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Sa~a Corpofation AB EWS ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX• LIVERMORE , CALl F. Published every other Friday for the employees of Sandia VOL. 13, NO. 8 Corporation, contractor to the• Atomic Energy Commission APRIL 14, 1961 Six-Mile Holloman Sled Tra,ck Used in Special Sandia Tests One Sandian stations himself 7244-3 , stationed at Holloman Air coasted to a stop more than in a large room filled with banks Force Base. 11,800 feet from the firing point; of telemetry receivers, tape and The second Sandian is William therefore, this test could not have paper recorders, and an oscillo• F. Farmer, who mans the instru• been conducted on Sandia's 3000- scope or two. While his eyes scan mentation in the Sandia trailer, foot sled track. dials and his ears are alert to located behind a concrete block• Bob Male and Bill Farmer co• the amplifier of a small, two-way house at the impact end of the ordinate Sandia operations at communications set, four or five six-mile sled track. Holloman with the ARDC's Air other men are in the room making Two Successful Runs Force Missile Development Cen• final adjustments to the instru• Last month a Sandia designed ter personnel. For a sled firing, mentation. Occasionally he picks and developed rocket sled made Bob and Bill arrange the firing up the microphone of this set two successful runs on the Hollo• date with track personnel, make and speaks a few words of con• man track. These firings were the any necessary last-minute modifi• firmation or acknowledgement. first under a new AEC-ARDC cations or ·repairs to the sled or A second Sandian is alone in a (Air Research and Development its telemetry instrumentation more confined area, but is like• WESTERN ELECTRIC employees are moving into the Company's Command) contract. when the sled arrives from Sandia wise surrounded by banks of tele• A total of 18 components being Corporation, and run telemetry new office building at Broadway and Fulton Street in New York metry receivers, recorders, and a City. The new 31-story structure is nearing completion opposite tested for effects of high initial check-outs when the sled is placed similar two-way communications on the track. St. Paul's Chapel, which is Manhattan's oldest public building. acceleration were carried by the set. sled in the two firings. On both At about X-minus-two-hours rn the large room, which is the runs the sled was allowed to coast Bob goes to the Midway Instru• Midway Instrumentation Station to a stop (rather than being mentation Station to observe the Western Electr·ic Moving Into at Holloman's 35 ,000-foot rocket braked) to avoid strains on com• final telemetry check-outs, and if sled track, is Robert W. Male, ponents resulting from rapid de• necessary to ·give the "no-go" to supervisor of Sandia's Section celeration of the sled. The sled the Firing Control Genter. A New Manhattan Building "no-go" order is given if any of Occupancy of the new Western gross area of 759,545 square feet the transmitting channels carry• Electric Building at 222 Broadway in 31 stories. ing vital data from the sled should malfunction. in New York City, began April 3. Exterior walls are constructed The move of Western Electric of two colors of glazed brick; one At the Sandia trailer Bill Far• employees is being conducted in is a soft grey and the other a soft mer turns on the telemetry re• stages as space becomes available pink. ceivers to record supplementary in the new building, ~which is data for "quick look" use. This nearing completion on lower The new building will consoli• data can be examined im• Broadway, at Fulton Street. Mean• date most of the other New York mediately after the sled firing to while building trades workers are offices of the company, which determine the measure of success finishing other parts of the struc• have been situated in leased quar• of the test. The availability of t ure. ters in downtown buildings. these data is important in prepar• About 4000 Western Electric Among the features of the ing for subsequent firings in the people will work in the building building will be an automatic, in• same test program, which may oc• when it is fully occupied by June. ter-office mail delivery system, cur in a few hours or days-too The Company's headquarters will which will direct and deliver mail brief a period to allow Sandia's r emain, however, in the building to departments on different floors. Data Services Department 7240 to of the parent American Telephone There will be a cafeteria for em• reduce and distribute the compre- and Telegraph Company, across ployees on the fifteenth floor, (Continued· on Page 3) t he street at 195 Broadway, which with vista windows on three sides. has been Western's center of op• All mechanical functions within erations for more than 40 years. the building will be monitored Sandia Life Insurance The new structure rises to 393 from a control center, at which an feet above Broadway. It has a attendant will be able to control Programs Pay $363,000 the heating, cooling and ventila• MIDWAY INSTRUMENTATION STATION-Bob Male (right) During Calendar 1960 tion at any point, and communi• Sandia Authors Have and Al Britt, chief of FM/FM telemetry unit, monitor wave forms During 1960 beneficiaries of Papers Accepted for cate with all floors and elevators. on an oscilloscope just before a Sandia rocket sled firing. Sandia Corporation employees participating in the group life Meeting, Publication and supplemental life insurance C. W. Harrison, Jr., and D. H. programs became eligible for Denton, Jr., (both 1424) have had death claims totaling $363,000. a paper