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| Title: | Halinco hi-Lights - Volume 2, Number 11, December 31, 1962 |
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| Body: | December 31, 1962 c Volume 2, Number 11
page one
Bit of Building Histx.
The original Halli- Five-Year Employee. On pecember lath,
kainen Instrument8 building at 1341 Seventh
smiling Ski Bradford, leadman in electron-
ica. coax8
with the CCJW~DY
l
Street was built in 1951 06 contract for Mr.
Hallikainen, and he started the company in
January of 1952 in the 1,200 square feet of
space that now is the sales department and
stock room. The rest of the building, which
is now Mr. Hallikainen's office and the con-
ference room was rented to somebody else.
In 1953 the tenants moved out and we occupied
the whole building which then amounted to
2,500 square feet.
In 1956 we again needed
more room,
and the machine shop was built on,
adding 3,750 square feet of floor space. We
worked for about a year in the 6$250 square
feet of space, and then the opportunity arose
for us to purchase the property at 913 Camelia
and also to gain title to enough of the alley
to join the properties in an L. This acqui-
sition increased our space to 14,450 square
feet and gave us the building for engineering,
the parking lot and the shed for storage.
Since we were still expanding and there were
no more facilities
to purchase, we started
renting sections of the adjoining building as
they became vacant. In 1960 we rented the
1,800 square feet in the rear of the building
that is now being used by electronics and the
test department. In 1961 we expanded into
the 907 Camelia area which joins our building
on the side and added 3,500 square feet of
space. Assembly, sheet metal and the produc-
tion and purchasing department office8 were
moved into this area. The next addition was
early in 1962 when we rented 911 Camelia which
gave the chipping department 1,800 square feet
and direct access to the street.
Our last
addition was last month when we rented the
1,500 square feet at 909 Csmelia and moved
the sheet metal shop and accounting depart-
ment into larger quarters. This move also
cleared enough space at the 907 Camelia en-
trance to give the receiving department direct
access to the street.
Skip gia$uated from El t@rr$to
High ~-k--'
pleted two year8 at Contra Costa Co
il
ege, and
finished another year at California Polytsch-
nit College in Southern flalifornia yhsr+ 4@
was studying electronics,
His tbrep yekw i?
the service he spent in the A;lq@rcrct P~$$ce
at San Bernardino and Hz+lton Field
whet@ he
rendered such valuable aarviue on
ths foot-
ball team that they arranged pot to send him
overseas. Before coming
to wgfi ,,for us, he
worked for Standard Oil 8s p filling s$at$ga
attendant. He started at Hslllkainen as ?!
electronics assembler, qdvanaed $o apprent ce
electronics technician, and was later assign-
ed to the test room where he ,a#vanced to
journeyman and learned enough about dur in-
struments to qualify himself to fill the job
of leadman in electronic8 when the psgfti9n
was open last year. To date he haa been un-
able to rid himself of the reputstion for
thinking clearly, keeping the conversation
lively, being happy and getting
qlctng vltb
everybody. He has recently been elected
shop steward by the union men in the plwt,
Skip has his own shop in the garage at home,
and much to his wife's dismay, has almost
filled the rest of the garage with electronia
equipment he has picked up at bargain prices
at the surplus store.
Who knows? He might
find a use for these things some day! He
has a lot of fun repairing them or msking
them into things that they weren't intended
to
be. His last invention was an electronic
switch which he built just to see if it would
work. It did! Similar switches (alreagy in-
vented by somebody else) can be purchased ao&
pleted, in kit form , or part by part, and
they work just as well if not better than
Skip's (according to Skip). He spends his
leisure time camping, fishing and water ski-
ing with his family, and he has been a skin-
diving enthusiast.
The Bradford8 live
4. *
San Pablo. They have two boys ages 5 and' 9.
In eleven years we have expanded from 1,200
square feet to about 19,750, and from one
employee to 58 employees currently working
for us. Everybody is enjoying the elbow
room; however,
we now own or rent all of the
commercial space available to this address,
and we plan to continue to expand our oper-
atione
. What next?
