Rolland Hines

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Rolland started at Rohr on September 1, 1953 in Cutting and Drop Hammers. When the drop hammers moved to Chula Vista he went to work in Core Cutting. He had been at Rohr for a year when Rohr had it's first strike. He did not picket. Fred Rohr talked to the Riverside guys in the picket line. Fred Rohr was a family man, and Rohr was a good place to work. The strike went on for 6 weeks. The union rented elephants and camels for publicity. Their foreman let them off ten minutes early to clock out at the gate. Rolland ran the saw for 3 years. He cut pipe for the C97 tanker airplane and the C135. He worked with Walter Henderson in Cutting. Guzman taught him how to run a router.

Rolland was a Reporter on the Cutting Edges column in the following issues of The AeROHRcrafter:
July 1956 (p. 35)
November 1956, p. 39 (shared with M. J. Haberski)
December 1956, p. 39 (shared with M. J. Haberski)

In the Cutting Edges column, reporter M. J. Haberski states "R.L. Hines returned from his vacation, and has been on third shift. We miss you on days, but good luck, Hines . . ." (The AeROHRcrafter, November 1956, p. 39).

In 1957, Rolland was mentioned in the January, February, and July AeROHRcrafters. In the January 1957 AeROHRcrafter, Rolland as a reporter for the Cutting Edges his photograph was included and he was mentioned in his own article, "Our night reporter, R. L. Hines, has been very busy with with his Scout work recently, so we haven't had any news from him . . ." (p. 38). In the February 1957 AeROHRcrafter he was mentioned in The Reporter's Report "It's good to see R. L. Hynes back on days . . ." (p. 38). In his Cutting Edges column it states "Our reporter Hines had a pleasant surprise this month; he answered the door one night and found his mother standing there. He had not seen her for eight years, and he has been walking on a cloud ever since" (p. 38). The July AeROHRcrafter reports the following: "R. L. Hines' son graduated from Poly High School on Friday, June 14th" (p. 38).

Rolland joined the golf club at Rohr in the 1960's.

Rolland worked the grave yard shift as a Honeycomb Core Cutting Supervisor. In 1968 he was a Leadman and then became a Supervisor in 1969. He worked the graveyard shift for 6 1/2 hours but got paid for 8 hours. He was a member of the Moose Club in Riverside, playing cards, with Ken Goodwin and Donald Poole. He retired on February 28, 1979. Rolland passed away of a heart attack on March 15th, 2015 at the age of 98 in Oxnard, California.