Volume Ml SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOG, JANUARY 13, 1930 NumlM-r '»

NEW ENGLAND WOMENUSE IMAGINATION FOR

USEFUL INVENTIONSIntricate mathematical problems are

meal for Mrs. Constance Franklin olBelmont. Her husband is a professorat Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology. Her calculations involve suchthings as supersonic vibrations. Shehas patents on devices pertaining topiezo electricity. During the war sheperformed valuable services lor thegovernment in this field.

From Clip to HatCould you ever imagine making any-

thing but a bicycle clip out of a bicycleclip? Mrs. Trances Whitney of West oncould. What a frame for a head —sortof halo-like, she thought. And she-started a fashion in hats with thebicycle clip as the basic idea. It wasan invention that paid off handsomelyin more ways than one.

"Let the home furnishings wait.Let's get some tools, some wire andthings lirst," said Mrs. T ranziskaHoskin of Jamaica Plain when shegot married. It wasn't long before sheand her husband had invented several

unique designs tor fluorescent lightingfixtures and had them on the market.Now they are busy ai creating newdesigns for jewelry. When they getaround to room equipment there prob-ably will be some entirely originalideas in design lor chairs, tables,stands, rugs and what not.

Typical of scores of New Englandhousewile-inventors is Mrs. JennieRedden Holden of West Concord. Nowthat she has reached the age of 62,her children grown up, she hopes tohave more time to develop ideas thatshe has been harboring for a long lime.Some things just couldn't wait. Onewas an electric clothes drier that was amatter of necessity at the time. It isnow paying dividends and provides agood living. The sewing machineattachment she invented, the burner,the electric dry-mop cleaner and a few-other items are already in production.Some day, if she ever gets tired ol in-venting new things, she may lake upmusic, a long-cherished ambition.

Left to right: Stuart Steele, Glenn Dickinson, Malcolm Marshall,Stanley Blair, Eugene Johnson, Knrritt Larson.

These Scouts found time during allthe hub bub of the pre-Christmas rushto decorate and equip, with handmadegifts and games, cigar boxes for patientsin the North Adams Hospital. ArthurCeely of Beaver Street is Chairman oJCub Pack 59 of which these boys formDen 3. It was at Mr. Ceely's instiga-tion that this practice was started lastyear.

The privilege' of distributing theboxes went , this year, to the grouphaving the best handiwork. Asidefrom Mr. Ceely, two other Spraguemen take active parts in the work doneby Pack 59. Walt Schroeder of theBattery Lab is Cubmaster and BobSheehan of the Marshall Street Lab isone of the Committeemen.

Matt NazzewskiGets Praise

Matt Nazzewski ol Engineering andResearch at Marshall Streel receivedwarm praise horn Fire Chief (linoComai, Readsboro, Vermont, for hissuccessful efforts to identify the type olgasoline which was leaking a n d filling

houses in thai area will) dangerousfumes lasi week. Ma l l comparedsamples from each of I he six gasoline

tanks ai three Main Street fillingstations with a sample ol i he motor fuelthat was found running through anunderground Mind ditch. Me foundthai the gasoline from one of the tanksmatched thai taken from the sewer.His analyses led to the positive identi-fication of the offending tank whichw a s f o u n d t o h a v e a l e a k a l t e r air-p r e s s u r e w a s a p p l i e d t o i t .

Magazine ArticleQuality Control by Production Test-

ing was the subject of a two-page pic-ture spread in a recenl issue of ELEC-TRONIC MARKETS, a non-technicalmonthly report on Electronic andAllied Developments. 'The picturesshowed our various testing ovens inoperation.

(2) Speaker*Mr. Flood.

Above. Service Award Dinner, December \ \ at the Rich-mond Hotel. (1) Mr. (ieorge Flood presents Twenty-yearpin to Dr. Preston Robinson of Research and Engineering.

' Table. (3) (iertrude Deso of Check Inspection receives her Ten-year pin fromhiwer: The Christmas Party, sponsored by I. C. W. No. 2, at Richmond and

Paramount Theatres on December 17.

