VOLUME 44 NUMBER 3 JUNE 1956 Getting the Job Done

S'VERAe week; 'go I h,pp,",d to b, 'bo,d th, Olymp;'o Hiawatha when the Crew was confronted by one of those situations which can be expected to occur from time to time in mountain terri· tory. As our train came around a curve near Pipestone Pass Tunnel in Montana, the men in the cab of the electric locomotive saw that A. C. Dupuis there had been a rock slide up ahead. But there was not enough time Jl(J"ager to brake the train to a stop. The locomotive ran through the boulders Marc Creen Marie Hotton on the track, forcing the pilot back beneath the front trucks. It had Editor A.ssistant 1o EditQr to be removed before we could proceed.

As I say, occurrences of this kind can happen in mountain rail­ UNION STATION-CHICAGO roading. I have also found that the skill and the fine attitude of PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT willing cooperation with which all members of that train and engine The Milwaukee Road Magazine is pub­ crew went about the job of solving the problem are not unusual lished for active and retired employes of The Milwaukee Road, to whom it is dis­ either. But they are certainly commendable. tributed free. It is available to others at 10c per single copy or $1.00 per year. It was especially interesting to me to observe that an older engi­ neer, not on duty, who was very neatly dressed, joined the operating IN THIS ISSUE crew without a moment's hesitation when he saw what needed to be

Page done. The tools which he and the other men had at hand were hardly Getting the Job Done the ones needed for such a heavy job, but they tackled the job anyway, By President J. P. 1

WINDOWS on the world . . . a world of travel delights. Noth­ ing on the railroads today offers COMMENTS FROM OUR vacationing America amountain­ top-to-canyon-floor view com­ CUSTOMERS parable to that f rom the unique Skytop Lounge of the Olympian Hiawatha. The camera picks up a few of the Skytop Lounge windows in an odd-angle view ,J VERY ENJOYABLE partment at the Union Station and with for a June cover design. three employes at the Fox Lake station, "Mrs. Carlson and I have just re­ anyone of whom could have told me turned from an extended trip on the it would be impossible to trace the brief­ .West Coast. We went out on the City case and that it would turn up as a mat­ of Los Angeles, then up to Seattle, and ter of routine. returned to Chicago on the City of San "Instead, I received a great deal of Francisco. Our accommodations were ar­ ,o!Jrtesy and found everyone willing to ranged for through your Mr. W. C. make an.· effort to give an extra service. Klomp [assistant to general passenger Late the following day one man took the agent] and they were perfect. The serv­ QUIZ trouble to call me and say the briefcase ice on your two trains was excellent, It had been found. Further than that, he personnel was most courteous, and all in left a note for the next day's crew ask­ ~ all, they made it a very enjoyable trip." ing them to try and get it on train 150, Clarence E. Carlson and the conductor of that train was will­ (Answ(l(s on page 26) Vice President ing to take the responsibility of accepting The First National Bank of Chicago it and handing it to me personally as the 1. Which has more railway mileage Chicago, Ill. train stopped in Northbrook. -Texas or Mexico? " . I would be happy if I thought the Fox Lake crew received word that 2. When the locomotive engineer of their extra efforts do not go unappreci· a moving train receives a bell-cord ated." signal or four short sounds, should Frank F. Soule, Jr. he reduce or increase speed? CERTAINLY A CREDIT Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. 3, Is the small board on the outside of "My wife traveled via 'Milwaukee' 135 South LaSalle St. from Spokane to Butte, leaving on Apr. Chicago, Ill, a freight car upon which are tacked 7 and arriving in Butte on Apr. 8-on shipping directions, warnings of your train No. 16. Her left leg was in dangerous lading, etc., called a a cast from the hip to the ankle, so it bulletin board, a card board or a was rather difficult f.or her to move poster board? around with any degree of efficiency. THE WONDER OF IT "The employes of your company have 4. Is the grouping of freight cars with always been courteous and considerate, "This is by way of thanking The Mil­ similar destinations or routings in a but I did wish to particularly bring to wauke Road and in particular the crew train called prior classification, of the Olympian Hiawatha that brought .your attention the fact that the Pullman grade sorting or clip hauling? conductor who rode that train was very us pleasantly, safely, smoothly through kind and considerate in seeing that my the scenic wonderland from Seattle to 5. Is the ignitron rectifier locomotive wife suffered no discomfort or incon­ Chicago recently. Mr. Bradford, our operated by electric power, steam venience. I am sorry I do not know him gracious porter, Mr. George A. \'{laage, power, or a.tomic power? by name*, but he is certainly a credit to the Pul1man conductor, and Mr. Smeby, yOUf organization." the dining car steward, transformed our 6. In which department of the f

* new services * improved operation Twin Themes Occupy Top Officers at Three Day

Part of the group at the speaker's table as Presi­ dent J. P. Kiley opened the joint meeting. Left to right: Mr. Kiley; W. J. Whalen, vice presi. dent-operation; P. H. Draver, vice president­ traffic; J. J. O'Toole, general manager-Lines East; others (partly obscured) are J. M. Cun­ ningham, general freight traffic manager, sales and service; W. G. Powrie, chief engineer; and F. G. McGinn, assistant general manager.

4 The Milwaukee Road Magazine At Top: Scene as general traffic department meet· Draver, vice president-traffic; and H. Sengstacken, ing began on opening day. Preside-nt Kiley, who passenger traffic manager. participated in a part of the day's discussion, is at Right Above: In conversation before general traffi: the center of the speaker's tab Ie. meeting: L. B. Horton, commissioner, agricultural and mineral development department (left), who Left Above: Principals in the traffic department addressed the meeting; and J. E. Shannon, assistant meeting. Left to right: J. M. Cunningham, general general agent, freight department, Chicago. Man in freight traffic manager, s'ales and service; P. H. center not identified. CENERAL STAFF MEETINC

THE three-day general staff meeting held in Chicago in May Commenting in this connection at the opening of the of each year has come to be the highlight of each year's. ac­ general traffic meeting, on the first of the three days, Presi. tivity on the railroad. Bringing together as it does The dent J. P. Kiley reviewed briefly the progress of this new Milwaukee Road's 200 or more top officers and supervisors service and remarked that the trains are being well patron. from throughout Lines East and Lines West, as well as ized. representati ves from all off-line offices., it affords a unique This meeting, which brought freight and passenger repre· j opportunity. During the course of the discussions a great sentatives together, was presided over by P. H. Draver, vice variety of railroad problems are aired and vitality is lent to president-traffic, who asked for a standing tribute and a all of the company's activities through the association of moment of silence in memory of H. C. Walker, assistant personalities with the jobs to be done. general freight agent, whose death occurred on May 20. To a greater extent than usual the meetings held this year Mr. Draver opened the meeting with a review of the on May 22, 23 and 24 were given over to discussions relat­ Road's over-all traffic situation, making a number of speciiic ing to new services and improved operation. The second sugges.tions regarding the handling of solicitation work. He of these themes was considered largely in terms of the first, emphasized the superior quality of service which our rail. including such new services as those made possible by the road is now in a position to provide as a result of heavy Road' 50 modern freight classification yards; complete dieseli­ expenditures for new facilities and equipment, including zation; business machine procedures; modern signaling, special types of cars to meet the requirements of shippers. communication and traffic control systems; and the new re­ "We certainly have confidence in you," he told his audio lationship existing between our railroad and the Union ence, "or you would not be in the jobs you are in." Pacific and Southern Pacific since the "City" trains and the Mr. Draver introduced Passenger Traffic Manager Harry Challenger to Los Angeles were transferred to Milwaukee Sengstacken, who stated that Milwaukee Road passenger Road rails between Omaha and Chicago at the end of Oc­ trains, and those operated jointly with the Union Pacific tober last year. and Southern Pacific, offer many' features which give the June, 7956 5 Above: Scene in the board room as members of the Chicago law department staff, state solicitors and others gathered for their meeting on May 22.

Right: Views from opposite ends of the conference table as the law department staff meeting began. In the top picture at right, W. J. Quinn, vice president and general counsel, is shown stand ing.

solicitor a real selling advantage. He these trains will become well established Twin Cities," he added. "And we have supplemented his presentation with a in the public mind under the banner of nne short-haul services such as that be­ motion picture entitled "Closing the The Milwaukee Road. tween Chicago and Milwaukee, where Sale". Speaking of the Olympian Hiawatha, we have 19 trains daily operating on Mr. Sengstacken's talk sounded an he pointed out that this summer it is schedules as fast as 75 minutes for the optimistic note, in that passenger reve­ resplendent and shining in its gay new 85 miles." nues for the nrst four months of 1956, yellow-red-and-gray paint job, and that Talks by Other Officers he said, showed a marked increase over the cars were being shopped and thor­ A New Feature 1955. This increase was affected by oughly reconditioned in addition to be­ the inauguration of the "City" train ing repainted, as is all other Milwaukee Brief addresses by officers of various service. As our advertising gains impetus, Road passenger equipment in through departments whose work is closely re­ he added, it is expected that the names of servIce. lated to that of the traffic department added a new dimension to the traffic dis­ "Our route can't be topped for scen­ cussions. ery," he said. "None of our competitors R. T. McSweeney, oriental traffic manager The nrst of these men to speak was (left), stresses a point in conversation with offers better food or service. And-we V. E. McCoy, chief purchasing officer, R. B. Birchard, general agent at Milwaukee, think, and riders tell us-that none of prior to the traffic meeting. At right, E. J. who reminded his audience that the Mil­ them offers as smooth a ride. Further­ Stoll, assistant ind ustrial commissioner, talks waukee's purchases of normal mainte­ more, the Olympian Hiawatha is the with an acquaintance out of camera range. nance and operating supplies are nearly only train in the United States with $50 million per year, not including any Touralux cars offering berth comfort and expenditures made for new equipment privacy at intermediate rates." such as diesels or cars, which may run Sketching in a complete picture of the to as much as another $15 million per Road's passenger service, Mr. Seng. year. These purchases, amounting to ap· stacken pointed out that the Morning proximately $1 million a week, cover a and Afternoon Twin Cities Hiawathas, wide range of items, from treated track which chalk up nearly 1,700 train-miles ties at about $3.5 million per year to per day, have been solid money-makers paper towels, of which we buy for all in the past and still are, although they uses, such as trains, offices, and shops, have been slipping somewhat. some 25 million a year. The Road's "We simply have to promote them largest single item of purchase is diesel harder than ever," he said, "and watch fuel, of which it buys about 100 million them even more closely to see that serv­ gallons a year. ice and performance are kept right up to "A difference of only one-tenth of a the mark. cent per gallon in our costs for diesel

o "We have our good old breadwinner, fuel means a cbange of $lDO,OOO in our the Pioneer Limited-still the most pop­ yearly outlay-either up or down," he ular night train between Chicago and the said. 6 The Milwaukee Road Magazine E. J. Stoll Reviews Industrial Development Program

In outlining the work of the industrial department and reviewing some of the Road's outstanding activity in industrial development during 1955, E. J. Stoll, assistant industrial commissioner, point­ ed out that the company had acquired 493 acres of land in 1955 for future development, about equally divided be­ tween Lines East and Lines West. Among developments which he men­ tioned in the latter area was the con­ struction in the past calendar year of 12 new produce processing plants and stor­ age warehouses on company land in the Columbia Basin. These enterprises, aid­ Two pre-meeting candid views of the ed by the Milwaukee Land Company group attending a meeting on the through the industrial development second day of the conference for the consideration of freight traffic mat­ department, represented an investment in ters. J. M. Cunningham, general excess of $700,000. f rei g h t t~affic manager, and Vice Throughout the railroad, 143 indus­ President P. H. Draver (left to right tries were established on industrial sites at the speaker's table in the above along The Milwaukee Road during 1955, picture) were calling the meeting to order as the picture was taken. and the department sold 194 parcels of land for a total of $1,207,273. Another $124,000 was received from the sale of old buildings no longer required for operating purposes. A total of 54 par­ cels of land were acquired for operating At the end of 1955, The Milwaukee al and mineral development department, purposes in 1955, including the land re­ Road had 10,296 leases in effect, produc­ as representing the Road's greatest po­ quired for the new retarder yard at St. ing an annual rental of $1,314,469. tential from an agricultural point of Paul and that needed in connection with The Columbia Basin in the state of view. Grand Coulee Dam, above Spa. the operation of the Union Pacific trains Washington was pointed out by L. B. kane, which provides water for the basin, from Chicago to Omaha. Horton, commissioner of the agricultur­ was completed in 1942, and the first land in the area served by our railroad came under irrigation in 1952. Since that time the railroad's revenues from the area have increased tremendously, he said. Potatoes are the main crop in the basin, and in the area served by the Mil­ waukee 10,000 acres of them have been planted this year. Mr. Horton also an·

Passenger traffic representatives assem­ bled for their meeting on th~ opening day. At right, Harry Sengstacken, pas­ senger traffic man'ager (left) and Wil­ liam Wallace, assistant passenger traffic manager, discuss a display of tour leaf­ lets, Milwaukee Road timetable folders of new design, and other literature.

June, 1956 7 At the speaker's table just before the opening of the operating department meeting on the third day. Left to right: J. H. Stewart, gen· eral manager Lines West; W. J. Whalen, vice president-operation; J. J. O'Toole, general m·anager Lines East; F. G. McGinn, assistant general manager; and W. G. Powrie, chief engineer.

