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Materials Department Saves Shoe Leather
Supervisor Frank Lynch is shown below with the first bicycle recently acquired by the Materials department. The vehicle is saving considerable walking and enables the supervisors in the department to cover more ground in visiting the plant. Since this picture was taken, the department has received two additional bicycles and several other departments have indicated an interest in this method of in-plant travel.
Fireman On The Job 55 Years
On Monday, October 2, a fire in a bale of rubber in Mill Room 10 of the Reclaim department destroyed a sprinkler heads. The fire was contained by the sprinkler equipment and required the fire department with no resulting damage. The spent heads were replaced one of the men who found to have a 1912 record (all sprinkler heads are stamped with their date of manufacture and back in those days were installed the same year they were produced).
Our insurance carrier has suggested that we replace all of the old sprinkler heads in the Reclaim department with modern up-to-date units. This project will probably be underway soon; meanwhile, the old timers on the job after over 50 years will give us 100% protection.
SPORTS
Basketball… Two teams are being formed again this year for entry into the Industrial Council League. Practice sessions have been held at the YMCA and league play began on Wednesday, December 6 at Hillside Junior High School. Anyone interested in joining a team should contact J. Prior at Ext. 575 at Synthetic or Bob Pettigrew, Ext. 692 at Chemical. The two teams were active in the league last year with the Chemical team winning the championship.
Friday Nite Alegbic League
With 3 weeks of bowling left before the end of the first round, Chemical Production is enjoying a comfortable lead. Team standings: 1. Chem. Prod. – 237, 2. D & G – 17, 3. Dust Collectors – 18-12, 4. Office – 17-13, 5. Syn. “Odds” – 16-14, 6. Pipers – 12-18, 7. Syn. “Evens” – 10-20, 8. Timers – 5-25.
Old Timers Corner
Approximate 1954 – Our Laboratory group – how many do you recognize? First Row: I. to r.: C.S. Watkins; H.C. Miller; A.W. Holmberg. Second Row: R. Evans; G. Durbin; J. Smey; A. Maris; M. Murray; H. Schlieffelin; E. Deady; P. Lincoln; I. Meuser; F. Jester; H. Bernard; P. Leaper. Third Row: J. Mikalkus; J. Fairbanks; H. Bassford; J. Tilley; H. Monroe; A. Smey; D. Fowler; M. Shisward; A. Anderson; V. Smith; M. Aschenbach; J. Marmarino; W. Miller; M. Booth; E. Duffy. Fourth Row: C. Holt; H. Edmon; J. Lynch; R. Grele; D. Volpe; J. Murtha; E. Weaving; J. Conward; J. Ash; A. Piotrowki; R. Ripper; S. Worrell; Fifth Row: D. Blomquist; L. Stenie; W.G. Kirby.
PLANT EMPLOYEES EARN DEGREES
Earl Wright, Pat DePaolo and Fred Wintsch will have something in common – a college degree earned in 1967.
Earl was awarded his BS degree in Industrial Management from Quinnipiac College in New Haven. He came with us in 1946 as a trainee in the Krailic department of Chemical Production. He was made a foreman, 2nd class in 1959, 1st class in 1961 and an area foreman in 1963.
Pat earned his master’s degree in chemistry from Southern Connecticut State College. He was employed in 1963 and worked in the Research and Development Department prior to his recent transfer to the Sales Department. He earned his BA degree from Univ. of Mass. in 1963.
Fred was awarded a Master’s Degree in Industrial Administration from Rensselaer Poly. Inst. branch in Connecticut. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. in 1962 with a BA degree in Industrial Administration. He came with the company in 1959 as a time study man in the Industrial Engineering Department. He is presently a supervisor in the Industrial Relations Department.
The degrees were earned under the Company’s tuition aid plan.
1967 Safety Box Score
10 Months Thru October 31st
At Press time, three more lost-time accidents have taken place in early November. Only you can stop this record from climbing higher.
A Big Spender
In the last five years the company has invested an average of 80 million dollars a year in expansion and modernization. In addition, we purchase from 17,500 companies, large and small, more than 600 million dollars worth of materials, equipment, and services a year. Much of this is spent in communities where the company operates plants. These purchases, added to payrolls, taxes and other payments, pour more than a billion dollars a year into the nation’s economy.
This means we must do our jobs in the safest way possible – no shortcuts, no taking chances and no inattention. Each of us must concentrate on performing his part of the operation to the best of his ability while obeying the rules of safety required on the job area.
Tire Tip
For long tire mileage and safety, our tire engineers recommend checks of tire pressure at least once a month. Such checks should be made after the car has stood for three hours or has been driven less than a mile. By the way, air pressure should not be reduced in a warm tire after a long trip. Air pressure naturally drops as tires cool down.
Garnet Gleam of the Air
Uniroyal Chemicals is again sponsoring the high school radio program “Garnet Gleam of the Air”. The program, produced by Naugatuck High School students, is broadcast over radio station WOWW at 1:00 P.M. Sundays.