accepted for presenta• There were 28 deaths of active tion at the International Scien• and retired Sandia employees tific Radio Union and Institute during the year. Twenty-seven of of Radio Engineers spring meet• these had supplemental life in• ing to be held in Washington, surance coverage totaling $215,700, D.C., May 1-4. while 22 had $147,400 in cover• Title of the paper is "The Elec• age from the basic group life in• trically Short Antenna as a Probe surance program. Five of the 28 for Measuring Free Electron Den• employees were retired. sities and Collision Frequencies Since the start of Sandia's in an Ionized Region." group life insurance program in Mr. Harrison is also co-author April 1951, there have been 124 with R. W. P . King (Sandia Con• employee deaths. Of these, 98 sultant), of two papers which ap• were covered under the group pro• peared in the March issue of the gram and beneficiaries received mE Transactions on Antennas and payments totaling $418,000. Propagation. They are "Cylindri• Supplemental life insurance was cal Shields" and "Folded Dipoles first offered to employees in and Loops." September 1958. Beneficiaries of 47 employees covered under this program have received payments Sandia Papers Read totaling $385,000, which includes At Cratering Meet $23,000 in accidental death ben• Washi ~ ngton, efits. In D. C. Coverage under the group life Two members of Nuclear Burst insurance program is free to all Physics Department 5110 prepared full-time Sandia employees and technical papers for the recent goes into effect after six months Cratering Symposium in Wash• of employment. Eligibility in the ington, D. C. The meeting was supplemental life insurance pro• held at the Geophysical Labora• gram also begins after six months tory at Carnegie Institution. of employment. Employees may B. F. Murphey presented a pa• purchase at very low cost life in• per entitled "Explosion Graters in surance equal to one year's .. pay Desert Alluvium" and L. J. Vort• rounded to the next highest thou• man prepared a paper. on "High sand. Currently 96 per cent of all Explosive Craters in Tuff and SEVERAL SANDIANS inspect a sled following its et sled reached a velocity of 1300 feet per second eligible employees are enrolled in Basalt." run on the six-mile Holloman sled track. The rock- (885 mph) before coasting 11,838 feet to a stop. this program. LAB NEWS PAGE TWO APRIL 14, 1961 R. B. Powell Will Be Brotherhood Dinner Chairman ·R. B. Powell, Vice President, Personnel, will be chairman for the annual Brotherhood dinner, sponsored by the local members of the National Conference of Chris• tians and Jews. Invit•ations have been sent to numerous civic leaders for ;the dinner, to be held May 4 at 7:15 p.m . at the Coronado Club. The dinner helps to raise funds to be used to further better un• derstanding. Featured speaker will be Dr. Lewis Webster J·ones, president of the National Con• ference of Christians and Jews. Base Kindergarten Taking Registrations For Fall Session Pre-registration for the fall kindergarten classes '3:t the San• dia Base nursery will be May 1-12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p .m. To be eligible for the classes child1·en must reach their fifth birthday by Dec. 31, 1961. The nursery is flor the convenience of parents either employed or living on Sandia Base. For additional information call VARIOUS BREEDS OF RANGE HORSES are represented in this 6 ft. (1424) has purchased. The mural covers most of one wall. base ext. 20113 or 34120. x16 ft. mural by Wyoming artist Bob Qtrothers which G eorge Rodgers Scenery is typical of the western slope of Big Horn Mountains. Sandian Who Serves Giant Painting Brings Drama S. L. Swysgood Active in Knights 1 Templar Fight Against Blindness Action Into Rodgers Home It may seem strange to see a Albuquerque in the back of a pick• This is another in a series of articles describing the com• 16 ft. mural in a 19 ft. long living up truck. At the Rodgers home the munity activities of Sandia employees. room, but that doesn't bother mural was again mounted on the George Rodgers ( 1424). But he is wooden frame and the final coat * * * sorry that so few are able to enjoy of varnish was applied. "From darkness unto ligh t " is that may be assumed by welfare the painting in his own home. George and his family enjoy the motto of the Knights Templar agencies, unions and other organi• "This is a painting that should studying the detail in the paint• Eye Foundation, Inc. Locally S. L. zations. be shared," he says. ing. "Amid the thousands of buf• Swysgood (7125-2) is active in The foundation has a co-opera• tive agreement with The Eye-Bank The six ft. high mural depicts a falo we found an albino the other for Sight Restoration, Inc., which small band of wild horses watch• night. In the lower r}ght corner was established in 1944 ,to make ing the approach of a great herd are several white wolves. These available sight Testora'tion by of buffalo. The area is the west• are now extinct, but were known means of a corneal graft for those ern slope of the Big Horn Moun• to follow :buffalo herds in the pio• with corneal defects caused by tains in Wyoming. The colors are neer days of the West. Most of disease or accident. primarily soft pastels. all I enjoy looking at the Wyom• The huge oil painting was creat• ing rangelands I knew so well as Forms Available ed by Bob Carothers of Shell, Wyo. a boy," George says. Mr. Swysgood has available "Bob and I went to grade school forms to be filled out by persons together," George says. "I think wishing to donate ,their eye tissue he must have started painting and Appears in Rodey Show to this eye-bank after