r from a n y
....C.ON -F A-VAR 1 ~.' trn<lt:r the ~._n
Lions me m be r .
a l chairman s hip o f Bill Perry
and Jean Gum. TJ-.e s how will
take place on O c tobc 1 16 & 17.
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"'Helga Gilhooley " 1oa vin~ ro gel morne d next
weo~, and l':n to\c:ing up on office colloction'
(continu ed from fro n t o f p aper)

Of the 100 e n g ineers whu contributed data and technic al articles
for the Handbook, o ve r one half
were emp loyed in the General
Electric C ompany. Specialty
Control provided the largest numb <> r of contributor s by any one
d e partm e nt with 14 of our engin ee r s repr e sented. Besides
e dito r Will Cockrell, the list
i ncl uded A. S. Rubenstein, E. D.
S c hne ider , J . K. Sne ll, L. U. C.
K e lling , D . Coop e r, E. H. Dinger
E. B. M c Dow ell, R . W. Wolke,
E. W . H utton, O. W. Livingston,
H. G. Carlson, F. L. Miller
( no w M a nag e r of Marketing,
Po we r Tub e Dept.), a nd W. B.
Hill s (KAPL).
We cong ratul a t e o u r D e partme nt
e nginee r s fo r th e vita l part the y
h a ve p l a ye d in thi s important
co n tribu ti on to th e p rogr e ss of
the ir profess ion. The ir s ucc e ssful effo rt 8 r e fle c t c r e dit upon
themselv es and Specialty Control.
YOUR JOB
ADULT E VENING SCHOO L COURSES B EING O FFE R E D

195 8 - 19 59 SEASON
CITIZE NS HIP
ARTS AND CRAFTS
HOBBY WOODWORKING
BUSINESS EDUCATION
COMMERCIAL LAW
HOMEMAKI NG
FRE N CH
MECHANICAL DR AWI N G
MA THEMATIC S
If you wish to ha ve some o th er c ourse offered that i s n ot
listed, p l ea se indic a t e it belo w a n d ret u rn t h e form to TOD

NEWS (Employee R e lations). W e w ill get it i nto the ri g h t
hands.
I am int e r e st e d in th e follo wing cou r se (cou r s e s ):
It costs like thunder

to make a blunder-
Whorovor you're worklno- ln offico or 1hof>,

And howovor for you may b o fr o m the top/\ nd tho ug h you may think you' re ju&t treadl no
the mill,
fl on' t ever b olillla the job that yo u flll 1
f or however little your job may appeo rYou're just as Important os soma lilllo 9eor
fhot me1hos with olhori In 1omo big machine,
That helps kao p II going-though no vu r 11 10 011 .
They could d o wit ho ut you-we ' ll h ove to admit8 u t buslnou k. . p, on, when tho b ig fe llows q u ill
And olway1 rumombo r, my lod, ii yo u can,
Tho job" mo ro lmportanl- (oh ye)--than the
monl
So If it'1 your h ope to &toy of! tho sh elf,
Think moro of you r job thon you do of yourioll.
Your Jo b I& lmpotlunt--don't th ink Ir ;, notSo try hard to gi ve It the,.bo1t th ut you 'vo got!
And don'f ever lhlnk you're of liltlo occount,
Remember, you're pofl of th .. total omounl.
If thoy didn'I nood you, you wouldn't be thoro So, olwoya, my lad , keep your chin In tho olr.
A digger of ditchoa, mechanic, or clorkTHINK WELL OF YOUR COMPANY
\'OURSELF, AND YOUR WORl<I
- Autho r Unkno""'n
W'ASTE
----=
=--- --- - ---
If&
So work with care

& hold costs under!
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VOL. IV, NO. 169
September 2. 3, 1958
Accept our thanks for this food and keep us through the hours of this
day. For Christ' s sake we ask it. Amen.
''OUT OF CONTROL
NEW APPRENTICE
CLASS STARTS AT SPECIALTY
Six n ew apprentices have been
selected to form Apprentice Class
Ill here at Specialty Control. The
new apprentices are: Lester B.
Martin, Stuarts Draft; Wayne
Holsinger, Broadway; Boyd
Shiffl ~ tt, Waynesboro; Ashley
D a niel, Wolitown: Joe Frazier,
Culpepper; Eric Perl, Waynesboro.
' rentices are selected on the
1,, .... sis of their academic abilities
as well as for mechanical
ability, civic awareness, leadership pote ntial, judgment and
maturity.
As part of the Department's two
year program of college credit
engineering studies, the new
a pprentices will take courses in
algebra, trigonometry and
mechanical drawing this year.
In addition, they will fill factory
training ass ignments.
Specialty C ontrol welcomes 11 the
Apprentice Class of 1 62 11 and extends b est wishes for success to
e ach man in the class.
/1
Fish story of the week comes

from Bob Berrang (Eng.) who
caught a 22-1/2 inch rainbow
trout weighing 5-1/2 lbs . in North
River last Saturday.
"let's keep our eyes peeled. I think we've

gol a lroublemoker in.here somewhere I"
COMPANY PAYMENTS
MADE EVERY MONTH UNDER
S. AND S. PROGRAM
You'll make money faster under
the new Savings and Security
Program. One of the great advantages of the new savings plan
is that the Company's proportionate payme~ts (50% of the employee's savings) will be paid into the employee's account on a
monthly basis. Under the old
Stock Bonus Plan, which paid 15% .
instead of 50%, the stock bonus
portion was not added until the
e nd of the year .
Under the new S & S Program,
the monthly Company payments
will be invested sooner and start
to increase in valu e immediately.
Here at Specialty Control 952 out

General Electric Stock 65-5/8 of 962 people or 99% of our em' ployees are e'nrolled in the plan.
All of these employees and any
. others who enroll before Nov. l,
will get a good start on savings
with the added bonus share of GE
stock that they will receive for
signing up early.
Er.nie Hutton (Eng.) has been

elected President of the
Charlotte sville Chapter of the
Virginia Society of Professional
Engineers.
Congratulations to Nancy Simmom
(IBM) and Joe Poleo (Eng.) who
are planning a December wedding.
The Waynesboro Lions will hold
their big circus this afternoon at
2 PM and again this evening at
8 PM.
SPORTSECTION
Batting Ra ce
American League
Runnels, Boston
. 323
Kuenn, Detroit
. 3 19
Williams, Boston
314
National L eague
Mays, San Francisco
Ashburn, Philadelphia
Musial, St. Louis
Aaron, Milwaukee
342
338
335
333
Another episode in the stormy

career of Ted Williams ended
yesterday with a nominal $50 fine
against the Boston slugger for
letting his bat get out of his hand
along with his temper.
DEPENDABI llTY...
our motto
Our customers depend on us. WE
MUST NOT LE1' 'fHEM DOWN.
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September 24, 195 8
Our Father, Thou hast open~d Thy hand to bless, and ha s t give n us all things
to e njoy. We thank Thee. Amen.
SPECIALTY RANKS
SECOND IN SAFETY
Bill Perry, Safety Specialist,
reports this morning that out of
110 operating Departments in
G e neral Elec tric, Specialty Control s till ranks second in safety.
Top safety honors went to th e
L arni1Mte d Products Department.
A !though both Specialty Control
and Laminated Products Dept .
operati>ci without a lost time ac ciJe nt, t h<: Cochoc:ton, Ohio,
nt h;ts more employees than
wt~ anrl theiefore can accumulate
more "safe man hour" credits in
th e co ur se of a day's operations.
Sp ec ialty Contro l , with no disabling injuries since we opened
our plant here in Waynesboro,
has earned a Company..:wide
r e putation for safety know-how.
W e have rec eived the highest
award p ossible from the National
Safety Council and the Virginia
M ri nufac turer s Association has
ju st informed us that they have
awarded their Safety "Award of
Honor" to Specialty Control
Department for having one of th e
best indu strial safety records in
the state. Let's keep it up I
SAFETY SCORE BOARD UP

~d you notice the new safety
ore board on the roadway

across from the parking area?
Rightfully proud of our excellent
safety and fire record , Spec ialty
wi ll post the new score daily for
ad our visitors to see.
SALES TIP FOR OPERATION

UPTURN SALES CONTEST
Know anyone that's building a new
home? That's a good prospect
for you to go after in the Operation Upturn Sales Contest. Each
major appliance purchased by
such a prospect for a new kitchen
(for example -- washer, dryer,
dishwasher, range, refrigerator)
will net you a crisp newfivespot plus 100 team points for
each ~ppl i ance. So get on to
those prospects early and "sell
G. E. " .
COMMUNITY FUND DRIVE
STARTS NEXT WEEK
The United Community Fund
Drive of Waynesboro and E ast
Augusta County will get under way next week with a community
goal of $66, 900.
Plant Chairman for Specialty
Control's Fund Drive in the plant
this year will be Paul Caron
(Ernp. Rel.) . A number of other
emp loyee:> in various parts of
the plant will spark the drive in
their respective areas.
In last year's drive, nearly 100%
of our employees contributed to
the Fund Drive and the total
contribution from Specialty Con trol was over $13, 000.
With a higher overall community
goal set for this year's Fund
campaign, it i s expected that
Specialty Control will again top
the other area industrial plants
and exceed l ast year ' s record.
LOCAL UNION VOTES

DON'T COUNT SAYS CAREY
Recent 11 no strike 11 votes taken by
IUE memberships in IUE local s
are not binding on the union's
GE Conference Board, Pr es ident
James Carey stated at the opening of the biennial convention of
the IUE. "Votes taken in the
lo cal unions are merely guides
and are not binding", Car ey said.
Three o f the GE locals which
ha vt~ voted no t to st rik e' - .
S chenec tady, Lynn and Pitbfiel<l
- - have a combined m embership
exceeding 1/3 of t he IUE membership in General E l ectric.
GE Conference Board delegates
at the IUE conve ntion will vote
Thursday on whether to call a
nationwide strike agains t the
Company.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 433 days
7, 439 , 685 hours
"WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
GE STOCK REPORT . 65 -7 /8
Why you can have
CONFIDENCE
in a GROWING AMERICA
The future of America ls your future, roo. It is
as boundless as the Imagination of our people.
The changes of the past decade - including
electronics, miracle drugs, plastics, nuclear energy
- will be dwarfed by the changes to come.
You can judge a little what is to come by what
we have already accomplished.
Every year most Americans live better. Every
year most of us are better fed, bett.er housed, bet.
ter clothed.
Year by year we have pressed the attack on
poverty, disease, and other age-old causes. of
human misery. Year by year, more of us lead the
good life.
There are sound reasons why this ls so. Som e
stem from the kind of people we are - inquiring,
venturesome, never willing to let well enough
alone.
Others trace from the freedoms we enjoy, and
from our belief In human rights and dignity of
the Individual.
What they add up to ls a future which will far
outrun the best promises of today.
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'UILISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROl EMPLOYEES

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Septembe r 25, 1958
As we r Pc uive o ur dai ly food, Dear God; h e lp u s to r e member The e as th e g r ent

Giver of a ll good things. Am e n.
TEA Cl l EH. GIVES S PECIALTY

AN "A"
E v e ry once i n a while visitors
to o u 1 pl a nt take the lime to tell
us h ow i mpressed they were by
o ur f.11 i lil ies a n d ou r employees .
Mi s~~ l'hocbe Lusk , sc hool
te:i <" hcr fr om Arling ton, Virginia,
who :ce ntl y toure<l our plant, in
parl h::i.d thi s to say in a l e tte r
w hi c h s he wrote to Don M r- Kec hni c
w h o hri<l s erved as h e r guide:
.--. ' . .. It has
been my privilege
t o tour many other plac es of
business . If it we r e mine to
c h oose one of those places to
work, the G enera l Ele c tri c
p lant in Waynes boro wo uld be
hi ghest on my li s t. . 11
We appr ec iate th e kind words

and immode st as it may s eem we
h eartil y ag r ee with Miss. Lu sk 1 s
c hoice.
IUE SLATED TO
VOTE ON STRIKE ISSUE
TODAY
GE Confere nc e Board udega t es
of the IUE are expecte d to vo t e
today on whether or not they will
strike th e General Ele c tri c Co.
nation-wide . At th e o p e ning of
,....tl;ie convention e arlier this week,
JE Pr es ide nt James Carey told
Confer e n ce Board de l egate s that
t hey wer e no t bound by "no
s trike " vo t es t ake n b y IUE loc a ls
in r ece nt weeks.
INDUSTRIAL LEA r,u E

GOLF TOURNAMENT SET
T h e S he nandoah Valley Industrial
L eague wi 11 hold its las t b ig
g olf ev e nt o f th e se a so n this
Sa tu r<lay a t Ing l eside Cou ntr y
C lub , a cco rdi ng to J oe Be lak,
SCOGEE Golf Chai r m a n.
Sixty go lfe r s repr ese n ti n g ASR ,
M e r c k, G . E., DuP o n t a nd
W e sti ng hous e will te e off rain or
shine Saturday mornin g to com pete for the S. V. I. L. T eam
Trophy,and te n indi vidual trophies for members of the win ning te am. In addition, there
w ill be pri z es for seve n other
go lf eve nts dur ing t he play. The
matc h wil l be followe d by a social
hour a nd lunc h e on i n the Club
Hou se . P layers representing
G e n era l E l ec tri c will be Ralph
Ha w kin s , Hal Stove r, J ack
Broughman, Jim Hagwood, Joe
Belak, Charlie Humphrey, dlenn
Peterse n, G e ne Brads haw, Curt
Lundstrom , Charli e Minter,
Sunny Miller and Bill P e rry.
"Ed Hooper's boen w ilh the compon}

only ~olf the time you hovo, and ho's '"
succouful he 's hod ulcers for yeon I"
TEACHER SHORTAGE
FOR ADULT EDUC. COURSES
The Adult Ed u cation offi ce at
Waynesboro Hig h School is look ing for a n additi o na l instructor
for c:o mm r.rc: ia l s ubjP c ts s u ch as
s hortha nd , typing, bookke e ping
o r bu s iness Englis h. The
in s tructor wo uld hav e to be avail .
ab le t o tea c h Monday a nd Wedne sday eveni ngs from 7:00 PM to
9 :00 PM.
Any qualifie d person w ho is
interes t ed may contac t Mr.
Tolley at Waynesboro High
School (WH 3-5466 ).
C HORUS GIRLS NEEDED

F O R CON-FA - VAR SHOW
Any of you Specialty Control
girls who have sec r et ambitions
to go ''on the stage" - - her e ' s
your big c hance. At leas t fou r
mor e girls (any age, size, or
shape will do ) are n eeded to c o mplete the c horus line for CON FA-VAR the Operation Uptur n
Show. The s how will b e
pres e nted by SC OGEE on O ct. !6
and 17, and in c ase you 'r e
worried about the c ostume, t he
c horu s line c u ties will be wear ing " sack" dress e s .
R e hearsals take only a couple of
hours on Thursday nights and
they are lots of fun in themsel v e s
- - so, come on gals, contact
P am Pattie (S witc hboard) and
te ll h er that you 'll help out.
..
CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN
Specialty Control employees a c hieve so many fine records that

congratulations for a job well done is getting to be a regular thing.
Nevertheless, I wa nt to co n gratu late our Department employees

for the. enthusiastic support which they gave to the new Savings and
Security Program.
Specia lty Control has achieved one of the highest
participation re cords in the whole Company -- but even more important,

each and every p e rson e nrolled in the Program has taken a wise and
independent step toward providing himself and his family with a more
secure and happier futur e.
H. W. TULLOCH
September 25, 195 8
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yoL. Iy. NO. 172
September 26 , 1958
Help us to cultivate the fine art of gratitude and not forget Thee as Our God and
Our Provider. Amen.
STRIKE VOTES
MEANINGLESS--CAREY
TECHNICAL COURSES TO BE
OFFERED AT FISHERSVILLE
MAKING IT THE EASY WAY
Technical courses des igned to

help young men in industry to
broaden their knowledge and
make the most of their te chnical
skills, will be offered beginning
October 6 at the Woodrow Wilson I
Technical School.
,J - --
Good ide as pay off at Specialty

and to prove itHoward Knox holds
,.-i... a $175 Suggestion Award check
. all to see. Looking just a bit
envious is his foreman, Carl
Hyde.
MARKETING SECTION
GOES 100% FOR SAVINGS
AND SECURITY PROGRAM
Marketing today became the third
Section in the Department to hit
the 100% mark in the Savings and
Security Program. Manufacturing and Employee Relations both
hit 100% earlier this month.
Present Savings and Security
enrollment score at Specialty is .
9 60 out of 966 eligible employees. j
OP. UPTURN KING AND QUEEN
TO BE NO MINA TED TUESDAY
I
A ccordin g to W. T. Sinclair,
I
head of the Te c hnical School,
four basic courses will b e given. I
!
They are Basic Electricity,
I
Machine Shop Practice, Drafting
and Design, and Industrial Math
(math related to actua l manufacturing and general industrial
problems).
Sponsored b y the
Virginia Department of Vocational!
Education, the classes will meet
twice weekly for 12 weeks.
Anyone interested in the courses

may check with TODAY'S NEWS
or directly with the school office.
(TU 6-8570).
Carey also attacked 12 members

of the executive board of the I UE
lo c al at Lynn, Mass., who op posed the strike. He called for
these union officials to back the
strike or "make way." "If not, "
Carey said, "I'll go to Lynn and
some changes will be made . 11
Carey previously had criticized
the "no strike" votes of IUE
locals as " meaning less . 11
A REMINDER
II
Be thinking over the weekend

I
about your choice for Specialty's I
Operation Upturn King and Queen.\
,,-...., official nomination blank will :
appear on the back of Tuesday's
edition of TODA Y'S NEWS. All !
hourly and non-exempt emp loyees:
will be e ligible .
Still pushing hard to get authorization for a nationwide strike

against GE, IUE President Jamei:
Carey has suggested elimination
of strike vote rules in the IUE
constitution. Carey insisted that
the Conference Board c all a
strike "even if we have to s trike
out of our constitution the twotHrds rule and let the Conference
Board decide what the margin
must be."
Tickets for the Annual Chamber

of Commer c e Banquet on Oct. 3
are available in the Employee
Relations office. Get ' em while
they're hot.
1 think I've located the trouble, profeuor!
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 435 days
7, 458, 329 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Marking 30 years of service with

General Electric on September 24, Bill
Sche nk gi ve s a few pointers to Les
Anderson (Aii-craft Stockroom) and Ken
Taylor (Plating), both of whom ob served
the ir second anniversary with General
Electric on September 24 as well.
Thirty years on the job isn't a very

ong time -- but some days it seems
onger" - - and that's the way Bill
Schenk sums up 30 hectic but wonderful
years with General Electric.
Bill started with the Company back in

1
28 as a test man in what used to be the
Radio Receiver Department. in Schenectady.
Except for a very short tirne when he was
engaged in some experimental work on a
mercury boiler, he filled test assignments in various Department$ straight
through to 193 7. That was when he joined the old Control Department as a test man
on magnetic controls. And it was about this time that Bill first met a young n ew
engineer fresh on the General Electric Engineering Test Program -- his name was
Louis T. Rader.
In 1941, Bill was appointed head of test for the Control Department,but thE! war broke
out, and as Bill puts it,"lt was too good a fight to miss -- so I enlisted in the Navy! 1 1
Bill probably wished many times in those days that he could be back at the Schenectady
Wor ks for he was assigned to sub-chaser duty in the South Pacific,and for nearly three
years nosed around the big blue ocean hunting up Jap submarines. Discharged in
December 1945, he returned to GE Control Department to do methods and planning
w o r k. The splitting up of the old Control Department into three smaller separate
Departments in 195 3 found Bill Schenk assigned to Specialty Control as a methods and
planning man.
According to Bill, this was the high point in his career with General Electric,for he
was part of a top-notch team that layed out detailed plans for the move to Waynesboro
and carried out the plans in record time.
Appointed Supervisor of Methods and Planning in 1954, Bill was as signed to the newly
formed Manufacturing-Engineering group two years later and he is presently
responsible for Manufacturing-Engineering in the Aircraft and Military Operation.
Lately, when he isn't wading a stream somewhere for trout, Bill has been spending
his time fixing a recreation room in the basement of his home. He and his wife
Ginny live at 301 Shore Road.

NEWS
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NO. 173
September 29, 1958
Strengthen our th anksg i ving as Thou dost strengthen us with this food.
SHIPPING AREA POPULAR
LUNCH SPOT, BUT ..
POINTING WITH PRIDE

f
Some employees have grown into

the habit lately of sitting out on
the shi pping dock during their
break a n d l une he on periods. We
don't like to sound hard t o ge t
a l ong with, but this practice fre quently hamp ers the work of our
shipping personnel who are on a
different break or lunc h schedule
and the litter left behind leaves
them with an additional clean - up
~ oblem.
Please cooperate and
, e the s hipping area on shipping
business only.
NOMINATIONS TOMORROW
FOR SPECIALTY KING & QUEEN
Amen.
BRENNAN'S " G. E. I NDIANS"

TAKE CITY CHAMPIONSHIP
T he Spec i alty Control sponsored

G. E. Indians got t heir trophy last
Monday night for winning the
Waynesboro Babe Ruth League
City Championship.
i
.Ed Brennan points with pride t o
the Babe Ruth Leag u e City
Championship Trophy which his
GE Indians team won. League
Pr eside nt B e n Cooper made the
pr esentation.
VISITORS TO SPECIALTY
Unde r the expert hand of Team

I
! Manager Ed Brennan the Indians
!
battled their way up throug h the
five team league to cop their first
champions hip.
O f the fifteen lads on the team,
seven have parents who are em ployed here in the ~epartment.
The boys are Gary Cash, Ernie
Hutton, Alan Tullo ch, Jimmy
Brennan, Dick Cooper, Ronnie
Snyder and T ommy Rannie.
Visiting toda y with members of

our Marketing staff are Mr. C.
Nominations for the Operation Up- .
M . Rhod es and Mr. J . L . Dutc her
turn Kin g and Que en, who will
The team has asked us to put the
both of C&ID Sales, Schenectady.
reign over the SCOGEE C ON-FAtrophy on display in the c afeteria
V AR Show, will be made tomorrow
trophy case . It's there now.
in the Pla nt Cafeteri a.
Take a look.
Although any employee may make
nominations, exempt employees
are not eligible to be nominated
themselves .
The five mos t popular men and
the five most popular women in
th e Department, as indicated by
nominations receive d, w ill be an nounced as s oon as res ults can be
tabulated.
,A. run - off e lection fo r King and
.ee n w ill be h e l d o n O ctobe r 10.
SI GN OF THE TIMES
Pr ovi ng that the space age is
really upon us, the 11 Missile and
O rdnance S ys tems Department"
has just changed its name to the
11
Missile and Space Vehic l es
Department."
SAFETY SCORE
1, 438 days
7,467,651 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCI DENT
" I hope you make it lo !he

moon, and go into orbit!"'
TIME l o
RE"I' RE:
SHIP OR SLEIGH SIG NOR SANTA CLAUS

CERTAINLY
HAS BEEN AROUND
No one can deny that Charlie Diaz ha s been around. His working career has taken him from
b ustli n g Buenos Aires to a Puerto Rican school house -- from the broad midwest to the nooks
and crannies of the orient -- from short-order cooking to a caree r i n industry . I n fact ,
on the eve of his retirement Charlie can look back upon a career in General Electric that
was more varied than most.
Born in 1893 in Puerto Rico, Charlie was educated in Ar ge ntin a a nd then retu r n ed to Puerto
Rico where he taught in a rural, one -room school house for nearly ten yea rs. Next came
one of the high points in Charlie ' s life. He had come to the Sta tes and whil e in Chicago
had an opportunity to sign on the crew of millionaire Marshal Field ' s private yacht. Hong
Kong, Honolulu, Shanghai, Suez, Ode ssa , Naples, L e Ha vr..; , London -- for a year a n d a
half on that fabulous voyage, Charlie saw the main ports of ca ll all around the wor l d.
When Charlie returned to America he attended the Linco ln ( Nebraska } School of Engineer ing, working nights as a short -orde r cook . After graduating, he went with the Majestic
Radio Corp. (Charlie Lehman (Eng. Lab} worked ther e at the same time) and then on to
RCA.
DA y -DREAMING ABOUT THE FUTURE. Charlie strikes a pensive pose at h i s

desk as he winds up an active career in Genera l Electri c .
. 's Spanish acChar l ie

As Santa Claus..
difficult for the.
d
sometunes
ut his fnen cent was
nderstand, b
d them
sters to u
h assure
young
d hearty laug
f l Christ ly manner an ld have a wonder u
that they wou
mas Day.
He started with GE in 1937 at our Bridgeport plant on a special project coordinating military
orders. His boss in those days was W. R. G. Baker who late r became a Vice President in
General E lectric. Charlie became a foreman in 1939 at the Schenectady Transmi tter
Department and in 1943 be came Assistant General Foreman. Shortly after that he helped
with the transfer of some Bloomfield operations to Schenectady. It was in 1946 that Charlie
finally joined the old Control Department as a supervisor of planning and wage rate. Oth er
special assignments followed and when th e Specialty Contro l P lanning Study group was
organized in 1953 -- Charlie was on it. Since coming to Waynesboro in 1954, h e h as been
principally involved in wage rate and employ ment work.
During the four short years that h e has been on the Waynesboro community scene , Charlie
and his Spanis h accent have be come very well known; but Charlie will probably be best
remembered by the children of Department employees because to them he is Santa Claus.
And for the whole of their Santa Claus day s -- these youngsters will never be fooled by an
imitation St. Nick because the y know that the real Santa has a Spanish accent.
Charlie and his w ife Bern will stay on at their home on Lynd hurst Road, b ut Char l ie says
he won't spend his time ju st reminiscing. "I will always look ahead to where I am going
never forgettin g where I have been," he said . Plans for the f uture? H e mentioned one - he will play "Signor Santa Claus" again in December.
"I AM THE UNION" ---- IUE President Jaqles B. Carey
"I am the union" IUE President Carey is quoted as having said - - not once - - but
many times. His actions this past month seem to be aimed at proving that "he is
the IUE. 11
TO THROW A SCARE INTO GENERAL ELECTRIC Carey asked IUE

locals in GE to take strike votes early in September .
CAREY'S PLAN BACKFIRED, Big IUE locals at Lynn, Bridgeport

a n d Pittsfield voted "no strike." And as more and more "no strike"
v otes piled in he became more and more annoyed .
WHEN SCHENECTADY VOTED "NO STRIKE" it was more than Carey

could bear. He lashed out at everyon e who was willing to honor the
vote and snarled that "no strike" votes by locals were "meaningless "
and "not binding."
STRIKE OUT THE 2/3 RULE from the constitution, he sa id, and let
the Conference Board decide when to strike .
TAKE ANOTHER VOTE in those places where "no strike" was voted,
he suggested. Apparently the idea being to ke ep locals voting 'til
they finally voted to suit Carey .
CAREY WENT AFTER SCALPS, too. He had a proposal put before

the conventio n to "rec a ll: (th row out) local and dist ri ct officers
apparently at Carey's whim for any action they take of which he does
not approve; and he threatened "to go to Lynn and make some changes ."
IF HE STILL CAN'T GET HIS NATIONW IDE STRIKE, Carey reported ly has cooked up a plot with IUE Se creta ry-Treasurer Al Hartnett to
get some IUE locals to strike over some local is sue . Then he would
get IUE locals out on a sympathy strike. We don't know if this will
work - - but - -
ONE THING IS CERTAIN, Carey's politica l power must feed on trouble

and discension and he and his henchmen will stir up troub le after trouble
until he can get the big GE strike h e wants so badly .
Carey who was just "re - e le cted" President of the IUE with no one daring to stand
in opposition has a lot of personal power. Th e more than 25, 000 union members
who voted against striking GE may find that it is no idle boast when Carey thunders
"I am the union!"
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VOL. IV, NO. 174
S e ptember 30, 195 8
As we re ce i ve our daily food, Dear God; help us to remember The e a s the gre at
Giver of all good things. Amen
SERIES SCORES WILL BE

POSTED AROUND PLANT
The World Series opens tomorrow at Milwaukee and the
Yankees will pitch Whitey Ford
against Wa r ren Spahn. As is our
custom, scoreboards will be
placed in convenient locations
around the plant to keep employees informed of the inning by
inning program of the game .
VISITORS TO SEE BURG

Y J.EDEMANN DEMONSTRATIONS
NOMINATE OP, UPTURN

KING AND QUEEN TODAY
Nominations for Operation Upturn' s King and Queen will b e
made today as a first step to
select the reigning pair for the
CON-FA-VAR Show on Oct. 16
and 17 at the Waynesboro High
School.
Vi/q,>11V
1
"Th at _n ew Salesman certainly

pus h es his product!"
RECEIVE i&qg FOR EA'-"
"r r
PARTICIPATING GE APPL/ A
GOOOV
The five top nominees for King

and for Que e n will be voted on
late r in a run-off election.
All Department employees are
eligible to vote but only hourly
and non-exempt emplo yees can
receive nominations. See the
nomination blank on the reverse
side .
Visiting us today from the J effrey

Mfg. Company ar e Messrs . Fran
Frank Durzo, Harold Worsmith,
Chas. Thomas, and Lou Grotch
(Gallion Iron W o rks). They are
here to observe demonstrations
of programming on th e Wiede GE STOCK REPORT ... 66-3/8
mann and Burg equipment.
THANKS
Ada Fitzgerald has asked us to
thank the folks in Shipping for
the lovely ~ifts they presented to
her Friday. One of the original
employees hired in Shipping, Ada
has assumed new duties as an
inspector in the Relay section.
SPENCER CLOSES FIRST SALE

IN OP, UPTURN SALES
CONTEST
LAST DAY TODAY

FOR CHARLIE DIA Z
This is the last day on the job
for Charlie Diaz, who is retir ing . More than 100 people attended a Retire ment Party held in his
honor last night and several gifts
were presented to him by his
many friends at Specialty Control
and around the Company.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 439 days
7,477,021 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Receiving the first $5 bonus from

GE d e aler Elmer Lapsle y (1) in
the Ope ration Upturn Sales Contest, Charlie Spencer (Time
Standards) a l so ne tted his t eam
100 points. Charlie assisted in
the sale of a
clothe wa&her
purchased through Freed Co. ,
Inc. The Sales Contest will c ontinue through O c tobe r.
MICRO, MACHINE ROOM

EMPLOYEES PICNIC.
PRESENT GIFT
Empl oye e s a nd families of t h e
Micro Relay Ar e a and Machine
Room held their first annual fall
picnic last Thursday at Coy n e r
Springs .
Willie Almarode who leaves
Spe c ialty on Friday was pr e s e nted with a farewell gift by "Relays'
' ' Relay s 11 employees and supervision.
OPERATION UPTURN
KING AND QUEEN
Nominating Ballot
My nomination for Operation Upturn King is
Name
Section
My nomination for Operation Upturn Queen is
Name
Section
DROP THIS NOMINATING BALLOT IN THE BALLOT BOX AT THE

;.
CAFETERIA EXIT.
Note: Every Department employee may cast a ballot, but only hourly
and non-exempt employees are eligible to be nominated.
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VOL. lV
NO. 175
October 1, 1958
For food, for friends, for loving care, we thank Thee, our Father.
COM.
~U
D DRIVE STARTS
Amen.
$66, 900 FUND NEEDED

FOR THE COMING YEAR
WWW WWW
ADJUST ABLE SPEED DRIVE

STUDY GROUP HERE TODAY
lspe cia lty Control's plant-wide

drive for Communit ~nd support
swings into gear :oday with Com. h ers, Wh"t
Two le t han d e d pitc

i ey 1Seven representatives of New York nunity Fund soli'citors ~....:dy
~
Ford and Warren Spahn, will lead !Service s will attend a day l ong
throughout the Department to conoff the 1958 World Serie s at Milmeeting her e today to study the
tac t Spe cialty Controllers.
waukee today with Milwaukee being adjustable s peed driv e business in
n a s l"ig h t e d ge f or th e s eries.
Gene ral Ele ctric.

iAs has been the practice in
give
'Department "Fund" drives, soliDepartment staff members and
citor s will not contact those emWorld Series s'cores (be ing pro certain
.Engineerin
g,
Marketing,
,ployee
s who are sign ed up for
vided by W AYB) will be posted in
Financ
e
and
Manufacturing
'
United
Fund payroll deductions.
~trally lo c ated spots around the
:p
e
r
s
onnel
conne
c
t
e
d
with
this
part
Plant
Fund
Chairman Paul Caron
nt to keep Specialty e mployees
of
our
business
will
participate
in
said
today
that
only those who are
right up to the minute on the
toda(s busi~ess study. Reprenew to the Depar.t ment, those who
g ames.
senting S e rvices ar e : H . W. Poole made cash contributions last year
and. G . Richard
Shoemaker , Mar- ins
. t ea d o f s i gni n g up for p.a yroll
.
k e trng Servi ~e s; A. B. v:ellbo~n
!deductions, and those who did not
and
A. N1s ul a , M a nu1acturing
icontribute, will be approached by
SPECIALTY GOLFERS PLACE
Servic
e
s;
J.
F.
Young
and
Charles
It h e so 1ic
. it ors thi s y ear ..
SECOND IN IND. TOURNEY
Fontaine, Enginee ring Services;
and G . A. Hor sh, Ac counting
Spe cialty Control golfer s placed
all, $66, 900 is needed by the
S
e rvice s .
se cond to a hot DuPont team at
le leven _local agencies which serve
Ingleside last Saturday in the first
1the people who live and work in
big tourname nt of the Shimandoah
!Waynesboro and East Augusta
SAFETY SCORE
Valley Indu s trial Leag ue.
:county areas ,
1, 440 days
7, 486, 391 hours
However, Controllers didn't go
The Comm~~i_;y
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
prizeles s . Hal Stover (Marke ting )
parade last night nggered this
ACCIDENT
had the low individual gross and
year's Fund d~ive . Specialty-Conn et for the day. Jimmy Hagwood
.trol again hi_ghlighted the parade
(Apprentice ) got a beautiful drive
with a spec(acular 100 foot float
off to _win the prize for the tee
complete with red flares , a mar c hs ho't c loses t to the pin on the 18th.
0ing unit and "Red Feather" girls .
BRAVES HAVE SERIES EDGE-SCORES TO BE POSTED TODAY
....
1?
l1n
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The Indu s tr i al League is now making plans for a n interplant bowling

,.-._n p e tition.
Specialty employees have always

done a bang-up job on Community
. ~nd. For our own sakes let 1 s
get behind the Red Feather drive
a nd pu s h i t o v er the top!
S p-c .:..-..(1_ ,,u~ Cc. : C /!h,.,_,,---:-,,_..? :J..:u.,,..:l..,
-J..<_,,....(/c~~ ~
- ._,,J/l.-.!C- c;::,..,~'I :to->?~~.A,..,..01-.J-
1.C /C. 't'S'.v~: /./'-"- a.f!'p-,_7;;;---,_,-,,~ ,.-<--
Am I bushed I After all,

it's 9 P.M , in Rome!"
COMMUNITY FUND SOLICITORS

FOR SPECIALTY CONTROL DRIVE
The following employees have be en appointed Fund solicitors
for th ei r r e spective areas.
A brief me e ting of all solicitors will be held tomorrow at
10:45 AM in the plant auditorium to provide solicitors with
information ca rds, a nd contact lists . Supervisors are
requested to arrange for the ir represe ntatives to attend.
L~',
,I NEERING
(by Sub-Section Manager' s areas )
Ar ea of
Solicitor
H ,. S. Sec hrist
- Don Garber
B.
J.
W.
L.
G
B.
F' .
Co oper
R. D ev oy
W . Walker
L . Holmes
M . Hausler
W . Erikso n
S. P a rker
MARKETING
-She Iva Jean Rogers

-Dukie Gum
-Ann Shifflett
-Shirley Wagner
-Sylvi a Witt
-Audrey Miller
- Ruth Waddington
FIN ANCE
- Anne Coffey (L. Rogers)

- Vir ginia Miller
E&CR
- W . R . P e rry
A & DI SALES
-Mary Lou John s on
MANUFACTURING
Solicitor
S upervisor
-Janet Alford
~
C. A . Ford
- Patsy Massie
J. W. Beatty
-Barbara Myers
F. E . R e asoner
-Inez 0 1 Baugh
C . A. Qui c k
-Nel Sharpe
H . W . Lonas
R , L. Broughman)
-Ruth Madison
C. Hyde
)
F , D. Gels lelc hter - Wanda Morris
J. B r unetto
-Stella Sor re Us
H. E. Qui ck
-Phyllis Armentrout
W . O. B are
-Fay Cook
W. Humphreys
- Gracie Layne
L. T. Cholewa
- Edith Gilbert
H. M . Crummett
-Mary Bridge
W.
Wolanin
- Paul Wright
A . E, Groat
R. P . VanLear
R . C. Failing
C. L. Hughes
W. H. Showalte r)
- Shirley .Beard
G . M. Bradt
)
J. W. Rannie }
-Mabe l Claytor
L. Simonetta )
C. W. Gerni
- Art Dorman
L . B arringe r
-Geraldine Day
-Sandra Davis
F . B . Curto
w.
MANUF A CTURING (by s upervisor)

Supervi s or
Solicitor
J . J. Davi s
-He le n Crawford
W . E . Fitzgerald
J . M . Hoy!man
P. E . Moran
-Kay Bosserman
D. M . Hous ~
Mfg . Eng .
- D. F . M c!<ec hnic::
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VOL. IV, NO. 176
October 2, 1958
For the beautifu l world about us, for trees, for fields, for flowers, and for
this food we praise Thee and give Thee thanks. Amen.
NEW PATENTS TYPIFY
SPECIALTY'S CONTRIBU TION TO
CONTROL FIELD
KING AND QUEEN NOMINEES

ANNOUNCED
RUN-OFF NEXT WEEK
Further evidence of Specialty

Names of the top nominees for the
Control's contribution to progress
titles of Operation Upturn King
in the control field came recently
and
Queen were r eleased this
with the announcement that a
morning as CON-FA-VAR, the
patent covering various features of
-:-~--......~~~iii sho.w over which the King and
the numerical positioning control
Er~-m:~~;,.;,~.J
Queen will reign, drew closer.
system has been issued to the
Company by the Patent Office.
Selected for the K ing and Queen
Leroy Kelling and Larry Peaslee
"OUT TO MAKE A CLEAN
run-off election next week we r e:
were named as co-inventors. This
SWEEP" is the optimistic note set for King - B. Gyorko (Eng.), W.
is Leroy's sixth patent and Larry's
by the Department's spectacular
Ferrell (Pro d.), K. Humphries
s~ond one.
100 ft. l ong Community Fund float (Stockroom), R . Bryant (Ind.
which led th e Fund's Kick-Off
Elect.) and E. Rankin (Sheet
OUT OF CONTROL
~arade Tuesday night. TwentyMetal); for Queen -- Sandra Davis
1 five .Specialty Controllers, in(M a1n
t . ) , Sh'ir l ey w agner (E ng. )
Be lated wedding congratul ations
eluding the G. E. Fire Brigade and
'
to Alma (Cook) Claytor, 2nd shift
ten "Red Feath er" girls marched
Pam Pattie (Switchboard), Shelva
' or rode on the float.
I Jean Rogers (Eng.), and Patsy
Micro-Relay, married to Mr.
Odom (Finance) .
Donnie Claytor about two weeks
ago, and to Mary L ee (Brown)
The King and Queen will receive
Wimer, 2nd shift Micro-Relay,
OCT. 4TH DEADLINE FOR VOTE their crowns at the opening night
who was married last month to
REGISTRATION
of CON-FA-VAR the Operation
Weldon Wimer (Stockroom).
Upturn show slated for Oct. 16 and
.
I
It was a boy for the Von Zastrow's

last week. Etto (Marketing) reports the Mrs. is progressing
along nicely. The new addition
will be called Mark.
Those employees who have not yet 17 at the High School auditorium.
registered to vote must do so on
or b efor~ Octo.ber 4. In Waynes j boro ~egistration may be made at
the City Se rgeant's office across
from the Post Office on Wayne
Ave.
T ickets fo r CON-FA-VAR may b e

purchased from any member of the
SCOGEE Choraliers or for the
convenience of the general public
may be obtained at Fishburne Drug
Store, Haney's Drug Store or the
I
I
' Voting is a rare privilege that ap- Southern Restaurant.
pears to get rarer in this old
every year. Protect that
II world
right by using it!
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"I think you've put otr raking

the leaves long enough!"
YOU CAN CLEAN-UP ON THE

SPECIAL NEW G. E. HOME
LAUNDRY SALE! . . . SEE
TOMORROW'S PAPER.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 441 days
7, 495, 761 hours
WI T HOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
way
To Specialty Control Employees:

My w ife Bernie and I wish to expres s our
deeply felt appreciation for the many
personal kindness es that have been extended
to u s both particularly since coming to
Waynesboro.
It is not easy to say goodbye to General
E lee tri c after spending twenty wo nderful
years in it s servic e , but the many g ood
friends I have made in the Company, their
generous and kind thoughts of B er nie and
me {particularly at last Monday night's
party),and the knowledge that we wi ll con tinue to see you all around Waynesbo r o
makes it much eas ier to say goodbye .
With a renewed expression of my sincere

appreciation for your kindness - - I remain faithfully yours,
SHOWN ARRIVING at his s u rprise retirement party Monday night were Charlie
Dia z and his wife Bernie. Mrs. Loui s
Rader is in the b ackground.
Charles Diaz
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COURTESY OF WAY8 ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
O ctobe r 3, 1958
Ble s s th e Lord, U my s oul, a nd all that is within m e ; bles s His holy na me.
Amen.
COMMUNITY FUND WORKERS
SWING INTO ACTION TODAY
NO GAME TODAY
FOR HOW LONG?
O ctob er 2 ha s c ome and gone and
it appe a rs that IUE President
James Carey ' s boastful thr e at that
there would b e no wo r k in GE on
O c t ober 2 unles s hi s de mands were
met, apparently has fizzled.
The Milwaukee Braves and the

