Volume XII SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOG, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950 Number 25

BUSINESS - INDUSTRY - EDUCATION DAYEDUCATORS

TOUR

LEADING

INDUSTRIES

Sprague Electric Company, WallStreeter Shoe Co., James T. HunterMachine Company, Strong, Hewat& Company, and Hoosac Mills, Inc.acquaint members of the NorthAdams education personnel withm a n u f a c t u r i n g processes andmethods.

The Business, Industry and Educa-tion Day which war. held in NorthAdams on September 13 was the firstventure of its kind in Western Mass-achusetts.

Many favorable comments were re-ceived with several visitors expressingthe opinion that H.I.E. Day was en-joyable as well as educational and thatit was well worth having the schoolsclosed for the day.

For the majority of the educationalpersonnel, it was the first visit to an in-dustry in North Adams and this visitshould give them a better insight intothe kind of jobs that are filled by alarge percentage of North Adamspeople. In the Marshall Street plant,a normal workday was carried on asusual and production was the same asany other day. Most people have ajumbled idea of what an industry isreally like from looking at the outsidewalls, but now the knowledge acquiredby the teachers will be passed on totheir students, many of whom willprobably someday be part of one of thefive industries which held the Business,Industry and Education Day.

At Sprague Electric, members of theeducational staff of North Adams werewelcomed by Mr. R. C. Sprague, Presi-dent of the Cohipany, before startingon a tour of the Marshall Street plant.The visitors were taken on a tour to seethe actual production of capacitorsthrough the following departments:Organic Laboratory, Life Test, Bat-tery Laboratory, Battery Department,

'Ceramics, Oven Aging, F. P. Assemblyand Crimping, High Voltage, and Auto-matic Rolling. Groups of between tenand fifteen people led by a guide touredthe plant. The guides explained vari-ous procedures in the departments withthe aid of foremen and supervisors.At the usual rest period, coffee anddoughnuts were served from the lunchcart which goes around each day. Afterthe plant tour, the groups went to thelibrary where the different kinds ofcapacitors made by the Company wereexhibited.

Enjoying coffee on B.I.E. Day Tour at the Marshall Street Plant are,left to right: Robert C. Sprague, Jr., Clarence C. ChafFee, William E.Gorden, Gorden Key worth, Harry M. Easton and George Giroux, kneel-ing.

Luncheon was served to the visitorsfrom Hoosac Mills, Inc., James T. Hun-ter Machine Co., Strong Hewat & Co.,Wall Streeter Shoe Co. and SpragueElectric Company in the Blue Roomof the Richmond Hotel.

After luncheon, the visitors fromSprague Electric remained at the BlueRoom and heard talks by John D.Washburn, Director of Personnel,on The Present Day Industrial Em-ploye, Julian K. Sprague, Vice Presi-dent in Charge of Sales, on the Users ofOur Products, Ernest L. Ward, VicePresident in Charge of Manufacturing,on the Responsibilities of Industry andthe Community to Each Other, andRobert C. Sprague, Jr. who discussedthe sound-slide film, "This is OurProblem", which was shown to thegroup. The film presented fundamen-tal economics in industry and everydaylife.

Malcolm Wilson, one of the severalguests invited in addition to the edu-cational staff, spoke to the entire groupfrom the five plants before luncheonwas served.

Harry M. Easton, Regional Directorof the National Association of Manu-facturers, visited the Sprague ElectricCompany on B.I.E. Day and wasenthused over the results of Business,Industry, and Education Day as mak-ing a definite step toward better under-standing between education and in-dustry.

B.I.E. Days have been given inmany other communities, particularlyin Connecticut and the Mid-West.The aim of the programs is to giveeducators first-hand knowledge of theadministrative procedures, productionoperations, and business methods of in-dustries. Having gained this knowl-edge, teachers are able to appreciatethe problems industry must cope withas well as the opportunities industriesoffer their future employes now inschool.

Wall Streeter Shoe Co.James E. Wall, President of the Wall

Streeter Shoe Co., greeted the visitorsafter which Robert Wall gave a talksummarizing the manufacturing pro-cesses which the visitors would see on atour of the plant. The teachingpersonnel visiting the Wall StreeterShoe Co. was split into two groups, onesection touring the plant in the morn-ing and the other in the afternoon.

James T. Hunter Machine Co.Twenty-seven teachers visited the

James T. Hunter Machine Companywhere they were shown through thevarious stages of manufacturing textilemachinery. Before the plant tour, thevisitors were greeted by RichardHunter who also spoke to the group,along with other executives, at theRichmond Hotel in the afternoon.

Strong, Hewat & CompanyAt the Strong, Hewat & Company

twenty visitors were welcomed by G.Douglass Hewat who described manu-facturing operations at the plant andthe part that wool plays in interna-tional economic problems.

After a tour of the plant which wasdirected by R. H. J. Hewat, ReginaldWhite, G. Douglass Hewat and GeorgeCarson, the visitors heard talks on thewoolen industry in the afternoon at theStrong, Hewat & Company.

Hoosac Mills, Inc.At the Hoosac Mills, twenty-five

visitors, including Walter G. Patterson,Principal of Drury High School, wenton a plant tour which was directed byLlewellyn Manson, Alfred Jacob, AlfredE. Elmer and Superintendent James E.Broderick. Patrick J. Geraghty, plantmanager, first explained to the visitorsthe operations of the plant.

In the afternoon, motion picturesillustrating various phases of the rayonindustry and its importance in oureconomic set-up were shown.

SPRAGUE MEN INARMED SERVICES

The Sprague Electric Company feels the effeel of the Korean warnot only in increased production hut in losing some of its employes tothe Armed Services.

The war in Korea has only been inexistence since June 25 but everyday itis being brought home to us morevividly. When actual combat first be-gan in Korea, people in this countrythought little about it except that then'was another tiff in the Far East. Astime went on, however, our troops weresent across, major battles were foughtand it became apparent that Russiawas at the root of what, is considerablymore than a little tiff.

There have been a great many of ourAmerican men killed and still morehave been wounded. When war strikesso close to home, people begin to askquestions, they want to know if this isthe bcfe:.:.:;::g of World War III. Thisquestion only time can answer.

We have not altogether recoveredfrom World War II. The UnitedStates, however has plans for wage andprice controls, taking a large percentageof goods for the war effort and mobiliz-ing the country.

The key word among the youngergroup of men is "How do you stand,what's your draft rating?" The futureis uncertain and it is hard for meneligible for the draft to obtain good jobsor start making homes.

In North Adams, many men in theArmy and Navy Reserves have beencalled to active duty and many othershave been drafted.

From the Sprague Electric Company,the following men have been called intothe service of their country.

