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THE BROWN BULLETINPublished By and For the Employees of Brown Company

Volume V BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, MAY 22, 1952 Number 9

Lumber Stands Ready...With the construction of a sawmill (story on this page),

Brown Company is branching out into a new field of woodutilization. Although we are entering this field in a small way,it may prove to be a big step toward a great future for BrownCompany and its many men and women. Our raw material,trees, provides us with a very unusual source of supply. It willenable us to expand or increase our operations or branch outinto new fields wherever and whenever it is deemed wise. Thatis why our industry differs from all others.

At no time has our country really faced a shortage of wood.While the capacity of other industries can be measured with areasonable degree of accuracy, no one really knows the full-operating capacity of the lumber industry. We know, however,that it is very large.

For example, back in 1906-1907 the industry produced 39billion board feet annually. Production dropped to 10 billionfeet in 1932 — during the depression years. In 1940, productionjumped to 29 billion feet, Responding to increased war andcivilian demands, the industry produced 33.6 billion feet in1941. Then in 1950, it produced 38 billion feet, which reflectedthe year's big demand for houses.

The secret of the industry's ability to respond to the pulseof requirements lies in its ability to step up production rapidlyand in its ability to shift quickly from one type of productionto another as may be demanded by the emergency. In all, thereare estimated to be from 50,000 to 60,000 sawmills in the UnitedStates. Most of them are small mills, even smaller than the onenow under construction here at Brown Company, but they arethe "safety valves" of the industry.

It is extra capacity and versatility that enables the lumberindustry to reduce what might be a program of austerity inany emergency to one of mere belt tightening. And it is theadded luxury made possible by wood that produces the differ-

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Construction of Brown Company SawmillNow Under Way; Furniture Stock to beProduced for Hey wood-Wakefield

Construction is progressing rapidly on the new sawmill. Itis expected to be ready for operation by the end of June.

Brown Company Employees AppearOn New "Safety at Work" Posters

Nearly 2,000 Employees ReceiveFree Chest X-Ray During Program

Final word was receivedrecently on the outcome ofthe first portion of BrownCompany's Voluntary HealthProgram. The program wasconsidered to be a completesuccess.

From an estimated poten-tial of slightly more than3,000 employees, nearly 2,000

Softball SeasonAround the Corner

Meetings are now being heldto formulate plans and organ-ize this season's Brown Com-pany Softball League.

All employees wishing toparticipate in the SoftballLeague are urged to contactJ. Arthur Sullivan, Public Re-

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availed themselves of theopportunity of having a freechest x-ray examination.

This was a much greaterturnout of employees thanwas expected by the PowersX-ray Company. Based onpast experience, their esti-mate was less than 1,500.

Employees wishing to en-roll in the second portion ofthe health program, consist-ing of a general physical ex-amination, are urged to con-tact their Personnel man attheir earliest opportunity.The Personnel man will thencomplete all necessary ar-rangements prior to yourphysical exam.

New and unique safetyposters—asfc—sow being dis-tributed throughout BrownCompany's many plants inBerlin and Gorham describingsafety stories about many ofour employees at work. Someof the posters will describeincidents in which employeeswere protected from injury by

Steiner Company toUse Jumbo PaperRolls from Cascade

As a result of a sales con-tract recently signed betweenBrown Company and theSteiner Sales Company ofChicago, 111., a new industrialbuilding will soon be con-structed for the Steiner Com-pany near the Berlin MillsRailway bridge at Cascade.

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wearing safety equipmentwhile others will picture em-ployees and describe their actsof "safety at work" whichhelped to prevent serious acci-dents from happening.

The idea for these safetyposters was conceived andoriginated right here at Brown

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Leo R. MaiselJoins Sales Force

The appointment of Leo R.(Bud) Maisel to IndustrialSalesman in the Chicago areawas recently announced by W.T. LaRose, Towel Sales Man-ager for Brown Company.

