PAIDBERLIN, N. H.Permit No. 227

POSTMASTER: If undeliverableFOR ANY REASON notify send-er stating reason, on FORM 3547,postage for which is guaranteed.Brown Company, Berlin, N. H.

THE BROWN BULLETINPublished By And For The Employees Of Brown Company

Volume BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, JULY 26, 1949 Number 14

New Contract Is Burgess Sulphite«• j r» i T • Mill Dae To StartSigned By Union, Up On August 1

Brown CompanyBoth Parties GiveConsideration ToBusiness SituationDiscussion on all items of

the new contract betweenBrown Company and membersof Local Union No. 75, Inter-national Brotherhood of Pulp,Sulphite and Paper Mill Work-ers (A. F. of L.) has been fa-vorably concluded and thenew contract has been signedby the company and the union.

Accepted July 18The contract provisions

were accepted by the unionmembership at a meeting July18.

During the negotiations thecompany and the union ofnecessity had to give consid-

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The Burgess Sulphite Millwill resume operations Au-gust 1.

Originally, the mill wasdue to start up July 17 and18. The company said themill has had to remaindown longer than originallyplanned because of furthercurtailment of orders forpulp. The company also saidthat most wood pulp con-sumers are taking ratherdrastic July shutdowns;therefore improved move-ment of pulp is not expectedto take place until consumermills are again operatingsteadily.

A check showed that manyother pulp mills in the in-dustry have also found itnecessary to continue on acurtailed basis.

Reductions In Sales PricesAnd Sales Volume ReflectedIn 28-Week Earnings ReportIndustrial Relations Berlin, Gorham

Given, Staff Work CloselyWith Management, Union

Negotiation of a company-union contract usually makesthe headlines, but the day-to-day work of the men who ad-minister the contract usuallygoes unheralded.

That is the work of Loring

136-Foot Section Of OldSawmill Dam Being Replaced

be raised or lowered easilyand quickly at any time. Thesewill provide a spillway 120-feet long, giving better pro-tection.

Chief Engineer George Craig_ TlleJ1ew section .is a Dart ofsaid une company is replacing ., .,the overall program of mod-an extremely old section of

A 136-foot section of the oldsawmill dam at the D. C. Pow-er Station is being replaced.

Most Modern Design

timber crib rock-filled damwith a reinforced concretesection of the most moderndesign.

The replacement is beingmade because of an unsafecondition of the present sec-tion. The timbers of the sec-tion that is being replaced areold. Flood conditions such aswere experienced in the mid-1930's would place a strain onthe dam, materially reducingthe margin of safety requiredto protect life and property.

The new section will be ofreinforced concrete. The damwill be equipped with hingedsteel flashboards, which may

Accident RateContinues RiseBut Remains BelowNational AverageThe news from the Safety

Division was not too pleasantthis week.

Two More In '49The report covering the

first eight periods of the yearshowed that there have beentwo more lost-time accidentsthis year than there were lastyear, despite the fact thatthere have been many lessman hours worked this year.

The frequency rate was ris-ing. A year ago it was 11.3.Now it is 13.

But even if accidents showedan increase, the record ofBrown Company employeeswas still better than that inmany other companies.

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ernizing the power system ofthe company. It also will in-sure a proper supply of waterto the canal which suppliesthe Burgess Filter Plant.

Old Serves As CofferThe new section of the dam

is being built directly in frontof the old section. Thus, theold section is serving as a cof-fer dam during the building.When the new section is com-

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LORING GIVENGiven, industrial relations su-pervisor, and the plant per-sonnel men,. Earl Philbrick,Angus Morrison and Earl Hen-derson.

Those are the men who

work side-by-side with mem-bers of top management andwith representatives of theunion.

Good BackgroundMr. Given, who is responsi-

ble directly to Works ManagerE. E. Morris, is a man whoknows management-labor re-lations from both the man-agement and employee pointsof view.

He has worked on jobs allup and down the line. He gothis start with Brown Com-pany Nov. 30? 1922, at thepump house of the BermicoDivision. In 1923, he went to

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2 Cascade MillPeople Retire

Two Brown Company em-ployees with long service re-tired recently.