George J. Beck withMisc. Dry Test, Finish and ShippingI )epartment

Arthur W. BruleFoil Preparation Depart men I

Frank E. Fortini, Jr.Dry Tubular Finish Department

Edward J. GoffDry Rolling Department

Harold G. HarrisMisc. Dry Centrifuge and SubAssembly

Victor K. HarwoodFormation Department

Maurice E. JonesFormation Department

Hugh D. MacFarlaneCeramic Depai inieni

Norman G. MorinFormation I )epartment

Richard C. ParkDry Tubular Assembly-

Carl ton F. RoyWire Coating

Phillip KeyworthRound Midget Assembly

Gordon H. LyonsDry Rolling Department

Robert WindoverSpecifications Engineering

David ReedMarshall Street Rolling Department

Rene DuboisF. P. Assembly

Foster C. WilliamsDry Rolling Department

PRESIDENT R. C. SPRAGUE WELCOMESEDUCATORS AND GUESTS

As you may know, the idea of settingaside a day when the educational andbusiness leaders of a community couldget together to present their mutualproblems originated in the Mid-West.However, the value of that idea hasbeen so great that the practice israpidly spreading all over the country,and we are proud to have been instru-mental in bringing it to North Adams.

Although our Company manufac-tures capacitors, resistors, noise sup-pression filters, radar pulse networks,high temperature ceramic coated wire,our largest volume of production is incapacitors. We manufacture not onesingle type or size of capacitor, butmany thousands, many of which aredesigned to the specifications of our 600manufacturing customers.

Capacitors are used as an importantpart in a wide variety of products thatwe use every day, such as televisionsets, radios, refrigerators, automobiles,vacuum cleaners and other household

appliances and electrical motors. Theyare also used in airplanes, fluorescentlamps, hearing aids, business machines,and in many other types of electricalequipment.

A capacitor controls one of the threefundamental design characteristics ex-isting in all alternating current apdelectronic circuits. These are capacity,resistance and inductance. In simpl-est terms a capacitor consists of twoconducting plates separated by aninsulator. The intricate technologyinvolved in the design and manufactureof capacitors results from the fact that

— everything else being equal —• thethinner the insulating medium and thehigher voltage it will stand, the smallerthe capacitor.

There are several interesting factsthat are peculiar to our particular in-dustry. In the first place a largepercentage of our time and money mustbe spent in research and engineering.For example, it has taken over 20 years

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PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY FOR EMPLOYEES OF SPRAGUE ELECTRIC COMPANY

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PUBLISHING STAFFCo-Editors:

Mary Connelly

Circulation: Marion Caron

ASSISTANT EDITORSKit Carson, Tom Cullen, Dan Kelly, Peter Mancuso, Jim Oldham, Ett

Owen and Laurence Haskins.

Patricia Welch

Social Chairman: Ann Heath

SportsKenneth Russell

PhotographerAl Horsfall

Plant EditorMarshall Street: Cecile Trudeau

Plant EditorBrown Street: Bertha Vaughan

BEAVER STREET REPORTERS

Susan Bishop, Annette Boudreau, Joan Bryce, Rita Cote, Harry Embry,Mildred Faustini, Natalie Garafano, Doris Grinka, Hazel Goodale, RuthHaskins, Marjorie Hauptfleisch, Ruth Kelly, Joan LaPierre, Velma Lincoln,Frances Melito, Nick Richardello, Florence Southgate, Shirley Thoros, HarryTrombley, Roseann Vigna, John Walsh, and Marge Wittig.

MARSHALL STREET REPORTERS

Exilda Callahan, Mary Daniels, Marie DeMarsico, Ida Gigliotti, LaurenceHiser, Isabelle Hyndman, Virginia Kemp, Barbara King, Mario Magnani,Emma Mutart, Miles O'Grady, Edward O'Neil, Cecile Risch, Roma Rumgay,and Mabel Sorel.

BROWN STREET REPORTERS

Marion Andrews, Carol Bellard, Phyllis Brooks, Mary Bua, Janet Cady,Josephine Campedelli, John Davis, Charles Felix, Victor Gay, Ann Heath,Elizabeth Jangrow, Georgiemae Joy, Gladys Kirkpatrick, Helen Lesure, MariaMancini, Mary Markland, Rita Samia, Ceil Shanahan, Rita Siciliano, Anna St.Cyr, Blanche Tatro, Corena Tatro, Connie Urbano, and Isabel Witherow.

"Every Sprague Worker an Assistant Reporter"

Published by the SPRAGUE ELECTRIC CO., North Adams, Mass.

MARSHALL STREET "MEMOSDry Tubular Assembly

By Puss'n Boots

We are all very sorry to hear aboutMrs. Jerry's recent illness and we hopeshe will be up and around soon.

Lila Abraham stayed home duringher vacation.

Norma Davignon enjoyed a weekendof her vacation in Connecticut.

Harold Dufresne is a grandpa again— swell, Harold!

We are glad to have Lillian Sorel,Ruth Boschetti, and Lillian Boyer.Hope they are here to stay.

Iris and Stafford Lewis enjoyed partof their vacation in Boston while DorisValliers traveled through Marylandand Washington, D. C.

Mary Conrad cleaned her house dur-ing most of her vacation.

Alma Harrington is to be marriedon October 14. Good luck, Alma.

Mary Scaia went to Torrington,Connecticut during her vacation.

Rena Roy went to Long Island, NewYork and Boston during her vacation.

Say, do you all know the topic forthe day — shoes.

Claire Chalifoux attended thewedding of her brother in Philadelphiaover Labor Day weekend.

Rose Andrew went to New York,New Jersey and Connecticut over hervacation.

A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.Edward Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy isthe former Doris Goffrey of our de-partment.

Automatic RollingBy Choo-Choo

David Reed has been called to activeduty as the first Marine Corp Reservistfrom North Adams. He left on Sep-tember 16. He was discharged fromthe Marine Corp last February andcame to work in this department atthat time. Prior to his discharge, hedid radio work at the United NationsMeditor's Headquarters at Haifa,Isereal. Dave conies from a family ofMarines. His father served with thecorp during World War I, while two ofhis older brothers served during WorldWar II. We wish you a lot of luck,Dave, and hope you will soon be backwith us.

George LeSage and Pete Andogniniare enjoying their vacations.

With the American League top teamsin such a tight race, a lot of us will behaving ulcers to see which team willcop the flag.

Retail SalesBy Hit 'n Run

Those who have wedding anni-versaries this month are Mary Daniels

KNOW YOUR FOREMAN

Kenny Russell, ForemanIndustrial Oil Rolling.

