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One of the high spots of Home Coming was the dramatization
of Goodyear's world-wide activities in Goodyear Theater, Tuesday
morning. Here are members of the Export Revue, each holding the
LITCHFIELD
AWARDS WILL
BE PRESENTED
An interesting feature of
Thursday morning's program
will be the presentation of
1938 Litchfield medals to the
best salesman, the best store
manager, the best production
and engineering squadron
graduates, the best Boy Scout
among the five Goodyear
troops, and the man making
the best suggestion of the
year.
The Paul W. and. Florence B.
Litchfield awards were set up
in 1925 by the Service Pin As-sociation
to stimulate effort
and enterprise, and have been
eagerly sought after.
The first salesman to win an
award was Eli Pound, in 1930. He
joined the company in 1922, was
later branch manager at Richmond,
assistant branch manager'at Char-lotte,
and is now manager at At-lanta.
Later winners were L. J.
Holroyd, who came to Goodyear in
1921, is now district manager at
Des Moines; Ernest Moller, now in
Petroleum Sales, Boston; A. E.
Grundy, who went into export, is
now sales manager in New Zea-land;
A. F. Landefeld, now in
charge of Pliofilm Sales; W. H.
·Summers, now manager of Air-
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flag of the country they represented in the play. Right: A. G. Cam-eron,
vice-president of the Export Company, who told the Home
Corners of the scope and activities of our overseas operations.
There are two courses before any nation-either people are free to
work for themselves and a reasonable hope of reward, or they give up their
freedom to one man or a select group of men and work for whatever the
government chooses to give them
Happy!
"Glad to be here," and uThe
Home Coming is swellt" are the
two expressions most commonly
heard around Goodyear Hall these
days. Smiles are everywhere, and
The Clan 254ameramsannapped a
representative Home Coming grin
that covered the face of Matt Tay-lor,
general line sales, Columbus
district. (Note to Matt's friends:
Yep, that's Matt, all right. The
mustache fooled.ns, too, at first !)
under fear of punishment.
There are no alternatives.
• And these can't be mixed. You
must have one or the other.
This country was built un-der
the system of freedom.
Attempts to change this
system, •6to make Democracy
work," have prevented re-covery,
caused wide-spread
unemployment, created tre-mendous
debt. And the sooner
we return to the principles
which made America great
the sooner will we return to
our long-delayed and long de-served
prosperity.
If · the fear of government inter-ference
can be removed, and men
can invest their dollars and know
that they will not vanish like
autumn leaves, capital will very
quickly put men .back to work.
Thus, General Hugh S. Johnson,
former NRA director, and now
columnist and commentator, vigor-ously
outlined his theory of applied
economics before .an enthusiastic
crowd which filled th6 entire Good-year
-Theater lpst 'night.
The incredible history of Amer-tca,
General Johnson declared, was
paced and made possible by the ex-ample
of the great deeds done by
Washington, Lincoln, Andrew Jack-
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Busy!
Busy man, not only during the
Home Coming but for weeks be-fore,
was Fred W. Lohmann, who
is seen here checking a last-min-ute
program detail by telephone.
Lohmann (with C. C. Osmun )
has been largely responsible for
the Reveral impressive stage pres-entations
of the Home Coming,
was ready to razz his partner
if he forgot his lines. For Osmun
himself essayed a part in the Ex-port
play as the gentleman from
Brazil, with the lovely Renorita
crossing the stage as he talked.
GOODYEAR
OFFICIALS
GIVE TALKS
Perhaps the most striking
single feature in the entire
celebration of Goodyear's For-tiath
Anni: ersary and Honie
C.,miiig w'as the great 1,oster
atop tly,¥ bank building-
Goodyear'.<. key executives,
hands alc,:t, calling 66welcome
home boys." Reproduced in
the Monday issue of the Clan,
the picture typifies the spirit •
of Home Coming.
This wasn't merely a cor-poration
meeting, a school, a
lecture course, a review of
product and sales technique. It
went beyond that. It said:
66Welcome, Gang." It person-alized
the assembly of world-wide
Goodyear.
The note was st.ruck again and
again in the ad• e: lisintr depart-ment's
presentation of the World:.
Fair of Rubber on Goodyear Hall's
fourth floor. Not millions of pieces
of printed paper, bright in color, '
arresting in words, but again, men,
Goodyear men, working.
But perhaps nowhere was it bet-ter
done than in the Export play
of yesterday morning, when out of
the pageant came one after an-other
of the actual men who carry
the banner of Goodyear overseas.
No longer after this will Goodyear
salesmen of the United States or
Canada think of Export in terms
of maps in various patterns and
shades of color, of sales aiid per-sonnel
totals.
Walking ashore down the gang-
, plank of an ocean liner in Lhe finale
of the play came the men who head
up the various distributing units
overseas. Goodyear's prettiest girls,
dressed in the quaint costumes of
the countries represented, brought
home the final necessary .touch of
internationalism.
Export was Steiner of Australia,
in person; it was Hadley of Java,
Croke of Argentina and Magennis
of Brazili it was Bahr.of Columbia,
Lees of Cuba-the procession grew
more impressive with the seeming
unending length of it, so convinc-ingly
showed the breadth of Good-year.
overseas. And,.finally, it was
our own Walt Hazlett of England.·
Companion Play
Fitting companion-play to the
one on Monday morning, wlien the
Seiberlings and Stephens and Bill
State, and the rest, walked on the
stage, picturing the daysi when
Goodyear •was being shakingly and
uncertainly created, the Export
play was another master contribu-tion
to personalizing the Home
Coming.
Preceding the play, A. G. Cam-eron,
vice president and general
manager of The Goodyear Tire &
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A full day's entertainment
featured by an elaborate theatrical
presentation 1 Il Goodyear The-ater
is on the pivgrain for Good-year's
1,7()0 Hotiie Cornizig cele-brators
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Details of tlie show, which is
due to start at 8:15 p. m., are
covered at greater length in a story
in another part of today's issue of
The Wingfpot Clan.
Today's assembly, as usual, is 11
called for 9 a. m. in Goodyear The-ater
1,y Vice Presiclent ria J. 1
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Th,)m:is, ge 036etc':ahlait'nian of the
Horiie Conillig Coliitiiittee. First
evc,lit on the program is the show-ing
of a recently-made *• March of L
Tinie" film distributed by Time
BIagazine and having a current
busifiess aspect.
l'rofit-Service Theme
Tlie first speakers of the day will
'be Clifton Slusser, vice president '
in charge of production, and R. S.
Wilson, vice president in charge of,
sales. Tliey will use the common
theme of "He Profits Most Who
Serves Best," a Goodyear slogan
of long standiii Ir.
