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MAY, 1956
Supreme Tire Has Gum-Dipped Nylon Cord
A new tubeless tire designed to provide motor
ists with complete tire safety and peace of mind
under modern super-highway driving conditions
has been announced as the “safest and longest-
wearing passenger car tire ever offered to Ameri
can motorists” by Lee R. Jackson, Company
President.
The tire named the Supreme, is made with a
safety-tensioned and gum-dipped nylon cord that
assures tremendous resistance to the impacts
of hitting chuckholes, stones or other road haz
ards. Nylon, pound for pound, is stronger than
steel, yet runs cooler than rayon to provide a
much greater margin of safety for motorists.
In appearance, the tire is completely new and
is the first one ever to be styled with the help of
large numbers of motorists through a scien
tifically conducted public preference poll.
The Supreme tire has a specially compounded
gummy sealant that prevents tire failures from
nails and similar objects. The sealant clings to
penetrating nails and prevents air leakage by
flowing into and sealing small cuts and holes
in the tire body.
BLOWOUT PROTECTION is assured by a spe
cially contoured safety diaphragm which is made
of two plies of rubberized nylon cord and a safe
ty valve that automatically locks two thirds of
the air into its inner air chamber when the outer
casing of the tire is ripped open or slashed. With
this air locked into the “tire within the tire,” a
motorist can bring his car to a safe, straight-line
stop without danger of swerves or the complete
loss of control that sometimes results from blow
outs with ordinary tires.
During inflation of the tire, and under normal
driving conditions, the valve remains open to
maintain equal pressure through all parts of the
tire.
The exclusive tread design of the Supreme
tire is based on new engineering principles that
give the tire a glide-like ride over rough and
irregular roads. Tire squeal in turns and sudden
stops has been virtually eliminated by the spe
cial design and the tire runs silently at any
speed.
Outstanding safety feature of the new tread
design is the great increase in traction provided
by the thousands of integral skid resistors. Run
ning in a diagonal direction, they improve for
ward traction and guard against side skidding.
FURTHER IMPROVEMENT in the riding qual
ity of the tire has been attained by designing a
wide and deep tread. Firestone engineers report
that by making the tread flatter, it conforms so
much better to the road surface that small ob
structions are enveloped in the tread rubber and
bumps are hardly felt. After going over such ob
structions, the tire holds tight to the road surface
and does not bounce.
Construction of the Supreme tire, based on
Firestone experience in making the nation’s
safest tires, consists of four plies of rubberized
nylon cord and specially compounded rubbers for
each part of the tire. A special synthetic rubber
is used on the inside of the tire because of its
exceptional air retention qualities. A new cold
rubber compound with specially developed furn
ace blacks is used to make the tough top tread
that gives greater mileage than any other tire.
The white sidewall of the Supreme tire also
contains new compounds of pigments, rubber
and chemicals that will prevent discoloration and
will protect it from the cracking or checking that
can be caused by smog and ozone.
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AN INNER TIRE or diaphragm with a safety
valve eliminates blowout dangers in the new
Supreme tire. Here President Lee R. Jackson
displays a cross section of the tire which was
designed to provide motorists with safety and
peace of mind.
Gar Inspection
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“The project is designed to
save people’s lives and not to
be an inconvenience to motor
ists,” says Captain Roy Short of
the Police Department.
THE GASTONIA car-check
observance is part of a nation
wide program of vehicle safety
inspection.
The Firestone Company is one
of several major tire manufac
turers cooperating in the na
tional inspection plan this year.
An Akron representative of the
Company has been appointed a
representative of the Inter-In
dustry Highway Safety Commit
tee for the country-wide 1956
Vehicle-Safety-Check program.
In announcing the inspection
plans for Gastonia, Captain
Short pointed out that the best
driver may not avoid an acci
dent if his car is not kept in safe
operating condition.
