Volumn IX SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOG, JULY 26, 1947 Number 21

WHAT DOES AMERICANISM MEAN TO YOU?RECALLING I OINlt IU KIM OK IKS FOR THE MACHINE SHOP

The Machine Shop gang as they appeared in 1937, was the nucleus ofthe present Shop — a swell crowd, then and now. Center three: JamesMartin of Detroit is the son of Charles of Maintenance; Dominic Scerbonow in New York; and Richard Mazinski, a machinery sales represent-ative. Standing: Al Hamer, Roland Bartlett Sr., deceased — (RolandJr. now works in the Machine Shop); John Walsh; Clarence Brown ofPittsfield; Schuyler Dean (barely visible); Hill Landry, now in St. Louis;Herbert Clark in Maine; John Murray Sr., deceased (John Murray Jr.now works in the Machine Shop); Silherl Martin; Charles McCann,(Vocational Director at Drury); Harry Cassidy; William Bellows; ThomasFrancis; and foreman T. J. Rondeau, present head of Machine Shop.A.It. Lindquist, present foreman, was absent when snapshot was taken.

Socha's Saga Highlights "One World"

Born in the Slates, Served in PolishArmy and Marries English Cirl

Bronislaus Socha employed in theImpregnating Departmeni ol Indus-trial Oils is a fine example of friendlyinternational relations. Of Polish ex-traction, Bronislaus is American horn.I lis mother died while he was an infant,and as a baby, he was sent back toPoland to be brought up by hisgrandparents. Here he received hisschooling. These wise grandparents,sensing thai I here would be a world-wide conflict, insisted that Bronislauscome hack to America. He returnedto Adams and withoul a job, lirstjoined the C.C.C., then later enteredthe employ of the Sprague ElectricCompany in 1941. He had been withus but three months, when he feltthai his duty was to aid Poland,and went to Canada to join the FreePolish army. He was shipped over-seas in the fall of '41 and served withthat contingent seven months.

Transferred to U. S. ArmyBecause this lad could speak Polish

he transferred to I lie regular Polisharmy and spent the next two years withthis group. Meanwhile the UnitedStates entered the war —• and when thelad's name came up in the draft, and

Bronislaus Socha on the job inthe Impregnating Department.

Washington realizing that he was anAmerican citizen, had him transferredto the American army, 66th InfantryDivision. Bronislaus was woundedtwice — first at Normandy, later, asthe American troops neared theSiegfried line, he received a severe leg

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Welcome To . . .Wil l iam M . Adams

We are glad to welcome WilliamMcMillan Adams to the staff of theSprague Electric Company. Mr. Adamswill be in charge of export activities.

Formerly associated with the UnitedStates Rubber Company, a formerpresident of the New York TriplexSafety Glass Company and previouslymanaging director of Fcrtnum &Mason of New York, an off-shoot ofthe famous London store of the samename, Mr. Adams has had a dis-tinguished military as well as businesscareer.

He was born in Paris of Americanparents and was educated at Eton

Can You Explain What You Mean

By The American Way?

Free Enterprise, Rugged Individualism, and many otherterms are used to show the difference between the AmericanWay of life and (hat of other countries.

A great puhlic poll showed that people selected from allwalks of life found it dWVicult to explain just what thesephrases meant , hut when asked to tell what AMERICANISMmeans they had no trouble at all. In big cities, small cities,on farms, or in the haekwoods, AMKKKIAIMISIYI means oneand the same thing. It stands for that pioneering spiritand independence of thought and action which have char-acterized the people of our country since they first landedon these shores in 1620.

William ML Adams

college and Cambridge university inEngland where he majored in me-chanical engineering. One of the500 survivors of the torpedoing of theLusitania in which 1,500 lives were lostduring the early days of World War I.Mr. Adams later served in France withthe American army Signal corps and

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Ask anybody in North Adams andthe Northern Berkshires what is meantby AMERICANISM. You may get asomewhat diliercnl answer from eachperson you ask, but back o! the wordswill be i hat same basic meaning.Here you don'i have to explainAMERICANISM and whai ii standsfor, because North Adams and I heNorthern Berkshires demonstrated iicompletely during the last war.

Out in the timberlands of Wisconsinfifty years ago, the people were stillpioneering woodsmen. As the timber-lands were cut over, they built homes,churches, and schools, and out i hen-today is a small college which startedas an academy. Practically everygraduate has worked his way 100 percent. For years the new studentswould enter the freshman class with

$5.00 or less in their,pockets. Todayhundreds of these students have be-come important men and women inevery walk of life. They goi theireducat ion the hard way. They built

their homes ihe hard way. They

served their country the hard way, the

American Way.

