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Golf League Finishes Season By Rot Loy Bowling League Forming Tearns Preparation is underway for the upcoming 1974-1975 Bowling Season* This year's league officer*, President, Joe Chiappont; Vice President, Jim Jackson; and Sedbtary, Clyde Locher, are hoping , that each departmewnit Tft the plant will, field a team* The Golf League wrapped up the regular season Team 1, Ed Murray and Tom Koch, champions of Flight with 91% points. Dave Trubisky and Mike One finished second with 87 points. "8" Flight champions. Bob Pentek and Fred Smith their enormous lead vanish, but managed to hold on t* with 92 points. Team 10, John Kohl! and Harold Graf finished with 88% points and Team 9, Bill Rumbaugt Paul Beach, finished third with 88 points. Highlight of the season was the team of Jim Reho Rol lay/Lloyd LeBaron, which was matched up fo third year in a row and finished half way up the B Div this year after finishing dead last the previous two year Koch Murray Kim Baker Jo* Chiappont, Clyde Lochee, and Jim Jackaon. Last year's league champions from Maintenance, Earl Simmons, Melvin Hamilton, Crawford Heavner, Joe Chiappone and Dick Kallay beat out Finishing on the last night The Process team took high series and high team game honors with 973/2627 respectively. Clyde Locher, on one of his "hot nights", rolled a 247/638 for individual high game and series honors. Results from the Dayton Journal Herald Industrial Tournament have not been finalized, but our Uniroyal teams finished out of the money. Dust off the old bowling ball and spend a night out with the guys. Sign up now and represent your department. Smith The double elimination "round robin" tournament is i progress. This Is an individual match play toumamen where each hole is won by low score and the most winnin holes wins the round. With the handicap system bein used, everyone has a shot at winning. A champion shout be named by fate.August. On July 20, at Erie Shores, there were 56 golfer attending the "steak outing". This was one of the bet turn-outs in many yean. Kim had the low gross "A" Fltgh round with a 79. John Kohli had the "S" Flight low gro* with an 18 hole low grots of 82. Dwight Baker had an Eagle 2 on the par 4 no. 7 hole Dwight used a driver and a 5 iron for this seldom achievec honor.; To quote the West Virginia Gentleman, "A blinc pig can always find an ear of corn." UNIR0000722 VINYL CHLORIDE PROBLEM Continued this regard, the plant began a medical surveillance program in May, consisting of a personal medical questionnaire, brief physical examination related to the liver, and blood tests to determine liver function normalities. 420 active employees and 10 retirees have gone through the medical surveillance program to date. Employees who showed any fiver abnormalities whatsoever, are being given extended blood and medical work ups to further determine the caufe of the abnormality. The plant's medical surveillance program calls for the six month retesting of those employed in VC operations for more than 10 years and for retesting of ail other plant employees on an annual basis. In this way, the plant can be reasonably assured that no employee is being affected by VC exposure and that our precautionary measures to reduce VC exposure are in fact doing the job. ENGINEERING CONTROL PROGRAM: We believe that the primary solution to reducing employee exposure to VC is by reducing or eliminating VC emissions to the Grwnt FUMt, wring tk tint rmpkttor, tmttgtt front poty afttr etmning. operating areas. The Technical and Engineering Depart ments have initiated many projects to meet this objective. Building ventilation was improved quickly by removir Leak detection throughout the operation Is now being some side panels to allow more air circulation throw, j used to track down the source of any high level of VC. operating buildings. This prevents a build-up of VC If therjfc Most often this will be a valve or flange which needs quick is a very small leak. We have begun the design of improved attention by Maintenance to correct the problem. Some forced ventilation systems including fresh air supplied" times a change in equipment has been required to give a enclosures for various operating buildings and provisions permanent solution. Leak detection is a constant program. for winter operation. ^ Solvent cleaning of reactors is being re-investigated as a . possible major improvement This system would enable us to circulate a solvent through the reactor to clean it whehv* required, thus greatly reducing the number of times a reactor must be opened. We know that opening reactors and cleaning them is a major VC emission source. ~r ' Other projects being investigated are instruments to continuously monitor the 42 locations, improved reactor ventilation, and modified operating procedures to reduce emissions. EM Unrmm dom mpittw t IN SUMMARY The VC problem is a critical situation both to the health and safety of our Painesvtlle Plant employees and to the continued PVC operations at this plant. Management has made, and will continue to make, a concentrated effort to reduce vinyl chloride levels in the plant. Employees have demonstrated their cooperation to do whatever is possibl to reduce VC emissions and to take precautionary measures when exposures exceed 50 parts per million. While this problem has required additional expenditures, much extra employee effort and many changed work practices, with a continuation of the effort shown so far we will attempt to meet any reasonable operating standards which are set. UNIR0000723 Uniroyal Fields All-Stars Pf Larry Sudbrook . Cfcm Urbanski, Millla Honkala, Don Sudbrook and John Rusnak of Uniroyai't Painesville Plant each had a hoy on ths Painaavilla Eastern Little Laague All-Stars Mm which reached the quarter final* of tha state dmviorahip bafora falling to a strong team from Roadman, Ohio. The Easterns started their winning ways by defeating tfit Painesvilla Americans 14-4. The next two teams to ran into tha Eastern League powerhouse were Jefferson, which fell by the soon of 18-8 end Ashtabula, which was ctudwd by the score of t3-3. Semi-finals of tha district were next and the Eastern squad met their counterpart* from Painesvilla -- the National*. The Nationals proved no match either for tha Easterns, as the Easterns took an early lead and ware never heeded as they coasted to a 6-4 victory. The district had been narrowed from the original twenty-throe down to Avon and tha Painesville squad. Tha district championship was handily won by our local boy*, 7-2. Paracrif Receives New Equipment In June a new Tech Seal Bala Packaging Unit went or stream in Peracril at a purchase cost of $18,000. The equipment wraps the bales in plastic film and seals tin wrapping, saving the operators from manually putting th< bales In plastic film bags and preventing possible damage to the farscril due to a man inadvertently failing to tuck the wrap around the bale when stacking. The bales enter the machine on a conveyor belt pulling the plastic film into tha machine from above and below at tha same time. After the bale It totally covered, the plastic is electronically sealed. Visible through the film covering is an identification strip which is auto matically placed on tha bale as it moves into the packaging unit. Hie scrappy Painesvilla squad finally mat their equal whm they met the Boardman All-Stars from Youngs town. The Easterns went on top early with a run, but the boys from Youngstown battled back to tie the score and than with an extra inning ball game and two out, they scored to win 2-1. The Painesvilla team was one of the last eight in the state and things look bright for next year, since five of this veer's regulars were only eleven end will be beck; including Millie Honkaia's boy, Paul, end Don Sudbrook's boy, Jeff. Paul and Jeff were key figures in this year's successful squad coached by Don Sudbrook end next yaer tha duo along with the remaining veterans just might lead the team to the state championship. Safety equipment in the form of plexiglass door guards was added to tha machine at Uniroyal's request before delivery to the plant These safety devices prevent an operator from reaching into the moving pans of the machine while in operation. Should the safety doors be opened while the machine b in operation, the machine automatically shuts off. -w -w I i* * Credit Union Raises Interest Rates --* Effective July 1st, the interest rate on savings accounts in the Credit Union was raised from 5% to 614* on evings from $S to $1,999. On savings from $2,000 and MPths interest rata has gone from 5)4* to 8*. Thaat hkarest payments will now be paid quarterly instead of wniennually. Th* Credit Union is open daily from 10:40 A.M. to 0 P.M. with membership open to alt employees, their and dependent children. Once membership is ^blbhad it is available for life as long as it is main tained. Atm Quthrtt pr*mm to kmd tMoimi, amhd (xodoct into ****** c*ton sAmrbmbomnroppid in mb moi unit. UN1R0000724 ZEO/AAP Jick Shearer EEO/AAP? What are they? Is this just more of the Washington alphabet soup? Do they really have anything to do with Uniroyal at Painesville? Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plans are much a part of today's news. We read of the effect of these programs on every facet of business, industry, education and government. Most industry, as well as Uniroyal, Inc., falls under the regulation of several discrimination laws and executive orders that have been enacted during the last ten years, principally: The Equal Pay Act............................................... 1963 Title VII of Civil Rights Act.............................. 1964 Age Discrimination Act..................... 1967 Executive Order 11141 .......................................1964 Executive Order 11246 .......................................1965 Revised Order No. 4........................................... 1972 These regulations require: equal pay for equal work, no discrimination because of race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin or ancestry, and recently added to the list, physical handicap. Employment promotion, transfer, layoff and training must be on an equal basis both male and female, minority or non-minority, Employment goals are established that insure that our employment reflects the same percentage of female and minority work force found in our community. Affirmative Action Plans are formulated that analyze the lmunity work-force and our plant employment, point out areas of under utilization, establish methods for recruitment of employees to attain our established employment goals. Equal Opportunity UN1MOYM *OMCY We at Uniroyal believe in the dignity, integrity end inherent worth of every human being; and, tor this reason, reaffirm these basic beliefs as an integral pert of our company employment policy: ... We Pefreve in equality of opportunity for *(( people and wilt not discriminate because of raca. religion, color, age. sax. national origin or ancestry. ... We witt racruit and select our personnel on me basis of ability, skill, experience and character as required for each job. ... W* wilt continue to review the qualifications ot ail our employees to insure that their skills and training art properly utilised. ... We witt include our policy of equal opportunity in each collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the company. ... W* wttf initiate end support educational programs to develop the basic skills of underprivileged people. ... We wilt help atf our employees, through training end education, to achieve their full potential.. ... We witt continue to use the services ol minority organisations and encourage them to refer qualified candidates for employment to C/mroytf. ... We ass/grt the prime and important responsibility for insuring the success of our policy of equal opportunity to every manager and supervisor at each company location. We at Painesville are involved in every aspect of Equal Employment Opportunity. During January, a Federal Com- pliance Officer visited our --.. ..... - plant to review our em- ployment and our local Affirmative Action Plan. Our local goals and AAP are D%c** remember when. updated on an annual basis and compliance reports are filed every six months. On the corporate level, Mr. Ed Baumer is Director of Urban Affairs and has the corporate responsibility of the administration of the Uniroyal Policy of Equal Opportunity that is published on this page. Any questions about zal policies concerning tual Opportunity Em ployment can be answered at the Industrial Relations Office. This picture sot taken in December, 1962. on the Tenth AimNersary Bill McManus. Jim Wiison. Fred Nelson, AMe Need. Francis Cron. Mon Woods, Chat. Hauser, m Zelinka. Melvin King, George Beatty. Front Row - Bob Welker and Lyle Simmons. UNIR0000725 ^ Safety Awards Continued From Page 1. The Safety Award Program is organized in the following manner. All employees are divided into four different work groups. Drawings are held monthly, quarterly, semi-annually and annually for each work group that has not experienced a Lost Time or Near Serious injury in that time period. Six Month Safety Goal Reached All of the people working in Area 1 Process, Finishing, Lab, Water Pump House, and Pilot Plant are to be congratulated for 6 months work without a Lost Time Accident. This is a fine achievement and one for which they can all be justly proud. Monthly awards are S25 Savings Bonds, quarterly awards are SSO Savings Bonds, semi-annual awards are for a S100 tire credit or credit at a Uniroyal store. Should the plant accident frequency for 1974 reach 11.0% or less, awards of a color TV or credit at a Uniroyal store or a vacation trip for two -- a $500 value, will be awarded. Also, should the plant reach the 11.0% frequency rate a $10 gift certificate will be given to eech employee. Jack Porter, General Foreman, Area 1. reports that voluntary attendance at Quarterly Safety Meetings has been 100% showing a genuine