.~.VOL. 10, NO. 11 APRIL, 1964

AED Shifts to Aerospace Group;Now Part of Kearfott Division

1963 Medical Bill Of $809,364Paid By Employee Benefits

(GLENDALE) Librascope's AvionicEquipment Division at San Marcos hasbeen shifted to the Aerospace Group,GPI and will be operated in the futureas the West Coast facility of the Kear­fott Division.

Robert B. Handelman, vice presidentof Kearfott's Electronic.s Division hasbeen named to head the AED operation.He succeeds Fred A. Darwin.

Operating control of the AvionicEquipment Division passed from Libra­scope Group to the Aerospace Group onMarch 18. Transfer of the support serv­ices currently provided by Librascope isto be completed by July 1, 1964, accord­ing to Aerospace Group President FredD. Herbert, Jr.

In a letter to all AED employees, D. W.Smith, president of GPI, stated that GPImanagement sees many advantages toboth the corporation and AED employeesin the transfer to the Aerospace Group.

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(GLENDALE) The unique eligibilityprovisions of Librascope's RetirementIncome Plan for hourly employees, aregraphically illustrated in the recent re­tirements of two veteran SE Divisionproduction department employees.

Both Felix Dufour, tool designer, andWalfrid O. Chellgren, toolroom grinder,had been on layoff, Dufour since Nov6, 1963, and Chellgren since March 27,1963.

Neither, however, lost their eligibilityfor retirement benefits, because the Planprovides that all laid-off hourly em­ployees, if they are subject to recall, re­tain their benefits eligibility.

Dufour, who joined Librascope Dec 9,1957, retired March 1, just four weeksafter celebrating his 66th birthday. Chell­gren, an employee since Jan 11, 1958,retired April 1, 11 days after he became71.

Retirement BenefitsPaid Two On Layoff

As LIBRAZETTE went to press, R. W.Lee, President of the Librascope Group,issued the following statement to all em­ployees regarding the AED shift to theAerospace Group.

"I feel quite sure that the move ofLibrascope's Avionic Equipment Divisionto the Aerospace Group is a good movefor everyone concerned, and I would likeyou to know my reasons. Briefly, theyare these:

"It is good for Librascope because itallows the top technical, financial andmarketing management of Librascope tofocus its resources more closely on theoperations, products and programs inGlendale and Burbank.

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RWL Statement

$2,189,425 Award(SAN MARCOS) The San Marcos fa­

cility of the Kearfott Division, Aero­space Group, GPI, has received a lettercontract for $2,189,425, covering theproduction of additional ANI ASN-24computer sets, spares, test equipmentand software for the Air Force C-141jet-powered troop transport program.

The contract, to be definitized at alater date, will carry ASN-24 productionfor the C-141 program through 1965.

Award was made through the Aero­nautical Systems Division of the AirForce Systems Command at Wright­Patterson Field, Ohio.

SED to Sell SurplusThrough Sealed Bids

(GLENDALE) Librascope'semployee benefits program paid out $809,­364 during 1963 for employee and dependent medical and hospital careand in life insurance claims to employee survivors, according to a reportfrom A. R. Pederson, Librascope Group supervisor of employee benefitsand services.

Largest single item in the benefits list-$350,591-was for medical and hospitalcare for wives and children of employees.In two instances, benefits in the de­pendent category exceeded $5,000.

Claims for employee medical care andhospitalization totaled $316,773. Thelargest single benefit paid was $7,000.

Death benefits paid to beneficiaries ofnine employees totaled $142,000, Peder­son said. The largest single benefit was$40,000, under the insurance plan's acci-

~ dental death clause.Disbursement of the benefits was made

through the Aetna Life Insurance Com­pany, Librascope's insurance carrier.More than 10,000 checks were writtento satisfy the claims.

(GLENDALE) More than $100,000worth-at original cost-of office, en­gineering and production equipment, isto be sold as surplus through sealed bidsby the Surface Equipment Division.

Reduced business volume in the divi­sion brought about the decision to convertthe capital investment in unneeded equip­ment into cash.

The surplus includes 110 draftingtables, 85 drafting machines, 85 executivetype desks, 30 stenographer desks, nu­merous tables, chairs and work benchesfrom SED, the group office and CCD.

SED hopes to recover 50 percent of

.~ original cost, according to Carl W. Plath,Jr., division supervisor of property con­trol. Lists of the equipment have beencirculated among other government con­tractors in the Los Angeles area. Bidsfor all, or part of the offering will beclosed around April 15.

SCAT 24-2 is what this huge electronic device in SED Reliability is called. SCATmeans Sequential Component Automatic Tester and it gives eight different paramatertests to a component in just three seconds, punches its report on a tape and printsit on a typewriter at the same time. Reliability Engineers Frank Haskins and Nor­man Wirtanen and Senior Engineer Mark McDermott pose with the new addition totheir working tools. (See accompanying story.)

seA T (No Hep Talk This) TesterSaves Reliability Time and $ $ $

H UP THE LADDERFrank L. Webb, who first joined Libra­

scope seven years ago, has been pro­moted from junior quality control engi­neer to Foreman-Assembly, in SED'sAssembly Dept.

Webb's first jobwith Librascope, aft­er a three-year hitch('53-'56) in theArmy's 511th Air­borne Infantry, wasas production as­sembler. Subse­quently he was aninspector - assembly,a leadman in thesame area and then WEBBForeman-Inspection.

