JANUARY, 1956
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FOR YOUR FUTURE CAR . . .
Smaller Tires, Air Springs, Foam Rubber
Give them a Faith to live by
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Your next car may come with smaller tires, air
springs and more foam rubber cushioning—for
safety as well as comfort, according to H. H.
Waters, Director of Engineering for the Com
pany.
Mr. Waters told the American Society of Me
chanical Engineers that, “A number of automo
bile manufacturers will demand and get a 14-inch
tire with increased cross-section for use on 1957
models.”
Besides smaller, wider and softer tires, you
can look to these other new developments in the
next few years, Mr. Waters predicted in a speech
before the diamond jubilee meeting of the
A.S.M.E.;
1. Increased gains for tubeless tires, including
their use on tractors and other farm vehicles, as
well as on cars and trucks.
2. More foam rubber in transportation vehicles
which now take half the foam rubber industry’s
output. Mr. Waters said that passenger and driver
fatigue will be reduced when full-depth foarh rub
ber seat cushions replace rubber toppers and
spring-supported seats. In addition, Mr. Waters
said, “The ultimate in safety will not result until
critical points, such as roof decking, seat backs
and instrument panels are padded with foam.”
3. Air springs in cars, trucks and trains. Now
in use on some buses, air suspension is a system
of rubber and nylon bellows, self-leveling valves
snd air reservoirs which absorb road shock and
vibration. They replace metal springs and in
crease riding comfort and reduce vehicle wear
and maintenance costs.
TOMORROW'S CARS may ride on roads of
rubber, Mr. Waters indicated. Rubber binds as
phalt together tightly in a road, preventing soft
ening and breaking of the surface under the
effects of traffic, and weather. Rubber surfaced
playgrounds have a resilience that helps prevent
injuries when children fall, and for airport sur
facing a rubber compound has been developed
that resists the action of jet burner blasts and fuel
spillage.
“Rubber for paving may be eventually as im
portant as its present usage in tires and tubes,”
Mr. Waters said.
Mr. Waters hailed the Company’s recent de
velopment of a new synthetic rubber that closely
resembles the tree-grown product is “potentially
a discovery of great importance to the entire
country.”
When a synthetic is developed that in every
way performs like natural rubber, “It will be
possible to lessen or even eliminate the govern
ment rubber stockpile which now ties up a billion
dollars of federal funds,’' he said.
But advances in transportation will be mean
ingless, Mr. Waters declared, unless the country
gains better roads. He said the country faces
“Total strangulation of our automotive trans
portation system unless a nationwide effort is
made to correct the present situation.”
YOU DON’T BAKE IT...
Bernice Thomason’s Fruit Cake Is Popular
An unbaked fruit cake which several Firestone
cooks tried and approved for Thanksgiving and
Christmas, was made from an original recipe from
the collection of Bernice Thomason, Cord Weav
ing. Mrs. Thomason, a tie-in-hand, has been
specializing in cooking and baking since she was
10 years old, and has won for herself an out
standing reputation for her specialized dishes.
Word of her culinary excellence has spread,
mainly because Mrs. Thomason follows the good
neighbor policy of sharing her recipes with
others, once she has worked them out to her
satisfaction and has pronounced them “just right.”
Following is the recipe for Mrs. Thomason's
refrigerated fruit cake:
One cup orange peel
One cup lemon peel
One cup candied cherries
One cup dark raisins
One cup figs
One cup walnut kernels
One cup pecan kernels
Two cups candied pineapple
One cup dates
One cup light raisins
Cut all fruit in small pieces.
Two teaspoons cinnamon
One cup butter
Salt to taste
One cup honey
Two teaspoons vanilla
One teaspoon lemon
One pound graham crackers rolled fine
Cream the butter and honey. Add flavoring,
Ihen pour over cut fruit and let stand two hours.
Add spices and salt to rolled graham crackers
^hen mix all ingredients thoroughly. Pack in
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ONE OF HER MANY original recipes is worked
out by Bernice Thomason, 211 North Weldon
street, Gastonia.
waxed-paper-lined loaf pans. Keep in a cool place.
