RAVENNA ARSENAL Volume 17 No. 1 Von. and About Employee* o& Ravenna huny Ammunition Plant January 15, 1969 AJ\ew_Year and a New Era Begins for RAAP be different. Techniques will be every step count in the ammuni improved. Among the new hires tion industry. will be the inclusion of the "fairer sex" in operations and inspec tion work. This addition of COMMANDING OFFI female labor will be a valuable CER'S MESSAGE - As we asset in our organization. enter the new year, we think To all the newly - hired em of the past nine months since re ployees, I extend my personal activation of Ravenna Army welcome, along with a warm Ammunition Plant and look greeting to all employees who back to see how far we have have shown their loyalty and come. There is reason to be devotion to duty throughout proud of many of these accom these past years. plishments. However, unfinish ed programs from the old year This newspaper begins a remain; hopefully they will soon brand new reporting era for com be resolved and enable us to H. M. Krengel, General Manager municating with employees and become a fully capable produc Major Wayne F. Batson will be published twice a month tion facility. Commanding Officer instead of monthly as was done GENERAL MANAGER'S This is the only facility un before. what you have is commendable MESSAGE - Journalists re der control of the U. S. Army when consideration is given to ferred to Ravenna Army Am Ammunition Procurement and With all the newness of ac the fact that both the contractor munition Plant as a sleeping tivities, I, as your General Man Supply Agency given the respon and the government were under giant, during its period of stand sibility to activate and rehabil ager, must remind you of old staffed. by. After word was given last itate as many production lines but tried and true means to help Problems will arise in the en May to reactivate facilities, and this giant move forward. With as you have at one time, and I suing period as they arose dur with much planning, that giant each step YOU take, I ask that want to express my apprecia ing the initial period of our re is now ready to lead off the New you exercise safety and cost con tion for your accepting this chal activation. If we approach these Year with a giant step. sciousness and an awareness for lenge with the diligence many problems in the spirit of a new Many new things will be hap producing quality products on have demonstrated. The exten year with the dedication to our pening in 1969. Operations will schedule. Only then will we make ded hours worked to accomplish mission, we will accomplish what must be, and one day reminisce on the year 1969 with the satis Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant faction of a job well - done. A Glance Back — A Look at Today A. B. Heiberg "The Ravenna Arsenal outside Kunming, China. Jit was an additional group Has Retired Booms Again" was the head- an instructor and was amazed personnel. by Linda Milligan line on a picture - spread in to find himself checking out The years ofoft]the Korean con the December 9, 1951 ammunition whose data card flict followed when another On the last day of 1968, Youngstown Vindicator. Ac carried the names of his father group of our young men served Arthur B. Heiberg, retired from his position of Division Mana cording to the Vindicator, and brother - in - law as checker our country on foreign battle and inspector back here at the ger, Safety and Security, at Ra- a sleeping giant had come to fields. Back here in Ravenna, Ravenna Ammunition Plant. vanna Arsenal, Inc. He had been life again. the Army was bowing out and private industry was taking over with RAI since November, 1966, A giant whose beginning in the business of loading, re and prior to then, with The Fire had been back in 1939196\3 when THROUGHOUT WW II, habilitating and storing high stone Tire & Rubber Company the Hunkin - Conkey Construc-Construe- Ravenna Arsenal played a vital explosive shells. In February, for 28 years. tion Company built the first role in the supply of ammuni- 1952 Col. Charles K. Allen, Heiberg earned a degree in building for Atlas Powder Co- tion and its components to our Commanding Officer, stated that Civil Engineering from the Uni mpany on this huge, 23,000 forces ... finally when the world the transfer of all government versity of Minnesota and this led acre, scenic reservation a- was thought to be at peace, the operation would be made to to his many accomplishments in bounding with wildlife. Just out- giant that was Ravenna Arsenal Ravenna Arsenal, Inc. by April this field. To his credit are such side the picturesque