He is married, the father of two andmakes his home in Glendale.

"SCAT' will make possible furthereconomies in our operations," says Her­bert Meyer, manager of the ReliabilityAssurance Department.

"We will be able to do more work inless time and at less cost, than we didwhen this type of work was a semi­manual operation."

(GLENDALE) A sort of cousin to thebig digital computer systems that Libra­scope builds for the Navy and the AirForce, has been put to work in the Re­liability Section of SED, to help de­termine the reliability of electronic com­ponents.

Called SCAT (for Sequential Compo­nent Automatic Tester), the machine cangive a component eight different tests inthree seconds, and record its report on adigital volt meter, on punched paper tapeand a typewriter simultaneously.

SCAT 24-2, to give the machine its fullname, was built by the Continental De­vice Corp, of Hawthorne, Calif. In theform used by Librascope, says Mark Mc­Dermott, senior engineer in Reliability,it is the first ,of its highly complex kind.

Like a computer, SCAT is programmedto carry out its tasks independent of theoperator. The program is prepared bypunching holes in a standard puncheddata card on a standard key-punch. It iscapable of testing hundreds of com­ponents in rapid sequence.

However, it is not in wholesale testingthat SCAT is most useful, says McDer­mott. It is the machine's high speed,built-in capacity to detect error, the num­ber and variety of its tests and the formin which it presents its findings thatmake it a valuable addition to Reliabil­ity's scientific equipment.

AED Shift ... (fro~~~age 1)It is planned, Mr. Smith said in his

letter, to continue the AED operationalong its present lines. Sales efforts willbe increased, he said, and greater sup­port will be provided in the developmentof air and spaceborne computing equip-ment. t

Mr. Smith pointed out that the transferhad first been discussed when GFIformed the present operating structureof Aerospace Group, Link Group andLibrascope Group. Action was deferred,he said, because of the formative natureof AED at that time.

"The San Marcos operation will begTeatly strengthened by this direct as­sociation with a group wholly engagedin the avionic control equipment area,"Mr. Smith further declared.

"Your Division will give Kearfott astrong facility which has been badlyneeded, to both handle its substantialWest Coast business and to give theAerospace Group a digital computer ca­pability for their airborne guidance andcontrol system requirements."

"Our goal is to make this part of Gen­eral Precision a good place to work andto provide both job security and growthfor the future. I look forward to con­tinued growth ... and ask your help anduninterrupted support in building to­gether a stronger and better General Pre­cision, Inc."

Correction!

The first Precisioneer Golf Clubtournament of the year will be heldApril 11, not April 18, as stated inLIBRAZETTE for March. Site ofthe event is the Whispering Lakescourse in Ontario.

R WL ... (from page 1)

"It is good for General Precision be­cause it clarifies the charters of the re­spective groups and integrates all sys­tems and subsystems for aerospace guid­ance and control under one technical,marketing and financial management.

"It is good for the AvionicEquipmentDivision because it provides a better out­let for its capabilities through the sup­port of a large technical and marketingorganization oriented 100% to the aero­space market.

"At the present time the many areasinvolved in this transfer are being jointlystudied by our people and AerospaceGroup representatives in order to definethe work relations between the twoGroups during this interim period and inthe future. I

"I am sure that the transition will besmooth and I know that all of you willwant to join with me in my wish thatthe operation will be an unqualified suc­cess."

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Reorganize SED Engineering;Now On Functional Basis

Name C.A. ManganaroNew CCD Finance Head

(BURBANK) Charles A. Manganarohas been appointed Contr-oller and Man­ager-Finance, of the Commercial Com­puter Division. Hesucceeds L. J. Fo­ley, who resignedMarch 28.

Formerly Control­ler and Assistant tothe Treasurer ofSoundscriber Corp.,New Haven, Conn.,Manganaro has longexperience in the fi-nance areas of man- MANGANARO

agement.He is a former public accountant in

Waterbury, Conn., and was on the finan­cial staffs of the Connecticut Telephoneand Electric Company and the NationalSemiconductor Corp.

Manganaro is married, the father 0ffour and makes his home in El Monte.

FP vs CPFFThe new structure acknowledges, Deitz

pointed out, that defense contracts thesedays are generally awarded on a fixed­price basis, rather than the familiar CostPlus Fixed Fee -of times past.

"This imposes increased need for econ­omy," Deitz declared. "Our costs must bebrought into line with today's realities."

The basic engineering organization isas follows:

Staff to Deitz: Senior Staff EngineersClare N. Burgis and Roy I. Case, Jr.

Project Managers: FCS Mk 113, RobertE. Simpson; FCS Mk 114, R-obert A.Chambers; ASW programs, Roy D. Bart­lome.

Engineering Administration Section,Howard C. Applegate, Manager, with the

(GLENDALE) Jerry Deitz, who joined the'then Shipboard Engineer­ing department of Librascope eight years ago, has been appointed ChiefEngineer of the Surface Equipment Division by Maurice Center, SEDmanager.

Concurrent with his appointment,Deitz, who previously was Director ofDesign Engineering, announced' a reor­ganization of SED's Engineering Depart­ment, "to promote greater economy ofoperation, efficiency and service to thecustomer."

