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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 23

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Six Broofcynifes Find Boro Industries: Inside a Can of Paint 'Whodunits Make Quick, Easy Reading 1 rd Qu-rn. Ago LUrune. Oaslm: iinmmrl the oi other turn oil! all Ihr "uliodt that make thr rircula lihrmics irhnt they arc on lieu sstanris to flourish, art 'o'i nip thr tulil the i Her Sir Hrtml.h till vhy thi 'j like murder fOrteti iHMUHAN UU EMM I The majority nf murder mys-thrift are Ugh reading and latYl require ton uch concern ration mm all Card ner. Stout, HalUdav and the PAINT IN MAKING Ray Qumtir of Long Islcind City, aboVe, makes one of the first moves toward producing the little i of vou can see Nl your paint store i he pu's baa of colored pigment into vat of liquid vehicle at plant of Saoolin Paint Company in Red Hook At right, after it gets thorough mixing, enamel goes through rolling mill so all particles of pigment are ground into varnish base. Rolls, tendedby August Esposito of 67-A 4th Ploce, turn at different speeds fo give grinding action.

rr-t. The suspense keeps vou going from pace to page. Mystery itories are really a pastime, and I find that they relax me nd quiet my nerves in spite Df all the violence in them. BROOKLYN EAGLE GETTING IT JUST RIGHT To be sure of proper color balance in Sapolin paint, Vincent Passaro of the Bronx adds carefully measured amount of tinting material to base mixture. More thorough stirring follows until there is a perfect blend.

New-type paints, using titanium base instead of lead, have far greater hiding power than those of several years ago, though lead is still used. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1 950 BROOKLYN'S WOMAN OF THE WEEK you don' Has Full Home Life Despite Her Manifold Civic Duties WENDELL II AN MM of the College, majoring in mathematics, and Mrs John J. Traynor tag you somethin you rsatf, David, 13, i a pupil at Holy Innocents School. Holds Many Posts Full awareness of her talents came to Mrs. Traynor out of an illness that hospitalized her cdest son.

Fond came to him cold and would not cat. A conveyor from the kltchdj was needed, but funds were not available Mrs. Traynor joined the hospital's upporttng group and the funds were raiser i. She later became president of that group, the Methodist Hospital Guild. She is president of the Ladies Aid Society of St.

Mary's Hospital, a director of Youth United and of Mental Health Association, chairman of the community committee of the Brooklyn Museum and RALLY siKt.Kl, 19th Ave. I like murder mysteries bo. eausa they are quids, easy reading. You can pick them up any-where and busiest women in Brooklyn, yet rarely seems pressed for time. Primarily a hOltatWtte, she is active in a score of civic organizations, most of them of a charitable kind.

Vice chairman of the Women's Division of the current United Hospital Fund campaign, she is over-all chairman of the Brooklyn "March of Dimes" appeal for the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which begins Dec. She lives in a nine-room house at 457 Rugby Road, between Dorchester Road and Ditmas which she describes as the "most delightfully provincial block in Brookh There, she says, "all are the best of neighbors, each ever ready to help the other with a chore or An Untiring Worker read them a enjoy them, he- secretary, si nce its lyn Cancer Comm women's division campaign. org, according to- co- story. I pre JUST BEFORE CANNING Last step in preparation of painfis this straining through finc-mesh cloth, with Frank Esposito watching progress. Finished paint in lower vat is drawn out through pipes in bottom to filling machine on lower floor.

Paint and row materials fo make it are not touched by human hands anywhere in plant. to any other sort of I read about three a rear DELICATE JOB Raw materials going into Sapolin paints are weighed on super-accurate scale by Vincent horen-tina of 107 Nelson so all batches are as perfect a match as possible. Oils, pigment materials and gum-, come to Red Hook paint plant, one of nation's largest, from all over the world and emerge as widest variety of paints made in the country. eek on the average, but don't ask me who my favorite author Is! I can't remember their names. I don't, even try.

I just inception, of the Brook-ttee She headed the in last year's cancer She also is chairman of the Brooklyn Diocesan Women, which co-operates in all Brooklyn and Long Island projects sponsored by the Division of Health of Catholic Charities and, among her other extra-family activi-, ties, teaches confraternity of Christian pick out a title that Bounds exciting. MEYE8 FELDMAN Pacific St. I read mysteries, but not the ay some people do, every day in the week and half the rT. night. lg ill doctrine to a grot Tliesd; i i am 1 In her civic endea workers, she is the "ch eerful, indefatigable worker or the cheerful, indefatigable executive, according to her role." How she got that way is discernible if one involves her in a discussion of religion.

