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Lovely To Look At- .I

HE may not be your son, Itut he's tomebody's. And if we tum our heads at the pitifulsight .f this kid, because the spectacle of "'e blood aftd gore bothers us, it's the best evi-dence in the world that we can't ~ake it. We expect him to be able to, .but we can't do itourselves.

IThere oughtn't to be anything so shocking about the sight of a youngster who is

probably banged up for the rest of his life. It's going on an ewer the world. It's not a

comforting statement to make to the fathers and methers whose kids are facing deathtwenty-four hCMolrsof the day, and we are sorry that we don't spa their feeliftgs inwriting this. But we'ye a hunch, we editors of our Labor·Manapm t newspaper, thateverybe4y in our comMunity wants to get this war over with jvat as fast as possible. Sinc~wish"'g isn't quite eftough, we haye to tltg in, eyery one of us. We have to WOt'k harderthan we ever worked before. We ".ve to put up wit" incetWeftiences we do~'t like anddiscOMNriI we are.'t uMd to.

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That, .. we s.. it, is little enough. Muc" of ",is Allied victory clep.nth Oft what wedo H workers i. tbts ituJvstry aM hew quickly we do it.

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In This Issue:

FRONT COV,ER 1

The' front cover shows the fi·nishedproduct after you have done your part.In the picture Mrs. Edith Snediker startsfuse threads into projecti Ie by hand. Fuseis tightly seated by machine.

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Better not admit that you don't like tolook at that picture, for that means thatyou-cant take it. What you have to takein looking at the picture doesn't evencount. But that boy knows what ifmeans to "take it."

.THE FIN ISH INC 'TOUCH 4

~We promised to show you what happensto the gilding metal after the boys atGreat Falls Refinery load the wedgecakes on the cars for shipment to theshell fabrication plants where they areQuickly converted into bullets and pro-jectiles. Here's the finished product.

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Production would be slowed down if itweren't for the boys in the garage at Ana-conda. These boys keep the cars andtrucks in tip-top shape, so when material .....or men are needed on a job, they are therein a jiffy, and the production line movesalong.

IT'S SUM MER AGAI N . 8

It may not seem so long to us civi lianssince Adolf Hitler violated his pledge and,Hirohito pounced on Pearl Harbor. Butto the boys who are on the firing line,time' doesn't go so quickly. The boy atthe Front is living for tomorrow when he,too, can plan-and have-a vacation insummer. Let's help him get it.

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This issue finishes our story 'on the ButteMines' Machine Shop. It's a big p1aceand there's a lot going on there all thetime, for all the equipment from the

- mines is brought in for repair. The boysin the ShOp work out of the Shop, so itwas impossible to have all the men onhand, but we did the best we could.

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Every now and then you have to admit thefact that some of the so-called weakersex are getting right in there and pitchingand doing a man's job. At Great Falls,gals are relieving the messenger boys inthe General Office.

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-Ollieial SIIDal Corps Photo

This picture was taken in New -Cuinea. Sergeant Pete.r Merkel of ,Milwaukee, Wis-consin, is dropping a projectile into a mortar in New Cuinea while Corporal Salva-tor J. Saviano assumes the gunner position. The mortar was being fired at the enemy.It is not unlikely that you, Mr. Miner, and you, Mr. Smeltermen, and you, Mr. Re-'fineryman, produced the material which made it possible for these two boys to fireat the enemy.

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. -COPPER COMMANDO is the official newspaper of the Victory Labor-Manage-ment Production Committees of the Anaconda Copper Mining' Company and itsUnion Representatives at Butte, Anaconda, East Helena and Great Falls, Montana.It is issued every two week •.••. COPPER COMMANDO is headed by a joint com-mittee from Labor and Management; its policies are shaped by both sides and aredictated by neither .•. COPPER COMMANDO was established at the recom-

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mendation of the War Department with the concurrence of the War ProductionBoard. Its editors are Bob Newcomb and Marg Sammons; its safety editor is JohnL. Boardman; its chief photographer is Bob Nesmith; its staff photographer is LesBishop ... Its Editorial Board consists of: Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F. Bird,AFL; Ed ..Renouard, ACM, from Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO; Joe Marick, AFL;_ C. A.Lemmon. ACM. from Anaconda; Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson. AFL, and E. S.. ,Bardwell, ACM, from Great Falls .•• COPPER COMMANDO is mailed to thehome of every employe of ACM in the four locations-if you are not receiving yourcopy advise COPPER COMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street, Butte, or, better still,drop in and tell us. This is Volume 1. No. 24.

