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Volume XI, No . 42
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
.January 6 , 1967
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fi r s t active Explorer pro!
t he 13- county orga.ni za t io1
was ci t ed especiall~ fo r '
enthusiasm , program l ende
and interest in the \oLmg
of the r egion . Under his
a.nee , the nomina tion statt
" the Expl orer program is !
and t aking a more promine1
in high school ci rcles or
Cowicil area."
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EDITORIAL
SOCIAL SECURITY/PENS
POINT FREEZES AT $6,
This improvement f re
$6,600 dividing poin
employees begin cont
the Pension Plan so
credits will not be
affected by any futu
in Social Security w
IMPROVED PENSICNER M
PAYMENTS
This change, also ef
January 1, provides
payment for every da
pensioners and their
the hospital while c
Medicare and a $30 p
ment for every day i
after Medicare benef
'lhe Plan also allows
every day in a nursi1
soon as Medicare ben
up to a maximun of $!
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TECH.
OFFER~
wi 11 be offered at
Vocational-Technica
ginning Monday, Jani
7:00.
Accounting
Automob i 1e Me chi
Cosme to 1ogy (Adi
Data Processing
Drafting
Technical Mathen
Basic Electronic
Machine Shop
Welding
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Fred Miller, Machine Re
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extended illness wishe:
all of his friends for
get we ll cards that ha'
sent t o him and the nur
visits paid to him whi :
ill at home and in the
Fred is particularly g1
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A limited number of pamphlets
describing University of Virginia
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The U.S. Air Force's huge CSA j et transport, for which Spe ci~
Department i s supplying the electrical systems, is f eatured 1
Janu ary painting of the Company's 1967 ca lendars. Th ousa nds
calendars were recently mailed to GE customers throughout the
The painting, wh i ch shows the unl oading of a he li copter from
airc raft, i s reproduced above.
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Volume XI , No . 43
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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SCD SUGGESTION ~i
J . Ponzillo, J.Cook, J. ~
The l argest suggestion ai
the history of the Speci;
Control Department ~as p
yesterday to James H. Co
monitor in the Shipping :i
Jim ' s idea for a new prll
cui t board shipping cart
won him $855 ! His sugge
will mean considerable s;
terms of mat erial and !al
will al so mean happier 9
tomers since the sugges'ti
ens the delivery C)-cle :fl
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CAR POOL
SAFE AND THI
The car pool was suppc
t emporary war-time me;
it continues to grCN :
ity, and hundr e ds of 1
b orly a rrangements ex:
among SCD employees.
Savings in car-operat:
seems to be the chief
of the switch-driver 1
get ting to and from w1
examp le, suppose a fo
group has a car pool ;
i n St aunton. If expe
figured at 10 cents a
an average of a 50-wei
member will save $375
The order represents a real challenge from the techn ical, cost,
and delivery viewpoints. Since
North American can also be the
source of future business for
other Sp ecia lty Control products,
it will be import an t that NAA
join the ranks o f satisfied SCD
cus t omers .
Anothe r advantage is
rush-hour traffic in '
Waynesboro is r e duced
sleep , r ead or excha:n;
en rout e , arriving fr,
for th e day ' s work. '
gesti on is reduced, a
acciden ts that result
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VACATION SCHEDULE
SERVI CE PINS
Week ending January 13,
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Richard S . Kuhiak
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Individual honors went to the following with high sets: Ken Reid
(576); Larry Rogers (575); and
Don Cook (573).
General Electric's de
hold its annual meeti
is based on the South
ing significance as a
ket and maj or product
for electrical produc
as its excellent econ
and the importance o f
Fort Worth a r ea as a
center in the Southwe
RESULTS
Tin Benders 4, Lab Lads O; Fireballs 4, Hi- Pots O; Marketeers 3,
Alley Cats l; Rebels 3, Injun Ears
l; GE Fire Dept. 3, Wire Stretchers l; Bowles Bowlers 3, Hill
Bowlers l; *Datamites 3, Sparemakers l; Dynamic Five 2, Tool
Breakers 2.
STANDINGS
TE.AM
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Marketeers
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Tool Breakers
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Tin Benders
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Fireba lls
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*Spa remake rs
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Dynamic Five
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Wire St r etchers
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Hill Bowlers
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*Datamites
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Bowles Bowlers
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Hi-Pots
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GE Fire Dept.
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Rebels
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Injun Ears
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Alley Cats
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Lab Lads
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$117 . 173
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Voltnne XI, No. 44
January 20 , 19 67
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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Absolutely not. As you may remember, the Board originally dismissed all of the Ccmpany's objections when it first ruled on this
matter in August, 1965 . It later
reversed itself and ordered a
hearing. However, the NLRB selec~
ed only~ of the Company's objections to UE's pre-election conduct and restricted the hearing to
a discussion of that issue. That
was the union's claim about the
wages of janitors in Canada. We
have not yet had a review of the
other objections to UE's conduct.
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Some twelve Department General
Managers and Section Managers of
the Industrial Process Control
Division toured SCD earlier this
week as part of a program conducted at the Division Headquarters in Charlottesville. The
group represented Communication
Products Department, Lynchburg;
Instrlllilent Department, West Lynn,
Mass.; and Process Computer Business Section, Phoenix, Arizona.
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tions, has been named to
the Company's world-wide
processing business .
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Week ending January 20, 1967
5-year Service Pins Shirley L. Craig
IsaheZZe C. Rankin
Betty M. Pittman
James F. Kite
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A two-week GE train
educates plant main
sonnel in the opera
of the lOOM control.
BOWLING
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Marketeers
Tin Benders
Wire Stretchers
Datamites
Rebels
Tool Breakers
Fireballs
Dynamic Five
Hill Bowlers
Sparemakers
Bowles Bowlers
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machine tool manuf a
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3,499
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Volume XI, No . 45
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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In a letter to t he Editor o
two days ago
UE organ1 zer wrote 'GE, by
for a new election, has adm
that they were wrong from t
start." Unfortl.Ulately, the
ganizer seems to have misse
point completely. The Comp
has proposed a new election
simply because it would pro
speedy and final answer t o
question "DJ the majority o
Specialty Control empl oyees
UE to represent them?'
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Salvage operations help to lessen
the amount of loss in terms of
machines and equipment, and first
aid obviously is intended for
those who might be injured .
LIVE ELE
All-electric living
dream. Today, it i:
well over a million
owners . And why nO'
venient and inexpen:
appeal of all-elect:
probably strongest :
of the house who fi1
for her in a dozen \
kitchen alone. CoUJ
refrigerator, freez<
exhaust hood and fa:i
garbage disposal, e:
opener, toaster, el<
maker, clock-radio,
heat control, adequ<
twelve ways electric
more enjoyable in 01
in your house.
There are now appro;
million houses in t}
States that heat elE
the trend indicates
a lot more on the w
1964, electric heat
have been increasin
year. The Federal
sion estimates that
19 million resident
be heated electrica
the enjoyment of ev
i s the fact that se
insurance companies
their rates 10 to 2
electric homes .
All-electric living
As the cost-of - liv~
raled upward, the p
tricity has been co1
During the last 25
costs have doubled,
average residential
electricity has be~
than 40%.
All-el ectric living
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A THANK Y
SCD ' s former Manage:
turing Engineering,
has sent a warm "th<
those who wished hir
occasion of his ret:
General Electric la~
In a r ecent note he
always will remembe:
boro operation and :
Paul i ne Landes
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Pekarovich Transfers
To Pittsburgh
Bernard Pekarovich, A &D Sales
AConstructiveProp
For the post 20 months, the UE Un ion
hos been engaged in o dispute with t he
General Electric Compony regardi ng UE's
status at the Company's plant here in
Waynesboro. This dispute stems from the
fact that General Electric took exception
to UE's conduct prior to o union representation election held in Moy, 1965.
It is doubtfu I that r
ployees or local citizern
in by th is barrage of r
gondo. Nevertheless,
publicly t hat the Comp
ly no objection to o pm
t his dispute as long as
ab ly and in o manner
rights of all our empl
we hove made o prop<
would quickly settle th
IT'S UP TO YOU
The failure to observe safety r egula tions resulted in a fractured
fo o t for an employee last week
here at Specialty Control. The
accident occurred when a heavy
panel being moved on a do l ly
slipped and fe ll on the employee 's
foot . If the employee had been
wearing safety shoes or, at least,
r emovable toe caps, t he injury
might have been prevented or reduced to nothing more th an a
severe bruise.
Al l of t his again points to the
need fo r all of us to follow Department safety reg ulations. If
you are not sure about any rule,
ask your fo reman o r supervisor.
Remember - safety is a part of
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your job at Specialty Control.
Wi th our cooperati on and the
s tress the Company p uts on safe
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wor king conditions and p ra ctices,
we will actually be many time s
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GENERAL
ELECTRIC
Waynesboro, Virginia
SERVICE
Aubrey V. P
Mary M. Cr>i
10-year Service
Le land R. C
Howard B. K
Specialty
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Vo lume XI, No . 46
February 3, 196 7
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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To sti mula t e th e i n t e r es t of
youth i n t he fie ld of e lectri city ,
SCD is sponsor i ng an essay cont es t a t Way nesbo r o High Sch ool.
Students in the ninth through
t we l ft h g r a des have been invite d
to writ e ess ays on "T omorrow'~
El e c tri ca l World. They wi 11 be
judge d and an awards p r es entation
wi l l be he ld i n the s cho ol audito r i um at which time the winners
wil l be prese~t e d with working
r ep licas of the orig inal Edison
l amp . Additi onally, a 2 ' x 3 '
framed portrait of Thomas Edison
wi ll be presented to the sch ool.
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GAYEK (fr om P. 1)
In his new position , "Hank" \\"ill
be a consultant on electrical sys tems used in space app lications
1,hen the source of pm,er is de rived from nuclear energy . One
of his ma i n pr ojects wil l be
c~27, a small nuclear poher
j which will generate elec trical ener 6'Y for the Apollo
astronauts once they have landed
on the moon .
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Production and Maintenance empl~s of the Capacitor Dep art me1 .; Irmo, South Carolina, plant
have voted to remain without a
union. The results : No union 437 ;
!BEW 22 1; chal lenged 1. This was
the first r ep r esen t a t ion e lection
in the ten-yea r his tory of the
plant.
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In the case of t he emp l oyee' s per sonai coverages under the Insurance Plan, if the employee is en rolled for full co\erage his contributions pay his share of the
cost of not only medical expense
reimbursement co\erage , but also
his li fe insurance , weekl y sickness and accidental death or dismemberment coverages . For an employee enrolled for f ull coverage ,
1/ 3 of his contributions represent
the cost of medical expense. coverage and , in accordance with Feder al Tax Regulations, may be consi dered as "medical expenses" for
income t ax purposes . Obviously,
thi s would not be appl i cable t o
employees hho are enrolled fo r
limited coverage , which excludes
medical expense coverage .
Empl oyee contributions toward the
dependent coverage (2% of \ annal
Straight Time Annual Earni ngs up
to $5000) are entirely for medi cal expense coverage ; therefore ,
the full amount of cont ributions
for thi s cover age may be included
as medical expenses .
UVA SPRING SCHE DULE
The University of Virginia ::irnoo1
of General St udies has releas ed
its spring schedul e fo r " Engineer in -Training Review ." Those inter es t ed shoul d contact '.!rs . Haze l
Dunlap , U.VA . Valley Office ,
942 - 2065 . All cours es ar e gi ven
in Charlottesvi lle .
Feb . 1, Mathematics , B. J . Gilpin;
f-eb . 8, Th ermodynamics , A. F .
Iachetta; Feb . 15 , Fluid Mechanics
A. F. Iachetta ; Feb . 20 , Financial
Engineer>in.g (En.gr . Econcmics) , C.
Echo l s; Feb . 22 , Chemis try (Chem .
Eng r . ), L. U. Lillileht; ~ la r ch 1,
Physics , J . Boring ; ~ larch 8,
Strength of Materials , F . C.
McCormick; March 15 , Electrica l
Engineering , S. T. Lewis; to be
scheduled after Feb . 1, S t atics ,
C. Echol s ; to be scheduled aft er
Feb. 1 , Dynconics , C. Echols .
GE Sponsors
"Damn Yankees"
The Waynesboro Players will present Ccme Back Little Sheba ,,....,,
the stage of t he Waynesborc.
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School auditorium at 8 : 30 p . m.
tonight and tomorrow night . The
two-act play is being produced in
Waynesboro by special arrangement
with Samuel French .
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SCOGEE wil l sponsor a boy again
this year i n the Annual Soap Box
Derby . If you are a SCOGEE member and have a son bet1'/een 11 and
15 years of age interested in
entering, submi t his name to
Joe Smith , Roan 209, Ex t . 680 .
ST.A/'.IDI NGS
TE.AM
Tin Benders
Datamites
Marketeers
Alley Cats
GE Fi r e Dept.
Wire Stretchers
Hill Bow lers
Fireballs
Spa remake rs
Rebels
Hi- Pots
Injun Ear s
Lab Lads
Bowles Bowlers
Dynamic Five
Tool B r~akers
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SERVICE PINS
Mildred H. Hewitt
ilar>ren A . Hatter
Linda B. Louderback
:..'arnJ H. Johns on
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Volume XI, No. 47
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
A. Copley,
Tax, and Per sonnel Accounting, the stock certificates were mailed to employees
on Februarv 6 and the Bonds were
mailed on the follm,ing day . In
all, Specialty Control employees
should be receiving a total of
3500 shares of General Electric
~ck and 13, 000 U.S. Savings
ls wor th $ 2S each at maturity .
1ugether, the stocks and bonds
(if figured at maturity value)
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Yesterday's program included presentati ons by Paul D. Ross , Department General Manager, D. 0 . Dice,
Manager of Marketing, E. L.
McCleary, Manager, Industri a l
Automation Sales, R. W. Drayer
and J. R. Rankin, both of Industrial Automation Sales . The SBA
adminis trators also toured the
Department in an effort to gain
greater insight into the num erical
control business .
The in teres t being shown by t h e
SBA could very well s timulate the
i n creased use of numerical controls by smalle r in dus t r i es .
This , in turn, could mean increased orders for the SCD-made
N/ C units .
The classes are under the direct i on of Paul Korneke, ManagerCustomer Services, and they are
given both here in the Department
and in reserved rooms at the
General Wayne Motor Inn. Students
learn about th e Mark Century lOOS
through experienced teachers using
such aids as closed circuit television , video-ta pe, and working
controls.
The growing popula rity of Specialty Contro l N/C units among
other industries is pr ov iding
Mr . Korneke wi t h a constant and
full classroom.
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The voluntary effort was not confined to Gener al Ele ctric employees alone . A number of employees '
wives joined in t he effort by providing administrative help or
nursing assistance for the
activity of the Waynesboro Chaptet
of the Ame rican Red Cross Bloodmobile unde r the ch airmanship of
Mrs . Forres t Arehart.
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Individual honors went to the
following with high sets: Ken
Newnham ( 599) ; Don Cook (587);
a nd Bob Yancey (586).
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Tin Benders
Ma rket eer s
Alley Cats
Datamites
Hill Bowl e rs
Fireballs
GE Fire Dept.
Rebels
Injun Ears
Wire Stre tchers
Spar emakers
Hi - Pots
Too l Breakers
Lab Lads
Bowles Bow l ers
Dynamic Five
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Week end i ng February 10, 1967
5-year Servi ce Pi ns Muri el L. Pitcher
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Univers al by Genera l Elect r ic int r oduced six new portable appliances at th e National Housewares Manufac ture r s
Associati on Show in Chicago, last month . This n ew 1967 produc t g roup includes the Coffe ema ti c , two automatic
toasters, and three electric s li cing knives .
Coffeematic:
4 to lO cup capacity , drip
Toas ters:
Specialty
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Vo lume XI , No . 48
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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hi g h l i g h t a c ti v ities next w e e k
in th e ob se rvance of Nation al
Engin ee rs ' Week. T he a cti \ i ti es
w ill in volve m a ny S CD e n g ine e rs
who a r e m e mbers of the pr o fess i o n a l e ngine e ring o r ga n i za tio n s sp o nsori n g the even ts .
Of spec i a l interest to G e neral
Electric pa rents of high school
students will be a program o n
FebruaryZl, at8 : 00 p .m. , in
t he Wa yn e sboro High Sc hool
c a fete r ia , ent itled " C aree r s
i n E ng ineering . " The prog r a m ,
w h ich i s open to all j unior high
and high school student s and
th eir pa rents, is d e signed t o
create a bet ter u n der sta nd i ng
of t he engineering profession.
The presentat ion will i nclude
color mov ies a nd s lides to b e
followed by a discussion period.
Repr e senta tives of all en gineer i ng professions -- electrical ,
mech a n ic a l, chemical , and
civil - - will be present t o a nswer
student s ' q u es tions and d i scuss
t he ir particula r fie l d.
Counsel To Speak
"T he Infl uence of Congressi0na l
Activ i ties on Enginee rs and
Engineering" 1~ i 11 be the s ubj ect
of an address by Wi lliam Patton,
Legis l at i ve Counse l of the Nat i on al Society of Professiona l Engi neers, on February 23, in Charl ottesv i lle . Mr . Patton's appearance wil l be at a dinner meet i nq
at the Thomas Jeffe rso n In n under
t he sponsors hi p of the VSPE , ASCE ,
ASC hE, ASME, and IEEE.
Ti ckets for the dinner are $4 per
person and may be obtained f rom
the program chai rman of any of
the spons or i ng organ izati ons.
UE Strikes Canadian GE
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The cita t ion referred to "exemplary promotion of American he r i tage principles " through t he wide
dist r ibution of r eproduction of
h istoric documents and paint i ngs
and " continuous contribution to
e ducation th r ough th e Ge ne r a l
Electri c College Bowl ."
Mr . Sahloff, Vice President and
General Manager of General Electric ' s Housewares Division , said,
"Today we are i n dange r of accidentally s urrendering ou r freedoms
simply because man's knowledge is
pi l ing up so rapidly that without
increased and continued education
th e average citizen wi ll soon be
un ab l e t o keep abreast of al l the
th ings he ne eds t o know mere l y to
function as a member of a free
s ocie t y . "
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Manager of Engineering
Specialty Control Depar tme n t
~la rren
C enturion
New pa<:~aRCd N/C
systems introduced by GE
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Tin Benders
Alley Cats
Marketeers
Hill Bowlers
Fireballs
Datamites
Wire Stretche r s
GE Fire Dept.
Inj un Ears
Tool Breakers
Rebels
Lab Lads
Dynamic Five
Hi- Pots
Sparemakers
Bowles Bowlers
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Traffic Deaths
Recently the American Institute
for Research completed a study
to compare the frequency of a
driver's traffic violations
l
hi s accident rate . Drivers ~-.e
photographed unknowingly and the
film was studied . The numbe r of
t raffic violations was tabulated ,
and it was found that speeding
was most f r equent . Other violations : Changing lanes withou t
signaling (80 % of the drive r s) ,
Fa ilure to stay in lane ( 63%) ,
Changing lanes r eck l essly (20%) ,
Following too close ly (17 %),
Tu rning without si gnaling (46%) ,
Crashing a traffic l i ght (15%) ,
Improper passing (6%) , Improper
turning (ll%) , Improper stopp ing 1~ua l ly in pedestr ia n walkways
(34%) .
The 1966 figures a re not comp l et e,
but the number of Cene r al El ectric associate s killed in mot or
vehilce accidents last yea r currently is 15 % g r eate r t han 1965
(fo r a comparable period) . The
yea r' s tota l may be an all-time
high . Safe driving is clearly
an individual responsibility .
This is the time for each of us
to act to r eve rs e the trend ~
year .
56 , 600.
General Electric al one this y0ar
will pay an estimated total of
$77 million in Social Security
taxes.
The following table shows how the
cost of Social Security has gone
up since its inception (the t~~
is the maximum for employee or
employer) :
T axable
Year
Income Ba~c
1937-49
$3.000
1950
3.000
1951-53
3,600
195.J
3.600
195 5-56
4.~ 00
1957 -58
4.200
-l.800
1959
.J.800
1960-6 1
1962
4,800
1963-65
4.800
1966
6.600
196.1-68
6.600
Tax
$30
45
5.J
72
84
94 .50
120
14-l
150
174
277.20
~90.40
Ta.\ Rate
1.0"<
1.5
1.5
~.o
2.0
2.25
2.5
3.0
3.12.1
3.625
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Any one interested in playing volleyball in the Tri- Plant Volley ball Tournament to be held in
Lynchburg on Saturday , March 18 ,
contact D. Leonard , Ex t . 432 ; or
r epo rt for practice this Saturday,
Feb ruary 18, Waynesboro High
School , east gym .
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SERVICE
!leek end i ng February 17 , 1967
5-year Service Pins
-'ose:>h L;,on&
E l.ma Haynes
Vi ;;-;'. an Dunsm or>e
Specialty
Control
Volume XI, No . 49
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WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
DP -
FAST, FACTUAL
RANKIN NAMED
MANAGER~USER SALES
erals .
l ems and maintain vital records
necessary to the efficient ope r a tion of the Department .
111e GE 235 Canputer system was
installed here in 1963 and s ince
then it has been t a king on an
cver-increasinq ''ork load . Presently, the DP Center is ha ndlino
the canplet c Department payroll
assuring that each empl oyee is
receiving his correct pay, taking
into account such variations as
o\ert imc , deductions, and othe r
factors Khich determine the fi nal
size of the pay check .
