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HIS is the time of year when older people, parents as boss of those goldbrickers if they haven't already been Tespecially, try to help their younger friends decide fired. on what career they should choose. If any of you young graduates are listening, don't go away. I'm not going to bend your ear about a career. But A FEW years ago in a small English village not far from London, a 16-year-old lad listened silently while his elders I would like to have a chat with you about your chances and I discussed life in America. Later that evening he got of making a good living at whatever you do. me aside, and asked, "What would it be like for me in Let's get down to th11 big question: How much are you America? How would I get along?" He was most serious worth to anybody in business? This question will be with r about it. you all through your life. You can never get a way from it. Today or ten years from now, you will be worth as I told him that it would be a bit different. " In your much as it will cost to replace you, but no more. co untry," I explained, " taxes are very high because your This isn't some trick plan dreamed up by business peo government has assumed so much responsi bility for each ple. It is a basic principle of America that every man or worker's security. If you get sick, the government will take woman is free to earn money according to his or her in care of you. If you get married and have children, the dividual ability in competition with others. In other government will help you feed them properly. And when words, in this country you can still collect on your own yo u die, your funeral expenses will be paid by the gov· ability. ernment. All of that costs money and requires heavy taxes. Take professional baseball, for example. A really good But yo u don't have to worry about paying all of yo ur player is worth more than an ordinary one and many living costs." times the cost of a mediocre performer. The same un " I know," said the boy, "But how is it in America?" changing rule governs the people in show business. Those I told him, " In America you have to gamble more on who attract big audiences are worth whatever it costs to yourself. If you win, you win more, and there is no limit I get some other theatrical star capable of doing as well. to how far you can go." Later, when his family could not In Communistic Russia the theory is that everybody hear, he said he would like the chance to come to America should earn about the same money regardless of the job. and "bet on himself to win." In this country, if you're good at any job, you certainly Of course, I should have told that English boy that will advance to a better-paying position than is held by starting salaries in America are usually based on the someone who doesn't even try. market value of mediocre help, and that anyone who lifts himself out of mediocrity quick I y attracts attention and WORKI JG in a store or any business organization, increases his market value. you may run into some fellow workers who think it clever Year by year, yo ur market value in America is de to loaf on the job. If they notice that yo u are honestly termined by your increasing usefulness to society, whether trying to do your work better, they may even ridicule your you are a salesman, plumber, doctor, lawyer, or business efforts and sugg.est that you are stupid to work so hard man. for the boss. May you increase yo ur market value every year from The thing these troublemakers forget is that yo u are now on! working for yourself as much as you are for the boss. Don't let their subversive ideas bother you. If you con tinue to show interest in doing your job as well as you JOHN W. McPHERRIN, publisher can, you'll start moving up the ladder, and may end up THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE
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HERE are the camera fans? W We of THE ROUNDUP are get ting a little worried. The dt:adline for the Vacation Snapshot Contest is right on us, but we don't have many en tries. In fact, we don't have enough en· tries to have a contest. And unl ess some more of you snapshot shooters enter yo ur pictures, we will have to declare the contest null and void for the lack of participants. But we don't want to do that. A contest is fun, and it's profitable. It is profitable for the winners who re YOU don't have to be an expert photographer to take winning snapshots ceive cash prizes and it is profitable for THE RO NDUP in getting pictures to print that are made by employees. So, come on now, and enter one of your snapshots. All you have to do is enter one black and white picture. It must be made by an employee or a member of hi s immediate family. The picture must be made between June 1, 1955, and August 31, 1955. The dead line for getting the pictures to THE RO UNDU P is September 5, 1955. Winners will be announced in the September issue of th e magazine. Prizes wi ll be awarded as follows: First, $15; Second, $10; and Third, $5. The contest is open to all employees of the Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company, both production and sala ried employees in Lufkin, and those in our branch offices. Don't hesitate any longer. You still .A SCENE such as this would make a good contest entry by an employee have time to grab your camera and take that special picture. And it mi ght be worth money in your pocket!
Didja hear about th e guy who fe ll 500 feet into a tub of soda pop? Didn't hurt h.im a bit. It was a soft drink!
You're getting old when the gleam in your eye is from the sun hitting yo ur bifocals.
Foreman: How come you carry only one plank, and all th e other men carry two? Worker: I suppose they're too lazy to make two trips, the way I do.