One o! t liese g r a d u a t e s , who served

on General E i senhower ' s staff, de-

livered t he principal add re s s at this

small college last J u n e . After descr ib-

ing Europe as he had seen it dur ing the

war .nid since t h e war, he descr ibed his

more recent exper ience in Russia where

he ta lked with people of all types. He

said "I could talk until morn ing telling

you about Russia and its gr im, un-

compromis ing life. Th ings we in

America t ake for g ran ted , the movies,

taxi-cabs, a seat on the t rain, 5 and 10

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What Happened ToWhizzer Razor Blades

"Another batch of punk ones" sighedWillie McGoon tas he heaved a skid-load of Whizzer rejects into thefurnace. Up curled the blades likelittle red wafers and up went the unitcost of Whizzer blades another fractionof a cent. This made the fifth wholeday's production that Willie had tossedout within the last two months. Firstthe trouble had been in the hardeningroom, then in the perforating depart-ment, and now it seemed to be in thegrinding room because the inspectorshad labelled this batch as "Improperlyground." Probably next week troubleswould develop in the Finished HoningSection.

Whizzer blades had been launchedwith lots of hoop-la and plenty ofmoo-la for advertising. It looked asthough Glendale had another going

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KHENEN SCHOOL SENDS CREETINC.S

Actual picture of a group oi the boys and girls of the Hhcncti, Hollandschool which Sprague Electric employees sponsored this past year.

S P R A G U E E L E C T R I C

BY SPRACUE EMPLOYEES curvcC FOR SPRACUE EMPLOYEES

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S P R A G U E E L E C T R I C S P O R T S Bulled and Russell

PUBLISHING STAFFEDITOR: E. S. Whitten MANAGING EDITOR: Evelyn FairchASSGC. EDITOR: Maiy Mathews CIRCULATION MGR.: Marion Cai

ASSISTANT EDITORSKit Carson, Tom Cullen, Dan Kelly, Pete Mancuso, Jim Oldham, Etta Owand Lauience I laskins.

SPORTSKenneth Russell and Bernard Bulleti

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFred Cn.sier and Albert Horsfall

PLANT EDITORSMarshall Street: Cecile Trudeau Brown Street: Bertha Salavantis

DEPARTMENT REPORTERS

BEAVER STREETJulia Abraham, Joan Bryce, Doris Delisle, Esther Driscoll, Bob Garner,

Haze! Goodale, Gertrude Hall, Ruth Haskins, Margaret Isherwood, RitaJohnson, Walter O'Dell, Priscilla Northup, Emma Massaconi, Loretta Mil-isiewski, Cedo Remillard, Rose Righi, James Shea, Vi Short, Florence South-gate, Ruth Szule, Constance Urbano, Roseann Vigna, Shirley Thoros, JohnWalsh and Sophie Wilk.

MARSHALL STREET"Toots" Callahan, Phyllis Chartrand, Josephine Convery, Mary Daniels,

Eddie O'Neil, Mario Magnani, Faith Russell and Roma Rumgay.

BROWN STREETRose Corsi, Eleanor Felix, Hetty Jangrow, Delia Keating, Lyda Lewis,

Mary Markland, Josephine Martinoli, Rita Mulqueen, Rita Samia, RitaSiciliano, Thelma Sherman, Louis Vincelette and Fern Wright.

"Every Sprague Worker an Assistant Reporter."

Inter-plant Softball Stages TournamentElimination Contests Held July 25 to 29Finals to be Played August First

The Inter-Plani Softball League will Machine Shop in the Upper Division

the staging of an elimination tourna- group,ir.ent, starting July 25th and with the

final game scheduled for August first. UPPER DIVISIONThe following games will be played,

| with all games starting ai 6:30 P.M... the Sprague Recreation Field inilackinton. Pre-tourney favorites inheir respective brackets are the

LOW EH DIVISION

Office MM I \.< . | ) , v s on J u l y 21 .

k.Y.V meets Brown Street Main-tenance on July 25th.

Winner to pla> the MachineShop on July 2H.

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July 26, 1947

MEANING OF AMERICANISM

cent stores, attractive shops, a ride inthe country, a fishing trip, vacations topleasant and interesting scenes — allthese arc unknown to millions in thatvast union where, theoretically, every-thing is equally divided.

Americans are Lucky People"You know, we have been very lucky

to Le Lorn An ericans."Living in a land of great abundance,

without much conditioning to thepoverty and oppressions of Europe andAsia, we have for generations taken ourblessings much for granted. Life,liberty, the pursuit of happiness —guaranteed in the Constitution — wereaccepted, withoul much thought thatone day they might exact a price.

