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* Published by and for the Employees of the Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Penna. * Vol. 7 No.11 Copyright, 1949, Hamilton Watch Co., Lancaster, Penna.

INTERIM REPORT ON HAMILTON'S 1949 BUSINESS

The watch business under normal conditions is highly sea­sonal because of the importance of Christmas gift buying. During this year we have completed the two-phase job of com­pletely restocking our customers' inventories, while at the same time we are supplying Hamilton watches at a rate that is adequate to m eet the increased postwar demand for "America's Fine Watch."

This return toward a more normal pattern of sales resulted in third quarter billings that were over a third larger than the same period in 1948, when an insufficient supply of Hamilton::; limited our shipments. The earnings results for the third quarter, which are printed below, reflect these larger sales and are excellent. By necessity they must be partially estimated.

HAMILTON WATCH COMPANY

Third Third Nine Mos. Nine Mos. Quarter Quarter Ended Ended 1949 1948 Sept. 30, '49 Sept. 30, '48

Gross Earnings . $1,310,714.35 $892,276.09 $3,095,759.83 $2,691,165.22

Selling, Adver-tising & Admin-istrative Exp. . . 535,762.60 463,069.96 1,414,833.42 1,376,611.79

Other Expenses Net of Other In-come ...... .... . 14,816.08 15,230.13 15,003.01 9,004.98

Profit Before In-come Taxes . . . . 760,135.67 413,976.00 1,665,923.40 1,305,548.45

Provision For : State & F ederal Income Taxes . . .

NET INCOME . .

302,000.00 164,000.00 660,000.00

$458,135.67 $249,976.00 $1,005,923.40

Per Share of Common Stock:

Earnings ...... . Dividends . .. .. .

1.09 .25

.56 .25

2.33 .75

516,000.00

$789.548.45

1.77 .75

For the nine month period, sales are approximately 11h % ahead of the same period of 1948, and earnings, as you see, compa re very favorably. Because of the r eturn of the seasonal factor, neither sales nor earnings in the fourth qua rter are expected to equal those of last year. It is estimated that the year as a whole will show billings that a r e perhaps 3% to 5% less than 1948. Because of the effect of necessary year-end ad­justments, earnings for the year as a whole a re difficult to estimate with accuracy. While it is quite doubtful that the excellent figures for 1948 will be equaled this year, our com­pany is assured of a good year that will m ake a further contri­bution to capital needed for successful, sound operation of the business.

R. M. KANT, President.

PRESIDENT RECEIVES " OSCAR" FOR REPORT

President R. M. Kant about to receive "Osca r of I n dustry" award from Weston Smith, executive vice-presid'en t of Financial Wor ld magazine, for t he best 1948 annual financial r epor t of the watch es and clocks industry' at the Annual Awards banquet held in the Grand Ballroom of New York's lfotel Statler on Oct. Sl • • Awa rd story a p­peared in October TIMELY TOPICS.

H ere's the cast of H amilton employees who manufactured t he minstrel's music, songs and fun.

Hamilton Employees Minstrel Show Composed Of Complete Cast Of ll Was One Of The Most Successful Enterprises Ever Sponsored By HRA

The Hamilton Employee Min­strel Show held on November 8-9-10 at Martin Auditorium in the Y.M.C.A. was one of the most suc­cessful enterprises ever sponsored by the Hamilton Recreation Asso­ciation.

From the two important stand­points of box office draw and audience appeal, the show was a four bell presentation.

The three shows given played to capacity crowds with many of the audience coming hack twice to see the minstrel. The presen­tation and poise exhibited by the complete cast of 77 employees left a marked impression of a group of veteran troupers in op­eration. Everyone who saw the show enjoyed it because it fur­nished them with laughs and mu­sical entertainment.

The chorus, orchestra and acts, all under the direction of Ab~ Longenderfer (Flat Steel) , drew a combined audience of approxi­mately 1,850 for the three nights.

Director Longenderfer , in com-

menting on the three shows, said, "This minstrel was successful be­cause of the combined efforts of all the employees who had any­thing at all to do with it. Their spirit, cooperation, and willing­ness spelled success. It was in­deed a pleasure to be associated with the show and to be able to work with so many fine people."

The complete show was com­posed of seven acts, nine chorus numbers, and a 15-minute pre­show musical program by the Hamilton orchestra.

The acts were: "Dr. Cut M. Upp" (Bill Gassman & J erome Bitzer), Dance Specialty (Jean Sherick & Nor.a Jackson), "Scrambled Courtship" (Ruth Newcomer & Wally Bork), "Style Steppers" (Paul Harnish & Bill Bennett ), "H en P ecked Coon" (Herb Roberts ) , "German Band" (James Dunn, Ira Fickes, Jr., Bob MacCachra n, Leo Miller, Charley Habecker and Bill Hartman) , "Atlantic City" (Bill Bennett & Paul Harnish).

New Union Contract Features Hospitalization And Surgical Benefits Plan And A Sickness, Accident And Disability Plan

A n ew contract covering the period from November 1, 1949, to November 1, 1950, was executed by the Hamilton Watch Company and the Hamilton Watch Work­ers' Union affiliated with the American Watch Workers' Un­ion, on November 15, 1949.

Signing for the Company were, R. M. Kant, President, and C. C. Smith, Vice President and Secre­tary. Walter W. Cenerazzo, Na­tional President of the American Watch Workers' Union, signed the contract as the National Pres­ident a nd Robert C. Frey signed as President of the H amilton Watch Worker's Un ion. The oth­er members of t he negotiating committee who signed th e con­tract wer e as follows: Walter E . Broome, P aul M. Ba rber, H a r ry W . McCullen, George Anderson,

Thomas P . Rooney, Da vid J . Har­nish and Ca rolyn Delaney.

The approved additional fea­tures to the n ew contract are the inclusion of a hospitalization and surgical benefits plan and a sick­ness, accident and disability plan. The cost of these plans for the individual employees is borne en­tirely by the Hamilton Watch Company. The weekly schedule of benefits which are payable after eight days of disability or illness for the sickness and disability plan are as follows : Weekly E amings Under $30.00 $30.00-37.50

37.50-45.00 45.00-52.50 52.50-60.00

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Weekly Benefit

$18.00 20.00 23.00 27.00 32.00

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The solo numbers by members of the chorus included, "Only Make Believe" (Julia Heida) ac­companied by Nancy Brubaker, Arlene Hoff, Bob Ferguson and Paul Harnish, "River Cha nt" (Bill Gassman), "You Are Love" (Eve­lyn Doersam), and "Why Do I Love You" (Nancy Brown).

