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THFJAOMSF@0x CLAN = AKRON EDITION = PROTECT OUR GOOD NAME Vol. 35 AKRON, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1946 No. 42 Weekly Review "Every Employe Should Wear Red Feather" — OF— Labor Relations Brings Dividends "CHEST" GOAL AT On Common Stock Isabelle Campbell Awarded Litchfield GOODYEAR SETAT Five-Day Week To $4.00 For Year Medal For Being Outstanding Student Contract Negotiations AN EVEN $75,000 Simkin DueOctober 24 An extra dividend of $1 per share on outstanding common Campaign Opens With Hundred! stock of the Goodyear Tire & Of Solicitors Making Rounds Because of an increasing Rubber Company was declared Of Various Plants materials, Monday by company's shortage of passen- the board . mi ger and truck tire production of directors. Every Goodyear employe is scheduled this week for five The regular quarterly divi- should be wearing a "Red days instead of the customary dend on common shares was Feather" before the end of next six. There will be no work in simultaneously raised to $1 and week. those departments Saturday, the board also authorized the "More participation!" October 19. regular quarterly dividend of That's the plea of Jack Kid- Mechanical goods and de- $1.25 per share on the $5 pre- «*te imw MEL jfll ney and Mrs. Ruby Baker, co- partments other than passen- ferred stock of the company. chairmen of the annual Com- ger and truck tires wiH operate The regular and extra divi- munity Chest campaign at Good- ou^he usual schedule. dends are all payable December year, which opened yesterday. 16 to stock of record November Hundreds of solicitors are mak- ing of Goodyear negotiations were 15. the rounds Mr. Litchfield, chairman of plants and offices in questof the resumed Friday, after a recess $75,000 goal. since early in September, re- the board, made the announce- 1 ment. Kidney and Mrs. Baker, who quested by the union prior to works in Dept. 157,Plant 1Life- the annual URWA convention. Raising of the regular com- mon dividend to $1 and payinc Guards, and is serving her sec- The company-union contract ond year as co-chairman, have committee also met Monday, the extra dividend of $1 will bring dividend payments on the selected four other employes as and additional sessions may be s divisionchairmen. They are Vir- scheduled. common stock up to $4 per g4 \ 1 * * * share for 1946, $2 per share ginia Whitt, Dept. 384, Plant 3 A.^>—^ Airfoam; L. G. Smith, Dept. Impartial Umpire E. having already been paid dur- ■r\^ro^«R^_-* aa\ B^*^^^ 274, goods; W. Sim- ing the first three quarters of ■KV % -"^HJI^^^HHHi^^HI^H^M^^Mil^^^R^^R^RM Plant 2 molded Don kin is due in Akron October 24 year. Weidey, division foreman of for the hearing of several un- the As outstanding Goodyear Industrial University student, labor training, Plant 1, and Bill resolved grievances. Simkinhas Isabelle Campbell receives the Litchfield medal from C. N. Ritter Falor, general office. released no decisions on the ten 500 Goodyear Fans of the Goodyear Service Pin Association. Supervision and union com- casespresented* *tohim* October8. mitteemen are in charge of Will See Grid Game The LitchfieldGold Medal for B. D. Scherer, her department solicitation in their respective Shortage help the best all-around student at manager, on behalf of her fel- departments. of skilled still University low employes. Five "kickoff" exists in the engineering divi- Occupying Section "B" of a Goodyear Industrial meetings were held Monday in boring train, Goodyearites for the 1945-46 term wasaward- Isabelle has been with Good- Goodyear Theater, so chest sion. Major needs are special 500 year her graduation in mill operators,pipefitters, mill- journey to Columbus ed to Isabelle R. Campbell, pay- since workers on each shift might at- will Sat- roll division, Plant 1, Friday. 1943 from GarfieldHigh School, wrights and bench men. urday to see the Ohio State- had an enviable tend. game. The The award was made by C. N. where she Solicitors are prepared to ac- Purdue football train Ritter, Plant scholarship record after her is due to leave Akron at 9:30 divisionforemanof (Continued page 2) 1 pit operations and member of graduation from Glover Grade on Rescue Team a. m. Saturday and upon ar- at in the service pin association. School. She lives 163 Miles rival Columbus it will be was street. Makes Good Showing switched to a siding adjacent to Isabelle awarded the "Heights"Recreation medal upon recommendationof Winners of the medal in pre- the stadium.The return trip will years present for Friday's begin right the university faculty. She was vious MeetingOctober 21 Goodyear's mine rescue and after the game. selected for her attendance at ceremony were Beulah L. Bann, The excursion is sponsored 1; first aid team captured sixth classes, scholarship, hours of development, Plant Lucille G. A. Irwin, secretary of the place by three Goodyear organiza- enrolled, Bloom,factory accounting,Plant in the annual Ohio first — Club, courses attitudetoward Goodyear Heights Recreation aid meet, held Sunday after- tions the Foremen's her schoolmates and Goodyear. 