The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 19, No. 22 (May 28, 1930)

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AKRON, OHIOb WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1930 No. 22
GOODYEAR WILL BUILD TIRE FACTORY IN ARGENTINA
CAPACITY OF NEW
PLANT TO BE 1000
TIRES-TUBES DAILY
Fred W. Climer, Personnel
Manager, Will Head
New Factory
ECISION of Goodyear
11 to erect a modern tire
factory in Buenos Aires, Ar-gentina,
upon the site to
which it has held title for
soine time, was announced
today by President Litchfield.
Construction of the plant,
a one story building 250 by
460 feet, will start July •rst.
There will be in addition a
1) oiler room 40x89 feet ;
engineering building 60x66 feet
and switch board room 15x66.
The factory, to be known as the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Argentina, is located in Hurling
liame a suburb of Buenos Aires,
W. D. Shilts, Goodyear Secretary. .Awarrled 25-'t"=a- P:n ANNOUNCE OFFICIAL
STANDING OF UNITS
. WORKING FOR RIDES
Hain's And Thomas' Groups
Still In Lead With
Month To Go
1\/1• ORE people are think-
1 V1 ing of waste and means
of eliminating it than ever
before, thanks to the War on
- Waste, but running a close
second in the thoughts of
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employees is the interest in
the race for airship rides
between the competing divi-sions
or regiments.
First of the quarterly con-tests
between regiments
closes June 30 and with only about
a month to go competition is grow.
ing keener daily. The standings
· are changing almost every day and
though W. L. Hain's division is
still leading in the Staff Unit of
the War on Waste Army, and W.
E. Thomas' division is leading the
factory Unit these regiments may
lose their enviable positions before
the week is out. It all depends on
the number and value of the waste
suggestions submitted by employ-ees
in the other divisions.
Here's the oficial standing to
date:
Left to right: W. C. State, W. D. Shilts, R. S. Wilson, President Litchfleld making the award, P. E
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H. Leroy and Wm. Stephens.
W. D. Shilts, secretary of Good-
Nituated 16 miles northwest of the year, completed 25 years of Good-city,
up the La Plata River.
Production By February
Cnpacity of the new South Am-eriean
plant, which wi]1 be turning
out tires by February 1, will be a
thousand tires and a thousand tubes
1,(·r day. h
is expected to include 400 employ-ees,
Mr. Litchfield said.
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ear service last Wednesday.
resident Litchfield presented him
'th his diamond pin and $250 in
old. A number of Goodyear
•cials were present at the cere-ony.
In answer to an advertisement
in a local newspaper for an of•ce
man who knew something of Sgures
and shorthand he came out to
Goodyear 25 years ago, applied for
the job, and got it.
He had graduated at Mt. Union,
had completed a year at law · in
Cleveland and planned to work
here temporarily until he saved
Assembly and Management Select
manager of the factory personnel
department of Goodyear in Akron,
will leave sbortly for Buenos Aires
where he will be superintendent of
the new plant. C. R. Bollinger of
Akron has been appointed comp-
· in
charge of the construction work.
The South American factory will
be the fifth foreign Goodyear plan
lows: Canada two, England and
Australia each one.
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the Philippines.
WILL SHOW MOVIE
OF STEEL PROCESSES
A motion picture, 4'The Arteries
of .Industry," will be shown in
Go,idyear Theater, Wednesday,
June 4, at 1:30 0'clock and 4
(,'f·lock p. m., under of the auspices
of Cloodyear University.
Tlie picture was prepared by the
NHtional Tube Company and
trures the product from the crude
2,r,· thr•,ugh the blast furnaces and
4,11 tlirotigh the variout, 1,rocesses
1 0t3h6e finiighecl prodlict. All who
ar,· intrreAted are invited to at-
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Teams for Annual Barbecue Game
With the announcement of the
ersonnel of the Assembly and
anagement baseball teams which
ill play their annual game at the
ssembly Barbecue at Wingfoot
ke, June 14, interest in the
vent has doubled. So closely are
he teams matched in playing
strength that even experts hke
Coach Ed Conner and Coach
6*Smiley" Weltner hesitate to pre-dict
the outcome.
