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Hathaway: Communicate Well And Change Future cord materials whicn will measure up to speed-and-endurance de mands for tires may be im proved forms of what are already in use, polyesters or oiher materials not yet ex plored, predicted Firestone president Earl B. Hathaway. “One of these days you may be even riding along on air encased in rubber - coated glass - fiber cords,” he said, speaking to dele gates at the Private Truck Council of America convention in Cleveland. He spoke of tires and com munications: “Our future progress depends upon our communicating with each other on every level—in selling and buying tires, in mar keting any product, in learning to live together in peace . . . The successful businessmen of the future will be those who have learned to communicate and to move with the sweeping changes that are taking place in indus try,” he added. “Good communicating is the transmission of iaeas and the mutual understanding that re sults.” Then the president went on to talk about changing de mands on truck tires ana how the tire industry has met tire needs in the new era of motor transportation. Some of his ob servations: • Trucks are traveling fast er and for longer distances with out stopping. Legal speeds will be increased in the future. Truck designers are looking to a 600-mile non-stop trip before long and they are also talking of horsepower twice as high as that of trucks today. To meet these challenges to the tire industry, he predicted an increasing use of wide, single tires in place of duals. Of the rubber in tire products today, 75 per cent is synthetic and the percentage is on the rise. Re search is leading to improved synthetics at the same time as natural tree rubber types con tinue to improve. On Film: Story Of Arfons Triumph “Challenge,” a new 26-minute Firestone motion picture, tells the story of Art Arfons and his capture of the world land-speed record at the Bonneville, Utah, salt flats last fall. The 16-mm color film portrays the drama of how Arfons in his homemade jet-powered “Green Monster” auto, set the world land-speed record of 536.71 mph to become the ‘fastest man on wheels’. Prints of the film may be booked for Gastonia-area showing through Association Films of Oakmont, Pa. The plant industrial relations office here has additional infor mation on “Challenge”. • Through the years, the tire industry has been research ing and testing to build in max imum safety, increase cord strength, improve cord body, and design safer treads. 9 The rubber industry is dedicated to building safe tires for today’s automobiles and trucks. He called for continued cooperation between the truck ing and tire industries, and added: “Together we have solved the majority of truckers’ and motorists’ problems and have produced tires to meet new demands. This working to gether has shown the real value of marketing through communi cations.” MTS Man On Regional AIIE Board Luther Brown of methods and time study service has been add ed to the six-member board of directors, Southern Piedmont Chapter of the American Insti tute of Industrial Engineers. Chosen at the group’s spring meeting, he will serve for the 1965-66 term. The Southern Piedmont Chap ter of AIIE, with its 65 members, is currently planning a regional conference for the Charlotte area. AIIE’s 16th annual national conference in Chicago May 13- 15 has as its theme “An Era of Changing Concepts.” May Comes With Her Basketful Of Jewels Funfests, sports events, trail rides, horse and dog shows, folk festivals, fishing tournaments. These are but a ‘drop in the bucket’ on the events calendar hereabouts this month. What’s more, they’re samplings in North Carolina alone, not counting other states of the South and points beyond. Speaking of ‘yonder’, if your travels include distant states, the recreation department reminds you that the New York World’s Fair has opened for its second spring-to-fall run. The fair has been revised so as to promise even more exciting ex hibits and entertainment. Down home in North Carolina there’s a variety of things going on this month, along with the seasonal spectacular sightseeing all the way from the coast to the mountains—where the wildflower parade begins to climb to higher altitudes. RECREATION TRAVEL NOTES Fontana And Two Festivals • Fontana, famed alpine resort in the Smokies, has its spring folk festival May 15, and the spring square-dance funfest, 22-30. On Lake Norman, and only a few minutes from Gastonia, the annual sailing regatta of the Lake Norman Yacht Club is May 8-9. At least three main calendar entries for fishermen are May events: Trout streams open in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park May 16 (to Aug. 31); the international blue-marlin tournament at Hat- teras. May 31-June 5; and the spring fishing con test at Edenton, May 31-July 4. Love Valley And Horses • Iredell county’s renowned community with an Old-West flavor offers one of its first of many attractions for the season, the Western horse show. May 29-30. A sampling of other sports events over the state this month: NASCAR auto race at Hickory, 16; New Hanover dog show, Wilmington, 22; Sand hills skeet championships at Pinehurst, 22-23; World 600 late-model auto race, Charlotte, 23; NASCAR auto race at Asheville, 28 (also at Harris, 30th). Also for the calendar: Sidewalk art show, Ra leigh, 14-16; Eastern Carolina singing convention, Wilson, 23. 