The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 45, No. 28 (July 11, 1956)

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i The annual Goodyear Family Picnic will be ;
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( held on Monday, August 6, at Euclid Beach Park :.
Q in Cleveland, as usual. Of course, the program will •
C be one to interest old and young.
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1 Weekly Review 1
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2 Labor Relations i
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; Wage Talks /
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Wage talks between the com-pany
and the United Rubber
Workers continue at the Bilt-niore
Hotel in Dayton.
HOSE ROOM PICNIC
DATE IS SET FOR
SUNDAY, JULY 15
Fifth Annual Affair Will Be
Staged At Carter's Lake;
Pensioners As Guests
The fifth annual picnic for
employes of the hose room and
their families will be held next
Sunday at Carter's Lake, Tall-
* * * madge, and a very interesting
Decision covering one griev- program has been planned by
ance has been handed down by the committee.
the impartial umpire and is re- Games will be provided for
viewed in this issue of The Clan. the children, with prizes going
Complete text of alI decisions to the winners. Swimming facili-may
be ,btained from depart- ties are available. The ball game
ment supervisors and division promises to be one demonstra-chairmen.
ting keen competition.
* * * In addition to the various
Grievance Nos. 387, features of the program, the
14566E and 1229 committee announced a plentiful
Decision No. SD-217 Supply Of good food.
Union claim that company i departments, who now are on
Former employes of the hose
has violated •:Supervisors Work
ing" clause of agreement i.n- I• the list of pensioners, are to be
operation of Ross-Waldron unit. honored guests again this year.
Note: Three grievances are 0. R. Montgomery, division
combined in this decision be- foreman, says a good turnout is
cause each relates to common
problem ( i.e.) union claim that favorable - and all hose em- non-bargaining unit em,loyes • :'. 0.3.,6ht.,,inth•, .,l, t,h:'."
have been performing work of that.
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PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
AKRON OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1956
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0 Absolutely No Need For Having Old G
i Diogenes With His Lantern At Goodyear
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the Old fellow • foreman in Dept. 111K, was
who packs a lantern and feeling mighty blue last Friday '
strolls around in search of an morning. He had lost his wallet
I honest man, wouldn't have to containing, as he said, "quite a I
travel far at Goodyear anytime, large sum of money," along with
especially last Friday morning. some very valuable papers.
If he had stepped into Dept. However, after a nervous pe-riod
of "blues," Gruver's face
was wreathed in smiles, for his
* wallet with everything intact
• had been found.
I -When he saw by the papers in
U a•- Clyde Cullen was the finder.
• the wallet to whom it belonged,
41.1/13- he hurried to return it to Gruver.
'\\ "I am so glad you found the
wallet," said Gruver. "While
there was considerable cash, the
papers meant a lot to me. Now,
let me give you a reward."
"Reward ? Nothing doing,"
said Cullen. "The wallet and cash
and papers belong to you. Be-sides,
I don't expect anything
for being honest."
However, Gruver insisted and
crammed a five-dollar bill into
Cullen's pocket, as he remarked:
•You take that, and if you
152B, truck tire preparation, he don't want to keep it, give it to
would have immediately bumped your church or some charitable
into Clyde Cullen. institution. Besides, from the
1 Bryan Gruver, zone engineer bottom of my heart I thank you."
Number 28
•EZ' GOEWEY NOW
IS HEAD OF SALES
EXECUTIVES CLUB
Manager Of Sales Training At
Goodyear Installed At
Meeting On Friday
E. W. •'Ez" Goewey, manager
of Goodyear sales training, was
installed as president of the
Sales Executives Club of Akron
last Friday. The installation of
officers was held at the Fair-lawn
Country Club at the annual
club meeting.
The National Sales Execu-
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"Supervisor will not perform • Another Example OfManner InWhich Red Cross E. W.  036GEoze"wey
i work in the bargaining unit ex- : : tives, Inc., is a non-profit, non-cept
he may demonstrate / Blood Program Is Serving Our Community 2 partisan, educational organiza-methods,
or assist employes in j 1 tion with the following pur-emergency
where damage to T q•Ih•/14•••9••b••4•••b••*•b••rf•*4••4••h••I•b••*••S0#4D*.••4••b••44•.••-••••-I•4••44••,444•.••-••4••-a•Ib•*-•••b•,4••••4•••,••-,••0,-•*•'4,•&*,-4•Ih*,-4••b.•4•I*.0,4•••/4••44•.••1••material, or hazard to employes •Blood Is Life Itself!" community. Similar cases occur daily. Many 1. To insure for everyone better
poses:
is involved." This dramatic thought was expressed last Goodyear folks and members of their families standards of living through better sell-
Digest: Ross-Waldron unit week when D. F. "Don" Brain, traffic manager, I are alive and healthy today because someone ing.
