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.

Tuesday, May 29 (1945)

Practically in charge of Plant. Quarantine nearly ready. National held up by lack of welder. Otherwise all OK. Work hummed along steadily. A little decision to make relative to electric cut over. Guessed right. Am up against it badly as regards the new installations. Lots of material is wholly unobtainable. Am to play on "slow" soft b. team. First game tomorrow. Bought glove. Cost 9.45! Ouch. Stone and Webster have goof hard ball team. Beat M.P.s 10-2. Long hard hits.

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.

Sunday, May 27 (1945)

Perfect day. Did nothing but nurse game leg. Feel absolutely frustrated and disgruntled. Slept, read and wrote letters. Hobbled over to the "Ridge" and saw the struggle of the U.S.S. Franklin to survive the bombing she took and to watch her get home.

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

Friday, May 25 (1945)

Another nice day. Tried to get out on the new condensate but ran into some more trouble. New plans from Cleveland. Did get quarantine tank up. Worked most of day on theory and practice of pipe deffection calculation. Home early. Mens' underwear no longer for sale! Poppy day.

Thursday, May 24 (1945)

Another nice day. No particular excitement. Got back to the quarantine tank. Talked to Grinnel main about connections. Main worked on new condenser details. Late a new set of blow down plans came in. Spent evening working on calculations for pipe beds. Knee a little sore. Wonder if its bowling? Wonder whether we've got a secret weapon or just a boondoggle. U.S. Cabinet shake up. Pretty Polly Perkins and Biddle are out.

Wednesday, May 23 (1945)

Uneventful day. Beautiful weather. Had an annoying cough. Saw new chlorinator complete. Worked on condenser line change. Approved window plans. Home with Plott bowled with him, Jackson and McWrite. 95-112. Coming up again. Later in evening watched Army give AIT a fearful drubbing. Woodward blew up and whole business became a slaughter.

Tuesday, May 22 (1945)

Another nice day. Got fresh air line tested and OK. Giant boondoggle (gallows) now working and two "dead soldiers" have been successfully hung. Representative of ? over to see about connections in Process Bldg. Roberts took a hand for which I'm glad. Worked on new condenser. In evening went down to watch our baseball team thrash AIT. We're still not too good but are improving. Home with Langston. Winston Churchill resigned general election in England due July 5.

Manday, May 21 (1945)

Felt very good. Walk took a lot of soreness out of my shoulder. Same old jobs at plant pushing chlorimeter freshair, etc. Fresh air main gives a lot of trouble but it nearly done. In evening worked out with soft ball team who beat Stone and Webster very soundly. Rack 8 with new columns back in service. Hear Germans had a "heavy water" plant in Norway.

Sunday, May 20 (1945)

Perfect day. Cool cloudless light wind. Went exploring west along Ridge. Started to follow branch path, gave it up, but after cutting round through the timber hit it again and went way west to a road which had a prohibited zone warning on hit. Hard pull back. Dehydrated. Nearly fainted. In evening Naughty Marletta. Still good.

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!

Friday, May 18 (1945)

Cold and rainy. but no heavy fall. Rather quiet day. All racks ex. #8 running. East reported in Buff at May not last. Spent most of PM with water lab man tracing water lines. Saw Roberts late in PM and he showed me new condensate plans. We still have quite a job on our hands but it is not urgent. Lot of other unimportant boon doggles. Worked some on chlormation problem.

Thursday, May 17 (1945)

Early before dawn sudden thunder storm with terrific rain. Had left my rain coat at the plant and got well soaked getting down there. At plant found carriage complete and after getting it rigged, it still worked fairly well. Buck dropped in for a while with Roberts. Nothing of note. Haven't yet seen new condensate plans. Late in PM Jackson showed me his set of new power plant drawings. In evening saw a Lon Chaney. He was quite an actor. Trouble between our troops in Italy and Italian Communist followers of Tito (World War III starts??

Wednesday, May 16 (1945)

Got my new alteration on carriage laid out. Work ragged. Should have been done by noon but just finished before quitting. Had rained early but cleared to a hot steamy day. Wore cotton and got terribly dirty. In evening took a nap and then watched AIT and Stone & Webster at hardball. Woodward again driven to the showers but at 10:30 AIT led 703. Very hot and stuffy. Last group of Germans reported to have surrendered. World War II ends. (ex. Japs).

Tuesday, May 15 (1945)

Hot. Still struggling to get gallows going. Roberts made yet another change. Finally got it about ready and then found that small trolley wouldn't track. Damn. Had to start sketching new one! No other news except work. Lab. fire breaks and fresh air. Went to see old Lon Chaney picture.

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.

Sunday, May 13 (1945)

Down to plant and worked all day on the gibbet. It should have been finished but I never yet saw things go so wrong. Ross's figured were wrong, the trolley was made right. Just one thing after another. Day game off. Hot and nice but I got in no tennis.

Saturday, May 12 (1945)

Cool and cloudy. Gallows still drags. Lamie discovered we still had extra electric hoists. At evening floor still not doubles. Seemed hard as is usual on Saturday to get an real work accomplished. Roberts wants cat walks altered to isolate fires. Crete surrendered. Hard fighting still in Zeccho Slovakia.