Mr. Maisel was previouslyemployed as a salesman forthe Minnesota Mining &Manufacturing Company. Hehas also served as a salesman

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Seventy Two MenComplete MaintenanceTraining Program

Brown Company's TrainingProgram for maintenanceworkers was successfully fin-ished last month with 72 mencompleting the courses out ofa beginning total of 101. Thecourses ranged from shopwork to safety education with"Jack" McGill, Martin Pietsch,"Ben" Hodges, and Alvin De-

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Blood Donations and Lives of WoundedEndangered Because of "Rumor-Mongersit

Flak is a hazard of war — tobe expected and endured. Yakcan also kill. Bull-session yakthat "some fellow in Koreapaid for blood" travels fasterthan radar. Such a rumorslows blood donations and thelives of the wounded are en-dangered.

The American servicemanhas the best guns, tanks,planes, and ammunition thatthe high skill of our industrialworkers can produce. But themost important lifesaving

weapon cannot be manufac-tured ; it must be given to ourwounded by able-bodied menand women of good will. Thatweapon is human blood.

Recruiters hear rumors thatthe Red Cross sells blood.Other people hear them. Theyspring up in one community,die down, and then come tolife a thousand miles away.Wherever they strike theylower blood collections.

"Baloney"This ''baloney" is not the

product of some fiction writer.Some of it is deliberately sub-versive. The fact that it is alie makes it none the lessdamaging.

"Dearest, Darling Terry,"wrote one guy in Korea to hiswife back at home, ". . . whenour wounded crew memberboys come back from an airattack over North Korea andthey need blood they have $20taken out of each airman's payfor each pint of blood for his

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Owned by Brown Co.,Operated byHeywood-Wakefield

Will Draw fromLocal Labor SupplyConstruction of a Brown

Company sawmill is now un-derway near the Burgess car-penter shop off Sullivan Streetand is expected to be com-pleted and ready for operationby the end of June.

Owned By Brown CompanyThe sawmill is being con-

structed by Brown Companybut will be operated by theHeywood-Wakefield Companyof Gardner, Mass., probablythe largest furniture manu-facturer in New England. Theoperation will use power, lightand steam facilities, and rawmaterial in the form of logsand pulpwood bolts furnishedby Brown Company. The saw-mill will draw largely on thelocal supply of labor.

Although the original millis being constructed on a com-paratively small scale, theinstallation may be easily ex-panded at a later date thusproviding Brown Companywith an increase in productionat the sawmill and still betterutilization of raw material.

The complete installationwill include a specially de-signed building, log deck ma-chinery, a band mill, a steamand air operated carriage andother equipment.

Unique SystemThe system will be designed

so that a Heywood-Wakefieldspecialist will mark the four-foot bolts of wood, principallyyellow birch, in the pulpwoodstream ahead of our barkingplant. After barking, thesebolts will be pulled off the con-veyor and delivered to Hey-

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Value of BondsAt Alltime Peak

The cash value of Series EBonds (now called DefenseBonds) held by individuals to-day is $34,800,000,000 — anall-time peak. This figure ismore than $300,000,000 overthe cash value of E holdingsat the beginning of Koreanhostilities and $4,000,000,000greater than at the end ofWorld War II.

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Company To Expand Operated WoodProgram; Personnel Changes Made

C. S. Herr, Resident WoodsManager, has announced fourorganizational changes in theWoods department to meet thecompany's expanded operatedwood program. For the lastseveral years, according to areport, Brown Company'sWoods department has oper-ated approximately 90,000cords of wood annually of allspecies. This year it is plannedto produce 130,000 cords ofwood. The following changeswere made to effect this pro-gram :

William Pickford will as-sume the position of Truck-ing Superintendent and will bedirectly responsible for all de-partment operated vehicles.

Arthur Boivin will be trans-ferred to the Parmacheneearea where he will serve as

District Logging Superintend-ent for the operations in theValley.

Alton Oleson, who has beenhandling the above work inthe Parmachenee Valley, is tobe transferred to the BrownFarm where he will assumethe responsibility for opera-tions in that area, togetherwith the newly opened AbbottBrook section.

Ivan Elger of Scotstown,P. Q., who has worked for thedepartment before on Canadi-an pulpwood purchases, is be-ing employed, with head-quarters at Scotstown, wherehe will handle pulpwood pur-chasing in that area, and like-wise replace William Pickfordon the procurement of bondedlabor.

