VOL. 11, NO.1 JUNE-JULY, 1964

MACHINIST apprentice graduate Ben Sanders (C) is flanked by management, unianand apprentice committee representatives in this photo. taken fallawing campanylunchean in hanar af Sanders' graduatian fram the apprentice pragram. L-R, PatrickO'Garman, senior shap steward, Al Fanseca, chairman af the Joint ApprenticeshipProgram, Sanders, Harlan Buseth, Manager, SED Operatians, and Dick Hardin, lAMbusiness representative.

Librascope and lAMDiscuss New Contract

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(GLENDALE) Negatiatians far a newlabar can tract cavering praductian andmaintenance emplayees af the SurfaceEquipment Divisian, are in the affingbetween Librascape and Precisian Ladge1600, District 94, Intn'l Ass'n af Machin­ists.

(As LIBRAZETTE went to press itwas understaad that the first meetingbetween bargaining unit and campanyrepresentatives wauld be held early inJuly.)

The existing cantract expires Aug. 31,and has been in farce since Aug. 28, 1961.

Harlan Buseth, Manager, SED Opera­tians, as he has f.ar many years, will bechairman af Librascape's bargainingcammittee. Llayd Samerfield, SED Pro.­ductian Superintendent, Ray R. McDan­aId, Librascape Directar af Emplayee Re­latians and Tam Flaherty, SED LabarRelatians Representative, are the athermembers.

Bargaining Unit cammittee membersare:

Jerry Sikara, experimental machinist,Russ Grase, taalmaker, Wallace Miller,milling machinist, Patrick O'Garman, tur­ret lathe machinist and Sam Held, pra­ductian wireman. Richard Harden, Busi­ness Repl'esentative af District #94, also.is a member.

The AN/FYQ-ll data pro­cessing set, designed andbuilt by Librascope for theAir Force's 473L Command andControl Center in the Penta­gon, has passed its CategoryI tests and has been ac­cepted by the Air Force.George S. L. Kranz, ProgramManager, said the acceptancewas signed June 30, afteran extensive reliabilitydemonstration.

Late News ..Sunnyvale to Link GroupSunnyvale Ordnance Branch af

the Camputer Division, became partaf the Link Graup af General Pre­cisian, Inc., an June 29. It will aper­ate under the' contral af Link's fa­cility at Palo. Alto..

(GLENDALE) Tw,a mare pieces afnumerically-cantralled praductian ma­chinery, supplied by the Navy, have beendelivered to. Librascape, as part af theNavy pragram to. replace aId equipmentwith new cast-saving devices.

A Fasdick baring mill, mate to. the anein aperatian here f.ar the past threeyears, has been installed in the specialair-canditianed raam in Bldg. 1. A newand larger madel af the Burgmaster tur­ret drill also. has been installed.

Cast to. the Navy af the Fosdick is$102,000 and the Burgmaster $60,000,accarding to. Elai Barrias, Gavernmen',Praperty Administratar.

Navy Equips SED ShopWith New NC Machines

Appoint R. M. BrunsonGeneral Precision V·p

(GLENDALE) Rabert M. Brun'lon,Librascape Seniar Vice President, Plan­ning and Marketing, has been tapped far

a new past in theGeneral Precisian,Inc., arganizatian.

Brunsan is nawSeniar Vice Prpsi­dent, Western Re­gian, General Preci­sian, Inc. The newly­created pasitian wasestablishd to. giveGeneral Precisian,Inc., "a mare effec­tive means af imple-

BRUNSON menting its paliciesin the increasingly impartant West Caastmarket area," accarding to. D. W. Smith,President af General Precisian, Inc.

Functians af Brunsan's Librascapeaperatians have been assigned to. RabertO. Vaughan, Vice President, Marketing,Surface Equipment Divisian, and HaraldL. Hansen, Directar, Plann-ing and Mar­keting Administratian.

In his new pasitian Brunsan will can­tinue to. aperate fram his affices in Bldg.103, Glendale.

JUNE-JULY, 1964

ALDEN + ANAL YlER =LESS DOWN TIME

Lighted lamp spells trouble - and tells where it is.

