Outline Reveals Future PlansFor Management Study Group

Plans for Management Study Group activity during the nextseven months were given in outline by the group's steeringcommittee this month, through chairman M. L. Foster, Glen-dale branch.

At the same time the committee announced that participantsin the group will change at the end of each program cycle, tobring the benefits of participation to more employees in thebranches and division office. Mem-bership has been held to 100 be-cause of space limitations and thesteering committee's desire to have

ACQUAINTING WITH ASROC -- Navy Capt. R. E.Odening (center), newly assigned commanding officerof the USS Norfolk, visited Librascope last monthfor a familiarization look at the ASROC fire controlsystem with which his ship, the Destroyer Leader(DL-1), is equipped. Here he meets with S. E. Bur-roughs (right), Vice President-Military Relations, and

J. C. Whistler. Senior Mi l i t a ry Representative. C'apt.Odening is the first officer from the Navy's Post-graduate School at .Monterey to take part in the fire-control f ami l i a r i za t ion program which Burroughs ist rying to establish for prospective commanding of-ficers and gunnery officers ordered to ships equippedwi th Librascope systems.

the group's initial efforts attainmaximum effectiveness.

THE MANAGEMENT StudyGroup, brought into being last De-cember, is the outgrowth of aseries of management trainingseminars conducted by facultymembers of the California Insti-tute of Technology for Librascopemanagement leadership last year.The group's formal objectives are:

• To improve communicationswithin the company.

• To provide training in man-agement techniques, with the goal

Appoint HolmesTo Manage NewShort-Run Dept

Creation of a new Short-RunProduction Department in the Glen-dale Branch, with former MagneticsSection Supervisor W. T. Holmesas department manager, was an-nounced last month.

The new department, establishedfrom what had been the MagneticsSection of Glendale Industrial En-

gineering, wil lbe specificallygeared to theproduction of

—K -- low-cost compo-nent equipment.

B H o 1 m e .-~- head of the de-

^^^^ partment , willreport directly

to Harlan Buseth, Branch Produc-tion Manager.

All assembly personnel withinthe section (A-15), located on Pro-videncia Avenue in Burbank, havebeen transferred to the new unit.

Holmes joined Librascope inMarch, 1960, when the MagneticsSection was initially organized andwas the first supervisor to head theoperation.

At one time manufacturing man-ager of the Electronics ComponentDivision of Telecomputing Corp.,Holmes is among the leading fig-ures in magnetics design and manu-facturing on the West Coast.

He has held positions as directorof engineering for the Alectra Divi-sion of Consolidated Electro-Dy-namics and vice president of manu-facturing at Electronic Industries,Inc.

Air Forte Awards Link$6 Million in Contracts

GPI's Link Division was recentlyawarded two new Air Force con-tracts, totaling more than $6,000,-000, according to Link PresidentWilliam W. Wood Jr.

One contract, received from theAir Materiel Command, calls forthe delivery of flight simulators forpilot training for the most modernversions of the C-130 cargo trans-port.

The second contract provides fordevelopment and manufacture of anew visual simulation system to beattached to Air Force simulatorsfor various types of aircraft. Thenew system will permit pilots toexperience a wide variety of aero-logical conditions during a simu-lated flight.

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PROGRAM PLANNING—Rear Admiral (Ret.) George T. Mundorff andDr. William Bloom (both standing), look over material under develop-ment by workshop group during recent Line of Balance seminar whichthey conducted. Seminar presentation by the two GPI officials is part ofa program to standardize this management control technique among alldivisions of the corporation.

'Line of Balance7 SeminarConducted for Librascopers

"Line of Balance," a management control technique adopt-ed by GPI for all of its divisions, underwent week-long scrutinyrecently, when presented to a Librascope production and en-gineering management team.

The five-day seminar was conduc-ted by Rear Admiral (Ret.) GeorgeT. Mundor f f and Dr. WilliamBloom, Manager and AssistantManager, respectively, of Corpor-ate Systems and Procedures forGPI.

Travel Insurance

A new travel accident policy,insuring employees against acci-dental death and dismember-ment while traveling on com-pany business, is now in effect,according to A. R. Pederson,Employee Benefits and ServicesSupervisor.

Expense of the travel acci-dent policy is borne by Libra-scope, with all employees receiv-ing automatic blanket coverage.

In addition to the new policy,public conveyance insurance con-tinues to be available to Libra-scope employees , Pedersonpointed out. The policy providesdeath and dismemberment bene-fits covering trips anywhere inthe world while riding as a fare-paying passenger on any con-veyance licensed to carry pas-sengers for hire.

Employees interested in ratesand applications on this insur-ance should contact EvelynBergman, ext. 1127.

of improving capabilities of theindividuals comprising the man-agement team.

• To develop a general under-standing of the company's poli-cies and objectives.

Officers, in addition to Foster,who is Manager of Glendale's sys-tems and procedures section, are:

VICE CHAIRMAN — C. P. Mc-Keague, Director of Employee Re-lations; Second Vice Chairman —M. G. Ettinghoff, Director, Elec-tronics Engineering Section, Sun-nyvale Ground Systems Dept;Treasurer — A. C. Krein, Jr., Con-troller, Aerospace branch; Secre-tary -- W. E. Blackburn, Directorof Applied Research.

The group's first dinner meetingis scheduled for Tuesday evening,May 16, at the Five Horsemen Inn,Burbank. Max Skousen, well knownmanagement consultant, will be the

| featured speaker. His topic: "Moti-vation."

SCHEDULE AND THEMES forthe remainder of the year, is as fol-lows:

June 13 — "Employee-CenteredManagement;" July 11 - - "Com-munications Problems Within anIndustrial Organization;" Aug. 15

- "Operations Research;" Sept. 12"Advanced Research and Prod-

uct Development;" Oct. 17—"Eval-uating and Exploiting a Xew Prod-uct Opportunity"; and Nov. 14—"Financing the Industrial Organi-zation."

May 26 DateOf Blood Drive

The first Blood Bank Drive of1961 will be sponsored by the Pre-cisioneers, May 26, at GriffithManor Park on Flower Street.

All Librascopers are urged toregister now and join the campaignto keep Librascope's Blood Banksolvent. Registration cards can beobtained from all Precisioneer of-ficers and building representatives.

F. J. Killips, Glendale MaterielControl, Drive Chairman for thePrecisioneers, reports that 41 pintsof blood from the company's supplyhave been used during the first fourmonths of the year.

Said Killips, "Librascopers set amighty fine record for donations in1960, and we are hoping for anothergood turnout this year to replacethe blood employees have needed."

The Bed Cross Bloodmobile willbe in operation from 12:30 to 5 p.m.in the park fieldhouse just east ofBldg A-02.

RESPECTED AUTHORITIES inthe field of management systems,Mundorff and Bloom recently co-authored a book under GPI spon-sorship, entitled "Managing a De-velopment Program."

As outlined in the seminar, theLine of Balance technique is a toolfor the proper planning of a joband the means of measuring theperformance against the originalplan, once the job is in operation.It has already proven to be an effec-

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LOCS STUDY — C. F. Winter,(left) Staff Assistant to the Chair-man of the Board and President atGPE, tours LOCS facility in Bldg.A-01 with W. L. Kruse, LOCSGroup Supervisor. Winter's currentvisit at Librascope is one leg of histour to each division of GPI, inwhich he is checking data process-ing capabilities and requirements.Here at Librascope, Winter is mak-ing a study both of LOCS and theData Processing Dept. under Mana-ger P. E. Mobley.

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ETTEMan-Made Communications:LGP-30 Now Writer

LIBRAZETTE is published monthly by the Employee Relations de-partment for the employees of the Librascope Division, General Pre-cision, Inc., at 808 Western Avenue, Glendale, Calif. ©1961 by Libra-scope Division, General Precision, Inc.

