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Kodakery; Vol. 1, No. 11; June 29, 1943 FOR THE MEN • ROCHESTERr Vol. l, No. ll Copyriglu 19·IJ by Eo11moo Kodok Company, llochc•o.r. N. Y. June 29, 1943 Portable Darliroom Share-Ride Plan Saves Meets Army's Need For Field Equipment 300~000 Gallons of Gas Approximately 300,000 gallons of gasoline have been saved Wives of camera addicts given by ride-sharing employees during the past 12 months, the Kodak to clutterin g up the house with Transporta tion Committee reported last week when results of a photographic paraphernalia would certainly approve of one cur rent Company-wide transport survey were tabulated. Kodak product. It's a darkroom A . D. Johnson , chairman of the committee, disclosed that 4930 outfit that stows away in a box Kodak employees used their cars for transportation to and from less than two cubic feet in size. The rub, h owever, is that it, as work during April, 1419 fewer than during the same period a do m ost Kodak products these year ago. days, goes to the Army and Navy. But a lthough 22 per cent fewer The portable darkroom outfit is cars were in use, almost 2000 m ore designed to carry practically all people were carried to and from Branch Head, of the materials that are required work by auto-a striking demon­ by an Army photographer, and at stration of what the Share-the­ the same time hold the apparatus Ride Plan has accom plished. Feared Dead, necessary to m ake prints after he Average Occupancy 2.25 has sh ot the pictures. P rocessing can be done in a darkroom, inside However, J ohnson pointed out Now Prisoner a tent at n ight or a truck interior. that the plan can still handle addi­ All Equipment Necessary tional riders without using m ore cars. The survey disclosed that the In use the box is rested on its average occupancy of cars driven base and the two halves opened. by Kodak drivers is 2.25, or less Taking up about every square inch than two riders per car other than of space is all the equipmen t nec­ the driver. essary for taking pictures. The While appr oximately 70 per cent camera is a Kodak 35, and with of Kodak employees lives within it are su pplementary lenses and the city, the 30 per cent of em­ filters, Kodapod, fi lm, carrying ployees who live in suburban or case, fl ash synchronizer, batteries C f An Army officer inspects Kodak's portable darkroom rural areas use more automobiles and cable release. The developing ompac - outfit. which supplies virtually every need of an Army for home-job travel than do the and printing equipment includes a photographer. in a box two cubic feet small. The outfit. suitable for city dwellers. Only 18.2 pe1· cent daylight-loading tank, chemicals, use in th e field. is used by the Navy as well as tho Army. of Kodak persons in Rochester re­ graduate, thermometer, clips, in­ lies on auto transportation to work. struction manuals, timer, safelight, In contrast, 54.6 per cent of those trays, adjustable easel and port­ in the suburbs and more than 85 able miniature enlarger. Correct J(odapak-aged Army Ration per cent of those outside the metro­ exposures are assured by use of an politan area rely on private cars. electric exposure meter for film The metropolitan area, as defined and a K odak Projection Print Scale Okay When Washed Up by Sea in the survey, includes the city and for paper. the towns of Greece, Brighton, Two reflectors are attached to Washed up on a beach near Aukland, New Zealand, a tiny, Irondequoit, Chili and Gates. the enlarger base for use in copy­ square package of soluble coffee used in Army Field Ration K ing, with the camera replacing the More Employees Using Busses Charles Donald was found ~n perfect condition despite len gthy immersion in enlarger on the column. Electric In addition to the increase in current can be the usual 110 volts sea water. persons using the Share-the-Ride Believed to have lost his life or can be supplied by a battery. The coffee, encased in aluminum Plan, the past year saw a sharp The Navy also has this photo­ Eastman Portrait when his ship was sunk off Singa­ foil lamin ated with Kodapak, was increase in the number of employ­ pore more than a year ago, Charles graphic set, and in addition a discovered on the beach by T. W. ees using bus transportation. At smaller one, split into two boxes. Presented Donald of Kodak Limited today is J Harriman, a New Zealander. "It the same time, no n oticeable gain alive in a Japanese prison camp. The latter set merely