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THE BROWN BULLETINVOL, II No. 4 BERLIN. N. H, TUESDAY., MARCH 8/1949 PUBLISHED BY A.ND FOR THE EMPLOYES OF-BROWN COMPANY

THREE BIG UNITSWITHOUT ACCIDENT

Company RateStill Decreasing

Employees of three major units '.\dt the company passed the 12- ;week mark without a lost-time '-accident.

The Safety Division reported ;this week that employees of the i:Powcr and Steam Division, Riv- ;

.ersidc Mill and the Onco Plant •

.went through the first three pe- j:riods of the fiscal year of 1948- :

49 \vith perfect records.Records Even Better

Actually, the records for those "units were even better. The .:Onco Plant had gone through 25 jweeks, as of February 19. with- |out a lost-time accident. River- j"side had gone 24 weeks and ;Power and Steam 17.

Power and Steam was the of- •ficlal leader because of more •man-hours worked 'during, the ;

first three periods.The Chemical Plant slipped

from the ranks of the perfect-record units, when the firstlost-time accident of the yearwas marked up there during thethird period.

One other group, the BerlinMills Railway, has had only onelost-time accident this year.

Company-wide, the number ofaccidents decreased slightly. Atotal of six were reported duringthe third period. Three of thesewere at Burgess Mill, whilethere was one at the ChemicalPlant, Bermico Division and Cas-cade Mill.

I Salesmen's Group: Honors Babbitt

More than loOO were pres-ent to see Ben K. Babbitt,Brown Company's PaperDivision representative hithe mid-west, win thePresident's award in recog-nition of his activities withthe Salesmen's Associationof the Paper Industry.

The 30th anniversaryluncheon of the group's Wes-tern Division was held atthe Grand Ballroom of theWaldorf Astoria Hotel inNew York. This is the secondtime Mr. Babbitt has wonthe award.

EMPLOYEE HOBBYSHOW SUGGESTED

Hobbiests ShouldContact Sullivan

I Employees -will have an op-portunity to show their hobby

i work to the general public ifproposed plans for a hobby show-become a reality.

11 Indicate Interest: Already 11 company people• have given, deiinite indication, that they would participate insuch a show.

However, it is felt that manymore people in the companywould be interested in display-ing their handiwork.

Arthur Sullivan, supervisor ofemployee activities, this weekextended this invitation to all

Nibroc Towels Now AvailableTo All Brown Company PeopleAt Greatly Reduced Prices

! SALES CENTER SET

Units of Group II continued employees:their habit nf keeping safe. Nolost-time accidents have occur-red in this group in more than14 months.

. The accident frequency rate,which safety men use as a yard-stick, still was going downward,just as it has almost continually personally,since 1943. "Therefore,

Brown Company's safety en-gineer, Jack Rodgcrson, natural-ly had a smile or two about that.But he also had a word of warn-ing:

"If any of us start relaxingabout safety and start gettingcareless, that frequency ratecould shoot up as fast as aFourth of July rocket."

If a hobby show is held, wewould want to make it possible

THREE EMPLOYEESEND LONG SERVICE

Therrien AmongThose Retiring

Three Brown Company peoplej of long-standing have retired inJ recent weeks.

They are Joseph Therrien,rwho served with the company' for almost 55 years; AmedccMarois, who joined the company

:48 years ago. and JosephineMcLaughlin, who had been withthe company almost 35 years.

JOSEPH THERRIENMr. Therrien joined the com-

pany in 1894, a few weeks aftercoming to Berlin from Canada.

His first work was with theyard crew, but two years later hetransferred to the Saw Mill towork on the planer. He continu-ed that work until 1905, when hesuffered an accident which laidhim up for two months

Upon his return, he became acleaner in the .Planing Mill. Ayear later he went to work onthe "live rolls" in the Saw Mill,

t | shifting lumber.In 1908, Mr. Therrien joined

RETIRES

JOSEPH THERRIEN

employee^ who woulddisplay their work to

for alllike tohave an opportunity to do so.

"It is impossible to contactevery employee in the company

wright. In 1939 he became amillwright leader,

the Watchmen's Department; For ! In 1929. Mr. -Ma/ois joined thenearly 20!years he had served as 'Towel Division at Riverside Mill.head watchman.

we take

He went to Cascade Mill in 1933jwhcn the Towel Division was. moved to that mill, and remained

com- at Cascade until his retirement.mill- JOSEPHINE MCLAUGHLIN

AMEDEE MAROISMr. Marois joined the

ipany in April 1901 as athis !

means of extending to all oi: j participate may contact "Sully'* Miss McLaughlin came withyou who are interested an in-«either by dropping him a note the company in August. 1914.vilatioii to participate in a hobby , or caiiing Automatic 379 or New '. She worked for some time in theshow. i England 46, Extension 60. Accounting Department under

"Ir you are interested in par- v. T,-_^ ^ ^ *ticipating. it would be appre-ciated if you could contact me atthe Company Relations Officeanytime before March 19."

Any employee who wishes to

i UP AT COMPANY| RELATIONS OFFICE

May Purchase ByPackage Or Case

Brown. Company employeesj now have an opportunity to pur-j chase Nibroc Paper Towels at! greatly reduced prices.