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THE FIN'ISHING TOUCHSome time ago COPPER COMMANDO promised to show you all what happens to thegilding metal after the boys at the Creat Falls Refinery load the wedge cakes on the carsfor shipment to the shell fabricating plants where they make the bullets and projectileswhich will blast the Axis off the map. In this series of pictures and the story which goeswith it, we give you the finishing touch and take you to the actual fabricatiing plants

REMEMBER how the' Government.some months ago. asked the Great FallsRefinery to accomplish what amountedto a-major miracle and change over to pro-auction of a new type of product-gild-ing metal. which is an alloy of ninety percent copper and ten per cent zinc-sothat the munitions makers of our coun-try could have enough material for theirdriving bands for shells. for. cartridgecases and for other vital war purposes?Remember how the boys turned to andadapted their equipment to the produc-'tion of brass wedge cakes in record time?Remember how we told you they knockedthe daylights out of what looked at firstlike an almost impossible productionschedule and how they hung up recordafter record? Well, with that back-ground, we believe you'll be interested inseeing some of the things which happento the gilding metal they produce beforeit is put into the breech end of our UnitedNations'-guns and sent on its explosiveway to where it will do the most good forus and the most damage to the Axis.

When the gilding metal leaves theRefinery in the form of brass wedgecakes. it goes to metal fabricating plantsall over the country. There the fabrica-.4:.

tion begins. The cakes are first con-verted into strip and tubing. You don'twhittle shells out of wedge cakes with ajackknife.

There are many kinds of shell andbullets: We can't nope to tell you aboutthem all. It would mean duplication any-way. So. we'll stick to the story of how atypical shell is made and the part our giId-ing metal plays in its manufacture. Wewill show you a little about the birth of a

, machine gun .cartridge, too.First of all. let's explain that a shell

(the plural is the same, you speak of shellwhen you mean one or a hundred sameas you do about sheep) is a projectilewhich is fired .from a gun and burstswhen it lands. It is filled with an explo--sive mixture which blows up the shellcase in the right place. This is whatcauses the damage. On the other hand,a bullet is a non-explosiv~ projectile. andits damage is caused by its penetratingpower. Of course, there are 'Penetrating'shell, too, which are set to explode on theinside after they are shot through thearmor plate of a warship, for instance.Gilding metal is used for the drivingbands of shell; foe the cartridge cases ofmachine gun bullets.

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Shell 'are made from hollow steelforgings and' their manufacture is an in-tricate process controlled by precisionmachinery and careful inspection at eachstep. The forgings. as they are receivedfrom the steel manufacturer.' are ma-chined, nosed, notched" drilled andtapped and. what we are mainly in-terested in. banded near the butt endw~th gilding metal. "

.Did you ever watch a football playerkick the ball down the field? Evernotice how much faster and' farther theball would go if he got off a good "spiral"than if the ball wobbled a bit in mid-air?,Well. the driving band on the shell doesthe same thing for it. The band causesthe shell, as it is fired from the gun, torotate through the air, flying straight andtrue to its aim. Here's how! The barrelof the gun has a number of small spiralgrooves cut into the bore. This is knownas the' rifling. The driving band isslightly larger than the bore of the gun.When the shell is fired, this band issqueezed into the grooves and follows thespiral out to the end of the barrel. Thiscauses the shell to rotate as it speedsalong the spiral grooves. It gives it thetwist it needs to keep it on 'its course.