BROWN

RETIRED gardener Mike AndruchO'wskicO'ntinues to exercise his green thumb inthe backyard garden O'fhis home at 1614FIO'wer street, Glendale. Here he displaysa giant sunflO'wer, already turning to'seed, which Mike will harvest and usein next year's planting. Dried seeds area table delicacy, to'O'.

Greek-born Steve Molivadas, DirectorO'f Naval Systems Section, Research andSystems Center, has passed preliminarycitizenship tests with flying colors. ArtPederson, Supvr of Employee Benefitsand Services and Glen Seltzer, Employ- 0ment Manager, appeared with him beforethe naturalization examiner in the LosAngeles federal building.

Molivadas Citizenship

Name Arthur Brown

, 0 Accounting P:ost(GLENDALE) Arthur P. Brown, for­

meTly Controller of Tele-Dynamics Divi­sion, Ame:rican Bosch Arma Corp, Phil­adelphia, is the newManager, OperationsAccounting, in Lib­rascope's finance de­partment. He reportsto A. L. Powers,GrO'up Controller.

Brown, who stud­ied accounting andfinance at DuquesneUniversity, is wellknown in financialcircles of west coastdefense industry. Heis a former controller of Adel PrecisionProducts, Burbank, and S.olar AircraftCo., San Diego, and was administrativemanager of Marquardt Corp's manage­ment services department.

Married and the father of six children,Brown makes his home in Reseda.

"It is nO't ignO'rance, but what a manthinks he knO'ws, that dO'es the damage."

--JO'sh Billings

Pete Lauridsen, looks forward to the daywhen he can have all his machine familyequipped with built-in trouble-diagnosingdevices.

But not so that he can sit back andrelax, but to give him time to work onanother idea to keep the machines in fulloperation.

"These machines are marvelous. Theydo good work, they do it fast and theycut costs," Alden observes. "However,they could be more efficient. Imagine,for instance, a machine that not only candiagnose its own troubles-but correctthem, too!

"N ow that's a problem I'd really liketo work on!"

LIBRAZETTE is published for all employeesof Libl'ascope Group, General Precision, Inc.,to keep them informed about their organiza­tion's plans, policies, products and personnel.LIBRAZETTE is produced by the Communica­tions section, Libl'ascope Group, at 808 West­ern Avenue, Glendale 1, Calif. © 1964 byLihrascope Group, General Precision, Inc.1, Calif. © 1964 by Librascope Group, GeneralPrecision, Inc.

Editor: W. K. KeithArt and photographic services are provided

by the Publications Section, Surface EquipmentDivision: Keith A. Kinnaird, Art Director;Peter J. Maimone, Supervisor, Art Services.Special art and photo layout by James R.Norwood, Jr., Roy T. Brown and AndrewM. Cook. Photographic Services: Fred Bein­dorff, Jr., Lab Chief: Cameras, James A.Avera, Cecil R. Selman and Norman S. Millar.

(GLENDALE) A device to pinpointthe source of malfunctions in the elec­tronics of the complex numerically-con­trolled production machines in the SEDmachine shop, promises to cut costly"down-time" to a minimum.

The device, called a "trouble analyzerpanel," was designed, built and installedon the Arrow milling machine by JohnG. Alden, of SED's electrical maintenancesection.

Alden, who might be called the resi­dent "electronic physician" to the ma­chines, spends all his working time withthem. Early in the game he discoveredthat it took far more time to locate thesource of trouble than it took to correctit.

It followed that "Dr. Alden" needed adiagnostic tool he didn't have. Analysisof the problem determined that the toolshould be something which would tie inwith every circuit in each machine-andrecord the malfunction in visible fashion.

Long hours over the drawing board,at home and between repair jobs at work,produced a set of plans for the troubleanalyzer panel, which Alden built fromdiscarded material and "about $65. worthof purchased parts."

Now, when something goes wrong withthe Arrow's electronic innards, Alden'sfirst action is to flip open the panel'scovel'. If a light is on, that tells himthere's trouble in the circuit to which itis connected and no time is lost checkingout circuits not involved.

Alden, who has the enthusiastic sup­port of Foreman Bill Donson and Supvr

John Alden Is Electronic "M.D."