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(contd. P. 3)
A Tax Tip
Dividends received by t a-.; pay e r s
from some corpora t ions are onlv
pa rtia lly ta'<ab le according to.
Virginia state income ta-.; regulations . The pe r cent of dividends
r eceived in 1966 fro::i General
Electric Compdny 1,hich is ta-.; abl~
by th e Commonwealth of \irginia
is 98 per cen t . This applies t o
1966 incone which is re ported to
the state on r etu rns fi le d in
196 7 .
The deadline fo r filins Vi rginia
State Income Tax returns is 'l a, 1 .
SHELBYVILLE VOTES
NO UNION FOR 8TH TIME
Production and main ten ance employees of the Industri a l Heating
Departmen t in Shelbyville, Ind .,
voted February 15 to remain without a union .
The count : 334 for n o union ; 235
for the Sheet Metal Workers ; 1
challenged . It first appeared
that three coalition uni ons mi gh t
be on th e ballot . The !AM and
IUE had i ntervened in the election , but the !AM withdrew and
the NLRB r uled th a t the IUE had
made its app lication t oo late to
be i n cluded on t he ballot .
This was the eigh th representat:ioc
e l ec t ion a t She lbyv il l e s ince the
p l ant was established there in
1955 . At n o other Genera l Electric faci lity h ave uni ons made so
many at tempts t o win bar g aining
rights . Th i s was th e first time
th e Sheet Metal Workers have
appeared on th e ba llot .
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Program - The detailed instrucparts whi ch can exis t in only two
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Conso le Ope rator - Runs the computer with con trols r esembling an
airplane cockpi t.
not understand Eng l ish , instructions must be writ ten in a l anguage which is understood . 3inary
Code us es on l y two numbe r s , 1 and
0 which, in pr ope r comb i n ations ,
can make any other number . * Computers contain basic elect r on ic
1
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REXRODE SUGGESTION
WON
24
22
18
18
18
18
17
16
15
15
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Roe7n For eman, George ShefCharles Rexrode , and Man of Manufacturing Enginee r Chuck For d.
01arles 0. Rexrode , first shift
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Helen L . Corbin
Emer son Gi bs on
Ruhy Floyd
Specialty
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WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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FRED J . BORCH
President
General Electric Cor1pany
~econd
GE , he co ntinued, under took record expenditures for needed ca pacity and contin ued its drive to
J , 1967
of
"Cotton " Richardson, General Se cre tary, stands i:>e -'ore 6:e c:::::.- 1 2
new Y.lvfCA bui lc:. ...g ui:der ce>:s::r..,.ction on S . :-:a;;-r:e ..;:;e;:;,;e .
EDrTORIAL
SECURITY IN QUALITY
Have you ever noticed 1\hen someone ment ions the 1, ord "nunerical
cont rol" or " relay" the phrase
General Electric or Spec ialty
Control immediately plants i t self
in your mind? 1\ell , that i sn 't
a l ways the case "i th a ll of our
pot ential custaners . ~ lent ion
t hose wor ds , or t he names of
other pr oducts sought by customers , and a host of names c011e to
their minds - names like \\estinghouse , Bendix, and Cutler-Hammer .
\Vhy? Because the customer \\'ants
the best product available a t the
best price . He'll consider our
products and those of our competitors . Cos t 1dll be one of his
considerations , but undoubtedly
he "ill be pr imarily conce rned
"ith qua lity - q uality "hich is
built into that product .
TI1e point is c l ear . Al l of us at
Speci alty Control must be concerned each day "' i th the quality
of our "orlonanship because that
quality will becane a part of our
product. Cus tomcrs '"ill the n
specify General Electric product s
and th is Department 1vill continue
to enjor increased orders . The
end r es ult "ill be increased
profits and gr eater job security
for all. Remember , there arc
very few jobs for anyone in a
plant 1d1id1 is lo\\ on o r der s . :\
qualit~ product i ns ures a secure
job.
"!O\"Cd h"ith
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SERVICE PINS
Week ending March 3, 1967
5-year Service Pins Noman WinegaP
Shirley Ann PainteP
Doraothy Moyer
Cari'Pie Burnett
Hatley Mabiy
Specialty
Control
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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Jack r!est
Chris Eirich
Cy Lee
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(contd . frcm P. 1)
~coNCERN
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T~e speed Zirrii t ,""'o r any rwtor ve hi.c Ze on Company pr oper ti1 is 15
m. p . h . f!ote the s peec:!01'1eter> r eading in this car!
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Re li ef from the Department's pres ent traffic probl ems will come
with the complet i on of the city's
Northwest Parkway which wi ll reduce the driving time for employ ees once they leave the pa rking
lot. A Waynesboro City official
said yes terday that acqu isi tion of
rights-of-way and the relocation
of State Route 254 sti ll continue
to hold up construction on the
highway .
DRIVE
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At 2: 00 P.M . today, Specialty Control employees will have an opportunity to at t end the fina l meeting of a se ries which is devoted
to the Waynesboro YMCA Building
Wr ap-up Campaign . The meeting is
scheduled for those who were unable to attend the r eg ular ses sions held during the week .
STANDINGS
WON
LOST
TEAM
10
Tin Bender s
30
16
24
Alley Cats
16
24
Marketeers
23
17
Datamites
23
17
Fireballs
21~
18!2
Hill Bowlers
20~
1%
Rebels
20
20
Injun Ears
20 ~
19~
Dynamic Five
19
21
Tool Breakers
19
21
GE Fire Dept .
17
23
Wi re St r e tche rs
23
17
Lab Lads
23
17
Spareniake rs
14
26
Bowles Bowlers
28~
Hi-Pots
11 ~
Last Wednes day night Warren
Sprouse made the "Big Four Spli t"
(4- 6-7-10) . He'll r eceive an ABC
shoulder patch for th is achievemen t .
IAM To Go On Trial
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Pauline Beam, Ext . 500 - first
shi f t Industrial Electronic~
would like a ride to work fi~ ...
Howell's Tastee- Freez, Stuarts
Draft, Route 340.
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I t has been announced t hat SC(X;EE
wi ll sponsor a boy in this year' s
Annual Soap Box Derby to be held
here in l\iaynesboro in June. If
you are a SCOGEE member and have
a son between t he ages of 11 and
15 who is looking for a sponsor,
fill out the form below. Open t o
t he sons of all sccx:;EE members.
SCOGEE Member's Name:
Son' s Name :
Return to Joe Smith
Roan 209
Specialty
Control
Volune XI , lio . 52
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Jam es Bowen
SUCCESSFUL
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Longer- range pl ans cal l for "establishm ent and s t ep- by-s t ep ex pan s i on" of a new turbin e-generator plant el sewh ere in th e U. S.
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GENERATOR MFG.
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safety rule that every SCD employee must wear safety g lasses whenever he en t ers the manufac turing
areas of the p l ant . Most violations of this safety rule o~_r
when employees re- enter the
~nt
after their break or meal period
or at the beginning of a shift.
Remember - Your safety glasses
must be on the minute yo u en ter
the plant!
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Retirements
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came involved in high voltage precipi t ation and machine tool control while still employed with
Industrial Engineering in Schenectady . At this time he also
received an ~!SEE fran the Uni vers ity of Florida .
As a Control Electrical Engineer,
Will transferred to the Special
Defense Projects Department , in
Philadelphia, where he was involved with guided missile work
on the Hennes Project from 1952
lllltil 1956. He arrived in
Waynesboro at the Speci alty Control Department in 1956 as an Engineering Specialist-Transistors
&Ferrites. In 1963, he was
named Develonent Specialist-Advance Engineering, and a ye~
later he took a s imilar pos
Jn
in the Department 's Industrial
Electronics Area .
Will has served as an instructor
for many of the Company ' s technical courses and he holds a total of 39 patent awards . He has
authored many technical papers
and articles primarily on el ec tronic control design, co-authored "Magnetic Pmplifiers", and
edited English and French editions of "Industrial Electronic
Control".
Will' s outside interests are as
varied as his engineering career.
He holds a private pilot ' s license with over 400 hours logged.
He has held office in various
skiing, swirmning and sailing
clubs, and his interests have also taken him into photography and
painting .
\Vill, his wife Beth, and one son,
Robert, reside at 1512 Tuckahoe
Road. An older son, David, is a
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According to Will, retirement
plans at this point are indefinit3 .
Specialty
Control
Volume XI , No . 53
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
TO INSURE QUALITY
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Editorial
The current 90th Congress is being urged to end the tax treatment of employees and their families who, as a result of transfer, are taxed at their highest
rates on dollars they have never
enjoyed as actual income.
A bill, introduced by Rep. James
A. Burke (Den., Mass.), would
serve to change the Internal Revenue Service ruling to make most
necessary transfer expenses reimbursable without tax consequences.
The tax relief would end taxation
of a number of items of reimbursed expenses attributable to a
transfer.
Reimbursenent of these expenses
protects the employee from outof-pocket losses resulting from a
transfer but does not result in
any gain to the enployee. Thus,
it is unfair to treat the reimbursement as income for tax purposes, point out supporters of
the bil 1.
APPRENTICE INTERVIEWS
CANDIDATES FOR THE DEPARTMENT'S
TOOL ROOM MACHINIST APPRENTICE
TRAINING PROGR.Al-1 ARE NOW BEING
INTERVIEWED FOR THE FALL CLASS.
YOU CAN QUALi FY FOR AN INTERVIEW
I F YOU ARE : BETWEEN THE AGES OF
18 AND 21, A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE
AND HAVE CQ\1PLETED 1 YEAR OF ALGEBRA, 1 YEAR OF GEQ\1ETRY (OR
FUSED GECJl1ETRY) 1 1 YEAR GENERAL
SCIENCE, AND 1 YEAR OF PHYSICS.
THOSE INTERESTED MAY CO'JTACT
THEIR FOREMAN FOR AN APPOINTMENT.
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The "Stock Price" for General
Elect ric stock credited to participants in the Savings & Security Program is the average of the
closing prices of General Electric stock on the New York Stock
Exchange for each day of th e
month.
The "Stock Prices" for January
and February (1967) . are as follows: January-$87.994, February $86. 94 7.
'OAMN
WED. NIGHT BOWLING RESULTS
TEAM
Tin Benders
Datamites
Alley Cats
Rebels
Hill Bowlers
Marketeers
Injun Ears
Fireballs
Spa remake rs
Lab Lads
Dynamic Five
Tool Breakers
GE Fire Dept .
Wire Stretchers
Bowles Bowlers
Hi-Pots
WON
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29
28
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LOST
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19
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26~
20~
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25~
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STANDINGS
(from P . 2 )
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Marie Campbe ll , 1st sh i ft- Relays
and Robe rt Campbe ll, 2nd shiftToo l Room, would like to thank
SCD employees of the Relay Area
and Tool Room for the sympathy
extended them during their recen
bereavement .
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Chet Hewi tt, 1st shift Monitor Magnetic Wind i ng, and his wife
wish to extend a spe cial t hanks
to Kennie Kent and employees in
the C & T Area for their thought
fulness .
SERVIC E PINS
Week ending March 24 , 1967
5-year Service Pins Do 7, "ly L(]JJ)horne
Gene L . Kline
Specialty
Control
Volwne XI, No . 54
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
40 YEARS' SERVICE
!-:arch 31 , 1967
EDITORIAL
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The T3t Area performs both inproces s and final tests on all of
the area 's p2oducts. Shown her e
(l . to r. J R. Weaver , ? . Terrell,
B. Harris .
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The Treatroom prepar es the various units f or iJnpregnation or encapsulation . (l . tor. ) J. Acker,
T. Brooks, B. Harris, H. Howell,
C. l11alker (Mfg . Eng . ), R. Craig .
The Genera l El ectric In dians , under Ma nager Ray Depa and Coach
Sam Rodgers , are getti ng th emsel ves set for t he season's opener of th e Waynesboro Babe Ruth
League , May 1. The Indi ans are
sponsored by Speci al ty Con t rol.
The t eam, whi ch f in i s hed top i n
its di vi s i on l ast season , cons i s t s
of boys aged 13 t o 15, ma ny of
whom are the son s of SC D empl oyees . The teams play on the Ridgeview Par k di amond and Kate Col l i ns
School f i eld.
TEAM
Tin Benders
Rebel s
Dat amites
Alley Cats
Hill Bowlers
I njun Ears
Mar ketee r s
Fireballs
Dynamic Five
Sparemakers
Lab Lads
Tool Breake r s
GE Fi re Dept .
Wire Stretchers
Bow l es Bow l ers
Hi -Pots
WON
39
LOST
13
30~
21~
30
30
22
22
2~
23~
28
27
27
24
25
25
25~
26~
25
25
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27
27
27
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Auto ~ !echanics
Auto Body Repair &Refini shing
Cosmetology
Draftsman
~!ad1ine Tool Operator
Stenographer-Cler k
Welding
The above ar e one-year courses f or
the students who desire to obtain
enployment upon receiving their
certificates .
High School graduates, or persons over t he age of 18 are el igible . In the event the academic background of a student is in sufficient in certain required
areas , the student may take
foundation cour ses to make up
for such deficiency.
FEES : The fee for tuition for
full-time s tudent s who ar e resi dents of Virginia is $135 . 00 per
year, payable $45.00 per quarter; for part-time students,
$4 .00 per credit or equivalent .
Books and materials are ex t ra ,
and are estimated at approxi mately $35-$50 per quarter for
the average full-time student.
It is sugges ted that applications be fi l ed at once to enable
the college t o pr epare its sched uling, course structure , labor a tories , etc . Wr ite :
Office of Admiss i ons
Blue Ridge Corrnnunity College
Post Office Box 80
Weyers Cave , Virginia 24486
Emp l oyees assigned t o the Indus trial Electr onic Manufact uring
Components Operation , Charlo ttes ville, may be reached from SCD
by dialing :
Office Area
Plan t Area
605
600
SERVICE PI NS
Week endi ng March 31 , 196
5-year Service Pins Shirley M. Laffer ty
Maxine D. Glenn
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WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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SCD Manager of Costs and Government Acc ount i ng , R. J . Depa , reports th i s v1eek that "The Departmen t's efforts toward the 1967
Cost Reducti on Goal are mov i ng
along very we 11 . "
Last yea r the Department set a new
record i n the area of cost reduction and this year ' s goa l s are
even hig her, not only for SCD but
for the Company as a whole. Evidence of thi s fact i s found in t he
introduction to t he 1966 Annual
Report . Both Company Pres ident,
Fred J . Borch , and Boa rd Ch ai nnan,
Gerald L. Ph i ll ippe, note t hat t he
Company is currently t aki ng ma ny
steps in meeting the cha ll enge t o
"trans late a greater part of sa l es
growth into improved earni ngs" .
These steps inc lu de reduction of
inventories , ad j ustment of product i on sc hedules and other cost
reduction measures .
Ac cording to Mr . Depa , " \~ hi le t he
pace at th i s po int is good , al l of
us mu st conti nue our efforts to
reduce costs. Thi s will have the
effec t of creating greater job
secu r ity for Waynesboro Genera l
El ect ric emp l oyees and, at the
same ti me, we wi l l be playin g our
part, too, in he l ping t he Com pany
'Tleet i ts goa ls. "
GE VOLUNTEER TEAM
S&S PLAN PROSPECTUS DUE
Tomorrow Night
MARKETING INTRODUCES
MARK CENTURY FAMILY
TO POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS
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This i s a scene from "Damn Yankees", General Electric ' s TV mus ical slated for presentation on
NBC- TV, tomorrow night, from 9:00
until 11:00 P .M. Above , sul try
siren Lee Remick tells Jerry Lanning in song "Whatever Lola Wants,
Lola Gets". Lee Remick is Lola .
The show was a l ong run Broadway
hit. It's the story of a baseball fan who trades his soul to
the devil (Phil Silvers), in exchange for a chance to snare the
pennant fo r his favorite ball
club.
The show will present commercials
designed to win cus tomers for
many General Electric conswner
products, as well as to build
General Electric's reputation for
leadership in all areas of the
electrical industry.
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The team also helped pi l ots duri ng their pre- f ligh t and postf light briefings, providing addit i ona l i nfonnation which er........,ed
them to utilize their equip1 .. _.it
more effective l.v.
As a result of the team's s uppo rt
the reli abi l i ty of the equ ipment
i ncrease d and the Air Force ' s los ~
rate due to ground fire dropped .
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here in llaynesboro since 1956 ex cept for a very brief period last
year. He began as a Testman in
Program Control Equipment.
"The experience of working in a
nt.Dllber of varied jobs and for a
variety of supervisors has contributed most to whatever success
I have had as a foranan. Since
caning to Gener al Electric I've
had the good fortune of working
for more than a dozen different
supervisors in jobs ranging fran
assembl y to inspect ion and test
to planning~
Jim , as a four year Air Force vet eran dur ing the Korean Confli ct ,
has had many opportunities to
supervj se people under different
conditions . Of his philosophy toward directing t he actions of
others , he says , "I see the fore man in the r ole of a l eader who
helps people motivate themselves ;
a friend in whan his people can
confide ; a t eclmician who solves
production problems ; a planner who
antici pat es problems and or ganizes
his wo r k according ly .... "
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and take a deep pers onal interest
in, which he does .
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SERVICE PI NS
Week ending Apri l 7, 1967
5-year Serv ice Pins Pauline ll . Broy 7-es
Sarah L. CunninghOJn
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Specialty
Control
Volwne XI, Ho . 56
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
QUICK JOINS
PURCHASING
Charl es
SCHNEIDER NAMED
IPSSB CHAIRMAN
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A. Quick
~!emo
UE Charges Dismissed
An NLRB Regional Director has dis
missed three UE unfair-labor pr actice charges agains t t he Company
because of insufficient evidence.
ADri l 14 , 1967
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D. B. Schneider
EDUCATIONAL LOANS
Produc t ion and maintenance employees at the Circuit Protective Devi ces and Distribution Assemblies
Departments in Plainville, Conn . ,
voted to retain their non-union
status in a representation el ection March 29 .
The vote was 657 fo r no uni on and
448 for the IU E; 9 ballots were
void.
In t he l ast re presentation election, on Dec . 9 , 1965 , 538 voted
for no union and 469 for the IUE.
Three years earlier, the employ ees re jected t he Teamsters and
the IU E.
STOCK PRICES
The "Stock Price" fo r General
Electric s tock credit ed to participants in the Savings & Securi t y
Program is th e average of the
closing p ri ces of Gene ral Elec tric
stock on the New York St ock Exchange for each day of th e month .
The " Stock Prices" for the fi r s t
quar ter of 1967 are as fo llows :
January
$87. 994
Febru ary
86.947
March
88.875
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Did you Jmow that sane of our nuclear power st at i ons are carefully
cont rol led by General El ectric
relays?
Did ~ou JmOI, t hat 85% of the commercial and mi l i t ary air cr aft f lying in the worl d today cont ain
communicati on and navi gation
equinent cont rolled by relays
made right here in Waynesboro?
Tin Benders
Rebels
Hill Bowlers
Alley Cats
Datamites
Injun Ears
Dynamic Five
Fireballs
Marketeers
Lab Lads
Tool Breakers
Wire Stretchers
Sparemake rs
GE Fire Dept.
Hi-Pots
Bowles Bowlers
WON
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Telefunken, a Frankfurt, West Germany, electrical firm, has a nonexclusive licensing agreement with
the Company to manufacture the GEPAC 4000 process-control computers. The Company has been marketing its process-control computers
abroad through !GE and will continue this activity. GE-Bull in
France and GE-Olivetti in Italy
make and market business dataprocessing systems, but not the
industrial process-control line.
Meanwhile, the Italian state-owned Ansaldo Meccanico Nucleare
S.p.A. and General Electric plan
to set-up, jointly, an Italian
company to manufacture parts for
nuclear reactors. The new company will be known as Fabricazioni Nucleari, S.p.A.
(frcm P. 4)
ANNOUNCED HERE
For tne infonnation of all interested employees, listed below are
the rules for entering art works
in the Fifth Annual Shenan~
Art Exhibit, May 6-7.
1. All works must be submitted
to the Waynesboro Chapter of the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
536 Chestnut Ave., ONLY.
2. Each exhibitor may submit
not more than two entries regardless of category~
3. Sculpture may not be larger
than that which may be easily
carried by one man.
4. Art shown in previous Shenandoah Art Exhibitions will not
be accepted.
5. Each artist will classify
himself or herself' into that
class which most nearly fits
his artistic accomplishments,
training and interest. Class I
Professional; Class II SemiProfessional - those persons
who have studied on the college
or comparable level; Class III
Novice - hobbyists and untrained
student of the arts; Class IV
Beginning Student - those young
people on the secondary and
elementary level.
6. Entry blanks must be in
duplicate for each work; o~
copy attached to the work, 1..11e
other submitted with the entry.
sec
NEWS 8c NOTES
SERVICE PINS
Week ending April 14, 1967
5-year Service Pins PauZ A. Franz
Betty L. Morris
Gernie B. Conner
LyZe G. EveZsizer
Joyce A. Norcross
Lottie K. Henderson
Mary Ann AntonopZos
Specialty
Control
Volwne XI, No . 57
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
April 21 , 1967
An aerial view of the new 128, 000 square- foot facility acquired by the
Compcray in Richmond.
