Name New V. P., Gen'l Manager S. P. Schwartz, who has 30 years Bridgeport, Conn., and later at• of Installation and in 1946 was ap• service with the Bell Telephone tended Lehigh University where he pointed Labor Relations Manager System, will succeed Max H. graduated in Electrical Engineer• at W.E.'s headquarters in New York City. Howarth as Vice President and ing in 1926. He joined the Bell General Manager of Sandia Cor• System the next year. He was named Eastern Zone poration, June 1. Manager in 1949 and Central Zone He first worked in the installa• Manager in 1950, becoming East• Mr. Howarth. who has been at tion engineers organization in New ern Installation Manager in 1951, Sandia since October, 1954, will York City, then with the Eastern a position he held until joining th3 become Manager of the Kea;rny, Zone Staff. In 1937 he was named Defense Projects Division. N.J., Works of the Western Elec• Supervisor of Methods and Results Mr. Howarth has been with tric Company. in the Company's Installation of• the Bell System since 1926. • Since April, 1954, Mr. Schwartz fices in Washington, D. C. He ad• After holding a number of posi• has been with the Defense Pro• vanced to Superintendent of the tions in the System and its sub• jects Division of Western Elec• Virginia District the following sidiaries he was named manager tric Company. First he was As• year. of the Tonawanda Plant of sistant Project Manager, Logis• In 1943 Mr. Schwartz moved Western Electric Company, a tics, and since April of this year to Kearny, N. J., Works and the position he held until coming to has been Assistant Project Man• following year was appointed Sandia Corporation. ager, Operations and Program• District Superintendent of In• S. P. Schwartz Mr. Schwartz visited Albuquer• Max H. Howarth · ming of the Division. stallation in Seattle, Wash. que this week to get acquainted -Assumes Duties june 1- A native of Hazelton, Pa., Mr. He returned to Washington, D.C. with his new home and new -New Keamy Works M.gr.- Schwartz attended high school in in 1945 as Division Superintendent duties. A_fC to Purchase J. W. McRae. Will Florida GE Plant Be Speaker at May 20 Doing Sandia Work Tech Writers Meeting "Technical Writing in Our Mod· The United States Atom i c Energy Commission has notified ern World" will be discussed by General Electric Company that it SA DOlfi James W. McRae, Sandia Cor• will exercise an option to purchase poration President, at a meeting • the Company's recently completed Of the Albuquerque Chapter of the Pinellas Peninsula Plant. General Society of Technical Writers Mon• Electric will continue to operate day, May 20. The meeting will be• the plant under contract with gin at 7 p.m. at Reddy's Rendez• Sandia Corporation, a prime con• vous at Fifth and Silver down• tractor for the Commission. town. published every other friday for the employees of s1ndi1 corporation, contractor to the 1tomic energy commission The $6,000,000 plant, located be• Annual election of officers and tween St. Petersburg and Clear• a report by Howard Sieberman water, Florida, was built for the Vol. 9, No. 10 Albuquerque, New Mexico May 17, 1957 <7123-1) who is attending a production of electronic equipment Technical Publishing Society con• for Sandia Corporation. About 600 Military Bases to vention in San Diego is also persons will be employed with an scheduled for the program. annual payroll of about $3,000,000. Be Opened for 1957 For reservations contact either Under the plan the Commission Armed Forces Day Justin Heineman or John Cowan will pay General Electric for its Latest weapons of the military (both 7123) ext. 22148. total plant investment, some $3 ,- services will be on display tomor• 000,000. Purchase of the plant is row at Sandia Base and Kirtland considered desirable by the Gov• Air Force Base honoring Armed O.z.zlefinch Degree ernment because it has spent ap• Forces Day. Sandia Base "Open Awarded Sandians at proximately $3,000,000 on special House" will be from 9 a.m. to 1 facilities for the plant. p.m. Kirtland will open its gates Missile Symposium The plant contains approxi• from 1 to 5 p.m. Manzano Base mately 150,000 square feet of floor will contribute elements and per• Sandia's R. W. Henderson and space, plus auxiliary facilities. sonnel to the Sandia Base display. R. E. Poole have joined the grow• Sandia Base will exhibit gun ing ranks of industry and mili• batteries, guided missiles includ• tary scientists who have earned B. E. Arthur Named Head ing Nike, Ajax, Honest John, Mat• the famous "Ozzlefinch" degree. New Mexico ASME Section ador, Dart, Pogo and SidewindEr, A bird of unknown origin, the a helicopter rescue team, rocket Ozzlefinch is the