Middle Age: When you feel on Sat urday ni ght the way yo u used to feel on Monday morning. MOST FOLKS who take a traveling vacation get pictures like this
August, 1955 3 Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 I ~ umuel A. n ·nn A ug. 8, 1952 3 (;harles T . ~Innn Aug. 8, 1952 3 'l:he odore Gilde L' Aug. 21, 1952 3 JULY ANNIVERSARIES J~ ddi e Davis .A ug. 5, 1954- 1 Jos hua Richar(lson A ug. l :l, 1954 1 July 12, 19:1-l 21 l~ eo G r egory Aug. 19, 1954 1 I E d g nr '';· Barnes PATTERN SHOP ,\. G. Colburn, S r . July 16, 193 7 18 Gilbe rt Rice Aug. 26, 1954 1 E1nploy n1 ent Y e n rs J ohn A . Jlc Carty July 19, 1950 5 Date \\"ith Co. J ohnnie E . Jones July 21, 1950 5 July 21, 1950 5 WELDING & STRUCTURAL E mory A t kins July 1, 1952 3 l\Inrion Lee \\·arne r U . M . Duke July 25, 1950 5 Years B. L. M a the w s July 12, 195 -1_ 1 J~ m1>lo y m e n t TRAILER DIVISION Date W ith Co. I E1nploy1ne n t Yeat·s H . B . 1\luore A ug. 28, 1929 26 Dute " "itll Co. MACHINE SHOP P. _I!'. String·er ..\ ug. 11, 1941 14 Emplo31 m e n t Yen r s William E . \\'nlton July 9, 1946 9 ~ J . D . :1<_; dwards Aug . 14. 1941 14 \\ ' i ~ h C o . 9 Date H. 0. K e nllric k A ug. 21, 19H 14 J . B . R eese July 24, 1946 32 July 1 , 1946 9 Ale x A1ulre ws July 10, 1923 H. \\". Cos tlow Aug. 25, 1941 14 Eulon A . Page July 27, 192:! :!2 L ouis A. Johns on July 8, 1946 9 Carte r O'Quinn Maurice 1'fa,lone .'l ug. 28 , 19H 14 Ine z Ti1ns July 2, 1933 22 I Hobby D. Tho1n1>son July 5, 1950 5 :\t a rvin G. Powell Aug. 28, 1941 14 July 6, 1950 5 Rhobie \\rh.ite July 5, 1933 22 Al \' in D . f'nsey Aug. 11, 194:! 12 L. C. Whiteheacl 5, 19:1:1 22 July 10, 1950 5 J~ . 0. Campbe ll July n . C. DuBose Aug. 13, 1945 10 0 . B. Barrington July 10, 1941 14 D. D. Alle n July 18, 1950 5 P . D. Allbritton J . B . Parne ll Aug. 23, 1948 7 July 25, 1950 5 J. U. A1nent July IR, 1941 14 \V. 1\f. \\;ii Iiams A ug. 1, 1950 5 \\io odrow Tay lor H Ovi
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Remove shells from shrimp, except portion which covers tail. Cut down center of back and remove sand vein. Melt butter and add garlic. Simmer 3 minutes. Place shrimp on individual flame-proof platters, or large broiling pan. Pour garlic butter over them. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place in preheated broiler 3 inches from heat and broil 7 minutes, or until browned and tender. Makes four or fi ve servings.
