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PACE FOUR NEWS APRIL 5, 1953 News In Brief (Continued From Page Three) Carrier U. S. S. Kearsarge. He will be at home for 30 days before further assignment. Wins Contest MISS ANNETTE SIMS, tenth grader at Gastonia High School and daughter of Mrs. Geneva Johnson, cloth iburler, recently won a school contest with the poster she is holding in the pic ture above. The contest was sponsored by the student govern ment association in order to stimulate interest in the honor system. Miss Sims is vice-presi- dent of her home room and a consistent winner of honor roll honors at GHS. At Season's Last A. O. AMMONS, second shift superintendent, makes a serious study of his bingo card as the last game of the season is called out. He didn’t win that particular game, but he says he enjoyed the game anyway. The last bingo games, like all the rest, were well attended by Firestone’s bingo fans. Mrs. George Robinson, cloth burler, entered the Gaston Me morial Hospital recently. Her friends wish her a speedy recovery. Welcomed to the Cloth Room re cently were: Mrs. Irene Barton, Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, Mrs. Ethel- een Nichols, and William H. Mas sey. Tomielene Moses, small daughter of Howard Moses, fixer, and Mrs. Moses, is showing much improve ment. She has been in the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Hugh Wright, wife of Cloth Room Overseer Hugh Wright, un derwent a serious operation at the Gaston Memorial Hospital recent ly. She has returned home and is showing much improvement. The eighth grade class from Ar lington Junior High School spent three days in Raleigh recently. Carolyn Sims, daughter of Mrs. Genever Johnson, Cloth Room, was in this group at Raleigh. They all enjoyed the wonderful trip. Mrs. Jack Morris has returned from a trip in Gainsville, Ga., after spending two weeks with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Shives of Salis bury, and Mr. and Mrs. Bud Price, and daughter of Kannapolis, were guests recently of The Earl Stock tons. WAREHOUSE Albert Meeks, cotton trucker, re ceived a serious injury to his right hand Friday, March 20. Wishes for a speedy recovery and an early re turn to work are sent to him. Matthew McCoy, laborer, James McCoy, fork truck driver, and Wil liam R. “Dub” Rainey, laborer, were in an automobile accident Friday night, March 20. All receiv ed painful injuries but have been released from the hospital and are recuperating at their homes. The Candid Camera MRS. UDINE DILLING, bat tery filler, was surprised and perhaps pleased to be the first subject of a candid camera series which, as the name suggests, is an unplanned camera study of Fire stone folks at work. Mrs. Billing, an 8-year Firestone employee, is married to former Main Office Employee Bill Billing who is now studying for the ministry at Central College in South Caro lina. The Billings have a son W. A. Billing, III, age five. In the picture above Mrs. Billing is shown as she completes filling a battery which supplies the loom shuttle with quills of yarn as needed. su cu Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Blaylock an nounce the birth of a daughter, Shiela Lynn, at the Gaston Me morial Hospital. FIRST tubeless tide for airplane main wheels is inspected during its successful flight test program at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent, Maryland, by Lt. C. E. Feiock, Navy service test pilot, and L. B. Copple, Washington, B, C., Government representative of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Beveloped by Firestone for the Bureau of Aeronautics, the new nylon fabric tubeless tire is de signed to reduce aircraft weight and is 20 per cent lighter than the postwar rayon tire and tube of comparable size. “Significance of this new tire is that the time, money and spacs required by the military for purchasing, shipping and storage of tubes can be com pletely eliminated,” according to Raymond C. Firestone, Vice-Presi dent in Charge of Research and Bevelopment of the Firestone Com pany. “The weight saving per airplane will range from 7 to 125 pounds, depending on the size and number of tires used.” Lighter, Tubeless Main Wheel Airplane Tire Flight Tested FIRST main wheel tubeless air plane tire to be developed and de signed for aircraft has been suc cessfully flight tested at Patuxent, Maryland, Naval Air Test Center, according to officials of the Navy and of The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Besigned by Firestone to reduce the weight of airplanes, the new tubeless tire uses nylon fabric and is 20 per cent lighter in weight than the postwar rayon airplane tire and tube. Previous to the successful land ing tests on