Following a short intermission,
J. M. Liiiforth, assistant to Presi-dent
Paul W. Litchfield in charge
of manufacturers' sales, will speak
on -The Automotive World."
Luncheon will again be served in
the gymnasium, the Home Corners
reeonvening in the theater at 1:30
p. m. L. E. Judd, director of pub- '
lic relations, will open the after·-
noon program with a talk on the
work of hid department.
• Opportunities Ahead
Arthur H. Kudner, head of the
Kudner Advertising Agency, and
J. K. Hough, Goodyear advertising
directol·, will speak on two phases
of "Centennial Advertising."
"How to Cash in on Centennial
Opportunities" is the title of a play
scheduled to be given at 3:30 p. m.
under the direction of H. E. Blythe,
-,id vice president of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Co.,Inc. 0
The stage presentation will be
followed by another brief intermis-sion,
after which Mr. Wilson will
bring the afternoon's program to
a close with a brief message to the
assembly. Dinner is scheduled for
7:15 p. m. in the gymnasium, to be
followed by feature entertain-ment
in the theater.
Ihorus Group
Provides Musie
Tnesdag *ight
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Rubber Export Co, who E'as in
charge of the presentation, '*Inter-national
Goodyear Revue," spol:e on
Goodyear as an interiiational or-ganization.
"From the old strawboard mill
down by the creek a bit of rubber
was dropped into an unknown com-mercial
sea and its expanding circle
has encompassed the Earth-.until
today Goodyear tires aip niariuflc- •
tured in nine foreigil pl:mts," said
Mr. Cameron.
"We have 20 foreign subsidiaries," 1
he continued, "with 36 branches and
21 depots, and more than 250
wholesale distributors ' spotted
throughout practically every coun-try
in the world. The most recent
new foreign plants are in Java,
Sweden and Brazil.
Circle Globe
"Goodyear tires now circle the
globe. You'll find their mark in the
, shifting desert sands. Deep in the
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snows of the North, Goodyear tires
write the signature of the All-
Weather Tread. Across endless
ampas and in the jungies of Af-ica,
deep into the Antipodes, Good-ear
tires niake their sure-footed
reek, Argentine,
cot and Anzac
way.
"Turbine and sail carry Geod-
• year's cargo through the Seven
Seas. Slav and Magyar, Jap and
Boer, Tartar and Pole, Moor and
Norse, Arab,
-all who travel
, awheel-know the symtiol of i he
winged foot-and respect it as the
Sign of worthy products, honoral,ly J
merchandised, serving countless hu-man
needs.
"No small thing, gentlemen, no
mean achievement-is the contribu-tion
made by Goodyear Export."
Other speakers at yesterday 1
morning's session in Goodyear
Theater included P E. H. Leroy,
i vice president in charge of finance;
The excellent chorus singing
which preceded last night's talk
,by General Hugh Johnson was pro- ;
vided by the Goodyear ChoI·isters. -
0rganized four years ago, the
club has risen in Akron musical
circles until it is now recognized
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as one of the city's and Northeast- t.
ern Ohio's best. ..
Director of the Choi'isters is
Mrs. Mel Kilgore, who recently
succeeded Verne Schiller of Inter
Plant.
There were 40 pei·sons in last '
night's group, all of whom are
either Goodyear employees . or '
wives of employees.
MORE RADIO SUNDAY
In line with nationwide inter
est in the centennial of.the dis
covery of the process of vulcani
zati<,n and the
TNeek by The Goodyear Tire & Rub-ber
Company of its fortieth anni-
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Arthur C. Horrocks of the pub
5:15 0'clock, the
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When the Home Corners went to Seiberling Field, Monday noon,
many cameras were in action. Iii addition to the panorama pictures
and movies that were taken, The Wingfoot Clan cameraman got a side
view of the proceedings.
| C. A. Still nian, vice president, and | principal markets of the world, and
W. F. Bloor, statistician. ' since that announcement was made,
"A little less than two years ago | besides a plant at Gadsden, Ala.,
I reviewed our financial position at and another at Jackson, Mich.,
a meeting of domestic sales execu- Goodyear has built and is now
lives, to the conclusion that Good- operating plants in Australia, Eng-year
is a sound institution," Mr. ' land, the Argentine and Java, and
Leroy told the 1,700 Home Corners. has under construction plants in
64lr i am happy to report to this Sweden and Brazil.
gathering, representing all of ' "The building of Goodyear fac-
Goodyear," he continued, f • that tories, both domestic and abroad,
nothing has happened since then did not 'just happen.' It is not just
that need detract one whit from by chance or by luck that Goodyear
the fullness of that conclusion. finds itself in the position it occu-
<•At that time we had just com- pies in the rubber industry today.
pleted a recapitalization plan in- •'Our Home Coming this year,
volving the issuance of additional • coming early in 1939, gives us all
common stock to extinguish ac- an opportunity to counsel together
crued preferred dividends and and lay our plans to make 1939 a
the voluntary substitution by pre- banner year. Some of you have pre-ferred
shareholders of 75 million viously visited Akron. Today all
of $7 cumulative preferred stock, I are given an opportunity to per-for
a like amount of $5 cumulative sonally inspect Goodyear's largest
· convertible preferred stock, which factory. The buildings are exten-
• decreased charges ahead of com- • sive and you will find a Iarge in-mon
by one and one-half million vestment in machinery and I know
per annum. you will be impressed, as I was
':We may now confidently state the first time I visited Goodyear,
| that Goodyear has never been so . with the extent of our operations
· strong financially as at this mo- liere.
ment-not since the early days of • 0co3n6fiIdently believe that out of
the company has the financial this Home Coming there will come
structure been such as to so imme-
, diately reflect your increased ef- '
forts."
Welcomes Group
Mr. Stillman welcomed the
Home Corners, declaring that com-pany
executives wanted the cele-,
bration to resemble class reunions
of college boys, or reunions of i
families at Christmas time.
"Standing in this room some 12.
years ago before a large audience
of employees, President Litchfield
made what was unquestionably the
most important announcement
Goodyear ever heard," stated Mr.
Stillman. "He said that Goodyear
determined to place factories in the
Sacramento 61180 Has Centennial
a resolve in the minds of all of us
to make 1939 a banner year. We •
must make 1939 an outstanding
• year in our history. We must ac-complish
results."
Speaking on "The World of Bus-iness,"
Mr. Bloor gave a long list
of statistics concerning the growth
of Goodyear to the position it oc-cupies
in world affairs today.