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This battery of saws cuts 37 mm projectile band sections from seamlessgilding metal tubes in a pl.....t of The American Brass Company

This machine cuts 105 mm shell band sections from seamless gilding metaltubes in a plant of The American Brass Company

shell to the' band seat, After placingthe band over the band seat it is hit sev-eral times with,a hand hammer to hold itin' position while placing it in the hy-draulic press. The press is composed of.hardened steel dies formed to the proper.radius to encircle the entire circumfer-ence. Each die is driven by a hydraulieram capable of exerting thousands otpounds of pressure. They all work atonce to press the band into· the seat andforce it to fit firmly over the pyramids or.knurl in the bottom of the band seat.

When the band has been appl ied tothe shell it is machined to a close toler ..ance to assure its proper functioning

in the shell, the band, cut from seamlesstubing of gilding metal, is applied. (Thepictures showing the cutting of drivingbands were taken in the plant 0) TheAmerican Brass Company at Waterbury,Connecticut, and you may be sure that theself-same material which you boys on theHill got out of the ground and and whichyou at Anaconda smelted and you atGreat Falls refined is shown in thesephotos) . The band is annealed andpickled in an acid solution to remove anyscale before pressing it on to the shell.The band is the same width as the bandseat and slightly larger in inside diameterthan the -shell to allow it to slip up the

In applying the band of gildingmetal to the steel shell, a shallow grooveis cut around the circumference to thewidth of the band and maybe an eighthof an inch deep. This is known as theband seat. Then triangular grooves arecut into the bottom of the band seat,going around the circumference. Acrossthese grooves, at a ninety degree angle,other grooves are formed so that thesunken surface of the band seat is a se-ries of small pyramids. This is called aknurling operation, the purpose of whichis to prevent the driving band from slip-ping when it takes the rifling of the gun.

After the band seat has been made

This semi-automatic saw cuts 3" AA proiectile bands from seamless gildingmetal tubes in a plant of The Ame·rican Brass Company

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These hydraulic rams squeese the driving band into the band seat

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This machine finishes the band to fit the gun properly --

Here they are stamping calibre .50 machine gun shell case cups from cartridge brass strip

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rhe3e inspectors are examining calibre .50 brass machine gun shell case cups at end of continuousannealing, pickling in washing machine ia a plant of The American Brass Company

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when fired from the gun. This opera-tion is done in a semi-automatic lathe,shown among the photographs, after theshell is finished, inspected and packed,ready to be shipped to the shell loadingstation.

So much for the shell. We're all en-.gaged in helping to make machine gunbullets, too, though it may be hard for usto tie up our daily work-work we prob-ably were doing in peace time--with themore exciting business of giving hell tothe laps and Nazis .. But there wouldn'tbe a bullet fired at .the enemy unlesssome of us continued to operate the skips.tend the flotation machines, pour thewedge cakes and do the hundreds ofother jobs that produce the basic raw ma-.terials; of war which we make for UncleSam's fighting men. Each of us has hisjob to do; each contributed his share tothe finished product. In the case of rna-chine gun bullets, we all help provide thebrass from which the cartridges are made.

As you know, a machine gun bulletis not unlike any other kind of rifle bul-let. It consists of a cartridge which con-tains the propellant charge. a primerwhich sets off the charge and a projectilewhich is shot out of the barrel of the gun,leaving the empty cartridge case. Thiscartridge case is ejected from the gun tomake room for a loaded one before thegun can be fired again.

Machine gun cartridges are beingused today by the millions. They spellthe difference between life and death forour own soldiers and those of. our fight-ing Allies. Upon our ability as a nationto produce plenty of them and on timelies, 'to a great extent, our ability to winthe war. The faster we produce them,the sooner the war wi II be over and thefewer good American sons, husbands and'fathers will die because they had insuf-ficient ammunition to do any more thantry to hold positions when they mightotherwise have been capturirig enemystrongholds.

Copper plays a major role in the pro-duction of machine gun cartridges. Al-loyed with zinc, after being mined inButte, smeltered at Anaconda and re-fined ~t Great Falls, it is rolled into car-tridge brass strip from which machinegun shell case cups are stamped. Thetwo photos showing these initial stepswere taken in a plant of The AmericanBrass Company. The first shows how thestrip is fed into the stamping press; thesecond, inspectors examining the cups(from which through a series of fabricat-ing operations the completed cartridgecase is made) at the end of a continuousannealing and pickling operation.