nounced that 40 acres of apple orchard, exceed those made by the common car­ traffic subjects. Harry Sengstacken, pas­ the first to be planted in the Columbia rier truckers. A detailed check showed senger traffic manager, opened the meet­ Basin, were started this year. that in the absence of a balanced move­ ing with a pep talk regarding the merits ment between any two given cities, the of passenger service in general, particu­ "Piggyback" Study Reported charges received would hardly cover the larly now that the Milwaukee's handling actual cost of the service except in cases of the "City" trains gives our railroad The matter of whether the Milwaukee where what might be termed maximum the "Greatest Fleet West". Assistant Pas. will inaugurate "piggyback" service, or truck loads of 30,000 pounds or more senger Traffic Manager William Wallace the handling of freight in truck trailers might be available. conducted the meeting. Among other on flat· cars, was commented on at some The nature of the traffic in the ter· things, he suggested a number of. pos­ length by G. M. Ryan, general freight ritory served by the Milwaukee is such sible methods for expanding the success­ traffic manager-rates and divisions. He that there would be little, if any, pros­ ful student educational tour solicitations explained that a committee consisting of pect of securing balanced loaded move­ with which he has worked since the Mil­ representatives of the accounting, mer­ ments in both directions, or of securing waukee first popularized the idea. chandise, operating and traffic depart­ any substantial number of heavily loaded A meeting of the law department staff ments had been exploring the matter trucks in either direction, he pointed out. was also held in Chicago on May 22. In over a period of several months and had Mr. Ryan added, however, that the addition to the Chicago staff, the meeting recommended that the service not be study is continuing and that it may well was attended by members of the offices entered into at this time. That conclu­ be that circumstances will require a of state solici tors from nine states, and sion was reached, he said, following a change in the Road's position at some by J. H. Andrews, general freight claim thorough study of the costs of the serv­ time in the future. agent, M. 1. Boydston, tax commission­ ice, including leasing or purchasing of Following the first portion of the gen­ er, M. W. Roark, general adjuster, and tractors and trailers, construction of eral traffic meeting, on the 22nd, the A. A. Ische, assistant general adjuster. ramps and the possibility of having to passenger traffic group adjourned to an. purchase or build special rail equipment. other meeting room where they devoted President Kiley Presides at The transportation charges for piggy. the balance of the day to the review and Joint Operating-Traffic Meeting back service, he explained, could not discussion of a great variety of passenger As in past years, the second day of the conference was devoted to a joint meet­ Two candids snapped prior to the operating operation; W. C. Mauer, district general car ing of the operating and traffic depart­ department meeting show, below, France foreman, Miles City; V. L. Waterworth, as­ ments. President Kiley presided and the Wood, district storekeeper of the Middle Dis­ sistant district general car foreman, Milwau­ meeting was given over almost entirely trict, Milwaukee; R. A. Whiteford, division kee; and H. H. Melzer, chief engineer of to brief reports and the discussion of a engineer, Marion, la.; and C. E. Crippen. as· tests (left to right). Front row-H. R. An­ wide range of subjects requiring joint si~~ant to vice president-operation (left to derson, assistant district general car foreman, right). At right: Back row-J. H. Schnait­ La Crosse (left), and G. L. Wood, assistant action by the two departments. man, special representative of vice president- shop superi ntendent, Milwau kee. One of the most interesting reports was that of G. A. Kellow, spe­ cial representative of vice pres. ident-operation, reg a r din g the extension of the Road's present electronic system for reporting train and freight car in for mat ion to include Council Bluffs. This will pro· vide a complete tie-in with the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Pacific Fruit Express Com­ pany. The present system has b,een in use for a year at Ben- The Milwaukee Road Magazine senville, Milwaukee and Savanna. 750 Honor Leo T. Crowley Under this arrangement, complete in­ formation on every car routed eastbound via the Milwaukee will be reported by At Testimonial Dinner Union Pacific, Southern Pacific or Pacific Fruit Express, and this information will be available to Milwaukee Road person­ Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the nel immediately after a car's departure Milwaukee Road from West Coast cities. Similarly, west­ board of directors bound business will be reported by Mil­ (right), is greeted waukee Road personnel to the Union by Elmer Layden, Pacific and Southern Pacific immediately sales executive of \ upon departure from Chicago or Mil­ the General Ameri· can Transportation waukee. Corporation, at the Teletype service will be used so that testimonial din ne r information can be transmitted quickly honoring Mr. Crow­ to Milwaukee Road traffic agencies both ley. President J. P. Kiley is in the cen­ on-line and off-line. ter. Mr. Layden pre­ Similar equipment will be installed at sented Mr. Crowley the new St. Paul retarder yard this fall, with an honorary Mr. Kellow said. membership in the Madison Transporta­ During the course of the meeting, W. tion Club. J. Quinn, vice president and general counsel, spoke to the group on the prog­ ress of legislation affecting the railroads, A COLORFUL career combining business ance Corporation, to which he was ap­ and commended the public relations de­ leadership and a key role in government pointed by the late President Franklin partment for keeping the railroad in­ affairs during a history-making period D. Roosevelt. He was later appointed formed on developments in this field. was reviewed on May 16 at a testimonial Alien Property Custodian and still later "]t is hoped that eventually legislation dinner given by the Madison (Wis.) became head of the Foreign Economic will be passed that will afford the rail. Transportation Club in honor of Leo !. Administration. ]n this capacity he had roads some greater degree of freedom Crowley, Milwaukee Road board chalf­ charge of lend-lease, the export-import in rate making", he said in reference to man. bank and purchases for war use. the Cabinet Committee Report and bills It was a "native son" tribute to a man which have been introduced in Congress who has lived in Madison since early Recalls Discussion of to implement its recommendations. He boyhood. Joining in the tribute was an Lend-Lease to Russia added, however, that it is not to be ex­ overflow audience of more than 750 ]n his address, Mr. Crowley told of a pected that any definite action will be business, industrial, and government conference with President Roosevelt the taken in this session of Congress. leaders. President J. P. Kiley was among Friday before the latter's death in which ]n reviewing the progress of highway the several Milwaukee Road officers and the President told him that he should legislation, he pointed out that the posi­ directors who attended. proceed with his plans for cutting off tion of the railroads has been that the As one of the speakers of the evening, lend.lease aid to Russia with the end of user of the highways should, by and Mr. Kiley called attention to the impor­ the war. large, pay for them. "The original bill", tant forward strides The Milwaukee "] asked him after a cabinet meeting he said, "has been whittled and whittled Road has taken, particularly with respect about lend-lease", he said. H] told him to lighten the portion of the total cost to the modernization of facilities and the war was coming to an end and we that the trucker would be expected to equipment, since Mr. Crowley became must be sure to cut it off". bear." chairman of the board in December, Mr. Crowley said the late President The third day's meeting, confined to 1945. responded: representatives of the various branches The main address was given by "That's right, Leo. I want to do that. of the operating department, was given Thomas E. Coleman, president of Madi­ We must carry out our commitments, but over to discussions involving engineer­ son-Kipp Corp., and a longtime leader we must not give Russia an undue eco­ ing problems, car repair and distribution, in Wisconsin and national Republican nomic advantage. ] have yet to get the locomotive assignment, and a wide range circles. first compromise from Joe Stalin, and of other matters bearing on the central He praised Mr. Crowley for his work I've been insulted by him." problem of on-time, efficient and profit. as a government administrator, particu­ One of the Madison newspapers re­ able train operation. larly for his part in drafting the Federal ported that among the many features of W. J. Whalen, vice president-op. Deposit Insurance Act and for holding the evening, one of the most satisfying eration, who presided at this meeting, to his promise as head of lend-lease op­ to Mr. Crowley was the surprise intro­ summarized the direction taken by the erations during World War]] that that duction to him of seven retired Milwau­ day's discussions, as well as by the en­ program should be halted after the end kee Road employes, with service ranging tire three-day conference, when he re­ of the war. from 46 to 52 years each. They were marked that "]t's the things we've never Among the many governmental posi­ Gilbert Gleason, C. B. Corcoran, Patrick done before that we've got to do if we're tions held by Mr. Crowley was that of Hayes, Paul Kingston, John Vanderhei, going to make progress." chairman of the Federal Deposit ]nsur­ Tom McDermott, and Ollis Johnson. June, 1956 9 Tear sheets from the award-winning issues of the Magazine. The two items directly above are from July, 1955, the same issue in which "A Safe Dayan the Track" appeared. 4 Safe 0 On the T ay rack

"Safe Day" Articles Win Safety Council Award

THE MILWAUKEE ROAD MAGAZINE has been selected as one a four-times-a-year basis, have been scheduled through Feb. of .five employe magazines in the country to receive a special ruary, 1958 to cover all of the larger occupational groups on award offered in a contest sponsored by the National Safety the railroad for whom safety is a major interest. These arti­ Council and the International Council of Industrial Editors. cles are planned to accomplish three main purposes: The citation, known as the Award of Merit for Exceptional Service in the Promotion of Safety, is the highest recognition • To promote a new intefest in safety on the job-primarily by means of informative pictMeSo offered for safety promotion in publications. • To acquaint everyone on the railroad. with the work done The other four winners were all outside the railroad field. by Milwaukee Road. men. The Milwaukee Road Magazine was represented in the • To give recognition to typical employes whose work and contest by its January, April and July, 1955 issues, which whose safety records are outstanding. carried the first three articles of the continuing "Safe Day" The safety department and other departments involved hav series. In addition, the July number also included a message worked very closely with the Magazine in the selection 0 by President Kiley entitled "It's Your Life", and a feature the individuals to be featured, and in the planning, photo story, "A Hard Hat Saves a Life," by District Safety Engineer graphing and other phases of each article's production. C. V. Peterson of Deer Lodge, Mont. The seventh article in the series, "A Safe Day in the Ca The "Safe Day" articles, appearing in the Magazine on Department", will appear in the August issue. 10 The Milwaukee Road Magazin appointments

L. W. Palmquist P. J. Weiland R. G. Scott I. G. Wallace L. E. Martin

Operating Deportment somi Division. agent at Chestnut Street there. Since M. T. Sevedge is appointed superin­ January, 1954 he has been agent at Fow­ Effective June 1, 1956: tendent of the Trans-Missouri Division ler Street. 1. W. Palmquist, who has been ap­ with headquarters at Miles City, suc­ 1. E. Martin is appointed agent at pointed general superintendent with ceeding A. O. Thor. Mr. Sevedge has Fowler Street in Milwaukee, succeeding headqllilrters in Chicago, started his serv­ been with the Road since 1937, starting 1. G. Wallace. Since starting with the ice in the engineering department in in Kansas City where he was formerly Road at Oglesby, Ill., he has been assist­ 1928. Transferring to the operating de­ live stock agent. He was a transporta­ ant agent at Rockford, agent at Harvey, partment he became a trainmaster, later tion inspector in Chicago, later train­ Ill., Mason City and Freeport, and most assistant superintendent, and in 1944 was master at various points, assistant super. recently general agent in Rockford. promoted to acting superintendent of the intendent at Milwaukee and Green Bay, M. W. Van Sickle is appointed gener­ H&D Division. He was superintendent and since 1952 superintendent at Austin al agent at Rockford, Ill., succeeding 1. of the La Crosse & River Division from and Spokane. E. Martin. An employe of the Road since November 1947 to March, 1955, since R. G. Scott is appointed superintend­ 1940, Mr. Van Sickle has been agent at when he has been general superintendent ent of the Idaho Division with headquar­ Donahue and Greeley, Ia., chief clerk ip. with headquarters in Milwaukee. ters at Spokane, succeeding M. T. Sev­ the traffic department at Dubuque, as­ P. J. Weiland is appointed general edge. Since starting with the Road in sistant agent at Cedar Rapids, and most superintendent at Milwaukee, succeed­ 1928, Mr. Scott has been roadmaster in recently agent in Beloit. ing 1. W. Palmquist. Starting with the Milwaukee and Chicago and trainmaster J. S. Lawbaugh is appointed agent at Road in 1916, Mr. Weiland has been with headquarters in Milwaukee, Spo­ Beloit, Wis., succeeding M. W. Van roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant su­ kane and Aberdeen (S.D.). Since May Sickle. Me. Lawbaugh has been with the perintendent at various points. Since be­ l' he has been assistant superintendent Road since 1928, as operator and relief ing promoted to division superintendent at Green Bay. agent before 1941, since which time he in 1949, he has served in that capacity W. M. Freund is appointed assistant has served as agent in Hampshire and at Ottumwa, Sioux City and Aberdeen superintendent of the Milwaukee Di­ Chicago Heights, Ill., and most recently (S. D.), and since Feb. 1 of this year vision Second District with headquar­ as agent in Freeport. as superintendent at Marion, Ia. ters at Green Bay, succeeding R. G. Scott. D. N. Doumas is appointed agent at Mr. Freund, who started at Kansas City . J. T. Hayes is appointed superintend­ in 1941, was formerly trainmaster on ent of the Iowa Division with headquar­ the Terre Haute, Iowa & Dakota, and ters at Marion, succeeding P. J. Weiland. the Dubuque & Illinois Divisions, and Mr. Hayes entered service in Minneapo­ most recently in the Chicago Terminals. lis in 1926, transferred later to Seattle H. Mahoney is appointed train. and was a colonel in the Army during J. master of the Chicago Terminals with World War II. Since then he has been headquarters at Bensenville, succeeding trainmaster, assistant superintendent at W. M. Freund. Mr. Mahoney has been . Green Bay, and division superintendent special assistant to general manager in at Miles City, Butte, and most recently Chicago since October, 1955. at Savanna. A. O. Thor is appointed superintend­ Effective May 16, 1956: ent of the Dubuque & Illinois Division with headquarters at Savanna, succeed­ 1. G. Wallace is appointed supervisor ing J. T. Hayes. Starting at Green Bay of stations-system, with headquarters in W. V. Dilworth (left), recently appointed dis· in 1919, Mr. Thor was a trainmaster Chicago. Mr. Wallace started his service trict freight and passenger agent with head· and assistant superintendent before be­ in 1927 and was employed on clerical quarters at Oakland, Calif., and A. S. Price ing promoted to superintendent in 1942. positions before being appointed agent (center), now division freight and passenger In the latter capacity he has ser'oled on the at Chicago Heights in 1940. In 1941 agent at Miles City, Mont., 'are shown with L. Idaho, Coast and H&D Divisions, and P. Freeman, general agent at San Francisco, he went to Milwaukee as assistant agent during the recent general staff meeting in since March, 1955 on the Trans-Mis- at Fowler Street and in 1949 became Chicago. June, 1956 11 t:reeport, 111., succeeding J. S. Law­ fuel supervisor and coal inspector and trict freight and passenger agent in Oak­ baugh. Mr. Doumas started as a teleg­ later as traveling engineer and diesel in. land, Calif., since October, 1955. rapher in 1944 and has served as agent structor. Since being promoted to as­ W. V. Dilworth is appointed district at Coon Rapids and most recently as as­ sistant master mechanic at Tacoma in freight and passenger agent with head­ sistant agent at Cedar Rapids. 1942, he has served as master mechanic quarters at Oakland, Calif., succeeding there and at Spokane, and since 1953 as A. S. Price. Mr. Dilworth started with Engineering Department district master mechanic with jurisdic­ the Road in the Philadelphia traffic de· tion over the Rocky Mountain and Idaho partment in 1937, later was city f[eight Effective May 16, 1956: Divisions. agent in Washington, D. c., and since D. H. Fisher is appointed supervisor returning from military service in 1946 a bridge maintenance, with headquarters has been city freight and travelin freight agent in San Francisco. b in Chicago. Mr. Fisher has been with the H. A. Robinson is appointed travelin" Road since 1928, as bridge carpenter, Sa~ steel bridge foreman, and chief carpenter freight agent with headquarters at at Ottumwa and Marion. He has been Francisco, Calif., succeeding W. V. Dil­ assistant engineer with heacquarters in worth. Mr. Robinson started with the Chicago since August, 1950. Road in 1947 in Seattle, and s·ince 1954 S. E. Kvenberg is appcinted super­ has been city freight agent there. visor building maintenance with head· 1. H. Hinrich is appointed city freight quarters at Chicago. Mr. Kvenberg, who agent at Seattle, succeeding H. A. Robin­ son. Mr. Hinrich entered service in ~ttended Ramsey Institute of Technology G. J. Johnston A. P. Hedin Aberdeen, Wash., in 1951 and trans­ 10 St. Paul, started with the Road in the engineering department a,t Minneapolis Traffic Department ferred to Seattle in 1952, serving as city as a rodman in 1925. After serving as freight agent and since 1954 as chief Effective June 1,1956: instrumentman, he was appointed as. clerk to western traffic manager. sistant to general supervisor bridges and A. P. Hedin is appointed assist­ W. A. Murley is appointed traveling buildings, Chicago, and promoted to as­ ant general freight agent with office freIght and passenger agent with head­ sistant engineer with headc]uarters in at Chicago, following the death of quarters at Philadelphia, Pa., succeeding Chicago in 1940. H. C. Walker. Mr. Hedin started his N. D. Kosta who was transferred at his employment with the Road in the ac­ own request. Mr. Murley started as a rate clerk in St. Paul in 1942, became Mechanical Department counting department in 1918. He trans­ chief clerk in the traffic department in ferred to the traffic department in 1920, Effective June 1,1956: Duluth in 15)47, and since September, ,e'-ving on various clerical positions, in­ 1951 has been city freight agent at St. G. J. Johnston is appointed assistant cluding chief rate clerk, until 1954, since Paul. superintendent motive power, Lines when he has been chief clerk in the gen­ West, with headquarters at Tacoma. eral freight office in Chicago. N. D. Kosta is appointed city freight agent at St. Paul, succeeding W. A. Starting in 1917 in the roundhouse at A. S. Price is appointed division Murley. Mr. Kosta who entered service Chamberlain, S. D., Mr. Johnston be­ freight and passenger agent at Miles came a fireman, engineman and engineer, City, Mont., following the retirement of at .Minneapolis in 1936 has been city freight agent there and TF&PA at Phila­ and worked for a brief period in the C. S. Winship. Mr. Price has been travel­ delphia since December, 1953. test department at the Milwaukee Shops. ing freight and passenger agent with After several years' absence from the headquarters in San Francisco, where he railroad, he retu rned in 1935 to serve as started with the Road in 1936, and dis- Sleeping and Dining Car Department Effective May 1, 1956: W. R. Jones is appointed assistant ~uperintendent of the sleeping and din­ PAYING FOR THE HIGHWAYS 111g car department with headquarters at Western Avenue, Chicago. All of Mr. A major reason why present-day highways cost so much-and Jones' service, starting in 1930, has been :vhy, later on, maintenance expense is so high-is the pound­ in th~ sleeping and dining car depart­ Ing they get from heavy trucks. The Washington Daily News ment. He started in a clerical capacity. states editorially: "Big trucks and big busses beat the daylights and held various positions until 1950, out of a concrete road. This has been proved by many tests. since which time he has been special Every en]ineer knows it. For instance, New Jersey ran some representative of the superintendent. tests a few years ago which showed that maintenance costs on A. J. Johnson is appointed assistant truck routes ran from 27 to 566 per cent higher than mainte­ ~uperintendent of the sleeping and din­ nance costs on purely auto routes." 111g car department with headquarters at There is a limit to what the passenger car and small truck Western Avenue. Mr. Johnson had con· operator can be expected to pay-just as there is a limit on how much more tax we can apply to gasoline without reaching siderable railroad experience before en­ and passing the point of diminishing return. When the big tering Milwaukee Road service in 1936. truck operators pay less than their fair share of road costs, all He start.ed as a' steward, was promoted the rest of us are subsidizing them. to dining car inspector, and to assistant -Wyoming State Tribune (Cheyenne) to superintendent in 1950. 12 The Milwaukee Road Magazine did you know?

