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(Dut Co<7ÂŁT Our front cover picture is a typical scene in the mid winter Michigan northwoods after a snow storm. This is a picture of a hunter's log cabin tucked away in some sheltered nook amidst the gnarled old pine whose unpruned branches are a mute reminder of the stately monarchs which once stood shoulder to shoulder over the far

reaches of Northern Michigan. The long shadows of the late afternoon sun cast their silhouette on nature's white

blanket from yesterday's stormâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;silent and waiting. This picture was taken by Screenings photographer Duane McLennan.

On our back cover is the picture of the Bradley fleet in

its winter quarters at Calcite. At the upper left is the powerhouse, to its right the flux and openhearth storage piles. Directly behind the ships is the empty loading slip and loading shuttles. From left to right are the Strs. Calcite, White, Clymer, Robinson, Munson and Taylor. Sleek and fresh with a new coat of paint they are now out of winter quarters and started on another season. We hope it will be a safe one for all.

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Published periodically by the Calcite Plant, Michigan Limestone Division, \J. S. Steel Corp., Rogers City, Mich., in the interests of safety. Send your contributions early, bearing name of department and sender, and addressed to the editor, George R. Jones

Hugh S. Lewis Becomes President of the Michigan Limestone Division Hugh S. Lewis was appointed president of the Michigan Limestone Division of the United State Steel Corporation on January 1st of this year. He becomes the second president of the present consolidated limestone units of the corporation and the fourth president to guide the Calcite Plant since its founding in 1911.

The Michigan Limestone Division maintains its headquart ers in the Guardian Building in Detroit and is comprised of the Annandale Mine at Boyers, Pa.; Kaylor Mine at East Brady, Pa.; Buffalo Creek iMine at Worthington, Pa.; Hillsville Quarry at Hillsville, Pa.; Moler Quarry at Millville, West Virginia; Hcrshey Mine at Hershey, Pa.; Buffalo Plant at Buffalo, New York; Conneaut Plant at Conneaut, Ohio; the

Calcite Plant and Bradley Transportation Line at Rogers City, Michigan and the Cedarville Plant at Cedarville, Michigan.

Mr. Lewis has been associated with Michigan Limestone since May 1, 1926, when he was employed at the Calcite Plant at Rogers City as a civil engineer. In 1940 he was nam ed Chief Engineer. On June 1, 1942 he was promoted to Oper ating Manager. In 1945, on March 1st, he became Vice Presi

dent of Operations. In August of 1952 he was named Execut ive Vice President of the Division.

Mr. Lewis is a native of the south being born in Madison.

Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1922 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. His first experience as an engineer was with the Illinois Central Spring, 1953

Railroad as a rodman in the Maintenance of Way Department.

Later he was transferred to the Department of Building of the same company as a draftsman in their Chicago Office.

Serving as an engineer during the construction and expan sion program at Calcite has given Mr. Lewis a wealth of ex perience along this line. His railroad experience in earlier years has served him well as many of the problems of oper ation in mines and quarries deals with transportation and haulage. Being closely associated with operations in later years has given him an exceptional background for his present position. He has shown that he was adept at production sche dules, new developments, and recognition of human values in our industry.

The employees of the division have every reason to place their trust in their new leader and are pleased with the choice which was made. Our customers can be assured that he is ac

quainted with their problems and will continue to insist that they receive a first quality product. His desire to keep oper ations at an efficient level will guarantee a healthy and pros perous future for our companies.

With his office in Detroit, he and Mrs. Lewis have their

home in suburban Birmingham, Michigan. He used to have some hobbies, but we understand from the president himself

that for a while at least his main hobby will be traveling hither and yon over a far Hung area keeping an eye on how things are going.

IF WE REFUSE TO GROW

The road to ruin is to refuse to grow.

In fact, as far as science and nature are concerned, the

great Unpardonable Sin is to quit growing.

When an apple ceases to ripen, it begins to rot.

When a tree ceases to grow sturdier, higher and wider, it begins to decay.

And when a man ceases to learn and change his opinions

and develop new and better tastes, his mind is on the road to decay.

It is commonly said that our safety lies in clinging to the ideas of old. Quite the contrary. That way lies surest death.

One of our greatest faults in promoting safe living is that of doing things the same way because no accident has previously happened. Still the old ways might not be safe ones. We must ever be alert for newer and better ideas.

Perhaps our 1952 safety record, which was poor in con trast to many other seasons, can be explained because we did cling to that which was old. The methods which brought ex cellent results in 1950 and 1951 certainly failed us in 1952 al

though many of you worked diligently to prevent accidents.

The review of the serious accidents which occurred at the

Calcite Plant in 1952 shows that we had two. The first one was

on March 21 when Henry Bey lost the sight in one eye as it

was penetrated by a flying chip of steel. The second one oc

them. To earn we must work, and to hold a job of any kind requires strength, knowledge, and skill — all of which are de pendent upon physical and mentalfitness. So, what is our most important asset? It's good health.

Now, the years of our lives are ours to do with as we wish, and if we choose to be "health spendthrifts," it's up to us.

However, most of us want to enjoy good, healthy, long lives.

But, how can we find out whether or not we are conserving our health or wasting it? There's no better, surer way than by having a thorough physical check-up.

How often, after reading an article on a particular subject or having listened to a friend's or neighobr's tale of woe we recall certain aches, pains, or peculiar feelings we have had and begin to experience that nagging fear "maybe that's what I have." If we go to see our family doctor regularly he can tell us whether or not anything is wrong, and if there is, he can help us to overcome it, or to learn to live with it so that we can continue to lead normal, useful lives. Best of all, if we go at once, it's ten to one we'll find that there is nothing seriously wrong. Right away we feel 100 per cent better when our minds are freed of the "ghost of fear" which was actually responsible for most of the frightening symptoms.

A complete health check-up will show us where we stand in regard to physical and mental fitness and how we can best expect to meet life's requirements. Even if we find we have

curred on October 1 when Herman Karsten of the Mill De

a health impairment it doesn't mean we are on our way to the

partment lost the end of a finger.

The most serious injuries happened aboard the boats of the Bradley fleet where a total of six occurred. On March 4, Judson Price was fatally injured and Karl Brege suffered a mild concussion. On June 24, Robley Wilson, First Assistant Engineer on the Steamer Clymer, lost the tip of a finger. On June 23, Duane Valley of the same ship received a disabling caustic burn on his arm. RoUand Tulgetske of the Steamer Taylor bruised a tendon in his foot which became so painful he had to stay ashore a few days. On November 18, Erwin Adrian missed having what could have been a very serious accident when he fell into the cargo hold of the Steamer Clymer. He did receive a badly fractured ankle and is still

grave. It means a promise of improved health, longer life, and

disabled.

In terms of accident statistics, the Bradley Boats had a fre quency rating for the year of 7.98 and a severity rating of 8.32. The Calcite Plant's frequency rating was 2.31 and sev erity rating was 1.53 for 1952. The total Calcite district was frequency 4.29 and severity 3.93.

With no thanks to us in the Calcite district, the Michigan Limestone Division had the best safety record of any division in the United States Steel Corporation. The frequency was 2.30 and the severity was 1.78. It is certainly an honor to be one of the top ranking divisions in a corporation which has made safety records year after year.

Now we are faced with 1953 and the chance for an im

provement. Are we going to grow and keep our minds open for new ideas or are we going to coast along the road to more accidents';'

OUR HEALTH — TODAY AND TOMORROW/

Our health tomorrow is determined largely by what we do today. There is only one "best time" for us to take better care of ourselves, and that time is "now".

Let's think about healthful living for a minute and find out the score for ourselves. Of course, we must realize that

an end to fear, suffering, and worry. It means we have the

opportunity of becoming more valuable to ourselves and to our jobs as the years roll on and we acquire knowledge, im proved skill, and efficiency, with bodily health that gives us a zest for living.

The next time your family, your boss or physician

suggests that you have a complete health check — HAVE IT, and follow your doctor's advice. Better still, don't wait for an invitation. It's your health, your job, and most important of all—YOUR LIFE! So— 1. See your physician regularly.

2. Check with your dentist regularly.

3. Get sufficient sleep and relaxation.

4. Eat three well balanced meals each day.

5. Exercise wisely.

IT TOOK THREE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF

EQUIPMENT TO REPAIR FIFTY SECONDS DAMAGE It took 24 days, 1,000 men and 170 pieces of steel earthmoving equipment to repair 50 seconds worth of damage by nature in the earthquake last July 21, near Tehachapi, Calif., according to an article in the January-February issue of Steelways, official magazine of American Iron and Steel Institute; While the earth still trembled from aftershocks of the

quake, Southern Pacific Railroad crewmen found four badly damaged tunnels, but by noon the same day, steel-clad bull dozers began to arrive at the scene and two days later the area looked like a three ring circus with bulldozers going up and down the narrow valley, blade to blade, in single, double and triple waves.

The contractors opened up all but one of the tunnels. Until they could clear the fourth one, they moved 1,250,000 cubic yards of dirt to build a "shoo-fly" or detour around the tunnel so that service between San Francisco and Los Angeles could be resumed on the main line.

if we are going to live useful lives that will enable us to take

On each of the 24 days, on a 20-hour schedule, the men

care of ourselves and our families we are going to need cold,

and $3,500,000 worth of machines moved an average of

hard dollars, and to obtain them most of us will have to earn

50,000 cubic yards of dirt — to literally move a mountain.

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Billy Goat Is A Grim Reminder

The Calcite Plant now has somebody's goat. Designated as the "Safety Goat" and appropriately named "Billy" he is housed in a fine, glassed-in pen at the main gate on Calcite

that Adolph, Paul and Cash are spending extra hours (without compensation) trying by wishful thinking to pass the goat to some other department. We hope they do not succeed and

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lose possession only by the expiration of time.

It seems that Billy, so the story goes, is the result of a trans formation by means of some sort of magic, from a mangy, scrawny, moth-eaten stuffed goat into a fine, sleek, well-fed, live Alpine goat. Plow did we acquire such a stuffed work of taxidermy art? That is a story we are not proud to tell but the truth "must out". During the calendar year of 1952 the Mich igan Limestone Division for the time, led all plants in the United States Steel Corporation safety record. However, with in the Division, Calcite and the Bradley Fleet were not only riding well down the list but were in some circles, considered to be dragging their collective feet. Two lost time accidents

We understand that Billy is now very close to what may be classed as "Goat Heaven". From his previous normal goat diet of two handsful of oats and a small bundle of hay per day, Billy now receives hay by the bale, oats by the bushel, cod liver oil by the quart, carrots, apples, sugar and candy in large quantities in daily rations. Rumors are that there is a

in the Plant and six in the Bradley Fleet during the year didn't help our cause and for this we received a prize. Need less to say, it was not the first prize but rather what is com monly known as the "booby". This prize was presented to the

reason behind all this in the form of an ulterior motive of

killing by kindness. We doubt this; on the contrary it appears that Billy has found some fast friends among his keepers and some of them arc shown in the accompanying picture with him, namely, Adolph, Paul and Cash.

Seriously, the idea of the goat is for one purpose only, and that is to remind everyone who chances to see him on dis

Plant at the 25-Year Service Banquet with appropriate ad monishments that it was ours until some other Michigan Lime

play to teach, preach and practice safety. It is no secret to anyone that it is not possible to completely protect a worker from being hurt by means of fences, guards, gates, screens and other protective devices. It is also no secret that safety is a

stone Plant stubbed its toe and suffered a lost time accident.

state of mind and that the human clement is the most import

Some appropriate "goat passing" followed and eventually the ownership, care and well-being of the goat came to rest in the Mill Department. Why? Because the Mill suffered the last lost time accident here at Calcite.

Plans for formal transfer of ownership and presentation were prepared for the Wednesday following the 25-Year banquet. It was in this interim period that this very unusual transformation occurred and Adolph, Cash and Paul, our Mill Supervisors found themselves in possession of "Billy", a real live goat with a pedigree and certificate of ownership. Since that time and continuing until November Isi or until some other department succumbs to an accident, Billy has been on

display for all to see at the main gate. We've heard reports

ant factor in this business of safety. Therefore, the Goat, the signs, the moving picture films, the radio spot announce ments and the emphasis on safety is designed to remind everyone to think SAFETY and live SAFELY on the job, at home, at play and on the highway.

This added emphasis on safety brought to Calcite em ployees this winter has been through the ideas and efforts of

Lewis Patterson, Assistant Operating Manager. "Pat" spent much of his time during the winter months on our safety

work. He has received splendid cooperation from everybody and the result of this good work has shown itself. We are all

grateful for the good accident record made during our winter operations and it must be rewarding to "Pat" for his efforts.

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View of banquet ball on evening of January 3rd fust before the meal. Speakers' table in foreground: ladies in back ready to serve.

Annual Twenty-five Year Service Banquet The Calcite Plant's annual 25-year servicemen's banquet for the 1952 season was held January 3, 1953. During the

days prior to this date considerable activity can be observed

around the personnel office and other departments as well as the kitchens and the gymnasium of the local high school

where the banquet was to be held. Invitations to be addressed

and sent, programs prepared for the printer and arrange

ments made for flowers, food and entertainment are also

worthy of mention. The tempo accelerates as the last day ap proaches and on January 2 the real rush begins. The gym nasium and the kitchens are a beehive of activity with the

rustle and the bustle of busy ladies stuffing turkeys and pre

paring food, carpenters setting up tables and platforms, dec orators climbing ladders with paper and crepe streamers. On the day of the banquet tables areset and all details checked for the big event. By 5:00 p. m. all is quiet and a feeling of ex pectancy fills the air. Let's take a look at the scene. Decorations of purple and gold crepe paper and fringe enclosed the main gymnasium floor where four tables sixty feet long with a

speakers' table at right angles across the end filled the 80' x 40' expanse of polished floor. The tables with white coverings were set for 250 expected members of the 25-year group and over of Calcite employees. They were decorated with purple and gold candles and crepe center ribbons while here and there was placed a flowering potted plant. A large basket of flowers at each side of the stage in back of the head table completed the festive appearance of the hall enhanced at this late hour by the pleasant aroma of food wafted in from the adjoining kitchens as it simmered ready and waiting for the gathering

throng of hungry men. The dinner was scheduled for 6:30 p. m. and shortly thereafter the seats were filled and the banqueteers bedecked with a variety of gala headgear sat waiting for the dinner and listening to the music of Johnny Kuhns and his Night Hawks, or just plain visiting with his neighbor.

Greetings and salutations and last minute arrangements at the head table finally subsided and at the request of the Mas ter of Ceremonies, Mr. J. A. Valentin, the orchestra stopped playing, the buzz of conversation faded away and the group rose to their feet and with bowed heads gave thanks to God for his bounty as Mrs. George Jones accompanied by Mr. Jones on the piano sang, "The Lord's Prayer."

The meal was served by the ladies of the Westminster Guild under the able direction of Mrs. John Ferdelman. Dur

ing the dinner service the toastmaster accompanied by Mrs. Valentin at the piano led the group in some old time songs while steaming plates of roast turkey, dressing, mashed pota toes, brown gravy, squash, beans, etc. were rapidly circulated by the white-clad ladies of the Guild. When all were served community singing stopped and Kuhn's Nighthawks took up the rhythm as the men fell to with a will. Apple pic ala modefollowed by cigars and cigarettes completed the meal and the group settled down for the eveningof talks and entertainment.

The Detroir Office was represented by three of our old friends namely Hugh Lewis, J. P. Kinville and C. F. Platz.

J. A. Valentin, toastmaster, thanked the men for their wholehearted cooperation in making the 1952 operating sea son a very successful one of production in spite of the slow down caused by the steel strike. He said he was somewhat chagrined that the Calcite Plant was at the bottom of the list on the safety rostrum of the Division which as a unit held the safety record for 1952 in the Corporation. However, he said he was confident that this group would bend all their efforts to changing this state of affairs in 1953President Lewis, introduced by the toastmaster as an old friend with a new job, said he was glad to be back in Rogers City and see everyone again. He said he had spent more of his life in Rogers City working with the men at Calcite plant than anywhere else and it was like home to him. He stressed the fact that the efforts and work of the oldtimers had put him where he is today and he wished to thank them for their friendship and cooperation through the years. He congratu lated the men of the plant on the 1952 production record and said that despite some predictions to the contrary the orders for limestone in 1.953 indicated another full schedule of stone

shipments and plant operation. He then presented the seven Calcite members of the Class of 1952 with awards for their

25 years of service.

The Class of 1952 is to be noted for two things. It is com posed of nine members of the Calcite Plant and two mem bers of the Bradley Fleet and is the smallest 25-year group in many years. It is unique in that it contains the first two ladies to complete 25 years of work in the Plant organization. To Mr. Kinville, Mr. Lewis bequeathed the honor of presenting these two ladies, Mrs. Giscla Platz and Miss Ella Reinke, with

their service trophies. Most of these 25 years were spent un der J. P. Kinville in the Calcite office and he scaled the gift

with a hearty buss for each. Gisela is in the marine traffic de partment and to her was given the honor of presenting a 25year Bradley service pin to bachelor Russell Sabin along witli <i kiss as a little extra reward to a long time class mate. Don ald Langridge, the other Bradley member of this year's group was unable to attend.

J. P. Kinville said he wasn't able to get back to Rogers City as often as he would like to but he will get back each year for the 25-year banquet with or without an invitation. He wish ed everyone a safe and happy New Year.

Charles Platz said he had a periodic yen to get back to his old stomping grounds at Calcite, particularly when the perch are running in the slip, and he yearns for the sound of the loading boats and the sing of the rod and reel.

The next part of the program we will mention but briefly because we of the Calcite Plant are not too proud of our trophy Up on the stage during the dinner hours stood a mon

ument veiled in black. Mr. Lewis at this stage of the pro ceedings told us that the Michigan Limestone Division was the safest unit in the U. S. Steel Corporation in 1952 but to the Calcite Plant as low man on the safety totem pole in the Limestone Division it was his dubious pleasure to present a stuffed goat and he whisked the black robe from a somewhat mangy member of the departed goat family preserved in its original form. We are happy to say at this writing that our trophy is no longer with us but belongs to one of our sister plants in the Pittsburgh area. We are sorry for the accident

which lost us the trophy but we are one and all firmly resolved, so help us, to do all in our power to prevent any future visit

ation and unveiling of dead goats on our safety door step at the Calcite Plant. The best laid plans oft go astray in the un predictable future of accident prevention on any job and we

will take our medicine if we earn it but we are firmly convinc ed that all accidents can be prevented.

Comic announcer, Frank Keni, with a keen sense of humor

and hands that were quicker than the eye, added to the enter tainment of the evening. Fred LaLonde and Frank Richards didn't seem to recognize him as an old friend but he sure had the goods on them. Of course you can never tell about Fred

with fishing and Frank with his insurance they really get around the country and meet people. These card tricks are something else again but you can't fool an old card shark like Ben Santimo.

We have all seen cats and have heard their midnight hissing and meowing. Most of us at times have hurled boots and epithets at these nocturnal prowlers on moonlight nights when our slumbers have been so rudely disturbed. The antics of Nagle and Co. in their impersonation of two cats and their representations of the scenes behind the sounds brought tears of mirth and gales of laughter from the audience. We

have no doubt that the 25-year men who enjoyed the present ations of Nagle and Company will be much more lenient in their thoughts of "Tom" the next time he serenades them from the region of their back yard fence.

We have received many favorable comments on the ban quet and the program from those who attended. An affair such

as this requires considerable work and planning by a great many people and we wish at this time to thank those who

gave their time and efforts in building the tables, decorating the gymnasium, preparing and serving the meal and various other detail jobs which contributed to the success of the

evening. The whole-hearted response always given by those asked to assist in this event makes it a pleasurable experience for those in charge.

In the picture at left below President Hugh Lewis presenting Louis Mulka with an award in recognition of his twenty-five years of service with the company. Seated from left to right are: Fred Cicero, Ella Reinke, Chairman J. A. Valentin, Gisela Platz.

Louis Smolinski. Daniel Beebe. Albert Elowski. Right below: Employees of the Calcite Plant and the Bradley Transportation Line who completed twenty-five years of service during 1952: From, left to right: Top row â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Leo Mulka. Russell Sabin, Albert Elowski, Louis Smolinski, Russell Pollock. 2nd rowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Daniel Beebe. Louis Mulka, Gisela Platz, Ella Reinke, Fred Cicero.

Mill Received Extensive Repairs During the Winter Months

the materials chasing job for the past few years. Maybe Archie Bellmore and crew could tell you how many idlers there are too, because along with their other work of decking repair

torn apart you can well understand the expressions on the faces of Morris Richards, Frank Mayes and Paul Mulka in the photograph below. I imagine there was a greater sigh of relief when all those parts on the floor (not shown in photo) were back in their proper places in the gear box. Paul Mulka says they are happy in the picture because they got all the parts from the gear box on one floor.

Emil Dehnke says that missing junction box cover near the motor is a hazard we shouldn't overlook. Being a Mill elec trician I don't think he even looked at the picture beyond the

they conducted a pretty thorough overhaul clinic for "tired"

motor, but hustled over to the Mill to see if the box cover

idlers. This same crew did a nice job on S-10 which should cut down on spillage and make the yard crew happy.

The runnel and loading crews were busy installing new chutes, quadrants, pulleys and decking. Guess they call Bill Shelley's crew the "pony gang" because they're a small crew and cover a lot of territory between the flux and fines loading

had been replaced.

The crusher house as usual was the scene of much activity.

Alfred Hopp and crew say they'll be all set when the first load

No sooner had the last load of stone passed through the Mill in 1952 when the Mill crews started to tear things apart.

So complete was this tearing down process that Mill crews have been hustling ever since to get things in order for the 1953 operating season.

Ask Erwin Adrian how many parts there are to the Mill.

1 imagine he feels he's chased them all since he has held down

bins.

Lawrence Bannon and his crew haven't been to Florida as

was rumored. That "tan" they wear is of the coal dust variety acquired by long hours of work on the coaling towers.

Repairing highlines was the specialty of Arnold Zinkc's crew. One of their biggest jobs was the H-2 drive mechanism which should leave that section in excellent shape.

A new A-1 belt was greeted with a sigh of relief by Mill Superintendent. Adolph Sorgenfrei, and his two "slightly bald" right hand men, Cash Sobeck and Paul Mulka. It seems the old belt caused a little anxiety one night when it snapped shortly before quitting time.

"Bill" Torno and his crew plan on catching up on sleep this summer after spending their winter overhauling screens. How ever, Bill thinks there will be other items that will keep the re-pair crew job from becoming monotonous.

If any of you wandered near the grizzlies when they were Smiling at a fob well underway are left to right: Morris Richards, Frank Mayes and Paul Mulka. The job is an openhearth grizzly gear box in the process of inspection and repair.

of stone is due. New concaves and a rebuilt eccentric com

posed the large part of their job but they also found time to give R-l gallery a chance to do its job better in 1953.

The belt repair operation shown below required five to eight men years ago. It's a stepping down process on a belt in preparation for a splice. The belt is stepped down by plies

and the hard part used to be stripping off of duck or similar material making up these plies. Now an air-operated motor and reel pull these strips off easier and faster than was done years ago by four men.

Roy Strieker docs the cutting, Gordon Merchant holds a safety line on the clamping device and Russ Smart controls the air motor and reel.

This system was devised by Willard Office crew, composed of Ivan Bannon in addition to R. Smart and R. Strieker. works in the Mill, but helps out the

Mundt and his Dock and Erhardt Grambau G. Merchant normally Dock Office crew on

winter work.

In addition to splicing and belt repairs, this crew also maintains the many weightometers around the plant. All weightometers are completely cleaned, repaired, reinstalled and tested each year to insure accurate and efficient operation.

This crew also had the job of moving and reinstalling S-10 Here are left to right Roy Strieker, Gordon Merchant and Russell Smart preparing a new A-1 Belt for splicing.

wcightonietcr to obtain more accuracy and better operating

TO ESTABLISH LIMESTONE QUARRY AND PLANT

conditions.

FOR PROCESSING DOLOMITE AT CEDARVILLE

Add to this the painting of the Dock Office and you will get the idea that this crew is all set to keep track of the operation and cargo records when quarrying and shipping operations swing into high gear.

There was also Steve Mayes and his crew on chutes and

flumes plus a paintcrew of J. Dehring, A. Schroeder, O. Algenstadt and Albert Hopp, and those crews that weren't men tioned. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; You will now have a pretty good idea of the activity that goes on in the Mill properties during the winter months.

Mentioning property reminds your reporter that the Mill

has an additional bit of property outside the gate devoted to safety. This property was acquired as a grim reminder that those who have accidents become the goat. This symbol is one which the Mill Department is striving to do away with.

If they don't kill the goat by over-feeding, it's a sure bet he won't die of old age as Mill Department property.

The Mill has already been accused of getting anxious to roll towards new records in 1953. On consultation with the

Mill men, I've found that their equipment is all set to give Walter Meyer and his quarry gang a run for their money.

Just one of the many jobs carried on by the Construction

Department during winter work was that of a new fender strip for the Flux Dock. This means fewer snagged lines and greater safety to the boats and also the handling crews of docking freighters. The old fender strips became splintered thus affording less protection for the hull of docking boars and catching the mooring lines as they were being pulled across these strips. This fender strip is composed of heavy wooden timbers anchored to the concrete face of the dock with angles.

In the picture below Ivan Sopcr is in the process of welding the angles, Herman Hopp and "Clem" Urban are sawing a timber to the required length and Virgil Bonner is cheering them on.

Installing a new fender strip along the flux dock. Shown here left to right are Ivan Soper, Herman Hopp, Virgil Bonner and "Clem" Urban.

The announcement of the pending construction of a plant for the production and processing of dolomite limestone near Cedarville on March 19, 1953, by President H. S. Lewis of the Michigan Limestone Division of the United States Steel Corporation was not a complete surprise to the people in this area.

The use of magnesium limestone in the production of steel during the last few years has been rapidly increasing and the necessity of tapping larger sources of this material has been an eventuality forseen and planned for by the U. S. Steel and its limestone industry for some time. Prospecting and drilling operations by the Calcite Plant in the Cedarville area and the purchase of 10,000 acres of land left few doubts in the minds of local residents that Cedarville would eventually have a new limestone industry at its doorstep. The proposed plant is ex pected to be in operation by the latter part of 1954. It will have a capacity for producing some 3,000,000 tons of lime stone a year. The transporting of this tonnage to the steel mills will require about 300 cargoes by lake carriers. McKay Bay furnishes an ideal harbor for the construction of docks to handle this shipping. Trucks will haul stone to the crusher at the quarry site and the crushed stone will be carried by rail some six miles to the scrcenhouse at the loading docks for further processing. A crew of about 100 men will be

employed for the complete operation of quarrying, screening, and boat loading. These workmen will be hired from the labor pool in and around Cedarville as far as possible. Tech nical help in construction and operation will be furnished from the Calcite Plant. We are glad to note that our friend, Ralph Dolsen, has been appointed superintendent of con struction and future operating manager. Ralph graduated from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology at Houghton in 1943 and then Uncle Sam snatched him for three years as a First Lieutenant in the Engineer Corp. He came to the Michigan Lime on January 1, 1947. The training he has had at the Calcite Plant will fully qualify him for his new job at Cedarville. Ralph married a local girl, the former Evelyn Grambati and they have a 4-year old son, Wil liam. The Dolsens were both born in the north country and will be righr at home in their new location. We con

gratulate Ralph on his new job and know that he is cap able and industrious and will do a good job.

Thomas C. Jackson of the Detroit office will supervise the

It takes one lifetime to make a safe worker.

new project. Mr. Jackson was with the Pittsburgh Limestone Division prior to the merger. He was recently appointed Chief Engineer of the Limestone Division, the position for merly held by Robert Lucas, now with the Pittsburgh Steam ship Company. We wish to congratulate Tom on his new job and wish the team of Jackson and Dolsen all kinds of luck on the new project at Cedarville.

The preliminary work at the Cedarville plant is already in full swing and the momentum will increase as summer ad vances. We will hear more about it as heavy equipment starts moving from the Calcite Plant and elsewhere via truck and water transport to the area of operation.

Cedarville is a resort area and care and planning in con struction and operation of the plant will endeavor to protect the scenic beauty of the area for the tourist and vacationing public.

There will naturally be some changes in this community due to the additional job opportunities, but there is no rea son to believe that the peace and quiet of this fine town will

And it takes one second to destroy it all with an accident.

be disturbed.

BE CAREFUL

It takes one minute to write a safety rule.

It takes one hour to hold a safety meeting.

It takes one week to plan a safety program.

It takes one month to put it into operation.

It takes one year to win a safety award.

C. F. BEUKEMA RETURNS TO LIMESTONE DIVISION

he was granted a year's leave of absence as a successful candi

The recent appoint

date for the Sloan Fel

lowship for the school

ment of "Chris" Beu kema as General Man

year 19 5 0-51. The Sloan Fellowship was

ager of Operations of Michigan Limes tone Division

brings

set up under a grant of

back

pany. He was first em ployed in U. S. Steel on

funds from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Inc. Successful candi dates attend Massachu setts Institute of Tech

June 17, 1940 when he

nology to study busi

came Plant

the Calcite a civil en

ness administration and economics. The Fellow

gineer. His first duties here were connected with maintenance and

ship is designed to as sist management in de veloping young men

construction

for leadership.

an old friend and as sociate to our Com

to as

engineer

ing. In September of

The diversified work

1941 he was called to the U. S. Army as a Re

which he enjoyed here with the Michigan Limestone Division and the Bradley Transportation Line

serve Officer. Here he advanced to the grade of Major while-

serving as a plans and operation officer of general staffs of training centers in the United States. Later, he served over seas with Sixth Army Group Headquarters, and with Head quarters, U. S. Forces, Etiropean Theater. While in the Army he was graduated from Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.

After return from Army service on December 16, 1945, he took up his engineering work at Calcite once again. In July. 1950. he went to U. S. Steel headquarters in Pittsburgh

helped him qualify in the competition. He went to Detroit July 1st, 1951 when the main offices of the Michigan Lime stone Division were transferred to that city. We all regretted seeing Bob and Mrs. Lucas leave Rogers City. They had be come a part of our community and it was with reluctance that we saw them leave. They made their home in Birmingham.

Bob and Mrs. Lucas have three children, David, Carol Ann and

Barbara Jean. We wish them the best in their new location.

as special assistant to the late John G. Munson, Vice Presi

SECURITY?

dent, Raw Materials, in the planning of a long range pro

For the destruction of all our power for defense, false doc trines and philosophies have been injected, by murderous foreign gangsters, into the teachings of our homes, our church

gram of iron ore developments for U. S. Steel, including pre liminary plans for Venezuelan ore and Minnesota Taconite.

In 1951 he advanced from the post of senior staff assistant in raw materials division to the post of director of planning in the same division. President H. S. Lewis announced that

"Chris" assumed his new position on April 1st. This is a

newly created post in the Division and much work is to be done which will demand the experience and knowledge which "Chris" has to give.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Beukema are graduates of Michigan

State College. They have two sons, John and Robert and we expect that the Beukema family welcomes the opportunity to be back in Michigan. We also know that Rogers City holds many memories for the Beukemas so we expect that "tours of duty" will be arranged occasionally. We wish this couple a pleasant future with the home Company.

es, our Government, and our schools, to induce a growing host

of citizens to insist upon sharing the fruits of the labors of others, as their presumed God-given social right, regardless of the meager measure of their own contributions in return.

All history teaches that the decline of a civilization, and the rotting of its people to destruction, begins and grows with the deceptive teaching that the citizen, as against his neighbors, has more rights than responsibilities.

Our Nation, in recent years, misled by false promise of social security apart from economic stability, has evidenced an alarming degree of acceleration in such decline.

Our founding fathers knew that security is earned only in

strengths acquired in competitions; that man's God-given will to survive is his strongest will; that the will to survive de mands that it be served with promise of advantage through

ROBERT H. LUCAS TRANSFERRED

achievement.

The appointment of Robert H. Lucas, 37 year old chief engineer of Michigan Limestone Division of U. S. Steel, as assistant to the president of Pittsburgh Steamship Division,

No Nation can build productive and defensive strength greater than the sum of all the honest efforts of the citizens

was announced effective March 1.

Man finds no lasting stimulus in the doing of profitless things; man forfeits no leisure to plant new gardens where thieves abound and police protection is inadequate.

Given a substantial measure of assurance against theft of the fruits of his diligence, given a fighting chance to win and hold a competence, man becomes resourceful, and learns to

Pittsburgh Steamship operates the largest fleet of ore car riers serving the U. S. Steel mills. Michigan Limestone op erates the Bradley Transportation Line of stone carriers and is headquartered in Detroit.

Lucas, a resident of Birmingham, had much to do with de sign and development of the new John G. Munson, largest limestone vessel on the lakes. He joined Michigan Limestone at Rogers City, Michigan, in 1940 as assistant power engineer.

Bob's rise in his profession has been rapid. He came to Rogers City October 17th, 1940 as a marine engineer. In 1950 10

who live within it.

labor with others in creative enterprise.

Security for the Nation can be assured only through ach ievement of the citizen at labor within a stable pattern of re corded law protecting that which he may create or produce.

There is no other road to security.

passing by on their way to the dump were very impressive and to impress him a little more, 1 told him that the quarrycrews had broken two records this year by hauling 1546 cars in one day and 7233 in one week. As I commented to his mother, "Now that's a lot of stripping", he turned to me and asked, "But daddy, how big is a stripping?" Now there he had me! "It's pretty big, son, it's pretty big," was my only reply.

This year the stripping season at the Calcite Plant was somewhat out of the ordinary. The mild weather resulted in very little delay in work which results when old man winter

fills the tracks and roads in the quarry with snow. Snow storms usually result in considerable loss of time while the

/.

No. .5 shovel stripping on Adam's Point. No. 4 shovel in background.

What's A Stripping?

Not too long ago the weather was nice, spring was in the air, and I decided to take the family for a ride through the

quarry to enjoy a sunny afternoon ride and possibly see how the deer had fared through the winter. While pointing out a few items of interest to my better-half, I mentioned that stripping was almost over for the year. My young son with the usual childlike inquisitivencss asked, "Daddy, what's a stripping?" Now there is a fine question! Usually I am pre pared for almost everything from this juvenile question box so I explained that the overburden or gravel and dirt on top of the limestone had to be hauled away so that the limestone could be quarried, and this operation is known as "stripping".

To explain the matter a little further, we drove on and I point ed out the monster shovels that dig and load the overburden into the trains and how No. 1I shovel was being repaired by men from the shop and shovel crews so that it would be just like new for the operating season. 1 even mentioned that No. 10 had a new boom installed last fall and that another

boom was being rebuilt in the shop for No. 11. After some discussion, we finally agreed that the diesel locomotives and quarry cars were a little bigger than his electric train and that one cat would just about fill his sand box to the top.

It was necessary to state that the train, which is shown to the right, was not falling off the track but was discharging

plows and crews are busy clearing the right of way for all means of transportation. This season there were few, if any, storms and the process of overburden removal continued with out interruption through the entire stripping period. The re sult was a record average of 1243 cars per day for a 53-day run with close to 2,700,000 tons of dirt hauled to the dumps.

This is not a record season tonnage but it is a record average.

Good weather during the stripping season is not an undiluted advantage however. Warm weather makes soft shoulders on

the dump banks. Continual watchfulness on the part of both dump crews and train crews is necessary to prevent slides on

the dumps and a possible wreck. Tracks must be inspected hourly and dangerous settling of the track beds filled and re

paired. The fact that this season was completed without any accidents is a l\nc compliment to our safety-minded crews in the quarry.

There were three shovels operating full time during the stripping season and three on part-time. Repairs to put all equipment in good shape for the regular production season is part of the winter program. This repair work must be sandwiched in with the stripping operations. Our repair crews from all reports scheduled their work to the good ad vantage during the past season. All operating equipment is reported to be in A-l condition for the 1953 stone haul.

The quarry crews are to be congratulated on a job well done. A tentative 16,800.000 ton shipping season will require a maximum of efficiency from both men and equipment to complete this stupendous job of production and transportation.

A general view of stripping dump at Calcite

gravel over the dump, and that the bulldozer was not lazy but was resting while the track crew prepared another track for throwing. "No, they do not throw the track over the dump with the gravel, they just move it a few feet so the train has a

smooth track to ride on near the edge of the dump."

While out on Adams Point, I had to tell him that the shovel,

as shown in the picture, was not a ghost of an old one but

only No. 4 sitting there in the mist waiting for spring before-

digging limestone for shipment. Now why a boy of four years thinks that he can drive one of those big trucks that haul from No. 5, I don't know. In fact, it took some argument to convince him that he Would have to wait a few years be fore he even drove the little one.

We found that No. 12 was casting, and that No. 1, 2 and 10 shovels were really loading out trains. The many trains 11

Alfred Haneckow, Leo Widajewski, Elmer Jarvis and- Char les Robinson eye the camera as a shot is taken of the hatch coaming raising on the Steamer Taylor. The coamings were raised by welding a six inch angle to the original coamings.

This is an after-end view of some of the men that attached a flow control fin to the stern of the Steamer Munson. In case you are wondering, that rudder actually has a tivist in it to smooth the flow of water from the propeller.

Many Activities Take Place In Winter Shipyard From the time when six boats of the Bradley Fleet were

tied up in the winter lay-up harbor, over two-hundred men have been moving about the boats preparing them for the first loads of the spring and the coming summer.

The seventh boat of the fleet, the Steamer Bradley, spent the winter in Lorain, Ohio. It was necessary to dry-dock the

Bradley to install a built-up propeller of four blades. The old wheel was of the solid type which was not easily repaired.

Through the years, the tips of the blades have been bent and broken so that the wheel was out of balance and not as effi

cient as it was orginally. Sometimes it is easier to remove a

blade from a built-up wheel and repair it by welding or straightening in the shop where a better job can be done with less delay to the boat. This method of repair would not be possible with a solid wheel such as the Bradley had before this winter.

For the past several years, considerable time has been spent in trying to weld cracks in the rudder on the Bradley. This winter in Lorain, the rudder was removed and the side plating renewed. Also additional bracing was added to the internal framing for increased strength against vibration.

An improvement was made this winter in the after living quarters on the Steamer White. About two hundred fiftysquare feet of floor space was added to the house on the boat deck by moving the side walls outboard and one wall aft about three feet. The interior finishing was done with fireproof wallboard

similar to that used in cabin work done in previous winters.

Two Louies directed the work on this projectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Louis Smolinski made the chalk marks for his crew on the steelwork and

Louis Hombacher and his carpenter crew did the inside finish work. The changes made in this deck house should provide a little added living comfort and also adequate locker space.

The Steamer White also received a new set of stanchions

in the cargo hold. The rusted-out I-beam stanchions were re placed with pipe stanchions. The use of pipe for stanchions reduces the chance of the cargo hanging-tip on the center slope during the clean-up period of unloading. Julian Yarch

and his crew devised methods of lowering these stanchions down into the cargo hold and they also did the installation work.

The Steamer White was also the object of parr of John Smolinski's conveyor crew this winter. New dirt conveyors of the belt type replaced screw type conveyors. The boom hoist machinery was overhauled with a new worm and gear on the hoist drum and some new gears and bearings were placed in the reducer that drives the hoist drum. Considerable trouble-

was encountered when the lower thrust bearing on the ver tical drive shaft of the boom drive was inspected. Both tipper and lower bearings had to be worked over, but a few smokesignals from John's cigar told Lyle Goulette what move to make next and the job was finished at last.

The cables on the elevator in the Steamer Munson had to

Lyle Goulette and George Bellmore are making repairs to the

A view of the enlarged upper after-cabin on the Steamer While

conveying equipment on the Steamer White.

which will add to the comfort of the crew.

be renewed, and some revisions were made on the elevator

drive which we hope will help to increase the life of the ele vator cables. By the end of this winter, three boats, the Mun son, Taylor and Clymer, will have center elevators of ihecable type.

Henry Gruelke and his crew went into the coal business on the Steamer Taylor where they made extensive repairs to the after bulkhead of the coal bunker. Henry had the material for this job stacked on the dock next to the Taylor. Every once in a while the snow plow would push one of his plates over in the coal pile, so sometimes he had a little troublefinding the material he thought was there.

Appropriation 486 covers one center elevator for the Steam er Taylor. The Taylor will be the third boat to be equipped with an elevator that depends on cables to hold the sixty-five buckets together in a chain-like assembly. Most of the old elevator was removed and a new tail sprocket and head sprock et and drive assembly were installed. Near the tail sprocket of the elevator, another scene of activity was the installation of new side conveyor drives.

Although the after lines of the hull of the Steamer Munson are much finer than those of the other boats, a How control fin

was place over the wheel to improve operation during the loaded condition. Light ice this winter delayed this project un til the early part of March.

The fender on the Tug Limestone was reinforced by weld ing a heavy bar on the fender all around the tug. The difficultjob of bending this bar was done by John Gordon, Leonard Boucher and Tony Wagner.