"Belt Tightening"Deitz described the reorganizatioIj. as

both a "belt-tightening operation whichreflects the stringency of the times, andan effort to create a basic structure witha built-in capacity to expand or contractto meet multiple program needs."

"We are set up on a functional basis,"Deitz told LIBRAZETTE, "with each sec­tion and unit, such as System Design,Analysis, Electronic Engineering and theothers, responsible for supporting thetechnical aspects of each current pro­gram.

DEITZ APPLEGATE CHAMBERS SIMPSON WOLMAN BINZ

tory, Fred Lenzen, Supvr; Drafting/Checking, Vincent J. Nahrstedt, Supvr.

Advanced Projects Section, Lane L.Wolman, Manager, Senior Staff Engi­neers James L. Cass and Jess Rifkind,and Staff Engineer John A. Felts. Thesection contains the Techniques Unit,James K. Berger, Supvr, and the Rotat­ing Memories Unit, Frederick F. Hari­son, Supvr.

The 473L Program Engmem:mg:•.$ec­tion IS hea~d by Man~g~r _"\Y-esley_E.Stupa":r."Thesecti~n is unde}"th_e-.J}ire,ctionOf-George S. L. Kranz, 473L Progl:amManager; and -consist;"of the followinginit;:- - -

Systems Development Unit, James N.Conway, Supvr; Logical Design Unit,Peter B. Tults, Supvr; System CheckoutUnit. William N. Glaister, Supvr, andthe Programming Unit, William Kreager,Jr., Supvr.

"It is our intention to keep the 473Lteam together to continue on in the largecomputer Command and Control areas,"Deitz stated.STUPARETTINGHOFF

following units: Program Planning,Thomas E. Ross, Supvr; Technical Li­brary, Nathan J. Sands, Supvr; Repro­duction Services, Robert McEwen, Supvr.

System Design (Analog) Section, Rich­ard A. Potter, Manager; Analysis Sec­tion, Robert D. Binz, Manager; ElectronicEngineering Section, Marvin G. Etting­hoff, Manager.

Mechanical Engineering Section, J. L.Deitz, Manager (Acting), with the fol­lowing units: Mechanical/Optical De­sign, Thomas A. Miller, Supvr; Electri­cal/Electronic Packaging, William D.Jordan, Jr., Supvr; Mechanical Labora-

BARTLOMEPOTTER

"These areas will supply technical per­sonnel to Project Engineers or ProjectManagers for the prosecution of a spe­cific program.

"These project leaders, each of whomwill have complete responsibility for aproject, will report directly to me, to theDivision Manager or, conceivably, to theGroup President, depending upon themagnitude, scope or complexity -of thespecific program.

"Administrative, financial and contractsupport to the project leaders will bemade available from those specialty areaswithin, or external to, the EngineeringDepartment."

APRIL, 1964 3

WITH THIS BOOK, the set is completed. Some of the 32 sepa­rately bound books making up the FCS Mk 113 (SUBROC) setof technical manuals are exhibited by this happy team of SEDPublications personnel. One of the set (of books) is the SystemDescription vO'lume, which was the last to be delivered. Finaldelivery, the occasion marked here, was made on Friday, March13 (proving the team's conquest of the many problems whichbeset the project earlier).

Ken Luther, shown in the second row, directed this largestof Publications projects to a successful completion. Most of the

Publications team that supported him are shown here. Theyare, in front row, left to right, Jack Dolan, Marie Curry, MaryGodfrey, Suzi Smith, Mary Johnson, Thelma Mathewson, andJack Bamberger; second row, left to right, Frances White,Julia Pedretti, Ellen Bunting, Shirlee Walker, and Ken Luther;and back row, left to right, Al Crisman, Norm Millar, DickWilson, Cesario Fernandez, Paul Kane, Jim Norwood, Joe Pardo,John Erickson, Keith Kinnaird, Dale Mattson, Pete Maimone,Roy Brown, Jess Pack, Fred Beindorff (partially hidden), CecilSelman, Paul Lough, and Angelo Pizzo.

Publications Completes Biggest Project

Call for PapersTechnical papers O'n subjects

ranging from circuit theO'ry to tel­emetry are being solicited by theNational Electronics Conference, tobe held Oct. 19-21 in Chicago. Ab­stracts and summaries should besubmitted through the EmployeeWriting Incentive Program O'ffice I '0in Glendale, by not later thanApril 20.

ZETTE, is the satisfaction expressed byNOL -officialswith the final results.

An important feature of the project,Pelamati pointed out, is that all man­uals have been validated against the as­sociated hardware by Navy personnel,either at Librascope or aboard the sub­mannes.

At present Librascope is preparing Loundertake a maintenance program thatwill update the publications to reflectdesign changes made since the manuals'cut-off date was fixed. Librascope ex­pects to continue with maintenance ofthe manuals for the life of the equip­ment.

Publishing of the manuals representsthe final phase of the development por­tion of the huge SUBROC program-aprogram that has left just about everyLibrascope department weary-but satis­fied.-J.O.P.

A rewarding highpoint of the demand­ing program, Pelamati told LIBRA-

Librascope launched the project in late1959, shortly after hardware design be­gan, meeting a requirement -of the NavalOrdnance Laboratory (NOL) that thepublications keep pace with the progressof design. As a result, no less than 5,000separate transmittals, each representinga manual in one form or another, hadbeen submitted for approval before thefinal versions were delivered March 13.