Editor: W. K. Keith; Assistant Editor: T. L. Ryan; Associate Editor,Wayne Ammons.Art and photographic services are provided by the Publications Section, Glen-dale Branch: Keith Kinnaird, Art Director; P. C. Kane, Supervisor of ArtServices; Special Art, J. R. Norwood, Margo Jarvis; Photo Layout, A. M. Cook;Photography, E. H. Crawford, J. A. Avera and C. F. Beindorff, Jr.

Seat Belts and Your SafetyVery recently a party of three employees on company busi-

ness, were victims of a car crash in which their vehicle wasstruck broadside by another car which dashed out of a sidestreet. One escaped with a shaking up; a second was tossedabout inside the car, suffering severe bruises and suspectedcracked ribs, is now wearing a tape corset.

The third was not so lucky. He was tossed out of the car tothe pavement and knocked unconscious. Hours later, at thehospital, doctors were relieved to find that he had sufferedonly a fractured collar bone, a broken upper arm, concussionand a possible fractured skull. He was hospitalized for a week,is now able to get around with the arm and shoulder in a castand brace.

To a man, all agree that had they been using seat belts theirinjuries would have at least been held to a minimum and pos-sibly they might not have been hurt at all. Certainly, the vic-tim who was hurled from the car would have been held to hisseat.

The same belief is held by three other Librascopers whohave been injured in car accidents in the past year. One, whosuffered almost fatal internal injuries and spent months in thehospital, is certain he would have escaped with minor injurieshad he been using a seat belt.

The purpose of this editorial is to point out that the streetsand highways are not becoming any safer, as more and morecars crowd into the available space. Also, that driving at aconservative speed is no guarantee of accident prevention.Accident records show that the majority of injury-producingcrashes occur at speeds of less than 25 miles an hour.

A number of tested and approved safety belts are on themarket. Standards vary considerably and the wary buyer willbe careful of what he invests in. In a separate story in thisissue of LIBRAZETTE, our safety coordinator reports onwhat to look for and what prevailing prices are. He also cau-tions regarding proper installation.

As a footnote, this item of news: Librascope is installingsafety seat belts, in front and back seats, on all company-operated cars.

AUTOBEATNIK POEM NO. 41INSECTS

All children are small and crusty.An Iron can saw all dragons,and all pale, blind, humble waters are cleaning,and flying woefully is like closing sweetly,a insect, dumb and torrid, comes of the daddyo,how is a insect into this fur ?

By R. M. WORTHY

In an article on computers inLIFE of March 3, 1961, it wasreported that, "In Glenda)e, Calif.a certain computer even thinks itis a Beatnik poet. Having beentaught a few rules of grammarand given a vocabulary of 500words of the type Beatnik poetsfrequently employ, this robot hasclanked out works such as the oneprinted above."

The LIFE article goes on tosay, "Some Auto-Beatnik 'poems'were read by a bearded scientistto unsuspecting denizens of a LosAngeles coffeehouse who 'becamequite stirred up with admiration.'One especially appealing linewhich the computer likes, is 'AH,I AM NOT A MACHINE.' TheBeatnik computer is not a stunt.Its masters are using it to studyhow to build better computers thatcan communicate in the Englishlanguage."

As many have guessed, that"certain computer . . . in Glen-dale . . . " is a Librascope com-puter (an LGP-30, as a matter offact) and "its masters" are mem-bers of Hal Hamilton's AdvancedResearch Department.

Although many of the "poems"are amusing isurne are also un-printable because the computer iscompletely uninhibited in its se-lection of words), the Auto-Beat-nik project is a serious undertak-ing, as the LIFE article suggests.To the Advanced Research group,this project is only the first of aseries of experiments which, it ishoped, will throw some light onthe important problems of man-machine communications and ma-chine linguistics.

In essence, the Auto-Beatnikpoetry writer is a program whichcontains a vocabulary of Englishwords arranged into several dozengrammatical and structural cate-gories, and groups of patterns ofthe various categories. A "poem"is generated by randomly choos-ing a series of patterns and thenrandomly choosing words from

the categories to fill out the pat-terns.

It was observed that one of theun i fv in i f threads that seems totie the lines of a real poem to-gether is the repetition of keywords, u sua l l y subject nouns,their pronouns, and action verbs.A stochastic selection routine isincorporated as part of the poetrywriter in an attempt to achieve asemblance of continuity in a ma-chine poem by biasing the choiceof certain key categories. The ran-dom selection of the other catego-ries were unbiased. Thus, a meas-ure of controlled "continuity" isachieved while maintaining thenovelty inherent in random selec-tion.

If a computer is presented withan English vocabulary arrangedinto the parts of speech and isa'so given rules for ordering thesewords, then the validity of therules can be tested by having thecomputer generate sentences.Anyone with a knowledge of Eng-lish can then easily detect inade-quacies in the structure of thegrammatical model in question.

The Auto-Beatnik poetry writ-er, was first conceived as a toolfor testing certain syntactical orgrammatical models of the Eng-lish language. We were trying toascertain the extent nn' l nat 'J1

the semantic content that mightbe inherent in any purely struc-tural grammatical model of a nat-ural language. By using a com-puter as our sentence generator,we were assured that the senten-ces generated would be the prod-uct of the model in question andthere could be no unconsciouscompensation (by the human ex-perimenter) for defects in thegrammar.

Since we were primarily inter-ested in syntax and grammar, inthis first experiment, the linesgenerated by the computer haveno significance or meaning. Thesegrammatically correct but se-mantical ly empty sentencesseemed to us to resemble lines ofmodern poetry — hence the nick-name, the Auto-Beatnik poetrywriter.

(R. M. Worthy is a graduate inphilosophy from USC. whose primeinterest is linguistics, the study of lan-guage and its component parts. He hastaught at his alma mater, now is a re-search aide in Advanced Research,working on man-machine communica-tions.)

Ultimately, of course, we areinterested in the problems of se-mantics and of mechanizingmeaning. We humans would liketo be able to tell the computerwhat to do in our language rath-er than in special codes. Commu-nicating with a machine in a natu-ral language would not only beeasier for humans, but the natu-ral language would hopefully ex-tend the computer's problem solv-ing ability and flexibility. A com-puter that understands and re-sponds in English would enableanyone to use a computer to solvea wide range of problems withoutspecial training and without spell-ing out in advance every step thecomputer must take.

Aside from helping to amelio-rate the life of the computer pro-grammer (or possibly eliminatingthe need for him altogether),there is a more fundamental rea-son for investigating and mechan-izing language processes. It is thecontention of the Advanced Re-search group that one of the mostexciting, and ultimately one of themost rewarding, scientific fron-tiers which faces research work-ers today is the broad area vari-ously called "artificial intelli-gence," "automata studies," "cy-bernetics," "bionics," etc. And itis generally believed by those inthese research areas that there isan intimate and necessary rela-tionship between natural languageand human intelligence. Thus, itis easy to see that if one couldmechanize language processes,then we would be much closer tothe greater goal of the mechani-zation of creative thought proc-esses.

Profile: James H. Paquin

Because of its classified nature,the major portion of work per-formed by the Glendale branchhas received very little public no-tice. We know the work is goingon; but most of it is behind closeddoors. Names such as Polaris,ASROC and SUBROC crop up oc-casionally, but until a project be-comes declassified they are merely

vague references to the outsideobserver.

And because these projects areunder security wraps, the engi-neering and design teams work-ing on them often find themselvesbeyond the pale of public noticeand acclaim. With a wary eye ona tight time schedule, the workis accomplished and deadlines arequietly met. For all concerned,there is an abundance of anxietyand pressure in meeting the rigidrequirements of quality and time.

High on the list of pressure per-formers for the Glendale branchis Jim Paquin, Technical Directorfor the Glendale branch Engineer-ing Department.