By Package Or Casej Arrangements have been com-• pk'tecl whereby employes may; purchase the various grades of' towels by the package or by thecase at a company distributingcenter in the Company RelationsOffice.

Cost of thesa toweJs to employ-ees has been greatly reduced.For example, the No. 2220 whitetowel may be purchased by em-ployees for only 35 cents a pack-age (250 towels.) Singlefold tow-els may be purchased at 25 centsa package (2iiO towels.) Pack-ages of two grades of brown tow-els will be available at 40 centsand 35 cents for 375 towels.

Substantial savings also maybe realized by employees whopurchase towels in case lots.These are the employees pricesfor case lots: No. 2220 whitetowels, $5.45 for 3,750 towels:No. 5010 brown towels, $3.30 for3,750 towels; No. 5020 brown

j towels, $3.30 for 3,750 towels;j No. 5021 singlcfold towels. $6.70; for 7,500 towels.

Cabinets for the Nos. 2220,i 5010 and 5020 towels may be! purchased by employees for $2.35| at Blais and. Aubin Company,| 16 Mechanic Street, Berlin.

Any employee wishing to pur-

Continued on page POTJBJator.

HONOR COMPANYMEN AT MEETINGS

Several Brown Company peo-ple have been elected to promin-ent offices in pulp and paperindustry associations.

• Company President Frederic G.Coburn was re-elected vice presi-dent of the American Paper andPulp Association at the 72ndannual convention of the organ-ization in New York.

Gilford F. Henderson, division-al sales manager of the NibrocTowels Division and Paper Di-vision, was re-elected presidentof the Kraft Paper Association,Inc., at the association's annualmeeting in New York, Mr. Hen-derson also was elected vice-chairman of the bleached con-verting group of the SulphitePaper Manufacturers.

Downing P Brown, vice presi-dent' in-"charge of sales of thecompany, was re-elected to theexecutive board of the U. S.Pulp Producers Association as

'New -England regional director.He also was renamed to the ad-

'visory committee of the Chemi-"cal Pulp Section of the CanadianPulp and Paper Association atthe - association's annual meet-ing in Montreal.

Went worth Brown, vice presi-dent in charge of manufacturing

No Limit To Types » Fred Thompson. Later she work-There Would be no limit as to Jed under E. E. Morris. In 1940,

the types of hobbywork that she joined the Purchasing De- j chase Nibroc Towels at the spe-could be shown — collections of partment. For a short time she j cial employee cost may buyany tvpe handicraft work art als° served as a telephone oper- | them at the Company Relations

\ Office. J. Arthur Sullivan and! Lucille Morris are in charge of; sales to employees.

The distribution center will be' open Monday through Fridayfrom 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from1:30 to 4:30 p.m. It will be open,on Saturdays from 8:30 to 11:30;a. m. /

TIMES HAVE REALLY CHANGED

This wa§ Berlin's Fire Department some. 60 years agro. Pictured beside the old saw mill, the unitof the company was re-elected I i s ™ snarp contrast to the modern fire equipment which protects the mills and homes of the city

today. Evidently this man-drawn hose unit .was taking time trials when the photo was made for thegentleman at the extreme right is poised with a starters pistot The photo is one of the many pic-tures on file in the company's Photo Department, where much of the company and city history hasbeen recorded in pictures for all time.

to the council and to the execu.-• live board of the Canadian Pulp

and- Paper AssociationContinued on page TWO

CASCADE ANSWERSBOWLING QUERY \

The "Nibroc Boys" didn't takeit lying down.

Two weeks ago, the BermicoDivision forwarded a challengeto Cascade Mill. The challenge'•dared?' the Cascade men togather together a five-man bowl-ing team to meet a team, fromBermico on the new alleys of theCommunity Club.

Last week, Bermico got itsanswer.

Chicle Bermico GroupSigned by "The Nibroc Boys,"

the acceptance chided the Ber-mico group just as Bermico hadgood-naturedly chided Cascade.

The Cascade group assertedthat they ''accept with pleasure,'7and showed clearly that therewas no fear in the hearts or themen who make Nibroc papers.

In the challenge, Bermicocheerfully declared that "wewould not use our best bowlersin this match because we wouldrather have it a good, fair con-test and closer competition."

Cascade jumped on this state-iient with a laugh.

The Nibroc Boys strongly inti-Continued on pase THREE

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STAFF

Pulp DivisionAlfred Arst-nau.ltBuster 'Cord wellFa.xil GrenierMark IlickeyAdam. LaveruoiehLeo-Leblanc •

Cascade MillErnest Caston«rnayBuster EdgarLcroy Fysli•Julia HarpKay IlolroydAlice HughesRobert MurphyLucille Trernaine