So, there you are, with everythingbut the _final chapter. That chapter isbeing written on every battle-front in theworld today. It's a chapter in which thepeople in the mines, at the Smelter andthe Refinery, are helping to write. In-deed, without them. it could never bewritten. Its ending must be-it will be-total victory .

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_ 'HERE are the boys who keep things mov-ing on the Hill at Anaconda. They'rethe ones who keep the trucks, cars andambulance ready for-and in-action.In the upper picture, left to right, bottomrow, are: Sverre larson. leo Lawler, TomJohnston, Andy Tiefenthaler, Jack Soda.

leonard Verlinic, Dan McKittrick, Robert' ,Clynn. Ronald Beck and Bill Henderson.Middle row: Joseph Siadich. Matt For-tun. Tie lee, lloyd Verlanic, Bud Wag-ner, Joe Kovacich, Joe Bickerstaff, Earlla Forrest and John Stromburg. Backrow: Mavian Browning, lames Ru:ane,

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Ceorge Kerrigan and William Wester-lund. That's Andy Tiefenthaler and JackSoda working on a truck in the lower leftshot. Willie Fedderson of the' localTram Office had come 'over to the garage,so we snapped him with Matt Fortun anthe lower right picture.

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IT'S "SUMMER' AGAIN

IT'S summer again. Time Hies, for it,'doesn't seem many weeks ago that Adolf.Hitler violated his pledge. It doesn'tseem so long ago that Hirohito pouncedon Pearl Harbor. For us civilians, whofeel an increased pace in our worJcing lifeand some restrictions in our way of living,time seems to go ~Iong pretty swiftly.

But it doesn't go along very swiftlyfor the oppressed peoples of the world.And particularly it doesn't go along veryswiftly for the men on the fighting fronts,who either enlisted when the war brokeout or answered when the call came. Inthis large scale war we are fighting, theman who is doing the fighting doesn tthave it very easy. Time drags for him;he is yearning all the time for the daywhen he can return home.

Every once in a while, some hot andsweaty soldier probably looks up at thesun and wonders hew long it is going tobe before he can see that sun from hisfront porch, or his yard, or his garden.Or maybe through the window of hi~ caras he goes to or from his work. \ Thechances are a good many fenows wonderif they will ever see 'home again, or drivea, car again, or feel the sun H it shinesClown upon them in a free country.

Sure, itts summer again. It's holi-day time, or sholiid be. It's vacatientime, but it isn't. How much longer itwill be before we can retum to a norllnalway of living is anybody's guess. Themen in high military places take the stand.that it dep, ..ds pretty much on us. If wewant our summen back again with thepleasures we uMd to have in times ofpeace, simply wishing for them WOR't domuch of a job. We must all get in titereand pitch along with the men who are Olltthere fipting for you and for lIIe if weare to again h~ve summer the l!t/aywe areused to having it and the way we all)Vant to have it again. ~

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S6 many of you folks heard CaptainHarry D. Williams, Sergeant RaymondRussell, Corporal Tibor N. Bartha andSergeant Earl Dover speak Miners' UnionDay, that we wanted you to know about•the letters they have written as a resultof their visit to Butte-: Captain Harry D.Williams of the Signal Corps had chargeof the war show. He brought along theveterans of the Pacific fight, who areback in the States recuperating.' The bul-let which caught Corporal Bartha in theback of his neck was lodged in his jawat the time he visited Butte. The doc-tors had not considered it advisable to re-move it up to that time.

or CORPORAL BARTHA wrote: "Iwant you to say 'hello' to the Butte minersand everybody else that I met in Butte.They're. all swell. -

"I am getting along swell. Theytook the bullet out of my jaw, and alsowired it up. Am now on a liquid diet."

SERGEANT EARL DOVER wrote: "Ihave been .doing a lot of thinking aboutthe nice time I had in Butte. As for me, Iam ready to go back to good 014 Buttenow. I am still planning on getting backthere some day, and I hope it isn't veryfar off.

