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march • 1967 GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA Citizenship Award For the eighth consecutive year, Firestone Textiles has peen awarded the “Outstand ing Citizenship” recognition lor noteworthy contribution the Greater Gastonia United Fund. 'The plant was among 38 busi- and industrial firms, schools other institutions honored ^0^" UF participation—the cita- tions made at a recent annual Meeting of the United Fund. Ill the 1966 UF financial cam paign, Firestone’s contribution Eighth honor for United Fund Participation was a record $32,031.41, a major portion toward the $325,785 col lected. The averaged figure for Firestone giving was $30.60. THE EIGHTH “Citizenship Award” for Firestone is a silver- embossed strip added to the wall plaque which represents the fifth award received. The original plaque has attached to it strips through the fourth year of the awards. The most recent citation is the third strip attached to the second plaque. Naming of UF officers was a part of the 1967 annual meeting: Safety Quiz Paid $300 ^ow is your safety sense? our people representing all shifts at the plant an- ®^ered the question for J’^oriey^—$300 divided among thera. Safety manager Raymond Mack sometime ago came upon a “test your safety sense” draw ing put out by the Industrial Accident - Prevention Associa- tions of Ontario at Toronto. He wrote away for permission to distribute reproduced copies of the quiz here. The Canadian organization supplied Mr. Mack with an an swer key to the hazards depicted in the quiz, covering safety at Harold T. Sumner, president; Carl J. Stewart Jr., first vice president; K. A. Bowen, second vice president; John P. Fays- soux, treasurer. The first vice president, son of Firestone employees Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart Sr., is a Gastonia attorney serving in the current session of the NC House of Representatives. The chairman of the 1966 UF cam paign, he was this year appoint ed to a two-year term as a UF director. —more on page 4 J. V. Dar win, division general man- ager, pre sented check of $50 to Irene Bur roughs (cen ter) of weav ing (synthe tics); and to (from left) Jerry Spear man, shop. $50; Ethlene Nichols.- cloth room. $100; and Ed Atkins, sup ply, $100. home, at work, at play and on the highway. Winners in the competition here were selected on the basis of the number of unsafe acts and conditions they identified in the drawings. Originators of the quiz intend it to have car ryover lessons in safety: “As you recognize hazards in the pictures, learn to watch out for similar traps in your daily life”, it says. Visiting teachers examining a weaving opera tion (from left): E. W. Draughon, Lincoln High; Mrs. C. H. Allison, Ashley High School; Ruby Banks, Dallas High School; Carol Smith, Wray Junior High School; Mrs. C. B. Rowe, Arlington Junior High School. warp and woof Teachers Learned of Firestone and Textiles Firestone at Gastonia is the world’s largest tire-fabrics op eration under a single roof . . . The parent company is the world’s largest producer of rub ber and the second largest pro ducer of tires , , . Besides the 3,500 types and sizes of its tires, Firestone turns out more than 40,000 other prod ucts . . . These were samples of an swers to questions when 13 teachers from Gastonia-area high schools and junior high schools came with two men from the local Industrial Man agement Club for a Firestone visit. The trip here was part of an IMC educational tour last month. The visitors had a brief in troduction to Firestone history and a quick picture of the com pany’s international operations for production and distribution of its many diversified products sold around the world. Emphasis went to organiza tion. administration and opera tion for production of tire fab ric at the Gastonia plant and other units of the company's textile division. J. V. Darwin, .division gen eral manager, led answers to questions which visitors sub mitted for their conference- room meeting. Others present ing major phases of the opera tion here were Alvin Riley, in dustrial relations; Raymond Mack, safety; Ralph Johnson, employee relations; Samuel Crawford, personnel. Following the information- discussion session, some ui tVie teachers toured the plant for a look at tire-fabric production and materials-handling. Y Membership: A Bargain March-April each year is the season of expiring YMCA mem berships. Most people renew their membership; some, of course, do not. You’ll have a bargain for yourself when you either join for the first time, or renew. You can make it a good deal for members of your family also. Check the Y at 615 W. Frank lin Ave., or telephone 865-8551. The Gaston YMCA strives to serve the most people its facili ties and program will allow, and to hold its place as one of the three largest Ys in North Caro lina. Its goal each year is to add several hundred members to offset the outgoing number. .. Means More Jobs; More Opportunities’ ^ Zero Defects is the key to getting and keeping the of business this company must have to fulfill its and profits objectives ... to justify rnodernization expansion ... to guarantee our jobs. ZD simply means ^^Uing the job (any job) done right the first time. ^ At Firestone Textiles, our record for delivery of quality p^^^ucts has been good. But much of this record must be ^^dited to the detection of defects which result in repair, scrapping, redoing, remaking, retyping, re-schedul- Our objective for delivery of quality products will never change. But our emphasis must shift from merely detecting and correcting errors, to preventing them in the first place. Simple mistakes made by people doing various job clas- ^ ^^^tions within the plant are seemingly unrelated. In most they are easily corrected. We hardly think twice them. You might say we have grown used to a stand- Ij, . Which accepts a few daily mistakes as the price of human. ^et, if each person in the plant makes just one “in j^yANCING iSftoK significant” mistake, it must be multiplied by the total number of people on our payroll. The resulting cost is staggering. We cannot afford to pay such a price just because any one of us does not take enough pride in his work or feel that each task is not important enough to be done correctly the first time. If we take the wrong attitude on this, we’ll be forced out of the game of business. As you can see, a basic aim of ZD is to build a sense of im portance in every job we undertake and a feeling of pride in every thing we accomplish. We will replace corrective action with corrective think ing. Rededication will do away with rework. We will pre vent mistakes before they happen. Think why such a program as ZD is so much needed. • Firestone is in direct competition with many strong companies in our industry. To keep our share of the business and improve and strengthen our position during the next several years, we must show our customers that our opera tion is superior to that of our competition—that every mem ber of our team can do a job right the first time. A successful ZD program will mean more jobs and opportuni ties for everyone concerned. Each one of us expects the best quality in our automo biles, appliances—everything else we buy. If bought new, we expect them to work well and give good service over a reasonable length of time. Certainly Firestone customers ex pect no less than this, too. PR’s Langille to London Job Vernon Langille, for the past six years manager of public relations for the company’s Midwest region from Chicago, is the new manager of public relations for the company’s European operations. Langille is known to people of Gastonia through his work with the plant here in commu nity relations soon after his joining the company in Akron in the late 1950s. His assignment in London en tails responsibility for Fire stone public relations i n the United Kingdom and Europe. He, Mrs. Langille and their son David will live in London. Succeeding Langille at the Chicago office was James Strandberg, who has worked for Firestone since 1959.
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