They are:Frank Demonte. an em-

ployee in the Stock Prepara-tion Department at CascadeMill, who joined the companySept. 19, 1909.

William H. Palmer, convert-ing supervisor at Cascade Mill,who began work with the com-pany Nov. 20, 1916.

THIS OUTDOOR EXERCISE WILL PAY DIVIDENDS

Recreation that pays dividends in more than one way to employees is gardening. It givessome good outdoor exercise and pays off in fresh vegetables. One of the company's mostardent gardeners is Claude Hughes of the Power and Steam Division, who has had a plotat the Thompson Farm for the last four years. Mr. Hughes' granddaughter, Faith Anne Hughes,likes gardening, too. Forty-five families have gardens at the farm.

At Small LossModernization OfPlants, MethodsHolds Loss DownF. G. Coburn, President of

Brown Company, has an-nounced that the company'sunaudited consolidated earn-ings for the twenty-eightweeks ended June 11, 1949,after interest, income taxesand all other charges, wereapproximately $1,092,000, com-parable with 82,303,000 for thefirst 28 weeks of 1948. He alsoannounced that the Directorsof Brown Company had au-thorized the payment of a div-idend of SI.50 on the $6.00Preferred Stock, payable Sep-tember 1 to certificate holdersof record at the close of busi-ness August 10.

Commenting upon these re-^TutST Ivlr. CobUin pointed oubthat these earnings were madewholly by Brown Corporation,the Canadian subsidiary. Theparent company's plants inBerlin and Gorham operatedat a small loss. Thus, he said,while reductions in sales pricesand volume of sales have ad-versely affected both the par-ent company and the subsidi-ary company, these reductionsaffected the Berlin operationmore seriously than they af-fected the La Tuque operation.This, he stated, is the reasonwhy there have been recentcurtailments in production inBerlin and lay-offs from thepayroll.

The progress made in thepast few years in the mod-ernization of the company'splant, and of methods ofdoing things, unquestionablyhelped to hold the parentcompany's loss to a relativelysmall proportion. "I continueto believe, and firmly," saidMr. Coburn, "that with con-tinuance of this work of mod-ernization of plant and meth-ods, and with hearty coopera-tion by all, we can so reduceour manufacturing costs as torestore Brown Company to itsold strong competitive posi-tion, with lasting benefit tothe company and to the com-munity."

Company MenTo Go To Camp

National Guard WillLeave On July 30A group of Brown Company

men will be among membersof the National Guard leav-

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THE BROWN BULLETINPublished every other week by and for the employees of

Brown Company, Berlin, N. H.Editorial Offices: Company Relations Department.Telephones: Automatic 379; New England 46, Ext. 60.

STAFFPULP DIVISION

Buster CordwellPaul GrenierMark HickeyAdam LavernoichLeo Leblanc

CASCADE MILLErnest CastonguayBuster EdgarLeroy FyshJulia HarpRay HolroydAlice HughesRobert MurphyLucille Tremaine

REPORTERS-AT-LARGEAngus MorrisonEarl PhilbrickJack Rodgerson

POWER AND STEAMCharles Enman

CHEMICAL PLANTArthur GoyetteGeorge LafleurAsh Hazzard

TUBE MILLThomas Clark

RESEARCH DEPARTMENTThelma NeilMAIN OFFICE

Roberta DevostNina Kluchnick

WOODSLouis Catello

Bernard FaunceONCO PLANT

Alfred ArsenaultCharles SgrulloniRIVERSIDE MILLRonaldo Morin

STAFF CARTOONISTSLeo LeblancJack Rodgerson

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERVictor Beaudoin

PORTLANDDoris SmithNEW YORKDoris Reed

CHICAGOLeo P. Hayes

CIRCULATION MANAGERLucille Morris

EDITORA. W. (Brud) Warren

Volume II No. 14 July 16, 1949

Tools Improve Material WelfareTools are all the things used by man to produce other things,

that is, goods and services.Tools are things made by man, and things made by natural

processes.Obviously, factory machines are tools.So are the buildings that house them and the land under

the buildings.So are the various materials used up in production.So are the finished products while they are for sale.On the farm, the cleared, cultivated, and fertilized soil used

to produce crops is just as much a tool as is the plow.So is the horse that pulls the plow.So are milk sheds, silos and barns.So is the wagon that carries the crops to market.So is the stock of seed and the fertilizer.So are the railroad trains and motor trucks that haul tne

goods.In the hands of storekeepers and their clerks, the inventories

of goods for sale are part of the tools used to produce a service,just as are the store buildings and the store fixtures.