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AppreciationsFor assisting us in helping to locate

and remove the serious hazard causedby leaking gasoline, I he Readshoro,Vl., fire department wishes lo thankthe Sprague Electric Company lor theuse of iis equipment and laboratory.Mathew Nazzewski, chemist, John I).Washburn, personnel manager, andFire Chief John K. Saulnier lor arrang-ing lor the use of the Massachusetts

(lino Comai, Chief

I wish to thank Marion Caron, Mr.Fred Scarborough and the SpragueBenefit Committee lor their kindness

Elizabeth Johnson

Named Treasurer|onathan Brown, Commercial Man-

ager of Sprague Electric CompanyBattery Division, has been namedTreasurer of the Hearing Foundation,a nationwide non-profit organizationrecently organized to promote theinterests of the deaf and hard of hear-

and marketing consultant in New YorkCity before coining to Sprague's, is agraduate of Haverford College and ofHarvard Business School. He is aLieutenant Commander in the inactiveNaval Reserve.

The I-O(; appreciates the man\' re-quests that have come in for the cal-endar which we put out this year forthe LOG Staff. This calendar wasgotten out for the purpose of makingthings easier for the reporters when itcomes to getting news in on time. II

others, we are glad. But the sad thing

made and, for that reason, are havingto say " N o " to the good people who

BirthsSON, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Armato

on Christmas Day. The mother isJosephine of Foil Preparation and thelather is employed in Dry Rolling.

DAUGHTER, Mr. and Mrs. DonaldJordonon December 4. The mother isElizabeth of Molded Tubular Solder.

SON, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thebergeon December 3. The mother is Ritaof Resistors.

SON, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F.Janiga on December 14. The motheris Nancy of Dry Rolling.

SON, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mongeauon Christmas Eve. Jane, of F. P.

SON, Reverend and Mrs. RalphBellows on December M. The fatheris employed in Formation at MarshallStreet.

SON, Mr. and Mrs. William Fortinion December 2. The father is em-ployed in the Can Shop at BeaverStreet and the mother is Theresa ofDry Rolling.

DAUGHTER, Mr. and Mrs. Ed-mond L. Sharron on December <).Anne of Molded 'Tubular Assembly isthe mother.

WeddingsMiss Lillian M. Williams of I >rv

Rolling became the bride of JamesRobert Hancock on Christmas Eve inPownal, Vermont. The couple is athome at 319 Kemp Avenue.

Mrs. Jennie Amelia Goodrow andVictor Ferdinand Modena of DryRolling were married on December 10,in Cheshire, Massachusetts. 'They areat home at 301 West Main Street.

Mrs. Bertha Shepard of MoldedTubular Soldering was married toVictor Lapan on December 5, inPittsfield, Massachusetts. 'They areliving now at 21 Elm Street.

MrEngagements

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Thoros haveannounced the engagement of theirdaughter, Shirley Elizabeth, to JohnE. Millis, son of Mr. and Mrs. DanielMillis of 42 Montgomery Street. Nodate has been set for the wedding.Shirley works in the Beaver StreetOffice and is a member of the LOGstaff.

Mr. and Mrs. Oliva E. Richards

their daughter, Lorraine Mary Rose,of the Pilot Plant, to Frederick Ciepielaof Adams. No date has been set for

Mrs. Rose Boudreau has announcedthe engagement of her daughter,Annette of the Sales Office, to CarlBoschetti, son of Victor Boschetti ofMain Street. No date has been setfor the wedding. Annette is a memberof the LOG staff.

Mr. and Mrs. Osias Contois haveannounced the engagement of theirdaughter, Jeannine, to Robert Boucherof Cady Street. Jeannine is employedin Paper Rolling.

Mr. and Mrs. James Samia have an-nounced the engagement of theirdaughter, Rita Ann, of Molded TubularSoldering to Charles Edward Swan ofSt. Petersburg, Florida. Rita is aLOG reporter.

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wesolowskiof Adams have announced the engage-ment of their daughter, Alice to JohnFilip of Adams. No date has been setfor the wedding. Alice is employed inDry Rolling.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Morin haveannounced the engagement of theirdaughter, Aileen of Final MidgetAssembly, to Pasquale Mazza Jr., ofMarshall" Street Rolling. The weddingdate will be announced later.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Tanguay haveannounced the engagement of theirdaughter, Norma of F. P. Assembly, toHenry Dargie Jr., sen of Mr. and Mrs.Henry Dargie of Notch Road. Thewedding will lake place on February14.

