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•ON Pearl Harbor Day. December 7. the Butte Labor-Manage-ment Production Committee sponsored a bond show in conjunc-tion with the. management of the Fox Theater. The price of~dmission was the purchase of a war bond and over $110.000 inbonds were sold for admission to the show.

Captain Robert M. Crawford. Air Transport Command fly-er, who has made history both with his flying and his musi~. was• 'stellar attraction at the show. Captain Crawford has been an~ir Transport Command flyer fot more than two years and inthe past several months he has 'been assig'ned to ferrying bom~-ers to points both in and outside the United States as a memberof the Seventh Ferrying Croup at Core Field at Creat Falls. Hisfamous song •"The Army Air Corps," has been made the offidal)ong of the Army Air Corps. It was wri.tten while the Captainwas flying his own plane and flyers say it has the rhythm of theplane in it. Before singing his famous song, Captain Crawfordtold us a liHle about the work of the Seventh Ferrying Croup.His talk and music were met by such a storm of applause andsuch a great display of enthusiasm that we felt readers of Co~-per Commando would like to know more of the fine work being'done by this Croup. and, too, that the m,iners of Butte mightlike to know that they are making it possible for men such as'aptain Crawford to continue delivering planes.

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A wing for a grounded aircraft is loaded aboard a whale-like C-46 (CurtissCommando) at the Army Air Base, Alaskan Division, Air Transport Com-mand. The wing has been padded for safety in shipment.

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Seventh Ferrying GroupThe Russians needed planes desperately and the losses by water shipm~nt ofaircraft ran high due to the Nazi U-boats. Something had to be done for thewar outlook for the United Nations was gloomy. Early in 1942 BrigadierCeneral O. A. Anderson suggested to the air staff in Washington that ferry-ing aircraft to the Russians, via Alaska. might be the solution. Today theSeve;'th Ferrying Croup, althtlugh not restricted to the Alaskan route, makesmost of the deliveries of Russian aircraft from Core Field, Creat Fal'ls, toFairbanks. The planes are picked up there by Russian flyers aftd piloted toMoscow, and the Alaskan group transports the pilots back to Core Field •

•T HE Seventh Group is a ferrying group. Its principal function, therefore,is the movement of aircraft from factories to modification centers to Armyair bases throughout this country and abroad. Pilots of the Seventh/Ferryingyroup fly all the foreign routes maintained by Air Transport Command, butthe Northwest air route through Canada and Alaska is the one traveled mostfrequently. The rivers and mountains of the Canadian Rockies and the Arc-tic region of Alaska are as familiar to Seventh Ferrying Group pilots as U. Shighways are to most citizens. Many aircraft have been delivered underlend lease agreements. Most of the planes that are funnelled into GreatFalls for Russian delivery are piloted by Se"'lnth Ferrying Group pilots fromGore Field, Great Falls. After a plane is delivered at Fairbanks, the Alaskandivision transports the pilot back to Great Falls while a Russian flyer takes theplane on to Nome and Moscow. Formerly atrcraft, especially pursuit planes,bound for Russia wen! shipped by boat or flown by the long South Atlanticroute. The distance from Great Falls to Moscow. via Fairbanks, is but 7.900miles as compared to 13,200 miles, the distance from Miami to Moscow viaBasra. The saving in time. fuel, number of ferry pilots required and wear'on the engines of combat ships is obvious.

During the last fifteen months the Seventh Ferrying Group has achieveda total of 19,800,000 air miles in its foreign and domestic deliveries. Thisis equal to a one hundred bomber armada flying between London and Berlinfor if total of 345 days.

Ferrying, to destinations both domestic and foreign, continues to be theprincipal mission of the Seventh Ferrying Group but transport operations areincreasing in scope. Military Air Transport of the Ferrying Divison includes(1) movement of crews, (2) the transportation of cargo, and (3) airevacu-at ion of war wounded. The Seventh Ferrying Group performs its propor-tionate share of the Ferrying Division's transport missions.

