The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 43, No. 16 (April 21, 1954)

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AKRON EDITION
PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, · 1954
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1 ••AST Friday noon at a lunch
eon meeting in the women's
community rooms in Goodyear
Hall, attended by about one
hundred men, the managers,
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• Weekly Review j
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• Labor Relaitions •
5 New Umpire 2
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Paul N. Guthrie, a professor of
economics at the University of
North Carolina, has been se-lected
jointly by the union and
the company as the new impar-tial
umpire, succeeding Umpire
Healy. Guthrie has accepted the
position. A detailed story on the
new umpire appears on page 2
of The Clan.
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A telegram has been sent
jointly by the union and the
conipAny to Umpire Healy, re-questing
that decisions be re-turned
on pending grievances
already heard by the umpire.
Healy officially withdrew as
impartial umpire, as of April 1.
He will hear no new cases, but
decisions have been expected
for some time on the cases he
still has under consideration.
President Thomas Is
Again Chosen Member
Of Important Board
President E. J. Thomas of
Goodyear has been reelected a
, board member of the National
1 Industrial Conference Board for
P a one-year term.
Founded in 1916, the board is
in independent and non-profit
-,stitution for business and in-
:istrial fact-finding through
ientifc research.
• In terms of everyday useful-
-ss, the board is a source of
' ets and figures, bearing on all
.perts of economic and busi-
'ss operation. Work of the
tard is ·made possible through
r e support of more than 3,300
1 Flness organizations, govern-
' 11)seribing associates, including
ikt bureaus, labor unions, li-
2 < :4"ies, individuals, colleges and
:ivel'sities.
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GET 25-YEAR PINS
Eva Sterner and Ruth Kirk-tan,
Dept. 384, Airfoam, Plant
Were awarded 25-year ser-
2' Pins last.week by G. W.
.Kray, division foreman. In
•ir honor, cake and coffe were
.red.
, ·\ sa-vinirs account in The
• :c'(lvear State Bank is a fine
ing to have You never know
' hen rou'll need the ready cash
<cr an emergency.
foremen, supervisors and others
of the service division, which
won the safety award for March,
were honored.
The service division worked
400,135 hours without an acci-dent
necessitating lost time.
Seven other divisions had clean
records for the month but
worked fewer hours. All were
enthusiastically lauded by Jack
Kidney, safety director, who
presided at the meeting. The
eight divisions worked 1,417,592
hours without lost-time accident.
46Eight divisions working near-ly
one and a half million hours
without a lost-time accident,"
said Kidney, :•certainly is a re-
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0/iver Weese Awarded $1,000 For Suggestion,
Making $2,285 He Has Received For Thinking
Hadn't Seen Sister *+* **t DIFIORE'S 46TH
In Forty-Two Years • *•-4 $ IDEA RAISES HIS
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TOTAL TO 81,080 .,
John Hrubick, Goodyear pen-sioner
since February 1, 1953,
recently returned from a five-month
visit in his native Yugo-slavia,
where he visited a sister
he had not seen in forty-two
years.
John traveled by air from
New York to Paris in approxi-mately
twelve hours.
•<It was nice to visit European
countries again," said John, t:but
I was glad to return to my
friends and family in Akron."
Hrubick completed more than
thirty-five years' service in
Dept. 195E, inside transporta-tion,
before retiring from the
company.
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: HURRY WITH THAT :
/ GARDEN PLOT FEE /
( Goodyearites who have <
/ ••signed up" for garden /
1 plots are reminded that •
: Friday is the deadline for (
2 submitting their fees. Gar- (
• dens that are not paid for •
: will be open to new gar- :
/ deners next week. C
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Leroy Tomkinson (right), general superintendent, awards a
check for $1,000 to Oliver A. Weese (left), relief calender opera-tor,
for a winning idea adopted by the suggestion department.
Fred Conrad, Plant 1 superintendent, is an interested onlooker.
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2 Change To Daylight Savings Time Sunday (
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day morning, April 25, all. and out in the regular manner. • result of the time change.
To identify this shift's time for Departmental clocks, which
record • purposes, the timekeep- 1 are on. the master circuit, need
ing department will be respons- k not be changed, as they will be
ible for properly marking the · controlled froni the master clock.
clock cards when processing the • Those clocks operating on the
- shop circuit must be
company clocks will be turned
ahead one hour to 3 o'clock to
conform to Eastern Daylight
Savings Time.
Until further notice working
schedule will remain the same
except f6r the · change to East-ern
Daylight Savings Time.
Employes scheduled to work-on
the shift the time dhange oc-curs
will report for work on the
present Eastern Standard Time
but make the following shift
change on Daylight SErings
Time.
This time change will cause
all employes working during the
change to · work one hour less
than their normal shift. Actual
hours worked by hourly em-ployes
will be paid.
t,rne
Salary employes' payment. will '
will be handled as in the past-moved
ahead one hour in order to make
this change.
FOR YOUNG FOLKS
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: ' of the YWCA will present .an
: STORE TO CLOSE / orchestra dance, the •Last
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/ FOR INVENTORY • T Chance Dance," as the final Fri-
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The Goodyear Empl«yes • •• •g•lt p•nat•oar•• MethYeWs:A
/ Store in Goodyear Hall will ; i Friday, April 23, from 9 p. m.
1 be closed Saturday, May 1, : i to midnight. Music for the oc-
: for semi-annual inventory. / I casion will be nrovided by the
/ Open Monday morning, 1 1 Danny Merlo Trio. All young
• May 3, at the usual hour. 1 l adults with or without dates are
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Thirteen Employes Swell Their
Bank Accounts Through Most
Recent Distribution
Thirteen Goodyear employes
are the latest to receive awards
totaling $1,825 for their winning
ideas, according to J. W. Hen-dershott,
manager of the · sug-gestion
department.
Oliver A. Weese, Dept. 133.
relief calender operator, Plant
1,- topped the list, receiving a
check for $1,000 from Leroy
- Tompkinson, general superin-tendent.
Weese's idea called for
one of several major improve-ments
important in the opera-tion
of Goodyear's Z-type fabric-coating
calender.
Winning suggestion awards,
however, is nothing new for
Weese. One of the c9mpany's
top •repeat" suggestion win-ners,
thirty-one of his ideas have
been adopted, meriting a total
of $2,285. One of his previous
awards was $720. He says he
plans to deposit the $1,000 in
the bank, and perhaps purchase
some U. S. Savings Bonds.
Joint Award Of $150
G. B. Brown and C. C. Culver
of Dept. 113, Plant 1 pipeshop,
received a Joint award of $150.
Checks for $100 each went to
Ray A. Harrah, Dept. 275, hose,
Plant 2; Howard B. Drillien,
IllD, mechanical goods, molds,
Plant 1; and Joseph C. Turn-bloom,
148B, Pliocels manufac-turing,
Plant 1.
K. D. Bennett and G. A. Sul-lenger
of Dept. 304B, rubberized
fabric, Plant 3, shared $80 for
a winning idea.
A check for $75 was presented
to J. M. Difore, Plant 1 engin-eering,
one of the company's
'•repeat" suggestors, marking
his forty-sixth adopted sugges-tion,
meriting awards totaling
$1,080.
Bearle W. Thompson, Dept.
111C, small machines and erect-ing,
Plant 1, received $75, and
C. C. Culver and R. D. Helms,
Dept. 113, Plant 1 pipeshop,
shared $75.
Robert S. Savage, Dept. · 102-
F3, development, Plant 1, was
awarded $70.
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