"In reflecting on the dedicatory
purposes of this Home Coming-namely,
the one hundredth anniver-sary
of the discovery of vulcaniza-tion
of ru6ber by Charles Goodyear,
the fiftieth aniversary of the in-vention
of the pneumatic tire, and
the fortieth anniversary of Good-year--
one cannot help but be
thrilled and inspired in the progress
that has been made over so short
a span," said Mr.· Bloor.
-• The statistician illustrated his
talk with camera slides showing
graphs and tables of figures illuss
trating the growth of business here
and abroad, government activities,
the rapid expansion and almost uni-versal
use of rubber and other sub-
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*Goodyear has led. the way," said
Mr. Bldor, "in establishing produc-tion
in foreign countries because of
management vision, a pioneering in-stinct
that has always been a char-l
acteristic of Goodyear and a train6d
personnel ready for the job.
"Goodyear has a total personnel
- around the world of 44,616, this as-sembly
·representing only five per
| cent of the total.
#'Probably the most valuable as-set
that Goodyear enjoys is its
preference with the motoring pub-lic.
More people consider Goodyear
tires better than any other make.
1 Fifty out of every 100 car owners
prefer Goodyear tires above all
others.
"I am sure we will all agree that
the Goodyear sales light for 1939 is
, green. Let's go t"
The one hundredth anniversary Quackenbush, alert to the publicity
of the discovery of vulcanization is
not the' only centennial observancs
in the U. S., we are informed by
the Sacramento delegation. The
City , of Sacramento, which was
founded. on the site of Fort Sutter,
erected in 1839, is also observing
its one hundredth anniversary.
The city is decorated, and Fort
Sutter is the center of centennial
activities. District Manager H. S.
posdibilities of tying tip the two
observances, got liis Home Coming
group together and visited, the fort,
where the delegation donned offi-cial
Sacramento Centennial jackets
and posed for the photograph,
shown above.
The local papers carried excellent
stories on the departure of the
Goodyear group for Akron, includ-ing
names of all the Sacramento
men.
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Litchfield Awards
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oam Sales; Floyd A. Greene,
S:icramento, and Leonard W.
Moore, store manager at Cincin-
Ilati.
Store Awards
First store manager to win an
award was C. E. Metzger, in 1933.
Then manager at Birmingham, he
is now manager of the Baltimore
store. Other winners are: 1934,
C. A. Crafts, then heading the
Philadelphia store, now at Los
Angeles as assistant district man-ager;
1935, Dawson Hetrick, man-ager
at Birmingham; 1936, D. H.
Strong, store manager at Toledo
and Pittsburgh, now district man-ager
at Cincinnati; 1937, H. C.
Bott, store manager at Erie.
The first squadron medals ( pro-duction
and engineering ) were won
in 1926 by Harold D. Walker, now
general line salesman, Cleveland
district, and Ralph Eby, now an
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engineering supervisor. Walter R.
Miller, best Goodyear Industrial
University student that year, is
now a supervisor in truck tires.
The squadron winners for 1927
were Frank Koken, son of Ed
Koken, Canadian superintendent,
and 'Mike Dolan, now zone super-visor
in the engineering depart-ment.
Built Airships
Paul Siegel, 1928 winner, became
an assistant foreman at Goodyear
Zeppelin, helped build tlie U. S. S.
Akron and U. S. S. Macon. H. L.
Montgomery is in Plant II pit. C.
C. Bowsher, 1929, became a general
line salesman at Omaha, and Jim
Renfrew joined the efficiency de-partment.
Max Kochheiser won
the Suggestion award that year for
his Supertwist machine. Cecil
Woodruff, 1930, was a supervisor
at Plant II with a promising career
ahead when death came in 1937.
Wilbur Jones, 1930, went into ma-chine
design.
The 1931 winners included W. S.
" Dowman now of Salary Personnel,
and Al Goulding, master mechanic
6f the new Brazil factory. Also, F.
Sailor Harvey, export, until recent-ly
continental zone supervisor, now
on the Akron staff, and Don Lamp-
• hear, best athlete, who will be a
divisional superintendent in Brazil.
The winners ·in 1932 included
Squadmen Joe and Paul Murphy,
(no relation ) the former a general
line salesman out of Philadelphia
now, and the latter in the engin-eering
department at Jackson.
Sam Steere won the Special
Award that year for the develop-
, ment of Supertwist.
Went To Java
• Of the 1933 men, Russ DeYoung
spent some time in the Java plant,
. is now in Tech Service, F. L. Wal-ston
went into sales work. R. T.
Hankins, best athlete that year, is
now Plant Two labor manager. In
1934 Darwin Chase, who also
helped start the Java plant and is
now at Plant II, and Elmer Lind-strom,
won awards. Winners
· in 1935 were G. S. Ellis, Squadron,
and Clyde L. Echols supervisor in
engineering. Joe Thomas who made
the best suggestion of the year, has
chdrge of equipment for the com-pany
stores. In that year Jim
Renfrew; jr., won the Boy Scout
award, making two medals in the
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Harold Chassagne, 1936 winner,
a son of General Foreman lieward
Chassagne, is in Efriciency, Al-phonse
Wrobleski,.: in the Steam
Engineering divisicin. W. T. Davis
last year's winner is also in Effi-cieiicy,
A. D. Sharp is with the
Squad organization. Frank Cooper,
head of the balloon room · won the
Special Medal tliat year for his
1 work in building the stratosphere
• and a thousand other balloons.
Of the Boy Scout winners, many
are still in school, but mention
should be made of Gerald Quinn, .
1927, teaching mathematics and
machine drawing at Case. Fred-erick
Tarbox who won out two
years in succession, 1928-9, won a
I year's scholarship at Harvard and
is now with the state highways de-partment,
and Robert Tarbox his
i brother, 1932, who attended Akron
U anci is noW with LifeGuard
, clemonstrations.
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son and others who continued to
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"It is the rule rather than the
exception in our history," the Gen-eral
asserted. "It is the invaluable
ingredient that has heretofore
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in tlie same high heroic strain than
the story of Charles Goodyear's,
fierce and life-long insistence- 1
under griefs as great as those of
Lincoln or Colunibus--on the pos- i 1"31, /
sibility of the perfection of rubber.
*'We may change our form of
effort but we must never lose this |
mainspritig or dynamo of its |
progress. You and I all know that I
Charles Goodyear didn't have any- •
thing to do with founding The
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. He
just niade it possible. This great '
company was named in honor of
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kind of standard. Here are two old-timers of the Export Company, greeting each
Goodyear's Part other warmly as the Home Coming got under way. They are R. W.