Now let's take a look at one of the many planes used by theSeventhFerrying Group. That's a C-46 (Curtiss Commando) in the picture to theleft and to the right you get an idea of the miles of copper wires, which arethe "nerves" over which the electrical impulses travel. Many miles of copperwire are used in the Curtiss C-46 Commando to actuate, control, and indi-cate many operational functions. Also, without copper wire, it would be im-possible to provide current to the lights which are used for night operationor make possible both comm~.Jnications and directional location by radio. Allengine operation is in some way dependent upon copper. This is particularlytrue of the ignition system" where it carries the high tension current from'the magnetoes to the spark plugs. ~ copper base alloy is used to shield thesehigh tension wires in order to control the interference which would otherwisemake radio communication nearly impossible.

Without the copper which is mined at Butte, smelted at Anaconda andrefined at Great Falls, the planes could not operate and the Seventh FerryingGroup could not travel on their important missions.

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Miles of copper wires are the nerves over which electrical impulses travel illthe Curtiss C-46 Com ...ando. Shown above i. th. complex wirine of thema.in disconnect plup of tile overhead electrical paneL

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In This' IssueFRONT COVER 1

The front cover shows the fi re power ofthe P-51 Mustang fighter. These are forthe six .50 calibre machine guns used inthe new U. S. Army 8th Ai r Force NorthAmerican P-51 Mustang fighters. Thecartridge belts being carried represent theamount used by ONE gun on a flight.Thirty-six men would be needed to carrythe total amount of ammunition needed,the amount shown being only one-sixthof the total used by the six guns.

THE SEV.ENTH FERRYINC CROUP 2

Recently when Captain Robert M. Craw-ford, Air Transport Command flyer, spokeand sang his own song, "The Army AirCorps, t' requests came to Copper Com-mando' to use a story on the Seventh Fer-rying Group. We contacted Gore Field,at which Captain Crawford is stationed,and the officers there gave us the story ofthe Seventh Ferrying Group as well as thepicture showing one of the Curtiss C-46Commandos used by them. The otherpicture is by courtesy of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the makers of Cur-tiss C-46 Commandos.

ELECTRON ICS . 4

You and I may not be able to describeelectronics. We can only observe whatit does, such as open a door with an elec-tric eye and provide a signal system with-out wi res on a cage going underground.The Butte Electricians' Union. Local q5.needed and wanted to know more thanthat about electronics and they agreedthat W. A. Boyer. assistant electrical su-perintendent of the Butte Mines' ElectricShop was -the man to instruct them.

KEEPINC UP PRODUCTION 6

Uncle Sam said that he needed the mate-rial used in the elevator buckets at theAnaconda Smelter. But if production wasto be kept up, worn-out elevator bucketshad to be replaced, for the lips (whichmeans the outer edge or rim) wear offfrom constant contact with the variousconcentrates carried by them. John Caseyand Jim McCollom got in a huddle andfigured out a way to reclaim the old buck-ets so as to help instead of hinder UncleSam. The story tells how they do it.

ACAI N SAFETY PAYS 10

The sixth annual safety award smokerwas held in Great Falls on Monday, De-cember 18, at the Eagles' Hall. The em-ployee's name is inserted in a capsule andthe capsules are drawn by judges. Twen ...ty-two names of safety-minded employeeswere drawn and each received a war bond .

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.." The enormous shell shown above is being rammed into the 'breech of one of the big

16-inch gu~s of a modern U. S. Navy battleship in preparation for a blast at the foe.. .The "heavies" hurl up to a ton of metal for more than twenty miles, with inhuman

accuracy.. Figure out for yourself the staggering amount of metal used in one battle.

when a ton is required for each and every shell rammed into th~ breech.

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Copper Commando IS tne official newspaper of the Victory Labor-Management PrOo

auction Committees of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company and its Union Repre-

sentatives at Butte, Anaconda, East Helena and Great Falls, Montana. It is issuedevery two weeks , ... Copper Commando is headed by a joint committee from Labor.

and Management; its policies are shaped by both sides and are dictated by neither.