patron of mis• B. E. Arthur, Jr. <2543> is sled, jet engines, a re-fueling boom silemen everywhere. Mr. Hender• the newly-elected chairman of the and B47 system mockup, 30 man son, who is Director of Systems New Mexico Section of the Amer• drill team, judo team and a com• Development at Sandia Corpora• ican Society of Mechanical En• plete Armed Forces uniform dis• tion, and Mr. Poole, Vice-Presi• gineers. Max Smith, Albuquerque, play. dent, Development, were awarded is vice-chairman. Robert Rector The exhibits will be located on the degree at a missile symposium (1283) was elected secretary and HONEST JOHN rocket will be seen at Sandia Base Armed Forces held at Fort Bliss, Tex. Day display tomorrow. Various rockets and missiles will be shown the Parade Ground. Gene Gardner (2154) treasurer. Among 225 persons from 78 E. H. Draper <1240) was named on the parade grounds. Above rocket is being launched during a The flight line at Kirtland fea• turing latest jet aircraft will be industries who attended the meet• as director. demonstration at the Shimamatsu Gunnery Range, Hokkaiddo. open to the public. Flying exhibi• ing, they saw the firing of anum• tions will be held during the Kirt• ber of military missiles and heard land Open House. Secretary of the Army W . M. Unlimited photography of mili• Brucker speak. tary equipment and military in• Sponsored by the Association of • R. E. Poole to Head .Livermore stallations on Sandia Base will be the United States Army at the permitted for the first time. Man• Army Antiaircraft and Guided zano Base and Sandia Corpora• Missile Center, the meeting was tion areas within Sandia Base are held to discuss the problems and Branch Operations This Fall not to be photographed. needs of the Army in the rocket• missile field. J. M. Wiesen Elected R . E. Poole, Sandia Corporation of the first application of radar Section Chairman of ASQC Vice President, Development, will principles for experimental pur• Newly elected chairman of the Henderson Speaks assume the responsibility for all poses and in 1940 he was project Albuquerque Section of the Amer• operations of the Sandia Corpora• "Trends in Engineering College engineer on the production design ican Society for Quality Control tion Livermore Branch late this is John M. Wiesen (5125). Allen Curricula-Good or Bad?" will be year. Announcement of his suc• of the first Army fire control mo• discussed by Robert W. Hender• bile radar equipment. In 1941 Mr. L. Thornton (2731) is the new cessor will be made later. vice~chairman. Secretary is J. C. son, Director of Systems Develop• Poole supervised the development ment 1200, at a meeting of the Mr. Poole has been at Sandia of the first Naval fire control ra• Gaskins (ACF') . Treasurer is George 0. Hawley (5511). New Mexico Society of Profes• Corporation since its establish• dar. From 1942 to 1947 he super• Officers were elected at the re• sional Engineers, May 27. ment in November, 1949. His first vised as department head the de• cent annual banquet of ASQC. The meeting will be held at the assignment at Sandia was as Di- velopment of Navy, Army and Air A. Blirton Metzger (3210) dis• Coronado Club with a social hour rector of Research and Develop• Force fire control and bombing cussed safety on the highway, in starting at 6:30 p.m. and dinner ment. In May, 1952, he was ap• equipment. pointed Vice President, Develop• industry and in the home. at 7. ment. He served in the posts of As• • A member of the technical sistant Director and then as Di• staff of the Bell Telephone Lab• rector of the Military Electron• New Mexico Air Reserve Awards oratories since June, 1924, Mr. ics Laboratory at Whippany, N. Poole has had broad experience J., of the Bell Telephone Labo• Certificate Of Merit To Sandia in radio broadcast transmitters. ratories for 4 years before com• ing to Sandia. A Certificate of Merit for coop• certificate. Guests at the ceremony In 1928 he designed and in• included Sandia Vice Presidents stalled the radio apparatus for A graduate of Stevens Institute eration in the Naval Air Reserve Program was awarded Sandia Max H. Howarth <100>, R. E. Poole A. T. & T. Company's first ra• of Technology with a degree in (1000), R . P. Lutz (2000), G .A. dio television demonstration. mechanical engineering, Mr. Poole R. E. Poole Corporation last Saturday by two Fowler (5000) and F. J. Given was appointed a Fellow in the Later he supervised the design -To H ead Livermore Branch- New Mexico Air Reserve Units. <7000 >. AlL were presented certifi• and construction of a model of a American Institute of Electrical James W. McRae, Sandia Corpo• cates honoring them as Admirals 500 kw long-wave transmitter in• Engineers in June, 1953.