To Machine Shop's NC Machines

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WASHINGTON Engineering's recent "Open House," to present its new Rockville,Mr., facility to Department of Defense and other officials in the nation's capitol, foundLibrascope leaders on hand for the occasion. Here President R. W. Lee, (R) and SEDVice-Pres. and General Manager Maury Center, look over optical grinding device,as Manager Harold Timken, Jr., explains its operation.

Launch Campaign

To Market L-2010(GLENDALE) Librascope's newest

product-the L-2010 computer developedby SED Engineering-is being aggres­sively marketed in every segment of theeconomy, industrial and military, boOthhere and abroad.

The L-2010 is a rugged, compact digitalcomputer (it weighs 65 pount1s and isabout the size of a large electrical type­writer) suitable for field use by the mili­tary or industry. It is equally usable inoffice or engineering lab and is so de­signed that it can be mounted in a rack,stand free on an office floor, ,or be bolteddown in the rear section of a J eep/

F'irst step in the expanded marketingeffort was appointment of Aaron Men­doza, Jr., as marketing manager of theL-2010 program. He reports to Wes Nie­mond, Manager, Command and LogisticsSystems.

As L-2010 marketing manager and asa marketing representative prior to that,Mendoza has traveled 43,000 miles in theU.S., Canada and Mexico in presentingthe merits of the computer to potentialcustomers. Applications engineers of SEDEngineering have traveled to Sweden,Italy, France and Japan on the samemission.

"Introducing a new computer is thesame as introOducing any new product,whether your customers are business ormilitary men," says Mendoza. "You'vegot to convince the customer that heneeds your product.

"To do that you've got to learn thecustomer's problems and then show thatyour product will help solve those prob­lems at a price he can afford to pay.That means you study the customer andthen go and see him-wherever he maybe."

Librascope has made two significantpenetrations of the potential domesticand foreign markets with sales to theU.S. Navy Mine Defense Laboratory atPanama City, Fla., and to Breda Preci­sion of Italy.

The Navy will experiment with theL-2010 as a navigation computer forminesweepers; Breda Precision is inter­ested in potential artillery fire controlapplications of the computer.

"Our marketing effort, in which all

NEAT, COMPACT, L-2010 COMPUTER.

Intensive marketing campaign is on.

JUNE·JULY, 1964

members of the Librascope marketingstaff are involved," Mendoza told LI­BRAZETTE, "is strongly supported byour engineering organization. GreyStone, of Advanced Projects, has madetechnical presentations in Japan, Swedenand Italy and writes all of our technicalproposals.

"A. J. Pankratz, of Design Engineer­ing, has contributed to every special ap­plication propoOsal, by developing thenecessary design changes. Bob Binz,Manager of the Analysis section, providesall proposal matter involving software.And in all working demonstrations,Marty Rudolph, Senior Electronic En­gineering Associate, is the computeroOperator."

"It's the best performing machine ofits kind on the market. It's small, whichmeans you don't need a lot of room inwhich to use it. It's rugged, build to with­stand 50 G's of shock. It's economical inprice; it's reliable in operation and easyto maintain. It can operate, withoutspecial physical settings, in temperaturesranging from 32 degrees to 125 degreesFarenheit.

"And what's important with custom­er's who want quick delivery, we can putthe computer in his hands within sixmonths of order."

Picnic Date: July 18July 18 is the date and Soledad

Sands Park is the location of theAnnual Precisioneer Picnic, accord­ing to Kay Small and GeorgePoppa, co-chairmen of the event.

Festivities will start at 10 o'clockand wind up at 5:30. There'll beswimming, games, races, free rides,pop and cotton candy for theyoungsters-and nickle beer forthe grownups, plus music bySammy Galindez and His Playboys.

To get there take the GoldenState Freeway, or any other routewhich leads to U.S. Highway 6.Turn off U.S'. 6 at Soledad Junctionand take Soledad Canyon Road tothe park, which is about two mileswest of Acton.

Metrology Lab Serves WESCONLibrascope's Metrology Lab has been

designated official metrology lab for the1964 WESCON convention and show, tobe held Aug 25-28, at the Sports Arenain Los Angeles, and Hollywood Park, inInglewood.