"I don't need to tell you the con- Hadley, left, managing director, Java, and H. C. Steiner, assistant
tribution made by your own com- managing director, Australia. Steiner came to Goodyear in 1915, went
pany. Wllen the whole world be- into Export in 1919, while Hadley went into Export on joining the com-came
dependent on rubber, your pany in 1919.
constant effort was to bring rub-ber
to the uses of humanity at far
less cost and far greater effi-ciency
than had ever been done
before.
"The record of this development
is known to you and has been pre-sented
in words far more authori-tative
and eloquent than mine. It
is sufficient for me to say, at a
h-azard, that through the efforts,
of this and other great rubber
companies, the uses of rubber in
all the great necessities of life
have been increased about 10
times in efficiency and greatly re-duced
in price."
At the conclusion. of his speech,
General Johnson answered ques-tions
asked by members of the
audience for nearly half an hour.
Later, he posed for photographs
with President P. W. Litchfield,
Vice President E. J. Thomas and
Public Relations Director L. E.
Judd, and then went on a tour of
Goodyear Hall before returning to
his hotel room. He stayed in Ak-ron
over night and was to leave
for the east today.
Goodyear built its 100-millionth
tire in 1927, its 150-millionth in
1929, its 200-millionth in 1932 and
its 250-millionth in 1936.
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A. E. Hertzig, Pittsburgh dis- Caught iii the flu epideniic cur-trict
iiianager, declares that def- ' rently iii Ceritral Illitiois, G. L. S.
initely he was in Akron at the S. H. Bradley, Pcoria district has
• famous 1914 Home Coming. Fact been confined to his bed since last
' is he had a three-year pin by then. Monday and had to forego the
Anybody else missed? ... Ilig Jikn . Akron home-comitig. 1-lis Peoriati
Ijailey of Dallas brought in a clip- associates regret his absence, hope
ping from a West Texas paper on for his speedy recovery.
Norm Hertzer, N'Orleans district ***
inanager who'd been shooting out The Aetna Reactonieter an(1
in l,Kewpie" Richey's territory, the Steeronieter proved popular with
happy liunting grounds the Indians those attending the Exhibits.
overlooked. Norm showed up with Majority discovered that their driv-city
clothes and a lot of guns and a ing skill wasn't as good as they
game leg, and the Texans laid a thought. 1
*** few plans as to how' they'd handle The blalay boys in the Crude
the tenderfoot. But Norm selected
Rubber exhibit attracted the atteri-his
own canyon, had himself driven , .
tion of niany u·ho tried to draw
there, settled down comfortably
them into conversation. E. W.
with a Couple of magazines told the Rehfeld, Petroleum Sales, Seattle ;
driver to call for him at 5. "Hope
and Brady McCart, GLS, Seattle,
the Englishman has a pleasant
spent 15 minutes in their efforts.
day," said the driver. Norm did.
They even had Jack Blandin serve
When they picked him up all he
as an interpreter but even Jack
• he had was two buck deer, the
couldn't make them speak English.
limit. Next day they went turkey * * *
hunting and the .city slicker was Jim Bailey, good-natured district
again the only man to bag the limit. manager at Dallas, was recalling
*'The guy must have E weakness," I the olden days when he got his pic-the
Texans figured. '•We'11 try • ture in "The Family Newspaper,"
him out at poker tonight." When (Wingfoot Clan of 20 years ago )
being presented with a hat he won
the pale fingers of a Texas dawn
tapped gently on the hotel windows 1 i
for selling show cases. The hat, a
in the morniig, Hertzer had all the
wide-brimmed affair, was offered
by P. J. Massey for the best record
collateral in the party except two
on sliow case sales in tlie Charlotte
of Richey's gold fillings. . . Dick clistrict. Jim had the clipping to
Abbott, former Zeppelin builder is • prove the story.
now selling mechanical goods,-yes * * *
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selling them, and likes his work. • R. L. 4<Bob" Jefiers, the El Paso
... Bill Wilder, one time footballer i district's newest, most distinguish-at
Ohio State in the Harley-Stinch- ed looking general line salesman,
recently made a trip into his new
comb days, but a Boston district
salesman now for quite a spell, took
West Texas territory. His first
stop was in the little town of Dry-on
a warehouse proposition re-den,
where he visited a small cafe
cently in Maine-and so missed the and, after serving the "ham and,"
- Home Coming. . . C. A. Ammann, the waitress smiled at Handsome
government sales Washington, Bob and asked: **Y 'ain't been
whose XXV pin was delayed on ac- comin' over here as much as yuh
, count of he left the company for a used to, have yuh ?" As Bob looked
couple of months to help out one of up questioningly,
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Few persons have an idea of the amount of food
required to feed a crowd of eaters such as the Good
year Home Coming boys.
Some statistics on the gas-tronomical
budget were given
to a Wingfoot Clan reporter
by Theo DeWitt, manager of •
• a chain of Ohio hotels, includ-ing
the Mayflower Hotel of I
Akron.
DeWitt, a native of Austria
• who worked his way up in the
hotel business from waiter
and then to head waiter, stew-jard
and eventually manager,
knows the catering art from,
'A to Z.
When the Mayflower Hotel
• submitted the successful bid for
feeding the Goodyear Home Com-ers,
DeWitt assunned personal
• charge of the job, assisted by Jack
Walsh, genial manager of the ·
Mayflower.
DeWitt started out by hiring 275
waiters, bus boys and kitchen
helpers. The figures on the amount
of food handled by this group runs
Any of you Home Corners who
want to meet a real character, just q'
take a stroll over to the Buffalo
sector and let out a yell for -."Sand 1
Trap Dan." He is none other than
D. E. Randall, district manager,
who should be old enough to know '
better than to spend half of his life
digging away with a niblick in a
sand trap. But he doesn't.
In case no one answers to the
name of "Sand Trap Dan," just
listen for a guy who always says •
••you know what I mean,".*you
ought to get yourself set," or "I
don't like to keep talking about De-troit,
but here's the way we did it
in Detroit."
Other dirt about Randall: He
keeps eating less and less and get-ting
fatter and fatter. (Some of
the boys say it's the liquids.) Can't
drive nails, fix fires dr shovel walks
but can swing a fly swatter like
Tilden Vines. Spent several •
months getting new desk arranged
in new office so that it Rat in just '
the right location. Then took over
veterans' reunion in the South some
years ago.
Multiply the following figures
by two and you have the total for
one day-or two meals. Multiply
the daily totals by four and you
have the total amount of food con-sumed
during the four-day cele-bration.
DeWitt's figures for a single
meal, at which an average of 2,100
persons are served, in addition to 1
the 275 hotel employes, are:
One pound of meat per person, or '
2,100 pounds.
1,000 heads of lettuce.
1,000 pounds of vegetables.
500 bunches of celery.
100 gallons of olives.
100 gallons of pickles.
