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argus eyesVolume 7December

No. 281951

Page two ARGUS EYES December, 1951

AR6IJS CVCSArgus Eyes is published for the em-

ployees of Argus Cameras, Inc. and theirfamilies.

It is intended to be a means of friendlycommunication between them, and to pro-vide a reliable source of informationconcerning the company's business.

Beverly Bullis of the Personnel depart-ment makes sure that news is gatheredand that pictures are obtained and ar-ranged in readable fashion for publicationabout the 10th of each month.

Charles A. Barker, "Jimmy" to all, isArt Director and Art Consultant. Theprofiles are done by Harry Rookes.

Sam Schneider of the Photographic De-partment furnishes pictures.

Reporters for this month's Argus Eyeswere: Jim Meldrum, Babe Peterson, JimRohrbaugh, Art Parker, Jr. , Joe Brahm,and Irving Halman.

CAN JESS "COPE" WITHTHIS YOUNG CHARMER?

Brian Garry Cope is this young man'sname. He is the latest addition tothe Jess Cope family. AlthoughBrian has been in his new home only-three weeks, his sparkling smileand personality have captivated hisnew parents, relatives, and friends.

TWO ARGUS MEN ENLIST

Alvin Weidmeyer, who has beenemployed in the blocking room sinceFebruary, enlisted in the Air Corps.He left for active duty on December12.

John Kokinakes, who was the out-side expediter during the summer,has now joined the United StatesArmy. Johnny is now attendingBowling Green University under theservice educational program. Johnny,in case you didn't know, is AndyKokinakesT son.

Best of luck, boys.

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Anything you want to know about Arguscan be answered by Andy. Just jot downyour question and deposit it in the AndyArgus mail box. Watch Argus Eyes forthe answer.

By R. E. LewisThe government hasn't told us much

more about the cut-back in our usageof critical metals than we knew amonth ago. Instead of waiting forfurther information, we are movingahead as rapidly as possible on asubstitution program. Many of theparts now made from brass and alum-inum will be made from steel andother less critical materials. To besuccessful, the program will requirethe cooperation of everyone concernedwith fabricating, processing and as -sembly of camera parts. The brassand aluminum in some parts cannotbe satisfactorily replaced by othermaterials. Norm Symons of thePurchasing Department and VanVandenBroek of the Engineering De-partment have found sources in Europeto make these parts for us.

November was the second consecu-tive month with shipments o v e r$1,000,000. Approximately 90 percent of that total was in commercialproducts. In spite of the large volumeof shipments ,we are still backorderedin every product except the Argoflex40. In order to further streamlinethe Argus product line during thisperiod of material shortage, thePBB200 will be the only projector inproduction after February.

CHRISTMAS ADVERTISINGWELL RECEIVED

Our Christmas advertising hascaused many favorable comments fromall parts of the country. These arethe first ads prepared by Young andRubicam, our new advertising agency.If you have seen the December 1stSaturday Evening Post and the De-cember 2nd. This Week (locally,the Sunday supplement for the DetroitNews) I am sure you will agree thatthese advertisements are both beauti-ful and effective. In our opinionYoung and Rubicam is the best agencyin the country. We look forward toa continuing increased effectivenessof our advertising program. QualityProducts and topflight advertisingmake an unbeatable combination.

The Plant II remodeling is progress-ing rapidly. The rearrangement ofoptical assembly should be completedby the first of the year. When every-thing is in its new place, we willhave an employee open house for thoseinterested in seeing the new layout.

In order to use the new facilitieseffectively, we are planning to bid onadditional optical glass contracts inthe near future. The new facilitieswill be among the most efficient in

the country and will help to lowercosts and enable us to compete suc-cessfully for further precision opticalcontracts.

We are continuing our program ofgetting our plant and equipment intotop condition. The improvement oftools, gages and machinery, as wellas the painting schedule, is all partof the program. Much work has alsobeen done to improve our fire pre-vention equipment. The addition ofnew fire escapes, new fire extin-guishers and the extension of thesprinkler system have been costlybut very worthwhile. During theyear we also went to considerableexpense to connect our sprinkler alarmsystem directly to the Ann Arbor FireDepartment. Should a sprinkler headgo off as a result of fire in the plantan immediate automatic alarm issounded at the fire department. Thefire drill we had in mid December ispart of a program for protection oflife and property.

Although shipments of military itemswere only 10 per cent of last monthstotal shipments, our military produc-tion is about 25 per cent of our totalproduction and is steadily increasing.The excess of production over ship-ments will result in increased ship-ments in later months. Because c e r -tain contracts are confidential, addi-tional security rules will be put intoeffect in Optical Assembly. I wouldappreciate everyoneTs cooperation inadhering to these rules.