"Oli, to be si.re, we fought whenthey were threatened. We defeatedwithin the last thirty years, two full-scale atten pis lo overthrow our free-dom. A quarter n illion gave theirli.es to preser,e it this last war.

"But it has not really occurred tomost Americar.s that, in our normal

living, we owe a definite responsibilityto the country. That, DAY by DAY— in our God-given privilege to ex-ercise freedom of worship, speech,movement and thought THATFREEDOM MAY NOT COMEFREE!

and more unselfish service. Morerighteous building, and jealous guard-ing, more fortifying with good andconstructive deeds—more of v\hatGeneral Eisenhower calls "Selling theAmerican idea."

My America!"It matters not what form that

effort max lake. Whether it be inyour teaching of others, in business, inprofessions or in sincere politics—whenthe time comes you will, at home or indistant lands, stand up to any de-tractor and say:

"This is MY America. I am bothits shareholder and its defender. Bymy effort — great or small — I meanto prove it is best."

OUR SAFETY CORNER WHIZZER BLADES

; industry and Glendale really needed itbecause joLs were scarce now that thewar orders had ceased long since.

During that summer Willie keptraiting out loads of spoiled blades.W hizzer's business showed absolutelyno improvement and customers wereconstantly con.plaining. On the otherhai.d, the Whipperoo Razor BladeCompany forty miles down the pikewas going full blast, hiring morepeople every week, and creating a newprosperity in the little town whereWhipperoo was located. This wasbecause there was little spoilage in thevarious departments.

Watch that spoilage record. Scrapmeans high unit costs and a poorcompetitive position. Many a com-pany has been ruined because of thejunk heap. Let's keep the size of thescrap heap here at Sprague's to a

Trout Fishing - -One More Week To Run

At this writing the fishing season fortrout has one more week to run. Theseason has been a dismal one for themost part — with high water and coldat the opening of the season, and con-tinuous rains from May through Julyproviding constant food for all streamsand lakes. Artificial lure could noteni ce the trout, with neither the oldstandby the earthworm, nor the nightcrawler successfully bringing in thefinny family . . .But with vacations infull swing, we should have heavycatches of pickerel, pike, bass and other-scrappy fish.

Mancuso -- Official JudgeAt Boxing Matches

The past two cards of boxing, beimheld weekly at the MeadowbrookArena, have been dandies and the fanshave shown their appreciation by theirpatronage. When Willie Pep thefeatherweight champ came to the local

Foremen l<» plaj Sprague Pro-ducts on July 28.

Winner of these two .. . . . i .sismeel on Julj SO.

I IN MSWinner in the Upper Division

will meel winner of ihe LowerDivision on Friday, \ugusl Isi todetermine the championship.

It ihe weatherman makes with somedeceni weather there will be a loi ofbaseball crowded into one week'stime. Thai final game in the playoffshould be a humdinger.

arena, the place was well filled bysome 2200 fans. Incidentally, with thePittsfield Boxing Club suspendingoperations, due to financial losses, thehome club should benefit by drawingfans from the Pittsfield area.

Our Pete Mancuso, member of theSprague Athletic Board, and in chargeof Check Inspection at Brown Street,is an official judge at the majority ofthese boxing shows and does a verycapable jc>b.

Crusaders Still UnbeatenThe St. Anthony Cn.saders are still

undefeated on the diamond—that is,in the Northern Berkshire TwilightLeague. Greylcck is in second place—two games off the pace. With thecollapse of the Berkshire .Sen i-ProLeague in the second half, most clubsare now running on an independentschedule and undoubtedly more of thedown-country semi-pro aggregationswill be seen in this area.

Cornish Wire—Tops League,Sprague In Second Place

Cornish Wire lops the race of tin'Dusty League in the second half, withSprague Electric in second placeSprague was setting a merry pace uniilencountering the Cornish Wire ninewhen the latter emerged victorious.Then a rude jolt was handed the localteam when Arnold Prim Works ofAdams came up with one of its goodgames and dumped the Klectrics rightout of first place. This Arnold team.incidental ly , is t h e only outfit to hea tt h e s t r o n g C o r n i s h W i r e this year.