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RELIABILITY ASSURANCE OJ

tN HOUSE

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"WHAT do you do at work, Daddy?"

THE members of yesteryear's family all knewhow the head of the house earned the moneythat supported the family. They knew becausethey had seen him at his job, which probablywas only a block or two away. The relationshipbetween work, earnings, food, shelter and cloth­ing was well understood by the upcoming genera­tion and did much to foster mutual respect andfamily solidarity.

IT'S pretty hard to see Dad at work today; hemay be in a plant 25 miles away and, if he's indefense industry working behind security bar­riers. You just can't drop in on him. It takesspecial arrangements.

AT Librascope's Reliability Assurance Labora­tory, these special arrangements were made June19. The doors opened wide that evening and theLab was thronged with wives, children, mothers,fathers, sisters and brothers.

WHEN they had seen all of the complex equip­ment (which Dad may have designed or helpedbuild) and had watched Dad put the gearthrough its paces, they knew the answer to thatoftheard question: "What does your Daddy do?"

WITH charts and detailed reports" Librascope Telecommunications Director LarryCahill gives breakdown on telephone costs, which were almost $500,000 in 1963, tostaff meeting in office of Maury Center, SED Vice-Pres. and General Manager. Costswill have to be brought down, say Center and R. W. Lee, Librascope President.

Talk Is Not Cheap;

Phone Bill $500,000(GLENDALE) Librascope's telephone

bill for 1963 was the smallest for anyyear since 1959-but total telephone costsstill were only a fraction under $500,000.

Both President R. W. Lee and MauryCenter, Vice-Pres. and General Managerof SED, share the opinion of Larry Cahill,Librascope's Director of Telecommunica­tions, as to why the costs are so high:

Uneconomical use of service;Excess amounts of special telephone

equipment.Cahill reported on the economics of

telephone use here at a recent staff meet­ing in Center's office, at the request ofthe SED head. He gave this breakdown ofthe $500,000 total:

Service and equipment rental charges-$116,000. Moving charges were $5,000.

Our bill for local calls (Los Angelesmetropolitan area) was $50,000.

Our long distance bill, including thecost-.saving Wide Area Telephone Service(WATS) was $140,000.

Sularies of operating personnel, fringebenefits, square foot charge for space tohouse our exchange, and other relatedcosts exceeded $150,000.

And the Federal Excise Tax -onour useof the telephone service was $28,000!

Department heads, Supervisors and in­dividual users are the keys to making bestuse of telephone service, Cahill told themeeting.

"Management people with financialresponsibility for their operations, canscrutinize their telephone bills, and thusbe in a position to know when bills aretoo high in relation to department ac­tivity.

"Individual users can plan their longdistance, suburban toll calls and eventheir local calls, to eliminate costly time-

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consuming practices."In the area of special equipment, all

department heads, working with Cahill,are reviewing the need for such specialequipment as intercom lines, signal but­tons, buzzers, key illumination and "hold"buttons.

We can save money in our use oftelephone service by planning thecall in advance, says Larry Cahill,Telecommunications Director.

"When placing a long distancecall have all your notes and refer­ence material at hand. Be ready totalk; stay at your desk until theoperator reports back. And forgetabout the weather; you can't doanything about it, anyway!"

A typical three-line, three-telephonebutton system, as compared to three in­dividual lines, can hike monthly equip­ment rental charges by more than $15.Installation charges for such a systemtotal $33!

Detailed telephone-use procedures tobring about a reduction in telephonecosts, will shortly be distributed by theTelecommunications Office to all tele­phone users, through their departmentheads.

Here Are Clues to

phone Cost Savings~

Here are some figures on elements oftelephone equipment costs and rates, asrelated by Telecommunications DirectorLarry Cahill.

Librascope pays a "line mileage" rent­al fee, on a monthly basis, for each lineleading out from the exchange in Bldg.A17. The rates range from $1 per monthfor each line to an instrument in Bldg.A17, to $5 per month for a line endingin Bldg. A16.

It costs 15¢ for a three-minute callto Van Nuys; 50¢ if you talk for 10 min­utes.