J! •• Copper Commando was established at the recommendation of the War Depart ...merit with the concurrence of the War Production Board. Its editors are Bob New ...

comb and Marg Sammons; its safety editor is John L. Boardman; its chief photog.rapher is AI Gusdorf; its staff photographer is Les Bishop ..• Its Editorial Board

~consists of: Denis McCarthy, CIO; John F. Bird, AFL; Ed Renouard, ACM, fro",Butte; Dan Byrne, CIO; Joe Marick, AFL; C. A. Lemmon, ACM, from Anacondaj

Jack Clark, CIO; Herb Donaldson, AFL, and E. S. Bardwell, ACM, from Great Falls

"." • Copper Commando is mailed to the home of every employe of ACM jn the four,

locations-if you are not receiving your copy advise Copper Commando at 112 Ham ..

ilton Street, Butte, or, better still, drop in and tell us. This is Volume 3, No. 11.

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Here's the electronic class. lst row: Weber, Bird, Ivey, Donovan; 2nd row:Zucco, Hoar, Stevens, Frisbie, Featherly; 3rd row: Coomb·s,Richards, Davies,

Pishkeur, Barbour; 4th row: Crase, Wiedman, Knoyle, Cribble, Ashall; 5throw: Risto, Carey, McMillan, Reardon, Cribble, Griffith, Crase.

One-half hour of the two hour clall is devoted to question5-

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•Electronics is to you and to me and thefellow next door that something whichgives us radio, television, talking movies,the door opened -by the electric eye, thedentist x-ray tube. But the electricians,in order to install the electric eye for skiplevel ,indication, the electronic signal sys-tems for cages and many other electronicinstallations in the mines of Butte,needed and wanted to know more.Here's what they did •

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As time goes on better ways of doingthings are discovered. New facts arelearned and applied to the production ofnew devices and slowly but surely man'sknowledge increases. Along with a littleknowledge of the many new things beingdiscovered about electronics, came the de-sire and need for more knowledge on thatsubject by Butte electricians."' The officers of the Electricians'

Union Local 65 in Butte were far-sightedenough to see that electronics will soonmake a vast change in the electrical fieldas it is known. The Butte Local realizedthat traihed men would have to be avail-able to carryon the job. So. getting inone jump ahead of a course suggested bythe International Brotherhood of Electri-cal Workers, they proposed one of theirown under the Smith-Hughes Act, whichdeals with adult vocational training andprovides the money with which to pay theinstructor as well as a place for the classto meet.

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~ University for six weeks of intensive studyin a course of electronics sponsored byWestinghouse Electric Company. In turnthe member sent to Marquette would re-turn and teach the course to groups ofabout thirty electricians.

Instead of sending a man to Mar-quette. Butte Local 65 knew a man wellqualified to teach the course in e1ectron-ics. The man is W. A. Boyer, assistantelectrical superintendent at the ButteMines Electric Shop. Mr. Boyer, aftergraduating as an electrical engineer fromBozeman College, spent one and a halfyears with the General Electric Companyin Schenectady. He came to Butte in1927 and since 1943 has been assistantelectrical superintendent. Mr. Boyer iswell known to the' electricians of Butteand the boys have a tremendous respectfor his ability. He has kept abreast ofthe times and has not only studied but hasinstalled many electronic devices in theButte mines. He had charge of the in-stallation of the electric eye for the skiplevel indication in the skip dump in thehead frame at the Leonard; the electriceye for safety warnings on the three hun-dred level of the Travonia; the MercuryArc installation in the Butte Hoist Com-pressor Plant which changes the 2200 voltAC current to 250 volt DC for the tramlocomotives; the electronic signal systemfor the transmitter on cages, which trans-mits signals to the engineer in the hoist-ing room and thus eliminates the neces-sity of wires in the shaft. as well as thepubl ic address system used by Safety En-gineer John Boardman each morning whenhe addresses the men going undergroundat all the mines in Butte, from his officeon Quartz Street.

Thirty-eight electricians enrolled inthe class which meets from seven to nineevery Tuesday and Thursday evenijrg inthe School Administration BUilding.'Classes started in November and will con-tinue through March.

Material taught is taken from acourse purchased from WestinghouseElectric Company. In addition to thecourse, various trade and industrialpamphlets, films and slides are used andMr. Boyer is working up actual experi-mental equipment as a supplement. Amachine for showing the slides has beenloaned to the electricians by the MurrayMotor Company and a machine for show-ing the films has been loaned them by theSchool Board.