Ne w York Yankees are on the road
today as the y move to Yankee
Stadium for their ne xt set of Serie
play which be gin tomorrow .
Solicitors for the plant's Community Fund drive began in ear n e s t

today to contact employees in their
respec ti w work ar e as. Whi le a
majority of e mployees are alr e ady
Therefore, there will be no g ame signe d up to contribute to the
scores posted today.
United Fund th rough payroll deAlth oug h Carey was temporarily
duction's , th e r e are some who con t hwarte d from his aim to strike
tribute d last year in cash, a s well
COLLEGE REPS NEEDED F01'
GE n ation-wide thi s week, he did
as some who have joined Spec i al ty
CAREER NIGHT
s uc c eed in layfng the ground work
sinc e t h e l ast Fund campai gn.
so m e fancy political tri c ks
Only thos e who are not on t he payGraduates of various colle ge s are roll deduction plan will be con1c. ce r. For exa mple, the 2/3
s trike vote re quirement in the IUE being sought to represent their
tacted again this year. Employee s
schools at Waynesboro High
con s titution th a t gave smaller
wh o a re on the payroll ded ucti o n
School' s College and Career Night plan who wi s h to inc rease or
i oc als som e little prote c tion
a gains t a rbitrary s trike a c tion by on October 13. The colleges for
change their pledges, may c ont<, ct
u nion b osses w as amended s o that which representation is neede d
the Fund cha irman.
are: Pennsylvania, North
the Conference B oard c an d ecide
Carolina, Cornell, Clemson,
the msel ve s what majority will be
Give onc e - - give generous ly -Univ.
of Maryland, Wake For e st
re qui Ted whe n the time c omes.
and r e membe r giving is ea s i e r
and J o hns Hopkins .
throu gh p ayr oll de du c tions.
Carey a nd his E xecu ti ve Boa rd

a lso got the po wer to s uspend
Anyone who is a graduate of thes e
local union offi ce r s and tak e over schools who is willing to serve as
the r unning o f loc a l s u nde r ce rtain its representative should notify
.:: onditions. Passed under th e
!Shelva Jean Rogers on Ext. 342.
g uise of cleaning up corrupt localsi
thi s new ame ndment to the IUE
c onstitution c ould be manipulated
TICKET RETURNS REQUESTED
t o b r ing anti -Carey local leaders
b ack i nto line .
Anyone who has not as yet paid
for his ticket to Charlie Diaz 's
Carey te mporarily has be e n
Retir e ment Party i s r e queste d to
sty m i e d, 'but th e qu e stion i s
make his payment as soon a s
~how l o n g .
possible to Paul Caron, Employe e
Relations.
SA F E TY SC OR E -1 , 4 4 2 days
GIVING IS EASIER THROUGH
:, 50 5, 1 3 1 hours
PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS
':VITHO UT A LOST TIME
A C C I DENT
' 'Crcsto i ~ Pron1ised .o ~ J'-..'.C I :

Up for Never Tak in g iTe .'bywh ere-H e's Planning for u ~ IC
B': Among !!1e First to T::
Trip tc tht .\l::c: .
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Special Employe e Price
$3 79. q5
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FREE (A s long a s they last)

A 10 piece set of Pequot No-Iron shee ts and pillow cases FREE with the new 1959
Model WA950S G. E . Automatic Washer (above left). The Pequot set includes:
2 double bed sheets , 4 twin bed s heets a n d 4 pillow casef
$27. 00 VALUE
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yo I.
COURTESY Of WA Ya AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
IV, NQ
J78
October 6, 1958
Thou hast made us and loved u s and given us every provision for our needs
and we thank Thee for these gifts . Amen.
BRITTEN RECEIVES TOP AW ARD
FOR " MAGNETIC AMPLIFIER"
PAPER
MAGNETIC TAPE COURSE

OPENS HERE TODAY
The Specialty Control Department welcomes participants for
the fourth Magnetic Tape Training Course which will be opened
today in the plant auditorium by
Len Partridge, Course Coordinator.
Today's program wi ll include a
welco me by Dr. Rader fo llowed
by a presentation on Numerical
qitioning Controls by Glenn
. : tersen and later in the day by
pr ese ntations on Tape Transport
by Phil Tipton and the Theory of
System Operation by Murray
Rosenblatt. Glen Ertell and
Phil Tipton will also conduct a
tour of the factory and engineering lab for course participant s .
Other pr~sentations will be made
later in the course by Ed Rosen,
Steve C lark and Glen Ertell.
The t wenty cours e participants
are representatives of the follo wing companies : Airtek Dynamics
Corp., Los Angeles ; Aluminum
Company of America, Cleve land,
Ohio; Consolidated Vultee Aircraft, Fort Worth, Texas;
Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach,
Calif.; Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank, Calif.; . G. L . Martin,
Baltimore, Md. ; North American
Aviation, Neosho, Mo.; Republic
Aviation, Farmingdale, L . I.;
,-. neral Electric (!&SE ), Houston,
.1. ex. and Baltimore, Md,
The cour se will e nd Thursday,
October 9.
GETS FIVE YEAR PIN
First prize for the best technical

pap er submitted in the South East
District of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers association has been awarded to Hal
Britten {A&M Eng. ) .
Congratulations to Jim Myracle,

Engineering, who will receive
Hal, Senior Development Engineer
his five year service pin today.
for Air craft and Military Produc t s ,
Jim joined G. E. a t the Advanced s ubmitted a paper entitled,
Electronics Center at Cornell
" Characteristics of Magne ti c AmUniversity in 1953 . From there plifiers U tilizing Square Loop Cor e
he w ent to Heavy Military,
Material and Square Wave Supply
Syracuse,and transferre d here
Voltage. 11 The paper was a simin January of las t year.
plification of the theory of magnetic amplifiers. Hal has written
several other papers dealing mostly with aircraft electrical sy !;l tems .
CUB SCOUTS LOOKING
FOR SCOUTMASTER
Hal who started his G . E . career
with the Voltage Regulator Dept.
A group of Cub Scouts in t he
about sixteen years ago c am ~ to
Wayne Hills area are looking for
Specialty Control whe n the old
a Scoutmaster for their t roop.
Control Department was de c entrali zed.
If you are willing to give the young
sters a helping hand, p l ease contact them through Clarence
BRAVES TRY FOR FOUR TH
Wyrick, Ext. 36 7.
TODAY
SAFE TY SCORE
l,445days
7. 5 14 , 501 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
The Braves will try to clinch th e

World Series today at Yanke e
Stadium. Ball s c ores will b e
posted around the plant.
GIVE UNITED - - AND REMEMBE J~

GIVING IS EASI.lf& THROUGH
PAYROLL DEDU CTIO NS
HER
MAJESTY
-. -- - . --. ---- --. . - .. - -- -- .
MISS
RED FEATHER
BONNIE KAY GILBERT TO REIGN QUEEN FOR '58 - ' 59
Bonnie Kay Gilbert, daughter of Edith Gilbert (E lectronics)
was crowned 1958 - 1959's Miss Red Feather last Friday
night in impressive half-time ceremonies staged at the
Waynesboro - Woodrow Wilson football game.
Apparently a popular choice, the fans at the game stamped an
enthusiastic app roval on the selection of blonde, blue eyed
Bonnie Kay as this year's Red Feather Queen. A senior at
Waynes boro Hi gh School, Miss Red Feather has demonstrated
that she has brains as well as beauty. Active in several
school clubs she i s Virginia State President of Future Business
L eaders of America, a n ational organi zation of high s chool
business course students.
For the future, Bonnie Kay plans one year of business school
training and then wants to be a secre tary .
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COURTESY OF WA Y8 AND MEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 179
O ctober 7, 1958
Open our eye s , 0 God, to see T hy powe r a b out us; our ears to h ear b eauti ful
sounds abo u t us ; our hearts to know iove, !nine and ati'Ie;:- ' s . A .Tie .7 .
G . E., GEN' L DYNAMICS
TOP DE SIRABI L ITY POLL
GE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MAY VISIT TOMORROW
G e neral Elec t r i c Co . and Ge n e r al

Dynamics Corp . a r e he l d t o be t he
most desi r a b le companies in a
field o f 20, fo r p e rs o nal inve s t ment and for employ m e nt pos sib i lities for young me n , according
to a b out 150 e xecutives in the
Specialty C ontr ol m a y be ho st to m o rr o w to the

G. E. Board of D ir ec t o r s as t hey make flying
s top s at a f e w Southe r n G ene r al Ele c tric plant
installations while en r oute to a Board of
Di r ec tors M ee t ing in A t lant a , G e orgia .
e l ectroni c s field .
Ral ph J . Cor 1ine r

A s urvey tak en b y Nati on's
P L ANT I NSPEC TION TONIGHT
Busine ss, a public ation of the u. s.
Chamber of Commer ce , r e vealed :
,G . E. and G e neral Dynami cs
The O c tober plant ins p e c tion will
were rated tops by busi ness execu- b e h e ld tonigh t, so d i g o ut the d ust
tives as (1) c o m p anies i n whi c h
. cloths a n d polish and l e t's g et
t he y would advise young me n to
; Specialty s p arkling . This clean seek fu t u r e employment in t h e
: up i s par t ic u larly important, be ele ctronics fiel d a n d (2 ) favor ite
I cause w e may have t he Comp a ny ' s
c hoices fo r a person a l inv estm e n t ' B o ar d of Directo rs touring our
of $5, 000 in electroni c s securities . fa c ilities tomorro w , and we wa n t
t hem t o see us at o ur be s t.
G. E . and Gene ra l Dyn ami c s rank ed first and s econd i n that order ,
in answe r to b oth q ue ri e s. O t h er
fi r ms listed i n t he su rvey i nclude d
Minneapol is-H o n ey w e ll, Spe r r y Rand Corp . , RCA , We s tinghouse
and S y l vania.
GI VE UNITED - - AND R EMEMBEI:

GIVI NG IS EASIER THROUGH
P A YRO LL DEDUC TIONS
l6 b
1{\
1
With the Se r ies stand i n g at 3 - 2,

the Yankees are journe ying to
Mi lwauke e t o da y i n the h op e t hat
they may snatc h t he Wo r l d Se r i e s
,.
y fr o m Milwauke e .
was selected as an
to ou r He nd e rsonville , North
Caro l i na, plant.
II
In antic i pation of t he B oa r d ' s

v isi t, e xh i bit s a n d demonstrati o ns
have bee n p r epa r ed in the Aircraft
A ss e mbly area , the Relay a r ea,
the E l e ctr oni c a r ea and t h e
E n gi n e eri ng L a b. Demonstrations
of t he new We i demann machine in
She e t M etal and the Bur g m aster
ma chine i n the Machine Room have
a l s o been s che du l ed.
If th e Boa rd m embers ar e able t o
come to Wa ynes b o r o t omor row ,
i t is exp ect ed that they will arrive
a t the plant about 10: 30 AM . Plans
. c a ll for a to ur of ou r fac i li t ies, a
m ee ti ng wit h th e Department Staff
a nd lunch. T h ey will leave
W a y n es b o ro a t 2 PM.
;
~I
NO SCORES TODAY
I Specialty
.alternate sto.p if bad flying wea ~her

Ii nterfe r e s wi t h a schedule d v1s1t
71
/
" Of course he was groomed for

the job-he married the boss'
dau~hter! "
S AF E TY SC OR E
l, 4 :!-6 days
7 , 5 23 , 890 ho u rs
WITHOUT A LOST TI ME
A C C IDE N T
WHY l'M GIVING TO THE COMMUNITY FUN
STELLA SORRELS (Relays)

I've given to the United C .> mmunity Fund because I know that my charity dollar will go
furthest and help where it is needed most
when I give throug h the United Community
Fund. The charitable agencies in the Fund all
have good reputations and are dependa ble.
E-verybody in our Re lay area agree-& with me
on this,' that's why we we re the first group of
employees to pledge 100%.
GRACIE LAYNE (Re gu lators)

I'm behind the Red Feather drive 100%. I
remember the days before we had a United
Community Fund - - i t seemed everybody was
asking for contributions all the time. That
wouldn 't have been so bad but every agency
had to duplicate the cost of a fund campaign
and occasionally some group you never heard
of would come to town and co lle c t funds, too .
I like the idea of contributing one time a year every agency gets a fair share and I know my
contribution will be used wisely.
...
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October 8,
Father we thank Thee for this food , bless it to our bodies good.
TV PHYSICS COURSE
BET'NG OFFERED
A televis ed course in physics is
MAKE R ETUR NS EARLY

Jean Gum requests f:hat all ticke t
sellers for CON - FA -VAR make
their returns t o he:c as soon as
t hey sell t heir tickets.
being presented five days a week

from 6:30 t o 7 AM on TV channels
8 and 10 . The purpose of the
cours e is to demon strate techniq ues of teaching the basi c
principles of physics and to proRED CROSS LIFE SAVING
vide students with up-to - date
COURSE TO START
information on recent developments ln the field . Taught by
The Waynesboro Chapter of the
Dr. Harvey E . White of th e
American Red Cross will sponsor
Department of Physics, University a life saving clas s at the Fairfax
of Califor nia , the c ourse may be
Hall Swimming Puol beginning to ...-.J< en for c ollege c redits. Study
night at 7 PM. All persons inter .tlin es, assignments, q uizzes
ested in l earning life saving
and copies of t~e examination are ' techniques are it.vited to attend.
available for a nominal regi stration fee of $5. 00.
For further informatio n , you m ay
contact James S. Helms , Ext.
TV Committee , Box 3697 , University Station, Charlottesville,
Virginia .
SAFETY SCORE
1. 447 days
7, 533, 279 hours
I THOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
BD. MEMBERS WON'T BE

HERE T ODAY
T he General Electric Boar d of
Dire ctors will not be h ere t oday
inasmuch as goo d flying weather
p r evailed in the Hende rsonville,
North Carolina , area.
Specialty Control was t o be an
alternate stop for them in the
event that inclement we ather pre
vented them from visiting the
Outdoor Lighting plant in
Henders onville as planned.
We were ready for them if they
had com e, though . Congratulations a nd thank s to eve r yone for
doing s u ch a fine job of g etting
our plant in shape.
"A re you buying or Relling7"
ltt~i:s
Amen.
CON - FA - VAR SHOW BOOSTS

OPERATION UPTURN
CON-FA - VAR, the Operation Uptu rn show being presented Oct. 16
and 17 by the Cho raliers, will hav C:
something to please everybody an<.
if you like good m u si c there is a
special treat in s to re for you.
The concert portion of t h e show
wi l1 open with a va ri ed selection
of song s including some Fred
Waring arrangements and will
move into a choral adaption of
favori t e me ladies from Sigmund
Romber g operettas. No presentation of Romberg melodies would
be complete without a love l y duet
so Duk ie Gum (Eng.) and L owell
B~shlor (Eng .) will do the honor s
on t hat score. Jean Gum, who is
Assistant General Chairman and
producer of the concert portion of
CON-FA - VAR, will also please
the audience with a solo selection.
Mrs . Bill Perry is serving as
musical di r ector .
Tickets for CON-FA - VAR are
available from any member of th e
Choraliers or from ticket rep re sentatives in most Sub-Section
areas.
YANKS PLAY "SUDDEN DEATH"

GAME TODAY AT MILWAUKEE
The crucial days of the World
Series begin today at Milwaukee
as the Braves seek to take the
fourth and deciding game . It
could be sudden death fo r the
Yankees today.
WE'RE
ROLLING I
COMMUNITY FUND 100%

HONOR ROLL
C .:r ngr a tulations to th e following areas which have contri but ed 100% to the United Community Fund campaign here at Specialty Control. Solicitors report that mor e ''100
per ce nt' ' areas will report in today!
Get on the bandwagon -- GIVE ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Area
Foreman
Solicitor
Sheet Metal
Art Groat
Paul Wri ght
Stockroom
w.
F'ay Cook
Incoming Inspection
J. Davis
Helen Crawford
Hermetic Relays
J. Brunetto
Stella Sorrels
Tool Room
R. Failing
C. E. Frazier
Cost Accounting
R. J. Depa
Anne Coffey
Engineering Lab
w. w.
Ann Shifflett
Mech. Reg . & Wire Harness
L. T. Cholewa
GIVING IS EASIER
Humphreys
Walker
Gracie Layne
THROUGH PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS
JPEC/Jf BULLERN
THE G. E. BOARD OF DI RECTOHS WILL NOT VISIT SPECIALTY CONTROL
TODAY, IT HAS JUST BEEN LEARNED.
OUR DEPARTMENT HAD BEEN SELECTED AS AN ALTERNATE STOF IN CASE
BAD FLYING W1"....ATHER PREVENTED THEM FROM VISITING OUR OUTDOOR LIDHTING
PI..ANT IN HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA .
INASMUCH AS THE
W~THER
IN
THE HENDERSONVILLE AREA WAS EXCELLENT THIS MORNOO, THE ROARD MEMEEP.S
CONTINUED ON TO HilJDERSmNILLE AS PLANNED.
PJC
10-8-58
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VOL, JV, NO. 1A 1
October 9, 1958
For flowers and birds and growing things, for food and health and all that's
good, 0 God we render our thanks to Thee, Amen.
MORE EMPLOYEES CHOOSE
PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS TO
MAKE UNITED FUND
CONTRIBUTIONS
Mor e and more Specialty Control employees are signing up
for the p.:i.yroll deduction plan
when they make thei r United
Community Fund pledges. Of the
978 e mp loyees in the Department, a total of 503 emp lovees
to date are giving their 1958-59
Fund contribution through the
easy payroll deduction method.
DIOGENES' "HONEST MAN"

IS IUGHT HERE AT SPECIALTY
Ancient Greece's Dioge nes took a
lantern in hand a nd scatched
throughout Greece for "an honest
man". Jim Hilliard (Sheet Metal)
says we don't have to look that
far. When his billfold with over
$150 in it was lost somewhere in
the factory yesterday, it was r eturned intact in a matter of
minutes by Chet He witt (Coil and
Transformer) who .found it on the
floor.
~t:veral
employees are yet to be

hea.rd from, however, as the
U. C . F, campaign moves toward
t he end of its second week. Cash
contributions up to press time
total ed $462. 50.
If yo u haven't made your contribution yet, please see your
Community Fund representative
today - - and carry your fair
1thare of the load. And remember - - Giving is easier through
payroll deductions!
" I wish you'd stop praising me

to the boss I"
CONDOLENCES
The Department joins with her
fellow workers hi extending
sincere expressions of sympathy
to Barba:ra Myers (Aircraft) on
the death of her brother in an
accident earlier this week.
SPECIALTY CONTROL welcomes Mr. Howard Hamilton,

tepresenting Boeing Co. in
Wichita, Kansas, to our plant
today. Mr, Hamilton is here to
discuss Numerical Contouring
Control and Programming with
several members of the Department,
Two traveling bopsters saw a man

b ei ng flogged in public in Russ ia.
"I don't dig the beat," said one
cat, "but that sure is a crazy
drum."
STRICT RULE AGAINST

RUNNING IN PLANT
Several employees have b een
noticed lately running in the
corridors on the way to the cafe teria or in the eve nings to be first
in line at the time clocks.
Now, running n ever makes us look
very dignified, not to mention th e
fact that it is dangerous to the
emp loye e who is running and to
the unfortunate employee who
happens to get in the way .
Statistics show that employee falls
are one of the biggest contributors
to lost-time accidents in industr y
and running is one of the leading
causes of falls.
Be sides the fact that "no running "
is a strict Department rule, let's
keep our own safety in mind the
next time we're tempted to run
while in the plant.
CON-FA-VAR CHORUS LINE

TO MEET TONIGHT
The CON-FA-VAR Chorus Line
will meet tonight promptly at
7 PM at Gracie . Layne's home at
111 King Avenue,
SAFETY SCORE
1, 448 days
7, 542, 668 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
WHY l'M GIVING TO THE COMMUNITY FUM:

DUKIE GUM {Engineering)
My warmest feeling toward contributing to the
Community Fund is for the aid of the unfortunate chi ldr en in the community. I have seen
cases where a child could not go to the dentist
or have his tonsils removed if money had not
been provided by the Community Fund. In
many homes Santa Claus would not be able to
make a visit if he didn't have help.
I urge everyone to think about the good deeds
performed by the United Community Fund.
Let's have a 100 per cent participation.
COMMUNITY FUND 100%

HONOR ROLL
Area
Supervisor
Solicitor
Sheet Metal
Art Groat
Paul Wright
Stockroom
W. Humphre ys
Fay Cook
Incoming Inspection
J. Davis
Helen Crawford
Hermetic Relays
J. Brunetto
Stella Sorrels
Tool Room
R. Failing
C . E . Frazier
Cost Accounting
R. J. Depa
Anne Coffey
Engineering Lab
W. W. Walker
Ann Shifflett
Mech. Reg. & Wire Harness
L. T. C(holewa
Gracie Layne
Employee and Community Relations
H. W. Tulloch
W . R . Perry
GIVING IS EASIER THROUGH PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS
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October 10, 1958
0 God, may the physical strength from this food make it possible to serve
Thee and our fellow man better. Amen.
$954, 000 IN LOCKHEED
ELECTRA ORDERS RECEIVED
Orders amounting to $954, 000
have been received by Specialty
Control for protective panels,
regulators, and exciters on the
Lockheed Electra, it was revealed today by Jim Neet, Manager
of Aircraft and Military Sales.
This latest group of orders is
deliverable by the end of 1959, he
said, and brings the total orders
for this program to more than
,..-qne and a half million dollars .
CON-FA-VAR FASHION SHOW

WILL FEATURE FALL STYLES
FIRE BRIGADE MARCHES HERE

TOMORROW - - SPECIALTY HAS
FLOAT
High fashion or more conservativ<;;

The Specialty Control Fire Britall or small; he or she -- there
gade will march in tomorrow's
will be clothing styles and
big Fire Prevention parade at
selections to interest everyone in
2: 30 PM. The theme of Specialty' 6 the Fashion Show portion of CONfloat will be "Nero Fiddled While
FA-VAR, the Specialty Control
Rome Burned11 and will feature
OPERATION UPTURN show which
Ed Painter as Nero and Sandra
will be presented on Thursday and
Davis as a "slave girl. 11
Friday, October 16 and 17, at
1
Waynesboro High School.
SPECIALTY OBSERVES FIRE

Specialty Coqtrol has built or
PREVENTION WEEK--SALUTES
will build the electrical system
DEPARTMENT FIRE BRIGADE
controls for all of the Lockheed
Among other fine records set by
Electras that have been ordered
on Lockheed to date. In addition, our employees, is the excellent
one we have established in prefurther sales are anticipated by
vention of fire at our plant.
Lockheed over the next few
years,
Specialty Control has not had a
reportable fire ($50 damage or
more) since we established oper
ations here in Waynesboro.
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
During Fire Prevention Week,
BECOMING A SPECIAL TY
the Department congratulates all
CONTROL HABIT
employees on this fire record
and salutes the Department's
Last Tuesday night's plant inFire Brigade for a job well done.
spection was one of the most
successful yet according to Fred
Curto, Jack West and Bill Perry,
who headed the inspection tea.ms.
There was little to critici-z;e in
any area and it appeared that good
housekeeping has become a
,.aq,rmal working habit for Specialty
.ntrollers. The next plant inspection will be on October 29 in
preparation for the Division
Business R e view to be held here
October 30 and 31.
With fall weather already upon us,

and the holiday seasons fast approaching, the CON-FA-VAR
Show will help you select what yo u
need - - from formal attire to the
most informal sportswear. Local
merchants who are participating
are White's,Arnold's, Leggett's,
Newberry 1 s, Barber's, Town
Shop, Grossman's, Man's Shop
and Duke's.
The Fashion Show will be directed
by Dukie Gum (Eng. ) and Mrs,
Harry Howell. The commentary
will be by Mrs. Maxine Huffman.
Specialty Control employees serving as models are Eva Campbell,
Jane Reid, Rosalie Harter, Sylvia
Witt, Helen Arthur, Mary. Ann
Wood, Irene Ervin, Martha
Ramsey, Lenora Wine, Betty
Rankin, Charlotte Holliday,
Charlotte Harris, Gale Shipe,
Bill Hanger, Bob Failing, Stan
Maupin and -Charl'es Moyer.
Modeling children's fashions will
be Donald Johnson (son of Warren
Johnson) and Debbie Harrell
(daughter of June and David
Harre Ill.
IUE MEMBERS
TAKE LESS
AND
HAVE TO PAY BESIDES
Not content that they have blocked their membership from enjoying the
new Savings and Security Plan. the IUE is now trying to find some legal
loophole to take the benefit away from non-IUE members in General Electric.
The Savings and S ecurity Program. through which the Compa ny gives an
employee 50 cents on every dollar he saves in the plan, is beginning to look
good to an increasing number of the IUE rank and file who have been denied
the plan by IUE political bosses. These same IUE bosses are finding it
difficult to explain away th e fact that members of their union are now being
denied t w o important company benefi t plans -- the Savings and Security
Program and the Emerg enc y Loan Plan.
Specialty Control employees. who wisely turned a deaf ear to the IUE professional organizers at our plant, get both benefits while IUE dominated GE
employees are forced by their leade rs to "take less" and pay union dues for
it besides I
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VOL. 1V, NO. 183
"Break Thou the bread o f life, Dea r Lord to me. "

hr e i\d may J li ve for T hP- ~. Amen .
H. BRtTTEN RECEIVES
SECOND P AT ENT
Octobe r 13, 1958

And in th e strength of that
.....---
A pat ent has been issued to the

Company for a n inve ntion by Hal
Britte n (Eng. ) for a static invers e
over v olta gt time r us ed in our
airc:raft pa n e l s . Upon se nsing a
gener ator overvoltagc , the devi ce
provide s an inverse time delay
befor e opera ting a relay to disconne c t th e ge n erator f r om th e
electrical system. This is the
second pate nt to be is s t1Pd in Hal
;;i-.itten' s na m e .
CONDOLENCES
All of us in Spec i a lty Control e xte nd o llr s incere exprc:ssions of
sympathy to Bob Pollit (MTP
s tude nt) on the d eath 01 h is father
l as t week .
COM. FUND BUILDS SPECIALTY REACHES $7500
SPECIALTY VOTES TODAY

ON "UPTU RN" KI NG, QUEEN
Toda y is t h e d a y when Specialty
C o n tro l e l ectfl th e Depa rtment's
Operation Uptu rn King and Q ue en.
Th e ballot is o n the bac k of
T ODA Y'S NEWS. Who wins in
tht: K ing a nd Queen election, wiL
be a dosely guarded 8ecret until the op e ning nig ht of CON-FA ..
VAR whe n the. Ope r ation Upturn
King and Que e n will b e c rowned.
The Community Flmd Drive at

Specialty Cont ro l continued to
B e sun~ t o vote t oday a n d l~ave
build today a nd la t es t figures shawl y o ur b a ll o t in t h e ballot boxes
- ------- the c ombine d pl edge s and c on provided near the c afet~ r i 'I. e xit.
tributions reported to date stand 1
EATING IN PLANT RESTRICTE D
a t s li ghtl y l ess than $7, 500 with
TO C AFETERIA ON LY
IMPORTANT GLEE C LUE
more p l edges still to b e added in.
SESSION TONIGHT I
The total Department g oal is
It ha s bef!n r eported that b anana
$13, 000 .
pee lings a nd app l e cores are
The Glee Club wi 11 practiCt! to-
being fou n d on the fl oors in some
night at 7 o'clock in the plant
S eve r a l solicitors in the plant
of the rest rooms. Besides th e
have yet to make all their contacts1 auditorium. CON-FA-VAR
fact th a t this is a dan ge rous
but it i s expected that our Depar t - I opening night is Thur sday so Gle e
practice that could le a d to serious
ment drive will be comple t e d thi s I Club members are u rged n o t to
injury; it indicates a serious
miss this important practice
wee k.
violatio n of a s trict Department
sess ion.
rule against eating in the plant
More areas have reported in as
ont s ide of the cafeteria.
100% s inc e Friday, while a number'
of solic itors have indicated they
Sufficient time has b een provided
will reach the mark later this
during bre a k periods and at lunc h
week. Whe n y ou are c ontacted by
time to sati s fy m ost normal
your UC F so li citor - - please
appetites .
L eaving crumbs,
pledge to he lp your neighbors
peelings or partially uneaten
through the Community Fund.
lunches a round the plant can lead
Give once - - and for all I
to a serious rodent proble m in
~ plant that would be unpleasant
us all.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 452 days
Please cooperate, observe the
7, 561, 446 hours
rule against ea tin g a nywhere in
the plant excep t in the cafe te ria.
ACCIDENT
CHOOSE
THE D.EPJ>s
KING
AND
TODAY!
Make your sele c tion for the King and Que en on the ballots below: Deposit eac h one
separate ly in the b a l'lot boxes provi ded n ear the Cafeteria exit.
-----~---- - ----------- - -- - ---------------------------- - ---------------------------------
MY VOTE FOR THE OPERATION UPTURN QUEEN IS: (Check one only)
SHIRLEY WAGNER
SANDRA DAVIS
PAM PATTIE
SHELVA JEANROGERS
PATSY ODOM
-- ------ -------------- ---- ------------ -------------------------------------------- ------

MY VOTE FOR THE OPERATION UPTURN KING IS: (Check one only)
D
D
BUD FERR~LL
KEN HUMPHREYS
HILLBILLY BRYANT
ED RANKIN
BRENLEY GYORKO
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VO L. I V, NO, 184
Octghe r
J4
1958
We t hank Thee , Lord, for life and all its provisions ; and bless this food of
which we are about t o partake . Amen.
NEW AlR FORCE RPR.8 SENTATIV C I TES
I MPOR T ANCE OF QUALI T Y
Air Force C-ualitv C ontrol Rep
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

IS AIM OF CON-FA - VAR
We have a lready sai d that CONF A - VAR , t h e sparklin ~ Operation

U p tur n show t hat opens at foe
Hi ~h School this Thurs day ni gh t ,
will nave something in it t o ple ase
eve r ybody . As if a conc ert b y the
C-1 .) ra liers and a full F all fas l. ion
T h e customer , of cou rse, is
s n o .v we r e not e 1~:.gh in them Uncle Sam an i ni;:; r e,:>re :o e.1t 'lti 1;e :::
' selves , CON -FA - VAR w ill also
a re the Air F o r ce Inspecto rs who
A s h ley W . Bryant, Jr.
include a var iety show t ha t
:.ro r k clos ely w ith out :)uality C o n - AIR FORC . . . . . . . . . .
features
sever al Specialty Con1
l g r o up.
trollers
.
F o r example , there
a n d wheneve r w e can in maid n "
will
be
a
r
oll er skating act by
sure the Air Forc e or o ther
In recent weeks , Mr . Ashley W.
;z ove rnment materia l built here is Shirley McCambridg e , a Calyp so
Bryant, Jr . , h as been assi g ned
numbe r by Doris D un c an, a
in accordance wi th t h e requiret o Specialty Control as Air Force
Western skit by Rosema r y
ments set forth b y the Service
'.' u a lity Control Representati v e .
Howard, Emily Ou rs, Esther
arm whi ch o r d ered t h e material.
H e re plac ed Mr . Melvin J .
Mal o ney, Pam F-attie and Nancy
Second, we must be abl e to
Kleinfelter wh o w as tr a nsferred
a :; su :.: ~ he g overnment that an y of S i mmons , a barbershop quartet
to a n othe r locatio.n by t h e Air
number by J o:1 n Rhea , Don
its equipme nt t h at i s built her e
For ce. C onti nuing on Mr.
Trohou
g h , Nancy Burkholder and
meets spec i fications and can be
Bryant ' s s taff are Air F orce
Dou
glas
Gum . Mrs . Ja m es
depen d ed up o n . We wo rk cl o sely
Ins pectors Merril Smith and
Mc
Lean
wi ll e ntertain at the piano
with yo ur Q uality C o nt r ol or :; aniJ ames E . DeHart , Jr .
~ation to achieve th ese
' A sure s ho w s t oppe r wi ll be a
o bje c tives . "
In discussing t he objec ti ves of t he
c h or u s number l a mpooning the
Air F o rc e Qua l ity C ontr ol r ep re" sack ". Mrs . Al F oss is d ire ctor
Cong ratulatin '.5 Specialty Co n tr o l
sentative s at our plant, Mr .
of the variety po r tion of th e sho w .
on its hi g h quality standa rds ,
Br yant said , "We have a two -fold
Mr . Bryant is sue d t he remin d e r
o bje c tive . First, we want t:::>
to a ll of u s who have a p art in t h e
ass ist Specialty Contr ol whereve r en g inee r in ~ and manufa c t u r e o f
(Continue i next column} _
SAFETY SCORE
g overnment p r oducts , that " men ' !:
1
145 3 d ays
SPEC I ALTY A1E S MEET
live s and o ur nation ' s s afety de 7,
570 , 883 hou r s
AT PLANT TOMORROW
pe nd upon continue d h i g h qua l it y
WITHOUT
A LOST T I ME
and dependable p ro duc t s ."
ACC
I
DENT
"Tiny " Schneider rep o r ts that
~e will be a n Al .=E meeting
fo r Specialty Control enginee r s
t o morrow afternoon at 4:10 PM
in t he plant auditorium. The
meeting wi ll be adjourning
promptly at 4: 30 .
S ome Specialty Contr oll ers may
n o t know i t, but one of ou r bi '5 g est and best cus tomer s i s a t our ,
p lant every day - - at least ri is
re p resentatives a re .
WHY l MGIVING TO THE COMMUNITY FUND:

Giving one time a year for all our major com
munity charities is a good idea. There are
eleven major community agencies in the
Uni ted Community Fund of Waynesboro and
East Augusta County. Without the UCF we
would be faced with eleven individual fund
drives, with the same people being asked
several times a ye a r to help as volunteer
workers in the drives; would have to g ive
several different times each year and eac h
charitable group would ha v e t o spend part of
their contributions to pa y the expens e s of
each drive . Community Fund eliminates a
lot of wasted effort and expense. That's why
I ' m givin g the "United way . 11
COMMUNITY FU N D 10 0%
HO NOR ROLL
Area
Super v isor
Solicito r
Sheet M e tal
Art Groa t
Pau l Wri ght
Stockroom
W. Humphr eys
Fay Cook
:::ncoming In s pection
J. Davis
Helen C r awfo r d
Hermeti c Relays
J. Brune tto
Stella Sor re ls
Tool Room
F. F a iling
C. E . F r a zie r
Cost A cc ounting
R. J. Depa
Anne Coffey
E ngineering Lab
W. W. Walker
Ann S hifflett
Mech. Re g . & Wire Harne ss
L. T. Chol ewa
G r ac i e L ayne
Employe e and Comm. Relations
H.
w.
P l ating
c.
Hyde
Machi ne Room
R. Br o ughman
Ruth Madison
Purchasing
c. w.
Ar t Dorman
Shipping
J. Ar c hambe ault
Dave K e rn
Jeep Area
c.
I nez O ' B a ugh
Procedures
J. R. McE c k ron
Evelyn I rvin
Manufacturing-E n g i neering
R . H. Schmitt
D . F . M c K echnie
Tulloch
Gerni
Q ui ck
W . R. P erry
Ruth Madison
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Come , Lord J e sus , b e our g u est; let Thy gifts t o u s b e ble s sed.
DRESS REH E ARSA L TO NIGHT
NEW SAFETY HONOR

COMES TO SPECI A L TY
Specialty Control 1 s outstanding
safety record <lceived new
recognitio n yesterday afternoon
when the Virginia Manufacturers
Association presented us wi th its
Award of Honor for plant safety.
The Award of Honor plaque, the
A ssociat ion 1 s highest award, was
p rese n ted b y Mr. C . H . Tayl or ,
S ecre tary of the V . M.A ., to
S afety Chai rmen J , D. 0 1 Donnell
(Eng. ) who represented the office
~ployees, and Wade Hutchinson
. lating) who r e presented the
fac t ory employees .
SAF ETY SCORE

1, 454 days
7 , 580, 320 ho ur s
W IT HOUT A LOST TI ME
ACCIDENT
O O PS!
Ou r p retty Com munit y Fund
booster pictured
at the right
wa sn 1 t identified
in y e sterda.y 1 s
paper . She is
Inez 0 1 B augh,
A i r c r aft Assem b ly - J eep Area.
Don 1 t wo rry if you s t art lo sing

your memo r y, J ust f orget about
it.
Amen,
CON-FA-VAR will mee t at

Waynesboro High School auditor i um tonight at 7: 00 PM for a
dress r e hea r sal. Everyone tak ing part in the presentati on of the
show is requested to attend .
(L-R) Bill Perry, Safety Specialist

Safety Charinan Dan 0 1 Donnell r e presenti ng office emplo~~e s and
Safetv Chairman 11Jade Hutchinson
repre;e nting factory employees
accept the V, M, A. safety aware
from V. M. A. Secretary c. ii. Ta ylo r
while Dr . Rader proudly looks on .
OUT OF CONTROL
Fred Curto, Super vis or of

Maintenance, spoke last night to
the Waynesboro Kiwanis Club.
His subject, dealing with fire pre ve ntion ,was entitl ed, "Where
There 1 s Smoke , There ' s Fire."
S P ECIAL TY "FUN D" DR I VE

MOV E S T OW AR D G OA L
Specialty Control 1 s Community
Fund drive c limbed closer to its
$13, 000 goal today w i th 88% of the
D ep artment employees having
made a contr i bution or a p ledge .
The Department's U. C. F . pledge E
and contributions now tota l
$9, 625. 70 with several final
reports of area solicitors yet to
be made .
If you haven 1 t pledged or con-
tributed to the U n i ted Communit y

Fund yet -- please - - do it today.
P ut your area in the 100% column
by giving now -- once and for all !
Congratulations t o Charlie Quick,

Foreman Aircraft Jeep Area,
w ho is passing out cigars after th
birth of his se cond son last Sun day. The 7 lb. 2-1 / 2 oz. lad will
be named Alan.
Don 1 t forget to get your CON - FAVAR ti cket. All members of th e
Ch or aliers have tickets for sale.
I n addi ti on, there a:re regular
ticke t so licitors i n various parts
of the plant.
"Oh-oh, I got paid in traveler's

checks."
YOU'D BE
zy
TO MISS
CON-FA-VAR
CONCERT
ti FASHIONS
THERE ARE
VARIETY
90
-- fea t uring Fred Warin g arra ngement s and Si gmund

Romberg tune s .
la t est Fall fa shions for n1en, women and
c hildr e n.
- - the
-- spa rkling s pe c ialt y acts that a r e sure to please - a nd a chorus line too!
tic ke t se ll ers in the pla nt -- c h eck with th e one in y our work

a r ea and g ~ t yo u r ti cket now .
CON-FA - VAR--- - - Thu rsday a nd Friday, Octob er 16 and 17

Adult s 90 a nd c hildr e n 5 0
~p.m.
~JJ)/S. ~~~ LIL&I,,._,,,,"'

;:ti,.~
S NEWS
PUIUlte IY THI IMPlOYH HLATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPEOAl.TY CONTIOl IMPLcnm

UOITI. MA'10NAl AND WOltD NIWI - COUITUY Of WA YI AMO N1WS YllOINIAN
WAYNUIOIO, VIRGINIA
VOL. IV, NO. 186
October 16, 1958
For life, and health, and daily food, we thank Thee, giver of all food.
THE CLASS OF
1 62
HOW OUR BUSINESS SYSTEM

OPERATES
THE CUSTOMERS, in the long
run, decide what products are to
be made, how much will be made
and the price for which they will
be sold.
Amen.
BOWLING
LEAGUE
BEING
FORMED
l.~
-?
_J
C::...::..---
.,
An industrial bowling league

which will include teams from
Specialty, ASR, DuPont,
Westinghouse, Merck &. Co.,
THE COMPETITION for customers makes manufacturers produce! Dawbarn Bros., Basic Witz and
a better product at a lower price, j Re y nolds Metals is in the process
of being formed. Sponsored by
so that the majority of fami lies
'i
the She nandoah Valle y Indu strial
can afford to buy it.
1
THE SUPPLIERS of parts and
i L eague , each plant will be lim ited
to one seven man team which will
material must also compete to
~ eady we ll into their academic
meet in 14 scheduled matches on
provide their customers with the
,ignme nts and factory training
alternate
Friday s. The first
best possible goods at the best
assignments that are part of th e
meeting
will
be this Frida y a t
possible price. But to do this,
Department' s college level
6:30
PM
a
t
the
Be ve rly Bowling
they must b e able to make a fair
Apprentice T raining Program,
C
e
nter
.
This
will
be a scrat c h
profit for the things they se ll.
the six new apprentice stude nts
league, Anyone inte rested in
pictured above are the third class
p a rticipating should contact Joe
THE MONEY that provides the
to be selected here in Way n es Belak on Ext. 233 .
buildings , equipment and tools in
boro and are identified among the
our American b'usiness system
Department's a pprentic es as the
come s from the savings of the
Class of 1962. The six young
Ame rican people, the American
men were se lected out of a gro up
f amilie s .
of 72 applicants for this year 's
SAFETY SCORE
Apprentice Class and wer e re1, 455 day s
q uired to have a good solid mathe- THESE SHAREHOLDERS really
7,
589 , 757 hours
own the business . If a business,
matics bac k grou nd as we ll as
WITHOUT
A LOST TIME
afte r payin g wages, taxes, both
mechanical abilities and good
ACCIDENT
s tate and federal, and paying the
personality traits.
bills for materials, water, gas,
and electricity, has some thing
Left to right they are: Boyd
l eft over , it belongs to its owners
Shiflett, Eric Perl, Wayn e
-,.- the shareholders. It is their
Holsinger, L ester Martin,
VISITING
return on the investment made by
A s hley Daniel and Joe Frazier ,
SPECIALTY
l! 0 ~ (:;:_
putting their savings in buildings,
e quipment and tools.
CON-FA-VAR
The welcome mat is out today for
By re c o gni z ing the importance of
OPENS
Mr, J, A. Uttal, ManagerTONIGHT AT EIGHT I giving eve ry c ontributor to our
Specialty
Sales, C&ID Sale s , N . Y .
Waynes boro High School business his fair sha r e of r e turn, and for Mr. R. F. Barnes ,
and c oope rating towards that e n.d
Auditorium
Manager-Marketing, General
we help t o keep this system of
Tickets-- - -adults 90
Purpose Control .Department,
free e nterprise for fr ee
children 50
Bloomington, Ill.
Americans .
wI
c.
COMMUNITY FUND 100%

HONOR ROLL
Area
Supervisor
General Accounting
W. A. Copley
Cost Accounting
Procedures
Employee & Comm. Relations
Engineering Lab
She e t Metal
Ma c hine Room
Jeep Area
Purchasing
Shipping
A & M Production
R. J. Depa
J. R. McEckron
H. W. Tulloch
W. W. Walker
A. E. Gro a t
R. Brou gh m .
C. Qui ck
C. W. Ge r ni
J. Archambeault
L. Simonetta and
J. W. Rannie
C. Hughes and G. Bradt
W. Hum phreys
'D. M. H ouse
W. E. Fitzgerald
J. Davis
J. Brunetto
F. E. Gelsleichter
R. H. Schmitt
L. T. Cholewa
C. Hyde
Elec. 'Production
Stockroom
Coil & Transformers ( day shift}
Electronic Test
Incoming Inspection
Hermetic Relays
G300 Relays
Manufacturing-'Engineering
Mech. Reg. and Wire Harness
Plating
Solicitor
Anne Coffey and
Virginia Miller
Anne Coffey
Evelyn Irvin
W. R. Perry
Ann Shifflett
Paul Wright
Ruth Madison
Ine z 0 1 Baugh
Art Dorman
Davie Kern
Mabel Claytor
Shirley Beard
Fay Cook
Kay Bosserman
William Hammer
Helen Crawford
Stella Sorrels
Wanda Morris
D. F. McKechnie
Gracie Layne
Ruth Madison
SHOULD I GIVE
TO SPECIALT.Y CONTROL'S
COMMUNITY FUND DRIVE ?
..... if I don't live in Waynesboro?

