SUNSHINE SERVICE NEWS Published By and For Employes of Florida Power & Light Company
V o l u m e 2 M ia m i, F l o r id a , J u n e 1, 193 8 N u m b e r 6 “Hush-Puppy” Eaters on West Coast Accidents Hit New '38 Hi< During Aprii
With 36 personal injury and 19 automobile accidents record ed, the Company’s accident re cord for April was the poorest of the year, L. P. Hoffman of the Safety division reported. Eight of the motor accidents were chargeable against em It’s an ill wind that blows no ployes and 14 of the personal body good, especially if it is from injury accidents resulted in lost your exhaust fan and is part of time. your home comfort cooling- sys “ Not one of the accidents was tem. due to mechanical failure. Every one was due to man failure,” de The song for June clared Hoffman. Is the wedding tune. The Ice Department had a seri This couplet about April’s show ous epidemic of mishaps, leading- in chargeable automobile accidents ers bringing- May’s flowers could be revised to something- about with 4 and in lost time accidents May’s showers preceding June’s with 8. No other department had weddings but it is a heck of a With “hush-puppies” taking the spot-light from the fish, 304 Western division folks gath- more than two accidents against thing to rhyme. ered for a fish fry at the Punta Gorda plant M ay 21. After supper, Bryan C. Hanks, center of it. picture on upper left, presented Valley Filling award checks to leaders G. E. Gerald, Carl Amlin, Unless the accident toll is less P. Linblad and J. C. Woodley. Center is the see ne at the cook’s wagon approximately one minute Ed Wood (Who never fails us) ened at once, company officials after someone called, “Come and get it!” J. M. G ardner and Art Taylor, committee in full charge, fear that the year will be one of (except maybe once), comes to are taking applause on the right. Extreme lower left, Larry Hoffman concludes presentation of bat with these:— cate showing seven years of no-accident driving, the worst in the Company’s his safety awards by giving Walter Munrce a certifi tory as far as safety is concerned. Father Fancer:—“ When I was now the maximum safety award. The Bradentrn diamond ball team is shown just after making good your age, I did not tell fibs.” on their cocky challenge to everybody else in the division. They trounced the All-stars 5-1. Next are Junior F.:—“ How old were you Katherine Blackshear and Mrs. Marian Smith as th ey appeared while answering questions about the 22 Are Winners when you started, Pop?” “hush-puppies” prepared under their direction. The slabs of cornmeal fried golden brown got their names, it developed, because in the Old South they were thrown to the hound daw gs that howled at the In Campaign Race Doctor:— “I don’t like to men kitchen. Last on the right, a couple dozen mo re platefuls of fish are brought up out of the meal was topped off with swamp cabbage cooked tion it, Mr. Jones, but that check 150 pounds of hot grease used for cooking. The Twenty-two of the Company with salt pork. At the dance held afterwards (sor ry, the photographer danced) Dick Roberts started personnel are now receiving noti you gave me came back.” nizing, and whooped it up later in the evening when the party moving by taking the lead in some harmo fication from the Company presi Patient:— “ Now ain’t that a he got another chance at the piano. coincidence! So did my lum- I dent congratulating- them on bago.” j winning Bryan C. Hanks awards Summer Recreation if You Go In For Toll Stories, for the first four months of the Egg Hed Sez:— “ Some people j Program Under Way 1938 Valley Filling- sales program. cause happiness wherever they go 1 Glance At This Lauderdale Tale Those who received checks are, and others cause happiness when- I Summer recreation is under way | in the employe division, E. C. ever they go.” in all divisions of the company Bowman and W. W. Whitfield, diabolical gleam come into her with golf, soft ball, bowling and While the current campaign on West Palm Beach; Mrs. J. M. eye you can be sure she’s made up Lilliott, Perry; Mrs. Mae E. Mil The sartorial prize this month horseback riding all drawing a full minor appliances is raging, the her mind to sell a ten watt bulb ler, Daytona Beach; J. C. Wood- is hereby awarded to Messrs. share of devotees. sales personnel would do well to A summer bowling tournament is regard the situation in Fort Laud or else ------. ley, Arcadia; Carl Amlin, Lake A. L. Reynolds and H. C. Eb- Clerks Oscar Allen and Willie just closing in Miami while Brow erdale. Nearly any evening a land; Charles Maxwell, Ft. Lau right of the Personnel Depart Wynn are attempting mass sales ard county employes are just get few of the ice or electric distri- derdale; Neil Gobie, Miami; R. B. ment for their sports ensembles methods. When a particularly ting into that sport. Horseback ution fellows can be spotted, an Minear, Hialeah and C. N. Deline, — white gabardine and creme large group of customers is en riding is a leader for Miami girls. electric clock under one arm and Miami Beach. Bowman, with Topper material respectively. ticed into the offifee they barri Soft ball is booming on the