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f • • -V* , *•+* ^ sis?: t%;. ^ .>:|h' j^; i Tiro THE ?m«r?\% *&> • j> Tr^r*-* rt- *': *7;.;?:--• -,iur»,im' • : . Prefabrication, ^ Kaiser's Secret to Workers' Spirit, )t Produces Records In Shipbuilding. :| 4 Ice Crystal Is Hexagonal / Or Reducible to Hexagon It seems hardly possible that ice cubes, snowflakes, frost feathers and hailstones are all accumulations of ice crystals essentially the same in shape. There are, of course, obvious differences in the color, size and form of different crystal accumulations. Such variations depend on how the freezing occurs and what happens to the mass after it has been frozen. But the natural form RINGWOOD FRANCISCO, CALIF^**- notincements of records being broken by Henry J. Kaiser in turning Gf the single ice crystal is the hexout ships in less thac a week after agon and the complex combinations the keels are laid-<-the latest one in found in different types of frozen three days--tell only part of the moisture can be resolved into units story of this amazing ship building having the basic hexagonal shape, program on the West coast. The appearance in the transparent The explanation for these accom- i atmosphere of visible water forms, plishments, rather than being based such as clouds, and precipitations on any secret forrrjula, lies in pre- from clouds, is a phenomenon that Mi fabrication and the(use of American assembly line methods in a field where they previously had not, been .extensively employed. > • Involved, investigation shows, is •the dynamic genius of Kaiser, the i high morale of the workers, and the ^Kaiser technique of welcoming suggestions. But it is largely prefab- • rication that is determining the rate lat which this stream of ships are is mystifying until we have some notion of the processes and conditions involved, writes Charles H. Blake in New England Naturalist. For the most part water vapor at ordinary sea-level pressures does not form readily at temperatures below the boiling point of water, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit. But a slow evaporation of water constantly occurs even below freezing, and sliding down the ways at California vast quantities of water vapor are and Oregon yards. , i;» in the atmosphere at all times rei Because shipyard ways are ex- gardless of temperature. Although £ pensive and few, the construction of the proportion diminishes as the ^completed sections away from thefri, temperature falls, even far below ' in the open where work can be done zero there is a little vapor still resetter and faster, speeds not merely ;the time of building one ship'but decreases the total time for a fleet of them by permitting the ways to be used only for finishing processes. As a result of the method by which completed sections are prefabricated sometimes weeks before they j reach the ways, it is impossible to determine accurately the total number of man hours' required to build a ship. However, statisticians estimate that this system has cut tained in the atmosphere. The excess has, of course, fallen out as water or as ice, but it is never really too cold to snow. 1942 Private Says, 'What / Changes Since 1917-18!' Private Dwight R. Crawford, Little Rock, Ark., once thought he knew all about servicing and maintaining warplanes. •time tor previous construction. i„stITfctor and later a fligh, sergeant in the army, and then had seen line duty with the RAF in England. But . . . when Private Crawford quit his job as a structure line worker at Little J Rock and enlisted in the army he learned he had to start AM school all over again at Keesler Field. A little confusing, perhaps, but there's an explanation--all of Private Crawford's service was contributed during World War I, and tion and the assembly line method works is strikingly illustrated by one of Kaiser's recent record breakers, the Liberty ship Robert E. Peary. The 10,500-ton cargo vessel was launched at one of his three Richmond yards only 4 days and 15 hours after the keel was laid, and was delivered to the Maritime commission fully fitted a few days later. This preceded the three-day ship. (By Halen Johnson) Alice Mae Low spent Monday in Chicago. George Young returned home on Saturday from the Victory Memorial hospital in Waukegan, where he had been a patient for two weeks, j Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Haney of Chi- | cago Heights were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet were callers in Crystal Lake Sunday afternoon. Home Bureau met with Mrs. Paul Walkington on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. J. B. Vollman of Elgin spent Monday with her sister, Mrs. Roy Har- ; rison. j 'Hie W. S. C. S. will meet.with Mrs. I Kenneth Cristy on Friday and plans ! will be made for the annual Memorial I Day dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young and Mr. and Mrs. William Martinec attended 1 a shower in honor of Mrs. Richard Young in the George Kiddleson home at McCullom Lake, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Joe P. Miller and children were • Wednesday callers in the Ernest Walsh home at McHenry. Mrs. Joe Kuhn of Solon Mills spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Merchant and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Howard and Alice I of Kenosha were guests in the Ray Merchant home recently. Mr. and Mrs. George Shephard spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ainger at Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper and daughters of Chicago