A three-minute talk with Washington,using Wide Area T'elephone Service(WATS) lines, costs $1.08; it costs $7.20for a 20-minute call to Tarrytown. Regu­lar commercial rates are three timesthose figures. It pays to wait for a WATSline.

Food + Facts Produce

Informed Empl,oyees(GLENDALE) Combining lunch with

learning, nineteen members of the SEDOperations Dept. organization have beenattending training sessions on "Under- ~standing Military Specifications" duringthe noon hour in Bldg 03's Training Con­ference Room.

Conducted by Carl Cisco of Quality As­suranCe, the sessions covered "QualityProgram Requirements," "InspectionSystem Requirements," and "CalibrationSystem Requirements."

Those enrolled in the courSe were:D. K. Barton, Wallace D. Racey, Harry

M. Baldwin, George C. Manus, William S.Ryan, Dale B. Christensen, Alan LaRue,S. J. Baker, Warren B. Lebow, E. F.Claunch.

Also, Emery E. Fekety, Philip De­Grazio, N. E. Magnuson, J. W. Johnston,Larry Maynard, Don L. Cowen, EdwardL. Packard, F. R. McCarthy and A. A.Villa.

L1BRAZEHE

European Market

Has Big Potential

For LibrascopeThe European military and industrial

market has a huge potential for Ameri­can products and Librascope is begin­ning to realize on its investment in-.estab­lishing itself on the Continent.

That's the opinion of Milan Mraz, Lib­rascope's Manager ,of European Opera­tions, back in Glendale for a month'sstay to confer with Marketing and En­gineering.

"Our LGP-21 computer, built und4rlicense by a German electronics firm, isbecoming well-established in the smallcomputer market," Mraz told LIBRA­ZETTE. "Several firms are using it inprocess control applications, others findit functions well in scientific work.

"Our ASN -24 is a favorite with theFrench air ministry, which is using itmainly in aircraft development. And, ofcourse, the LGP-30, now succeeded bythe LGP-21, is in wide use in Europe,particularly in Germany."

Librascope's new L-2010 computer andL-3055 Data Processing System is at­tracting wide interest, Mraz says, partic­ularly in military circles and prospectsof adoption by several military serviceslook "very promising."

Mraz, who covers all of Europe "thisside of the Iron Curtain," is based inParis. He and his wife, Mary, have anapartment in the Passy section on thenewly-named Avenue de President Ken­nedy (formerly the Quai de Passy). It'smidway between the Eiffel Tower andthe Seine.

Wives of American representatives inParis have a club and through its activi­ties can take greater advantage of thecity's cultural life than their husbands,Mraz says.

"They have the time to visit the muse­ums, the art galleries, the theatres andconcert halls (when not busy with house­keeping), because the husband usually isin Bonn, Stockholm, Rome, Berlin orLondon. Last year, for instance, I spent28 weeks out of the 52 away from Paris."

Representing American business inEurope calls for a command of language.Mraz, born in Czechoslovakia, speaks hismother tongue, German, English andRussian and "c-ommunicates" in French.

English is pretty much the commonlanguage of business in all Europeancountries, particularly with people in en­gineering, because so much of moderntechnology was developed in America orin England, Mraz says.

"And it's a funny thing about Russian.I never use it, except in Sweden. Up therethe people are realistic, so they're study­ing Russian-and they try it out -onme!"

JUNE.JULY, 1964

THE EUROPEAN market has a good potential for Librascope products, MilanMraz, (R) our resident representative in Paris, tells Marketing Vice-Pres. Robert O.Vaughan. (For more details, see story).

MARINE CORPS RESERVE showed its appreciation to Precisioneers for gift of toysto Marine's annual Christmas "Toys for Tots" campaign, with presentation of scroll.Chairman Jack Naimoli and Co-Chairman Lee Norvell of Precisioneer Xmas Partycommittee, Capt George Capwell, Precisioneer President Fred Killips and S'gt/MajorJ. M. Westerman, were captured by news camera in presentation ceremony.