Kenny is familiar to most of us notjust as a foreman but as the SportsEditor of the LOG. He has beenkeeping the LOG up to date on localand national sports for about ten years.

In 1936, Kenny came to SpragueElectric and went to work in the CanShop, a much smaller department thanit is today. From that year until 1944he was up and down between the CanShop and Miscellaneous Paper Assemb-ly. In 1944, he went into IndustrialOil Cover Assembly and two yearslater was made Foreman of that de-partment and Industrial Oil Rolling.In the two departments together, thereare 50 people.

The actual process of the capacitorsin his department is much too in-volved to go into, but briefly thecapacitors, after they arrive from an-other department, are rolled, put incans, tested, sealed, torch soldered,impregnated, tested again, and thenare painted, packed, labeled, stampedand shipped.

Kenny was born in North Adams,attended local schools and was grad-

of Industrial Oil Cover Assembly and

uated from Drury. He was marriedabout two years ago to the formerLillian Campell whom he met at aSprague Minstrel.

In the sports field, Kenny has alwaysbeen active. He plays golf, tennis, andhas played baseball in the NorthernBerkshire Twilight League. Last year,he was on the Sprague Softball Team.

His hobbies at one time includedraising tropical fish of which he hadabout 2500. Raising fish as a hobbyhas probably never occurred to mostpeople but after talking with Kenny Ithink it would be a rather interestingpastime as well as one that could bemade profitable.

In the photography field, Kenny hasdone quite a bit of developing, printingand enlarging on an amateur scale.

Kenny is secretary of the Manage-ment Club at Sprague Electric and thispast August he celebrated his fifteenthyear with the Company.

Besides his numerous other activ-ities, Kenny spends a great deal of timeworking around his new home.

who is celebrating her fifteenth onSeptember 7, Henry Gamari who wasmarried eighteen years on September 6,Lorraine Lavigne will be celebratingher first on September 24 and AliceMalloy's anniversary is on Sept. 30.

Slyva Marcil and Corinne Gallupcelebrate their birthdays on September10 and September 29, respectively.

Lorraine Lavigne hopes to enjoy hervacation in New York watching theRed Sox beat the Yankees.

A "Hope Chest" party was held

recently in honor of Pat Donovan, ourengaged co-worker. It was held atthe home of Mary Libardi. Almostall of the girls in the department wentand Pat received many gifts.

Continued on Page 5PRE-NUPTIALS PARTIES

Miss Josephine Buda was feted at ashower on September 10 at the homeof Miss Joan Matney. Miss Buda willbe married on September 30 to LeoRobinson, Jr. She works in the PaperRolling Department.

T. V. TidbitsBy John Davis

Ed Sullivan's dynamic CBS-TVvariety show "Toast of the Town" isgoing to be originated in Boston onNovember 19 and we of this locale willbe seeing it via Kinescope recordingone week later. We understand thaithis is lo be a tremendous show,judgingfrom the amount of T.V. equipmentthai will have to be moved into Bostonto produce it.

More than 2500 pounds of audio andviedo material will lie shipped intoBoston from CBS' studio 51 in NewYork along with a production crew of250, 15,000 feet of cable, plus three(rucks of scenery as well as otherequipment. The show itself will headline main- Boston entertainers inaddition to several New York theaterpersonalities who will fly to Boston toappear in the production.

Word around New York has it thatJack Benny will bow in on T.V. viaCBS on October 29 and lor the timebeing will be seen only every eighiweeks. Benny, however, eventuallyhopes to take up a permanent residencein New York City and star on a bi-monthly, hall-hour video show.

We saw Eddie Cantor on the Col-gate Comedy Theater last Sunday anda fine job was done by Eddie as well asthe whole cast.

By the time you are reading this,Milton Berle will have returned on theeight to nine spot on Tuesday evenings.

A program which I find very interest-ing is "John Kieran's Kaliedescope" onSunday from 9:00 until 9:15. (Verygood stuff!)

We also have a "hot tip" that boxingfrom New York will return on Friday,September 15.

Good Televuing.

W E D D I N G SLuscier-Martin

Miss Norma Constance Martin,daughter of Mr. and Mis. GeorgeMartin, became the bride of RaymondJoseph Luscier, son of Mr. and Mrs.Joseph Luscier in St. Francis' churchon September 9. The bridegroom isemployed in Maintenance.Dubois-Diamond

Miss Shirley Anne Diamond,daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John N.Diamond, and Ernest C. Dubois, son ofMr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Dubois, weremarried on September 9 at St. Patrick'schurch in Williamstown. The bride-groom works in the F. P. Assembly.

B I R T H SDAUGHTER to Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Thompson of Clarksburg onSeptember 9. The father is employedin Payroll and Costs.

SON to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kozikon September 6. The mother is Aliceof Maintenance Test.

SON to Mr. and Mrs. George Olsenon September 10. Both the motherand father are employed in the labora-tory.

Virginia (ireen, three-year old daughter of Marion Green of F. P. Drys Night Shift. Two and a half-year old Barhara Ann Wilson, daughter of Stephanie of F. P. Drys NightShift. Betty Ann, three years old and MinaRae, one and a half-years old, daughters of Rose LeBeau of the Oven Department of F. P. Drys. Patricia Ann Bentley, four-month olddaughter of Ray Bentley of the Molding Room at Brown Street and granddaughter of Edith Fields of the F. P. Assembly al Marshall Street. Kenneth Green, one and a half-year oldson of Marion of F. P. Drys.

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P H O T O S T O R Y OF B - l - E D A Y

iVirs. Koliert C. Sprague, Jr., pins an identification cardon (loach John Del Negro. Mr. R. C. Sprague welcomes

B.I.E. Day visitors.

Sisters of Noire Dame and St. Josephs in the Ceramics Department,

Actual production on the Cover Assemblyis viewed by the Sisters.

William W. Stifler, Jr. shows a hearing aid to group. Clarence C. Chaffee, who played a large part inorganizing B.I.E. Day, explains a few thingsto a group of teachers.

Motor Generator Room

BUSINESSINDUSTRYEDUCATION

DAY•September 13

1950 John B. Clark, Robert W. Taylor, Mayor James A. Bones, Julian k.Sprague, William J. Stackpole in Blue Room at Richmond Hotel.

Clarence C. Chaffee and Courtney W. Flandersdistribute booklets to departing guests.

Robert C. Sprague, Jr., Harold L. Carson, CarolMalloy and Mary Merrigan in Blue Room atRichmond Hotel.

SPEAKERSLeft to right: Julian K. Sprague, Robert C. Sprague

and John D. Washburn.