" WOAM/KL 7 : J^fesi ' »• !Automatic Rolling

By Choo-Choo

Cupid was very busy during I heholidays. Among the recently en-gaged is Joe Rosse whose marriage toMiss Anne Johnson of Monroe Bridgewill take place the second week inSeptember. No date has been set forthe wedding of Pat Maz/a whose en-gagement has been announced, loo.Congratulations, fellas'

Norman Chenail, our foreman, waspleased with his Parker 51 pen and

boys.

Joe Mantello and Damn Donovan

each spent a week's vacation al their

We hope Billy Richard's well willsoon fill up. Poor Billy has beenlugging water lo his farm every dayfor quite some time now.

Larry Roberts is going into hiberna-tion lor a couple of weeks. His latestscalping - er - haircut has caused himmuch embarrassment and has gottenhim much kidding. What typ- ofbowl did thai barber use, Larry?

Herb Palmer is disappointed thaiSanta didn't leave him that radio forhis car.

Clarence Wildman has quite a wood-working shop in the basement of hishome. There he spends much of hisspare time making toys and furniture.

The LOG calendar was a pleasantsurprise. 'The deadline-issue dates willhelp a lol in getting the news in on

Even though we are a little late, wetake this opportunity to wish everyonea very Happy and Prosperous NewNear."

How many resolutions have youbroken, so far?

Christmas Party

and the members of ICYY No. 1 aiSprague Electric Company express

of the Paramount and RichmondTheatres lor donating the facilitiesfor the annual Christmas Parly onDecember 17. The heating, lighting

by Western Massachusetts Theatres,Inr. Local No. 83 of IATSE furnishedtwo operators at each theatre. Otherpersonnel including cleaners, ushersand managers of both theatres con-

The mayor, pro. I having been

awarded an honorary degree by his

former college, was addressing a class

of boys and girls in OIK- of the city's

grammar schools. He asked them

whether anyone knew the meaning of

M.D., D.I), and L.L.D. There was

a dead silence until a little girl excitedly

shrilled: "I know, mister! Mairsy

Doats, Dosey Boats, and Little

Lambsy Divey!"

CHRISTMAS PARTIESGirls in Molded Tubular* at Petey Dink's. Dry Rolling Departmeni al Petej Dink'*

Miscellaneous Paper Assembly at Petey Dink's. \dam Novak of Dry Rolling re-ceives gift from Marge Wittig.

Sales Office Parly at the Springs.

January 13, 1950 SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOG Page 3

Busy BEAVERNEWSM

Can ShopBy Cliff

We begin by congratulating Mr. andMrs. Bill Fortinion the arrival of theirbaby girl.

Someday, we should have a debatingclass. With Frank Morandi and HarryTrombley as captains and Ray Chali-lOu'x as kabitzer, there would be someheated arguments.

Our bowling team is doing fine,especially when it conies to winningthe Steak dinners. Ted, our boss, en-joyed the last one and says teeth werenot needed. Ask him.

We were all thinking the other dayaboul buying Leslie Dustin a home out'where the buffalo roam. Harry Trom-bley said lie would make the biggest

Harry Paesler always goes back forasecond cup of that coffee he says islousy.

We saw Hill llussey the other dayand he still oilers Howard Isherwood$24."5 lor his Ford. A right good oiler,

Misc. Paper FinishBy V e l m a Linco ln

We .ill had fun during the vacationweekends with parties galore. Theparty at the Clarksburg Sportsmen'sClub brought out practically everyoneand afforded a wonderful evening.Now we must get back to the oldroutine, bui this year will bring the>aine weekends, Saturday, Sunday andMonday!

Bertha Jennings and her husband,Larry, chaperoned a St. Joseph Christ-inas dance. Their daughter, Shirley,is a member there.

We send our sympathy to MaryZito whose brother passed away inWest Haven, Connecticut.