Tools are all the things used by man to improve his materialwelfare (that is, used to produce goods and services) throughchanging the form, condition and place of natural resources.

This is the third of a series of six editorials which explain simply the basiceconomics which govern our lives. Text is from "How We Live," written byFred G. Clark and Richard Stanton Rimanoczy and published by D. VanNostrand Co., Inc., New York. It is by permission of the American EconomicFoundation.

Chemical PlantExplosions

We are sorry to hear thatEugene Lauze is confined tothe St. Louis Hospital, wherehe will receive a series oftreatments. We are all hopingfor a speedy recovery, Gene.

Frank Bartoli took a week'svacation just to admire hisgarden. He is most proud ofhis egg size tomatoes. In fact,he is inquiring of everyone tomake sure there are none larg-er. We have heard of one fel-low who had ripe tomatoes theFourth of July. Better checkon this one, Frank.

Cecile Roy spent her vaca-tion touring the Province ofQuebec and all points of in-terest North of the Border.

"Tish" Myler has returnedfrom her vacation at thebeach. No sunburn this time.

Alfred McKay is planning atrip to New Brunswick. It surelooks like a long trip, as he isstudying four maps. The long-est way around is always theshortest way home, "Mac."

Main OfficeMusings

Summer seems to be a verypopular time for vacations andthe Main Office is taking fulladvantage of this fact, as youwill note from the followinglist of people out on vacations:

Irene Latulippe of the Fi-nancial Department spent aweek's vacation in Canada.

Pauline Dutil and "Scottie"Gosselin of the StenographicDepartment spent a week atOld Orchard Beach, bringingback memoirs of the trip withtans and burns.

Rita Blais of the Legal De-partment spent a week's vaca-tion traveling along the St.Lawrence River in Canada.Next she will spend some timeat Hampton Beach, gettingher share of Old Sol.

"Tommy" Thompson of theEngineering Department va-cationed for a week at Bostonand most of his time wasspent at baseball games.

Laurette Landry of the MailRoom spent a week's vacationin Connecticut.

Jackie Beach of the Expe-

3n Jfttemortam

GUSTAF A. THORNEGustaf A. Thome died re-

cently. Born in Bohuslan,Sweden Dec. 10, 1873, Mr.Thome had resided in Berlinfor the last 59 years. He wasemployed by Brown Companyas a salt unloader at theChemical Mill until 1939, whenhe retired.

RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP

Guard Continuedfrom One

ing for a two-weeks' summertraining encampment July 30.

Company PolicyUnder a company policy

adopted last year, employeeswho are members of the Guardare granted a two weeks' mili-tary leave for training in ad-dition to their regular annualvacation.

The company pays employ-ees the difference between theamount received by the em-ployees from the governmentduring the training period andthe amount employees wouldreceive as regular 40-hourbasic wages if they had notgone away for the two weeks*training period.

Salaried workers will receivethe difference paid them bythe government and theamount they normally wouldreceive as a regular weeklysalary.

Brown Company's policy hasbeen praised by top rankingofficers of the National Guard.Brig. Gen. Charles F, Bowen,state adjutant general, hascalled it a 'liberal" policy and"a fine demonstration of pa-triotic cooperation."

Last year, 22 men left BrownCompany for two weeks' train-ing at Camp Edwards, Mass.

Dam Continuedfrom One

pleted, most of the old damwill be taken out.

The contract for the con-struction has been awarded tothe Sanders Engineering Com-pany of Portland. This is thesame firm which built theSmith Station dam of thePublic Service Company ofNew Hampshire two years ago.