west a toaster under the other, lurking 7754.3 points, was high individual. cade the door with a stack of coast and in several northern di in wait for suitable prey. E. H. Smith, Ft. Lauderdale, WHEN THE Oll,ER FIHE1) 'I’ll I ranges. Then, turning on the cus BOILERS vision spots while two teams are j Under the able tutelage of with 52% of his quota, topped the carrying the company’s fortunes Preston Ross, the Ice boys are try tomers, there is some polite Small residential salesmen, other win talk of toasters and casseroles. >Twas many many years ago in Miami. Golf is general over ing to make you believe that chok ners being A. C. Wortham, Del And many miles from here. Any who complain of urgent ap That I learned, from sad experience, most of the system and matches ing the purchaser gently until his ray; L. T. Hart, Sanford; L. Lin pointments are forthwith sold To value what is near. have already started. A company face become a rich purple is a blad, Lakeland; A. F. Camman, I might have learned from poetry, electric clocks in addition to sun From four leaf clover fables, team has been formed to enter the quite persuasive method, and that Miami and W. A. Michel, Ft. Lau dry other paraphernalia. That men we often seek in vain first commercial golf league in frequently a few clips in the legs derdale. Local manager winners Are seated at our tables Three of the outside men, Miami history. with a pair of ice tongs readily | are Charles Senior, Delray Beach; I, once, had need of firemen convinces the victim that he can’t Hickey Maxwell, Sidney Sandler J. T. Moore, Perry; R. F. Lewis, To fire the power-house boilers, and Andy Ferrara, do their work So I hired everyone in sight sustain life any longer without a Hialeah and G. E. Gerald, Ft. Forgetting I had oilers. Hoffman Is Praised floor lamp. But maybe they’re in the customer’s home, and re Myers. E. E. Peeples and C. H. They came with reputations great. port gratifying results although They came from far and wide;— For Safety Work just boasting or trying to hide Ellis, both of the Eastern Division, But reputations wouldn't serve their real secret of success. they are somewhat reticent as to were the winning division sales W hen half the fires had died. Arthur C. Black, secretary of Uncle Bud Self has coached his the methods employed but Jerry manager and division manager re The last to come was greatest yet, the West Palm Beach Recreation Distribution gang- in methods Dowdy keeps a two feet length of spectively. He w as— in his own mind. lead pipe in his desk. Sometimes The things he didn’t know about commission has written the Com which are a study in subtlty. A were difficult to find. pany thanking it for its coopera light massaging of heads with merely fingering it suggestvely But steam went down and lights aids a convincing sales talk. “ Everything Happens grew dim, tion during the Regional Festival some of the more substantial line to Me,” Wails Virginia Smoke from the chimney rolled. of the National School Band and He didn’t know a thing to do tools immediately brings the sales And wouldn’t do as told. Orchestra contest held there in discussion down to fundamentals, PUBLIC SPEAKERS Summer may be the time for May. Larry Hoffman of the Safe TO MEET IN FALL quiet repose for many Florid So. I gently took him by the neck and a pair of climber’s hooks make ty department was assigned to ians but not for a certain secre And kicked him out the door, very convincing lacerations. The Although greatly increased For when I mentioned smoke, he the festival and during the events, tary around the building. Here said, keynote in the distribution cam interest in the proposed public “That’s what the smoke-stack’s the handling of the 1,300 school are a few episodes from her less paign is ably expressed in the speaking course has been mani for.” band musicians was accomplished private life during th'e first Then an oiler, unexpected. noble slogan “ Be gentle—the cus fested by employes throughout To my rescue, quickly came. without a single mishap. The safe three weeks of May: tomer must be conscious to sign the system, and sufficient num And proved he was a fireman. ty measures he established were 1. Knocked down a standard In everything but name. the contract.’” bers have signed up to start the instrumental in this record. at the Riding Club while horse The local office crowd are no instruction, it has been decided Well. I’ve fired a plenty firemen Letters of congratulation and back riding. During all those many years less persuasive. Catherine Smith, to postpone the start of the And I’ve helped a lot of others appreciation were received both 2. Received a beautiful cor To be first class engineers, the cashier, embarks upon an course until fall. by Will Preston, head of the legal sage in which was enclosed a But I’ve never hired another one amiable conversation on the man Advent of the vacation season And I don’t expect I will department and R. D. Hill, local card saying, “ Sorry” and she As long as I have oilers ifold virtues of a complete electric which would result in absences couldn’t figure out who sent it. W ho can learn to fill the bill. manager