The basic purpose of a ompany newspaper is connnunication. It's the best way to get all he news around among the em- ployees - office, plant, and t. On May 23, 1961, with the company a thy nine years old, Volume 1, No. 1 of what was then termed the Plant Newsletter made its first appearance at Hallikain Instruments. Edited by Ann Fraley, he paper began .with: Notice: To all employees!

What do you know Where has the boss about the company? een lately? Who's the new employee? hat do you know about your fellow What's the strange workers? looking thing they're building in the Shop? This newsletter will tell all!

- - - - Two issues - - - - me out under that Plant Newsletter and then the re- Miss Fraley's request for ielded Halinco Hi-Lights by s later, and the paper took on a new face nen Hi-Lights we have known Now we are at Volume

s we said at the beginning, the ng the personnel. But over and above this, the paper must look invi'Cing,,to pick up, not nly for the employees of the com- pany, but for outsiders, because plant papers have a wsy of traveling far beyond their home P base. They may be seen by any,nurrber of persons who will get a first impression of the com- pany through the paper. Salesmen, paying e visit to pur purchasing agent or to our engin- eers, for example, may pick up a copy in the Lobby while waiting, and they may take it with them. where will it go? Friends or relatives may see the paper in your home. Other editors, groping for a lead story, searching to find a new and better format, often solicit and read inside publications of.other induetries and companies. Along this vein, we have been doing a lot of compering lately. Some publications rely heavily on picturea....good ones, mostly bad onea, and a lot of them! Others are all print without relief, announcing this meeting, that meeting, a Safety Firat lecture , and the current winner8 of their BowlingLeague. Some, we notice, while starting out as monthlies, have dwindled to semi-yearlies or quarterlies. In our recent Questionnaire we dfdn't ask for opiniona as to frequency of the publica- tion, since that is not dependent so muoh upon preferences, but upon availability and fr* quency of n.wr. The burier we me the more newr will generate itself. Nevertheless, it has

been our aim to'establish a regular time pat- ternti thelii-Lights appearance,and in recent months a bi-monthly publication has emerged. We believe this can be maintained, and hope that it appears often enough to be of value. 'Tallying the Questionnaire was fun, and the Editor is forever grateful that most of you did not want a Letters to the Editor col- I umn. Here are some results:

In order of preference as for news: (and very close)

1) News of our Instruments 2) Sales News first choice

Next in order, and again very close:

3) News of our Employees

4) Research & Test News

Dragging in at the end were:

5) Letters to the Editor (5 persons)

6) Pictures (3 persons only)

So now we're beginning our 10th year of the Hi-Lights. Before long, there may be a change in its appearance and format. We'll do all we can to suit your tastes, mostly trying to keep you abreast of the first two subjects, and filling-in when we have some special news for you. Suggestions will be welcomed. LET'S'REMINISCE'SOME MORE Getting back to that first Newsletter and the questions posed in the Notice,what do you know about the company? January 1, 1952 is the Employment Date on K.E. Hallikainen's file card. No one else shares that date, but a handful of employees gradually joined him in his small company on Seventh Street in Berkeley, and the dates of 1955, '56, '57, '58 are scattered through the file cards with names like Herrmann, Schuetz, Hale, Stairs, Leung, Waner, Rosin, Schimbor, Chin, Keil, and Vasankari typed on them. And the company grew. Now, what do you know about your fellow- workers? Well, you know that a number of them are old timers - more even than named above, bscausemany others made the move fromBerkeley to Richmond, Some traditions wereestablished over the years, both by and for the employees. There was the Christmas party for the children, for example, and the one for the adults. Annual Picnics were begun somewhere along the line. Once, a Bowling team came into being, with Tom Hale as anchor man. Volleyball, too, came and went,with Ron Bultena belting it a death blow'. Noontime Chess games have apparently been go- ing on here ever since two fellows first got together over a board. We caught a game going full tilt one recent noon in the Electronics Department. If you'd like to catch up some more on the employees, drop into the Personnel Office and ask to see the company Scrapbook. It's just about up-to-date, but if you happen to have any pictures in your possession which we could have, or any which could be duplicated, please contact Betty Magovern. We especially need pictures from the 1968 and 1969 picnics. Was everyone having such a good time that no pictures were taken? We're hoping that some- where ash>tterbug was busy and has some snaps for us.

THODGHTS ON THE FEMINIST MOVEMENI:

There's one question we know of that has never fully been answered: What, really, does a woman want? One confused male,about to give up, says "I can't understand women. They're either try- ing to be liberated or trying to get married; . they're either trying to get a man's job, or trying to get a man to support 'em. (sigh) I wish they'd make up their minds."