Butte electricians are learning moreeach and every day about indescribableelectronics, which to the military man isthe nerve center of battleships, co-ordi-nator of the war's air fleets, radar. Tothe medical man it offers a means of delv-ing into the secrets of the human body-treatment of diseases such as cancer. Tomen of industry electronics is a new work-ing tool increasing efficiency in a thou-sand wartime fields--X-ray of massivepieces of machinery. To the Butte minerit means greater safety.

Art Boyer explains simple electronic circuits ~o Rolando Zucco, Bud Stevens and Art Hoar.

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Elevator buckets with worn lips are brought overto the side of the Boiler Shop and stacked. Jim

McCollom, welder foreman, and John Casey, su-perintendent of the Boiler Shop, shown here with

Here's the die with Walter Murphy operating it,.hich forms the inner lip for the elevator buck-

ets. The inner lip is made of a lighter gauge strapiron than the outer lip and two are needed.

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•Malleable buckets, called "elevator"buckets, are used at the Anaconda Smel-ter tQ convey copper, zinc and manganeseores and concentrates. Uncle Sam said:"No more elevator buckets." Somet>hinghad to be done and here's how the prob-lem was licked •

•IN the old days before the war, whenan elevator bucket "lip," which is theedge of the bucket, wore from the con-stant dipping into the concentrates, thebucket was thrown out and new ones or-dered. But with the war, Uncle Sam saidhe needed the materials used in the ele-vator buckets, so Jim McCollom, welderforeman, and John Casey, superintendentof the Boiler Shop. shown in the top pic-ture. put their heads together and figuredout a way to patch up the old elevatorbuckets, so Uncle Sam could have the ma-terials he needed,

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There are eight sections to the con-centrator at the Smelter at Anaconda andfour elevators to each section. Each ele-vator has a belt and there are at least one

q; hundred fifty elevator buckets to a belt.That means there are forty-eight hundredor more elevator buckets constantly inuse at the Smelter.

From the constant dipping into theconcentrates, each day approximatelyfifty of these forty-eight hundred or moreelevator buckets must be replaced if pro-duction is kept at a maximum. The wornelevator buckets are s'tacked outside the.Boiler Shop, as shownin the top (oppositepage) picture, when they are taken offthe elevator belts. The boys in the Boilerand Welding Shop reclaim them at therate of fifty a day.

After quite a lot of e~perimenting,Jim. McCollom and John Casey found thatthe best way to patch up the buckets isto cut off the worn lip and replace it. Thenew lip is made in three pieces by takinga piece of strap iron three-eighth, inch bytwo inches by ten inches or eilhteeninches, depending on the size of the buck-et. The strap iron pieces are heated onthe flange fire and' when red hot arepicked up by tongs and put into the diesshown in lower picture, opposite page,and the top picture on this page. Let'slook at the middle picture which showsSpike Dudack picking up a worn elevatorbucket. You can see how the lip is wornin the bucket Spike is ready to start work-ing on. The repaired bucket to the lefthas a replaced smaller piece on eithercorner called the inner lip which is madeof lighter gauge strap iron on the dieshown in the lower opposite page picture.The outside lip, which extends half way

I around the bucket and is on the edge. ismade of a heavier gauge and is made withthe die shown at the top of the page. Theheated strap iron is put onto the diesshown; the air pressure is turned onwhich forces the two halves of the diestogether and the lips are formed.

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These new parts and the old bucket,which has 'had its old lip removed. arethen taken to the Welding Shop and thenew lips are welded on a revolving jigwhich has two sets of coiled springswhich enable the welder to turn the buck-et at any angle desired. After the weld-ing is finished, the bucket is hard-sur-faced to make them more durable andstronger. This hard surfacing makes thelip harder and puts a coat of cast iron onit. A special cast iron rod and arc weld-ing are used. The electric welding arc,the 'air and the cast iron melted rod reallydo a job and the boys say that the re-claimed elevator buckets last longer thannew ones.

Many such ideas have resulted fromthis war, for if we can't get what wewant, it's up to us to figure out a sub-stitute. We're proud of Jim and John.They made a real contribution to the wareffort, for without the buckets, produc-tion of copper, zinc, manganese and othervital war metals would have been heldup.

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ture above. Air pressure forces the two halves ofthe dies together and the lip is formed.

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Spike Dudack finished welding the lips onto theelevator bucket and brought it over to show the

difference. The reclaimed bucket is to the leftand Spike is holding a worn bucket.