SHRIMP CURRY 2 pounds shriinp, fresh or frozen 1,4 cup butter or margarine 1 clove garlic, minced I large onion, chopped fine 3 stalks celery, chopped I green pepper, chopped 1 apple, cored and chopped I carrot, chopped 2 tomatoes, chopped 1 tablespoon chopped parsley I bay leaf, crumbled Pinc~~ each dried thyme, marjoram, 1n mt 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons curry powder Y2 teaspoon salt SHRIMP CURRY ... Just one of many International favorite recipes ~ to Yz teaspoon cayenne pepper ~ teaspoon nutmeg 2 beef bouillon cubes HRIMP are the true internationals them- Sweet and Pungent Shrimp 2 cups water 1 cup dry white wine Sof the fi shy set. Fishermen around from the Chinese, a Shrimp Curry the world catch them in huge nets for adapted from an Indian recipe, and grateful cooks in every land. They in an Italian Scampi. The Curry takes Cl ean shrimp and cook it in boiling turn serve them to admiring families time; the other two recipes ai:e easily salted water fiv e minutes. Melt butter and to diners-out in restaurants and and quickly prepared. in large saucepan or skillet. Add all hotels. ingredi ents up to flour. Cover and When caught, the shrimp may be SWEET AND PUNGENT SHRIMP cook over lo w heat about an hour. grayish green, pink or brown; they 1 pound shrimp, fresh or frozen Stir in flour, curry powder, salt, cay may have smooth heads or grooved; ~ cup brown sugar enne pepper, nutmeg and bouillon 2 tablespoons cornstarch cubes. Slowly add 2 cups water. Cook they may be as tiny as your little Y2 teaspoon salt fin ger nail , big fellows eleven inches 1,4 cup vinegar until mixture begins to thicken and long, somewh ere in between. Regard I tablespoon soy sauce add wine. Cook over low heat about le s of their color, nationality or size, 1 No. 2 can pineapple chunks half an hour. Press mixture through 1 green pepper, cut into strips a sieve. Add shrimp and let simmer their popul arity is the same and they 2 small onions, cut in rings all turn the same rosy pink when until shrimp is heated through. (Sauce and hrimp can be prepared ahead cooked. Shell and devein hrimp and cook and heated just before serving.) Serve it in boiling salted water two to five Proof of their cosmopolitan nature with fluffy boiled rice and variety of minutes. Mix together in saucepan is fo und in cook books the world over. co ndiments- crushed peanuts, grated brown sugar, cornstarch, salt, vinegar, Each co untry, of course, gives its own coconut and chutney. parti cular Aavor to shrimp recipes, soy sauce and juice drained from and adapts the shellfish to th e type of canned pineapple. Cook until slightly dish it likes the best. Italians call thick, stirring constantly. Add green these shellfish gamberi or scampi; pepper, onion and pineapple chunks ANNI VERSARIES Co ntinued from Page 4 F,rench, crevettes; Spani sh, Cama and cook 2 or 3 minutes. Remove from rones ; Danes, raj e r; Norwegians, heat, add shrimp and let stand about MILL SUPPLIES 10 minutes. Just before serving, bring Entployn1ent Years strandreker ; Germans, garne el e n ; Date With Co. Greeks, nalantia; Siamese, Kun; and to a boil, stirring constantl y. Serve Curtis B . Mills Aug. 11, 1948 7 the Ch in ese imply ha or har. with hot rice. Makes enough for three Dorman F orres t Aug. 1, 1951 4 )1:::; 1wood AusHn Aug. 25, 1954 1 We Americans, who always find or four servings. fo reign recipes intriguing, have copied TRAILER SALES SCAMPI many of these shrimp di shes, using EmpJoyu1ent Years 2 pounds shrimp, fresh or frozen Date With Co. our methods of preparing food and 0 . l{. iU cCnule, :i4 pound butter or margarine 0 Aug. 1, 1949 6 n . P. nich a rcl s Aug. 24, 195 3 2 our ingredi ents. Here are three of 1 clove garlic, minced fine J. C. Turney Ang. 16, 1954_ 1
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EMMA LAURA DOUGLASS Blueprint Dept., 17 Years
SEYMOUR CURTIS Foundry, 20 Years Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 I Here and There Around the Pl,ant I R. " Red" Lewis dropped by I . THE ROUNDUP office a few d~ys Hao-o to show off a picture of the strmg of fi sh he caught recently. Seems Red is really enjoying his retirement, and from the looks of th e fish he caught, we'd say somebody's lake will have to be re-stocked if he keeps that up. The picture of Red's fish is carried on this page. Of course, he's mighty Mr. & Mrs. Tom Duke in Wyoming proud of th e fi sh, but he's ev~n proud~r of the o-ifts presented to him by his Duke began to see the first now follow :'mployees when he retired, for co vered mountains. He told his so n these o-ifts helped him land all those in- law that the white stuff off in th e fi sh. If you'll look real close, you'll distance was snow-covered mountains, find some other property displayed but th e son-in-law disagreed. They that was not given to him by his co made a ten cent bet, and when they workers but it helped to make fi shing I more enjoyable, he says. o-o t near enough to know that the RED Lewis proves he· s a fisherman was snow, the son-in-law And while we're on the subject of ~hiteness paid off his bet with ten copper pen fi sh, take a look at that catch proudly T. H. Duke, employee on the second I displayed by Floyd Rogers and Roy nies. shift in the Machine Shop, and his Everyone had a good time, enjoyed Brown. Trailer Division employees, fami ly enjoyed a wonderful vacation and D~vid Walker, former employee. the coo l weather, and saw a lot of during the week the plant