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For Employees Buying New Tires Can Be A Money-Saving Experience Welcome, warm - weather months! And with nice weather come vacations, weekend trips, visits to the golf course or lakes — and in general, plenty of extra workout for the family car. In getting ready for this “traveling season”, many em ployees will be replacing worn tires with new ones on their cars. And for Firestone people, purchasing new tires this year can be a money-saving experi ence. Interested? Then read along. The company has a new pric ing policy — in effect since January — and a reduction in list prices. This means hefty savings on certain types of pas senger tires to Firestone em ployees. Some DE Honors To Jo Ann Case Jo Ann Case, Ashley High School student, carried off hon ors at the North Carolina state Distributive Education conven tion at Durham in March, and had the way cleared for her to attend the DE national conven tion in Chicago, April 26-28. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Case of 1117 West Seventh avenue. Her father works in the mechanical depart ment at Firestone. At the Durham meeting, Jo Ann was elected associate presi dent of the state DE group. Also declared “DE Student of the Year” for the Western NC dis trict, she was awarded a $50 savings bond. An example of this is the popular 7:50-14 or 6:70-15 New Deluxe Champion white-black tire. Last year the employee price for this first-line tire was $24.40. This year, employees pay $22.80. AND LOOK at the second-line Safety Champion Nylon tube- less. Last year’s prices on 7:50- 14 or 6:70-15 of $17.85 for black and $21.85 for white-black have been reduced to $16.50 for black and $19.85 for white-black. Employee price for the tubed- type version of this tire in 6:70- 15 went from $15 to $13.90 for black, and from $18.35 to $16.65 for white-black. Employee price on the third- line 7:50-14 New Champion Ny lon tubeless is $14 in black and $17.15 in white-black. With compact cars on the in crease, the 6:15-13 size tire is popular. Employee price on this tire: $16.60 for black and $19.55 for white-black for the New Deluxe Champion tubeless, and $13.30 for black and $15.90 for white-black in the tubeless Safety Champion Nylon line. Although price reductions mentioned here are based on a few popular sizes of tires, com parable reductions have been made on other sizes of tires. Firestone stores offer num erous other home and auto sup plies at special prices to em ployees. Included are retreads, batteries, sp^rk plugs, home sup plies, wheel goods, appliances, sports items, and many others. Employees also get a discount on auto repair work done at Firestone stores. Firestone Man STMS A Treasurer Thomas A. Grant, methods- standards engineer here, was elected treasurer of Southern Textile Methods and Standards Association at the semi-annual meeting of the organization in March. The Firestone man, chosen at the beginning of a two-day conference at Clemson College, S. C., will serve for one year. He succeeds Foye Boswell of Bibb Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ga. Firestone chief methods-stand- ards engineer James M. Cooper presided at the March 15-16 meeting. He completed a one- year tenure as president and turned over the top job of STMSA to W. A. Funderburk of The Kendall Company, Char lotte. At the same time, Mr. Cooper began serving for a year on the board of directors. Other officers for the current year are R. A. Collinge of Paco- let Mfg. Co., New Holland, Ga., vice president; and Joel L. Richardson, assistant professor of textiles at Clemson College, executive secretary. Southern Textile Methods and Standards Association member ship embraces the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. The non-profit or ganization exists to advance sound principles of industrial engineering as applied to meth ods and standards of the textile industry of the South. Plant Publication Gets Around Editor S. A. Kidwai in Kara chi, Pakistan sent a copy of the March issue of his paper, PROG RESS, to Firestone News “for favour of exchange.” The Gas tonia employee publication now has Mr. Kidwai on its mailing list. PROGRESS is a sparkling, 8- page tabloid in English, the monthly house journal of three companies engaged in the Pakis tan petroleum industry — the Burmah Oil Company (Pakistan Trading) Ltd.; Sui Gas Trans mission Company Ltd.; and Pak istan Petroleum Ltd. In addition to his interesting journal of information for em ployees in that faraway Asian location. Editor Kidwai heads a publicity department which pro vides a free service of informa tion, guidance and instruction about the petroleum industry in that part of the world. IN THE PROCESS At Gaslonia, Quality Control inspector Grace Spencer is one of several persons who keep watch over tire fabric as it takes form on the loom. This check on nylon is one of many con trols that help to guard quality of all fabric produced here. THE FINISHED PRODUCT At Akron, Ohio, Joseph Ferdinand looks fo> any irregularity inside a