NOW, Volume 7, Number 39, February 12, 1943 Page: 4
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PEORIA
Jan. net sales equipment, parts, munitions,
etc. $3,429497, up 20.7% from 1/'42 sales
of $2,839,817, down 15.5% from 12/'42 sales
of $4,054,517. Parts sales $809,707, or
192.7% over 1/'43 sales of $276,620.
Following
comparativeten-
sile strength &
j fatigue t e s t s,
Tournarope t o
be changed over
IWRC Warrington from 6x19 with
IWRC (Independent Wire Rope Core) to
6x19 Warrington construction, in which cen-
ter is a strand corresponding to outside
strands-sometimes called 7x19. Tests indi-
cated longer life for Warrington construc-
tion.
Born: Roberta Jayne 8/2# 1/15 at St. Fran-
cis, dau. of Pvt. Gerald (Bob) Poplett, x-rooters,
now at Langley Field, Va. . . . Georgett 6# 7 oz.
2/4 at Methodist, dau. of Joe Engler, wire rope
. Boy 5# 13% oz. 2/7 at Methodist, son of
Gene Allen, 2d shift AD assembler.
Basketball: Tied for 8-team Y Industrial League
leadership at end of 1st half by Blues 31-23 win 2 /8
over Angledozers, the 2 teams play off 1/2 season
championship 8 p.m. Tues. 2/16 at Y
LeTourneau Welders beat Bethany Baptist 77-16
2/1, & Cat. Tractors 42-19 2/3.
Credit Union: Eddie Stoller reelected
pres., Ann McCall v-p, & Delmar Warnke
elected treas., succeeding Jake Gieser, at di-
rectors' meeting 2/8. Charlotte Bush, CU
bookkeeper, elected asst. treas. Borrowers
from CU in '42 numbered 887 instead of 87,
as stated last week.
Wed: Jack Lofgren, shipping, & Betty
Messmer of Peoria 2/6 here.
Shavings: Standard hi man week ended
1/30 Ray Krusemark, grinder m.s.#2, with
1,115 premium units . . . Resale had run on
safety shoes 2/8 following freeze & ration
order . . . Frank Bigley, Miss. plant office
mgr., due here next week . . . Auditor Dave
Morgan has suspended his Tournapull, Ga.
auditing to return to Peoria for more urgent
audit of orders on hand . . . As we go to
press Maurice Puterbaugh, stores # 1, & Jack
Scheel, traffic, are watching election returns
on their Republican primary candidacies for
5th & 4th ward aldermen respectively . . .
Standards #2 got its 1st girl 2/2-Betty
Wehrli, tabulator . . . Paint vat wing of
bldg. O to be cleared out for occupancy .. .
All 6 plant # 1 mules working 3 8-hour shifts.
. . . Blade dept. now has 3 drills on 24-hour
days, 7-day weeks . . . 2d Lt. John H. Way,
bombardier, x-personnel, visited last week
on furlough.el . 2&At
Hurt, 111, Well: Robt. Watt, AD, to Methodist
2/2 for appendectomy . . . Geo. Leonard, yard
gang, off since 2/1 when hit by falling tire . . .
Mixing nitric acid & alcohol in lab. 2/4 Francis
Wenzel suffered severe eye, face, shoulder & arm
burns, went to Methodist .. Jack Brand, shipping,
to Methodist 2/4 with cut leg, mashed foot, from
fall of PCU . Chas. Pascal, 2d shift prep-ship,
mashed finger 2/4 . . . Geo. Carter, switchman, to
St. Francis 2/1 for appendectomy . . Floyd
Camp, m.s. #2 insp., to Methodist 2/9 for hernia
oper. . Don Puterbaugh, mtnce #2, mashed
hand in adm. bldg. elevator 2/6 . . . Jim Massey,
m.s.#2 nites, off 3 weeks with pneumonia; Deva
Galvin, transcribing supv., away month for throat
oper.; Geo.. Cunningham, transp. spotter # 1; Fred
Shuemaker, scraper f&a, off with flu; Bill Schlosser,
2d shift heat treat #2, ill a week, all back to work
2/8 . . . Wife of Alvin Ulrich, TP assembly fore-
man, out of St. Francis 2 /9 after oper. . . Lyle
Baer, 2d shift grinder m.s.#2, off since 2/3 for
2 weeks' rest.
In '18 during World
War #1 Robt. Dewey,
working for Avery Farm
Machy Co. in what is now
LeTourneau plant #3,
built himself a wooden
toolchest. He brot same
chest back to same bldg.,
almost same spot, 4/21/
42 to work as salvage
inspector until recent tfr.
to m.s.# 1. insp.
. . . --
New Equipment: Stores #1 getting
waterproofing line for processing govt. parts.
Overhead tracks carry parts thru steam wash,
rinse, drying oven, to dipping tank & thru
2d drying oven . . . Mtnce m.s. building
sheave wheel flame hardener, sheave pin
flame hardener, automatic 4-torch blade cut-
ter, designed by Harold Jeter, plant engr.
2 Dennison dial set printers speeding
writing of multiple parts tags for parts ship
. . . 2 more guard stations under con-
struction.
.
Promotions, Changes: Cadet irving "Bud"
Cuddington, x-standards #2, commissioned
2d Lt. Army Air Force as combat pilot 2/6
at Luke Field, Ariz. Gets advan -e training
before assignment to duty . . . Advanced
1/1 from AM 2/c to AM 1/2, St. Elmo
Abbott was in Peoria last week on furlough
from his station at Jacksonville, Fla., visit-
ing bro. Otis, nite scraper fab. . . . Herbert
G. Kauffman, x-printing, pvt. to cpl in Army
T.S.S. at Miami Beach, Fla. . . . John(
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R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. NOW, Volume 7, Number 39, February 12, 1943, periodical, February 12, 1943; Peoria, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1526333/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library.