Research DepartmentTli el ma Neil

Reporters -a t-largeAnsrus .MorrisonEarl PhilbrickJack Bodgerson

Main OfficeRoberta Dt-.vostXina K3n>hniek

Tube MillClark

Power and SteamGhark's Enimui.Chemical Plant

Arthur GoyettoGeorge Laflfur

WoodsLouis CateMoOnco Plant

Charles Sgrulio.nlRiversidi MillRonaldo Morin

Staff CartoonistsLeo Lebianc. tJack Rodgerson

Staff PhotographerVictor Beaudoin

PortlandDoris SmithNew YorkDoris Reed

ChicagoLeo P. Hayi-s

Circulation ManagerLucille Morris

EditorA. "W. fBrUd) Warren

VOL. II No. 4 March 8, 1949

NAMED TO TOP POSTS

D. P. BROWN

ELECTIONSG. F. HENDERSON

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from OneHerman Schanche, vice presi-;

dent in charge of woods opera-;tions of the company, was re- \elected to the board ot" directorsof ,the American Pulp wood As-'sociation. Mr. Schanche also wasnarned to the executive commit-tees C. S. Herr, resident woodsmanager, was appointed chair-man of the conservation and op-erations committee

EUVEN FROM HERE iAT APPA MEETINGS j

A number of people from Ber-lin > were among thosa- represent-ing Brown Company at the an-

fnuai meetings of the AmericanPulp and Paper Association, theTechnical Association of thePulp and Paper Industry, theAmerican Pulpwood Associationand allied groups in New YorkCity.• Among those attending from

-here were L. M. Gushing of thePulp Manufacturing Division;"Buster" Edgar and Fred Schei-Jhorn of tlio Paper Manufactur-ing; Division; George A. Day,Douglas McMurtrie, Harold Ti-tus, E. M. Archer and RobertVan Nostrand of the Researchand Development Department;Assistant Treasurer Charles GJRaebiirn; -K. V. Coombes of the-'Purchasing Department, and Wil- jliam Callahan -of the Credit De-partment; Herman G. Schanche'an4 C. S. Horr of the WoodsDepartment.

IN MEMORIAMGEORGE NADEAU

George Nadeau died recentlyafter a short illness. Bern June12, 1868 at Standon, P. Q., Mr.Nadeau joined the company inJune. 1914 and before his re-tirement in September, 1940 hadbeen employed as a laborer.

CHARLES BLAXCHARDCharles H. Blancfiard died re-

cently. Born at Pine Lake, N. Y.,April 29, 1881, Mr. Blanchardjoined the company in 1913. Atthe time of his death, he hadbeen employed as a gatcman.

FRANK THOMPSONFrank Thompson died recent-

ly while working in the TowelRoom at the Cascade Mill. Bornin Lithuania on August 18, 1892,Mr. Thompson had been an em-ployee of Brown Company for29 years.

DAVID HAZZARDDavid Hazzard died recently

after a brief illness. Born June22, 1878 in St. John, N. B., Mr.Hazzard joined the company in1918. Before his retirement inNovember, 1948, Mr. Hazzardhad been foreman of the store-house.

RESEARCH LEAGUEIS REORGANIZED

Members of the ResearchBowling League have announceda reorganization within thecircuit.

The line-ups have been reshuf-fled into four teams of five meneach.

The line-ups of the teams areas follows:

SilverMike Agrondia. Rudy Urban,

Bill Anderson, Harvey Blanch-ard. Basil McConnell.

PlatinumOscar Hamlin, Bill Aulie. Pau]

Rousseau, John Bigl, Don Hag-gart.

NickelRay Robcrge. Bob Justard,

Harold McPherson, "Fy" Lepage,Hector Couture.

GoldHoward Mortenson. George

-Morin, Carl Mortenson. GerardVallee, Albert Hickey.

In the opening two weeks ofi the new organization. Silver hadj stepped out front with seven

points out of a possible eight. Inthe first week, Silver shut out

j Platinum, 4 to 0, and -last weekhung up a 3-to-l win at the

! expense of Nickel.In second spot was Nickel,

which had a 4-to-O victory over! Platinum the first week, in ad-dition to gaining a point fromthe leader.

Gold came back after its lossto Nickel, to score a 4-to-O winover Platinum last week.

No team had a monopoly onthe top bowlers. Six men markedup strings of 100 or better, butall teams were represented in thegroup.

Ray Roberge of Nickel onceagain proved ho is one of thebetter bowlers in the companywhen he collected strings of 10-iand 103 in the match against

j Gold and then came back with1 109 and 101 against Silver.

The cellar-dwelling Platinum; club had two men in the Century: Club. Oscar Hamlin hit 102 thefirst week and Bill Aulie mark-ed up 107 last week.

Other century bowlers includ-ed Rudy Urban of Silver, 101;Mike Agrondia of Silver, 110,and George Morin of Gold, 109.

Pointersfrom

PortlandBY DORIS £. SMITH

SPRING HOrSECLEAMXGi TIME is aliv.ost upon us once• more, so here are a few '"point-ers'' which might take some ofthe hardships and drudg-ery away

j from these many tasks you know-are ahead of you.

j A schedule is a bi^ help forhousewives, af.rl i: you

can accomplish more by workingaccording to a pre-arranged planor schedule, by all means makeone to cover each clay's workduring your housecleaning time.

For example, perhaps you pre-fer to do one entire room at atime. It isn't necessary .to set a

, time limit for each thing to be'done, but if you make a list ofthose various chores, you mightnot be so apt to forget some ofthe things not included in yourdaily or weekly routine clean-ing.

AFTER YOU HAVE CLEAN-| ED all the woodwork, it wouldtake just a few minutes more toapply wax to those same areas,and that wax will make furtherdusting and cleaning much easierfor you.