400 pounds of butter.
4,000 rolls.
80 gallons of cream.
250 pounds of coffee.
125 pounds of sugar.
500 pounds of cake, or 400 pies. '
275 gallons of water.
5,000 pounds of ice.
The figures do not include the
into the tons. DeWitt remembers • laundry bill for linen and other ex-only
one other catering job which penses which must be figured into
' equalled the Goodyear affair-a the catering cost.
Cigars or Cigarettdi.f.tg MisterP
l
his dealers in his first years, has
now made it....
Finance
P. E. H. Leroy, vice president
in charge of finance, told Home
Corners of the company's financial
• background during the Tuesday
morning session.
Confused About
Floor Numbers
In Offices?
she continued
When air yuh comin' over here
again to do some more barberin'?
You air the barber from Sander-son,
ain't yuh ?" At his choking
denial, she commented, "Lawks
I me, you and that man sure do
' favor," and left in the general di-rection
of the kitchen.
***
One performance of the Pliofilm
' "Pee;, Show" was all that was
necessary to jani the limited stand-ing
space for all retilaining shuw-ings.
Early bids who waited for
show number two were General
Line Salesmen Ross Roy, J. D.
Bailey, J. A. Brothers, C. A. Evans,
H. M. Bailey, and H. M. Martin.
Norm Malone, Sales Promotion,
was another seen standing in the I
front row.
» From far-off Spokane, Wash.,
• comes the story of the district
manager who hunts partridges
with a tennis racket.
Well, maybe he hasn't done it
yet, but even E. C. Schell himself
admits that lie probably will *take
his racket along the next time he
goes hunting. There's a story be-hind
the reason for that.
Ed had been trampling tlirough
· fields for. 1 hours just · to get a
chance to bag a . few Chinese
pheasants or Hungarian 1)art.
ridges. When a large flock of part-ridges
finally were flushed out,
• Visitors making their first trip
into Akron may get confused over
the floor numbering in the Gen- i
cral Office,and Factory Office.
F'rinstance, you come via Al Cun-nington's
lobby and turn right in
to the General offices and you're I
on the second floor. But if you
turn left into the Factory office
you're already up on the fourth
floor, without climbing a step. The
top floor of the building is called
the fifth floor at one end the
seventh at the other.
This , doesn't prove that the
I architects couldn't count. The two
' buildirigs were erected separately
and finally connected up. , Factory
office and factory proper similarly
' were connected up as the plant ex-panded.
And the factory which was
• built earlier, was well down hill
from the Rtreet. So there is a first
, floor to the factory. twat the cor-responding
floor in the office would
'havel,een well under ground.
A Is this clear T.
Popular with the liome Corners were the winRome misseR who din-pensed
clgars and cigarettesi. Here are Cliff Slu,iser, vice-pref,ident and
factory manager. and. P. W. Wilhelm, mechanical goodA males. disclisHing
old table in corner of the room as I their favorite brandA of cigarettes with one of the girls. while A. K
his desk. Patteri#on, assistant manager of the Export company, looks on.
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so close he could have hit · them
with a club, but too close forT him
to use his gun becailse the rest
of the party was in the lina of
fire.
• full of clirt al,<,ut Ecl. They algo
Those Washington boys are jitst
tell of hig habit of riding arc,und·
in the bottom of a motorl,out all
day and sleeping while Rome one
else navigate# lie also in knr,wri
F as Eddie Cantor Il because he 11:,s
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CCULEE DAM
BIG PROJECT,
SAYS SCHELL
Rest theatrical talent avail-able
in New York and Chi-
Cago has been brought to
Akron for this evening's en-tertainment
in the Theater.
Headliiiing a star-studded
program is Gracie Barrie, ra-dio
singer, who is the wife of i
Dick Stabile, the orchestra I
leader. Other headliners who •
will perform are Chaz Chase,
Marcus "The Mad Magician."
Dorothy Byton dancers, Hib-bert,
Bird and LaRue, Ann
O'Connor, and the Three
Redingstons.
Climax of the show will be
a grand finale under the di-rection
of C. C. Osmun, John
Ross Read, Irv Wills and Tom
Fuson.
Master of ceremonies is V.
R. Jacobs, voluble master of
the King's English, and Good-year's
very best commenta-tor.
Angelo Vitale, Cleveland
maestro, who has so ably di-rected
the orchestra for this
week's dramatic sketches will
direct the 17-piece pit orches-tra.
Vitale is recognized as
one of Cleveland's best or-chestra
leaders. His band
broadcasts regularly fronn
Cleveland radio stations. Vi-tale
also directs the Cleve
land Summer opera orchestra.
THE WINGFOOT CT,AN February 22, 1939
FACTORY MEN RECEIVE TWENTY-FIVE
YEAR SERVICE AWARDS LAST WEEK
Gagliane-,
"I'll tell you, fellows, you
:1.. . .* - ! have a pretty faithful repro- ...
duction of the Grand Coulee •
-% /1/# Dam opertitioil iii your exhi- i
/144. -44* ..41 bits ori the fourth floor of
U..'.'..:* ' Goodyear I-[all," said E. C. 1
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«th4:*:':·E·:•·.·">';2*•,4.u'lg.. Schell district niall:lger :lt
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state-•-if you ever do-you'll b . ..>. 2 3 1
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' · :.¥ say it's just about the biggest Miller
- -- job the world has known.
"The.conveyor belt built by 094•t•*It.i-' e,.'• '•:'.
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Goodyear-the longest ever
made-is doing a mighty fine
piece of work, and when any 1
i of us Goodyearites visit the i
huge Grand Coulee proj ect we
naturally swell with pride
I when we see what tli:it belt, '
more than a mile long, is do-ing.
It rolls from a gravel
quarry on a high hill to the
I great concrete mixing plants I
on either side of the Columbia ...i
river, carrying tons upon tons i
of gravel every hour-twenty- 3 .. -,--/
four hours a day." And Schell •
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continued: .:.:...
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1 Goodyear district manager at San
Francisco, will let off a lot of
steam about the Golden Gate Ex- ' 1
position, and he will be justified in 2
so doing, but let me tell you that 4
if you come to the 'Frisco show, • ...
4 don't fail to run up to Washington '
and see that Grand Coulee project.
"As the informed know, the huge
, dam project dwarfs the Boulder
Dam job, and the Panama Canal
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undertaking was small in compari- ·
son. Huge shovels bite deep into Root
the canyon walls. Powdered ce-ment
is blown through niile-long
tubes by compressed air.
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550 Feet High
"The Grand Coulee Dam is to
cost approximately $394,000,000,1
including the irrigation system.