A comparatively new face atLibrascope (April '59), Paquin(p ronounced P a y - K w i n ) hasplayed a major role in the suc-cessful development of both theASROC and SUBROC projects.When the occasion arises, he,like so many of his colleaguesat Glendale, has extended hiswork-day long into the eveningwhen due-dates or last-minute re-

visions have cropped up on thesetop-priority programs.

The long work day, however, isnothing new to Jim Paquin. Itdates back early in his first yearat Lafayette High School in hishome town of Red Lake Falls,Minnesota. Filled with a nativecuriosity to tinker and explore, hespent his after-school hours andweek-ends working at the localradio repair shop. It put a littlespending money in his pocket, butmore than that, it meant an earlyeducation in the field of electron-ics.

Following high-school gradua-tion in 1940, Paquin worked fora local radio repair shop, thenmoved to Chicago to enroll at theIllinois Institute of Technology.His studies, however, were inter-rupted by the outbreak of WorldWar II.

Enlisting in the Signal CorpsReserve, Paquin spent 14 monthson active duty, much of the timein military classes in electronics.While attending a school inOmaha, he met Roselle Cagle who,

shortly after, became Mrs. Paquin.Following discharge, Jim re-

turned to his studies, this timeback in his native state at theUniversity of Minnesota. Anhonor student, he received hisBSEE in Communications in 1947.

Paquin spent the followingthree years with electronic firmsin the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.It was also the period when thelong, harsh Minnesota winterscaught up with the Paquin clanthat now included three sons(Mark, Don and Bryan). "It wasthe winter of 1950, when we had40 straight days of snow, thatfinally sold us on the idea of mov-ing west," Paquin said. "Thedaily tunneling out of the house,plus a little rheumatism that be-gan to bother me, were the decid-ing factors," he added.

The exodus from the cold coun-try brought the Paquins to South-ern California and for Jim an as-signment with what was thenConsolidated Engineering in Pasa-dena. He was assigned to work onmass spectrometers and analog-digital converters.

Shortly after joining Consoli-

dated, a decision came down toadd a computer to the company'sline of products. A half-dozensenior engineers, including Pa-quin, were put to the chore. Threeyears later, the small group hadbecome its own division and, ashort time later, a new company—Electrodata Corp.

The talent and capabilities ofthe organization and its membersspread throughout the electronicsindustry, and in 1956 it was pur-chased by Burroughs Corp. Bythe time Paquin left in 1958,it had grown to more than 1000employees.

The following week, Paquinmoved on to Space TechnologyLaboratory where he served asa member of the technical staff,assigned to the development ofinstrumentation for space probes.This work was satisfactory butcommuting to and from Arcadiawas intolerable.

In April of 1959, followingTev-eral conversations with Libra-scope employee and friend DaveHartig, Paquin joined the com-pany as a staff engineer to LaneWolman in what was then Special

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AID TO CANCER—Industrial artist Richard E. Wilson (seated), Chair-man of Librascope's Aid Club, presents a check for $5,514 to AmericanCancer Society officials Howard C. Eells (left) and Leslie M. Holtz. Thelarge donation resulted from employee participation in the Aid Club.

Company Shows ComputerDisplay at Glendale College

Librascope went to college lastmonth to participate in "Career-O-Rama," an annual event on thecampus of Glendale College wherestudents learn of opportunities forcareers with area business and in-dustry firms.

Librascope's display, a pictorialsequence of our various computerlines, drew considerable interestfrom the school's engineering stu-dents.

Both G. W. Seltzer, EngineerEmployment Supervisor, and B. E.Larson, Employment Intenwere on hand throughout the dayat the display booth to answer ques-tions for students.

Seltzer also presented a specialtalk earlier in the school's "CareerWeek" program before a group ofhonorary students who are mem-bers of Alpha Gamma Sigma, aState Scholarship Society. Seltzerspoke on the history of Librascopein the electronics field and futurecareer possibilities with the com-pany.

Coordinating Librascope's "Car-eer-O-Rama" d i s p l a y was D. L.Sanson, Assistant A d v e r t i s i n gManager in the PR&A Dept. Thedisplay was held over for an i-xtraaudience in the evening in connec-tion with the "Public SchoolsWeek" open house at the college.

Exhibits Readiedfor Los AngelesComputer Show

Librascope products, from com-mercial items to fire control systemcomputers, will be displayed dur-ing the Western Joint ComputerConference, May 9 through 11, atthe Ambassador Hotel—in Los An-geles.

Scheduled to go on exhibit fromthe Burbank Branch are the re-cently-developed Digilog-1011 con-verter and Model 791-S electro-mechanical converter, various me-chanical components, and a majorportion of the Branch encoder line.

FIRE CONTROL computer sys-tems from Glendale will be dis-played in mock-ups and scale mod-els. A representation of computercomponents will also be shown.

Named to the Public Re'ationsAdvisory Council for this year'sconference is F. E. Bristow, Libra-scope Press Relations Manager.Prior to the conference, the Councilis scheduled to conduct a specialseminar for the Los Angeles pressto acquaint news media representa-tives with some of the latest de-velopments in the electronics field.

THEME OF the 1961 WJCC is"Expanding Man's Intellect." Ap-proximately 60 companies, primar-ily from the West Coast, will par-ticipate.

WHEEL OF PROGRESS—A working model of the "lazy-susan" assemblystation, designed by Methods Improvement Group to cut componentmounting time on circuit boards, is put through its paces by ElectricalAssembler Mary Jane Jesse. Proposed for use in the Glendale BranchProcessing, Wiring and Assembly Bldg. A-19, the rotary device wouldreplace present bench assembly methods.

Cost Reduction

San Marcos Progress 'Lazy-Susan' Unit SpeedsCircuit Board Production

Construction of the new build-ing for Aerospace Branch in SanMarcos is scheduled to begin itsskyward movement early thismonth with the emplacement of thefirst concrete wall blocks.

All footings are now in place andgrading at the building site hasbeen completed, report^ C. E. Dahl,Division Plant Engineer.

Currently underway is the instal-lation of the pre-cast concretebents, the structural members forthe 24,000-square-foot building.

Roy M. Johnson, Methods Improvement Group, GlendaleIndustrial Engineering, walked into the Bldg. 1 Tool Roomrecently carrying two bicycle wheels (one 24-inch and one 26-inch), a restaurant table pedestal, and a rack from a musicstand.

When he walked out he had amodel of Librascope's latest innova-tion for time-saving in circuit board

assembly sta-

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EMPL OYEE HE.\EFITS:

Law, Librascope Join for Better Benefits(This is the third in a series of articles

outlining policies, scope and value of thebenefits Librascope provides its employees—Ed.)

The benefits program at Libra-scope results from a combinationof management decision plus bothstate and Federal legal minimumsguaranteeing certain benefits toevery employee.

DURING 1960, Librascope paidout $1,095,956 in legally-requiredbenefits—an average of $274 worthof benefit money spent by the com-pany for each of us.

Included in this group of benefitsare Social Security, State and Fed-eral Unemployment Compensation,Workmen's Compensation and StateDisability Insurance.

To make a better benefits pro-

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gram for its employees, Libra-scope's policy has been to exceedthese legal minimums.

FOR EXAMPLE, the Workmen'sCompensation Law benefits do notgo into effect until the eighth dayof work-loss. But Librascope paysup to a maximum of 40 hours ofwages at our base rate beginningthe first day we're off work.

The company policy is to elimi-nate any financial hardship for em-ployees while we wait a week or sofor the first WC check to comethrough.

Like other benefits, the legally-required group has been increasingsteadily over the years. In 1960,this group accounted for approxi-mately 15 per cent of the cost of

SOCIALSECURIfYWORKMAN SCOMPEN-SATIONSTATEDISABILITYIMMP1DY-MENfCOMPEN5ATION..

What Librascope Contributed in 1960For Legally-Required Benefits

Social Security $ 583,920Unemployment Compensation... 365,916

(State and Federal)Workmen's Compensation. 74,393State Disability Insurance 71,727

Total... ...$1,095,956

Librascope's entire benefits pro-gram.

