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Hull Senior Member of ASQC A FIRESTONE TIRE BUILDER compares an uncured con ventional passenger tire (left) in the familiar barrel shape, with an uncured radial-ply passenger tire (right). At this stage, both tires are ready to be placed in curing molds. Longer tread life, quicker steering response and better cornering are features of tires built with radial plies. Our Share Of The Market From page 1 People are realizing that the economic health of the nation and its ability to provide more jobs for more people are de pendent on a level of profit that allows business to reinvest in its own future and encourages investors to risk their savings in expansions and improvements in business. Our company and its stock holders are constantly investing in development of new and im proved products and in improv ed processes to manufacture and distribute those products. The company needs the co operation of each employee in order to follow through on these investments and continue to be successful. The average Firestone man and woman may wonder how he or she can be most effective in the company’s program of in creasing sales and profits to meet increasing competition. Here are a few things we can do to help strengthen the com pany: ® Be enthusiastic about the company and its products. Take every opportunity to promote Mrs. Kendrick A Former Teacher Memorial service was held Jan. 1 for Mrs. Charlotte Long Kendrick at First Presbyterian Church, then interment in Hollywood Cemetery. Her hus band, James L. Kendrick, was Gastonia city clerk for 20 years. Mrs. Kendrick, a schoolteach er for 20 years, was a leader in First Presbyterian Church and a past Worthy Matron of Order Firestone with family, friends and other potential customers. • Learn about the company and its products. Talk about what appears in the plant paper and other company literature, but keep the company’s secrets until official announcements are made. • Do the best possible job and avoid waste. • Seize opportunities for ex tra education and job training offered by the company and by schools and other organizations in your area. • Cooperate with fellow em ployees to the fullest possible extent. We may be competing with other employees and that’s healthy, but all are working for the company. • Don’t hide ideas for im provements. Submit them through the suggestion system. The idea may not win a large award if accepted, but even a small award gives satisfaction to the suggestor. Or, if the idea does not lend itself to the sug gestion system, tell your super visor anyway, because it could help the company. of Eastern Star. Surviving besides her hus band are a stepdaughter, Miss Martha Kendrick who works at Firestone; stepsons Leonard Kendrick of Gastonia and James Kendrick Jr. of Charlotte; step daughter Mrs. James Moser of Gastonia; brother Ed S. Long of Hickory; sisters Mrs. Violet Reynolds and Mrs. G. G. Lael of Newton, Mrs. Madge Silvey of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Sadie Rus sell of Rock Hill, S. C.; 11 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. Robert B. Hull, manager of quality control at the Firestone Gastonia plant, has been ad vanced to Senior Member of the American Society for Quality Control. His election was on the basis of outstanding accomplish ments as a manager in quality control. Dr. Harold L. Crutcher, chair man of the Piedmont section of ASQC, cited Mr. Hull for “his progressive accomplishments and continuing leadership in in dustrial quality control.” ASQC, founded in 1946, is the national professional organiza tion of quality control engineers and managers. It has more than 12,000 members and over 120 local groups. Textiles is one of seven of its major divisions. "ASSURANCE of quality in products is a necessity in our advancing economy,” said Dr. Crutcher. “People producing goods who keep the best con trols toward the goal of ‘zero’ defects are helping to guaran tee themselves and their fellow workers the production leader ship in whatever field they may be employed. “The advancing technology of our day demands more and more our striving for perfection in goods and services for the market.” Rapid growth of quality con trol measurements, he said, has been in keeping with manage ment’s efforts to produce the best and do it economically so the customer can have the most for his money. He added; “This has led to development of more subsections of the ASQC. A subsection is being formed in the Charlotte-Rock Hill area, and anyone interested in participating may have de tails from Mr. Hull.” In a managerial quality con trol job from the time he came here in 1953, Mr. Hull has been a member of ASQC since 1954. I Roller Shop Man Retired Club Won $25 Variety Garden Club of Fire stone has won a $25 cash award for the Oriental garden its mem bers developed at First Union National Bank’s branch location in front of the Firestone plant. Presentation came at the first annual Beautification Awards Luncheon for Gastonia in Janu ary. The