When you take down your-curtains, soak them for a whilein a solution of broax and wat-er before you wash them. Thiswill loosen the dirt, and yourcurtains will look as good as newafter you launder them.

A few-drops of amonia add-ed to the water in which youwash light fixtures and bulbswill cut the oil, grease and otherdirt which is bound to accumu-late, and will make this taskeasier for you,

NO DOUBT YOU WILL BECHANGING the shelf papers, inyour closets, top. When you buynew shelfing, either paper, plas-

RESEARCH DATAOur sympathy is extended to

Basijl,McConnell, Harvey Blanch-ard. <ind Sam Flamancl on thedeaths of their fathers and toDojp;. and Ed : Haggart on the'deaih- pX their mother..

Ed •-.Haggart ha.?, .been •. absentdue^.to illness.

THE HOME OF"MR. NIBROC"

Delia Jacques, Lillian Lemelinand Jean Winn went to Boston tosec the Ice Follies.

Our deepest sympathy is ex-tended to the. family of FrankThompson who died suddenlyFebruary 20.

Congratulations . and bestwishes to Betty Jacques "andRene IMercier" who were marriedFebruary 23.

Cote's Club Says*Yes" To Martin

Archie Martin's bowling-club didn't have long towait to have someone else inthe Woods Department takeup its challenge.

Lee Cote asserted thisweek that his club has ac-cepted the challenge "withno strings attached."

"Our team's actions willspeak much louder thanArchie's fancy words," Leedeclared.

Now the Woods Depart-ment is awaiting w.ord fromMyles Stanlish's team, whichalso was. .included «i thethree-way ehaJlenje.

tic or oilcloth, buy er.DU^h extr}to cover at least or.-:- entire shelfThis way. if you should acci-dentally spill something you canput in fresh shelfing immediatelywithout having to wait until youcan get to the store to buy moreIt so happens that I spilled gjar of pickles on one of mi'kitchen shelves the other nigh';,when we were expecting £°J^~pany for supper. You can im-agine how glad I was that I hadan extra piece handy!

While you are washing downwalls, windows or woodwork,tie a piece of cloth around yourwi'ists to catch the drippings andprevent the water from runningup your arms to your elbows(Perhaps I mentioned that one inthis column a few issues back,but I believe it is worth repeat-ing) .

IF YOU ARE PLANNING toput up new wallpaper, why notget several good-sized samplesof various patterns from thestore and hang them one at atime .on your wall for a day .orso. You might find out that the

• pattern you thought looked so'pretty at the store -just doesn'tblend in with the rest of yourfurnishings at all. On the other

i hand, perhaps you'll find onewhich really adds to the wholeappearance of the room!

One more thing to remember—don't try to do too much in one

! day! The day you accomplish themost (and probably get all tired

lout doing it), will be just theone when company will drop inunexpectedly for the evening,.-orthe man in your life will be inthe mood. to go out for an eve-ning of fun. Who wouldn't wel-

come an evening out after doingspring housecleaning all day?

MAIN OFFICEMUSINGS

Otis Bartiett, Production Con-trol Division, has returned froma two weeks' vacation spent inWaco, Texas. He stopped at anumber of interesting points enroute.

Gordon and Mrs. Clark at-tended the Ice Follies in Boston,recently.

Leon and Mrs. Dubey and.fam-ily also attended the" Follies inBoston, and Leon Jr., -had hisfirst ride on the subway.

We wish to extend oursympathy to John Jordan onthe death of his mother inNew York City.Rita Blais spent a day shop-

ping in Lewistoju recently.,Phil Twitehell has returned

with :%. suntas... from, a twoweeks* vacation ?-}?•-" :r, St. Pet-

ersburg and Tampa, Florida.Alec Walker, Internal Audit,

j is vacationing in the- states ofCalifornia and Oregon.

Lillian Grigrel was married •Saturday, February 26, itoJohn Brennan. Congrratula- .tions .to both of you!Joyce Bedard is .replacing

Irene Latulippe in the FinancialDepartment. Irene had a minoroperation and will be out forseveral weeks. We- wish you aspeedy recovery, Irene. Welcometo the Main Office, Joyce.

I A recent visitor to the MainOffice was Bill Barry of thePortland Office.

W. T. Callahan of the Credit! Department spent several days| in the Portland Office on com -:pany busioess^

Controller H. .G. Brush spentseveral days in New York O!icompany -business recently.

-ABC: of safet-" Always- Be

Nibroc Bowlers Accept Challenge From Bermico

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B. C. CHESS CLUBOPENS THIRD YEAR

Plans To HaveExpert Visit Here

Brown Company's Chess Clubbegan its third year of activitylast week,

At the last meeting membersof the club made plans for aibang-up start of the new clubyear. It was voted to invite aprominent chess expert to be.theguest of the "club at a meetingin the near future,

Adams Here Year AgoA similar program was con-

ducted a year ago when WeaverA. Adams, former New Englandchampion and one-time repre-sentative of the U. S. in inter-national play, was a guest of theclub, At that time Mr. Adamsdiscussed chess fundamentalsand played simultaneous match-es with local club members.

In a review of the activities ;of the local club since its for- imation in February. 1947, Ed- jward Fenn, secretary and first Ipresident of the club, said thatmembership had grown to 25,most of whom attend the weeklymeetings regularly.