SOCIAL SECURITY tax, whichbegan in 1937 at the rate of 1%of the first $3,000 in wages, wasplanned for periodic increases andnow stands at 3<7r of the first $4,800for employee and employer alike.Under present law, the tax is sched-uled to rise to 4%% by 1969.

The tax could very well be in-creased before then, especially ifbills go through providing addedmedical care for the aged.

Whatever the rate, Librascopematches each employee's contribu-tion to Social Security, and increas-ing costs to the company are virtu-ally assured.

UNEMPLOYMENT compen-sation (required by both state andFederal law) and Workmen's Com-pensation (coverage against loss ofwork due to on-the-job injury) areboth financed entirely by Libra-scope.

Both are on the upswing, quad-rupling in cost on a nation-widebasis since 1945.

The State of California has alsoadded a Disability Insurance re-quirement, for cases where loss ofwork is due to disabling injury in-curred while not on the job.

STATE LAW provides that em-ployees must pay 1 per cent of thefirst $3,600 in earnings to the State

plan, but also allows Librascope toestablish a private plan if the bene-fits are greater than the State planand the cost is no greater to em-ployees. This Librascope has doneso that we may have more bene-fits on disability at no greater cost.

We've come a long way as em-ployees since the dark days of theThirties—a long way since the un-settled days of the Forties.

Benefit programs to insure oursecurity in times of old age, sick-ness, injury or unemployment areincreasing every year.

PRIVATE INDUSTRIES likeLibrascope are shouldering the in-creasing burden of cost for theseprograms to provide a safe andsecure life for each of us.

Deposits Due

Time is drawing short for de-posits to be made on the 10-dayPrecisioneer-sponsored Septem-ber vacation tour to Mexico, ac-cording to Eileen Brown, Preci-sioneer Store Manager.

"We would like to have tripdeposits as soon as we can, sothat we can have a more accu-rate head count and confirm ourchartered flight," Eileen said.

"individual rotarytion."

The unique device, which workssimilar to a "lazy-susan," has al-ready proven capable of chopping'circuit board assembly time 30%of present bench methods.

PRELIMINARY STUDIES onthe rotary method reveal that aproduction line of five of these sta-tions, costing approximately $650,could pay for itself in 2% averagedays, Johnson said.

One working model of the "lazy-susan" station has been installedand is in use at Bldg. A-19, Glen-dale Branch Processing, Wiringand Assembly.

In construction of the model, twobicycle wheels were mounted hori-zontally on an axle extending fromtop of the pedestal. Attached to therim of the shorter wheel were 13flexible circuit card holders. On therim of the larger wheel pre-formedcomponents were arranged in regu-lation small parts bins.

THE SHEET MUSIC rackmounted in the center of the wheelsserved to hold component mountinginstructions (Mi's).

Time savings with the rotary or"lazy-susan" method is based onmemory retention capabilities ofthe assemblers, Johnson explained.With the new method, assemblersmemorize Mi's for a group of threeor four components, and then goahead and mount this group on allthe boards on the wheel before re-ferring again to instructions.

In contrast, using the presentbench method, assemblers mountcomponents individually in a cer-tain order referring each time tothe MI until one board is completed.

BY THE TIME the assemblergets back to the first component ona new board, he has been througha whole range of components andvaried instructions. Rarely can heremember the individual mountingprocedures he learned on the previ-ous board, so he again must referto the MI for each component.

The Methods Improvement Group,during investigation of this assem-bly problem, eliminated other typesof "lazy-susan" stations installedon work benches in favor of thepedestal type.

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The Many Methods of Printing

TIMELY DEBUT—Latest equipment to be added at Re-production Services is this new offset printing press. Itsfirst job—printing the 1960 Annual Report. Here, KenMandeville inspects sample of the product. The new press,which can handle pages up to 11 by 17 inches, offers ex-panded capabilities in printing for the section.

ALL IN ORDER—Gary Buss demonstrates the Collator,a mechanical device which aids in arranging stacks ofprinted material into proper sequence. With the Collator,the operator can gather as many as 20 pages at one time,all in the right order.

6Repro' Unit ThrivesOn Paper Work

Publication of President W. E. Bratton's "An-nual Report to Employees" is a yearly project re-quiring the concerted effort of several sectionsand staffs. For the final important step — that ofprinting — Librascope turns to its General Repro-duction Services in Bldg. A-26.

Reproduction's job is to produce an exacting andattractive printed package — the final touch to thereport's many publication steps coordinated by theInternal Communications Section of EmployeeRelations.

Success of previous effort, such as the art work,page layouts and copy negative work by sectionsof the Glendale Publications Dept., hinges on aneffective printing job.

Under Supervisor F. J. McDonald, ReproductionServices gave the 1960 report a special treatmentthis year. A new offset printing machine wasadded to the shop's line of equipment just in timeto handle the report's press-run of over 4,000copies.

But Reproduction is one section that thrives on"paper-work." A part of W. R. Greer's DivisionOffice Services, its function includes printing andreprinting the myriad of office and business formsused in the daily operation of the company.

Last month's figures show this section turnedout over 450,000 reproductions varying from"while you were out" pads to printed vellums forbudgeting in sizes up to 11 by 17 inches.

McDonald's 11-man crew, which includes aswing shift, now has facilities and equipment forfour different reproduction processes - - offsetprinting, spirit duplication, verifax and blue-linereproduction.

The section keeps on permanent file several hun-dred master sheets for all types of office formswhich can be quickly reproduced upon request.

Average paper stock on hand offers over 60 dif-ferent weights and finishes for many differentprinting requirements.

Grease and Water Don't MixOffset Printing, more properly called "offset

lithography," is based on the fact that waterand grease do not mix. In the process, imagesto be printed are imposed photographically ona metal sheet or special paper. These imagesare represented as a hard grease, and when theentire sheet is thoroughly wetted, only thegrease images attract ink (which is also agrease). The image is first printed on a rubberroller and then transferred (or offset) ontopaper.

AT THE HELM—Supervisor Frank McDonald heads the11-man General Reproduction Section. Here, with the sec-tion's clerk and receptionist, Pat Hansen, McDonald in-spects a metal master sheet used in the offset printingprocess.

PERMANENT TOUCH—Group Leader Jerry Schweigertfinishes a permanent master sheet for the offset processby adding lacquer to form the printing surface on a metalbase. Metal master sheets permit a multitude of reprint-ings without loss of clarity, and they can be easily storedfor future use.

'Report' Takes Shape

POWDER FOR PRINTING—The Zerox camera process, handledby Jerry Schweigert (left) and Don Brown, produces the MasterSheets for each page to be printed. In the process, fine powder clingsto an electrically-charged plate corresponding to each line or char-acter on the original paper. After a trip through the Zerox oven,the powder becomes a permanent, hard grease which, in offset print-ing, is the equivalent to pieces of type used in other processes.

PLATE-MAKER—John Strout readies anegative for the plate-making machine.Impressions are transferred to a metalsheet on which lacquer is applied to pro-duce the printing surface.

WITH THE ARTISTS—Art Services Supervisor P. C. Kane (cen-ter) goes over page-layouts for the I960 Annual Report with artistsJ. R. Norwood and Margo Jarvis. Here at the Glendale PublicationsDept., the report receives its shape and format. Final step is addedat the Photo Lab where a copy negative is made of each completedpage prior to preparing the offset printing plate.

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NEW ACQUISITION — Out from his Cincinnati home office came FrankJ. Fields, President and General Manager of Fosdick Machine Tool Co.(left), to be on hand for the recent installation of his Model 54-P JigBorer in Bldg. A-01. Discussing with Fields the many applications ofthe new numerically controlled machine, are Glendale branch Shop Super-intendent L, C. Somerfield and Industrial Engineer J. G. Leighton.