Editing of the volumes was under thesupervision of Jess O. Pack. Pete Mai­mone and Paul Kane, under the directionof Keith Kinnaird, art director, headedthe art and production efforts. Standingbetween this team and the ultimate users- the SUBROC-equipped submarines­were those who saw to it that the bookswere promptly delivered: Mary Godfreyof Publications; Art Steiner, head ofSED's shipping and receiving section and'John Nessen, member of the Glendalestaff of the Inspector of Naval Material(INSMAT).

Sheer bulk of the project is perhapsbest demonstrated by the Digital Com­puter Mk 130 manual; this volume con­tains 783 pages and weighs 18 pounds,with covers.

Technical review of the manuals, animportant contribution to their accuracyand excellence, was carried out underthe direction of Dave Crockett, SystemsEngineering, assisted by Dale Hankins,Sy Roth, Andy Huot and Dick Gould.

(GLENDALE) Librascope has completed the most extensive publicationproject ever undertaken by the company-the writing, illustrating andauthentication of 32 separate operation and maintenance manuals forthe SUBROC proj ect.

Each set of manuals contains 4,975pages of text and illustrations, a total of522,275 pages f:or the 105 sets published.The manuals document all units of theFire Control System Mk 113, Mods 2 and5, including associated test equipment.

The task was a project of the Publica­tions Group of the Surface EquipmentDivision and was directed by Ken Luther,now editor-in-chief of the group. AlanCrisman was group leader for all systemand system equipment manuals; JackBamberger directed the work -on com­ponent and test equipment publications.

The team worked under the over-allmanagement of Jack Pelamati, now Di­rector of Logistics for SED, who assumedleadership of the Publications Group inlate 1962. Despite a tight schedule, theproject was completed on time-and on aFriday the 13th, too.

Robert Simpson, SUBROC projectmanager and Lee Simon, SUBROC con­tract administrator, were responsible forhandling the effort as one phase of thetotal SUBROC project.

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Sales Tax Tips For

Income Tax Reports

Walter Kenny N,ew

EDP Systems Mgr.

POWERS

Work forces in Bldgs A18 and A19and janitorial crews throughout the Glen­dale complex spent a good part .of theirworking time during the fire and the dayafter wielding brooms to sweep out thedust and ashes blown into the buildings.All air conditioning filters had to be re­placed.

Powers came to Librascope from Hoff­man Electronics Corp., where he becameCorporate Controller after returning toCalifornia in 1960.

Librascope's new coOntroller is a be­liever in company-sponsored employeetraining. After completing GE's off-hoursBusiness Training Course, he turnedaround and became an instructor, teach­ing cost accounting to business adminis­tration people and business administra­tion to engineers.

Powers makes his home in Arcadia.He and Mrs. Powers are the parents of amarried son and daughter and the grand­parents of three, "due to become fourany day now."

(GLENDALE) Arthur L. Powers, for25 years a member of General Electric'sfinancial management organization, hasbeen appointed Controller of the Libra­scope Group. He succeeds K. N. Beiriger.

Powers reports to Ray G. Johnson, VicePresident and Treasurer. Reporting toPowers are GeneralAccounting, Opera­tion AccoOunting,Property Account­ing, Data Process­ing, Accounts Pay­able, AccountingPolicies and Systemsand the division fi­nance managers.

The new Control­ler is a native ofPhiladelphia, and agraduate in economics and mathematicsfrom Tufts University.

Powers joined General Electric upongraduation in 1935, spent five years inGE's Philadelphia organization, thenshifted to corpoOrate headquarters atSchenectady. After completing specialtraining, he was given a variety of as­signments, culminating in appointmentto the traveling auditing staff.

In 1948, Powers was appointed PlantAccountant of GE's facilities in Oaklandand San Jose. Eight years later he wasnamed Comptroller of GE's wholly-ownedsubsidiary, Manufacturera General Elec­tric S.A. de C.V., in Mexico City.

Powers spent four years in Mexic-o andcounts them among "the most satisfyingand interesting" in his experience thusfar.

Name A. L. Powers

Group c.ontr'oller(GLENDALE) The mountain brush

fires w4ich raged through the foothillareas of Glendale and Burbank March16, endangered the homes of many em­ployees of Librascope's Surface Equip­ment Division.

Acts of valor by the employees, theirneighbors and a group of students fromGlendale College saved many of thehomes fr-om destruction.

Eileen Brown, Precision eel' coordina­tor, had the most hair-raising experienceof all. Mrs. Brown was roused fromslumber by youthful voices chanting out­side the home.

"I thought at first they were friendsof Jeff, my youngest son, having soOmefun," Mrs. Brown told LIBRAZETTE,"but a look out the window told me dif­ferent."

Build Firebreak

Son Jeff and his college friends con­nected the lawn hose, broke out shovelsand hoes and started wetting down theroof and chopping the nearby brush toform a firebreak. Soon the fire depart­ment arrived to add its strength to thebattle and brought the fire under control.

Later in the day, however, there wasanother threat when a nearby patch ofbrush that had escaped the flames, wastouched off by flying sparks and againthreatened the house, with the flamesreaching the eaves.

