VOL.IO, NO. 9

NEW AID CLUB committee members and building representatives meet at SEDheadquarters in Glendale, following election. Front row (L-R), Bill Ryan, HarryNewbanks, Evelyn Robideau, Dick Wilson, Marie Sagar and Don Derrington. Rearrow; A. R. Pederson, Supvr. Employee Benefits and Services, Bob Gonzales, TerryDixon, Bob McCollum, Ella Lustig, Moe Lehman, Joe Myles and Ella Lustig.

Value Engineering ProposalWill Save Navy $60,000

1964 Holiday ScheduleMarch 27, Good Friday.Memorial Day, May 30, which

falls on a Saturday. The company­paid holiday will be Friday, May29.

July 4, Independence Day, alsofalls on a Saturday. The company­paid holiday will be Friday, July3.

Sept. 7, Labor Day.Thanksgiving Day, Nov 26.Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve), half­

day paid holiday, and ChristmasDay, Friday Dec. 25.

Late News ...At Avionic Equipment Divi­

sion, new contracts havebeen received totaling$1,276,000, for airbornecomputers and associatedequipments ••••The work willbe performed for the U.S.Air Force and for an over­seas member of the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organiza­tion.

Surface Equipment Divi­sion has negotiated a con­tract for design and pro­duction of a group of elec­tro-mechanical modules at atotal fixed price of $792,­000. SED will perform thework for a prime ASW con­tractor to the Navy. Thework is classified.

(GLENDALE) President Johnson's drive to reduce costs of the na­tional defense program without sacrificing quality or quantity, findsLibrascope in the enviable position of being "out in front" in this effort.

Word has just been received from theNavy's Bureau of Weapons that Libra­scope's value engineering proposal toslash approximately $60,000 from thecost of producing the Mk 113, Mod 2FCS, has been approved.

The cost-saving proposal is our firstaffecting products in production, to beaccepted by the government. Under termsof its contract with the Navy, Librascopewill share the savings 50-50 with the gov­ernment over the life of the contract.

"This acceptance is no mean achieve­ment," Vice Pres and Division ManagerT. D. Bryant of the Surface EquipmentDivision, told LIBRAZETTE. "The suc­cessful applicaHon of value engineeringconcepts to a project already engineeredand in production is not an easv process.

"It's worth pointing out," Bryantadded, "that few value engineering pro­posals put forth by defense contractorshave, so far, survived the acid test ofpracticability-that is, is the result worththe effort? One giant in the electr,onicsindustry, with a 28-man value engineer­ing staff, has yet to achieve one accept­ance out of all the proposals it has sub­mitted."

Librascope's successful proposal in­volves the dropping of a processing stepin the manufacture of circuit boards for

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Employees Vote$20,000 Aid

(GLENDALE) Employees of the 'Sur­face Equipment Division and the Libra­scope Group Offices have authorized pay­roll deductions of $20,000 during 1964 forcontribution to charity.

Most of the money will be channeledto major charities of the Los Angelesarea through the Aid Club, which con­ducted the balloting in which the author­izations were made.

The balloting als-o resulted in the re­election of Dick Wilson, Harry Newbanksand Marie Sagar to the governing boardof committeemen, and in the election oftwo new members, Don Derrington andSteve Jackman. Carryover members areBill Ryan and Evelyn Robideau. Wilson,who has been chairman of the group, wasreelected to that post by the members.

Also elected were representatives fromeach building, to function as field assist­ants to the committee. They are:

Elmer Lehman and Tony Schneider,Bldg. 1; David Gardner, Bldg. 2; MarkWalker, Bldg. 3; Bob McCollum, Bldg.5; Edna Pelka, Bldgs. 7 and 14 and KenBurton, Bldg. 16.

Also, Alice McCormick and Ella Lustig,Bldg. 17; Bob Gonzales, Bldgs. 18 and19; Joe Myles, Bldg. 32; Terry Dixon,Bldg. 11, and Nick Pizula, second shift.Mrs. Lustig also was elected alternatecommitteeman, to serve for absent mem­bers.

Kroninger I Byun

Return to CCD

WORLD FAMOUS Col Bernt Balchen (C), who piloted Admiral Byrd in first SouthPole flight 34 years ago, visits Glendale's Bldg A02 cleanroom to inspect opticalassembly line. ISG Marketing Representative Jack Whistler (L) and Leadman AlReed were Col Balchen's guides. Col Balchen, retired from the USAF, is now aGPI consultant.