Leo R. Maisel Softball(Continued from Page 1)

for the Northern IndianaPublic Service Company andPool-Arnold & Company. Dur-ing his selling career he hastravelled extensively in thiscountry having been in 40 ofthe 48 states.

Born In GaryHe was born in Gary, Indi-

ana and completed his highschool education in that city.Later, he attended PurdueUniversity majoring in elec-trical engineering.

His service career consistedof 3Vo years with the U. S.Navy in the European area asa Radio Technician.

Mr. Maisel is now residingin Gary, Indiana.

Vol. V. Number 9 May 22, 1952

THE BROWN BULLETIN

Published every other week byand for the employees of BrownCompany, Berlin, N. H.

Editorial Offices: Public RelationsDepartment.

Telephones: Automatic 208; NewEngland 46, Ext. 9.

STAFFPULP DIVISION

Buster Cor dwell, Paul Grenier,Mark Hickey, Ray Holroyd, AdamLavernoich, Leo LeBlanc.

CASCADE MILLErnest Castongruay, Buster Ed-

gar, Leroy Fysh, Robert Murphy,Lucille Tremaine.

REPORTERS-AT-LARGEAngus Morrison, Jack Rodgerson.

ONCO PLANTAlfred Arsenault, Phil Farring-

ton.

CHEMICAL PLANTAsh Hazzard, Alfred McKay.

WOODSBill Johnson.

POWER AND STEAMCharles Enman, Raymond Bel-

anger.

RIVERSIDE MILLRonaldo Morin, Clarence Welch.

BERMICO DIVISIONRussell Doucet.

RESEARCH DEPARTMENTThelma Neil, Albert Trahan.

STAFF CARTOONISTSLeo LeBlanc, Jack Rodgerson,

Lucien Bilodeau.

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERVictor Beaudoin.

BOSTONRuth Poole.

EDITORJames P. Hinchey,

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lations department, as soon aspossible.

Six teams were organizedlast year and provided a thrill-ing season for the team mem-bers as well as the manyspectators on hand at eachgame. Last year's champswere the boys from UpperPlants who defeated the Cas-cade team in two out of threegames in the final playoffs ofthe season.

Training Program(Continued from Page 1)

sisto as instructors for theentire company sponsoredtraining program.

Instructions were firststarted on January 8, 1952 atthe Berlin High School for thebenefit of all Brown Companymaintenance workers.

Certificates AwardedA "get-together" was held

recently at the Berlin Housefor all men completing thecourse. A company representa-tive was on hand to awardtwo certificates to each man—one from Brown Company andthe other from the Interna-tional Correspondence School.Brown Company also pre-sented each of the men witha Maintenance Reference Bookwhich should prove to be veryuseful in their future work.

Complete story and pictureswill appear in the next issueof the Brown Bulletin.

Safety Posters(Continued from Page 1)

Company. They are designed,sketched, printed, and dis-tributed by Brown Companypersonnel for the safety ofall the men and women whowork for our company.

To Appear MonthlyNew posters are scheduled

to appear on all plant bulletinboards each month. Sug-gestions about employees whohave done something out-standing in safety may besubmitted to Jack Rodgerson,Safety division.

"Dam Fool Injuries"It's funny, but in my day

I've heard a lot of folks say,"How can we prevent dam foolinjuries like these?" And theywould be talking about whathappened to some poor guywho was laid up because hefell off a ladder, or got caughtin a machine, or cut himselfwith a hand knife.

I think you'll agree with me,that there's no such thing asa "dam fool injury!"

Sure, — nobody gets hurtjust for the fun of it, becausegetting hurt, hurts too much!

But it's a fact that some-times people do do things thatlook dumb. But I agree withRusty that people don't gethurt because they are dumb,but because nobody ever tookthe time to tell them theproper way of doing what theywere doing when they wereinjured.

Anyone who doesn't knowhow to do his job shouldn't bebashful at all about askingsomeone for more information.

The quickest way of findingout what you don't know isto ask somebody about it. Thebird who doesn't bother to findout is usually the one who getshurt!