who was also lauded for kitchen. If this fails to register on the part of those taking the his share in publicity given the 3. Received through the mail And since I’ve held that custom she works down to the smaller instruction was given as the rea I am never much afraid event campanv advertising. appliances, and when you see a son for the postponement. one live cockroach, an animal of That those who work for better ment which she is mortally afraid. Will fail to make the grade AWARD TO BE GIVEN 4. Had her picture in both the So hold your four leaf clover The Cat Objected!!! papers as being from St. Paul. Not for the luck it brings Ring-n-n-ng! went the telephone and an excited woman told Advertising of the Company has But rather the lesson it teaches just been accorded national recog She came a year ago. To value the closer things. the Ft. Myers office about this terrible electrocution of a house- 5. On another occasion was cat that was going on right this minute. Please come quick nition for the first time since 1933 E. W. Earle, riding a show horse which sat Miami S. E. S. and get the cat off the electric wires. by the Public Utilities Advertising- down with her twice in the Well sir, "Big John" Alcorn got the trouble call and hurried Association. Formal announcement course of a single afternoon. COMPANY LEADS off to the rescue. When big John arrived, the bystanders say the of the award will he made June 14 cat was stretched out stiff across both neutral and the two “hot The Company has just been in when the Association’s Better formed that during April, it led legs.” John climbed the pole, grabbed the cat . . . and as to what happened next, there are many different stories. At any rate, Copy contest winners will be Servel Electrolux refrigerators in District 8 in increase of installa the cat beat John to the ground and disappeared through the named at the convention in De the last two months. Tom Edwards tions of gas refrigeration over the palmetto. troit. was a winner in Lakeland in same month in 1937 in the “ Make Ft. Myers employes are still asking “ Big John” about the March while H. A. Burnett of Every Minute Count” National kind of hair restorer he uses. Three company salesmen have Daytona Beach and F. B. Dawson, Gas Refrigeration campaign. I won monthly prizes for selling Miami, received awards in April. their turns at some high powered Bride To Be | played quite a prominent part in Keep Them Smiling! loafing ’twixt now and the next 1 the success of the recent Elks appearance of the News. The lat | Minstrel . . . Baseball is in full ter’s vacation activities will be swing and a company softball confined to attending to mother team has been organized . . . Roy and son No. 2, wno just arrived in 337atkins of the ice plant states time to get in this column . . . | that the main difficulty with Messrs. Towne, Higgs and Noble | diamondball is the ball won’t come manipulated spring cleaning in the ! to him and he can’t get to the most effective way — all moved. ' ball . . . M. G. Taylor super of Towne and Higgs are still in Or power plant, has been burning ange City, while Noble is now at j up the local golf cou’-se. Lake Monroe . . . “ Dude” Thorn- ley has been on the sick list. Due DAYTONA BEACH to his general demeanor of late, it is not certain whether his ill Join May Jarvis ness to due to inward infection or Reporter outward infliction . . . Lest three The following was fair damsels continue to be cheated received b y J. V. out of home and husband, we wish Butler, sales engin "Rastus. how come you look so down in the mouth?” “ 33 ell to go on record as advising all eer: suh. Ah done been double crossed. 33'hen ah gets mahied, ah tells mah Susie we is going to divide the wuk—ah’ll tote the wash and hopefuls of the three most eligible “ Dear Mr. Butler: bachelors, who haven’t been able “ In behalf of Volusia Avenue she does it cayse Ah figgahs that gives me plenty time to rest Margaret Inez Patterson to make the proper connections to Parent - Teachers Association I but she done put in an 'lectric laundry and now she rests and ah (above) of Greensboro, N. C., date. 3Ve hope that Messrs. San wish to express my sincere appre totes all day long.” will become the bride of ford, Stafford and Stansfield will ciation to you for being instru Charles 3V. Trieste June 28 at show their appreciation for this Greensboro, after which the mental in helping us put lights ad by passing around the cigars ill our school building. SUNSHINE SERVICE NE3VS couple will make a trip through very soon . . . Messrs. Peters and “ 337e feel that it was through Published By and For Employes of Florida Power & Light Company, the North Carolina and Tennes Ray must have discovered the Miami, Florida see mountains before coming to the interest Dr. Rutter and you corner around which prosperity Fort Lauderdale to live. Mr. created among the county school has been lurking for some time, board members that all mainland A. L. R e y n o l d s , Trieste has been associated with Editor for each is now driving a new car. the Company about four years, schools now have lights. Personnel Department Social pressure, or “ sumpin,” may and is in the Electric Distribu “ Thanking you again for this eventually force Jeter and Ross to worthy service. tion deparment. W il b e r t B a c h , Assistant Editor part with their first loves, too ... Mrs. H. H. Gwinner, Advertising Division E. 3V. Jeter and C. 3V. Towne are Secretary, P.