Among highlights of the activ- iities of the club in those two 'years have been two matcheswith the Windsor Mills-Sher-brooke team, one being playedin Canada and the other playedhere.

In late compilations of clubtournament standings. PresidentBichard McCo~:Tnick was leadingwith a total of 1,428 points. Mr.Fenn was in second place with1,358. with Marion El I mg wood inthird with 1.343.

These were the standings as :announced by the club:

R. Mctormick 1,428E. Fenn 1,358M. EllinfirAvood 1,348B. Hoos 1,320L. Wood 1,293J. Daley 1,230R. Sloan 1,195A. Googriiis 1,183Mrs. Ellmgrwood 1.155W. Simpson 1,150G. Day 1,133E. Lovering 1,123K. Giilingham 1,108J. Lundblad 1;090C. Johnson 1.050H. Titus 1.025A. Boulansrer 1,020K. Browning 1,008

OFFICIAL LETTERCHIDES INKSPOTS ;

Expect To BowlWithin Few Days

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mated that if Bermico did us±.'•good*' bowlers they would haveto bring them in from the out-side.

"After asking a few questionshere and there/' the letter to

f Bermico declared, "it seems thatI no one has seen any 'fair' bow-lers from the Tube Mill in ac-tion, let alone 'good' or 'expert"ones/'

Bermico had made referenceto softball victories over Cascade.

In the acceptance, Cascade ad-mitted this might have been pos-sible, but strongly intimated thatthis was due to permitting out-siders to play for Bermico "when,their regular players were miss-ing/'

There was another referenceto softball.

"We are also informed," Cas-cade wrote." that no umpire isused in this game of bowling-Well that's just dandy; if that'sthe case we have a start on youalready."

As a Bermico man remarked.."Are they intimating somethingby that?''

Whatever was intimated, itwas all in fun.

And when the match became 3reality, there would be evenmore fun.

It was learned from the "usu-ally reliable sources" that someof the Cascade men were get-ting in a few licks of practiceat the Community Club.

This, of course, was denied in.some quarters with the assertionthat "the Nibroc Boys don't needany practice."

Definite date for the matchCross coumry skiers may conic ever run in this part of the coun- place of cross country competi- }lacj not been arranged up to

and go, but there probably will; try, if not in the world. It was t?on. First race on record was in pre-.s time but it was expectedbe few to equal the overall rec-' the 100-mile run from Portland/ 1900. that the time would W settledord of a Brown Company man. i Maine, to Berlin as a feature o f - "I tcok to cross coutnry skiing before many days had passed

At T T -9ft- tne 1922 Berlin Winter Carnival, because it fitted into my work " I "f ' The first day, the skiers cov- '^ the woods/' Bob said. "I didt ered the distance between Port- Quite a bit of it but I was pretty i

I land and Poland Springs. On crude. Then a couple of boys

^^^^^^M^^^^1^^1^^^^^^ ca,me °VGr from Norway' andi i^skieis. I > Norway on jgg third to Bethel while theyfhp^Qwr^?SSurtQW«PSJ^c'and on ' the fourth to Berlin. j ™e some good pointers.name is one of the first that B«b remembers that his win- ! !iced those techniques hour after Following is the text of th*Ernesto mind. j ning elapsed time was "about hour until I thought I had mas- Cascade Mill letter to the Ber-

Bob probably has forgotten12

more about cross country skiing "They hoped to make this an sons he proDabiy covered a totalthan -many of today's youngsters annual event/' he recalled. But of j 000 miles *in

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Star of Yesteryear—

Bob Reid Was One Of Nation'sGreatest Cross Country Skiers

In the tournament, points aregiven from two sources, onefroin rating points earned incompetition, the other a bonusof 25 points on each game play-ed,-including, caterpillar games.

The club "also announced thelatest ratings of members, basedon wins or losses.

These include:

CLASS AR. McCormickE. FennMiss EllinsrvvoodG. DayB. Hoos

" A. GooginsR, Fickett

CLASS BF, Schelhora

. L. WoodMrs. EllingnvoodA. BoulangerK. BrowningJ. Lundblad

CLASS CW. SimpsonH. TitusR. SloanR, Giilingham.E. LeveringJ. DaleyC. JohnsonR. Bums

1627.51382.51272.51232.51220.01207.51200.0

1050.01042.5

980.0970.0957.5965.0

925.0900.0895.0857.5847.5805.0800.0782.5

TEXT OFANSWER

j tered them. ' < mico Division accepting Bermi-Bob estimates that some sea- co's challenge to a bowling

will ever know.His list of championships

•Buti we found we were running into, competition

the north all the time and that I

match:pr Cascade

ac_

copt with pleasure your challenge

long and impressive. In fact itis so lengthy that Bob long agolost count of the number of raceshe won.

