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The Electrical Department
Mr. Tallassee certainly intends to
make the Yadkin River work; after the
water makes out to get by the large
dam, or thru the water wheels at the
Narrows, it will soon be stopped again,
and made to give further toll at Yadkin
Falls before it can go on its way to the
sea. It is a muddy stream, but the
aluminum it helps us make is the highest
grade.
With the assurance of a generous sup
ply of water thru our transformers this
summer, our worries are greatly reduced.
Much credit is due Mr. Dotson, of the
Laboratory, for his assistance in securing
a suitable solution for dissolving the
scale which was fast closing up our cool
ing coils.
P. D. Deese suggests that the oper
ators be provided with a suit of insulated
armor, to be worn when charging the
lightning arresters. We presume the
idea was born when one of them blew
up, and pinned him in between the fire
works and a woven wire fence.
Mr. R. F. Giersch and Mr. Earl Mor
gan have decided to fall in line and have
the “flu” like the rest. Many a good
man has tried to hold out, but it’s no
y^urfe. ,We are glad to see them around
• ag'ainJ
With the removal of the Falls Power
. House equipment, from storage in all
- available corners of the rotary stations,
it, is possible, to get cleaned up, and the
stations present a better appearance.
Farmer X: What’s that contrivance,
.. a chariot?
P’armer Scott: Why, no; that’s my
nevy garbage cart—the best labor-saving
device you ever saw.
We are glad to see so much interest
; in our night school. It is hoped to make
. the talks more interesting as we get
/- ,farther along with the course.
- The force in the Electric Shop is indeed
glad to be in their new quarters in the
east end of the machine shop.
When does the causeway shrink up so
narrow that a man can’t walk upon it?
Ask C. W. Corbett.
Spring is here! L. W. Gabriel and
Joe Fagg have started fishing as a side
line to operation.
The Carbon Plant
The new organization in the Carbon
Plant is as follows; Mr. R. E. Parks,
Superintendent; Mr. L. G. Daniels, Su
pervisor Baking Department; Mr. B. S.
Liles, Supervisor Calcining and Mixing;
Mr. T. A. Moormann, Supervisor Con
trol and Records; Mr. W. R. Young,
General Labor Foreman; Mr. R. E. Lee,
Foreman Mechanical Department; Mr.
A. D. Howell, Calciner Foreman; Mr.
G. E. Biddix, Foreman Unloading and
Grinding.
The other morning, “Geech,” one of
our darkest citizens, came to work very
much perturbed. When asked by “Bad
Eye,” one of his co-workers, what the
trouble was, he replied, “Oh, Ise jist
natcherly tired of livin’, and las’ night
I taken pizen. My ole lady, she jist
cried herself ’most to death.” “Bad Eye,”
after listening eagerly, said, “What she
cry for, ’cause you didn’t take enuff?”
Now the question arises why carbon
pullers wear five or six cement sacks
around their feet. It may be to protect
other people’s sense of smell, or it may
be to protect their feet from the hot
carbon. At any rate, they are not con
tented unless their feet are bundled up.
There is one thing we all regret, and
that is that the committee on community
interest didn’t arrange a walking con
test between Messrs. Mueser and Gomo
before the former departed from our
midst.
The extension of Carbon Baking Fur
nace No. 4 is practically complete, and
within the next ten days we will be bak
ing carbon in the new ovens.
Mr. W. T. McMahan and family have
moved to Badin. Mr. McMahan is em
ployed in the Baking Department.
Summer is coming, pitch is getting
cozy, and R. E. Lee is beginning to wear
his summertime frown.
Mr. D. S. Littleton, formerly employed
in the storeroom, is now employed in the
Testing Room.
Mr. 0. D. Blake is now employed in
the Baking Department, as Furnace
Operator.
The Baker-Cooler, alias “Submarine,”
is again in action.
Mr. T. A. Cotton is now working in
the testing room.
Machine Shop News
The machine shop has turned out a
snappy 1919 model, one speed, two mule,
tar tank, for handling the waste tar
from the Carlwn Plant exhaust gas flue.
It is equipped with coils for steam heat
ing in frosty weather, can be operated
from either end, and should prove a
boon to manhood in general and Mr.
BADIN BULLETI
Coffman in particular, as it was (
signed to keep the waste tar out of 1
back yard.
Thomas Ham is with us agam, aft
a two weeks’ argument with the “fh
Tommy broke out some nice khaki par
and a brand new khaki kimona to ce
brate his return. Tommy claims 1
kimona is a neater garment than t
rompers that the carbon plant gents a
addicted to wearing.
Victory gardens are one of the leadi
topics of the day, and indications a
that there will be quite a good ma
vegetables raised in Badin this sumnn
H. W. Bell, of the pipefitting depa-
ment, who has been in Salisbury h
pital for several weeks, continues to u
prove, and expects to return home soc
Perhaps some of the ladies might
able to explain why Mr. H. B. Thom
son, our genial timekeeper, arrives '
the job occasionally looking so sleepy-
Mr. F. R. Hunnicutt, who has
feeling a trifle fluzy for a few days-
back on the job, wearing a white coH
and his other necktie.
Mr. Thomas H. Haughton, of Ch*
lotte, recently released from service-
now with the Mechanical Departroen*
draftsman.
Quite a good many of our number
planning a big fishing trip soon,
hope to escape the duck hunters’
Mr. E. G. Hayes, of the machine
office, has been transferred to the o
of the reclamation department.
F. B. Blackwelder, one of our
soldiers, was greeted by a young
ter on his arrival from Camp. ^,|
The new extension to the machine
is quite a convenience in many
the operators.
Health conditions among the m
jfl
ical forces have greatly impro'^eo
month.
FalU Notes ^
We regret to announce the
of Mr. R. D. Buchanan, who
Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, * i']
ploy of the Aluminum Comp*'’^j^f
Buchanan has been here a •
years, coming to the Xarro'*'*
assistant to Mr. Thorpe, and
in that capacity on the F*l'*
his departure. A jpentleman
ble disposition, who won msnj !
he will b« missed in Badin. >>
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The old cement laboratory •
row* has been abandoned. {