It's smart to ask questions.But sometimes a guy won'tand that's where we come in.

If we see anyone taking achance — perhaps he doesn'tknow any better — weshouldn't just stand by andallow him to keep doing it. Ifwe go up to him and give hima friendly tip, in most caseshe'll take it in the right spiritand thank us for it.

That's how we can avoid"dam fool injuries."

$W SAFEOFF-THE-JOB, TOO

Two heads are better thanone.

When you hoof it on thehighway on the right handside of the road, you put yourlife in the hands of everydriver who's going your way!That's not fair to them — andit's certainly not safe for you.You owe it to the driver —and to yourself — to share thejob of keeping yourself alive.

How to do it ? That's simple.

FOR / THE OIRLSI

FASHIONS ARE IN THE PINK this spring, and you'll wantto be in it, too, when you see all the rosy clothes and accsssoriesthe designers have dreamed up for you. Besides dresses,blouses, skirts and hats, there are coats, bathing suits, jewelryand gloves — all in a flattering rosy shade. A happy changefrom the pale fresh pink and the greyed dusty rose of pastseasons, rosy pink goes beautifully with black, grey, blue andwhite. When you wear this rosy pink, you'll need a rosy glowin your complexion, too, because any shade of red, as you know,casts greenish shadows. Try a pinkish make-up — a warm, tanrosy face powder, the perfect accent for a rosy-pink effect.

IT'S LEAP YEAR for wives, too! Got your man? Leap Yearis as good a time as any to show your appreciation. When hecomes home from work tired and cross, give him the courtin'days treatment. Let him tune in his favorite program insteadof yours, see that he has a refreshing glass of his favoritebeverage, and don't tell him all that has gone wrong for youduring the day, until he's thoroughly relaxed and has had achance to unload a little of his own troubles. Leap Year willthen be Keep Year!

A "DOUBLE LIFE" describes perfectly the working gal'sone room she calls home. So before you paint, advises theDevoe Home Decorating Institute, think of your room's differ-ent uses. If your bed becomes a couch by day, remember thata deep-tone color will be practical and smart on the wall behindit, specially if guests tend to lean their heads against the wall.An enameled table that serves for both desk and dining tableshould be protected with an extra coat of clear varnish.

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ence between a smooth-running, efficient emergency programand one fraught with frustration and discomfort.

Take the matter of homes for war workers and their families,for one example. Lumber and plywood today are making pos-sible the continuation of a vast construction program which,so far as materials are concerned, is limited only by the avail-ability of steel, aluminum, copper and other metals. And evenso far as metals are concerned, lumber and plywood have re-duced the drain on structural elements. The building industry-,realized that, pound for pound, lumber can do as much work asother building materials; that, properly engineered, lumbercan be superior on a cost-for-cost comparison as well.

In addition to wood for construction, the civilian economyutilizes wood in hundreds of other ways. A check-list of theuses of wood in the average home, for example, reveals anastounding record of our dependability on wood and wood prod-ucts. These have always been available to the extent of theirnecessity, in war or peace.

Walk on the left side of theroad, facing the traffic on thatside. Then you see the cars,and the drivers see you. Itmakes sense.

It makes sense because youhave a chance to step aside incase the driver is drunk, iscrowded over by other cars, isblinded by the sun, or forsome other reason hasn't gothis car under control.

It makes sense because atnight a driver can see yourface quicker than he can seethe back of your head. Itmakes sense, too, to carry orwear something white — ahandkerchief in your hand ortied around your arm.

Two heads are better thanone. Put your head and thedriver's to work for yoursafety by \valking on the left.

Steiner Co.(Continued from Page 1)

This firm will receive a regularsupply of jumbo paper rollswhich they will finish intosmaller rolls and other pro-ducts for sale to hotels, in-dustries, and institutions.

The new building will beconstructed by the Berlin In-

One Dollar BillStill Has Meaning

Ever wonder about themeaning of the pyramid, andthe eye above it, on the backof the dollar bill? (With in-flationary high taxes and gov-ernment spending, it's worthonly 53 cents these days —but it's still worth taking asecond look at before you haveto let it go!)