OPERAnON NURSING BOTTLE, as executed by D&I Division employes, recently averted a crisis on the Chal­ lenger, reports Eunice Stevens, division editor fOI the Magazine at Savanna, Ill. The state of emergency first became known when the train was passing Elgin and the Pullman conductor threw off·a note advising that a woman traveling with two small children, one a baby of five months, had droppe.d and broken their nursing bottles: "Please arrange for replacements at Savanna." In a neat double play, Elgin relayed the message to Savanna, where Dispatcher Z. G. Ruff handled the mission personally, thought­ fully adding a quart of milk. As the Dignitaries present at the ground-breaking. From left: Frank Gorsh, chairman of the hero of the episode, he was dubbed, board of county commissioners of Silver Bow County; D. J. Mooney, president of the "Nurse's Aid of the Day." Cahill-Mooney Construction Co. and vice president of the Butte Chamber of Commerce; T. J. Sullivan, mayor of Butte who was master of ceremonies; C. A. Bradburn, zone manager for Safeway Stores Inc. at Butte; V. E. Straus, assistant general freight and REMOTE CONTROL operation of passenger agent of the Milwaukee at Butte; C. H. Steele, western vice president of the Anaconda company; K. R. Coughlin, Milwaukee Road district passenger agent, Butte. trains has been the dream of railway engineers and signalmen for many years. But it was only a dream-until a few months ago. On Dec. 1, 1955, this New Safeway Warehouse for Butte; method of operation was demonstrated when a multiple-unit car was put through To Be Served by the Milwaukee its paces by remote control between New Rochelle and Rye on the New Haven GROUND-BREAKING ceremonies for a to be started as soon as possible. Plans Railroad. The control panel was located new Safeway Stores Inc. distribution for the distribution center call for a gro­ at Larchmont, N. Y. By manipulating center, one of the biggest building en­ cery warehouse of 123,000 square feet miniature levers on this panel, the car terprises outlined for Butte, Mont., in with provisions for a future expansion was started, stopped, and moved for­ many years, were held on May 7. The of 60,000 square feet, a meat warehouse ward or backward at the will of the project, calling for an expenditure of of 21,000 square feet, and a perishable panel operator. The car's movements more than $2,000,000, will be built on foods warehouse with 52,000 square were protected at all times by standard land purchased from The Milwaukee feet. There will be a garage repair shop, automatic train control equipment. Road and will be served exclusively by and a fenced area which will provide While the test proved that remote our company. control operations are possible and feasi­ The location is an area west of Har­ parking facilities for approximately 125 ble under certain conditions, engineers rison Avenue and immediately east of automobiles. who planned and carried out the demon­ Timber Butte. It is bounded on the west The center will provide employment stration do not anticipate that railroads by The Milwaukee Road tracks, on the for approximately 10 persons and will will operate trains by this method at any east by a new road to be know as Safe­ serve all Safeway stores in Montana, the time in the foreseeable future. way Drive, and on the south by Four western Dakotas and northern Wyo­ Mile Road, extending a half mile north ming. Spur tracks to be constructed from from that roadway. The area allows am­ The Milwaukee Road's line will allow 20 "ST. PAUL UNION DEPOT patrons ple room for expansion. cars· of merchandise to be handled si. are used to seeing a lot of strange sights, Ground-clearing and excavations are multaneously. but you can imagine the looks on their faces when at 7: 30 A.M~ they are met in the concourse by the rousing martial beat of the 'Colonel Bogey' march." Thus did "Olly" of the Oliver Towne chartered car to play an invitation concert cookies, pretzel sticks, potato chips and column describe recently in the St. Paul at the Winona State Teachers College. ice cream bars are necessary to tide them Dispatch the outset of a trip he took "Oily", who went along to see how it over between a 4: 30 A.M. breakfast, and with the St. Paul Park High School turned out, learned a few other things, a whopping lunch and supper. "There band to Winona, Minn., on the Olympian too, he reported. For instance, how many wasn't much of that lO-car Hiawatha the Hiawatha. The 46-piece, band, four-time bottles of pop 46 youngsters can drink on 'Parkers' didn't explore," he wrote. "The state A winner, made the round trip in a a two-hour train ride, and how many railroad just turned it over to them, and June, 7956 73 the other passengers enjoyed the teen age: show.... You can have your trips tQl Paris, Berlin, London, Honolulu and Ber. muda. For fun, entertainment and good PoUomyelitis music, I'll take a trip any day with a high school band."

SPANKING NEW, the colors recently adopted for Milwaukee Road passenger by Dr. Raymond Householder, Chief Surgeon, Lines East train equipment are reflected in the cover of the current timetable, On the time­ EVERY railroader knows that a break­ victims. The highest attack rate is in the tables issued June 2 the general desigrt down of communications would cripple five-to-nine age group. About two-thirds remains the same, but the familiar com­ train movements. of all victims are under 14. However, bination '6f black, white, red and orange That is what sometimes happens in adults also get polio, sometimes severely. has been changed to black, white, red and poliomyelitis, also called infantile pa­ This is the polio season in Milwau­ a warm yellow, with touches of mist gray. ralysis, or polio for short. kee Road territory. In the northern The. new' makeup is in line with the The virus causing the disease attacks states, cases usually appear in June, rise Road's recent switch to the color scheme and damages nerve cells of the spinal to a peak in August and taper off in of the new "City" trains. cord and the base of the brain. These September. Some regions of the coun­ cells are the "relay centers!' by which try seem to have more cases than oth­ ers, although there is no real evidence on TWO-~ the brain sends the messages that con­ A AY TI;:LEPBONE system this point, It seems to strike every­ rigged on the Milwaukee .Road's tele­ trol breathing, swallowing and the mus­ where. graph poles carried classroom discus'sions cles of the body. Once the nerve cells The more severe polio cases require to the bedside of a young victim of are damaged, the messages can't get extended special treatment, which is rheumatic fever and provided her with through and paralysis of varying de­ often very expensive-more than the an opportunity to finish the current grees results. average family can afford. If a memo school year as a "superior" student. There are three types of polio-spinal, ber of the family is stricken, you can The long range education plan was bulbar and spino-bulbar. The first af­ receive aid from the National Founda­ devised by the Strawberry Point (Ia.) . fects the muscles of the body, the second tion for Infantile Paralysis, if you reo High School to make it possible for the breathing apparatus and the third­ quire it. Your physician can help you Caryl Fredrick, recuperating from a the most serious-is a combination of arrange this. year's bout with rheumatic fever at her the two. Practically all hospitals caring for farm home, to plug in on her freshman Polio is corre

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APRIL FOUR MONTHS 1956 1955 1956 1955 RECEIVED FROM CUSTOMERS for hauling freight, passenger, mail, etc . $20,207,420 $18,679,618 $79,730,280 $74,567,137

PAID OUT IN WAGES . 9,909,504 9,173,750 41.248,108 37,251,485 PER DOLLAR RECEIVED (cents) . (49.0) {49.1l (51.7) (50.0) Payroll taxes on account of Railroad Retirement Act and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act .. 692,844 559,273 2,774,698 2,247.349 PER DOLLAR RECEIVED (cents) . (3.4) (3.0) (3.5) (3.0) ALL OTHER PAYMENTS for operating expenses, taxes, rents and interest .. 9,640,621 8,648,177 37,342,790 33,790,376 PER DOLLAR RECEIVED (cents) . (47.7) (46.3) (46.8) (45.3 )

NET INCOME.•...... •...... $ 298,418 $ 1,277,927 NET LOSS ...... ••..• $ 35,549 $ 1,635,316

REVENUE CARS LOADED AND RECEIVED FROM CONNECTIONS: Number of cars '" . 105,466 110,894 437,857 438,086 Decrease 1956 under 1955 . 5,428 229

.. .. , .."",..... Carloads CARLOADING BY COMMODITIES % during May 1956 Compared of 1956 + or- with May 1955 to 1955 Total INCREASES: Revenue 1956 1955 Number %

Forest Prod. excl. Logs & Pulpwood . 13.4% 9,902 9,297 + 605 + 6.5% Grain '" , . 9.9 7,785 7.270 + 515 + 7.1 Iron & Steel incl. Mzchinery . 7.4 8,085 7,780 + 305 + 3.9 Coal and Coke . 4.8 9,133 7,933 +1,200 + 15.1 Logs and Pulpwood : . 3.7 7,603 6,833 + 770 + 11.3 Cby, Gravel, Sand & Stone...... , .. 3.5 6,779 6,683 + 96 + 1.4 Cement, Brick, Lime & Plaster . 3.5 3,996 3,733 + 263 + 7.0 Fruit & Vegetables . 1.3 2,483 2,347 + 136 + 5.8 Ore excl. Pooled Ore . .5 647 271 + 376 +138.7 Total Increases .. 48.0% 56,413 52,147 +4,266 + 8.2%

DECREASES:

Autos, Trucks, Parts & Tires. 4.5% 2,239 3,710 -1,471 -39.6 Petroleum and Products . 4.3 4,276 5,061 - 785 -15.5 Meat and Products...... 3.3 4,278 4,516 - 238 - 5.3 Agri. Impl. & Tractors inel. Parts . 2.9 1,066 1,852 - 786 -42.4 Beer , '" '" . 2.8 2,763 3,223 - 460 -14.3 Merchandise . 2.4 7,802 7,993 - 191 - 2.4 Flour & Grain Products . 1.9 4,929 5,06& - 139 - 2.7 Livestock ...... •...... 1.3 1,392 2,117 - 725 -34.2 Miscellaneous . 28.6 31,316 31,964 - 648 - 2.0 Total Decreases . 52.0% 60,061 65,504 -5,443 - 8.3% TOTAL .. .\ 1000% 116,474 117.651 -1,177 - 1.0% 16 The Milwaukee Road Magazine At Everett/ Wash./ a Live Steamer

ON HIS JOB in the driver's seat of a diesel-electric, Coast Division Engineer Lawrence Griffin always keeps a cool head, but anyone looking in on him after hours .will generally find him "all steamed up." For Engineer Griffin is a rail fan to whom steam power will al­ ways remain the most dynamic thing on wheels, and practically aU of his spare time is spent in devoted service to the As president of the Puget Sound Eastern, also engineer, fireman, conductor and brake­ Puget Sound Eastern, the miniature rail­ man, Lawrence Griffin takes a full load of passengers for a spin around his back yard railroad. Track is 300 feet long. way he operates in the back yard of his Everett, Wash., home. As a member in good standing of the Puget Sound Live Steamers, local chap­ ter of the international brotherhood of with wooden siding and hand split cedar yard in vacation time," One of his builders or owners of small steam loco­ shakes. privileged passengers is five-year-old motives, Mr. Griffin has been operating For ease in riding and working on the Tim Griffin, his nephew, whose dad is his little pike since 1954. His rolling equipment, the right of way has been also a Milwaukee Road engineer. stock consists of %-inch model of a elevated on a trestle built of discarded The Puget Sound Eastern has its own Pennsylvania K4 of the 4-6-2 type, ties and scrap lumber, purchased from shop, equipped with lathes, drill presses, weight 165 pounds, which he bought the Great Northern and a local brick welding equipment and so on, which from the builder, Frank De Santis of yard. Engineer Griffin built to house equip­ Schenectady, N. Y, for 5750, and two Mr. Griffin seldom, if ever, rides with­ flat cars he built himself. The track is out a full load of youngsters. And that's ment and work on new models. Under a 300.foot oval circling his back yard, the way he likes it; "When I start firing construction there at this time are a steam with 312-inch rail spiked to cedar ties. up, I think every kid in a radius of 10 engine of the 0-4-0 tank type and a Water is stored in a tank which started miles can smell it and comes on a dead 4-8-4, although work on the latter has life as the tub of a washing machine, a run. I seldom operate without 12 or 15 been suspended temporarily because it fact which is now thoroughly concealed waiting their turn. You should see this is too large tor the curves of the track. Nearly finished is a road diesel powered by a gasoline lawn mower engine, which has already added up many hours of run­ ning time. Kids who have qualified to run it are the envy of the neighborhood. Engineer Griffin in his Satu~day capacity as chief me­ On morning, when the kids chanical officer of the gather to ride. Engineer Griffin's yard railroad. The engine has is about the most popular spot in town. a copper boiler, mechan­ In the shop he has posted a seniority list ical lubricator, s tea m of teen age boys who have passed certain pump and hand pump in the tender; super­ tests to qualify for engineers. Also, in heated stea m at 100 his capacity as president of the Puget pounds. True to the Sound Eastern, he has issued passes to code of the Live Steam­ his friends, and anyone wanting to take er, he did not name his a ride or look over the outfit will usually engine a "Milwaukee", since it is a Pennsyl­ find him at home working on his lay­ vania model. out. Visitors always receive a big wel­ come, for on or off the job, Engineer Griffin never tires of talking "shop." June, 1956 17 To Fill the Picnic Basket

BICYCLE excursions, hobo hikes, fishing trips and visits to the park always stimu. late appetites, so there had better be an abundance of good food. These picnic basket menus are designed for simple cooking and easy carrying. Barbecued beef on buns is the main. stay of a picnic for teen.agers. This is something they can fix themselves at home and reheat over a camp fire. All they need to add are bakery cookies, fruit and a beverage. Barbecued Beef 2 lbs. boneless meat cut in 4-inch pieces I tbsp. fat 4 cups chopped onion 2 tbsps. shortening % cup undiluted tomato soup 1/2 cup catsup 2 tbsps. Worcestershire sauce I Y2 tsps. salt 2 cups broth (about) dash pepper, celery salt Brown meat in fat in heavy saucepan. Add Roast Corn on Cob tasty for a Trek-A-Tray lunch: IY2 cups water, cover and simmer until tender Remove silk from 8 ears of corn by laying (1% to 2 hours). Put meat through coarse husks back, then returning to their original Cheese-Dried Beef Sandwiches grinder. Fry onion in hot shortening until position. Fasten husks with fine wire at center Y2 cup grated sharp cheese, firm! y packed tender and transparent. Combine with meat. and near tip of cob. Roast on gri1I rack for cup mayonnaise dressing Add soup, catsup, Worcestershire sauce, salt, % about 10 minutes, turning often. Snip wire, Y2 cup chopped dried beef, firmly packed pepper and celery salt. Add about 2 cups husk the ears with gloves and serve with 2 tbsps. sweet picalil1i meat broth to make the mixture moist. Serve butter. between buns. Makes 24 sandwiches. Y4 tsp. onion salt 2 tbsps. chopped celery A new gadget, the Trek-A-Tray, has Combine all ingredients; fi1Iing for 4 sand­ Everywhere out-of-door meals are been designed for the outdoor enthusiast wiches. popular, meats and vegetables are being who wants to travel fast and light. It is cooked on kebobs. Hot glowing coals a divided plastic tray with room for each Ham-Egg Sandwiches are the fuel, and frequent turning of the food item, and for cutlery and a glass. 2 hard-cooked eggs, chopped metal skewers on which the food is Slip the filled tray into a pliofilm bag, Y4 cup canned deviled ham 2 tbsps. mayonnaise dressing slipped will cook it thoroughly. Serve store in the refrigerator and you're ready 2 tsps. prepared mustard between frankfurter buns heated at the at a moment's notice for any excursion Combine all ingredients; filling for 4 sand. edge of the grill, with beanhole beans afoot. These sandwiches are moist and. wiches. (American Institute of Baking) and/or roasted corn.