Misc. Paper AssemblyBy Ruth Haskins

Our very successful Christmas Par tywas held on December 13 at PeteyDink's where a chicken dinner wasenjoyed. During the evening groupsinging was popular with PaulineMcCuen, our very able pianist, at thepiano. Annis O'Neil surprised every-one by dancing the Polka with CassieGliwski. A grab bag proved to be lotsof fun and produced many toys forthe "youngs ters" . We didn' t realizewhat a good photographer we had inour midst until Jessie Meczywor tookseveral shots of the gang, one of whichappears in this issue of the LOG.Millie Bathaway provided appropriatefavors and later was given an officialexpression of grat i tude by Lucy Sanekiby way of a formal address. The hittune of the evening was "I Have aLovely Bunch of Cocoanuts" . Fordays afterward, everyone was singingit and talking about what a good timewe all had at the party. Later in theweek, appropriate gifts were presentedto our foreman, Lloyd Bullett, and toour supervisors, Jeff Barry and CassieGliwski.

Speaking of Christmas, Millie Bath-iv received one of the handsomestnond rings we have ever seen - a

present from her husband. Luckygirl!

Lucy Sanecki has been very busylately gelling settled in her new apart-

M i l l i e B r o u i l l e t i is b a c k w i t h u s a f t e r

her leave of absence.Bertha Roy and Ruth Haskins

attended the banquet in honor oftwenty, fifteen and ten-year employeesand received their ten-year pins.

Sales OfficeBy Jonanin

The female members of the SalesOffice started the holidays rolling with aChris tmas par ty held a t the Springs inNew Ashford, on December 14, 1949.Favors, decorations and games wereplanned by yours truly. The center ofat t ract ion was a multi-colored gumdrop tree standing 13 inches highwhich is in the above picture.

Various prizes were given for themost colorful, won by Mrs. MaryMathews, most humorous, won byKay Pellows, funniest face, won byCeleste Duffy. Mrs. Helen Foley wonthe gum drop tree by guessing the near-est number of gum drops on the tree.

We wish to congratulate MissAnnet te Boudreau on her recent en-gagement to Carl Boschetti who isemployed at the McClelland PrintingCompany in Williamstown. No datehas been set for the wedding but weknow that Nina won't keep us waitinglong.

It 's done in Hollywood night clubsbut the Springs well tha t ' s different.Just ask Kay Pellows about theanonymous t reat accompanied by ananonymous note and all from an an-anymous gentlemen. It all happened , hope you will beat the Xmas par ty . \ new h<

The Sales Office is represented

Ccri rude Deso wears the mostdelicate perfume. Where did you sayyou gel it, my pretty maid?

F. P. DrysBy Rita Cote

We are happy l<> welcome the new-comers to the room and we do hope youlike working with us.

Johnny Miller received a cake andgifts on his thirty-second anniversaryfrom his co-workers on the night shift.

The testers had a Christmas party.They exchanged gifts, had many laughs

and loads of fun.Marie Sherry gave us a wonderful

party at her home. We all had a good

going upstairs on your hands and knees,Doretta?

Our sympathy to you, Julia Abra-h a m , o n t h e d e a t h of y o u r l a t h e r .

Paper Ignition AssemblyBy Doris Charon

Doris Williams has been calling Al-phonse LaFountain "Rudolph theRed Nose Reindeer", a name whichsuited him well at the party. Doris

Flora Haumuller, in case you decide

23, your home telephone is 1358-R.Al breakfast on Wednesday morn-

j ings, Milton Berle holds the spotlight.I Esther Driscoll, Melva Heelan andI Doris Williams own television sets and

keep us informed on Tuesday night 'sperformance. Lucky girls!

athletically by Joan La Pierre whoplays basketball with the Sprague"Lassies".

Starting the New Year right:Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald—A new ChevroletHelen Foley—A new hairstyleCeleste Duffy—

a newly furnished apartment

Dry RollingBy Ruth Kelley

Judging from all the shining eyesand smiling faces around, everyonemust have had fun over the holidays.Now we are all set to settle down andstart the New Year off right withsome honest to goodness hard work.We hope.

First of all, we want to wish UrsulaMarceau's son, Colby, a speedy re-cover} from that broken leg he acquiredwhile" skiing.

Phil Sprague had ten fingers whenhe came to work last week but he triedto make a condenser out of one of themand is now waiting for it to get back tonormal. We are sorry, Phil, and hopeyou won't have to wait long.

Marion Caron is back with us after aten-day vacation at home.

Flo Danforth is looking blue thesedays because her only son left to jointhe Navy. Cheer up, Flo, he willsoon be back with many interestingtales to tell you.

