Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1943 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 1—NO. 15
BEAUMONT, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943
PUBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY
McGregor las
20th Birthday
f ith Soinpany
On June 1 J. H. McGregor,
treasurer of Pennsylvania Ship-
yards, Inc., rounded out his 20th
anniversary with this company and
other American Republics affili-
ates.
Mr. McGregor went to the
American Republics Corp. first
in the 'tax department at Hous-
ton, Tex., and was later trans-
ferred to the Delta Trust Com-
pany there, where he served as
assistant trust officer.
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From 1923 until December 5,
1934 Mr. McGregor worked for
Pennsylvania Shipyards in Beau-
mont and established his home
here. From 1934 until 1940 he was
with American Republics Corpo-
ration in Houston, returning to
Beaumont just prior to the be-
ginning of the expansion program
of PennShip to become treasurer
(See McGREGOR on Page 3)
Hogs Go Out,
Cars Cone In
The new Beaumont garbage dis-
posal incinerator is rapidly tak-
ing shape and “Hog Island”
which received recent national
unfavorable publicity in a Wash-
ington, D. C. newspaper article,
is undergoing a gradual, but
thorough overhauling and house-
cleaning.
Tin can dumps which had ac-
cumulated and become too rusty
for reuse before the salvage cam-|
paigns got under way are bein#
leveled off preparatory to being
used as a base for filling1 in, and
other clean-up measures are well
under way.
According to plans recently an-
nounced by Beaumont city man-
ager, C. Hughes Petkovsek, in an
agreement with the city, PSY
will place shell on the section of
the old dump nearest the upper
. end of the yards and convert it
into a parking lot, the area of
which totals about five acres.
A new bridge across the narrow
channel of water between the
Island and the dump is also con-
templated in the contract.
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HURT IN CRASH
James A. Hampshire, 39,-Voth
road, employed in Pennsylvania
. Shipyards as a fitter, suffered
minor injuries in an automobile
.accident recently on his way home
from work.
CAPE SABLE La
PennShip will celebrate Sunday, July
4, most appropriately when she sends Hull
284 into the water under her new name of
MV CAPE SABLE. Sponsor for the big, new
cargo vessel will be Mrs. John L. Baker, of
New Orleans, wife of the chief of the plant,
engineering section, Gulf Coast regional
construction office, USMC.
The launching ceremony is scheduled
for 10 o’clock in the morning.
■inching Sunday
Among the guests who will be present
are Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Duff of New Orleans.
Mr. Duff is the assistant to the director of
the USMC Gulf Coast regional construction
office in New Orleans.
When it was laid, the keel to 284 was
dedicated to Pvt. Lloyd Seward, 20-year-
old Beaumont aviation ordnance soldier
who was killed in action in the Phillipines
in April, 1942.
YARD GIVES "A” GAS AID
L-M Committee Plays
Big Role Behind Scenes
Since October 16, 1942 the]
Labor-Management Committee
of Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc.
has met every Wednesday after-
noon at 3 oclock in order to dis-
cuss ways and means to better
production and working conditions
on the Island and to further a
closer cooperation and under-
standing between all yard person-
nel.
Included in projects which the
committee has backed and s^en
carried through to completion are
the establishment of a plant news-
paper, PENNSHIP LOG, and the
procurement of the Maritime “M”.
The next big project was to
stage the successful intra-plant
war chest drive and this was
followed by a campaign which
made the yard war bond conscious
and brought the payroll deduc-
tion plan into high favor with
PS.Y’s people.
MORAN PRESENTED
The interesting and inspiring
experience of hearing Captain
Mike Moran, commander of the
USS light cruiser BOISE of South
(See COMMITTEE on Page 7)
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Class In Chemical
Warfare Defense Held
An intensive 15-hour two-day
instruction course in chemical
warfare defense was given at
Pennsylvania Shipyards beginning
at 9 o’clock Tuesday, June 29.
The course wTas presented by
Lieutenant E. C. Keefe in charge
of the eighth naval district, mo-
bile training unit, chemical war-
fare defense. One man from each
department on the Island was se-
lected to take the course which
was held in the assembly room of
the Safety Dept, and dealt with
all types of defense against
chemical attack.
Classes lasted from 9 a. m. until
3 p. m. both days instruction was
held and met with an enthusiastic
response.
IEWMAM GETS
PRIZE AWARD
Only one award for constructive
suggestions was made by the La-
bor-MarnagemenU committee for
the month of June, and this was
a $25 bond which went to E. D.
Newman, 8-0496, burner, for
a suggestion advising a method of
burning bevels on plates in place
of chipping them with hammers.
Only a few suggestions came in
for the June contest and the cam-
mittee wishes to urge more men
in the yards to compete and to
remember to aim at sending in
suggestions which will make big
step-ups in production and will
thereby win the larger bond
awards.
A total of $250 in bonds is off-
ered for these suggestions each
month with $100 as the largest
single prize. The balance goes out
in varying small amounts accord-
ing to the rating the suggestion
receives from the secret commit-
tee of judges.