their death. drawing when he was born al• Jack Scheerer (4411-3) will "The gift of your eyes should not though it has only been since 1953 play two bit parts in the forth• be made a part of your will due to that he has sold any of his can• coming production of "The Vis• the time lag before wills can be vases." it" at the University of New probated," he pointed out. The The huge mural required 10 Mexico. The play will be pre• time limit for such a corneal months of intensive work. "I saw sented at Rodey Theatre April transplant is 48 hours. it last summer when I drove to 27-May 2. Tickets go on sale at For further information albout Shell to pick up another painting the boxoffice Monday. the Eye Foundation or the Eye• Betty Bosworth (2644) of Bob',s," George says. "Later I Jack formerly appeared in S. L. Swysgood (7125-2) Bank contact: S. L. Swysgood, decided to purchase it." -Prevention of Blindness- several plays presented by the Captain General, Pilgrim C'om• The artist and neighbors took Sandia Base Little Theatre mandery No . 3, Knights Templar Take A Memo, Please the canvas off the stretcher, pad• Group and in the UNM produc• helping to locate individuals who of New Mexico, Masonic Temple, Safe living is a lifetime propo• ded it with blankets and rolled it tion of "Abe Lincoln in Illi• qualify for assistance. Albuquerque, N. M., or in the Liv• sition. on a wooden spool. Bob drove it to nois." "This foundation was created for ermore area: Chester H. Newell, research, treatment, andj or hos• Grand Recorder, Grand Com• pitalization for diseases or injuries mandery of the Knights Templar Secretaries Honor Breakfast Time Bobcat Skaters Sought of the eye in an effort to prevent of California, Masonic Temple, A couple of Saturdays ago, Ice skating and hockey enthu• blindness," he explained. The San Francisco, Calif. Bosses at Dinner Kenneth D. Stout's big Irish siasts are urged to attend a meet• setter dog began an excited ing tonight at 7 :30 at the Albu• treatment of patients is free and A dozen Sandia men were limited 'to persons unable to pay barking. Investigating, Ken querque National Bank's Hospi• guests at the annual "Boss of the (who is in 7211) found the dog tality Room (East Central and regardless of race, creed, color, age, Congratulations Year" luncheon of ,the local chap-· or sex. had treed a bobcat about 200 Washington) . Plans will be out• ter of the National Secretaries ft. from the back door of his lined for a proposed ice rink, ac• "Since it was established in 1958 Born to: Association. eight cases have been treated in Mr. and Mrs. Tommy D. Don• house in Tijeras Canyon. Ken cording to Charles Runyan (4220) Joanne Boyd (4600), who is the New Mexico. On a n ational basis ham (2451-2) a son, Brent Lane, fired one shot from his .22 rifle of the recently-formed Po 1 a r chapter president, was mistress of assistance has been given 2296 in• on March 25. and dropped the cat. It meas• Plaza, Inc. The Figure Skating Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Rollosson ceremonies. Co-chairmen for the ured some four ft. in length Association, headed by N. A. dividuals. We need the help of luncheon arrangements were Jo (7223) twin daughters, Terri Jo and weighed 21 lbs. He's having Smith (3111-2), has endorsed the Sandia employees and others in Hannp, (2630) and Betty Bickel 30. it mounted. plan. locating these children and adults and Shelli Ann, on March (4300) . who face ·blindness if not given Quzenne formerly worked in 6021. proper t reatment," Mr. SWYsgood Mr. and Mrs. William H. On April 26 Joanne will discuss said. · Chandler (322'1) a son, William National Secretaries . ASsociation Sa~a Corporation The project is financed by an• H ., Jr., on April 4. and the quallfioations of Certified nual fixed . assessments from ap• Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Michnovicz Public SecTetaries before a lunoh• eon meeting of the American Bus• proximately 400,000 members of (3465) a daughter, Karla, on iness Club, a group of Heights this Masonic order and voluntary March 30. !busines•smen. contributions. There is no public Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Wiley LAB appeal made for funds. To date (7532) a son, Jerry Lee, on March ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. e EWS.LIVERMORE , CAll F. some $487,500 has !been granted 31. to the Department of Ophtalmolo• Mr. and Mrs. Winston Alm Sympathy Office of Publication: Bldg. 829, Employee Publications D:vision 3432, Sandia Laboratory, Albu. gy of 20 medical institutions for querque. Editor: Robert S. Gillespie. Associate Editor: Don E. Graham. Albuquerque staff: Cherry (8114-2) a son, Kevin Douglas, on To Robert Gentzler (7243-1) Lou Burns and June Leonard. Livermore staff: Richard A. Dickson and Robert J. Harks. research in this field. March 12. for the death of his sister recent• Prevent Blindness Mr. and Mrs. Chet Thompson ly. Permission to rep,·int material contained herein for other than governmental Since the aim is prevention of a son, Mark Andrew, on March use, may be obtained from the Editor, Lab News, Sandia Corpomtion 26. Dorothy is on leave from To Beulah E. Sutherland (7241- blindness, the foundation does not 4) for the death of her sister re• provide eye glasses

