Henry Ford Trade School - Craftsman Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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PAGE FOUR THE CRAFTSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938 Stage Is Set For Basketball Night Three basketball games—one for school championship, two for hon- ors--and hand, music will he the main feature at Miller School at 7:30 tonight when the Annual Bas- ketball Program gets under way. In the curtain raiser the W-sec- tion Swingsters, captained hy Leon- ard Taylor, and the M-section Ma- roons, hy Jack Gemmel, will battle for school championship. The Maroons won eight games and lost one while the Swingsters won seven and lost two. The Maroons have Tom Harrington who with 89 points is the leading scorer of the league, while the Swingsters have Leonard Taylor who holds second place with 74 points. The second event will feature the Craftsmen-Alumni classic. The probable starting Craftsmen line- up will have Captain Erwin Galli- nat at pivot position, Fred Sutton and Hugo De Paulis forwards and Jess Ray and George Beaver guards. The Alumni five will be cap- tained by Pete Quinn and will have such former stars as Frank Muger- dichian, Hilton Robinson, and Al- bert Delaney. In the final game the class in- structors will encounter the shop instructors who are determined to break into the win column. Bowlers Win Turkeys For Boosting Scores Thanksgiving turkeys were given to nine members of the various Trade School Bowling Leagues whc bowled the greatest number of pins over their average during the two weeks preceeding Thanksgiving. In the Students League, Arthur Marr bowled 93 extra pins over his average, George Manoli rolled 95 extra pins and Frank Myers got l£l extra pins. Turkeys were given to Arthur by his fellow members, to George by Coffin-Nunnely Lunch Company, and to Frank by Argyle Recreation. George Landry, of Instructors League 1, got 151 extra pins, and Albert Kimber, League 2, bowled 97. 71 pins over his average to cop turkeys given by Coffin-Nunneley. Robert Adams, League 1, with 131. 67 extra pins, and Raymond Speagle, League 2, with 73.56 extra pins were given turkeys by fellow mem- bers . Turkeys were awarded to Russell Baker, League 1, by Argyle Recrea- tion for bowling 93.8 extra pins, and to Oscar Roberts, League 2, by West Warren Recreation for rolling 109.75 extra pins. Varsity Basketball Schedule Dec. 2 Alumni (here) Dec. 13 Redford Union (there) Dec. 16 Cooley (here) Dec. 20 Monroe (there) Jan. 6 Hazel Park (there) Jan. 10 Monroe (here) Jan. 20 Hazel Park (here) Jan. 24 Farmington (there) Jan. 27 Birmingham (there) Feb. 3 Roseville (here) Feb. 7 East Detroit (here) Feb. 14 Farmington (here) Feb. 21 East Detroit (there) Mar. 3 Ferndale (there) Factory Makes Own Tires In other plants this usually takes from two to four days. When the crude rubber arrives on the freighter, it is sent through a plasticater where it is cut into the size of a small rug. Six grades of rubber are used. Some come from the Ford Plantations in Brazil but most come from the East Indies. Other materials which are used in tire making are elevated to the top floor where they are automati- cally weighed and fed into mixers. Twelve mixers, 100 yards long, are capable of turning out 20,000 to 25,000 pounds of rubber an hour. After the rubber comes from the mixers, it is sent to warming mills; then it is sent to the tread, and calendering departments When the treads and beads are made they are then assembled with the rubber and fabric and cut to size in the tire-building machinery. Tires are then sent to be cured in round individual ovens where the temperature is kept at 300°F for 45 minutes. When the tire is done the oven opens automatically. The tread, name and serial number are moulded on while the tire is being cooked . Tires are then balanced and in- spected. In the balancing depart- ment a chalk mark is placed where the tire is heavy or light and then a stamp is placed upon them stating whether it is to be used on the front or back wheel. Checking of hardness of rubber and interior and exterior of tire is done in this department. The plant produces about 6,000 tires every eight hour shift and employs about 750 men. Buy the next edition of The Craftsman--not for what you think it is worth but for the amount you can give to a needy child. Hats off to the Apprentice