Monday, June 11 (1945)

Another steamer. General shutdown getting imminent and still can't get decision on valves. Casper about nuts. in afternoon slow pitch team played and beat Carbide 9-2. I had 1 B.B. one safe on error one hit one strike out. No assists, P.O.s or errors. Later got our varsity beaten by Clinton Lab in rotten game full of technicalities and bad sportsmanship. Evident bad blood between Shields and Bob Price. Clear also Price not popular with Clinton (nor with Army) Got home to find I hadn't locked cabinet. Had to go back to works. Got there at midnight and locked up.

Sunday, June 10 (1945)

Another Turkish bath. Tired tree times during day to see Jewell and finally made it. Saw a fair movie and some beautiful color pictures of the Philippines. In evening RA took Carbide in badly played game 5-3 and SED playing one man short nearly cleaned the all stars.

Monday, May 28 (1945)

Uneventful start of beautiful day. Rather hot. New P.H. beginning to show piping but chimneys cit down for some reason. Finally getting quarantine piping up. Late in PM found Roberts leaving for a week. I'm in charge. Lots going on. National Valve finally here. Heat&Cool here. Rebuild on Lat 2 starts and Independent just breezed in. Also new and complete plans for new auxiliaries. Well well. In evening watched us take Carbide in close softball match 3-2. Then on inning (over an hour) of Roane Anderson v. Jones. Farce.

Saturday, May 26 (1945)

Nice weather. Tried to push the condenser job. Samp got the quarantine tank suspended but bolt holes proved to be in wrong place. Before I could fix it, Roberts came out and started in to run things. I beat it. Somehow hurt my knee last night. Worst its been since December. Hobbled around in misery all day. In evening Carbide took us in baseball 4-4

Monday, May 14 (1945)

Hot and bright. Thought I'de have gibbet going by noon but one thing after another interfered. The tank wasn't weighted. One trunion had a bad weld. Roberts changed ideas on how to heat tanks. Lannie had a hand. Oh hell. Finally came home and went up to soft ball game. We trounced Roane-Anderson. Carbide beat Clinton Lab in interesting game. Only a few Germans still holdout in Czecho Slavakio. Russian lease lend virtually stopped. Trouble with Tito.

Monday, May 7 (1945)

Warner and clear in morning. Still not very heavily engaged. The gibbet continues to rise and we have the shop moved under orders. In PM tried to find end of old 3" line. Most of our new power units are now on their foundations. After supper watched Eastman beat Carbide in a loosely played but hard fought game - 11 innings. Fercleve then started to give J.A. Jones a good going over but it rained hard. GERMANS IN CZECHO SLOVAKIA AND NORWAY SURRENDER. Just 28 years since I left du Ponts to can the Kaiser!

Wednesday. April 25 (1945)

Nice Day. Plott lost his tire yesterday and we had to go back to the Powah House. Special Day not particularly eventful. Fined Evans and C.W. have again changed the gasoline loading arrangements, Ugh. Got both conductivity cell in operation. Believe finally have pop valve situation in have. New condensor came. New condensate tank is in We move. After supper watched Carbide beat us in tough 4-3 game of softball.

Tuesday, Arpil 23 (1945)

Running right along. Hear that Carbide think they have something the will eliminate us. Rather doubt it. Also rumors of anew K26 or K27. We seem to be coming on fairly well but there has been trouble. That outboard matter may be either PC which is not so good. Conductivity cell in at last. He he ho. Home with Doc. Saw Laurell and Harchly, he's funny short. Nice letter from Sneddon.

Thursday, March 29 (1945)

Nice day but - Up to 11 AM busy on laboratory overhaul. Then found P.P.2 down! Therms couple well broken off in pipe. Tried to chip out back weld and unscrew. Had to give it up by 1 PM. No progress at all. About 1PM got permission from Roberts to cut out and weld. Then found no welding bosses and no rods. Finally, about 4 PM found we had some suitable plate. Elkins could get no rods till 7:00PM but Plott managed to borrow some moly rods from Carbide. Got to work finally at 5:20. took nearly two hrs to make the weld. One hr, more to heat treat at 9:45 got word, that well back in OK.

Friday, March 9 (1945)

Clear frosty morning - right down chilly but cleared to beautiful day. Morning paper confirmed that our troops had found Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen unguarded. They seized it and are pouring across - what a break. Not very eventful at Plant. Worked out scheme with Jim Main for measuring condensate. Plott to do it. Not other matters of great importance. Wrote Mary. To bend. Seems Major didn't like my inquiries at Chem & Carb. Went over to library and studied.

Wednesday, March 7 (1945)

Chiefly another wonderful day. Talked with Carbide people relative to water treatment and got very courteous service. Bedoe came in pretty badly flustered because he had order to start work on automatic "dog house" operation. Did a lot of checking only to find that no two were alike. Finally got hold of Wentgate and talked over a little simplification.