Second Numerically Controlledmacnme Ready for Production

The Fosdick Model 54-P Jig Borer, the Glendale branch'ssecond numerically controlled machine tool, arrived early lastmonth, ready for work on both tooling and production items.The new machine is housed in Bldg A-01, in the same area asthe Burgmaster Turret Drill Press, Librascope's initial piece ofN.C. equipment.

THE VERSATILE, 28,000-poundFosdick machine was shipped fromCincinnati to Glendale on a specialtruck to safeguard against any ac-cident or mishap that might affectits guaranteed accuracy of toler-ances to within 1/10,000 of an inch.

The numerically controlled jigborer is operated by a one-inch,eight-channel tape which automati-cally positions the equipment onthree axes and selects any one of16 spindle speeds and any one ofeight feeds. And although the ma-chine is tape controlled, the opera-tor can dial additional informationinto the console or it can even beoperated manually.

The work load presently sched-uled for the Fosdick is both in tool-ing fabrication and production. Itis expected to substantially reducecosts and increase accuracies over

Exhibit MOOO'At Tokyo Show

An RPC-4000 electronic comput-ing system, produced at the Bur-bank Branch, is currently in Tokyo,Japan, where it has been on athree-week exhibit at the 4th TokyoInternational Trade Fair.

Highlighting the exhibit weredemonstrations showing the capa-bilities of the RPC-4000 in engi-neering problem-solving and dataprocessing applications.

The 4000, which is marketed byRoyal McBee Corp., is being spon-sored at the fair by the MitsubishiElectric Manufacturing Companyof Japan.

The successor to Librascope'sLGP-30, the RPC-4000 is a com-pletely solid state system. Its basicunit is a desk-size digital computerwith an 8008-word memory ca-pacity.

present methods due to the auto-matic positioning and selection offeeds and speeds.

COMMENTING ON the selec-tion of the Fosdick equipment, IvanFranklin, Manufacturing PlanningSupervisor, said: "We consideredmany machines and control systemsbefore deciding upon the purchaseof the Fosdick jig borer. Follow-ing a careful survey of the field,we found that the Fosdick machineoffered the highest guaranteed ac-curacy and the least complicatedcontrol system. These factors, plusits reasonable price and ease ofmaintenance, formed the basis forour selection. Our sister division,Kearfott, has a similar Fosdickmachine, and is extremely pleasedwith its performance."

"Librascope is the first companyin the Southern California areawith this type of machine," Frank-lin added. "We feel, that with itsacquisition, we are furthering ourcompetitive position as a leader inthe manufacture of precision partsand products."

PRIOR TO the arrival of theFosdick equipment, C. C. Krone,Methods Analyst, Glendale branch,and R. A. Neill, Building Mainte-nance electrician, went to Cincin-nati to attend programming andmaintenance courses at the Fos-dick Machine Tool Co.,

Programming and tape prepara-tion for the jig borer will behandled in Manufacturing Planningin much the same manner as thoseprepared for use on the numericallycontrolled Burgmaster, in opera-tion since last December.

Operators assigned to the newequipment are jig bore machinistsC. C. Pierson and W. C. Lewis.They recently completed an in-plant training program under thesupervision of Earl Ballard of Fos-dick Co., who was also in charge ofmachine installation.

Insurance Lends a Hand,Aids Injured Douke Youth

Today, Tom Douke is a 15-year-old sophomore in high school. In hisright hand he carries the strengthof a normal boy—he can move hisfingers so well that playing thesaxophone comes easy.

IT'S BEEN a long, rough roadto regain the use of that hand. Buta series of operations by specialiststo transplant and repair severedtendons and nerves have miracu-lously succeeded in undoing thedamage caused by the explosion ofa home-made rocket on Jan. 31,1960.

Of the tough pull back to recov-ery, Tom's father, Edward Douke(pronounced Doo-kee) said, "Atleast, we didn't have to worry aboutthe financial cost."

Douke's Group Insurance fromLibrascope paid over $1,700 in medi-cal expenses and hospitalization.

"THE ONLY COST to me wasabout $100," Douke, a ProductionGrinding Leadman in the Glendale

Jaeger PromotedAt FAA Center

Recently promoted as LibrascopeArea Manager at the FAA Ex-perimental Center in Atlantic City,N.J., is Richard A. Jaeger, of theSunnyvale Branch Ground SystemsDepartment.

JAEGER, FORMERLY super-visor at the FAA facility, now di-rects the activity of all Librascopepersonnel who install and maintainvarious components of the Air Traf-fic Control Data Processor System.

He reports to M. G. Ettinghoff,Director of the Dept's ElectricalEquipment Section.

A Librascoper since August, 1959,Jaeger came to the company fromJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasa-dena, where he was responsible forthe design and building of uniquetransistorized digital and analogdata acquisition devices for JPL'swind tunnel and rocket cell instru-mentation systems.

AT ONE TIME Jaeger was an in-structor in basic electronics forPhilco at the Army Guided MissileCenter, Fort Bliss, Texas. Earlier,while with Convair, he was a tele-metering instrumentation techni-cian working out of Edwards AFBon experimental flight programs ofthe F-102 and -106.

Born in Berlin, Jaeger grew upin the Quincy-Alton area of east-ern Illinois. He attended AntelopeJunior College in Lancaster andNaval schools in Gulfport, Miss.,and Chicago.

emoriam

Robert M. WrightThe many friends he had made in

his year and a half at Librascope,mourned the passing last month ofRobert M. Wright, Sub-Contractsadministrator, Glendale MaterielDept. He died April 17, victim of agunshot wound, suffered whilecleaning a .38 caliber automaticpistol, part of his extensive weap-ons collection. Bob, who was 41, wasa native of Richmond, Va. Memorialservices were held April 22. He issurvived by his widow, Mrs. LillianWright.

Jack R. EvansJack R. Evans, a Librascoper

since Sept 1953, died at his homein North Hollywood April 16, afteran illness of four months. Cause ofdeath was heart disease. Well-known and well-liked throughoutthe organization, Jack was a partsinspector in Quality Control formost of his years with the com-pany. Burial services were held inKingston, Pa., Evans' former home.Fellow employees, through the Pre-cisioneers, sent a floral tribute.

Machine Shop, told the LIBRA-ZETTE. "If it hadn't been for theinsurance, I could see a loanagainst my property and I'd stillbe paying."

Douke vividly recalls that Sun-day afternoon in 1960. He waswatching television when he heardthe blast in the basement of thefamily's Highland Park home.

Tom and two friends had beenworking feverishly on their home-made rocket. Tom's job was to loadthe booster. With a hammer andnail, he tamped sulphur from matchtips into a large CO-2 cartridge.

WHEN THE CARTRIDGE ex-ploded, the palm of Tom's handtook the full force of the blast.

The doctor worked on Tom oversix hours that day. But shortenedtendons and severed nerves left theboy with little use and feeling inhis hand.

Eight months and many therapytreatments later, specialists wereable to perform another operationtransplanting tendons and nervesfrom other parts of his arm, andTom was on the way to recovery.

"HE NOW CARRIES with him asmall sponge-rubber ball to exer-cise his fingers," Douke said, "and,remarkable as it seems, I think hehas more strength in that handthan ever before."

Unknowns!Step Forward

The two most wanted peopleat Librascope, as far as the Pre-cisioneers are concerned, are thec l u b ' s v i c e - p r e s i d e n t s w h oserved during the years 1951and l!i:,^.

Louise Morton, current vicepresident, needs the names ofthese two people to complete aPrecisioneer Hall of Fame al-bum honoring all past officersand directors of the club.

Anyone knowing the identityof the vice presidents whoserved under J. E. Riddle and W.D. Newcomer during these twoyears are asked to contactLouise at Ext. 1036.