Shish Kebob Sandwiches A Shish Kebob picnic menu. -Trek-A·Tray, picnicking the modern way. 16 I-inch cubes beef (about JI/2 !bs.) 8 fresh mushroom caps 8 I-inch cubes ham (about 1/2 lb.) 8 sma1I whole onions I tsp. salt 8 frankfurter buns 8 tsps. butter Dip skewers in salad oil. Alternate a cube of beef, mushroom cap, cube of ham, an onion and a second cube of bed on each skewer until 8 are completed. Sprinkle with salt and . broil quickly until meat is tender. Cut buns lengthwise without cutting clear through, spread with butter, and fi1I with shish kebob. Serve with catsup, horseradish or mustard. 18 The Milwaukee Road Magazine Rules for a Safe Picnic The Home Gardener SEED of both Kentucky and Merion blut­ 1. Do not build a fire near tree trunks, safely several hours without refrigeration. grass can be made to sprout in 6 to to fallen trees or overhanging branches. They 7. Learn to recognize poison ivy, poison days. The seed is poured into a cheese. may smoulder and catch fire after you have oak and poison sumac. You do not have to cloth bag and soaked under water 15 to gone. come into contact with them to be poisoned­ 24 hours. Then the bag is held under a 2. Be sure pans with hot water, coffee or the poison can be transmitted from one person food are set securely over the fire S() they can­ to another or by clothing which has brushed cold-water faucet to wash out the brown not upset and scald you. across a plant. It takes 15 to 30 minutes to stain. When the water runs clear, the 3. Be sure to extinguish matches. Break penetrate the skin. If you should become seed is spread out in the sun to dry. With. them in two and do not throw them into dry affected, sponge the area immediately with in 10 days after sowing, if the seed is kept leaves or grass. alcohol, then wash with soap and water. 4. When the picnic is over, make sure moist, most of it will have sprouted. your fire is out. Use water, earth or sand to 8. Do not swim alone or when tired, over­ cover any coals. heated or chilled. Do not jump into cold • 5. Drink only water you know is pure. water, but ease in gradually. Do not go out Brown Bermuda grass can be given a Water can be purified by boiling for half an alone in a boat unless you are thoroughly fresh green look with dye. Officials of the hour or by adding one drop of iodine to a familiar with it and can handle it in a sudden Phoenix Open Golf tournament last year quart. storm. (Suggested by tbe National Safety sprayed 60 acres of the faded course with 6. Take only foods which can be kept Council) green pigment at a cost of $6.50 an acre. Despite a heavy rain the dye stayed green and none rubbed off on shoes. • Declaring War on Insects A good plant mulch can be made from shredded newspapers. Mixed with water BUZZING insects are just about the num­ in a washing machine, they form a pulp ber one source of summertime aggrava.­ that's an excellent soil covering. A one­ tion in suburban and rural areas. Their inch layer keeps weeds out, moisture in. number is fantastic. For instance, the National Pest Control Association esti­ • mates that a pair of flies could produce Narcissus will retain bulb strength year between April and August 191 septillion after year if the flower stems are left -that's 191 followed by 24 zeros­ uncut. Cutting the stem lowers produc­ offspring, if all lived. tion and quality, and may kill the bulbs Many diseases can be transmitted by completely over a period of time. Clip­ flies and mosquitoes, but modern medi­ Outward-opening screen doors securely latched by ping off spent blooms saves bulb vigor, cine helps to combat them more effective­ Yale push-pull catches keep bugs aut. too, by avoiding useless seed production. ly than in the past. The Department of • Health, Education and Welfare recently lawns to prevent flies from breeding. In areas where grass doesn't grow well recommended a new insect killer as being The slamming of a screen door can be because of shade, plant groundcovers. more effective than DDT. The insecti­ almost as annoying as the insects it is Some good groundcovers are Vinca, cide, known as DDVP, has the important designed to keep at bay. Relief from this Pachysandra and Ajuga. attribute of being less poisonous to hu­ irritation can be obtained with a pneu­ mans. Detailed information on specific • matic air-type door closer which operates Shallow cultivation of beans will give chemicals to use in controlling insects with only a gentle click. Or the home­ bigger crops, according to tests made at can be obtained by writing to the Bureau owner can use a push-pull catch, easy the University of Florida. When beans of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, for children to open and close. A lock­ were cultivated three inches deep, pro­ Department of Agriculture, Washington, 'I' ing device with which this type is duction dropped to half that of beans D. C. These practices will also be found equipped prevents unnoted entry by cultivated only an inch deep. helpful in controlling the pests: housebreakers. (Yale & Towne Manu. j 1. Use space·sprays or aerosol bombs in facturing Company) • the house. Some attention to stimulating root action 2. Use residual sprays that will stick on in new shrubs will keep them growing screens, porches and garbage cans. well into the summer, and older shrubs 3. Play safe with 16-mesh-to·the-inch screens on doors and windows. will reward you with better flowers. To 4. Hang screen doors to open outward and get increased action, feed the shrubs a equip with a good doorcloser. balanced plant food such as 6.10.4 in a 5. Keep water from accumulating in tin broad band around the base (after you reo cans, eave-troughs and street gutters. 6. Empty bird baths and chicken watering move weeds and break up the soil crust). pans frequently. Water immediately afterward to carry the 7. Screen open cisterns, cover cesspools, food down to the roots. Then water about septic tanks and rain barrels. once every two or three weeks, depending 8. Treat standing water in pools or ponds upon rainfall. If your water supply is with larvicides. 9. Stock ornamental pools with gold fish You can live through the summer and like it if you short, mulch the bases to hold moisture toke adequate precaution ·against the two summer­ or top swimming minnows. time aggravations-pestiferous insects and slamming and reduce weed competition.-Better 10. Spread manure thinly on fields and screen doors. Homes & Gardens June, 1956 19 BABY'S OWN RUG. A nursery rug, complete with name or initials and that all-important Soap and Water birth date, is a thoughtful gift for the new baby. This, for a boy, is crocheted in an inex­ Cleaning Hints pensive soft spun yarn of white and baby blue, but would be equally pretty in pink, sunshine yellow, pale green or peach, to match a bed­ HOUSE cleaning can be room decor. It may be made well in advance lightened with the help of baby's arrival, and the personal data added of a timely new booklet, after the big event. An instruction leaflet, "112 Easy Ways to which includes directions for making a rug Chase Dirt". Listing for a girl, is available free of charge from The Milwaukee Road Magazine, Room 356 Union household furnishings Station, Chicago 6, III. alphabetically, the book. let is a useful dictionary of ways to wash those ~=~s=p=r=U~C=in~g:l:3u~p~O~U::::t:::d::::o~or ~ objects w hie h need j l Fum iture freshening at this time of the year. For example, it suggests that a good washing of the outside of the house may make a paint job unnecessary. Try FOR a summer out of door project, repair mover. to select a day after several rainy ones, or refinish your worn furniture. Sand the entire surface and apply a so the dirt crust will be softened. Hose On wooden furniture, where replace­ primer or undercoat. To apply the final a section of the house several feet wide, ments of parts is necessary, use the piece coat, flow on the enamel evenly, being scrub with soapsuds, then hose again. to be replaced as a pattern for the new careful not to let it collect on the edges. For soiled spots on mattresses, the piece. To refinish, clean the surfa.ce with If it should be necessary to apply a second booklet says to sponge with a little soapy water and detergent and let dry thorough­ coat, sand the first coat lightly to roughen water and dry quickly with an electric ly. If the paint is chipped, brush with a the surface and provide anchorage for the fan. To wash feather pillows, rip a wire brus.h, sand smooth and feather the second coat. Be sure ·the piece is dust free seam of the outside ticking and baste edges. Touch up these spots with enamel before applying any finish. it together loosely with strong thread. undercoater. Fill cracks with wood putty, Most rattan furniture has a clear finish The opening will provide an exit for let dry, sand and touch up with enamel and needs only a coat of spar varnish to inside dirt while leaving the feathers undercoater. freshen it up. If enamel is preferred, intact and clean in the thinner inside If any metal parts are rusted, sand apply it as on wood. covering. them clean and apply a metal undercoat On wicker furniture, spraying is pre­ Other instructions tell how to wash such as red lead. If the furniture has ferable in applying a finish. Watch care­ various types of fabric, lampshades, work been waxed, remove the wax with wax fully to prevent accumulations of the clothes, floors and floor coverings, sweat­ remover before applying an undercoat to finish at wicker intersections, lest they ers, upholstery, window shades, snow the surface. If it is desirable to remove become tacky. (National Ll'1nber Manu­ suits, even costume jewelry and anti­ the old finish, use a paint or varnish re·. facturers Association) macassars. Practical directions are given for stain removal, together with a dozen or so unexpected uses for soap as a Make a Float for Swimming ... HERE'S HOW handy household tool. "112 Easy Ways to Chase Dirt" is published by the Clean­ liness Bureau, Association of American THIS sturdy float, an easy do-it-yourself galvanized nails. Mark the position of Soap & Glycerine Producers, Inc., 295 project, is made of lumber two inches the ladder in the center of one end of the Madison Ave., New York 17, N. Y. thick, with oil drums at each corner for float. Drill two 12-inch holes through added buoyancy. the float frame at the position of each • • • First, make a frame 96 x 72 inches in rail, one hole 2 inches from the top outside dimensions, using 2 x lO-inch edge and another 2 inches from the bot­ lumber. Fasten it securely with 8-inch tom. Drill corresponding holes in the galvanized spikes. Add a floor of 2 x 6­ rails. The ladder is fastened in place inch lumber, spacing the boards about with four 12 x 6-inch carriage bolts, with -% inch apart, and securing them with washers beneath heads and nuts. seCTION 60-penny galvanized nails. Fasten the drums to the frame with Invert the frame and place an oil :yg x 2-inch steel straps, two to each drum in each corner. Install two inside drum. Locate the positions of the sttaps stringers so the drums have three-point so they fit snugly next to the raised rings contact-side frame, floor board and on the sides of the drums; this to keep stringer. Secure the stringers in place them from slipping toward the center of with 8-inch galvanized spikes. the float. Use y

If you are, you may appreciate another reminder about the 22nd Reunion of the Association, which will be held in Chicago on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1956. The Hotel Sherman will be headquarters. Further information regarding arrangements, as provided by Larry J. Benson, president of the Association, will appear in the July issue of the Magazine.

REMEMBER? Scene at the registration desk in the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee as the 1954 reunion got under way.

The following employes' applications for retirement were recorded during May, 1956

GENERAL OFFICES-CHICAGO AND WYNNE, JOHN C. IOWA & DAKOTA DIVISION SEATTLE-INCLUDING SYSTEM EMPLOYES Chi. Sub. Sta. Opel' ., .. Kittitas, Wash. GRACE, FRANK J . .JUNKER, RALPH P. Conductor Mitchell, S.D. Demurrage Insp. . Chicago, Ill. DUBUQUE & ILLINOIS DIVISION HECK, WILLIAM L. AMES, VERANUS E. Sec. Foreman Charter Oak, Ia. CHICAGO TERMINALS Sec. Laborer LaCrescent, Minn. HOLLIFIELD, ROBERT L. DEMOS, THEODORE G. BOARDMAN, MAURICE E. Loco. Engl' Sioux City, 1(1.. Crossing Watchman Chicago, Ill. Pumper Brompton, Ia. OLSON, OLAF J. DOBINSKI, ADAM S. HOPKINS, LEWIS E. B&B Carpenter Beloit, Ta. Crossing Watchman Chicago, Ill. Sec. Laborer Mystic, Ia. ROEHRICK, ALBERT H. l"OWLER, TOMMIE SMOLEK, JOHN Sec. Laborer New Hampton, Ja. Ex. Gang Laborer ...Bensenville, Ill. Inspector Savanna, Ill. THOMPSON, WALTER. G. KATSUKIS, MARKO T. TOUBL, FRANK J. Asst. Car Foreman .... Mason Ci ty, Ia. Asst. Ex. Gang l"oreman .. Chicago, III Carman Marquette, Ia. KLICH, ANDREW P. IOWA 6' SOUTHERN MINNESOTA DIVISION Inspector Chicago, Ill. IDAHO DIVISION WOOD, MARGAR.ETTE J. MEURISSE, LEO J. CASEY, BENJ. J. Matron Austin, MimI. Switchtender Chicago, Ill. Conductor Beverly, Wash. LA CROSSE & RIVER DIVISION VANDERBOS, DAVID MONETTE, LEONARD D. FREDRICH, LEO G. l"rt. Handler Galewood, Ill. Sec. Laborer Gibbs, Ida. Chief Dispatcher Wausau, Wis. PARSON, ANTON COAST DIVISION SPERBECK, JAMES W. B&B Foreman Spokane, Wash. Loco. Engl' Minneapolis, Mino. ACKERSON, HENRY R. IOWA DIVISION TYLER, IRVIN F. Deckhand Seattle, Wash. Clerk LaCrosse, Wis. GAY, RALPH W. BYRD, ORVAL P. Fire Patrolman Mineral, Wash. Telegrapher Perry, Ia. MADISON DIVISION KENDZIORA, ALBERT G. HENSLEY, JOHN A. BIEGEL, GEORGE T. Boilermaker Tacoma, Wash. Conductor Marion, Ia. Crane Oper. Madison, Wis. LEE, JOHN J. MERKLE, HORACE E. RAPP, ROBERT F. Asst. Chf. Clerk Seattle, Wash. Operator Perry, Ia. Con clue tor Madison, Wis. MEYER, GEORGE S. OTTE, SR, HENRY THORNTON, JOHN L. Sec. Foreman .. " Seattle, Wash. Sec. Laborer .•...•....Oxford Jet., Ia. Sec. Foreman Albany, Wis. MORELAND, RAY W ALN, RALPH A. VON GONTEN, JOHN F. Carman , Tacoma, Wash. Sig. Maintainer Van Horne, Ia. Switchman " Racine, Wis. June, 1956 21 MILWAUKEE DIVISION ROCKY MOUNTAIN DIVISION Evan Hall To Assist CUNNINGHAM, TIMOTHY P. K ARRAS, SAM S. Near East Foundation Ex'. Gang Laborer Deerfield, Ill. Sec. Laborer Avery, Ida. KAMPO, CLIFTON T. SANDSNESS, 'WILLIAM M. B&B Carpenter Milwaukee, Wis. Laborer Harlowton, Mont. LUKER, IiARRY A. THORSON, WILLIAM O. Conductor Milwaukee, Wis. Machinist Harlowton, Mont. MARKOS, NICK TERRE HAUTE DIVISION Ex. Gang Laborer ....Milwaukee, Wis. ARCHER, GEORGE W. MITCHELL, ROY K. Loco. Engl' Channing, Mich. Telegrapher Momence, Ill. TROVER, ROY L. o 'CONNOR, JOSEPH Roundhouse Foreman Green Bay, Wis. Carman Helper .....Terre Haute, Ind. SCHAEFER, WALTER W. TRANS-MISSOURI DIVISION Mach. Helper Green Bay, Wis. CAINE, LEO R. WEISSGERBER, CHARLES F. Brakeman Miles City, Mont. Crossingmau Plymouth, Wis. COLLINS, WILLIAM J. Agent-Opel'. .' Lantry, S.D. MILWAUKEE TERMINALS & SHOPS NELSON, SWAN W. BROWER, LUCILE A. Yardma,ster Miles City, Mont. Clerk Milwaukee, Wis. GONZALEZ, TONY F. TWIN CITY TERMINALS Sec. Laborer Milwaukee, Wis. ANDERSON, GERHART R. KUFALK, ALICE M. Mach. Helper Minneapolis, Minn. E. W. Hall as he appeared shortly before retirement. Clerk Milwaukee, Wis. DICKMAN, WILLIAM E. MAYER, STEPHAN Ex. Gang Laborer .....St. Paul, Minn. Cabinet Maker Milwaukee, Wis. P ANEWITZ, HENRY EVAN W. HALL, former Milwaukee MURACH, ESTELLE F. Storekeeper Minneapolis, Minn. Road agricultural agent at Spokane, who Car Cleaner Milwaukee, Wis. PETERSON, AlMER retired in 1952, has left his home in PATNODE, PETER L. Inspector Minneapolis, Minn. Mach. Helper Milwaukee, Wis. Warden, Wash., to accept a temporary SCHABOWSKI, ANTON J. assignment by the Near East Foundation Machinist Milwaukee, Wis. in New York. He will be charged with SCHANK, FRANK C. the selection of agricultural experts for Crossingmau Milwaukee, Wis. H. C. Walker VITAS, MIKE work in Iran. Carman Milwaukee, Wis. HOWARD C. WALKER, assistant general Mr. Hall reported in New York on VIZGARD, JACOB E. freight agent in Chicago, died May 20 May 23, although his work will be in Ex. Gang Laborer .... Milwaukee, Wis. in Wesley Memorial Hospital. He was the western states, as the foundation is WROBLEWSKI, EDWARD F. 52 and had been employed by the Road seeking men from irrigation country. He Switchman Milwaukee, Wis. 36 years. said shortly before leaving for the East Mr. Walker who was born in Chicago that the job might last six months or a spent all of his service in the Chicago year, and perhaps for a while in 1957, traffic department. He started in 1920 A. E. Peterson as replacements will be needed. The as a clerk and became chief clerk in 1925, immediate requirement is for 30 men. ARTHUR E. PETERSON, assistant freight serving in various offices. He was chief A recognized authority in agricultural auditor, Chicago, passed away suddenly clerk to the general freight agent and matters, Mr. Hall has specialized in live­ in his home on May 8. He was a veteran later to the assistant freight traffic man. stock and range management. Shortly of 41' years of service in the freight ager before Jan. 1, 1955 when he was after starting work with the Milwaukee, auditing department. appointed assistant general freight agent. he initiated the first livestock gra2:ing Mr. Peterson, who was born in Man­ Masonic services were held for Mr. district in the United States, the Mizpah­ chester, N. H., on May 16, 1899, had Walker in Chicago, and he was buried Pumpkin Creek District southeast of lived in Chicago since he was a child. in Mount Emblem cemetery. Surviving Miles City, Mont. It served as a model He started with the Road as a waybill are his widow, Irene, and two daughters, for drafting the legislation now known filing clerk in the office of the freight Joyce Walker and Mrs. Jane Wakeman. as the Taylor Grazing Act. auditor on Sept. 20, 1915 and after ad. vancing through various positions, in­ cluding that of revising clerk, was pro­ moted to bureau head of the revising bureau in 1929. On May 1, 1939 he WHO GOT THE LION'S -SHARE? became chief clerk of the department, and held that position until he was ap­ Whatever else mqy be said about private ownership and op­ pointed assistant freight auditor on Dec. eration of railroads, experience since the end of World War II indicates that it has proved more profitable to government I, 1949. than to the owners of railroad stocks and other securities. In Mr. Peterson's survivors include his that period railroads have paid more than $10 billion in taxes wife, the former Winona Dorsey, and a to government administrations-on amount something over daughter, Trodi Ann, aged 11; also a three times as great as their total payments to stockholders sister, Florence, and three brothers, Wal. and bond holders in dividends and interest ... Our railroads ter, Harold and Herbert. Funeral servo have aided other taxpayers in support of government. instead ices were held in Chicago, with burial in of drawing on government treasuries for support. Acacia Park cemetery. -Railway Employees Journal 22 The Milwaukee Road Magazine YO U* are eligible *(as a Milwaukee Road employee) for this non-cancellable, non-assessable, guaranteed premium, $1,000.00 insurance policy (payable in case of death from any cause.) -I for only $1.00 per month if you are under 39 InC. If older, the rate is $1.50 a month

~ ~ (a) On payroll deduction plan ~~ut nden (b) No medical examination deoe \ (c) No membership fees.­ W\f~ , ono.OO Age on application determines rate d tor $ ' insure 00 0 month, (d) Policy can be continued \ ot $2. 39 inC. \ . it under I. rote is regardless of occupation change . c. tIle '40 to 60 In . th $2.50 0 monliC.otion) MAIL THIS APPLICATION TODAY! 6'0 see opP p------_..---_..-­ lover __'--'­ EMPLOYEES MUTUAL BENEFIT ASS'N. i..----- 1457 GRAND AVE. ST. PAUL 5, MINN. Please have the C.M.St.P. & P.RR.Co. make the following premium deductions eac;h month; Please print. Employe's Name Payroll No . First Name Initial last Name Deduct $ per month for $1000.00 policy. SSA No. .., Occupation . Address . City State . Dote of Birth . r\ Beneficiary Relationship . ***** For Dependent Wife deduct $ per month for $1000.00 policy Her Name ...... •..... Date of Birth . (Add $1.00 a month for each year she is over 60) ***** For Dependent Children listed below deduct a totol of $ per month for $500.00 policy for each. First Name . Dote of Birth