Yes, because this is the drive for Waynesboro and
East Augusta County. Folks in Stuarts Draft, rrsliersville~ Crimora, etc. receive U.C.F. benefits.
Even if you live in an area that has it's own UCF,
Waynesboro is zour community 1/3 of every working

day.
In addition, W~esboros UCF
program provides
you with free Re Cross blood even if ;your home
town does not participate in the blood bank. There
are other irdirect benefits you reoeiTe from
Waynesboro's U.C.F.
So please do your fair share by giving at

least a small part of your contribution to oi'ii
U. C. F. plant driTe today.
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VOL, IV, NO, 187
COURTESY OF WAY& AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
October 17, 195B
Give us stre n g th from th e food which Thou hast provided, a n d make us thank ful for all Thy mer c ies. Amen.
COM UNITY FUND DRIVE
FALLING SHORT OF GOAL
Still a bit short of its $ 13, 0000
goal and 100% participation, the
Specialty Control plant-wide
Community Fund drive reached
the $11, 725 mark this morning.
Over 91% of the Department's
emp loyees have made pledges
o r contrib utions , but some areas
have been lagging .
CON FA VAR CLICKS WITH AUDIENCE

HUMPHREYS,
ODOM,
CROW NED KING ANDQUEEN

MUSIC, FASHIONS, COMEDY,
TALENT, DELIGHT AUDIENCE
If you a re hesitating about giving
b,-..;;i.u se you live outside of

\
, n es boro, r emember that 1/ 3
of every working day Way nesKen Hump h reys
boro i s your community, and you
are eligible for many of t he benefits from the Waynesboro and
SCOGEE"S
East Augusta County Uni ted
3rd ANNUAL
Community Fund agencies. Even
HALLOWEEN
if you can o nl y afford t o give a
DANCE SLATED
little -- it will help a lot!
WELCOME TO SPECIALTY
Vi s iting wi th us today are Mr.
Philip May of the University of
California Radiat ion Lab a nd
Mr . R . V. Davi s , Manager of
Air c raft and Weapons Systems
Sales , A & DI - Seattle .
DESI GNED TO FIRE ICE BALLS
A special gun that shoot s balls of
ice as large as two inch e s in
d ~e t er at speeds in excess of
6
miles an hour is u sed by
General Electric engineers to
test the " beating" a CJ .~ 05 jet
plane engine wi ll take in a hails torm.
Patsy Odom
Ken Hu mphreys (S tockroom ) and

P atsy Odom (T e l etype ) were
crowned Specialty ' s Operatio n Upturn King and Queen last night at
the opening performance of CONF A-VAR. Elected b y a plantwide secret ballot last week, the
identity of the King and Queen was
a carefully g uarded secre t until
their names were announced at the
show.
The CON-FA-VAR Operation Up turn show really clicked with las t

night's audie nce . From the
pleasant blendings of th e
Choraliers straight through to the
Halloween spooks and gob lins
"
Che-Misses" chorus line;which
wi ll scurry out of the way next
poked
delight fu l fun at the "sa ck ",
F riday night as Specialty Controlthe
s
ho
w was a pleaser a ll the
lers head for the bi g SCOGEE
way
.
Music,
fashions , talented
Spook Dance a t the Waynes boro
acts - - everything , but everything
Moose Lodge .
was there to sui t the most varied
With music by the Melodiers and in tastes. It's a highly enjoyab le
show -- if you didn 't get there for
the SCOGEE Dance Committee
opening night - - plan to ge t there
setting the atmosphere with
'this evening .
appropria t e H allowee n displays ,
this promis es to be another in a
string of successful SCOGEE
GIVING IS EASIER THROUGH
dances. Tickets are $2 . 20 per
THE UNITED COMMUNITY
couple for members and $3. 30
FUND.
per couple for non-members,
Ticket salesmen are listed on
SAFETY SCORE
t h e other s i de of TODAY 'S
1, 456 days
NEWS . Get your ticke t while they
7
,
599
, 194 hours
l ast !
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
CO MMUNITY FUND 100%

HONOR ROLL
Area
Supervisor
Solicitor
General Accounting
W. A. Copley
Cost Accounting
Proce dures
Employee & Comm. Relation s
Engineering Lab
Sheet Metal
Machine Room
Jeep Area
Purchasing
Shipping
A & M Production
R. J. Depa
J. R. McEckron
H. W. Tulloch
W.W. Walker
A . E. Groat
R. Broughman
C. Quick
C. W. Ge_rni
J. Archambeault
L. Simonetta and
J. W. Rannie
W. Humphreys
D. M. House
W. E. Fitzgerald
J. Davis
J. Brunetto
F. E. Gelsleichter
R. H. Schmitt
L. T. Cholewa
C. Hyde
Anne Coffey and

Virginia Miller
Anne Coffey
Evelyn Irvin
W. R. Perry
Ann Shifflett
Paul Wright
Ruth Madison
Inez 0 1 Baugh
Art Dorman
Davie Kern
Mabel Claytor
Shirley Beard
Fay Cook
Kay Bosserman
William Hammer
Helen Crawford
Stella Sorrels
Wanda Morris
D. F. McKechnie
Gracie Layne
Ruth Madison
B. W, Erikson
Audrey Miller
Elec. Production
Stockroom
Coil & Transformers (day shift)
Electronic Te st
Incoming Inspection
Hermeti c Relays
G300 Relays
Manufacturing-Engineering
Plating
Design Engineering
GET YOUR TICKETS FOR THE SCOGE;E SPOOK

DANCE FROM THESE PEOPLE
Larry Kniske rn - (Tkt. Chairman) Engineering

Charlie Spencer - Manufacturing Engeering
Bob Maupin - Electronic Regulators
Shirley M cCambridge - Electronic Pane ls
Janice Clatterbaugh - Quality Control
Sandra Davis - Maintenance
Buddy Coffman - T ool Room
Mary Bridgeforth - Repair and Return
Jane Batema n - Accounting & Mfg. Eng.
Ruth Gray - Dispensary

James Austin - Re ce iving Inspection
Ann Shifflett - Engineering Laboratory
Rose Belak - Accounting
Peggy Pattie - A & DI Sales
Shelva Jean Rodgers - Ind. Engineering
Genevieve Deadric k - Relay Manufacturing
Dukie Gum - Library
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VOL, IV, NO. 188
COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINI AN
October 20, 1958
Giver of every good and perfect gift , favor us with T hy blessing, we pray, as we
pa r take of these bounties . A m en.
PLANT COMMUNITY FUND
DRlVE NEARS GOA L
BUREAU OF AERdNAUTICS,
G. E. REPS HERE FOR COURSE
Specialty Control inched toward

its $13, 000 goal today, with a
grand total up to publication of
$12, 290 in pledges and cash c ontributions . The perce ntage of
employee participation has
reached 92% with the remaining
group of employees to b e contacted today and tomorrow morn ing .
The first six of twelve electrical

engineers from the Bureau of
Ae r o n autics, Washington, D. C . ,
received their certificates of
completion last Thursday night
from the General E l ectric course
on our advanced a i rcraft
electri cal generating systems.
System' s co ur se take time to p ose

for the camerama n. S eat e d l e ft t
~ are getting very close to the
1% mark and every employee is r i ght: Lt. Cmdr . Alvin Me i nts,
urged to join in, in true Specialty Clarence K. Wildermuth, Lt.
Control style,to bring our Depart- Cmdr . Arthur O. Clouse, William
A Yauss , John A. B artelt, W. T .
ment up to our goal. If you live
out ~f this area, you still rece i ve Beatson, Standing are C. R.
P h aneuf and R . S. Moore.
Waynesboro UCF benefits such
as free Red Cross b l ood in
emergencies for you and your immediate family. If someone else
in your family gives elsewhere,
SAFE T Y SCORE
why not give part of your family
l,459days
UCF cont ributi on through o u r
7, 608, 631 hours
plant drive and help your fe ll ow
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
workers make their goal. Join
ACCIDENT
in -- you ' ll feel glad that you did.
PAI N TER PROVES SIGN TRUE

The signp ainter hir e d by Mrs. J,
G. McGage, of Memphis, Tenn. ,
- rnld have read the sign painted. I
.. nile han ging up the sign, readi ng, "Keep out -- bad dog," he
was bitten by the dog .
Another group of six engineers

from the Bureau of Aeronautics
began the same course this morning. In addit ion, t h ree General
E l ectric representatives are here
to sit in on the course.
P resented by A & DI Sales co m pone nt h e r e at our plant, instructors for the one - week course
are C . R. Phaneuf and W. L .
E ast, J r . The same course has
been p r esented here previously
to five airlines, three air craft
companies and representatives
the Civil Aeronautics Adm.
Starting in the course today are,
Mr. P . Bin derman , Mr. J , Salay,
M r . E. White, M r. W. F ishe r ,
Lt. W. Di ckson, and Mr . K.
Lugosch. G . E . representatives
from the Washington, D . C . , area
are Mr. C . White and Mr. P.
Hargraves. Mr. B. Saucerman
is here from G . E . ' s Los Ange l es
District.
Dr. Rader will address the new
group this eve ning a t a meeting at
the Hote l General Wayne .
"Os good has been retired from

his cran<' job t hree year today."
COMMUNITY FUND 100%

HONOR ROLL
Area
Supervisor
Solicitor
General Accounting
W. A. Copley
Cost Accounting
Proc edure s
Employe e & Comm. Relations
Engine ering Lab
She e t M e t a l
Machine Room
Je e p Area
Pur c hasing
Shipping
A & M Production
R. J. Depa
J. R. McEckron
H. W. Tulloch
Walker
A. E. Groat
R. Broughman
c. Quick
c.
Gerni
J . Archambeault
L . Simonetta and
J. W. Rannie
W. Humphreys
D. M. House
J. Hoylman & P, Moran
J. Davis
J. Brunetto
F. E. Gelsleichter
R. H. Schmitt
L. T. Cholewa
C. Hyde
Anne Coffey and

Virginia Miller
Anne Coffey
Evelyn Irvin
W. R. Perry
Ann Shifflett
Paul Wright
Ruth Madison
Ine z O'Baugh
Art Dorman
Davie Kern
Mabel Claytor
Elec. Produc tion

Stockroo m
Coil & Transformers ( day shift)
E l ectronic Test
Incomin g Inspecti on
Hermetic Relays
G30 0 Relays
Manufac tu ring-E ngineering
Plating
Design Engineering
Electronic Small Panels
A&M S ervice Assembly
Program Control-Final Assy.
w. w.
w.
B.
H.
H.
W.
W. Erikson
Crummett
W , Lonas
W. Wolanin
Shirley Beard
Fay Cook
Kay Bosserman
William Hammer
Helen Crawford
Stella Sorrels
Wanda Morris
D. F. McKechnie
Gracie Layne
Ruth Madison
Audrey Miller
Edith Gilbert
Nelle Sharpe
Mary Wright
WHY l'M GIVING TO THE COMMUNITY FUNP

I'm convinced that a single unified campaign to raise funds for
our important community charitable agencies is a sound business
approach that will enable us to receive the most good from our
charity dollars. I know, personally, the great amount of good
that is being accomplished through such participating agencies
as the Children's Home Society, Salvation Army, Red Cross and
others . I strongly recommend the United Community Fund to
{O U a ll.
L. T. RADER
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VOL. ___:_
IV, NO. 189
COURTESY OF WAY& ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
October Zl, 1958
Tr ans f er this food into stre ngth, 0 Lord, and this strength into noble service,
which we ask in Thy name . Amen.
ENGINEERS TO HEAR
WESTINGHOUSE RESEARClilST
Th e Blue Ridge Sub-Section of the
A. I.E. E. will meet Wednesday,
October 22, at 8 PM at the Westwood Restaurant. "Therrno Elec tri c: Applications" will be the
topi c of a talk by Dr. E. V.
Som e rs of Westinghouse Research
Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pa,
Non-members are welcome to
attend the meeting.
.NO GLEE CLUB REHEARSAL

The Glee Club will not meet for
rehearsal tonight. The next
meeting will be Tuesday,
October 28, 7 PM,in the auditorium.
FUND DRIVE FINAL

RETURNS DUE TODAY
All contributions and pledges for
the United Community Fund are
due in today. Those who for one
reason or another did not make a
pledge or contribution thi s year,
still have time to help the Fund
reach its goal. Solicitors are
requested to compl e t e th e ir contacts and make their final returns
today.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 460 days
7, 618, 058 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
A&SP HELPS GET THE SALES

THAT MAKE SPECIALTY'S JOBS
As goorl i\ s Specialty C ontrol-products are - - they just don't go out
the b.i ck door of th e factory and sell themselves. Getting repeat
orde rs from old customers, lining up new prospects and stimulating
sales is a key job that is taken care of at Specialty Control by our
Marketing staff. Advertising and Sales Promotion, one of the
Marketing func t ion s, c omes under Charlie Humphrey's portfolio and
is handled by Al Senter and Ralph Cole.
Between them>these two fellows
turn out reams of News Bureau
SPOOK DANCE FRIDAY
publicity, several national trade
magazine adve r tisements, a
,Pon't like to haunt you, but this
Friday is the night for SCOGEE'S number of brochures and sales
third annual Hailoween Dance and pieces, customer mailings,
special sales aids for field sales
all you spooks and witches better
personnel,
not to mention over a
pick up your tickets soon.
dozen product exhibits for trade
SCOGEE members pay only $2. 20
shows from coast to coast. One
per couple and non-membe rs
example of the kind of work our
tick ets are $3. 30. The
A & SP unit does is shown on the
Me lodiers, r e a lly the most when
back of TODAY'S NEWS. Aimed
it comes to dancing, will be on
at top management, it is the
hand to beat out the music.
second of a series of ads in
which Dr. R ei der discusses the
It's good dancing weather and the
benefits of our .numerical
price is right, so come on down
positioning controls.
to Waynesboro Moose Lodge,
Friday night; and kick up your
This job of stimulating sales and
heels.
backing up our .field sales p e rsonnel with promotional material is
an important one that contributes
importantly to the success of our
business.
THE PENNY SCALE

AT THE CORNER DRUGSTORE
"I'm going out ""

be back about 5."
bn~inr~~
the only thing that will give

you more for your money today
than it used to ten years ago.
Dr. L. T . Rader--General Manager of General Electric's

Specialty Control Department-offers a readily available
solu tion to a major industrial-mana~ement problem:
('('F lexible autoination'' .
answer to rising production costs

T oda y, many man11fnct11 rCTs arc disprodn g
a popular conceptio n tha t n11/omnlio11 is exP"nsile. romplex. n11d, applicable only lo
hig h-,olume, repetitive opt'ralions. Leading
job-lot procluccrs -fa ccd with rising costs..:....
ha ve turned to " flex ible antomation" as 11
practical, low-investmrnl solutio n.
lncrca;;;ecl output. rr1lucecl direct aml inclinct labor roi'ts. improved quality . reduced
scrnp losses. fei<s tooling time 11nd co!'l. nnd
elimin11tion of lot varintions- these nre
typical of h;nefit~ now h<'ing rcafo:ccl by
u;;;er of numerically controlled m11chines.
\Vhnt is "flexible nu tomation ?"
Early this year, our comp1my introduced

lo industry a complete new line of standard
" packaged" n11meric11l controls. This linethe res ult of more than 10 years of development work with leading machine huilden<has been thoroughly pro\'ecl out in customer
installations.
from the start, our design goals were exacting: rugged reliability matching the
machines themselves; simplicity of program
preparation. job set-up. ancl machine Oj}f'rR
lion: accuracy far in excesi; of manual control. All the!<e crite ria are met in G-E mtmerical control systems now 11v11ilable to you.
F lexible automa"tion hrin g~ the benefits of

auto mation to the small~lot prodttcer in the
form of individunl productjo n mnchines
equipped with mode rn numerical controls.
T hese control!> make it p o~~i ble to automate
operations s uch as drilling. bending. milling,
punching, turn ing, boring. or we lding. True
flex ihility is reta ined been use changing " programs " is n matter of minutes needed to
change punched cards or tape on which product ion data is permanently stored.
PrO"vt'<l controls now ttady .
Practical prices, fast puy-hack

Development .of a standard line of numer
ical controls suitable for a volume m11rket,
has made it possible for you to buy at downto-earth prices. r or example. the versatile
G-E Mark II system installed on a mnchine
adds as little 11s S lS,000 to the price.
M ode ratel y priced, "pa ckaged" General

Electric Mark series n11 111crin 1I controls arc cur.
rently demonstrating their arcuracy, depenclahility,
and cost-cutting per for rnanc r on pro<lnction ma
chines in a variety of uw lalworking npplil'atiorul.
Low prices- combined with truly startling

cost-cutting performance--a<ld up to ex.
cellent "p11y-bnck" rates. For example, a
recently installecl numeri cally controlled
welding machin~ costing $52,000 will save
more than $26,000 annually in direct production costs alone. And a milling m11chine
wilh G-E M11rk I I control betteted this with
a\'cragc prf'paration tinw rC"tlm: tio11 ~ of 60 % ,

directlnhor !'11\'ings of 50', ii . and elimination
of 70 ~', . of fixture costs. Total sa\ings paid
for marhine ancl c ontrol in only 19 months.
Pl'oron1
control~ an~
What can you do?

To help guide you in initiating an m1alysis
of your flexible automntion polentinl. wc\ e
preparecl 11 management booklet entitle d
'Planning for Flexible Automation." Write
me al our Waynesboro, Virgini11. plant for
your copy. Once opportunit y areas ha\'e hl'cn
pinpointed. let us help out technically. With
far more experience in tl1e field than any
other control manufacturer. we're well equipped to help you achieve the full benefits of
flexible automation. S nles Engineers in our
Appar.a tu8 Sales Offices are read y now to wurk
with your manufacturing-engineering people
and m11chine huilclers. Specialty Control
Dept., General Electric Co., W11ynesbo ro, Va.
l\J)-4
~IWSS Is Ow Mosf lm!"""'nf l'twlllC/
GENERAL. ELECTRIC
G.E.'S f\' EW "MORE POWER TO AMF.R/C,f" .f U TOMATJON PRQr.R,fM-11ow atttilable-combints a/111/.color

1110Jio11 pict11rt with a n a11tlioritativt 44.paxt ma1111al. Concmtratinx on t/11 tlttlrical content of a11to111atio11, tht p1Ylgram is
doivu d to help y ou f u/ly a al11att tht automation potmtial of your operation. Su yo111 G-E .1ppara111s Sain Enginttr.
Fo rtune . . ..... .. . ... N ov.,
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(795-4)
,ital no'\
Torlny. most sources predict steadily

rising lahor and mnte rial costs for the den 1de
ahea<l- clespite po1<s ible temporary economic
lulls. further, a. look at projected s tnti~tics
for the mid-1960's indicates a serious lahor
shortage. Now. a major teclmologic11l hreakthrough offers job-lot producers !he eco' - \
ical solution. flexible autom11tion wit!.
mericnl controls will delher increased producli\'ity to keep costs down today . and
nttded industrial output tomo rrow.
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S,OlTS, NATIONAL AMO WORLD NEWS -
COURTESY OF WAYS AHO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL, IV, NO, 190
October 2.2., 1958
For food to nourish our bodies, to Thee we are truly grateful,

also the very Bread of Life, Amen
WELCOME MAT IS OUT
We extend a warm welcome to
Mr. W, Brainard of KearneyTrecker Co., and W, D. Ferron
and J, C. Nettesheim both of
C &t ID Sales, Milwaukee office,
All three gentlemen are here to
discuss additional details on controls we are building for the
Milwaukee-matic.
GATE PASS REQUIRED FOR
REMOVAL OF WOOD FROM
PROPERTY
Wood lying on plant property or
piled up near the back end of
Building H5 is not to be removed
without first obtaining permission and a gate pass from the
Supervisor of Maintenance. Unaut horized removal of wood or
other material from Department
property is a serious violation of
Department rules.
Pride is the stone over which

many people stumble.
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homas puts the symbol

into action.
BARGAIN DAY IN MAINTENANCE
A number of surplus zinc-plated
wrenches left over from some
W.W. 11 jobs are available in the
Maintenance shop on a first
come, first served basis, Assort
ed sizes -- price 10~ each.
HIGH TOLL
Somebody with a sharp pencil at
the Federal Bureau of Public
Roads has figured that last year
traffic accidents cost the nation
$7, 255, 600, 000, This makes an
average of somewhat less than
$20 million a day, or more precisely about $13, 800 a minute,
... tlt1ee
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IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
If you can accept every loss as a
gain, you're either a philosopher

or dieting.
... ;ile
SAFETY SCORE
1, 461 days
7, 627, 485 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Be unto us
OPERATION UPTURN
ST AR TS RIGHT IN YOUR OWN
BACKYARD' '
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Operation Upturn starts right in

your own backyard, says Application Engineer Dick Thomas of
Marketing,and to prove it he'' s
helped to clinch a couple of important Specialty Control sales
right here in Waynesboro. For
example, working with Thomas
R; White, Sales Engineer at o ur
Roanoke Apparatus Sales O ffice,
Dick has helped in the sale of
six 15 hp PAR-matic adjustable
speed drives to Dawbarn Bros,
These drives which are being
built now will be delivered late
this Fall and there are good
chances that orders for more
may follow later.
Operation Upturn got a boost at
the local DuPont plant, too, when
Dick Thomas and Tom White sold
eight half-wave Thymotrol drives
for one of the plant's prototype
operations. Here again, if the
drives work out as well as anticipated, there is a good growth
potential for this job, A prototype order from the N &t W Railroad for a "hot journal detector"
also holds promise of a substantial market for this kind of
produc t after it is developed by
Engineering,
Yes, Operation Upturn begins
right in our own backyard. And
to carry it one step further -- it
begins with each of us and that
little extra effort we give our
jobs.
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EVERY ADDITION TO INCOME

NOT SUPPORTED BY TRUE VALUE
FEEDS THE INFLATION BEAST,
IT BITES THE HAND THAT FEEDS IT.
THROUGH THE SAVINGS AND SECURITY PROGRAM
WE HELP OUR COUNTRY CONTROL INFLATION
AND WE HELP OURSELVES BESIDES.
GENERAL
fl ELECTRIC
'S NEWS

0 God, our Father, who giveth food for the body and truth for the soul, so
n ourish us as to be wise and strong to do Thy wi ll. A me n.
WHEN IS A YEN
LESS THAN A YEN?
Give a man more wages - - he can
buy more.
This is one of the most common
of all the economic misconcep tions.
For example, ,during one disastrous inflation in China, work ers needed a wheelbarrow to
take home their week ly wages.
" the re was a time when just
Ci pocketful of yen was a lot of
m o ney -- not to mention a wheelbarrow full. When the Chinese
worker pushed his wheelba rrow
full of yen he could see and fe el
that he had a lot of money. He
thought all that money should enable him to buy more.
But the fa~t was that inflation had
sent c osts spiraling, too, and it
t ook near l y his whole wheel.b arrow of yen to buy a singl e
l oaf of bread . Hi s r e al wage s
hadn't improve d at ~th e y just
looked as though the y had. More
y e n (or dollars for that matter )
do not in the mselves mean one
can buy mor e.
So the ne x t time you hear politicians or irresponsible union
leade rs s hout "more and mor e
money for less and less work"
r-\ember, even i f you get paid
l . ,he whee l barrowful -- i t's not
h ow muc h yen the Chinese got - b u t what the ir money would buy
that counted .
REPORT ALL ACCIDENTS I

This past weeke nd the office
p artition ou tside l<.oom 18 was
appar e ntly rammed by a batte ry
truck and the damage was not re ported. Employeo:::s are remi nd e d that a ll such serious property
damage should be reported at
onc e .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 462 days
7, 636, 912 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
BLESSED
EVENTS
Hey You
Hallo ween Cats
Get Your Spookllllliiil~I
D~nc e Tickets
/"
The SCOGEE Spook Dance will b e
held tomorrow night at the
Waynesboro Moose Lodge h all o n
Bayard Street and as usual i t
looks like it will be a lively shindig . The Mefodiers (featuring
o u r own Charlie Minter ) will b e
pounding out the b eat for a ll y ou
Spooks and Spookesses a nd an
a ppropriate atmosph ere will b e
set by the decorations commi ttee.
It' s Hallowi::en time -- a festive
time for kids and adults a like - so get your tickets today and
come to the SCOGEE Spook Dance
tomorrow night.
SINCERE APPRECIATION
Tom Whe eler (Eng , ) has been

proudly passing o u t cigars a nd
candy in ho nor of the bi rth of hi s
s ec ond little 7-1/2 lb . h e art br e ake r, Sa ndra Lee . Tom and
his wife Georgena have another
13 months old daughte r, Debra
Carroll.
Lou Parr (Aircraft Assembl y)

wis h es to express her sinc ere
a ppr eciation for the bouque t s
and thoughtful condolen ces that
were sent by fellow employees to
her and her family last week
after her father passed away.
Vinton Cook (Eng.) is the proud

dad of a young 7 lb. 9 - 1/2 oz.
h e a vy wei g ht, Vinton Martin, Jr.
Vinton and his wife M a ry June
have a daughter Mary J acque li ne,
age 9.
Some p e ople are no good at

c ounting c alories and they have
the figures to prove it,
"He can't be d i,1u1bed now - hes in conference.

Would you co1 o to leave your no me ?"
SAFETY
IS BETTER THAN COMPENSATION . /
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NEWS

SPOllTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYa AND HEWS VlllGIHIAH
VOL. IV, NO. 192
October 24, 1958
Lord, Thou dost not need our thanks, but we have constant need to remind
ourselves of our obligations to Thee. Make us truly grateful. Amen.
G.E. PRES PAXTON, SEV,ERAL V1P's

H:ERE FOR BUS. REV'W. OC:T:. 310
The Industrial Electronic s Division business review will be hnld here
next wee k,with General Manager s and Section Managers of each of the
Division's five Departme nts revi e wing their respectiv:e Department 1 s
business position and discussing business plans for the future.
Approximately fifty Company
executives are expected to be on
hand for the business revie w
A resentations Thursday, October
J, among them b e ing G. E.
President Mr. Robert Paxton,
V. P. and Electronics, Atomic
and Defense Systems Group
Executive Cramer W. LaPie rre,
Division General Manager
Harold A. Strickland, Jr., and
several other Vice Presidents
and Officers of th e Company.
Besides Specialty Contro l other
Departments making pres e nta. tions are X-Ray Departme nt
(Milwaukee) , Communications
Products Dept. (S yracus e ),
Technical Products Dept.
(Syracuse), and Compute r Dept.
(Phoenix).
First arrival s are expected

Tuesday afternoon and G. E ,
Company executiv_es, including
President Paxton, will arrive
late W e dnesday, October 29. Besides the formal business revie w
sessions in the plant auditorium,
our visitors will be escorted on
factory fours and will see produc
di splays and demonstrations of
some of our manufacturing equipment.
This is by far the largest and
most important single group of
Company executives ever to visit
our plant. Let's do everything
we can to assur~ that they leave
Specialty with the best possible
impr es sion of our plant, our
produ c ts and our people.
SPOOK DANCE TICKETS
GOING FAST
Looks like the SCOGEE Spook
Danc e tonight will be a sellout,
but there may still be a few Spoo
tickets floating around. Contact your "Spook" salesman if
you'd like to get in on the fun.
"Sometimes I wonder what goes on in

this office when we turn our back !"
To those who talk and talk, this

adage doth appeal!"' The steam
that blows the whi~tle will never
turn a whee l.
SPECIALTY CONTROLLERS
GIVE $12, 401 TO UNITED FUND
DRIVE
Specialty Controllers piled up
their best Community Fund
record to date in per-capita giving as the Department's UCF
drive came to an end this w,eek.
Our employee contribution
average fo r the 1958-59 drive
was $12. 46 against an employee
average last year of $12. 33 .
Percent of participation was
down slightly this year; 94. 5%
against 95. 5% las.t year.
A drop in the number of our
employees since last year's
campaign cut into our tot.al
dollar contribution this year .
Total cont ributed by Specialty
Control employees (including the
Department contribution) was
$12, 40 1; about $600 under last
year' s figure.
Every employee who participated
in the UCF drive either as a .
contributor or a solicitor has
earned a pat on the back and the
gratitude of our community.
COMPANY ' S COMING !

In preparation for the Business
R eview visitors next week, there
will be a general plant clean-up
on Tuesday, October 28. Let's
get the plant sparkling for our
guests .
U.NITED
COMMUNITY
M~T:S ,OFF T;O THESE 100% AREAS

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Area
Engineering Administration
General Accounting
Superv1Uor"
J. R. Devoy
W. A. Copley
Cost Ac c ollnting
Procedures
Employee & Comm. Relations
Engineering Lab
Sheet Metal
Ma~hin.e Room
Jeep Area
Purchasing
Shipping
A & M Production
R. J. Depa
J. R. McEckron
H. W. ~ulloch
W. W. Walker
A. E. Groat
R. Br~ughman
C. Quid! .
C . W. Gerni
J. Archai:hbeault
L. Simoftetta and
J. W. Rannie
c. Hughe1s and G. Bradt
Eiec. Production
St6clfroom
Coil & Transformers (day shift)
Eiectronic Test
Incoming Inspection
Hermetic Relays
G300 Relays
Manufacturing-Engineering
Plating
Design Enginee ring
Electronic Small Panels
A&M Service A$sembly
Program Control-Final Asay.
Program Control Engineering
GOOD
JOB
w.
Hump~reys
D. M. H 8use
J. Hoylrnan & P. Moran
J. Davis
J. Brunetto
F. E. Gelsleichter
R. H. Schmitt
L. T. Cholewa
C. Hyde
I
B. W. Erikson
H. Crummett
H. W. Lonas
W W. W o la ni n
L. L. Holmes
THANKS!
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Solicitor

bukie Gum . " :, :
Anne 'Coffey . ~n~L
Virginia Miller ,\i
Anne Coffey , '
Evelyn Irvin ,
W. R, Perry
Ann Shifflett
Paul Wright
Ruth Madison
Inez 0 1 Baugh
Art Dorman
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. Davie Kern .
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Mabel
ciaytor_
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Shirley Beard
Fay Cook
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Kay Boeser.m an' '~
William Hammer ~
Helen Crawford
Stella Sorrels :.
Wanda Morris
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D. F. McKechnie
Gracie Layne
Ruth Madison
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Audrey Miller
Edith Gilbert
Nelle Sharpe
Mary Wright
Shirley Wagner
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$,ORTS, NATIONAL AND WOllLD N!WS - COUllTESY Of WAY8 AND N!WS VlllOIHIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 193
October 27, 1958
Our F'a tht>. r, we thank Th ee t ci r this food , and for all oth er express i ons of
Thy goodness to us. Guide us and protect us , in Jesu s ' name. Amen
MAYBE YOU CAN GET A HEAD

S TART TODAY I
Just a r e minder that you might
get a h earl start today in clean up
preparations for onr visitors.
Tomorrow i s c l ean-up day and a
plant inspection wi 11 b e made
tomorro w eve ning . Let' s get
SpPciillty in "app l e pie order."
VISITORS FROM BOEING TODAY

Visiting Specialty Control today
from the Boeing Airplane Co.
are M ess r s . J. Falcioni, H.
Rothchild, J . Morganti, J.
Restrom and J . Groh. During
their visit they will observe
demonstrations of the Wiedemann a nd Bur g master machines.
AROUND THE PLANT
NO RISE INDICATED IN
.....$ . COST-OF-LlVING REPORT
There wi ll be no c ost-of-li ving
adjustments fo.r hour l y rated or
non -exempt employees based on
the latest quarterly Index report
issued by the :; overnme nt's Bureau
of Labor Statistics , which shows
the Cost-of-Living Index remain ing at 123. 7, the same as for the
b eg inning of the quarter.
Friends may wish ' to send" get

well cards" to Gracie Layne
(Reg. ) who is in the Waynesboro
Community Hospital.
Weldon "Holly" Holsinger

, (Quality Audit) has some advance
tickets for the Staunton Lions 1
Minstrel Show November 10 and 11
at Lee High School Auditorium in
Staunton. All proceeds go to the
Lions Sight C o nservation ProUnder the General Electric Better gram - - so get your duce ts now I
Living Program, wh en the
government 1 s Cost-of-Li vi ng I nde:x
changes a full one half of one
percent, employees receive a cost
cost -of-living c hange of one half
of one percent for every full half
a percent change either up or
down.
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APOLOGIES
,.iolo gies to solicitor George

Rash and Relay Test area, who
were inadvertentl y left off our
Community Fund 100% list.
"It isn't that I obied to ....,ployffl brightening
their desks with a plnnt, Miu Foley . ... :
TWENTY SUGGESTION AW ARDS

MADE FOR THE MONTH OF
OCTOBER
Suggestion Awards have .been
distributed to twenty alert employee~ who found improved ways
to do our jobs and turned them in
as suggestions .
Top award this month went to
Pauline Bradley (Micr0-Min.)
who re ce i ved $40 for suggesting
that a two-way tool be made with
a moveable c ontact tool at one
end and an actuator tool at the
other end. Several s uggestion
winners this month have been
recipients of Suggestion Awards
in the past, while some are
"hitting the jackpot" for the first
time this month .
October suggestion winners include: Violet Gochenour (Air craft). Carl Collins (Aircraft),
Adrian Shifflett (Micro-Min.),
Ruby Coffey (Aircraft), Mary Lee
Barker (A & M), G eorge H.
Sheffer (Tool Room), John Moren
(Sv c . Eng.), .E llen Via( Contours),
Richard Brinkley (Quality Control), H. B. Knox (Plating ),
Melvin Harris (Sheet Metal),
Jearl W. Wade (Sheet Metal),
Hattie Massie (Air craft), H. C.
Simmons (Tube Cage), Harry L.
Grooms (Maint. ), James W.
Truslow (Maint. ), Janis C
Moyer (Aircraft), Myrtle Whitwo rth (Dispatch Cage) and David
E. Grove (Wir e Harness ).
Good Old Days?

Every now and then some of u~ get a little nostalgic for
the "good old days," yesteryear when grandpop was a boy,
a schooner of beer was five cents and life was far, far less
complicated.
One reason why life was so much less complicated then
was that people had to .spend more .time at work and hence
had less free time for complications. For example, here's a
set of rules which were in existence for employees of the Mt.
Cory Carriage & Wagon Works during the 1800's, rules which
surely kept the help out of extra-curricular trouble:
1. Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the
furniture, shelves and showcases.
2. ~ach day fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks.
Wash the windows once a week.
3. Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle
of coal for the day's business.
4. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nubs to your
individual taste.
5. This office will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. daily,
except on the SaQbath, on which day it will remain closed.
'Men employees will be given an evening off each week for
courting purposes, or two .e.venings a week if they go regularly to .church.
7. Every employee should lay aside from each pay day a
goodly sum of his earnings for benefits during his declining
years, so that he will not become a burden upon the charity
of his betters.
8. Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor
in any form, gets shaved at a barber shop, or frequents pool
or public halls, will give me a good reason to suspect his
worth, intentions, integrity, and honesty.
9. The employee who has performed his labors faithfully
and without faults for a period of five years in my service,
and who has been thrifty and attentive to his religious duties,
is looked upon by his fellowmen as a substantial and law abiding citizen, will be given an increase of five cents pe.r: day in
his pay, providing a just return in profits from the business
permits it.
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Sl'ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD N!WS -
COURTESY Of WAYS AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. JV , 1'10, 191
1: .,r food to n o urish our bodies, ta Thee we are truly grateful,

V (' ry Bread o f Life.
Amen.
October 28, 1958

B e unto us a ls o the
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PLANT CLEAN -UP

SCHEDULED FOR TODAY
Let 1s gPt out t he dll st cloths and
poli s h , ;i.usC' t o day is clean -u p
day al Specia lty. Every area of
the plant w ill wa nt t o sparkle
when our guests arrive for the
Division Business Review. Mo st
folk s who visit our Department
remark on the neat a nd c lean
appearrtnce that exis ts both in
our factory and our offices.
L e t's a 11 do .:in extra specia l job
housekeep ing today so that
. . r. Paxton and the other Company officers visiting here, will
see us ai. our 'very best.
STOCK BONUS DUE SOON ON

1953 SAVINGS BONDS
Within the n ext few days each
General Electric Savings and
Stock Bonu s Plan par ticipant
who purchased Savings Bonds
under th e Plan in 1953 and left
them on deposit w ith the Company will re ce ive a notice informing him of the e nd of the holding
pe riod for 1953 bonds -- January
l , 1959. All participants who
have left 1953 Sa vings Bond
purchases under the Plan on d e posit, and who leave them !:here
until January 1, wi ll qualify to
receive the 15 percent stock
,b.Q,nus available under the Plan.
NO LINK BETWEEN
RETIREMENT AND LOSS OF
HEALTH
Two scienti s t s a.t Cornell Unive r s ity ha ve just completed a
six year study of l, 260 e lderly
people, both before and af ter
their retit-erncnt from active
life, to see if there is any basi s
in fact for the popular opinion
that one 1 s heal th begins to decline shortly after reaching the
retirement age. The study says
no. As a maltt!r of fact, some of
th e gro up ~ctua lly impro v ed in
health. The r e port concludes
with these words, "Overall, our
interpr e tation of the impact of
retirement is that, compared
with gainful employment, retire ment has no significant effect on
hea lth. 11
OPERATION UPTURN AT
THE TOP OF' THE TOWER
FIRST PARTICIPANTS ARRIVING

FOR BUSINESS REVI EW SESSION
Participants in the Induatrial
Electronics Division Business
Review will begin arriving in
Waynesboro thiA afternoon in
order to attenrl preliminary r e view .r . !;ions tomorrow. Amon g
th e c ;lrly arrivals will be representatives of the X-Ray Departm ent, Milwaukee; Communication
Products Department, Sy racuse;
Technical Produ c ts Department,
Syracuse; and th e Computer
Department, Phoenix, Arizona.
In pr e paration for the plant
tours schedul ed for Thursday,
several exhibits demonstrating
our products and equipment are
being s e t up in various parts of
the factory. No formal lunch eon
arrangements have bee n _set up
in the cafeter ia for tomorrow,
but. special arrangements will b e
made for lunc h in the Auto-Snak
on Thur sday.
High in the estee m of Specialty

Controller s , Operation Upturn
L et ' s do whatever w e can to
now has a top position in the
nlake our visito rs feel at homt .
Department - - a t the top of the
water tower. The Upturn arrow, .
silho uetted du ring the day,
lights up a brilliant r ed at night.
Many thanks to the maintenance
crew for an excellent job.
SAFETY SCORE -
--'9
1, 467 days
7, 665, 184 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
AC CI DE: NT
don't
be
taken for a
NOT TOO MA NY YE ARS AGO, a irplane pilot.<; made

money by hopping from ait1>ort t o a irport, cha rging 11p
to $5 fo r a half-hour " ride in t he sky." l t was q11 ile an
experience for us to take the 30-min11te flight, then rcport to our friends the thrill of ou r first a irplane r ide.
Like all fads, however, t he novelty wore off. /\. mere
half-hour pla ne r ide with no meaningfu l p11rposc "as
little mor e tha n an expensive and dangerous thl'ill.
Today, the a irplane has come a long way. Most people
no longer climb aboard a plane "just to be taken for a
ride." They take the plane for a purpose ... with a drfinite destination in mind.
:Some political issues and promises are about as meaningless a nd as expensive and dange r ous ly thrilling as " a
ride in t he sky" years ago. All of us are sophisticated
enough to realize that "ri<lr in lhe sky" promises a re
made prim to Elect ion nay primarily for t he purpose of
rc('eiving votes fr om tho11ghtlcss citizens.
It isn't enough t hese days lo merely cast a ballot out
of a sense of duty. All of us must understand the candidates, the issues, and \\here they will leacl us.
Casting your vote without being informed can be just

as dangerous ancl cxpensi\p as taking those plane rides
~ca rs ago. Let's know t he facts. Let's set our course.
Then ,ote on No,ember .1,
GE NERALf~ ELECTRIC
'S NEWS

VO L , I V, N O . 19 5
COURTESY Of WAY& AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
O c tob e r 2 9 , 1958
H e lp us to reme mber , L ord, that we are alway s depe n d e nt upon Thee , and
help us a l w a y s to rece i ve T hy mercies with t hankfulness. A me n.
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ALL IN READINESS FOR BUS. REVIEW