Sales Up; Ea rn in gs Do w n
EDITORIAL
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Servic e C e nter Agreement To
Benefit Eu r opean Customers
TEACHES THEM....
t
AND , HE ENJOYS TH EM.
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Tin Benders *
44
Hill Bowlers
384
Alley Cat s
38
Rebe ls
364
Datamites
36
In jun Ea r s
36
34
Fireballs
Ma r keteers
33
Dynamic Five
324
Lab Lads
30
30
Too l Breakers
29
Spa remake rs
28
Wire St r et che: rs
25
GE Fir e Dept .
Hi-Pots
234
Bow l es Bowlers
18
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LOST
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Send Me No Flowers
April 28-29
( 89 7) .
RESULTS
Alley Cats 4 , Wire Stretchers O;
Hi- Pots 3, Rebels 1; Injun Ears ~
Dynamic Fi ve l; Datamites 3,
Bowl es Bowlers 1; Hill Bowlers 3,
Lab Lads 1; Fireballs 3 , Tin
Benders l; Sparemakers 3, GE Fire
Dep t . l; Marke tee r s 3 , Tool
Br e aker s 1.
STANDINGS
II.
:.Jinkler
Specialty
Control
Van Lear Named Manager
WAYNESBORO, V IRGINIA
Volwne XI , No . 58
J.
R. P. Van Lear
twelve year vete ran of General
Electric , Robert P. Van Lear,
has been named \tanacrer-Second
S~iA Operations he~e at SpeCJ
Control . The announcemeirL comes this week from J. F.
Ponzillo, ~!anager-Manufacturincr
who says that ~!r . Van Lear will'
begin his new assignment \1onday .
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Q.
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J . F . Ponzi llo
!1anag er-Manufacturing
Q.
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A.
The employee and others were moving a l a rge enclosing case when
it suddenly tilted to one side.
A pair of vise grip pliers , left
on top of the case, slid off
striking the employee on the
head . He was knocked unconscious.
Just a precautionary step.
The employee was taken to the Medical Clinic where he was treated
by the plant physician and then
sent to the Waynesboro Community
Hospital .
This ty pe of accident is no t
unique . I t shows up wi t h g rea t
r eg u lar ity in most indus tri es as
a prime cause of los t time acci den t s . In fact , last year on e of
General Electric's six employe e
fatalities was caused by movement
of material. Every employee at
Specialty Control must be aler t
to the possible so urces of injury when handling materials and
take the app ropri ate precautionary s t eps .
Al though last week ' s injury ended
some 6,000,000 man hours worked
without a lost time acciden t, we
are very pleased to repo r t t ha t
the employee was ab l e t o ret urn
t o wor k two days later .
C. L . f./yr'ick , Jr .
P o nz illo
(contd. from P.
1)
that they will keep coming back to us for products and service, and
keep our business health\' .
Q.
A.
C. Dixon
111e latest member of General
Electric' s Quarter CentUI)' Club
is Senior Project Engineer,
Cor bin Dixon, who is ass i gned to
the Department' s Engineering Laboratories in Fishers vi lle.
(contd. from P. 2)
A.
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SERVICE PINS
Week ending April 28, 1967
Specialty
Control
VoZwne XI, llo . 59
A RT EXHIBIT BEGINS
HERE TO MORRO W
WAYNESBORO, VI RGINIA
Fr>ed J . Bor>ch
Pr>esident
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Editor la I
President Johnson gave the goahead Saturday to begin co~ction on two prototypes of
U. VA. Survey
A survey is currently underway to
detennine how many people are interested in taking graduate engineering courses at night in the
Waynesboro-Staunton area. If suf
ficient interest is shown, the
University of Virginia extension
school may schedule such courses.
Those interested should contact:
Terry Walton
Space Conditioning Inc.
101 Burgess Road
Harrisonburg, Va.
434-0711, Ext. 318
PARKWAY CONSTRUCTION
ST ARTS NEXT MONTH
Specialty Control employees living west of Waynesboro in the
Fishersville and Staunton areas
got the good news last week that
bids were opened for construction
of the City's Northwest Parkway.
The 2.4 mile parkway is expected
to reduce the traffic congestion
on city streets during peak rush
hours and reduce the travel time
to and from work for sen employees.
A Waynesboro city official said,
Wednesday, that work will start
early next month and take about a
year to complete. He added that
if this winter's weather is severe, then the completion date
will have to be set back as provided for in the construction
firm's contract.
The No:rt'faJest Pari'la.uay wi 7,7, 'Link
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GE AT fEXPO 67'
General Electric will be a definite factor in what one national
magazine describes as "the world's
biggest birthday party." When
the Universal and International
Exhibition of
1967 (better known
as "Expo 67 11 ) opened in Montreal
last Friday for a six-month stand,
a $3-million computer system, prcr
vided by Canadian General Electric, became the 11 brains 11 of the
exposition's 15,000 square foot
Control Centre.
CGE has provided two computer systems -- a GE-225 designed to help
LOGEXPO, Expo's official housing
bureau, assist visitors solve
their accommodation problems, and
a GE-625 which is perfonning a
myriad of "housekeeping" functions, such as monitoring a~.
dance, daily revenue, measut ~
and evaluating perfonnance, and
'forecasting financial results.
Both the CGE computer centre and
Expo s own "Operations Room" a re
open as public displays.
1
At 2: 30 in the mo111ing most people are asleep, some are watching the f inal scenes from the late, late
show, and a few are just coming in from a night on the tmm . For sane 130 Specialty Control employees
it ' s a time to be hard at work -- they're the 3rd shift team~ You can find them working in the ~la
chine Roan , Sheet ~!etal , A&D Potted Blocks , Plating Room, Relays , QC Inspection , and Maintenance . This
team , working together in the wee hours , has helped us meet our cornnitments to our customers on important jobs, including the Lunar ~1odule (I.M), Ford Gl ass Cutter, VSCF , and many more.
\\'hat's it like to work 3rd shift? Sane will tell you it ' s the onl y time to work . . . . the plant is
quieter then and more routine .. . . you have most of t he daylight hours free ... . t he re ' s the pay differential .
Yes , while we sleep the 3rd shi ft is working t o help insure that this Department continues to meet the
customer ' s needs . The Specialty Control Department salutes the 3rd shift .
WON
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187. 2
182. 2
l 76. 7
176 . 4
174.4
l 74 . 1
173 . 5
173
172 . 8
172 . 2
!.nna B. Phillips
.'IGP':f L . i!ewi tt
Ida F . .'forris
. a:.,es :; . Javis
A>ma ? . Hof;1.,an
Jean T. Patzsch
Geneva C. Jenkins
Gunda S . Zvnmermcrr7.
Hi Zdegar>d S . .'~arsha iz
Cleora C. Dewitt
!lnn M . !Vinegar
!larry J . !,otts
An n u a l M eeti n g
(from P. l)
about 5250 million a year . "Then','
>Ir. Barch said , ""e really took
off , adding almost a bi ll ion a
year , t1,o years in a rOI, . To put
this exceedingly rapid gr01,th int o focus, it pre\'iously t ook us
eight years , fran 1956 to 1964 ,
t o increase by a bi llion dollars'.'
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MANUFACTURING (SIX)_ _ __ _ _
(ONE)
Specialty
Control
Volz.one XI, No . 60
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
Waynesboro MS Drive
now underway
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C.O~i~C
For some time now, many Specialty Control employees have voiced
complaints over speeding in the
plant parking lot and have asked
management t o take stronger
s t eps to improve safety. The
Department has made a careful
review of the s i t uation and has
decided that traffic control
bumps must be constructed, since
there remain those few employees
who disregard the safety of pedestrians and other drivers. The
bunps are designed to eliminate
speeding, a prime source of pos s i ble serious accidents.
The control bunps , about three
inches high , will be located in
five areas: At gate lA, gate
20 , opposite t he children ' s pl ay
area, and near parking zones 6
and 8. The bunps will be painted bright yellow. and warning
signs will be erected as precautionarv measures. Drivers
will find they can cross the
bumps at a maxim1nn speed of 15
miles per hour without damage to
(contd. T' . .:J
Phillippe Describes
Tomorrow's M a nagers
Wes tinghouse , the nation' s second l arges t el ect r i ca l manufac turer, has r eporte d a 14% decl i ne
i n f i rst quarter earn i ngs despite
record sales.
Westinghouse cited hi gher wages,
two strikes, and a softening in
consumer demand as the major
reasons for the earnings l oss.
General Electric has reported a
prof it decline of 11% for the
first t hree months of 1967.
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If ..:.t were my decisi on, the prob lem the Canpany would tackle
first would be water and air pollution . The increase o: res pirator'!l disease in the last several
year>; has been traced direct l y to
air pollution . Also, the shortage of water in the future would
be another important national
p'rob lem .~or the Canpany to consider .
,
Mildred S. Johnson - Relays
All of these problems are problg1s which we should be deeply
concerned about , but I be lieve
water and air pollution are the
most inportanf. Although, water
can be purified more easily than
air . There are many streams w1d
r ivers which are polluted by
factory waste . This endangers
the marine life as well as our
own .
P a r k in g
(contd. from P. lJ
THE Na-1INATING Ca+IITIEE OF sccx;EE HAS COME UP WITH A SLATE OF NOMI NATIONS FOR OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS FOR THE NEW YEAR CO/"MENCING
JULY 1. ADDITJ()\JAL NOM INATIONS WERE MADE THIS WEEK BY WRITE - INS.
VOTE BY FILLING OUT THE FORM BELOW AND DEPOSITI NG IT IN THE BOX PROVIDED IN THE CAFETERIA. VOTING BY sccx;EE MEMBERS ONLY. (PLACE
CHECK MARK(./) OPPOSI TE NAME.)
OFFICERS (VOTE FOR 1)
PRESIDENT: A. C. MYERS ____, VICE-PRESIDENT: D. M. DCNDIEGO ____,
SECRETARY: BARBARA HAYNES ____, TREASURER: HELEN JOHNSON
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ENG INEER ING:
J IM BODKIN
(VOTE FOR 4)
MARTY GRIFFIN
ANN SHI FFLETT
ELEANOR ELLI SON
FRANK POL ITO
MANUFACTURING:
(VOTE FOR 6)
JIM DAVIS
SUZANNE SIMS
MARY ANN FLOYD
MILT HREBRINKO
JOHN T. MILLER
JUNE
DICK
WILL
GENE
ALDHIZER
SHARROCK
SUTPHIN
BLACK
PAUL R<NJZ IE
WIMPY WI NGFIELD _ __
JIM DEWITT
TONI DURKIN
GERRY POCH! LY
HELEN DEDRICK
SERVICE PINS
Week ending May 12, 1967
5-year Service Pins Luther L. Reese
Louise D. Wilberger
Janice Sai flett
Clyde H . Spears
Specialty
Control
VolWle XI , :io . 61
.'fay
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
19, 1967
PENSION PAYMENTS
HIT RECORD TOT AL
MS - TH E CRIPPLER
GE Board Chairman Named
Stock Prices
The "Stock Prices " for Gene ral
Electric stock credited to part icipan t s in the Savings & Security Program through April,
1967 , are as follows :
January
February
March
April
$87 . 994
86 . 947
88 . 875
89 . 744
TO VISIT PLANT
EDITOR IAL
IT SURE IS A PUZZLE
Specialty Control Ylanagement got
caught up in a rather interesting
situation this week . It seems
that employees gave them a jig
saw puzzle , minus a few pieces ,
and asked them to put it together.
They crune close , but it didn't
count . The puzzle is this : how
to eliminate speeding, reckless
driving, and traffic safety hazards without any infringement on
our convenience .
Question: Wh en Was The Last Time You Saw One Of Our Ads?
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Electric
supplies
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Specialty
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Volwne XI , No .
62
WAYNESBORO, V IRGINIA
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The New Yor'k Times , which in February eliminated the period which
followed its name at the top of
page one and inside pages , fig ures the move will save $41. 28 a
year in ink.
This i s a cost reduction. \\'hile
it may seem rather ins ignificant,
the $41.28 , added to other cost
r eduction ideas , can turn out to
be quite a savings.
This is the way it is with General Electric. To be sure the
Company is large, but it is the
$41 .28 cost reduction ideas added
together that result in real savings to the Company . These are
ideas each employee might have
regardless of what his job is , or
the area in which he works. These
are ideas which help make us more
competitive .
Cost r eduction refl ect s each individual' s interest in his job
and in the health of the busines s.
It helps employees prosper with
the Company , not at the expense
of the Canpany .
The competition, both domestic
and foreign, tl1inks cost reduction i s a pretty good idea , too.
They're out to save whenever and
wherever possible, all with one
idea in mind - be number one .
Undoubtedl y, t here are many
$41. 28 savings in the Department.
\Vhy not t ake a look around you ~
STEEL'S UPI
SPROUSE JOINS W 0 C
In Jim's op1n1on, military leaders hip tra ining as an NCO, canbined with classes taken here in
t he Department , has helped hi m
as a fo reman. He quick ly adds
that others with more experience
have been very helpful in teach ing him the foreman's job.
Hemline Escalation
?rogress City
Y . Kvle
Dor;s S . .'!erriken
::or1an :-: . Coakley
:.eor:a ? . ",Jade
Specialty
Control
Volume XI , No . 63
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
June 2, 1967
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Thomas M. Wilson, a Design Proj ects Engineer in Aerospace &Defense Engineering , became the
l at est member of the Company ' s
Quarter Century Club this week.
A native of Hall , New York he
joined Gener al El ectric in 'Jlll1e
of 1942 shortly after graduating
from Cornell University with a
BSEE .
Tom's first assignment was in
Schenectady, New Yor k, where he
was a member of the Company ' s
Engineering Training Program.
Upon completion of the Program ,
he remained in Schenectady at the
General Engineering Laboratory
where he was invo l ved in the de velone nt of electronic circuitry.
In 1955, he transferred to Specialty Control as a Requisition
Proj ects Engineer, and a year
lat~r. was assigned to his present
pos1t1on .
Tom i s a member of the IEEE and
co-author of the paper , "A High
Performance Vo ltage Regulator For
a Brushless Air cr aft Regulator. "
Because of the t ime element i nvol ved and the danger of damage
to oth er components in the control, the job does not a llow for
any wiring errors . Nine pa nel s
have been compl eted to date by
Geral dine and Cleo - - each without one wiring error .
Mutua l Aid
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PATENT AWARDS
Four Specialty Control Engineers
have been awarded patents, recently, for inventions which they
have deve l oped here in t he Depa rtment. They are:
(contd. from P.
(contd. from P. 1)
Cleo Del-litt, Frank Piersa , Engineering Lah Technician, and Geraldine Furr check the wiring of
one of nine panels canpleted to
date . Frank is the Chief Tech nician on the project .
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The. Wayne-6 bOJto
Toa.6.tl-na.6.:t.eM Clu.b
-Ui e.x;te.ncl<..ng a cMcU.al. mvUa:t<..on
.to EP gJta.ciJ., and -<.n.:t.vr.e-6.:t.e.d " po:t.e.rtt.<.a..l" pu.buc J.i pe.akeM :t.o a:t.:t.e.11d :t.he. g!Wu.p ' 6 ne.x:t. me.e,Ung ,
Monday, June. 5, a:t. 6 :1 5 P. AI. The
Toa.6:tJnci-s.teM meet .the. 6-W:t. and
.t/U.Jtd ,\londa.y 1ugh.:t.J.i o 6 e.a.ch man.th
a:t. .the Ge.ne.Jt.al Wayne. Mo.toJt Inn .
SERV ICE PINS
Week ending June 2, 1967
5-year Serv ice Pins David L . Gibson
:.;illiam T. :./oods
3art F. Conlon
George D. Baker
:Hllicun B. ilaggy
livian R. Ramsey
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Specialty
Control
Volwne XI, No . 64
WAYNESBORO, V IRGINIA
......-.. S&SP Prospectus and the Pro gra111 booklet are the documents
to depend on in making your decisions ," says ~Ir . \\.illis . "The
revised Prospectus and booklet
- detailing all the changes will
be distributed to al l eligible
employees at the Specialty Control Department as they become
available from Benefit Services .
The r evised Prospectus should
not be confused with the Prospectus distributed in April,
which relates to the original
program and merely bridges the
period between Apri l and June 30'.'
SOME C.AN INVEST 7%
June 9 , 196?
Mr. \\Tillis said that "For new investors , this means that the Company payment can amount to 3% of
pay . For vet er an S&SP partici pant s , the Canpany payment can be
as much as 3~% of pay . "
~Ir .
( contd. P. 4)
EDITORIAL
INFORMATION
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The Specia lty Control Department extends its sincerest congratu lati ons
to those sons and daughters of SCD employees who are the Class of 1967.
f Mrs
Jo Ann
rad~ate of
Mfg En& , g
Baber,
High School .
ft. Defiance
f
\ton Sm1. th ' son o Standar ds
\~1 n
Deborah Susan
Craun, daug
For the benefit of newer emp l oyees of the Specialty Control Department, listed below i s pertinent in formati on about t he Employee Product Purchase Pl an.
SERV I CE PINS
Week endi ng June 9, 1967
* Local and/ or s t at e sa l es
t axes appl y to pr oducts
purchased under the em pl oyee discount pl an.
5-yea r Serv i ce Pi ns -
Who Am I....?
I am of t- times unseen , but of
mos t impor tance .
I am a n in teg r a l pa rt of fi ne
c r af t smansh i p .
I cost noth ing ... and shoul d be a
part of ev e ryone ' s handiwor k ...
I a ttrac t buye rs .
I build s a les . Eve r y one wan ts me .
I c r ea t e f r i e nds h i p and go odwi ll.
I ass ure a c cep t an ce of your work .
I ins pire r es pec t and c onfi~ e .
I provjde for job se cur i t y .
I am your res pons ibi l ity .
Original l y $29 . 95
ONLY $15.75
Specialty
Control
Volvme XI, No . 65
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
June
15, 1967
(Contd . P. 4)
Bill Perry , Relations, and Boyd Mitchell , Pe rs onnel Accounting, look over
the new handbook which describes the new improved Savings & Security
Pr ogram.
ADDED ADV.ANT.A.GE
Here's A Look At How The S&S Program Mutual Fund Will Operate
a Mutual Ftmd? \\1hy is it
dL. :ent from straight investment in GE stock? \\'hat makes it
a worthwhile addition to the investment opporttmities under the
General Electric Savings and Security Program?
\\'h~s
A.
However, in a ''Mutual
Fund'' the individual is
part owner of a larger
~d which is spread over
.my securities. This
diversification is often
an advantage. In addition,
such a Ftmd can afford to
have experts administer
it for a fee. This, in
itself, is another ad-
money in GE stock?
A. No. Participants can invest directly in GE stock
through the Program.
QUESTIONS
(Contd. from P. 2 J
(Contd. frcm P. 1)
INSURANCE
(Contd. from P. 1)
31 days of marriage.
Tais special insurance is on top
of any other insurance an employee may have, including that under
the General Electric Insurance
Plan. Aetna Life Insurance Company will be the insurance carrier for this special insurance.
The benefits under the Insurance
Option of S&SP are payable over
an extended period. For example,
in the event of the death of a
participant under age 35, his ben
ef iciary would receive 50% of his
annual earnings for each of the
next 18 years.
The percentage of earnings paid
and the number of years for which
it will be paid diminishes as the
age of the participant increases
as shown in the table below. Thus,
the insurance is of special value
to those with families, although
it will have value for others,
too.
Age Participant
Would HaYI Attained
on Decemb!r 31
Of Year ol Death
Under 35
35.39
40-44
45.49
5054
55.59
60 er more
Period
For Which Benefits
Shall be Paid
Annual Benefit
(As % of Annual hrnln1s
For Insurance P11rpose1J
18 years
15 years
10 years
7 years
5 years
3 years
2 years
50%
50%
40%
303
25%
25%
25%
MUTUAL FUND
fran P. 1
BondS? It is required
that an amount equal to
at least 2% of pay--or
half of the total invested
if he is saving at less
than 4%--be invested in
Savings Bonds tmder S&SP.
But, a person should ~
sider that, in some in
dividual circumstances,
it may be wise to put
more of his savings into
U.S. Bonds. Bonds, of
course, can be cashed
without possibility of
loss in dollar value, as
might happen to stocks
if stock prices are down.
On the other hand, they
do not gain as much as
stock, if stock prices
are up.
In summaty, the way in
which a person decides
to invest his savings in
S&SP is an individual,
personal matter. There
are too many different
situations. It just is
not possible to make
general statements which
apply unifonnly to meet
all individual employee
needs and desires.
Specialty
~
Control
Volume XI, No . 66
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
For many General Elec tric employees one of th e most important aspects of the Savings and Security
Program is the provision which
a llows emergency withd rawal of
funds without loss of the Company
proportionate payment .
This provision, in existence under the Program since its inception in 1959, will be greatly
liberalized under th e Program
changes which go into effect on
July 1.
are some of the instances
2r which a participant may
withdraw funds before the end of
a holding period afte r July 1.
~
EMERGENCY SITUATIQl\IS
- - To balance loss of i n c ome
in certain situations of
down- grading, or in absence
due to illness, or in a
short work week si tuati on .
In these instances a participant can withdraw
amounts from his own payroll deduction savings to
balance his lost earnings.
--To cover educational expenses for himself or his
family.