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CHEM TEXTS
What Would Some Company-Paid Benefits
Cost If You Bought Them Yourself?
Have you ever wondered
what some of your company-
paid employee benefits would
cost if you had to buy them
yourself?
Let’s suppose that as the
average employee you had to
purchase your own pension,
life insurance, accidental
death and dismemberment in-
surance, hospital and surgical
coverage, and accident and
sickness insurance. For these
benefits alone, here is what
you would have to pay for the
best comparable protection.
Pension: $509 a year until
retirement. That is the cost
of an annuity that would
equal your present (or pen-
sion benefit of almost $200 a
month under the new plan.
If you had the will power,
you could put this same amount
in a savings account or buy
stocks regularly through a
broker.
Life and Accidental Death
and Dismemberment Insur-
ance: $102.04 a year. This
amount will buy a $7,500 term
life insurance policy, $7,500
non-occupational AD & D
coverage and $3,750 occupa-
tional AD & D. In addition,
you would have to submit
medical evidence of insur-
Uniroyal Plans
Promotion Through
Major League
Baseball
Baseball will sell a lot of
our products next year – and
our company will sell a lot
of baseball.
Working with major league
baseball and The Reader’s
Digest, the company will pro-
duce a 32-page descriptive
section about baseball and
Uniroyal products that will
be published in the May 1968
issue of The Digest. Twenty
of the pages will feature the
United articles baseball’s
written by noted sports ex-
perts, leading feature writers
and outstanding baseball per-
sonalities. The remaining 20
pages will highlight the com-
pany and its major consumer
and industrial products, such
as Uniroyal Master, Tiger Paw
and Rain tires, Kedz and
Naugatyck.
The Reader’s Digest has
a monthly circulation over 17
million, the largest in the
world, and a total readership
in excess of 50 million.
The insert will form the
basis of a promotional program
that will last for the entire
baseball season, which is the
major selling season for many
of our products. Several mil-
lion copies of the insert will
be distributed by the company
at ball parks and dealer out-
lets, affording long-term pro-
motional opportunities for
Uniroyal products at the re-
tail level.
According to J.R. Mc-
Menamin, director of adver-
tising, the promotion will be
“the most exciting program
we have ever sponsored. Since
baseball has universal appeal,
this booklet will make fas-
cinating reading for all mem-
bers of the family. It will
be articles of great interest
not only to the avid fan, but
to women who may know
nothing about the game, as
well as tips for Little Leaguers,
teenagers and the kid who
never held a bat.”
Baseball Commissioner
William D. Eckert noted that
the tie between baseball, Un-
iroyal and The Reader’s Digest
is appropriate. Some 70 million
spectators have enjoyed major
and minor league baseball
during the past two years,
making baseball America’s
favorite sport by far. We are
pleased to be associated with
such outstanding companies
as Uniroyal and The Reader’s
Digest, which will carry the
fun and excitement of base-
ball to families throughout
the nation.”
DON’T FORGET . . . .
Get those contributions or pledge cards in to your area repres-
entative or the Industrial Relations department. Let’s make sure
we don’t miss a good account or ourselves in this worthwhile drive.
TESTIFIES
Plant protection supervisor, Ed Weaving, is shown below, ex-
tinguishing a test fire during Fire Prevention Week. Ed worked with
a number of employees during the week, helping them extinguish
practice fires. It all adds up to another step in our fire pre-
paredness program.
Snow Tire Sale To
End Dec. 15
The special employee sale
prices on Wingfoote and Win-
ter Patrol tires will be in effect
until Dec. 15. Fire dealers
in the area are Poulst’s and
Mezzullo’s in Naugatuck; Ad-
vance Tire in Waterbury;
Bridgewick’s in Ansonia and
of course, any of the Uniroyal
stores. Tire form and credit
applications may be obtained
from the Synthetic plant hospital
or the Industrial Relations
department.
CHEM TEXTS
PUBLISHED BY THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
UNIROYAL CHEMICAL, NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT
U.S Postage
PAID
Permit No. 19
Naugatuck, Conn. 06770
This section of Chem Texts will be set aside in each issue
as a courtesy to our employees. Ads of 15 words or less about
items wanted or to sell or trade will be published on a first come-
first serve basis. They will be run in one issue only and should
be re-submitted if you wish them published in later issues. Send
all information to R.F. Shortt, Industrial Relations department,
Remember, your signature must be included on your ad applica-
tion or it will not be used.
FLU SHOTS
The Safety Department
has been encouraged by the
number of employees that
have received flu shots this
year at the Plant Hospitals.
The Plant Nurses have given
over 700 flu shots to date. Flu
Shots are given daily by the
Nurse at both Plant Hospitals
to any Uniroyal Chemical
employee who voluntarily
requests them. There is still
time to get one. Call one
of the Plant Hospitals for an
appointment.
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