Odes Caster Retires APRIL 14, 1961 LAB NEWS PAGE THR~E From Sandia to Mountainair Farm Odes Caster (4574) will retire April 28 after eight years with Sandia Corpor• ation. During his years at Sandia Mr. Caster has stayed in Albu• querque during the week but returned to his farm near Mountain• air on week-ends. Now he plans to live in Mountainair with his wift and two of their seven childre:r; and work on his acreage wheneve1 he feels like it. The couple will undoubtedlj make frequent trips to Albuquer• INTERESTED JUNIOR high school students Boleslo Romero que to see their nine grand• SANDIA'S BUILDING at Holloman Air Force Base contains an (center) and Doug McDonald (right) were given special tour of children. office, storage space, and a telemetry instrumentation bay. In the Van de Graaff facilities and pulsed reactor by Howard Sander foreground are Phil Farmer (left) and Bob Male, both of 7244-3. (5432), who was impressed by teenagers' science fair exhibits. Aubrey Hanks Will Retire April 28 Continued from Page One . . . Personal Tour of Sandia Given Aubrey Hanks (4573) will re• tire April 28 after 10 years with Holloman Sled Track To Two Young Science Students Sandia Corpo• ration. He has hensive data record~d by track Two ninth grade students re• he said, "but its size will depend personnel. ceived a special tour of the Van upon parts I can obtain." His worked as a Others Are Present de Graaff accelerator and pulsed science teachers have spurred his chauffeur in the During most test operations reactor facilities recently as an interest. Motor Pool Di• Bob Male and Bill Farmer are outgrowth of their exhibits in the Doug has had his accelerator vision e x c e p t joined by representatives from regional science fair. model in operation, but he add• for his first Boleslo Romero, 14, of Garfield ed, "One night it works and the year and a half Organization 7230, 7244, 7250, junior high, received a first prize next it doesn't. I guess humidi• here. and/or 7100. from the Institute of Radio En• ty makes the difference." Mr. Hanks The rocket sled track at Hollo• gineers for his display, which ex• He decided to build an acceler• and his wife man (officially called the "cap• plained the principles of the linear ator model after seeing plans for plan to remain in Albuquerque at tive missile sled track") first ex• accelerator. Doug McDonald, 15, a single terminal generator kit. 824 Alvarado SK They have al• isted in 1949 as a 3500-foot track, son of G. C. McDonald (2530) , After Area III, Howard took ways enjoyed traveling and may made of standard railroad rails. received third prize in the junior the boys for a noontime visit to possibly take a trip to Alaska lat• The length of the track was in• category and first prize for his Sandia's salvage yard where he er. For the present they will visit creased to 5000 feet in 1951 to en• school, Wilson junior high, for his offered to help them purchase their son and daughter in Okla• able Col. John Paul Stapp to pur• model of a Van de Graaff accel• any surplus parts they might homa. sue his hum an environment erator. need for their projects. In coming months Mr. Hanks studies. Howard Sander (5432), one of Both Boleslo and Doug qualified also hopes to devote more time to The present track, constructed the judges for the ffiE, was so for the State Science Fair in So• trout fishing. in 1957, consists of bwo rails, each impressed by the youths' work corro April 8. four inches wide and six miles that he invited them to Sandia Welcome long. The 391h-foot sections of DISCRIMINATORS in the San• Laboratory for the personally Livermore Lab Plans steel rail, shipped from Bethle• dia trailer, near Holloman track, conducted tour. hem, Pa., were fuzed and welded are checked by Bill Farmer. At Bldg. 803 Elmo Hirni (5151) Two Golf Tourneys Newcomers into 10,000-foot lengths. These discussed the theory of the accel• March 27-April 7 lengths were then stretched, tied, Livermore Laboratory Employee 3000-foot track are already sched• erator and explained its opera• Services (8212-2) has announced Albuquerque and married to form the continu• t ion. Later in the morning the Beulah Akerstrom ---···-. ___ ···-·--········--· 3126 ous track. uled fov the Holloman track; for April. and May golf tournaments Violet M. Fogleman ______3126 example, in late May there will be boys were taken to Area m where C. Darrene Mickel ...... 6011 The track is anchored to a con• for Sandia employees. a series of research vehicles tests, Paul O'Brien (5413-2) explained Harry E. Morris .. .. 7535 crete trough which holds the rails April 22 is the date set for a *Shirley J. Smith ...... 3126 and in mid-summer a series of the technical aspects and opera• best-ball twosome tourna;ment to Clara L Wallace ...... ______3126 securely some seven feet apart. Janet A. Wood ...... 3 126 rain-erosion tests will necessitate tion of Sandia's new pulsed re• be held a~t the Pleasant Hills golf The south end of the track is 36 two sled shots per day for about actor, which will produce intense course in San Jose. starting time California feet higher than the north (firing) bursts of fast n eutrons and gam• Donald D. TerHaar, Santa Clara ...... 5150 12 consecutive days. will. be 8:30a.m. Florida end to compensate for the curva• ma rays for use in radiation On May 6 a best-ball foursome Richard V. Foster, Orlando ...... 3465 ture of the earth. effects studies. tournament will be held at the Illinois Incidentally, there is enough James E. Malloch, Evergreen Park ... 7223 Walt DZ"ugan Team Boleslo has been interested in Tilden Park golf course in Berk• steel in the two rails to build al• physics since seventh grade. A eley, with stal'lting time at 10 a.m. Texas most 2000 cars, and enough con• Wins 1st Livermore regular reader of "Science World," Everet H. Beckner, Houston ...... 5151 A trophy will be awarded to the crete in the track bed to build a "Scientific American" and other l10w net scorer in both events, with Virginia Bridge Tournament David L. Durgin, Arlington ...... 