- The completed structure will rise
550 feet above bedrock, over a 4300-
-foot length, and will be just about .
500 feet thick at the top.
"The pumping plant will raise a
• tenth of the river's volume 280 feet
through tunnels into a 21,000-acre
reservoir in the Grand Coulee, the
ancient bed of the river, and above
t
the dam the Columbia river will
form an artificial lake about 150
· miles long.
-// •' I understand that 50,000 farms •
of 80 acres each will be laid out in
the basib to be irrigated-these to
support a population of 50,000 per-
1 sons. The vast tract to be watered
is said to be the finest undeveloped
area of land in the world. When
it's irrigated, practically all fruits
and crops suitable -to a temperate
- climate will be grown there.
•'You get a very good idea of the .I
gigantic setup when you look at the + +
miniature layout on display in the
Goodyear's list of exhibits."
To K. S. Markendorf, G r a n d
Rapids, truck and bus representa-tive,
goes the questionable honor
of making the world's most un-usual
shot at a pheasant. ( Please
remember that we are only repeat
ing a story that his buddies told
us.) It E. Ammon, district man
ager and R. C. Houser, district
LifeGuarder, went hunting with r
Markendorf and a couple of. near- 1 -
by Goodyear dealers. ,
Hunting was fine and they soon ,
1 L-- had the limit but one of the birds,
that, blarkendorf bagged couldn't -
be counted for more than half a
pheasant by anyone but a game,,
warden. The Goodyear dealer crip-pled
one bird and it took refuge ,
behinci Markendorf ( probably mis-taking
him for a bump on a log ). ,
The onlyway K. S. could shoot
him was to put. the,gun between
his legs and pull the trigger. He
got the pheasant but only a part
of him was left, the shot blowing
off the head, neck and part of the
breast.
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Goodyear for nearly a quarter of
a century has been right up front
as the leader in selling more tires
than any other company on earth.
Usitally the fellow who thinks he
is more cunning than others is
among the first to be cheated.
Business
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"rhe World of Business" was •
the Rubject of the talk made l'UeR
j day morning by W. F. Bloor, Good
year statistician.
Kia
Buzek
Ware
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Larry Miller, tin shop foreman,
and leading spirit in the Friars,
minstrel shows, entertainments and
picnics for many years, got his 25-
year pin last week, but might have
1 had it much earlier, he claims, if
Mr. Litchfield had had a job for
him when he first applied in 1900.
There wasn't any opening at the
time, the little company's future
being quite insecure.
So he put in the intervening time
at sh-eet- metal shops downtown,
was with the Diamond Rubber Cq.,
at the time of the Goodrich merger;
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f the tin shop ever since.
Goodyear has a small percentage
f foreign-born employes, but in
he last XXV awards, six out of 15
'ent to men born outside the United
tates.
Willie Klar, Truck Tire Pit, was
orn in Germany, worked there as
druggist for seven years, got a
ob with a steamship company and
fter his first sight of New York,
decided to stay here, was present-ly
working in a lumber camp in
West Virginia, came on to Akron
as a trucker, but has been on the
heaters continuously since his first
month. He has one son, owns his
own home. His hobbies are fishing,
wood-carving and gardening.
Mike Mullaney, Shipping Room,
I•lant 2, was born in Ireland, grew
up in 'this country, came to Good-year
right from school, spent a
number of years finishing tires but
has been on shipping and packing
since 1927. He spent two full years
in the Army during the World War.
Mike is a bachelor-his hobbies are
cards and dancing.
Jay Causman, Products Repairs,
was born in Austria, worked a cou-ple
of years for the Pennsylvania
Railroad, started in at Goodyear in
the Tread Room, was considered
the fastest and smoothest treader
who ever worked in old Depart-ment
5-C. Jay liketi to travel and
recently bought a new car, plan-ning
a long trip this summer. He
has a married daughter and son,
Pat,1, formerly in the Tire Itoom.
Andrew Larson, Products Re-
Mulla 0>36(·
Powell
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Lars,
Burley
McKitrick
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• pairs, was born in Sweden, is an ' 2, is from Punxatawney, Pa. He
expert workman, a nature lover, started in the Tread Room, went
fond of travel. He made one trip through the Squadron, spent nearly
back to Sweden in 1934, has a mar- ' two years in the World War. He
ried daughter and two sons, one has two children, a boy in East
at Akron U, the other on the Good- High and a girl in grade school,
year Staff Training course. He owns his own home. His hobbies
lives in Goodyear Heights. are raising flowers and hunting.
Dominick Gaglianese, Truck John Root, Plant 2 Pit, comes
Tires, was born in Italy, spent two
years in the coal mines after com-from
Stewart, was a coal miner at
ing to America and five years
Athens for 14 years, has wrapped
working for a lumber company. tires, inspected bands, rimmed
Started in the mill room at Good- tires and for several years has been
year, transferred to crude rubber, steam tender. He has two sons and
has been a trucker since 1921. He
two daughters, all married. His
has seven children, three boys and
four girls, one daughter working hobby is gardening.
at Goodyear. He is much interested George Ware, truck tire builder,
in church work, often preaching comes from Belington, W. Va.,
sermons but refusing to accept any worked for the B'& 0 for four
money for it.
years before coming to Goodyear.
Michael Buzek, General Com-
He started in building bicycle
pounding, was born in Jugoslavia, tires. He is married, has no chil-worked
in the Pennsylvania steel dren. His hobby is largely fixing
mills after coming to America. He up things around his home.
started in old 5-D, has been in his Simon Weisend, Bias Cutters,
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present department through most
born on a farm in Monroe County,
of his service. He owns a 93-acre .
worked five years as a teamster
in the oil fields before coming to
farm on the Massillon Road, has six Akron, went on the Squadron, left
acres planted in fruit trees and for war duty, built tires up until
eight in grapes. His fine family five years ago. Married, has no
of six boys and three girls help in children. His hobbies are hunting,
planting and harvesting. One fishing and baseball.
daughter works in the '*GO" lunch Wilford Fox, Tire Curing, was
room. Mike is a serious and con- born in West Virginia, started iIi
scientious worker whom everyone as a tire builder but has spent most
likes. He and his family attend of his service in the Pit He lives
church regularly and his ambition at Kent, has a married daughter
has long been to see them grow . and three sons. His hobby is gar-up
into good American citizens. dening.