'Bus Stop' Season Opener • Summer theatre and outdoor drama season is usually underway by June, but a new group, the Brandywine Play ers, starts its season May 20 with “Bus Stop”. They will entertain you in their barn playhouse in the shadow of Mount Pisgah at Candler. The season will offer eight shows, each to run Thurs days through Sundays for two weeks. The sand-surf-sun season means exciting recre ation on the Carolinas coast—and outdoor recre ation is in full swing across the two states. Moun tains, lighthouses, shipwrecks and historic forti fications; golf, riding, hiking, water skiing, boat ing, swimming and fishing are all beckoning. Wilderness areas and state and national forests and parks are open too. Over 400 roadside picnic areas are waiting in North Carolina alone. Camp ing areas, travelers’ accommodations, and the famed Blue Ridge Parkway are getting back into business this season. Well . . . Go! Have fun, be careful, get home safely. A Eula Wilson Payroll Troy C. Jones Shop R. L. Tompkins Claude R. Taylor Purchasing Twisling (syn) W. O. Stephenson Fred T, Morrow Willie B. Ward Payton Lewis Twisting (syn) Warehouse Quality Control Carding m ■iSJ Luther Thompson Warehouse W. A. Johnson Spinning R. H. Wright Nylon Treating George T. Dill Weaving (Cotton) The First 30-Year Group There was a party—complete with an anniversary cake and the other trimmings—for the plant’s first group of pef' sons reaching the 30-year employnent record last month- Along with the merriment, the 12 honored ones who came to work here in April of 1935 did some nostalgic “remembering back when , . Fred Morrow, and R. L. Tomp' kins. The others were on their jobs within a few days after that historic date. While these persons were ing their service anniversaries) 14 others joined them in Apr^^ with work records of 10, 15 20 years: Twenty Years Roger Stringfellow, twisting (synthetics); Johnnie Byr^’ weaving (cotton). Fifteen Years Emma A. Moore, Edna Passmore, Edward A. Crisp, Arvel J. Greene, twisting (syO' thetics); Ollie G. McDonald Lona L. Taylor, weaving (syO' thetics); Rubye G. McAllistei’i cloth room; Jerry Howie Roy M. Chastain, shop; Thornas J. Ross, warehouse. Ten Years Sammy O. Bunton and Bessi® Hardin, twisting (synthetics). Twenty-year employees ^6' ceived the commemorative go’ watch along with their servic® pin. Others were presented the service pin. At the anniversary get-togeth er in the plant conference room, general manager Harold Mercer had a special word of congratu lation • for each- of the “long- timers,” as he presented service lapel pins and company “com memorative gifts” of $100 each. Of the dozen who marked the score-and-10 years anniversary, four of them had come to work here on the very first day the plant started production under Firestone ownership, April 2, 1935: Troy Jones, Eula Wilson, Firestone Folks Helped Y Drive To Success When the Gaston YMCA closed its membership drive in mid-April with more than 2,000 members added to its rolls, a number of Firestone volunteer recruiters were counted among those who helped out in the suc cessful campaign. Including the 2,116 signed up during the March-April drive, the Y has more than 4,500 mem bers, making it one of the largest Independent YMCAs in North Carolina. It was the first time that over 2,000 memberships were recruited in one drive. Ralph Johnson, manager of employee relations here, as a “general” in the campaign setup, accounted for 1,016 members added by his workers. His was one of two “armies” for the cam paign. C. P. McArver of main offi^® was one of the leading “corfi' mandos” in the recruiting ganization. Others here who worked the recruiting effort were L- McAbee, J. G. Tino, Jr., P- Williams, Carl Guffey. Freddi® Elkins, Jimmie Lou Hartgro'^®’ Ann Hubbard, Inez Rhyne, JesS® Liles, Cramer Little and Al'^^'^ Riley. Volume XIV Number 6 May, 1965 Page 2 Claude C. Callaway, Editor 9 South Atlantic Council of Indus trial Editors Published by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Firestone Textiles Division, Gastonia, North Carolina. ☆ ☆ ☆ PLANT REPORTERS Carding—Payton 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 Weaving (cotton)—Ruth Veitch Weaving (synthetics)—Irene O'Dell, Mayzelle Lewis Winding—Nell Bolick, Ruth Cloninger Think On This . • * Cousin Eva Mae said to Sunday-school class: "Woul^*^ it be nice if we could find oti^ , ■ nO things fault?" as easily as we fitJC
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