The hatch coamings on the Taylor were raised six inches so that the draft of tin's boat may be increased to take advantage

of the enlarged cargo space provided by the new cargo hold

put in last winter. The men on this project devised a method of bending the 6" angle shape to conform to the camber of the deck. The hatch covers had to be reinforced to complete the hatch raising project, and this work was done in the plate shop. The raising of the coaming and cover reinforcing was Tony Wagner and John Gordon standing by while welder Fred Beebe tacks on the fender strip on the Tug Limestone.

That is Leonard Boucher between John and Tony.

done in accordance with rules and regulations set up by the American Bureau of Shipping under which the Taylor is registered. Water-tight doors forward were also installed to comply with these regulations for increased draft.

We can hardly write this article without giving some con sideration to the men who operate the cranes around the win ter work operation. Art Voigt and his mobile crane would be a hard combination to beat, and William Warwick and

Ralph O'Toole gave their utmost cooperation on the electric crane.

The safety committee was in operation again this year and held its meetings once each week. We hope that this com mittee has helped make the winter work safer and to promote

safe thinking of the individual. Work on the boats during the winter is often in the open weather and under adverse con

ditions. Yet the work gets done without undue griping. Our sincere appreciation goes to the men of the winter shipyard.

BIGNESS

"The growth of big business, it is often argued, makes for monopoly. That idea is not held in informed quarters. For example, the Brookings Institution has been working for five years on an exhaustive factual study of the role of big btisiness in this country. In one section its report says, 'The nation-wide

businesses . . . may do more to break up the power of local monopolies than to cement their own.'

"We see examples of this on every hand. The manufactur ers of national brands, for instance, must be represented in every market place - and the result is much greater competi tion than would otherwise be the case.

"A very important example can be found in retailing. A generation or so ago the small town general store had pretty much of a monopoly. Competitors were few or non-existent.

Markups were extremely high compared with present-day standards.

"Then the early chains came into being. They pioneered low-cost merchandising, and began to open outlets in more and more communities. Other kinds of retailers had to com

pete or perish. They did compete â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and consumers everywherereceived greater value than they ever had before.

"In a free country, where government sticks to the role of

umpire, there is plenty of room for business of every size and kind. None has a monopoly of anything â&#x20AC;&#x201D;for long."

"The Socialist philosophy was so in the ascendency during the administrations of the past twenty years that there is still an inclination on the part of many people to attach some odium to the describing of our present government as a 'busi

ness government' - and especially as a 'big business govern ment.' It is high time such muddled opinions were cleared up in the minds of those who have them.

"Those who have any qualms about big business men run ning our government should meditate just a moment on what is big business. They should realize that it is small business grown big through the ambition and energy and initiative

of the men who operate it. Such growth is to be encouraged, not discouraged. Surely, the critics of big business would not want to draw a line and say to all business in America, 'Be yond this line you must not pass. Here your ambition and

growth and productive capacity must end.' The people of America accept with pleasure and satisfaction the designation of their government as a 'business government."

We read where there is one Federal employee to look after every 32 Indians in this country, and it makes us wonder if they had to make a reservation for the job.

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RETIREMENTS

ed he turned over a progressive, pro ductive organization and a staff of com petent personnel to carry on. We think this is an outstanding compliment to him as a successful leader.

He and Mrs. Clymer have their home in Dearborn, Michigan. No doubt, in the winter months you will find him seeking the warmer climes and in the summer he will turn up in his former Michigan haunts. We arc-

all sure of one thing and that is that wherever he is he will be busy and will be getting pleasure out of meeting peo ple. We wish the Clymers many happy times in the future and the very best of health.

Irvin L

Clymer

After almost twenty-seven years with

our Company Irvin L. Clymer retired on

December 31, 1952. This is the

first time a president of our organiz ation has ended his service by retire ment. Carl D. Bradley passed away be fore retirement came; John G. Mun

son left our Company to take a vicepresidency with U. S. Steel Corporation, otir parent organization. We are happy that Mr. Clymer, in his retirement, re tains that energy and drive which were

Watson Sieunski

It had to come, Watson finally retir ed. Watson Siecinski, the last of the ori

ginal employees who started when the Calcite Plant first began,retired on Dec

so characteristic of him. We are sure that retirement to him will not mean a sudden cessation of work but will

ember 31, 1952. He was first employed July 1, 1911 and the record said he was

present him an opportunity to explore at will the many fields of interest he has had.

After coming from Robins Convey ing Belt Company to the Calcite Plant on March 1, 1926, he made steady pro

gress up the promotional ladder. Start ing as Chief Engineer during the Plant's

Neil Glosser

Neil Glosser, after over thirty-six

years of service, retired on November 30, 1952. He came to Calcite as a fire man on the once used steam shovels.

When the first electric shovel came to

the quarry he worked as an oiler and

hired as a laborer at twenty cents per hour. During his many years here he

was employed mostly in the Shovel Department and was a shovel engineer on his last job. He can tell you the full history of the operation.

For many years Watson lived on a

extensive construction program he next

soon after became a shovel engineer.

farm near Metz and here raised a large

became Operating Manager. Following

This was his job up to time of retire ment. We have always remembered

family of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. In later years he mov

Neil as he is seen in this recent picture.

A man with a friendly smile, soft spok en and kind to his associates. He dug

ed to Rogers City and has a nice home with a good sized garden spot. He says that between his garden and helping

this he became Vice President of Mich

igan Limestone & Chemical Company and Bradley Transportation Company.

In November of 1939 he became Presi

dent of these companies. On July 1, 1950, the presidency of Pittsburgh

Limestone Corporation was added to his duties. This appointment led to the consolidation of some of the Corpor ation limestone companies which be came the Michigan Limestone Divis ion of the U. S. Steel Corp.

No man can be a leader of a Com

pany for so many years without leav ing many permanent reminders of his ideas and service. To Mr. Clymer's credit it can be said that when he retir 14

a lot of rock in the quarry and had a good time doing it. He and Mrs. Glos ser are enjoying the first winter of play down in sunny Florida, and future plans arc for a lor of fishing and enter taining at their Long Lake Cottage.

Two sons and a daughter were part of the Glosser family. Neil enjoyed fishing, Fraternal

Orders

and

his Church as

hobbies. We know of no man retiring

his farmer friends once in awhile that

he will find plenty to do. He is still a strong and sturdy fellow and claims that he can still outwork many of the younger generation. We are inclined to believe him as he looks the picture of health. We certainly wish Watson the best of everything. We know he will continue to enjoy life as he would not have it any other way.

with more enthusiasm for the future

than Neil. At present he and Mrs. Glos ser are enjoying Florida.

A raise too often has the effect of

plunging you further down into debt.

His many friends wish Steve the

pleasures he deserves for years to come.

"If Everyone"

If everyone who drives a car could lie a month in bed,

With broken bones and stitched-up wounds, or fractures of the head.

And there endure the agonies that many people do, They'd never need preach safety any more to me or you.

If everyone could stand beside the bed of some close friend

And hear the doctor say "No hope" be fore the final end.

John C. Bruning

John C. Bruning decided that he had worked long enough and so retired

many more years of good health in order to enjoy himself.

at the end of the 1952 season. Officially his

retirement date

is

December

31.

eight and three quarters years in the quarry end of the operations at Calcite were filled with work, pleasure and a share of sorrow. We say sorrow be

I am sure such reckless drivers would be forced to think a bit.

cause he had to care for a few fellow workers who were victims of accident

and John never liked such duty. His

If everyone who takes the wheel would say a little prayer, And keep in mind those in the car de pending on his care.

And make a vow and pledge himself to

final advice to a group of fellow fore man was, "Men, never forget Safety First."

John an old timer at Calcite is also

never take a chance,

one of the older residents of this terri

spent as foreman of secondary stripping and his final work was quarry foreman.

He was always a valued man to have around as he had a good knowledge of what many jobs required.

In the picture we show of him he is seen with a pair of binoculars. John likes to hunt so we expect they will be used for that. He also has a Lake

Nettie cottage and the strong glasses will be useful out there too. We expect that there will be much to keep him occupied as children and grandchildren will rely on him for help at work and play. His family of three daughters and three sons will see to that. Besides the

missus might have some odd chores for him to do once in a while. The sum

mers at Lake Nettie will certainly give John a good opportunity to relax and

do as he pleases. We wonder what we ar Calcite will do without his helping hand, but we do hope that he has

The law and rules of traffic I am sure we'd soon embrace.

If everyone could meet the wife and children left behind, And step into the darkened home where once the sunlight shined, And look upon "The Vacant Chair" where Daddy used to sit,

1952 and the job he retired from was Quarry Shift Foreman. John's thirtlv

tory. Many interesting yarns of years ago come from his memory of lumber ing days. At Calcite his experiences were many and varied. He served as a shovel pitman, a locomotive brakeman and later an engineer. Many years were

And see him there unconscious, never knowing what took place,

The Great Crusade for safety then would suddenly advance.

Newton Chapman, winterwork burn Steve Kei.ley

er, "1 couldn't use my wire cleaning brush because the burning tip was

Thirty-seven and one half years on the job is the record of Steve Kelley,

burned off."

and thirty-four of these were spent in the Mill Department. Steve was an

Emil Better "Sure a through

other good employee who retired at the close of 1952. Besides working at Cal cite he raised a family of four sons and two daughters. He has a nice home and a little garden spot. We believethat he will find many odd jobs which the family will place across his path to keep him out of mischief.

Steve came to Rogers City from Posen and liked the quarry better than the farm. He has seen the Mill equipment

grow from a jumble of quickly assem bled machinery to the well organized crushing, screening and conveying equipment of today. When the years forced him to slow up from some of the hard work he took over on the Mill Elevator and there he was until he re tired.

Erickson, washing his car.

1 use a spray." John Wenzel, brush is liable to poke a hole it."

The power of suggestion is a dyna mic force and can remind people of things to do or things not done. For example when Rudy Krefr, machineshop mechanic, got off the Calcite bus one night after work and started across the street for his home, a car passing in front of Rudy reminded him that his own car was back at Calcite right where he had parked it that morning upon arriving at work!

Other cases of suggestive circum stances occurred when bulldozers oper ated by Herb Quade and Erwin Freel stopped. They automatically knew the fuel tank was empty.

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Bradley Transporta CALCITE

WHITE

CLYMER

Captain

Alex Ma loch a

Gilbert Kempe

Mark Haswell

First Mate

Donald Langridge

Henry Kaminski

Donald Monroe

Second Mate

Norman Raymond

Gordon O'Toole

William Joppich

Third Mate

Arthur Bey

William Stafford

Norman Quaine

Wheelsman

Edward Partyka

John Sczerowski

Raymond Modrzynski

Wheelsman

James Selke

Ivan Streich

Leo Widajewski

Wheelsman

Julian Yarch

Edward Cross

Marvin Karsten

Watchman

Julius Baur

Robert Bfi.lmore

Angus Domke

Watchman

Archie Johnson

Arthur Kihn

Arnold Fleming

Watchman

Joseph Krawczak

John Single

Leonard Gabrysiak

Deckwatch

Sylvester Smolinski

Fred Augsberger

Henry Sorrells

Deckwatch

Wll.FERD KORTMAN

William Asam

WlLBERT

Deckwatch

Basil Zinke

Stanley Haskf

Clarence Strzelecki

Deckhand

Donald Kihn

John Tosch

Anthony Rosmys

Deckhand

Harold Clark

Valentine Boehm fr

Marvin

Deckhand

Edward Quaine

Reuben Wojtaszek

Donald Shawhan

Chief Engineer

Stephan Chibola

Guy LaBounty

Norman Henderson

First Asst. Engr.

Roblfy Wilson

Arnold Specht

John Claus

Second Asst. Engr.

Alfred Horrocks

Donald Lamp

Paul Pearson

Third Asst. Engr.

Ai.bin LaPrairie

Richard Bregf

Edmond Jackson

Repairman

Leslie Bellmore

Mark Florip

Alfred

Asst. Repairman

j ames loundsbfrry

Nfd McLennan

Charles Marsh

Stokfrman

Lawrence

Lavern

Donald Kowalski

Stokfrman

Alva Tucker

Leon Dietlin

Eugene Jones

Stokfrman

Louis Voda

William Patchkowski

Duane Valley

Oiler

William Dagner

Wii.i.ard

Thfodore King

Oiler

Darl

El.TER KOWALSKI

Emmett Baier

Oiler

Patrick Lamb

Milo Gruelke

Louis Glentz

c.onveyorman

Stanley Centala

Lyi.f Goulette

Albert Fuhrman

Ronald Piechan

Ben

Al Skowronek

WlLBERT Bredow

WlRGAU

Haselhuhn

Electrician

Furtaw

Felax

Asst. Convfyorman

Bruder

Atkins

Boehmer

Kowalski

Steward

Robert

Second Cook

Albert Schefke

Richard Budnick

Art Gapczynski

Second Cook

Harvfy Krufger

Eljay Showers

Clem

Porter

Wilson Mti.ligan

Paul Greengtski

Donald

Porter

Donald J. Berg

Newton Chapman

Edwin

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Adrian

Modrzynski White

Patzer

tion Line Crew List TAYLOR

ROBINSON

BRADLEY

MUNSON

Rolland Ursem

Roland Bryan-

Chris Swarts

Donald Nauts

Elmer

Hilton Gould

Oscar Miller

William Chain

Paul Stone

Martin Joppich

Herbert Friedrich

Harry Piechan

Robert

John Newhouse

Stanley Rygwelski

Eugene McLean

John Fogelsonger

Louis

ROYCE WlCKERSHAM

Charles Ramsey

Theodore

Alex Sei.ke

Fred Beebe

Chester Kandow

Jerold Geyer

Arthur Kandow

Paul Lyon

Theophilus Pilarski

Allen

Henry Yarch

Robert Hein

Leonard Flewelling

Walter Szymoniak

Charles Robinson

Anthony Michetti

Elmer Jarvis

Jerome Mulka

Edward

GUSTAV WlRGAU

Edwin Fuhrman

Edward McFalda

Delbert Heythaler

William Derry

Ralph Morley

John Mackay

Earl Tulgetske, Jr.

Robert Garms

John Larson

Anthony Misiak

Floyd McCreery

Robert Muszynski

Raymond Kowalski

Robert Ramsey

George Bondy

Calvin Jaeger

Milton Haselhuhn

Kenneth

Richards

John Wood

Gerald Wenzel

Ray DesJardins

William

Benson

Alfred Markey

Robert Stoinski

Larry Wright

Thomas Suttle

George Hoy

Ray Buehler

Charles Frederick

William Budnick

Russell

Victor

J. Harold Nidy

Leopold Mulka

Henry Newhouse

Walter Tulgetske

Paul Lavigne

William Kunner

George Patzer

Sylvester Sobeck

Donald Johnson

Wallace Haske

John Bauers

Michael Idalski

Ronald Miller

Harry Bey

Ray Wingenfei.d

L. H. Rachuba

Ai. Taratuta

Donald Kaminski

William Haske

Leo Orban

Elton Jarvis

Ben Strzelecki

Erhardt Fflax

Harry Sorgatt

Glen Paradise

GUSTAV LlETZOW

Henry Hoeft

George Bellmorf

Roland Tulgetske

Cash Modrzynski

Keith Schular

Leo Richards

Humphrey Berg

Ray Szymoniak

William Balint

Ei.don Reynolds

Albert Prevo

James Mulka

Leslie Taylor

Eugene Kwiatkoski

Louis

Raymond Dembny

Robert Dumsch

Charles Horn

Edwin

Fleming

Schepler

Strand

Strand

Dehring Ehrke

Carter

Rygwelski

Sabin

Rickle

Lester Pines

Edward Vali.ee

Andrew Nedeau

Edward Voight

Louis Urban

Joseph Makowski

Ralph Schalk

Lawrence O'Toole

John Zoho

Albert Goodreau

John Paradise

Leslie Pearson

Max Inglis

Clifford Dodge

Vern McElmurry

Lance McGinn

Alfred Pilarski

Gerald Smigelski

WlLBERT ZEMPEL

Ralph Erickson

Glenn Hubbard

Stanley Vekaryasz

Henry Dietlin, Jr.

Russei.

Kenneth Thom

Iambs Simpson

Charles W. Soper

Curtis

17

You'll See It In Screenings rrPersonals" That Come To The Editor's Desk

Often the expression, "Detroit Office" is heard here and there. The Detroit

Office is not just a thing of plush car

peting and polished furniture but com posed of somereal live people, nicepeo ple too, so wewould likeour employees and reader friends to meet them. Starting at

the front left and to the back of the table are Florence Davis, Robert Close,

Don Weeda, Ray Long, Eleanor Miller, Robert Cronnise, Hugh Farrell, Henry Baltzersen, Ward Lewis, Joan Piot,

John Whinham, Robert Sanger. Pat Corrick, Jack Suliot, Ray Englehardt, Betty Hall and Robert Lucas. Standing at the head of the table and along the wall on the right is John Kinville, Mar garet Lytle, Hugh Lewis, Edith Smith, Frank Sylvester, llein Hoenicke, Joan Chisler, Richard Lewis, Shirley Rey

nolds, Frank Corregan, Eva Dobson, Oren Shearer, Frank Nevers, and Char les Platz. Starting at the right front of the table and seated is Peter Wilhclm,

Helen Gerfert, Shirley Cartwright. Har old Jones, Marian Mardorf, Thomas Foster, Bonita Saul, Margie Weber, Marshall Ruffner, Phyllis Marra, Ardis Hopp, Thomas Jackson, and Karl Riegcr.

IS

The occasion of this get-together was the 1952 Christmas Party. Many of these people are old friends who we still see now and then when they return

to Rogers City on business or just for the pleasure of visiting with relatives and friends in their haunts of bygonedays. Other members of this group came from the Pittsburgh Plants to the Detroit office and we have had the

pleasure of seeing some of them at Cal cite during the past two years. There are some new faces and we hope they will find their way to the northern

Michigan section of the Limestone Div ision sometime in the future and get better acquainted with some of the peo ple whose names no doubt cross their desks in their office work. When the

rush of city traffic and urban crowds brings thoughts of vacation escape we recommend Rogers City and our wideopen spaces, our lakes, our woods and streams. Those sleek gray forms of the Bradley fleet homeward bound up the Detroit river or that long ribbon of highway known as US-23 will bring you here. Just spread your wings and sail away. We send you all greetings from Calcite.

Just Among "Ourselves"

Presque Isle County is noted for its potatoes. The soil is a light sandy loam in most of the farming area and well suited to the raising of this staple food product. Many of our county farmers specialize in propagation and develop ing old and new varieties of tubers.

The picture below was taken of a new potato developed by the Reisner bro thers on their farm south of Rogers City. It is of especial interest to us in that its size as well as the locality origin

inspired the Reisners to name it the "Calcite Potato." Long may it live and llourish and garnish our dinner plates.

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY

ladies and pocket secretaries for the male members of the group. Mr. Valen tin was presented with a Motorola

The tinsel and lights have been pack ed away in boxes for next Christmas; probably the Christmas tree has been planted in the snow in the backyard or hauled away; but we still remember

clock-radio.

the wonderful time we had at our An

ber of 1953.

nual Christmas Party which was held on Tuesday, December 16, 1952.

As the guests entered the St. Ignat ius" Club Rooms, they were greeted with lovely corsages and boutonnieres — yellow mums for the ladies, baby mums for the men's boutonnieres. Mr.

Thornley and his camera were busy most of the evening, but he took the group pictures immediately — pro bably thought we'd take a better picture before partaking of that wonderful turkey dinner. And he was probably right! To mention just a part of the menu, we had shrimp cocktail, roast turkey, dressing, and red and green

It was a wonderful party. We are looking forward to another in Decem YARD DEPARTMENT ENJOYS ANNUAL CHRIST/WAS PARTY

Here we have the Yard Department all decked out for their Christmas Party.

This party was held at the Rainbow Gardens early in December. After a de licious turkey dinner, complete with all the trimmings, came the banquet speakers highlighted by Ted Werner who played Santa Claus. The group en joyed a movie and the remainder of the evening was devoted to group sing ing and card playing.

Pictured here, left to right, top row are: E. Nagel, F. Kalitta, C. Brege, S. Paul,

Christmas salad.

The dining room was brightly decor

A. Radtke, E. Witkowski, W.

rounded with bright evergreen cast shadows on the frosty windows; and red and green streamers and evergreen were arranged on the tables. An intri cate styrofoam replica of the screenings house provided a beautiful centerpiece

Warwick, W. Pardiekc, A. Radka, T. Werner, D. Bruning, W.. LaLonde, E. Freel, W. Cook, W. Pauiy, E. McCutcheon, H. Quade, L. Boucher, L. Schefke, H. Strieker, H. I.uetzow and R. Grigg, Second row includes: C. Schaedig, M. Peetz, E. Trapp, M. Claus, J. Budnick,

for the head table.

G. Schaedig, C. Hein, D. Widmayer,

ated with Christmas trees; candles sur

We all enjoyed the program. Call it "audience participation", if you wish, but everyone "got in the act". Some parts of the program were quite a re velation to us. After working with each other every day, you begin to feel that you know each other rather well. But

Albert Smith, K. Link, D. Matuszewski,

H. Kortman, C Mulka, A. Altman, E.

Buczkowski, K. Brege, and B. Murphy.

Seated in front are: E. Brege, L. Mey ers, H. Schaedig, R. Schulwitz, E. John son, D. Zempel, D. Romel, H. Widajewski, R. Heller, J. Chrzan, A. Voigt,

we realize that we have much to learn about our fellow workers.

For

C. Haselhuhn, F. Bader and M. Lozen.

example, most of us didn't know that Mr. Breach plays the piano very well; that Mr. Crow tells wonderful jokes; that Engineer Lewis Irwin beats out a wicked rhythm on the piano; that Clay ton Hopp can solo on "White Christ

composed of Wilbert (Baldy) Par-

mas" if Sarah Schultz and Bob Leow

keep time for him (They were suppos ed to sing, too).

The group becomes a little larger each year. This year the employees of Central Radio Telegraph Company were invited

to

attend.

We

were

also

happy to see Viola Soper at the party.

Viola has been helping out occasionally throughout the year whenever needed.

We were all happy to have Mrs. Val entin present.

Of course, we were pleased with the small, but well-packed envelopes that Santa Claus passed out to each of us, and so surprised to received another package containing compacts for the

The committee for this party was dieke and Ted Werner. Toastmaster for

the event was Ray Grigg. Norm Hasel huhn showed the movies and acted as

photographer. It is rumored that he's

had some good offers for negatives tak en at this event. No party would be complete without singing and the de partment is pretty proud of their tal ented pianist "Bill" Warwick who spent the major portion of the evening at the piano.

This was the first Yard Department party in some time and judging from

the response of these boys it's going to be an annual event.

Ivan Streich proved himself the best individual bowler of the Bradley Trans portation League last winter. His aver

age for twenty-seven games bowled was an enviable 167. It was attained in

competition which made everyone bowl his best. The beautiful trophy given to Ivan would make anyone proud to be the winner — not mentioning the

prize money which came in handy too.

During the past bowling season the Secretary-Treasurer's position was ably handled by Ivan. Recognition must be given to these sailor boys who do so well with so little practice.

Being the youngest blaster one of Bill Trapp's duties is to keep the water jug full. The day following the presi dential election Bill was wearing that "I told you so" smile for the benefit of his fellow workmen who disagreed with him. Then someone went to get a drink of water and found the jug empty and when asked

about it Bill said, "the

darned jackasses don't need water."

Seems he thought all the donkeys turn ed into camels after the election.

(A

note tt) Bill: We thought some of the donkeys turned to elephants).

Julius Patzer: "You say your tractor

uses too much fuel, Enos?" Then point ing to the throttle lever he continued, "Do you know what this is for?"

Enos Brege: "Oh that, I never use it.

1 just keep it pulled back as far as it will go to hang my lunch pail on it."

Our Seaman Enjoy Fine Get-Together

placed others in position for promotion

ing the Calcite busses go by and missed

as vacancies occur. It is hoped that at

the bus he intended to catch.

At the close of the 1952 navigation

the end of the 1953 season others will

season the employees of the Bradley

have time and experience to get licenses in their respective departments.

Arthur Gapczynski and Wilbert Zempel from the Stewards' Depart

Fleet had dinner together, happy that

they had had a successful season and could

be

with

their

families

once

again. While men of the Bradley Line do have a home port where the ships get in two or three rimes each week it is nice to get home for that long win ter's stay.

ment attended the Maritime School at

Sheepshead Bay and graduated from Cooking and Baking School. It was a winter of school for many and we know that it will be time well spent.

This year many of the seamen went Wonders Of Men

to the Lake Carriers School in Cleve

land to study for their original license or raise of grade. Some studied during the season and got their raise of grade without benefit of the school. Engine Department men receiving their or iginal license the past winter were Mark Florip, Alfred Boehmer and Les lie Bellmore, third assistant engineers; Ray Wingenfeld, Harry Bey, Wallace Haske, Richard Brege and Michael Idalski, raise of grade to second assist ant engineers; Alfred Horrocks and Walter Tugctske raise of grade to first

assistant engineers, and Leopold Mulka and Sylvester Sobcck raise of grade to chief engineers.

In the deck department Ray Mod rzynski, Edward Partyka. John Szczerowski, Jerold Geyer, Marvin Karsten and Paul Lyon all received their first class pilot's licenses, and Plerbert Friedrich received his Master's license.

These changes in license has meant promotions for many of the men and 20

Bill Swallow of the track department

played spitzer in the wrong league team for half the evening before discover ing it.

Russell Smart of the Dock Office, an ardent deer hunter, invested in a. new

telescopic sight for his rifle. With this trusty equipment he missed five good shots the first day and three the second day. (Toward the end of the season Russ finally got his deer thus proving the axiom that improvement follows good diligent practice.)

Russ

Kuhlman.

quarry

foreman,

wants to start his deer hunting two weeks ahead of everyone else so that the deer won't be so wild.

Martin Budnick, quarry crane oper ator, hunts ducks with a crow call.

Frank Michetti, trackman, was watch

What's this we hear about Ike No

waczyk preserving those greenbacks with mothballs? We've been trying to figure out a way of hanging on to them and perhaps Ike may have the answer.

Gene King thought he'd try it too.

The modern "Daniel Boones" struck

it lucky one day as the picture proves.

On the left is Duane McLennan along with George Hein and from what we can learn they used their "scatter guns" to pick oil these fine partridges. Duane analyzes limestone at the Lab whileGeorge can be found tending his dut ies with the Mill Crews.

will add, however, that he is interested

in a variety of community activities and delivers a wicked ball down the bowl

ing alley. The rest we will leave to you and your powers of elimination and de duction. The name of our prodigy in the last issue which, by the way, was slipped in without his knowledge or consent and with considerable finagl ing and secrecy on the part of the Screenings staff and the printer, was as you will no doubt have guessed none other than our good friend GeorgeJones the editor of this magazine, and his father.

The time was 7:40 a. m. as Ed Kania

was travelling to Calcite and his job in the quarry track crew. Suddenly Ed remembered that he had been told to

start work at 6:00 a. m. this particular

Guess Who?

Can't you just imagine this young chap with the "who the heck are you" expression on his face growing up into a big husky he-man? He sure enough

did and right here in Rogers City too.

Blessed

with

considerable

physical

energy as this picture would indicate, lie gave his teachers in the local schools the usual hard time and maybe a little more and played baseball and basketball

with abandon. Football in those days was in its infancy in Rogers City, we are sorry to say. When he graduated from high school he went to work at Calcite. The records show a somewhat

checkered career from this point. Start ing out in the Yard he shifted from sea

son to season like the proverbial rolling stone — brakeman, operating depart ment, engineering department, dumps, tracks, miscellaneous, belt repair, Dock Office, etc.

There are only two reasons for such a varied career at Calcite — either no one wanted him or he was endowed

with a superabundant curiosity about what makes the wheels go around and

did such a good job that everybody wanted him. We are prone to believe the latter since he is a 25-year man and looks as though he'll be around for a long time. His main interest at the pre sent time seems to be the shipping of limestone but of course you never can tell about this young chap - it's pretty hard to keep him in the carriage even with the strap on. We could add con siderably to this brief outline bur it would spoil your guessing game. We

The Steamer Bradley may have been down there in Lorain all winter but the

fellas oft' this ship kept her up here — in a fashion, that is, as far as bowling is concerned. The boys copped top

morning and automatically his foot pressed harder on the accelerator. Upon arrival Ed's only comment was that these new cars are built to go fast but not fast enough.

honors after their short 9-week sche dule and walked off with that enviable-

Shop Enjoys Banquet

gether. After a spendid banquet, the

this team: Stanley Rygwelski, Robert Garms, Leonard Gabrysiak, Norman Raymond, Jerold Geyer, and Arthur Kandow. At the close of the bowling season the league held their banquet

fun got under way. It was good to see

on March 7.

gold trophy and we are sure they will find a fitting place for it on the Str. Bradley.

Pictured above are the members of

"Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" is the regular team song when the fellows of the Shop have their annual get-to

ded"

Lee as Master of Ceremonies

again and after swapping yarns the boys presented George Baker with a pair of 12-inch ears which immediately im proved his hearing. "Red" Lee had a

At a recent St. Patrick's Day Bingo Party sponsored by the Lions' Club our friend Guy LaBounty, Chief Engineer on the Str. White, walked away with

little trouble chewing his turkey so the kindhearted crew gave him a set of china clippers which would put a

two luscious hams and we can't think of a better Frenchman who could have

shark to shame.

Buck Vilburn thought that Hawaiian dancing was more or less obsolete so he promptly introduced an apron dance and together with the Christmas decor

won them and enjoyed them more. At this same party, Margaret Radka from the Purchasing Department found her self the winner of the S100 ladies

wardrobe prize. Some people are sure lucky and our congratulations to them.

ations. Buck really stole the show. The committee consisting of Ivan Wirgau, Florian Modrzynski and George Gloss

truck driver's daughter bur you ought

er did a very fine job. Bill Heller pulled

to feel her clutch.

Herbic says that she was only a

the next committee otit of the hat and

so the Shop mechanics will be respon sible for the 1953 diggins. P. S. An old friend, our shop philosopher known as Nick Carter, was the guest of honor

Officer checking his Fishing License but when that officer catches a five pound

at this party.

pike there - that's the limit!

Frank Filipiak, boat loader, admits that he doesn't mind the Conservation

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE OVERWEIGHT . . .

The person who allows himself to become or to stay overweight shortens

his life, multiplies his chances of dis ease and disability, reduces his effi ciency and lessens his prospects for satisfactory and happy living.

When a person becomes 15 per cent or more overweight, that is in itself a disease to which is given the name obesity. Research has shown that it is not just "natural to get fatter as the years go by": that the ideal weight for a person at 25 years of age is still his ideal weight at 65 or 70 years of age.

No one is "born fat". There are no

"fat families" ,uu\ "fat races", but there-

are family and race eating habits which

"Red" Lee shotild certainly be rated

Yes. the year of 1953 will have its

make people fat. You don't just get fat "after an operation", after you have a baby, or after you "turned forty", and don't blame your glands!

If you are overweight it is because you eat too muchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, you take

100 per cent for effort and form. We can't vouch on what rating he deserved

share of

ployees who enjoy the outdoors and its

into your body more calories than your body can use and so it stores them up

for tone, but it looks as if it sounded

animal v. ildlife.

in fat pads or "upholstery." No food is

ing things do happen at these banquets.

Earl Nagle: "1 wonder if you could help a guy in trouble?"

Ray Kelley: "Certainly, what kind

Others in this musical party are Ivan

of trouble do you want to get into?"

fattening until you have eaten morefood than you need, and then most foods are fattening.

Don't get discouraged if you don't lose weight the first week, or if you

good too. Some of us never knew among his numerous talents, Red is also a fiddler (maybe a violinist). Surpris

thrills

for

all

Calcite

em

Wirgau with the guitar, and GeorgeBaker and Mrs. William Patchkowski

singing a duct. There is nothing like an evening of song to keep a party lively.

Many of the trophies of hunting ex

peditions prove that the deer grow to a good size on the Calcite Plant prop erty and provide enjoyment and sport for many Calcite employees. Many deer's progress from fawn to maturity is closely watched by Calcite spectators

who enjoy their evening ride down to see them. When November 15th rolls

around the hunting area on Calcite property is open to employees who en joy this sport. Due to the abundance of feed available only buck deer were per mitted taken during the 1952 season.

Official tabulation reveals that well over

fifty buck deer were carried away on car fenders and of this number twenty

nine had eight point racks or larger.

Two

bears

were

victims

of

veteran

hunters Archie Plume of the blasting department and Erhardt Bruning, tug

engineer. The bow and arrow nimrod's inflicted only one fatality to the deer herd. No doubt as these fellows achieve

the stealth and cunning of our Indian predecessors their score will increase.

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lose a little and then don't seem

All of these songsters are from the

Yard Department. They are putting their all into that banquet favorite, "Roll Out The Barrel." Heads showing from left to right are: "Ernie" John

son, Earl Nagle, "Herb" Quade, "Ken ny" Link, Carl Schaedig, Ervin Freel and Enos Brege. With all those musical notes Hying around in the background, it would seem that these fellows were

full of song and maybe it sounded good too.

to

lose for several days. Stay on your diet. Your weight may not show a change for three or four days to a

couple of weeks, and then suddenly, almost as if by magic, you will note a loss of several pounds.

By common sense eating you can prevent overweight; by close coopera tion with your doctor, you can correct overweight. You'll feel better, look younger, be healthier and happier and have lots more pep.

These happy appearing fellows are part of the German population found in the foremen group at Calcite. No doubt, when this picture was taken

they were giving their friends a good old German ballad. From the left is

knew that an exciting day's hunting was in the making. The elusive coyote led the merry chase all over Presque Isle County by first going down on the lakeshore and then back up into the Calcite quarry, from there to Moltke town

"D i c k" Hamann, Erhardt Grambau, "Bill" Heller, John Bruning, Herman Steinke, Marl in Thomas, Erhardt Brun

ship, always keeping just out of shoot

ing, Adolph Sorgenfrei, Walter Meyer,

slower. It was a gruelling race. Gus puffed on his pipe again and continued.

Fresh dogs were put on the track at 3:00 p. m. and easily caught up with Mr. Coyote but they only barked and

Herman Lucbke and Rudolph Duelt-

OVFRHFARD WHILE PASSING

Leo Gorlewski, trackman — "I'm go

ing range. The hours flew by with

coyote and dogs tiring and traveling

wouldn't fight. The tired coyote and

gine men will have a softer ride?"

barking dogs moved along and finally came right down the road where Gus stood ready with his trusty twelve guagc. It was a situation with the coy ote in the center and the dogs all around him. Gus stopped talking only long enough to take the pipe out of

Welder Bob Haneckow — "That buck I shot last fall was so old he was

his mouth. "I couldn't shoot," he said, "so I tried to club or kick the thing.

That didn't work so I helped the dogs

ing to send in two deer hides and get a sheepskin made for this winter."

George Freel to John Modrzynski — "Mow about having the trackmen tamp the track fill loose so that the en

still in velvet and the porcupine had two points chewed off his horns."

Louis Heythaler to Floyd Urlaub: "I'm putting the rivet in the correct position and when I nod my head hit it real hard with your hammer." You had better watch it Louie, we can't get a safety record that way.

Charlie Baker says, "If I had to wear something to match my hair when I

go to a party I don't believe I'd go."

Why, Charlie?

Gus Schaedig puffed vigorously on his pipe and the smoke drifted slowly upward. Our yard assistant foreman had a tale to tell and the gleam in his eye indicated that it had to do with his

favorite sport of coyote hunting. Startly slowly, Gus explained that it was early on the morning of February 7th, that the dogs were put on a fresh coyotetrack and from their steady baying he-

chase for about a half a mile."

Gus admitted later that the coyotemade a clean getaway.

The men of the Blasting Depart ment held their first banquet at the close of the 1952 season. It was unique in that the ladies were invited to attend

to enjoy this party with their hubbies.

Everyone enjoyed the fine meal after which they all participated in the good old fashioned square dance. Music was provided by "Happy" Hopp and his fiddle and Mrs. Melvin Lozen at the

piano. The success of this first banquet insures another one next winter with

The smile of a successful fisherman

can't be duplicated. His is a satisfaction that a limit of five pike can be caught— and he caught the limit Jerry Grohowski concentrated most of his fishing this past winter at Little Lake and did right well. When working his eighthour shift at Calcite, you can find Jerry at the Quarry Equipment Building.

Jerry is a busy man who is in direct

contact with the train dispatcher at the White Shanty. Together they have the train traffic to regulate. A brine solu

tion is sprayed into the empty railroad cars to keep the stripping material from freezing tight and Jerry regulates this operation.

They're fixing a bed For Oliver Stung . . .

this group looking forward to this get-

He climbed a ladder

together.

With a broken rung.

THE CRADLE DEPARTMENT

Gary is the name and he has two bro

Kenneth Ray is, without a doubt, al ready cutting some teeth but somehow or other we failed to get his birth an

thers and two sisters.

nouncement in time for our last issue.

Janis Lynn made her debut on Nov ember 12 and her daddy is Leonard Flewelling, a watchman on the Str.

He was born on September 27 and is

Munson.

the second child of the Stanley Haskes.

Theophil Kandal and Adolph Wol gast seem to be vieing for honors when it comes to raising boys. Clarence was Theophil's fifth son and he was born

Stanley is a deckwatch on the Str. White.

Another brand new daddy is Bill

on November 10.

David Allen joined Iris and Bill on

Phil Pilarski, wheelsman aboard the Str. Munson, also had a brand new

we missed an

nouncing the birth of another daugh ter to the Gus Wirgau's. I guess we

just couldn't keep up with all these new arrivals. Lynette is the name and kinda cute too isn't it? She joined her two sisters and brother on September 12 and her daddy, too, is a sailor boy.

Harvey Elowsky of the Track De partment is trying to solve his tax pro blem and seems to have found the right answer. Jerry Allen was born to the Elowskys on October 16 and they now boast of a family of three daughters and two sons.

Columbus may America on

have discovered

October 12, 1492

but

Adolph Wolgast, Mill repairman, found himself the papa of. five sons. You've

got a basketball team now Adolph but liow about adding a little blue-eyed, taffy-haired cheer leader to the group?

Stephan Douglas, two-year old son of the Owen Krolls was a very happy little boy when his daddy told him he had a baby sister on October 19. The Krolls named their new offspring Lynn Michele. Owen is a member of the

Stripping crew.

It looks like the Bob Stoinskis are in

ter of the Elroy Mielkes and they now have four girls and one boy. Elroy is a member of the loading crew.

The Eli Mulkas announce, too, the

birth of a son, Anthony, on January 13.

He is their sixth child and Eli is with

the Drilling Department.

son born to he and Lucille on Decem

of a fine family of five. Bonnie was born to he and Grace on January 6.

They now have four girls and one boy.

Gene can be found tending to his dut ies in the powerhouse.

Robert Curtis also boasts of adding a second son on January 17. Duane's

son born to he and the Mrs. on Novem

ber 16. He now has a family of three— two boys and a girl.

Willis Wirgau tells also of another

ber 3. Willis is employed in the Yard

daddy helps fill up those big ships at

Department.

Joseph Belusar named his second son after Grandpa John and he joined the

Calcite.

Belusar household on December 9. It's

ter, Deborah Sheril, for the first time when the Str. Taylor on which he is a

two and two for Joe now. He is em

ployed in the Track Department.

LeRoy Warwick was just a bit un happy on December 9 'cause he had planned on a girl so strongly but along came Jonathan, their third son. Don't despair Roy, "Pat" Patterson didn't!

Well, believe breaks into this is the daughter and destined to

it or not, Sally Ann "boy department". She of the Frank Sagers be a fine fiddler just

like her mom. She came to live with them in that nice new home on Dec

ember 5. Daddy Frank is a radio oper ator at Ceneral Radio Telegraph Com pany.

Eddie Partyka accomplished great things this winter. First of all he be came a proud daddy on December 30 when

Kenneth

Edward

invaded

the

for trouble aplenty. All boys, heaven

peace and quiet of his new home. Then,

bless them, full of the three "V's" and

goaded by the desire to provide security

then some. Bob and the missus have

for his pretty wife, Doris, and little Kenny he literally tore himself away and left for Cleveland directly after

been following the Jackson Twins comic strip and can visualize situations arising when their identical twins Keith

R. N. in the deal too. She is the daugh

We find Eugene King Jr. the father

Asam, deckwatch on the Str. White.

October 10.

Somehow or other

ulation of Hawks by one on January 10 and the local hospital lost a capable

It's going to be kinda rough for John Fogelsonger to leave his little daugh wheelsman leaves the Port of Calcite on

its first trip in 1953. This little prize was born to the Fogelsongers on Jan uary 19.

Leonard Boucher is getting tired of buying dolls for those six girls of his and says that kites and marbles are much cheaper. The Bouchers had a son born to them, Eric Paul, on December

6. Leonard is a Yard employee.

Jeanne Carol made her debut into the family of Erwin Kalitta on January 6. Her two little brothers couldn't quite make up their minds whether they liked the idea of a gal around or not, but finally decided that their baby sis ter is a pretty nice little gal. Erwin is with the Stripping crew.