, "Cross country skiing is just to engage in a bowling matchhke fancy skatin-? n€ declared, to be hald at the Ccmmunitv

^ -you've got to practice all the Club alleys. This acceptance( .ne." | should have been sent in an ear-

. , Although cross country was his lier mail, but as it has takenHe first gained national recog- §™eling run whicj >ecan : a speciality, it was not the only some time to grasp the true

d t tidea was abandoned aitei tneyear'

However, there was another. ,

nition in 1924, when he won Ui3;U. S. cro.ss country title at Brat-;tleboro. He reached what he callshiswoners in nearly every worthwhile.race in the country He missedgoing to St. Moritz, Switzerland,for the 1928 Olympics because

fixedyearsfrom

DOG FIGHTS REIGNIN MEN'S DIVISIONS

Races Close AsClubs Near Tape

There were still some good dogfights in both Division-A andDivision B as the Men's Officeleague came do\\-n to the tape.

With only two weeks to go,.at least six clubs were still verymuch in the running In DivisionA, while -.four, and possibly five,^teasns- had more than .a goodchance of copping the penaut.

Admirals L»e£d ,In Division A. the Admirals

the top of the--heap..With

number of event in which Bob became a meaning of your letter, you will;0-mile race champion. A snowshoer of long- please excuse us for sending a

I^va:!L S?"?L..£? i standing, he captured the two- ( late reply.In your challenge, a statement

with -i cross' "*"' U1U *uin^ jumping, "but was made to the effect that youronntw run at th#> pnd | only for the combined score/' have a few ;<good" bowlers readythe end' i- —"«• i to do battle. Now boys, after all,

you cannot expect us to allow

__. ,_ ^^..^ >™ t^ ^«o , , l ,is peak in 1928, when he either^ M?Hnt Washington to the Berlin | milc race one year>

on or finished among the lead- ̂ He did some j' *« iH i c e With a cross

The trail came down the car-he recalls.

nage road to the Glen House, upof what he terms a "technicality/'

However, four years later, in1932, he was a member of the jUnited States Olympic team at i A champion in this race, also,

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£f ha°Utt ^RP rhe W°°dS *^ S^ttoVl^liSra^St?, Sfor^lo^ave -good" bowlers1 tion now." ! on your team. We allowed the

LJIHUCU o<.«ic;> wijrmjjiu Lcctm d t i n. t-iiciintnvii in uiii> ici«_c, ai&u, •• R , t , mnc.t nriv ,,-^v^nr] Tube Mill the use of softballl,ake Placid, N. Y., and finished, Bob covered the ground in two : wheil tlle snow lies on the trail* P1^" from outside, when their

hours and ten minutes one year, j ,md countryside and you?11 find regular players were missing;Cross Country Born Here [Bob Reid out on the slippery S."*l: llfr5f _?? ?..„ m1, \OUI_

It was only natural that the ' bo.ards showing some techniquesNorth Country should produce t that could make some of

the second of the U. S. skiers tofinish.

Won 100-Mile Race theBob won what was perhaps cross country skiers such as Bob j modern day

the longest cross country race Reid. This area was the birth- envy.youth

one-point lead over the second- In 16 matches, there were onlyplace Commanders, But should three shut-outs-two in the Men'sthe Onco team have a bad break League and one in the Girls'or two. the Commanders, Col- League. Three of the matchesonels. Sergeants, Technical Ser-; were 2-to-2 affairs,geants or Generals could pull in- ,- In matters of individual per-to the van. j formances, five men picked up

STANDINGSMEN'S OFFICE LEAGUE

Division A

The First Sergeants had a com-paratively safe lead in Division jB for the moment, despite the '.

300 scores in recent mtches.Clark Hits 320

Tops was the 320 which Tom-

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fact that the Majors and Com-.! my Clark of the Colonels rolled. | Ceueralsmodores each had a match to He also had one of the top singlebowl at the time the standings strings, a 122 in that match. Hewere compiled. But at that time repeated his performance twothe Majors, Commodores and . matches later, rolling up 308.Corporals were within definite j Rene Heroux of the Power:1-- Colonels

! hailing distance, and the seamen . and Steam Second Lieutenantscould be with a little luck. hit 316 last week, despite an 87;

No def in i te leader had been in his first string. 1st sg'.s.established in the Girl's League ! Right behind him was Willardas only two weeks had passed ' Kimball of the Majors with ain the current round. 315.

CorporajsSeamen ;

Maine, which won out in the Others tipping the 300 mark j-last round in one of the closest included Joe Markovitch of thc|Ensierlsraces vet. was among the . lead- , Sergeants, 304 and Bob Ole^on vice Admirals'c-rs.' But the standings could of the Seamen, 301. ; »S-"L Majors-change -with every -match. —- - •

An idea of how evenly matched ' Surgical operation insurance"an teams are at the present is is payable for operations result--shown. i- team scores of one ing from off -the -job sickness or

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that an even match wouldbe forthcoming if you did notuse "good" bowlers. We agreewith you—use no one but TubeMill men against us (all green-horns—you know) and a finematch should develop.

After asking a few questionshere and there, It seems that noone has seen any "fair'* bowlersfrom the Tube Mill in action.

p c let alone "good" or "expert"760 ones. We were also informed that.653 no umpire is used in this game.639 j Of bowling. Well that's just•jjjJJ dandy; if that's the case, we have!s56 a start on you already..433 So—until we arrive with Ni-r.403 broc Paper Towels to wipe up

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WOODS OEPT. I Employees Bag

CUTTINGS Eight Bobcats

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Stan -WcntxdPs deer-shooting j.episode which \vas illustrated jand'described in a recent issue!of The Bixrft-B- ^u.UetirL appeared ;in .-the"-current issue bf "Lumber- !men's News. "Guess it must -have '•been gooxi, Stan, . . _

Arthur Boivin reports "that the'trucking of approximately 4500 '

* cords--of pwlpwood-from the La-',. bcrgc E:TO! job has just -been i.completed. He is now conccn-jtrating his -trucks at Laberge's |Sturtevant Panel job and also ,Lacasse's and -JLafieur's jobs at jGilead and Pontook respectively, jApproximately 100 trucks ai<epresently engaged in hauling jpulpwood to the Brown Com- :pany f:-om various sources.