The daughter of a 32-degree Mason and a Catholic mother, her girlhood was filled with discussions of the practical application of religion. "The practical approach to religion." she says, ''is not something to be practiced one hour a week, but that which should color all you do. It should imbue vou with an awareness of the talents received and your responsibility to the source from which they came." Awareness of her talents did not come Holy Innocents Church. Main Interest "These activities," she confided, "are my diversions. I get out of them the same satisfactions others might get from different pursuits.

But my main interest, of course, is my home. Looking after the head of our family and the boys nothing could be more satisfying or exritmg." one a week. You're always watching for the authors to i come up wth some new ancles! you haven't read about before. Thay take your mind off your own problems for a while. WALTER HARPER Lafayette Up.

I read a mystery story once a while, hut my favorite reading is history and historical Mrs. John J. Traynor Mystery stories are easy reading and 1 MEN BEHIND YOUR PAINT CAN John Engel of 6801 Colonial Road, general manager of the Sapolin plant, left, looks over a chunk of synthetic resin with Frank R. Stamer, vice president in charge of production Resin like this is important component of quality paint, giving it substance and a hard, lustrous quality when it dries. It's comparatively new in age-old paint industry.

FINAL CHECK In the Sapolin laboratory, Joe Martins makes standard test for viscosity, checking time it takes for paint to run through hole, while Robert Roxbury compares color of batch with standardized color patch. This check is made on each batch before it goes out, including special paint for lining of beer and food cans. suppose: that makes; them popu- laiv People! aNo like to try to solve then as they read and the puzzle keep- them reading. When I do read a mj sti ry, I try' to get hold of one by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot is my favorite detective.

He's the man who ues the "little gray cells." H. ACOSTA Loiters Ave. When I was younger I used to read a lot of mystery stories, but I don't read them much to Mrs. Traynor full-blown as a result of religious discussions. First came an awareness nf limitations and gratitude over surmounting them.

When a child the tendons in her right wrist were severed in a fall upon the blade of a sickle carelessly left on the lawn. For years thereafter her right hand, now of limited mohility, was entirely crippled. Overcame Handicaps Thereafter, when a high school freshman, an injury of her left arm provoked a bone infection which crippled the other hand. But eventually she regained its full use. largely, she believes, by assiduous Application to violin lessons.

Hers was a musical family that Spent many of its evenings about the piano, sing-ing with other instrumental accompaniment. She has three sisters. Liking people and, as she puts it, nothing else occurring to her, she prepared for a teac hing career. Sbe taught art and after school took on Girl Scouts leaderships at the Cherry Madonna House, Mulberry St. and Prince St.

Settlement House- Manhattan. All this while she still lived in Jersey City, where she was born in 1907, She came to Brooklyn 22 years ago when she married a certified public accountant. They have three children, John Traynor. S.J., who is 21 and in his fourth year at St. Andrew's-on-the-Hudson; Edwin tTed), 17, a freshman at Holy Cross One might, imagine her home as equipped with a full corps of servants, from cook to at 1 east second parlormaid.

However, there is but one such aid to the housework, a cleaning woman who comes in one day a week. "I stay in I hat day," explained Mrs. Traynor. "Together, two people can accomplish much mote than one person working all of i wo days. "Keeping he iuse is not really a hard job," she continued.

"Not if you systematize the work. peeling the potatoes, I plan the next thing. Tasks get done in their appointed, time, and expeditiously." Long Hours, SI tort Rest Should one now wonder what time is left for communion with her family, it must be revealejj 1 that bedtime in the Traynor home is 1 a m. "I find six hours sleep adequate," said Mrs. Traynor.

But occasionally I also catch half-hou nap, usually before dinner. 1 am alwarvs tremendously refreshed by such a nap." While her civic activities provide her major Mrs. Traynor also enjoys those to which noAst well-bred persons give time. Foremost of these she' lists music, chiefly symphonic, and reading. "I read best seiners, philosophy, religion, the arts and, las.1 but not least, detective thrillers," she sai d.

"The detective story offers complete The characters are characters, ruct people, 'and you finish a detective yarn rested and refreshed." i o-i. mr Wtfi ne Pe' em be ALMOST READY FOR SHIPPING Christina Pagano of 1614 40th St. operates specially built filling machine which handles six or 12 cans at a time. Sapolin paints their surroundings for a while. With world conditions what they are and life so upset everywhere, everybody is concerned with crime and that may be why so many like to read EXPERIMENTAL LAB Using distillation column, standard testing device of chemical lab, Eleanor Waters of Bellaire studies rate of drying of paint sample in big Sapolin plant.

Among things developed by such methods is special varnish covering or inside paper lids of mayonnaise and pickle jars, and extremely flexible enamel used on toothpaste tubes or outside of cans. come in variety of sizes, from 1 of a pint, enough for 1 one chair, to 55-gallon drum for commercial use. This is regular household enamel; subsidiary company, C. A. Woolsey, next door, makes special marine finishes..

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