The chorus numbers were : "Showboat Scenario," "Swanee," "Li'l Liza Jane," "Dry Bones," "Country Style" (Chorus & Or­chestra) and "Malaguena."

The orchestra selections were, "Cosi Fan Tutte" (overture) , and "Petite Suite," including "Iphi­genia in Aulis," "Orpheus," "Ar­mide," and the "Finale."

The members of the chorus in­cluded, Reba Andrews, Eugene Bard, Jane Beazley, Mary Billet, Nancy Brown, Nancy Brubaker, Janet Bucks, Mary Caulfield, Gor­don Clarke, Robert Deardorff, Harry Detwiler, Evelyn Doersam, Doris Eckman, Robert Ferguson, Robert Fickes, William Gassman,

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Hamilton's Chest Contribution 60 Pct. Above Last Year

The Community Chest officers wish to thank all employees of the Hamilton Watch Co., for their splendid cooperation and community spirit in the 1950 United Campaign - Lancaster County Community Chest Drive.

Through employee contributions amounting to $14,240 for an in­crease of 60% over the $8,900 contributed last year, Hamilton topped the leading industrial groups of Lancaster City and County in Drive increases.

Officials of the Community Chest were high in their praise and thanks for the splendid co­operation a nd response the Ham­ilton employees gave to th e Chest's request for funds. They were certain that if all the com­panies respon ded as d id H am ilton em ployees t he Drive's goal would be reached.

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Volume 7 Timely Topics

EDITORIAL BOARD WALLACE BORK, Chair., Proc. Engineering

J. ED. MILLER, Case Order Division HAZEL KELLER, Case Office

EDITORIAL STAFF General News and Production, CHARLES H . FREY

Personnel Consultant. R. A. PRESTON Cartoonist, CHARLES SHINDELL, Jr. Copyright, 1949, Hamilton Watch Co .. Lancaster, Penna.

Quotation or reproduction forbidden unless permission has been granted.

LANCASTER, PENNSLV ANIA, NOVEMBER 30, 1949

3-t ~ 7}our ~eJeraf (}overnmenf By Robert L. Johnson

PRESIDENT, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AND CHAIRMAN,

CITIZEN COMMITTEE FOR THE HOOVER REPORT

No. 3 A CAREER IN GOVERNMENT

As the largest employer of ci­vilian workers on this continent the United States Government, it must be admitted, has a lot to learn about personnel relations and procurement.

Its total civilian payroll lists over two million employees who draw combined annual salaries of more than $5.6 billions. And yet these employees, although pro­tected by Civil Service regula­tions and other safeguards, vol­untarily quit their jobs at a rate of about 500,000 a year.

Obviously there is something wrong with a concern from which every fourth worker resigns.

In the years 1945-1948, inclu­sive, the government lost 3.9 mil­lion workers and hired 2.8 mil­lion, making a total of 6.7 million personnel movements in three years.

jointly urging Congress to pass the laws that will make these savings possible.

In the field of personnel man­agement the Commission sug­gested:

That each government agency set up its own recruiting service. At present all recruiting is han­dled by the Civil Service Commis­sion.

That the heads of the agencies interest themselves in obtaining career employees of high calibre and in their advancement.

That salary ceilings be raised for career employees.

That greater efforts be made to place qualified veterans in civil employment.

When the Civil Service Com­mission was created in 1883 it had control of only 10 per cent of all applicants for federal em­

Timely Topics

John Hall This picture may prove a bit

puzzling, so here's the scoop. John Hall, Hamilton's New York Dis­trict Sales Mgr., actually caught this 61h lb. striped bass near Jones Inlet, Long Island, on Sept. 30. John decided that since he in­tended to put his boat (he's stand­ing in it) up for the winter in the garage behind him, he'd have some fun by making believe he caught the fish out of the cement in front of him.

·THE CHAMP HERSELF This turnover has been very ex­

pensive and wasteful. The cost of processing and training replace­ments reaches astronomical fig­ures. Members of the Hoover Commission task force pointed out that a saving of only ten per­cent of the government's payroll costs of $6.5 billion would mean an annual saving of $600 million.

ployment. There were then about ,_..,,_,,_ __ ~----------.

The Commission made the in­teresting discovery that dischar­ges for cause from the federal employment are very rare. The task force studied this question closely. It concluded that the same percentage of government employees were prone to ineffi­ciency, carelessness and disinter­est in their jobs as in any other organization. Yet such employees ~re kept on, the task force found, ~cause of the time and trouble entailed in discharging them.

It developed that it takes a n average of seven months of red tape, hearings, appeals and paper­work to discharge an incompetent employee. One case was found in which a "stenographer," who was unable to take and transcribe dic­tation, was finally induced to re­sign after 21 months. No less than 45 specific charges of careless­ness, incompetence, inefficiency, insubordination - and worse -were proved against this one em­ployee.

The report also studied the question of "empire building." This means the practice of some bureau ch i e f s in deliberately "building up" their own jobs and salaries by hiring unnecessary employees to do unnecessary work.

The mission of the bipartisan Hoover Commission was to delve into this and some 24 other ma­jor problems of government and to make recommendations for economy and efficiency. The Com­mission, in a 19-volume report to Congress found ways in which, I personally believe, at least $4 bil­lions a year can be saved without curtailing government services. President Truman and former President · Herbert Hoover are

100,000 federal civil employees. In the interest of fairness, the Commission applied the merit system and obtained workers through competitive examination. At that time this system was sat­isfactory.

But when the federal payroll expanded into the millions, and about 1500 different skills were r equired by government, the sys­tem became inadequate. But it has not been changed. Today there are sometimes 250,000 appli­cants for a single nation-wide ex­a mination.

A man with outstanding abili­ties needed by government can­not, as in private employment, go to the head of the appropriate agency and apply for a job. He must wait for the announcement of an examination in his line. If he passes, he may get the job. Even if he does, the time required from the first application to his actual appointment may be as long as nine months. Most of this is carried on by correspondence in a vast haze of paperwork and form-filling. The Hoover Commis­sion discovered that more than 40 per cent of all eligible candidates got tired of waiting and dropped the idea during this waiting per­iod. The Commission's suggestion for agency recruitment will over­come this condition.

The task force received some revealing opinions of the govern­ment as an employer from two interested groups. A poll of for­mer government employees re­sulted in 300 replies which were almost identical. They all said their reasons for leaving the ser­vice were (A) the low rate of pay, and (B) slow advancement in the service.

Similar reasons were given by 3448 seniors in 92 colleges for not wanting to work for the govern­ment. Only one in four expressed any desire for federal employ­ment.