To our growing list ofgenerous magazine donors,we add the following names:C. S, Herr, George Stenzel.Helen Fortmsh. Among themagazines received was afine collection of NationalGeographic magazines, dat-ing back i*> 1915, v, hirh wasdonated ti> Mrs. GeorgeLovett. These imagazines areadding much enjoyment tothe woodsmen during theiroff days and evenings atcamp.We would like to thank the •

various foremen and others whotravel to the various woods op-•erations for ther- cooperation inhelping with the delivery ofpackages mail and personnel. Wereceive many calls askingwhether or not we know of any- •one traveling to certain loca-tions on days'ivhen- there is n o .scheduled station wagon travel, jSo, if it doesn't inconvenience jyou'too much/whenever possibledrop in and check with us onmessages,, packages, etc., thatmight be f.oing to your destina-tion.

Mark Hamlin was out sick fora couple of days last week.

Lorraine Bisson of the Ac-counting -Division spent her re-cent vacation at Hartford, Conn.

Otto Erickscn has returnedfrom his southern vacation. Hecertainly has a great start on ailof us with "that tan.

If you want Sonic pointerson bob cat hunting,, consultany of a trio of Brown Com-pany men.

Earl Caird of Cascade Mill.Edward Goulet of the Powerand Steam Division andRalph Rogers of the MainOffice have plenty of proofthat they are good marks-men when it comes to shoot-ing bob cats.

Since last December 21,the trio has tracked downand killed eight of the ani-mals in the Dummer area.

CONDUITCAPERS

! No Lack Qf Cops!At Medicat Center

The ̂ -Medical : -Departmenttrouble finding a plate

for its patients -last ^-eefc.Ail because the Baitingroem was 4ani-paoke<f with< artons of dixie cups«

Rite Tanguay, the depart-ment's nurse,'sent in a smallorder for 25 boxes of dixiecups. Instead of a smallpackage arriving, a largevan drove up with 25 car-tons of cups—150;(VOO ofthem in alL

All has been straightenedout, however, and Rita'soriginal order stands.

HENDERSON AMONGJUMPING LEADERS

JourneyingJack Says:

Fishing through the ice is asport enjoyed by all of our boysaround here and up until a few1

days ago it was one of Joe Ba-'silo's favorite sports.

When Joe returned from a .fishing trip recently he was al- |most a casualty. It appears Joe

| was attending his traps when he; saw a flag go up. Hauling his

line in he saw on the hook a! species of pickerel that was asj full of fight as a "Shanty" Ho-

Ted Walker was-scurry-ing around a-cting busy as abeaver. When'asked the rea-son he said ihe Softball tro-phy had arrived. Prepara-tions were,made for a glassenclosed case and noAV,i inl-full view of everyone, thetrophy is on display rightover the doors to the smok-ing- room. The Bermico Divi-sion intends to retain posses-sion of this beautiful cup. soall you boys bear in mindthat come Spring and warmweather a large turnout ofsoftballers will be expected. !One of the girls in the Main- |

tenance Department is really up ' tomofailes. Only recently m dis-and coming on new tvpcs of au- I cussing Cadillacs. PacKards, e,c

j the subject was brought up ofj the possibility of a ride in the

Joe proceeded to "unhook" in new "diesel." The girl, hearinghis usual manner but Mr. Pick- ' this last remark was at once in-erel had other intentions. The, terested, wanting to know whatfish proceeded to display a brand 4 this new machine would do onof tactics unethical even to a the straight road, and if it waspickerel, so much so that Joe j good on gas and hills,had to summon help from his] Ed Gallagher, the yard crewchum (and lucky he was along), j ica(^er is developing 'into quite

Both of them administered the 1 a "Barney Oldfield" while hand-lers de combat'*', but not be-, lirig the new gas truck in thefore Joe was assaulted. He later Beater Room. He can juggledisplayed a hand that was the, those bales of newsprint, asworse for wear. j though they were featherweight.

• Joe is now reading up on the In no time Ed will rar-k on a-parcustoms and characteristics of . with "Barney" and "Lucky"the finny species. Teeter.

ijike rnany" another .. rider,• Biovm- . Company .ski jumpers: ran into a " little difficulty when

- conditions prevailed- -atinternational championships

;on Berlin's 80-meter- hill. .[- —However, company people" ant3|' the son of a company man -help-; e<i -^iyA the huge crowd .many a: ' ihr-il -that Sunday afternoon." -: - Don" Henderson, son of . Earl; Render son of Burgess" Mill, fin-: ished fourth in Class A in the."face "of some exceptionally strong: competition.