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Welcoming AddressContinued from page 1

to determine the types of equipmentnecessary to conduct research and de-velopment in our field —to design andprocure it — and then to staff it withthe expert engineering and scientifictalent required. The cost involved hasrun into the hundreds of thousands of

Secondly, in our field it normallytakes about four years to travel theroad from a new invention or basic re-search to successful volume production.And this in a field where demands ofour customers are continuously chang-ing in the rapidly expanding field ofelectronics.

The ground floor of our laboratoriesinclude the engineering offices, library,conference and projection rooms, ourorganic research laboratory, as wellas extensive testing facilities where wetest new designs and developments toassimilate actual and overvoltage con-ditions under which our capacitors andother components may be expected tooperate in all kinds of apparatus allover the world.

Also on the lirst floor is our relative-ly new Battery Department where weare starting to manufacture, on amodest scale, the new mercury oxidebattery which is presently used almostexclusively in hearing aids, but has im-portant possibilities for use in militaryelectronic equipment. The advantagesof this battery are that it contains thelargest amount of electrical energy for agiven size, which permits much smallersize batteries for the same number ofdays of useful life in a hearing aid.

Then there is what we call our For-mation Department where we carryout the process of building a thinaluminum oxide film on thin etchedaluminum foil. The etching process,which is carried on in another part ofthe plant, increases the effective areaof the foil by a ration of four or five toone, and the thin aluminum oxide filmis then formed electro-chemically bythe passage of current at varying volt-ages through chemical solutions. Thisequipment has all been especially de-signed by our engineers for the par-ticular purpose, and in this room is thelargest investment in equipment wehave in any equivalent space. Themotor generator sets cost up to $50,000per set; the bus duct which carries thelarge amount of power required tooperate the machine costs about $200a running foot; and the long formationmachines in which the process isactually carried out cost us over $20,000each to build. The thin aluminumoxide film resulting from this processis too thin to be seen by the naked eyeexcept by a change in the color of thereflected light, but it will stand volt-ages continuously as high as .500 voltsD.C.

Beyond the formation department isthe ceramic department where we pre-pare and fire the ceramic discs pre-viously mentioned. The interesting anduseful characteristic of this material isnot its thinness, as is the nature of thealuminum oxide film, but rather itsextraordinary high capacity effectwhich is about 3500 times that of air,or about 1000 times that of dry paperfor the same thickness. This is arelatively new branch of the capacitorart, and we are one of the very fewconcerns who manufacture their ownceramic discs.

Next, there is the Dry ElectricAssembly Department where capacitorsusing the aluminum foil which yousaw processed in the Formation De-partment are completed. You willnote that there is a great deal of handlabor required in this department whichis principally due to the enormousnumber of types; that is, capacity andvoltage combinations, which our cust-omers require from us, and the fre-quency with which they change theirrequirements.

HIGHLIGHTS OF B-I-E-DAY SPEECHES

You will then see one of our mostinteresting manufacturing operations—•the automatic rolling or paper capac-itors. The developmen 1 the machinesin this department extended over aperiod of around fifteen years and at acost of several hundreds of thousandsof dollars. They have great flexibilityand will automatically and continuous-ly roll paper capacitor sections of awide variety of paper and foil widths,number of turns and number and thick-ness of paper separators, all required tomeet the many and varied demands ofour customers.

On the second floor of our laboratoryis the analytical laboratory, electronmicroscope and X-ray defraction equip-ment, high voltage laboratory, inter-ference measurements laboratory, anda small paper development laboratory.

The Sprague Electric Company as abusiness is not unique, except for thespecial and technical nature of itsproducts, and as its counterpart isduplicated in every section of thiscountry of ours, you will realize it is arepresentative segment of our Americaneconomy, an economy, which despitesome faults, has provided the higheststandard of living ever achieved any-where in the world.

RESPONSIBILITIES OFINDUSTRY AND THE

COMMUNITY

By E. L. Ward, Vice-President inCharge of Manufacturing

The fact that we are gathered herefora Business, Industry and EducationDay speaks well for the future ofAmerica. In inviting you educators totake part in this program, it shows thatindustry today is aware of its responsi-bilities and opportunities to the com-munity. In the enthusiasm with whichyou have turned out you have shown akeen awareness of your own importantpart in community and industrial re-lations and in the future of us all.

The last census revealed that NorthAdams has a population of 22,000 with6,250 resident families. The publicand parochial schools have approxi-mately 3,980 pupils this year, and upat Sprague's we have about 1,250 of theMothers and Daddies of those children.We Daddies and Mothers see that thechildren are washed, dressed, fed andsent off to your daily care. When yousend them home, we help with thealgebra and hope to beam with pridewhen the report cards come home.When the children have finished theireducation many of them take up jobsin industry, help industry to grow,which in turn helps the community togrow and the school system in the com-munity.

What are some of the specific re-sponsibilities of industry to the com-munity, or putting it a better way,opportunities to help the community?

The most important, of course, is

the opportunity to help by providingwork and wages under good workingconditions for as many young peopleand as many types of skills as possibleso that they and their families will re-main in town.

Second is the opportunity to help by-providing a place for individuals togrow and realize their ambitions.

Third, industry can provide oppor-tunity for the individual citizen workerto grow in pride of craftsmanship, inself esteem, in standard of living for hisor her family, in friendships, and insecurity and steadiness of income.

Fourth, there are general responsi-bilities to the community such asmaintaining clean, attractive plantswith a minimum of smoke nuisance,encouraging its individual members toparticipate in civic activities sponsor-ing athletic programs, and supportingcharities.

As to numbers of jobs and amount ofpayroll, the figures speak for them-selves. In 1930 the Company em-ployed approximately 500 people inNorth Adams and had an annual pay-roll of approximately $355,000. By1940 the number of employes hadgrown to 750 and the annual payrollto $900,000. We are now in 1950 andthe number of employes in NorthAdams has grown to 3,350. Inaddition, we have had to open plants inthree other cities where we are current-ly employing about 850 because wecould not hire sufficient help in thiscommunity. Our North Adams pay-roll for 1950 should exceed 8 million.

We have done much over a period ofyears to encourage pride in jobs, tocreate a strong, secure company whichis the only way of insuring security ofincome for the individual.

When we look at the other side of thepicture and consider the community'sresponsibilities to industry and itsopportunities to help industry, it isreadily apparent that the number oneresponsibility and opportunity restswith you, those who are educating thefuture workers and executives in in-dustry.

We believe that industry should askits educators for young men and womenwith a well developed moral, ethical,and religious sense. The problems anddangers of today remind us of the factthat we should not get so absorbed inmaterial progress that we lose sight ofthe fact that a community, and in-dustry or a society may fail if it has nomoral backbone.

We believe that industry should askits educators for young men and womenwho know how to think. We can'texpect you to train for our particulartasks and operations because theychange too fast, but training to makethe best use of each individual's mentalcapacity is of great value to industry.