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24 The Milwaukee Roael Magazine and Harlowton. He is snrvivl'fl by his derk, passed away sndllenly at his Trans-Missouri Division wife, the former Mabel Holland; two home Apr. 4. His gentle personalily sons, Fred of San Diego and Leland of will really be missed. WEST Miles City; a brother, seven grandchil­ Conductor Henry Bemett received D. B. Campbell, Correspondent dren and six great-grandchildren. Inter­ his Silver Pass recently. He start.ed on Superintendent's Office, Miles City ment was in Marmarth cemetery 'with the La. Crosse Division, but came to Swan W. Nel­ graveside rites under the direction of the Lines '"Vest soon afterward. son, yardmaster at Masonic lodge. Mr. Richey was a mem­ A son, William Noll.', was born to :Miles City since ber of EI Zagel Shrine of Fargo, White Fireman and Mrs. Bill Short Apr. 24; 1925, retired May Shrine of Jerusalem of Miles City, Past "Just what we ordered," they say. 1. Swan started Patron of O.E.S. at Marmarth, and Past L. V. Anderson held claim prevention railroading as a Mastel' of the Masonic lodge. Mrs. Richey meetings on the Northern Montana callboy in 1910 has been an active member of the Mil­ during May, his first with us. with the Northern waukee Road Women's Club since it was The annual May luncheon of Lewis­ Pacific and en­ organized. She served as president in town Chapter of the ,Vomen's Club tered the service 1932. was held in the Montana Power build­ of the Milwaukee Marilyn Beeman, daughter of H. A. ing :May 4. :Mrs. Ving'e, president, re­ Beeman, Vananda, Mont., who is a stu­ ports it was well attended. S. W. Nelson as a clerk in Du­ luth in 1915. A dent at the Presentation School of Kurs­ Word comes to us from Harlowton year later he transferred to train service ing in Miles City, was one of two dele­ that the son of B&B Foreman Don in Minneapolis and came to nfiles City gates to represent her school at the na­ Chamberlain lost his sight and injured a shortly afterward in the capacity of tional nurse's convention held in Chica­ hand reeently in an accident at a rifle brakeman. He had been a switchman go in May. range. for a number of years when he became Two Milwaukee men are candidates in Engineers F. R. Egg'leston of Three yardmaster in 1925. The Nelsons have the June primary for the nomination of Forks and A. G. Busch of B07.eman were two sons, Bob in Miles City and Louis state representatives from Custer Coun­ presented with Silver Passes last month. in Van Nuys, Calif. Their present plans ty on the Democratic ticket. They are are to make their horne in Van Nuys. Robert H. Rask, division lineman, and Custer County High School chapter Joe A. Brady, time reviser in the super­ was hostess to the state convention of intendent's office. Custer County is al­ the Future Homemakers of America lowed two representatives. Since they when it was held in jIiles City in April. are unopposed on the slate, both men Carol Ann Pessein, daughter of Mr. and will qualify for the general election bal­ Mrs. J. D. Pessein, is secretary of the lot in November. local chapter, while the historian of the Mrs. Herman Lindow, wife of retired group is Donna Schell, daughter of J. store department employe, passed away F. Schell. recently in Spokane after a brief ill­ Julian R. Mrogenski, retired car de­ ness. Burial was in the family plot in partment employe, 70, passed away Custer County cemetery in Miles City. Apr. 18 at a Miles City hospital after a brief illness. Born in Germany in 1886, he came to Montana to homestead in 1914. He entered the employ of the Rocky Mountain Division rl1.ilroad in 1917. Mr. Mrogenski is sur­ NORTHERN MONTANA vived by five brothers. Burial was in E. H. Mielke, Correspondent the family plot in Calvary cemetery. Roundhouse Foreman, Lewistown Funeral services for Shirley L. Richey, MILES CITY RETIREMENT. C S. Winship, di­ vision freight and passenger agent for the retired TM conductor, were held at Mar­ A bit of Old West history was re­ Trans-Missouri Division since 1942, pictured as marth, N. D., on Apr. 23. He had passed vealed with the retirement of C. J. he finished his last day on the job at Miles City a.way at a Miles City hospital after a Barkley, express agent at Lewistown, h9adquarters. He retired on his 60th birthday brief illness. Mr. Richey was born Feb. who had 49 years of service. He tells of Starting as a clerk at Mobridge in 1916, Mr. 3, 1880 at Indianola, Ia., and started on four drivers in the local express, and Winship has served at various points as time­ the Milwaukee when he was 16. He two double and two single wagons with keeper, agent and operator, city freight agent worked at Des Moines, transferred to the three teams of horses. Gold shipments and traveling freight and passenger agent at J31ack Hills line during its construction, of half a million dollars a month orig­ Seattle, and division freight and passenger agent and later moved to Lines West, settling at Great Falls before transferring in the latter inated in Kendall and mining towns capacity to Miles City. He is a past president at Marmarth in 1908. When he retired nearby. The agency was motorized in of the Miles City Rotary club.' Since his recent in 1954 after 57 years of service he was 1929. retirement he and Mrs. Winship have moved to on the passenger run between Miles City Jake Sanford, Lewistown billing the Spokane area. June, 1956 25

-----~._----~----'-- the Women's Club, the minutes of the Idaho Division first meeting in 1925 were read by Mrs. Mrs. Ruth White, Correspondent W. A. :Monroe, not Mrs. D. C. Monroe, Office of Superintendent, Spokane as reported in the April Magazine. Mr. and Mrs, Jack Ferrell had their Dr. Roger W. Grummel, a son of Malden home damaged extensively by Mike Grummel who is in charge of the smoke and water as the result of a woodmill and a nephew of Roger , Grummel, retired agent, has completed , ! fire. While it was being repaired they stayed with Mrs. Ferrell's mother, work with the U. S. Public Health Mrs. Henry Terrien. Service at the Talihina, Okla., Medical 'Ward Hale, retired conductor, and Center and in July will begin a three­ Mrs. Hale entertained many of their year residency at the U. S. Public family on Mother's Day, including Mrs. Health Hospital on Staten Island, N. June 6, 1833-Andrew Jackson became Mary Snider, the grandmother. It was Y. En route to his new assignment he the first President of the United States sort of a family reunion, with folks and his family visited here with his to ride on a railroad train-between coming' from Tekoa, Seattle and Thomp­ parents. During high school and college Ellicott's Mills, Md., and Baltimore. son Falls, Mont. years Doctor Grummel worked on the Section Laborer L. D. Monette of railroad. June 7, 1776-Richard Henry Lee in­ Gibbs, Idaho, retired May 1. troduced in Congress the resolution de­ "Cap" Allen, retired, is boasting his claring that "these United Colonies are, first great-grandchild in the birth of Trans-Missouri Division and of right ought to be, free and in­ Jeffrey Clark of Chicago, Ill. EAST END dependent states ..." With the resignation of George Savidis, Kenneth Durtschi became office Dora H. Anderson, Correspondent c/o Agent, Mobridge June 12, 1905-Fastest train speed offi­ engineer at Spokane. James H. Taylor cially recorded on an American railroad has been employed as instrument man. The annual Milwaukee Road Women's was made on a three-mile run near Ada, Re formerly made his home at Billings, Club awards given to outstanding music Ohio, at 127.06 miles per hour. Mont. students of the Mobridge High School Chief Dispatcher R. E. Joiner is not graduating class were presented to Mar­ June 13, 1883-First meeting which led only counting sheep in his sleep, but is jorie Niedringhaus, daughter of Con­ to the organization of the Roadmasters' busy these days with the sheep move­ ductor Henry Niedringhaus, and to Rob­ Association of America was held at the ments from the plains to the grazing ert Andrews, son of Car Clerk Dick An­ Matteson House, Chicago. 1. Burnett lands in the hills around Setters, Idaho. drews. Marjorie was also awarded the of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Logging operations are later this Tobin Music Award. Her sister Mary was elected president. First annual meet­ season due to the unusual amount of Ann received the scholastic award for ing was held in St. Paul, Minn., Sept. snow and high waters in the St. Joe the highest grades in her sophomore class 12.14, 1883. River territory. and also won a medal for straight "A's" E. G. Kiesele, superintendent of ill Latin for two years. safety, conducted safety meetings on Mrs. Forrest Fiddler Sr., wife of Con­ June 14, 1777-By resolution of the the division during April. Following the ductor :F'iddler, who fell and broke her Continental Congress the flag came into meeting at Malden, the Women's Club arm some time ago, is recovering nicely. being, with "thirteen stripes of alternate there served refreshments, with Mrs. L. W. Schiefelbein, retired conductor, red and white, with a union of thirteen Charles Rankins and Mrs. Ethel Carver and wife are visiting their daughter and stars of white in a blue field, represent­ as hostesses. Other meetings were held at her family in Cincinnati at this writing ing the new constellation" in the west· Othello, St. Maries and Spokane. and will also visit Mr. Schiefelbein's ern skies. It was first carried by Ameri­ brother and family at Welch, W. Va. can troops in the Battle of the Brandy­ Mrs. Claude Preston, wife of Engineer wine the following September. Coast Division Preston, has returned from visits with TACOMA her daughter's family, and with her son June 14, 1834-1saac Fischer, Vermon­ Howard and wife at Appleton, Wis. ter, took out a patent for sandpaper. E. L. Crawford, Correspondent Mrs. Herbert Bjella, daughter of COll­ c/o Agent ductor Leonard Clark, presented Miss June 15, 1938-First 16-hour passenger Ralph Moyles, who was confined to Patricia Miller, our state Snow Queen train schedule put into effect between the hospital for several weeks, expected and daughter of Engineer Edgar Miller, New York and Chicago. to be back on the job June 1; Dorothy in a song recital at the Congregational Clover, switch clerk, relieving, and Mrs. June 15, 1815--New York City resi­ Velva Spann relieving on the switch dents began demanding laws against desk. noises keeping them awake, particularly New clerks in the yard: James Jacka, QUIZ answers cries of street hawkers. Howard Burgess and Stanley Rite. 1. Texas. Stella Wadkins of Auburn, temporar­ 2. Reduce speed. June 17, 1894-First outbreak of polio ily helping out in the freight office, 3. Card board. reported, in Rutland, Vt. vacationed at home with her baby 4. Prior classification. daughter. 5. Electric power. June 25, 1950--North Korean Red army Louis Seaman, chief clerk in the 6. Traffic Department. invaded South Korea. store department, is the proud grand­ 7. Right of way limits. father of his first grandson. June 28, 1862-Minnesota's pioneer lo­ The wife of B. A. Dyke, board clerk, 8. Coal. comotive "William Crooks" hauled first recently underwent surgery. 9. Centralized traffic control. passenger train from St. Paul to St. Correction: At the 31st Memory 10. Chock block. It is also called a Anthony (Minneapolis). Birthday party of Tacoma Chapter of chamfer block. 26 The Milwaukee Road Magazine ALL OF THE CHIEF DISPATCHERS on The Milwaukee Road, except sions, at a luncheon given for them in the Fred Harvey private dining those from the Idaho and Coast Divisions, who teok part in a later meet­ room in Union Station. Seated in the back row are, left to right: R. N. ing, were in Chicago May 28 for discussions centering around the key Edman, chief statistician; F. G. McGinn, assistant general manager: role played by the chief dispatcher in the operation of the railroad. W. J. Quinn, vice president and general counsel; and W. J. Whalen, Among the subjects discussed were maximum utilization of equipment, vice president-operation. Others who took part in the discussions were the distribution of cars and their movement over the line. The chief President J. P. Kiley and C. A. Nummerdor, general superintendent of dispatchers are shown here, with others who tock part in the discus- transportation.

Church on May 13. The program in­ mer Mobridge resident who is now a vacations in the West. Denver is their cluded several numbers in French, Itali­ school professor in St. Louis, and with destination. an and German. Retired Conductor Ed Langenbacher and Olga Yerman has been assigned to in­ Ticket Agent Theo. S. Johnson has wife at St. Charles, Mo. bound extending, Barbara McPhee to taken his wife to the Lutheran hospital George Granger, retired brakeman, outbound extending, and John Brower at Hot Springs, S. D., for a course of passed away suddenly at his home in to the gTain desk. At the messenger-desk, treatments. Emerald, Wis. Funeral services were new employes are Jim Matias, Frank Agent Harold Weil and wife of Thun­ held June 1. Brandt and Judy Maurice. der Hawk, S. D., are the parents of a Gene Somerfield is back on the exten­ boy born March 18. Operator Harvey sion desk after being in the Navy for Teske and' wife have a baby daughter Milwaukee Terminals four long years. born May 24. She has been named Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Krolikowski "Lorri Gae". FOWLER STREET STATION are the parents of a girl born May 30 at Dr. A. W. Spiry has returned from Contributed by Josephine Fillier Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital. Dad is an auto messenger. Minneapolis where he took a postg'l'adu­ The departure of Agent Wallace was ate course in surgery at the University Engineer James Langen, veteran of 45 a surprise to all. He has been named Hospital. years of service, has been presented with supervisor of stations for the entire a Silver Pass. Engineer "Red" Wands and wife have Road, with headquarters in Chicago. returned from a three-month vacation in L. E. Martin, our new agent, has been California, Arizona and Texas. general agent at Rockford, Ill., since I & S M Division Mike Shanahan, a junior at Mobridge ,January, 1948. Silver Passes, in recognition of 45 High School and son of Car Foreman Myra Bevins, retired clerk, recently years of Milwaukee Road service, were James Shanahan, was chosen to attend visited Washington, D. C. presented recently to the following the 14th annual American Legion Boys Pearl Freund, Magazine correspond­ 1&SM employes: Agent H. S. Hoff, State on the Norther'n State Teachers ent, attended the RBWA convention College campus at Aberdeen, S. D. He Lanesboro; Agent C. H. Nelson, Rapi­ at Los Angeles, Calif.; stopped off to dan; Agent J. E. Lasley, Sherburn; was also elected president of the high visit son Dick at Fort Bliss, Tex., where Agent G. R. Grotty, Caledonia; Agent school association for 1956-57. he is attending the Guided Missile Elec­ E. J. Full, Austin; Agent T. W. Burke, Agent W. J. Collins of Lantry, S. D., tronic School. Albert Lea; Agent J. I. Popejoy, Med­ retired May 4 after 40 years of service. Mrs. John O'Shea of the stores depart­ ford; and Roadmaster R. E. Koontz, His position is being filled temporarily ment was hostess recently at a miscel­ Machinist Oscar Ludvigsen, Yardmaster by Jack Chesmore. laneous shower for Olga Yerman. An­ W. C. Cambern and Traveling Engineer Conductor L. H. Larson made a trip other shower was given for her by Cath­ J. T. Phleger, Austin. to St. Louis, Mo., to visit his son Frank­ erine Consolazione. lyn's grave in the national cemetery. Mary, Bob and Tim McCormick and Money isn't everything, but it helps until While there he visited Alol=ln Lindel, for- Geraldine Forchette are spending their everything comes along. June, 7956 27 course, set out for Superior, Wis., re­ Twin City Terminals cently to tryout the new golf clubs, and H & D Division MINNEAPOLIS LOCAL FREIGHT AND reported a score of 104 for 18 holes, and EAST END TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT 50 for 9 holes. Martha Moehring, Correspondent G. V. Stevens, Correspondent H. O. Monge, former St. Paul city Asst. Superintendent's Office, Montevideo Agent's Office ticket agent, is visiting his son-in-law At Wilmot, Congratulations were extended to and daughter here. Mr. Monge, who has S. D., the barber George Hanson who was married May been retired for about five years and now business hit a 19 and, effective June 1, was appointed lives in Santa Monica, Calif., says he slump last month chief clerk in the traffic office at Cin­ plays 18 holes of golf a day and then as citizens pre­ cinnati. goes home alld mows the lawn. He ex­ pared to celebrate Darrell Crossman is the new mes­ pects to visit in St. Paul a.bout a month, the town's 75th senger in the traffic department, effec­ and is enjoying life and retirement to anniversary. the hilt. tive June 1. Among those im­ Larry Johnson attended the Eagle's C. F. Prescott, instrumentman in the bued with the pio- engineering department in Minneapolis, national bowling tournament in South J. Cawthorne neer spirit, Agent recently received his 50-year Gold Pass. Bend recently. Jack Cawthorne Don Oleson, rate clerk in the local is shown as his hirsute growth was be­ freight, was married June 2. He is ST. PAUL FREIGHT HOUSE ginning to shape up. The luxurious whiskers observed on the male popula­ taking a leave of absence to attend the Allen C. Rothmund, Correspondent University of Minnesota. Sibley St. Freight House tion in that area mayor may not be due Joseph E. Johnson, car department to recent heavy rainfalls. At this writ­ At this writing Leo Powers is serious­ machinist, ano. Mrs. Johnson were pre­ ing Agent Cawthorne reports another ly ill. sented last month with their Silver Pass. two inches; "So we will probably have a Retired fellow employes who visited big crop." ST. PAUL TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT here recently were Ed Coy, Larry The retirement party recently held at YARDS AND ROUNDHOUSE Francis, Emil Nelson, Martin Shields Rosy's Supper Club in Montevideo was and Elmer Ackerman. Mary F. Shields, Correspondent a pleasant affair. It started with a deli­ c/o General Agent Since I announced my retirement as cious dinner, there was a short program of July 31, I have received many kind Bill Murley, who leaves the St. Paul and the four honored "boys" received letters, for which I thank you all. The traveling bags so they can take off for general agent's office to report to the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers also Philadelphia office as T.F.&P.A., was vacations any time. The four trainmen honored me by reelecting me for my who retired were Red Hocum, Tim War­ feted at a luncheon at the St. Paul Ath­ fourth term as their president. The ner' Marnel Golie and Rusty Miller. letic Club on May 29. The event was meeting was our 60th annual at the attended by about 50 of his friends in Eng'ineer Louis Parent and his wife state capitol May 11, which was also are on the list of lucky folks who owu the transportation field. Bill came to St. the state's 98th birthday. Governor Paul in January, 1942 as a rate clerk, a Silver Pass. Orville Freeman of Minnesota was the Chuck Rodeberg, l'elief dispatcher, was transfen-ed to Duluth as chief clerk guest speaker. in March, 1947, and returned to St. Paul didn't object too much when he had to as city freight agent in September, 1951. give up his tonsils recently, but what Julie Swanson, chief clerk, believing People Ol'e lonely beeause they bttilcl really broke him up was that it was sug'­ that the adage, "A new broom sweeps tualls instead of briclges-Joseph FO?·t gested his moustache come off before the clean" should also apply on the golf Newton. surgery. And he had nursed it along so patiently. But go it must ... and it did. Conductor Hi Johnson hopes the pres­ ent trip to Deaconess Hospital in Min­ neapolis will be the last. His friends also hope this is the final trip. Montevideo has had its usual onslaught of school children riding our trains and visiting our offices this spring, and we have been happy to explain the wOl:kings of that most interesting' phase of trans­ portation, the railroad. Operator Tom Fasching has talked himself hoarse ex­ plaining the details of sending wires, controlling trains on the dispatcher's hoard, and so on. Some days he has forgotten to eat his lUllch, just because he gets calTied away by enthusiasm. Kenneth Tostenson is the new switch­ man at Montevideo and Tom Skarp IS now braking on the middle division..