A'. Russell

SPORTS MUSINGSSpecs DeGrenier, foreman of Stitch-

ing Department, Beaver, is having agreat season with the hlks Softballteam. Specs is playing shortfield andhis lusty hitting has aided the Elks noend in their recent 8 game winningstreak....The lnter-IMa.it SoftballLeague is Lack in action after theholiday layoff and numerous cancel-lations with stiffer competition asthe wind-up of the League is near athand. . . "Tank" Wilson, Athletic Di-rector, and Bob Sprague Jr. haveadvanced to the finals in the doublesdivision of the tennis tournamentbeing held at Williamstown. . Bleach-ers for the convenience of local soft-ball enthusiasis have been creeled onall Softball fields in this city by I heRecreation Commission. Incidentally,the Commission has all local playingsurfaces in tip-top shape this summer....Kenny Russell, my sport writingcolleague, has found himself in theGale lineup in the local baseballleague and his all-around play hashelped to rejuvenate the shoe workerswho have been making all opponentsgo the limit to bump them off. . . ,Umpires are blossoming out all overthe Sprague plants. Arbiters in theCity Softball League include HobGarner, Hank Gamari, Orrie King,Harold Bohl and Crawford Bellowsall of whom have been giving goodaccounts of themselves.

—B. Bullett

WILLIAM M. ADAMS(Continued from page 1)

the air corps and after the war becameassistant military attache of theAmerican embassy in London. Re-entering the ser\ice in World War 11 asa captain, he was promoted throughhe grades to a colonelcy, attached to

the general staff, and saw service in theAfrican and European theaters, win-ning the Legion of Merit, Air medal,British Military cross and ChileanOrder of Merit. He has traveledextensively and speaks several lan-guages. Mr. Adams will make hisheadquarters in the company's gen-eral office here.

Wkat! . . .A/a feuiltcttCf, (ieautieA.

Here it is, the height of the summerami vacation season, and no picturesof bathing beauties have come to theLog Desk, and Sprague girls can topthe list when il comes to looks! Whatto do! What to do!. . We must havesomething with thefbathing beauty angle. . Ah , w e h a v e il we' l l p u b l i s h t h e

s t o r y of t h e B a t h b r u s h r a d i o w i t ha p p r o p r i a t e a c c o m p a n y i n g p i c t u r e .H o p e you l ike it.

IE \ I l l i c i t I Mi l t MHO

As we all know, the cnale of thespecies has things all his own waj inhe bathroom. He can sing in his

besi tenor voice, every conceivableoperatic air. I! he cannoi sing, hecan whistle, taking advantage of theacoustics of the bathr n.

Research engineers have found iHaiher voice does noi suil bathroom

acoustics.To rectify tliis insufficiency, I have

incorporated with the usual bathbrushi small radio as illustrated. Youippreciate that this type of radiowhich gets submerged under water andis splattered with soap musi heibsolutely waterproof. There is nolifficulty to thai nowadays. EmersonRadio built a submersible receiver forthe Marines during the war, as youwill remember.

The brush has a small battery-operated set. While milady scrubsher back she listens to her soap-operain privacy, having herself a fine timeat the same time.

Published l>v ihc S P K A G U E KLKCTRIC CO., North Adams, Mass.

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Ness Roberts with his prize catch.

Alice Senecal and her rainbow

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Too far to reach, but a swell way

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Beaver News

F: P. DrysBy liusv Righi

Vacations are in full swing, and wereenjoyed by the following:

Irene Jams painted old New York,red.

Viviane Delisle home, for a rest, 1-ut

Lorraine Marceau at home, withi lie boy friend.

'Wayne Damon returned fromCanada with a moustache. PrettySharp!

JerryLaRoche a quiel l imeai homewith his family.

Florence Harris just a-resting athome.

John Pierre returns from LakeChamplain displaying a lovely pair ofsunburned knees.

Margaret LaCrosse wi th herhusband, did the town of New York.

Doreita Blanchard loured Canada,also Highgate, Vt.

Yours Truly honeymooned inBoston and Lake \ \ innipi saukee.

PayrollBy Tree Mosquitoes

A buffel supper lor Ruth Brown washeld M o n d a y , July 14th, at FortM a s s a c h u s e t t s . R u t h received abeautiful gift. T h a n k s go to M r .Gordon in aiding us to stall R u t h unt i lall of us had arrived. (Fora while, wewondered if our guest of honor wouldpul in an appearance at all!) It wasgrand seeing our former co-worker,Ida l .ovcl t again, a n d learning t ha t sheis helping out th is s u m m e r at t h e GirlScout c a m p . A fine l ime was had !>vall .

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s o n t h e b i r t h of a

son lo our former co-worker, IreneKoscielniak.

Our reporter, Priscilla Northup, is

Misc. Paper AssemblyBy Ruth Haskins

Aboard our Vacation Special:Jeff Barry enjoyed two weeks in the

Adirondacks.Edith Dean visited in W. Springfield.Anna Deep traveled to Boston.Ethel Fosser has returned after enjoy-

ing short pleasure trips about thecountryside.

Teresa Vono returned with a beauti-ful tan acquired at the Connecticutbeach.

Mildred Bathaway says she spent hervacation "traveling."

Rosella Ledger, Ida Guan and MillieLetalien enjoyed well-earned rests athome.

