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As Tournapull raced thru its second February week without a single
lost-time accident, Peoria, which had paced him the first week, faltered, set
back by one lost-timer. Poor, lonely Vicksburg ran smack into a couple of
accidents the first week and thereby started the month with a frequency of
61.8.PEORIA
Expansion of preventive shop main-
tenance program has advanced Major
Darst from mtnce inspector to lubri-
cation foreman, to whom will report
all oilers of machinery & equipment;,
Edwin Freiderick from electrician to
electrical inspector & Robert Kirby
from 1st class mechanic to mtnce
inspector.
Promotions, Changes: J. F. Johann-
sen export mgr. to export asst. gen.
sales mgr., acting as consultant & ad-
visor to E. R. Galvin, gen. sales mgr.
. . . Paul E. Fulford back to export
sales mgr., in charge of export dept.
. . . Inspection supervisors shifted
temporarily: Percy Price 1st shift
plant #1 to 2d #2; Dafton Thompson
1st #2 to 2d #2; Bill Inman 2d #2 to
3d #2; Herschel Lawrence 3d #2 to 1st
#1; Wallace Hankins 2d #1 to 1st #3
& #4, Eugene Bailey 1st #3 & #4 to 1st
#2 . . . W. N. Kentner stock clerk #2
parts control to head stock clerk #2
. . . Cost accounting: Les Matson
materials & supply supv. to labor dis-
tribution supv . . . Bob Hollis chief
stockchaser to production .control
engr . . . Cleatus Duncan stockchaser
to chief stockchaser . . . Earl Marts
personnel clerk to safety inspector.
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Blades 105 has installed 2d Jeter-
bilt air hydraulic blade countersink-
ing drill, a 6-spindle machine . . .
Toolroom #2 has converted shot bandturner to machine for turning cable
drum flanges.
Production dept. has taken over
from wire rope supervisor keeping of
wire rope inventory & has placed
George Donavan in charge of these
records. * -
Slag: Last Thursday's heavy storm,
covering streets, roads deep with snow
brot only 9% increase in factory ab-
sentees. Determined to be at work on
time Fri., 2 Morton boys turned back
from home at 10:30 p.m. Thurs. - . -
Inbound from Tournapull 2/10, truck
#10 (Drivers Bill Ledbetter & Parker
Sewell) was snowbound for 9 hours
2 miles this side of Hartsburg . . .
Peoria is helping Tournapull with its
6 pilot models of D Tournapulls &
PCUs by supplying some parts . . .
PCU assembly & test stand set all-
time record week ago, producing &
testing 270 units . . . Toolroom #2
started on 3 8-hour shifts, 6-day week
2/14, with Tom Taylor, 1st shift fore-
man; Earl Weber, 2d shift foreman, &
Stanford Mitchell, 3d shift foreman,
promoted from benchman, with Frank
Randall as supervisor . . . Standards
hi man for week ended 2/5 Everett
McCaw, PCU assembly.
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Dept. 060 at plant #1 has changed
name from jig & experimental to
crane, & all its jig construction has
been shifted to bldg. T. Foremen
Frank Longacre & Leroy DePeugh
will be responsible to Maurice Foote,#1 supt., instead of to Paul McAdams,
bldg. T supt. Major product of 060
will be cranes.
FurloughVisitors: 2/1 Pvt (ASTP)
Paul Rogers, x-cost dept; Navy S 2/C
William Cooley, x-PCU machining ...
2/2 Inf. Cpl James W. Kindred, x-sal-
vage #2 welder . . . 2/3 Navy S 2/C
Loren Salmons, x-mtnce #1 . . . 2/4
Maritime Service Seaman Lee Know-
les, x-dozer mounting . . . 2/7 Al
Runkel, Navy SF 1/C, x-production
. 2/12 William R. Roach, F 1/C
x-central whse.
To The Colors: WAVES: 2/8 Ruby
Brackett, billing.
Authors: Roland Neff, public rela-
tions head, wrote "Setting Up a Pub-
licity Dept" in Feb. issue of Industrial
Marketing . . . Walt Brooking, direc-
tor of test & research, penned article
on "Quality Control in Welding" in
1/24 issue of Steel.
S*.-
Born: Jack 9# 4 oz. 2/9 at Dea-
coness Hospital, Lincoln, son of Don
Leonard, scraper fab . . . Tommy
Gary 7# 11 oz. 2/7 son of William
Ebling, heat treat . . . Harry Wayne
8# 3 oz. 2/11 son of Wesley Mervis,
boxbeams . . . Beverly Jean 7# 12 oz.
2/7 dau. of Russell Lemons, dozers A
. . . Betty Ruth 5# 3 oz. 2/8 dau. of
Bill Hardin, stock chaser . . . Ruth
Lucille 7# 8 oz. 2/5 dau. of Jesse Hard-
man, foreman prep. to ship.
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Wed: Vernon Lelm, doubledecker
weld, & Anna Mae Patton 2/12 . . .
Larry Riggenbach, f&a insp. plant #1,
& Esther Tiffan of Akron, Ohio 2/6 at
Akron . . . Millicent Heiken, ac-
counting, & Lt. Harold Norman 2/3 at
Punta Gorda, Fla. where she will
remain.
Activities: The 1st printed annual
report of Activities Ass'n., a 16-page
booklet, to be off the press this week
. . . LeTourneau Chorus sang at
Varna, Ill. Sat. night for 800 members
& friends of Farmers Co-op. Ass'n.
50th anniversary . . . LeTourneau
band plays 2/19 at Peoria Armory for
WPB Salvage Rally of schools.
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Sports: Welders as 1st half winner
in Y Industrial Basketball League
play challengers Caterpillar #1 at 7
p.m. 2/17 at Y for the right to play in
State Y tournament at Elgin March
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R.G. LeTourneau, Inc. NOW, Volume 8, Number 40, February 18, 1944, periodical, February 18, 1944; Peoria, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1526384/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting LeTourneau University Margaret Estes Library.