An interesting feature ofthis installation is the factthat transit-mixed concretewill be used. In this method,the concrete aggregates areproportioned at the gravel pitand transported to the damsite in special trucks. The con-crete is mixed enroute fromthe pit to the site.

The batching plant is beingset up by Kenneth E. Curran,Inc., of Littleton.

Available To OthersThe facilities of this plant

will be available to any localresidents or contractors whomay have concrete work to do.The batches are accuratelyproportioned and generally abetter quality of concrete isobtained at lower cost.

Mr. Craig said the construc-tion schedule calls for thecompletion of the new sectionby early fall.

diting Department spent aweek's vacation in Hartford,Connecticut, where she visitedrelatives.

Honey Cameron spent aweek-end in Boston recently

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—Photo by Ash HazzardRecent winner of the Brown Company scholarship for

university study in engineering, chemistry or forestry was theson of a Brown Company man, William C. Phinney (right), sonof Mr. and Mrs. Clement W. Phinney. The winner is picturedreceiving the award from Dr. Arnold E. Hanson, director ofcompany relations, The scholarship is valued at S750 a year forfour years and is awarded on a competitive basis to a boy grad-uate of Berlin, Notre Dame or Gorham High School.

Pointersfrom

PortlandBy DORIS E. SMITH

AS THE THERMOMETERSSOAR to 90 CF. and above,none of us prefer to think ofwashing and ironing, muchIr35 actually tackle these hotjobs. But as every homemakerknows, they must be done re-gardless of the weather. Withthis in mind, I have searchedeverywhere to get some point-ers on how to do these jobsand stay as cool as possiblewhile doing them.

As for washing, commonsense tells us to keep the week-ly wash down to a minimumby washing out the smallerthings by hand throughoutthe week. When the time to dothe weekly wash rolls around,do it as early in the forenoonas you can, before the sun hasreached its height.

A long-handled woodenspoon can be a big help whenlifting the clothes from thehot water. The last rinse wa-ter can be much cooler thanthe first, as no doubt you al-ready know.

As you hang out the clothes,keep in mind that coloredthings should be hung in theshade if possible and whitethings can stand as much sunas they can get.

* * *WHEN IT COMES TIME todo the ironing, do just a fewpieces at a time and take timeout to relax and cool off a bitbefore tackling the next group.Regardless of when you iron,remember to start with therayon and silk articles andwork up to the cotton andlinen ones. This way, youriron can go from low to hightemperatures without the ne-cessity of cooling off betweendifferent materials.

Here in Maine we are for-tunate in that the eveningsusually are cool, regardless of

how hot the day has been.Therefore, I do most of myironing in the evening in pref-erence to keeping it to do onSaturday.

Many people prefer to etathe ironing immediately aftertaking the clothes in from theline, while others prefer to dcit very early in the morningIf you do your ironing in theevening, it would be well tcremember that it is much eas-ier to scorch things withoulrealizing it when working bjartificial light rather than dajlight.

* * *PERHAPS YOU ARE AMONGthe many who don't irorsheets during the summer-time. If you do iron themhowever, there are a fevthings which should be kepin mind which will make thenlast longer.

As you take the sheets ofthe line, fold them evenl;till you get around to ironing them. When you sprinklthem, open them up and us<warm water. Warm watespreads faster through fabricRoll sheets and cases individually for quick, even dampening. Before ironing, fluff ouyour ironing board pad abouevery two weeks, so that sheetwon't be pressed againsthard surface. Sheets shoulbe ironed the same day yosprinkle them. If you let therstand too long, they can mildew beyond salvation.

By the way, to removeslight case of mildew, yomight sprinkle the stain witsalt, moisten it with lemojuice, then put it in the suto bleach and dry.

* * *USE A MODERATELY HOIRON when ironing sheets an

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New Softball Slate Carries Through August 2595 Runs ScoredIn Four GamesTwo Tilts Produce32 Marker TotalsSlugfests seemed to be the

order of the day as theBrown Company SoftballLeague opened the secondround.

