CHEM-TEXTS
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Four Employees Retire
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Lillian Ploss cuts cake after 44 years service as plant cashier. From left are Don Turner, Lillian, Nell Patrick, Bob Rung, Marie Rusate and Diane Carignan.
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Helping Rose Beardsley cut a cake on her retirement after 24 years service in Accounting are from left Karol Mooney, Larry Mambrino, Rose, Helen Solomita.
“No School Today” was John McCarthy’s philosophy. Wishing him good luck after 24 years as a millwright are from left Mary O’Brien, McCarthy, Bill Rek, who shaved his beard, and Jim Norton.
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Bob Crotty with 27 years service in Synthetic Materials Handling is congratulated, from left, by Ernie Molnar, Don Boyd, Crotty, Bill Leary, and Tony Moura.
$8,900 Awarded
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J. Chasse received $50 each. A $35 award went to A. Cross and a $30 award to J. Arbachauskas.
$25 was given to J. Banno, A. Hanley, H. Needham, O. Gabianelli, J. Marino, Jr., J. Mambrino, A. Gilfone, J. Lawton, A. Kazemekas, S. Dushak, H. Hernandez, M. Rosa, L. Ritchie, F. Simasek, K. Nelson, P. Cravo, N. Owens, S. Mazanski. R. Lockwood, L. Raskauskas, J. Iosa, G. Monahan and E. Kassheimer.
A $15 award went to R. Jennings, a carryover from the old Suggestion System.
Thirty-one employees received Letters of Commendation: P. Blasko, J. Jakabauski, J. Morris, L. Mace, J. Bednarek, F. Phillips, J. Brown, G. Perkins, E. Alves, F. Miller, A. Happy, J. Napiello, D. Mennillo, R. Guest, A. Gedraitis, L. Recchia, A. Civitello, C. Steelfox, J. Sullivan, F. Bendler, W. Lavelle, C. Moruska, C. Zawacki, J. F. Brown, E. St. John, J. Owens, J. Salinardi, J. DaSilva, F. Surmanek, W. Parks, and J. Mucha.
SAFETY IS MY RESPONSIBILITY
X-Ray Unit Visits Plant
by Bob Shortt
On Thursday, March 25, a mobile X-ray unit will visit the plant for chest X-ray of all employees. This service is free and is part of an improved medical service program for employees recommended by Dr. Edward Jelley, Plant physician.
The unit will be open from 6 A.M. until 6 P.M. and can X-ray 125 people an hour.
Employees will be provided a form to complete prior to the visit. Results of the X-ray will be returned to Dr. Jelley, who will file it in the employee’s medical record.
Details are posted on departmental bulletin boards.
Fuel Costs
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Save Steam Program
The program to save steam will concentrate on giving maintenance priorities to steam leaks, faulty steam traps, valves, heaters, controls and broken insulation. A large amount of heat loss is caused by open doors and windows which are also a major factor in frozen pipelines and damage to sprinkler systems.
10-20% Of Steam Lost
It is estimated that 10-20% of the steam produced is now wasted. A ½” orifice or leak wastes 835,000 lbs. of steam a month at a cost of $668 and for a yearly total of $8,000.
A program has also been initiated to inventory, inspect and repair all steam traps in the Reclaim, Chemical, and Synthetic plants to eliminate waste.
CHIF Offers
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limit to be eligible for CHIF’s assistance.
Uniroyal management has examined this service and believes that it may be beneficial to employees. The services of CHIF are primarily involved in assisting members of minority groups in the purchase of their own homes.
If you are interested in obtaining more information about CHIF, call Milt Makoski, Industrial Relations Department, Ext. 217. Or contact CHIF directly in the Steel Building, 51 West Main Street, Waterbury, phone 757-1071.
Safety
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sion has been requested to review all jobs in their departments to determine the proper protective equipment to be used on the job.
Part of the recommendation will be the wearing of hard hats and safety glasses throughout areas of the plant as designated on maps to be distributed to all employees.
Program Timetable Set
The following timetable has been set for the hard hat and safety glasses portion of the program:
March 1, all supervision will advise employees in their department about the program and will find out who needs replacement equipment.
On April 1, all supervision will not only begin to remind employees in their department to wear their equipment but also to advise them to do so.
On May 1, the wearing of hard hats and safety glasses will become mandatory in all designated areas of the plant.
Employee’s Safety
The basic purpose of the new program is to protect all employees against accidents and serious injuries. Since 1967, seventy-one employees suffered lost-time accidents and 246 had serious injuries.
With every employee’s cooperation, this new program will help prevent the occurrence of accidents and make the Naugatuck plant a safer and better place to work.
Group Tutors Young
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Dr. Frank O’Shea and Sister Irene of the Sisters of Charity greet the two pretty Carrion sisters, Maribel and Myra as they arrive for a one hour study session. Not in the photo is Sister Margaret Sugrue who was busily involved in organizing the session.
By Len Lombardi
Forty-eight Uniroyal Chemical employees tutor young high school students from the Waterbury area on Monday and Tuesday evenings from 7-9 P.M. The Uniroyal Tutoring Program provides personal individual instruction to underprivileged young people to help them become better achievers in school, and obtain a High School diploma.
Five of the Chemical tutors have doctorate degrees in the sciences, and hold supervisory positions in R & D at the Chemical plant; several have MA degrees in Chemistry and Engineering.
Sister Margaret Sugrue and Sister Irene, of the Sisters of Charity, who live in a tenement house on Gilbert Street in the downtown West Main St. section of Waterbury, coordinate one group of tutors with Dr. Frank O’Shea. This group which meets at the Gilbert St. tenement house on Monday evenings, consists of Frank O’Shea, Ken Beardsley, Patricia Forbes, Angenette Grant, Eric Johnson, Dick Keenan, Dick Palizay, John Sierakowski and his wife Margaret, and Art Tobias.
The other group of teachers is coordinated by Mr. Albert Leach, a vice principal of the Barnard School. In this group, which meets Mondays and Tuesdays at the Woodrow Wilson School, are K. Ray Allen, Steve Alper, Bill Broden, Joe Bucciaglia, Bob Cassarino, Lou Coscia, Bob Florek, Jim Gatling, John Gilbert, Paul Hinckley, Keith Hughes, Russell Malz, Jr., Dr. Bob Neidermyer, Ted Shevzov, Sandra Weaving, Dr. Roger Amidon, Sandra Bond, Dr. Jim Brown, Jr., Dr. Bob Brown, Pete Braudis, Dave DaVia, Brendan Geelan, Joe Hochheiser, Howard Kravitz, Dr. Vin Landi, Clark Makinson, Dan O’Donnell, Bruce Perkins, and Dan Shantz.
Substituting as tutors are Mike Jasman, Leslie McDonald, Frank Lassiter, Len Lombardi, Bob Swallow, Ed Nunn, Neil Melore and Bruce Goodwin.
Jo Greco volunteers her services as secretary. She handles the many details of the Uniroyal community project, answers correspondence, and maintains records for each tutor and the subject that he teaches.
If sufficient tutors volunteer their services, the Uniroyal Tutoring Program will be expanded to assist the Puerto Rican youth in Waterbury. Volunteers can call Len Lombardi, Ext. 296.
CHEM-TEXTS
PUBLISHED BY THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
UNIROYAL CHEMICAL, NAUGATUCK, CONN. 06770
EDITOR: William F. Lavelle.
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