The scales of pay, the Commis­sion reported, vary among differ­ent agencies, where five different

Cheryl Yvonne Smith

Larry Smith (Watch Research) and his wife, J eanne, were proud parents on the evening of Nov. 3 when it was announced from the stage of the Capitol Theatre in Lancaster that the above picture of their 3 year old daughter, Cheryl Yvonne, had just been judged the winner in the National Cutest Kiddies Search, sponsored by the Goldtone Studios of America. The first prize carried a National award of $500.00 plus other prizes.

pay policies are in force, and even within the same agency the sys­tem is top-heavy with personnel workers. The government employs 23,430 personnel workers at a combined annual salary of $76 million. This is one worker for every 76 persons on the payroll, and, in some instances, one for every 38 employees.

The Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report, a strictly non-par­tisan, nation-wide group, is now disseminating information about the Hoover Report and its possi­bilities. I hope you will be inter­ested because you, and all the rest of us, must pay, in increased taxes, for government waste and inefficiency.

THE FROST FROM THE PUMPKIN

All HMA meetings are covered by a wire recorder operated by Al Mathews (Training Supv.) .... Shirley Hearter (Personnel) came to work the other A. M. wearing two different stockings . . .. The one had · a seam, the other didn't. ... Jerry Vernon (Guard) grew tired telling inquisitive employees what the big basket inside the West Tow­er lobby was for on Oct. 17, the first day of the HRA Toy Drive ... It r eached the stage where he just pointed and said "For near-sighted basketball players." '

Rapid Roland Raver (Budget) came to work the other morning with a soldering iron fastened to the bumper of his Studebaker .... A touching scene: Fred Hauer (Prod. Scheduling) patting Sam (Prod. Con.) Bard's bald "haid" ..... Ken Aston (Watch Des.) informs the corner that his ever lovin' wife, Betty, won a number of ribbons for her canned goods at the West Lampeter Fair recently . ... He also wishes it known that the food was grown in the Aston Garden.

Some 16,000 loose leaf catalogs containing information on the complete line of Hamilton watches were sent out to Hamilton whole­sales and retailers throughout the world ... Amy Kline (Maintenance) thought "Come To The Stable" was a horse picture ... Did you ever watch the scientific manner some bank cashiers have in counting out your dough? .. They give the bills little extra pulls and twists as they count .. Then as they hand your dough through the mouth of the cage they set themselves in kind of a fencer's poise and release the moola with one last artistic flip of the wrist. .. It's marvelous what years of buck passing have done for them.

Frank Christoffel (Office Mgr.) is still laughing up his French cuff after his alma mammy, Johns Hopkins, nosed F. & M. by a point, 14-13, on Oct. 1. .. . We also detected a snicker from Ted Franklin (Asst, Sales Mgr. of Admin. Sales Dept.) when his boola boola boys from Yale put the whammy on Columbia and Holy Cross ... Our spies tell us that Cloyd Dobbs (Sect. Supv.), HMA .prexy, takes lessons in the art of gavel pounding .... Who put the squawking yellow kitten in the West Tower toy basket on Oct. 19? .. . . The little red-billed peli­can in the pink top hat frightened the feline to tears.

Twenty members of the Hamilton men's stag club attended the Eagles vs Rams pro football game at Shibe Park on Nov. 6 .... They went via Conestoga T . C .... . Our vote for the No. 1 talkative quoit pitcher goes to Dutty Duttenhofer (Maintenance) with Woody Rath­von (Dial) second and Hen Schneider (Dial) third .... That was Dick Weaver (Dial) who gave the Mccaskey High football team that pep talk before the Steelton game on Oct. 22 .... The Tornado lost 28-2, but it wasn't Dick's fault .... Cap Schaeffer (Guard) looks much bet­ter since he changed doctors . ... Wilmer Gingrich (Oil Lab.) was carrying 196 bowling average after 21 games in the City League .... He was happy but confident he couldn't hold that mark.

Every Monday noon you can find Dick Vaughan (Cost Analyst) walking up North Queen lookin' like a preacher with a book in his hand as he heads for the Second Guessers meeting at Wiggins Res-taurant ...... He's program chairman for the SG's ...... Mark Ryder (Quality Control) spent a lot of time worrying about the success of the Hamilton Minstrel. ... Now that's it's over he's putting back the weight he lost .... Pat Patterson (Machine Shop) figures he'll have that squirrel that hops around outside the Machine Shop windows working for him before the winter is over .... Pat admits he's a good squirrelman .... We won't argue the point, Pat .... Paul Gates (Fin­ishing) deals in gadgets of all kinds.

W e watched Chet Bostick (Maintenance) trying to attract a squirrel on the campus the other afternoon .... H e did everything but act like one .... All that he would have had to do was take off his hat .... The squirrel would have seen itself in Chet's mirrored dome and walked up without any coaxing to adjust its Toni. ... Ever watch the form on Joe Butson (Damaskeening) when he pitches quoits? .. . The kid looks like he's doing a curtsey at the end of a recitation .. . Moses Good (Maintenance) sent a post card from South Dakota where pheasants are so plentiful there were 44 pictured in a cluster of weeds on the card that measured 31h"x5 1h" .... Moses was on his vacation at the time and probably painted about forty extra ones in.

Dick Rinehart (Adv. Prod.) has a sign on his desk that reads, "Too Many Chiefs, Not Enough Indians" .... The 15 minute, 16 mm sound, color movie, "How A Watch Works" made by Jam Handy is advertised in Hamilton's Xmas folder .... The film is dedicated to the jewelers of America .... In the production of this movie a giant 7% foot in-line movement was constructed--exact in every detail ... Diane Bradley is new in Dealer Service .... We don't know his name (but we'll find out) about the guy who eats six doughnuts (3 plate fulls) every morning for breakfast in the Cafe) .... What amazes us is how the gu~ has any coffee left after he dunks all those doughnuts.

Charley Cibos (Esc.ape) will always bet on the opposition that faces M.S.T.C. in any; sport .. .. The Maintenance crew is getting the Xmas material in shape for the coming season .... Once again the Hamilton campus will be dressed for the occasion .... Hen Schaller (Quality Control) looked like a high strung thoroughbred on the eve of the Derby as he waited for the arrival of' his third offspring .... All of the Minstrel Show and Toy Drive posters were drawn by Char­ley Sheldon (Eng. Services) ... . Arlene Gamache is M. F. Manby's new secretary, replacing Ada Reba Bachman, who left the Company for the role of housewife.

Peggy Lou Risser (Traffic) used to be a cheerleader at Elizabeth­town Hi. ... Bob Fickes (Spec. Assem.) took all the publicity pictures of the Minstrel Show .... Art Sinkler (Dir. of Quality) gave his Ham­ilton, a Langdon seal-cased model, a workout on his recent vacation .. He wore it in swimming, and it was never off his wrist, not even while taking a bath .. .. The watch was completely checked when Art came back to work and there wasn't a thing wrong with it.