The recipe given here makes a five-pound cake.
Refrigerated, it keeps well for weeks.
Shannon Holds
Government Post
Lee R. Shannon, from 1946 to
^ate 1955 Budget Director of the
firestone Company, is now serv-
as Deputy Assistant Secre
tary of Defense. The announce
ment came recently from the
Office of Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson.
The first appointee to the new
ly created position, Mr. Shannon
will have primary responsibility
for programming and planning
the varied functions and opera
tions within the jurisdiction of
the office of Wilfred J. McNeil,
Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller).
MR. SHANNON became af
filiated with the Firestone or
ganization in 1935, when he be
came a member of the auditing
staff of the Company. He served
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Always it is the family that sets so many of the patterns
and the habits which last a life-time. And setting a habit of
family attendance at worship services is the best beginning
towards a lasting faith to live by.
After all, what really makes a happy family? Certainly,
it takes more than Dad’s paying the bills. Mostly it is doing
things together, the togetherness of a family outing, or a
backyard barbecue. These are the precious moments always
remembered the longest—the shared moments.
GOING to services each week can be the best of the good
things in life for a family to share. Worshipping together be
comes so natural that without even trying, children find a
pattern, a foundation, which will enrich their entire lives.
Without that foundation of family guidance, can youngsters
be blamed if they grow up without a real faith in God or in
themselves?
“Give them a Faith to live by . . . Worship with them
this week” is the theme for the 1955-56 Religion In American
Life Program. This theme emphasizes the importance of
regular attendance by the family at religious services. It
points to the vital role parents play in giving their children
a lasting faith by taking them each week to the church or
synagogue of their choice, thereby stabilizing family life and
strengthening family unity. The stress of modern life pro
duces each day proof that there must be a constant, unrelent
ing effort to pass on that faith in a greater and stronger
measure.
OUR RELIGIOUS leaders give us personal guidance,
help solve family problems and work to integrate the new
comer into community life. Religious education helps to
make us better citizens. The foundations to our nation, our
dedication to human rights and individual liberty are safe
guarded by our churches and synagogues.
January 20 Is Arrival Date
Of West Avenue Minister
in that capacity until 1941 when
he became Comptroller of the
Firestone Rubber and Latex
Products Company of Fall River,
Mass.
From 1943 through 1945, Mr.
Shannon was Civilian Manager
of the Blue Grass Ordnance
Depot, Richmond, Ky.
A certified public accountant
and attorney, Mr. Shannon is
married and in recent years has
lived in Akron.
Effective January 20, the
Reverend David F. Blue, Jr., will
be the resident minister of West
Avenue Presbyterian Church in
the Firestone community. Mr.
Blue has tendered his resigna
tion as pastor of Bayless Me
morial Presbyterian Church in
Concord to accept the local
church call.
The newly-chosen pastor is a
graduate of Presbyterian Junior
College, Davidson College, and
Columbia Theological Seminary.
He had two years of undergradu
ate study at Union Theological
Seminary, and has been assist
ant pastor of the Fayetteville
First Presbyterian Church, and
pastor of the Bluff group of
churches in the Fayetteville
Presbytery. He has held the pres
ent pastorate in Concord for
more than 7 years.
IN CONCORD, Mr. Blue is
chaplain of the Knights of Young
America, past-president of the
Long Grammar School P.T.A.,
present co-chairman of a finance
drive to equip the new Long
School cafeteria; and president
elect of the Concord Ministerial
Association. On the presbytery
level, he holds a number of
positions, such as being a mem
ber of the presbytery council, a
member of its church extension
committee, director-elect of the
Presbytery’s junior camps, and
chairman-elect of the Concord
area Presbyterian Leadership
School.
The newly-chosen church lead
er at West Avenue succeeds the
Reverend W. C. Neel, who re
signed last August to accept a
pastorate in Saluda. N. C.