Five Year mloyee. The quiet gray-haired

When Richec8me to Hellikainen In October of in th 8heetmetal shop is Rich Netto.

1967, there wasn't enough sheet'met~ work to keep hia bu8y, so he worked a8 paiater, welder and electmnlc8 technici8n 88 wall. Hi8 work background include8 almost anythiag that anyone can mention, 80 we'll mention ocrly the highli~hte. He started by getting hfs Alec- trician's license f5xm the Chicago Engineering Works School, but didn't like it, World War I gave him the opportunity to drop the electric bustie and became a pilot in the days when only the reckless were willing to f&y. Aft= the war for seven year8 he ran a flying 8ch6ol on a 8m8l.l tract of Land near the present @k- land Airport, He even uusnaged to crash land a couple of tlme8 and walk out of it Ltlive, but he has left those day8 behind along with auto racing and hi8 active participation in Karati aad gymlMJStiC8. For Six ye8r8 he W* in the contracting bUSin with hi8 brothe+ while they did constructloa jobs 8nd pluutbilyf aad electric instal&tion8. Rich cme to our shop from LearUer's in keryville where he was 16 yeare fOre8mn in their shop building custom truck bodies. A8 a skilled sheet- metalnuxn, he knows hi8 trade well and needs no eupezxtaion to turn out a fine job. He has his own opinions and respects othere fey having theirs, 80 everybody like8 him. having settled down to a quiet life, Rich built hi8 own home in El Cerrfto from thr ' i foundation8 up, Work8 in hi8 fully equipped shop in his spare time at home, enjoy8 golfP is a football and wrestllng fan and spends week-ends in 8ee8on working at his apricot orchard in the Santa Cru8 Mountain8 where h#s wife and 22 year old daughter alSO enjoy the fresh air and country life.

. Most of us already who ha8 been our liforaia for the past co&e of years. He is mnv working in the test room a8 an application8 engineer trainee. He just cloeed hi8 asnpany, IIU~- mart, which he opmated for e year8 a8 sales representative for Hallikainen Iimtrmente and Pyrometer Company of herica. He had previouely worked for * year8 in BE) instru~ ment company In Monterey Pa* 8nd & ye833 as an instrument technicfan for Richfield Oil in Bakersfield which gave him the technical knowledge necessary to understand and 88ll our in8trum~tS. Stuffy grew up in Brooklyn and completed 3 ye8r8 at the Mnhattan School of Aviation Trade8 before going into the Army in 1943. Uncle Sm sent him to Europe 88 ap anti-tank gunner with the 30th Division where he was captured by the Gemnanr and re- captured by the Amerim all in a period of 6 day8 during the battle, of the bulge. He has been in California olnce 1949 and con- sidexa it home, He enjoy8 tinkering with electronic device8 end ha8 been working 018n invention of his own on the side; however, nc119 that he apendr &I. day on the job tinker- ing with electrakic devices, he lnay w8nt to find another hobby. Girle, maybe? Stuffy 83.80 collect8 8eul%-popul8r %ood mu8ic" r8-

Machinist. Neal Mulkey now employed In our machinehop, Spent his'ffrst 15 year8 on the plains of Texas; however, his family brought h&n to the bay area and he graduated ticm El Cerrito High. He eerved hi8 apprenticeship a8 a machinist during the 6 years he worked for Kaiser Aircraft and,Electronlcs. Before coming to work here, he worked for Colorado,Fuel and Iron in OUtland. and varied. Neal'8 interests are maby He ha8 Uintained and raced hi8 own motorcycles, goes deep 888 fiehing, hunt8 about all there ia to hunt with hi8 12 gauge shotgun, hi8 30.06 rifle and 22 pistol, raise8 pigeon8 which he hopes wilJ. prove to be com- mercially profitable and enjoy8 bowling. Neal and hi8 wife are al80 working on becaning cOnnOi88eUr8 Of wine. They already have some favorites, but snjoy trying new varieties. The Mulkeys have two daughters,ages 1 year and six weeks. Their home ia in El Sobrsnte.

