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Your Symbol
VOLUME XIII-NUMBER 2 W * * W
of Quality
FEBRUARV .1964 g ^ g
and Service
Sw^-^s
the big pull
[N tire cord *
This demonstration shows
strength of tire cord in Fire
stone’s four-ply rated two-
ply tire. Cords supporting
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nearly two tons represent
less than one-tenth of the
cords in a popular-size pas
senger tire. All the cords
built into a 7.50-14 tire would
support the total weight of
nine such cars.
In demonstration, 100
strands of improved tire cord
in front and 100 strands in
rear hold up car and cradle
structure. Steel tubes of the
cradle sagged when cords
lifted the auto.
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Making It Stout
In Gastonia
In quality control lab, Evelyn
Mayfield checks strength on pro
duction samples of rayon cord
such as was used in weight ex
periment at Akron (above pho
to). Maximum strength of sam
ples are recorded on paper roll
in left unit of Instron Tester.
l^^'Gsident Leader
Bond Sales
C president Raymond
^ ivi was recently named
p. of the U.S. Industrial
Savings Committee for
Savings Bonds and chair-
Rubber Industry Di-
T
^ 28-member committee
®sents major industries in
the United States. It has outlined
a program to help achieve the
1964 goal of one million new
participants in the payroll-sav-
ings plan of U.S. Savings Bonds
purchase.
“Through the years the rubber
companies have maintained an
excellent record in the Savings
Bonds program,’' said Mr. Fire
stone. “It is my hope that past
performance will be exceeded
during the 1964 campaign.”
^tanus Shots At First Aid
on a nail in the back yard or ram a dirty splinter
your fingernail, and you run the risk of tetanus, or
^^surance against this infectious disease is tetanus-toxoid
yours free at the plant First Aid.
Sch .^^^‘^ulation program began here in mid-January, as
by plant medical director S. H. Adams M.D.
those who had the inoculation during the program
^(^0 years ago. Dr. Adams urges the booster shot.
There are certain types of both on-job and off-job in-
"^here tetanus might result and in such cases, im-
^ations would be beneficial,” says Dr. Adams,
thr- First Aid and see the nurse on duty on any of the
work shifts.
Mack Member
Of Safety Board
Raymond Mack, manager of
safety at the Gastonia plant, was
elected to the board of directors
of the Blue Ridge Safety Coun
cil at the organization’s quarter
ly meeting at Marion, Jan. 16.
Those attending the program
at Marion High School heard a
talk by John Love, director of
general services of American
Thread Co., New York. Welcome
address was by Charles Elledge,
principal of Marion Senior High
School, and who plays the par
son role in “Horn in the West”
outdoor drama during summers.
H. S. Baucom, safety director
of the North Carolina Industrial
Commission, presented special
awards.
The Blue Ridge Safety Council
is one of eight regional groups
sponsored by the NC Industrial
Commission to promote safety
education, with emphasis on in
jury control in industry.
Plant Has Fifth
Citizenship Citation
FROM
UNITED FUND
The Gastonia plant in January received its fifth yearly
“outstanding citizenship” citation, in recognition of em-
ployee-company participation in the Greater Gastonia Unit
ed Fund financial appeal.
Firestone Textiles was among
the 27 industries and businesses
honored by United Fund Offi
cials. Recognition for exceptional
giving brought plaque awards,
presented at the annual UF din
ner in First Methodist Church
fellowship hall.
The plant’s first UF citizen
ship award was represented by
a silver-embossed plaque, with
successive shingles added to it
for the past three years.
Tha fifth-year award is a sil
ver-embossed plaque, to which
also can be added shingles in
future years.
Standards for the award are
that a firm with 15 or more em
ployees have a payroll system
for UF contributions, that 80
per cent of employees contribute
—with this giving averaging at
least $10 per person.
Firestone Textiles’ per-person
contribution was $13.81 in last
fall’s UF appeal. The record total
gift of $17,813.38 put the figure
at the largest employee gift in
the financial campaign.
At the meeting. Firestone pro
duction manager F. B. Galligan
was elected second vice presi
dent of the Greater Gastonia
United Fund. Thomas Craig
Watson was named president;
and Albert R. Rankin, first vice
president.
Brotherhood Week Set In February
Firestone people will join with
the nation in this year's observ
ance of Brotherhood Week, Feb.
16-22. Emphasizing that
“brotherhood is democracy at
work,” the programs will involve
some 10,000 communities.
Activities and special pro
grams point to the great ideals
upon which American democracy
was built and to which our great
religions subscribe.
Brotherhood Week in 1964 will
be the 31st annual observance,
sponsored through the years by
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews. NCCJ op
erates a continuing program cen
tered in education on brother
hood principles.
The annual Brotherhood Week
is intended to call particular at
tention to putting brotherhood
ideals into practice in our de
mocracy.
Highlight of the week’s ob
servance here will be the an
nual meeting of the Gaston
County chapter. National Con
ference of Christians & Jews,
Feb. 19 at Gaston Country Club
at 7 p.m.
An award will be made to a
Gastonia man to be honored for
outstanding work in the field of
brotherhood.
Brooks Hays, special assistant
to the President of the United
States, will address the meeting.
Conversation overheard in city
elevator equipped with music
system: “Come on, Charlie, this
is our floor.” “Nah, I’ll stay on
for a while—I like this tune.”
Firestone people and others of the
plant community will have the
privilege of “making a gift from the
heart” when the Red Cross blood-
mobile comes to Firestone Recrea
tion Center Feb. 11. Hours: 11:00
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
This will be the first of two stops
of the bloodmobile at Firestone in
1964.
BLOODMOBILE
COMING
THIS
MONTH
FREE
ENTERPRISE
A Way Of Living
FREE ENTERPRISE has
nothing to do with politics,
wealth, business, nor class.
It is a way of living in which
you and I, as individuals, are
important. Many little things
make up this way of life, but
think what we would lose if
we ever surrender it!
Free Enterprise is the right
to open a gas station, or a
grocery store, or to buy a
farm, if you want to be your
own boss—or to change your
job if you don’t like the man
you are working for.
Free Enterprise is the right
to lock your door at night.
It is the right to argue.
. . . The right to save
money if you wish, or blow it
all on a good time if that is
what you want to do.
It is looking on a police
man as someone to protect
you; a judge as a friend to
help you.
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