was down. beautiful America. Mr. Duke tried to II That 40-pound catfish was snagged in He's entered a photo in th e Snapshot the Neches River on a trotline set out get too friend ly with a black bear cub Contest but he had some more that in the Yellowstone Park, and had to below Highway 103. We understand we wa~ted to include in thi issue of that had anybody in Lufkin been li sten make a fast get-away when mama bear THE RO UNDUP. made an appearance, but other than I ing that ni ght, they could have heard The vacationers traveled 3700 mil es that there was no trouble at al I. the ye l Is and screams of delight and in eight days, and visited Carlsbad disbelief that the boys were giving out There's a picture of a mighty happy Caverns, Colorado Springs and Pike's yo un o-ste r on this page. He's Curtis with. What we're waiting on now is Peak, Denver, Laramie, and Yellow I that big fi sh fry! Lena~d Brown who was celebrating stone National Park. his third birthday. His cake was baked One of the amusing incidents that by his Mother, Geneva. His Daddy, happened on the trip was when Mr. \"i·illie Brown, is an employee of th e I
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Foundry as a cupola attendant. They are the owner's of Geneva's Drive·ln. FJlSHION -WISE HUNTERS
ARTHUR MARTIN, Welding Shop employee, captured a coral snake in I T MAY be high fashion in the Fall his backyard at Poll ok recently, and to dress in glorious autumn colors, but brought him to the shop in a fruitjar. if you or others in your family are He said he poked all sorts of things planning hunting trips, you had bet at the snake trying to get him to snap ter be practical. The ational Rifle al something, but the snake never did. Association of America has several Now Arthur is wondering if the bite recommendations for the proper cloth of a coral snake is as dead I y as folks ing to wear hunting, and cautions that say it is. But hi s brother, Taylor, clothes should be as carefully chosen whose picture is seen el ewhere in this as your guns and ammunition. issue, didn't offer lo test the ve num of The local climate and weather con the repti I nor did anyone else who ditions, the weight of yo ur gear, and loo ked it over. the length of yo ur trip are all, of co urse, points to consider, but the colors, textures, and patterns of your hunting wardrobe are even more im portant. When it comes right down to a smart hunter heeds safety rules it, yo ur life itself may depend on your outer clothing's being vi ible to co m warm I y dressed. You'll find that ev panion hunters. eral layers of lightweight garments The ational Rifle Association sug will provide more warmth than a gests that yo u avoid white. It might single heavy la ye r, since air spaces be confused with a cottontail or a between the la ye rs provide extra in white-tailed deer. A luminous yellow sulation. Li ght woo ls are recom is always easily identifiable. Large mended because of their weight, pack checks are also excellent. The usual ability, warmth, and because they are red may not always be the safest, as the least uncomfortable when wet. Fall foliage often blends with it. The at ion a I Rifle Association For your health's sake, be sure to wishes yo u good hunting. Be comfort have a complete physical examination able, but most important of all, be before going out into the fi eld. Then, safe. Better read up on all the rules when you do go, be sure yo u are of safe hunting before venturing out.
T. W. MARTIN and a coral snake make yo ur picture and yo u wo uld rather wait until you are wearing Co ngratulations to Mr. and Mrs. cleaner clothes or have a fresh shave, No lan Wi Ison on the birth of John N THIS month's ROUNDUP, we have please do not hesitate to say so. We No lan July 10. Little John weighed in I pictures of employees who cele want yo u to be as proud of the photo at 9 pounds and 5 ounces. The mother as we are to make it. We' ll be glad to gol along nice ly, and the Father, an brated during the months of July and August their ten or more years of come around the next day if yo u'd like employee of the Accounting Depart us to. ment, urvived the ordeal in pretty service with this company. The ones good sha pe. who are missing in the picture section Let us say again that we always are those who were away on vacation welcome your suggestions or criti I and did not return before the deadline cisms for this magazine. It is published for the magazine. for your enlightenment and pleasure; We are attempting to get every em if it is not accomplishing this purpose, ployee's picture in the magazine dur then tell us about it. Also, we'll be ing the year. We may not be able to glad to print any photographs of your realize this ambition. Most of the time, family that you will bring to the Edi we are able to use only the pictures tor's office. We are happy to get em of employees who are celebrating ployee contributions to the magazine more than five years employment with at all times. the Lufkin Foundry. We appreciate very much the co operation we are receiving from all To a woman, the perfect husband is employees in this endeavor. We try one who thinks he has a perfect wife. to arrange the picture-taking schedule so that it will fall on the first of the Sympathy, they say, is what one MIKE HARBUCK. Gary Frost, Tom week when most employees wear clean woman gives another in exchange for Duke's grandsons a top Pikes Peak worksuits. If at any time we ask to all the details.