7118 sidewalk-four feet wide and four semi-technical magazines, his o!Jher prizes J'or runners-up. * Denotes rehired inches thick - from Holloman to A Livermore Laboratory dupli• work on a linear accelerator has Deposits for both tournaments Returned from Leave Santa Fe (more than 200 miles). cate bridge team, captained by been mainly of research nature must be submitted to Lori Carico Berna ~ een S. Cervantes ___ ------3423 Clarence L. Gamble ...... 4614 Some 185 civilian and military Walt Dzugan (8212-ll, won top so far. "I plan to build a model," (8212-2) by April 17. David A. Paschal ...... 4233 personnel, headed by Lt. Col. D. H. honors in the first duplicate Vlcek and Lt. Col. L. M. Bogard, bridge tournament to be held at operate the track facility and the Laboratory. its related recording instrumen• Walt's team, made up of Don tation. Senior project officers Wagner, Dick Ballard, and Ray Capt. Morris Haven and Capt. Huston

PAGE FOUR LAB NEWS APRIL 14, 1961 Sandia Colloquium Speaker to Talk On Power-from-Earth Possibilities "Kilauea Iki and Power from research colloquium on Wednes• the Earth" will be discussed by day, April 19, at 9:30a.m. in Bldg. Donald E. Rawson, Lawrence 815. Radiation Laboratory, at a Sandia His presentation is a preview of a paper 'Which he will give at a E. H. Draper Will United Nations meeting in Rome. The paper is entitled "New Sources Preside at ASME of Power: Geothermal, Wind, and Tide." It deals with a program Region VIII Meet of drilling into molten lava at The American Society of Me• Kilauea Iki, Ha;waii. Part of the chanical Engineers will hold its talk will be speculation on possi• Region VIII Regional Administra• bility of building and using lava tive Conference in Denver April pools in other parts of the world. 20 and 21. E. H. Draper, Vice Prof. W. M. Elsasser will speak President, Development, who is on "The Interior of the Earth" currently regional vice president. at a colloquium on Wednesday, will preside. The national pres• April 26, at 9:30 a.m. in Bldg. ident of ASME, William Byrne, 815. Prof. Elsasser is head of the and the national secretary, 0. B. Physics Department at the Uni• Schier, will also attend. versity of New Mexico. The conference is one of 10 A Sandia Corporation-Universi• QUALITY CONTROL personnel from Western participated from Sandia. Shown above (I to r) are held by the national professional ty of New Mexico joint colloquium Electric plants throughout the country met at San• Mel McCutchan (3132-2), George Hawley (2561-3), organization to discuss policies on will be held in the Sandia Base dia Corporation last week to study problems of Wilbur Miller (3132-2), Bonnie Small, from WE's a regional basis and recommend Little Theater on Friday, April 28, training quality control engineers. Quality Control Allentown, Pa., plant, and Larry Snodgrass (2561). courses of action to the national at 3 p.m. Alfred G. Lande, pro• Department 2560 and Training Department 3130 They met in Coronado Club's La Cana room. council of ASME. John W. Mc• fessor emeritus at Ohio State Kiernan (7147) serves the region University, will speak on "Quan• as secretary and will attend along tum Mechanics, from Dualism to Supervisory OSCAR Awards Presented During with New Mexico Section Chair• Unity." Appointments man A. J. Clark (7125) and Vice Tickets are not required for any Birthday Party for Data Machines Chairman Don Williams (7311) of the meetings. For further in• WILLIAM A. SHINNICK to su• as delegates. G. C. McDonald formation contact G. W. Ander• pervisor of Engineering Methods Long before Analysis Section who work closely with the ma• (2530) and E. K. Gardner (2541) son, colloquium chairman, ext. Section II, 7512-2 acquired its two "OSCARs" chines. will attend as chairmen of the 49164. 4111 - 3, Busi• last year, members of the section Phil Bircher received the title of regional publication and building n e s s Methods had given personalities to the OSCAR "daddy." Trouble-shooter fund committees. Cancer Crusade Starts; Department. two semi-automated oscillogram Carl Smith earned an award as Region VIII of ASME includes Bill has been record readers. · OSCAR "doc." An OSCAR "fire• the states of New Mexico, Colo• Sandians Give $8900 assigned to the The machines automatically man" award was given to Ed Mc• rado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Quality Assur• read oscillograms, transcribing Garvie, who comes running if the and parts of Idaho and Texas: - To 1960-61 Campaign ance organiza• data into IBM cards. machines overheat. When the two machines finally Four professional se·ctions and The 1961 Cancer Crusade for the tion during his Bob Isidore, who once said "you 10 university student sections form Bernalillo County unit of the four and a half arrived, there was a celebration in the section. Birth announce• have to take data reduction meth• the participating groups. Follow-· American Cancer Society will be years at Sandia. ods on faith," received a certifi• ing the RAC meeting, the Rocky held during the month of April. Previously he worked three years ments were sent out, and super• visor Phil Bircher brought in a box cate for his faithfulness to the Mountain Student Conference will Sandia Corporation employees as an industrial engineer for the of candy. OSCARs. be held at the University of Col• have already donated $8900 to the Gardner Board and Carton Com• health agency through the 1960- pany, Middletown, 0., and then Last week, the OSCARs had In the background of this little orado to hear and select the out• their first birthday anniversary. standing student paper from 61 Employees Contribution Plan. two years as assistant plant man• party was a picture of a