Eye Examinations Safeguard Your Vision
If you have uncorrected vision
defects, you may see optical
illusions that healthy eyes would
never see. A survey by Better
Vision Institute conducted
among employees of 50 com
panies large and small showed
that 4 out of every 10 employees
had inadequate vision for their
jobs.
Of all those with faulty vision,
few had any idea of their visual
defects. Their vision “seemed”
normal because they had no
standard for comparison. Optical
examination under professional
supervision revealed the de
ficiencies.
Some were cases which called
for immediate treatment. There
were diseases present that might
have caused total loss of sight,
or even proved fatal to the in
dividual examined.
FROM 90 to 95 per cent of
these deficiencies were readily
correctible by proper glasses or
by medical treatment.
Some sample findings: In one
company where color vision was
required, large numbers of per
sons were hired in a rush period.
The examination showed many
to be colorblind.
In another instance, many em
ployees lacked side vision—a re
quirement for the job.
With one firm, product rejects
decreased by 75 per cent after
employees’ eyes were examined
and corrective measures were
taken. In an electrical plant,
traming time was cut from 40
to 16 hours.
Summarizing the industrial
study: Correction of eye defects
led to increased production, im
proved personal efficiency, low
er injury rates, reduced absen
teeism and employee turnover.
Several companies found that
eyesight correction helped keep
Marriage or other circum
stance that change a woman’s
name calls for reporting that
change on an up-to-date social
security card.
For example, a woman who
gets married and who had a
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Name Change? Check SS Card
social security number under
her maiden name, needs a re
issued card bearing her married
name, says payroll supervisor
Mrs. Eula Wilson.
She notes that failure to let
the SS agency know of such
change makes it hard for the
person involved to get credit
for earnings reported under her
new name, even though the
number is unchanged.
At postoffices or any social
security office you can have
Form OAAN-6003 for changing
social security records.
August, 1964 Page 4
Smokey Bear:
Keep It Green
Smokey Bear’s program of
forest-fire prevention had good
results for 10 years. While the
number of visitors to the great
outdoors increased tenfold, the
number of man-caused fires
dropped from 210,000 a year to
100,000 and the burned acres
dropped from 30 million to 4
million.
Then for the first time in a
decade the number of fires and
amount of fire damage jumped.
Unusually dry weather across
the country encouraged the loss.
Please, when you are out
doors, be very, very careful with
matches, campfires, smokes.
Help keep a living forest from
becoming a land of destruction
and waste. Leave the unspoiled
land for others to enjoy.
See ! Collection of paintings by
Shinji Ishikawa, Japanese water
colorist and leading master of Sumi
(ink painting). Through mid-August
at Gaston
Public Library
Dautha Lane of twisting (syn
thetics) has begun the advanced
course in yarn manufacturing
at North Carolina Vocational
Textile School, Belmont.
He received a diploma for
Course I in yarn manufacturing
at the school’s commencement
early this summer. Dautha
earned credit for the course
through class attendance 8:20
a.m. to noon five days a week
from July, 1963 to June this
year. Classes in the advanced
course began last month.
New Munitions
Contract
About $1 million worth of 76-
mm high explosive, anti-tank
tracer shells will be produced
by Firestone at its New Bed
ford, Mass. plant.
Two months ago Firestone got
a contract for more than $1
million worth of 175-mm shells
to be produced at New Bed
ford, beginning in November.
The New Bedford plant—in a
surplus labor area—is part of a
broad mobilization base for
manufacture of military prod
ucts.
BALLOON
TIRES
FIRST
IN
1923
Manufacture of the balloon automobile tire was
regularly introduced by the Firestone company,
April 5, 1923. The India Rubber Review officially
announced the achievement and noted that prior
to 1923 there was a limited number of large-action,
thin-walled tires with small-bead diameters —
all used experimently or for specialized purposes.
So, Firestone in 1923 became the world’s first
manufacturer to produce the balloon tire commer
cially. —
experienced older personnel on
the payroll.
Almost a thousand cases of
disease conditions were dis
covered over a 13-year period
in one firm whose employees’
eyes were examined at regular
intervals. The survey noted that
29 per cent of eyeglass wear
ers had not had their eyes
checked in two years.
AMONG nonwearers of glass
es, 37 per cent had never had
eye exams and 40 per cent had
not been examined in two years
or longer. This means that 77
per cent of the non-eyeglass
wearers had no accurate knowl
edge of their sight capabilities.