Adrian J. Powell, Truck Tire And finally, Goodyear's young-builder,
was born at Orrville, est grandfather, 47-year-old Alva
worked five years as a carpenter R. McKitrick, Special Inspector,
and two more as a coal miner, has Plant 2 Tire Department. Born on
been building tires continuously ; a farm near Zanesville, McKitrick
during the entire 25 years. He has started in the tire room at 17, spent
three children, a daughter married, some time on development inspec-and
two sons. His hobbies are hunt- tion.
int and fishing. But· more important is the fact
1
Oliver Morgan, Mechanical that Mildred McKitrick and Torn
Goods, was born in Navarre, start- Johnson Jr., son of the Rim Plant
ed in Goodyear in 1900, but left superintendent, grew up in the same
· several timeR between then and neighborhood, went to school to-
1913. ·He has been on V-bells since gether, were married a couple *f
1925. He has several married chil- years ago and the recent arrival
dren-hiH hobt,y iii the Bible. of Tom III, added two members to
Walter Burley,' tire builder, Plant | Goodyear's Grandfather club;
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Expansho
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Story of the expansion of Good-year
throughout the world was re-lated
by Vice President Charles A.
Stiliman in a talk ditrilig the
Tuesday morning meeting.
Veteran
T. J. **Tom" DeNeut
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Bales organization.
"Tom" joined Goodyear, Sept.
15, 1913, at the age of 17, when ·
he became an assistant shipping •
clerk in Grand Rapids district.
Later he was made stock clerk
and counter salesman, then went
out in the territory with other .
salesmen.
He was made general line sales- 1
nian in the Ionia, Mich., section,
where he remained ( except for
time out during the World War)
until the Fall of 1934. He was
transferred to Alpena, Mich., then '
to Detroit, following 18 months in
Alpena. He now covers the East
Side territory in Detroit.
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Train and
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eturn Trip
Be Sure to Read This Outline Carefully
Important to every out-of-town visitor at
the Home Coming is the following schedule of
return transportation which the Traffic De-partment
wants each man to read carefully so
that he will know just when his bus leaves for
his particular train and from what point.
Buses will be at each hotel one hour before
train-time and will start from the hotel prompt-ly
one-half hour before the train is scheduled to
leave from the depot. This gives Home Corners
ample time to pack their bags, and be all ready
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All the kids down Atlanta '
way must be awfully discontented,
what with Ferdinand away and
all. P'
Who's Ferdinand ? Why, he's
Jack Kelly, who is store super-visor
at Atlanta.
Whyis he Ferdinand ? Because
his five-year-old daughter makes
him tell her the story so often
that he now does it with gestures
that would make even Walt Disney '
rock with laughter. Get him to do
it for you some time.
Atlanta seems to have enough
talent here for the Home Coming
to put on a show for us. We are
told that Eli- Pound was swamped
with fan calls and gifts after a
recent radio appearance in which
he presented a plaque to a new
member of the LifeGuard Legion.
( Can we help it the calls were i
faked and that the gift was a
box of assorted vegetables put.up,
in a box from one of Atlanta's
leading floral shops?)
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New York City....-...........--.............................................
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well in advance of the bus leaving time. ALL
MEN MUST TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN
BAGGAGE.
Following is a complete, detailed and clearly
outlined schedule showing just who leaves on
what buses, from where and when. Please study
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should be referred to the Traffic Dept., Recre-ation
Room, No. 250, second floor, Goodyear
Hall.
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Portage 36 Erie 8:00 p.m. Exchange St.
Mayflower 121 Erie 8:00 p.m. Exchange St.
Howe 24 Erie 8:00 p.m. Exchange St.
Alci'on 24 Erie 8:00 p.m. Exchange St.
Taylor 51 Erie 8: 00 p.m. Exchange St.
Portage 71 Penn. 9:00 p.m. Union Del)ot
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Houston ...0.-I.I.-I...........................................-..................Howe 15 Erie 9:30 p.m. Exchange St. 1 1
Oklahoma City..................*...........................................Y.M.C.A. 32 Erie 9:30 p.m. Exchange St.
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Here and There1
The Philadelphia District pin-ochle
championship was decided in
3 46 no-quartei." contest enroute to
Akron. Defending chamt,ions were
Ilob Gelston, Philadelphia store
manager, and George Boenning,
Conimercial salesniail. The new
chatiipioris are Frank Leibfried,
Caniden store manager, and C.
•'G-TI:in" I>urvis, comniercial sales.
The story as reported to The Clan
is that the former champions
talkeci a. fine game utitil they in-spired
.1 challenge from the new
champs. The result was seven
sti•aig]it victories for the Purvis-
Leibfried team.
***
E. E. Redmond, who ranks as
one of the best Commercial Sales-nien
in the Richmond, Virginia,
district, experienced his first Pull-man
trip when he hopped the
Richmond Special for Akron.
***
Bedlam reigned during the serv-ing
of 3Ionday's noon day meal as
Denny Thompson's orchestra play-ed
state and college songs. More
than half of the 2,000 crowd either
came from or are now working in
•'Dixie," for the playing of that
song brought approximately half
of the crowd to its feet.
***
The St. Louis delegation is won-dering
whether Web Webber ex-pects
an "accident". Seems that
Web brought along three suits and
other extras, and The Clan's spy
declares half the delegation is car-rying
some part of his luggage.
***
Speaking about the St. Louis
gang, they almost didn't get away
from -their home town. George
Hickey, genial office manager,
locked all the tickets in the district
office safe, Saturday neon, but was
unable to open the safe on Sunday.
The combined brain power of the
district operating department, plus
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nally worked - the comblnation.
Note: It is said Hickey's luck was
of the same caliber during the en-tire
trip to Akron.
***
Ed Laskey, Harricbs. 6 district,
caused all hr:.Ss no end of concern
on Afonday morning by getting lost
between the train and the bus that
was to bring him out to the plant.
All of the gang. was safely on
board and the bus got under way
before it was discovered that Ed
was missing. The bus returned just
in time to prevent Ed from taking
a city bus headed in the wrong di-rection.
E. E. '*Eli" Pound, Atlanta dis-trict
Inanager, reports a near riot
of mirth ensued enroute to Akron
when it was discovered that husky,
robust bI. C. McAlonan had out-fitted
himself fbr the journey with
several new items of personal ap-parel,
including a pair of the new-est,
highly decorated "jitterbug"
underpants. Yes, you guessed it,
"Mac's" new nicknanie is "Jitter-bug."
***
H. W. Gifford, special represen-tative,
Rielimond district, had more
than passing interest in the deci-sion
of the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals ( Covington, Ky.)
last week which ruled that the
Federal Trade Commission had no
cause to issue a cease and desist
order against Goodyear in the
famous mail order contract case.
For several months Gifford was re-sponsible.
for keeping track of
traveling and other expenses in-curred
in the company's defense
against the commission's charges.