- -To provide money in event
of layoff. If a participant
is on layoff for two weeks,
he is eligible to withdraw
part or all of his own payroll deductions , plus income . After six months he
,-... can withdraw a ll in his
account, including the
match ing Company payment ,
except any which has been
placed under the Retirement Option .
(Contd . P. 4)
-il
l
hjii/.h
.:. ;[j;~
'iHfjJ~ 1 \-
Robert B. Ames, who has been General Manager of the Tube Depar tment, was made General Manager of
the Electronic Components Division .
-.
GE Housewares Division
Enters Two Product Fields
ucts we make end up in some rather exoti c places .... weather satellites,
space vehicl es, nuc l ear-powered submarines, etc. But did you know that
at least one of our products can be seen any day alongside the N&W tracks
in front of t he plant? It's the "hotbox" detector made i n the Industri al
Electronics Area.
Th e device automa ti ca l ly ins pects the railroad car bearings on th e
Norfol k & Western frei ghts as they pass . Shou l d an overheated bearing
b e ~tected , a 1~a rning s i gna l i s given and the train i s sidetracked f or
re, r . Wi th out th i s i nspect ion sys tem, an ov erheated bearing coul d
ca use a trai n wr eck.
.-..
S11 , , who is a native of Char lottesvi lle , wi ll have respons i bil ity for
two cafeterias and one now llllder cons t ructi on . He ' ll meet the food
needs of sane 5000 t o 6000 IBM per sonnel .
Swope i s a graduat e of t he University of Flor ida (BA ' 60) and has been
employed by Marriott since 1962 .
Service
With
SERVICE PINS
Week ending Jun e 16 , 1967
5-year Service Pin s Carol O. Ergenbright
William J . Banulski, Jr.
Leona R. Baber
Jon V. Skelton
Program
(Contd . from P. 1)
In ordinary circumstances , a participant mus t leave his investment in trust during the specified t hree- year holding period in
order to receive the 50% Company
payment which th e Gene ra l Electric Company has added to his
account. Under the Plan the securities in which the employee
has invested his own savings , and
those which the Company has
bought for him wi th its 50%
matching payment, are distributed
in a " payout" shortly after the
end of the required three-year
holding period .
What's An Engineer?
Model RK30 1A
$11~
Specialty
Control
:tolu'le XI , No . 67
Jv.ne 23 , 1967
Questions Answered
Md mateJU.a.l
quaL<.:ty
1teduc,(.ng 1.>po-<...e.age
.<.mp1tov~ng
For the year to date , the Program has maintained the momentlBll
of last year and is sail ing along
at a good pace ; we are s lightly
ahead of our 196 7 goal. We can't,
however, s low down the effort if
we are to continue to get the
ful l benefit of the Program .
Ive must all GO FOR I\!PRO\lfl\IENT !
A.
EDITO R IAL
GE SPONSORS OUTDOORS
TELEVISION SERIES
The great outdoors is being presented to America ' s television
audi e nce thi s summe r by General
Elect ric. "GE Sportsman ' s Holiday" is filling the Sunday afternoon time slot normally held by
the popular General Elect ric College Bow 1 on NBC .
A variety of holiday adventure
programs wi 11 be shown and hosted
by Curt Gowdy and William W.
(Red) Lewis.
"Mountains o f Home ," scheduled
for this Sunday , was prod uced and
narrated bv Red Lewis, ~hose initial worK in the Spo rtsn an'~
series , "~!< .. from Fourmen Lodge,"
drew wid e acclaim a yea r ago .
TI1is will be rep eated on Julv 9
in this series .
Six National Forests furnish the
backdrop for the "~tountains of
Home" as Lewi s takes viewers on a
float trip down the Salmon River.
on a wild boar hunt in Tennessee
and a ski trek in Colo rad o . Also
visited are Michigan, Alaska and
Vermon t mountains, showing the
te rrain, foliage and wildlife to
be found in these forests .
Curt Gowdy, reared in the West
and an active devotee of outdoor
sports long before he became one
of America ' s top sportscasters ,
brings a nwnber of inte r esting
sportsmen as g uests on the other
seven "Sportsman ' s Holiday" features .
f!e lnquiringReporter
As
'
..
I ' ve been impressed with the people that have ccme here f ron
other GE plants .
Service
With
SERVICE PINS
Week ending June 23 , 1967
5-year Service Pins Mary K. HaTTison
10-year Service Pins Myrtle S . Childers
Audrey L. Bashlor
Irvin G. Mat;er
Vacation
Q.
A.
(Contd . fran P. 1)
,LIN
EM-
Years
Less than 1
1 but less than 2
2 but les s than 10
10 but les s th an 20
20 or over
\~eeks
-01
2
3
4
Q.
A.
Q.
A.
Q.
A.
Specia lhave a
fun and
go to-
Cu rrent ly the SCM Co rporation, a manufacture r of offi ce mach i nes , is r unni ng an advertisement in busines s publica t ions whi ch, we t hin k, says it
we 11.
Specialty
Control
Volwne XI , No . 68
Independence Day;
A T im e For p_,,flcction
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
from air conditioning & refrigeration to practical nursing. Establis hed in 1936, the school has
a s tudent body o f about 350 men
and women who a r e r eceiving th e
p r acti cal and theore tical traini ng nee de d t o s e cure an d advance
in s elected j obs . In past years,
General Ele ctri c has drawn heavily upon its g radua t es to fill
t echnical posi t i ons in the Depart
men t .
Service
With
SERVICE PINS
Week ending June 30, 1967
5-year Servi ce Pins Theodor>e W. LCQ,Jhorn
Te r>esa M. Fitzger>ald
~leanwhi le ,
~lichael
PATENT AWARDS
Tho Specialty Control Engineers
have r eceived Patent Awards this
\\eek ror i nventions developed
here in the Department .
Philip 0 . Corey , an 11-year vet eran of Ccneral Electr.ic, rccei \ec.l h is 13th Patent :\\\'arc.I fo1
m invent ion \1'hich relates to in
vcrter ci !-::ui ts for converting
d ire ct current po"er to altcrnat i ng current prn,e r, employing
gate controlled recti Ciers as th
power Sll'i td1ing clements . Phil
is a Senior Development Eng ineer
in Aerospace & ~fens e Eng:i nee ring .
"We. hold thue. tJw.t.h6 to be. .6el6-ev-i.dent: -- That all me.n aJLe CJLeate.d
equa.R.; that they aJr.e endowed by thebr. CJr.eatoJr. VJ.Uh c.e.JLta.ln wta.R.iena.ble
M.g h.U; that among thu e Me .U.6 e, Ubvr.:ty, a.nd the pWL6 uit. o6 ha.pp-ineM
That, to .6ec.Ulte. thue M.gh.U, gove.Jtnme.nt6 aJLe -iM.ti:tuted among men, deM.v-ing thei.Jt powe.JLO 6Jr.om the coMent. 06 the goveJlne.d 11
Declaration of Independence
In Congress - July 4, 1776
~~~
SOME REALIZED THE COURSE WOULD
NOT BE AN EASY ONE ....
~
~
'==.,
"And a.t. la.6.t .the.Jr.e. Wa.6 a. qcU.c.k. 6.tuh, Uke he.at Ughtn-i.ng, 066 beyond the.
UMe.e.n ma.IL6hR.a.nd, a.nd a. .6u.Ue.n Jr.e.d ;.,pa.Jr.k c.U.mbed u.p the. bla.c.k .ok.y, J.>e.eme.d
.to ha.ng .the.Jte. mo.tlonR.u-0 6oJr. a. 6-<-nal -iM.ta.nt diJr_e.c.tiy ove.Jr.he.a.d, a.nd t.he.n
c.ame. plwtg-ing down, .to explode bi gJr.e.at light. a.nd Jr.oc.k.-ing .6 owtd .that
would Jr.e.ve.Jr.beJLa.te. a.CJLo.6.6 the. land a.nd maJLk a.n e.nd and a. beg-inn-i.ng."
Bruce Catton
This Hallowed Ground - 1955
"Then a. .ooR.clie.Jr. c.ame. a.nd -0.tood bu-ide. .the 06 6-<-c.e.Jr. a.nd bent oveJr., a.nd he.
.too .6poke. to fU.6 de.a.d c.a.pta.ln, not. -in a wh-l6pe.Jr. but aw6u.R.ly .te.nde.Jti.y a.nd
he. ;., aid, ' I ;., WLe am .6 OflJUJ, .6-i.Jr.' "
'
. '
Ernie Pyle
THE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID AGAIN
With the 36th Division - 1944
"Thu e. aJLe. extlta.01c.dlna.Juj .tbnu . And we 6a.c.e. a.n ex:t.Jc.ao1tcUna.1UJ chal.R.e.ng e..
Ou.Jr. .6.tJr.e.ngth a.6 .we.R.R. a.6 Ou.Jr. c.onv-ic:tloM have .impo.6e.d u.pon :tkl6 na.ti.on the.
Jr.~le 06 .le.a.de.Jr. ~n 61te.e.dom '.6 c.a.U6 e.. No Jr.ole. ht h-l6t.oJuj c.ould be. mo1r.e. di66lc.u.R.t. OJL moJte -<.mpoJr.:ta.n;t."
John F. KeIUledy
--
>1easurements .
"Don", who has had various a r t i cles published in C:anpany and
trade publications , i s a frequent
speaker at Canpaiw sem inars deal ing Ki th s tanda n.b f1 measurements, and related s ubje ct s .
GE TOP SUPPORTER OF JA
General Electric and i ts emp loy'ees rank at or near the top na t ionally in the i r suppor t for the
Junior Achievement Program , ac cording to recor ds of corporate
participation canpiled by JA officials .
I
~cognition for 20 yea rs of s c rvice to the General J:llectnc Caitpany came this week to Donald F.
McKedmie, Supervisor-Time Standards & Work \!easurement s , and
Carter Sinclair, PohTT Genera ti on
Design Engineer. Both men joined
the Canpany in Jw1c, 19-l 7 .
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
.Ai\JN SH IFFLETT
FRANK POL l TO
J LNE ALC*-i I ZE R
GENE BLACK
J IM DAVIS
SUZ.ANN E S IMS
PAUL R()..,iZ J E
WIMPY WI NG FI ELD
JIM DEWITT
TCN I DURK IN
HE LEN DEDR I CK
LI SA FI LES
CCMP.Ai\JY REPRESENTAT IVE
BILL PERRY
(Contd. f rom P. 2)
Specialty
Control
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WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
7, 196 7
IT TAKES ONLY
7110 OF A SECOND
'
.1
La r go1r...: ~.:;
sn;ishL:-.
in t o a t r ec . I lw ;1 rt i ck "as
based on rc..;e.1 rd! ..:o:!,!u.:te<l h\
t he Corne 11 l~1 i \ l rs it\ \t;t mo.ti \t'
Crash lniun ResLarc!: C-.:-;.tcr .
Admitte<li\' it ' s Lmpk:L..;:m t hut
it' s ~orth rea<lin~ , espcc i;lly
before \\'C l ea\e for \acation .
h~ve
OVERSEAS DIVISIONS
SHUTDOWN INFORMATION
TO REPORT STATESIDE
STOCK PR ICES
The " Stock Pr ice" for General
El e ctric s toc k c r edited to part i cipants in t he Sav ings & Security Program ] s the ave r age of
the clos ing prices of General
El ectric stock on the \ew York
St ock Exchange for each day of
t he month.
TI1e " St ock Prices " through \lay
1967 ar c as foll ows :
$87 . 994
86 . 94 7
88. 875
89 . 744
January
Feb ruary
March
Apr i l
90 . 222
~lay
SERVICE PINS
Week ending J ul y 8 , 1967
5-year Service Pi ns Richar>d E. Br>adley
Olev .Z.ivistik
Rober>t L . 7'r>adEr>, J r .
Mab le V. Phi Uips
Wi Uiam
iI.
Mass ie
BUSINESS1 GOVERNMENT
AND NATIONAL PROBLEMS
Th e Democr ati c and Rep ublican
f loor l e ade r s of the House of
Re p resen ta t ive s have cal led fo r
joint effo rts b e tween business
and gove rrunent to so lve crit ica l
so ci al and econo~ ic prob l P.ms .
Represen t a t ive s Ca r l Al be r t ( D. Okla . ) and Ge r a l d Fo rd (R . -Mich . )
made t he s ugge s ti on in a join t
dialogue in th e c urre nt is s ue of
The Gene r a l Elec tr ic FORU:-1 magazine , a public affai r s q ua rt erly
devote d to nation a l and in terna t ional problems .
Majority leade r Albert states ,
"b usiness i.s increasing l y invo l ved in f urnish i ng l eadership
ideas toward the sol ution of our
n a ti onal and inte rn ation al chall enges, " and th a t " businessmen ,
e ithe r individually or t hrough
their o r ganizations , have the resp onsi.b i lity t o ~ i ve suggestions
t o Congress for new legislati on
or on the effects of p roposed
leg i s latl on . "
Min ority l e ader Ford writ es ,
" there i s a g r owing realizati on
that if th e coun t ry is to move
ahead , th e r e h as to be a join t
effort , not on l y between gove rn ment and b usiness , but by o t her
segments of socie ty as well."
Six t ee n other l eaders f r om both
f i e lds also cal l e d fo r mo r e coope r a t ion be t we e n go ve r runent and
business in separa t e a r ticles on
"busi ness and th e national i nt e r est . "
A car hea vil y loaded with vaca t ion gear demands increased drivi ng care .. . . acce l erat ion i s s low er, stopping distance longer and
sway on curves greate r , and the
fati gue that may result from long
drives so common at the beginning
and end of the vacation makes it
easi er f or an acci dent to happen .
Here ar e some recommenda t ions f or
safe vacat i on travel:
. Be.601te. )t:M.-t<.ng :the vacc<t.<.011
ge..t .:the CM rce.adu . Cite cl~ :the.
ti!teJ.i , .ltg'1t6 , 1e.<.1~e. '115, .5t:ee.1z-i.ng
Md bJta.l<.eJ.i . Pack a ( la.5l1R.,i.glt.:t ,
eme.llg ency 6la.!teJ.i and 6.i.tv~ t a,i..d
)4.. whe.1te. you c.a.n ge..:t cU: :tl1em.
tali 15ecU: be.Lt.6 J..S uou doa' t
a,t.Jte.ady ltave them .
1
. AVO ID DRIVING FATI GUE a\I TURNPIKES BY TAK ING FREQUENT REST
~S AND COFFEE BREAKS.
CHANGE
'
SPEED LEVE L OCCAS IONALLY ,
MOv~ YOUR EYES , CHEW GLM , LI STEN
TO THE RADI O AND TALK TO PASSENGERS . IF NONE OF THESE HE LP-TRY SINGING. ABOVE ALL ELSE ,
START FRESH , PLAN A REASONABLE
LD ON THt RIGl\I
or
WAI.
W. A. Copley
J. T. Evans
~~~~~~~~-
DAFT - NI TIONS
SECRET ARY :
7/10 Second
(Contd. fPom P. 1)
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..
"t T to
"
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:-a;:.: ..;;:
.12\';.:'::
;:l;
Company R t: ;JOrt
are continuing
at the American Safety Razor
Company in Verona , where
members of the IUE walk ed off
th e ir jobs a t noon , one week
ago todav.
ThL' strikl' sta rted \d1vn the
three year old contrac t between the company and the
union cxpirul July 17 . Prior
to th e strike , rep_r.:?slntalives
of both s idcs had bel'n meet in g
in an ef1 ort to set th e terms
of th e new con tract .
In all , so::1c 500 hourlv p roduct i on l':~ployees at ASR ha ve
bee n awav fran their jobs
due to the strike . AL this
time th crp i s no indi c ation
of how long the strike may
1a s L .
PARKWA Y PROGRESS
Specialty
Control
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!1. O. Basse =: t
In a letter to SCD General Manager, Paul D. Ross, the Association says, "your plant's safety
perf onnance during the calendar
year 1966 has earned the Safety
Award of Merit of the Virginia
Manufacturers Association."
The fact is that most of our present .plans and improved working
conditions were initiated by General Electric many years ago.
Since their inception, Company
benefits have been almost continually changing and improving.
These plans, voltmtarily started
long ago by the Company in recognition of the need for them, have
been liberalized and improved as
the years have passed. Listed
below are some of the major benefit plans and their anniversary
dates. The yotmgest is 37 years
old!
1892
1902
1907
1912
1915
1917
1919
1919
1924
1930
Vacation, salaried
Health Insurance
Safety-Health Program
Pension
Vacation, hourly
Savings Plan
Life Insurance
Tuition Reftmd
Education Assistance
Continuity of Service
STOCK PRICES
The "Stock Price" for General
Electric stock credited to participants in the Savings and Security Program is the average of
the closing prices of General
Electric stock on the New York
Stock Exchange for each day of
the month.
The "Stock Prices" through June,
1967, are as follows:
January
February
March
April
May
June
$87.994
86. 947
88.875
89.744
90.222
87.023
"
:~tfi~d!N'J>
........-------- ~--
Service
With
SERVICE PINS
Week ending July 28, 1967
5-year
Serv~ce
Pins -
Hei.e.n V. Ha.Jz.pe.ll.
RANKIN HONORED
----------
__.., .
the gap .
Responsibility fo r coordinating
SCD ' s manufac tur e of this comp l ex equipment has r ested with
Production Supervisor , J. C.
Brunetto. Ou r wor k is only part
of a n over all prod uct ion schedu l e
involving 15 other Genera l Ele ctric Departments that a re fab ricating a nd designing equipmen t
fo r the powe r plant . But , perhaps th e most c ritical element
in this production is delive r y
----------
Shown abov3 is one of the fiv e power regulation units which SCD 1.>i ll
supply .
40 YEARS
(Contd. frar1 P. 1)
Soy, 8 , Challenges
Numerals On Clock
used in the fl rs t atanic bomb .
In 1948 , he was named Consult ing
Engineer for the Indus trial Con trol Department, ";hi ch 1vas the
forerwmer of General Electr:i c
her e in \faynesboro . Ile tra nsferr ed here in 1955 .
Because of his w1usual knowledge
in the field of industrial electronics , ,\ Ir . Livingston has been
called on several occasions to
senre as an expert 1,itness in
patent infringenent trials .
A na tive of Rosel l e Park , N. J . ,
he has authored many tcclmica l
papers :md co-author~d techn i~~~ l
books 1.,rhich arc considered ~u Loeosts in the field of i ndustrial
e l ectronics .
~ lerton
0 . Bassett , a native of
~~ I
J oh n poi nted out that the equ i pment shot into s pace prior t o
thi s cost some 522 mill ion pl us
t he cos t of the lau nch in g vehic l e .
Specialty
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_e_r::::'.ice T ~ Th e
SCD CONTROLS
GO WITH JET SET
Three orde r s for SCD products for
use i n the commercial j et trans oort 1'.1 arket 11ere won in July .
Fa i rchild - Hil ler in Haqersto t1n,
Md ., has selected Gene ral [lec t r ic to supo ly generatinq systems
and t ransfo rmer rectifiers for
the i r F- 228 short- range jet . The
transfomier rectifiers convert AC
t o DC cu rrent .
1
COOPER
~1ARKS
-IN
(Contd . ? . 4)
MEMORIAM--
EDITORIAL
Heard Any
DON'T PANIC!
SERVICE WITH GE
SERVI CE PI NS
ModeY'n 160 1ph tr>'lins , wir;;h C:c11er al Electric pr>o~1 ul.sion s ys tc!l'I:; ,
are sche d11 led to open a n ei) e1J.
of tro ve l convedence i1: t (:e
nation ' s :.'oY'theast CoY'riC.m :,. ;i .
year . This is the illustm ci o11
for the (;enem l Electric calen dar ' s pa-in t ing f oY' !!ugust, 19D 7 .
college students shying away fro~ jobs i n inth inking the r e are more exci ting jobs in
socia l wo rk, educat i on o r gover~~ent?
" I enjoyed last summe r ," she said . "I like the
a tmosphere of industry . " She added that he r c l ass
mates hadn ' t shown hostility t o caree r s in indus try .
~ ~s try,
" I expec t to tea ch high schoo l, " said Span i sh ma jor Ch r istine Showa l ter . " I didn ' t know wha t of fice work would be like
before I came t o GE las t
summer, " she admitted .
"My sis te r worked he re
and she s uggested I ap ply . I expect ed the
job to be good and I
wasn't disappointe d . "
"I p l an to go i nto indus t ry ," said James Rose Ch ristiY.e Si:?-..;c:.l -;e!',
who will be a Soph omore
:=::aster"f': :-:e>-:Y.or.C:-;e ,
at Vi r ginia State t h is
D ra:~ing a ~OCilr'. eY.fall . A Ma t h major , he
tation
sees a caree r in industry as more interesting t han
one in teach i ng . " The benef i ts he r e look good and
the pay is g ood," he added .
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COMPETITION IS N O JOKE
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On-Job Accidents
Increase In 1966
On the job accidents killed 400
more Americans last year than in
1965, according to the National
Safety Council.
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The 1965 total was 14,500 employees killed and 2, 200, 000 suffering disabling injuries .
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Specialty
Control
Volune XI , No . 73
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
Holidays, Va cations
Selected Fo r 1968
Emp l oyees who le ave their Christmas shopp i ng unti l the Jay before
Chri stmas wil l be hap py to learn
that next year Dec . 24 wi l l be a
ho li day for Speci al ty Control Depa rtment .