BLOOD DONOR AND COMMUNITYCHEST CAMPAIGNS SUCCESSFUL

Everyone at Argus is to be con-gratulated on the outstanding contribu-tion to the Red Cross Korean blooddonor campaign. I donTt know of anysimilar contribution in this part ofthe country. Local Red Cross offi-cials have said they are deeply in-debted to Argus people for puttingthe recent two day drive over thequota.

Your response to the CommunityChest fund raising drive was betterthan the average for industrial groups.The same was true of the Companycontribution. Over the years, Argushas gained the enviable reputation ofbeing a leader in community activi-ties. It gives me a sense of pridein Argus and the feeling of being ona winning team, it is this enthusi-astic spirit that makes a winningteam in any league.

December, 1951 ARGUS EYES Page seven

SPOKTSHIGHLIGHTS

BOWLING NEWSLadies' League

Team standings:

Place Team

Numberof GamesWon Lost

1 Blue Front 41 192 ErleTs Hi-Speed 40 203 Liberty Inn 38 224 Liberty Food

Lockers 35 255 Card & Camera 32 286 Bowler ettes 29 317 A. & W. Root Beer 27 338 Tice's Tavern 27 339 Sparettes 26 34

10 Atom Busters 24 3611 Happy Gang 21 3912 Co-operative Roof-

ing & Siding 19 41

High Team Single Game Card & CameraHigh Team With Handicap Liberty InnHigh Team 3 GamesHigh Team 3 Games WithHandicap

High Individual GameHigh Individual 3 Games

Erie's Hi-Speed

Liberty InnAlice HartmanDottie Robbins

8338182242

2216229542

Spares - 7 Irene DeWolf, Florence Dolman, NaomiGuigg & Rosie Smith

Strikes- 5 Alice Hartman, Louise Savery, SallyKnieper, Laura Snearly & Elmira Blecha

Men's LeagueA glance at the standings at this

time finds a familiar team at thetop of the heap. The Paint Shopfive, with all of its members givingsupport, has now taken over theleague lead, and are three games infront of Jan Gala and his Quality Con-trol entry. Bill Fraser's daubershave not been as sparkling as in thepast few seasons, but have provedhighly efficient when they have to be.

The season has a long way to go,but it seems quite likely that if anyother team is to win the title theywill have quite a battle on their handswith the present league leaders.GalaTs well balanced controllers shouldprovide a definite threat in the latterhalf of the season. Still holding onto third place is Bob Bultman's TenPin aggregation. This entry is alsoa very formidable challenger, and ifthe members bowl up to their poten-tial abilities could easily be in thetop spot when the schedule has beencompleted.

Doggedly holding on to fourth placeis Jim Fraser and his Tool Roomteam. This team is a definite dark-horse in the title chase, but theircompetitive spirit is keeping them up

near the leaders. The rest of theleague is pretty well bunched withonly a six game spread separatingthe Engine Ears in fifth place andBob Gramprie's Demons and Jump-ing Joe Jaroszyk's Planning teamswhich are now deadlocked for thecellar spot.

Many of the members of the leagueare entering competitive bowling forthe first time, and the improvementin their averages has been most en-couraging. At the beginning of theyear the experienced bowlers werewalking off with most of the weeklycash prizes, but in the past few weeksnew names have been appearing inthe winnersT circle. It is the dis-tribution of these prizes that adds tothe total interest in the bowlingleague.

The afternoon league is also en-joying a very gratifying season, andsome of the teams have expressed adesire to meet some of the teams ofthe Friday night league. At thistime the Tool Room Chips are hold-ing a slight lead over the challengingNight Crawlers. If there are anyArgus employees on the afternoonshift who would like to bowl in thisleague, please notify Leo Weiderhoftof the Polishing Room.

BASKETBALLThe Argus Recreation Club again

this year is sponsoring the Argusbasketball team that is entered inthe City Recreational League. In thepast years the Argus team was in theIndustrial League, but this year allof the sponsored teams of Ann Arborhave been entered in the one league.As a result the league is a very fastone, and the competition is very strong.

Al Terry of the toolroom has takenover the reins of our entry, and in avery short time has molded a teamthat should give a good account ofitself on the hardwoods this winter.Coach Terry has had an abundanceof experience in the coaching profes-sion having been in that field for thepast fifteen years prior to his comingto Argus. Coach Terry frankly ad-mits that his team lacks the neces-sary height to be a title contender,but feels certain that what the teamlacks in that department will be madeup in spirit and determination.