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ARRIVE TODAY~
Most of t he Ge ne r al E lec t ric Executi ve O ff i cers will
arr i ve in Waynes b or o today to attend the Indus t rial
Electr o ni c s Di vis ion B u sine s s R e vi ew, which will be
held h e re a t Sp ecia lty C ontrol a ll day tomo r row .
Among the C o mpany E xe cutiv e O ffi c er s exp ec t e d to
a t tend the B us i nes s Re vi ew ar e Ro be r t Pax ton,
P r e s i dent; Cramer W . L a Pierre , V i c e-Pr e s. a nd
G roup E xe cutive Electr o ni c s , A to mic & Defe nse
ys tems G r o up ; J ames H . Goss , V ic e -P res . and
Gro up Executi ve C o nsumer P roducts G r o up ; Ar thur
F. V i n s o n, V i ce - Pr e s . and Gr oup E xecuti ve Appar .
a t us a n d I ndustria l Gr oup; G e r ald L. Phi llip p e,
C o mp tr o ller ; Ha rold F. Smi d d y , Vice - Pr es i dent
M anagement Consultatio n Se r vices ; Hal be r t B,
Mille r, Vice -P r e s i d ent M a nufacturing S e r vi c e s;
F r e d J. Ber c h, V i ce - Pr es i d e n t M a r ketin g Servi ces ;
J oh n D . L ockton , T rea s ure r ; Samu e l Little john,
R e g i o nal Vi c e -P r e s i de n t - Eas t C e ntral R e gion.
P a rti c i pating al s o wi ll b e H a rold A . Str i ckland , J r . , C. W. LaPierre,
VP & Group Exec .
Divi s i on G ener a l M a na g e r .
De partments partic ipating in the
Busi ness R e vie w a re X - Ray D e pt . .,
G e n e ral M anag e r L . R . Fink;
Compute r D e pt. , G e n e r a l M g r.
C . C . Las her ; T e chni c a l P r odu c ts
D e p t. , G ene r a l M anager W . J.
Morlock; Comm u ni c a tio n P r o du c ts
D e pt., G e n e ra l M a n ager H . V a n
Ake n , and Sp ecialty C ontrol D ept.,
Gene ra l Ma n ager L. T . Ra de r.
A numb e r o f Section Manage r s a nd
S e r vi c e s r e pre sen tatives w ill a l s o
The Busin e ss Rev i e w , w hi c h w ill

b e he l d i n the p l a n t a u dit o rium ,
is s ch eduled to b egin at 8 A M .
L unc h e on w ill b e a t 12 : 20 i n the
c a feteri a fo llowed by a plant to u r
at 12 : 50. T he m ee ti n g will
re s u m e at 1: 30 and c o n tinu e
t h rou g h t h e r es t o f the afte r noon.
M o st o f the vi s i to r s wi ll be l e a v ing Thur sday e vening althou g h a
few ar e exp ect e d to s tay o n unti l
F riday.
I N T E LLIGENT V OTING IS
KE Y TO GOOD GOV ER N ME NT
Voting d a y i s only one w e e k away
a n d g o o d ci ti zens have a lready de c ided t o ge t out a nd cast th e ir
b allo t s . Bu t the s e days j u st get ing o u t to v ote i s n ot eno ugh .
W he t h e r y ou a re voti ng to fill a
nationa l political o ffic e or o n a p u re ly local is s ue like the Augus ta
Count y S choo l B o n d R efe rendum,
investi gate t he facts a nd le a r n a ll
you c an ab out t he i ssues . Then
y ou can make an intelli g ent c h o i c e
at t he po ll s .
G ood c i tize ns tr y to get o ut and
vot e . I nfo rme d c i ti z ens t r y to g e t
out a n d vote - - w i sely.
GIR L S 1 B ASKETBA L L P LANS
TO B E DISCUSSED
A m ee t i ng will be held i n t he c afe te r ia tom o rr ow a t 7: 30 PM to di s c us s g i r l s 1 b as k etball p lans for
this se ason. All girl s i n t e r es ted
a r e invited. If y ou canno t a t tend
but wish to play , contac t Char l o tte
Barn es (Ai r c r aft As sy.) or Joan
C rai g ( Ta b ulati ng ).
~t te nd.
The b i gges t t r o u ble w i th m o dern

m a rriage is th e fa c t t ha t to o
ma n y o f the pe o ple w ho s a y " I
D o ," ---- d on't!
SAFE T Y SC ORE
1, 4 68 d ays
7, 674, 6 02 h o ur s
W I THOUT A LOST T I ME
A CCIDEN T
" You' re lucky - he 's a hard man to see !"
BILL PERRY SAYS:
Automati c Saucepan
ftu111 Y1"t
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~pitied
REGULAR
STORE HOURS
MONDAYS
and
THURSDAYS
1: 15 PM
11:15 AM
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
(Ho we ver, this Thursday, October 30, the

Emp loyee Store will not be open. It will be open
Friday. October 31, instead.)
SPECIAL FRIDAY SALE FEATURE
Employee Store will be open FRIDAY for this sale
only (Regular Store Hours).
Us e d Salvage Blankets
$2. 00 ea.
Glow Lamps
$ . 25 ea.
Dacron Thread
$ 50 ea. spool
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NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROl. EMPLOYEES

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYB AND NEWS VllGINIAN
Special Business Review Edition
October 29, 1958
TOMORROW'S SC HE DU LE
Breakfast
6:45 AM
WE LCOME TO WAYNESBORO
Hotel Banquet Room
Fa c tory Tour
8:0 0 AM
Business Review
9:00 AM Plant Auditorium
Coffee Break
10: 35 AM Payroll Office
Lunch
1: 20 PM
Plant Cafeteria
iness Revi ew
2: 30 PM Plant Auditorium
All of us at Specialty Control are glad to welcome you

to Waynesboro and the Shenandoah Valley.
Although the profusion of red, green and gol d in our
Fall foliage hereabouts has l ost most of its brilliance,
we t hink you will agree with us that the Virginia
countryside and our famous B l ue Ridge are as pretty
(if not prettier) than any others you may have seen in
your tra11els.
We hop ~ your trip to Waynesboro was a p l easant one and that you will
enjoy yo.ir visit at Specialty Control Department.
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Louis T . Rader .
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WAYNESBORO HAS DIVERSIFIED

INDUSTRIES-WELL BALANCED
HISTORY DIDN'T PASS WAYNESBORO BY
ECONOMY
As you read this , in the General Wayne Hotel, you are on the western
Waynes bor o ha s a firm economy,
lip of the shallow valley through which the South River winds its way
well balanced by several diver northward to meet th e Shenandoah. East of you, the B l ue Ridge
s ified industries. In the years
t hrusts gent ly upward into a Virginia autumn sky. On clear days the
following the War Between the
mountain tops seem to be a deep blue . It was this whi ch l e d t he early
States, this was the center of a
colonists to call this mountain wall first, the Blue Mountains , ana
small agricultural comm unity .
later , the Blue Ridge .
I t was famous orchard country
a n d the r emnants of its apple
Named in honor of "Mad Anthony Wayne" who captu red the affecti on
industry are still vis ibl e in the
of youn g Ameri ca during the American Revolution, Waynesboro l i es
surrounding countryside. By the
at the foot of one of the easier graded passes which trave r ses the
second decade of this century, it
Blue Ridge. Situated at the eastern edge of the broad a llu vial
had begun its industrial era. In
Shenafldoah Plain, the altitude here is a comfortable 1300 feet. To
the late nineteen twenties, it
the west, the Alle ghany Mountains rise higher than the B l ue Ridge,
combined with a small m~ni c ipal
and the well -watered ferti l e p l a in betwe en was the granary for the
ity called Basic City and located
American Revo lution and the breadbasket of the Confederacy. It was
on the east side of th e river which
here tha t yo ung Cyrus McCormick schemed and sweated to evol ve the
you cross when coming to the
reaper and binder, and it was here also that General Sheridan l aid
plant. Soon it began to a tt ract
waste to the Valley so that the Confederacy might more quickly be
outside industries. An abundance
brought to its knees .
of underground water which ap peared as sp ri ngs throughout the
1nesboro s h ares the common heritage of all o ur Valley comarea l ed the E. I. DuPont de
munities. It knew the s huffling tr ead of J ackson ' s Army as he marchNemours Co. to build a plant here
ed them no r th to Manassas and hi story. Late r the same men -- now
and become the lar g est employer
battle-toughened veterans -- swung down Main Street in 1862 on their
of l ocal labor.
Cr o mptonway to the "Se ven Day" battle for Richmond. In l?te 1864, this area
Shenandoah Mills operate one of
(Continued other side)
(Continued othe r s ide )
HISTORY (Cont. from other side')
Waynesboro Industries , , (Cont.

from other side)
was the last wartime encampment. of the Valley Army. On the heights I the two remaining plants in
west of the present city limits, General Early tried desperately to
America that manufactures velregroup the shattered remnants which had escaped from the disveteen. Basic -Witz, a fine
astrous defeat by Sheridan at Cedar Creek but Sheridan, following
furniture manufacturer, Dawba1
swiftly down the Valley, struck them and sent them reeling into the
Brothers who make woven plastic
town in flight toward the river, At Waynesboro, the Valley Army
fabrics, Berol Pen Co, (which
died and the town witnessed the end of an era, when General Lee
actually manufacturers pencils),
rode west through the city on his way to take over the presidency of
and the Klann Organ Company,
Washington University at Lexington.
are only a few of the major
industries located in Waynesboro.
One other, Virginia Metalcrafters
who make Williamsburg reproductions in cast metal, also build
a fine line of stoves which, even
in this era of Weathe rtrons, sell
very well in the rural north of the
/
U.S. and Canada. A total of
-THE OLD lSOMIN ION thirty industrie s have found the
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business climate of Waynesboro
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attractive and profitable, and
their combined payrolls have so
stimulate d this once sleepy rural
I
town that it has become one of the
I WAYN~'5BORO
fast e st growing cities in Virginia.
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RICHMOND
LYNC1-18URG
ROANOKE.
"Please, dea1. He p1obably wont be handing out

the Christmas bonu for a couple of days yet'
Manassas (Bull Run to Yankees). Scene of Jackson's famous goal-line stand in 1861.
In 1862, with Longstreet hitting the line and Hill running the e nds, L e e finish e d off
John Pope as a Federal Army Commande r.
The Shenandoah Valley. Here Jackson developed the hidden ball and end-around
plays to confuse a succession of Federal Commanders.
The Frederic~sbur g-Cha nee llorsville -Wilderness -Spotsylvania Battlefield area.
Encounters featuring mo s tly sturdy line play. Jackson's long run from the single
wing at Chancellorsville finished Joe Hooker.
The Seven Day's Battle for Richmond. Lee c ame off the bench to replace Johnston
and quaterbacked a brilliant repulse of McClellan.
m
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Petersburg. New Federal quaterback, Grant tried to move throug h the line. Sheridan
ran outside with considerable success. Federals won the game in the closing minutes.
Appomatox. Proposed changes in rules denied.
from coaching.
An important industrial site .
Rule book rewritten.
Lee retired
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NEWS

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_yOL~ N0~'--1~96~~--~~~~~~~W_A_Y_N_Es_s_o_R_o_,_v_1R_G_IN~IA~~~~~~~~~~---=O~c~t~o~b~e~r~3~0~---=l
FA. \
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For all the spiritual and temporal

we thank Thee. Amen.
BUSINESS REVIEW MEETING

UNDERWAY
bles ~Jngs
Thou art giving us, Dear God,
:N&W ORDER IS REAL "UPTURN" ST1
The Industrial Electronics

Division Business Review meeting got underway this morning,
beginning with a tour of our
factory area at 8 AM. The
Business Review presentations in
t he auditorium followed the tour
portion of the program and will
'continue throughout the day.
' Luncheon is scheduled for l PM
in the cafeteria.
The N&W Railway and several other rai l r oads have for years b
plagued with the problem of overheated "journal boxes 11 on trai1
which were responsible for millions of dollars in train acciden1
losses. Th ey had two competitive devices that were designed t
tect these "hot boxes", but th ey were not always dependable am
quired lots of maintenance.
That 1 s when our Marketing organization came on the scene. L1
ing of the problem and convinced we had the know-how at Speci;
to solve it, Paul Kornek e (Marketing ) and Apparatus Sales Engi
William Jones visited N&:W at Roanoke.
CON-FA-VAR WAS A
MEMORABLE SALUTE TO
~,~OPERATION UPTURN HERE
i
'F~
who saw it are still talking

about CON-FA - VAR, the highly
;isuccessful Operation Upturn
show staged by SCOGEE and the
-Choraliers. More than one
h~ndre d employees participated
in the presentation, and about onei
i.thousand people came to see the 5
show. A succes"s any way you
measure it - - CON-FA-VAR was ~
, a memorable salute to Specialty ,
Control's Operation Upturn pro gram. See the picture story on
lthe inside pages of TODAY'S
'' NEWS,
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Although we had never made a

single "hot journal detector" and
didn 1 t even have a product, N&W
became interested in our proposa
and visited Spe c ialty Control.
Here, th e N&W engineers dis cussed the pr oblem with our
engineering people. Then, the
N&W people toured our lab and
factory. So impress e d were they
with our engineering approach,
our facilities and our factory em- ,
ployees, that on the strength of
what they had seen here alone,
N&W confidently placed a $25, 000
prototype order with us to develop
a "hot box" detector that wou ld
really work. We expect to sell
four more detectors to N&W after
we develop the prototyp e . We
ha ve received inquiries from
SAFETY SCORE
1, 469 days
7, 684, 020 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
o ther railroads which indic .

about $2, 000, 000 worth of <
able business next year alo
The new device will tie -in <
curre nt equipment built by
C ommunication Products I
at Lynchburg .
A real Operation Upturn stc
cooperative efforts and the
bined impression made by<
Marketing, Engin ee ring anc
Manufa c turing te am have pl
us squar e ly in a multi-mill
dollar market that will mea
sales and better job securi1
all of us in Specialty.
ELEGANT were
Masters of Ceremonies Dave
Coughtry and
"Tiny" Schneider.
SWEET MUSIC set the tone for CON-FA-VAR

and the Choraliers hit every note on the
button. (1-r) First row -- Jane Fitzgerald.
Ruby Dic k e rs on, Gwen Black, Esther Maloney.
Rose B e l ak, Dot Foss, Evelyn Irvin and Doris '
McLear. Second row -- Nancy Simmons,
Jean Howard, Ann Morrison, Rosemary
Howard, Mary June Harper, Jean Gum, Dukie
Gum and Joyce Taylor. Third row -- Don
Trohaugh, Jo e Belak, Carter Swann. Al Foss.
LowP-11 B;:ishlor . H::arnlrl H::a.,.., .. ,, rl..<> ... 1 .....
by the Choralier s to the

st returned to sing the
-FA-VAR, the Operation
~ \_,"':-ence. Billed as a
::me _ .;. CON-FA- VAR was
lce favorites varied, but
aw the show praised it
rnesboro area folk saw the

tric' s Operation Upturn
.ons are due General
;tant General Chairman
3ponsibility for the show.
: GE wives, Mrs. Bill
j Mrs. Al Foss, also de -
ention of everyone that

an Sunny Miller took these
highlights.
na.in ~ose.t
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r western ski
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rd 'center) in cleve 'left) gets the
Howa
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si mmons , Th t 1 s
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11 Nancy
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furs an d all.
p
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with t e
,i Emily Ours
l ng'' Esther
a f>.-1'
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V1
was Ralph Cole who did much of the staging

and lighting for CON-FA-VAR. Other ansung heroes included Brinl~y Gyorko. DDD .,
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WORKING TOGDHER 10 lllGHT
THE FIRES OF INFLATION

Building jobs this year through building customer confidence to buy now
and making these jobs better than ever are the twin objectives of
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Operation Upturn and the Savings and Security Program. These two programs
briag extra values in our products and extra values la our pay
without exerting any unexpected pressure on costs and prices.
Better products for customers, greater security for employees, o.nd
untold benefit to the nation are resulting from
General Electric's pioneering efforts to slow
the inflationary rate of advance from a leap to a creep.
GENERAL. ELECTRIC
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NEWS

S'ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OP WAYI AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 197
October 31, 1958
For our .health, and for our food, we are indeed grateful, 0 Lord.
with us in all that we do and say. In Jesus' name. Amen.
POLICIES, PRACTICES,
SUBJECT OF FINANCE
MEETING TODAY
WINS BET BUT LOSES LIFE

Fast drinking won Andre Poultier
a b e t but cost him hie life,
Poultier, a drill operator in
Rouen, France, bet friends he
could .drink 39 glasses of wine in
10 minutes. He did, then fell
dead.
Our FiQance Section Managers

will meet today with Mr. G. L.
Phillippe, Comptroller of General
Electric, and Finance Managers
fro m some of the other Departments in the Industrial Electronics
Division to d.iscues general
financial policies and practices.
OUT OF CONTROL
Be
~-...:WITCHING TIME
-......-...::........__j"- DRAWS NEAR
spooks and goblins will

roam the streets this Halloween
night between the supper hour and
children's bedtime. Up to mischief, the small-fry will be giving you your choice of a trick or
treat, so if you haven't done it
already~ we recommend that you
hurry on down to the can dy store
~ddition
to our Finance people

Mr. Phillippe, others attending the meeting will be Mr. K,
L. McCombs, Manager -Finance
of the Computer Department;
Mr. W. C. Gaygan, ManagerFinance, X-Ray Department;
and Mr. M. E. Minich, ManagerFinance, Technical Products
Dept.
KING & QUEEN SAY THANKS

We would like to say thanks for
the votes that were given us as
King and Quee n of Operation Upturn.
Thanks again.
Kenneth and Pat sy
Several of hie Specialty Control

friends will attend a bache lor' s
party tonight for Jim Torrenc e ,
formerly of Relay Sales. The
party which will be held at the
home of Carter Swann is in honor
of Jim 111 coming marriage this
Sunday.
Congratulations to John Van
Patten (Eng.) and his wife Laura
who are proud parents of a baby
boy, J o hn Edmond. Thi s makes
two for the Van Pattens , who also
have a three year old da ughter,
'ca thy.
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AUTO SALES INDICATE

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT
It has been said 1959 a uto sales
may have much to do with a ny

economic upswing . H ere 's the
fir st report. In the first 10 week-s
of the new model year, dealers
sold 37, 429 Buicks - - three times
as many as in the same period
last year.
Don't forget the sp e cial sa le today on salvage blankets, glow

lamps and Pacron thread. Regular store hours.
Vor#, :
f\lov,
arid stock up
SAFETY SCORE
1, 470 days
7, 693, 438 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
"I could hardly believe my ears when it fumed out
everything I'd been saying about her. was trvef"
Risk Capital Made Watt's Engine Work_

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The story of James Watt. Scottish inven-
Boulton put all his savings into develop-
tor of the modern steam engine, is well -
ing Watt's eng ir1e. hovering on the edge of
known to most people. But few can identify
bankruptcy for I 5 years. until the e ngine
Matthew Boulton. English manufact er, who
was a commercial success.
almost went broke in financiall y backing

the invention, before it began t o earn profits.
This is but one example of the part risk

investment of the savings of individuals has
played in shaping industrial growth and pr<?-
With his idea of a separate condenser,
gress. Risk capital do(;!s not come from gov-
Watt made the first rea lly practical engine
ernment, but from private c itizens willing
and thereby revolutionized the modern
to venture a part (sometimes all) of their
world. He patented his steam engine in
savings in a new idea. No free nation can
1769 but not until 1774, when he joined
prospe r for long without an adequate flow
with Matthew Boulton, was the idea turned
of private investment risked on new ideas
into a reality.
in industry.
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S,OllTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYP. AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 198
November 3. 1958
Dear Fathe r, accept the gratitude of our hearts for this food now before us,
and for all other blessings with which our Jives are d a ily bl esRe rl . In
Jesus 1 name. Amen .
BUSINESS REVIEW IS
PRONOUNCED A SUCCESS
Specialty Control cam e in for
some high praise from Division
General Manager Harold A.
Strickland at the close of the
Industrial Electronics Business
Re view. "Not only did Specialty
Control make exc ellent business
pr esentations at the m e eting,ri he
said, " but the men in char ge of
various arran geme nts for the
,..-..!ting did an outstanding job. 11
Ple ased with t~e smooth way the
meeting we n t off, Dr. Rader expressed hi~ appreciation to all
those who had a part in making
the Business Review Meeting a
success. "I was partic ularly
proud of the good appearance of
our plant. I want to express my
appreciation, too, t o those employees who were inco nvenienced
by the chan ge in the luncheon
schedule, 11 he said.
NEW GENERAL MANAGER AT
HENDERSONVILLE PLANT
J. Stanford Smith, former
Manager of Pub lic and Employee
Relations in New York city became General Manager of the
Outdoor Lighting Department in
Hendersonville, N. C. , on
,,-.rember l,
SAFETY SCORE
1 ,4 7 3 days
7, 702 , 856 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
A CCIDENT
J TLINERS WILL CARRY

SPECIALTY MADE CONTROLS
Swissair and SAS a irlin es,ac ting
through S wissair as purchasing
a ge nt, placed an initial order
earlier this month for five Inter contine ntal 880 Jet transports
from the Convair Division of
Gene ral Dynamics.
Specialty Control Department's
control equipment will be used
aboard the huge ai'rliners to control the plane 's electrical system will carry our controls.
Convair reports it now has order
for more than 60 Model 880 1 s.
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And it is planned t hat Spe cialty' s
well as b e tween the United States
controls will b e used on all of
and
Europe. The aircraft is
them.
powered by four General Electric
CJ -805 jet engines equipped with
Delivery of the airc raft will b e
silencflrs and reversers.
made in the fall of 1960, with
T he 880 has a cruise altitude oi
operation on the a i Tline s' world35, 000 feet, at which the cabin
wide network of passenger r oute s
i s pressuriz e d to simulate a
in Europe, South America and
6, 000-foot altitude.
Africa and the Midd le and Far
The long-range 880 will have a
East sch eduled immediately
maximum cruis e speed of 615
the re - a fter.
mi les an hour , the same as the
domestic 880, G r os s take-off
The new 880 will be capable of
we i ght of the l ong-range version
non-stop operation b etween
will be 2 03, 4 00 poinds . and i ncrease of 24, 900 pounds o ver the
domestic 880.
"Selfish lo the core
POLITICA.L
ISSUES
With the approach of Election Day, two issues have continued to gain in
political prominence, and serve to. illustrate the importance of the businessman's stake and his interest in, the political facts of life.
The first of these is the Right-to-Work issue which has taken the spotlight
in the contest for governor in heavily-unionized California. Senator Knowland,
th~ Republican candidate, has tied his campaign very closely to the need for
labor reform. It is therefore very possible that the vote on the Right-toW ork referendum may determine the outcome of the race for governor, with
much of the voting _base4 pn issues rather than on the candidates. State Attorney
General Edmund "Pat" B:~9wn is the Democratic candidate. He is considered
to have an excellent chance to .win the gubernatorial election because the
Right-to-Work issue h~s ~plit the Republican ranks. Republican Governor
Goodwin Knight, who as a candida_te for the Senate, is Kno.wland's running mate,
has spoken out against .the Right-to-Work proposal.
At the height of this hot political struggle, General Electric announced two
weeks ago that _it will en~er the California .political arena in support of Right-toW ork~ GE will not support any candi"date, but will take direct issue with
organized labor's position and urge votel"S to vote for the referendum.
Five other states have Right-to-Work laws on their ballots for the November
election. These are Washington, Kansas, Ohio, Colorado, and Idaho.
The second big issue is the "labor bosses" issue. The Mc'Clellan hearings
have uncovered all kinds of union scandal. The large mass of evidence of
corruption is so incontrovertible that most unions don't. even bother t'o refute
it, but instead, try to show it doesn't apply to them. The wide ~spread
publicity on the hearings -- most of it based on facts --.has done much to
damage public opinion of the whole labor movement.
In this atmosphere, the "labor bos.ses" are treated as the real opponents in
many campaigns, even though their names don't appear on the ballot.
But Board Chairman Cordiner in his talk to the Business Advisory Council at
Hot Springs, Virginia, on October 17, warned that most of the real danger is
not from.racketeers nnder attack by the McClellan Committee. He emphasized,
"It is principally in the hands of other union officals who nevertheless put
forth ideologies and proposals which result in inflation, concentration of power
in central government, damage to progress, and withering of freedom."
Mr. Cordiner urged that businessm~n take more vigorous political action to
help overcome the political power being accumulated by national union
officials.
November 3, 1958
'S NEWS

S'OllTS, NATIONAL AND WOlllD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 199
November 4, 1958
Bless this food to the nourishme nt of our bodies and our bodies in Thy service;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Am e n.
48 MILLION AMERI CANS
WILL VO T E TODAY
Today is election day in thousands
of cities and towns across th e
U, S. A. In a ll, there are 7 6 , 565 ,
504 r egiste r e d voter s in th e
count r y a nd e x p e rts pr e dict that
4 8, 1 3 1, 22 6 of them will go to the
polls tod ay. If the e xpe rts ar e
ri g ht, it s hou ld make thi s a
r ecord o ff -yea r elec tion.
Proba b l y mo s t important in this
w ill be th e election of a
ator and a U . S. R e pr ese ntative . In addition, citi z ens in the
county will vote on th e Bond I ssue
Refe r e nd um for scho o l c ons tru c tion.
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In le ss fortuna te lands, thes e

ki n ds of matte rs a re n o t de cidec
by the people . Th e y ha v e n o vote ,
no c ontrol - - people' s repr esentatives a r e APPOINTED by the
l e ader s i n po wer. School m a tte rs
ar e the e xclusive right of the
state .
Your vote, you see, is the
difference between democracy
a n d di c tatorship ~ Use y o ur
democ r a tic right - - vote today.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 474 day s
7 , 712, 274 hour s
,,_WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDE NT
Jus t be c ause a woman forgi ve s
you doesn't mean she i s n't going
to tell you a bout it fo r the r es t o f
your life ,
OUT OF CONTROL
Wilton Hamrick (Eng.) wishes to
tha nk fello w workers for their
th o u ghtful v isits, c ards, flowers
and gifts while he was in the
h ospita l.
TWO NAMES THE SAME
Congratulations to Charlie Young
(Drafting ) who just received
official w ord of the satisfactory
completion of his Master of Arts
Deg re e iti Educ ation,
Nurs e s in the mate rnity ward of

a hospital in Winchester, Va.,
we re c onfus ed w[len two unr elated women w ith ide ntical names
were admitted. More confu s ion
was added when Mrs. William
Leach and Mrs. William Leac h
each g a ve birth to b a by gir l s the
s ame d ay .
Gracie Layn~ doing fine after

und e rgoing surgery, phoned in to
tha nk a ll h e r friends and fellow
e mploye es for their many c ards
a nd flowers . Gracie says she
hopes to b e back in a c oup l e of
wee ks or so .
CHORALIERS PRACTICE
SESSION TONIGHT
The Choraliers will meet toni ght
at 7: .3 0 in the pl~nt auditorium
for their first practice session
s i nc e the y presente d the highly
succe s sful CON - FA - VAR show.
New members a r e always welc ome in the Choralie rs . Contac t
Preside nt Lowell B a shlor ( E x t .
405 ) or any other member if you
are interested,
AND THE BARN DOOR TOO
T h i eves who looted Andr ew Sad e llic o1s f arm in Ansonia, Conn.,
walke d a way with everything inc luding_ the barn door.
EDITOR OF META LWORKING

MAGAZ INE VISITING TODAY
Mr. Ha rr y Wharen, Managing
Editor of METALWORKING
Magazine is here at Specialty
today to get informatio n about
our Nume rical Positioning Control equipment with various
p e opl e in th e D e p a rt m ent.
"In the budget is TV ' FooC'
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The A nswer to True Job Security

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THIS OLD WINDMILL, still standing today, bears

witness to the fact thnt the early Du tch settlers in this
country believed in building and pJanning solidly for the
future.
In much the sa me spirit of building for permanence
was Operation Upturn founded. True, t he six-month
General Electric campaign to " Build Sales and Jobs in
'58" will finish next month but the value of providing
better values for customers will be lasting.
Some people sny "Build Sales and .Jobs in 'f>8" as
though this would be no problem in Hlfi!l n r suh~rq ucnt
years. They nlso say "Buy Now for E::.t ra Values" as
though somehow we expect tha t the nt'rtl t o olf<>r these
extra values will disappear after November.
GENE RAL
Operation Upt urn, in the final analysis,_i.s an organized

attempt to better please the customer this year and every
year. Our entire business has and will depend on--pleasing t he customer. This is a never-ending task. And it is
one on which we ha ve no monopoly in working hard at.
We have hu ndreds of alert competitors who spare no
effort t o work a little ha rder at it than we are.
When the history of Operation Upturn is written,
there will undoubtedly be immediate material gains to
chalk up. But even more significant will be the spirit of
holding steadfos t to the ageless principle of increasing
sales by pleasing the customer.
For af ter all, only holding to t his principle can insure
t.ruc job secr:irity.
ELECTRIC
'S NEWS

Sl'ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD HEWS - COURTESY OF WAYS AHO HEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 200
November 5, 1958
Dear heavenly Father, at every t a ble where food is spread Thou art host.
Pr e pare our he a rts, through love a nd service, for these blessings from Thy
hands. Amen. t/
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If you read the ab.o ve ad in your

Sunday paper you'd think that
somebody had made a typogra phical error or just didn't know
rhat he was talking about. Or if
you were a la;the operator looking for a job and the employment
interviewer asked you if you
could provide your own X-302
Hubble turret lathe, you'd probably remind him that a lathe like
that cost about a quarter million
dollars and you'd probably tell
him that he should know better
than to ask such a foolish
question.
.
q_J':!.~_O_!!_f!.Jl~JlE.!._I!!~J. corlt
easy for us to take them for

granted -- to forget that people's
savings invested. in our business
bought those machines and put
the m there for us to use. Nor
do we give much thought to the
fact that a part of profits must
b e plowed back into the business
to k e ep our machines in good
working condition or to replace
old wo rn out machines.
On the other hand, sinc e

machines go with the job, it's
The machines and the tools we

us e in our jobs are important
to our livelihood. Let's use
the m carefully -- take proper
care of them -- and never lose
sight of the fact that "profits"
ptit them there for us to use.
ZIMMER RECEIVES
SEVENTH PATENT
NA VY RESEARCH LAB
REPRESENTATIVES HERE
A patent on an invention in the

field of electromagnetic relays
has been issued to John Z immer
(Eng.), according to i nformation
received from the U.S. Patent
- ,ffice. The patent, which re lates to a six-pole double-throw
relay, is the seventh one issued
in John's name .
BIG TURNOUT
AT POLLS HERE
Waynesboro had a heavy turnout
at the polls yesterday. Here is
yesterday's voting tabulation.
Experienced Lathe Opera tor , Pay up to $800 a

wee k. Must bring ow n
machine ,
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Work Wanted
For Senator
Byrd 1,273
Wensel 956
Robb.. 61
For Repr~sentative
Harrison., , l, 597
Oder 688
County Amendment #115
For ... 1,667
Against
567
In Augusta County the Bond Issue
for school construction was solidl y endorsed by a vote of 2,255 to
l, 965.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 475 days
7, 721, 692 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Here today, to discuss transistori ze d AC and DC regulators

with Marketing, are Messrs.
Nicholas Toffalo and Donald
Hanrahan of the Navy Research
Lab and Mr. R. S. Moore of
A & DI Sales in Washington, D. C.
THE ONLY THING more obnoxious than a wise guy is a wise
~uy who's right.
"Aw, honey, you shouldn't hovel

You gift wrapped all the Christmas billal"
Everyone has a stake in a better business climate

The photogra ph ehovr s ho11 s Mme of the
people whose products or scrvicrs 1irP used by
a typical employee in induRtry n nrl his fa m il y.
This is nn exa mple of the chuin nnction of
b!!n.efi ts set off b) j ust one joh in n communit y.
Further proo f o f the importance of jobs is
provide:! by a r ecl!ftl sur vey \\'hah Rhows t hnt
100 indus trial jobs in n com mun ity cnn create:
74 additional jobs
JI 2 more households
4 more r eta il stores
296 more residnt s in the com1111mity
$590,000 more perRona l inronH' pr r yrar
$360,000 more i n re tnil ~alcR per )'!'n r
The jobi. thnl bring wides p r!'111I lw1w fit s lik e
these to a community dl'pr1ul on lunlt hy and
profitable bus iness!'s. And htrnincRH, in onl!'r
to g row and prospPr s, looks lo llw to11111111nity
for a healthy bus iness cl i111ulr .
What are Home of the ron<li lions wh ich
make an ideal business climn l ? Th<'y nre the
~ame t h ings !hat thoughtful pet1plr in n co111mu nity wan t for the mselves:
Hones t nnd efficient l{Overnment, ~ 11pp ., rtecl
by n ~ trong major ity of aler t and well -infor111 ed ,oter5 who have the balanced bes t int ~ r Psts
of the community a t hear t.
Fair tax<' fo r both business and individunls, without res t rictive reg ulnlinn s and di s('rirninalory finnn ciul burde ns.
('nnscientious law enforcl'm<'nl whi<'h protects t he rig hts o f' a ll citizens, corpora te and
priva te.
F.qu itabl<' pay and benefit s which reward
<'rnp loyees fo r a pp lyin g the ir full cffol't nncl
s k ill lo !he job.
Qua li firt! peo11le lo fill c mploy 111<'11l n<'Nls ,
with educational facilities to prepare people
fnr a wide rnnge o f job oppnrtu niti<'s .
Arll'q11a k ('ornmunity farilitil's i1uch ns
s tores, banks , utili ties, trans porlation, hospitals, health facilities, co mrnercinl ser \'iCeH.
A soci al nnd c-ultural atmosphere in which

peo pl e e njoy livi ng a nd wor king, including
schoo ls, churches, libraries, theaters, a r esponsible p ress, heal thful recreational facilities.
T hroug hou t ,\ mer ica, bus inesses, municipal
nnd state g overnments , nnd individual citizens
a rc taking on int reased interest in gaining
th ese goon bus iness climate conditions for their
comm uni ties.
If our community is to remain a llractive
for indui1lria l expansion and growth, we must
exenis <' inte rest, imogination, and initiative in
p1 ov idi nJ? th<' physical facilities and the busirw s~ C'lirnal1 thnt perm its progress.
Y o~1 rnn htlp hy thinking progressively and
h,I' ns,;rrti ni.: y<111r views fo r a good business
dirna t ~ - as a n11 111bcr of com munity organizati o11i1. in l'iv ic pla nning acti vities, and at the
polk You'll be hrlping a chieve t he conditions
in our comun ily thnt will prove attractive to
business n m! ind ustry- with greates t benefit
lo you.
GENERAL. ELECTRIC

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No ve mbe r 6, 1958
De ar L o rd, we thank Thee for food fo r our bodie s and for Thy love, which
is t h e food for our soul s . In J es u s ' na m e . Ame n.
DE C I SION T O COME T O
WAYNESBORO A NN OU NCED
BY SPECIALTY 5 YEARS
AGO T ODA Y
PEOP LE P U T A CTION INTO OPER ATION UPTURN

An example o f ho w t he Ope ration Upturn pro g r a m i s put into action
h e r e a t Speci a lty occurred last wee k w h e n one of our c ustomers
ca lled S . D. (Doc ) F e nd l e y in Marke ting and a s k e d if we could help
them bett e r se r ve th e ir c ustome r w ho n ee d e d d e li ve ry on some
eq uipm ent faste r tha n o ri g inally s c hed ule d .
Th e b ack o f TODAY ' S NEWS

marks th e o bs e rv ance of the
fifth a nni ve r sa r y of th e a n nounce
ment tha t Spe c ialty C o ntrol was Our 7-1/ 2 HP Thymotrol had originally been promi se d to the custom coming to Way nes b o r o . We
e r for No ve mber 21. The custome r ask e d for d e liv e ry by Novemthou g h t you'd like t o see th e
b e r 1.
News - Vir ginia n headlin e s for
bly. Sheet M e t a l adjusted its
"Doc " F e ndly got in tollch with
that day.
s c hedule to me e t the emergency
Charlie Hllg h e s in Production.
and
Harry Crummett' s unit,
SCIENCE CLASS PUPILS
Charlie Hllg h e s forne d the proba
rmed
with the preliminary
HERE TODAY TO
l e m ove r to Produ c tion man Bill
fac tory drawings he had received
SEE I N DUSTRIAL US ES OF
B orden. B ill Bor de n in turn
from Enginee ring, was able to
ELECTR I C IT Y
c ontac ted U nit Manage r Ed
Menaker in Enginee ring to see if be gin the a c tual assembly work.
Six sci ence clas s stu de nt s from
we could sp eed 11p the EngineerWe shippe d the product on Oct.
the W es t wood Hills S c hool are
i'ng portion of th e job. Jo Ann
30, two days earlier than the
visiting Specialty Control today
Ande r s on (Drafting ) and Gordon
c u s tomer r e q ue ste d .
to see firs t hand t he use s that
Wadsworth (Eng .) put aside
ar e m a de of e le c tr ic ity in an
s ome o ther work the y were doing
A c tually we ha ve done this sort
indu s tria l plant like o ur own.
and within an hour provided Bill
of thing many times before.
Othe r m e mbers of th e c lass are
Borden with the orde ring inforToday's story is just another
visiting other W a ynes bo ro indusm a tion he r e quir e d. The n they
t e stimonial to our flexibility,
tries today for the s ame pllrpose.
pas ted tog e ther a transparency
and ability to do a job together
to provide preliminary information to th e fa ctory for assembling a nother example of how our
arid wiring whi le th e y went ahead p e ople put Ope ration Upturn into
with the final diagrams.
action.
Next, Bill Borden contac ted Art
Groat in Sheet Me t a l and Harry
Crummett in Elec tronics AssemIT'S AN ILL WI N D
THAT BLOWS NO GOOD
1, 476 days
7, 7 31, 110 hou rs
WITHOUT A LOS T TI M E
ACCIDENT
U.S. childr e n are making excelle nt progr e ss in physics .