NEW OFFICERS of the San Fernando Valley chapter, American Institute of Indus­trial Engineers, are Supvr. Dick Awbrey, (L) and Seymour Klein, of SED's Manage­ment Engineering section. Awbrey is 1st Vice-Pres. and Klein is a Director.

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HERE'S team of Librascope Engineering and Operations personnel and customerrepresentatives responsible for "on-time" delivery schedule on the EDO sonar servosubsystems contract. From L-R: Trent Albizati, manufacturing coordinator, RayGoodrich, quality control, Don Tubbs, John Hill, Ted Kolb, Jim Morris, Arnold Peters,of engineering, Bill Moan and Shep Parker, EDO representatives and Dick Potter,Program Manager.

KLEIN

(GLENDALE) G. Harold "Harry"Klein, formerly Manager, Engineering

Reliability Dept. -of Thompson-Ramo- UWooldridge's com- . C-/puter division, is thenew Manager ofSED's MechanicalEngineering Secti-on.He reports to ChiefEngineer JerryDietz.

Klein studied elec­trical engineering atCornell University,transferred to Cal­Berkeley, where hewas awarded aBSEE degree in 1961 and an MSME de-gree in 1963. He currently is studying fora PhD at UCLA.

G. H. Klein Joins SED

Engineering Managers

"In daily life we never understand eachother; neither complete clairvoyance nor (J.complete confessional exists."

-E. M. Forster

The new manager started his career asa designer with Sikorsky Aircraft in1952, later was a project engineer forRobinson Technical Products in SantaMonica. He is a senior member ·of theIEEE, ASME, AAAS and the AcousticalSociety of America, and a member of theNational Society of Professional Engi­neers. He is a registered professionalelectrical and mechanical engineer inCalifornia.

(GLENDALE) Arthur G. Mestler, aLibrascope design draftsman .since Jan.21, 1959, retired July 1, six months aftercelebrating his 65th birthday.

Under provisions of the LibrascopeHourly Employees Retirement IncomePlan, Mr. Mestler received a lump-sumaward of $1,253, in lieu of monthly retire­ment payments.

Many Librascope folk who did not havethe privilege of knowing him, were bene­ficiaries of Mr. Mestler's skill as a watch­maker. For a number of years he handledall watch repairs for the Precisioneerstore.

Mr. Mestler, graduate of the Rochester(N.Y.) Institute of Technology, was amember of the engineering group onceknown as Special Devices and now asCommand and Control Engineering.

Art Mestler Retires;With Firm 51/2 Yea rs

signer Arnold Peters and technician JohnHill.

Over-all responsibility for manufac­turing coordination is in the hands ofTrent Albizati, production project co­ordinator. Ray Go-odrich is the quality as­surance engineer. Methodizing of ma­chine shop and electronic assembly andprocessing is being handled by MethodsSupvr. Ted Donley and methodsmen FredHodgkinson, Larry Hines and VirgilClark.

Value Engineers Phil DeGrazio andAlan LaRue were brought into the proj­ect in the earliest stages of design, saysPotter, and made significant contributionsto producibility and cost savings.

EDO Corp. (ontractAhead of Schedule

(GLENDALE) Production on the EDOCorporation subcontract for sonar subsys­tems, is on schedule ,or ahead of it anddeliveries are being made ahead of sched­ule, says SED Program Manager DickPotter, because of fine teamwork allalong the line.

"Machine shop work, assembly, inspec­tion, quality assurance, ~ethods, engi­neering, are all first rate efforts," Pottertold LIBRAZETTE. "I can't rememberbetter performance in all my experienceat Librascope."

Performance ,on this contract may wellhave a direct bearing upon the award ofa new contract for an enlarged sonar sub­system which the Navy's Bureau ofWeapons has put up for bid, Librascopehas bid on the pr·ogram and is awaitingNavy decision, Dollar value could run"into several millions," P-otter said.

The servo subsystems are part of theAN/SQS-26-BX Sonar system, whichlinks sonar detection apparatus with theMK 114 Fire Control System. As designedby Librascope engineers, the servo sub­system is oompletely contained on a door­like frame which is mounted into anAN/SQS-26-BX sonar system cabinet.

