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Fisher Body Honors ItsBiggest 25-Year Class;278 Now on Roll of VetsfEngraved gold watches were presented to 63 employes of the Janesville Fisher Body plant Tuesday night, honoring them as new members of - the Fisher* Body 25-year Master Craftsman group. The ceremony was held during a dinner at the Janesville Country Club with John C. Owens, local plant manager, making the presentations. *It was the fifth annual award ceremony in Janesville and for thefirst time members of the supervisory staff whose departments were represented in the 25-year group attended the dinner. There were more than 100 in attendance.The program consisted of the taking of a group photograph, dinner and awards with Hugo F. Mol-ler, plant director of industrial relations, as toastmaster. He noted that the Janesville 25-year award f winners are among 978 men and women in 27 Fisher Body plants across the nation receiving the special recognition this year. The Master Craftsman group now has a total membership of 5,857 men and women, 278 of them present or former workers at the Janesville Fisher Body plant.Special Recognition to 5Singled out for special recognition were Mrs. Minnie Eumard, 119 Bluff St., who has been on illness leave for several years; Mrs. Sarah Marshall, 312 N. Oak-hill Ave., who will retire Feb. 1; Charles R. Hoag, 516 Caroline St, the oldest person honored here this year at 68 years of age; and Harold J. Langdon, 117 E. State St. who was unable to attend the ceremony, having recently retired because of a physical ailment. One watch, for Earl W. Clough, Rte. 4, Edgerton, was presented to his widow. Several supervisors were among those honored.This year’s 25 year group is the largest in the five year history of the ceremony, and seven of the awards went to women, Elsie R.Dreifke, Rosa A. Fischer, Sarah E. Marshall, Bonnetta E. Pierce, Rosa H. Spencer, Minnie L. Rur-nard and Anr. A. Kromrie, whosehusband, Arthur, also received a watch.faeHansen, Walter W. Hemiller, Charles R. Hoag, Donald L. Howard, Robert A. Hudson, Roy R. Huschka, Walter W. Johnston, Martin E. Kroening, Ann A. Kromrie, Arthur T. Kromrie, Harold J. Langdon, Martin Larsen, James P. Lenarz, Malcolm M. McDonnell, Otto J. Manthei Sarah E. Marshall, Joseph A. Mies Thomas O. Mowry, Clarence W. Nickels, Bonnetta E. Pierce, Robert G. Quade, Elmer H. Rasmussen, Matthew W. Reuter Jr., Glen J. Schindler Sr., Harold L. Schindler, John Shem, Loren C. Silbaugh, Theodore M. Stiff, Henry F. Thurler, Millard A. Walhovd, Burton R. Wall, Elwyn R. Webb, Othmar H. Weber, Fred Wiedmer, Rufus M. Williams, Harold C. Wyss, Minnie L. Bumard.Milton Junction—James H. Ahrens, Rte. 1, Floyd A. Black.Edgerton—Earl W. Clough (deceased) Rte. 4; Rosa H. Spencer, Rte. 4; DeWayne A. Van Alstine, Rte. 3.Fort Atkinson—Harold L. Bumgarner, Rte. 3.Evansville—Roy M. Olson, Howard O. Estes.Sharon—Henry W. Roth.Brodliead—Sever M.. Wolden.Gates Heads Fort*Conservation ClubseseosFORT ATKINSON — John Gates was elected president of the FortWisconservation Club at its annual meeting Tuesday night. Asa Peterson was chosen secretary; Rex Knoepfel, treasurer, and Floyd Kiesling, Albert Anderson, Lucius Klement, Harold Connor, Don Vos and Dan Scheid, directors.James Bowler, Chester Hanson, retiring president, Howard Car-many, past president, were made honorary members of the board. Plans for the new clubhouse to be constructed in the spring were discussed.jjw11lit!hndl-Keift-L.yyL-ei-a1rnt,Iei,nilet-hnToastmaster Moller introduced 15 supervisors who had previously received the 15 year award andwhose departments were represented in the 1954 award for employes who started at Fisher Body in 1929 or before.►Owen* Urges HelpfulnessIn the presentation address, Owens praised the new members of the Master Craftsman group for their faithfulness to Fisher Body and for their outstanding record of automobile body reproduction. “Your success,” said Owens, “will best be remembered for the assistance you give to * a young man taking his first job in an automobile body assembly plant.” Owens said if he had received that assistance in his youth, he would have received a watch this year.“I started with Fisher Body in1929 but I wandered away for awhile,” he said. “Now I am making it my job to help the new man in the 18 to 25 year age group realize what a great place this is to woric in,” he added.“Our great responsibility is to the boy coming into our plant who knowns nothing about our business.It is our job to see that he getsthe right training in his new phase of life,” said Owens.The quarter century awards went to the following:*Janesville — Walter T. Albrecht, Floyd J. Alderson, Gilbert J. Baumgartner, Clinton E. Beals, Bernard F, Beckman, Harold A. Bernstein, Matt J. Coffey, HenryM. Crawford, Leslie L. Day, Elsie R. Driefke, James E. Donnelly, Rosa A. Fischer, William S. Fish, Clarence G. Forslund, Donald L. Gifford, Howard L. Gsell, Albert B.Automobile and Store Windows Are SmashedThe rear window of a car parked at the Ace Hi Roller Rink west of Janesyille was smashedTuesday night, according to Mrs. Fred Simeth, Rte. 4, who told the sheriff's department that her daughter had parked the car there and found the window broken upon leaving.A large front window in theHillside Grocery, rural Beloit, was broken by stones, according to the 'owner, Frank Shafer. A sun lamp inside the window was broken and a light bulb on a sign on the store front was smashed.socfcctt3t€]]Snow Flurries Only Feature oi Drab DayDismal skies spilled a few snow flurries on Southern Wisconsin today but otherwise the weather was a negative thing. It was neither too hot nor too cold, too wet or too dry. Nor will it improve any tomorrow.The range here over the 24-hour period ending at noon today was but five degrees, from 32 Tuesday afternoon to 27 early this morning. At noon the reading was 29.Tonight and Thursday will be mostly cloudy but it will be somewhat colder tonight, probably around 20, the weatherman says. A high of 25-32 is forecast for tomorrow.TAKEN TO HOSPITALMrs. Veronica Carhart, 57, 102 N. Parker Drive, was taken to Mercy Hospital in the city ambulance at 11 a. m. today after she had become suddenly ill while walking in the 100 block of W. Milwaukee street. It was not believed her illness was serious, police reported.ji
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Janesville Daily Gazette
Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Dec 15, 1954
Page 12
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