Includes 3-2 GameOnly four games were listed

for the opening two weeks, butthose same tilts produced atotal of 95 runs. And that in-cluded a 3-to-2 game in whichChemical defeated Woods.

Two games produced 32runs each. The Onco Planttook an 18-to-14 slambangbattle from the Main Officeand Woods outslugged River-side, 20 to 12.

In the fourth game, River-side marked up 16 runs toChemical's 8.

As a result of all these runs,Onco officially led the leaguewith one victory and no de-feats, while Chemical, River-side and Woods were tied forsecond with one win and onedefeat, each.

Onco rolled up 17 hits inwinning its game. Every mem-ber on the team got at leastone bingle, while Bilodeauchalked up four.

Score 12 In ThreeOnco put the game away

earlyv scoring 12 runs in thefirst three innings. A six-runoutburst in the third wasmarked by Roberge's homerun.

Onco collected three runs ineach of the fifth and six in-nings to outlast the MainOffice.

The Office rallied in theclosing frames, scoring nineruns in the last three innings.For a few moments in the sev-enth it looked as if the Officemight come through. Sixstraight hits rattled ofl theirbats, but Onco finally put thefire out.

Riverside had 22 hits to itscredit against Chemical, withPete Therrault marking upfour in a row. Delorge, La-Francois and Lacroix eachhad three.

Despite the resultant on-slaught, Chemical was out infront in the early innings.Four straight errors by River-side helped Chemical collectfive runs in the first.

But Riverside began to beatdown the lead, and took thevan in the third. It was neverheaded again.

22 Hits For WoodsWoods also had 22 hits in

its game with Riverside. BothFaunce and MacKay, the lat-ter back after injuring his legseveral weeks ago, contributedfour safeties.

Two triples, four doublesand a single gave Woods sixruns in the first. In the sec-ond, the Woodsmen scoredfour more on a single, double,triple and home run, the four-master coming off Faunce'sbat.

Woods scored in every in-ning. Ken Fysh hit a homer

Mothball Aroma,Deer Stay "Homa"

They've taken the moth-balls out of the closet intothe gardens.

"Jack" Story once advo-cated using them to combatsome of the garden bugs.

Now, some Brown Com-pany gardeners are usingthem to keep away the deer.The home farmers have tiedthem in rags and hung themon rope fences around then*plots of land at the Thomp-son Farm.

Claude Hughes of the Pow-er and Steam Division saidthat in previous years helost quite a bit of his cropsto the deer.

"Haven't been bothered atall this year — so far," hesaid, cautiously rapping onwood. "I couldn't prove thatit was the mothballs. Butjust the same the deer havestayed away."

An argument backing upthe use of mothballs is givenby a couple of nearby gar-dens. Those gardens didnot have mothball "fences."Just the other night, thedeer had a big feast in thosegardens.

in the sixth, to lead the late-inning attack.

Big gun for Riverside wasLaFrancois, who had two sin-gles and two doubles in fourLiiii6o get bat. He scored threeruns. Houle belted out ahome run to spark a four-runrally in the sixth.

The other game betweenChemical and Woods, saw bothteams shorthanded. Woodstook an early 3-to-l^ lead inthe third, counting threetimes without a hit. Twowalks, two errors and a longfly to left were all they needed.

Chemical tied it in thefourth. Then in the sixth,Crotto lined out a home runfor the marker that made thedifference.

REVISED SOFTBALL SCHEDULEWeek ofJuly 25

Aug. 1

Aug. 8

Aug. 15

Aug. 22

MondayOfficeBurgessBermicoWoodsBurgessOncoRiver.OncoChemicalBermico

TuesdayCascadeChemicalRiver.BurgessWoodsCascadeChemicalOfficeBurgessWoods

WednesdayBermicoOncoOfficeCascadeOfficeBermicoOncoWoodsOncoCascade

Thursday Friday

Burgess River.Chemical OfficeRiver.CascadeCascadeBurgessRiver.Bermico

SOFTBALL AVERAGES

STANDINGS(Second Round)

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P.C.1.000.500.500.500.000.000.000.000

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Michaud and Keene; Fysh andReid.

