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MI~E REBARis one of the old guard among thesine strippers at Creat Falls. He has been theresince 1925 and is a great worker for the com·munity. He serves on the Victory Labor-Manage.trient Production Committee.

OSCAR HILLS. veteran Butte miner, has the un·usual honor of havi"g four sons in the service, allin the Navy. Oscar has served on his lodl draftboaid and is glad now that the job is finished.

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*One of our editorial mottoes is: There isalways somet ..ing interesting about every·body. When your editors meet the pee-pie, they try to find out the things aboutpeople that will interest you, our readers.On this page we want you to meet fellowsfrom Butte, Anaconda and Creat Falls~from Rocker and Conda, Idaho. We foundout something interesting about everyoneof them and we' only WIsh we had spaceto tell you more about each. Step up andmeet these folks who stayed on the warproduction front until victory was won.

HOWARD KITTO, boss machinist at Rocker, andE. P. DAWSON, Rocker superintendent, exam-ine a model "framing machine. These men helpedkeep the mine timbers going during the crisis. *

JOE PFISTER i. the ianitor at the Research Labat Anaconda and has been around the Hill since1891. At 73, Joe i. the unofficial weather manfor the bo,s in Reseaf$h, who say he never milse ••

"LEFTY" REICHELT is a sine .tripper at theCreat Falls Reduction Works. But he's bestknown as one of the ablest pitchers in the state.He say. he hal no ambition. toward pro baseball..2.

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OLE STOKKE is well knowl\oaround the Smelterat Creat Falls, where he has been for forty years.Ole, who has a son who was with the First Armyunder Ceneral Hodges in Cermany. is glad thatthe war is over.

CARL and MARIE SKINNER are two of the folkswe met during our visit to Conda, Idaho. The shiftover, Carl took his wife hunting and came backwith the goods. We know because we had some.

WALTER HAKALA, shaft miner at the Emma inButte, stayed with the job through the whole war.We interviewed Walt once before about threeyea,. ago and he predictetl a lona wo)••

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COPPER COMMANDO is the officialnewspaper of the Victory-Labor.:Manage-ment Production Committees of the Ana-conda Copper Mining .Company and itsUnion Representatives at Butte. Ana-conda. Creat falls and East Helena, Mon-tana. "Itis issued every two weeks ..•COPPER COMMANDO is headed by ajoint' committee from Labor and Man-agement. Its policies are shaped by bothsides and are dictated by neither . . •COPPER eOMMANDO was establishedat the recommendation of the War De-partment with the concurrence of theWar Production Board. Its editors areBob Newcomb and Marg Sammons; itssafety editor is Joh., L. Boardman; itschief photographer is AI Cusdorf; its staffphotographer is Les Bishop ... Its Edito-rial Board consists of: Denis McCarthy,CIO; John f. Bird, AFL; Ed Renouard,ACM, from Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO; JoeMarick, AFL; C. A. Lemm'on. ACM, fromAnaconda; Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donald-son, AFL, and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, fromCreat Falls ... COPPER COMMANDO ismailed to the home of every employee ofACM in the four locations--if you arenot receiving your copy advise COPPERCOMMANDO at 112 Hamilton Street,Butte, or better still. drop in and tell us.This i. Vol. 4, No.1.

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.FRONT COVER _ - 1This is the editorial board of Copper Commando from labor and management. You can read about themin the editorial on page 6.

PEOPLE ARE INTERESTI NG 2Here are friends of yours and ours in several western locations. Let's have a look at them.

THE STACKS ARE REAL PEOPLE 4Tom Stack, boss carpenter at the Mountain Con, has a home and garden to be proud of. Come alongand meet "Big" Stack.

ALWAYS CLOWN IN' .: _ ~ _ 6Frank Panisko is a pumpman at the Leonard Mine, as many folks know. But he is a clown as well and hekeeps t~ kids in stitches.

TI ME ON AN DOFF _ 7Jim Logan at Great Falls is no slouch as a pipefitter. And he's no slouch as an artist either, as this storywill show you. .

MURDO MADE GOOD , _ _ 8Here's the story of Murdo McMillan who landed in Great Falls broke many years ago, but came upsmiling. It's a story worth reading.

PEOPLE eET TOCETH ER 9Here are Anaconda and Great Falls groups of folks you know or should know. 'Let's hop around a littlebit and say hello to these people.