"There isn't any use for me to tryand tell you how much I really enjoyedmy visit in Butte. I don't think there arethe words to express it. You people werevery nice to us. I hope to see all of youin the future as soon as I can."

SERGEANT RUSSELL wrote: "TheCommanding Officer just had us in hisoffice and he was highly pleased withyour letter to him. He was proud becausewe were the first patients from this hos-pital to go on a tour.

"We thank you again for every-thing."

CAPTAIN HARRY D. WILLIAMSwrote: "I wish to express my sincere ap-preciation and also that of the soldierswith me, for the kindness and courtesyextended to us while we were in Butte.

"If I fai led to thank everyone beforeI left, it was not an oversight. but merelybecause I was so full of Butte hospitalitythat my thoughts were probably runningwiki.

"I am certainly looking forward tothe day when I will visit Butte again andparticipate in another one of your cele-brations. All of your plans were perfectand the two days went off without asingle rough spot. Congratulations."

IN THE OFFICEJohn Donovan of Anaconda dropped

in the office the other day with his finelooking soldier son. Tom. John has justrecently been elected secretary of theMine, Mill and Smeltermen's Union atAnaconda.. Mayor Barry O'Leary paid COPPERCOMMANDO a call. We are alwaysglad to have the Mayor for that helps uskeep up on what's going on in the city.

Jack Clark of Great Falls reported/

at the Commando office. He gave us allthe latest dope on the happenings in his.city.

Pete Fontana of Great Falls filled inwith.the details that Jack forgot when hestopped in for a chat.

We v:.ere glad to have a chance tomeet Sam Treloar's daughter from Cali ..fornia when Sam called at the office withher. -

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tion Board came in the office the othermorning and was talking about V-Mail.Frank said he thought that the "V" for"victory" was right, for it mean's just that.V-Mail speeds up victory by releasingmore. cargo space in ships for guns andammunition.

The V-Mail system was devised forthe purpose of conserving cargo spaceand represents a savings of 98 per cent incargo space over ordinary mail. I

V-Mail is quick-it goes to its over-seas destination by air. It is safe-thenegative from which it has been repro-duced is never destroyed until the letterhas reached the country of its destina-tion.

Frank suggests that we all write ourboys overseas by V-Mail and send it byair. Let the ships carry the guns, am-munition and food which are so essen-tial to Victory. ..

PRODUCTION THE KEYWe liked what ex-boxing champ

Barney Ross, who killed twenty-two Japsin single action on Guadalcanal, said onwhat adequate production of war mate-rials means to the boys on the battlefront.Here is what he said: "Out there on Guad-alcanal, every time the radio news told usthat production at home was gettingbigger and that lots more stuff was com-ing off the assembly lines to fight with,it added to the courage and confidenceour boys already had."

Remember there are lots of boysfighting for us who need the courage andconfidence which only supplies can give.Let's give them the copper that is neededin those suppl ies.

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SOUNDING' OFFTHERE'S an old saying, "Tall oaks fromlittle acorns grow!' We got to thinkingabout that the other night arid figured out.that it applies to the war prograM. Thiswar today ,isa mig{1tybig thing. The onlyway it can be licked is by the cirganizedlittle efforts of each and every. Amer-ican. These liHle efforts, which don'tseem like much at the time, might becompared with the acorns, for they growand take on magnitude. While this iscertainly true, it is hard for us to realizeit sometimes.

Take, for instance, 'the salvaging offats program. It doesn't seem that a littlebit of fat counts for much. We alwaysthrew it away before, and it is hard to get'out of the habit,. BUT every pound.of fatsaved will produce enough glycerine tofire ten rounds from a .50 caliber airplanecannon pointed at the Japs. Just imaginehow many rounds can be fired at theJaps if everybody saved their fat. That'swhen the tall oaks would appear and thestrength would be 'felt.

'When Uncle Sam asks the women tosalvage was"te kitchen fats, he is NOTasking for fats which can be put to goodcooking and diet use. Only what is leftover after edible fats have been used infoods and served their full diet purposeshould be turned in for salvage.

