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Emphasis
A safety report this fall from United States and Canadi
an Firestone plants shows your chances of being the victim
of injury are far greater off the job than at work. That’s the
year-after-year reason that as December comes, Firestone
plants in the U.S. and Canada make a special effort to alert
employees to off-job dangers and suggest ways toward safe
ty awareness beyond the factory gate,
“The fact that the latest off- into trouble on their own two
feet than did in automobiles.
Footnote to the report: It all
adds up to carelessness! All the
more reason to Take Safety With
You. Practice It. Teach It To
Members Of Your Family.
Mr. Mack pointed out that the
84 off-job injuries cited cost
well over $20,000 along with the
suffering, absenteeism and other
losses to the company, those in
jured and members of their
families.
“We have a sound reason for
the special off-job safety effort
we program twice a year—in
May and December,” added Mr.
Mack. “Not that the in-between
time is neglected and that you
shouldn’t think and practice
safety wherever you are — but
May and December are loaded
with potential danger. Within or
near these two months are five
major holidays, all of which take
heavy toll in injury and death—
and most of them happening at
home, at play, on the highways
or other places away from the
job.”
job report shows some improve
ment in injury control among
employees, indicates that our
safety program at work is high
ly successful and that it is carry
ing over to our people off the
job,” said safety supervisor Ray
mond Mack.
THE REPORT, covering all
Firestone plants and offices in
the U.S. and Canada, showed 11
on-job injuries compared with
84 as happening away from
work.
Home is still the most danger
ous place you can be, with the
automobile running second, the
report showed.
Other figures indicated that
you are most likely to be in
jured in a fall—largest single
cause of all off-job mishaps.
Consequently, more people got
Yule Parties
December 14
GOOD NEWS — SANTA’S
COMING! And children of Fire
stone households are invited to
the 24th annual pre-Christmas
parties and gifts-giving.
Yule parties will go according
to custom - set schedule — this
year on Dec. 14. Programs are
for children through 13 years of
age who are members of em
ployee households.
Parties will be staged in three
“shifts”. At the Webb Theatre
downtown performances will be
gin at 9 and 11 a.m. The other
one will begin at 10 a.m. in
Highland Elementary School
auditorium.
At all programs Santa’s ap
pearance with gifts will follow a
session of entertainment—movie
cartoons, short - length comedy
and other features.
Arrangements are in charge
of the industrial relations de
partment, with the mechanical
department helping out with
decorations and distribution of
gifts.
U. S. Savings Bonds
Everybody Knows A Bargain
As of mid-November, every person on the Gastonia
plant payroll was purchasing U.S. Savings Bonds through
payroll deduction. This record 100 per cent participation was
established by early July, following a company-wide Free
dom Bond Drive.
—Photos Israel Governmenl Tourist Office.
MORNING IN NAZARETH, ISRAEL • A rider and donkey
link presenl with ancient past in front of the Church of Annuncia
tion. At Nazareth in the hills of Galilee are narrow, winding cobble
stone streets where Jesus Himself walked. Here are quaint stall-
shops and bazaars where women with earthen jars poised on their
heads, recall the days of 2,000 years ago. Nazareth, residence of
Joseph and Mary, was also childhood home of Jesus. It is some 85
miles north of Bethlehem, birthplace of the Christ Child.
MT. ZION IN JERUSALEM • Inspiring in beauty, serenity
and spirit, Jerusalem has drawn pilgrims and tourists to her gates
since ancient times. Here are pathways of prophets and kings and
the lingering spirit of Jesus, where His earthly ministry was climax
ed. Mt. Zion is site of King David's Tomb, Room of the Last Supper,
and Church of Dormition (left).
The promotion in Firestone
plants in the United States was
part of the Treasury Depart
ment’s Freedom Bond Cam
paign in June.
At the Gastonia plant in late
May, Bonds purchase was 88.6
per cent. At the end of the spe
cial promotion all employees
were participating in the pro
gram.
Achievement in the Freedom
Bond Drive earned for the com
pany a Treasury Minute Man
Don’t allow your child’s curi
osity to cost him injury—even
death. Keep medicines, poisons,
dangerous tools and other ob
jects out of his reach.
Flag and a citation from the U.S.
Treasury Department. Receiving
the honor for the company in
November was president Ray
mond C. Firestone.
A TOTAL of 6,245 Firestone
employees in U.S. plants signed
up as new subscribers for Sav
ings Bonds in early summer. It
was the highest number of new
subscribers in the entire rubber
industry.
Making the presentation to
Mr. Firestone were Merrill Pred-
more, state director of Savings
Bond Divisions for Ohio; and
Keith Williams, national sales
representative for the Bonds
drive in the rubber industry.