Vaca t i on sh ut dow n 1vi 11 be the
last two fu ll weeks of Ju ly
which are t he work weeks starting Ju ly 15 an d J ul y 22 .
Holidays nex t year will be New
Year ' s Day , Good Friday , Memo rial Day , I ndepen dence Day , Labor
Day , Tha nk sg i ving Day and the
Fri day after Thanksg i ving, the
da~efore Chri stmas and Christm2
ay .
Hol i days remain i ng t hi s year are
Labor Day , Thanks gi ving Day , the
day after Thanksg i ving and
Ch ris tm as Day .
Company contribution to t he
new building to $40 , 0 00 .
" The YMCA greatly appr ec iat e s
the generosity of t h e Compa ny
and of Genera l Electric emplo y ees , " said Paul Freed, Vic e
Chairman of the YMCA fun d
drive.
The Company ' s c heck br o u g ht
th e GE co ntributi on t o a n a mo unt
approximate l y equal t o t hat
pl edged by empl oyees .
Ben eficiary?
~any
of us tend to g ive li ~e
attenti on t o the nee d t o periodically review b eneficia ry des i gnations unde r various General
Elect r ic benefit plans . I L is
an oversigh t t ha t can c a use
problems fo r our fam ilies sho uld
anything happen t o us -- and now
is a good t i me t o cor r e c t th e
ovc rs i gh t . "
3.
SAVE TIME
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4.
5.
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3.
Do I sa ve power? Tt cos t s
till: Company monev lo run maci1 incs . A flick of a swi t ch
can shu t off a mach ine not in
use and save mo ney . ~any
people made fun of Pres ident
Johnson ' s t urn i ng off unused
ligh ts i n t he \~hi t e !l ouse,
b uL he became President of
t he Un it ed States -- they
d.i dn' t !
SAVE MATERIAL
1.
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the
reason that benefits special ists
throughou Gene ral Electric reg ularly urge employees to review
t heir l isted ben ef iciari es a nd
make any ~p p ro p riate ch a nges a t
l easl once each year .
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Q. "\\11at h'ill the nc\\ 't'.IC\ pro \"i<le for Ge11c ral Electric
emplo:ees ;:111d their fair.ilies?"
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n1e !'.IC:\ ce rta inly appreciates the help it has received from the Company and
its employees . 1 ha:e
\\'Orked hith the '"t'" m ot he r
ccrnmun i ti.cs "here there h3\e
been Gene r a l Elect r ic people
and J have ahays found them
and the Company to be good
friencl<> of the ' "t'". In ;:idd it ion t o the money 1d1ich
you h..we pl edged , the '"t'"
alha,s needs inst iuctors fo r
its act i \' i t ies :1.nd good
l eader:;hip to d irect the
progrwn . There i ~ room fo r
mo r e help as \\e 11 a:' pa rt i..: ipation in the '"t"' pro~r:11:l."
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the first campaign t o canpl e t e the bu il cling. Con st1uct ion costs are rising
fast . To build part of the
pl ru111Cd building and l a tcr
ca l J for bi ds to fin ish t he
job would be very costly ."
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Marketing Trainee
Returns As Man ager
"I'm happy to be back," said
Brad Peck, "Virginia is my second
home.''
Peck , ~lanager-Nune rical Control
OEM Sales , has returned to
Waynesboro where he started with
General Electric in the Technical
~~rketing Program seven years
ago.
He left lfaynesboro for a pos1 tion
in Industrial Sales Operation at
Schenectady in 1962.
Prior to his return to lfaynes boro last month, he was handling
Numerical Control User Sal es for
California, Arizona , Washington
and Oregon fran his Los Angeles
office.
Standing
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Kerber
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Alfred
Stokes
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Cooper
Wadsworth
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J . McKay
J . Gulding
G. Rankin
5
S. Pitts
6
T. Smi th
B. Nicho l s
7
C. Min ter
S. Mil ler
8
D. Leona r d
J . Cole
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J . Evans
H. Carlson
10
M. McPhatte r
B. Poole
11
S. Ca lder
J . Dav i s
12
J . Audia
S. Da il y
13
K. Hanula
J. Chadderdon
14
G. Trosper
G. Leffers
Indicates one rain match
make up .
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GE EMPLOYEE CONTEST
MISSISSIPPIAN WINS
Top prize in the nationwide "Gen eral Electric Fmployee Total Canfort Jackpot" conducted this
past Spring-- a canplete GE hane
canfort systan --has been won by
Boyd J. Sukow of the GE Mississippi Test Support Department ,
Bay St . Louis, Miss . The announcement was made in Louisville, Ky ., hane of the Air Conditioning Department, sponsor of
the contest .
SERVICE WITH GE
SERVICE PINS
Week ending August 11, 1967
5-year Service Pins Donald R. !1eadows
GE STOCK PRICES
The "Stock Price" for General
Electric stock credited to participants in the Savings and Security P r og ram is the average of
the closing prices of General
Electric stock on the New York
Stock Exchange for each day of
the mon th.
Th e " Stock Prices " t h rough July ,
1967, a r e as fo llows :
January
Feb ruary
Mar ch
April
May
J une
July
$87 . 994
86 . 947
88. 875 ...-..
89 . 744
90.222
87.023
96 . 506
Specialty
Control
VoZ.wne XI, no . 74
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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Uti Z.i ty !1an LarT"J Brown and a !1ark Century wii t don ' t
begin to fi Z.Z. the space in the new paint booth.
60 Enroll In Program
To Increase Knowledge
Sixt y Specialty Control Departmen t emp loy ees are "going back
to school" through t he :lanufacturing Studies Program .
The Program will run from the
week of Sep tember 4 through ear fy
June , 1968 .
The 60 students are en r olled in
several of the nin e courses making a t otal e nrollment of 150 .
The Manufa c turing Studies Prog r am, con cci ved and directed bv
~anufacLur .ng Personnel Developmen t Service, has now been ac tive for thirteen years. The
Program .Ls designed to provide
opportunity fo r individuals capable of co llege-level study t0
further de velop their knowledge
and t echnical abilities in
fields applicab l e to their j ob
responsibilities .
The Pr ogram is looked upon in
Waynesboro as an exceptional
opportunity to provide such
tra i ning .
No Future In Job?
Actually, there is no fu t ure in
any job ~ For the fut ure is always in the worker who ho l ds the
job . Jobs are rungs on the l ad der of success . Jjut rungs don 't
move upward; they are stationary .
It ' s the man o r woman who steps
on thos e rungs who does the
c limbing toward th e top .
- Dr . Geor g e Crane
Control Department is
taking part in a crash p rogran
to rehabilitate the aircraft
carrier USS Hancock which is being readied to replace the USS
Forrestal off Viet ;.Jam .
LS~s
li"<e
::r::.s :.r.: ll be
deli:;e re~
Us:.ng
~cr~er c 01::r oi "?~ie ir: ."Dec:.al;;:i CQr:trol Dev-;rV'l~r:t, t~e tar.I/ carr~ers
~ill r:o lor.ger ~old bac~ the .~eet . Altho'ugh the S?eea is c lassi: ied,
tr:e!: ire -iescr:bed as "alFiost speedboat fast .
power control equipment from
Waynesboro . The first of 20 of
these ships to be built by 1971
is the Newport , now under const ru ction at the Philadelphia
Naval Shipyard . Uniq ue for
l anding ships , the new LS Ts.
abandon the blunt and opendoored bow for a co nventional
bow which will allow much g r eatff
speed . From th e bow, a cantilever ramp 112 feet long wi 11 put
the tanks ashore or onto a pontoon causeway .
A stern ramp is desig ned t o
launch or retrieve amp hibian
Specialty Control Engineers who do most o f the Depa;'tment ' r; naval engi neering ar e ; from l e ft , Dick Gerlitz, Andy Bergman, Ron Blough and Alex
Broadfoot. They are looking at an integral part o: a static exciter
built in rl aynesboro .
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Controls made in :-.'czt'nesboro .:' !': vide the prirl::zl"!! e'1e 1"g en ~, ;-o-, ! '
., .or submarinea sucf: as "'.:he -:!: ton, s fioi.,.m here .
Employees Volunteer
To A ss ist Swim Meet
REMEMBER W'HEN.;,
NO PAY DELAY
Suppliers to Specialty Cont rol
Depa1'tmenl need neve r wony
ahout a delay in being paid i f
we can belie ve the names of two
of our Buyers . Charlie Quick
and Andy Cash poin t to tlze namer,
at t he e>:t rar:ce o."' t;:eir o.".rice :
"Quick Cash . "
SERVICE WITH GE
Week end ing August 18, 1967
5-year Service Pins Luthe r R. Vaughn, J1'.
Robert A . ?ink ley
Harold Heiz er
N. McBride Smith
!.filliCTJT1 F. 3aek
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Control
VolU"'le :u , ::o. 75
Mr.,
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Bottemiller Completes
40 Years With Company
Forty yl.!ars ago this week a
young ~!i nneso ta n , ar:11cd wi t i. a
BS deg r ee in E lec tri cal En:!i neerino from th<: Uni versity o:
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Minnesota and the exp erience ot
wor king with t he Co:11mo 11\\'C alth
Edison Company in Chicago , re por t ed to \\'Or k for Gene ral Elec tric Company in Sc henectady ,
N. Y .
(Contd. P. 4)
Busin_~~~
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Long - range planning by managemen t does much to minimize s hort time or l ayoffs .
We a ttemp t to fore cas t what
the ma rket wi ll be s everal
years in advance for a certai n produc t . As a result
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You Healthy
General Electric Wants
--- - -- - --- -Who cares if you get the flu?
General Electric cares -- that's
who: Maybe you have never thought
of your Company as having a
heart. Maybe you think a big
corporation like General Electric
is only interested in making a
profit.
REMEMBER WHEN?
ONE YEAR AGO - 1966
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Flu Shots
Seymour DePuy and Marjorie Campbell won GE Automatic Can Openers in the Employee Store Shower
of Pearls demonstration.
TEN YEARS AGO - 1957
SERVICE WITH GE
Week tnding August 25 , 1967
5-year Serv i rt Pins Nellie : . Critzer
Barbara L. Shi1'1eti
A Zan D. McDanie Z
The sce ne
ver Creek
mately 16
boro just
Looking over a form which is being distributed to all employees
who were participating in the
Savings and Security Plan in 1964
are Paul Young , Supervisor, Personnel Accounting, and Secretary
Sandy Grunt .
SPECIAL PR ICES OFFERED
ON HOU SEWARE ITEMS
Price lists and order forms for
General Electric Class "V"
Appliances will be availabl e at
the entrances to t he cafeteria
Monday .
Included are 46 houseware
items at p rices often less than
half of the suggested retail
p rice . Examples include a
$ 14 . 95 iron for $5 . 90 , a $ 17 . 98
electric can opener for $8 . 98 ,
a $1 7. 98 toaster for $8 . 86, and
s i milar reduced pr i ces on elec tric knives , percolators , mix ers , grills , clot hes brushes ,
flashlights , floor poli she r s and
ha ir dryers . Emp lo yee p ri ce
on the P - -tO percolator ( not
shown) i s $ 15 . 82 .
Class "V" appliances have been
compl etely rebuilt to factory
operating standards and to nea r
new appeara nc e by General
Electri c Servi centers . Each
appliance car rie s a new product
warranty.
Although the sale price i s avail able only to Gen eral E lectric
employees , thes e arti cles can
be purchased by emplo yees to
give as gifts .
of thi s r egatta is Bea Lake l ocated approxi miles east of Waynesoff Rt. 250 .
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Cole ..... . . .. . 16
Von. G~een.e .. . .. ... 6
Tcwn Snit.th . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Glen Sa..f.a6,{,a.. . . . . . . 3
J eJL/Uj
La.My Mc.Cun.tock . . . .
Lowell HoRmv.i . . . . . . .
(Contd. from P. 1)
(Contd. fran P. 1)
M - 46 , M - 4 7 and M - 48 m ilita r y
t a nks used i n World War II.
Hi s published works include
"Electron Tubes in Industr y , 11
publi shed in E lectrical South
Magazine , a nd 11 Aircraft Load
Ce n t er , " an AIEE pape r g i ven
at San Diego , Calif. Mr . B otte m i ll er i s a li censed P r ofes s iona l E ng ineer in the S tate of
Ne w Yo r k , a member o f Eta
K appa Nu H onorary E l ectri cal
E ngi nee ri ng Socie t y and K appa
E t a K a ppa P r ofessional E ngi nee ri ng Society. He is a n
Elder i n t he Firs t P r esbyteri an
Church , Waynesboro, and a
member of the Board of Di rec tors of " The Engli sh Speaking
Unio n, 11 Charlottesville Branch.
T he l atter organization is concerned wi th promoting friend ship among English speaking
peopl e .
The Bo ttemill ers have two s o ns .
E dward is Assi s t ant P rofes sor
of Phi loso phy at Birmingham
So uthe r n Co ll ege at Birmingha~
A l a . , and Joh n i s employe d by
G ene r al E lec tric Credit C orp,,
R o a noke .
M r . Bot temiller s outside inte r ests inc l ude re s toring clas s i c forei gn car s with hi s son,
Jo hn, and photography . Pic tures he took on recent trips to
Eu r ope and the Hol y Land have
bee n s hown to many p e ople i n
t he a re a , he reports .
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m~sSAGER
Soothes away minor muscular
aches and pains in minutes with
steady, dependable vibration
Comes with scalp, facial, soft
and fi rm body massager
attachments
In attrac tive light gray color
Retail~
Emp l oyee
Price $7 . 33
EMPLOYEE STORE
FREED CO. INC .
305 E. Main St .
SCRAfIBLED SCRIPTURES
Specialty
Control
Volwne XI, No . 76
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WAYNESBORO, V IRGINIA
September 1, 19e?
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Blue Ridge Ccmnunity College will serve Genera l Electr>ic employees ani
their families when it opens Sept . 27 . Dr . Douglas Montgomery, now wor king in an office a short distance from the site, makes regular visits to
review construction progress .
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Trade,
Offered
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Grumman Praises
LM Trouble Shooters
Failing Joins QC Club
Robert C. Failing joins the Gen eral Electric Quarter Century
Club today as he completes 2S
y~s of Company senrice .
Fai ling, Specialist-Relay Parts
& Assemb ly Systems , joined Gener-
Praise from Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation was re ceived recently in a letter to
Jim Bowen, LM Program Manager,
from Walter Warren of Gr umman .
The letter said :
"Grumman wishes to express their
appre ciation to Gener al Elect ric
for their recent expeditious
trouble shooting for a LM-1 Descen t ECA which had been returned
by Grumman . 11
"The timely and thorough manner
in which the analysis was conducted made an important contribution towards Grumman shipment
of t heir first f light Lunar Modu le . The effo rts of Messrs . J .
Haag, L . Grant and R. Meyers are
espe cially noted ."
(Cont d. on ? . 3)
CAUTION
SCHOOL OPHS
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REMEMBER "WHEN?
ONE YEAR AGO - 1966
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General Electric President Gerald
L. Phillipe praised the contribution of Elizabeth Gregory to the
Accent on Value program.
TEN YEARS AGO - 1957
Employees will start work t~ an
hour later when they retum from
their Labor Day holiday as the
"summer schedule" ends for the
year.
1n6latlon -&houldn' t
WOIUUJ !~
EveJuj :ti.me
(c.:o,1t1 . .f1''J" ,
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But what will Blue Ri dge Community College off e r t he day t ime
emp loyee at General Ele c tric?
All c l asses that a r e t a ught dur ~ the day time will also be
Jgh t a t ni ght . For t he emp l oye e interested in inprovi ng his
ski lls t her e will be c ou r ses in
mach ine cool operation , s t e nogr aphy , welding , secretaria l s cien ce , machin e sh op techno l ogy ,
data p r ocessing , accounti ng , na nag ement, chemical t echno l ogy , e lectronics technology , indust r ial
techno l ogy and des ign .
Other courses offered include :
Agricu ltural bus iness t ech nology ,
auto mechanics, auto bod y repai r
an d refinishing , cosme t o l ogy and
radio and television r epai r.
For the full-time s tud en t in,.. ,ding to continue h i s s tu di es
_ _ another c o llege or un i ve r sity
c ours es inc lude : Bus iness Administra ti on, l i beral a r t s , preeng ineering , pre - t e ach i ng a nd
sci e nce .
Emp loyees who hav e b e en f r igh tened by th e h i gh cost of h i ghe r
educ a tion wi ll be hap py t o l ea rn
th a t a c ourse wi ll cos t $4 a
c r edi t h ou r. ~ os t will be t h r ee c r e dit courses cos ting $ 12 . Th e
full-time s tudent will pay $45 a
quarte r tuiti on . Books a nd materi als are e xtra , cos ting about
~-$50 pe r qua rt e r for th e avge fu ll- time s tude nt.
Next year , Dr . Mon t gome r y reports, the co llege will o f fe r
enrichment cours e s -- th a t i s ,
such subj e ct s as mus i c , a rt, drama and ceramics . He also fo r esees the like l ihood of a course
in t he stock marke t f or t he sma ll
i nves tor.
There i s noth i ng second r a t e a ~t th e f a culty , Dr . Hontgomemphasize s . All o f t he a ca a~uic fault y have mast e rs deg r ees
and come to Blue Rid ge f r om s u ch
school s as Harva rd , Pe nn sy l van i a ,
Michigan and the Universi ty of
Vi r ginia. ~any o f the e ve ning
"":' es
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cou r ses wil l be t augh t by enginee r s and manage r s from l ocal i ndustri es .
A sample of the calibe r of teachers i s t he nan who hea ds the o r ganization - a youm; 1: an wi th
mode r n ideas fo r a person wi th
his wide expe r ien ce .
Doug las :; un 1> ~io.-i tgc .. ,l' ry was
bor n in California, educa t ed in
the East and was fo r 20 years an
Ai r Forc e fi gh te r p ilo t . He has
fl own more than 100 combat mis s ions in Africa, ~ic l lv , ltaly ,
Burma , China , Kore a , Japan , and
Formosa , for which he recei ved
t h irty-two medals a nd ribbons .
lie is a linguist, speaking eigh t
fo r e i gn l anguages i ndud ing Pe rs i an whi ch he l ea n iec as an ,\ ir
Fo rc e inL e l li1;encc 'i !"Le.e r nnd a
g raduate s tudent al Princeton
t.:n ive rs icy .
Dr . ~onlgomery has a KA Deg r ee in
po l iti ca l s c i e nce, fr om th e Uni vc r sily of Pennsylvania , a law
degree from Harvard , :i :IA in
poli tica l s c i ence , an d a <loctor<1Le in philosvphy fr, 1 Fl u rida
St a t e Cnivcrs i Ly .
At Fl orida State Dr . :lonlgome t-y
was a Ke l logg Fellow and specialized in jun i o r colJcg0 adm inistration. Dr . ~lo n t gon:c' r v .issrnned
t he presldcncv of EnsL Ccnlral
J uni o r College , De c:1Lur, cli s~; . in
l 9 62 and o f Bl ue Ri <l gl' Commun il y
College on J uly 1, I 966 .
Will th e s ch oo l be ready on
Sep t . 27 ? ":!y only wo r ry ," say s
Dr . Mont g ome r y , "is th a t there
won ' t be e nough pa r king s pa ce
f o r e ve ry one !
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Wife/or hire
Accord in g to insurance companies. 111ost hmbands e01 il~l n 't afford a \\'if(' if the, had to pa )' the
go ing rail-. I le re's th e calcu lati on :
:\urst111aid: .J-t5 hou rs \\'cckly, at
Sl.:25, total $55.63 weekly.
Dietitian : 1.:2, S2.50, $3.
Food buyer: 3.3, $1.50, $4.95.
Cook: 13 . l, $2.50, $32.75.
Dish\\'ashcr : 6.2, S I.SO, $9.30.
llou sckccpcr: 17.5, Sl.50, $26.25.
Laundress: 5.9, Sl.90, Sll.21
Seamstress: 1.3, $2.50, $3.25.
P ractical nurse: 0.6, $2.00, $1.20.
Maintena nce man: 1.7, $2.25,
$3.57.
Gardener: 2.3, $1.55, $3.57.
Chauffeur: 2.0, S2.20, $4.40.
H er time is thus worth $159.34 p er
week, or $8,285.68 a year.
Class V Material Is
St ri ctly By Mail
Class V App l iances described l ast
week in S~ecialty Control News
are not ava i lab l e through the
Employee Store ope rated by Freed
Co . , Inc. Persons wanting this
merchandis e must order by ma il
on the fonn distributed Monday.
Any servicing on this material
must be handl ed through the nearest General El ectric Servicenter
which is in Richmond.
Service With GE
Week ending September 1, 1967
5-year Serv i ce Pins Richard M. Cosner
.' farold E. Coiner
A~.genetta F. Gibson
"Yes , the sign is still here ,"
observes Ruth Dedrich of the cafeteria. The honor s ystem used
for breaks has been coming up
short $3 to $4 daily and will
have to be discontinued if employees do not cooperate in paying for coffee and donuts .
SEASON STANVINGS
Lowe.U. BM h.toJt . . . . . .
L eo~1 K.te.i11 . . . . . . . . .
(~a..U_y Keirnedy . . . . .
JVUUJ Cole ... . .. . ..
Vo11 F-Ui k . . . . . . . . . . . .
47
33
30
28
18
Glen Scd.aMa . . . . . . . . 1 7
TWI Sm.Uh . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Ted C11.a. pH!t .. .. .. ..