`Local Man! Unlike most of the men in the shop, Bob Palmore who ia now our painter, ie a native of the bay area. After ccmpleting hi8 Schooling in Pie&i&, he 8pe8t four year8 in the Navy during W,W.II as Chief Carpenter8 Mate in chip repair and was stationed in Aus- tralia, the Phillippinee and New Guinea. Bob worked for six year8 fir General Electric in San Leandro and 15 years for the Mill8 Sale8 Company in Oakland as a cabinet maker and painter. He has a fully equipped cabinet making shop at his home in Walnut Creek and doss emall job8 for hi8 friends as a hobby. Bob and hi8 wife are bothVog lovers", so their German Shepherd, Vhipperft , gets more than hi8 share of attention. Bob took him to school and put him through llobedisnce training" bfmself; howev er, they leave the dog home when they go off for an evening of bowling, snd Chipper really think8 he is being treated f'like a dog".

Sheetmetal Man. Ralph Schramm ie another local man now working in our sheet metal shop. He was born in Alameda, graduated from Alameda High, served a four year apprenticeship in metalwork in San Francisco. During hi8 12 years in the Air Force he served most of his time in the Pacific area, and during the war was a gunner on a B-17. For the past 17 year8 he has been working for the government in San Francisco, Alameda md most recently at Mare Island doing the sheetmetal work on atomic submarines. For relaxation he likes to go to the wide opsn spaces of Nevada where he owns 10 acres of land with nothing on it. He is also a golfer and at one time had two garages full of miniature railroad equipment which he sold for want of room to expand it. Ralph and hi8 wife UVe in Oakland. Their 8on is an officer on the Richmond Police Force and their daughter ie a eecretary for the Richmond School District. John Kaufmann sends hi8 regards. He is settled page two Accountant. We thought we had those vola- tile Briton8 confined to the engineering department, but we now have anoicher expe- diting the work of the accounting department in the person of Jim Martin, Chartered Accountant. Jim ie originally from the north of England where, in Newca8tle_Upon+ne, he completed hi6 schooling and went to work for Fred PhilJ.ipe, `E6q., Account&& etc. When the war started in 1939, he enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps. Starting as a Sergeant Major, he had attained the rank of Captain by the time he left the service in 19% after serving in France, Burma and India, He returned to hi8 former employer and re mained until 1957 when he brought hi8 family to Canada. Before caning to work for us, he was four year8 a8 controller for a lumber canpany in B.C. and a year a6 Chief Account- ant at the Seattle Door Company. For fun, Jim enjoys the theater, concerts, tennie, I badminton, swinnning and ballrocm dancing. His interest in dancing started whsn his aunt, a dance instructress, took him at the age of & to hi8 first ball. He had such a good time that auntie didn't take him again for quite some time. The Martins now live In El Cerrito. They have a daughter 7 and a 8On lo.

Citizenship Cla68, Anybody? Just join the Hallikainen group. Since most of the Judges make it imposaibiy difficult for thase who have not attended class, the Walter Bru s?ns, the Fred Wolff's and Han8 4x Bock to do it the easy way and make a party of it. You'll find them every Monday night at the local school (the little old lady in charge allows no smoking, no coffee and no eating during class, they discovered later). Any- body else eliglble? You might as well be among friends. The canpany Christmas PartY will be Saturday, December 22, at 8:3G p.m. C&l Taylor re- port8 that Rae Zolmsn ha8 exotic plans for traneforming the assembly area into a ball- roan, Rose Hendrickson i8 arranging a glam- ourous buffet, Jim Martin is organising a crew of bartendera, Ken Harris i6 8etti.ilg up the mU8iC and Monty Montgomery i8 recruiting a clean-up crew+ So mark the dav on your calendar &d contact your baby-eitter- and we'll see you all here for a night on the company! The children'6 Chti8t1~a8 Party i8 all Set for Sunday, December 23, from 1:3C to 3:SO. There will be movie6 and ice cream and soda pop, and Santa will be there with his bag of toys, 80 bring the little one8 (under 12 years) to see where Daddy works. Please sign the sheet in the shop by December 7 80 Santa knows who's coming. Eero Ya8ankari is back on the job minus his tonsils, and JuUus Rosin will be back Deo8m- \ _. . _