Bernt Balchen, Famed Flier,Pays Visit to SED and AEDBYUNKRONINGER

(BURBANK) Nolan R. Kroninger, whofirst joined the then Burbank branch 12years ago as an electronics technician,has returned to the organization after atwo year absence, as Director, ProductEngineering.

Kroninger's appointment was an­nounced by R. L. McIntyre, CCD.managerof engineering. At the same tlme Mc­Intyre announced that Chai B. Byun, whohad resigned his post as project engi­neer six months ago, has returned to theorganization as an engineering supervisorin the product engineering group.

During his absence Kroninger hea,deda section at North American Aviation'sspace and information systems divisionworking on the development ,of spacesimulation devices. Byun was with LittonSystems working on component design.

Management MeetingLibrascope's annual management din­

ner meetings will be held Feb. 10 and 11at Burbank and San Marcos locations.Scene of the Glendale area meeting, onFeb. 10, will be the Castaway restaurant,1250 Harvard Road, Burbank. Locati.onof the San Marcos meeting, on Feb. 11,is the Quails Inn, San Marcos.

bined rescue operations with attacks onNazi-operated weather stations on theice-covered island, during World War II.

Later in the war, Colonel Balchen or­ganized and led a special OSS airlift toferry thousands of underground fightersinto Norway and himself took part innumer.ous sabotage acts against the Naziswho occupied his homeland.

An American citizen since 1929, ColonelBalchen has never lost touch with theland of his birth. He was one of thefounders of the forerunner of the pres­ent Scandinavian Air System beforeWorld War II, then helped reorganize itafter the war, while on leave from theU.S. Air Force. He ended his USAFcareer as c·ommanding officer of the 10thAir Force Rescue Squadron in Alaska.

Sunnyvale Engineers

Address AOA Meeting

(SUNNYVALE) Technical papers .onexploding bridgewire initiation systemswill be delivered by two engineers of theSunnyvale branch, CCD,before the Amer­ican Ordnance Ass'n joint technical meet­ing on EBW, Feb 10 and 11, in LosAngeles.

Donald E. Davenport, director of elec­tro-explosive engineering, will speak on"Ordnance Design and Testing to Mini­mize Dudding."

Otto W. Schreiber, director of electri­cal engineering, will talk on "ExplodingBridgewire Frequency Coded ArmamentSystems."

Also taking part in the sessions, astechnical c·o-chairman, is R. Carroll Man­inger, former Sunnyvale manager, nowHead, Electronic Research Division, Law­rence Radiation Laboratory, Universityof California.

Sunnyvale branch pioneered in devel­oping the exploding bridgewire tech­nique for ignition use in missiles. Itsproducts are used on various missile pro­grams.

(GLENDALE) One of aviation's pioneer instrument pilots and theman who piloted Admiral Byrd's plane on the first flight over the SouthPole, was a recent visitor to the Surface Equipment and Avionic Equip­ment divisions of the Librascope Group.

He is Colonel Bernt Balchen (USAF­Ret), who has been flying for 46 of his64 years. Now a GPI c.onsultant, he wasat Librascope in connection with a newweapons system being considered by GPI.

A massively muscled man with a barrelchest developed (as told in his biogaphy"Hitch Your Wagon") by chopping twocords of wood a dav during' his youth inNorway, Colonel Balchen's hearty ap­pearance belies his years.

True to his background as the manwho helped bring science into airplanecockpits, Colonel Balchen displayed greatinterest in the pilot sights and other op­tical devices he saw being built at Glen­dale and the navigational computers atSan Marc.os. In addition to being one ofthe world's great pilots he also is anengineer and a skillful machinist.

("Hitch Your Wagon" tells of how Bal­chen, then a Norwegian Air Force flier,rebuilt the skis of Admiral Byrd's planeafter they had been damaged in landingat Spitsbergen, so that the ship couldtake off and make the first North Poleflight in May, 1926.)

Colonel Balchen helped build the firstArmy Air Force base on Greenland, andcommanded the f.orces there which com-

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I shall never be influenced by any con­sideration but one: Is it the truth as Iknow it-or better still, feel it? If so,shoot, and let the splinters fly wherethey may. -Eugene O'Neill

"KPOnce a M'onth

N,ow"I Says Jappe(GLENDALE) Engineering draftsman

Carl A. J appe has returned rrom his twoyears or military service with a talestrange to the ears or all who wore theArmy's unirorm in World War II.