***
Joe Basista (former W&J grid
star ) and Al Griffin, both GLS,
Philadelphia, designated them-selves
as "house detectives" on the
trip into Akron. After very care-fully
turning out all the lights in
their car, they discovered to their
dismay they could not find the light
switches in their own berths-drawing
for themselves a lusty
cheer of the Bronx variety. They
were armed with toy cap pistols,
which failed to function until they
arrived in front of Goodyear bank
when their fusilade caused momen-tary
consternation among passers-by.
***
Songs of the famous colleges by
the orchestra during luncheon at
noon on Monday, brought cheer
after cheer, but the California
delegation really outdid itself when
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up with a cheer that should have
been heard clear ba:k in their be-loved
"Dixie."
***
Jerry Lohmann, service repre-sentative
El Paso, had Goodyear
calenders placed in every school
room in the El Paso district, city,
county and parochial. Then he
asked his small daughter, Kate, to
watch for their appearance in her
room and let him know the reac-tion.
Kate came home the other day,
quite pleased. The teacher had
sent the class to the encyclopedia,
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had them all write essays on
Charles Goodyear-then at recess
the other kids took out after the
son of a competitive store man-ager,-
and beat him up.
***
Bill Beckwith's East St. Louis
pajamas are so loud that Irv Sley-ster
and Bill Hibbeler went way
under quota on sleep, Monday
night.
***
The St. Louis lads had been cas-ually
informed by Rollie Maul-hardt
that he '•sometimes" snored
when sleeping on his back, but his
room-mates, Dick Bolton and Griff
Griffiths testify that Rollie is am-aUUUL
Ulg JUI,11 1.,nanciac, Vi ../L*11.0.
John had done a hitch in Export
out in New Zealand, and it seems
one night one of his dealers slapped
him on the back, said, genially,
"How's the old Yankee tonight."
•I know what you mean," said
Blakeney. *There's no offense. But
if my old pappy from San Ant6nio
ever comes out here don't make the
mistake of calling him a Yankee.
He'd shoot you."
***
Several Home Corners had added
a few pounds of weight since their
last trip in, speculated as to what
might be the reason. Lack of exer-cise,
filet mignon, and calories
-these were suggested as pos-sible
causes.
•'Had it ever occurred to you,"
suggested the philosophic H. S.
Quackenbush of Sacramento, •that
the matter of tearing too many
sheets off the calendar might oc-casionally
have something to do
with it."
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If you want to know how King
Henry VIII felt when Shakespeare
had him cry those immortal lines,
"A horse, a horse, my kingdom
for a horse," you need only ask
A. B. Hill, Memphis district man-ager.
Mr. Hill's hobbies are horse
riding and he has a complete out-fit,
even including a fine tooled
leather English saddle.
But does he have a horse ? Not
a doggoned onel
February 22, 1939
tidelights
Larry Waite, Providence sales-man,
was looking around for his
old shipmate of the wartime air-ship
Navy, Blimp Captain Karl
Lange. But Karl was flying the
•:Enterprise" 500 feet overhead, and
Larry was on the ground, waiting-unobserved.
*** Definitely favor-able
was the impression on Home
Corners by. General Chairman Ed-die
Thomas. Quick on his feet Eddie
had a phrase ready for any erner-a,
nev lilrn whon +1,0 lightc i,n,lor
of P. W. Litchfield in the Monday's
play and was the "off stage voice"
in yesterday's Export play, is a Chi-cago
actor, a nephew of Paul
Shoaff, manager of the Sumatra
plantations *** Eddie Thomas'
casual reference to the manager of
Government Sales as "Silent" Jac-obs,
drew many a chuckle from the
audience. Recalling the time in the
early days of radio when Jake was
to be the third man in one of the
early three-way hookup's attempt-ed--
between Cleveland Station
WTAM, Jack Boettner flying up
there in a blimp, with an antenna
to release over the station, and Jake
at his desk in Akron: But the blimp
met head winds, and before contact
could be established Jake had to
carry on for an hour and three-quarters,
without script or warn-ing,
won the name among radio
men of •Iron Man Jacobs." Jake ex-hausted
the whole history of light-er-
than-air and was just getting
into heavier-than-air when he was
finally relieved *** Sid Oxon of
England tried on Yellowstone Chip's
20-gallon cowboy hat, knew it
would make a big hit back home, is
still hoping that he and Chip and
a photographer may all be in one
spot before Home Coming ends.
E. J. Thomas was one of many
who attempted but failed to catch
Marcus, 61The Mad Magician" in
one of his card tricks. Eddie dis-covered
the card in his hand that he
accused Marcus of holding.
Dr. Millard Ill
News reached Akron yesterday
of the grave illness at Litchfield
Park of · Dr. Jean S. Millard, vet-eran
head of Goodyear hospitals.
Born in New Bedf6rd, Mass.,
and educated at Harvard Medical
School, Dr. Millard came to Akron
in 1912 as the company's first fall-time
doctor, started the plant hos-pital,
has been a pioneer in indus-trial
medicine.
In ill health since fast Fall, he
left before Christmas for Arizona.
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Program « « «
Wednesday, February 22 Today's Theme: Our Centennial Opportunities
Breakfast at Hotels 2:00 CENTENNIAL ADVERTISING
8:30 Buses Leave Hotels (Leave Canton Hotels 8:00 J. K. Hough-A. H. Kudner
A. M.) -INTERMISSION-
9:00 Assembly Goodyear Theatre 3:30 HOW TO CASH IN ON CENTENNIAL
9:15 MARCH OF TIME OPPORTUNITIES (H. E. Blythe and
9:50 HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST
Stage Play)
-INTERMISSION-C.
C. Slusser-R. S. Wilson
-INTERMISSION-
4:45 R. S. Wilson
Buses to Hotels
11:40 The Automotive World-J. M. Linforth 6:45 Buses leave Hotels
12:15 Announcements 7:15 Dinner-Goodyear Gym
12:30 Luncheon-Goodyear Gym 8:15 THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENT
I:30 Introduction to Afternoon's Program Goodyear Theatre
1 :45 L. E. Judd Buses to Hotels
Thursday, February 23 Today's Theme: The Future
Breakfast at Hotels -INTERMISSION-
8:30 Buses leave Hotels (Leave Canton Hotels 8:00 ) 10:45 P. W. LITCHFIELD
12:30 Luncheon-Goodyear Gym 9:00 Assembly Goodyear Theatre
Buses to Downtown
9: 15 Presentation Litchfield Awards
3:00 CHARLES GOODYEAR DEDICATION
9: 30 E. J. THOMAS CEREMONIES
9:50 GOODYEAR RESEARCH-R. P. Dinsmore Evening-City of Akron Ceremonies-Akron Armory
V. R. Jacobs (Optional)
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