Vo11 G1teene . . .. ..
Larv'UJ 1\!c.C.Un..:toc.k . . . .
Lowe.U. Ho.emu . . . . . .
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Jim Hagwood was low medalist and
01arlie >linter 1\on for coming
nearest the hole in t he S\'1L ...-.i_f
League Tournament at Shen - Va. ,.Country Club Saturday . Westinghouse hon the tournament.
Specialty
Control
Vo lwne XI , No . 77
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
.;epte>:l; er 8, 19C 7
"lie arc trying t o make every Operator aware of the cost of mi s takes ," says 13ern i e Sus sman, ~ I an
a ger , Aero-Space and Defense Op era ti on . "l~e ha ve exce llent
HOUSEKEEPING CITED
FOR LOW FIRE LOSSES
Regul a r pl ant cleanup campaigns
and a 1vell- trained volunteer fire
brigade is credi ted by Fred Curto
for a record of 12 year s , 212
days of continuous ope ration 1\i thout a reportab l e fi re .
The very last part to be counted in the annual i nventory is dropped into
a paper cup by Frank Monger, 11oni tor i n 11agnetic ioiinding . Looking on
(and possibly sighing with relief at the end of the job) are, from lef t
foreground : F"Pank Snopkowski, Product Cost Accounting; Rab Depa, Manage"!',
Cost and GoveY'nment Accounting; Ruth Painter, Relays ; Rick Shifflett ,
Stock Room; Page Holloway , Supervisor Cost Accounting, and Ter"f'Y Brooks ,
Inspector, Magnetic Winding .
Your decision to buy that particular make made vou a custome r one
place and meant. a lost sale for
another make.
It is customers such as you that
decide if giants like General
\!otors shall stay in business .
You can't buy a 1967 Hudson or a
new Stanl ey Steamer because of
decisions made by car buyers.
t were some of the decisions
you made in picking the car you
a re driving noh" You decided
your needs. You didn ' t buy a
sma ll import if you need a car
for six children and their St .
Bernard . You picked a car at a
price you could afford .
\\~rn
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REMEMBER WHEN?
Service With GE
Week ending September 8, 1967
5-year Service Pins -
Benefits Extended
Improved medical insurance bene fits have been extended to some
General Electric pensioners who
ret i red before t he ir nonnal re t i reme nt age .
,.-.,
These pensioners and the i r covered dependents are now cove red
by the same Canprehensive Medical
Expense Plans as is provided for
active employees .
Covered are retired Un i ted States
emp loyees who on April 30 , 1967 ,
had not attained normal retirement age and were insured for
med i ca l expense benefits under
the 1950, 1955 , 1960 or 1963 Genera l El ectric Insuran ce Pl an.
There i s no change in contributions for the revised arrangement.
The $100,000 li fetime maximum r epl aces earlier max imums of $15,
000 or $25,000 . It covers ex penses in curred on and after May
1, 1967 .
The improved coverage is in effect unt i l the retired emp loyee
reaches age 65 . At that time,
nonnal ret i rement benefits are
applied. The change does not
affect Life Insurance cover~.
:,horias A. Trac:1
Donald P. Rogers
S . Lorene Se rrett
Ve 7.ma S . r./i lsoYI.
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NUMBER
7 :J r; td ,
~uality product
~s competitive.
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A se ri es of articles on "Know
Your Benefits" wi ll be published
weekly in th e fpe-:Jialt1:; ControZ.
:Jews to h e lp acquaint you with
the package of Ge neral Electric
benefits whi ch a re among the best
in t he country . Th i s week we will
look at your p r o t ec tion unde r
the Life Insurance and Acci dental
Dea th or Dismembennent Insurance .
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RECORDER MISSING
A CHA.\NEL -~!ASTER PORTABLE TAPE
RECOR.DER IS mssING FROM THE N/C
TEST AREA . WOULD THE BORROWER
OR A.KY 0:-.JE K.'WWD:G THE WHEREABOUTS OF TI!E RECORDER PLEASE
COHACT JEA..\ SHIFFLETT ON EXT .
294 .
SHOOTERS SOUGHT
Anyone i nterested in fanning a
skeet and/or tra p shooting team
to be entered in SV IL, please
contact Pau l Antonop l os, Ext . 38~
or li ard Chapman , Ext . 442 .
NAME
G. Wade.
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Poc.:UUy
The.ado
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p.<.c.IU.ng
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176
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Specialty
Control
VolVJne XI , :lo . 78
No Winners;
ASR Strike
Losses Noted
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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"Yes , those were the good o Zd days , 11 agree the fi r st production wor kern
hired by General Electric in i!ayne sboro . Loukir<{] at an anni versaY"d co;:;:
of' "Today 's News " were : from left , seated, Isabell Fit zgera ld., /.tae (.='.:;c ertson) Hos t etter; standir>.IJ , Genevieve (Rexrode) Allbaugh , Chc.rlotte
Barnes, Charlotte Hannan and /.tary Coffey .
Seven Of Ten Still With Deportment
room. ''They didn ' t have any Receiving in those days - - "e 1\ere
it. "
The others started learning to
solder and assemble . By the end
of their four weeks of training
they ,,ere producing electroni c
components .
"\Ve wer e in t he area where the
cafeter ia is now - - off in a corner of the neiv plant ," recalled
one .
"No," insisted another , "the cafeteria was built on l ater . \\'e
were over that direction some where , though . ''
Comparing the job today 1dth that
of 13 years ago , the group concluded that Specialty Control employees 1,ork harder today but are
paid much better .
\\"ill they be around 12 years from
now to join the General Electric
(Contd . P. 4)
REMEMB ER WHEN?
Algebra I
Ar t s & Crafts - Ceram ics,
Pai n tin g, Dr awing , L ett e ring , Jewelry Maki ng,
Leath e rwork, etc .
Hobby Woodworking
Mechanical Dra wi ng
Bookkeeping
Shorthand I
Typing I a n d II
Sewin g
Classes w i ll be from 7 - 9 P . M.
a t Waynesboro High on Monday
and Wednesday. Classes be gin
Oc tober 2 and run t hrough March
27 . Regis trat ion f P.e for the year
i s $20.
Persons int er ested in enrolling
may reg i ste r from 8 A. M. to
4 P. M. weekdays through Oc t o ber 2 and 7 - 9 P . M . Sept e mb e r
25 and 29 i n th e m a in offic e a t
the high school. For mo re infor m a tion, call Paul W. Bat em a-..
943-951 1, or Wa ynesboro Hig ..
School, 943 - 5466.
YOU MIGHT LOSE DECISION
NeveJt all.g tte
tO-Uh a 600.t.
Be Heard N ow
...-...On Holiday Bills
Weekly Sickness,
Accident Disability
Wolanin Completes
20 Years GE Service
Twe n ty year s of continuous General Electric servi ce was completed
by William W. Wo l anin on Tuesday .
Bil l, who joined t he Company at
Schenectady , N. Y. , in April ,
194 1, as Assembler-Ben ch Trans mi tte r Department, is now Supe r vi sor-Pr oducti on Pr og r am Contro l .
Bil l lef t Genera l El ec t ric to
serve with the Seventh Fl eet in
the Pacifi c from 1942 t o 1946 .
He rejoined t he Company at Schenectady in 1947 and transferred
to Way nesboro in August , 1954 .
During his career, he has been
promo t ed to Production Expeditor,
Group Leader , Foreman and his
present position . He is a g raduate of t he Company ' s Manufacturing Training Program .
Bill and his wife , Dawn Marie ,
live at 1313 Cr of t on Ave . They
have a son , Edward .
Service With GE
Heek ending Sept. 15 , 1967
$106 . 723
25 . 555
Howard L. Shifflett
SERVICE PIN
Ann Ar t hu r , Marrio t t Hot Shop pes, completed fiv e ye a r s of
service l ast week. All h ave
been with th e Specia lty Control
Department Cafeteria .
If you are totally di sab l ed because of a non- occupational sickness or accident, the Gene r al
Electric Insurance Plan gives you
extra cash to help you during t he
r ecovery period .
If you ' re an hou r ly employee , you
wil l receive an amount equal t o
one- half of your normal s t raigh tt ime weekly earni ngs fo r as long
as 26 weeks --up to a max i mum of
$100 per week .
If you a r e on salary, you will be
paid at the rate of $ 15 per week
for the firs t 20 days or l ess in
which you continue to receive
your r eg ul ar salary . Then you
wi ll begin receiving one-half of
your straight- time weekly earnings for as long as 26 weeks-also up to a maximum of $100 per
week .
The minimum paymen t for any employee wi th normal straigh t -time
annual earnings of at least $30CD
is $35 pe r week .
The usual waiting period for
these tempo rary disability be nef its is one week, bu t if you are
hospitalize d , th ey start imme d i ately .
NEXT WEEK - - CO~!PREHENSIVE MED I CAL EXPENSE BENEFITS, TY PE A &
TYPE B.
227
220
218
596
590
567
I !IGH TEAl'l G~ !E
Rebel s
Alley Cats
Injun Ears
HIGH
901
893
877
TE~!
SET
Alley Cats
Rebels
Injun Ears
2593
2568
2534
STA\lDil\GS
Tin Benders
Al l ey Cats
Injun Ears
Hi-Pots
Rebels
\Virestretchers
Marketeers
Dynamic Five
G. E . Fire Dept.
Datamites
Pin Pirates
Sparemakers
Fireballs
Carmonmatics
Sometime Pl aye r s
7- 1
7- 1
7- 1
6- 2
5- 3
4- 4
4- 4
4-4
4-4
3-5
3- 5
2- 6
1-7
1-7
1- 7
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'Pioneers'
(Contd . fr>Oln P. 1 )
"Come on
gj r l s , a dmi.t that you expect ~o
join \\ith me . " .\lost nodded agroc-mc nt .
n1e first ten women hi red in t he
fac tory were: Isabell Fitzgerald,
Cha rlotte Hannan, Beck'\' Strickler
Jean Shifflett, .\lay I lo~tetter ,
'
Charlotte Barnes , Genevieve Allbaugh, J\!ary Coffee , Janet Alf9J4.
and J\!ary ~la rtin.
Of t hose , Charlotte Harman , .\!ary
Coffey , Genevieve Allbaugh and
:>lae Hoste tte r have continuity of
service from Sept. 13 , 1954 .
I sabell Fitzgerald, Charlotte
Barnes and Becky Strickler have
left the Department and returned .
adinorUJ.>IUng the.
W e. :to
cla.!.i./i : "Von ' .t you e.ve.Jt fu.te.n
.to .t he. VO i..c.e. 0 6 c.o ll../i ue.nc.e. ?"
I\ .~ teJt 6 0>11c. ftu-i...ta;li..011 .the. bo 11 Jte.pli..e.d : "1 don' .t tli,i..nk. .60 -- c-c/ia,t
ciian.te.C i,~ { t en? " --\\.ALL STREFT
~ c.l100C be ~'
WM
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JOUR\AL
Your dentist
saves your teeth.
He may also
save your me.
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Control
Volw~e
XI , :!o . 79
Sevter'ller
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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19f7
33+
COURT UPHOLDS
ORDER TO BARGAIN
In a decision released yesterday ,
the U. S. Fou rth Ci rcuit Court of
Appeals has uphe ld the Nationa l
Labor Relations Board's order
that General Electric recognize
UE as bargaining agent for hourly
employees here at the Waynesboro
plant.
The Company had appealed t o the
court after the NLRB had overru l ed the Company's objections to
UE's conduct just prior to the
election. The cou r t ruled that,
in reaching its decision regarding
the election , the NLRB acted w i~
in its area of discretion under
""""'les l aid down by the Supreme
__,u r t .
The court 's decision is now under
study by Company attorneys.
...
SCD Engineer
Honored For Switch
Clothes i rons and e l e ctric s ki l l ets of t he near f u ture 1,i 11 last
longer, have more accurat e t em per ature control and 1,on' t interfe r e 1d t h radio r ecept ion thanks
t o a de\ice devel oped by Cliff \1.
Jones , Senior Design Pr ojects Eng ineer , Specia lty Control Department.
Cli ff went t o New York t his wee k
to be honor ed for hi s work in de veloping the Type PA4 24 s:-11ch ronous si-i tch . TI1e si-i tch h'as se l ected bv I ndus t ria l Research maga zine as. one of the 100 neh' techn i c al product s of 1967 . Pr oducts
were picked on the basis of their
technical importance , un iqueness
and usefulness .
General Elect r i c Canpany l ed the
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1s a
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BI O~O
The sys tem, which won't be available to the public until later
this year , includes a charger
t ha t will charg e up t o four bat teries at a time, and four of the
new batteries .
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p.:!r son
person
pe rson
person
person
per son
per son
person
in
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3
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12
15
16
29
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Persons
NC Customer Struck
A strike at Kearney and Trecker,
Milwaukee , Wis ., is entering its
third week . Specialt~ Contro l
De~ artment has no i n; orrnation rega~di~.g progress towar d a sett le ne~t .
Affec ted b~ t~e s t rike i s
our oroc!uct i on o.,, :::b !!ode l ;, and
3 ~Wrie ri cal controls .
~ture
Service With GE
Week ending September 22, 1967
5-year Service Pins Anna B. HaroZ.d
Ronnie A. Harris
Ray C. Meek
Prances M. Crit2er
Courtney
Wi'lford D. Ramsey
Thelma
Community College
Schedule Announced
A list of evening courses offered
at Blue Ridge Community College
has been posted on plant bulletin
boards above SpeaiaZty ControZ
NeuJs racks and a few additional
copies are available from Employee Relations.
Applications may be filed between
6 and 9 p.m. on Sept. 25 and 26
at the college Admission's Office,
just east of Route 11 about a
mile south of the Weyers Cave entrance to Interstate 81.
If there are other courses you
wish to take, please let the college know. If there is sufficient registration, the courses
will be given.
(Contd . f rom P. 1)
wher e Cliff then wor ked for General Electric. Deve l opment continued W1til the fal l of 1966 .
Cliff came to Waynesboro in July ,
1965 , and has been working i n
Remote Tenninal Operation most of
the time since coming here .
Safety
Please!
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Control
Special
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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C 0 R R E C T I 0 N'.
We apologize for
Specialty
Control
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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Carl Lon ':! . Gerni , ilanager !ta teri als, at ~ aynesboro will manage
the new Richmond plant .
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EXTINGUISHER OFFERED
"One of the decisi ons mos t householders put off indefini t ely ;..,..
whethe r to buy a fi r e ex tin g
er , " says a recent report t o Lunsuners published by Reade r ' s
Digest .
er i ll:
:c
CORRECTION REPEATED
For amonc nissin" till' cor
rcc t ioi1 to th~ 1':1;~ l11crL';1:::c
:::to ry of Sept. .:'..:'. , it i:::
rcpcatcJ he~'<.' .
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GE PAYS MUCH
OF INSU RANCE
In past we e ks w e have d esc rib e d
b enefi t s of the General Electric
Insurance Plan including Li'.e
Insur a n c e . ..\ccicl cn tal Death or
Dismemberment ln s uranc e.
\\" eekly Sicknes s ;rnd Ac c ident
Insur a n ce . and Co mpr ehens iv e
Med i cal Exp e n se lnsur a n c e .
You m a y be wondering how much
you pay fo r a ll thi s cover age .
You will find t he cos t i s ver y lo,,
becaus e G e ner al F.lectric Com pany picks up m o re th an half of
the cost fo r y our pe rson a l co\erage and some of t he co s t o f the
dependent coverage .
For your full pers o nal CO \'erage.
you pay o nly 9 / 10 o f 1% of your
normal s tr a ight-time earnings.
Th a t a m oun t s to o nly 90~ of each
SlOOyouea rn .
Because a n o th e r me mb e r of th e
family may a lr eady b e enrolled
in a health insu r anL e p lan which
covers fami ly memb e r s . a few
Gene r al El ec tr ic e mploy ee s de cide to take persondl co,erage
without the medi ca l and mater nity b enefit s coverage . The cost
of thi s s m a ller package i s 6 / J O
of 1% of n o rm al s traight-time
ea rnings .
EDITORIAL
No Winn ers,
As Always
Strikes hurt many people who
shoul dn't be hurt . The victims
of teacher strikes are students.
'.~hen airline workers strike the
airlines and l eave their jobs ,
the travelers are the ones who
suffe r.
\./hen 110rkers in one company strike
and leave their jobs, it may mean
that others, who work fo r s uppli ers or cus tome rs of that company,
are also out of work .
Thi s is happening ri ght now to
some Spec ialty Control Department
employees . A union in Milwaukee
has struck Kearney & Trecke r Corp.
K&T buys our Eb , rtode l 2 and 3
numerical controls. That is ,
they buy them when their plant is
open . Recently, because of thei r
strike, they instructed Specialty
Control Department to stop sh i pping control s as of today . The
result is a lack of work and
short ti me for empl oyees he re ~1ho
build these contro l s.
..Jhatever the outcome of the K&T
s tri ke, you can be su re the adage
remains true - no one wins in a
stri ke .
Hq>l,u.t
\\ OfllOnl h.1ttt'rlt''
with th """' C l:
\'1c kl'l-C.1d111111111 B.1ttl'r~ S~ ,1t111.
Batteries rechargeable
1,000 tim es or mo re
:\,-,1il.1ht.. 111 .-\ ..\, C or D ,;,..,
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Specialty
Control
Volume XI , No . Al
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
Richmond Plant
To
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SnopkoKski
'!r. Harris
Oc tobe r 6 , 196 7
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~arian
FRANK SNOPKO!ISKI
Frank Snopkowski is a native of
Dupont, Pa . He conpleted courses
in General and Cos t Acc ounting ,
Bus iness ~!ach i nes , Taxes and Busi ness Law at the h"oodro1 '.\ilson
Business School at Fishersville .
In ~arch o f 1955 he joi~ed General Electric in Way nesb oro as a
Cost Accounting Clerk .
As a membe r of St . J oh n ' s Ca t ho li c Church he currently is se rvfue
on the Parish Advis orv Board . E;
(Co..-:tC: . on ? . .;)
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U f Drive Response Good
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hTOte Phil Core> , ~\&D Project rn ginee r, ' 'This is a \'c r y good final
repo rt, as has ,our ha r c!K<1 re .
Th i s report should he of cxccpt iona l value in thjs difficult ,
exotic field . Thru1k you for rnur
fi ne hork ."
The rrocuct sent to the ;l~Cl1C\'
has hcen LLsed in extended- Ii re
t est ing and to date no failures
ha \e occurred .
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PERSONAL ACC IDENT
IS ADDED COVERAGE
Pe r sonal Acciden t Insurance offers
you add iti onal accide~tal death
and dismemberment coverage over
and above the General Electric Insurance Plan .
This insurance covers a broad
range of acciden ts --on the job or
off . You may enroll for insurance
in $10 , 000 units up to $100 , 000
at a ra t e of on l y 50 cents a year
for each Sl , 000 of ins ur ance . In
addition to pay ing in the event
of an employee ' s death by acci dent , t he p lan p r ovides for a 50%
payme nt fo r the l oss of one hand,
one foot , or the sight of one eve .
If two or mo r e such members are
lost in one accident, the full
amount is paid .
You can enroll in th e Personal
Accident Insurance Plan todav .
No medical examination is necessary , and your coverage wi lJ become effec tive on the first dav
of the month following your first
payment for this insurance . If
you arc not enrolled and 1vish to
enroll , vou may do so bv s i.gn i.n g
a form at Payro ll.
Strikef ,_f~~a.ten
Department Work
Short time continues fo r sone
Specialty Control employees as
a result of the Kearney & Trecke r strike and additional lack of
work may result f r on the current
steel haulers strike .
The K&T strike has now en t ered ..-.._
i t s fifth week wi t h no progress
t oward a settlement reported
yes terday . This major :;u:nerical
Contro l customer infonned the
Department to cease shipping
units as of the e nd of Septen ber .
A violent e i ght - s t ate steel haule rs strike has r esul ted in an
extreme l y low supply of sheet
s teel he r e . The Department is
working diligently to obtain
ste@ l, but it is possible that
lack of steel will cause short
time in some areas .
Service With GE
"leek endino, October 6 , 1967:
5-Year Service Pin
Krnneth r . Glass
F'a.'f'l " :':c'e rs ,
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Gwe1.dohr: ii . Ho'....iarcl.
,\l:na !3 . t. 1ger:.brigh.t
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E. A.l6Ae.d
L. Stoke,~
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R. Ke.1tbeA
T. S1nUh
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J . Cole
S. CaldeJt
J . Vav.U.,
K. HanUla
J . ChaddeAdon
J . Evcuu
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J. Alicka
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2nd Low Gross
for Season
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B. Cooper
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c; . Rankin
40
K. Hanula
31
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Le:fcrs
32
R. Kerher
c . Ranki.n
\los t Improved Re~lar
\lost Effective :\1 t .
'.lost effective Reg .
D. r.eon.1Yd
G. I lausler
B. Cooper
GOLFER WANTED
Dynamic Five
Injun Ea r s
Hi - Pot s
Tin Be nde r s
Datamites
Alley Cats
Rebels
Spa remake rs
Dr ille r s
Wirestre t che r s
G. E . Fi re Dept .
Pin Pi r a t es
Mar keteers
Sometime P l ayers
Fireballs
Cannormi a t i cs
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Jack A. Moren,
Speci a 1is t -Marke t i no Adminis trat i on , has been
named Prod uction
Supervisor-Speci al Products .