Larry Bergeron is with Company Kat Camp Edwards for two weeks.

Dot Lavigne claims that FrancesRoy is now better known as "Debu-toante" or "Debby" Roy.

Upper OfficesBy "Do" and "Flo"

Engineering SpecificationsBy Bob Carner

Since vacations seem to be the maintopic of discussion, we'll see who wentwhere and why.

Marion Pinsonneauli managed aweek at Lake George and another inNew York (in-m). From what wehear — and we hear plenty — Marionhad a swell time at both places.

Tom Cullen spent a happy weekmoving into his new apartment onArnold Place that may sound likework, but for 'Pom, it was a pleasure.Right, Tom?

Ralph Boisjolie had a full week oflazying about — part at HamptonBeach, the other half at home.

John Alexander chose Hyannis, CapeCod, for his week's vacation. The sunmust have shone far more at the Capethan it did here, John, from the looksof that swell tan.

Flo Southgate had a full program,spending her two weeks in NorthCarolina with her sister. Quote: Wish1 could have stayed six months —nothing against North Adams, of

Dominic Esposito vacationed athome, doing work around his house,and spent some time out of town.

Helen Root is vacationing at LakeChamplain, and having her share cffun, according to the card we received.Alice Morrison (Mr. Ceely's sec.) is hervacation pal.

Richard Cardinal, son of Unis,formerly of Paper Rolling, and

Krand*on of "Hoc" Kstes of Main-lenanee, Brown Street. l>i« k.I hough only I II. tall, stars inbaseball a.ul basketball.

F. P. AssemblyBy Kmmu Massac-oni

Welcome lo our Department, FrankSegala.Vacationists:

Grace Roberts at homeHal Shibel at homeMargaret O'Ncil N. Haven, Conn.Mary Roberts Lake St. CatherineFrancis Messina Richmond, \ a .Evelyn Davis ai homeDoris Harvey Vergennes, Vt.Francis Messina, said, when leaving

for Richmond, Ya., t li.it he was goingi he re K. fish. Fishing for what?

A New One\ J immy Millis goes tobed, bul leaves his alarm clock in thekitchen.

Margaret Beaupre leaves on vacationai the end of the week, and we knowshe'll return with a beautiful tan as shehas done in the past.

Dry RollingBy Ruthie and Whit

Our Department is very quietespecially since two of our members,Rae St. Pierre and Marge Vvittig arenow enjoying their vacation at a ramp,far, far from lure.Vacationers:

Eva Daignauli at homeGloria Mirante at homeAn Molleur fishing ai Goose Pond,

East Lee. (Glad you finally got a tent,Art.)

Dorsey King at homeKrnest Clermoni WindsorSteve Muraek at homeJenny Mazza in Maine, acquiring a

beautiful sun tan (and are we jealous!)

Joe Degrenier New York. By the

horse that wins?

Frank Wotkowicz -Lake George

Welcome back to: Irene Boschetti,Beatrice Monette, Flora McLagan andKav Mulcahy.

Claire Denno will become Mrs.Walter C.liwski, Augusi 2nd. Goodluck to you!

Do we miss Joe Degrenier's remarks,when certain persons went by!

Farewell to Harry Martin, ourfellow co-worker, who will retire to thepeace and quiet of his home. Harryhas been with the Company for abouttwelve years.Vacationers:

Bob Windover is spending a pleasanttwo weeks' vacation at Lake Ashmere.

Harold May—destination unknown.Ernest Purpura—has returned wit

his family from vacationing on theCape.

Ray Lamoureaux's vacation is beingspent, no doubt, repairing his "troupe"of old cars which will soon be for sale.

Your reporter, accompanied byGeorge Scarbo and Ed Hinkell of theMachine Shop, returned from a fish-ing trip to New Hampshire with atotal catch of 112 trout between them.

Bob Pettibone is practicing theorgan grinder's tune, vocally, so he cansell peanuts and eliminate the expenseof the hand organ.

PA A. SOLDERERS ENJOY PICNIC

Silver AnniversaryGreetings

Back row: Lena Simonelli. JoMarti noli, Gloria (hiet t ini . Kneel-ing: Mary Burro, Jean McLagan,Mary Simonelli and Dot Shepard.The little girl in the center isConnie Mancini, niece of "Jo".

Dry Tubular AssemblyBy "Connie" and "Sonni"

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.Stafford Lewis on the birth of theirdaughter, Jane Ellen, July 6th.

Vacations:Sophie Bryda—at honeTessie Czaja—Springfield and Mil-

ford, Conn.Welcome lack to Ceil Folino who

recently underwent an operation. It'sgood seeing you look so well, Ceil.