Pool AppointedTo APD Group

Appointment of Ernest T. Pool asSenior Engineer on the staff of theGlendale branch Advanced ProjectsDept, was announced this month byDr. A. L. Stanly, APD director.

A graduate ofthe Universityof California atBerkeley, Poolholds a BS de-gree in Physics,also has takengraduate workin EngineeringPsychology at

George Washington University,Wash., D.C.

Prior to joining Glendale, Poolwas a Senior Engineer in the Bi-onics and Astronautics group ofMelpar, Inc., of Falls Church, Va.Earlier, he was a staff physicist andproject director with Man-MachineSystems, Alexandria, Va.; a re-search associate with PsychologicalResearch Associates, a division ofthe Matrix Corp.; and with the Uni-versity of California Radiation Lab-oratory at Berkeley and Livermore.

At Glendale, Pool will work onoperations research and human fac-tors analysis for advanced ship-board systems. He will report toCharles Gonia, project manager.

Pool is a native of Wichita Falls,Tex., married and the father ofthree. His family will be joininghim after the close of the currentschool year.

NEW HEIGHTS IN MAINTE-NANCE—Demonstrating capabili-ties of the new electric-hydrauliclift recently purchased by Glen-dale branch for maintenance duty,George Kirby takes a sky-wardtrip to change light bulbs. Observ-ing from the ground is Charles Hil-gert, Bldg Maintenance Supervisor.A control box on the side of thelift cage allows the man aboard tolower and raise the platform asneeded. The caged enclosure andwide platform jacks to steady thelift make it considerably safer thana ladder for the growing amount ofmaintenance work, Hilgert says.

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READY TO GO — The new catalog of servo-moduledesigns developed at the Glendale Branch, gets a finalgoing over before distribution. From left are T. W.

Higgens and R. A. Chambers, Applications Engineers;J. A. Mesch, Staff Assistant, Customer Relations; andD. E. Dufford, Branch Military Sales Manager.

New Bldg RepsThree new building represen-

tatives for the Precisioneerswere voted into office during theclub's regular meeting in April.

They are Jean J. Jones, BldgA-26; Margaret C. Baumgarten,Bldg A-15; and J. C. Lincoln,Bldg A-18.

Lindahl AppointsR. L Clancy asAudits Director

Robert L. Clancy, former senioraccountant with the Internationallyknown accounting firm of Price,Waterhouse and Company, has beenappointed to the newly-created po-sition of Director of Audits by Vice-Pres and Treasurer M. L. Lindahl.

C o n c u r r e n twith Clancy ' sappointment, theAudi t depar t -ment was di-vided into twosections: Finan-cial Audits, con-

gttjIH '^P^jHlj c e r n e d w i t h"•* ' those depar t -

mental and branch operations in-volving both internal and externalfinancial transactions, and Sub-contract and Operational Audits.Financial audits are a direct re-sponsibility of the new Director;Sub-contract and Operational Au-dits are the responsibility of Gen-eral Auditor W. F. Bell. Both auditsections are under Clancy's direc-tion.

A native of Toledo, O., Clancy re-ceived his early education there.He attended Ohio State Universityand the University of Toledo, re-ceived his Accounting degree fromthe College of Commerce of theUniversity of Southern California.

With Price, Waterhouse, Clancywas the senior accountant on theLibrascope account, also functionedon the IBM, Warner Bros., Para-mount and Underwood Corp. ac-counts.

The new Director of Audits ismarried to the former Miss AnnePettegrew of Westwood. They havethree children, Patricia, 6, Cynthia,4, Stephanie, 2.

We Stand CorrectedInterviewing by telephone

saves time, but it can produceerror, as it did last month in astory about Mary Lugo's groupinsurance claim for her son,Tony. Mrs. Lugo did say she wasgrateful for the protection Li-brascope provides . . . but shedidn't say she'd have had to bor-row from the bank if group in-surance hadn't paid most of theclaim. What she did say wasthat she'd have had to visit thebank . . . to draw on her savings. . . if the insurance hadn't ex-isted. We're sorry for the mis-taken impression our story con-veyed.

Computer Checkout of ArmyTanks Told in Tech Review

Electronic computers used to check-out the operation of en-gines and transmissions in Army tanks may be the key to arevolutionary change in the future of vehicle maintenance.

COVER PICTURE: M-48 IN ACTION

Such is the subject of the featurearticle in the Public Relations andAdvertising Dept's latest edition ofTECHNICAL REVIEW just off thepress.

IN THE ARTICLE, SeniorWriter A. P. Sorenson explains howthe Army Ordnance Corps is modi-fying a Libratrol-500 control com-puter to develop an automaticcheck-out system for M-48 GeneralPatton tanks.

The TECHNICAL REVIEW, un-der Editor J. 0. Robinson, is a quar-terly magazine informing readersoutside the company of Libra-scope's many activities in the fieldsof research, development, designand production.

CURRENT CIRCULATION forthe quarterly is approximately11,000. Copies of the REVIEW areavailable to all Librascopers at theEngineering Library in Bldg. A-16.

Other features of the latest ed-ition include an article by J. L.Deitz and J. E. Riddle, from Glen-dale Branch Engineering, on "Pack-aging a Submarine-Borne DigitalComputer." Selection of this storyfor publication earned both menawards in the Librascope WritingIncentive Program.

An interview between FrankHill, Project Director for RoyalPrecision products at the BurbankBranch, and R. L. Eklund, TECHREVIEW staffer, explains theRPC-9000 Electronic Data Process-ing System for REVIEW readers.

NEW D E V E L O P M E N T S inShaft Position-to-Digital Encoders,an article on Reliability, plus a pic-torial introduction to the SunnyvaleBranch round out this colorful, lat-est edition of the REVIEW.

Bowlers BeginThe Summer Bowling Season

for approximately 200 Libra-scopers gets underway May 18at the Grand Central Bowl. Thecompany is expected to fieldtwo 10-team mixed-men-and-women leagues for the Thursdaynight contests.

The league season, which runsthrough August, is open to allemployees, their families andfriends.

Glendale Branch Plans ReleaseOf New Servo-Module Catalog

A comprehensive listing of thesome 200 servo-module designswhich have been developed at theGlendale Branch, make up a newServo-Module Catalog which goesout for limited distribution thismonth.

The 400-page catalog documentsfor the first time under one cover,Branch capabilities in the field ofmilitary specification servo-compo-nents and assemblies for analogand analog-digital system applica-tions.

A MAJOR PORTION of this firstpress-run of the new catalog willbe distributed to technical peopleoutside the company; the balanceto go to Librascope's own designersand engineers.

External distribution will behandled by D. E. Dufford, BranchManager of Military Sales, alongwith Applications Engineers T. W.Higgens and R. A. Chambers.

"THE NEW CATALOG prom-ises to be a valuable aid outsidethe company to introduce peopleto what the Branch has done in theservo-module field," said Dufford."Internally, it should prove a valu-able reference in acquainting ourown people with what has beendone and is being done within thecompany."

The project to compile the cata-log material was coordinated by

Burbank NamesSchlingensiepen

Paul W. Schlingensiepen has beennamed to the newly created posi-tion of Production Control Managerat the Burbank Branch.

S c h l i n g e n -s i e p e n w i l lhand'e both ma-terial and pro-duction controlfor the Branchoperation, re-porting to H. M.Harrison, Pro-duc t ion Man-ager.

A native of Paterson, N. J., hecame to Librascope from the Ramo-Wooldridge Division in CanogaPark where he had also been man-ager of production control. Previ-ously he had been with CaliforniaRemote Control and National CashRegister.

During World War II he servedthree years in the Marine Corps.A technical school graduate in elec-tronics, Schlingensiepen has at-tended both USC and UCLA Exten-sion Courses in Business Adminis-tration.

He and his wife and three chil-dren make their home in GardenGrove.