interest in safety on the part of these individuals. Porter feels very fortunate to have reached this mark and hopes that everyone will be able to extend this record. Winners in the first half are as follows; Monthly $25 bond winners were Harold Whitehair, Ken McCoy, Dan Gyure, Paul Oakman, Fred Cornell, Bruce Mramor, Jim Pak), Roger Engle. Bob Anteloppe, Carl Carpenter, Art Tobul. John Getzy, Bill Nellies, Sr., Dick Lefelhoc, Lou Davies, Otis Argo, Emery Hogya. Clayton Smith, Don Juist, Carmen Stanziale, Chuck Vankie, Russ Kalina, John Rigby, Dave Hilston, Charles Kirsch, Jerry Skytta, Del Pringle, Mike Kish, Howard Bell, Bob Sutton, John Calvert, Billie Head, Howard Potter, Jim Pohto, Mike Ondercin, Harold Grapatin, Henry Jackson, Phil Ruggiero, Ernie Ulle, Gordon Jayne, Bill Katona, Howard Hutchinson. Am* Supervisors At Schmidt, ftof 4.0y, Ray Mundia sod Bob Starkey, Quarterly $50 awards went to Dave Trubisky, Fred fervently hope safety record can be continued. Nelson, Don Mayse, Frank Geistle, Chuck Hauser, Bill Armstrong, and Jack Crisiip. Dividend On Uniroya! Stock AnnouncedLucky $100 winners were John Mihalik, John Brown, Voyne Johnson, Herman Smith, Del Pringle. A dividend of 17% cents a share on Uniroyal-common stock was declared by the Board of Directors. It is payable September 25. 1974, to stockholders of record August 26, 1974. Herman Smith, John Brown, nod Oeknac Pringie Haw won $100 gift certificates in the 1974 Safety Award Program. Published By And For The Employees Of UNIROYAL, INC. PainesviNe, Ohio Joan W. Calvin, Editor Telephone (216J 357-7574 {Ext. 231) June/July, 1974 UNIR0000726 r- Safety Awareness KNOW YOUR BENEFITS Working In Paracril Broader Opportunity TirWin On June 27th and 28th, the combined Process and Fmbhing Departments of Peracrii celebrated 1000 days without a lost time accident. This excellent production safety record a fine accomplishment for the man who work in this department as well as for their families. Uniroyal Scholarships New rules wOi provide children of employees a greats opportunity to win a Uniroyal Scholarship, starting wrti students taking their PSAT Qualifying Tests this fall, 197^ This 1000 days represents 32,000 man hours of safe Ten scholarships wfll be awarded each year. If there ar operation and they are now working to better their best fewer than ten finalists, enough high-ranking non-finalist previous record of 1126 days. will be selected to fill the quota. The July-August issue of Uniroyal World carries coir plate details on the newly revised rules. Also, full detail will be given in a new leaflet which will be available, aion with a new application form, at the Industrial Relation office by the end of September. November 15 is th deadline for submitting completed applications to th Uniroyal Foundation in New York. Kevin Carter, son of Jack Carter, Palnesville Purchasin Agent, was one of six Uniroyal scholarship winners i 1972. mania Mm fCoinana, and DaSa Mmm mfrf mffm and donuts in ashbmton of TOOO days MfaapuradonJaPamcr*. Area Foreman S. B. Frfleld remarked that it is difficult to pinpoint what goes into e safe operating record but that the quarterly safety meetings and continuous safety awareness on the part of the individuals involved seems to be working in Peracrii. 1974 Photo Contest For Employees Uniroyal World, has announced its third annual em ployee photo contest Alt full-time employees of Uniroya! and subsidiaries world-wide, except professional photographers, are eli gible. Each entrant is limited to one photo of any size, color or black and white, print or slide, taken during 1974. Salesroom Best Buys The plant salesroom now he men's winter jackets. These Jackets (see picture) have a nylon shell, acrylic All, quilted lining and fleece collar. A good buy at $15.00. A shipment of winter style Keds shoes was re ceived recently, including the PIP oxfords. End of summer buys in dude men's and boy's long sleeve shirts -- $2X0, boys CPO's - $3.00, man's knit vests - $4.00 and golf sup plies including a fine line of capeskin golf gloves. Cork C6*y arrangm dkfihrofm* Jack* amUabla in th* Saiaartmm to iMtotor, Prize will be U. S. Savings Bonds - first prize, $75; second prize, $50; third prize, $25. Runners-up will receive honorable mention certificates. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry form found in future issue of Uniroyal World or a card with name, plant or office location and department, model of camera and type of film used. BULK *AT6 U.S* POSTAGE PAlO >ERMlTNO,* MADISON, OHIO Deadline is December 1,1974. i Send all entries and any inquiries to Editor, Uniroyal * World Oxford Management Center, Middlebury, Ct i 06749. UNIR0000727