Leslie Pearson just finished laying up the galley of the Str. Taylor when he had to take up the duties of cook and housekeeper at home. Donald Ray was the reason for this when he was born to the Pearsons on December 20.

and Kenneth born to them on October

New Years where he worked harder than ever before and was rewarded for

Well, here we go — Donn Widmayer's wife presented him with a gift on

19th reach the ripe old age of four or five. Bob tells us the hospital staff had

his efforts with that priceless Pilot's License. Congratulations Eddie to you

Christmas Eve — and wouldn't you know it — another girl! Donna Lee

to label the bracelets "A" and "B" in

and Doris.

is the name and who knows but what

order to distinguish them. One can find Bob diligently at work as a deckhand on the Str. Bradley.

Seems as though the boys are mon opolizing this column but the engineers certainly can't be blamed for this. An other son, Raymond, was born to the Arnold Brunings on October 28 and they now have two sons and a daughter.

Herman Krey of the Mill Depart

Second Assistant Henry Newhouse added another coming athlete to his family and in another few years we'll find Hank converting the greater part of his basement into a gym where Chris and Paul can get ahead of the game

Donn may have a lady engineer in the family some day. Mary Elizabeth and Kay Allyn are pleased as punch with their baby sister and Daddy Donn soon got over his disappointment of not hav ing fathered a son. There'll come a day,

and learn to sink a few baskets as

Donn!

ment boasts of another son born to he

and the good wife on November 14.

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deftly as he used to be able to do it.

Paul was born on December 14 and Hanks answers the call to the Str. Robinson.

Little Ruth Mielke upped the pop

Clem Urban of the Construction De

partment could hardly wait to break the news that Eileen Joyce came along on December 27 and sure 'twas like

money in the bank, when Uncle Sam

refunds him the excess paid in with holding tax he'll double his payment on the new home and beat him out of

a little interest, as well. That's good business, Clem!

Vern Henry Jr. of the Track De

partment found his way to the Person nel office to record the birth of his third

daughter, Jean Marie on December 30.

Darl Felax, oiler on the Str. Calcite

experienced the thrill of being a brand new papa for the first time on New Year's Eve. Pamela Sue arrived at S

p. m. just a short four hours before 1953. How these fellows like to put it over on the government!

"Mikie" is the new son of Sylvester Smolinski, deckwatch on the Str. Cal

cite. He found his way into that house hold on December 27.

in 1953 in Presque Isle County and he'll be looking forward to a birthday party every January 2. George Robbins is David's daddy and he is a member of the Engineering Department.

News came from out Hawks way once again when Ernest Tulgetske an nounced the coming of a daughter, Jean, born on January 26. He now has three children and he is a crane fireman.

There sure were a lot of fellas en

admit

it

but

it

is

was there.

of his first born, Steven Allen on Feb ruary 3Second cook, Richard Budnick, has

a reason for singing, "Yours and Mine" while Hipping llapjacks on the Str.

know

a fellow, but now realizes it is the

don't

won't

told that during one game he missed

down and passed them around in honor

aboard

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CALCITE

out as the pitcher threw to first basein an attempt to trap the runner that

White. Linda Laura was born to the

Calcite.

Baseball spring training is in full swing with everyone speculating as to how each team will fare this year. This baseball talk brings back stories of local players in years gone by. Jack Berg, galley member of the Steamer

joying "free smokes" since our last issue of "Screening."

Harry Widajewski, too, dug deep

It's a boy and a girl now for the Basil Zinkcs. Sandra Lynn is the little gal's name and she was born on Dec ember 16. Her pop is a deckwatch the

a little girl called Lois and another son, Tommy. Enos is a bulldozer operator.

Budnicks on February 6.

Paul

Stone

tells

tis

the first two balls thrown and struck

Leo Widajewski, wheelsman on the Steamer CLYMER, was catching for George Sobeck, mill man, who then was a pitcher of great renown. Georgeserved up hit after hit to the batters but after fourteen runs were scored the

that

he didn't

realize what papahood would mean to

side was retired. After regaining his composure, George commented that lie didn't quite have his stuff that day

whether Capt. Alex is a cigar smoker

greatest of thrills. Erik Jon is the little

to

or not but if he isn't he probably has

fellas name and he was born on Feb

friends who are.

ruary 7. Paul is the second mate on the Sir. Taylor.

from Leo, "I don't quite know yet be cause I haven't caught a ball yet!"

The Track crew should have, if they didn't, collect a free cigar on Kathleen Ann, the first child of the Edward Kar-

stens. Little Kathy has a birthday on January 7.

It's been eight years since there's been a wee one in the Melvin Fried-

rich home and things took a decided change on January 14. It appears very much as though Debra Kay "will rule the roost" and will command every attention from mom, dad, her eight year old brother, and eleven and fifteen year old sisters. There shouldn't be any baby sitting problems here, we would n't think. brakeman.

Melvin

is

a

locomotive

We'd like to warn Bill Crow that

received

this

comment

We remember a few years ago when driller Joe Kline worked hard and

that there is such a thing as running out of names if yoti double up on them â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that is, if you continue to raise all

raised a whole basement full of pota toes only to have the price drop so low

girls! Pretty little Patricia Ann and Linda Jean were thrilled with Barbara

that it did not pay to take them to mar ket. Now this year he turned to pump

Diane

when

she came

to live

with

them on February 20. We think papa Bill was too! When your spirit was low, those fellow-engineers were no help to you were they?

Joan Lois, the brand new daughter and first child of George Patzer, delay ed her daddy's departure for the Str. Bradley at Lorain by about one week.

kins so as

to at least have some fun

growing something big. We never heard of pumpkins being worth much but Joe raised them anyway. He is quite a farmer and tises his few acres for a hobby.

ruary 2ist and she sure will be a lucky little girl to have her daddy around to

make it a perfect day for her. Georgeis an electrician aboard the Str. Bradley.

We don't think there was anyone

10 when Janet Martha claimed him as

more surprised or more thrilled than

her daddy. Tony is a watchman on the Str. Bradley and has another datighter

"Pat"

named Susan Therese.

Royden and Marceline Schefke add ed their names to the mama and papa rostrum when Shcrri Lee was born to

them on January 15. Shcrri Lee also bestowed the title of grandmammy and grandpappy on Ella and Harry for the first time and I dare say they were the proudest people in town. Royden is employed in the Electrical Department.

Patterson

when

Mark

Lewis

came along on March 4 to prove 10 Bill Crow, Donn Widmayer and Don Van Zandt that little boys can still be hail. With that "woman trend" down

there on Lake Street Pat was prepared to collect a few wagers but found him self on the paying end and very happy about it too. Pat is our assistant oper ating manager here at the Calcite Plant.

March 8 found Enos Brege a papa

the

for the third time. Edward was born

distinction of being the first baby born

to the Breges on that date and they have

LaForest

he

She'll have an anniversary every Feb

We're happy to see where a few of our sailor boys had the privilege of helping to wear out the floor covering at our local hospital. Tony Michetti "stood his watch" up there on January

David

which

Robbins

holds

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OBITUARIES

Alfred Basel passed away on Nov ember 2, 1952 after a few weeks' ill

ness. He last worked at his job in the Machine Shop as a welder in early Sept ember. "Mose", as he was known loc

ally, spent many of his years at the Cal cite Plant starting first in 1913 and after a few years absence, returned again in 1920 to stay. He was a friendly man and an able employee. He is missed around the shop. His wife, daughter Norma, and sons Earl and Dale sur vive him.

August Seclbinder, a former em ployee in the Carpenter Shop, but who

has been retired for fifteen years, pass ed away late in January. Gus was eighty-five years of age at the time of his death. Funeral services were held

The Great Fishermen

Where U. S. 23 passes Grand Lake between Rogers City and Alpena the weekend traveler will usually see a Pontiac parked by a flat-topped cabin. In the winter months a Buick keeps it company. One Sunday afternoon dur ing the past winter a Screenings photo

grapher decided to investigate. He found nobody home in the cabin but spying tracks meandering across the lake towards Hoflman's Island, he don ned snow shoes and hiked across the flat

from St. John's Lutheran Church and burial in Rogers City Memorial Park.

The sudden passing of Charles Griwatsch on February 15 was a shock to his many friends and his family. Whilehe had not been in good health the last years and was forced to discontinuework in January, he did not seem to be so critically ill. Charlie was a wellknown person in Rogers City as in his early days he was a member of many

windswept expanse towards the hidden mysteries of that wooded bit of mother earth rearing its green head above the

of the town's famous ball teams. He

ice of the frozen lake.

31, 1925. He was still a member of that

The above picture lifts the "iron cur tain" of ice or water for a brief glimpse of what goes on so secretly in that se

department when he died. Members of his family to mourn his passing are his wife, four sons, a stepson and a step daughter.

cluded retreat. It is a nice spot and a

was first employed at the Calcite Plant in the Electrical Department on March

casual look from the road or lake re

veals very little of the reason why Charlie

Hoffman

and

Russel

Sabin

spend so much of their time on the Is land. Here it is boys, and they're both genial and entertaining hosts and they bring home the bacon. In the fall dur ing the duck season Charlie would be displaying his limit of his favorite gamein place of this string of perch. Russel is an engineer aboard the Str. Robinson and doesn't get a chance to bang away at the ducks as they migrate south.

Sign language is out dated. Carl Schaedig, Yard man, and Bob Heller, of the storehouse, use code. For ex ample if Carl wants an electric light

cord he just says to Bob "Give me two ends with something in the middle"

Carl Hoch, a former employee of the Michigan Limestone Division, passed away on March 23 at the age of fiftytwo after having been in ill health for the past ten years. He was employed by the Company from 1916 through 1942. While in our employ he worked in various departments until he was established in the tug department as a linesman from 1921 until 1929 when

he became a licensed pilot working in the capacity of a tug mate until 1939.

His health then began to fail him and he was transferred to the Yard Depart ment as a general clean-up employee.

Funeral

services

were

held

from

St.

John's Lutheran Church with interment at the Rogers City Memorial Park.

Byron Lamb: The officials were OK

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and

three-fourth

pounds

record catch of northern pike displayed

by Joe Promo. These fish, all of which weighed more than three pounds, were taken from Swan Lake through the ice in February. Winter fishing occup ies a lot of Joe's off-duty hours and the picture proves that skill and patience arc virtues of the ardent fisherman. Joe can definitely be regarded as such a fisherman for it was less than a week later when he was homeward bound

with an eleven pounder. In May of this year Joe will have thirty-one years of service with the Calcite Plant, all of

his time being spent in the Mill De partment. It seems that whatever Joe does he does in a big way. May he have continued success.

Alfred Markey of Str. Calcite and Calvin Jaeger of Str. Bradley must have ambitions of becoming Statepolicemen for they have had their inter view with the State Troopers.

sincere sympathy to those who mourn

To get sick is one thing, bin when Jack Burns, blasting truck helper, has a temperature of 204" then it's time to

the loss of these loved ones.

call a doctor.

Fellow employees and friends extend our team won!

Fourteen

was the weight of the whopper in this

Maestro Harry Meharg (shoulder showing at the left) is leading some of the office girls in song. He is getting some competition from "Lew" Irvin, extreme right. As we remember, they were both leading the same tune. Not knowing what might happen the three-

fellows looking on are Frank Sager, George Jones and Fred Fisch. The girls doing their best to please their dashing

On December 17, the Power and

Electrical Department attended a ban quet honoring their very fine Safety re cord of over twenty-seven years without a lost time accident. The dinner was held at Rainbow Gardens.

After the meal, everyone agreed that George LaTulip was the Champion Chicken Eater with Emil Dehnke run

ning a close second. Of course the Mas

directors are Ella Reinke, Doris Maerz,

ter of Ceremonies was Red Lee who

Helen Buza, Margaret Radke, Donna Tosch and Lois Conley.

turned in another fine job in that de

James Adrian,

"We are going to

work down on top this morning."

Byron Lamb lias a mind for figures.

He figures that a cheap way to get to work at the Chemistry Lab is to pre tend the car isn't running and have someone give you a push.

partment. A great many speakers took the floor and expressed their views on a variety of subjects ranging from safe ty to sight-seeing. Following the speeches, different groups were called upon to sing and although at times some may have doubted the quality of the singing, no one could deny that there was plenty of quantity. Let it suffice to say that a good time was had by all.

Pictured below are those who attend ed the celebration. In the front row from

left to right are: A. Santini, J. Myers, F. Lee, H. Cicero. F. Dehnke, A. Dul-

Iack, F. Ware, H. Wagner, F. Lamb, E. LaLonde, R. Schalk, B. Wagner.

Second row, left to right are: F. Reinke, C. Bushnell. L. Macklem, L. Heller, E. King, E. Myer, J. Lezer, W. Radka, C Stott, N. Pilon, H. Rusch, J. Zempel, W. Conley, D. Farero, A. Getzinger, A.

Vilburn. Third row, left to right are: L. Krawczak, G. Glosser, J. Florip, E. Green, F. Lee, M. Johnson, B. Wagner

Catching fish with a big P & H drag line takes that added touch which dis

tinguishes the real fishermen from the amateurs. Clarence Kelley and Joe Chrzan

are seen

with

their

14-inch

perch. They combined pleasure with work one day last Fall and the result was envious. The P & H was located on the shoreline of Lake Huron at Cal

cite where Clarence and Joe are engag ed, in the reclaim operation.

Jr., E. Karsten. Back row, left to right are: J. Valentin, O. Wenzel, D. McLen nan, A. Bruder, G. Pines, F. Dagner, P. Henry, L. Patterson, G. LaTulip.

GUESS WHO

We think that the young lady in this picture must be a sister to that littlechap beside her, although in the some what obscure years of his later life hemay have put an amorous arm around

many a trusting maiden before he found his true love and settled in Rogers City where he raised a family of two child ren while working at Calcite. The family now having grown up and left home we are hoping that he will settle down to a staid and quiet life but the irre pressible twinkle in his eyes, the infect ious grin and bubbling sense of humor seem to be getting more out of hand as the years roll by. In fact when we look ar this sober, old man in the picture we have the odd feeling that nature has re versed herself and the boy is now flitting around Calcite. Rumors seem to verify this but of course we take no

stock in rumors! You might surmise by now that he loves a good story, he bowls with abandon and likes sports of all kinds. He likes people and people like him and he keeps a knowing fin ger on community doings. He knows everyone at the Plant and is a fountain of information on many employee act ivities past and present. He has a good word for everyone and if he doesn't have a good word he says nothing.

What a wonderful showing he would make in a political contest!

Those Who Went Aisling

T. W. Robinson and the new Mr. and

tius on November 15. Gene tells us that

Mrs. Szymoniak are home in Onaway.

L'ncle Sam was very unfair in that he snatched him before the honeymoon was over. We wish him a speedy and a safe return and hope his two-year sojourn in the armed forces will pass quickly.

making

their

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"Bill" Soper meandered down Che boygan way to find someone to cook his meals and darn his socks. He and Rhea

Pruitt were married by Rev. William Lichau at the Westminster Manse on

January 24.

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On September 26 LeRoy Haselhuhn chose Betty Jane Warner as his bride and

they were wedded by Rev. Walter Buck of Onaway's First Baptist Church. I.eroy is employed in the Track Depart ment.

Elizabeth Brege and Raymond Curtis spoke their marriage vows at the lmmanuel

Lutheran

Church

in

The Screenings staff

Moltke

wishes these

nevvlyweds many years of happiness.

on September 27. Rev. Herbert Meyer united the young couple in marriage.

Betty is employed at the Storehouse of the Calcite Plant and she and Ray are making their home in Ocqueoc.

The lollipop tree in Bill Warwick's

On October 25 Clarence "Kid" Strze

lecki found himself aisling at the St. Ignatius Church with pretty and petiteAdeline Mantych. Clarence and Ade line repeated their vows at a ten o'clock nuptial Mass with Rev. C. T. Skowronski officiating. Clarence is em ployed as a deckwatch aboard the Str. I. L. Clymer.

back yard is creating quite a sensation among ihe small fry of his neighbor hood. It looks like a small spruce tree and is different only in that it yields lollipops, all different colors and sizes and nor to mention flavors. The young sters from blocks around are keeping their eagle eyes on the tree for the candy harvest. There are times when Bill's quick hand is needed to search back in among the thick branches for these hidden lollipops. Bill has the se cret information concerning this wonderous tree and as far as we know there isn't another tree of its kind in this

part of die country. Of course, there is considerable expense in maintaining this evergreen tree which yields lolli pops as its fruit but Bill says that the joy and delight of the little ones more than make up for any money invested.

On the job at Calcite, Bill is a P & H operator.

Johnny Meyers, pumpman, and Geo rge Baker, machine shop mechanic, are having a rough time living down this story. Seems that shortly before winter fishing season was to begin Johnny and George decided to do a little prospect

ing for good fishing grounds. The boat was

loaded

and

the outboard

motor

stowed away in the car without much dif ficulty. Away sped our ardent sportsmen, Raymond Szymoniak and Ruth Rogers pledged their troth in the pre sence of Rev. Buck at the First Bap tist Church in Onaway, on October 11.

Ray is employed as an oiler on the Str. 28

Pictured here are Eugene Buczkowski and his pretty bride, the former Norma Baker. They were wedded at St. Igna

full of high hopes and zealous plan ning. Things went according to Hoyle until their lake destination was reached.

Here they found the lake covered with ice.

he appears to be here. He is now a member of the U. S. Coast Guard in

which he enlisted for four long years and

is

stationed

at

Calumet

Park,

Chicago, as a light keeper. Jerry can occasionally be seen about town on one of those weekend passes and claims that he can make just as good time hitch-hiking as he could driving his own car up. Jerry was formerly employ ed aboard the Str. Clymer.

The young fella smiling at you

Pictured above is Eugene Hoffman a former Bradley Transportation Line employee. He left for mil itary induction on October 23, 1952,

is none other than Eugene Andrzcjewski who was also one of our sailor lads.

He, like Eugene Hoffman, left for mili tary training on October 23, 1952, and is also at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Altho these two boys are at the same Camp they are in different outfits. Gene is kept busy from morn until night peel ing spuds and flipping flapjacks but he

and is located at Fort Knox, Kentucky

where he is completing his basic train ing and is an electrical linesman. Before entering military service he was em ployed aboard the Steamer Clymer.

wants us to understand that it's not KP

duty - it's just plain everyday duty!

Yes sir, Gene claims that this Army is quite a thing - why he never fried an egg or brewed a pot of coffee in his life!

Gene was a former member of the Str. W. F. White.

"A runaway horse is easier to stop than your garden cultivator!" exclaimed Ben Santimo to Bill Haselhuhn. Being a

Don Maerz likes it at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas where he is a member of the

of Michigan Spring air. We'll be look ing out for you, Don.

The ocassion for Ben's startling re mark followed assembly and trial run of the new belt driven and gasolinepowered tool. It was a hectic trial run in which Ben narrowly missed a car, the house and several bystanders. The mys tery still remains as to whether the gas oline tised was too powerful for the brakes, or if the machine wasn't equip ped with brakes at all.

Maybe the reason why worry kills more people than work, is that more people worry than work.

"Stevic Tom" says that John Mod rzynski got his tires homogenized and now she no more slip!

71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion.

He entered the service on January 6, 1953- He is a former employee of the Bradley Transportation Line and serv ed as a porter on the Str. Calcite for two years. Don expects to complete his basic training sometime in May and will be homeward bound for a breath Gerald Danbert is still a sailor but

working for a much bigger outfit now.

Wearing that big, familiar smile we'd say he looks right sharp in his navy and white and hope he is as happy as

man who was associated with the

horse and buggy some years ago and now a foreman in the machine shop we believe Ben to be a qualified speaker.

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Gardening

The disappearance of the winter's snow and frost and an occasional warm

day when the smell of Spring is in the air brings thoughts and plans for sum mer plants and flowers.

Most gardeners have felt the urge to raise roses at one time or another.

In the somewhat rugged climate of Northern Michigan the results are not always of the best. Many of our home owners in Rogers City have found that it is usually a case of how to do it. Read this and try your luck.

Rose Culture is not difficult, but not We should call this issue of Calcite

Screenings the "singing issue" since a

good share of our personnel pictures seem to have been taken during song fests. Here are a group of Electrical De partment warblers earnestly trying to please an audience with some barber shop ditty. They are Art Santini, Al Bruder, Dale Farero, John Zcmpel.

John Myers, Nelson Pilon and Alvin Vilburn.

A man usually acquires some senseafter he's married and settled downâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

but it's too late then to improve upon the situation!

too easy if your aim is perfection. Any one can grow certain types such as the old-fashioned

bush

roses,

ramblers,

rugosas and some of the hardier new ones, especially the low floribunda or bedding types. You can grow the hy brid teas and other tenderer types with just a little extra care. The rose is the

most popular flower in the world, but you must woo her just a bit if you arcto enjoy her at her best. The Ebss is lov ed by many, including a grear variety of bugs and blights. But that need not worry you too much, for you have these to combat with almost any gar den plant that is worth growing. Rose fanciers, including really good plant doctors will tell you that roses are no more difficult than any other fine gar den flower and perhaps easier than some. And roses certainly do reward

it looks as if Frank Ware was about

all end by everyone's saying that he ate too much.

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dig a larger hole and fill with good soil and, if the drainage is not too good, with a little sand or cinders mixed in.

Then add a little complete plant food to the surface, stirring it into the soil.

Care of Roses: There will probably be not too much bloom the first sea son, but the teas and floribundas should bloom in late summer. Watch for rose

type blooms best on new wood, so much

and shelrerbelts on the western plains.

of the old wood should be cut out,

The rugosas will stand the winds and

whereas other climbers bloom on old wood as well as new. Better not leave-

salt air of the seashore. My father plant ed a hedge of wild roses over a wire fence as a front hedge bordering our lawn. It made a nice informal hedge.

ready to share the forkful that "Red" Lee is about to put in the grinder. Com petition for food must have been keen at this particular dinner. Usually they

enough settling so that you can level off the top by adding a bit more dry soil. In very heavy or stony land, better

abundance of plant food. Some are so hardy that they are being used as hedges

Soil is Important: Roses like a deep fertile loam, full sunshine and good drainage. However, they will grow in

be he is just impatiently waiting.

And then to the right in the picture

bone meal. Prune both top and roots before planting by removing all surplus, dead or injured stems. The stem should be buried just enough to cover the graft line. After the hole is filled with top soil and watered there will be

any good garden soil if it is prepared deeply, supplied with humus and an

bloom.

envious of our neighbor. Would you say that "Flory" Modrzynski isn't cast ing an envious eye at the plate of food George Glosser has before him? May

roots cover them with humus or fineloam mixed with well-rotted manure or

bugs, Japanese beetles, aphids and other pests and spray or dust with an all-purpose spray or dust whenever they appear. For mildew and other diseases a fungicide must be used, but it can be combined with the bug killers. A good spraying with a garden hose is useful to keep the foliage healthy, but not in wet weather when plant diseases arclikely to appear. In dry weather soak the soil as a mere sprinkling does more harm than good. Apply a good com plete fertilizer or a special rose food several times during the season.

Pruning should be done after bloom ing. If leggy, cut the bush roses back

you with a long season of magnificent

We are told that we should never be

or from your local dealer. Rooted cut tings are not usually good buys. They will grow but are slow to bloom and may not be hardy. Most good roses arcgrafted onto hardy stocks.

How to Plant: Dig a hole larger than needed and after spreading out the

Clinbing roses or ramblers make a beter show when in bloom.

When to Plant: Roses can be plant ed either spring or fall. The earlier they are planted in the spring the bet ter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; after the ground warms up. Buy only good sturdy stock from reliabledealers, well-rooted and healthy look ing. Named varieties are best, but don't spend all your money on the very latest novelties which are higher priced and not always better than the standards.

Get a couple of catalogs and order those that appeal to you, either by mail

rather severely. The strong rambler

too many stems to a plant, but that de pends somewhat on the type of rose and location.

Rose

companions. Since roses

are

borne on tall plants and long stems, ex cept for the bedding and trailing var ieties, it is well to plant around them, but not tot) close, such flowers as sweet

alyssum, asters, bedding begonias, candytuft or low hedges of boxwood or English ivy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; almost anything that makes a good ground cover and which does not clash in color with the roses,

such as whites, green or neutral colors.

Gals today, even if too dumb to add, certainly can distract.

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-j Keep your mind on what you are doing, while you are doing it. Use your head.

2. Keep your place of work clean and clear of obstacles.

C2 Always obtain assistance through your foreman if the job you are doing is too much to handle alone.

A Wear protective clothing to safeguard your head, eyes, face, hands and feet whenever the job requires it.

ft Before repairing any machine or electrical equipment, lock the switch and put the key in your pocket.

A Prior to starting a job study the situation thoroughly, get all the necessary equipment on hand and make certain that your co-workers know what you're doing.

/ Use only tools that are in A-l shape.

O Report promptly any unsafe condition to your foreman.

Q Move about the plant with care. Avoid running or jumping whenever possible.

JQ In the event of an injury, no matter how slight, report at once to your foreman and obtain first aid.

Safety Committee More Active

Good Safety Record Is Broken

To help keep accidents from happening again and again our Employees Safety Committee becomes more and more

Accident prevention is the concern of each one of us be cause it effects us individually as well as collectively. When a bread-earner is injured, either on or off the job, many people are effected. The dependents at home greatly miss the pay

active. Since the forming of this Safety group over a year ago

many valuable suggestions, preventative measures and direct actions have been submitted by its members to help keep our

jobs safer. They have met regularly every two weeks and each meeting is packed full of safety. There is no telling how many accidents have been prevented by the work of this com mittee. We do know that it has a very important place and duty in the Calcite Plant Safety program. It will be with us for a long time.

We had a picture of this group in last summer's "Screen

ings" and are again showing you the many new faces on the present committee. Changes of committeemen are desirable to keep new ideas coming in and to also acquaint as many employees as possible with plant safety problems. After hav ing served on this committee we believe that employees will be better safety boosters than ever, no matter how good they were before.

One point we wish to emphasize while telling of the com mittee's work is this; the men in this group will never take over your responsibility for being a safe worker. They can never take the place of you in keeping yourself safe. As we study accident prevention at Calcite, we detect that the harder one man or even small groups work at the safety job, there seems to be a tendency for the group as a whole to feel that all is well and so each individual gives less of his effort. We wish that we could be proven wrong in this idea but to date it seems to be the only reason we can think of to explain the

check. The co-workers do nor have the help of their injured partner and management misses his production. The pain and suffering involved can only be realized by the person sustaining an injury.

At the Calcite Plant, after a perfect safety record of 303 consecutive days without a loss time injury "It Happened Again". Adolph Wolgast, a member of the Mill Department, received a crushing injury to his right hand. The accident oc curred in a high-line gallery above a stone storage when the injured man placed his hand on a tripper rail and then ran a tripper wheel over it. A fractured finger with multiple lacerations and bruises resulted in a lost time accident. This

accident happened on August 1st.

On September 5, Humphrey Berg who was operating a churn drill at the dock widening job, received a head injury.

Since head injuries can lead to serious consequences if not carefully watched, he was sent to a hospital where specialist service was available if complications developed. Fortunately no signs of serious head injury appeared. Humphrey was hit

on the head by a piece of equipment which fell approximately twenty-seven feet from the drill derrick.

As we have told you time and time again, both of these accidents are due to the careless acts of the injured. No amount of explaining would prove anything else. To be sure, alibis will be given but the fact remains that the main reason

unsafe acts of men who have heretofore been careful workers.

for either of these accidents is individual carelessness. It is

This committee will be directed to spend more time on the

certainly not a question of the accident's "having to happen" as some might think. These particular accidents are definite proof that a little ordinary common sense care would have prevented them without any question or doubt.

The seven vessels in the Bradley Transportation Fleet have been doing an enviable safety job. Their records show that the last lost rime accident occurred aboard the Steamer Clymer on November 18, 1952. The accomplishment of Winter Boat Repair without an injury causing loss of time shows every one that accidents need not happen - even in hazardous work.

The plant dismantling project at Alpena has been comp leted. Dismantling work is extremely hazardous and the re

problem of getting us all to think of safety as a personal duty.

We arc indeed grateful to all these men for their efforts in making our work places safer. Their time and talents are appreciated. To show our appreciation let us help them in stopping accidents.

Seated left to right is Carl Hein, Yard; John Link, Trans portation; Julius Patzer, Shop; Frank Mayes, Mill; Ralph Wenzel, Electrical; Edw. Kelley, Committee Secretary; Alva

Meyers, Drills. Standing left to right is Wallace Mulka, Tracks; Eli Mulka, Mill; Otto Fleming. Transportation; Jos. Belusar, Tracks; Kenneth Piechan, Shovels; Richard Zempel, Construction; William Haneckow, Blasters; Roydcn Schefke, Electrical; Norman Haselhuhn, Safety Director and George Trapp, Stripping.

Summer, 1953

cord of one lost time accident is still remarkably low. With

a temporary crew of men working on a new and definitely hazardous steel dismantling job only Safety First, Last and

Always saved many an injury. The attitude of each workman toward Safety concerning himself and the man next to him helped to prove that accidents don't have to happen.

As we watched a building being dismantled at Alpena we were witnessing the first step of its transfer to Cedarville. The component parrs were well marked, loaded on a barge and towed by tug to the lake shore site of the Cedarville Plant.

Here it was unloaded and put in a certain place so that when erection now being done, whether it be in the Quarry or on the Point, it can be easily located.

At Cedarville we find well over 100 men employed. They are filling the jobs of carpenters, electricians, bulldozer, truck

and crane operators, burners, welders, etc., and doing the jobs required safely. There has been no lost time the starting of work over four months ago. In Meetings causes and effects of accidents are each man thinking safety.

Carelessness and the taking of chances through accident. If each of us think Safety "Won't have to happen again".

accidents since frequent Safety discussed with

cause injuries all the time it

FAMILY AGREEMENT

Recently we saw an agreement which to us was very ap propriate for present day conditions of the family car, traffic accidents and the happiness and security of the family. We wish to pass it on to you as we are sure that like ourselves

the family car presents problems to you. The Agreement is as follows:

In Consideration of this Knowledge, I Hereby Agree, to gether with every driving member of my family, that: 1. 1 will always stay within the following speed limits: (a) The limit set by law. (b) The limit set by road and weather conditions. (c) The limit set by common sense.

2. I will slow down at all intersections and look both ways, even when I have the right-of-way.

3. I will always keep both hands firmly on the wheel.

4. I will give the proper signals before turning or stopping, and in plenty of time to warn the driver behind me.

5. I will always check to make certain the coast is clear before backing, and before pulling out from the curb.

6. I will always make turns slowly, and from the proper lane.

7. I will always slow down for railroad crossings, and look both ways before crossing.

8. 1 will always obey traffic lights, and will not try to "beat them."

9. I will always come to a full stop at stop signs, and in coming out of driveways and alleys, and will look both ways before proceeding.

10. 1 will pass only on straight, level road, when all is clear

( a) My own life. (b) The lives of those who are riding with me. (c) The life of every driver and every pedestrian I meet.

17. I will not ride with any other driver who is known to violate any terms of this agreement. / FURTHER AGREE that if I violate any terms of this agreement, I will forfeit my right to drive the family car—or

any car—for a period of time mutually agreed upon by my family, and depending upon the seriousness of my violation.

COMMON SENSE HEADS LIST OF POLIO SAFEGUARDS

A few common-sense precautions will help you to protect your youngsters against polio during the polio "season."

Here are some rips from Michigan Department of Health: 1. Don't get panicky. Remember that even though the number of cases of polio may be quite high, the number of persons paralyzed is usually low. Half of those who are diag nosed as having polio recover completely—most recover without being seriously handicapped.

2. If there is polio in the community, don't isolate your youngsters, but do keep them with their usual circle of play mates.

3. Try to get the youngsters to rest or at least play quiet games part of the day. Don't let them swim to the point of becoming chilled, or to become chilled in any way. If they should have the polio virus in their bodies, being over-tired or chilled may result in more serious infection.

4. Keep the youngsters clean.

5. Consult your doctor at the first sign of illness, particular ly if these symptoms appear: headache, fever, sore throat, upset stomach, stiff neck or back.

Advantages and disadvantages of gamma globulin for the prevention of paralytic polio were pointed out in a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The big advantage in the use of globulin is that it can prevent the paralytic manifestations of polio. In tests carried out last year it was disclosed that temporary immunity to paralysis can be obtained through the use of globulin.

Maximum protection was afforded between the second and fifth week after inoculation, with protection appearing to wane after the eighth week.

One of the disadvantages in the use of globulin is its stag gering cost. In the tests in Houston, it cost about $28,000 for each of the calculated paralytic cases prevented. However, a dollar value cannot be placed on the saving of even one child from paralysis.

Globulin doesn't prevent polio—it doesn't always protect against paralysis . . . it has no value for treatment after symptoms have appeared ... so general precautions are as important as ever.

both behind and ahead.

11.1 will never overload the car with my friends.

12. I will not get into races, or any kind of "driving games."

I will always remember that driving is serious business; that showing off is foolish—and often fatal!

13. I will always remain alert behind the wheel, and will never drive when I feel drowsy.

14. I will never try to "bluff" another driver, even though I have the right-of-way and he is in the wrong.

15. 1 will be a "defensive driver" at ail times—being con stantly on the lookout for danger from other drivers who might threaten my safety.

16. I will remember that for every second I am driving, human life is in my hands:

COMMENTS ON A NEW IDEA

Courtesy and discourtesy, honesty and dishonesty, industry and laziness, all can be analyzed to prove the value of good conduct.

Let us stop teaching honesty, square dealing, and other homely qualities as a moral proposition.

Let's be frank and admit that we're honest because it is to

our self-interest; that we want to succeed, to make money, and that we know we can accomplish more by being honest than by being dishonest.

Let us treat all our so-called good qualities the same way.

Let us rid ourselves of the idea that we deserve the com

mendation of our friends for our honest)', and remember that

if we weren't honest we probably wouldn't have any friends.

Our comments are that—this thought is all well and good

Are handles and spouts of cooking utensils turned toward the stove?

providing you want to put your ethics and moral codes on a

Are matches kept out of the reach of

factual, materialistic or hard-headed basis. Briefly, it tells us

small children?

that it pays to be honest, no consideration for the inner voice

Are worn electrical cords disposed of or repaired

of conscience necessary. We believe that the compensations of living up to accepted qualities have greater appeal than to the profit and loss ledger. We know that there are many,

promptly?

Are electrical fixtures near plumbing facilities properly insulated?

many people who are inherently honest not thinking for a minute that it pays to be so because they could not be any other way. It's in their moral code, an obligation to others

Are all medicines and other fluids

and to themselves to be honest.

etc., kept out of the reach of small children?

Are firearms kept unloaded and under

As a case in point we wish to publish a letter received by us from Mr. D. C Potts, President of the Pittsburgh Steam

ship Company and we truly believe that the complimented individual had no struggle with his conscience on the pros

and cons of being honest. He responded naturally and his honesty was spontaneous. The letter reads: "Captain Depolder talked about the honesty of the 2nd mate on the Steamer T. W. Robinson of the Bradley Trans

portation Co. On our last trip into Calcite one of the watch men on here went ashore—when he returned he noticed his

billfold was missing—not thinking he would ever get it back.

Although he was quite concerned about it, it contained S40.00 in money and his personal papers, which would have taken him quite a time to replace. After we were about 12 hours

properly labeled Are medicines, disinfectants, cleaning fluids

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lock and key? .

If you can answer "yes" to these questions you have gone a long way toward avoiding accidents at home. Once you are safety-conscious you'll be constantly on the lookout for haz ards of every kind. A regular home safety check will help to keep you and your family "safe at home."

HANDLE WILD RABBITS AS IF THEY HAD DISEASE

Five cases of tularemia have been reported to the state health department since the opening of the small game sea son, three of them in January 1953.

Tularemia is a disease of particular interest to hunters and their wives and families and to others who skin, dress or

cook wild rabbits. It can make a person sick for a long time.

out of Calcite the dock called us about the 2nd mate of the

Since some wild rabbits have tularemia, it is best to handle

Str. Robinson finding the watchman's billfold and leaving it in the office there. They then sent it registered to the Soo. Now we think that the Bradley Transportation should be very proud to have an honest man like that in their employ. We think that a letter congratulating them on having such an honest man in their employ should be sent to the Bradley

every wild rabbit as if it had the disease—to wear rubber gloves while cleaning it and to cook it thoroughly before even tasting it.

About 90 per cent of the people who get tularemia get it from handling, cleaning or eating infected wild rabbit. Do mestic rabbits are almost entirely free of the disease.

It is possible to get the disease from other game, or bites of rabbit ticks, wood ticks and other biting insects.

In humans tularemia is painful, dangerous and difficult to treat. The germs usually enter the body through a fresh cut on the hands or arms, although they are so small they can pass through the unbroken skin. They may be carried by the hands to the face, eyes, nose or throat, or may enter the body

Transportation Company."

All we wish to say is that Martin Joppich, our second mate on the Str. T. W. Robinson has a good share of joys in life.

We believe that to him the material gains are incidental.

HOW SAFE ARE YOU AT HOME?

Are you really safe at home? Most of us think we are, and yet every year thousands of men, women, and children are killed or injured while supposedly "safe at home." Some of these accidents were caused by personal carelessness; others were the result of negligence. The unfortunate part of this situation is that most of these mishaps could have been pre vented if a few precautions had been taken in the homes where they occurred.

According to statistics the majority of home injuries arc due to falls and burns. Do the conditions which cause these

and other accidents exist in your home? Check this list to see.

You may be surprised to find how many hazards there are,

but you will probably also find that they are easily corrected.

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Arc stairways well lighted?

Are there handrails on all stairs?

Are stairs and rails in sound condition?

Are stairs and passageways kept free from toys and household equipment?

Are rugs and stair carpeting secure and in good condition?

Is a stepladder used instead of makeshifts?

Are icy steps and walks sanded promptly?

Are garage doors kept open when car motor

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when undercooked, infected meat is eaten.

A person becomes ill from one to 12 days after the germs get into the body. The illness begins with chills, fever, body pains and nausea. A sore usually appears at the point where the germs entered and the nearby lymph glands become swollen and very painful. The disease may keep the patient in bed for weeks or even months.

Severe infections may cause high sustained fever and pro stration. This type of the disease can cause death—at best, recovery from it is a long slow process.

It isn't worth taking a chance. When you clean, handle or cook wild rabbits use these precautions: 1. Wear rubber gloves when dressing wild rabbits, and be careful that a sharp bone does not pierce the glove.

2. Do not handle wild rabbits that are found dead.

3. Destroy all rabbits whose internal organs are studded with small white spots—it may be tularemia.

4. Shoot only rabbits that are running—slow or sluggish rabbits may have tularemia.

5- Protect yourself from the bites of flies and ticks.

6. Cook rabbits thoroughly, so that no red meat or red blood remains. Do not taste the game or its broth until it is well done. Thorough cooking of the meat destroys the germs of tularemia.

New Dolomite Processing Plant At Cedarville In The Making The 1953 spring issue of "Calcite Screenings" contained a brief article on the proposed dolomite processing plant at Cedarville. The work on the plant and quarry is well under way at this writing and we feel that an outline of its purpose, the story back of the new venture and some details of con

ers may be a few inches in thickness or many feet depending on the conditions existing during that period of the earth's development when the deposit was in the process of forma tion. Usually each individual layer is comparatively uniform

struction to date will be of interest to our readers.

Industrially, pure raw materials are highly desirable since small percentages of impurities can materially change the quality of the product. A large percentage of the earth's crust is limestone but the purer deposits arc comparatively rare in strategic locations where they can be economically quarried.

The Michigan Limestone Division quarry at Calcite is one of these choice deposits. This quarry is located on an out cropping of the Dundee formation, a high calcium stone of high chemical purity. This Dundee strata also contains a small layer of magnesian limestone. Thirty years ago this magnesian stone was considered detrimental to our operation. During the intervening years, however, the increasing use of magne sian stone in steel furnaces has developed to a point where many of our customers have required greater tonnages of magnesian limestone and the demand has outgrown the supply of available deposits at the Calcite Plant.

TiiL- historical background of this new limestone quarry

and processing plant in the upper peninsula is an interesting story paralleling the gradually increasing use of dolomite limestone by the steel industries.

Dolomite is a chemical combination of calcium carbonate

and magnesium carbonate. In the purest natural state this material is found to contain approximately 45 per cent of the magnesium carbonate to 55 per cent of the calcium carbonate.

A considerable portion of the limestone on the earth's sur face is magnesian limestone with varying percentages of mag nesium carbonate up to the maximum of 45 per cent. In high calcium limestone the small portion of magnesium carbonate present is considered an impurity by some users. This fraction may be less than 1 per cent in the purer formations. Most

natural deposits of limestone also contain fractional impuri ties of silica iron, aluminum and traces of other metals.

Limestone strata is usually found in alternating layers of high calcium limestone and magnesian limestone. These lay

in thickness and chemical content.

The picture below shows construction work going forward on a loading tunnel under a storage pile, much the same sys tem used at the Calcite plant of the Limestone Division.