Where the full $250 is not
awarded in any one month, it may
be distributed in prizes in later
months with top prize never ex-
ceeding the $100.
DREDGING PROGRESSES
The big dredge of the Gulf
Coast Dredging company of Texas
City is at work getting the
Neches river channel and the
small island across from PSY in
shape for the new outfitting docks.
Blasting of tree stumps has just
about been finished and cut wood
and trash is rapidly being cleared
from the space where the docks
will be constructed.
iaptist Preacher
law Shipbuilder
II
JOHN VOTAW
Although he has given up
preaching for the time being to do
defense work, John Votaw, time-
keeper, does not consider the
work he is doing as being unre-
lated to his ministerial work.
John is a veteran employee of
PSY. He came from Newton, Tex-
as to the Island in 1935 to work
for E. A. Dempsey in the Crane
Dept, as a hooker. He held this
position until 1939 when he join-
ed the Time Office forces where
he now works as chief assistant
to Gilbert Krepper.
Prior to coming to work at the
(See PREACHER on Page 7)
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NEW “WHITE WINGS”
On Sunday, June 20, the whole
gang on 273 left #ie ship righ‘
after dinner under the watchful
eye of “Simon Legree” Sheetz *,o
clean the 800 foot dock because
of the cleaning help shortage.
After a while the fellows got into
the spirit of wielding the broom,
scraper and what not and every-
body had a big time.
Mother And Daughter Team As Welders
Mrs. Ha Martin’s aim is to bring her son and
other mothers’ sons back home safe and sound as
soon as possible, and she is a hard working woman,
going far beyond her strength to see this thing to
a finish.
She and her daughter, Verdie Franks, are both
night welders in PSY.
Mrs. Martin’s only son, Durel, is now serving
with the U. S. Navy. Before leaving he too worked
for PSY' as a shipfitter.
“I am no4 satisfied to sit at home and brood
over my boy’s being gone from me and I feel like
I ain of a little service to my country when I am
out here doing what I can,” says Mrs. Martin. “I
am a widow, my husband having been dead six
years, and I have had the sole support of my
children until they finished school.”
Verdie, age 20, started work as a telephone
operator in Cotton Valley, La., where she worked
until she came here to take her training course at
Lamar College,
Durel, 19 years old, upon finishing school,
went to work at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego,
Calif., where he worked until the fall of ’42 when
he came hack to Beaumont and went to work at
shipfitting in PSY until he left for the Navy.
Mrs. Martin and Verdie are putting more than
12per cent of their entire wages in war bonds in
the payroll deduction plan.
Employment
Has Blanks
Permanent Office To
Be Established
In order to accommodate
employees of Pennsylvania
Shipyards who are automobile
owners, all renewal applica-
tions for second gasoline “A”
books for cars driven by Is-
cland workers will be pro-
cessed directly through the
yards, J. L. Wones, assistant
personnel director, lias announced.
Mr. Wones went on to say that
plans are well under way to
establish a board within the
yards to care for other ratoining
relative to automobiles owned by
PSY employees.
OBSERVE RULES
There are certain steps, he
warns, which are necessary to ob-
serve in filling out ‘A” gasoline
book renewal application form
OPA R-570.
In general, the application will
be similar to the first form filled
out. Part “A” will be the appli-
cation form, part “B” will be the
new tire inspection record. The
applicant must be careful to fill
out all of the spaces enclosed
within the heavy borders on both
(See GAS on Page 3)
Fern Workers Go
On 9-Hour Shifts
A new work schedule for wo-
men craft workers in PSY went
into effect Monday, June 28 with
nine hour shifts for women in a
schedule posted over the signature
of L. C. Allen, general superin-
tendent.
The new time table runs:
DAY SHIFT
7:30 A. MJ. to 12:00 Noon
12:30 P. M. to 5:00 P. M.
Monday through Friday
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
7:30 A. M. to 12:00 Noon
12:30 P. M. to 3:00 P. M.
NIGHT SHIFT
7:30 P. M. to 12:00 Midnight
12:30 A. M. to 5:00 A. M.
Monday through Friday
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
5:30 P. M. to 9:30 P. M.
10:00 P. M. to 1:00 A. M.
The above schedule will be in
effect for all employees except
those otherwise indicated by their
respective department heads.
FOUR FLAT TIRES
E. M. Ratcliff and Ralph Viterbo
were real quick change artists the
other day when they changed a
tire on “Rat’s” car all by them-
selves. But when they finally got
the spare tire on and discovered
it was flat too, their language
wasn’t appropriate for the preach-
er to hear.
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BMI PINCH-HITTER
Captain Edgar F. Carpenter will
pinch-hit for Captain J. H. Coe
in the PSY branch office of the
Bureau of Marine Inspection
while Captain Coe is on vacation.
Captain Carpenter’s permanentt
station is Port Arthur.
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Scurlock, Ruth G. Pennship Log (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1943, newspaper, July 1, 1943; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1169933/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.