H. C. Applegate, Director, BrandTechnical Planning, and J. AMesch, Staff Assistant, CustomeRelations. Chambers and H. ERhoden Jr., electronic technician iithe Analog Computing facilityworked with the writers to assurtechnical accuracy.

FLEXIBLE IN its loose-leaform, the catalog will be expandeiand updated as needed. This firsprinting represents the brandstatus in the module field througlJuly, 1960.

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Devices. He was assigned to thelogical design work on the buffeiconsole for the FAA computer.

After several months on theFAA project, Paquin transferredtemporarily to the Glendale branchto lend assistance to the ASROCprogram, which had run into somedifficulty. Eight months and manj60-hour work weeks later, theASROC team had successfulljphased-out the program. By April1960, the Librascope system wasin-fleet and operational.

Following a brief return to Spe-cial Devices, Paquin was recallecto the Glendale branch for worton its top-priority SUBROC pro-gram. Again pressed by deadlinesPaquin and the rest of the Glen-dale team performed yeoman dutjin successfully hurdling many olthe program's obstacles.

Now a permanent addition tcthe Glendale staff, Technical Di-rector Paquin is helping to guidethe SUBROC program through itsfinal stages.

When he does find some leisuretime, Jim Paquin likes to mak(the most of it. A more than adequate do-it-yourselfer, Jim ha:recently completed a sizeable remodeling job on his Arcadia homeadding a new garage and workshop, while remodeling the forme:garage into two bedrooms. (Sincithe move to California, the Paquin family has two more members — daughters Nancy, 7, amAnita, 5.)

Up until recently, there wertwo parts of the day that weren'as productive as Paquin woulilike. It was the period of timspent in driving to and from worlBut thanks to his do-it-yourseleducation with the Spanish Ianguage, Jim has found the fille:

"I always tune in on one of thSpanish speaking radio stationwhile I'm driving," he said. "find it quite interesting and I'r.learning slowly."

With his driving time put tgood use, Jim Paquin's day is no1

complete.

IT'S A FACT—A Flexible Automatic Circuit Tester(FACT), recently acquired cost-cutting machine forfinal check-out processes, is readied for operation atGlendale's Bldg. A-17. Integrating FACT into theBranch system are (from right) Supervisor C. D. Bry-ant, Engineer R. H. Arnold, and Technician R. B. Bab-

cock, from the Production Test Equipment SecticShown here during circuitry test on a Mark 130 digilcomputer, FACT's capacity permits checking 2,4separate wires from information fed to the machion data processing cards.

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Twenty- One New LlbtaVCtS Join the Ranks

P. M. KreinbringGlendale

W. P. GelbertGlendale

R. L. AndrewsGlendale

O. W. SehreiberSunnyvale

Geraldine LichtySunnyvale

Kenneth HowardBurbank

W. F. WadeBurbank

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P. E. MobleyDivision

H. H. HillGlendale

M. T. AllisonGlendale

V. L. OlsonGlendale

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Wilna OnthankGlendale

V. B. WilkieGlendale

R. D. BartlomeGlendale

R. A. PotterGlendale

G. L. WhitefordBurbank

J. L. DeitzGlendale

Zelma SawtelleGlendale

G. W. SeeversDivision

R. E. SimpsonGlendale

W. H. MillerBurbank

Machines Improved:

Toolmaker Solves Eyeletting ProblemTiny metal eyelets, about the

size of a husky ant, have long beenproblem children for Glendale cir-cuit board production.

The tiny eyelets, which serve asrims in cricuit board holes, had alengthy record for jamming eyelet-ting machines used in the Process-ing, Wiring and Assembly opera-tion.

But no more. Continual improve-ments in the machines by ToolMaker Walter Marcy, of the Glen-dale Tool Room, has eliminated thecause of much of the delinquency.

TWO MACHINES in the eyelet-ting section of Bids'. A-18 havebeen equipped with Marcy's latestinnovations, and the changes haveproven successful. Others will soonbe similarly modified.

The eyelet's history of troublestemmed from the time they wereplaced in the hopper at the top ofthe eyeletting machine.

Here the eyelets, several thou-sand strong, were juggled about thehopper by revolving brush sweep-ers until they landed upright ontheir flanges and fell, one by one,through a hole leading to the ma-chine's raceway. By gravity theywere fed down the raceway into thestamping or inserting part of themachine.

WORKING ON the law of prob-ability, the theory of the machinedesign was that of all these littleeyelets dancing around in the hop-per, one was bound to light theright way and slip through the holeoften enough to keep the machinerunning.

But some days the law justcouldn't seem to keep up.

The eyelets would either jam the

hole or fail to come out fast enough.The problem was somewhat un-

derstandable, however, since thehole demanded that the eyelet comeout sitting upright on its flange, aposition of rather precarious bal-ance.

TOOL MAKER MARCY theo-rized that if the eyelet was having

ready for stamping. This processworked!

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS byMarcy for the eyeletting machinesinclude brass raceways for fasterand smoother travel by the eyeletson their journey from the hopper.Raceways were also modified to in-clude adjustable tracks for eyeletsof many sizes.

The tool maker is now workingon a variation for the brushing ap-paratus inside the hopper which willfurther decrease possibilities of anerrant eyelet fouling the machines.

Sales Office MovesLibrascope's Los Angeles

Area Sales Office has changedlocations, taking residence in anew building located at 5730 W.Manchester Ave., Los Angeles45. New phone number for salesmanager F. C. Milner and hisstaff is ORegon 8-3715.

Also taking occupancy at theManchester address are the re-gional offices for GPI, Kearfottand Link, thus giving a centrallocation for each of the GPI areaoffices.

791-S ConverterIn Recent DebutAt IRE Meeting

A new, miniaturized electro-mechanical converter for analog-to-digital conversion, was one oftwo new products developed by theBurbank branch which received

WALTER E. MARCYAn Eye for Eyeletting

trouble balancing on its flange, hewould cut a groove in the bottomof the hopper to catch the eyeletsin the opposite position (flangesup). The groove would then serveto guide them in a steady flow tothe raceway.

This created another problem.The eyelets in the groove were inthe wrong position to go into thestamping part of the machine.

So Marcy's next step was to puta half-twist in the raceway to allowthe eyelet to invert its position onthe way from the hopper and be

Management TrainingCourse Now Underway

A 14-week course in "Manage-ment Leadership" is now underwayat Librascope for some 34 super-visors and managers representingall Branches of the company.

The course, presented Tuesdayevenings after work, features eightlecture sessions by Max B. Skousen,founder of the Skousen tax servicefirm, and one of the leading special-ists in the field of management de-velopment.

Other sessions are being con-ducted by members of the Trainingstaff.

Purpose of the course, said W.P. Strong, Training Director, is toprovide "practical examples and ap-plications on how the manager canget his job done effectively andeconomically."

The course covers a wide area ofmanagement problems such as dele-gation of responsibility, motivation,communications, and cost control.

Sessions are scheduled to be com-pleted late in June.

Biloon to ASWStaff at Glendale

A new engineering addition tothe Glendale branch is B. R. Biloon,named Senior Engineer on the staffof Dr. A. L. Stanly, branch Direc-

tor, AdvancedProjects. He isas s i g n e d toASW and navi-gation problemsand advancedproposals.

A native ofNew York city,Biloon attended

City College of New York, wherehe received his BS in physics in1956, then went on to the Universityof Illinois where, under a teachingfellowship, he completed his worktoward a Master's degree in phys-ics.

Prior to joining Librascope, Bi-loon spent 18 months with Auto-netics Division, North American,where he worked in Inertial Navi-gation as a computer analysis en-gineer. Formerly, he was withSperry Gyroscope Co., as an en-gineering writer.

public introduction at the recentIRE conference held in New YorkCity.

THE CONVERTER, designatedModel 791-S, is designed primarilyfor low-speed conversion of lineardata into digital form. It is easilyadaptable to a wide range of func-tions in process control, navigationand fire control systems, accordingto M. C. Hirsh, Burbank Sales Man-ager.