Kay Clifton received a list of things a

mile long from her husband for Christ-

Keep smiling until next time. Re-

member, there's always yourself if you

can't find anything else to smile about!

Advice to the thin: Don't eat last!Advice to the fat: Don't eat! Fast!

Wire CoatingBy Betty Jangrow

We have elected the followingpersonalities for 1950 which we hopewill be happy and prosperous for all:

Corena Tatro, Miss Dutch Cleanser;Helen Burdick, Bubble Cum Queen;Earle Washburn, Friend and Phil-osopher; Eva Faour, Miss Anthony(she shares all our cares and woes);Peg Durnin, Our Stylist.

A happy birthday to Lucille Milleiwho celebrated January 4.

Wire Coating is recuperating from alltheir individual parties and especiallyfrom the Christmas Party which wasattended by the two shifts and theWire Coating Lab personnel. EarleWashburn was our master of cere-

to be dressed in their finery instead ofthe everyday slacks.

Nick Delnegro was flashing a beauti-ful diamond at Christmas time. Whois the lucky i>irl, Nick?

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Foote cele-brated their eighth wedding anni-versary on New Year's Eve. Con-gratulations from all of us!

Molded Tubular SolderingBy M. Bua and R. Samia

Dear Santa: Here's a short list fornext Christmas from the girls in thisdepartment:

For Esther S. and Beatrice B., a tele- 'vision set so that they may join theconversation about Milton Berle; JaneDobbert, lots of water in her well. Shehates to see it rain hut worries whenthe sun shines too long; Mae Lesage, anew apartment and new socks so shewon't have to wear her husband's;Beatrice Day, a spinet piano withlessons included: Rae Trimarchi, justanything. Rae says she is not par-ticular; Kthel M. and I1'ranees 1)., newcars — who doesn't want one? JeanWheeler, a large bouquet of mistletoe;Irene Drobiak, the be'st knitter weknow, a few sets of knitting needles;Millie Bourell, a new fur coat; Mary B.a new telephone; Rita Samia, a visitfrom a certain Charlie; and all the restwho are still undecided, Juliette.Sadie,Lucia, Mary, Olive, Doris, Lil, Cert,Katherine and Margaret, the same finespirit and sense of humor they've hadall year.

Happy New Year to all of you fromall of us!

Resistors--Navy LineBy Blanche Tatro

We held our Christmas Party theThursday before Christmas with aspaghetti dinner and grab bag at noon.The I able decorations were arranged byJennie King and Marguerite Todd.Others on the party committee wereBertha Vaughan, Julia Sullivan andBlanche Tatro. An Bissaillon, oursupervisor, received a gift and groupsinging was enjoyed by all. HelenJobinand Joan HlamheUe won prizesin I he games which were played.

All the girls are going to startknitting for next Christmas. Anyonehaving'yarn wound, gel in .ouch with[ennie King and Marguerite Todd who

Final Solderers--DayBy The Busy Bees

We are glad to have Helen Hafnerback after her sick leave.

The girls all enjoyed their ChristinasParly at the Spoilsmen's d u b onDecember 14.

Mary Therrien, Peggy Smith, MarieLemoine and John C l m b t t i all reporta good lime while on their week'svacation at home.

Marion Andrews had her twelfthwedding anniversary on January 1.Congratulations and good wishes,Marion.

The Final Solderers all enjoyed theirNew Year's Party which was in theform of a buffet lunch.

Look out, girls. Our supervisor cansec belter and farther with his newglasses.

Industrial OilBy Ann Heath

The Christmas Party at the White-Oaks Club was well attended by mem-bers of Industrial Oils and theirfriends. Supper and dancing made agood evening for all. It was good tosee Millie Conroy with our groupagain.

Nellie Hall wishes to than.; theDepartment for the sunshine basket.She enjoyed it and is now feeling muchbetter. We wish you a Happy NewYear, Nellie.

There seems to be a new romance inthe air. Maybe it's the unusualweather we've been having. You arenot fooling anyone, Vern Durocher.Why make her eat onions so no oneelse could kiss her for a Happy New-Year?

Al Folino has a new hobby of takinghome movies. We would like to seethem, Al. How about it?

Congratulations, Ernie Risen. Wehope you will be very happy in yournew home.

Patron: "May I have some sta-tionery?"