PEOPLE DO TH INGS ._ 10Here's the story of Art lames and the interesting model he made in his own back yard. Art is an artist.too. And on this page are other stories about other people.

TttE TRAMWAY WI NS _ 0 •••• 12In [ulv the Tramway walked away with the safety flag. We're proud of these boys who work safely andwe've got two group pictures of the day and night shifts to show you.

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This is.J view of the home of Tom Stack and his wife in DuHe. That's Mr. and Mrs. Stack on the front porch.

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IF YOU'RE out around the 3100 block onState Street in Butte during a late sum-mer evening, you'll notice the cars slowdown as they pass. Necks crane out ofwindows.

No, it isn't an automobile accidentor a couple of kids fighting. They arelooking at the house and garden of TomStack and his wife. It is one of the gardenshow-places of the community and wehad heard so many people say that flow-ers won't grow in Butte that we decidedto go out and see for ourselves .. You cantell your friends that that flower story isa myth.

Tom Stack, as most of the men onthe Hill are aware. is the boss carpenterat the Mountain Con mine. He has livedin Butte for fifty-five years and has beenan employee of the company for forty-three.

Tom learned carpentry on the Hill.After his mother died in 1901. Tom andhis dad and brother lived together. andTom started to work with his father at theMountain Con.

A staunch union man. he was one ofthe organizers of the Butte Elevator andBell Boys Union in 1900. and he joinedthe Butte Miners' Union in 1902 when hewent to work as a miner. He shifted overto the Carpenters in 19} 5 and has packedhis card ever since. He has been boss car-

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penter at the Mountain Con since 1934;he has three carpenters and two sawyersworking with him. They work on fram-ing the timber for the mine.

Tom has been married for thirty-nineyears. As he puts it, after ten years he gottired of paying rent so he bought the lotson which his home is now situated andbuilt the house. He did all the work him-self with the exception of that done bythe bricklayers. The Stacks have fiverooms and bath and a full basement underthe house. They planted trees and flowersthe first year they were there-they havemountain ash, cut leaf birch and Russianwillow, box elder and wild plum trees.One apple tree bears fruit also.

It is the garden that really catchesyour eye. Mrs. Stack, who suffered a seri-ous illness some years ago, has broughtherself back to excellent health by work-ing daily in her flower gardens. She putsin about six hours a day in the garden.The Stacks' rock garden is made of vol-canic rocks which she brought from MillCreek Hill not far from Anaconda. In ad-dition to a number of cactus plants, Mrs.Stack has about twenty varieties of rockgarden flowers.

But that's only the half of it: thereare around one hundred varieties of flow-ers altogether. There are fourteen lilacbushes alone on their lots-s-Tom.and hiswife have three lots. The Stacks havetulips for early spring, peonies, around adozen rose bushes and iris. That doesn'tmention the perennials such as poppies,delphinium, columbine and pinks. Andlet's not forget the nasturtiums, sweetpeas, dahlias and pansies. Flowers andferns are to be seen everywhere. A spacebetween the sidewalk and foundation isfilled wi-th snow-in-the-mountain.

Mrs. Stack is properly rated one ofthe best cooks in town. She cans aroundtwo hundred quarts of fruits and vege-tables each year and she bakes number-less pies and cakes for Tom's bucket.Without any persuasion whatever, shegave your editors a quart of the bestpickles you ever tasted; as well as currantand raspberry jelly. •

The Stacks have one son, Charles,who works for a Jocal fuel company, andtwo grandsons. Charles, [r., ten, and Wil-liam, four, who are the apples of theirgrandparents' eye.

It hasn't always been smooth goingfor Tom Stack. He has come along theroute the hard way. When his wife be-came gravely ill and medical attentionwas needed at Rochester, Tom naturallyfelt the drains on his purse. He has beenobi iged to take her back several timeseach year but she has now .rounded thecorner and is on the way to complete re-covery. Of course both she and Tom feelthat the garden has had a great deal to dowith it because it has given her new faith.

Tom would be the last to call his asuccess story. He doesn't care for successstories, he would tell you, but he has agreat confidence' in the ability of theworking man to stand on his own feet •.

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Tom and his wife relax in chairs which Tom built himself.

Thanks to Tom, Mrs. Stack enjoys modern conveniences in her kitchen.