Almost every 10 minutes somebody thinks up a nelO produet 01' impl'ovement for which a patent is issued--an avemge of about 45,000 a year. 28 The Milwaukee Road Miigazine MIDDLE AND WEST Mary Ann Baebenroth who is going to R. F. Huger, Correspondent visit her folks in Germany, her first since Operator, Aberdeen leaving home three years ago. Joe and Em 'rrezek recently visited Ticket Clerk Marion Ra~dall is III Howard and Vera (Snapp) Moffett at the local hospital at this writing and their home in Subiaco, Ark. Bob Renaldi would appreciate hearing from her went on a fishing trip in Canada. Stella friends. She is being relieved by Willie Murphy vacationed in Indiana and Lou­ Mitzel. isiana; Cele Einbecker in Florida and Richard Jones, retired night round­ Cuba; Marge and Ray Wagonkneckt house foreman, recently paid a visit drove to New Orleans; Josephine Bird 1.0 Aberdeen. He was en route to his and Irene Barry vacationed in Los An­ home in Portland. g'eles and Las Vegas; Ann Sundin vis­ Engineer Frank Williams and wife it.ed her sister in Maple Valley, Wash., are en route on their vacation to New and toured Victoria and Harrison York, Boston, '¥ashington, D. C., and Spring's; Agnes McGrath spent a week Chicago at this \I'l'iting. Agent C. B. in New York. Summers, local chairman, and wife Loretta Peters is on a furlough at this "MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS". Cutting are vacationing in Montreal, Canada. writing. their gclden wedding cake was an absorbing jcb Car Foreman O. W. Henrikson will be In case you'd like to know, g'irls, our for C B. Summers, agent at Andover, S. D., and angling for the big ones after visiting new office boy's name is Bert Soderlund. his wife who celebrated that half-century an­ in Minneapolis and Seattle. Dispatcher Sympathy was extended to Eleanor niversary wi th a dinner and reception at their J\{ark Sutton of Montevideo is enjoying Karas on the death of her father re­ home. The popular couple were feted by many friends. Waitresses at the affair wore pioneer a vacation with his sister in Johnson cently. City, Tenn. dresses and sunbcnnets, and for a vocal rendi­ Agent Fred Fleming, Ashton, will tion of "Memcries are Made of This", the sclo­ put in his vacation weeding his 2,000 OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF EQUIPMENT ist wore Mrs. Summer's wedding gown of 50 ACCOUNTS years ago. {·omato plants, plus other vegetable plots. Martha Streit, Correspondent Carman S. P. Engelhart is still off A recent visitor to our office was the job at this writing, recuperating Laura Whitson who, since her retire­ from an extended illness. ment, is busy seeing the country. She R,etired Locomotive Carpenter John next plans a trip to Hawaii. Sehiner recently paid a visit to his It's a baby girl for Dorothy Butler friends in Aberdeen from his now of Keypunch. Little Susan tipped the established home in Chicago. scale at a tiny four pounds on May 15. Local Storekeeper Gil Gulbranson Laura Wojciechowski of the foreign has returned to work after being off car records underwent surgery at Mary on account of illness. G. E. Merkl, also Thompson Hospital. She is reported ill, is expected back soon. to be doing very well at this writing. Mrs. Ed Boettcher, wife of road­ So, also, is Eleanor Marshall of Mil­ master, recently underwent surgery in waukee car records who entered St. a local hospital. Elizabeth's Hospital fo\' an operation. Roy H. Smith, Aberdeen locomotive Sympathy was extended to Viola Asa eng-ineer, and Mrs. Smith have received in the loss of her father. their Silver Pass. Correction: Dorothy Butler left our office, not Dorothy Switzer, as reported THEIR GOLDEN DAY. R. C "Bob" Chessman, in the April Magazine. retired accounting, department rate man. and ChicagoCeneralOffices • New employes here are Pat Mazar, his bride of 50 years shown as hcsts at their Kathy O'Connell, Grace Adams, Steve golden wedding celebration on May 20 when OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PASSENGER LUkashevich, MaUl'a Boyle and Cath­ they entertained about 130 friends at a buffet ACCOUNTS. erine Madden. supper and dance. They were married in Mrs. Bill Tidd, Correspondent Chessman's girlhcod home in Roselle, III., and have lived most of their 50 years together in I am happy to be back in the fold CHORAL CLUB NEWS the same residence. Their daughter, Mrs. Hen­ again and wish to express my appreci­ Theresa Glasl, Correspondent ry Schwertfeger, and her family also live in ation for yonI' concern and thoughtful­ At a ceremony in the Sherman Hotel the Roselle area. Since Mr. Chessman's retire­ ness during my convalescence. I would on May 9 presided over by Daniel Ryan, ment last May after 53 years cf service in the also like to thank Arona Puttrich for president of the county board, Jean passenger accounts department he has been taking over as magazine correspondent J orian, wife of Direct.or Glenn J orian busy gardening and decorating his home. Mrs. during my leave of absence. and a former member of the soprano Chessman is active in the Trinity Lutheran Rod and Marion Grove announced the section, was honored as one of 16 final­ Dorcas .Society and Trinity Ladies Aid. ll.l'11.val of Joan Ruth on May 9. ists nominated for the title of Cook Lillian and Jack Fraser became sub­ County Foster Mother of the Year. l'Irs. urbanites after moving into their new J orian was chosen as a candidate for her "Our appreciation for the visit of the home in Meadowdale. specialized medical and nUl'sing' care of Milwaukee Road Choral Club to Kirk­ ,Vanda "Vlos was granted a three­ newborn infants. She was presented land is unanimous and generous in month furlough to enable her to care for with a scroll and a corsage by Mrs. praise. The music was inspirational. To her mother who is ill. Richard J. Daley, wife of Chicago's say a good time was enjoyed is an un­ Olive Bill was given a surprise dinner mayor. derstatement ... your visit has made us party recently at Math IgJer's on her Here are excerpts from letters received feel that the Milwaukee Road people are birthday. It was also a celebration for in appreciation for recent. concerts: friendly people that we would like to June, 7956 29

--.__..__.._------=------'------­ know as neighbors." (Sgd) Guy Lanan, It's picnic time again so, encircle July tiM of the 40th ,veadinganniversary of President Kirkland Lions Club. 21 on your calendar as the date of the Clark W. Johnson, our chief clerk to "We express appreciation for the fine Choral Club's annual outdoor festivity. superintendent of police, and his wife concert Apr. 20. The entire concert was The Prairie Club has again offered us Ethel in their home in Arlington Heights. a delight. The selections were very ap­ the use of Deer Grove C'amp. We ap­ As Clark puts it, they fell in love as propriate and the rendition was indeed preciate this very generous gesture on school kids, got married and lived hap­ professional, yet exhibited warmth and their part. pily ever after. friendliness that made the evening one to be remembered. You are to be con­ ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT gratulated on having such a fine director AUDITOR OF STATION ACCOUNTS F. L Clark, Correspondent AND OVERCHARGE CLAIMS as Glenn Jorian." (Sgd) Dorothy W. LUCille Forster, Correspondent Sopee, Secretary, Fidelian Circle, Nor­ Retired Division Engineer F. M. wood Park Methodist Church. Sloane and Mrs. Sloane attended the J. M. McCarthy is newly employed in 50th reunion of his Iowa State grad­ our record room. uating' class at Ames. James J. Sides reports the arrival of All of our division engineers attended Nanette Susan on May 5, and Guy B. BUCKEYE the staff meetings in Chicago on May Bowman a daughter May 17. Effective June 1, Willard F. Wilkin­ CAST STEEL PRODUCTS 23 and 24. son was promoted to demurrage inspec­ FOR RAILROADS Happy to receive word from George Griesenauer that he is recovering satis­ tor with headquarters at Chicago. Mr. Truck Side Frames factorily from surgery. His home ad­ Wilkinson was formerly employed in our Truck Bolsters dress is 1781 Sylvan Drive, Clearwater, office as uncollected demurrage and claim Couplers Fla. clerk in station accounts. He started service with the Road on Jan. 15, 1941. Yokes and Draft Castings Joe Kirchen left our department on James P. Cushing, rate clerk, has re­ Miscellaneous Car Castings May 31 to work for the auditor of cap­ ital expenditures at Fullerton Avenue. signed to accept employment with the Six- and Eight-Wheel Trucks Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. ---- THE ---­ OPERATING DEPARTMENT Sympathy was extended to George D. BUCKEYE STEEL CASTINGS CO. Tovey, bureau head, on the recent death W. R. McPherson, Correspondent of his little granddaughter, and to Felix AssL to General SupL Transportation COLUMBUS 7, OHIO A. Specht on the death of his brother, With regret we report the death in a John. Chicago hospital on May 1 of Paul S. Mantonya, who for many years before GENERAL his retirement in 1931 was district ad­ CREOSOTED juster in Chicago. Many friends remem­ J. M. Hutchins, retired city freight ber Paul entering the service of The MATERIALS agent, is undergoing hospital treatment Milwaukee Road in 1913. Part of his at this writing and would like to hear service was spent in Milwaukee, the re­ and from his former co-workers. His ad­ mainder in Chicago until his retirement. dress is Chicago Wesley Memorial He is survived by his wido~ Irene, and Hospital, 250 East Superior St., Chi­ COAL TAR a son, William. cago, Ill.; room 1570. Veteran employes and other friends PRODUCTS Eugene S. Campbell, special account­ of Miss Florence Walsh will welcome ant in the office of vice president-comp­ the news that their secretary-treasurer is Republic Creosoting Co. troller, died suddenly in his home in on the mend after recently fracturing Libertyville on May 8 as the result of Minneapolis her wrist. a heart seizure. He is mourned by many We can also report the recent celebra- friends in the Union Station. "Gene," as he was generally known, was born in Arthur, Ill., on Mar. 7, 1901, attended grade and high school in Tuscola, Ill., and was graduated from the University GBNERAL MUIOIlS f ffilJOMlYI1MJS of Illinois in 1924. In the fall of that year he started with the Road as a clerk in the ticket auditor's office in Chicago. ba1.P :milroads win r-t ~ .~ 'mends and He was also a clerk in the district ac­ .... 1" ~ counting office for a brief period before ~~: !"f' transferring to the office of comptroller in 1928. A few years ago the Campbells influence smPPeIlS 1Jy1U!1!ring were all injured in a highway accident 'which was fatal to their son Ronald. Mrs. Marjorie Campbell survives her husband. Funeral servi~es were held in onfunQ Libertyville and interment was in Tus­ cola.