honor was provided through the Home and Neigh borhood Development Sponsors program which has been con ducted nationally for several years. Sponsor is Sears, Roebuck & Company. Variety Club, a member of the local garden council, was among those invited to partici pate in the HANDS program last year. Seven clubs entered the competition and developed proj ect's which were appraised by the sponsor from March through November of last year. The Variety Club Oriental garden project is landscaped and planted on a 2x30-foot strip of earth framed by the bank park ing area and the street walk along Franklin Avenue. Layout follows Oriental tradition, with three developing sections— mountains, plains and coast. The garden is planted in an nual and perennial flowers, ground-covering plants, herbs, flowering shrubs and a conifer. Interest point is the traditional stone lantern. UF Award From Page 1 vision 140 beyond its campaign goal. At the awards meeting. Fire stone production manager F. B. Galligaii was commended for his service as general chairman of the drive which put the Gas tonia United Fund collection be yond its goal—to more than a quarter-million dollars. Mr. Galligan was elected first vice president of the 1965 Unit ed Fund. Besides Mr. Galligan and Mr. “Just going to do nothing,’ said Paul Walker to someone’s question the day his fellow workers honored him at a luncheon upon his retirement in January. But the man who had been foreman of the roller shop here since 1929 was too well condi tioned to work to “quit all of a sudden.” Then he knew that quitting altogether wouldn’t b® advisable anyway. Before the month was over, he was sharp ening up on his checker-playing and planning some fishing trips and travel schedules. Walker put in almost 30 years with Firestone, but his employ' ment at this location goes back seven years beyond that. came from his native Lowell, by way of Belmont, to Gastonia and the work here in 1927. His entire stay was in the roller shop, ex pediting the covering and re pair of rollers for carding, spin* ning, twisting and weaving op' erations. When he retired he left the job in charge of Charles Ham rick, who had worked with Wal' ker for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have a son, Dariel, who works here jn nylon treating; and a daughter, Mrs. Martha Brown of La Mesa, Calif. In late January, Mrs. Wa|' ker was getting ready to go visit the daughter, and Paul had plans of making Ihe trip latei, after adjustment to “this bein^ out of work.” Riley, others of Firestone man agement volunteering service jn the general campaign were J- Darwin, Samuel Crawford, L- McAbee, Ralph Johnson and Charles McArver. NEW ORLEANS ‘Nothing Like It’ There’s none other in the country like it and there never has been since it was founded in 1718 by Bienville, the French pioneer. This is the way city policeman Charles Heffner, Mrs. Heffner of Firestone’s preparation department, and son Van felt about New Orleans, returning from a visit in January. Von, a student at Ashley High School, count ed it his first trip to the Crescent City, but his father and mother had been before. This time the Heffners went and spent a week, ending with New Year’s Day and seeing LSU defeat Syra cuse U in the Sugar Bowl. Going down, they stopped overnight in Mem phis but hurried on to explore the interesting sights of New Orleans. They enjoyed the carnival spirit of the city at night and by day toured the famed Vieux Carre, patronized the coffeeshops and renowned restaurants and browsed in the shops and hidden patios around the Old French Market. “Down by 01’ Man River” they saw the great port of New Orleans in action, with its more than 175 wharves and terminals; caught the interna tional flavor of the docking and departing ships. They topped off the visit with a cruise on the River. The Heffners remind you that Mardi Gras in New Orleans begins March 9. The Heffners looking toward Place with its famed equestrian statue of Andr®'*^ Jackson. An itinerant photographer took this ture, backgrounded by St. Louis Cathedral, in 1794 and one of the most renowned religi®'^^ landmarks in America. Volume XIV February. 19G5 Number 2 Page 2 Published by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Firestone Textiles Division, Gastonia, North Carolina. Claude C. Callaway, Editor South Allantic Council of Indus trial Editors PLANT REPORTERS Carding—Paylon Lewis Main Office—Bea McCarter Mechanical Department—Rosie Fran- cum Quality Control — Sallie Crawford, Louella Queen, Leila Rape Warp Preparation—Elmina Bradshaw, Vera Carswell, Elease Cole, Annie Cosey, Katie Elkins, Catherine Fletcher Warehouse—Harold Robinson, Israel Good, Rosevelt Rainey V/eaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch Weaving (synthetics)—Irene O'Dell, Mayzelle Lewis Winding—Nell Bolick, Ruth Cloninger W. C. Handy, the great can blues composer, had '' figured out this way: "It's blowing a trumpet; you go* blow something into it to 9 something out of it."
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