Tom "t~kel five" ill the home which he built "imself.

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Always Clownin'ALWAYS c1ownin'! That may be said ofa lot of folks, but when it is said of Frank'A. Panisko, a pumpman at the HighoreMine in Butte, it's true. He is alwaysclowning, for that's his hobby. Frank, bet-fer known as "Peneek," has been in thecircus game since 1934. For two years he:traveled through the western states withthe AI C. Barnes and Sells-Floto Circuses,sometimes as a clown and sometimes asa painter or cook-anything so as to bewith the circus.

Frank says that circus life gets inyour blood. but when a man marries it'Is a little difficult to convince the "Iittlewoman" that there's nothing like travel-:lngwith a circus. So with.marriage Franksettled down in Butte and started to work~t the Leonard-first as a nipper andJater, before the war, as a guide for vis-

itors and for the last four years he's beenpumpman for the centrifugal pumps andonly recently was, transferred to theHigh Ore. But because he can't get thecircus out of his blood, he is a member ofthe "Circus Fans' Association of Amer-ica" and makes arrangements for theordering of food and other requirementsof the circus while it is in town. Rightnow he's been making arrangements forthe arrival of the Ringling Bros. Circus,next year.

Frank likes nothing better than todon his clown gear and put on a showfor the kiddies, for he says there is "nogreater reward than the smile of a child"and every child loves to smile at a clown.Frank is shown above with his own threechildren, Mary Kay, Francis Edward andEddie Joe. outside their home at 1225V2West Broadway..6.

The War Is OverWITH this issue, Copper Commando en-ters upon its fourth year. The last onewas the most exciting of all because we,like yourselves, saw the tide finally turnin favor of the Allies and watched the warcome to an .end.

Our function as " war productionnewspaper is over but we cannot close thechapter without expressing our thanks tothose hundreds of readers who havehelped us fill the pages of Copper Com-m.1ndo during the past three years. Eirstand foremost we want to express ourthanks to our editorial associates-thosemen from the rank!i of management andfrom the ranks of organised labor whohave generously given of their time. Theirsuggestions .and c-onstructive criticismshave kept us, we hope, on the beam.

That's our editorial board on thefront cover. If you turn back to it, onthe top row you will see E. S. (Bard) .Bndwell who is the editorial representa ..tive of ~he Anaconda Copper MiningCompany at the Creat Falls ReductionWorks. Next to him is Denis (Denny)McCarthy, the representative of the CIOin Butte.

In the second row we have Dan /Byrne, our CIO contact man at Anaconda;then J. F. Bird, the AFL editorial board 'member from Butte. Next to him is E. I.l(Ed) Renouard" the Anaconda Companyeditorial board member in Butte.

Jack Clark, CIO representative atCreat Falls, and Joe Marick, AFL repre-sentative at Anaconda, are shown in theth'ird row. In the fourth row are HerbDonaldson, who is our AFL adviser atCreat Falls; John Boardman, who is oursafety editor for all locations, and AI Cus- .dorf, our chief photographer. In the bot-tom row are C.'A. (Charlie) Lemmon, theCompany's editorial representative at theAnaconda Smelter, and Les Bishop, whoteams with AI Cusdorf in Butte as staffphotographer.

Take it from us, they are a greatteam. Your editors have worked withtl.is editorial board without a hitch, so wesay publicly: Many thanks!

But our appreciation doesn't endthere. We'd like to have all our readersknow that the ideas for articles and storiesand pictures actually don't originate withyour editors, much as we would like totake the credit for it. This might startleyou a little, but over a period of threeyears nearly every article which has ap-peared in Copper Comma'ndo has beensuggested to us by some reader. The ideamay come in rough form, granted, but , .the germ of the idea is always there. Wedevoted an issue recently to the young-sters at Columbia Cardens and WashoePark, and it came about simply becausea miner's wife thought it might be an in-teresting issue to prepare.

No publicaton can survive withoutthe interest and help of its readers.We're just darned gl.1d we have so m.1nywho help so much.

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I 'Time On and Off"Time on" to Jim Logan means picturingthe job and then constructing it in thePipe Shop at the Zinc Plant in CreatFalls. "Time off" to him means a chanceto picture and reproduce the vision withthe aid of paints. Off or on, Jim createswith his hands and has every right to beproud of the results.