As early as 1935 management at Calcite foresaw the pos sible future shortage of available dolomitic limestone and a geological survey was initiated to locate possible deposits in the northern Michigan area to supplement the limited sup plies at the Calcite quarry. Extended prospecting and sampling finally indicated that the Engadine Dolomite formation out cropping between St. Ignace and Drummond's Island above the Straits of Mackinac showed promising deposits. Explora

tory drilling operations in the Cedarville area confirmed the preliminary prospecting work and finally resulted in the pur chase by the U. S. Steel Corporation in 1945 of the property five miles east of Cedarville where the new quarry and plant are under construction.

In 1929 the Diamond Alkali Company built a modern limestone processing plant at Alpena known as the Thunder

Bay Quarries. This quarrying operation was abandoned by Diamond Alkali in 1947 and in 1948 the plant structure was

purchased by U. S. Steel through the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company with the ultimate purpose of transfer ring it to the site at Cedarville for processing dolomite.

Appropriations of large sums of money for new plant con struction is not done by a flick of the thumb by either indi viduals or corporations if they are to remain solvent. Ade quate returns on money invested is of primary importance.

The Cedarville project was thoroughly investigated by experts and geologists of the Michigan Limestone Division and the U. S. Steel offices in Pittsburgh until January 1953 when the

Michigan Limestone Division was finally granted permission

to start the ball rolling.

A paper plant does not produce limestone or return money on an investment and no time was wasted when approval was announced by President Hugh S. Lewis on March 15,

1953, in starting ground work on the plant and quarry site.

Men were immediately hired from the local labor pool in and around Cedarville to start brushing out building sites, pole lines and railroad right of ways. Bulldozers were shipped to the scene and were soon busy at the rough job of leveling off the building areas and preparing the dock approach. This was

no easy job in a country where huge limestone boulders are strewn around shoulder to shoulder, some of them larger

than an ordinary car and half buried by centuries of erosion weathering and the decayed ruins of Nature's annual vege tation cycle.

McKay Bay is a natural harbor protected by Strong's Island directly across from the plant site. Inside this natural harbor shipping operations will be safe in any weather. The east entrance forms an adequate entrance channel with good water depth. A dock for unloading equipment and material from the Alpena plant was a prime necessity, however, and work on dock fill and approach was started as soon as weather con ditions allowed.

Below is shown the initial work done on this all important feature of the new plant.

On May 21 the dredge Vulcan left Calcite towed by

the tug Limestone with a load of piling and other equip ment. As sufficient cribbing was completed the Steamers

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Calcite and Taylor carried occasional cargoes of flux from the Calcite Plant for fill. They navigated the channel and ap proaches to McKay Bay with safety under the watchful eye of Capt. Alex Malocha.

At the present time as shown by the accompanying picture the plant at Cedarville is coming up to schedule. A crew of

facilities is already being felt and new homes are in the pro cess of erection. This condition will eventually adjust itself to the benefit of all concerned.

Cedarville has a fine school system with intelligent and well-behaved youngsters as we at Rogers City discovered on several occasions when their school busses visited the Plant.

about 100 men have the foundations for the screenhouse,

Educational facilities for high school graduates are available

primary and secondary crushers, tunnels, and docks well under

at Sault Ste. Marie some thirty miles north where the Michi gan College of Mines has a branch school with excellent fa

way. The dock landing is piled high with structural equip ment ready and marked for erection. The foundation for the

office is also on the way to completion. Power lines and sub stations are now in operation at the cleared quarry site with two electric shovels and rotary air drills doing preliminary drilling and stripping and furnishing fill for the quarry road and railway right of ways.

The task of dismantling the Thunder Bay Quarry plant at Alpena was started on April 6. A crew of from fifty to sixty men employed from Alpena and vicinity with a few super visors from Calcite plant have made a good record on this job. As of Sept. 8th the site is completely stripped and the marked and labeled sections neatly piled at the Cedarville plant. The equipment was transported by barge from Al pena to McKay. With the dismantling work done one phase of the Cedarville project is successfully completed.

The territory along the northern shores of Lake Huron wirh its scenic bays and islands has long been a favorite va

cation resort for sportsmen. Fishing, which in recent years has been deteriorating in the lakes of lower Michigan, is still excellent in and around the waterways from St. Ignace to Drummonds Island. Game is abundant and the inhabitants

in and around Cedarville have built the economy of their

cilities for two years of college training. The Sault also pro vides an urban shopping and amusement center for the area.

With the completion of this project we will not only have a plant producing limestone but a happy, thriving community with happy, contented employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a welcome addition to the Limestone Division.

Above are pictured the crew on the Alpena dismantling job about the time that the boys were right in the middle of some real work.

Front row left to righr are: Raymond Richards, Eugene Haske, Lawrence Hughes, Adelore Haske, Gordon Hanson.

Wm. Daugherty, James Jones, Howard Matzke, Robert Prevo, Walter Idalski Jr., Paul Kreft and Gerald Burns. Second row

seated left to right are: Virgil Bonner, Elroy Mielke. Donia Bedard, Ford Schaeffer, Edmund Erickson, Joseph Smith, Dale Farero, Julius Souva, Victor DeCaire, Leonard Wikaryasz, Leonard Kamyszek, Raymond Roznowski, Leo Altman, Robert Smith and James Boshow. Third row standing left to right are: James Kimball. Lyle Hoy, Charles Juen, Isadore Suszck Sr., Emil Marek, Alex LaBounty, Ralph Repke, Harlan Lamb, George Aubc, Larry Couture, Clarence Nestle, Jos. Barrett, Isadore Suszek Jr., Lawson Macklem, Fred Ristow and Archie

community around the tourist trades. They were somewhat loathe to see an industry dropped at their doorstep for fear

Leask. Back row standing left to right are: Lloyd Suszek.

of spoiling the scenic beauty of the area. A delegation of citizens visited the Calcite Plant where they found that with care in plant erection and road construction a limestone plant wouid not necessarily be objectionable. The management of

David Goulette, Warren Kowalcwsky, John Webster, Ray mond Nowicki, Frank Wyman, Leonard Losinski, Thos. Cou

the Limestone Division of United States Steel was as anxious

Falls are responsible for about half of the accidental in

to preserve the natural beauties of the area as they were themselves.

The new Cedarville Plant has a good local labor pool of people who love the healthy northern Michigan climate and woodlands and will make the plant a welcome addition to the

life of the community. The population will, undoubtedly, increase with the addition of some one hundred and twenty-

five permanent employees at the Plant. The pinch of housing 8

Royal Schulwirz, James King, Norman Landry, Edward Roth, ture and Theodore Elowske.

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juries and deaths among the aged in Michigan and in the nation. From falls come a large share of the long-term dis abling or deforming injuries of the agedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;fractures, sprains, dislocations of the hip, back, hand, foot, ankle, knee or elbow.

Four out of five of the falls of older people occur in their own homes; most of them, in their own bedrooms.

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Home is where you get treated the best, yet grumble the most.

Adams Point Made Accessible For Quarry Operation Adams Point, a landmark on the lakes that has been rec

ognized for years from passing boats, is fast changing its appearance. This change is being made by the stripping op eration of No. 5 shovel and the limestone production of No. 4 shovel, the two newest shovels being operated at Calcite.

Adams Point is part of the development program of the Calcite Quarry as it extends a little farther each year to the south and east of the plant buildings. The stone resources in

below lake level. No. 4 shovel, our newest 18-yard Marion, was constructed on the quarry site. During this time the 13,000 volt power line was extended to a new substation on the Point to furnish 4,000 volt power to the new operation.

During construction of the 18-yard shovel, the rail line-

was extended to form a single circle around the edge of Adams Point contacting the double line at the east end of the fill. This allowed one way rail traffic to be maintained

this area provide a fine quality Dundee limestone with very little, if any stripping to uncover and another source for

and removed the possibility of any train collisions during

dolomite. The stripping factor is important today with an increasing amount of overburden encountered on the main quarry workings.

In making this area accessible for quarrying operations, it was necessary to widen and extend the drainage cut crossed by the D. & M. Railroad at the then eastern limit of the Cal cite quarry. To build a roadbed suitable for heavy quarry traffic it was necessary to fill across about a mile of swampy land to reach the higher ground of Adams Point. The ma terial for this fill was dug by the P & H dragline used in the reclaim operation and hauled in 22 cubic yard Mack end dump trucks. This fill was built to a height of approximately 12 feet above lake level and is wide enough to accomodate

The drilling and blasting crews moved in close on the stripping operations to prepare the stone for loading. While

a double railroad track, a two line truck road and a power line

the 5-mile run between the crusher house and shovel.

the stone in this area is the same formation found in other

parts of the Calcite quarry, that is, the Rogers City, the dolo mite layer, and the Dundee, it has proved to be somewhat

harder than the general vein. Considerable experimenting drilling patterns and blasting loads was necessary to properly break the stone so it could be loaded by even as large a shovel as the No. 4.

The first stone from the Point was sent to the mill in Sep tember, 1952. Stripping operations have been carried on nearly continuously since that time to keep ahead of produc tion as even with the long haul to and from the crusher house, No. 4 shovel is now producing as much stone as the other

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a total width of some 80 feet. After the roadbed reached

three 18 and 20-yard shovels where the haul is considerably

the high ground of Adams Point, No. 5 shovel, an 8-yard Marion machine, replaced the P & H dragline and continued the roadbed, mainly a cut rather than fill in this area, on to the northeast side of Adams Point where quarrying was to begin. Here stripping operations began. The second growth trees and brush were removed by brushing crews and bull dozers. As this overburden on the Point is comparatively

shorter.

shallow, it was necessary for bulldozers to precede the strip ping shovel, windrowing the top waste. No. 5 shovel followed these windrows and loaded the waste into 22-yard Mack trticks to be dumped along the lake above where the bedrock lies

The welded joint railroad to and from this location makes a nice run for transportation equipment. This run is also a

scenic one and provides thrills of seeing wild life. The deer in this area are getting as tame as household pets.

Before many years, production from Adams Point will have progressed to a point where the screen house will be visible from Black Point and another of the old landmarks

of the Lakes will pass into history.

Pictured above is a general view of the Adams Point work ings showing the closeness of the Lake Huron shore.

Calcite Office Personnel Enjoys New Building On the morning of May 26, 1925, the main office of the Calcite Plant burned to the ground. Many people remember this office which was located a few hundred yards southeast

of the present Machine Shop. It was near what was called the Smith boarding house and many stories of the Plant in early days will be recalled by the oldtimers. After the fire temporary quarters were sought and found in a building up town which was formerly an office and housing for the equip ment of the Rogers City Light and Power Company. This was a brick building of fairly decent size as it at one time housed the generators of that company. One of the Company houses was converted into offices for the then busy engin eering department, laboratory and some operating units.

Immediately, plans were started for a new office building.

As we understand it, they were really grand plans with many appointments for comfort and pleasure, too. However, final plans were continuously giving way to construction work at the Plant and office needs were temporarily taken care of by addition after addition to the then temporary office.

Finally, we had a sprawling building which housed all the office units conveniently, if not comfortably, and so deferment after deferment plagued the building of a permanent office.

At last, in June of 1953, a new office was completed at Calcite and we moved in bag and baggage before the paint was dry and the vanity mirrors in place. We are now com fortably situated, one happy family in the building you see pictured above.

This building is of cinder block construction painted white with a limestone grey trim. While it is not typical of the architectural type in most of the Plant buildings, it is a neat appearing structure and is appealing in its simplicity.

The interior is arranged so that offices and working spaces are on the outside walls. In the center of the building arc restrooms, storage space, telephone operator's booth and a good sized conference room.

The front entrance of the building can be noted on the photograph. This opens into the office waiting room and

information desk. A cross hallway and full length hallways 10

lead to all other rooms in the building.

Offices have two types of finish, a painted wallboard and a finished mahogany paneling. All inside doors in the building have the mahogany finish. The floors throughout are asphalt tile in matching shades. The ceilings are of acoustically treated material.

One of the many fine features of the building is the con ference room for various plant meetings. It is equipped with a projector screen, a projector room, a good speaker system, ventilating system, conference tables and chairs. It is a fine place for daily foremen meetings and departmental safety groups. Another feature of the building added to our comfort is the individually controlled hear in each room which one is able to dial to obtain the temperature to one's liking. (Thus far, during this unusual heat wave, we are not thinking too much of radiators.) The engineers' drafting room and the accounting department are both well-lighted rooms for their equipment and work.

A good number of the offices have excellent views of some of the plant operations. The crusher house and incoming trains, the lower yard at the plant entrance, storage piles, screening station, power house, and some of the lake shore are the views easily seen. The A-frames and stacks of the Bradley boats can also be seen as they enter and leave the loading docks. All this is a convenience we did not have up town. The entrance side of the building is the only side not having a plant view. Those offices face the ivy covered walls of the machine shop.

Since the time office personnel and the first aid room have been moved to the new office, the old time office at the plan-: entrance will be taken away. In a later issue of "Screenings,"

we will tell you about the new gate house now undergoing construction. This building will house the plant and gate watchmen and a weighmaster who weighs out coal and stone to local consumers.

The office force all seem to be happy down here where the work goes on. We have a nice, new, clean building and hope to enjoy it for ;i good many years.

New Dock, Under Construction, Widens Loading Slip The ear shattering blows of the pile drivers now working in the Calcite Harbor are audible indications of our industrial

progress. These sounds were probably first heard from 1911. to 1913 when Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company

the pile driver in the picture, is used to make powder holes about forty feet deep. Dynamite is then rammed in the holes and the blast loosens the rock enough so that the piles still offer driving resistance.

piling was driven to form the first fines loading dock. This

The new dock when completed will widen the loading slip about thirty feet. This extra room will permit the new John G. Munson (72 foot beam) and the Carl D. Bradley (65 foot beam) to be in the slip at the same time and still allow the

structure lasted until the late '20's when the building of new

tugs room to get out.

and larger boats made it necessary ro dredge the bottom of the loading slip below the ends of the existing piling. New piles were driven outside the old ones. Then che old piling was pulled and red riven to a greater depth at a new location.

Traffic conditions around the fines loading dock during this construction work due to limited space have been and will be hazardous. Sailors going to and from boats loading at this dock arc cautioned to watch their step. Sailors' wives and others meeting the boats are requested to stay in the designa ted parking areas outside the dock area. Private cars not only delay construction work but are definite accident hazards both

began operations. The original docks were constructed of wood piling driven into the lake bottom with bumpers of pile clusters ar intervals along the face. Late in 1915, steel sheet

This method of construction narrowed the slip about five feet

but prevented the wave action from undermining exposed portions of the dock.

This year the old dock, as shown in the picture, is giving way to a new one now under construction. A short completed portion can be seen in the picture beneath the boom of the crane in the background. The crane in the foreground is one of the railroad type and handles the pile driver seen beside the track at the extreme right. The piles being used are a "Z"

type and shape which provide more resistance to bending and warping than flat sheet piling. In some places rhe piling cannot be driven to rhe required depth so the drill, seen above

to workmen and visitors.

Later, both the coaling and loading shuttles will be moved back to conform to the new dock front. Ice and snow will larer add to the unavoidable hazards of this situation. Please

watch your step and prevent accidents.

Once this project is done we will have a better constructed and safer dock than ever before. It is expected that approaches to the dock will provide for cleaner walking thus making it unnecessary for boat people to drive right up to the ladder.

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Our Detroit Office Scribe Tells Us "What's Going On" Lately we have seen the coming of quite a few newcomers to our organi zation here in Detroit. When things seem to get a little monotonous, a bright new face appears in one of the offices and the atmosphere is brighten ed thereby sometimes for months.

Since the last issue of the Screenings appeared on our desks we have added to our staff nine newcomers.

Beatrice Di Giacobbe: Here is proof that Detroit can compete with the glamour of California. Although Bea had lived in Alhambra and worked at

the Citizens National Trust & Savings

Bank in Los Angeles, California, she has since returned to her native Detroit

to join our accounting force. Bea is a graduate of Northeastern High School where she first acquired her intense passion for attending sports events which has endured up to the present time. Besides being a sports spectator, she does a bit of swimming and skat ing herself and she is also a prolific reader. This young miss is active in her church young people's group and her ambition is to travelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but always to return to Detroit, we hope.

he gets a chance to do so by being a member of his church's quartet. Like another worker in the Accounting De partment, Chet is also a Sunday School

native of Newark, New Jersey, who is

presently working in our Accounting Department as Accounts Payable Clerk,

very good accountant. She is the third person in our offices who is a Sunday

says that she thinks Detroit is much

School teacher. Ollie teaches a class at

teacher.

Gladys MacNab: Mrs. MacNab is a

friendlier than any place she has visited.

We thank her for the compliment but suggest that it has a lot to do with how friendly she is herself. Music seems to be the big thing in the family life of the MacNabs. Gladys plays the piano, French horn, and the organ while her husband is the singer of the family; in fact, he has sung with several opera

companies in the past. Shortly before coming to Michigan Limestone, Gladys worked

in

Wurtzburg

Department

Store of Grand Rapids as assistant buy er of the Import Shop. In her spare time, Mrs. MacNab swims, plays ten

Chester Ludos: Known to everyone as "Chet" since he joined the office force, this young man is the newcomer in the Accounting Department. Pre viously, Chet spent two years at DBI

College in Detroit before serving a hitch in the army. For three years fol lowing his army stint, Chet worked as

a civilian in the U.S. Air Force Comp troller's Office. Chet is pretty busy these days since he and his family of three boys have just moved into their newly built home here in the city. Mrs. Ludos gave up what seemed to be a promis ing singing career to become the wife of Chet and the mother of Phil, Terry and Jim. Chet likes to sing himself and 12

Redford Presbyterian Church. When asked what she liked about her new

job, Ollie said she enjoyed the friendli ness of everyone and the daily lunch get together in the Purchasing Depart ment.

Joyce Reynolds: There seems to run

a duplication of names in the Detroit Office. First, there are Mr. Hugh Lewis, Mr. H. Ward Lewis and Mr. Richard Lewis and now we have a new addition

in the office who have been to her home

Joyce Reynolds who is no relation to Shirley Reynolds of the Accounting De partment. Joyce works in the Treasury Department helping out in that im portant department. She worked at J. L. Hudson Company as a credit investi gator previously and before that she

know, she is very adept at.

attended

Fairrice McDonald: We have a real

High School and a city comptometer school. Like a great many other people,

nis and a bit of bridge. Her favorite pastimes are decorating her apartment and cooking, both of which, the girls

Nancy Huyge: The new clerk in the

Purchasing Department with the very quiet but sweet air is Miss Nancy Huy ge, a native of Detroit who came to our organization from a previous posi tion with the A. J. Etkin Construction Company of Detroit. Nancy is a grad uate of St. Marys of Redford High School and attended the University of Detroit. Presently, Nancy is most inter ested in swimming and bridge playing.

She belongs to a bridge club and to a sorority alumni group.

book. Just as an example, Ollie worked at Burroughs Adding Machine Com pany, Edison Employee Credit Union, and, oh yes, she has done a lot of baby sitting and even picked potatoes once.

Ollie plays the piano, loves swimming, horseback riding and traveling. She as pires to be either a school teacher or a

honest-to-goodness southern belle work ing in the midst of the Purchasing De partment. Though she has lived most

school at

the

East Detroit

Joyce likes to bowl, swim, skate, travel, paint and her big hobby is collecting ceramic horses.

of her life here in Detroit, Farrice was

born just outside of Atlanta, Georgia.

Mrs. McDonald attended high school here in Michigan and did some work in the social sciences at Wayne Uni versity before working for the Melius Newspapers of Lincoln Park where she worked before coming to Michigan Limestone. This young lady divides her time between reading, oil painting, swimming and bowling. When we asked

how

she

came

to

be

named

"Fairrice", she said there was no story behind it; however, we think maybe she is just trying to cover up a very in teresting story.

Olive Reichenbach:

Miss Reichen-

bach, or rather Ollie, works in the Ac

counting Department as auditor of the Pittsburgh District. She is a native of Detroit and graduated from Redford High School and at the present time is attending evening classes at University of Detroit studying English Literature.

What this girl has done would fill a

Jerry Spellman: The new addition to the Tax Department is Jerry Spell-

man who is going to take over where Frank Sylvester leaves off when Frank leaves the Company's employ. Jerry is a family man with one child who has

traveled around the country quite a bit.

Before settling down in Detroit, Jerry had lived in Athens, Ohio; Norman,

Oklahoma; and Alexandria, Virginia.

It was at Ohio University that Jerry received his B. A. degree. After that he went on to earn the LL. B. degree at the University of Oklahoma. Recently this young man worked at a very in teresting job for the War Claims Com mission in the Nation's Capital. Jerry is a member of the American Legion, D. A. V., and the Oklahoma Dinner

Club; any one of which would keep the average fellow busyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but who said Jerry was average?

Ann Willard: The new mail girl in the Detroit Office is Ann Willard. Ann

is one of three children all of whom

have graduated from the Edwin Denby High School in Detroit. For two years she worked at the Commonwealth Bank

as a bookkeeper. Ann likes to dance,

play the piano, any kind of boating,

By Way of the Grapevine

We hear that Kay Skelly, formerly of the Assistant Treasurer's Office who has

been in the hospital since last fall, is

improving rapidly and looks forward

to the day when she can again resume

tennis and fishing. She says she can

her duties with the Company. Everyone

really catch them, too. (Minnow size).

This girl loves to sing and is crazy about dogs; so much that she even col

tant future.

lects china dogs. With all her interests she still, however, finds time to be very active in her church young people's

group. When we asked what her ambi tion was, she answered, "My ambition is to spend two weeks in Hawaii."

Under the caption "Time Will Tell"

is anxious to see Kay back and hopes it will be some time in the not-too-dis

Frank Sylvester is leaving the Tax Department the middle of August to practice law with a New York law firm in Mineola, Long Island, New York.

Best of luck to you, Frank, from all your friends at Michigan Limestone

in the Spring, 1952 issue of the Calcite

We received news that Eileen Young

Screenings is an article about the build ing of Donald Weeda's baseball team.

The second ball player of the Weeda household was signed up on Monday, August 3, 1953 at 3:55 a. m. The new player, Randall Miller Weeda, weighed in at five pounds eight ounces. The first ball player of the Weeda household,

who returned to her home in the South

Donald Stanton Weeda, was signed up last February 27, 1952. Don, Sr. says he can tell by the way he slings his breakfast cereal around that he is going to be a great pitcher.

Somehow or other mention of the

birth of Frank Nevers' daughter was omitted in the last issue of the Screen

ings; therefore, we would like to in form the employees of the birth of Mary Elizabeth Nevers, born October 21, 1952 at 2:30 p. m. Congratulations to the new father and mother.

gave birth to a baby girl in June of this year.

Mr. Valentin and the employees of our Company who showed him and the crew the quarry and the limestone op erations at Calcite, which made the lay

over unexpectedly enjoyable.

The new engineer back in the En

gineering Department is Norman Erikson, Chief Engineer of the Buffalo Creek Plant, who is in Detroit tempor

arily to help out on some of the many new projects now coming up in that department.

YOUR JOB

Whenever you're working—in office or shop, And however jar you may be from the top—

And though you may think you're just treading the mill, Don't ever belittle the job that you fill;

Ardis Hopp of the Engineering De

partment has just returned from a bi cycle tour of the New England country side during her vacation. Nora Braem formerly of the Purchasing Department accompanied her on the tour.

for however little your job may ap pear—

You're just as important as some little gear

That meshes with others in some big machine,

Everyone will agree that it certainly is good to see Florence Davis back on the job again after such a long illness.

Florence who has been recuperating and resting up in New Castle, Pennsyl vania brings word back that Joan Chisler formerly with the New Castle Of fice has returned from California and

has settled down in Pennsylvania again.

Shirley Cartwright who left the Detroit Office with Joan must really have tak

en a permanent liking to California

That helps keep it going—though never is seen.

They could do without you—we'll have to admit—

But business keeps on, when the big fellows quit!

And always remember, my lad, if you can,

The job's more important—(oh yes) —than the man!

So if it's your hope to stay off the

May we take this opportunity to pub licly express our condolences to Mr. Chas. Platz, vice president, upon the

for she intends to stay on indefinitely.

Also in New Castle these days is Elsie

death of his wife, Elizabeth Platz, who

passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 1953.

when she was away from the office. All of us in the Detroit Office were very

shelf, Think more of your job than you do of yourself.

Your job is important—don't think it

Mr. H. C. Farrell announces the ap

happy to have had the chance to meet Miss Benson on her brief stay with us.

So try hard to give it the best that

The annual Mackinac Island Sail Boat Race from Port Huron to Mack inac Island struck close to home this

And don't think ever you're of little

Benson who filled in for Miss Davis

pointment of Robert Klose as Clerk in the Industrial Relations Department as of August 1, 1953.

Three Little Words

What are the three sweetest words

in the English language? In a recent contest to decide this, "I love you" was declared

the

winner.

Second

three

sweetest words were voted to be "din

ner is served." Third choice, "Keep the

change." A vote was also taken on the three saddest words. "Rest in peace," was the winner. "Not sufficient funds"

was second and "out of gas" was third.

is not—

you've got!

account—

year. Rob Klose's cousin, Mr. Menor Hewitt, sailed in the race on the Key

Remember, you're part of the total

note. Through some mechanical diffi

If they didn't need you, you wouldn't be

culties, the crew of the Keynote was unable to man the ship and the coast guard had to tow her ashore. As fate would have it, the coast guard pulled the Keynote into harbor at Rogers City

where the ship was fitted up again good as new. Rob's cousin mentioned parti cularly the kindness and hospitality of

amount.

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!

—Author Unknown 13

You'll See It In Screenings Just Among "Ourselves

"Personals" That Come To The Editor's Desk

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borrow a truck ro look for his truck.

Frank Richards - He says that he wouldn't

trade

the

whole

state

of

Florida for the 3 counties of Presquc Isle, Cheboygan and Alpena.

Byron Lamb couldn't get his car door open. It always did stick. He got the tools out and started working but no luck - it wouldn't open. Finally he tried a key - sure enough the door was only locked!

Ike Nowaczyk can swallow baking soda dry if there is no water available.

Duane McLennan of the Chemistry

Four Tulgetske Men In Service

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tulgetske of South Second Street can be proud of their four sons who are, ar present, all in the armed forces. Three of the young men are stationed in various parts of tliis country and one is in Germany.

The servicemen pictured above make

up a good deal of the masculine side of the Tulgetske family and they are Pfc. Thomas Tulgetske Jr., a member of the Medium Tanks Division at Camp Car son, Colorado. He is the husband of Mrs. Elli Tulgetske and the father of Tom III and Cayann. Stationed in Stut tgart, Germany, with the Construction Engineers is Pfc. Lawrence Tulgetske

lab. trying to fish a spark plug out of Lake Nettie with his fish landing net.

Norman Haselhuhn, our safety direc tor, explaining how the window got broken in the Chemistry Lab. We all know Randy Zempel as one of our congenial Point Lookout atten dants, but do you know that Randy is an ardent fisherman? Randy has his favorite spots that produce the nice cat ches and one of these spots is located on Trout Lake. If pinned down and asked the exact spot on the lake where the big ones congregate and wait to be caught then the master fisherman will give you an answer like this: "Well - go

When Carl Schaedig is nor driving a truck ar Calcite he is usually in the

woods hunting or trapping. Good sport sman that he is he is death on those

predatory animals which prey on rab bits and partridge. In the above picture we see Carl with one of the several

bobcats he ran to earth last spring. A goodly number of foxes were also parr of his bag of game. He usually gets rid of them so they will do no more dam

to the channel, which is about in the

age but the plant gatemen prevailed

center of rhe Lake and then go directly toward shore. It's by some weeds!"

Some people are interested in fishing and some in hunting. Everyone has a

who is the husband of Mrs. Juanira

bobby which fascinates them. The hob

Tulgetske and the father of one son, Lawrence Jr. Seated we sec A/3C Jos eph Tulgetske, member of the Air Force

by of Byron Lamb, of the Chemistry Lab, is wild animals. Now Byron doesn't go around trying to catch Grizzlies barehanded but he did try to catch a

on him to spare a baby fox as a gatemascot to keep the "safety goat" comp any. You will see this little fellow in a cage at the plant entrance. He is grow ing rapidly and has become quite tame.

The watchmen, seeing Carl as he forays into the Company lands back of Calcite, almost expect that he will add more wildlife to the growing zoo at

rabbit one night that his car lights were

the Plant gate.

at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas and S. N. James Tulgetske, a Navy man aboard the U. S. S. Los Angeles in San Francisco, Calif. The proud father of these sons is employed as a burner at the Calcite Plant.

shining on. From the looks of Byron's face he must have taken a dive at the

bunny and missed. How else can you explain the black eye and the bruises and scratches on the face?

Wonders of Men

Aaron Smith and Paul Mulka, our

carpenters, tried to do some sanding with

their

little

electric

sander

on

which the sandpaper was upside down.

Irvin Freelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;He had to have his C-

Dozer pulled all over the place in order to get it started. Come to see why it wouldn't start - the battery cables had not been connected.

Ralph Pines had his pickup truck borrowed by someone and in order to continue with his plumbing job had to 14

Richard Long, an employee aboard the Str. W. F. White is a good fellow at heart. He wouldn't intentionally do something unlawful. For example, he wouldn't intentionally take a picture of the anti-aircraft gun emplacement at the Soo Locks with any intentions of harm when the Str. White was passing through the other day. Of course, you and I know this but Dick's problem is to convince the U. S. Coast Guard that this is the case. Who's nervous?

Are you interested in a coonskin hat? To those of you who are, see Fred LaLonde, Quarry Shift Foreman. Fred says that he knows a place in the Cal cite Quarry where the coon are so thick that anyone can pick up a fine speci men. One sure customer is Adolph Sorgenfrei, Mill Foreman. Adolph in dicates that he is not only interested in a coonskin cap but also any dipper teeth which might be picked up in the Quarry. We don't know what the con nection between coonskin caps and dipper teeth is unless the cap would cushion any blows incurred while Try ing to stop a dipper tooth from getting into the mill and causing damage.

The pictures on this page need no comments. They were taken by the

photographers of "Calcite Screenings" on some of their recent camera trips in

â&#x20AC;˘quest of interesting subjects for their lenses.

The well-fed porkers, playful pup pies and the love scene between the rabbit and the descendant of the wolf

pack is a typical domestic story of ani mal life under man's protection and supervision. In contrast, the kingbird, hovering over its nest of young, the baby fox cowering from danger, the baby fawn helpless when separated from its natural protective background by the eye of the camera or natural enemy, rhe sn-apping turtle sauntering along the beach secure in his protective covering and the young seagulls ready to take to water under mother's watch

ful eye are typical scenes of life in the wilds.

Watching the young of any species, domestic or wild, live and develop in their enviroments is always interesting.

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Four of the cutest little puppies

been with the Company for thirty-one

made their debut into the Alfred Quade

years.

home on August 23 and we dare say that the missus is quite as excited as Bobby with their newly acquired pets.

Now Bob and his mom are having a gay time thinking of appropriate names for these little pooches. Since Bob is convinced that he can't keep the whole litter for his very own he's going ro post a "Puppies For Sale" sign on the front door. Brother Larry, vacationing in New York City, was notified by tele phone of the happy event. Pa again takes the rap!

Hugo Sorgenfrei got pretty wet at

work one day and on his way home he stopped at the grocery store. While in the store a small girl notices the con dition Hugo was in and had this to say to him: "just wait until you get home. Look what you done to your slacks!"

Hector Bisson claims that the De

troit Tigers are in the basement all the time because all the tornadoes we have

been having lately have them worried.

That's about as good an excuse as we have run across yet.

In spite of the warm summer season we have had and the talk of hunting in the air many Calcite employees have

through the summer watched others less smitten with thoughts of gun and game take their vacations during the humid season. The hunters have been waiting with patience and anticipation for fall when the bird, deer and rabbit seasons

would give them a chance to spend their vacation days in the woods with gun and dog. Vacations are for relaxa tion and every man should choose the season his heart most desires. Just to cheer the waiting nimrod in his weary wait for winter snows and the happy call of hounds we present the picture below. From left to right are Harold Hopp. Melvin Schaedig, and grandpa "Happy" Hopp wirh guns, dogs and trophies of the chase. This picture was taken last winter but the happy hunters are anticipating a repeat performance in the not too distant future.

The Sam Smolinskis

raised a fine

family of seven sons and three daugh ters and have never lost their "way with children". They are as proud of their grandchildren as they are of their own sons and daughters. This past summer they had a family reunion and grand pa Sam made it a point to have this picture taken. Appearing here are from left to right, seated: Peggy and Billy Quaine, the children of Norm and Edna;

Dianne. daughter of Raymond; Mary Sue and Paula Streich, children of Ivan

and Louise Streich. In the top row we have Ronnie, son of Ray, grandma Ag nes looking down on Sally Ann Streich,

Tommy, David and Jimmy Florip, sons of Jack and Margaret, grandpa Sam and Michael and Donnie, sons of Sylvester.

Sam is a locomotive engineer and has

Black and white photography doesn't begin to do justice to this beautiful wax plant raised with care and patience by Lois Swallow. These plants have a gor geous flower when they bloom and only a color film could give some idea of its delicate beauty. Lois says that they do not bloom every year but when they produce there are usually several blooms in a season. She was proud of this one because this is the first time that it has

bloomed in four years. Bill works at Calcite and in the picture it looks very much as if he is proud of both the plant and the lady as well he might be.

During his vacation Wilbert Radtke went through the Dominion. When he returned to the States the custom offi

cers asked him if he had anything to declare. Wilbert insisted that he had no declaration. The custom officer

looked in the trunk and out popped a 75-pound pike. When the officers asked him where he got such a fish he briefly stated that when he left the States be

took some pike minnows and that dur ing his trip the minnows attained said proportion. Believe it or not but we'd rather

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not!

ing used as a deodorant but here is

Some of these fix anything shop men

be used to combat bad smells. Recently

are gerting as absent minded as the proverbial professor who took his wife

Bill Swallow went for a ride in his car

and baggage to the train and in parting

and

ran over a skunk which left a

kissed the suit case and tossed his wife

pretty bad smell throughout the car.

Now Bill, being a man of many ideas came across with an answer to his prob lem of getting his car rid of the skunk smell. He left some limburger cheese open and sitting on the seat but as yet he hasn't told us what he used to coun

into the baggage car. Rudy Kreft has developed the habit of taking his car to work then riding home on the bus.

The first time he nearly called in the law before he got back to earth. We understand that was the day he was thinking about the bigger and better

teract the limburger. How about it,

mouse trap.

something else more practical that can

Bill?

If you are not one of those in on the doings at the Calcite Plant you might look at Ben Santimo and his profligate handling of cigars and candy bars and say, "What was it, Ben, a boy, a girl or twins?" However, things are not

always what they seem but Ben is just

as proud as if he were the father of twins. The occasion recorded above is

John Bruder has been out in the Quarry at various jobs for a good many years. In fact, he has been associated with the drillers, quarry pipefitters and secondary stripping crews since April 7, 1919. This spring, he was promoted to foreman in the Secondary Stripping

department. He now has plenty of terri tory to cover and jobs to do to help burn up that tremendous energy. John used ro have a big garden he worked at but now he says it's too much for him. We hope he can keep his crew battling brush, top soil and hard heads

gardens. Alfred Hopp of the Mill Departmenr is no exception and has a well kept yatd and flower garden. Here he is showing off some of this year's tulips

a sample of what took place in all sec tions of the Machine Shop on June 12, 1953, when the number 3000 appeared on the shop crane representing days of shop work ar the Calcite Plant without a lost time accident in that department.

The boys watch that number on the crane with a jealous eye. Those happy smiles change to frowns when they see something which might mar their safe ty record. Keep up the good work fel las. A safety record such as this can be accomplished only through cooperation on the parr of everyone toward this goal. Left to right are Vic Klee, Ru dolph Kreft, Louis Heythaler and Ben

that are really a credit for his efforts.

Santimo.

Gardening is a common hobby for many of our employees and for people

in Rogers City generally. One of the remarks often heard by the city's visi tors is that there are many small home

so that the drillers and blasters will

have clear going. Good luck to you, John.

Attention all farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there

is an

idea now in the experimental stage that

may revolutionize all farming in rhe future. We are all quite familiar with fertilizing our crops to make them

grow by means of using barnyard waste and other fertilizers bur Joe Kline who works in the quarry believes rhat he has come onto a better idea. Last year

Joe grew a pumpkin thar weighed in at 62 and one-half pounds but he feels that by feeding this year's crop milk he will be able to grow one bigger. Here's wishing you luck, Joe, and if the ex periment works how about sharing the formula with us?

We have all heard of chlorophyll be 17

Plume went fishing once in the old days when suckers were out of season. He-

ROGERS

had a bag of fish when he saw the game warden coming. Archie ran carrying

his bag of fish with the game warden in hot pursuit. Archie was nearly out of wind when he stumbled over a pig

pen. He crawled in and dragged the fish with him and fed the evidence to

the pig before the warden found him.

Clarence Blair holds the honor of

being the only man in Calcite who tried to get on a school bus to come to work.

What's the matter Clarence, have a bad

day afrer rhe night before?

Adolph wanted to know if Joe Dehring greased the bearing on H-2. Joe was right on his toes this time for he said he sure did and later said, "but I

One of our organization's younger men has finally reached his objective.

John Gregory was promoted to Tug Captain on March 1, 1953. He started

aboard the Bradley ships as a deckhand on June 6. 1938 as an ordinary sea man. After spending ovet two years in the U. S. Army during World War II he returned to the boats and secured

his First Class Pilot's license. On Sep tember 9, 1946 he transferred from the

boats to a linesman on the harbor tugs and now is the youngest skipper of this fleet. Capt. John has two boys and his wife who share with him his success.

We all wish him well and hope he does not break any tow lines.

The blasting crew is certainly a group

of quick thinkers. They just grew up that way, I guess. It seems that Archie

didn't have any gtease up there".

This neat array of carpentry tools and busy workmen was taken aboard the Str. Clymer. The boys aboard ship have considerable spare time on their off shifts and the crew of the Clymer decided that woodworking was a good hobby to indulge in during their off hours. Here we see Leonard Gabrysiak and Wilbert Wirgau industriously working at the bench. Many of rhe boys are interested in this hobby. Tools, at first, were a drawback so they got their heads together and salvaged scrap rowline material, cleaned a spot in the forward end of the sreamship and the neatly arranged tool kit is the result. At some later date we hope to be able to show some of the products of their handy work.

JAMES SOPFR RETIRES

Jim Soper retired from his work at the Calcite Plant on April 4, 1953- He was first employed at the Plant on August 10, 1916 as a steam shovel fire man and has been with the Company ever since. Like most of our older em

ployees he spent some time in most of the departments in the plant at one time or another usually as a crane or

shovel operator. Since 1940 he had been an electric shovel operator. He knows old No. 10 bolt by bolt through major

and minor repairs year after year as she shoveled her quota of limestone.

Jim was the oldest electric shovel opera tor on the job when he retired. During

his years in Rogers City he raised a family of six children. Two sons, Ho ward and Ivan are now working at Cal cite. We are all sorry to see Jim leave the plant but we often see him around.

We all wish Jim and his wife many happy years of leisure and hope they do a lot of those things they always wanted to do but somehow never quite had the time.

Cigarette

lighters

are

proverbially

tempermental and when empty they emit only a slight spark from the flint.

Water as a lighter fluid is entirely in efficient. Experts will tell you rhat a highly inflammable fluid such as high test naphalene gives the most satisfac tory results. Alvis Radka who is a born experimenter has discovered that 3 in 1 oil isn't worth a hoot even if the can

is the same shape and size as a lighter fluid can.

Last year Art McLennan got himself one of these boat kits and was very

proud of the boat he built. This sum mer Art invited his friend Lavin Woi-

zeschke to join him on a fishing trip to Lake Emma. Lavin got on the oars when they got there and Art started fussing with the motor but he couldn't make it hum. Art soon discovered that

that gas line wasn't pluggedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there was just no gas going through it. And to think that Florence reminded him to

take gas along bur he was so sure there was some in it completely forgetting that he had drained it out the previous fall! Lavin wasn't interested in develop ing a hercules muscle so you can guess who took the oars on the return trip!

The only trouble with having a sum mer cottage as well as a home is that one has two lawns to mow. Fred Radka

has a nice cottage out at Lake Nettie.

Here we find him one fine Sunday after noon when he should be out fishing,

pushing the old lawn mower. Maybe Fred is like some of the rest of us who

get more fun out of working around the cottage and having things looking nice. Don't let this picture mislead you, however. He does some of those other

tilings as well or he wouldn't be a Radka. The main thing about this cot tage business is that the things you do are usually fun. From the stories that we hear from that blasting crew we are

inclined to think Fred spends part of his time at Lake Nettie making up somegood ones to pass on to the gang on Monday morning.

The crew on the lake storage reclaim are debating just what might be the best safety device to purchase for fore man Ray Grigg to use when he makes one of his many daily trips to busy spots at Calcite. They are pretty well agreed on a bathing suit, a pair of hip boots or a long rope. Maybe all three would do the job with a quick changecabin on the back end of his pickup.

Frank

Bader

would

like

to

know

why it always has to rain everytime he pours cement. We can't answer that one Frank but you might try out the old gag of wearing a raincoat when the sun shines and you want to lay cement.