Carl, who joined the then ShipboardEngineering Department or Librascopein October, 1960, was drafted a yearlater. After basic training at Fort Ord,he was shipped to Fort Sill, Okla., homeor the Army's Artillery Corps. He lookedrorward to career as a canoneer.

However, the modern Army likes totake rull advantage or civilian skills,Carl discovered. His first - and lastassignment - was as a military drafts­man!

"I never put down my drawing pen rortwo years," Jappe told LIBRAZETTE,"except for once a month KP." (Oncea month!)

Librascope is getting a more experi­enced draftsman than when he hired in,J appe believes, because or his militaryservice.

"We worked in ink all the time-nopencil-and I picked up some very userultechniques working on maps and charts,"Jappe says.

Carl also brought back two new addi­tions to his family, Mrs. Carl Jappe, theformer Karen Edkins or Burbank, andCari J appe, born 10 months ago in theArmy hospital at F'0rt Sill. (Total medi­cal costs t'0 Pvt. Jappe: $5.00!)

Carl is not only back on the job, butback in school, picking up where he leftoff at Glendale College when he went onmilitary leave two years ago. He's work­ing for his AA certificate.

It is by their ability to die for some­thing incomprehensib~e to the vast ma­jority that a handful of men have suc­ceeded, over the centuries, in winningthe respect of the world. -Jean Anouilh

(GLENDALE) Librascope's group-wideImpAct campaign to cut costs enters itsthird phase this month, Theme or theFebruary project-Waste Prevention.

"Waste can mean the difference be­tween profit and no profit," says CliffordS. Godwin, ImpAct committe chairman,"and a company needs profit to survive inthe highly competitive marketplace ortoday."

Singled out f'0r special attention in thismonth's drive are the purchase and use orsupplies, the proper use and maintenanceor production and office machinery, utili­zation or building space and use or inter­nal reproduction processes such as blue­\prints, offset printing and similar dupli­~ating operations.

j \ All department heads and supervisorsire being urged to survey their areas andto c·ome up with concrete ideas on howwaste can be avoided, or eliminated.

The ideas are to be forwarded to theCost Reduction Committee ror study andruture implementation.

Call for PapersCalls for papers have been issued

by the International Symposium onGlobal Communications, the 19thAnnual Meeting of the Ass'n forComputing Machinery and theWestern Electronic Show and Con­vention. Details as to due dates andother requirements may be obtainedfrom Group Public Relations, Bldg.103, Glendale.

Waste Prevention Is

ImpAct February Theme

TWO YEARS away from Glendale Engineering drafting board, didn't dull theskill of Draftsman Carl Jappe, (R), because the Army kept him busy in the sameline of work all the time he was gone. Supvr Bob Halloway agrees that Carl hasn'tlost "the touch."

(SAN MARCOS) James A. Mahoney,formerly or Kearfott Division, Aerospace'Group, GPI, is the Avionic EquipmentDivision's new director or customerserVIces.

At AED, Maho­ney's responsibilitiesinclude Field Service,Spares, Publicationsand the Repair De­pot. They parallelthose he had as arearepresentative, logis­tics, while with Kear­rott.

Prior to JommgKearfott, Mahoneywas a group supervisor with the groundsupport equipment section or the Jupitermissile project at Chrysler Corp. Earlierhe was a senior field engineer withSperry Gyroscope division or Sperry­Rand Corp., assigned to overseas supportor aviation fire control systems.

Name J. A. MahoneyAED Customer Head

J. J. "Jock" MurphyHeads D. C. Office

(WASHINGTON) Librascope's Wash­ington regional marketing office is nowheaded by John J. "Jock" Murphy, whopreviously was Washington marketingmanager ror Motorola Corp. and theSperry Gyroscope division or Sperry­Rand Gorp.

Murphy succeedsMyron Prevatte, nowon an extended leaveor absence to attemlspecial courses atGeorge WashingtonUniversity. Prevattealso will act as con­sultant for Libra­scope.

The new Washing­ton manager is a1936 BS/Math graduate or St. Peter'sCollege, who also took graduate work atBrooklyn Polytechnic Institute. DuringWorld War II he enlisted as an Armyprivate, was discharged four years lateras Major in the Ordnance Corps.

Pri'0r to his five-year Washington spanwith Motorola and Sperry, Murphy spentnine years with American Motors, firstas aircraft products manager and then asgeneral sales manager. While withSperry he headed the marketing efforton the Polaris and Sergeant missile proj­ects.