No amateur is Jim Logan-and that goesfor painting as well as pipefitting. Jimworks by day at the Pipe Shop at the ZincPlant in Great Falls, but his evenings aredevoted to his art work, and he's a top-notcher at both.

Born near Fort Benton, Montana, Jimcame to Great Falls with his family in1921. He studied art in school and vari-ous artists around. the state, recognizinghis talent, urged him to continue his stud-ies. However, Jim's father, formerlyemployed in the Carpenter Shop in GreatFalls, died in 1928 and Jim felt that itwas up to him to help at home. He hadset pins at the ACM alleys while in schooland knew quite a few of the fellows at thePlant, so he approached W. E. Mitchell,then in charge of the Zinc Plant at GreatFalls. Jim said: "lowe a lot to Mr.Mitchell, for he took me in when I wasa kid and gave me a job in the Rod Millwithout my having any experience. LaterI became interested in pipefit ting, for tome with pip~fitting first you visualize thejob and then construct it. I transferredover to the Low Line Pipe Shop in 1934

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and later moved on to the Pipe Shop at theZinc Plant. I've liked it, so I've stayed."Jim is secretary-treasurer of the UnitedCrafts, AFL, in Great Falls.

Jim started with water colors butnow he does oils as well. Wood engrav-ings, linoleum cuts, charcoal and crayondrawing are all in his collection, too. He'ssold a lot, but still has a nice collectionwhich has been exhibited in a "one man'sshow" at the Butte Art Center and in1943 at the Civic Center in Great Falls.(He's president of the Great Falls ArtCenter.) His work has been included in

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a traveling exhibit and reproduced inthe Survey Graphic Magazine. Jim'sinterest in the Plant at Great Falls is evi4dent in his art work. He has water colorsof the construction of the turbines atNo.1 Boiler Shop and one of the river bedshowing the Black Eagle Power House andthe Big Stack in the background and many•others of jobs at the Plant.

. When you have a chance, look upJim Logan at the Pipe" Shop .at the ZincPlant and have him show you his coll=c ..tion. You'll find both him and the col-lection most interesting.

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At the top are ~urdo McMillan and his family.Above, Mrs. McMillan slices her home-made

bread. At the ....ight Murdo relaxes in his gardenafter working hours.

THIS is the story of Murdo McMillan. Wethought it was mighty- interesting, andwe think you will too. Let's take it as ithappened and highlight the life story ofthis little Scotsman who came from theold country when he was fourteen yearsold, landed at the Great Falls ReductionWorks in 1923 without a dime to hisname, and today has built not one butthree homes for himself.

Many folks know Murdo, who worksat the Zinc Roasters, and many old-timersremember the old Employment Office atthe plant where the swimming pool isnow located. Several years ago he boughtthe building from the company, tore itdown and salvaged everything but thenails. From it he built his house at 1820Eighth Avenue. Previously he had builta house at 1816 Eighth Avenue and sincethen he bought the house he now lives inat 17·15 Pifth Avenue. He has an apart-ment upstairs which is rented and alsohas a small house in the rear which isrented.

When he was fourteen, Murdo wentinto the Merchant Marine and then set-tled in South America. He came to Mon-tana in 1909 and for nearly ten years heranched. But the odds were against himand he went broke.

The house he rebuilt from the ma-terials contained in the old EmploymentOffice is now thoroughly modern. He andhis wife did all the decorating and paint-ing. Mrs. McMillan, friendly native ofNorway, took her sponge and dabbed thepaints so as to give the walls a stippledeffect. The prospective tenant who lookedit over liked the house on the spot and thehouse hasn't been vacant since.

The McMillans have two daughters,Margaret and Jenefe. Mrs. McMillan isan excellent cook; she bakes all her ownbread and pastries and cans seven or eighthundred quarts of fruits and vegetables ayear.

Murdo believes that, once in a while,•people have to go broke through condi-tions beyond them. But he believes thatnobody needs to stay that way.

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WHEREVER we go we see interestinggroups of people getting together. We arealways interested in knowing of theirmany activities. On this page we showthree groups. Let's see the reason forthese particular get-to-gethers. In thepicture to the right from left to right areWibaux Holliday, chief telephone oper-ator at the Smelter at Anaconda; MyrtleRei Ily, telephone operator ; Tom Leonardfrom the Purchasing Department; PercySundberg from the Laboratory SampleMill; and Harold Powdri II, secretary toW. E. Mitchell. We got this picture ofthem as they arrived for a War Bond Drivedinner held in the Montana Hotel.