That's a revolving jig which Mathew Flynn is us- bucket. Two sets of coiled springs on the re-ing in hard surfacing the lips of the elevator volving iig enable Mathew to turn the bucket.

War In High Gear

MOST of us have made our New Year'sresolutions, and should know by nowwhether we're going ~o keep them or not.

Our idea of the resolution that oughtto have lone at the head of the list isthis:' I resolve never to be kidded againthat the war is as good as over, and to beconv~nced of its end only when the flagof surrender is waving over Berlin andTokyo.

The month of December staggered alot of people. with its thundering counter-offensive by the Nazis. It is no secret to •say that it caught many people, includingthose high in military circles,' off theirguard. Most of all, though, it caughtnapping those of us who were alreadyplanning an early peace and quick returnto unrationed living.

Now that we've all been stung onceby being wishful thinkers, I~t's face a fewsimple, perfectly obvious facts. If we,the people, had kept these facts in mind,we never would have lulled ourselves intoa sense of false security:

First, the Axis powers didn't createthis war, with the idea'of losing it. Theywent into. it to win, laid their plans foryears and are a long way from being con-vinced that it is lost. Second, they madeevery provision they could think of forbad breal:s and were prepared to takethem. Witness the counter-offensive theNazis uncorked just when we figured theywere about washed up. Third, while theirfactories have Ibeen hit with ev~rythingwe've got, they're still producing. Berlin.-has a tank superior to anything we have,and Tokyo has at least one style superiorfighter piane.

Fourth, and most important, they,know the cost of losing, and they figurethey have less to lose by fighting. Theyknow they will be stripped of their mili-tary and much of their industrial strength,that a lot of their land will be taken fromthem, that their leaders may be broughtto trial and condemn'ed to death, and thatthe people themselves will be the victimsof the wrath of those in the conqueredcountries. Sa the Axis fights. Whowouldn't? .8.

People (r' PlacesA N EIGHTH AIR FORCE BOMBER STA-TION, England--A year of service in the Euro-pean theater of operations, including participa-tion in Eighth Air Force 8-17 Flying Fortressshuttle bombing attacks to Russia and Italy, lsbeing marked by Master Sergeant Thomas W.Smith, of Great Falls, Montana, and Washington,D. C, pictured at work on a weather map,

Sgt: Smith, 24, is chief of the weather sec- 'tion for the 385th Bombardment Croup com-

- mended by Lieutenant Colonel George F. Jumper,Natoma, Calif. The group is a unit of the ThirdBombardment Division. which has been cited bythe President for its England-Africa shuttlebombing of Messerschmitt airplane factories atRegensburg, Germany, in August, 1943.

The sergeant, son of Mrs. Carrie J. Smith,518 Ninth Street, Northeast, Washington, D. C,was an operator for the Anaconda Wire & CableCompany of Great Falls, Montana, from Decem-ber 15, 1938, until his entrance into the Army inAugust, 1941. After nine months of training asa weather. observer at Stockton Field, Calif., heattended and graduated from forecasters' schoolat Chanute Field, III., before entering foreignservice in the Fall of 1943.

In his position the sergeant is a non-com-missioned liaison officer between the officer andenlisted personnel of his section. He is concernedchiefly with map analysis and weather forecast-

ing-for operational bombing missions, practiceand training flights and flying control. It was asa trained weather observer and forecaster that heparticipated in the operational shuttle flights.

.. , hope they can find use for me on somemore combat missions," exclaimed the sergeanton his return from the hazardous shuttle bombingattacks on Nazi war factories. "It makes mywork seem worth while when I can see the resultsmade possible through weather work. II

The 385th Bombardment Group, acting oninformation furnished through the sergeant, hasflown more than 200 bombing attacks againstvital German targets stretching from the Frenchcoast to Poland.

