The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohio • Page 35

DAVIS, ANDERSON TELL MAYOR: Friday, December 12, 1952 A. Akron Beacon Journal 35 Message Received 6 Bow ubsidize Oi mprove SPECIAL REPORT Given Promotion By Firestone Open Radio Station Monday A i Closed Circuit '5-CEXT HIKE High Crude Prices Hit By Collyer Warns Synthetic Sales Will Room I jgk 1 II. II. WIEDENMANN Wicdeninaiin To Head Tire Work Here Promotion of Herbert H. Wied- enmann as manager of the Akron I A 5 Si Using her finger for a pen, Donna Dunkeson, Beacon Journal librarian, spells out a message on the "writing paper" hands of blind and deaf Harold Hathaway.

Writing Paper Hands Blind-Deaf Solution Reads Words As Letters Are Traeetl IJy Friend's Finger By KENNETH NICHOLS THE HANDS OF Harold Hathaway are his eyes and his ears, too. tire factories of Firestone Tire said. Rubber Co. has been announced bv J. E.

Trainer, vice president in, ITTl'RK of the Bowl is en-charge of production, i dangercd. Anderson reported, by Wiedenmann come to Akron the possible move of Akron and from Los Angeles where he was high school football games to factory manager of Firestone's other fields in the city. West Coast factory. "Akron may decide to return A native of Minnesota and a to Btichtel Field for its games. 4 La Radio Station WUOA, with broadcasting range of about 500 feet, takes to the air over University of Akron campus.

Announcer is Wallace Zimmerman, 1703 Redwood av. Station Chief Engineer George Figel is at the controls. Hathaway is both blind and deaf but anyone can with him anyone who can print in English. The 51-vear-old man's hands To Be Heard On Campus By DON EARLENBAIGII INGENUITY did it. It built a radio station for University of Akron.

"Pretty fine Christmas present," says Neal Balanoff, instructor in speech and station adviser. Station WTOA is in Its test week but will go Into official operations Monday with a two-hour broadcast from noon until 2 p. in. The communications hookup is on a closed circuit between the studios on the second floor of Speech Building and the listening post in Student Building lounge. TI1K IDEA for the station originated when Balanoff came to the University as an instructor last February.

Since then he and many students got together equipment used in radio production class, plus electrical installation by Kenneth Sibilia, head of the electrical engineering department, and went into business. AT LEAST 80 students will take an active interest in operating the radio station. They are spending this week preparing and rehearsing for the formal dedication early next week. The two-hour broadcast will feature popular and classical music, a local and national news report, an analysis of the international news, 15-minute plays, a campus society news program, a sports newscast, and student talent. Balanoff says, "The station Is set up on an actual station basis as well as we can approximate it." The students have banded into a radio workshop and elected Richard Stockton of 1288 Diagonal rd.

as station manager and program director. George Figel of 561 Corire a v. is chief engineer. Jean Sewell of 122 Ido av. is traffic manager.

SPEECH DEPARTMENT has a large library of standard recorded sound effects, but disc jockeys will have to use their own collections for the popular and classical musie programs. Some shnws will be tape re corded ahead of time because of conflicts In class schedules. The majority will be "live" broadcasts. "The station affords our students another chance to gain experience in radio and speech work," said Dr. Ray Sandefur, head of Speech Department.

The University already has a 30-minute program on Saturday at 7:30 p. m. on VVAKR and is negotiating with another local radio station for an additional hour program. Clemmcr's Safe Looted, 500 Taken Detectives are investigating the looting of a safe in the Clemmer Construction Co. 134 E.

Thornton st. Company officials estimate $500 in cash was taken. An employe, W. H. Snyder, reported to work this morning to find a front gate lock ripped off, a rear door forced and several windows opened.

The safe had been moved from the front of the building to the rear and a tear gas arrangement designed to stop a safe cracker failed to prevent the burglar from forcing the safe. A file cabinet also was forced. Sleps Off Bus, Akronite Dies Fear Grid Games Will Be Shifted Cilcs Need For Keller Lighting By KENNETH F. COLE Akron Rubber Bowl will have to close unless the city: Spends money to fix It lip so profitable events can he staged 2 Or subsidizes it with lax money. ThiSj Is the position of Service Director Marvin L.