town of was quietly put to bed. 1, 1952. things as the design and analy Ravenna, with its stately old Workers at the Ravenna sis of aircraft and aircraft parts; homes and tree-lined streets, in Army Ammunition Plant whose RAAP EMPLOYEES have the design and production de one of the nation's greatest in- jobs were terminated in the fol- always taken active parts in civic velopment of the Navy life belt dustrialstrial states, steel shell casings lowing years were reassigned to projects. They have donated and the Navy life raft; piping werere loaded with TNT, new positions or transferred to their blood, dimes, dollars, toys systems; and tire and tire - tes :kaged and stored or shipped other Army installations or and supported scout and con ting equipment and facilities. United States forces and World placed in other federal employ- servation activities. This char While with RAI, Heiberg en iT II Allies around the world- ment. acteristic was described in the larged the security and safety Then in March, 1948 Col. March 3, 1952 Beacon Journal. programs and initiated the Su An Arsenal worker who can James W. Freeman, Com- "The Arsenal has been a pervisors' Training and Devel est to this first hand is H. H. manding Officer, announced that sprawling but powerful elder opment course. "Jit" Harris, General Foreman, certain facilities were to be re- brother to civic groups in He is an active member of Dept. 7-9. Jit worked for Atlas habilitated in order that they Portage and Trumbull the First Congregational Church Powder before WW II. He went could be used in the Ordnance Counties." and the YMCA. A regular golfer, into the Army and was assigned Department demilitarization The months rolled by and he is a member of the Firestone to a field artillery school just program and this would require cont on page 2 cont on page 2 Take Care by A. B. Heiberg Any time is danger time. Good housekeeping will greatly eliminate the seriousness of the danger time. Most accidents occur because of "people" failures. Really, it is so easy to trip over a ladder misplaced on the floor, or a misplaced bucket m a misplaced box. An oily rag not in a proper container can cause a fire or an explosion. The next step after bad housekeeping is misuse of equipment. Mis-use of equipment is, again, "people" failure and causes many of our industrial type accidents. Marjorie Gilliam, Susan Collins and Charlotte Marchaza on Safety experts tell us that 85% of the industrial - type accidents a RAI bus enroute to the 1968 Women's Outing, October 25. The alert and knowledgeable about their jobs. Usually this means good fellowship in the Casba Room at Nick Yanko's Restaurant, having enough rest and nutrition - food and sleep. All that is Akron. really needed is to use some common sense, and create a desire to keep from becoming involved in an accident. Now that there are so many new people being employed each MENPS LEAGUE as of 1/3/69 day, it is of great importance that the employees who have been Teams Won Lost at the installation for some time take a personal attitude of res WW«3 66 14 ponsibility for ACCIDENT PREVENTION. ENGINEERS 66 22 P. E. & 1 42 46 OLD TIMERS 36 52 68th EOD 34 46 Keep Healthy byMarjorieAndrikoR.N. RAAP LEAGUE GEORGE ROAD SHOP 32 56 WELD SHOP 28 44 STORES 26 54 Influenza, or the "flu" or "grippe," is an infectious disease STANDINGS caused by one of three known type of influenza virus called MIXED DOUBLES as of 1/3169 HIGH TEAM, 3 - GAMES: WELD SHOP 3045 W/H Type - A, B or C. There are many strains within each major HIGH TEAM GAME: WW»3 1066 W/H Bowlers Won Lost classification. Oriental or Asiatic Influenza is believed to be HIGH INDIVIDUAL GAME: OWENS 53 19 GLENN WILLIAMS 246 W/OH caused by a group of viruses. HAVENS 53 27 L'HOMMEDIEU 48 24 Influenza most often strikes healthy young adults who are BARKERS 48 32 generally strong enough to fight off the attack without too much BISHOPS 40 32 Glance Back cont trouble. When children or elderly people are stricken, the danger CUSTERS 40 40 FRAZIER - WHITAKER . 40 40 production increased. At the of complications is greater. WILSONS 38 42 ROBINSON- THOMAS ... 37 43 April 17, 1954 RAI 3rd annual Symptoms are easy to recognize. The patient will generally KRENGELS 36 44 dinner meeting, H. M. Krengel, develop a fever ranging from 101 to 103 degrees, feel weak, LYCKBERGS 34 46 General Manager, reported that have chills, and a severe pain in the head and back. He may ERICKSONS 34 38 WHITAKERS 25 39 the year's finished rounds of also be very nauseated, have a cough, sneeze a great deal and MYERS 10 6 ammunition totaled nearly seven become hoarse.