WAR EXPERIENCES

A former miner at the Mt. Con and the Anselmo,Douglas Smith, stopped in the office during theholidays. Doug enlisted in Butte twenty monthsago and went to Camp Perry, Virginia, for hisinitial training and then on to Rhode Island for

advanced training. He shipped to England inFebruary and on D-Day he made his first trip toFrance. He had just come on furlough after fourand a half months in France. He reported that

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he carried his lucky star right with him, for oneday, while-driving a caterpillar tractor, the "cat"straddled a mine. A second later a buddy walkedover the ground stradled by the "cat," and hadboth legs blown off. Another day while driving abulldozer, three mines were rolled to surface. Hetold us of a lot more of his hair-raising experi-ences about which we were interested to hear, forDoug is hale and hearty. Doug swore that hepractically tore the windows out of the trainwhen he saw good old Butte.

U~USUAL BUT USEFUL

The Timekeepers at Anaconda headed by well-known Jerry Kelly couldn't let Christmas go bywithout a .Christmas tree. They hit upon theunique idea of decorating their tree with the

. many miscellaneous articles used in their dailywork. Look closely and you'Il see pencils, paperclips, tags, erasers (the boys admit they make amistake once in a while) and other articles foundin any office. We thought that was.using thehead, for Christmas tree ornaments this year werehard to find.

JANUARY 19, 1945.

IFolks We~veMet

•On every trip Cj)Pper Commando makes we meeta lof of nice people. We would like for all ofour readers to know them as we know them, butsince that isn't possible, the next best thin'g is toget a picture of groups as we make our to.urs.By taking group pictures we feel that we can getall you folks acquainted eventually •

-. .:T HE top picture might well be called RadioHour at Curry Cavern. For each day. shortly afternoon hour, a group of the boys inthe General Of.fice J:>ullding,hie themselves to Curry's Lair totaka, their lunch and listen to the news broad-cast.

Everybody at Great Falls knows Frank Curry.the Walter Winchell of the Big Stack. Not onlythat, Curry knows everybody at Great Falls. Heis the one-man encyclopedia of chit-chat. Hisweekly column in the Great Falh Leader reflects •the comings and goings of the folks on the Hill.

Frank runs the Stationery Department in thebasement of the General Office building at GreatFalls. In addition to this, he operates a commis-sary which features soft drinks, smokes, candy,and quite a bit of miscellaneous hardware thatnobody ever seems to buy. His stall is the amiablegathering place for practically every visitor to theHill and he has never been known to refuse any.one a favor. (Strictly between us, Frank acts asa sort of voluntary news boy for Copper Com-mando, passing out copies to people who haven'treceived tlrelrs.)

Next time you're at the Reduction Works,call in and say hello to Frank. You'll get a goodreception, probably a bottle of coke, an earfulof gossip and a chance to meet the swell guys whodrop in there every noon hour to catcb up on thenews.

That is Frank in the back row, second fromthe left. The others are: Seated, left to right.Sam Neill, Bill Middleton, BObHarney, ClarenceKathary, R. H. "Moses. Standing: Ralph Millard,Frank Curry, Nick Cassun, Mark Holland. PetePeterson, AI Williams and Harry Egan.

Keeping the concentrators going at top eff]-ciencyat the Anaconda smelter is the job of thesemen shown in the middle picture. We caughtthem in the office of S. S. (Bill) Rodgers, who isshown at the left in the picture at his desk. Billis superintendent of concentration. With himare the assistant superintendents who meet al-most daily to discuss operating matters. Next toBill Rodgers is John Moore, assistant superin-tendent, who handles the copper Ore crusher, thebelt sample mill and slime treatment. Next toJohn, in the center, is Clifford Milkwick, knownas Cliff. Cliff is assistant general superintendentunder Bill and is a sort of all-around troubleshooter.

Next to Bill is Harold Wright. Harold, alsoan assistant superintendent, has charge of theEast Mill of the Copper Concentrator and of theZinc Concentrator. M. H. Wilcox, at the extremeright. has charge of the West Mill of the CopperConcentrator and also of the Manganese Concen-trator.

These pow-wows, as we have told you, arealmost daily occurrences. The men get togetherand as a result of these conferenc'es the wheelskeep spinning as they should.

The night of the annual safety award draw-ing in Great Falls, we saw the group shown in thebottom picture in a huddle. They "spread out"when we asked if we could get a shot of them.Left to right are: Tommy Osterman, Walt Shas-tha, George Balko, AI Holyoak. Nels Odegard,Maurice Casey and John Virosko.