NUTS TO THE SQUIRREL

Sam Squirrel In Action

Sam Squirrel, the bushy-tailed gray who roams the Ham­ilton campus, is probably the cleverest panhandler in the business.

Sam- we're taking for granted he's a male-has a food income from many sources. Little Big Eyes first attracted attention about two months ago when he began to make friends and influence people.

Chet Bostick, nature lover and yard engineer, was the first to contact Sam. Chet lured him with a couple of shellbarks that put Big Eyes in business with Hamilton.

Sam cased the campus like a private eye. He began to branch out with his panhandling. He soon ventured over to the enclosed alley-way between the New Office Building ramp and the Machine Shop. He turned his Mae West tactics loose on the Machine Shop employees and it wasn't long before pea­nuts were flying out the shop windows.

Peanuts! Sam Squirrel work for peanuts after Bostick gave him shell barks? Why it was just like switching from cham­pagne to beer. So he played dumb like a fox. Before long the Shop natives got hep and began tossing almonds, shellbarks and English walnuts out to him.

Now Sam was livin'. Business was good and with winter staring him in the whiskers, he had his groceries to think about, so he began gathering in the nuts. He'd grab a shell­bark, inspect it closely, put it in his mouth head for a spot, .dig up the leaves andl bury it. This procedure was followed with the almonds and the English walnuts. Sam showed his gratitude by slyly working his way to Pat Patterson's work­bench where he'd sit, waiting to be fed. Nobody asked him for his autograph.

Sam's popularity was spreading. C. M. Kendig, president of the Board of Directors, spied him on the campus the other day. Mr. Kendig took a handful of shellbarks to Jack Leaman (Purchasing) and told him to lay a few of them on the sill of his office window. Jack did and it wasn't long before Sam was doing business with him.

Quicker than you can say, Pestalozzi Froebe! Teachers Col­lege, Sam had depleted Jack's supply. An S.O.S. went out to Mr. Kendig for a re-fill. The emergency was met with a big bag of shellbarks and English walnuts.

It has now reached a stage where Sam not only co.mes up on Jack's window sill, but flutter-foots his way across a table and on to Jack's desk. The other day Jack stepped out of his office for a few minutes and when he returned he found Sam in the bag helping: himself.

Little Big Eyes, who lives in a tree outside the East Tower door despite a man-made apartment for him in a tree in the West Tower sector, is putting on weight. But sam's not wor­ried. He'll check his calories later. Right now business is the nuts.

Visitors, Not Associated With The Watch Industry, Restricted From Touring Factory

From time to time you may have told a friend of yours that he or E>he could go on a tour through the factory. There isn't a thing wrong with the well-mean­ing you have in suggesting that your friend take a trip through because it denotes the pride you have in your work and the Hamil­ton Watch Company in general.

The Company definitely appre­ciates your interest, and they frankly wish it were possible to arrange scheduled trips for every­one whether or not they are con­nected with the jewelry or watch-

making industry. But for your benefit, the Com­

pany has established a policy of

not admitting casual visitors, ex­cept when the visitor is associated with the jewelry or watch indus­try.

Because our Company is situ­ated on the Lincoln Highway, a very great many Hamilton watch owners, and other intereste~ per­sons, perhaps some of your friends, as well as adjacent civic, business and social organizations, ask to go through the plant.

As a consequence, it has become necessary to establish a strictly enforced policy of not admitting casual visitors. Your Company doesn't want to seem inhospitable and it feels sure that you will un­derstand the reasons why this type of poilcy must be followed.

Timely Topics

Benner Invites Train Enthusiasts To Display

Eddie Benner (Friction Jewel­ing), the owner and operator of the Penn Mount-Lines and a miniature railroad bug from away back, invites Hamilton employees to visit his railroad display in the rear of Poff's Watch Shop (33 East Main St., Mountville, Pa.) during the coming Christmas season.

Eddie, who is a member in good standing in the National Model Railroad Association, has the only layout in the Eastern part of the United States with a catenery sys­tem (overhead wiring).

Eddie's set-up includes 700-ft. of track, 5 locomotives, 22 passenger cars, 30 freight cars, 4 complete miniature towns, 4 miniature vil­lages and a Diesel shed.

The visiting dates Eddie has es­tablished are as follows: Decem­ber 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, and from De­cember 24 through to January 2. The first three sets of December dates are week-ends with Satur­day times listed as 7 :30 to 9 :30 P. M. with Sunday afternoon hours being from 2 to 5 P. M. The week day hours from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2 are set from 7:30 to 9:30 P. M. ex­cept Sundays when the time is 2 to 5 P. M.

Work On Xmas Display To Start In Early Dec.

The Maintenance Department is in the process of planning Hamil­ton's outdoor Christmas display for 1949.

No new displays have been pur­chased to date. New ideas are be­ing developed to give this season's display a new switch over 1948.

The Maintenance crew checked the wiring on the lights on No­vember 10 to make certain the necessary repairs and adjustments are made when the work starts on the campus decorations the early part of December.

This will be the 26th consecutive year for the Hamilton Christmas display which had its beginning in 1923 when Charles F. Miller was president of the Company.

Walter Breen, Maintenance su­perintendent, is again in charge of the display.

Y U LE SHOPPING SCHEDULE

For y o u r convenience, here is a revised schedule of special Christmas shopping hours announced by the Re­tail Merchants' Bureau of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce.

The majority of down­town stores will remain open until 9 P. M. on three Tuesday nights preceding Christmas this year. The nights are Dec. 6, 13 and 20.

In addition to these new Tuesday n i g h t shopping hours, most stores also will be open until 9 P. M. each Friday starting Nov. 25 and continuing through Dec. 23.

Stores will close at 5 :30 P. M. Christmas Eve, Sat­urday, Dec. 24, and all stores will be closed Mon­day, Dec. 26 and Monday, Jan. 2.

FOR SALE

A 16 m.m. Kodak E .E. projector and case, plus viewer and splicer (Craig) , screen 52"x52", tripod and flood lights. The whole outfit goes $150.00. The original cost was $250.00. If interested c o n tac t Eleanor Henderson (Screw Mfg.} or phone Lancaster 3-6943.

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- CHOP TALK -ANYTHING GOES

Jerry Bitzer (Small Tool) , make-up m an for the Hamilton Minstrel, had a lot of experience in the art as he used to operate minstrel shows throughout this section of the country years ago . . Bob Welsh (Dealer Service) witnessed the pro tennis .matches at Hershey on Labor Day .. Jack Carter, for our dough, is the finest M.C. on t elevision ... H e's on the Varieties Show, a Sat.dee evenin' opus on WFIL Philly ... Bill Dinges (Process Eng.) in talking about buying a car, sez he thinks he'll get retreads on his stroller.