School--all of its instructors bought season basketball tickets. Hunters Return Home With Bucks And Yarns Visions of an antlered head a - bove a mantle danced before the eyes of Steve Chayke, grinder in- spector, as he hurriedly stopped hi8 car and loaded his gun, but alas he was too late for the stal- wart stag had disappeared among the trees. Twice this had happened and twice Mr. Chayke had failed to score. Stag hunting is a lot of fun but after that------oh well! Next year I'll try again, he re- marked. Floyd Smith, machine repair in- structor, went to Free-Soll, Mich- igan. At the end of two weeks he made his first kill of the season. His victim was a six-inch, spike- horn deer weighing 100 pounds. Douglas Souter, mill instructor, went to Hubbard Lake for hie hunt. He and his partner saw a total of about 15 deer, but said only two were bucks. Mr. Souter's partner shot one weighing 210 pounds. Desk Memories Linger desk top wasn't fastened securely so all he had to do was lift the top and slide the drawer out. A loyal supporter of the old desks is R. E. Bell, civics in- structor, who wouldn't trade his desk for any of the new ones. That same desk has stood in his classroom for the last 15 years, and he has become fond of it. Mi'. Bell remembers a time when the United States Army unknowingly presented a desk to the Trade School. At the close of the World War, the army desks that were in the Highland Park Plant were being taken out. F. W. Edwards, who was then personnel director of the Trade School, watched a large desk being dragged away. Probably thinking that it was too fine a desk to leave the Trade School, Mr. Edwards pointed to an empty classroom and said to the men who were tugging at the desk, That one goes in here, boys . The movers obediently shoved the desk into the room and left it there under the watchful eye of the chuckling director. Mr. Bell believes the desk is now in Room L The grandpappy of all the desks in the Apprentice School was found standing humbly among the dis- carded desks in the hall. Earl Cook, Apprentice School, identi - fied it as the first desk to be used in the Apprentice School, away back in 1923, even before there was a Trade School at the Rouge Plant.

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 ERIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938 Sale of Coming Issue Will Help Goodfellows Christmas morning.. .over to where his stocking hangs runs a small boy in tattered clothes. He gazes expectantly into the stock- ing and finds.. .nothing. Can you imagine the deep disappointment? If you were a child, would you en- joy being placed in this position? This year, Trade School students and instructors can fill Christmas stockings by giving generous amounts to the Goodfellow Fund, for the next edition of The Crafts- man will be placed on sale Friday, Dec. 16, all money to go to the Goodfellows who will put on their drive Dec. 20. Although all are urged to give generously, copies will be given whether contributions are made or not. The Christmas copy was sold last year and a Trade School rec- ord of $50 in two hours was estab- lished. This year the Detroit Goodfel- lows will give two suits of under- wear, two pairs of stockings, and a pair of shoes to every one of the city's estimated 65,000 needy children. Besides these necessities, 45. 000 dolls, 27,000 books, and tons of candy will be distributed. Last year, $148,000 wa9 contrib- uted, but, due to the ever increas- ing demand, the goal this year is set at $150,000. Lunch Prepared Early (Continued from page 1) and other root vegetables. In most cases after passing through this peeler, they are rechecked and any remaining skin or flaw is cut off. After being pared these vegeta- bles may pass through electric choppers, or be put into any other form best suited to the day's menu. If they are put in the soup ket- tles, salt and spices are expertly added to make the soup attain the highest degree of deliciousness. As the schedules are kept to the second, the dinner is ready to be served ten or fifteen minutes be- fore Trade School class-boys eat at 11 a. m. This insures a hot lunch that is heartily welcomed by the growing boys. The amount of food is carefully calculated to in- sure the 1750 boys, that are served, a generous portion. Each meal contains the proper amounts of protiens, carbohydrate fats, and other