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Page Four BADIN BULLETIN POTROOM 38 UNDER CONSTRUCTION Pot Rooms Past and Present {Continued from Page 3) Those first few days after the pots got started they began to radiate a consid erable amount of heat into the inside of the building, and the sun, apparently afraid of competition, began to do the same thing on the outside of the build ing. Every day a large gang of men would be putting on new mitts and aprons at one end of the plant, and just a little bit larger gang would be throw ing them down at the other. They were strenuous times, but finally things got settled down a little bit, and, by the time cool weather hit, everything was going nicely. From that time until the present there has been a gradual increase in the number of potrooms in operation. First, when the Falls dam was com pleted, and later when potroom 38 was picked up bodily from Maryville and moved to Badin in the spring of 1920. During this time many changes took place in the personnel. A good many of the old gang were caught in the draft, and a number of them saw active service overseas. In the spring of 1918, Mr. Kemmer left Badin, and soon after Mr. Hutton decided to seek greener pas tures elsewhere. All through these changes, however, there have been ^ goodly number of old men who have stuck right along, and to these men be longs a lot of credit for whatever show ing we have made. We are proud of our Potrooms and our Potroom organi zation, and we are sure that it is only a question of time, and a short time at that, when the Badin Potrooms will no longer be looked upon as the “infant” potrooms of the Company, but will have become a full fledged grown-up. The following brief sketches will serve to introduce some of “the origi nals.” MR. W. R. YOUNG. Mr. W. R. Young is a native North Carolinian, born, reared, and educated near the fair capital of our State. He first came to Badin in August, 1916, and began working in the Carbon Plant under Mr. Broadwell. As the Carbon Plant progressed, Mr. Young progressea with it until he became general for- man of all labor and in direct charge of the Baking Department. Just recent ly he was made Potroom General Fore man, and while he still feels that he is just getting acquainted in the Potrooms, yet it seems to be the general opinion that he is going to “make good” on this job as he has on everything else which has ever been put up to him. Young is a man who literally eats responsibility, and has the knack gaining and holding the respect and alty of his men. JACK WEST. From all reports Jack got his start a coffin factory in Maryville, but a iter in' being driven to despair by the gloom spired by the coffin business, he a switch soon after the Alcoa Potroo^^^ were started, and was one of the men to work in a Southern Potroo^^ When Mr. Kemmer needed a gang trained potroom men in order to sta No. 22 potroom. Jack was one of . chosen. His climb has been gradual P steady ever since he arrived in and he is handling the day shift very creditable manner. The ^ ^ ciency Department will testify that ^ is some wizard with the slip stick, woe unto them if they let anything ^ by them. D. C. TIPTON. Claude has had a great variety potroom experience. At Marj^ he proved his versatility as a helper, tapper, and shift foreman in Remelting Department. “Tip" ^
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