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SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS • Brenda High (left) and Jane Bagwell with general manager Harold Mercer, who presented their Firestone Scholarship awards. Scholarships, Certificates To Area Students “It is. a compliment to the first graduating class of Hunter Huss High School, having two members receiv ing Firestone College Scho larships,” said plant general manager Harold Mercer, at a Holiday Inn luncheon in May. He presented a Scholarship Certificate to Erna Jane Bagwell and Brenda Louise High, and a Certificate of Merit and a $50 U.S. Savings Bond to five more area students. Jane and Brenda are among the 32 outstanding students across the nation to win edu- Scout Award From page 1 Glenn, Chuck Keller. Troop 10: Jimmy Scarborough, Keith Grindle. Troop 14: Michael Heavener, Terry Queen, James R. Kilby, Jr., Robert Black, Charles Nichols. Troop 21: Danny Rankin, Raymond Hack ney Jr., Wayne Sigmon, Wayne Morris. Troop 35: Lindy Sims, Steve Lutz, Jimmy Boyd Canipe, Lloyd Quinn. Troop 313: Clyde J. Whitlock HI, David Larry Spencer. OLNEY e Troop 30: James Edgar Robinson, David Miller. HARDIN o Troop 34: Mark Steven Robinson, Johnny Rhyne, George Lamar Rhyne, Roger Roginson, Ray Costner (1964 winner of the Harvey S. Fire stone Jr. Scouting Award.) BESSEMER CITY 9 Troop 37: James Lester Harmon, Don ald R. Carpenter, Jr., Richard James Kincaid, Steven Lackey, Alan Lindsay, Charles Weast, Ronald Burleson. MOUNT HOLLY • Troop 67: Jeffrey Howard Warren. MERIT WINNERS • From left: Randall Lovingood, Eliza beth Champion, Mr. Mercer, Sandra Huffstetler, Joyce Stiles and Reger Gaddis. ☆ ☆ ☆ cational help in Firestone’s 1965 Scholarship Awards Program. Winners, all high-school seniors and sons and daughters of Fire stone employees, will receive awards which could add up to as much as $192,000 for these students in their four years of college. The Gastonia-area students receiving Certificates of Merit and the U.S. Savings Bond are among 209 in the country to win this distinction. SINCE 1953 when the program began, 339 Firestone college scholarships have been awarded. During the school year just end ing, 102 scholarship students were attending 73 colleges and universities. Scholarship Winners Erna Jane Bagwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Bagwell of Gastonia, is a graduate of Hun ter Huss High School. She plans a major in chemistory at the University of North Carolina, for a career in chemistry and medicine. She has an impressive record in school, church and community endeavors. Her fath er is a supervisor in weaving (cotton). Brenda Louise High, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George High of Gastonia, also has an outstand ing student record. A graduate of Hunter Huss High School, she plans to major in education at Wake Forest College in prepara tion for a teaching career. Her father works in twisting (syn thetics). Certificate Of Merit Winners Elizabeth Ann Champion, graduate of Ashley High School, is the daughter of Mrs. Edna Champion of Gastonia. Her mother works in the cloth room. Roger Gaddis, a graduate of Ashley High School, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Gaddis of Gastonia. His father is in qual ity control. Sandra Faye Huffstetler, grad uate of Kings Mountain High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Huffstetler of Kings Mountain. Her mother is in weaving (synthetics). Randall R. Lovingood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lovingood, is a graduate of Hunter Huss High School. His father is supervisor in twisting (synthetics). Joyce Alania Stiles, graduate of Bessemer City High School, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Buster Stiles of Bessemer City. Her father works in weaving (synthetics). Nylon, Spandelle Use Increasing Use of nylon in apparel and carpeting w^ill increase 40 per cent in the next five years, predicts Roger S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Synthetics Fibers Company. Mr- Firestone, a member of the board of directors of the parent Firestone company, looks toward increase of nylon prO' duction to a billion pounds annually within the next few years. He sees a bright future for spandex, a synthetic fiber with stretch qualities, and envisions the industry will double its out put by 1970 to a possible 14 million pounds a year. Spandelle is the trade name for Firestone’s spandex. The Fires to ne Synthetics Fibers plant at Hopewell, Va. is preparing to boost production of