We believe that industry should askits educators for young men and women

who have a sincere interest in peopleand an ability to get along with eachother and be good citizens. Good citi-zenship also means good habits of neat-ness, thrift, pride in accomplishment,and qualities of sportsmanship andtolerance.

We also believe that industry shouldask its educators for young men andwomen who know what it takes forthem to make progress. Everyonewants to make progress but so fewrealize that progress is made by hardwork and there is no substitute for thefact that you have to work harder thanyour neighbor if you want to be aleader.

These four requirements of industryrepresent the responsibility and oppor-tunity of our educators.

Finally, what are the community'sgeneral responsibilities and oppor-tunities to help industry. Good civicgovernment and a well run town easilystand out as the most important. Thismeans adequate police and fire pro-tection, a clean and attractive townand good recreational facilities.

Community leadership should seethat all worthwhile organizations arewell supported, including churches,hospitals, the community fund andfraternal organizations.

In conclusion, we believe that ourindustrial society in recent years hasmatured to the point where industryrealizes what its responsibilities are tothe community and the community, inturn, recognizes that it also has re-sponsibilities and opportunities to helpindustry. If we can recognize thismutual interest and need to each otherand if we can each do our part as in-dividuals, our community, our in-dustries and we as individuals willprosper.

THIS IS OUR PROBLEM

By R. C. Sprague, Jr.Director of Employe Relations

About ten years ago, I would havethought I had a lot to say to such adistinguished aggregation of teachersand teaching personnel; however, tenyears accomplishes a lot in itself andtoday I'm not so sure—especially inthe field of economics.

Our program is explained in detailin the green booklet all of you have re-ceived, entitled, "THIS IS OURPROBLEM", and is accompanied bya sound-slide film produced by theAssociation of National Advertisersand the American Association ofAdvertising Agencies. This is all partof our Employe Relations and Com-munity Relations Program. For wefeel that it is part of management'sresponsibility to help bring this in-formation not only to its employes butto as many people in the communitywho are interested in hearing it; foralthough the American people believein the American form of government, it

has been found that many of them donot understand how it works for them.Our economic system as such has noinherent means of telling of its ad-vantages; whereas economic systemsopposed to ours use every unethicaland subversive weapon in decryingours. For instance, Russia, with itsall-powerful propaganda machine.

We have tried to use as few technicalterms as possible and to orieni all ex-amples to ordinary situations thai areexperienced by us all. This programhas been produced, not in the interestof business or management, but in (heinterest of the American people, as youwill now see.(A sound-slide film, THIS IS OURPROBLEM was shown)

Of course, our presentation of econ-omics doesn't stop here. Wheneverthis film and its commentary have beenpresented, il has always been followedby thought provoking discussion —which, of course, is the real purpose ofstarting these courses. We want ouremployes to think about business, orfree enterprise as we know il in thiscountry, to understand how it is run,and to be aware of some of the problemsinvolved. The more our employes knowabout the running of our business, thebelter employes they will be, and themore valuable as citizens in solvingthe problems of community living.

These discussions have encouragedthem to read more articles in news-papers, magazines, and so forth. 11helps them to take a new interest inworld-wide problems. For as we allknow, the wrongs of the world will notbe solved in the capitols of the world,but only when each and everyone of usis interested and informed enough todemand of our leaders in governmentthat these wrongs be righted.

USERS OF OUR PRODUCTS

By Julian K. SpragueVice President in Charge of Sales

The Sprague Electric Company is amanufacturer of components. This isa term used to describe active electricalelements used in the manufacture ofelectrical and electronic equipment.The components themselves are com-monplace in appearance and it mayappear difficult to build a romanticstory about them and their functions.On the other hand, it is very easy totell wonderful stories about the per-formance of electronic end equipmentsuch as radio and television, electroniccomputers, guided missiles and radar.Most people, however, are unawarethat not only the performance of thesedevices but their very design is entire-ly dependent on the characteristics ofthe components which are available atthe time.

It is also not generally understoodthat while a great deal of brilliant cir-cuit engineering is necessary to createan elaborate piece of end equipment,the basic tool used in the manufactureof this apparatus is a soldering iron;while in the case of components, notonly is a great amount of basic engineer-ing required in their creation, but asubstantial amount of heavy and elab-orate equipment of special design isalso needed for their manufacture. Theresearch and engineering behind theseproducts frequently goes back to the,creation of new raw materials and thismore often than not, requires years ofwork in our research laboratories.

Sprague components are used in anever increasing number of devicesfound in American homes. Of these,television accounts for by far the larg-est number and is largely responsiblefor the very substantial growth of ourindustry during the last two years, and,this business is expected to increasewithout interruption except in the caseof an all-out war program.

With the upset in world conditions,climaxed by the recent invasion ofSouth Korea, the potential of the

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Misc. Paper FinishBy Velma Lincoln

We welcome our new boss, JamesNicol and hope he likes working withus.

Anniversary greetings to JosephineMastalisz. Each year her husbandgreets her with a red rose, one for eachyear they have been married. Thisyear she received four roses.

Dora Landry was quite busy visitingher twin sister, Cora Ryan, who wasoperated on in the North Adamshospital. We hope you feel fine now,Cora.

Alice Cronin left us to go back toschool in Quincy. She was our checkinspector while Gertrude Deso was onher vacation in Bermuda. We all likeAlice and hope she will be back with usnext year.

Mary Zito and Helen Harringtonwent to the Rutland Fair on LaborDay. Helen was also at HamptonBeach.

Lucille Beaudry enjoyed her vacationin the Green Mountains in Vermontand also went to the Rutland Fair.

Betty Fleury is in New York on hervacation.

A. C. Dry Assembly AndCentrifuge

ByJoyce Harrington and Harry Embry

(ieorge Beverly and his wife recentlywent to New Britain, Connecticut for aweekend.

Percy Bordwin visited his mother inCanada over Labor Day weekend.

Jennie Melito and* her daughter,Dolores enjoyed Labor Day weekendin New Jersey, while Roy Trottier wentto Boston for the holiday, and JoyceHarrington attended the Rutland Fair.

Grace Scarfone went to the North-ampton Fair with her family.

Lea Perras entertained relatives fromConnecticut over the holiday and AlicePisano's son, Joe, was home on furloughfrom Maryland.

Metal Clad Dept.By Francis and Ruth

A hue but hearty welcome to all thenew girls in our department and wehope they enjoy their stay witti us.

Sorry to hear of Anna Gorczyca'shusband being in the hospital and wedo hope he is well and at home againin a very short time.

Just heard Martha Choquette is finealter her recent operation and we hopeto see you soon, Martha.