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NOT the ones to "be all tired out fromstanding over a hot stove all day," the galsof Great Falls have hit upon the idea ofhaving a potluck dinner at least once aweek. In case you're not familiar withpotluck dinners: Each gal brings along acontribution. The hostess usually pre-pares the meat course, coffee and dessert.In this way none of them have to spendtoo much time preparing the dinner andthey can all get out in the afternoon.In the picture to the right are Lawrence(Andy) Dunkin, weigher in the ZincPlant: john (Bud) Grady' from the Elec-trolytic Copper Refinery; Mrs. Grady,Mrs. Dunkin, Charles (Chuck) Schatzka,who works in the Warehouse, and Mrs.Schatzka. After dinner, they play cardsas is shown in the picture, which wastaken at Andy Dunkin's home at 3325Second Avenue North. Andy and his wifebuilt it and did most of the 'work them-selves, and the result is certainly a homeof which they can be proud.

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FOR the past six years the fellows in theBlacksmith Shop at Great Falls have allpitched in and bought a turkey for dinnerin the shop on Thanksgiving Day. The pic-ture at the left shows them all ready towhack it up. Left to right in the pictureare Rudy Wertin from the Pipe Shop nexfdoor, Louis Kuckenmeister, superintend •

. ent of the Blacksmith Shop; Joe Evans.Jack Shryne. Maurice Muzzana, LeonardSkog, Pete Gaudatis, Mark Vukasin, JackPetrini, and that's Bill Whitehead seated.They provide the trimmings to match upwith the turkey, too, for as you can see,if you look closely, there's plenty of dress-ing in the bird and there's cranberry jell,01ives, pickles, coffee and mi Ik to roundout their Thanksgiving treat. The turkeyshown weighed twenty-two pounds butthe fellows reported that only bones re-mained when the feast was finished.

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Here's Arthur H. James, w'!o works on the fan bags at the St. Lawrence Mine, standing beside his miniature mining camp which he made himself.

People Do Things_-ARTHUR H. JAMES is not unlike a post-man who takes a walk on his time off.Twenty years at the St. Lawrence Minehas meant that each and every detail ofthe mine is indelibly imprinted on hismind and he says it was fun for him to sitdown in his spare time at home and makeminiature replicas of the gallows framesof the St. Lawrence.

Not content with the gallows framesalone. Arthur has gone much farther. Ina shelter eight feet long, four feet wideand about six feet high at the rear of Ar-thur's home at 527 South Wyoming inButte is housed one of the most attractivedisplays we've ever seen. Arthur hascarved animals and people and made tinybuildings all electrically lighted. As youcan see from the picture, snow-cappedmountains are in the background andthrough them the tiny automobiles movewith help of a string cable. The moun-tains are made of cement, and painted.

If you look closely you can see thewaterfall that forms the lake which hasnatural trees growing around it. Thewaterfall is a result of the ingenious ideaof having a faucet behind it supplying thewater, which is discharged into a bucketunderneath the display. In the displayare found a filling station, a store, farmhouses, cabins, cattle, pigs, a pack mulewith a man leading him, a lady pushing ababy buggy, a man with two greyhounds.a playground with a supervisor, childrenon the swings, the bars and the chute-the-chutes, ducks on the pond, geese flying,an airplane, a prospector's hole on the sideof the mountain, two tunnels into themine with the cars going in, an ore binbeing loaded with ore, and a loaded elec-tric motor car, a station tender ringingfhe bell and a motorman standing by themotor.

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On this page we show you a picture ofArthur H. James, standing beside theminiature mining camp which he has ondisplay at the rear of his home at 527South. Wyoming. Also, on this pageyou'll read about Catherine BruceYoung, wife of Archie (Scotty) Youngof the Creat Falls Zinc Research Depart-ment, and Corporal Franklin H. Harris, aformer employee of the Creat Falls Re-duction Works.

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about one-half hour to carve a figure, anda full evening for an animal. He spenttwo evenings constructing the replica ofthe St. Lawrence gallows frames and anevening or so on most of the tiny build-ings.

Needless to say, it has taken infinitepatience to carve and construct all theseminiature pieces, but the result is some-thing to ~ee and Arthur says, "Walk rightin and look at it."