Functionally, the sonar sets providetri-beam stabilization of the sonar sig­nals, and control information readout anddisplay cursors. They als,o update andcorrect sonar range bearings.

"The design reduces complexity in tar­get detection and fire control hardware,"Potter said, "and is a step in the even­tual integration of sonar signal process­ing and fire control. For instance, ourdesign uses only eight servos to accom­plish what requires 20 servos in conven­tional sonar systems."

Librascope's long experience in the de­sign and manufacture of fire control sys­tems for the Navy, plus the experiencegained in several sonar study contracts,has affected considerable economies £.01'

the company's oldest customer, Pottersays.

"About the same time we received arequest to quote from EDO on the sub­system design, we also received anotherrequest to quote -on design and manufac­ture of a stabilization computer.

"Study of the functional requirementsset forth in the EDO and Navy requestsconvinced us that the two could be com­bined in one subsystem. That is what weproposed, and the demonstrated savings,in oost, in space on the ships and im­proved reliability through reduction ofdesign complexity, resulted in Librascopegetting the contract - rather than ourcompetitor."

Members of the engineering team thatproduced the successful design, are Sen­ior Staff Engineers Clare Burgis and Roy1. Case; Senior Engineer Ted Kolb; JimMorris, electronic project engineer; DonTubbs, mechanical project engineer; de-

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JULY SHIPYARD GRADS OF MK 113 FCS COURSE

Hardaman, Connelley, Holmes, Torgerson, Love, Wilson, Taylor and Neville sorryto leave California. Bill Tilden, instructor, at rear, calls them "good students."

KORN

NELSON

STROHM

FURTNEY

(GLENDALE) Expansion of the tech­nical staff of Rotating Memories sectionof SED Engineering, by the addition ofone engineer and two designers, is an­nounced by Harry Anderson, SectionManager.

Senior Engineer Ralph W. Furtney, Jr.,is a returnee to the Librascope fold, whooriginally joined the company in 1959.He is a 1957 M/E graduate of MichiganState University, who also took post­gTaduate work at Cal-Berkeley. He cur­rently is working toward an MSEE de­gree at USC and expects to graduate in1965.

Senior Designer Melvin C. Nelson is atransferee from the engineering staff ofCCD, who has been with the Librascopeorganization since 1954. With CCD hewas a designer, design specialist andchief draftsman. He is a 1951 BS/Egraduate of Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo.

Senior Designer James T. Strohm,comes to Librascope from the ElectronicsDivision of National Cash Register Corp.,Hawthorne. He holds a BA/Econ degreefrom UCLA (1936) and the Diploma inEngineering from the University ofHeidelberg, Germany (1938).

Senior Designer Richard A. Korn hasreturned to Librascope and has been as­signed to the optical-mechanical designgroup headed by SUp'll'. Tom Miller inSED Engineering.

Korn orig'inally joined the General Pre­cision Equipment Corp. group -of com­panies in 1953 as a member of the GPLengineering staff.

Expand Tech'l Staff

In SED Engineering

Don Warren, Staff Engineer, Researchand Systems Center, spoke on "HighSpeed Content Search in a Large Rotat­ing Memory," at a recent seminar onsearch memories sponsored by the Insti­tute of Electrical and Electronics En­gineers.

trN FROM THE ROSTRUM

(GLENDALE) Every seven weeksSED's Customer Training Section saysgood-bye to a graduating class and wel­comes a new group of Navy and civilianshipyard personnel, sent here to studymaintenance of the Mk 113 Fire ControlSystem.

July 2 saw the graduation of a groupof seven, all civilians, who began theircourse in mid-May. It was an intensiveaffair of eight hour days and five-dayweeks, totalling 280 hours of classroomand laboratory work.

The "lab work" was conducted on thecheckout line in Bldg 17.

The July class is now scattered far and,vide from coast to coast, back -on dutyat their shipyards. Its members: J. S.Hardaman, NUSWEC, Newport, RhodeIsland; R. J. Connelly, Charleston, (S.C.)Naval Shipyard; J. R. Holmes, NewportNews (Va.) Shipbuilding Corp; C. M.Torgerson, A. E. Taylor and C. V. Love,Puget Sound (Seattle-Tacoma) NavalShipyard; and H. F. Neville, Jr., Ports­mouth (N.H.) Naval Shipyard.

