Consulting K.E.H, Mr. Hallikainen came to the company picnic just off the plane from Phila- delphia.- He had gone to talk to Bell Telephone as temperature control consultant for Wyle Laboratories., It seems that the Telephone Company is going to lay another transatlantic cable with 330 amplifier stations, and they want to be very sure that these stations are practically failure-proof, because the trans- istorized amplifiers will rest on the ocean floor and there will be a cost of ?; million dollars every time a section must be pulled up for repairs. To insure that they have the very best possible equipment in these ampli- fiers-, they are setting up a testing center to check the parameters of the transistors under close environmental conditions. There will be facilities to test 25,000 transistors simul- taneously with computer control. The computer will detect a faulty transistor and stop the testing until an investigation is made. It will take from 6 months to a year to complete the testing, and each time a measurement is made the temperature on a particular transistor will have to be controlled to within +.OS"C. (This is where our equipment comes in.) These transistors will be selected in pairs. One of each pair will be used in the cable and the other will be submitted to continued testing. In this way, if a unit later develops problems in the test center, the engineers will know to be alert for trouble with its mate in the cable If Wyle is successful in securing the contract, they will build the environmental chambers and design the circuitry to incorporate 105 Halli- kainen Thermotrols in this equipment.

Board of Directors. Mr. Richard K, Brown has been elected to the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Brown is a local man, having graduated from Oakland High and San Jose State College and he is president of National Weld- ing Equipment Company in Richmond. He re- places o;r inimitable M. L. Bramson who has resigned from the board.

Safety Engineer. Monty Montgomery has been appointed among other things, safetv engineer for the plant.- It is his responsibility to see that the safety equipment is clearly marked and is in good repair. Any hazards should be reported to him for his attention. 6S4" - Accountant. As the new head of our accounting department, Martin Kaufmann is quietly putting things in order. Although he was-born in-New York, he calls himself a Californian on the basis of having lived most of his life in Burlingame and graduated from high school there. He also attended U.S.C. where he received his degree in busi- ness administration specializing in finance. His career has been interrupted three times by Uncle Sam, first for a year in the Air Force in 1945, then back in for 3 years (1950 to 1953) during the Korean war when they sent him to Germany. His third hitch lasted one month during the recent Cuban crisis. In the time he was able to snatch between tours of duty, Mr. Kaufmann worked 3 years for Dun & Bradstreet, 2 years for a public accounting firm, 3 years in the con- troller's office of Yuba Consolidated and most recently as controller of Bartlett Snow Pacific Foundry. To occupy his time off, he is an ardent baseball fan (plays a little at it when he gets a chance) and is a Major in the Air Force Reserve. The Kaufinanns live in San Francisco. Their son, Martin III is just 14 months old.

Research. Last week you may have noticed a group of men huddled around a strange look- ing structure of two-by-fours, electronic components, wires, gauges and recorders in the far corner of the assembly area. They were engineers from Wyle Laboratories who were here for two days collecting precise in- formation about the application of our Ther- motrols. With a bit of help from K.E.H. they found out what they wanted to know and went back to El Segundo with papers, photo- graphs and sundry bits of equipment to con- tinue their investigation.

Editorial Notes. Did you notice that we have a new face? We now look like the rest of the printed material put out by the com- pany. Also, we promise you a picture or two from time to time which is possible now since we are printing on the multilith. We delayed publication this month waiting for pictures of the picnic, but they were lost in process. Any contributions, anyone?

Report on the Picnic! With all of the last minute details, eventually everything was done and everybody had a good time! The food was the usual top quality from the Melrose Meat Market and Delicatessen, so our trusty Roger Brown turned out tasty bratwurst and ho-s from his barbecue, Baseball and volleyball continued throughout the day with a few games of skill in between, The prize for guessing the plugs in the jar went to "rah, rah picnic fan" R, K. Brown (our new director), and the teen-age prizes went to Penny Hendrickson and Dagmar Stanke, Don Zolman won the balloon popping contest, and he and Henry Schuetz were the last up in the 7TcoekfighttY. Don Goode won the spoon and golf ball race, In the childrenls activities, the candy gues- sing was won by Greg Alston and Cindy Campbell, the candy scramble was won by Mary Montgomery and Mar-v Harris. Suzie Hallikainen and David Schatzki won the blockhead race. and Caroline Alston and Janet Waner took home the prizes for the spoon and golf ball competition, Special thanks-go to Henry Schuetz, Andy Guild Rae Zolman and the Montgomerys who pitched in and did the work so that the rest of us could Canadian. Shirley Ramacher is now running the multilith, typing operating instructions and turning out correspondence for the engineering department. Originally from Canada, she graduated from high school in Vancouver and completed a year at the Uni- versity of British Columbia before coming to Concord to join her parents who had moved here the year before. While she was attending Heald College in Oakland, she worked as a U.S.O. hostess in Pittsburgh (Calif.) and wrote a weekly article for the Camp Stoneman newspaper and the Pittsburgh local paper. Shirley comes to us from Kaiser Sand & Gravel Company where for 8% years she had various clerical and secre- tarial assignments. For her individual interests, Shirley swims, sings in choral groups and writes stories (human interest and historical fiction). Her husband is an insurance underwriter who dabbles in oil painting and is a test pilot in connection with his duties as a Captain in the Navy Reserve. Shirley and her hus- band both enjoy scouting around the "mother lode" country for historical monuments and enjoy the day at leisure. As usual, we missed relics, and they also enjoy the auto races the good weather by a week either way. Let's and the roller derby. The Ramachers are hope for better luck next year! now living in Berkeley.

New Billing Clerk. Arlene Coate has become the Baseball, Anyone? Having distributed all of newest member of the noon volleyball group the flotsam and jetsam left around and about along with doing the job of billing clerk-for after the picnic, I am still ahead one base- the sales department. Her pleasant smile and ball mitt. The owner may claim it upon pre- cheerful attitude have already captured the senting adequate identification to establish admiration of everyone in the company. Arlene his ownership. is a local girl, grew up in Richmond, grad- uated from high school there and completed a Personal Notes. The local section of the semester at Contra Costa College. She then I.S.A. sponsored their annual I.S.A. day at decided to try working for a while and found the Learnington Hotel on May 14. Norman- that she likes it much better than school. She Waner was chairman of the second morning comes to us after working a vear and a half for aon. -- Welcome back to Virginia Car- Marchant where she liked-her-job, but they penter from her extensive trip across the closed the plant. Her outside interests in- country. -- Good luck to Dee Fenster who elude bowling, sewing, cooking and taking left to take a job in San Francisco. night courses at C.C.C. Her week-ends and va- cations she spends swimming and water skiing at Clear Lake where her parents have a summer home, Arlene lives with her parents in Rich- mond, She has two older brothers, one married and the other away in the Air Force,