stork To celebrate the occasion, the bringing a new OSCAR to Sandia those prepared for presentation The county goal this year is ager for the company's paper• section had a party. Certificates Corporation. It's due to arrive any at the conference. $50,000. making subsidiary in Akron, 0. Bill holds a BS degree in me• were presented to four persons day. chanical engineering from North• western University and an MS Tommy Kelly Takes Table Tennis degree in business and engineering administration from Massachu• Lab Championship for Fifth Time setts Institute of Technology. He served three years in the Air For the fifth consecutive year liminary superintendency tourna• Force. Tommy Kelly (2442) is champion ments. of the Sandia Laboratory singles Organizational winners who GEORGE W. ANDERSON, JR., table tennis tournament. competed in the finals were: to manager of Electrochemical "This was the last time I 'll enter Development a tournament," Tommy said. "I George Williams

Desks through largest buildings Annual Sandia Laboratory s·pring Clean-Up Campaign Begins Monday Clean-up at Sandia Laboratory begins Monday. A program of the 4500 and 4600 organizations, the clean-up will clear work areas of unwanted or unused equipment and also reduce fire hazards. Grounds Maintenance Section 4575-3 is already concentrating on clean-up of outdoor areas. The "big push" inside starts next week. "All employees are asked to help," Sam Johnson, Division 4542 super• visor, says. Next week, material may be sent JOYFUL REUNION - Marie Davidson (center) embraces to. reclamation without paper Catherine Rogalla, former Sandian, and Verne McNabney (8241-3). i ork. Call .ext. 54208, Material They helped save her life when seriously injured in an auto wreck. ~andling Section 4614-2, to make arrangements for pick up of un• wanted material. Accident Victim Thanks Verne If accounting credit is desired for items sent to reclamation, at• tach a tag with the individual's McNabney for Helping Save Life name, organization number, and A Santa Monica woman, who she decided to find the people who telephone extension. Organization spent more than a year in the hos• helped her and thank them. It 4.622 will prepare the DTR form OUT IT GOES-Trash is tossed into the truck by Ramon Bernal pital recovering from an automo• wasn't an easy task to find Verne and arrange credit. Refer ques• (left) and Pat Garcia (in shadow) of Grounds Maintenance Divis• bile accident, recently visited or the other persons who were tions concerning this to ext. 26171. ion 4575. It is all part of a campaign to clean up Laboratory areas. Verne McNabney while on a pil• present at the accident scene. But Employees are advised to clean grimage throug.h California to Mrs. Davidson located him out desks, storage cabinets, and proved safety cans. Place used terial going to stora,ge will require find and thank those who helped through Salton Sea Test Base work areas. Small trash should be rags in approved containers." a completed form 6370-F. Only save her life. personnel. Accompanying her to put in dumpsters. Large bulky Fire prevention inspectors will limited space is available in Ware• The story unfolded when the Livermore was Catherine Rogalla, trash should be placed near a be checking all buildings next house Services Division 4612. victim, Marie Davidson, ap• who was the SSTB nurse who was dumpster for pickup. week. Fire hazards will be report• As part of the clean-up cam• proached the receptionist at Liver• in the ambulance with Verne. Cardboard cartons are available ed to supervisors for correction. paign, a movie "Fire Prevention" more Laboratory and asked for Miss Rogalla now works at San from Division 4624, ext. 44144. "In recent weeks," Sam reports, will be shown to Sandia employees Verne McNabney. Verne now Diego County Hospital. "Have only a one-day's supply "inspectors have noticed excess next week. works in the Health and Safety of flammable liquids in buildings," material in most laboratory areas. "We have had no fire loss this "I don't believe I've ever been Section (8241-3). He was the am• Sam suggests. "Discard partially Idle equipment to be used in the year," Sam points out. "Sandia so surprised," Mac reports. "You bulance driver who answered an used cans of paint, lacquer or future should be placed in stor• has been fortunate. The record hear many stories about people emergency call on Nov. 17, 1959, thinner. Store acetone, alcohol or age." Call ext. 54208 to arrange can be continued through the co• whose lives have been saved, but at Salton Sea Test Base, and met other flammable liquids in ap- for transportation to storage. Ma- operation of all employees." this is the first time I've heard of Mrs. Davidson for the first time. someone going to all this trouble Her car had collided with one to say thanks." driven by a young soldier. He was killed and Mrs. Davidson, her Mrs. Davidson told Verne she is Livermore's Chad Shanabarger Explores mother and her cousin, were in• still looking for a truck driver who jured, Mrs. Davidson most severe• stopped to help. She's confident ly. Verne took the injured to the that she can locate him even Caves for Recreation; Likes Them 'Wild' Brawley hospital. though she doesn't know his name "Watch out for that first step• When she got out of the hospital or for whom he works. Chad has investigated about 50 to the entrance," said Chad. "After it's 180 feet straight down!" wild and commercial caves since entering, we crawled, climbed, "That's what they told me when he took up "spelunking," a sport• walked, and stumbled through Theater Arts Center .c ()ffers Wide I started into the 'Hellhole'," said ing cousin to