By that time, however, husband Eddiehad reached home from work and, withJeff and Eileen, held the flames off untilthe fire department paid a return visit.

Maggie Chaffin, writer-editor in SED'sPublicatioOns Section, had a similar ex­perience. She too, was aided by volunteerfighters from Glendale College, until thefire department arrived.

Absenteeism, understandably, ran highthat day, as scores of employees stayedhome from work to protect their homes.Many reported that the flames camewithin a few feet of their dwellings. Allreported considerable damage fromsmoke and ashes.

Roof CrushedFor Bill Ryan, Quality Control en­

gineer, the fire merely posed a extrathreat. The windstorm that preceded thefire on the previous night, sent a largetree limb crashing down on his roof,through the attic and penetrating theliving room ceiling. Next day's fire haltedhis removal efforts while he kept thelawn hose going all day wetting down thebrush and the undamaged portion of hisroof,

The windstorm, coupled with the rainwhich came a week later, caused con­siderable damage to SED buildings. Theroofs of Bldgs A17, A02, A18 and A19were weakened in areas which were un­detected until the water started comingthrough Sunday night, March 21.

Fires ThreatenGlendale Homes

Sales TaxPayment

Deduction

AdjustedGrossIncome

(GLENDALE) Walter Kenny has beennamed Manager, EDP Systems, in Lib­rascope's electronic data processing cen­ter, by R. M. Anderson, EDP director.

Kenny has hadlong experience inaerospace companydata processing. Hecomes to Librascopefrom the Space andInformation Divisionof North AmericanAviation. Earlier hewas with Curtiss­Wright Corp, Wood­ridge, N. J., andFederal Electric KENNY

Corp, Paramus, N. J.An ex-Marine who served two tours of

duty in 1947-50 and 1951-52, Kenny holdsa BA/Econ degree from Columbia Uni­versity and an MBA/Industrial Manage­ment from New York University. He at­tended NYU under aNew York StateRegents scholarship.

Kenny is married and makes his homein Anaheim. He and Mrs. Kenny are theparents of three girls, aged 7, 4 andthree, and twin boys, one year old.

For those of us who have lost salesreceipts, or foOrgot to get them whenmaking purchases, the following table iswidely used as a guide in estimating­for income tax return filing-the amountswe have paid in state and municipal salestaxes.

$ 1000 and under $ 1500 0.0. 0. $ 231500 and under 2000 0.0.0. 0.0. 282000 and under 2500_ _0. ..._0._ 332500 and under 30000. ... 393000 and under 3500 _0.0. 453500 and under 4000 __ 524000 and under 4500 . 0._ 574500 and under 50000. __0.__0.__0. 655000 and under 5500 0. 715500 and under 6000 . 776000 and under 6500 ..... __0._._.__. 836500 and under 7000 0..... 0. .0.. 897000 and under 7500 ..... 0. .... 957500 and under 8000 0.__ 1018000 and under 8500._._.0.,'''''''' , 1078500 and under 9000. _. '. _... 1119000 and under 9500 . 1179500 and under 10.000 __ 123

10,000 and under 11,000 .... 13111.000 and under 12,000 0.__ 14012,000 and under 13,000 14813,000 and under 14,000. 15614,000 and under 15,000 ... 0. ... 16415,000 and under 16,000 0._0. 17216.000 and under 17,000 0.0. .... _ 17917,000 and under 18,000 18418,000 and under 19,000 . .0._ 18919,000 and under 20,000 0.0.... 0.__ 195

The Internal Revenue Service said thatthis tax table is of use only to personswho itemize deductions. Claims in excessof the tax table figures must be supportedby records and receipts.

APRIL, 1964 5

CUSTOMER TRAINING is what is going on here as Instruc­tor Dennis Johnson (far left), discu~ses system checkout andrepair procedures with U.S. naval shipyards personnel in BldgA05 classroom, here to learn about the SUBROC Mk 113, ModsII and V fire control systems. Students (L-R) in front row,

are: Robert L. Compton, Kerwin L. Harrison and Emelien Roy.Second row, Henry B. DeWitt, Jacl1es W. Hawkins, T. C. Camp­bell and Kenneth E. Powell. The class also has two other in­structors, Bill B. Tilden and Fred Horton. Students come fromshipyards on both east and west coasts.

Navy Yard Fire Control Technicians HereTo Learn SUBROC Repair and Checkout

Precisioneers Offer Package Tours

(GLENDALE) A group of civilian firecontrol mechanics from east and westc.oast naval shipyards, is currently under­going intensive training here in the Sur­face Equipment Division's customer train­ing section.

The group is enrolled in a 13-weekcheckout and repair course on the Mk113, Mods 2 and 5 SUBROC fire con­trol systems in Customer Training'sBldg A05 classroom.

Those taking the course are:

Robert L. Compton, Norfolk NavalShipyard; Kerwin L. Harrison and Eme­lien Roy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard;Henry B. De Witt, Mare Island NavalShipyard; James W. Hawkins and T. C.Campbell, Charleston Naval Shipyardand Kemieth E. Powell, Puget Sound(Bremerton) Naval Shipyard.

The seven-man class has what isprobably one of the highest ratio of in­structors to students of any training oreducati,onal effort in the U.S., says LyleCrawford, Supervisor of the customertraining unit.