Coach Conner stated. 6'The team
that wins Will be the one that gets
the breaks of the game. It will
probably be a pitchers' duel." On
the other hand Coach Weltner
says, '*Base hits will win this ball
game. In that respect both teams
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are about even in strength.
The Assembly team will be
picked from the following players:
W. D. Howard, Bob Goodall, Wm.
Ricketts, A. Skinner, Jack Shirley,
Wynne, Ralph Stull, Ray Gratmil-ler
and several others.
Strong Teams
The team representing the Man-group:
Tomkinson, Dave. Miller, A. C.
,:
K. L. Reynolds, R. Bolton, N. R.
Miller, Charley Blythe, Fred Cli-mer
and G. R. Reynolds.
Clif Slusser, factory manager,
will hurl for the Management, and
either Bob Goodall or Wm. Ric-ketts
for the Assembly. With the
"Bull" at stake both teams will
try their hardest The famous
trophy has been won three times by
the Assembly and only once by the
Management.
The barbecue is a family affair
and all who have received invita-tions
are requested to notify C. M.
Evitt, secretary of the Assembly,
how many of their families will be
there. This should be done at once.
May Be Overlooked
Ex-assemblymen who may have
been overlooked in the sending out
of invitations are requested to con-sider
themselves invited.
The baseball game is only one of
the events that will make the bar-becue
interesting. ' Games and
contests have been planned for
everyone who attends. Prizes will
be awarded.
A fine barbecue dinner, similar
to the one last year, will be served
Tickets at $1 for adults and 50
cents for children 8 to 14, may be
I obtained from any of the assembly
men or at the assembly omce, Good
year IIall.
enough money to complete his law
course. But he liked it here and
decided not to become a lawyer.
He was advanced to important
positions in sales and administra-tive
work, and in 1921 had been
for some time chairman of the
Board of Control and assistant sec-retary.
Under the new lineup he
became comptroller of the sales
company, retaining the title of as-sistant
secretary.
In the early days of the war
when Liberty Loan funds were
being started Akron needed some-one
who could organize the senti-ment
and willingness of the com-munity.
Goodyear loaned Shilts to
the city, and he organized and
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Factory Unit
1. W. E. Thomas' division.
2. L. B. Tomkinson's division.
3. R. L. Patrick's division.
4. V. N. Braden's division.
5. W. I. Satow's division.
6. Elmer Clark's division.
7. H. T. Gillen's division.
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Zeppelin Employee First To Ride
on Goodyear Airship at Low Fare
E. S. Kant, Goodyear-Zeppelin, at the Central Clearance at
employee, and his sister, were the Goodyear-ave. and Martha-ave.
gatehouses. These serve as passes
first to take advantage of the ne
w at Wingfoot Lake and means of
low rates of $5 per person per ride identiScation for employees or
in a Goodyear airship offered to families when purchasing airship
employees and their families. rides.
They enjoyed a ride on tbe Pilgrim West end of Route 17 is closed
on the day the announcement was while road improvements are being
made. The third passenger to be made and the following route to
carried was Mrs. G. A. Waddle, Wingfoot Lake should be taken for
wife of Judge Waddle, assistant the present: Drive out the Akron-sales
manager. Mogadore road straight through
Flights are made every day at Mogadore to Route 43, a gravel
Wingfoot Lake airdock when the road. Turn right on Route 43 and
weather is favorable except Satur- proceed to Sumeld, turning right
day and Sunday. Tickets are pur- on Route 17 past the detour sign.
chased at the Operations Ofice Drive west on Route 17 across the
near the dock, from C. H. Cross. railroad tracks at Su•eld Station
Saturday and Sunday the ships and turn left on Wingloot Lake
operate commercially from Akron road. The airdock is in plain sight
i Municipal Airport. from this road. Thi• route is only
| EmployeeR planning to take air- about two miles farther thnn the
- • ship rides should obtain either pur- regular route and the roads are
chase cards or identification cardN good.
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