Hold Clerk (haughtily): "Are youa guest of the hotel?"

Patron: "Heck, no; I'm payingtwenty dollars a day."

PAA CementersBy Ceil Shanahan

We all had fun at our ChristmasParty which was held at the lunchhour just before we started our holidayweekend Olivia Pelletier did a goodjob of being Santa Clans. The tabled e c o r a t i o n s ca r r i ed out t h e Chr i s tmasmotif with red candles furnishing thecolor. Gifts were presented to thesupervisors. Jimmy Zabek and JimBoner. The grab bag furnished muchamusement and provided presents forall. Ceil Shanahan was in charge ofplanning the party with Agnes Bolusand Alvina Moreau assisting her.

David Mi.in.i nephew of Catherine of Mica ami fane of I' V \ Leslie \...i Fain.-, daughter of Kathleen of l>r> Tulmlar I Miiish and Frank of Molding. Betty Richardsof P.A.A. Soldering. Nancj Kmbry, center, with a group of Ray Hart's dancing pupils. Nancy is the daughter of Sophie Emhry of Paper Ignition Assemhly and Harry ofCentrifuge. Bohhy Rivard, won of Flora Rivard of Small Order Department. Linda Chilson, daughter of Howard of Maintenance and niece of Percy Kordwin of C-entrifugc.Diane Dean, daughter of James Dean of Paper Ignition Assemhly ami Inez of Miscellaneous Paper Assembly.

'age 1 SPRAGUE ELECTRIC LOC January L3, l«r>0

SPORTS . . .SPRAGUE LASSIES WIN

The Sprague Lassies opened whatpromises lo be a successful hoopcampaign by beating the AmherstBelles 32-23, in (he first game of thetwin bill. The local team was out infront practically the entire distancealthough the early stages ot the meet-ing were closely fought. The Spraguehoopsters took an 18-10 lead at thehalf and increased its margin duringthe closing periods.

Miss Wisnowski was high scorer forthe winners, her basket shootingfeaturing the contest. She scored 14points. Miss Meranti and Miss D'Ar-cangelo also helped in the tallying.The Amherst team excelled in fourshooting, making nine points from the15-foot mark. Miss Moakley caged11 points for the losers. The sum-mary:

Sprague LassiesB. F. P.

I). D'Arcangelo, rf.. . 3 1 7P. Gilmore, rf 0 1 1V. Wisnowski, If 6 2 14F. Melito, If... 0 0 0L. Meranti, cf 4 0 8J. LaPierre, cf.. . . 1 0 2L. Greene, eg 0 0 0S. Perenick, eg 0 0 0F. Damon, lg... 0 0 0M. Wit tig, lg... 0 0 0J. Roy, rg... 0 0 0

Total 14 4 32Amherst Belles

B. K. P.P. Hummel, rf... 2 1 5T. Bridges, If... . O i lC. Dickenson, eg 0 0 0L. Moakley, cf... 4 3 11I. Newkick, eg 0 3 3E. Dickenson, rg 1 0 3R. Kilts, lg 0 1 1

Total.. 7 9 23Referee, C. St. Pierre.

Pittsfield Team Loses toSprague Lassies

The Sprague Lassies won theirsecond basketball victory in as manydays at the "Y" yesterday when theydefeated the Lakewood Civic associa-tion of Pittsfield, 32-16, following theirwin over the Amherst Belles on Sunday.

The local girls were not hard pressedto win, taking an early lead and show-ing the way at half time, 20-7. MissWisnowski featured for the victorswith 10 points while Miss Meranticontributed eight. Miss Ditmar scor-ed six baskets for the Pittsfield team.The summary:

Sprague LassiesB. F. P.

D'Arcangelo, If 3 0 6Gilmore, If 2 0 4Wisnowski, rf 4 2 10Meranti, c 4 0 8

LaPierre, c.. . 1 0 2Greene, lg.. . 0 0 0Perenick, lg 0 0 0Damon, rg. . . 0 0 0Witlig, rg... 1 0 2Roy, rg.. . 0 0 0

Totals.. 15 2 32Lakewood Civic Association

B. F. P.Tilpi, rg . . . 0 0 0Nicola, rg... 0 0 0DiPietro, lg 0 0 0Traversa, lg... 0 0 0Aptacy, c.. . 0 0 0Ditmar, c.. . 6 0 12Lundberg, c.. . 0 0 0Eagan, rf.. . 0 0 0Thebodo, rf 1 1 3Keefe, If.. . 0 1 1

Totals 7 2 16Referee, George St. Pierre.