(GLENDALE) Ronald G. Maas, whowas accepted into Librascope's appren­tice machinist training pr'agram in April1961, has been pramated to Methads An­alyst-Mechnical, in the Surface Equip­ment Division's manufacturing customerservice department. Maas graduated framthe Librascape apprenticeship programlast manth. He previously had been anapprentice with a Burbank firm and washalf-way thraugh his training when theprogram was drapped by his emplayer.

Three fire control experts-Bill B. Til­den and Dennis R. Johnsan, both ex­Navy, and Fred L. Horton, ex-Air Force

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-conduct both general and specialty sec­tions .of the course.

The 13 weeks are split inta three sec­tians, each appr.oximatelY equal inlength. The first third of the course iswhally devoted to classroam work; thesecond ta roughly half classroam andhalf labaratory and the third entirely talabaratory. The lab sectian involves warkan the actual equipment the men will behandling back at their duty statians.

There's a written examinatian everyweek and, in the final weeks of the labsectian, each student will have to demon­strate what he has learned in actual on­the-jab performance.

The schaol day parallel's Librascope'sworking day of 7 :45 AM to 4 :30 PMthrough half .of the 13 weeks, thenchanges ta a shift .operation in whichstaggered sessians have the last groupwinding up at 1 :00 AM.

If yau've been thinking .of goingoverseas and faraway an this year'svacatian, it's time to start planning,says Eileen Brown, Precisioneer ac­tivities coordinator. Presented belawis a tentative list .of taurs. Check the.one which interests yau, .or write-in ataur mare ta y.our liking and send thecoup an to Mrs. Tubbs in Bldg. 1-03,Glendale. There is na abligatian in­valved.

It isn't practical, says Crawford, tohave more than twa students, plus in­structor, in the lab at the same time,hence the time-spread.

Students get one break that ather falkat Librascope dan't. In recagnitian .of thefact that pr.olanged sitting can have adeadening effect, they get a 10-minutebreak each hour-ta restore circulatian,says Crawford.

Call for PapersTechnical papers are being solic­

ited for presentation during the An­nual Meeting of the AmericanDocumentation Institute, to be heldOct. 5-8, in Philadelphia. Librascopewriters are eligible for awardsunder the Employee Incentive Writ­ing Program. Contact the EIWPeditorial committee, Bldg 103, Glen­dale, for details.

Appo Hawaii for 14 days h $ 399o Tahiti far 14 days 850o Mexico far 10 days __mhh 275o Eurape far 23 days 995o N.Y. Warld's Fair far 6 days 299or m mu_h h_mmh__u at m h

yaur chaiceThere wauld beh__h uu__peaple in myparty shauld I decide ta ga on thisyear's taur.Emplayee's name u__hu u__u mhuExtension u u mu m hu hhuu

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SED Plays HostTo ASTME Visitors;

Tour Machine Shoip!(GLENDALE) Sixty delegates to the

Western Metal and Trade Expositionand Conference, held March 16-20 in LosAngeles, were guests of LibrascopeMarch 17 at a special tour of the Sur­face Equipment Division's productionmachining facility in Glendale.

Their host was the Industrial Engineer­ing department, whose personnel or­ganized the tour and conducted thegroups through the manufacturing areas.

Chief areas of interest to the visitors,who are production engineers and man­agers, tool' designers and manufacturingplanners, were Librascope's numerically­controlled production machines.

Production schedules had been ar­ranged by Production Machining Sup'tK. J. Cohen, so that all NC machineswere in operation at the same time, todisplay the machines' capabilities andLibrascope's variety of manufacturingprojects.

While the NC equipment caught theeyes ,of the visitors, they also admiredthe modern conventional equipment andthe way in which the Librascope shophandles very large machine surfacing andthe model shop's memory drum opera­tions. They also admired the famousLibrascope boring machines, some ofwhich are now being succeeded by NCequipment.

Ivan F'ranklin, coordinator of facilitiesand area planning, organized the groupof tour conductors, who were Jack Leigh­ton, Roy Van Holm, Bob McFarlin,George Nichols and Charles Krone.

APRIL, 1964 7

TANNER

J.H. Huiskes Returns "Mousetrap" Catches

To CCD Engineering Errant Data Cards

(GLENDALE) Residue from thehrthcoming sale of surplus office2nd engineering equipment, plus anumber of pieces of wooden officefClrniture, will be offered for saleto employees. Watch bulletin boardsfor announcement of the manner

(GLENDALE) The importance ofevery document used in recording theprogress of work through the plant isemphasized by a simple data collectiondevice now being given a test-run byProduction Machining Department ofSED Operations.

The device, nicknamed the "BetterMousetrap" by Peter Laue, Senior In­dustrial Engineer who designed it, is aglass-fronted box, with a slot and a slideat the top to accept punched data cards.The box has a lock, to help the cardsfrom becoming "lost, strayed or bor­rowed" before they can be fed into thedata processing system.

A sizable portion of the 35,000 cardsused in one phase of Pr·oduction Controlhave not been flowing back-hence the"Mousetrap," both as a collection deviceand a reminder to return the cards.

The cards, which are filled out by eachproduction employee as a job phase iscompleted, are important elements in thegeneration of reports to management.The reports record load center perform­ance and actual production hours versusstandard hours allowed for a job.