While you're' viewing the display,ask Arthur to show you his oil paintings.He has done around fifty oils of westernlandscapes and animals and although hehas sold many of them' he stilt has a col-lection at home well worth seeing.

Arthur works on the fan bags at theSt. Lawrence and has been there fortwenty years with the exception of eightmonths spent at the Badger in 1918. Factis, five of those years-from 1935 to 1940-were worked without a single lost shift.He says it's his eye for detail over theyears which iave him the idea that hecould go home and reproduce a miniatureof the St. Lawrence and that he figured itwould be enjoyment for winter evenings.His enjoyment, however, could not com-pare to that given others.

IN our snooping around we find that agreat many of our readers are doing un-usual and interesting things in their sparetime. We have just .learned that Cath-erine Bruce Young, wife of Archie(Scotty) Young of the Zinc ResearchDepartment in Great Falls, has recentlyhad five songs accepted. . ,

We asked Mrs. Young how she hap-pened. to compose them. Mr. and Mrs.Young's son has been in the Pacific forthe last three and a half years. Like allmothers everywhere, Mrs. Young hasthought of little else. One night herpoem, "My S6n," which she has dedi-cated to Archie, Jr., just came to her andshe jotted it down. Since then she hascomposed "Our Lads," "A Soldier'sDream Home," "Grannie" and "Mother."A friend on seeing them suggested thatshe have them set to music. The com-posers have had them copyrighted inWashington, D. C.

We are always glad to hear of ourreaders doing unusual things and if youare one of them, we'd like to know it.

WHEN Corporal Franklin H. Harris, aformer employee of the Great Falls Re-duction Works, visited' the House ofParliament in London his guide was LordFermoy, British peer and representativeof Northern Ireland in the House ofLords. Cpl. Harris toured the historicbuildings with his distinguished host,and from the gallery, viewed a session ofthe House of Commons where a Iively de-bate was in progress on important legis-lation. Afterward. in a tea room reservedfor members of the House of Lords, hehad tea with the nobleman.

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THE Mill & Smeltermen's Union of Ana-conda since 1942 has sponsored a. BoyScout "pack." Last Fall they switchedto a Cub pack and at Hallowe'n they en~-tertained the boys. The picture aboveshows Pack 11 sponsored by the Unionat a party. First row, left .to right, areRudy Chore, Thomas Thompson, Billy

Menehan, Dickie Gustafson, Jean Mc-Nally, Jim McNally, Tim McLean, JoeRidge, Bobby King, Eddie Johnson, BuddyFitzpatrick. Second row: Jean Marcille,Ronny Dooley, Charles McLean, BruceMcDonald, John Dziack, Leo' Corcoran,Jack Siadich, Frank Podobnick, BillyFitzpatrick. Third row: Robert Lepke,

He Picks 'em Up and Sets 'em DownONE of the men you really ought toknow at the Smelter at Anaconda-Laod

"'~... most of the smeltermen do anyway) is

Tim Tracy, a lovable old craneman whooperates in the Casting Room there. Hehas been a casting craneman for thirty-nine years and has been in company serv-ice forty-one years.

The Casting Room, as many of us al-

ready know, is the large room off the con-verters at Anaconda where the moltencopper is poured into the molds to formanodes for shipment to Great Falls. It isTim's job to handle these anodes, liftingthem in and out of the cooling bath andsetting them in racks on the floor so thatthe anodes can be moved to waiting boxcars for shipment to Great Falls.

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Leonard Bock, Joe Beltz, David McNay,.Eugene McMahon', Jackie McGuire, Tom-my Jurich, Pat Mono. Fourth row: DavidVincent, Clyde Farlin, Jack O'Leary, WaltDooley, Joe Podobnick, Ann Dooley, Mrs •.F. Beltz, Vivian McNally and Sonny Mc'"Nay. There are thirty-two boys in thepack. '

Maguire's the NaineAILEEN MAGUIRE, Ensign (NC) U. S.N., daughter of O. ]. Maguire, chief time-keeper at Great Falls, has been on activeduty since her enlistment in Jan~ary,1942. After her enlistment, she servedten months at the U. S. Naval Hospital.Brooklyn. N. Y., and was then ordered tothe South Pacific area, and arrived in timeto spend Christmas in New Caledonia.Whi Ie stationed at a base hospital in NewHebrides, she was transferred to NewZealand and after a total of eighteenmonths overseas came back to the Stateson a month's leave. Her marriage in De-.cember, 1944, placed her outside theU. S. Navy personnel and since that- timeshe has served as an anesthetist in theHospital Permanente, Oakland, Calif.