The same survey indicated
that 85 per cent of eye examina
tions of current eyeglass wear
ers showed need for new correc
tion. In many of the cases the
wearer didn’t realize that his
eyesight had changed.
A survey by the American As
sociation of Industrial Nurses
Journal analyzed side effects of
proper vision on employee at
titudes and morale. Among ef
fects noted were improved se
curity, physical and mental
well-being and improved ap
pearance. Through eye examina
tions, diseases were revealed of
which the subjects were un
aware.
OFTEN an eyesight defect is
a first clue to certain ailments,
august
Rotate the page and see
the wheels go around.
To see boy kiss girl,
place your nose near
the dot.
How many cubes has the artist
drawn — six or seven? Before
you make a bet, turn the page
upside down.
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To put the bird in the cage, lift the page toward you with nose ^
centered on the dotted line.
SOME OPTICAL ILLUSIONS—proof that seeing is not always
believing, even with normal eyesight.
notes the Better Vision Institute.
Among diseases reflected in op
tical symptoms are syphilis,
arthritis, diabetes, cardiac con
ditions, meningitis, myasthenia
gravis, brain tumor, hysteria, in
fluenza, certain nervous infec
tions and stomach disturbances;
also chronic alcoholism.
Reminds the Better Vision In'
stitute: Periodic eye examina-
t'ons will safeguard your vision-
A good rule: Have exams once
a year.
recreation
Waning Summer—Festivals And Fairs
August is the ripening and mellowing of sum
mer. And as one employee with a farm back-
groUiid says, *‘it Ccips the liciystaclv” loi a hai veat
of travel possibilities close home and as far
afield as you’d care to go.
Down South, August means a waning summer
flavored with festivals, sports events and the
earliest community fairs. Plant Recreation offers
some of its usual travel suggestions, but only
samplings of variety within a few hundred miles
of Gastonia.
Apple Harvest And Pageantry • Of topnotch
events in August is the 18th annual NC Apple
Festival at Hendersonville, 28-Sept. 2. There are
apple displays, a parade, pageantry, a muzzle-
loading rifle match, dances and Apple Festival
Queen coronation.
To “tune you up” for such festivities, Hender
sonville offers the state’s first regional fair of the
season; the Western NC Fair, Aug. 17-22.
Folk-Dancing Against The Clouds • If you
like to square dance—or to watch it—you will
be in good company at the third annual Square
Dance Festival Aug. 13 at Highlands. Some NC
towns which feature square-dancing throughout
the summer are Chimney Rock (Mon. nights),
Fontana (Mon., Wed., Sat. nights), and Maggie
Valley (Sat. nights).
North Carolina is a fisherman’s delight, and
angling competition adds interest to the sport.
At Morehead City the spear-fishing tournament
lasts to Sept. 30; the pier tournament through
October; on Topsail Island the contest goes to
Nov. 30.
Along The History Trail • “North Carolina
Historyland”, a handbook of highlights from the
first English settlements to the present, is
xi'be disti'ibution, llixOugli lequeol to NC
Division, Raleigh. It describes many historic siteS
and points of interest, lists other sources of in'
formation on NC history and devotes a section
to variety travel.
Employees are discovering the entertainment
value of stage plays this season. Playhouses with
productions in August are Theatreland at Mag'
gie Valley, Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte^
Thomas Wolfe Playhouse at Asheville, Vaga'
bond Playhouse at Flat Rock, Tanglewood Barn
at Clemmons, and Outer Banks Playhouse
Kill Devil Hills.
The NC outdoor dramas “Horn In The West”>
“Unto These Hills”, and “The Lost Colony” have
schedules at least through August. If you
going afar and like outdoor drama, the one at
Pineville, Ky. is different. “The Book of Job’
runs through August.
This Month Is Variety • Note these additional
travel listings: NC Shuffleboard Tournament at
Hendersonville, Aug. 17-19; antiques fair, Ashe
ville, 11-14; garden tours at Highlands, 13; CarO'
lina mountains flower-gardens show, Hendef'
sonville, 15-16; cup races at Morehead City, 1®'
rodeo-horse show at Love Valley near StateS'
ville, 15-16; 352nd anniversary celebration of
birth of Virginia Dare, Manteo, 18; NASCAR
grand national race at Winston-Salem, 22; RocK
Swap at Almond, 29-30.
Into September • “Legends in the Stars” at
Morehead Planetarium, Chapel Hill, Sept. 1'
Oct. 5.
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