PAGE TWO
NEWS
SEPTEMBER 5, 1952
Single Votes Have Made History
Your One Vote Is Important
More times than you
think, a single vote decides
an election.
One vote elected a Presi
dent of the United States.
One vote made Texas
part of this country; one
vote admitted California,
Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon to the Union.
One vote has decided
hundreds and perhaps thou
sands of issues—some even
more important to the peo
ple of a given community
than who’s President of
the U. S.
Repeatedly, one vote has
shaped history.
Some 50 million Ameri
cans know their votes are
important. But almost as
many others who could vote
haven’t yet realized that
each vote counts — and
sometimes tips the scales
—in an election. Bad of
ficials, it’s said, are elected
by the good men and wom
en who could, but don’t
vote.
If you’re good at remem
bering election results, you
can probably recall an in
stance in your own experi
ence where one vote or
perhaps a few votes de
cided the outcome. Maybe
it involved a new school,
election of more efficient
local officials, or selection
of the man to represent you
in the state legislature or in
Congress. Did you vote in
that election. Might your
vote have been decisive?
There are dramatic ex
amples of elections which
went one way or the other
because of a single indi
vidual’s vote. Rutherford B.
Hayes became President by
a one-vote margin over
Samuel Tilden. And the
man on the electoral com
mission who cast the de-
ciding vote had himself
been elected by a single
vote—cast by a desperately
ill citizen who insisted on
being taken to the polls to
vote!
In DeKalb County, In
diana, back in the 1840’s,
a miller was persuaded to
take time out of a busy day
to vote. He voted for a can
didate for the state legis
lature—who won by just
one vote. Later this legis
lator cast the deciding vote
that sent Edward Hanne-
gan to the United State
Senate. Not long after Sen
ator Hannegan cast the de
cisive ballot that admitted
Texas to the Union. Indi
rectly, the humble miller’s
vote determined a major
event in history.
There are literally dozens
of similar instances. John
Adams was elected Presi
dent over Thomas Jeffer
son by three electoral votes.
Aaron Burr, later charged
with treason, missed being
President by one electoral
vote, and in his stead
Thomas Jefferson — with
whom he was tied in the
electoral vote—was named
by the House of Represen
tatives.
More recently, one vote
in the House of Represen
tatives made the Draft Act
of World War II the law of
the land and caused mil
lions of men to be called for
service in the Armed
Forces.
These are things to re
member when you are
tempted to think that, with
so many people voting,
your one vote can’t mean
very much. In a very large
percentage of elections, a
relatively small number of
voters can tip the balance
in favor of good govern
ment. One vote is impor
tant.
Truck Tire Demand — Continued From Page One
“Another encouraging aspect in
the outlook for civilian replacement
demand for truck tires is the
marked recovery that is now under
way in many industries that suf
fered from the same post-Korean
consumer overbuying that hit the
tire industry. There are now signs
of expanding economic activity in
the home appliance, furniture,
carpeting and textile industries.
These industries are all large ship
pers by truck. In addition, recovery
in the automobile and steel in
dustries should also add to the de
mand for truck tires.”
FIRESTONE NEWS
Volume 1, No. 8 — September 5, 1952
Published at Gastonia, North Carolina
By Firestone Textiles
A Division of
The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Department of Industrial Relations
R. H. HOOD, Editor
Department Reporters
Carding—Leila Rape, Gertrude Sanders, Jessie Westmoreland.
Spinning—Lois Bolding, Helen Bolick, Janet Hartgrove, Mary
Turner, Ray Cloninger, Fannie Bruce.
Spooling—Nell Bolick, Ruth Easier, Helen Reel.
Twisting—Nevie Dalton, Mable Hanna, Hazel Clark, Lassie
Crawford, Corrie Johnson, Dean Haun, Ellease
Austin, Ruth Waldrop.
Weaving—Mary Johnson, Lucille Davis, Inez Rhyne, Irene
Burroughs, Betty Martin.
Cloth Room—Margie Waldrop.
Quality Control—Dealva Jacobs, Irene Burroughs, Catherine
Isham.
Winding—Dorcas Atkinson, Ann Stephenson, Mayzelle Lewis.
Shop—Cramer Little.
Warehouse—Anne Carpenter.
Main Office—Mozelle Brockman.
Superintendent’s Office—Sue Van Dyke.
Personnel Office—Christine Clark.
I-:
RUBBERIZED ROADS RESEARCH—Education and industry
work together in an effort to make bituminous pavements last
longer by adding rubber. Here (left to right), Leo M.] Chamberlain,
Vice-President of the University of Kentucky; D. V. Terrell, Dean of
the University of Kentucky College of Engineering, and Carl R.