In addition, the low-cost con-verter can be modified to performas a digital servo, converting non-linear data into digital form, and toperform digital-to-voltage conver-sion functions.

DEVELOPED BY the Burbankbranch for the Laboratory forElectronics, Boston, the design ofthe new converter stresses minia-turization of component parts andpackaging. As a result, the Model791-S converter weighs only 18ounces, is 7 inches long, 1% inchesdeep, and 17s inches wide.

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Burbank BranchAppoints ThreeNew Engineers

Three applications engineers,John B. Bunnell, Courtland S. Rossand Charles W. Smith, are new ad-ditions to the roster of the Bur-bank branch, according to M. C.Hirsh, branch Sales Manager.

Bunnell, for nine-years with Nor-den Division of United AircraftCorp., has been named applicationsengineer, Eastern Region and, fol-lowing an indoctrination period atthe Burbank branch, is scheduled toopen a new regional office in theBoston area.

Bunnell is ag r a d u a t e o fPrinceton Uni-versity, wherehe received hisBS in Mechani-

M, - \i I cal Engineering,k_; and the Harvard

^ag JB| Graduate School.•̂ •iMJ £ T> *• of B u s i n e s s ,

with an MBA in Business Adminis-tration. He is married and presentlymakes his home in Glendale.

Applications engineer CourtlandRoss, also a new addition to theBurbank sales staff, will work withthe entire line of shaft position-to-digital encoders, computers com-ponents and accessories.

A native of Evanston, 111., Rossis a graduate (BSEE) of M.I.T.,where he ma-jored in electri-cal engineeringand economics.Before joiningLibrascope, hewas with West-inghouse, spe-cializing in therequirements ofelectric utilities. Ross holds mem-bership in the American Instituteof Electrical Engineers and theAmerican Marketing Association.

Charles W. Smith is no new faceto Librascope, having worked forthe past two years in the Electro-Mechanical Equipment section ofthe Sunnyvale branch.

In his new as-signment, Smithwill be respons-ible for applica-tions and sales•of electrical me-chanical prod-ucts includingintegrators, X-Yplotter and ac-

cessories, differentials, flow com-puters and other components.

Smith is a graduate of USC witha BS degree in mechanical engi-neering.

Hours ChangedOperating hours for the Pre-

cisioner Store have been changedand the store is now closed allday Tuesdays and also from12:30 to 1:30 on all other week-days, according to ManagerEileen Brown.

SVEN HITS TEN — Sven Gustavson (second fromright), Leadman, Machine Engine Lathe, receives his10-year Libravet pin and congratulations from L. C.Somerfield, Superintendent of the Glendale Branch

Production Machine Shop. Looking on are co-workers(from left) William Carter, Harold Engle, NormanWisbaum, John Loux, James Piletti, Pat O'Gorman(partially hidden), and Harry Garrison.

Gustavson Joins10-Year Rank,Retires in June

A six-month visit in his nativecountry of Sweden will introduceSven Gustavson to a life of leisure-living when he retires from Libra-scope June 1.

Gustavson, a recent 10-year Li-bravet, is a machine engine latheleadman in the Glendale BranchMachine Shop. He joined the com-pany in April, 1951, and has beena leadman for the past nine years.

He and his wife plan to leaveCalifornia June 8 and fly to Swedento visit Sven's brother and sisterwho live near Kristianstad. Enroutethey will stop off to visit friendsin Chicago.

It was in the Windy City thatGustavson settled after coming tothe United States at the age of 16.There he met and married his wife,Gunhild. The couple moved to Cali-fornia when he started at Libra-scope and now make their home inNorth Hollywood.

When they return from Sweden,the Gustavsons are planning a quietlife of leisure, if, as Sven says, "wecan take it."

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tive management yardstick in meas-uring up problem areas and takingtimely corrective action.

FORMERLY USED to monitorproduction contracts, LOB has nowbeen extended into such diverseareas as development engineering,inventory control, and the phasing-in of a new product line.

Already in effect at Librascope,LOB has been employed success-fully on ASROC, CP-209 and Mk-17projects and, more recently on FAAand SUBROC. The program hasbeen coordinated through O. H.Shoemaker's Production staff. Ithas also met with considerable suc-cess in monitoring a number of im-portant Link and GPL operations.

THE ROSTER of attending Di-

Summer Fashion ShowScheduled for June 7

A Summer Fashion Show for allLibrascopers has been scheduled bythe Precisioneers for Wed, June 7,at the Verdugo Oaks restaurant inGlendale.

Tickets for the show and the ac-companying dinner, priced at $3.10each, will be on sale soon from allPrecisioneer officers and buildingrepresentatives.

The fashion show and dinner willbegin at 7:30 p.m., preceded by acocktail hour at 6:30.

Louise Morton, Precisioneer vicepresident, reports that show offi-cials will be featuring fashions Wellwithin the price range of all work-ing girls.

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vision personnel included: M. L.Cowan, C .C. Gould, Mildred L. Hug-gins, P. G. Gudal, W. K. McAboy,E. E. Pearson, C. D. Nixon and C.S. Vance.

The Glendale branch had thelargest representation, including:H. C. Applegate, D. H. Augustine,S. F. Chaney, J. J. Ciochetto, C. W.Cisco, C. R. Donley, Shelby Druck-er, O. S. Dwire, E. R. Ellenhorn,I. G. Franklin, W. T. Giles, R. C.Graham, Edward Grossman, W. R.Henson, R. H. Hofgren, W. T.Holmes, R. F. Jennings, Al Leto,B. W. Long, P. J. Metzger, W. S.Presho, R. H. Price, A. J. Smith,K. K. Wright and W. A. Young.

Burbank branch personnel listedat the seminar included: E. P.Abele, R. A. Day, J. R. Garrett andC. K. Krill.

Buy Seat Belts,But Be Sure toGet Good Ones

(See editorial, Page 2)A proper seat belt in your car can

prevent many injuries and mini-mize others when your car is in anaccident, Safety Coordinator W. E.Hamrick told LIBRAZETTE thismonth, but the driver in search ofprotection should be careful of whathe buys.

"YOU NEED a belt capable ofholding you in place when your cartries to turn you into a bullet topierce the windshield," Hamricksaid. "Your belt should withstanda pull of 5,000 pounds, becausethat's the forward thrust exertedon a driver when his car hits asolid object while traveling at thelow speed of 21 miles an hour. Mostinjury-causing accidents occur be-tween 20-25 miles an hour, inci-dentally."

The ideal belt has a metal-to-metal buckle, is easy to slip on andoff — to encourage use — is madeof nylon with nylon stitching, andis anchored through the floor, not tothe seat. It should be rated at notless than 5,000 pounds. Belts madeto the specifications of the Califor-nia Highway Patrol and the Gen-eral Services Administration of theFederal government, meet thesestandards, Hamrick said.

PRICES OF belts now being soldvary greatly, ranging from $5 to$12 each, and not all meet the5,000-pound standard. Currentlythe Precisioneer store in Glendalewill deliver a 5,000-pound strengthbelt for $4.98, with anchoring gear,if orders for 100 are received. Liter-ature describing other belts also isavailable.

COMPUTER CONVERSATION—Teluo Fukuda (sec-ond from left), President of "Wing," a leading Japa-nese aviation magazine, stopped by Bldg C-ll duringhis recent Librascope visit to inspect Sunnyvale's com-puter for Air Traffic Control's Data Processor Central.

Discussing computer applications with Fukuda areC. M. Lekven, Staff Engineer, Ground Systems Depart-ment (left); Akira Takei, Los Angeles branch repre-sentative of Mitsubishi International Corp.; and J. G.Russell, military advisor for Sunnyvale-at-Glendale.

Librascope DivisionGeneral Precision, Inc.808 Western AvenueGlendale 1, Calif.

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