Maggie Davis trudged all over townone Saturday looking for suitablebatteries for her portal.le radio whichshe intended to use at a picnic thefollowing day. She was so-o o re-lieved when she finally got what shewanted hut imagine how she felt when,on arriving at the picnic, she found shehad forgotten the radio!

Andy Montgomery enjoyed a doubleheader, played and won, by the BostonBraves. Incidentally, Andy is qi.ite

Just call Staff Lewis, "Swabbie"from now on. A few days ago, duringone of our worst storms, the windowsremained open. As a result, Staffspent a busy hour mopping up thefloor. (My, was it clean!)

Some of us caught a glimpse of ( liffRoy's little boy in his stroller. . and hecertainly is cute!

Frank Bernardo claims he has a newsystem for getting up mornings. Henow places his alarm clock out ofreach, so he has to jump out of Led toturn it off. Grand idea, and it's niceto have you in bright and early,"Chief."

Little Faisal Ali semis the beelof love ami wishes to his grand-parents, Mr. ami IVlrs. KassimAmeen on their Silver Weddinganniversary. Faisal is the nephewof Julia Ameen of PAA. Depart-

Engineering SpecsBy Hazel Goodale

There's more than oneway to spend

a vacation: Ann Kern just had a re-

laxing good time at hotr.e while Bill

Neumann says he had a Io1 of hard

work moving and getting settled in his

own home at 5 Anthony Street. Next

year, Bill, you'll have to double your

fun to make up for your work this

A. C. AssemblyBy Vi Short

Why all the competition, "Frenchy"Richards, "Dudzie" and Harvey? Yousi em so interested in Alice Stevens.(Cr is ii her daughter?)

Margaret Anderson had visitors fromChicago and Boston over the week end.

Correction— Eert Sprague was namedcaptain of the Softball Team and notHerl Ca \ i s , as staled in (he last issue*of the Log.

H e l e n P i e l r a s is o n v a c a t i o n t h i s

week. (Getting in shape for thelinks, Helen?)

Ask Bill Mahoney or "Frenchy"Richards about those fifteen dollardinners. Some dinner, eh, fellows?

Wedding btlls will be ringing soonfor Lena Vicari.

Pete Law attended a baseball game

Looks like "Frenchy" ran into alawn mower a g a i n , have you seenhis hair?

Dry Tubular FinishBy M. Hauptf le i sh and M. Clifton

Vacations:

Hern ice DeMarsico—Moosehead Lake, Maine

Patricia Roy -New Jersey and New York

Mary VeinotteBoston and New Hampshire

Ralph Wood Lake Georgefoseph Davis resting at homeJulius Lincoln Old Orchard BeachLeo Lemoine almost had a shock

when Millie Clifton got out of the redon her time card last week. Nicegoing!

The best behaved girl in Dry Finish- M a r y Veinotte.

RETAIL SALES SHIPS TO ALL PARTS OF WORLDNow occupying considerable spare dated and placed in the stcckroom by

in the Marshall Street Plant, the serviceman, Sylva Marcil.Retail Sales Department of Sprague Other personnel include: Helen Brad-Electric had its modest beginning some shaw, stan ping machine operator; theten years ago in a corner of what is now packaging girls Patricia Donovan,the Beaver Street lunchroom. At Doris IlurlLi.t, Marguerite Rice andthat time it was staffed by three Lorraine Gibtau; order fillers Alicepersons. Four years ago the Depart- Malloy, Rita Zanet and Mary Daniels.ment had grown to such proportions Beatrice Can pedtlli and Madelinethat it was necessary to move to larger Januska thoroughly inspect each cartonquarters at the Marshall Street riant which contains packaged ui,i;s 1 eforeand during peak production employed placing the units in rack.-, in the stock-a staff of twenty persons. room. Upon completion of each order

Of the original three members handl- which is given a 100 percent inspectioning the detail for Retail Sales, those by Theresa Deso, the orders are placedthree are still with Sprague Electric: on a com ever and given to the shipper,"Hank" Gamari is the present fore- Harry Brown. Fv.arion Rondeau isman; Teresa Catrambcne is the | s u p f c r v i W and Doris Paienai.de is thepresent inspector; while Tom Cullen I , ,was transferred to the Planning Ce- 'p a r t m e n t . Retail .Sales shipments reach all parts

Stock, upon entering the receiving of the li.ited fnates and are exportedroom of the Department is checked, to foreign countries.

Beatrice Campedelli and Madeline Januska placing stock in racksfrom the package room at the Retail Sales Department.

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MoreBeaver Street News

Can ShopIty Harry Trombley

Welcome back from vacations:"Pinky" Sherman, Billy Fortini, FrankMorandi and of course, myself—(orshould 1 welcome myself?)

