March 5,1953
Tirofone NEWS
PAGE THREE
Coach Greason To Be Featured
Speaker at April 4th Sports Banquet
Voice of Firestone
Music is subject to change without notice because of clearance
rights, etc.
March 9—Hiide Gueden
Song of the Flame
Stothart
Orch. & Ch.
I Give My Heart
Milloecker
Gueden
Rosita
Haenschen
Orch. & Ch.
Quel Guardo 11 Cavaliere
Donizetti
Gueden
from “Don Pasquale”
Yesterdays
Kern
Gueden
Venusberg Music, Ov. Tannhauser
Czardas, from ‘ Die Fledermaus”
Wagner
Orchestra
Strauss
Gueden & Ch.
March 16—Eugene Conley
Drums in My Heart
Youmans
Orch. & Ch.
Song of Songs
Moya
Conley
Sabre Dance
Khachaturian
Orchestra
11 Mio Tesoro
Mozart
Conlev
from Don Giovanni”
I Hear You Calling Me
Marshall
Conley & Ch.
Voices of Spring
Strauss
Orchestra
My Wild Irish Rose
Ball
Conley & Ch.
March 23—Nadine Conner
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Whiting
Orch. & Ch.
Out of My Dreams
Rodgers
Conner
Rustle of Spring
Sinding
Orchestra
Un Bel Di, from “Madam Butterfly”
Puccini
Conner
In the Gloaming
Harrison
Conner & Ch.
Romanian Rhapsody
Enesco
Orchestra
Love’s Own Sweet Song, from “Sari”
Kalman
Conner & Ch.
March 30—Eleanor Steber
Hosanna
Granier
Orch. & Ch.
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
Handel
Steber
from “The Messiah”
Intermezzo
Mascayni
Orchestra
from “Cavalleria Rusticana”
The Holy City
Adams
Steber & Ch.
Agnus Dei
Bizet
Orchestra
The Omnipotence
Schubert
Steber & Ch.
Racing Tires Tested
HIGHLIGHT of the Chrysler Motor Show in New York is tlie
“404 racer”, shown above, which completed more than 1500 miles of
race tire testing for The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company at the
Indianapolis Speedway between June and December, 1952. George
Connor (left), who was the driver on the test, atul Hei-b Porter,
mechanic, explain the features of the racing tires and the car to
interested spectators. Connor’s best lap on the 2 1/2 mile oval was
139.384 miles per hour. Connor also averaged 137.859 miles per hour
for 12 laps doing six of them faster than 138. In 1951 Troy Ruttnuui
won the Indianapolis classic with an average speed of 128.922 miles
per hour.
Vacation Plan Changes Continued From Page One
Plans for the Annual Sports
Banquet, set for April 4, are
i"apidly taking shape. As has al
ready been announced Coach Mur-
I'ay Greason, basketball coach at
Wake Forest College is to be fea
tured speaker. Mr. Greason, who
has a 20-year tenure of service
at the Baptist institution, is a
favorite in collegiate circles with
players, coaches, and alumni; and
his slow wit has made him a wel
come sight at basketball meets or
at the banquet table.
Although at this writing a com
plete preview of the program is
impossible, as some of the details
ai'e yet to be ironed out, it is
known that this will be one of the
ttiost keenly awaited sports ban
quets in the history of the affair.
According to Recreation Director
Ralph Johnson there are 300 guests
GXpected to be present. Many of
those present will take away one
more of the 120 trophies to be
presented for superiority in ath
letics and recreation.
Outstanding among the awards
are the Ideal Athlete Awards to
he presented to the four men and
two women chosen by popular vote
of all those who participated in
company-sponsored athletics. An
other highly regarded award is the
Most Competitive Athlete Award
presented each year by the recrea
tion director to the man and woman
athletes he considers most com
petitive.
COACH MURRAY GREASON
Chief among the honors to be
bestowed at the banquet, however,
is the Supremacy Cup which each
year goes to the department hav
ing the best all-round record in
recreational and athletic activi
ties. The winner for several years
has been the Spinning Department.
No hint has come from anyone as
to who may win it this year.