Murphy is a member or SAE, IEEE,AIAA and AFCEA and both speaks andwrites French and Spanish. He is mar­ried, the rather or three teen-agers andmakes his home in the WestmorelandHills section or Washington.

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systems.

Previously Bonkowski was Chief forSurveillance and Warning Systems ofNorth American Aviation's space and in­formation'systems division, and a seniorstaff engineer in Hughes Aircraft's aero­space division, responsible for design '0£

synthetic array radar systems for highspeed, high altitude reconnaissancevehicles.

(GLENDALE) A reconnaissance andsurveillance systems and data manage­ment section has been established aspart of the Space Information Systems

Research and

R. R. Bonkowski Named

To R & S Center Post

Bonkowski earned his BS/Physics de­gree from the University of Michigan in'52, where he was awarded his MS/Phys­

al Co's elec- ~ ics degree in 1954. He became 'a candidate, for the PhD at his alma mater in 1955.

eran of World (\, ..

th . I He IS the author of a senes of papers onree years m , ..uivisions. He is electromagnetIc wave scattenng, pub-

/of five children, lished by Michigan's Engineering Insti-to 18. tute.

Tax Forms AvailableSupplies of Federal and State

Incoml1"Tax Return forms are now

available to employees in companyPerso.nnel Offices. Due date for fil­

ing is April 15 for both State andFederal returns.

T. M. McAuliffe Is

(GLENDALE) James T. Parry, presi­dent of the Southern California Chapterof the American Marketing Ass'n anddirector of' that organization's defensedivision, has joined the Librascope Groupmarketing department as manager,market development.

A native of Gary,Ind., Parry gradu­ated from Lake For­est College in 1960with a BA/Econ de­gree, received hisMBA/Marketing de­gree from IndianaUniversity in 1951.

Parry has beenidentified with mar­keting and marketlresearch throughout his career. WithThompson-Ramo- Wooldridge's computerdivision he was a district representative,requirements analyst and proposal en­gineer. With Hughes Aircraft he direc­ted market research in space systems,air defense, command and control and un­dersea warfare systems.

Parry is married, the father of threeand makes his home in Woodland Hills.

Washington Eng. MoveThe Washington Engineering

Department of the Surface Equip­ment Division, has completed themove from Bethesda, Md., to itsnew quarters in Rockville. Md. Thenew address: 12701 TwinbrookParkway, Rockville, Md., 20851.

J.T • Parry H,eads

Market Dev,elopment

How Centaur Comp ler Is Put Together(SAN MARCOS) The several score

men and women working in the area allwear white coats or jackets, and someweal' white nylon gloves as well. Eachsits at a modern, multi-leveled worktable, contoured to fit the job beingworked upon. The lighting is bright, butnot glaring, and is virtually shadow­free.

This is where the electronics of theCentaur computer, head of the inertialguidance system of the Centaur spaceprobe vehicle, are put together, in aspecial section of the assembly area inthe Avionic Equipment Division plant atSan Marcos.

The general atmosphere is more likethat of a hospital than a factory andthis clinical setting is no accident. Everypart of Centaur is handled as though itwere a delicate living organism, and isjoined to other parts with the delicatecare of a neuro-surgeon.

Not far away, in the same building,is AED's dust-free room, where the im­pression of a medical clinic is even

stronger. Here, inlcomPletelY isolatedbUilding-within-a-b" . ding, the mechani­cal elements of t ,e computer are puttogether by assem ers completely garbedin white, again to reduce chances of dustgeting into delicate moving parts.

But there isn't any dust, or otherforeign substances in the working area,at least, so little and so minute in size,that it takes very delicate instruments todetect. The ail' supply is completely fil­tered, each assembler gets an "air-bath"when entering the room to remove looseforeig'n substances from his own cloth­ing. His shoes walk ,on a "tacky" carpet,leaving all dirt behind. Caps, gowns andgloves are donned after the airbath.

All of this special effort in both assem­bly areas is to prevent computer mal­function that c-ould be caused by foreignsubstances gaining entry to the mechan­isms during manufacture. It has paid off:there have been no failures of any kindattributable to lack of care in assembly.

The next Centaur flight is scheduled

for some time in April, according toMilan Telian, Centaur project manager.It will be another "open loop" test flight,in which the computer will function, butnot -operate the flight controls. The firstoperational test of the guidance systemwill come on the fourth flight, at a datenot yet announced.