JAMES TRUSLO\/
LE E HARRIS
Lee Harris gr ad ua t ed in 19 59 from
Virgi nia Polytechnic Institu t e
wit h a BS degree i n .E l ectrical
Engi neering .
E:a~i~,.,~~t . c~~ ~ ~d
Fred. eurt'a: ~.
Vendor Of Month
Jack ,io i ned Genera 1 Electric Company as an Orde r Clerk ; n urchasi na at Specialty Control De partmen t in 1956 .
Rom in Fall River . :lass . , he is
a qraduate of the University of
Rhoade Island with a BS dearee in
1954 . He served in the Marine
Corps from 1945 - 48 and aoai n from
1950- 52. He now ho l ds th e rank
of Major in the Mari ne Rese rves .
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Specialty
Control
Volume XI, No . 82
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
B. W. Dula
Austin, Dula
Are Promoted
Appointments of James C. Austin
to Supervisor of Third Shift Op erations and Barry W. Dul a to
Foreman, Machine Shop, Second
Shift, were announced today by
J. F. Ponz il 1o, Manager-Manufa ctu ring.
.-... replaces Jim Truslow, whose
a~pointment as Supervisor of
Maintenance and Sheet Metal at
Richmond was announced last week.
Jim Austin joined Specialty Control Department in September,
1956 as a numerical control tester . After working up through
testing, planning and inspecting
jobs, he was named Foreman in
Relays in 1962, the position he
holds until November 1 when his
promotion becomes effective .
A graduate of Waynesboro Hi qh
School in 1950, J i m attended
Fishburne Military School in 1951
and Virginia Polytechnic Institute
in 1952. He served four years
in the Air Force in radio comcunications before coming to General Electric.
Barry replaces Dave Greene , who
has been transferred temporarily
to Schenectady prior to his re1ocation at the Gas Turbine
,.ce.pa rtment plant at Greenville,
1th Carolina .
Starting his General Electric
career at llaynesboro in Decem(Contd. On P. 2)
PARKING STICKERS
Replacing metal tags on the f ront
with bumper s tickers on t he left
rear will begin soon . Al l employees will be g iven forms to apply
for t he parking stickers next
week .
(Contd. on P. 4)
(Contd. on P. 4)
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BULLETIN
:
:* As a result of an agreement
:*
: signed yesterday afternoon by the
: Company and otfi ci al s of the
*
:united El ectrical Workers Uni on ~
: ( UE) , the Company has agreed to :
: recogni ze that union as bargaining:
:
: agent for manufacturing hourly
: employees he re at the Waynesboro :
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~"Management wi 11 make every effcrt:
~to estab l ish a peaceful and busi
~nesslike rel ationship with the
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GIVE::
taEUNITEDwiv
Extinguishe rs Now
Twent:1- "ive l.Jea'1's aao this month
the ri r~ t je.t ai"f'cr:a_ft flew . Tt
1Jas ~owerec wi ti: :Y:e Gener'< l .o;"Zeotrfr. engine at "f'i9Y:t . The I - A
t?Y'Liir.e rroducec 1 , 300 rounds o:
th.l'USt . T'n.e GE4 engine , chown
here , will be used on the Supersonic Transpo rt (."ST) . It deve l ops 50 times t he poi1e r o.( the I -A,
or nore than 6C , 000 rouna.<; o."'
thrust .
J ame~
Being Delivered
Fire extinguis hers ordered by
Specialty Control Depa r~ent_em
ployees durinq the special ~ ire
Prevention Week sale are be1nq
delivered in the cafeteria today,
reports Virg i nia Fire Equipment
Co. General El ectric emri loyees
ordered 75 of th e a l l-puroose
fire extinguishers.
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WEDNESDAY BOWLIN G
High Team Game : Alley Cats (895),
Injun Ears (875 ) , Tin Benders
(863) .
High Team Set : Alley Cats (2579),
Hi Pots (2537) , Injun Ears (2 509).
Dynamic Five
Hi Pots
Tin Benders
Alley Cats
I njun Ears
..-....., aremakers
dtamites
\.Jirest r etcher s
G. E. Fire Dep t .
Rebels
Drillers
Some time Pl ayers
Fireballs
Marketeers
Pin Pir ates
Cannonmatics
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GLASSES FOUND
A pair of presc r ipt i on saf ety
Sll l. 869
Fund Un i t Pr i ce
$ 25. 77 9
Service With GE
Week endina Oc tober 13, 1Q67
5-year Service Pins Far l e J . Br eeden
The organi zat ion has eight can mi t tees , each is headed bv a member of t he Board of Di r ector s .
Corrrnittees , one of i-nich 1dll be
discussed in the Svecial t~ Cor: trol News each week for t he next
ei ght weeks , are: Finance and
Executive , >'lembership , Social ,
Recreational and Athl etic , Pub
licity, Cul t ural , Bui lding Fund
and Special Activi ties .
Letter Explained
Speci alty Control Department em ployees last ,,eek received letters
at their homes from Electric Insurance Co .
El ectric Insurance Co . is a subs i diary of the firm which pro\ides insurance coYerage to Gen er al Electric .
Coverage descr ibed bv El ectric
Insurance Co . is not a part of
the Genera l Electric Benefits
Pro Qram . You should consider the
infonnat i on fran El ect ric Insur ance Co . just as vou "ould pro posal s bv anv other insurance
compruw .
says the advertisement for General Eleotrio 's new high performance 150-grid sealed relC11fs .
This "mouthLJatering" ad is now
appearing in Electronic Design
and Electrical Design flews mcigazines . The ad points out the
superiority o: the Speoialt]! Control built relavs over those made
by our oompetit;rs .
Company Builds
In Carolinas
The third new General Electric
plant to be built in th e Carolinas was announced recently .
A 340,000- square- foot plant will
be b uilt near Charleston, s . C.,
to manufacture parts of th e l arge
s te am turbine- g enerators us ed by
e l ectric utilities.
The l O\-press ure exhaust hoods to
be built there will be as l arge
as a three-story house.
Ground-b reaking is planned fo r
late this year .
Earlier announcements in the past
nine months include a large gas
turbine production plant now being built near Gr ee nvi lle , S . C.
and a nu cl ear fue l plan t being
built at Wilmington, N. C.
BEV/ARE , v/ORK !
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Control
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WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
Wo rk Interrupted
Jeff Ramsey, 7
By Labor Problems
Needs You
Of O ther Firms
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od , 2S pints in tho weeks, is
needed to keep J eff Ramsey alive.
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Octobe 1 20, 19 67
Company Contribution
Pcber t iliZbur, Manager-Finance,
right, presents a check from General Electric to the Uni t ed Com >r?unity Fund of' :.;aynesboro and
East Augusta County . Accepting
the check is Richard A. Davis,
President of the United Comnuni ty
Fund .
Products for inte r conne c t ion s ys t ems , car d readers, appl ica ti on
ma chine ry and proto t ypes of next
gene r a tion products will be on
display in the AMP :-Iobilab to
visit the p l ant from 9 a . m. t o
3 p . m. Tuesday , Oc t . 24 .
GOODIIPAY
GOOD BUSINESS
ROAD TO BE WIDENED
In conjtmction with the building
of the new Northwest Parkway, the
City plans to widen the West Road
up to the General Electric property line at gate 20. In order
to take full advantage of the opportunity for three-lane traffic
to and from parking lots 6 and 8,
General Electric will continue
the three-lane roadway for several
hundred feet on Company property.
Work is expected to begin within
the next few weeks, and every
effort will be made to accomplish
the task with a min:imum of inconvenience and traffic delays. It
will be necessary to remove the
fenced in children's play area
during the construction.
Weather pennitting, the project
should be complete by early December.
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STANDINGS
Dynamic Five
Hi-Pots
Alley Cats
Datamites
Tin Benders
In j tm Ears
G.E. Fire Dept.
Sparemake rs
Fireballs
Wirestretchers
Rebels
Drillers
Sometime Players
Marketeers
Pin Pirates
Cannonmatics
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1?.EMRMBER WHEN?
CNE YEAR AGO - 1966
Appreciation Day at Specialty
Control attracted 7,500 employees
and family members for a carnival
of fun at the Plant.
SCOGEE Finance and Execut-ive Ccm mi ttee shown with SCOGEE Advise1
Bill Perry, left, includes , from
Ze~ Barbara Haynes , Se cretary;
Bo. yers , Pr esident; Dan Dondiep,
Vice Pr esident ; i-.'eZen ,Tohnson,
Tr eas urer and ~roe Smith, Outgoir>.g
President.
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3rd - IBM
4th - RCA
5th - 13dl Telephone
5.
6.
If you were buying electrical product s. what manufacturer's name would convince you of the best buy'
1 SI - General Electric
2nd- RCA
3rd - Wes tinghouse
4 th - Sunbt:an
5th - Zenith
7.
Joining General Elec tri c ' s Quarter Cen tury Club recently is
Kenneth R. NeMlham,
Technical Specialist
i n Power Regulat ion
Engineering .
Service With GE
Jeek ending October 20 , 1967
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G E Pays Cost
Of In suran ce
While a t work at the Ge neral E~c
tric plant, you are covered by
Workmen ' s Compensation Insu rance
for any injuries sustained on the
job. Therefore , it is ve r y important that injuries suffered in
the course of your work shou ld be
r eported immediate l y to your su perviso r and t o the medical clinic .
This insurance plan is adminis tered under stat e goverrunen t regulations but Ge ne r a l Electric
pays th e entire cost of your cove rage und e r the p l an .
Specialty
Control
Volurw XI, i!o . 84
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
GE SALES UP,
EARNINGS DOWN
Reporting pledges and gifts to taling $23,584 .87 , Specialty Control Department employees gave a
mighty boost to t he WaynesboroEast Augusta County United Community Fund Dri ve for a record
$101,275.
The sum reported this week by
Special ty Contro l is a record
amount, exceeding l ast year's to tal of 521 ,464 by nearly 10%.
The amount contributed so far by
employees and the Company is aba.rt
23% of the goa l for the Waynesboro-East Aug usta County drive.
"The response has been excellent;
sa id Jerry McRorie, plant drive
cha innan . "Special ty Control Department empl oyees ca n be proud
~ Ir.
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II
VENDORS', CUSTOMERS'
LABOR PROBLEMS CON TI NUE
Some 10 ,000 steel haulers have
re turned to work but th r ee other
strikes which threaten produc t ion
at Waynesboro continue .
Collins Radio, a major customer
for our relays , remains struck by
6,500 production wo rker s . Specialty Control has been instructed
to stop shipping relays curing
the st rike . If the strike contin
ue s , it can cause short time in
Relays .
STICKERS GO ON
"Put it here," reminds Kay Hartman, Maintenance Secretary , as
she puts a parkina sticker on the
left r ear bwrper of he r car .
,\'a~e application now on the pink
form in the cafeteria and get
your sticker on before llov . 6 .
El
NERAL
Service With GE
Lipsky Carries On
Family
Tt ca nes a s no surpri se t o the Lipsky
fami 1y t ha t Bill i s
join ing the Quarter
Centu ry Club this
"eek .
,\fte r all , both of his
one time .
Bil l , >lanuL1 ctu r inq Eng ine er in
Equ i pment Dcvel opn:ent, j o ined
Gene r:1l U ect r ic on Oc t . 26 , l ~l.i 2
in th e Tes t Departmen t at Schcncc tad> .
:;,-:r.uel 8 . ilali-.up
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-- He 'trn A\'.b'Li.:Jlit i.n tl1e (t.la.H
S /!1ee..t Jutuiw:u .
September ' s regatta was an exci ting 3- race series, in which two
boats capsized in the gus t y wind
before the race started. H oweve~
the only damage r eport ed was a
few bruises when one captain fell
in his boat after running agr ourd.
September race r es ults are :
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SEAS ON RESULTS
QUARTETS TO PERFORM
Boug ht your ticket yet to the DuPont -SCOGEE dance being held
tomo rrow ni ght at the DuPont Recreation Center? Tickets ar e on
sale until 4 p.m. today (see
bullet i n boards for names of
ticket sellers). Res ervati ons
may be ma de t hrough the DuPont
Recreation Center, 943-6446 .
CARD OF THANKS
.. cty Bu rn s wish es to t ha nk
those tha t r eplac ed bl oo d to
th e Bloodmo bi l e unit fo t h e r
m o th e r, M rs . Ra y Burns .
F.
Ram,~
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224
G. Lake
B.
218
AfCl.6,~ -i.e
272
572
Ra1>1~ eu
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G. Lake. B. N.i.c.lto.l~
564
Vynain.i.c. F.t.ve.
AU eu can
F-UtebalCJ.i
934
907
8 81
HI GH TEAM SET
Vy 11co11.i.c. F.i.ve.
AUey Ca..t~
258 7
2567
2.+ 69
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STAND INGS
Alley Cats
Dynamic Five
Hi Po t s
I nj un Ears
Tin Bende r s
Datamites
G. E. Fi r e Dept .
Rebels
Spa r ema ke rs
Firebal l s
Wires tr e t cher s
Dri lle r s
Marketeers
Cannonmatics
Some time Players
Pin Pir ates
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Know Yo ur Benefits
REMEMBER WHEN?
ONE YEAR AGO
Virginia Coffey i-as appointed
Forelady i n the A&D Assembl y area.
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Housekeeping Praised
Pr aise for the ho usekeeping at
Specialty Control Department was
received this week f r om C. Bernam
Gibson , Saf ety Rep r esen t ative for
the Virginia Depart ment of Labor
and Industry .
In a letter to SCD Safety Speci a list Bill Per r y following a
tour of the plant , Mr . Gibson
wrote :
Specialty
Control
:rolww XI, No . 85
November 3, 1967
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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\
ber 1 from Deve l opmen t Specialist- Numer- 1~~
ical Con trol EngineeY'~
i ng to Numerica l Control Consulting Engi neer .
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A graduate of t he Un ivers i ty of
Wiscons in, he sta rted his Gen eral Electric career in J ul y ,
1941 at Fort Wayne, Ind., as a
member of the t est program . He
transferred to Schenectady i n
19~and became a member of
Ir
tria 1 Control ~s Engineering
group .
He transferr ed again with the
Specia lty Contro l Department
from Schenectady to Waynesboro
in Ma rch, 1955.
In his new pos ition, he re ports
to Darren Schne ider, ManagerNumeri ca l Control Engineering .
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The GE
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wi th a
artist
of us already a r e as s um ing ,
cons c ient iously and intelligently , our political respons ibilities i n our c ommunities .
The mo r e individuais wh o s upp ort
th e po litical pa rty o r ca ndida tes
of t he ir c ho i ce -- wi t h th e ir
do llars as we ll as t hei r i nt e r es t
a nd effo rt - - t he hea lth i e r our
?O l itica l p r ocess a nd t he mo r e
respons i b l e our governme n t fo r
t'ie ;:ieop l e .
r o ll owing a r e t he c a ndidates who
are r unni ng in t he Way nesbo r o
STATE SENATOR
George M. Cochra n
H. D. Dawbarn
R
HOUSE OF DELEGATES
Dav id G. Canning
a re a . Cit y residents wi ll f i nd
only the candi dates fo r St a te
Se nate and House of Delegates
on the ir ba l lots on Tuesday . It
i s n ' t t oo l ate t o help wi t h more
th a n a vo te . Thi s weekend wi l l
be a busy time for party wo rkers .
If you can help wi th money , send
it to : James Halpin , fo r Repub licans , 1141 Club Road , Waynes bor o ; Ed Elliot, for Democrats ,
528 Wes t Ma in St . , Way nesboro ,
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I n the ne xt t hree we e ks we wi l l
discuss Genera l Ele ctric Savings
Pl a ns . Th i s week we' l l l ook a t
th e Savings & S t ock Bonus P l a n .
Under t his pl an, yo u can save
f r om 75 cen t s to Sl O per week
t h rough payro ll dedu ctions . Your
money is used to buy U. S . Savings
Bonds for you , and General Electri r c r edi ts you with a 15% bonus
on your sa vings and uses this
bonus to buy GE common stock fo r
you .
'.'lEXT \.JEEK :
Harry ~ash
0 . Bever ley
~o l ler
ATTORNEY
Robe rt L . Rh ea
TREASURER
Fr ank C. Hanger
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A. R. Giesen , Jr .
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Carl Braley
John E . Kent
Indeoend .
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WEDNESDAY BOWLING
F. Polito
F . \li ller
F. Ramsey
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I\Dl\'IOUAL SET
D. llarr ell
L. Rogers
J . Chadder<lon
581
573
570
Dat amites
Alley Cats
Dynamic r i \"C
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864-863
846
2550
2491
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STA: DI:.!GS
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Dynam i c five
In jLD1 Ear s
Hi -Pots
Dat;uni tes
r; . E. fire Dept .
Tin Ben<le rs
S11a remake rs
Rebels
Wirestretchers
Fireballs
Ori llers
Crumonma ti cs
\larkct eer s
Sometime Players
Pin Pir ates
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23 - 13
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Former Virginian
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Named To GE Post
W. Blake Mi ller, a UVA grad ua te,
has been named to head Gene ral
Electric 's newly formed Urban Affairs Component.
Mr. Mil l er was General Manager of
the Industrial Heating Department
in She lbyv ill e, Ind., prior to
the appointment.
The new component will integrate
the Company's efforts in helping
meet the challenges posed by
mounting urban needs.
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REMEMBER WHEN.'
ONE YEAR AG0-1966
Do ' 1011 fall as l eer watching TV?-~e r>e ' s or:e that shuts itse lf o ff .
;,r:,ot;.zer> Ceneroa l Ele ctric TV f i r>s t
r'pom the Per>sonal Te levis ion De;;:!>~en:= ir. ?0!'1ts"1outh , la . Pur ~::c;se1"3 c.-' ,E .'..'2;..? po1tahle co l or'
s e t will be able to s et ~ ~switch
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l onge r
anyit will : '
For th e pe r son who has little interes t in doing his j ob r ight the
first time, and e very tim e , the
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lOlJ 11 i s an e as y out, a weak excuse for failur e , for spoi l ed
work , e rrors , inaccuracies .
However , f or th e person wh o cares
a bou t doi ng a job th a t he can be
o r oud o: , ":;.~(:_f 's :..,c;;,; " is only
~ ch a lle nge t o h i s abi l i ty . Because he knm.;s abou t t he pa rt of
t he " /..;.; " which says , "If an yt h i ng ca n go wr ong , it will."
He t ries t o e lici nate the poss ibilit/ o f this happening . He
? lans for chis possi bi lit y i nc l ud i ng altE:r~ate actions to be
used if neE:ded . He may no t a l ,;a1s be 1001'. s uccE:ss fu J . By rec11
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Employe es Reminded
Of Entry Procedures
Look out for Yi s i t or:- ar.d Yi s i. t s .
This reminder is necessary for ~
courtesy , secur it~ anJ 1:ork e ff1
c iency .
Empl oyees ar e asked to ohscnc
the rules on achn i ttmice t o the
pl ant t o el.i.rnj nate sc\cral recu r ring pr ob l ems .
PROBJ.E.\I 1 . Emp l o~;ees comi n~ to
t he plant t o p ick up pavchccks or
other rea sons often enter through
\\"Ork a r eas and dis t url those
working .
SOLLrTIO.V -- E1Hi:l.cue..'~ c.c;i'u~, {,ofr
the bt.Ulcli.ng 6o 't otlte 'l 1en~('fl:~
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Supe r r e li ability i s n 't " Pie- InThe Sky ," its Nimbus I I by GE . . .
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Service With GE
Week endi ng November 3, 1967
5-year Servi ce Pins lo"f'i:; B. r;a"f'bel"
Killian
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Turkey Dinner
Set For Thursday
TI1ankso i v in!?: di1mer comes to
Specialty C~ntrol Department empl o;ees a \\eek befor e the es t ab lishe<l holiday .
I lot Shoppes annual turkey dinner
will be served
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Although all ha ve \\'Or ked for Genera l Electric onl;' s ince September , they have studied mechanical
drai-.ing or drafting at schoo l and
one ha s "orked stunmers in a draftin'.5 job .
The meal includes hearts of lettuce salad with choice of dress i ng , roast turkey wi th bread
dressing and gravy , cranberry
sauce , green peas , glazed sweet
potatoes , roll and butter , choice
of beverages , pl.Dllpkin or mince
mea t pie .
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(ESPECIALLY MONDAY)
~EAN
.Jimmy .Ls looking fon,ard to college next year 1vhere he 1vill study
for a career as a school a thle tic
coach and drafting instructor .
'Il1e tho g.i rls , a l though less sure
the; w;mt to become draftsmen ,
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Chef Stuart B?;ant slices a pw.rkin r>ie as warm- up for the anm1al
Tlw.nkogivin.g t:ir>key dinner to be
('eatured l.'ov . 16 fr the :-. Zant
C:a_"e teria .
S&S Program
With the coming of freezing weather this week, we must take sped.al
safety measures to avoid wintertime accidents.
Happiness ls Legal
Parkin~
REMEMBER WHEN?
College Bowl Features
Richmond University
Richmond Unive rsit y i s c hallengjrg
Bryn ~! awr on the GE Co llege Bowl
tomo rr ow at 5 : 30 p .m. over NBCTV .