Old man weather is a somewhat con trary

customer.

The boys in rhe loading crews occa sionally run into sticky problems on minor repairs. Maybe they should call on the engineers to solve this one. Dick Schaedig needed six feet of angle iron plus a little more. To solve this conun drum Al Klingshirn produced from his assorted tool kit a 22-inch yardstick and the job was done with dispatch and accuracy.

Every summer Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hopp make their home very attractive with a nice flower garden and a well

groomed yard. Our Screenings photo grapher, as lie was passing by one day, took this picture of the Hopps showing a small corner of their back yard. They both work hard at this pastime and enjoy it very much. Herman and the "missus" both have a good time and we think it is because they aren't afraid of work.

Guess Who

Usually we give you one of our old er fellows as a "Guess Who". This time

we are going to do it differently. This fellow has only been with us a little over five years and is twenty eight years of age. The picture tells you that

part of his youth was spent on a farm.

He still lives in the country but does not have a large farm. He has not

changed much in appearance and has a nice smile even as you see here. He works in the lower Yard but no longer has a horse like this. The horses he is

handling now are those under the hood of a truck or bulldozer. Can you rec ognize him?

The "Guess Who" in the last issue

of Calcite Screenings was none other than your old friend. Harry Meharg and his sister.

among the personals. Wherever John goes and whatever he is doing should be a pleasure to him as we know of no one who gets a bigger "kick" out of living and we know of no one we would rather see have a good time during his retirement. We extend our best wishes to both he and Mrs. Burns.

May they have many happy years en joying themselves.

Our friend, Alfred Savina, can make

or fix anything with that educated torch of his. After doing a minor repair job for one of the local churches one day he turned to Ed Radka and said, "I do work for all the churches, where will I

go now?" Ed replied, "You should know, Alfy, you're good on heat con trol!"

The Fourth of July parade had someline floats this year. The merchants and townspeople really did a nice job. The Calcite Plant entered the rruck shown below in line wirh our efforts to for

We ber that the Blasting crew is missing the tall stories and friendly smile of their old crew mate John Burns. After twenty-seven years with the drillers, track crew, different quarry jobs and rhe blasters, John decided to call it a day and retire. His last five years were with the blasters and he hated to leave the gang but decided that some young fellow should carry on.

Now he fishes, gardens and does a fair amount of visiting. Calcite Screenings will certainly miss his many contribu tions as his stories about different hap

penings on the job usually ended up

ward the Plant Safety Program. Nor man Haselhuhn, Duane McLennan and

Orval Pines spent considerable time, th.ought, and energy on this mobile

safety slogan and are to be congratula ted on the job even if they didn't get a prize. The story of the Safety Goat has

already been rold and the float speaks for itself. As for Bill Erkfritz, it seems

that the boys didn't trust the goat with their tissue decorations and Bill didn't

trust the boys with his goat so as a result we find two passengers on the float. "Safety First" says our friend Bill as he feeds his pal.

Captain Roy dimming is not look

ing proud in this picture as is his neighbor, Mrs. Bud Rogers. The reason is that Roy did not catch the fishâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was caught by Bud last winter at Black Lake. It's one of the biggest muskies we've seen in this part of the country for some time. The weight of this fish was close to forty-five pounds and be lieve me, that's a lot of fish.

Ernie Tulgetske had discovered a new way to make the teeth on the metal

bandsaw last longer. You merely put the blade on backwards. The only dif ficulty seemed to be that the darned thing wouldn't cut no matter how hard he pushed. Never mind, Ernie, some of the greatest inventions were discovered by trial and error.

We would be interested in knowing who the expert on flying saucers is out there on Pete's track gang. The boys in rhe lab are thinking of sending Byron Lamb out to get some first hand infor mation. Byron informed them the other day that a pitman was a man who

picks something from one place and "pits" it over there.

Bernard Murphy says that he never drives fast over rough roads. The rea son, as

we

understand it

is because

Murphy had the experience not too long ago of a couple of inches of trans mission oil all over the back of the

pickup instead of the oil in the trans mission case. Of course when Bernard

gets in a hurry it could happen again.

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Archie

Plume

has

discovered

che

ideal way to baby sit. He informed the boys that he went babysitting at 1I p. m. on a certain evening and a little later informed them that he went to

sleep at 10 p. m. That is what one might call killing two dogs with one stone.

Many a moron becomes a mathe matical genius around March 15th.

We were sorry to have Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Bushnell leave our community.

The girls on rhe office staff were be

ginning to think they had moved back into the wilds when they were finally settled in the new office building at the Calcite Plant. When driving to work

in the morning deer are occasionally seen crossing the road. A few weeks past one of the girls looked out of her office window and spied the fawn in

the accompanying picture peacefully investigating the new structure. The photographer was called and he took this picture after following our little friend around the Machine Shop and down into the quarry in back of the target house.

Leo Schefke says that he'll be glad when that job is done. It is very incon venient when you have to drive a truck to Alpena, pick out a nice spot to eat lunch end then find chat you have left your lunch bucket at Calcite.

They had been with us for two years and became very active in many civic affairs. Cliff was an eleccrical engineer.

They have moved co Rochester, N. Y. where he has taken a position wich che Eastman Kodak Company. Their many friends in Rogers Cicy and ac Calcite wish chem the best in their new loca-

One fellow who really gets not only a lot of fun out of his hobbies but also some macerial value is Time Office Clerk Ernesr Adrian. Ernie should be

one of our besc fishermen. Ac least he

a building concraccor or firsc class car penter as he is certainly a near and elfi-

caughc a loc of fish and enjoyed the sporr real often. For a time we heard

cienc

little about Adolph's big catches so we choughc chac he had quit fishing. We were miscaken because here is proof that Adolph can still cacch chem and chac he is back at his old hobby. As all good fishermen do he did not tell us

crafcsman

wich

che

cools.

His

work has che couch of perfcccion. Ir gives many pleasant hours. His cown and lake properry boch show che results of his ralencs. We also must tell you chac good wife Jean deserves credic for giving him some of rhe excellenc ideas.

A few years ago Adolph Dullack was

where he goc chem.

Thac Sceamer Munson ccrcainly must be a floating home. They not only have

evergreens on the after deck but Harold Nidy came into the storehouse the other day looking for grass cutters.

What for? To cut rhe grass around the rock garden!

Frank Rubeo, a very avid backyard farmer, had a strange thing happen to him this year. His cucumbers came up

and grew wonderfully, only instead of growing lengthwise they grew round and kept on growing bigger and round er. Come to find out he got the seeds mixed up and planted muskmelons in stead of cucumbers. Frank's gang says that maybe if he brought them to work and put chem on rhe track the locomo tive engineers would gladly run over chem and make long ones out of chem.

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crace in che crunk of his car rhe orher

day and drove ro Onaway. When he

arrived and looked in rhe crunk che pigs were gone and he hasn'c found chem yet.

A

salesman

entered

the

Machine

Shop che other day and sporring Albert Radka he hurried over and asked him if there was a rest room near. Albert wrinkled his brow for a minuce and

finally brighrened up and said, "No, hue chcre's a bench in che lunch room you can use."

When our friend Bernard Murphy gees in a hurry ro go ouc on a job he jusc grabs che firsc car he can lay his hands on. "By golly", says Gus Schaedig, "I didn'r know if I left her here or if I didn't".

Pictured here is Cora Storey who is employed ac our Cedarville Operations.

The boys cell us chac Bill Pauley says

She is a receptionist and stenographer.

he likes co sleep ac noon hour because

She is single and lives with her parents

he

near Pickford and drives to and from

trouble is Bill never cells chem whac he

work. We are wondering what other

dreamsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;somebody mighc sceal chem

interests there are in Canada other than

and then what would he do?

has

such

wonderful

dreams.

The

fishing which might account for Cora's frequent crips there,

The other young lady assiscing Miss Scorey in che office ar Cedarville is Dorothy Gustafson. Prior to her being employed ac chac locacion she had compleced a commercial course ac che Norrheascern School of Commerce ar

Bay Cicy. Dorochy, or as some call her, "Gus", is in charge of all purchase or ders.

Frank Michecci is proud of chose to matoes he raises. The boys on the track were rather skeptical when he cold chem one weighed two and a half pounds.

Occo Hilla questioned whecher ic was one or a dozen and wanes him co presenr rhe proof.

In

chese

modern

cimes

of acorn ic

energy and robocs Chuck Horn is a liccle confused and so are we. Chuck would like ro know whac chose curcains are called chac run back and forch.

Fred Dagner has earned the com mendable name of "Smear Fred" when

The blasters were a liccle low when

playing Spitzer. This mechod of play has worked our to his advantage in the past but it seems you can't trusr Arr

chey saw chac blascers' cruck all painced up on che Fourth of July for rhe parade.

"Now just look at that, says Herman

Hein and some of these other sharks.

Zinkc to Gus Grulkc, they wouldn't fix her up for us but look how chey painc ed her up for che goat."

They rook advantage of our generous friend, Fred, and he now has grave doubrs about che value of this syscem of smearing before che queens show.

Harry Haske of rhe Carpenters was looking ac che srorage piles one day and now he wonders just how chey are able to pick up all che differenc sizes of stone in rhe quarry and pur chem in che same piles by che loading dock.

Norm Zielinski, scudenc employee, found some relief during this hoc spell.

He was working on che new dock and while he was fascening a nuc wich a

Richard John Burns, now recired, has this

philosophy about shoes. "If the shoe don'r fie, make it fit." We arc referring co a size 8 rubber John boughr bur couldn't gee over his size 11 shoes so he took chem home and casually Stretched chem enough so chey would.

Leave ic co John!

Alvis Radka also puc two pigs in a 77

Brege was promoted co

wrench it slipped and he rook an un expected dip in the harbor slip.

Third Assiscanc Engineer on March 1, 1953. Dick has been wich Bradley Transportation sceadily since March 19, 1945. He received his original license in rhe winter of 1951. Ac presenr he is

calcium and phosphorus in rhe food.

This is especially imporcanc for chil

scacioned aboard che Scr. W. F. Whice.

dren, bur che amount of sunshine need

Dick is a proud man chese days as he has a new son. His family consiscs of che missus and cwo sons. We congrarulace Dick on his progress.

ed: is not excessive. Youngsters soak up all che sunshine chey need if chey are in it for two minutes a day in summer, and for cwency minutes a day in winter.

As ro rhe need for sunshine, it is crue rhac ic enables che bones to utilize

Those Who Went Aishng

Clarence Eldridge was che viccim of Dan Cupid's little arrow last winter bur somehow or ocher we slipped up on making a nore of it in the last issue of Calcice Screenings. The perice Ruth Cherrette was rhe apple of his eye and last December Clarence went to Decroic

co persuade Ruch co cravel on ro Fort Wayne, Indiana where they said "I Do" on December 12. Clarence is a crane

operator while Ruth works for the local printer and editor of che Presque Isle Councy Advance. Ruch pucs so much cime on Calcice Screenings we

Pictured here leaving che church amid a rain of rice and confecci are Charles Horn and his bride, che former

Nancy Jean Chriscian of Cheboygan.

They pledged their troth on July 11 ac

have begun co feel chac she is a mem ber of che Screenings scaff and so many rimes have hoped chac she were. She and Clarence are making rheir home ac 285 *ii South Second Street.

an Church in Molrke. Occo and his wife

Dark-haired, dark-eyed. Pauline Mul

James Moloney officiated. Chuck is em ployed as an oiler on the Steamer Mun

ka walked down the aisle of St. Igna-

rius Church on September 5 and met Philip Henry chere ac che alcar where rhey proceeded co repear rheir mar riage vows in che presence of Rev. Adalberc Narloch. Unlike many of his buddies, Phil preferred co ignore rhe repeaced murmurings of Dan Cupid buc finally succumbed co che persisrenc

son while his bride is an R. N. for

merly employed at the Cheboygan General Hospital and is now devoting some of her time to the sick at the

local hospital. The new Mr. and Mrs. Horn are now making their home at rhe Adrian Aparcinencs.

liccle fellow when he claimed Pauline

Roberc Muszynski chose July 29 as

his wedding day. He and Lillian Marcin,

daughter of Alberr Marcin, exchanged marriage vows at Sc. Ignacius wich Rev. Adalbert Narloch officiating. Bob is employed as a deckwatch on the Steam Delberc Heychaler, rhe ardent hunter and

fisherman,

did

some

"hunting"

recent wedding of Aram Ganske, a crew member of the Scr. Taylor and Dororhy Pelcz. We are sorry not co be able ro publish a picture of this nice

around Onaway and found Darcella Morgan a worthy prey. They were mar ried on May 23 ac Onaway. The newMrs. Heychaler is a grade school readier ac Onaway while Delberr is a deck-

couple. They were married in Ocqueoc Trinity Church by che Rev. Jesse Es-

watch on the Steamer T. W. Robinson.

Pictured here are Darcella and Delberc

singer.

about to cut the wedding cake.

As we go to press we learn of rhe

his bride, che former Josephine Wir-

gau. They were unired in marriage on April 11 at an 8 o'clock service by Rev. Jesse Essinger ac che American Lucherare making rheir home in Molrke.

St. Mary's Church in Cheboygan at a two o'clock ceremony at which Rev.

er B. H. Taylor.

Pictured here are Otto Tulgetske,

employed in che Mill Deparcmenc, and

as his bride. Phil is employed in che Eleccrical Deparcmenc and is che son of Vernon Henry, a locomotive engineer.

Pauline is che daughter of Paul Mulka. mill foreman. We are sorry chac we do noc have a picture of this happy couple for this issue of Screenings but hope to print one in our fall issue.

The Screenings stall wishes all of these newlyweds many years of happy wedded bliss.

Tender words and loving deeds are immorcal seed chac will spring up in everlascing beaucy.

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We Welcome The New Arrivals A young liccle lass by che name of Jane made the Marvin Claus family very happy when she made her debut on March 14. David Lee, her brother, is quickly assuming the role of her pro tectorate and feeling very important

with his new assignment. Marvin is em ployed in che Yard Deparcmenc.

Johnny Gordon was grinning broad er than ever on March 15 when Ruch-

ella made her debut at Hilltop Lane.

The fact that it was another little girl

grandpa John.

Archie and Virg Karsten actually "ached wirh joy" when their liccle Peg

gy Ann made her debut on April 30.

She is their first child and her daddywheels one of rhose big grey boats.

The Art Santinis too heralded the

coming of another son on April 30.

They now have cwo girls and three boys. Arc is employed on the dock pumps.

didn't perturb Johnny in the leastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nor Hazel either. Their friends, Ruch and

Ella after whom this little missy was named, were prouder than peacocks.

"Smiling Jack" can be found heaving che cow lines co chose big ships coming in co che Calcice Harbor.

Jack Paradise, our congenial sceward

assisrane conveyorman on che Scr. T.

The Ralph Krefcs coo, welcomed Randy, cheir firsr child, on April 11.

Papa Ralph passed ouc che cigars ro rhe

W. Robinson.

And a brand new mama and papa are Ed Wirkowski and his wife. Ir's a

fellows in che Track Deparcmenc.

inro a buoy or into a reef out there in Lake Michigan.

Master Dale Elowsky will celebrate his birthday every April 14 along wirh Mary Grigg. Norm is the proud daddy

and he works in the Track Department.

Milo Grulke had an easy rime of ir when his first child Michael John was

born on April 24. The hospital got the better end of this deal

'cause Milo

didn'c gee much chance to wear out che lobby rug since rhe Scr. White docked at 7 a. m. and the Doc dubbed him "dad" at 9 a. m.

Delmar Zempel of che Yard De parcmenc became a lather for che first time on April 22. He named him after 24

ing for her fine family.

Liccle Monica has a baby siscer and she sure is a happy little lass. Clare Celesce came co her house on May 2 and now Joe and Gloria Hasserr are a family of four. Joe is a radio-celephone operacor ar Cenrral Radio.

Leon Hilmer, bearing che names of both grandpas was born co che Bob Smolinskis on May 6. They now have cwo boys and cwo girls and Bob can

Another daughter joined rhe family of Louis Urban on May 11. Louis is an

in the Mill.

couldn't take the chance on his running

has an end. A real cributc is due Mrs. Kuznicki for her tireless efforrs in car

repairman on che Scr. Calcice.

debur on April 7. Howard is employed

tidings chac Yvonne Marie was born co he and the wife. Cape Naucs just

Department toiling each day trying to make enough money to feed twelve hungry mouths while Mom's day never

birch of another son on May 8. Yuldine and Pece are hoping chac he won'c have quice as much vim and vigor as Leslie Jr. He's a real boomerang! Pere is a

firsr rime when Patricia Ann made her

on April 17 when he heard the glad

since he'll have all eleven about him all the time. Tom can be found in the Mill

The Leslie Bcllmores announce rhe

for his share of papahood honors on March 22 when cheir third child, Jo Elizabeth, joined cheir household.

Howard and Karhy Schacdig exper ienced che joys of parenthood for rhe

Chester Kandow had ro be relieved of his watch aboard rhe Str. Munson

hold. Mark was born on April 25â&#x20AC;&#x201D; payday. Double or nothing, eh Tom? Mark won't ever wane for playmaces

be found in che Machine Shop.

on che Scr. John G. Munson came in

Now occupying che nursery ac the Raymond Grigg home is wee Mary and what an excited little boy is Ray Ben jamin. Now he has a sister all his very own and she came to his house to stay on April 15.

have in the Thomas Kuznicki house

Here is Keith Palmer and we'd say he has his arms full with Jerry Lee and Terry Jay, brand new twins born co he and che Mrs. on August 17. Ic would be asking coo much if we were co cell you which is which and quite as much if whether they will be blondes with blue eyes or redheads with freckles like rheir proud pop. Keith was so stunned when he heard the news rhat the Doc

thought it well ro have an R. N. around ro adminisrer rhe smelling sales buc Keich cells us he cook ic standing up even if he was dazed for a few minutes.

We wane ro ler you in on a little secret,

Keith. They say it's an old tradirion chac godparencs are responsible for keeping che children shod until they become

eighteen and chey can't take chem as cax exemptions either! Keith now has a family of three boys and two girls and you can find him in the Transportation Dept. each day and caking advantage of every overtime hour he can gee and we can't say chac we blame him much. Congraculacions co Keich and his wife Cacherine on rheir very fine family.

Whac fun this little fella is going co

boy, coo, whom chey called Macchew Allan who was born on May 9. Ed is a Yard laborer.

May seemed ro be a greac month for babies. David Roberr was born to the

Bob Hellers on May 11, making Bill Heller and Rudy Wenzel grandpas once again. Bob is a Yard laborer.

Andy Sanrini wasn't going co ler Arc get anything over on him so he came in on rhe honors too. He and Gina are

mighty proud of a son, James Paul, born to them on May 11. They also have two other children, a daughrcr

and a son. Andy is in charge of Plant grounds and Company dwellings.

Ivan Streich's

beautiful new

home

on Doris Lane is complemented with the presence of four very pretty fe males, namely, Louise, che Mom, MarySue, Paula Louise, and

their newest,

Sally Ann born on May 22. Ivan is a wheelsman on the Str. White.

Patricia Ann is the second child of

che Ralph Taylors and she made her

debur on May 23. Ralph is employed in che Yard.

James, che new son of Ralph and Evelyn Dolsen, will have a fine chance

to accustom himself to the rigors of

rhe north country, Cedarville. We'll

wager he'll learn to hunt and fish be fore he learns his 3 R's—or almost.

Ralph is the operacing manager of the Cedarville Plane and Jimmy was born on May 25.

Johnny Claus, rhe firsr assiscanc on che Scr. Clymer, now has himself a fine family of three girls and one boy. Mar garet was born co he and Velma on

Caroline Sue Tacro is going co have co share che affeccions and attentions

given her heretofore wich her baby sis ter, Mary Jo, who was born to Virginia and Beverly on July 22. Beverly is em ployed in the Yard Deparrment.

Kathleen Ann was born on July 25 to the Leo Orbans. She is their second child and Carol is che other little miss

in the family. Leo is employed aboard

May 26.

the Str. Munson as an oiler.

Pat Kerr has long ago put himself in the cax exempe classification but chac

came in ro add Pennie Eileen as an

alone could noc have been his motive

ocher dependenc. He now has three

for along came William on May 29 making ic seven boys and five girls—

daughters and one son. Pennie was born on July 27.

an even dozen. Par is a blacksmith in

Frank and Jo Reinke consider them selves very forrunace in chac cheir hopes for anocher litcle girl were fulfilled.

They have a very lovely family, namely, Dick, Bob. Barbara Jane and cheir new est, Mary Sue, born on August 3- To fine people come fine things. Frank is a foreman in the Eleccrical Deparcmenc.

Henry Yarch came into the officeboasting of his latest offspring, Roger Anthony, born on August 5. He's a big fella coo—cipped che scales ac eighc and one-half pounds and measured twenty-

che Machine Shop.

On June 27 Wally Haske fachered a son whom he and che wife called James Wallace. The Haskes also have a baby girl. He is one lucky boy—has a lovely wife, a daughter who is a perfect image

of her daddy, a brand new son and then he gees off on vacacion and wins a $75.00 cash prize ac che church festival How lucky can some people gee? Wally is a third assisranr on che Scr. Robinson.

Ivan Wirgau, eleccrician, comes in co share rhe wealch of papahood once again when Ivan Jon was born to he and Eleanor on July 3. They have two other children, Kim and Andrea Jean.

Ivan Jon can celebrate his birthday each year with petite Cynthia Dawn

Irvin Freel, the bulldozer operator

two

and

one-half

inches

and

wasn't

stretching, either! What's more. Hank

said chac Roger had more hair ar birch than he now has. The Yarches now

have rwo boys and cwo girls and Hank is a wacchman on che Scr. Robinson.

Wirgaus. Norval passed our the tradi

Alan Brad, rhe son of Art Gapczynski, is a bit too young co appreciate

tional "seegar" to his fellow workers in rhe Construction Department.

having a baby brother but nevertheless, Michael Keith came along on August

who is

Titian

the first child of the Norval

haired

Benira

Ann

boosted

rhe population of Onaway when she was born on June 30. And—don't ever let them call you "carrot top" 'cause they're green! The John Larsons also have a son and cheir daddy is employed as a deckwacch on the Str. Munson.

John Richard, the new son of the Eddie Smiths came in with a "bang" on July 4th. Papa Ed is a shovel pitman and besides this latest arrival he has

another son and daughter.

Lloyd Thomas is cercainly going co be pampered by all chose four siscers who came before him and whac a nov

elty he must be in che Lloyd Dullack home. July 9 was che red lercer day for rhe Duliacks and rhis liccle fella will

be baicing hooks before he's able co say "fish". Lloyd Sr. is employed as a welder in rhe Machine Shop.

The Royce Wickershams announce che birch of cheir second son, Kevin

Douglas on July 20. Royce is a wheels man on che Scr. Bradley.

4 to be his companion and playmace.

Arc is a second cook on che Scr. Clymer.

A prercy little blue-eyed gal whom che Frank Filipiaks named Jane Marie invaded che peace and quiet of cheir home on August 5. But Frank and Jo anna say they've had almost cwo years of peace and quiet and would much

prefer co hear che crying, whimpering and cooing of a wee one and how right they are. Frank is employed in rhe Mill.

The writer had every intention to

scop right here and gee this copy up to the printer but another issue of the Presque Isle County Advance came off rhe press in the meantime and wouldn't

you know it—eighc more employees gee inco che news! I'll bet 1 beat the paper the next time!

Ed lor and Ramona Haske so hoped for a liccle girl whom chey could dress like a doll and puc pink ribbons in her hair but chac, as yec, is noc meant co be for their fourth boy. Joel Gene was born co chem on August 20. Beccer luck

nexc cime—the Lloyd Duliacks did not

despair. Edlor is at present working on the Alpena dismantling job.

The Phil Krefrs announce the birth of rheir ninth child, Dennis Allen on

August 20. They now have four sons and five daughters. Phil is employed as a mill repairman.

Shovel pitman, Russell Bey, wore

that grin exceptionally well on August 22 when he proudly announced that it was a boy this time. Yes sir, Russell insists that three women in one home

is quite enough but 1 can't say chac we

heatdly agree wich him! Keith Russell is the liccle guy's name and Russ says he's quite a man already!

Michael George Kerr's wife Clara finally convinced him char chey should have a Jr. in che family and so chac liccle

chap born co chem on August 22 will hereafter be known as Mikie Jr. Liccle Mike has two brochers and five siscers,

and daddy George keeps an eagle eye on who goes in and out of che Plane.

Bethany Louise says "goody, goody,

I've got a baby siscer" and how she loves liccle Janice Ruch. Janice will celebrate her birthday on August 23 and it looks like Douglas Selke will be buying dolls again when he would probably prefer to be buying baseball gloves and bats— this time, anyway. But there'll come a time, Doug, don't frer.

The Richard DuLacs were again blessed wirh anocher daughter. "Coon" will really be the king of rhe household when chese gals scare growing up and pamper his every whim. Hollis Ann joined rhe harem on Augusc 23 and her liccle siscers Camille and Andrea will

happily share cheir dolls wirh her.

"Coon" may have been hoping for a fishing and hunting companion but if his daughters should love these sports as well as his wife Norma he'll always have company.

Owen Brege must have been a good little boy to have been granted his wish for a baby brother on August 25 and grandma Virginia tells us that Neil Russell is che perfect image of brother Owen. Noc only chac he weighed in at

7 pounds and 5 ounces as did Owen but has che edge on him by a ',/> inch in Length. Yes sir, we really goc che statis tics on Neil. Now ic remains to be seen

whether he's going co be a skipper like his grand pappy Russ or an engineer like his daddy.

The sraff of Calcice Screenings ex

tends ics good wishes and congratula tions to our employees and cheir lacesc family addicions.

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PLAY BALL'

Obituary

The Rogers City baseball team is a

The sudden passing of Elizabeth

member of the Top-O-Michigan Lea

Platz,

gue. The league consists of six teams this year—Onaway, Cheboygan, Alpena, Arlanca, Gaylord and Rogers City. Che boygan and Onaway were tied for first place in che firsr half and had co have a play-oft game wich Cheboygan claim ing che honors for chac half.

The Rogers City team is managed by Clem Urban with Harold Hopp as his

lip wich some very fine performances.

They boch have a good fasc ball and a sharp breaking curve ball. In cwelve league games they have struck out a cocal of 138 bacsmen for an average of eleven per game.

An inspiration co che ceam is che fine supporc given by che fans both at che home games and che games chac are played away. The players spend two

evenings a week ac che ball field and really work hard in order to improve their game. It is hoped chac scill more fans will come ouc co che games and cheer their ceam co viceory.

The five leading hiccers of che ceam are Harold Hopp, Charles Wirgau, Elroy Bade, Bob Wirgau, Don Maruszew-

Surviving are her husband, daughter Nancy, her facher, Thomas Luscomb, a siscer, Mrs. Raymond Todd and cwo brothers, John and William Luscomb.

The Platz family live in Birmingham.

Michigan. Funeral services were held from St. James Episcopal Church and

This busy young man who has been found looking in che corners of che planr rhis summer is Norman Haselhuhn. After three years work in the Dock Office and anocher cwo years in che Laboracory "Norm" was made Safecy Director this spring. In chis picture lic is sampling one of our drinking water supplies which is just one of many ducics in helping co keep Calcice

employees safe and sound. "Norm" is enthusiastic abouc che safecy work and will do a good job in helping each employee to keep our plant a safe placeto work. He will need your help, fel lows as Safety is never a one man's job.

Ler us all work wich "Norm" on one of

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member of Sc. John's l.uchcran Church

wich funeral services being held from rhere.

We exrend rhe Gruelke family our sincere sympachy.

We wish also ac chis time co extend

our sympachy co Humphrey Berg in rhe

Take lime to Work—It is the price of

movie encided "The Girls of Pleasure

Take time to think—// is the so/tree of

Island" and chac same nighc had a dream. He dreamed chac all che bull

dozer operarors ac Calcice were girls and all rhe men wanced to be mechan ics.

Wanted: Two deer hides co be made

Good luck in che play-off's.

of a fellow other men liked. He was a

It's funny some cimes che cype of dreams chac a man will have. Julius Patzer, mechanic in che Shop, saw che

inco a sheepskin vesc. Will pay a good price on purchase. Please contact Leo Gorlcwski of che Track Deparcmenc.

Macuszewski, oucfield.

much missed. He was a fine man, a

good husband and facher and che kind

loss of his mocher.

The members of the team are: Clem

Meyers, oucfield; Ivan Karscen, ourfield; Bob Wirgau shorcscop; and Eugene

intcrmenc was in Whice Chapel Ceme tery. Our sympachy goes out to her grieved family.

John Gruelke, for cwenry-eight years. a member of the drilling department and cwo years a yard wacchman, passed away on May 7, 1953- John had been in poor health for about two years. His wife, daughcer and chree sons survive him. As a fellow employee che always cheerful and happy John will be very

our mosc imporrant jobs—Safety.'

Urban. Manager: Harold Hopp, carcher; Donald Matuszcwski; center field;

1953,

Her cheerfulness and friendliness en deared her in rhe he-arcs of all who knew her.

ski.

Gordon Elowski, pitcher; Don Wagner, pitcher; Dick Abraham, firsc base; Pece Brege, second base; Elroy Bade, chird base; Charles Wirgau, lefr field; Ray

President.

tion of any serious physical condition.

She had lived in chis communicy for over cwency years and was well known.

ac che beginning of last season by the ball players of che Rogers Cicy ccam.

The team has given the fans some

cween Cheboygan and Rogers scarring

Vice

tances in this community. She had not

The three men mentioned were elecced

on Sepcember 13th.

Gordon Elowski and Don Wagner, borh of the Yard Deparcmenc, are che picchers for che team and have come

our

been ill and there had been no indica

assistant. Both fellows are of rhe Con-

spirit have all conrribuced ro che honors thus far brought home.

The championship of che League will be ac scake in a chree game series be-

of

deeply grieved her friends and acquain

strucrion Deparcmenc. Guy Creagh, a local merchant, is che business manager.

thing to cheer abouc in che second half by playing very good ball. They have won rhe championship for rhe second half by downing Adanca 6 co 0 on Sepcember 6th. Good pitching, fine de fensive play, good hiccing and fine ream

wife

Charles F. Platz, on June 23.

Time For Everything success.

power.

Take time to play—// is the secret of perpetual youth.

Take time to read—// is the fountain of wisdom.

Take time to be friendly—// is the road to happiness.

Take time to dream—// fa hitching your Wagon to a star.

Take time to love and be loved.—// is

the privilege of the gods, They say chac in order to be a blasc-

ing blaster you have to eat limburger

lake time to

look around—// is too

cheese. The only rwo exceptions to the

short a day to be selfish.

'Jake time to laugh—// is music to the

rule are "Happy" Hopp and Bill Trapp.

What kind of blasters are they then?

Take time for safety—your family de

Don't answer now.

soul.

pends on you.

Self-Pity Is A Trap

When you are hurt because of some disappointment, or because you are

lonely, you are apt to feel sorry for yourself. But don't think you are alone

and help is most important. It satisfies every person's urge to be powerful and creative. It stills his pride. And it opens

wrist close to the lighted speedometer,

a two-way flow of warmth, washing away the unhappiness of self-pity.

nine. Five, ten minutes after. Ought to

More Business For Public Schools

Luckily, however, self-pity is a pass ing mood with most of us. We snap out We want to do things and be active again. We don't want to remain where

self-pity puts us: at the receiving end of sympathy and coddling.

Some people don't see things that way. They seem to enjoy suffering and feeling sorry for themselves. Every dis comfort or pain, physical or mental, is cherished and brought to the attention of others—so as to prompt their sym pathy and concern, to keep them aware of their moral obligation, prevent them from doing the things they'd like to

do, and keep them from having a good time.

Self-pity is a form of self-love—of which vanity and conceit are other

forms. They all have something to do with the basic fact that, as a rule, every

individual is more important to him self than is anyone else. But, though* everyone needs the strength which only the feeling of self-importance can give,

no one can live happily and rewardingly if he behaves as though everyone else were unimportant.

Actually, we need to love, to have someone or something on which to lavish affection and tenderness. This is

how we project ourselves onto the

things and persons around us, and how we target the negative feelings of com plaint and regret.

There is a word for that positive feeling; it is "compassion." From the earliest writings of religious and philo sophical thinkers, down the centuries, compassion has been held to be the greatest virtue man is capable of. Lit erally, compassion means "bearing suf fering with another." It is a "fellowship in feeling."

Compassion is the road out of the swamp of self-pity. It is very much like the method which has been so success

ful with cases of alcoholism. The group "Alcoholics Anonymous" has rehabili tated hundreds of men and women by

getting them to worry about the alco holism of others and, more important, by getting them to give themselves freely and willingly in helping others.

But whoever the object of giving and helping may be, the ability to give

squinted to read the time. A little after be home in half an hour.

in that reaction. Most everyone knows the bitter-sweet satisfaction that selfpity can give. of it because we want to resume living.

10 Seconds To Live

He pushed his sleeve back, held his

If he'd known he had only ten sec

Every American citizen is a stock

onds to live, he might have checked

holder in an important national enter

the time more closely. He might have

prise that has one million employees,

done several things differently.

serves 30 million clients and produces the most essential ingredient of our American way of life.

That enterprise is our American Public School system and its essential

eyes with thumb and middle finger, trying to rub out some of the sand.

product is the well-educated citizen of tomorrow.

Today, however, that enterprise is in serious trouble — 1,800,000 more

children are flocking to its school houses than were enrolled last year; more than fifty per cent of its class rooms are overcrowded; more than 25

per cent of its high school students are being housed in buildings that do not meet fire safety requirements, and a shortage of its skilled laborers, the teachers, is continuing to grow.

The directors of the enterprise—the school boards and superintendents of local schools across the country—are turning more and more to the stock holders for help in finding solutions to these problems. Silent stockholders —the citizens who sit back and watch their business from the sidelines—are

not wanted. Only active, hard-working stockholders are the only ones who can do the job and do it right.

They can do it by concentrating their efforts on bettering conditions in their own local schools and not letting stag gering national statistics scare them away from the job.

They can do it by learning more about their own local schools and their

problems and converting their interest in the schools into action for them.

They can do it by joining with other interested citizens in their communities

to undertake studies of today's and to morrow's local problems.

They can do it by lending assistance to school boards and superintendents

Ten seconds to live. He massaged his

Nine seconds to live. He'd driven al

most eight hours since lunch, and was beginning to feel it.

Eight seconds to live. Lousy driving in the rain. Light from your headlights just seems to soak in along with the water.

Seven seconds to live. Probably need a new windshield wiper blade. Old one just spreads the water around instead of wiping clean. Get one tomorrow, or next time it rains.

Six seconds to live. Somebody threw a cigarette out of an oncoming car. The red glow dissolved almost before it hit the pavement.

Five seconds to live. He planted his heels on the floorboards, squirmed back in the seat, trying for comfort.

Four seconds to live. At 60 miles an

hour, a car covers 88 feet of pavement every second. Four seconds, 352 feet.

Three seconds to live. Something looked wrong, through the blurry wind shield. A tentative dab at the brake

stiffened into desperate pressure as he made out an old, unlighted, slow-mov ing truck ahead.

Two seconds to live. Panic moved in.

Turn to the left. No, car coming. Head lights too close. Can't make it. Turn to the right.

One second to live. Horror numbed

everything into slow motion. He was floating right into the near corner of the truck bed. He opened his mouth to scream.

who need their advice and talents.

Learn what your school needs and then give your help!

We realize the fruits of a full and

bountiful life only by being careful in what we do every day and every way. We can shorten our life consider ably by being careless for only one second, even to the point of bringing it to a sudden and disasterous end.

NO SECONDS TO LIVE.

It happened to lots of people; maybe not just that way, but similarly. Drive too long, eyes get tired, reactions slow down. Rain, darkness, a windshield that's hard to see through. Driving too fast. A car or truck ahead that you can't see. It's happened to lots of folks.

IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU. 27

The Bradley Transportation Company Str. I. L. Clymer

Personals

Donald Kowalski says that he sure likes his new pickup wirh the dump box. Nothing like it co haul his money in and dump ic in che basemenc.

John Clans cells us chac he picked ouc a greyhound to ride back to Rogers which had lice. So, every two blocks che driver had to get out and scracch the bites. He says chac is why che scork

well, Karsren and Kowalski breezing down rhe deck abouc six miles per in che classy liccle single searer.

Noc co be slighced eicher is Wilberc Wirgau who is working on an atomic auto for his offspring. Hope ic's finished before Screenings time, it's supposed

Ic muse be a sickness in che galley— even Clem Modrzynski claims rhat 16 hours in che kic isn'c enough for a growing boy and Arc Gapczynski backs him up. (Note: Clem is on che Calcice

to be a secrer.

now and chere is nor 16 hours becween

ports. Wonder whac he does?)

Common nicknames on che Scr. Cly

bear him home.

mer:

Tony Rosmys said chac he scill has

Boehmer Wilbert Bredow

che firsc nickel chac he made chis year other chan whac Uncle Sam helped

Paczer

himself co and chac now he owns half incercsc in rhe Posen bank.

Burch Modrzynski

Butch Paczer: "1 don'r like co drive

fast buc 1 jusc can't seem to hold ic under 100 m. p. m."

Rosmys Jackson Karsren Fuhrman

Carrot Top Sleepy Time Gal

And then we see that Marvin Hasel-

huhn has a new hobby alchough ic can'c quite be classified as constructive—yes Marvie is now an engaged man. We don'c blame you a bir and congraculacions, Marv.

Old Hose Nose

Mad Russian

We'll bee chere's one bewildered gare

Bancy Rooscer

wacchman in Norrh Tonawanda. Our sec-ward Wilberc Bredow was abouc to

Fifreen-cwo Far Boy

show his pass when crew call was

Mumbles

blown. Resulr—one wacchman standing in a cloud of dusc. Dick lacer described

himself as a souped up jet but the Skipper and Burch Modrzynski describ ed ir as a liccle deep sea going cug churning up che dusc.

Did you hear Benny Kowalski's larest? He tells of a watchman on a selfunloader who saw one of his buddies

coming our wirh che cargo and of shuccing off the machinery up to the marc and asked if he to see something and poinced stockpile just as the man came

And Don Shawhan fills in his spare time carving and mounting model ships. Does a nice job, too.

inscead he ran wanted to the oil the

Absent but noc forgoceen is our "Honorary" wacchman, Pucz Adrian.

Hurry back, Purz, ir's nor righr for a good sailor co be on che beach coo long.

end of the boom.

Our Chief Engineer gave us a scareOur Second Mace Bill Joppich claims that Butch Modrzynski and Al Fuhrman were vaccinaced wich a phono graph needle. Do you chink ic's crue.

when we had co take him off in Sarnia

for an operation but chings curned ouc fine and he's back wich us now, for

awhile a liccle pale buc ocherwise fit as a fiddle.

Bill?

Someone quored an aviacion cerm one day, "Hying by rhe seac of your panes" and Tony Rosmys caking ic co heart made a beauciful chree poinc land ing on same. Be careful Tony you may ger a rickec for flying low.

To Caprain Chris Swarrs: We'll be gin conscrucrion on a duplicace of Capt.

Haswell's trailer as soon as you give us rhe go ahead sign.

Speaking of conscrucrion, invencive genius scill concinues on che Scr. Cly mer. Al Fuhrman built a dandy little

gasoline-powered auro to keep his kids occupied for the summer months. I chink che crew had as much fun wich ic as che liccle Fuhrmans will have. You

should have seen such "cinys" as Has28

"Waxey" Marv Haselhuhn wants co know if che crew on che Scr. Robinson

is caking care of his Firsc Mace. Hilton This fellow has had his heart set on

being a steamboat engineer for quite a few years. There were a few obstac les in his path including a "hitch" in the army. After rerurning from Ger many and Uncle Sam's service he came back to the boats. He goc his third ass't engineer's license last wincer and is now a repairman on che Scr. Irvin I..

Clymer. Our friend Alfred "Red" Boeh mer is prercy happy over rhis accomplishmenc and his many friends are happy wich him. Now all he has co do is concinue pushing uncil someday the cide of Chief will appear over his door way. He has anocher license ro con sider coo—"Red" is scill single.

Gould. Who have you to give you a hard time this year, Hilt?

A formula for a happy ship: a. One captain and an engineer who are both regular "guys". b. Three mates—the first of whom

has a world of pacience and someeimes needs ic.

c. Five engineers and one of which is a redhead and enrerrains the crew

wich wild scories of the engineering school in Cleveland.

d. Nine "deck apes" with many var ied ralents such as a celevision expert, a couple of musicians, a few card play ers and possibly a wire rope splicer.

e. Six stokermen and oilers and one-

wiper who keeps things going smooch-

dresses. How about chac, Virg? (Ed itor's Nore: Don'c forger, he's buying for cwo now!)

f. One sreward and four assisranes

who know that the way to a man's heart is through his sromach.

g. Two conveyormen who are both entertainers in their own right. h.