Meanwhile, the assembly operationcontinues. On the page opposite are aseries of photographs taken during atypical work day. From left to right,across the top:

1) Mae Burns, GAE leadman. checks operationsheet as GAE wireman Loretta Staffen wires testunit; 2) Georgianna Beko, GAE, checks wiringunder microscope, as Linda Keaton, GAE, receivesinstruction from Foreman Jack Bareis; 3) GAEDick Anderson wiring input/output unit.

Second row, left to right: 1) Inspector LouiseElrod reviews circuit board after final assembly;2) GAE Fred Roberts in pre-wiring phase ofinput/output front panel; 3) Caroline Solis, GAE,wires logic section of flip-flop circuit board.

Third row, left to right: 1) GAE- Anna Leonardwiring computer section, with GAE Leadman MaeBurns providing supervision; Don Bettencourt,GAE, wires a relay package; 3) interior of ClassII Clean Room, showing assembly of modules andmemory drum.

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"There is no limit to the good a mancan do-if he doesn't care who gets thecredit." -Thomas B. Watson

Librascope Is Host ToJunior Achievers

(GLENDALE) Pres. Richard W. Leeand members of the Librascope advisoryteams were hosts to the members of Cal­Top and Quali-Co - two company-spon­sored Junior Achievement companies-ata l'ecent luncheon in the Five Horsemenrestaurant in Burbank.

Occasion was the formal presentationof Junior Achievement company chartersfrom the parent organization, to theheads of the high school student groups,with Mr. Lee doing the honors.

Speaking informally, Mr. Lee dis­coursed on the roOleof modern manage­ment and the importance of proper edu­cational preparation. Harlan Buseth,Manager, Operations, Surface EquipmentDivision and Robert O. Vaughan, VicePresident, Marketing, Librascope Group,also spoke.

Cal-Top, which produces and marketsa novelty toy called the "Krazy Top," andQuali-Co, whose product is a ball-shapedpen desk set, both operate from theJunior Achievement center in Burbank.

Cal-Top's president is Lynn Walker, athree-year Junior Achievement veteran,and student at John Burroughs highschool, Burbank. Quali-Co's chief execu­tive is Steve Eberle, a student at Bur­bank Senior high school.

Acting as advisors to the two com­panies are Dwight E. ROoOf,Casper C.Dracy, William M. Walker and HaroldCompton, all of Cal-Top, and C. R. "Bud"Linsley, Don Derrington, Dave Sanson,and Mary E. Barnes, for Quali-Co.

COHEN

UP THE LADDER

BLAKE

Clarence C. Gould, who joined Libra­scope almost six years ago, has beenappointed Manager, Operations Account­ing, Librascope Group Offices. He reportsto Ken Beiriger, Controller.

Gould, who had been senior contractsspecialist in LGO contracts, joined thecompany as a staff accountant in Feb.1958, subsequently was a senior internalauditor and supervisor of cost account­ing. He is married, the father of two andmakes his home in Pacoima.

THREE PRESIDENTS here, as Librascope Group President R. W. Lee, presentsJunior Achievement company charters to Lynn Walker (L) and Steve Eberle, whohead the Cal-Top and Quali-Co companies sponsored by Librascope. Occasion wasthe annual company luncheon for JA officers and Librascope advisors.

(GLENDALE) Appointment of E. B.("John") Blake, Jr., as Superintendent­Assembly, and Kenneth J. Cohen as Su­perintendent-Machining, is announced byLloyd C. Somerfield, Production Super­intendent, Surface Equipment Division.

Blake, a 17-year Libravet, joined thecompany as a wireman in Feb, 1947, hadpreviously been general foreman in ad­justing and assembly.

Cohen, previously assistant to the man­ufacturing manager and senior industrialengineer, has been with the companysince June, 1962.

GOULDCOFANO

Washington EngineeringAdds Four to Staff

(WASHINTON) Buildup of the en­gineering and technical staff of theWashington Engineering Dept. of theSurface Equipment Division continues,with the appointment of four engineersand supervisors by Manager Harold Tim­ken, J1'. They are:

Harris G. Pl' ivai, senior engineer,BSEE University of Maryland, '53,M/SEE, Massachusetts Institute.. of Tech­nology, '58 and MA-Math, University ofMaryland, '63. Prival formerly was a sys­tems engineer with General Electric atBethesda and a senior engineer with Lit­ton Industries' College Park, Md., facility.

John F. Cashman, engineer, who stud­ied at George Washington University.A specialist in mechanical design, Cish­man was with Emertron, Inc., SilverSpring, Md., for six years, before joiningSED.