Fat is energy. That goes for guns aswell as for men. The same fat wh'ichsupplies men's bodies with energy forgrowth and activity supplies the energywhich fires the shells from anti-aircraftguns and airplane cannon. That's whyno tiny bit of fat should be allowed todrift down the drain or be thrown in t~egarbage can.

Waste fat contains glycerine. Cly-cerine is the essential ingredient in thepropellent powders which start a shellwinding its way toward the enemy.America is short of glycerine because the·Japs control the areas from which thegreater p~rt of imported fats and oils wereformerly imported. Naturally, the Japswant to hold off our Victory by keepingcontrol of those areas.

But you, Mrs. Housewife, can beat.the Japs 0., that maneuver - by usingava'ilable food fats to their fullest extent,using them first to keep your familystrong, and salvaging, instead of wasting,whatever is left over.

The same thought applies ~o theman working on the' same humdrUM jobwhich he has been doing for the la... 80many years. Fact is, his job may seem veryremote-to him-from his idea of war.But they can't do much on the Firiftg Lineunless there is the individual effort fromall of us doing all these--to us-littlethings, like acorns, which in the end wiUmean truly tall oaks against the enelllY.

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MRS. JOAN GLYNN. pictured below. isthe' mother of the three healthy young-sters shown having their breakfast. Sheis the wife of Bob Glynn. who works atthe garage on the Hill at Anaconda. Hughis' three years old. the baby is sevenmonths and Eleanor is six.

Joan has two brothers in the Army-one in the United States and one over-seas. Bob, her husband. has a brotherstationed in Panama. They, like millionsof other young couples. want to do every-thing they can to co-operate with the warprogram.

It's up to Joan to provide goodhealthy food for her family. She says shelikes Ito experiment and offers' theserecipes as "tried and true." They are redpoint savers, too.

Joan says: "I take a pound _ofporkliver sliced about one-half inch thick! Icut the liver into two-inch squares androll it in combined flour. salt and pepperand brown it in lard. When it is wellbrowned I remove the Iiver from the fatand add" two diced scraped carrots. sixpotatoes. sliced one-fourth inch thick,one onion diced. and brown them slightly.Then I put the liver back in the pan withthe carrots. potatoes and onion and addone cup of tomato juice and one cup ofboiling water. t cover the pan and let itsimmer for one and one-half hours."

"Another recipe we like." Joan says,His baked stuffed beef heart. Here's theway I fix it:' For three to four pounds ofbeef heart. I use three slices of bacon. onecup of fi'ne bread crumbs, one small

•onion. salt. pepper. flour for dredging andlard for browning. I wash the hearts andremove enough of the center portion topermit addition of the dressing or stuff-ing. I dice the bacon and fry it until crisp' .and combine with the bread crumbs andfinely minced onion._ I season the cavity

. in the hearts and fill them with stuffingand fasten with skewers. Then I roll thehearts in flour and brown them quickly.in hot lard, in a heavy kettle. I add asmall amount of water, cover and cookslowly in a moderate oven (350° F') untilthe hearts are done-usually about twoor two and one-half hours."

•"Baked lima beans and baconsquares is a dish I like to make on washday," Joan said. "I take a quart of driedlima beans and soak them in cold waterovernight. I drain off this water, coverthem with fresh water and cook slowlyuntil the skins break. I use a. poundbacon square and just pour boiling waterover the square. scrape the rind untilwhite. cut it into one-inch squares andpress into the beans. leaving only the rindexposed. Then I mix two tsp. of salt,one ·tbsp. of brown sugar. one-half tsp.dry mustard. one-half tsp. Worcestershiresauce and one-fourth cup of dark molassestogether. add one cup of boiling water toit and pour it over the beans. I cover thedish and bake in a slow oven <250-300()FJ for six to eight hours. adding addi-tional water to keep the beans just cov-ered. I uncover the dish during the lasthaff hour to brown the pork and thebeans."

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ButteMa~hineShop

The boys ,in the Butte Mines9 MachineShop all realize the iMportance of theirjobs. They are the boys who keep the ..equipment for the mines in tip-top work-ing condition. In turn, the repaired-like-new machinery helps keep the vital orerolling toward the Fighting Front.