And

last

but

not

least,

Fuhrman: Lee che third mate know

in advance that you will eat all the fish he catches when fishing in Detour. Sale and pepper is furnished wich a smile.

three

wheelsmen who should be mixed up well and beaten thoroughly at lease once every four hours.

Resulr: One happy ship known as che Str. I. L. Clymer. And we'll bet che long hours slip by jusc a liccle bic fascer than chey do on any ocher ship.

Congratulations co Modrzynski, Kars-

admic chey won'c win che pennant this

year, unless rhe Yanks go into a big slump. The Chief says che only thing that's noc good in Cleveland is che In dians and chey are gercing paid for being chac way.

We wane co wish Paul Lyon good luck in his new job. He lefc the Brad

ley to go third mate on one of the

cen and Boehmer and all che ocher fel lows in rhe fleer who obcained cheir

Reiss boats.

original licenses. All kidding about Cleveland and ocher things aside, we

Clifford Dodge, our handsome night cook, is also going co cake chac long

know chac ic's hard work.

walk

Str. Carl D. Bradley

Personals

The season is well underway aboard che Bradley, and we have sercled down for rhe long haul. Ic seems Uncle Sam has taken co worrying abouc che health of some of the sailors, so they had to make a quick crip co Decroir ro con vince him chac chey are in fine shapeindeed. All chey wane is co return to the ship to haul limestone and gee into Rogers City, off watch.

down

che

aisle come

vacation

time. Cliff is a good shore order cook so che firsr months won't be as hazard

ous as they were for most of us.

Wickersham says he knows now why Bill Hornbacher was so worried each

spring for fear he wasn't going to get back on the Bradley. Wick thinks sheis some ship buc don'c forger Bill didn'c have any rivers in those days.

Edmond "Bud" Jackson made his

Roberc Garms, Ocqueoc's gifc co the

second seep upward in rhe engineering department of Bradley Transportation

Bradley, has been busy all spring con

chis season. "Bud" had served a season

and now is che scar wheelsman on the

as licensed repairman and is now a third ass't engineer aboard the Scr. Irvin L. Clymer. Bud has made good progress as a young man and chere is no reason why he cannor reach rhe cop in

eight-to-twelve watch.

marine engineering. His son, daughter and wife keep busy at their beauti ful new home and await Bud's occa

vincing us that he is a good wheelsman

Vacacions are che hot issue aboard

Each season finds younger members

the Bradley and Herb Friedrich and

of our company personnel slowly and surely climbing ro success and respon

Fred Beebe are busy gerring their fish ing cackle ready. Free! claims the big trout are in rhe Upper Peninsula be cause he didn'c caech chem last year.

sional docking at Calcite.

To Al Boehmer (purloined from Colliers.):

Why is a guy with bright red mop As you have often seen Given the name of carrot top When carrot tops are green?

co gee any sleep around 4 a. m. when che Bradley is in, he will have ro cue che eelephone wires as well as rum rhe

zines, Mr. Patzer?

alarm clock off.

Archie Karseen's wife must have a

every nip coses him a couple of new

D. Bradley. Proud of him and sharing his success is his wife and young daugh

ter Joan. We advise his friends co be nice ro him as he could be chief some

day.

troubled.

long co do his chores in che Skipper's room. Could ic be che Capcain's maga

Well-Stocked wardrobe. He claims thai

who was promoted this year from third assistanc engineer ro electrician. George is now stationed aboard rhe Srr. Carl

Robert Flein has that far-away look in his eye and has convinced himself that two can live as cheaply as one.

Come vacation time we expect co see Roberc walk off single and come back Wickersham has found rhat in order

We wonder what takes che waiter so

sible tasks. Pictured is George Paczer

Denny Przybyla is trying real hard co find something good about the Tigers to root about, but is abouc ready co

Uncle Sam finally caught up co our shipmate Calvin Jaeger. "Cal" had his

physical way lasr February buc Uncledid noc call him uncil he was off che

ship having a liccle vacation in August.

Ir didn'c cake him long co sell che Ponciac and now he is waiting for cwo long years ro disappear. We do nor know if he will sail che Bradley again bur he will be back co Rogers Cicy for sure.

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Str. T. IV. Robinson

Personals

Lester Pines says that if chose Tigers don'c scare doing beccer he is going ro sign up wich chem and give chem a helping hand. Who's conceited?

Noc meaning co throw flowers but we must commend the men on che Rob

inson for rheir fine response when colleccions for charicies are made. They are like we know, many and varied bur the boys always cheerfully give and arcprobably keeping in mind che old say ing, "che gifc without the giver is bare".

They muse all feel chac when you give one dollar you get a million's worth of satisfaction. Keep up the good spirit, boys.

The boys on board sure all like to play Spitzer and it is a fine game. Wich men on the ocher ships playing too,

maybe a Bradley Transporcacion League

could be formed with all ships represenred rhis winter.

caused chree false alarms and trips off.

We wonder how righc he is.

Our firsc assiscane didn'c have co go al! che way co New York co gee on che "Strike It Rich" program to come out

Thac lasc crip chrough che Canal was

quice a jaunc and incerescing too. Es pecially, when one of the observers was

overheard saying, "look, rhere's one

from Russia". (They were looking at the Shriners Ensignia on che sceering

ahead wich a Buick Skylark. Sez he jusc

pole.)

invesred ic wisely. There muse have been a good market for rhose Grand Lake fish he caughr lasc wincer!

haven't all those fellows convinced chac

You know, Kunner, chac you still

chose A-bombs aren'c causing all those We heard of boacs being built in che

cornadoes.

basemenc and of course rhe difficulty one experiences in geceing chem ouc afcer chey are once built. But che trouble

From what we hear che cigars will soon be plenciful. Thac stork is sure

chac individual ran inco geceing che

a wonderful bird.

dog house ouc of che score room was somerhing.

Wiper to Kunner:

What is that

thing turning for? (Referring co the There muse be a bic of che plain dirr gardener in che boys on board. We ob serve Dick Newhouse heading norch wich some summer cransplancs, Cape.

Bryan wirh a couple of rose bushes and Alex Selke and Hank Yarch have sev

rudder srockj

Kunner: Oh, chac's jusc the wheels man warming up rhe kilowaecs.

Ic muse be chac Alfred Pilarski is

really going co tic che knoc which he

lms been chrearening to do for some

eral bulbs under culture.

rime now. We are now convinced be

The 8-12 watch says they'll cake all bees chac George Bondy, che deckhand, can oucshovel any man in the fleet. Yep, we mean in che cunnel. George, ic

cause he can't figure ouc whac happened co chac one chin dime she lee him have ouc of his allowance.

seems, like co wade in che water a bir

The galley gang gave a demonscra-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;he stepped off rhe work boar inco

cion on how co use a deck hose wich wacer pressure included. You'd have choughc chey were all firemen. Seems

che drink.

With all the new synthetics coming out the deck gang is wondering if they are going ro weave some kind of a won der mooring cable. We all agree, boys, they are heavy and it is tough pulling.

Try keeping up rhe good safety work

chac che garbage chuce plugged up and che hose was dragged in by che boys wich che aprons. Ic was layed in posicion and Joe Zoho scood by che valve.

He curned it on a little early and it was quite some sight to see the hose snaking around in rhe galley and everywhere buc in che garbage chute And then che boys gave a demoncracion on how eo use mops. Yes, chey

around them too.

Wanted: Alfred Alias Hard Top Pilarski.

finally unplugged che chute.

Description: Thin and getting thin ner. Acts extremely when playing solos

in spitzer, doesn'r sleep night or day.

Crime: Pur salcpecer in che pancakes.

Lasc seen heading for Posen wirh Jim Mulka. If found call Joe Zoho and keep him away from che scoveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he jusc loves

Hank Newhouse built "litcle" Chris

Bob Adrian

has

been

around the

Bradley Boats for quire a few years.

eo fry eggs.

The last cimc he came back was in

A peculiar odor is now nociced as one passes Don Kaminski. He has been

January of 1948 and now ir looks as if he is here co scay. He has a sceward's job aboard che Scr. Calcice, a nice fam ily and a new home so he looks very

initiated into the fur business through the medium of spiczer.

The Earl "Moe" Tulgecskes are look

ing forward co Sepcember when Moe expeccs some growing pains in the family. Moe figures he can cake ic in stride chis rime afeer rhe firsc one which 30

well seeded. Bob became sceward lace last fall while his former teacher Otco

Sparre was ill. He was permanently promoced rhis spring. As his piceure shows he is a fine example of how good che Adrian cooking really is. The Calcice crew agrees coo.

a replica of che Robinson ouc of wood complece wich che A-frame and all and ic was a fine job. He cook it home for rhe launching in rhe family bachcub, placed ir in wacer and ic curned currle.

Chris wanced co know why and now Hank is scudying stability.

James Mulka sure docs burn up the road ro Posen when in port. We choughc chac maybe he was in che po tato business but wich all che cips his shipmaees give him on how co gee along wich che fair sex we are con

vinced Chac ic muse be a young lady now.

Congrarulations to Delberr and the new Mrs. Heythaler. Del can'r figureout why he waited so long. Being as the

new Mrs. is a qualified school teacher we figure rhac Del will gee a real in crease in higher learning now. We all wish chem che besc and may the wed ding bells never scop ringing.

Alfred Pilarski is scill looking for a

way co ear and calk ac che same time.

Uncil capsule foods are perfected Al will jusc have co go hungry or scop calking.

you.

Richards: Heck I would. 1 fell off a

bridge higher chan chac down in Pan ama.

Female: 1 suppose you've sailed che lakes so long you're quice accuscomed

Afcer chree new porcers in cwo weeks Pece, our sceward, srarced co complain

co the Captain that he would either have to stop the boat from rolling or get some seasick pills for the galley gang. Pete admitced he is a good man buc claims he can'c be a sceward, por

to "sea legs".

Sailor: Honesr lady, I wasn'r even looking.

eer and waiter all ac che same time.

Girls today have a lot of spunk.

When boys try co kiss chem goodnighe, chey scand up for cheir rights—clear

money.

Second

Mace:

Sure

wish

I could

figure ouc a way co hold ouc some excra Firsr Mare:

Does

the wife

know

chac you gee a bonus?

up on cipcoe.

Shawhan co Erickson who was in che

Glen Hubbard has a new mechod for

caking a quick shower—jusc scand near che

aucomacic

dishwasher

while

ic's

open and chrow che swicch.

Wouldn'c ic be queer co be born old and grow young? Scill, ic would be nice ro ger rhe hair off a fellow's chin

midsc of making pie crusr: Whar you making, Ralph?

Erickson: SI. 18 an hour.

and back on his head, where ic belongs.

Alex Selke is justly proud in that one of his youngsters was included in che Safecy Pacrol Boys who made rhe rrip to Washingron, D. C. The boys all crave! on wheels when

ashore and have made some nice buys lately. We see Earl wirh his Buick, Mar cin wich a Poneiac, Cape. Bryan wich his Packard and not to be outdone,

The first mate was always wondering where cartoonises gee cheir ideas bur afcer warching a couple of deckhands painr themselves in he is sure chey could gee a few ideas right off the boats. All we can say for Richards and Blair is chac che fellas are lucky chac che painc was fasc-drying.

Hilcon Gould also spores a Packard.

McCreery is proud coo of his economi cal liccle Chevie and along comes Rick Sabin

wich

chac

new

wildcac

The Chief is convinced rhac if you want a message delivered eirher write ie or deliver ic yourself. Ir seems chac

Jarvis goc his on and off mixed up, and as a resulr che Tug Limescone had co come ouc in che lake and cake che as-

siscanc conveyorman ashore.

Miller ro OToole: Where did you gee all che money?

OToole: Ic's no rrick ro make a dol

lar bur ic is a crick ro hang on co ie.

We have eo eliminace che Scr. Tay lor from rhe Polish Navy. We have

Buick.

One ching ic can'c do Rick is fly.

Fearson, Larsen, Nelson, Johnson, Erick

Max Inglis' favorice recipe: You rake a half cup of sugar and pur a little bit

son and che Scrands.

in—

Miller: Hey Spore, go call Poppy.

Joe Zoho isn'c calking abouc bargains in shoes rhese days. Hip boocs are more appropriace for sttmping our che gaily

Sporr: Why don'r you ring his bell?

Miller: No, chac mighc wake him up.

If you wane your clothes washed see Jarvis. He washes twelve hours a day.

He pucs chem in at 8:00 a. m. and cakes chem ouc ac 8:00 p. m.

when che sink overflows.

Str. B. H. Taylor

Personals

Kennerh Richards says his new Hud son Jer is robin egg green and will do 120 per and ro prove ic he wenc by a Plymouth which was going 105 per We'll let you be the judge.

Ted Strand claims thac there is no

justice—four hours loading in Calcite, four hours on rhe Derroir River, four

hours up and down che Buffalo River co Hamburg Sc. dock and chen off watch and no unloading time. Things are cough all over, Ted.

If anyone is inrercsred in buying a deep freeze see "Fuzz" Miller. (Who's he?)

A quiec young fellow is one of our new engineers, Mark Florip. We do noc hear him say much buc be assured rhar he will be on his way in che marine engineering field. Mark scarred sailing as a poreer during the World War 11 years when he was a young lad.

Gus: Hey, Johnson, do you wane seven filled?

Johnson: Yes. Gus: Whac wich?

Johnson: Wacer if chere is any.

Ic did noc cake him long co gee inco che

We were sorry to hear of the mis-

engine room. Lasc winter he secured his chird ass'e engineer's license and is

forrune ro rhe William Budnicks. We

Kennech Richards: Hey John, would

now stationed aboard the Str. White as

by will show no ill effeccs. Ic seems coo

you be afraid ro dive off Lorain high level bridge?

repairman. He is married, lives in Rog ers City and has cwo fine sons who are prercy fond of "pop".

bad chat we cannot travel our highways without some careless fellow geceing us

J. Mackay: Sure would, and so would

hope they recover fully and as cime goes

inco serious trouble.

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Str. W. F. White

Personals

ouc who owns a boecle of hair oil. Fle

Captain Kempe and Chief LaBouncy seem very pleased wich cheir crew this

said, "I don'c use che scuff and che ocher cwo guys in here are baldheaded, now what is it doing in here?"

year. Of course, with a first assistant

like Arnold Spechc and a firsr mace like Henry Kaminski, cheir job of running a ship is considerably lightened.

Gordon O'Tooie said he wore ouc six

pairs of shoes lasr year while on the Scr. White. Beccer slow down a bic, Gordon, you can't be buying a home

home co Decour almosc as much as the

and shoe Icacher, coo.

Rogers City men do Iacely.

"Red" Augsburger is really in love with his new Ford and also a certain

litcle girl in Rogers City, hey Red? (The little girl won out, Red is now ashore and has bid us farewell.)

Wheelsman Ed Cross seems co gee

Tlic-y are carching a new kind of fish up ac the Soo. AI Skowronek, while-

fishing caughr a fish chac was a cross

Lyle Goulecce, Tim Stafford, Leon

Boch Ed Cross and Lyle Goulecee

Diet! in and Ronald Piechan seem to

boughe new oucboard motors which we

spend most of their spare rime playing

will see a lot of while chey are break ing chem in. Some fellas jusc can'c seem co gee enough of che deep blue.

berween a railroad spike, a magnet and a cen-inch eye bole.

The Scr. Whire boascs of having a

going back co Mexico chis wincer if

good galley crew bur Gordon O'Tooie says chat we are way behind the times.

He says che besc chey ever had on the White was when Zoho was the steward,

muse be crying co sharpen up for che League chis wincer.

B.'s ac S.c Ignace. Reuben made ic but

Stanley still can't tell green from yel low!

We also have quite a few new young men aboard rhis year and we are sur prised at how careful they are in their work. We have a perfect Safery record so far and hope ro keep ic chac way.

spitzer which seems to be the latest craze on the ship this year. The boys

Reuben Wojraszek and Scanley Has ke had quice a cime geceing cheir A.

Wacchman Bob Bellmore plans on

Mark Florip, our new handyman on

he doesn't gee married in Augusc. Take

Shine Selke, second cook. Marrin Jop-

wacch, received his license in Cleveland

Mexico Bob, ic will be a loc cheaper bur

last winter and is geceing along very

chen on che ocher hand ic would be a

pich. waiter and Gordon O'Tooie was porter. Yes sir, I'll bet rhar really was

well. He has a nickname for his oiler,

loc nicer ro cake che Mrs. with you.

some

Lennie Kowalski buc

crew.

Lennie doesn't

seem co mind coo much and if he did

I guess it wouldn't matterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or so Len nie says.

Eljay Showers has become quite an arrist and has turned rhe galley quarcers inco somewhat of an art gallery.

The crew of rhe Scr. Whire wicness-

ed che cornado which srruck Monroe, Michigan. Ir was a sight none of us

had ever seen before and hope we will never be a parr of one.

We hear chac Milo Grulke and Leon

Dieclin are going ro buy and manage che Tigers. Mighc be alright ac chac.

You know rhac chere's such a ching as spoiling a good ching and we cer-

Milo Grulke said rhar he is really going co cry co relieve Willard Ackins

cainly don'c wane co do rhar. Ir was

wonderful and we enjoyed ir very much and hope co again someday be able co

on cime for che balance of che season.

By che way, Milo was a recenr facher of a baby boy a few monchs ago.

cake advancage of your fine hospital icy and service. Sure glad you enjoyed che

Bernard Bader has reporred ro che engine room as a vacacion relief man

smokes, coo!

for rhe summer. Glad ro have you wich

John Szczerowski: "Red, don'c you know chac driving wich only one arm

us, Bernard.

will gc-c you inco church?"

Red: "Why?" Johnny: "Either you walk down the aisle or six pallbearers will carry you."

Ronald Klee said he really goes for chac assiscanc conveyorman's jobâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;moscly during che coal crips, hey Ronald?

Tosch: "Did you see rhac girl smile

Our chree srokermen, William Pacchkowski, Leon Dieclin and Bucch Bruder

Alfred H orrocks who first sailed for

are a parr of che Scr. Whire just as

Bradley in 1944 has now become a second ass't engineer assigned to the Str. Calcite. He first goc a license in 1950 and is now making his way steadily upward. He was originally from Cheboygan and his wife and cwo youngscers still, make their home there.

"Al" has had some "tips and downs" bur always comes ouc smiling as chis piccure shows. We wish good forcune co come his way in rhe fucure.

much as the boilers rhemselves.

The crew in general is looking for ward to warmer weather (it's here), vacation rime, (it's here) a raise in the near future (ic's here), safe season and

a fasc lay-up. Now you can look for ward ro a safe season and a fasc layup!

Patchkowski is having a cime finding

at me, Boehmer?"

Boehmer: "Thac's noching, the firsc time I. saw you I laughed out loud."

Mate: "Say Markey, che only ching chac lays down on che job and produces is a hen."

Markey: "If 1 only were a hen."

Richard Brege, our chird assiscanc, just returned from his vacarion in che upper peninsula.

Personals

Str. Calcite

We're fresh out of the shipyard And we think we're pretty smart

Our ship is beginning to look decent Its virile erew is the reason.

Bob's homemade bread is fine And with it we watch Mary Hartline.

che cards muse be marked - and a guy can'r win under chese condicions.

Afcer a prolonged absence che Calcice again visiced che porr of Toledo. We wish co reporr che mosquicoes are just as big and hungry as ever, and the fishflies are jusr as clinging.

Cedarville is straight across the lake We set our course at 328.

When they want a little dab here and a little dab there

We're johnny on the spot.

And when the brass can't think of any

We go to Cedarville a lot!

The crew of the Calcite extends its

deepese sympachy co Mr. Plarz and his daughrer in their grear loss.

Tis good advice to recire coward somerhing and nor away from a job.

Jim's definirion of an achiesc—"All dressed up and no place ro go."

For years che besc known twins in

We'll have co admit chac boch were

rhe same cargo and ir was necessary to return wich ic co Calcice for repairs.

Anyhow we have che honors of che firsr cargo in, and che firsr one ouc.

In 1903 the death coll from fireworks

These crips co Cedarville are making

on rhe 4rh of July was 466. Traffic toll in 1951 on chis day was 491 dead.

us feel like we are working ashore—

excepc we don'c have co pack a lunch.

coll ocher than on our careless selves.

Ic cook 25 years for rhe Sceamer Cal cice co catch up co Don Langridge. Sheis nor as big as che resr of rhem buc she- gees around doesn'c she Don?

In 1952 ehere were only 2 deaths from fireworks. Ler's cry co do someching abouc che craffic sieuacion by each of us being more careful.

for Chief and Rod. Ic could be chac che Chief's cires are bad and Rod's whole-

They blamed John Adams for the fireworks at inauguracion. On whom

where

On June 16th we had our second cargo ro Cedarville. On June 17th we had our firsc cargo ouc of Cedarville.

can we place rhe blame for che traffic

Some kind hearced soul is looking ouc

car.

We heard chac one drop of Copen hagen snuff would kill a rattlesnake.

Our Sceward is sure doing a wonder

Hector, our third Assiscant says chis is

ful job. Everyone is geceing fac and

noc crue. He knows from experience.

saucy.

Bill Dagner can be heard saying.

"Whac's che dope" as if he doesn't know

Take away Cedarville crips and che T. V. and sailing would cercainly be dull according co our Second Mace.

the world have been rhe Gold Dust twins—Goldie and Dustie. Aboard the

7:45 Calcice. Don'c worry Bill breaks

Calcite we have another famous pair

will come your way soon.

Whac few Tiger fans are lefr aboard enjoyed seeing rhem defeaced while we

of twins—McNab and McNucc.

were in che shipyard. Nexr year Will be differenc if only—.

Jack Schuler was very anxious to

get some ouc-daced flares from rhe life boacs. Invescigacion discloses chac he-

plans on using chem chis winter for distress purposes aboard his Packard.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Don, we cook

special care co see co ic chac chese per sonals came under che heading of

We welcome two new crew members

Sceamer Calcice. We don'c ever wane co

who are filling in on rhe Calcice during vacarion season. If you have any doubes abouc our ship being rried and true, ask Rod. Both boys return co school in

give you a reason co make good your

che Fall.

ence is ouc for rhe local High School foocball ceam chis year. Berween Alban

Liccle Susy had been wacching grand ma measure a yard of marerial by hold ing ic co her nose and excending her arm full lengch. Finding a preccy little

and Louis Voda who also has a son on

chreac!

Third Assiscanc LaPrairie's son Clar

rhe ceam we will cercainly hear all abour che forrunes of che Rogers Cicy

piece of ribbon Susy said, "Grandma,

squad. Looks like a good year for the boys as a large number responded ro

smell it and cell me how much chcre is."

the early practice sessions.

Jack Berg, our second cook says he will never again cry co exchange a pair is well known in Rogers City buc has

Thac shipyard crip goc che "old girl Str. Calcice" in bad habirs of sraying away from home. One crip back co che home folks and away we wenc again for an eighc day crip. Penny, you are no

only been aboard Bradley boacs since

friend of ours.

of shoes for rhe Sceward—and espec

ially on Sunday. Gee, Jack, chey did look like shoes, ac chac!

We have a new nickname for our

v/aiccr, Kowalski

"Gabby" Donald.

Al Horrocks won'c play cards wich che Sceward for pop any more. He says

This smiling fellow ac che chroccle of che Scr. Calcire is Leslie Bellmore. He-

March 1951. Lasc wincer he studied, wrore for and received his third ass'r.

engineers license. He is now repairman on rhe Calcice and ready to push up the engineering ladder.

The shipyard is sure a hor place ac cording co che Calcice crew. The wearherman would pick ouc such a cime co give us his blase of heat. • 33

Str. John G. Munson

Personals

They say chac che coronarion is co be

paid for by caxes and now we're trying

Leonard Flewelling has been pro moted ro wheelsman. Joe Smolinski

British land tax or the American in

came over from

come

Leonard's

rhe Calcice co cake

place buc chen

co figure ouc whecher ir will be che tax.

recurncd.

Guess he didn't like us. Speaking of Smolinskis, Larry is back chis summer

relieving in rhe galley along wich Roger Wenzel. "Doc" Morley has been promoced co a wacchman while Ray Desjardins, rhe Marquecce Frenchman, is che new deckwacch. We have several new deckhands coo Sam Treadwell from

Molrke, Eugene Moulds III of Piccs-

burgh, Bill Thornley and Jerry Florip of Rogers Cicy and Charlie Schalk of

Hawks. Some of these college boys go for chis vacation employmenc co de velop che brawn while others admit

rhac chac liccle green piece of paper they pass ouc every 15th and 30th is che only reason why they like steamboacing!

Some of chese fishing tales che boys cell when chey gee back from vacation could make Ripley's Believe Ir Or Noc

column look very insignificant, especial ly when Bill Chain lees his imagina tion run wild.

Our boys from Cheboygan, Paul Lavigne and Gene Kwiarkoski

We had che lifeboac in che wacer che

ocher day and you should have heard "Capcain" McLean give orders. Now

chac boy's really goc a theory!

We find "Joe" Smolinski returning ro his firsc love, che good ole Sceamer Calcice. Joe cells us he goc awful lone

some for chac liccle boac - says he doesn'e even get thac lonesone for his liccle wife in cwo weeks buc who do you chink you're kidding Joe? That vaca tion ended all coo soon, so you cold us!

The Sceamer Munson claims ro have

cwo experc painters in rhe persons of Speed Ball Fuhrman and Q-Ball Ko walski—rwo slap-happy boys.

The Munson now seems co be run

ning a regular schedule co Buffingcon and chey're beginning co wonder what

a river looks like. Seems that this ship scarred wich jusc abouc che same crew they ended up wich lasc December bur as of now many new faces have re placed rhe old.

have

found deer hunting very good chis year while on rheir ereks home. Paul says rhar it's a bit hard on rhe car, though.

One hears so much calk of Weight reducing dices buc chac doesn'e seem co

bocher Wes Sobeck and Harry Piechan.

Seems chac chey are vieing for honors

Charles Horn found chose crips co Cheboygan a liccle hard on gas as well

as co who can eac che most and as you

as rime so he convinced chac liccle nurse,

scare.

Nancy, rhar she had beccer say "I do" and as of chis wricing chey arc now Mr. and Mrs. Congratulations and we hope you enjoy our liccle metropolis, Nancy.

L Roy Green is anocher new face seen

in rhe engine deparcmenc and we're happy co have you wich us. Erhardc Sch-

ultz is also aboard earning a few green backs co cake back

co Northwestern

may have guessed, Harry has a running "Honcy"Mci.ean claims he's on a

diec buc because he skips che spuds he feels he can gee away wich three help ings of peach shortcake. Have you checked rhe calorie chare, or are you jusc kidding yourself?

an impression over in Wisconsin for

he's scill geceing mail from chose pares.

Firsc Mace Bill Chain is looking mighty cough chese days and ic's not from being overworked or underfed.

Ic's just from rhac boiler compound he

chac vacation chis year.

makes and calls coffee.

Calcire.

Louie claims he's Wisconsin bound for

Larry Wrighe cells Elmer Jarvis chac ses for he can even see rhem under che boom and scill never come out of the

pilot house.

M

A fellow whose sense of humor con-

siscs of laughing ac somebody else's doubles may have humor bur he hasn't any sense.

America's mosr powerful weapon against tocalicarians isn'c secrer; we'll

be glad co give anyone a blueprint. It's freedom—for the other fellow, roo.

A local young lady wenr ro rhe city

and had never had ro use public rransporraeion

herecofore and

when

she

wc-nc co che bus stop she read the sign "No Standing". Public transportation on Sundays is very slow so she kept walking the "beac" waicing for her bus and when ic finally came she was on che ocher end of rhe block and missed it!

When the fish don't bite over a per iod of rime the unsuccessful angler be gins ro rhink there are no more fish

in rhar there lake. Griff Pines began to think this over a year or cwo ago and figured chis way. Now, if you could jusc look on che bottom and see the

fish it would keep your interesr up and you could bail chem ouc. Even fish, if chey are presenc are bound ro eac some times. Up eo dace, Griff has been a surface wacerman.

He

likes ro scooc

over che surface wich jusc che old pro peller in rhe wacer. If rhe lake is rough one can even cake co che air becween

che waves. Like most of chese shop men an idea usually develops inco something practical. Griff has decided co invesci-

gace che boceom of Long Lake and see if he can find any fish, study cheir habits from observation and chen catch 'em.

Incidentally he chinks he mighc find a few of chose outboard motors rhat have

taken leave of their craft in the past few years and are now lodged in rhe

hidden depths as legitimate salvage.

Louie Rachuba sure muse have made

wirh him.

Bill Chain muse wear curved spy glas

one to a game of Quoits or Shulfleboard amongst the pines on the top deck.

Ray Kowalski really muse be work ing hard—he slepe for four hours in

Chet Kandow passed out the cigars a while back. Congratulations and how does ic feel ro be a papa, Chet?

Chief Fredericks will challenge any

If, when fishing in Long Lake you should by chance pass che Pines' cot tage and see a strange looking craft 26x10' caking shape on che shore you will, afrer reading chis item, have some vague idea of whac mighc evencually emerge. Ir is a cop secrec, even che Con

servation Deparcmenc is eyeing ic wich ulterior motives. Nexr year, we will cry and sneak up on che finished produce wich a camera and wrangle a more decailed news release. We are hopeful of geceing co inspect the hidden depths through thac sliding tube and find ouc why che walleyes ignore our baic.

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Drills

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Thomas Kelley

Drills

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John Dembny

Electrical Crews

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Machine Shop

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William Heller

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Cash Sobeck

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Frank Reinke

Secondary Stripping

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John Britder

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Tracks

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John Modrzynski

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Peter Giovangorio

Mill

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Victor Koch

Transportation

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Gaylord Smith

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Yard

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Capt. Chris Swarts Chief Ray Buehler

Str. T. W. Robinson

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Capt. Roland Bryan Chief George Hoy

Str. B. H. Taylor

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Capt. Rolland Ursem Chief Thomas Suttle

Str. Irvin L. Clymer

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Capt. Mark Haswell Chief Norman Henderson

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Ralph Dolsen

If You Are Too Busy For

SAFETY You Are TOO Busy

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It Wont Hurt You A Bit To Be

CAREFUL So Let's Try It • •

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We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope that the past year has been kind to you and yours and that the

future will bring a bountiful share of health and happiness.

Under the brilliant pageantry of the Holiday Season we pray that the people of our com munity, country and the world will gather into their hearts the spirit which will eventually bring Peace to all peoples.

Track Department Has A Good Safety Record This time we are happy to feature the safety record made

by one of our very line departments in the quarry. The sixty-odd members of the track department arc the ones who have brought attention to their safety work.

Wherever a railroad track is found around the plant you will find all or part of this crew at work. They are the handy crew to have around when a gang is needed in the quarry to keep trains and shovels going. Since their work is always in the out-of-doors they are at their labors in fair weather or foul. So with the requirements of their job the safety record which they have established is indeed an ac complishment. As of November S of this year they have worked 3,580 days since the last disabling injury. To make this record proves that these fellows to a man are aware of their duty to work safely and having done a job are also aware of the value to themselves.

A record such as theirs

is not achieved or maintained by talk but by each man doing his share every day. To them Safety is a living thing.

Expressions from some of the crew when asked how they do it or what it means to them go something like this, "Safety is just good sense." "I can't afford to get hurt." What about my wife and family? I think about them each time there is a chance of getting hurt and then I don't take the chance. It hurts to get hurt."

We congratulate the department, every man of them, for this fine record, the good spirit and the tremendous effort

which they use each day in making Safety an important part of their job.

In a review of the accident situation among all the de partments at the Calcite Plant, Bradley Boats, and the Cedarville operation, we have some good news and some not so good. On a comparative basis, the record at the Calcite Plant has not been too good this season. We have had thre-; lost time injuries of low severity, for which we are thankful,

and this is a poor record for us. The last one and the only one to report since the summer issue of Calcite Screenings Winter, 1953

was on October 14 when Phil Andrzejewski, shovel pitman, received a fractured jaw. He was struck on the jaw by slack in a shovel cable. He was off work for seventeen days.

There are those who would say that for our type of work we have not done badly, but we have had many "close calls" which will never show in the record. They are the ones

which arc causing us grave concern as they are danger signal; which cannot be forever ignored. The close ones make us

shudder. There is only one solution and this is a change of attitude by every man on the job.

The construction job at the Cedarville, Michigan, Plant is going along well. To date, there has not been a serious in jury. A long, cold winter ahead will increase the hazards

so that these men will need every bit of help to keep up this splendid performance.

The ships of the Bradley Transportation Line have been doing a superb job this season in preventing accidents. The first one of the year and only one to date was on November 8 when John Wood, a seaman on the Steamer T. W. Robin son, sprained an ankle. The sprain was severe and he had to leave the ship for treatment and rest. We believe that

this has been one of the better years for the Bradley ships in their safety work and also in a year when they have hauled a record tonnage of cargo.

There is no secret about how any job can be done suc

cessfully. Usually it goes back to how much energy is put into it. Safety gives a quick response to hard work and sound thinking. If you do the job well the results are pleas ing. Use the tools you have for safety â&#x20AC;&#x201D; use them to the fullest and accidents will become few and far between.

Calcite Screeningsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Published periodically by the Michi gan Limestone Division, U. S. Steel Corporation, Rogers City Michigan, in the interests of safety. Send contributions early with name and department, to the editor George R. Jones.

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WHAT ABOUT YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE

Whenever you pay a visit to your doctor — whether it is for a checkup, or because something specific is bothering you — you can be pretty sure that he will test your blood pressure.

It is an important indicator of your general state of health.

The doctor takes this test with an instrument called a sphyg momanometer, which measures the force with which your

blood pumps through your circulatory system. Normal pressureranges between 100 and 140, depending somewhat on a per son's age. As a rule, a slight raising of blood pressure occurs with age. Your doctor knows that when the blood pressure remains at a consistently high level, there is something wrong.

High blood pressure — or hypertension — can be caused by many things: acute and chronic kidney infections; hyperthyroid; aortic inefficiency (some sort of heart disease), or the

LETS PROTECT HIM AGAINST ACCIDENTS

You have a youngster under five years old. He's either

had all of his protective treatments against diphtheria, lock jaw, smallpox and whooping cough, or he will have them when the proper time comes. The family doctor sees him regularly. He's well fed, healthy, much-loved, spirited and happily adjusted to his family and playmates.

What more protection does he need, you might ask.

The answer is found in the records of the Michigan De partment of Health.

He needs protection against death or injury by accident.

Nobody in Michigan has had a case of smallpox in the last

chronic state of hypertension. But doctors seem to agree that

six years. Last year only two persons died of diphtheria — an all-time low. Nobody died from typhoid fever, a tribute to those who work diligently to assure you of safe water and milk. Only 10 died of whooping cough; none from scarlet fever. You, the family doctor and the official and voluntary health organizations are doing a yeoman job of protecting

perhaps the greatest single contributing factor is unpleasant

the little fellow against disease.

arteries themselves becoming hard and narrow with a conse

quent rise in pressure. Heredity can be responsible for a emotional strain. This has the effect of constricting the small arteries so that the heart must pump harder to force the blood through.

Symptoms. A person suffering from hypertension may have no apparent symptoms at all. Or he may become easily red in the face, be obese, have a continuous feeling of discomfort, strain and tension. He may have headaches, dizzy spells, or buzzing in the ears.

Treatment. Doctors say that a philosophical attitude towards your condition is a must. Since excessive strain on mind and body cause high blood pressure, the first obvious treatment is moderation, in eating, worrying, working and activity in general. A half-hour to two hours' rest in the middle of the

day are invaluable in keeping blood pressure down. If you are overweight, get a diet from your doctor and stick to it.

Low blood pressure — or hypotension — occurs when the pumping force of the body's blood is low — below 100 on the doctor's measuring instrument. Any run-down condition is likely to cause it. Older people suffer it frequently follow ing infectious diseases such as influenza, shock caused by acci dent, operation, illness, coronary thrombosis, or after heat exhaustion. Like hypertension, it too can be hereditary in so far as a person's physique is hereditary. Someone who is slender, narrow-chested and long of waist, with the heart on

a low level, is more likely to have low blood pressure than one who is broad of chest.

Symptoms. The sufferer tires easily, sweats frequently, becomes dizzy with change of position. He finds it hard to make deci sions, and his memory is treacherous. He is inclined to look on the dark side of life.

The usual post-influenza depression is largely explained by a drop in blood pressure, which can last for weeks and even months. Recovery for older people is prolonged, and the period of convalescence after this kind of illness should be longer.

Low blood pressure in older people is only dangerous in that a sudden drop can cause formation of blood clots in nar rowed, ri<;id blood vessels. But it is not nearly as serious for them as hypertension.

Trectlmenl. Treatment is that normally given to anyone in a rundown condition; plenty of rest, a nutritive high caloric diet, vitamins, plenty of fresh air.

Statisticians say the average American takes 19,689 steps

daily. Are your steps along a path made wide by safe practices and attitudes, or are you traveling a perilous journey, where one misplaced step can put you on the accident list?

But — last year in Michigan, 341 boys and girls under five years of age were killed in accidents.

Here is a job of protection that remains to be done — and the biggest part of the job needs to be done in the home for that is where over half of all fatal accidents among chil dren of this age occur.

"Mechanical suffocation" — usually smothering in bed clothes — was said to take the heaviest toll in the home,

claiming the lives of 61. There is, however, considerable speculation as to this as a leading cause of accidental death.

Studies indicate that many babies thought to have died of suffocation may actually have died of illness, signs of which had gone unnoticed in the days preceding death.

Choking from food, putting beans or marbles up the nose or other instances of breathing in or swallowing of objects causing obstruction or suffocation claimed 47 lives.

Fires and explosions — mostly fires — claimed the lives of 46 youngsters of preschool age; 18 met death from burns from hot substances, such as steam and boiling liquids; 76 were killed in motor vehicle accidents — 47 as passengers.

29 as pedestrians; 33 were drowned: 19 died as a result of falls and 13 from accidental poisoning.

Prevention of accidents to preschool youngsters is largely the responsibility of parents since these little children are too young to protect themselves, but "over-protection" is not the answer. Teaching the youngster to protect himself should begin at an early age.

Many deaths attributed to suffocation might be prevented by calling a physician immediately whenever the baby shows any deviation from normal behavior. Parents should also im press upon the youngster at an early age that fires burn him, falls hurt him, poisons make him sick and sharp tools such as knives and scissors can cut him.

In making accident prevention a part of the daily training of little children, be sure to set a good example by doing things the safe way yourself. i

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An announcement was recently made that Joseph A. Val entin, formerly Operating Manager of the Calcite Plant has been named Manager of the Northern District, Michigan Limestone Division. The Northern District includes the Cal

cite Plant, the new Cedarville Plant and the Bradley Trans portation Line. Due to the construction of the Cedarville Plant a realignment of responsibility has been made Lewis J. Patterson, former assistant to Mr. Valentin, has

been named as Manager of Operations, Calcite Plant.

We extend congratulations to both of these men.

NEW METHODS EOR PROOP TESTING

mended by the cable manufacturers and always exceeds by

The Electrical Department has adopted an improved method of proof testing the portable cables serving the shovels, drag

50 per cent the operating voltage of the cable. Any fault is quickly detected and the necessary repairs made before the cable is put back in service.

The electricians using the cable tester have been carefully instructed and all precautions are taken so that there is no danger of accidental contact with the high potential con

lines, and drills throughout the plant and quarry. The new method of testing has largely been made possible through the purchase of a Johnson Fault Locator and Proof Tester, a newly developed instrument.

The power cables operating on a 4000-volt potential fre quency become damaged resulting in "shorts" or "grounds" necessitating immediate attention in order that the connected

machine may resume operating. Temporary but adequate repairs arc generally made in the field but periodically all cables are brought in for inspection and all repairs arc made in a permanent manner with the proper splicing and vulcaniz ing equipment.

Occasionally it has been very difficult to locate a fault in a cable when it is concealed within the sheath and cables

previously have been placed back in service even after having been inspected and repaired without detecting a fault not visible from the outside. This, of course, has resulted in addi

tional delay and maintenance.

nections.

The new method of proof testing power cables should result in considerably less delay from this source and some saving in cable maintenance.

In the accompanying picture we show Alvin Vilburn operat ing the new equipment and Emerson Lee supervising the work. This equipment is just one of many new things which are being constantly perfected to make work more efficient, easier, and best of all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; safer. We expect that the Proof Tester will be of great value to our operations at Calcite. It is symbolic of progress found in industry.

THE TRUE NATURE OF COMMUNISM

No one should be surprised at the U. S. Army's report on the horrible Communist atrocities in Korea. The atrocities are

shocking but not surprising. The fact that a great many Amer icans were surprised shows clearly how little our people know about the true nature of Communism and its diabolical con

spiracy to conquer the world. Mass murder is the standard practice of the Communists. And yet many Americans still will not accept this fact. Inhuman torture is a standard tactic

of the Communists. And yet the report that 6,113 American GI's died torture deaths in North Korea surprised even a number of Congressmen, according to news reports.

The army's report described the nature of the slaughtering of American prisoners as "bestial and sadistic." Atrocities horrifying even to war-hardened soldiers were related.