Shlomo Laufer, optical supervisor, asecond-generation optics expert who ac­quired his knowledge and skills in hisfather's factory in Germany. An immi­grant from Israel three years ago Laufercomes to Librascope from American In­strument Co., Silver Spring, Md. Previ­ously he spent nine years with GoldbergInstruments, Ltd., in Tel-Aviv.

Oliver J. Webb, mechanical designer.Webb comes to Librascope from Pneu­modynamics Corp., Silver Spring. Previ­ously he was on the design staff of Ercodivision of ACF Industries, Riverdale,Md.

CoFano Is New Head

hf AED Publications

(SAN MARCOS) Angelo P. "Lee"CoFano, has been appointed Supervisor,Technical Publications, of the AvionicEquipment Division, by J. A. Mahoney,

I Director, Customer Services.CoFano, a native of Utica, N.Y., coOmesI to AED from General Dynamics/ Astro-

I nautics, where he was Supervisor of Pub­lications Planning and Estimating for,. five years. He is an Econ/Political Sci­

ence graduate of Syracuse University,class of '55.

(\\\ CoFano, married and the father of\: three, is a veteran of World War II_ (Marines) and the Korean War (USAF).He makes his home in San Diego.

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HEAR Foundation's program to aid deaf and hard-of-hearing children to hear nor­mally is $928 closer to its goal as result of Precisioneer Christmas card drive. BillCa:wthra, Precisioneer president, se,eond from left, presents check for Librascopeemployee gift to Dr. Ciwa Griffiths director and founder of HEAR. At left, EileenBrown, Precisioneer coordinator; at right, A. R. Pederson, Supvr Employee Benefitsand Services, who aided in drive.

Employees Give $1238

To HEAR Foundation $100 Patent AwardsTo Four SED& CCD Men

(GLENDALE) The Librascope Grouppatent incentive award program recentlygave checks f10r $100 each to two em­ployees of the S.E. division engineeringdepartment, and to one present and oneformer emplyee of the Commrcial Com­puter division.

The awards were granted when theGroup patent department filed applica­tions on devices designed by the four,with the U.S. Patent Office.

Award winners are: Alfred W. San­born, senior electronic engineering asso­ciate, and Bruce C. Perkin, both withSED Engineering, Norman J. Bose,project engineer in CCD's componentsengineering department and George N.Malina, engineer, formerly with CCD.

Nothing is so firmly believed as whatis least known. -Montaigne

(GLENDALE) Something new hasbeen added to the enduring relationshipbetween the American taxpayer and hisGovernment.

The new factor, expected to be aslasting as the Federal Income Tax itself,is called Form 1099. It's a sort of com­panion to Form W-2.

Like Form W-2, Form 1099 is used toreport your income to the Federal gov­ernment. However, Form 1099 exploresnew fields where Form W-2 never daredto tread.

These new fields are savings accountsin banks, credit unions, building and loanassociations, and your stocks and bonds.Form 1099 is used by these financial in­stitutions and by companies paying cashor stock diivdends, to report these earn­ings to the Internal Revenue Service.

It used to be that the IRS trusted usto report this unearned income. But, atthe prodding of the IRS, Congress passeda law last year requiring all interest anddividend paying organizations to tellUncle Sam who got the money-and howmuch.

Like Form W-2, Form 1099 comes insets of three; one goes to the InternalRevenue Service, and two go to you. Youattach one to your income tax returnwhen you file with the IRS and keep theother.

It can be safely assumed that most ofus who ,own dividend-paying stocks, haveshares in a credit union, or money in sav­ings banks, are going to be paying largertax bills. Uncle Sam is counting on it tohelp in reducing the budget deficit!

Something New InTaxes: Form 1099

COMMUNITY SERVICE~'N

(GLENDALE) Employees of the Com­mercial Computer, Surface EquipmentAvionic Equipment divisions and Libra­scope GroQupOffices, raised $1,238 for theHEAR foundation in the annual "Christ­mas tree" campaign.

The 1963 campaign was the fifth con­secutive year that employees chose tohelp HEAR, the organization devoted todetecting and correcting hearing defectsin yoQungchildren.

Funds collected in the Glendale-Bur­bank area-$928-will be presented toHEAR's headquarters in Los Angeles,to help finance further research efforts;the $310 contributed by AED employeeswill go to HEAR's San Diego countychapter to help support the work there.

Staff Engineer Leonard Ludvigsen ofCCD, is HEAR's volunteer director ofaudio research and has designed andbuilt virtually all .of its electronic testingequipment, with the aid of our Christmascampaign funds.

