Friday, June 1 (1945)

Another hot one. It melts me but I lose no weight - still 188. Without much clothes. Little change at plant. National still has no welder. Jones getting Jones fixed up. Little news from overseas. Went to movies in evening. Wallace Beery - "This Man's Navy" quite amusing particularly when it turns out the old braggart C.P.O really has been in India and really can talk Japanese.

Thursday, May 31 (1945)

Another hot one with rainless thunderheads. National still held up for lack of welder. Heat & Cool going to town. Jones moving. Independent had row with Major re method of erection. We got stuck with an extra . Their scaffold looks broke and nearly killed two men. Luckily they escaped. Condensate nearly done. Lannie wants us to go into nickel capsule production. After supper fair movie, "Unseen." Our s.b. team defeated S.E.D. 7-5 in tight hard match. I got a lot of practice. Hear my last hit yesterday was actually a hit, giving me .333

Wednesday, May 30 (1945)

Good many events. Independent to taking down RPM, National stuck for lack of welder. Jones Const. need room. Jones ? Chem. House in way can't move till new one finished. No OK from Major. We are working on condenser raise and are nearly ready with plans. Some trouble in fire tracks, neck breaks or whatever. Baseball good bad and ind. We lost 5 to 6 to Cobbs outfit - I made 1 error? plenty of put outs. Grounded out twice and got to 1st on fielder's choice. In evening boys took fearful drubbing from Roane Anders. Came home in 7th score 12-1 and we'd used 4 pitchers.

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 19 (1945)

Ross was in but I saw little of him. I'll have to check up on him. Not a very active day. Got warmer and developed into nice afternoon. Jones left an open ditch which we can't do much with. They wouldn't fix it. Major said he didn't give a damn. In evening interesting hardball game. SED gave J.A. Jones quite a trimming. Very nice base running. One man stole home!

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!

Monday, April 16 (1945)

The days slip by. Woke up to another sultry day. Matters at plant still going well except desuperheating valve which is causing plenty of trouble. It looks like a three cartridge pinwheel that has got stuck. Got gas lines lined up. Jones men came over and trued to roll out tank. Not too good. Am going to sand blast and paint. Clouded up and began to rain. Home with Plott. Found I walked twelve miles yesterday.

Wednesday, April 11 (1945)

A rather interesting day. When I came on found #5 was not the only leak. In fact the place roared. Four checks smoking a dozen unions and plenty of leaks bottomside. Nearly at my wits end when heard Power house had lost a boiler feed pump. that was all we needed. they began shutting us down and within an hour we had repairs going. Main made an error in planning the new gas tank and Jones men just about undercut the old tank before they caught on. Our fault though. Went to Fighting Lady again. Shorty Byrd back.

Monday, April 9 (1945)

Much milder today. My rest of yesterday bricked me up a lot. Very eventful day. Lesty got in about windows. Finally got a bid. Seems Buchenheimer never sent him his pass yesterday. Jones' men pouring tank foundations. Had one big hole which caved badly. Had one of the biggest "Breaks" ever. Wattamess! 6 inch valve on No.5 started to leak. Sent Hardin after tank for "isolation." Home as usual. Wrote Janie. Did my wash. How this book is filling up. Going to Okinawa getting tougher. Our troops to or perhaps beyond the Elbe.

Wednesday, April 4 (1945)

Well how time scoots. A very busy day. In morning got ready for meeting. Interrupted by attempts to get scale tank tested. Then to meeting which was short. Then back to plant where we found Jones outfit digging under foundations of steam power line. Plenty going on all PM. Got orders to change position of dog houses and quite late heard they were going to cut storehouse in two and move it. 100 p.c. again toward evening and hardly a leak showing. 57 varieties of things going on though. Evening cool and very unsettled. Doesn't seem to know whether to clear or rain. Patton took Kassel.

Saturday, March 17 (1945)

Day started hot and sultry and sprinkled a little. Jones men came back and tried to do some more excavating. About noon tore open the 10" fire protection main! Perfect! Never saw so much mud in such a small place since I left France.Nothing else of note except that Roberts wants me to take over all interior construction. Inspectors started.

Friday, March 16 (1945)

Wattaday. Sultry with sunshine and then showers. Getting hotter. Peach trees in bloom and pear trees coming out. Jones men came early. Asked nobody anything started to work with big carry all and tore up gas line and grazed steam line to Lab 2. Got them stopped before long. Then had to answer phone and carious questions all day long. Got automatic business under better control and worked out final scheme for steam distribution and for cut over cold freeze water. Worked late with March. Home hot and tired.

Monday, March 12 (1945)

Another day. Dark and lowering but only a splatter of rain. Worked as hard and as fast as I could but it its a difficult task. Martin sick and his orders more or less balled up. Jones people came in to begin moving shacks out of the way for our new steam plant. Got my income tax. Letter from Dave Neiswanger. Got a certain amount. Worked hard on inspection organization. Dodge is back. Damned glad to see him.

Monday, February 12 (1945)

They finally shut down. Found things pretty well messed up but gangs getting to work. Primarily cause of shit down was leaking gasket on deserperlater line. Began raining. Roberts directed me to design a condenser to catch blow down. Quite a mess. Started on it. Many trivial interruptions. Hear J.A. Jones ordered to go on 10 hrs. Home in rain.