nyloft carpeting yarn for the expanding market. The Hope- well plant also produces syn thetic yarns for tires, a large volume of which is processed into fabric at Gastonia. Most Hopewell production of fine-denier nylon goes to the tricot market. The plant will soon produce nylon for textur- izers and weavers. ON NEW CARS For A Bargain- Switch To Firestone Tires YOUR c .. SOCIAL Security © Why is it necessary for a woman to file a change-of-name card with the Social Security Administration when she gets married or otherwise changes her name? ® Because social security records must be accurate to pro vide proper payment of benefits to the right person, so identity of the person involved is most important. Each number is assigned to an individual. If an employer re ports a different name than the one to which a certain number has been assigned, the SSA automatically questions whether the right person is receiving credit for the earnings reported. For a change-of-name blank car.], inquire at the plant pay roll office or your local social security office (in Gastonia, the address is 1320 East Franklin Ave., telephone 864-5434.) With summer traveling in season, perhaps you will be buying a new car. So, this re minder to Firestone people: The company’s tire changeover policy will put top-quality tires on your car and save you money and worry besides. Long trips that many people take on vacations make it es pecially important to have as surance of riding on safe, de pendable Firestone tires. That brings up a buying tip: Specify Firestone tires when ordering your new car. Some times you may have difficulty getting this service from auto dealers. That’s why Firestone offers you an outstanding tire- changeover policy. Under this plan, any employee buying a new car which comes equipped with competitive tires may change to Firestone tires for a complete charge of $1 per tire, plus any applicable sales tax. Wheel balancing is free, including all necessary labor and balancing weights. The small charge is a special bargain, when you remember that most new cars are delivered- by dealers without balanced wheels. Often it is necessary have the wheels balanced latef^ at charges from $3.60 up, pl^®^ weights up to $6. With these facts in mind, will do well when buying your new car to have non-Firestone tires changed to Firestone tires not only to be equipped with your own company product, but also to get the wheel balancing which will assure top perfof' mance and longer mileage fron^ the tires. Under the Firestone pla^^ original-equipment, competitive tires showing less than 100 mil^S of wear will be replaced with Firestone Deluxe Champion tubeless tires. If you want ^ higher-priced Firestone tire, yo'^ can arrange it at the additional cost involved. Get tire-changeover forms from your department managei* or from the industrial relations office. “Every man bears the responsibility for Keeping keeping out of harm’s way. He owes it to himself, his family, his fellows and his job,” Out Of says the American Society of Safety Engi neers. The ASSE goes on: Harm^S man lives nor works alone. He is in volved w-th people, touched by their ac- Way complishments, marked by their failures. If he fails the person besMe him, he fails him self, and will share the burden of that loss. One horror of a physical injury is the reali zation that a person has failed himself—and more—that his fellows have fai’ed him. Injuries are conceived in improper atti tudes and born in moments of action without thought. They will cease only when the proper attitude ’s strong enough to go be fore the act—when the right attitude creates awareness which controls the act. Prevention of injury is an objective whic^ crosses all levels of rank, organization ano procedure. Freedom from physical harm not a privilege but a goal to be achieved and rraintained daily. Elimination of injury and pain is a moral obligation upon which the final measure our performance d'rectly depends. Published by The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Volume XIV Number 7 Firestone Textiles Division, June, 1965 Page 2 Gastonia, North Carolina. Claude C. Callaway, Editor O South Atlantic Council of Indus trial Editors ☆ 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 O "Some people regar*^ private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot," said Winston Churchill., "Others look private enterprise as a cow they can milk. Not enough peopl® see it as a healthy horse, pullii*^ a sturdy wagon."
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