Onco 516 033 0 — 18 17 2Main Office 032 031 5 — 14 16 5

Bilodeau and Arsenault; McGilland Reekie.

Riverside 141 033 4 — 16 22 7Chemical 500 110 1 — 8 10 3

Poulin and A, Morin; Heroux,Bradley and Reekie.

Woods 641 332 1 — 20 22 1Riverside 132 024 0 — 12 13 4

Fysh and Faunce; Poulin andLaFrancois.

(As of July 17)

Grigel, WoodsRoberge, BermicoTraverie, Burg.Moffett, River.Day, OncoMartin, River.MacKay, WoodsGingras, OncoKeene, Burg.Bilodeau, River.Holland, OfficeBilodeau. OncoF. Bosa, Burg.Albert, Burg.Faunce, WoodsHenderson, OfficeLavernoich, Burg.La Francois, River.Melanson, Burg.La Croix, River.Gilbert, Case.Morin, Case.Ramsey, Burg.G. Leveille. OncoMcKosh, ChemicalParent. Burg.Bartoli. BermicoFournis', Case,P.-rid, WoocbGraveOe, WoodsSt. Cyr, BennicoLabrecque, OncoWalker, BermicoLoven, Woods

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pillowcases. Fold sheets evenlylengthwise, right side out. Ironon the right side. Iron pillow-cases from the closed cornertoward the open edge to avoidwrinkles.

Lift the iron when you reachthe edge of every fold, andpress it in your hand. Toequalize the wear at the folds,alternate the way you foldyour sheets and pillowcases.Fold in half one time; inthirds the next.

After ironing, leave thesheets and pillowcases in anopen room until all the damp-ness is out before you put

stored in an unventilated clos-et or drawer.

If you find it necessary toput sheets away for an indefi-nite length of time, put themaway unironed, but freshwashed, thoroughly dry andneatly folded. Fold them upin a heavy dark cloth to pre-vent mildewing.

Most of the above excellentpointers came from a littlebooklet published and put outby the Pepperell Manufactur-ing Company of Boston, Mass.,so there should be no questionas to how accurate a guidethey are.

Contract

Changes ResultFrom ShutdownsSome Teams PlayTwice In One WeekA revised softball schedule

has been issued to take careof games postponed during theshutdowns of some of themills.

Double UpTo get all 28 games of the

second round played it hasbeen necessary to scheduletwo games for some teamsduring the same week.

This was the case with Riv-erside during the week of July11 and with Bermico last week.

Next week three clubs willbe in action twice—Riverside,Burgess and Office. Cascadewill play twice during the weekof August 8; Onco will playtwice during the week of Au-gust 15 and Bermico will playtwice during the week of Au-gust 22.

Only one Friday night gamehas been slated. That is theRiverside-Office tilt August 5.

Riverside is idle this weekbecause of the shut-down. Asa result, the Woods club alsois idle. Onco will not play theweek of August 1, Chemical isidle the week of August 8, Ber-mico does not play the weekof August 15 and the Office isnot scheduled the week ofAugust 22.

Continuedfrom One

eration to a number of con--eaeh--of—-whidr was~

important. These were:1. The curtailed general

business situation prevailingthroughout the country.

2. The present curtailmentin Brown Company businessand the indefinite prospect ofany immediate increase inbusiness.

The contract containsseveral improvements, all ofwhich are designed for a moreeffective working relationshipbetween the company and theunion.

\JI«<• *» * *i ContinuedMUSingS fromlVoshopping and visiting rela-tives.

Hugette Roy of the Engin-eering Department spent aweek at Hampton Beach, en-joying Mother Nature.

Theresa Aube of the Tabu-lating Department saw severalbaseball games while vaca-tioning in Boston.

Ann Wentworth of the Tab-ulating Department dividedher time between Boston andNew York while on vacation.

A. D. Hoyle of the Purchas-ing Department was marriedThursday, July 14, to EmmaJane Williams at Readfield,Maine. Our congratulationsand best wishes to both ofyou!