You'll be interested to know that Andy Andrews (Plate) no longer wears hip pads when he plays football . .. Large Andy sez they cramp his style ... French files fluently when Fred Lehman (Equip. & Tool Des,.) and Hugh Vaucher (Process Eng.) con­verse at noontime lunch ... Walt Geisler (Adv.) looks down the end of his nose for inspiration in writing radio copy.

Warren Forrey, new in Escape, runs Long's Park in his spare time ... Evelyn Burke (Credit Union) admits she's putting on weight since her recent appendicitis operation . . . The most pleasant sight on any Monday is Erma Munson (Payroll), who delivers the checks ... We got the bird from the Yankee fans for excluding Phil Rizzuto's name from our American League All Star team last month . .. For interesting listening, we recom­mend an earful of Slim (Maintenance) Schoenberger's World War II memoirs.

Mike Troop, the Perry Como of the Display Shop, does a nice nasal job on "Dreamer's Holiday" ... Dave Goldberg (Chem­Met) will soon be a resident of Clark Street in the East End ... John Foose (Sect. Supt.), ai hockey believer, seldom misses a puck encounter at Hershey ... Lena Walsh is the gal who col­lects your hospitalization dough every month in the Pers,onnel Dept. ... Ned Aurand (Chem-Met), who can't grow hair on his head, picked a dead fly off his knot the other day.

Pike Doman (Tabulating) gets his noontime exercise watch­ing the quoit pitchers in action .. . We think "Dragnet'', a Thurs­day nite radio show out of Los Angeles, is the finest cops and robbers program on the air ... A silly sight is Joyce Rhen (Per­sonnel) plucking h er eyebrows and yelling "ouch" with each yank .. . Dick Dietz, the Joe Miller of the Watch Research sec­tion, has a new gag everytime he stops you ... Les Erb <Insp.), a more talented angler than Gene Wiley (Flat Steen, shifted his ability to rabbits and pheasants during gunning season.

Pax Gifford (Crystallography) felt the ·Penns had a good season on the chalk stripes, but had a rough time convincing Lee lturwitz (Chem-Met) 01 the fact ... Millie Heaps (Cost An­aiysis>, who used to be a WAVE, is a follower oi. the Navy J'.ootbaJ.1 team ... Jo Bixby (Personnel) used to have a goat named Belle . . . Belle goat, oh brother! . .. Ola Vogel is new i:n the Cafeteria ... Wyn Davis (Dir. of Planning) is a graduate of Carnegie Tech, but he isn't skiboing too loudly for the Tartans' grid representatives •

Fred Walz! (Office) tells the kind of jokes that you have to wa tch him for the cue to laugh . .. Raymie Fritsch (Mainte­nance) tells us the trartic lights were erected for the safety of the two squirrels who meander across the highway during the day ... Bob Affiebach (Case) gave Fra nk l<, oose (Fiinshing) 13 points and Pitt against P enn on Oct. 29 ... Bob Nickolaus (Plate) doesn't go hunting because he got enough of it in the army . . . If you want in on some loud card playing, h ave a listen to that Service crew in the rear of the Cafe every noon.

Few persons identified H erb Roberts (·Prod. Disp.) in black face, parked on top of the piano in the picture advertising the Minstrel show .. . Roy Franz (Prod. Con.) followed the Lancas­ter Presidents football team down to Quarryville on the nite of Oct. 13 to see 'em play Columbia .. . Mose Good (Maintenance) remembers, a pet crow that used to fly in the Finishing Room window, waddle up to a vacant work-bench, lift a tiny screw­driver and fly off with it ... Apologies to Ken Derr (Eng. Serv.) for calling him, Jim ... No wonder the guy seemed unhappy the last time we contacted him,

HAMILTON MINSTREL USHERETTES

The job of ushering the people who attended the Hamilton Min­strel on the evenings of Nov. 8-9-10 to their seats in Martin Auditorium was capably and pleasantly handled by these eight attractive em­ployee usherettes. L. to R.: Joyce Rhen (Personnel), Suzanne Gramm (Office Management), l\fae Evans (Order-Billing), .Kathryn Steller, Marion Caldwell, Berneatha Wilson, A, June Thomas and Alice King, all of the Case Office.

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- JOTS & DOTS RAGGIN' THE KEYS

George Dommel (Spec. Assembly) did not go to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th games of the World Series as we reported in Oct. T . T. .. . . Sorry, George, our spies gave us the double-cross on the item . . . Johnnie Mohler (Met. Processing) and his muzzie am­bled up the other day and informed us our selection of Bob Dil­linger (St. Louis) over Phil Rizzuto (New York) in Oct. h.ad an odor of kippered herring about it ... Thanks John, and a Merry Christmas to you and your miss-placed eyebrow . . .. The chicken cackled, the dog barked, the old cow stuck up her tail and ran in the barn as Amos Hougendobler (Heat Treat.) raced through the barnyard on his way back to civilization after getting lost in the country recently.

Armand Santaniello, brother of the one and only, Bernie Santaniello; was in for a job the other day .. .. Hunting season 1949 marked the first year in 20 that Harry Shetter (Cafe) missed the first day of gunning .. . Jay Miller (Service) is think­ing about wrestling for Tick Hurst's Maple Grove A. C. this year . .. . He weighs about 150 now, but would shed to 136 .. .. . Anna Mae Rhoads, a transfer from Parts Stock, and Barbara Ann Miller are new in Production Control . . . . The tattooed im­ages on Bobby (Train) Burk's arms have a history in back of them .... He was needled is Australia, Belgium, the Hawaiian Islands and Frisco when he was a gob.

Eddie Joline (Maintenance) turned up with pink eyellds the other afternoon .... Seems the kid h.ad a siesta under his sun lamp and came up medium rare .... Charley Sieber (Parts Mvt. Vault) has the laugh that satisfies all joke tellers . . .. Anna Arnold (Plate) didn't go along gunning with her husband, Glenn, of Finishing on Nov. 1, because last year she admits he almost shot her for a rabbit . .. . Harvey "Whip" Law (Traffic) who used to be a member of the HRA Bowling League, now does his kegling in the Service loop.

If you're interested in buying a pair of lady's white shoe skates with good blades (size 8) for $5.00, contact Libby Witmer (Train) .. . . Doris Coxey (T. & C.) says the reason she's adding weight is because of her home cooking ... . Uoo, whatta brag­gard !. ... E 'd Breen (Machine Shop) has developed into our se­verest critic, taking issue to our 1904 to 1908 dates given as World War I in the Oct. edition of T. T ... .. You're so right, Ed­ward, bless your little pointed head . . A long and short combina­tion-Al Kreider and Joe Offner both of Equipment & Tool Design.