Gordon Pickell of Machine Maintenancebuilt the "Mousetrap" prototype out ofscrap materials from a sketch by Laue.

HUISKES

LIBRAZETTE is published for all employeesof the Librascope Group, GPI, to keep theminformed about Group and GPI plans, policies,products and personnel. LIBRAZETTE is pro­duced by the Communications section, Libra­scope Group, at 808 Western Avenue, Glendale1, Calif. © 1964 by Librascope Group, GeneralPrecision, Inc.

Editor: W. K. Keith

(BURBANK) John H. Huiskes, previ­ously a member of the then Burbank andAerospace Branch engineering staffs, hasreturned to Burbank as a Staff Engineerin the Systems andDevelopment groupof CCD engineering.

Huiskes, who re­ports to Chief En­gineer Robert L. Mc­Intyre, spent hisyear away from theLibrascope organi­zation with a Thio­kol Gorp researchgroup in life science.

A native of Hol­land, Huiskes isa graduate in mechani­cal engineering of the Technical Univer­sity of Arnhem, Holland, and spent 11years with Hollandsee-Signaal, a divi­sion of the giant Phillips-Holland com­bine, before coming to the United States.

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

THE BETTER MOUSETRAP is what Pete Laue (R) calls the glass-fronted box ontop of this Transacter in SED receiving inspection. Its function is to receive puncheddata cards for transmission to Production Control. Others, left to right, Eloi Salazar,Receiving Inspection, Gordon Pickell, Machine Maintenance, who built the "Mouse­trap" from Laue's design, and Glenn Nichols, Prod-Control Supervisor. (See story.)

(GLENDALE) Paul E. Tanner hasjoined the staff of the Research andSystems Center as a staff engineer, re­porting to Harry Keit, Director, GroundInformation Sys­tems.

Prior to joiningLibrascope, Tannerspent seven yearswith RCA-Van Nuysas a senior memberof the systems en­gineering staff,working on theBMEWS andNORAD projects.

Earlier, Tannerwas Director of the Computer ProgramTraining section of the RAND Gorp, atEast Hartford, Conn, and a member ofcomputer analysis groups with GeneralElectric, West Lynn, Mass, and UnitedAircraft Corp, East Hartford, Conn.

Tanner holds a B/A-Math degree fromColumbia University and an MIA-Mathdegree from the same institution. He isthe author of several papers presentedbefore the American Ass'n for the Ad­vancement of Science and a member ofthe Ass'n of Computing Machinery.

P.E. Tanner Joins

Group R&S Center

(GLENDALE) The ImpAct cost reduc­tion program for April-May has as itstheme "Communications Improvement,"says committee chairman Clifford S. God­win.

Posters, bulletins and memoranda dis­tributed to all supervisory personnel inthe Librascope Group, emphasize the im­portance of effective communications.

The educational material provides achecklist on how to make communica­tions effective and lists the company re­sources useful to the communicator.

"The average supervisor spends mostof his time communicating because it'sthe major part of his job," says Godwin."A recent survey of a large electronicsfirm revealed that he is communicating90% of the time; 30% in talking, 35%listening, 16% reading and 9% writing.

"The survey doesn't reveal what hedoes with the other 10% of his workingtime. However, it might be suggestedthat he could spend it in reflecting onthe meaning of what he has heard, read,and said. Digestion is a necessary ingre­dient of any communicative process."

Communications Is

April ImpAct Theme

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Western Americat s Rocky Spine - the Sierra NevadasYou're looking at the highest point in

continental USA, Mt. Whitney (slightlyleft of center), 14,495 feet above sealevel. You're looking down (fr,om about15,000 feet) at its southeast face from aBeechcraft Bonanza piloted by C. R."Bud" Linsley, SED senior engineer, who

Add Three to Staff

In Washington Eng(ROCKVILLE, MD) Addition .of a

Senior Engineer and two Senior Design­ers to the staff of the Washington Engi­neering Department of the SurfaceEquipment Division was announced thismonth by H. A. Timken, Jr., Manager.

Engineer Richard C. Johnson comes tothe Librascope organization from Aer,o­Medical Electronics, Inc, of which he wasfounder-president. He holds a BS/MEdegree from the University of Pittsburghand a BBA degree from SoutheasternUniversity. He is a veteran of 10 yearsin research and development with theNavy's Bureau of Ships.

Lauchlin M. Currie, designer, previous­ly was with American Instrument Com­pany, Silver Spring, Md. A senior mem­ber of the American Society of Tool andManufacturing Engineers, Currie studiedmechanical engineering at George Wash­ington University.

Lynn D. Leathery, designer, formerlywas production supervisor for Electronicsfor Education, Inc, Kensington, Md,manufacturers of electronic test-scoringmachines. Previously he was a designerfor Emertron, Inc, College Park, Md.

APRIL, 1964

has a passion for climbing into his shipevery now and then to fly up to the peakand revel in the majestic sight.

On this flight, made on a recent Satur­day, Linsley brought along Fred Bein­dorff, Jr., photo lab chief and James A.Avera, LIBRAZETTE photographer.

Reject lAM(SAN MARCOS) Employees of theformer Avionic Equipment Divisionof the Librascope Group haveagain rejected the InternationalAss'n of Machinists as their bar­gaining agent in management-laborrelations.

The vote was 76-59. Held underthe supervision of the NationalLabor Relations Board, the elec­tion was the second in little morethan a year.

