The Lompoc Record from Lompoc, California • 1

CSkw 'e' LOMPO CORD A COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS AND WELFARE OF THE LOMPOC VALLEY LOMPOC'S HOME NEWSPAPER S1XTY-NIMTH YEAR LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1943 SECTION A-TWO NUMBER SEVENTEEN Officials At Presentation Ceremony Today "Chalk Rock" Plays Key Role In Tunisian Desert Campaign Victory Union Pledges Continued Effort To Win Flag Star Wartime Uses For Celite Products Recounted One of the most important contributions to this country's war effort made by the men and women of the J-M factory has been the amount of materials turned out for our allies, under Lend-Lease. Vast quantities of filter powders and insulating have been shipped A.F.L. Local Formed At Plant Plant In 1940 Union members at the Lompoc Johns-Manville plant pledged to almost every nation fighting themselves this week through against the Axis, to be used in' their president, Blackie King, making steel, refine gasoline and'that 8Pare V7, selves until the pennant has process foods. In this all-out been made complete with a star effort, Lompoc factory's men denoting continuing production I ml I LLfl I I mmm I I mm mt oH jLf'it: enefl oH mFU 'mWlmmtM i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bSkk'''' 'H SnBO DmO a BBS ESBfl BBBBBBBBHBBBBBBBBBn LY fcsfl BKSd I I Bar al LPSosbbI 1 BBTsYsBaBTsBTsTsBTsBTBl and women play a very essential excellence. In a message to members of part.

The real value of Lompoc factory products, going through the Celite Products Workers, Local 21504, King stated in part, no union member should Lend-Lease to our allies, is best spare himself until he has been proven by the fact that it was 1 awarded our pennant com- the Procurement Division of the with whif wi" I denote perfection of production U. S. Treasury Department that I wor.kmanship The Army-lirst recognized the war effort ftNavy means the same to of the management and em. us in civilian life as docs the Distinguished Service Cross to our men and women in the oB Pictured above are sevaral of the Army-Navy officers, plant, officials and employees who will participate in today's award ployees. This is shown in the following letter received a few days ago by 0.

B. Westmont, factory manager, and to be read by R. B. McClellan, at the Army-Navy ceremonies. It is from Mr.

Clifton E. Mack, Director of Procurement, of the Treasury Department and reads: eremoniet. Aremed Forces The union local, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, was formed in 1940. At present, approximately 60 per cent of the employes are members of the local, King reports. King was elected to the pres; idency of the local two months ago after being employed at the My dear Mr.

Westmont: Please extend to the men and Lompoc plant for eight months MAIN OFFICE AT LOMPOC PLANT Pictured is the main office at White HilU. a far cry from the "Crow's Nest" of earlier years. women employed in your plant I He has been affiliated with -the our sincere congratulations on A.F. of L. for the past 16 years.

Top row. left to right are ALEXANDER CROMWELL, J-M vice, president and operating; manager of the Kansas Ordnance plant, who will give the main address of the afternoon; LT. COMM. CHARLES N. GLEW.

NSNR. executive officer of the Advance Base Depot at Camp Rousseau, who will make the Army-Navy lapel insignia presentation; O. B. WESTMONT, manager of the Lompoc plant, who will make the speech of acceptance for the flag. Second row, left to right.

PERCY HECKENDORF who is a member of Governor Warren's cabinet, and who will make the ad dress of welcome at the ceremonies; BLACKIE KING, president of the Celite Products Workers Union, A.F.L., who will accept the insignia on behalf of his fellow workers; MISS CAROLYN KUHN, chosen to represent the women employes in acceptance of the insignia. At left is R. B. McCLELLAN, industrial relations manager at the Lompoc factory, who will introduce the speakers at the At the present ceremonies to 1 I aw I sna I I i Reporter Finds Bevy of Girls Holding Down Man-Sized Jobs In Office achieving the coveted Army-Navy Award. The excellent production record of your Division and the high quality of the products supplied on Lend-Lease contracts negotiated by day, he will represent the workers and accept the pins in their behalf.