-T. A.” back on the job after being absent Hoskins—“ I don’t know.” Postmaster— “Anything perish Mrs. King Starr held a cooking V o l u m e 2 J u n e 1938 N u m b e r 6 a day or so, due to illness . . . able in here (please) ?” school during the week of April C. J. Jones was off the job a few 17 at Bethune Cookman college days helping the Grand Jury catch Hoskins—“ I don’t know.” ON INFLUENCING PEOPLE Postmaster— “ 33’e have to know . . . Floyd Kissam is working on up with back work . . . A. 33’. the platform at the Ice Depart HERE’S an old saying about bread cast upon waters re Stumpe and C. 3V. Towne have what is in the package before we can send it through the mail (exit ment . . . According to their Tturning many fold. A good deal of customer-contact been doing a little extension work proud fathers, the next generation \3rork must be done with the same sort of faith which in in the line of boiler water testing please).” Hoskins— “ I don’t know what of company employes passed spires the bread-cast-upon-the-waters idea and the reward and treating for the Datyona their grades at the close of school S.E.S. . . . Major Doyle and Lieut. the package contains, I am in is quite often apparently nothing. structed to send it to Daytona.” with flying colors . . . E. T. J. H. McConnell, of the Coral Gables office, had an Stumpe recently participated in Markham and John Cosgrove are the military field problems and At this time several official experience in point a few 3veeks ago. A winter \dsitor had the first vacationists of the sea maneuvers carried out by the Re looking individuals had closed in written a scathing letter to the company, denouncing its on the poor salesman, who was son . . . 3\7ho is Jack? Harriett “ Stay Thru May” campaign as a ‘gyp’ so that the com serves at Orlando . . . Abernathy Folsom has the answer—but she reports that daughter Patsy has having some difficulty in retaining won’t talk. pany could charge “those high rates” for another month. the measles situation well in hand; his poise. Finally, with much ex Mr. McConnell was assigned the task of interviewing the plaining, perspiring and several Jim’s not so sure that he didn’t 'ALATKA letter writer and found that he was li3dng in a hotel and have a slight attack also . . . 1 words as to his good character by had never taken the company’s service. j onlookers, it was explained that Owen Burns, of the meter de Dorothy Ho*«ey j the box contained only the prize McConnell, in a perfect exposition of the “Yes, but— ” partment, who has been nick Reporter j award to the leading salesman, system of attack, explained to the visitor just what the named “ Bobby,” is the envy company must be prepared to give in the way of service for which the sender would as- We arc exceedingly of every male member of our or proud of the apper- and replacement under the conditions peculiar to Florida. I sume full responsibility . . . J. C. ganization because he is sporting Price has returned from his vaca ance of the outside of Nevertheless, when he left, he was convinced he had made the newest wearing apparel on tion through North Florida and o u r office building no dent in the attitude of the visitor. the market and the boys cannot Georgia . . . J. O. Roberson has with its new coat of white paint Yet, less than a week later, the visitor called at the find out where he purchased it. been talking a lot about fishing and especially of the Company office, apologized for having written the letter, said that lately. May 23rd opened a much emblem. It is our hope that some apparently our Company was “not such a bad bunch to MELBOURNE anticipated trip. day it will be illuminated so that deal with, after all,” and said that he had leased a house J jn c e upon a midnight dreary as it can be seen at night as well . . . for the coming winter and wanted to know all about the Irene A illent ine i he stumbled very weary, Six of the employes who add a Reporter I Very weary, almost leary, up and service he could get. down his bedroom floor: year to their ages each May cele The high light in Like the raven, Weldon quoted, brated at their annual party at the closing days of I Nevermore, oh', nevermore. ; We won’t say too much about it, Doug Austin’s house. 3Ve hear the recent “ Florida but if anyone would like a dem ! With his arms Joanne embracing, that “ Chief” Eskew really took Quest” was Salesman and his feet forever pacing, them for a ride . . . Condolences Northern onstration of H0337 NOT TO * Weary feet forever pacing up and Crom Hoskins’ attempt to return down his bedroom floor: to George Counce who spent the MOVE AN IRONER, just call on the coveted Mystery Chest, as it I Sheo' kept crying, no denying. last week of his vacation at home Division Mrs. Mould . . . We had a very had been in his possession for ! L
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