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May Is Off-The-Joh Safety Month - for greatest toll of injuries and fatalities e% The “sun-and-fun” season is no time for getting physically injured anywhere — on the job, or while pursuing recreation and leisure at home or elsewhere. Because there are many added hazards during the sunny months, Firestone plants in the United States and Canada observe May each year as Off-Job Safety Month, Since it is the beginning of the outdoor season in most locations, May is an appropriate time to stress the importance of safety throughout the upcoming months of outdoor activities. Fishing, swimming, boating, do-it-yourself pursuits, and traveling are associated with the greatest toll of injuries and fatalities every sum mer. Highligthting the May program every year is the traditional motor-vehicle safety check op erated at Frestone plants in states where the law does not require auto safety inspection. Schedule For Gastonia Dates for operaiion of safeiy-check lanes al the Gastonia plant are May 21-25. As in past years, lanes will be set up in the employee park ing area off Firestone boulevard, in front of the mill. Daily hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no time out at noon. —More on page 2 adventure calls • The Cherokee Indian called it The Great Blue Sha- cona-gas. Today it’s known ss the Great Smoky Moun- tains, and it’s the place where people in North ^naerica visit most—just for " - 1 w lie- Pholo: NC Dept. Conservalion & Development . XV"7 1 19 * one above, of mountains that Firestone At W orld s r air helped the Cherokees barn- , _ ^ MONORAIL syst cade white men from their ■ . nf f. Hunting Ground for over 200 years Sha-cona-gas means “Smokies”, a blue haze rising wnere n ^ ^ from the valleys to enshroud ^ttnerica — the peaks. The enchantment ^he sheer iov and excitement of this wild roio?- looking lis- region is yours for a short the Nature C ^ taking cirive from Camp Firestone near Marion. Many employ- fhp, company-op- ^JL JLV/*. THE MONORAIL system con sists of two trains of four cars each, riding on three-foot wide concrete beams 25 feet above Seattle streets. The train grips the track from the sides with six laterally-mounted guide wheels, in addition to the Duplex tires on the drive wheels. Nature Cure. The crowning area of the Smokies has been confined within a national park ^iles long, east and west, overlapping North Carolina &nd Tennessee. The Park is near Marion, ivianj ees make the company-op erated retreat on Lake James a “shoving-off place” for sight-seeing tours in a five- state mountain empire of the Appalachian South. Camp is open fro Firestone has a part in the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair which opened a six-month run April 21. The Monorail which speeds visitors from downtown Seattle to the Century 21 Exposition has Firestone tires. Built in Germany, the Mono rail is the first high-speed and full-size train of its kind in the United States. Firestone’s Akron, tires, axiu — Ohio factories built the Duplex are on guide wheels, and industrial tires on which the Muiiorail makes its almost- — ■ - . silent ride. Even at speeds of 60 mph, the train has no resemblance to the noisy, old elevated railways of New York and Chicago. 1 the drive wuccxo. Each unit drives on 16 Duplex tires, and 48 Rib Industrial tires mrV\pf>ls, The Duplex is the wide tire Firestone introduced last year to replace the dual tires on com mercial trucks. The type used on the Monorail has a plain flat tread with straight grooves. Trains operate on two parallel rails. Since there are no loops at the terminals, each train re mains on its own line and shut tles back and forth with a driver at each end of the car. Seattle’s system is regarded as the first practical test of the —More on page 4 and iNoitu 19 Park is Appalachian t>outJn, ^ breatVif^i^^^^’ ^r^compassing Firestone is open from early staking scenes like the May through mid-October. irs iM M.y - Rvinos I5th Award 1961 Safety Performance B g ^ people at the received the . highll reached a year. on an „ at^ce perform- PRESENTATION was made at Tj- on the job durinp- IQfil , , ^ plant amassed 2,404^,286 man- pL?'^?S''ition of th§ the ^he annual Chamber of Com- h^urs with only one injury tha received a on ^^^^Ited in lost-time. 7Ward nrAocv,+ j • • P meeting in Masonic Temple in ^ North P ^ 1 • by late April. The Firestone honor, Each spring the Gastoni ^ent of ^ Depart- presented by North Carolina Chamber of Commerce has the ed Stat Labor Corn.rnission.0r F i* h n Ic SnfGty Awsi*d.s ciin.n0r m.G0tin^ of Cr8.n0j is in tho fonn of s 15- congratulstG snd rocognizc year engraved bar to be added ^he county s business and indus- to the ladder of bars on a 10- their safety achieve- year plaque. ments. The North Carolina De- ’ »>,oVp(5 sep. Commissioner Crane reviewed the record—that the plant here vear The citation is the 15th honor which the plant has won in con secutive years try for their safety achieve ments. The North Carolina De partment of Labor makes sep arate safety awards to organi zations employing up to 50 per sons. Establishments with more than 50 employees get joint secutive years. the record that pmnloyees had won a disti Depart- than 50 Carolina For its outstanding program of gince the ^^^^®„^ards program awards from the accident control last year, Fire- ^ent set up its awara Department of of stone earned its way to the top nn the United a Gaston county industries. Firestone rate Labor. _ Gaston county industries. Only 3 other units of industries business in North Carolina Firestone qualified on the basis of its low frequency rate Cooper Writes For Methods Manual . School of James M. Cooper, methods- standards engineer at Firestone Gastonia, is among the 27 contributors to “Industrial Engi- ^^ering Manual for the Textile ^dustry,” just issued by Textile ook Publishers, a division of ®hn Wiley & Sons, Inc. Mr. Cooper authored three of book’s 20 chapters. The work edited by Norbert Lloyd ’^^ick of the University of Vir ginia Graduate School of Busi ness Administration for the sponsor, Southern Textile Methods and Standards Associa tion. The 216-page manual is de scribed as “a study, reference and training aid for people in standards and methods work, on principles and practices of time- study applications, with special consideration of problems of continuous processing and ma- chine-operator cycles as en countered in textile mills.'’ Mr. Cooper is immediate past president of the manual’s spon sor, Southern Textile Methods and Standards Association. He is now a member of its board of directors. Another Firestone man, Thom as A. Grant, contributed a chap ter to a similar volume, “Time Study Manual for the Textile Industry”, published in 1960, Mr, Grant is current treasurer of STMSA. Variety Club s ‘Cheer’ Project Robinson and Mrs. Fogle are retired Firestone employees. The company - sponsored Variety Club has had a garden-therapy program for several years. This season it «.o nrniects for the JlXV/v-'Ji. - «r Mrs, Emma Sherrill (left) several years, rnis at 216 South Liberty street includes projects for the dresses up her porch garden physically handicapped and with cuttings of coleus and oV,nt-in Dersons at home, other plants. Providing the cuttings and potting soil and helping out with the work are Mrs. Nell Robinson (cen ter), chairman of the Variety Garden Culb of Firestone’s garden-therapy project; and Mrs, Marie Fogle, another club member. Both Mrs. physically handicappeu diiVA. for shut-in persons at home, in hospitals and rest homes. The Club sponsored an egg hunt and prepared flower cuttings for pupils of the Gaston County Center for Handicapped Children in late April. Mrs. Henry Chastain of Weaving (cotton) is presi dent of Variety Garden Club.
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