According to Frank Morandi, heabsolutely refuses to go barefoot whenhe works over time trying to stop aflood.

Ernie Charbonneau is going to bepretty lonesome if those pin machinesare stopped.

Don Louison would appreciate allspare Logs showing his picture in whichhe made a home run in the openinggame.

Ray Chalifoux believes in drawingattention by dropping a few boxes ofmaterial whenever he is working on it.

Bill Morandi took in the ball gamesin Boston while the Red Sox were athome.

Mr. and Mrs. Charbonneau took inthe Braves' double header on the 13th.

Jimmy Scarbo is visiting relatives inPittsfield.

"Always get the limit"... says BillHussey.

This may be a rib, but I overheardFrank Morandi say: "Things don't runso smooth when I am on vacation."(Do you agree, Ted?)

Brown Street Briefs

PAA. SolderingIty .Jo and Hoc

Although you may need a micro-scope to find us, we are still here, aliveand kicking—emphasis on the kicking!

Has anyone been aware of theromance budding in the heart of acertain solderer? Shades of Shakespeare!Romeo and Juliet in reverse — balconyand all!

Mary and Lena Simonelli went toNew York for their vacations, and hada wonderful time.

Mary Burro and Angie Cardiminohave been vacationing — lucky girls!

Anna Vigna now can rest nights. .No more budget to balance.

Because of shrinkage, our little sickbenefit fund has been discontinued.

Beatrice Rice grows the loveliestflowers — where do you get the time,Bea?

Nellie Morin is happy this week -she's doing the talking instead of thelistening. Oho, Nellie, I'll take itback!

Overheard along the line: You'll besorry... Please, no shock... cup, cup,the top of the cup!. . . How do you likethat!. . Well, here's my advice. . I ' mmarried now!

Son — Stephen Craig, baby son ofMr. and Mrs. Stephen Smachetti, wasborn July 10, 1947. The mother is theformer Philomena DiLorenzo of thePAA. Department.

Son—Mr. and Mrs. Aldor Cardinalare the parents of a son born July 17at the North Adams hospital. Aldor isemployed in the Maintenance De-partment.

Daughter - - Barbara Susan is thename of the young daughter born toMr. and Mrs. Ernest Foote. Ernestis employed in the Dry FormationDepartment, and Alice, the motherwas employed in the Paper RollingDepartment.

Son—Stanley Jr. is the young son,born July 7 to Mr. and Mrs. StanleyOwczarski. The father was employedin the Payroll Department, and themother, the former Doris Hiser, wasemployed in Production EngineeringDepartment.

Son—Mr. and Mrs. Romeo Gagneare the parents of a son born July 17.The father is employed in the PAA.Department.

SPRAGUE REPRESENTATIVES ATTEND \LLISON-Ll<;ilTFOOT WFDDIN<;

Miss Sally Lightfoot became Mrs. Jesse Allison, July 5th at Redhank, IN. J. At the wedding were:Messrs. L. M. Meekler - Spraguc PF Capacitor representative, N. J.; ('.. Frederick Retry, Sprague ElectricSales; P. B. Alger, Sprague Electric Sales; Mrs. Henry Kershen (bride's mother); Mrs. |{. E. Gootee (bride'ssister); Mrs. Jesse Allison and Jesse M. Allison, Kev. Rofjer Squire; Messrs. W. S. Trinkle, representativefor Sprague Products and Sprague Electric; and ('.. V̂ . Janton, assistant to Mr. Trinkle. The best man, Mr.Stuart II. Sims is not shown in picture.

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Davignon,married May 17, 1947. The brideis the former Norma Cardinal ofDry Tubular Assembly.

Fitzpa trick - Anderson - • MissClaire Margaret Anderson became thebride of Bernard Francis Fitzpatrickin a double ring ceremony at St.Francis church, July 12, 1947. Theyoung couple are both employed inSprague Electric — Claire in the PaperRolling Department and Bernie in theIndustrial Oil Department.

The engagement of Miss Edna AnnLewis to Peter Cardimino has been an-nounced. The wedding is planned forAugust 9. Edna is employed in thePAA. Department.

Miss Theresa Giroux of Boxing hasannounced her engagement to JosephPinsonnault, Jr. The wedding willtake place September 13.

Miss Ellenor Smith will wed FrancisRomeo on August 23rd at St. Francischurch. Ellenor is employed in thePAA. Rolling Department.

Miss Eleanor Mae Jones of the F. P.Department has announced her en-gagement to Rae Racette of the DryTest Department. The wedding willtake place in the near future.