FLASH! The Sprague Lassies Coptheir third straight by humbling theHaydenville Raiderettes 46-13.

Williams College Sports :Because of the Holidays at Christmas

and New Years — all Williams CollegeSports have been idle. However—theway is now clear and all of the Collegeteams will be facing various opponentsas the schedule is really begun inearnest.

Director John Jay has announcedthat due to the inclement weatherall Williams College Home Hockeygames will be played on a surfaceprovided in Troy, N. Y.North Adams Teachers College:

The local "Profs" are rolling merrilyalong and from this point have awonderful opportunity to cop theNew England Title for Teachers Col-leges. By disposing of the PlymouthTeachers the North Adams aggregatehave hurdled one of the more difficultobstacles. Yes sir, Coach Jim Dorans'boys have the goods and will giveWilliams College quite a battle whenthey meet at a later date in the CollegeTown.

SEMI-PRO:A few semi-pro clubs are active this

year and one with an enviable recordis the St. Anthony Crusaders. 'Thisclub dropped its opener—an out-of-town contest with Lenox and sincethat time has won 5 in a row.

Belouin's Boys Club is another localfive active on the courts. If they canplay the hoop game as well as theyperform on the diamond then theopposition must, beware.

Company K is another team holdingforth in this area. The Guardsmenare winning their share also.

In Adams the St. Stanislaus aggre-gation is once more playing Sundayafternoon games at the Junior Plunkett

High School Gym. However, due tothe inactivity of former stars likeSanecki, Nowak and McAndrews theSaints have not been able to compilethe enviable record of a year ago.

Williamstown has organized for thecoming year and this team will becomposed of former High School Stars.Their manager is Frank Santelli who isemployed in the KVA at the BrownStreet Plant.

Sprague Men's Bowling LeagueHighlights

LEAGUE STANDINGSTeam Won LostMolders.. 11 4Sprague Products 9 6Inspectors 9 6Dry Rolling 9 6Can Shop 7 8KVA 6 9D.T.Q 5 10F. P. Drys 4 11MOST STRIKESR. Bentley 6M. Heath and W. Richards. . 7F. Livesey 4J. Morin 10H. Trombley 6F. Santelli 11J. Lipa 9S. Ziaja 10High Average—R. Saunders 100High Ind. Triple—R. Sherman 363High Ind. Single—R. Sherman 139Low Ind. Triple—J. Shields 217Low Ind. Single—L. Daignault 59High Team Single—Inspectors 527High 'Team Triple—D.T.Q. 1470Most Strikes—F. Santelli 11

Sprague Electric Girls ' BowlingLeague (January 3)

Team Standings: Won LostBeaverpttps 35 10Paper Ignition 27 18Alley Cats 26 19Industrial Oils 25 20W. E. Rollers... 23 22Independents 19 26Dry Rolling.. 17 28D.T.Q... . 9 36Individual Standings:High Ind. Single—M. Wohler 120High Ind. Triple—C. Risch 325High Team Single—Beaverettes 485High Team Triple—P. Ignition 1373Low Individual Single—I. Lowe 37Low Individual Triple—I. Lowe 163Strikes—Hazel Martel 10High Ind. Average on Each Team:Name and Team Ave. Stgs.H. Martel—P. Ignition.... 93 .1 45C. Shakar—Beaverettes... 90.3 42M. Wohler—Independents.. 89 .8 44E. Stack—D.T.Q 88.8 30I. Witherow—Ind. Oils . . . . 87.6 30I). DePaoli—Alley Cats. . . 86 42J. Roy—Dry Rolling 85 .4 45C. Gebauer / W.E. Rolling 83.9 39S. Perenick 83.9 36

BERKSHIRE HIGH SCHOOLS:Basketball:

Let's scan over I lie teams thatrepresent the league

ADAMS HIGH:Adams High, our pick to cop the

Basketball crown, has already chalkedup two league victories. They havedefeated both St. Joseph of NorthAdams and St. Joseph ol Pittsfield atthe Junior Plunkett Gymnasium inAdams. In both contests the MotherTown lads had an easy time. Coupledwith the five victories taken on anindependent schedule Adams has wonseven straight so far this season.