speleology, the study mazes of stalactite and stalagmite Charles Shanabarger (8151-1) . of caves. formations, squeezing t h r o u g h Most of Chad's cave adventures crevices and openings for what Cultural Activity; Sandians Help The Hellhole, loca.ted in West seemed miles into the cave, until Virginia, is a "wild" cave, one took place before he came to Cal• ifornia, in West Virginia, Penn• we finally emerged in.to a gigantic Sandians are helping promote Sandians are also found behind which has not been developed for room. community cultural g r o w t h the scenes of Theater Arts Cen• commercial purposes. The term sylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky, where caves abound. "There was complete quiet and through participation in the Al• ter productions. Alexander Jack "wild" is also applied to undiscov• total !blackness; you could just feel buquerque Theater Arts Center. (3311-1) has applied his imagina• ered caves. While the Hellhole During the Civil War Confeder• the vastness of the room. It was The Center was organized a tion and extensive background in wasn't the most unusual cave ate and Union forces manufactur• an unearthly sensation. As our year ago as a non-profit civic the theater in his job as scenic "Chad" investigated, it was one ed ammunition and uniforms in eyes grew accustomed to the dark, corporation, and is comprised of designer. Brian Finley (3111 ) has of the most difficult to enter. many of these caves. Other spe• we could make out huge boulders four separate performing groups. been responsible for administra• lunkers have come across their old scattered like pebbles around the The only way into the Hellhole sewing machines and casting tive organization of the center. is a sheer drop through a hole in room." The Choral Art Society, which molds. Chad started as a spelunker in succeeded the 16-year-old Albu• Any person may take part in the ground to the cave floor 180 The first wild cave Chad ex• 1950 when his son "Mickey," then querque Civic Chorus, presented the Center's activities. For further feet below. "We used two ropes in information contact Norman Rus• descending," said Chad. "We low• plored was the Sinnit Cave in West 11, developed an interest in geol• the Christmas Oratorio and the ogy. In helping Mickey, Chad be• sell Bell, director, at P . 0. Box ered ourselves with one rope, and Virginia. recent Brahms festival. The 100- came engrossed in rock formations voice chorus includes basses Clin• 3125 or by telephone at AX9- tied .the other around our waists as "We had to pick our way up a and explorations himself. His en• ton Purdue (2422), Vernon Hen• 6616. a safety measure." steep talus escarpment just to get tire family now belongs .to the Na• ning (3151), Robert Betz (6010), tional Speleological Society, a non• and Bruce A. Caskey (7182) . Earl profit organization dedicated to Minor (7522) and Don Rost (3211) the promotion of speleology and sing tenor and, in addition, Don the protection of cave formation. serves as a member of the so• Chad plans to attend the 1961. ciety's board of advisors. Joyce annual reunion of the society, to Miller (3133) and Calla Ann be held this spring at the Crurlsbad Crepin (3 151) are members of the Caverns. alto section. Since caves offer rare and beau• In June the Choral Art Society tiful natural photograph specta• will perform Gilbert and Sulli• cles, especially in color, Chad, like van's light opera "The Mikado." most spelunkers, is a camera en• thusiast. He h as .taken hundreds of The Patio Players have present• photographs in caves and once ed two one-act plays, a full length won a prize for one of his shots at play and two other one-act plays a society reunion. are planned for May. "Cave exploring can be a real The Municipal Opera Company tight squeeze," said Chad. "One has scheduled the English version time a member of our party was of Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The crawling on his stomach through a Telephone" and "The Medium" very narrow passageway when he for April 28. Earlier this winter got claustrophobia. His ·body be• the group presented Cole Porter's gan to swell from fright and he "Kiss Me, Kate." couldn't move forward or back• ward. We had to keep talking to Perhaps the best known group him calmly for about 20 minutes is the Bel Canto Singers, a chorus before he was lback to normal size of 24 men and women who have and could wiggle out." performed a wide variety of se• Since Chad joined Livermore lections, from jazz to classical, Laboratory in 1959, he has only before Albuquerque civic and so• explored one cave in California, cial organizations. Bear Cave not far from Livermore, Peggy Howe, secretary for the but he plans more extensive spe• Sandia Laboratory office of the lunking. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance "I'm a little wary of Bear Cave, Company, has participated in the though," said Chad. "Af.ter my Choral Art Society, Bel Canto EMERGING from an underground cave is Charles caves during the past 10 years, taking hundreds of first visit there, I went back three Singers and Municipal Opera Shanabarger (8151-1), Livermore Laboratory spe• photos. This picture, which he took of himself, won months later and found part of Company as a leading soprano. leology hobbyist. "Chad" has explored some 50 a prize at a National Speleological Society reunion. the roof caved in." ~- -- -

Sandia Service Awards APRIL 14r 1961 LAB NEWS PAGE SEVEN 15 Years A. J. Peterson Promotes First Aid with Help of Box of·Snakes "Snakes are terribly misunder• stood critters," A. J. Peterson (7254-2) says. "Take this bull• snake here, you couldn't ask for a nicer pet."

