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GASTONIA • NORTH CAROLINA
VOLUME XI - NUMBER 2
FEBRUARY, 1962
Best Today
Still Better
Tomorrow\
Rubber • Chemicals • Textiles
Synlhelics • Metals • Plastics
Francis B. Galligan
BSA Silver Beaver Award
To Production Manager
The highest tribute that can be bestowed upon an adult
member of the Scouting profession on the council level
came to plant production manager Francis B. Galligan in
January. Mr. Galligan received the Silver Beaver Award
in ceremonies at the 38th annual meeting of the Piedmont
Council of Boy Scouts of America on Jan. 19.
The production manager here
has been in active leadership of
Boy Scouts for 17 years, first
working as a member of the
District Committee and later as
District Chairman of the Pee
Dee Area Council, BSA, Marl
boro county, S. C.
artistry
the
snow
Real wintertime makes news—and memories—in the
Piedmont Carolinas, where spring-like weather is usually
no more than a step away. The area’s second snow of the
season crept in on a mid-January night. The white visitor
left touches of wonderland beauty, perhaps to compensate
for all the inconvenience it caused people who had to
come and go. An entry for your scrapbook: Lacy grandeur
on -a broken-down fence behind the Firestone mill.
Jlow To Measure Life’s Riehes —Karl
“The future belongs to
those who make ready for
— and this truth applies
^specially to retirement,”
A. Karl told members of
^astonia supervision when
plant here paid tribute
JO him at the Gaston Coun-
Club in late January,
Mr. Karl, who began as a
^^brics technologist with the
^•^nipany in 1919 and rose to
^^I'esident of its Textile Division,
in some homey coun-
— wrought in the forge of
experience.
“Opportunities usually come
^^oaked in hard work,” he not-
“If we fail to recognize
them, and to profit from our
’Mistakes along the way, we miss
®ome of life’s most precious les
sons.”
New District Head
L. E. Whitehead, 34, is the
manager of the Firestone
^^arlotte (NO sales district. Mr.
hitehead attended Clemson
College, and in 1950 received
he bachelors degree in business
the University of Georgia,
joined the company’s col-
training class at Charlotte
July of 1950. His first assign-
vvas in a company store at
^Partanburg, S. C. in 1951. Late
j year he returned to Char-
where for the next eight
he held various sales as
signments in the district.
1959 he became manager
the Spartanburg store and a
ear i^ter was named store su-
jJ^.^^isor of the company^s Bir-
^i’^gham (Ala.) district.
The Firestone Textiles presi
dent, who retired at the end of
1961, reviewed highlights of his
42 years with the company, then
offered a word of caution; "Ap
preciate the past, but don't
ever allow memories to work
against you."
Calling retirement “a serious
business with every one of us”,
Mr. Karl looked upon the sun
set years beyond a regular job
as a time of new horizons. In
preparation for those years, he
suggested;
1) Cultivate interest in peo
ple and things around you.
2) Engage in some diver
sions, such as hobbies.
3) Form the habit of daily
physical activity that — if con
tinued in the “later years” —
will help you keep going.
“If you have worked well by
the time you come to retire
ment, life’s richness will not be
measured by what you have
gained materially, but in what
you have done in terms of help
ing others.”
Firestone Nurse
At OH Meeting
In January
Firestone third - shift nurse
Mrs. A. T. Newton was an area
representative at the Sixth An
nual North Carolina Governor’s
Conference on Occupational
Health in late January.
The meeting at the Robert E.
Lee Hotel in Winston-Salem
was held jointly with the North
Carolina Association of Indus
trial Nurses. Mrs. Newton is in
her second year as president of
NCAIN.
Gov. Terry Sanford gave a
welcome address. Appearing
during the sessions were several
leaders in the industrial, safety,
health and related fields. They
discussed such topics as in-plant
medical programs, emergency
plans for industries in case of
disasters, and industrial hy
giene.
This annual meeting is one of
A New Englander, Mr. Galli
gan was transferred by the com
pany to South Carolina where
he was plant manager of Fire
stone Textiles at Bennettsville.
SINCE moving to the Gas
tonia plant, Mr. Galligan has
been an outstanding leader in
Scouting, having recently com
pleted a term as chairman of the
Gaston District Scout Commit
tee. He has been named com
missioner of the Piedmont Boy
Scout Council for the coming
year.
More than 300 attended the
annual Scout meeting from the
11-county area of Piedmont
Council, at Brackett’s Cedar
Park near Polkville.
The Silver Beaver Award is
presented in recognition of note
worthy leadership in Scouting.
Mr. Galligan is among several
men of the Firestone employ
ment who are volunteers in the
Scouting program here. General
manager Harold Mercer receiv
ed the Silver Beaver Award
several years' ago.
the major activities of the NC
Governor’s Conference on Occu
pational Health. The group,
made up of people in business,
industry, labor, agriculture, and
the medical and allied profes
sions, works with official state
agencies to promote occupation
al health and wellbeing.
Three Named Outstanding Fork-Tbw Operators For 1961
Operators of fork-lift and
warehouse tow trucks made
1961 another outstanding
year for safety and perform
ance — and from the 12-
month operation, three driv
ers have been named “most
outstanding”.
The 1961 first-place award
went to Israel Good. Arthur
Gordon was second; Luther
Thompson, third. Mr. Thompson
had also earned third place in
1960.
Because of the major property
investment in the trucks in use
here and the danger of their op
eration, the company has an ex
acting program of maintenance,
with emphasis on driver safety,
good performance, and operat
ing efficiency.
The three awards, presented
each January, recognize drivers
for their good .records during the
preceding calendar year. Among
features which have been taken
into account in daily perform
ance are: Practice of safety
rules, alertness and maintenance
of assigned vehicle.
For four years, scores for driv
ers were obtained through care
ful observation of each man on
the job, and recorded along with
an operating case-history of his
truck. A new scoring program
☆ ☆ ☆
GOOD ROLLING:
Employee rela-
tions manager
Ralph Johnson
gives Israel Good a
$25 Savings Bond,
recognizing him as
"best truck driver
of 1961". Other
awards: Luther
Thompson, $5 for
third place; Arthur
Gordon (right), $10
for second place.
Looking on (from
left): safety super
visor Raymond
Mac k; warehouse
manager F. W.
Davis, warehouse
foreman Fred Mor
row.
was in effect during 1961, based
on points earned, and/or de
merits according to a standard
set of rules embracing all phases
of safety and operating proce
dures.
A bulletin board in the ware
house area keeps drivers in
formed of individual point
standings throug'hout the year.
Totaled scores at the end of
December determine winners.