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Year-End Statement 1962 Promising For Rubber As 1962 arrived, all signs pointed to prosperity and continued progress for the rubber industry during the new year. The observation by company chairman Harvey S. Fire stone Jr. was grounded in the facts of recent expansion in production, diversification and distribution; growth in auto- tomotive transportation, increased world consumption of all types of rubber, new applications of synthetic rubber, and the general upswing in business. In his usual year-end statement, the chairman saw 1962 as “the rubber industry’s most prosperous year”. He con cluded: “We at Firestone have the research-and-development leadership, production facilities and sales-distribution or ganization to meet the challenges and opportunities that are ours in 1962.” Departments Tie In Housekeeping “This housekeeping program is paying off,” remarked one of the production supervisors, as his team completed the mill safety inspections on Dec. 20. He had been inspired by the fact that three departments had just tied for the Good - Housekeeping Award banner. Twisting (second floor), Card ing, and Spinning earned the honor. They each won the right to have the banner to display in a proud place for ten days. Ordinarily, if a single depart ment wins it, the banner is kept a month. The Good-Housekeeping pro gram was started here more than a year ago, and the incen tive banner has been in circula tion since last June. A-jnonthly insp^^ction has a checklist of 10 major points of orderly and efficient shopkeep ing. All production supervisors are assigned in three teams to conduct the monthly tours. Team members review house keeping conditions in depart ments other than their own. Re sults are recorded on a standard check-schedule from the safety department. A resolution adopled by the annual synod of the Augustana Lutheran Church urges people to obey the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," when driving a motor vehicle. STICKUM — An off-highway tire weighing nearly 2,000 pounds is here suspended by two square inches of a newly-de veloped Loxite adhesive produc ed by Firestone. Richard Garl- ing, senior chemist who helped develop the metal-to-metal ad hesive, points to a carbon-steel strip (encircled) overlapped and held together by the Loxite. The high-strength adhesive will be used in the automotive industry. It has been pull-tested as high as 2,500 pounds per square inch and can be applied even to oily metal. 25 Years In Canada Woodstock Has Anniversary Firestone Textiles Limited of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, went into its 26th year of op eration in late 1961. The plant’s 25th anniversary, officially ob served Nov. 16, was highhghted with a complimentary dinner given by the Woodstock Cham ber of Commerce. The Daily Sentinel-Review of Woodstock-Ingersoll issued a 10- page special section commem orating the plant anniversary. The newspaper featured a re print of its front page of Aug. 25, 1936, and its lead story un der the headline, “Firestone Comes To Woodstock”. Throughout the anniversary section Firestone was featured in its Woodstock and Hamilton plant operations. There were articles and pictures on plant history, the manufacture of ray on and nylon cord at Woodstock, news of employees, and the Woodstock Firestone stores. Included was a special story on the history of the parent Fire stone Company, and throughout the issue was a liberal display of congratulatory advertisements from business and industry in the Woodstock-Ingersoll area. William Astle is vice president and general manager of the Woodstock plant. He succeeded Frank Austin (retired), who was for a number of years a member of the Gastonia management staff. The Woodstock factory em ploys over 200. It is one of three Firestone manufacturing facili ties in the Dominion. Tire cord and fabric produced at Wood- stock serves the company’s Ca nadian tire-producing plants at Hamilton, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta. -RECREATION TRAVEL NOTES January Is A Showcase Of Places.. .Things.. . Events January is a many-sided month for the travel er, with its interesting lineup of places to go and things to do. Outdoor activities in the Mid- South are livened at this time of year by the growing number of winter-sports facilities. Along with this, the January traveler can choose from a variety list of sports events, historical tours, hunting trips — to list just a few. Travel information of Plant Recreation posts its regular monthly suggestions on places, things, and events away from the job that can make your life more enjoyable, and adds: “Get out and go — have fun!” Skis And Bobsled In Season Growing interest in winter-sports areas have resulted in two developments that can put you on skis or a bobsled in less than a half-day drive from Gastonia. In operation at Blowing Rock is the Ski Lodge, complete with manmade snow, skylift, ski shop, lounge and eating facilities, and a lake for ice skating. The long-famed summer resort of Gatlinburg, Tenn. has been turned into a winter mecca with the coming of ski facilities on the slopes of 3,520- foot Mt. Harrison. By late 1961, almost 1,000 persons from Southern cities had joined the ski club at Gatlinburg for the opening season, to begin in early January. A temporary clubhouse is in service at the site, three miles west of town at the northern boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Manmade snow keeps the slopes in