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a boy, so I'm so rry to tell yo u it's a the foreman fire yo u?" girl again. " Well, you know what a foreman Father: That's okay. A girl was my is- he's the guy that stands around second choice. and watches the other fellow work. " " Well, what's that got to do with Wife: What do yo u mean coming it ?" home half drunk? "He go t jealous of me. P eople Husband: It wasn't my fault. I ran thought I was the foreman." out of money. Two cowboys were talking. One He (with hands over her eyes) : If said, "My name's Tex." you can't guess who this is in three Second one said, "Yo u from Back from the county fair with a guesses, I'm going to kiss you. Texas?" new horse, the farmer found the ani She: Bugs Bunny? Davy Crockett? Answered the first one: "Nope, from mal wo uldn't eat or drink. But hope Santa Claus? Louisiana, but who wants to be cal led 1 fully, he said: "By goll y I got a real Louise?" bargain if he's a good wo rker." Coach: Who told yo u that yo u were a football playe r? Hea r about the dentist and mani The traveling salesman ran out of Candidate: When I was born, my curist who got married? Now they're 1 gas on a lonely road and asked at the father looked at me and said, "This fi ghting tooth and nail. only house in sight, " Can yo u put me is the end!" up for the night?" Groom. Did yo u make these biscuit " I reckon so," replied the farmer, Explorer's wife (accepting her hus with yo ur own little hands? 1 " if yo u don' t mind sharing a room band's helmet and gun that had been Bride: Why, yes, darling. with my young son." found in the jungle) : " Poor Henry! Groom: Well, who helped yo u lift "Good heavens," gasped the sales Something he di agreed with ate him." them out of the stove? man, "I'm in the wrong joke." 1 Dan: I hear that Mr. Banks lost his If it weren't for running up bi ll s, A Wall Street statistician undertook entire fortune in ten years. How did some women wou ldn't get any exercise a modified Kinsey investigation of his it happen? at all. own. According to him, man's rela Don: Dabblin g rn stocks and 1 tionship with th e opposite sex can be blondes. divided roughly into seven stages : l. Wha-a-a! I want my mama! " Is yo ur wife economical ?" The Foundry Roundup 2. G'wan, beat it. We don't want any "She sure is. We do without every 1 Volume 12 Number 7 old girl playing with us ! thing I want." 3. Gee, Alice, you're beautiful! Published Monthly for Employees and Their Families 4. If yo u don't marry me, I'll shoot The mountainee r woman, asked by the census taker ho w many children by myself! LUFKIN FOUNDRY & MACHINE CO. she had, began, "There's Willie and VIRGINIA R. ALLEN. Editor 5. All right, go home to your mother. Mary and Henry and Martha and- " See if I give a darn. " Tot the names," instructed the of 6. She's co nsiderabl y yo unger than fi cial, just the numbers." I am, Alice, I admit. But she under stands me. "They ain't got numbers," the woman retorted, " th ey all got names." 7. Kitchy-koo ! Did you hear that, A I ice? Listen, she said, " Grand pa"! A reporter from a big city news paper stopped at the office of a little Clerk to sweet young thing in form rural week) y. During the conversation fitting sweater: "Would you like to he asked the aged editor of the weekly step outside and try it for whistles ''H ow do yo u manage to keep yo ur' before yo u really decide?" circulation in a town where the people Wife: You ay you saw Mabel know what everyo ne else is doing?" downtown this afternoon? What kind The co untry editor grinned a little 1 of hat was she wearing? and replied, "The only reason they Member Hubby: Don't know. Didn't notice. read the paper is to see who's been Society of Asso ciated Industrial Too windy. caught at it." Editors International Council of Industrial Editors l Family doctor: I know you wanted "Say, I hear yo u lost your job. Did 1
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