We are also glad to welcome GioiaMancini back again alter her illness.

We hope all those who left us'to re-turn to school miss us as much as wemiss them. Wishing you all luck andhoping we may see you all again andoften.

Dorothy Grant who is to be marriedin the near future has been unable tosecure an apartment. If anyone knowsof a three room apartment, pleasenotify her.

Misc. Paper AssemblyBy Ruth Haskins

As vacation days draw to a close welearn that Ida Fowler enjoyed her twoweeks in Atlantic City and Pennsyl-vania, Edith Dean visited in Spring-field, Bertha Roy motored to OldOrchard Beach, Josie Sikorski andLaura Skowron went to New YorkCity and Pauline McCuen, TheresaVono and Alice Wright enjoyed a restat home.

Several of our gang took advantageof the Labor Day weekend to travel.Fran Roy and her family drove toNew York City, Merida Baldassariniwent to the Rutland Fair where shewon a blanket and two large kettles ofgroceries, Margaret Como enjoyed theNorthampton Fair, Rose Vallieresvisited in Marlboro, Janet Oleskiewiczwent to New York City and FlorenceDuprea attended the Rutland Fair.

The engagement of Sandra Lonctoof this department to John Parker hasbeen announced. The wedding willtake place on November 11.

Doris Daigneault of this departmentis engaged to Ernest Lussier and will bemarried on October 28.

Our newest co-workers includeNancy Davis, Rose Blair, DoloresTanguay, Betty Davis, Lina Piantoni,Robert Urquhart, Jeremiah Porio,Edna McClain, Gloria Ames, ChristineAndrews and Marguerite Fletcher.

Barbara Fosser who worked in MetalClad Assembly this summer and who isthe daughter of Ethel of Metal CladAssembly and formerly of Miscel-laneous Paper Assembly has enteredthe Pittsfield General Hospital Schoolfor Nurses. Barbara, who graduatedfrom Dairy High School in June, waspresented with a gift and farewell cakeby her co-workers in Metal Clad Assem-bly.

Product EngineeringBy Frances Melito

Rita Slade and Rita Bishop are offfor a two-week vacation. Have a nicetime, girls.

Lois Pike is sporting a beautifuldiamond. Don't worry girls, it is only abirthday present.

Welcome back to Ethel Powell, whohas been out sick for some time. Yousure are looking swell now.

Our special welcome mat is out forEddie Catotti and Royal Scott. Hopeyou like working in our depar ment,fellows.

Molded Tubulars—Day ShiftBy the Busy Bees

Margaret Cirone is at home nowrecuperating from her recent illness.Hope to see you back soon.

We think we'll have to have a littletalk with Jack if he doesn't bring thelunch cart up a little sooner.

Susie Pollone recently enjoyed see-ing a Red Sox game.

Francis Siciliano went to Bostonover Labor Day.

Jeannette Cady enjoyed a trip toPlattsburg and the North Pole.

P.A.A. WaxingBy Mary Bua

Alma Kent, "the bird with thegilded tank", is quite proud of theorange and green ribbon recentlyawarded her for having the prettiestwax tank. Congratulations, Alma, soonwe'll all have the honor of working onthat tank.

We all miss Jean Wheeler who wentback to her soldering job.

Welcome to Ruth Williams who isnow partner to yours truly.

Best of luck to Richard DiLorenzowho by now is a freshman at St.Michaels College. Dick was recentlygiven a farewell party by the girls ofthis line.

Industrial OilsBy Ann Heath

Our deepest sympathy is extended tothe family of the late Larry Dufraine.

Gerry Bessette is the proud motherof a boy. Congratulations also tograndma, Millie Kearns. Elva Hur-burl and Isabell Witherow are alsoproud grandmothers.

Sadie Champagne has a new sonbut this one happens to be a son-in-law.Congratulations Katherine and Kenand lots of luck.

Jim Emery, son of Winnie Emery,has resumed his studies at college.

Gary Oakes started at State Teach-ers' College this year. Gary is the sonof Alta and quite the artist. Keep itup, Gary.

Between Bessie York and MargaretGreene, if they ever got tongue-tied, wedon't know what we would do for agood laugh.

Dennis Cronin has just come to ourdepartment. Welcome Dennis, we hopeyou will like working with us.

Frances Miles hasn't found her pianoyet, come on everybody, look in yourhall closets—the poor girl must have apiano.

We miss David Richards very muchbut hope he will like W'illiamstownHigh School, and will come in and seeus once in awhile.

Our best wishes to Nellie Hall fromall of her friends in the department.

Industrial Oil RollingBy Helen Lesure

Gay September is here once againushering in the beginning of the fallseason. Crisp, invigorating air, fallfoliage and school bells are the com-bined ingredients making this one of thenicest months of the year.

Speaking of school, the departmentis jam-packed with new student rollers.I'd like very much to mention thenames of all the new freshmen but itwould take, considerable space. There'san enrollment of approximately twentygirls and to each and everyone of youwe extend a hearty welcome. Mightypretty gals too, aren't they, fellas?

Ida Manson, you're making us ter-rifically unhappy. We don't like theidea of your being confined to your bedat all. We hope you'll be able to leaveyour bed behind you and join us onceagain here at work real soon.

We're all happily singing "Rock-a-bye baby" since we heard the goodnews about the arrival of a certain babyboy. Said baby boy is definitely ac-ceptable in the sight of mother, GerryBessette and proud grandma, MillieKearns.

Well, sports fans, bowling season isonce more under way. Captain Marg-aret Wohler is confident that her teamwill do its best to come through withflying colors. We'll all be behind youone hundred per cent, so "fight, team,fight!"

Round Midget AssemblyBy Fran Millard

Ceil Shanahan has returned from atrip to New York City.

Thomas Riordan, whose mother is inthis department, has been called intothe Navy.

Theresa Burro enjoyed her vacationin Springfield, Massachusetts. Gladto be back, Theresa?

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.Dean on their thirty-fourth weddinganniversary on August 28. They havefour children, Elaine LaBonte, whoworks at the Beaver Street plant,Alfred, who is at Marshall Street,Dorothy St. Dennis and Judy. All ofus wish you many more happy years,Florence.

Mary Kinsey has returned after twoweeks sick leave. Hope you are muchbetter, Mary.

Hallie McCulloch had a nice vacationin Boston and New York. How didyou ever get the courage to take theplane, Emily.

The room seemed very bright thismorning and looking around, I dis-covered a beautiful diamond on MaryJane Norman's left hand. She is to bemarried to Ronald Tovani in theP.A.A. Department on Brown Street.The best of luck, Mary Jane.

Helen Modena and Mary Marraare enjoying their vacations.