With one hour's ,work an American buys 29 per cent more food than an English worker and 85 per cent more food than a Russian worker. 30 The Milwaukee Road Magazine OFFICE OF FREIGHT AUDITOR terment were at Nora Springs, 111.. He is Clara Fister, Correspondent sUl'vivea by a niece and three nephews. Joe Harnack, veteran section laborer Weare sorry to report that Arthur E. at Postville, faced a problem when the Peterson, assistant freight auditor, died new paychecks were first issued. Joe has suddenly in his home on 1vlay 8. For de­ 11 habit of carrying his checks around for tails, see the front section of the maga­ several months before cashing them, and zme. there was a lot of kidding' about how he Sympathy was extended to Melinka was going to cany the new checks any Tepavcevich, local and interline balance length of time without bending them. bureau, upon the death of her father, Agent C. C. Searls came to the rescue by Milan Jancich, on May 10. Condolences spending an hour in his home workshop were also given to Ralph Gatto, interline one Sunday morning making Joe a solid bureau, whose mother passed away walnut case complete with hinges, a latch May 7. and Joe's name in "gold" on the outside. Grace Piatrowski, formerly of key­ Joe evidently found it worked fine, as the punch and coding bureau, had a baby next payday Agent Searls found the girl, Jean Marie, on May 15. Walter case slipped under his office door with Fendt, switching bureau, proudly an­ AT ALL FINE a note reading, "Fill this up again". SHOE REPAI RERSI nounced the arrival of a second grand­ Conductor Walter B. Hendrickson and child, Tina Lee, on May 18. wife have returned from a trip to the Stanley Tesmer, switching bureau, is Ozarks and sold their Mason City home. at home at this writing, convalescing They will return soon to the Ozarks, after a stay in the Garfield Park Com­ where they have purchased a home. T-Z PRODUCTS AlWAYS GIVE UNEXCELLED munity Hospital. SERVICE Wedding bells rang for Joe Cotosman, revising bureau, and Sandra Oprea on SECOND DISTRICT T-Z "CLIt/GTITE" DUST GUARD PLUGS May 20 at St. Mary's Romanian Ortho­ Fay Ness, Correspondent MW JOURNAL BOX LIDS dox Church. They honeymooned in Cali­ Superintendent's Office, Sioux City DUO-THERM FUEL OIL HEATERS fornia. T-Z PIPE CLAMPS for all type cars R. L. "Holly" Hollifield, engineer on Blanche Debs, statistical bureau, has T-Z "AB" BRANCH PIPE TEE BRACKETS this division for almost 50 years, retired returned from a furlough. T-Z RETAINING VALVE BRACKETS Apr. 30. Holly has many friends all Elsie Dreher and May Whiteman at­ over the railroad and will be missed tended the Railroad Business Woman's T-Z Products, As Standard Equipment, Prove around the passenger depot here. Per­ Association convention in Los Angeles. Their Merit sonally, your correspondent will miss May stayed on afterward and enjoyed a the peppermint candy he dropped off at T-Z RAILWAY EQUIPMENT CO. vacation tour of other California points, my desk when he came into the office-­ CHICAGO, ILL. also the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas. he always had them in his pocket. G. S. Turner New employes here are Jean Ritzinger, Engineer Clifford Q. Dodge retired Brenda Onesti, Margie Johnson, Martin Apr. 12 after 45 years of service on this Laskowski and Ronald Binkowski. division. He has a little granddaughter This is my last contribution to the who is the apple of his eye and who is Magazine since, starting June 29, I am g'oing to keep him very busy. leaving the Road to assume a full-time The Milwaukee Road Women's Club, role as a homemaker. Sioux City Chapter, held its May break­ Time Is Our Business fast at the Scandinavian Hall on May 17. About 50 members attended the CHAS. H. BERN I & D Division breakfast which was served in a garden EAST END party setting. The committee in charge Union Station Bldg. Chicago, Illinois Karen B. Rugee, Correspondent consisted of :NImes. J. P. Weiland, chair­ Asst. Superintendent's Office, Mason City man; Harry Walter and L. J. DeSom­ MILTON J. HEEGN erey, dining room; and A. J. Nystrom, 29 E. Madison Street Chicago, Illinois The Women's Club held its annual Elmer Isaacson and Ferne Embick, May breakfast May 1 in the Decker kitchen. At a short business meeting Room of the Mason City Y.W.C.A. Mrs. plans were made for the annual picnic H. HAMMERSMITH Ralph Joynt presided at the meeting at Riverside Park on June 10, with Mrs. 322 W. Wisconsin Ave. which concluded the year's activities. George Mealey as general chairman. Milwaukee, Wis. The program included piano duets by The Milwaukee Road family on this Mrs. HalTY Larson and Beulah Simon, division was shocked by the sudden death and violin selections by Mrs. R. H. Tier­ of Conductor R. W. Leeper, 59, at his Official Watch Inspectors ney accompanied by Mrs. Larson. Host­ home in Sioux City on May 17. Roy esses were Mrs. O. T. Anderson, Mrs. suffered a fatal heart attack. He had for Walter Hendrickson, Mrs. R. E. Sizer, been employed by the Road since 1911, ROAe Mrs. Herman QuandaW, Mrs. R. L. Goltz starting as a laborer on the section at Ie'MILWAUKEE and l\1rs. C. S. Pack. Mrs. A. L. Kirby Charter Oak, Ia., where he was born. is representing the club at the district He entered train service in March, 1915 Specialists in railroad watches, fine meeting in Chicago June 8 and 9. and had been employed continuously as jewelry and personal gift items. Morris T. Olson, retired conductor, 75, a trainman and conductor. He was local passed away in Mason City May 9. He chairman of the BRT for many years. Always at Your Service retired in 1945 after 45 years of service Survivors include his widow; a daughter, with the Road. Funeral services and in- Mrs. Phylis Feller of Pierre, S. D.; two June, 7956 37 SOliS, Lyle of Sioux City and Benjamin cran's hospital in Sioux Falls lIlay 2'1 at of Minneapolis; a brother of Sioux City the age of 35. Burial was at Mitchell. and five grandchildren. Funeral services He is survived by his widow, five daugh­ Insure your were conducted in Sioux City. He was ters and a son, his parents, a brothel' and a member of Morniugside Lodge AF&­ a sister. INCOME Al\I, Sioux City Consistory, Abu-BekT Robert LeClair, relief agent at Ken­ Shrine and American Legion Post 697. nebec, S. D., \\'as killed in a car accidcnt A. Amundson, a former agent at Lake last month. He had just reccntly re­ your MOST Andes, was burird at Lake Andes May 9. turned from a foul' year hike in the Funeral services \,ere held in Sioux Xavy. He was thc son of the late Section Falls lIIay 31 for G. E. Treloar, 61, ma­ Foreman LeClair of Plankinton. VALUABLE rhinist at the Sioux Falls roundhousr, Ray Hoskins, formcr ticket agent at \dlO had been ill about a year. He had Mitchell and more recently a clerk at been employed by the Road since 1944. Sioux City, has bid in the position of POSSESSION Survivors include his widow; foul' sons, ·clerk at Rapid City. Garland Jr., Vernon, Lloyd and Ward L. Riley, also from Sioux City, will Your ability to earn an income of Sioux Falls; t\yO sisters, a brother take over the duties of cashier at Rapid and seven grandchildren. City, relieving Mrs. Bea Orgish who is is your greatest asset, for it is taking a leave of absence. the source of everything you FIRST DISTRICT D. 1. Caldwell, retired Black Hills Cll­ own. A disability, caused by Florence Paullin, Correspondent ginecr, and wife have returned to thcir either an accident or sickness, Roundhouse Clerk, Mitchell home in Mitchell after spending a month with their daughter in Chicago. can destroy your ability to earn Mrs. 111. B. Kirschbaum, wife of Road­ Sympathy was extended to Night master Kirschbaum, is recuperating at money for weeks, months, or Roundhouse Foreman E. M. Dixon on the home of her daughter in Clear Lake, years to come. Provident's In­ the death of his brother at Duluth in Ia., after surgery at St. Anthony's Hos­ come Security Plan is individu­ May. pital in Carrol, Ia. ally designed to provide you Harold Schlimgen, Mitchell-Murdo with money when disability from brakeman, is in St. Joe Hospital in Mit­ an accident or sickness stops chell at this writing after suffering a Chicago Terminals your paycheck. Ask your Provi­ heart seizure. Ray ,/ifoodman, retired ma­ UNION STREET dent representative to prepare chinist, is also in St. Joe Hospital. Cards and visits would be welcome to these two Florence LaMonica, Correspondent a "Blueprint of Protection" for bovs, Nancy Ohl, trainmaster's stenognl­ your consideration. The Women's Club held a May lunch­ pher, and John Ertzgaard were mauied eon at the YWCA parlors in Mitchell Oil on May 5 in St. Peter's Evangelical and GOOD SALES OPPORTUNI­ II'Iay 21, with 35 members present. Mrs. Reformed Church. A l'eception was held TIES - Full or part-time men Bell Stroh was in charge, assisted by the at the Lion's Club on North Avenue. needed for sales and service l\Jmes. Bohan, Larson, Silvernail and George Thomas is still recupera ting werk. Schlimgen. Tiny Jubilee hats decorated from his illness at this writing. the tables, and many of the women came John J\1:iller, chief clerk at Kim;ie Write in their Jubilce dresses. Bridge and other Street station, rcccntl)' underwent sur­ games followed the business meeting. The gery at the Swedish Covenant Hospital. Railroad Department club will ha ve a window display during He is recuperating at home at this writ­ Jubilee Days. It will consist of a replica ing. PROVI DENT or a steam locomotive approximate,ly Edwin Huber, father of Ernest Hu­ thrce feet high and six feet long'. It is ber, check clerk in House 3, passed a\\'ay LIFE AND ACCIDENT being loaned to the club by Brakeman recently. S. E. Steece of Sanborn, Ia.., who built it. ,Villiam Naker, son of August Nahr, INSURANCE COMPANY A banner will have these words on it: stoweI' at Kinzie Street, passcd awa)' Chattanooga, Tenn. "Mitchell Came In With Us." recently. Internment was at Sandwich, We wcrc saddened to learn of the Ill. death of Fireman Orville Peterson, son Doreen Carmen Barba, one of twin of .Muchinist Helper A. E. Pcterson of daughters of :Mr. and Mrs. G. Barba, Mitchell, who passed away at the Vet- passed away three days after birth. Mr.

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32 The Milwaukee Road Magazine tion in CaJifomia. Mrs. Del :Morgan, wife of rate clerk, and Mrs Albert Mader, daughter of B. G. MAUMEE Pobloske, retired assistant agent, under­ went surgery May 23 at Northwest Hos­ INDIANA WA~~~~ND pital. DJf~ p.,.DUSn:D A good time was had by all 59 mem­ bers of Fullerton Avenue Chapter of thc Women's Club who went to l'dadison, r Wis., on May 19. We were llJet at the depot in Madison by two buses and taken to the "Top Hat." for lunch, thence to the Cave of the Mounds about 25 milcs THE COMPLETE TRAVELER. Gifts to lise on away, and then back to the depot, leav­ a contemplated trip to Europe were presented ing Madison at 5 P.M. Our program to Mrs. Lucille Brower, stene at the Fowler chairman, Hazel Petersen, did a splendid Street freight office in Milwaukee, when she job in arranging the outing' and provid­ retired recently after 35 years of service there. ing words to familiar songs for com­ Office associates feted her at a luncheon at the munity sing'ing. Heliday House. Mrs. Brow9r is a sister of C. R. Dummler, veteran Fowler Street agent who re­ Anna C. Esbensen, formel' secretary tired in 1954, and mother of John Brower, also who retired recently after 50 years of a Fowler Street employe. service, has been presented with a Gold EDWARD KEOGH Pass, A Gold Pass was presented last month PRINTING COMPANY to George Longman, locomotive engineer, in recognition of 50 years of service. Sil­ Printers and Barba is a stowcr at House 2. ver Passes, tokens of 45 years of service, Planographers Learned recently that George and Mrs. were presented to Machinist LeRoy Searles were in Tampa, Fla., for several Brakke and Amedio Dandre, car depart­ 925 W. Jackson Bhd. months and paid a visit to Mary and ment inspector. Elmer Wyse in Clearwater. George was Phone: MOn. 6-0733 cashier at Union Street and Elmcr was a city freight ag'ent before they retired. BENSENVILLE Chicago 7, Illinois Dorothy Lee Camp, Correspondent GALEWOOD Lowell Pugesek, son of Bill Clerk Ted PROMPT AND EFFICIENT SERVICE Norma Gunderson, Correspondent Pugcsek, attended church on Easter Sun­ day in Washington, D. C. and sat about Sam Bartosik, checker who underwent 20 feet from President Eisenhower. sl1l'gery in April, is back on the job. Lowell, along ,vith Paul Piovesan, son of Sympathy was expressed to StoweI' Specialties Tony, checker on the Galewood platform, DELICACIES FOR THE TABLE }'rancis Delgado. While home in Mexico and a group of Leyden Community High in March, one of his children passed School students, made the trip to see Frozen Foods, Cheese, Poultry, away, and the early part of May he re­ Washing-ton and leal'l1 a bit first hand Game, Fruits and cei ved word that another child had died. about our national government. The Vegetahles Archie Sinr.lair has returned to work group took a boat trip to Annapolis, E. A. AARON 6' BROS. ~fLer several months' stay in Florida. visited the 'l'omb of the Unkllown Sol­ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Sympathy was e:"tended to Noah dier, wcnt into the '\Vashington Monu- Chick, calJer, whose brothel' passed away May 2, and to Edward Giasto, motor­ man, whose wife passed away Apr. 29. Timothy O'Shea, stoweI', is back to work after being off for some time due to illness. StoweI' John Evanoff is ill a sanita­ rium at Naperville, Ill. Cards will be appreciated. Sympathy was extended to the wife or Arthur Browder, checker, mention of whose death on Mar. 12 was omitted UNION REFRIGERATOR TRANSIT LINES from our previous column. Also to the 4206 N. GREEN BA'( AVE. f~milies of :Mike Pauwell, retired main­ tenance man in the B&B department, Milwaukee 12, Wisconsin and Mike Zmudski, retired blocker, who both passed away in May. Ann Zenger, monthly statement clerk, and husband George celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary May 24, with a dinner at the Old HickoTy Farmhouse in Dundee, Ill. After the dinncr George made use of his new Argus projector to show slides tab'n 011 t.heir April "aea- June, 1956 33 mellt, and took in all of the sights possi­ ble in their brief trip. L & R Division Barney Denny, retired crew caller, and FI RST DISTRICT wife have returned from a winter in Plorida and hope to go back as soon as K. D. Smith, Correspondent possible. Operator, Portage Train Director Charlie Neumann and Retired Conductor Oscar Sagen, 74, his wife are grandparents for the second passed away recently at his home in time. Daughter Virginia and hubby Rob­ La Crosse after a long illness. Surviv­ ert Heatley presented them with a cute in'" are his wife, two sons, four daug'h­ little gTanddaughter recently. Robert Jr., te~s a sister, 17 grandchildren and one year old, could hardly wait for his sev:ral great-grandchildren. Burial was new "Sissy" to come home. in La Crosse. Yardmaster Vern Bradshaw has found Retired Engineer George Courtney, fishing in Wisconsin to his liking, as have 65, passed away in Milwaukee May 1. Ted Pugesek, Wally Grosneck, Harvey Burial was in Milwaukee. He was a THEY STAYFRESHl Reidel and a few other Bensenville fel­ veteran of 45 years of service. A lows. Harvey has a snazzy new outboard brother in Milwaukee survives. RAY-O-VAC COMPANY motor, so he's really having a tiID:e for Conductor Ed Anglim has taken a Madison 10, Wisconsin himself and his family on these tnps. pool job after several years on the west At this writing Clerks "Hi" Nelson way freight. and Bert Johnson are still ill. Both have Brakeman Arthur Arenhardt hali! re­ been off for several months and wish to turned from his vacation in Florida thank the office force for sending cards. with a good coat of tan, indicating he Bert wants to thank both the Illinois spent some time on the beach looking Present Day Division and CM Division crews, along over the new bathing suits. SAFETY Requirements with the office and yard men, for the two We have information that James sport shirts and a purse that were sent Wallace, one of Mallas' extra gang, DEMAND the Best to him. Equipment working about four miles east of Por­ A short visit with C&M Conductor tage recently saw a little girl go out John Handlos and his wife found John on the track and under a car just be­ LAKESIDE once more in the pink and rather stream­ fore the train started to move. He r.an lined after a recent operation. John will down, picked her up and deposi~ed her be missed from the Bensenville office, FUSEES over the fence, undoubtedly savmg her having taken a passenger run-12 and life. His quick action is to be com­ Fill the Bill 23. Safe Dependable Efficient mended. IBM Operator Charlie Jacobi wel­ Silver Passes were issued recently to comed his wife from Texas recently. The LAKESIDE RAILWAY Engineer Peter Peterson, Minneapolis, couple live in a trailer in Roselle, Ill. FUSEE COIUPANY and to J. T. Dettle, maintainer in thfl Pablo Moreno and his wife are going to signals and communications depart­ help Mrs. Jacobi learn English so she Beloit, Wisconsin ment at Winona. won't get lonesome in her new home. Engineer Russell Pike, 41, was fatall~' injured near Mauston while working aR fireman on the Afternoon Hiawatha. Sur­ Youngstown Steel Sides for Freight and Refrigerator Cars viving are his wife, a daughter, three Youngstown Corrugated Steel Freight Car Doors brothers, two sisters, and his uncle Jess Camel RoUer Lift Fixtures Refrigerator Doors & Fixtures Pike a brakeman on this division. Burial Youn9stown Steel Door Co. and Camel Sales Co. was 'at Portage. Russ was chairman of OFFICES Portage local of the BLF&E and also 332 S. Mtebis3.11 Ave. The Arcade 500 Fifth Ave. served as vice chairman of the district Cbiea.o Cleveland New York PLA.NTS-Hammond, Indiana • Youngstown, Ohio local out of Chicago. He was a son of Engineer Harry Pike who passed away some years ago. His brothers are all in the Army, Col. Robert Pike at Naples, Italy, Harry at Munich, Germany, and Edwin at Silver Springs, Md. OPERATING 161 RECEIVING MOTOR TRUCKS and THIRD DISTRICT TRACTORS AND FORWARDING POOL CAR M. G. Conklin, Correspqndent TRAILERS DISTRIBUTORS Assistant Superintendent's Office, Wausau ESTABLISHED 1880 Bernhardt A. (Ben) Lemke, retired engineer, 77, passed away May 10 after a brief illness. Survivors are a step­ daughter, Mrs. Elsie Oelhafen, and a son, P. D. Carroll Trucking Co. Gordon, with whom he had lived since CHICAGO, ILLINOIS his retirement in 1942. 11'11'. Lemke held a Masonic life membership and an honor­ ary 50-year membership in the B. of L. E. Masonic rites were held in the Helke 34 The Milwaukee Roael Magazine Rog'er Larson, son of Conductor Oscar Larson, who is physical education direc­ tor at Washington State College, Pull­ man, Wash., was recently made a mem­ ber of the Crimson Circle in recognition There is of outstanding services to the state as well as the college. He has been active in establishing a summer camp in Wash­ NO SUBSTITUTE iugton for handicapped children and is well known through the West for his work with the handicapped. When the for money in Crimson Circle honor was bestowed, the senior class announced it had raised $2,­ 000 for the camp. the BANK Walter Osswald, roundhouse laborer, and Mrs. Osswald went to Madison re­ cently to be present when their son Jack RED LETTER RIDE. Jerry Daniels of Milwaukee, was admitted to the bar. Chief Justice experiencing the thrill of his first train ride, is shown arriving in the Chicago Union Station Currie of the State Supreme Court who recently in the care of Engineer J. Heagney of is a personal friend of Jack administered The Traveler, Joe Camp, train director at Ben­ the oath. Jack has received several schol­ senville and Brakeman H. Vandelogt. Jerry is arships and honors for achievements dur­ a friend since childhood of Mrs. Dorothy Lee ing his school years. Last summer he Camp, Magazine correspondent for the Bensen­ worked for the U. S. Senate subcom­ ville district who, with her husband, was his mittee on anti-trust laws and drew up For future needs, for emergencies host and guide on a trip to the Brookfield Zoo the final memorandum in the Dixon­ . . . save at the First Wisconsin. for the purpose of taking animal pictures. From Yates case. This summer he will work a wheel chair hobby, Jerry has turned to photog­ Make regular deposits at any First raphy as a trade and does negative retouching for the patents sub-committee of the U. Wisconsin office ... 13 convenient for clients all over the country. 8. Senate judiciary committee. He plans locations throughout the city. to study in Europe upon completing his doctorate degree next January.