One of the - longest jumps of:.the day was marked up by.Ken-i'nic Fysh of the Woods Depart-• ment, when he soared 2-iO feet.I Both Ken and "Spike" Oleson ofi the Chemical Plant ran into trou-.ble on the icy hill and" made onlyone jump each.

Like carnivals of the past, theI.-1949 edition had a distinct Browni Coiripanj* flavor. General chair-' man was Fred Mason of Burgessj.Mill. All committees had; manyj ErGy-ii Company people as mem,-

. .who put in long hours; of'.hard work in making plans and:-carryine-on the various events.

POWER AND STEAM_ |

Jack Spinney i£ back at work:

after a long illness.TONGUE-IN-C H E E K DE- |

PARTMENT: While taking awalk up the Success Road the jother da>% we ran into "Doc"Cordwell of the D. C. Power-house. We asked him what allthe racket was up in the woods.Trees were going up in the airas though they were blown upwith dynamite. ''Doc*' said thatGeorge Oswell ^vas -training forthe' Sportsman's Show in Phil-adelphia. He was using a 17-pouiid double-bitted axe. "Doc" Isaid that as lie stood there watch-ing George he asked which wayGeorge was felling the trees."Neither way," declared George."I cut them on both sides andlet them go .up." We're all pullingfor you at Phillie, George.

Roy Brown is counting thedays 'till the fishing seasonopens. Incidentally, he hasbought a car.

Blais Heroux declares thathe can now supply you with "awrist watch or old style watch"and he's ready and willing todicker.

Roy Maines reports that hislittle orchestra has received sev-eral calls since the recent noteabout the group appeared in thiscolumn. Roy is a man who cansupply you with music for alloccasions and he also can supplytalent for shows. You can reachhim at 603-M -or 653-R.

; BURGESSSCREENINGS

Wilfred Roy of the warehousecrew came in the other morningall tired 6ut. The reason: He hadspent the night pacing the floorof the waiting, room at the hos-pital. He is now the father of alittle girl; -Edna Perry. -The latestreport shows mother and daugh-ter doing wdL Congratulationsto,both Mr. and Mrs, Roy.

Joe Hayes says Ihere is nothinglike a -good "square dance" tokeep young. .Joe was seen inShelburne recently and reportsare that he still can shake amean hoof.

-Rene .-Garon, a former -PulpStorage ̂ employee, visited us re-cently :-Ybvir visit is always wel-corr.c. Come iisain.

NIBROC TOWELSGET YOU BONE DRY

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TO ALL BROWN COMPANYEMPLOYEES

Nibroc Towels now are being made available foryour own use in the quantities ... and at the great-ly reduced prices . . . shown below.

You may purchase them at these low prices at theCompany Relations Office.

By the PackageStyle No.

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Price35e40c35c

Quantity250 Towels

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By the Case2220 (white)501050205021 . 's inglefol . l ;

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NIBROC TOWELSBROWN COMPANY

SAFETYSTANDINGS

GROUP IDSLA' 118

168175

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• 1940

fsc Red.Power and Steam 100Riverside Mill 100Onco Plant 100Bermico Division 16•Cascade Mill - 10Burgess Mill - 21•Chemical Plant — 36Berlin Mills Ry. -127

GROUP IIDSLA

urch Department 699Watchmen's Department 424Service Department 876Salvage Department • 542Trucking Department 2,954Grounds Maintenance 1,374Lumber Supply Dept. 2,1-20Printing Department 6,84!Viscose Department 1,880

NOTE: r'r Red. — Per cent re-ctuctioh in accidents since end offis'cal year 1948. DSLA — Num-ber of days since last lost-timeaccident.

HOBBIES Continuedfrom One

-work, rug-making, photographyand so on. . •

As examples, the. 11 peoplewho already have expressed adesire to participate would showwork that varied from intricatewood inlays to mineral collec-tions, from Indian costumes toradios.• It has been suggested that theshow could be made more inter-esting if a number of • peoplegave demonstrations of how they,carry out- their hobbies.

Hubert Connolly of BurgessMill, whose hobby is Indianwork, said he could do beachvorkat the show while dressed in oneof the authentic -Indian cos-tumes which he has made. ;

Archie Ouellette of Ca.scad6Mill. an. expert with a jackknife,would be able to carry on • hishobby work right in his display;booth.

Among others who have signi-fied their interest in a hobbyshow are:

Leon Mailhot of Burgess Mill,who builds miniature machines.

Henry Lemire of Cascade Mill.whose hobby is woodworking.

Phil Ross of Burgess Mill,i does jackknife work.

Gerard Lemire of CascadeMill, who does intricate scrollwork in 'wood. /

Louis Catello of the WoodsDepartment, who makes stringediriLisical instruments.

Thoryald 'Ahdreson of CascadeMill, --whoge hobby is''art. • '

Bill Isherwood of the Tele*phone "Department,"" who buildsradio- equipment.

Fred Goodwin of. the Research"and Development Department, amineral collector and gem cutter.• Clarence Goyette of the Ber-mico Division, whose hobby isphotography.• These are only a few of the"many Brown Company employ-ees- who have interesting hob-

A number of people have beeaQueried as to their interest in 6hobby show -from - the, spectatot.point olview, .They, asserted,thata hobby - show/'would: be' ex-tremely interesting and thatthey would be eager to attend. ',