We at Argus can be certain thatthe squad will give its best throughoutthe season, and it is up to us to givethem all the support that we can. Thegames will be played at Slauson JuniorHigh on Tuesday and Thursday nights.

ARGUS SENDS 173 PINTS OF BLOOD TO KOREA

Just returning from their trip to the Blood Bank are: Left to right: ArnoldMcDonald, Hank Christopherson, Dorothy Grob, Mary Devine, and RubeEgeler.

209 Employees Answer

Red Cross Emergency CallThe response to our appeal for

blood donors from Argus employeeswas "tops."

On Tuesday morning, November27, from 10 o'clock until 6 o'clock,we kept the Red Cross Motor Corpsbusy transporting our employees toand from the V. F. W. building wherethe Red Cross Blood donor servicewas set up.

According to Red Cross officials,a turnout of 200 volunteers from a

company the size of ours would beexcellent. In response to the emer-gency blood appeal, 209 Argus peoplevolunteered, and blood was acceptedfrom 173.

By December 1, the Argus blooddonations may well have been at thebattlefront in Korea, and today thereare undoubtedly 20 or 25 woundedsoldiers on their way back to goodhealth as a result of Argus peopledoing their part.

SITTING PRETTY

This little charmer is Helen ElainePrice, daughter of Helen, Final In-spection, and Bob Price, Engineer-ing. She is 1-1/2 years old.

Husband: "How come you got twotickets from one cop?"

Wife: "When I couldn't stop, he ar-rested me for speeding--whenI couldn't start, he gave mea ticket for blocking traffic. "

MIGHTY HUNTERSARE THE HOEFTS

The handsome lad above is CalvinHoeft - Ozzie's son. Calvin baggedthe coyote when deer hunting thisyear. Cal and his Pop also got theirdeer. Young Hoeft is 16 years oldand is a Junior in High School thisyear. Next to hunting, the Hoeft'slike their television set best.

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GIRVAN'S PHOTO CORNERClip and save in Loose Leaf Notebook to build a Photo Manual

With this issue of Argus Eyes we introduce a series of articleson photography. It is hoped that in addition to outlining the funda-mentals, we can get the answers to any questions you may have. Ifyou do require information, get in touch with Bev, in Personnel, andwe will answer it in the next issue.

To understand photography it is not necessary to have a full knowl-edge of camera design, but it adds to the interest if you know whathappens when you trip the shutter.

The word "camera" is derived from "camera obscura" whichwas a room or tent completely darkened except for a small hole inone wall. It is possible in such a room to see an image of the ob-jects outside registered on the wall opposite the small hole. Artistsused this method to get proper perspective in their drawings. In fact,it is possible to take a box with a piece of film placed on one end anda pin hole in the other and get an exposed negative. The big disad-vantage of the "pin hole" photography is that it requires a long exposurein bright sunlight. With the present day camera lenses and sensitivefilm, this problem is eliminated.

The simplest lens system is of the type used in our 75 camera.It is a single lens which is set at a distance which will give a fixedrange of sharp focus. It is limited because of the amount of light itpermits the film to receive, and as the camera has but one shutterspeed, the use is restricted to a certain type of picture taking.

To get pictures under a greater range of conditions, it is necessaryto have a lens system which is capable of giving accurate definitionand which will let in more or less light as desired. This is ac-complished by having a combination of lenses which are matched foroptical requirements and having a diaphragm or iris which can be ad-justed.

This diaphragm has a scale marked with the "f" openings and this"f" value is determined by dividing the distance from the lens to thefilm by the size of the opening. It should be noted that the larger thenumber, the smaller the opening.

With a small opening, there is a much greater "depth of field."For instance, if the opening is "fI6" and the camera is focused on anobject 6 feet away, everything between 4 and 13 feet will be acceptablysharp, but if you have the opening at "f3. 5" and again you are focusedon an object 6 feet away, only that between 5-1/2 and 6-3/4 feet willbe sharp. Larger cameras, such as the EF and 40, have longer focallength lens as the focal length increases the depth of field is shallower.It is also true that at near distances the depth of focus is shallower.

This points out that with a large "f" opening, you must be verycareful to have the distance set correctly on the footage scale.

The shutter speeds are marked on another scale along with theinitials "T" and/or "B." "T" is for time exposures. The "B" is forbulb and means that the shutter will stay open as long as the button isheld down. This "B" has nothing to do with flash bulbs.

It is possible to get many combinations which will cover a widerange of picture taking conditions. Next issue we will talk a littleabout film and exposures.

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