Through whirling hula hoops they
are le arning a bout t h e operation
of the law s of g r a vit y, momentu
and centrifugal for ce.
SUBSTITUTE CAR FUEL
A chemical substitute for motor

fue l that could double the power
output of automobile and airplane
e n gines is being investigated by
s cientists at the University of
California, at Berkeley. The
compound is a mixture of
methane, propane, butane, and
othe r petrole um products with
nit r ic acid, said Ernest S. Stark
man, dir e ctor of the project.
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today. The site of our plant was the lo ca l airport in those days and it mus t have been hard for loc al
folks to visualize the bustling business activity of a big electrical plant in place of the runway and
hanger buildings of the airport.
We have grown beyond the estimates of that day with our employment today standing at nearly double
that which was estimated five years a g o. We have grown in scope with several new complete product
lines developed here since we moved to Waynesboro. And we have grown in the skills of doing our jobs.:
Yes. big changes have occurred in only five years since we announced our intention to come to Waynesboro, but big ger and better changes still will take place in the next five years as we work together to
make Specialty Control better than ever before.
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VOL. IV, NO. 202
November 7, 1958
Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the blessings of this day, and as we
partake of this food, help us to}>e mindful of the needs of others, through Jesus
Christ,our Lord. Amen.
SECOND PATENT ATTORNEY

JOINS SPECIALTY RANKS
WILLIAMS
A second Patent
Attorney, James
J. Williams,
joined Specialty
Control this
week to help
with the Department's legal
chores.
Formerly a Patent Attorney with

,,-.;.A at Princeton, N . J., Mr.
.. ~lliams is a native of Lynchburg,
Virginia. He earned his Engineering degree in 1947 from the University of Virginia and after fulfilling a life -long ambition to be a
ship's radio operator, he worked
as an engineer for the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co. He
returned to Univ. of Virginia in
1950 receiving his law degree in
1953 and went directly to RCA.
During World War II, Mr.
Williams (then Sgt. Williams)
served in the Philippines with a
combat engineers' batt;:i.lion.
ENG. "MIL-SPEC" BOOK

MISSING
Folks up in Aircraft and Military
Engineering are looking for a
Mil-Spec book that has strayed
from the area. Missing is MIL-R
(Book #11) and it's urgently needed
now. If you have seen it or
borrowed it, please notify Evelyn
Billings (A&M Eng.) Ext. 356.
-c-OUT OF CONTROL~
HUNTER SAFETY COURSE

Records show that the vast
majority of hunting accidents are
the result of either lack of good
gun knowledge or failure to apply
such knowledge. To help hunters
at General Electric, to be more
safe while hunting this season
SCOGEE is sponsoring a twosession N. R. A. Hunter Safety
Course starting November 12 at
7: 30 in the plant auditorium.
Ruby Hollifield (A&M Assy.) is

thrilled with her new twin grandsons born earlier this week. The
boys have been named Larry
Wayne and Barry Gene.
Designed to give knowledge that

can avoid gun accidents in the
hunting field, the course presents
such subjects as knowledge of
guns , proper gun handling, good
Rob Brooke (A/C Testtand his new shooting, and the hunter's responMrs. have asked us to express
sibilities. Dan O'Donnell, who is
their appreciation for the lovely
an N . R. A. Certified Rifle
wedding gift from Bob's fellow
Instructor, will teach the course.
workers.
The first course will be limited
to 20 people. If you are interested in taking the course, please
sign the coupon below and drop it
in the box posted by the cigarette
machine.
Mr. Williams and his wife Martha

have two children and are expecting their third later this month.
I am interested in taking the

N. R. A. Hunter Safety Course
sponsored by SCOGEE.
Name
Grldl- Gloua1'7
A HIU DICTIONARY of worda popular u IDOl'ale-builden lo the
football kam on the ahort end of a loptidcd ocon::
..-..,bowed: Clooc, but you loot.
appy: Made a touchdown on the opp~ment'1 fourth kam.
..AJtmanncd: Almost ocorcd In a lop-aided whitewashing.
Game: Took the ball up to midfield-once.
Fearless: Racked up a lint down.
Daring: Recovered a fumble.
Valiant: Kept eleven men out then: all the time.
Gallant: Fielded 1 <cam when you knew belier.
Plucky: 99 to O. ..
n cc.t..w.. .s.c. ......
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Section
Extension
THE YOUNGER generation is
pretty wild. It probably won't
turn out much better than the
older one.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 477 days
7, 740, 528 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
NO MATTEa HOW 'THEY SAY IT -'THE DIR.ECTIONIS U.P ...
Gperatioli Uptutnj
~easion
the Company-..tde program to. reverse the re-
tt:end aartler this year took on an biteruatlonal flavor bt

t11ternat1ona:1. Gene'J'at Electric ptanta and offices soath of :the bor.der.
Spanish st~dents will note that the slogana vary slightly fro.m. the
United Sta.tea version, but in the U. s. A. ~r South America, the inte_ilt
is the same and the .arrow always points up.
Drawing upon our
foltows:
ru~ty
Spanish, the translations are rqughly as
,./
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To Progress
GINDAL BUlCTIU<; '
Company :;tProgress
More It Better Products
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NEWS

S'OlTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD N!WS - COUlT!SY Of Wit.Ya AND N!WS VllOINIAN
VOL. IV. NO. 2.03
Noveml;r
10, 1958
Bless us, 0 Lord, and these Thy gifts, whic)i we are about to receive from Thy
bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen i/
ELECTRICIAN AEC~ES
FOURTH G~ FATALITY
The year'r fourth fatal work aoeident in General Electric occurred
a few weeks ago at t he Wire and
Cable Department in Bridgeport,
Conn. The victim was an electriciar.
with a total of 12 years exper,
ience..
While he was disconnecting the
power on a Ban rury mixer an
elec+.ric nash-over enveloped the
victim in flame~. He was alone
~ ran JO feet to a staircase and
.1 a night of stairs
before
o ~ner personnel sa'W him and beat
out the names.
Investigation revealed that a~
mong other causes of this fatal
.accident, the victim had not fully
follow~d the safety procedures
outlined for the job he was doing,
One of the procedures probably
would have eliminated the accident; the other would have had
another worker alerted and nearby
to help in case an accident did
occur.
NO HUN'l'ER SAFETY COURSE
NEW GE F'ELLOW3HIP
PROGRAM ANNOUNCED
Because there were an inadequate

number of sign~ups for the Hunter
Safety Course, it will not be
A new program of 12 pre-doctoral
given.
graduate fellowships for General
Electric employees and tr.eir
VlSITING SPECIALTY TOlJAi
.~hilc1ren has ~een announced by
the Trustees of the G.~. Educav.isitlng Specialty today is
+.ional and Charitable Fund . The
H, Zelent (C&ID , Schenectad~)
fellowshi.P8 will r~ available f~r
who is here to di cu
u~e during the 1959-1960 acaderr.ic
marketing a"'pectssofss sombe i
;rear The fellowstips will be
"
our us ne s s . 'f}l!o d i th p i.,.. 1 ... i
'With memberg of 0 u Ma k ti
o. i. ere n e . ""' sica .:>e ence s ,
Section.
r
r e ng
Eni;ineering, i: ndustrial }'.anagement, Arts an!f Science, 1.raduate
Law and atsiness. Winners will he
selected by a committee of re~re
PEE WEK TEE VEE
sentatives of various national
STYMIED BY BIG PRICE TAG
educational organizations and
A developmental model of 'What is institutions. Outst anding
believed to be the world's first I achievement in previous acaaerric
battery powered personal TV set j work will be a primary con sideris being demonotrated by the
ation as well as academic
Television- Receiver nepHrtment.
potential.
The "pee wee" set weighs ten

pounas, is only 7-1/2 inches
w1de, 7-1/4 inches deep and 8-3/4
inches _higr. Completely trangi9t.or:lzed, it. is about the size
of an a'utomRti'c toaster and can
be
operated from house current as
The fact that the victim was a
,
1
well
as from its battery. The
fully trained electrician with
chassis
has 22 transistors and the
twelve years experience points up
:
picture
tube measures only 8
the danger of over-confidence
inches.
Power
is supplied by a
when a worker has been doing the
rechargeable silver cadmium
same job for some time.
battery with a life of from three
to four hours before recharging.
Accidents are no respect.ors of
,,.seniorlty" There'~ only one
Fully operative and with a selecway to be safe on the job -tivity equal to a full size TV
follow all the safety rules all
set, there is only one hitch and
the time.
that is . 11 price". Present cost(
,-...
of transistors prohibits marketing it at an acceptable consumer
SAFETY SCORE
price.
Each .fellowship will provide

tuition, fee~, and stipends 'scaled
to the marit al and dependency
statuq of t.he winner.
Application must he received on
or before January 2, 1959. Forms
and further details are availabl e
from Fellowship Pro~ram, GE F~u ca
tional and Charitahle Fund, 570
Lexington Ave. New York N. y.
'
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l, 480days
7, 749, 946 hours

WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Seconds count -- especially when

dieting.
"Wilbur, I want you to come

home-this very minute I"
Accidents are for the birds
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SPO RTS, NATIONAL AN O WORLD NEWS -
COURTESY OF WAYa ANO HEWS VI RGINIAN
1101 . I V, NO . 204
November 11, 1958
Dear heavenly Father, at every table where food is spread Thou art hos t. Prepare our hearts, through l ove and service, for t hes e bl essings f rom Thy hands .
WO:tTH THS
PRIC i<~ !
Today is Vet erans' Day acr os s

the land. A day which has been
set aside in honor of the men
who have served our nation i n
t ime of war -- it is also a
time for us all to remember the
high price Ameri ca has paid for
f r eedom. Hhen you vote and take
an a cti ve part i n your government - you tell the world that
freedom is wor th t he price!
VISI TORS TODAY
1.'i s i ting today f r om Wi ns ton

0alem are R. 3 . Keller and R. ::::i .
Ghri sterson, both of General
~lectric s Adverti s ing and
Sal e s Promotion office ther e.
The score i s two ~irls and one

hoy now f or Jim Duncan (2nd shi ft
A/", Tes t) whos e wif e Loraine
gave birt~ to a 6 lb. 5 oz. girl
yesterday. The Duncan ' s have
one boy a ~e 5, and a girl, 3,
bes i des the yet unnamed new
arriva l .
!)i c-~,aBelle (Sheet Metal ) and

hi s ife Pat also have a new
he artbreaker in t he household.
:Jei rrhing in at a hefty 8 l bs. 3
oz., t he lat est addition has
been named Debbie Ann. Debbie
has a bro ther, Donald, a~e 3-1/2.
Si.!::'.:
rou THARl
~ Amen
SADIE HA\-Jl<INS DAY

APPROACHING AT SPECIALTY
Sadie Hawkins Day, the Dog patch
hol i day t hat make s every year a
l e ap year, is not f ar a1-.1 ay f r om
Specialty Contr olle rs - November 29 t o be exact. That's
the date of scocr:E,S annual
Sadie Hawki ns dance a t Waynesboro Colll1t ry Club.
Sadi e Hawkins Danc P. is a

gals invi t e the boys" event
that gives the girls in the Depar t ment t he opportunity to do
the calling - - and we might add
t hat it al so gives the gals the
opportunity t o pay f or the
ticket
s.
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I'he
ruLLY ::!:QUI ?PED and ready t or the

Sadi e Hawkins Dance November 29
is Geor ge Hausler and his Mrs .
who pos ed fo r t his picture at
the SCOG-::.s Hallowe en Dance.
SAFZTY
11
SCOH.r~
1,481 days
7, 759 , 392 hours
WI THOUT A LOST TI M3
ACCIDENT
t-----------------1
CHOR.ALIERS MiSET
J ust a reminder that t he
Choraliers me et t onight at 7:30
PM in the Auditorium.
On the heel s of t ha very suc ce s s -
f ul Hall oween Dance, this Sadie

Hawkins event is e xpected t o be
even bett er yet. Dre ss is casuaJ
(and we t ake that t o mean that
Dogpatch styles are acceptabl e)
s o prepare t o come and reall y
r elax. Jimmy Llll1s ford 1 s band
w ill beat out the tune s and danc
i ng will go on f r om 9 to 1 Af: .
Dance Chairman Stan Maupin says
t icket s wil l be limit e d and on a
f irs t-come first-serve d basi s.
Price -- .~~2. 50 for member s ,
$3.30 for ~ue sts.
Ye olde editor would like to

t hank the f ollowi nr, people who
posed for pict ure s in our safet
glasses f e ature on t he back of
TODAY'S NEWS . They :ire (top t o
bott om JClarence Cl ayi:.on, Dorothy
Fox, a nd .Bi l l Perry.
HOW DO YOU WEAR YOUR SAFETY GL ASSES ?
THE OUTER SPACE LOOK . The type who wear safety glasse s up
on their foreheads. Perhaps they think it looks "air--Oorne" or has
the modern "outer space " look. But if it ' s "a new look" they are
looking for -- they may ge t i t permanently - - a patch over one eye
or even two !
THE MISERS . This t ype really value their safety glasses -- son . tim es even more than their eyes . At the end of the working day they
carefully tuck the ir safety g lasse s away in their lockers , desk
drawers , tool boxes or some safe spot on their work benches -- then
wi t hout their safety g lasse s on, they h ead for the nea r est way out of
the factory . They may los e an eye, but they'll never lose their
safety glasses !
THE SEALE D BEAM .. P eople who wear their glasse s this way knov.
what they are doing _ _ and will continue to do so . Like sealed beam
'.-ieadlights on a ca r, these glasses stay put - - give constant protertion.
A word to the wis e -- - Protect Your Eyes!
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S"ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD N!WS - COURT!SY 01' WAYI AND NEWS VllOINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 205
November 12, 1958
Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for the blessings of this day, and ae we partake
of this food, help us to be mindful of the needs of others, through Jesus Christ, our
Lord, Amen. /
11
ALADDIN'' MARIONETTE
SHOW COMING TO TOW~
SATURDAY
'ZIMMER MAKES
11
DREAM SHOT"
--Golfers Beware!
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Jack Zimmer (Eng. ) will have a
conversation opener for the rest
of his days as a result of his
11
hole-in-one" last Saturday at
Waynesboro Country Club. The
golfers 1 "dream shot" occurred
on# 3 hole when a 160 yard drive
r Jack rolled neatly into the
..tp.
On, hand at the ti.me to substantiate

Jack's "hole-in-one" report
were Chris Eirich and Red
Slater. For his achievement the
forever famous golf ball that he
used will be gold plated by the
Acushnet Company and suitably
mounted for prominent display
in the Zimmer household.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 482 days
7, 768, 838 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
..You mean today, too?"
Something that kids hereabou.t s

s e ldom have an opportunity to
see, will be the marionette
play "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" which will be pre sented at Waynesboro High
School auditorium this coming
'. Saturday at 2: 30 PM.
Tickets are 60~
for children, 90f for adults,
and can be obtained at Garst' s,
the door, or by calllng WH 2
8782.
TillR TY IS a wonderful age
especially when you happen to be
ANOTHER HANDBOOK
STRAYED
Bob Missman (Eng.) is looking
for Apparatus Handbook #112 on
Specialty Transformers. If you
have it or have seen it lately,
please contact Bob on Ext, 465,
THANKS FROM THE EDITOR
'
Thanks again to the folks who

posed for the pictures in today's
feature story on the back of the
paper. Models were (top to
bottom) Ken Humphrey, Harry
Simmons, Ruby Coffey and Bob
Good.
40..
SENDING YOUNGSTERS TO COLLEGE?
BETTER START SAVING FOR IT NOW,
Sending the youngsters to college is a goal that many parents set for
themselves early in life. It's a worthwhile goal but one that parent-s
should begin planning for while the c hildren are still young.
Dick Schmitt, Manager of Manufacturing Engineering, has recently
done some research on 1959 comparative costs of some leading
engineering schools. We thought you might be interested in some of
his findings:
.:)chool and location
Calif. Tech. (Calif.)
Carnegie Tech. (Pa.)
M.I.T. (Mas s ,)
Wm. and Mary (Va.)
Duke Univ. (N. C.)
Univ, of Va. (Va.)
Lafayette (Pa. )
Georgia Tech. (Ga.)
V,P,I. (Va,)
Brown Univ. (R. I.)
School Co&ts
$2500
)
2000
)
2500
)
1050
)
1650
)
1520
)
2250
)
1580
)
1110
')
2300
)
Includes tuition,
books, ins., lab
fees, average
living expense.
Travelling expenses would be
additional and
depend on
location
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SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYr. ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL, IV, NO, 208
November I! . 1958
Not o nly for th i s food , do we give Thee thanks, 0 God, but for work and its rewards,
for fr i ends, for hei\lth. Amen .
FIRE BOMB TOSSED
IN GEORGIA STRI KE
ATLANTA (AP) A truck driver
was tnrned into a flaming torch
and severely bur n ed by a homemade firn bomb toAsed i n to the
cab of his truck shortly after he
drove away from the strike
bound Atlantic S teel Co. on
Monday .
E . L . Gossett of nearby Hampton

leaped from t he truck and ripi off h i s fla ming c l o thes.
Patrolman R .L. Rhodes said

t h e fi r e bomb a pparentl y was
thrown from behind some bushes
along the street.
Gossett had just drive n from t he
p l ant with a load of steel for his
emp l oyer, the Southern S tates
Equipment Corp . , of Hampton.
T h e A tl a n tic Stee l Co., was
c losed Oct . 31 by a strike of the
United Stee l Wo r kers of
America that idled about l, 400
workers .
SNU FFY is trying to

flag d own a ticket
salesman for the
SCOGEE Sadie Hawki n s Dan ce, Nov . 2 1,
at the Waynesboro
Country Club.
Better hurry and get your
tickets too I
CHERCHE.1, LA FEMME I
That's French for "find the ga l"
and that ' s what we ' re trying to
do . Bill Perry has a turquoise
co lored portab l e rad i o back
from repairs but can' t re m ember who the gal is that brought
i t in. If it's yours please come
and cla i m it at the Employee
Store.
DON ' T FORGET YOUR NEW

A U TO I NSPECTION S TI C K ER
Thi s Friday, November 15, is
t he deadline for automobil e
inspection - - so i n case you
haven ' t taken care of it yet,
you'd better p l rt.n o n i t right
away.
SCHOOL FIGURES FOR ONE

SCHOOL YEAR ONLY
To clarify those figures of comparative costs of engi neering
school s published in yesterday' s
paper - - the costs shown were
for a single school year only.
CHANGED YOUR NAME OR

ADDRESS? CHANGE RECORDS
TOO!
One of the many record keeping
problems of Employee Relations
. and Payroll is keeping names
and addresses straight. With
folks moving to new quar t ers
and many of our fema l e em ployees getting married, our
records get out of date . Please
be sure when you move or
change your name that you re port that fact to Emp l oyee
Re l ations .
U, S, PRODUCTION UP
INDICATES RECESSI ON HALT
Total production of goods and
services in the U . S , is expected to hit a record $450 bi l lion
by year's end, Government
economists say. That exceeds
the p r evious high of $445. 5
billions , and is good evidence
that the recession may have run
its course .
Some women not only meet their

husbands half way, but on pay
days they go right to the office.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 483 days
7 , 77 8 , 284 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
They come in here fresh out of achoo I, and

righl off lhey wont lo stort 01 vice- presidents I"
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THE BULLS
YOU HIT
EYE EVERYTIME
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WITH
COOPERATION .

NEWS
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S'OltTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYS AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 2 06
November 17, 1958
Ble ss us, 0 Lord, and these Thy gifts, which we are about to rece ive from Thy bounty,
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
HEARN SELECTED OCTOBER
"MAN OF THE MONTH" BY TMP
EDU CA TI ONAL LOAN

DEADLlNEISDECEMBER31
The deadline for approving
employee educational 1oans for
the 1958-59 academic year is
December 31, 1958.
Employees desiring loans
under the Educational Loan
Program for use during the
spring semester of 1959 must
obtain approval of the loan before December 31. Forms for
,.-.,_the 1958-59 academic year are
available in Employee Relations.
Under the Program, eligible
employees may apply for educational loans up to a maximum
of $1000 per school year for
themselves or their children
for full-time undergraduate
colle ge study.
POLlCEMAN ARRESTS
BROTHER
Investigating a report of a
prowler in a store in Hartford,
Conn., a policeman, Marvin
Jones, captured and arrested
Earl Jones, his brother.
PIPE PACKS A WALLOP
TMP'S "MR. OCTOBER, 11

Drew Hearn receives the congratulations of the Department
from (l-r) D. O. Dice, Drew
Hearn, L. T. Rader, Glenn
Petersen.
G. E. "ADVENTURES IN
SCIENCE" ON TV TOMORROW
MORNING
You might want to get the young.
sters up early tomorrow so that
they can see a special shortened version of the General
Electric "Adventures in
Science" show, which is
scheduled to be shown on the
Dave Garr away TODAY progr am tomorrow morning over
Channels 8 and 10. We don't
know the e xac t time that the
G. E. Science Show will appear
but the TODAY program begins
at 7:25 AM and continues to
9 AM.
More than mildly surprised was

HONEYMOON: The period bePutxnan, of Tulsa, Okla.,
tween "I do" and "You'd better."
;1en he fired up his pipe and it
exploded in his face. The cause
Ll'l'l'U: Sl'ORTof the e":plosion was a 22-calibet ~J
shell which had rolled into the
\ \- .
bowl of the pipe while it was in
~
his pocket.
~
~ ck
t. ,
Maybe he's not "one in a million" but Drew Hearn, Technical Marketing Program trainee
on assignment here, is at least
one in "four hundred". From
among some 400 young men on
the Apparatus Sales Division's
Technical Marketing Program,
Drew was selected as October's
"Program Man of the Month".
A part of TMP's Operation Upturn effort, selection of "Man
of the Month" was based on
general job performance and
specific accomplis hments during the .month for which the
selection was made. Work he
has done here in Marketing to
improve our proposition service
to the Districts on Program
Control, led to Dre w's se Lection
for last month's honors. TMP
11
Men of the Month" we re
selected for Aug us t, September,
and Oc t ober only . From among
these three monthly winners
now a single contest winner will
be chosen. Specialty is betting
on Drew to come out on top.
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 487 days
7, 797, 176 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
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SMART
HUNTERS
USE THEIR H.EADS

FOR MORE
THAN A
HATRACK
HUNT
SAFELY
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VOL. IV, NO. 209
November 18, 1958
For this country, for its freedoms, for our rights in this country, we are
gratefu l, 0 God. Make us grateful for this food also. Amen.
NO GLEE CLUB MEETING
HEARING BELLS?
DON'T CALL YOUR
PSYCHIATRIST
The Choraliers will not meet

tonight.
!X)UBLY BLESSED WITH
"MEN OF THE MONTH"
Specialty Control is doubly
blessed with "men of the
month. 11 Since yesterday's
article about Drew Hearn being
selected as Octobe r's 11 Pr ogram_
Man of the Month" we have
learned that a new comer to
Specialty,' Bob Ilgenfr it z (A&.M
Sales) was also se lec ted a" Man
of the Month'' by the Technical
Marketing Progr am whil e Bob
was on another assignment last
August in the ASD Detroit Sales
Office,
TMP is running two contests
concurrently. One is for the
"Off Test" Program Man of the
Month (won in O c tobe r by Drew
Hearn) a nd the other is for t he
"Test" Program Man of the
Month (won in August by Bob
llgenfritz). Bob won Aug us t
top honors for the "Te st" Program contest as a result of two
outstanding r e ports concerning
personal contact with two new
customers and a third r eport
on billing procedures that led to
significant savings in reduced
cost and billing.
,-.. EASY TELEPHONE NUMBER
l<.emembering his telephone
number is no job for Amos Williams, of Elk City, Okla. It is
No. 1. and he has had it for 51
years.
"According to Freud, you have

an unconscious desire to punish
yourself."
SAFETY SCORE
1, 488 days
7, 806, 690 hours
WITllOUT /\ LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
"ONE OF OUR FILMS IS

MISSING''
We seem to be mis sing one of
the films in our film library.
It is called "The Atom Goes to
Sea" and concerns nuc lear
powered submarines. If you
have the film, please notify
Employee Relations.
INSPECTION POSTPONED
FOR ONE WEEK
The re gtlar monthly plant inspection originally sche duled
for last night was postponed and
will take place instead, on Mon
day, November 24. Area inspectors will follow the same
time schedule as outlined for
last night's sche duled inspection.
If you think you're hearing

bells today, don't rush off to
the nearest psychiatrist. We
a re merely testing the fire
alarm system for the benefit
of the Factory Mutual Insurance
Company Fire Insp ector who is
ma.king a complete inspection
of our fire prevention and fire
fighting operations here at the
plant.
The Fire Brigade will answer

the first call only and the siren
system will be used today in
the event of a real alarm.
EXPRESS APPRECIATION
Claudine "Lunsford" (MicroMin.) and Dick Fields (Mag.
Winding) have asked us to express their appreciation for
the very nice wedding gifts that
they received from their fellow
workers. Dick and Claudine
were married November 8.
Here from the DuPont Mechanical D e velopment Lab, Philadelphia, to discuss our
Numerical Positioning Controls
and see a demonstration of the
Burgmaster machine are
Messrs. LJ. Ollendori a nd P.
Vance.
GETTING INTO
THE
CHRISTMAS WHIRL?
.s,tMr~
S~.;
CHECK THESE VALUES AT THE EMPLOYEES' STORE
Portable Mixer (White, Pink, Yellow,
or turq.)
19.95
All Purpose Mixer-2 bowls (White,
Yellow, or turq.)
29.95
.Coffee Maker, Deluxe
29. 95
Coffee Maker-P~ek-A-Brew
19.9~
Portable Stean1 Iron
ll. 95
Automatic Budget Iron
9.95
Automatic Lightweight Iron
9.9S
Steam Iron
16.95
Spray Steam Iron
19.95
Probe 1'ype Control for CllOB, S20B, S40B 1.95
Automatic Skillet without lid
(alum. or turq.)
.Aluminum Lid for 0100
Ooppertone Lid for 0100
Automatic Square Sld.llet and Lid
Automatic Skillet without Lid
(alum. or turq.)
Aluminum Lid for 0120
King Size Square Skillet and Lid
12.95
2.50
3.00
14.80
22.25
22.25
lL.80
8.85
7.40
7.Lo
13.35
16.30
5.90
9.6o
1.85
2.25
18.95
13.95
18.95
13.95
20.95
15.50
3.00
2.25
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S,ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD MEWS -
VOL. IV NO, 210
COURTESY Of WA.YB ANO MEWS VlGIHIAM
N o vembe r 19, 1958
For home, for family, for friends, we thank Thee, 0 God; help us to make
our place today a friendly place toward Thee and toward others. Amen.
VISITING SPECIALTY TODAY
Visiting Specia lty Control today
are R. G. Keller and R . D.
Christerson of the Advertising
and Sales Promotion office in
Winston-Salem.
BRITTEN TO RECEIVE AIEE

AWARD AT FRIDAY M E ETING
Fir st place award for the best
technical paper submitted in the
Southeast Di strict of the AIEE
ssociation will be presented to
rlal Britten (A&M Eng.) at the
Blue Ridge Sub-Section AI E' F
meeting Friday, November 21,
at the Westwood.
The award w hich was announ ced

last month was for a paper that
dealt with a simplification of
the t heory of magnetic ampli fiers .
In addition to the award pre sentation, the me e ting will
feature a ta lk on the University
of Virginia Reactor by Dr , J, L.
Meem, Professor of Nuc le ar
Engineering at the Unive rsity of
Virginia,and Director of the
Unive rsity' s Reactor Facility.
SA NT A CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

Santa Claus wi ll visit with the youngsters of
Specialty Controllers on Saturday, December 20,
accor ding to word just flashed from the North
Pol e . The news has started things buzzing at
Specialty and preparations for St. Nick ' a visit
are being rushed along.
CONTROLLERS MAKE
TWO KILLS
Fi rs t reported ki ll this season
by a Specialty Controller, occur red Monday when Ke n Taylor
(Plating) b agged himself a d eer
after work with his shotgun. Th e
buck weighed 100 lbs . dressed
out.
Grover Rankin (Eng. L ab. ) made
the second kill yesterday morning. It was an e i g ht pointer
weighing 180 lb s.
Children are a great comfort in
one ' s old age. T hey help you
get there faster too,
SAFE TY SCORE
1, 489 d ays
7, 816, 204 hour s
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
ONE GROUP of people w ho
seem to h ave discovered the
se c ret of long life are rich
relatives.
"J think you'll like this machine.

Not only is it automatic, hut it also
has power push buttons."
As usual there will be a huge

Specialty Control children's
party in honor of Santa s arrival
with candy, movies and carol
s inging, a Christmas reading
and Chri stm as music by the
Choraliers. As is his usual
cus tom, S a nta will bring toys
for all the kids and will take
their la st minute orders for
Christmas day.
The party will b e held once again
at the Wayn e The atre with the
first group of children attending
from 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM and
the second group attending from
10: 30 AM to 12 Noon.
As he promised, genial Charlie
Diaz will be our Spanish "Kris
Kringle" again this year and the
extra pound or two that Charlie
has added to his middle since he
retired should make him "fill the
bill" better than ever before.
s cOGEE wi ll handle all the
decorating for the party and will.
help keep the children in tow.
More details wi 11 be announced
later but, in the meantime, alert
the kids to b e good - - \cause
Santa Claus is coming to town.
ao
pYOU
. ~AFETY f
l{.ECORD.
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SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYa AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 211
W AYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
No ve mber 20, 1958
Ever y good and perfect gift comes from Thee, 0 God, and we thank Thee
for alt that Thou hast given. Ame n .
UNI ON ORDER ED TO STOP I ~GOOD CLOSE
PI CKE TING AT WINCHESTER
HARMONY
PLANT
Like good close harmony? Enjoy
the old songs? Th e "Bar The National Labor Relations
bershop
Chorus" and qua rte ttes
B oa r d has ordered the United
will
put
on
their second annual
Rubbe r Workers to cease at
parade
December
5. Be sure
o nce its picketing at the Winto
go
!
chester Plant of O'Sullivan
Rubber Corp. It also orde r ed
t h e union to cease the attempte d boyc ott of O'Sulli van
products.
,,........ The case began in 1956 whe n
U RW voted to strike O'Sullivan.
Aft er ne go ti~ tions broke down
the company hired r eplace ments and gradually resumed
fuU production. A rep re sentation ele ction was held in April
1957 and the ne w employees
voted out the union by 288 to 5.
L . S. Buckmaster, head of the
R ubber Workers, lo s t no time
i n attacking the B oard 1 s decision. B uckmaster sugg ested
t h e NLRB should be renamed
t h e "National Big Big Business
R e la tions Board. 11
TEACHERS TO VISIT
SPECIALTY TONIGHT
Specialty Con trol will be host
agai n to area teachers when
approximately 100 faculty mem bers from Wayne sboro schoo l s,
Woodrow Wilson Technical
S c hoo l and Wilson Memorial
High School attend T eachers'
Night here tonight at 7 : 30 PM .
THE WELCOME MAT IS OUT

The welcome mat is out today
for Mr. H . C. Chamberlin of
the Bethl e h e m Steel Research
Lab who is here t o discuss
flame cutting controls for the
shipbuilding industry .
GIRLS BASKET aA LL
MEETING TONIGHT
The SCOGEE girls basketball
team will me e t tonight at 7 PM
sharp in the c afeteria.
Uniforms will be distribu ted so
it is important that all memb ers attend. Please bring
your YMCA fee ,
QUO TE
The great man is too often all
of a piece; i t is the little man
that is a bundle of contradictory
elements . He is inexhaustible.
You never come to the end of
the surprise he h as in store
for you. For my part I would
much sooner spend a month on
a desert island with .a veterinary surgeon than with a prime
minister.
W, S omerset Maugham
The program for this eve ning

will include t a lks b y D r. Rad er
and Mr. Tullo<;:h and a p lan t
tour. A demon stration o f th e
Burgmaster m a chine by C het
Allen will highlight t h e tour .
To ur guides will be Bob
Anderson, Bill F lynn, Ha rr y
Howell, Bill Hunter , Don
McKechnie, B ill West , Bill
Perry, Clarence Wyrick,
Charlie Young and Paul Car on.
The purpose of Teac hers' Night
meetings i s to familiarize area
school teachers with o ur p l ant
and the kinds of work we do s o
that they can b etter p r epare
their student s for j obs in industry, also i t offer s a n opportunity to explore ways i n which
we can assist t hem in t he traini n g of area school children.
SAFE T Y SCORE
1, 490 days
7, 825, 718 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
WHAT OTHERS SAY, , ,
"Worry takes up just a s much
time as work , but doesn' t p a y
as we ll. 11 - - General E l ectric
Newsletter, Pittsfield, Mass.
GOT YOUR TICKET ?
PEOPLE HAVING A GOOD TIME . .. is what you are

l ooking at in this pic ture at the SCOGEE Hallowee n
Dance . Se e any of your friends in the photo? Why
not ask them about the fun at SCOGEE dances - then buy your Sadi e Hawkins Dan ce ticket today .
DON'T MISS T H E SADI E HAWKI NS DANCE, SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 29 , 9 to 1, WAYNESBORO

COUNTRY CLUB. TI C K ETS: $2 . 20 MEMBERS, $3. 30 NON -MEMBERS.
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VOL. IV , NO. 2 12
W A YNESBORO, VIRGINIA
Nove mber 2 1 ,. 1958
W e th a nk Thee, 0 God, for t he ha nd that feeds us , the l ove t h at cares for

u FJ , a nrl the l ife whic h T h ou h ast e ntr us t ed to us. Ame n.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 491 day s
7 , 8 35 , 23 2 hours
AC C I DENT
CHADDERDON AP P OINTED
SUPV, PLANNING-METHODS
A c cording to a Depa rtm e nt in struc ti on j u st r el eas ed, John
F . Chadde rrlon has b e en o fficiall y appoi n t e d to the p<;>siti on of
Supe rvisor-P l anning a nd M e thod s
- the Ai r c raf t a n d M ilita ry
...... p e rations Sub - S e c tion, r epo r ting to the Manage r - Air cra ft a nd
Mili tary Operation s .
Johnny ha s b e en handling t he
duties of hi s n ew p o s ition s ince
he returne d to Sp e cialty Cont rol
the end of S e ptemb e r af t e r be i ng
o n assignments at va rio us pla nts
around the Company a s p a rt of
the Ma nufac turing Training Program .
Prior t o joining the "MTP" prog ram, J o h n was a foreman in
Ai r craft and Milita r y , and i n the
Re l ay ar e a.
DEPT. FIRE ENGINE MAKE S

INTERNATIONAL PAGE S
T W E N T Y - SI X WIN
S UGGESTION A WARDS
Out little fi re fi ghting j e ep jumpe d the inter na tional border news wise r ecent ly whe n it wa s
writ te n ltp in F I.RE F I_GHTING
Magaz ine , a C anadia n publica tion d i stribu t e d to more thatlt
3000 Ca n a dian fi:-e c hie f s and
offi ci a l s .
Twenty- s i x employee s have

thei r Tha nksgivin g tu r k e y paid
for because they took the time
to sugg est a better way t o ge t
Specialty Cont ro l jobs d one ,
BETTER BUY A BALLOON

OR ELSE - -If s ome one d r eE.sed a s a circu s
clown s t op s y ou downtown today
t ose ll yo u a ba llo on, b e tter buy
it b ecause i t ' s C h a rlie Dia z and
he wo n ' t le t y ou off the ho ok .
Actua lly, Charli e i s helping out

a dv e rti s ing the W ay nes boro
Co m mu n ity Hospita l Wo m en's
Aux i li a ry in th i s annual Ho s pit al
Ba zaar whi c h will b e he ld at the
Bapti s t C hur c h Anne x o n Wayne
Ave. GE wife , Mr s . G e or g e
Ro g er s , wi 11 be fo llo wing along
be hind C ha rlie with the une nviabl e j ob of k eep ing Charlie sup pli e d with blown- ~p balloon s.
F REEDOM: being able t o do

what you ple as e wi t hout con sid erin g anyone e xcept the wife ,
police, b os s , life i n s ur a n ce
company, s t a t e , fed e ral a nd
..-(; ity auth orities, and neighbor s.
DEAD GO O U T WITH MUSIC
At Ciooo, J a p a n, a j uk e box near
t he ci t y cr e m a t ory pla y s r e q uest
ed tunes d uring c r e m a tions .
J._::~~
"/fJ)fj.,?""
" If I cnn hold off for f ivr. m n rr.
n1iu t1f(J, it w!ll he tirn yf'nr~ Ri nce
l s topped
s m ok in g~ "
Top award for t h e mon th we nt

to Be ulah Smith (S h i pping ) who
rece i ved $l 5 fo r suggesting a
mon ey savi ng mailing pro cedu r e . Awards of fi ve a nd '
ten dolla r s went to t we nty- fi vt:
other Con trolle rs, seve r a l of
which are r e g ula r performe rs
o n t h e Suggestion Awa r d
"par ade of hits. "
Chr i stmas is just a r ound the
corne r ' so why not take a n o t he r
l ook at your job - - it may mean
some Ch r istma s cash fo r you.
WELCOME TO SPECIAL TY
Visitin g Specialty Con trol today
a r e : Me s s rs. J ., W . Hesser and
W. A. Jami son of t h e N&W Railwa y Co. with Mr . W . C . Jones
of U ser Sal es Offi ce i n Ri c h mond.
Also h e r e today i s M r. No r man
J e glum of the Bendix Co r p . and
Mr. R . W. Petty of C &ID Cin cinna ti Offic e . He r e from othe r
GE lo c ations a r e M e s s rs. W. B.
Ste l zner (A&DI Sales ) K . F
Naure z , Manage r of Sales
(Sp e cialty Motor Dept.), E . B.
Mo n t g ome r y (C omp u ter Dep t.)
and R . Maddoc k (Industry" C o ntr ol) . A warm welcome from
Specialty Control to yo u a ll.
Le la nd R. Coffey
M ag n~ti c Windings
Char l es Pe nnington
S heet Metal
Elle n L. Via
Reg ula tors
Your Ideas May JWean Many \~:

-~
Extra Dollars To YOU .
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VO L . IV , NO. 21 3
No ve mber 2 '-l, 195 8
For l ife , fo r fo od , fo r dai l y ca r e h e r e in the plant a n d at our homes , we

g iv e Th e e o ur t h a nks. Ame n .
A PP RE CIA T ION
Ralph Thu r esson (Eng .) w o uld
l i ke t o thank his fri e nds and
fello w wo rker s in t he Depar t m e nt for thei r kind expressio n
o f s y m p athy o n the d eath of his
fa t h e r.
'.C'. -_: '
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T e a c he r s
TEACHER S TOU R
vi si ting Specialty o n T e ache r s
N ig ht, las t T hur sday, se emed
to enjoy th e i r to ur o f o ur faci li ..-.ties . T hat's g ui de Do n
,1cKe c hni e at th e fa r rig ht.
E i gh t y t e ache r s att ended t he
a f fa ir .
FORME R U NION CHIEF' S
DEFE NSE STRANGE I N DEE D
T acoma, Was h . - - Acc o rdi ng t o
t he Ass ocia t ed P r ess , Da ve
B eck , t he fo rm e r Tea msters
U nion P r es i d ent r ece nt l y j ailed
for mi s approp r iati on of his
un i on' s f un ds, wi ll take a uniqu e
appro a ch for h is d efe nse in hi s
c u r r ent incom e tax evas i o n t ri a l.
Hi s lawye r s d i sc los e th at his de f e nse wi ll be tha t B ec k d id n't
che at on hi s income tax because
he to o k nont axabl e union fu nds
"i n a r a the r p eculiar wa y . "
TODAY ' S VI SITORS

Vis i ti ng Sp e c ial t y Control today
t o d i s c u s s M o to r Spe e d Con t ro l s with our Engi n ee ri ng
pe r sonne l a re Mess rs . P . L.
Alge r and E . John Davies of
.\tfAC, Moto r and Ge nerat or
D ept., S c he n ec t a d y .
LIP - SMACKING THANKSGIVING
SP E C IAL I N CAFE T E R IA
Ma cke Co . will help usher i n
Thanksg i vi n g thi s c omi ng Wed nesday w ith a c omplet e tur key
d i nn e r for only 759 . Check this
mouthwa t e ring b argain:
F r uite d J e llo - Roas t T u rkey
with s a ge d res s i ng - cr a nbe r ry
sauc e - giblet g ravy - cand ied
s we e t potatoes - old fash ioned
fruit c ake - i ce d t ea or l emon a d e - hot r olls and b utter. Mm ,
M m - - b e tter have a light bre ak fas t Wedne sday mo rning .
EMPLOYEES 1 STORE T O
EXTE N D STORE H OURS FOR
CHRISTM AS SEA S ON
Keep i n g pace wi t h the a pp r oa ching C hr i stmas s eas o n , the
Empl oyees ' Sto r e will exte nd
i ts store ho urs a n extra day be g i nning De c embe r l a nd plans
late r i n the m onth t o o p en daily
a nd stay open e v e ning s for t he
c o nve ni ence of emp lo y ees'
Chr istmas s h opping needs.
I n additi o n to the regu lar Mon da y and T hu r sday h o urs , t he
Employe e s ' St ore wi ll b e open
eve r y d a y fr om t hen u ntil
C h r i s tm a s. T o ac comoda te
e mplo yees who wi s h to s hop a t
t he ~mp loyee s' Sto r e wi th t he i r
familie s , the s t o r e will ke e p
e vening hours a fter De ce mber
15 from 6 P M t o 9 PM.
THE SMALLEST PLANT
"HOW d o you do, my de ar? 1 s aid

~ o l d lad y to t he li ttle gi r l.
. uite we Li, thank yo u, " was the
polite r e ply . The re w a s a pau s e
a n d t hen the old l ady as k ed, "Why
don ' t y o u as k h o w I am?" " Bec au s e, " said t he c hild calmly,
" I' m not int e r e sted. "
G ene r al E le c tri c ' s n e w P l a i nv ille , O hio, Compressing

Stat i o n, p ar t o f the L amp W i r e
and Phosphor s Departme nt, i s
p roba bly t he small e st p l a n t in
th e C o mpa ny. The plan t
mea sures 5 0 b y 54 fee t and em ploys t wo p e o p le.
" De a r, show Ha rvey where the

kitchen light is, would'ja please?"
SAF E TY SCOR E
1, 4 94 da ys
7, 844, 74 6 h ours
WITHOUT A LOST T I ME
ACCI DENT
Time
IS
Money!
THE HOURS WE WASTE ARE GOLDEN HOURS

AND ST AND FOR MONEY LOST,
FOR EVERY IDLE MINUTE SPENT
WE HAVE TO MEET THE COST.
THE MAN WHO WASTES TWO HOURS A DAY
HAS HINDERED HIS CAREER,
AND SHORTENED UP HIS WORKING TIME
SIX HUNDRED HOURS PER YEAR.
MAKE EVERY MINUTE COUNT FOR SUCCESS !
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PUBLISHED BV THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

VOL. IV, NO. 214
COU RTESY OF WAYS AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
NovP.mbc r 25, 1958
He lp u s to be grateful.for this food and u se 1rn t o render s ervice to Thee .
E. P. CLASS SHIFTS DATES

Th e Effective Pres entation class
w ill n ot m e et to morrow night .
b ut will make u p the class on
Tuesday, Dece mber 2 , Th~
make-up s ession will be held i n
the p la nt dispens ary.
~ngratulations
to our n ew patent
._ .torney, Jim Williams, who
just became th e dad of a baby
boy. No statistics available
other tha n the baby and Mrs.
Williama a re doing well.
QUARTZ THREAD LATEST
G. E. PROGRESS ITE M
A wi de range of pos s ible commercial and industrial applica tio n s oi a new quartz thread,
d e veloped by General Ele c tric 1 s
L amp Glass Depa r tme nt in
Cle ve land, Ohio , is forese e n by
d epar tment marketing p ersonnel.
S ENDING C HRISTMAS
PRESENTS O VERSEAS
T HIS YEAR?
The Post Offic e a nd Defense
Dep t. advise that C hr is tmas
parce l s for oversea s be mailed
righ t now fo r sur.f ace deli ve ry
(ship) and by DecembeT 10 for
air mail delivery o verseas .
When sending Chri s tm as cards
to ser vice men and service women
overseas, keep in mi nd that APO
and FPO a ddre sses do not provide for letters t raveling by air
on a 4 cent~ stamp. Se ven c ents
in stamps must be put on en ve lope s togethe r with the "Air
Mail" marking .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 495 days
7, 854, 308 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Amen.
SIXTH PAID HOLIDAY

COMING UP ON THURSDAY
To ns of turkey, gallons of cider
a nd acres and acres of sweet
p otato es will disappear fro m th e
W aynesbor o scene as t h ~ local
citizenry obser1e t he 1958
Th anksgiving holiday here Thu rs.
<lay. Mothero and w ives w ho
fac e the big job of Frep aring the
family Thant a gi ving fea sts pr ob ably h ave t hei r o wn ideaf:! as to
whethe r or not Thanksgivi r.g is a
holiday.
S pecialty Contro lleis. of cours e,
will take their s ixth paid holi rl<ty
of the year on Thursday. H o urly
ernployecs who were added to
the p ayro ll. before October 29
will be eligible to re ceive holi day pay this Thursday since t hey
will have been on the payroli for
3 0 days. Hourly emplo yees ar e
remin de d that abs enc e from w o-k
on a scheduled work day befo:e
or after a holiday ~'ithout jus ti fiable reason disqualifies a n e mployee from ho liday pay.
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SCOGEE GALS IN
FIRST BASKETB ALL MEET
TONIGHT
The thread - - one of the most

heat-resistant materials on
earth for its weight - - is
goss amer -thin, continuous munof ilaments of fiber ma a~ from
pure quartz.
The SCOGEE girls basketball

team will play the i r first game of
the se ason tonigh t at 8 PM at
W aynesbo r o High School where
they W: 11 m eet the 11 Little
Dig ge r s . 11
L et's ge t some Specialty Control
i a ns cut to the game
to che er the gir l s to victory !
ba. s~<etball
"Never wind tl!e N'InisiUon just

get more pota~IJ salsd."
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SCOGEE SADIE HAWKINS DANCE
Saturday -- November 29 - 9 to l
Jimmy Lundsford 1 s Band
Members $2 . 20 per couple
Guests $3. 30 per couple
SEE YOUR SCOGEE TICKET SELL ER
RIGHT AWAY!
. '7/E..'~~- .
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SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORlD NEWS - COU RTESY OF WAY8 ANO NEWS VI RGINIAN
VOL. I V
NO. 215
WAYNESBO RO, VIRGINIA
Novembe r 26, 1958
For food and health and life and lo ve , h e lp us to be g rate fu l and h umb le befo r e
Thee, Amen.
IBM A D DRE SS CAR DS

T O BE DISTRIB UTED FRI DAY
WITH P A YCHECKS
Bob McKenzi e, Mana ge r of

Payroll, r eports that IBM c ar ds
wi ll be mailed out with all
che cks on Friday for purpo se s
of ve rifying a nd correc ti ng e mp loye es ' nam es and add r esse s
as they appear on our records
so that i ncome tax W -2 forms
will r e port the c o r r e ct ad dresses of a ll empl oyees.
T h e IBM card will show th e
employee ' s n a me and addr e ss
as it cur r ently a p pears o n De par t ment recor d s . Eac h em p loye e should c heck t h e card
c arefull y a nd m ak e wha teve r
addr ess c h anges a r e n e ces s ar y
dire c tly on t he I BM ca r d.
Corre c t cards should be m a rked 11 0 , K. 11 T he card should
th en be initiale d and r e tur n e d to
r e spective supervisors.
ENGAGED
A noth e r Spe cialty Con t rol
bache lor h a s bitten the d us t .
This time i t' s J ohnny Butl er
( Eng. ) w ho b ec ame e n gage d thi s
we e k to a local nu rse , M i ss
Phyllis Van Fo sse n . An A p ril
wedding is p l anned.
HAPPY THANKSGlVlNG DAY lSl
While Amc ri cani; ge n e r a ll y c ons ide r t he holiday a s dating ba ck t o the

day of Tha nksgivi ng o rd e red by G overnor Bradford of P l ymout h
Colony i n 162 1, ..,._rna ny scholar s of hi story point o ut t hat the d a ys o f
thanks gi ving s t em from a n c ie nt time s .
G A L S G ET G O BBLERS
The fir s t A me ri can Thanks g i v ing w a s ce l eb r a te d natio n -wide
Those g r e a t b i g SCOGEE
(colonial - wide , tha t i s ) o n
tu rkeys a re on thei r way to the
Thu r sda y, De cember 18, 17 7 7
Thanks givi ng ta b le . Winn i ng
in obse rva nce of the s u rr e n de r
nu m bers i n yeste rd a y' s drawin g
of B r itish Ge n eral B ur goyne at
we r e 0000 6 a nd 00153 b e longing
S chuy le rville , N . Y. I n late r
to Char l ot te Bar n es (A i rc r a f t
ye a rs t he Thank s g i ving ho liday
Ass e mbly) and M a ry Bridgeforth w as o b se r ved o n the fourth
(R & R) .
Th u rsday of Novembe r i n s om e
state
s a nd t he last Thur s d ay in
SCOGE E H O O P S T ERS LOSE
others
. P r esident Linc o l n in
I N INITIAL CONTEST
18 64 proclaimed t he las t Thur s day as the d ay and subsequent
The SCOG EE Gi r l s Ba sketball
P residents follbwe d s uit until
t eam los t the i r opener last
Pr e s . Ro o s e velt w ho declar ed
ni g ht t _o th e Litt l e Di ggers , 2 3
an ear lier date . The sta tes c on.
to 35 . H i g ll sc or e r s fo r our s ide
tin ued to adhe re t o the holiday
we re Ch a r lo t t e Bar n es a nd
o n d iffe r ent Ciates and in 19 4 1,
L enora Wine .
C ong r ess d eclar ed t h e foutt h
T hursday i n Novemb ~r to be a
national legal holida/ .
SI NCER E THANKS
,fa r gie Davi s (Sma ll P ane l
wi s h es to e xpr ess
her d ee p a pprecia tion f or th e
kind e xpressions of s ympa thy
she r ece ive d on the d eath of h e r
brot her.
Tomor row w ill ma r k th e 337 th anni ver s a r y of the first T hank s giving
in Ame ri c a , and whi le e ve r yone has b e en in agreement th a t it is a
w orthwhile t r aditio n to b e c ontinued , the date o f th e holi day has l ed tc
much d i sag r e ement over t he y ear s .
~l ectroni cs )
- ~-- .-"--
"Soon this land will be ouri a gain !