L
Our Traveling Good Humor Man. Bill Breyer
has been so busy cavorting about the country
lately that he `aidntt have time to write
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"Let's Get Technical" this month. Bill's
wandering has taken him to Seattle to start
up an end point analyzer for Mobil Oil, to
Texas to check on instruments for Gulf Oil
and Humble Oil, to Oklahoma to check with
Texaco and then to Dallas where he boarded
the plane to return home.
National Publicity
The November issue of
"Instruments and &ntrol
Systsms't carried as
a feature article a paper `on Viecametry
written by Mr. Hall&a&en.
This is one of
a series of articles by different author8
that will eventually be published in book
form.
Berkeley Manufacturers. Mr. Hallikainsn was recently elected president of Berkeley Manufacturers' Association and will hold the office for the coming year. Mr. Schim- bor was elected to the board of directors `0l;TBerkeley Manufacturers and is not con- vinced that his duty of taking attendance meetings merits all of the fanfare. at December 31, 1962 - - Thanks to everyone for m ing the C rlatmas party a real success! Thanks to Ann Fraley for her recognized ex- perience in handling the task of invitations and publicity, about 85% attended. The food waa auperbe aa only Rose Hendrickson knowa how to turn it out, thanks to her and her helpers Cathy Si.mav and Fumi Takeshita. Jim Martin got together with Barbara Goode a ordered the spirits that zmirita of all who attended and somehow included everybody's favorite Ghrlatmaa cheer! Con- gratulations! Ken Harris and his music com- mittee, Julius Rosin and Ski Bradford thought of the Juke Box a*lved the problem of pleasing everybody with good dance music. Good thinking, boya! Rae Marie Zolman, my trusted cohort, and her ag atee which included her husband Don, for a job well done! - came in on Sunday and trans onned it ac into a warehouse again and had everything back in place for the naxt workday, Thanks for another job well done! And from the committee, thanks to all of our guests who came and en- joyed the party and made our efforts worth while. Happy Naw Year! The Children's Christmas Party was attended by 24 children with some IS parents on the side. The movies were delightful, the games were fun, the ice cream and soda pop were the best ever, and Santa brought each child a lovely gift and a stocking full of goodies. Credit goes to Rae Marie Zolman and her com- mittee for making the arrangements with Santa Claus. Lay-Off. Delayed receipt of special materials necessitated a three day lay-off of several employees in electronics; however, the ship- ments finally arrived and everybody is back on the job again. page two Half Way Around the World. Ben Kleinstein from our engineering department will be on his way to rerael about-the middle of February. He is leaving our employ on January 18 and w5l.l go to San Diego for a two-week training course. He than will return to Berkeley for two weeks before he and his wife and two daughters leave for New York, London and Tel Aviv. Ben will be working for the Ierael Atomic Energy Lab- oratory in the Nuclear Chemistry Department where he will be conducting neutron activ- ation analyses. Bon Voyage! Returned! Our old friend Tom Fukuya is -king in the accounting department. Neadleaa to say, we are delighted that we were able to get him back. Since Tom doesn't like publicity, he says to just tell you all. "Hello," Viaitora. The very attractive Latin look- ing gentleman who waa here early in Decem- ber was Mr. R. Louaa, our Venezuelan rep- resentative. He spent a full day learning about our inatrum&ts which he aella ' through Equipex Company in Caracas. Stuffy Stufflebeam waa seen escorting his two very attractive young daughters through the pl&t. They had-their firat plane _ ride up from Los Angelee to visit for the week-and. European Traveler. Johann Wolf ia back on the job after his trip to Germany where he visited hia parents. Welcome back, John. Operations! Eugen Steiert is back on the job after two tripe to the hospital and three weeks at h&e recuperating. He feels fine! Classified Ad: For Sale: One lawnmower, non motorized, `mee Tom Hale. Hank Johnson is still at home ill. We miss his pleasant ways and quiet good humor in the test room.
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