a Navy SNB-5, the new type tubeless tire developed especially for the Bureau of Aeronautics had made 200 simu lated landings in the Akron air craft tire testing laboratory of the Firestone Company. •‘Significance of the successful testing of this tubeless airplane tire,” according to Raymond C. Firestone, Vice-President in Charge of Research and Bevelopment of the Firestone Company, “is that the time, money and space requir ed by the military for purchasing, shipping and storage of tubes can be completely eliminated. Also the weight saving per airplane will range from 7 to 125 pounds, de pending on the size and number of tires used. A large bomber re quires nine large tires, the SNB-5 uses only three small-size tires.” New All Traction Truck Tire Conquers Bad Road Conditions A NEW TRUCK TIRE, especial ly designed for use in areas where mud, snow or ice conditions are severe, has been announced by H. B. Tompkins, Vice-President in Charge of Trade Sales, The Fire stone Tire & Rubber Company. This new truck tire, the Super All Traction, has a rugged, deep tread that bites into snow and mud and also gives smooth, quiet, long- mileage performance in normal over-the-highway service. The tough body is constructed of super gum-dipped, tension-dried rayon cord. This gives the tire maximum strength and protects it from stretching, thereby assur ing many thousands of extra miles of retread service. The Super All Traction tire has a wider, flatter tread and rugged traction design to provide positive gripping action for all types of ser vice, both on and off the road. It is intended to supplement the famed Firestone All Traction truck tire for those operations where extra traction is desired for driv ing wheels. It is in production in sizes up to and including 8.25 x 20 and can be obtained from Firestone stores and dealers throughout the country. ONE of the chief problems in the development of tubeless tires has been in the sealing of low-pressure tires to the rims. This was accom plished by adapting the special bead construction previously prov ed in Firestone tubeless passenger car tires. With higher pressure tires, the maintenance of the bead seal is expected to be simpler. Bevelopment of the first high speed aviation tire was announced by Firestone last August after successful landing tests at 250 miles an hour. In solving the once insoluable problem of constructing a tire that could stand up under such high-speed landings, Fire stone used the race-tire construc tion principles that had proved outstandingly successful in tires used in the Indianapolis 500-mile race. Other tubeless tire developments by Firestone include the following; Bevelopment of a revolutionary new truck tire which is tubeless and mounted on a one-piece, drop- center rim recently was announced by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. This development makes changes of truck tires as simple and easy as the mounting and demounting of passenger car tires. * * * DURING 1952 Firestone also de veloped the first tubeless passen ger car tire specifically designed for new, more powerful, higher- speed automobiles. This tire, which is in production, incorporates racing tire construc tion principles and does not have an inner tube. It has successfully passed outdoor road tests at sus tained speeds well above 110 miles an hour. In 1951 the first blowout-safe, puncture-proof and tubeless tire was publicly demonstrated by Fire stone at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway where tire after tire was purposely blown out at speeds of 80 miles an hour by Wilbur Shaw, world-famous driver, three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500- mile race and now President of the Indianapolis Speedway. Shaw said, “This new tire completely elimi nates all danger from blowouts and is the greatest contribution to safe driving I have ever seen.” In Service GRIMSLEY CPL. CHARLES GRIMSLEY, son of Mrs. Mollie Grimsley a warper tender in the Spooling Department, is stationed with the Army in Japan. His military address is: U. S. 53110635, D Btry., 507 AAA, AWBWM, APO 75, c/o Postmaster, San Fran cisco, Calif. TRUESDALE PVT. James A. Truesdale, son of Mrs. Calsia Truesdale of the Weaving Department, is serv ing in the Marines at Paris Island, South Carolina. His out fit is the 94th Platoon, Fourth Recruiting Training Btn., R.B. WARD ROBERT WARB, former Shop Bepartment employee and son of Second Hand W. B. Ward, is noW serving in the Navy at Biego, Calif. He would appreci' ate hearing from his friends Firestone Textiles. His compl^^^ address is: Robert L. Ward, Sub Group Two, U.S.S. Ridge Supply Biv., U. S. Nava Station, San Biego 36, Calif.
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