carries the was found by my wiie as we were was made in the number of Kodak equipment and supplies and is not Liberty Ship people walking to and from work. The mystery surrounding Don­ used as a portable darkroom. indulging in that interesting pas­ ald's fate was cleared up by a time, 'beachcombing,' " Harriman Per haps the biggest single ac­ Rear Admiral Emory S. complishment of the survey, J ohn­ r adio message from him which was Land, chairman of the U. S. wrote Miles Laboratories, which son pointed out, has been the list­ picked up by the Australian Broad­ Schools Furnish Maritime Commission. last package the ration. ing of hundreds of employees cast Commission. In a letter to week accepted a portrait of Contents Perfect seeking rides or riders or seeking George Eastman, Kodak's Walter G. Bent of Kodak Limited, Child-Care Centers to swap rides with other car own­ Donald's wife, Mrs. Betty Donald, founder and long-time presi­ "The contents of the package ap­ ers. These have been classified and Ten Rochester schools will re­ dent, which will b e hung in peared to be in perfect condition zoned during the past two m onths reported the message had been for­ main open throughout the summer the Liberty ship which bears when it was opened on our arrival and the work of grouping car-shar­ warded to her home in Australia m onths to provide care for the Mr. Eastman's name. home although it must have been in g combinations is already under by the Commission. children of working mothers. Rear Admiral Land also ac­ in the water for a considerable way in plant transportation offices. Evacuee Ships Sunk Sponsored by the Child Care cepted a copy of Carl Acker­ Committee of the Rochester War time." Singapore manager of Kodak man's biography of Mr. "The product was made up as Council and supervised by the Eastman for the ship's li­ Park Soldier Limited, Donald was one of the Board of Education, the child-care brary. directed on the wrapper and found last to leave the city before it ca­ centers will be open 12 hours each to be delicious and something en­ In a letter to Thomas J. pitulated in February 1942. Ac­ day, six days per week. tirely new to us. Loses L~fe The followin g schools provide Hargrave, p resident of the cording to reports reaching Aus­ Company, Rear Admiral Land "The fact that the contents were Private Robert L. Bossert, tralia, he had been seen boarding nursery care for children from in perfect condition after a lengthy three to five years of age as well wrote: a former apprentice in Kodak an evacuee ship which was sunk as care for children between the "The Maritime Commission immersion in sea water speaks Park's Machine Shop, was just off Singapore. The vessel was ages of 6 and 13; School 22, 27 is grateful to you for your highly of the quality of the article killed in an accident in North one of four sunk by the J aps out of Zimbr ich St.; School 27, 256 Cen­ suggestion that the Eastman and also of the method by which Africa, June 4. the War De­ a group of five. tral P ark ; School 41, 279 Ridge Kodak Company present a it is packaged." partment has revealed. Donald's message inquired for portrait and a biography of Mrs. Donald's health and that of Rd. W . Kodapak Prevents Corrosion Private Bossert. who en­ Nursery care only is provided at Mr. Eastman to the Liberty tered the service la&t October, their dau ghter, Susan. He also re­ School 17, 223 Orange St., and vessel w hich bears his name. The package is made of foil and quested his family to send letters School 43, 1305 Lyell Ave. Care Such a gift would be most Kodapak, providing a m etallic con­ is the son of Al Bossert of and comforts through the Interna­ for children from 6 to 13 ex­ appropriate and deeply ap­ tainer which is strengthened by the Park's Machine Shop. A tional Red Cross. However, Mrs. clusively is provided at School 15, preciated both by the Com­ the cellulose acetate. In addition, brother, Leonar<J. also is a Donald stated in her letter to Bent 494 Averill Ave.; School 19, 465 mission and by the seamen the Kodapak prevents the alumi­ Kodak Park employee. that it was impossible to send par­ Seward St.; School 28, 450 Hum­ who man t his ship. • • • I num foil from corroding in sea News of Private Bossert's cels to him since the Red Cross boldt St.; School 30, 36 Otis St.; would suggest. since the water. death was contained in a tele­ will not take them because of the and School 44, 820 Chili Ave.
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