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Over seven hundred members of the Creat FallsReduction Works of the Anaconda Copper Min-

ing Com~any enjoyed the annual Christmassmoker held Monday night, December 18, at the

Eagles Hall. We got these shots of some ofthe folks who were on hand for the award show.

R. B. Caples, general manager of the Creat FallsReduction Works, welcomed the guests.

William Slyker received a $50.00 war bond fromDave Lawlor, Safety and Welfare Engineer.

Dave Lawlor presented a $50.00 war bond toWalter Fox when his name was drawn.

A $50.00 war bond was given William Follmerafter Mark Delanty checked his number.

Arthur Dickson agreed that safety pays in moreways than one after his name was drawn.

A great big smile lighted William Kugeland'$ faceas Dave Lawlor handed him his $50.00 bond.

~.~.Michael McCarthy was asked to say a few wordsover the "mike" when he came up to claim ,hi.

$50.00 war bond. He said that he was surprisedand pleased. Frank Jans, foreman of the Zinc

Plant Pipefitters, won a $100.00 bond for his wasthe first name drawn in the foremen'. ,roup.

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lohn Morrisette was chairman of the Entertain-ment Committee. Other members of the commit-

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lohn introduced Father Peters from Black EagleBless~d S!lcrament Church, shown to the right.

Again Safety ~ays.. SAFETY again paid extra dividends at Creat

Falls. At the sixth annual safety award smokerof the Creat Falls Reduction Works, twenty-twoemployees were presented war bonds as a resultof their safety records during 1944. For eachworking ~onth-free of accidents-the em-ployee's name is inserted in a capsule. The elig-ibility for the foremen to have their names in acapsule for a separate drawing is determined bythe accident record of each twenty men underthem. Of the twenty-two war bonds presentedfour went to foremen; the first forernan whosename was drawn by Judges Marg Sammons andJudge C. F. Holt was Frank Jans, foreman of the

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Zinc Plant Pipefitters, and that entitled him to a$100.00 bond'. Other foremen winning $50.00bonds were [oe Smith, William Slyker andCharles Meyers. The first name drawn in thegeneral drawing was P. I. Hodgson. To Mr.Hodgson went a $100.00 bill. The next seven-teen names drawn for $50.00 war bonds wereVinco Parach, Walter Fox, joseph Matteucci,Fred Rossberg, Mary Abel, Harry Siegling, lohnCurdy, Ray Broadhurst, Herman Wagner, EddieMeyers, William Follmer, Arthur Dickson, Wil-liam Kugeland, Michael McCarthy, NormanHamrell, Henry Robinson, and Joseph Sherik.Mr. Caples stated in a short talk preceding the

program that although there has been a big turn-over in the Plant due to so many of the boys goinginto the Arm~d Forces that the Plant is fortunatein being able to employ the same fine type ofworker. It is proven by the safety records whichremain the same. For 1944 the record shows1.77 accidents per each ro,ooo shifts worked. Inother words 97 per cent of the ernployees gothrough each year without suffering a lost timeaccident. Creat Falls can well be proud of thisrecord. .

Five turkeys, as door prises, went to WalterTuss, Joseph Parr, Jr., Frank Karhiaho, EdwardMausey and Cuy Wever.

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From the official files of the Office of Public Rela-tions of the U. S. Navy come these interesting picturesshowing a plane as it is catapulted from a carrier andas it crashes into the sea. Such accidents do not oftenoccur, but we should all realize that there are hazardsin all phases of war.

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A cable parted while this F4F4 was being launched from acatapult and left the U. S. ""arine Corps pilot helpless. Underits own power the plane made a short deck run and slow'lypicked up speed. .

The plane launched itself with an air speed of about thirtyknots. But her speed was not anywhere near enoug·h to lifther. Hitting the water nose first, the plane buried itself deepin the waves and 'then floated. .

The ship floated for a few minutes as the pilot clambered outof the cockpit, balancing himself on the port wing preparatoryto jumping clear. His rubber boat is released and is floating inthe water.

As the plane begins its final plunge to the bottom, the pilotis well clear of the wreckage. "He floats nearby waiting for thecrash boats to pick him up. In just another few seconds theplane itself will go down.

The pilot is being helped aboard the crash boat at the leftby two seamen. The plane has already sunk and the pilot,none the worse for his bath, is ready to return and try it allover again.