New Fast-Curing
Neoprene Cement
Discovered
A NEW stable fast-curing
Neoprene cement, sought unsuc
cessfully by the rubber industry
I since the origin of synthetic rubber,
■ has been discovered by scientists of
The Firestone Tire & Rubber
Company.
While the new adhesive has
countless industrial uses in the
manufacture of Neoprene-coated
products, its greatest immediate
need is in the emergency repair of
equipment used by our fighting
men in Korea.
Because it is a stable compound,
the new Firestone cement can be
easily handled and successfully
applied by men in the field. Fight
ing gear, such as inflatable life
boats, life vests and floats, can now
be quickly and permanently re
paired. The bond between the
Neoprene coating on the fabric,
after the repair is made, is strong
er than the fabric itself.
Neoprene-coated fabric has al
ways been specified by U. S. Ord
nance for inflatable war products
because (1) it has greater resis
tance to sun-checking, (2) it is
superior in aging qualities for pro
duct storage, and (3) it is a man-
made rubber in abundant supply.
* * *
IN the early stages of World
War II, Firestone was one of the
largest suppliers of barrage bal
loons used for aircraft defense
in the battle of Britain. Neoprene,
then as now, was the best material
iprthe. iob.
Intensive research and develop
ment was carried on in that
emergency to obtain a stable
Neoprene cement. Despite the ef
forts of the greatest scientists in
the rubber industry, the key to the |
Neoprene adhesive compound was
not found. Natural rubber, then in
critical supply, had to be used for
the vital product. The best manu
factured Neoprene cements,
throughout the entire war and to
the present time, had one charac
teristic failing. They jelled in a
very short time after exposure to
air and when the product was
eventually assembled, it had to be
cured or vulcanized with heat to
get a satisfactory bond.
Since there has been no air-
curing stable Neoprene cement to
this time, practically all Neoprene-
coated inflatable war products,
once punctured or torn in ser
vice, had to be replaced. Replace
ments were not always available.
* ■4-
THE new Firestone cement is
thermosetting—the bond gets
stronger as the temperature in
creases. Tension tests have been
successfully conducted on patched
fabrics in temperatures up to 150
degrees Fahrenheit. As the tension
increases, the fabric breaks down
but the cement holds firm.
The new cement is likewise not
affected by cold. It will thermoset
at temperatures far below the
functioning point of natural rubber
cements.
The new fast-curing Neoprene
cement is complete within itself
and requires no accelerators or
additives of any kind. Once applied,
it forms an inseparable bond with
in a few hours.
cation will get two percent of theirC
total earnings during the previous
vacation period; two weeks of va
cation four perccnt; and three
weeks of vacation six percent. The
only exception being that vacation
pay for employees completing their
first year of service will be two
percent of their earnings during
the preceeding twelve month period.
“Credited service” as referred to
above means continuous service,
from the last date of employment,
computed by the time actually
spent on the active payroll of the
plant plus approved absences. Time
spent on layoff is not counted
toward “credited service”.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the
first of a series of articles explain
ing liberalizations in vacations,
ovei'time pay, holiday and reporL-
ing-for-work pay.
Former Employee
Is Critically III
MRS. LULA HAMMOND, form
er spinner and mother of Odell,
Leroy and Miss Leitha Hammond
of the Spinning Department, has
been critically ill for several
months. Her many friends in that
department recently extended a
helping hand in the form of gift of
money to her. Her disability has
required several periods of hos
pital treatment in a Winston-Salem
hospital. Mrs. Hammond, until go
ing on leave-of-absence in July,
1950, had been in continuous em
ployment here since 1935.
Ground Walnut Shells Put To Work
jjj ^^f^G a vacuum tube, Chester Fanecke, mold cleaner at
2 of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio,
tise ground English walnut shells into a machine which he
thr^ ^l^an aluminum tire molds. The walnut shells then are blown
j ^he tube into the shield (shown on the upper half of the
where they blast the mold clean. Then the ground shells are
I'e through another tube by vacuum. The walnut shells
or other materials which are likely to pit the aluminum.
U. S. SAVINGS BONDS!