essentials that are necessary for a balanced diet. It'8 how we get what we have that counts. THE CRAFTSMAN Harmonica Band Seeks New Talented Members Organized last September by Robert Rothbone, senior, the har- monica band now has four members. New members are being sought, particularly a bass harmonica player. The present members are Douglas Poole, T-D-l, Bill Dwyer, M-B-2, Harry Hogg, M-F-2, and Robert. Practice is held in Roan 9 from 4 to 4:30 on Monday, and 4 to 5 on Tuesday8. Grads Plan Commencement (Continued fran page l) by the class presidents. Commit- teemen appointed are Norman Burns, M-sectlon; John Fusoui, T-section; and John Killinger, W-section. Following commencement, the din- ner-dance will be staged, Feb. 4, in the Crystal Ballroom of the Ma- sonic Temple. Entertainment will be furnished by the Ford Dixie Eight. Dance orchestra will be announced later. Tickets are now procurable from any A-class presi- dent at $4.50 a couple. A-class presidents, elected last month, are Charles Gregory, Joe Nance, Robert Walker, Edward Mil- hem, James O'Donnell, Kenneth Hall, Marvin Martin, George Whitton, and Demi el Luka. THE 0R5CRVCR This issue's bouquet goes to Keith Glassley, physics instructor, for his clear explanations on shop trips which he conducts. We often wonder what school a certain shop theory instructor at- tended to learn algebra and geome- try in the third and fifth grades. Clas8rocm eavesdropping: That's the right answer to that problem. D'ya wanna bet. We notice the movies are rapidly improving in quality. The recent technicolor picture on the manu- facture of steel was interesting and educational. Trade School mysteries: How quickly are departments vacated when ainnch or quitting bell rings, Classes Foretell Result of Wayne County Vote Just two-tenths off! No, not a scrapped Job, but the difference between Wayne County returns and Trade School straw vote in the re- cent election for governor. Between the two main candidates, Frank D. Fitzgerald and Frank Mur- phy, Murphy received 58.4 per cent of the Wayne County votes. The outcome of the Trade School straw vote showed 58.2 per cent of the votes in favor of Murphy. PAGE THREE Bicycle of Gay 90's Rebuilt by Student During the gay nineties, high wheel bicycles were quite popular with the sporting lads. Today this sort of high vehicle would Jackson in Ford Field, Dearborn. again attract much attention and so from W-D-4 emerges a boy who turns back the pages of history and repeats a chapter for us. The boy who actually rebuilt this bike and rode it at the breath-taking speed of 22 m. p. h. is Jackson Allmendinger. Jackson acquired the 54 inch diameter front wheel, 14 foot tire, and front fork at an antique shop in Northern Michigan. He found the rest of the parts elsewhere and assembled them at an approxi- mate cost of seven dollars. This type of velocipede was in use more than 60 years ago. Mark Twain probably rode these bikes when he was immortalizing Tom Saw- yer. Henry Ford was in his early twen- ty's when these out-of-proportion inventions sped around corners and up streets while people stared Can- tor- eyed at the thrill-seeker8 who rode them. T.S. Has Unique Rubber Plant in Its Front Yard With the completion of the $5, 600,000 new tire plant, outstand- ing project of the Ford Motor Com- pany's expansion program, the most unique tire factory in the world is in our own frontyard. Newsworthy not only because it is the first automobile plant that will manufacture its own tires but it is the first plant in which the crude rubber will be routed from the hold of the freighter to the finished product in four hours. (Continued on page 4)

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3h? draftsman HENRY FORD TRADE SCHOOL, DEARBORN, MICHIGAN DECEMBER 23, 1938 Physics Class Given for T.S.at Fordson Ford8on Evening School has pre- pared a special physics course for students of Henry Ford Trade School who wish to complete their high school education or wish-., study physics more ttyjrffughly This course begins Jan. 3, 1939, The physics given in the Trail School is equal to Physics !. great nre»- The heights by reached and kept Were not attained by flight, But they, while their compan- ions slept, • Were toiling upward in tHe n ight. --Longfellow In order to graduate from high school, a student must com- plete Physics II. Fred K. Eshleman, director