The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 39, No. 27 (July 5, 1950)

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AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1950
PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME
Number 27
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, Nearly 100 Gather To Receive Fir:, Checks 1.Irder Goodvear's New Pen.sion Plan j
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Retired employes meet in Goodyear Hall to receive first checks und er Goodyear's new pension program. (More pictures on page four.)
A new page of Goodyear his-toi'y
was recorded last Friday
when nearly 100 employes eli-gible
for retirement under the
company's new program assem-
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i Weekly Review 5
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1 Labor Relaitions i
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& Work Stoppage Penalty /
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The employe who partici-pated
in the work stoppage in
the Plant 2 mat room on Fri-day,
June . 23, and was dis-charged
because it constituted
his second offense of this type,
has been reinstated. Decision
was reached on the case when
it was determined he was not
aware, at the time he was en-gaged
in the second stoppage,
that the · discharge penalty
would be invoked.
In order to insure that the
disciplinary procedure in work
stoppages in· violation of the
contract is thoroughly under-stood,
the company will notify
individually each employe who
has been suspended for par-ticipating
in sitdowns since
August 29, 1945, that a second
offense of that nature will re-sult
in his dismissal. In the
future similar notifications will
be sent to any employes who are
suspended for the first time for
engaging in illegal work stop-pages.
Look, Golfers Who
Shoot Under 85
Look! You Goodyear Tire
and Goodyear Aircraft golfers
who shoot under 85. Are you
interested in playing in the
company - sponsored golf
matches and tournaments ?
If you are, send in your ten
lowest scores also name of the
course in the district on which
the scores weie ni:ide, to Ray-mond
0. Detrick, employes ac-tivities
c,ffice, Goodyear Hall.
bled in the community rooms at
Goodyear Hall to receive their
first pension checks.
Several of the company's top
executives, including President
E. J. Thomas, and F. W. Climer,
vice president in charge of in-dustrial
relations, were there,
as were union officials and rep-i'esentatives.
With the union
group were L. S. Buckiiiaster,
international president, and
E. L. Howard, president of
Local 2:-
Accompanying the check dis-tribution
was a brief but
colorful ceremony. President
Thomas, who opened the pro-gram
with a short talk, after
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$4500 is Awsrded To Widow Of Late George Landefeld For
Suggestion Which He Submitted Short Time Before His Death
They Know Hollesty
Is Best Policy
A billfold belonging to W.
H. Tidrick, domestic shipping,
Plant 3, was found and re-turned
to him by Holly Well,
carpenter shop, Plant 3, who
found the wallet in a wash-room
at Plant 3.
Another instance of the
honesty of Goodyearites was
seen when C. L. McGill, box
shop, Plant 3, found a twenty-dollar
bill ahd returned it to
John Capps of the same de-partment
after investigation ·
to find the owner.
Both . finders refused the
proffered rewards.
Will Try Chief Of
Police Job In South
On .leave of absence to live
in Maiden, N. C. for awhile, is
Dewey Hendrix, electric shop,
Plant 1, who has gone .to see
how he will like the job of chief
of Maiden police. Accompanyi
ing him on the trip were his
wife, Mary, formerly in the
cashier's department, Plant 1,
and their little son.
Dewey expects to write his·
friends at Goodyear and would
like to have them drop him' a
line or two. He has twenty-five
years' service at Goodyear.
Glenn Griffiths, fabric inspec-tion,
Plant 1, and wife spent a
week in Washington, D. C. r0e3-6
cently visiting her relatives.
She formerly worked in fabric
inspection.
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Three lost - time accidents
last week were reported by the
safety department. Erich Fish-er,
pattern shop, Plant 1, slipped
on soapy water on the third
floor of Building 41, fracturing
his leg. He was admitted to City
Hospital.
S. P. Smith, treads, another
PIant 1 employe, caught the
fingers of his left hand in an
electric fan, necessitating the
amputation of the first joint of
his third finger. A penalty of
150 days was sustained.
George Ucker, zone · engi-neers,
was tapping a sulphuric
acid valve line in the Chemical
Plant when the line blew out,
splashing acid on his legs and
waist.
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: Chimes Program ;
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The following selections will
be presented on the Goodyear
chimes Sunday, July 9, at 9:45
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-The ,Church In .the Wilclwoo,1."
"Love Lifted Me."
"Seeking For M•:."
"There Shall 84. Show,·rs of Bless-ing."
"AM a Voluntefer.'
"Since: Jesus Came Into My He:irt."
Fabry's Son Wins
$600 Scholarship
Alan Fabry, seventeen-year-old
son of Edmund and Geneva
Fabry, has been notified that
he is the winner of a $600
scholarship to the University
of Akron, awarded to the best
Boy Scout of a three-county
area.
The lad won on his scholar-ship
and personality and after
taking a .written· test in com-petition
with eight other final-ists.
A graduate of Springfield
Township High School, Alan
is a Boy Scout Troop 305 and
has four brothers and four sis-ters.
He lives with his parents
on Woodland road in Spring-field
township. His father is in
the bead room, Plant 1. His
mother formerly worked in re-pair
stock, Plant 1.
WETZ IN HOSPITAL
Harvey Wetz, vice president
of The Goodyear State Bank,
is a patient in City Hospital, but
is reported to be steadily im-proving
and expects to return
to his home soon.
SPEER BACK ON JOB
L. L. Speer, foreman of Dept.
232B, .mechanical goods mill
room, Plant 2, who had been
on sick leave, has returned to
his post.
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$ IS,000 'PAID FOR
'•IDEAS" IN FIRST
6 MONTHS IN 1950
This Represents $2,500 More
Than VVas Distributed In
Like Period In 1949
Some deep thinking was done
in the first six months of 1950,
the Goodyear suggestion de-partinent
revealed this week in
announcing that more than
1,400 suggestions had been re-ceived
in the · first half of the
year, with the total awards of
almost $18,000. This includes
$1,500 to be awarded this week
to Mrs. Olive C. Landefeld for
a suggestion submitted by her
husband, George • Landefeld,
foreman of • machine installa-tion
and maintenance, Plant 2,
just a short time prior to his
death.
Money awarded to date is
more than $2,500 ahead of the
amount given out ]ast year at
,this time.
Included in the 386 sugges-tions
winnink prize money were
three awards for the maximuni
amount of $1,500 each, with
other sums ranging downward
to $7.50, the minimum. Other
awards- of large sums included
those for $975 .and $600. Three
employes received $300 .to $500
each and eleven from $299 .to
$100, while three hundred and
sixty-seven awards were under
• TO MEN IN THE FACTORY WHO SHOULD WEAR 'EM < $100.
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9 Always bear in mind the fact that you can't tell a counter- • I list went to James W. Cash,
;fit bill with a •'counter-fit" eye. Wear your gogglest : • also in the engineering division,
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