Kimble releases balloons with safety messages inside them

Kimble Glass Sends

"Safety Satellites"

Members of the safety com­mittee at the Kimble Glass Co. today releases to the four winds 250 helium-filled balloons each carrying a safety message. The local effort is a part of the na­tionwide program by the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. to make April "No Accident" month.

Across the nation, at 56 Owens-Illinois plants. 33,000 of the bal­loons were released. The bal­loons carry the slogan "Safety Carries You a Long-Long Way" and each has attached to it a postcard bearing the name of an employe.

Anyone finding a balloon after it has come to earth is urged to mail the attached card back to the plant. The employe whose name appears on the card sent in from the greatest distance is eligible for a $50 prize. But to win it the plant must complete the month of April without a lost-time accident.

H. V. Gardner, safety director of the Owens-Illinois Co., said that April was chosen as “No Accident” month because this month is traditionally the worst of the year accident-wise. Indus­try generally is plagued by a spring “letdown” of caution among workers, he said.

O-I President Carl R. Megowen in a letter to company people said that by making what is normally the worst month the safest month, a standard is set for the rest of the year.

The theme of safety will be stressed in the local plant all during April. There will he poster and safty [sic] safety displays and dis­cussions on safety.

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THESE "SATELLITES" stress safety. Mem­bers of the safety committee of the Kimble Glass Co. released these helium-filed balloons today to open the company's "No Accident" month during April These low-flying companions of the Explorer and Vanguard satellites carry a message of safety. Each is marked with the slogan "Safety Carries You a Long-Long Way." Each also carries a card with the name of an employe. Finders are urged to mail the cards back to the company as the employe whose name is on the card mailed in from the great­est distance will receive a prize if the plant goes through April without a lost-time inci­dent. On the “launching pad" are from left; Ed Spence. Charles Clevenger, Marvin Johns, Bill Brown, Houston Boyd. Dorothy Van Ness, Jim Palmer, Carl Greenwalt and Sid Cooke. — Muncie Press Photo.