“Accidents are on the increase
and many of them are caused by
mechanical failure,” said Captain
Short. “Surveys show that one
out of every four vehicles on the
road today are in unsafe operat
ing condition. Sometimes it’s
just one small detail. . . but that
detail, unchecked, can mean
trouble,”
BOWLING LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
The Firestone Bowling Team of the women's Pioneer League
has won the league championship for the second successive year.
At the 1955-56 season playoff game in the Recreation Bowl, April
17, the Firestone team won over the Leonard Short Furniture
Company team by 6 pins. Total number of pins for Firestone was
1412; Leonard Short, 1406. Members of the Firestone team this
year also made up the 1954-55 team. They are, from left:Nell Bolick,
Mary Pearson, Aim Hubbard, Mary Johnson, Dorcas Atkinson.
Nora Crouch.
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SAFETY DIRECTOR L. B. McAbee, left, receives award for
nine consecutive years of safety achievement here. Presenting it
is Frank Crane, stale commissioner of labor.
Plant Aims For Safety
Achievement During 1956
A record of 10 consecutive
years as a leader in Gaston
County industrial safety is
the goal of Firestone Textiles
for 1956. This aim received
added emphasis recently
when the plant was awarded
a certificate for outstanding
achievement in accident pre
vention during 1955. The
honor came at the annual In
dustrial Safety meeting in
Masonic Temple.
The plant here and Belmont
Throwing Corporation shared
the top honor for nine consecu
tive years of achievement. The
two firms have received
an
award every year since the De
partment of Labor adopted this
system of recognition.
Speaker at the safety meeting
was N. C. Commissioner of
Labor Frank Crane, who passed
out awards to 59 firms.
WINNING a safety award
from the Department of Labor is
a sizeable accomplishment. Com
missioner Crane said. Plants
qualify for the honor by reduc
ing the plant accident frequency
rate 40 per cent or more under
a previous year. Thus plants
with an exceptionally good safe
ty record have a hard time re
peating as winners. Second, a
plant qualifies by having a safe
ty record which meets rigid
standards of the Labor Depart
ment. The requirement is that
a plant maintain an accident
rate 75 per cent or more below
the state average for the par
ticular industry.
Large plants—such as Fire
stone — receive joint awards
from the State and Federal
Labor Departments, while small
plant awards are from the N, C.
Department of Labor.
If Firestone repeats its record
of achievement this year, it will
become a “decade winner” for
the safety honor.
Some Tips On Flower Culture
Mrs. W. R. Turner, Sr., of the Variety Garden Club at the
plant received second-place ribbon in the invitational class of large
church flower arrangements at the first annual standard flower
show in Bessemer City, April 12.
Her arrangement featured “budding branches” which made use
of blue spruce, double white spirea, symbolic of purity, blue iris
for truth and three white tulips for the Trinity. The whole was
placed in a right triangle in a mint-green ceramic urn on a marble
base.
SINCE the season’s theme of the Variety Garden Club is
“Growing flowers in and around the house,” Mrs. Turner offers
the following suggestions on flower culture:
It is too late in season to transplant most perennials.
Annuals should be planted at once. For best results, set out
when the plants have about 4 leaves. Marigolds, petunias, zinnas
are among those that ought to be set before the sun gets too warm
in the day.
Heat-loving plants should be set out when the soil has become
warm from the sun. A few of these are morning glory, moonvinei
four-o-clock, hibiscus, gourd, dahlia, coleus.
BEFORE planting gladioli bulbs, soak them two or three days
in water to which has been added one tablespoon garden fertilizer
per gallon water. Plant 4 inches apart, 6 inches deep in rows, or if
used in borders, cluster them in bunches having about 6 inches
space each way. Spray with insecticide when 4 to 6 inches tall-
Glads need lots of water and sunshine, ~
Chrysanthemums are one of our best autum blooming plants-
They are excellent in clusters of 3 or 5 plants in borders, combined
with dahlias in background. Mums should be separated now and set
6 to 8 inches apart, according to size of the mature plants. If
want tall, single blooms, break off all side shoots and remove buds
when they first appear. For a bushy plant, break out tops when
set out then break out tops of resulting limbs twice again,
not after July 1,