Until motorists are traffic light wise out in front of the West Tower entrance, it might be a good idea for us to play it safe by looking up and down the highway even though we may have the green light in our favor .. .. A good example occurred on Tuesday morning, Nov. 1, when a truck, speeding along, failed to see the red light and went right through while Ham­ilton employees scrambled right and left to safety .. . . Abe Long­enderfer (Flat Steel) is another guy who thinks we're all dewed in naming Bob Dillinger over Phil Rizzuto for the shortstop job on our American League All Star team .. .. He also thinks Joe McCarthy was a poor selection as mgr. of the American League club . ... It's all in the way you look at it, maestro.

Since he got several front teeth removed, Bob King, the Young Tommy Dugan of the Plate Dept., announces that his theme song is, "All I Want For Xmas Is My Two Front Teeth." .... Ken Weeks (Personnel) fired 26 shots but managed to get his limit in birds and rabbits in an hour and five minutes on Nov. 1. .. . Art Sinkler (Dir. of Quality) saw bis alma mammy, Penn, drop that 22-21 verdict to the Pitt Panthers on Oct. 29 ... George Dorwart (Maintenance) has a personalized bird call for the hunting season which bas a Bronx tone to it, aimed at guys who overestimate their bunting abilities .... The only trouble with George's call is that if you're near him when he gives it, the backwash is terrific.

We saw Amy Kline (Maintenance) downtown the other nite all slicked up and headin' for a TV set .. .. She used to be known as Janet Carr, now she's known as Janet Barr .. . . She works in Friction Jeweling .... Bill Weiser (Chem-Met) lost his pipe .. .. So if you find a bucket-a-day with a stem attached it belongs to Bill.

AN AERIAL VIEW OF PROGRESS

Here is the latest picture of the new Research Laboratory taken by Ned Aurand (Chem.-Met.). On Nov. 3, Ned set up his camera on the roof of the East Wing to Dick this clean cut shot, showing the outside brickwork of the entire building completed and giving every indication that the workmen are definitely on schedule for the early 1950 completion.

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Hamilton's Two Xmas Video Movies Telecast To Save On 31 Stations In 16 Marketing Centers

Or To Borrow,. See Your

CREDIT UNION Toda1

New Union Contract (Continued from Page 1)

60.00-80.00 36.00 80.00-100.00 48.00

100.00 and over 60.00 These benefits will cover the in­

dividual employee for a period up to 13 weeks and in certain in­stances the individual employees may receive additional benefits.

From Hamilton's five minute television Christmas movie, "To Peggy," adapted from the Hamilton Christmas ads, the above scene was snapped with "Jim" (Harvey Stephens) admiring with his \vife, "Peggy" (Jeanne Shepherd), a Hamilton he has just given her for Christmas.

Under the hospitalization and surgical plan, the Company is paying the individual employee's subscription to Inter-County, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $1.00 per month per individual em­ployee for the hospitalization ben­efits. The Company in addition is paying 60 cents per month per individual employee for surgical benefits. Additional hospitalization or surgical benefits for a husband, wife or other dependents may be carried by the employees at their own expense. The hospitalization and surgical plan will become ef­fective on December 1, 1949, and the sickness and disability plan, which will be carried with an in­surance carrier, will become effec­tive not later th.an January 3, 1950,

Peggy and Jim, who have been used to highlight Hamilton's Christmas magazine advertising, will come to life as characters in two five-minute television movies this Christmas season.

The Columbia Pictures' New York Studio has made the two five-minute movies entitled, "To Peggy," "To Jim" in conjunction with the Hamilton Advertising Department and the Company's agency, Batten-Barton-Durstine & Osborn. The two pictures were under the direction and produc­tion of Ralph Cohn, who has di­rected some 57 major motion pic­tures for Columbia Studios in Hollywood. His assistant was Jewel Bricken.

"Peggy" is portrayed by Jeanne Shepherd, while "Jim" is capably handled by Harvey Stephens. Both Miss Shepherd and Mr. Stephens are stars of stage, screen and t el­ev1s10n. Miss Shepherd has ap­peared in the stage versions of "My Sister Eileen," "Dear Ruth" and "The Glass Menagerie," while her screen appearance was in "Adventures of Don Juan" with Errol Flynn. She is a regular on the Colgate Theatre TV show.

Stephens has been in show business for 15 years. He present­ly is the 2nd Officer in the stage production of "South Pacific" and has played roles in "The Best Years," "The Party's Over," "Dis­honored Lady," etc. He has ap­peared in many movies including "George Washington Slept Here," "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," "Court­ship of Andy Hardy," "The Cheat," "King of the Gamblers," etc.

The basis for the script, written by Gil Fates for the two complete dramatizations, was taken from the copy of the two Jim and Peg­gy letters in the Hamilton Christ­mas ads.

The two movies are being used as five minute spots on some 31 television stations in 16 market­ing centers throughout the United States. The movies will be alter­nated with three showings per week in each of the 16 marketing centers from Nov. 21 to Dec. 24. This means that the two movies will be shown 192 times or 96 times for each movie during the four weeks prior to Christmas Day.

The 16 marketing centers where some 2,000,000 television sets are installed with an audience of some 8,000,000 people who will see and hear the Hamilton movies in-

elude Albany, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Ch i c ago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Lancaster, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Washington, D. C.

Locally, WGAL-TV has already shown the movies and will con­tinue to do so until Dec. 24. The exact time the station has select­ed for its five minute spots will appear in the daily t elevision col­umns of the local newspapers. Kindly consult them for the time the movies will be shown.

While Hamilton will not spon­sor a television show on Christ­mas Day, it has a gala New Year's Eve NBC video network (27 sta­tions) show lined-up from New York's Times Square where the ushering in of 1950 from the · Cross Roads of the World will be caught in all its merriment. Complete details on Hamilton's New Year's Eve show will appear in Decem­ber's TIMELY TOPICS.

The employees at the Union meeting held Monday evening, November 14, 1949, overwhelm­ingly voted to approve the terms and conditions of the new con­tract carrying on the traditional harmonious relationship which has existed over the years be­tween the Hamilton Watch Com­pany and the Hamilton Watch Workers' Union.

IN MEMORIAM Ining Lehman Swarr, 28, a

former employee in the Balance 8c Flat Steel Department, died on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 8 P. M. at his home, Mount Joy R. D. :it:I after a year's iUness. Besides his parents he is survived by five bro­thers, Earl, Lloyd, Russel, Ralph and J. Howard, the latter a super­visor in Chem.-Met. Research.