Davis and Bowl Manager William Anderson as outlined in a special report to Mayor Slusser. DAMS suggested serious con- sideration of the inclusion of funds for Bowl improvements in the 1953 municipal budget. "Our conclusions represent a careful study over the last three seasons. We know ot nothing else to do about the Davis City high schools are giving thought to a stadium at Lane i Field," Anderson explained. Football games at the Bowl, the manager added, have not been big money-makers.

"But they have been carrying a considerable portion of the operational expense," he declared. ANDERSON calls an enlarged Bowl for automobile and motorcycle racing a "must" if the Bowl is to survive without tax subsidy. To do this the present box seat arrangements must he eliminated so the race tracks will be about one-fifth mile. Present light poles will have to be moved hack. New box seats could be set up Davis Anderson in the first eight rows between the 30-yard lines of the football field.

t'SE OF city labor and engineering forces would cut expenses of the changes at the Bowl. Improved lighting Is "needed at the Bowl to bring It up to standard. Two more poles and 32 lights would do It, Anderson said. He foresees a full schedule of midget, stock car, hot rod and motorcycle racing and football games if the improvements are made. ANDERSON also proposed to the mayor and Davis that the city consider handling its own concessions and sharing the profits with operators and promoters of events at the Bowl.

"This is the trend in stadium concession operations around the country," said Anderson. The city now leiuses the concession business to the best bidders. Anderson said the concession contract expires at the close of this season. Anderson also said Bowl parking facilities must he expanded and improved by lighting and better surfacing. help operations.

With all these plans in operation, the Bowl would be in the black," Anderson said. BOWL LOOKS LIKE THIS TOO are like sensitized sheets of writing paper. To tell him any thing, just use your finger as a pen. It's a unique method of communication but not altogether unknown. Two other persons living in the Akron district use the same system.

Hathaway will tell you: "Just print the letters of a word one at a time on my hand. The bottom of the hand is best. When you reach the end of th word, squeeze my hand. Then go on to the next word." THE MAN WITH the writing; paper hands can talk. His voice is hoarse and the words blurred as is often the case with the deaf who cannot hear and 60 control their speaking voice.

Hathaway has lived in Akron and Cuyahoga Falls all his life. Until he lost his eyesight, he communicated by means of the sign language employed by the deaf. As darkness closed in, Hathaway could no longer see the moving fingers. He was In despair until his landlady tried writing to him on his hand. This chance discovery gavs Hathaway a still effectiva thread of connection with the world around him.

'Hathaway has fine, sensitive hands anyway. He is an uphol-sterer and, more lately, has taken up leatherwork. He makes braided belts for men which he sells to stores in the area. "I can strip down a sofa or a chair and rebuild and recover it as well as any man," Hathaway states, matter-of-factly. Hathaway, in his rounds, Is accompanied by a woman assistant, his Seeing Eyes.

Asked how Hathaway lost his eyesight, the assistant replied, "People should be educated not to ask that question." Hathaway lives at 604 E. Market st. and has a 28-year-old daughter, the wife of a Fred Bock, 955 Amelia disc jockey show. Miss Sewell 1 1' aW. and Jean Sewell-run through is station traffic manager.

"-V! 1 By JOSEPH E. KIEBLER Business and Industrial Writer The natural rubber industry was warned today by President John L. Collyer of B. F. Goodrich Co.

that rising prices will result in decreased use of their product. He predicted that American rubber products manufacturers will switch to more synthetic as the cost of the natural product goes up. In the last two months, the price tag on tree rubber has slowly moved upward as demand has risen. Collyer emphasized that the 20 to 25 Collyer per cent price increase in this period is encour-HCinfr consumers to greater mounts of the man-made mate rial. Slnre the middle of OHriber, lie said, the price of top grade crude rubber has Increased more than fiv cents a pound, pushing the cost of the rubber above 30 cents.