Palefa ces go I ,., moon lw
O u t of a ll t his c onfu s ion, the

matte r seem s to have been
se ttled finally, and n ow a.ll Ht;;i.t::;s
a nd terr i t o r i es c e l e b ra te the
la st Thursday a s T h anks g i ving
Da y . Thank sgiving tu rkeys
have t a k e n no s tand on t he
mat te r - - they alw ays g et i t in
th e neck no m at ter wha t. day it
is !
the rich harvest, a renewed faith, the preservation of life itse1 But
for people who had risked so much to escape from tyranny, the great
est thanks must have been for their new freedoDl.
Since then. a soil fertile with freedom has come to yield more bountiful harvests
than any other land in the world.
Yet. with all these material trcasllres, our greatest thanks are still for frcedomwhich inspired the heritage of our way of life,and is th~ richest endowment we oo.
passoo.
SPECIALTY
CONTROL
DEP ARTMENT
GENERAL. ELECTRIC
'S
NEWS
PUBLISHED I V THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION A S A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WOlO NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIA,.,
OL. I V , N O. 216
November 28, 1958

WAYNESBO RO, VIRGINIA
S a nctify the food we eat to the strengthening 01 our bodies and help us to use
the strength to serve T hee and our fellow man. Amen.
"CHECK & DOUBLECHECK"
Bill C onna u g hton (P rocess Contro l Lab) checks t he accuracy

of a ring gear used i n a rotary
table application of our Mark I
Numerical Positioning Control.
See Proc:ess Lab story ins i de.
TURKEY A N YONE?
Specialty Controllers got t h e ir
fill of turkey this Th;:inksgiving
if th e ir appetite s for turkey on
Thank sgivi ng day were any t h i n g
like the demand for turke y in
the cafeteria Wedne sday. With
mor e than half of Spec i alty Con trol lining up for the Thanks g i ving Speci a l , Wednesday, the
c afeteria t emporarily ran out of
turkey and a hurried call had to
be put through to the commi s sary in Fishersville to se nd an
additional 100 turkey dinners to
the plant.
I n all, some 550 turk ey dinners
were s er ve d and although some
folks had to wait in line a bit,
they generally agreed that it
was worth the wai t.
"Che ck a nd doublecheck" - - a
phrase made famous by" Amos
and Andy" during the g olden
years of radio - - is more than
just a catch phrase at Spec i alty
Control. See the picture story
on the i nside of TODAY ' S
NEWS.
SU BS TO BEAT NAUTIL US
The United States Navy is d e s i gni ng subma rines t hat will
make the first atomi c sub, the
Nautilus, "look like a Model T"
and that will be as big as nava l
cruisers , Cmdr . Erman 0 .
Proctor said in a speech in
G r oto n, Conn. , to stu dent s i n the
Navy's submarine school.
SIGN OF
THE TIMES
E MP L O Y EES S TORE O P EN
FOR BUSI N E SS T O DAY
Getting a little head start on the
Chri stmas schedule , the Em p l :>yees St ore w i ll be open to day from 11:15 A M to 1:15 PM
and from 4 : 00 P M to 4:30 P M.
Beginni ng this coming Wednes day, the E mp l oyees Store will
be open on Wednesdays in
addi tion to Mondays and Thurs days . As previously announced,
the Empl oyees Sto r e operation
will relocate December 15 to
the auditorium to better accom odate employe es during the
Christmas season. At that
time the store will be open
Monday thr oug h Fridays at
regular store hours a n d 6 PM
to 9 PM.
T h ought for Today - - The man
who wakes up to find himself
famou s , has not be en asleep.
O ver the incoming door of the

L i s Ange l es Tax Bur eau is a
sign "W a t ch Your Step . 11 A s ign
over the outgoi ng door says ,
"Watch Y our Lang ua ge . 11
"Fr ee Ga s to All People 80 Years
Old A ccompani e 11 by T h e ir
Parents , 11 says a s ign on an
I ndianapolis fi lling station.
SAF ETY SCORE

1, 498 day s
7, 8 7 3, 432 hour s
W I THOU T A LOST TIME
A CCIDENT
Buy C hri s tm as Sea ls
"Anybody besides Fedderman

want to put in for a different territory?"
"CHECK AND DOUBLE-CHECK"

"Gheck and double-check" - - a phrase made
Andy" during the golden years of radio -- is
phrase at Specialty Control , for it describes
cedure that guarantees that our products are
pass inspection.
famous by "Amos and

more than just a catch
a Quality Control proreally right whe n they
What we're talking about, obviously, is the double-check that Quality

Control makes when it carefully inspects the condition and measures
the accuracy of measuring equipment such as calip ers, g uages and
micrometerc which are used in the Department. These checks are
made by the Process Control Laborator y along with other checks of
precision measurements on the control equi pment which we build
h ere. The Process Control Lab is called upon some times to
measure tracer heads, ge ar boxes and other equiprnent to a<:curac ies
which are measured in millionths of an inc h.
Working with such hairline accuracies , naturally, requires some
delicate measuring equipment - - so delicate, in fact, that a few
degrees of temperature, or a change in atmospheric pressure or
relative humidity can make an important difference in the measurements.
Our Process Control Lab was recently moved from its old location
next to the tool cage to an enclosed area where b etter control of
these variables affecting precision measurements could be maintain ed.
Manned by Bill Connaughton and Reinhold Kerber, and supervised by
Jack Davis, the new lab is kept at an average of 44% humidity at all
times and its temperature is controlled between "t 1 . Lighting in the
lab is also important and the light is diffused by me a ns of baffles
mounted on the lighting fixtures. The new loc ation also eliminates
the vibration that occurred from time to time in the v icinity of the
tool room.
The equipment currently being used b y the new Process Control Lab
includes: a Leitz Toolmaker's Microscope, an opti cal dividing head,
an electro-limit comparator, an electronic height g uage, We b e r
precision angle blocks, Do-All master blocks, a master cylindri cal
square, optical flats and monoc hromatic light, a super-micrometer
and an auto-collimator.
Sounds like Greek to most of us -- but it makes good sense to our
customers who depend so heavily upon the dependability of ou r
products.
The toolm.
scop f'~ e<
parts ~'-' al
fifty millic
Connaught
the device
:ers' micros ,,,-..... made

iCl.. .... racy of
ths. Bill
t demonstrates
Bill Connaughton (right) is shown calibrating and inspecting a new type air guage to be used later in our
manufacturing operations . At the left, Reinhold Kerber
shows how he uses the auto-collimater to check the surface flatness of a new surface plate. The collimater
showed the flatness of the plate to be level to within fift)
millionths of an inch over an area of six square feet.
Il
~ ...
.......
_;, ._...... '6;;-..r
--.t
The electro limit guage checks

height, width, and thickness to
twenty millionths of an inch.
Reinhold Kerber is calibrating
the guage with a precision
guage block prior to inspecting
some manufacturin~ parts.
M1RKETIIG
PLANT INSPECTION REPORl'

B&TIBGS USED FOR
100%
75S
50%
25%
fLANT
IISfBOTIQB
Good
Fair
Poor
Unacceptable
DEDUCTIBLE POINTS
Material Handling
Work Area
Satet7 Hazards
Fire Hazards
MlimNANQI - Inap. - F. Curto
Room 253 - Score 75 Aver 5(J

Room 267 - Score.- '1J ~Aver 8'1
Building 15 - Score.75 Aver 79

'Bpilding 16 - Score 75 Aver 79
Maintenance Shop - Score 75
Aver 89
EBQIIEEBIIG
-25
-25
-25
-25
Vibration & Drive Rm - Score 50

Aver 84 No improvement
Qontrol Rm - Score 50 Aver 84
. Dark Ba - Bevelop Score 75
--------------------------!Aver 84.
MAT SUB SECTION - Insp. Hmaphre7s' Dark Rm - Product
warehouse - Score 75 Aver 94

Fire exit obstructed.
Jiu EIG - Insp. - Philpott
~_fool Rm - (Failing) Score 75

...Aver 93 Foreman's Desk.
. -'bttices - (Slater) Score 75
'Aver 95 Suppl7 caltinet
housekeeping poor.
Score 75
Aver 84
1
Model Shop - Score 75 Aver 95
}
Mdn Eng. Lab - Score 75 Aver 92 I
Rms - 205 - Score 75 Aver 85
Fan not properl7 stored.

CONGRATULATIONS if
209 - Score 75 Aver 84
your area or room number is
not mentioned in this plant
! 223 - Score 75 Aver 78
inspection report.
! 229 - Score 75 Aver 95
234 lo9 Score 75 Aver 90
It means that you, received a
271 - Score 75 Aver 97 Inproper 1000/o rating -- and that's gooc
~ storage matl outer office.
housekeeping in anybody's bo~
: t1J>8vri ter not being recessed.
i 613 _ Score 75 Aver 97
; 28S -283 - Score 75 Aver 92
: cardboard must be of some real
! value.
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1
- - - - - - - - - - - - -. . .!.
~ - (Eirich) Insp. V. Bare

Maohine Area - (Quick) Score 75
Aver 88 Tray mixed material.
A & M QUALITY CONTROL - (Sussman)

Inspector - Wiles
Jeep Test - Score 50 Aver 89
Satet7 hazard,. poor housekeeping.
Beg & Elect. Drive - (Fitzgeral)
Score - 75 Aver - 71 Poor
housekeep1 ng on Mezz.. MG set
It
CR
. JTol)
Rm - Score 75 Aver 93
~~rlootAUa~~~* ~-t~
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'S NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WA.YB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 217
December 1, 1958
Not only do we thank Thee for our food, but we thank Thee for Jesus Christ
our Savior. Amen.
NEED MORE PLAYERS FOR
GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM
Team Manager Joan Craig reports that-the SCOGEE Girls
Basketball team will meet tonight for practice at 7:00 PM in
the Jackson-Wilson gym.
Johnny Chadderdon and Bob
Strack, who will be coaching
the team, have issued a call
for more players for the team.
If you played in the Specialty
Control Girls Intramural
~ asketball League before -why not try out for the team ?
SPECIALTY PAY NOT
AFFECTED BY LATEST
C OF L INDEX CHANGE
Westinghouse employees at
V e rona last week received a
downward adjustment in pay
based upon the Cost-of-Living
Inde x which w ent from 123. 9 to
123. 7 in O c tober.
Becaus e Specialty Controt
fi gures its Cost-of-Living Index
on a different base than the
V e rona Westinghouse plant, the
late st adjustment in the Costof -Living Index did not require
a downward adjustment in hour ly and non-exempt pay at
Specialty Control.
Employe e s are reminded, howe ver, that our Cost-of-Living
~. ay adjustments can also move
up or down in accordance with
a full one half of one percent
c hange in the Government's
C ost-of-Living Index based
upon the S e pte mbe r 1955 inde x.
NECESSITY
IS
MOTHER
OF
INVENTION
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention and that's the story of
the Convair 880 Sub-Panel Tester which is now being used by Aircraft Test.
The "necessity" was the reducing of manufacturing losses on this job
by pin-pointing troubles in the early assembly stages when repairs
could be made easily, quickly and at a minimum of expense. The
"invention" was the 11 880 Sub Panel Tester", pictured here, which
is used to test the six 11 880 11 sub-panels which we build here.
Eliminating costly test time and
troubleshooting during final
test, the tester is partially
automatic and can test the R e lay
Pan for 49 functions in less
than one minute through the u s e
of stepping switche.s and r e lays.
If something is faulty in the
equipment the tester stops and
two lights indicate the cir c uit
GETTING READY TO TEST
in which the fault occurs. By
THE 880 -- Sam Preson (Elec..:
easy reference to a trouble tronics Test) makes an adjusts
hooting chart the trouble c an
ment on the 880 Sub Panel
be
pin-pointed in just a fe w
Tester while A/C Testman Ken
minutes.
Morris looks on.
THANKS FOR CARDS
Cecil Beckner (Shipping) wisnes
to express her thanks to all who
sent cards and flowers to her
husband during his recent illness.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 501 days
7, 882, 994 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Dieting is the penalty for exceeding the feed limit.
The 11 880 Tester" was designe d

principally by Arc hie Pallino
(former Q. C. engineer in Aircraft). The automatic R e lay
Pan tester was designed by
Sam Preston (Electronics Test).
A completely "home-grown"
device, the 880 tester was built
right here in Specialty by Bill
Gallagher, Connard Howd y s h e ll,
and S a m Preston, all of Wilson
Fitzge rald's Test Equipment
group. Modifications, limits of
test instructions, .a nd c h eckout
of the device was handle d by
Q. C. Enginee r H a rold Knuepp e l
Thig Chriglmag GivQ __ _
''CORD REEi.
Cleaner
II
A de luxe bompa nion to

the famous G-E "Swivel-Top"
-the fast e st selling
v acuum cleaner
in America's
retail
stores.
MODl!LC-7-,
beautifully 1tyled
in 1Iade irreen
and chrome.
N ew
...a nd on d isplay at the store ...
$58.95
'S NEWS

S' ORTS. NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAY& AND NEWS Vl GINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 128
December 2, 195 8
For food and health and life and love, help us to be grateful and humble before Thee.
Amen.
SCOGEE LOOKING FOR XMAS
TREES TO CUT DOWN &. SELL
The latest project in SCOGEE 1 s
energetic program to build its
Building Fund, is the selling of
Christmas trees. What they
need right now is an offer of
cedar and pine trees whi c h they
can cut down and sell. If you
have property with such trees on
it and are willing to let SCOGEE
cut them down for Christmas,
please contact SCOGEE Pres i dent Jim Austin or Bill Perry in
1ployee Relations. Meantime
-- plan to buy ,your tree this year
from SCOGEE and help the
Building Fund grow.
NOTE OF APPRECIATION
Grace Simmons (2nd shift) drop ped us a little note on behalf of
the 2nd shift, asking us to express their appreciation to the
Macke people for arranging to
provide the 2nd shi ft with the
T hanksgiving special dinner last
Wednt:ts'day night.
-'Qy'- ''-~
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I
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,
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Dee Mii'ler_:(Eng . ) had a proud

grin on his face Friday as he
announced the arrival of his
second son, Stephe n Kent ( 7 lbe
2 oz.) on Thanksgiving Day.
Little Stephen and Mrs. Miller
are both doing well . Besides a
4 year old girl, Patricia, the
Millers have a 3 year old boy,
Timmy, who was born on
Christmas Day. Apparently
Dee plans to have one in honor
of each paid holiday.
GIRL'S BASKETBALL TEAM
MEETS CROMPTON AC'S
The GE girl's basketball team
will play their second game tonight at 7:00 PM in the Waynesboro High School East Gym.
Thei r opponents this time will be
the Crompton AC's . You can
help our girls win by going out
to the game tonight and giving
them a little moral support.
LET ME TE L L YOU HOW I
1 don't know why I ever let you

talk me into things like this I"
The king of Italian counterfeiters

has offered the Bank of Italy his
invention for making paper
money. He says his method is as
good as the goverrunent 1 s .. . .
and cheaper I
SAFETY SCORE
1, 502 days
7, 892, 546 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
FACTORY FEELING EFFECT

OF NAVY P6M CANC E LLATION
Th~ effect of the U.S. Navy's
cancellation last week of the
balance of its ord e r for P6M
SeaMaster aircraft is being
'strongly felt here at S p e c ialty
where we build seve ral of th e
regulating pane ls for the SeaMaster 1 s electrical s ystem. L ac k
of suffici e nt funds was th e
principal reason for the Navy's
decision to cut back on P6M
orders.
The cancellation will mean a los s

of about $135, 000 in unfilled
orders on our books and brings to
an immediate halt any work cu rrently in process in t he factory.
Approximately 79 P6M panels
were scheduled to be built.
in December, and others wer e
scheduled for the next severa l
months. P6M panels include the
Fl06, Hl08, Fl20, Fll3 and the
Ml85.
While the consequenc es of t his
loss of orders for th e P6M ha s
not been finally determined, i t i s
expected that our factory operations will be significantly affected in the next few months.
December production schedul e s
in the Aircraft and Military area
are being rearranged and o t h e r
steps are being taken to offset
the effects of t h e canceliation on
our business.
The door to the room of succe ss
swings on the hinges of opposition.
They're Taking
Farnsworth
H lng e swin ger
sat acron !he d esk fro m Ains

berry T. Bimsbom, owner a nd
manager of the Paro mov nt
Ba thtub Plug Company.
" I w ant lo go lo w ork for
Paramount," said Mr . Hinge
swinger earnestl y, " b ecause
in m y time a s a b a thtub p lug
ri ng rigge r, I've found that
your co mpany is tho leade r
in the fl old ."
Mr. Bimsbom b lushed mod
estl y, nodding h i, app recia tion.
Mr. BinH b om . Alter all, yo v

are the own e r and m anager
of P ~. ramovnt Ba th tu b Plu g
Mfg . Co . Na o no con !e ll yo u
w h ot to do, lot a lone fl ro
yo u."
"Oh, but you're mis take n,"
corrected Mr. Blmsbom . He
t hen pointed ou t that If his
com pan y covtd not produce
as g ood o r b dtte r bathtu b
plugs a s the noxl man u facturer, ho could lose his job
b e ca use o f lack of deman d
for his p roduct. His company
w ould go broke .
" I've hea rd abou t yo u too,"
Chance at Paramount
m u't guarantee to k eep econ-
omy level, e nabling peop le to

!-ivy b< lhtu b plugs at a con
slston t rc.it e. Th ere must ne ve r
b e lnnatlon, or ta x Increases,
or loriffs or onytHng like thot.
We'l l b e assu re d of on incom e
o f p redicta b le si ze .
2 . Com pe titors- must guarantee n ev er to m ak e o prod
uct b elte r tho n o vrs, ond a lso
p rom ise to g e t out o f business
w ithin a prescribed ti me. Thus
we n eed n 't w orry abovl others de veloping b elte r meth
p roduct. We'll never hove to
in vest money in research fo r
b olter ways, o r ho ve lo clo e
up becau se of lost b usinen .
on tce to p rovide material s a t
r igge r . You co n start to work
o se t co st which neve r goes
3. Suppliers -
mu st . gvor
vp, no matter whet. We'll al

w a ys k now wha t our o p e rat -
He extende d h is hand
~o
close th e a greemen t.
" Thot's imple log ic," ac k no w ledged Mr. Hingeswing

er.
''Furth ermore,"
sa id
M r.
Bimsbom, leaning bock in his

r ha ir- C" ncl p lacin~ ~i s fc ~t on
''Wait," said the v ete ran

bathtub ring rigg e r a s h e
studied the to e of his shoe .
" First I wont a job security
guarantee._ I mean iro n-clod
onvrance that I w on't b e laid
off in a y ear or tw o b ecause
of la ck of w ork and that I'll
n ever re ceive lou than a t e rrain wa ge, no matter w hat."
Mr. Bi msbom lvrned lo

g a ze ovt !he w indow with
dreamy e yes.
" Wi llicke rs J'" he exclai m ed
e mot io na lly, " thot wo uld be
ideal." He returned sadl y to
his
sWivel
chair,
!he d esk, " lf e ve ryo ne decid ed

to sto p toking ba ths . .. o nd
in thi s oge of scie nce n othing
Is impossible . . . well, I'd be
a ll wa she d vp ond so wo uld
o ll o f m y employees."
Mr. Hingcswinyer sto od up ,
p roducing o pencil o nd scrap
of paper from his p ocket.
ing costs w ill be, and so t:1e

price o f o p era ting will never
affect woges.
4. Cu stomers -
must gua r -
antee to bvy ovr bathtub

p lug s a nd not to buy ony
01hc r brand . The y must p rom ise to bu y o certai n num ber
of bathtub p lugs e c1ch yeor so

thn t th~ com p an y w ill h ove
gua ra n teed
incorno
w age s .
5. Em p loy ees - must g uar

o nlee ne ver to osk fo r p ay
ra ises wh ic h migh t ra ise co st
of
production,
enda ngering
g uara nteed wages .
6 . S h or e owne r s "We 'll have to get s ig ned

ag reem en ts," he said thoug htfu lly. " To g uarantee your job
so that you con g u arantee my
job, we'll ha ve to got g ua rantees fr~m alma1t e veryb ody
the re 11."
He q uick ly scribbled o vt a
list a nd showed ii to Mr . Bims
born. This Is .how it rcad 1
however,
must
guarantee to co ntin ue invos ting in th e comp an y a t a ro te
consistent w ith the cost for

replacemen t
tools,
and
of
machin e ry,
eq u ipment,
worn - out
buildings
no
" Now," sighed Mr. Bimsbom, " all w e hove to do is g o

ou l a n d gel e ve rybody to sig n
them . As soon as w e g et the m
signed , I' ll b e p rep a red to
guaran tee my job and yours
too , Mr. Hing eswing er."
matter
how ov r d ividen ds com pa re

w ith 1hose offered by o the r
investments.
The bothtvb p lug king took
Mr. Hi ngeswin g er gentl y by
th e a rms.
a d d ing, " I can't gel job socvr

ity for myself, to say n ot hing
of gellin g it for yov."
" l ovely," replied Mr. Hinge.

grin . He started thin k ing
nhou t the r~ oc e of rnind b o th
Mr. Bims bom and h e w ould
e njoy with guaranteed job se -
G UARANT EE US
J O B SECURITY
The ring rigge r snickered at
the state m e n t, th e n sa id g oo d -
r>a tvredly, " Yo.v 're joshi ng m e,
1. Wo rld a nd n otiona l and

stole a nd local governme nts-
"My b oy, my boy ," s aid

Mr. Bims bom in a hus he d
voice, his eyttS brimming w ith
tea rs of gratitude, "you're a
geni us."
He rustled th roug h h is desk
Tne owner allowed o s ho w

it w a s.
" Well, look here Mr. Bims
b om . I can't really afford to
w a it and I don' t imagine you
con either. I' m willing to tok e
o chonce with yovr comp ony
ii you' re will ing to toke o
ch a nce
wi th
me ."
" Yo~
mean,'' the bathtu b

p lug king excla imed, " you're
will ing to let a ll these job e
cvri ty ag reem ents g o down
the drain ?"
" Well," replied Mr. Hinge
swinger, "maybe not a ll of
the m. There is o n e th a t mig h t
do t ho trick ."
curity .
" I'll a l10 ho ve to g ive yo u

a g ua ran tee that I'll ma na g e
the company the b ttSt w ay
pouiblo,'' Mr. Bims bom said ,
"that I' ll a lways b e foi r, and
tha t I'll n ever be crou. The n
yo u sign a g uarantee that
you'll a lw ays make bathtu b
plug ri ngs a t top speed a n d
effi ciency every work ing minute o f every working day a n d
that y ou'll n eve r g e l sick or
b e late fo r work . That way
we'll hove fl nal au uro nce
that ou r prod 1Jcl w ill b e t he
best, which 11 o ne assurance
that w e'll both a lways have
our jobs a t a steady ra te of
p a y."
Mr . Bim sbom frow n

bit lhovghtfv lly. A l length a
smile creased ~. is loce a nd a
new light sprun g into his
eyes.
" By jov e, you're rig ht!" he
boomed. "We s hall have a
verba l agreement b e twoon
ou rselveJ tha t I' ll manage the
compan y a s best I co n."
" And I," echoed Mr. Hingosw inger, "sha ll rig p lu1i 1 to
t he best of m y a bility."
The y shook hands a m id the
piles of po per.
T.hoy smiled o l each o ther .

Bv t in t he m idst o f the n ew
found compatibility, a d read
lv l rea liza tion come to the
exp e rt bat htub p lug ri n g rig
aer. He su rvoyed the closely
packed towering stocks of
ha nd-written a gre ements.
PEOPLE WHO CAN
50me concerns, suc h a s our
com petitors w h o m ight . - .

b it narrow mindud
signing."
Mr. Hin geswing1u replied
tha t he'd ju st thought of the
some thi n g .
swinger with o n e nthusia stic
w ith
which to g uarantee jobs a nd
all these a round and get

th em signed . And !h ere o re
"At a ny rate ," he sa id, "I

d on't t hink we co uld get them
o il sig n ed by tomorrow. And
that's w hen yo u wonted me
to start wo rk in t he riggi r1y
roo m, Isn' t it?"
od s or turn ing ou t o be tte r
a id the bathtub p lug king as

he rea rranged the opir1n
toble ls on his desk. "Those in
the !rode tell me yo u' re a lop
romo rrow. "
dra w e rs fo r po p er ond pen

ells. "We'll sta rt w riting up a ll
agreements rig ht a w a y," said
the o w ner.
Som e tlmo late r, the two
wear y m e n loid d own !he ir
p e ncils o nd looke d o b ovt
!he m o l lhc towering stocks
of ag reements they'd a u tho red .
" How many of t he se o y1ee

m e nh are t he re here?'' he
osked .
" Abo ut hal f o billion , I'd
ao y, " Mr. Bimsbom rem arke d.
And the some reali za tion then
hit Mr. Bimsborn.

" By g o ds," he soid, " I ju>t
ha ven 't got the slo ff to toke
"And if we do our be st,"

Mr . Hingeswinger
a dded,
" chan ces o re we'll b e togethe r
for o lo n g time. Yes, we' I~
hove to toke o u r choncr
g et her ."
And that's wha t t hey're
d o ing toda y. Be ca u se no body
bu t nobody con guaran te e o
jo b or a wage I
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VOL. IV, NO. 129
December 3, 1958
Sanctify the food we eat to the strengthening of our bodies and help us to use the strength
to serve Thee and our fellow man. Amen.
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S&S PLAN. WINS HUGE ACCEPTANCE

~pecialty
ELLMINATE IT I
GE LADY HOOPSTERS
TAKE FIRST GAME
'"le SCOGEE girls basketball
bounced back from last
week's defeat to clobber the
Crompton AC'~ last night 43-17.
High scorers were Charlotte
Barnes and Franny Moyer. On
Tuesday next our gals tangle with
the J. J. Newberry team,one of
the strongest in the league.
~earn
MEN'S BASKETBALL
SEASON OPENS TONIGHT
The SCOGEE men's basketball

team open their season in the A
Division of the YMCA League tonight as they meet the YMCA's
at 8:00 PM in the Waynesboro
High School East Gym.
This year's SCOGEE team looks
like the best one we 1 ve had to
date. There will be plenty of
~ 009- basketball at these games
o come on out -- enjoy yourselves -- and cheer the GE
lads along.
THE MAN who wins may have
been counted out several times,
but didn't hear the referee.
Control employees showed evidence of t hP. ir good judgment

this w e ek as 98. 3% of all Department employees signed up for the
Savings and Security Program. With some people away from the
plant on business trips and other employees out for illness, it is expected that the final percentage of participation will rise to 99%.
RAT TS VERY SORRY TO SEE
CATT FAMILY MOVE AWAY
In an unusual twist, the Ratts
are unhappy since the ~atts are
no longer around. The Catts
have moved to a different
n e ighborhood in Goldsboro, N. C.
Until the move, Mr. and Mrs.
T. R. Ratts and Col. and Mrs.
Harold J. Catt, along with nine
little Catts, lived next door to
each other and were the best of
n e ighbors.
NUMBER CHANGED
The folks in the Potting Area report that they are receiving a
number of calls intended for the
Photo Lab. Since the last plant
directory the Photo Lab number
has been changed to 291. Will
thos e folks who have occasion to
call the Photo Lab please indicate
the change in their phone books .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 503 days
7, 902, 098 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
The plan, under which the

Company matches 50~ for each
S & S $1. 00 saved by an employee, has been hailed as one of
the most outstanding employee
savings plans in industry to da y .
Yet, the IUE leaders who have al.
ready prevented the ir GE m e mbership from getting in on the
plan, are sending out leaflets t o
GE employees here and elsewhere criticizing the new S & S
plan in an attempt to scuttle for
others the opportunity they ha ve
lost for themselves. This is the
second GE benefit program e njoyed by Specialty Controller s
but which IUE represe nted employees at other GE plants m u s t
go without,thanks to politically
minded union bosses.
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"You men I Just let something bo

filed under tho wrong letter ond you
don't knowwhere to look for it!"
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" Ho p py Morriogo" blanket, with Oval Comto rt :Mlecton, 11'1 each sleeper choote o
d1 tt e r ent
degree o t
w orrnt h
Y(ni"ro nnvor cold ., 11nvrn too wnrn1... n11 you f<~cl i8 (0111 f(>1t
General Elcct1ic Bla~y
New low prices fro~
The G eneral Electric Bla nket does what no ordinary bla nke t can do ... automatit'a/~,. keeps you
comfon able, whatever the weather.
If your hcdroom temperature changes. the Gcnc:.r.11 1 lcctr1c RlanJ..cl changes roo . '\u lh.11 1m/n
nc.' \cr cold, ycr nc,cr too "~1 rm And )"ll nc,cr
h.J\C to ge l up for ex tra bl.mkc1' ~
Tl11c:, con,tant comfort and freedom from hc~1vy
co,,.crc:, m.1J..cc:, .1 ddrch tful d1ffc.rtncc 111 your nt...'\l liay point of
view. A'k any hapry O\\ nc r !
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thC' \olo;srml h)OU "'ii"' )OUr hl.. n ,C'l 10

g1\ C'. licncr.tl I lc:c:HK-.,, .\lf'f'/t11ar1/
sy!>tcm a\'iurc' llcpcru..l.1h1ll1y.
15,000,000 P41ople
"lor
the
comfort of e '9ctrlc bloftkeh ..
ploft. . ,..d by 0.fterol Elutric .
Mirocl fabric hy ( h,tiham , hlcnJtll

of couon .inJ r3)0n tor l u ,unOU\
\OflnC\~. l>ur3blc N)lon bintJmg\,
Ulanl..c1 1; e11mplt'U/y H1Jhah/e '
~g~s.s Is
Shi '"'on " """ coleu for hc.-1.l h '''"'

hc.IUI) ("u~I Omt lllOrC'J .;ornc."h tor
C3\f b c dm.1!.. 1 n~ A rrro,c1.i by
Under" r11c r~ L bor .1tN1cs.
Ovr Most lmpor!11nf 'Prot/llC/
GENERAL. ELECTRIC
AT THE EMPLOYEE STORE
from $1 8.50
'S NEWS

Sl'ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYa ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
Decembe r 5, 1958
Not only do we thank Thee for our food, but we thank Thee for Jesus
Christ o ur Savior. Amen.
" .. . AND YOU NEVER STOP
PAYING"
Du ring t h e t wo b i g uni on or g aniz ing d ri ve s her e , TODAY' S NE\'IS
repeated time and a g ain t h at be tween dues and levy s wo r ke rs i n
many of these big n a tion a l u ni or.~
never seem to stop payin g m o n ey
into t he union ti l ;
"How Much Can A Little Fly Drink?"
Remember the old restaurant j oke about the man who found a fly in
his cup of coffee? When he c ompla ined, the waiter answered, "Don ' t
let it worry you - - aft er all, how much can a little fly drink?
Sometimes, ( not often we're g lad to say) we find the same atti tude
right here in Specialty Control with regard to waste and manufacturing losses
I n t h i s case , "the flies" are l ots
of little things that b y themse l veR
don ' t look lik e they are worth
much but wh i ch all t ogether
"drink up" precious time and
mone y needed to beat our com petitors in price and delivery.
Be thrifty w ith materials, use
them as t hough they wer e you r
own. Be thrifty with your tim e
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING HOU RS
AT THE EMPLOYEES STORE
H o urs
Mondays
11:15 - 1:15
r ednesdays
and
and
4 PM - 4:30
Thursdays
Mon. thru Fri. (in auditorium )

from D e c. 15-De c . 2 3 ( r e gular
hour s and evenings 6 PM to9 PM ).
because time is mone y an~

wasted time is was t ed money.
The next time you are tempted to

i g n o r e a n h our or so of rework
as "ju st part of t h e job" or a
handf ul of material s as not being
valuable e nou gh to save , think
again of that fly - - he drinks up
more than you think he does I
When a long and expensive aut o

strike was averted this y e ar ,
some United Auto Workers me m bers raised questions about wh at
wou l d b e do n e with the $39 . 5
million strike fund. The unio n
bosses gave the answer . Not
only will t h e UAW keep $25 mil lion "in reserve" but be c au se o :
"a dr ain on the fund from c ur rent mop-up str ike s " they say
they will need an addi t ional $ 5
each fr om a million employee
members just to keep the fun d at
a "safe! leve 1.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 505 days
7, 921 , 202 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIMEI
ACCIDENT
SIGN OF
THE TIMES
f( ff l f l l
11 11' ll ff 'T q
ll lfl I
An ele c trical contracto r who

works around Ozaukee County,
Wi s. , has painted on the back
end of his truck: "W atts My
Line?" On the s ide of th e t r u c k
is pai nted: "V olts Wagon."
" T he men ""Y t hal you ,,.

b:.r kin>; ul thc.n lately!"'
J:, .-.
CHRISTMAS GIVING IDEAS
T83 TOAST-R-OVEN -- So different, so new ! The

toaster that's an oven too! Lets you make regula ~
toast in top section or deli cious buttered toast,
canapes, English muffins in "oven" drawer be low.
Emp. Price $23 . 75
R e tail $29. 95
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540 AUTOM ATIC SAUCE PANS - A new i dea in con trolled heat cooking -- simmers , stews , fr ies -makes cook ing easier! N o need for constant watch ing - - won't boil over, won't burn food , automatical ly maintains co rre c t heat!
In handy 2 quart size ...
Reta il $22. 90
Emp. Price $16 . 95
In large 4 quart si ze . . .
Retail $26. 90
Emp . Price $19 . 95
'S NEWS

Sl'ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 220
December 4, 1958
H e lp us to be g rateful for this food and u se us to render se rvice to Thee.
GE SCOGEE MEN'S TEAM

NARROW LY LOSE OPENER
Our men's basketball team came
up against some stiff compe tition last nig ht in th e first game
of the season, but played a
terrific game of ball a ll the way.
We lost 58 to 68 but eve ryone
agrees that GE SCOGEE established thems'e lves as a top contender for th e league championship. T op scorers for our side
were Conyer :; , DeWitt, Knicely,
and Gest, a ll scorin g 12 points
~ch.
N ext l eagu e gam e. is
Jainst Mon:tevideo, December
10. The boys play a n extra game
this c oming Friday against Rosenwald Hig h at the Ros enwald
gym.
MAN ROBBED OF HIS B I BLE

Robbers stopped L eroy Hippensteel on a Denver str eet, snatched a l eathe r packet from his coat
pocket, a nd fled. What the
thieves obviously tho u ght was a
wallet was a pocket edition of the
bible.
GOOD
CLOSE
HARMONY
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SADIE HAWKINS DANCE

SCORES COMPLETE SUCCESS
The report o n the SCOGEE Sadie
Hawkins Dance last Saturday wa&
one of com plete su ccess both in
enjoyme nt and finances.
Dance Chairman Stan Maupin
says approximately 150 people
turne d out for the affair and a
$45 profit was realized. (Ad vance notice -- the SCOGEE
Ch ri stmas Dance wi 11 b e h eld
Dec e mber 20 at th'e Hotel Stonewa ll J ackson in Statinton.)
SAFETY SCORE
1, 504 days
7, 9 11, 650 hours
WITHOUT A L OST TIME
ACCIDENT
DION ' T SEE THE TREES FOR
THE FOREST I .
Not seeing the trees for the forest was apparently t r u e yesterday fo r ye olde editor of TODA Y'S NEWS. Recently returned
from a stint in the factory .his
o ld te le phone number in the factory is still listed opposite his
name. After reading the telephone number sto ry in. yester day ' s paper, the very patie nt
foremen in Aircraft Area
requested that folks who have
news to report or who want to
contact Paul Caron should call
him on Extension 469
He doesn't relax and enjoy

like the fellow pictu:r:ed above ,
but nonethele s s, watching television is part of Engine e r Ernie
Kubler's job these days . See
this TV fea ture on the back of
TODAY'S NEWS.
THANKS
Hensel ~ppard h as asked us .to
thank his fellow workers in sheet
metal and his other friends in
the Department for their thoughtfulness while he was hospitalized
recently .
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Barbershop show tomor row

night. Don't miss it. Tickets
from D. Mille r, Joe Davis , Doc
Fendley, P. Caron.
Amen.
In the meantime, Jim McEckron

repor ts that a revi sed directory
i s being prepared and will be
published very soon.
"That's the third mistake you've

made this month. Who do you
think you are-me?"
SPECIAL TY PUTS TV TO WORK

Being two places at the same time is a hard thing to do (students
of the "mental telepathy phenomenon" insist that we can't say it's
impossible). We've solved the problem at Specialty Control, however, with closed circuit television.
For the benefit of those who are

not familiar with this TV technique, closed circuit television
works much the same as regular
TV that you see in your home
except that the picture is trans mitted by cable and not through
the air; or to describe it another
way, the picture is restricted to
only the set or sets that are "on
the circuit".
DOLLYING IN ON THE SUBJECT

(TV talk for closing in with TV
camera) is Engineering Assistant
Newell Welch. The TV camera by
sheer coincidence happens to be a
General Electric model.
p1 c::sent is being used by Ernie

Kubler (Eng.) in some developmental work on the magnetic
amplifier for the PAR MA TIC
drive. The camera is set on a
coupling between a motor and a
generator while Ernie, who must
work with a magnetic amplifier
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several feet away, checks the
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING
action of the magnetic amplifier
AROUND THE CORNER where t he
on the motion of the motor genTV camera is watching the motor
erator set. By tuning in the TV
generator sets. White- tape makes
set he can monitor the generator
In the old days if an engineer
it easier to check motion of the
set while he makes adjustments
was working with equipment in
generator drive.
two different locations in the lab on the amplistat. Ernie says
or the plant it was necessary to
that the TV technique has rehave a second person checking
sulted in savings in many man
one location while the engineer
hours and safeguards the equipchecked the reciprocal location
ment from possible costly damor it was necessary for the engi- age during experimentation.
neer to leave one location while
he went to check the other. Now, There are many other applicawith the TV arrangement he can tion possibilities planned for the
set his closed circuit camera on closed circuit TV equipment here
the one location and tune his
in Specialty which will result in
viewing set in at the other spot
similar savings of time, money
HAVING JUST CHECKED THE TV
at which he is working.
and inconvenience.
MONITOR SET (on the table, center), Ernie Kubler makes an adFirst used in the Department to
Ernie reminded us of one addijustment
on the magnetic amplimonitor the 100 HP motor gentional advantage of Specialty's
fier
which
he is using in some ~
erator set in the Engineering Lat "one channel TV" -- - - no com"PAR MA TIC" developmental
machine room, the equipment at mercials I
work.
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NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROi. EMPLOYEES

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD N!WS - COURTESY Of WAYI AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 222
December B, t95B
For food and health and life and lo ve, help us to be grateful and humble before Thee
.hmen.
GIRLS' BASKETBALL
PRACTICE TONIGHT
BRITISH, CANADIAN AIR

AND NA VY OFFICIALS HERE
Girls 1 basketball practice will be

held tonight at Jackson-Wilson
Gym at 7:00 PM. The team
meets a very strong J. J, Newberry aggregation tomorrow
night. All team members are
urged to show up for practice tonight.
Five members of a British Air

Standardization Group accompa nied by two Ame:rican Air For ce
off~cials ar e visiting here today
to discuss aircraft electrical
systems standari.z;ation with
representatives of A & DI Sates
and Specialty Contra l.
BOWLlNG
. the men's Ten Pin League

Thursday evening, 3 -0 was the
order of the day as the league
leading Retreads continued their
hot pace by shutting out the Q, C.
Rejects. The second place
Dynamic 5 kept the pressure on
the league leaders as they took
the measure of the short handed Dixon's Dillies. The
Cannon Balls swept all three
from the Injun Ears and the Alley
Cats dumped the Roll Tillers.
Bob Holcomb rolled the High
Single for the night - - a 204,
and Joe Belak had the High
Triple with a 568.
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"Because you're paying far the name, that's whyl"
OPEN TODAY -- and as a suggestion for practical Christmas

giving the store is featuring the
new spray-steam .. dry iron. It's
the very best in irons - - one
that will be appreciated throughout the year by the busy house wife. Drop by and see it.
flie Measure
o a M"n
Not- how did he die?"