We are glad to welcome Betty Bergerback. Hope you feel a lot better.

Jimmie Boner received his blueberrypie at last. A whole one, too. Toobad there aren't more cooks in the

Wire CoatingBy Betty Jangrow

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.Harold Green who are the proudparents of a son, Alan, born on Sep-tember 3.

Thanks for all those chocolates fromHarold Green and Mr. and Mrs. Wil-liam Fuller.

Best wishes to Mark Murray wholeft us to return to his studies at StateTeachers College.

Williamstown, Bennington, Adams,Stamford, Clarksburg and NorthAdams are now represented in theWire Coating Personnel.

Helen Burdick tells us that her new-grandson, Bobby, is just wonderful.

A tribute to our telephone operatorsand nurses whose alertness broughtalmost spontaneous response from thedoctors in the recent emergency.

Sprague ProductsBy Jane Gordon and Rita English

Everyone seems to be getting drivers'licenses this year. Among the prouddrivers in our midst are Sally White,Margaret Lenhardt, Belte Gargal andJanice Fowler.

Bowling season is about to begin.This year since the office has grownlarger, we plan to use two teams.There will be the sales against theaccounting department and we thinkit should prove interesting.

We are glad to welcome VirginiaSpencer who is back with us after aleave of absence. We also welcomeAnne Baumeister.

As we welcome Virginia and Anne,we bid goodbye to Belte Gargal andMarilyn Sprague who are leaving us toreturn to school. We shall certainlymiss them.

ENGAGEMENTMr. and Mrs. Charles Norman an-

nounced the engagement of theirdaughter, Miss Mary Jane Norman, toRonald Tovani. Mr. Tovani whoworks in l'AA Section Test and Solder,will be married to Miss Norman onN o v e m b e r 11 .

Gordon Edmonds, son of Ruth of Dry Tubular Finish. Aurilla Gilman, daughter of Ethel of Paper Rolling. Aurilla formerly worked in Paper Ignition Assembly. This fall, sheaccepted a teaching position in Harvard, Massachusetts. Anthony, nine, Peter, six and Francis, three, children of "Tillie" Abuisi who works on the F. P. Assembly. Carol JeanSmachetti, daughter of Mrs. Phil Smachetti who works on Dry Rolling on the Night Shift at Beaver Street. Irene Mahaffey from Tennessee with her two children, Karen and MichaelIrene in a former Sprague Employe and is the sister of Beatrice Boucher from the Molded Tubular Department at Brown Street.

SPRACUE ELECTRIC LOG September 22, 1950

SPORTS Kenny Russell

FIELD DAY

Drury High School Freshmen enjoy field day in place of traditionalhazing.

Users of Our ProductsContinued from Pant' 4

Sprague Electric Company in an all-outwar effort should be understood.

World War II brought about the firstwidespread use oi electronic equipmentfor military purposes. The hellerknown devices in ibis category in-cluded: transmitters, receivers, identi-fication equipment, radar, sonar, auto-matic i^un laying, the proximity (use,which lias been considered the decisiveweapon in the European war, and theatom bomb which certainly was de-cisive against Japan.

During World War II, the SpragueElectric Company as the result of itsbasic research and engineering in prioryears, became the sole supplier ol someihirteen critical components for theservices. We also created as com-ponents the power supplies for radar,known as pulse networks, and furnishedabout 95% of all those used during thewar. So great was the demand for ourproducts that our volume rose by afactor of seven times in a period of fouryears.

Two or three stories dramaticallyillustrating the importance ol qualitycomponents in military equipmentshould be noted. You will recall thatthe able German, General Rommel,chased the British clear across Africa.It is not generally known that thereason for the British ineffectiveness atthis time was a wholesale failure of thecapacitors in the communication equip-ment used in their tanks, which had notbeen designed to withstand the killingdesert heat. The Sprague ElectricCompany was brought into a crashprogram to build replacements and re-ceived a single order for some sixteenmillion capacitors. The first units offthe line were flown to Africa and en-abled the British to repair their sets.With their communications again work-ing, they were able to stop Rommel.

A short time later the Sprague Com-pany again received an urgent appealto build twelve radar pulse networks ina period of ten days. No blue printswere available and as a result, all wehad to work from was a telephonedescription of the operating character-istics which had to be met. Fortun-ately, we were able to deliver onschedule. The networks were rushedto New York by car, where a plane waswaiting at LaGuardia Field. Theywere flown to Alexandria via Braziland Dakar and four days later GeneralAlexander was able to attack and breakRommel's line. The pursuit of theGermans across Africa followed andthis set the stage for the Americaninvasion.

You will also recall that in 1944German submarines were ranging theeastern coast of North America and the

Caribbean Sea. No effective weaponto combat these submarines was avail-able and sinkings of Allied ships were sohigh that it became apparent that un-less an effective counter weapon wasfound, the European war would belost. What was urgently needed wasan airborne radar able to detect sub-marines. A breadboard model of sucha device was engineered at the Radia-tion Laboratories of MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, where a largegroup ol brilliant engineers had beengathered. This was sent to the SperryCompany for development into a re-producible design, and on a sub-contract, the Stromberg-Carlson Com-pany was given the job of perfectingthe high voltage modulator which wasthe henri of iho system. From thefirst prototype built, it became evidentthat neither capacitors nor resistorsexisted which would stand the hightemperatures and voltages to whichthey were subjected. The SpragueCompany was called into the pictureand, while we had no units in produc-tion, we had been working in the labo-ratory for a long time on two develop-ments which seemed to have promise.These were a new high temperature

capacitor impregnant and an hermetic-ally sealed high value resistor usingceramic coated wire. By brute forcemethods, completion of our develop-ments, which normally would havetaken several years, was effected infour months. Had this not been pos-sible, the radar equipment would neverhave been built and we can only guesswhat would have happened. We wentinto large scale production as the solesource on these critical capacitors andresistors, and three months after thefirst sample modulator was delivered toSperry, the German submarines hadbeen driven back to mid-Atlantic.

At the present time our commercialbusiness is still increasing. On topof this we have received a flood ofmilitary orders as the result of the in-creasing tempo of the military pro-gram. Military orders will continueto grow in size and number and it isexpected that by the end of the firstquarter of next year, will account forapproximately 30% of our total volumeas against 15% at the present time. Itis believed that this increased military-business can be handled without anyreduction in our commercial output.However, if military needs go beyondthis point, it undoubtedly will requirea corresponding reduction in our com-mercial business and that of our cust-omers. Of course in an all-out war,we again would be faced with the needfor a vast expansion to many times ourpresent volume.