IT stands to reason that the ButteMines' Machine Shop, finished last year,would of necessity be a big place. It's tothis Shop that tram motors used for haul-ing the ore, parts for the mine cages, cen'-trifugal pump units, ventilating fans andother mine equipment are. brought for re-pair. We thought you would like to seeit all, so we broke the story into threeparts. This is the third and last of ourseries ~n the Shop.

It takes a great variety of tools toturn out the jobs .brought in for repair.Each tool has its own niche as you cansee in the upper I'eft picture. No timeis wasted looking for the right toolneeded for the job: for the filing system, in the tool room is kept up' without ahitch. That's Tom Kelly. Tom Johnsonand John White working in the tool roomin the picture.

Ted Backstron in the upper rightpicture is known around the Shop as thegeneral pinch hitter. The boys all agreethat Ted is well qualified to take over inan emergency. When we got this shot ofTed, he was working on a centrifugalpump unit for the Mountain Con Mine.

In the center picture the boys werelooking over the locomotive motorsbrought in for overhauling. There aretwo hundred fifty locomotive motors used

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underground and usually there are abouttwelve of them in the Shop being over-hauled. The boys do a thorough job ofoverhauling them. The motors are com-pletely torn apart when they are broughtinto the Shop and then they must be re-assembled before they are sent backunderground. Frank Laird, master me-

Ichan ie, and AI. Skoog. shop boss, werechecking over the locomotives justbrought in when we snapped them.That's Lew Garwood kneeling in the pic-ture. Lew was starting the dismantl ingjob. Henry Gutzman and John O'Neilwere working on the tram motors. These

. .: tram motors are used for undergroundtramming.

Harry Fluent, AI Heimbach, ConDennehy and Tom McKiernan were over-hauling a Granby mine truck when we gotthe shot of them in the bottom pictureopposite page. This picture gives a goodidea of just how the underground equip-ment is dismantled so that each part canbe checked and repaired if necessary.

John Bronson and Arthur Perry wereoverhauling a mine mechanical loader inthe upper left shot. These mechanicalloaders are used to shovel the ore intothe cars.

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In the upper right picture, FrankMcHugh and Dick Haake were testing a700 horsepower motor for the High OreMine's centrifugal pumps. This was forthe new unit. which was being installedat the time at the High Ore PumpingPlant.

A timber hoist had been brought infor repair. We caught Tom Mitchell inthe lower left shot getting. it ready foranother .shift.

In the new Butte Mines' MachineShop there are three electric seven and ahalf ton overhead cranes. All three arekept busy lifting the broken partsbrought in on the trucks to the·right spotfor their overhauling in the Shop. GeorgeBerry and Charlie Christman were un-loading the blowers of a hi-speed fanused in the mines with the help of acrane in the lower right picture.

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Who Says J-f's a Mao!JsWar?;

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WE talk a whole lot abo'ut our he-men soldiers and sailors and marines and we wouldn't take a thing

away from them for the world but, by golly, every once in a while you 'come smack against the fact

that the so-called weaker sex is doing a job too. Up at Great Falls the other day we noticed that t·he

two young messenger boys in the Ceneral Office had marched away to war and that they had been

replaced by these two gals-Lois Dillman and Mary Ellen Wh,itaker. They deliver mail, receive visitors

and make themselv~s generally useful. Both, are sixteen years old, botl. of them want to be stenogra-

phers, and we ,ot this picture of them on 'the first day of their first -job. These youngsters have come

to pinch-hit for two other youngsters who have gone off to war, and if this doesn't give you the idea

that this is everybody's war, we miss our guess •

...

•Sure it's everybody's war. It's yours and mine and the fellow's across the street and the gal's who

lives upstairs. There aren't any. restrictions on your taking part. You don't have to wear a uniform to

hel~ win this war. You don't have to fly a plane Or operate a tank. As an American, anxious to get

this thing' over with as fast as you can, you can fit yourself into your job and make that job impor-

tant to the winning of the war. Victory needs everybody •• I'- •

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• 12 • - JULY 16, 1943