was shut down early in Decem- l export import section, Goodyear traffic depart- was thoughtful enough to give his blood to the 2. To provide the greatest possible
ber, 1955, for major equipment I ment, was rushed to Akron General Hospital in Red Cross. w,iuomrkbeersr oinf ijnodbsusatrty gaonodd inwaaggesricfuoltrurael,l
change involving addition of I serious condition. ' To repay the Red Cross blood bank for ex- through international. national re-
'•Soak Barber" unit which ac- • Brain needed four pints of lifesaving blood tending a friendly hand in this crucial period, gional and local sharing of marketing
commodates approximately 300 + immediately. There was no time to look for four members of the traffic department-Miriam inf3o. rmToaticoonopaenradte exwpiethriengcoev. ernmental.
additional yards of dipped donors, type and cross-match blood. The Red Urban, R. J. Hoskins Jr., W. T,. Bush and educational and other agencies. and
fabric. Cross was summoned and the urgently-needed 5 George Pierce-have volunteered to donate a with consumer groups, in all matters
Crew consisted of four men blood was provided free of charge. Brain is on ' pint of blood when the bloodmobile visits Good- aff4e.ctTinogeldevisattreibtuhteionpr.ofession of selling
prior to installation of Soak his way to recovery, thanks to the Red Cross year Hall July 25, 26 and 27. and sales management, and to foster
Barber unit and continued to blood program. The need for blood never takes a vacation. ethical standards between buyer and
operate with four-man crew This is just one example of the way in which Plan to give a pint of life sustaining blood when seller, employer lind employe.
5. As the voice of selling to provide following addition of new unit. the Red Cross blood program is serving our the Red Cross bloodmobile visits Goodyear. leadership for sales executives, and to
Union claimed that work was ....
- -- - _ bespeak acceptance everywhere of the
being performed by employes advantages of selling as a career and
outside bargaining unit in viola. Uiiion Members Oth..4*b..44*......6..44*...=....944. ,*-0.-Ob..f#-6.44.b2 Holiday Season of the importance of selling in the
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tion of Supervisors Working To Attend Labor i FRIDAY THE 13TH i, Hospital Season
clause. · u....,....,.,•......,•.......... *-...,*.........•.. Goewey has been with Good-
( economy of the nation and. the world.
Decision: (1) Company has Relations Class l year since 1920, when he hired
been in violation of Supervisors . For Velma Black in as
'. I. , Working clause with respect to
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THE OLD fIMER SAYS.'
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Ezra, the newspapers report
more than 130 men, women and
children were killed in highway
traffic during the Fourth of July
period. Just seems folks is bent
on joining the masses on the
roads on holidays, knowing
they're taking risks. Seems like
they ain't never going to learn.
Forrest Givins, vice president
of Goodyear Local 2, will head
a four-man committee of Local
2 representatives to attend a
course in labor relations July 15
through July 21 at Columbus, 0.
Others besides Givins to at-tend
the seven-day meeting are
George Sharpless, Dept. 141,
Friday the 13th is next. Fri •
day. It is to be another good day
for Goodyearites especially
those on salary, because it's pay
day:- -And who of us can't use
the money, after celebrating the
glorious Fourth of July or per-haps
Just back from vacation ?
a sales trainee in the
Albany district. He also worked
"Somehow it seems that a in the old Rochester, N. Y., dis-holiday
season is the •season' set trict and has held several sales
for me to go to a hospital for an positions in the field such as,
operation," said Velma Black, general line saIesman, special
Dept. 191E, factory and general truck tire salesman, store super-b
office janitorial service, just as visor and assistant district
she was to become a St. Thomas manager, Des Moines district
hospital patient last week-on before coming to Akron to his
the Fourth of July. present position as manager of
entered the hospital sales training.
LEAVES JULY 21
stock preparation; Harold Hor- Mary Lou Ellis, secretary to Velma
vath, Dept. 137M; Ross Waldron, E. F. Reese, division foreman in last May 30-Memorial Day-pre-
dip unit, and Charles No- metal products, is--leaving the • for an operation and was re-land,
Dept. 111, engineering. company on July zi. The stork leased on June 13.
The course is sponsored by is hovering over the Ellis home. Last year on Thanksgiving
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the international union.
Working on a temporary as-
INTERESTING VACATION signment in the Plant 1 person-
Margaret Seale, Dept. 835, nel department ,is Vickie Holt,
office printing, returned to work who recently was graduated
last week, following a week's from Old Trail School.
AFTER CANADIAN FISH
Two · weeks of "just plain
Day Velma entered the hospital fishing" is on the agenda for
for treatment. Jack Lloyd as he spends his va-
Velma formerly was employed cation at Stoney Lake, Lake-in
Dept. 384A, Airfoam, Plant land, Canada. Jack is irt Dept.
3. She ·has fourteen years of 722, tank lining sales, Plant 3.
service at Goodyear.
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of the Colonial homes and j You didn't do when you should have. 2
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Dave. Thomas, assistant man-ater
of sales and office person-
' nel, Plant 1, is spending a two
weeks' vacation in Ludington,
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