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We have had several inqrtiries on Gravi- trols and the Diacon Analyzers. Interest in our Oil on Water Detector (this is the new and now definite name for the instrument) is high. Union Oil has purchased one; Shell Oil(Martinez)has been testing one, and they have listed the Detector in their Annual Report, The most significant orders we have had during the past two months have been from the Teijin Shoji Kaisha, Ltd., a most active and expanding company, and our representatives in Japan. It has been of interest to note the expansion in the oil and chemical industries in Japan during these recent years. While she is the tiniest nation involved with such industry, she takes the steps of a giant. In our own country at the present time, the concern over inflation, increased tax levies on oil and gas products, and potential adverse changes in Federal regulations of the oil import program have caused a number of oil companies to retrench their capital spending plans while they wait out the recession.

INSTRL~NTS AND POLLUTION CONTROL A National Pollution Conference was held in San Francisco at the Fairmount Hotel during April 1 to 3. Herb Liske and Tom Clark were present to display our Oil on Water Detector and Color Alarm. Attendance was low, which in view of the sudden spurt of publicity over the poll*;tion problem, is surprising. How- ever, those who did attend appeared greatly interested and involved. With companies so m;ch zzzder fire for both air and water pollu- tion,they are finally beginning to understand that they can't hide from the facts any longer and they seem much more receptiveto any means which will aid them in controlling their ef- fluents and other pollutants than they did even a year ago. Correctly we have three instruments which we shall be aiming at the Pollution Control market: Oil on Water Detector, Color Alarm, arid Diacc:. Analyzer. Each of the three instruments works in its own :rtiqr;eway and SituationSpecifically, the Oilon Water Detector and Color Alarms are systems of a more general nature than the Dia- con 0 T.kte Oil on Water Detector by intensity change c& a reflected light beam indicates that oil is present, This is a particularly good instnrment for use at docks in tanker-loading areas where spillage is likely to occur. The Color Alarm is an on-off specification monitor to " detect changes in light transmittal caused by changes in turbidity, color, or by floating particles. Designed some years ago by Shell Development for their kerosene man- ufacture, the product wozld flow through a pipe; then a aide-stream would be checked for any possible light changes (referred to as "color" changes, b-lt not meaning a change in hue). If a color change had occurred, the pro- duct could be shunted off into a different tank for recycling and refinement. The Alarm is being used more broadly now, and can be employed by industries as a check on contami- nants in their effluents. The Diacon, OL the other hand, is used on contained systems. Originally designed to detect the presence of water in oil, the in- strument has been adapted to new use: the de- tection of oil in water, Now,by pre-set controls,acy oil in water in the range of 5 to 10 parts/million can be detected D One of the more interesting applications is on ships, tankers, etc., where the on-deck cargo, the diesel fuel used by the ship, or a line-break might send oil into thebilgewater, which periodically gets pumped into the sea. If pre-set to do so, the Diacon will shut off the pump when oil contamination has reached a certain proportion, and will record the amount by graph,

THE ROYAL ARTILLERY Late in March Bob Peacock was perched high atop the Shop building refurbishing our lights when he caught sight of a couple of youngsters trying doors of automobiles in the Veriflo parking lot, As Bob gave a shout, the startled kids got one glimpse of him,stazdfng on the rooftop, a long stick raised to his shoulder, rifle-fas'hion! They took off for the tall weeds, crashed down and wriggled like snakes through the wilds, raised up once to see Bob take careful aim again,,.,and boy, were they gone! This is a new application of an old irstrument s 4 o .the pair-t stirrer. v'r welcome, Yeriflo car-owners, E-;er vigilant are we.

CONGRATXLATIOZIlS Dick Le Blanc and his Anita will cele- brate 30 years of wedded happiness on May 30, Married in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, they madea home fcr two adopted children and three foster cbildrsn. 0-e boy has been working in Special Services in Vietnam, and one of the girls is a zzrse in a Tokyo hospital. The Le blanc;left Yassaciusetts in 1950, and Dick has been with the company four years,

SATURDAY, JUNE 20

All right, there's a not-so-far-off

Hawaiian paradise......

it's a Richmond paradise. island...

. . . . .

Where the exotic foods will be cooked for us by a native islander......

All right, so it's wieners & beans cooked by Heinrich von Schuetz!

so, AWAY ALL BOATS!!

Departures from Point San Pablo Yacht Club, 9:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m. aboard the SS Hallikainen (Sujan II, officially)

Returns from angelic Angel Island at approximately 4:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m. The island closes at 6:00 p.m.

Public Boats available from Sausalito for those unable to come aboard at Point San Pablo