RiversideRamblings

A daughter was born to Mr.and Mrs. Lucien Tremblay onJuly 8. Congratulations.

Best wishes to Norman Rous-seau who joined the ranks ofthe benedicts on July 16.

Meet Your Neighbor These are some of your neighbors in Brown Company,

HERB NELSON

Operator at D. C. Power-house . . . with Power andSteam Division for 31 years ...was with company previous to1918 in various jobs . . . threesons formerly worked withcompany.

GEORGE GAUTHIER

Rackman at Gorham Pow-erhouse . . . joined companyin 1918 . . . was digester cookat Cascade . . . later in BeaterRoom . . . went to CascadeBoiler House year ago . . . twosons, Arthur and Louis, workwith company.

SIG JOHNSON

Rackman at D. C. Power-house . . . joined Brown Com-pany 30 years ago . .. formerlywas at Band Pulp, Tube MillNo. 1 and Retail Lumber,among others . . . went to D. C.Powerhouse in 1931.

HERB READ

Operator at Gorham Power-house . . . has been at thatstation since 1914 . . . earlierworked at various jobs, includ-ing one at the Cascade BeaterRoom and with the construc-tion crew.

ED GOULET

Rackman at D. C. Power-house . . . with Brown Com-pany for last 42 years . . .formerly worked on dryersand paper machines at Cas-cade . . . son Roland works inTowel Division, has been withcompany for 16 years.

William Corbin Recalls:

Rain and Housewives Gave CompanyTwo Problems Quarter Century Ago

Rain and housewives handedBrown Company two problems20 or more years ago.

And as a result of thoseproblems, the company tookother forward steps in themarch of progress.

Told By Mr. CorbinWilliam Corbin told the sto-

ries. You know Mr. Corbin. Hewas Cascade Mill's first super-intendent and one of the lead-ing paper-makers in the en-tire country.

Let's look at the problemcreated by rain. Actually therewas a little bit more to it thanthat. But let's start at the be-ginning.

Before 1920, makers of ce-ment were using cotton sacksand barrels to package theirgoods. Barrels were awkward.The cement handlers did notlike to use them.

But what about the cottonsacks? They were compara-tively easy to handle. But theyalso had a big drawback. Theylet in moisture. And you knowwhat moisture can do to ce-ment.

The manufacturers experi-mented with using paper bags- that is ordinary paper bags.

That was great in good weath-

er. But stick an ordinary pa-per bag of cement out in therain and see what happens.And in many places, it wasnecessary to keep the bags outin wet weather.

So a manufacturer of ce-ment took his problem toBrown Company.

"Can you make me a cementbag that will keep out mois-ture?" he asked.

Brown Company went towork. But it was not enoughjust to make a bag that waswaterproof. Because at thesame time that you wanted tokeep out the wet you also hadto let some air in.

Put Heads TogetherThe research workers and

the paper-makers put theirheads together. They experi-mented with this type andthat. In 1921, they came upwith the answer — a kraft pa-per that would let in the re-quired air but would keep therain out.

Did it hit the fancy of themanufacturers? Let's answerthat question this way. Onebag manufacturer wanted tobuild a bag mill right nextdoor to the Cascade Mill—andtake the entire output of bag-

paper from all four machinesat Cascade.

But what about the house-wives? What was their prob-lem?

Their problem was centeredabout the lowly onion.

Lint StuckFor years, onions had been

shipped in burlap bags. Butthe housewives began to com-plain. Some of the linfc fromthe burlap bags was stick-ing to the onions — and Mrs.Housewife did not like thatone bit. She wanted to be ableto reach into the bag and pickout an onion that had no lintsticking to it.

What was the matter withmaking an open mesh bagwith a paper lining? That wasthe question a manufacturerasked Brown Company. AndBrown Company answered,"Why not?"

So once again the researchmen and the paper-makerswent to work to develop a pa-per lining that could be usedwith the onions — and makethe housewife happier.

They developed that paper— and added it to the com-pany's growing list of differ-ent types of papers.