spent Saturday in the S. W. Smith home. Mrs. George Martin and son, Tommy, and Tom Walkington are visiting relatives in Zanesville, Ohio. Mrs. Roy Neal anl Bernice Roemaker were callers in Woodstock, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Roy Wiedrich and children spent Wednesday with Mrs. "William Aubert at Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon of Antiioch spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Alice and Marfan Peet of Elgin *rere weekend guests of their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harrison and Earl were guests in the Bert Doolittle home at Antioch Sunday. Dolores and Robert Betts, Charles The Peary was essentially a test, the 44-year-old soldier has to admit Carr, Susan Muzzy, Robert Brennan, a challenge to the men in the yards where it was constructed to experiment with new ideas and to tievise a new and better way of building a ship. A request for suggestions brought a flood of answers from every classification of workers in the yard, ideas for jigs, rigs and gadgets and constructive criticism. Built on Assembly Tables; Then the planners and blueprinters went to work on prefabrications through which as much of the ship as possible would be built on open assembly tables. As a result of their planning, approximately 250,000 items that went into the Peary were asse'mbled into mammoth sections ranging up to 110 tons. Most of them were completed in two weeks or less. When the time came for the giant trailers to haul the sections the short distance from the "prefab" plant to the shipway, the usual 12 double bottom units had been reduced to five huge pieces. Similarly, the 23 pieces usually comprising the main deck were dropped into place by the cranes in seven sections. Prefabrication of the fore and aft peaks alone had saved over 4,000 man-hours. The union melt welding machine, which performs in 25 minutes operations requiring eight hours of hand work, had been used to the maximum. Workers had completed on assembly tables 152,000 feet of welding, leaving only 57,800 feet for completion on the ways. Again slashing man hours, five days work by "prefab" on the 135 ton engine had cut the engine room assembly job of 25 marine machinists from three weeks to two days on the ways. When the over-all hull of the Peary moved onto the ways it was 61 per cent prefabricated in comparison with 41 per cent prefabrication on previous vessels. times have changed and so has aviation. "Nothing could suit me better than getting back into AM school," Private Crawford, says, "but what a change from those days of 1917-181" The greatest difference between AM training then and now is the quality and amount of equipment available today under the^ setup of the army air forces technical training command, he says. , Tunisian City Djedeida j South of Bizerte Port i Tebourba, in northern Tunisia, occupies the apex point of a map triangle whose base is anchored in Bizerte and Tunis. Tebourba is about 30 air miles south of Bizerte and nearly 20 miles west of Tunis. The railway line on which Tebourba is situated leads to Tunis by way of Djedeida. There is no railroad directly north from Tebourba to Bizerte, although there is a motor highway together with several smaller roads, running in that direction. To approach the former French naval base from Tebourba by rail, it is necessary either to turn southwestward to meet the main line from Algeria, or move eastward (again through Djedeida) and make a big loop north and west. Since the mountain ranges of Tunisia run diagonally toward the northeast, a broken country of hill, mountain and valley lies between Tebourba and Jean Hay, Alfred Young, Shirley Kirkpatrick and Barbara Lawrence were among the graduates at the township exercises at McHenry, Friday evening. The W. S. Ci S. will hold their annual Memorial Day dinner at the Community hall. This will be a baked ham dinner. Pfc. James Lawrence has returned to Long Island, after spending a tenday furlough with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Saunders of Sycamore were callers in the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home Friday evening, and attended the graduation exercises at McHenry. Mrs. S. W. Brown was a Woodstock caller Monday afternoon. Dickie Rinkenberger entertained a group of boys in honor of his birthday Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Neff of Richmond were callers in "the Fred Wiedrich, Jr., home Thursday afternoon. | Mrs. Stanley Hunt and children visited relatives at Woodstock Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young spent | Monday in McHenry. 0 | Mrs. R. C. Harrison and Edyth , were callers in Woodstock Saturday. Dorothy Davis, Carol Brown and jPaul Bruckner of Chicago spent Sun- | day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Jack i Leonard. Walter Low visited Rex Ray, who i is a patient in a Chicago hospital. Mrs. Irvin Walker, son, Irvin, and o'j' grandson, Bobby, of Waukegan were Dizervt, if * ii_ • IL- T> p and Mrs. Walter ^Harrison Monday evening. Floyd Foss of Richmond called on his brother, Wayne, Monday evening. John Dreymiller of McHenry called on Mr. and Mrs. George Shephard Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young called on Mr. and Mrs. Walter Huff at Richmond Saturday evening. VOLO (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hanke of Evanston spent Monday at tTie home of Mr. and Mrs., Frank St. George. Frank Wilson, Sr., is on the sick list at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Reiland