Those eligible to vote were in theproduction and maintenance sec­tions. Lodge 50, lAM, of San Diego,was the labor group seeking certifi.cation.

Jesse B. PembertonLibrascope employees who were as­

sociated with Jesse B. Pemberton dur­ing his long tenure with the Glendale fa­cility, were saddened to hear of hisdeath, March 13, following a long illness.Mr. Pemberton, who joined the companyas a machinist in 1947, was a generalassembler-electrical when he terminatedin 1963. Funeral services were held March16 at Forest Lawn.

Avera pointed his camera out the win­dow as Linsley dropped the right wing(you can see it at bottom left) a bit toclear the view and made this first of aseries of shots. Photo was made witha Graflex Speed Graphic, equipped witha 6 in Ektar lens, stopped at f16, withshutter speed of 1/250 of a second.

G.H. Bradley HeadsOperations At CCD

(BURBANK) George H. Bradley, withmore than a score of years' experiencein electromechanical manufacturing as abackground, has been named Director,

Computer Opera­tions, of the Com­mercial ComputerDivision, by F'. J.Alterman, vice pres­ident and managerof CCD.

Bradley comes toCCD from the postof Vice-Pres, Manu­facturing, of theSoundscriber Corp,

BRADLEY New Haven, Conn.Previously, Bradley was Vice-Pres,

Manufacturing, of Capitol Products Corp,Harrisburg, Pa, and Manager, Manufac­turing Services, York Division, Borg­Warner Corp, York, Pa.

"Time changes everything, exceptsomething within us which is always sur­prised by change."--Thomas Hardy

9

Callaghan Sees Dodgers On Top,If Roseb,oro's Knee'"'Loosens Up

Henry Andrew Callaghan, dean of allDodger fans on the West Coast (he takesprecedence over Walter O'Malley, whomerely owns the club, because Harrywas a fan before Walter bought in) ismaking a reasonable prediction aboutthe National League race this year.

The Dodgers, he says, wtll win again.But, for the first time the 1962Dodger­

Giants playoff, there's a regretful noteof caution in his voice. It's on accountof the Knee.

Johnny Roseboro'sknee, that is.If you read the papers or watch TV,

you know that the Knee's not right and

the ):lodgers over the Giants, "because ofDrysdale, Podres and Koufax."

Perhaps because they've managed tosurvive three rough years in Dodgerville,or maybe because they pay rent to histeam, Harry admits to a developing af­fection for the Angels. Not that he'dever switch his allegiance, of course (youcan take the boy out of Brooklyn, butcan you take Brooklyn out of the boy?),but he follows their fortunes with someinterest.

Enough interest for him to make asurprising prediction, considering thathe made the same one last year, with re- "The knee's got me worried."

AMERICAN LEAGUE1. New York: What can I say? No other choice.2. Baltimore: Couldmake it this year.3. Los Angeles: Might dobetter during the season.4. Detroit: A great starter, but a poor finisher.5. Minnesota: Couldmake it rough for contenders.6. Chicago: Might dobetter if hitting develops.7. Cleveland: One of the great clubs of the past.8. Kansas City: Farm club for the others.9. Washingtoll: Toomany ex-stars of other clubs.

1'0. Boston: Don't jell as a team. Too many stars.

"The Angels might do better."in the junior league, but thinks Balti­more's Orioles may make the pennantrace there something less than a walk­away. "They could,"he says cagily, "makeit this year."

As Callaghan Sees the Pennant RacesNATIONAL LEAGUE

1. Los Angeles: Too much pitching and team spirit.2. San Francisco: Power, but no pitching (yet).3. Milwaukee: Trying to blend into a solid team.4. St. Louis: They lost one of their great team men.5. Philadelphia: A trouble-maker for the big teams.6. Cincinatti: Not enough pitching and defense.7. Pittsburgh: Rebuilding.8. Houston: A young ball club.9. Chicago: Toomany coaches.

10. New York: Too many ex-stars.

"1, 2, 3. Koufax, Podres, Drysdale."

suIts we all know. The Angels, he says,should finish third this year, and in hishandicapping notes says: "Might do evenbetter than that."

Harry sees the Yankees on top again

"The Yanks'll have some trouble."

Johnny has bowed out of spring trainingto come back to L.A. for medical atten­tion. The Knee's got calcium in the joint,which makes it stiff and hard to squatbehind the plate to take those fireballDodger pitches.

Without Roseboro to catch, the Dod­gers could have trouble. Camilli's prettygood, but he's not Roseboro, and neitheris that third-string what's-his-name.

So, Harry can't be sure."The pitching's there, the fielding's

better some days than others and thehitting is sometimes real good," saysSED's Celtic seer, "but we need to haveJohnny in there every day. I sure hopethat knee shapes up right-and soon.It's games you lose in April and Maythat beat you in September," Callaghanobserves gloomily.

Harry's a little concerned,too, that theGiants may have made out too well intheir Winter trading with Milwaukee.

"With the bunch of sluggers they'vegot, all the Giants need is a little betterpitching than they had last year. Maybethat Bob Shaw and Eob Hendley willshape up for them. That fog up thereand the wind, when it's behind thepitcher, is a big help!"

. But, despite the foregoing unhappyprospects, Harry still gives the nod to

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