Given Continuedfrom One

Cascade Mill as a member ofthe yard force. Later he be-came yard clerk and in 1928was named a timekeeper.

Mr. Given returned to workin the yard during the depres-sion days, following which heagain became yard clerk andan assistant to the timekeep-er. Two months later he wastransferred to the Cascade of-fice, where he worked on costs.In mid-1937, he was placed incharge of assigning spare mento work in the mill.

In April, 1943, shortly afterthe union was organized inthe company, Mr. Morris, thenmanager of the Paper Manu-facturing Division, assignedMr. Given to the position ofplant personnel man to han-dle labor relations. Since then,

Mr. Given has been closely as-sociated with company-unionrelations.

In September, 1945, Mr. Giv-en was promoted to industrialrelations supervisor for theentire company.

Job Covers Many ThingsWhat is the job of an indus-

trial relations supervisor?It covers a multitude of

things. In general, it could besummed up as handling forthe company all dealings withthe union.

The big job is administra-tion of the contract. It is thejob of Mr. Given to see thatthe contract is followed.

In addition, Mr. Given ischarged with the adjustmentof the grievances of hourly-paid employees and with thenegotiation of the day-to-daymatters which require deal-

ings with the union.Since this spring, Mr. Given

has been given broader powersthan previously. His work in-cludes some of the detail pre-viously handled by the worksmanager, although Mr. Morriscontinues his close relationswith the union.

All the mill personnel menare under Mr. Given's super-vision and direction. They areresponsible for carrying outhis general instructions.

The mill managements andMr. Given and his staff worktogether as a team. They havefrequent consultations witheach other in order that con-ditions that may result inemployee grievances may beeliminated and that whengrievances are presented theyare promptly disposed of withjustice to all concerned.

Safety Continuedfrom One

For example, in 1948, all in-dustries in the country showedan average frequency rate of13.26. And the pulp and paperindustry showed an average of18.32. Brown Company has notbeen as high as that 18.32 since1944.

There were eight accidentsduring the eighth period, thesame number as during theeighth period of 1948.

Two of them were a directresult and the other an indi-rect result of the explosion atthe Onco Plant. Two men suf-fered burns there. Anothersprained his ankle and chippeda bone while going to theirassistance.

A broken toe, a finger cut,a sprained foot, an injuredwrist and a probable contusionwere the other injuries result-ing from accidents.

The time lost from acci-dents during the last periodwas less than in the eighth pe-riod a year ago, although thenumber of accidents was thesame.

These are the way the millscompare in accidents throughthe first eight periods of 1948

SAFETYSTANDINGS

GROUP I% Red.

RiversideBurgessRailwayOnco PlantPower, SteamBermicoCascadeChemical

50174

^5+ 12+28+55

+ 116GROUP

ResearchServiceSalvageTruckingGrounds Maint.Lumber SupplyPrintingViscoseWatchmen

II

DSLA130

12214

1695397255

8351,012

6783,0901,5082,2566,9772,016

16

Note: <£ Red. —Per cent reduc-tion in frequency rate since 1948.DSLA — Number of days since lastlost-time accident.

and 1949:

BurgessOnco PlantBermicoRiversideRailwayPowerChemicalCascade

1948253810019

194914281124

17

Change—11— 1

00

-fl+2^3-8

.

Brooms Make Clean SweepAt Cascade Paper Machines

The brooms were sweepingclean around the paper ma-chines at Cascade MilL

Do Good JobThe latest Good House-

keeping Report showed thatthe men had been doing somegood clean-up work. As a re-sult, that department jumpedout from "behind the eight-ball." -

"They did some good workin cleaning up," the inspectorreported.

But there still were two de-partments of the companylisted as being behind thebig black ball. One was theBurgess Maintenance Shops,which was on the "eightballlist" for the third time in arow.

For the first time, the Cas-cade Hydro Station of the

BEHIND THE EIGHTBALL(As of Joly 9)

Burgess Maintenance ShopsCascade Hydro Station (Power

and Steam)

Power and Steam Divisionshowed up on the list.

All other departments in the11 divisions included in theinspection tours showed cleanhouses.