Otis L. Wright William E. Rehbeck Edmund J. Zachewicx "Pete" gently stroked the writh• 4610 2342 4221 ing reptile's head. Its beadv eves April 15, 1946 April 17, 1946 April 17, 1946 glittered. In the background, in• side a sturdy wood, wire and glass box, a number of rattlesnakes provided a musical accomPani• ment. "The rattlers? Oh, I have re• spect for the rattlers. They have dignity and a definite point of view. You have to respect them," Pete says. As chairman of the First Aid James E. Palmer Henry W. Moeding C. E. Katzenberger 7221 4314 4132 committee for the Bernalillo April 18, 1946 April 22, 1946 April 23, 1946 County Chapter of the American 10 Years Chet Tarne Heads Red Cross, Pete is concerned with April 15-28 arranging programs on first aid S. A. Chemistruck 7532, Lorenzo D. Duran Toastmasters Club 4221, Lloyd E. Fuller 3110, Harry R. Holmes and first aid instruction. He pre• 11 21, Truman L. Daniel 3113, Ton y R. Lopez, At Livermore Lab sents several talks monthly to Jr. 4212, William R. Perret 5112, Robert J. Three Sandians were elected church groups, youth organiza• Dineen 1321, Dorothy Ham 3231, Fr ed Brow n, new olub officers for the Liver• Jr. 4623, Gilbert L. Eggert 11 21. tions and civic clubs on various BULLSNAKE DEMONSTRATOR-A. J. "Pete" Peterson believes Harry A. Gel wicks 4221, Tomas Hernandez more Toastmasters Club ·and aspects of first aid. in realism when he lectures on snakes and first aid procedures. 4511, Bennie D. Padilla 4513, Lesl1e B. Johnson were installed at a meeting held 4252, Nick T. Pavletich 2644, Ivan H. Laval ley Snakes and snakebite lectures Pete is first aid chairman for the Bernalillo County Chapter of 7213, J. L. Tischhauser, Jr . 7242, Ralph W. this week. Ohet Tame (8163-1) the American Red Cross. Rattlers are confined in the sturdy cage. Ambrose 4542, Lou ise M. Klopolsky 3126, Dan was elected president for the com• are his favorite subjects. He's been W. Wood 1432. ing six month term, Carl Lund• interested in snakes since he was hom (8116-3 ) was elected treas• a lboy back in lllinois. "I've had "We did it carefully," Pete says, how to use the kit and always have Mountain Club to Ski a couple of bullsnakes around the urer, and George Ruzicka (8161- "with a great deal of respect for one handy. This means in your A ski mountaineering trip this 2), secretary. house for pets," he says. "Lately, weekend, sponsored by the New The club is open .to all Liver-• however, I've had to turn them the rattler. A rattlesnake bite is pocket, not your car. Don't panic if Mexico Mountain Club, will be more residents and new member~S loose. Not enough mice around not pleasant to contend with. Best you're 'bitten and follow instruc• led by Hank Tendall (7115 ). The are welcome. Interested parties to feed the.m." policy is leave them alone. How• tions in the kit. You'll be all right." trip is planned for those who like m ay attend meetings, held the Pete keeps his rattlers in the ever, if you're hiking in snake Any group interested in learning special cage out in Coyote Can• snow camping, cross country ski• second a-nd '.four·th Mondays of the country (and most of the south• more about snakes or any phase of ing, and exploring in the high month at the Livermore Bowl, or yon. Most of the rattlers were west is snake country) be pre• first aid should contact Pete at country of New Mexico. Cars will ;oont·act any club member for de• trapped in Sandia's Coyote Test leave Nob Hill at 8 a.m. tails. Field area. pared with a snakebite kit. Know AX 9-3366 after 5 p.m.

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