But - how did he live?
Not- whatdid he gain?
But- what did he give?
These are the units
To measure the worth
Of a man as a man
Regardless of birth.
Not - what was his station?
But - had he a heart?
And - how did he play
His God-given part?
Was he ever ready
With a word of good cheer
To bring back a smile
To banish a' tear?
Not - what was his church?
Nor - what was his creed?
But - had he befriended
Those really in need?
Not- what did the sketch
lrt the newspaper say But - how many were sorry
When he passed away?
-Author Unknown
Here today are: Squadron

Leaders D. W. Whyte and A . J.
S. Wright of RCAF, Ottawa;
RAF Wing Commander I.
Roberts of the British Air Ministry, London; Commander P.
Lavendar, RN of the British A d miralty, London; Mr. E. Youel,
Ministry of Supply, London;
Major H. H. Barton, Hq. ARDC
and W. D. Downs USAF Hq. ,
Washington. Mr. R. S. Moore
of our GE Washing ton office is
accompanying the group here.
Presentations on the Lockh eed
Electra and Convair 880 electrical systems were made to the
group this morning. After lunch
and a tour of our facilities they
will return to the A & DI classroom to gather other standard.ization data including information on the uses and advantages
of statically excited AC electrical systems equipment for air c raft.
Mr. R. Baker is representing
A & DI, while Messrs . H. Gayek
and W. West are represen_ting
Specialty Control.
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THE ONLY WAY to understand
any woman is to love her -and then it isn't necessary to
understand her,
How Rumors Sta.rt ~f

MAHY~ 60/VE
TO WORK AT G-.5.
~
RUMORS ARE DANGEROUS

DEAL IN FACTS ONLY !
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NEWS

VGLa IV, J.>JQ, H7
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my h eart be acceptable in Thy sight
0 Lord. AIT\en
1
59 SHAREOWNERS' MEETING
TO SHIFT TO CLEVELAND
The Company's 1959 Shareo w ners' Meeting will be held in

c,_; leve land, Ohio, according to an
announcement received here.
The Cleveland meeting, which
will be held April 22, 1959 will
be the first such meeting ever
held outside of New York state
and will make it possible for GE
shareowners heretofore unable
~ge t to the New York meetings,
, attend the more cent.rally
located 1 59 Shareowners 1 Meeting.
Approximately 77 percent of GE
shareowners live outside New
York state. A New York law enacted last year permits compa.1ies incorporated in New York
to have 3 out of 5 annual meetings out of state if a majority
of shareowners reside outside
the state. As of September 19,
ther~ are 396, 475 GE shareowners on record.
GIVE THEM TIMEI

Confronted with the problem of
juvenile delinquency, one writer
summed up the situation in these
blunt words: "Our youth now
love luxury. They have bad
manners, contempt for authority,
disrespect for older people.
Children nowadays are tyrants.
They no longer rise when elders
enter the room. They contradict
their parents, chat.ter before
company, gobble their food and
tyrannize their teachers. 11 Timely as they may seem, these were
the words of Socrates, written in
the fifth century before Christ.
J. J. NEWBERRY TEAM MEETS

SCOGEE GALS IN BASKETBALL
TONIGHT
The girls basketball team meets
J. J. Newberry's tonight in what
should b e one of the toughest
games of their season. Turn
out to the High School tonight and
see the game.
FTC SEEKS TO END
ADVERTISING TRICKERY
And after I've given him the

best caffee breaks af my life I"
The Federal Trade Commission

has declared all-out war on
"tricke ry in price advertising"
by retail stores. The FTC
chairman comments that "lies
abo.ut bargain prices .. are
growing worse." The chi ef
targets are retailers who at
tempt to lead co.usumers into
thinking regular prices on
ar ticles are special bargains.
-THE MAIL GETS THROUGH!

Neither snow or rain nor heat
or gloom
of night
stays
these
couriers
round s_
~~ostal
Couriers Motto)
ee sure to read the Specialty
Control mail story on the back
TODAY'S NEWS.
OF
Visiting Specialty Control today
from the Springfield Machine Co.
are Mr. R. C. Mantanus and Mr.
E. Ritter. Ex-Specialty Control
marketing man R. W. Petty, who
i s now with the GE Cincinatti
office, i s also here with them.
Purpose of the visit is to discuss
our tracer controls and other
general program controls.
Also h ere from Mfg. Services
today to discuss the MilwaukeeMatic and the Spindlemaster
project are E. Rogers, N.
Wilcox, H. Neidenberg and E .
Warner .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 509 days
7, 940, 325 hour s
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
FROM HERE TO
CALIFORNIA
5000 PIECES OF MAIL A DAY a re sor ted by mail girls Pat M c Lear (l.) and
Vi r gini a Palme r (r. ).
Not many o f us wouto seriously cons ide r walking from here to Californi a and tha t includes
our mail girls Virginia Palmer and Pat M cLcar. Ye t the se two gals cove r that distance
and then some eac h year between them as they
make the rounds with the in-plant mai l.
We did some rapid calculations o n ou r slide
ru le an d dete r m ined that each girls average s
fi ve to seven miles of walking eac h day whi le
making the rounds throu gh the offi ces a nd the
fac tory. Figur ed on a 50 week basis , the gals
walk a total of 2500 to 3500 miles each year.
Quite a hike -- but Virginia Palme r who loves
every step of he r j ob says it' s not nearly so
bad as t he s t a tistics make it out to be -- "Besides . " c himes in pe r t little Pat Mc Lear, 11 it 1 s
great fo r t h e fi g ure -- lo t' s better th an count i n g c alorics. 11
- - - ---..
" H ow abou t o ne more good statistic to r ou nd

out the s t ory? " , I asked. "F o r example,
how much do we spend a day on pos t age a t
Speci a lt y?
"It varies , '' a n s wered Vir g i n ia, a s s he sor t~ d th e last of the mail in fro nt o f her and
reac he d for another s ta ck. " l guess $65 a
day w ou ld be a safe a vera ge. It's higher
than t ha t near the end of t he year and lowest
in the summer , but $65 is a good average . "
She t urned t o Pat fo r co rr oboration . Pat
checked the Pitney -Bowe s pos t age meter .
" It ' ll be clos e t o sixt y dollars today" , she
agreed.
11
We were interviewing the g al s while they were

so rting t he afternoon mail .
. . . " How man y m ai I baksets do yo u make

delivery t o e a ch day ? "
1 -- --~-----------
it wa s o v er 5000 pi eces of mai l a day . Also

put in your sto ry that an a v erage of 1200 pie c es
o f mail ar e sent out ! r o i:n Sp ec i alty e a ch day . 11
0 K -- how a bou t you girls -- still s1ngle? 11
Pat blushed -- "Heavens no. We' r e both

married. Virg i nia has two children!' ' "Bot h
g id s , 11 added Vir ginia .
11
Any s ugg es ti ons to imp r ove th e p osta l

se rvi ce ? 11
Virgi nia (who had been primed for this ques tion
the day before ) had t he facts r eady -- "We
both have 4 2 s tops upstairs and down stair s in
the office - - 27 stops eac h in the factory -altogether about 200 a day."
The g irls put their h eads t oge t her on t his

quest i on and c ame up wi t h three suggestions
t o Spe c ialty Cont r ol letter writers .
' 'Tha t' s a lot of people to see each day.
l.
11
Vi rg inia again - - 11 Uh-huh . Some t imes I meet

GE people u p town who s ay hello to m e and 1
know t h em fr om the plant,. but 1 jus t c an't
ti c up the Caeca with names."
''Have .! ithcr o! you ever e s timated how much
mai l you sor t eac h day ? "
"Count ing the internal mail ?" -- it ' s Pat
&peaking now. 1 nodded. She s t ood up o n her
tiptoes and deposited a letter in one of the top
p'i d *&bn holca . "We tried to figure it ou t one
d a..," , he s aid, "and the nea r est we came to
Plea se be sure le tters have a com plete

mailing a dd r ess on them , par t icu larl y
i( it is a la t e m ailing that has to ge t out
that eveni ng .
2. When you move t o a diUerent locatio n in
the fac tory o r the office , p lease let the
mailroom know your new loca tion.
3 . When mailing a good sized pi le of letters
plea se pu t a r ubbe r band around th e pile,
it make s for easier handling.
11
That co mpletes the s tory, 11 I said, "l '11
just add that you r favorite hobby i s hiking.
" Do n ' t you darf" ' " th ey holle r ed after me as
1 lef t th e mai lroom .

'S NEWS
VO La I\[; PlO.
aa 4
eecemhet te, l''"
All things come of Thee 0 God, and for a ll things we thank Thee now.
Amen.
SCOGEE GALS LOSE

The SCOGEE gals' basketball
team was trounced last night
33-42 by J . J. Newberry 1 s in a
spirited contest at th e Waynes boro High School east gym .
High scorers for our side were
Charlotte Barnes and Franny
Moyer.
SCOGEE CHRISTMAS DANCE
TICKETS ON SALE TODAY
'he SCOGEE Christmas Dance

tickets go on sale today and if
past Christmas dances can
serve as criteria, this affair
will be another sell-out. This
SCOGEE Dance will be held at
the Hotel Stonewall Jackson
Saturday, December 20, and
the Downbeats will provide the
music. Members $2. 20, Gue sts
$3.30 ----and tickets are
limited!
Thought for Today - - Make new

friends, but ke ep the old; The
first are silver, The latter,
gold I
MIDTOWN
BANK
~Fm~
WHERE
TIME
STAN OS
STIU
T he n ext time you sit in a barber's chair

scents
from bottles of colored tonics and the snip snip sounds of the busy
scissors or the drowsy hum of the electric clip pers - - consider
fo r a moment that here was one occupation in which time has stood
still. Except for e lectr i c power that has been added to the clippers, the technique of barbering hasn 1 t really changed in a thouF.land years I Only the price has cha n ged .
~Nor do es the man getting a hair cut in Moscow, Rome, Jakar ta,
SPOR TSECTION
Nai robi, or Waynesboro get
I anythi ng different except perhaps
Light Heavyweight champion
Archie Moor e matches hi s ring- ! for the s tyle . And no matter
craft and punc hing power tonight where you go , four heads an
hour is usually tops for any
against the youth and strength
barber's output.
of Canadian Yvon Durelle in a
!
I
15 round title fight at Montreal.

Odd's favor Moore 14 - 5 .
Baseball immortal, Tris Speaker ,
will be buried tomorrow at
Hubbard, Texas. He died Monday of a heart attack.
' The point of all this is that when

Iwe depend solely on human effort
J without
technological develop:-
l ment and improved proces sea ,
, progress falls by the wayside

land production is strictly
I limited. But although barber~
----------- -------~ i ing has escaped progress, it
SAFE TY SCORE
!hasn't escaped economics . Tol ! 510 days
!day's barber must earn much
7, 949 , 896 hours
more from those 4 heads an hour
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
I than his counterpart did 25 years
ACCIDENT
a go .
5ANTA SAYS:
~
I'(i
'Ci
ft .1 di
.\;:
vc gr 3 o;
s 11 net/on .
T;~.....,,,__, Give G-E Appliances."
SHOP EARLY A T YOUR
EMPLOYEE STORE
"I got the idea from your bank"
So next time you sit in the barbe1

chair, and pay a dollar for that
old 25 haircut that Grandad
used to get, you'll know w h y we
say -- at Gene ral Electric,
,.ll:illali::;m:;;m;i:i;:m:;;i=i:;;;;;::;;;::;~ '. Pr o gr e s s is our Most Important
I Product!
'S
NEWS
.

VOL. IV, NO. 225
December 11, 1958
Without food our body will die; without Christ our souls will d i e.
for both just now. Amen.
Father we thank Thee
AROUND SPECI AL TY
We' re sorry to hear that Sher man B yrd (A / C Test) is in the
Waynesboro Community Hospital and we hope he 111 be fee li ng
chipper again soon.
OPERATION UPTURN will b ecome "a way of life" at Specialty Con trol says General Manager L. T. Rader, who is shown going over
,,,-._, some initi a l plans for the 1959 UPTURN Program here . (1-r) W . A .
Copley, H. S. Se c hrist, D. O. Dice, (Dr. Rader ), K . N . Bush, H.
W. Tulloch .
OP.
UPTURN TO BE CONTINUED IN
Some 30 gals will get together

at a dinner at Howard Johnson's
tonight which will be a sort of
combined ce leb ration honoring
Nancy S i mmons (Fi nance) who
will soon become Mrs . Jo e
Po l eo ; Pam Pattie (Switchboard)
soon to change her name to
Harper; a nd Evelyn (Irvin)
S mith who recently was marr i ed .
59
OPERATION UPTURN was characterized as"a way of life at

Spe c ialty Control" by General Manager L. T . Rader yes terday
at a special Achieve ment Meeting that reviewed OPERATION UPTURN efforts here . "The accomplishments during the Upturn
emphasi s were of real significance, 11 Dr. Rader said . "But we
shoul d not pack our enthusiasm and ingenui ty away just because
the Upturn Program was originally planned to "build sales and
jobs in 58" . The same effor t and imag ination must be harnessed
for 1 59 and the years ahead."
Si g nificant, too , was the effect
OPERATI ON U PTURN was
announced at Specialty Control
of the Upturn program on our
on May 2 . Since that time th e re
Mark II Numerical Positionin g
have been a number of Upturn
Control. As a result of major
achieveme nts i n eve ry Section
changes in this equipment to
of the Department. For exam reduce costs we were able to
ple, the PAR -M atic Dri ve line
package a standardized control
had previ ously been offered by
to sell for 60 percent less than
the Department but was not
last year' s price . In additi on
competitive. Under OPERATIOT'" five other cont rols in the 11 Mark
, -.JPTURN we de ve l o ped a c omfamily" were designed for stan p l e t e line of standardized drives
dardizati on.
within approximately 6 weeks !
Since August l, orders for the
While our total orders in the
PAR - mati c driv e have averaged
Department are about 4% b e low
$70, 000 p e r m onth .
(C ontinued pa ge 4)
Congratulati o ns to Jim Brooke

(2 nd shift Shee t Metal) who became the proud dad ye sterday
of a 6 lb. 7 o z . heartbreaker ,
Joyc e Elaine . Mom is doin g
fine but Jim is still a b it
nervous .
"When I pe~uaded him to take up a hobby,

I thought it would take his mind off business!"
OPERATION UPTURN Hl-llTES
Tl~
OPERATION UPTUR
issues of TODA
N&W ORDER IS REAL "UPTURN" STORY~

The N&W Railway and several other rail r oads have for years been
plagued with the problem o i overheated "jo ur n al boxes" on train axles
whi c h were r esponsib le for million s o f dollar s in tr a in ac cide nt
los ses. They had two c ompetitive devices th a t we re desi gned t o d e tect the se "hot boxe s ", but t hey we re not always dependable and re quir e d lots of maint e n ance .
ning, for at Special

UPTURN will
of l
That' s when our Marketing organization c ame on the sc ene. Learning of the problem and convin ce d we had t he k now- how at Special t y
to solve it, Paul K orneke (Marke t ing ) a nd Appa r atu,.; Sales Eng ineer
William Jone s vis eel N& W at Roa noke .
Althou gh we had nev e r mad e a
single "hot journal detector" a nd
didn't even have a product , N & W
be came interested in our proposa
and visited Specialty Control.
Here, th eN& W
cussed the pr.
o t he r railr o ad s wh ich indicate

a bout $2 , 000 , 000 wo rth of ava il -
factory .
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......
G THE J
~.-ion
"BALLlN
c1c1
~
1 in the , Ope
nee
they
_r)
ry
1
cl a
the
"theyare\
.
51
W . D . Cockrell ( Eng. ) te s ts a
"Che -Mi sses
parn patt1e,
.
Lunsford .
.
C\atte r\
bre ad board de s i gn of Specialty
C\ aud 1ne
<l Jamee
c1oe an
Control' s ne w "hot box det ec tor'
McCarnbn "'
'..... ...
!- -
1\ TIL U,J
P .-. ; 1 , ., "l
, ,.
FAITH IN OURSELVES AND THE FUTURE

PA L MER ON SPECIA L OP E R ATION UPTURN ASSIGNME NT
Harry L , Pa lmer , Ma nagc rE n gine ering, wi ll be gin im~ 0diate ly a s p eci;al as s i gnme nt
i o n .,.,:
'PE RA TION
"'lunced toda y
l e nc r a l
will d e t fe w
e ffort
' ty
~Se
'i hi g h lights
y C ontrol OPERA T I ON
::: ontinue as a way
:e.
'AR
E \S ~1'
OpERATJoN
UPruRN _
SPl:.AKI Nl:i At1UU r "U P I Ut-<N"

Question: HOW DO YOU THINK OUR OPERATION UPTURN PROGRAM HELPED US HERE AT
SPECIALTY CONTR OL?
JOANN ANDERSON -- Drafting
OPERATION UPTURN g ave Specialty Control a big
boost but it can continue only as long as we keep up the
united effort.
We hav e got to think of each and e v e r y job as b e ing important -- not just the rush j o bs t hat a re w ritten up in
TODAY'S NEWS. To further the success o f OPERATION
UPTURN we should keep q ual it y in mind and saving time
by doing our jobs right the first time.
JIM AUSTIN -- President of SCOGEE

Althoug h it was dir ected toward bui lding sales in ' 58 ,
OPERATION U PTURN was more than just a sales promotion. It he lped bring the employees clo ser to t he
Company b ecause it showed that as indi viduals we were
important to the s u ccess of Specialty . Over 10 0 of us
wo rked on the CON - FA-VAR OPERATION UPTURN
show. It was a success becaus e as individ ual s we work ed hard and to gether . Specialty Cont r ol's success d e pends on the same formu la .
HARVEY JOHNSON - - M a rketing
A good exa mple of how better servi ce to ou r c ustomer
during OPER ATION UP TU R N mea nt more job s for
Specialty C ontrol is a s te e l plant in Alle ntown, Pa .,
w hi ch rec e ntly had an emergency breakdown on a GE
tracer contro lled ver ti ca l boring machine . W ithin 4 8
hours after the c u stomer ' s urgent appea l to Spec i alty
Contr ol for help , t he replacement tracing head had bee n
shipped by a ir, ins ta l le d and the mach in e p laced i n production. The c u stomer was so impressed wit h our
service tha t he i s requirin g a GE tracer control on a new
machine which he e xp ects to b u y after the fir s t of th e
year .
las t year, h ard se lling by our
Marketing for ce has increased
our orders from outs i de Gener al El e ctric by 6%. Because
busine ss co ndition s with in the
Company generally are down,
our internal orders hav e suffered and are belo w last ye a r ' s
fi g ures .
There were many other Uptur n
achi evements of significanc e,
but p er hap s the b est s ing l e
result of OPERATION UPT URN
here, was a re - focusing of our
efforts toward the cus tomer .
In. every par t of our operations
we have b ee n doing our j obs
wi th th e c ustomer in mind a nd
with a knowl edg e that if each of
us indi v idually tri e s to d o a

job that will p lease the c ustomer , then the fi na l product i s
sure to wi n c ustomer satisfac tion .
"This i s t h e real importance of
OPERATION UPTURN, " Dr.
Rader said, "and this is why at
S pe c ialty Control, OPERATIO N
UPTURN MUST be c ome a " way
o f life" for us all. "
In a nnouncing the continuance of
O P ERATION UPTUR N h e r e at
Specialty Control d uri ng 1959 ,
Dr . Rade r indicate d that details
of the ' 59 program were b e ing
completed and would be
anno unced s hortl y .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 51 1 days
7, 959, 467 ho urs
WI THOUT A LOST TIME
A CCIDENT
'S
NEWS

SPORTS. NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY Of WAYS ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 226
December 12, 1958
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow." For food and power and love and peace
accept our thanks 0 God. Amen.
GROOMS, TRUSLOW GET
CHRISTMAS WINDFALL FOR
WINNING SUGGESTION
MFG. OPERATIONS TO SHUT

DOWN DEC. 26 & JAN. 2
HENDERSONVILLE G. E.
EMPLOYEES SAY "NO" .TO
I. U. E. AND I. A. M.
The Manufacturing Section will

It will be a nicer Christmas for
shut down on December 26 and
Jim Truslow and Chuck
again on January 2 for all nonGrooms (both of Maintenance)
exempt and hourly employees
who hit the Suggestion Award
it was announced today by K. N.
jackpot this month to tlie tune
Bush, Manager of Manufacturof $50 apiece, The boys struck
ing. Exempt employees will
paydirt on their joint sugwork on both those days as
ge stion that the present master 1_.,.___u_s_u_a_l_.-----------~-11
and linkage boards used in the
WHIZ KIDS TAKE ON
factory to carry power and air
OLDTIMERS IN APPRENTICE
to work benches be changed
BASKETBALL ANNUAL
over to new master power pack
and linkage power pack. The
The Apprentices are at it
power pack equipment besides
again! The annual basketball
being less costly also will save
Donneyprook between the
a considerable amount of inApprentice 11 Whiz Kids'' and
stallation time. Beaming
the Apprentice Alumni "Old
Chuck Grooms says he will
Timers" will be played toturn his award check over to
night at 7: 30 at Waynesboro
the little woman to buy a few
High School East Gym. Last
extra thiiigs for Christmas
year the tyros were trounced
while Jim Truslow, who also
soundly by the graduate Apwon a $100 award last October,
prentice "Old Timers".
plans to use his prize money to
There's no admission charge
buy a surprise Christmas gift
but fearless fans are warned to
for his wife.
wear their old chothes to the
game.
Suggestion Awards will also
A drunk wandered by an open
come in handy for 28 other
grave where a gravedigger had
winners who received award
been
trapped, "Get me out of
checks today ranging from $5
here,
I'm cold, 11 said the digger.
to $20,
"No wonder you're cold," said
Expecting a few extra bills in
the drunk. "You've kicked all
January like most of the rest
your dirt off.11
..-....of us? Why not put on your
SAFETY SCORE
thinking cap ancl try for some
1512 hours
extra cash through the Sug7, 969, 038 hours
gestion Plan.
_ _ _ _ _ _,...............
,...
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
The easiest place to Slay on a
ACCIDENT
diet is in front of the mirror.
.c~
Employees at the GE Outdoor

Lighting D e partment at Hender sonville, N. C., delivered a
stiff defeat to the IUE and the
!AM unions yesterday when
they voted NO UNION by better
than 2 to l.
Lengthening the string of union
defeats in the South, the Hendersonville employees in t his
their first NLRB election voted
IUE-83, IAM-15, and NO
UNION-226.
Help Fight TB
Buy Christmas Seals
~----t
"Did you have a hard day at the

orifice, dear?"
A AUTOMATIC TOAST.R.
WOVEN
A "poJ?'.up" Toaftr
"O..tn Ora"'rr Bero..,
Tcm~rarurt Conrrof
. STEAM AND DRY IRON

2 Iron, in One
New Cord- lif1
Evcn-Ffow Steam
,.

'S NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECT ION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROl EMPLOYEES
SPORTS. NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS -
VOL. IV, NO. 227
WAYNESBORO, V IRGIN IA
l.Jcc ~mb cr
15, 19 5 8
In the name of Christ we thank Thee fo r our food and pray that we may find food for
our soul also. Amen.
G. E. TO C LOSE N. J. PLANT
The General Electric air co n ditioning plant in Bloomfie ld,
N. J., scene of one of the IUE' s
bitter est strikes a few years
ago, wi ll c lo se down for good
on Apri l 1, i t has been announced by the plant's General
Man ager C . A. Salmonsen.
Salmonsen said GE will continue to manufacture air conditioning products in Tyler,
~xas, and L o uis ville, Ky.
proximatel y 700 employees
will b e affected by the shutdown
of GE operations at Bloomfield.
The Company wi ll sell the plant
because it has been unable to
find a use for the facilities.
The emp l oyees will receive
termination pay at the time of
separation from the Company,
and those who qualify by age
will be pensioned, Salmonsen
revealed. He estimated that
$1, 000, 000 in termination pay
would be handed out to eligible
employees.
~oh,
I like the different s.. a.ons. In summer

I IOlc.e winter, and in w inter I like summer"
EM P.
STORE OPENS
TOf~ IGHT
Jampa cked with C hristmas b a rgains and alll kind s of ideas for
practical Christmas giving, the Employees' Store opens its doors tonight at 6 PM in its temporary Christmas location, the plant auditori um.
Displaying everything from radios to refr i gerators , the store will e xt end its hours duri n g the Christmas season and stay open Monday s
throu gh Fridays from 11: 15 AM to l: 15 PM, 4 PM to 4: 30 PM, and
evenings from 6 PM to 9 PM. It will be closed today while the sto r e
is being set up in the audito rium.
BOWLING
In the SCOGEE Bowling League
Thursday evening, the Dynamic
Five team climbe d into the top
position as they took all three
games from the Q. C. Rejects
and th e ex -league leading Retreads were dumped by Dixon's
Dillies, a lso to t he tune of 3 - 0.
Employees may bring the whole

family down during the evening
ho urs to browse around and h eip
in the se l ee ti on of smart GE
gifts for Chris tmas. However,
employees are reminded that
only children 12 years of age or
older are permitted ins ide
Specialty Control, so don't bring
the tiny shavers along.
In the other matches Thursday

evening, th e Alley Cats won
over the lnjun Ears by a score
of 2-1 and the Cannon Balls stop ped the Roll Tillers by the same
score.
Tonight, for as long as the limit.

ed suppl y lasts , the Employe es'
Store will offer extra special
sav ings on electric blankets
which , while they don't work
e le ctr ically, sti ll provide lots
of warmth on t hose cold winter
nights. Spec ial pr i ces are available , too , on some disco nti nued
models of GE e l ectric clocks
and a few table radios. Absolutely no sale of these items
before 6 PM tonight, though .
Ray F l ynn rolled the High S ingle

game for the evening, 206, and
G a rland Fulk pounded out a
tri ple of 542 whic h was the high
for the match.
There are only nine shoppi ng

days left 'ti l Christmas! So,
bring the family down to the
Employees' Store tonight or
some night this week for sure.
In their climb i n to t he t op spot

the Dynamic Five set a new
Hi g h Team Single mark of 893
and also a new High Team Tr ipl e
of 2375.
CHRISTMAS SPECIALS
Here are just a few of the many wonderful

bargains which will be on display tonight
through Christmas at the Employe es 1 Store .
(Left to right) TOP ROW - H-3 GE Automatic
Heater (R.$24. 95) - Emp. price $18 . 50; S20
GE Automatic Sauce Pan ( 2 qt.) (R. $22 . 90)Emp. price $16. 95; T 8 3 GE Automatic
TOAST - R - OVEN (R. $29. 95) - Emp. pric e
$23 . 7 5; SECOND ROW - A32 GE Automatic
Double Bed Blanket (single control in 3 colors)
(R . $29. 95) - Emp. price $22. 25; M25 GE All
Purpose Mixer (3 c olor s - 12 speeds)

{R. $29. 95) - Emp. price $22 . 25 ; G 4 2 G E
Automatic Sandwich Grill and Waffle Ir on
(R. $22. 95) - Emp. pric e $17. 75; BOTTOM
ROW - P745- 746 GE All Transistor P ocke t
Radio (R. $ 3 9. 95) - Emp. pric e $ 31. 65 ; G E
Automatic Square Skillet a nd Lid (R. $ 18 . 95)
E mp. price $1 3 . 95 (Control $5 . 90 e x tr a );
P25 GE Automatic Heating Pad (R. $5 . 95 ) Emp. price $4. 25 .
AT THE EMPLOYEES STORE
'S
NEWS

VOL. IV, NO. 228
December 16, 195 8
Let the words of my mollth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy
sight 0 Lord. Amen.
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT EVIDENT
AT SPECIAL TY - BUT REMEMBER RULES
The attractive Christmas d ecor ations in the cafeteria have set
the Christmas spirit aglow at
Specialty.
Employees are renrinded that
decorations and Christmas trees
are not permitted in the factory
for reasons of safety; however,
Christmas decorations are per ,...-..mitted in the offices from now to
.:hristmas. As a fire and safety precalltion, advance approval
for Christmas trees and their
decorations mllst b e obtained
from Safety Specialist Bill
Perry in Employee R e lations.
Grollp parties dllring the holiday
season may be held during
lunch periods in the cafeteria.
Tables may be reser ved by contacting Bill P erry 48 hollrs in
advance.
GAME CALLED OFF TONIGHT
RECEIVES CHECK FOR

ARTICLE
Becallse the High School will be

llSing the East Gym tonight, the
basketball game schedllled between the SCOGEE gals and
Spotts wood has been cancelled.
OLDTIMERS HOBBLE TO SLIM

VICTORY OVER WHIZ KIDS
Summoning llp all their old time
zip and go , the Apprentice
Alumni squeezed out a close win
over the Departme nt's "
" Apprentice Whiz Kids", 53 to
51, in a hotly contested basketball game that was neck and neck
from start to finish.
High s co rers for the "Oldtimers"
were Bob Broughman and Bob
Failing with 29 points , and for
the "W hiz Kids", Joe McDorman
and Jim Hagwood who scored 38
of the team's 51 points .
A CHECK from Machine Design

magazine for his article on
"Designing Photoelectric Control Systems" is presented to
Engineer John Larew by Charles
Humphrey of Marketing. The
article which appeared in the
November 27 issue dealt with
the us e of photoelectric device s
in machine-control problems
and emphasized the importance
of carefully se l ecting each e le ment of a photoe lectric control
system for maximum efficiency.
REC UPERA TING

Of collrse, as always, the
possession or drinking of intoxicating beverages on Company
property is strictly forbidden.
Glad to report that Pete Ervin

(W hite Print) was released from
Waynesboro Community Hos.pita!
and is recuperating nicely.
d Brennan and the Retreads
who slipped out of first place
ast week) gratefully acknowedge the expressi ons of symathy from their bowling
'buddies . 11
Our home isn't paid for
(Muc h to our sorrow)
And that's why we call it
"The house of tomorrow.
11
FIRST COME - FIRST SERVED

Some extra special deals on discontinued and salvaged items
are available at the Employees'
Store on a strict first c omefirst served basis. The following list may b e depleted in spots
but here it is as of eight o'clock
this morning:
clocks, TOAST~R-OVEN, steam
iron, squar e skillet, radios, $2
salvage blankets.
Ask a bout them at the
Employees' Sto1e.
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EDITORIAL
FEATURE
an item of interest gleaned from last Friday's Wall Street
Journal
'S NEWS

vo1. 1v NO vs
Decemhor l7 1 19& a
Blcs s the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not all hie benefits.
SPECIALTY STILL SECOND

IN SAFETY IN
GENERAL ELECTRIC
SANTA WILL HAVE A

SACKFUL OF TOYS FOR
KIDS AT CHRIST MAS PAR TY
Over 1000 excited GE youngsters

are expected at this Saturday's
annual Kiddies Kristmas Party
at the Wayne Theatre. Tickets
are being distributed by supervisors and foreme n today to
those employees who requeste d
them . Actually there will be
two parties in order to accomo'\te all the children, The
.J.ckets indicate the time you
should bring your children to the
party .-- pink colored tickets
are for the first group at 9 AM
and green colored tickets are for
the second group of youngsters
at ll AM. However, if the time
EATINGS INSTEAD OF
GREETINGS
Bill Walker and a couple of
other ~pecialty Control people
are sending "eatings" this year
instead of" greetings. 11 They
say that there are several local
and overseas relief agencies
like CARE, Christmas Overseas
Relief, 'Salvation A:rmy, etc.,
which can send large quantlties
of food to bungry children over seas or help needy families
here with the money that could
be saved by not sending greeting
~rds locally.
How many more feel this is a
good idea? If you want to do the
same, send your name to Bill
Walker or TODAY'S NEWS.
Amen.
sc hedule d o n y our ticket is not

convenient for you, you are
we lcome to come to the other
party.
The party this year w ill include
cartoon movies, Christmas
singing, candy, a visit from
Santa Claus (all the kids will
have a chance to talk to him),
a nd a gift from Santa for eve ry
child in attendance..
Sounds like fun doesn't it? See
you the re with all the kids.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 517 days
7 , 997 , 741 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
Shop early. Mail early. B e
sure to use Christmas Seals on
all your packages .
Specialty Control still ranks

among the very top Departments
in General Electric,safetywise,
according to the third quarter
safety report just issued. Both
Specialty and Laminated
Products plant in Coshocton,
Ohio, have an injury frequency
rate of 0. 00. Laminated
Products rank first by virtue
of its larger number of employees. Behind Specialty Control in third place is Portable
Appliance Department with a
rating of 2, 87.
The safety picture throughout
the Company is brightel" for the
first nine months of 1 58 than the
first nine .months of 1957. The
number of disabling injuries per
million man hours worked has
dropped this year from 2. 28 to
2. 07. Fatalities dropped from a
total of 10 in '57 to only 4 up
through September of this year
and the percentage of Departments without disabling injuries
rose from 8. 4% for 1958 to 1Z%
for the first three quarters of
'58
A baby girl born to Louise

Collins, wife of Carl Collins
(Aircraft) , this morning. No
details available yet, except
that Mom and daughter are doing
fine. This makes it two girls
and one boy for the Collins 1
TODAY'S NEWS OHERS THESE TIPS

FOR SAFER WINTER DRIVING
Winter now is very much in the
air. We've already suffered
through the first snowfall of the
season. And with all this comes
the danger that confronts each
Waynesboro GE employee who
drives his or her car to and
from work each day.
TODAY'S NEWS offers these
highway safety reminders to help
you get through the coming bleak
month s without mishaps. There
are eight basic rules of highway
horse-sense in winter:
Know the weather before
starting out. And learn
road conditions by trying
your brakes occasionally
before you reach h eavy
traffic. Discover ice before it's too late.
Check your car's condition. Here's a minimum
list for safety: Antifre eze, battery, brakes,
tires, wiper blades,
heater and defroster,
muffler and chains.
motion is ended or you

will actually increase the
skid. Instead, continue
mild acce leratio n.
A pail of sand and a small
shovel are must equip ment -- and may save you
a towing bill -- i you
drive over ice and snow.
"Henry, JOD lor&ot y1u nbberi nf
Un chlul"
HAnONAI IAffTY COUNCii
"Jack rabbit" starts on

slippery pavement are
risky. When starting on
ice, it' s wise to use
second gear.
Follow others at a safe
distanc e . Without snow
tires or chains, it takes
three to nin e times as
far to stop on snow and
ice as it does on dry
pavement.
Pump your brakes to stop
on slippery streets.
R a pid, light pumping
action is best. It wiU
keep your wheels from
locking and turning your
car into a sled.
When going into a skid:
Turn your steering wheel
in the direction of the skid
-- the. same direction as
the read of your car is he
headed. Don' t apply
brakes until the sideward
When you do get stuck in

a snowdrift, use the shovel
first. Then rock the car
back and forth, shifting
g ears from reverse to
forward and back. Continue this , enlarging the
length of tire tracks a
little each time , and you
can often free the car.
Remember, if your car is in
proper condition, if you have all
the knowledge you need for safe
winter driving, and if you care
enough to use the knowledge you
have -- you're making our highways
safer place and are helping to save the life that can be
your own.
"Wei, JOI wtfl II IPsl blil ~ m

JM uld JOI cc1" tu, I dmJ"
HATIOH.U IAlfT'f
COIMOl
'S
NEWS
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTRot. EMPLOYEES

SP'ORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS -
COURTESY Of WA.YB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
De cember 18,
VO L . I V, NO. 230
1958
Dear Lord, we thank Thee for Thy care, the food we eat, the clothes we wear;
Be present with us everywhere. Ame n.
G ROWN -UPS WILL HAVE
P ARTY SATURDAY TOO
Specialty Contr ol kids won ' t be
the o n l y ones ha ving Christmas
fun t his Saturday. The Specialty
grown-ups w ill have a big time
too at the fourth annual Christm as Danc e being held this year
a t t he Stonewall Jackson Hotel in
Staunton. Cut yourself in on
s ome real Christmas fun this
year at SCOGEE 1 s Chri s tmas
pan ce . A few tickets are still
.-.. ava ilable - - member s $2. 20 and
gu e sts $3 . 30 per couple.
11
Pe r formed on high fi~elity re c or ding by t h e London Phi 1h armo ni c C h oir and the London
Symphony, the program will begin a t 2 PM and will be presente d u ninterrupted in its entir ety, Hope you enjoy it.
T he folks in Cos t Accounting h ac.:

their C h ristmas party last Saturday n i ght at the Westwood,
Folks w ho are putting off the ir

Christmi'l.s shopping at the F.mployees' Store better plan to get
t o the store soon , B ill P erry
warned. today. Because of a
brisk Chr istmas business the
past coup l e of days, some items
have already run out, he reports,
a nd some others are beginning
to run low in quantity. So if you
are planning to get some good
pr acti cal gifts at good employee
discount pr i ces - - you 'd better
hurry.
MESSIAH" TO BE P R ESENT ED
BY SPECI A L TY OVER WAYB
For t he third consec utive year,

Spe cialty Control by way; of ex:
t e nding its Christma s gree tings
t o t h e community and its emp loyees, wi ll pres e nt Hand e l's
beau tiful a n d traditional oratorio
"The Messiah", Sunday, Decem 1
b e r 21, on r adio station W ~YB .
PLANT NEWS BRJEFS
SOME ITEMS RUNNING LOW

AT EMP L OYEE STORE
K athy McCormi ck (Quality Control) wants to thank a ll those

folks who sent cards, candy and
fruit t o h e r while she was hospitali z ed r ecently.
P l a n t 'Inspec tion - Monday nigh t ,
December 22. Why not be gfn
now .to get your housekeeping i n
order?
"NO GREETINGS" I DEA

CATCHING ON
Bill Walker's idea to sen d food
to hungr y c hildren overse as instead of greeting cards to local
folk s , was pi'cked up by several
people. For their information foo d may be sent throug h CARE ,
1s t Ave nue, New York, N. Y. ,or
Christmas Ove rseas Relie f
(COR.), P. 0, Box 32 3,Richmond,
'. 171e Sig~z 1 '

\ . Said7i -:.
Sewn in blue-jeans nn Atlanta d epartment ~to re sold to teen-agers:

"Guaranl cc<l lo shrink."
In a Philad elphia bookshop near
a theater showing "The T en C omma n dnHnt s" : "You 've seen th
movie . . . now read the Book.''
In front o f a public Oower garden:
"Love 'cm an<l lca ve 'cm ."
SAFETY SCORE
l, 518 days
8 , 007, 307 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
What Is a Teacher?
A teacher is a sculptor who molds your child's mind. A
teacher is an architect who blueprints your child's career.
A teacher is a pioneer who explore3 your child's character. A
teacher is a diplomat who negotiates with the future.
A teacher is a specialist in education, yet is a social worker,
a statesman, an interpreter, a prophet. a builder, a leader.
"You haven' t pitked up a space S41ollitct, ~-d ...

that constant beep you hoar is somo fellow
honking for davght er t o hurry up 1
SANT A AND CREW

READY AND WAI TING FOR
THOUSAND GE YOUNGSTERS
A SANT A I N THE MAKING
Santa (Charlie Diaz) is just about ready for his visit Saturday
to the Specialty Control Kiddies
Kristmas Party. His suit has
been nicely cleaned and pressed
and Mrs. Santa (his wife, Bern)
has made a few necessar y alterations here and there in the now
familiar crimson velve t Santa
suif.
All the toys have arrived, too,
and "Santa" Diaz gave us a
little preview. First of all, for
the youngest (ages 1 to 3) there
will be colorful plastic boats
(for the boys) and cute little
"twin" dolls for little girls.
Ages 3 - 6 will re c eive a toy
auto! a tractor, a "link-it" s e t
or a manicure set for the little
heartbreakers. Water pistols,
and a variety of games will be
among the gaily w rapped g ifts
for the 6 - 9 group,and for the
"grown up" kids, over 9, there
are sewing kits or dolls for the
young misses and a plastic air plane kit or marbles for the
boys.
Again this year, Specialty Control gals dressed in cute r e d
and white outfits will s e rve as
Santa's Helpers - - to ke e p the
gift line straight, comfor t the
little ones who cry, and do the
hundred and one other little jobs
so important to a succes s ful
children's Christmas par ty .
Some of the SCOGEE Choraliers
will b e on hand,also, to brig hten
up the occasion with a medley of
Christmas songs.and Christmas
decorations for the theatre are
completed and ready to b e put
up Saturday morning.
So, it appears that Santa and his
crew will be just about s e t for
the onslaught when a thousand
excited kids bubbling ov er with
the Christmas spirit swoop down
on the Kiddies Kristma s Party
at the Wayne Theatre Saturday
morning.
"Sa nt a " Charlie Diaz gets a few last m inu t e alterati ons i n his S a n t a
suit by "Mr s . Santa," his wife , Bern.
'S
NEWS

S, ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD N EWS - COU RTESY OF WAYll ANO NEWS VI RGINIAN
December
B e p r e sent at ou r tabl e, Lord; be h e re and e v e r ywhere adored.

a nd g r ant that we may eat and drink to honor The e . Amen,
EAR L Y
CHECKS
IN ORBIT
Non ..
19, 1958
They people bless,
Four tons of Atlas missile are s pinning through space this morning,
circling the earth once every 100
minutes, According to newspaper reports the Atlas that is in orbit weighs
a little over 8000 pounds; is moving
in orbit from about 100 to 600 miles
up in space ; and is about the size of
a railroad boxcar, dwarfing Russia's
Sputnik Ill
:.:_
c e ive p ay
che cks on D ecember 24 and
D ecembe1r JI:
Employ ees in our Aircraft Area

build the CRlOOAl static exciter regulator which is used on the ATLAS in
c onjunction with the Fort Wayne alternator. However, according to
information from our Marketing
Sec tion, there are other companies
also b uilding the same kind of equipme nt for the ATLAS program a nd
we c annot presume that Specialty's
equipme nt was used in last night's
launc hing . To date we have shipped
s ome 16 units and have orders for
sever a l more.
AROUND THE PLANT

Ruth Madison has returned home
fr o m the hospital in time for the
holidays and is recuperating
n ic ely.
W a nted - - a ride from Island
F or d o n the 7: 30 - 4 : 00 shift.
C ontac t J ohn Long iN Sheet
Me ta l.
Startling news such as this latest

ATLAS firing brings home dramati cally t he importance of clo se atte ntion to quality in our work.
DON'T F ORGET THE KIDDIES

KRIS T MAS PAR TY TOMORROW
- - WAYNE THEATRE, 9 AM
AND 11 AM.
A TLAS-
Whether w e are working on ATLAS

e quipment or any other p r oduct in
ou r plant -- remember o~r custome r s depe nd on the quality of our w o r k !
DIDJ A NOTICE?
NOTICE
Ye s terday, Specialty Control
.-._c omp l eted eight million man
lo ur s worked without suffering
a lo s t time inj ury, The new
go a l we set fo r Oll r se l ves a
w hile b ack was te n million hours
- - l ess than two million to g o I
The Em_;:>Joy~' es' S tore re g rets

tha t r e p l ;v:.~ me nt Christma s
bulbs wi ll n o t arri ve in time fo r
Christmas . T h o se folks who
have b een waiti n g for the m to
c om e in, are a dvi se d to pu r c h a se t he i r r e p l a c eme nt bulbs
up t own t hi s C hri s tma s .
DRESS OF THE DAY

Girls w h o will serve as Santa' s
H e lpers tomorrow are req u ested
to wear dark skirts, dark
sweaters and heels so that t hei r
cos tumes can look as much alik e
as p ossible .
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S'ORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS -
VOL. IV, NO. 232.
COURTESY Of WAYa ANO MEWS VIRGINIAN
D ece mber 22, 1958
say; meet Thy favor through the day. Amen.
Grant that all we d o or
DISPENSARY CLOSED
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26
Because such a large part of our
work force will be off on Friday,
December 26, the Dispensary
will be closed. If it is
necessary to use the Dispensary
for fir st aid that day, or if it is
necessary to obtain the services
of a doctor, pleas e call Bill
Perry in Employee R e lations
(Ext. 241).
SANTA GREETED, GAVE GIFTS
..-... TO 1100 GE KIDS SATURDAY
It was a weary Santa Claus last

Saturday that greeted the last of
nearly 1100 GE youngsters who
turned out for the Department's
Kiddies Kristma s Party. l'io
Hop-A-Long Cassidy western or
Mickey Mouse cartoon was ever
greeted with the noisy and excite d response that Santa got as
he stepped onto the stage of the
Wayne Theatre to talk and distribute gifts to more than a
thousand youngsters.
Congratulations to Bill Perry,
Charlie Minter, and all the
fellows and girls who did so
much to make this children's
affair the huge success that it
was .
HOUSEKEEPING INSPE CTION

TONIGHT
Just in time to get in on all .the

Christmas fun - - a husky 7 lb.
6 oz. baby boy has arrived at
Dan Hensley's house , Mom,
baby and Dad are doing well.
CHRISTMAS DANCE GOES OVER
Following the pattern of just
about every SCOOEE dance of
late, last Saturday's Christmas
Dance was a huge success with
slightly more than 100 couples
attending. If you misse"d it,
plan now to get to the next one.
BOWLING EXTRA
The Retreads bounced back into
first place in the SCOGEE Ten
Pin League Thursday night as
they swept their three game
series with the Alley Cats, and
the leaders for one week, the
Dynamic 5 could only take two
games from the Cannon Balls.
Dick Wilson of the Retreads took
the indi'vidual honors for the
night with a High Single game of
203 and a High Triple of 551.
In the other matches the Roll
Tillers took all three game s
from the Q. C. Rejects and
Dixon's Dillies beat the Injun
Ears 2 games to 1.
A quick look t hrough the plant

reveal s that our hous ekeeping
has slipp e d badly the past mont h .
Tonight's insp ection will be a
thorough one, so give your are a
a good cleaning and str aigh tening out today.
ASSISTS IN CONTROL
ENGINEERING MAGAZINE
FEATURE ARTICLE
Bill Ostrander (Budgets and
Measurements ) received editorial mention this month in C ontrol Enginee ring magazine f o r
his assistance in the preparatio r:
of a special report by the magazine, that reviews t he economic
advantages o f modernization in
industry. The article which is
several pages long, also strong ly features our Program Contro l
equipment.
The "minute men11 of today are
those w ho can make it to the
refrig e rator and back with a
sandwich while the commercial
is on.
"I think I'll buy two and sa ve

100% ."
A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE

BOARD OF THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
To
General Electric eniployees and their
/a11iilies everywhere I extend my wishes /or a

Me rry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Our
continuing united efJorts to serve others-and
thus serve each other-can help us achieve the
best possible 1959.
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'S NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL AND WORLD NEWS - COU RTESY OF WAY! ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
V O L . I V , NO. 233
De c embe r 23, 1958
Thi s food, whic h T hou has t a l ready b l esse d i n t h e g i vin g, bles s al so in our part aki ng,
that God m a y b e honor e d , th ro u g h J e sus C hri s t our L ord. f.. men.
SHELBYVI LLE VOTES
"NO UNION"
STOCK C L EARANCE SALE

AIR F O RCE GREE TI NGS
6 h e l byville GE e mployees again

h ave said 11 no" to the IUE as
u nion o r ganize r s there m a d e
their t h i rd b id t o cap t u r e this
I ndiana Plant.
Air Forc e r epr e s e nta tiv e Ash l e y

W . B r ya n t a nd th e o the r Air
For c e i n sp r: ctors here at o u r
plant ex t e nd t h e ir b e s t wi shes
fo r a M e rry Chri s t m as a n d a
pros p e rou s New Y e ar t o th e
I
T he electi on smas h e d IUE hopes I e n ti re Spe ci a lty Co n t ro l D ept.
I
at S helbyville for s ome time as
- -- - - - -- - - - -- - - - - employe es r e j ected the union
I
ENGAG E D
l - 1/2 to 1. '.fhe fin a l tally was
NO UNIO N 2 4 .~ . IUE 9 7 .
J
- - - - - - Co ngratul a tion s (at l as t ) to

J oAnn Corbin (Payr o ll) and
TO W HICH C L ASS DO YOU
Jimmy Ha g wood (Apprenti ce}
BELONG ?
who wer e engage d las t F ri day .
J oAnn and Jimmy are plannin g a
A n Old Proverb Runs:
Jul y w e d ding .
He who know s , and k nows h e
knows ,
Is wi se - - follo w him.
SAF ETY SCORE
He who kno ws , ~ nd knows not
1, 52 3 days
he knows ,
8 , 035, 933 hour s
I s as leep - - wake him.
W ITHOUT A L O S T T I ME
H e who kno ws not, a n d knows
AC CIDENT
h e k n o w s not,
No w ' s th e time to p u r cha se t ha t

e xtra s e t o f Chri stma s t ree
li g h ts . A lr e ad y be i n g s old at
l ow emplo y e e pri c e s , a ll
C hri stmas " s t r i n g ligh ts" will
b e reduc e d 10% fo r stock cle a rance . T h e s u pp ly i s limited
a n d , of c ours e , w ill b e on a
f i r st c ome - fi rst served basis .
I s simple - - t eac h him.

H e wh o knows not , a nd kno w s
n ot h e kno ws no t,
I s a fool - - shun hi m.
h- - - - 1
GOT E NOUGH F L ASH BULBS ?
----+I
I
Planning to ge t s ome picture s

of the k i ds around th e Christmas
t ree o r s ome othe r holiday
sho t s ? Then b ette r s tock up on
flas hbulbs tod a y . M os t types
still in stock a t th e Employ e e ' s
'~S-to_r_e_._ _ _ _ _ _ __ __ _ __
" Uoger !-How m a ny times are

you going to re- live t ha t e xpe ri
e nr..t?
The 1958 Chris t mas S e a ls will

d ecor a te yo ur C h ri stmas g ift s
and cards a nd sho w tha t you are
he lpi n g i n t he fi ght against
t uber c ulosis .
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VISI T THE EMPLOYEES' s~ on..
NAM ES OF THE SP ACE AGE

Rememb er t h e Flying F ortre ss
the B azook as , and t h e Li g ht ning ' s o f World War II fame?
Thi s n ew s p ac e g eneration al sc.
h a s its sha r e o f c olorful nam ::-s
that ma y someday g o down in
histor y. For example , he r e ~
a n interestin g li s t of some
p rinc i ple missile and space
p roj ects o n w hich G e n eral
Electri c worked i n 19 5 8:
A tla s , G r e e n Q uai l , H o nest
Joh n , L acr o ss e, Man - In - Spac e,
Ma uler, M i ssi le A ble , .i:\ike
Herc ule s , Polari s , R egulu s ,
Si dewind~ r , Talos, T ar t e r ,
Thor and Tho r - Able .
MEET YOUR COMPETITION

He works hard for Bendix, Westinghouse, F arrand Controls ,
Reliance, Allied, Tru Trace, or one of the other companies that competes with Specialty in designing and building control equipment. He
knows that if the company he works for pr od u ces better controls, at
lower cost, and meets customer schedules - - then his company will
get more and more of the availabl e business.
YOU are HIS competition - - and he knows that if he and his fellow
workers (in the factory and the office ) do a better job indivi dually
than you and your fellow workers, then his company - not Specialty will get the customers' bus iness. He kn~ws, too, that jobs depend
on sales and his job depends on hi s company beating competition and
getting sales!
,5() /IE TRIES llR:RD To:

.....
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KEEP QUALITY HIGH

(by doing the job right)
KEEP COSTS LOW

(by doing the job right
first time)
the
KEEP TO SCHEDULES
(by doing the job right - the
first t i me - on time )
HE'S OUT TO BEAT YOU EVERYDAY ON THE JOB.

That's why - - THE WAY YOU DO YOUR JOB EACH DAY IS
I M P ORTANT TO SPECIALT Y CONTRO L'S SUCCESS !

'S NEWS
COURTESY OF WAY8 ANO MEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV I NO, 234
December 24 , 1958
say; meet Thy favor throu gh the day. Amen.
Grant that all we do or
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VERSE TO END VERSE
AT CHRISTMAS
~{II
want to wish each of y o u and

~; your families all the joys and
~bl essings of Chri stmas and
b ~eace and happiness in the com -
. ing year .
Sincerely,
Louis T. Rader
"- "
(A Visit From Sent Necklace )

Twister knot before crispness
End old Tr udy House
Noodle stricture was touring
Nut evening a mouse!
The stock ends were rung
Bottle Chimney we t care
In open Sent Necklace
Zo omward be dare
STORE CLOSES AT 1:15 TODAY
HAR TELIJKE KERSTGROETEN
Season's Greetings
GREE TINGS FROM OVERSEAS
Many of the fol ks in the factory
will remembe r former Air
Force I nspector Dick Smoot who
left for the service and is currently overseas . Writing to
J o hn Scott h e exte n ded his
wishes for the Holiday Season
to a ll his o ld fr i ends. His address is: Richard Smoot
FR 136 16299 , Hq. Hq. Co . , 1st
BA 7th Inf. , 3rd Di vis i o n,
APO 162, New York, N . Y.
SAFETY SCORE
1, 524 days
8 , 045 , 427 hours
W ITHOUT A L OST T I ME
ACCIDENT
lstmas S e al dollars supp or t
medi cal re search for better
ways to pre vent and cure tuberculo s i s .
If you have any last minute shop.
No, that's n ot a typographical

e rror in the headline . In Denmark it's "Gladede li g Jue"; in
Finland, 11 Hauskaa Jou lua' 1 ; in
Germany, " Froelicke Weihnachten''; in France "Joyeux Noel" ;
No matter which words you
use - - the spirit's the same a n d
you mean "Merry Christmas! "
ping to do at the employees

store , you'd better do it during
the luncheon period because it
will close a t 1:1 5 PM and will
remain closed for the balance
of the day.
The s to re will be open again on
J anuary 5, regu lar hours, in
the usual lo cation in the factory.
CAFE T ERIA OPERATING

FRIDAY
The cafete ria will be in full
operation on Friday, De cembe r
26 as usual.
Science i s resourceful, it
couldn't pry open a day coach
window so it air conditi oned the
train.
-------------- -NO TODA Y'S N EWS WIL L B E

P UBLISHED ON FRIDAY,
DE CEMBER 26 .
"That ' pip-pop, wippity-wappity, b~p-bap;

is great, but the rest of the lyncs
just don't make sense, Eddiew
CHRISTMAS COMES TO SPECIAL TY CONTR-Ol

KIDDIES'
KRISTMAS
MERRIER
FOR
PARTY
1100
G.
MADE
E.
CHRISTMAS
YOUNGSTERS
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'
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1100
CHRISTMAS
It was a weary old Santa (Char li e Diaz ) who

talked to the la 3t of the 1100 youngsters th a t
trooped up to his chair at t he Ki ddi es 1 Krist-
GIFT
LISTS
mas 1- a rt y . B u t every one o f them had the

opportunity to talk to Santa fa ce to face and
leave their Christmas li sts with him.
SANT A AND HIS HELPERS Her e are some

of the folks who helped Santa at the D epar tment's Kiddies' Kristmas Party. (Those are
Bill Perry' s youngsters with Santa a nd Bill.)
There we re several other Department em-
ployees who helped but ~ould not be present

for the picture. To each and every one of
them, on behalf of Specialty Control parents,
we say "thanks a lot for making it a merrier
Christmas for our GE
ABOUT ME? 11 Tiny tot

{center} casts a cove tous eye at he r
sister 1 s Christmas candy . was de light ed when she g ot a bag of candy for
her very own from Helpers Mary
Wright and Dukie Gum.
11 WHAT
DECISIONS! DECISIONS! Santa ' s

Helper Scottie Cale {left} checks with
Helper June Harrell on which toy would
be most appropriate for the next youngster in the line . (He go t the trac tor }.
That's Kay Bosserman at the far right .
THi::
GRO W N U PS !I A [)
P AR TY ,
TOO
--
Th<.'n' \\.ts a 11111 l1ousc .it ~COG !'":F. ' S CJ1ristm a s ci;ince J;is t S ;i t urc!:iy
at thl' Stonewa ll J rickson llotf'l . An unqualified su c cv~s . som .. rolk.~
said it "as thl' best SCOGEF: d.11H l' \'l't.
ct{f \
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VO L. IV, NO. 235
Decembe r 29 , 195 8
Graciou s Giver of all good; Thee we thank for life and food.
or s a y; m eet Thy f avor throu gh th e day. Ame n .
R EALIGNMENT EXPANDS INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS DI VISI O N
B E LA TED GREE TING FROM

ELATED CUSTOMER
H. A. STRICKLAND, R. W. SMITH BECOME V. P. 1 s

' -''' t i
He re is a Chr i s t mas gr e e ting

f r om one of our custom ers
which came a bit too late for
"o ur C hri s tm as e dition, b ut is
m uch too go od not to p a ss on
n ever the less . It was a tele g ram
f rom 11 Convair 11 whi c h read:
~First Convair 880 del i vered to
flight line December 15 with
all GE equipment i nstalled and

,-...f unctional . Testing successnul.ly conduct ed December 20-21
with your equipment checking
out per fectly. Perfonnance and
delivery of you r Department
have brought a ver;r Merry
Christmas to Convair and San
Diego. We extend our best wi shes
for a most happy holiday to all
of you. ''
Grant that a ll we d o
Jg
'
, J
T h e Industry Control D e partme nt in Roanoke and the Ins tr ument

Departme nt (excluding Instrume nt Transformers) w ill b e transfe rre (,
to th e Industrial Elec tronics Division according to a C ompany an n o unce ment r e ceived here today from President Robe r t P axton .
The effe ctive date of the transfer is January l , 1959. H aro l d A .
Str i ckland, G e neral Manager of the Industrial Electroni c s Divi s i on
since June 1956, was ele cte d a Vice President of the Company ef -.
fe ctive De c e mber 19 and w ill c ontinue to head t he n e w ly expanded
Di vision. Harold E. Strang, Vice Pre sident, has bee n appointe d
Con s ulting Engineer for Industrial Electronics Divi s i on a nd wi ll a ct
as engin ee ring cons ulta nt to Mr. Str i c kland.
The changes come o ut o f a r e alignment of 12 G e ne r al Ele c t r ic
D e p a rtments to i nc r eas e
corporate e fficiency. No p hysi cal re location of manuf ac tu r i n g
facilities is c o n temp lated, M r.
Paxton said.
MEN'S BASK ETBALL TEAM

WINS FIRST LEG OF TOURNEY
Sp e cialty Control's M e n ' s
Basketball Team beat the
Sta unton Farm Bureau combina tion by a sc ore of 76-32 la s t
S a turda y night i ~ the ' YMCA
Santa Cla u s Tournament. Ne x t
game in the "sudde n d e ath 11
s e ries wi ll be Tuesday night at
7 : 00 PM in the new Waynesboro
Hig h S c hool Gym, wh e r e the y
m ee t a strong Charlotte s ville
t e am. If they win Tue s day, our
GE la ds will advance to the
YMCA semi-finals .
This kind of sati sfacti o n i s wh at

ke e ps c usto me rs bringing their
b usine ss ba c k t o Specialty.
small slwts
~.
The move inc lude d dissolu ti on

o f t w o existing p r o du c t divi s i ons,
the Measureme nts a nd I ndustri al
Products Divis ion a nd the Constr uction Mat eri a l s Division .
SAFETY SCORE
1, 529 days
8, 073 , 909 hours
WITHOUT A LOST TIME
ACCIDENT
S ome wi se guy h a s sai d that
over- eating is the des tiny that
ends our shape s .
In addition t o Mr. Stric kland,

Mr. Raymond W. S m ith, for m e rly General Manage r of the
Transforme r Di vision was a l so
e lect ed a Vice Pr esident of th e
Com pany . In o the r announc e m e nts it was r eve ale d tha t Room
Ai r Conditione r D e p a r tme n t h as
b een disc ont inue d and as signed
to one operating c ompon ent with
Air Conditioning De partme n t.
Carl W . Moe lle r was appoint ed
G e neral M a nager of the Air
Condit ioning D e partme n t.
PLANT
IN SPECTION
REPORT
BATINGS USED FOR PLANT INSptCTIO

A&M QUALITY CONTROL - Sueeman
RELAY - Eirich
100%
Good
I nsp. - Hoylroan
Micro
Min. - Ouick - ~~or~ 2~
75%
Fair
A & M Test & Mezz - Ford
Aver 81 Brooms improperly
50%
Poor
Score 100 Aver 78
stored on conveyor belt, oil
25%
Unacceptable
Potted Units - Kneuppel
& waste & cardboard under
Score 100 Aver 97
DEDUCTIBLE POINTS
evacuation pump, Cloths on
1't:lterial Handling
- 25
Jeep Tet - Score 75 Aver 85
floor, can of varnish not
Work Area
_25
Poor housekeeping.
covered & i mproperl y st ored.
Safety Hazard s
_25
Test Constr uction - Fitzgerald
119.chine Ar~a Sc ore lQO
Fire Hazards
_25
Score 100 Aver 90
A\lera.ge 82
- - - - - - - - -- -----+
M
.ach. Shop - Score 100 Aver-22, Gl60 - Scor!2 100 Aver 27
Sht" et Met al - Score 100 Aver 100 Miniatur~ - ~Qo r~ 100 Aver 100
MAT SUB STATION - Insp. Barringe Program Control & Welder 'Sub Min - B,;:1metto - Score 100
Qffic ~ - ~Sj 101 - 10? - Hoylman - Score 75 Aver 90
Aver 82 Oil l r ags on f loor
Carts dirty.
104 - 128 - Score 100 Aver 90
n'pen - Score 7 2 Aver 72
Stock &n - Humphreys
Thymot rol - Moran Score 75
Machines not oi l ed, adjust fiz
Bee. - Score 100 Aver 100
Aver 90 - Carts dirty, meter
turee & meters not calibrated.
Overhead door could be
out of calibration.
Box of wood parts on top of
cleaned. ( all dust)
Reg & El ect. Drive s - Moran
ra ck.
Aircraft - Score 100 Aver 85 Scor e 75 Aver 74 cabinets
Gs-300 - Score 100 Aver 95
Elect Stock - Score 100
clutt ered.
Electrode material stored
Aver 90
Relay Test - Bare - Score 100
against upright column .
lOl - Scor e 100 Aver 97
Aver 97
Snip, & Wareho11se - Archambeault Inc . Insp - J. Davis
Scor e 75 Aver 94 Bro2ms out of MAINTENANCE - Insp. CUrto
Ship - 106 Aver 97
Warehouse - Score 100 Aver 94 pl ace .
I Boilerroom - Score 75 Aver 87
Offices - Sussman Score 100
R & R - W:rlie
Building ~2 - Scor e 7 2
Score 100 Aver 97
Aver 90
Special Comment - Bill Humphreys ~~-------------------~----' 1Aver 78 Needs more attention.
1Building #6 Sco~e 75
and hie people should be
ELECT AREA - Ins p. Cr ummett
j
IAver 72 Keep doors clo sed.
~
commended on t he outstanding
Sheet Metal - Groat & Van Lear
I Grounds - Scor e 100 Aver 89
layout and mai ntaining high
Score 100 Aver 90
i nt enance Shoo - Score 75
standards within t he s tockroom
Paint Booths - Score 100 Aver 95
ver
71 Odd8 & ends still
Area,
Pr i nt ed Circuit & Contour troublesome.
Wolanin Scor e 100 Aver 95
Large
Pa nel - Wol a nin Score 100
MAGNETIC WUIDING CQMfONENT Aver
100
Inep. - Coughtry
Small Panel - Crummett - Score 10
Assembly Stock Area - Score 7 Aver 0 Aver 85
Reg & Harness - Chol ewa Me ~sy - due to re -arrangement
Scor
e 100 Aver 85.
however, racks could be much
neater (mat'ls sticking out
in aisles.
AI RCRAFT - Insp. - Hyde
Assembly Area - Score 100
Speci al Panels - Beatty
Aver 90 Good
Score 100 Aver
Office - Scor e - 100 Aver 100 Militar S stems Pan ls & D vi
Good
Reasoner Score 50 Aver 85
Heat Treat & Test - House
Potted Units - Lonas Score 1
Score 50 Aver 82 Leaky
Aver 85
safety can (Fire Haza.rd)
Pl a t ing ~ - Hyde Score lOQ
unident ified cans - Table t op Aver 95
soaked wi th inflarna.ble ma.t ' ls . Mach. Rm & Job Shoo -Broughman
~----~-------------------t Cl ea n tank too close t o anneal
fur nace. Pai nt can under Dieless
Duolicator, metal in waste pa.per
...vr~~
ba r r el , alum in coope r brass
~
~
tur ni ng barrel
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S NEWS

VOL. IV, NO. 336
December 30, 1958
This food, which Thou hast already blessed in the giving, bles s also in ou r partaking,
that God may be honored, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
GE DEVELOPS PEE-WEE SI ZE
FLASH BULB
Big news to photo bugs is the
announcement b y G e n eral Elec tric 1 s Photo Lamp Department
of the development of the
world's smallest flashbulb.
Not much larger than a jelly
bean, the tiny glass pellet will
make pos sible rapid-flash
cameras which will fit - - flash holde r , lamps and all -- in the
palm of the hand. Also, the
flashbulb will provide, at less
cost, as much light output as
bulbs four times its size.
Called the All-Glass flashbulb,
it has a grooved g lass base de -
signed especially for us e in

multi-lamp c lips much like clips
used in a utomatic pistols.
The All-Glass fla shbulb wi ll be
available by next April a nd will
have a suggested retail pric e of
10 cents each.
PLEASE RETURN
DECORATIONS
Fred Curto reports that many of
the Christmas decorations were
taken from the cafeteria during
the Christmas holidays. It is
requested that those people who
borrowed the decorations,
please r eturn them to Maintenance so that we may have them
for use n ext year.
The re is a great difference between
knowing a thing nnd underatanding
it. You cnn know a lot about something nnd not ren.lly understand it.
A STORY WITH A
SYMPATHY
Her many friends in Specialty
Control extend their sincere
expressions of sympathy to
Maggie Fitzgibbons ( Dr.
Rader' s secretary) whose
mother, Mr s. Francis Fitzgibbons, passed away Sunday
afternoon at Amsterdam, New
York.
OFFICE INSPECTION REPORT
The housekeeping inspec tion report for the office portion of the
plant is carried on the otheJ;
side of TODAY'S NEWS.
DOUBLEBARRELED MORAL
Here's a story with a double

bar re led moral.
It's about Walt Snyder who turned in a suggestion a short w hile
back about the air filters we
were using in our 32 air conditioning units here at Specialty.
For some time we have been
using filters which are manufactured by a large nationally
known company. We have used
these filter.a here since 1954
changing the m every two months
and they've always done a pretty
good job. But doing a "pretty
good j o b" is no t enough, particu larly in these times when competition is so keen. Another
filter manufac turer is marketing
a mor e efficient air filter (it
need only be changed every three
months) and at a lower .Price
besides I Specialty will be
changing over to the new filters
the very next order and will
realize a substantial savings.
Just in time to help with his

Christmas shopping, Walt
received a $45 award check because he took e nough intere st
in his job to find a way of doing
it better and cheap er - - and be cause he took the time to submit his suggestion.
**********
Think about better ways ta ge t
our. jobs done and suggest worthwhile ideas -- it could mean
cash in your pocket. Tha t's
moral #l.
Moral #2 must be jus t as obvious. A large well know manufacturer lost a customer be cau s e
his competitor offered a bette r
product at a lower price. The
same thing can happen to
Specialty Control unless each of
us does all he can individually to
beat competition in quality and
price .
P L A NT

100%
75%
50%
25%
Good
Fair
Poor
Unacceptable
INS P E C T I 0 N
RE P 0 RT
Mktg. Cont.
2CO - 100 Aver .9.2
. 267 - 75 Aver 84 Dirty t a bles.
217 - 100 Aver 84
Ene. Cont.
Photo Lab - No Scor e
Control Rm - Score 100 Aver 91
Dar k Rm Development - Scor e 100
' Aver 89
f Dark Rm Product - Score 100
.
I
~~---~~-~~~------iAver 79
DEDUCTIBLE POINTS
!High Temperature Rm - Score l nO

Aver 98
Material Handling
'!Altitude Cha mber - Scor e 100
-25
Aver 89
Work Area
- 25
Safety Haza.rds
:Stock
Rm - Score 100 Aver 93
-25
\ModP.l Shoo Worked no score
Fire Hazards
-2 5
JMach Rm - Not inspected ,
=====================iLife Tes t Rm - Not insoo
. cted .
ENGINEERING
l>'.ain Enr>" . Lab - Scor e l no
. - -Aver 95 Better
Aircraft Lab Rm & Ups tairs Mezz, :Library - Score 100 Aver 98
Score 100 Aver 95
Aircraft Systems Lab
Score 100 Aircraft Systems Office - Score
Aver 93
1100 Aver l~O .
Aircraft System Class Rm .
Score 75 Aver 82 Sloppy - oil
!
rags in dust storage area.
VARKETI NG
Aircraft Systems Mezz - Score 100 Rooms :
Aver 77
255 - 100 Aver 98
Vibration & Drive Rm - Score 100 !256 _ 100 Aver 8/t
,
Aver 79 No inspection made,
265 - 10~ Aver 98
Eng. Lab Office - Score 100
251 _ 100 Av~ r 98
Aver 93
253 - 75 Aver 79 Telephone li ne!
Rooms:
sa f e t.y haza rd - Book s on to p of
All Engineering Offices
small fil e cabinets.
rated loo%.
2~4 _ 75 - Aver 89 Books & paper
s tacked on corner desk .
1----- -----
1--- ------------
WHAT'S WRONG
'VJ'l'l'H Tl-XIS
PICTURE?
.\~
E & CR
Room: ill_:: 10'1 Ave r 98

Dispensary - 100 Aver 9:
Cafeteria - 100 Aver 91
Employee Store - 100 Aver 9J
Prop Rm - 100 Aver 9.3
FINANCE
Rooms :
124 - Hayes - 100 Aver 98
12~ - Rop:ers - 100
Aver 100
111 - Payroll - 100 Aver 100
122 - Tabulat.ine - 100 Ave r l.00
127 - Budgets & Measureme nt~
l no - Aver 98
f"29 - Cooley & McEckron - 100
Aver 98
131 - 100 Aver 100
133 - 100 Aver 100
275 - l no Aver 98
135 - 100 Av er 98
292 - lr.~ Aver 98
Receotion Rooffi - 100 Aver 98
'S NEWS

SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN
VOL. IV, NO. 337
December 31, 1958
Grant that we may ever be grateful unto Thee, 0 Lord, our Father, for the many
blessings of our daily lives, In the spirit of Christ we pray. Amen.
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NEW YEAR WAS NOT ALWAYS

ON JAN. l
Getting our Share in '59
Although the world now ce le brates New Year's Day Jan. 1,

it hasn't always done so,
YFAR END MESSAGE

During 1958, the recession whicn hit. many parts of the economy, caught
up with us at Specialty Control, and we are still feeling the effects
of lower demand and stiffer competition in power generation, machine
tools, and aircraf't..
The ancient Athenians began

their year in June, the Macedonians in September. For a long
time the Romans ushere d in the
new year in March.
Many other months were the be "'""1-riing of the new year in an times. The earliest date
-..Lent
' on record is J uly 19, 4236 B. C. and it was New Year's Day!
G. E. HOOPSTERS LOSE TO
CHARLOTTESVILLE
The G. E. five were knocked out
of the Men's Basketball Santa
Claus Tournament last night
when they bowed to Charlottesville 75 to 86.
Although we have had to reduce our work force in some parts of our
operations, our effor~s here in the Company's "Operation Upturn" program over the last half of 1958, helped our sales and held layoffs
down to a minimum. In fact, the results of our extra efforts in
"Operation Upturn" were so real and so important that at Specialty
Control the Upturn program will be continued into 1959.
At this moment, it appears that 1959 for us will be a business year
vt.ry similar to l.958. Empl.oyment should remain at about the present
level depelXling, of course, upon our sales picture.
For example, in industrial electronics much will depend upon whether
the machine tool industry statj;s upward from its low levels of the
past two years. As yet there is no indication that this upturn has
started. In aircraf't., we expect to maintain our share of the market
. unless new major sbif't.s of emphasis occur in . the nation's defense
program. Even if this does occur, i f we are able to move fast enough
we should still be able to get our share of orders.
I am more and more convinced that the success of this Department
depends on the attitude and perfonnance of each individual. Accordingly, in 1959 we are going to ask that each employee do all he can
to iniprove his job perfo:nnance.
JAN. INSPECTION ON MON.

Our regular January housekeeping inspection will be held next
Monday evening in the factory
and offices. Housekeeping in- .
spections are scheduled for the
first Monday of each month.
If we do the kind of a job I know we can do - then we will get our

full share of 1959 's Control business, and perhaps a little more
besides.
A very happy and successful new year to you all.
L. T. Rader
NO "NEWS" ON FRIDAY
HAPPY
NEWYEAR
TODAY'S NEWS will .not be

published this Friday. Next
issue will be Monday, J a n. 5.
KEEP PLUGGING.
A lot of fellows
~ross the goal line who we,c never in
scoring position.
:. A-Sound Recovery in '59
--- ON THE YEAR AHEAD

Effects of Recession
Following are some ofthe remarks concerning the GE business outlook for. 1959 by Ralph
J. Cordiner, Chairman of the Board, General
Electric Company which he made during a
press conference December 17, 1958 in New
York city. While this is not a complete
transcript of the interview, it hits several
highlights which will be of interest to many
of you.
The Business Outlook for 1959

Recovery is Sound:!,
In the opinJon of General Elec-
. trlc's management. the business

recovery that has been underway
since the third quarter of 1958 is
a sound recovery, and will continue. A free economy is never
wholly predictable, o( course, because lt responds to the changing
moods and interests of highly diverse markets.
However, the somewhat slower rate of recovery In recent
weeks Is a good sign that businessmen are exercising prudent
Judgpient; they are not Indulging 1n a thoughtless build-up of

Inventories and facHltles beyond
what Is warranted by .foreseeable economic trends.
ThJs prudence will have valuable long-term effects In the

fight against inflation. Meanwhile.
there is a steady improvement In
consumer spending and construction~ and the drop in capital-goods
business seems to have leveled
out.
Strong Segments in 1959

In those areas whJch most con-
cem General Electric, it appears
that the stronger segments in

1959 will be consumer goods, defense, and public construction.
Sales of consumer goods-including the durables such as appliances and automobiles-are showing an encouraging gradual improvement. The successes of the
Soviet Union, In military technology, have put new urgency in
the defense program, and industry
activity In this segment will continue to accelerate In the coming
year.
As to public construction although the voters were highly

selective In their vote on many
local bond Issues, they clld approve $L'1 billion worth of bond
proposals, assuring a high level
of activity In school and ~h
way construction, water and
sewage Q&tems. and other community facilities.
This also indicates that the local
and state govemments are accepting theJr. responsibilities, so
that further massive federal intervention should not be required.
Capital Goods
Investment in plant and equipment Is usually among the last
segments to recover after a
downswing In the business cycle,
and this recovery is producing no
exception to that rule. It is heartening to notice, however, that the
decline in capital expenditures ap-
pears to be halted. The capital

goods business will probably not
improve very much in 1959. but
toward the end of the year it
should pick up .speed for a real
surge of expansion in the early
1960's.
The business recession in 1958

was concen~ted mainly .in the
durable goods, materials, and
transportation areas. The electrical manufacturing industry, whJch
makes both producers' and consumers durables, was therefore
among the industries most sharply affected.
This had Immediate effect.a on
General Electric In a number
of locations, as far as sales and
Jobs are concemed. The Impact
on the Clompany as a whole was
relieved by the effects of diver-
slflcatlon and the success of

Operation Upturn.
Thus, the heavy backlogs of
apparatus and defense orders sustained the Company's production
levels in 1958 even though sales of
consumer goods and Industrial
components fell off during the
year. Next year, higher levels of
consumer goods and components,
along with continued defense
business, are expected to compensate for the lower backlogs of
utility and Industrial orders.
Ofleration U11turn
Last spring. when the levels of
business were at their low point
and everyone was seriously concerned about whether the recession would turn into a depression,
Geileral Electric announced a program to build sales and jobs,
called "Operation Upturn." The
idea w.as to rally everyone associated with the Company - as
employees, share owners, suppliers, distrJbutor8, dealers, or any
other connection - to bring extra
values to our customers.
.
Without going Into details, let
me say that Operation Upturn
has been a rousing success.
Through the efforts of our decentralized operating departments, we are convinced that
this program helped to brlni;t In
extra business. and saved Jobs
that would otherwise have been'
lost.
But just as important as its
lmmediat~
success is this: the

program stimulated many lasting
Improvements in the
operations. It ls m a k i n g .
eral Electric employees more
customer-minded.
Recently I was asked to ~
marlze what I felt was~t'-.,.-- -,important lesson learned,:::-..
Operation Upturn. I put tr till~
way:
"May we never forget that
we are working- for King Clu.stomer. All of us, whatever we
do, must respect his wishes,
welcome him with warmth and
helpfulness, and try to give him
more than he expect.a. This ls
.how we all stay on his payrolL"
I believe this Company-wide
focus on the customer is going to
have significant effects on General Electrlc's results In the years
ahead.
iiT
1959 Prospects
In 1959, the advances in levels
of electrical business will be paced
by consumer goods and components, electronics, and electrical
equipment for community services.
As far as electrical equipment for
industry is concerned, it Is expected that orders will increase slowly
in 1959, followed by a strong
surge in 1960 and 1961. Most of

the industrial equipment sold in
1959 will be for modernization and
replacement of existing facilities,
rather than expansion. Efficient
production facWtles have become
a major factor in industrial cornpetition.
Long-term Outlook
Looking farther along, General
Electric is as confident as ever
about the electrical future. The
studies of the Company's economists indicate that the Gross
. National Product in 1977 will be
about $850 billion (at. today's
prices) an 88% increase over
1957's ~ecord levels.
lt also appears that the production and use of electric power
Iindouble
this countrr can continue ~o
every eight years. 'Fhat
is
the post-war trend, and it ls a

reasonably accurate gage of thl'
amount of electrical manufacturin~ business than can be ~~
in the years ahead. Of ~
,.
forecast is not to foreoi:\
is simply a measure of. .,,., op,.,tunlty. General. Electne-'hopcs to

grow with the industry. .
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SPORTS, NATIONAL ANO WORLD NEWS - COURTESY OF WAY8 ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN
December 19, 1958
Be present at our table, Lord; be here and everywhere adored.

a nd grant that we may eat and drink t o honor Thee. Amen,
EARLY
CHECKS
IN OR'.BIT
Non ..
l.~
celve pay
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checks on December 24 and
Decemb~r~:
Four tons of Atlas missile are spinning through space this morning,
circling the earth once every 100
minutes. According to newspaper re ports the Atlas that is in orbit weighs
a little over 8000 pounds; is moving
in orbit from about 100 to 600 miles
up in space; and is about the size of
a railroad boxcar, dwarfing Russia's
Sputnik III.
Employees in our Aircraft Area
build the CRlOOAl static exciter regulator which is used on the ATLAS in
conjunction with the Fort Wayne alternator . However, according to
information from our Marketing
Section, there are other companies
also building th e same kind of equipment for the ATLAS program and
we cannot presume that Specialty's
equipment was used in l ast night's
launc hing. To date we have shipped
some 16 units and have orders for
several more.
AROUND THE PLANT

Ruth Madison has returne d home
from the hospital in time for the
holidays and is re cuperating
nicely.
Wanted -- a ride from Island
Ford on the 7: 30 - 4: 00 shift.
Conta c t John Long ii\/ Sheet
Metal.
Startling news such as this latest

ATLAS firing brings home dramati cally the importance of clo se attention to quality in our work.
DON'T FORGET THE KIDDIES

KRISTMAS PARTY TOMORROW
-- WAYNE THEATRE, 9 AM
AND 11 AM.
AT LAS
DIDJA NOTICE?
Whether we are working on ATLAS

e quipme nt or any other product in
our plant - - remember o~r custom ers depe nd on the quality of our work!
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NOTICE
Yesterday, Specialty Contr ol
completed eight million man
.
.ours worked without suffering
a lost time i njury. The new
goal we set for 011 rselves a
while back was ten million hour s
-- less than two million to go l
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They people bless,
The Employees ' Store r e grets

that replac eme nt Christmas
bulbs wi 11 not arrive in time for
Christmas, Those folks who
have been waitin g for them to
come in, are advised to p u rchase the ir r e plac ement bulbs
uptown thi s C hristma s.
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DRESS OF THE DAY

Girls who will serve as Santa' s
Helpers tomorrow are reques ted
to wear dark skirts, dark
s weaters and heels so that their
c ostumes can look as much alike
as possible.
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'S NEWS

PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN

VOL. IV, No. 1

January 2., 1958

For food to nourish our bodies, to Thee we are truly grateful.

American scientists expect the

.e President of Vene z uela

EMPLOYEE STORE WILL OPEN . SPECIALTY CONTROL RANKS

T wo of the costumes used by

The only department which ranks

"When did you first expe rience

OFF THE JOB

AT HOME OR AWAY FROM HOME,

ON THE JOB OR OFF - - - - -

COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN

VOL. IV, No. 2

so nourish us as to be wise and strong to do Thy will.

HOUSE IS APPOINTED SUPV. MAGNETIC WINDING

C. W. Gerni has been appointed

Donald M. Hous e has been appointed Supervisor-Magnetic

Mr. Gerni previously held the

Lawrence Barringer has been

SCOGEE girl's basketball teams

The Magnetic Winding Compone nts operation was established

JOB PLACEMENT WHEN RETURNING AFTER ABSENCE FOR ILLNESS OR

In most cases of illness, an employee's absence is of short duration and it is not

PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

COURTESY OF WAYB ANO NEWS VIRGINIAN

THERE WILL BE NO PLANT

SCOGEE Glee Club will re swne

Continuation o f cost-of-li ving adjustments when calle d fo r

"How d o y ou k now you don't like

PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN

PROFIT MARGINS OF U.S.

ANNUAL INCOME OF UNIONS

INCOME TAX NOTES

Beginning Monday, January 13,

This is an increase of 162 million

WATCH OUT FOR

DOOR IN NORTHWEST CORNER

Sherman .Byrd (Inspection)

''When the hi - fi bug bit him, it

WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE NEW YEAR

"IF WE DON ' T HAVE AN AGREEMENT (WI TH G. E. ) ON

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PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIAL TY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

COURTESY OF WA YB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN

SPECIALTY CONTROL LOSES

A course in the basic principles

Specialty Control had good sales

i Unless we can continue to build a

wer, lights , heat and air will

The meeting day has not been

I Offering a quality product at a low'

the job of all of us. The

of investment, which is open to

Would the person who side-swiped

Among other things, physic ians

THE FORGOTTEN MAN

Don't the members

_PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEE RELATIONS SECTION AS A SERVICE TO SPECIALTY CONTROL EMPLOYEES

COURTESY OF WAYB AND NEWS VIRGINIAN

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