of Adult Education at Fordson, said, Rather than covering the usual work in Physics II it will be the prime motive of the instruc- tor to take this group from where they are to where they ought to be at the end of a year of high school physics. The success of this venture might lead to acre courses set up especially for your needs. The fee for this course is $3.00. Classes meet on Tuesday and Thurs- day evenings. These classes will meet at the Fordson High School located on Ford Road near Schaefer in Dearborn. Bulletins containing a complete list of all courses offered may be obtained in Room 39. Shop Work Reviewed by World's Fair Boys To give the boys that will rep- resent Henry Ford Trade School at the New York World's Fair a chance to discuss shop practices that they may be questioned about at the fair, A. M. Wagener, shop theo- ry instructor, is conducting a conference period for the first group, 10 boy 8, each Wednesday afternoon from 3 to 4 for five or six weeks. Group 2 and 3, 10 boys each, will be afforded a similar chance to review before their turn to go to New York. Group 1 has met twice, reviewing the lathe and shaper. Mill, heat treat, grinder, and bench work will be taken up later. (Continued on page 4) 'Silent Night' Written Because Organ Breaks It was the evening of Dec. 24, 1818. In the small church at Oberndorf, in Tirol, Germany, the organ would no longer play. About midnight the people would flock from town and hillside to the little church for the Weih- na-htsmesse (Christmas Mass). But a Christmas without organ and sing- ing would be impossible. Thereup- on the young pastor, Joseph Mohr, determined to amend the situation. He sat down at the old pine table in his study and penned a Christmas poem. Only a few hours before midnight he read the fin- ished poem; it made him very happy. But Alas'. He had no melody. In the next town, Arnsdorf, (Continued on page 5) Staff Sells Christmas Edition The money that was paid for this issue of The Craftsman will be contributed to the Goodfellow Fund. All collections will be cleared through James Bishop of the Ford Museum. Mr. Bishop, an old Newsboy sold papers last Tuesday, during the De- troit drive in front of Sal- lan's Jewelry Store, Woodward at Grand River. This is the only issue of the paper that is sold each year. Last year'8 sale raised $50. The Craftsman was published one week late so that the Christmas edition would appear Just before the holiday vacation. 80 T. S. Boys Give Rotunda Concert The band, glee club, and harmon- ica players, composing a cast of 8G-, put on a two-performance Christ- mae-tdme concert in the Little 'The ter onlyord Rotunda last Satur- jlayafteraoon and evening that .- was .praised by many as being .the best program ever put on by heJTrade School. !• Petovello and his 35 •J5and boys provided entertainment the first 45 minutes of the hour and a half program, while rJPpe T Nicholson with his 40-voice .gle O ub carried on after the in- termission. Robert Rothbone, sen- -for, was leader of the five harmon- “’ica players. During the afternoon inter- sion Marvin Martin, master-of- ceremonies, called on E. Y. Pe- terson, shop superintendent, to talk. Mr. Peterson's assistant, William Blakesley spoke during the (Continued on page 5) Trade School Chapter Attends F. C. A. Dinner Seven students and instructors of the Trade School attended the First Metropolitan Rally of the Future Craftsmen of America held Friday, Dec. 9, in Cass Technical High School. Those attending were Waldemer Quade, Frank Leach, Ralph von Walt- hausen, Walter Grunst, George Ward- law, John Blum, and their adviser J. J. Onderko. Dinner, prominent speakers, and a four-act play, entitled Seven - teen by Booth Tarkington, pre- sented by the Cass Technical Sen- ior players comprised the even- ings entertainment. The purpose of the rally, said state president Albert Catello, (Continued on page 4) Qualified Boys Receive Vacation Scholarship All students who are under 18 years of age, who have satisfacto- ry attendance records, and who have have deposited their thrift fund regularly will receive a Christmas vacation with 40 hours scholarship, beginning Dec. 26 and ending Jan.2. New Year'8 Day is legally cele- brated on Monday; therefore, stu- dents will return to school on Tuesday, Jem. 3. T-section boys will report to class Jan. 3; M- and W- section to shop.