PAGE SIX
JULY 25, 1954
A Good Team
FIRESTONE’S PONY LEAGUERS, above, are currently in
second place in their league with a record of 6 wins, 4 losses. In the
1st row, left to right, are Bucky Lewis, Kenny Bolick, Buddy Johnson,
Steve Buchanan, Chubby Holland, and Larry Clark. In the 2nd row
are Ronnie Ballard, Bobby Brown, Bobby Tate, Jack York, Roland
Conrad, Jr., Donnie Heafner, and Johnny White. Standing are
Manager Lewis Brown, Melvin Stewart, Paul Johnson, Glenn Turner,
Donald Honeycutt, Robert Ramsey, and Bunny Childers.
Four Good Players
THE foursome above are currently playing baseball with Gas
tonia’s American Pony League All-Stars who have advanced to
state championship play beginning July 2G. Left to right are
Braxton Childers, Robert Murray, Bobby Tate, and Donald Honeycutt.
. . . And A Good Prospect
ROBERT TRUETT PENCE, JR., a likely prospect for a Little
T.eague baseball team by the year 1964, seems impressed by Recrea
tion Director Ralph Johnson’s get-them-started-young efforts.
Though the contract the baby is trying to sign may not be valid in
court, it indicates an interest the Recreation Department has in
getting boys and girls interested in athletics as early as possible.
Robert’s mother is Mi-s. Flora Pence, a typist in the Industrial Rela
tions Department.
Raymond Firestone Receives Racing^s Coveted
Edenburn Trophy Following Indianapolis
RAYMOND C. FIRESTONE was honored two days after the 1954 Memorial Day 500-mile race at a
special awards dinner in Indianapolis where he was presented the coveted Edenburn Trophy as “the person
connected with automobile racing deemed to have contributed the most to that sport during the year.”
Mr. Firestone, son of Harvey S.
Firestone and Executive Vice-Pres
ident of The Firestone Tire & Rub
ber Company, received the award
for the engineering and develop
ment of the new Indianapolis tire,
sports car racing tires and tires
for the international speed runs in
Utah. The outstanding award was
presented by the AAA Contest
Board in memory of the late W. D.
“Eddie” Edenburn, one of the great
pioneers in the racing field.
As he presented the award to Mr.
Firestone, Colonel Art Herrington,
Chairman of the AAA Contest
Board, said, “The Edenburn Trophy
was never awarded to a more de
serving man. The many contribu
tions made to racing by the Fire
stone Company through the years
is well known. Mr. Raymond C.
Firestone this year gave to racing
not only tires that made possible
record-breaking speeds, but also
tires that saw us through the fast
est and safest racing season in the
history of Indianapolis and other
tracks.”
MR. WILBUR SHAW, President
and General Manager of the In
dianapolis Motor Speedway, said,
“We always depend upon Firestone
to stay ahead of the ever-increas
ing speeds at Indianapolis. Each
year they give our drivers better
and safer tires, and this year their
contribution speaks for itself. The
first five drivers finished the 500-
mile race faster than the previous
record. Despite the increased
speeds, fewer tires were required
by the drivers.”
In accepting the award Mr. Fire
stone said, “I am very proud per
sonally, as was my father, to have
a close association with the racing
fraternity and all of the great
RAYMOND C. FIRESTONE (center) receives the top honor of
the racing profession as the Edenburn Trophy is presented to him
as “the person connected with automobile racing deemed to ‘have
contributed the most to that sport during the year.” Colonel Art
Herrington (right), Chairman of the Contest Board of the American
Automobile Association, in announcing the award in Indianapolis
praised Mr. Firestone and the Firestone Company for its development
work that provided “tires that made possible record-breaking speeds”
and “tires that saw us through the fastest and safest racing season
in the history of Indianapolis and other tracks.” Joining in the award
ceremony was Wilbur Shaw (left). President and General Manager
of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
things it has stood for through the
years. The automobile has become
a great factor in this nation’s
economy and the Indianapolis
Speedway and all automobile rac
ing have contributed greatly to thip
program.
“Our Company has always had a
great interest in racing and we
will leave no stone unturned in our
constant search to provide better
and safer tires for racing. Many of
the engineering achievements ac
complished in racing tires have
been proven into better and safer
tires for the motoring public-—
many more will be proven in the
future. Practical engineering pro
gress through racing will never
stop.”
Firestone In The News
(Editor’s Note: In this column, “Firestone in the News,” the FIRESTONE NEWS quotes n^ews and
comments about Firestone, its people and its products, as they appeared in national magazines and
newspapers.)
ACCORDING TO RADIO AGE kinescope prints
of the NBC-TV “Voice of Firestone” program are
being distributed through the United States In
formation Service throughout Europe, the Far East
and Latin America, the State Department has an
nounced. The radio version of the program, which
celebrated its 25th anniversary on NBC on November
30, has been distributed overseas by the State De
partment for the past six years. The television
version is to form part of a new U. S. I. S. program,
“Your TV Concert Hall,” which is being distributed
for television showings in foreign countries.
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“LISTEN WITH PRIDE” was the title of this
editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal for March 1:
“Nearly everyone in Akron must know by now
of the distinction earned by 16-year-old Betsy Evans,
a student at Buchtel High School.
“Betsy was one of the four national winners in
the Voice of Democracy contest. As part of her
reward, last week she visited historic Williamsburg
and Washington and visited with President Eisen
hower at the White House.
“Until now, only a relatively few persons have
had a chance to hear Betsy give her prize-winning
speech. Tonight she’ll have an audience of millions
as she appears on the Voice of Firestone program
on radio and television at 8:30.
“Take the word of all who have heard her—
Betsy’s five-minute talk is eloquent, beautiful and
inspiring. It gives hope that her generation may do
better than all who have gone before in making a
reality of the American hope.”
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IN THE COLUMN, “What I Think,” in the
Cleveland, Ohio, News for February 3; “As it has
been said many, many times before, the Firestone
Hour on television and radio Monday nights is one of
the finest musical programs on the air. It has dignity
without being stuffy. It has personality without be
ing palsy-walsy. It has depth without being un
fathomable. The program also has Howard BarloW
as the conductor, plus some of the nation’s best
known musical stars as guest soloists each week.
The production is nigh onto perfect. The Firestone
Hour helps make Monday night one of the most en
joyable from the standpoint of listener and viewer.
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HUNDREDS OF NEWSPAPERS throughout
the countrjy have published a feature service editorial
entitled “Industry’s Point Four Program,” which
mentions the Firestone Company as one of the many
companies “carrying on their own Point Four pro
gram on a woi’ld wide basis in a particular manner.
“Anyone who has the idea that America^
citizens are not world traders should look at a list o
companies doing business on an international scale
which are financed in the United States—and ui
which tens of thousands of our citizens have pu
their savings.
“As a matter of fact, American savings throug^^
stock ownership in American companies have been
going into every corner of the globe excepting Rus
sia and some of her satellites. It is practically j
possible to name a foreign country in which one
more concerns, whose capital is supplied by
citizens, does not operate directly or through
subsidiary.”
The editorial went on to mention cornpani®®
carrying on cuch private Point Four activities,
eluding the Firestone Company.