Council Social Agencies Makes Plans for Christmas Charity
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Ideo Design Development Models Prototype Proof Testing Production Plonning Production Stockpile LIFE STORY of a weapon .is charted by these cartoons. a Sandia engineer to the day it's placed in stockpile, articles beginning here will tell of part Sandia plays in • From the moment it is but a glimmer in the brain of the weapon is in one of these phases. The series of the life of nuclear weapons for Uncle Sam's arsenal. Sandia Corporationls Place in The Nuclear Weapons Program EDITOR'S NOTE: In this and curity, to provide a word picture five subsequent issues, the San• of what goes on behind the dia Lab News will publish a se• fence, in the next building, or ries of articles on Sandia Cor• even in the next office. We wish poration's job in the nuclear to thank those in the line or• weapons program. The articles ganizations who helped make have been prepared to promote this story possible. Readers are a. b.-tter understanding among cautioned not to e 1 a b or a t e employees, their families and on this material in discussing it friends, of the scope of opera• with their friends and families tions at Sandia. The story at• to avoid disclosure of classified tempts, within the limits of se- information. Part One chairman. Mr. Strauss described If Sandia Corporation's job this industry as a huge network • of factories and research labora• could be summed up briefly, it Vol. 9, No. 24 Albuquerque, New Mexico November 29, 1957 could be said that Sandia designs tories, all owned by the American and develops strategic and tactical taxpayer, turning out one prod• nuclear weapons around the ex• uct-nuclear weapons-for a sin• plosive systems developed by the gle customer-the armed forces• Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with one competitor- the Rus• Council Social Agencies Makes in New Mexico and the Univer• sians. sity of California's Radiation L!iib• Naturally it would not be good oratory at Livermore, California. business practice to reveal trade However, just as the complexities secrets to a competitor and so the Plans for Christmas Charity of a nuclear weapon cannot be de• complete story of Sandia has gone In an effort to elimina te dupli• Army, and All Faiths Re• ployee Services Division will serve scribed in a few sentences, neither untold. Although there would be cation of effort and to insure that ceiving Home. as an information center, but will can Sandia's role in the weapons no breach of security if Macy's coverage is complete, the various In recent years numerous San• not have lists of needy families as program be contained in a single told Gimbels, atomic secrets in the social welfare agencies in Albu• dia Corporation organizations ha ve the Council is maintaining the paragraph. hands of an aggressor could caus-:! querque have worked out a coordi• organized their own Christmas confidential nature of such infor• Sandia is as complex and far chaos and destruction. Therefore, nated program for administering program, sharing with the less for• mation. Another method of help• reaching in its operations as the many new developments and tech• Christmas programs for the needy tunate in a variety of ways. These ing needy is to send money to industry of which it is a part, the niques in the nuclear weapons this year. activities are encouraged, not only CARE. One dollar will buy 26 Atomi~ Energy Commission, "the procedures which have brought by the Corporation but by the pounds of food for a family in a nation's biggest industry," accord• about these developments can be Basic change in the plan this told. year, according to the Council of Council. As in the past, the Em- foreign country. ing to Lewis L. Strauss, AEC Social Agencies, is to maintain the • • • privacy of the needy families. No Sandia Corporation, the Los names of charity cases will be As in Past Years Many Sandia Employees Alamos and Livermore Laborato• given out and all deliveries to th~ ries, along with Hanford, Rocky needy families will be made by the Flats, Oak Ridge, Savannah River recognized welfare agencies which To Help Needy Enjoy Happy Christmas and many others make up the are handling such activities the In following with the Christmas Hake (1460) and Leo White will be donated. Last year the AEC's giant laboratories and pro• year around. tr11 dition of giving gifts and good (1470). same department bought a fam• duction facilities. In addition to keeping the will, a number of Corporation or• In organization 7411 A. L. ily a stove and repaired their Sandia Laboratory is operated Christmas program on a dignified ganizations have already organized Ouellette has been placed in house in addition to giving the for the AEC under a non-profit and