The pyramid symbolizes thestrength of the union of stateswhich make up our U. S. A.,and the top of it is shown tobe unfinished — meaning thatthere still is work to be doneto make our land and our sys-tem of government as goodand strong as they should be.

The eye above the pyramidstands for the all-seeing God,the Supreme Builder.

dustrial Realty Company andleased to the Steiner SalesCompany. A spur track willconnect the new building withthe Berlin Mills Railway sothat jumbo rolls may be de-livered directly to the plant.

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,n€\vsI1OTES

This is your "picturepage." Employees are urgedto send photographs, ifthey wish, to the Editor,

Brown Bulletin. Picturesshould be of general interestto all employees and also beof news value. Every effort

will be made to publishthem in future issues.

Editor

(Above) "Old Man of the 'Log Pile'

(Above) The huge cyclones at the Bermico plant were re-placed in record time after they were damaged by a recent firein the dust collecting system. (Below) A new digester weigh-ing 55 tons was recently installed in the Kraft mill by a capablecrew of riggers from Brown Company. This type of work isextremely difficult.

(Above) This wooden freak came from Canadian woodsoperations. (Below) This group of people from France recentlyvisited our plants for an inside view of our operations.

"Ready" .

"Get the riveter!IV

(Above) Jack Rodgersontakes a good look at the newsafety posters currently be-ing distributed throughoutthe plants. (At left) OscarGonya, a Burgess employee,is interviewed prior to his x-ray examination by Mrs.O'Connell, nurse. (At right)Tony Cellupica takes a deepbreath and keeps his chin upas the x-ray machine operatorgets ready to take Tony's "pic-ture." The first portion of theVoluntary Health Programwas a great success.

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What's News Around The PlantsMain Office

Musings

Pat Muise spent last week-end with her husband in Bos-ton. What's all the Stardustdoing in your eyes, Pat?

Roberta Devost was on va-cation for a week. Jane Palmerreplaced her.

Jane Osborne spent a pleas-ant weekend in Springfield,Vt., visiting Phil.

Gert MacKenzie spent aweekend in Nashua visitingher sister.

We are glad to see ArmelineJacques of Central Order Bill-ing back with us. She has beenout sick.

Mr. Thomas, Central OrderBilling, and Mrs. Thomas re-cently enjoyed a weekend atDurham visiting their son,Peter, during Mother's Dayat the University.

Dee Torro, Teletype, is veryproud of her bowling team,namely Cornell. It seems theytook the trophies. We hearthat Dee had a shelf reservedfor them all winter.

Julie Alonzi is keeping upwith the styles. She now hasthe new poodle haircut. Butwhy the sound effects, Julie ? ?

"Honey" Cameron, switch-board operator, has been outill.

Mr. Oleson, Purchasing de-partment, spent his weekendfishing. Did you go over yourlimit??

Guri V. Cici, Engineeringdepartment, is leaving us May9 for a new job in Long Island,New York. The best of luck inyour new job, Cici.

The Engineering depart-ment now has a new engineerworking for them in the per-son of Paul Anderson. Hopeyou enjoy working with us,Paul!

Carolyn Nolin, CentralOrder Billing, entertained afew girls from the office re-cently. We hear they had quitea session of dancing and eat-ing salad.

Sawmill(Continued from Page 1)

wood-Wakefield's trucks andthen to the sawmill to be madeinto furniture stock. The solidwaste from the sawmill willbe returned to Brown Com-pany for use in the manu-facture of pulp.

Under this system, only thematerial adapted to furnitureuse will go into boards andthe remaining wood substancewill be utilized in our pulpmills.

At present, it is impossibleto determine what productionwill be at the sawmill. Con-servative estimates haveranged from 8,000,000 feet to12,000,000 feet per year.

Wanted:Deep Sea Diver

It seems that Jack Rodgerson'stall tales of how he had to dive forhis breakfast when he was a young-ster down in P. I. have influencedsome of our fishing employees.

Ike Walton is all confused. Ofcourse, we natives don't pay muchserious attention to his stories. Wejust enjoy reading them.