In the drive for increased pro- duction, representatives of the local have been active in the this office, together with the efficient manner in which these Labor-Management program out first hired to replace men; she contracts were executed, formed lmed, P-W B- carried the basis of our recommendation ou in Lompoc plant, for the Army-Navy Production Regular meetings of the local Award are Wednesday night We also extend our hearty at he Eafes nrrornlnrinna vn nPTonn. 0ther officers of the local ar Carolyn Kuhn Will Represent Women for ally on the sound leadership 1 ariren' vice president Frank eaSB jH Hp Jjjj Winters, recording secre manifested in this achievement. holds one of thef toughest of men's jobs, doubling in brick as locomotive driver in the piling vard tunnel plus helping to un- mm load; she is a member of the' Wm, AF of she has a brother serving with the Army field artillery In North Africa; this is her first defense job and she's crazy about it; at present, she fH works the graveyard shift and that's all right to. And what does she think of that "It's wonderful!" It's a rod-letter day for. Carolyn Kuhn.

Sincererely yours, Clifton E. Mack, Director of Procurement. tary; John Hall, financial secretary; Joe Temple, treasurer, and warden. Jack Henning. The trustees are Ed Spruill, Joe Garrett, and Homer King.

This afternoon, as representa-1 tive of the entire group ofi I women workers, she will accept' from the hands of Command- Ier Charles N. Glew, USNR, the1 1 1 By B. McM. Under wartime conditions, the main office or service unit at Johns-Manville is staffed with more feminine workers than ever before in its history. Girls just out of school and girls especially trained by the company are taking over the duties of men called to the armed services.

There's MARY WINANS, a Lompoc girl. Mary graduated just this June from the local high school and promptly went to work as a traffic department clerk. Right now, she's helping to "break in" DOROTHY HOGG, the "baby" of the office. Dorothy started work only a week ago and is also assigned to the traffic department. A farmer's daughter, redheaded MARGARET "PEGGY" DAILY is no hayseed.

She can tell you all about how to milk a cow and hoe the corn, and she also knows all about the duties of an order and billing clerk. She's been at J-M for nine months and is right-hand man to Harlan Hei'ges, senior clerk. BEVERLY MILLER has a twofold job. She's accounting clerk and also serves as secretary to Boss Man "Pooley" Jacobs. man, was sent overseas to Africa.

VICTORINA PENSA is an accounting clerk. After hours when she is through accounting for J-M, she gives an equally good account of herself at USO dances. In fact, she is said to hold a virtual monopoly on the prize dances over there. Veteran of the department is FREDA VANDEVENTER. Freda has been in the office for two years, working as payroll clerk.

Married and the mother of a small she spends many of her off-hours entertaining said off-spring at the beach. Two of the most important jobs in the entire department are now being handled by STELLA KILMER and ILENE HUYCK. Both girls are senior cost clerks, positions formerly held by men and demanding a high degree of skill and training. Successfully passing aptitude tests conducted recently by the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices, Stella and Ilene were sent at company ex pense to New York where they were given a six-weeks course in cost-accounting. Men Workers Holding their own against the battery of femme workers are three male employees in the department.

HAROLD NICKO-LAUS. chief accountant: L. J. pin given to each and every I worker who assisted iii wianfng the Army-Navy award. Miss Kuhn was selected to I serve as representative for her sister-workers because she is just GLORY HOLES There are 10 Glory Holes now, in use at J-M.

Vertical shafts cut through the hills, they are used to store crude from the quarries. One of the deepest measures 356 feeL ELARIO ZILLIOTTO (See story Page 1, Section 2) that typical of J-M's roster of feminine wartime employees, she is a "veteran" of 11 months service, starting last September 24, a month after women were And there are probably many thousands of General Montgomery's British 8th Army veterans who would have more than a good word to add to this letter. These fighters, chasing the German Rommel through the desert and eventually joining up with he Americans to sweep the enemy out of North Africa, needed, almost more than food, plenty of pure drinking water. They got it because of the untiring efforts of Hie men and women in the Lompoc plant. Montgomery could not afford to have the speed of his attack hampered by slow and heavy water filtration plants, -such as had been used in earlier campaigns.

