Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1950-07-21
MORE WORKERS Are
NEEDED AT ONCE
Employment Nears Peacetime
High AS Depot Responds
To War Needs

Neeueu Immediately at the
Erie Ordnance Depot are $50 ar
tillery repairmen. Qualified
applicants will be hired on ap-
plications and are requested to
report until further notice be-
tween Z and IL a. m., Mondays
through Fridays, al the person.
mel office on the main floor of
headquarters building.
One and one-half years ex-
perience in any mechanical
trade is required. Those quail
fed will be given emergency
appointments at $l.22 per hour.
All applicants, except veterans,
must be between 1S and 65
years of age. Age limitations
are waived for veterans.
In the immediate post war per-
iod Erie Ordnance Depot devised
and employed modern cocoon
storage methods for the Ar1ny's
finest antiaircraft and ground ar
tillery.
These storage methods are all
ready paying large dividends be-
cause they not only eliminated
the necessity for doing inspection
and preservation of artillery dur
ing the years of storage, but they
now make available, for instant
shipment to any theater, weapons
that are in first class condition.
Thus Erie Ordnance Depot is
now in a position to, and already
has met, demands for immediate
shipment for this artillery.
Security measures at the depot
are being frightened this week,
shop space expanded, and per-
sonnel increased to meet the ac-
CELEBRATED work program assigned
Erie Ordnance Depot by the or
flee of the Chief of Ordnance, it
was disclosed today by COL Elmer
M. Webb, Commanding Officer.
Shops are humming with anti
aircraft and medium and heavy
field artillery work. Depot work
ers, at present, are busy stream
lining and functional testing anti
aircraft guns, howitzers, and guns
and some of the really big ones,
the 8 inch howitzers, in the field
artillery class.
Another activity involves tho
testing of gun tubes and mounts
for tanks at the Detroit Tank Ar
senal, Center Line, Michigan.
Shop space has been expanded
by some 10000 square feet to fa-
cilitate the overhaul on the small
er antiaircraft guns and the tank
gun mounts.
With release on the former
restriction on the number of work
ers allowed Erie Ordnance Depot,
total employment of civilian work
ers has jumped to 1875, 100 men
having been hired since July /.
Most of the new workers are hir-
ed as artillery professors, artil-
lery repairmen, optical repairmen
and remote control repairmen.
Coincidentally with its expand
ed shop activity, Erie Ordnance
Depot has awarded contracts to-
falling approximately $325,000
within the past two months. Con-
tracts cover improvements on poss
buildings and utilities which will
increase plant capacity and de-
crease production costs.
Erie Ordnance Depot, the fourth
oldest installation in the United
States and the oldest in Ohio,
embraces approximately 1900
acres which are dotted with
enumerable shops and warehouses
mile long proof firing front fac
ing on Lake Erie, utility buildings
and quarters for military person.
mel. Plum Brook Sub-Post, San
dusky, an ammunition magazine
area, is sub-installation of Erie
Ordnance Depot.
Established in 1918, the site
was chosen because of its proxi-
nifty to the manufacturing cities
of Toledo, Detroit and Cleveland,
nearness to extensive railway sys-
TENS, and firing range facilities.
Erie Ordnance Depot regularly
employs approximately 1000 work.
ers, half of whom are World War
l and Ii veterans, and who COM
mute daily from Port Clinton, Oak
Harbor, Fremont, Sandusky and
| Toledo.