Funeral Home, burial following in Pine Iowa Division FIRST Grove cemetery at Wausau. MIDDLE AND WEST Train Dispatcher and Mrs. Robert Ruby Eckman, Correspondent Balgord are the parents of a baby girl, Dispatcher's Office, Perry WISCONSIN born :M:ay 11. Gary McKim, A3/c, who is attached Robert Kerr, son of Engineer Ray to the March Air Base in California, was Kerr, has been chosen commissioner of home dming May to visit his parents, NATIONAL school activities of the senior high school Eng-ineer and Mrs. W. D. Gardner. student council in Wausau, for the fall Engineer and Mrs. P. Anfinson. went term of the 1956-57 school year. to Minneapolis in May to attend com­ BANK John Zander, retired car foreman, paid mencement exercises for their daughter OF MILWAUKEE a visit to friends here on his return from at the North Central Bible Institute. She California, where he has been making his plans to go to Africa as a missionary. home. He has purchased a cottage in the Alonzo Springer, retired B&B em­ • vicinity of ,Voodruff for the summer ploye, suffered a heart attack recently at Membe' seasons. the home of his daughter near Yale. He Fecl.ral Depasit Insurance Section Foreman and Mrs. Walter was treated at the Guthrie County Hos­ Corporation Rahn of Wausau were surprised by rel­ pital. atives and friends at their home the Carl Fish of the roundhouse force, his evening of May 24, the occasion being son Engineer Keith Fish, and Engineer their 25th wedding anniversary. They Thomas Holland were the first Milwau­ '. were presented 'Yith a purse of silver kee employes to go to northern Canada and many other gifts. for the fishing season. FOR ELECTRIC AND Max Voelske, retired clerk, and Mrs. Brakeman M. D. Horman had his va­ DIESEL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES: Voelske were presented with many gifts cation in May and spent part of it mov­ and gTeetings on the occasion of their ing' his family from Aberdeen to Perry. All-Cast Aluminum Directional-Finned 50th wedding anniversary, which was re­ Mr. Horman, who transferred to the Radialian Elements for most cently observed with a dinner and a small Iowa Division last fall, has started con­ efficient heat transfer, as used in: reception at their home. A three-tiered structing a new home. The basement is wedding cake was baked by their son completed and ready for the fa.mily to COMPRESSED AIR AHERCOOlERS Gerhard, who is the proprietor of Ger­ live in while he finishes the other work. AIR COMPRESSOR INTERCOOlERS ry's Bakery. Mrs. Voelske and Max en­ Frank Bresse, former shop man at FUEL Oil HEATERS joy good health and both are fishing en­ Perry who is now employed in the shops thusiasts. at Bensenville, has a new granddaughter. WILSON Clerk LaRue Frazier and Mrs. Frazier The baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyle ENGINEERING CORPORATION have returned from a vacation in Cali­ Geiger of Norwalk, Ia., on May 5. fornia, where they spent some time with Funeral services were held in Alham­ 6 North Michigan Ave., Chicago 2 their son. bra, Calif., May 7 for Ray Westbrook, June, 7956 35 former west Iowa conductor who has :i\'Iiss Jane Rondest\'edt, daughter of been ill for a number of years. Retired Conductor Norman Rondestvedt of Per­ Agent vVilliam Uptegrove and wife, for­ ry, will marry Richard Flinn in June, in CARTER BLATCHFORD merly of Panama, Ia., and now of Al­ a ceremony in Denver. hambra, are a brother-in-law and sister. William Barker Sr., retired shops em­ CORPORATION Harley Hawks, retired machinist, died ploye, clied at the home of his son Wil­ at his home in Perry May 13 following liam Jr. in May. He had been in poor 80 E. JACKSON BLVD. a long illness. He came to Perry in 1916 health for several months. ViTilliam Jr. CHICAGO and worked until his retirement a few is a signal maintainer on the Iowa Divi­ years ago. Hi's wife, two sons and a sIOn. daughter sUl'l'ive. A son Walter is a vVilliam Salmon, who has been on RAIL JOINTS Milwaukee employe. leave of absence from his work as a Reformed aml heat treated lVII's. E. C. Thomas, mother of Lloyd brakeman while serving in the Army and Riffle of the B&B department, died at later taking college training at Buena to meet specifications for her home in Des Moines May 13, follow­ Vista College in Storm Lake, graduated ing a long illness. Burial was in Perry. in May. He will leave the railroad as new bars. A son born to Mr. and Mrs. James he has been appointed coach at Elliott, Murray of Madrid in May is another Ia., for the 1956-57 school year. His grandson for Retired Eng'ineer Henry wife has been attending the same college. Theulen of Perry. Harry Boyens, a Milwaukee Road The Lees Style Shop ladies bowling employe since 1912, has retired. Harry team of Perry, of which Mrs. Viola star1ed on the section at Aspinwall, la tel' Grain Doors Ranes and 1\'hs. Everett Buckley are worked a couple years as a fireman, and Railroad Cross Ties members, won the women's bowling then entered the shops, working at Ma­ matches in Perry in May. nilla and Perry roundhouses. He recent­ Hardwood Lumber A son born in Manning, Ia., in May ly purchased a home with an acre of to Ml'. and lUI'S. E. T. Reilly of Savanna land partly planted to an orchard, and Timbers is another grandson for Agent O. J. will also raise some chickens. ViTith his Atkins Jr. of Manning. The baby's fa­ farm work and his duties as custodian ther is employed as a line man at Sa­ at the Lutheran Church, a job he has had Webster Lumber Company Y'<1nna. for a long time, he expects to be bus,)', During Engineer M. J. Robinson's va­ The Women's Club held its May break­ 3410 University Avenue S.E. cation in May he was married to Miss fast at the Pattee Hotel in Perry on Donna Carpenter of Rippey, Ia. The May 3, with 83 members present. Mrs. Minneapolis 14, Minnesoto ceremony took place at. St. Patrick's C. D. Emerson, chairman of the decorat­ Church in Perry. ing committee which included Mmes. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tuttrup and B. B. Byrd, T. Owens and L. II. Wallcen, two sons are newcomers to Perry. Ken­ made miniature "dome" cars to use as neth is the car foreman who came from nut cups. The railroad theme was fur­ Chicago to take the job left vacant when ther carried out with tracks, telegraph Still Greater Vi'ayne Mosier went to a similar posi­ lines, crossing' signs and signal equip­ tion in Bedford, Ind. ment in miniature, all made by the deco­ PROTECTION Operators Horace E. Merkle and Or­ rating committee. As the date was the for CARS and LADING val P. Byrd, who have been well ncar birthday anniversary of Mrs. Carrie Mc­ the top of the operators' seniority list Lellan, club president, Mrs. Emerson CARDWELL WESTINGHOUSE for many years, retired recently. Their baked a big birthday cake decorated to FRICTION DRAFT GEARS retirements coincided with the abolish­ represent two diesel units. For the pro­ to absorb horizontal shocks ment of the operators' jobs at Perry gram, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Frederickson CARDWELL FRICTION BOLSTER yard. The latter part of April operators who recently returned from a trip SPRINGS who had been wor~ing there were moved around the world showed some of the to absorb vertical and lateral shocks to the Perry dispatcher's office. Conduc­ pictures they had taken on slides. • tors now get their orders at the dispatch­ John Narver, retired conductor who CARDWELL WESTINCHOUSE CO. el)S office. Operator Merkle had worked has been making his home in Paradise, CHICACO CANADIAN CARDWELL CO., LTD. for more than 50 years. Operator Byrd Calif., suffered a slight stroke in May. MONTREAL and his wife received their' Silver Pass Janice Challands, daughter of George Jast year. ChalJands, long time roundhouse em-

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36 The Milwaukee Road Magazine ploye, was married in May to John :Mc­ Dowell of Rippey. A son born to Mr. and NIl's. Richard Balsbaugh of Detroit, Mich., is another Here's Why the Nation's Freight Rides on grandson for Mrs. Orville Balsbaugh, widow of Engineer Balsbaugh. Richard, formerly a fireman, engineer and train­ master for the Milwaukee, is now a con­ struction engineer on an atomic energy project. SOLID JOURNAL BEARINGS .A son born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cooper of Detroit, Mich., is another g-randson for Mrs. Fr.ed Cooper, widow of a Milwaukee shop painter. IT Mrs. Jesse Huntley, widow of a for­ i mer section foreman, died May 2 at Panora where she had been living since Mr. Huntley's death. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Krasche, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wightman, lVIr. and Mrs. Sam Anderson and Charles Sinclair, all mem­ bers of Perry unit of the National Asso­ eiation of Retired and Veteran Raihoad Employes, attended the national conven­ tion of the association in Tucson, Ariz., in May. Mr. and Mrs. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Krasche went on to California before returning home. Retired Engineer and Mrs. Carl J an­ f;on, who make their home in Des Moines, left in May for a three-month visit with relatives in Sweden. It is their first visit Right for Railroads back since they came to America. Mrs. . .. in Performance J anson has been here for 45 years, and Carl four years more. and in Cost "Michael Patrick" is the name which Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Ryan of Des ith on-line rolling stock, necessary standby time keeps Moines gave to their son born in May. Wfreight or passenger cars, 5 them idle 21 hours a day. . Vincent's father is Retired Engineer to 10 million trouble-free car Dollar for dollar, you just Patrick J. Ryan of Perry. Mrs. Ryan's miles with solid-type bearings is can't beat solid-type bearings for father was Michael B. Moran, an Iowa an often accomplished fact. And railroad rolling stock. You can what about interchange? As take the biggest loads and make Division conductor for many years be­ standards of maintenance and the fastest schedules. You save fore his death. inspection are improved, "on up to 1500 pounds per car . . . Brakeman Glenn Theulen who is on line" performance will be ap­ and get the smoothest ride on leave while serving in the Air Force, was proached with interchange equip­ any standard truck. Be sure to ment. Just as important, the get your free copy of "The home on furlough during May. When low-cost solid bearing makes Facts About AAR Solid J oumal he returned to the air base at Ports­ possible the very lowest per Bearings"·. Just. write a post card mouth, N. H., Mrs. Theulen, the former diem interchange rates for car or letter to Magnus Metal Cor­ Donna Bruce whom he married a few rental. That's vital to railroads poration, 111 Broadway, New because from 50% to 80% of the York 6; or 80 E. Jackson Blvd., months ago, accompanied him. cars you operate are foreign and Chicago 4. ( AdveTtisement) EAST END Leola Gonsales, Correspondent Freight Office, Cedar Rapids tel's was on the passenger run between high school on May 18 Darell Failor re­ Signal Maintainer O. W. McBride Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa. ceived from the Iowa State Bar Associ­ and wife of Marion visited with their On May 6 in the First Congregational ation a bronze medal and certificate for daughter's family, the C. L. Dandareaus-, Church in Marion, Miss LaVae Slay­ American citizenship. Darell, a member at Mansfield, Ohio, while on vacation in baugh of Cedar Rapids was married to of the 1956 graduation class, is the son April; also with relatives in Philadelphia Leland Cooper, son of Conductor Wilbur of W. E. Failor, chief clerk to'superin­ and Toledo. Cooper of Marion. A reception was tendent. Recent visitors in Cedar Rapids were held in the church parlors. The young A recent addition to the Marion engi­ Retired Locomotive Engineer E. F. couple will make their home in Marion. neering department is John F. Buser of Peters and wife, now living in Hot The annual May breakfast of the Mil­ Kansas City, who started as an instru­ Springs, Ark. Before coming here they waukee Road Women's Club was held mentman on May 1. viisted thcir son and daughter in Ottum­ in the Methodist church at :Marion on Mrs. Arietta Leonhart, stenographer wa and a son in Muscatine, Ia. Their the 10th. Mrs. J. J. Keith, wife of our in the Cedar Rapids freight house, has granddaughter, Joyce Peters, was grad­ company doctor, showed pictures of their taken a leave of absenc-e. Mrs. Audrey uated from the Ottumwa high school in European trip last summer. Ahlgrim is replacing her. May. Before his retirement, Mr. Pe- At the closing assembly of the Marion Chief Carpenter R. R. Cheney has June, 7956 37 accepted a position in the office of B. J. Ornburn in Chicago. He has served for three years as chief carpenter in Marion. With his promotion, Assistant Chief Carpenter L. R. Riffle comes to the Iowa division from Butte, Mont. Mr, and Mrs. Cheney will make their home in Savanna for the present. Trainmaster Russell G. Scott and wife vacationed in April, touring the Black Hills, Colorado and points in Texas. Effective May 1 Mr. Scott was promoted to assistant superintendent at Green Bay, Wis., and on May 22 was informed of a second promotion to serve as superin­ tendent on the Idaho Division, with head­ quarters at Spokane. He had been train­ master on the Iowa Division for 11 months. W. F. Bannon succeeded him at Marion. Signal Maintainer Ralph A. WaIn re­ tired on Apr. 26. He entered service as a signal helper on Nov. 11, 1918, was promoted to signal maintainer with head­ quarters at Paralta in 1920; transferred to Van Horne on Oct. 23, 1950, and remained there until his retirement. He Il.nd Mrs. WaIn moved· to Cedar Rapids SPYING ON THE SEA-FAIR. Seattle's sweeping harbor forms the backdrop for the visit of in May to make their home with Mrs. the Navy's Pacific fleet during the city's annual Seafair festivities. In this composite photo­ Park McCalley, a sister of Mrs. WaIn. graph Seafair Princess June Svedin is shown hoisting a spyglass to watch the fleet maneuver­ H. L. Frizzell of Oxford Junction has ing in the bay. while the Bluejackets seem to be admiring the scenery at close range. succeeded Mr. WaIn at Van Horne, and Seattle's Seafair, a week-long maritime carnival, will be the outstanding attraction in the Pacific Northwest, Aug. 3 through 12. Vol. E. Coffman is now signal J;l1aintainer at Oxford Junction. Lyle Rodman, telegrapher at Marion, was a surg'ical patient in St. Luke's Hos­ pital in April. Pump Repairer E. L. Wink was in St, Luke's in May, ill with More than 100 years ago, mules furnished the only motive power pneumonia. Jerry Monn relieved as on a little mining railroad in Pennsylvania The mules pulled tne pump repairer. train nine miles up the stiff grade. . the trai~ came back down Roadmaster J. L. Vavra who had an by gravity carrying the mules along in a special open-top car. operation at St. Luke's May :15, returned home on the 21st. Roadmaster R. H. Becker took over his duties during his absence. John V. Sokol of Vining, Ia., died at. St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids on Apr. 24. He was a section laborer before his retirement in December, 1938. Alfred Petersen died at the Jackson County Hospital in Maquoketa on May 2, following a long illness. Funeral serv­ ices were held at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church j burial in the Lost Nation ceme­ tery. He sturted his employment in the track department on Aug. 22, 1939, worked as mower operator several sea­ sons, and last. summer was foreman of the switch target gang. His wife and two sons, Ronald and Richard, survive. William Cooney, retired locomotive THAT "AT HOME" FEELING. engineer and a resident of Cedar Rapids On Milwaukee Road Hiawathas . . ' for 30 years, died Apr. 21. He entered youngsters too tiny to cope with service on Jan. 6,1917, was promoted to Emily Post dining car deport­ engineer on Sept. 3, 1927; and retired ment are safeguarded from all on February 28, 1947. Funeral service hazards. Just like at home, they was in Immaculate Conception Church are given a plastic bib which is und burial in IvIt. Calvary cemetery. His re-usable and which they may wife, two brothers and four sisters sur­ keep as a souvenir of dinner in a Hia~atha dining car. This vive. Retired Car Foreman C. A. Trask picture is currently appearing and wife of Kansas City were in Cedar in a Milwaukee Road ad featur­ Rapids for the funeral. ing the "Greatest Fleet West." 38 The Milwaukee Road Magazine TESTIMCDNIAL TURN­ OUT in the conductors' room in the Chicago Un­ ion Station shows Con­ ductor Orrie U. Rollins surrounded by fellow em­ ployes and riders on his suburban run w ish i n g him well on his retire­ ment May 31. Those in front are, from I eft: Harry Sengstacken, pas­ senger traffic manager (rear); Martin Garelick, superintendent of the Mill'/aukee Division; Conductor Carl Tranter; Mr. Rollins; C. ,D. Down­ ing, ass i s tan t to vice president - personnel; Conductor E. Riley; and J. F. Kennelly, retired Milwaukee Division con­ ductor. Mr. Rollins, who THEY GUARD CHICAGO STATION. Special officers of the po/ice d2tail maintained I ives in Glenview, III, around the clock by the Chicago Union Station Company undergo inspection of their summer entered service in 1918. uniforms by Chief Patrick H. Tuohy. Frent, from left: W F. McGuire, R. H. !'io/in, B. F. When he retired he was Butler, W. Shostrum Jr, J. E. Johnston, J. 1. Hill, Sgt. M. D. Grudewicz, and Sgt. A. How­ on the Deerfield to Chi­ ard. Rear, from left: Sgt. L. T. Spevacek, T. D. Sulzer, J. F. Co/I;ns, R. R. Ryding, J. J cago run. Hoodock, J. E. Lyons, W. J. O'Brien and Sgt. C. H. Rose. Three members of the force are not in the picture, taken along the Chicago River at the east end of the station.

THE YEARS ARE KIND. This picture taken in 1932 is a re­ mind:;r that it's easy to lese track of time. The scene is an engineering project near Springville, la.-the replacement of bridge H-912 over Big Creek, an old 2O-span structure. The crew, of whom more than half are still in active service, con­ sisted of, left to right: Chief Carpenter L. M. Farley, now re­ tired; Division Engineer H. B. Christianson, now special engi­ neer-Chicago; Foreman Lars Legvold, retired; Carpenter Harold Hagen, deceased; Carpenter Carl Johnson, now BGB foreman; Carpenter L. R. Riffle, now chief carpenter at Marion, la.; Car­ penter Art Lathrop, deceased; Carpenter John Collings, now chief carpenter at Savanna, III'; Carpenter Sam Legvold, now pump repairer at Perry, la.; and Carpenters John Noachek and Del Rischel, deceased.

June, 7956 39 THE MILWAUKEE ROAD MAGAZINE

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