These mobile filters depended on sand as a filtering agent and the necessary weight made any real speed impossible. Natives Of Italy Help Allies Win Beverly is a junior college grad The Italy they're helping lick is native-country for both Mrs. it is reported that the accepted tvpe of sand filtration unit i Adelina Vial and Mrs. Margarita Orso. BENIT, senior cost clerk with the company since 1932 shows greatest after-work inter uate and has been on her present job for four weeks.

SILVIA BISI is another local girl making good at White Hills. She's a payroll clerk; was formerly employed at White Hills store. est when presented with a gar weighed some twelve to fifteen Ions. The story was different when processed earth from Lompoc's white hills was used. A unit, si ii 1 i 1 HERBERT C.

RIOS Former J-M But they aren't spending any time crying over what, might not be left of their former homes. Mrs. Vial, at least, knows what life is like under I a dictator's rule. She knows but it ran't br printed. Wrfe of Pete Vial, J-M worker for the age or house that needs rebuild-ding; CARL J.

WILLOBY, cash, ier and payroll supervisor doesn't get enough dirt on the using Ueilte liner powuer, aim 1 1 i delivering the same amount of WntKPt IMilW I 111 waLer as the old UI ICI ilUf Jll Like many another woman, FREDA EGGE find that all her money goes to pay last month's bills. Freda is clerk of the accounts payable depart- Busman's Holiday sand filled twelve ton machine, weighed only 1,500 pounds and could be mounted on a light truck with sufficient speed to past twenty years, she came to this country only 4 years ago. Pete went over to get her. She snaeaeaeaaaeaT 2e3eaal en; sa Nt'a oS anT jJGMti, JsMn BnaeaeaeaeaeaV es snHHIIflisnl I MmU SPwVJsPeaRseawBHenai 'j Iment and handles all J-M's spending money. She took over the jjob five months ago when her "A tour in Uncle Sam's Navy keep up to the fastest moving is turning out a holi started work as a brick-piler 1 about two months ago "to I do 1 Ltl AT husband, Army Field Artillery-.

day for H. C. "Bert" Rios. For upon leaving his defense job as storekeeper at the J-M plant, he was given a chief petty officers armed forces. For his two sons, Hill so he buys it up downtown Is now known among his more jocular friends as Lompoc's Landlord.

Manager Heading the department is Ray "Pooley" Jacobs, office manager. Source for. that nickname has long since been lost to town memory, but net to himself. Besides his job at J-M he finds time to take part in civic and lodge affairs. He's a member of the city council and an officer in the Eagles, to name just two of his activities.

And to name another, he's now serv outfit in that rfghtning desert war. To-day the powders from the J-M plant at Lompoc are going to almost every fighting front so that the meft will have the water they must have, if Jack and Pierce, both are in the Navy. In the first World War. kRios served in the Army. they are going to carry on to ner pan, ana is now on me.

swing shift. Working with her is Mrs. Orso, resident of this country for the past 14 years and wife of Pete's side-kick in excavation, Antonio Orso. Mrs. Orso has lived at the hill for a number of years Tony's a 20-year malt and they make their home there.

She herself started work five months ago and says sbeV Mproud to help win." ultimate victory. rating, as yes, storekeeper. Rios, a native of Lompoc and a great grandson of one of early California's Spanish Don, was employed at J-M for nearly 16 years before enlisting in the Navy a few months ago. When he signed op, it meant that 100 percent of the rasje He is now undergoing specialized training in a Chief Petty school in the south, will soon join a unit of the Seabees. While her husband is in the Wviee, Mrs.

ftfef to wnjaojre as secretary at the Lompoc hos- Any excuse yon can give far not mppin jva payroll sav- ing as father-confessor to eight fetnmes at J-M "a little disconcerting," confesses Pooley, "but ADMJWA VIAL and MRS. MARuARIT tftofttffqpiwlM of OM-Vean who have replaced men la side of his family were in the.