Sidney L. Briggs, Vice-Pres., Adminis­tration, Librascope Group, has beenelected president of the Glendale Cham­ber of Commerce. With other new offi­cers, he was installed Jan. 22 at thechamber's 43rd annual dinner.

Briggs, who previously was a directorand vice president of the chamber, haslong been active in serving his homecommunity. He is a past president of theGlendale Community Chest and a pastboard member of Glendale AID.

LIBRAZETTE is published for all employeesof the Librascope Group. GPI. to keep theminformed about Group and GPI plans, policies,products and personnel. LIBRAZETTE is pro­duced by the Communications section, Libl'a­Gcope GrouD, at 808 Western Avenue, GlendaleI, Calif. © 1964 by Librascope Group, GeneralPrecision, Inc.

Editor: W. K. KeithArt and photographic s€rvic-2s are provided

by the Publications Section, Surface EquipmentDivision: Keith A. Kinnaird, Art Director;Peter J. Maimon~, Supervisor, Art Services.Special art and photo layout by James R.Norwood, Jr., George V. BrulI, Roy T. Brownand Andrew M. Cook. Photography by JamesA. Avera.

(GLENDALE) Dr. Peter Gottlieb hasjoined the Naval Systems group of theLibrascope Research and Systems Centeras a staff physicist reporting to StevenMolivadas, director.

Dr. Gottlieb comesto Librascope fromthe research labora­tories of HughesAircraft, where hehad been a memberof the technical staffsince achieving hisPh.D., at the age of25 in 1959, fromMassachusetts Insti­tute of Technology.He also was a research associate withthe University of California at La Jolla,during the same period.

Author of numerous papers on under­water acoustics published in the Journalof Applied Physics, the Journal of theAcoustics Society of America and thePhysical Review, Dr. Gottlieb earned hisB/S Physics at Cal-Tech, after earlierstudy at the University of Chicago. He ismarried and makes his home in SantaMonica.

Dr. Peter GottliebJoins R&S Center

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USS GOLDSBOROUGH, one of the Navy's newest guided-missile destroyers, cutsthrough the waters of Puget Sound, in this photograph taken during her sea trials.Equipped with ASROC, whose fire control equipment was built by the Surface E.quip­ment Division, GOLDSBOROUGH is the fourth ship to bear the name of the famousRear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough, famous sea fighter of the Mexican and CivilWars. Her skipper is Commander Charles D. Allen, Jr., and her fire control officer isLieut. (JG) William F. Meng. She has joined the fleet at Pearl Harbor. (U.S. Navyphoto)

HUGE CAKE and a special going-away present from his fellow machine shopworkers, were surprises for Robert C. "Bob" Thompson (C) when he retired Dec. 27from Surface Equipment Division. The surprise, presented to him by ForemanCesar Goldstein (at Bob's left) was a brand-new wallet, with an equally brand-new$100 bill tucked inside. Bob, who will be 72 next May 1, joined Librascope Jan. 22,1953.

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(GLENDALE) James M. "Mel" Jones,who eight years ago was a technicalwriter in Librascope's technical publica­tions section, has returned to the com­pany as a senior staff engineer in theResearch and Systems Center.

J ones, who spent the intervening yearswith Hughes Aircraft research labs as amember of the technical staff, has beenassigned to the Space Informafion Sys­tems section headed by Dr. Myrle V.Cross. His initial assignment: studies ofdata management requirements for spacevehicle and missile reentry and defensesystems.

A native of Atlanta, Ga., Jones studiedat New Y.ork University, Cooper Uriionand UCLA. He is married, the father ofthree children aged 10, 8 and 5, andmakes his home in Northridge.

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(BURBANK) Calvin T. Ogata, recentgraduate in applied physics from UCLA,has joined the staff of the Products En­gineering group of Commercial ComputerDivision.

Ogata, who reports to Supvr ChaiByun, will be working on encoder andother component development.

While earning his degree and duringsummer v>\cations, Ogata was an associ­ate research engineer on ASvV and oceansystems projects for Lockheed, a research,assistant in UCL,A's department ofmeteorology, a research analyst withPacific Semiconductors and North Ameri­can Aviation.

Benefits available under CaliforniaState Disability Insurance go from $75a week to $77 a week this year, but thepayroll deduction we pay to support theprogram goes up, too. SDI taxes noware based on 1% of the first $5,100 ofour earnings, instead of last year's 1%of the first $4,600, an increase of $5 peryear.