But a certain L. B., who comesfrom other parts, took Jack at hisword and roamed up to MunnPond on the opening day of fishingseason, threw his rod and equip-ment into the pond and dove inexpecting to come up with hisli'mit. It so happened that all hecame up with was a good cold. NowL. B. wants to hire a diver to findhis fishing equipment, for futureuse. He has decided that his wayof catching fish is better than theway they do it in P. I.

Note to L. B.: You are supposedto dive forward and head first, . . .not backward.

Signed:"Kilroy"

Blood Donations(Continued from Page 1)

transfusion. It's a damnshame."

That letter circulatedthrough the serviceman'shome town and blood dona-tions took an alarming down-ward spiral.

No wounded man in Korea,Japan, or anywhere else whomay be hospitalized pays forthe blood he receives. In anycase the Red Cross couldn'tcharge for it. The blood isadministered only by militarymedical personnel. When scan-dalmongers pass out this stuffthey are hitting one targetonly — the Military Services.

Damaging rumors of bloodsales are not common to theKorean trouble alone. Theybecame so bad during WorldWar II that President Roose-velt labelled them subversiveand suggested that any per-son hearing such a tale com-municate with the FBI.

No One PaysTo date, not one American

serviceman in Korea has beenfound who had paid for a bloodtransfusion in a military hos-pital. The badly w.ounded whohave returned to this countryare lavish in their praise ofthe blood donors who havesaved their lives.

The death rate among thewounded in Korea is less thanhalf that of World War II.Blood has been a major factorin this record.

From August 1950 to theend of the year 1951, the RedCross and co-operating bloodbanks furnished 1,318,000pints to the military forces torebuild plasma reserves andan additional 180,300 pints ofwhole blood for Korea. So ur-gent is the need for bloodthat these extensive collect-ing facilities are now supple-mented by many ArmedForces Blood Donor Centersat m i l i t a r y installationsthroughout the country.

No yakking rumor-mongersshould be allowed to slow upthis vital program. Blood canmean the difference betweenlife and death for a service-

Bowling PlayoffsGIRLS' OFFICE LEAGUE

PlayoffsTeam PointsCornell 3Navy 1Cornell 3Bates 1Navy 3Bates 1

Totals:Cornell 6

(B. Sullivan, P. Ottolini, G. Amero,D. Torro)

Navy 4(P. Dutil, J. Goudreau, J. Palmer,G. Arsenault)

Bates 2(T. Paulin, D. Gagne, J. Alonzi, P.Given)

Team

MILL LEAGUEDivision "A" Playoffs

PointsRiverside -1 0Burgess Lab. 4Burgess Lab. 0Cascade Machines 4Riverside =1 2Cascade Machines 2

Totals:Cascade Machines 6

(J. Chevarie, C. Chevarie, M. Keene,J. Dinardo)

Burgess Lab. 4(L. Keene, C. Monahan, R. Travers,S. Parker)

Riverside #1 2(R. Ayotte, A. Wheeler, J. Poulin, A.Aubey)

Division "B" PlayoffsTeam PointsChem. Floe 3Bermico =2 1Bermico #2 1Bermico =3 3Bermico =3 3Chem. Floe 1

Totals:Bermico =3 6

(R. Dube, R. Webb, D. Mullen, A.Hanson)

Bermico =2 2(N. Nolan, R. Fissette, H. Robitaille,L. Osborne)

Chem. Floe 4(B. Napert, C. Roberge, G. Gingras.A. Hazzard)

FINALSTeam PointsBermico =3 3Cascade Machines 1

In the finals the match was a closeand hard fought battle for both teams.Cascade Machines managed to takethe first point from Bermico #3 byfive pins but Bermico =3 came backand took the second string by sevenpins, giving them a two point lead go-ing into the third string. Bermico tookthe third string on the strength ofDen Mullen's 106. Ralph Webb's 112,and Arnold Hanson's 106 and won theMill Championship for 1952. As anadded highlight in the last string, Con-rad Chevarie chalked up his secondstring of 125 in the playoffs.