1, and Janet L.Bottimer, Credit, Association, announces a meet- noon at Athletic Association, and the gold medal, Plant 1. the Market Auditorium employes department. In additionto the ing of the association on Mon- in Wheeling, W. Va. activities Isabelle also receives a scholar- day, October 21, at 7:30 p. m., The six-man team, represent- ship for a year and a half of For ClaraBingham in the shelter house, Water ing the company-operated mine Tells Group About further study at the university. Works Park. A. E. Genter, rec- at Adena (Wheeling Township She was presented an orchidby MemorialFund reationaldirector of the city of <-oal Company), made a good Pliofilm's History Akron, will be presentfor a pep showing, giving derived from an 1talk.A committeehas been ap- a better ac- Proceeds pointed to arrangements count of itself than the final Dr. C. W. Walton, manager SWISS SCIENTIST IS amateur show to be given Fri- 1 make standings indicate. Score of the of the chemical products devel- GOODYEAR VISITOR day night, November8, inGood- 'for the meeting, consisting of (.oodyear team was 99.55, Goodyear, year Theater, sponsored by the C. R. Blake, K. E. Baxter and while opment division of E. Bosley. that of the winner was 99.90. presented a history of the de- Dr. Werner Kuhn, em- Wingfoot Girls' Club, will be A. a establishing the All citizens of Goodyear velopment of Pliofilm, Good- inent Swissscientist, was used toward Heights year's transparent special at the Good- E. Bingham memorial interested inrecreation- moisture- visitor Clara ; activities are invited to this GYM REOPENED proof packaging film, before the year Research Laboratory fund, to be used for educational al Monday, while on tour of and charitable purposes. meeting. It is said a surprise TechnicalService Association in store. Following a closing,dur- New York last Friday. leading Americanscientific The committee asks persons is in .ing period Dr. that institutions on behalf of having talent and desiring to which the Good- Walton made known performance TO AVIATION MEETING year gymnasium was un- rubber hydrochloride, the fore- the American-Swiss Foun- take part in the to dergoing repairs, the big runner of Pliofilm, was devel- dation for Scientific Ex- contact Martina Kindberg after Clarence Bell, veteran Good- room was reopened this oped in Goodyear's laboratories change. The scientist will 4:30 p. m., on ST-8327, or Eliza- year pilot and manager of the week, ready for a very more than twenty-eight years be in America six weeks. beth Catlett before 1 p. m. on landing gear and flight opera- busy fall and winter sea- ago, but was not put to its He was much impressed ST-1656. tions departments, and R. W. son of activities. present practical applications by the equipment and the The committee will have fur- Richardson, manager _ of the until 1933. work being carried on at ther informationin ensuing is- aviation products division, are Goodyear. sues of The Clan. attending the National Avia- City. Virginia LeMiller, Dept. 807, Edna Cook Vandersall, Dept. tion Clinic at Oklahoma wice squadron, Plant 1, has 157, LifeGuards, Plant 1, is on Verda Allison, Dept. IMP, Richardson was named a dele- been confined to her home sev- a ninety-day leave of absence Remember, the deadline for tubes, Plant 1, recently receiv-1 gate for the aviationaccessories eral weeks because of illness. because of ill health. "want ad" copy is Friday noon. ed her twenty-year service pin. industries. THE WINGFOOT CLAN- 2 Harry Harter Is Aircraft Plant New Addition To Eight AwardedFor Three Decades' Service To House Surplus Goodyear Pilots War Materials Eight employes of three Harry Harter, veteran airline decades* service were awarded Government-owned Plant D, pilot, has been added to the Triple-X service pins by Vice operated by the Goodyear Air- roster of pilots for Goodyear PresidentCliff Slusser inhis of- craft Corporation during the flight operations, announces C. fice Thursday. Biographies of war, will become a warehouse O. Bell,manager of flight opera- those receiving the pins: for surplus electronics equip- tions and landing gear depart- William K. Glennon, machine de- ment, it was announced last ments. sign shop, Plant 1, was born June 10, 1882, in the same house in which week by the war assets adminis- Harter, a native of Akron he now resides at 1090 Eastwood tration. with some 8,000 flying hours to avenue. He worked for an engineering Plant D will be one of two his credit, served a captain plant, a rubber company and Interna- as tional Harvester before coming to storage centers inthe nation set Goodyear, where he has been in the up by the government for the one department thirty years.