and son of Northbrook spent the weekend at their farm home. The Volo unit of the Lake County Home Bureau met at the home of Mrs. Howard Converse Wednesday. Mrs. William Wirtz, Mrs. Carl Fink and Mrs. Floyd Fisher attended the 4-H club leader's school at the Lake County Home Bureau office Friday. Mr. and Mrs. James Valenta of Chicago were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George. C. J. Wightmann of Grayslake called at the home of Mr. and Mrs.' Lloyd Fisher Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Case, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bacon were Elgin business callers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Benwell of McHenry spent Monday evening at the hohie of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Vickers of Gages Lake called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz Thursday evening. Mrs. Harry Hironimus spent Tuesday in Chicago. Mrs. Pearl Dowell and daughter, Ada, were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Raven at Slocum's Lake. Miss Miriam King of Waukegan spent Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank King. Mr. and Mrs. Frank St. George spent Monday with the latter's mother, Mrs. Richard Dusil, at Berwyn. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wanland and family of Norwood Park, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keho and daughter of Chicago were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher. Mrs. John Lewis Allen and son, Robert, Mrs. Otten, Miss Arvilla and Lilah Fisher attended the Music Festival at the Barrington public school Sunday afternoon. Miss Miriam King and Miss Mary Soulder of Waukegan were Friday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank King. Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Dowell and family of Libertyville were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher. Robert and Richard Allen spent the past weekend at the Beloit college. While there they visited their brother, Clifton, and were guests of the Signia Chi fraternity. Mrs. Frank King and daughter visited Mrs. Bruno Grimelli at Sullivan Lake Sunday. Miss Rogeanne McNally, Miss Joanne Jenkins, James Julian, Dean Quoss of Chicago spent the past weekend at the home of Mrs. 'John Lewis Allen. SLOCUM LAKE (By Mr*. Harry Matthews) Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgron and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lundgren of Wauconda &rere callers at Waukegan last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse were Callers at McHehry last Tuesday. Mrs. James Thomson of Williams Park was a guest of her daughter, Mrs. Harold Fornoff, of Chicago at a dinner last Friday at Old Heidelberg, given by the Beta Gamma Phi. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mathison of Elmwood Park were guests Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Matthews. M Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping were guests Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. LeDoyt Matthews at Oak Park. Chesney Brooks was a caller In Chicago Monday. Mrs. James Thomson of Williams Park visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wilson in Chicago last Friday. Miss Lillian Scheid of Wauconda and Private Thomas Cameron, a paratrooper at Fort Benning, Ga., were callers Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 0. H. Hansen. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Nerstrom of North Chicago were visitors Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews attended the funeral services of Mrs. George Vose of Gurnee at Tobin and White Funeral home at Waukegan Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wells and three sons of Aurora were Sunday supper guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Learned tm Put What you call hunches I call the memories of things learned in past lives.--Henry Ford. Crewa Is VihllMi Britain's imperial stats crown weighs nearly 1H pounds and contains 2,927 diamonds and 287 pearls. CLARENCE'S SHOP Lawn chairs, pier and park benches, bird and dog houses, trellises and picket fences, window boxes, etc. Full line of house and barn brooms and wiHr can brushes, etc. Hand woven wash baskets, elotfoes fcwpers, shopping and market baskets. . -iu, * fi 1 u •*, : v. - < , " , General line of men's Ml women's leather belts, billfolds, purses and war ration book cases, etc. Clarence J. Smith JOHNSBTTRG, ILL. / " '1 ' Toward Tunis, on the other hand, the road is an open one, the valley of the Medjerda, in which Tebou?- ba lies, widening into a broad plain as it approaches the coast. Steel Is Man's Job? Not To 18 Colorado Women PUEBLO, COLO. -- Eighteen Pueblo women--described as a "typical cross section of femininity"-- have disproved the old theory that a steel works is exclusively a man's world. A local plant was just about the only industrial concern which had not already been invaded by women workers and it was thought that no v^oman could possibly take over a job there. Purely as an experiment the company, in co-operation with the vocational training department of the Pueblo high schools, gave 28 Pueblo women a two-weeks' training period with conditions closely simulating exact working conditions. Mineral Pigments Have Many Uses Mineral pigments find their main outlets, both alone and mixed with chemical pigments in paint. Iron oxide pigments are used extensively * 1 T in the preparation of paints for ^ Thursday with Mrs. Louis Hawley. Monday callers in the R. C. Harrison home. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wiedrich were Sunday afternoon callers in the Elmer Olsen home at Richmond; Rita Mae Merchant of Woodstock Was "home over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith were given an old -fashioned charivari by a group of friends Friday evening. Mrs. Hickey of McHenry spent protection of iron and steel work : from rust, for which graphite and red lead are also widely used. Iron oxide paints are also used on freight cars, barns, etc. Other uses for iron oxide pigments are as coloring agents and fillers in the manufacture of imitation leather, shade cloth, shingle stain, and paper and cardboard filler. Siennas and umbers are used in wood stains and wood fillers. Comparatively large amounts of ground sienna were formerly used for lithographic and typographic printing, but this use is now negligible. Mrs. Joe P. Miller and children spent Monday with Mrs. Arnold Huff at Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Harrison of Chicago were Sunday guests in the J. C. Pearson home. -- --- Stanley Hunt has gone to Detroit, Michigan, where he has found employment. Mr. and Mrs. Eloy Borgeson and Helen of Greenwood called on Mr. Keep Farm Account Books, Save Yourself Much Worry Keep farm account books in 1943 if you want to save yourself a lot of trouble figuring out how much victory tax you owe your government in 1944, says W. F. Knowles, extension specialist in farm management at Rutgers university. Unlike people who receive regular salary checks, you will not pay victory tax in61943 if your income is derived solely from farming, Knowles explains to farmers. Instead, you will be asked to pay the 1943 tax the following year in the same way regular income tax has always been paid. But unlike the income tax, you will receive a post-war credit or refund amounting to 25 per cent of your victory tax if you are single and 40 per cent if you are married, plus an allowance fer dependents. One item farmers will not have to compute, Knowles adds, is the deduction of taxes from their employees' wages, for wages paid to agricultural labor are specifically exempt from the withholding provisions. Students of Magnetism Now Learning About Electrons Like every one else who investigates the properties or the structure of physical things, the student of magnetism is brought ultimately to working in terms not merely of atoms but of the electrons within the atom. The magnetic properties of the elements which are basis of his research are due almost entirely to the electrons surrounding the positively charged nucleus of each atom. Systematic variation in the number and arrangement of these electrons occurs throughout the periodic table of the elements, giving rise to corresponding variations in the magnetic properties of the materials represented. Since the distribution of electrons in free atoms is reasonably well known, the magnetic properties of free atoms are fairly well understood. When atoms combine, however, as In a solid element or in a chemical compound, the distribution of the outer electrons is greatly modified, says Technology Review. This shifting of the electron pattern of combined atoms leads to a change in the magnetic properties of the atoms individually and hence to special magnetic properties for them in combination. Many of the other physical properties of matter, such as electrical conductivity, color and thermal expansion are influenced by these same changes in electron configuration. For this reason a study of the magnetic properties of solids can contribute to our knowledge of their structure. From the results of studies of magnetic properties the investigator can work back in terms of electron patterns toward reasons for the other properties of the sub- #* of** PAnm Q • Ordiftwy bant palfit is not satisfactory for gray and weatherbeaten barns and buildings. DOUBLE THICK Farm Paint is ESPECIALLY made to cover and hide porous wood--to give years of added protection from sun, wind, rain, ice and snow. Because it is DOUBLE THICK it goes farther, makes more paint when mixed, doesn't suck in, is easily applied with brush. A favorite for years. Old users come back for MARTIN - SENOUR DOUBLE THICK again and again. aam ^ barm with RICH RED PAINT BOUBLK THICK It's economical,; because it is semipaste, and when mixed with linseed oil makes more paint. • MARTIN-SENOIR DOUBLE THICK FARM PAINT PJUKT EX'NTS SOKE 1171 O Q O At VYCUAL HDWE. Valuable Wildlife The national resources commission reports that the economic value of American wildlife is more than $1,000,000,000 annually. Tough, Cheap Meat Useful Stews go well in cold weather. Even the toughest and cheapest meat is good for a stew. Woman's Skirt Tells Names of Survivors REDDING, CALIF.--An Arrierican woman released by the Japanese after internment in Manila has relieved suspense of at least one family. She had fellow prisoners autograph her shirt and a closeup of the garment later was published in the United States. On it Lois Linder, Redding nurse, recognized the signature of her brother. It was the first Sssurance she had that he was alive > Since the Philippines fell. Liberates Iowa Zoo Inmates The problem of feeding and Oaring for the more than 50 animals in tile Ledges Park zoo under war conditions, has led the Iowa state game commission to abandon this popular display and liberate the inmates. The soo is largely populated with animals found injured in the wilds and turned over to conservation officers. Need Rubber Stamps! 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