MEN'S OFFICE LEAGUEDivision "A" Playoffs

Team PointsCorporals 0Seamen 4Seamen 2Majors 2MajorsCorporals

Totals:Seamen 6

(W. Oleson. R. Oleson. A. Croteau.J. McGill)

Majors 5(B. Landrigan, O. Carrier, D. Tay-lor, A. Lemire)

Corporals 1(E. Lynski, S. Dziezic, A. DeSisto, S.Allen)

Division "B" PlayoffsCaptains 2Sergeants 2Captains 21st. Sergeants 21st. Sergeants 3Sergeants 1

Totals:1st. Sergeants 5

(H. Spear, O. Gonya, B. Raymond,M. Hayes)

Captains 4(R. Riva, L. Gagnon, P. Kimball, W.Oleson)

Sergeants 3(D. Mortenson, A. Given. J. Butler,D. Welch)

TeamSeamen1st. Sergeants

FINALSPoints

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In the finals of the Men's OfficeLeague the Seamen emerged the vic-cors by a score of 4 to 1 over the 1st.Sergeants.

Attention: Retiring EmployeesEmployees who are eligible for retirement under the

Brown Company Hourly Pension Plan are requested to filetheir applications for retirement at least two months beforetheir intended retirement date.

Employees are requested to file their applications, eitherwith Miss Lucille Morris, secretary of the Pension Board,Public Relations department, during the daytime hours, orduring the evening hours with William Brideau, member ofthe Pension Board, office of Local Union 75, 157 Main Street,Berlin.

Employees who have not already furnished the PensionBoard with proof of the date of their birth must bring suchproof with them when they file applications for retirement.

Pension Board

BurgessScreenings

BY PAUL GRENIER

Miss Pauline Dupuis of theBurgess Main office enjoyedher vacation recently.

Joseph Hayes of the paintercrew is planning to retire soon.All our best wishes, Joe.

George Adams' son is plan-ning to be married in June.How about inviting us to thewedding, George?

Napoleon Groleau is sport-

man.It certainly is subversive to

say the least, for anyone totry to defeat this vital pro-gram.

ing around in a new 1952Chrysler. What class!!

Leo Leblanc informs us thathe is eating radishes and smallonions out of his garden al-ready. That's fast work, Leo!

Alex Ouellette is laying thefoundation for a new seven-room cottage. We understandthat it should be ready by fall.

Nothing prompts the re-dedication of American idealslike a new dictator abroad.

FOUNDA man's 14K gold wed-

ding ring. Owner may claimthe ring by contacting J.Arthur Sullivan, Public Re-lations department.

RiversideRamblings

BY CLARENCE WELCH

With the fishing season un-derway we expected to getplenty of news for the Bulle-tin, but so far we have beenslightly disappointed. All theso-called fishermen wequestioned about their firstday's catch claimed they spentthe morning in bed and didn'tget around to fishing in theafternoon. This sounds like alot of "malarky" to me, butwho am I to argue with abunch of unsuccessful fisher-men?

We did see one fishermanwalking around Riverside thefirst day of fishing season.The proof of that fact wasn'tin the amount of fish hecaught, but in the amount offlies in his cap. At least wethink the feathers were sup-posed to be flies. What kindof fish do you catch with them,Hector?

One of our more famousanglers in the person of Al-bert Wheeler, was required towork the first day of the sea-son. Albert was so mad aboutit he forgot to shave andfrightened everybody in "chemill. You should keep thatbeard when you fish Albert.You'd have a good excuse fornot catching any fish.

We see that Rene Lafran-cois of our Finishing room issporting around in a newChevrolet these days. Lots ofhappy riding, Rene!

While we're on the subjectof automobiles, we believethat Albert Dinardo's "GreenHornet" should be mentioned.Lucien Montminy claims thathis "Super Chief" Pontiacwould leave Albert and his carin a cloud of dust. What'syour answer to that, Albert?

Wally Rines of our Machineroom has been walking aroundat Riverside like a proud pea-cock. It seems his Boston RedSox are up somewhere aroundthe top of the league. Wherewill they be at the end of theseason, Wally ?

"TAKE IT EASY"