HAMILTON'S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT

The Hamilton booth at the Second Annual Lancaster County In­dustrial Exhibit was one of the classiest in the show at the Armory on Oct. 18-21. The booth, pictured above, was made by the Display Shop. One of the features of the exhibit was the glass enclosed Fric­tion Jeweling Department's jewel-inserting demonstration (on the left) with Jim Rice, substituting for Elsie Strauss and Louella Carl­son who were not on hand when this picture was taken, inserting jewels on 8/ 0 train bridges on a jewel press. Jack Conklin (Display Shop) watches Jim in the demonstration. In the center are the two attendants, Paul Martin and Charley Sharpe of the Assembly Re­search Department, while Ken Weeks (Personnel) is checking a guess slip at the guessing contest table. In the right foregrowid is a giant­sized In-Line movement with Hamilton's motion picture projector be· side it.

• SPORTS SHOP • HUNTING PHEASANTS IN PLA ITE, S. D.

Mose Good (Maintenance) spent five days (Oct. 15-20) hunting pheasants in Platte, South Dakota. He was with a group of 12, who c.ame home with the limit of 240 birds, all ringnecks.

Mose admits hunting out there spoils an Easterner be­cause of the plentifulness of birds compared with the scarcity here.

Mose and his buddies worked out of a camp and had a captain with their party throughout the five days they were in the field.

They hunted in corn fields wher.e the stalks were shoulder high, giving good vision, as they operated in semi-circular fashion. With four watchers posted at one end of the field, the other eight gunners would start the drive toward them from the other end. When a certain distance was reached be­tween the watchers and the drivers, the birds were flushed out and shot. This is the pattern of hunting in fields through­out South Dakota.

One Day's R eward

The corn fields are laid out in sections with a road sepa­rating each field. Every field is one mile square. Mose and his group hunted with permission on a farmer's private land.

Mose said they saw plenty of wild geese and ducks, but being non-residents they were prohibited from shooting them. They did shoot several jack-rabbits and saw a number of prai­rie dogs or gophers.

A South Dakota state license cost $20.00 with a cost of $3.00 extra for every county hunted in. A license is good for the 45-day season. Each license has five tickets on it, good for 4 pheasants per day or 20 birds per season.

The group did not see a single golden pheasant. The ring­necks averaged about the same weight as birds in this locale, with six to eight cock-birds traveling with one hen, as com­pared to three or four hens that travel with one cock-bir-d in Lancaster County. Platte natives admitted pheasants were not as plentiful this year as in 1948 because of the rough winter that froze out many birds.

Throughout Platte, which is located in the southern part of South Dakota, there are locker plants. At the end of a day's hunt, the game shot is taken to one of these plants where it is dressed and frozen. It is kept there until the par­ty is ready to break camp at which time each bird is packed in a separate box with dry ice. In this manner the game is kept in a sanitary condition while being transported home.

Double barrel shotguns are used by most of the resident gunners of Platte. Mose used a 20 guage, single barrel pump and had good results.

While pheasants are more plentiful in Platte, Mose ad­mitted that hunting here in Lancaster County presents more of a challange to the gunners because they have to work more for the game they shoot.

llnstrel Show (Continued from Page 1)

Lois Gehman, Donald Hall, Helen Harmon, Paul Harnish, Jack Har­rison, Julia Heida, Arlene Hoff, Edward Joline, Jack Jones, Rob­ert Kauffman, Jane Mann, Harry KcCullon, Francis Meyer, Esther Killer, Clara Moore, Dorothea Koore, Dorothy Mumma, Candace Newcomer, Leonard Pugliese, Bet­ty Rice, Betty Schreck, Anna Mae Snader, Rose Marie Souders, Beu­lah Stauffer, James Wennerholt, Alice Winters, Erla Witmer and Ira Wolf.

'lbe members of the Concert Orchestra were: Raymond Hart­man, Frank Heckendorn, Alice Johnson, Robert Lebzelter, Jo-

3 Cornered Items

Hen Schaller (Quality Control) came through with the cigars on Oct. 31 in celebration of the birth of his third daughter on Sun., Oct. 30 at St. Joe's. Little Kathy weighed 91h pounds.

anne Bachman, Louis Brethau­er, Ronald DeKant, Jean Doll, James Dunn, Ira Fickes, Jr., Rob­ert Frind, Elaine Graybill, Charles Habecker, Mrs. Leer, James Le­Van, Robert MacCachran, Leo Miller, Earl Myers, John E. Mc­Dowell, Clarence Navitsky, Har­old Quickel, Harold Rogers, Mary Rauf, Mark Ryder, Lloyd Scheid, Dennis Staley, and Elias Rudy.

Timely Topics s HMA Lists Two Events For Month Of December MINSTREL MUSINGS

The two top events listed by the Hamilton Management Associa­tion for the month of December includes the President's Banquet at the Hotel Brunswick on the 2nd, and the regular monthly meeting on the 19th in the fourth floor auditorium with Walter Cen­erazzo, National President of the American Watch Workers' Union, as the principal speaker.

The customary fun with "local talent" furnishing the show por­tion of the President's Banquet on the 2nd will again prevail, while the principal speaker will be Jim Moran. Further details will be announced later.

At this writing the HMA pro­gram committee has not received an announcement as to the offi­cial title of Mr. Cenerazzo's speech on the 19th.

WEDDING BELLS

Wedding bells rang for Marie E. Gainer (Case Of­fice) and Bill McCrea (As­sembly "C") on Saturday, November 5, at 2 p. m., when they became man and wife in a double ring cere­mony performed by t h e R everend Lester Brubaker at the Lancaster Avenue Methodist Church. After the ceremony the couple went on a honeymoon trip to New York City. At the present time they are resid­ing at 431 Nevin St., this City.

HRA Basketball The HRA Men's Basketball

League for 1949-50 will get under­way officially on Dec. 8 on the East Junior High School floor, from 8 to 10 P. M. The first prac­tice session is listed for Dec. 1. While there has been no one ap­pointed at this writing to lead the league, the matter will be straightened out before the loop gets underway.

Gassman (Works puts a face on Wally Bork cess Eng.).

-------The king-sized watch used by

Bill Gassman (Works Lab.) in the "Dr. Cut M. Up" skit with Jerry Bitzer (Small Tool) was an old Illinois Watch Co. display watch converted into a Hamilton time­piece a few years ago.

There's a story behind the three cornered sarong Ruth Newcomer (Case) pinned on Wally Bork (Process Eng.) in the "Scrambled Courtship" act. It seems that when the original request was put through it called for 54 square inches of diaper material instead of 54 inches square. When the material c8.llle in it was no bigger than a normal sized sewer lid. The mistake was caught in time to order the larger piece for Banjo Eyed Wally.