If you worked for more than one em-~ ployer during 1963, you may have paid

excess SDI taxes. Refund forms to obtainrepayment are available f'rom all Person­nel Offices.

Terrill to ArmyStanley C. Terrill, microfilm technician

in Surface Equipment division Reproduc­hon Services, has reported to Fort Orel,Calif., to fulfill his Selective Service re­quirements. He has been granted a two­year military leave. The son of MargaretTerrill, department secretary in SED Cus­tomer Training, Terrill joined Librascopetwo years ago as a messenger.

Metrology MoveLibrascope's Metrology Labora­

tory is now established in its newleased quarters at 8230 Haskellavenue, Van Nuys. The telephonenumber remains the same - 781­5643. Mail to the laboratory,originating in the Los Angeles area,may be sent through Glendale head­quarters, or directly to the Haskellavenue address. The ZIP code num­ber is 91405.

FEBRUARY, 1964 -9

Turing Is New SupvrIn Lihrascope EDP

(GLENDALE) Francis E. Turing hasbeen appointed Supervisor, Data Proces­sing Administration, by R. M. Anderson,Librascope Group data processing direc­

tor.Turing, a 1957 ac­

counting graduate ofthe University ofCincinnatit. succeedsHarry Ewing, re­signed.

While with theUnited States LifeInsurance Companygeneral offices inNew York, T}lring

was a methods analyst, assistant man­ager of general accounting and staff as­sistant to the controller. He supervisedtransition of policy accounting from apunched card system to a magnetic tapesystem. Earlier he was an accountantwith Arthur Young and Company, CPA,in New York.

A native of Ivyland, Pa., Turing nowmakes his home in Hollywood.

If you've been thinking .of goingoverseas and faraway on this year'svacation, it's time to start planning,says Barbara Tubbs, Precisioneer ac­tivities coordinator. Presented belowis a tentative list of tours. Check theone which interests you, or write-in atour more to your liking and send thecoupon to Mrs. Tubbs in Bldg. 1-03,Glendale. There is no obligation in­volved.

Appo Hawaii for 14 days _.._ $ 425o Tahiti for 14 days _.._u ·_ 850o Mexico for 10 days .u_.._u_u..u 275o Europe for 23 days ..u..u...._u. 1,095or __ u_.. .._u_ u at u_u · _·_

your choiceThere would be_.uu u...__people in myparty should I decide to go on thisyear's tour.Employee's name u u _.uu u.._..Extension ..__u ._.._-- .u"__"m - - _._. - - _ •• _. - - u

THIS MARK V Attack Director (with console face masked for security reasons)was 87th and last in current modification contract under the Navy's FRAM (FleetRehabilitation and Modernization) program with the Surface Equipment Division.Adj-Tech Harry Pace, Final Assembler Art Sagar (who worked on original Mk 5models), Leadman Joe Schlagel, Adjusting, and Adjusting Foreman Bill Dayton bidfarewell to "Old Reliable."

NEW GUARD CAPTAIN Dick Porter (C) is flanked by Librascope security directorVirgil Herald (L) and Ass't Security Officer Charlie Myers in photo taken atsecurity headquarters in Bldg. A15. Porter is staff member of California PlantProtection, Inc., newly retained to provide uniformed security service at Glendale.Save $60,000 (from Page 1)

the Mk 113. It had long been suspectedthat a protective c-oating called for inspecifications was redundant. The prob­lem was to prove it.

Some 400 hours of reliability tests inthe SED reliability labs and a 46-pagereport written by Value Engineer AlanLaRue, convinced the Navy that the pro­posal to drop use of the coating wassound and worthwhile. The specificationwas altered; in turn, this eliminated theneed f.or a second functional test opera­tion.

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It is planned to determine if the specifi­cation change can be applied to otherprograms as well. First to be examined,the Mk 5 FRAM program.

Librascope's value engineering pro­gram is now in its third year. It has beena two-pronged offense aimed at gettingthe most out of every tax dollar in ourengineering and pr-oduction work.

On the design front the emphasis hasbeen on achieving maximum functionalefficiency by creating designs that areeasier to manufacture; on the production

front it has meant constant review ofmanufacturing processes and specifica­tion requirements to eliminate unneces­sary steps that increase costs.

The value engineering effort extendsthroughout the Librascope Group. Cur­rent airborne computer manufacturingprocesses at Avionic Equipment Division,for instance, are based on recommenda­tions which came out of several valueengineering seminars on ASN -24 designand assembly.

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