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THE safety prize for the month of July for theButte mines was lifted by the Tramway, with nofost time injuries to any member of the crew. Onthis page we show you the day shift and nightshift. Tlut's the day shift at the top and the nightshift at the bottom.:At the top, first row, left to right: Jack Copley,1F0reman's Clerk; Spencer Hawke, Wilhart Alan-;va, John C. Fletcher, George A. Niemi, AlanKangas, Arthur Holling, 'ames Dolfi, John Kelley,:Oominick Stermlon, Matt Panyon, Peter Sikonia.frank Dahlberg, Bob Zorick, Albert Lovshin.Second row: Tom Driscoll, Safety Engineer; Wil-mot Kitto, Electrician; Olympie Parini, BarneySilva, Surface Foreman; Tom Merkle, BlacksmithHelper; Joe Pelletier, Sawyer Helper; ArchieHarris, Boss Carpenter; Adolph Ossello, Sawyer;lohn Lasky, Thomas Trevithick, Carpenter; Au-~ustjne ,Palagi, Newell Hill, Boilermak~r; Curt·Stanius, Engineering Department; Joe Popis", A.Nussbacher, Joe Brozovich.'Third row: T. C. Wise, Acting Foreman; AI Hed-val, Shift Boss; Louis Fisher, Henry Hierholzer,

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George Tomich, L. D. Millen, Arthur Herzog.Michael Monohan, Phil Brockma~, ArmandoPalagi, Rudolph Plute, John Zanis, Amos West.Herb Weldon, Joe Jermon.Fourth row: John Powers, Shift Boss; ArchieJackson, Shift Boss; Charles Hanna, Asst. Fore-man; John Berger, Blacksmith; Wilbur Smith,Sampler; Ray Stankie, Henry Engle, John Pugel,Walter Kneebone, Rudolph Johnson, Albert De-Lance. Enio Hemilla, Hugo Magnuson, PeteNeadof, Henry Kinared, John Turk, James Mc-Coard, Jules Sykoski, George Laun, Frank Cheff,'ames E. Harrington, Samuel McCauley.Fifth row: AI Radmelich, Fire Boss: RichardRanta, W. E. Moore, Senior Sampler; Remo Fan-tini, Simfred Wendell, John P. Mardo, AndrewAntonovich, Pete Evankovich, Boss Nipper;George Barick, Albert Pinich, Clarence LaBreche,Steve Rodich, Byron Pederson, Joe Onzik, PaulWells, Anthony Bartyzel, Matt Frantti, OscarHills, Joe Brennan, Plpeman.Last row: Louis Pipinich, John L. Jones, NickEvankovich, W. Harrington, Boilermaker's Help-

er; Henry Gutzman, Machinist: Frank Plute, Ma-chinist Helper; Frank Eltz, Shift Boss; ChesterS.miley,·George I(napp, Joseph GO(sh, Tom Davis,James Patrick, William Freeman, Peter Rovano.At the bottom, first row, left to right~ Max Mo-gus, Shift Boss; Steve Jovick, Herb Reynolds, Ro--land Gehrig, Paul Quilici, August Spolar, GeorgeWalsh,John Prkut, Arthur Osterholm, John Hen-derson, Fiels Stanisch, Frans Blomskog, MileJurisic.

Second row: James Rolando, Shift Boss; AlfredBone, E. W. Williams, John Mitchell, RaymondFavero, John Brown; Charley Beeson. BarneyCiavare. George Howard, Joe Novarro. R. W. E.Joltnstone. John Malensek, Clyde Horton.Third row: Tom Diiscoll, Safety Engineer; Wil-liam Trudeau, Asst. Foreman; Roy Mehring,Howard Preston, Charles Baxter, Nels HautanenWalter Frick, Milo Gilliland. Frank Hill. HughDouglas, B. B. Jarrell, Fred Cloonan, Frank Bren-nan, Louis Simonich. Selmer Johnson.Last rOW: Arthur Williams, larl Forgard, ShiftBoss•

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