This compares wllh the chemical rubber priced at 23 cents. The government agreed only Wednesday to the request of the rubber industry to reopen the last of the idle synthetic plants to meet the rising demand for more of this rubber. In the last few months, use of synthetic has outstripped production by a substantial margin as tire makers especially, stepped up their operating rate. AS HAS happened in the past, crude rubber producers may price themselves out of the United States market, Collyer contended. American synthetic which is equal or better than crude for the majority of uses, then will be consumed in greater quantities, he said.

"When top grade crude rubber wan selling at 2 cents a pound, America's manufacturing industry Increased Its purchase of this raw material for economic the Goodrich executive added. "Recently as much as 38 per cent of the total rubber consumed in the United States was crude, ihe remaining 62 per cent coming from America's synthetic plants." He emphasized as he has in the past that the U. S. A. is no longer dependent on Imported crude rubber.

This raw material only will be bought when it is competitive in value with the man-made product, Collyer insisted. Thomas Sees Biggest Year The biggest year since 1947 Is in sight for the tire industry in the next 12 months, President E. J. Thomas of Good ar Tire Rubber Co. told a Chicago audience Thursday night.

Thomas based his optimistic forecast on this theme: There will be more vehicles on the road Thomas than ever before, and individual owners will do more driving. This adds up to a potential tire production for 1953 of more than 100 million tires in all categories. Rubber consumption for all purposes next year Is expected to break all previous records for American Industry, he added. His estimate for '53 is 1,288,000 tons as against Ihe present high of tons set in 19 )0. The Goodyear executive presented his views to several hun dred hankers and Industrialists from the Middle West at the annual dinner meeting of the Bankers Club of Chicago at the Drake Hotel.

In addition to the boom in tires, Thomas cited the growth of markets for newer rubber products such as foam rubber. Films and plastics also are on the rise and rubber roads, he added, give promise of getting out of the test tube stage and into rapidly expanding commercial use. ONE OF THE major problems ahead, he believes, is the need for more synthetic rubber producing facilities. Unless America expands this equipment the country will face a shortage by 1360, Natural rubber cannot fill the voir! because a rubber tree's productive life is 25 to 30 years and it takes seven years for a rubber tree to come into bearing, the Goodyear president said. On top of this, politiral conditions In most of the rubber growing areas do not encourage new plantings.

He again called attention to the rapidly developing crisis in the nations highways. Jfes f' WO'' Asks Same TV Channel As Simmons Allen T. Simmons, owner of WADC, has company in seeking UHF channel 61 for an Akron TV outlet. George C. and William G.

Braddock, Ta.f businessmen, have filed an application for that channel with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). William G. Matta today said property southeast of the. city has been purchased as a possible station site. He said that if his firm is granted the channel, construction of the station would be aimed at making it a "large approaching wa limit.

Tentative station site Is believed to be in the Congress Lake area. MATTA SAII1 he also has applied for TV stations in Atlantic City and in a Pittsburgh suburb. The Mattas are real estate, mining and quarry operators and also own radio station WLOA in Braddock. Wednesday, Simmons applied for channel 61 and said he expected to construct a station which quite likely would be a maximum power unit. He has purchased 30 acres in the Evans av.

disposal plant general area. Matta said he is familiar with Akron and has "had dealings with persons at Goodyear Aircraft Corp He said his organization ht i-i heen Interested in Akron as a TV site for about a year. Today Cl.tBS A .10 Oii1nn Sorlfiy dinner, YWC. 7 10 Akron Kncampmrni 18, IOOF, IOOP Tfinplf. 217 E.

Mill St. 7.30 Stratiar. Trib 141, Improved Or-dfr of Ffdmfn. IOOF 7:10 Enrampmenl Auxiliary 1, IOOF, IOOF Tfmplf. 7 30Ftvf Fold PhllnophT.

YWCA 7.30 Chriun Businrs Olrla Fellowship, YWCA. SaturdaY CI BS a. christian BuslnMsmen' Cora-mitlef. YMCA. 9 a.