tire, in the divisiof of racing and experimental tires. This is one of the final tire checks. If all has gone well i’’ production from start to finish, this tire will quality-approved. [N It Has To Be The Best AU The Way High quality in any manufactured item is the sum total of workmanship skill, and careful management of all controllable fac tors of production. This assumes, of course, that materials to begin with are of best quality. It follows that if controls and human skill break down anywhere along the pro duction route, there will be a missing in- Recreation Travel Notes gredient that goes into helping produce ^ superior product. Fabric which rolls from looms at tb^ Gastonia plant is a basic material for tW construction of tires. The fabric contributes its essential part to the superior qualitj' which enables Firestone to produce an> sell tires that make good the company’^ promise of integrity; “Best Today, Still Bet' ter Tomorrow.” April Has Variety For People Who Want To Get Out And Go fOUSET Green is resuming its place in Nature’s world, and thoughts turn to carefree travel days ahead. April offers a good variety for those who want to get out and go. In North Carolina alone there are festivals, jamborees, garden tours, flower shows, the traditional Easter sunrise services and a host of other events that make this month good traveling for Firestone people. Spring flowers take the spotlight in April. The North Carolina mountains deck out in color from now into June. In the Piedmont, this, is peak month for flowers, with such showplaces as Sara B. Duke Gardens at Durham and Coker Arboretum at Chapel Hill outstanding examples. If you travel west as far as Knoxville, Tenn., there is a treat in store for you at the second annual Dogwood Arts Festival, April 22-29. Activ ities, entertainment and tours of three outstand ing historical attractions are on the program. The festival is held when the city is most beautiful with dogwood bloom. Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree April is a good month for surf fishing on North Carolina’s coast, from the Outer Banks to beaches as far down as Southport. Recent storms in the coastal area did not delay April openings of fishing piers and most resort facilities. The Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree will launch the 1962 vacation season April 26-29, in the Hat- teras, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head and Manteo vicin ity. Staged each spring since 1955, this colorful celebration features a lively program of contests, pony races, fishfries and a pirates ball. The pro gram this year will include the Lindsey Warre^ Bridge celebration. Since its opening to the public, the USS Nortl^ Carolina at Wilmington has attracted more tha^ 70,000 visitors. A project to renovate the ship; superstructure and topside will be complete'’ by April 9, 21st anniversary of her commission' ing, and dedication day for the battleship seum. The memorial, which has its own po^ office, is open every day from 8 A.M. until dafl^ Easter Sunrise Services Easter in North Carolina is observed with su^' rise services from coast to mountains. Amoi^^ the nation’s oldest and best-known is the Mor^' vian service at Winston-Salem, held each ye^ since 1772. Among other traditional sunrise services April 22: Way ah Bald near Franklin; Dani^^ Boone Theatre, Boone; Hatteras Lighthouse Hatteras; Fields of the Wood near MurpM Mountainside Theatre at Cherokee; City Auf^' torium, Asheville. A brief rundown of other outstanding travel^* events in North Carolina: Homes and gard^^^ tour, Southern Pines, April 11; spring drai^‘ festival, Chapel Hill, 11-14; 14th annual MoUJ’ tain Youth Jamboree, Asheville, 11-14; 38th nual old-time fiddlers convention, Union GroV^ 21; fine arts festival, Charlotte, 22-30; arts tival, Greenville, 30-May 3. Hampton Fisheries Museum at Morehead is open from April 1 through September. ^ Cherokee, the Museum of the Cherokee Indi^^ is open from April 1 through October. April, 1962 Page 2 Volume XI Number 5 ix Published by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Firestone Textiles Division, Gastonia, North Carolina. Claude C. Callaway, Editor 0 South Atlantic Council of Indus trial Editors PLANT REPORTERS Carding—Payton Lewis Cloth Room—Margie Waldrep Industrial Relations—Flora Pence Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Department—Rosie Fran- cum Quality Control — Sallie Crawford, Louella Queen, Leila Rape Twisting (cotton)—Elmina Bradshaw Twisting (synthetics)—Vera Carswell, Elease Cole, Annie Cosey, Katie Elkins, Catherine Fletcher Warehouse—Nancy Cloninger, Harold Robinson, Israel Good, Rosevelt Rainey Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch Weaving (synthetics)—Mary E. John son, Irene O'Dell, Mayzelle Lewis, Ophelia Wallace Winding—Nell Bolick, Ruth Cloninger A at has to be sold for what { will do, and no amoU^’ of enthusiasm in sales force will make for bad manufacturing' —Harvey S. Firest®^. in MEN AND RUBB^' L
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