The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 51, No. 33 (August 16, 1962)

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Thursday, August 16,1962
AKRON EDITION.
No. 33
Renewal Tire Sales
Record For Industry
Predicted This Year • 4
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A bargain in jazz al- s i. -- - An all-time industry sales record in renewal tire
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t lic,ugh open only to people '. sales for passenger cars, trucks and farm equipment i: i
iii foreign countries- will 474 .3:, will be established during the remainder of 1962.
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1,2 made available to Akron ..1/7
'.. · ir Clarence W. Thorp, marketing .
('1111,loyes today. v •t ' manager for the Tire division. is more than a, 50 per cent
•'"'0•'' l. ' «• who made the announcement,' growth since 1950.
Ireaturing the works of in-t,
·rilatiolial musical stars Duke - also predicted still higher total . ••Impressive as the 1962 fig-
1·:Ilington and Bobby Hackett, .. sales in 1963 for passenger and ure will be, we'll top it in 1963,
tlie long-playing records go on li 1 • farm tire replacements. selling about 78 million auto
>:tle today (Thursday) in the J tires," he said.
For this year, Thorp forecast
E iii ployes Activities Office, R. V. THOMAS, Goodyear International president, looks on passenger tire sales- exclusive Farm tire sales will be up
(;c,(,clye£ir Hall. in approval as Bobby Hackett offers a sample musical rendition of original equipment-will about 4.4 per cent this year to
Price of the Goodyear Jazz of what employes can expect in jazz records which go on sale reach 76 million units, a 3.7 per a total of 2,135,000, and 1963
2,col'(is, enclosed in a colorful today in the Employes Activities Office. Thomas holds a sample cent increase over 1961's record should see 2.2 million renewal
jazz record jacket. total. The expected 1962 total farm and implement tires sold,
,i:irket. are $1.40 for stereophonic Thorp said.
and $1.10 monaural Hi-Fi,
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apliroximately one-third the Over Falls Sesquicentennial t6Renewal truck tire sales have
been particularly strong in 1962,
tiormal cost for discs of com- and the industry will finish this
p: i rilble quality.
Iiee:iuse the supply is limited Many Goodyearites Are In A'Lather• year with an all-time record
sales figure of more than 10 mil-
:it this time, only one record will lion units.'·'
ti sold to each employe. For a number of bewhisk- growth is Chet Travis, materials •'YES, it itches; NO, my wife Although he indicated 1963
'1'he record sale is part of ered Goodyearites, beards analyst in 121H and Falls city doesn't like it; YES, you can will be a good year in truck tire
a unique world-wide marketing are something worth cele- councilman. "My wife just tol- feel it; .NO, you can't pull it; sales, Thorp added: •7 don't ex-i,
rogram geared to the growing brating!. erates this beard," he says dip- YES, it scares the kids; NO, the pect that we'11 top 1962 results,
1,41)ularity in foreign countries lomatically. girls won't date me; YES, it but the total should reach about
t,f "niade in America" jazz. They're thick, long and silky- For anemic baldfaces, these takes a man to grow one; YES, it 9.8 million tires."
I• il rticipa ting dealers wil 1 smooth. Or they're short and •'brothers of the brush" carry will be heck to get off; YES,
hpnefit from increased public tough. Some are meticulously printed cards with answers to I'm having a &*# !!*# ! 9 lot of
manicured and combed while all questions: fun.
.& Irareness of their places of
.. others sprout wildly in every di- I usines>, lesulting fiom the pio-rection.
They come in different
!# 036ationdn from increased store
colors, and you'll find them in
' !·:iffic on the part of persons Cuyahoga Falls.
·9 li ing records.
If you're an adult male Falls-
It. 1 . Thonias, president of ite, and ·you don't have a sub-
1 t,odyear International, termed
stantial patch of hair on chin
the "inost ambitious" program
or lip, you're in jeopardy of
(;IC's history. being hauled before the city's
Ellington, Hackett, Louis Kangaroo Couft. The penalty ?
•111strong and other jazz art- You could be fined - or dunked
' s have made special Hi-Fi in a bathtub - or forced to ride
•or(litigs -and color . films that a tricycle down main street.
11 be distributed around the Take a walk on one of the
, rlci - the records through ·busy. streets in the Falls, and
,(,(lyear's far-Hung dealer or- you're likely to get lost in a
ilizations, the films through
hairy sea of facial growth.
,lion picture houses, television
11 public service gatherings. Of course .it's all part of
Cuyahoga Falls' Sesquicenten-
I.:fullehed at an initial cost to nial Celebration, Aug. 18-25. In-c
of. approximately half a clu(led in the festivities are pa-ilion
d611ars, the campaign rades dances, sporting events,
11 be extended on a country- Science and Space Fair, and -
crountry basis and is expected ds one of the climactic cappers-continue
for several years. the beard . shave-off.
gr records, each featuring dif-
rent jazz musicians, . will be Robert Dobson, 464E, product
ue(1 from time to time over development,· babies his·•beard
}s period, .TlromaK said. with tender care despite jibes
from co-workers.
\s each long-playing record-
1 is released, color films made •'My associates here call me
il ring the recording sessions Useless ·S. Grant, or just Gen-
11 be distributed around the eral," Dobson ,says. '•Actually,
4. , 1/. Id. by United Artists as short I think the baldfaces are just a
.hjects along with United little bit jealous."
lists feature films. Also sporting a well-trained
HAIR TODAY, gone tomorrow ? Threatening to m-ake 66short"
work of it is Linda Lesho, 664, Eastern regional accounting.
Robert Dobson (center) hopes she doesn't go through with the
clip job, while Chet Travis enjoys the barbershop antics. These
two rugged Fallsites are growing beards for the city's Sesqui-centennial
celebration, Aug. 18-25.
Thorp listed the increased use
of two-ply construction, the in-troduction
of polyest 2t5ir4er cord,
.-· and the development of improv-
, ed synthetic rubbers for better
tire life and rideability as the
leading technical developments
in the industry.
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• )peed Record Try %
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B:!li Slated Sept. 2-6 W - 'th
•. Craig Breedlove, driving 4
• his jet-powered 16Spirit· of •tth.
ff America" on Goodyear •
•. tires; will attempt to break •
4411 « the existing land speed %
• record. Sept. 2-6, it was 3,»
1111, announced this week. .111, ':'.
9111. Originally scheduled to 03&
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4 make test runs Aug. 11- 3•
% 13- Breedlove and his car •
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M1• are expected to arrive at • 2•&
• . Bonneville (Utah) Flats p,3
• on Aug. 22 and complete fif
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5 the test runs by Sept. 1. 4
24 · Present land speed rec- 26
• ord, set 15 years ago, is •
$ 394 miles per hour.
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4111. Delay in the speed rec- <
0 ord attempt resulted when •;
p the hand-molding of the #
• rear wheel fairings con- %
• sumed more time than :PS
% originally estimated: •
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