Games, Prizes, Contests to Highlight Annual Employee Picnic October 4 New Charity Club Committee Works on Details of Collection
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Dick Albright Recovering Published By LIBRASCOPE EMPLOYEES GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA Volume 1, Issue 9 September 1953 Games, Prizes, Contests to Highlight Annual Employee Picnic October 4 Librascope will renew a fine old custom this year in the form of an annual picnic for all employees and their families, Dick Albright, Librascope em- ployee, who was stricken with it was announced by Precisioneer President Loy Thompson. multiple sclerosis is shown talk- The picnic will be held at Sherman Grove Park Sunday, ing with Michael D. Fanning, chairman of the Multiple Scler- October 4, and will last from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. osis campaign, and Dr. John H. Only admission requirement is your Librascope ID card. Aides, MS medical advisory board Because of the limitations on fa- member. Dick was a patient at cilities and the size of our own Cedars of Lebanon hospital but is employee group, the Precisioneers recovering and back to work. (In- regret to announce no guests (ex- cidentally, anyone wishing to do- cept families) or former employees Vacation Delayed, nate to the MS Fund may send can be admitted. same to: "MS, Los Angeles 51.") Special attractions for the kids will include games—with prizes— But No Complaints contests, rides, and so forth. Bring your swimming suits, as Margery Grey, assembly, would there will be a swimming pool on qualify for having the best of Lib- New Charity Club Committee Works the grounds which will be avail- rascope's vacations this year even able at no extra charge. Also to be had she never left Glendale. provided is a dance floor, juke box and some good records for danc- She was delayed two days as it ing. was, delayed, that is, long enough On Details of Collection, Allocation You will have to bring your own to pick up a $3,300 check, a gift Plans are rapidly taking shape for Librascope's "Buck of food. However, pop and ice cream of the Van Nuys Drive In Theatre. for the youngsters and beer for the Month" type club, according to the newly elected commit- the adults will be provided. If you Marg received the prize after at- Thelma Barnes Quits tee working on this project. don't want to fix a picnic lunch tending the theatre's bank night Committee members, recently elected on an equal repre- you can journey over to Sunland program regularly for more than park (walking distance away) and Librascope for Farm sentation basis throughout the company, are Tom Bryant, Doris buy hot dogs or hamburgers. a year. Eberle, Bill Greer, Norman Guiffre, George Henderhan, Steve Don't forget the date—October After picking up the check, she Thelma "T. J." Barnes, Engi- Jackman, Dana Nixon, Joe Riddle, Floyd Sebaly and Ray Setty. 4, Sunday. neering, packed pencils and short- spent what was left of her two hand book and headed for the In two meetings to date, com- weeks in Pensacola, Fla., her home northern part of the state and the mittee members have made consid- town. life of a farmer. erable progress in planning for Bowlers Get Start A Libravet, Thelma has been ways and means to collect and al- Full Slate Seen "I never won anything like this with Librascope for the past five locate funds on a basis which will Fall bowling was underway at before and was certainly sur- truly express the majority wishes press time with about 14 teams ex- years. However, the lure of the of Librascope employees. For Golf Tourney pected to participate. prised," Marg said. wide open spaces has proved too much for her to resist. In addition to aiding major A capacity field was predicted September 10 was the scheduled She also commented that she at- Thelma and family will settle charities, the committee has decid- for the annual golf tourney as a opening date. tended a barbecue that day and down on a 104-acre farm in Lake ed to set aside a portion of the total of 35 persons had qualified The league is being conducted at was late getting to the movie—al- County. She has issued a standing money collected for the relief of at presstime and more of the 48 the Burbank Bowl on San Fer- invitation to all her friends to pay hardship cases among Librascope vacancies were being filled each nando Road in Burbank. Check most didn't go at all, as a matter her a visit. It will always be open the bulletin board for details. of fact. house down on the farm. employees. day. No official name for the organi- Qualification depended on sub- mitting three 18-hole or six 9-hole zation has been selected as yet, score cards by September 14. Be- but the committee hopes to come cause a limited number of starting New Production Control System Is Explained up with a representative name times were available, only 48 of The basic aims of the new Lib- which will symbolize the goals of the 60 originally signed up were show in graphic form time span will be assigned to specific load expected to be admitted to the rascope production control sys- for each function in proper rela- centers, and will handle all move- the group. Plans also will include contest. However, Precisioneer of- tem which will go into effect with tionship. Copies of the chart will ment of parts to and from the load a sticker for home use. ficials were trying to get about the Mark 5 contract, are to pro- be issued to each department af- centers, as well as report off- Committee members will be cir- three more starting times. vide a common basic production fected. The departments then will schedule conditions for their load The tourney will be held Sep- plan with which all departments be responsible for performance of centers. These will be in the form culating soon in each group, and tember 20 at Rancho golf course. can work, to centralize control respective functions in accordance of a weekly off-schedule report, to will explain details of the pro- functions in specific groups and to A banquet is to follow the tourney with the outlined plan. be made to production control su- gram to all employees. at which prizes will be awarded. keep the flow of paperwork to a Other phases of the system in- pervision for followup action. minimum. clue the use of a new type of as- A shop calendar has been estab- The complete general plan will signment sheet for production op- lished assigning consecutive num- take into consideration all func- erations. The machine operator bers to each working day of the tions which contribute to the end will not be given the entire opera- year. These numbers will be used Orientation Courses Proving Helpful product. These functions include tion sheet for a part. He will be for scheduling and general refer- design and release of blueprints given—along with the blueprint— ence purposes. They will be refer- and parts lists, requisition and pro- an assignment and completion no- To Newly Hired Librascope Workers curement of raw material and pur- red to as manufacturing days, and tice which contains instructions for will be posted daily on boards lo- More than 100 newly hired Lib- the credit union and charity com- chased parts, planning of tools and only the specific operation to be rascope employees have been mittee. At the end of the lecture operations for manufacture and worked at the machine. cated in the factory areas. given orientation classes since July all new workers receive an em- assembly, scheduling and release All calculations of elapsed time This description has covered according to the training section. ployee handbook and are taken on of shop orders, and actual manu- and entries on the daily job cards facture, assembly, adjustment and only a few general principles. New The course includes the story of a tour of the plant. will be made by the timekeeping written procedures covering de- Librascope and its growth, an in- Individual supervisors continue shipment of the unit. section, and the only entries which tails of the new system are being troduction to our products, a de- the indoctrination by introducing Master scheduling will deter- the machine operator will make issued to supervision. It is expect- scription of the organization, the the employee to his fellow work- mine the estimated time span for are pencil entries to record clock ed a few difficulties may arise part each section plays in turning ers and his job. out a finished instrument, a state- each function by negotiation with time—in and out—on the assign- during the changeover period, but ment of personnel policies, a dis- Every Precisioneer can take an departments concerned, and will ment and completion notice for the full cooperation will help get the cussion of plant rules and secur- active part in this program by record all estimates in the form of operation on which he is working. new system into operation with a ity regulations, a review of bene- helping new employees feel at a job plan chart. This chart will Production control dispatchers minimum of trouble, it is felt. fits available and a briefing on home and welcome. 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