The professional manner in which the Hamilton orchestra played in its initial appearance in the Minstrel, indicates definitely the Orchestra and Chorus now go hand in glove.

Ronnie deKant (Met. Proc.), a clarinetist in the orchestra, is

TOYS FOR THE NEEDY KIDS

The "llRA Xmas Toys To Needy Children Drive" committee is finding the employees' response to toy contributions highly gratifying with the results to-date showing a room in one of the store-houses in the Barr lot crammed full of toys for distribution at Christmas time. Doris Benson (Personnel), left, and Betty Martin (Sales), two of the volunteer workers in the Drive, are checking over the toys to see just how much repair work is needed to put the playthings in proper condition for Santa's delivery. The toys shown in the room above were taken from the "Drive Baskets" in the East and West Towers and in the lobby of the new office building. December 10 is the deadline for all the toys to be in. So keep the toys coming these last ten days of the Drive and make this Christmas a happy one not only for the needy kids, but for yourself as well, for the satisfaction of giving to those in need is truly the real meaning and spirit of Christmas.

Nora Jackson and Jeanette Sherick.

quite a musician in his own right. He admits he's still learning and takes bi-weekly lessons from Dan­iel Bonade, a retired professional musician, in New York.

Harry Detweiler (Watch Des.), a member of the Chorus, slipped going up the back-stage steps at the final rehearsal on Nov. 7, and his toupee fell off.

The orchestra used twelve dif­ferent sounds to punctuate the bones in its accompaniment of the Chorus in the "Dry Bones" number. One of them happened to be a xylophone with seven keys instead of the customary eight made by Charley Debus (Main­tenance).

On closing nite, Nora Jackson of the dance team of Jackson & Sherick, came so close to stepping off the edge of the stage, that if it hadn't been for Bill Hartman (Traffic), a trombone player in the ork, pointing his slide toward her and giving out with a blast that blew her back on the stage, the casualty list would have num­bered one.

During the three nites of the show, the Make-up Department used three boxes of nut brown face powder, one tube of Tangee medium red lipstick, two tubes of Zauders' black face make-up, and a half box of Vogue red rouge.

The job of laying out the Min­strel Show program and having 2,500 copies printed was handled by Dick Rinehart (Prod. Adv.), who did a swell job.

The three pictures appearing with this story of odds and ends on the Hamilton Minstrel were taken by Bob Fickes (Spec. As­sembly.), who doubled as a pho­tographer and chorus member. Bob did a good job in both capa­cities.

One guy who got a lot of laughs without opening his kisser was Bob MacCachran (Export Sales) with his flat hat gag.

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ESCAPE GOVERNS THE RUNNING OF HAMILTONS FROM TIMEKEEPING STANDPOINT The Escape Department derives its name from the manufac­

turing of escapements in Hamilton watches. The escapement in a watch is made-up essentially of three

pieces, the escape wheel, the pallet and the roller. This is the mechanism which releases the power stored in the barrel, one tooth at a time at intervals regulated by the balance wheel exactly one-fifth of a second apart. This ingenious mechanism in turn restores energy to the balance wheel to keep it oscillating at full motion, so that the entire watch operates uniformly over a period of 24 hours.

The Escape Department is personneled by 90 employees, 59 females and 31 males. It has many different machines with ten hand operations performed in the department.

The important machine operations in the manufacturing of escapements include, escape wheel teeth cutting, escape wheel recti­fying, roller crescent milling, roller polishing, drilling arbor holes in pallets, pallet stone slotting, and pallet fork burnishing.

The ten hand operations include, heading of guard pins, cut­ting of guard pins, inserting of pallet stones, pre-positioning of pallet stones, setting of pallet stones, shellacking of pallet stones, cleaning pallet, staking pallet arbors, staking and truing escape wheel and pinions, and setting and shellacking jewel pins.

The closest tolerance that prevails in the department is in the

drilling and reaming of holes in escape wheel and hubs and pallet arbors. The diameter of each hole must be held to 1/ 10,000th of an inch.

Escape is under the supervision of John Foose, section super­intendent, with Jack Scheffer as foreman. Bob Coxey is the assist­ant foreman. The department's five job bosses are: Art Kling, Andy Jenkins, Walt Newcomer, Charley Shindell and Ken Steh­man. The set-up men are: Charley Kirchner and Chuck Milley. The night supervisor is Harry Adams.

All of Escape's work is issued by Production Control via a manufacturing order. When the order is received in the depart­ment, a requisition is made out by Bernice Hoover, shop planner, and sent to Parts Stock where the material is released to the Escape Department.

When Escape receives the parts, Bernice schedules the work in cooperation with the five job bosses and the set--up men who supervise, set-up machines and instruct the operators who actually perform the work. This procedure is followed until the parts are ready for delivery to Parts Stock as finished work or sent to some other department for further operations.

In the nine pictures below taken by Ned Aurand (Chem-Met) for TIMELY TOPICS, the major operations in the Escape Depart­ment are featured.

I John Foose (left), section superintendent, and a Hamiltonian for 47 years, discusses the toelrances on a drawing with Escape foreman Jack Scheffer,

at Jack' s desk. Scheffer has been with the Company 16 years.

2 Andy Jenkins, job boss, watches Charley Kirch­ner, set-up man, inspect a stack of esc~pe wheels on an escape wheel tooth cutting machine. Andy

has been a member of the Company for 20 years.

4 On a lock rectifying machine that rectifies the proper angle and equal spacing on escape wheel teeth, Charlotte Kirchner, with tl)e Company for

16 years, is the operator. Charley Shmdell, Job boss, inspects a piece of Charlotte's work.

7 Irene Witmer is operating a milling machine that mills stone slots in all grades of pallets, while Walt Newcomer, job boss, inspects a pallet for

smoothness of the slots. Irene has been with the Company for 22 years, while Walt has been a Hamil­tonian for 24 years.

5 The diameter of small roller is being polished on a combination roller polishing machine by oper­ator Eleanor Smith, while job boss Ken Steh­

man looks on.

8 Night supervi.sor Harry Adams is making the necessary adjustments on passing hollow and jewel pin pallet burnishing machine.

6 W ith Chuck Milley, set-up man, plug-gauging a pallet arbor hole for 1/ 10,000th tolerance, oper­ator Mary Rose, a Hamiltonian for 16 years,

performs the drilling and reamin!( of pallets on a tumbling turret head drilling machine.

9 Art Kling, job boss, is inspecting a pallet after the pallet arbor was staked on an arbor staking stand operated by Marie Lefever, 27 years with

the Company.