Miss Jeannette Boucher has an-nounced her engagement to AdolphHeideman, Jr. of the Networks Labora-tory. No date has been set for thewedding.

Allison - Lightfoot the marriageof Miss Sally Lightfoot to Jesse M.Allison was solemnized July 5, 1947at the First Methodist church, RedBank, N. J. The young couple willreside at Collingswood, N. J. Thegroom is a member of the ApplicationEngineering Department, assigned toPower Factor Correction Capacitorsales.

Tyler-LaBrecque Miss FelixienneLaBrecque became the bride of RobertTyler, July 19 at Notre Dame church'Mrs. Tyler is employed in thePAA. Department.

DePaoli-Dickinson Miss EllenAnn Dickinson was united in marriageto Olympio DePaoli, July 19 ai St.Francis church. The bride is em-ployed in the PAA. Rolling Depart-ment and the groom is employed in I lieBrown Street Machine Shop.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vallieres,married March 4, 1947. The brideis the former Dorothy (iarceau ofPAA. Department and Paul wasformerly employed in Stitching.

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wound which left him incapacitated fortwo months. He was returned toservice and received a minor leg woundwhile approaching Munich.

While on furlough in London,Bronislaus met his wife-to-be. Thisfirst meeting was indirect like ablind date. His chum had a girlfriend, who also had a girl friend andthus, by chance, Bronislaus met thefuture Mrs. Socha.

Bronislaus returned to the Statesand to work at Sprague Electric inJanuary of '46. But he couldn't for-get that little English girl, and in thespring of this year, flew the Atlantic,was married, and flew back again withhis bride. The young couple will makeNorth Adams their home.

Bronislaus is a splendid example ofthe rehabilitation of World Warveterans, and one of which we atSprague's are proud, so, to you, Mr.and Mrs. Socha, the Sprague manage-ment and employees wish the best ofluck.

— A'. Russell

Mr. and Mrs. Bronislaus Socha, married in London, England, and thebride's parents at right, her cousin and uncle at left.

MiaUummefr Man,tia<j,el . . . .

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Retail Saleslt> Little Iodine

\ acat ioners:Alice Malloy in .MaineI lelen Bradshaw ('unadaDoris Palenaude at Fair Harbor,

visiting her broi herRita / a m i i Springfield and New

YorkMarian Rondeau at home, we

guess, (li 's a secret)Best wishes to our newly weds, Mrs.

Deso, formed} Theresa Catrambone,.iiid Mrs, Hurlbut, formerly DorisBurdick.

Good luck id Marjorie Rice, in hernew position with the office force <»lSprague Products.

Sample LabItv the Shadow

\ acationers:"Tele" Livingston spent a week in

New York City on her honeymoon, anda week at home, fixing up her "LoveNest."

Kddie Horsiull two beautiful weeksfishing at Packard Heights, Athol.

Frank Gregalis at home. (Don'tkid us, Frank, I bet you were every-where else but home.)

Don Fortini had wonderful plans inmind for his vacation but I hey hadto be changed since, on the iirsi day,he cut liis foot at Windsor Lake. Andto top it all, lie was taken sick and spenthis two weeks at home, suffering. Sorryyou had such bad luck, Don, but we'reglad you made such a quick recover)'.Heller luck uexl year!

Rose Lisee and Mary Troia haveleft us to await little "bundles fromheaven." Loads of luck, girls.

Everyone reported for work themorning following thp heavy rainstorm,liter many brave attempts to swim

against the swift current to reach thesidewalk. We note thai main shouldake swimming lessons before the nexi

storm hits us.

D.T.Q. AssemblyBy Lulu Belle

Our deep sympathy to LeonaWalczak on the recent death of herather-in-law.

Vacations:Stella Blasi—at homeLottie Wotkowicz—Lake GeorgeYours Truly—at home

stock and IncomingInspection

By Kay RussellVacation T i m e . . .Joe Roberts—fishing in New HampshireMiles Heath—

Lake Lauderdale and Boston.Walt Burr— Dutch Hill, Heart wellvilleBob Boyer -Pumping Gas

(in a filling station)Florence Richards—On Eagle Street,

'Hotel de Richard'Walt Barnes—Virginia and Maine «Chuck Mulcahy—Wws anyone know?

Secrets, Chuck?All have stated that they have had a

wonderful time but it didn't last long•nough.

Shipping RoomBy the Gold Dust Twins

Ernest Belleau is on duty withCompany K at Camp Edwards, Kal -nouth, Mass.

Jack Callahan returned to work afteri quiet two weeks' vacation at home.

'Ceil' Trudeau spent a week's vaca-ion at Cape Cod.

Bobby Knox has joined the tribe of'Whizzers" and is thinking of taking

a trip around the world.