Bryn Mawr Co llege girls defeated
the me n f rom Notre Dame University
last week 225- 185.
Represen ting Richmond in the
season's seventh game will be :
Ran ce Conley of Nashvil le, Tenn.;
Robe rt L . Musick , Jr ., of Bristol,
Va . ; Lindsey (Alic e) Peters of
Charlo ttes ville , Va .; and Jean A.
Scott of Bedford, Va . Ocie T.
Adams , Jr . of Virginia Beach , i s
the al t ernate .
On Nov . 18 th e cha llenge r s will
represen t the Univers ity of Miami,
followed by teams from Barnard
Coll ege and Niagara University .
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Supen-i sing a ll a thlet ic activiti es W1dc r the direc tion and approval o f the SCOGEE Board of
Direct ors i s the function of the
Rec reat i onal an<l Athl etics Committee . Fr<mk Polito , s tanding ,
i s carnn it tee d1a. Lrman . He i s
a ss i s t e d b~ .Jim De\\'it t.
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Ralph Picking
Jerry Pochily
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Dynamic Five
Datami t es
Hi Po t s
In jun Ea r s
Tin Benders
G. E. Fire Dept .
Sparemakers
l\lirestretchers
'.larket ecrs
Sometilile Player s
Cwmonma tics
Rebels
Dr ille r s
Pin Pi r a tcs
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Flu Shots
Booster shots and the seco ~ n
the series of fl u shots fo1 .. 1ose
who had not been inoculated sin ce
196 3 will be g i ven the first week
of December .
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Manager Named
r\ new \.lanagerPurchas i ng was
named t oday by
J . F. Ponzillo,
Mam1ger -Manu facturing .
Smi th, joined General Electric in 1957 and has held \arious
manufactu ring and f inance assign ments at She l byville , Ind .; St .
Pe tersburg , Fla .: and Lync hburg .
I le is currently ~lanager -~lanufac
turing Adm inistr at i on at Lynchburg .
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QC Club To Meet
Qenerru Electric's Quarter Century
Club wil l have i ts annual dinner
at the General Wayne Motor Inn
on Tues day, Nov. 21 .
Dinner will be at 7 p.m. after
refreshments at 6 p.m. The club ,
open on ly to persons with 25
yea rs of General El ectric serv i c~
now has 78 members i n \~ayn es bo ro.
Ni11e new members from Speci alty
Co ~ro l have been added s ince
c .~mbe r, 1966. Three new members transferred into the area
durin g the yea r.
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
A major innovation is the st ream] ining of the ComprehensiYe \.ledi c::1l Expense c l aim fonn elirninat ino
requcs t s for all but the mos t
ecsscnt i al information , and addin ~
more specific instruct ions t o aid
Insur ance Plan participants in
making claims . 111ese neh fonns
arc no" available from Pa,-roll o r
Relations . Claims submitted on
t he old fo nn, however , "ill be
processed .
Starting at once a ll claims "ill
oe filed in Payroll rather than
in Relations .
Another innovation will be the
direct mailing of benefit checks
to empl oyees , doctors and hospitals "here pa)ment is made by
\.letropolitan. This 1,i.ll speed
up t he del iver of checks 1,i th
s ome poss ibil it\ of also sa\ina
handling costs .' Anr smings c~
help offset the zoomino cost of
medical care hhich the,,,Plan must
pay .
Thanksgiving Holidays
Make 4-Day Weekend
Spending Thanksgiving with
the f ami ly , even if i t means
a trip of many miles, wi ll
be eas ier this yea r as em,, ployees have a four.-day
weekend .
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ersons pa id week ly wi l l be
aid on Wednesday next week
eca use of the holidays .
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appeared to be in
store for a tiny band of soci ali s ts as they met in the bl eak
fall of 1 62 2 in Massad1Usctts .
Foo<l \\as i.n short suppl y and th e
group 1,as fac i ng its third 1\intcr
i n this hos tile l and .
~lecting
Inoculation Reminder
The second in the seri es of flu
sho ts and booster shots for those
wh o have been inoculated sin ce
1963 wi ll be given the first week
of Decembe r.
Dr. Jay Stoeckel reni nds persons
who. have asked fo r these free
shots tha t they will be to 1d 11hen
to report to the dispensary.
K&T Strike Drags On
Kearney ti Trecker empl oyees i n
remain on s trike this
wee k continuing to cause s hort
time for s ome employees in ~u
me ri c al Control Assembly area .
~ lilwaukee
Secretaries Perform
J . fi . Hartne t t
Hartnett To Replace
George Morris
John II. Hartnet t, Senior Systems
Programmer , \\'ill become \lanagerRe l ay Production Eng ineer ing on
Dec . I.
He \\'i ll f ill a vacaricy created
1d10n Geo r ge E. \!orris lea,es to
become >lanagcr-Refrigeration Contro1 s Product Engineering at Appliance Cont rol Department in
'lorri son, I ll. The transfer and
p romotion 1:er e announced today by
Geo r ge Hausler, '.\lanager- Re l ay
Product Engj necring .
J ohn, a graduate of \lassachus e t ts
In s titute of Technol ogy , joined
t h0 Cencral Ele ctric Foundry Departr.ient as Plant Facilities Engineer i n .Tw1c, 1955 . ..l her a ~-
s i grnne nts in Indus tri al lle:1t i r
Depa rtment , l!e nneti c \lo t or ncpa rtmcnt , Ins tn.unent Dep;i r t:'lL'llt,
Sma ll .\ircra f t Eng ine Depa rtment
and I leavy '.\Ii I i t ary Depa rtment on
the ,\!rn1u factu r ing Tra ining Pro gram, he jo ined Specialt; Contro l
in l1'aync s boro in August , 1959 .
He served in va rious assignme nts
in Quality Cont ro l Eng i ne crj ng
and \lanufacturi ng [ng ineer ing b2 fo r c becom i ng Senior s,stems l'rog r rniun e r .
He 1 i \C'S \\'i th h is ~' i r(' .Jo,mnc '
and six chi l dren at ~l)( I \_..;hlJ,
Dri1c .
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G. E. Morr i s
h' i t h h i s h' 1 I c, Sh i r I cy ,
ru1d t he ir t ho chi ldren at 7 15
G1,:1rne ..\\e .
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Di me nsions:
\!eight:
Approximately 2,300
pounds, depending on experimental
equipment aboard .
Seating capacity:
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JY source : Expe rimental ba tt ... ,. system emp loying a combinat: on of spec i al lead- acid bat1 e rl e s and nicke l-cadmium bat te r ies . (The bat t eri es typica l ly
c on ~ titute approximately 40% of
the total vehicle weight . )
Contro l s :
A variety of special
so l id- state control sys t ems have
been tes t ed .
Motor:
D- C, specia l de s ign .
Radia 1.
"In-tO\m" range:
40- 50 miles
(based on ave r ag e of four s top s
per mile , acce lerat ion at app roximate~y 3. 75 mph rer second , an d
max~. 'Jlll speeds of 30 - 35 mph) .
Re -charge t ime :
B01d , 160-85 .
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Know Your Benefits
NEXT WEEK :
AID PLAN .
GE INCOME EXTENSION
GE STOCK PR ICES
$109 .665
S 25 . 795
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Jerry Pochi l y
Walt Thompson
Joe Belak
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Hi Po t s
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Datamites
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STANDINGS
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Bob Poole
Dick Kubiak and
Floyd Draper
Warren Sellers
Alley Ca t s
Dynamic Five
Hi Po t s
Injun Ears
Tin Bender s
Datami t es
G. E. Fire Dept .
Wirestretchers
~1arketeers
Spa remake rs
Some time Pl a ye rs
Dril l e r s
Pin Pir a t es
Fireba lls
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Week ending November 17 , 19W
5-year Servic e Pins flilZiCIJT1 H. Ehipe
Specialty
Control
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
December 1, 1967
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TO INDUSTRY
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SABOTAGE HURTS
BUSINESS, JOBS, CUSTOMERS
SUFFER FROM VANDALISM
Sabotage in industry, a conunonly
used weapon by t he e nemy during
\,VII , i s se ldom hea rd of today in
Ameri ca n business .
Eve ry once in awhile , though , we
learn of some misguided pe rson
s one1-:here deliberately damaging
equi pment , t ool s or products of
his own company as imagined
reve nge or simply as a sheer act
o f vandalism .
On r a re occasions in t he past ,
we h a ve had simi l ar occu rrences
at Spe cial ty Contro l Department
and we have moved s wi f tly to deal
with them . In r ecent weeks a
nu::iber of instan ces of sab otage
ha ve again been noted . For exa"ple , holes have been deliberat e ly kn ocked in plaster- board
walls and valves have been t ampered with r esu lting in destroyed
b atch e s of compone nts . There h as
been e vid ence of delibe rate a tt e~p t s t o cause electrica l equi p~en t fa ilures and other lesser
a c t s of vandalisn .
An i nd i v i dua l eng ag ed in s uch
ac t ivit y is , of course , jeopa r di zing his own job security .
~o r e t han that , though , the conseq ue nces o f wi l lful ac t s of
sabo tage c an affec t the job secu rit y o f us all by p l a cing th e
Compa ny at a disadva nt ag e in
~ee t i n g compe t ition -- fi r st ,
becaus e pr oduct fa ilures make
c us t ome rs l ook e lsewh e r e and
s econd , becaus e i nc r e as ed costs
o : ope rating, le a ds t o higher
? rt ce tags on our controls.
I t ' s c l e ar t o s ee , then , t hat a 1. 1
e~?lo:: e e ac t s in h i s own self
i~t e r E:s t wh en h e he l ps t o pro t ec t
ou r bus in es s f r on s a bo t ag e .
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R. C. Hame r
R. T. Hammond
K. A. Morris
R. I. Whitley
Children's Christmas
Party To Be Dec. 16
The Annual General Electric
Children ' s Ouistrnas Part y has
been scheduled for Saturday ,
Dec. 16 in the Plant Auditoriun .
There will be six group part i es .
Supervisors haYe already been
sun-eying Specialty Control employees for the nunber of chil dnns tickets each employee 1dll
requ i re . If you have not req ucs ted your tickets - - do so ru.\'.
Tickets will be distr ibuted soon .
CARD OF THANKS
I wish to thank my many friends
ALCINDORS SOUGHT
Anyone interested in p l aying
basketball on a SCOGEE team in
the city Recreation League contact Joe Berry, Ext . 579 .
Have A GE Holiday
Must Be Signed
All Specialty Control Department
Empl oyees will be asked to sign
new Virgin ia Withholding Exemption
Certificates in the near future.
The fonns are being dis tributed
because the St at e is increasing
the exempti on for each dependent
from $200 to $300 on Jan . 1.
Fi ll out the card according t o
the instructions pr i nted on it
and tum it i n to your supervi sor.
You shoul d compare the Social
Secur ity '.'JLUllber printed on the
form with your Social Securi tv
card. If the nLnllbe rs don ' t agree,
take your Soc ial Security card to
Payroll to have your records
correct ed .
YOU MAY ON LY NEED SEAT BELTS ONCE
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53 ,000 people lost thei r lives in
traffic accidents during 1966.
35,100 were dri vers or passenge rs
in automobi l es. If they had been
using seat be l ts, at l east 8,000
to 10 ,000 of those li ves wou l d
have been saved.
Howell Named
To Richmond Plant
Harry M. Howell
has been named
Manager-Employee
and Community
Re l ati ons fo r th e
Richmond Pl ant.
The appo intment ,
whi ch was announced by Carlton
Ge r ni, Ri chmond Pl an t Manager,
becomes effect ive Jan . 1.
A native of Schenectady, Ha r ry
grad uated from Nott Terrace High
School the re . He attended t he
Un i vers i ty of Mi chigan, earning a
bache l or 's degree i n Eng ineerin g
in 1940 and a master ' s degree in
Business Administration in 1941 .
He first 11orked for Genera l El ec tric as a dr i ll press ope r at or i n
t he s ummer of 1937, and rejo i ned
the Compa ny in Sept., 19 41 as a
student engineer, wi t h testing
ass i gnments in Schenectady, Phil~
de l phia, and Syracuse. At Syracuse , he became General Head of
Tes t of t he Turbi ne Tes t faci li ty .
In 1945, he returned to Schenectady for assignments on plant
layou ts ; as a Product i on Contro l
Supervisor i n the Control Divis i on; Assistant Superviso r of
Personne l ; and Staff Ass istant to
the Manage r of Manu fact uring,
Aeronautics an d Ordnance Sys t ems
Di. vi s ion .
Harry transferred to Pitts field ,
Mass. , in 1951 as Assistant Super i ntendent and Man ufacturin g
Contro l Data Analyst. He j oi ned
Specialty Cont rol in March, 1954,
as Specialist-Salary and \lage
Adm ini s tra ti on, and has hel d sev eral Re l at i ons pos ts s ince movin g
to Waynesboro in Ju ly, 1954. Hi s
prese nt posit i on is Manage r-S al aried Re l ations, Communicati ons ,
and Community Relations.
Service With GE
Week ending November 24 , 1967
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Volum P XI , f.'o . 8D
BECKERLE HEADS
PERSONNEL ACCTG.
Pe rs onne 1 Accounting has a
ne~1 Supe rvisor.
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He is Le roy F.
Beckerl e , 11ho
comes to Specialty Control Department from the
Ca pacitor Oe;Ja rtment at Hudson
Falls, 'l. v., to fill the vacancy
created Nov. 27 when Pau l You ng
transferred to Accounting Service!:
at Schenectady .
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
to,s
. candv. ~md frnit , c hildren
1vill be en t e rta ined with cartoons.
Turkey, Ham Is
Dinner Choice
Christmas di nner will be early
for Specialty Control Department
employees eating in the cafeteria
Hot Shoppes wi ll serve its Christmas menu on all three shifts
Thu rs day, Dec . 21 .
Included, for 85 cents plu s three
cents t ax, 11 i ll be: Garden salad.
choice of roast turkey with
dressi ng and gravy or ba ked ham
with sauce, cranberry sauce,
green peas, swee t potatoes, roll
and butte r , choice of beverages
and pumpkin or mince pie .
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Promot ion of t11 0 men to Fo reman
11as announce d thi s 1-1eek by J . F.
Ponzillo, Manager -Man ufacturing .
Promoted were Kenneth E. Cline
Technician, Qual i ty Cont rol to '
Foreman - Relay Ass emb l y , and
Mor r is J . Mayes , Tech ni cian -Ti me
Standards &Work Measurement to
Foreman - Relays, Second Shif t .
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of three yea rs of rotating as sigrune nts i n differ ent manufacturing job s i n various GE plants
aro und t he country , t oge the r
with a prog ram of manu factu ring
s tudi es .
Our program here c urre ntly has
six members on ass igrunents in
Purchas ing, Manufactu ring , Engineering and Quality Con trol
Enginee ring. They are Dick
Schule r , Geo r ge Bowman, Bill
Stei nford, Richard Vog t, Da n
Hebert and Doug McAvoy . These
me n a re gai ning valuable knowle dge of the manufact uring ( unctim
which can h elp them better unders tand their part of our overal l
busines s and prepare them for
g r ea t e r r esponsibilities .
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He is currently looking fo r a
home in Waynesboro for hi s wife,
Leona, and daughters, Carolyn,
16, and Louise, 13 .
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CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
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WEDNESDAY BOWLING
SPEAKER SCHEDULED
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Specialty
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Volv.me XI , No . 90
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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STOCK PRICES
The "Stock Price" and "Fund Un i t
Price" for the month of November,
l~, are as f ollows:
..i10ck Price
$102 .188
(Cont d . on P. 4)
Should Be Replaced
\\'ant greener greens and oranger
oranges? Maintenance 1vould like
to see you have them . Fred Curto,
~ lanager-Plant Util ities and ~ lain
tenance reports ink is fading on
some parking l ot stickers . Probl ems arc developing in the green
f~ding to blue and or ange turning
prnk .
New parking tags with nonfading
ink 1>ill be issued t o those persons requesting them. If you
have a tag 1vhich should be green
or orange , pl ease fi ll E>ut a new
request for parking tags. The
forms will be available in the
cafeteria or you may request the
tags directly from ~aintenance .
ADDED BENEFITS
The newest "rider" to the Ge~!
Electric Insurance Plan is b. 6
delivered today t o Insurance Plan
pa rtic ipants here in Specialty
Control Department.
A new "r ider" or a new certificate
is is sued each time the plan is
improved. The new "rider" should
be attached to your current certificate. Its purpose is to
make your insurance certificate
reflect the improvements which
were made in 1966 and described
in the Plan booklet distributed
late in '66.
'RIDER' SHOWS
Service With GE
Week ending December 15 , 1967
5-year Service PinsGarfond Diehl
Carl DuY'Y'ett
Meal Is
Thursday ~
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plant, which started producing power in 1966, se rves a dualpurpose . It generates enough
e lect rici t y in one hour t o meet
the power needs of the av e r age
American home fo r 50 yea r s and ,
at th e same t i me , produce s p lutonium a nd other nuclear materials
for the Atomic Energy Conunission .
Here is how it works :
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Beneath these two General ElectI'ic steam turbine generators, t he larg est
ever built, are the voltage r egu lators built by Specialty Control Department . Ha~ford No . 1, tne nuclear steam plant shown her e, produces
enough electI'icity to serve the needs of two cities th e size of Washing ton, D. C.
amount of energy are given
off as heat .
The Han f ord Nuc lear Power Plant is a $300 million complex which generates
more tnan 800, 000 kilowatts of electI'icity whi le producing plutonium and
other nuclear mateI'ials for the Atomic Energy Commission . The power
generation area is at upper l e ft . The buildings at lower righ t contain
the nuclear fue Z and steam generating equipment .
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Volwne XI, No . 91
WAYNESBORO, VIRGINIA
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r nday Is A Holiday
Chr istmas Day , is the
final paid holiday of 1967 fo r
Specialty Cont rol Department
employees .
~londay ,
CARD OF THANKS
Els ie Jones of Cost Accoun ti ng
wish es t o than k a ll he r f riends
fo r th e f l owe r s , c a r ds a nd memorial sent duri ng t he l oss o f h e r
f.-<:: r . William H. Beave r .
D. P. Altman
A. 'K. ''G!'Oat
John I~ . Beatty
John Butler
Clark S . C~npbe l l
Boyce Carson
\\. A. Copley
A. R. Dorman
Al Dryer
Ruth Gray
Frank Gum
Dixie Hanmer
Wilton Hamrick
Bill Hanger
Har ry L. Hoover
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D. H. Lutton
B. W. Boy
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Boon
wdOor
When your neighbor has fin ished trimming his tree and the
lights go on next door, you can see them g listening in the
sharp cold air of the wi nter night, the bright small bulbs
coloring all the darkness. Each time you look out the window
at night, each time you come down the street, there's some
th ing about the lights ncxt door that's warming and pleasant.
True,
tht:~e
aren 't you r lii;hts. This isn't your tree. It's your
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But here's an idea worth considering. \\'hat are your plans for
self-development in 1968? By this
time next year will you be able
t o look back with satisfaction
believing you are a better person
than you were when the year began?
One place where we might all
benefit is i n improving our education. Ar istotle was once asked
how much educated men Kere superior to t hose w1educated. His
answer: " As much as the living
are to the dead."
Are you satisfied that you have
all t he educat ion you need? ~lay
be you have all the fonnal education needed fo r the job you
arc do ing but what about the next
step up the ladder?
Many General Electric employees
are now attending night classes
at Blue Ridge Corrnnunity College
and at its South Campus (formerly
Valley Tech) at Fishersville.
General El ectric employees are
traveling to Charlottesville to
study at the University of Virginia and UVA is coming to Waynesboro
and Staunton with night school
courses .
In ad<lition , high ~ chools in
Waynesboro and St aunton offer
adult education courses , Madison
Coll ege is offering courses in
the area and Internation Corre spondence School (ICS) is as near
as your mail box.
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GE Lauds Computer
Success In Europe
The success of GE's first European time-sharing center marks
the latest in a two-year history
of successes in the tough computer market, according to Vice
President Smith. ~ve began this
service with two experimental
centers here in the United States,
In 24 months these profitable
centers have increased to 13 here
at home, one in Canada and now
one in London. They employ 28
computers. By January, anyone in
Paris with a telephone can have
instant access to a GE time-sharcomputer I I
Smith pointed out the potential of the business in t erms of
market and jobs. "Time-sharing
services are expected to account
for a major portion of the multibillion dollar worldwide information systems business by the
1970' s ," he said.
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\\leather 1wn ' t close Specialty Cont rol -- at least in the past it
has not . 111e plant has remained
open through all the blizzards
since openi ng in 1954.
However , should th is winter produce a bliz zard severe enough to
close the plant , the following
radio and t elevision s t ations wiD
broadcast the news :
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SCOCEE ' s Special h.ctfri ties Ccnmi ttee consists of Lisa Piles,
Chairman, and Dan Dondiego . Their
corronittee handles special evenlf~
zJhich do not fall within lhe
jurisdiction o."" any sr;a1 ..iing ccf'";mi ttee or for otnero roea.; ons can
best be handled by a spec1:a l
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Control Department and the aero space and defense portion of
Specialty Control \\ill t e comb ired
as a Department 1\ith rel ated aerospace and 1,ork being done e lsehhere in General Electric .
Each participant Ki ll be furnished with an annual st atement shmdr.g r.ia turity value
of bonds , stock bonus , and
accwnulated incane .
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