DRURY HIGH:Drury High has won its only league

game to date and thai was at (he ex-pense of Williamstown at the CollegeTown. Their next contest will defin-itely show what the "Blue Devils"have got when they stage a home gamewith Adams as the opponent. In pre-league games Drury was hot and cold.They lost to Troy, Lenox, and a homeand home series with Cathedral Highof Springfield. However, I hey evenedthe score with Lenox and took a seriesfrom Greenfield.

PITTSFIELD HIGH:Pittsfield High — defending cham-

pions have once more come up with agood club and this lad was shownwhen they trampled Williamstown andrang up 70 points in doing so. How-ever they dropped a pre-league gamewith Lee - - a team that Adamsdumped twice.

WILLIAMSTOWN HIGH:The College towners have started

the league season very poorly bydropping both home games with Pitts-field and Drury. However their poten-tial strength is going to break loose oneof these evenings and some unluckyopponent is going to feel the full furyof the attack. We look for Williams-town to improve as the season pro-gresses.

NORTH ADAMS ST. JOSEPH:Local St. Joseph has also dropped

both of its league encounters. Withlittle luck from the floor—the localparochial live has done very wellfrom the foul line. This was borne outin the Adams game when with onlytwo floor baskets the locals hit 16times from the free throw line.

DALTON:Dalton High so far this season has

won about 6 0 % of its games and todate are tied with Adams at the top ofthe league standings each having twovictories. Dalton has a few veteransthis year to help the team and shouldgive all teams a merry scrap,—especial-ly at home.

Kenny Russell

PITTSFIELD ST. JOSEPH:Alas! Pittsfield St. Joseph has vet lo

register a victory the spirit is willingInn (.he body isn't. 'These youngstersfrom the Shire City always battle tothe end; but seem lo lie hopelessly outclassed this year.

By the lime the next issue is outthe Northern Berkshire High Schoolrace should be straightening oul .indsome idea of this 1950 race lor theflag, shown by the scores.

SHINING BLADES

Local skaters have not had much of achance to try out their skates thisseason. The only local skating was atMillard's Pond where several localskaters spent a weekend on the ice notlong ago.

Two skating meets in which localskaters were entered were cancelledbecause of mild weather. One was atWorcester and I he other at Glens Kails,New York.

On January 2{), the annual SilverSkates Derby will lake place at BostonGarden. Many local skaters havetried lor honors in past years hutBernie Auge is the only one who hasw o n first p l a c e in t h e D e r b y . Last

year, Dick Sim aid was runner up inthe midget class. Bobby Dunn IIfinished third last year and the yearbefore. This year, they are in thejuvenile class and hope to compete inthe Silver Skates Derby again.

Charles Felix

WEATHER:

Old Mother Nature has been playingtricks on this area so far this winter.Just when ski operators were figuringon a successful season with plenty ofsnow all ready on the ground DameFortune frowned and beautiful IndianSummer weather came unexpectedlyin. This mild weather had all of usin a dither. Imagine - people outraking lawns — flowers blooming andof all things grass fires. Whoeversaid. "New England has all kinds ofweather and is unpredictable" wasright.

With little or no skiing, skating alsowas nil and the fool hardy person whoventured out to do any ice-fishing wastaking his life lightly.

We wrote this little topic about theweather because outside of indoorwinter sports, the out-door enthusiasthas had lit lie lo cheer about.

FLASH: As we write this columnsnow lias begun lo fall and who knowswhen I he next issue is oul Old ManWinter will again probably reignsupreme.

Peler Richards, brother of Betty of P.A.A. Soldering; .Margaret MeKinney of P.A.A. Soldering; Anthony and Ralph Romeo, sons of Betty of P.A.A. Soldering; Sandra Keiivon,granddaughter of Florence IVlcKiiiiiey of P.A.A. Soldering; A group of paper rollers at a Halloween Party at Eva I ,escar beau's home; Harry Francis (Willis, Jr . . grandson ofHazel L'Kcuyer of Resistors; A "you th fu l " snapshot of Kddie Dupree of the Sample Lab at Marshall Street; Barbara Scott, in background, daughter of Catherine of Paper Ignition.