But the significant thing is not the sickening nature of these evil acts. The significant thing, which all Americans must at last recognize, is that Communists do not distinguish between good and evil. They consider torturing and mass murder as necessary steps in world Communist "progress." Thus butcher ing of innocent people is Communism in its true nature. In their creed there is no such thing as morality, justice or sin.

There is no God, no hereafter, no recompense.

Bakunin, one of the first Russians to join with Marx in the

founding of Communism, described it as a new "religion."

The short which may be anywhere within the length of a 1500 foot cable may be quickly and easily located with the new Johnson tester. The instrument can be adjusted to im press a series of high voltage closely spaced impulses across

the faulty conductors causing an audible tick or snap as the current shorts across the exact point of damage in the cable.

This fault signal can be heard from a distance of 10 or 15 feet.

The steps now used in proof testing a completely inspected and repaired cable consists of first impressing current of approximately double the normal amperage rating of the cable through each of the conductors and the ground wire sepa rately for several minutes. This is done by means of a con ventional arc welder and a comparison check is made with an ammeter of the current flow in each conductor. A partially severed conductor or poor splice is quickly detected by a reduced current flow indicated by the ammeter as compared to the other non-faultv conductors.

The second step in proof testing the cable consists of impressing a voltage between each of the conductors and

between each conductor and the ground wires. This poten tial is produced by the Johnson tester and is of a value recom

"Brethren," he told the fanatics of the Russian underworld,

"I come to announce unto you a new gospel, which must pene trate to the very ends of the world: The old world must be

destroyed and replaced with a new one. The Lie must be stamped out and give way to Truth. The first lie is God; the second lie is Right . . ."

This fundamental truth about the nature of Communism

has been repeatedly confirmed to the American people by lead ing ex-Communists and FBI agents who have, in disguise,

worked their way into the top ranks of the Communist appa ratus here. Matthew Cvetic, who lived nine years within the Communist inner circle while serving the FBI, told that 20,000,000 Chinese had been murdered since the Reds took over

China and that the plan was to kill 100,000,000, or 25 per cent of the population. He said that Red leaders often ex pressed the belief that it would be necessary to murder onethird of the people of America if they were victorious here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to stamp out all seeds of opposition.

Clearly recognizing the true nature of Communism the out

lawing of this evil conspiracy in America is advocated. We are foolish indeed to give legal protection to these mass mur derers who hope to make America their final great victim.

Cedarville Plant Construction Progresses Rapidly Since the last issue ol the Screenings, with the accumula tion of more material and the hiring of more men, the con struction tempo at Cedarville has increased. As the construc

tion progressed, the different areas of development have become more diversified and spread out. In addition, full opportunity has been taken of the fine summer weather, for a definite amount of work must be completed by winter.

Much energy has been expended and there is obvious growth taking place day by day, manifesting itself in direct propor tion to the effort induced.

Let us now take a look at the

different phases of the construction.

First of all, it must be realized that this plant has been carved out of a wilderness that had few facilities readily available. Power, in the form of electricity, had to be brought in over four and one-half miles of rough country to the quarry site to operate the drills and shovels. The quarry is

located about four and one-half miles from the plant site, but on existing roads, the distance is twelve and one-half miles. There are no railroads within thirty-five miles; there

fore, equipment must be hauled in either by truck or boat.

In the spring or after heavy rains, sometimes four bull dozers would become mired simultaneously. In spite of large and numerous boulders on the surface of the ground at the plant site nothing but soft wet clay was found immediately under the thin surface crust, making it difficult for equipment to work on. Three swamps, one having several feet of water, have been crossed in constructing the railroad line connecting quarry and plant. One beaver dam had to be blasted open, after a week of repeated attempts to open the dam by hand had

failed. Every night the beavers would succeed in plugging the holes.

This one beaver dam alone was over 1,000 feet

long, which backed up the water about one-quarter mile.

The picture above was taken from the dock looking

north towards the plant entrance. The railroad passes through the clearing in the background and leads due north to the

quarry. The building in the background is the combination office, storehouse, and garage or light maintenance shop.

This building is of cinder block construction. The storehouse and maintenance shop are completed with the office por tion slated for completion in early December. The steep bank along the shore is all fill material, which is part of the ex cavation from the lowered highway, depressed 25 feet to allow proper clearance under the railroad bridge.

The picture shown below in the foreground the com pleted dock with the traveling loading shuttle erected, and in the background, the portion of the plant area which will become storage piles. The dock is 620 feet long and 117 feet wide. The unique feature of this dock is that the boats will remain stationary while the shuttle will travel along the dock on rails. To the right is a pile of fine stone which will be used to top off the dock. A concrete cap will be poured next spring after a winter of settlement. There is about 24 feet of water at the dock face. In the background a short length of completed tunnel can be seen. The complete area is used as storage ground for pulleys, idlers, fabricated steel, reinforcing bars, piling, railroad ties, etc., most of which was brought from Alpena by barge.

The picture at the top of the opposite page depicts work be

ing done on one of the tunnels. The base slabs are being pour ed in alternating sections of 24 feet, the intermediate section requiring only two side forms for pouring. On the right is the paving mixer which can pour up to a yard of concrete every minute. The cement and gravel are dumped into the hopper at the extreme right, elevated, and dumped into the first of two mixing drums where the cement and gravel are blended in the dry state. From there the homogeneous mixture passes into the second drum where water is added and mixed. The

operator then discharges the cement into a skip bucket, which travels out a long boom to the area being poured.

In the background the screen house framework nears com

pletion. On top of the tall columns can be seen short addi tions or new stub columns added to the original columns to give extra clearance to accommodate new machinery and

equipment. The tall crane boom is over 100 feet high includ ing the jib boom on top.

A great deal of work has been done on the railroad and

roadway connecting the quarry to plant. To keep the railroad at a small grade, a large amount of fill is needed in the swamps, obtainable from numerous ridges along the railroad right-of-way. All available trucks, bulldozers, and a crane are continually building this railroad. There is now a rough road connecting plant to quarry, saving eight miles of travel. The rail has all arrived, and will be welded this winter into con

tinuous strips of 1,000 feet. Early in spring these strips will be dragged into place for final installation.

The picture below catches the first blast of quarryable stone. This stone will be removed and the resulting hole, about 46 feet deep, will become the quarry floor. Also, the primary crusher will be located in this hole. The shovel in

the center of the picture has been working on a ramp which will provide access to the quarry floor. At the left can be seen the new quarry building and the present end of the pole line which will be extended to the plant site. On the right are the two rotary drills temporarily moved from the blast area. After the smoke, dust, and rock settled, a hill of broken

stone about 30 feet high appeared.

Winter will necessarily slow down the rate of construction.

However, by the first of the year, the screen house should be

enclosed, two funnels completed, and several small buildings erected, providing cover for the installation of machinery and equipment. In addition, concrete will be poured whenever possible throughout the winter. There is a great deal of work

yet to be done and good weather will help to keep the con struction progress up to date.

A Week-end Trip To The Montreal River Along Scenic Route The road shown in the accompanying picture, winding and

unspoiled wilderness as the "Sportsman's Paradise". Fish and

twisting through rocky, rugged hills where the hand of man has laboriously blasted and filled the road bed for this black top is a typical scene on the completed part of the northern section of Ontario's Provincial Highway No. 17. This high way which wends its way from Montreal through the cities of Ottawa, North Bay, Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie is one

game in their natural state are abundant in many streams and

lakes whose rapids, placid bays and woodlands are seldom disturbed by man with his banging gun and whirring reel.

Those of us who live in Northern Michigan and have never

had the time, money, or the all-consuming urge to spend a

of Canada's scenic drives. It follows much of the water route

week with a guide and canoe on the waterways of the Aigoma wilderness may now satisfy some of these hidden desires by

taken by the voyagers on their long fur-trading trips by canoe and portage to the upper reaches of the Great Lakes.

to the Canadian Soo, one hundred and ten miles north of

The narrow gorge of the Montreal River shown here where it empties its black waters into the rocky island studded bosom

of mighty Lake Superior is now the end of the pavement.

Eventually, on highway 17 going north, when completed, it will skirt the shores of Superior to meet its counterpart now paved from Port Arthur as far as Nipigon.

A look at the map of the vast lake studded region north of Sault Ste. Marie and Lake Superior gives us some idea of its size and expanse. The Aigoma Central Railway with its

few rugged right-of-ways represents the only route other than rivers and lakes, to the thousands of square miles of the inte rior. Small wonder our Canadian neighbors speak of this

taking our families there on a week-end trip by car. A trip Rogers City is a pleasure most local residents have experienced more than once. We may have our doubts about those bluecoated inspectors at the Canadian border but we find them very congenial hosts if we take our car title with us and obey the laws of the land.

The Canadian Soo is a busy town much like our Michigan industrial communities. If we feel the urge to visit the Aigoma Steel Works we will find some piles of Calcite limestone on the docks and maybe the Steamer W. F. White unloading a fresh cargo of flux on the depleted stockpile.

When we have satisfied ourselves that Canadians are prac tically the same "kettle of fish" as we Americans it is time

to settle down behind the wheel and swing north on High way 17. The better part of the afternoon is still with us and in a few miles we will find ourselves on a winding blacktop road on the way to Batchewana Bay. Words fail to describe the scenic beauty of the route as we glide between rocky walls and through valleys with hardwood and giant spruce on the hills above casting wavering shadows over the road ahead. A long, winding ribbon of highway will suddenly roll over a rise and wind down toward some vast bay of Lake Superior studd ed with rocky islands and a vista of rolling, wooded hills rising abruptly out of the bay in a steep, back cliff and finally dis appearing into the hazy horizon.

You will find hotels and overnight cabins at Batchewana or Haviland Bay. A good night's rest and an early start will give you plenty of time for the fifty mile drive to the Montreal River and the end of the pavement. We automatically stop to enjoy the marvelous views and to walk along the bank of the beautiful Chippewa River where it cascades down rock ledges from the hills above. We may not have the leisure, license, or rod and fly to test out its shimmering pools but we make a silent vow to return for some future rendezvous with

speckled brooks and rainbow trout.

The Montreal River shown here with the harbor around

the bend and boats for hire is something you will no doubt leave with regret for you must hit the back trail and arrive at the Mackinac Straits to catch the last ferry back to lower Michigan and Rogers City.

Should you take this trip next summer and be fortunate enough to pick your time, choose October. The brilliant colors of autumn arc unparalleled on this eighty mile trip to the Montreal River. Use your color camera and you will have a photographic record that will eventually draw you back some day in fact or fiction to the finished route beyond the River or back into the mysteries that stretch three hundred miles north to where the Canadian Pacific Railway follows its north ern route to the Western Provinces.

WHAT'S CHRISTMAS? . . . Holly and tinsel and mistle

toe . . . the tree with the shiny, colored lights . . . snow. . . . carolers . . . greeting cards . . . the hustle and bustle of

holiday shoppers? Well, these things are all a part of Christ mas time.

But the real, traditional symbol of Christmas is the man in the red suit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Santa Claus.

For the kids, somehow, Santa Claus is everything that's good and kind and gay and wonderful in the world all rolled into one. And for the older folks he stirs the memory of happy childhood days, of family get-togethers around the tree, of sleigh rides and, maybe, courtin days.

But the spirit of Santa Claus transcends the brightly beribboned gifts and the tinseled trees. Santa's the symbol of a free people, of hope and happiness, of good will and justice for the big and the little, the rich and the poor of the free world.

He defies dictators, lends a helping hand to those in need, paces the floor in maternity wards. He laughs and cries.

You see, Santa Claus is no mythical oneday miracle man.

He's real. For 364 days a year he's a guy at a machine, or a shop foreman, or a laborer, or a clerk, or maybe a welder.

But on December 25th. he has his day. And from behind the long white whiskers and the red suit he sees the starlike light in the kids eyes, and a mellow, warm glow in the missus.

It's a rich and fitting reward for a year of working wisely and safely.

Already he's looking ahead to future Christmases. And in his heart he knows a lot of dreams, hopes, health and happiness depend on his being on the job every day and do

ing the job safely and well. He realizes that it's a small price to pay for the share of peace on earth and good will toward men that he contributes.

FOR YOUR XMAS SAFETY TREE TIPS

Keep your Christmas tree in water before and during the time it is up.

Don't leave it up too long. It will become dry and easy prey for fire.

Place the tree well away from any fireplace or stove.

Watch your cigarettes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; keep them a safe distance from the tree.

Don't use light fixtures that have worn insulation.

Never overload a socket.

Disconnect the tree lights when leaving your home or go ing to bed.

TOY TIPS

Don't give the youngster toys with sharp edges or points, or with small parts that can be pulled off and put in the mouth.

Give sturdy, well made toys. Those that break easily can cause falls, or cuts or puncture wounds which might lead to infection.

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Quarry View Lookout Station Has Another Big Year The Quarry View observation station is on the map! As

positive proof of this fact we merely show the official visitors' registration book. The records show that from the opening date of May 30 through September 7 of this past summer

more visitors came to see the limestone quarry from this station than in any previous year. The count was 573Š3.

The home addresses of visitors included 37 states of the

United States, the District of Columbia, the Philippine Islands.

so called "eighth wonder of the world". Local people never seem to tire of the limestone story. It's among their first thoughts to show visiting relatives or friends the Plant.

It is true that "Quarry View", as such, is not actually on the map but it certainly has played a big part in putting Rogers City there.

We cordially invite each and every one of you to visit the Quarry View when in this area.

7 Provinces of Canada and 11 foreign countries.

What did people see from the Quarry View. The)- saw

our limestone quarry and plant. The scope of the operation is better seen from this high vantage point on the edge of

the quarry wall than from a conducted tour of the Plant proper. They saw lake freighters coming into port here to

CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

Shown at the top of the opposite page is some of the machinery used in this summer's program of street resurfac ing in Rogers City. This picture was taken on South Lake Street and the homes of Cash Sobeck, Louis Roski and Henry

be loaded with limestone before departing for their destina tion which might be any port on any of the five Great Lakes.

Quarry View is an education for some visitors. Many people didn't know that our limestone is almost pure calcium carbonate, that it was once millions of years ago, part of

Yarch can be seen in the background. This program is intended to salvage existing concrete pavements which have deteriorated through the years. In some cases the loss of street surfacing prior to the "recap" operation

animal life and that it has hundreds of uses in the modern

restored to their original smoothness at a much lower cost

world of today. They didn't know that we have 52 miles of standard gauge railroad track in our quarry with diesel elec tric engines pulling strings of cars on it, that our electric shovels take 20-cubic yards to one bite. To answer these questions and many others attendants were on duty from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 p. m. each day. Literature in the form of book lets was given to interested parties. Of special interest to young and old alike were the displays, maps, graphs and pictures found in the comfortable Quarry View building. From an easy chair, one could see the limestone being quarried from the beginning to the end.

Many of the people who signed the register are annual visitors. Some can be numbered as guests who have visited the Quarry View each year since its beginning in 1950. They have told their friends and they in turn stop in to see this 10

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A good portion of the money necessary to carry on such work as well as routine maintenance is received by the city through the return of our Gas Tax Monies. Each time you

purchase gasoline you pay 4'/? cents in state gasoline tax and a portion of this money is returned to the City to be spent in the upkeep of streets and to provide capital improvements to our street system. The State in returning these funds to the City has adopted a "watchdog" attitude to sec that the money is spent for street purposes and an annual report of the amount of money spent on our streets is sent to Lansing each year.

This year the city will receive approximately $21,000.00 from this source.

Gasoline tax revenue alone is not sufficient to provide ail the money necessary to keep our streets in good condition and

the additional funds are taken from the General Fund of the

City for this purpose. Another major source of this type of money is the Sales Tax return, as well as the amount received

from direct taxation of the residents of the City. By way of explanation the city's budgeted income for this fiscal year is made up approximately as follows: 23% Direct City tax levied against local homes and businesses

24% Direct Tax levied against local major industry 38% Other Income (Gas Tax, Sales Tax, etc.)

15%; Accumulated Surplus The Street Surfacing program shown here is but one of the capital improvements which has been made this year with tax money. Among the others are the Band Shell, Kiddie Rest

Room and storage facility at Westminster Park and extension of sanitary and storm sewer system. These items are to be classified as improvement items and are carried on along with

of the problems presented by previous storage. One of the most used storages was the machine shop which was very inadequate. There was an ever present possibility of a bad fire with welding and burning equipment there, a forge and gasoline engine machinery housed in the same building. Also the shop had to spend considerable time preparing floor spacebefore the locomotives could be housed. During freezing

weather, and we have a good spell of it here from early fall to late spring, locomotives must be stored inside over the week-ends. This equipment coming into and going out of the shop disrupted work there, was noisy for shop workmen and filled the building with exhaust gases.

During the winter stripping operation time was wasted bringing locomotives into available storages and the new building will eliminate a great deal of this maneuvering.

During the warmer months it does not go unused. It has been found to be an ideal storage spot for machinery and

the necessary every-day work such as snow plowing in the

materials which must be stored "out of the weather". These

tion and the operation of the City Hall which are necessary expense items for services which are carried on from year

materials are kept here until later used during the winter season when repair is made on plant and boat equipment.

It has also become a popular spot for larger employee meet

winter and dust control in the summer, fire and police protec

to year.

LOCOMOTIVE BUILDING

One of the newer plant buildings completed at Calcite is the locomotive storage building.

The building is of cement block construction 208 feet long

and 60 feet wide. Windows are of glass brick providing

ings providing a clean, comfortable and quiet spot for such gatherings.

The new locomotive building as pictured below with the Machine Shop in the background, is another addition to our plant which will promote safe and efficient operations for the employees and the equipment which they use.

plenty of light and yet keeping out the wintry blasts. Artificial light for evening and dark days supplies excellent illumina tion. Heat is supplied by thermostatically controlled blowers with a constant steam supply coming from the central Power House.

Four standard gauge tracks are built into the concrete floor

making it possible to house sixteen locomotives of the type now used at our operation. Two of these tracks are laid so

that they can be used at both ends of the building, the other two have only one entrance.

Excellent ventilation is provided by powerful blower fans.

This enables the exhaust from the diesel locomotives to be carried swiftly away as traffic moves in and out of the building.

Fire protection equipment is provided in every part of the building ilding to guard agai against possibility of this valuable equipment being destroyed.

Besides this building being convenient it also solves some

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You'll See It In Screenings "Personals" That Come To The Editors Desk Electric Corporation and the Arthur B. Sonneborn Company in Detroit. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and was graduated from Michigan State College. Bill was an Ensign in the

Navy and had three years of military service.

Just Among "Ourselves" and their two sons. Tommy and Dennis.

Don manages to get out to bowl every Tuesday and be it good or bad he says it's fun anyway.

We're happy to have Bill, John and Don with us and think they're real nice

people. We hope they and their fam ilies enjoy our little metropolis and will want to stay for a good many years.

Hard hats are used on many differ ent types of jobs. A new use for them was brought to our attention the other

day which we would like to pass on to you. It seems that Dick Schaedig of the Mill Department, another one of our ardent hunters, was out on the

runway bright and early one morning when Mr. Buck came along. Dick

couldn't quite make up his mind whether the animal had horns or not

and so they both stood there looking at one another and finally Dick realized all too late that there were horns. Mr.

Buck decided to leave fast.

Dick, in

his disgust, pulled off his cap and tramped on it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; seems that this is a good outlet for one's emotions.

We have had a few additions to our

Engineers' staff during this year and

We have men who are brave enough

are now able to feature them and their families in this issue of "Calcite Screen

to actually go hunting for bear with a trusty gun and we have still braver men

ings". Pictured here is John Raymond who was employed on July I, 1953.

He received his B.S. degree from the University of Michigan. He served two years in the U. S. Navy as a MoMM 3/c. Pictured here with John is his

who go after the beast with only a bow and arrow.

And then we have another

in the person of Art Hein who prefers to make the kill with the locomotive

thus eliminating the possibility of being mauled by the animal because of a poorly aimed shot. Anyone who doesn't

pretty wife, Vesta, and their pride and joy, Elizabeth Anne who is six months

believe this story see Hein and have him show you the paw he has for proof.

old.

Another newcomer in our midst is

Jack Morley and Chester Brown were

Bill Ransom who we hope is as happy to be with us as he appears to be here with his family in the accompanying

busy putting the ventilating fan back

picture. Bill is very proud of his wife

together in the Lab the other day when they were faced with the embarrassing situation of not having the same amount

Doris and

their two handsome sons.

of nuts and bolts that they had when

The little chap on Mrs. Ransom's lap is one-year old David whom they have

they took the fan apart. After spend ing quite some time in a fruitless search

nicknamed "Kris" and the other darkhaired lad whom Bill has in tow is Wil

liam. Ill or better known as "Chips".

We questioned Bill on how they hap pened to call the youngsters these nick names and he told us it was a long story so we didn't take the time to go into it but someday he may tell. Be fore joining our staff on August 10.

1953, Bill worked for the Wcstinghousc 12

for a washer and bolt Chet asked Jack

Donald Bogrcn is the third new facein the Engineers' Department. He came to us on April 20. Don received his B.S. Degree from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology. The photo grapher caught Don wearing his usual pleasant smile and even caught that impish glint in his eye. Along with him in the picture is his lovely wife, Judith.

if he could find a bolt since he had the

washer in his hand. Jack made no re

ply but his face got awful red and guiltily he handed him the bolt. It all boils down to this â&#x20AC;&#x201D; while Jack was

looking for the washer Chet had it in his hand and while Chet was looking

for the bolt Jack had it in his hand.

Some people do the darndest things!

Football has come a long way since Rogers City had its first team back in the year 1928. The field was then lo cated where the City Park is today and

the turf probably wasn't quite as soft then as now. Since that time the condi

tions for playing the game, the rules, and the players' equipment have greatly been changed. We can't say too much about the changes in the rules but we would like to say that the new athletic field and the lighting system which has made night games possible have been greatly appreciated by both fans and players.

Although the Rogers City Hurons

didn't break any records as far as High School

football

is concerned we still

feel that our representation on the grid iron this year is something for us all to be proud of. The team gave each opponent a rough time while on the field but still played the game in such a manner that their sportsmanship was noticed and commented on by many.

Under the careful guidance of Coach Dick

Abraham

and

Assistant

Coach

Henry Asikainen the team ended the season with a score of five victories and

three losses. Rogers City scored a total of 143 points against the opponents total of 77.

Their losses were to Che

boygan, Canadian Soo and Petoskey.

The victories were over Onaway, Al pena Catholic Central (twice), St. Ignace and Cheboygan Catholic Central.

Coach Abraham tells us that fifteen of

the above pictured lads are seniors this

year and won't be in the fray next sea

hair fly from the exact spot he had

son but he also claims that he has some

aimed, square between the eyes. Some

excellent material to pick from who have played on the Junior Varsity team the past couple of seasons under the watchful eye of Coach Lawrence Mor

thing went wrong though, the buck re

gan.

Reading from left to right top row are: Bill Boroughs. Tom Paulus, Dick

Furtaw, Donald Cumming, Don Wenzel, Dominic Micketti, Dick Makowski,

Alfred

Kerr

and

Neil

Bruning.

Middle row left to right: Kenny Kerr, Tony Fuhrman, Arnie Fuhrman, Bar ry Vallee, Walter Buza, Edward Derry, Norman Makowski, Dick Ray mond, and Don LaTulip.

Bottom Row left to right: Coach Abra ham, Tony Przybyla, Student Man ager, Don Sclke, Larry Langlois.

Ronald Voda, Emil Dehnke, Myron Smolinski, Ronnie Hempcl, Julian Przybyla, Jerome Wojtaszek, Asst.

Coach Henry Asikainen.

fused to fall and instead started to run.

It seems that Mr. Buck's eyes were a little out of focus from the bullet and he couldn't seem to run without hit

ting trees. After firing fifteen more shots from his trusty 22 caliber rifle in a vain effort to stop the buck from get ting away, Carl finally had to concede to the fact that a 22 just isn't big enough to kill a deer by hitting him be tween the eyes. Carl's patience and good marksmanship paid off in the end though. A couple of days later Carl had the same gun while out trying again and this time was fortunate enough to bag a nice 8-pointer weighing 185 pounds. This time he hit Mr. Buck in the side of the head instead of in the

front. My. what marksmanship! We don't wonder that the Army tried to keep you, Carl. If you want this story verified why just ask Carl â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this is exactly as we got it from him.

Carl Leow of the Dock Office be

lieves very strongly in this bit of phi losophyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; "if you don't succeed at first, try, try again". It seems that Carl went out deer hunting the first part of the season and after sitting on the run way for a while, spotted a good sized buck watching him through the trees.

He quickly came to the conclusion that this was a good time to fill his license so after taking very careful aim he squeezed off the trigger and saw deer

Ed Amacher, a new member in the

blasting crew, tells of an experience he had while hitchhiking home from Ohio while he was in the Army. The first

car along picked him up and what a ride he received. According to Ed the speed ranged from 105 to 110 with drivers changing on the run! Those old

time blasters do a quick job of in doctrinating a new fellow or is he try ing to compete with Bill Trapp?

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tell us that Bill Conley goes hunting

and puts his shells in a magazine and when Earl Jarvis is ready to pull the trigger he drops the gun.

Owen Kroll would appreciate it very much if someone would put a domelight in his tractor so he could eat his lunch.

It seems that Owen has swal

lowed a couple of spoons already while eating lunch and he blames it all on to the darkness in the tractor cab. Isn't

that kind of hard on the good wife's silverware set, Owen?

We've got the goods on Phil Pokorski and now we can call him the econ omist. When he hunts he doesn't be

lieve in wasting a lot of ammunition but instead he trains the dogs so that they not only hunt rabbits but catch them as well. He says it's nice not to have to carry a gun and get all tired out.

Russell Kuhlman is the alert appear ing chap in this picture. He is one of the Quarry shift foremen and received his promotion to that position early in 1953. The "Screenings" editor had a

will "hoot" no more because, as of this

writing, he is a magnificient trophy of the fortunate hunter, Kay Don Selke, and is adorning the living room mantel of the Louis Selke home on South First

red face when the last issue of "Cal

Street. To listen to dad, Louis Selke,

cite Screenings" was published. We discovered that all new promotions for the year had been published and "Russ" was left out. Our humble apology to

talk while at work in the Machine Shop,

one would get the impression that he had pulled the trigger himself. But even though Dad is as proud of Kay

friend "Russ". He is one of the younger

Don as Kay Don is of the bird, the fact still remains that Kay Don can boast

"old timers" at Calcite having served over thirty-three years with most of his experience on quarry jobs. However, the record shows that he did spend a

that the bird is his and his alone. We

will grant that it is a prize and worth boasting about.

short time in the Mill and he was in

the Dock Office not too many years ago.

About the time that Rogers City staged their first bear hunt Ed Radk.t became quite an enthusiast. Tt seems hewas driving out in the country one day and he spotted a bear that he was sure

We wish Russ many successful and happy years in his efforts in keeping the crusher full.

We go bird hunting quite often and

weighed close to 500 pounds. The fol

usually after shooting two or three times

lowing day Ed was telling the boys at the Shop about it and it was then that

at each bird few of them end up in our game bag. Now it was brought to our attention

that our

locomotive

friend,

"Sparkey" Fleming was a witness to a bit of fancy shootin' which puts our best efforts to shame. "Sparkey" says that he saw a man shoot four birds with one

shot. With the price of ammunition being what it is we'd like to meet this sure shot fella. Do you suppose he may be speaking of himself in the third person but is too modest to admit the identity ?

The color and tne markings of this bird are those of an arctic owl although our winters don't get quite as cold as the name would suggest. Old Mr. Owl

A picture story of long, long ago.

We believe that this picture was taken about thirty-five years ago when Ted and Mrs. Pardieke were raising their first son. Merlin. We did not publish

this picture as a usual "Screenings Guess Who" as you can see that the years have been kind to these good people and they have not changed much in appearance as some of us have. Of course, baby Merlin has changed the most.

Ted has been a locomotive en

he learned that Mr. Bruin was made

from a piece of cardboard. We under stand that when you mention bear to Ed he takes off on a dead run.

embarrassing moments and have often been made the subject of another man's

joke.

Otto Hilla tells of the attachment to

his vacuum sweeper and what a marvel it is. These are just some of the jobs

Some unfortunate things happened to

gineer all these years at Calcite and

it

those pole line hunters and here are a

has raised a family of seven sons and three daughters. He and Mrs. Pardieke arc to be congratulated on raising a good family and having a nice home.

know what his machine can do!

few of them. Ed Karsten said he threw

the hammer back, jammed the gun up and then laid it on the deer. And they IA

Don't

take it so hard, Ed, we have all had

does.

It skins tomatoes, cuts hair,

polishes shoes and washes the dog. Doe?, it sweep? Otto had better tell the manu facturer these things, he probably doesn't

Harry just wouldn't give up and we're

Siebold thought hard hats were a

happy that he has had a chance to

bother and interfered with the wind and

learn the true meaning of "buck fever".

the rain in his hair. Well, he wouldn't

Ergat picked up his fan by the metal guard to move it to a better spot in the room. He was too lazy to turn it

where the bolt caromed off his noggin

off first . . . Well, who needs ten fin

Harvey, "Indian Jack", Elowsky, was another of the lucky hunters who got

his big 1.60-pound eight pointer early on opening day down on Calcite prop erty. Harvey has a wife and a family of fine venison eaters and he tells us

he will have lots of help when he sits down to enjoy his venison dinners.

gers anyway?

Suzie had to get a tray from a sel dom-used top shelf of the kitchen cab inets. It would only take a minute so she climbed up on the cabinet handles to reach . . . Yipes! Who said threepoint landings were the best?

Girard saw the caution light flash at the busy intersection while only a half block way. If I step on it I can just make it, he thought. Funny thing, but Ferdie thought the same thing while coming at right angles to Girard. Re sult: two young wolves licking their wounds in a hospital with their lairs badly smashed up.

Hemoglobin's little boy Corpuscle thought that was a mighty interesting thing lying alongside his daddy. So, he decided to pick it up to investigate.

Whoops! Must be a hot soldering iron.

Sans-tete, our French neighbor, knew he could just reach the top of the gable for that last swipe with the paint brush from the top rung of the ladder. Sacre bleu!

Now he is sans-tete.

Arty thought goggles were hot and interfered with his field of vision, so

he decided not to wear his. Bulls eye!

—With a hot chip. At least that pretty blue glass eye won't get bloodshot after an all night bender, and I wonder if it will affect his field of vision.

have that pretty wave in his hair— —if he'd been wearing his hard hat.

But, who wants a wave, chin deep?

Arson was dying for a smoke. He knew there were "No Smoking" signs in the area, but, after all, he was 15

feet away and down in a ditch where the vapors would be blown over his

head . . . Well, I said he was dying for a smoke.

Poor, crazy, mixed-up people!

The ladies are usually the important part of any organization whether it be the home, the office, the church or the

school and this certainly holds true at the Calcite office. Not only are they important because of the work they do but it is also nice to have them around.

We think they are a nice group of girls, nice in appearance and all with good dispositions.

In the front row left to right are

Joan Vogler of the Accounting Depart ment; Margaret Radka, Purchasing; Helen

Buza, Personnel; Ella Reinke,

Mail Clerk; Gisela Platz, SecretaryDolores Merchant, Accounting.

Back row left to right are: Doris Dodge, Purchasing; Shirley Grigg, Ac counting; Lois Conley, Engineering; Sarah Schultz, Receptionist and Tele phone Operator; Donna Tosch, Payroll Clerk; Lauretta Przybyla, Accounting; Louise Schmidt, Accounting; and Patri cia Klee, Accounting.

Harry Boutin shot his 114 pound eight pointer on the Calcite property at 7:45 a.m. on the opening day. Some one suggested that we try to find the

most successful hunter for the past twenty or twenty-five years. Well, we

looked about but we couldn't find any one quite that lucky although we will say that Ed Buza probably has the best percentage. Getting a buck was a real thrill for Harry since he told us he had been hunting since 19.31 and this is the first one he's shot since that time.

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would like to

have him returned for

they miss the old vagrant.

Earl LaLonde, the big bear hunter, also guns for game law violators.

It seems that Earl had an over supply

Rudy Schalk, the pipefitter, says that the pickup trucks sure save a lot of shoe leather and not only that he at tributes his good bowling scores to the fact that he doesn't have to walk too much.

of bear meat so he invited some of his

Iriends out to his father-in-laws hunting camp for a big feed. It was a swell

This happy appearing family group has a distinct Calcite background and

affair.

foreground. Jake Yarch started work ing in the Shop at the Calcite Plant on July 1, 1912. He was a millman when he retired on July 11, 1946. Jake has

Early in the evening everyone had been well

fed.

Soon the tables were

cleared and everyone was playing spitzer About the time when the

a nice home on Lake Street where he

trump cards were coming down heavy Somebody sneaked out of the camp and

in earnest.

and Mrs. Yarch are happy and con tented in their retired years. The boys all live in Rogers City. Anthony, on the far right, is working on the harbor

fired several shots.

After reading about the moose mi grating from Canada we thought for certain that that was what Leonard Krawczak had on his car but a closer

examination revealed that it was a great

big buck. This must have been quite a thrill even for Leonard who seems io

get his within the hour after the open ing hour of each season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or so it

seems. Len says he's been feeding the deer at Calcite but this big fella must have been getting the lion's share. Lcn's prize had twelve points and weighed 185 pounds and that's a lot of apple.

Len shot his buck at 7:15 the opening day and so far we believe it is the big gest one taken from the Calcite property.

Don Bogren of the engineering de partment was teaching his two and a half year old son, Tommy, to drive the car one day and the way the story goes it seems that the lad tried to manucver

a U-turn in front of Kotwicki's depart ment store and hit a car on the opposite side of the street. Don left Tommy in the car while he went into the store

never thinking he'd try to drive the car.

Tell us Don, don't you think that's a pretty young age to be letting the young ster have the family car? And on the other hand, you didn't realize that young Tommy is as smart and capable as he proved himself to be, did you ?

The gate watchmen at Calcite had a small red fox which they were very fond

of and had

tried their best to

give it a decent home and the kind of environment befitting a red fox.

But ole Mr. Fox didn't appreciate these luxuries and very ungratefully took off to his old haunts possibly to show off that nice new collar the watchmen had

bought for him with their own per sonal funds.

We ask that the hunters

refrain from shooting this animal for he is practically tame. The watchmen 16

Earl and three of

his fleetfooted pals immediately jumped into his car and sped away from the camp in the hope of bringing in the deer shiners.

Thinking that the shots were about a mile away they covered a lot of the plains territory without finding a trace of the culprits. After about an hour

they returned to the camp discouraged at their failure to locate the violators.

The rest of the party were still enjoy ing the refreshments and playing spitzer.

Earl, however, was rewarded for his

tugs while Henry, center and standing, is a watchman on the Steamer T. W.

Robinson. Leo, left and standing, is employed in the track department at the

Plant. The girls are all living out of town.

In the back row next to Leo is

Betty, Mrs. Michael Marzcan, who makes her home in Alpena and Alice, Mrs. Howard Jaeger, now lives in Flint.

Annabelle, Mrs. Joe Gorman, seated next to her father, makes her home in

licorsc while Cecelia, Mrs. Harry Cook,

efforts. Upon examining his car after

lives in Detroit.

the wild chase he found one of his tires

and Mrs. Yarch on the fifty years of

well plastered with porcupine quills.

our mason, who insisted he couldn't

happily married life and wish them many returns of the day. They both look young enough to add another twenty-five years to the record. This is a fine family and typical of the Calcite tradition of longevity in service and

make cement with hard water.

retirement.

Did you find the culprits, Earl?

Gus Schaedig, Yard Foreman, almost

got some soft water for Frank Bader,

We congratulate Mr.

a weasel, he shot. Then he proceeded to raise the tile and to his surprise-

found Mr. Rat very much alive and it scrampered into the dark. Ray still hasn't figured out what happened. May be he was using blanks! He couldn't have been using blanks the other day though because he is included on the lucky list of deer huntersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; an 8-pointer

the story over and over the bear gets bigger and bigger. Ed Green says that the bear is so large now that Art has to get on a step ladder to show his listeners how high the animal stood!

Clayton Hopp tells us that buck he saw on his way to the dumping grounds stood 10 minutes and looked at him.

Of course that was during noon hour and Mr. Hopp dressed in his usual neat

no more no less.

John Raymond, one of our engineers, was lamenting the fact that he has such a difficult time at compositions now

working suit and flashy tie was merely on an errand with not even a bowling ball for a weapon.

when at one time he had such a won

derful command of the English lan

guage he could take his pen in hand and write an article with little or no effort. Seems that when he was work

ing for Uncle Sam he found the dic tionary one of the most interesting

The pretty little miss in this picture is none other than Sherry Lynn Yerks, the granddaughter of Theodore Yerks of the Drilling Department. Her ma ternal grandparents are the Louis Selke's. Pictured here with Sherry are her

proud grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Yerks. She is but one year old and she can make your heart throb already.

In another fourteen or fifteen years she'll have to equip herself with a club to keep the young fry away. Her par ents are Melvin and Vera Jean and even at this early age she is fascinated by the falling maples when she and her mom happen into the bowling alley to watch the women keglers for a few minutes some evenings. Like mother like daughter, huh?

pieces of literature and found himself studying it almost every chance he got.

Within a short time he had a wonder

ful choice of words at his disposal. He tells us too that his sailor buddies had

him tagged as a religious for a long time until they discovered it was the dictionary and not the Good Book he was reading.

Art McLennan, powerhouse oiler, en tertainer and hunter extraordinary, has

a brand new hunting story this fall.

It goes like this. Art was out hunting deer and saw a big bear. He shot at it and wounded it in the shoulder.

The

bear went down but got up again and started away on three legs. It was so big that another member of the hunting

The Dock Office is one unit of the

Calcite Plant which operates full time from the time the first ship arrives in the spring until the last one is loaded in the late fall. This is a busy place

and the heart of the boat loading opera tions at the Port of Calcite. Among the many duties assigned the men are the weighing and billing of all stone shipped, the maintenance and checking

of the weighing equipment, daily pro duction records of all varieties of our

product, handling ships' mail, passing on loading orders, controlling the qual ity of material as effected between stor age and cargo hold, maintenance of conveying belts and dozens of littlefavors done for ships' personnel and plant operating departments. These men do a good job without any disturbance or commotion. We are happy to intro duce them to you and so appearing in

the picture below from left to right arc Roy Strieker, Russell Smart, Carl Leow, Erhardt Grambau and Willard Mundt

party was afraid to shoot and so finally

who is in charge of the work in this

the bear got away. Now as Art tells

office.

Carl Schaedig is well known for his undisputablc ability to hunt and trap wild animals but it seems that one night while Carl was indulging in one of these favorite pastimes he had a rather embarrassing moment or two. While setting a trap to catch the fox which we have mentioned that got away from the watchman, he turned from his work for a moment or so and who should

be watching the whole operation but Mr. Fox himself. It made Carl pretty mad to think that the fox out-foxed him but he claims he'll out-fox that

fox yet!

Ray Schaedig was in for a surpriseone night after he got home. He found his dog barking at the open end of a length of 3" tile. The other end being covered over by ground. So Ray went to the house to get a flash light and his trusty shot-gun. Looking into the tile he could see eyes. Thinking it was 17

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COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR LITTLE TOT

It isn't the doggie in the window that makes folks stop and stare, It's the lifeless form of a cute little tot; she was hit by the car over there,

The cute little kid with waggly curls, she lived in the house down the way, The lifeless form of a cute little tot may be your little kid some day.

Unless you do your part, each and every man,

And get behind the Highway Safely Plan.

Did I hear you say it could be worse by far?

Sureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; it could have been your kid who was driving that car.

When Getsic missed his big buck at

fifty feet at the hunting camp we were

inclined to think that he might of thought of the saying, "live and let Don't tell us you don't know who

this is in that unusual garb? Well, it's none other than Arthur "Happy" Hopp and he's very rarely ever seen without that cigar. It looks here as if Happy is all set for the downpour with his rub ber suit, hat and gloves, but we learned that this attire is necessary for the type of work the blasters do. We might add here that we know of no one who en

joys his dancing as much as Happy does. Wherever there's music you'll find him â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even in the Bunny Hop lineup and he scarcely takes time out for a refreshment. Happy tells us he won't quit dancing until he reaches the ripe old age of ninety and we're prone to believe him.

Lois Conlc-y went out to see if she could get her buck this year and the first time she went out got quite a thrill, or was it a scare?

Seems that while-

she stood there very quietly, day dream ing, she realized that standing about ten feet in front of her and looking her straight in the eye was a doe. She still can't figure out how it got there with out making a sound. She was so petri fied she couldn't move. What would

you have done, Lois, if it had been Mr. Buck or a big five hundred pound bear?

Here is a bit of philosophy which Clarence Furtaw has and in our opinion it is definitely more fact than fiction and it goes like this: The only man who works for the government who doesn't take a Civil Service examination

is the taxpayer. Well stated, sir, we believe you are one hundred percent right.

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live" and missed it purposely. How ever, he took such a ribbing from the fellas he had to go out and show them he hadn't gone soft on them. All we can say is that he was very lucky to have seen another.

Laurie Przybyla was speaking to ErnieAdrian about the prizes which were being awarded at the Buckskin Ball.