quiet basis, the Council hopes committees to collect money or charge of "Operation Food Bas• food, toys and clothing. contract. Western Electric Com• to spread the benefits of the food for needy families. ket." On Dec. 2 a collection will Starting next week division sec• pany, of which Sandia is a sub• Christmas giving over a wider pe• For the second year an "in be taken among members and the retaries in 2220 will have on their sidiary, receives no fee for its riod. "No one must be without on money will be used to purchase desks collection boxes for money services at Sandia. Christmas Day," says the Coun• lieu of Christmas card fund" food baskets (through a wholesale to assist needy families at Christ• This $60,000 ,000 laboratory, em_ cil's announcement, "but will policy is being sponsored by the 1400 group. After the first day contact) . Next week will also be mas. playing more than 7000 persons, stomachs filled on December 25 of collecting the enthusiasm the Christmas aid target date for Division 1624 will divide its is the AEC's major laboratory for cease to ache in January, Christmas fund money between shown by 1400 employees for 51-10. the ordnance engineering phases April . ?" Members of 5510 have been in• food, clothing, shoes and other • this worthy cause was stagger• o! atomic weapons research and Here are the main points of the ing. The committee handling formed of a forthcoming drive to n eeds for a family. development. Sandia works closely A similar plan will be followed coordinated program in which the details includes: Chet Smith collect money to adopt one or with the Los Alamos Scientific La• more needy families during the by organization 3100. agencies are joining, and which is (1410), Bob Jones (1420), Bob boratory and the University of being offered for the considera• Christmas s: ason. The money will Other organizations are expect• California's Radiation Laboratory tion of those who wish to organize Schowers (1440), Gene Glaze be used to purchase food and ed to join the above m entioned at Livermore, where explosive sys• or participate in some Christmas (1451), Bob Lindsey (1454), Lyle clothing while other needed items groups in the Christmas program. tems for nuclear weapons are de• charity: veloped. 1: All agencies (including • • * churches) will register their The AEC's Sandia, Los Alamos needy families with the and Livermore laboratories share Council of Social Agencies. responsibility in the development A check will be made to of nuclear and thermonuclear avoid duplication. weapons. Sandia's job is to design 2. The Marines will handle the usable military weapons around entire toys distribution pro• the explosive systems developed at gram. Each agency involved ! os Alamos and liv amor ~ . The will be given an allocation Sandia part in this joint under• of toys for distribution to taking is referred to as "weapon• families they are helping. izing" a device. Sandia designs the fuzing and 3. Grocery orders will be distri• firing systems that will detonate buted by agencies in lieu of the weapon at a particular time Christmas baskets wherever ·1ct place, assuring optimum des• possible. truction of a specific target. 4. Donations will be made to Sandia develops the necessary • and through the participat• internal components, including ing agencies. Cash donations power supplies and timing mech• may ba made to any of the anisms, radars, barometric switch• participating agencies or to es and other components and cir• the Department of Public cuitry which make up the intricate Welfare or Child Welfare actuating mechanisms. In addi• Division. These monies are ~'" n. Sandia designs the bomb placed in a year-round fund "body" or casing in which to house for needed services, food and this complex "gadget," with the clothing for individual reci• necessary ballistic features to get pients. Donations of canned the bomb to its destination. In the goods may be made to the case of "warheads," Sandia's job agencies which care for the is one of teamplay with the mis• needy every day: Catholic CHRISTMAS DONATION BOXES are being passed Jones (1420), Bob Lindsey (1454), Bob Schowers sile designers to assure compati• Charities, Brothers of the around by these representatives of 1400 to aid (1440) and Lyle llake (1460), front row, Chairman bility with the delivery vehicle. Good Shepherd, Christina needy families during the coming holiday season. Gene Glaze (1451), Leo White (1470) and Chet The nuclear device must be engi- Kent Day Nursery, Salvation Committee members include: back row, L toR, Bob Smith (1410). Other Sandians plan similar funds. (See "Sandia's Place" Page 4) Page Two SANDIA LAB NEWS November 27, 1957 Sandianotes . Weddings and Mike DiBella 'Shanghaied' By TV Engagements Crew; Will Now Be Seen on Network Mr. and Mrs.