Shaffer, President of the Xylos Rubber Company, subsidiary of The
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company? look over a “fatigue tester” in the
University’s highway laboratory. The device is installed in a re
frigerating unit and samples of aged paving materials to which
rubber has been added are put under stress at varying temperatures.
Constant motion of the machine simulates the pounding the rubber
ized mixtures would take from cars and trucks on the nation’s
highways. The Firestone project is administered by the Kentucky
Research Foundation, corporation organized seven years ago to further
research, public service, and scholarship at the University of
Kentucky. Grants from industry and Government for research have
totaled more than- a third of a million dollars.
Mr. And Mrs. Martin McCarter
JOYCE JACOBS, daughter of Dealva Jacobs, quality control
inspector, married Martin McCarter, Jr., of Clover, S. C. on Saturday,
August 16. Mrs. McCarter is a 1950 graduate of Gastonia High
School, and until her marriage was a student' nurse at Mercy Hospital
Training School in Charlotte. The groom is a rising junior at Clemson
College, Clemson, S. C., where he is majoring in Agriculture. He
worked at this plant during the summer of 1950 in the Twisting
Department.
September 15
Come Boys, from
“Student Prince”
All the Things You Are
Wedding of the Painted Doll
Sempre Libera, from
“La Traviata”
Barcarolle, from
“Tales of Hoffman”
Overture, Donna Diana
Tales from the
Vienna Woods
September 22 — Thomas L. 1
Rangers Song, from
“Rio Rita”
My Heart Stood Still
Minuet
Another Mile
Invictus
Kol Nidrei
March of the Grenadiers
VOICE OF FIRESTONE
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Nadine Conner
Romberg
Orchestra & Chorus
Kern
Conner
Brown
Orchestra
Verdi
Conner
Offenbach
Conner & Chorus
Reznicek
Orchestra
Strauss
Conner & Chorus
lomas
Tierney
Orchestra & Chorus
Rodgers
Thomas & Chorus
Paderewski
Orchestra
Suesse
Thomas
Huhn
Thomas
Bruch
Orchestra
Echertzinger
Thomas & Chorus
University Of Ky.
Awarded Rubber
Road Research
Contract
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY —
Some day you may be driving your
car on rubberized roads if experi
mental work now under way at the
University of Kentucky is success
ful.
Research engineers here hope to
cortie up with the answer to a ques
tion that has long plagued highway
builders and motorists alike: How
can the nation’s highways be made
to last longer?
One way to prolong the life of
pavements may be to add rubber
to bituminous mixtures, and tests
are being conducted in the Univer
sity’s highway laboratory to fi^tl
out just how well such materials
would wear if used for surfacing
roads, highway, and streets.
Financed through grants from
The Firestone Tire & Rubber
Company, the research project
being carried on by the Engineer
ing Experiment Station of the Col
lege of Engineering. Premilinary
work was begun last year and the
contract has been extended four
times.
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RUBBERIZED paving material®
are subjected to a series of tests at
the University of Kentucky. In on^
step, the bituminous mixtures are
aged in an “aging chamber”, much
as they would be if exposed to the
weather. In the second step>
samples of the aged materials-^
black oblong bars—are placed in ®
“fatigue tester” designed by th^
Engineering College. This device
installed in a refrigerating unit
and the paving blocks, at varying
temperatures, are put in motion
under stress to simulate the pound
ing they would take from cars and
trucks.
The Firestone project is one of ®
number of contracts presently
ing administered by the Kentucky
Research Foundation, a corporation^
organized in 1945 to further
search, public service, and scholar'
ship at the University. Grants
ceived from industry and Govern'
ment for research of various kin^^®
so far have totaled more than ^
third of a million dollars.
Ceramics Club Being
Formed For Hobbiests
ARE Y OU interested
ceramics? If you are the propo®®
Ceramics Club should be a mau®
to order answer to your wish®®'
The next meeting of those foU'®
who are interested, either men
women, will be held Monday nigh
October 13, 7:30 p. m. at
the
Girls' Club. If enough people sho
an interest in this activity ^
ceramics teacher and necessa^J^
equipment to carry on ceram*
work will be secured.
Books To Be Available
Under ‘‘Exchange Plan”
A “BOOK EXCHANGE” will
started at the Girls’ Club on
tember 15. The plan will work ^^
follows: Twelve books will be
vided by the Recreation Depa^
ment as a starter. Anyone
wishes to read one of these may
so by bringing a book of their o
to leave in place of the one to
borrowed. No time limit will
imposed upon the borrower, ho ^
ever, each time a book is borro’'^®
another must be left in its place*