Akron Lit Unde rriter. YMCA. 10 rn Grade School Interelub Council. YWCA. 1 Tff OFTEN EMPTY graduate of the I'niversity of Minnesota, he has been with Fire- stone In California for the Inst 24 years.

He was hired in the tire stock preparation department in October, 1928, and took graduate work at the University of Southern California while employed on the third shift. NAMED GENERAL foreman of the stock preparation depart ment in 1934, Wiedenmann became manager of the tire building and curing departments in 1936. He was appointed production man ager of the tire plant in 1941. When the fuel cell division was started In Wiedenmann was transferred to It as division manager, a post he held until the end of the war when hn was made assistant factory manager. Leonard K.

Firestone, president of the Firestone company of Cali fornia, named him factory man ager in 1950. Mr. and Mrs. Wiedenmann nave been living in San Marino, with their three children. They have purchased a home in Silver Lake and will move here in late January or February.

Fines For Two Drunk Drivers Total $175 Two motorists charged with driving while intoxicated were fined a total of $175 and costs Thursday by Judge C. B. McRae. Fred Nesbitt, 31, of 860 Austin Akron Traffic Accidents In Last 21 Hours 32 Total 1952 Traffic Accidents To Date 11,566 who was arrested 'Nov, 8, was fined $100 and costs with a suspended 10-day workhouse sentence. Joseph Savula, 38, of 305 W.

Center who was arrested 'Nov. 30, was fined $75 and costs. His 10-day workhouse sentence was suspended on condition he pay damages within 30 days. 1 i'v a- REPORT SAYS f. Claude Waynesboro, 6.1, of 238 Cuyahoga collapsed of a heart attack Thursday near his home and was pronounced dead at Thomas Hospital.

Waynesboro, a retired Firestone Tire A Rubber Co. worker, had just stepped from a bus near his home when he collapsed. Police 1 said he had been under doctor' care for heart trouble. Turner Funeral Home is making arrange-1 ments I -f I On the air it sounds quite different. Richard Stockton, 1288 Diagonal is chief sound effects man.

THE PASSING SHOW IN AKRON By Byron Fairbanks SET Cruiser, Truck Meet A police cruiser and a heavy tractor-trailer jockeyed for position at N. Main st. and Tallmadge av. Thursday. It ended with botl occupying the same space.

Driver of the truck told police he was traveling east on Tall madge and got trapped by a light change. He attempted to stop but when he saw a collision with tM cruiser coming, he attempted ti prevent it by speeding up. The truck and cruiser collided but no one was injured. Edward Drummond, 27, of Detroit, was driver of the rig owned by a Detroit firm. Driver of the cruiser was Patrolman Gerald W.

Sebring 23, of M0 Avalon av. Ready Market Do you have a radio-phonograph console to sell? If so, there are at least 49 customers waiting to purchase it. At any rate, that was the number of calls that Mrs. Robert Kenworthy of 300 E. Lin-wood av.

turned down. SrARTON AM-FM RMio-phon'frrarh consul wi'h records. PR-J-3131. after selling her's to "the first person to see it." "However, if your sales problem concerns something besides radio phonographs, don't let that deter you, for whatever you have, if its saleable, Classified will sell it. Just get an ad-writer on the phone by dialing BLackstone 1111 and explain the details of your notice.

From then on you may rest secure in the knowledge that your business is in capable and efficient hands. XT i. a a Iut a guaram.ee, DUl an tual sales report. MtLHMNitML dka.N wn.rci.rr YULE DALClaJ tr HERE HEAD FOR RECORD fflk YJ ZIP' 1 IT GETS AMAZING Qr -ry 0- I (iiiak RESULTS ON THE OPEN TO A ooe to. 0, 47F im MUTTS riwHOM you can SsM -yF3 become vepy I iWUn TScfeWl V-a-A.

HM ir" ti I i fee ir pi wW left turn cr "Our highway system right this 1 minute is inadequate for the num- ber of vehicles now seeking to; use it." the Akronite declared. "We have outgrown our streets and roads." Indications are that the public is thoroughly aroused about the' prooiem ana warns corrective action, Thomas emphasized..