business. For the many Firestone people who enjoy the Lake Lure area. Chimney Rock Park, nearby. on US 74 is open free to the public this winter through March. For a warmer touch, the gardens, parks and golf courses of North Carolina’s Sandhills sec tion are especially beautiful now. Holly berries and early-blooming camellias adorn the land scape. At Clarendon Gardens near Pinehurst more than 300 different kinds of holly are dis played for visitors. Museum Added At Old Salem Of tours at historical sites, this time of year is ideal for a stop at the 18th-century restoration of Old Salem community, Winston-Salem. In re cent years there have been noteworthy additions to the restoration, including Salem Tavern (1956), and the Tavern Barn, completed in late 1961' The present barn, first constructed on a fann nearby in the 1840s, and moved to the restora tion site, houses a Farm Museum displaying tools, machinery and implements collected in the area, after much research into the Old Salem period. The Farm Museum is the 20th building restored at Old Salem. Other exhibit buildings open to visitors are the John Volger House, Salem Tavern, Wachovia Museum in the Boys’ School building! and the Market-Firehouse. Adding to variety of the January travel scene are many more events in North Carolina, of which this brief list includes: “Scouting the Skies”, Morehead Planetarium, Chapel Hill, Jan> 9-Feb. 12; professional ice hockey in the Char lotte Coliseum, Jan. 12, 19, 23, and 26; N.C. State- Virginia basketball, Raleigh, Jan. 30. Safety Slogan Could Be Yours Who knows? In the back of your head there may be a safety slogan that could gain world attention. You can try your hand at writing one and the North Carolina Industrial Commission will do its part toward putting your slogan into universal use. H. S. Baucom, NCIC safety director, has pointed out that the most recent slogan to gain national recognition was “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” It appeared sev eral years ago and has been quoted millions of times since. “It would be interesting to know who originated this gem. But now we need some new slogans that can help make safety work,” says Mr. Baucom. “I refuse to believe that everything has been said that can be said about safety. Auto Seat Belts A recent study shows that less than two per cent of seat belts involved in automobile accidents fail in service. Those that failed were said to have been in ve hicle crashes of such violence that no belt would have helped. Somewhere in the back of someone’s mind, there is a thought that can be ex pressed in a catchy slogan. “Scratch your head. Write your slogan, and send it to us.” From time the NCIC Safe ty Bulletin will publish slo gans submitted, giving credit to the authors. At the next annual meeting of the Com mission’s planning commit tee, the best entry will be selected and promoted as “slogan of the year” at the 32nd Annual Statewide In dustrial Conference in 1962. Mail your entry to H. S. Baucom, Safety Director, N.C. Industrial Commission, Education Building, Raleigh, N. C. Report Coming Gastonia employees will have the company’s 1961 year-end re view of progress and report to stockholders, in the special an nual edition of Firestone NewS in late February. The progress issue will con tain the usual financial state ment of the company and other significant points of the firm’s expansion and development dur ing the past year. All editions of the special issue for the various plants are produced in Akron, Ohio. The Gastonia paper will be mailed by late February. It is customary for the Gastonia edition to in' elude a photograph, or othef material, on Firestone Textile^ here. Thought For The New Year ‘Something Wonderful For 1962’ When I was a little girl, my family always woke me in tir^e for the arrival of the New Year. Father would open the window, I might hear the whistles blowing and the bells ringing. But I always believed he opened the window just to let the wonderful New Year. I could not see it, but I firmly believe^ it was there inside my room and in our house. Now that 1962 is here, we know not what its months wil^ bring: War or war frustration, atomic bombs or negotiationSi tragedy or joy. I find myself believing that something wonderful will come during 1962. I have learned over the years what that belief ha^ been. It is profound faith in God. Whatever comes. His will be done. In His strength is ral courage. IRIS HIGGIK^ Laymen's National Committ® January, 1962 Volume XI Page 2 Number 1 ☆ ☆ ☆ Published by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Firestone Textiles Division, Gastonia, North Carolina. Claude C. Callaway, Editor O South Atlantic Council of Indus trial Editors Charles A. Clark, Photographer • NC Professional Photographers As sociation; South Atlantic Council of Industrial Editors PLANT REPORTERS Carding—Payton Lewis Cloth Room—Margie Waldrep Industrial Relations—Flora Pence Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Department—Rosie FraJ*' cum Quality Control — Sallie Crawfor^' Louella Queen, Leila Rape Spinning—Lillie A. Brawn Twisting (cotton)—Elmina BTadshaV^ Twisting (synthetics)—Vera Carswel*' Elease Cole, Annie ,Cosey, Kat> Elkins, Catherine Fletcher Warehouse—Nancy Cloninger, Hato*j Robinson, Israel Good, Roseve* Rainey Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch Weaving (synthetics)—Mary E. Johi*' son, Irene 0'I>ell, Mayzelle LeV^* Ophelia Wallace Winding—Nell Bolick, Ruth Clonin?'
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