Laurie was quite sure she was going to win the jacket and she inquired what size the pigskin was. Says Ernie, "what, a pigskin jacket at a Buckskin Ball?"

People who aren't particularly fond of modern art can always have some consolation in the fact that things can't always be as bad as they are painted.

Don Bogren, one of our mighty hunters, gazed longingly at the buck down on the beach a while ago but seems that every time he sees one it is in a restricted area. He claims that doe meat is much tastier and has decided to wait until December I.

Rogers City calling the Steamer ! Rogers City to the !

This call goes out over the air hundreds of times each day from Station W.L.C at Rogers City. The operators and the Manager of the Station are modest fel

lows so we could not get them to tell us about the service they give twentyfour hours a day, seven days each week during the shipping season on the lakes.

However, words are dropped by ap preciative captains and their companies telling us about the kind and courteous

service given by the operators at W.L.C We have some new faces

in

the

group this summer and so we introduce the entire crew to our readers. In the

foreground is Harvey Peltz. The next two seated are Darrel Spayth and Frank

Sager. Standing from left to right are Manager Robert Crittendon, Joseph Hasset, Edwin Glausc, Thomas Curtis and

Jack Fahning. This picture was taken at the operating board of the station.

During the off season the operators spend their working hours helping with electrical maintenance aboard the Brad

ley ships and also get the station in shape for another successful season.

Darrel Spayth and Thomas Curtis are our newcomers and we hope that they enjoy their new location as much as we enjoy having them with us.

The untimely and sudden passing of Alfred Demerest came as a shocking blow to the community on November 17. "Buck" as he was known by his many friends and employees, as well, was but 46 years of age. He was em ployed at the Calcite Plant as a bull dozer operator and everyone who knew him will long remember his good na ture and ever present smile. He is

BY WAY OF THE GRAPEVINE

George Breach has moved into the Engineering Department after several months at Giffels and Vallet where he

had been working on the Cedarville project.

We are happy to see Chet Ludos back

at his desk again after an emergency appendectomy.

survived by his wife, Minnie, to whom we extend our condolences.

Funeral

services were held at St. John's Lutheran

Church and interment at the Rogers City Memorial Park.

We know a fellow with a wooden leg but Bill Erkfritz, gate watchman, knows a person with a cedar chest!

From what we hear, a young lady in the Accounting Department has beaten the men at their own game. For the third time last week she won the

football pool. She must really be swim ming in money.

Here is a hard one to top. Marsh

Roofner shot a buck on his hunting DETROIT OFFICE

trip. Looks like plenty of sandwiches for Marsh until after the New Year.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS POR ALL

GUESS WHO?

As soon as we start to tell you about the young man in this picture it be comes a give away as to who he is.

His work is such that if we told ycu the department in which he works and

what he does you would think of only one man and you would be right on the first guess. He has been an em ployee for only ten years and is known as Mr. Fix It by many. He works in the quarry, yard, shop and on the

In line with the spirit of giving at Christmas time is the very commendable tradition of late years in Detroit of dressing dolls for underprivileged children. In the Detroit area one of the leaders of this idea is the Detroit

Times which annually sponsors the Good fellows' Doll Contest.

The dolls are contributed by the De troit Times and distributed to women

and girls in the Detroit area who in turn supply the time and materials to dress the dolls.

of a Calcite employee and also the

This year, Michigan Limestone girls of the Detroit Office have joined the

mother of one.

Our "Guess Who" in the last issue

make and dress these dolls. In the pic

coats.

His sister beside nim is the wife

of Calcite Screenings was Herbert Quade, an employee in the Yard De

many thousands of Detroit women who

ture below, you see the dolls and the girls who dressed them.

Margaret Lytic brought it to our at tention that the new ice skating rink

at the Veteran's Memorial Building will soon be open. Plans are already being made for lunch hour skating parties.

It is a pleasure to announce the en

gagement of Nancy Huyge of the Pur chasing Department and James L. Gray formerly of the U. S. Army. Congratu lations to you both.

It was a pleasant surprise to hear of the Thanksgiving wedding plans of Miss Margaret Lytic, secretary to the presi dent, and Mr. Frank Hartlep. We are all very happy for Margaret and wish her a world of happiness.

Be safe today and every day.

partment.

Did anyone ever hear of giving a porcupine a haircut? Well, we never did but Orv Pines said that he actually gave a porcupine a haircut. It's hard to believe but that is

the statement he

made and we have yet to catch him telling a white lie.

Clayton Hopp had to order two elec tric razors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one for each cheek, Clayt?

It is quite common for dignitaries to have a police escort at times. Could it be that Sarah has become such ?

Speaking of inventions. Patricia Klee has found one in the way of a new word, it being "squirched". For the

Standing left to right: Ollie Reichenbach, Gladys MacNab, Bea DiGiocobbe,

definition of this new word you'll have

Nancy Huyge, Hein Hoenicke, Eva Meharg and Ferrice MacDonald. Seated left to

to ask "Pat".

right: Shirley Reynolds, Eleanor Miller and Ann Willard.

Cradle Notes Bye Baby Bunting, Daddy's gone ahunting — an he sure did. Gerald Grohowski went out with blood in his

eye and downed his buck the first day.

Said he had to get some meat somehow so his wife, two daughters and son

would not go hungry during the long, cold winter. We doubt very much if little |ane Ann, born on August 28 will relish the venison steak but we're glad that Jerry accomplished his objective.

The

Str.

W.

F.

White

has set

a

record which every ship on the Lakes is going to have considerable trouble duplicating. As you will note, there arc more new papas on the W. F.!

Art Kihn, watchman, is the first to

come in for the laurels when Betty Jean made her debut on August 28.

Art, like Jerry Grohowski. has a family

boy, Terry Pat, was born on September 25. Jack's wife is the former Sophie Mulka who is one of a family of eight girls and one boy. Could it be that they are trying to break the tradition but oh, if he had only been a girl!

The Ray Szymoniaks announce the arrival of their first child on September 24. They called their little boy Bruce and the proud papa is an assistant re pairman on the Steamer Robinson.

That Steamer W. F. White seems to

be monopolizing these columns in this issue and we certainly must take our hats off to them.

Willard "Red" At

kins, oiler, boasts of the coming of Jeanctte Marie on October 16. She is his second daughter and someday Wil lard has hopes for a fine son with red hair and blue eyes.

Arnold Specht, our first assistant aboard the Str. White took time off from his duties to welcome his third

September 25 paid off doubly for Howard Luebke. To begin with, with all the excitement of his new daughter Nannette Sue, being born he had to be reminded to pick up the pay check.

The Luebkes now have two girls and a boy and the fellows in the Electrical Department took advantage of the

daughter. Suella Kay on October 6.

Must be that "Spechty" still has an eye

smokes.

Alan Mitchell, another little "husky" joined the household of the Stanley

News came from out Posen way that

for the women! Don't misunderstand us — we mean his own. Laurice and

Mary Lee are the other two young ladies in the Specht family as well as pretty mama Nuella.

Haske's on October 27.

'Twas Stan

of two little lassies and a son.

they have another little Wozniak out

On August 30 our second assistant engineer on the Str. Clymer fathered nine pounds of vim, vigor and vitality.

John Paul is the young fella's name and daddy Paul Pearson says that maybe someday young Johnny may have as pirations to become a chief just as heis aiming to do. Paul now has a family of three daughters and two sons who

Jr. became a daddy for the second time-

pair, there'll come a day. Stan and

when he added another son, Kenneth

Arnold can now share their disappoint

live in Indian River.

wronck is too! Gerald is the little new

there. On October 3, Stanley Wozniak, Michael, to his family.

Jr. family on September 12 and her daddy is a deckwatchman on the Steamer T. W. Robinson. We're glad

some other ship besides the W. F. White is represented in this baby column!

Our jovial steward on the Steamci W. F. White is looking forward tc those tireless hours he is going to spend with his four boys and one girl this winter. We'll wager that Mrs. Sko-

ing meant when they told him he'd smoke cigarettes until he looked like one and walk around the reading table until he got dizzy! But 'twas worth it and wouldn't you know — he's a red head just like his pa, that Roger

up another Christmas stocking at the fireplace this year for little Molly Sue

Jack Soda's wife Sophie, claims she keeps her girlish figure by pacing Mich ael, Robert and Mark about and we are inclined

to

believe

that

she

is

one-

hundred percent correct. Another little20

and Adeline, the mama. She has that

bit of angel-shine about her and "Kid" can't wait to get home to her. October like to have the crew of the Str. White

know that the Str. Irvin L. Clymer has

two proud daddys, too!

who made her debut on October 6.

Fred and Dorothy Mae now have two daughters and two sons and Fred says

Katherine Jean came along on Oct ober 23 and joined the family of the

"das is alles". He said, too, that he discovered many more cigar smokers in

year old, Lynn Margurite, was a bundle

Ed Kortman says that when he starts outfitting his family in shoes and boots it makes a big dent in more than one or two paychecks. The Kuznicki brothers arc an authority on this! He now has two girls and five boys and Ed rarely, if ever, misses a day from his duties as mill repairman. The youngest, Michael, was born on Sept

Bernard Heaths. Their other little twoof

mixed

emotions

when

Bernard

brought Barbara and the wee one home from the local hospital but now she

won't let anyone near her real live dolly.

Bernard is the office manager of the

Cedarville Operations and before too long he'll be taking his family to that location where they will make their home.

Karl Haselhuhn of the Machine Shop

was in the other day announcing the

ember 30.

birth of Keith Allan on November 2.

The Bill

David is!

Clarence "Kid" Strzelecki was a long way from home — in Manitowoc when little Dawn Michele made him a papa

22 was the memorable day and we'd The Fred Dagners will be hanging

the powerhouse than he had anticipated.

Darrel Spayth, our new operator at Central Radio says he's glad he wore those old "beat up" shoes of his when he took his wife, Gay, up to the hos pital on September 26. He says he now knows what Joe Hassett and Jack Fann

ments since they are both members of the crew of the Str. Willie White.

comer who was born on September 18.

Karen Tulgetske now has a littlesister whom she calls Susan Lynn. She made her debut in the Earl Tulgetske,

ley's third son and how he and the missus wanted a little girl. Don't des

LaLonde's now have five

female and five male twigs growing on their family tree and what an in teresting study it is going to be some day. Gerald was the most recent twig appearing on October 20. Bill is em ployed in the Machine Shop.

The Haselhuhn family is now com

prised of three boys and one girl.

And

it's

news

from

the

Steamer

White again. These babies kept the personnel department hopping getting replacements so that their daddys could

get off to greet them on arrival. Watch man John Single, became a daddy for

are temporarily making their home in Petersville.

the third time when Dale Arthur was born on November 4.

Alva Tucker, stokerman on the Str.

Calcite, was married to Agnes Brady

on September 30, by Rev. Ernest N. Burt of Onaway.

John Zielinski of the Track Depart ment drove to our neighboring city of

Lynnc Ora was the name chosen for the little miss born to the Russell Pol

Alpena and spoke his vows to Mary

locks on November 12. Papa Russell

Jielinski on October 10.

is employed as a shovel oiler at the Calcite Plant.

Dominic Michetti of the Track De

partment chose the early hour of six

Gary Alan will celebrate his birthday

on November 16 to say "I Do" at a

on Armistice Day each year and his

nuptial Mass at St. Ignatius Church.

pa, Don Kaminski will reap the profits

Rev. Adalbert Narloch united the cou

on that time and one-half day, which without a doubt, will be used to buy that bivthday gift each year. Don is

ple in marriage.

The staff of "Calcite Screenings" offers its congratulations and best wishes

an oiler on the Steamer T. W. Robinson.

Some people harbor a fear of black cats crossing their paths, walking under ladders cr dropping and breaking a mirror while others won't as much as

venture on a trip from Rogers City to Petersville on Friday, the 13th. How ever, the Harry Montychs are an ex

ception to this rule. They feel that their little girl who was born on that day will enjoy the finer things of life â&#x20AC;&#x201D; might even claim her place amongst some of the greatest women in history.

Kathleen is this little girl's name and she has two sisters before her.

Her

daddy is a locomotive brake-man.

After considerable controversy, Adam Krajniak's little dark-haired, dark-eyed Esther, convinced the breadwinner that

their newest youngster shall bear the name of Mary Beth. Esther, we want

to say, too, that it's simple and pretty and we like it too. The Krajniaks now have a fine family of five girls and two

boys and Adam can be found tending to his toils with the Track Department.

to all our newly wedded employees and their wives. May they share many years

Doris Maerz, that petite little gal in the purchasing department went aisling with Clifford Dodge, second cook on the Str. Bradley, on September 12. In

of happiness together.

spite of the downpour of rain, Cliff and Doris let nothing dampen their spirits as you will note by the accompanying picture. They spoke their vows in the presence of Rev. Robert Weller of St.

was all done by Friday.

John's Lutheran Church at a seven o'clock candlelight service. We wish to mention, too, that the reception was one of the finest we have ever at tended â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we sure had fun. Doris and

Cliff have forsaken the country and are now living in town.

Marvin Schaudt and Dorothy Idalski chose September 19 to make it Mr. and Mrs. Rev. Joseph Szarek was chosen to perform the nuptials at St. Ignatius Church. Marvin is employed at the Calcite Plant.

The first man to go on a 40 hour week was Robinson Crusoe. His work

Pictured here are a

father and son

combination who were among the lucky hunters this past season. We learned too late that grandfather Burns also got his trophy and the three generations would have made a fine picture. Jerry Bums and his son, Jack, came from Cedarville where they arc now located,

and got their bucks on Calcite property.

Jerry is employed at the new Cedarville Plant. He says that there are plenty of deer up in that area but he hasn't

had time to get the lay of the land.

We hope that when he does find his way around in the woods above the Straits he'll do as well as he does in

his old stamping grounds at Calcite.

Arid so ends the baby columns ind it's been fun heralding the coming of these youngsters. Our congratulations

to our employees and their families.

WEDDING BELLS

September 5 was the day James Ad rian and Kathleen Danbert chose for

their wedding day. They were united in marriage by Rev. Stanley Fron at St. Dominic's Church at Mctz. Jim is em

ployed in the Track Department.

Donald White, second cook on Str.

I. L. Clymer, asked Patricia Nowak to become his bride on September 26. They were wedded by Rev. Joseph Szarek at a nine o'clock nuptial Mass at St. Igna tius Church.

Don and his new bride 21

This neat looking home set off with Onaway stone is the This beautiful home in the accompanying picture nestled property of Edward Partyka, wheelsman on the Steamer Calcite. among the birch and evergreens is that of Captain Cummings Facing Lake Huron on Calcite Road, it affords an excellent of the Tug Limestone. It is located on the State Park road north

view of the approaches to the Port of Calcite. Mrs. Partyka, from her picture windows, can spot her husband's ship as she comes down straight of way from the upper lakes or as she rounds the pointoff Calcite returning from the lower lake ports.

Can you imagine Dick Hamann, Louis Heythaler, Grif Pines and Gay lord Smith playing spitzer at the same table?

What a game that must have been!

of Rogers City. Facing the lake it not only affords a beautiful view of blue Lake Huron but serves as a lookout so that seeing a ship in the offing he has plenty of time to jump into his handy jeep and hike for Calcite to make the tow.

"Red" Lee dreamed he was asked to

wire a queen's palace but he doesn't have time so he decided to turn the

job over to some of the other electri cians. Any volunteers?

Seems that Byron Lamb has a big cat

out

on

the farm.

He

fastens

a

wooden splint on the left front leg and then Mr. Cat hunts rabbits by laying in wait for the game, clubs them with the splint and then brings them home to Byron. One for Ripley?

To the men who have trouble argu ing with women we would like to pass on this bit of strategy. The only way to argue with a woman is with your hat.

Grab it and run !

While we're on the subject of women

Someone asked Jack Morley at the Chemistry Lab where to find a certain article one day and this is the answer he got: "It's the middle one in the lower righthand corner on the bottom of the top shelf". We're still looking!!

remember this gentlemen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; their styles may change but their design remains the same.

Bright and shiny, lined up straight, have you noticed Vic's V-Eight?

Harry Meharg, for many years, has been a timekeeper at the This nice home represents considerable planning and per Calcite Plant. The Mehargs raised their family in Rogers City sonal labor by the owner. Ed Amacher works with the blasters and then decided to get out of the "congested" surroundings of at the Calcite Plant and built most of his home himself. Ed Woodward Avenue and build their dream home on the State can look with pride on his structure which represents so many Park road overlooking Lake Huron. For the past two years hours of spare time, thought and effort. This is a good example if you drove north often enough you might have seen our of what can be done if a man has the will, ability and con

friends, Hattie and Harry landscaping the ample front yard. ??

suming desire to own his own home

Crew of the Steamer John G. M/mson pictured above and sealed left to right are: E. Roynalds. E. McLean. L. Rachiiba

W. Zemph. R. Desjardins. A. Nedeait. H. Piechan, C. Kandow, L FlewelHwg, R. K<m^ki)KFahmmm.SuiJdmghittafigM: Stewart J. Paradise, hi. Diet/in. J. Ellenberger. M. Smolinski, L. Richards. E. Kwiatkowski C. Horn. R. Schalk. V. McElm'/nry.

E. Green, R. Ramsey, R. Cotton. R. Morley. H. foppich, P. LaVigne, L. Orban. Chief C. Erederick. J. Nidy. L. Lcnard. Capt.

D. Nauts and S. Sobeck.

The Bradley Transportation Line but as quick as the wind blows he goes

Why, we do not know. Maybe to have

THE SEAMAN'S PSALM

for his hole in the engine room. We

someone enter their domain was sur

The Lord is my Pilot; I shall not drift. He lighteth me across the dark

don't like the cold cither, Harold.

prising, overwhelming or flattering and the reaction shows in their expressions.

A good smile looks fine any place

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waters; He steereth me in the deep channels; He keepeth my log.

He guideth me by the star of holi ness for His name's sake. Yea, though

fellows.

Mac McLean would make a good salesman since he got his Ford truck.

He has been selling, trading or giving something away ever since he got it.

I sail 'mid the thunders and the tem

pests of life, I shall dread no danger; for Thou art near me; Thy love and Thy care, they shelter me.

Thou preparest a harbor before me in the homeland of eternity; Thou anointest the waters with oil; my ship ridcth calmly.

Surely sunlight and starlight shall favor me on the voyage I take, and I will rest in the port of my God for

Larry Wright doesn't get home as

much as he did the first part of the season.

Sir. T.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Capt. J. Rogers

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lock on a door and decided to see how

the repair job looked and worked from the inside. It's a good thing Alex Selke came along to let them out or they might still be there.

The mates on the Str. Munson have a

loading bible and every little while you see them take it out and say a little prayer hoping they get it down to the right draft marks. How about it, Mac?

out on deck when the weather is nice

W. Robinson

Yarch ami Heythaler repaired the

ever.

The first assistant engineer on the Munson is like a groundhog. He comes

He doesn't tell much but he

must have a girlfriend in Rogers City who is keeping him occupied.

The boys all extend their thanks to

LeRoy Green, assistant repairman, Mike Idalski, third assistant engineer, and Eldon Reynolds, oiler, are facing the cameraman rather coyly, it seems.

the galley department for the good food and service they have received during this season. It all reaches its peak on Thanksgiving Day and that was the 23

Crew of the Str. T. W. Robinson pictured above and seated left to right arc: D. Heythaler, H. Yarch, B. Strzelecki. J. NewC. Robinson, E. Tulgetske, D. Kaminski, W. Kunner, R. Sabin, H. Bey, N. McLennan, L. Budnick, D. Rickle. Standing /<?// /o right are: A. Kaudow. A. Selke. G. Hubbard. L. Carter. C. Modrzyuski, L. Urban, E. Rygtrelski, L. hloffman. L. Pines. G. Bondy, R. Szymoniak, P. McCreery, J. Woods, El. Newhouse, Chief George Hoy, M. Joppich. H. Gould. Capt, R. use, house

Bryan, M. Inglis, and Steward J. Zoho.

proverbial "feast for a king". The turkey, duck, etc. taken on that day made ballast enough to weather any

with the South Chicago area after our last 2-i-hour delay there. Rumor has it that Chuck Robinson was his guide.

giving dinner. This kind of a feed has been going on all year. Stick with us, John.

storm.

James "it can't happen to me" Mulka We have had our share of buck fever

i'ound out that it could when he looked

on board, too, but it takes Rick Sabin

upon the big zero on the spitzer score

to bring home the bacon. Just thirty-

sheet.

five minutes after Rick left the boat he-

had his. Last year it took thirty minutes so he's slowing up some.

According to Rick there is only one hunter on the boat. Says that fellas like

Smo, Chub and Hoppie just talk a good We all admit Lester that a car with

hunt. After looking at that thirty-five

"magic eyes" is wonderful. But when

minute buck I guess he can back this up.

it comes to automatic transmissions, Les

wonders why it happened to him. Not

We understand that Mrs. Hoy proved

so fast, Les.

herself to be a true sailor on that late

We thought Heythalcr was celebrat ing the downing of a big ten-pointer

either born with or without sea legs.

September trip. Rickles says you're

but it turned out that Del was just celebrating. Moons McCreery is mum or mumbles on that one.

Flow I wish I were

Kunner to Pines:

"Hey, Les, I'll

trade ya two comic books", or didn't we hear right?

The men are to be congratulated on their fine Safety First record. It wasn't

perfect but was close. Take your safety

Ben and Jim were standing on deck tieing up at Calcite and Ben said,

next job men. You have done a good

"What do ya say, Mulka, that we get in that 1953 automobile parade or shall

job.

we wait and take the lead in "54"?

thoughts and actions with you on your

Well, it's all over for another year and there has

been a fine show of

cooperation all season between the offi cers and the crew.

From the crew to

the officers and and from the officers to

the crew, good luck to you next season and holiday greetings to all.

Thirty-five other men just can't de cide what to do with Glen. With the

season gone he's pretty much had things his way in the World Series and foot ball pools. Guess some people are just naturally lucky or is it good figuring, Glen?

Gus was trying to explain to Jim,

With those two buddies each making

"How did I know that red shirt was

a spear it's hard to decide just which

going to turn your clothes a girlish pink"?

one is the Devil.

Our hats off to John Zoho and his

Lester Pines is becoming familiar 24

gang for another wonderful Thanks

The two important looking fellows are part of the Steamer Robinson en gine room crew. On the left is "Jim" Mulka. oiler and on the right is

"Wally" Haske. third assistant. They stayed below to keep things going while the others were getting a crew picture taken.

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With all the time that Arnold Specht has spent in making new fishing poles, it hasn't seemed to help his fish ing any. Markey says that he can catch as many with an old hickory limb.

A Variety in TV Kaminski: Who's fighting tonight?

Stafford: There should be a good

Crew of the Str. White pictured above and seated left to right are: E. Kowalski, W. Atkins, I. Streich, J. Tosch. L. Bruder, R. Wojtaszek, R. Bellniore, A. Kihn, S. Haske, R. Klee, L. Goulette, A. Markey. Standing left to right are: M. Plorip, E. Cross, R. Budnick, W. Asam, H. Kaminski, R. Piechan, W. Stafford, V. Boehmer. N. Chapman, P. Greengtski. J. Szczerowski, Steward A. Skowronek, J. Single, G. O'Toole, Chief G. LaBounty, Capt, G. Kempe.

Western movie on now.

Rube:

Where is that good Polka

four o'clock when they got back. What a spirit dampner, hey Bill?

music ?

Tosch to Kihn:

"Hey Uncle Art,

will be painting murals in the rooms of the modern boats. What's cooking, Andy?

Nicknames for Crew Members

do we have to take off those tarps

Slivers — Stafford

again?"

Slivers, Jr. — Boehmer Porkey — BelImore-

We hear that the girls in Toledo really go for our 8-12 deckwatch, Rube.

Skowronek: "My wife thinks that my voice should be cultivated".

Dietlin: "If you ask me I think it should be plowed under."

Wild Bill — Asam

Sniffles — Florip Soapy— Specht Dimples — Klee Rivet — Markey

Streich must be planning to do his hunting in his own backyard this winter

Leon Dietlin: "Hope we get in at eight o'clock so he can get some of that unloading time."

what with all the trees he has been

Chief LaBounty to Capt. Kempe: "How's your diet coming along, Capt. ?"

Captain: "Haven't had a thing to eat today but I gained a pound."

See Chief LaBounty for popcorn, lemonade, spitzer, pinochle lessons, landscaping and also all watches re paired.

The boys in the crew have been

George Jones paid us another visit.

Says he has to get fattened up for the winter. At least he says he likes our cooking. Glad to have you aboard, George, and come again.

smoking cigars pretty regular with eight new babies born to crew members and

three more to go.

O'Toole

has

moved

into

his

planting lately.

new

Third assistant engineer, Dick Brege, of the Steamer W. F. White, is letting Milo Gruelke, oiler, get the feel of the

home and says his worries are over ex cept for the payments. Don't let the

We understand that Richard Budnick will be the new owner of a drive-in

bills worry you, Gordon, we all have

chadburn. Dick is one of the younger engineers in the fleet and Milo is a potential candidate for a license.

them.

theater at Cedarville. He'll probably serve a grilled cheese free to each cus tomer, too!

Ed Cross is getting plans to build a boat for his new outboard motor. Plan

Captain Kempe to Bob Bellniore: "Hey, Porkey, how are your cigars hold ing out?"

ning on hauling stone out of Cedar ville, Ed? We hear that Bob Bellmore did not

Wild Bill Asam asks John Single just

after leaving Calcite whether or not there will be a boat ahead of them when

they get back to Calcite and John told Bill not to worry because it would be

make a trip to Manitowoc while he was on vacation. Something wrong, Bob?

Anderson "Andy" Showers is still

doing artistic painting. Some day he

Greengrass Greengtski says he is really going to slay the guys around Posen this winter with his spitzer know ledge. Best of luck, Paul.

Favorite expressions often heard on the W. F. White:

Gordon O'Toole: "Just ask my wife".

Leon Dietlin: "I knowed it".

Eljay Showers to the 12-4 watch at 25

Crew of the Str. C. D. Bradley pictured above and in the front row left to right are: W. Derry, E. Babcock. R. Buchler, C. Rickle, E. Vallee, A. Michetti, J. Makowski, B. Woloszyk. Second row left to right: D. Kohsman, hi. Friedricb, B. Zinke, E. Buczkowski, R. Hein, R. Dumsch, R. Wickersham, W. Szymoniak, V. Rickle, R. Stoinski and K. Schular. Back row left to right: R. Garms, Capt. C. Swarts, Chief R. Bnehler, 0. Miller, S. Rygwelski, E. Fela.x, W. Tulgetske, G. Smigelski, Steward A. Goodrean, R. Schaedig and M. Ryan. breakfast:

"You want it all".

Donald Lamp: "7'here is no job too big or too small".

Richard Budnick: you".

"Well, I'll

Ronald Klee, our assistant repairman, goes home at four in the morning just to drive his new "Chevy".

bet One should hear Val Boehmer and

Red Atkins: "I've got two cars, I'll sell you".

Captain Kempe: (Singing) "Calif Arnold Specht: "You know when I was younger, etc."

Art Kihn, relaying one of his many novels which all start like this: "Well,

it was on a Saturday night, or was it Friday? No, it was Saturday â&#x20AC;&#x201D; any way it happened in Bay City".

A known fact: Walter Fuhrman gives

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The sailing season is fast drawing to a close and we aboard the Bradley are anxiously looking forward to the day when we can sleep all night and no

Alfred Markey trying to out-yell the

watchman will remind us that it is four,

other.

twelve or eight o'clock and we can go to a show and not have to worry about how fast the boat is loading.

Stafford: "How much do you weigh?

ornia Here I Come."

Sir. Carl D. Bradley

Let's get the Chief's scales".

Newt Chapman claims to be another Fred Astaire but you ought to see him on the dance floor.

what he takes.

Al's cooking must be O.K. as most of us are fighting the battle of the bulges.

Richard Brege will launch his S.S. United States in January.

Mark Florip: "I'm telling you fel

and more like Jack Benny every day.

Leon Dietlin is getting to look more

lows, it was 96° at the Soo on the 18th of Nov."

"Chief Pontiac" since buying his new

Chief LaBounty says that after the first snow in Rogers City, it's just like the North Pole. How would you know,

1953.

Chief?

Biter

Kowalski

is

now

known

as

Our porter Paul to R. Budnick: "I

don't supposed to do that".

Willy Patch to Butch: "You know who I mean, the guy that married that girl".

The first cold day we have finds Bill

Asam with every available piece of clothing (including his pajamas) he can get on and sitting on a register. That boy really gets cold doesn't he?

Butch Bruder while sewing up R. Atkins' shoes remarked:

"All I need

is some good strong thread and a little more practice".

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Bob Bellmore being on a strict diet has only gained ten pounds!

The three men pictured before the maze of dials in the Steamer Bradley engine room are Clarence Irvin, stokerman, John Bauers, third assistant en

gineer, and Bill Haske, oiler. Right

'•**

<**

Crew of the Steamer Calcite pictured above seated left to right are: H. Clark, E. Quaine, S. Smolinski, W. Kortman, J. Berg, P. Lamb, D. Felax, J. Selke, J. Schular. Second row left to right are: R. Wilson, J. Baur, F. Felax, A. Tucker, A. LaPrairie, C. Modrzynski, D. Kowalski. Standing left to right are: S. Centala, E. Partyka, A. Misiak, D. Kihn, J. Yarch, A. Talaska, A. Horrocks, Steward R. Adrian, D. Langridge. Chief S. Chibola, H. Koehler and Capt. A. Malocha. now these fellows are happy that an

day, breakfast at 11:00 and no work.

other sailing season has ended and a

Sure sounds nice.

successful one it was, too.

Albert Goodreau who has been with

us these many years is not feeling too well and is visiting the Rogers City Hospital. We all wish him a speedy recovery. Al is retiring after this sea son and we wish him good luck and

Arthur Gapczynski is our new stew

Milford Ryan and Ray Schaedig, the

ard in Albert Goodreau's absence and

boys George Jones found in Ocqueoc,

he is doing a fine job and we wish him

say it is much more pleasant to feed

luck and success in his new job.

the chickens than to feed the fish and

now when the wind starts blowing they rush for the anti-seasick pills and the situation is well in hand.

good health.

Captain Chris Swarts paid a short visit to our local hospital and is now back in the groove again. He has high praise for the hospital and its staff and reminds us how fortunate we are to

have such a good place to go when things don't go right. Move over folks,

season.

Walter Szymoniak is the Daniel

Boone of the crew and he is always promising us some venison but the sea son is almost over and we are still eat

We wish to take this opportunity to remind all the sailors to go a little easy on the gas peddle after the boats lay up. We can understand that after be

ing beef. Try iodized salt, Walter, venison is a mighty scarce article. Be fore the season opens we have visions of deer hanging all over the boat—

ing penned up on the boats there is a strong urge to let loose and go places

that is, when Walter tells it.

but in spite of Capt. Swarts's high praise

The chief tells one about the porter

of the local hospital it is not a very good way to spend the winter.

who could not make his bed because

he did not have a pitch fork.

Captain Rolland Ursem while Capt.

Capt. Chris Swarts is retiring after the close of the present season and he

Stokerman Schular: "I bought a new gun, license, shells and a new hunting

Swarts was absent. Rolland says that the Bradley is somewhat faster than the Str. B. H. Taylor with the result that you have to sleep much faster. It also seemed that the Bradley liked to

back on. We wish him luck and may he and Mrs. Swarts enjoy every minute of his retirement which he so rightly

here we come!

The Str. Bradley was turned over to

has a long and successful career to look

deserves.

show off while he was aboard and the

seasick pills were at a premium.

Captain Chris Swarts is anxiously looking forward to his annual trip to

Florida and we all wish we could go too when he tells us how nice it is

down there with the sun shining every

suit and now will someone please tell me why we don't get in at 8 o'clock?"

Words made famous aboard ship: "I could sure use the §60.00 layup pool".

Ray Modrzynski came over from the

Str. I. L. Clymer to help with our

The 1953 season is drawing to a close.

wheeling duties while Fred Beebe is

Time, too, is running out for our watch

taking it easy due to a sore back. Ray tells us the Clymer will be in fine shape

man Bob Hein.

next year and the crew is really en

joying being ashore this early in the

He will lose that far

away look when he says "I do" in the near future. Layup time can't get here fast enough for him.

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Conveyorman Vallee was telling the deckhands one that dates way back and it went something like this: "Why you fellows

don't know what work is.

I

can remember back in 1904 when we

turned the conveyor over with a crank,

occasionally some one helped but most of the time it was a one man job.

Bob Hein and Bob Stoinski, our two would be bow and arrow hunters,

boasted how they would supply the Bradley Fleet with venison and we can account for Stoinski not seeing deer — have you seen the pipe he is smoking.

Hein's alibi is, "when I should have

been out looking for deer I was out with my dear!

"Stitch" Rygwelski is busy lining up a bowling team for the Bradley come layup time. He has the trophy aboard

the weather that we have been enjoying weeks, one would never think it was

this time of the year, still the calendar does not lie. At present the main topic of conversation aboard ship is — How many more? Time will answer this question for us too.

Another Thanksgiving has come and gone— and we, the crew of the Cal cite, would like to express our sincere appreciation and thanks to Robert Ad rian and his crew for such a wonderful

dinner as was served us, also for the

many little favors extended us during the sailing season. Have been around Robert for quite a few of these dinners and must say that you really excelled on this one. It was tops and our thanks and appreciation to you for your efforts.

to attest for their skill last winter and

Stitch says if Casey Stengel can come

through five times they should be able to come through this winter.

would like to take this opportunity to wish every one a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and to thank one

Say, have you seen Jack Schular's new hunting outfit—isn't it something?

We are wondering what good it will do him this winter in California. At least

that is where he said he is going.

To Edward Partyka who is now the owner of Robley Wilson's old chariot — may we suggest Edward that you park it some place where Rob can't see it. He gets so lonesome every time he sees it, — just like parting with one of the family.

Our chief "Steve" says he doesn't care how many more trips — he is go ing home the 22nd of December. Should make it by this time Steve.

Did you know that our "star" oiler Patrick Lamb has a new Chevrolet? He

At this time of year our hearts go out to those in life who are less fortunate

than we are. If by chance we can help

Guess that's all for this time and we

Thau all life's silver or gold.

and ever grateful for the past three

in some small way let us not hesitate for one moment. One gets out of life that which one puts in — and nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

is beginning to believe now that they

did use old parts when it was assembled.

You heard what happened to the other oiler didn't you Irish? He bought one too.

and all for the fine cooperation through out the past season.

Doing for others is its own reward —

James Selke gives his definition of money — Stuff which is worshipped by two classes of people— those who have

None other is ever asked.

it and those who have not.

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But it's a/ways a satisfaction To finish a worthy task. /May the joy you've given to others

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Come back to you many fold.

In an inner peace more lasting

Our mate Don was asked by the steward what was causing that whitefringe to appear around the temples?

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Jackson, R. Modrzynski, L. Gabrysiak, E. Patzer, D. Shawhan, A. Fleming. Standing left to right are: C. Strzelecki, J. Claus, L. Saucier, Capt. M. Haswell, Chief N. Henderson, W. Joppicb, D. Monroe, D. White, L. Mertz, W. Wirgau, M. Haselhuhn, D. Kowalski, A. Gapczynski, Steward W. Bredow and E. Jones. our last trip to Saginaw when after blowing twice for the bridge to open, was greeted by the bridge tender wav ing a red flag at him. These moments

married".

have a lot to do with it Robert.

so the steward sent his dinner up to him. It took two men to carry it and barely got through the door. The "Old Man" said that he was glad it wasn't Thanksgiving Dinner they had to bring

The Steward's department is going to try for the electrical gang this win ter. They completed a four hour elec trical job in five minutes recently. This fete should give you some consideration.

AI Horrocks says he never was worth

a darn at spinning a yarn that wanders away from the truth. Some people are really hard to convince Al. Well, Albert, we have no sympathy for you at all — told you the best buy

The Captain's duties prevented him from attending the Halloween Party —

up.

Art Bey tells us the one about the young man who was going out of town for a few days — While saying good bye to his honey, he asked her for her

phone number saying I'll call you up when I get back. His honey, giving the phone number, said if a man answers you stayed away too long. This could not be an old experience, could it Art?

Hector, our third ass't. engineer,

Students with TV in their rooms will

thinks that the forward crew should

go down in history— and just about

take a correspondence course in Marine

every other course too.

Engineering. Maybe they should Hec tor at that — but then, you are jeopar dizing your position at this rate.

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Miller to O'Toole: "I'm all done mak

was a small Buick.

dolph" now. What really did happen

ing payments on deep freezes and jeeps." O'Toole: "Well, that leaves me as good as broke".

Anyone interested, our 8 to 12 watch can give you our arrival time back at

to your nose? We have come to the conclusion that you either got too close to something, or spoke out of turn.

Leave your orders for high class woodwork at O'Toole's Cabinet Shop.

Calcite before we ever leave. Oh we 1,

Which was it Don?

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We hear that Joe Miller wants a

Norm Raymond still has not gotten

"Cousin" Harold says a brunette is a girl who did not follow the directions correctly on the bottle.

his buck. Rob Wilson says Norm is good at shooting — but not buck deer.

We would like to know just where

Say, Edward are you or aren't you?

Wonder if Donna would tell us the

Julius Baur was last trip before he got to Onaway — or was it after you got there that it took place?

truth.

Our steward,

Julian Yarch claims, "never question your wife's judgment, look who she

Robert, claims you

wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.

sign painted, "No Insurance Agents Allowed".

The boys in the engine room were all prepared to skin and dress Johnson's buck but it fell out of his hunting coat pocket.

Shame on you, Woody, catching the other man's property in the Den of Thieves - that is the balance of ten dol lars.

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The crew extends their wishes for a

speedy recovery to Bill Budnick's wife who at the present time is at the Uni versity Hospital undergoing surgery as a result of the unfortunate car accident

last Fall. We sure hope she will be home with you and the family for

an argument about something or other one day and after Bill managed to pro voke Ed a great deal, he made this re mark, "Erkfritz, you have a head like

a carpet tack." Bill quickly replied, "no wonder my hat is so hard to get off sometimes."

Christmas, Bill.

Jim Adrian, trackman, paints some Pete O'Toole wants to know if coke

of the rocks out in the woods black so

will burn in a stoker. What's wrong,

that when the rabbits are being chased by the dog they think the rocks are holes and knock themselves out trying to get under cover. Those poor little "wabbits" now what chance have they?

Pete, did you forget that you had a stoker installed last summer?

Woody: When do you use a waffleiron?

Pete: Whenever you want waffles!

Flerman Luebke's pretty plaid tie paid off with many feminine complimentary

Mate: Who was in the Dock Office, Harry?

Harry: Oh, Mr. Valentin, a couple

This neat looking young musician is Theodore, son of Ted Strand, wheels man aboard the Str. B. H. Taylor. Ted

of Captains and that big fat fellow, I

is proud of this young fellow and well

don't know his name but he used to

he should be. Proud dads are always

work in Manitowoc.

striving and hoping that their sons will surpass the parents in making a success

Mate: You mean Ray Grigg?

Harry: Ya, that's the fellow.

in life.

We hear that Al Strand goes to a cabin in the hills in Pennsylvania for the winter months. Is it true that he

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Bill Erkfritz tells us the story about the time he and Ed Kihn were having

comments and his advice to the un

attached male is that maybe all it would take would be a bright plaid tie!

We've heard all different kinds of

deer stories but have yet to hear of one that will top the one Art Hein tells.

Seems he saw a buck with such a beauti ful rack he didn't have the heart to

shoot him. Why his rack was so big and so heavy that when he brought his head down his back legs raised six inches!

takes several boxes of carpet tacks with him?

Immigration Inspector to "Snorkel" Richards at the Soo: Where were you born?" "Snorkel": "Two blocks east of Louie's Restaurant".

Miller: How much chromium brom

ide do you use to test boiler water.-' Poppy: What's chromium bromide?

Johnson: Oh, that's that there stuff-you know, that there stuff you use to test that there stuff-"Alkinity".

Poppy. Oh, you mean neutral barium chloride.

Sport Paradise thinks eggs must be plentifulâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you even find them in your shoes.

Larsen to Woody: "I didn't know that was the last one we got".

Woody: "This is also 1953, did you know?"

Walter Tulgetske, second assistant engineer on the Steamer Bradley prefers to

again. That cake looked like a minature

spend his time at home under the whispering pines away from the sights and sounds of shipping. This home is up in Pinewood. Mrs. Tulgetske calls the gate at the plant to find out when she should hop into the blue Buick and meet the boat.

A few hours ashore with the family when you are off watch while the ship is load ing is a high spot in a sailor's life. The sailors of the Bradley fleet are more fortunate in this respect than some other lines with their regular limestone cargoes from the home port. It's nice to have a nice little home of one's own like this to come to

forest fire! Flow old Vic?

and think about.

The crew of the Str. Taylor honored Vic Klee on his birthday by inviting him aboard to partake of the wonder ful cake they had made for him. The boys asked Vic how old he was and Vic stated that he would never see 25

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