Customer TrainingGraduates FCS Class

FAdAC TAPE MEMORY UNITSED is selling 'em.

(GLENDALE) If your competitionoutbids you with the customer, designsomething else and sell him that.

This is what SED Engineering did afterit lost out-on price-to two other com­petitors for an Army contract to designand build the FADAC computer.

An engineering team led by Staff En­gineer A. J. Pankratz, turned to and de­signed, under a development contract,what it knew was going to be a neces­sary adjunct to the FADAC-a tapememory unit to expand the computer'scapacity to store information. As a re­sult:

The Army's Frankford Arsenal hasbought two of our tape systems (shippedin June), at a unit price slightly higherthan the winning bid for the computeralone.

Another supplier to the Army hasbought two more systems, for deliveryin November.

And Librascope will be in a good posi­tion to bid on a competive productioncontract for several hundred systems,when formal request for quotation ismade later this year.

There's More Than

One Way to Score

JUNE-JULY, 1964 11

BROWN

(GLENDALE) A former Marine Corpsfighter pilot and radar officer-WilliamE. Brown-is the newly-appointed Mar­keting Manager forSurface WeaponsSystems in SED'sMarketing Dept. Herep.orts to CharleyButerbaugh, Market­ing Manager forShipboard WeaponsSystems.

Brown comes toLibrascope from theColumbus Divisionof North AmericanAviation's Autonet­ics Division, where he was a Navy mar­keting specialist. Previously he was Re­gional Sales Manager for Norden-KetayGorp. and National Sales Manager forMicrodot, Inc. He is an engineeringgraduate (1950) of Iowa State Univer­sity.

Married and the father of two, Brownmakes his home in Fullerton.

Name W. E. Brown

To Marketing Post(GLENDALE) Ralph Singman, sys­

tems consultant to Librascope for thepast six years, has joined the companyas Manager, Sys­tems Applications, inthe Information Sys­tems Dept. of theSurface EquipmentDivision. He reportsto Harry A. Keit,ISD Director.

Singman holdsBSEE and MSEEdegrees from Colum­bia University. Priorto organizing his SINGMANown consulting firm,he was a member of the engineer staffsof Hughes Aircraft and the Univac Divi­sion of Sperry-Rand Corp.

He is a member of the Association forComputer Machinery and the Data Proc­essing Management Ass'n and for thepast several years has been a regularlecturer at UCLA.

NEWEST FOSDICK BORING MILL

Second numerically-controlled machine is installed in SED machine shop.

Ralph Singman Joins

SED's Info Systems

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(GLENDALE) Twenty-eight year oldErwin Vodovoz reported for duty June 15at Librascope's Metrology Laboratory, asan engineer .on thestaff of ManagerDave Harrison.

It was his first dayof work as a pro­fessional engineer, agoal he had bePTIworking toward fornine years. Heachieved it just a

few days after grad- I .~uating with a BSE "';1degree from San •Fernando State Col- VODOVO'Zlege.

Vodovoz, originally a New Yorker,started on the road to his profession byenrolling in Los Angeles Valley Collegein 1955. It took him four years to earnhis Associate in Arts certificate, whatwith service in the Air Force and drop­ping out to take full time jobs to earnenough backlog to supplement his part­time job earnings during school terms.

Things moved faster in the past twoyears at San Fernando State College,because he acquired a full-time job in thecollege's Engineering Lab. With nobreaks in his learning process, he gradu­ated with his original class.

His practical work in the college lab,plus his college studies, made him aneminently qualified candidate for his jobwith Librascope, says Manager Harrison.

"Vodovoz is our staff engineer incharge of quality assurance. He willassist in our technical marketing eff.ort,be in charge of personnel training, act asa consultant to our customers-and willhandle many other engineering assign­ments as well."

For Vodovoz the educational process isnot yet complete "and I doubt that itever will be." He enrolls at San Fer­nando State this Fall in the Masters Pro­gram and will impart some of what hehas learned to others as an instructor innight classes at the college.

From N.Y. to Van Nuys

Was Nine Long Years

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