Major LeagueBaseballAmerican League:

All we can say is —whoo! What astretch drive we are watching. Firstit is Detroit on top, then New Yorkand not too far behind is the Red Sox.Cleveland at this time is just abouteliminated from the pennant race.Not mathematically of course, but onthe verge.

Both Boston and New York are inthe midst of their last western swing.How they do on this western tour willjust about decide the team that has theinside track.

At this time we tip our hats to onewho has made a great comeback andwho has been instrumental to his team'smany victories—we are speaking, ofcourse, of Johnny Mize. Big "Jown"as he is affectionately called has al-ready won the hearts of all fans and hisrecent feat of hitting three successivehome runs against the Tigers in a verycrucial game is a grand climax to agreat guy.

Another great money player whokeeps on rolling along, "Jolting JoeDiMaggio" has swung a mean bat andwhen the chips are down is still de-livering in the clutch.

"Billy" Goodman of the Red Sox isstill holding on to that lead for thebatting crown.

One of the greatest sacrifices shownin the baseball sporting world wasrecently displayed by little Johnny-Pesky of the Red Sox. Pesky knewthat someone would have to be benchedto make room for the fit and readyTed Williams and he realized that BillGoodman who had subbed for Williamswas having a great season with the bestbatiing average in the Major Leagues.You guessed it, little Johnny steppedup to Manager Steve O'Neil and askedto be benched and at the time washitting .313. Yes sir, orchids to Mr.Pesky for great team spirit.P.S.—We hope Williams appreciatesthe fact and does something about it—namely with that big bat.National League:

The Phillies, unless half the teamhits the injury trail are shoo ins forthe Senior Pennant. A seven and ahalf game lead at this stage is too bigan obstacle for either the Braves or theDodgers to overcome.

The belated surge of the New YorkGiants is the high light of the NationalLeague.

The complete collapse of the Card-inals is the biggest surprise of the base-ball world.

Big Ralph Kiner's bat has beensilenced lately and his chances to beltover 50 runs this season is slowly fad-ing. He can still make it but his bigbat must boom in the remaining gamesof the schedule.

FootballAll three representatives from the

Berkshires met defeat as the footballseason got underway.

Drury had the honor to help pry offthe lid of the 1950 campaign under thelights at Northampton, however, the"Blue Devils" were completely out-classed by a lighter but more alertNorthampton eleven.

The final score was 40-19.

From the opening whistle whenDrury kicked oil, the locals were com-pelled to tight from behind as one ol theMeadow City lads darted some 90 yardsto score. Although Drury came rightback to register a quick touchdown,Northampton continued to play headsup and capitalized on every oppor-tunity.

With only nine days ol practice,Drury was ragged in the forward wall,however, the back field showed a greatdeal of promise as they executed CoachJohnny DelNegro's plays very well.

Adams High under their new CoachChet Zabek were beaten by TurnersFalls at the Power Town. The finalscore was 20-18.

Inability to annex the extra pointsafter each score deprived the "Redand White" from at least a tie andpossibly a win. It looks like CoachZabek must uncover a place kicker asthese vital points after a score cancertainly make a great difference in theultimate outcome. Even in defeatAdams showed a lot of promise.

Pittsfield opened its initial contest atGreenfield in its traditional opener,only to bow out 12-7. In this ball gamethe Shire City boys were the first loscore and were still leading at halltime 7-6. Early in the third period,however, Greenfield intercepted a passdeep in Pittsfield's territory and shortly-after tallied what proved to be thewinning score. Late in the fourthquarter, a Pittsfield boy intercepted a"Greenie" pass and seemed sure to goall the way for a score when he develop-ed a leg cramp and fell to the turf aftergoing twenty-one yards. Both teamsplayed a ragged game and showed thelack of much needed practice.

Williams College Football:

Coach Len Watters has had theWilliams squad hard at practice for thepast two weeks and the team is nowrounding into shape. There are stilltwo more weeks before the opener withPrinceton at Palmer stadium. Mean-while the "Purple" will hold scrim-mages with both Springfield Collegeand Middlebury.

Captain Pete Delisser is once moreshowing well in early practice sessionsand big bruising Johnny Kulsar hasbeen moved from the fullback slot toquarterback. In fact Coach Wattershas alternated quite a few of the boysto see how they fit in these new pos-itions. This squad is big and roughand will make all of its opponents step.How well they do in the Princeton en-counter is something again. How theycome out of this contest will determinethe seasons play. We are speaking ofinjuries—for the rest of the schedulewill find the "sons of Eph" in the role offavorite. This is the year that thisveteran squad has awaited. Thiscorner wishes them the best of luck.Remember our slogan "Follow thePurple."

FISHING CONTESTENDS

OCT. 6th

Results in Oct. 13 Issue of Log

The DiamondB y P e t e r M a n c u s o

Base Hi t : When the ball is hit withsuch force l o a n infielder or pi tcher that

he cannot s top ii in time to put outthe b a t sman . The ba t t ed ball muststr ike the ground on or within the foullines.

Sacrifice hi t : A hit by the b a t s m a n

who advances a runner a base by a

bunt hit which results in the ba t sman

being put out before he reaches

first, or would so result if it were

handled without error.

Three base hi t : When the b a t s m a nmakes a hit thai enables him to reachthird base wi thou t stopping and with-out being put ou t . This is also calleda triple.

I wo base h i t : The b a t s m a n makesa hit that enables him to reach secondbase without s topping and withoutbeing put out .

Bunt hi t : The ball is hil so lightly

to the infield that ii cannot be fielded

in time lo put out the runner .

Dead on base: A player or playersthat arc left on base or bast's ai theend of an inning.

Pop a foul: The ball goes more thanten feet in (he air and lies outside tin-fair territory.

Tick: A batted ball caught im-mediately by the catcher.

Stolen base: A base gained by arunner without help from a hil by thebatsman.

Fly ball: A ball hit high into the airaffording a comparatively easy chancefor a fielder to catch it. It I he ball iscaught before touching the groundwhether on fair or foul territory, thebatsman is out.

Double play: A play where the ballis handled quickly enough to retire twomen.

Forced out: A base runner com-pelled to make room fora batter and istouched by the ball held by the fielder;and also when the base runner cannotreach the next base as soon as the nextfielder holding the ball.

Slide: A base runner slides feet orhead first to a base to prevent being putout.

Beating the ball: A player reachinga base before the ball gets there.

Shut out: The failure of a team toscore in the number of innings played.

Bat: A stick for striking the ballmade of willow, basswood or ash. Itis two and a half inches in diameter andnot over forty-two inches in length.

BowlingBowling season is here again and the

Sprague Girls Bowling League startstheir league on Tuesday, September 19while the Men's Bowling League startson September 28 with twelve teamsparticipating.

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